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Vol 7 Nol May/fune 1978

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BUFORA JOURNALVolume 7 Number 1 May/June 1978

Editorial Address: 95 Taunton Road, London SE12 8PA

Contents

Bufora Conference 1978

Book Reviews

The Naas UFO

Points from the Press

Report-Extra!The UN and UFOs

Uforum

Sighting Summaries

Betty Hill and a Cornfield

Exchange Publications

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EditonialIrrational Sceptics ?

Many publications are currently carry-ing items referring to the group ofscientists, magicians and others en-titled The Committee for the ScientificInaestigation of Claims for the Para-normal, whose members include suchwell-known names as Isaac Asimovand Carl Sagan. Publishing a mag-azine-Zetetic (Sceptic in Greek)-their overall object appears to be torefute the claims of 'pseudo-science,'under which heading they includeUfology. This, though, is not all.Philosopher Paul Kurtz, their Chair-man, indicates they are also concernedwith the danger of such 'irrationalthought' growing and spreading intosocial and political areas lest it shouldlessen society's resistance to the 'pro-grammes of ideological sects.' The

Committee has already complained ofbias in an NBC TV Documentaryfeaturing psychic surgery and filed aformal complaint with the FederalCommunications Commission in theUSA as well as with two congressionalsub-committees, suggesting that theNBC should be threatened with theloss of its licence.

Now, clearly, in areas where claims ofscientific backing are made which arefalse such a body has a right to com-plain and take appropriate action.Where scientific views are misrepre-sented or speculations on causes ofvarious phenomena are stated as factthere would also seem a case to be madeout. If' however, they intend attemp-ting to suppress presentation and dis-cussion of paranormal possibilities orto tell us that because, in some cases,magicians can 'duplicate' psychiceffects and abilities, this proves theycannot exist, then it is they themselveswho are guilty of irrational thinking.One can but trust a MacCarthy-stylewitchhunt will not be the end product.

CCEl1ls ?

I well remember the number of differ-ent researchers u'ho visited the lateErnest Bryant, the Devon contacteeclaimant of the sixties following hisoriginal ' contact' report to myself.

More recently, the number of ufologistsinterviewing Winchester claimant JoyceBowles must have been of an orderworthy of inclusion in the GuinnessBook of Records! Nevertheless, insuch C8111 cases, to my mind themore people who see those concerned

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Left .t9- right-: Guest - speaker Dr Richard Haines from Los Altos, california,

specialist in human vision and perception and consultant to The Cenrer for UFCjstudies; Lionel Beer, FRAS, BUFORA Director and council chairman; Jeanand Allen Stevens of MURo-The Midlands uFo Research organiiaiion,which hosted the Conference.

The National uFo Research and rnvestigations conference held at theGeorge Hotel, Nottingham on 15-16 April, sponsored by Bufora, was a re-sounding succe_ss. -All thirteen speakers were well received and papers were of" -rrlg_rt

standard. About 175 people attended for the whole or parr'of the rime,yliit-, was_ q!9r19 expectation and Bufma was particularly indebied to the Mans-field based Midlands uFo Research organisation (MURo) for so ably hostingand stewarding the Conference.

!gn"t9 reflected various hypotheses and ranged from a contribution from theskandinavisk uFo Information (SUFOI) demonstrating a Danish rime LawAnalysis of UFo sightings through to the guest speakel, Dr Richard Haines,MA, pHD., who reviewed uFo shapes, together with variations in witness des-cription and artistic inte,rpretation. A full report on the Conference, to-gether with photographs will appear in our-next issue.

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Calling all rnernbersBufora subscribes to a Press Cutting Agency in order, amongst other things,to obtain details of sighting and other reporrs from all over the countryso that they can be followed up and investigated.However, there is something in the region of 1,000 local papers in Britainand it by no means follows that all UFO reports are spotted. Also, thereis inevitably a delay of days, and occasionally weeks, before the appro-priate clippings are received. It is in everyone's interest that UFO reportsare followed up as soon as possible whilst the facts are still fresh in witnesses'minds.

So, if YOU see a report in your local paper, we would be glad toreceive either a cutting or a photocopy from you. Address cuttingseither to L W Dale, 11 Wimbourne Avenue, St Pauls Cray, Kent BR5 zNSor to Norman Oliver, 95 Taunton Road, London SE12 8PA. Pleaseensure, though, that the name of the paper and its date of issue are shown.THANK YOU.

Book Reviews

Gods and SpacemenThroughout HistoryW. Raymond Drake

235pp Paperback,Sphere Books 75p.

Another welcome paperback from thepen of W Raymond Drake who, thoughsometimes dubbed 'the British VonDanikenr' actually had manuscriptscompleted on the Ancient Astronauttheme before Chariots of the Godsfirst appeared. Also, whereas VonDaniken's researches have been assailedfrom many directions as being shallowand his facts frequently open to dis-pute, Raymond Drake has clearlyresearched deeply, and I, for one,would not have the temerity to chal-lenge the validity of the numerousthematic historical and mythologicalreferences and reports. Whilst him-self considering there is no doubt thatworld-wide visitations from Space have

now become completely-though notirretrievably as his researches demon-strate-intertwined with religious andmythological references, Raymond av-oids the pitfall of srating disputableareas as proven fact, and in this andother spheres-such as Atlantis-onwhich he touches, he is careful to quotea variety of viewpoints and sources.

Originally published in hardback byNnilh Spearman Ltd., the paperbackedition still incorporates two essentialfeatures which are all too often omittedelsewhere-a bibliography and anindex. Definitely recommended.

Norman Olioer.

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PHENOMENA:A Book of Wonders

John Mitchell andRobert J M RickardThames & Hudson, London, fl .gS.

Completely fascinating quick run-around of all the main Fortean areas ofmystery covering, apart from UFOs,all fringe attractions such as the Surrey!uma, Black Dogs, Bodily Elongation,Freak Plagues and Mass Panicsf I-itttePeople, Phenomenal Highways and soon. \7ith many illustrations, roughly60 different chapters cope with ahnostevery mystery you can think of, allwritten in the lucid and economicalstyle one associates with the authors.Apart from what must have been afairly vast amount of research, theauthors have done quite a bit of orig-inal thinking, and eaih separate chaptErholds the interest while painlessly 1m-pafting the main facts and figures.Very good value for the pricel onewarning, though-some details aredecidely gruesome) such as the itemon Human Combustion-so don't giveit to anyone nervous!

Betty lVood.

The Cosmonauts 1977

VYritten and Publishedby Gordon R HooperDuplicated 75pp.

Published privately, this 75-page

'handbook'must be unique, giving asit does full personal and caree=r deiaitsof thirty-nine Russian Cosmonautsfrom Yuri Gagarin in Vostok I toYuri Glazkov in Soyuz 24. Otherinformation includes crew assignmentdetails and selection dates, and ihere iseven a section on 'unconfirmed cos-monauts.' An updated issue is en-visaged at two-yearly intervals. Reallyfirst-class detailed background materialand infor:rnation. Obtainable from:G.ordon R Hooper, 88A ConiaughtAoenue, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex CdlJ9PT.

Editorialcontinued from page Ithe better. How often, for example,on reading about a case have you wbn-dele{ _'$fhy wasn't that questionasked ? ', or thought of a line ofapproach that appeared to have beenoverlooked ?

puggqt investigative methods by someindividuals, it has been suggested,?ppear to be based on the printipat offirst catching your contactee and thenisolating him/her/them from all otherinvestigative bodies. Vhere this isknown to have occurred, one is temptedto suggest a new classification-CCE1 1 l-Copyright Conractee !

puf.grg^(!{inburgh Branch)_he1d its second public lecture on Saturday, 1April, 1978 in the university of Edinburgh. A w6l-informed audience attendedand Stuart c_-ampbe_]!,_ lnvestigations co-ordinator for scotland gave a slide-illustrated talk on uFo Act,ioity in scotland. The Edinburgh "Branch,

nowhayqs held successful meetingi two years running, intends "to hold furtherpublic meetings of a similar nature and io increase tlieir frequen.y if ilrsibi;.

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The Naas UFO l

This repmt scarcely comes under the heading of ' Scimtific.' Neztertheless, there areo.bttito^us .reaso.ns for quoting the background io the sightilry as well as the incidentitself, since, in one way or another, it could well haveVeleoZnce.

