MUFON UFO JOURNALNUMBER 234 OCTOBER 1987

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FROM THE EDITORLate as it is, and for reasons beyond our control, we hope you

enjoy this issue of the Journal. The November number will be alongshortly. In the meantime, our lead article on ufology in Canada isStanton Friedman's, summer Symposium paper, which arrived toolate for inclusion in the Proceedings. We also have on hand aproposal by Ann Druffel which delineates possible support groupsfor UFO close encounter and abduction victims, and a classificationsystem by Dr. Arlan Andrews which divides the UFO experienceinto its physical and psychic components.

We are equally proud of the material we have on hand for futureissues of the Journal, including more in-depth analysis of the MJ-12documents, a new look at the Eduard Meier case, and a coverphotograph of, and accompanying article about, the Marfa Lights ofwest Texas, a "ghost light" phenomenon that can be traced backmore than a hundred years.

In this issueCANADIAN UFOLOGY by Stanton T. Friedman 3SENSORY & PSYCHIC UFO EXPERIENCES by Dr. Arlan Andrews . . . .6CURRENT MEDIA ATTITUDES by Jim Speiser 10SUPPORT GROUPS: A PROPOSAL by Ann Druffel 11RETURN OF THE MOTHERSHIPS by T. Scott Crain, jr 15NEWS 'N' VIEWS 16LOOKING BACK by Bob Gribble - . . . . ; 18LETTERS 20IN OTHERS' WORDS by Lucius Parish 21THE NOVEMBER NIGHT SKY by Walter N. Webb 22DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE by Walt Andrus 24COVER by Donald R. Tucker

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CANADIAN UFOLOGYBy Stanton T. Friedman

Stanton Friedman is a well-known UFO researcher and nu-clear physicist.

ABSTRACT

Canada has had many reports ofUFO sightings, several UFO groups, atleast two o f f i c i a l governmentsponsored investigative bodies and hasalso managed to cover up significantUFO information. The Access toInformation law has been used to obtaina good deal of data though much moreabout what government has been doinghas apparently been hidden ordestroyed. Public interest in a scientificapproach appears to be strong. TheNational Research Council file of a fewthousand reports is ripe for detailedinvestigation by serious researchersable to devote considerable time andeffort to the pursuit of more informationsince the NRC itself has doneessentially no investigation of "non-meteor" sightings.

INTRODUCTION

It is not surprising that manyaspects of ufology in Canada are quitesimilar to those in other countries.There have been Canadian sightings,landings, physical trace cases and radarobservations. Canadians have beenabucted. The Canadian governmenthas kept much information classifiedand misrepresented the facts of itsactivities to the public. A number ofcourageous investigators have dug intoCanadian sightings and some cultistand amateur groups have flourishedand died off.

As an American (my wife is aCanadian) living in Canada since 1980and having visited Canada since 1965,1am aware that many Americans think ofCanada as being just like the USA butfurther north. The languages of the twocounties are (leaving out Quebec)generally the same. But there are some

very important differences that have abearing on the UFO question:

1) Canada covers a larger landarea than the USA (actually secondonly to the USSR) but has a populationonly l/10th that of the USA and most ofthat is in a narrow band within 200 milesof the US border. Winters are long andharsh. The numer of people per squaremile available to. observe UFOs is thusgreatly reduced compared withEurope, Asia, the USA etc.

2) Canada has a much smallermilitary presence than does the USAand the rest of the NATO alliance.

3) Canada did not, until the past 5years, have anything even close to aFreedom of Information Act. Access toInformation is new and does work ($5per request), but there are manyexemptions. Because much ofCanada's cultural and political heritageis from the UK, not from the USA, thereis much more of a Government-knows-best attitude than in the USA.

4) Canadians, in general, have farmore respect for authorities, especiallyfor the Royal Canadian Mounted Policethan do Americans. The extensive butvery incomplete National ResearchCouncil UFO files have very littlecontamination with what might bedescribed as kook reports. RCMPinvestigators frequently were involvedand people here usually (if not involvedin crime) do not lie to the RCMP, anddon't think of police as "pigs." Militarypeople are respected and usually arecareerists rather than short termers.

5) Because of the great size of thecountry and the weather, it iscomparatively more difficult to havewell organized investigative groups.

PERSONAL ACTIVITIES

On a personal basis, havinglectured at dozens of campuses (some3 times) and to many other groups in 8of the 10 Canadian provinces andappeared on many radio and TV

programs, I can say that there is a greatdeal of interest in a scientific approachto the UFO problem, coupled as wouldbe expected with a general lack ofawareness of the mountain of workdone by i n v e s t i g a t o r s andorganizations such as MUFON. I havehad many overflow crowds at mylectures and many columns of favorablenewspaper coverage. I have also hadmy trouble with the major newspaper,the Toronto Globe and Mail, and withPhil Klass's noisy negativist associate,Henry Gordon, who did three separatecolumns on me in the Toronto Star(Ref. 1), each one loaded withmisrepresentations, as one mightperhaps expect from a magicianmember of the self-annointedCommittee for the Scient i f icInvestigation of Claims of theParanormal.

At least the Star publishedportions of two letters in response tothe misinformation in Gordon'scolumns and has carried a largeoverview article. The Globe and Mailactually lied to the Ontario PressCouncil which did give me a hearing inmy complaint about false statements ina summary front page G&M article.The OPC found against me, however,with 2 of their three counts beingdemonstrably false. It reminded me ofthe strong anti-UFO attitude of the LosAngeles Times for many years, a sort of"Don't bother us with the facts: Ourmind is made up. If there were anythingto UFOs, we would know about it. Wedon't know any such thing, andanybody who says there is somethingto UFOs is some kind of a nut."

There were sightings in Canada in1947 as well as much earlier and havebeen ever since. Of the 853 UFOsightings reported in Ted Bloecher'scompilation, "Report of the UFO Waveof 1947," from June and July 1947, 18were of Canadian origin as observed bya total of 52 witnesses. Judging by othere f fo r t s to expand Bloecher's

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compilation, there were many morecases reported in local newspapers butnot collected by Bloecher. There wereat least 2 publicly acknowledged officialinvestigative efforts: Project Magnetand Project Second Story. A key figurein both was Department of TransportEngineer, Wilbert B. Smith. I never metSmith prior to his untimely death of abrain tumor in the early 1960s, but Ihave communicated with his wife andmet his son and talked to many peoplewho knew him. Also, Arthur Bray hasbeen kind enough to provide copies of anumber of items from Smith's files. Aswith the great majority of Canadianresearch activities, Smith's work wasvery much on a shoestring budget.Since an excellent overview of the UFOsituation in Canada is presented in thebook by Bondarchuk (Ref. 2), I will notduplicate the information he provides.

Smith was clearly a seriousprofessional who was awardedCanada's highest broadcastingengineering award, often visited theUSA and knew Donald Keyhoe ofNICAP and Frank Edwards, as well ashaving had through the CanadianEmbassy an association with VannevarBush, who apparently was the keyfigure in the top secret US UFO effortafter the Roswell Incident (Ref. 3,4) inJuly, 1947. Bush also had headed theOffice of Scientific Research andDevelopment during World War II as akind of Science and Technology Czar,having established the ManhattanProject as well as a myriad of other jointmilitary-industry-university technologyprojects aimed at winning the war. Healso organized and was the first head ofthe postwar Joint Research andDevelopment Board (JRDB) whichlater became the RDB, served on theWar Council, had headed prewar theNational Advisory Committee onAeronautics (NACA which later becamethe NASA), had very close ties toJames Forrestal, first head of theDepartment of Defense, and manymeetings with presidents Roosevelt,Truman and Eisenhower. Hisassociation with MJ-12 member DonaldMenzel goes back to 1934, and Bushwas Menzel's staunchest defender atLoyalty Hearings held in May 1950. Ihave elsewhere (Ref. 5) quoted thestartling statements from Smith's 3-4

page Top Secret memo "Geomag-netics," discovered by CanadianResearch Mr. X (legal name for a mostunusual researcher, sort of aCanadian Charles Fort), but will repeatthe key comments here (November 21,1950): "I made discreet enquiriesthrough the Canadian Embassy staff inWashington who were able to obtain forme the following information:

a) The matter is the most highlyclassified subject in the United StatesGovernment, rating higher even thanthe H-bomb.

b) Flying saucers exist.• c) Their modus operand! is

unknown but concentrated effort isbeing made by a small group headed byDr. Vannevar Bush.

d) The entire matter is consideredby the United States authorities to be oftremendous significance."

Some sceptics have tried to passSmith off as a kook because of hisinterest in paranormal phenomena,apparently not knowing that there isq u i t e a f i l e of s u p p o r t i n gmaterial . .especial ly classifiedcorrespondence with Arnauld Wrightand Gordon Cox and other CanadianGovernment employees. Also Imanaged to have released underAccess to Information the files of theDefense Research Board...roughly theequivalent (on a much much smallerscale) of the US Research andDevelopment Board which was theevolutionary remnant of the JointResearch and Development Board.The DRB had established a committeeon UFOs which met on a number ofoccasions in classified session,strangely at the same time the publicwas being told that nothing official wasbeing done and that Wilbert Smith'sactivities were just a hobby as part of hismembership in NICAP!!

The 300 page DBR file is not for themost part of very great excitement,including newspaper articles and lettersin response to public inquiries. It alsohowever, includes a 1.5 page summaryof government UFO involvement,dated October 1958. Here are somevery provocative items from thathistory:

"E.A. Bernard (Confidential -declassified May 25, 1984) DefenseResearch Board.

1. Past HistoryU.S. "Project Saucer" was

completed about 1950 and it wasfound desireable to solicitCanadian reports. At the 220thmeeting of the JIC (JointIntelligence Committee) on the 12,April, 1950, UFOs were discussedand the following decisions werereached

a) DSI (Directorate ofScientific Intelligence) and DAI(Directorate of Air Intelligence)were to collaborate in preparing aquestionnaire to be distributed tofield intelligence officers of thethree services and the RCMP.

b) DAI is to coordinate theinvestigation arrangements in thefield.

c) All field reports were to bepassed to DSI for officialexamination on behalf of DND(Department of National Defense).

2. Action by DRB/DSIA tabular record of reports of

sightings dating back to 1954...iskept in this office and is classifiedSECRET. The last entry is asighting of 8th June 1956. A file isalso kept here which contains amult i tude of press articles,sightings, etc. DRB file 3800-10-1-1(3 vols.) contains a large number ofsighting reports dating back to1947. The last report in the DAI fileswas dated July 1958. DAI did notappear to be aware of earlier policyas explained in paragraphs 2 and 3above."

DESTROYED

I naturally filed an Access toInformation request for the specificitems noted. The response, which wasprompt, was also very disappointingsince it stated that copies of all theseitems had all been destroyed. From myown background of 14 years work withclassified documents I simply do notbelieve that these were the only'copiesbut have no way of establishing wherethe others are, though I am still workingon it.

I located some of the individualslisted as attending the meetings. Acouple of people responded that so faras they were concerned the information

was still covered by the Official Secretsact and refused to say any more. I didmanage to locate and meet with Dr.Omand Solandt who was the firstChairman of the DRB and sort of theVannevar Bush of Canada...thoughmuch younger. He recalled WilbertSmith, but denied knowing that therewas really a huge U.S. coverup. Heserves still on many committees andkeeps very busy in retirement. He wasnot interested in getting back into theUFO controversy.

The National Research Councilhas had an important and • unusualinvolvement in UFOs since the mid1960s after Smith's death. On the onehand it has been the official collectionagency for public reports and hadreceived thousands from the military,the police, and the general public.However, unlike the U.S. Project-BlueBook, it has had a very low publicprofile and does practically noinvestigations on its own. Each report isgiven a number and filed chronologic-ally on file cards maintained in a smalloffice. One can view the files, usually byappointment, but cannot make copiesthough notes can be taken. Since about5 years ago thanks to the efforts of Mr.X and some effort on my part the earlyfiles were transferred to the PublicArchives and put on microfilm. Eachyear the 100-200-cases received theprevious year are added to the Archivescollection where they can be viewedand hard copies made. These are cryingout for investigation.

Essentially the only effort made bythe NRC is to subdivide into "meteor"and "non meteor" categories. The NRCis interested in the meteor reports andfollows up on them in the interest ofscience. They do nothing about thenon-meteors which are, of course, of farmore interest to Ufologists. There is nocross filing geography, type of report,whether radar is involved or a landingoccurred etc. Two NRC people, Dr.Peter Millman an astronomer and Dr.MacNamara have made public anti-UFO statements. There are noclassified sightings in the NRC filesthough it is clear that the Canadian sideof the North American Air DefenceCommand does make radarobservations and does report to HQNORAD per the terms of JANAP-146

and its successor regulations. Thereare still in place regulations for militaryand civilian pilots to make reports ofunknown aerial objects, unknownmissiles, unknown aircraft, etc.

