Roswell and Other UFO Mysteries

NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING.

BY

Mike O'Brien

Thesis for a Pre-Paradigm Science:

Cereology

by

Michael Chorost

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS

OF THE UFO

ABDUCTION PHENOMENON

by

Budd Hopkins

SUMMARY REPORT ON

OBSERVATIONS 30-31 MARCH 1990

Author Unknown

CLINICAL DISCREPANCIES

BETWEEN EXPECTED AND OBSERVED

DATA IN PATIENTS

REPORTING UFO ABDUCTIONS:

IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT

RIMA E. LAIBOW, M.D. Child and Adult Psychiatry

Extraterrestrial Contacts?

By

Philip J.Imbrogno

Majestic

Author Unknown

The UFO Conspiracy

by

Milton William Cooper

NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING.

BY

Mike O'Brien

What sets Gerald Anderson apart from the thousands of other American's, including scores of Ozarkers, who say they've seen UFO's or even insist they've been kidnapped by creatures from outer space?

Why are Gerald Anderson's childhood recollections stirring international interest among UFO researchers whose reputations have been built on healthy skepticism and willingness to debunk hoaxes?

Because of little things he has to say and how he says them.

Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist who has lectured on more than 600 college campuses about UFOs, describes Anderson as "a really significant, potentially the most important" witness to what both men believe was the aftermath of one of two space craft crashes in New Mexico in mid-summer 1947.

Friedman is co-authoring a book based upon several years of painstaking investigation into the haunting mystery. He was startled, upon meeting Anderson for the first time only a few months ago, to hear the Springfieldian echo details of the yet to be published research.

"There's no way he could know some of these things unless he had been there at the time," Friedman believes.

Example: only days before first talking with Anderson, Friedman coaxed a heretofore reluctant New Mexico mortician into recounting a run-in he'd had in 1947 with an especially unpleasant red-headed captain who was heading up a team recovering bodies from a hush-hush aircraft crash. Anderson, too, spoke of a red-headed captain with a mean disposition. Friedman says the descriptions of the ornery officer provided by the two match precisely, although Anderson and the mortician never have met.

In sketches of the desert crash scene drawn by Anderson in Springfield following a hypnosis, a lonely windmill appears in the distance. When Friedman later arranged for Anderson to return to New Mexico to pinpoint the long-ago crash site, no such windmill could be see on the horizon-- until, almost by accident, the windmill wa spotted behind tress that had grown up during the 43 years since Anderson was last there.

"I got shivers over that one," says John Carpenter, who has extensively debriefed Anderson over the past 4 months and went along on Anderson's return trip to New Mexico in October.

Carpenter holds degrees in psychology and psychiatric social work from DePauw and Washington universities and trained in clinical hypnosis at the Menninger Institute. He's in his 12th year of work at a psychiatric hospital facility in Springfield.

"When Gerald tells his story, it's not just a story -- it's his life he's telling you, intermixed with his feelings and his beliefs and all that is Gerald," Carpenter says.

"When someone is spinning a hoax or tale, they only give you enough to raise your curiosity. Not Gerald. He gives you everything, in detail, much more than you ask him for. He'd be setting himself up to be found out if it wasn't true. He's so confident, he goes so much further than a hoaxer would ever dare."

Carpenter puts great stock in Anderson's recountings under hypnosis. "It's what he didn't say that was significant." Carpenter says, explaining that despite clever prodding, Anderson never committed a hoaxer's mistake of "recalling" something that shouldn't be a part of his own memory.

"And when he's under hypnosis, all the bigger, adult words drop out when he describes events from his childhood," Carpenter found. "He relates what he was in child-like terms."

Carpenter also detected "genuine amazement" when Anderson heard what had been dredged from his subconscious memory under hypnosis. "The look on his face was priceless when he realized he'd produced details he'd forgotten on a conscious level so long ago."

Most subtle but perhaps most telling, in Carpenter's view, was Anderson's reaction to being accepted as a viable witness to an extraordinary encounter with a spacecraft and creatures from beyond Earth.

"He was so grateful at being taken seriously. You could see the relief and release after all those years, and the great hope that other people would take him seriously too, once and for all."

Ironically, Friedman points to Gallup Poll results indicating that 60 percent of Americans who have college degrees say they believe UFOs are real. With such a receptive constituency, why would government officials persist in what Friedman calls the "Cosmic Watergate" -- the cover-up and denial of the New Mexico crashes? Perhaps, some speculate, because it would be too embarrassing now to admit that some supposedly made-in-USA technologies actually were plagiarized from confiscated spacecraft.

Friedman emphasizes that he's not as interested in uncovering past misdeeds as he is in encouraging future progress.

"I believe we should have an 'Earthling" orientation rather than nationalistic orientation. The easiest way to demonstrate the wisdom of this is to prove that life forms from other planets are coming here. If we can do that, then everyone will be forced to look at our world differently, as a part of a galactic neighborhood."

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The second part of the Springfield newspaper, dated December 9th, 1990 is as follows:

Titled: Fact or Fantasy? Springfieldian seeks validation of UFO       encounter 43 years ago.

Written by: Mike O'Brien

ALSO NOTE: the actual newspaper article shows a scene of the UFO crash drawn by Gerald Anderson and also a sketch of a creature he believes was a visitor from another galaxy.

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To a 5-year-old kid from Indianapolis, the mountains and mesas and vast scrubland surrounding Albuquerque seemed an alien world. "I was in awe" recalls Gerald Anderson of his arrival in New Mexico with his family in July 1947. "I was in the wild frontier. There were real, live Indians out there." Then says Anderson, on his second day in the Southwest he bumped into real,live creatures from a truly alien world. There were four -- two dead, on dying, one apparently uninjured. The creatures were about 4 feet tall, with heads disproportionately large for their bodies by human measure and almond-shaped, coal black eyes. They huddled in the shadow of 50-ft-diameter silver disk - a "flying saucer" that had crashed into a low hillside on the rim of what locals call the Plains of San Augustin. Anderson, a former police chief at Rockaway Beach and Taney County deputy sheriff who now works as a security officer in Springfield, is adamant about events on the hot midsummer day so long ago. "I saw them. I even touched one of the creatures. I put my hand on their ship. And I wasn't alone - my dad, my uncle, my brother and my cousin all saw the same things. And so did a lot of other people. But they aren't talking. Anderson is talking, publicly, after 43 years of silence. Among those listening most intently are some of the foremost researchers into unidentified flying object (UFO phenomena. These experts say Gerald Anderson appears to be an important link in a frustratingly fragmented chain of evidence concerning the most famous - or infamous - chapter in UFO annals: the so called "Roswell Incident." No one denies that "something" happened in July 1947 in central New Mexico, cradle of U.S. nuclear and rocket technology. However, military authorities insist reports of strange craft in the sky and bizarre wreckage on the ground were traced at the time to an errant weather balloon and other manmade or natural circumstance. Nonetheless, over the years, persistent whispered rumors grew into published articles and books, even movies, which fanned speculation that what actually occurred was a visit by creatures >from another planet - an intergalactic expedition that turned to tragedy on the high desert and then into a massive cover-up in the highest circles of the U.S. government. Anderson says he was unaware of ongoing fascination and controversy over the strange episode from his childhood until one evening this past January when he was flipping through channels on his television set and stumbled across the popular program "Unsolved Mysteries." "I wasn't looking for any unsolved mysteries - I have enough mysteries in my life that are unsolved, and I don't need any more," Anderson jokes. He is a burly, barrel-chested man standing 6-4 and carrying a muscular 250-plus pounds, with reddish hair and a ruddy complexion creased from easy laughter. "But, bingo! On comes this story, and everything was wrong," Anderson recalls of the TV show. On sudden impulse, he dialed an 800 phone number that flashed onto the screen. "I guess I figured that if people were still interested in this thing, they might as well get it straight" is the only explanation he can muster for speaking up after years of keeping mostly mum on the matter. "These people don't know what they're talking about," Anderson told the operator on the other end of the long-distance line. "The shape of the craft is totally wrong. 'And how do you know that, sir?" she asked. ' I saw it, I was there,' I told her. "Whoa!" she said. "Thee are some people who will want to talk to you...'" Anderson's phone soon was ringing with calls from UFO researchers around the country. One in particular, Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist and popular lecturer who had advised the "Unsolved Mysteries" producers, was struck by correlations between Anderson's recollections and obscure details Friedman uncovered while sleuthing for a book to be published next year. Friedman, who lives in Canada, contacted John Carpenter, a Springfield professional therapist who in his spare time serves as a director of investigations for the local chapter of Mutual UFO Network, a nationwide organization of UFO researchers. At Friedman's request, Carpenter conducted extensive in person interviews of Anderson, including sessions under hypnosis. The results excited Friedman. "Powerful stuff!" he exclaimed upon hearing interview tapes. Friedman arranged airline tickets for Anderson and Carpenter to join him in New Mexico to pinpoint the crash site. Anderson says the flight was his first return to New Mexico in more than a quarter-century. After pointing the pilot of a chartered helicopter to a spot in the desert 75 air miles southwest of Albuquerque, Anderson gazed at a hillside, strewn with boulders the size of Volkswagens and dotted with a few gnarled pinion trees, that he says he saw in the summer of 1947.....

A NEW HOME

The Anderson family arrived in Albuquerque from Indiana on July 4, 1947. they took up temporary residence at the home of one of Gerald's uncles, Guy Anderson. Gerald's father, Glen, was about to take a job as a master machinist involved in nuclear weapons design at the super-secret Sandia base on the outskirts of town. The next day, another uncle, Ted, struck up a conversation with Gerald's older brother Glen Jr., who was on leave from the Marine Corps. Glen Jr. was a rockhound, and his uncle piqued the young Marine's enthusiasm with talks of gorgeous stones just waiting to be collected in the desert. " Ted told my brother, ' I know where there's plenty of moss agate.' So we all piled into a 1940 Plymouth - Uncle Ted, my cousin Victor (Ted's 8 year old son), my brother, Glen, my dad and myself. We went out into this area where the moss agate was supposed to be - followed two ruts into the desert, bounced along out there for a while, and ended up on top of a ridgeline. We parked the car and started to walk down an arroyo (gully) and dry creek bed and out onto the plains.

A STRANGE DISCOVERY

"But we came around a corner and right there in front of us stuck into the side of this hill, was a silver disc. There were some remarks like"There's a crash up here! Something's crashed up here! And then someone saying 'That's a goddamn spaceship!" "We all went up there to it. There were three creatures, three bodies, lying on the ground underneath this thing in the shade. Two weren't moving and the third one obviously was having trouble breathing, like when you have broken ribs. There was a fourth one next to it, sitting there on the ground. There wasn't a thing wrong with it, and it apparently had been giving first aid to the others. Anderson animatedly acts out the fourth creature's reaction when the family members approached. "It recoiled in fear, like it thought we were going to attack it," anderson recounts, covering his face with crossed arms. The adults tried to repeatedly to communicate with the frightened creature, Anderson says, but there was no audible response to greetings spoken in English and Spanish. A few minutes after the Anderson clan happened upon the bizarre scene, six other people arrived - five college students and their teacher. They'd been working on an archaeological dig around cliff dwellings a few miles away and had decided to hike over after seeing what they thought was a firey meteor crashing the night before. The professor, a Dr. Buskirk, tried several foreign languages in unsuccessful attempts to coax a verbal response from the creature, Anderson says. The sun had climbed to a midday peak by this time and recalls anderson, "to a kid from Indiana, it was hot brother, let me tell you." He chugged a chocolate flavored soft drink an hour earlier and the sweet soda pop was churning uncomfortably in his stomach. so he sought shelter in the shadow of the spacecraft. "It was 115 (degrees) out there that day. But around the craft, when you got close to it, it was cold. When you touched the metal, it felt just like it came out of a freezer."

SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT

Anderson also touched one of the creatures lying motionless on the ground - and it, too was cold. In his child's mind, he had thought the figures looked like dolls. But when he felt the cold skin, " I knew something wasn't quite right. Yuck!. Anderson says he ran to the crest of a nearby knoll to take stock. A pickup truck arrived on the ridge, and a fellow whom researchers believe was a civil engineer named Barney Barnett joined the curious audience. "I remember thinking he looked like Harry Truman. In 1947, every kid knew what Harry Truman looked like," Anderson says. After a few minutes, Anderson summoned the courage to again creep close to the strange saucer. It was then more chilling than the surface of the craft of the skin of the corpse; The upright creature turned and looked right at me and it was like he was inside my head - as if he was doing my thinking, as if his thoughts were in my head." Anderson remembers a mental sensation of falling and tumbling end-over-end. "I felt that thing's fear, felt its depression, felt its loneliness. I relived the crash. I know the terror it went through. That one look told me everything that quickly," he says with a snap of his fingers.

Other things began happening quickly about this time, Anderson says. A contingent of armed soldiers suddenly appeared. The creature, which had calmed down after its initial fright, "went crazy" at the sight of the soldiers. Thinking back on the creature's plight today brings on the "awfulest, horrible feeling," Anderson says. "His situation was hopeless. He knew it. He'd just lived through a nightmare that most of us wouldn't be able to psychologically stand. He'd watched two of his crew, his friends or maybe even his family die. He's watching another one die. He knows there's no chance of rescue, because the military is here and his people aren't going to be able to get him. "God only knows how far away from home he was, and he knew he was never going to see - if they have loved ones - his loved ones again. He was totally alone on a hostile planet, and the only people who where showing him kindness were being run off by the military at weapon-point. "As a kid, I was aware of what being afraid of the dark was like., and the feeling I got from him was that feeling multiplied a million times. It was scary. It was terrifying.

SOLDIERS ON THE SCENE

Anderson says he lost sight of the creature as the soldiers swarmed over the site. The civilians were brusquely shoved from the craft. Anderson remembers shouts and threats. His uncle Ted threw a punch at one of the GIs. "Things got very tense, very dangerous," Anderson says. "The soldiers ushered us out of there very unceremoniously. Their attitude, to describe it at best, was uncivilized." Anderson has an especially vivid memory of a tough-talking red haired Army captain and an equally gruff black sergeant. "They told my dad and my uncle, who also worked at Sandia, that if they were ever to divulge anything about this - it was a secret military aircraft, they said - then us kids would be taken away and they'd never see us again." It seems an outrageous threat in hindsight, Anderson concedes. But at the time, he reminds, "These people had machine guns and you listened to what they said." Another recollection strikes Anderson as odd today: The soldiers didn't appear surprised about the otherwordly craft and creatures. they didn't gawk, slack-jawed and awe-struck as the Andersons had done. "The soldiers weren't saying, 'Gee, look at that!" They were very cognizant of what they were looking at. They knew what it was. And it soon became apparent, Anderson says, that the Army knew what it wanted to do with the find. "there was a battalion of military, a real invasion force, when we got back up on the hilltop. There were trucks, there were airplanes - they had the road blocked off and they were landing on it. They had radio communications gear set up. There were ambulances, and more soldiers with weapons." In the days that followed, all of New Mexico was abuzz with talk of strange lights in the sky, strange echos on radar, strange doings in the desert. On July 7, new reports told of remnants of an unidentified aircraft found by a rancher near the town of Roswell, N.M. about 150 miles east of the hillside where the Anderson's stumbled upon the saucer. Although several witnesses said it was like nothing they'd ever seen before, military officers insisted the metallic pieces came from an ordinary weather balloon.....

A WEATHER BALLOON?

Forty three years later, Anderson smiles wryly when reminded of the Army's pronouncement, "A lot of people wondered why, if it was just a weather balloon, the military put the pieces under armed guard and flew them in a B-29 to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio," he observes. Anderson believes the wreckage scattered near Roswell and the barely damaged saucer on the Plains of San Augustin are connected. "There was a gash in the side of the disc we saw, like it had been crushed in," he says. "The contour of the craft would fit into that gash perfectly - like another one of these things had hit it. I think two of these discs had a mid-air collision. One exploded and feel in pieces near Roswell, and the other crash-landed where we found it. With all evidence confiscated and the military steadfastly sticking by the weather balloon explanation, the story faded from the news by July's end. And Gerald Anderson says he tucked away the memory as he grew into manhood. "I learned you just don't go up to the average person on the street and say, "Damn, know what I saw?" The guy will go, "Get away from me, fool! Are you crazy?" In later life, he didn't mention it even to his wife until a few years after their marriage. Anderson joined the Navy in the late 1950s and served a dozen years in posts around the globe. He lived for a few years in Colorado, working as a paramedic and working toward a college degree in microbiology. In 1979, he moved to Missouri to better raise his daughter away from what he terms the "druggy" atmosphere of Denver. In addition to his law enforcement posts, Anderson has worked for two southwest Missouri trucking firms as a driver and instructor. Anderson also has been active in the Episcopal Church. He recently was elected to the vestry at Ascension Episcopal in Springfield and is studying toward becoming a deacon. A gold crucifix - a cross complete with a figure of the martyred Christ affixed to it - suspended from a chain around Anderson's neck is testimony to his faith.

NO CONFLICT IN BELIEFS

Although he concedes his account might make some fellow churchgoers uncomfortable, Anderson sees no conflict between what he saw with his eyes and what he believes in his heart: "When you're talking about the concept of God, you have to be talking in the context of a universal situations, a deity that built the whole universe. And why should we assume that this speck of sand in the backwater of space would be the only place that an all-perfect, almighty God could create life?" In fact, Anderson says he "wouldn't be one bit surprised to find out that, wherever this creature came from, there they have a very strong concept of a supreme being. Because of my contact with the creature showed a high degree of civilized sophistication, gentleness, compassion - all of the things we hold as ideals." Of the five anderson men who ventured into the desert that day in 1947, only Gerald is still alive. Age, illness and accidents claimed the other four in recent years. But not only andersons were at the scene, Gerald says, and he hopes his decision to come forth, albeit belated, will encourage others to tell what they know and spur official revelations about the captured craft and creatures. "I want to see the government stand up and say, 'Look, we're not alone in the universe. Let's make a 'Star Trek' really happen. Let's do go out there and explore the universe. That may be our only salvation. Because with what's doing to this Earth, we're not going to make it much past the year 2000."

SUMMARY REPORT ON

OBSERVATIONS 30-31 MARCH 1990

The following is a reprint of a summary report on the Belgian UFO activity. Please note the methods of determination which are employed and the subsequent findings of the Belgian military.

ParaNet has established an interface with the Belgian investigators. More material will be released as it becomes available.

BACKGROUND 1. Starting early Dec 89 the BAF has been contacted on several occasions by eyewitnesses who observed strange phenomena in the Belgian airspace. On some occassions they described the phenomena as a triangle-shaped platform up to 200 feet wide with 3 downward beaming projectors, hovering at +- 100 m above the ground and making only a very light humming noise. Some witnesses saw the object departing at very high speed after a very fast acceleration. All observations were made in the evening or during the night. 2. The radar stations which had been alerted by eyewitnesses could not definitely determine a correlation between the visual observations and their detections on radar. On two occasions the BAF scrambled 2 F16 during the evening hours. a.On the first occasion the F16 arrived +- 1 hour after the visual detection. Nothing was observed. b. On the second occassion, pilots could identify a laser-beam projector on the ground. After investigation it appeared however that the description of the observations totally differed from previously described phenomena. 3. Consequently the Belgian Airforce, anxious to identify the origin of the phenomena, authorised F16 scrambles if following conditions were met: a. Visual observations on the ground confirmed by the local police. b. Detection on radar.

EVENTS 4. On 30 Mar 1990 at 23.00 Hr the Master Controller (MC) of the Air Defence radar station of Glons received a phone call from a person who declared to observe three independant blinking lights in the sky, changing colours, with a much higher intensity than the lights of the stars and forming a triangle. Meteo conditions were clear sky, no clouds, light wind and a minor temperature inversion at 3000 Ft. 5. The MC in turn notified the police of WAVRE which confirmed the sighting at +- 23 30 Hr. Meanwhile the MC had identified a radar contact at about 8 NM North of the ground observation. The contact moved slowely to the West at a speed of =- 25kts and an altitude of 10.000 Ft. 6. The ground observers reported 3 additional light spots which moved gradually, with irregular speeds, towards the first set of lights and forming a second triangle. 7. At 23.50 a second radar station, situated at +- 100 NM >from the first, confirmed an identical contact at the same place of the radar contact of Glons. 8. At 00.05 Hr 2 F16 were scrambled from BEAUVECHAIN airbase and guided towards the radar contacts. A total of 9 interception attempts have been made. At 6 occasions the pilots could establish a lock-on with their air interception radar. Lock-on distances varried between 5 and 8 NM. On all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and break-locks occured after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between 150 and 1010 kts. At 3 occasions both F16 registered simultaneous lock-ons with the same parameters. The 2 F16 were flying +- 2 NM apart. No visual contact could be established by either of the F16 pilots. 9. The F16 flew 3 times through the observation field of the ground observers. At the third passage the ground observers notified a change in the behaviour of the light spots. The most luminous started to blink very intensively while the other disappeared. Consequently, the most luminous spot started to dim gradually. 10. Meanwhile the head of the police of WAVRE had alerted 4 other police stations in the area. All four, seperated +- 10 NM from each other, confirmed the visual observations. 11. The aircraft landed at 01.10 Hrs. The last visual observation was recorded at +- 01.30 Hrs.

CONCLUSIONS 12. The BELGIAN Airforce was unable to identify neither the nature nor the origin of the phenomena. However, it had sufficient elements to exclude following assumptions: a. Balloons. Impossible due to the highly variable speeds (confirmed visually and by radar). b. ULM. Same as for balloons. c. RPV. Impossible due to the hovering characteristics. d. Aircraft (including Stealth). Same as for RPV. No noise. e. Laser projections or Mirages. Unlikely due to lack of projection surface (no clouds). Light spots have been observed from different locations. Light spots moved over distance of more than 15 NM. Form of inlighted part of spots has been observed with spectacles. Laser projections or mirages can not be detected by radar.

{signed}

W. DE BROUWER

Kol Vl SBH

VS3

Thesis for a Pre-Paradigm Science:

Cereology

by

Michael Chorost

Written March 1991; published July 1991

1. Cereology as a Pre-Paradigm Science

2. Non-Human Intelligence?

3. The Problem with "Intelligence"

4. A Guess: Are the Crop Circles A Symbol System?

5. About Unconvincing Guesses

6. The Future Looks Back on the Present: A Hopeful Guess

Appendix: Colin Andrews' Catalog of Formations, with Annotations by

Michael Chorost (not included in electronic version)

I'm writing this paper in March 1991, well before the start of the next crop circles season. I anticipate that by July, there will be new developments I will want to talk about, instead of reading a paper written months before. Thus I have not designed this paper to be read aloud. However, since it is oriented toward grounding cereology as a theoretical discipline, I am likely to presume many of its points in my talk. I will be happy to entertain questions about it in Chicago.

1. Cereology as a Pre-Paradigm Science

In this first of six sections, I want to talk about cereology as a discipline, and acquaint readers with some of its complexities and prob- lems. In the remaining sections, I will explore one particular problem in detail: are the circles a language? And if so, how might we figure it out?

The crop circles phenomenon is much more complex than it appears at first glance, so it follows that cereology, the study of the phenomenon, needs to think ways which will encompass that complexity. So it is impor- tant to establish right off that the phenomenon has aspects which make naive "the aliens have started talking to us" theories difficult to uphold. The evidence leads in contradictory directions. For example, researchers (primarily meteorologists) have gathered eyewitness reports of circles from as far back as 1918, and have found written texts describing what may be crop circles from as far back as 1590. One 17th-century text describes an event in 1633, where a school curate saw, while walking at night in a Wiltshire field, "innumerable quantitie of pigmies or very small people dancing rounde and rounde, and singing and making all manner of small odd noyses." He heard "a sorte of quick humming noyse all the time" and "when the sun rose he found himself exactly in the midst of one of these faery dances."1 Such "quick humming noyses" have been heard in present-day crop circles,2 and have been captured on tape by the BBC and other observers. The curate's story seems to fit, because modern crop circles are believed to form very rapidly, as this one apparently did, and the "pigmies...dancing rounde" could have been a 17th-century observer's way of interpreting a spinning, possibly glowing force field.

Another text, authored by Robert Plott in 1686, discusses an apparently similar event in 1590 and theorizes that such artifacts are made by lightning. An illustration theorizes that cone-shaped "lightning strikes" are responsible for the rings and, astonishingly, rings containing squares. David J. Reynolds notes that Plott describes "'imperfect segments', rings within rings, squares (?!), 'Semicircles, Quadrants and Sextants' being formed by combinations of multiple strokes, differing angles of descent and variations in lightning strength across a stroke" (p. 348, italics in originals.)3 Unfortunately, Plott does not give enough information to make it clear whether he is observing "fairy rings", which are fungal infections in the soil which blight plants in slowly spreading circular areas, or crop circles. In fact, much of his discussion points away from crop circles. Not once does he mention that the plants are flattened in spiral patterns, nor does he talk about the intricate braiding often seen in crop circles. And when he digs under one formation, he discovers that the soil "was much looser and dryer than ordinary, and the parts interspersed with a white hoar or vinew much like that in mouldy bread, of a musty rancid smell."4 This is a finding entirely consistent with fairy rings. And yet, as Reynolds notes, Plott is quite explicit about the existence of non-circu- lar formations like quadrants and hollow squares, going so far as to provide diagrams of them. To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a fairy square. Thus we cannot eliminate the possibility that Plott saw what we think of as crop circles. Of course, it's also possible that he saw something which was neither fairy rings nor crop circles, but something else altogether.

Plott's discussion anticipates parts of the modern debate with remarkable fidelity. He devotes considerable attention to rumors of pos- sessed satanic dancers, but ultimately concludes that such "hoaxes" could only account for a particular subset of the phenomenon: "If I must needs allow [dancers] to cause some few of these Rings, I must also restrain them to those of the first kind, that are bare at many places like a path- way; for to both the others more natural causes may be probably as- signed" (14.) It appears that Plott anticipated the meteorological theory by roughly 300 years.

These observations have to make any alien-intelligence theorist stop and think. Plott talks about events which happened in 1590. The curate's anomalous sighting happened a decade after the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio. If they are true crop circles, and if they're by aliens who have been trying to get our attention for four centuries, there is at least one species in the galaxy which is remarkably dumb (and it's not necessarily us.) The finders of these texts subscribe to the meteoro- logical theory, so they interpret the reports as evidence of a naturally occurring plasma-vortex phenomenon. The reader may not accept that theory, but whatever he or she does accept has to take these astonishing writings into account.

The 17th-century texts are not the only example of fractious data. For every eyewitness report of a glowing object or alien spacecraft making a crop circle at night, there is another eyewitness report of a violent wind which flattens out a circle in broad daylight.5 And there are now numerous articles claiming that the phenomenon is generated by "earth energies" which determine the location and shape of each crop circle. The theory relies on dowsing results. Nonsense? Possibly; but Terence Meaden, the arch-enemy of intelligence-oriented theories, has begun using dowsing himself, theorizing that "the metal-rod movement of the dowser may be related to a reaction to the minor changes in the local magnetic field of the soil induced by the plasma vortices and their fast- spinning fields."6 Whatever the validity of such claims (and they need to be tested!), they add further complications to cereology.

I hope these examples have served to shred the belief that all the evidence points in one direction. Hoax theorists point to the Bratton hoax, an embarrassing but quickly detected hoax perpetuated on one of 1990's surveillance groups; alien-intelligence theorists point to eyewitness reports and the humming noises; vortex theorists point to other eyewit- ness reports, and the humming noises; earth-energy theorists point to dowsing results, and the humming noises; and everyone points to every- one else as terrible examples of interpretation of data.

So we have a complex situation. That's nothing new; it's life. But there is an illuminating way to describe the kind of complexity that reigns now. I borrow from Thomas Kuhn's well-known work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions7 in suggesting that cereology is a pre-paradigm science. Kuhn defines a "paradigm" as an "implicit body of intertwined theoretical and methodological belief that permits selection, evaluation, and criticism" (17). More briefly, a paradigm is a way of thinking which unifies a scientific discipline. So far, that's exactly what cereology lacks. It consists of a mass of disparate observations and a few theories, none of which explain very much. The absence of a paradigm is beautifully illustrated by two very different interpretations of what may be an eye- witness report of a quintuplet formation being made. On July 13, 1988, according to Circular Evidence, a woman saw "a large, golden, disc-shaped object within [a] cloud" which emitted "a bright white parallel beam...from the bottom of the disc at an angle of roughly 65o [which] shone across the sky towards Silbury Hill" (p. 115.) Delgado and Andrews imply that an alien spacecraft used an energy beam to inscribe the formation. Terence Meaden, on the other hand, writes, "On 13th July 1988, a lady was eyewitness to a hollow pencil-shaped tube (not a beam) of light which reached from cloud to ground for an observed period of a couple of minutes. A huge volume of the cloud, which was at 4000 feet, appeared electrified."8 One event, one witness; two interpreters, two "facts"; no paradigm.

So how are cereologists to conduct pre-paradigm science? Kuhn writes, "In the absences of a paradigm or some candidate for a paradigm, all of the facts that could possibly pertain...are likely to seem equally relevant. As a result, fact-gathering is a far more nearly random activity than the one that subsequent scientific development makes familiar." (15) This accurately describes how matters stand as of this writing. The sensible thing to do is to repeat history, i.e. gather as many observations as possible, omnivorously, excluding nothing. There should be routine data collection with IR cameras, geiger counters, magnetometers, plant DNA assays, weather stations, and so on. Good photos and accurate measure- ments need to be taken; even dowsing results and unusual physical sensa- tions should be assiduously recorded. And everything should be pub- lished. Some sets of observations may not be deemed relevant in the future--that is the risk of pre-paradigm science--but we owe it to future researchers and historians to bequeath them as rich a storehouse of data as we can.

We could be doing better on this score. As of this writing, measurements and positional data of both English and North American forma- tions are both scarce and of uneven quality. Instrumental experiments are rarely performed. In addition, poor organization and political battles impede the release of what data does exist. Michael Green is sadly right when he notes that "inordinate professional jealousy and commercial rival- ry...has unfortunately marked the study of the subject to date, and has led to a hoarding of essential information."9 For example, the meteorolo- gists are sitting on their data, partly because they're unwilling to let their opponents have it. The alien-intelligence theorists are also sitting on their data, partly because they feel reluctant to give away the product of many hours of hard work. Neither concern is justified. Researchers are responsible only for the quality of their data, not for what others do with it. It seems to me that anybody who thinks his data will help his opponents more than it will help him is in an unenviable position, as far as his theory is concerned. And to sit on data is effectively to waste the work that went into its collection. The CCCS (Centre for Crop Circle Studies) is trying to overcome these problems, and we should wish them the best of luck. Steady but polite pressure from Americans may help, too.

Two things are necessary, over and above performing the research: a smoothly functioning network funneling data toward publication, and the attitude that information should be shared with the community to promote further research. Secrecy and mercantile considerations serve only to gum up the works, especially at this fragile stage. It would be best if history could record that information was freely and generously shared in these difficult early days. A 1991 report by Chris Rutkowski and other members of the NAICCR (North American Institute for Crop Circles Re- search) beautifully exemplifies this attitude. It lists 46 cases of ground markings in 1990, about thirty of which appear to be English-style crop circles. It provides formation types, lay rotations, dates, sizes, and approximate locations. (I am now writing a review of it, which I anticipate will appear in the May 1991 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal.) I hope other cereologists will consider its example well.

After obtaining data, cereologists will just have to theorize as carefully and responsibly as they can, and dare to be wrong. Francis Bacon writes, "Truth emerges more readily from error than from confu- sion."10 This maxim strikes me with particular force when I contemplate the meteorologists' corpus of research. I think its basic thesis is in error, yet even the few the scraps of data the meteorologists publish are more useful than the typically haphazard observations offered by people whom I think are closer to the mark. Organized error can be re-organ- ized into truth.

2. Non-Human Intelligence?

2001: A Space Odyssey seems less science-fictional than it did in 1968, now that artificial constructions of an anomalous nature are appear- ing repeatedly around the world. Most of the major researchers in cere- ology are convinced that human beings are not making them, because they cannot figure out what human device, however sophisticated, could pro- duce all of the observed effects and remain undetected for so long. I am inclined to agree with them, though I would add that it is always risky to underestimate the ingenuity of our own species. I suspect that the possibility of a fabulously intricate hoax, however slight, keeps a lot of cereologists awake at nights. Perhaps worrying about the hoax theory is one way of worrying about the implications of the circles not being hoax- es.