A number of membns.haae connections with ztarious esoteric bodies and I feel that thepossible associations inherent in the occunence should not just be ignor:ed. Th hnot to lay I propose lntroducing occult elements as a regular Jaurial feature-I do2ot^. -

pu.t where, as in rhis_ins|ance they appear rc be in integr;al parf of the whole,I feel it is zarong to omit all reference.

!t-the-2tye-, the four ogoole congnryed were members of the rrish Branch of Bufora:John Hind-is currmtly imtestigating for the UFO-Im.testigators Network.' Therepo_rt is .taken from_Isian Nezos M, '3

the Magazine of the Fellowship of Isis (basedat Huntingtan Cgst_Ie, Eire) and is presented in that magazine by ofio;a Robertson,to whom acknozlledg ements.-Ed.

On the morning of 31 October 1976,four members of 'the (then) IrishBranch of Bufora visitlld:HuntingtonCastle. They were'John Hind, Thbm-as Higgins, Chris Gaffney and BrendanMeddlar. Nobody at Huntington hadmet any of them before and this wastheir first visit. They came unex-pectedly that day . . . . and explainedthat their Society, of which 'I am amember, had been investigating a'Contact' claim of a psychic natureby a Mrs H. They themselves toldme they had not previously consideredpsyihic connection with the UFOmystery. But they had heard that inmy book Call of .Ivs, I had describeda psychic experience connected with a'Mother ship' and an occupant :ofthis ship. One of the young menasked for a technique for 'astralprojection.' I replied-that one neededtraining and serious intention for anysuch experiment.

However, I said that what we could dowas to sit in meditation and offerreceptive minds to 'UFO' contact.This, I said, was as reasonable a way asany to contact possible'space people':the possibihty of telepathy has notbeen ruled out by contemporaryscience. I asked for their concurrence

in a short Rite. I lit two candles onmy small altar in the Drawing Rooni,lit an incense stick and then invokedDerty. I expressed our intention,which was to contact 'space people.'I. then put Holy \Vater from ourBrigidrs !7ell on the.brow of each ofthe young men.

I asked them io shut their eyes andvisually follow my words. I told themwe were climbing up a hill. At thecrest of the hill was a mist. Wepassed through the mist and stood onthe top of the hill. We looked around:the mist had covered the surroundinglandscape. Now I said we looked upinto the sky. Ve became aware of abright lighi. 'We watched this' light.It became larger and larger as itapproached us. It became a goldendisc. In silence we watched this disc.

I waited for a quarter of an hour app-roximately. Then I reversed the pro-cedure. .I described the golden discretreating until it became a point oflight and finally disappeared. I des=scribed our climb down,the hill andour 'return' to the Drawing Room.I then asked for reports.

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Each young man had been able tovisualise the scene I had described,including the light. But in the sil-ence, -though they had felt peaceful,they had experienced nothing visuaiand no ideas at all . . . . I -had theimpression we had been contacted bya_ UlO occupant. My feeling waithat he was young, with longish fairhair and dark clothes. He was lookingafter them. After lunching in th6village they went down theavenue in their car.

***Extracts from a letter from ThomasYiggins, 9l Bufora Branch paper,dated 4 Novernber 1976 are- ihenquoted, including the following:

". . . . Following later discussion itwas generally agreed you had mention-ed something about some protectiveentity which you said was

-followinsus round. There were somEother points which I wanted to men-tion as well, one of these being about anindirect remark you made -about

uswitnessing a UFO. I do not re-member your exact statement, but youmentioned the word 'retrard.' Well,after we left you we were engaged uporidiscussing the interview when, muchto our surprise, a certain picture be-came clear. Perhaps it was a totallyincorrect conceptio; of what you werLattempting to convey to us during ourmeeting, but two of our group at leastwere sure you were really trying to tell

us something.

" . . . . that evening, in Naas, as we wereabout to interview a man in connectionwith a UFO sighting in the area, wewere ourselves witnesses to a UFO.I spotted it first across some fields.It seemed to hover over trees. Weleft the car and from outside could seeit clearly as it wenr out of sight behindsome trees. u7e followed the objectfor some twelve miles in the car indsaw it once more before returninghome.

" Later that night as the other ladsleft Naas for their own homes, theycame upon the object again. Thistime it was much larger- and cameright at them down the centre of thecnr windscreen. John Hind pulledthe car to a rapid and rather erratichalt and jumped out. Chris Gaffneyhad the colour camera on his knee(as he later told me he had a prertotitionthat he ztsould see the objeci again andfor that reason had kept the c-arnera inhis possession) . . . . the others piledout . . . . and then watched as ehrisran forward and took two shots of theUFO. Another man also pulled hiscar in and was too frightened to leavethe car. The UFO was extremelvlarge and very bright red and noiselesj.It was spilling rain ar the time and theUFO vanished into the distant moun-tain mists . . . ."

From an article by Olfuia Robertsonin Isian Nears, No 3.

{ megting of the Bitish Flying saucer Btneau which is affiliated to the NorthBristol.Institutg d lQun Education and is also a Bufora Member society, witibe leld on 2_8 Jqne, 1978 at Monks Park School, Filton Road, Bristol, froni z pm!9 9- p*.. Subjecr: " Humanoids on Earth." Speaker: Capt E L ptunkin.Further details from the Hon secrerary, G F N Neivstub: phone Bristol +zneo.

Points from the PressValerie Martin

The Hinkley Times of 27 Januaryreported that Hinckley UFOSociety, whose secretary Mrs PatBerry is also a Bufora member,was investigating the sighting by3 shaken youths, of a blue glowingobject over Higham which shotoff at great speed. A later editionhad a further description of an ovalsaucer-shaped object with a dull redglow.

***The Leicester Mercury of 1 Februaryhad an account of a noiseless delta-shaped object with red, blue andyellow lights, seen by many people theprevious week as it flew over theBraunstone area heading towards Hin-ckley. Leicester's Unidentified AerialPhenomma Research Organisation wasinvestigating, and checks with RAF$Taddington revealed no Vulcan bom-bers or other aircraft in the vicinity.

***Tlae Northampton Chronicle and Echoof 6 and 7 January had reports ofstrange objects seen hovering overDuston. In December, a white ill-uminated cigar shape was sighted abovehouses, before vanishing. The prev-ious week, 6 people saw a ball oforange fire only 100 feet up, with apiece of silver metal sticking out,which manoeuvred back and forth asthough controlled, before shootingupwards. Another witness whiledriving, saw a slowly moving object of' terrific colour.'

* * *The Surrey Herald of 12 January in anillustrated article, recounted the ex-citing life of Sqn Ldr Denis Ship-wright, Bufora member, ex first world

war pilot, ex racing driver, former MP,and his exploits in the last war. Alsohis own sighting of a UFO fromNewlands Corner in 1967. A strangefeature was the appearance of thesame object in two photographs whichhe took on two later occasions at thesame scene, which he did not notice onthese visits.

***The Herald of Wales, for 2l Januaryhad an article on Clive Edwards, aSwansea school teacher and Buforamember, who has prepared a blue-print of instructions for UFO spotters,hoping their experiences may be placedon permanent record in a Londoncomputer bank.

* *The Herald Express (Torquay) of 1

February revealed that the UFO re-ported over Shaldon a few weekspreviously, moving north to south oneevening, was probably the Russiansatellite which later crashed in Canada.

