From the unexplained to the mundane, come join
us on a Journey to the Fringe. We are your podcast
hosts, Taylor and Chelsea. Here today following
up on a two -parter which Chelsea has informed
me she does not remember any of the first half
of. Hey, why do you want me to be like that?
That's not fair. It lets the audience know that
we are being honest with them and not deceiving
them in any way. And also that they're not alone.
Possibly, unless they're listening to this back
-to -back, then boy do you have a problem. Especially
if you don't remember the first half. Anyhow,
Chelsea, what do you remember about the golf
breeze incident and Ed Walters? Right, okay,
there's a guy in Florida. Running for mayor.
Running for mayor. Yep, thank you for the hint.
And he was making models and taking pictures
of them like Billy Meyer. But this guy did have
two arms. I do remember that. This guy had two
arms and he was using a schoolboy in the area
who happened to be the mayoral candidate against
him son. Okay, it's all coming back to me. I'm
not right there with you, but I do remember.
So this story is unrelated to that story pretty
much. Oh, man, why'd you set me up like that?
But it's adjacent to it, Chelsea, because it
takes place in Gulf Breeze. OK. And it's right
around this time. Because of all the shit going
on with Ed Walters, MUFON decides after the shit
show that is the Bill Moore 1989 MUFON symposium,
they need something that's a little more just
like a slam dunk. Right. That was bad. So they're
like, I know what we're going to do. 1990, we're
going to do the MUFON symposium. in Golf Breeze.
Because of this guy? They couldn't have found
anything better. Almost exclusively because of
this guy. This is the best they had. Okay. Which,
coincidentally enough, is right around the time
that the Golf Breeze 6 are arrested. And that's
what this episode is, is the Golf Breeze 6. I'm
just gonna be honest here. Should I know who
that is? You should have no idea who the Golf
Breeze 6 are, Chelsea. Phew! That's why we're
doing this episode. Great! This is fantastic
news to me! that I did not have any prior knowledge
of this. Now, I am just going to put it out front.
There's not a lot written about the Golf Breeze
6. There's basically a pretty terrible Wikipedia
article on it. There is one person who did a
fairly good summarization of what happened and
a bit of research into it. The author is Jack
Brewer, who wrote this on February 12th, 2017.
Falcon. He seemed real good and knowledgeable.
And honest. No, it's Jack Brewer. He wrote the
article revisiting the Golf Breeze 6 on February
12 2017 on his blog the UFO trail So we're gonna
be reading a lot from this because he did some
great research on it. Nice. We appreciate you
Just to start this off just so you have an idea
what we're talking about the Golf Breeze 6 Michael
Kwekstad, Chris Perloch, William Sederberg, Vance
Davis, Kenneth Beeson and Annette Eccleston were
declared absent without leave, which is AWOL
from their base in Augsburg, Germany on July
9th, 1990. You mentioned this in the last one.
Sorry, and this was West Germany at the time,
not Germany. What does this have anything to
do with? They are arrested five days later in
Gulf Breeze, Florida. All six were military intelligence
analysts who had trained together at Corey Station.
From there, just so you have an idea of what
the Gulf Breeze six were, just the general one
on that, weirdly, right around the time of the
Mufon thing going on. They're arrested in Gulf
Breeze. So the Mufon thing is the symposium that's
happening based on what's his... Ed Walters.
Ed Walters, and now we know who exactly the six
are. What the fu - I'm so like, what's gonna
happen? Okay, tell us. This is a wild story,
Chelsea. I can't even begin to think about what
this is gonna be. Because of Ed Walters, the
Florida community of Golf Breeze gained global
attention. As a result of this, Golf Breeze was
the site of the 1990 annual Mufon Symposium,
just a year after Bill Moore cannonballed his
Mufon Symposium. Six Army Intelligence Analysts
were serving in the 701st Military Intelligence
Brigade in Aug - the largest NSA base in the
world outside of the United States at the time.