Some researchers, primarily the meteorologists, believe that the circles are produced by a natural phenomenon that we have only now begun to notice. Many people find this unconvincing. Nature can indeed produce fabulously intricate structures, like us, but I have never seen it do so both overnight and on such a vast scale. And I find it difficult to ascribe the rapidly increasing complexity of the shapes to natural forces, which typically change slowly when they change at all.

By elimination, I have become sympathetic to non-human intelligence theories--as I suspect many of my readers will be also. There is some slight anecdotal evidence for such theories; NAICCR's report on ground markings notes, for instance, that 4 of its 46 listed cases have UFO sight- ings associated with them. Anecdotal evidence is notoriously difficult to use, however, so I will not appeal to it in my analysis.

Let us suppose--it is still more or less an outright guess--that the crop circles are the products of a non-human intelligence, and explore the implications of that thesis. It will be fun to do so, if nothing else. The rest of this essay will be devoted to that undertaking.

It is possible, as I have remarked elsewhere,11 that the formations are the visible side-effect of some deliberately directed physical process, the way tire tracks and footprints are. At present, there is virtually nothing that can be said about this important theory. Discussion only becomes possible when one hypothesizes that the formations are supposed to mean something, either to their creators or to ourselves. And it is to this possibility that I will devote most of my attention.

If we want to try to decode the circles, we are faced with gigantic problems at the very outset. Typically, when we receive messages from human intelligences, we have some amount of shared background to draw upon in decoding them. Shared language is obviously the most useful background; but if that is absent, there are usually others, such as shared physical environment, shared needs, shared knowledge of history, shared interests, shared physiologies. Not knowing Arabic, I can still guess that an Arab with me in a souk is hungry if he looks at me and mimics the act of eating.

But we may share nothing with an alien intelligence. At any rate, we can presume nothing.12 We cannot presume similar sensory equipment or physical needs; we cannot presume similar evolutionary conditions; we cannot even presume corporeal bodies or a sense of self. I could go on and on about the radical uncertainty involved. To cut a long discussion short, it comes down to this: we must guess, just plain guess, that they are like us in some ways, and proceed accordingly. In writing about decoding a hypothetical alien message, Lewis White Beck argues that "we must guess that it is a message, guess what it says, and then try to see if the signal can convey that message."13 For example, we could guess that the dimensions of the circles encode mathematical relationships such as pi and e, and search to see if such numbers can be found in a sys- tematic way. Or we could guess that certain logical relationships are being implied, and search for the most basic ones, such as transitivity and hierarchy. Or it could be posited that the spatial locations of the circles relative to each other are related to spatial distances elsewhere, such as between stars. The chances of picking the wrong message are high, but Bacon's dictum about truth still applies.

3. The Problem with "Intelligence"

I will dare to be wrong later in this essay, but I want to make a remark about "intelligence" first. The debate over the crop circles can all too easily polarize into two camps, intelligent versus non-intelligent causation. But the entire debate could be off the mark. The phenomenon's cause may not be "blind nature", but it may not be intelli- gence the way we know it, either. If it's aliens, they might be far smart- er than us in some ways, but dumb as bricks in others. Or suppose the circlemaker is Gaia--an intelligence resulting from complex interactions in the biosphere of the planet? Or, the combined psychic interactions of the human race? Or a natural phenomenon which is being manipulated by such psychic interactions? Farfetched ideas, to be sure, but so is the phenomenon. As my colleague Dennis Stacy has repeatedly warned me in correspondence, thinking along rigid "p or not-p" lines can overlook fruitful areas of inquiry. An arrow flying in a straight line can still miss the target.

Also, it is well to remember that all of the words denoting "intelligent beings" in English were designed to refer to exactly one species: Homo sapiens of Earth. All English words denoting "intelligent non-human beings" are negatives: "alien" is rooted in the Sanskrit antara, which means merely "other", and "extra-terrestrial" means "not from Earth." In terms of thinking about alien intelligence, our language is as limited as the counting system which calls all quantities above five "many."

However, I will guess an intelligence not altogether different from ours, simply because it is the easiest for us to think about. It is as reasonable a place to start as any.

Of course, the problem of decoding would still be daunting. To manage it, we can make more guesses: perhaps the circlemakers have already observed us and know something about us. They may have guessed that our minds will leap to certain guesses, and attempted to play to our predilections. (Such double-guessing could someday tell us quite a bit about them.) As Cipher A. Deavours points out, aliens ought to have some interest in developing codes designed to reveal rather than conceal information.14 Decoding could be orders of magnitude easier if the cir- clemakers have taken our ways of decoding into account. We may be seeing our humanness being filtered through alien consciousness and played back at us.

Of course, the simplest way of communicating with us would have been to use our own symbols, or to use something readily comprehensible to us, like groups of circles corresponding to the prime numbers. The fact that we have not readily understood the circles suggests a number of possibilities: we have not really tried yet; there is no message; there is a message, but one whose content is not directed at us; the entities are so profoundly different from us that they cannot figure out what we would find easily accessible; they have more subtle motives than straightforward communication; they have decided to dispense with easy formalities and want us to think hard, perhaps with the implied lure that the reward will be worth the effort. I find the first the most preferable, since so little has been done by way of attempts at decoding. In any case, it's reason- able to guess that something complex and multileveled is either happening or being communicated.

4. A Guess: Are the Crop Circles A Symbol System?

All this said, I will now risk being wrong in a major way. I will argue that we are indeed looking at a symbol system. The shapes seem to have a certain "symbolicity" (see Colin Andrews' catalog, Appendix I.) I don't necessarily mean that they are a phonetic alphabet like English; I mean something more like pictorial codes or schematics. However, I shall have to be rather vague about what I mean by the word "symbol." The most specific definition I can offer is "a mark which means something to a group of people, by convention." For there can be many different kinds of symbols. A symbol can be a mark with exactly one referent; for exam- ple, there is a certain schematic which signifies exactly one kind of tran- sistor. Or it can be a mark amenable to different interpretations, like the color red in the Soviet flag (it means revolutionary political possibilities to some, raw tyranny to others.) Or it can be a mark which functions in a language, meaning little in itself but contributing to a total meaning. For example, the physical mark "key" contributes in a certain way to the sentence "Where are my car keys?" and in a different way to "The key to the treasure is there." It seems to me that the circles could be symbols in any of these ways (and there are many more possible ways.) I tend to gravitate toward the third, language-oriented kind of symbolicity, but I don't wish to exclude the others. My intention is to spark a rich debate by opening up possibilities, not to truncate debate by closing them off.

To a lot of people, the formations "feel" like a symbol system. And they do have broad structural elements in common with human symbol systems (which, it must be pointed out, may not be much of a basis for comparison.) Like many human symbol systems, they can be broken down into certain recurring basic shapes--the circle the line, the rectangle, the ring, the curved arc, and so on. These elements are their "strokes." If the formations are complex, they are complex by the accumulation of pre- existing elements, not the creation of new elements (though each summer does bring some new elements.)

Like human symbol systems, the crop circles present enough variety to suggest the possibility of reference to a large number of objects or ideas. If we saw only three formations repeated over and over, we would probably be more inclined to think them artistic or cultural icons, or natural artifacts, rather than members of a linguistic or representational system.

Like human symbols, their variety remains within limits; of 1990's numerous single and double dumbbells, no two are alike, but all are recognizably part of a class. It's a bit like the way the English letters b,d,p,q,c, and o form a recognizable class. The Egyptian hieroglyph for "bird" would stick out and look very strange in that class, and indeed it would not belong anywhere in the alphabet. As would the letter "b" look very odd, if claimed to be a Chinese ideogram.

The "variety within limits" argument is important for another rea-

son. The appearance of "scrolls", rectangles, and triangles suggests that there is no physical limitation to the kind of shapes that can be created. If a short rectangle can be made, so can long ones to form lines, and the scrolls suggest that irregular lines can be drawn "freehand", as it were. The fact that the formations seem to vary within boundaries seems to suggest a defined and ordered system.

Of course, there are problems with the argument, such as that the formations bear little obvious spatial relationship to each other the way human symbols usually do. One is also hard-pressed to group the weirdly curvy "scroll" formations as belonging to the same system as the highly angular double-dumbbells; perhaps the scrolls really are mistakes or doodles. Or perhaps the only message being conveyed is "Watch this space, and be here next summer." Humorists have also suggested alien art galleries and alien advertising. My guesses may more wrong than I can imagine. But for all that, I think it is not crazy to guess that we are looking at a symbol system, not random squiggles.

It just may be possible to start grouping 1990's new formations into            (Numbers refer to the formation number in the catalog)

Single dumbbells (21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 36, 55)

Double-dumbbells (34, 35, 54)

Thetas (40, 41, 49, 50)

Plain circles with satellites (3, 5, 6, 17, 43, 52)

Ringed circles (10, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 38, 64)

Saturns (7, 8, 11, 32, 37, 46)

Rings (44)

Scrolls (45, 48, 65)

Triangles (47, 63)

Sports (unique formations, i.e. 26, 39, 53, 58, 59, 62)

To explain my nomenclature: I call the "thetas" so because their split central circle reminds me of the Greek letter "O" (I imply no actual con- nection to Greek.) The "saturns" remind me of Saturn with its moons (again, no connection to the planet implied, though it's not impossible that there be one.) I take the name "scroll" from The Crop Circle Enigma (which shows pictures of them on p. 156.) I name the "sports" so be- cause a "sport" in biology is a unique object.

Interestingly enough, it may be that the formation types are also roughly contiguous in space. The hand-drawn map reproduced in Issue 2 of The Cereologist (p. 3) shows that all three double-dumbbells appeared quite close to each other, in fact within an area five kilometers long and two kilometers wide, just north of Alton Barnes. At least six of the ten single dumbbells appeared in the Longwood Estate area, just southwest of Winchester. The four thetas may fall in a line (it will take much better data to verify this.) Two of the scrolls are quite close to each other, at Beckhampton.

The spatial-relationships idea is being pursued vigorously by Harvey Lunenfeld of East Northport, New York. We've been trying to obtain positional data for as many of the formations as possible, in order to create a computerized database. Harvey and his son Randy are now configuring sophisticated mapping software which will facilitate the search for spatial relationships, and also for correlations with other types of data. So far we've been obtaining our positional data from thumbnail deduction from photographs and other available evidence. The job will become much easier once we gain access to satellite imagery good enough to show exactly where the formations are. Access to some of the English databases would also help greatly, of course.

Allow me to call attention to the fact that certain elements recur in different contexts. The triangle's "F" is much like the shapes jutting out >from all three double dumbbells. (Could it be significant that none of the single dumbbells have such shapes?) The other triangle's flanking shapes are very much like the double rectangles on many of the single dumbbells (and, note, none of the double dumbbells.) One simple circle has a three- fingered shape jutting out of it which looks almost exactly like the one attached to the Allington Down (more precisely, East Kennett) double dumbbell. Some of the single dumbbells and the theta formations have partial arcs as components. The saturns are a combination of plain circles with satellites and ringed circles. This evident combination and recombi- nation of elements makes it plausible to suppose that there is some form of "grammar" ruling their placement.

It may be possible to work out the properties of the grammar without understanding the meaning of the symbols. One way to do this is to compare groups of symbols to each other, isolating consistent statistical similarities and differences. For example, if the ratios of the areas of the two circles in single dumbells compares in some consistent way to the ratios of the lengths of the forks to their circles, that might indicate a meaningful element of language. This particular example is mathematically oriented, but other strategies are feasible, too: one could compare the spatial orientation of the thetas to that of all of the other groups, or compare the length of formations to their compass orientations. It is an encouraging fact that cryptographers are frequently able to decode messages whose plaintext is written in a language they do not know very well. Deavours writes,

It is of interest that codes can often be solved where the underlying language of the plaintext is not known for certain. One can also gain an immense knowledge of the structure and character of a communication without understanding a single thought expressed therein. For intergalactic communication, this offers much hope that we may succeed in deciphering what is received (203- 204.)

As evidence that meaning is not crucial to decipherment, Deavours men- tions that the great French cryptanalyst, Georges Painvain, of World War I fame, solved many complex ciphers of the German General Staff but possessed so little knowledge of German that he was unable to translate the decphered text after solution (209).

Not knowing the language need not impede understanding its shape and general characteristics. Such research could yield one great practical benefit down the road: upon receiving a Rosetta Stone, we would then be able to learn and read the language that much more quickly, perhaps well enough to begin using it ourselves. In the touchy and uncertain days immediately following alien contact, such an advantage might be very welcome indeed. This makes it all the more imperative to facilitate re- search with an effective network of data distribution.

Figuring out what the grammar's shapes represent (if grammar it is, of course) will be tough, because the formations appear to lack all social context. There is no "Rosetta Stone" permitting them to be compared to a known symbol system; there are no objects helpfully put next to them to show what they depict or schematize; there are no appreciative alien enti- ties in view admiring them as art. Quite the contrary, they are placed wordlessly (so to speak) on this planet's largest equivalent of a blank, lined sheet of paper. But we should try. We can attempt to restore the context, or at least make one. Our guesses might be correct.

But a worrying philosophical issue intrudes here. Let us say we guess a message--a meaning--and find out that the circles transmit it. Can we be sure that we have truly decoded the circles? Perhaps not. Humans are infinitely resourceful at seeing patterns that are not there. Edward R. Tufte, in his engaging book "Envisioning Information", reprints a picture of a rock in southern Massachusetts which is covered with ancient hieroglyphs.15 Next to the picture he reproduces ten hand-drawn sketches of the markings, made between 1680 and 1854. Not only are the sketches strikingly different, but different scholars have triumphantly adduced totally different origins for the glyphs: Scythian, Phoenician, Runic, Viking, and Algonquin, to name a few. Tufte cheerfully damns this as "scholarship of wishful thinking" (73). I am not sure if there is any way to solve the problem, other than asking the circlemakers what they mean (and even that might not help as much as we think it would.) My reaction is just to say, "Let us see what we can guess and find, then see which guess convinces the most people, and deal with the philosophical problems as they arise."

The lack of context is significant in another way. It is a truism that symbols mean something only in a social context. If these shapes have a concrete and socially-based meaning to their creators, how are they changed by being engraved on fields on another planet? Suppose that the magnificent Fawley Down pictogram (a "theta" formation) refers to a Rigellian action which human physiologies cannot duplicate? If we know nothing of Rigellian physiology, we'll never figure that out, will we? And, more importantly, how does the meaning of the symbol change when it is stamped, without context or explanation, in a field of wheat near Winches- ter, England? What does the symbol mean at that particular place and time, if anything? Not, I feel sure, just to tell us what Rigellians do. What would a glowing Coca-Cola advertisement mean in a Brazilian rainfor- est where Coke is not available? Anything but "Buy Coke." Perhaps it would be (meant as, read as) an ironic statement on the extravagance of modern advertising. But if a picture of that advertisement in the rainfor- est was reproduced as an advertisement by Coke, the sign would again mean "Buy Coke"--but also something more, like "Coke is, or should be, available literally everywhere." Meaning is an event with multiple layers, most if not all of which are radically and subtly dependent on context.

It is attractive to suppose that the formations are a sort of logical puzzle, like an IQ test. This would seem to make their context internal rather than external; the shapes would define their own context. But this argument is misleading. If one was presented with an IQ test without knowing what it was, or being shown how to work with the shapes pre- sented, it would be meaningless. The very idea of the logical puzzle is socially constructed. The Soviet psychologist A. R. Luria has shown that it is almost impossible to convey the idea of the syllogism to normally intelligent but nonliterate people. When Russian peasants were given the syllogistic puzzle In the Far North, where there is snow, all bears are white. Novaya Zembla is in the Far North and there is always snow there. What color are the bears?, a typical response was, "I don't know. I've seen a black bear. I've never seen any others. Each locality has its own animals." From their point of view, it was absurd to try to figure out the color of bears with logic, since bear coats are something you see, not deduce.16 The ideas of the logical puzzle and the transitive relationship are evidently learned, not inherent to human intelligence. If there is a logical pattern, it would be nothing simple to figure out, for the first thing we would have to do is figure out what has to be figured out. And that would almost certainly require the discovery of some external context, like an alien culture's way of thinking and reasoning. Unless, of course, the circlemakers have tried to use some human mode of reasoning.

There are an enormous number of possibilities. A reading of the circles will not come easily. A lot will depend on the ability to make inspired guesses, and convince other people that they are right. The rest will depend on good data, good analytical tools, and vast amounts of hard work. But the potential payoff ought to make any linguist salivate. The field has ample room for the next Chompollon.

5. About Unconvincing Guesses

Having put forward a guess (of a sort), let me say something about unconvincing guesses. I have seen quite a few articles purporting to decode individual formations to reveal some definite meaning, like "Kha- wah" ("life giver")17 or "This is a dangerous place to camp."18 The typical move in such guesses is to declare that the formation contains letters in an ancient language or elements from an obscure symbol system, and decode it by translating those letters/elements into English. I find these kinds of guesses uniformly unconvincing. If you compare the cir- cles to any language or symbol system, you'll score a number of hits. Compare them to English, and you'll find F's, O's, C's, Q's, I's, M's, and W's. Compare them to American traffic symbols, and you can find resem- blances to stoplights (i.e. three circles in a row), dashed lines on the road, and "no entry" signs. This second example is deliberately ludi- crous, but it illustrates the "Rorschach" quality of the phenomenon: one can see almost anything in it. Simple resemblance alone, let alone highly approximate resemblance, is a very shaky ground for decoding.

It is also very common for such arguments to ignore the fact that the supposed "letters" and 'symbols" are stuck onto unrelated shapes, and otherwise distorted and garbled. It doesn't make sense to use an alphabet or symbol system by making it nearly unrecognizable. Finding a highly resemblant set of symbols could change the whole game, but to my knowledge, no one has accomplished this, not even Michael Green in his ambitious attempt to link the circles to designs on ancient Roman and Celtic stone carvings.19 Green finds several interesting similarities between ancient carvings and modern crop circles, but it's not enough to establish a meaningful link, since hundreds of formations have appeared in the last few years, and there are hundreds of Roman/Celtic shapes which look nothing like any known crop circle. More problematically, the Roman/Celtic shapes are typically combinations of circles, so the probabili- ty of a few rough matches by pure chance is very high. And, of course, even if the Celts were imitating crop circles seen thousands of years ago, their interpretations of them ("cosmic egg", "sun god", etc.) cannot be known to be the same as the intentions of the entities who generated them. They could be completely off the mark, as far as the circlemakers are concerned. The historical link would be exciting and valuable if Green could establish it more strongly, but it would be of little direct assistance in interpretative efforts.

In sum, most would-be "decoders" look at a few formations, ignoring all the rest; they make no attempt to resolve diverse shapes into a sys- tem; they fail to consider disconfirming evidence. Instead, they Rorschach their theories into a small part of the phenomenon, and find exactly what they want to find.

Of course, no one can avoid Rorschaching into the circles. I myself have read my hopes, beliefs, and professional biases into them. But one must at least try to consider the whole phenomenon and think about it systematically. Error may then be productive error. Anything else is only confusion.

6. The Future Looks Back on the Present: A Hopeful Guess

There is far more that could be said, but I am probably pushing the limits of Mufon's printing budget with a paper of this size, and the patience of my readers as well. I will close, then, by offering a hopeful look at the present from the viewpoint of the future. Someday, there may be a paradigm which explains the crop circles to everybody's satisfaction. Then it will be difficult for people to see this strange and beautiful phenomenon any other way. But historians will be fascinated by the pre- paradigm writings of this era. To them our ways of seeing will look untutored and naive, but also fresh and new--the words of children seeing things for the first time. Despite their superior knowledge, they may envy us, we who have the extraordinary opportunity of first sight. Naivete is a rare gift. Let us use it well.

Notes

(1) R.M. Skinner, "A Seventeenth-Century Report of an Encounter with an Ionized Vortex?" Journal of Meteorology, November 1990, p. 346. The source is John Aubrey's Natural History of Wiltshire (publication date not given.)

(2) John Haddington reports hearing and recording "a strange and beauti- ful trilling noise" in a circle at Bishops Canning, 1990. See his "The Wansdyke Watch", The Cereologist, issue 1 (Summer 1990), p. 15.

(3) David J. Reynolds, "Possibility of a Crop Circle from 1590." Journal of Meteorology, November 1990, pp. 347-352. The text is Robert Plott's The Natural History of Stafford-shire, Oxford, 1686.

(4) Plott, p. 15 (italics in original.) I am grateful to Carl Carpenter for sending me a xerox of the relevant chapter of the book, pages 7-21.

(5) For examples of the former, see Delgado and Andrews' Circular Evidence (Bloomsbury Press, 1989), pp. 179-190. For examples of the latter, see Terence Meaden, The Circles Effect and its Mysteries (Artetech, 1989) especially chapter 2.

(6) Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Circles Effect (held at Oxford Polytechnic, June 23, 1990), p. 50. This has been reprint- ed as Circles From the Sky. The April 1991 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal contains a large bibliography which includes ordering information for most of the books cited in this paper.

(7) University of Chicago Press, 1962.

(8) Proceedings, p. 39. The event is also discussed in The Circles Effect and its Mysteries, p. 55.

(9) Michael Green, "The Rings of Time: The Symbolism of the Crop Circles." In The Crop Circle Enigma (Gateway Books, 1990, ed. Ralph Noyes) p. 139.

(10) Quoted in Kuhn, p. 18.

(11) Michael Chorost and Colin Andrews, "The Summer 1990 Crop Circles", Mufon UFO Journal, December 1990, pp. 3-14.

(12) Some people have tried to define what we can presume. Gregory Benford: "The most extreme view one can take is to reject any category of knowledge of the alien, declaring them all to be inherently anthropomor- phic or anthropocentric, and flatly declare that the alien is fundamentally unknowable" (26). Benford later goes on to suggest, though, that we may be able to expand our categories to include alien ways of knowing: "We can make ourselves greater. We can ingest the alien" (27). ("Aliens and Unknowability: A Scientist's Perspective", in Starship, vol. 43, Winter- Spring 1982-3, pp. 25-27.) On the other hand, Marvin Minsky argues that alien intelligence is likely to resemble ours, because "every evolving intel- ligence will eventually encounter certain very special ideas--e.g. about arithmetic, causal reasoning, and economics--because these particular ideas are very much simpler than other ideas with similar uses" (127). (Byte, April 1985, pp. 127-138.) Speculation is useful for defining the problem, but it's rather like Robinson Crusoe trying to do sociology.

(13) Lewis White Beck, "Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life." In Extraterrestri- als: Science and Alien Intelligence, edited by Edward Regis, Jr. Cam- bridge University Press, 1985.

(14) Cipher A. Deavours, "Extraterrestrial Communication: A Cryptologic Perspective", in Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence. pp. 201- 214. (Interestingly enough, the author's name is not a joke.)

(15) Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1990.

(16) Luria's finding is discussed in Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (New York: Methuen, 1982), pp. 52-53.

(17) Letter by Ernest P. Moyer, reprinted in Focus (Dec. 31, 1990), p. 16.

(18) Jon Erik Beckjord, broadside sheet, February 1991.

(19) Michael Green, "The Rings of Time: The Symbolism of the Crop Circles." In The Crop Circles Enigma, Gateway Books, 1990, pp. 137-171.

About the Author

Michael Chorost was educated at Brown and the University of Texas at Austin, and is now at Duke, working toward his Ph.D. in Renaissance liter- ature and philosophy of language. His first article on the subject, "The Summer 1990 Crop Circles", was coauthored with Colin Andrews and was published in December 1990's Mufon UFO Journal. He has also authored a bibliography of the phenomenon.

The author may be contacted at: North American Circle P.O. Box 61144 Durham, NC 27705-1144

CLINICAL DISCREPANCIES

BETWEEN EXPECTED AND OBSERVED

DATA IN PATIENTS

REPORTING UFO ABDUCTIONS:

IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT

RIMA E. LAIBOW, M.D. Child and Adult Psychiatry

Cerridwen 13 Summit Terrace Dobbs' Ferry, NY 10522 (914)693-3081

ABSTRACT: IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS PAPER MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO ASSIGN OR WITHHOLD EXTERNAL VALIDITY RELATIVE TO UFO ABDUCTION SCENARIOS.

Patients who believe themselves to be UFO abductees are a heterogeneous group widely dispersed along demographic and cultural lines. Careful examination of these patients and their abduction reports presents four areas of significant discrepancy between expected and observed data.

Implications for the treatment of patients presenting UFO abduction scenarios are discussed.

INTRODUCTION

If a patient were to confide to a therapist that he had been abducted by aliens who took him aboard a UFO and performed a series of medical procedures and examinations on him it is not likely that the patient would find either a receptive ear or a respectful and non-judgemental response from the therapist. The material presented would lie so far outside the confines of our personal and cultural belief system that it would seem intolerably anomalous to most of us. We would probably dismiss or repudiate it using a few comfortable and familiar assumptions which hold so much obvious wisdom that they do not require specific examination.

When events which are too anomalous to allow their incorporation into our world schema are presented to us, we are likely to dismiss them by using assumptions based in out currently operative world view. This effectively precludes the open evaluation of the anomaly. Hence, the "expressible" response of most clinical and lay individuals upon hearing a UFO abduction account would be an immediate dismissal of even the possibility that such an episode might occur. Close upon the heels of that determination the rapid and complete pathologization of the person offering such an account would follow. Dream states, suggestibility, poor reality testing, outright dissembling or frank psychosis are customarily offered and accepted as evident and reasonable organizing models by which the production of this material may be understood. These are typical maneuvers by which the presentation of information which challenges schematic assumptions is dismissed or screened out before the assumptions can be adequately tested for predictive reliability and accuracy. Such testing is highly desirable, however, because it offers us the opportunity to apply the scientific method to our current level of theorital sophistication and thereby refine our understanding of reality further still. Of course, this process is severely impeded when the new data is excluded from consideration strictly because it is too anomalous for assessment.

Westrum has offered a model by which events become "hidden" and therefore remain anomalous to the perception of society in a circular process: the hidden event is disbelieved and its disbelief helps to keep it hidden. Citing the lengthy period during which battered children and their battering parents remained hidden, Westrum states:

"An event is hidden if its occurrence is so implausible that those who observe it hesitate to report it because they do not expect to be believed. The implausibility may cause the observer to doubt his own perceptions, leading to the event's denial or mis identification. Should the observer nonetheless make a report, he/she can expect to be treated with incredulity or even ridicule. Since the existence of a hidden event is contrary to what science, society, and perhaps even the observer believes, the event remains hidden because of strong social forces which interfere with reporting. The actual degree of underreporting is sometimes difficult to believe, a skepticism which itself acts as a deterrent to taking seriously those reports which do surface." (1)

But for the clinician who spends a moment before reaching these "obvious" and "intuitive" conclusions, several fascinating and potentially productive questions present themselves. If we refrain for a short period >from dismissing this material out-of-hand, we find that there are at least four areas of puzzling and important discrepancy between our intuitive sense of order and the data presented by the patient. These discrepancies force us to re-examine our assumptions in light of a demonstrated failure of the theory to account for the observed phenomena. This process, while taxing and challenging, is nonetheless, the way we systemize our understanding of human health and pathology. Noting the previously un-noted and using it to refine our conceptual framework leads to better prediction and therefore to better treatment.

It is not the purpose of this paper to ascribe relative reality to the experience of abduction reported by some patients. Rather, precisely because it lies outside the realm of clinical expertise to assess with certainty whether these events actually occurred or if they are mere fantasy, it is mandatory for the clinician to examine the impact of these experiences, whatever their source, upon the patient. This must be done in a clear sighted and open-minded fashion so that the impact of the experiences may be dealt with rather than made into hidden events.

AREAS OF DISCREPANCY

1. ABSENCE OF MAJOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: It is intuitively seductive (and perhaps comfortable) for us to assume that psychotic-level functioning will necessarily be present in a person claiming to be a UFO abductee. If this level of distortion and delusion is present, a patient would be expected to demonstrate some other evidence of reality distortion. Pathology of this magnitude would not be predicted to be present in a well integrated, mature and non-psychotic individual. Instead, we would expect clinical and psychometric tools to reveal serious problems in numerous areas both inter- and interpersonally. It would be highly surprising if otherwise well-functioning persons were to demonstrate a single area of floridly psychotic distortion. Further, if this single idea fix were totally circumscribed, non-invasive and discrete, that in itself would be highly anomalous. Well-developed, fixed delusional states with numerous elaborated and sequential components are not seen in otherwise healthy individuals. Prominent evidence of deep dysfunction would be expected to pervade many areas of the patient's life. One would predict that if the abduction experience were the product of delusional or other psychotic states, it would be possible to detect such evidence through the clinical and psychometric tools available to us.

This points to the first important discrepancy: individuals claiming alien abduction frequently show no evidence of past or present psychosis, delusional thinking, reality-testing deficits, hallucinations or other significant psychopathology despite extensive clinical evaluation. Instead, there is a conspicuous absence of psychopathology of the magnitude necessary to account for the production of floridly delusional and presumably psychotic material.(2)

In order to test this startling and anomalous information, a group of subjects who believe they have been abducted by aliens (9, 5 male, 4 female) were asked to participate in a psychometric evaluation. An experienced clinical psychologist carried out an investigation using projection tests (Rorschach, TAT, Draw a Person and the MMPI) and the Wechler Adult Intelligence Scale. The examining clinician was told "the subjects were being evaluated to determine similarities and differences in personality structure, as well as psychological strengths and weaknesses". All of the subjects actively refrained from sharing UFO-related experiences with the examiner and she was unaware of this theme in their lives.

The investigator found that commonalties were not strongly present and "while the subjects are quite heterogeneous in their personality styles, there is a modicum of homogeneity in several respects: (1) relatively high intelligence with concomitant richness of inner life; (2) relative weakness in the sense of identity, especially sexual identity; (3) concomitant vulnerability in the interpersonal realm; (4) a certain orientation towards alertness which is manifest alternately in a certain perceptual sophistication and awareness or in interpersonal hyper-vigilance and caution.... Perhaps the most obvious and prominent impression left by the nine subjects is the range of personality styles the present.... There is little to unite them as a group from the standpoint of the overt manifestations of their personalities.... They [are] very distinctive unusual and interesting subjects. [But] "Along with above average intelligence, richness in mental life, and indications of narcissistic identity disturbance, the nine subjects also share some degree of impair- ment in personal relationships. For [some] subjects, problems in intimacy are manifest more in great sensitivity to injury and loss than in lack of intimacy and relatedness. [Ad] "...The last salient dimension of impairment in the interpersonal realm relates to a certain mildly paranoid and disturbing streak in many of the subjects, which renders themvery wary and cautious about involving themselves with others. It is significant that all but one of the subjects had modest elevations on the MMPI paranoia scale relative to their other scores. Such modest elevations mean that we are not dealing with blatant paranoid symptomology but rather over-sensitivity, defensiveness and fear of criticism and susceptibility to feeling pressured. To summarize, while this is a heterogeneous group in terms of overt personality style, it can be said that most of its members share being rather unusual and very interesting. They also share brighter than average intelligence and a certain richness of inner life that can operate favorably in terms of creativity or disadvantageously to the extent that it can be overwhelming. Shared underlying emotional factors include a degree of identity disturbance, some deficits in the interpersonal sphere, and generally mild paranoia phenomena (hypersensitivity, wariness, etc.)" (3)

Her findings demonstrate a uniform lack of the significant psychopathology which would be necessary to account for these experiences if abduction experiences do represent the psychotic or delusional states predicted by current theory.

