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MUFON UFO JOURNAL
NUMBER 258 OCTOBER 1989
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ICUR Meeting in London
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Front row (I to r): Robert S. Digby, Walter H. Andrus, Jr., Sir Patrick Wall.
Back row (1 to r): John L. Spencer, Bertil Kuhlemann, Maurizio Verga, Gian Paolo Grassino, Stephen Gamble.
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FROM THE EDITOR
I expected some response to John Spencer's two-part article on witness-driven
103 Oldtowne Rd. investigations. What I did not anticipate, however, was how vigorous and premature
Seguin, Texas 78155-4099 U.S.A. it might be, given that Spencer's article only concludes this issue! My own opinion
is, that regardless of what one thinks about the issue of whether or not abductions
are mostly physical or mostly psychological, certain other of Spencer's ideas should
DENNIS W. STACY be given weighty consideration before they are so summarily dismissed. Surely,
Editor for example, one cannot quarrel too vehemently with his suggestion that the witness
be returned to the center of his or her own experience? And surely we all need
WALTER H. ANDRUS, JR.
to be on the watch for investigator-contamination? Read carefully the conclusion
International Director and
of his article, then, and see what you think. Next issue we'll carry some of the
Associate Editor
more pointed responses that have already come in.
THOMAS P. DEULEY There's more food for thought here, too, from the Kecksburg Crash to the "corn
Art Director circles" of England's farmland. For more on the latter, see also page 50 in Time
MILDRED BIESELE Magazine for September 18, 1989, which includes three color photographs, but
Contributing Editor arrived too late for mention in my "UFO Press" column. Meanwhile, we hope
ANN DRUFFEL you enjoy this issue of the Journal and look forward to the next.
Contributing Editor
ROBERT J. GRIBBLE
Columnist In this issue
ROBERT H. BLETCHMAN KECKSBURG CRASH UPDATE Stan Gordon 3
Public Relations NEW MODEL OF INVESTIGATION: PART I I . . . . John L. Spencer 6
PAUL CERNY UFOs: A FUTURIST PERSPECTIVE John Schuessler 10
Promotion / Publicity MAGNETIC MOMENT: A REVIEW Joe Kirk Thomas 13
MARGE CHRISTENSEN THE RAINBOW DECLARATION .... John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D. 15
Public Education CIRCULAR ARGUMENTS Ralph Noyes 16
REV. BARRY DOWNING THE UFO PRESS Dennis Stacy 19
Religion and UFOs ABDUCTION RESEARCH:
LUCIUS PARISH THE CHALLENGE AHEAD Ron Westrum, Ph.D. 21
Books & Periodicals IN OTHERS' WORDS Lucius Parish 22
LOREN GROSS LOOKING BACK Bob Gribble 23
Historian LETTERS Johnson, Mauge, Packo 25
T. SCOTT GRAIN THE OCTOBER NIGHT SKY Walter Webb 26
GREG LONG DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Walter Andrus 28
MICHAEL D. SWORDS COVER: Photograph by John Shaw
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Kecksburg Crash Update
By Stan Gordon
In my original article ("The Kecksburg down to the wooded area below and saw how the military trucks came down his
UFO Crash," MUFON UFO Journal, a group of about 10 people standing road and into his field. The military cut
September 1989) I covered the basic around and pointing to something. their fence line so they could drive down
history of this little known, apparent crash Curious, he walked down the steep bank close to the edge of the woods, not far
of an unidentified aerial object on to see what was so interesting. When he from the crash location. After the military
December 9, 1965 in a wooded area in arrived at the spot, he noticed a series of pulled out of the area late the next day,
Southwestern Pennsylvania as reported trees had been knocked down, and about some of the family members went down
in 1985. Since the original investigation 20 feet away from him and the group was into the woods to look around. They
of that report, our continuing efforts to a strange object semi-buried in the found deep drag marks in the ground
find more facts of the case have reveal- ground. leading up from the impact spot to the
ed important new details. Besides myself, It was nearly dark and Jack used his edge of the woods, indicating that the
two other individuals have been most high beam flashlight to explore the military had winched the object and load-
helpful in tracking down government device. His basic description is quite ed it on a truck.
documents related to this event. They are similar to Pete's. But Jack claims that at
Robert G. Todd, a well known researcher the time he saw it, bright blue sparks "like Not Russian
into FOIA UFO documents and John a welder's torch" were coming from it.
Micklow. Micklow is PASU's Field In- This sparking kept up for some time, but I wrote that the Air Force report on the
vestigations Director, a retired police of- seemed to be almost stopped just before Kecksburg UFO indicated that no space
ficer and former military intelligence of- he and the others left the site. The object debris was expected on the date and time
ficer. This is a 1989 update on this signifi- made no sound, but the observers were of the incident. I quote from the report:
cant case. hesitant to approach it any closer. The "Major Quintanilla called SPADATS, and
people talked among themselves as to they knew of no space junk entering the
Crash Witness what the strange object was. There were atmosphere today." Yet over the years we
no homes in the area, and apparently had information that a Russian Satellite,
From information we received over the none of these people (we don't know designated COSMOS 96, may have re-
years from various sources, we always felt their identities) ever officially called this entered the Earth's atmosphere on that
that there were other witnesses who had report in to the police. Jack's report of the date, and could possibly be a source for
seen the crashed object imbedded in the blue sparks now brings up the possibility the; report.
ground at the impact site, prior to the ar- that some of the reports of a blue light For many years we tried to obtain a
rival of the military. Our belief is that in the woods during the early evening status report from our government on
several civilians as well as law enforce- hours may not all be dismissed as the COSMOS 96. FOIA requests were sent
ment authorities had the opportunity to prank we had discussed before. to the Air Force, NASA, the Department
look at the object. Except for telling their It also has to be pointed out that ap- of State, and NORAD, none of which
stories to a few close friends, they have parently Jack and the others got to the would take time to provide this informa-
kept the secret of what they saw to site before either Pete, the other members tion. Even NASA's Satellite Situation
themselves. of the search team or the military. Jack Report seemed to show conflicting infor-
In September of 1988, we received came in from the opposite side from mation. Finally, a January 5, 1989
another lead to a possible witness of the where the state police had initially response from the U.S. Space Command
crashed object. This tip paid off. We soon entered. Pete also came into the area to John Micklow provided the informa-
began to conduct interviews with a local from a different point. Jack mentioned tion we had been looking for.
resident who has given us supporting that as they were moving out of the area, According to the report "COSMOS 96
evidence to the object described by Pete. they saw distant lights in the woods. re-entered December 9, 1965 at 0818
Jack, a pseudonym for the actual Some of the people commented that GMT in the vicinity of 51.8 degrees North
witness, lived about a mile from the crash whoever came out of the object was latitud'e; 274.8 degrees East longitude."
site at the time of the occurrence. Jack walking away, but it was likely that they This data appears to rule out COSMOS
had been listening to the radio, and had were seeing the search parties beginning 96 as the source of the Kecksburg UFO
just heard the report that something had to arrive at the location. since it. re-entered'in the area of North
crashed in the area. He drove up the road Jack now makes the third person to in- Central Canada at 3:18 a.m. local time.
to the highest lookout point. This road is dependently take us down to the wood- The fireball related to the Kecksburg
now called Meteor Road, since it was this ed area, and direct us to the exact spot event occurred at 4:44 p.m.
track that was jammed with cars from the where we believe the object was imbedd-
public during the night of the search in ed. One witness, whose home was taken Project Moondust
1965. over as a command post by the military
When Jack got to the top he looked during the night of the crash, recounted It was of interest to note, in the letter
MUFON UFO Journal 258, October 1989 3
primarily as evidence of the organization,
policies, functions, decision or procedures
of the Air Force."
FTD in the past has claimed no
knowledge of Project Moon Dust,, while
documents obtained from the Defense
Intelligence Agency clearly show that
FTD was on the distribution list for reports
under this project. Todd's records show
that both Project Moon Dust and Project
Bluebook (UFO investigations) were FTD
projects. In recent years there has been
much speculation that Moon Dust was
still active in UFO retrieval operations, but
no evidence of this came forth until Todd
pressured the Air Force for an answer as
to the status of Moon Dust.
A July 1, 1987 response to Todd, from
Colonel Phillip E. Thompson, Deputy
Assistant Chief of Staff of Air Force In-
telligence states, "The nickname 'Project
Moondust' no longer exists officially. It
has been replaced by another name
which is not releasable. FTD's duties are
listed in a classified passage in a classified
regulation that is being withheld because
it is currently and properly classified, and
the authority for withholding is 5 U.S.C.
552 b(l) and AFR 12-30, para lOa."
Todd, as well as myself, is quite con-
vinced that the Kecksburg UFO retrieval
Kecksburg Crash Site was carried out under a Moon Dust
operation. My impression is that certain
elements of the 662nd Radar Squadron
from the U.S. Space Command, this jects, or known Soviet/East Bloc were trained and prepared to respond
comment: "It is unusual for an object to aerospace vehicles, weapons systems, very quickly to incidents of this nature,
survive re-entry. If in fact it does, and it and/or residual components of such and did so at Kecksburg.
is recovered, it is referred to the Foreign equipment." (Emphasis added.) In May of 1989, we located a former
Technologies Division at Wright Patterson In the past, myself and other col- radar operator who was assigned to the
AFB, Ohio." Robert G. Todd's research in- leagues had filed FOIA requests with FTD 662nd Radar Squadron in 1965, but who
to Project Moondust indicated that the at Wright Patterson AFB for information unfortunately was transferred to another
Foreign Technologies Division of the Air on Project Moondust and the Kecksburg unit several months before the Kecksburg
Force, NASA and the U.S. State Depart- affair. No useful information was ever affair. In subsequent interviews with this
ment, were all involved in one aspect or received. After receiving the January party, we learned a good deal about the
another with this project. As I reviewed 1989 letter from Space Command, unit and its involvement with UFO cases.
in our first report on the Kecksburg Crash, Micklow approached FTD concerning the This officer had a secret clearance, and,
Todd had obtained an Air Force in- object taken from the site, and he re- certain information he was unable to
telligence document under FOIA which ceived a most interesting response from reveal to us. As we discuss this informa-
states the following: "Peacetime employ- FTD, unlike the typical turn down letters tion, keep in mind that NORAD, the
ment of AFCIN intelligence team common to FOIA requests in recent North American Aerospace Defense
capability is provided for in UFO in- years. The January 27, 1989 response Command, states that they have never
vestigation (AFR 200-2) and in support states, "We are unable to act upon your investigated UFO cases, yet documents
of Air Force systems command (AFSC) request because the information you seek obtained under FOIA clearly show that
Foreign Technology Division (FTD) Pro- is not included within the definition of an this is not the case. From documents ob-
jects 'Moon Dust and Blue Fly. These 'agency record' which is defined as the tained, we learned that the main function
three peacetime projects all involve a product(s) of data compilation, regardless of the 662nd Radar Squadron was to
potential for employment of qualified of physical form or characteristics, made provide search, SIF, and height-finding
field intelligence personnel on a quick or received by the Air Force in connec- radar data and data link, and voice
reaction basis to recover or perform field tion with the transaction of public air/ground radio communications to the
exploitation of Unidentified Flying Ob- business and preserved by the Air Force direction center, Detroit Air Defense Sec-
MUFON UFO Journal 258, October 1989
tor, during Mode 1 and Mode II opera- had high security clearances. This officer
tions, and to operate as a NORAD had a secret clearance, and other officers
Surveillance Site in Mode HI operation. had higher security clearances. It was not
The former officer revealed the follow- unusual when a UFO was observed,
ing information on the 662nd Radar tracked and procedures followed, that the
Squadron. The primary objective of this radar operator originally spotting it on
squadron was to provide input radar data radar did not know what conclusion had
for the Northeast quadrant of the coun- been reached as the Control Center
try to the NORAD network. They had would take control, and any information
direct input radar coverage of the area. was on a "need to know basis only." But
They also had direct links with NORAD one thing was certain: all UFO data from
via telephone, and other communications the squadron had direct input to NORAD.
links and their control center. They often
Site Selection?
participated in drills with NORAD. The
unit quite often received UFO sighting One interesting aspect of the crash in
reports from the public, and would follow the Kecksburg area is the apparent slow
the basic procedure of (a) contacting the speed and controlled trajectory of the ob-
local civilian authorities, such as flight ject as it made its descent toward the im-
centers and airports, to determine if at all pact site. When looking over the terrain
possible if the object could be an aircraft, of that general area, it looks as though
and (b) if this could not be confirmed, or the object knew where it wanted to go,
if the size, speed and direction of the ob- selecting the deepest section of a wood-
ject in question did not conform to an air- ed area, over miles of surrounding open
craft, they would follow procedures set up fields. The hundreds of onlookers to the
by NORAD to turn control of the radar military operation that night in December
information directly over to their Control of 1965, could only see lights from the
Center (which is out of state). This was searchers in the distant woods. The ac-
accomplished by utilizing certain buttons tual impact site was basically in a hollow
on their console, which would then of the woods surrounded by hills and
directly link their radar to Control Center. fields. Unless you were at the spot where
Once this was accomplished, the local the retrieval operation was taking place,
operator had no control on his console. you would have no idea as to what was
Once control was turned over, the really occurring.
Oakdale radar unit had no participation The Air Force report on the Kecksburg
in determining the status of the UFO, or UFO incident indicated that various
in knowing what action was taken, such government agencies wanted to know
as scrambling interceptor aircraft. more about the object in Pennsylvania.
If fighters were scrambled, they were Among these inquiries was one from Mr.
usually dispatched from bases in Ohio or J.L. Bourassa, Chief Special Facilities
New York. When a UFO would be Division, OEP, Code Blue Grass. Further
recorded by radar and observed, a writ- research has revealed that Mr. Bourassa
ten report was made by the radar was the chairman of the Federal Agency
operator and watch commander. These Representatives Meeting of the Special
reports would then be forwarded to their Facilities Branch of the Office of
control center and NORAD. These in- Emergency Planning (OEP) and Chief of
cidents at times seemed to become the Special Facilities Branch from 1964
almost a daily occurrence, and the to 1968. Todd has furnished this infor-
operators became so used to them that mation relative to OEP. The Office of
they would treat them as routine Emergency Preparedness was set up in
sightings. Reporting procedures were still the Executive Office of the President by
followed. The officer said that "some of an act of October 21, 1968 (82 Stat.
them, the UFOs, would be unlike 1194), as the successor to the Office of
anything that was flying at the time. The Emergency Planning, which in turn had
speed of some of them was incredible, been set up by an act of September 22,
and simply would just sometimes vanish 1961 (75 Stat. 630) as the successor to
from the screen in a second. No airplanes a series of agencies on emergency
were capable of doing this." managment dating back to the Korean
The squadron was a 24-hour, seven War period. The Office of Emergency
days a week operation. The radar station Preparedness (OEP) had the function of
was always manned, and personnel there Continued on page 9
A New Model of Investigation: Part II
By John L. Spencer
The first part of Spencer's address to speculated on an extraterrestrial answer. Suggestions

the Fifth International London UFO This was confirmed "for certain" at
Congress appeared in the September Roswell one month later when the I suggest this, then: That abduction
1989 Journal. Spencer is a MUFON Army recovered a crashed saucer and events - of some kind - are real. While
research specialist. His new book, alien occupants, or so we are led to they do have deep psychological effects
Perspectives, will appear in the UK believe. and meaning they need not be wholly
early next year. Third coincidence - if you could have psychological, they may have their origins
dead pilots you would expect live ones, in the very physical, very real world.
