It’s Always Sunny in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Pt. 5 – Getting Spooked

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The four soldiers, Davis, Beason, Setterberg, and Hueckstadt, followed the Ouija board’s instructions to contact the number on a flyer for a local UFO conference. The spirit Safire had told them that their contact would be a woman named Gabrielle who had a sixteen-year-old daughter. The board further predicted that the conference would be cancelled. To Davis and Beason’s surprise, they easily made contact with a woman named Gabrielle who was in charge of planning the conference. Explaining their current obsession with UFOs and the paranormal, Gabrielle expressed interest in talking to them, so they met for lunch in Munich. Davis describes some of their discussion: “Gabrielle, a pleasant woman of about 45, told us about her involvement with UFO research, which had begun when she discovered through hypnotherapy that she had been abducted by aliens.”

Gabrielle also passed along a copy of the “Cooper Report” which Davis says “was primarily concerned with the interaction between aliens and our government.” Assumedly a publication by Bill Cooper, the document “provide(d) a good degree of corroboration for some of the data” the group “had received on the board.”

This is likely a document that Bill Cooper was circulating as early as 1988 with claims that “closely parallel the MJ-12 papers” and resembles subsequent statements by Bill Moore and John Lear on the matter while referencing neither of them.

Essentially, Gabrielle had handed the group a document that perpetuated an outgrowth of a very specific brand of UFO disinformation perpetuated by Moore on behalf of AFOSI and other intelligence organizations. There is also the possibility that Cooper himself was one of the many “mirage men” spreading these narratives, as explored by Mark Pilkington, Greg Bishop, Wendy Painting, and others. I have written about this notion in another article, Countdown to the Apocalypse. Yet another part of this series saw Cooper appear as a possible author the six were seeking out in the United States. (Special thanks to @RoccoBasilisk for pointing me towards the correct Cooper document.)

Although it goes unwritten in Davis and Blashaw’s Unbroken Promises, Davis would speak about a later meeting with Gabrielle in a 1993 interview with Sean David Morton:

She traveled around in Europe, and she knew a lot of people. She knew the people who set up MUFON in Europe. (…) When we went and met her again she gave us a bunch of paperwork, and the stuff still had the “Top Secret” codeword and everything else still on it. We asked her where she got it. She said “don’t worry about it, I snuck it out. (…) Some of this is supposedly what Cooper had, but a lot more.” “Is Cooper for real?” we asked. “No!” That’s what she said. “Cooper was not for real.”

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Davis also says that the board told them Cooper was a government plant, although this also is not mentioned in his 1995 book. This discrepancy will become important in concert with other inconsistencies in Davis’ testimony as this story unfolds. Notably, in Unbroken Promises, Davis says the “Cooper Report” was the only thing in the realm of classified documents that the group possessed. In the aforementioned Morton interview, however, Davis recounts that when they were eventually caught, there were papers “marked ‘Top Secret’” in their van. It is unclear whether these were the same documents given to them by Gabrielle, but Davis says that “the cop” who pulled over Hueckstaedt “saw the paperwork all over the floor” and “looked as if he recognized it or knew what it was.” Davis answers in the affirmative that these papers had been “smuggled out of Germany.”

If these papers weren’t the “Cooper Report” or other hoaxed or fraudulent UFO documents, what the heck were they? The group never admitted to smuggling out documents otherwise and they certainly weren’t found guilty of smuggling classified documents. I’m getting ahead of myself but keep a pin in that.

Returning to the central figures of our story, Beason and Davis parted ways with Gabrielle, satisfied with the further corroborative information they were receiving. They also learned that the UFO conference was indeed cancelled as “the government rescinded (its) permits without any explanation.”

Before leaving, Beason told Gabrielle to say hello to her 16-year-old daughter (author’s note: weird thing to say). But the board was wrong—Gabrielle had a 16-year-old son, not a daughter. Beason, as he seems to be prone to doing, gets angry at this apparent deception by Safire: “He spent the entire train ride back to Augsburg raving about the Major Mistake, and that everything Safire had given us was bullshit.”

In the next session, Safire explained that it was not an error—it was a lesson to teach them not to believe everything they board told them. They would have to do their own research to confirm the messages from the board. Seemingly satisfied with this, the sessions with the board continued. Safire told them that their “training and (…) beliefs and prejudices would interfere with (their) ‘awakening’” and that the group would have to listen to their hearts to be able to use the messages from the Ouija board spirit guides effectively.

In one particular session, Safire left them with a cryptic message: “Six will go underground from the Army.” Further, she gave a date for this event, August 5^th, 1990. Events were being set into motion.

Annette Eccleston, who had become acquainted with Beason and Davis in Pensacola, sat in on a session soon after the group met with Gabrielle and received the “six will go underground” message. Eccleston, 22 years old at the time, had two small children with her in Augsburg and a marriage that was failing. While an INSCOM report would later declare that “she was a follower, not a leader”

and was being led by Beason, other superiors would call her “a tough cookie.”

She was raised Catholic and very suspicious of the “possible Satanic influences that the Ouija board could produce.”

Luckily for her, Safire recognized her presence in the room and summoned the Virgin Mary to speak with Eccleston to put her at ease. After being convinced of this miracle communication with the Blessed Mother, she was overjoyed:

Annette’s eyes welled with tears. Mary addressed her as Martha, and called her “sister.” The room was flooded with emotions from both sides of the board… With love, with recognition, with joy. Soon everybody in the room was weeping like schoolgirls. It was a couple of minutes before we regained our composure.

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With this interaction, Eccleston seems to have been convinced and joined the group of four in their constant spirit contacts.

The Virgin Mary was not the only holy figure that the group would speak to. Soon after Eccleston became a fixture of the unit, a spirit calling itself Timothy showed up, a biblical figure who Paul wrote several epistles to and eventual saint in his own right. He introduced himself as one of Safire’s teachers. Davis would later tell Sean David Morton: “Timothy was an apostle. And when he came through the board he came across as a very funny guy. Some people tell you ‘No, he’s not an apostle!’ Well he was.”

Semantics aside, Timothy does have an odd presence according to Davis’ recollections. His messages were given in very contemporary diction such as “FAR OUT LIKE OK HAHAHAHA I LOVE YOUR LANGUAGES.”

Nevertheless, Timothy perpetuated the group’s contacts with purported higher beings and their belief and devotion seemed to continually grow as the sessions continued.

Three days after meeting Timothy, Kris Perlock joined the other five to round out the group. Perlock “was an extremely intelligent young man who was more into computers and science than religion and metaphysics” but was nevertheless interested in “way-out subjects” such as “interstellar travel” or generating energy from the human body.

Perhaps due to these eccentric interests, Perlock was eager to see how the group contacted these supposed entities. The later INSCOM investigation would find that Perlock was a fan of “Dungeons and Dragons, was interested in the supernatural, (and) was a follower who seemed ‘brainwashed.’”

One might note that this conflicts with Davis’ description, but his supposed “scientific interests” do seem to be on the more speculative side the subject. On Perlock’s first session, Timothy was quick to note: “NOW THERE R 6.”

The cosmic drama that the Ouija board spirits foretold was coming to pass and the soldiers were enthusiastically along for the ride. Heads buzzing with numerous imminent prophecies and vital information about the upcoming rapture, the Augburg Six were about to become the Gulf Breeze Six.

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