UFO LANDING IN MT VERNON KENTUCKY?

INFORMATION NOT IN THE ARTICLES:  When I wrote the articles I also had photographs, rubbings and sketches of an unknown writing near the footprints. I planned on writing an article about them later but got out of freelance writing to do other things. There is also early  writing found on the Bat Creek Tennessee stone.   Also, I have deleted reference to the exact location because after the articles in FATE and ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS were published someone went to the rock and chiseled one or more of the footprints out. I realized then that I shouldn't tell and at the same time what other stories may exist that the residents also will not tell. An example is the fanged skull at the right.

Skull found by Gene Crouch near Salt Lick Kentucky in 1969.

Notice the fang like teeth high above the regular teeth.

Map of the footprint and symbol area.

Rubbing of the symbols #1

Drawing of the symbols #1 (made in 1970)

The symbols are hard to see in the rubbing of symbols #2 therefore I have outlined them for you.

NOTE: Up and down are unknown on these writings. We could flip them as I did symbols #1 but they could also be read from the left to the right or from right to left. We just don't know.

  EXCERPT

     Two hundred and fifty million years ago a biped creature walked across a beach in central Kentucky, the soft wet sand oozing up between his toes.  He stopped for a moment when he heard a distant rumble. Then as the beach started to lift away from the sea the creature hurried along in search of safer ground leaving remarkably human-like tracks beside other similar tracks in the sand.

     In 1931 Ott Finnell, a Kentucky mountaineer, showed these tracks to Dr. Wilbur Greely Burroughs, head of the Geology Department of Berea College. Finnell led Burroughs to a large gray sandstone rock.  There Burroughs found 10 tracks whose length from the longest toe to the heel of the foot is generally nine and five-tenths inches and the width including the spread of the toes is about six inches.

     For seven years Dr. Burroughs studied the tracks secretly because according to Darwinian Evolution which most scientists espoused, 250 million years ago the only terrestrial life-forms were insects, amphibians and primitive stem reptiles.

EXCERPT

     Dr. Burroughs conducted extensive scientific tests on the tracks. One of the major tests was a grain count..........

     Dr. Burroughs concluded, The tracks could not have been made by carving, as carving could not have made the grains within the tracks closer together than the grains outside the tracks."

     In the 1930's, during the furor of the rocks discovery, there was little mention of the arrow impression, and no research was done on it. However, in the past 40 years new theories have emerged. Had Dr. Burroughs been aware of the possibility of ancient astronauts making the tracks, he may have proven with his thoroughness that the arrow was also made 250 million years ago. He may have proven that it wasn't a recent carving by American Indians as was then assumed.

     The arrow is about eleven inches long and either recently carved or, as now thought, made by an intelligent being when the sand was still wet.  If it was made in wet sand, a cylindrical object about the size of a human finger was used.