INDIVIDUALS

My first contact with CanadianUfology was way back in 1968 whenWilliam K. Allen a teacher of physics inCalgary had the courage to bring me into speak at the Jubilee Auditorium. Billkept me busy with the media and wehad a crowd of 1200 paying attendees.The profit went to help' Bill's group"UFO Anonymous" put out anexcellent LP record which includedboth sounds of UFOs and interviewswith witnesses including commercialpilots. Bill is retired and living inKelowna, B.C. and has done a greatdeal through the media to make thestudy of UFOs respectable.

John Musgrave had the courage toapply for and accept a grant from theCanada Council to study UFOabductions and toured all over NorthAmerica in his quest. I was verydisappointed in his final report (Ref. 6)and never could understand why it wasso negative and in places inaccurateuntil April, 1987 when John wasinvolved in the CBC TV Man Aliveprogram "The ET Connection." Theprogram which set new standards forcareful advance research thanks toDirector-Producer David Cherniack,focused on abductions. It turns outJohn may himself have had anabduction experience when young andseems to be fighting dealing with it at allby trying to pass it and other abductionexperiences off as dreams. Apparentlyif he admits that other actualabductions have occurred, he wouldhave to face up to his own whichapparently is too difficult...sort of aclassic case of denial. John heads asmall group in Edmonton, Alberta.: Arthur Bray of Ottawa, haspublished two books on UFOs, is an ex-officer and has managed to obtain aportion of the files of Wilbert Smith.Because of his input at the TorontoMUFON Conference in 1982,1 was puton to Dr. Robert Sarbachef whom I wasable to locate in Florida, and to visit.Sarbacher was a quite remarkable

scientist who served on a number ofwartime and post war researchcommittees and was the source ofsome of Smith's comments aboutUFOs as quoted above, according toSmith's handwritten notes after themeeting. Sarbacher was a boy geniusaccording to a Saturday Evening Postarticle and made major contributions tothe technical side of winning World WarII...I don't know why Arthur hadn'tlooked for him. His yacht in PalmBeach, Florida, was quite impressiveand he was in the phone book as well asin various professional directories.

Still active in Canada are peoplesuch as Chris Rutkowski of Winnipeg,Manitoba, and employed by theUniversity of Manitoba. Chris publishesThe Swamp Gas Journal and hascompiled an extensive computerizedfile of hundreds of Manitoba UFOsightings. He has been involved invarious research projects concernedwith observations from satellites. GeneDuplantier of Toronto has been a longtime distributor of UFO publications.John Magor of British Columbiapublished a Canadian UFO report forseveral years and has written at leastone book. David Haisell of the Torontoarea has also written a book and was anactive investigator for several years.There are still active UFO groups inToronto and Waterloo and Stratford, allin Ontario. Dr.. Don Donderi is a

. Professor of Psychology at prestigiousMcGill University in Montreal and wasvery active in UFO Quebec as well ascourageous enough to introduce me at2 of my overflow McGill lectures.

REFERENCES

1. Friedman, Stanton T. "Flying Saucers, NoisyNegatiuists, and Truth" Paper presented at 1985MUFON Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, 15Pages. $2.00 postpaid from UFOR1, POB 3584,Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5J8.2. Bondarchuk, Yurko "UFO Canada" SignetBook, New American Library of CanadaLimited, .Scarborough, Ontario, Paperback, May1981 $2.95, forward by Stanton T. Friedman, 198pages.3. Moore, W.L, and Berlitz, C. "The RoswellIncident" 1980 Crosset and Dunlap, New York,168 pages.4. Moore, W.L. "Crashed Saucers: Evidence inSearch of Proof Paper presented at MUFON1985 Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, 49 pages,$5.00 from UFORI.

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SENSORY & PSYCHIC GFO EXPERIENCES

By Dr. Arlan Andrews

Dr. Arlan Andrews, a MUFONconsultant in engineering, is amember of MENSA and ScienceFiction Writers of America.

ABSTRACT

Field data garnered by UFOlogistspresent the most open-mindedobserver with contradictory reports,from those of apparent spacecraftlandings, to encounters bordering onthe magical and mystical. Like theparticle-wave duality found in thephenomena of light propagation, UFOphenomena seems to branch into twomajor c lass i f ica t ions: SensoryExperiences and Psychic Experiences.Trying to separate and catalog thesereports, as well as the theories andhypotheses that attempt to explainthem, results in confusion both forUFOlogists and the public.

To give all of the UFO theories andreports a common identificationscheme, I have elaborated on Dr. J.Allen Hynek's Close Encounterscategories to produce a new andcomprehensive classification systemthat provides a definite place for allconceivable UFO and paranormalevents and combinations of events.

A Sensory Experience derivesfrom external stimuli, and is one inwhich the human brain and nervoussystem process information derivingfrom all the recognized human sensesof sight, smell, touch, taste, andhearing, as well as temperature,balance, muscular position and otherknown physiological responses. Thus,a sensory event is one that gives rise tothe stimuli to which the human systemresponds. A physical construct is anatural or artificial aggregation ofmatter and or energy that occurs byprocesses acceptable to convention-al science.

In comparison, ' a PsychicExperience is one in which the humanbrain and nervous system process6

information that does not derive fromthose known and recognized humansenses. A psychic event, then, issomething that gives rise to the stimuli

• to which the "psychic senses" respond.A psychic consfrucf, it follows, wouldbe an aggregation of energy or matterformed by unknown processes outsidethe knowledge of conventional science.

With these definitions in hand, theclassification table represents a novelcategory system into which the entirerange of UFO reports — landings,occupants, physical encounters,apparitions, abductions, hallucinations,mistaken identifications, mysticalbeings — can all be fit, in their great andwondrous variety.

Examples of each of fourcategories under both SensoryExperiences and Psychic Experiencesserve to demonstrate the utility of themethod.

IMPROBABLE EVENTS

Psychic theories of UFOs offerexplanations for UFO experiences interms of phenomena not yet a part ofconventional science. Such theoriesarose among UFOlogists attempting toformulate one explanation to accountfor all of the seemingly bizarre,irrational, and "impossible" eventsassociated with UFO reports. In theMay, 1953, issue of the Journal of theBritish Interplanetary Society, scientistArthur C. Clarke speculated that "...ifthey come from other planets, it is fairlycertain they are not spaceships...theywill be something very much moresophisticated."

In the last twenty-five years otherresearchers have tended to similarconclusions. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, formerBlue Book consultant and Director ofthe Center for UFO Studies, has said"There are two senses in which peoplethink UFOs are psychic — one view isthat they are created by mental orunconscious projections...A second

way is to assume that they areparapsychological, in which case theymay very well be real, but they areconforming to a different set of laws."(The Edge of Reality, Regnery,Chicago, 1975). The opposing view iss ta ted by David M. Jacobs(Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOSConference, p.115): "...it seems absurdto have to construct another universeas a home for UFOs. It seems equallyabsurd to create an alternate reality orfourth dimension when we do not evenknow...what comprises the nature ofreality."

Nonetheless, certain aspects ofUFO reports seem to be quite strange:religious visions, such as those atFatima, Portugal, in 1917 which werefollowed by a sun-like disc seen bybelievers and atheists alike; encounterswith ethereal beings; contact withextraterrestrials by ESP; and theapparently i r ra t ional antics ofhumanoids seen in and around landedUFOs. It is evident that these events, ifthey are real, must have some aspectswhich cannot be totally accounted forin conventional scientific terms.

To compare the multitudes ofpsychic theories of UFOs, we define astandard classification system basedupon the two basic kinds of UFOexperiences:

Sensory Experience: This type ofexperience is one in which the humanmind /b ra in system processesinformat ion deriving from therecognized human senses of sight,smell, taste, touch, and hearing, as wellas secondary perceptions such astemperature, pressure, balance,vibration, time duration, body position,muscle control, and other knownphysiological responses. A SensoryEvent is one that gives rise to the stimulito which the known senses respond.Such an event involves the possibility ofmeasurement by instrumentation andof phys ica l e f f ec t s upon theenvironment.

Psychic Experience: This type ofexperience is one in which the humanmind /b ra in system processesinformation that does not derive fromthe known human senses. A PsychicEvent is an event that gives rise tostimuli to which the psychic sensesrespond. These definitions rule out theposs ib i l i ty of i n s t r u m e n t a t i o nmeasurements within the range ofexisting equipment, as far as is known.A psychic consfrucf is further definedas an aggregation of matter or energyformed by unknown processes notconsidered possible in conventionalscience.

In the manner of the CloseEncounters classifications defined byDr. J. Allen Hynek, Tables I and IIsubdivide the two types of UFOexperiences into specific categoriesdepending upon the construction andthe origin of the events.

SE1K

In this category fall all of the non-psychic theories of UFO experience.They are exemplified by the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) whichsimply states that UFOs are "nuts andbolts" mechanical constructions builtand piloted by beings from otherplanets and other star systems. Thisview is expounded by the major civilianUFO groups, such as APRO, MUFON,NICAP, Ground Saucer Watch, andPSI. Authors Ruppelt, Heard, Jessup,Saunders, and McCampbell havesupported this thesis, and untilrecently, psychic proponents Hynekand Vallee.

Other theories in this categoryinclude those that speculate upon timemachines, living creatures in the sky orspace, and some types of naturalphenomena. Because SE1K respond toscientific measurement by instrument-ation, they are classified as "real." Theyalso may include atmospheric andcelestial phenomena that are mis-interpreted by some witnesses.

SE2K

The sensory experience of anevent psychically constructed by humanminds occurs in the literature ofparapsychology and may be one

TABLE I

SENSORY EXPERIENCES

Of the First Kind (SE1K):

Of the Second Kind (SE2K):

Of the Third Kind (SE3K):

Of the Fourth Kind (SE4K):

'Sensory Experience, Physical Construct

Sensory Experience, Psychic Construct-human origin

Sensory Experience, Psychic Construct-alien origin

Sensory Experiences, Psychic Construct-natural origin

explanation of some UFOs. WilliamRoll, Director of the Psychical ResearchFoundation, Durham, NC, talks of.suchevents in his book The Poltergeist(Signet, 1972). His investigations showthat the directed forces of the humanmind can cause physical events such asmoving objects, puncturing skin, orgenerating lights and sounds. Dr.Hynek alludes to the poltergeistexplanation in The Edge of Reality.Jacques Vallee in his precedent-breaking treatise Passport to Magonia(Regnery, Chicago, 1969) mentions apossible hypothetical "medium in whichhuman dreams can be implemented,and this is the mechanism by whichUFO events are generated, needing nosuperior intelligence to trigger them...Italso, naturally, explains the totality ofreligious miracles as well as ghosts..."He goes on to refute this theory withanother of his own (See PE3K).

SE2K may be summarized in thestatement by the famous psychologistC.G. Jung, in his analysis FlyingSaucers: A Modern Myth of ThingsSeen in theS/cy (Harcourt Brace, 1959):"It boils down to nothing less than this:that either psychic projections throwback a radar, echo, or else theappearance of real ejects affords ano p p o r t u n i t y f o r m y t h o l o g i c a lprojections."

SE3K

Sensory experiences of eventsp s y c h i c a l l y c rea ted by a l i enintelligences are among the mostcommon theories of psychic UFOs.One of the earliest reports of SE3Ktheories comes from Meade Layne inhis 1950 publication Flying Discs--The

Ether Ship Mystery and Its Solution(Borderland Sciences ResearchAssociates, San Diego). He feels thatUFOs come from a region of existencecalled the "Etheric Plane" which is apsychic realm, but are perceived byhumans as real. The earlier quote byArthur C. Clarke could also point toSE3K, since he suggested that UFOsmay not be material bodies. Frank E.Stranges in Danger From the Stars(International Evangelism Crusades,Venice, CA, 1960) feels thatsupernatural beings or "angels" arebehind the UFO phenomena, and thatthey can cause physical damage tohumans. A similar view by GeorgeUnger in the 1958 book Flying Saucers:Physical and Spiritual Aspects (NewKnowledge Books, Sussex, England)considers the real UFOs to be used bysupernatural forces not from space.

Similar views of events directed byother intelligences may be found in thebooks of John Keel (The MothmanProphecies, Signet, 1975; Our HauntedPlanet, Fawcett, 1971; and portions ofThe Eighfh Tower, Signet, 1975.) Partof Keel's theories involve "program-ming" radiation from space that directsthe activities of the human race.

As a matter of comment, theboundary between SE3K and SE1Kmay change as time goes on, forresearch may find that there arestrange and unusual methods ofconstruct ion, propuls ion, andcommunication. What we nowconsider "psychic" may one day becommon technology.

SE4K

Sensory experiences of naturally-

occurring psychic events are seldomtheorized. The first author whoapparently wrote on this was C.Maxwell Cade, in "A Long, Cool LookAt Alien Intelligence," (Flying SaucerReview, March/April 1968). Cadetheorized that UFOs and poltergeistscould be caused by influences ofunknown radiations planned byextraterrestrial intelligences, or bynatural stochastic (i.e., random)processes. (The iconoclastic writerCharles Fort wrote about similar-sounding theories in The Book of theDamned, before the era of modernUFOlogy, but it is not clear if he spokeof psychic origins.)

