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Who would have thought that a yearas past since the launch of issue one ofUFO DATA Magazine. Well its notquite a year in calendar terms but inpublishing terms this is issue 6 andthe final issue of the year.

It has been a great year for all here atUFO DATA from the tentative startlaunching a self printed magazineonto the UFO community after an alltoo long two year break.

My father in law Graham WilliamBirdsall brought the UFO subject intothe public eye with style and his sud-den death left me at the helm of thepopular newsstand publication UFOMagazine. Grahams wife Christinedecided to close the business in Feb-

ruary 2004 and the March issue wasthe last ever publication of a dedi-cated UFO Magazine in this country.

Myself and a group of colleagues wereof the same mind that we did not wantto let the subject drift away from thepublic eye and continued through ourconnections with the magazine to re-port via the internet, we held a small 1day conference in Leeds in October2005 and it was obvious from thethose who attended that the generalconscientious was that the subject wassorely missing a magazine.

On a personal note I also discoveredthat one of Grahams wishes left in anote to his wife was that if anythingwas to happen to him Russel shouldcarry on with the magazine. I intendto fulfil that wish to the best of myability and we are all over the moon tobe able to tell you that from January2007 UFO DATA Magazine will be afull format 68 page professionallyprinted glossy magazine.

Russel Callaghan (Editor)

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Issue six contents

MANMADE UFOSSteve Johnson explores a number of hoaxesthat have become manmade UFOs.

NAZI UFO sBrian Allan explores the secret societiesthat allegedly developed Saucer shaped aircraftduring the reign of the Third Reich.

ROSW ELL 60The sixtieth anniversary of the allegedUFO crash and retrieval fast approaches.Top Roswell researcher Kevin Randle reports.

BOOMERANG UFO Caught on camera, or was it.

OP ERATION LUNAR ECLIPSESpecial Agent Joseph Gutheinz goes in searchof hundreds of missing moon rocks.

UNIDENTIFIEDWell known author and researcher

Dr David Clarke reports on some ofthe not so easy to debunk UFO reports.

CREATURES OF TH E TSUNAMIHoax or genuine photographs. Strange creatures foundon beach during Tsunami clean up. all this and more in48 UFO packed pages...

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Ever since the term flying saucer was

coined, nearly sixty years ago, therehave been those people unwilling towait for a genuine UFO encounter, sothey have manufactured their ownevidence. Yes, creating a good, fakephotograph or film of a flying saucer,beamship, mothership, drone, flyingtriangle, probe or whatever can makeyou world-famous, especially in thisday and age of the internet.

This is not to suggest that all UFOphotographs and moving images are

hoaxes. Far from it, there are count-less examples of good, genuine,anomalous objects captured in ourskies over the years. As this issue ofUFOData Mag azine focuses on flyingobjects of the man-made kind, weshould look at the phenomenon ofproducing a fake.

Now, those who fake UFO images areoften demonised by the subjects com-munity, and often rightly so, but itshould be remembered that good (orbad) hoaxes can be used to help iden-tify genuine UFO shots. More oftenthan not in this field, the term toogood to be true is not only a clich,but a working philosophy.

Since the modern wave of ufology be-gan in 1947, there have been accusa-tions of fraud. Even Kenneth Arnoldwas accused of making up his story ofseeing nine, crescent-shaped objectsnear Mount Rainier in WashingtonState. It did not take long for peopleto realise that they could create UFOsusing simple still and cine cameras.

Possibly the most notorious person ofthis early period was George Adamski.His photographs and movies defi-

nitely belonged in

the too good to betrue category, yetthere are people tothis day that believe his claims of con-tact with extra-terrestrials. His photo-graphs of motherships and saucersare legendary, but are generally re-garded as fakes.

One of the most trumpeted UFOcases, that of the McMinnville Saucer,taken by Paul Trent in 1950, has had

its fair share of controversy. For dec-ades these two images were regardedas among the best evidence for agenuine UFO captured on film. Manytoday still think that the Trent photosare outstanding examples of a real

unidentified flying object, with nu-merous analyses being conducted andthe conclusions generally being fa-vourable as to their veracity.

In the late 1990s, an investigator bythe name of Joel Carpenter stunned

the UFO community by publishing hisfindings that suggested the UFO pho-tographed by Paul Trent was nothingmore than a mirror from a truck,hanging from a wire. His carefully-constructed case was difficult to argueagainst, yet it still divides researchersto this day. It can be found athttp://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/trentphoto.htm

In 1962, schoolboy, Alex Birch, andhis two friends were playing outsidewith Box Brownie camera, when sev-eral UFOs appeared over them. Alextook a photograph that would foryears fool the experts, including Ko-dak, who declared it genuine. Comingclean ten years later, Alex admittedthat he and his pals had merely cutout paper saucer shapes and stuckthem to glass. Then in 1999, Alexchanged his story again, claiming it tobe a real photograph of the flying sau-cers.

Adamskis Mothership

Adamskis Scout craft

The Paul Trent Photographs

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In issue 4 ofUFOData Mag azine, Iwrote about Eduard Billy Meier. Hisphotographs and films of Pleiadian

beamships are among the most clearand convincing ever taken. Despitethis, they are generally regarded asfakes. In issue 5, Michael Horn,Meiers American representative, re-butted my article and every respectshould go out to him. That said, thevast majority of researchers disagreewith him and Meiers impressive cata-logue of images. Of course, sometimesthe majority is wrong.

In the late 1980s, Gulf Breeze, Flor-

ida, became famous as the UFO capi-tal of America. A series of photo-graphs by local businessman, Ed Wal-ters, stunned the world and began acontroversy that rages even now.Newspaper and magazine articles,books and television documentariesflashed the images around the worldand Walters became an internationalcelebrity. But were his photographs

genuine? Many believeso and many do not.There have beencountless articles de-fending Walters pic-tures and an equalnumber debunkingthem. Perhaps the big-gest blow came when

Robert Menzer boughtWalters house in1989. Menzer discov-ered a nine-inch modelof one of the UFOs inthe attic, hidden be-neath insulation. Wal-ters proclaimed hisinnocence and even

took a lie-detector test, which hepassed. He suggested that debunkershad planted the model in his loft.

In issue 4, Russel Callaghan told usabout a mural he saw, painted inabout 1967, at John Hopkins Univer-sity in New York. It was by Bob Hiero-nymus and depicted an object appear-ing similar to the Gulf Breeze photo-graphs. Imagine Russ surprise whenhe found that Ed Walters had at-tended the university in the late Six-ties and early Seventies. Had Walters

seen this startling mural and had, per-haps subconsciously, recreated it inhis photos?

With the advent of home computersin the 1990s, it became even easier forhoaxsters to produce great-lookingUFO images and films. It is the realmof video clips that has shown the moststartling increase. New footage ap-

pears regularly on websites such asGoogle Video and You Tube.

The subject of faked clips reached apivotal point earlier this year when anew website appeared out of nowhere.Called The Australian UFO Wave,the site hosted incredible and realis-tic-looking footage of aerial objectsfrom Down Under. Many researcherswere not fooled, but a lot were im-pressed. I have to admit that I did myfair share of ooh-ing and aah-ing at

the footage.

It turned out that the website was partof a project by the Australian FilmCommission, funded with publicmoney, and headed by Chris Kenwor-thy. The website states:

In our opinion th is w as not a hoax or

deception, but an imm ersive artw ork.

W e had three main aims:

1. To give people a taste of the dra m a

and excitem ent of a UFO Close En-

counter, creating a genuine sense of

wonder.

2. To imp rove research into videos of

genu ine UFOs. As w e discovered, re-

searchers are w oefully equipped to

spot fakes. W e wan t ufoloogy [sic] toimp rove as a result of this experi-

ment.

3. To show skeptics that they often

rely on faith rather than evidence.

(Many skeptics made bold statm ents

[sic] about t he clips being nothingm ore than ba lloons, space junk, stars

etc - without doing their research.

They w ere more easily m isled than

UFO-believers.)

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Many researchers were outraged bythe admission, despite the groupsinsistence that they did it for the goodof ufology. Ultimately, time will tell,but the clips prove beyond a doubtthat it is easier than ever to fake greatUFO footage. The stills below do notdo credit to the clips. To view them,go to

http://www.australianufowave.com/

As long as this great subject is alive,there will be mischievous folk whowant to fool the world. Some will suc-

ceed, most will not. One thing it doesprove, however, is that the UFO phe-nomenon, whether you believe it ornot, is definitely in the global publicpsyche and everybody wants to be apart of it.

Steve Johnson - 2006

Stills from Ozzie Hoax

videos

UFO

DATA

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H u n d r e d s o f U FOsin UK sk ies

More than 700 UFOs have been re-ported to the Ministry of Defence inthe past six years, it emerged today.The ministry has received 714 reportsof mysterious flying objects sinceJanuary 2001.

But junior defence minister DerekTwigg said only 12 of them "worthy offurther consideration" and none werethought to be a "threat" to the UK.

His comments came in a Commons

written reply to Liberal DemocratLynne Featherstone.

"Reports [of UFOs] are analysedsolely to consider whether there isany reason to believe UK airspace hasbeen compromised by the reportedactivity," Mr Twigg said.Source Sun online.

City to p lanRos we l l UFOFest ival . . .

A.J. DickmanRecord Staff Writer

In an attempt to end the turf warsthat come with planning a city-wideevent during the week of July 4, theCity of Roswell will coordinate the2007 UFO Festival.