***The Northern Echo of 2 February, andother papers tell of Paul Lewis, Har-rogate Council's deputy director ofresorts services, having the mostfrightening experience of his life whiledriving from Harrogate to Ripon, nearDaffodil Bends, an accident black spot.In his rear view mirror he saw a bright

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white light several hundred fe-et up The .Esser chronicre of 3 Februaryapproaching very fast. It moved over described how a young couple drivin!his. white car, bathing it in an orange in chelmsford irre

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light and causing_ the bonnet and in- saw a bright light in thi: sky in front oiterior to glowlrellowish red for about them, which iame closei until they5 seconds. Then the object shot could see the outline of a' conztentionalahead and when Mr r-ewis got out of fl.ying saucer.' The gid said she courdthe car there was nothing to be seen. iee ihapes through 7he 'oieuting win-$e felg.a.tingling sensarion but said dout| The objeJt had a greerilight,it could have been due to fright! and other cars'slowed down to wa'tchF,AF Leeming and RAF Topcliffe before it moved off rapidly. A manhad no aircraft up at the time. at Hatfield Peveril saw sirange lights in

* * " lT*#txl'fiffs:ffTlT#:":lfdThe yorkshire post of 3 Februarv had there was no aircraft act_ivity in thean article on yorkshirJ, -g.Fd -i;: re,gion on Jhese nights. However, theu..tig"torr

""a-tttiir iiiari- E"f*" edition of 17. February p^"!1ry!qA_ gmem"ber, Trevor Whi;1....-' ft

-t"tl letter from an investig?Ior of EUFOSGlined methoar of proiiA"t"'una-"L* **!ng t!a1 h9 lrad discovered that a

.**pio of ttr" "i*V ;ur.r a;y-*;; DC8 had landed at Stansted, p-assing

inuotieJwitfrla51 t;t;;-*"ii'"r'ttr. 9-ve1- Chelmsford, and its headligtrts

ratest one, mention6d ;6;. -- ;f;*i,lT:rT::#.tHl ;ii:i:*,*:The Kmtish ;;,,;*, of 2 and, e

February had accounts of 2 cigar-shaped objeas seen low in the sky bypassengers on the south bound Wool-wich Ferry. They were of similarsize, silver-grey with regular outlines,one horizontal which drifted behindan office block, the other vertical,which tilted, moved upwards and shotaway westerly up the Thames, leavinga vapour trail. Two witnesses an-other evening in Woolwich, saw acigar-shaped object with 3 white lightson it, travelling very fast which dis-appeared behind a cloud. A man twonights later saw two objects in the skyfollowing the river westwards.

***The Setsenoahs Chronicle of 11 Februaryhad a brief item on the bright stationarylight seen by two couples, which fadedout leaving a vapour trail.

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***The Thurrock Gazette of 10 Februaryreported a ' saucer circus' over thearea. A man and his son saw a silverobject above Stanford, and the nextmorning the boy and 20 other pupilsof Hassenbrook School saw a silverobject with ' long lumps' sticking up ateach end. A woman driving in Til-bury one evening at 7.20 pm saw alarge spodight in the sky and as shegot nearer noticed 2 white and 1 redlights. Another woman said she hadseen a number of mysterious objectsduring the past few weeks.

***The Hereford Times of 3 February hadan explanation of the UFO seen overthe Bromyard area recently. It was aweather balloon with a long silverbox below, and it had crashed into afield at Pencombe.

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The Derbyshire Times of 10 Februarytells of two schoolgirls seeing a saucer-shaped objea hanging in the sky, andfour other people also saw a brightwhite object hover noiselessly beforernoving slowly away towards Sheffield.A woman saw a bright red objectdisplaying white lights, and a spokes-man for Bufora said they were in-vestigating.

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The Sr Helens Reporter of 10 Februaryhad a long article on UFOs. Tworeaders, while out cycling one nightalong Sankey Valley, saw a boomerang-shaped object, glowing white and hov-ering, which then picked up speed andshot out of sight. A man in Con-course \vay on 31 January saw twohuge bright gold objects, larger thanaircraft, flying in a straight line slowlytowards Liverpool. Another manclaimed to have seen the star-shapedUFO seen recently by two policeeonstables.

***The Huddersfield Daily Examiner of 9February had a description of a UFOseen by its reporter while driving towork a few days before. It was abright pink light moving east towardsSaddleworth Moor and it inspired himto write the article on UFOs. Anumber of policemen claim to have seenUFOs over the moors, including onelike a bright star giving offred and bluesparks from its base. A 12 year oldboy saw an object about 50 feet longand 10 feet high with beaming redlights, hovering above ahouse. TrevorVhitaker of Bufora commented oninstances of mistaken identity butadmitted that no ready explanationwas always possible.

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The Daily Express of 13 Februaryreported more aaivity from the'Velsh Triangle.' Two company dir-ectors while driving between Carmar-then and Newcastle Emlyn one brightmorning, saw a large cigar-shapedmachine at least 20 feet long, crosstheir path 100 yards ahead. It madeno sound and was flying as low as thetop of a bus as it passed out of sightinto a field. Expeaing to hear itcrash, the shaken men were amazedto find nothing as they drove by.

***The Western Mail of 17 February hadan illustrated account of Randall JonesPugh, Bufora's South Wales co-ordin-ator investigating strange quartz-likecrystals, believed to have droppedfrom the sky during a severe hailstormin Haverfordwest the previous week.Some up to I inch long were said tochange colour and generate their ownheat, and had been found by a youngman on his path, window sill and theadjoining road. Preseli Council saidthey did not have any gritting lorriesaround at the time. Mr Jones Pughthought there was nothing paranormalabout the crystals and they wereprobably a meteorological quirk.Bufora is analysing them.

***The Snsser Express of 17 February hada double page spread on UFOs citingmany cases including that of a brightglow seen over Hailsham, which emit-ted a humming sound. One witnessdescribed it as oval-shaped with 3 redlights across the centre and a ring oflights around the outside. The articlegave prominence to Bufora with com-ments by Larry Dale, NIC and RICfor Sussex and Kent, and I(en Phillips,former NIC.

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Both The Sun andthe Daily Express of2t February commenced series onUFOs. The latter serialised the film" Close Encounters " and quoted manyUFO cases old and new, some beingsupplied by Bufora. Readers wereinvited to send in their experienceslthe response was overwhelming andwithin a few days the Express an-nounced that it was handing over thecorrespondence for analysis by theexperts, Bufora and FSR.

***The Surrey Herald of Februaryreferredto a mysterious object, long and roundedand giving off a shimmering light,being described as 'highly unusual'byNorman Oliver. The sighting was by

a woman passenger in a car travellingdown Coldharbour Lane, Thorpe.The UFO was flying very low muchfaster than normal aircraft, and thecar driver who is a pilot, said it was notaPlane'

* * *Finally, the Eoening Nezas of 28 Feb-ruary, and other papers, had a shortarticle on Britain's 'only fficial UFOim.testigatorr' a MoD female clerk,who with the help of a junior, scrutin-ises the 30 or so repofts received everymonth at Dept F4D, in the form ofletters from the public. The MoDdoes not investigate UFO reportsfurther, unless they are relevant to thecountry's defence.

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The Physical Data Section (PDS)DoNoA AccEp'.ro R

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Frow DlA6RAm.Until recently Bufora had, within its R & I network, two separate departments tostudy material evidence relating to the uFo phenomenon.

-one, the Traces Sec-

tion, dealt with environmental effects characteristic of ' close encounters of thesecond kind.' The other component, PAID, appraised alleged uFo photographsand films.Like many_other_well-intentioned schemes, it worked well in theory but not inpractice. . {9qo.rdingly, the departments were closed, all traces worli being dele-gated to individual members with the necessary expeftise, and, following'its de-mise, it was decided to make a fresh aftempt at foiming an effectioe Tra=ces De-partment. There were a number of problems: little cash- was available forin-itiating new projects or purchasing adequate equipment, also the discontinuanceof the. training p^rogramme meant that niined personnel to deal with contingencysituations were few and far between.

$rs.a.partial-solution, it was decided to inaugurate the PDS, with myself, KenPhillips

.?s. the 'Physical Data co-ordinator.' It is the PDC's resporisibiiity to

a-ccept all incoming evidence (soil samples, flora, photos, films, etcj and fonvardthese on to the relevant qualified person for analyJis. All materia6 will be alloc.ated a unique number and all major data bits entered into a log book so that, shoulddelays occur, the PDC will know exactlywhom to chase. once analysis has beencompleted, the material and a report synopsis will be returned to th6 donor.10

Report-Extra !Motorway Monster

Inzt Colin & Janet Bord

On 25 October 1977 just before 12midnight my phone rang : since I' d been inbedfor half on hour and ozter the prniousweek had receizted tlree phone calls aroundone o'clock in the morning reportingLITS, to say I was not best pleasedwould be putting it mildly ! My an-noyance eaaporated, howezter, as Ilistened to the breathlessly narratedstory of a Close Encounter the callershad experienced only hours preaiously-indeed, quite possibly one that had lasteduntil mere minutes prior to their phonecall. (My number .utas obtained oiaan enquiry to a national newspaper forinforrnation on who to contact).

Investigation of the claim was passed toBufora Inaestigators Colin and JanetBord (authors of Mysterious Britainand other books), and the following areextracts from their report.

Norman Olioer.

LVitnesses:

Colin Stone, age 28. I-awrence Hillage 23.

Date and time of sighting:25 October 1977, from app 7 pm toaround 10.30 pm.