Each member of the group held a top security
clearance. They began conducting meetings consisting
of Ouija board sessions and explorations of non
-ordinary states of consciousness, and they claimed
to think that they were communicating with spirits
and religious icons, including the Virgin Mary,
during these meetings. The six apparently perceived
they were provided prophecies and interpreted
the predictions to be coming to pass, leading
them to increasingly trust the means of communication
and alleged entities. Members of the group had
lifelong interests in paranormal subject matter,
including one, Vance Davis, who as a teenager
took a course in Silva mind control, and another,
Kenneth Beeson, who dabbled in hypnosis and reportedly
was interested in UFOs. They reportedly went
over the proverbial wall in early July 1990 after
giving away some belongings ceremoniously burning
their records and books. Another figure is a
self -described psychic, Anna Foster, who Perlach
met while in cryptology training in Pensacola
prior to shipping off to Europe. Foster apparently
also befriended Beeson when he was stationed
in Pensacola. All but Eccleston, the lone female
of the six soldiers, were reportedly staying
at Foster's apartment while absent without official
leave. Eccleston was apprehended at a cab site
at nearby Fort Pickens for whatever reasons.
The group's beliefs and motives are going AWOL,
somewhat unclear, but were at least partially
represented to include a desire to deliver information
as provided by the mysterious entities to the
U .S. President. It should not be completely
surprising that some of the confusion was due
to the content of statements originating from
the Pentagon and spokespersons after the tension
of the Six that later redacted through official
channels or denied altogether by the four soldiers.
Also adding to the confusion were statements
by members of the Gulf Free Six, which at times
seemed to be unclear if not lacking logic. What's
more, or some of the acquaintances, were quoted
in the media as saddling them with remarks and
beliefs that they later denied. Ideologies attributed
to the group included a forthcoming rapture,
alien spaceships frequenting Gulf Breeze, a UFO
cover -up conducted by the US government, A plot
to thwart the Antichrist, significant malevolent
forces operating covertly within the US government,
and similar mindsets arguably being found with
increasing frequency among members of the UFO
community and related genres. Some of the police
are later defended by Vance Davis and his peers
while others were dismissed as rumors. Anyway
you look at it, the Six were a pretty paranormal
friendly bunch, or at least claim to be. and
landed in Gulf Breeze about the same time that
the MUFON convention wrapped up on July 8th.
The six were apparently in Tennessee a few days
earlier where they bought a van and drove it
to Florida, arriving on July 9th and according
to Gulf Breeze police. They left Germany on July
7th, the Mufon symposium ended on July 8th, and
they were apprehended on July 14th in Gulf Breeze.
And the Mufon was wrapped up by that time. Yes,
but they could have been in there around that
time. It's just that they were in Tennessee the
day before. But we're finding a connection between
the two. Eventually, maybe. I don't think there's
that much of a connection. It's just a really
weird coincidence timing -wise. Okay, and they
are into the paranormal. Okay, I just wanted
to make sure if I was understanding it correctly.
Okay, so they did not go to the... Maybe they
did. maybe they did go to that's actually something
that we don't know what he can confirm but it's
not it's surprisingly not important to the story
okay i'm just trying to wrap my head around what's
going on okay so hweksat soon crossed paths with
local law enforcements when he was pulled over
in a van for driving with faulty taillight and
the entire group was eventually detained on july
13th 14th the six were transferred to the custody
of intelligence agencies and taken to fort benning
georgia and fort knox kentucky for interrogation
They were soon issued general discharges and
released with minimal consequences. Three of
the six, Beeson, Eccleston, and Hoekstad, returned
to Gulf Breeze, arriving back in town within
three weeks of first having been taken into custody.
Beeson said he returned to the area because of
friendships he developed, according to an August
4th, 1990 newspaper article titled, The Three
Discharged Soldiers Returned to Gulf Breeze Friends.
