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Although he is mostly forgotten today, Buck Nelson stood out for years as one of the oddest figures in the history of UFO sightings in America. The tales he told were certainly weird, even among UFO buffs and paranormal researchers.
Back in 1954, the 60-year-old Nelson was tending to his farm in Howell County, which is in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. One July day, he supposedly had a close encounter with visitors from another world. That encounter would make the obscure, slightly cross-eyed farmer into a minor celebrity for that part of the country, according to a Web site.
“It was a fairly good day,” he said later, “And I was able to get out. I saw these things over my house. I called them things at the time; I didn’t know what they were. But they looked just like we called them...flying saucers.”
According to his tale, Nelson claimed to see three flying saucers hovering over his farmhouse on that July day in 1954. He was not alarmed by what he saw. Instead, he took photographs of the UFOs and attempted to signal them with a flashlight. Nelson said when he shined a flashlight at them a ray suddenly came out from one of the crafts and struck him.
“It was much brighter and hotter than the sun,” Nelson said later.
After the ray hit him, he claimed a long-term back problem was cured and his failing eyesight got better.
Sometime later, Nelson supposedly got to meet his benefactors. He claimed that three “friendly spacemen” came to visit him at his farmhouse. The alien beings looked like humans and were even accompanied by a gigantic dog named Bo. The aliens spent some time talking with Nelson. Two of them were named Bucky and Bob and their main subject of conversation was about what they called “The 12 Laws of God.” These laws were supposedly derived from the Ten Commandments, according to a Web site.
Nelson said that his “space brothers” looked like “any of us; any of us here on the grounds.”
According to Buck Nelson’s account, the kindly aliens took him along for trips throughout the solar system. He got to visit Mars, where they had horses and cattle, and the Moon, where he talked to its ruler. He even got to see Venus, where they had cars without wheels or fenders.
When they returned to Earth, the aliens gave Nelson a gift: Bo the dog. However, the poor canine was hairless, possibly due to cosmic ray exposure, and weighed almost 400 pounds. Nelson claimed that Bo was too shy to be publicly exhibited.
In 1956, Nelson wrote it all down in a pamphlet titled “My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus.” It made him something of a celebrity in the Ozarks. He also answered the question of why these alien beings came here in the first place.
“Their purpose is to show us how to live better,” he said. “They have no hospitals and look at the money we spend on drugs.”
He maintained that the UFOs came to Howell County, Mo. because the magnetic currents there were just right for a visit. The aliens visited him because they knew that he would not shoot them down, according to Nelson’s account.
His pamphlet also led to Nelson holding the annual Spacecraft Convention near his farm for about a decade.
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