Location:The M4 motorway from the Berks/Wilts border to the Bristol area, thenin Herefordshire between Monmouthand Dorstone on the 84347 and 84348.

Mr Stone and Mr Hill left London atthe Albert Bridge around 5.30 pm, MrStone driving his Daimler Soztereign.For a while their progress was very slowsince there was a power workers' strike

Presented by Norman Olizter

and many traffic lights were out ofaction. By about 7 pm, however, theywere in the M4 and approaching theBerkshire/Wiltshire border. Aboutfive or ten miles before enteringWiltshire a very bright light was seenin the sky ahead which they at first tookto be Venus, but suddenly tt' zoomed'towards them and they could see it wasa huge elliptical ' craft' with threebright white lights surrounded by redand green lights on the underside.It swung across in front of them andtook up a position to the left of themotorway and ' paced' them as theywere driving between 70 mph and80 mph: they now drove onto the hardshoulder, stopped and got out of thecar with the UFO now stationarybeside the motorway about two hun-dred feet above treetop level (At thispoint the motorway is on a raised em-bankment and the treetops in thefields are about at eye level). Law-rence Hill judged it to be about fivehundred metres away and estimated itto have a visual width of two spread-out hands side by side at arms length(a massive size). The large whitelights could be clearly seen and the redand green lights were flashing. Thething gave out a 'low pulsating hum'(also described as ' a. suctionztibration')and there was a cold rush of air to-wards the obiea. The weather waswindless and there was a low lyingground mist: the ground below theUFO was not brightly illuminated byits lights, but the trees stood out fromthe landscape 'in a sort of ghostlylight.' The two stood and watchedthe UFO hovering for between five andten minutes, then the UFO moved offat a slow speed, circling over distantfields.

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The witnesses then returned totheir car and rejoined the traffic on thebusy motorway-they themselves re-marked that it was very strange noother drivers appeared to have noticedthe UFO at any time and that no-onehad stopped. They continued alongthe M4, varying their speed from 26mph to 80 mph, but the UFO re-turned to keep alongside them. Theystopped for a second time on the hardshoulder and got out. The UFOagain stopped and hovered, but thistime was slightly higher in the sky.The same 'pulsating hum' and ,draw-ing of cold air' was noted and this timethere was also an ' electrical d'ischarge'bouncing away from its top: ihisceased and two smaller red ipheresequidistant from each side of the hullwere seen: these came towards themacross the fields and through theground mist, then veered offto ihe left.

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again and the witnesses returned totheir car and restarted. (On bothoccalions _as they restarted a 'roughUUinC' of the enginewas experienceii).The object maintained a posiiion alons-side the motorway ro th6ir left, thoufhhigher than previously, until they weleapproaching Bristol when it movedacross the motorway behind them anddisappeared rapidly to the right. Bothmen were by this time, not unnaturallyin a somewhat shaken state. Theycontinued across the Severn Bridge,then turned off towards Monmouthand once past Monmouth on theB4347they again saw the UFO. This timeit was very much farther away, ap-pearing as a very bright white liglit,but again ' pacing' them in front and totheir right. For twenty or thirtyminutes they continued along minorroads and during this time CotnStone, who was driving, had the re-curring feeling he should turn right,away from their normal route, but-his

companion disagreed. At this pointthey stopped to check whether theymight now be mistaking the brightobject for a star or planet, and aligningit up with a fence post, found it wasmost definitely moving like'a dance inthe air' as Lawrence Hill described itand ' a light trying to write' accordingto Colin Stone. They continued theiriourney; this time, when Colin Stonefelt a ' compulsion' to turn otr right hiscompanion agreed and they drovealong very narrow winding lanes withthe light still ahead and almost direalyabove them. They passed a signreading' Arthur's Stone Ancient Mon-ument' and stopped by the Stone(a Neolithic burial chamber, OrdnanceSurztey Rel. SO 318431) and got outbut the light was no longer to be seen.They then returned home-some milesaway-and Colin Stone first phoned afriend, who suggested phoning theDaily Mail reference desk, which hedid, panly to see if anyone else hadreported a similar experience and alsoto find out where to report his own.He was then given the Bufora number.

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An 6 Alien Eye'?Reports received via the Daily Expressare being investigated and details ofsome of the more interesting willappear in these columns in due course.I cannot see, however, that after twentyfive years, much more information willbe obtainable concerning this partic-ular incident reported by a lady fromSlough who wished to remain anony-mous. . . .

"., . . I heard an unusual' tap, tapr'so I opened the front door and foundno-one there. I looked around andthen saw on the ground a yard or soaway, a black box-about 2{in. cube.The side nearest me had a bulge like a

closed eye and as I looked I saw itflicker.

" Thinking this might be a meteoro-logical instrument, I'd just thought Iwould pick it up when it rose at anamazing pace straight up with only aslight arc till it disappeared in space.It appeared to be on a retractable cablesimilar to one used on a camera witha plunger, but it must have been ex-tremely long and strong to control itto the front door to knock.

" . . . . This happened in daylight nearSlough Trading Estate in 1953 . . . . "lYell ? ?

***Huddersfield 6 Silver Fish'

Ina T LYhitaker

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At two o'clock in the afternoon of 11May 1977, Mrs Kathleen Brearley,aged 57 of Cowersley, Huddersfield,was looking out of a window when shesaw an object disappear behind a house:it was ' bright maonlight' in colour.She continued to watch and about tenminutes later a silver-grey object-' just like a sikser fish'-appeared atthe opposite end of the row of houses,gliding slowly along very close to thehousetops till it reached a school.

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There it turned sharply and from theback appeared as a lai-se black rins:it turned again, went bacl to the housEsand vanished at the spot where sheha{ first seen an obiect disappear.This first object was

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than the second, though ,om. ".or-nection between the two is clearlvprobable. $Titness was imoressed bvthe apparent closeness of the obiect(sito the houses since this, togethei wiilithe 'instant disappearanie' wouldseem to minimise the possibility of anyconventional aeroform.

***Vlalthamstow Dome

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Witness considered the obiect mishtwell have come down in playing fieIdsor the vicinity of a reserv6ir sorie fourhundred yards away. His wife alsosaw the object which was , briphterthan the Moon' and soundless:" thenight was.clear and cool with a slightbreeze and the Moon was half full."

***Glowing Green Circles

Iw M Lewisu7hether this report should come underthe hea{ing of UFOs, psychic phen-omena, Ball Lightning, or indeed anv_thing- else other tlian the g.rr.rulappellation of Fortean phenlmenaappears to be questionable: there seemto be reasons. why it should not be putrnto any particular pigeon hole. H6w_ever, there was a minor . flap' in thearea at the time and certainiy no_onewill deny it was an unusual experience.The witness, a Barnet, Herts house_wife who wishes to remain unot y*ornreports that on 30 August tgzz atabout 5.30 am she woke td attend to thebaby and on walking out of the bed-room noticed two green, slowins' circles.' Thinking shl must "be imlagining things, she went to the babv.but on coming back they were sdlithere: they were of tennis 6a[ size andshe touched one and the light shonithrough her fingers as it woild if oney/ere holding a torch under them.Thinking her son, who had a lumin_ous.liquid chemical torch might havebroken and spilt it she returne? to Ueabut the following morning the torchwas found to be intacr.Bufora member Michael Lewis, whoinvestigated the report, tells ui thaithe ' balls' were apparently two orthree rnches apart at the foot of thewitness's bed and she had felt nosensation of warmth or coldness whenshe touched one of them: they wer-

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.w--Charles Hayward, aged 48 was watch-ing television at his Walthamstow.London home on Friday, 22 July 1977,at 10.45 pm when, noticing I glowthrough the window, he -sot "uo.walked across, pulled back thJ.urtuinand saw a dome-shaped object, whitern colour at an estimated height ofaround twenty feet. It had a bind ofgreen, around the top and sides, andoutside that was a band of blood-red.Some way below a halo or ring, pinky-red in colour could be seen,-but thisdid not appear to be attached to thedome. The object descended verti-cally at a slow pace and was lost tosight behind some old factory buildings.

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transparent and apparently withoutsubstance. The bedroom window hadbeen open and the objects could wellhave entered through it: when shereturned to bed thev were still inexactly the same positibn.

Witness also reported that over thefollowing two weeks a number of elec-trical appliances failed, though con-sidered this might well be co-incidental.Electrical appliance failures includedthe following:

I A tumble dryer failed to cut outand ozserheqted.