This story raises a ton of questions. Yeah, I
have many of them myself. How the six navigated
international airports without being detained
from leaving a German base. How does that happen
though? Would they, if someone's considered AWOL
and maybe you don't have the answer, I don't
know, would there be like a warrant for them
that airports would be looking for them? Here's
the thing. If you're traveling for military purposes,
you don't have the same visa as everybody else.
So generally speaking, you're supposed to have
permission to leave if you're trying to leave
the country. Or potentially even a passport.
Well, you would have your passport. It's just
that you would not have a travel visa. You would
have whatever the military equivalent is, which
would specifically say you're here for this purpose.
You can't leave without permission. And sorry,
what year was this again? 1980? 1990. Okay, pre
-911, so maybe a little more lax. Yeah, and it's
even pre -Germany. It's West Germany they're
in. Okay, I think those are my questions for
now. A partial explanation might include information
contained in a July 19, 1990 New York Times article.
Quote, the Pentagon said that two of the soldiers
went on authorized leave from their unit and
the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at Augsburg,
West Germany about two weeks ago and never returned.
At the same time, two other soldiers from the
unit vanished and officials suspected that two
more who were on leave would not return. Military
authorities issued a worldwide alert for the
to six soldiers on July 9th. So they kind of
did have an okay explanation for that. Not all
of them, but at least a good amount of them.
Okay, another quick question. Is this real? Perhaps.
No, it is. It is real. Okay. Yeah. That's all
my questions for now. Now that might account
for how they managed to get stateside, combined
with circumstances reported in an article from
the Northwest Florida Daily News, which suggested
the group used forged leave papers. Before the
worldwide alert was issued, Monday the 9th, Beeson
and Twickstad could feasibly have made it to
Tennessee by Friday, July 6th, as reported was
the case by the Pensacola News Journal. The two
reportedly planned to meet the other four. Some,
however, including Davis, would later speculate
intelligence officials knew of the group's plan
all along and were monitoring the journey. A
piece in the July 19th, 1990 edition of the Pensacola
News Journal indicated Robert Hall, an Army spokesman,
stated authorities didn't know how the six got
to the United States. The author of the article
also obtained comments from Stan Johnson, a contact
of Beeson's in Tennessee, who apparently picked
up Beeson's at Quaestad at the Knoxville Airport
on July 6th and helped them buy the van. Quote,
he did mention about going to Pensacola for a
UFO convention, end quote. Johnson was interestingly
quoted as recalling about Beeson. First, the
article indicated the MUFON conference was held
in Pensacola July 6th to 8th and reported MUFON
officials stated quote, They could not say whether
Beeson or Quakestad attended any of the supposed
obsessions, end quote. However, Anna Foster,
the psychic they were staying with in Tennessee
who opened her home to the group, apparently
did go to this. So they probably did go. In what
appears to be the next day's edition of the same
paper, the July 20th, 1990, Pensacola News Journal,
a story is published titled, quote, Soldiers
were to expose UFO scam. Sister Says. The article
highlights Beeson's sister and her husband, Carolyn
and Charles Reed, explaining how Beeson, quote,
said they were going to expose a government cover
-up of reports that aliens had visited Earth,
end quote. Although the couple did not seem to
take him particularly seriously. The article
continued, quote, the Reed said Beeson also told
them that Foster had introduced him to a UFO
group that believed the government was covering
up alien visits to Earth, end quote. quote if
anybody should be arrested it should be that
lady end quote charles reed told the news journal
about anna foster for what it may or may not
be worth the article concludes quote the mutual
ufo network held a symposium on ufos two weeks
ago july six to eight but the group did not endorse
any positions on government cover -up said don
weir a fort walton beach representative of the
group although weir said foster had attended
the symposium Foster refused comment again Tuesday
night. End of quote. So it does seem like they
did attend this thing. Okay, this is weird. Among
the more dramatic of the storylines to emerge
from the saga involved the Antichrist. As quoted
in the news journal, members of the Six were
being held at Fort Betting and that Major Joe
Padilla, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said he
didn't know why they left Germany or anything
about their religious beliefs. Golf Breeze police
chief Jerry Brown was similarly asked for comment.
