Clayton,
I thought you might like this.
Some teachers from Ervinton High were taking a class one summer at Clinch Valley College (before it became UVa Wise) They had a huge party one night, got drunk as dogs, and missed an important test the next day. They concocted a UFO story to explain their absence from the dorm and from the test. Some folks from the Air Force showed up, questioned the "witnesses", took soil samples from the alleged landing site, and left.
Two days later a couple of guys with crew cuts, black suits and black raincoats showed up at the college and discreetly took over a room in the Admin building and questioned everyone they could think of. By this time the teachers from EHS were worried about lying to the authorities, but they had too much invested in the lies.
The truth never came out, but there were no UFOs, no little green men, no abductions or probes. Just some good old Southern Appalachian drunks!
grizzly bare
Jim Johnson
ps
No I wasn't one of those teachers, I was still a student at UVa Charlottesville, but I personally knew all the principals involved and have heard them laugh about it several times.
Wait! Now that has jogged my memory! Some of the teachers were from Haysi and Clintwood also.
grizzly