Raymond E. Fowler

Shout out to Ryan Sprague for having me back for a third year.

The first one is about the father of famed ufologist Raymond Fowler.

This is Father Fowler.

In the fall of 1923, an electrical storm was being monitored by a radio operator at the U.S. Navy Compass Station in the small coastal village of Otter Cliff, Maine on Mount Desert Island.

The operator on duty would later be revealed as the father of famed UFO researcher Raymond Fowler.

Born in Massachusetts and now residing in Kennebunk, Ray Fowler is an investigator, author, and experiencer within the world of ufology.

Much of his work centers on New England, and he has written numerous books about the alien abduction phenomenon.

This is perhaps the most philosophically charged element of everything.

In the famous case of Betty Andreasen Luka, documented extensively by researcher Raymond Fowler across multiple books, Betty described being given specific information during the final moments of her 1967 encounter.

Information that she was simultaneously made to forget, but which surfaced under regression.

She described it as being shown something in those last moments.

And this one's attached to a man with a checkable biography, which makes it a little different from most of part one.

His name was Arthur Stancil, and for years he was known publicly as Fritz Werner, a pseudonym given to him by the investigator Raymond Fowler.

Stancil was an engineer who worked the atomic test program in Nevada during Operation Upshot Knothole in 1973, 20 years after the fact.

He signed an affidavit for Fowler.

It wasn't clear how the military would be able to explain how 12 people could be missing in peacetime.

How could members of the armed forces suddenly not show up for duty without being labeled as deserters? Stranger still was the decision to either destroy their military records or to place them in a secret storage facility.

That meant that no investigator would ever even know that they had been in the military.

This means that they could never question the quote-unquote missing designation anyway.

They showed a clip of it on unsolved mysteries back in the eighties.

And, you know, I'd been obsessed ever since, you know, And there are books that mentioned the Allagash abductions and Ray Fowler actually wrote the definitive book on the Allagash abductions.

Um, but there wasn't any book on that shelf or in publication for that matter, that covered solely UFOs from the state of Maine.

And I had the dumb idea.

The similarity between the brothers' experiences led them to wonder whether the dreams were connected with the unexplained gap in memory from the Allagash trip.

Jim eventually discussed the incident with UFO investigator Raymond E. Fowler in 1988.

Fowler became interested in the case and began what would develop into a lengthy investigation involving interviews, medical information, psychological assessment and hypnotic regression.

The four men were interviewed separately and hypnotist Anthony Constantino conducted a series of sessions intended to explore the missing period surrounding the sighting.

Jack and his brother Jim begin researching UFOs and strange occurrences, They're trying to figure out what might have happened that night.

What did we see? And why are we having these, you know, nightmares? And so they're working with UFOlogist Raymond Fowler.

They tell their story to him, and he's convinced that they need to go under regressive hypnosis to, again, pull these memories out.

I mean, yeah, why wouldn't you use, I guess at that point, what could be considered modern science?

One of them was, had been in the Air Force, knew what craft were like.

And so it really solidified in- into a very interesting facet of which later Raymond Fowler, who became the chief investigator, who's still with us as well, 92 now, and just put out his 20th, 20th book.

Several of his books are up there that I brought about Exeter.

He wrote up the case for NICAP, and then, and then John Fuller, who was a very well-known author, got interested, came to Exeter, and then started to document all of it.

And so they called for the hearings.

They had them.

The centerpiece was Raymond Fowler's, uh, NICAP investigation.

That was read into the congressional record.

Thank you.

Yeah, the Betty Andresen, that whole case, I mean, that was something that was researched by a really good researcher named Raymond Fowler.

He did work on the Allagash case.

The Allagash? Yeah.