2 A ztaloe went in a teleoision setand it, too, ooerlteated.

3 A pair of curling tongs failed towork-reason unknown.

4 Their car's electrical system failed-trouble traced to the batteryahernator.

5 A jukebox failed due to z;ahtetrouble.

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aluminium aan.' Since there are noroads at all in the area they stopped towatch, checking the time as they didso as being 7.21 pm.

At the end of thirty seconds the' oan'rose, vertically, sank, rose again, thenfinally- sank below the horizon. Theydescribed its brightness as comparabl-eto that of the Moon, further-sayingthat the object ' shone like aluminium iisunlight'-odd, since at the time it wasaround dusk and was also raining. Bothwitnesses were struck by the appearanceof such an unusual object in thesesurroundings-despite the distance itwas very clearly defined and obviouslyof some considerable size.

The following day Mr Morton wentto the area where the object had beenseen and found that the tops of sprucetrees in a nearby wood had been brokenoff some ,."r***"j above the ground.

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On 12 April 1977, Mr K Morton, afarmer, of Melberby near Penrith inCumbria, had been feeding lambs ac-companied by his daughter. Bothwere walking to the gate in the fieldwhen, on looking towards a forest ofpine trees just under a mile away theysaw ' something that looked like a large

On 13 December 1977, a twenty-year-old amateur asrronomer of Hillhead,I(rkintilloch, Scotland, was in front oihis house just after 6 pm, when heglanced up and saw what he des-

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cribed as a black oval shape fairly highup. A few seconds later the shapecame down towards the house andwhen an estimated 200 yards aboverooftop level it circled once, then shotaway very fast to his right, climbingtowards the clouds with a ' burring'sound.

Protruding from the underside of theobject a ' kind of domed light' could beseen: this glowed with an orange colourwhich changed in intensity during thelatter part of the sighting which lastedin all some one to one-and-a-halfminutes.

***Barnoldswick Obiect

Inzt B Hartley

Having just returned from night shift,Anne Pickover, a Rolls-Royce processworker, was pegging out washing inthe back yard of her Barnoldswick,Lancs home, one morning in 1977 ataround 8 am, when she noticed the sunglinting on a silvery cigar-shapedobject. Struck by the absence of anysound, she watched closely, but theonly noticeable thing about the objectapart from its colour and shape, was adark band around its centre. Inview for some five minutes, it passedslowly out of sight from the pointnearly overhead where it was firstseen and moved towards the village ofGisburn. There was still no sound,nor was any kind of vapour trailvisible'

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Gillingham V-ShapeIno J Castle

An early morning sighting was re-ported by a number of people atGillingham, Kent around 6.30 am on12 December 1977. To begin with,this was of 'a ztery bright light whichgrezl d:immer until nothing was ztisible' :

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then a small dot of light became verybright indeed and' a small piece cameoff it and mozted slowly aztay.' Stayingin this position for a few minutes, thelights again merged and the ' object'moved across the sky, stopping for afew moments to assume a' sideways V-shape with small lights around it.'Altogether it was observed for aroundthree quarters of an hour, finally dis-appearing behind cloud.

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Surely one of the most unusual reportson record-even for the Milford Havenarea is the aerial activity observed bythis 64-year-old witness on 7 April,t977.

At a quarter to five in the morning hewas making a very early start to theday since he was taking a group of seniorcitizens to London at 6 am: suddenlyhe realised there was a very brightorange light pulsating on his bedroomwall, and, looking out of the window,he could see a large area of orange lightenclosing two silvery-coloured objects.

The first he described as being ' likea oery large Easter Egg.' Estimated tobe about four feet in diameter, it wasmoving back and forth a little aboveand behind the chimneys of the houseopposite some fifty or sixty feet away:its movement was horizontal andrather like that of a pendulum: nosound could be heard.

Witness then realised there was anotherobject to be seen, this one being aboutforry feet above his bedroom window.This 'object' appeared to be a ' man'in a silvery boiler suit, at least seven*feet tall, stationary and on a level withthe ' Egg' in the position of a free-

falling parachute jumper-motionless inthe sky with arms and legs outstretched.The head was ' normal' in shape butwitness could not see the face. This'motionless humanoid object' re-mained in its hovering position foroye.r- twenty-five minutes-duringwhich_ time the ' Egg' was continua$pursuing its pendulum-like motion.At the end of this period, tlrre ' Egg'moved up above rooftop level andglided away sideways-as did the' ^Man' -and both gradually disappearedlrom vrew.* lVitness has also givm height as 3-4 ft.

***'Bridge Roll'over Borough Green

Ino J Castle

On 3 September 1977, Mrs PamelaBance was travelling home to BoroughGreen near Sevenoaks in Kent when,four hundred yards in front of theircar they saw a 'large, Bridge-rollshaped object.' This was a very brightorangey colour and estimated to be'about the size of a terrace house.'Two black holes, described as 'twoblack fuadlights at the front, as on a car

only blacked out' were seen on itssurface. At first it hovered, thenTov99 away. Ir was like nothingthey'd ever seen before and they starlted to follow it, but 'lost, it as-it dis-appeared over the railway. They con-tinued as far as Borough Green siation,then turned back anil on spotting iiagain pulled into a school car park nextto the railway where they waiched theobject decrease in size to that of a pin-head and then vanish.

***Bexhill 'Cereal-bowl '

Ino Philip TaylorPhilip Taylor, who researched the'Trident Visual UFO ldmffied?, art-icle in an earlier issue has

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in Bexhill recently and submits thi:following repofts:-At about 4 am on Tuesday, 3 January1978, Mrs H, a 33-year-old housewifewas returning to bed at her home in theSidley area of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex;she-had just settled her baby daughteito sleep again. As she sat down on theedge of the bed, she became aware ofsomething unusual outside. Her bed-room window overlooks fields andwoods to the north of the house, whichis on the outskirts of the town and thisis her own account of what she saw:" There _was a funny shape with lots oforange lights hovering oaer some housisand lower thu,, sorne ffees. I could notbeliezte lny eyes . . . . after a short time itgenerated. up, becoming billiant, took offlike a discus being thrown . somet-rees caught fire as it started off. Thclights were so brilliant that they seemedto sta_y gll tly time it was trazsell'ing .. . . .

the lighn (were) brilliant one m,inute,then gone . . . . it was a maraellous sight.,t

Questioned in more detail about theincident, Mrs H said that to begin with,as the obiect hovered motionless, thelights were 'dull, orangey-red': as it

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!9ok offthey became a dazzling white.The object was shaped like an'upside-down cereal bowl.' There was nosound at all while she watched it.As the object ' generated up ' > the treeseemed to be enveloped in flames forjust a moment: it then glowed red,then white for a second or so. MriH did not think the tree was properlyalight. The whole incidenf listeilonly a few seconds: the witness saidshe had never seen anything like itbefore.

The local newspaper heard of thissighting indirectly. While the report-er and photographer were in the-areaw-here Mrs H had reported seeing theq!i.qt, a 1O-year-old schoolgirl, -LisaD'Wane told them she had seln some-thing unusual there several monthspreviously; at this time she knewnothing of the other report. Severalmonths before, she and two friendshad seer a red sparkling light hoveringover the trees before disappearinf'Iike a light being switched off.'-

I have interviewed the witnesses tothese two UFO sightings. They seemto be completely independent and areboth backed up by their husband andfather respectively. The locations ofthe, object they reported seeing arewithin a hundred yards of each other,but connection be-tween the incidentscan only be a matter of speculation.The tree being enveloped in flamesand its glowing remains the most un-uslal aspect of the report by Mrs H.The account published in the localpaper purported to show the tree in-volved in the UFO sighting.However, this proved to be a tree whichhad been damaged for a number ofyears and is not directly visible fromMrs H's home. A search of the wood-land in the direction of where theobject was reported to have taken ofl18

revealed nounusualdamage or burning.Nevertheless, I remain convinced dfMrs.H's sincerity: she is obviously notseeking publicity and seems genriinelyworried about what she saw.

