Cash–Landrum incident
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Huffman, Texas
Huffman, north-east of Houston, near the road where Betty Cash and Vickie and Colby Landrum reported a flaming diamond and helicopters on 29 December 1980. Location photograph · context.
Michael Martin from Cypress, Texas · 2008 ↗CC BY-SA 2.0Licence terms ↗On 29 December 1980 Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum reported a diamond-shaped object venting flame over a road near Huffman, Texas, escorted by many helicopters; all three fell ill with burns and hair loss. Their lawsuit against the US government was dismissed because they could not show the object was federal. The corpus does not discuss the case.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 30.0600, -95.1000 approximate · United States |
| Official response | The Army Inspector General and the Judge Advocate found no record of US helicopters in the area; the 1986 lawsuit was dismissed because the plaintiffs could not show the object belonged to the US government. |
Reported by
- betty cash witness restaurant owner
- vickie landrum witness waitress
Investigated by
- bill bergstrom mufon researcher
- us army inspector general military
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