The 2007 event marks the 60th anni-

versary of the Roswell Incident andthe 10-year anniversary of the festivalitself. According to a press releasefrom the city, it is the mission of theCity of Roswell to unite the citizens ofRoswell by attracting internationalvisitors to an all-inclusive, entertain-ing and family-oriented event thatcelebrates the Roswell Incident of1947.

Jack Swickard, president of the Inter-national UFO Museum and Research

Centre Board of Directors, said theboard is happy about the citys deci-sion to step up to the plate.

It has been our hope at the museum

that the city would take command ofthe festival, said Swickard. We metwith (Mayor Sam LaGrone) right afterthis years festival and he indicatedthat he wanted to get involved.Swickard said the museum took overcoordinating the festival three yearsago and it has not been profitableduring that time.

The museum has lost money on thefestival over the years, saidSwickard. Its appropriate that thecity organize it because the commu-nity has to back it 100 percent for it tobe a success.Swickard said the museum staff cannow focus on their role in the festival,rather than trying to organize the en-tire event alone.We will continue to provide the moreserious side of the festival, such asguest speakers and discussion pan-els, he said.

Swickard said the museum was pre-paring to launch an internationalfund-raising drive for the new mu-seum, which will be built at the south-east corner of Main and Eighth.We have our fingers crossed andhope to break ground during the nextfestival, he said.

A festival committee has been formedto lead planning efforts, with LaGroneserving as chairman.

The committee is currently acceptingwritten proposals for festival activi-ties, vendors, exhibitors, speakers andother entertainment. Proposals canbe submitted by mail to P.O. Box3234 in Roswell or via email at festi-

val@roswellufofest.com.The deadline for activity, exhibitor,speaker and entertainment proposalsis Oct. 25. The deadline for vendorproposals is May 23, 2007.

You dont think the city are looking to

m ake money out of something indi-

viduals hav e funded for the last 10

years, do y ou?

In The News...

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Ministry of Defence(MoD) files, released under the Free-dom of Information Act (FOIA), ap-pear to show that the government ac-tively attempted to cover up UFO in-

vestigations.

The data, requested by Dr DavidClarke of Sheffield Hallam University,indicates that the ministry deliber-ately withheld information pertainingto UFOs from UK citizens. In 1976,Julian Hennessy requested informa-tion about UFO sightings. In a notefrom the UFO desk to the MoDs headof security, it was apparent that anyinformation would not be divulgedbecause of their confidential nature

and also because there would be littleof value to a serious, scientific investi-gator.Furthermore, the note went on to say:This is not to say that the investiga-tion is not taken seriously. Thebranches have their own methods -and [the public UFO desk] has no'need to know' about them - but weare aware that DI55 for examplesometimes makes extensive inquiries."It is undesirable that even a hint ofthis should become public and we are

currently consulting the [Air Histori-cal Branch] on ways of expurgatingthe official records against the timewhen they qualify for disclosure[] [1]Almost twenty years later, anotherattempt to expunge information relat-ing to DI55, the MoDs UFO desk,from the public record was at-tempted. Because the units name wasincluded on a released document, itwas eventually decided that DI55should be brought into the light. In a

note, in which some wag scribbled theword Ouch into the margin, the fol-lowing was said: I see no reason forcontinuing to deny that [DI55] has aninterest in UFOs. However, if the as-sociation is formally made public then

the MoD will no doubt be pres-sured to state what the intelli-

gence role/interest is. Thiscould lead to disbelief and

embarrassment since fewpeople are likely to

believe the truth thatlack of funds and

higher priorities

have pre-vented anystudy of the

thousands of reportsreceived. [2]

On the MoD website, in the DefenceNews Daily section, it is stated: Wepublish all documents relating toUFOs on our website and are entirelyopen about what we know inciden-tally all our evidence suggests rationalexplanations for sightings. The reason

MOD examines any UFO sighting re-ports it receives is solely to establishwhether there is any evidence to sug-gest that UK airspace has been com-promised by hostile or unauthorisedair activity. [3]

With the FOIA, we are told that infor-mation is freely accessible by any-body, within guidelines. Obviouslythere are exemptions to this, such asnational security etc., but we are es-sentially told that our public servants

have never been so, well, public. Thiswas why, right before the FOIA cameinto law, millions of documents wereshredded by numerous governmentaldepartments! [4]

Another exemption that allows gov-ernment officials to deny a FOIA re-quest is in Section 21 of the Act. Thisstates that if a file is reasonably ac-cessible by other means, the depart-ment can refuse to provide the re-quested information. This means thathard copies or even internet links maynot be provided if this clause is in-voked. The enquirer is requested tobasically hunt it down for him/herselfon the internet, either on their ownPC or through a library.

This very thing happened to UFODataMag azin e reader, the Rev. Dr. Alan WFromm. He wrote to the MoD, askingif he could be provided with a hard,paper copy of the recently-releasedCondign Report. His request was re-fused and Section 21 of the Freedomof Information Act 2000 was invoked,informing him that, as the report wasavailable on the internet, they wouldnot provide him with a hard copy.They even told him which of his local

libraries had internet access!

Having my own PC, Im not sureabout how libraries go about printingrequests, but Im sure that they wouldnot have looked too kindly at lettingDr. Fromm print out the 500-pageCondign document. Remember, hewanted a hard copy, not a flickering

text file on a computer screen.

Is it right that a government depart-ment refuses access to a hard copy ofan admittedly large document simplybecause it is available on the internet?Until 1996, it was possible to obtainany and all government documents onpaper. Of course, many documentsare still printed out, but now the gov-ernment can pick and choose which itdeems fit for print or for the e-service. [5]

Surely, as our public servants, weshould be able to request hard copiesof released government documents,whatever their size, and they shouldprovide us with what we want, even ifa fee is charged to cover printing andpostage. They cant just tell us to lookit up on the internet. Well, obviouslythey can!

Steve Johnson - 2006

R e f e r e n c e s :[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,,1880292,00.html[2] Ibid[3] http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicy AndBusiness/DefenceNewsDaily.htm[4] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/29/nshred29.xml[5] http://www.opsi.gov.uk/about/freedom-of-information/hmso-publication-scheme.pdf

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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE

RELEASE OF UFO DOCUMENTS

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Back in UFO DATA Magazine Issue 4,we gave our opinion of the much pub-licised Condign Report, a four hun-dred plus-page account from HerMajestys Government, suggesting ithad the answers for all things ufologi-cal.

Of course, this was the popular me-

dias take on the report. If they hadhad their reporters check the informa-tion contained within the four hun-dred and odd pages, they might wellhave read between the lines and real-ised that this report was apparently awaste of government money and re-sources as it told nobody who knewanything at all about the UFO subjectanything they didnt know already.And the documents claims to have allthe answers according to the presswas far from the truth.

The MoD, who produced the reportwere shanghaied somewhat by re-searchers who found a reference tothe report in another document intomaking the Top Secret Report avail-able under the Freedom of Informa-tion Act 2000 and it is thanks to AndyRoberts, Dr David Clarke and otherkeen-eyed researchers for making thishappen.

So the Mod uploaded the file to their

internet archive and suggested anyonewithout access to the net could writein and obtain a hard copy free ofcharge from them.

UFO DATA offered to give its readersa copy of the file free with the maga-zine but the Mod told us to do that wewould have to obtain a licence fromthem. We suggested we were doingthem a favour but they insisted on afigure of around 6,500 to enableUFO DATA to give away the so calledfree information.

We asked again, but they would notchange their stance, so we publishedthe address where readers, who hadno access to the internet, could obtaintheir own 460-page document.

One of readers took up the challengeand got the official excuses as to whythe MoD were unable to supply himwith a copy.

Many thanks to Dr Rev Alan Frommfor sharing this correspondence withus.

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This subject has been with me formany years and Im sure all our read-ers are aware that there are many ave-nues you can travel that are, in oneway or another, related to the UFOphenomena.

As a child, my mum and dad wouldtake me down south for my summerholidays. We used to stay at myaunties house with my cousins in alittle village called Southbourne, righton the south coast between Chichesterand Portsmouth. It was real Midsum-mer country. My cousin, Stephen,joined the merchant navy, workingthe cruise ships, first in the Med, thenon to the Atlantic and eventuallyworld routes as the youngest steward

at the time to serve aboard the QE2.

Growing up through the Sixties andearly Seventies, several seafaring chal-lenges had been beaten and recordsset. Sir Francis Chichester, ChayBlyth, Robin Knox-Johnston and evenPrime Minister Edward Heath and his

Morning Cloud made the news.

But it was the liner, QE2, that I re-member. As she sailed to Bermudaacross the Atlantic, she suffered en-gine failure and was stranded in thearea we know as the Bermuda Trian-gle. I recall quizzing my cousin aboutthe breakdown and remember him

telling me they didnt ever really knowwhat caused the problem, but for sev-eral days they had no engines andthen, out of the blue, the engineersstarted her and off she continued onher way.

I was hoping for tales of weird fog andflashing lights under the water. Noneof that this time, but very strange howsuch a modern vessel was stranded bygremlins in that part of the ocean.

Before we go into our feature on theBermuda Triangle, it is a fitting timeto remind our readers that the Sci FiChannel have produced a DVD ver-sion of its epic mini-series Triangle.With the tag line nothing stays lostforever, the series covers the legendsof the triangle pretty well.

