The Cash/Landrum Case of 1980
by Steve Bass, Cert-II 
State Section Director, Mutual UFO Network
Fellow, Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena
Kharkiv, Ukraine
(Copyright © 2009 by Steve Bass. All rights reserved.)
Betty, Vicki, and Colby would later be involved in legal action against the U.S. government over the illnesses, contending that the presence of military helicopters during the sighting was conclusive to military involvement. Eventually resulting in a Congressional hearing, the Inspector General of the U.S. Army denied the service´s involvement in the matter. In the final ruling, military culpability was never proven and no damages were awarded.
Betty Cash passed away on December 29, 1998, on the eighteenth anniversary of the incident.
Interesting to note, while the U.S. government maintains that UFO´s do not exist and do not present a threat to the citizens of America, which seems a bit redundant, the military ascertains that it was not their craft that emitted radiation that night in 1980. I believe what they are implying, then, is that UFO´s do not exist, unless it gets the U.S. government off the hook for medical expenses.
There is a term I heard coined by Kathleen Marden, whose aunt and uncle, Betty and Barney Hill, were involved in an extraterrestrial abduction in New Hampshire in 1961. The term, pseudo-skeptic, is used to refer to so-called skeptics and other learned persons who denigrate Ufology with intentional deceit, ascertaining that UFO´s do not exist and that witnesses are either mistaken, simple/not very smart, dishonest, or just plain fantasy-prone. Believing UFO´s and aliens to be completely based in fiction, it is difficult for them to ignore a case such as the Cash/Landrum Incident. Radiation exposure is not an easy thing to encounter, especially on a deserted road in eastern Texas in 1980.
There are also those who would establish that UFO´s and Aliens are here to help us, to encourage us as we progress into an advanced state of enlightenment, and they only have our best interests at heart. This hogwash is difficult to process when put against an intentional and/or negligent action such as this, which resulted in incredible suffering on the part of Betty, Vicki, and Colby, three innocent people driving on a deserted road in eastern Texas in 1980.
References
The Cash/Landrum Incident NICAP Report www.nicap.org/cashlan.htm
1980-The Cash / Landrum Piney Woods Encounter by Billy Booth ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/cashlandrum.htm
CAPTURED! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Kathleen Marden kathleenmarden.googlepages.com/
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