When the examiner was informed of the true reason for the selection of the subjects for this evaluation (i.e., their shared belief that they had been exposed to alien abductions), she wrote an addendum to the original report re- examining the findings of the testing in the light of the new data. In it she states: "The first and most critical question is whether our subjects' reported experiences could be accounted for strictly on the basis of psychopathy, i.e., mental disorder. The answer is a firm no. In broad terms, if the reported abductions were confabulated fantasy productions, based on what we know about psychological disorders, they could only have come from pathological liars, paranoid schizophrenics, and severely disturbed and extraordinarily rare hysteroid characters subject to fugue states and/or multiple personality shifts... It is important to note that not one of the subjects, based on test data, falls into any of these categories. Therefore, while testing can do nothing to prove the veracity of the UFO abduction reports, one can conclude that the test findings are not inconsistent with the possibility that reported UFO abductions have, in fact, occurred. In other words, there is no apparent psychological explanation for their reports." (4)

2. CONCORDANCE OF REPORTED DATA: The second point of intriguing discrepancy follows from this surprising absence of evidence of a common thread of severe and reality-distorting psychopathology to account for the patient's bizarre assertions. They claim that they have been abducted, sometimes repeatedly over nearly the whole course of their lives, by aliens who have communicated with them and carried out procedures much like medical examinations. Persons reporting these experiences are seen to be psycho-dynamically varied. They are also demographically varied. Reports of this basic scenario, numbering in the hundreds, have now been recorded. Even though the reporters range from individuals as diverse as a mestizo Brazilian farmer(5),an American corporate lawyer (6), and a Mid- Western minister(7), there is a perplexing and intriguing concordance of features in these reports. Certain details of the scenarios repeat themselves with disturbing regularity no matter what the educational, national, social, experiential or other demographic characteristics of the reporter. In the production of dreams, reveries, poetry, fantasies and psychotic states, while the general themes of concern may be identified easily between individuals, the specific symbolization, concretion, abstraction and representation of those themes is relatively indiosyncratic for each individual. This of course necessitates careful empathic and attentive listening on the clinician's part to gather both the general flavor and specific meaning of the elements of the fantasy state. This careful listening often means that a personal symbolic representational system can be unraveled and its contents can be rendered less mysterious to the patient. In the abduction scenarios however, both specific details and themes repeat themselves with surprising regularity: In general, the appearance and modus operandi of the aliens, their effect and procedures, their tools and interests, their crafts and physical features all tally from report to report with a high rate of concordance. (8,9,10) This intriguing fact seems impervious to the socio-economic, educational, national, or cultural background of the abductee. Similarly, whether the individual has had previous contact with the literature of abduction seems to make little difference in this vein since the reports of individuals who can be shown to have had no exposure to abduction literature also contains these common features. Skilled practitioners and investigators report in these cases that they are convinced that each of these subjects was being wholly truthful in his/her report.

The concordance of both content and event in these reports makes them unlike any other fantasy-generated material with which I am familiar. Indeed, investigators like Hopkins and others claim they have intentionally withheld dissemination of certain important, frequently reported aspects of the abduction scenarios in order to provide a "check" on the material being presented to them by individuals who may have had access to this literature since abductees may have been influenced at either the conscious or the unconscious level by it. In these cases as well, the features which have previously been published as well as those withheld are both produced by the abductee (11). In instances in which the patient has read some of the abductee literature, this previously withheld material may be offered to the investigator with a sense of personal invalidation, apology and embarrassment. He often expresses concern that this information is less likely to be believed than the other material with which he is already familiar. (12)

Jung and others have written widely about the use of archetypes and the collective awareness of themes and images which are asserted to present themselves in a world-wide and multi-personal way. The amount of individual variation and creative latitude demonstrated within the closed system of archetypes and collected creativity is vast. Those who pose such universals detect their presence in the complex and highly idiosyncratic presentations and guises which they are given by the unconscious mind of the patient and the artist. This disguise is idiosyncratic, they hold, precisely because a set of available images is being used to work and rework the personal realities of the individual against the background of the collective. But the abductee does not seem to be involved in the reworking of personal mythologies against the canvas of the race's mythology. The details and contents of the scenarios seem, upon extensive investigation, to bear little thematic relevance to the issues inherent in the life of the abductee. Intensive follow up investigation frequently yields no thematic, archetypical, primary process symbolic meaning to the shape or activities of the abductors and the scenario of the abduction itself. Instead, therapeutic work in these cases centers around the issues inherent in the powerlessness and vulnerability of the individual even is this were not a prominent theme in his life before the putative abduction. In other words, the customary richness of association and creativity found in the examination of dreams and other fantasy material is lacking with regard to the scenario and presentation of the aliens who abduct and manipulate the patient in the abduction story.

If the abduction material is indeed archetypal or fantasy generated in nature, this is a new class of archetypes. These archetypes demand rather exact representation and mythic presentation since the activities and behavior of the aliens is rather invariant within a narrow latitude regardless of the other dream and fantasy themes of the patient.

3. ABDUCTION SCENARIOS AND HYPNOSIS. Members of both the lay and professional communities frequently assume that material referring to UFO abduction scenarios is retrieved under hypnosis. Since it is generally believed that people under hypnosis are open to the implantation of suggestions through the overt or covert influence of the hypnotist it is concluded that this material reproduces the hypnotists' expectations or interests. It is further concluded that since the hypnotist "put it there" the abduction could not be accounted for as material which emerges solely from the patient's end of dyad.

Thus, the abduction scenarios are commonly dismissed as merely representing the production of desired material by compliant subjects. The abductees strong sense of personal conviction that this really happened to him during the session itself and upon recall of the session is similarly dismissed as an artifact of the process by which the fantasies were generated.

Several compelling factors mitigate against the facile dismissal of

data in this way. Firstly, about 20% of these highly concordant abduction scenarios are available spontaneously at the level of conscious awareness prior to hypnosis. (13,14) These accounts may be enhanced or subjected to further elaboration through the use of hypnosis or other recall enhancement techniques, but in a significant number of people producing abduction scenarios the recall is initially produced without recourse to such techniques. If their stories were substantially different from the concordant abduction scenarios produced under regressive hypnosis, a different phenomenon would be taking place.

However, given the perplexing clinical presentation of similar stories from dissimilar people who are uninformed about one another's experience, this presents another highly interesting area of discrepancy. Hopkins has classified patterns of abduction recall into five categories:

Type 1. patients consciously recall parts of the full abduction scenario without hypnotic or other techniques designed to aid recall. The emergence of this material may be delayed.

Type 2. patients recall the UFO sighting, surrounding circumstances and/or aliens, but do not recall the abduction itself. Only a perceived gap in time indicates any anomalous occurrence.

Type 3. patients recall a UFO and/or hominids but nothing else. There is no sense of time lapse or dislocation.

Type 4. patients recall only a time lapse or dislocation. No UFO abduction scenario is recalled without the use of specific retrieval techniques.

Type 5. patients recall noting relating to UFO or abduction scenarios. Instead they experience discrepant emotions ranging from uneasy suspicions that "something happened to me" to intense, ego-dystonic fears of specific locations, conditions or actions. They may also exhibit unexplained physical wounds and/or recurring dreams of abduction scenario content which are not fixed in their experience as to place and time. (15)

Examination of the transcripts of hypnotic sessions which yield abduction material reveals that although subjects are sufficiently suggestible to enter the trance state as directed by the therapist, they resist having material "injected" into their account. They customarily refuse to be "lead" or distracted by the therapist's attempts to change either the focus or content of their report. The subject characteristically insists upon correcting errors or distortions suggested or implied by the hypnotist during the session. Hence it is difficult to account for the similarities and concordances of these scenarios through the mechanism of suggestibility when these subjects so steadfastly refuse to be lead by hypnotists.

In fact, it is even more striking that while these patients feel the material which they are producing both in and out of hypnosis as experientially "real", nonetheless they frequently seek to discount or explain away this bizarre and frightening material. This remains true even though sharing it regularly results in a significant remission of anxiety- related symptoms and discomfort. These abduction scenarios are so ego-alien that they have frequently not shared the material with anyone at all or with only a highly select group of trusted intimates. In the vast preponderance of cases patients are reluctant to allow themselves to be publicly identified as having had these experiences since the perceive that the abduction scenario is so highly anomalous that they expect to experience ridicule and repudiation if they become associated with it publicly. It therefore functions like a guilty secret in the way that rape has (and, unfortunately still does in some cases).

After the material is produced and explored, these subjects often experience a marked degree of relief. This is true with reference both to previously identified symptomatic behaviors and other anxiety manifestations not noted on initial assessment. These other symptoms may remit after enhanced recall of the scenario and its details takes place. It is interesting to note that while the scenarios may contain a good deal of highly traumatic material specifically related to reproductive functioning, these episodes are nearly uniformly free of subjective erotic charge when either the manifest or latent contents are examined.

4. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) IN THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL TRAUMA: PTSD was first described in the content of battle fatigue (16). Although it may present in a wide variety of clinical guises (17) PTSD is currently understood as a disorder which occurs in the context of intolerable externally induced trauma which floods the victim with anxiety and/or depression when his overwhelmed and paralyzed ego defenses prove inadequate to the task of organizing unbearably stressful events. In the service of the patient's urgent attempt to still the tides of disorganizing anxiety,fear or guilt<18> which accompany the emergence of cognitive, sensory or emotional recall of these traumatic events, the trauma itself may be either partly or completely unavailable to consciousrecall. <19>...Both physical and psychological responses to the trauma are profound and pervasive. PTSD follows overwhelming real-life trauma and is not known to present as a sequel to internally generated fantasystates.<20>

This fourth area of discrepancy between predicted and observed data is perhaps the most striking and challenging. Patients who produce alien abduction material in the absence of psycopathology severe enough to account for it often show the clinical picture of PTSD. This is remarkable when one considers that it is possible that no traumatic event occured except that rooted only in fantasy. These trauma are, in large measure, split off, denied and repressed as they are in other occurrences of PTSD.

As discussed above, these scenarios frequently appear in individuals who are otherwise free of any indication of significant emotional and psychological instability or pre-existing severe psycopathology. On careful clinical assessment, these memories do not appear to fill the intrapsychic niches usually occupied by psychotic or psycho-neurotic formulations. The abduction scenarios do not encapsulate or ward off unacceptable impulses, they do not define split off affects, they are not used either to stabilize or to divert current or archaic patterns of behavior nor do they provide secondary gain or manipulative control for the individual.

Instead, this material, experienced by the patient as unwelcome and totally egodystonic, seems quite consistently to be woven into the fabric of the patient's internal life only in terms of his reactive response to the stress inherent in these experiences and the contents of the repressed material related to the stressful memories. But the extent of this secondary response can be extensive. It should be noted that PTSD has not previously been thought to occur following trauma which has been generated solely by internally states. If abduction scenarios are in fact fantasies, then our understanding of PTSD need to be suitably broadened to account for this heretofore unexpected correlation.

In addition, there are significant clinical implications to the finding of abduction scenario material in a patient who shows PTSD but is otherwise free of significant psychopathology. Since abduction scenario material presents several crucial areas of anomaly and discrepancy between what is known and that which is observed. It is very important for the therapist to refrain from the comfortable (for the therapist, at least) description of psychotic functioning to the patient who produces this material until such disturbance is, in fact, demonstrated and corroborated by the presence of other signs beside the UFO-related material. It is imperative for the therapist to adopt a non-judgemental stance. He can attend to the distress of the patient without attempting to confirm or deny possibilities which are outside the specific area of his expertise. The clinician should adopt as his therapeutic priority the alleviation of the PTSD symptomology through the use of appropriate and acceptable methods specific to the treatment of PTSD. In addition, the therapist must remember that while he may have strong convictions pro or con the abduction actually having occurred, it is not within either his capability or expertise to make such a judgement with total certainty. Furthermore, as the clinical psychologist who evaluated the nine abductees pointed out in her addendum, the sophistication of the psychotherapies has not advanced to the point at which this determination can be made on the basis of currently available information (21), although the treatment of post traumatic symptomology is currently understood. Hence, it is important for the therapist to retain the same non-judgemental and helpful stance necessary to the successful treatment of any other traumatic insult. When a therapist labels material as either unacceptable or insane, the burden of the patient is increased. If the therapist is reacting out of prejudices which reflect his own closely-held beliefs rather than his complete certainty, he unfairly increases the distress of the patient.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: Although it has long been the "common wisdom" of both the professional and lay communities that anyone claiming to be the victim of abduction by UFO occupants must be seriously disturbed, thoroughly deluded or a liar, careful examination of both the reports and their reports calls this assumption into question. Clinical and psychometric investigation of abductees reveals four areas of discrepancy between the expected data and the observable phenomena and suggests further investigation. These discrepant areas are:

1. ABSENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY An unexpected absence of severe psychopathology coupled with the high level of functioning found in many abductees is a perplexing and surprising finding. Psychometric evaluation of nine abductees revealed a notable heterogeneity of psychological and psychometric characteristics. The major area of homogeneity was in the absence of significant psychopathology. Rather than consulting a subset of the severely disturbed and psychotic population, there is clinical evidence that at least some abductees are high functioning, healthy individuals. This interesting discrepancy requires further investigation.

2. CONCORDANCE OF REPORTS Highly dissimilar people produce strikingly similar accounts of abductions by UFO occupants. The basic scenarios are highly concordant in detail and events. This is surprising in light of the widely divergent cultural, socio-economic, educational, occupational, intellectual and emotional status of abductees. Further, the scenarios themselves do not seem to show the same layering of affect and symbolic richness present in other fantasy endowed material. Instead, symbolic and conceptual complexity centers around the meaning of the experience for the individual, not around the shape, form, activity, intent, etc., of the aliens and their environment. This is in stark contrast to the expected complexity and diversity of thematic and symbolic elaboration found in our fantasy material.

3. RESISTANCE TO SUGGESTION UNDER HYPNOSIS Abduction scenario concordance is frequently attributed to the introduction of material into the suggestible mind of a hypnotized patient. Examination of abduction reports indicates that a significant percentage of these reports emerge into conscious awareness prior to the use of hypnosis or other techniques employed to stimulate recall. Furthermore abductees resist being lead or diverted during hypnosis and regularly insist on correcting the hypnotist so that their report remains accurate according to their own perceptions.

4. PTSD IN THE ABSENCE OF TRAUMA Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has not been previously reported in patients experiencing overwhelming stress predicted only in internally generated states such as psychotic delusional systems or phobias. But patients reporting abduction frequently show classic signs and symptoms of PTSD. Like other kinds of PTSD it is subject to clinical intervention which frequently leads to substantial clinical improvement. But in order for this improvement to occur, the patient must be treated for the PTSD he exhibits rather than the psychotic state he is presumed to display by virtue of his abduction report. If the abduction scenarios represent only a fantasy state, then it is worth investigating why (and how) this particular highly concordant and deeply disturbing fantasy is involved in the pathogenesis of a condition otherwise seen only following externally induced trauma. Further, if this is found to be the case, the nature of PTSD itself should be re-examined in light of this finding. Alternatively, it may be that the trauma is, in fact, an external one which has taken place and the post traumatic state represents an expected response on the part of a traumatized patient.

It is not within the area of expertise of the clinician to make an accurate determination about the objective validity of UFO abduction events. But it is certainly within his purview to assist the patient in regaining a sense of appropriate mastery, anxiety reduction and the alleviation of the clinical symptomalogy as efficiently and effectively as possible. This is best accomplished through an assessment the patient's *actual* state of psycho-dynamic organization, not his *presumed* state. In other words, in order to make the diagnosis of a psychotic or delusional state, findings other than the presence of a belief in UFO abduction must be present. In the absence of other indications of severe psychopathology, it is inappropriate to treat the patient as if he were afflicted with such psychopathology. It lies outside the realm of clinical expertise to determine with absolute certainty whether or not a UFO abduction has indeed taken place. Patients should not be viewed as demonstrating prima facie evidence of pervasive psychotic dysfunction because of the abduction material alone nor should they be hospitalized or treated with anti-psychotic medication based solely on the presence of UFO abduction scenarios. Instead, they should be assessed on the basis of their overall psychologic state. Unless otherwise indicated, treatment should be focused on the PTSD symptomatology and its repair.

The areas of discrepancy which arise from the examination of UFO abductees between the expected clinical finding and the observed ones highlight interesting questions which require further investigation into the nature and impact of fantasy on psycho-dynamic states and symptom formation.

(1)Westrum, R., Social Intelligence About Hidden Events, Knowledge:Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, Vol 3 No 3, March 1982, p.382

(2)Hopkins, B. Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions. New York, Richard Marek 1981.

(3)Slater, E., Ph.D. "Conclusions on Nine Psychologicals" in Final Report on the Psychological Testing of UFO Abductees" Mt Ranier, MD, 1985

(4)Slater, E., Ph.D. Addendum to "Conclusions on Nine Psychological" in Final Report on the Psychological Testing of UFO "Abductees", op.cit.

(5)Creighton, G. "The Amazing Case of Antonio Villas Boas" inRogo,D>S>, ed., Alien Abductions. New York, New American Library, pp. 51-83, 1980.

(6)Hopkins,B. Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions. op.cit.

(7)Druffel,A. "Harrison Bailey and the 'Flying Saucer Disease'" in Rogo, S.D., ed., op.cit. pp. 122-137

(8)Strieber, W. Communion. New York, Avon, 1987

(9)Fowler, R. The Andreasson Affair. New York, Bantam Books, 1979

(10)Fuller, J. The Interrupted Journey. New York, Dell, 1966

(11)Hopkins, B. Intruders: The Incredible Visitation at Copley Woods. New York, Random House, 1987

(12)Hopkins, B. Personal communications with the author about the more than 200 abductees whom Mr. Hopkins has investigated both with and without the use of hypnosis.

(13)Westrum, R. personal communication with the author.

(14)Hopkins, B. personal communication with the author.

(15)Hopkins, B. "The Investigation of UFO Reports" in The Spectrum of UFO Research. Proceedings of the Second CUFOS Conference (September 25-27, 1981), Hynek, M. ed., pp 171-2, Chicago, J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 1988.

(16)Kardiner, A., The Traumatic Neuroses of War. New York, P. Hoeber, 1941

(17)van Der Kolk, B.A., Psychological Trauma. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1987

(18)Horowitz,M.J., Stress Response Syndromes. New York, Jason Aronson,1976

(19)van Der Kolk, op.cit.

(20)American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1980

(21)Slater, op.cit.

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INTRODUCTORY SPACE SCIENCE - VOLUME II - DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - USAF Edited by: Major Donald G. Carpenter Co-Editor: Lt. Colonel Edward R. Therkelson CHAPTER XIII UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

What is an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)? Well, according to United States Air Force Regulation 80-17 (dated 19 September 1966), a UFO is "Any" aerial Phenomenon or object which is unknown or appears to be out of the ordinary to the observer." This is a very broad definition which applies equally well to one individual seeing his first noctilucent cloud at twilight as it does to another individual seeing his first helicopter. However, at present most people consider the term UFO to mean an object which behaves in a strange or erratic manner while moving through the Earth's atmosphere. That strange phenomenon has evoked strong emotions and great curiosity among a large segment of our world's population. The average person is interested because he loves a mystery, the professional military man is involved because of the possible threat to national security, and some scientists are interested because of the basic curiosity that led them into becoming researchers.

The literature on UFO's is so vast, and the stories so many and varied, that we can only present a sketchy outline of the subject in this chapter. That outline includes description classifications, operational domains (temporal and spatial), some theories as to the nature of the UFO phenomenon, human reactions, attempts to attack the problem scientifically, and some tentative conclusions. If you wish to read further in this area, the references provide an excellent starting point.

33.1 DESCRIPTIONS

One of the greatest problems you encounter when attempting to catalog UFO sightings, is selection of a system for cataloging. No effective system has yet been devised, although a number of different systems have been proposed. The net result is that almost all UFO data are either treated in the form of individual cases, or in the forms of inadequate classification systems. However, these systems do tend to have some common factors, and a collection of these factors is as follows:

a. Size b. Shape (disc, ellipse, football, etc.) c. Luminosity d. Color e. Number of UFO's

Behavior:

a. Location (altitude, direction, etc.)

b. Patterns of paths (straight line, climbing, zig-zagging, etc.)

c. Flight Characteristics (wobbling, fluttering, etc.)

d. Periodicity of sightings

e. Time duration

f. Curiosity or inquisitiveness

g. Avoidance

h. Hostility

Associated Effects:

a. Electro-Magnetic (compass, radio, ignition systems, etc.)

b. Radiation (burns, induced radioactivity, etc.)

c. Ground disturbance (dust stirred up, leaves moved, standing wave

d. Sound (none, hissing, humming, roaring, thunderclaps, etc.)

e. Vibration (weak, strong, slow, fast)

f. Smell (ozone or other odor)

g. Flame (how much, where, when, color)

h. Smoke or cloud (amount, color, persistence)

i. Debris (type, amount, color, persistence)

j. Inhibition of voluntary movement by observers

k. Sighting of "creatures" or "beings"

After Effects:

b. Depressed or flattened areas

c. Dead or missing animals

d. Mentally disturbed people

e. Missing items

We make no attempt here to present available data in terms of the foregoing descriptors.

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33.2 OPERATIONAL DOMAINS - TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL

What we will do here is to present evidence that UFO's are a global phenomenon which may have persisted for many thousands of years. During this discussion, please remember that the more ancient the reports the less sophisticated the observer. Not only were the ancient observers lacking the terminology necessary to describe complex devices (such as present day helicopters) but they were also lacking the concepts necessary to understand the true nature of such things as television, spaceships, rockets, nuclear weapons and radiation effects. To some, the most advanced technological concept was a war chariot with knife blades attached to the wheels. By the same token, the very lack of accurate terminology and descriptions leaves the more ancient reports open to considerable misinterpretation, and it may well be that present evaluations of individual reports are completely wrong. Nevertheless, let us start with an intriguing story in one of the oldest chronicles of India...the Book of Dzyan.

The book is a group of "story-teller" legends which were finally gathered in manuscript form when man learned to write. One of the stories is of a small group of beings who supposedly came to Earth many thousands of years ago in a metal craft which orbited the Earth several times before landing. As told in the Book "These beings lived to themselves and were revered by the humans among whom they had settled. But eventually differences arose among them and they divided their numbers, several of the men and women and some children settled in another city, where they were promptly installed as rulers by the awe-stricken populace.

"Separation did not bring peace to these people and finally their anger reached a point where the ruler of the original city took with him a small number of his warriors and they rose into the air in a huge shining metal vessel. While they were many leagues from the city of their enemies, they launched a great shining lance that rode on a beam of light. It burst apart in the city of their enemies with a great ball of flame that shot up to the heavens, almost to the stars. All those who were in the city were horribly burned and even those who were not in the city - but nearby - were burned also. Those who looked upon the lance and the ball of fire were blinded forever afterward. Those who entered the city on foot became ill and died. Even the dust of the city was poisoned, as were the rivers that flowed through it. Men dared not go near it, and it gradually crumbled into dust and was forgotten by men."

"When the leader saw what he had done to his own people he retired to his palace and refused to see anyone. Then he gathered about him those warriors who remained, and their wives and children, and they entered their vessels and rose one by one into the sky and sailed away. Nor did they return."

Could this foregoing legend really be an account of an extraterrestrial colonization, complete with guided missle, nuclear warhead and radiation effects? It is difficult to assess the validity of that explanation... just as it is difficult to explain why Greek, Roman and Nordic Mythology all discuss wars and contacts among their "Gods." (Even the Bible records conflict between the legions of God and Satan.) Could it be that each group recorded their parochial view of what was actually a global conflict among alien colonists or visitors? Or is it that man has led such a violent existence that he tends to expect conflict and violence among even his gods?

Evidence of perhaps an even earlier possible contact was uncovered by Tschi Pen Lao of the University of Peking. He discovered astonishing carvings in granite on a mountain in Hunan Province and on an island in Lake Tungting. These carvings have been evaluated as 47,000 years old, and they show people with large trunks (breathing apparatus?...or "elephant" heads shown on human bodies? Remember, the Egyptians often represented their gods as animal heads on human bodies.)

Only 8,000 years ago, rocks were sculpted in the Tassili plateau of Sahara, depicting what appeared to be human beings but with strange round heads (helmets? or "sun" heads on human bodies?) And even more recently, in the Bible, Genesis (6:4) tells of angels from the sky mating with women of Earth, who bore them children. Genesis 19:3 tells of Lot meeting two angels in the desert and his later feeding them at his house. The Bible also tells a rather unusual story of Ezekiel who witnessed what has been interpreted by some to have been a spacecraft or aircraft landing near the Chebar River in Chaldea (593 B.C.).

Even the Irish have recorded strange visitations. In the Speculum Regali in Konungs Skuggsa (and other accounts of the era about 956 A.D.) are numerous stories of "demonships" in the skies. In one case a rope from one such ship became entangled with part of a church. A man from the ship climbed down the rope to free it, but was seized by the townspeople. The bishop made the people release the man, who climbed back to the ship, where the crew cut the rope and the ship rose and sailed out of sight. In all of his actions, the climbing man appeared as if he were swimming in water. Stories such as this makes one wonder if the legends of the "little people" of Ireland were based upon imagination alone.

About the same time, in Lyons (France) three men and a woman supposedly descended from an airship or spaceship and were captured by a mob. These foreigners admitted to being wizards, and were killed. (No mention is made of the methods employed to extract the admissions.) Many documented UFO sightings occurred throughout the Middle Ages, including an especially startling one of a UFO over London on 16 December 1742. However, we do not have room to include any more of the Middle Ages sightings. Instead, two "more-recent" sightings are contained in this section to bring us up to modern times.

In a sworn statement dated 21 April 1897, a prosperous and prominent farmer named Alexander Hamilton (Le Roy, Kansas, U.S.A.) told of an attack upon his cattle at about 10:30 p.m. the previous Monday. He, his son, and his tenant grabbed axes and ran some 700 feet from the house to the cow lot where a great cigar-shaped ship about 300 feet long floated some 30 feet above the cattle. It had a carriage underneath which was brightly lighted within (dirigible and gondola?) and which had numerous windows. Inside were six strange looking beings jabbering in a foreign language. These beings suddenly became aware of Hamilton and the others. They immediately turned a searchlight on the farmer, and also turned on some power which sped up a turbine wheel (about 30 ft diameter) located under the craft. The ship rose, taking with it a two-year old heifer which was roped about the neck by a cable of one-half inch thick, red material. The next day a neighbor, Link Thomas, found the animal's hide, legs and head in his field. He was mystified at how the remains got to where they were because of the lack of tracks in the soft soil. Alexander Hamilton's sworn statement was accompanied by an affidavit as to his veracity. The affidavit was signed by ten of the local leading citizens.

On the evening of 4 November 1957 at Fort Itaipu, Brazil, two sentries noted a "new star" in the sky. The "star" grew in size and within seconds stopped over the fort. It drifted slowly downward, was as large as a big aircraft, and was surround by a strong orange glow. A distinct humming sound was heard, and then the heat struck. One sentry collapsed almost immediately, the other managed to slide to shelter under the heavy cannons where his loud cries awoke the garrison. While the troops were scrambling towards their battle stations, complete electrical failure occurred. There was panic until the lights came back on but a number of men still managed to see an orange glow leaving the area at high speed. Both sentries were found badly burned...one unconscious and the other incoherent, suffering from deep shock.

Thus, UFO sightings not only appear to extend back to 47,000 years through time but also are global in nature. One has the feeling that this phenomenon deserves some sort of valid scientific investigation, even if it is a low level effort. 33.3 SOME THEORIES AS TO THE NATURE OF THE UFO PHENOMENON

Those theories that have been advanced can be collected in five groups:

a. Mysticism

b. Hoaxes, and rantings due to unstable personalities

c. Secret Weapons

d. Natural Phenomena

e. Alien visitors

Mysticism

It is believed by some cults that the mission of UFO's and their crews is a spiritual one, and that all materialistic efforts to determine the UFO's nature are doomed to failure.

Hoaxes and Rantings due to Unstable Personalities

Some have suggested that all UFO reports were the results of pranks and hoaxes, or were made by people with unstable personalities. This attitude was particularly prevalent during the time period when the Air Force investigation was being operated under the code name of Project Grudge. A few airlines even went as far as to ground every pilot who reported seeing a "flying saucer." The only way for the pilot to regain flight status was to undergo a psychiatric examination. There was a noticeable decline in pilot reports during this time interval, and a few interpreted this decline to prove that UFO's were either hoaxes or the result of unstable personalities. It is of interest that NICAP (The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) even today still receives reports from commercial pilots who neglect to notify either the Air Force or their own airline.

There are a number of cases which indicate that not all reports fall in the hoax category. We will examine one such case now. It is the Socorro, New Mexico sighting made by police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora. Sergeant Zamora was patrolling the streets of Socorro on 24 April 1964 when he saw a shiny object drift down into an area of gullies on the edge of town. He also heard a loud roaring noise which sounded as if an old dynamite shed located out that way had exploded. He immediately radioed police headquarters, and drove out toward the shed. Zamora was forced to stop about 150 yards away from a deep gully in which there appeared to be an overturned car. He radioed that he was investigating a possible wreck, and then worked his car up onto the mesa and over toward the edge of the gully. He parked short, and when he walked the final few feet to the edge, he was amazed to see that it was not a car but instead was a weird eggshaped object about fifteen feet long, white in color and resting on short, metal legs. Beside it, unaware of his presence were two humanoids dressed in silvery coveralls. They seemed to be working on a portion of the underside of the object. Zamora was still standing there, surprised, when they suddenly noticed him and dove out of sight around the object. Zamora also headed the other way, back toward his car. He glanced back at the object just as a bright blue flame shot down from the underside. Within seconds the eggshaped thing rose out of the gully with "an ear- -splitting roar." The object was out of sight over the nearby mountains almost immediately, and Sergeant Zamora was moving the opposite direction almost as fast when he met Sergeant Sam Chavez who was responding to Zamora' s earlier radio calls. Together they investigated the gully and found the bushes charred and still smoking where the blue flame had jetted down on them. About the charred area were four deep marks where the metal legs had been. Each mark was three and one half inches deep, and was circular in shape. The sand in the gully was very hard packed so no sign of the humanoids' footprints could be found. An official investigation was launched that same day, and all data obtained supported the stories of Zamora and Chavez. It is rather difficult to label this episode a hoax, and it is also doubtful that both Zamora and Chavez shared portions of the same hallucination.

A few individuals have proposed that UFO's are actually advanced weapon systems, and that their natures must not be revealed. Very few people accept this as a credible suggestion.

Natural Phenomena

It has also been suggested that at least some, and possibly all, of the UFO cases were just mis-interpreted manifestations of natural phenomena. Undoubtedly this suggestion has some merit. People have reported, as UFO's, objects which were conclusively proven to be balloons (weather and skyhook), the planet Venus, man-made artificial satellites, normal aircraft, unusual cloud formations, and lights from ceilometers (equipment projecting light beams on cloud bases to determine the height of the aircraft visual ceiling) . It is also suspected that people have reported mirages, optical illusions, swamp gas and ball lightning (a poorly-understood discharge of electrical energy in a spheroidal or ellipsoidal shape...some charges have lasted for up to fifteen minutes but the ball is usually no bigger than a large orange. ) But it is difficult to tell a swamp dweller that the strange, fast-moving light he saw in the sky was swamp gas; and it is just as difficult to tell a farmer that a bright UFO in the sky is the same ball lightning that he has seen rolling along his fence wires in dry weather. Thus accidental mis-identification of what might well be natural phenomena breeds mistrust and disbelief; it leads to the hasty conclusion that the truth is deliberatly not being told. One last suggestion of interest has been made, that the UFO's were plasmoids from space...concentrated blobs of solar wind that succeeded in reaching the surface of the Earth. Somehow this last suggestion does not seem to be very plausible; perhaps because it ignores such things as penetration of Earth's magnetic field.

Alien Visitors

The most stimulating theory for us is that the UFO's are material objects which are either "Manned" or remote-controlled by beings who are alien to this planet. There is some evidence supporting this viewpoint. In addition to police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora's experience, let us consider the case of Barney and Betty Hill. On a trip through New England they lost two hours on the night of 19 September 1961 without even realizing it. However, after that night both Barney and Betty began developing psychological problems which eventually grew sufficienty severe that they submitted themselves to psychiatric examination and treatment. During the course of treatment hypnotherapy was used, and it yielded remarkably detailed and similar stories from both Barney and Betty. Essentially they had been hypnotically kidnapped, taken aboard a UFO, submitted to two-hour physicals, and released with posthypnotic suggestions to forget the entire incident. The evidence is rather strong that this is what the Hills, even in their subconscious, believe happened to them. And it is of particular importance that after the "posthypnotic block" was removed, both of the Hills ceased having their psychological problems.

The Hill's description of the aliens was similar to descriptions provided in other cases, but this particular type of alien appears to be in the minority. The most commonly described alien is about three and one- half feet tall, has a round head (helmet?), arms reaching to or below his knees, and is wearing a silvery space suit or coveralls. Other aliens appear to be essentially the same as Earthmen, while still others have particularily wide (wrap around) eyes and mouths with very thin lips. And there is a rare group reported as about four feet tall, weight of around 35 pounds, and covered with thick hair or fur (clothing?). Members of this last group are described as being extremely strong. If such beings are visiting Earth, two questions arise: 1) why haven't there been any accidents which have revealed their presence, and 2) why haven't they attempted to contact us officially? The answer to the first question may exist partially in Sergeant Lonnie Zamora's experience, and may exist partially in the Tunguska meteor discussed in Chapter XXIX. In that chapter it was suggested that the Tonguska meteor was actually a comet which exploded in the atmosphere, the ices melted and the dust spread out. Hence, no debris! However, it has also been suggested that the Tunguska meteor was actually an alien spacecraft that entered the atmosphere to rapidly, suffered mechanical failure, and lost its power supply and/or weapons in a nuclear explosion. While that hypothesis may seem far fetched, sample of tree rings from around the world reveal that, immediately after the Tunguska meteor explosion, the level of radioactivity in the world rose sharply for a short period of time. It is difficult to find a natural explanation for that increase in radioactivity, although the suggestion has been advanced that enough of the meteor's great kinetic energy was converted into heat (by atmospheric friction) that a fusion reaction occurred. This still leaves us with no answer to the second question: why no contact? That question is very easy to answer in several ways: 1) we may be the object of intensive sociological and psychological study. In such studies you usually avoid disturbing the test subjects' environment; 2) you do not "contact" a colony of ants, and humans may seem that way to any aliens (variation: a zoo is fun to visit, but you don't "contact" the lizards); 3) such contact may have already taken place secretly; and 4) such contact may have already taken place on a different plane of awareness and we are not yet sensitive to communications on such a plane. These are just a few of the reasons. You may add to the list as you desire.

