From: Stephen MILES Lewis <elfis@austin.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:27:01 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:03:21 -0400
Subject: Noble Lawmen Find NASA Official In Cave


Is this for real?

SMiles

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From: Terry W. Colvin <fortean@primenet.com>
To: forteana@primenet.com <forteana@primenet.com>
Subject: Noble lawmen find NASA official in cave
Date: Wed, Aug 18, 1999, 6:40 AM


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The Daily & Sunday Jeffersonian

Posted 8/13/99

Noble lawmen find NASA official in cave

Kevin Macri

The Daily Jeffersonian

CALDWELL - Noble County Sheriff Landon T. Smith apprehended
a Florida man Tuesday who was found living in a cave near
Wolf Run State Park.

Smith said his office received a call last Sunday of a
person in a car with Florida license plates who was behaving
strangely. Deputies were unable to locate the vehicle.
Tuesday, a second call was received regarding a vehicle that
matched the same description parked on a township road in
the area of the park.

When deputies arrived on the scene, they found the vehicle
packed full of supplies, but could not locate the driver.

Smith had the vehicle transported to the Noble County Jail
and began a search.

"We got to thinking that possibly something had happened to
the driver. We went out to search the area and tracked a
person through a field and wooded areas," he said. "We then
found rope that led down embankments and ravines. When we
got to the bottom of a second ravine we found him in a cave.
He was trying to boil eggs. It was real smoky. In fact,
some of the deputies didn't like it in his cave."

Smith said the man, Lloyd Albright, 47, of Satellite Beach,
Fla., was cooperative, but because of his suspicious
behavior, Smith placed him under arrest in order to remove
him from the property.

According to Smith, Albright said he was hiding in the cave
to avoid meteor showers which he said will hit the Atlantic
Ocean and cause a 200-foot tidal wave, wreaking havoc on the
East Coast and Florida.

Upon investigating Albright further, Smith found the man to
be a computer programer for NASA.

In his vehicle, a late model Saturn, he found 16 weapons
with ammunition, camping gear, dried food, blankets,
clothing and 200 pounds of wheat.

"I spoke with his wife and she said he was concerned about
the meteor shower. She said he wanted the rest of the family
to join him but they declined his offer."

Smith said Albright said he learned about the cave by
searching the Internet.
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Terry W. Colvin, Sierra Vista, Arizona (USA)
fortean@primenet.com