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SUBJECT: TAYLOR FLYING SAUCER RESTS ON STILTS FILE: UFO3284
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Duncan/
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Granger Taylo's : Flying Saucer
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The Granger Taylor Flying Saucer rests on stilts in
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the back yard of the Taylor home at Duncan on Van- .
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couver Island. It is a mute memorial to its builder,
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young Gr Taylor.
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" He built his spaceship out of two satellite receiving
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dishes and outfitted it with a television, a couch,
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and a wood-burning stove. He became obsessed with
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finding out how flying saucers were powered, spending
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hours sitting in the ship thinking and often sleeping
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there," wrote Douglas Curran in his book In
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Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space
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(1985).
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Then one November night in 1980 Granger Taylor
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simply disappeared. He left behind a yard strewn with
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old tractors; machine engines, vintage automobiles, a
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bulldozer, as well! as a note which read: "Dear Mother
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and Father, I have gone away to walk aboard an alien
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ship, as recurring dreams assured a 42 month interstellar
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voyage to explore the vast universe, then
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return. I am leaving behind all my possessions to you
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as I will no longer require the use of any. Please use
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the instructions in my will as a guide to help. Love,
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Granger." The forty-two months were up in May
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1984 and his parents, Jim and Grace Taylor, leave the
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back door unlocked in case their son shows up. But
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he never has.
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Granger Taylor left school in the eighth grade and
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found work as a mechanic's helper, showing a flair
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for repairing machinery. At the age of fourteen he
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built a one-cylinder car which is on display at the
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Duncan Forest Museum. He constructed a replica of
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a World War li fighter plane, and he left behind his
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silver-and-red flying saucer. He told a friend a month
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before he disappeared that he was in mental contact
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with someone from another galaxy and that he was
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in receipt of an invitation to go on a trip through the
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Solar System.
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"On the night that Granger disappeared, " wrote
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Curran, " a storm struck the central part of Vancouver
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Island. Hurricane winds were reported and electrical
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power was knocked out. Granger vanished, along
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with his blue pick-up truck.
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"After four years of `exhaustive checks' of hospital,
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passport, employment, and vehicle records, the Royal
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Canadian Mounted Police have not uncovered a single
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clue as to the whereabouts of Granger Taylor. `I can
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hardly believe Granger ' s off in a spaceship, ' his father
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said. `But if there is a flying object out there, he's the
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one to find it.' "
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