Expensive computer graphics openthe first episode, Night One, withChristopher Columbus sailing througha stormy Bermuda Triangle, only tonarrowly miss a modern day cargoship whilst navigating a weird mist.We then see that a mangled pile offlesh, that seems to have a late 15th-Century talisman around its neck, has

manifested itself on the deck of thecargo ship during the foggy passagethrough the Bermuda Triangle andthe story is set.

Apart from getting the geographywrong by placing the triangle in theSouth Atlantic when we all know it isin the North Atlantic, the producersdo a good job keeping you entertainedfor almost six hours.

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The Bermuda Triangle

See article on next page

All images The Sci Fi Channel

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Ask anybody on the planet to nameone place where mysterious thingshappen and the vast majority willprobably name The Bermuda Trian-gle. This area of the North Atlantichas long been associated with the lossof ships, boats and aircraft, despiteauthorities asserting that the numberof missing vessels is no higher in theregion than any other part of the

world ocean. In fact, the term is some-thing of a misnomer because manyreports have come from outside thestrict boundaries of the Triangle, butthe name stuck.

The Triangle hit worldwide fame in1974, when Charles Berlitz publishedhis book, The Berm uda Triangle. Amotion picture was also released anda myth became a bone fide legend.There have been numerous attemptsto debunk the mysteries of the Trian-gle, but this half-million square milesof sea still captures the imaginationsof the public all around the world.Other regions of the world have simi-lar legends concerning the disappear-ances of men and vessels, most noto-riously the Devils Sea, off Japan, butnone match the Bermuda Triangle forsheer pulling power. Despite its fame(or infamy), however, UFO storiesfrom the Triangle are not exactly com-mon. Apart from the UFO/chupacabra wave on the island ofPuerto Rico, on the Triangles south-ern tip, UFO reports in the area arepeculiarly sparse. There are somethough

The legend of the Triangle began in

October, 1492, when ChristopherColumbus, on his voyage of dis-covery, reported seeing flashinglights deep below the waves. Then adisc-shaped object emerged and spedoff into the night sky. He also re-marked in his log that his compassacted strangely, he saw weird animalsin the sea and also what was probablya meteor or meteorite.

Probably the most famous disappear-ance in the Bermuda Triangle wasthat of Flight 19, a squadron of fiveAvenger torpedo-bombers out of FortLauderdale, Florida. They took offinto clear, blue skies in the afternoonof 5th December, 1945. The trainingmission was going according to planuntil several confused radio transmis-sions were received, suggesting thatthe flight had become lost, despite thegood visibility. At 7:30pm, a pair ofMartin Mariner flying boats was dis-patched to search for the errant air-craft, but one of these also vanished.

There have been numerous storiesabout how Flight 19 vanished, rangingfrom pilot error to instrument mal-function to time warps. The most fa-mous one was depicted in StevenSpielbergs classic 1977 movie, Close

Encounters of the T hird Kin d, whenthe planes were discovered in theMexican desert, having being dumpedthere by alien visitors. One radio con-versation between Flight 19s leader,Lieutenant Charles Taylor and a piloton another flight, Lieutenant BobCox strengthened the UFO hypothe-sis:

Cox: "What is your altitude? I'll flysouth to meet you."

Taylor: "Don't come after me. Theylook like they're from outer space.Don't come after me."

It has also been suggested that an

Apollo 11 photograph shows one ofthe planes in orbit, 6000 miles abovethe Earth!! I cant see it myself

More than sixty years after disappear-ing in the Bermuda Triangle, the lossof Flight 19 remains unexplained.

In 1970, Bruce Gernon and his fatherwere flying over the Bahamas, search-ing for an island on which to develop

property. As they flew, an almond-shaped lenticular cloud appeared infront of them at an altitude of about1500 feet. As they approached, thecloud began to billow beneath themand soon their plane was engulfed.Strange updrafts buffeted their Bo-nanza A36, but they soon brokethrough the cloud. Gernon could see itbelow them and it seemed to be risingwith their plane. Seconds later theywere engulfed once more. This hap-pened several more times before theaircraft broke free at about 11,500feet. Gernon realised that the cloudmust have been travelling with themat over a hundred miles per hour! Bythis time, the innocuous lenticularcloud had bloomed into a large, semi-circular squall about twenty milesacross.

They flew on and saw another hugesquall forming ahead. This was simi-lar in shape to the first one, but witharms extending towards them andreaching from the ocean up to about40,000 feet. They had no choice butto plunge into it and hope for the best!

As they traversed the cloud, they sawa breach and blue sky off to the west.

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Turning towards it, they were stag-gered to see a tunnel of cloud forming a tunnel that was growing narrower.They flew on and Gernon noticed thatsoon the wingtips of their plane werescraping the edges of the milky-whitetunnel. They also felt a sensation ofzero-gravity. All of their instrumentsbegan to malfunction and when they

broke through the cloud into whatthey expected to be blue skies, theywere faced with a dull grey vista.

Contacting Miami Air Traffic Control,Gernon explained that they might belost, but, given their flight time ofabout half an hour, they should beover the Bimini islands. The controllerinformed them that they had a planeon radar over Miami Beach. Gernonknew that they couldnt be in that po-sition, as their flight time had not

been long enough, but when theyemerged from the clouds, the glitter-ing beaches of Miami was below them.The flight time needed to cover thedistance to Miami should have been atleast 75 minutes. When they landed atPalm Beach International airport,they had been flying for only 47 min-utes. At the time, Gernon had no ex-planation for this phenomenon, butlater he theorized that the fog he flewthrough (on more than one occasion)was created when his aircraft picked

up electromagnetic energy in the formof electronic fog. This would actuallytravel with the plane, explaining howhe found it difficult to escape.

The Bermuda Triangle is probablymore famous, though, for the numer-ous ships that have been lost in itsmysterious waters.

Another example used by Spielberg inhis Close Encounter s movie was theSS Cotopaxi. The Cotopaxi was atramp steamer sailing from Charles-ton, South Carolina to Havana inCuba. On December 1st, 1925, she van-ished without a trace. Her last mes-sage stated that she was taking on wa-ter and listing. Despite her loss beingput down to a tragic, yet explainable,sinking, this didnt stop The Beardfrom using her in his epic science fic-tion adventure.

Other vessels to sink below the Trian-gles waves include the USS Cyclops(1918), the French submarine Surcouf(1942), the 590-foot freighter, Sylvia

L Ossa (1975) and the SS Poet(1980),an 11,000 ton merchant freighter.

In the last 100 years, it is estimated

that over 100 ships and over 70 air-craft, totalling over 1000 lives, havebeen lost in the Bermuda Triangle.Are they victims of unexplained natu-ral forces, UFOs, vengeful Atlanteansor is there a more prosaic explana-tion? We may never know.

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There has been much speculation asto what really happened to the air-crews and their craft of Flight 19. Tri-angle supporters will tell you some-thing unearthly happened. Debunk-ers will find reason and excuse inevery scrap of information.

In reality this is still a mystery wait-ing to be solved. Anyone who flicks

the dinker, channel hopping on theirSky box may well have seen the docu-mentary on Flight 19.

In 1991 five Avengers were found in600 feet of water off the coast of Flor-ida by the salvage shipDeep Sea . Ex-amination of the planes showed thatthey were not Flight 19, however, sothe final resting place of the planesand their crews is still the BermudaTriangle's secret.

Sixty years and more have passed andwe still cant locate five pretty largewarplanes and a flying boat on thebottom of the ocean - perhaps wenever will.

The 1977 hit book by Charles Berlitz

The not so very good 1978 movie

version of the events covered in

Berlitzs book

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The summer of 2007 will see the 60thanniversary of the alleged UFO crashat Roswell, New Mexico. It doesnttake much intelligence to work out

that even teenagers alive at the time ofthe crash are now getting on a bitand any of the so called witnessesalive today are in their seventies andeighties. Sadly many of those we knowfor sure to have had first-hand experi-ence of the events have sadly passedaway.

All the military brass who are knownto have been there have gone: WalterHaut, the press officer, and JamesBond Johnson, the only known press

photographer present at the time,both left us last year and the likes ofStanton T. Friedman, probably thebest known of the civilian researchers,celebrates his 72nd birthday this year.

We have to accept that there will beno new witnesses coming forwardwith sensational new evidence toprove once and for all what actuallyhappened back in July 1947.

It is our intention to celebrate the60th year since Roswell with a one-day event here in Leeds next year. Wehave secured the services of two veryspecial people to present the case ingreat detail for a British audience and,for the first time in this country, weintend to present the only living per-son who can, with all sincerity, claimhe was there when Major Jesse Mar-cel brought pieces of the wreckagehome and laid it out on the kitchentable. All being well, Dr Jesse MarcelJnr. will be speaking in Leeds nextyear.He will be joined by one of Roswellsleading researchers, author and pre-senter, Dr Kevin Randle, who willshare with you one of the most power-ful cases to the reality of the Roswell

Incident. To get our readers in themood for all things New Mexican,Kevin Randle presents this in-depthstudy to why the Roswell crash of

1947 could not be attributed to acrashed top secret military project.

W h y Mogul doe sn tw o r k

There are those inside the UFO com-munity, outside it, in government cir-cles when they care to notice anythingabout UFOs, and in the various scepti-cal groups, who are happy with theProject Mogul explanation for theRoswell UFO crash debris. They be-lieve that this classified balloon pro-ject provides an adequate answer forthe strange, metallic debris found byMack Brazel back in July 1947. Theybelieve that since the description of

the debris offered by many of thosewho saw or handled it matches thegeneral description of debris from aMogul balloon array, that this settlesthe question once and for all.