A modern look at SE4K comesfrom Persinger and Lafreniere in their1977 book Space-Time Transients andUnusual Events (Ne l son-Ha l l ,Chicago). After classifying Forteanphenomena across the United Statesinto types of events, timing of events,and geographical location, the authorsspecualte that the interactions of stellargravity . shock waves and variousnatural electric and magnetic fields ofthe earth produce UFOs and otherstrange happenings. In their view, themanifestation of unusual events isproduced by these perturbations actingupon the human system. Thus therehave been actual creation of anomalousartifacts, fossils, animals, and UFOs.Some of their other explanations arediscussed in PE2K.

PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES

The reported intensities andvarieties of UFO.sensory effects swampthe normal human senses. The dazzlinglights, sounds, smells, tastes,vibrations, heat, loss of memory,paralysis, and inputs to all the othersenses, make if not surprising thatlatent or subtle psychic senses wouldalso be affected. The following sectionis an overview of the major theories thatexplain UFOs in terms still outside ofconventional science.

PE1K

This category can be called"psychological." The phenomenareported are generated internally to thewitness and although real to that8

TABLE II

PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES

Of the First Kind (PE1K):

Of the Second Kind (PE2K):

Of the Third Kind (PE3K):

Of the Fourth Kind (PE4K):

Psychic Experience, Internal Origin

Psychic Experiences, Psychic Construct-human origin

Psychic Experience, Psychic Construct-alien origin

Psychic Experience, Psychic Construct-.natural origin

person, cannot be perceived by others.Thus, dreams, hallucinations, alteredstates of consciousness, hypnosis, drugexperiences, and other delusions fallinto the category of PE1K. Althoughsuch reports may be of interest topsychologists, further research wouldonly delve deeper into the mind andpsychology of the witness, and not toany conclusions about the externalworld perceived by others. In otherwords, these events are not "real." ,

This explanation has. been putforth by most of the UFO "de-bunkers," from Schopfer (The Flying .Saucers: Yes or No?, Stuttgart, WalterHadecke Verlag, 1955), throughGardner, Fads and Fallacies in theName of Science (Dover, 1957), up toprotions of Grinspoon and Persky in1972 ("Psychiatry and UFO Reports,"in UFOs: A Scientific Debate, Norton,New York).

PE2K

The psychic perception of psychicevents created by human intelligenceaccount for a wide range ofexper i ences , f r o m t e l e p a t h i ccommunication to out-of-body travels,to psychic readings, to hauntinginvestigations (Andrews, BeyondReality Magazine, June 1978, forexample), and most other areas ofparapsychology. The spiritualistliterature, for example, is replete withreports of communication with humansnow living in another plane of existence.Dr.. Hermann Oberth, the famed rocketscientist^ changed his "nuts-and-bolts"SE1K outlook ("Flying Saucers ComeFrom a Distant World," American

Weekly, Oct. 24, 1954) to PE2K aftercommunication with a spirit through apsychic medium (Kdtechismus derUraidem, Ventla-Verlag, 1966). He nowbelieves that earth serves as a testingplace for the soul, which then continueslife on other planets after physical

; death.A less spiritual view of PE2K is

taken by Loren Coleman and JeromeClark . in The Unidentified: NotesToward Solving the UFO Mystery(Warner Paperbak Library 1975). Intheir "Laws of Para-ufology," they statethat the UFO mystery is primarilys y m b o l i c , t h a t t h e o b j e c t i v emanifestations are psychic creationsfor the human brain: "Existing onlytemporarily, they are at best quasi-physical." Again, these authors feel thatthe psychic component of the collectiveunconscious creates psychic eventsthat are perceptible to those psychicsenses. In this .manner, then, manypsychic humans may experience thepsychic creation of other humans.

PE3K

This category, psychic perceptionof psychic events created by aliens, isthe largest grouping under "PsychicTheories of UFOs." The intelligencesare postulated to be on other planets,under the earth's surface, in othertimes, and in other dimensions.Theories have exhausted nearly everyconceivable relationship that may existamong mankind and every otherthinking thing in all of time and space.We will briefly outline some of theseaspects of psychic UFOs.

Telepathic Contact With

Exfraterresfria/s--According to MitchMartin in Fate Magazine, (September1958--"Space Travelers in 1870?"),Martians and earthfolk communicatedfrom Massachusetts to the Red Planetbetween 1860 and 1873 by psychicmeans. A long history of such contactshas ensued, from Corinne Heline'sAmerica's Invisible Guidance (NewAge Press, Los Angeles, 1949), to themany publications of the AetheriusSociety and other religious contacteegroups. Scientific Ufologists have longsince refused to take such claims veryseriously, primarily because theinformation content in the messages isthe usual "Man must repent and stopnuclear testing" variety, or else acollection of religious exhortations. (Inshort, no- useful data has ever beenreceived from the "Space Brothers;"we would have at least expectedforeknowledge of the rings of Uranus orthe fact that Mercury rotates on its ownrotates on its own axis.)

Psychic Origin of UFOs- Theoften inexplicable appearance of UFOshas led to the most serious theories ofthe psychic nature of the objectsthemselves. One such event is the 1917Fatima, Portugal experience: shepherdchildren saw and spoke to a woman in aglowing ball of light. Then later, asprophesied by the woman, a brilliantdisc broke through clouds and dried theclothing of a rain-soaked crowd of60,000 persons. (See Walsh, Our Ladyof Fatima, MacMillan, New York,1947). From the viewpoint of Ufology.aPE3K and a SE3K occurred (Ribera,"What Happened at Fatima?", FlyingSaucer Review, March/April, 1964).Such experiences must be accountedfor in any such UFO theory.

Dr. Hynek's views of psychicUFOs were discussed earlier. Hiscolleague, Jacques Vallee (Passport toMagonia) further speculates that"...(UFOs could be explained) if wecould hypothesize mental entities,which would be simultaneouslyperceptible to groups of independentwitnesses," and that "we could alsoimagine that for centuries somesuperior intell igence has beenprojecting into our environment...various artificial objects whose creationis a pure form of art." Then heconcludes that "...a hundred or a

thousand such theories could beenumerated at very little expense, andevery one of them could serve as thebasis for a very nice new myth orreligion...." His own version of psychicUFOs, however, does call foraccommodating historical accounts ofapparitions, the Celtic fairy faiths,nineteenth century "airships," andmodern UFO appearances, saying that"the mechanisms that have generatedthese various beliefs are identical" (andpresumably of psychic origin.)

Another of John Keel's theoriesfrom The Eighth Tower is that a senilesupercomputer left over from anancient age produces psychicmanifestations of monsters, artifacts,and UFOs to prevent us from finding itsphysical location. A similar view ispropounded by writer Brad Steiger inhis booksMysteries of Time and Space(Dell, 1976) and Gods of Aquarius:UFOs and the Transformation of Man(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976). Heproposes that mankind is engaged in a"Reality Game" with the UFOi n t e l l i g e n c e s , in a s y m b i o t i crelationship. Once we understand thatthere is a game, he concludes, we willunderstand what the rules of the gameare, and that will transform us into acosmic consciousness.

As Steiger summarizes in ProjectBlue Book (Ballantine Books, 1976), theeffect of psychic theories on the studyof UFOs has been profound: "...thecourse had been set for a New Ufologydevoted to understanding themechanisms of belief rather thanperpetuating the beliefs generated bythose mechanisms." That states thepresent case for PE3K.

PE4K

Psychic perception of naturally-occurring psychic events form severalof the "Low-Probability Explanations"for anomalous events in the previously-quoted work of Persinger andLafreniere. Postulating an interactiverelationship between the natural energyfields of the earth arid the livingcreatures of it, the concept of a"geopsyche" is presented. Thegeopsyche arises when a uniformity ofthought or belief happens amonghumans, and the resulting fears and

neuroses modulate the behaviour of therace. P e r t u r b a t i o n s of theelectromagnetic fields of the earthcould also produce psych icmanifestations among humans.

PSYCHIC SUMMARY

Many references to psychic aspectsof UFOs are summarized in the U.S.Air Force Publication AFOSR 68-1656(1969) by Lynn Catoe, entitled UFOsand Related Subjects: An AnnotatedBibliography. The psychic theories ofUFOs speak for themselves; frustrationin capturing an object or capturing theimagination of the scientific communityseem to have given rise to much of thenew direction in Ufology. Three morequotations would seem to be in order.

From Flying Saucer Occupants(Signet, 1967), Jim and Coral Lorenzensay that there are two choices in UFOtheories: 1.) The objects and their"operators" are physically real... or 2.)The population of this world is fallingvictim to a particularly insidious andapparently contagious mental diseasewhich generates hal lucinat ionsinvolving specific types of airships andhumanoids. This disease seems to bespreading."

From Passport to Magonia,Vallee: "The behavior of nonhumanvisitors to our planet, or the behavior ofa superior race coexisting with us onthis planet, would not necessarilyappear purposeful to a humanobserver. Scientists who brush asideUFO reports because 'obviouslyintelligent visitors would not behave likethat' simply have not given seriousthought to the problem of nonhumanintelligence."

And finally, from Arthur C. Clarke,circa 1954: "Any technology sufficientlyadvanced over one's own will appear tobe magic."

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CURRENT MEDIA ATTITUDESBy Jim Speiser

Jim Speiser is MUFON StateSection Director for Arizona

Throughout the forty-year historyof the current UFO era, much of thepublic's perception of the phenomenonhas been shaped by the press andmedia coverage it has received. Overthe years that coverage has ranged intone from unashamed hysteria todownright ridicule, sometimes bothconcurrently.

Lately, nowever, the trend hasbeen progressively more cynical,perhaps owing to the increasingp e r v a s i v e n e s s of "o rgan izedskepticism" and the rise of such groupsas CSICOP. Early on, debunkers suchas Philip Klass correctly decried themedia's uncharacteristic lack ofattention to "the other side of the story"in dealing with reports of paranormalphenomena in general and UFOs inparticular. Now, however, reportersseem to routinely consult wi thastronomers, satellite tracking facilitiesand even the debunkers themselveswhen filing a UFO story. On its face,t h i s j o u r n a l i s t i c b a l a n c e i scommendable, of course, but there is atendency to let the skeptics have thelast word, as if to provide a "happyending" to the plot to invade ourscientific equilibrium.

Gould reporters' own cynicalattitudes be coloring their coverage ofthe UFO phenomenon?

In an attempt to gauge the currentoutlook of the media toward thesubject, I recently touched base with agroup of journalists that meet "online",in a nationwide computer forum calledCompuServe. In an electronicmessage, I posed a series of questionsdesigned to delve into the mindset ofthe American press vis-a-vis the elusiveUFO.

QUESTIONS

In composing the message, Isought answers to the following: 1) Howare mainstream UFOlogists viewed bythe press? Have we succeeded inseparating the hard science from thecult aspect of the phenomenon? 2) Isthe media getting all the facts? Are theymaking an effort to do so, or is thesubject considered so overworked thateven the most superficial details arerecorded grudgingly? Are the skepticsand debunkers considered the finalword? 3) Is there a mpre-or-lessuniversal, tacit policy of downplayingUFO stories, in order to avoidcomparison with the much-reviledsupermarket tabloids?

Many have bemoaned the paucityof in-depth reporting on the so-calledCosmic Watergate, the thousands ofpages of documents released throughthe Freedom of Information Act. If everthere was a carrot on a stick for theAmerican media, the FOIA documentsseemed to be it; yet no Woodward/Berstein-style expose' has beenforthcoming. However, it occurs to methat "no news is bad news" in thebusiness of journalism, and if such aninquisition had been undertaken, yethad turned up nothing of value, the factwould quite likely never have surfaced.",60 Minutes" is not in the habit ofreporting what it has not found. Soanother of my intentions was to find outif such an investigative project hadindeed been undertaken, only to beshelved when it proved fruitless.

The CompuServe JournalismForum provides an excellent glimpsebehind-the-scenes at some of theattitudes and personalities that shapewhat we see on our TV screens and inour newspapers. The 2000 membersrepresent a respectable cross-sectionof the journalism community, fromnewspaper editors to photographers tonetwork news reporters. While theresponses I received to my messagecannot be considered comprehensive, I

believe they provide a good thumbnailsketch of how ufology looks in themirror of American culture, the media.Some of the indications:

FINDINGS

1) There is indeed a tendency to avoidin-depth UFO stories for. fear of beingtarred with the National Enquirerbrush. "The more in-depth the storygot, the more harebrained the stationor paper might seem," said onemember. "Don't get me wrong — Idon't necessarily go along with that. I'mjust stating what I believe to be fact."

