> At 23:19 20.03.96 -0700, JP wrote:
> >Wierd!
> >
> >The plot of many sci fi films/books/stories, and, the crux of many
> >conspiracy theories is ..
> >
> >"If the TRUTH ABOUT UFOS was revealed everyone would totally freak out"
> >
> >Everyone I spoke to today I told that I read on the net that tomorrow at
> >9am PST a quasi-official press conference partially under the auspices of
> >NASA is releasing the truth about UFOs at last.
> >
> >Nobody gave a damn!
> hey, you've got an presidential election coming up, remember.. against
> major weirdness like that, what's a few secrets about UFOs?
> ;-)
>
> <snipped information about strange things going on in Salt lake City>
> >
> >So perhaps the aliens are arriving for tomorrows press conference by
> >jumping onto the roofs of dwellings in central Salt Lake City.
>
> or maybe it's just a local guy: the famous brown roof jumper of
> Salt Lake City, reported by Charles Fort as early as the 1890s?!
> and of course, strange jumpings on the roof late at night is a
> well known phenomena from all over the world: the same thing happened
> in Jokkmokk in northern Sweden in 1922, and in Utsktutsk in Siberia
> early in 1949 (of course we never got any reports of that, but the papers
> are all hidden in some archive in Moscow). not to forget the roof
> jumper of Garmisch Partenkirchen in 1942, that the nazis hunted down
> and tried to use as a secret weapon.....
>
> the truth is out there! :-)
>
> tb
>
> no, really JP, i find your story fascinating. you've got any
> explanation, however wild?? (apart from the arriving aliens
> i mean?)
One of the local legends, from Liverpool, extensively documennted at the
turn of the century , is of a character called "Spring Heeled Jack" . He
was seen leaping the roofs of the Everton area of the city in the late
1890's . This used to be row upon row of terraced housing marching up the
hillside from the docks , I remember it like that as a kid.
Apparently , Jack , was described as tall and lanky , with greyish skin
and eyes like saucers , giving off a smell of brimstone.When seen or
approached he ran away in big bounding strides , often leaping onto
and across roofs to make his escape!
Sound a familiar description - grey skin - tall - big eyes ??
Schwa be with you - Graz