Charlie Foltz
| Name(s): | Charlie Foltz |
|---|---|
| Occupation: | art student |
| Alama Mater: | Massachusetts College of Art |
| Case File: | Allagash UFO Incident Case Files |
Charlie Foltz is one of the four central witnesses to the Allagash UFO Incident of August 20, 1976. He was an art student at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts, at the time of the incident.
Role in the Incident
Charlie Foltz was a member of the four-man group — along with Chuck Rak, Jack Weiner, and Jim Weiner — that undertook a two-week canoe trip through the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northern Maine in the summer of 1976.
Foltz played a pivotal role in the sequence of events that preceded the alleged abduction. When the group observed a large, brightly lit spherical craft approaching their canoe on Eagle Lake, it was Foltz who took out his flashlight and began signaling the craft using Morse code. According to all four witnesses, the craft appeared to respond to this signal by directing a hollow, tubular beam of light toward the canoe, which engulfed the four men and precipitated their loss of consciousness and missing time.
Hypnotic Regression
Foltz participated in the hypnotic regression sessions arranged by Budd Hopkins in 1988, approximately 12 years after the incident. He was hypnotized by a different therapist than the other three men, and his session was conducted independently. Under hypnosis, Foltz recalled experiences consistent with those described by the other three witnesses: being levitated into a spacecraft, subjected to a medical examination by non-human beings, and returned to the canoe with no conscious memory of the intervening period.
Artwork
As a trained artist, Foltz produced detailed drawings of the craft, the beings, and the examination environment. His drawings were produced independently of those made by the other witnesses and were found to be remarkably consistent with theirs.
Polygraph
Foltz submitted to a polygraph examination administered by Anthony Napoli, a certified polygraph examiner. He passed the examination with no indicators of deception.
Position on Recantation
When Chuck Rak publicly recanted the story in 2016, claiming it had been fabricated, Foltz was among the three witnesses (along with Jack and Jim Weiner) who firmly disputed the recantation. Foltz maintained that the events had occurred as described and denied that any coercion had taken place.