Simply put, it does not.

For Mogul to work as a viable expla-nation, we must assume that the de-bris left by the project would be differ-ent enough from that of a regularweather balloon that it would be diffi-cult for the uninitiated to recognize.We must have eyewitnesses who saw

the debris on the ranch and knewwhat it was when they saw it. Wemust be able to trace a balloon flightfrom the point of launch to its crashonto the ranch.

A B r ie f H is t o r y o f R o sw e ll

The story of Roswell, in its most basicform is of Mack Brazel finding a pas-ture filled with strange-looking, me-tallic debris. He didnt recognize it atthat time and there was so much of it

that, according to his hired hand,Brazel wanted to know who was goingto clean up the mess. Brazels thoughtprocess seemed to be that the debriswas the remains of something thathad fallen from the sky and the ArmyAir Force base in Roswell dealt withthings in the sky, so they were some-how responsible. Brazel planned a tripinto Roswell to tell them about it.

He spoke first to Sheriff George Wil-cox, who in turn called out to the base.

Major Jesse A. Marcel, Sr., the air in-telligence officer responded. Late inthe afternoon he and the chief of thecounter-intelligence section, CaptainSheridan Cavitt, followed Brazel outto the ranch, at least according towhat Marcel later told UFO investiga-tors. They stayed overnight in a run-down, one room building and the nextmorning went out to the field.

Marcel and Cavitt apparently spentmost of the day on the field, again ac-cording to what Marcel told research-ers. Cavitt returned to Roswell earlierthan Marcel, who finally arrived homeabout two in the morning. He showedsamples of the debris to his wife Viaudand son, Jesse Jr. and then headedout to the base.

Later that day, based on the most logi-cal of the timelines, he took some ofdebris to Fort Worth, Texas, home ofthe 8th Air Force. Brigadier GeneralRoger Ramey, the commander of the8th AF would later say that he knew itwas a balloon when he saw it, butcalled in one of the weathermen, War-rant Officer Irving Newton anyway.Newton explained that yes, it was aballoon and an aluminium foil radar

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reflector known as a Rawin. He toldme that he had launched them by thedozen during the Second World War.

We know what this material lookedlike because there were seven picturestaken of it. Two of the pictures showMajor Jesse Marcel, two show GeneralRamey, two show General Ramey and

his Chief of Staff, Colonel ThomasDuBose, and last is a single picture ofNewton. Investigators have located allthese pictures but in extensivesearches of newspapers, newspaperarchives, and military records, noother pictures have been found.

With that, the Roswell case basicallydisappeared from the UFO world. If itwas mentioned at all, most often itwas mentioned as a hoax or a mis-identification. One of the few excep-

tions to that was Frank Edwards in his1966 book, Flying Sa ucers SeriousBusin ess . Edwards had nearly all thedetails wrong, but he did mention thecrash near Roswell and that the AirForce had tried to write it off as aweather balloon and pie tin.

It was Jesse Marcel, in 1978, who letthe world in on the secret. He toldUFO researchers, including StanFriedman and Len Stringfield, that hehad picked up pieces of a flying saucer

thirty years earlier. He wasnt sure ofthe dates, but remembered Roswell.Bill Moore, at the time a colleague ofFriedman, made a newspaper search.It didnt take him long to find picturesof Marcel on the front pages of theseveral newspapers.Researchers dug out facts and wit-

nesses, adding to the mystery. Manyof them believed that Roswell was theresult of an alien spacecraft accident.The witnesses suggested it. To many,the evidence was conclusive.

Pr o jec t Mogul in New Mexico

A few, as well as those in the AirForce, the sceptical community, andeven a some investigators inside UFO

research, thought another explanationmight work better. Robert Todd, aresearcher living in Pennsylvania,took it a step further, investigatingballoon projects. He settled on ProjectMogul as a viable explanation forwhat had been found near Roswell.His theory was seconded by KarlPflock and later endorsed by the AirForce.

The records available told us that Pro-ject Mogul was an attempt to create aconstant level balloon. The scientistsbelieved that there is an acousticallevel in the atmosphere like thatfound in the oceans. If a balloon andlistening devices could be placed inthat acoustical layer and kept there, itmight provide clues about Soviet nu-clear research. In other words, theywanted to hear the boom of the atombombs that might be tested inside theremote areas of the Soviet Union and

this was the plan they had prior to theadvent of high altitude spy planessuch as the U-2 and spy satellites.

The project personnel conducted ex-periments, first in New Jersey, andlater in New Mexico. What theyplanned on doing was launching bal-loons in conjunction with rocket ex-periments at White Sands ProvingGrounds. With luck, they would beable to detect the sounds of the launchand detonations set off for specificallyfor their research.

When they arrived at Alamogordo,New Mexico, close to White Sands,and not all that far from Roswell, theycontacted the officers in Roswell. Ac-cording to Charles Moore, one of theengineers on Project Mogul, they trav-elled to Roswell and met with some ofthe staff officers to ask for their help

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in tracking the balloons. Moore toldme that the officers at Roswell hadlittle time for what he said werecollege students and their experi-ments. They wouldnt get, and didntget, any help at Roswell.

Moore told me that he rememberedstaying in Roswell during some of the

experiments, with a radio antennasticking out the hotel window as theyattempted to track the balloons. Theycould have used the help of the offi-cers and airmen at the base.

He also told me that the launcheswere reported to the CAA, the fore-runner to the FAA, to be included inthe NOTAMs. These were notices toairmen about special conditions suchas a closed runway at an airfield orspecial hazards to flight such as an

array of balloons launched at Alamo-gordo. Each of the launches was cov-ered by a NOTAM, which means, ofcourse, there was an unclassified re-cord of them.

What this also means is that the offi-cers at Roswell had a second way offinding out about the balloon arrays.First, the project scientists told theofficers about them, and second, theNOTAMs told the officers about them.Even if Marcel didnt recognize them

for what they were, others at the baseshould have. The balloons were notlaunched in a vacuum.

Mogu l Flight No. 4

Dr. Albert Crary was the leader of theproject and he kept a diary of thelaunches in New Mexico so that wecould actually go back and track thedates of the balloon flights. Everylaunch of a Project Mogul balloon ar-ray was documented in the diary andit included what happened to the bal-loons and equipment after the launch.All were easily accounted for exceptFlight No. 4, launched on June 4,1947.

I suppose here that I could mentionthat most of those who believed Mo-gul responsible had settled earlier onFlight No. 9 launched on July 3. For atime it seemed the most likely candi-date, but Crarys diary and otherdocumentation ended that specula-tion. Flight No. 9, though seeminglyunaccounted for in other records, wasfound in Crarys diary and it had notfallen to the ground anywhere nearthe Brazel Ranch. It was eliminated.So, that left Flight No. 4, launched on

June 4 but with no record of where itcame down. The record for Flight No.4, in all the available sources, includ-ing Crarys was quite sparse.

Mack Brazel had told reporters at theRoswell Daily Record on July 8, 1947,that the material he had found was sobadly torn up that he didnt know the

size or shape of the object. He said,according to the newspaper, The bal-loon which held it up, if that was howit worked, must have been about 12feet long the rubber was smoky greyin colour and scattered over an areaabout 200 yards in diameter Whenthe debris was gathered up the tinfoil,paper, tape, and sticks made a bundleabout three feet long and 7 or 8 inchesthick, while the rubber made a bundleabout 18 or 20 inches long and about8 inches thick the entire lot would

have weighed maybe five pounds.There was no sign of any metal in thearea which might have been used foran engine

As sceptic Philip Klass said, Mightystrange materials for an interstellarspaceship.

But the description that Mack Brazelgave to the newspaper doesnt exactlymatch the debris found according towhat other witnesses told me. Mack

Brazel died in 1963 before any UFOresearcher had a chance to talk withhim. Family members, however, sur-vived and in the 1990s provided awealth of information about the case.

E yewitnes s Desc r ip t ions o f theD e b r i s

Bill Brazel, Macks son, was living inAlbuquerque at the time of the crash.Bill told me that he knew his dad wasalone at the ranch and that he wouldneed help, based on a newspaper arti-cle he saw in the newspaper. He wentdown to the ranch but his father did-nt return for several days.

Over the next couple of months, whenBill was out on the range, he wouldsometimes find bits and pieces of me-tallic debris. Hed pick them up andtook them home, throwing them in anold cigar box.

In an interview conducted in February1989, Bill Brazel told me that hefound ten or twelve bits but therewere only three types of material.There was something on the order ofbalsa wood and something on the or-der of heavy gauge mono-filament

fishing line and a little piece of itwasnt really aluminium foil and itwasnt really lead foil but it was onthat order. A piece about the size ofmy fingers with jagged edges.

The most numerous of the pieces hefound looked like wood, but he saidthat it was not wood. It had the same

lightness and seeming lack of densitysuggested balsa, but it was not. Thelargest of the pieces he found wasabout six inches long and would flexslightly under pressure. He said thathe tried to get a shaving from it be-cause he wanted to know if there wasa layering or grain to it. Using aknife that he had used to cut barb-wire, he could not cut it or mark it. Itwas just too tough.

The most interesting piece of material

was the foil-like material. He said, Itwas pliable. Real pliable. I would bendit over and crease it It would flattenout and it was just as smooth as ever.Not a crinkle or anything in it.