33.4 HUMAN FEAR AND HOSTILITY

Besides the foregoing reasons, contacting humans is downright dangerous. Think about that for a moment! On the microscopic level our bodies reject and fight (through production antibodies) any alien material; this process helps us fight off disease but it also sometimes results in allergic reactions to innocuous materials. On the macroscopic (psychological and sociological) level we are antagonistic to beings that are "different". For proof of that, just watch how an odd child is treated by other children, or how a minority group is socially deprived, or how the Arabs feel about the Israelis (Chinese vs Japanese, Turks vs Greeks, etc.) In case you are hesitant to extend that concept to the treatment of aliens let me point out that in very ancient times, possible extraterrestrials may have been treated as Gods but in the last two thousand years, the evidence is that any possible aliens have been ripped apart by mobs, shot and shot at, physically assaulted, and in general treated with fear and aggression.

In Ireland about 1,000 A.D., supposed airships were treated as "demon-ships." In Lyons, France, "admitted" space travellers were killed. More recently, on 24 July 1957 Russian anti-aircraft batteries on the Kouril Islands opened fire on UFO's. Although all Soviet anti-aircraft batteries on the Islands were in action, no hits were made. The UFO's were luminous and moved very fast. We too have fired on UFO's. About ten o'clock one morning, a radar site near a fighter base picked up a UFO doing 700 mph. The UFO then slowed to 100 mph, and two F-86's were scrambled to intercept. Eventually one F-86 closed on the UFO at about 3,000 feet altitude. The UFO began to accelerate away but the pilot still managed to get within 500 yards of the target for a short period of time. It was definately saucer- shaped. As the pilot pushed the F-86 at top speed, the UFO began to pull away. When the range reached 1,000 yards, the pilot armed his guns and fired in an attempt to down the saucer. He failed, and the UFO pulled away rapidly, vanishing in the distance. This same basic situation may have happened on a more personal level. On Sunday evening 21 August 1955, eight adults and three children were on the Sutton Farm (one-half mile from Kelly, Kentucky) when, according to them, one of the children saw a brightly glowing UFO settle behind the barn, out of sight from where he stood. Other witnesses on nearby farms also saw the object. However, the Suttons dismissed it as a "shooting star," and did not investigate. Approximately thirty minutes later (at 8 p.m.), the family dogs began barking so two of the men went to the back door and looked out. Approximately 50 feet away and coming toward them was a creature wearing a glowing silvery suit. It was about three and one-half feet tall with a large round head and very long arms. It had large webbed hands which were equipped with claws. The two Suttons grabbed a twelve guage shotgun and a 22 caliber pistol, and fired at close range. They could hear the pellets and bullet ricochet as if off of metal. The creature was knocked down, but jumped up and scrambled away. The Suttons retreated into the house, turned off all inside lights, and turned on the porch-light. At that moment, one of the women who was peeking out of the dining room window discovered that a creature with some sort of helmet and wide slit eyes was peeking back at her. She screamed, the men rushed in and started shooting. The creature was knocked backwards but again scrambled away without apparent harm. More shooting occurred (a total of about 50 rounds) over the next 20 minutes and the creatures finally left (perhaps feeling unwelcome?) After about a two hour wait (for safety), the Suttons left too. By the time the police got there, the aliens were gone but the Suttons would not move back to the farm. They sold it and departed. This reported incident does bear out the contention though that humans are dangerous. At no time in the story did the supposed aliens shoot back, although one is left with the impression that the described creatures were having fun scaring humans.

33.5 ATTEMPTS AT SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES

In any scientific endeavor, the first step is to aquire data, the second step to clasify the data, and the third step to form hypothesis. The hypothesis are tested by repeating the entire process, with each cycle resulting in an increase in understanding (we hope). The UFO phenomenon does not yield readily to this approach because the data taken so far exhibits both excessive variety and vagueness. The vagueness is caused in part by the lack of preparation of the observer...very few people leave their house knowing that they are going to see a UFO that evening. Photographs are overexposed or underexposed, and rarely in color. Hardly anyone carries around a radiation counter or magnetometer. And, in addition to this, there is a very high level of "noise" in the data.

The noise consists of mistaken reports of known natural phenomena, hoaxes, reports by unstable individuals and mistaken removal of data regarding possible unnatural or unknown natural phenomena (by overzealous individuals who are trying to eliminate all data due to known natural phenomena). In addition, those data, which do appear to be valid, exhibit an excessive amount of variety relative to the statistical samples which are available. This has led to very clumsy classification systems, which in turn provide quite unfertile ground for formulation of hypothesis.

One hypothesis which looked promising for a time was that of ORTHOTENY (i.e., UFO sightings fall on "great circle" routes). At first, plots of sightings seemed to verify the concept of orthoteny but recent use of computers has revealed that even random numbers yield "great circle" plots as neatly as do UFO sightings.

There is one solid advance that has been made though. Jacques and Janine Vallee have taken a particular type of UFO - namely those that are lower than tree-top level when sighted - and plotted the UFO's estimated diameter versus the estimated distance from the observer. The result yields an average diameter of 5 meters with a very characteristic drop for short viewing distances, and rise for long viewing distances. This behavior at the extremes of the curve is well known to astronomers and psychologists as the "moon illusion." The illusion only occurs when the object being viewed is a real, physical object. Because this implies that the observers have viewed a real object, it permits us to accept also their statement that these particular UFO's had a rotational axis of symmetry.

Another, less solid, advance made by the Vallee's was their plotting of the total number of sightings per week versus the date. They did this for the time span from 1947 to 1962, and then attempted to match the peaks of the curve (every 2 years 2 months) to the times of Earth-Mars conjuction (every 2 years 1.4 months). The match was very good between 1950 and 1956 but was poor outside those limits. Also, the peaks were not only at the times of Earth-Mars conjunction but also roughly at the first harmonic (very loosely, every 13 months). This raises the question why should UFO's only visit Earth when Mars is in conjunction and when it is on the opposite side of the sun. Obviously, the conjunction periodicity of Mars is not the final answer. As it happens, there is an interesting possibility to consider. Suppose Jupiter's conjunctions were used; they are every 13.1 months. That would satisfy the observed periods nicely, except for every even data peak being of different magnitude from every odd data peak. Perhaps a combination of Martian, Jovian, and Saturnian (and even other planetary) conjunctions will be necessary to match the frequency plot... if it can be matched.

Further data correlation is quite difficult. There are a large number of different saucer shapes but this may mean little. For example, look at the number of different types of aircraft which are in use in the U.S. Air Force alone.

It is obvious that intensive scientific study is needed in this area;

no such study has yet been undertaken at the necessary levels of intensity and support. One thing that must be guarded against in any such study is the trap of implicity assuming that our knowledge of Physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assume that they will never be superceded.

Five such laws might be:

1) Every action must have an opposite and equal reaction.

2) Every particle in the univers attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance.

3) Energy, mass and momentum are conserved.

4) No material body can have a speed as great as c, the speed of light in free space.

5) The maximum energy, E, which can be obtained from a body at rest is E=mc2, where m is the rest mass of the body.

Laws numbered 1 and 3 seem fairly safe, but let us hesitate and take another look. Actually, law number 3 is only valid (now) from a relativisti c viewpoint; and for that matter so are laws 4 and 5. But relativity completely revised these physical concepts after 1915, before then Newtonian mechanics were supreme. We should also note that general relativity has not yet been verified. Thus we have the peculiar situation of five laws which appear to deny the possibility of intelligent alien control of UFO's, yet three of the laws are recent in concept and may not even be valid. Also, law number 2 has not yet been tested under conditions of large relativ e speeds or accelerations. We should not deny the possibility of alien control of UFO's on the basis of preconceived notions not established as related or relevant to the UFO's.

33.6 CONCLUSION

From available information, the UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in nature for almost 50,000 years. The majority of known witnesses have been reliable people who have seen easily-explained natural phenomena, and there appears to be no overall positive correlation with population density. The entire phenomenon could be psychological in nature but that is quite doubtful. However, psychological factors probably do enter the data picture as "noise." The phenomenon could also be entirely due to known and unknown phenomena (with some psychological "noise" added in) but that too is questionable in view of some of the available data.

This leaves us with the unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien controlled UFO's. However, the data are not well correlated, and what questionable data there are suggest the existence of at least three and maybe four different groups of aliens (possibly at different stages of development). This too is difficult to accept. It implies the existence of intelligent life on a majority of the planets in our solar system, or a surprisingly strong interest in Earth by members of other solar systems.

A solution to the UFO problem may be obtained by the long and diligent effort of a large group of well financed and competant scientists, unfortunately there is no evidence suggesting that such an effort is going to be made. However, even if such an effort were made, there is no guarantee of success because of the isolated and sporatic nature of the sightings. Also, there may be nothing to find, and that would mean a long search with no proff at the end. The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the question.       This document is available through the Ufo Info Service. For more information write to:

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NOTE: Although obviously well written and comphrensive in its treatment of the UFO phenomenon, it is the opinion of ParaNet Pi that this repute U.S.A.F. Chapter is in fact a cleverly planted hoax, and did not appear in any Air Force Training Manual as claimed. However, we do not have any hard proof to support this assessment of its authenticity.

-Tom Mickus 04/24/88

Extraterrestrial Contacts?

By

Philip J.Imbrogno

Are human beings now in contact with some unkown extraterrestrial intelligence? UFO investigators from all across the country report that the number of Contact cases has risen over 200% in the last five years! It is my feeling that there could be something very concrete to this contact phenomena and we should all take a much more serious attitude toward it.

Contact In The Hudson Valley

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During my research in the Northeast section of the United States, I have found a good number of people you had an continue to have UFO encounters. Most of these witnesses started out with and ordinary sighting and now after many UFO related experiences feel they are in contact with the intelligence behind the UFOs.

In the Hudson Valley area alone, there has been more than 7,000 reports of UFOs over the past seven years. To my surprise many people in the area felt that they had contact with a non-human intelligence from another world.At first I found these cases strange and a little disturbing since in most cases this type of report is picked up by the media who attempt to discredit it by ridiculing the witness. Needless to say this hurts UFOlogy in general. During the early part of my investigation into the Hudson Valley Phenomena, I did my best to keep these cases away from the public eye. The first call of order was to prove that something strange was in the sky and that the UFO that thousands of people have been seeing is not something conventional, like "planes in formation".

As time went on the cases of contact in the area began to escalate. I knew then that some of these cases had to be researched. In response to this, A UFO conference was organized by Peter Gersten and myself. The conference took place during september of 1987 and the theme was to explore the possibility that a non-human intelligence was in contact with people in the area.

The speakers were Whitley Strieber, Budd Hopkins,John Keel, Ellen Crystall and myself. At the end of tweleve hours about 900 people attended and over 200 filled out report forms stating that they thought they had contact with the UFO intelligence. The actual number really surprised me greatly, and we were only touching the tip of the iceberg.

Out of the 200 reports a primilary investigation proved that 120 of them could be unreliable, so only 90 were selected for study. They are listed below and broken down into to five categories.

Type Contact Number ----------- ------- Abductions 19

Channeling 10

Entity Communication 15

Sighting with telepathy 40

CE-III cases only 6

I will clarify each of the above categories below:

Abduction; Those people who claim to have been taken aboard an alien craft and meeting the intelligence that operates it.

Channeling: Those people who claim to be in mental contact with a non-human or super human intelligence. Most communication is done by automatic writing,verbally or diagrams.

Entity Communication: Those who have met a human like or non-human like being and had verbal or mental face to face communication.In most cases the person is left with some type of information, but in some cases no information is exchanged during the contact.

Sighting With telepathy: a sighting of a UFO in which the witnesses feels some type of communication is taking place between them and the intelligence in the UFO. As you can see this made up of the bulk of reports that I investigated.

CE-III only: Those people who have encountered a strange being, but no communication was made. Some time the encounter is near a landed UFO,sometimes there is no UFO in sight.

I will now present Two cases studies of contact from my research along with my findings. It must be remembered that the case studies are very long and complex,so I will only present the core of the data.       Abductions

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The abduction phenomena is wide spread across the country. Pioneer researchers like Budd Hopkins have brought many cases to light. It was no surprise to me that when the UFO sightings began in the Hudson Valley that soon abduction cases would follow. One particular case that was brought to my attention concerned a computer scientist in his early twenties. To protect the person identity I shall call him "Ray".

On March 13 1988 at 10:00 P.M "Ray" was driving home on Route 116 in Croton Falls, New York. The route is a lonely dark road with no lights with a large reservoir on his left and woods on the right. He was driving home >from a friend's home in the area of Croton Falls to his home in New Castle, New York.

"Ray" noticed a number of very bright white lights off to his left just above the reservoir. the lights seemed too low to be a plane and looked like they were several hundred yards away. The pine trees along the side of the road partially obstructed his view, so he continued to drive, but slowly until he came to a clearing.

He then stopped his car rolled down his window and watched the lights as they continued to approach. He then pulled himself half way out of the car through the window and sat on the car door. As he watched the lights, he noticed that they were connected to some type of very dark structure. There was no sound from the object and it was about 20 feet above the tree line. As the UFO passed over his car, he looked up to see this large triangular object which was about 100 feet from end to end slowly pass over his car.

He looked up and noticed that the object only had lights in the front and the underside was in sections and had depth, and receded inward. Inside the receded area he saw white flashes of light. He compared these flashes with that of a strobe light. Then something strange took place. The next thing he knew, he was back in the car and driving down the road and the object was gone.

When he got home he found it very hard to sleep. For the next several days "Ray" would wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with his heart pounding feel very confused. He knew somehow that these sudden episodes of night terror had to do something with the UFO sighting.

I arranged to have "Ray" hypnotized by Dr. Jean Mundy, a certified Psychologist who practices in New York City and a well known UFO researcher. The result of the hypnotic session indicated that "Ray" experienced an abduction on Route 116 during his sighting.The case is very long and involved. I will only give a synopsis of the information that was brought out during that session.

"Ray's" Abduction

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While the object was passing over his car, "Ray" somehow was drawn out of the car window and into the UFO. He found himself lying on a table in a dark room. There were several beings standing on each side of him, and the being next to his left side was moving some type of instrument around his head. He tried to move but his legs felt paralyzed. Ray described the beings as typical "greys", that are often described in UFO literature. He noticed their eyes were round, and not slanted, as often reported.

One of the beings then inserted something up his nose which caused "Ray" extreme pain. The feeling he had was as if cotton was being shoved up his nostril. While remembering this part of the hypnosis "Ray" began to cry out in pain and his nose began to get red and swell.

After the insert procedure, "Ray" was allowed to get up. He was escorted by one of the beings to a control pannel. The being was short and was only as high as "Ray"'s chest( "Ray" is about five foot 9). At no time was there any verbal communication, but "Ray" knew where they wanted him to go and what they wanted him to do. He saw this control pannel which was like a greyish material with many projections and knobs. He thought that these might be some type of controls.

"Ray" then found himself back in his car driving down the road. "Ray" feels that the beings will someday come back for him and this time he will not be returned for him. His entire life has changed since the incident. He feels as if he is in some form of mental contact with the beings that he met. He feels as if he is gathering information for them. For example "Ray" may be listening to music, and a voice inside his head will say "Tell us about this music, how does it make you feel". "Ray" is not able to control these requests,they can come at any time while he is experiencing something in his every day life.

"Ray"'s case is unusual, but not unique when compared to the many cases that I have investigated in the Hudson Valley.

Channeling

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The channeling phenomenon seems to be a new craze across the country. When I was approached by individuals who claimed to be in contact with a super human intelligence, my first response was a negative one. Since 1986 I have invesigated the claims of at least 40 people who say they are channeling a higher intelligence that is extraterrestrial in nature.My research proved to my satisfaction that 90% of these people proved to be in contact with nothing more than their own imagination.The other 10% are interesting,but require additional research.From the ten cases, selected >from the conference data, only one stands out. This person is the only one that really made me consider that he may be in contact with an intelligence that is not of this Earth.

Dean Fagerstrom is a 57 year old resident of Putnam Lake New York. When I first met Dean in 1982 he was Working as a night watchman. I found Dean intelligent, articulate and to say the least fascinating.

As an adult Dean's experiences began in November of 1966 while in the army stationed in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. He lived down town, about a mile from the base.One night at two o'clock in the morning while sitting in his apartment while working on a number sequence for the lottery, he had the feeling he was not alone. He id not feel alarmed by the awareness, but curious. Finally he got up and walked around the living room and when he found no one he returned to his seat where he was working with the numbers on a white board. As he looked at the white board a human like face began to appear before his eyes. The face filled up just about all of the two by three board. As the image got clearer, he saw that it was not one face, but two. There was a bluish shimmer around the edges of this image,one image was that of a man wuth tawny hair, not quite shoulder length, and a woman with slightly darker hair, a little shorter Then he heard a voice close to his ear identify the names of the beings that he saw. The male gave his name as" Donestra" and his wife's name as" Kilestra", although he did not say "wife", but rather "mate".

This Donestra then told Dean, that Dean has studied many things and they have been receiving his thought projections because the mind is a powerful transmitter. Donestra also told Dean that the images he is now seeing are not real, but holographic projections. Dean was then told that this being and his mate were amoung thousands of other individuals from various planets throughout the near regions of our solar system and beyond.Donestra told Dean that they have been studying the Earth for many years and that our planetary and human condition interested them greatly.

After several minutes of conversation the communication came to a close and Dean was asked not to mention to any one for a while what he had seen and heard. Dean was told to watch the skies in the next few days, he did and claims he saw a craft of" amazing design and aerial ability". This was to prove to Dean that the contact he had was real and not an hallucination. Between 1966 and 1967 Dean was to continue to have contact with Donestra.

In 1967 Dean was discharged from the service and he moved to Brewster, New York. Things were quiet, and the year went by uneventful. But on January 19th 1968 at 4:30 in the morning Dean had another extraterrestrial contact, this time it would change the rest of his life.

Dean woke up at that hour and saw a bluish shimmer in the upper corner of the room.He also heard an incredible high frequency buzzing sound. Gradually, an object materialized about three inches in diameter, round, resembling an old fashion microphone.

This object came nearer and nearer until it halted before Dean's face at a distance of no more than a foot. This object stood their,suspended in mid air and continued to oscillate. As Dean watched, something projected itself >from the center of the disk and extended out four or five inches, it resembled an "ice pick". It seemed to Dean that it was some type of probe and came to within three inches of his forehead. The probe then emitted a very intense vibration that shook his head and neck. Dean lay in bed helpless, but not paralyzed. The object then became quiet, then it disappeared.

The next day, Friday morning, Dean got into his car went to a store and began buying graph paper, triangles, compasses and various drafting instruments. The buying spree did not seem to be under his control, nor did he understand why he was buying these things.

Dean collected his purchases and went home and for the next three weeks began making drawings of various types of alien machinery. Dean did not know why he was doing this, but thought this Donestra person might have something to do with it. Dean had no idea of what the devices were that he was drawing.

The drawings were done in an unusual manner; Dean had no notion of what he was doing,but felt strongly motivated to complete the drawings. He would place a piece of graph paper in front of him and s bluish dots would appear. The dots instructed him where to draw the lines. Also he seemed to have a pre-knowledge of what color or shade to place in a particular part of the diagrams. After three weeks and many hours behind closed doors Dean Completed 32 diagrams and several pages of some unkown symbols.(Two of these diagrams appear in this issue, as well as one page of the symbols.

Dean held on to these diagrams since 1968,then turned them over to me in 1982. He said that he was instructed to do so by Donestra and that I would know what to do with them when the time comes.

The diagrams have been looked at by many professional people,a physicist, an electrical enginner, a professional artist, a master draftsman and even Dr. Hynek looked at them. Everyone was very impressed with them, and the draftsman stated that it would take someone with at least twenty years experience to produce something of that quality.

Dean Fagerstrom continues his contacts till this day. It would take an entire book to explore some of the material he has produced, and a lifetime to research it. You may write to Dean Fagerstrom at One Allen Road, Putnam Lake New York.

Entity Communication

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This type of case invloves beings materializing to a witnesses out of thin air. Since 1986, 10 cases of this type have been brought to my attention in the Hudson Valley. Since the publication of my book Night Siege, The Hudson Valley UFO siightings in 1987 and my previous articles in UFO UNIVERSE, I have received well over 50 letters from all over the country from people who experienced this type of contact.

In over 80% of the cases the time of the contact seems to be from 2-4 A.M and the place , the witnesses bedroom. The stories are very similar and they tell of the witnesses being woke up by the being,not physically but by a strong mental impression. The beings are usually described the same, tall slim, with long hair(Mostly blonde but, in some rare cases black).The majority of the beings reported are male, with very few females reported. It is interesting to note that the tall blonde beings seems to be taking part in this type of contact, while the little Greys are responsible for the abductions. In this type of contact 92% of the contactees were women.

Many times some type of information is given to the witnesses.The information is usually to predict major natural catastrophies and future UFO sightings. In all the cases explored none of the information that is given to the person contacted checks out. In most cases the person is paralyzed while the enitity proceeds with the communication. In all the cases explored the witnesses is never allowed to speak.

Sighting with Telepathy

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Some people who spotted the Hudson Valley UFO felt a strong connection with the UFO and themselves. At times they felt as if the object(or the intelligence inside the object) could read their minds. After these sightings these witnesses continued to feel a strong bond between the UFO and themselves. These people who had this feeling during their intial sighting in the Hudson Valley, continued to have additional sightings, some later experienced one type of contact listed above. These reports are fully documented in my book NIGHT SIEGE, which was co-authored with the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Mr. Bob Pratt.       Prearranged UFO Photos?

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We have seen many UFO photographs in the past twenty years. In some cases it seems that the photograph was the result of more than an accident. This may be the case of Travis Ward a Greenwich resident who on January 22 in the early morning hours took the following UFO photo. Was his camera set up at the right place at the right time? Or was it more than a stroke of luck?

CE-III Cases

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The number of CE-III cases that have been reported to me involve the little grey humanoids in and around the Hudson Valley of New York. These cases seem to be on the rise since August of 1987 and are currently under investigation. In some of the cases contact was made without the classical abduction. Many reports that have been brought to my attention all seem to be of the classical "grey" beings described in the books, COMMUNION and INTRUDERS. At times these creatures have been reported around a a UFO that is close to the ground,but sometimes no UFO is seen at all.

If you had a CONTACT experience I would like to hear from you. You can write me at PO Box 4218, Greenwich, Ct 06830

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Contact of the Fourth Kind

(Abductions in the Hudson Valley area of New York)

By. Philip J. Imbrogno

Over the past five years the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area have been the scene of a massive number of UFO sightings. The numbers of reports are so great that I believe this area has the highest number of raw UFO sighting reports in the entir e world. These reports are documented in my book NIGHT SIEGE THE HUDSON VALLEY UFO SIGHTS which I co-authored with the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Mr. Bob Pratt.

I have been asked over the years by many UFO researchers if there have been any close encounter-abduction type cases in the Hudson Valley . My answer to most was No.Only to few did I admite that there were abduction cases and plenty of them. This denial of such cases was at the request of Dr. Hynek since he wanted NIGHT SIEGE to be a documentation of the many UFO reports in the Hudson Valley.D. Hynek also wanted to keep these cases quiet until we had more data about the sightings in the area.

With so many reports over the years and with the sighting still continuing it was only a matter of time before the growing number of Abduction cases in the Hudson Valley had to be dealt with.

To this date I have been contacted by at least 75 people who feel as if they had more than a sighting. Of the 75 there are 25 that would be suitable for further study.Of these twenty five ten come from professional backrounds.All do not want any type o f publicity. I will explore two of these cases in this article. At the witnesses request, I have changed their names to protect them.I would also like to inform the reader that Whitley Strieber, author of the best selling book COMMUNION experiences took place in the Hudson Valley area. Since the publication of his book many people have come forward with incredible stories,people who would otherwise would have kept silent.

On July 2 1987 I received a call from a 36 year old woman from Toms River New Jersey who I shall call Gail. Gail was very troubled on the phone and insisted that she talk to me about a UFO related experience that she had. During the last part of June (1 987) as she was lying down on her bed, she felt some what uneasy as if someone was watching her.The time was Ten PM. She then heard a voice say" We have come for you..You will not be hurt." She then realized that her entire body was paralyzed and that she could only move her eyes.Gail was lying on her back and noticed that three beings stood in the doorway to her bedroom. She was alone in the house at the time,but does live there with her seventeen year old daughter who was away visiting her father in Croton Falls N.Y. Gail is divorced.

Three beings were dressed in something that looked like tightly fitting jumpsuits and stood in a single row,one behind the other. The leader, according to Gail seemed to have a problem getting into the room. It was as if sometype of invisible sheild was blocking his way. He lifted up his hand and pressed them against the invisible sheild,then he put hishand>4^[e light in the hall was dim,and she could not see their features. She noticed they were about five feet tall with very long arms.

The leader then took some type of rod out from a side pocket and turned the bottom of it. The rod then glowed with a green light and he passed it over the doorway area. They then walked into the room without any effort. As they entered the room still in a single file she noticed that they had large heads and eyes that looked like a cats which wrapped around their heads. She never heard them talk but heard all kinds on buzzing noises in her head when the leader communicated with the others.

Gail tried to scream but could not,she could only move her eyes.The leader placed himself on her right side and then one of them went to the foot of the bed and the other on the left side of the bed. The beings on each side of her then placed their hand s under her head and raised it up. She then noticed that the one on her left took a tube of what like like a narrow roll of white cotton and started pushing it up her left nostril.At that moment she felt extreme pain in her head and then started to lose co nscious. She felt as if she was falling from a great height,then she does not remeber anymore.

The next thing she recalls is waking up at 8am with a very bad headache. As she walked to the bathroom her nose (both nostrils started to bleed. She felt as if something was stuck up her nose,but nothing was there. She looked in the bathroom mirror and noticed her nose was swollen and puffy.She she noticed a rash on her neck,legs and slightly on her arms.

She had hoped that the experience from that last night was a dream and tried to block it out of her head. When her daughter arrived home that night she told her about what happened.Gail told me that before she even finsihed with her story her daughter s tarted shaking and then told her that on the same night, about the same time she and her father were followed by a UFO on route 116 near Croton Falls New York. She described to her mother a large dark craft triangular in shape that paced the car for five m inutes above tree top level.

I found this report very interesting since Croton falls is near the border of Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York and that loney route has been the site of more than one Close Encounter over the past five years. I also found it interesting that both mother and daughter had a experience with the paranormal at the same time.

There is more to this case than meets the eye. The daughter and father accrording to my findings may have had as much as thirty minutes missing time. If this is so and if both were abducted then the experience happened to father,mother and daughter at t he same time!.

Gail's rash and headaches continued for a few days then disappeared. I plan to have Gail undergo hypnosis in the near future by a certified psychologist. The story does not end here. Several weeks latter I received a call from Gail telling me that it ha ppened again. She said"Those creatures came back the same time and they did the same thing"She continued"It was as if I was watching a movie of the first time they came,they did exactly the same thing.Including having trouble getting into the doorway to th e bedroom.My daughter was once again away visiting her father."

This case is still under study, but intial findings indicate that both Gail and her daughter may have a history of interactions with the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon.

The second case I would like to cover took place on July 19th 1984 during the peak of activity in the Hudson Valley. the sighting involved a Close Encounter, Missing time and abduction. If this was a real expereince then the implications are fantastic. In all the cases that I chose to study all the witnesses related the truth,or what they thought was the truth.There is no doubt in my mind that their stories are not hoaxes since none would have nothing to gain by going public with their experiences.

Bill (as we shall refer to him) is a thirty two year old computer programmer for a major scientific-engineering corportation that helped design the major componets for the new NASA Hubble space telescope. On July 19th 1984, at about ten-thirty pm, Bill w as leaving work and heading west on Highway I-84. As he approached the Taconic Parkway ramp in Dutchess county New York he noticed a very bright almost circular object off to the north. The object seemed to be just sitting there in the sky and the lights w ere very bright white. As he watched the object it began to move and it was at that time he noticed a dark mass behind it which blocked out the brighter light polluted night sky. He continued to drive on 84 and soon lost sight of the object. He then brushe d the entire incident off his mind and thought"Oh it must have been those guys from Stormville flying those planes faking a UFO" He then drove on listening to his radio.

He then turned off the route 52 exit near Stormville New York and began traveling north. The time now was close to eleven PM and the roads were quite desolate. He came to a clearing where there was a large field and noticed a large dark mass sitting in the field about 200 yards from the road. At first he thought that it was a new home,but then he knew there was no house there since he went this way just last night and the field was empty. As a matter of fact Bill drove this way home and passed the field everynight and never saw a house there.

Bill slowed down the car"This thing was huge and dark",he said.The strange thing was it was almost the same shape as a big barn,but it seemed more tapered toward the sides and very smooth. As he watched, the dark object rose into the air without a sound . This really upset Bill since he was the only car on the road. The object then rose higher and higher. All that Bill could see was the dark mass slowly rising into the air. It was now about twice as high as the trees and it moved slowly towards Bill who w as still in the car. Bills radio then started to sound "funny" he said that the music on the radio sounded like a tape player ,playing music with very weak batteries. The voices and the music sounded out of tune.

Bill then put his car into gear and sped away from the object. His heart was racing as he drove up the road at about fifty miles and hour.Bill then lost sight of the object and continued to drive at a slower rate of speed.After several minutes he notice d a glow up ahead over a hill. As he approached the crest of the hill there the object was! It was about 300 feet above the trees and was all lit up with rows of white and yellow lights. He then stopped his car and turned off the engine and the lights. He was hoping that who ever was in the thing would not see him. The object then turned off its lights and he could see this huge dark mass slolwy drifting toward him. The object passed right over his car,he could now see its shape,it was triangular. Bill told me"I don't want to make light of this,but the ship looked like one of the star destroyers in Star Was" The underside was the same shape,although I did not see the top.

The object passed over Bill, as he looked up he saw circular areas underneath the UFO. These circular areas seemed to be like tunnels leading into the object. Inside these circular tunnels there was a white flashing,similar to the flashing of a white st robe light (we had several reports of this white flashing effect from past CE cases in the Hudson Valley, also the circular areas have been reported numerous times before). Bill told me there was no sound.He estimated its size to be at least 300 feet from end to end.

Then something strange took place. The last thing Bill remembers is watching it go over his car,he did not see it leave. The next thing he knows he is at the bottom of the hill 600 feet from the position he was when the UFO passed over his parked car. T he object itself was gone. He was not sure what time it was when he watched the object passed over his car,but he feels it was most likely about eleven-thirty PM. The time was now tweleve -fifteen. He started his drive home upset and with a very stiff neck .

When he arrived home he told his wife about his sighting. She was worried to begin with since he was almost and hour late. That night Bill woke up yelling in the night"saying get away from me!" His wife said that the nightmares continued for a while at least twice a week . Bill told to me that the he was not sure of what the nightmare was, but he knew something was after him. As time went on Bill was afriad to drive at night alone. He even had to insist to his boss not to put him on the evening or night shift at his job. Finally Bill wanted to find out more since the experience of the UFO and the fearful dreams tormented him. It wasen't until 1987 that Bill contacted me and told me his story. Bill Had seen Budd Hopkins(author of the book INTRUDERS) on a n umber of shows and asked me if would be possible for him to be hypnotized. Hearing Budd on TV talk about the abductions made him fearful and he wanted to make sure that this did not happen to him. I arranged to have Bill meet with a certified psychologist that I occasionally use to perform hypnosis.The following is a brief transcript of Bills encounter under hypnosis. He first related seeing the object on 84 and then the object in the field and then in the sky over the hill, it is then that his voice become s fearful.