2) Perhaps as a result of (1), thecults and kooks are still getting the bulkof the press, and seem to beinextricably associated with thephenomenon in general. The firstresponse to my inquiry was from areporter who complained of regularcalls from a man who claimed thataliens were invading people's bodies ata nearby church.

Other members claimed it wasdifficult to tell the kooks from theserious investigators. A radio newsmantold of an interview he had done with askeptic and a supposedly mainstreamufologist. He claimed that the ufologist,Dale Goudie, turned out to be a"fanatic" who charged the skeptic withbeing an "idiot" and working for thegovernment. (Upon reviewing a tape ofthe interview provided by Goudie, Ifound no such invective.)

3) The reporters are not getting allthe facts. My inquiry revealed that areporter for Channel 5 in New York,who had covered the story of theHudson Valley UFOs and concludedthat it was all a hoax, had never evenseen the home videos made of eitherthe object or the flight of planes! (Thissituation, at least, has been rectified,and I am awaiting the reporter'scomments on the.tape I sent him.)

4) My request for information on10

UFO investigations that hadn't made itto the airwaves drew a blank. Either ithasn ' t been done, or theseprofessionals didn't know about it.Which brings me to . . .

5) My faith in the American mediais such that I have never subscribed tothe theory that the press is "in on" theCosmic Watergate at any level. Theremay be a pervasive fear of the UFOstory in management circles, but Ibelieve it is based purely on imageconsiderations, and not on someunseen pressure from above. I sawnothing in the CompuServe exchangeto convince me otherwise.

Not all of the vibes in the exchange

were negative, and there was at leastone useful, positive suggestion: "Stayaway from buzzwords like UFO andFlying Saucer. In my mind, theyinstantly conjure up memories of thefolks who swear they were whisked tothe planet Twilo. for an all-expenses-paid weekend. When 1 hear words likeSETI, however, I'm a whole lot lessskeptical and a whole lot moreinterested. [I] think your job is to shiftpeople into a new serious mode ofthinking about the subject if you'regoing to get editors, viewers andreaders to take you seriously."

1987 is shaping up to be the year ofthe UFO — not so much in|terms of

sightings, but in terms of the amount oipublic attention that will be paid thesubject, through books, talk shows,symposia, mini-series, and other massmedia events. The press is the majorcondu i t t h r o u g h which muchinformation will reach the public and,rightly or wrongly, it is the press'attitude that will shape the public's viewof our endeavors. Public opinion in turndetermines funding for future work inthe field. Hence, it is vital that the pressreceive an adequate education onUFOs. Judging from the responsesgleaned from the CompuServecorrespondence, we have our work cutout for us.

SUPPORT GROUPS: A PROPOSAL

By Ann Druffel

Ann Druffel is a frequentJournal contributor and co-authorwith D. Scott Rogo of The TujungaCanyon Contacts

Recent publication of numerous"abductee" and "entity contact"reports (1) in the MUFON UFOJournal, FSR, and other sources hasmade plain what many ufologists havesuspected for years — that the"abductee" syndrome and other typesof purported "alien contact" have beenproliferating beyond the ability of thefield to properly investigate all surfacingcases.

Now, in April and May 1987, thepublication of Communion by WhitleyStrieber and Intruders by BuddHopkins has led to heightened publicawareness of the possibility thatmembers of the human race are beingcontacted rather f requent ly byintelligences which are, in witnesses'judgment, in one way or another relatedto UFO phenomena.

Books like Communion andIntruders, however, although writtenby knowledgeable and talentedauthors, present a skewed picture ofthe situation, because they fail toinclude samples from the whole field of"abductee" and "entity contact"

reports. Since 'they concentrate,necessarily, on cases where thewitnesses are rational and believable,they make almost no mention of thefact that there is a vast overlay of caseswhere witnesses, because of varyingdegrees of emotional damage, havetrouble presenting their stories inobjective and/or believable form.

The "best," most believable casesh a v e t h e good f o r t u n e o fdocumentation and publication, butwhat happens to numerous similarcases? Many of the witnesses are just asrational, they suffer just as much fromfrustration and anger, and they, too,long for answers. And yet not much isbeing done to help them.

GROUPS

It is advisable; first, to attempt toseparate abductee and entity contactcases into various "groupings." Thistechnique will help explain the plethoraof individuals who report such

• experiences and bring about a betterunderstanding of this article's premise.Of course, groupings of this sort aredifficult to make, since each individual isdifferent, but certain generalizationscan be made.

While such groupings would

probably vary from researcher toresearcher, those below are derivedfrom twenty years of personalexperience with abductee and contactcases. During that time, I haveinvestigated and documented at leasttwo dozen cases, many of which havebeen published in the literature.2,3 Ihave also investigated, to a greater orless degree, over one hundred other"contact" and "abduction" cases. Thegroupings derived from these files areas follows:

GROUP ONE: These arewitnesses reporting contact or UFOabduction who appear to be rational,honest, and socially productive. Theyare generally cooperative and open toinvestigation, but desire anonymity toprotect their privacy. They usually havestable work lives and satisfying familialrelationships.

Group One individuals seem to bedescribing "real"4 experiences to thebest of their ability. They do not readilyseek "explanations" from outsiders,and therefore are relatively free fromemotional damage sustained throughridicule and disbelief by family, friends,and others. Although some tend tointerpret their "visitor" episodes in thelight of their own philosophical orreligious understanding, they do not

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insist that their interpretation is the onlyone possible. They remain open tofuther hypothesizing as to the "source."

They benefit by reassurance andsupport by experienced investigators/researchers, and sometimes this is vitalto prevent them from allowing theexperience(s) to "take over their lives."After a time, with the proper support,they assimilate the incident(s) into theirlives, retaining minimum, if any, anxietyabout the Phenomenon.

Care should be taken byinvestigators to avoid letting their ownhypotheses about the source, nature,and mdtive(s) of the UFO Phenomenoninfluence the opinions of suchwitnesses, although general discussionof various theories and hypotheses isnot out-of-line.

Group One witnesses are oftenmetaphysically-minded, regularlypracticing meditation and/or prayer.Some report their experiences as"positive" or "partially positive," and ifthey feel "favored" or "chosen," they donot stress this point. A good example ofa Group One abudctee is "Emily," asdescribed in the book, TujungaCanyon Contacts.5

GROUP TWO: This group, also,seems to be describing "real" events.Often, their experiences have occurredyears prior, and they never managed tofind a suitable source to report it. Mosta t t e m p t e d , s h o r t l y a f t e r t h eoccurrence, to describe the episode(s)to family and friends but met withridicule and disbelief. As a result, manysustained considerable emotionaldamage. It is possible that theirpsychological makeups are rather morefragile than the sturdier mindsets ofGroup One individuals. The emotionaldamage sustained seems over andabove any direct trauma the UFO eventitself may have caused.

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

Group Two individuals benefitgreatly from contact with experienced,objective investigators, if carefulsupport techniques are used. Oftenovert empathy and .compassion mustbe employed for a time, to help themovercome the psychological damagesustained. The investigator must beaware that Group Two individuals can12

become dependent on supportivetechniques, however, and these mustbe gradually eased as the "healing"process occurs . G r o u p Twoindividuals, like Group One persons,are generally friendly and cooperativeand if they "drain" energy and time frominvestigators, they often recognize thisand attempt to remedy the situation.

In many cases, Group Twoindividuals' emotional damage hascaused breakup in family relationships,including divorce. They tend to changejobs frequently and/or to have difficultyh o l d i n g pos i t i ons w h i c h paysatisfactory wages/salary. Theytend, also to have formed rather firmnotions as to the source, nature, andmotive(s) of the entities with whom theyhave reportedly had contact. Most ofthem reject objective discussion ofalternate hypotheses, feeling that theirown opinions satisfy their needs. If theyconsider their experiences in anyrespect "positive" or "partiallypositive," they often feel "chosen" anddo not hesitate to inform others of thisfact.

A few of this group, however,remain mystified and actively seekadvice, "knowledge," opinions frominvestigators. If they have not arrived atconclusions regarding the Phenom-enon's "source," they tend to grasp athypotheses or opinions offered byinvestigators. It is of utmost importancethat any discussion of "source,"motives, etc. be kept on an extremelyobjective level, and every effort made tohelp Group Two witnesses form theirown opinions in the light of their own"contact" experiences. Theseindividuals can often be philosophicallyor religiously oriented, but tend todespair or anxiety rather than findinghelp through prayer and/or meditation.

An example of a Group Twoindividual is O.K., who lives in the LosAngeles area. Although ostensiblydesiring anonymity, he openly speaksof his experiences at length with otherpersons who are ignorant, of thePhenomenon, thereby tending to bringabout continued ridicule and disbelief.Although basically objective about hisencounter, he tends to relate peripheralevents which are highly subjective andsometimes "off the wall."

In addition to rather severe

neurotic behavior in some areas of hisl i f e , he has had periods ofhospitalization following psychoticepisodes, from which he recovers quiterapidly. Being an intelligent andprofessionally-skilled person, he hasresearched and documented manyfacets of his own encounters. All in all,he has managed to put his life backtogether irvah acceptable way. He usesmetaphysical and philosophicaltechniques as support aids in crises.

GROUP THREE: These individ-uals appear extremely damaged —emotionally, mentally and psychically— to a much greater degree thanGroup Two described above. Althoughtheir stories may sometimes appearvery similar to Group One and GroupTwo, their general behavior isconsistently neurotic and oftenpsychotic. Their family/acquaintancerelationships are rocky or absentaltogether. One of the importantpurposes of their lives seem to be tomake logical sense of the "contact"experiences they have allegedlyundergone. It is feasible to assume thatthey were already emotionally unstableat the time of their "encounters," if,indeed any type of "real" contact everactually took place.

G r o u p Three i n d i v i d u a l ssometimes manage to appear normal,well-controlled, and rational upon firstcontact, but very soon are recognizableas severely damaged personalities.

It is possible to work with GroupThree individuals, documenting andinvestigating their alleged encounters,but such work is draining on theemotional and physical energy of theinvestigators. The members of thisgroup are cooperative to a degree, butmany of their statements are impossibleto verify by reason of highly subjectivecontent. There is little evidence thatthey rely on metaphysics, meditation,or . any other personal supportivetechnique to relieve the problemscaused by their "contact" experiences.They seem to be driven by compulsivebehavior and express anger againstthose who question their statements.

An example of Group Three isB.C., divorced with a small child. She isunemployed (though at the time of theabduction encounter was gainfullyemployed). She moves frequently from

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city to city. Intelligent and extremelyarticulate, B.C. claims that here x p e r i e n c e . inc luded de t a i l edobservation of the UFO propulsionsystem. Although her sketches of thesystem were regarded by a psychiatricconsultant as a deliberate "puzzle"perpetrated by her (a commonpsychotic maneuver), a scientific UFOresearch group in the Los Angeles areawas interested enough to obtainadditional technical details from her.Following this, she experienced anapparent paranoid episode in which sheaccused the scientists of "stealing" the

. propulsion information.GROUP FOUR: These individuals

seem to be basically psychoticindividuals who have most probablyhallucinated or imagined their reported"contact" experiences. The content oftheir stories, however, may not, at least

. upon first contact, differ in anysignificant degree from Goup Two andGroup Three, but they can berecognized almost always by theirrushed speech and disconnectedthoughts. Their stories are almostalways extremely complex. Theyappear to believe their own stories butmany are, in a l l p r o b a b i l i t y ,subconsciously lying. There remainsthe possibility, however, that a "real"contact lies at the core of theirstatements, but that the details havebeen hopelessly embellished. As aresult, even though there may be grainsof truth in their stories, it is never time-efficient to try to investigate ordocument them. . •

. G r o u p Fpur individuals areextremely hard to deal with.'If effortsare made to investigate their claims —for at first contact, they may appear tofall within Group Three or Group Two— the investigators soon: f indthemselves being^draihed,of physical,emotional and. psychical' energies.Group Four'persons are, in essence,"psychic vampires," constantly seekingsupport, reassurance, compassion, andabove all, .belief. . ' :

They , are almost always lonelypeople, owing, perhaps, to .theirextreme need to "tell their story. "Theytend to "repeat portions of their storiesat every opportunity, even to the samelistener; .Attempts to objectively,discuss their "experiences" with them

are of no avail.It is advisable for researchers who

encounter these individuals to pull backfrom any contact they may have begunwith them, for the sake of their ownemotional well-being. Group Fourindividuals should be referred, ifpossible, to professional psychologistsand psychiatrists interested in the UFOPhenomenon, not only because of thedegree of expertise needed but alsobecause such professional researcherscan at least be paid for their time!

An example of Group Fourresiding in the Los Angeles area, R:C.,reported numerous types of UFO andparanormal episodes. The contend ofthe reported incidents changed frominterview to interview because differentaspects of the "experiences" werestressed at different times. R.C.claimed contact with white, glowingentities, which she identified as "angels"and "the Divine Mother." She insistedthat "the Divine Mother" is angered fornot being recognized by Christendomas "part of the Trinity," and hadfrustrated local priests with herarguments.