This material matched, according toBill, the stuff that his father had foundearlier. Bill showed it to him and wastold by his father that it looked likepieces of the contraption he hadfound.

Notice the term here. Contraption andnot balloon or debris. Contraptionsuggests some sort of object or ma-chine, but there was no way to defineit any better. To be fair, I suppose Ishould note that contraption couldrefer to a balloon array.

Of course no story like this would becomplete without a conspiracy ofsome kind. The box holding the debristhat Brazel had found, if analyzed,would prove that the craft had notbeen a balloon and would certainlysuggest something otherworldly. ButBrazel no longer has it.

According to him, four fellows fromthe base came to visit him. He hadbeen in Corona, New Mexico, and thetalk turned to the object his father hadfound. Brazel mentioned he had a fewscraps of it, and according to him, Loand Behold, here comes the military.

So the debris that Bill Brazel foundwas gone, but he provided clues aboutits nature that matched, grossly, theinformation supplied by Jesse Marcel.However, Brazel did show it to friendsand they have confirmed the unusualnature of it and the fact he had it.

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Sallye Tadolini, daughter of MarianStrickland, told me, and provided anaffidavit for the Fund for UFO Re-search, about the piece of debris shehad held. She said that she had spentthe morning ironing so when Billshowed her the piece of material thatunfolded itself without sign of acrease, she was impressed.

She said, What Bill showed us was apiece of what I still think of as fabric.It was something like aluminium foil,something like satin, something likewell-tanned leather in its toughness,yet it was not precisely like any one ofthose materials It felt like no fabric Ihave touched before or since the feelwas like that you notice when youcrumple a leather glove in your hand.When it was released, it sprang backinto its original shape, quickly flatten-

ing out with no wrinkles.

Based on the eyewitnesses, it seemsthat the debris described bares a grossresemblance to that of the Mogul bal-loons. There were some foil-like mate-rials but they had properties that donot match modern foil, that is, theyreturned to their original shape with-out sign of a crease.

The balsa-like material had a feel ofweightlessness, as does balsa. But the

material picked up by Brazel wasmuch tougher and couldnt be cutwith a sharp knife.

T h e P h o t o g r a p h s i n R a m e y s O f-fice

The pictures taken in Rameys officeclearly show the remains of a Rawintarget in a very damaged state. Behindthem is the balloon, a black lump ofmaterial at the back of the room.There is no doubt what that is, and ifit is, in fact, the material that Marceltook to Fort Worth, then we have theanswer. What fell was a weather bal-loon. In fact, there is so little debris,that it would have been a singleweather balloon and target and notnecessarily part of the Mogul array.

To complicate matters further, if pos-sible, the explanation given out byGeneral Ramey came back to hauntthe investigation. Photographs takenin Rameys office, of Jesse Marcel andpublished all over the United Statesclearly showed a weather balloon andthe heavily damaged remains of aRawin radar target. Anyone looking atthe pictures could see the crumpledfoil that made up the radar detector,

and behind Marcel, the remnants ofthe balloon itself. The wreckage on thefloor in Rameys office was, without adoubt, a weather balloon.

But even with the evidence staring usin the face there was controversy. Ac-cording to William Moore, in hisbook, The Rosw ell Incident, Marcel

had said that if he was in the pictures,it was the real debris, and if it wasanyone else, then it was part of theweather balloon which was part of thecover story. To add to Moores decep-tion, the pictures in his book had beencropped so that the debris on the floorcouldnt be seen. Only a small sectionof it, held by Marcel was visible in thepictures printed in the book. Thislooked nothing like a weather balloonand Rawin target.

If Marcels statement was accurate,then, once again, the controversy wasnow ended. If Marcel said he was pho-tographed with the real debris, thencomparisons could be made amongthe uncropped photographs. This was,of course, done. The debris held byMarcel was exactly the same as that inthe other pictures. In fact, when look-ing at the whole pictures, rather thanthose cropped for inclusion in books,some of the pieces of debris hadntmoved from one picture to the next.

Contrary to what Moore wrote andwhat he alleged Marcel said all sevenshowed the same debris, that is, partsof a torn up Rawinradar target andthe blackened rub-ber that was theballoon itself.

Now, as usual, en-ter the complica-tion. JohnnyMann, a New Or-leans TV reporterarranged to meetwith Jesse Marcel,take him back toRoswell and to dis-cuss the case withhim in front oftelevision cameras.Mann showedMarcel the picturesin the book andtold him, Jess,Ive got to tell you,that looks like aweather balloon.

Marcel responded,Thats not thestuff I found.

So how do we resolve these duellingquotes? Can we lay the problem at thefeet of Marcel? Well, what we find isthat Moore, in his enthusiasm for thecase provided a number of quotes forMarcel, and in some cases, Moorehimself released different versions ofwhat Marcel supposedly had said tohim. If Moore could change the

quotes in one or two other places, whynot in a third? And, more importantly,there is no evidence that Marcel eversaid that if he was in the photographs,it was the real debris. His statementsto Mann seem to be the deciding fac-tor.

The point is we have seven photo-graphs of debris in Rameys office andit is clear that the debris is of aweather balloon and radar target. Infact Thomas DuBose, who is in some

of the pictures, said to investigators,on video tape in 1990, that the balloonexplanation was a cover story de-signed to get the reporters off Rameysback. He suggested the real debrisnever made it into Rameys office.There is nothing of importance to begathered from studying any of thosepictures.

DuBose, when he looked at those pic-tures also told researchers, on video-tape, that the material seen in the pic-

tures was of a weather balloon. Thereal stuff had not been photographedin Fort Worth.

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S h e r i d a n Ca v it t I n t e r v ie w s

There had been three men on theBrazel ranch that day in 1947. Brazeldied years before anyone talked tohim. Marcel died after telling peopleon the record and on tape he hadfound parts of a flying saucer. He de-scribed material that seemed to be of

extraterrestrial origin. Only Cavittsurvived into the 1990s and was avail-able during many of the later investi-gations.

When I first met him, while he and hiswife were spending the winter in Si-erra Vista, Arizona, he told me that hehad been involved in no balloon re-coveries. He said that he was too busyto have participated in something likethat. He also said that he hadnt evenbeen in Roswell in early July 1947.

Hed arrived after the events, so hecould tell us nothing of importance.

Later, when I visited him in Washing-ton state, he told me that he had, infact been in Roswell in early July1947. He showed me copies of his or-ders that transferred him to Roswell,and the timing showed he would havearrived at the end of June, just daysbefore Brazel arrived in Roswell.

Then, when the Air Force decided to

investigate the Roswell case, ColonelRichard Weaver went to Washingtonfor another interview. According towhat Cavitt told Weaver, he recog-nized the material on the field as partof a balloon. So now we learn againthat not only had Cavitt been in NewMexico in time to go to the ranch, hedeven recognized the strange debris forwhat it was.

According to Cavitt, he had gone outto the site with Master Sergeant LewisRickett. They gathered up the some ofthe material, described by Cavitt asaluminium foil or something of thattype. He said he didnt remember ifMarcel was there with him or not. Hecould have been, for all that Cavittcould remember.

Weaver then asked, What did youthink it was when you recovered it?

Cavitt said, I thought it was a bal-loon.

It seems to me that the next questionshould have been, Did you communi-cate this rather important bit of intel-ligence to Marcel? That would havestopped the press release, it would

have stopped the investigation, and itcertainly would have offered a positiveexplanation for the Roswell debris.The Roswell case dies right then andthere.

Instead, Weaver asked if Cavitt wasfamiliar with balloons. Cavitt said thathe had seen them and thought they

were equipped with something calledRadio Sonde that transmitted weatherdata to the ground.

They then went back to talking aboutwhom had gone where with whom,but Cavitt was sure that Rickett hadgone with him. He wasnt sure aboutMarcel, but he was sure about Rickett.

Sadly, Rickett died in 1993, before theAir Force began its investigation ofthe Roswell crash. Rickett, however,

left a video and audio taped record ofhis memories. While that certainlyisnt as good as interviewing a livingwitness, it does provide a record of hismemories and the context in whichthey were given. The Air Force clearlydidnt want to see or hear anythingfrom Rickett because it was differentthan and contradicted much of whatCavitt had said.

But they never asked for a chance toreview the tapes of Ricketts inter-

views. It was just one more road theAir Force didnt bother to explore.Why complicate a good explanationwith troubling interviews of the eye-witnesses.

Rickett, for example, remembered apiece of metallic debris that was thin,feather light and slightly curved. Hebraced it against his knee and tried tobend it, but couldnt. There was noth-ing on the Mogul array that couldntbe easily ripped and broken and bent.There were no pieces of metal thatwere so strong that a man couldnthave bent it easily.

There is a second point that needs tobe looked at because it suggests some-thing about Cavitts testimony con-cerning this case. Many others havementioned a military cordon aroundthe crash site. But Cavitt told Weaver,There were no, as I understand,check points or anything like that(going through guards and that sort ofgarbage) when we went out there andwe found it.

Rickett, however, had told investiga-tors, I dont recognize this place outhere we get there, he says, Dardens

[actually it was Major Edwin Easley,Darden followed Easley as the ProvostMarshal] got some of his men[Military Police] up there so theychecked our I.D They werent takingany chances.

Now we have Cavitt denying there wasany sort of military cordon and

Rickett saying there was. The problemfor Cavitt is that Rickett wasnt theonly one who talked of a cordon. Ra-dio station owner Jud Roberts said,on video tape, that he and Walt Whit-more were stopped by a military cor-don and turned back as they tried todrive off into the desert north andwest of Roswell. They were interestedin gathering facts for their news re-ports.