Let me first suggest that I think all cur- and sure enough Adamski soon reported I suggest that witnesses are experi-
rent, widely held theories about what lies meeting with them. encing something and they turn to UFO
behind abductions are wrong, in par- Fourth coincidence - after the early investigators to help them find out what
ticular the rather bizarre and unlikely idea 1950 "nice contactee" claims of Adam- it is; and that is when it goes wrong,
that aliens are engaged on a somewhat ski and others, science fiction generated because the investigators have a model
tacky study of genetic bloodlines, of an image of aliens that was malign and in their mind of what an abduction is,
creating hybrid human/aliens, of artificial UFO stories seemed to pick up this based on the original material and on
insemination and even rape, and so theme; aliens became just that bit more subsequent material that was once based
on. sinister until the present day image of on the original, and they are influencing
Let me again suggest that the reason them is very sinister indeed to read David the witnesses' recall very severely, most-
for this is that all these stories arise from Jacobs' appraisal of Post Abduction Ef- ly unwittingly on their part, but they are
one source, the Betty and Barney Hill ab- fects. Bear in mind that the Hills reported distorting what witnesses are recalling,
duction; they are copies of the original, their abduction in the early 1960s, follow- using techniques that have the unfor-
and the original was a nightmare, not a ing a decade of now classical alien inva- tunate side-effect of impressing a new
reality. sion films. "truth" into the minds of the witnesses.
Strong words which seem to suggest Fifth coincidence - the aliens describ- Particularly regression hypnosis.
that I believe the truth of abductions is ed by Betty and Barney Hill were distinct- I suggest that the use of this technique
psychological. But I don't believe that. ly alien rather than human, alien eyes is unreliable, and possibly dangerous.
Let us digress for a moment and look and body shape for example; and subse- Hypnotic recall is not a guarantee of
at some of the extraordinary coincidences quent aliens have been similar enough, truth, it cannot sort fantasy from reality,
in the development of UFO mythology; but they have in fact got more alien as even less so when the user is searching
which is not to say that UFOs are a myth, time passes. For example, the Hill's aliens for a truth he wants to find. And some
but that the reality is being clouded by had whites to their otherwise alien eyes; investigators don't even use medically
myths, tabloid press generated for the recent similar aliens have no whites, just qualified practitioners to do this work,
most part, but aided by improper in- the black wrap-a-round eyes that perhaps though even that would no better
vestigation over the years. the cover of Whitley Streiber's book guarantee the truth. Experiments by very
First coincidence - the origin of the Communion made most famous. Who prominent and qualified people in this
term flying saucer revealed a mistake that needed the aliens to get more alien? Not field, such as Martin Orme, show that you
showed the power of media suggestion. they themselves surely, and perhaps not can implant a fantasy easily, that you can
Kenneth Arnold used the phrase "like a the witnesses. reinforce that fantasy by constant recall,
saucer would if you skipped it across the Lastly, of course, Betty's dreams - until even the subject cannot be con-
water" to describe the flight movements which the doctor believed to be no more vinced of its non-truth.
of the objects he saw at Mount Ranier, than that - was confirmed as true by the I suggest that current abduction
their movements, not their shape I would claims of other cases, many of which research is therefore the pursuit of a
stress. But the press used the expression show exactly the same characteristics. mythology, ignoring the witnesses' own
to describe saucer-s/iapes, and im- The question is ... Are we in this field claims for the most part, even overriding
mediately afterwards we get repeated of research really the possessors of such them and worse, altering their memories.
descriptions of saucer-shapes. Even to extraordinary insight that we can always We must remember that the Hill hyp-
this day it is the commonest form of guess - and apparently correctly guess - nosis sessions were not undertaken to
description received, though it is often not the truth based on very little evidence and study UFOs. They were undertaken for
appreciated that Arnold described his ob- not only that, but then be lucky enough a medical purpose to relieve the Hills of
jects as boomerang-shaped. to have it confirmed so soon afterwards? stresses they felt were burdening them.
Second coincidence - within 24 hours I have to suggest that we are not, and that As such, the Hill case is one of few,
of the Arnold sighting, though Arnold the answer to this convenience lies perhaps the only case in the States,
had claimed no such thing, the press elsewhere. where the "research" has not been under-
regression hypnosis revealed that he had technique. From the descriptions we
been abducted on that stretch of road. receive we seem to be dealing with the
We must remember that the Questions must arise from these cases, same aliens in most cases.
Hill hypnosis sessions were particularly when we note that in no case • As Jacques Vallee pointed out, why
not undertaken to study was the start of the event the memory do they abduct people at all, if all they
of a UFO sighting, or in fact anything want is genetic material? They can get
UFOs. They were under- to do with UFOs. Questions like why - that from research laboratories without all
taken for a medical purpose with so many types of aliens reported - the fuss they go through.
does Hopkins always reveal the same
to relieve the Hills of stresses type? Alien Logic
they felt were burdening Questions like why, given the nature
them. of the material to work from, an abduc- There is an argument that we cannot
tion is always revealed; why do abduc- be expected to understand alien logic; but
tion researchers always uncover abduc- there is a fallacy in that argument, par-
taken with a view to understanding UFOs tions, why do past-life (reincarnation) in- ticularly in the States, because the claims
or abductions, and not undertaken by vestigators always uncover past lives, why they are making are in fact that we
UFO investigators, with or without do ghost-hunters always find ghosts; all do understand alien logic and it is in fact
medical help. are using regression hypnosis, why do very similar to our own; for example they
I would like us to consider three in- they not occasionally uncover material seem to tag us in just the way that we
teresting recent cases which show how from other fields? Given that reincarna- would tag a protected species. Indeed
UFO abduction research has developed. tion is true, if it is, then we must all - their whole modus operand! is exactly
All are from Budd Hopkins in the United without exception - have had past lives; what we might do on an alien planet.
States, though I must stress that this arises why does this not come through except In fact I agree that we probably cannot
only from the fact that his cases are when called for? If Steven Kilburn had understand alien logic, if any is involved
among the most thoroughly documented, gone to a researcher of past lives would in this subject; but then we must face
making them most valuable for study. I he have discovered that he had once the fact that we probably don't under-
should stress that I have no doubts about been killed on that stretch of road he stand abductions either, that what we
Hopkins' sincerity in his quest to help feared? think we understand is our ideas, not
witnesses and seek the truth, though I Surely this shows that the nature of "theirs'."
personally disagree with his conclusions, regression hypnosis is far from objective. All these components of the UFO
and the techniques of research used. And surely we must fear just how sub- phenomenon add up to one thing: we
In one case, Hopkins worked with a jective it is. are not understanding the truth yet. And
witness who had a fear of spiders. Another type of inconsistency should I believe it is because of the methods we
Hopkins was able to show that this be noted at this time; the claims of some are using.
stemmed from a childhood incident abductionists are very similar and do not Also, if we have a case revealed by one
when the boy was in bed and saw a greatly contradict each other. The same researcher in, say, the United States, and
spider's web, with spiders, right next to is true, of say, research into government a similar case arises in the depths of the
him on the window. Hopkins used cover-up and conspiracy, and of, say, South American jungles, how can the se-
regression hypnosis to reveal that the crash retrievals. But when we put the cond case have been influenced by the
spider's web and the spiders were in fact whole phenomenon together, then these first, particularly if the percipient of the
an alien face peering at the boy. Freed individual segments almost mock each second is from a tribal culture, perhaps
of his arachnaphobia the boy is now the other: even unable to read. This has always
possessor of a life-long history of abduc- • The claims of the contactees against been the strength of the claims for the
tions. Now, we know that arachnaphobia those of the abductees would seem to be reality of the subject; but the answer is
exists and is in fact one of the commonest in direct opposition, for example. simple.
phobias, so why does this arachnaphobia • The claims of crash retrievals which The Investigator is the conduit through
have to be alien abduction? suggest a very physical control - or lack which the information of one case can be
of control - over the alien craft contradict transmitted to the investigation of a se-
Ants & Spiders
recall during abduction research where cond case. The investigator unwittingly
The second case was of a woman who aliens can move the UFO, themselves aims his research at his own pre-
hated ants; she felt compelled to smash and even their human victims through determined goal, and the witness is often
up their nests and destroy them. Regres- solid walls and rocks. led to believe truths about himself that
sion hypnosis revealed that she likened • The ability to "switch off' certain peo- frankly are not truths. In this way, all cases
the color of the ant eggs to the skin color ple while they abduct others is never used affect all others. When we consider UFO
of the aliens that had abducted her; this to recover the craft and bodies of lost investigations we must remember that
was the "real" cause of her fears. comrades. Yet according to Leonard even when the witnesses are from very
Thirdly, there is the key case of the Stringfield they do try to recover them different cultural backgrounds, in-
book Missing Time, that of Steven sometimes, one such incident turning investigators are not: they are a fairly
Kilburn, where he went to Hopkins with to something like the gun-fight at the OK homogeneous group; basically all white,
a fear of a lonely stretch of road, and Corral. But why not use the switching off middle class people from the so-called
First World. All have similar belief systems of approach. Space is limiting, but I will
and the UFO story is being channelled "// a man will begin with cite from two such cases.
through that one cultural background. certainties, he shall end in The first is a repeater witness of a num-
Cynthia Hind tells the story (related to the ber of sightings, daylight discs and night
London Congress) of "Clifford," who saw doubts, but if he will be con- lights, some that are clearly closer en-
silver-suited beings and believed them to tent to begin with doubts, he counters rather than distant sightings. The
be the spirits of his ancestors. Picking up pseudonym we adopted was "Marianne."
on the silver suits Cynthia recognized shall end in certainties" Although I spoke to her recently, in her
facets of the UFO phenomenon, and — Sir Francis Bacon mid-twenties, the sightings occurred
suggests that in fact he saw aliens. I have when she was around 12 years old.
no argument with the claims of Clifford, The sightings did not inspire her to
or of the investigation by Cynthia. But my a passive role, letting the witness lead the become involved in the subject of UFOs;
point would be that if "UFO investigation" investigation, and resisting the urge to put yet her reflections on her sightings have
was conducted the world over by rural in our own "expertise." not changed over the years; she holds
black Africans, then would rural black in- What will be the outcome of such an them to have been designed specifically
vestigators be suggesting to Whitley approach? for her, and that the reason for them was
Streiber and Kathie Davis that they, too, Well, at first it will seem like a step to "wake her up" to the Earth, the needs
had been visited by their ancestors. And backwards because we shall have to of the Earth. Indeed, at this present time,
who is to say who would be right? abandon our present, and hopelessly she is a prominent ecologist, involved in
I must stress again that I am not argu- wrong, beliefs. And we shall replace them work to protect perhaps the most vital
ing that there is no physical reality to ab- with a great deal of uncertainty at first, resources on the planet. By the time of
ductions. I am arguing that we are mask- because in reality we have not actually ac- the last sighting she felt that she
ing that reality behind our own pre- cumulated much useful data. I suggest a understood the "message" meant for her;
judices, because of the framework we quote for that, which I used in my clos- she felt the meaning was clear to her, and
operate in. ing chapter of Phenomenon, from Fran- the sightings stopped and have never
So where is all this leading to? The cis Bacon's 16th century work, Advance- recurred.
answer is that I am suggesting we con- ment of Learning: "If a man will begin Her description of the closest sighting
sider the need for witness-driven in- with certainties, he shall end in doubts, is clearly in the same league as the
vestigations rather than investigator- but if he will be content to begin with descriptions of thousands of other
driven investigations. We should regard doubts, he shall end in certainties." daylight discs; it appeared to be metallic,
our present style of questioning witnesses What will happen I believe, as we flying as a structured vehicle. Now the
as a failed experiment. The method cur- adopt this approach, is that we will get question is this: Is the importance of the
rently adopted of grilling the witness as less coherent, less understandable stories. sighting the description of the discs or the
if she were a suspect rather than a We shall get more conflicting stories un- effect on Marianne? In the past we have
witness, or even a victim, is simply not til we have learned to comprehend their concentrated on the former, precisely log-
helping us to get to the truth. It may work meanings. ging the flight path and the size and the
when we are taking a report of a daylight And so it should be; because if the color, and so on, because this seemed to
disc or a light-in-the-sky, though there is phenomenon is a psychological one then be relevant. Perhaps it doesn't matter
some doubt about its effectiveness even we should not expect consistency as peo- what size the UFO was, or where it was
then, given the nature of "leading ques- ple aren't all of the same mind. And if the going, or whether it was there at all in the
tions," but it is certainly not working in the subject relates to an alien, or extrater- objective sense. And the fact that
case of these highly emotional, traumatic restrial, intervention, then in fact I agree Marianne has been inspired to work in
and personal events. Furthermore, it is with the argument that we cannot expect the field of ecological study we might well
not serving the best interests of the to understand alien logic, so we should regard as having no relevance to the
witness. not expect consistency in our under- UFO; there seems to be no reason to link
Whatever lies behind the abduction standing then either. the two, after all. But there is a reason!
phenomenon, and there may well be In fact, we can only expect consisten- Marianne is the reason!
some sort of physical reality, it is clear that cy when we - the investigators - are draw- She believes that the two are linked,
the important component of it for our ing up the story lines. And, unfortunate- cause and effect, and who are we to say
detailed understanding is the effect on the ly, that is what we are presently doing. she is wrong and we are right? Until we
witness, generally the emotional and I hope that I have presented some know for certain what the UFO
psychological impact, what is important evidence to suggest where we may be go- phenomenon is we cannot ignore data
is the reaction of the witness to the event, ing wrong. Although in its early stages like that, and we have been doing so to
and I feel certain that we will discover as yet, I think I should offer at least some our detriment. To be fair, we have to a
we adopt this new approach that what is glimpse of why I believe my alternative greater degree overcome this lack in the
important to an understanding of these suggestion is correct. I have many ex- study of lights and discs sightings; but we
cases will be for us to really understand amples in my own recent work of where have not done so in the case of the more
what the witness believes the significance cases which exhibit similar basic details to personal, abduction reports.
to be. well known, classic cases have taken We cannot guarantee that the informa-
The approach therefore is to adopt quite different turns when using this type tion we receive will actually be, in the
8 MUFON UFO Journal 258, October 1989
end, what is important; but what we can sibly unwittingly, led the witnesses along KECKSBURG, Continued
guarantee is that it will be what is impor- a path we thought was relevant, but
tant to the witness rather than to the in- which seems not to have been, injecting advising and assisting the President in
vestigator, and it seems that that may be in them a recall based on other cases policy determination and the coor
the data we will need in the end. from all over the world, details of which dinating of emergency preparedness
we were well aware of, even though they activities.
