MUFON UFO JOURNALNUMBER 241 MAY 1988

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FROM THE EDITOR Dennis Stacy 2

AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES VALLEE Linda J. Strand 3

PURSUING THE ULTIMATE ENCOUNTER Walter N. Webb 8

GULF BREEZE CE III - PART II Ware, Flannigan & Andrus 11

61-MONTH WAVE THEORY REVISED Donald A. Johnson 16

"UNINVITED GUESTS" - A PREVIEW Richard Hall 17

A QUIET CRISIS IN MANAGEMENT . . . Dan Wright 18

LOOKING BACK Bob Gribble 20

THE MAY NIGHT SKY Walter N. Webb 22

DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Walt Andrus 24

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Gulf Breeze Note: Instead of the Nimslo photographsmentioned in the article, which would not have reproduced well,we have used instead a sketch by "Mr. Ed" which originallyappeared in the Gulf Breeze Sentinel. Having viewed blow-ups ofthose pictures, however, we can say that the light patterns pho-tographed do indeed seem to parallel Mr. Ed's sketch.

APRO 1952 -1988A letter from Robert G. Mars-

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Dimensions: An Interview With Jacques ValleeBy Linda J. Strand

INTRODUCTION

French-born Jacques Vallee, bilin-gual in both computers and astro-physics, is ufology's both most reknown-ed and reclusive figure. Certainly heis the most controversial thinker in afield fraught with philosophical pitfalls,having served as the model forLacombe\ (played with suave dignityby the late Francois Truffaut) inSteven Spielberg's "Close Encountersof the Third Kind." At the time Valleeobjected strenuously to the portrayalof alien beings as benign "brothejrs"from another world, an argument thatnot unexpectedly succumbed to Hol-lywood's boxoffice sensibilities. Heonce said of the cinematic Lacombe,"I think they were simply looking fora character at a level of strangenesshalfway between the main Americancharacters and the space people."Interestingly, Dan Ackroyd's extrater-restrial nuclear family, the former"Saturday Night Live" Coneheads,also said they were from Francewhen pressed about their origins.

With the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek,Vallee helped found an "invisible col-lege" of UFO experts (the title of oneof his own books on the subject) andco-authored The Edge of Reality. Val-lee's early studies (Anatomy of aPhenomenon and Chaflenge to Science,written with wife Janine) were char-acterized by a concise phenomeno-logical approach to the UFO data.But with Passport to Magonia (1969)and particularly Messengers of Decep-tion (1979) the lanky, soft-spoken Val-lee left many of his American follow-ers confused if not openly skeptical.Magonia, which compared contem-porary accounts of aliens and abduc-tions with precedents found mostly inmedieval European folklore was well-received on the continent. Indeed, amovement based on psycho-sociologi-cal interpretations of UFO pheno-mena sprang up in its wake, pro-moted largely by fellow Frenchmen.MUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

«;My mind works best bysoaking up data like asponge and squeezing itevery once in a while."

In England it even led to the estab-lishment of a quarterly journal by thesame name. Messengers, however,with its emphasis on mostly westcoast American UFO cults, was asomewhat unfocused work that evenVallee himself admits "I would do dif-ferently now."

After Messengers Vallee publishedthree books about technology, includ-ing a textbook on computer network-ing. But he went underground as faras the American UFO communitywas largely concerned. Aside fromthe public demands on his time(unavoidably, a personality cult hadformed around his own writings), Val-lee had learned that he did his bestthinking in a vacuum, free from the"contamination of popular theoriesabout UFOs, maintaining a circle ofsilence around me, and conductingmy own investigations in the field."More to the point, he says, "my mindworks best by soaking up data like asponge and squeezing it every oncein a while."

Vallee's latest squeeze is a bookthat summarizes and clarifies his ear-lier works. It is called Dimensions: ACasebook of Alien Contact (Con-temporary Books, Chicago, $17.95).In it he expands on the concept firstproposed in Invisible College, com-paring UFOs to a control systemoperating on our collective uncons-cious. Both in their folklore and mod-ern forms, says Vallee, "UFOs arethe means through which man's con-cepts are being arranged."

While working on the manuscriptof Dimensions, Vallee gradually emerg-ed from his self-imposed silence. In1986 he published a novel in French

entitled ALINTEL, which is thoughtto contain facts and speculations hecould not publish in non-fiction form.December a year ago he addressed aUFO conclave in London, and latelast year he turned up as one of thespeakers at a San Francisco NewAge symposium on "Angels, Aliensand Archetypes: Cosmic Intelligenceand the Mythic Imagination," spon-sored by the Omega Foundation.