She also reported poltergeisteffects, white disc-shaped manifest-ations, and claimed to have directknowledge that porpoises (dolphins)desired contact with the human raceand that she was capable of establishingcommunication with them. Significant-ly, when R.C. was offered a chance tobe interviewed by a parapsychologicalresearch lab which is interested indolphin-human communication, shedid not follow through.

HOAXES

GROUP FIVE: These "witnesses"encompass a small number (in myexperience. possibly one or twopercent), who are hoaxing orconsciously lying about havingabduction/encounter experiences.Their reasons for doing so may rangefrom prank-playing to a pathologicalneed for attention. This type, if notimmediately recognized, can takevaluable research time before contact iscut off. An example of this sort is Y.G.,who claims that, through continuingtelepathic contact with "space entities,"he has the knowledge to produce a

working model of an anti-gravitypropulsion system similar to that usedby some UFOs.

Although researchers in So.California have offered to look at hiswork and even to assist him in designingcircuitry (at his request), he has neverfollowed through, and it has becomeevident over a period of two years thatY.G. has given false information as tohis profession, his job status, and otherdetails of his life. Y.G.'s reasons forpersisting in his embellishments anduntruths is not yet clear.

GROUP SIX: this group may belarge or small — little is known about itand very little has been published inUFO literature concerning individualsof this type. These are fully rational,truthful, and productive persons whohave reported experiences highlysuggestive of close proximity to UFOphenomena/occupants. However, theydiffer from other abductees/contacteesin that they have been able to fend offthe contacts through the use of variousmethods, described below.

I have only three examples ofGroup Six in my files. One involvesJ.M., who as a young woman, threemonths pregnant with her first child,experienced hearing a loud, high-pitched "whirring" sound in the middleof the night. J.M.'s spouse sleptthrough the episode in spite of herefforts to awaken him. There seems tobe a memory/time lapse associatedwith the event, since J.M. cannotremember going back to bed after hervain attempt to locate the source of thesound. A perusal of the neighborhoodthe next day revealed the sound wasnot perceived by people in nearbyresidences. An hypnotic session with aprofessional medical hypnotherapistfailed to break through the amnesiablock.

In later years, J.M. experiencedrepeated encounters with apparent"bedroom visitors," as did the othertwo Group Six witnessses. These"visitors," and accompanying paralysis,were fought off by these Group Sixindividuals using varying methods,including mental struggle/meditativet echn iques , and prayer. Couldindividuals in this group be the "missinglink" we are searching for in stemmingthe tide of proliferating abductions and

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other unpleasant encounters with UFOentities?

Aside from this interestingquestion, (which may be treated morefully in a future article), another seriousproblem must be addressed. We longago passed the point where there wereenough experienced persons toinves t iga te the ever- increasingnumbers of contact/abduction reports.In view of the fact that abduction-scenarios and e n t i t y v i s i t a t ionexperiences are proliferating rapidly inthe Southern California area (aselsewhere), I have for several years feltthe need for "halfway houses" for themore severely damaged individuals,and regular group support meetings forthose less affected6.

GROUP SUPPORT

At the very least , somecommunities should have weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly meetings led bye x p e r i e n c e d i n d i v i d u a l s w h ounderstand the di f f icul t ies UFO"abductees" and "entity contactees"7

are going through. At these meetings,Group One and selected Group Twoindiv idua ls could discuss the i rexperiences, compare them with othervictims' stories, and obtain groups u p p o r t in i n c o r p o r a t i n g theexperience(s) into their lives in as saneand comfortable a manner as possible.If possible, the support group leadersshould be reimbursed for their time.

Under no circumstances shouldany leader attempt to influence thepersonal thinking of any witnesses as tothe nature, source, or motives of their"visitors." Since witnesses to suchphenomena are the only ones who havehad (possible) personal contact withUFO intelligences, they should beconsidered as the "experts," in thisaspect at least. The leader's role shouldbe strictly supportive and guiding, whilethe group itself helps its members inadjustment to more normal lives. Alsocrucial to this group support idea is theability to verify and document physicalevidence — be it scars on witnesses or(the often-reported but elusive)"implants" in brains!

Also badly needed are the servicesof doctors, hypnotherapists, andpsychologists to evaluate abduction/14

contact witnesses as they surface.Mere recounting of such experiencesin the literature does not serve any realpurpose anymore, other than todemonstrate how numerous thesecases are.

In support groups, the separateclasses of victims, as described above,should be judiciously separated fromeach other. Groups One and Twoshould never have to spend their timelistening to the endless recountings ofGroup Four, for example. Group Threeis an especially dicey group, whichshould probably not be exposed to anyother group, just as Group Six shouldnot be included in Groups One or Twolest their statements corrupt possiblerecall, hypnotic or otherwise. AndGroups Three and Four, of course,should have the benefit of referral topsychologists and/or psychiatrists, ifpossible, since they would not likelybenefit from the more rational, self-guiding Groups One and Two.

Groups One and Two personswould be the most likely to benefit fromsupport therapy. Some of the formerhave a l r eady i n t eg ra t ed the i rexperience(s) into their lives and do notneed group support. For many,occasional contact with an interestedresearcher suffices for most of theirneeds. However, members of GroupOne, if willing, might serve as assistantleaders (or leaders, if professionallyqualified) for other Class One victimswho are still searching for adjustment intheir lives. I have used this techniqueinformally for several years in this area,referring rational, stable individualswho state they have had abductionexperiences to other Group Oneabductees who have volunteered to dothis work on a one-to-one basis,provided the persons referred are thetype who need merely to talk out theirexperiences in a sensible way.

Selected Group Two personscould be judiciously added to GroupOne sessions, where they could learn toincorporate healing techniques andunderstanding of the Phenomenon'scommonality into their own lives. Infact, there is great potential, withproper guidance, for many Group Twopersons to become Group Onewitnesses, with the passage of time.And let us be positive about it and say

that Group Four and Five individualscould, in time, be similarly assisted.

The author would appreciatefeedback and input. from Journalreaders. At this writing attempts arebeing made to set up regular groupsupport meetings in the Los Angelesarea, based on the combined ideas ofresearchers with special interest in this

, aspect of the UFO Phenomenon.

REFERENCES AND NOTES1. For purposes of this article and its premise, nodistinction is made between so-called"abductees" and those witnesses who reportvarious other types of traumatic encounters with"UFO beings'."2. See the Tujunga Canyon Contacts, by AnnDruffel and D.Scott Rogo, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980.3. Another example is "Encounter on DappleCray Lane," by Druffel, Parts 1 and II, FSR, Vol.23, No. 1 and No. 2, 1977.4. "Real," in the context of this article, is definedas "reality as perceived by the witness, be itsubjective, objective, or a combination ofaspects, and including altered sense of reality,such as states of involuntary entrancement." Thedefinition .excludes hallucination and ordinarydreaming.5. Druffel & Rogo, op. cit.6. Meetings on this order are described by Bu'ddHopkins in his book Intruders, and have been

. used by researchers here and there across thecountry, including the.Los Angeles area, on arather limited scale. We applaud Peter Gersten'scurrent efforts to establish support groupsnationwide.7. The term "contactee" is used here in its currentsense, and does not imply that these individualsare like the old-style "contactee" of the 1950s,who reported highly positive contacts withbenevolent "Space Brothers."

Lawrence Fawcettand Barry J.Greenwood

INTENT

THE GOVERNMENT COVERUPOF THE UFO EXPERIENCEWhat does the government knowabout UFOs and why won't it tell us?

With a foreword by Dr. J. Allen Hynek

RETURN OF THE MOTHERSHIPS

By T. Scott Grain, Jr.

Observations of large-sized UFOsappear to be making a comeback lately,with reports coming from Alaska,Canada and Pennsylvania.

The first and most widelypublicized incident occurred onNovember 17, 1986, when Capt. KenjyuTerauchi and his crew claimed to haveobserved a huge walnut-shaped UFOas they flew their JAL Boeing 747 overAlaska. The craft was described byTerauchi as "two times bigger than anaircraft carrier," and continued to pacetheir airliner despite a 360-degree turnand a drop in altitude from 35,000 feetto 31,000 feet. Although the UFO wasobserved visually and by ground radar,the FAA concluded the UFO was an"unexplained split image of the JALBoeing 747 and not a separate object."The FAA does not explain why theUFO appeared on the plane's weatherradar, why it took six weeks to come tothe "split-image" conclusion and whythree excellent pilots visual observationis not seriously considered as a reliablerecollection of what they saw.

PENN UFO

Due to a news release thisinvestigator put into the localnewspaper regarding the 1987 MUFONSymposium, I was contacted in earlyJuly by Audrey McCurdy regarding aUFO sighting she had in February in theSeven Mountains area of Pennsylvania.

On the night of February 7, 1987,Carl McCurdy was driving east onRoute 322, one-half mile from PottersMills, when he and two other witnessessay they saw a large oval-shaped objectsuspended several hundred feet in theair. It was shortly after 11:00 PM EST,when Carl and Audrey McCurdy ofSpring Mills, and their friend, JackieBowersox, were driving home from abasketball game in State College, whenin the sky they saw this huge, solid-looking object, with a string of lightsaround it's outer perimeter. The object

was described by Audrey as the "size ofa football field," and was encircled bybright lights that were "beaming down,(with) enough light to make themountainside seem like daylight." (Itmay be interesting to note that a similarsighting, that was saucer-shaped, lightsaround its perimeter, and the "size of afootball field," was reported on October23, 1984, by Melvin Morrissey ofTyrone, PA, only 40 miles from thissighting., Details of that encounterappeared in the December 1984 issue ofthe MUFON Journal.)

The three witnesses watched theobject for less than a minute. They weredriving on a four-lane highway andcould not pull over because of the highsnow, but did manage to turn aroundand come back to the site two-and-a-half minutes later. The object was goneand the area was pitch black. Thewitnesses did not get a chance to seehow the UFO left the site.

RADAR

A third encounter involving anenormous UFO was witnessed by apilot, first officer, and stewardess onMay 16, 1987, during a Canadian AirInternational f l ight 157, enroutebetween Toronto and Winnipeg.Details of the incident were attained byCanadian UFO expert, StantonFriendman, who became aware of thesighting through UFO investigatorChris Rutkowski.

Rick Olsen, 31, was flying a Boeing737 at 31,000 feet, when his on boardPrimus 90 weather radar picked up anobject 5-6 times the size of a jumbo jetstreaking across the sky at 5400 miles-per-hour.

The first officer first noticed a hugereturn on the radar screen at a distanceof 50 miles, as the plane was flying 30miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario.Picking up a return this size was quietunusual, since the radar system isdesigned to record storms and only

large aircraft at close range (under 20miles) on its screen. When jumboaircraft do appear (747's, DC-10's andLlOll's), they usually appear as a smallgreen dot. "This return indicatedsomething six times the size of a 747,about the size of an aircraft carrier,"Olsen reported.

The object appeared on the radarscreen as bright red in the middle, withwhat looked like green "wings." TheUFO appeared to be flying atapproximately the same altitude androughly the same direction as the 737,at about 15° to the right of the plane.

The object was observed on radarfor about four minutes, before it wentoff the scope. The crew made variousadjustments to the radar system toinsure it was working properly. Theydetermined it was. The weather washazy and the crew was not closeenough to make a visual observation.Toronto Air Control and NORAD werecontacted to see if they could confirmthe radar target, as reported by Olsen.The answer was negative because ofthe haze in the atmosphere. CaptainOlsen has 21 years flying experience,and has been a commercial pilot for 15years.

Although it may be a coincidence,these three UFO reports were madewithin a six-month period, almostequally spaced, three months apart.There were at least three primarywitnesses in each encounter, and all thedescriptions involved extremely largecraft. Although I did not check anyUFO data banks for like reports duringthis time frame, it may be interesting tofind out if any other countries have hadsimilar reports between November1986 and May 1987.

MUFON103 OLDTOWNE RD.

SEGUIN, TX 78155

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NEWS 'N' VIEWS

ANGELS, ALIENS& ARCHETYPES

The Omega Foundation of Orinda,California, is sponsoring a UFO relatedsymposium to be held November 21-22,1987, in San Francisco's Palace of FineArts. The title is "Angels, Aliens andArchetypes: Cosmic Intelligence and.the Mythic Imagination." According toAlise Agar, Omega's director, thesymposium will trace the origins of theUFO phenomenon in history, religionand mythology, as well as coveringsome of its current aspects, particularlythe abduction phenomenon.

Speakers include Jacques Vallee,who will present a slide-illustratedoverview of UFOs; Terence McKenna,a visionary anthropolgist; RichardHoagland, author of The Monuments ofMars: City at the Edge of Forever;Kenneth Ring (Toward the OmegaPoint), who will discuss correlationsbetween abductions and the NearDeath Experience; Jose Arguelles,historian, and author of The MayanFactor; Whitley Strieber (Commun-ion); and Michael Grosso, thephilosopher (Final Choice), who willexamine the possibility that UFOs aresomehow connected to an evolutionarycrisis in human consciousness.