Relevance?
were not, and details based in the first in- So possibly information on the
My second case is similar; it concerns stance on the tantalizing dreams of Bet- Kecksburg UFO crash went directly to the
a man called Anders, in Sweden, and for ty Hill. We must be ready now to put the White House. There is no doubt that the
most valuable assistance with this case I witness in the driving seat, to listen, pro- military was greatly interested in whatever
am indebted to Bertil Kuhlemann. It is a perly and with open ears, not open crashed in the woods, and to this day the
most interesting and complex case, at mouths, to what the witnesses are say- veil of secrecy remains. We continue at
least worthy of a presentation all its own ing before we shall get any closer to the this time to pursue other sources of in-
twice as long as this, so 1 can only give real and objective truth that lies behind formation on the case. We know that
a few points again. Firstly, there is enough the subject. people exist who have information
evidence to suggest that the event is I shall close, with tongue firmly in relative to the December. 9, 1965 UFO
similar to all these other cases we have cheek, on one last quote called "Com- crash/retrieval operation at Kecksburg,
discussed; an apparently physical craft, munication," which I found on the wall PA. If you have any knowledge relative
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(Anders was hauled aboard the craft in "I know you believe you understand what Director of Operations at: PASU, 6
a cone of light and that light was in- you think I said, but I'm not sure if you Oakhill Ave., Greensburg, PA. 15601, or
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Unidentified Flying Objects
A Futurist Perspective
By John F. Schuessler
Mr. Schuessler is MUFON's deputy

director of administration. We futurists believe that the world will be shaped by human
For the past twenty-five years I have
decisions and actions rather than a divine fate. We use
collected reports of unidentified flying ob- scientific means to study future possibilities rather than at-
jects (UFOs), personally investigating tempting to be fortune tellers or seers.
several hundred interesting, but perplex-
ing cases. The tendency has been to col-
future and certain patterns of events will says "The claims of humanoid occupants
lect the data on a given report, attempt
recur from time to time. This allows and human abductions must not be
to provide a prosaic explanation, file the
futurists to successfully apply the tools of dismissed as absurdities, but rather must
data and go on to the next case. My in-
their trade - trend extrapolation, be carefully studied as part of the whole
terest remains strong because a significant
scenarios, mission flow diagrams, mor- problem. For in their content may lie the
number of UFO reports remain unex-
phological analysis, relevance trees, answers to the most perplexing scientific
plained and I believe it is important for
delphi polls, models, games and simula- mystery of our times."
this residue of unexplained reports to be
tions. Futurists can help humanity deal Dr. James E. McDonald, who was an
viewed from a futurist perspective.
with the future by understanding a range atmospheric physicist at the University of
We futurists believe that the world will
of possible futures and what can be done Arizona Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
be shaped by human decisions and ac-
to deal with them. said "If there was even a slim possibility
tions rather than a divine fate. We use
The past is rich with UFO reports, data that the Earth were under extraterrestrial
scientific means to study f u t u r e
and information. Numerous polls have surveillance in any form, that would be
possibilities rather than attempting to be
been conducted. Results of studies and a matter of the greatest scientific impor-
fortune tellers or seers.
investigations fill file cabinets and com- tance, warranting the most rigorous in-
The book The Study of The Future
puter data bases all over the world. Pat- vestigation. In fact, the evidence that
states that "futurists appear to be
terns of belief and disbelief have evolved seems to point to the conclusion that
remarkably open to all types of ideas; in
over time. The peoples of nearly every UFOs could be such devices is far from
fact they seem to be constantly searching
nation in the world are familiar with UFO negligible ..."
for new information about the world and
sightings. Awareness is at an all time high. More recently, Whitley Strieber wrote
are never so happy as when they have
This historical data base is quite sufficient Communion, a best selling book re-
found a genuinely exciting new idea. And
for extensive study and analysis by a cording his personal experiences with
no new idea seems to faze a futurist." It
futurist. non-human beings. The pear-shaped
goes on to say that "they (futurists) all
The importance of the futurist perspec- head of a typical small alien visitor ap-
seem to think in global rather than na-
tive is demonstrated by statements made peared on the cover of his book. Due to
tional terms; indeed, in several instances,
by noteworthy individuals as recorded in the popularity of this book and the many
the perspective seems to have become
The Encyclopedia of UFOs, edited by public appearances of Mr. Strieber, the
extraterrestrial if not universal."
Ronald Story. Nuclear physicist Stanton public became very aware of the small
Futurists have a great respect for
T. Friedman states "There are no good alien beings involved in the abduction
science and historical fact. They constant-
arguments to be made against the con- experiences.
ly scrutinize the past for clues to the
clusion that some UFOs are intelligently
future. Futurists are hard-working people
controlled vehicles from off the Earth." Lear Scenario
with a sense of a mission. They have a
Physicist James McCampbell says "A
broad concern for humanity. They are
productive approach to understanding Pilot John Lear presented a frighten-
not comfortable with terms like "impossi-
UFOs is to accept the sighting reports at ing picture of what might be going on in
ble" or "can't be done." Instead, they
face value ... From this perspective, one a series of papers and lectures relating to
would rather explore a range of possible
sees UFOs as metallic vehicles displaying a deal made between the U.S. Govern-
futures.
flight characteristics that are decidely ment and a race of Extraterrestrial
Past Patterns superior to the best aircraft manufactured Biological Entities called the "Grays." He
on Earth. It must be that their origin is described government sanctioned abduc-
The reason that the past is important some civilization that is not from the tions of humans, the capture and flight
to the futurist is that conditions that have Earth." of alien saucer-shaped vehicles,
existed in the past will continue into the Planetarium Director Walter N. Webb underground facilities for aliens, genetic
engineering experiments and a host of from reporting UFOs and the experts
other concepts hinted at by a number of from investigating them. The media The futurist in me says it
other prominent UFO researchers. John quickly learned the fine art of "UFO ex-
Lear used one of the tools of the futurist pert bashing" and continue to use it on
is important to be open
- the scenario. He gathered data from a a regular basis. Experts, then, have minded - to be a part of the
number of sources, looked at the become cautious about what they say solution and not a part of
historical data base for confirmation, went and avoid the more controversial aspects
into the field for a firsthand look at what of the phenomenon. That means they the problem.
is going on and concluded his work by also avoid contact with the more con-
creating an intriguing scenario of UFO troversial figures in the field. ferent light. I see new ideas arising, new
related activities. Some people classify his John Lear was a recent victim of the theories being developed and tested, and
scenario as bizarre or crazy; while others bashing because his views fell outside the many new opportunities for mankind just
say he is right on target. Whether he is norm for "acceptable" UFO beliefs. Bill over the horizon. The futurist in me says
correct or not remains to be seen. Moore had a similar problem because of it is important to be open minded - to be
However, if only twenty-five percent of his activities related to deception and a part of the solution and not a part of
what he says is true, then mankind will disinformation. Most researchers suffer the problem. There will be ample oppor-
have an interesting future. from this problem at one time or another. tunities to develop a variety of scenarios,
Researcher Bill Moore, in a remarkable Will they recover? I believe they will if to examine a number of interesting
appearance at the 1989 MUFON UFO that is their desire, for the spectrum of trends, and to participate in the resulting
Symposium held in Las Vegas, Nevada, "acceptable" beliefs seems to broaden socio-technological changes we will be
also made some startling statements. Bill, with time. Several years ago a leading facing.
as you know, co-authored the best seller, UFO organization accepted the concept
The Roswell Incident, after conducting an of UFO reports, but not those of Future Perspective
outstanding investigation along with humanoids or "critters." Now, most ex-
Nuclear Physicist Stanton Friedman. This perts accept the critters as a legitimate Rather than trying to eliminate the
book chronicles the story of a UFO crash part of the mystery. I would expect the ideas put forth by the Lears and Moores
in New Mexico in 1947. trend to broader acceptance of a variety of ufology, I propose an alternative. That
Bill Moore stood before an audience of ideas to continue, and perhaps even is to look at their paradigms from a
of UFO experts and members of the lay accelerate, ,, as more data becomes futurist perspective in order to extract the
' public and stated ten positions which he available. maximum value from their work.
claims he believes to be true. To begin Some people feel that individuals like As an example, Moore states that a
with, he believes that a "highly advanced John Lear and Bill Moore should be highly advanced extraterrestrial civiliza-
extraterrestrial civilization is visiting planet avoided and ignored. They describe tion is visiting planet Earth. Lear says that
Earth and is actively manipulating our these outspoken men as crackpots and in addition to aliens visiting Earth, they
awareness of their presence here." He government agents. While this could be have made agreements with our govern-
believes that two of our U.S. government true, there is evidence to the contrary. ment. Although neither man can prove
intelligence agencies are aware of this fact John Lear is a pilot with an impressive his point at this time, a majority of
and are conducting highly classified UFO- record. He has flown more than 160 Americans tend to agree with them. For
related projects. Further, the matter of types of aircraft, holds 17 world speed some it is a leap of faith, while for others
alien abductions of humans is regarded records in a Lear Jet and is the only pilot it is a matter of acceptance of the
as serious by members of our govern- ever to hold every airline certificate issued available data.
ment. As a result of his presentation by the Federal Aviation Administration. In For the futurist, this paradigm is only
many members of the audience were like manner, Bill Moore is a college a starting point. I must ask: "What is the
disrespectful in their response to Bill. graduate who spent 14 years as a high trend in scientific thought about the pro-
In a similar manner several MUFON school teacher and later became a best- bability of extraterrestrial life?" While
experts resigned from the organization selling author. writers have suggested the idea of aliens
before the 1989 symposium because they My own engineering background has and alien visitations in books and articles
disagreed with the outspoken position of kept me at arm's length from the more for many years, the evolution of scientific
John Lear and did not want to appear to controversial aspects of the UFO pro- thought has been much slower. As
support his position by appearing on the blem. Yes, I said problem. The modern recently as 400 years ago it was believed
same program with him. And in like man- era of ufology began after World War II that the sun revolved about the Earth.
ner, John was quite upset by this show and continues to this very day. UFO Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake
of disrespect for his work by those reports are nearly continuous and fairly for daring to propose otherwise. Today
recognized as "experts" in the field. consistent. In some periods this con- we try to burn individuals personally and
Much of the problem is a result of the sistency could be considered to be bor- professionally when they propose such
ridicule curtain. Over the years ing. Nevertheless, a significant historical things as visits by aliens.
debunkers, skeptics and others have database now exists. Recent history demonstrates that scien-
used the tools of ridicule, threat and pro- My futurist background, on the other tists are ready to put their careers on the
fessional denigration to stop the witnesses hand, views the UFO problem in a dif- line in the search for extraterrestrial

intelligence. In 1960 Dr. Frank Drake which took place near Pascagoula, The mystery continues. The old ways
launched Project Ozma when he aimed Mississippi. Since that time people are of viewing that mystery have not resolved
a West Virginia radio telescope at the reporting abductions in record numbers. the issues or provided satisfactory
stars for the purpose of seeking intelligent A statistical analysis of the abduction answers. All they have done is polarize
life out there. Today the NASA Ames cases shows some interesting trends. It is the various schools of thought so as to
Research Center is using an array of radio suggested that the medical examinations place groups of researchers in silos, pre-
telescopes to prepare for a search for are becoming more sophisticated, more venting them from working cooperatively
alien signals. This project is called SETI of the abductees seem to be recalling with others. Silos prevent progress.
or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. events during the abduction experience, Teamwork, the hallmark of the space
It has turned into a multi-million dollar, and a growing number of abductees have age, is the only profitable route to follow
multi-year search for radio signals from physical artifacts (scars) to prove the if we are to resolve this UFO problem
some other civilization located light years validity of their experience. Most of the sometime in the foreseeable future. Try
from Earth. These projects and similar early cases lacked detailed descriptions to resist impulse the next time you feel
ones conducted by other nations repre- of sensory information such as the feel the need to criticize the work of another
sent an accelerating thrust by scientists to of the aliens' skin and clothes, sounds person. Instead, ask yourself how you
communicate with aliens. The thrust will related to the operation of the craft, and can learn from and then apply that infor-
continue. the purpose of the medical examinations. mation. Remember, you need not agree
UFO experts such as MUFON Interna- Some of the more recent cases have with the person's viewpoint in order to
tional Director Walter Andrus, Physicist begun to fill in the missing information. find the information useful.
Bruce Maccabee, Astronomer Peter Stur- We could look at some additional
rock, Radiation Specialist Peter Rank, variations on the theme of humans
and a host of other respected individuals meeting (or trying to meet) aliens; such
have added another dimension to the as - radar and photographic evidence of
search for alien life. That dimension is UFOs, electronic data taken during
described by the accumulation and sightings, and physical trace evidence left
analysis of data related to UFO sightings. behind at landing sites. However, I don't
Hundreds, even thousands, of well believe that is necessary at this time. The film of Communion, starring
documented and unexplained UFO What I believe is important is to go Christopher Walken as Whitley
sightings have been thoroughly in- back to the futurist perspective, which is Strieber and Lindsay Grouse as Ann
vestigated. Extrapolation of this mass of open to new concepts and is global in Strieber will be released on October
evidence leads some to the conclusion nature. Examining the information 20, 1989 in 80 cities.
that we do not need to look to the depths presented by Lear and Moore in this con-
of space for communication with aliens. text, I find an opportunity to consider
Scenarios are being developed which some new and daring (bizarre to some)
Edward Conroy's book Report on
suggest aliens are already here and com- aspects of the extraterrestrial life theme.
