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June 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 30/06/2010 11:46 PM Page 15 UFOs At DEN? 15 UFOs at DEN? Conspiracy theories thrive at airports By Harriet Baskas Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis now standing outside the Denver International Airport terminal is there to promote a King Tut exhibit opening soon at the Denver Art Museum. But the giant image of the jackal-headed god tasked with protecting the spirits of the dead is alarming some travelers. "I'm not superstitious, but it doesn't exactly instill confidence when the god of the dead is staring through the window at you!" says Brian Olson, a Colorado resident who terminal and hear alien voices from the The Chicago Tribune and other news outlets travels frequently through Denver airport. basement," says Chasanksy. Another describes published reports about the 2006 UFO incident. The Anubis statue, which has also spent how pushing the right combination of buttons Davenport and others call the event "very time at the Dallas/Fort Worth International on a keypad by the airport's time capsule will dramatic" and "very well documented." The Airport, will leave Denver International Airport signal the elevators to descend to the aliens' only thing officials at O'Hare have ever said in mid-August. Staying behind will be several underground base. Unfortunately for alien about the possible UFO sighting, though, is "No pieces from the airport's permanent public art hunters, that 'keypad' is just a plaque with comment." [] collection that some travelers consider ominous braille lettering on it. and, in some cases, out of this world. "All those theories are fanciful and fun," Man Has Plan To Stop says Chasansky, "But none of it is true. And the Mile-high mysteries aliens aren't telling me to say this." Gulf Oil Spill Matt Chasansky, the public art administrator at Denver airport, has watched all Unexplained events at other airports LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) the YouTube videos, answered many e-mails Fanciful or not, Denver International – One man thinks he has the ultimate plan to and read all the internet postings about the isn't the only airport said to be visited by aliens. finally stop the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill. secret messages allegedly embedded in murals, According to Peter Davenport of the Seattle- Paranormal intuitive Andrew Reiss has sculpture and other art pieces in the airport. He's based National UFO Reporting Center, "There started the “Mind Power Project” to foil the oil. glad people are responding emotionally to the have been many reports which seem to be, in He wants people around the world to airport's collection but insists concerns about one way or another, associated with airports." combine their minds by practicing a two-minute strange doings at DEN are just Larry Bowron, now the Transportation “visualization” each day of things like concrete misunderstandings. Director for the city of Battle Creek, Mich., says slabs and steel caps heavy enough to plug the One traveler wrote to complain about back when he worked at the Scottsdale, Ariz., leaks in the Gulf. the "demons" in the baggage claim area. Those airport he saw something he still can't fully Reiss says the “collective demons are part of Terry Allen's work, Notre explain hover over the runway and then zip out consciousness” will “materialize” an end to the Denver and are European cathedral-inspired of sight. "It looked like a helicopter, but had no disaster because the human mind is stronger gargoyles meant not to harm people, but to lights on it. All of sudden a white beam of light than any machine. protect them from losing their luggage. Other came on and within two seconds it accelerated In order for this to work, Reiss needs at travelers see a secret code in the words and and was out of my sight. There was no sound, least one person to participate from every city images in 21st Century Artifacts, the four yet it moved 100 times faster than anything I'd around the world. mosaic floors created by Carolyn Braaksma and seen in my life." Regardless of their time zone, folks can Mark Villareal for Concourse B. "The piece is Bowron says prior to that experience he partake simultaneously in the visualizations at actually about geography, archeology and was "sort of a skeptic" about UFOs, but "You either 6 AM, 12 PM, 6 PM, or 12 AM. topography," says the airport's Chasansky, "And see something that defies logic and it makes a As they imagine stopping the spill, they those are Native American words and symbols believer out of you." can chant “cap the tap gap” for extra impact. for the Colorado River and other sites around Travis McQueen, manager of Indiana's Reiss figures that if enough people join, the area." Huntingburg Airport, hasn't seen a UFO, but did they’ll be able to seal all the leaks by the 4th of On its website, the airport notes that "a jump in an airplane to take some aerial pictures July. [] few fanciful conspiracy theories have been of mysterious crop circles that once showed up generated" by Leo Tanguma's mural titled on airport-owned land leased to a local farmer. Children of the World Dream Peace, but that He won't say whether or not he believes it was none of those far-out theories "were intended by aliens or local pranksters who left their mark in the artist." And both the airport's telephone-hold the farmer's bean field, but McQueen did file a message and brochure for the self-guided art report with the local sheriff so that the farmer tour make reference to the uneasy feelings some could file an insurance claim for his lost crops. travelers get from the glowing red eyes of the Then there's the UFO that may or may 32-foot tall blue Mustang by Luis Jiménez, who not have visited Chicago's O'Hare International died while working on the sculpture. Dubbed Airport on November 7, 2006. Peter Davenport "Bluecifer" by detractors, the sculpture rearing of the National UFO Reporting Center says he up on the road leading to the airport has received documents "that left no doubt as to spawned Facebook pages and campaigns whether the event occurred, or to its bizarre calling for its removal. nature." He estimates that the disc-shaped Official ‘X’ Zone Gear There are also rumors about the airport's object seen hovering above Gate C-17 was aliens. The ones that have supposedly come to observed by no fewer than three dozen people, Is Now Available At earth and now live in the hidden underground including aircraft mechanics, airline The ‘X’ Zone Store areas at the airport. "One theory says you can supervisory personnel and others he calls www.xzonestore.com put your ears against the columns in the "highly qualified observers."