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UFO investigator to speak
By robert Guttersohn
Hubbard
The city’s public library will host UFO investigator Thomas Wertman at 2 p.m. Saturday to speak on sightings and educate those interested in the subject.
Wertman said his fascination with the unexplained began as a child while watching sci-fi movies in the ’60s.
But he said after getting married and having kids, the fascination “kind of went to the back burner.”
But Wertman, now 56, said a personal sighting about eight years ago brought the fascination back.
While driving home from work late one night, Wertman saw a triangular object slowly flying against the wind in the sky.
“At first I thought it was a reflection on my window,” he said. “But when I rolled down my window, it was still there.”
He approximated the object to be football-field length.
And since then, his fascination has never ended.
Wertman is now the co-director of Cleveland Ufology Project and chapter chairman of the Cleveland Mutual UFO Network.
Hubbard library said it reached out to Wertman because of his audience draw — about 50 people an event — and to reach out to different subjects.
“We’ve been really trying to expand our horizons,” librarian Sandy Walter said. “I hope he will draw people from other areas.”
Wertman said he does not necessarily believe each UFO is being flown by aliens but that there are objects in the sky that cannot be explained.
“I try to present the facts,” Wertman said.
He said the amount of bogus UFO coverage on the Internet hides factual accounts like “a tree in a forest,” often lending to public misconception of UFO research.
“I try to eliminate that forest,” Wertman said.
There also will be a display of books on UFOs and alien abduction.