Communion will be published on
municating with certain individuals on a For example: if the abductions are real,
November 10, 1989 by William Mor-
regular basis. This viewpoint is rein- then how can they be happening without
row and Company. This is a
forced by opinion polls conducted over the cooperation of some human groups,
meticulously researched investigation
the past 30 years which show an increase government-based or otherwise? We
of the life and work of Whitley
in the belief that UFOs exist and that they have data on thousands of animal mutila-
Strieber, and an analysis of the validity
are intelligently controlled. tions. What is the purpose for the mutila-
of his experiences by a professional
Up to this point we have discussed the tions? Lear does at least provide an in-
reporter. Mr. Conroy, a San Antonio
search for alien life by using radio teresting scenario for same. Moore says
writer, interviewed dozens of Whitley's
telescopes and the work of scientists who a craft crashed at Roswell, New Mexico.
childhood friends, their parents, cur-
pursue a similar quest by examining data If so, that craft and others must be stored
rent witnesses to his experience, his
associated with UFO reports. Another somewhere and have been subject to ex-
doctors and UFO investigators both
important category of inquiry remains to tensive analysis for many years. The ap-
hostile and supportive.
be discussed. That is the case for abduc- plication of the technology found there
tion of humans by aliens. One early and could be the answer to the power and
well documented case of abduction was pollution problems we are facing today.
that of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961. If the picture of the cover-up is as Whitley Strieber's Transformation will
They saw a UFO in the sky, and watched painted by both Moore and Lear, then be published in paperback in August
it maneuver into the proximity of their perhaps we can begin to understand why 1989. Transformation tells of the
automobile. Later they notice they had UFO researchers lose their jobs for their development of his ongoing relation-
experienced a time lapse and sought involvement, and why more than the ship with the visitors.
help The investigation revealed a detail- population average number of them suc-
ed story of abduction, medical examina- cumb to brain tumors and other life-
tion, star maps and lingering after-effects. ending ailments, while some give up in
Then in 1973 Charles Hickson and
Calvin Parker reported a similar incident
fear of what will happen if they persist in
their quest. MUFON
Magnetic Moment: A Review
By Joe Kirk Thomas
Mr. Thomas is a MUFON research F = M dB + M dB + MdB repulsion, but there is no orientation of

z x z y z z z
specialist and a frequent Journal the moved magnet for which one will ex-
contributor. dx dy dz perience a force directed around the cir-
Here the x axis is aligned east-west, the cumference of the stationary magnet!
This article reviews the recent book by y axis north-south, and the z axis is ver- If the vehicle cannot develop forces
John Ackerman, To Catch A Flying Star: tical. The terms such as 9Bz/dz are the along the east-west axis, then clearly it
A Scientific Theory of UFOs, published gradients, in this case the rate of change cannot fly in these directions! There is no
by Univelt, San Diego, California. I note of the z component of the magnetic field orientation of the UFOs magnetic dipole,
that John and I seem to have similar with increased z (height). If the UFO's no tricks of torque or balance, which will
technical backgrounds, and have ap- magnetic moment, a measure of the permit such flight.
parently gone through some of the same dipole's strength, is large enough, it could A second objection is the size of the
mental gymnastics in trying to make generate forces of repulsion equal to the currents required to produce the desired
sense of the anecdotal data, in light of force of gravity. The author assumes the magnetic field. For this discussion, some
what is known about physics and UFO's magnetic field to be generated by background is necessary.
foreseeable technology. As my musings, a current flowing around its periphery, In the early '80s, while employed as an
however, have led me to a somewhat dif- and then calculates the value necessary electromagnetic interference engineer, it
ferent view from John's, it is inevitable for levitation. Assuming a vehicle weight became obvious to me that many of the
that much of this review is structured of only 1000 kilograms and a diameter effects reported in CEII cases appeared
around differences in opinion about the of 10 meters, he finds the current to be to be the effects of magnetic induction,
technical merits of some of the ideas he 1.25 x 1013 amperes. i.e., voltages induced by powerful low fre-
has presented. Thus, it is that on page 39, John's Fly- quency magnetic fields. This led to sim-
After a foreword by Walt Andrus, a ing Star flies straight into a brick wall. For ple laboratory experiments 1 ' 2 that show-
brief introduction to the anecdotal the sad truth is that the "magnetic ed that both the heating of finger rings
evidence, and the establishment of the helicopter" won't work! and interference with conventional
hypothesis that UFOs are indeed vehicles Forgetting for the moment the size of automotive ignition systems (of the type
of extraterrestrial manufacture, a point on the dipole moment required to in general use before 1980) could occur
which I have little confidence personally, counteract the force of gravity, there is a at magnetic field levels (at the point of in-
the author quickly moves, in Chapter fatal flaw that renders this mode of pro- terference) of .1 Tesla and a frequency of
Three, to a physical theory. Much of his pulsion useless. In the above equation, 100 hertz. This information was consis-
book is predicated on the hypothesis that the gradient 3Bz/dx is essentially zero. tent with a previous theoretical study 3
"... flying discs suspend themselves and Stated plainly, the vertical component of which showed that the formation of
maneuver by interacting with the the magnetic field does not vary along the wilted rings and dehydrated circles under
magnetic field of the earth, heavenly east-west direction. The other two gra- hovering UFOs could be explained by the
bodies, or the ambient field in deep dients do exist, however, and so levita- same mechanism of similar magnitude.
space." tion may still be possible. But when it When this data was factored in with
Now it's known that a magnetic dipole, comes to forces in the east-west direction, distance data" from UFOs, however, the
such as a small disc magnet, immersed the flaw is indeed deadly. That equation sizes of the magnetic moment required
in a uniform magnetic field, will ex- reads: to cause the interference were awesome.
perience a torque attempting to align its = M dB M dB + M dB The mean magnetic moment was about
x x y z x
axis with the direction of the field, but no 1012 amp-meter 2 . In terms of the 10
translational force. A dipole in the dx dy dz meter diameter torus with a minor radius
presence of a gradient field, however, Unfortunately, all the gradients are of .5 meter proposed by John, a current
will. A gradient field is a field which zero. Why? There are no x components of 1.23 x 1010 amperes would have to
becomes stronger or weaker in some of the magnetic field along the magnetic flow around the periphery.
direction. Since the earth is itself a large east-west direction, and their gradients
dipole, with magnetic field lines diverg- are therefore zero also. Magnetic Pressure
ing from the south pole (Antarctica), and For readers who may not understand
converging on the north pole the above argument, I would propose a This result is unfortunate for two
(Greenland), it has a gradient field. John simple experiment. Procure two small reasons. First, it means the magnetic field
hypothesizes that UFOs suspend disc magnets from an outlet like Radio at the surface of the toroid would exceed
themselves by using their powerful Shack. Hold one stationary, to represent 5000 Tesla, far beyond the critical field
magnetic fields to interact with the local the earth, and move the other, represen- any foreseeable superconductor could
earth gradient. Reproducing one of the ting the vehicle, about it. One will ex- have. John is cognizant of this problem
equations in the book: perience forces of both attraction and and proposes, as an alternative to a
note that this corresponds to the energy
released in a 330 kiloton thermonuclear
It means the magnetic field .warhead5. One third of a megaton of
What about the problem
at the surface of the toroid TNT! of magnetic catastrophe?
would exceed 5000 Tesla, far What would happen if the
ET Tech?
beyond the critical field any superconductor "went nor-
foreseeable superconductor If you belonged to an extremely ad- mal," or there was some
vanced civilization, and you were tasked
could have. with designing a small excursion craft to
other malfunction in the
get about a small planet, and you had at storage system?
your disposal ultra-strong alloys and high
superconductive ring, a plasma super-
temperature superconductors with very
conductor. In my view, however, the real
large critical fields, you might well be electromagnetic fields. No physical theory
problem is the "magnetic pressure" of
tempted to store said vehicle's energy in of UFOs can possibly pass muster without
almost 1.5 x 10' pounds per square inch
the form of a large, inertialess external going through this exercise.
that the torus would have to bear!
field. There are other possible reasons for Chapter Five, titled in the Table of
Mind you, these staggering values are
dragging such a field around, but none Contents as UFOs, Quasars and Pulsars,
for a magnetic moment of 1012 amp-
of them make sense. It is unlikely, for ex- but in the text as Astronomical Observa-
meter2. But for John's vehicle to levitate,
ample, that it could be a prophylactic, tion of UFOs, asks a question I perhaps
it must utilize a current of 1.25 x 1013
designed to keep automobiles at a would never have even thought of. How
amperes, which would give a magnetic
distance. Would a designer allocate 330 can astronomers discriminate between
moment of 1015 amp-meter 2 , a thousand
kilotons for this purpose? Or propulsion poorly understood phenomena like
times greater. The magnetic pressure
or an adjunct to it? Not likely, based on pulsars and quasars and the signatures of
would be a million times greater!
some of the above considerations. distant interstellar spacecraft? Such
I'm sorry, but this is where I draw the
Before the reader becomes enamored vessels will undoubtedly emit energy,
line. It just doesn't make sense to go to
to the concept of dragging energy around perhaps copiously; and may well be mov-
such herculean efforts merely to move a
in an external magnetic field, however, ing at velocities approaching the speed
small 1000 kilogram vehicle around in
I should point out that there is a "fly in of light. Yet, because these vehicles are
earth space.
the ointment." of artificial manufacture, any determina-
As a power source, John hypothesizes
Specifically, the problem of magnetic tion of their distance based on Hubble's
a fusion reactor burning the isotopes of
catastrophe. What would happen if the Law will be wrong! Thus a close in-
Deuterium and Tritium, a general concept
superconductor "went normal," or there terstellar craft receding from us at close
currently absorbing considerable federal
was some other malfunction in the to the speed of light, and therefore ex-
funds. This idea has several problems,
storage system? The 330 kilotons of hibiting significant red shift, could be
one being that although much cleaner
energy has to go somewhere, and if the assumed to be an infinitely larger object,
than current day fission reactors, fusion
magnetic field is disrupted, it can only go a quasar, for example, at the extremes of
still emits copious amounts of radiation
into its most primal form (heat). The the universe. Interesting reading.
in the form of both neutrons and x-rays.
result would be a fireball differing little In Chapter Six, Verifying the Theory,
Furthermore, is it likely that a technology
from that of a 330 kiloton thermonuclear the author proposes two avenues of
possibly a million years more advanced
warhead. The possibility of such a study. One is the detection of UFOs by
than ours would utilize a technology we
catastrophe would force the reliability much the same plethora of instruments
are just now developing?
issue to unbelievable limits. (One might that have been suggested by other
If UFOs have the attributes they seem
also wonder what such a scenario says authors for over two decades. The other
to, what would they need a power plant
about "crashed saucer" stories). is laboratory verification of the models
for anyway?
Having shown the proposed propul- developed. The latter can be deceptive,
At the root of that question is another,
sion system to be inoperable, and offered as showing that a concept derived from
namely, what is the purpose of the
a serious alternative to the fusion engine an examination of UFO anecdotes will
gargantuan fields in the first place? If one
the author has suggested, the reader work does not prove that the anecdotes
returns to the 10 meter torus John pro-
should not assume that I believe this book themselves are true. The sad thing about
poses, and calculates its inductance, one
to be without merit. Quite to the contrary! these proposals is that they reflect what
gets 15 microhenries. If it bears a current
I appreciate the work done in trying to ufology should be, but isn't. These pro-
of 1.23 x 1010 amperes, appropriate for
model this bizarre phenomenon, and find posals, after all, take money. And here
a moment of 1012, the energy stored in
the second half particularly interesting. we have a Catch-22. The funding is not
the magnetic field can be easily calculated
Chapter Four is an attempt to explain available because of a lack of hard data.
from:
the anecdotal evidence, from common There is no hard data because funding
U = 1/2 L I 2
UFO characteristics of size, shape, flight is not available.
One finds an astonishing 1.132 x 1015 and behavoir to reported physical effects
joules. As a point of reference, please that can be linked to magnetic or possibly Continued on page 27

The Rainbow Declaration
By John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
Dr. Brandenburg, a plasma language. Such borrowings are in- invisible. We recognize the planet
physicist, addressed the MUFON tended as an act of homage and at- Earth as our Planet of Genesis, our
symposium on the subject of the tribution rather than plagiarism. home, and our everlasting treasure.
Mars "face." This is his first article We pledge to keep and preserve the
for the Journal. God Exists Earth for all humanity for all genera-
tions. We call upon all humanity to
The Rainbow Declaration is a The first portion of the document treat one another with kindness,
declaration of principles to govern the is addressed to humanity, the people justice and peace. We call upon all
relations between peoples of different of Earth. The second portion is ad- humanity to work together to ease the
worlds. dressed to all the peoples of the effects of hunger, disease and over-
The declaration was written in Cosmos. 'The Rainbow Declaration population. Let there be no more kill-
response to the MJ-12, Aquarius and evokes God as Creator and Judge of ing of the whales, great and small,
Lear documents. The situation implied all peoples of all worlds of origin. It and let humanity seek to preserve the
by these documents, should they be is by this recognition of God that a whole family of living things on the
true and accurate, is not good. How- common ground and bond is Earth. This declaration takes its name
ever, rather than rail against the situa- established between all peoples, and from the Rainbow, which symbolizes
tion portrayed by the documents, the moral forces behind all principles the promises of God to humanity, the
whose basic facts remain unconfirmed, of justice is derived. The declaration unity within diversity that is human-
it seems far more constructive, at this is thus a perscription for relations ity and the beauty of the Earth which
time, to describe the situation one among three intelligences, the natives, is humanity's.
would desire to exist. The key to solv- the aliens, and their common Creator, In true Unity there is strength and
ing a problem is to first define it, and before whom they are equally beloved general benefit; therefore, on all mat-
by defining a desirable situation we can children. ters concerning extraterrestrial peoples
measure our own circumstances. Despite the lofty and peaceful tone we shall be as One. We recognize the
In a desirable situation, the relations of the declaration, it is a statement of office of the Secretary General of the
between the people of a technologically rights that are basically non- United Nations, acting with the advice
unadvanced and politically disunified negotiable. It asserts what is proper and consent of the Security Council,
world and a more advanced, spacefar- and just, and asserts the right of op- as the sole representative of humani-
ing people of a different world, would pressed people to rectify that which ty in all dealings with extraterrestrials.
be according to principles and is not proper and just. It is thus both All relations and agreements will be
guidelines set down within a communi- an appeal for peace and a call to open and public, and all agreements
ty of spacefaring peoples. arms, a statement of what is true, and must be ratified by the Security Coun-
If such a community existed, and an appeal for what ought to be true. cil to be in force.
the principles were justly framed, ad- Let us hope that in the future, when To our fellow peoples in the com-
vanced peoples would be forbidden humanity journeys between stars, that munity of the Cosmos, we extend
from pressing their technological ad- we will observe these principles, or greetings; we recognize you as fellow
vantage "over less advanced natives, others similar to them, with all peoples children of the Creator of the Cosmos.
nor would spacefaring aliens be al- we shall encounter. Perhaps if,we Please give careful consideration to our
lowed to pursue divide-and-conquer resolve to do this in the future, this declaration, that it might serve as a
strategies against politically disunited resolve will help us to solve problems basis for our good relations.
natives, or interfere with the natives' that exist in the present. We hold these truths to be self-
technological and political "gestation" The text of the Rainbow Declara- evident, that all peoples are created
period that would precede their tion is as follows: equal and are endowed by the
becoming a unified, spacefaring peo- Creator with certain inalienable rights:
ple themselves. Rainbow Declaration The right of Possession of their
The Rainbow Declaration, then, is homeworld, their Planet of Genesis.
an attempt to articulate such a set of We, the people of Earth, do make No one shall take any portion of their
principles that could be observed by this solemn Rainbow Declaration.. We world from them.
