'UFO Hunters' to explore Kelso event
Monday, February 4, 2008 5:39 AM PST
By The Daily News
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E-mail this articleKelso's connection to flying saucer lore will be explored in an episode of "UFO Hunters" this week on the History Channel.
"The UFO Before Roswell" premieres at 10 p.m. Wednesday. Repeats will air at 2 a.m. Thursday, 11 p.m. Friday, 3 a.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Feb. 11.
The program teaser on History.com describes the mysterious events in Washington in 1947 that culminated with the fatal crash of a
B-25 bomber in Rose Valley on Aug. 1:
"Six 'doughnut-shaped aircraft' were spotted off the coast of Maury Island one week before the reported UFO crash in Roswell, N.M. Harold Dahl and his son witnessed the aircraft dancing in unknown form and one spewing white-hot fragments over the water and beach. The falling debris killed Dahl's dog. The military was informed and two Air Force intelligence officers arrived in Tacoma, conducted interviews and collected the remaining wreckage. The officers departed from McChord Field but their plane lost communication and crashed near the town of Kelso. Now our team has located the crash scene and, together with an archeologist, will scour the debris field and analyze the evidence."
James Greear, who found the plane's debris at Goble Creek on and near his property in March 2007, said a film crew trooped across his land several months ago. He said he declined to be filmed.
In August, a team from the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries placed a memorial plaque at the crash site honoring the pilots. Plane debris and a lava rock from the site are displayed in the museum.
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The Daily News
Bus video legal fight will cost Kelso schools $70,000
The Kelso School District's legal fees will total $70,000 in its failed attempt to withhold a school bus surveillance tape involving an alleged bullying incident.
In a 7-2 ruling in November, the state Supreme Court ordered the district to turn the tape over to
Richard and Ginger Lindeman of Kelso, overturning a lower court decision from March 2004. The Lindemans said the tape showed their son being bullied on the bus.
The high court rejected the school district's argument that the tape was a part of a student record and thus exempt from disclosure under the state Open Records Act. It ordered the district to pay the Lindemans' legal bill and damages.
School District Finance Director Jim Biwer said in addition to its own $40,000 in legal fees, the district will pay $25,925 to James Morgan, the Lindeman's laywer, and another $3,923 to the couple's previous attorney in the case.
He said he was not aware of any separate penalty payments at this time.
- Carrie Pederson,
The Daily News
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