Trains on History Channel's "Hangar 1" RIGHT NOW

c.samOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Have a quick look at Hangar 1 opened with a Kentucky coal train being chased and collided with by a UFO.

Tune in QUICK!

In the first segment it is reported that one of three brightly lit UFOs ran directly down the track at a coal train in Reynolds KY in 1991 (I think it was). At the last minute, the UFO rose but actually collided with the locomotive with a tremendous shock and shower of sparks. The train had 60,000 tons of coal and took 2 miles to stop. There was no sign of the object that hit them but the conductor and other crew watched the other two craft hover for awhile at some distance.

The crew calls the dispatcher in Jacksonville who directs them to an old abandoned yard south of there where they are surprised to find a large group of men who begin to dismantle parts of the train. The crewmen are assembled in an old office and interrogated for quite awhile.

5/15/1510:05 PM

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BalshisOGR Forum Member

I watched that show. The incident reported was interesting, but regardless of what their knowledge of UFOs might be, the producers' understanding of railroading is feeble at best. For openers, they kept referring to every member of the crew -- engineer included -- as "conductors." So the train crew became "the train conductors." Not just once, but over and over, all through the segment.

Secondly, one of the "conductors" -- I couldn't tell if he was supposed to be the engineer or not -- got outside the moving locomotive and was standing there gripping a handrail next to the nose, watching the UFO the entire time.

There was more, but I'm not going to turn this into a rant. Yes, I know that most people who watch these shows don't know the difference. But when I see TV screw up in an area about which I know enough to spot their gross errors, I have to wonder if they're getting the parts about which I don't know just as botched.

5/16/1512:02 AM

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c.samOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Good point Balshis. Yes, they did refer to the whole crew as "conductors" which I found amusing, but MUFON, the organization itself is a highly respected research group within the 'UFO Community' and had been around for 60+/- years. It was always noted for a very conservative approach from the beginning.

This show itself is pretty good and evidently has access to their vast repository of reports from over all these years. What could have hit the train and left physical damage like that? Funny how the group who was waiting for the train and crew at the abandoned yard went about removing the physical evidence and telling them to keep quiet about the incident. This is a common theme where some organization seems to know what is going on and wants to keep these incidents hushed up and won't explain what happened to the people involved.

5/16/158:00 AM

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