One thing that very few famous UFO stories can claim is physical evidence left behind

by the UFO, and even fewer can claim actual verified injuries to people caused by the mysterious

craft. Well, the cash landrum incident is one such case. In 1982 women and a young boy

were accosted by an inexplicable flying object, which apparently left them all with severe

radiation burns. Is it a real case of alien visitation? Well, we're going to find out

today unskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the cash landrum UFO incident.

So often when we open the pages of UFO lore, we find this case or that case all claiming to be the

one with the very best evidence. But when we've looked at each of these in turn here on Skeptoid,

they invariably fall apart. As the evidence, examined closer, turns out to be anecdotal or

misinterpreted. Over all these years, one UFO case has been sent to me time and time again,

for it's one of the very few said to have resulted in physical injuries to multiple witnesses,

and even to have triggered a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the government. It happened in

Texas in 1980, and is named after its two primary witnesses, the cash landrum UFO incident.

Two women, Betty Cash and Vicki Landrum, accompanied by Landrum's six-year-old grandson Colby,

were driving along the flat Texas Expans near Dayton on a lonely straight road through dense trees.

It was December 29th sometime around 9pm. Seeing a very bright light in the sky ahead of them that

appeared to be blowing flames, they pulled over and got out to look. They described a large

diamond-shaped object about the size of a water tower, hovering around tree-top level,

apparently modulating its altitude by blasting flames. The heat from the object was intense,

so much so that it drove them back to the car. Cash reported that the car had gotten so hot that

her hand was burned when she touched the car's roof. Landrum said the vinyl dashboard was softened

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