P Taylor***

UFO near BeRtley Colliery

On Tues-day, 3 Jan-uary L978,at 6.50 am,Paul Strutt(age notgiven) wasawakenedby thunderand light-

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ning and got up for a drink. Lookinsout through the upstairs window, he nolticed_ a very large object with red lightson the ground some 250 yards ariav.The top half was spinnins ind a briehtlight in the cenrre ilashedln and off]The thing ' made a noise like a Hooaer'(subsequently found also to have beenheard by neighbours).' It is said tohave been 'heard landinp and tahinpoff,' but no mention is" made of iiactually having been seen to do so.Paul ran to his parents but at first thevdidn't believe him, so he roused hissister who persuaded them to look.Paul's mother saw a half-circle of greenlights and then, in the distance] theobject,apparently ' took in a red l,ightin the lower region.'

The weather was very windy withsome unusual lightning effects-Baw-trey Meteorological Office said thcdisturbances experienced were vervunusual for the time of year. Th;map,reference of the . landing , wouldbe 568072-very nearly th-at of aprevious Doncaster repoft in BuforaJournal 6.2.

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This report has only recently come tomy notice, but despite it being by nowa little 'dated' it is certainly w6ll outof the 'LITS' class and merits fullmention in these columns.

On 21 March t972 at 8 pm, AlanBrown, aged 31, was walking with hisdog along a country road in the vicinityof Heywood, Lancs. Looking up, hesaw two red lights approaching fromthe North-east about 200 ft up. Thesethen turned, and about 200 yards awayan object, caught in the moonlight,came into full view. It was shapedlike an inverted saucer with a cupola ontop. Between the 'saucer's' bodyand the cupola, there was a collar ofmetal in which three portholes orapertures were visible: there was nonoise and the object was large-estim-ated diameter 80-90 feet.

Atop the cupola there was a brightflashing red light and on the lower rimto the rear was a dimmer static redlight. Though clearly visible, thecupola and 'portholes' were not illu-

minated. There were no exhaustemissions. The object flew above, andfollowed the line of electricity pylonsin the neighbourhood. For about oneminute it was clearly visible, flying ata tilt with the rear slightly down,' l'ike a car with a heaoy load in the boot.'

The object was very sharply definedand the colour was described as' pezlter,' though obviously at this timethe moon would be the only maiorlight source. After executing a turnit continued on, finally passing out ofsight. Mr Brown checked to see if theincident had affected the behaviour ofhis dog-a beagle, but the dog wasacting perfectly normally.

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The Hale & Pike'Non-UFOs'Ino K Phillips

Ken Phillips, until recently Bufora'sNIC and now in charge of the PhysicalData Section, has himself been puttinga great deal of time into investigationwork. The two cases recounted hereare notable, because neither, in the

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literal sense, concerned a UFO. Inone case a grounded object was re-ported and in the other, vehicle inter-ference, but no associated , craft.'Indeed, it is interesting to speculateon the number of reports thit havecome to light over the last few monthswhich have not directly involved UFOsa"4 I uq thinking in-particular of thevarietyof 'humaniid'lif that is reallythe right term-appearances where n6'craft' of any kind appears to havebeen in evidence. Bacl though, tothese two'Non-UFOs.' * '

Now you see itOrr the morning of Monday, 31 October1977, Mt Hale, aged 32 of Brickendon,Hefts, was return--ing from work on hismotor 9ycle., About half way homeon the Hertford/Brickendon tioad hisattention was caught by a strange rec-tangular structure resting in the middleof a ploughed field. He slowed downa little and was able to see two rows ofdark areas on the object which was

otherwise off-white in colour. Hedid not stop, but continued at a moder-ate. speed .past the ield keeping theobjg_ct in view for a few seconds l6ngeruntil it was obscured by hedgerows.-

On reaching home and thinking funherabout. the incident, Mr Halelthoughtthe object was sufficiently strange-inappearance to repoft the incident tothe local press. Extensive enquirieswere subsequently made by fen ptril-lips_but the_object could not be posi-tively identified, nor, indeed, the sight-ing independently confirmed.

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Our second 'Non-UFO' relates to alepo+ from Dennis Pike, aged 25.On 31 October 1977, he clai*med tohave seen an oval amber light around9.1q _p-, and again seeing a similarLITS during the evening oF 2 Novem-ber, he decided a cloier inspectionwas warranted. He got into his car, a

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1977, l275cc GT Mini, and droveeastwards along Wedbury Hill towardsVareside, Herts. On arriving at thespot where he estimated the light(s) hehad seen should be hovering (thoughbythis time they'd disappeared), he not-iced two Land Rovers parked in thespot where he had intended to stophimself. He then continued on downtil7edbury Hill, but had only goneabout a further 100 metres travellingaround 35kph, when suddenly the car'sIights and radio failed totally, thoughthe ignition remained effective. Fornearly fifteen seconds he was unable

Early this year, our Chairman wroteto the United Nations with the objectof ascertaining their exact positionregarding the much-publicised requestmade by Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minis-ter of Grenada, that UFOs should bethe subject of top-level enquiry by theUN. The following reply, dated 1

March 1978, was received ffom LubosPerek, Chief, Outer Space AffairsDivision,IlN:-

" Dear Mr Beer,

Thank you very much for your letterof 31 January 1978, addressed to theSecretary-General, which has beenforwarded to this office for reply.

The General Assembly decided tocanvass the views of Member Statesconcerning the subject of UFOs forpossible future consideration of themafter. A copy of Decision 321424 isattached for your information. Ac-cordingly, no further action is beingcontemplated by the United Nationsuntil a further decision is made by theGeneral Assembly at a future session.

Yours sincerely,

(signed) Lueos Psnm

to re-activate the lights or radio, butat the end of this time they came backon of their oln accord, but during theperiod he was 'blacked-out' he statesthere had been an extremely high-pitched whistle in his ears. Thewitness then halted the car and a fewmoments later, the two Land Roverspassed him at high speed, which hethought strange. By now somewhatperturbed, on seeing a car approachingfrom the opposite direction, he electedto follow it back to Ware, thinking'safety in numbers,' and so returnedhome.

Decision 321424 reads as follows:-321424 Establishment of an agency or a

department of the United Nat-tions for undertaking, co-ordin-ating and disseminating theresults of research into unidenti-fied flying objects and relatedphenomena.

At its 101st plenary rneeting on 13December 1977, The General Assemblyadopted bjt eoncensus the following rec-ommendations of its Special PoliticalCommittee: 5 |

" 1 The General Assembly has takennote of the statements made in theSpecial Political Commirtee by thePrime Minister of Grenada on 28Noaember 1977,6l andby the Ministerof Education of Grenada on 28 and30 Noaember and 6 December 1977.71

" 2 The General Assembly has alsostudied the text of the draft resolutionsubmitted by Grenada. 8l

" 3 The General Assembly requestsThe Secretary-General to transmitthe tetct of the draft resolution, to-

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UforumI have intended to write to you forsome time What many peoplehaveseenin the South ofEnglini is anaircraft being flown privatel/. This ispowered by jet engines on armsattached to a steel cabin. At night thetype of ozone engine fitted emits a lightblue gas when in use. This ozone*ietengine rvas built in the 30s by a ie-Iation of mine and another Hirdders-field inventor: I am the patentee ofthisjet motor. (Mr Murphy includes arough diagram which shows sezseralmotors on Arms on each side of a central'cabin').. . . . in flight the gas circulates aroundthe aircraft, variation of flight move-ments being obtained by turning theietg. The aircraft is undetectable byradar_ as the ozone gas surrounding ilabsorbs the radar beam and will iotgive a reflection. The jet force fromone of these devices is tremendous: ontest they can burn deep holes in theground. . . .

. . . . pilots of this type of craft havetheir separate air supply as they workin an atmosphere of poisonous gas.The suit is made of metal coated riitha special compound. The ozone gascan cause skin rot and affect the lungs. . . . the jets must not be handted dueto the high voltage-24,000, and theaircraft not approached as the gas cankilr.

G Murplry,Huddersfield.

I'm quite sure Mr Murphy's letter willgizte rise to a considerable number ofcomments-one reason wIA I hazte pub-lished extracts from it. The only Zom-mefi f wiil make myself is that I cannotrecall see'ing a report form over the lastsix montlu or so containing a sightingwhich would be consonant w;ttt tie typeof craft Mr Murphy desuibes.-Ed.- -

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Now that the film Close Encounters ofthe Third Kindhas been released, let uihope it heralds the start ofa, sensible'gla of opinion regarding UFOs.Most people, I suspEct, n6w realisethis is a serious and ever-presentsubject and are prepared to acc-ept thef-act that extra-terrestrial intelligeht fifedoes exist. The main reason, 1 think,why there is a biased ratio of , firsikind' as opposed to 'second kind,encounters may be that extra-terrestrialbeings are) at the moment preferrins tokeep Eanh under surveilldnce.