Bill" I see it now its that thing! Its coming in my direction!. Iam going to turn off my car lights. maybe then wont see me and go away. Its huge......Oh my God what is it!. Theres someone standing in the road he is now walking toward the car. Who are yo u!...... He's saying something to me "don't be fearful we need you...you have been selected". Selected for what,get away!. I feel strange like I am floating in the air,its all dark. I am now on this table and these guys are all around me,six of them. Two a re at my head and two on the sides(two on each side). My legs and arms are like dead weights I can't move them.

(Bill is then asked to describe them)

"These guys are small, large heads with round eyes,the eyes are all black I can see no pupils in them,they remind me of sharks eyes. They are dressed in sometype of black and white skin type suits. I can't see their hands. The one at my head is moving so me type of device that looks like a portable car vacuum cleaner up and down the left side of my head. It vibrates my entire head,it feels like a drill going through my head... STOP! it hurts.. He tells me that they are looking for something and found it.

I now can feel my legs and arms they are allowing me to get up. They are very small only up to the bottom part of my chest (Bill is six foot one inch) The others are now over some type of pannel. Two of them are leading me by the arms. I asked them where they were from"The one on my right leading said"We are from here" I didn't understand the answer. I asked him if they planned to let me go. he replied "Yes but we will see you again" He told me that they need us because they have trouble living in our wor ld. He said they come from a place which is very ugly when compared to our world and they would rather live here,but can't. I told him that I would remember and tell every one about this. He said I would remember in time but there are forces in your own(?) which will stop you from telling anyone about this experience." Bill then found himself back in the car. Bill now recalls every aspect of the experience. It was a very real experience to him.

There are about a dozen other cases similar to Bill's and Gail's.In The Hudson Valley area.Can all of these people who have had UFO abductions and sightings in this part of the country be experiencing sometype of mass hysteria? I don't think so. The evid ence indicates that there is some type of non-human intelligence at work. If the case histories of the total experiences are true then we all better work together to get to the bottom of this.

In 1987 Peter Gersten a Peekskill New York attorney put together a new organization called CONTACT. Peter who is known for his work in obtaining UFO related documents from goverment agencies organized CONTACT in response to the great number of Close Enc ounter cases in the New York area. Peter had some of the top UFologist flown in from all over the country to meet at his Peekskill home. Amoung them were Tracy Torme, Budd Hopkins, Jim Mc Cambell and this author. On September 27 CONTACT organized a free UF O public conference in Brewster New York. The theme of the conference was to explore the adbuction phenomena and the possibility that some people have been in contact with a non-human intelligence.Speakers at the conference included John Keel. Whitley Stri eber and Budd Hopkins. Over 900 people attended the 12 hour conference and 200 filled out forms who felt they had a contact experience.

Then during the first several months of 1988 Peter Gersten dissolved CONTACT and as of the date of this publication CONTACT is no longer in existence. The reasons for this are not clear but Peter still maintains a UFO Hotline where callers can get up to date information about UFO sightings. The caller can also leave their name and report their own sighting on a tape.The UFO hotline number is 914-739-6830.

If the reader would like to reach me to report a sighting or encounter I can be reached at PO Box 4218 Greenwich, Ct 06830.

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS

OF THE UFO

ABDUCTION PHENOMENON

by

Budd Hopkins

It is in the nature of human psychology that an event as dramatic as contact with extraterrestrial intelligence can not be thought about neutrally, without deep-seated hopes and preconceptions. Most of us, I'm certain, prefer to believe that extraterrestrials would arrive on our planet as friendly, helpful beings, eager to share their technology and to aid us in solving our social and ecological problems. Upon this basic and very human wish certain people have erected a powerful set of interpretations of modern-day UFO reports. These hopes, hardened into a kind of theology, can be described as a modern religion, willed into existence after the decline of our more traditional deities. After all, we have been told more than once that God is dead.

On the other hand, our recent wars, both hot and cold, and the venality and deceit we have seen in many of our political leaders have also inspired an undercurrent of pessimism, global in extent. International chaos, terrorism and governmental incompetence have trained many of us always to expect the worst. And so, if the majority opinion, or hope, is that extraterrestrials would arrive as space brothers, a strong minority opinion fears the opposite that we would find ourselves taken over by a band of inter-galactic conquerors. Our popular science fiction films spell out these hopes and fears quite literally: We have the kindly Space Brother, Michael Rennie, stepping out of a gleaming spaceship to help earthlings through their troubles, and then we have the Body Snatchers out to do us all in. I've dwelt on these basic attitudes about extraterrestrial contact for an important reason: when we examine reports of actual contact, especially as revealed in UFO abduction encounters, we must always bear in mind our basic preconceptions and how they might influence our reading of these events.

After twelve years of experience investigating the abduction phenomenon, I will not deal with the validity of such reports in this paper. I've considered this issue elsewhere, in two books and a number of articles, so we will here assume that the abductees I've worked with, more than a hundred and fifty in all, are telling the truth as they best recall it. I will concentrate instead on what information we can derive from their accounts that might bear on the question of the moral nature of the UFO phenomenon. Are the UFO occupants, as they are described by their abductees, good or bad, friends or foes, or is the situation just not reducible to such terms? The very first step, obviously, is to analyze what the abductees say they feel about their captors, and that, every investigator knows, is a complex task. My twelve years' experience leads me to a distinct conclusion: each abductee's emotions are invariably intense and manylevelled and usually mutually contradictory.

First of all, confrontations with UFO occupants are generally experienced as frightening, so fear, at some point, is an almost universal element in the emotional mix. Second, there is a kind of awe or wonder at the power and seeming magic of the aliens' technology. This often translates itself into a kind of affection, even love, that an abductee might feel for the particular captor with whom he or she senses a special relationship. On the other side of the same coin there is an almost universal anger verging sometimes on hatred that abductees feel towards their abductors because of their enforced helplessness, their sense of having been used, involuntarily, and even, upon occasion, of being made to suffer severe pain. According to every broad study of the abduction literature that I know of, and Edward Bullard's is the most authoritative [ParaNet members see FUFOR.ORD], fear, awe, affection and anger are the basic emotional components of almost every UFO abduction experience. It is safe to say, then, that _powerful and confusing_ emotions follow such experiences, and that after their encounters abductees do not believe they have been taken either by purely malevolent foes nor by selfless, angelic space brothers. The situation is far too complicated for either simplistic reading.

During the past eight years I have conducted an informal support group for UFO abductees in the New York City area, and have kept in touch with many others in various parts of the country. These circumstances have allowed me to observe a number of men and women over an extended period of time, and to see various patterns of response to their abduction experiences. The weight of each component in the standard emotional mix varies widely from individual to individual, and also changes with time within any one psyche. But the basic components always seem to remain, subtly at odds with one another, in each abductee. Several things must be kept in mind, however, as we study the abductee's emotional charts. First, when one is abducted, he or she is in something of an altered state, not unlike a hypnotic trance. The abductee is _controlled_ by the abductors and his or her behavior is in many ways far from normal. The abductee may be told things, shown things, that may not be true or "real." So in this context we must consider the abductee's occasional affection for his or her captors. Psychologists have shown that this phenomenon, the "Patty Hearst" syndrome, all too often appears in earthly kidnapping experiences. Therefore in evaluating the four emotions commonly described by UFO abductees, three seem appropriate but one must be dealt with warily. Fear is something one would surely expect if the aliens actually look and act as reported by their captives. Feelings of awe at the alien's technological magic, an emotion that again seems appropriate. Anger, often to an extreme degree, seems to be most abductee's reaction to being paralyzed and controlled by their captors. The physically invasive and sometimes painful operations performed upon them underline this response, which is often deepened because the UFO occupants usually refuse to discuss the purpose of these disturbing procedures. One has no choice except to submit to needles, lights, knives, "scanners" and so forth, with no power to protest or refuse. "I feel like a lab rat," one abductee said, her anger entirely appropriate to her situation. It is the odd affection abductees often report feeling for their captors that seems suspect, under the circumstances. Is this feeling possibly an artificial emotion, induced telepathically through some kind of quasi-hypnotic control? Is it a version of the "Patty Hearst" syndrome? Is it a genuine reaction? Obviously no one can answer these questions satisfactorily, but it seems to me that affection is the one common abduction response that must be viewed with suspicion.

When one tries to tally up the pros and cons of an abduction experience as it immediately and visibly affects human emotion, it can be said that two reactions are essentially negative, or even damaging. Fear and anger, which are often felt deeply as terror and hatred, are surely disruptive of anyone's life. The sense of awe, while basically neutral and sometimes tinged with fear, may enhance one's world view, and thus contribute positively. The fourth and most suspect emotion, affection for one's captors, if genuine, is a positive one. So the emotional "score" after an abduction experience does not support either a simple "Space Brother" or "Body Snatcher" interpretation. Judging purely by obvious surface reactions we are still in ethically mixed territory, though to me and to many abductees the negative effects seem more powerful than the positive.

Moving away from the patterns of the abductees' immediate emotional responses, we can evaluate the ethical content of an extraterrestrial presence by considering another, larger plane. Is there any evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence has actively intervened in human affairs, either helpfully or destructively? The modern era of UFO activity begins in earnest in 1947, but many UFO reports surfaced during World War II in the phenomenon labelled "foo fighters" by our airmen. No force, either extraterrestrial or otherwise, put a stop to the Holocaust until the Allied armies conquered Nazi Germany. By then it was too late for millions of innocent people, murdered by a system no one seemed able to stop. The United States developed nuclear weapons and used them to incinerate tens of thousands of children, women and men. No one, terrestrial or otherwise, prevented those bombs from falling. Continuing Stalinist butchery, international terrorism, American intervention in a Vietnamese civil war all meant that thousands upon thousands of innocent people lost their lives because of the cruelty or indifference of political leaders of every persuasion. No one intervened. Michael Rennie, alas, never stepped out of his space ship to save us from ourselves. We have polluted our planet, spreading cancer by industry's greedy indifference to the consequences of chemical "bonanzas." No one came to our rescue; the Chariots of the Gods evidently drew up just to watch the damage deepen. And now we have a new plague the disease known by its ironic acronym AIDS...something fresh and new that we apparently did not have before the advent of the modern UFO era.

Now all of this means one thing. As a moral presence the UFO phenomenon seems sublimely indifferent to what we do to ourselves. Intervention is evidently not part of the plan, as diving into the surf to rescue a drowning child is sometimes not part of an indolent sunbather's plans. On the other hand there seems to be no evidence that an extraterrestrial presence has inflicted any excess pain upon us, either. If Michael Rennie's alien only saves us in Hollywood films, the evil, intervening Body Snatchers seem only to exist there, too. I believe that the cruelty that mankind has endured in this century has an all too human origin; one doesn't have to look to spaceships for its cause. And we look to them in vain even for first aid, let alone salvation.

But how should we evaluate what seems inescapable evidence of extraterrestrial indifference to human tragedy? I feel that the grades should be harsh. The power and technology revealed by UFO report upon UFO report indicates that intervention of some kind should have been possible; help should have been given. Apologists for a Space Brothers theory use the same argument as Christian Apologists: The UFO occupants, like God, tolerate evils such as the Holocaust because life is only a fleeting reality the afterlife, or a reincarnated life, renders this question moot. As a Humanist I disagree. The death of a child at the hands of a gun-bearing adult is an abomination, not a necessary learning experience. The only excuse I can offer for extraterrestrial indifference is some kind of flaw in their apparent power, some very real vulnerability that might provide them with an excuse to avoid moral responsibility the way our indolent sunbather could avoid trying to save the drowning child because he, himself, might be unable to swim.

A few valid UFO cases contain accounts of healing, descriptions of wounds healed, eyesight strengthened and so on, after UFO abductions or encounters. However, these rare examples of healing raise more ethical problems than they solve. If the occupants of UFOs _do_ have the power to heal, why is it used so sparingly, so arbitrarily? Why save one swimmer and let the others drown? A woman I've worked with and know well was abducted along with her older sister; each had had childhood abductions, each had lived uneasily with her memories. Last spring the older sister was murdered in a park, by an apparently deranged individual. The tragedy had nothing to do with UFOs, but my friend said this to me: "I always thought, somehow, they were looking out for us, watching over the people they'd taken in these experiments. Now I know I'm no safer than anyone else. They don't seem to care." And yet in one case I know about an abductee was apparently saved in a similar situation. The arbitrariness of it all undermines any attempt to accept a Space Brother reading of the entire phenomenon. Amorality is the term that comes most quickly to mind.

If the immediate emotional reactions to UFO abductions are usually more negative than positive, and there is literally no sign of benign extraterrestrial intervention in world affairs, there is still one more area to examine, and it is extremely important. It is the long term psychological aftereffects of UFO abductions experiences. Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, a clinical psychologist with whom I have worked in many such investigations, has stated that she feels almost every abductee she has dealt with has been psychologically scarred by the experience. This is surely my opinion also, and I believe that the psychological tests of abductees administered by Dr. Elizabeth Slater, as well as the psychological histories taken through Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City all provide support for this thesis. Though she points out that cause and effect obviously cannot be established with certainty, Dr. Slater describes the psychological profiles of the nine abductees she tested as resembling those found with rape victims a low self-esteem, a distrust of their bodies, their physicality, their sexuality, and a hesitancy to trust others. Not a pretty legacy from our would-be Space Brothers.

My case files include three instances in which individuals all males and apparently somewhat depressed to begin with committed suicide after what were described by their friends and family as UFO abduction experiences. And there is more on this debit side of the ledger, including what seems to have been an accident following a car-stopping incident and abduction; the driver, the only surviving parent of four children, died later of complications suffered in this encounter. Two female abductees I've worked with either planned or carried out suicide attempts when they were ten years old, and another recent attempt involves a frightened, despondent fourteen-year-old girl.

No one who has had this experience regards it as an unmitigated blessing. Some live in perpetual terror. Some have suffered nervous breakdowns, and as a result of their experiences and the chemical and shock treatments administered by baffled and incompetent doctors, are living thoroughly damaged lives. I have seen disfiguring scars on the bodies of abductees who have involuntarily been used in the UFO occupant's "medical" procedures. Yet I have also seen abductees whose lives have been undeniably broadened by their bizarre experiences; survivors who have managed the human task of surmounting their traumas and gaining something >from them. The reports, again, are mixed, but the pain and suffering are immense. Deaths, injuries, terrors and mental breakdowns must be weighed against a philosophical broadening in many individuals, an awareness that the universe is larger and closer than anyone had imagined. The cost, of course, has been tremendous, and the gain due more to human resilience than alien kindness.

But there is, I believe, an explanation for the apparently callous and often destructive behavior of the aliens who perpetrate these temporary kidnappings of innocent men, women and children. One vivid example should make the point. Two years ago a man in Minnesota whom I shall call Earl wrote to me about his partially remembered UFO experiences. Eventually I visited him on his farm, and we began a series of hypnotic regressions. He recalled a time years before when his wife had been helping him harvest a crop of hay in a rather isolated field. She lay down to rest on the wagon while Earl worked a few hundred yards away...but then he saw three small UFOs fly in at tree-top level and hover above his sleeping wife. One of them lowered to the ground as Earl put his tractor in gear and raced to her side to protect her from whatever was happening. A normallooking blond man, speaking English, stepped from behind the clump of trees where the UFO had landed and asked Earl to stop; "Everything is all right," he said. "She won't be hurt." Earl ignored him and leaped off the tractor, continuing on foot towards the wagon where his wife lay, surrounded now by small, gray-skinned figures. Earl suddenly found himself paralyzed and helpless. He stood there, unable to move, as the blond man continued speaking, assuring him that "everything is all right. Nothing will happen to your mate." Earl watched in horror as his paralyzed wife was undressed. A Long needle was pushed into her abdomen as she lay on a bed of hay, crying out at the pain, but unable to resist. Skin and hair samples were taken, and a thin probe was inserted into her vagina. Still frozen in place, Earl cursed and raged, and the blond man seemed genuinely surprised by his reaction. "We _want_ you to see this," he said. "We're not hurting your mate. She'll be fine. Why are you upset? We're not hurting her..."

The scene ended shortly thereafter, and the couple returned home, aware of a period of missing time, but with no memories of the UFO encounter. In the days and weeks after this event, Earl's wife began suffering from nightmares, clawing in her sleep at the area near the bridge of her nose, between her eyes, and screaming for them to "take it out, it's hurting." She dug deep gouges in her forehead while the nightmares continued unabated. Other symptoms of her terror appeared, half-understood recollections of the events in the hay field. Eventually she had to be hospitalized, suffering from a severe nervous breakdown. She lives at home now, tranquilized and sadly no longer herself.

This story is but one of many which I could present to illustrate a central point about UFO occupants and their relation to their human subjects: they simply appear unable for the most part to understand us, our feelings, our terrors, our love for one another. They seem psychologically blind to basic human emotions. In my book _Intruders_ I recounted case after case in which women were artificially inseminated or endured ovaretrieval operations, but whose reactions of rage or terror seemed surprising to their captors. These impassive UFO occupants seem as remote from our "peculiar" human emotions as they are from our obviously differing anatomy; perhaps more so. And their basic lack of understanding provides us with a kind of excuse for their callous behavior.

It seems to me that we are left with but two possibilities, neither of which is very attractive. If the UFO occupants actually do understand us and can empathize with our needs and emotions, then they are morally deficient -even cruel in their single-minded selfishness. Not malevolent or deliberately evil, but as callous as the sunbather who watches the child drown in the surf. At some point, amoral behavior becomes immoral behavior. But if these same alien beings _simply do not understand our feelings_, then they have an excuse of sorts for their behavior. And the evidence suggest they really may not know what disasters they sometimes cause. A female abductee recently wrote me a letter which goes in part:

"I was watching a show about animals, because I love

animals. I don't know if it was Wild Kingdom or some National Geographic show, but these scientists were tracking some polar bears. They had all kinds of weird looking equipment and were using a white board which rendered them invisible in the snow to the bears. As I watched I got a real sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. These scientists were dressed in identical white suits, lured the bears closer, and drugged the big one with the cubs. The whole time they were tagging her they were taking blood samples, measuring fat, checking eyes, mouth, etc. And whenever the bear struggled they would pet her, talk to her, tell her everything was going to be fine. The cubs stayed close. The scientists placed a device on her that would track her for so many years. They even marked her with a special paint that could be spotted from the air. Then when they were through with her they ran and hid behind the big screen so that when she woke up she wouldn't see them. She got up, looked around, and ran so fast her cubs could hardly keep up. Imagine how she must have felt the other times when they followed her in a helicopter. She could run, but with that paint and homing device she could never hide! I think all we are is a bunch of animals to these beings. Some little experiment that has been ongoing for who knows how long. I don't like the dea of being something's lab animal."

I thought about her letter, her understanding of the animal's plight and the traumas inflicted by the scientists upon the bear and its cubs. These zoologists as well as the occupants of UFO's, one hopes are all acting from decent, scientific motives. And yet in both cases pain is inflicted, paralysis is imposed, and traumatic terror is the result. Some animals might abandon their cubs after such an experience or die of a mismeasured dose of a tranquilizing drug or even die from pure shock, just as some humans, like Earl's poor wife, may never recover from the horror of their experience. Sad though this alternative seems, it is easier for me to believe that the occupants of UFOs simply do not understand what they are doing to us, what traumas they are inflicting, than to believe they do know and are merely indifferent to human suffering.

I have talked to many people who will not give up on the benign Space Brother reading of these cases, no matter what. At the outset I said that our quasi-religious hopes die slowly. And so, despite massive negative evidence, there are still many people who cling to the idea that somehow, some way there may be _two_ alien groups, one bad and one good. The bad group, according to this theory, does the abducting and experimenting while the good group really loves and understands us. Sometimes a kind of sub rosa Aryan racism can be detected beneath these hopes, in that the "grays," as they have been called, are the bad aliens, while the more attractive "blonds" are good. In my twelve years of investigation, however, the more human-seeming aliens, whenever they are reported (as in the cases of Earl and his wife or the Travis Walton abduction), seem to be operating as a team right along with the so-called "grays," participating in abductions-as-usual. There is not a shred of evidence that I know of supporting this simple-minded good-guys, bad-guys dichotomy but there is plenty of evidence that this kind of wishful thinking is an all too common psychological habit.

The Contactee phenomenon, discounted by almost all serious investigators, represents the triumph of hope against reality, of need against evidence. The abduction cases I've studied over the years can be defined as being, in effect, "all evidence and no ideology," while the contactee cults are essentially the opposite. Contactee messages, as passed on through helpful "channels," reduce themselves generally to soft entreaties to love one another, to make peace, not war, and to take care of our planet's precarious ecology in other words, the kind of cliche' even people like Reagan and Gorbachev routinely utter in their formal speeches. (This kind of nebulous message, it should be said, is sometimes also reported in valid UFO abduction cases. What we really need, one abductee said to me, is actual alien help in solving our problems, not just another newspaper editorial pointing them out.) In short, there is no reason to assume that any benign group of aliens anywhere has yet done anything truly helpful to our planet. Such evidence simply does not exist.

The final difficulty in the cultist view of a "good alien bad alien duality" lies in the age-old problem of evil. If the bad aliens are hurting us by their abductions, why don't the good aliens prevent it? For centuries we've asked ourselves, if God is omnipotent, how can he permit, say, the torture of children? Many of us felt that since no answer consistent with the idea of God's omnipotence could satisfy us, there was something seriously wrong with the theology. And so it is with this kind of alien theology, apart from the fact that there is no credible evidence of any kind indicating a struggle between rival alien groups. If there are various groups of aliens from different places of origin in the Universe, they are apparently all co-operatively doing the same thing to us, the human race and I for one think that what they're doing is, in the short term at least, immensely destructive.

Once again we are back to the only two viable alternatives. Either the UFO occupants have not grasped the psychological toll they are taking in these abductions and genetic experiments because they really do not understand human psychology, _or_ they must be viewed as a callous, indifferent, amoral race bent solely upon gratifying its own scientific needs at whatever the cost to us, the victims. The question of which alternative is true cannot be presently answered. There is evidence to support both interpretations, but I, for one, wish to choose the former.

Budd Hopkins

New York, September 1987

Copyright Budd Hopkins 1987

Editor's note: What follows is a transcript of a 45-minute lecture given by Milton William Cooper on November 17, 1989, at the "Whole Life Expo" in Los Angeles, Calif. His speech was transcribed word-for-word from a microcassette recording.

"For those of you who don't know who I am, I was raised in a military family. My family, my ancestors, since they came to this country, have been government people. We have served in the military, we have been patriots, we have fought in all the wars, we care about this country and believe in the constitution of the United States. We know, as many people don't know, that the Constitution of the United States of America is the United States of America! And that's why we've always been ready to do the things needed to preserve and protect it.

"When I left home I went into the Air Force, the Strategic Air Command. As a child I'd heard stories from my father and pilots, other pilots, my father was a pilot, about Foo Fighters, UFOs, strange craft that were not made on this Earth. And as a kid, you hear that in passing, and it's neat, and you giggle about it, and you go out and play 'Space Man,' and you forget it.

"When I was in the Air Force I met men who had participated in alien crashed-craft recoveries. Now this intrigued me, it interested me, but it was usually after quite a few bottles of beer that these stories would come out, and sometimes the next morning I couldn't remember what the heck the guy said.

"When I left the Air Force I went into the Navy, and this is where everything began to happen for me. I had originally intended to just go from service to service and do something that very few people have ever done before. I was a very adventurous, very crazy ... young man, and I thought that that would be a pretty exciting life. I volunteered for submarines, and while on the submarine USS Tyroot, SS-416, on a transit between the Port land/Seattle area and Pearl Harbor, which was our home port; the Pearl Harbor sub base, as the port lookout I saw a craft, saucershaped, the size of a Midway class carrier, aircraft carrier, for those of you who don't know how big that is; it's huge, come up out of the water approximately two and a half nautical miles off the port bow, which is about 45 degrees to the left of the pointy end of the submarine. It tumbled slowly on its own axis, and went up into the clouds. It appeared to be moving slowly to me at a distance of two and a half nautical miles, but in reality it was moving pretty fast because it came up out of the water, did a few tumbles, and it was gone!

"I then reported it to the officer of the deck. I didn't tell him what it was that I saw because my Daddy didn't raise no fools and in case nobody else saw it I didn't want to be the only looney on board the ship. So I asked the officer of the deck to help me cover that area, and he did, which is common for officers and lookouts to help each other while on bridge watch because they all hang together if something bad happens. After a few seconds of watching, the same craft, or another craft exactly like it, came down out of the clouds, tumbled again on its own axis, and went into the water. Ensign Ball, who was the officer of the deck, was literally shocked! What could I say? Seaman Dejeralimo, who was the starboard lookout, had also witnessed this, and Ensign Ball called the captain to the bridge who was followed by the chief quartermaster who brought a 35MM camera, and we watched for between seven and 10 minutes the same craft, or different craft that looked exactly alike, enter and leave the water. It was an incredible show. I don't know if they knew we were there, or if they even cared, but the craft did not glow, they were metal, they were machines without a doubt, they were obviously intelligently guided, they were huge, and having been in the Air Force and the Navy and knowing what it takes, I knew without a doubt, and know it today, that that machine was not made on the face of this earth. Because there's nothing that man can make, that can fly through the air at a speed like that, tumble on its own axis, and enter the water and effectively fly beneath the sea.

"If you've ever been aboard an airplane and then gone aboard a submarine, I know there's probably some of you in this room who have visited a submarine at one time or another, you can readily see just without even any of the technicalities involved how difficult such a thing would be to do. Where would it be built, that size? It was absolutely incredible. It changed my life because then all the stories that I'd heard all my life I knew were true, and I began seeing the world in a different light.

"It wasn't long after that I was trained by Naval security in intelligence. I was sent to Vietnam. I was assigned as a patrol boat captain, first in DaNang harbor, given a crew, given a multi-million dollar patrol boat. My job was to gather intelligence from the people who lived around the harbor and the fishermen who transited the harbor, and maintain the safety and security of the harbor and the shipping. After about five months I was sent up North to the DMZ, to a place called Qua Vieaf [sp], on the Tacan [sp] river. Our base camp was at the river mouth. We were only three miles south of the North Vietnamese border and our job was to patrol the Tacan river from the river mouth to Dang Ha [sp], and then up the Quang Tree [sp] cutoff to Quang Tree city, again to get to know the people on the bank, gather intelligence, and to patrol every night and maintain the safety and security of the river and the river traffic.

"It was while there that I discovered that there was a tremendous amount of UFO and alien activity in Vietnam. It was always reported in official messages as 'enemy helicopters.' Now any of you who know anything about the Vietnam war know that the North Vietnamese did not have any helicopters, especially after our first couple of air raids into North Vietnam. Even if they had they would not have been so foolish as to bring them over the DMZ because that would have insured their demise. Our troops were fired on occasionally by these 'enemy helicopters,' enemy troops were fired on occasionally by these 'enemy helicopters,' and occasionally people would disappear. And on one instance that I know for sure at least one entire village disappeared one night because of alien activity. The reason they used the term 'enemy helicopters' in messages and dispatches was that in Vietnam you could be overrun at any time, no matter where you where. They did not bring crypto encoding equipment into Vietnam, I'm talking about the machinery. What we did is we had crypto tables, and once we every 24 hours those codes would be no good. So that's what we used. We also, because of the inability to use crypto transmitting equipment, had to devise code words such as 'enemy helicopters.'

"When I left Vietnam I was eventually attached to the headquarters staff of the Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet at Macalappa, [sp] Hawaii, which is a little hill overlooking Pearl Harbor, it's a beautiful white building up there, and I was specifically attached to the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet.

"It was during this tour of duty that, in the course of my duties, documents were placed in my hands that were so unbelievable and so incredible that it took me quite a while to adjust to the fact that what I was seeing was real. Now for those of you who don't understand how I could come to see this information, let me give you a little short course in security clearance and the need to know and how you get to see classified information if you're in the military or in the government, it doesn't matter which, the rules are the same.

"No. 1, you need a security clearance, and you've got to have clearance at the level that the information you want to see is classified at. In this instance it was classified 'Top Secret, Magic, Restricted Information,' which I came to find out later is the highest security classification in the Nation. To get that type of clearance, all you have to have is a Federal Bureau of Investigation background check, which takes about six months and they send federal agents to your home, to your old schools, to all your teachers, to your friends, to everybody you put down on your security clearance forms, to all your old addresses, your neighbors, everybody that you've worked for, and it's embarrassing because they don't tell them what they're checking on. They just show them their identification and start asking questions and that's when you find out who's your friend and who's not, because a lot of people get scared and think, 'Bill just robbed a bank and I'm not talking to him anymore.'

"Now once you get that it's called a 'B.I.' and for those of you who have received a copy of my service record look on the first page, the DD-214 where it says 'Security Clearance,' you will see the term 'B.I.' That's a 'Bureau of Investigation' clearance. Now at that point, you have the clearance for everything including Top Secret and above. What determines what you get to see is your need to know, and the job that you have determines what your need to know is.

"I was assigned to the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, who had to know everything concerning his area of operations which was one half of the Earth's surface; the Indian ocean, the Pacific ocean, and all the land masses in between. Believe it or not, if we go to war, if we ever go to war, it's the United States Navy that strikes the first blow and attempts to keep the enemy at bay while we can get ourselves together, at least historically. Nuclear weapons have kind of done away with that concept, but military commanders like to talk about it anyway.

"Because of this, and you have no conception of the amount of material and information that an area commander has to know; it's unbelievable, and he has to keep track of this, he has to keep on top of it. He has to know what's happening; he has to make the right decisions. Because it's almost humanly impossible for anyone to do that, they have what's called a briefing team, and it's our job to make sure that he has the correct informa tion, all the time, on a 24-hour basis. And every morning, between 8 and 9 a.m., we would give a briefing which covered everything that happened in the previous 24 hours, and everything scheduled to happen in the next 24 hours, and all the pertinent intelligence reports that we had received since the last briefing that he needed to know and that his staff members needed to know. Occasionally we would get messages marked 'Top Secret, Magic, Restricted Information,' and it would be coded in such a way that all you had were answers to questions which you didn't know what the questions were so you really didn't know what the message was all about.

"But eventually I found myself in possession, holding two documents; one called 'Project Grudge,' another one called 'Operation Majority.' Project Grudge contained the history of alien involvement since around 1936, and it began talking about Germany's involvement with a crashed disk that they had recovered in 1936 and were attempting to duplicate the technology. They were not successful despite what all these Nazi hunters want to tell you. If they had been successful, we would not have won the war, because you cannot beat those weapons! You cannot out fly those craft, you can't even think about it with conventional aircraft. If Germany had been successful, we would now have a German flag up in front of this podium.

"They did make some headway. When we went into Punta Mundy [sp] we captured documents, we got some scientists, we got some hardware. The Russians also got some documents, some scientists, and some hardware. It wasn't until 1947 that we were able to capture a craft, a whole craft, not all together but it was ev erything. And that occurred near the city of Roswell, New Mexico. There were dead aliens recovered from the craft. In Project Grudge I saw photographs of these dead aliens, of the craft; I saw photographs of live aliens; I saw photographs of autopsies, internal organs; I saw photographs of the alien designated 'E.B.' [or Ebe], which was held in captivity from 1949 until June 2, 1952, when he died. I saw the history of what they had been able to at that time put together, from incidents in the 1800s, which involved aliens and their craft.

"I saw the names of projects. I saw a project that was to fly recovered alien craft that had been recovered intact and undamaged, and some of them were recovered intact and undamaged, and how that happened I have no idea. It was called 'Project Redlight,' and first was conducted from the Tonopah test range in the Nevada test sight and then was moved to a specially built area, ordered built by president Eisenhower, called 'Area-51,' code named 'Dreamland,' in the Groom [sp] dry lake area of the Nevada test sight, by secret executive order. It doesn't exist officially, if you ask anyone, or if you write letters to the government they will tell you it doesn't exist. However if you go out there at several places and see it, fly outside the boundaries and look down and see it, you know it's there, but according to the government it doesn't exist.

"The project to fly, test fly these craft, was ongoing until sometime in 1962 when a craft blew up not far from the test sight, in the air, and the explosion was seen over a three-state area. The pilots were killed, they had no idea what had happened or why the craft blew up, but they put Project Redlight on hold until a later date when the aliens supplied us with three craft and personnel to help us learn how to fly these craft. That project is ongoing, and we now have not only alien craft that we are flying, we have craft we have built, using the captured technology, and some of the UFOs that people report seeing in the United States, and maybe even elsewhere, are flown by United States personnel.

"That may come as a shock to you. We have technology way beyond the limits of what we have been told. A lot of our development technologically, since the end of World War II, has been due to the exchange of technology which occurs in the area called 'Area-51' on a regular basis ... ongoing.