spacefaring peoples. It draws freely acknowledge our common childhood The right of Sanctity of Planet of
upon historic documents and classic before our Creator, God, and Judge Genesis from alien intrusion or in-
science-fiction for its concepts and of all the Cosmos, both visible and terference. No alien visitation shall
occur until the people shall realize bases may be established permanent- strong and advanced to help preserve
their Unity and achieve space travel ly on bodies or stations orbiting a the rights of the weak and less
of their own; this is the Prime Direc- Planet or Star of Genesis, but must advanced.
tive for all spacefaring peoples. No be evacuated (upon landing by the We pledge to uphold these rights
alien spacecraft shall make close ap- people of thisrlanet or Star, except and principles in all relations with all
proach, or assume close orbit, or there shall be negotiated a treaty peoples we shall encounter, whether
make any landing, except openly and granting temporary lease. we be aliens or they in these en-
by consent of global authority. The right of Freedom of Peaceful counters. We declare that all peoples
The right of Possession of Genetic Navigation of Space shall be enjoyed should seek to treat all other peoples
Code. No alien shall take a people's by all peoples except where it conflicts as they themselves would desire to be
Genetic Code for any use, except with the Sanctity of Planet of Genesis. treated, and that all peoples of the
under reciprocal scientific exchange, The right of peoples to Assert and Cosmos should seek peaceful and
negotiated openly by global authority. Defend the aforementioned rights mutually beneficial relations with each
The right to permanent occupation and the right to give and receive aid other. We delcare that it is our deepest
of all bodies orbiting their Planet of consistent with these rights, when desire that humanity might take its
Genesis or the sun of their Planet, these rights shall be endangered. In place as an honored and valuable
which is their Star of Genesis, and cases of dispute, the burden of proof- member of the community of peoples
permanent authority over the space of-innocence shall fall on those who of the Cosmos.
containing these bodies. No alien are alien, for it is the burden of the
Circular Arguments
By Ralph Noyes
If only Condon had been followed up a circle though usually departing slightly
... If only that damning conclusion had towards the oval or elliptical. There is a Three Books
not been reached that "nothing of scien- sharp cut-off between the flattened crop
tific value would come of further studies." and the rest of the field. Sometimes rings These are the puzzles which all resear-
If only that academic iron curtain had not are found rather than circles. chers have had to face. We now have
been slammed down in 1969 ... In many cases the rings and circles three books (published in the UK in Ju-
These vigorous complaints are made form distinctive patterns: for example, a ly) in which three very different ap-
in a remarkable new book [1] not, as you circle with a ring around it; a circle with proaches are made to the problem. The
might think, by an aging ufologist with two rings; geometrical groups of circles; first is Meaden's book, mentioned above
four decades of bafflement behind him, and sometimes still more complex forma- [1], and I will return to it below. The se-
but by a British atmospheric physicist of tions. Well over a dozen basic patterns cond, Circular Evidence [2], is by a team
international repute, Dr. G. Terence have now been reported. Since the first of dedicated field researchers, based in
Meaden, editor of the Journal of (singleton) circles were reported in 1980 Hampshire, who have poured money
Meteorology and a senior member of the each year has brought reports of new pat- and effort into studying the subject since
Tornado and Storm Research Organiza- terns and of an increasing number of the early 1980s (and are now rightly
tion. And he makes these sharp com- events. Reports have been heavily con- reaping the reward of making the best
ments not as a student of UFOs, but as centrated in Hampshire and Wiltshire, seller lists in the UK). The third, Con-
an assiduous researcher for nearly ten with marked clustering near Westbury troversy of the Circles [3], is by Jenny
years past into that remarkable puzzle of (since 1980), Winchester (since 1981 - Randies and Paul Fuller of BUFORA (the
the decade, the British cropfield circles. though with an indication of some earlier British UFO Research Association).
I gave readers of the MUFON UFO events) and the Avebury area (since Circular Evidence is superbly il-
Journal a brief review of this 1987). lustrated, and it contains the most de-
phenomenon last October [4]; and the There is now evidence for occurrences tailed account of the remarkable "swirl-
Journal has carried other reports of it. But outside these "haunted" areas and from ing" and "texturing" of the crop which the
it may be as well to summarize what we're earlier periods; but many of these "ex- circles exhibit - an indispensable field-
talking about. Wessex" and pre-1980 events are rather guide for dedicated circle-watchers in this
Usually in fields of grain, though poorly documented. If credit is given to country (and in the U.S., also, if ever the
sometimes in other crops, swirled and them all, however, there still remains a phenomenon decides to make a decisive
flattened areas are discovered during the strong appearance of an overwhelming transatlantic jump into the grain fields of
growing season. The crop is bent over at concentration of events in Wessex and of the Mid-West). The book speculates
about ground level, but goes on growing a phenomenon which has developed ex- widely, and it contains what may turn out
and ripening. The disturbed area is plosively in the 1980s. to be valuable hints by reporting (brave-
geometrically precise, approximating to ly, I feel!) some weirdities which have af-
A SELECTION OF THE PATTERNS REPORTED
[Not to the same scale]
SINGLETON DOUBLET OVERLAPPING TRIPLET-IN-LINE QUADRUPLET "TRIANGULAR"

DOUBLET TRIPLET
RINGED CIRCLE DOUBLE-RINGER FORMATIONS WITH KINGED CENTRES

QUINTUPLET
SIMPLE RING
"CELTIC CROSS"
lark areas = 5uirled and flattened crops]

© Ralph Noyes
1989
flicted its authors: audible and luminous press before they had had much time to Depending on conditions, this transient
phenomena at circle sites; peculiar digest Meaden's remarkable new views, energy-form can manifest as a globe of
behaviour by equipment; poltergeistish and we must given them credit for light, often with associated sounds. It may
intrusions - the kind of stuff which con- recognizing the importance of the latter, be able to interfere with the ignition
tinues to trouble excellent (and eminent- even if it has left. them somewhat system of automobiles and perhaps to
ly respectable) bodies like the Society for floundering. affect close witnesses. Descending to
Psychical Research. But Circular The crucial book is Meaden's [1]. He earth, it can make a cropfield circle. Ac-
Evidence must be recommended for its alone makes a direct, sustained and ting more vigorously it may well cause
graphic account and its excellent illustra- scientifically-based assault on the com- more violent circular damage at ground
tions rather than its scientific rigour. It plex of problems which the circles pre- level.
sagely concludes that "final answers are sent. He has, from the start, looked for
a long way off" (which I assume means an explanation in terms of atmospheric Redefining UFOs
that we can expect to see the publication physics, as he is singularly well qualified
of Son of Circular Evidence before we're to do. After what seem to me to have In short, a good meteorlogist whose
much older). been several false starts in earlier years, sole concern has been to investigate crop-
The BUFORA authors [3] pour a good Meaden now postulates a wholly new field circles has ended by describing much
deal of sceptical comment on the subject. and hitherto unrecognized atmospheric of the UFO phenomenon. I cannot help
They believe that much of the apparent phenomenon which he calls "the plasma- enjoying the irony that Randies and Fuller
clustering of the circles in "Wessex" (the vortex" and which he sees as sometimes - stalwart defenders of BUFORA against
name by which we call the old Anglo- capable of generating a large "plasma Little Green Men - have spent much pas-
Saxon kingdom of southern England, in- ball." The details are hard going for non- sion in scorning the hints of a link be-
itially centered on Winchester) reflects the physicists (though the book is written with tween UFOs and cropfield circles while
presence in Hampshire and Wiltshire of elegance and clarity). But the implications Terence Meaden is now keenly searching
enthusiastic field-researchers, assisted by are remarkable. for one! But I will not push this schaden-
media hype. And they have been much .If Meaden is right, our atmosphere is freude too far: BUFORA have been right-
concerned in recent years to trash any sometimes able to produce a short-lived, ly concerned to keep the silly season
suggested connection between the crop- but vigorously swirling, disturbance with Press at bay in the attempts of the latter
field circles and UFO sightings, despite strong electrical properties. (A layman to saddle the Association with a simplistic
some sporadic evidence of a possible link grasps after the analogy of something bet- link between circles and ETs; and I believe
between the two. Their booklet went to ween ball-lightning and a mini-tornado.) Fuller and Randies now recognize that
1
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RINGED CIRCLE NEAR AUEBURY, WINCHESTER
Meaden's book offers remarkable England. Sterling price £14.95 (plus

possibilities for a rational re-definition of £2.00 for surface delivery). Sterling only.
what we mean by "UFO." // Meaden is right, our at- [3] Controversy of the Circles Jenny
But wonderful puzzles remain. mosphere is sometimes able Randies & Paul Fuller BUFORA, 37
Meaden's "UFO" still shows a remarkable
to produce a short-lived, but Heathbank Road, Cheadle Heath,
affection for certain highly localized areas.
Stockport, Cheshire SK3 OUP, England.
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elaborating and increasing its intrusions
from year to year. 1989 has brought bance with strong electrical face delivery). Sterling only.
more occurrences than ever before, properties. (4) "Those Corny British Circles," Ralph
mainly in "haunted" Wessex; and one of Noyes. MUFON UFO Journal, No. 246,
them flatly contradicts an assertion made October 1988, pp. 8-10.
by Meaden within a few days of the ability to interact with human witnesses,
publication of his book. (He says, on for example. © 1989 Ralph Noyes
page 96, "Single rings around single I'm left with the impression that we live
circles always rotate in a sense opposite in interesting times and that this whole
to that of the interior." Well, they did ... show will run and run. Cliches apart,
Until 18 June 1989 ...). And other new however, I believe we're on the verge of
and unpredicted patterns have turned up
this year. And I cannot, myself, altogether
some wholly new insights into our
remarkable world and the interaction of
- MUFON -
discount those hints of so-called PSI- human intelligence with it. AMATEUR
phenomena reported by Andrews and
Delgado [2]. References
RADIO
I think we shall need some other fac-
[I] The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries
NET
tors than Meaden's to explain what is go-
Dr. G. Terence Meaden, Artetech
ing on. One of them may be something
Publishing, 54 Frome Road, Bradford-
earth-bound which attracts the Meaden
on-Avon, Wiltshire BA15 ILD, England. EVERY SATURDAY
"UFO" (shades of Paul Devereux's Earth-
Cheques for £12.00 sterling or U.S.
lights - not to mention Persinger; not to MORNING
$30.00 (surface delivery).
mention Dennis Stacy's Maria Lights). AT 0800 EST (OR DST)
And perhaps we shall find that Meaden's [2] Circular Evidence Pat Delgado & Col-
"UFO" possesses much weirder in Andrews, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., ON 7237 KHZ S.S.B.
characteristics than he's yet letting on: an 2 Soho Square, London WIV 5DE,
THE UFO PRESS
BY DENNIS STACY
Jenny Randies, director of investiga- cases that have been collated, at least one
tions for the British UFO Research surprising variation surfaces: American
Association (BUFORA), has probably abductees, in general, report the 'tradi-
written more UFO books than most of us tional' little gray beings, whereas the
have read. The one under discussion this British percipients describe, again in
month was originally published in hard- general, entities more normally human in
back as Abduction by Robert Hale of height (six feet or so), with equally odd
England last year. In its latest manifesta- eyes, but commonly porcelain-white and
tion, it goes by the title, Alien Abductions: blondish hair.
The Mystery Solved, and is available I expected Randies to make more of
($12.95, plus $1 p&h) as a quality this discrepancy than she does, though
240-page paperback from Inner Light she certainly makes something of it,
Publications, Box 753, New Brunswick, because it seems to me to be the one
NJ, 08903. The brains behind Inner Light single, most potentially glaring clue in the
seems to be one of the longtime enfant whole business. If we're going to hold fast
tenibles of UFO literature, Timothy Green to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, then we
Beckley, who, in this case, has to be con- are obligated to explain why Americans
gratulated for making a book available are abducted by little aliens and the
that we might not otherwise have had British by tall ones. Either some cultural,
here without great expense. i.e., psychological, consideration has to be
Given the economics of UFO postulated to account for the difference,
publishing in this country, and the fact or some characteristic inherent to the ab-
that Randies hardly boasts the cachet and ductors themselves has to be hypothesiz-
local clout of a Strieber, Hopkins or ed. Have two alien races divided the
Vallee, let alone a Steiger or Berlitz, the nearly always contain a few original in- world into spheres of separate influence,
production quality is probably about as sights, suggestions and theories found in the same way that Hitler and Stalin
good as we have any right to expect. My nowhere else, even while firmly found- divided up Poland and the Latvian lands?
review copy even had an additional ed in what amounts to an encyclopedic You abduct these and we'll abduct those?
bonus: Pages 193-208 were bound in background of UFO research, data and There must be some reason for the dif-
twice. literature. For the American reader, ferences, after all.
