When They Appeared: Falcon Lake 1967: The inside story of a close encounter by Chris Rutkowski & Stan Michalak

Author:Chris Rutkowski & Stan Michalak [Rutkowski, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alien abduction, Canadian UFO, Falcon Lake Incident, Chris Rutkowski, ufology, disclosure project, UFOs are real
ISBN: 9781786770868
Publisher: August Night Books
Published: 2019-01-11T07:00:00+00:00

The highlight for me in 1968 was the day I got my new bicycle.

CHAPTER 15

A Visit to the Mayo Clinic

In August, Dad took a trip to Rochester, Minnesota, and checked into the Mayo Clinic. He continued to experience bouts of red bumps on his abdomen accompanied by headaches. There were fainting spells that made him worry he could harm himself or, worse, someone else. So, at the urging of family friends, he called the Mayo Clinic and registered as an outpatient. Every day for almost two weeks, Dad crossed the street from the hotel in which he had a room and underwent a battery of tests that explored each of his issues separately and together as part of his overall health. He was given a thorough psychiatric workup which, when he confided in Mom, was the most difficult part of the trip. From his point of view, dredging up details of the trauma he had experienced during the war didn’t square with what he had gone through in the last year. He was an impatient patient who wanted to get to the root cause of his medical condition not the underpinnings of his psyche. As it turned out, the psychiatric report was favourable, and showed that Dad was not prone to making up a story like this for any personal gain. He was found mentally and emotionally healthy. As for the physical symptoms he had been experiencing, there were some interesting conclusions.

At the beginning of the investigation into the sighting, radiation was the bogeyman that was being blamed for many things including the burns he had suffered. Of course, that was simply untrue. The physicians at the Mayo had a theory that made sense, at least to Dad and our family and friends: he had been burned by a super-heated jet of steam or gas that ignited his shirt and undershirt and caused the burns on his chest. The question was, what compounds constituted that steam or gas? The ingredients of the chemical cocktail that burned my father were a mystery. It was no stretch to imagine that his body simply reacted to one or many of the ingredients. The initial tests showing an increased white cell count and a drop in lymphocytes backed up this possibility. Plus, he had never been allergic to anything in his life, and that only served to support this theory. As for the recurrence of the red welts on his chest and the associated nausea and headaches, it seemed logical to assume that his body was struggling to fight whatever he had been exposed to at that time. The September emergency at the cement plant was further proof – perhaps he had been exposed to one of these elements and it, by itself, triggered a reaction.

When Dad came home, the conclusions they had reached at the Mayo Clinic made perfect sense. The prognosis: that Dad’s symptoms would continue to lessen until his body had successfully dealt with whatever had invaded it.

We were relieved to hear this and happy that there was hope for recovery.

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