Stella Lansins Beginning Of The Mystery
The beginning of the mystery
Stella Lansing was a middle-aged housewife from Massachusetts who, in 1961, began experiencing strange and otherworldly events. Over time, these experiences led her down a bizarre path involving UFOs, strange humanoid creatures, Men in Black, and visions of other worlds. She managed to capture many of these occurrences on different types of film.
It all began on a beautiful September day in 1961 when Stella noticed a bright, hovering orb outside her home in Northampton, Massachusetts. The object hovered at tree level in the distant sky before zipping closely to her. It stopped mid-air between her house and her neighbor’s garage, appearing to observe her. Suddenly, it shot away and disappeared.
Another four years would pass before she encountered these mysterious objects again. However, she soon began to see them more regularly. That brief but terrifying incident marked the beginning of Stella’s extraordinary journey. While driving to a friend’s house to deliver candles during the blackout, Lansing saw the orb-like object again. She was alone on the road, except for the orb that seemed to follow her, weaving in and out of the telephone poles along the way. Suddenly, a dark car appeared on the road beside her. For reasons she couldn’t explain, she felt that the orb was somehow “driving the car!” The car eventually pulled over to the side of the road and stopped.
First Contact
Lansing kept driving, noticing that the orb had changed direction and was now moving over the fields alongside the highway. She maintained her focus on the orb until it disappeared from view and then continued on to her friend’s house. Interestingly, many researchers have drawn connections between unusual UFO sightings and the East Coast blackout.
As Stella slowly drove past the dark car, she sensed that the occupants were watching her as the bright orb suddenly dipped below the telephone wires and into a nearby field. From where she sat, Stella saw the light fly northwest before flaring into the dark sky. She kept her car moving until she reached the safety of her friend’s house.
Two years later, Stella continued to see strange lights in the sky that sometimes seemed to follow her. By the mid-to-late sixties, she had only mentioned her experiences to her family and close friends. Still unaware of what these lights were or what they wanted, she could never have imagined the horrors that would soon visit her.
On Halloween night in 1966, Stella’s experiences took a terrifying turn. While parked in a space overlooking the lake, she had a frightening encounter with a strange, grotesque creature. Just as she was about to switch off her headlights, she saw a bizarre figure emerge from the water. Overcome with panic, all that Stella would later recall in detail was that the figure was “wearing a black skullcap!”
Scared out of her mind, she quickly shifted her car into reverse and pulled away from the uncomfortably close shoreline. In her frantic state, she noticed that the humanoid-like creature had crawled onto shore and began running toward a peninsula about sixty meters from her house.
As Stella adjusted her car and headlights to shine toward the location, she saw a basketball-sized orange orb of light surrounded by a fuzzy mist. The dim light made the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. Suddenly, a giant, brighter orb of light swooped down behind her house and then flew low across the water.
This bright red object was spotted by Stella’s two teenage neighbors, who saw it descend from the sky and glide down to the lake. Not far behind them was Stella’s family, who remained completely oblivious to the bizarre phenomena occurring just up the road. Although Stella had been trying to capture pictures of these objects for some time, following her Halloween encounter by the lake, she finally obtained an 8mm camera. If she had recorded the events, she would have had more evidence for analysis.
Closer Contact
On the night of February 18, 1967, Stella once again saw strange lights. She stopped her car on Route 32 near Warren Road and Flynt Street, getting out to get a better look. She noticed another car had pulled off the road, and the driver had also exited due to the unusual nature of the lights. It had been almost three months since Stella’s Halloween encounter when she decided to use her 8mm camera to try to capture the strange orb phenomena she had been witnessing since the beginning of the decade while driving along Route 32 in Northampton.
In April of 1968, Stella finally purchased her own Bell and Howell projector. This new piece of technology allowed her to slow down the footage she had shot on that fateful night in 1967 to two frames per second, revealing unnerving images she had failed to notice before. The bright object she filmed on that lonely road contained a few frames showing the heads and torsos of strange men, whom she believed emerged from some type of craft. In one of the images captured on Route 32 in February 1967, Lansing noticed these odd figures. She later remarked, “I never saw the people when filming it. I can’t tell you what object they came out of or what they were in. I thought they must have come from the soft white object!” According to Lansing, this white craft hovered above her throughout the filming. The four strange men she captured would come to be known as “The Occupants.”
By 1970, Stella had begun taking photographs featuring mysterious lights and structures superimposed on them. A peculiar clock-like pattern also started to appear in her films and photographs. Strangely, geometric patterns began overlaying the film itself, overlapping the frames of her footage. Despite the remarkable nature of these images, no official investigation was conducted into Stella’s claims and impressive evidence. Genuine interest was lacking until 1971, when Stella attended a UFO conference and shared her story with Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D.
In 1971 — ten years after the orbs first became visible to Stella — she met Dr. Schwarz at the conference. He had a keen interest in the paranormal, including ufology, and was intrigued by what Lansing had to say, especially when she offered to show him proof by presenting her films. Dr. Schwarz conducted extensive medical, physical, and neurological examinations on Lansing, all of which returned normal results.
However, he soon discovered that years of witnessing strange activities had taken a toll on her mentally. This led her to voluntarily enter a state hospital for psychiatric evaluation in 1967. During her stay, the doctor in charge of her case diagnosed her with Paranoid Schizophrenia, suggesting that her hallucinations had resulted in her sightings of UFOs. Far from being crazy, this diagnosis highlighted that Stella was quite normal, given the years of bizarre experiences she had encountered.
Final Proof
On April 15, 1971, Dr. Schwarz, Lansing, and an unnamed woman visited a location where many of Lansing’s sightings had occurred. It was a late night, and as they brought the car to a stop and turned off the headlights, they were plunged into darkness. However, just minutes later, they were joined by a pair of glowing yellow orbs above them, just as Lansing had predicted. The three of them stood in awe, observing the craft, unaware of a black car approaching with its headlights off. The car stopped about a hundred feet away and abruptly switched on its bright headlights, shining them in the direction of the group.
This incident led Dr. Schwarz to believe that something unexplainable was happening to Stella. He was convinced it was not a cleverly staged hoax, as the distant UFO lights could not be projected onto the night sky. He also dismissed claims that they might be experiencing a mass hallucination, a theory often proposed to explain multiple witnesses seeing the same phenomena. Dr. Schwarz argued that mass hallucinations do not exist.
In 1991, when a television show called “Sightings” featured Lansing’s story, they obtained the film and transferred it to VHS for the broadcast. Upon viewing the newly transferred tape, the segment that displayed “The Occupants” image also contained strange, mysterious voices that were only audible during that specific part of the film. This revelation shocked everyone involved, including Lansing herself.
Stella Lansing continued to research the phenomena she had captured, but by the time of her death in 2012, she still had no answers regarding what she had seen or why. There undeniably seems to be a connection between the strange sightings she experienced and the bizarre images captured in her film. Were these phenomena unintended consequences? Were there messages or attempts at communication? Or could they represent images from another dimension or reality? All theories remain on the table.
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