Of all contemporary UFO authors, Randies also brings to her writing what Part of the problem is that
Randies reminds me most of the late might be called the continental or Euro- psychoanalyzing alien behavior is
Donald Keyhoe, and I certainly don't pean UFO sensibility, an emphasis on the presently out of fashion, for objections I
mean that derogatorily. Her books are perceptual psychology of a case, say, neither fully fathom or agree with. We
conversational in tone, anecdotal in ap- rather than the nuts 'n' bolts aspects that psychoanalyze everything else, however
proach and drawn from what are pro- might be present like raisins in bread pud- rudely and crudely, so why are alien
bably among the most extensive in- ding. In addition, of course, since she motivations off limits? The argument
dividual UFO files in existence. Certain- does write from a largely British perspec- usually invoked is that such exercises are
ly, she is not as single-tracked or minded tive, we're treated to anecdotal cases we futile simply because they do involve a
as Keyhoe, who had an altogether dif- wouldn't normally encounter. theoretical alien psychology, a rationale
ferent agenda, which was to convince the In the case of abductions, this has that is ultimately as tautological or circular
American public that a) alien extrater- some consequences for thought. In the as the religious prohibition against inquir-
restrials were invading our air space, and same way that flying saucers first emerg- ing into the mysterious ways and man-
b) the government and military were ac- ed, abductions continue to manifest as a ners of the Creator. Are we to accept ab-
tively engaged in a cover-up of that mostly American phenomenon (more ductions on evidence or faith?
knowledge. than 50% of all cases catalogued by If the aliens are physical, biological be-
Well, we've come a long way, haven't Bullard originated in the U.S.), followed ings, then such prohibitions, under the
we, and nowhere further than in the area by South America and Britain third. The rubric of advanced age, science or
of UFO abductions, a facet of the reason for this is as yet murky; it could alieness itself, are de facto absurd. In fact,
phenomenon which Keyhoe only rarely be an artifact of the phenomenon itself, they are probably impossible, witness the
and begrudgingly acknowledged, if at all. the way reports are gathered and in- genetic experimentation and/or
Keyhoe was a publicist. Randies is more vestigated, even the number of in- hybridization hypothesis that seems to be
of a populist, and for that matter, more vestigators, population densities, or some the logical outgrowth of the Hopkins-
of a thinker than Keyhoe. Her books other unidentified factor. But of those Jacobs' research. It may not be possible
to have our cake and eat it, too, but it's cians, who can at least be presumed to know anything about the mysterious
certainly human nature to want to, know something about our physical "number stations"? Have any of
especially when confronted with a piece make-up? For that matter, should we ad- MUFON's amateur radio net listened in
of cake as choice and moist as abductions vise our sons and daughters against on these things? We'd be happy to have
would seem to be! growing up to be gynecologists, thereby any opinions, or better yet, information
More importantly, if 1 read my Vallee decreasing their odds of abduction? on the subject. Ten Four.
right, there is a fruitful way to investigate Despite the fact that we inhabit one,
or examine "alien" motives, which is by most of us know about as much about Running in Circles
examining their effect on percipients, the inner workings of our bodies as we
which is to say their intentions. We need do our minds, which is to say almost Elsewhere this issue, or last or next, we
not necessarily confuse ourselves by zilch. The same probably goes for cake. should have had Ralph Noyes' review of
assuming that they are so sophisticated three recent English books on the so-
as to be beyond our limited, "primitive," Who's Counting? called "corn-circle" phenomenon. Of
comprehension. They could just as con- course I'm always a little leery of any peo-
ceivably be as crude and transparent as Ordinarily, I don't like to give credence, ple that can't tell the difference between
any of our own. They could, in fact, be without supporting evidence, to con- corn and wheat and regularly drive on
a mere by-product of some other uniden- spiracy theories, of whatever stripe. But the wrong side of the road. But be that
tified phenomenon which in itself has something recently came to my attention, as it may, it's worth knowing that the
nothing to do with extraterrestrial visitors of which I had been completely unaware, phenomenon has now gained legitimacy
and kidnappers. But regardless, the ad- and which I find intriguing. Whether it in this country, by virtue of a front-page
vantage of such an approach is that we has anything to do with UFOs, of course, appearance in the august leaves of The
need not jump to conclusions about the is altogether another matter. Wall Street Journal for August 28, 1989
nature of the phenomenon itself; if we do The source is a column called "The (clipping courtesy of James Crocker).
our homework well enough, that will fall Straight Dope," by "Cecil Adams," a The article is headed "Mysterious Cir
inevitably into place. Admittedly, the ma- •pseudonym, which is syndicated by cles in British Fields Spook the Populace,"
jor drawback is also ingrained. Who various publications across the country. and sub-headed "Locals Blame UFOs,
wants to study the sun by observing the In this case it appeared in Current, San Yanks and Mad Hedgehogs: the Queen
shadows it casts? The latter approach is Antonio's "alternative" news and enter- is on the Case." We welcome Her Majesty
obviously less exciting and more time- tainment biweekly for September 7-20, to our own court, and hope she soon
consuming; the overlooked benefit, of 1989, page 5. A reader wrote in to in- comes up with a solution to satisfy
course, is that you don't go blind. quire about what are known as "number everyone, from farmers and ufologists to
But I digress. Randies; Alien Abduc- stations." These are shortwave radio equally befuddled meteorologists. In the
tions is a worthwhile read and survey of broadcasts whose transmissions consist meantime, I propose that who or
much of what we presently know and solely of a voice, usually, but not always, whatever is responsible (or irresponsible)
suspect about abductions. Oddly, Spanish, monotonously reciting three, for the flattened circles of wheat, which
Randies comes to a conclusion (I hesitate four or five digit numbers. continue growing horizontally, be dub-
to call it a solution, as the publisher does) Adams answers that "there are dozens bed "thatchers."
which combines both the psychological of 'number stations,' some of which have
and physical approach. I say oddly not been in business for decades, yet no
to suggest that the phenomenon doesn't government or private agency has ever
warrant such an appellation, but that in acknowledged them. The stations broad-
trying , to resolve the two seemingly cast in a variety of formats ... in languages
distinct natures of abductions, Randies ranging from English and Spanish to
ultimately opts for an explanation that Czech, Korean and Serbo-Croatian."
raises more questions than it answers. Adams says the voice is often female and
She concludes that alien extraterrestrial may be computer-generated like many
beings are indeed behind abductions, but telephone recordings.
in a purely psychic or psychological "Explanations" range from
fashion. In other words, they are inter- sophisticated drug-runners encoding
acting with spatially remote humans via messages to espionage agents keeping in
a dimensionless field of consciousness. touch with the home office. The connec-
I don't discount such a notion on the tion may be completely non-existent, but
face of it. But it makes one wonder why, it stirs up memories here of the Spanish
with all of consciousness itself to roam, UMMO Affair, an elaborately com-
the conversation is so limited and one- plicated series of supposedly UFO con-
way? Is she suggesting that the distant tacts involving all sorts of cryptic ex- Velcro makes sheep rustling a breeze.
denizens of another planet are having us changes of information, which are
examine our own bodies at their behest rumored to be ongoing.
and report back the results? In which
case, why not limit their contacts to physi-
Again, not to needlessly monger
mystery, but does anyone else out there
MUFON
Abduction Research: The Challenge Ahead
By Ron Westrum, Ph.D.
Dr. Westrum is a MUFON consul- scale and would involve physiologists, be others. But what the government (or
tant in sociology and associate direc- psychologists, physicists, experts in ar- some part of it) knows is likely to remain
tor of the Center for Scientific tificial intelligence, ecology, etc. ... obscure for some time. Obviously certain
Anomalies Research at Eastern Something about the size and funding of individuals and organizations are going
Michigan University. the National Science Foundation is the to considerable trouble to confuse us. I
appropriate answer, if the reports of ab- suggest we ignore them. We can't trust
Over the years I have watched UFO ductees are real. the information they give us, and until
research develop toward an increasingly I will not argue the case for the reality they start providing tangible proof —
sophisticated activity. The development of abduction reports here. Budd has done documents, photographs, alien carcasses
of MUFON has been an important ele- this very persuasively, and Dave Jacobs' or spaceship fragments — they are likely
ment in this research, since MUFON has forthcoming book will do it in a more to prove a waste of our energies.
consistently served as a meeting place for systematic way. The key point is that no While the government is throwing up
top investigators. The Center for UFO hypothesis other than alien visitation is a smokescreen, however, social effects
Studies has also, to a lesser extent, been supported by the research so far. The are beginning and will continue to in-
an important focus for UFO research. "fantasy prone personality" idea, so crease in breadth and depth. While ab-
And there are a variety of smaller regional beloved of skeptics, is a poor fit to the ob- duction support groups seem a relative-
and topical groups. All this is very good. vious hypervigilance of ostensible ab- ly benign development, we should not
But it is not anywhere near good enough ductees. Ditto for "mass hysteria," soon discount the possible development of
for the problem that we face. to be introduced by academic sociologists other kinds of groups, whose attitude
That problem has grown larger and as their explanation for what is going on. may be frankly religious. A potential alien
larger as abduction research has detail- The mixture of social patterning, "invasion" is also exactly the sort of thing
ed a problem of truly monumental pro- medical effects, the evident post- likely to breed politically extremist groups,
portions. We once felt that abduction was traumatic stress syndrome, and the and I don't think the first appearances of
a questionable, or at least a rare, event. remarkable consistency of abduction such groups are very far away.
It is becoming painfully clear, however, reports all argue for a very complex Finally, real mass hysteria is a serious
that whatever the nature of UFO abduc- phenomenon which cannot simply be possibility. We have been very lucky so
tions turns out to be, that it is a problem reduced to perceptual contagion or in- far that most of the abductees on televi-
involving large numbers of people. How dividual psychopathology. Abductees are sion have been relatively ordinary,
large are those numbers? A conservative not insane, they do not seem to be par- somewhat drab people. Wait until a film
estimate would put abductees at hun- ticularly prone to fantasy, and they ap- star starts vividly describing these events,
dreds of thousands. Millions however pear to be people to whom something however, and then abductee support
may be closer to the mark. I say this as very bad has happened, and is still hap- groups will be overwhelmed with poten-
a sociologist who has studied a large pening. Until we catch the aliens in the tial recruits.
number of socially "hidden events."1 Ac- act, of course, all this is necessarily And unlike the subject of many mass
cording to polls of students in his history hypothetical. Certainty, however, is like- hysterical outbreaks, there is really
classes, history professor David Jacobs ly to come too late for my taste. Let's get something behind this one. You can be
suspects that one in ten may be ab- on with this! abducted. Your house cannot protect,
ductees. In any case, we need more ac- nor can friends, guns, or in fact anything
curate and comparative research Alien Species that you can do save staying in Times
immediately. Square 24 hours a day. If you live a nor-
Yet if even a fraction of these numbers Remember that this is a species ques- mal life, you are at risk. This is a
are involved, we have a huge and nearly tion. These aliens are not foreign people, nightmare for us. It returns us to the scary
overwhelming problem. As support they are a different species. They ob- days of childhood, when there were bears
groups for abductees sprout in all the ma- viously regard us as an inferior one. behind the dresser and bogeymen in the
jor cities, where is the scientific research Whether we are breeding stock, ex- closet. One sympathizes with the little girl
of what is going on in the abduction perimental animals, or part of some ex- in Aliens II who asks "why do parents tell
phenomenon? Largely, it does not exist. istential game they are playing, we don't children that there aren't monsters, when
This is not to denigrate the excellent work matter to them. They are not trying to there are?"
of Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and establish communication, they are using And along with the mass movements,
others; Where would we be without it? us. We deserve better. there is the constant subliminal propagan-
But in magnitude and in resources, it is Who knows what the government da broadcast by intellectuals and artists
a tiny candle when we need a searchlight. knows or doesn't know? It is hard to deny who are abductees, witting or unwitting.
The kind of research that should be go- the reality of the Roswell crash, and if I wonder, for instance, about the late
ing on would be on a much more massive there is one, there are certainly likely to Robert Heinlein, whose book The Pup-
pet Masters and whose story "The at large, to stimulate inquiry, to get scien-
Strange Profession of Johnathan Hoag" tists interested in this problem.
contain obvious abduction themes, as do
others of his stories as well. Did he simp-
ly have a good imagination, or did he
And also government. Our political
representatives need to know that there
is public interest in this thing, that peo-
In Others
have personal knowledge? How many
other Whitely Streibers are out there,
churning out materials influenced by un-
ple are worried about it and that they are
not satisfied with the answers they have
been getting from the bureaucracies, in-
Vbrds
discussable (and perhaps unremem- cluding the Air Force and N.A.S.A. The By Lucius Parish
bered) personal experiences? more attention that is focused on this, the
If David Jacobs' figures are correct, the sooner there is going to be widespread
implication is that we are bathed in a sea scientific research. Political contacts need Space aliens in ancient Japan are the
of abduction-infected thoughts, emo- to be cultivated, they need to be briefed, subject of an article in the July 25 issue
tions, messages. This is powerful stuff. As and they need to know that you care. of NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Amphibious
movies such as E.T. or Close Encounters Find some of their constituents who are beings called "Kappas" figure in Japanese
of the Third Kind try to persuade, the abductees. Point out that this may well religious texts, while the clay figures of
aliens are ugly, but friendly. There is a become issue #1 for the 1990's. Send "Dogus" have many points of similarity
great deal of similar material with a dif- them an article, or send them a Budd with the suits worn by modern astronauts.
ferent message. All this is being fought Hopkins book and suggest they read it. The "Anti-Matter/UFO Update" col-
out, at a level largely unconscious, both Suggest they ask more questions about umn in the August issue of OMNI has a
for writer and reader, artist and viewer, why government isn't looking into this summary of the UFO activity which has
singer and listener. thing. taken place in/around Elmwood,
This has moved beyond the stage Wisconsin, as well as the plans for a
Social Emissaries where we can practice ufology as a part- "UFO Landing Site" in this area. The
time activity. We need the skills and column in the September issue of the
And that is why we need consciously, resources of big science. We need an in- magazine details John Lear's controver-
as a society, to address this problem, not ternational effort, but the U.S. is a good sial theories concerning UFOs, govern-
to hide from it, not to pray that it will go place to start. This is not going to go ment/alien "interactions," etc.
away, but to face it squarely and learn away. I kept hoping it would, but it hasn't. Abductions researcher Budd Hopkins
more about what it is doing to us. And This has all the earmarks of something has recently been instrumental in form-
this means research - research of all real — and very dangerous. I am not an ing the Intruders Foundation, which will
kinds, using our best minds to pry this abductee, but it sure troubles me. Let's get focus on the task of properly investigating
thing open, get to its core, and find out on with it. the ever-increasing number of UFO ab-
what we are up against. I sometimes have 1. Ron Westrum, "Social Intelligence About Hid- duction claims. A quarterly IF BULLETIN
a tendency to think, "Well, gee, if this is den Events: Implications for Scientific Research and will be published, containing articles by
so powerful, I'm not going to be able to Social Policy," Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion,
Utilization, Vol. 3 #3 (1982); Ron Westrum, "The
various UFO investigators, as well as con-
do anything about it, so I'll just put it Blind Eye of Science," in The Fringes of Reason: tributions by abductees, scientists,
aside." But we can't do that. Each of us A Whole Earth Catalogue, Ed. by Ted Schultz, (New psychologists and others. Membership in
needs to become an emissary to society York: Harmony House, 1989) IF is $25.00 per year. The address is: P.O.
Box 30233 - New York, NY 10011.
A new paperback title of possible in-
Calendar of UFO Conferences for 1989 terest is Kevin D. Randle's THE UFO
October? & 8 — UFOs: Past, Present and Future, New Modesto Centre Plaza, Modesto, CASEBOOK (Warner Books; $4.95).
California. Randle examines a good many "classic"
cases, as well as others which he has per-
October 21 — The Show-Me UFO Conference, Harley Hotel, Earth City, Missouri (near sonally investigated. Some of his conclu-
St. Louis)
sions are questionable, at best, but
October 26, 27, 28 & 29 — International UFO Conference, Frankfurt's Airport Conven- overall, this is a worthwhile summary of
tion Center, Frankfurt, West Germany UFO events since 1947.
Brad Steiger's MONSTERS AMONG
November 11 & 12 — The UFO Experience, Ramada Inn, North Haven, Connecticut US, recently reprinted in paperback by
Berkley Books, contains a chapter on
UFO occupants.
Publication of Ed Walters' UFOs -
Calendar of UFO Conferences for 1990 PROOF POSITIVE! is now set for late
March 1990, from William Morrow & Co.
April 6, 7 & 8 — Ozark UFO Conference, Inn of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This, of course, is subject to change, as
July 6,7 & 8 — MUFON 1990 International UFO Symposium, Pensacola Hilton, Pensacola, are all things which have to do with
Florida publishing!

