Abduction in Ashland: The Herbert Schirmer Story

Somewhere in the Skies

Ryan Sprague

Unexplained, Paranormal, Ufos, Government, Ufo, Social Sciences, History, Bigfoot, Aliens, Extraterrestrial, Documentary, Unsolved, Alien, Mystery, Uap, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ryan tells the incredible story of Herbert Schirmer. On December 3rd, 1967, Schirmer, a twenty-two-year-old police officer, was driving down a desolate highway in Ashland, Nebraska. He approached a pair of lights that he believed to be a stalled vehicle. When he got closer, he realized it wasn't a vehicle on the road, but a craft hovering in the night sky. After a few moments, the craft shot out of sight and the officer returned to his station, noting the sighting in his logbook. But for Schirmer, there seemed to be a period of missing time between when he first saw the object and when he left the area. And when he finally recalled what had happened in those missing moments, the story became far bigger and stranger than first imagined, prompting the Air Force and Government to investigate.

Presented in association with the Omaha World-Herald and including actual audio from Schirmer himself, this is the story of the abduction in Ashland.

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0:32.1	Welcome to Somewhere in the Skies. I'm your host Ryan Sprague. Today's episode is directly inspired by an article
0:39.2	written by Blake Ersk and published in the Omaha World Herald on April 4th, 2019. My sincere
0:46.8	thanks goes out to the newspaper for their generous contributions to this episode.
1:00.2	Thank you. to this episode. The young patrolman took a drag from his cigarette, trying in vain to steady his nerves.
1:07.1	Sitting in the small police station, mostly empty in the early morning,
1:12.6	22-year-old Herbert Shermer felt feverish and disoriented. As he later recounted, his body felt completely drained.
1:20.3	His head buzzed and his thoughts raced. Did this really happen to me? he asked himself.
1:26.9	As an officer with the Ashland Police Department,
1:30.0	Schumer said that he had been trained to take notes of incidents in his log, whatever they
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