"When James Oberth, Professor Oberth retired, many of you don't know who he is ... not too many space people in here. Professor Oberth was probably one of the greatest rocket scientists and space commentators that ever lived. When he retired, the government gave him a special award, there was a press conference, all kinds of ceremony, and when he got up to speak he said, 'Gentlemen,' and I quote Professor Oberth, he said, 'Gentlemen, we cannot take credit for all the technological developments that we have had in the last decade. We have had help,' and that's where he stopped.

"One of the reporters raised his hand and said, 'Professor Oberth, can you tell us what other country helped us?'

"He said, 'It was those little guys from out in space,' and then he got down and would not comment any further. Now this occurred in 1959. I can go on and on, but time doesn't allow it.

"I will tell you ladies and gentlemen that there are all kinds of things going on all the time, we are making rapid progress in exposing this. Since I have begun talking, people have been coming out of the woodwork at a rapid rate, who know and have pieces of this puzzle, and are helping us to put it together, because I don't have all the answers. I saw an awful lot of material, I have remembered an awful lot of it, I have probably, in my remembering, made some mistakes, and I guarantee you they're minor ones, if I have.

"We have just recently, for those of you who didn't believe that the Jason Society of the Jason Scholars, the secret group, existed, we now have a letter from the Pentagon, with 51 names of the Jason Scholars, an admission from the Pentagon that they hold the highest security clearances in the nation, an admission from the Pentagon that they hold the protocol rank of Rear Admiral, and are treated as such on any military installation or in any government office. There are six Nobel Prize winners on that list, there are the elite of the elite of the scientific world, they are the only ones who really know the truth about the technology today and about the real science of physics, because the one that we're being taught all the time ... If you send your kids to college to learn physics you're wasting your money because they're teaching them stuff that doesn't work, it's not true, it's not real. Gravity is not what we think it is. There is a Unified Theory! We already know what it is; it's what makes these craft work. It's absolutely incredible what's going on.

"How many of you keep up with Billy Goodman's show on KVEG out of Las Vegas? For those of you who don't, I would try tuning in on any night between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. It's 840 on your AM dial, and the subject every night are those subjects that no other media person in the United States will touch with a 10-foot pole, every single night except Saturday night. It's the only show that you can call in and talk to another caller, you've got three minutes to say whatever you want to say as long as you don't cuss or swear or slander anyone, and every night they're helping to expose this.

"When John Lear and I first said what was going on out at Groom Lake everybody said, 'You're nuts, there's nothing going on out at Groom Lake!' The listeners of the Billy Goodman radio show put together an excursion and went up to Groom Lake and they all, ever since, every night, they go up there and watch them test fly the alien craft ... every night! The first night they had 100 people there. And 100 people saw four alien craft fly, doing things that no airplane and no helicopter can do. Now they don't tell us anymore that there's nothing happening at Groom Lake. What they tell us now is there's no such thing as aliens, it's all government secret projects. That's OK because we'll prove that wrong too eventually, it just takes a while. Because where we were ... it's not where we're at, and I'm really happy about that.

"Now, if you want to see what's happening right now, keep watching your movies, keep watching your television commercials, your alien programs on television, read Whitley Strieber's Majestic, which is a part of the contingency plan called 'Majestic' to test the reaction of the population to the presence of aliens on the Earth. And I have just finished my study of Whitley Strieber's book Majestic, and I'm going to tell you right now that most of the documents in there, that he says are fiction, are real documents that came right out of Project Grudge. It is part of the government's campaign to leak information out in ways that they can always deny that it's real. There's only one thing wrong with the information in that book, the stories of the characters in there I know nothing about. What I'm talking about are the supposed government documents that he has in that book. I'm telling you tonight they're real. Those are some of the same documents that I saw in Project Grudge back between 1970 and 1973, and where we have wondered before, now we know that Whitley Strieber is working for the government. And we had a suspicion anyway because in the front of his book he states that he got information and was helped by the research team of Moore, Shanderey, and Friedman. William Moore has publicly admitted on July 1 that he is an agent of the United States Government, and we know that the others are too.

"This is going to come out, and the reason they're doing it the way they're doing it is they know eventually you're going to find out that it's all true and real. They're desensitizing you so that you're not shocked, so that there's no collapse of society as we know it, so that the religious structure doesn't fall to pieces, so that the stock market doesn't go crazy, because these were their original fears. Now, there's nothing we can do about the last one because it's already happened, there will be a segment of the population that worships the aliens, even though they're no different than us; they're just from somewhere else, and they may look a little different. They are not gods. But there are already people worshiping the aliens and they predicted this would happen when they slapped the secret stamp all over all this stuff.

"You know, there's really nothing wrong with what's been happening except for three things. [Cooper forgot to mention the third thing, or was sidetracked, or included it into the second thing.]

"No. 1, when they decided to keep it secret they needed to finance it, they couldn't tell the public, so they couldn't tell Congress. They decided to finance it with the sale, importation and sale, of drugs. Now in the documents that I read, in Operation Majority, it specifically stated that when George Bush was the president and CEO of Sapata [sp] Oil, he, in conjunction with the CIA, organized the first large-scale drug importation into this country from South and Central America by fishing boat, to the offshore oil platforms of Sapata Oil, and then from there into the beach, thus bypassing all Customs inspections and lawenforcement inspections of any kind. They are still bringing in drugs, to a limited extent, in this manner. Another manner is by CIA contract aircraft which, one of their bases of landing is Homestead [sp] Air Force Base in Florida. We have affidavits >from air controllers who have vectored the planes in, who have made sure that they're not interfered with in any way. We have affidavits from personnel at Homestead Air Force Base who say the planes have been met by Jeb Bush, who is George Bush's son. We have affidavits from people who work in the Gulf of Mexico, in the offshore oil business, that yes indeed, the drugs are coming in, at least some of them, from the offshore oil platforms.

" From the audience came a clear statement,

"Just say no?

"

"Pardon? Right! Just Say No! Well that's what we're going to do ladies and gentlemen with your help. We are going to say no, no more! And you have to do it, you have to act. You either have to act or watch your country go down the tubes.

"Now, that's one of the things that's wrong. The next thing that's wrong is, to keep the secret, they killed a lot of people who tried to leak it out. And if I hadn't done it the way that I did it, you wouldn't be seeing me anywhere standing or walking on this Earth now. They killed President Kennedy and during the workshop, for those of you haven't seen the tape, I will show you, on the tape, who shot the president and why. Between '70 and '73, in Operation Majority it stated verbatim that President Kennedy ordered MJ-12 to cease the importation and sale of drugs to the American people, that he ordered them to implement a plan to reveal the presence of aliens to the American people within the following year. His assassination was ordered by the policy committee of the Vilderbergers. MJ-12 implemented the plan and carried it out in Dallas. It involved agents of the CIA, Division-5 of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. President Kennedy was killed by the driver of his car, his name was William Greer, he used a recoilless, electrically operated, gas-powered assassination pistol that was specially built by the CIA to assassinate people at close range. It fired an explosive pellet which injected a large amount of shellfish poison into the brain, and that is why, in the documents, it stated that President Kennedy's brain was removed. If you've studied the case, you will find that indeed his brain disappeared. The reason for that is so that they would not find the particles of the exploding pellet or the shellfish poison in his brain which would have proved conclusively that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin. In fact, Lee Harvey Oswald never fired a shot, he was the patsy.

" Mr. Cooper paused briefly, and a lady in the audience asked the obvious question,

"Why haven't you been assassinated?

"

"If they were to kill me right now, what would you think?

" Cooper posed.

"That it's the truth,

" several people chimed.

"I've got them right where I want them. If they touch me, everyone who has ever heard me talk is going to be absolutely enraged and is going to know that everything I've said is true. As long as they don't touch me there's going to be some of you who are always going to be wondering. But eventually we're going to bring enough proof out, and if you're here during the workshop you're going to see an awful lot of it that's going to prove to you that it's true. It's real. And it's happening!

"Okay, I've tried to cover a lot of stuff, just briefly, because there's no time in 45 minutes to get into anything very much.

" Mr. Cooper then announced the scheduled workshop session the following day in which tangible proofs could be seen but the transcriber was unable to attend. He then opened up the floor to questions and answers. A muffled question was barely heard coming from the front of the room, which in essence asked,

"What about all the people in the press and others who were in Dallas and who saw the assassination? Couldn't they tell where the shot came from? Why didn't they come forward? There must have been plenty.

"

"There was, we know that there was at least 18 who were all murdered within two years of the event. The odds of that happening are 1 in 300,000 trillion,

" Cooper replied. Again a muffled question,

"Why did the driver have to shoot Kennedy?

"

"Because the other fools missed! There were a total of three shots fired at President Kennedy, one hit him in the throat and didn't kill him and two of them hit John Connelly [sp]. The one that was fired from the grassy knoll hit the president in the throat. The other two shots came from directly behind the limousine, not the school book depository building, and hit Governor Connelly. Governor Connelly, in intelligence community circles, is known as a 'can do' man, because he took two hits and still kept his mouth shut.

"

"How is it that the driver, sitting on the front, left-hand side of the car was able to blow off the right side of Kennedy's brain when the bullet actually entered in, and it would have been virtually impossible ...

" another person asked. Mr. Cooper seized the gist of his question and injected,

"For those of you who have been listening to all these talk show hosts, whose job it is to be a talk show host, and who have not done any legitimate research into this, if you come to the workshop, I will show you, on the tape, how it was done. You will see that Kennedy was, in fact slumped over against Jackie, his head was turned [this direction], it was very simple, it was easy and you will see it with your own eyes.

" Another muffled, off-mike question from a member of the audience inquiring why no one else had come forward with the information Mr. Cooper was disseminating, and why those who knew it had kept it secret for so long was quickly answered,

"It hasn't been, I'm talking about it now. Bill English was talking about it eight years ago, but everybody laughed at Bill English. John Lear's been talking about it for three years, and everybody laughed at him. Now there's so many people have been talking about it, people are starting to listen, and it's about time. Because it's about time we that we quit being fools, and that's exactly what they think we are, and we prove it to them every day.

" The next question dealt with the alien technology and asked in essence,

"Hasn't any one else [other than the government] come up with the energy technology that the aliens have?

" to which Mr. Cooper answered,

"There's been quite a few people who've come up with it and they've all been stopped, and they'll all continue to be stopped. Because once you have it you have free energy. Once you have free energy they no longer have power over you. You un derstand? That's why they stop it.

" Another question asking,

"In the film of the assassination, which was examined greatly by experts, why didn't they conclude that Kennedy's driver shot him?

" to which Cooper asked,

"Examined by whom greatly? Most of the film that you can purchase has that segment cut out, and you can always tell it by the person running in the background, they'll run up to here ... all of a sudden they'll be down here ... running. You will see in most of the clips that you've ever seen on television, or in the movies, or that you're able to get your hands on, you'll see William Greer start to turn like this ...

" then a muffled comment from the audience, then Cooper answered,

"That's because they clipped it out! And on a lot of them, I'll bet you most of you, every time you've seen the clip on television, never looked at the driver anyway. If you're really honest with yourself, and with me, you know your eyes were right on Kennedy.

" A woman asked if any of the alien technology was being used in present-day military equipment and was answered,

"Yes, there's a lot of alien technology contained in the Stealth bomber, that's right. The Stealth fighter was flying for 10 years before you even knew it existed.

" As the hour drew late another question, more clearly stated, was asked of Mr. Cooper,

"Before you let us all out of here, there's a bunch of us here wondering what can we all do to help bring this all out?

" A single word,

"revolt,

" issued from several listeners simultaneously, but Cooper responded,

"Don't revolt. What you need to do is what you should have been doing all along. You need to get involved with your government. The first thing you need to do is purchase a copy of the Constitution, which I know that most of you don't have anywhere in your house, and if I were to go around this room and ask each person what the Constitution says, most of you couldn't tell me what the Constitution says from your grocery bill. And that's the truth! And that is your country! So if you don't know what your Constitution is you're dead already, so the first thing you do is you get a copy of your Constitution. The second thing you do is you learn it! The third thing you do is you start calling your senators and your representatives, and the President of the United States and you start leaning on them, and you tell them, 'Unless you straighten up the government, and unless we start getting the truth, and I mean the whole truth, and no more of this baloney, this is the last job you're ever going to have, period. And I'll do everything in my power to make sure that comes true.' And then write them, fre quently, saying the same thing. And then when they're in your area, in their area offices, take a little delegation and go see them, and make them understand that they're going to be living in poverty because they're not going to have a job anymore come election day. You see, the secret government may own the execu tive branch, but you people, all of us, we own the Congress, and the Congress makes the laws, and the Congress can impeach the entire executive branch! You also have the right to petition the government for a redress of injuries. So you are powerful, you've just forgotten that you're powerful, you've forgotten that that vote that you haven't been doing every time election comes around, that vote has abdicated your power. That vote you did not cast abdicated your power and gave it to those who are subverting the Constitution and are ruining this country.

" A gentleman then asked,

"What was traded to the aliens for their technology?

"

"People and animals,

" replied Cooper succinctly. Another man asked,

"Is the Soviet Union in on any of this?

"

"The Soviet Union and the United States of America have been close allies since the end of World War II and have been closely participating in the secret space program all this time. The Soviets have the same thing we have, yes. What you see happening in the Soviet block right now is not the result of people standing up and saying, 'We want to be free.' It's the result of the international bankers saying, 'You tear down these barriers, and you meet the West half way, give your people some freedom, the West is going to take some freedom away from their people so that we can put together a one-world economic system ... and have all the power. That's what's happening! If you don't believe it, stick around and watch it!

" A dubious woman then asked,

"Why was the shellfish poison necessary? A lot of his brain was blown off anyway.

" Cooper:

"The shellfish poison? If you go to kill someone, one thing I've learned, I learned it real good, I learned it especially good when I went to Vietnam; just because you shoot someone doesn't mean they're going to die. And if they don't die, they're going to be mad. And if they've got a gun, you're dead. So you want the first time to be the last time. So if you really want to kill somebody you don't play around. If you really want to kill somebody ... you kill them, you don't play, you make sure that when you shoot them, they're dead. That way they can't hurt you, can't hurt you at all.

" Regrettably, the next question was totally unintelligible, but thankfully Mr. Cooper had a good public address system to amplify his reply,

"The first moon landing was May 22, 1962 ... or excuse me, that was the first landing on Mars. I'm sorry, May 22, 1962, was the winged probe that used a hydrozine propeller, flew around approximately three orbits and landed on May 22, 1962, was a joint United States/Russian endeavor. The first time that we landed on the moon was sometime during the ... probably middle 50s, because at the time when President Kennedy stated that he wanted a man to set foot on the moon by the end of the decade we already had a base there.

"

"What about Mars?

" came another quick question.

"We have a base on Mars also,

" Cooper calmly replied.

"When did that happen?

"

"I don't know the exact date but I know the project's name, it was 'Adam and Eve.'

"

"How long have you known about this?

"

"Well, I revealed it publicly for the first time on July 2, 1989, and within three weeks of the time I revealed it publicly, the government, to get the American people not to listen to me, came out and said that they planned to build a base on the moon and a colony on Mars. Now, three days previous to my speech, representatives from NASA said, 'We can never have a colony on Mars, it's impossible that there's a colony on Mars because Mars is a dead planet.' And it's not a dead planet, they've lied to you about Mars.

"

"My name is Dave [unintelligible], I'm a representative of the Crystic Institute, and I'd like to know why it was that when we sent a representative down to your home, at your request, you failed to produce any documentation to substantiate your allegations.

"

"In the first place it was not at my request, I have never contacted the Crystic Institute in my life. I was on the Carol Hemingway Show, she contacted the Crystic institute, she told Daniel Shehan [sp] that I had just said something about Bush and drugs on her show. He called me and told me he wanted to send an investigator, in fact he told me to even help the investigator because he was new at the job, his name was Wayne Nelson, he is a very good gentleman, he stayed at my house for two days, slept overnight on my couch, I gave him everything I had. I never told Daniel Shehan that I had any documents and I never told Wayne Nelson that I had any documents. In fact what I told Wayne Nelson, and I quote, 'Wayne, if I did have the documents I couldn't admit it and I don't know you from Adam, and I don't know Daniel Shehan from Adam and what makes you think I would give them to you.' Who am I going to give them to and how quick are they going to disappear, that was my thought. Wayne Nelson also came to my house with a stack of documents this thick already substantiating the presence of aliens and extraterrestrial craft on this planet, and they are keeping it a secret, because they're afraid somebody'll laugh at them and they'll loose their credibility.

"We need some patriots in this country, not people trying to make a name for themselves, trying to expose some drug runners, because those are just the bag-men. The real crook is in the White House! And you can tell that to Daniel Shehan!

"

"Why didn't Jackie Kennedy report [the source of the lethal shot]?

" asked another audience member.

"Who's she going to tell? The Secret Service just killed her husband, and they're assigned to protect the president. Also, who had her children? The same Secret Service had her children at the time.

"

"Wasn't the craft at Roswell, New Mexico, destroyed and all the aliens killed?

" another young man asked.

"All the aliens were dead but the craft was not completely destroyed, it was severely damaged yes.

" On an unrelated note an older gentleman asked,

"Does that mean that Alternative-3 is true?

"

"Alternative-3 is absolutely true and so is Alternative-2.

" Then a man in his late 20s or early 30s raised his hand, said something unintelligible, and was apparently recognized by Mr. Cooper, who asked him to take the podium and address the audience.

"What I said was that I thanked him [Cooper] very much for coming forward and saying something. A lot of my friends out here know that I was involved in the United States Special Forces, UFO Tracking and Research from the years 1971 to 1975. My name is Richard Murray, I was based out of the 71st Tac Control Flight, McDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida. We were 'Mobile Radar Command,' that was combat and war ready. We could be loaded on aircraft within an hour and many times were taken into areas [to] set up radar. A lot of times we were set up around Egland [sp] Air Force Base because that's where they have the 'Altered Temperature Weather Control,' where they can test various aircraft for their shrinkage and their dimension change during altered temperature. So, you know, I was told to shut up twice in 1982 and they finally threatened my parents life so I stayed quiet, and, that's when Wendel Stevens was taken off the streets ... Just like that! And I hid for quite awhile, and decided to come back out when I heard that you're [Cooper] of such high rank as you were, and I felt just in saying that your credentials are true, and that what you have to say, everything you've said here today, I've heard before behind closed doors. And you've really tied the link for me to the Kennedy killing. And there's a few more links that have to go on with the Columbia Cartel and the money laundering. I think there's more than one cartel involved, and they're shutting one of them down so one can maintain a power, it just seems to be the way it works.

" A muffled question then came from someone in the audience regarding the person referred to as

"Colonel Stevens.

"

"Uh, Colonel Stevens is out of jail now,

" replied Murray who was quickly asked another question I couldn't hear to which he answered,

"I sure hope to hell so, he is a wonderful man, and I give him my utmost respect, and it was one of the saddest days in my life to see what happened to him happen to him. But I don't care what they say about Wendel Stevens, in my heart you can't discredit that man to me. I don't care who the hell you are. I won't listen to it, I don't give a shit if he was screwing babies. You know ... that doesn't ... he's not that kind of a man, I don't care what you say, I know him personally.

" The lecture was then essentially over. The

"Alternative-2 and Alternative-3

" that were referred to briefly are (just guessing now) two government contingency plans to 1. Declare Martial Law and invalidate the Constitution on the premise that a terrorist group had entered the country with a Nuclear weapon with plans to detonate it in a major city. All dissidents would be rounded up and placed in concentration camps and the press and media would be nationalized. All this if the information becomes public before they want it to or if the aliens attempt a takeover, and 2. Another contingency plan to contain or delay the release of this information, the details of which I am probably wrong about anyway. Mr. Cooper is a man who appears to be in his late 40s, of medium height and weight, and was dressed casually during the lecture. His hairline was receding slightly, and he carried himself with confidence and purpose. Bill Cooper, as he was called by several in attendance, is not a professional speaker. His presentation lacked the polish of repeated deliveries which all the other lectures had during the Expo, but what it lacked in fine tuning was easily made up for in its content. Appendix A: Operation Majority OPERATION MAJORITY FINAL RELEASE THERE WILL BE NO CORRECTIONS TO THIS FILE (C) COPYRIGHT 1989 BY MILTON WILLIAM COOPER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO QUOTE FROM THIS INFORMATION IN PRESS RELEASES, PERIODICALS, AND SPEECHES. INCLUSION IN ANY OTHER MEDIA REQUIRES MY EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION. This file contains the absolute true information regarding the alien presence on Earth and the U.S. Government's involvement with the aliens. This file contains only the information as I saw it and only my information. It does not contain any information from any other source. It was necessary for me to issue the information previous to this release in a manner which would deceive the government until someone was able to independently confirm my identity, my employment, my service record, my intelligence background, the identity of the person to which I gave the information in 1972, his acknowledgment of the information and when it was given to him, that the information is correct, that I have not seen him since 1974, and that I have not communicated with him in any form since 1976. This was necessary because this file is my death warrant if MJ-12 continues to operate in a manner consistent with its history. All in the last paragraph has been independently verified by two different people who have no connection with each other. I will only list one for obvious reasons. Tony Pelham, journalist Las Vegas Bullet 300 West Boston Las Vegas, Nevada 89102. The original information that I first released was not much MAJI that I was not a threat long enough to have independent verification of the facts before I risked death. [TRANSMISSION GARBLED] I wish to make it absolutely clear that I do not consider myself a hero. I believe that most of you would do the same thing if you knew the truth. I gave an oath that I would uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States of America and I take that oath very seriously. I am doing no more now than I did when I fought in Vietnam. I am doing my duty. Please make copies of this file and send it to your con gressman, your senator, the attorney general of the United States, and the Supreme Court. Send it also to everyone you know. Attach copies of the Bill English file and John Lears file. Send anything else you may have which tends to support the information. I, Milton William Cooper, 1311 S. Highland #205, Fullerton, California, 92632, 1-714-680-9537, do solemnly swear that the in formation contained in this file is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. I swear that I saw this information in 1972 in the performance of my duties as a member of the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander In Chief of the Pacific Fleet as a Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. I swear that I underwent hypnotic regression in order to make the information as accurate as possible. I swear that I can and will take a lie detector test or any other test of any reputable person's choosing in order to confirm this information. I swear that I can and will undergo hypnotic regression conducted by any reputable and qualified doctor of any reputable person's choosing in order to confirm this information. I will not, however submit to any test or hypnosis by anyone who is now or has ever been connected with the government in any capacity for obvious reasons. The following is brief listing of everything that I personally saw and know from 1972 and does not contain any input from any other source whatsoever. MAJESTY was listed as the code word for the President of the United States for communications concerning this information. OPERATION MAJORITY is the name of the operation responsible for every aspect, project, and consequence of alien presence on Earth. GRUDGE contains 16 volumes of documented information collected from the beginning of the United States investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Identified Alien Crafts (IACs). The project was financed by CIA confidential funds (nonappropriated) and money from the illicit drug trade. Participation in the illegal drug trade was justified in that it would identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society. The purpose of Project Grudge was to collect all scientific, technological, medical and intelligence information from UFO/IAC sightings and contacts with alien life forms. This orderly file of collected information has been used to advance the United States Space Program. MJ-12 is the name of the secret control group. President Eisenhower commissioned a secret society known as THE JASON SOCIETY (JASON SCHOLARS) to sift through all the facts, evidence, technology, lies and deception and find the truth of the alien question. The society was made up of 32 of the most prominent men in the country in 1972 and the top 12 members were designated MJ-12. MJ-12 has total control over everything. They are designated by the codes J-1, J-2, etc., all the way through the members of the Jason Society. The director of the CIA was appointed J-1 and is the Director of MJ-12. MJ-12 is responsible only to the President. MJ-12 runs most of the world's illegal drug trade. This was done to hide funding and thus keep the secret from the Congress and the people of the United States. It was justified in that it would identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society. The cost of funding the alien connected projects is higher than anything you can imagine. MJ-12 assassinated President Kennedy when he informed them that he was going to tell the public all the facts of the alien presence. He was killed by the Secret Service agent driving his car, and it is plainly visible in the film held from public view. A secret meeting place was constructed for MJ-12 in MARYLAND and it was described as only accessible by air. It contains full living, recreational, and other facilities for MJ-12 and the JASON SOCIETY. It is code named

"THE COUNTRY CLUB.

" Only those with TOP SECRET/MAJIC clearance are allowed to go there. MAJI is the MAJORITY AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE. All information, disinformation, and intelligence is gathered and evaluated by this agency. This agency is responsible for all disinformation and operates in conjunction with the CIA, NSA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. This is a very powerful organization, and all alien projects are under its control. MAJI is responsible only to MJ-12. SIGMA is the project which first established communications with the aliens and is still responsible for communications. PLATO is the project responsible for diplomatic relations with the aliens. This project secured a formal treaty (illegal under the Constitution) with the aliens. The terms were that the aliens would give us technology. In return, we agreed to keep their presence on earth a secret, not to interfere in any way with their actions, and to allow them to abduct humans and animals. The aliens agreed to furnish MJ-12 with a list of abductees on a periodic basis. MAJIC is the security classification and clearance of all alien connected material, projects, and information. MAJIC means MAJI Controlled. AQUARIUS is a project which compiled the history of alien presence and their interaction with Homo Sapiens upon this planet for the last 25,000 years and culminating with the Basque people who live in the mountainous country on the border of France and Spain and the Syrians. GARNET is the project responsible for control of all information and documents regarding this subject and accountability of the information and documents. PLUTO is a project to evaluate all UFO/IAC information pertaining to space tel [TRANSMISSION GARBLED] POUNCE is the project formed to recover all downed/crashed craft and aliens. REDLIGHT is the project to test fly recovered alien craft. It is conducted at AREA 51 (DREAMLAND) in Nevada. It was aided when the aliens gave us craft and helped us fly them. The initial project was somewhat successful in that we flew a recovered craft, but it blew up in the air, and the pilots were killed. The project was suspended at that time until the aliens agreed to help us. SNOWBIRD was established as a cover for project REDLIGHT. Several flying saucer type craft were built using conventional technology. They were unveiled to the press and flown in front of the press. The purpose was to explain accidental sightings or disclosure of REDLIGHT as having been the SNOWBIRD craft. LUNA is the alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very large alien craft described in sighting reports as MOTHER SHIPS exist there. NRO is the National Recon Organization based at Fort Carson, Colorado. It is responsible for security for all alien or alien craft connected projects. DELTA is the designation for the specific arm of the NRO, which is especially trained and tasked with security of these projects. JOSHUA is a project to develop a low frequency pulsed sound generating weapon. It was said that this weapon would be effective against the alien craft and beam weapons. EXCALIBUR is a weapon to destroy the alien underground bases. It is to be a missile capable of penetrating 1000 meters of Tuff/hard packed soil such as that found in New Mexico with no operational damage. Missile apogee not to exceed 30,000 feet AGL and impact must not deviate in excess of 50 meters from designated target. The device will carry a one-megaton nuclear warhead. ALIENS: There were four types of aliens mentioned in the papers. A LARGE NOSED GREY with whom we have the treaty, the GREY reported in abductee cases that works for the LARGE NOSED GREY, a blond human like type described as the NORDIC, a red haired human like type called the ORANGE. The home of the aliens were described as being a star in the Constellation of Orion, Barnards star, and Zeta Riticuli 1&2. I cannot remember even under hypnosis which alien belongs to which star. EBE is the name or designation given to the live alien captured at the 1949 Roswell crash. He died in captivity. KRLL OR KRLLL OR CRLL OR CRLLL pronounced Crill or Krill was the hostage left with us at the first Holloman landing as a pledge that the aliens would carry out their part of the basic agreement reached during that meeting. KRLL gave us the foundation of the yellow book which was completed by the guests at a later date. KRLL became sick and was nursed by Dr. G. Mendoza who became the expert on alien biology and medicine. KRLL later died. His information was disseminated under the pseudonym O.H. Cril or Crill. GUESTS were aliens exchanged for humans who gave us the balance of the yellow book. At the time I saw the information there were only three left alive. They were called (P&#'s) Alien Life Forms. [TRANSMISSION GARBLED] RELIGION The aliens claim to have created Homo Sapiens through hybridization. The papers said that RH-blood was proof of this. They further claimed to have created all four major religions. They showed a hologram of the crucifixion of Christ which the government filmed. They claim that Jesus was created by them. ALIEN BASES exist in the four corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. Six bases were described in the 1972 papers, all on Indian reservations and all in the four corners area. The base near Dulce was one of them. MURDER The documents stated that many military and government personnel had been terminated (murdered without due process of law) when they had attempted to reveal the secret. CRAFT RECOVERIES The documents stated that many craft had been recovered. The early ones from Roswell, Aztec, Roswell again, Texas, Mexico, and other places. GENERAL DOOLITTLE made a prediction that one day we would have to reckon with the aliens, and the document stated that it appeared that General Doolittle was correct. ABDUCTIONS were occurring long before 1972. The document stated that humans and animals were being abducted and or mutilated. Many vanished without a trace. They were taking sperm and ova samples, tissue, performed surgical operations, implanted a spherical device 40 to 80 microns in size near the optic nerve in the brain and all attempts to remove it resulted in the death of the patient. The document estimated that one in every 40 people had been implanted. This implant was said to give the aliens total control of that human. CONTINGENCY PLAN SHOULD THE INFORMATION BECOME PUBLIC OR SHOULD THE ALIENS ATTEMPT A TAKEOVER. This plan called for a public announcement that a terrorist group had entered the United States with an atomic weapon. It would be announced that the terrorists planned to detonate the weapon in a major city. Martial law would be declared and all persons with implants would be rounded up along with all dissidents and would be placed into concentration camps. The press, radio, and TV would be nationalized and controlled. Anyone attempting to resist would be arrested or killed. CONTINGENCY PLAN TO CONTAIN OR DELAY RELEASE OF INFORMATION This plan called for the use of MAJESTIC TWELVE as a disinformation ploy to delay and confuse the release of information should anyone get close to the truth. It was selected because of the similarity of spelling and the similarity to MJ-12. It was designed to confuse memory and to result in a fruitless search for material that does not exist. SOURCE OF MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS WHICH I SAW The source of the material was an Office of Naval Intelligence counter-intelligence operation against MJ-12 in order for the Navy to find out the truth of what was really going on. The Navy (at that time or at least the Navy that I worked for) were not participants in any of this. The different services and the government conduct this type of operation against each other all the time. The result of this operation was that the Navy cut themselves in for a piece of the action (technology) and control of some projects. As you can see this file is only a little different from my previous file. Only some names were scrambled previously to confuse the government long enough for someone to verify that what I have said is the truth. I have added information in this file that puts me in absolute danger. I have sent a copy of this file to people all over the country and will continue to do so. Please get this file into as many hands as you can and maybe that will protect me but I doubt it. HISTORY WILL BE THE JUDGE OF ME AND THIS INFORMATION, AND I HAVE NO FEAR OF THAT JUDGEMENT. I SWEAR THAT THIS INFORMATION IS TRUE AND CORRECT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. I wish to thank all those people who have aided me in reaching this point and for their patience and understanding. I owe you all more than I can ever repay. Finally, it does not matter who is right and who is wrong or if a project name is in the wrong place. It does not matter who is working for whom or what is really what. It should be obvious by now that something sinister and terribly wrong is going on involving the government and the UFO phenomenon. We must all band together and expose it now. I have done my part in the best manner that I could. I can add nothing else except my testimony in Congress or a court of law that what I saw and have written in this file is true and that I saw it. Everything in my previous file that does not conflict with this file is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and some of it is from sources and research. You may combine the files to get the entire picture. Throw out only that information that conflicts with that contained in this file. There will be no further additions or corrections to this information either now or in the future. My file is complete and stands to be judged by history. Sometime in the future the exact papers that I saw will surface, and you will all see this exact information contained within them. Milton William Cooper Jan. 10, 1989 Appendix B: For More Information Cooper's home address and phone number: 1311 S. Highland #205 Fullerton, Calif. 92632 1-714-680-9537 That phone number connects you to an anonymous answering machine. This information was taken from the Bill Cooper answering computer on 1-213-281-8222. For materials and bibliography, send $2 (no mention made of to whom you should make out the check) and a 45-cent self-addressed stamped envelope to: 19744 Beach Blvd. Suite #301 Huntington Beach, Calif. 92648 To talk to someone about ordering or available materials, call Stan Barrington at 1-805-948-1255. He'll even call you back. Here's what he had to offer as per my phone conversation with him on Feb. 27, 1990: The real Kennedy assassination tape, $18. This is the unedited Zapruder film that clearly shows the driver killing JFK. On VHS tape. Video of Cooper speech and workshop from Sedona, Ariz., $32. This is a videotaped speech and workshop from Cooper that also shows the Kennedy tape (not very clearly, though). I think this is basically the same deal as the above transcript. On VHS tape.

