E.T.'s Ohio Area Code To Call Home: A Small Town Near The Indiana Border?

DAYTON (TDB) -- If the news out of Canada is correct, there may be a woman in Southwestern Ohio who has hybrid DNA from an alien who visited Earth by way of another planet. Apparently, her parents had outercourse. Now this could be big. It means the state potentially has a jump on everywhere in the race to invest and develop biotech.

The story appeared in The Canadian. It was remarkably short of details on the Ohio angle, although it said the woman lived in New Paris.

The community is a small town in Preble County, almost snuggled onto the Indiana state line west of Dayton, a place where soybean and corn fields stretch nearly to the horizon. New Paris is best known for its springs, which have made it a popular resort over the years. It is also the town the composer of the Christmas tune, "Up On The Housetop" once called home.

If an alien-human hybrid lives there, it possibly gives the verses a whole hidden meaning. Think about it -- on the roof with old St. Nick, click, click, click. Were those really reindeer hooves? Or something from the outer limits?

So far, New Paris isn't saying anything publicly about its suspected extraterrestrial offspring who has made news in Canada. That is a surprise because everybody in a small town is supposed to know everybody else's business. Perhaps folks have decided to stay quiet out of respect for their neighbor. You know, why bring up the fact that there's a little green woman in our midst?

The Canadian, which reported this first, said doctors were checking out the claims of a woman from Puerto Rico who contends "she is the offspring on an alien encounter. The doctor is not interested in the UFO/alien phenomena, he wants answers as to why her DNA has such rare qualities."

As for the Buckeye State:

"A case similar to this is being investigated in New Paris, Ohio. A woman there has exceptional skills and gets by on two hours of sleep a night."

UFOs Hidden In Ohio? Former Arizona Gov. Symington Saw Flying Saucers

DAYTON (TDB) -- Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington III has the aliens-among-us-crowd stirred up with his admission he saw an unidentified flying object 10 years ago over Phoenix. But few outside the UFO-cults know that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio was suspected of hiding the aliens who supposedly crashed at Roswell in the late 1940s.

Roswell gets all the tourists, headlines, rumors and fun about the space invaders, Phoenix is going to get some juicy publicity about the latest twist in an unexplained incident. Ohio, sadly, gets left out. What a slight.

Drawing upon some truth, the legend is that Air Force had a hush-hush research station at Wright-Pat where weapons were tested and developed and modified. There was a Foreign Technology Division that poked around in Soviet aircraft and others that got into government hands via spycraft or defectors during the Cold War. According to urban myth and folklore -- or maybe, some deep dark reality -- the aliens who landed in New Mexico were brought to "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson where their remains were stored and studied. Hangar 18 once had the conspiracy-theory cachet of Area 51, but has faded from center stage over the last 20 years or so. Wright-Pat, of course, is a research center for the Air Force. As to extra-terrestrials, the stories have been denied, pooh-poohed and turned into the stuff of scoffs.

Meanwhile, Symington's admission that he saw something over Phoenix in March 1997 is going to become another ufology chapter. Perhaps it is time to dust off the tales of Hangar 18. Ohio could always put a slogan on its license tags. But what should it say? Click to read a story about Symington's sighting.

And there is some background about Wright-Patterson AFB HERE , including a mention of Hangar 18. A Web site that discusses the aliens in Ohio theory is HERE. There is a Megadeath track and a band that use Hangar 18 as titles. So the the legend lives. But it definitely has weakened since the 1970s and early 1980s.