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AN ALIEN ABDUCTION AND A “SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE”
vidence of serious government concerns about the real alien abduction phenomenon continued into the 1950s, specifically in 1959. That was the year in which a young American soldier found himself caught up in a very strange saga that, to a degree, still disturbs him to this very day. It all went down on a chilly night in Utah’s expansive desert. Private Bernard Gerry Irwin was the man whose life took a turn of the decidedly unforeseen type. February 20, 1959, began as a regular day for Irwin, but it most definitely didn’t end that way. At the time, Irwin was driving to Fort Bliss, Texas, from Idaho—the former being the facility at which Irwin was stationed, and the latter his home state. As night set in, something completely unforeseen and paradigm-shifting happened to Irwin. He was about to be confronted by the UFO phenomenon in spectacular and mysterious fashion. The night was dark, silent, and all but empty of vehicles, as desert highways so often are well after sunset. But for Irwin this was a night he would never forget—which is somewhat ironic, as a result of the fact that certain portions of his memory were forever erased from his mind. As he drove along the winding, curving road, Irwin was suddenly distracted by