The cost of the symposium is $60a day before November 1st, and $75thereafter. For a brochure and fullinformation on speakers, lodging and abenefit banquet, please write or callAlise Agar of the Omega Foundation:62 Rheem Blvd., Orinda, CA, 94563,(415)254-2760.

NEW CRUX

Crux Number 3, $4.00,28 pages, isnow available from Tom Adams, Box1094, Paris, Texas, 75460. Adams isalso the publisher and editor ofStigmata, the mutilation newsletternext scheduled for appearance late thisyear or early next. Write Adams for

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additional information.Crux itself is devoted to UFOs and

strange phenomenon in general.Number 3 deals almost wholly withUFO reports from the state of NewMexico, "the Land of Enchantment."Ninety-three individual cases, datingback to 1880, are cataloguedchronologically in varying detail, from asingle paragraph to as much as twopages on the Socorro Incident involvingpoliceman Lonnie Zamora. Thereferences are available separately for a22-centSASE.

Crux also contains a listing ofs imi l a r publ ica t ions and the i raddresses, along with a section on"zooddities" and "not-so-lite-ufoldgy."The next issue, Adams says, willc o n t i n u e the e x a m i n a t i o n ofanomalous occurrences in enchantingNew Mexico.

UFOs AND THEEXTRATERRESTRIAL

CONTACT MOVEMENT:A Bibliography

Volume One: Unidentified FlyingObjects

Volume Two: The ExtraterrestrialContact Movement, by George' M.Eberhart with foreward by J. AllenHynek.

This comprehensive two-volumebibliography surveys the literature onunidentified flying objects and allegedcontacts with extraterrestrials fromancient times through 1985. Books,pamphlets, journals, journal articles,dissertations, audiovisual materials,films, government documents, comicbooks, and books for young readers arecited; newspaper articles and bookreviews are not.

Related topics covered includenocturnal lights (such as ball lightning),transient lunar events, ancientastronauts, the megaliths of Europeand elsewhere around the world, thepyramids of Egypt and America,

hollow-earth literature, aliens in sciencef i c t i o n , a n d t h e sea rch f o rextraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Citations are primarily to works inEnglish, although notable foreign-language works are also listed. Thevolume is arranged topically (for easyr e f e r e n c e ) , w i t h shor t essaysintroducing each chapter. The volumesinclude author and periodical indexes.

George M. Eberhart has served asStaff Librarian for the Mutual UFONetwork since June 15, 1978 andLibrarian and Bibliographic Consultantfor the J! Allen Hynek Center for UFOStudies since 1980.

The two volumes published in 1986contain 1,342 pages with illustrations,ISBN 0-8108-1919-8. The price for bothvolumes in $97.50. These outstandinghard cover • reference books may beordered from the publisher: ScarecrowPress, Inc., P.O. Box 4167, Metuchen,NJ 08840.

MAGNETIC PROPULSION

For many years, people havelaughed at the theories of someUFOlogists concerning the possibilityof magnetic propulsion. However, thismethod of movement may now bepossible (under some conditions) usingnew superconduct ing materials .Several recent articles have appearedon the subject. One, in the ColumbusDispatch (August 9, 1987), shows anaspirin-sized superconducting chipfloating like a UFO. The chip is made ofyttrium, barium, copper, and oxygen(Yl Ba2Cu3O7). It was cooled to-300Fand, when held over a refrigeratormagnet for a few seconds, it hovered.

The professor , do ing theexperiment, explained that the chipwas able to float on a magnetic fieldcreated by persistent electric currentsgenerated by the magnet. If kept cool,the chip could float perpetually. Areason for this ability is that the chip

retains an electric charge, unlikenormal wire, in which the charge willgradually diminish.

The same experiment had beenperformed years before, but usingmaterials in closed tanks cooled to lessthan minus 400 degrees.

Thus, there is no longer any reasonto laugh. Perhaps it would be a goodidea to go over information aboutpossible UFO composition, such asanalysis of possible UFO fragments,and sea rch for ev idence ofsuperconducting properties. Also,statements such as: "Research alongthese lines has been complicated by thecomplete absence of identifiable wings,propellers, jets, or other conventionalmethods of propulsion and guidance, aswell as a total lack of metallic wiring,vacuum tubes, or similar recognizablecomponents," (MAJESTIC - 12,MUFON UFO JOURNAL, July 1987),may not be as ludicrous (in regard tomagnetic propulsion, not anything else)as they appear.

Also, the assumption that UFOsshould produce a radar return hasfrequently been used to questionpossible visual UFO sightings, wherethere should be a radar return but noneexisted (The Skeptical Inquirer 11:322-326, 1987). However, one importantaspect of Stealth technology is toproduce a radar-proof craft and work isunderway to develop anti-radarcoatings. Other work is underway todevise ways to make combat planesless visually conspicuous.

-Irene ScottMUFON Consultant

MEDIA POLICYGUIDELINES

In order to strengthen thecredibility of UFO-related pursuits, thefollowing guidelines are stronglyrecommended for all membersrepresenting MUFON to the media.

I. Providing Public Information asan Organizational Representative

A.) Any public presentations ormedia appearances should be limited tothe UFO subject. While paranormal ormetaphysical areas may possibly havesome bearing on individual UFO casereports, it is nonproductive to presentvaried subject matter to the public.

Further, an impression of inextricableties between UFO research and otheresoteric pursuits serves to confuse theaudience and erode the UFOresearcher's credibility.

B . ) P r o v i d i n g i n a c c u r a t e ,unverified or incomplete information tothe public or media (print andelectronic) should be avoided.

C.) Public speakers should beprepared with factual evidenceconcerning specific UFO cases and/orparticular aspects of the subject.Especially in radio/television andnewspaper interviews, it is crucial torestrict one's remarks on the basis offirsthand information or an otherwisethorough understanding of the matterin discussion. A claim of ignorance inresponse to a given inquiry is far lessdamaging than open-ended speculationor a fabrication of events or data.Concurrently, any media misinforma-tion should be met with facts already onrecord, if possible.

D.) When speaking before schoolor college groups or when teaching aclass on the subject, care should beexercised to be objective and to refrainfrom personal veiwpoints regarding thenature, origin or purposes of thepresumed intelligences unless one'sbias is clearly stated.

E.) Care should be taken topresent government statements withinthe context of a document's overallscope and tenor as well as any knowncircumstances which prompted it.Further, the speaker should advise theaudience that publ ic o f f i c i a l s 'declarations may not be construed ascurrent government policy.

F.) If possible, as a courtesy theo rgan iza t ion ' s leader for thestate/province should be notified priorto a speaking appearance in thatstate/province.

II. Disseminat ion of CaseInformation to the Public or Media

A.) The identity of a witness to aUFO incident must remain anonymousunless permission has been obtained inwriting from the witness on a signedreport form or by separate means.

B.) Incomplete or unsupportedcase findings should not be released tothe media. If an incident is neithersatisfactorily explained nor establishedas a credible UFO event, any

comments to the media shouldunderscore that the case reportremains open.

A case resolution should becommunicated to the witness(es)before being publicized. In the eventthat a witness does not agree with thefinding, the investigator should statethat the explanation is not accepted bythe witness. Failure to convince awitness of a plausible IFO finding,however, does not constitute adeterrant to releasing the conclusion.

C.) Tabloid publications havedamaged the in tegr i ty of UFOinvestigative organizations. UFOresearchers should, not knowinglyconvey any information directly ori n d i r e c t l y to a t ab lo id newsrepresentative. Whenever the ultimateuse of an interview is questionable orunknown, the investigator/researcheris expected to obtain wr i t t enassurance, prior to offering anyobservat ions , of the spec i f i cpublications to which the informationmay be conveyed.

HI. Personal Gain from UFOInformation

A.) Lecture fees from educational,civic or other nonprofit organizationsor institutions and remuneration fromreputable publications are acceptable.

B.) Remuneration from tabloid orother publications of questionablenews/public affairs content is to berejected.

IV. Questions of Interpretation ofImplementation of the Policies inSections I-III Should be Directed to thePIPE Committee.

A.) Failure to abide by theseguidelines may result in one or both ofthe following:

1.) PIPE Committee recom-mendation to revoke the person'smembership.

2.) For inaccurate publishedinformation, a PIPE Committeecorrection in the form of a letter to theeditor.

MUFON103 Oldtowne Rd.

Seguin, Texas78155

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LOOKING BACK•By Bob-Cribble.

FORTY YEARS AGO--October1947: A few months after KennethArnold's sighting over the CascadeMountain range, the UFOs returned foranother tour of the area. MurraySchutz ;• was aboard an airlinersomewhere over the Washington-Oregon area when the pilot suddenlyspoke over the intercom: "I'm sure all ofyou heard about the flying, disc thingsKenneth Arnold reported," the pilotexcitedly told his passengers. "Weseem to. have them out there againtoday (exact date unknown)." Schutzglanced put the window and there -- inbroad daylight - he saw six disc-shapedcraft flying just above the mountainpeaks. He and about 100 otherpassengers on the plane watched thediscs for several minutes.

* •*• *THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO-OctoBer 1952: "At. 6:30 PM on thesixth, dozens of witnesses observed theflight of a luminous cigar-shaped craftalong the western coastline of Algeria,North Africa. Four days later a largecigar-shaped craft, accompanied by agroup of spining discs, were seen overGermany, Norway and Sweden. Onepublished report carried eyewitnessaccounts from 30 Swedish cities; atleast 7,000 people were said to havewatched the mysterious formation. Onthe 14th, hundreds of Frenchmen atLens and Oleron reported anothercigar-shaped craft with a convoy ofdiscs. Many of the observers wereleading citizens, including severalcollege professors at Oleron. Somewitnesses in Oleron reported that onedisc discharged hundreds of odd,fiberlike threads as it zig-zagged overthe city. One man insisted he had beencaught like a fly in a spider web, andseveral witnesses confirmed his claim.

About 100 residents of Gaillac,France (Department, of Tarn) reportedwitnessing a UFO formation at about 4PM on the 27th. There were 16 disc-shaped craft — with a slight hump on18

top — which were revolving and givingoff a bluish light at the sides. Witnessesalso observed an elongated cylinder, a"flying cigar," traveling in the discformation. All of the discs were said tohave discharged shining whitishparticles, which looked like glass-wooland accumulated on tree branches andtelegraph wires. Many persons saidthat they had been. able to , gatherclusters of such particles, but'that theyhad quickly disintegrated, making itimpossible to have them analyzed. Thecraft remained in the area for about 10minutes and,,then continued on theirway in a straight line.

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THIRTY YEARS AGO-6ctober1957: On the night of the 10th, Spanishnaval officer Miguel Espanol and. acompanion, traveling by truck toCeres, Brazil, encountered a giganticUFO. At first high in the sky, bathingthe whole region in light, the craftdescended and. stalled their, vehicle.They estimated it to be at least 500 feetwide and 130 feet high, and oval or disc-shaped, with a long "aerial" projectingfrom its dome and topped by a red light.The hovering craft switched off all it'sdazzling lights, and the two men sawcompletely human-looking smallbeings, the size of children and clad inluminous suits, appear in an openhatch of the craft and gaze down atthem for about three minutes. Thegigantic craft then flew off, launching asmall disc as it did so.

On the following afternoon, twomiddle-aged . couples boating nearNawaca, Fiji Islands, observed acircular white object descendingvertically from the sky to the surface ofthe ocean. When they got close to thecraft, they found it hovering about 20feet above the water. As the Fijiansmoved closer to the craft they saw whatthey took to be the figure of a manstanding on the outside of the UFO.This figure shone a very bright light onthe boat — a light so powerful that they

were dazzled and felt weak. Then thefigure disappeared and the craft wentinto, a high speed vertical climb andvanished in a few seconds.

On the 21st, a UFO was observedover England at 9:18 PM by FlyingOfficer D.W/ Sweeney, who waspiloting a Meteor jet fighter on a trainingexercise. The object was spotted overthe, RAF s ta t ion at Gaydon,Warwickshire, where atomic bombercrews trained in Valiant aircraft. The jetalmost collided with the object whichwas moving slowly and showing sixlights. The UFO was picked up by radarat RAF station, Langtpft. The AirMinistry classified the object asunknown. A multi-colored UFO,estimated to be 40-50 feet in diameterthat maneuvered sharply near theiraircraft at high speeds was reported bytwo commercial pilots near Pampa,Texas, about 8:15 PM, on the 23rd.Pilot Emerson E. Goff said he. wasdescending when both he and. hispassenger, . Harold Briggs, saw "anexceptionally bright star" above and tothe left. Moments later, the "star"appeared . to approach them at highspeed, its apparent size increasingrapidly. "At that point, I could make outa faintly solid elliptical shape with anapparent rounded upper portion," Goffstated. "It was lit up so brilliantly...that itwas really hard to descern just theexact shape it did have." Now ahead ofGoff's plane, the UFO suddenly begana rapid vertical climb, quickly levelledoff, and vanished into storm clouds.The sighting lasted six minutes. "I mustconclude that the object was of anunknown, airborne phenomenon,"Goff said, "...and apparently undersome kind of remote or onboardintelligent control."

