The ET stories never stop here in Nevada

I decided to head home today for a quick sandwich with Mr. Maven, since I live only minutes from the office. While wating for the teapot to boil, my cellphone rang, I was a local television reporter that I’ve worked with on stories large and small over the years.

He wanted to know how to get into the Air Force crash site database. I know crazy stuff like this because of my connection with the search for Steve Fossett.

“Huh? Jumpin’ gee whiz, Ed what are you after?”

“Oh, it’s a … a UFO story”

I sensed a little reticence there, but this is the same intrepid reporter who made my boss look good for a story on the stimulus money - while she was dressed up at the Wicked Witch of the West.

“Oh, Ed … they gave you the big story of the day, didn’t they?”

Apparently, in November he went out to Ely, Nevada - which I generously refer to a ‘jumping off point’ in the clear, high desert of eastern Nevada, to dog a UFO sighting story. I’ve spent some time in Ely. It’s colder than the back gate to hell in the winter, and summers …. Once we tried to take off in a Cessna 182 on a July afternoon when it was about 95 degrees. Ely is high- 6,437 ft. as a matter of fact. That made the Density Altitude a bit more than the wee Cessna could handle.

We stayed grounded until dusk.

Anybody who gets out and about in Nevada has some UFO lore to relate. Heck, we’re the only state in the country with an official Extraterrestial Highway.

Mr. Maven and I toured the lonely stretch of road

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Story about Lori Carpenter and Haitian relief efforts

By Ed Pearce of KOLO-TV, Reno, Nevada:

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Lori Carpenter is by profession an hydrologist. She runs a successful consulting business, Huffman and Carpenter, in Reno.

These days she’s spending a lot of time on the phone and computer seeking another kind of success, the kind measured in lives saved. Wednesday morning found her working the phone trying to get a group of Haitian children out of the disaster area to families in the U-S and Europe.

“It’s been a lot of tense days, she says. But not without success. A group of children left for Holland the day before. Now she’s waiting for word on another group hopefully headed for homes in the U-S.

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