{"id":2290,"date":"2016-02-02T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2020-06-20T00:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T00:18:05","slug":"witness-fires-gun-at-ufo-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/witness-fires-gun-at-ufo-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness Fires Gun at UFO, 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is part of the Henry McKay Archives. It is used here on The Black Vault, with permission:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>The following is a transcript from an audio cassette recording of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ufosupclose.com\/henrymckay\/\">Henry M<\/a>cKay, around the 13 minute mark. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>This would have been at either one of his lectures or his course. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>The cassette is simply labelled as \u201cUFO Talk H.H.M\u201d. Date unknown. From the files of the Henry McKay UFO Archives. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>NOTE:\u00a0A few words are indiscernible, which have been marked with \u201c????\u201d.:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><strong>\u201cIn 1914, in a little community north of Lindsay, Ontario there was a munitions factory that was subjected to an intense light hovering over the area, over the village, causing concern to the people who were working in this munitions factory. They assumed it was some sort of German military aircraft ready to bomb them. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><strong>The foreman of the plant ???? the lights in the plant and fired at this light source driving it away. Only momentarily because apparently it came back. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><strong>This was reported in the Lindsay paper, many many years ago.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em><strong>\u2013 Henry McKay<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>The following is an extract from a paper written by Henry, which he presented at the first International UFO Congress in Acapulco, Mexico in 1977. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>It gives a bit more info on this case:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2291\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2291 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2.png\" alt=\"acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2\" width=\"860\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2.png 860w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2-450x272.png 450w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2-600x363.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/acapulcopaper-3of21-extract2-731x442.png 731w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is part of the Henry McKay Archives. 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