Classic Mysteries—Alternate Perceptions Magazine, December 2023
UFOs, an Alien Being, and Mysterious Phone Calls
by: Brent Raynes
Newspaper photo of Jeanne with her 11-year-old daughter Judy who drew this drawing of the UFO that “banged” into their Dorchester (MA) home, followed almost simultaneously by a power failure. Story was written up in the April 25, 1966 Boston Herald. This was just the beginning of a series of high strange events that would follow over the years.
Back in 1977, I met three people in Massachusetts who claimed to have undergone a series of high strange UFO and paranormal experiences, that included interactions with a mysterious being named La-2, another spelled it La-Tu (spelt phonetically by both) and instances where people got phone calls from this supposed entity. "It seemed like a glow from his chest up through his face," Paul Kaslouski told me. "And what I thought to be a cape of some sort that he was wearing. It was dark. The rest of his body was dark. I don't remember the arms or legs, but I knew it was just human like the rest of us. When it walked it wobbled like, from side to side. Like a penguin would walk. It would just be there long enough for everybody to see him. He just disappeared when he went. The light, whatever it was around him, went out, and that was it."
This happened in Dorchester, Massachusetts, back around 1968. Something resembling a flame shot out from the side of a garage and then there was this being. "This figure, or being, appeared and I guess everybody each described him maybe a little different than the other, though some of the things were similar. He appeared a couple of times like that. The curious thing was it was only certain people that could see him, or hear him, in the neighborhood, even in houses next to us couldn't hear anything or see anything. Out in the backyard you would hear the voice - let's say permeating from the air. It was in a monotone voice. Even on the phone it was monotone, like a robot or a computer." Paul claimed that some of the phone calls had been recorded, but later those recordings were inexplicably erased from the tapes.
"I am tired of playing games with this creature," Jeanne, a mother of seven who has a deep interest in the UFO subject, told me. "Although I could not see him outside in the backyard of (a friend's) house, when I repeated his name to see if I said it correctly, he assured me I had. At the time, the thought of Klatu went through my mind." For Jeanne and her family high strangeness began back around 5 a.m., on April 24, 1966, when a domed, oval-shaped object, about the size of a car, encircled with red lights, struck Jeanne's house. The story was even covered in the local news [Boston Herald, April 25, 1966]. Her 11-year-old daughter Judy claimed the impact rocked her bed. Her vantage point had been the third-floor bedroom. The newspaper read:
"It was so close I could almost touch it," Judy was quoted saying. "It banged against the house as we watched it. I was sitting on my bed, and it rocked the bed back and forth. Then the lights in the house went out,"
Judy said the "thing" was oval in shape and "about the size of my brother's car, a 1955 Lincoln." "It had a bubble top that seemed to be round, with red lights around the edge," Judy explained. "It seemed to be made partly of silvery gray metal with no doors." "I always used to say that there was no such thing as a flying saucer. I thought those people who said they saw them were making it up. Now that I saw one myself I never want to see one again."
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Jeanne was furthermore quoted in the local newspaper saying that "she had spotted the UFO shortly before midnight when it floated across Dorchester Ave. and hovered outside her apartment windows."
Regarding this case, noted UFO researcher and author Raymond E. Fowler, in his book UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors (1974) wrote: "A concurrent power failure was traced to a burned cable near the object's flight path. Some above-normal radiation was noted. It was raining." There was a massive UFO wave going on in Massachusetts at that time, which is covered in Fowler's book, and here's a link that touches upon that wave and includes a video of four police officers describing their sighting, along with interviews of Ray Fowler and other researchers too. Here's a link to that site: https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/waves/the-beverly-incident-april-1966
"I never expected to hear from him after the experiences in Dorchester," Jeanne said, referring to La-Tu, whose appearances had followed the 1966 encounter. She said she hadn't thought about the entity in about a year. Then one night while visiting the home of a researcher and experiencer named Annette Strapponi, a noise like something had fallen off of a nearby shelf was heard. Jeanne went to take a look but could find nothing. She laughed and said "Okay, La-Tu. Cut it out." It was the very next afternoon her phone rang. Jeanne's daughter picked up an extension and listened in to Jeanne's conversation on the phone. "It was snowing out and I had an appointment at the hospital," Jeanne recalled. "At the time of his call, I was laying on my bed thinking to myself about getting to Boston when the phone rang! I was worrying about my health. Whoever this La-Tu is he picked up my thought. His message was, "Do not be concerned for your physical health as you will soon return to perfect health. I will contact you again soon."
"Now you must remember that there is never any click of hanging up a phone. It just is silence. Odd to say the least."
On a Saturday afternoon in October 1977, I visited with both Jeanne and Annette Strapponi, at Annette's home in Hopedale. Annette seemed to have her finger on the pulse of all sorts of UFO happenings across Massachusetts. Small group meetings with local people in the UFO community would gather at her home, and she shared many of her own unusual experiences, from UFOs, poltergeist-type activity, and even shafts of light shining down from the sky with no discernible origin. It happened one night as she and a passenger were headed home from work when the car inexplicably stalled out. They got out of the car and noticed how there was a circle of light around her vehicle. The car was lit up "just perfect," she claimed, like there was a huge spotlight shining down on them, but looking up no source could be determined for the illumination. A man pulled up and offered assistance, telling them they were lucky to have stalled out beneath a streetlight. They informed him there was none, at which point he reportedly looked up and said something like, "Where's the light?" The man drove the lady's home. The next morning, Annette's brother drove over to check on her car, and it started up right away with no problem.
One night Annette had visited the bathroom and upon leaving she switched off the bathroom light at which point the living room became illuminated. "It wasn't coming from any window," she said. "The whole room lit up. There was no way you could detect where the light came from, because it lit up like when you turn on a light, and the going away of the light was different because it just faded out gradually."
In one of my last communications with the group in April 1978, I learned how they had made contact with a woman near Milford, who along with several others had a close-range UFO experience. "When she told us about her two phone calls this convinced me that it must be going on elsewhere," Jeanne wrote me. "Same voice as I heard. Loud, monotone, no hanging up." Later when she went to get her written accounts of what happened this woman claimed she couldn't find it, but that a terrible smell like sulfur or rotten eggs filled the draw it had been in. "All this checks with the cigar smoke, sulfur and flower smell I had experienced," Jeanne had told me. The woman revealed to them that her sister had been frightened when a UFO followed her car and the UFO hovered above the trees at her home in Framingham. She too got the phone call. "We are watching everything you do."