William Woody, who, as a young man

lived in Roswell and who thought hesaw something fall on the night of thecrash, said that he and his father hadgone looking for whatever had fallen.As they drove north out of Roswell onHighway 285 and then attempted toturn to the west, they were met byarmed men. They were not allowed todrive into the desert in that direction.

In fact, I could go on with similar de-scriptions by a variety of people, butwhat is the point. Cavitt said there

was no cordon and a dozen or moreothers said there was. Cavitt wasclearly wrong on that point. Wrong orlying.

Back to Mogul

Even if we grant the idea that the cor-don had nothing to do with the crash,and grant that the material seen in thepictures is not the material found inRoswell, it doesnt mean that Mogulwasnt responsible for the debris.There is the flight that would havetaken balloons close, well, within sev-enteen miles if you want to call thatclose, to the Brazel ranch, and no oneis certain where it might have comedown.

Using the winds aloft data that I ob-tained from the National Atmosphericand Oceanic Office, atmosphericphysicist and Mogul engineer, CharlesMoore, calculated the direction theballoon array launched from Alamo-gordo would have taken in 1947. Hebelieved that his calculations and ex-trapolations showed that the balloonswould have come within seventeenmiles of the Brazel ranch. He believedthat if he had more or better data he

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could have plotted the course with agreater degree of certainty.

Others who accept Roswell as thecrash of an alien spacecraft, usingMoores calculations and their ownworking with the data availableshowed that Moores math was wrong.The accusations were that Moore had

cooked the books to prove that Mo-gul was responsible for the Roswelldebris.

Still others, in web sites and articles,followed Moores calculations andfound minor discrepancies betweentheir work and Moores. Moore him-self has said that his calculations werenot the last word on the direction ofthe flight.

In the end, we find that both sides

calculations put the balloons to thenorth and east of Alamogordo and at apoint that is south of the Brazel ranch.The real difference in both sets of cal-culations is minor and one or twochanges such as rounding off numbers(which some did but Moore did not)can alter the results. Not significantlyand certainly not enough to beginhurling allegations of cooking thebooks. All that was proven was thatFlight No. 4 could have landed in aposition to be responsible for the de-

bris. Could have. Maybe. Even Moorepointed out that his work was not de-finitive.

T h e E n d o f M o gu l

But the final argument that destroysMogul comes from Crarys diary andthe testimony of Charles Moore. Therocket launch scheduled for June 4,1947, was cancelled. When it was notfired, there was no point in the Mogulexperiment. Moore told me that thehelium couldnt be put back in thebottles, so they stripped the salvage-able equipment from the array and letthe balloons go. And if they strippedthe equipment, taking off the Rawintargets because there was no reason towaste them, and took off the micro-phones and anything else that couldbe used again, then the metallic itemsnecessary for Brazel to find just were-nt present. No bits of foil, or bits ofbalsa or flowered tape to confuse andconfound. What he would have foundwould have been weather balloonspossibly tethered together and noth-ing else.

Those who point to the July 9, 1947interview printed in the Roswell Daily

Record quote Brazels commentsabout the debris but overlook the lasttwo paragraphs in that story. Brazelsaid that he had found two weatherobservation balloons on the ranch butthat what he found this time wasntlike them. He said, I am sure what Ifound was not any weather observa-

tion balloon.

And if that is true, then Mogul is notthe answer because Mogul was exactlythat weather balloons.

Kevin Randle 2006

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MEXICO.

AIRLINE CAPTAIN

REPORTS UFO

According to a report by Mexican re-searcher, Alfonso Salazar, CaptainLuis Guillermo Cruz, first officer of aBoeing 737-200, registration XA-MAR, reported a tubular unidentified

flying object with a metallic appear-ance directly over Lake Teques-quitengo in the Mexican state of Mo-relos.

The sighting occurred on September16, 2006 at 14:00 hrs. during a flightfrom Huatulco to Mexico City alongair corridor L-47. Weather conditionswere clear with some clouds.According to the witness, he wasalerted by an intense reflection visiblefour miles away from the airline, to-

ward the right side of the cabin.

At first he thought it could be a glider,but as they approached, he had a clearobservation of an unknown object.

He added that the tubular flying ob-ject crossed at the same altitude theairliner was flying but in the oppositedirection and with a north/south tra-jectory, remaining a mile and a halfdistant from the airliner.

The object vanished 4 minutes later.

(translation (c) 2006, S. Corrales,IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)

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Every now and again a piece of foot-age crosses my desk that is differentfrom others. This could be for manyreasons, the footage is very good andhard to identify or the footage is ahoax, but a very well constructed one,or maybe I know what the footage isand try to ascertain whether the wit-

ness is trying to pull the wool over myeyes or is simply bemused as to whathe or she has filmed.

Then we have this special clip. I firstdiscovered that this film was in exis-tence from the internet personal videohost YouTube www.youtube.com

I made contact with the person whohad uploaded the short internet-quality film to the web and asked if itwas possible to have a hi-res copy for

the magazine. I got an answer fromSteve Smith, the videographer, andwithin a few short days an envelopearrived at the office containing a DVDof the film taken from the originalmaster tapes.The quality was excellent and Stevehad included the high quality versionof the short internet clip and also afull 5-minute version of his completesighting.

On viewing the longer version of thisdaylight event, I started to wonder if Imight have stumbled on a possibleanswer to a wave of sightings thatwere recorded in America during theearly 1980s and possibly some of thefamous Flying Triangle sightingsfrom Europe in the early 90s.

Arghh Debunker I hear you cry. Notat all. I have said in many of my arti-cles that if you are not prepared toaccept some of the possibilities thatyou might discover during your ownresearch and investigation then per-haps you didnt really ought to do thisjob. Its good old fashionedObjectivity.

Lets travel back to 1982 and The

Hudson Valley area of New YorkState.

This account courtesy UFO CAS E-B OOK

The Hudson Valley UFO account iscomposed of not one, but many sight-

ings, all similar, and all pointing toone conclusion. There was something"unexplained" going on in this placeonly an hour's drive north of NewYork City.

The Hudson Valley UFO saga began atalmost the beginning of a new year,1982. A short time before midnight,December 31, 1981, a retired police-man was sitting in his backyard inKent, N. Y. He saw a group of strangelights to the south. The lights were a

brilliant red, green, and white, and atfirst, he thought they could be comingfrom an airplane in trouble.

It was common for him to sit andwatch the big jets fly over at night. Asthe lights became closer, his opinionquickly changed. The lights were mov-ing too slowly to be a plane, and nowthey were too low, and there was nonoise from an engine. What was thestrange craft he was seeing?As the lights came closer, he couldhear a humming sound, and now hecould see thatthe lights werearranged in atriangularshape, and therewas a solid ob-ject of somekind connectingthe lights.

No, this was noaircraft he hadever seen be-fore! The solidpart looked likea fuselage.That's what itwas...a fuselage.

He was looking at a UFO. This type ofreport would be repeated many timesin the Hudson Valley over the nextfew years. All of them were similar, aV-shaped row of lights connected by asolid object of some type. Literallyhundreds of witnesses would see thissame sight. There was definitelysomething unusual going on in the

skies over the Hudson Valley. Some-thing that moved ever so slowly, sosilently.

On March 26, 1983, an article aboutthe sightings appeared on the frontpage of the Westchester-RocklandDaily Item. The article recounted themany reports of the strange phenom-ena.

The cat was out of the bag. The presscoverage drew the attention of a group

of UFO investigators who were associ-ated with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, ac-claimed scientist and UFO investiga-tor. A thorough investigation fol-

lowed, and ultimately abook, "Night Siege: TheHudson Valley UFOSightings." The groupbegan their inquiries bysetting up a phone hot-line. They received over300 calls from individu-als who had seen the

strange V-shaped lights on the nightof March 24, 1983 alone. Descriptionswere very similar, if not identical. Theobject always moved slowly, and al-most silently. It always had manylights, and they were always in a V-configuration. Some of the witnessesgot a close enough look to say that thecraft was large enough to be a "flyingcity."

On the same night, the city of York-town also came alive with reports ofthis giant flying craft. The police

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switchboard was jammed with somany calls about the UFO that theyfeared not being able to respond to"real emergencies." Drivers pulledover on the Taconic parkway to watchthe large object slowly make it's wayacross the skies.

All in all, about 5,000 reports were

made during a period of five years,from 1982 through 1986. The objectwas seen by multiple witnesses atnight, never daylight. The sightingsranged as far east as New Haven, Con-necticut, and as far north as Brook-field, Connecticut. Several theorieswere put forth about whether therewas only one object, or many.

Some additional accounts would comeforward stating that the object,though moving slowly, would at times

make a rapid, fast manoeuvre fromone location to another, it was alsoreported that the lights of the craftcould change colours in an instant.

A report made from guards at the In-dian Point NuclearPlant would be one ofthe most dramatic. Thegigantic UFO was seenhovering over the plantfor periods of time, andmoved as close as 30

feet from the reactor.Security supervisorseven once consideredordering in planes tohave it shot down. Theobject over IndianPoint was described bysome of the guards as1,000 ft. long. Anotherwitness described the object hoveringover the Croton Falls Reservoir, usinga red beam as it seemed to scan thesurface of the water.Reasonable explanations for the sight-ings were offered. Sceptics suggestedthat planes, balloons, satellites, andeven the planet Venus could explainaway the accounts. Considering all ofthe information available, researcherscould find only one object that couldmimic the movements of the UFO, ablimp. All blimp manufacturers andpilots were contacted, and not onecase of a blimp over the area on thenights of the sightings could be found.The Hudson Valley sightings are still amystery to this day.