Linda Strand is a freelance journal-ist living in Boulder, Colorado, whospecializes in scientific subjects. Herarticles on a wide variety of topicshave appeared in Science Digesr,Astronomy and similar publications."I first heard the name Jacques Val-lee in 1977," Strand says, "as myinterest in the area of UFO researchwas just getting started. Two pf mymost trusted friends in such mattersstrongly recommended that I try tocontact him, saying his work was 'farand away the best' in the field. Fiveyears later, having been thoroughlydisillusioned by most of the UFOresearch I had studied, I finally wroteto Vallee in care of his publisher.

"When we met some six monthslater over dinner, I was constantlyamused by the similarities betweenVallee and the character played byFrancois Truffaut in 'Close Encoun-ters of the Third Kind'. When Ipointed this out, he smiled and saidin a strong French accent, 'that's notcoincidence'.

"What has continued to impressme most about Vallee is his humility:He never gives the impression ofbeing the guru with all the answers. Itis so refreshing to relate to a 'truescientist,' unashamed of having morequestions than answers, still trying tounderstand and to keep his precon-ceptions out of the way of creativethought. I think his intelligence andwit shine through in the followinginterview, which we began late lastyear."

The Journal wishes to thank both3

Ms. Strand and Mr. Vallee for theexclusive interview that follows.

Strand: Jacques Vallee, in recentyears you have been "in retreat" asfar as UFOs are concerned. Are yousimply becoming reclusive, or haveyou given up UFO research?Vallee: The only thing that interestsme is getting closer to a solution ofthe UFO problem. The controversiesthat are currently being played out onthe stage of the UFO community inthe U.S. seem largely irrelevant tothat goal.

But I haven't disappeared from thefield: two research trips to SouthAmerica, lectures last year in Lon-don, and several visits to researchersin Europe, including a briefing of thetop-level, scientific community ofGEPAN in France ... I would hardlycall that "reclusive."Strand: Yet you have not publishedanything in book form since Mes-sengers of Deception in 1979. Areyou working on anything new?Vallee: I am finishing a new bookcalled Dimensions, which will be pub-lished in the Spring of 1988 in hardcover by Contemporary Books ofChicago. I believe it will answer manyof the questions people have askedabout my position.Strand: Are you planning to includein that book the cases you have beeninvestigating recently?Vallee: No, I have not found theright format yet to publish thesecases. Many of them need morework. I do plan to make the informa-tion available, but I want to do it in aformat that is constructive.Strand: Why do you find it neces-sary to operate in this rather secre-tive manner?Vallee: Let's call it "private" ratherthan "secretive." It is natural for aresearcher to stay a few years aheadof what he publishes. I go throughphases of quiet work and phases ofactive dissemination and discussion.Currently what we lack most of all isnot data: Heaven knows we've gotmore data than we know what to dowith! What we lack is a framework,and that's what I have tried to con-struct in Dimensions, using both oldmaterial drawn from my earlier worksand new observations.Strand: How do you get information?4

The field has been very quiet for sev-eral years now.Vallee: It is true that we have nothad a major "wave" in the Westerncountries for a long time. Also, peo-ple do not report their sightings tothe press or the authorities as theydid before; they now understand thatsuch reports are, unfortunately, point-less. But I do get quite a few reportsdirectly from the witnesses or throughmy friends in the field. Since I amable to run my own research, I don'thave to wait for a grant or ask anyb-ody's permission to pursue a case.And I have free or nearly free accessto all the technology I need.Strand: We will come back to thissubject later, but first, can you sum-marize your educational background?Vallee: I grew up in France wantingto become an astronomer. That meantstudying at the Sorbonne, takingmath and physics, then a graduateprogram. Those were the early daysof computers, which I found terriblyexciting, so I took information scienceand programming courses as part ofmy master's degree in astrophysics.

