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Hitler Devised UFO UFO investigator Barbara Bartholic dies at age 71 By TIM STANLEY World Staff Writer www.tulsaworld.com Bartholic, she decided to move on. teutonic device which "actually did fly". [] A painter herself who excelled in oils, she and Bob became leading figures in the Tulsa 'UFO landing' creates big art scene and ran two downtown art galleries in the 1970s. flutter in Vuyyur town Barbara Bartholic also hosted her own Close encounters with Barbara Bartholic The Times of India usually sparked the same reaction. television show, "Arts Arena," on a local cable "She always left you laughing. She had channel. She interviewed Tulsa-area artists, but VUYYUR (KRISHNA): The sleepy this marvelous sense of humor," her sister, it wasn't a conventional talk show, her sister town of Vuyyur suddenly become a hub of Catha Block, said. said. activity on Thursday. An 'Unidentified Flying "Barbara just had this way of making "She was very inventive and avant- Object' ( UFO) that crashed in the agricultural people feel important - like you were the only garde," Block said. fields created a big flutter in the town. As the Bartholic's other interests began to take person in the world." a back seat to her obsession with UFOs. news that 'missile' or 'rocket-like' gadget One out-of-this-world topic was no 'dropped from the skies' spread like wildfire, laughing matter, though, to the Tulsa artist and For several years, she worked closely hundreds of people rushed to the spot at the art gallery owner. with friend and fellow UFO investigator Jacque agriculture fields at Dusar Malapalli village in F. Vallee, a French astronomer who inspired the Bartholic had been fascinated for years Vuyyur rural mandal. Though, several youths by the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and in "Close Encounters" character of Claude and local farmers reached the spot, none of the 1970s, the subject consumed her. Lacombe, played by French film director them dared to touch the 'gadget that dropped Bartholic's subsequent field research Francois Truffaut. from the skies'. Bartholic interviewed alleged alien into UFOs led to writing and speaking abductees and looked into reported sightings of Local SI K Sivakumar along with his engagements. It wasn't long before she became men rushed to the spot immediately. But he too a respected UFO authority worldwide. UFOs around the country. After nearly 40 years, did not muster the courage to check out the One of the consultants on the movie she was convinced, her sister says, that we are gadget. They remained clueless and the drama "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," she later not alone. went on for 3-4 hours before a physics lecturer Block added that Bartholic had been wrote about her experiences in the book working recently on a documentary film on the from a private college, U Ramprasad, arrived to "Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator." check the apparatus. They were all relieved Barbara Simon Bartholic died Nov. 10 subject. after Ramprasad said it was a radio-sound She is survived by four children, Braden after suffering a stroke. She was 71. Bartholic, Mandy Wilson, Catha Clark and equipment used by the weather department. A service is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at He said such tools are sent in hydrozen- Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel under the Becky Bartholic; her mother, Alice Simon; one filled balloons in the air to gauge humidity and direction of Add'Vantage Funeral Service. sister, Catha Block; six grandchildren; and one other weather-related parameters. "This gadget "Barbara really perceived a world that's great-granddaughter.[] fell down from the skies when the balloon larger than the one we live in," Block said, turned empty days after it was released into the adding that she was never embarrassed by her Hitler devised UFO air," he said. [] sister's devotion to a subject that often draws stares. A German science magazine has "We were a free-thinking bunch and reported that Hitler was so desperate to create a were open to the idea," she said. mega-weapon that would turn the tide on the "And it was so fascinating. It was like WW2, as Nazi forces began to crumble, that he going out of your universe into another one. If I ordered flying saucers from a specially devised was able, I'd love to carry on her work.” science unit. Bartholic, who moved to Tulsa from St. It has now been claimed that Hitler's Louis, Mo., as a child, started out in an entirely program actually made breakthroughs in anti- different line of work - just one of many over gravity technology, getting as far as developing her life. a prototype that might have flown up the Her mother, Tulsan Alice Simon, was a Thames. Many witnesses have claimed to have fashion model when she was younger. So was seen a flying saucer with an Iron Cross hovering her mother before her. over London's famous waterway in 1944. Bartholic carried on the family tradition, The ultimate goal was to bomb London starting at age 17. Her modeling took her to Los and New York. Angeles and New York City, where she worked The magazine also stated that while the with well-known fashion designers. German destroyed much of their research, in After she married Tulsa artist Bob 1960 Canadian UFO enthusiasts recreated the
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