(B J Booth)

www.ufocasebook.com

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T h i s r e p o r t f r o m Ca l i fo r n i a .

I love watching the sky when we areout of the range of too many citylights. While relaxing on the passen-gers side, I turned away from windowwatching for just half a moment. Justa minute before there had been noth-

ing there.Out of the corner of my eye, I noticedan annoying streak on my windowthat was sort of blocking my view ofthe stars. Turning to look at thestreak, directly, I saw it was not on the

window but in the sky.What made the streak pronouncedwas that it appeared to be slightlyglowing. It looked like a night-timechem-trail starting, but it was not su-per high in the sky. It was low, like atcommercial airplane level.The streak in question appeared to bemaking itself, because I could not seea source for it yet. The streak ap-peared to be getting larger, andlonger. When it was as thick as anumber two pencil, and about to passdirectly over head, I could see whatwas making it.There appeared to be a small bar ofred-orange coal with a yellow centerpoint, making the streak. As the thingpassed directly overhead, just underthe moon, I stuck my head out of thewindow to get a better look at it.It now appeared to be a single bar,slight chevron, shaped object. Not as

hard angled as a boomerang.It looked just like a smoldering coal,red orange at the extremities, culmi-nating in yellow, and yellow white, atthe slight apex point, like it was itshottest there, or something.I could clearly see what I thought wasa chem-trail was clearly exhaust fromthis thing. The exhaust had been

glowing from a few miles back, waybefore this object crossed overhead,and into the moonlight.I could see no fuselage, just a wingshape, and what made the exhaustspectacular was, it appeared to beglowing as it came out and long afterit was expelled. It reach at least a mileacross the sky!

P h o e n i x A r i z o n a

This is a video of an object that lookslike a string of something unknownbursting into four orbs and then tak-ing off in a boomerang shape.

The first video is the object beingspotted for the first time. I am lookingWest, the wind is from the North andthe object headed North very slowly.So it is going against the wind about15 mph at an altitude about 10k ft.,maybe a little lower. I definitely donot think this is balloons because itwas a row of something that burst intofour orbs and then stretched out andtook off to the North.

That's what the second video is show-ing. The object is now a boomerangshape and going against the breeze.Balloons it is not. Can't be. How canthey be? It sure doesn't look like a rowof balloons to me. It looks like a solidobject or took on that shape maybe togo where it needs to go. I don't knowbut it is cool.

What else can I say? I tape them as Isee them. You be the judge.

Thanks to Brian VikeHBCC UFO Research

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This strange Boomerang or Triangu-lar shaped UFO is still being reportedby witnesses just wanting to knowwhat they are seeing.

It is difficult on a dark night, lookingat a starry sky, not to get confusedwith celestial objects, regular aircraftand sometimes satellites as they cross

the skies whilst you the onlookerstrains ones neck backwards to viewthe heavens.

An aircraft with lights on two trailingedges (wings or tail) can trick ourminds into seeing a third, none-existent edge, thus creating a flyingtriangle or even city lights reflectingoff a silvery underside of a hard-to-make-out airplane can trick us intoseeing something that isnt actuallythere.

There are, though, occasions when allpossibilities explored we still cantcome up with an answer to what wit-nesses describe.

I draw reference to Belgium and theFT flap of 1990 where police officers,radar operators and air force pilots allexperienced seeing and chasingbrightly-illuminated, flying triangu-lar-shaped UFOs, so much so that thehead of the Belgian Air Force made

public one such encounter via radarrecordings of the incident that ap-peared to show an unknown targetout-performing US-built F15s.

Such was the media interest, everyonewas aware as to what was going on,but there was never any visible evi-dence. Hundreds saw these things butnobody photographed them, well I saythat, there is one famous image al-though its authenticity cant be

proven.So where is all this leading?

Its leading back to Steve Smith andhis video-recorded encounter cap-

tured in August 2005.Steve wasnt sure what he had filmedbut the sighting lasted for five or sominutes. No lights on the object but itwould certainly be capable of reflect-ing light from its glossy black surface.

The main image above is what got methinking about The Hudson Valley butin reality I knew what Steve had re-

corded. The image aboveis from some internetadvertising for a GiantSolar Ba lloon

For about 25 you canpurchase one of these25-30ft, giant, blacksausages. You run roundwith it or get a blower onone end and fill it full ofair, tie the end up andtether it down to theback garden, preferablyon a sunny day. MotherNature then takes overand slowly heats up thecontained air. Hot air

rises and after a while you can releaseyour big black sausage into the skyand, boy, do they go.

Steve filmed his object at a really high

altitude and it looks impressive.As the air cooled down, the balloondeveloped a Bill Clinton (risky) andtook on the boomerang shape.

Could someone have being playing

balloon games over the Hudson Val-

ley? Maybe, maybe not.We are grateful to Steve for sharinghis wonderful film with us.

Black UFO Images Steve Smith

All images copyright respected.

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The History Channels excellent se-ries, UFO Files, keeps on going fromstrength to strength. If they ever re-lease a DVD box set of the series, notonly will it be huge, but it will be arequired purchase for anybody inter-ested in this subject.

I digress, though. One of the latest

episodes was entitled Pacific Ber-m uda Triangle and concerned itselfwith an area of the Pacific Oceanknown as the Dragons Sea, DevilsSea or the Dragons Triangle. This isan area, on the opposite side of theworld to the North Atlantics BermudaTriangle, where ships and boats havevanished without a trace and numer-ous strange sightings have occurredfor many, many years.

Covering an area of about half a mil-

lion square miles, the Dragons Trian-gle is located south of the islands ofJapan, reaches down to the isle ofGuam and across to the island nationof Palau, east of the Philippines. Curi-ously, the northern tips of both theDragons Triangle and the BermudaTriangle lie close to the latitude of 35north.

Bill Birnes, publisher ofUFO Maga -zin e, (the US version) claims that themagnetic anomalies within both ofthese triangles disrupt compass read-ings by about twenty degrees.

Despite being less well-known than itswestern counterpart, the DragonsTriangle appears to have a more

deadly history, with vessels disap-pearing on a far more regular basis.Since World War II, it has been esti-mated that over 1,500 vessels andhundreds of aircraft have vanishedhere.

The region gained notoriety after thepublication ofThe Dragon s Triang le

by Charles Berlitz in 1989. Berlitz hadbrought the Bermuda Triangle toworldwide attention fifteen years pre-viously with his best-selling book. Forhis 1989 book, Berlitz researchedhundreds of disappearances andstrange events in the Dragons Sea,citing ghost ships, compass fluctua-tions, UFO sightings and ships beingtransported hundreds of miles in sec-onds.

On the second of July, 1937, famed

aviator, Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot, Fred Noonan, took off from Laein Papua New Guinea. Their goal wasHowland Island, some two and a halfthousand miles distant. Barely eighthundred miles into the flight and withno warning, her plane vanished. Manyexplanations have been proffered forEarharts and Noonans disappear-ance, ranging from navigational errorresulting in the plane running out offuel and ditching into the ocean, tothe pair being captured by Japanesesoldiers and possibly killed or impris-oned for espionage, to abduction byUFOs. Whatever the cause ofEarharts loss, hers is one of the mostfamous stories linked to the DragonsTriangle.

Another aspect of the mystery of thetriangle is that of ghost ships. For cen-turies, stories have abounded ofcursed vessels sailing without crewsand the stories continue to this day.Ghost ships exceeding a hundredthousand tons have been reported.What happened to their crews is acomplete mystery.

On the morning of June 11th, 1881, aBritish warship,HMS Baccha nte, en-

countered the legendaryFlyingDutchm an , deep within the DragonsTriangle. A young ensign, who wouldlater be crowned King George V, re-ported in the ships log:

The Flying Dutchman crossed ourbows. She emitted a strange, phos-phorescent light as of a phantom ship,

all aglow. She came up on the portbow, where also the officer of thewatch from the bridge saw her. But onarriving, there was no vestige or anysign whatever of any material ship tobe seen, either near of right away tothe horizon, the night being clear andthe sea calm.

In January, 1989, a Japanese whalingship came within fifty feet of a smallfishing boat. The boat was boarded,but no crew or cargo could be found.

All that was found was the corpse ofthe captain, his hands still grippingthe helm.

Bill Birnes suggests that these missingcrews may have been abducted byaliens, snatched from their vessels bya USO or Unidentified SubmergedObject.

Of course, entire vessels have van-ished without a trace, taking their un-fortunate personnel with them.

In April, 1949, the Kuroshio Mar u No.1, a Japanese ship with twenty-threepeople on board, disappeared. In June1952, the Chofuku M aru No. 5 van-ished with all twenty-nine hands. On26th June, 1955, a US Air Force F-3Bjet lost contact with its base and theplane was never heard from again. InMarch, 1957, a KB-50 tanker aircraftwith eight crewmen aboard vanished.June 7th, 1963, and what was left oftheDon an M ar u was found adrift.