"Secret Government,

" $12. Details, in 28 pages, the workings of the secret subgovernment in the U.S. since 1947.

"Operation Majority,

" $12. Details the goings on and structure of Operation Majority, the people who run all UFO-related activities.

"Jason Society,

" $12. List of 51 scientists, last updated in 1987, who work for Operation Majority. The group is still trying to find the last three scientists who are Jason Society members. For any of the above, send a check to: Stan Barrington 2059 E. Ave. I #11 Lancaster, Calif. 93535 Barrington says that the target date for one-world government is 1992. To invite Cooper to speak or be on TV, call Jeff Patterson or Scott Reid at 1-213-657-8004. Cooper's manager is Michael Callan, at 1-213-550-8368. Cooper was in Atlanta on Feb. 25. For information call Sam Matthews at 1-404-435-4233. This is the journalist whom Cooper mentions in his Operation Majority file. This person supposedly can verify the facts: Tony Pelham Las Vegas Bullet 300 West Boston Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 For the book Alien Magic by William Hamilton, which has all kinds of pictures from a secret lab, write: Robert Girard P.O. Box 83183 Stone Mountain, Ga. 30083-0023 1-404-297-4624 Appendix C: Musings There is some thought that the U.S. Air Force, in conjunction with the Canadians, has standing orders to deny any UFO sightings to the public. Timothy Good, in his book Above Top Secret, states:

"Cooperation between the United States and Canada in the reporting of UFOs was laid down, for example, in the Canadian-United States Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings (CIRVIS) JANAP 146 (E), issued in March 1966 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as the Canadian Defense Staff. This publication lists instructions for the reporting of 'information of vital importance to the security of the United States of America and Canada and their forces, which in the opinion of the observer, requires very urgent defensive and/or investigative action by the U.S. and/or Canadian armed forces.' Sightings within the scope of JANAP 146 include 'Unidentified Flying Objects' as distinct from 'Hostile of unidentified single aircraft or formations of aircraft,' and there are lengthy and elaborate instructions for reporting UFOs

" (Good, 192). And later he states:

"Because of reports like these [UFOs], airline pilots became subject to military restrictions contained in a Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication (JANAP), drawn up by the Joint Communications-Electronics Committee, and promulgated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and could thus find themselves liable to a prison term of up to 10 years and/or a fine of $10,000 if they discussed their sightings with the media or public

" (Good, 283). * * * Stan Barrington offers a document about

"Operation Majority, which concerns the dealings of MJ-12. The following discussion, taken from the alt.conspiracy section of Usenet, focuses on the validity of those documents:

"What is the latest status of the MJ-12 documents (concerning authenticity)? I know that Klass did his usual debunking job, but also read that Friedman produced all the supporting evidence Klass had demanded (similar typefaces in use on other documents of the same era, etc.). Has the U.S. Government taken a formal position on the MJ-12 documents? What evidence, pro and con, has been produced on the authenticity issue since their release. What are the details of the release? Any and all information will be appreciated. Thanks.

" The reply was:

"I don't know about the U.S. Government's position, but Klass has done a pretty good job of showing that there is at least some fraud in the papers. In particular, he has shown that the supposed signature of Harry Truman on one of the critical papers is identical to the signature on another document in the National Archives, except that it's (if I recall correctly) 3.6 percent larger. It is impossible for two signatures to be identical unless one is a photographic copy of the other, and interestingly, most copying machines do a very small expansion of what they copy to prevent edge effects--a blow-up of exactly 1.2 percent. So it would appear this supposed signature is actually a third-generation photocopy of Truman's signature. Handwriting experts have confirmed this. I believe it's written up in the current (Spring 1990) Skeptical Inquirer, but I can't find my copy at the moment so I can't say for sure.

" I don't know who Klass or Friedman are, (although Friedman may be the same person that was mentioned as a helper in Majestic by Whitley Strieber, and also mentioned as a government official in the speech) but the Skeptical Inquirer is a respected paranormal debunking newspaper put out by James

"the Amazing

" Randi. It also seems to me that the idea that Truman's signature is a photocopy of another one in the National Archives is a bit odd. There must be thousands of Truman signature in the Archives, and thinking that someone could find the one that exactly matched a 3.6 percent enlargement is laughable (but then again, those same people find the idea of a huge UFO cover-up laughable). * * * Whitley Strieber is a strange character in this whole affair. He is the writer of Wolfen and The Howling, two horror novels. Lately, he turned to writing about UFOs. His first book on the subject, Communion, deals with his personal experiences with abduction by an unknown intelligence (Strieber always tries to avoid the word

"alien,

" so he can leave the options open that these are humans that are traveling through time or even an unknown earthly intelligence). His second book, Transformation, is not as familiar to me, but I have heard that it is more of the same as Communion, except that it is less wellsupported and deals with a sort of religion of the unknown. Strieber contends in that book that the

"others

" (as he calls them) gave him a sketchy design for an anti-gravity motor that relies on rotating magnets. His third book is Majestic. Milton William Cooper mentions it in his speech. This book follows the Cooper speech closely in many regards; in fact, sometimes it seems like one is stealing >from the other because they are so close. Strieber writes this book as fiction, but at the end there is a section in which he says that the book is based on truth and that the government is hiding information from the public. He insists that this truth must be brought out. However, Cooper says that Strieber is working for the government. He offers some proof to this claim, but he doesn't really say why the government would hire Strieber to write Majestic, or whether he was hired before he wrote Communion and Transformation. All Cooper says is that Strieber is testing the waters, leaking the information in a way that the government could deny. I think that if Strieber works for the government, then it is mostly likely because the government thinks that people will not believe anything he writes about UFOs, given his history of writing horror. Thus, the government has Strieber write something that is based on truth, and everyone thinks it is coming >from such a bad source that it must be false. * * * This from Keith Rowell in Oregon:

"You folks interested in Strieber's claims should check out the book Report on Communion (Morrow, 1989) by Ed Conroy.

"Conroy is a San Antonio-based freelance reporter who wrote some early articles for the local newspaper and then continued to explore and investigate till he ended up with a book. He basically concludes that Strieber's claims are true as far as we now understand the UFO phenomenon, which is very far from adequate at this time. (The scholarly and scientific establishment has yet to honestly and openly embrace the problem of the UFO. Conroy's book is opening the way for the investigative media people, though. Things are changing as the UFO issue just refuses to go away.) You will all hear more and more about the reality status of UFOs as we go through the 1990s. Intelligence establishment secrecy is being slowly broken down and the scientific/scholarly community is slowly putting up less resistance as the years go by.

"My opinions are based on 15 years of reading the UFO literature and four years or so of more or less active participation in the UFO community. It is very hard to understand what is going on in the UFO community without paying very close attention to it. The normal sources of news and information cover this group of people in a very inconsistent and sometimes downright biased way. You're just going to have to get your feet wet on this one; otherwise, you'll just being talking through your hat.

"I'll be happy to send via electronic mail my representative UFO bibliography to anyone who wants it. Lately, new (and significant) UFO books are added practically monthly in the past few years. UFOs are hot again. We seem to be in a peak of activity again.

"The latest significant book is by Ed Walters on his Gulfbreeze UFO/photograph experiences, being distributed to your local bookstores as I write this.

"

This is article one of five: A petition to the United States Congress to indict all members of the Majestic conspiracy.

PETITION TO INDICT

The Government of these United States of America, having been formed under the Constitution and having been duly elected and appointed by the people of these United States of America under the terms of the Constitution, has violated the public trust, terms, conditions and laws of the land as outlined and enshrined within the Constitution of these United States of America.

To Wit: (1) The government has approved and entered into a secret treaty with an Alien Nation against the terms of the Constitution and without the advise and consent of the Congress or the people.

(2) The government in this treaty has given this Alien Nation land and bases within the borders of these United States of America.

(3) The government in this treaty has traded human lives and property for the alien technology and has denied the citizens of these United States of America the lawful protection due them under the Constitution. The property is in the form of livestock and land.

(4) In the taking of human lives, property and livestock of the citizens of these United States and in the commission of numerous other abominable and barbarous acts, this Alien Nation has proven to be the mortal enemy of the people, the nation, and all of humanity. Abductions, surgical operations, implantations, biological sampling, impregnations, psychological damage, and other horrors have been and are being performed upon humans by this Alien Nation. For these reasons a state of war now exists and has existed between the people of the United States and this Alien Nation.

(5) In approving of, and participating in the crimes outlined in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, and 4 above, the government is in violation of Article II Section 2, Article III Section 3 and several other Articles of the Constitution, and is guilty of and is hereby charged with conspiracy, murder and treason against the people and the Constitution of these United States of America.

(6) In the process of aiding and abetting the Alien Nation in the performance of these crimes against the people, the Nation, and humanity, the government, with full knowledge and consent, has murdered, incarcerated,forcibly relocated, brainwashed, drugged, harassed and otherwise interfered unlawfully in the lives of patriots, including a President of the United States, who have attempted to expose this murder and treason.

(7) To keep this secret from the Congress and from the people of these United States of America, the Government has financed its Alien involvement through the importation and sale of illegal narcotics to the nations people and specifically to the nations youth. The Central Intelligence Agency has been and continues to be the main instrument in the control of the worlds drug market. "The use of illegal narcotics to finance the Alien connected projects and other black projects will identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society", is the rationalization used by the Government to justify these heinous and treasonous acts.

(8) In the pursuit of bringing all those in or out of the government who are responsible for these acts of conspiracy, murder and treason to justice, the Trilateral Commission, the President, Vice President, the Director of Central Intelligence, certain other members of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Security Agency, certain members of the President's Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, those people designated MAJORITY, MAJORITY TWELVE, MJ-12, MAJORITY AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE (MAJI), the JASON SOCIETY or JASON SCHOLARS, the DIRECTOR of the SENIOR INTERAGENCY GROUP (SIG), the National Security Advisor to the President, the Navy Department which has field operational control of all Alien connected projects, and others having taken part in the joint government and alien conspiracy are hereby charged with conspiracy murder and treason. This is to include all those who served in these positions from 1953 up to and including the present administration.

(9) We call for the impeachment of the President of these United States, George Bush. He has been a member of MJ-12 and the Trilateral Commission since he was the President and CEO of Zapata Oil. George Bush organized and has headed the narcotics smuggling conspiracy since its beginning. The offshore oil platforms of Zapata Oil were used as staging areas from which the drugs were moved into these United States from Central and South America without passing through customs or undergoing inspection of any kind. We firmly believe that George Bush now heads this shadow government that controls the Alien technology, the military industrial complex, and thus the Nation. The fact that he is now the President of these United States of America makes George Bush the most powerful and dangerous criminal in the history of the world.

(10) In the interest of preserving the Consti- tution and the government of these United States of America, and to save and protect the human race, and for no other reason, we bring these charges by the authority of the Constitution of these United States of America, against those named who had full knowledge of and who willfully participated in the violations of Article II Section 2, Article III Section 3 and several other Articles of the Constitution of these United States of America. The government and those individuals named in paragraph 8 and 9 are hereby charged with conspiracy, murder and treason.

(11) In the interest of preserving the Consti- tution and the government of these United States of America, we ask full pardon in exchange for full disclosure. We ask the Judicial branch of the government to honor this request for all guilty conspirators who voice full disclosure by May 30, 1989. We ask the Judicial branch to give no mercy to those who persist in this conspiracy, murder and treason.

(12) We hereby, and in the name of the people and by the authority of the constitution, charge the government to cease aiding and abetting and concealing this Alien Nation which exists within our borders. We charge the government to cease all conspiracies, operations, projects, treaties, and any other involvement with this Alien Nation. We charge the government to order this Alien Nation and all of its members to leave the United States and this earth immediately, now and for all time, by November 1, 1989, and we charge the government to enforce this order. We further charge the government to make a complete disclosure of its alien conspiracy to the American people prior to May 30, 1989 and to make a full accounting for its actions. We charge the Congress to order this to be done and we charge the Congress to enforce this order.

(13) Should the Executive, Judicial, and Legis- lative branches choose to ignore these charges, we hereby swear upon the Constitution that we will not rest until this conspiracy and these crimes are exposed to the American people. We swear on the Constitution that all guilty parties shall be brought to justice. We swear that we will persist until our death to accomplish these ends in the name of humanity, the Constitution of these United States of America, and in the name of all true patriots who have gone before us, we do so swear.

(14) We firmly believe and know and have evidence that this conspiracy and these crimes and charges are true and have occurred and is now true and is now occurring and were and are perpetrated, aided and abetted by those so charged. This we do swear.

(15) We hereby, and upon delivery of this document to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of these United States of America, serve notice to the world that these charges and this document are now and forever recorded in history. This document and these charges will not and cannot ever be revoked by any act, present or future. History alone will be the judge should the Congress fail to act and we have no fear of that judgement. We hereby warn each member of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress of these United States of America that failure to act upon these charges will forever brand each and every one of you as accessories to the conspiracy and the crimes outlined in this document. Your children, grand-children, great grand-children, and the present and future generations of the people of these United States of America will not forget and will never forgive. We warn you now and forever that these United States of America, the Constitution, and Freedom, has never been in greater danger. We hope and pray that it is not already to late to save the Nation.

Being of sound mind and body and with full knowledge of the implications and consequences of these charges and having only the interest of saving humanity, preserving the Con- stitution of these United States, preserving the government of these United States, and, being patriots, having sworn to preserve and protect the Constitution of these United States of America do affix our signature to this document in full affirmation of our dedication and commitment to our sworn duty.

Milton William Cooper 1311 S. Highland #205 Fullerton, California 92632

Many other signatures exist on the original copy of this document. Due to the historical significance of this document, the document and attached signatures are being preserved in a safe place for future generations. If Congress acts upon these charges, the original copy with the attached signatures will be presented to the Congress in Washington DC at such time that it becomes necessary.

The other signatories will not be revealed unless congress acts upon these charges. It is in this manner that we can guarantee that others may continue to work to expose this madness should the Congress fail to act. If anything should happen to me a large network of people exist to carry on our work and eventually bring the criminals to justice.

As a witness to these crimes, I respectfully petition the Congress for protection. My life and the lives of my family are now in danger. I also respectfully petition the Congress for protection for all other witnesses who can be produced and for protection of those others who have signed the original document. I also petition the Congress to take steps to protect the evidence which we have collected and which is stored in various locations and with various people throughout the United States. I beg the Congress not to trust any other government agency with these matters because this conspiracy runs deep within the government. I beg you to trust only the Congress in these matters. I also beg the members of Congress who intend to act upon this petition to take positive steps to protect your own lives.

Respectfully,

Milton William Cooper (714) 680-9537

Note: I take no responsibility for the contents of the previous file. The opinions stated within are those of the author of the file, and any government agent trying to do bad things to me on account of them will have a rather nasty time in it, because I really enjoy screwing with people who needlessly screw with me. Nyeah.

The preceding drivel and this annoying sig courtesy of: Frederick J. Polsky (Jabberwokky or George W. Hayduke) internet: asfjp@acad2.anc.alaska.edu (Replies to be posted in alt.flame) Disclaimer: The opinions stated above are the product of poorly refined drugs.

Evidence of human mutilation by alien beings.

The tabloid stuff that a previous submitter did not wish to see, but backed up by a disturbing reaction from the FBI's National Crime Information Computer. Maybe the tabloids aren't all that off base after all.

The Human Mutilation Factor by Don Ecker

In the last forty years of UFO research, one of the most baffling questions that have plagued researchers has been "Is the UFO Phenomenon dangerous to humanity?" Over the years, there have been numerous cases where the phenomenon has figured into human deaths, but as a rule, most cases have been officially ruled accidental. When speaking of cases where death has resulted, usually most assume cases where military pilots have died as a result of "chasing" the phenomenon. One of the most famous of these military chases that is discussed when ever the subject of death and UFOs is raised, is the famous "Mantell Case". This case is so well known that I will not discuss it here, but there are many others. In one of the less well known cases, during the mid 1950's, a military jet interceptor was observed on radar being "absorbed" into a UFO over the Great Lakes. No trace of pilot or aircraft was ever found. In another case reported in the excellent work "Clear Intent" was the case of the "Cuban MIG Incident". In this case a Cuban MIG was locking on his weapons radar when the aircraft exploded in mid*air. The wing man was certain that the UFO had fired some type of weapon, but other than the jet exploding, no other smoke, flame or other obvious weapon firing was observed.

The matter of either overt or covert hostility on the part of UFOs has always been treated warily by serious researchers. On the one hand, if the enigma is hostile, then several questions must be faced. What if anything should the powers in authority tell the public? Is the government capable of handling a threat of this type? Is the public ready to face an issue as potentially terrifying as a "possible threat from somewhere else?" Other than incidents involving military involvement, have there been cases where civilians have been injured or killed during some type of UFO encounter? Is it possible that the reported cases of UFOs and their occupants abducting unwilling humans for some type of medical or genetic experimentation could be true? Now, if any of this is factual, then what ramifications do the Human Race face in light of the above?

According to Mr. Phil Imbrogno, during the research that led to the writing of "NIGHT SIEGE The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings" by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Imbrogno has stated that on several occasions, Hynek specified that he wanted no mention of the dozens of human abductions that they had already uncovered at that time, to be mentioned in the book. Hynek was afraid of the adverse publicity if word of this aspect leaked out to the public. After Hyneks death, Imbrogno stated publicly on Compuserve and other public forums, facts of abductions, animal mutilations, and EVEN several cases of mysterious deaths of humans, that he indicated COULD possibly be linked to the UFO Phenomenon.

While researching several stories for UFO Magazine, I interviewed a number of prominent UFOlogists, over the last several months, and in each case, the question of human deaths, in connection with animal mutilations, invariably was raised. Most readers of this text will be familiar with Mr. John Keel, who many regard as the last of the Great UFOlogists. From the earliest days of modern UFOlogy, Keel has been a force to reckon with. The author of numerous books that address various aspects of UFOlogy, and magazine articles too numerous to mention, Keel has a unique slant on the subject that most will never experience. According to Keel, the phenomenon has always had an unexplained hostility towards humans, that have led to untold numbers of deaths. While Keel will be the first to explain that he rejects the ET hypothesis, he does not doubt the phenomenon a bit. In what many UFOlogists consider as one of Keels best works "The Mothman Prophecies", E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1975, Keel related report after report of animal mutilations involving cattle, dogs, horses and sheep, and also related what were called "vampire killings" of four humans in Yugoslavia, were the victims were "mutilated and drained of blood".

After having spoken to John Ford, the Chairman of the Long Island UFO Network, for a news story for UFO Magazine, I became even more convinced that the aspect of potential UFO hostility should be investigated. Ford relayed a numbing number of animal mutilations, human disappearances, human abductions, covert Federal involvement in areas that suffered high numbers of animal mutilations, and even armed military helicopters that chased UFOs over civilian communities. Ford, who is a officer of the Federal Court system, did investigations into the disappearances of mostly young adults over a year period, in areas of high UFO overflights, and after having several personal friends who were police officers of the local municipalities look into the situation, came to the conclusion that the facts were being suppressed. The reason given was that there was "no need to panic the public." Although no iron clad proof can be made for direct UFO intervention, the circumstances are extremely suspect.

After growing up in an age where the entire human race can be decimated by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, the human race somehow manages to keep slogging on. I have seen more people "panicked" over a shortage of gasoline than imminent nuclear holocaust, yet somehow when the subject of UFOs crop up, the government doesn't want to panic anyone. It really makes me wonder what they know, that I should. I really don't think that they are going to talk to anyone soon, as you shall soon see.

In January, 1989, it came to the attention of the MUFON State Director of Idaho, Mr. Don Mason, that cattle mutilations had occurred once again in the southeastern section of Idaho. After an investigation by a MUFON investigator, the facts were as follows. The animals ( two cattle, same night, but each owned by different ranchers ) were "somehow" killed, sexual organs removed, body fluids drained, patches of hide "surgically" removed. All the appearances of what is today considered to be a classic case of animal mutilation. As of this date ( February 15, 1989 ) the final lab reports are not back yet, but already the Sheriffs Department has labeled it a "cult killing." No tracks, tire or human, around the animals even though it had just rained, no unusual activity reported by the ranchers that evening, and one animal was found next to an occupied house. One of the ranchers admitted that this was the second time he had been "hit" by the mysterious mutilators. The last incident had only been a bit over a year previously, and they were worried enough that all had their "deer rifle" within easy reach.

After having been personally involved in an investigation of cattle mutilations as a police officer back in 1982, I was very familiar with the "cult" theory of perpetrators. The Idaho Department of Law Enforcement drags it out every time there is a new rash of mutilations. The problem is, and every one is aware of it, that no one has yet been brought to trial, or arrested yet for these crimes. Out here in the west, people know that you are flirting with a ranchers bullet if you are caught fooling around with the ranchers cattle. They are his livelihood, and he will defend it. Yet, the mutilations keep occurring, and no one is any the wiser, or are they?

With the subject of animal mutilations fresh in everyones mind, I was once again speaking to Don Mason, when he informed me that the investigator that had been assigned to the above mentioned case had come across a very mysterious death of a man back in 1979. According to the report, two hunters in the Bliss and Jerome area of Idaho had literally stumbled across the nude body of a man that had been hideously mutilated. The body was in the literal middle of nowhere, nude except for a pair of underpants, his sexual organs had been removed, his lips sliced off, and several other classic mutilation cuts. Although he was in very rugged country, his bare feet were not marked as if he had walked in that terrain, but yet no other tracks, animal or human were evident anywhere. After the police were notified, an intensive search was mounted, and miles away, the mans possessions were recovered, yet no one yet knows how the body ended up where it was found, or even more importantly, what happened to him. It should be noted that this area also had over the years, many unexplained UFO reports and cattle mutilations.

Now I must explain that I had very mixed feelings about whether I wished to attempt to explore this subject any further, or allow sleeping dogs to lie. On the one hand, I wanted more than anything to discover just what was occurring, and on the other, I realized that this had the potential to backfire on someone that disturbed the status quo. I was familiar with reports of human abductions and mutilations that had surfaced in the last several years in reports such as the Lear documents, Grudge 13 reports and others, but yet I was not sure what I believed, or even if there was anything to believe. I ran across a friend that was still employed with a police department in this area who was a detective. I had mentioned to him the recent cattle mutilations, and what I suspected in the above mentioned case of a human that had been mutilated. Scot had also been involved in the last several years with several cases of mutilations that he had been called upon to investigate, always with negative results. He was as curious about this phenomenon as I was, and since he was still an active duty police officer, he had access to the department computer, to access the NCIC system that is maintained in Washington D. C. by the FBI. After giving Scot the criteria for a search of unexplained human deaths, that involved factors of mutilation, I asked that the search go back to at least 1973, involving this area of the Northwest. Scot ( not his real name ) ran the request through the department computer. As he mentioned at the time, he had expected to get realms of reports back that we would have to wade through, to get to the reports that would be are further study. Scot ended up requesting that the inquiry be run back to 1970, and involve not only Idaho, but also Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington states. Because of the magnitude of this search, Scot stated that it would take about one week to get the results back into his department. As a side note, for anyone that is not familiar with the NCIC system, it is a national data bank for Law enforcement agencies all across the United States. It is maintained and controlled by the Federal Burea of Investigation, at FBI headquarters, in Washington D. C. On the 14th of February, Scot contacted me in person, and appeared very troubled. His exact words were that "something is really screwy, Don." "I got the request back from NCIC on Monday, and there has gotta be something wrong. They told me that they had NO unsolved murders at all, zero, that met that criteria. THAT ANY FURTHER REQUESTS WILL HAVE TO BE MADE BY VOICE, TELEPHONE CALL, WITH PROPER AUTHORIZATION. Somebody is sitting on something, big as Hell." I also knew that something was as screwy as hell. After all, anybody that has had any dealing with law enforcement knows about the "Green River Killer" in Washington state. This serial killer is credited with at least 30 to 40 murders of young women, and to this date, the case is as big a mystery as ever. Many of the killings showed some types of mutilation, and if nothing else, at least some of these homicides should have shown up.

Once more, as a side note, I had been warned by a prominent UFOlogist, that there was a lid "screwed down tighter than you would believe in regards to human mutes." I also was warned that in order to break through the secrecy, was going to be a long and sometimes weary job, but that if enough persistence was applied, then it was possible to get to the bottom of this facet of the UFO enigma. Do I think that this can be solved, along with the rest of the puzzle? Yes, I do, because I think that the secrecy can only be maintained for so long, and then no longer. I also believe very strongly that only if the entire UFO community works in concert will this be accomplished, and the infighting and arguments MUST CEASE for the good of us all.

On the ParaNet system and on Compuserve, I wrote and uploaded a file entitled LIGHT.TXT, and in UFO Magazine Vol. 3, No. 5 I called for a UFO summit to be held in order to get the UFO community organized and to present a unified front. Only by a unified front, and calling for Congressional hearings, will this lid ever get torn off, and the truth that is suppressed be brought to the light of day. Any help from the members will be greatly appreciated, and I can be reached at ParaNet RHO at the following number: 1)208)338)9187. Also I can be reached on Compuserve by EMail, and my user number is: 74270,3360. Anyone with ANY INFORMATION is requested to contact me at the above addresses as soon as possible. The secrecy game has gone on long enough. It is past time to get to the bottom of this. Forty years IS LONG ENOUGH.

Don Ecker

Information on the Majestic Twelve.

I have decided to come out of the closet and let the UFO community know everything that I know and have seen and that my sources have communicated to me over the last 17 years regarding the UFO question. I have uploaded the truth to several who have gained my trust over the last few months. Those people are Tom Mickus, Don Ecker, Stan Friedman, Bryon Smith, John Lear, and one other who`has chosen not to be identified at this time. I am releasing this information at this time to the public and I am releasing those named people from their bond of silence regarding the subject. Once you read the information you will be clear on my past actions and on what I know. I hope that you all can come to some kind of pact on sharing information as what I am releasing is for the most part documented and in your hands but not shared. Some of the information you have never had before and will provide serious UFOlogists with much fertile ground for research. I hope you all can benefit and most of all I hope this helps to expose the whole issue as quickly as possible.

Merry Christmas, Bill

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When I released PUBLIC02.DOC my purpose was to expose the documents and information released by William Moore et al as being fraudulent and misleading. Indeed it was. MAJESTIC TWELVE is an advisory team of scientists who's only purpose is to evaluate information and make recomendations. This team does exist as a scattered bunch of men who do not meet regularly as a group. The information gathered by the control group MAJI is released to MAJESTIC TWELVE when study is needed. MAJESTIC TWELVE has never been given the whole truth. MAJI is the MAJESTIC AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE and has total control of information and interface with the aliens in dealings with the United States Government.

Some of the documents released by Moore were changed from the original with the deliberate intent to mislead UFO researchers. I do not know who is responsible but I believe that the Government is behind the whole thing. The rest of the documents are deliberate frauds. I am releasing the truth which I have obtained from excellent sources within the intelligence community in order to set the record straight.

MAJI is the sole agency in control and responsible for every past and present consequence of contact with the alien presence. MAJIC is the security classification of all projects and information connected with the aliens, their craft, their bases, and dealings with the United States Government. MAJIC means MAJI CONTROLED. MAJIC is the highest security classification in the nation.

The name of the overall project is GRUDGE and always has been. GRUDGE is the proword for AQUARIUS and a few other projects as you will see when you read the rest of this file.

The AQUARIUS document released by Moore which he claims was given to him by Mr. Graham was changed and I am including a reconstructed document as it was presented to me by one of my sources. I am also including all the information (in short form) that I presently have regarding the U.S. Government and the Aliens. This information has been reviewed by 3 different people who know the information but do not know each other and they have made some corrections to the document. If the information deviates somewhat from information that I have previously released it is due to those corrections. My previous information was from memory of documents seen over 16 years ago and I am pleased that my memory has withstood the rigors of time quite well. In case you doubt that I had the information previous to this release you may check with Stan Friedman, Tom Mickus, Don Ecker, John Lear, and Bryon Smith as I had given the information to them some time ago.

Any document you see where I stated that MAJESTIC TWELVE was the control group was a test of Moore et al and was never to be posted or released publicly. The public posting of those documents was done by Jim Spieser against my wishes. He was told that the information was mixed as a test but he posted them anyway. They contain true and false information and should be ignored. The information contained in this file is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and to the knowledge of my sources. THIS IS THE ONLY FILE REGARDING THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ALIENS THAT I CAN HONESTLY SAY IS THE TRUE INFORMATION IN WHOLE AS I KNOW IT. It is backed by the John Lear Hypothesis, Paul Bennewicz' information, William Stienman's information, the Fenwick interview, and other bits of information which is in the hands of UFOLOGISTS. The test of time will prove this information to be true and correct. Nothing in this file contradicts my PUBLIC02.DOC. This file should clear the air regarding my statements and actions thus far. In this file you will find information which you have never had before and it should open up numerous paths for SERIOUS UFO researchers to explore.

I have many documents and letters to back up this information much of which I have already released and much of which is the product of your own research. John Lear has in his possession many letters and documents which will also back up this file. William Stienman is another. I would also direct you to Don Ecker's SPOOK.DOC, and to bits of Moore's information (fraudulent though it may be it does contain some truth). The Fenwick interview is another source of information, along with the FEDEX files on Paranet Alpha. The Bill English file is another excellent source as he really did read the GRUDGE/BLUE BOOK REPORT NO. 13. The letter from the man who participated in Project PLUTO is right on the money although he mistook the term PLUTO/POUNCE as being project PLUTO that he worked on. He was a part of POUNCE which comes under Project PLUTO thus PLUTO/POUNCE. The first word is always the Proword and parent project while the second word is the project itself.

Another FEDEX file contains the account of a man who worked at AREA 51 in Nevada and stumbled upon Project REDLIGHT. The correct name is GRUDGE/REDLIGHT. Put ALL your information together from ALL your different files you will see that this information is all there for you to see and verify >from different sources who neither know each other or even know about each other in most instances. It is all there and all you need to do is put it together. I must admit that I had a much easier time of it having seen the information and having excellent sources. I knew what to look for, but at least I looked.

William Moore must know much more than he lets on. He has to know something other than the phony information that he has released or he would not go to such pains to alter the information (by his own admission). I cannot believe that he has been so completely duped after having read "The Roswell Incident".

TOP SECRET/MAJIC

EXECUTIVE CORRESPONDENCE

EXECUTIVE BRIEFING

SUBJECT:

MAJI

PROJECT GRUDGE/AQUARIUS (TS/MAJIC)

(Graphic of finned rocket enclosed in

circle bisected vertically by dashes.)

ATTENTION

THIS DOCUMENT WAS PREPARED BY MAJI.

MAJI IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS SUBJECT MATTER.

DOCUMENT CONTROL: ECN 0001

(Graphic of world in circle.) CLASSIFIED BY: MJ1/MAJI

DECLASSIFY ON: EXEMPT

TOP SECRET/MAJIC

PROJECT AQUARIUS

(TS/ORCON) (PROWORD): GRUDGE Contains 16 volumes of documented information collected from the beginning of the United States' investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Identified Alien Crafts (IAC). The Project was originally established in 1953, by order of President Eisenhower, under control of CIA and MAJI. In 1960, the Project's name was changed from Project SIGN to Project Aquarius. The Project was funded by CIA confidential funds (non-appropriated). The Project assumed full responsibility for investigation and intelligence of UFOs/IACs Dec 1969 after Project Grudge/Blue Book was closed. The purpose of Project Aquarius was to collect all scientific, technological, medical and intelligence information from UFO/IAC sightings and contacts with alien life forms. This orderly file of collected information has been used to advance the United States' Space Program.

(TS/ORCON) The preceeding briefing is an historical account of the United States Government's investigation of Aerial Phenomenas, Recovered Alien Aircraft, and contacts with extra- terrestrial Life Forms.

TOP SECRET/MAJIC

THE PROJECTS UNDER PROJECT AQUARIUS

1. (TS/ORCON) PROJECT PLATO: (PROWORD: AQUARIUS) Originally established as part of Project SIGN in 1954. Its mission was to establish diplomatic relations with Aliens. This Project was successful when mutually acceptable terms were agreed upon. These terms involved the exchange of technology for secrecy of Alien presence and non interference in Alien affairs. Aliens agreed to provide MAJI with a list of human contacts on a periodic basis. This Project is continuing at a site in New Mexico.

2. (TS/ORCON) PROJECT SIGMA: (PROWORD: AQUARIUS) Originally established as part of Project SIGN in 1954. Became a separate project in 1976. Its mission was to establish communication with Aliens. This Project met with positive success (sic) when in 1959, the United States established primative communications with the Aliens. On April 25, 1964, a USAF intelligence officer met with Aliens at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. The contact lasted for approximately three hours. After several attempted methods of communicating the intelligence officer managed to exchange basic information with the Aliens (Atch 7). This Project is continuing at a site in New Mexico.