Where do they originate ? Other dim-ensions ?-Perhaps. Also, these craftcould, in some cases, operate frombases in the Earth and under theoceans (which would account for alarge.proportion of UFOs being seenentering and leaving the open seas).Fantastic? \ilhen dne considers th6tprobably 90o/" of the world's oceans-nn area covering three-quarters of theEarth's surface-has not been ex-plored, who are we to deny thispossibility ? Maybe the first . o'fficial ,

encounter is not so far off. . . .

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I was pleased to see printed in the TaniFeb 1978 Journal some items orittr6fringes of UFO srudy, viz, the bookreview on The Twelfth Planet, the lettermaking observations on one of TheI -ong -Search programmes and especi-ally the mention of recorded . vbicesfrom nowhere' reported from Rezteille.I note also, that the editorial warnspeople to maintain an open mindtowards reports-avoiding the ten-dency to accept as credible only thosethat seem rational and which arerecommended by experts.

This introduction is intended to showthat when we start asking questions, itis hard, if not impossible, 1o honestlyset limits to our imagination. Formy part, I have become heartily sickof the 'nuts and bolts ' of -flying

saucers-and of the odd encounterswith strange beings. While ufologistslimit themselves to the pedestiian,materialist, 'scientific' level of en-quiry, they are restricting themselvesto the intellectual and very worryingmechanistic view of the Universe.The questions one can ask of theUniverse place UFOs in the large bagof 'fringe science' together wiih UriGeller and disembodied voices. It isonly when we get off the ground,which bears the imprints of strangefeet and crafts, and up into the space-Iessness of non-material beings, thoughtforms and unknown energies that wewill be able to see the UFO experienceas part of the expanding consciousnessof what has been termed this 'NewAge'....

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The fotlowing etctracts are from a per-sonal letter to myself , hence I hazse omit-ted the writer's name-and also confinedthe extracts to those of general relevancewhich might provoke comment.-Ed.Although I would not pretend to beany kind of authority on Ufology, I amtaking an on-going interest in the,complex problems set by Quasi-;Corporeal Manifestations (Cleary-;Baker's Humanoids) and their relation-;ship to parapsychological models and'the archetypal symbolism of the pos-sible collective unconscious.

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'Earlier this year I amassed details ofthe Winchester sagas which are prob-ably due to a 'component' of thepercipient's unconscious and ego-consciousness acting upon a secondparty. Case histories of certain forms

of Folie a deux seem to throw at leastsome light on the situation . . . . Myprivate researches are mostly concernedwith the manifestation of certain kindsof phenomena, also symbols which arefound in ancient cultures, literatureand paranormal experience. Often thematerial gathered requires at least someform of interpretation and it is at thisjuncture we seem to run into dog-matism, confusion or just plain error.What can be said, however, is that suchinterpretation is singular rather thanpluralistic, but what is more it is'apperceptive' in the Herbartiansense in that it is based on the totalityof former conscious and unconscioussensory and reflective forms which areevoked in the eventual attribution ofmeaning, if not exactly an error atleast temporal chauvinism as Saganwould have it. The interpretation ofQuasi-Corporeal Manifestations is nota question of the 'interior' or of the'exterior,' for both ofthese notions arespatialised concepts, which is fine whenwe are dealing with the real world.

Causality and its antithesis wouldfollow accordingly and so it wouldseem that we must seek beyond &pper:ceptive modes of apparent interpre-tation, beyond the real wodd, asconditioned by psychologically cog-nitive paradigms of 'reality' to theantithesis, the 'unreal' that \Vesternsanity affirms does not exist. Thecontents of the ' unreal ' can be said tomodulate the background of universalsymbolism, the structure of mythologiesand the inherent content of dreams . . . i

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Sightin$ Summaries Presentat'ion by Pauline Grego

Code No, Date Time Place Report lnvcstlgatorlCrcdlt

Uncoded 1974 1 350- I 400 Winscombe,Somerset

Silver reflecting obiect B3c BRrr. F,S,BUREAU

Uncoded 26.8.74 t745-1755 Bristol Bright red diamond C3c

Uncoded 21.1o.74 2230 Wotton-under-Edge,Glos

Orange/red roundobiect

c3b

76-401 2130 Northfield, Warks Manoeuvering lights c4b A PAc

76-403 Nov 1700 Peckham, London Elongated oval C3c N OLrvEn

16-404 ? ? Barnet, Herts Bright light C4c M LEwrs

76-406 10.8.76 0505 Iron Acton, Bristol Roud obiect c3b P TATE, BFSB

76-408 6.6.76 2230 Stroud, Glos Blw-white obiect with c4b 'l' HooPER, BFSB

76-4tO ? 2too-2230 Stroud, Glos Ball-like silver obiect C,{c T HooPBR, BFSB

76-4ll 6.8.76 0322 Thornbuy, Bristol Manoeuvering lits c4b B.F.S.B

76-412 October EarlyEvening

Bristol " 3 saucers atop oneanother "

c3b G Krvrwsrw,BFSB

77-105 3.8.77 0330 Thaxted, Essex 2 orangey obiects CZc A CoLLrNs,B KING

77-183 3.9.7'l 2240 Borough Green, Kent " Bridge roll " withlights

A3c J CAsrLr

77-206 2t.to.1't 0050 Bodorgan, Anglesey Pink obiect with dome B3b N OLTVER

77-207 9.1o.7^l 0723 Gillingham, Kent Star to airship " c3b J Crrsrrr

77-208 31.10.7't 1745 Sittingbourne, Kent Manoeuvering lits c4b V MARTIN

77-2W 6.7.77 I 400 Crowle,S Hmberside

Dull white object c3b B TAYLoR

77-2tO 28.5.77 2130 Dereham, Norfolk Metallic saucer withlights

c3b J Consrv,DUFOSG

77-2tt 11.9.77 1900 Potters Bar, Herts Silver object c3b K Pnnrrps

77-212 24.5-77 2330 Chester " Blob of bright light " B4c P lTgrtNerl77-213 26.1O.77 0245 Broctor, Staffs 2 round lights C4c A PACE

77-214 7 _3.77 1930 Huntington, Staffs Red and green lits C4c A PACE

77-215 6.4.77 0230 Newcastle, Sta{fs Starlike obiect C4cA. PACE

77-216 6.4.7'l 0230 Round red andwhite object

C4c

77-217 t4-4.77 1730 Chester Orange-white circle c4b P IVEBTNALL

77-218 4.6.'t',t 2330 Tmstall, Staffs Object with beam c4b A PACD

77-221 5.6.77 2130 Lewes, Sussex Round white object c3b A PACD

77-222 13.7.77 2230 Dereham, Norfolk Fluorescent white lit c5b A PAc

77-223 9.8.77 2330 Tunstall. Staffs 3 red lights c4b A PAG

77-224 7.8.77 2330 Tunstall, Stafs Black object B4c A PACE

77-226 31.10.77 1745 Sittingbourne, Kent Manoeuvering lits c4b V Manrrr

77-227 19.1o.77 2045 Bapchild, Kent Brilliant flashing lits c4b V MARTIN

77-228 25 o.77 1815 Kent Red/white flashine lits C4c V MARTIN

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Code No. Date Time Place Report Inveetigator/Credlt