The article explained, quote, When he was told
of the Stars and Stripes report Wednesday, Brown
said, I don't believe that. Who is the Antichrist?
And that's referencing that they were told that
they were there to kill the Antichrist. One of
the weird stories within this. That is weird.
If the Galt had talked about destroying the Antichrist,
that person should have a name, he said. End
quote. According to a Georgia MUFON state section
director. who described a Fort Benning doctor
as his source, at least some of the Golf Free
6 claimed to believe that the Antichrist did
have a name, and it was Ed Walters. In an August
4th, 1990 letter to MUFON, International Director
Walt Andrus, the section director wrote, quote,
In regards to your request that I try to meet
with the soldiers here at Fort Benning, Georgia.
who were involved in the recent end of the world
deal at Gulf Breeze, Florida, the following negative
report is submitted. I was unable to meet with
the soldiers who were being held in the stockade
and my fraternity brother, who is a doctor at
the base hospital, couldn't get me in to see
the two men who were on the psychiatric ward.
All I could get from the doctor was relatively
the same as that which was out on the media wires.
The soldiers had originally met while stationed
together in Germany and they believe that the
UFOs are works of the devil. They also supposedly
claim that Walters is the Antichrist and that
is why the UFO activity has been so heavy in
the Florida panhandle. I'm sorry I wasn't able
to get anything better on this but the people
of the Provost Marshall's office weren't very
receptive to the idea of a UFO investigator.
End of quote. Interesting. Other points of interest
include Vance Davis describing his mastery of
quote self -hypnosis through active imagination
end quote. As taught in silver mind control courses
that were held in Alex Merklinger's school in
New York, Davis reported to interact with entities
through such techniques. That seems like a very
funny thing. My thought process went, wow, I
could be really monetizing a lot more things,
even if I just made them up. I could be an anything
boss. People in the UFO community, 98 % of it
is made up at point. Totally! Which really sucks
because I love UFOs, but 90 % of it is totally
made up. Yeah, it really makes it a problem for
that other 10%. It really does. I still believe
in them though. It actually is funny that that
is like a general idiom within the UFO community
that 90 % of it is fake and 10 % is real. Really
is something that a lot of people say. Oh, even
Stephen Greer says that a lot. Everybody in the
UFO community, it's just even if that 1 % is
real, that's something to look at. No, they say
90 -10 and then they say, but even if 1%. Even
if one is real, there's people who say that too.
Even if there's one that's real, huh? Okay. Yeah,
that was my thought process. Okay. So Davis stated
that one of his Gulf Breeze 6 colleagues, Kenneth
Beeson, was practicing hypnosis techniques in
an interview published in the January, February,
1995 edition of the North California Move On
Periodical titled Case Briefs Exploration and
Review. Quote. Did you receive the information
from sources other than the Ouija board? And
quote the interviewer asked. Oh, no. Vance replies,
quote, UFO documents came from a woman with Ashtar
command in Germany. Oh, no. That was the Cooper
report and other documents. We didn't really
get anything from work, but we started seeing
things differently. The first thing that really
got us moving and they didn't put this in statements
was the Iran earthquake that year, 1990. because
we were told about it 30 days before it occurred
we were also doing hypnosis end quote quote was
beast in hypnotizing you end quote quote yeah
it was a relaxed state like Edgar Cayce used
to do We were doing a lot of parapsychology research,
a whole lot of it. We did tarot cards and all
that kind of stuff. We were trying to disprove
all of the stuff until the Ouija board happened
and some stuff. When you're doing hypnosis, you're
in a state, you're in a very different from Ouija
boards. Yeah, but you're in a very perceptive
state when you're doing hypnosis. So if you're
being hypnotized and then you're bringing tarot
cards, and esoteric things into it, that's the
suggestion. And that's the problem as well with
like regression and stuff with UFOs. You're in
such a state of being able to be suggested pretty
much anything. Which is the real problem that
reverse hypnosis runs into? Any hypnosis. No,
but regressive hypnosis story. Yeah. Yeah. I
mean, if you're regressing in the pretense of
going into another life, an abduction or something
like that, you're in a very receptive state of
pretty much if you're even led a little bit,
you're very receptive to anything that's going
on. So what she's saying with tarot cards being
brought in, that's very leading to where they're
going. Just my point of view here. Yeah, it seems
like there might have been a bias in this hypnosis,
which might pose a problem. Especially when we've
seen a few terms come up, like Ashtar Command.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like it was completely
neutral, is all I have to say about that. As
someone who does know how to hypnotize, by the
way. Two of the Golf Three Six did end up writing
a book called The Unbroken Promises, A True Story
of Courage and Belief. This is written by Vance
Davis and Brian Bleshaw. They further describe
the group's passion. They wrote a book? Yeah,
it's called Unbroken Promises. They make a statement
in this book. Quote, this third session ended
up giving us the name of a woman in Munich that
would have some information for us on the alien
and UFO situation. But they were already in Germany.