The Kaiyo M aru N o. 5 was a Japanesesurvey ship researching the area forthe Hydrographic Department of theMaritime Safety Agency. On Septem-ber 24th, 1952, the ship was lost withall thirty-one crew, making it the big-gest disaster in the history of Japa-nese oceanographic research. The fa-voured explanation for the completeloss of the ship is that it was caught bythe blast from a submerged volcano(the Triangle has many volcanoes, asit lies within the Pacific Ring of Fire),some are not convinced, claiming thatthe Kaiyo M aru was a victim of theDragons Triangle.

Like the Bermuda Triangle, the

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Dragons Sea is said to be an area inwhich the rules of time and space arein flux, causing ships and planes to beforced off course by many miles in aninstant. Loren Coleman, author of

Mysteriou s Am erica , says that thereare many explanations, but it really isa mystery why these temporal effectsoccur.

In the late 1950s, American enter-tainer, Arthur Godfrey, was flyingover the Dragons Triangle when hisinstruments failed and he saw a USO.Flying blind for an hour before hisinstruments returned to life, he madeit to Tokyo and found that he hadlost thirty minutes.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hopkins, anadvisor to the 106th Air TransportGroup, was flying in a C-97 Stratof-

reighter over the triangle in 1968.Back then, he was a navigator and, asprotocol required, he used star navi-gation to plot their course every hour.Three hours into the flight, he tookanother celestial fix and was aston-ished to find that their position wasmore than 340 nautical miles downtheir intended course. On landing, hetold his duty officer that the aircrafthad been dropped many hundreds ofmiles ahead of their plotted course.No report was filed. Hopkins main-

tained that the area was prone to pe-culiar forces that posed danger toplanes and ships that ventured acrossit.

Over the years, there have been hugenumbers of UFO and USO reportsfrom within the Dragons Triangle. InBerlitzs book, he tells of MikakuninHiko-Buttai, the Japanese for UFOs,which have sunk ships whilst leavingor entering the ocean. In bygone days,these losses were attributed to de-mons or dragons that lurked beneaththe waves. Nowadays, Japanese re-searchers blame USOs or UFOs.

Some experts believe that part of theDragons Triangle includes the city ofTokyo in its boundaries. JunichiroKato, head of OUR-J, the Organisa-tion of UFO Research Japan, hasphotographed over two hundred ob-jects over the Dragons Triangle. Heclaims to have being witnessing one ortwo a month at one point.

On June 14th, 1997, Kato photo-graphed what appeared to be threeglowing discs, travelling at over fivehundred miles per hour over TokyoBay. The event was witnessed by ten

other people and the news media werealerted, but no reports made it to air.

In 1990, on a quiet beach about thirtymiles south of Tokyo, magazine edi-tor, Masanobu Miyoshi, witnessed awhite light buzzing a jet that was fly-ing over the ocean. He describes theUFO as moving like it was writing a

W in the sky. Before his sighting, hedid not believe in UFOs, but what hesaw has changed his opinion.

The former Soviet Union had one ofthe largest active fleets in the Pacificand many UFO and USO reports werefiled. According to famed Russian re-searcher, Vladimir Ajaja, in 1977, theSoviet Navy ordered a study to be be-gun to examine reports of unidenti-fied objects seen at sea. He was incharge of that group and, by the end

of that year, instructions had beengiven to Soviet naval vessels abouthow to observe UFOs and what to dowhen one was spotted.

On August 18th, 1980, the Soviet re-search ship, the Vladimir Volbirovwas moving south through theDragons Sea on a course towards theJapanese island of Okinawa. At aboutmidnight, a glowing, cylindrical objectrose from the sea, hovered for a whileand then shot off across the sky.

In April, 1981, the 165-foot Japanesefreighter, Taki Kyoto Maru, was inalmost the exact location of the Vladi-m ir Volbirov . Suddenly the ship wasrocked by shockwaves erupting fromthe sea. A bright, saucer-shaped ob-ject rose out of the water and hovered,silently, over the ship. It was aboutfifty feet in diameter. The ships in-struments fluctuated wildly as thesaucer circled the ship for about fif-teen minutes. Then it plunged backinto the ocean, again creating hugewaves that buffeted the Japanese ves-sel, almost causing it to capsize. Whentheir instruments returned to normal,the captain found that they had lostfifteen minutes of time.

In December of 1984, the Japaneseresearch ship, Kaiyo M aru (obviouslynot the same as the one that disap-peared in 1952), was off the FalklandIslands in the South Atlantic. A crew-man, Mr Naganobu, saw two dozenUFOs, hovering in the sky. Suddenly,they shot off in three different direc-tions. Two years later, the ship was inthe Dragons Triangle. A huge, cigar-shaped UFO, over a hundred feet inlength, approached the ship and

plunged into the ocean. This eventwas once again witnessed by Mr Na-ganobu. This time, the UFO was alsoseen on radar. Both of Naganobusreports were published in a 1988,Japanese edition ofScientific Ameri-can .

On March 18th

, 1965, the captain of aToa Airways Convair passenger planeencountered a large, oblong-shapedcraft. To avoid a collision, he turnedhis aircraft sixty degrees at over fivehundred miles per hour (the pro-gramme shows a twin-prop aircraft,likely a Convair 240, so it is unlikelythat a speed of 500 mph wasachieved. The passenger plane mayhave been a Convair jetliner that can fly over that speed and were in servicein 1965, such as the Convair 990). The

UFO stopped suddenly and then ma-noeuvred alongside the airliner. Thecaptain radioed that he was beingshadowed by a UFO.

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The object was about fifty feet longand glowed with a greenish hue. Theencounter was witnessed from theground and another pilot in a separateaircraft heard the Toa captains franticradio transmissions.

The object was independently spottedseveral times that night at different

locations.

Stories from the Dragons Trianglestretch back hundreds of years, withtales of sea dragons pulling ships totheir doom. The region is also hometo one of the oldest UFO stories:

One day, a spherical boat was towedinto a Japanese village after it ap-peared on the beach. Inside was awoman who looked nothing like thelocals: she had white skin, red and

white hair, spoke a strange languageand held a box close to her at alltimes. The boat has strange symbolsupon it, like nothing the local peoplehad ever seen.

Dr Kazuo Tanaka of Gifu Universitystudied the old stories about thisalien woman and her craft and cameto the conclusion that she was extra-terrestrial. The story of the Utsuro-fune (or Utsuro-bune) appeared sev-eral times in 19th Century Japanese

literature and many depictions of thewoman and her craft were printed, allvery similar. The stories, though set inabout 1803, may date back much fur-ther and be drawn from Japanesefolklore. It has been suggested, how-ever, that the woman may have beenBritish, or at least European, and thatthe unknown writings on her craftmay have been Latin alphabeticalcharacters.

On the 24th of September, 1235,strange lights were seen to hover overan army camp in Kyoto. The troopswere terrified, thinking the lights weresea dragons coming to attack them.

In 1274, Kublai Khan, the MongolEmperor, amassed a fleet of nine hun-dred ships, holding over forty thou-sand men, and set sail to conquer Ja-pan. A typhoon formed and more thanhalf of the ships were sunk. Not to bedeterred, Khan assembled over threethousand ships in 1281 and a hundredand forty thousand men and gave hisinvasion of Japan another go.

This time, a divine wind destroyedmost of the ships and half of the menlost their lives. This gave rise to the

notion that Japan was protected bythe gods and any invasion of hershores was doomed to failure.

July 8th, 1853, and Commodore Mat-thew Perry was in Tokyo Bay at 4am.In his log, he described a remarkablemeteor that illuminated the entirearea with a blue light. It flew from

south-west to north-east beforegradually sinking into the ocean anddisappearing. It was described as alarge, blue sphere, with a red, wedge-shaped tail. The tail appeared like thesparks of a rocket.

American researcher, Steven Greer,notes that because the Dragons Tri-angle is located in the Pacific Ring ofFire, a highly active area of volcanism,many UFO sightings in the region willbe because of the tectonic activity

deep below the sea.

US Navy ships have detailed chartsshowing where the known areas ofactivity are located and ships are ad-vised to stay away from those regions.Dr Joann Stock, of the California In-stitute of Technology (CalTech), ex-plains that when undersea volcanoeserupt, huge amounts of gases are re-leased. A ship above such an eruptionof gases will find that it is no longerbuoyant, as the bubbles of gas disrupt

the water volume. When this occurs, aship can be pulled under the surfacevery quickly. These submarine erup-tions can also release large amountsof particulate matter that can clog theintakes of aircraft, causing them todrop of out the sky.

The Dragons Sea is also prone to aphenomenon known as trianglewaves. These are when winds con-verge from different directions andcan create a powerful wave many tensof feet high. There have been reportsof triangle waves of a hundred feet ormore.

Whatever the reasons for the inci-dents in the Dragons Triangle, andthey are likely to be varied, we have toremember that what happens there isreal. Planes and ships are destroyedand people lose their lives in that vastexpanse of ocean. It is not somethingthat can be simply dismissed with ashrug of I dont believe it. The evi-dence is there, mysterious things hap-pen.

Pacific Bermu da Triangle was yetanother excellent episode from theUFO Files series. As usual with this

programme, every avenue was ex-plored and both sides of the argumentwere given time to put their viewsacross. It was also nice to have an epi-sode that wasnt calledNorth aller -tons Rosw ell, or whatever. Sayingthat, well probably get The IndianOcean Bermu da Triangle, The Sa-hara Bermuda Triangle and The M il-

ton Keynes Bermuda Triangle beforevery long.

As I said at the beginning of this arti-cle, if a DVD set was released, itshoul