3. (TS/ORCON) PROJECT REDLIGHT: (PROWORD GRUDGE) Originally established in 1954. Its mission was to test fly a recovered Alien aircraft. First attempts resulted in destruction of the craft and death of the pilot. This Project was resumed in 1972. This Project is continuing in Nevada.

4. (TS/ORCON) PROJECT SNOWBIRD: (PROWORD REDLIGHT) Originally established in 1954. Its mission was to develop, using conventional technology, and fly a flying saucer type craft for the public. This Project was successful when a craft was built and flown in front of the press. This Project was used to explain UFO sightings and to divert public attention from Project REDLIGHT.

TOP SECRET/MAJIC

MAJESTY--------The Proword for MAJI. The Proword for MAJESTIC TWELVE. The       Proword for GRUDGE. MAJESTY is the only word on the cover

sheet       of the AQUARIUS document. It is plain that the executive

decision makers are MAJESTY. MAJESTY is the name of all the

efforts combined. On the executive level MAJESTY IS EVERYTHING

TO DO WITH THE ALIENS AND EVERYTHING CONNECTED WITH THEM. The

way intelligence and TOP SECRET information is protected

accounts for the previous confusion regarding the control of

this subject. Everything under MAJESTY is broken down into

compartments and difficult to trace to a higher authority. ALL

information of important nature of any kind is handled in this

manner and is designed to confuse those who would attempt to

uncover the secret. MAJESTY IS THE WORD YOU ALL HAVE BEEN

LOOKING FOR THAT TIES IT ALL TOGETHER.

MAJI-----------MAJESTIC AGENCY for JOINT INTELLIGENCE       The TOP SECRET/MAJIC project control group

responsible for EVERY ASPECT OF INTERFACE WITH

THE ALIEN LIFE FORMS INCLUDING SECURITY &

INTELLIGENCE, AND DISINFORMATION TO PREVENT

PUBLIC OR FOREIGN DISCLOSURE OF THE ALIEN

PRESENCE. MAJI IS RESPONSIBLE ONLY TO THE

PRESIDENT. (THIS IS WHY ALL DOCUMENTS

REFERRING TO "MAJESTIC" OR ANY OTHER FORM OF

THAT NAME ARE WRONG.) MAJI IS ONGOING IN

WASHINGTON DC.

MAJESTIC TWELVE-----A selected team of experts in many different fields who       evaluate information, technology, biology and other facets

of the alien presence in order to better understand the

phenomenon. MAJESTIC TWELVE makes recommendations and

presents scientific dirrection when needed. MAJESTIC

TWELVE does not know all the information and does not meet

as a group. Members are given information on a need to know

basis only. Biologists, for example, are not given information

regarding any other subject.

MAJIC----------SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF ALL MAJI AND       AQUARIUS INFORMATION. MAJIC MEANS "MAJI

CONTROLLED". MAJIC IS THE HIGHEST SECURITY

CLASSIFICATION IN THE NATION.

MJ-1-----------DIRECTOR OF MAJI. THE DIRECTOR OF THE CIA IS       USUALLY MJ-1 AND REPORTS ONLY TO THE

PRESIDENT. (OTHER MEMBERS OF MAJI ARE

DESIGNATED MJ-2, MJ-3, MJ-4, etc. This is why

MJ-12 CANNOT BE USED AS A NAME FOR THE CONTROL

GROUP AS IT WOULD CAUSE CONFUSION IN MEANING,

i.e. (IS IT REFERRING TO MJ-12 THE PERSON OR

MJ-12 THE GROUP.) ANY REFFERENCE TO MJ-12 IS

TO A PERSON AND NOTHING ELSE. (THIS IS WHY

ANY DOCUMENT REFFERING TO "MJ-12" AS A "GROUP"

IS WRONG.)

BLUE TEAM------THE FIRST PROJECT RESPONSIBLE FOR       REACTION/RECOVERY OF DOWNED/CRASHED ALIEN

CRAFT AND/OR ALIENS. THIS WAS AN AIR FORCE

MATERIAL COMMAND PROJECT.

SIGN-----------THE SECOND PROJECT RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTION       OF INTELLIGENCE AND DETERMINING WHETHER ALIEN

PRESENCE CONSTITUTED A THREAT TO THE NATIONAL

SECURITY. SIGN ABSORBED BLUE TEAM. THIS WAS

AN AIR FORCE/CIA PROJECT.

GRUDGE---------THE OVERALL PROJECT WITH THE SAME MISSION AS       SIGN. GRUDGE ABSORBED SIGN. GRUDGE IS THE

PROWORD FOR AQUARIUS.

AQUARIUS-------THE THIRD AND FINAL PROJECT. AQUARIUS       ABSORBED ALL PREVIOUS PROJECTS. FUNDED BY CIA

CONFIDENTIAL NON APPROPRIATED FUNDS. THE

PURPOSE OF PROJECT AQUARIUS IS TO COLLECT ALL

SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, MEDICAL AND

INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION FROM UFO/IAC

SIGHTINGS AND CONTACTS WITH ALIEN LIFE FORMS.

THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING. This project began

as an Air Force project under SIGN but was

taken over by NSA. ALL PROJECTS CONNECTED

WITH THE ALIENS ARE NOW INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

CONTROLLED.

SIGMA----------SIGMA WAS TASKED WITH COMMUNICATING WITH THE       ALIENS. THIS OPERATION WAS SUCCESSFUL.

PLATO----------PLATO WAS ESTABLISHED TO FORM DIPLOMATIC       RELATIONS WITH THE ALIEN LIFE FORMS. THIS

PROJECT WAS SUCCESSFUL. THIS PROJECT IS

ONGOING.

POUNCE---------THIS PROJECT WAS FORMED TO RECOVER ALL       DOWNED/CRASHED CRAFT AND ALIENS. THIS PROJECT

PROVIDED COVER STORIES/OPERATIONS TO MASK TRUE

ENDEAVOR WHEN NECCESSARY. COVERS WHICH HAVE

BEEN USED: CRASHED EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT,

CONSTRUCTION, MINING, ETC. THIS PROJECT HAS

BEEN SUCCESSFUL. THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING.

PLUTO----------ESTABLISHED TO EVALUATE ALL UFO/IAC       INFORMATION PERTAINING TO SPACE TECHNOLOGY.

THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING. PLUTO IS THE PROWORD

FOR POUNCE.

REDLIGHT-------MISSION WAS TO TEST FLY RECOVERED ALIEN CRAFT       THIS PROJECT WAS POSTPONED AFTER EVERY ATTEMPT

RESULTED IN DESTRUCTION OF THE CRAFT AND DEATH

OF THE PILOTS. THIS PROJECT WAS CARRIED OUT

AT AREA 51 IN NEVADA (GROOM LAKE), and some flights were

performed at DREAMLAND. PROJECT REDLIGHT WAS RESUMED IN 1972.

THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY SUCCESSFUL. UFO SIGHTINGS OF

CRAFT ACCOMPANIED BY BLACK HELICOPTORS ARE PROJECT REDLIGHT

ASSETS. THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING AT AREA 51 IN NEVADA.

SNOWBIRD-------Established as a COVER for Project REDLIGHT.       A flying saucer "TYPE" craft was built using

conventional technology. It was unvieled to

the press and flown in public on several

occassions. The purpose was to explain

accidental sightings or disclosures of

REDLIGHT as having been the SNOWBIRD craft.

This was a very successful disinformation

operation. This Project is only activated

when needed. It has not been used for many

years. This project is currently in mothballs

until needed again. (This is another reason

that Moore's information is fraudulent.)

LUNA-----------CODE NAME FOR THE ALIEN UNDERGROUND BASE. THE BASE IS ALIEN       CONTROLLED AND DELTA/ALIEN PROTECTED. LUNA IS ONGOING IN NEW

MEXICO. ALIEN DETACHMENTS EXIST AT DREAMLAND AND AT AREA 51.

FAR SIDE OF THE MOON ----       An alien base on the dark side of the moon where large

machines were sighted by the Apollo Astronauts. It is

believed to be a mining operation.

NRO------------NATIONAL RECON ORGANIZATION. BASED AT FORT CARSON,       COLORADO. RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY FOR ALL ALIEN OR

ALIEN CRAFT CONNECTED PROJECTS. USE UNMARKED BLACK

HELICOPTORS. FOR ALL ALIEN OR ALIEN CRAFT CONNECTED

ONGOING.

DELTA----------SECURITY TEAMS FROM NRO ESPECIALLY TRAINED TO PROVIDE       ALIEN TASKED PROJECTS/LUNA SECURITY. (MEN IN BLACK)

THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING.

GABRIEL--------THIS PROJECT WAS TASKED WITH DEVELOPING A LOW FREQUENCY       PULSED SOUND GENERATOR. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE

ALIEN WEAPONS AND CRAFT WOULD BE VULNERABLE TO THIS

WEAPON. IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER THIS PROJECT EXISTS

TODAY. IT WAS DERIVED FROM TECHNOLOGY CAPTURED FROM

GERMANY DURING AND AFTER WWII. My contacts have

verified its previous existance but cannot verify

whether it is ongoing or has been terminated.

EXCALIBUR------ESTABLISHED TO DEVELOP A WEAPON WHICH WOULD DESTROY THE       ALIEN UNDERGROUND BASE AND ANY FUTURE UNDERGROUND BASES

WHICH THE ALIENS MIGHT CONSTRUCT. IT IS TO BE A MISSILE

CAPABLE OF PENETRATING 1000 METERS OF TUFA/HARD PACKED

SOIL SUCH AS THAT FOUND IN NEW MEXICO WITH NO

OPERATIONAL DAMAGE. MISSILE APPOGEE NOT TO EXCEED

30,000 FEET AGL IMPACT MUST NOT DEVIATE IN EXCESS OF 50

METERS FROM DESIGNATED TARGET. DEVICE WILL CARRY A 1

MEGATON NUCLEAR WARHEAD. THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING AT WX

DIVISION, LANL, LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO, AND IS STILL IN

DEVELOPMENT.

ALIEN CRAFT----THESE ARE FLYING CRAFT WHICH USE GRAVITY AND ELECTRO       MAGNETIC FIELDS TO FLY. I REALLY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE

PRINCIPLE BUT SOMEHOW GRAVITY CAN BECOME ELECTRO-

MAGNETIC ENERGY AND THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT I KNOW TO

EXPLAIN IT. THE CRAFT HAS AN ATOMIC REACTOR ON BOARD

ABOUT THE SIZE OF A FOOTBALL. THE CRAFT CAN "CLOAK".

THE WAY I UNDERSTOOD IT IS THAT IT BENDS LIGHT RAYS (AND

CAN DO THE SAME WITH RADAR) SO THAT YOU LOOK AT THE

CRAFT AND SEE ONLY WHAT IS BEHIND IT. THEY CAN DO THIS

WHEN THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE SEEN. A LOT OF THE

TECHNOLOGY OF OUR STEALTH BOMBER CAME OUT OF THIS. A

LOT OF THE INFORMATION REGARDING THE ALIEN CRAFT THAT I

SAW HAD A LOT TO DO WITH EINSTIENS THEORY OF RELATIVITY.

THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION REGARDING SPACE/TIME

"FOLDS". MY EDUCATION WAS NOT EVEN IN THIS BALLPARK SO

I REALLY CAN'T TELL YOU MUCH BUT I LEARNED THAT THEIR

CRAFT ARE NOT ALL THAT STABLE IN AIR (THATS WHY SO MANY

CRASH) BUT ARE STILL ABLE TO DO THINGS THAT WE HAVE ONLY

DREAMED OF. THEY CAN TRAVEL THROUGH SPACE

ACROSS/THROUGH A "FOLD" IN A VERY SHORT TIME.-

ALF----------- ALF IS THE ABREVIATION FOR "ALIEN LIFE FORM". THIS IS       THE ONLY TERM THAT I HAVE SEEN USED TO DESCRIBE THE

ALIENS. THE ALIEN LIFE FORMS ARE "MALEVOLENT"

(DANGEROUS). THEY REQUIRE BLOOD AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL

FLUIDS TO SURVIVE. YES THEY DO LIKE ICE CREAM (NO JOKE)

BUT THEY CANNOT LIVE ON IT. THEY ABDUCT HUMANS AND

ANIMALS TO PROCURE THESE FLUIDS. THE ALIEN LIFE FORMS

ABDUCT HUMANS AND IMPLANT A VERY SMALL DEVICE/DEVICES IN

OR NEAR THE HUMAN BRAIN WHICH GIVES THEM TOTAL CONTROL

OVER THAT HUMAN. THE IMPLANTS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO

DETECT BUT CAN BE DETECTED. THE DOCUMENTS STATED THAT

ALL ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE THE IMPLANTS HAVE RESULTED IN THE

DEATH OF THE PATIENT (1972). THEY PERFORM SURGICAL

OPERATIONS ON HUMANS. THEY COLLECT SPERM/OVA AND OTHER

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM HUMANS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS HAS

YET TO BE DETERMINED. THESE ABDUCTIONS ARE ONGOING. A

LIST OF ABDUCTEES IS PROVIDED BY THE ALIENS TO MAJI ON A

PERIODIC BASIS. THE ALIEN ALSO CLAIM TO HAVE PLAYED A

VERY SIGNIFICANT PART IN THE WORLDS RELIGIOUS HISTORY

AND HAVE PROVIDED MAJI WITH SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. (See

description at the end of this document.)

UFO/IAC--------UFO IS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT AND CAN BE ANYTHING       UNIDENTIFIED BUT USUALLY REFERS TO SUSPECTED ALIEN

CRAFT. IAC IS IDENTIFIED ALIEN CRAFT.

BLUE BOOK------THIS WAS AN AIR FORCE UFO/ALIEN INTELLIGENCE       COLLECTION AND DISINFORMATION PROJECT. THIS

PROJECT WAS TERMINATED AND ITS COLLECTED

INFORMATION AND DUTIES WERE ABSORBED BY

PROJECT AQUARIUS. CLASSIFIED REPORT NAMED

"GRUDGE/BLUE BOOK REPORT NO. 13" IS THE ONLY

SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION DERIVED FROM THE

PROJECT AND IS UNAVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

(FROM WHAT I READ FROM BILL ENGLISH IT SEEMS

THAT HE REALLY SAW THIS REPORT AS HE DESCRIBES

THE SAME INFORMATION THAT I SAW IN

"GRUDGE/BLUE BOOK REPORT NO. 13.)

I have information now (its about time) that the existance of Project GABRIEL has been confirmed. The weapon was developed and assembled at Ling Tempco Vought in Anahiem California. It was described to me as being able to totally level ANY man made structure from a distance of 2 miles. It was tested at White Sands Proving grounds. It was developed between 1975 and 1978. It is a long horn shaped device connected to a computer and amplifiers.

I have also confirmed the existance of an alien craft at a hanger at Edwards AFB. The hanger is at North Base. It has been guarded by NON Edwards personnel (NRO - DELTA). The guards had a badge that was red with a black triangle on the face of the badge. No one was allowed near the hanger without the badge. These people are no longer guarding the hanger. The Edwards security force are instructed to check the hanger each hour and report status. The hanger is locked and no one is allowed inside. Edwards security personnel have been instructed never to enter the hanger even if it has been broken into.

I have also confirmed the esistance of alien material at a hanger designated HANGER 1051 at Edwards AFB.

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This is the insignia that is on the alien craft. It is called a TRILATERAL insignia. I do not know what it means. It is in GRUDGE/BLUE BOOK REPORT NO. 13 and my sources confirm that this is the alien flag so to speak.

MALEVOLENT ALIEN LIFE FORM (ALF) DESCRIPTION

The typical MALEVOLENT (ALF) as represented thus far can be described as follows:

1. Between 3 to 5 ft. in hieght.

2. Erect standing biped. Long thin legs.

3. Small build (thin).

4. Head larger than normal (to human proportions).

5. Absence of auditory lobes (external earlobes).

6. Absence of body hair.

7. Large, tear shaped eyes, opacque black with

veretical slit pupils (cats eye).

8. Eyes slanted approx 35 degrees

9. Small straight mouth, thin lips.

10. Arms resemble praying mantis (normal attitude).

Arms reach to knees (extended).

11. Long hands (small palm)

12. Claw like fingers, two short, two long.

(webbed)

13. Tough, gray skin, reptile like in texture.

14. Small feet, 4 small claw like toes.

15. Some Organs are similar to humans but developed

in a different evolutionary process.

16. The most significant finding is that they have

a Nonfunctioning digestive system and two

separate brains. Digestive system in those

examined were atrophied. Conforms to absence

of provisions in recovered craft. (Prelininary

finding)

17. Movement is deliberate, slow, precise.

18. (Secondary finding after study)

Alien subsistance requires that they must have

human blood and other human biological

substances to survive. In extreme

circumstances they can subsist on other animal

fluids. Food is converted to energy by

chlorophyl through photosynthesis and waste

products are excreted through skin. (Did they

evolve from plant life? Not known at this

time.) These creatures possess two separate

brains separated by mid cranial lateral bone

partition (anterior brain - posterior brain)

with no apparent connection between the two.

GUEST-----------ALIEN LIFE FORM HELD PRISONER IN AN AREA KNOWN AS THE ICE       CAVE AT LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO. THERE WERE ORIGINALLY 16

CAPTIVE ALIENS HELD AT THIS LOCATION. 15 HAVE DIED. THE

ALIEN "GUESTS" FURNISHED EXTENSIVE INFORMATION ON THE

ALIENS AND THEIR HISTORY WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE "YELLOW

BOOK". THESE "GUESTS" WERE INDEED FED ICE CREAM AND LIKED

STRAWBERRY ABOVE ALL OTHER FLAVORS. THESE ALIENS WERE

HELD IN EXCHANGE FOR 16 HUMANS WHO BECAME "GUESTS" OF THE

ALIENS NO INFORMATION REGARDING THE HUMAN "GUESTS" IS

AVAILABLE FROM ANY SOURCE. THE "GUESTS" ENJOY MUSIC OF A

FAR EASTERN NATURE AND ESPECIALLY ENJOY MUSIC WHICH

ORIGINATES FROM TIBET. THEY POSSESS AN EXTREMELY HIGH IQ

WHICH IS IN THE 200 RANGE. THEY HAVE A TENDENCY TO LIE.--

RELIGION--------THE ALIENS CLAIM THAT MAN IS A HYBRID CREATED BY THEM.       THEY CLAIM THAT ALL RELIGION WAS CREATED BY THEM TO

HASTEN THE FORMATION OF A CIVILIZED CULTURE AND TO

CONTROL THE HUMAN RACE. THEY CLAIM THAT JESUS WAS A

PRODUCT OF THEIR EFFORTS. THE ALIENS HAVE FURNISHED PROOF

OF THESE CLAIMS AND HAVE A DEVICE THAT ALLOWS THEM TO

SHOW AUDIBLY AND VISUALLY ANY PART OF HISTORY THAT THEY

OR WE WISH TO SEE. THEY CLAIM THAT O- BLOOD IS THE PROOF

OF HYBRIDIZATION AND OUR OWN SCIENCE TENDS TO BEAR OUT

THEIR CLAIM.

The confusion over the location of the alien base has prompted me to write this file.

My sources are terrified of revealing the location. I do not know why they are so afraid of revealing this information. I do not want anyone to go near the place because they may be subject to injury.

I know that the main base is in New Mexico. There are may be two small alien detachments. One at DREAMLAND and one at AREA 51. Both of these locations are used to test fly alien craft. The main location for test flights is at AREA 51. The aliens are helping us with the flights and with the craft technology and there is at least a small detachment at those locations

Excalibur is being developed to penetrate ground such as that found in New Mexico. Paul Bennewicz swore that the base is in New Mexico. John Lear's sources state that the base is in New Mexico. My sources originally told me that the base was in New Mexico. The information that I read with my own eyes stated that the base is in New Mexico. My sources panicked when I told them that I was posting the information on a public forum. Because I do not wish anyone to be injured while trying to "get a look" I will not reveal the exact location except that it is located in the state of New Mexico.

On this subject I believe that MAJIC2.TXT and MAJIC3.TXT are both correct and I add AREA 51

The information concerning The FAR SIDE OF THE MOON is bad in MAJIC2.TXT but is correct in MAJIC3.TXT. I hope that this file clears up the issue.

Bill Cooper

A discussion with an employee of the USAF base

November 11, 1989

ParaNet Information Service (Denver, CO)--This evening saw

perhaps an unprecedented event in UFOlogy. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada has been airing a UFO special during the evening news which began on Monday dealing with the UFO mystery and cover-up. The series, which has been covered by ParaNet, began its coverage with a history of UFOs beginning in the late 1940s and moving forward through the numerous sighting reports to the cattle mutilations, which was aired last evening. As promised at the close of last evening's show, George Knapp, a news anchorman for Channel 8 in Vegas, stated that a scientific person would be featured on tonight's program who has claimed to work at Area 51, the government's super-secret test range at Nevada Test Site at Mercury, Nevada. Indeed, quite a story was told by Robert Lazar, a physicist who claimed that he had worked on a project at Area 51 involving flying disks provided by alien intelligences.       Over the last year, ParaNet has carried stories relating to

possible involvement with the government in projects of this nature at the Nevada test site. Up to now, the stories have been of a very speculative nature. Although the material presented by Robert Lazar remains unconfirmed, enough information has been disclosed that ParaNet's large investigative staff in Nevada has started an intensive investigation into this release. Both Lazar (formerly known only as "Dennis") and Lear have appeared on Channel 8 -- Lear appearing on numerous occasions together will Bill Cooper discussing Lear's famous 'ET Hypothesis.' On a past KLAS-TV report, Lear was shown to have traveled to locations appearing to overlook the test site which purportedly provided a good view of the objects as they flew into the night sky. Lear attempted to shoot video of an object as it maneuvered through the night sky during last summer, however nothing was captured on the tape of a substantive nature. Lear also relates that his group was harassed by a Lincoln County sheriff following his attempts to take the pictures.       Below is a transcript of the program that aired this

evening. All paragraphs out of quotes are the narrator of the segment. We were as accurate as possible on the transcription, however there are a couple of places where comments were edited out due to inability to understand what was being said.       Further reports will be provided as information becomes

available. =================================================================

We've been working on the story for some time....UFO

researchers claim that there is a secret government within our government. Now this may be hard to believe coming from the UFO perspective, but we have learned that Watergate and the Iran Contra scandal that factions within our government can and do pursue their own hidden agendas outside of the law; outside the control of the Congress or the knowledge of the American people. This is exactly the type of operation that we hear about tonight. It's a chilling scenario with worldwide implications that may have its roots right here [Las Vegas, Nevada].       Area 51, that mysterious corner of the Nevada Test Site, is

no longer considered a secret. The fact that secretive things go on here isn't evident; even to the Soviets who make daily spy flights over the facility to take a peek at what's going on. These photos, never before shown in public, are about as close as anyone will ever come to seeing what the place looks like again. The dry bed at Groom Lake, the corrugated buildings, a three-mile long runway and some highly sophisticated radar and detection equipment. Its been known by many names over the years -- Dreamland; The Ranch; The Skunk Works. If ever there was a place to test the secret new technology, this is it. And that's exactly what has been done here for decades.       Area 51 is where Francis Gary Powers and the other U-2

pilots were trained in the 50s. And, where the U-2 itself was developed. The SR-71 spy plane that spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba in the early 60s were also developed at 51. 51 is where Stealth technology was nurtured, where Star Wars devices are still tested, and where all manner of CIA [unknown] business has been plotted and refined. It's the perfect place for secret things, but of course, that's no secret. 51 is ringed by the forbidden vastness of the Nevada test site; by the looming Groom Mountain and by sparsely populated desert expanses. But the people that do live out here have no love lost for the military, but they're conservative, patriotic and they mind their own business.

Interviewer questioning a nearby resident of Area 51: "Ever see something that you can't explain?" Resident: "Sure, lots of times." Interviewer: "Care to elaborate?" Resident: "No." (Laughter).

On any given night at the Rachel Bar and Grill, you might

find three or four people who work at Area 51. They are among the flowing Budweiser and the cowboy hats. You might find them, but they are not going to talk to. Not about the things that they have seen over the mountain. A steady trickle of curiosity- seekers flows through here; strangers, drawn by strange stories of lights in the night sky. Their questions also go unanswered. No one who has worked at Dreamland has ever publicly acknowledged what so many people have suspected for years: That alien technology is being tested in the Nevada desert.       The speculation first surfaced in documents obtained by UFO

researchers. Documents about something called Project Aquarius. The document allegedly prepared for an organization called MJ-12, states that a program to fly recovered alien spacecraft was established in 1972 and is continuing in Nevada. The National Security Agency has confirmed it does have a Project Aquarius but denies that it has anything to do with flying saucers. NSA will not say what Project Aquarius is.       Speculation was heightened in 1984, when the Air Force

seized nearly 90,000 acres around Groom Lake. The action was, by most accounts, illegal. During Congressional hearings about the land grab, Congressman John Siberling grilled the military about the legal authority used in the action and was told the authority was at a much, much higher level than the Air Force. Siberling asked what authority is higher than the laws of the United States? The Air Force official said he could respond, but only in a closed briefing. In 1987, when the Air Force sought to renew its stranglehold on the Groom range, news articles once again mentioned the talk about alien spacecraft and subsequent articles in national magazines quoted un-named sources about things of alien origin flying in Nevada. Things that would make film-maker George Lucas drool. Despite the speculation, no one who knew Area 51 from the inside ever talked publicly about the saucer story.

Bob Lazar: "Well, there's several uh, actually nine uh flying saucers, flying disks that are out there of extraterrestrial origin." The live interview with the shadowy "Dennis" drew international attention. Portions were broadcast by radio in six European countries, and in a nationally televised TV special in Japan.       Despite numerous inquiries and "feelers," "Dennis" has

remained anonymous until now. His real name is Robert Lazar. A young scientist with eclectic interests. The choice of "Dennis" was an inside joke -- he says that's the name of his superior at Groom Lake. It wasn't a joke to Dennis.

Lazar: "He called right after and said, 'Do you have any idea what we're going to do to you now?' and I said no, and he hung up the phone."

Lazar's story is by any standard, fantastic. He says he's

telling it in order to protect himself. He said he was hired to work in area called S-4 which is a few miles south of Groom Lake. At S-4, he says, are flying saucers, anti-matter reactors and other working examples of technology that is seemingly beyond human capabilities.

Lazar: "Right. This stuff came from somewhere else. I know it is hard to believe, but it is there and I saw it. I know what the current state-of-the-art is in physics and it it can't be done."

Checking out Lazar's credentials proved to be a difficult

task. He says he holds degrees in physics and electronics, but the schools that we contacted say they've never heard of him. He says he also worked as a physicist at Los Alamos National Labs where he worked with one of the world's largest particle beam accelerators, a half-mile long 'behemoth' capable of generating seven-hundred million volts. Los Alamos officials told us they have no record of Robert Lazar ever working there. They were either mistaken or were lying. A 1982 phone book from the Lab lists Lazar right there among the other scientists and technicians. A 1982 news clipping from the Los Alamos newspaper profiled Lazar and his interest in jet cars. It, too, mentioned his employment at the Lab as a physicist. We called Los Alamos again, and an exasperated official told us he still had no records on Lazar. EG&G, which is where Lazar says he was interviewed for the job at S-4, also has no record. It's as if someone has made him disappear.

Lazar: "Well, they're trying to make me look non-existent to the places that I called...." Interviewer: "Explain. Called where?" Lazar: "Well, the schools that I went to; the hospital that I was born at; past jobs, and nothing comes up with my name on it."

He smiles, but out of futility, knowing the whole thing must

sound ridiculous. According to Lazar, his employer was the United States Navy. He says he and other government employees would gather near EG&G, fly to Groom Lake, then a very few people would get into a bus with blacked out or no windows and drive to S-4.

Interviewer: "You get off the bus, what do you see?" Lazar: "A very interesting building. Its got a slope of probably about 30 degrees which are hangar doors, and it has textured paint on it, but it looks like sand. It's made to look like the side of the mountain that it is in, whether it's to disguise it from satellite photographs or what...."

He says he was never told exactly what he would be working

on, but figured it had something to do with advanced propulsion. On his first day he was told to read a series of briefings, and immediately realized how advanced the propulsion really was.

Lazar: "The power source is an anti-matter reactor. They run gravity amplifiers. There is actually two parts to the drive mechanism. It's a bizarre technology. There is no physical hookups between any of the systems in there. They use gravity as a wave using wave guides that look like microwaves."

It took awhile, Lazar says, before he actually saw one of

the flying disks, however there were hints everywhere.

Lazar: "Right. They had a poster, and it looked like a commercial poster, like it was lithographed, like you could buy it at K-Mart or someplace, but they were all over the place and it had the disk that I coined the term 'the floor model' which lifted off the ground about 3 feet out at the area, in the Dry Lakes area, and the caption on it said 'They're here.' These posters were all over the place."

Later, he got to see the real thing.

Lazar: "When I was led in, it was the first time that I saw the 'floor model' in the hangar sitting down, and I was told they could have walked me in the front door but they purposely wanted to walk me by it. I was told not to say anything and to keep my eyes forward and walk past the disk to the office area. And I did. And as we went by it, I just kinda stuck my hands on it, just to run it alongside the thing and uh ....After that I got to see actually lift off the ground and operate." Interviewer: "You actually got to see more than one?" Lazar: "Yeah. The hangars are all connected together. There are large bay doors between each one. There were nine total that I saw, each one being different. Like they had the assortment pack."

Security at S-4 was oppressive Lazar said, and his superiors

used fear and intimidation almost as a brainwashing tool.

Lazar: "They did everything but physically hurt me." Interviewer: "They put a gun to your head?" Lazar: "Yeah." Interviewer: "You mean they actually put a gun to your head?" Lazar: "They did that even in the original security briefing. Guards there with M-16s. Guys there slamming their fingers into my chest, screaming into my ear, they were pointing weapons at me. Like I said, it's not a good place to work."

That fear factor would surface later. Lazar agreed to

undergo a polygraph exam as part of this report. Polygrapher Ron Clay asked about the technology that Lazar had seen.

Polygrapher: "Did you knowingly lie when you had actually seen anti-gravity propulsion in operation?" Lazar: "No."

The results of this exam were inconclusive. Lazar appeared

to be truthful on one test; deceitful on a second. Clay recommended that a second examiner be brought in. Polygrapher Terry Tabernetti (sp?) runs a corporate security operation and is a former Los Angeles police officer. He put Lazar through four tests and concluded there were no attempts to deceive.       Tabernetti sent his test results to a third polygrapher who

agreed the results appeared truthful. The charts were then sent to a fourth examiner who did not agree suggesting that Lazar might be relating information he'd learned from someone else. The polygraphers concurred and decided they would not issue a final statement on truthfulness until more specific testing can be conducted. And that's where it stands.       Tabernetti believes the difficulty in determining Lazar's

truthfulness stems from the fear that was drilled into him.

Lazar: "Well, I am telling the truth. I've tried to prove that. What's going on up there could be the most important event in history. You're talking about contact, physical contact and proof from another planet, another system, another intelligence. Thats got to be the biggest event in history, period. And, it's real and it's there. And I had an extremely small part in it. I'm convinced that what I saw is absolute proof of that. There is no way that we could have created those disks. There is no way we could have made the disks, the power supplies, anything that goes with it."

Lazar says he has no intention of going on any UFO lecture

circuit. He is not looking to do any additional interviews. In fact, he was not too crazy about doing this one. He did it after certain unfavorable things started happening in his life, and he did it because he feels that whoever is running the show up at S- 4 is perpetrating a fraud on the American people and the scientific community.

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Table of Contents

Roswell and Other UFO Mysteries

Roswell

Belgium

Cereology

CLINICAL DISCREPANCIES

CUFON

Extraterrestrial Contacts?

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE UFO ABDUCTION PHENOMENON

The UFO Conspiracy

Majestic

The Human Mutilation Factor

Information on the Majestic Twelve

A discussion with an employee of the USAF base

Afterword

Table of Contents

Roswell and Other UFO Mysteries

Roswell

Belgium

Cereology

CLINICAL DISCREPANCIES

CUFON

Extraterrestrial Contacts?

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE UFO ABDUCTION PHENOMENON

The UFO Conspiracy

Majestic

The Human Mutilation Factor

Information on the Majestic Twelve

A discussion with an employee of the USAF base

Afterword