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TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO -October 1962: Great globs of white,sticky material fell from the sky at SaltLake City, Utah on the 18th, and settled

in balls and sheets and threads overmuch of the Utah-Power & Light Co.Gadsby plant. Some pieces were 60 to70 feet long and gave the appearance ofa tattered parachute. But the substancewas sticky and disintegrated intonothing when stretched far enough.Some 50 employees first saw the whitematerial high in the sky about 2 PM.Pete Beloz, a transmission engineer,said, "At first it looked like two or threeparachutes coming down. Then as itcame closer we saw it was big globs ofthis stuff. A lot of it got tangled up intransmission lines, but it didn't causeany trouble. It was all over the place.I've never seen anything like it before."The material came from the north andfell from the sky for 20 minutes, mostlyin the area of the Gadsby plant.

* * *TWENTY YEARS AGO - October1967: At 10:30 PM on the first, Sr.Valeriano Ruiz , communicationstechnician, spot ted a strange craft closeto the ground near Barcelona, Spain.Near it were four people about 1.70meters tall wearing dark uniforms andbright helmets. The craft seemed about4.5 meters long, with half-a-dozenoval windows and a rectangular toweron top, rising about three meters aboveground level. Two of the people climbedon the tower to use some mechanism.After about 30 minutes the craft rosesilently and vertically to about 180meters. A strong metallic noise washeard, and the craft was lost to sight inless than three seconds.

On the evening of the l l th, NoraTibbs was driving on Highway Two nearAldersyde, Alberta, Canada, when hercar lights went out, the radio stoppedworking, and the engine quit. "I steppedon the gas to pull over to the curb butthere was no power, no lights, no radioor nothing." Then a dark oval shapebegan to circle her car. "It circledaround the car four or five times andthen went away." When the objectdisappeared the car's power returned.A Parshall, North Dakota, cafe waitressobserved a glowing UFO while she wasdriving home from work about 3 AM onthe 27th. She said a large, round,revolving object seemed to rise fromthe ground. "My car began steeringvery hard," she explained, "bumping

and swaying around on the road like ithad four flat tires." It passed over awarehouse to the north and at this pointLt. Glen Brunsell of the Parshall policedepartment sighted the object. "If wasso bright," he reported, "that at times ithurt my eyes to look directly at it." Theobject stopped and hovered near amissile base, then "it suddenly shotstraight up into the sky and was gone inabout three seconds."

A shearing contractor (namewithheld) was driving alone towardBoyup Brook, Australia at 9:35 PM onthe 30th, when his car "suddenlystopped-engine stopped--headlightswent out-and car became stationarywithout any sensation of braking ordeceleration." He said he then noticed a"tube of light" about two feet indiameter descend close to hiswindshield. Looking up the tube, heobserved a blue, pulsating,. football-shaped object approximately 30 feet indiameter. After five minutes the .objectsped off, disappearing in a "flash."When the object vanished the witnessfound the engine running, lights on, andhis car again traveling at 60 to 65 MPH.He felt no sensation of acceleration.

• * • * • * • •FIFTEEN YEARS AGO - October1972: No significant reports on file forthis period.

• * * *TEN YEARS AGO - October 1977:During the first week of October, an 18-year-old girl witnessed a pair of bright"headlights" flashing from a disc-shaped object moving silently throughthe skies over Walcott, Iowa, where sheworked as a security guard. Glidingtoward her as she manned awatchtower at the town's French andHecht plant, the disc obscured aflashing red beacon light on the grainelevator. Her radio and walkie-talkiestopped working, and cows and cricketsin a nearby field stood silent. Atelevision in a nearby farm house wentblank and a light-sensitive mercuryvapor lamp about 100 yards away wentdark. Terrified, she stood frozenoutside the guardhouse and watched.Then she went in search of otherwitnesses. When she returned, theobject was gone.

Greg Hughes, 15, of Fairview,Kentucky, saw a UFO about 5:15 AM

on the 10th as he was driving the cowsback to the barn for milking. "I rode myhorse into the woods and saw anorange object about eight to ten feetabove the ground. It came toward meand got brighter and larger, and madenoises like sirens wailing. It was shapedlike a hotdog and about eight feet long.My horse nayed and the cows bawled.The cows were so spooked that theynearly beat the horse and me back tothe barn. I saw something I never wantto see again," Hughes said.

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LETTERS

I write with regard to DennisSt i l l ings fascinat ing article onhelicopters in UFO research (Journal,July 1987).

Of course, he is correct in anumber of his observations. I would addone case that I have been involved inwhich . is perhaps the oddest I havecome across.

Briefly, on 4 August 1980, Mrs. E.Sage of Medway, Kent, was walkingdown an alley towards some shops. Itwas 4:50 p.m. Out of the corner of hereye she saw a ring of smoke and somesparks and then a craft materialised at.the place where these had been aninstant before. The craft was aminiature helicopter, only four or fivefeet long, and lacking any rotor blades,doors, engines or windows. But it didhave a large perspex bubble on thefront, inside of which two men sat and italso had what appeared to be green andtan camouflage markings on the side.

The two "men" inside were ofnormal height, wearing grey jumpsuitsand seemed to be identical twins, withthe exception that, one had long corn-coloured hair and the other dark. Bothwore their hair to shoulder length andhad olive complexions.

OZ FACTORThe sighting preceded with many

complicating factors of a closeencounter. The effect I call the "OzFactor" immediately took hold; with allsounds disappearing from around her(Mrs. Sage said it was "as if I washearing (the .object) from insidesomething"), she also smelt a sweetodour and became faint - but saw theobject float down near to her and a sortof "telepathic" conversation occurbetween the two occupants. Theyappeared to be arguing about herintrusion and this ended with the blondman saying, "It's alright, she thinkswe're army."

There is more to the story (notleast some bizarre effects at the site,20

where Mrs. Sage claimed the alleychanged its physical dimensionspermanently afterwards!) - but mostinteresting is another connection withthe ubiquitous CE 4 case. Mrs. Sageforgot the whole thing until : five,weeks later, on 8 September, whena neighbor chanced to mention a mediastory on UFOs and this catalysed a

'flash picture which over the next fiveor six weeks crystalised into fullrecollection of the events.

How one rates a story like that I donot know. Mrs. Sage told it to me quitesoon afterwards and I could not evensee how it fitted the UFO field, until byremarkable coincidence I was lookingthrough some old magazines anddiscovered from about a decade beforea small item relating to another mini-helicopter sighting at another locationin Kent very close by. There weredifferences, but this also includedoccupants and had enough similaritiesto suggest conections. The case wasnot published outside the tiny localgroup press in the UK and I think ithighly improbable that Mrs; Sage saw it.

FIELD CIRCLESI also wanted to comment on

Dennis' remarks about the corn fieldcircles in British fields. He is quite rightin being sceptical of the UFOconnection, which has been promptedin the US (eg., by some fairy tales inWeekly World News). However, sadas it is for me to say this since I wasweaned on FS/?,, please do nof judgeanything on what appears in there...onmost subject, including the circles. I amafraid if you were to gauge reactionfrom almost everyone seriouslyinvolved in British ufology you will findone of few subjects they agree on is themixture of amusement, bemusementand dismay that follows any glance atFS/?. From its once proud position ithas fallen from grace and is notrepresentative in most ways of what isgoing on...at least not in Britain.

The "rnystery"' circles were firstinvestigated by BUFORA in 1980 whenthey initially appeared., Excellent workwith Tan Mrzyglod and BristolUniversity appeared in Probe Report inthe next two years, totally demolishingthe media hype of UFOs. Since thattime Paul':;Fuller, a geographer andstatistician who is BUFORA's regionalinves t iga t ions coord ina tor forHampshire arid Wiltshire (the countieswhere 99 per cent of these rings appeareach summer) has worked closely withDr. Terence Meaden, a professionalmeteorologist and head of the Tornado

:and Storm Research organization andeditor of the Journal of Meteorology.They have put months of hard graft intoscientific appraisal of these rings (whichchange patterns from year to year butare clearly a terrain and weather relatedphenomenon).

Although we long ago recognizedthat these .patterns are not caused byUFOs the National and local press inBritain have resurrected the idea thatthey do every, summer since 1983 andFS/?, laughing-as it does at anythingother than some kind of supernaturalexplanation, has frankly played rightinto their hands.

. It was for. this reason thatBUFORA decided we had to devoteprecious time, and .resources to thematter. In the summer of 1986 weprepared a detailed 28-page .report,entitled Mystery of the. Circles. I.provided a historical review of thesubject, Paul Fuller reported on themorphology of the rings and gave prosand cons for the various theories andthen we summarised the highly technicalwork,that Dr. Meaden has publishedover s e v e r a l i s sues o f themeteorological press. His view, that anovel type of fair-weather, short-livedstationary whirlwind is responsible forthe patterns, has ample support and inthe absence of any strong reason tobelieve otherwise has been accepted.Paul, myself and one or two others inthe BUFORA investigation team hadgeared, up a campaign for the return ofthe circles which we knew would comein June or July 1986. The booklet wasready for immediate release, a Londonpress conference/public meeting

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IN OTHERS' WORDSBy Lucius Parish

The Summer issue of PHILIPMORRIS magazine has a five-pagearticle on the renewed interest inUFOs, inc luding comments onHopkins' INTRUDERS, Strieber'sCOMMUNION, etc. Overall, a well-balanced article with a minimum oferrors. The magazine is free and copiesof this particular issue may be orderedfrom: 120 Park Avenue - N.Y., NY10017.

READER'S DIGEST also has anupdate on recent UFO books andevents in their August issue, but there islittle here that we have not already readelsewhere.

The "Anti-Matter/UFO Update"column in the September issue ofOMNI features the theory of WesleyBateman concerning one of the TBMAvenger torpedo bombers whichdisappeared off the coast of Florida in1945. Based on a photo of ananomalous object which was taken by theApollo 11 astronauts, Bateman believesone of the planes is encased in ice andorbiting the Earth some 6,000 miles out.In a rebuttal, Philip Klass argues thatthere was no mystery at all about thefate of the planes in question and thatBateman's theory has no substance.

Two more booklets .in LorenGross' series are now available: UFOs:A HISTORY -1952: July 21st-July 31st -UFOs: A HISTORY -1952: August. Aswith all others in this series, these twol a t e s t a d d i t i o n s a r e h i g h l yrecommended. They are available at$6.00 each from the author: 690 GableDrive - Fremont, CA 94538. If you havemissed any of the previous booklets,ask Gross about their availability.

One of the best of the "ancientastronauts" books, THE SIRIUSMYSTERY by Robert K.G. Temple, isnow available in a quality softcoveredition. Temple's primary focus is themythology of the African Dogon tribe,which seems to incorporate some very"unorthodox" information concerning

the Sirius star stystem and visitors fromthat system in ancient times. Thisedition of the book is priced at $12.95and may be ordered from: InnerTraditions International Ltd. - One ParkStreet - Rochester, VT 05767.

If you're like me and still haven'tfound time to read Whitely Strieber'sC O M M U N I O N , you might beinterested in hearing actor RoddyMcDowall read the book. A two-cassette set of tapes is available fromDove Books on Tape, Inc. - 12711Ventura Blvd., Suite 250 - Studio City,CA 91604. The price is $14.95 and I'dsuggest adding $1.50 or so for postage.These sets are 2 hours, 57 minutes inlength and may be available at largerbookstores and audio centers.

Timothy Good's book, ABOVETOP SECRET, has been sold toWilliam Morrow and should bepublished in a U.S. edition fairly soon,probably in the Spring of 1988. Thebook has made the best-seller lists inEngland and should be of much interestto American readers when it appearshere.

LETTERS, continued

involving all the key participants was inembryo, ready for organization within aweek of the first "circle, sighting", andPaul and I had much media work to setin motion. The result was a barrage ofsensible publicity in the quality pressand on TV and considerable successfor BUFORA's booklet (which had tobe quickly reprinted). The publicgenerally were appreciative of efforts tofind a workable solution.

You may have noted that FSRfailed to mention any of this andmerely continued to dismiss naturalexplanations in such a contemptuousfashion that it grossly mislead itsreaders into thinking those whoadhered to the "wind" as the causewere both mad and uninformed;

although I would argue that it iseminently more sensible to work withprofess iona l sc ien t i s t s in theappropriate field and trust to theirjudgement than invent wild ideas thatchampion notions which you want tobelieve in.