This is when they leave. The woman's name was
Gabriel. We did indeed find that woman in Munich,
and she gave us some information and documents
that were interesting, to say the least. OK.
That paperwork was taken by the officer that
arrested Mike Quakestad in Pensacola. We never
saw it again. End quote. Oh, OK. The sessions
included received interactions with biblical
icons, Mark and Mother Mary, the latter of which
curiously seemed to have arrived via the Ouija
board to answer questions for Annette Eccleston,
who, quote, grew up a Catholic but was no longer
a practicing Catholic, end quote. Oddly enough,
such activity in the vicinity of the base and
interest in the subject matter may very well
not have been limited to the Wayward Six. There
may have been others involved who didn't end
up leaving. His sister and brother -in -law,
the Reeds, told the Pensacola News Journal, the
man claimed to believe the rapture was imminent
and his group of 12, not six, was prepping. The
News Journal reported, quote, he also told the
couple that before the second coming of Christ,
the group, which Beeson said numbers 12, would
emerge and try to convert people to believe in
Christ. The Reeds said. For what it's worth,
the Northwest Florida Daily News piled on, citing
Stars and Stripes as reporting there were indeed
more interested parties. the end of the world.
But Stars and Stripes quoted the soldiers from
Augsburg unit as saying the cult has additional
members in the area. There are others who are
upset they didn't get invited to go along on
the search for the Antichrist, the newspaper
quoted the soldiers as saying. There is also
an unsigned typewritten note presumably sent
to the US Army and all the major TV networks
and wire services demanding the release of Breeze
6 as reported on August 16, 1990 in the Gulf
Breeze Sentinel. The message in question was
also reported by Jacques Valais via Revelations,
his book. The message in question was also reported
by Jacques Valais in his book Revelations, among
other sources. The Sentinel article stated, quote,
Mark Curtis at WEAR Channel 3 first shared his
intriguing note with the Sentinel two days before
the announcement that the Golf 3 -6 were discharged
from the Army and released, end quote. The message
contained in the note, which was reported to
have been typed in all caps and accompanied by
images just dated info quote abc mbc cbs ap upi
us army colon free the gulf breeze 6 period we
have the missing plans the box of 500 plus photos
and the plans you want back here is proof with
close -ups cut out next we send the close -ups
and then everything unless they are real answer
code au gs bb 3 cm end quote The guy who wrote
this article, he submitted four FOIA requests
on the Gulf Breeze 6. One of the SA, asking they
conduct a mandatory declassification review,
or MDR, of the file referenced by Coppens. He
stated 1 ,400 vs 1 ,600 pages were withheld so
perhaps more at some time in the future maybe
more will be released. He also requested the
NSA provide records pertaining to investigations
of the individuals and their activities as suggested
in the newspaper clippings. He also requested
that the army conduct an MDR file referenced
by Coppins as well as related records on the
group. Newspaper clippings establishing the existence
of such army investigations of the six were offered
in support. The CIA FBI were queried the files
requested on interactions with the investigation
of the Gulf Breeze 6. Offered in support was
a July 19, 1990 article which stated Gulf Breeze
Police Chief Jerry Brown said that no arrests
were made and the 6 were turned over to the CIA
and FBI before going to Fort Benning. Also cited
was a July 17, 1990 clipping which attributed
the Police Chief Brown was stating the FBI CIA
and NSA called the Gulf Breeze Police Department
following the soldiers detention. but nothing
was released. It is truly a bizarre case that
really isn't explained that well at all or that
well -known at all and is very hidden. No, I
can't make heads and tails of what the hell is
going on here. Basically, it's just they started
in Germany, they went to Gulf Breeze, they got
arrested and then quickly released and then didn't
say anything again. That was it. Now, one of
the six did a Art Bell interview on Coast to
Coast in the 90s. No. But I could not find it
for the life of me. What? Really? Yeah. Interesting.
