Unsolved Mysteries Of The World

Welcome to Unsolved Mysteries of the World Season 6 Episode 2: The Abduction of Herbert SchirmerIt was a cold night on December 3rd, 1967 and it was especially cold at 2:20AM in Ashland Nebraska.Herbert Schirmer was a young, 22 year-old patrolman making the usual rounds. The streets were pretty much empty, the local businesses were all closed. Everyone was tucked in beds covered in blankets. He passed by the only open business this late at night, a gas station on highway 6. There were, as usual, no customers.He then noticed something odd in the distance. It looked like red lights flashing upon a large truck. Was it an ambulance? A tow truck? What had happened? He drove down highway 63 until he came upon the scene with his headlights now flicked on to high beam. It was definitely not a truck.The red lights he had seen flashing were coming from oval-shaped portholes cut into what appeared to be a metallic, oval-shaped object that was hovering about eight feet above the road's surface.Patrolman Schirmer noted th