In the Winter of 1986-1987 PaulFuller and Terence Meaden havecontinued their work. Indeed (we thinkfor the first time) there has been ajointly funded research project betweena UFO group (BUFORA) and ascientific research centre (The Stormand Tornado Organization). Thisconducted a major field study andsurvey of Hampshire cereal farms,revealing much useful data on thegenesis of the rings. BUFORA isproud of all this work, which may not bedirectly relevant to UFOlogy but issurely what Ufology is all about. We donot feel that we need to apologize forattempting to understand these circlesand spending considerable time andmoney working with scientists to doprecisely that. FSR, on the other hand,may need to apologize to its manyAmerican readers for failing dismally tomake any reference to this, because itd id not suppor t the u t t e r l yunsupportable contention that theserings have anything whatsoever to dowith UFOs.

Mystery of the Circles is availablefrom BUFORA (16 South Way,Burgess Hill, England RH15 9ST) at£1.25 or US equivalent (plus extra forair mail postage; cheques to "BUFORALtd").

The progress report on the 1986-1987 research is available as an updateto the publication at £1, but is beingsummarised in the literature (I have apiece in OMNI and Paul Fuller and Dr.Meaden are producing articles for themeteorological press). BUFORA'stwice-annual Journal of TransientAerial Phenomena will also report.

I am afraid Dennis Stillingshelicopter theory is untenable as anexplanation for the circles because ofseveral features of their morphology...plus the fact that on a couple ofoccasions witnesses have beenadjacent to the fields when a circleformed and would certainly have noticeda helicopter (or UFO for that matter!).

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LETTERS, continued

Dear Editor,Virgil Staffs comments in No. 232,

August 1987 issue misses the wholepoint of my article re. Communion. I .suggest he re-read it. I know Strieberdiscusses various hypotheses for theorigin of "UFO entities," but nowhere inhis book does he suggest that mentalmerging of humans with these "entities"might be to our detriment. I suggestufologists and "abductees" seek outways to avoid contacts with thisunknown quality until we can figure outwhat it is and what it wants. When Isuggested this at the newly-formed LosAngeles support group of abductees,the idea was received with gratitude byabductees who were present, andwhose greatest fear seemed to befurther, unwanted contact. I cannotbelieve that the human race is entirelyat the mercy of the Phenomenon,whatever it is.

Ann DruffelPasadena, CA

CANADIAN, continued5. Friedman, Stanton T. "The CosmicWater3ate" 1981, 18 pages $2.00 from UFORI.6. Musgraue, John B. "UFO Occupants andCritters, The Patterns in Canada" 1979, GlobalCommunications, 303 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1306,NY, NY 10016 66 pages, Lists 90 CanadianHumanoid reports.

YEARS•IS LONG•ENOUGH

Fund j>r OFO) Raiarch

THE NIGHT SKYBy Walter N. Webb

MUFON Astronomy Consultant

NOVEMBER 1987

Bright Planets (Evening Sky):

Venus, gleaming at magnitude -3.9, is still very low in the SW at dusk, settinglittle more than an hour after the Sun in mid-November and l'/2 hours after atmonth's end. The brilliant planet passes 2° south of Saturn on the 20th.

Jupiter, still retrograding in Pisces, remains a dominant feature of the sky mostof the night. The giant world is well up in the south during midevening. It shines atmagnitude -2.8.

Saturn, in Ophiuchus, is still visible into early November low in the SW at dusk,setting about 2 hours after sunset. The ringed planet enters the morning skynext month. Its magnitude is +0.5. See Venus.

Bright Planets (Morning Sky): ;

Mars, in Virgo, rises in the east about 4 AM in midmonth (2'/2 hours before.sunrise). It glows faintly at magnitude +1.7. The crescent Moon lies near the redplanet on November 19. •

Meteor Showers:

Two meteor displays take place in November.The first one, theTaurids, peaksabout the 3rd but unfortunately a bright gibbous Moon interferes most of thenight. Lesser numbers of these reddish meteors radiate from Taurus the Bullfrom about October 20 to November 30.

The situation is better for the swift Leonids, which climax before dawn on the18th at 15 per hour. A crescent Moon rises about 4 AM. Every 33 years theLeonids put on a spectacular show when Earth intersects the center of this,meteor swarm. Next time is 1999.

Moon Phases:

Full moon-November 5Last quarter-November 13New Moon-November 21First quarter-November 27

The Stars:

OC

At 9 PM in mid-November the Summer Triangle is poised above the westernhorizon; the Great Square of Pegasus and other autumn stars occupy centerstage in the south; and glittering Orion, the winter sky symbol, has popped up inthe east. The Big Dipper "scrapes" the northern horizon at the nadir of itscircumpolar orbit this month.

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Across the pole from the Big Dipper is the crooked "M," Cassiopeia the Queen.Like the dipper, Cassiopeia never sets from northern latitudes. Six monthshence the queen and the dipper will have changed places so that the former willthen resemble a "W."

Between the "M" of Cassiopeia and the fishhook shape of Perseus theChampion to the east, look for twin spots of light embedded in the Milky Way--the Double Cluster of Perseus. Like the Pleiades (also in view in the east), thetwo clusters of stars are even better displayed in binoculars or telescope.

But the real jewel of the November sky lies almost directly overhead in (actuallybeyond) Andromeda the Princess, a V-shaped double row of stars stretchingeastward from the upper left corner of the Great Square. The Great SpiralGalaxy stands out to the naked eye in a dark sky as an elongated hazy patch. Soremote is this vast wheel of billions of stars that its feeble light requires twomillion years to reach us!

MESSAGE, continued

For each State Director to beeffective, he/she must have competentand en thus ias t i c State SectionDirectors. The following new StateSection Directors were appointed thismonth: Charles A. Huffer, M.S. forWashington, Benton, Carroll andMadison Counties in Arkansas; Mrs.Mildred Higgins is the Asst. StateDirector and Ed Mazur is StateDirector; Michael C. Luckman(Director for the New York Center forUFO Research) to State SectionDirector for the New Yrok CityBurroughs of Manhattan, Queens,

Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island;Michael D. Palmiter, a retired policeofficer, for Lawrence and MartinCounties in Indiana; Frank A.Mugnier, Jr. for Delaware and ChesterCounties in Pennsylvania; Pat J.Marcattilio for Mercer County in NewJersey; Paul E. Burgeron for CheshireCounty in New Hampshire; and ScottWilkerson for Gibson County inIndiana.

Richard T. Santee, Ph.D., livingin San Francisco is a new Consultant inPsychology. Jeffrey M. Clark, M.S. ofAlexandria, Va. volunteered to serve asa Research Specialist in LibraryScience.

* * *For the past year the Public

Information and Public EducationCommittee has struggled with thedifficult task of writing a MUFONMedia Policy Statement that could beused as a guideline for all memberswhen dealing with the public and newsmedia, when their statements could beinterpreted as representing the officialpolicy of the Mutual UFO Network. Atthe annual P.I.P.E. Committee meetingin Washington, D.C. on June 26, 1987,after considerable in-depth discussion,Dr. David M. Jacobs volunteered tomodify the proposed Media PolicyStatement to make it more compatibleand realistic for members to abide by.The title was changed to "Media PolicyGuidelines" and the overall goal wasrevised to read "In order to strengthenthe credibility of UFO-related pursuits,the following guidelines are stronglyrecommended for all membersrepresenting MUFON to the media."

The modified policy was submitted tothe MUFON Board of Directors annualmeeting by Marge Christensen forapproval on June 28, 1987 inWashington, D.C., where it wasapproved by a vote of the MUFONBoard. A copy has been distributed toall State Directors, however it isimperative that all members know howto respond to the news media whenthey are called upon to do so. A copy ofthe new policy is published in theOctober 1987 issue of the MUFONUFO JOURNAL. Our gratitude isextended to Marge Christensen andher P.I.P.E. Committee for resolvingthis challenging and difficult problem.

* * *Franklin A. Youri still has an

abundant supply of MUFON lapel pinsfor $4.00, including postage andhandling. You may order pins by writingto him at 1300 Sherwood Drive,Turlock, CA 95380 or MUFON inSeguin, Tex. where pins are alsoavailable.

The MUFON 1987 InternationalUFO Symposium Proceedings areavailable from MUFON for $15 plus$1.50 for postage and handling. Itcontains all of the papers delivered bythe featured speakers that werereceived for publication by June 1,1987when the proceedings went to press.

Starting with the August 1987 issueof the MUFON UFO JOURNAL andcontinuing as long as good material issubmitted for publication, the magazinewill contain 24 pages instead of 20. Thecover stock will be revised to use a highquality slick paper when our newcomputer/printer is producing addresslabels. Robert Bishop has been hired asa computer operator to perform themany applicat ions planned forMUFON's new computer.

The MUFON UFO JOURNAL ispresently the only known monthly UFOorganization magazine in the world. Itwill continue to be the leader if ourmembers c o n t r i b u t e a r t i c l esconcerning the i r invest igat ions,research projects, and UFO relatedmaterial for publication. SKYLOOKand the MUFON UFO JOURNALhave made great strides since the firstissue was published in September 1967by Norma Short.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGEby

Walt Andrus

Thomas H. Nicholl hassubmitted his resignation as DeputyDirector for Business Administration(Vice President), since he didn't feelthat he was actively contributing as amember of the MUFON ExecutiveCommittee. He volunteered to serve asState Director for Kansas, replacingStan Fouch, also of Leawood, Kansas,who submitted his resignation severalmonths ago. Mr. Nicholl and Mr. Fouchhosted the successful MUFON 1973UFO Symposium in Kansas City,Missouri.

The resignation of Mr. Nicholl, asDeputy Director, has created avacancy on the Executive Committee.Since one of the prime responsibilitiesof the Mutual UFO Network is theinvestigation of UFO sighting reports,greater emphasis and proportionateimportance may now be appliedthrough a reorganization within theExecutive Committee. At the AnnualMUFON Board of Directors meeting inWashington, D.C. on June 28, 1987,Dan Wright volunteered to fill thenewly established position ofInves t iga t ive Coordinator whileretaining his position as CentralRegional Director. The ExecutiveCommittee has elevated Dan Wright toDeputy Director for Investigations soas to strengthen one of our majorobjectives. As the world's largest UFOmembership organizat ion, it isimperative that the area of investigationsshould receive maximum attention.An election will be conducted to select aCentral Regional Director during early1988 from the members living in theCentral States. Nominations are nowbeing accepted for candidates to fill thisvacancy and placed on the ballot.

* * *It has been traditional to announce

the host organization for the upcomingannual symposium at the Washington,D.C. 18th Annual MUFON UFOSymposium so as to provide maximumplanning and preparation time. A

Dan Wright

proposal was made to Directors of theJ. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studiesto host the 1988 event, however theyregretfully declined due to a shortage ofpeople to staff such a committee in theChicago vicinity.

We are elated to announce that theMUFON 1988 UFO Symposium will beheld at the University of Nebraska inLincoln on June 24,25 and 26,1988 andhosted by the Fortean Research Centeror MUFON of Nebraska. Ray W.Bocche will be the host chairman andbe assisted by Scott Colborn. Mr.Boeche is the State Director forNebraska and Mr. Colborn is the Asst.State Director. Ray was instrumental inconducting the two UFO conferencessponsored by the University ofNebraska in 1982 and 1983, thereforehe and his committee are eminentlyqualified to handle this responsibility.The tentative theme for the symposiumis "The N a t u r e of the E.T.Phenomenon." The facilities of theUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln,Department of Conferences and

Institutes, 205 Nebraska Center, havebeen contracted by .MUFON for thesymposium. Room rates will be $35 fora single and $40 for a double in the hotelwh ich inc ludes a r e s t au ran t ,auditorium, and adjacent meetingrooms within the same complex. It iscomparable to the accomodationsprovided at Michigan State Universityin 1986 and far superior to thedormitory style rooms at The AmericanUniversi ty in Washington, D.C.Invitations to the featured speakers willbe mailed in the near future by WaltAndrus so adequate preparation timefor the published papers will beattained. Start planning your vacationsnow to come to the Cornhusker StateCapital which is centrally located forNorth America.

* * *The success of M U F O N

compared to other UFO organizationshas been the "grass roots" structure ofits leadership. The State Directors aredirectly responsible for the investigativeteamwork, communicat ion andcooperation among their members. It isa pleasure to announce the promotionof the following men to State Directors:Robert E. Engberg, a professionalengineer and former State Director forMinnesota, is the new director forNorth Dakota; Myron W. Carlson, anaircraft accident investigator and StateSection Director for Weld County hasassumed the position of State Directorfor Colorado with Judy Brigham asAsst. State Director; and John O.Lear, airline Captain and former StateSection Director for Clark County toState Director for Nevada. Both Mr.Carlson and Mr. Lear will appoint StateSection Directors to fill the vacanciescreated by their promotions. Many ofour members met John Lear inWashington, D.C. at the MUFON 1987International UFO Symposium.

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