{"it":{"id":"UFO-CL1980","name":"Cash–Landrum incident","kind":"ufo","sub":"Historical sighting","place":"Near Huffman, Texas, USA","lat":30.0926,"lon":-95.1109,"date":"1980-12-29 ~9 pm","rep":"They reported illness afterwards that resembled radiation sickness.","off":"An Army Inspector General inquiry found no military helicopters linked to the night. A federal judge dismissed their $20 million lawsuit on 21 August 1986.","src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: Cash–Landrum incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident"}],"tags":["Sightings"],"sum":"On 29 December 1980 near Dayton, Texas, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and seven-year-old Colby Landrum said a flaming diamond-shaped object hovered over the road. They counted 23 helicopters around it.","nsrc":1,"new":1,"qs":["Three witnesses counted 23 helicopters around a fiery object, then suffered radiation-like injuries. Whose helicopters were they?","The lawsuit against the US government was dismissed. Does that mean the government wasn't involved, or just that it couldn't be proven?","If the military was escorting something over a public road in 1980, what was it moving, and what do we owe the people it hurt?"],"yt":"The witnesses counted 23 helicopters, and the Army found none of its own in the air. List who else could have been flying that night.","rel":["UFO-FAL1967"],"hook":"In 1980 three Texans said a burning object left them sick. The Army found no helicopters.","why":"Three people blamed a roadside encounter for lasting illness, and the Army inquiry believed them yet found no helicopters."},"S":{},"rec":{"id":"UFO-CL1980","sum":"On 29 December 1980 near Dayton, Texas, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her grandson Colby said a fiery object hovered over the road ahead of their car. Landrum later told an Army investigator she was adamant that the three of them had counted about 23 helicopters flying around it. From the silhouettes, some were picked out as twin-rotor Chinooks.\n\nThe investigator was Lieutenant Colonel George Sarran of the Army Inspector General's office. He listed the illnesses: sores, hair falling out, blackened fingernails, diarrhoea, failing eyesight. The medical evidence, he wrote, \"seems almost irrefutable\". But his inquiry in 1982 was about helicopters, not the object or the sickness.\n\nHe placed the site some 35 miles northeast of Houston, between 2100 and 2130 hours, on a Monday night with no scheduled manoeuvres. He checked Army commands, the National Guard Chinooks at Ellington and the Army Reserve hueys at Tomball. Every unit said it had not flown. One clue cut the other way: a Dayton policeman and his wife remembered twin-rotor helicopters flying low in groups of three at about 0040 hours, some 3 hours after the sighting.\n\nSarran's conclusion was plain: there was \"no evidence\" that Army, Guard or Reserve helicopters were involved. Yet he wrote that Landrum and Cash \"were credible\", and the lines that follow are blacked out in the copy released under freedom-of-information law.\n\nHe believed the witnesses and found no aircraft. If no unit admits to flying that night, whose helicopters were they?","qs":["The Army found no helicopters but believed the witnesses. Does that clear the military or deepen the question?","A policeman saw helicopters three hours later. Does that support the story or explain it away?","Should the government pay for harm it says it did not cause?"],"gal":[{"src":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Cash-Landrum_UFO_illustration_by_Kathy_Schuessler.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cash-Landrum_UFO_illustration_by_Kathy_Schuessler.jpg","title":"Cash-Landrum UFO illustration by Kathy Schuessler.jpg","lic":"CC BY-SA 4.0","by":"Kathy Schuessler","alt":"Cash–Landrum incident: Cash-Landrum UFO illustration by Kathy Schuessler"}],"ms":[],"aa":[],"ac":[],"src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: Cash–Landrum incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident"},{"id":"VUFO-CL1980-2","t":"Cash-Landrum case documents (shared Box folder)","u":"https://app.box.com/s/w8uvmyulh1s4lbent7oh"},{"id":"VUFO-CL1980-3","t":"Blue Blurry Lines (2019): the government investigations of Cash-Landrum","u":"https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/05/the-government-investigations-of-cash.html"}],"pts":[{"p":"Witnesses Cash (51), Landrum (57) and Colby (7).","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Cash–Landrum incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident"},{"p":"They said they saw 23 helicopters; 20 minutes.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Cash–Landrum incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident"},{"p":"Schuessler: hospitalized 2–19 Jan; Clark: ER visit on 3 Jan.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Cash–Landrum incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident"},{"p":"Betty Cash (51), Vickie Landrum (57) and Colby (7) saw a light at about 9 pm.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Cash–Landrum incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident"}]},"img":null,"md":null,"hh":null,"hs":{},"lh":{"s":"img/h/UFO-CL1980.webp","w":357,"h":414,"o":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Cash-Landrum_UFO_illustration_by_Kathy_Schuessler.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original"}}