shaped object hovered over the school;
Looking Back that it had no tail, no wings, appeared to

have windows and at times its lumino-
sity was so brilliant he had to shield his
By Bob Gribble eyes. Suddenly the vehicle accelerated
directly to the west at terrific speed,
FORTY YEARS AGO - October were sighted by Mr. Peter Djorkovic, making no noise. Watching with Warrick
1949: About 1:15 p.m. on the 14th, a Assistant Director of the Belgrade, were Mrs. George Dittmar, teacher, and
member of the Mount Palomar Obser- Yugoslavia, Astronomical Observatory. about 60 pupils. In the wake of the craft
vatory staff, a Mr. Marshall, was driving The astronomer was convinced that the was a trail of webs, which fell in long
down the mountain — northeast of San seven objects seen from the Observatory strands. Part of it came down in balls like
Diego, California — when he sighted 16 were some mechanical contrivance and cotton. Trees, bushes and utility wires
to 18 objects fly by in V formation, emit- not parts of a meteor. He said four of the were covered. Both Warrick and Mrs.
ting a strange sound. Mr. Marshall felt he craft were watched by the Observatory Dittmar said that when they were able to
was familiar enough with all types of air- staff flying a flat trajectory towards catch two ends of a strand the stuff could
craft, but for the life of him he couldn't Bulgaria. Half an hour later they were be pulled out into a long thread, "so
make out any wings or tail structures on observed moving over the area in the op- tough," said Warrick, "that it could hard-
the silver-colored objects as they zoom- posite direction on the same course. The ly be broken." Within less than a minute
ed by at 5000 feet altitude. At the same vehicles were described as circular and after being touched, the substance would
time the recording pen for the Geiger cigar-shaped. disappear. Warrick said that the strands
counters and recording equipment at the felt like asbestos, but weren't sticky. After
Observatory jumped off-scale, something handling it, his skin turned green and his
that had never occurred before. The National Aeronautics and Space hand sweated profusely. The stain disap-
At 7:20 the morning of the 17th, a Administration said it had picked up peared in about 30 minutes.
member of the staff of the Observatory strange signals from an unknown orbiting
went to check the Geiger tubes in the object. Soon after this, a French
power house. When he was inside, his at- astronomer revealed that he also had Between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on the 24th,
tention was drawn to the window. To the heard signals from an unknown source many disc-shaped objects, dull silver in
southwest a small black dot was visible orbiting Earth. And the French people color, maneuvered over Gravatai Air
zipping along at high speed beneath a were also seeing things. MM. Henri Force Base, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
cloud ceiling at 7000 feet. At the same Gallois and Louis Vigneron were driving The craft were observed by a number of
moment the Geiger counter recorder pen near Clamecy (Nievre), about 4:30 a.m. Air Force personnel. Two days later the
jumped off-scale. On the 21st another on the llth when they had a startling Brazilian Air Force announced to the na-
high speed object was seen near the adventure. "We had not gone far from tion that the UFOs were real, "that they
Observatory. In appearance the object Clamecy," M. Gallois said, "when sud- are circular objects, silver in color in
looked to be elongated and slightly denly I felt something like an electric daylight and capable of speeds and
curved like a banana. It was spotted at shock all through my body, and so. did maneuvers far beyond any known air-
2:30 p.m. There was no reaction by the M. Vigneron. At the same time the craft."
Geiger counters. The staff member's engine stalled and the headlights went
sighting was given further support by the out. Paralyzed, unable to move, we could ***
owner of the Palamar Gardens Cafe, near only sit there wondering what had hap- THIRTY YEARS AGO - October
the Observatory, when he reported see- pened, and watching. Then we saw that 1959: A young hunter, surprised by a
ing a "cigar-shaped object" passing over about 50 yards away from us, in the strange object hovering over a Virginia
the area at the same time. meadow next to the road, there was a swamp, fired his shotgun at it and heard
round object or machine, and alongside the shot strike a metallic surface. A com-
it we could see very clearly three small panion nearby also saw the craft and
*** figures, with quick, lively movements and heard the metallic sound. Mark Muza, 15,
THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO - Oc- gestures. But soon the figures seemed to and Harold Moore, Jr., 14, both of Po-
tober 1954: Mr. Duncan Fletcher, Vice disappear into the object, which then flew quoson, Virginia, were hunting in a
President of the Kenya, Africa, off very rapidly. Almost at once our swampy area known as the "Big Marsh"
Astronomical Society, stated that he and headlights went on again, and we could about 6:15 p.m. on the 19th when Muza
four of his associates sighted and closely start the car." heard a sound "like a tornado." Looking
observed one of the numerous UFOs up, he saw a small dark object with a sur-
reported over East Africa during October. rounding silver ring hovering at an alti-
He said that he is now convinced that At about 3:15 p.m. on the 22nd, tude of about 80 feet, and dipping slightly
Earth is under systematic surveillance by youngsters on the playground of the from side to side.
intelligent beings from outer space. Marysville, Ohio, Jerome School spotted When the craft began to descend,
a strange object directly overhead. They Muza fired two "Maximum 4" shells at it.
notified the principal, Rodney Warrick, Then reloading, he fired a steel-bearing
On the seventh strange flying objects who investigated. He said that a cigar- shell which struck the vehicle with an
audible metallic clang. The craft then shot young people believed to be Navy jets. merly said. "It would be impossible
straight up into the clear sky and disap- The object appeared to be ruby red, with 'without using sophisticated electronic
peared from view. Standing about 100 a blue halo around it, when moving e q u i p m e n t . And tests with an
yards away, Moore heard Muza fire, saw rapidly at high elevation. Its sound was oscilloscope prove that it was not the
the craft, and heard the metallic noise. described as "a mix between a hum and result of any kind of technical fault..I can't
Then he saw the vehicle go straight up a fog-horn." even explain how the signal latched on-
out of sight. The craft was visible for to the police radio, which is specially
about a minute and a half. At its lowest designed to reject unwanted signals. I'm
point, Muza estimated, it was only about Shortly before 3 a.m. on the 21st, completely baffled."
55 feet off the ground and about four feet Deputy William Brown, 25, of the
in diameter. • Wyoming County, New York Sheriff's * **
Department, was driving down a TEN YEARS AGO - October 1979:
** * deserted highway about 40 miles east of Richard Breault and his wife were driv-
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO - Oc- Buffalo. "Suddenly this blinding flash of ing near Apple River, Wisconsin about
tober 1964: In the last week of the light swept over me going in the same 6:30 p.m. on the 25th when they sighted
month Larry Rossi, an engineer with the direction," Brown said. "I couldn't make a bright light in the sky. Suddenly, the
National Aeronautics and Space Ad- out what it was even though the night light descended on the Breault's car. "My
ministration test site on Wallop's Island, was clear. Before I had a chance to think wife thought we were going to smash in-
Virginia, with three other technicians about it, the dispatcher told me to go to it and screamed at me to hit the
from NASA, saw a triangular-shaped back to Perry Center and check out a brakes," Breault said. The object came at
craft come out of the north and make a complaint. I turned around and had the car about 80 feet above the ground
90-degree turn east. The vehicle was reached about 50 miles an hour when the and then came straight down until it
moving at a high rate of speed and disap- light swept past again. This time I got a hovered about 20 feet above the road.
peared within a minute. better look. It was less than 500 feet He described the craft as about 40 feet
above my head — but it was so bright I in length with a hump in the middle. The
*** couldn't make out the shape. It was just vehicle then shot across Half Moon Lake
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO - October a brilliant, yellowish light that lit up the at 4000 to 5000 miles an hour, according
1974: Jeannie, Beth, Linda and Tony countryside. to Breault. "I've never seen such speed
Overfelt, and Pat Nelson, all of Ramona, "Then seconds later, a weird noise fill- in all my life." Sitting next to Breault on
California, had a frightening experience ed the car. It was a high-pitched, scream- the pickup seat was a loaded camera.
on the evening of the 15th as they ing wail that lasted for several seconds.
watched a mysterious object maneuver It startled me. It was ear-piercing. My first
over Santa Maria Valley. The object land- thought was that my microphone wasn't A silver, bullet-shaped craft with two in-
ed on a hillside, gradually turned ruby switched off and was causing feedback, tensely brilliant beams of light was ob-
red, then intensely white, hovered a short but I made a quick check and it definite- served hovering over the Sacramento
time over the ground then streaked ly wasn't transmitting. I have to admit I River north of Colusa, California, by
toward Country Estates. The object was was scared. I pulled off the road and just Carlos Genera and his brother Ruben on
perfectly round. According to the five sat there for a few minutes..." Moments the 26th. "At about 12:15 a.m., it came
young people, when the object flew after Brown's encounter with the UFO, a out of nowhere and stayed at one point
overhead the horses began excitedly few miles to the east in Livingston Coun- for about two or three minutes, and then
whinnying and bucking; one kicked off ty, several other officers were stunned as came over our heads," Carlos said. "It
a fence rail. A dog grasped one of the they got a better look at the strange ob- emitted a nice steady hum like a big elec-
girls by the sleeve and tried to pull her ject. Brown, still badly shaken by the wail- tric generator." Ruben said the vehicle
into the house. The other dog, which was ing sound that had invaded his car, didn't created a considerable stir among the
chained, ran in and out of of the learn until he got back to Warsaw that animals along the river and nearby farms.
doghouse, often smashing into the back dispatcher Dennis Quackenbush had "Everything started getting excited all at
of the doghouse with great force. heard the screaming over the radio. once. There was a big commotion right
The goats were "jumping around," and "It didn't sound anything like distortion away ... roosters crowing, ducks quack-
the chickens were scrambling and cack- or interference," Quackenbush said. The ing and geese honking, even though it
ling in the dark. The cat ran with great noise starts on a low note, rises sharply was just after midnight. Also, the bullfrogs
force into the side of the garage, stunn- in pitch until it can barely be heard and were provoked into croaking loudly,
ing itself. No radio or TV station would then drops down to the original low note. evidently in protest at being disturbed."
work, the TV had blue spots and vertical It is a perfectly clear tone and very loud.
bands. Tony's compass alternated er-
ratically from north to northeast in one-
Merle Demerly, an electronics expert
whose company installs and maintains SUPPORT
second periods when the object was on police radio equipment, spent many
the hillside, but when it flew overhead the
compass needle lodged itself against the
hours with two other engineers trying to
identify the mysterious sound. "We have
UFO
glass cover. After the object flew over,
some airplanes followed, which the
completely ruled out the possibility that
Deputy Brown created the sound," De-
RESEARCH
lecture: a segment of several minutes at my nearby Bergstrom AFB (Texas).
Letter to the Editor... taken from a commercial motion pic- This eleven-second segment is also
ture, UFOs: It Has Begun. This 1979 clearly a part of the whole sequence
Dear Editor, film, an Allan F. Sandier production, of film "simulating" a UFO "alert" at
Some rather extraordinary claims, written by Robert Emenegger (author an airbase; including views around the
to say the least, were presented at the of UFOs: Past, Present, Future is a control tower windows, close-ups of
"alternate lectures" held in the same respectable documentary featuring communication panels, telephones,
hotel concurrent with the MUFON well-known faces and voices of both clipboards, typewriters, coffee mugs
1989 International UFO Symposium. Hollywood and Ufology presenting a and whatnot; an obviously not an ex-
I attended and listened carefully as concise history of the UFO/animal- cerpt from some different (supposedly
one conspiracy theory after another mutilation mystery. John Lear claimed fifteen years older, according to Lear)
was presented in an atmosphere of to his audience that within this movie piece of film. Don't take my word for
expectation and high drama. segment, depicting a "what if ..." it; rent the film and evaluate it
Throughout I was searching for any scenario of UFOs landing at yourself! If the military does have a
evidence; films, documents, named Holloman AFB (New Mexico), a film record of UFOs at Holloman
sources, anything apart from the seven-second (or so) strip of film of AFB, there is no fragment of it in
presenter's own word, that would lend an actual interplanetary craft UFOs: It Has Begun.
credence to the yarns that were reel- somehow slipped past government If extraordinary claims require ex-
ing out before us. That the cupboard censors and wound up in the final traordinary evidence in support of
is practically bare in this regard is, I film. He even ran the bit twice, so that such claims, then I submit that the
believe, an understatement. The the audience could "ooh" and "aah" best evidence of John Lear and com-
audio-visual exhibits were particular- and strain in their seats to try and see pany does not inspire confidence, and
ly revealing as to the thought pro- the blurry projected image from the MUFON was well-counseled to dis-
cesses of these conspiracists, and the taped motion picture, which made the associate itself therefrom.
level of personal credibiliity we should object in question look mysteriously — Jerold Johnson
assign to them (a conspiracist, not a indistinct. Austin, TX
conspirator, I define as one who is This claim astounded me. Seven
forever looking for, and invariably seconds of 35mm, professionally-shot
finding, dark conspiracies lurking in motion picture film of a UFO in Dear Editor,
all facets of human activity). daylight with mountains in the I have read with a strong interest
Among the video tapes presented background defining a maximum Robert Hastings' paper in the June issue
as the "hard evidence," we were range, within the controlled airspace of the Journal. It is a serious challenge
shown a heavily edited and enlarged of a U.S. military base, unknown and to which Moore ought to reply.
version of the Abraham Zapruder un-studied by UFO researchers, Although I personally have the feeling
filming of the President Kennedy would be simply an amazing piece of that the MJ-12 affair is a modern hoax,
murder, voiced-over with dramatic UFO evidence ... if it existed. Unfor- I think it fair to present an argument in
monologue explaining why the viewer tunately it does not. favour of Moore's honesty, even if it is
should see that the President's driver Some weeks following the sym- totally uncorrelated to Hastings'
was the main assasin, something the posium and its "rump session," I ob- contribution.
film does not show at all. Evidence of- tained Emenegger's UFOs: It Has When Moore and Berlitz wrote The
fered of UFO - U.S. Government col- Begun (as you, yourself, can) and Roswell Incident, their scenario involved
lusion included video tape of an un- viewed it without the projection- a two-place incident (Brazel's ranch near
named, shadowy "whistle-blower" screen video difficulties that frustrated Roswell and the San Agustin Plains).
who said nothing either unique, the Las Vegas audience (as you, Later investigations by Moore and his col-
checkable, or particularly interesting, yourself, may) and I found Mr. Lear's laborators did not, however, confirm the
but for whom we have John Lear's significant seven-second segment. Ac- second site, and today Moore says wise-
vouch; and a video tape of John tually, it runs more like eleven ly that he does not know if it has or has
Lear's face lit by flashlight in an out- seconds, and in any clear print of the not a role in the story. But the two-site
door setting, saying that he was ob- film you can see that the descending story is apparently not compatible with
serving disk-shaped flying craft. We "object" has two wings, a tail, a dark the very brief account of the Roswell
didn't see any disk-shaped craft on the nose, bright landing lights turned on, crash in the Hillenkoetter memorandum.