77-230 7.10.77 1900 Bapchild, Kent Brilliant flashing lits C4a V MARTIN

77-231 7 -1o.77 2010 Sittinebourne, Kent ' Portholes of light c4b V MARTIN

77-235 17.11.77 2 105 Canterbury, Kent Sparkling orange light c3bV MARTIN

77-236 t7-11.77 2100 Canterbury, Kent Orange-red ball of flre c3b

77-239 4.5.77 2045 Billericay, Essex Indeterminate shapewith lights '

c3b A CoLLrNs

77-240 3t.lo.'17 2350 Hertford White light c4b B KING

77-242 31.10.77 1630 ? Stanstead Abbots,Herts

Silver-grey cone c3b B KING

77-244 3t.to.77 r9 I 5-2010 Stanstead Abbots Manoeuvering lits c4b B KING

77-245 It.'1.77 2255 Mundersley, Norfolk Blue ball C4c A CoLLrNs

77-246 2.6.77 2213 Hinckley, Leics Pink and white lights A4b P BERRY, HAPI

77-248 t'| _7.7',1 2330 Hinckley, Leics Bright moving object c4b P BERRY

77-249 21.'t .77 2315 Hinckley, Leics Flashing bluish-whitelights

c4b P BERRY

17-251 1.8.17 0345 Nuneaton, Warwicks Orange/yellow lights c4b P BERRY

77-253 4.8.77 0450 Hinckley, Leics Lits C4c P BERRY

77-254 9.4.77 2045 Sharnford, Leics Intense light C.4c P BERRY

77-255 1t.9.77 t850 Potters Bar, Herts Metallic grey obiect C3aK PHII,LIPS

77-256 11.9.77 1850

77-257 29.9.77 2200 Box, Glos Group of lights c2b G BAKER

77-259 20.11.77 I 830 Bexley Heath, Kent Lights and blue beam C4c L DAT,E

77-260 3.7.77 00t0 Lonclon, \,?7 Hazy manoeuvering lit c4b K PEILLIPS

77-261 13.10.77 t930 Tonbridge, Kent Hedge-hopping whir-ring shape

C3c L DALE

'17-262 28.11-77 t 7l0 Colne, Lancs Roud vari-colouredobiect

C4c

77-263 Various 2300-0100 Fleetwood, Lancs Manoeuvering lits C3c B HARLTEY

77-264 June I 300 Nelson, Lancs Domed silver object c3b B Hanrrsy77-265 7.8.77 2245 Billinge, Lancs Brilliant lits C4c B HARTLEY

77-266 23.7.77 r230 Sunderland Round silver object c3b B HARTI-EY

77-267 3.8.'17 2130 Newcastle-on--I'yne Bright elongated light c4b B HARTI-EY

77-268 25-11.77 t545 Denbigh, Clwyd Black flat egg' c3b

77-353 29.12.77 0715 Watford, FIerts Bright white obiect C4c G H RoBERrs

77-25'l 2l.to-77 0l 30 Folkestone, Kent ' Shimmering whitemushroom '

C3c A H.{LL

7',t-358 Sept. 0100 Folkestone, Kent White ' pudding basin ' C3c A H.{LL

77-359 7.1o.77 2345 Brnet, Herts Round obiects withlights

C4c M LEWIS

77-360 August 2245 Barnet, Herts 'White ' headlamp ' c4b M LEwrs

77-361 16.9.77 2050 Bunet, Herts Oval light c4b M LEwrs

77-362 t1.9-77 t940 Barnet, Herts Hazy orange trimgle c4b M LBw$

77-363 13.9.77 2120 Potters Bar, Herts Orange and green lights c4b M LEWIS

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Code No. DBte Time Place Report fnvestigator/Credit

77-364 1o.9.77 I 800 Barnet, Herts Sparkling trvisting'blob'

C4c M LEwrs

77-365 4.9.77 2300 Potters B{, Herts Circular white object c3b M LEwrs

17-366 2.9.77 2340 Barnet, Herts Fluorescent green ball C3c M LEwrs

77-367 9.t0.77 1645 London, N12 Light and gey disc C4c M LEwrs

77-3'10 26.8.71 2100 Barnet, Herts Romd grey obiect c3b M LEwrs

77-386 41s.7.'17 001 5 Norton, Avon Dark blue oval C4c J CASEY

77-387 28.5.77 0200 Cadbury Heath,Bristol

Rcd humming obiect C3c G KNxwsruB,BFSB

77-389 29.12.77 I 615 Milton Keynes Flashing white light c4b

K PIIILLIPS77-390 28.12.77 I 635 c4b

7'1-391 29.12.77 I 635 c4b

77-392 31.ro.77 1920-1940 Ware, Herts Four bright stars C4tt K PHTLLTPS

77-393 3t.1o.77 1930 Redbourne, Herts Six spherical objects c4b K PHII-I,IPS

77-396 27.5.77 2130 Haifa, Israel Two bronze.objects C3c J CASTLE

77-397 9.11.77 t 83l Southall, Middlesex Ifhite obiect changingshape

C4c L DATE

7't-398 26.7.77 22t5 Yate, Avon Humming lit C4c G KNxwsruB,BFSB

78-001 1.1.78 | 532 Mereworth, Kent Erratic white light C4c J CASTLE

78-O02 1.1.78 0015 Maidstone, Kent Oval ' fluffy rings ' c4b J CASTLE

78-004 2.1.18 I 830 Nfest Farleigh, Kent 6 symmetrical lights C4c J CASTLE

78-005 l l.l.78 0830 A Kent C4c CAsrr78-005 lll.l.78 I 0830 lAylesford, Blazing lieht

Betty Hill and a CornfieldBetty Hill, of InterruptedJourney* famewho, with her late husband Barney-under subsequent regressive hypnosisconducted by Benjamin Simon MD-recounted their apparent abductionand physical examination aboard aspacecraft on 19 September 1961, isagain in the news.

" Regular landings "Norv 57, Betq', of Kingston, NewHampshire, USA, claimed last Octoberthat UFO landings were becoming aregular feature in the Kingston area.She had herself been to the spot manytimes and had seen many UFOs bothaerial and landed. She had no in-tention of giving away its locationpublicly, though, as' bumper tobuTnper '

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traffic would inevitably result. At thesame time Mrs Florence Barrett, Betty'smother, was reported as confirming herclaims and also to have seen UFOs atthe alleged 'landing field.'

Cornfield vigilSo-on the night of 9-10 October 1977,a repofter from the Daily Demotat ofDover, NH, was taken to the site oncondition that he kept its exact locationquiet: an Associated Press represent-ative was there too, as also were aUniversity of New Hampshire studentwith his wife and children who hadpreviously visited the spot-a corn'-field five miles from Kingston-withBetty Hill. This graduare-psych-ology instructor David Leuser-stated

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that on earlier visits ' we saw some nerystrgtge patterns of light , . . . like spot-Iights coming up from the ground andshooting up into the sky . . . . I couldn'tsay it was a UFO but I don't knozl whatcaused it . .' On one occasion,David's wife Maria reported a lightr.lluminating the car as they drove awayfrom the site, a light which seemed tofollow the car for some distance: onewhich was in an area where no otherlights were to be found.

Reddish obiectufoods and swamps surround thiscornfield: the two repofters saw anumber of lights, some were identifiedas planes, others-including one red-dish object with a bright white lightwhich approached the area and thenvanished-remained unidentified. Nei-ther reporter, though, would admit tosighting a UFO. (By literal definition,they would seem to have done so).After they left around midnight BettyHill continued her vigil,

Refutedfnvestigator for the Illinois-based Cen-ter for UFO Studies John Oswald ofNorth Hampton, however, thoughconsidering UFOs exist and that theyappear to be piloted space craft, doesnot go along with Betry's claims. Heaccompanied her to the site on a num-ber of occasions and is quoted assaying: " She is seeing things that are notUFOs and calling them UFOs " andshe " couldn't distinguish betwem alqruded UFa and a s*eetlight." Des-

pite this opinion, though, Oswald stillconsiders the Hills' original 'ab-duction ' to be highly credible.

tt Hamburger "Clearly the controversy will increase.Betty's claims of seeing something likeeight UFOs a night will obviously behotly disputed by many researchersand it may well be that the greatmajority are, in fact, misidentifications,though some-such as " seeing one thatlooked like a giant Hamburger bunburping out little burgers " (New Eng-lander, December) may well be possibleto swallowl

Another t'\ilarminster tt ?

Several years ago, when over visiting,I made a trek to your noted Warmin-ster. The place impressed on me amixture of thoughts and feelings.Some claims sounded outrageous:others were mistaken reports of ord-inary objects: some ' researchers 'were almost overtly preparing hoaxes !

Yet-I felt there to be a residue of' hard-core' cases and incidents-andat certain times and places there wassurely a 'spooky' feeling to the placef've seldom come across elsewhere.In my book, if any place is going to bea 'Warminster' in the States, King-ston it will be-and if that cornfield'slocale isn't common knowledge by thetime this appears in print, I'm amonkey's uncle!

* The Interrupted Journey by John GFuller. The Dial Press, 1966.

May I apologise to those who have written to me recently and not received areply. The recent flap period has proved most time-consuming and my choicewas between answering correspondence and ensuring that the Journal wouldbe published at least somewhere near its due date! Your letters are, of course,always most welcome and their contents given careful consideration.-Ed.

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