Sorry, I had to pay to listen to it. I didn't
want to pay. So yeah, no, that totally checks
out. Yeah, that's where our research ends, guys.
What? I just mean in general, if we have to pay,
that's where our research ends. No, yeah, I totally
get that. OK, I'm not that offended because I'm
not paying either. Is that not, like, the most
bizarre story? Like, it doesn't make any sense
at all, but, like, this happens right after Ed
Walter. It's very likely this group of six thought
he was the Antichrist, and they weren't the only
six. Like, there was more people around it, and
they get arrested right around there. Right when
Mufon's like, okay, we need to get rid of this
whole thing with the Bill Moore and just make
it clean, these guys show up. They seem to just
happen congruently, not together. But some of
them seem to have shown up, but they don't want
to admit it. MUFA may have also been covering
it up because of Bill Moore. Yeah, no, they couldn't
get any more bad graphs. Yeah, we can't afford
to go through this again, but it's so weird.
Anything is possible with hypnosis, though. If
they had someone legitimately doing hypnosis
with the power of suggestion, it could be literally
whether it's the Antichrist or not. It's not
only the power of suggestion. They had Ashkar
command on their side. And that's enough. Yeah.
But logically, the Antichrist doesn't make sense
to me because this guy was clearly making it
up. But if you get hypnosis in there, no and
Chelsea very simply If you believe he isn't making
this up and you believe UFOs are demons, it makes
perfect sense to think he is the Antichrist.
That's true. If he is spawning these demons at
will, that's the Antichrist. Yeah. But then that
doesn't make any sense with Ashtar Command. You
can go a million different ways with this. And
I'm not my mind is reeling right now. I'm not
even sure what exactly you just told me still.
There's too much. There's too much. That was
a crazy story that I was not expecting for this.
And it's only kind of adjacent to Ed Walters.
Like, it's just that they happened to also be
there. I don't know, maybe they wanted to kill
him, but I can't tell for sure. Yeah, he got
brought up kind of maybe a little bit, but we
can't tell if it's for sure about him. But they
were in Golf Breeze and they were labeled the
Golf Breeze 6, so I totally get why it's a part
two. That's the weird shit that happened in Golf
Breeze. Okay, I like that. I liked it, even though
I'm still going to be processing it for a while.
I don't know. It's so weird. But we just keep
learning new things about MUFON where they fuck
up. And I feel like at some point here, we need
to just cover the MUFON story. We really do.
Because it feels like it kind of feels like they're
the ones that we tell people to go report to.
And they have a lot of shady shit in their past.
They really... It's going to be shady. A lot
of screw -ups in their past. Yeah, and there's
Richard Doty in their past too. So that's interesting.
There's Richard Doty, there's Bill Moore, there's
the Gulf Breeze Saints, and that's just off the
top of my head. And yet they're still prominent.
They're the ones that you would still report
to. They're still who you do it, yeah. Right?
But this is where this one leaves off. So, I
have been Taylor. Here with Chelsea, we are Journey
to the Fringe. Thank you all for listening. We'll
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