Boy Claimed UFO Landed In Yard

Readers: In honor of Halloween, Post Time’s October segments will feature legends and tales of the unexplained.
Last week was the story of the alleged 1952 encounter near Lantana that left hardware clerk and scoutmaster Sonny DesVergers dazed and burned.
After Post columnist Ron Wiggins revisited the story in 1997, interviewing two men who’d been scouts in DesVergers’ troop, Lyman Bradford of West Palm Beach called in to say he’d seen the UFO too. He said it landed in the back of his family’s property, 5 acres of palmetto scrub on Military Trail north of Okeechobee Boulevard.
Bradford, who was 7 at the time, said in 1997 that his dad, a volunteer fire chief, took photographs, which Air Force investigators later confiscated, warning the Bradfords to keep mum on what they’d seen.
Bradford recalls that investigators found a pattern of circular scorch marks at the landing site.
Nothing has come of the story since. DesVergers died at 70 in Apopka in April 1993.
Believers: Mutual UFO Network: www.mufon.com.
Read more about it: UFOs Are Real: Here’s the Proof, by Ed Walters and Bruce MacCabee.
Skeptics: Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: csicop.org.
Read more about it: The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell.
Next week: The Bermuda Triangle