Ultraterrestrials - The UFO/Cryptid Connection (Hampton Roads)
If this were a discussion on aliens or UFOs, it would last forever. Hampton Roads has a long history of reports of strange crafts buzzing the airspace, with one of the first dating all the way back to 1813, when a Portsmouth tavern owner claimed to have seen a strange ball of fire weave over Norfolk County. The sighting made such an impact, he wrote about the incident in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. More recently, talk of drones populating the night sky over Langley and strange crafts over the waters off the coast have made headlines. Why are these sightings important? There is a growing segment of researchers who believe that there is a connection between UFOs and cryptids, and that their sightings could go hand-in-hand. The theory of ultraterrestrials really took off in the 60s and 70s with the work of Ivan Sanderson, John Keel, and Stan Gordon, who have documented some of the strange cases where these encounters overlap. For decades, cryptids have long been connec...
