Aliens at Canadian Crossroads w/ Zelia Edgar

Summary

On June 7, 1971, Esther Clapison of Rosedale, Alberta, saw a glowing, open-sided rectangular craft parked at a nearby crossroads, with three small olive-suited beings, one of them apparently gathering rocks. When she looked for the craft's instrument panel, one being hurried to cover it, her dog pushed her back toward the house, and the whole scene vanished, leaving a scorched rectangle in the ground. Host Zelia Edgar argues that the case's space-age details sit on top of much older folklore themes: liminal crossroads, fairy-like beings, mining spirits and forbidden knowledge kept just out of reach.

Key takeaways

• 1Esther Clapison and her brother Bill lived outside Rosedale, Alberta (now part of Drumheller), where the encounter happened around 8:50 PM on June 7, 1971, under a full moon
• 2The craft was about 8 feet high and 5 feet wide, open on one side like a dollhouse, with two beings under 5 feet tall inside and a third outside
• 3The beings wore olive-green, diving-suit-like outfits covering their faces, had 'keyhole-like' eyes and wore 'pointed mittens'
• 4Esther looked for an instrument panel because of advice from Canadian UFO investigator Bill Allen's radio broadcasts; one being then covered the panel with its body
• 5A blackened rectangular scorch mark about 20 feet long was still visible when Bill Allen investigated four months later
• 6Edgar compares the case to mining spirits (German kobolds, Welsh coblynau, Cornish Tommyknockers), prehistoric stone cairns, and Betty Hill's claim that aliens took back a book they had offered her as proof

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