There are those that used to be called “pen friends,” people far away, whom you will never see in person and you have never had a face-to-face exchange with.
Carl William Feindt was one of those for me. We have corresponded for years and exchanged dozens and dozens of USO sighting reports. Yes, USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects were the link between the two of us.
I can almost say that perhaps we have long been the only two active ufologists in the world who had specialized on “UFOs in the water”, and that’s why each new USO report either of us found was immediately sent to each other.
Who was Carl W. Feindt? From an early age he was such an aircraft enthusiast that he became a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol. After graduation, he studied aeronautical engineering at the New York City Air Force Academy and after two years of service in the USAF he returned to civilian life because of what he called “family difficulties.” He did not abandon his youthful passion, however, and so he worked for more than 30 years in customer service for a major airline.
After his retirement, he became actively involved in ufology, which had been an interested reader of since the early 1960s. Starting with Jan Aldrich’s Project 1947 research, in about eight years Carl viewed University of Delaware microfilmed newspaper collections for the years 1923-1967 and uncovered about 750 UFO-related items in that second smallest state of the USA.
He then became interested in sightings of UFOs surfacing from or submerging into water, and thus he created the world’s only specialized website on this subject (www.waterufo.net).
Carl W. Feindt appeared in History Channel “Deep-Sea UFO’s” and “Deep-Sea UFO’s Red Alert” TV documentaries and presented a lecture entitled “Physical Influences of a UFO on Water” at the 2006 MUFON Symposium in Denver, Colorado. In 2010, he published his own book on the subject, “UFOs and Water,” with an enlarged and revised second edition in 2016.
Carl passed away at the age of 81 on April 21, 2019, but I unfortunately did not hear the news until several months later.
That’s the bad thing about “pen pals,” the ufologists with whom we all have been collaborating and exchanging material for years. We don’t really know anything about our private lives, who we are, what we do, where exactly we live. Then one fine day you find out from the Internet that one of usi s no longer there and then you realize that behind the ufologist, there is a person, with whom you have shared a piece of your life and who you will always carry with you.
Now I feel really lonely studying my beloved “UFOs in the water”.