tape, just Mr. Lear telling us he was and wheels hanging down ready for My argument is that if this document had
seeing them. landing. I not only saw the object been forged by (or with the collaboration
Is John Lear credible? Do we ac- clearly as an aircraft, but I recognized of) Moore, he would have arranged it so
cept his observation and recognition its appearance well enough to iden- that it apparently confirms what he had
of truly anomalous objects, as distinct tify it as an F-4, an older Air Force previously said in the book.
from exotic, high-performance ex- plane known by the name "Phan- There are several ways to explain this
perimental aircraft? These questions tom," which you can observe on final discrepancy. For instance, Moore made
were answered for me by one other approach to landing (with their lights a mistake in forging the memorandum.
video tape Mr. Lear presented in his on just as in the film) almost any day Or the "error" is voluntary and is a red
herring. Or Moore is innocent. I am
unable to say what hypothesis is true, but
the latter is the simplest. The Night Sky
By Walter N. Webb
— Claude Mauge
France OCTOBER 1989
Bright Planets (Evening Sky):
Dear Editor,
Venus (magnitude -4.3) is gradually improving its position and brightness in the
What a relief to read Dennis Stacy's
SW evening twilight. It now sets about 2 hours after sunset in mid-October. Our
essay in the July issue. After suffering
brilliant neighbor may be seen above the crescent Moon on the 3rd and only
through yet another solipsistic, Ph.D- 1.8° above the red star Antares on the 16th.
generated tract that trundled so
ponderously across the page and past Jupiter (magnitude -2.4), in Gemini, now rises in the ENE shortly after 10 p.m.
these weary eyes of mine, to encounter: daylight time in mid-month. It begins retrograde motion on the 28th. The long-
clarity, brevity — wit! Delightful. awaited Galileo launch' to Jupiter is expected this month. After traveling through
As the new Scholastics speculate space for over 6 years, the probe finally reaches its destination in December 1995.
amongst themselves upon how many ab- There a capsule enters the giant planet's dense clouds and transmits data for
duction reports they can fit on the head an hour; the main craft orbits and observes the gas world and its moons for
the next 22 months.
of a theoretical pin, why is it that they re-
mind me of a bunch of virgins discussing Saturn (magnitude 0.5), in Sagittarius, remains low in the southern sky at dusk,
birth control? (But we read all the setting in the WSW about the time Jupiter rises.
literature!) No doubt there's nothing like
Bright Planets (Morning Sky):
dismissing 40-odd years of hard sought,
hard won data at the drop of a survey, A rare opportunity to spot Mercury, nearest planet to the Sun, is afforded
but someone please tell me why the during the first three weeks of October. The little planet is at greatest western
results always have to be delivered in a elongation, 18° west of the Sun, on October 10. With the aid of binoculars,
mythoprosaic, psychopompous prose look for a faint orange dot with the naked eye during midtwilight about 8° above
style that makes my head hurt trying to the east horizon (at 40° north latitude). This is Mercury's best morning ap-
decipher it. pearance of the year.
It seems to me that a healthy sense of Jupiter stands high in the south at dawn.
proportion (let's call it humor, for lack of
a more "noetic" word), is in order here. Meteor Showers:
I mean, isn't it possible that maybe, just The last-quarter Moon will hamper viewing of this year's Orionid meteors
maybe, (oh, apostasy!) those people — during its morning peak on the 21st. And a dark sky is especially required for
or beings or whatever we insist on label- this shower of mostly faint swift meteors. However, some Orionids are bright,
ing them — might themselves have one? train-leaving fireballs. Late in the month the much slower, redder South Taurids
Hell, if they are monitoring our TV broad- begin to increase; many of these are spectacular fireballs.
casts they'd better have, otherwise we're Moon Phases:
really in some deep trouble.
In any case, I look forward with grim First quarter — October 7
anticipation to the next installment of the Full moon — October 14 (Hunter's Moon;
new, improved explanation of the mean- nearest Moon of the year)
ing of meanings of ... what-have-you, Last quarter — October 21
whilst the rapidly depleting stockyard of
the English language is mutilated about New moon — October 29 ^J
in. Mr. Stacy, may you once again save The Stars:
us from such deep shallowness, and
soon. During midevening hours the nose of Pegasus, the upside-down Flying Horse,
touches the celestial meridian. The horse's body, the Great Square, can be seen
— Mark Packo
high in the SE. And attached to the NE corner of the square is the constellation
Stratford, CT
Andromeda the Princess, composed of a double row of stars curving outward
from the star Alpheratz in the square.
Talk about pressure!
— Editor The Big Dipper skims along the horizon at this season; late autumn is the popular
asterism's poorest evening viewing position of the year.
UFO investigators must be aware of several stellar IFO candidates near the horizon
in the midevening October sky. The refracting or bending of light through tur-
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bulent layers of air and haze near the horizon may cause celestial objects to ap-
pear to move and change color, brightness and shape. The horizon objects to
look out for this month are Capella (NE), Aldebaran (ENE), Fomalhaut (SSE),
Saturn (SW) and Arcturus (WNW).
Fifth London International MESSAGE, Continued
UFO Congress Other News

The Fifth London International UFO counter Effects on People in Africa," and
Congress was held July 14, 15 and 16, Walt Andrus (U.S.A.), "Gulf Breeze On September 20th, the NBC-TV pro-
1989 at the London Business School, Photographic Case." gram Unsolved Mysteries featured the
Sussex Place, Regents Park, London Sunday's program was composed of Roswell Crash in a 25-minute segment,
NWI, England, sponsored by ICUR, MilosKrmelj (Yugoslavia), "UFO Update opening their Fall season. Stanton T.
BUFORA and MUFON. Robert S. Digby, in Yugoslavia"; Maurizio Verga and Gian Friedman and Kevin Randle were the
Congress Director, welcomed the par- Paolo Grassino (Italy), "Italian UFO scientific advisors for the documentary
ticipants to this prestigious congress. The Research in the 80's"; John L. Spencer filmed in Roswell, New Mexico. We regret
opening address was delivered by Sir (England), "Witness-Driven Investiga- that we were unable to publicize the seg-
Patrick Wall, MC, VRD, RM (Ret.), Presi- tions"; Walt Andrus (U.S.A.), "Rebuttal ment's airing date in the last issue of the
dent of the British UFO Research to Claims Made by Willy Smith on the Journal, as it was being filmed as we were
Association (BUFORA). Gulf Breeze Case"; and Jenny Randies composing the September issue in
The speakers on Friday and their sub- (England), "Abduction Feedback and August. Leslie Varnicle and David
jects were Hilary Evans (England), "Balls Report from the Abduction Panel." Dobbs broadcast the airing date on the
of Light"; Claude Mauge (France), "An Led by Jenny Randies, the ICUR Ab- MUFON Amateur Radio Net on Satur-
Attempt to Define the UFO"; Philip Man- duction Committee met independently day, September 16th to the hams check-
tle (England), "Barnsley Photographic several times during the Congress to for- ing in on the weekly net on 7237 KHZ.
Hoax"; An Abduction Debate by six mulate a systematic series of questions Announcments of UFO Conferences
speakers; and an after dinner slide- and identifiable characteristics related to must be received in Seguin at least two
illustrated humorous talk by Lionel Beer potential abductees so as to provide months before the date of the event to
(England) titled "UFOs Portrayed in Car- guidelines to investigators when allow time for the logistics of editing and
toons." regressive hypnosis should be recom- publishing the Journal, plus the postal
The Saturday speaking program in- mended. This'was one of the most signifi- delivery time. The same lead time is re-
cluded Ken Phillips ( E n g l a n d ) , cant accomplishments of the Congress. quired for TV programs, which is very dif-
"Anamnesis Research/Report on U.K. These guidelines will be published in a ficult under the circumstances. Please
Cases"; Bertil Kuhlemann (Sweden), subsequent issue of the Journal. help me with timely items, since the
"Taking a Stand on the UFO Subject"; MUFON UFO Journal is the only month-
Paul Fuller (England), "Corn Circles"; — Walt Andrus ly UFO magazine that can effectively
Cynthia Hind (Zimbabwe), "Close En- publish current events.
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MOMENT, Continued 2. Joe Kirk Thomas, "The Vehicle In-
TAPES OF
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agnostic about the very existence of Network, September 1987) pp. 3-11. Vegas Symposium and those mailed
UFOs (magnetic moments of 1012 have to Hal Starr in Phoenix, Arizona have
3. Joe Kirk Thomas, "Ruppelt Rings: The
not helped in this regard). Nevertheless, been delayed due to unforeseen pro-
Effects of Low Frequency Magnetic
I firmly believe that the root of the duction problems and editing of the 12
Fields," MUFON UFO Journal No. 197
burgeoning mythology that surrounds hour video and audio tapes. Please be
(Seguin, Texas: The Mutual UFO Net-
them will never be found without hard patient as we solve these problems.
work, September 1984) pp. 5-10.
physical evidence. In an age when For further information on ordering
legitimate ufology has almost stopped 4. Donald A. Johnson, "The Effects of tapes, please refer to the order form
studying UFOs themselves, it is reassur- Position and Distance in UFO Ignition- on page 27 of the August issue of the
ing that someone still is. Mr. Ackerman Interference Cases," The Journal of UFO MUFON UFO Journal. Please refrain
is doing that, and I commend him for it. Studies, Vol. Ill (Evanston, Illinois: The from cutting out the order form since
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REFERENCES copy of the page if your order is diver-
5. Robert G. Fleagle and Joost A. Bus-
1. Joe Kirk Thomas, "An Alternative to inger, An Introduction of Atmospheric sified. All orders are to be mailed to
the Microwave Theory of the Hot Ring Physics, (New York: Academic Press, Hal Starr, 312 West Frier Drive,
Syndrome," MUFON UFO Journal No. 1963), p. 307. Phoenix, AZ 85021. (Telephone:
194 (Seguin, Texas: The Mutual UFO 602 / 944-4211.)
Network, April 1984) pp. 9-11.
Director's Message
By Walt Andrus
Conference Calendar And speaking of new books, The Gulf Bastrop, Caldwell and Fayette Counties;
Breeze Sightings — The Most Astoun- and Anthony A. Neugebauer, a retired
The monthly listing or calendar of UFO ding Multiple Sightings of UFOs in U.S. minister living in Cibolo, now supervises
Conferences is published in the Journal History by Edward and Frances Guadalupe and Wilson Counties in
as a service to our readers and advance Walters, with foreword by Budd Texas.
information to others planning future Hopkins and photo analysis by Dr. George D. Fawcett, State Director for
UFO conferences, so as to avoid conflic- Bruce S. Maccabee, will be released in North Carolina, has made some new
ting dates that could be embarrassing. hardback by William Morrow Co. early in assignments and appointments of State
The listing of a UFO conference does not 1990. The spectacular photographs will Section Directors. George E. Lund III,
in any way constitute an endorsement of be published in full color. and Angclo Pete Politis, both residents
the event by the Mutual UFO Network. During the month of September, Jen- of Charlotte, NC, have been appointed
An article detailing a conference will be ny Randies toured the U.S.A. promoting Co-State Section Directors for Mecklen-
published in the ;: -jrnal as a recommen- her new book Alien Abductions - The burg and Cabarrus Counties. P. Wayne
dation and one tnat MUFON supports. Mystery Solved, published by Inner Light Laporte, residing in Indian Trail and a
Private UFO meetings, that is, by invita- Publications, Box 753, New Brunswick, State Section Director since 1976, is now
tion only, will not appear in the calendar. NJ 08903. Ms. Randies has compiled an in charge of Gaston, Union and Lincoln
Examples noted are the MUFON-CES amazing dossier of over 200 documented Counties.
Conference to be held in Stuttgart, West UFO abductions. You may obtain a copy Gary Levine, Ph.D., State Director for
Germany on October 20-22, 1989, by mailing $13 plus $1 for postage and New York, has appointed William E.
hosted by Illobrand von Ludwiger and handling to the above address. Knell of Flushing, NY to be his Assistant
TREAT II (Second Conference of Treat- State Director. Bill Knell is the editor of
ment and Research on Experienced New Officers a newsletter titled The. New York UFO
Anomalous Trauma) in Blacksburg, Report. It is conceivable that the New
Virginia, planned by Rima E. Laibow, Due to his employment as a National York MUFON State Newsletter could be
M.D. Park Ranger in the western states that ex- incorporated into Mr. Knell's publication,
Three upcoming UFO Conferences tends from Spring to Fall, Richard D. now in it's fourth monthly edition. John
were featured in the September 1989 Seifried has resigned as Co-State Direc- "Vic" Brown, former State Director for
issue of the Journal: (1) The Central tor for Ohio. Fred W. Hays, Co-State New Mexico, has volunteered to serve in
California UFO Conference in Modesto, Director living in Kettering, OH, has been the unique position of Scientific Advisor
California on October 7 and 8; (2) The appointed State Director for Ohio. Our to the New Mexico - MUFON organiza-
Show-me UFO Conference in Earth best wishes are extended to both Dick tion, headed by Teresa Brito-Asenap,
City Missouri (near St. Louis) on October and Fred in their new endeavors. Daniel State Director. John Komar, Tennessee
21; and (3) the UFO Experience on R. Berker, M.S. of Carson City, NV, State Director, appointed David G.
November 11 and 12 in North Haven, formerly a State Section Director, has Tackett of Memphis as State Section
Connecticut. been promoted to State Director of Director for Shelby, Fayette and Tipton
The October issue introduces the 1990 Nevada, replacing John Lear who re- Counties in Western Tennessee.
calendar. The theme for the MUFON signed. Thomas E. Russ, a professional H. Harper Kerr, M.D., a retired
1990 International UFO Symposium in journalist for 16 years, residing in surgeon in Shalimar, FL, has volunteered
Pensacola, Florida is "UFOs: The Impact Newport News, VA, has volunteered to his expertise as a consultant in Thoracic
of E.T. Contact Upon Society." Speakers serve as State Section Director for York, and Cardiovascular surgery. New
already scheduled are John L. Spencer James City, Isle of Wight, Surry Coun- Research Specialists appointed this past
of Harpenden, England, Edward ties and the adjacent major cities. month are James "Gus" Shelton, M.S.
Walters, residing in Gulf Breeze, Florida Thomas P. Deuley, State Director of (Sacramento, CA) for counseling; Mon-
and the Reverend Barry H. Downing, Texas has approved the following revi- ty E. Cantsin, M.S. (North Merrick, NY)
Ph.D., author of the book The Bible and sions in county assignments for the State in Psychology, who is also a
Flying Saucers. Dr. Downing's popular Section Directors: Ellen R. Partridge, a psychotherapist, and Joseph G.
book was updated and rereleased in legal secretary in Austin, was selected to DiGregorio, M.A. (Oswego, NY) in
paperback by Berkley in January 1989. be the new State Section Director for Philosophy.
Additional speakers will be announced in Travis and Williamson Counties; Floyd
future issues of the Journal as they are N. Petri, Jr., residing in Red Rock, has
confirmed. been reassigned the responsibilities for Continued on page 27

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