[IRCA] UFO Radio Promotional Circa 1973

[Les Rayburn <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the strangest request you'll read all day.

I'm trying to track down a copy of a radio promotional ad from 1973. At 
least, I think that's what it would be called--not familiar enough with 
radio broadcasting to even be certain of the name for such things.

If you turn back the clock just over 40 years ago, I was living in East 
Tennessee during one of the biggest UFO waves or "flaps" of sightings 
ever seen. People were reporting seeing strange lights in the sky across 
several states in the Eastern United States.

My small hometown of Cleveland, TN wasn't immune. The local paper seemed 
to carry new headlines each day about this person or that seeing strange 
craft--and people experiencing episodes of missing time.

To an 11 year old boy, this was the stuff of wonder and fear.

Our local Top 40 station, WFLI began running a series of promotional 
advertisements that sought to capitalize on the event. The production of 
the tracks was slick, and the announcer's voice not familiar--which 
leads me to believe that they were probably nationally produced and then 
syndicated to stations, much like a jingle package.

There were several ads in the series, but the one I remember best was 
heard the first time late at night, just after 10 PM. It went something 
like this:

/Somewhere outside your window...a giant eye is watching you from outer 
space.

Don't look out! They'll know you're there!

Just sit quietly and hope that they don't come for you...

This is W-F-L-I, where the Great UFO Search is on!

/The last line was delivered by one of the local jocks leading me to 
believe that it was a local "tag" added onto the syndicated material of 
the rest of the ad. There was another about Men in Black, and several 
more. All of them were that cool, creepy Shock Theater kind of stuff.

I've collected all the airchecks I can find from WFLI in their Top 40 
days, but there are very few.

I'm wondering if anyone else remembers this promotional package, or can 
even tell me what such things are properly called so that I can search 
for it on sites like Ebay or collector sites.

Nothing can put the fear of God or flying saucers into the heart of an 
11 year old quite like radio. Sure do miss those days!


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73,


Les Rayburn, N1LF
Maylene, AL
EM63

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