Then I worked at Paris observatoryfor a year under the French Govern-ment's Space Committee. When Icame to the University of Texas in1962 I used this background. I wrotethe program that computed the mapof Mars for the Mariner project —thefirst detailed map of the planet, underNASA sponsorship. Later I moved toNorthwestern, and I did my Ph.D. in1967 on a topic that would be calledartificial intelligence today. In thosedays it was regarded as appliedmathematics!Strand: How did your relationshipwith Hynek start?Vallee: He knew that my wife and Ihad compiled and analyzed the firstcomputer catalog of world-wide, unex-plained UFO sightings. He urged meto work with him, and he generouslymade his own data available. I stayedat Northwestern from 1963 to 1967.Strand: Why did you change youremphasis from astronomy to informa-tion science? Many UFO researchershave considered astronomy the mostuseful training to investigate UFOs.Vallee: A good background in astron-omy is essential to sort out genuinesightings from common celestial ob-jects. It is also very useful in order to

de-mystify the statements of close-minded scientists who like to pontifi-cate as if they understood the wholeof the universe. The study of astron-omy should make us humble and cur-ious about all the things we don'tknow, including UFOs. However itdoesn't really work that way. I foundthe computer field much more openand dynamic. My information scienceteachers actually encouraged me topursue my UFO work.Strand: The years you spent withAllen Hynek at Northwestern seemto have been a turning point for bothof you and, as a result of the laterwork you both did, a turning pointfor U.S. Ufology as well. How did thistransformation take place?Vallee: For me, it was very simple:for the first time I had access to thetotality of the Blue Book files and Icould vastly expand the analyses Ihad done before, while getting aninsight into the entire history of thefield and meeting the key players.For Allen Hynek, the change was dif-ferent. He was a very open-mindedscientist, who had thought long anddeeply about the limitations of science,but he had to walk a tight rope whenit came to UFOs. On one hand, heknew that many Air Force explana-tions were "pure hogwash", as heliked to say. On the other hand, hehad never found convincing scientificevidence for the existence of UFOs,so he remained skeptical.Strand: What is it that changed hisposition?Vallee: This happened slowly, over aperiod of weeks, months, as he sawthe accumulated evidence from myfiles of landing reports, and the corre-lations that were established with sim-ilar data from the American files.Strand: He must have been aware ofthese landing reports.Vallee: They were circulated in Amer-ica among marginal groups, but theywere mixed in with all the "hogwash."You must realize that those landingswhich were reported to the Air Forcewere generally placed in the "psycho-logical" category, and Hynek wasrarely asked to follow them up. Theleading civilian group was NICAP,which was trying to gain credibility in'Washington, and they suppressedthese reports too. The only groupthat understood the significance of

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the landing reports from the begin-ning was APRO. In France, on theother hand, we had hundreds of well-documented close encounter casessince the major wave of 1954.Strand: What did he think of thosecases?Vallee: He was certainly aware ofthem. He had met in Paris with AimeMichel and Pierre Guerin at the sug-gestion of a leading French astrono-mer who had moved to the UnitedStates. He came back from Parisvery intrigued with the data andimpressed with Michel and Guerinbut he remained unconvinced until Ishowed him the details and the actualpatterns. He told me, "those reportssounded like ghost stories to me." Hewas especially struck by Aime Michel'sdescription of the 1954 wave as "afestival of absurdities."Strand: What made him change hismind?Vallee: A key factor was a runningargument we had for several weeksabout what constitutes proof that thephenomenon exists. I took the posi-tion that a single report meansnothing in itself, but that hundreds ofreports fitting into a global patternindicated a genuine phenomenon.The clincher for him, of course, wasthe fact that the same pattern startedto emerge from the Air Force data.At that point Allen Hynek decidedthe time had come to advocateserious research into the phenomenon.Strand: The history of that periodusually claims that Hynek did notchange his position until Jim McDo-nald came into his office and bangedon his desk.Vallee: That is simply not true. I wasthere, by the way, when Jim bangedon the desk. A long time before thatparticular scene Hynek had agreed tosponsor severa) proposals I wanted tosubmit to the Air Force, but they werereluctant to do anything, and so wasNorthwestern University. Hynek wenton with the fight quietly, behind thescenes, as was his style. McDonald'sapproach was vocal and direct; hetook the controversy to the publicarena prematurely, in my opinion.And he suffered the consequences.McDonald's highly visible action pre-cipitated the Condon Committee.Strand: It sounds like it was an excit-ing period, with a powerful sense ofMUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

"Should we let engineers, artists and college pro-fessors untrained in clinical hypnosis mess with theminds of impressionable witnesses? Emphaticallyno.

discovery in the air.Vallee: It did not happen overnight.It took me four years to go throughthe totality of the Blue Book files,twelve thousand cases. And most ofthem, of course, could be explainedby natural phenomena. I still havetoday the only complete, screenedand abstracted set of unexplainedcases from the Air Force files. Notjust the few cases they labeled "uni-dentified", but the large number ofthose for which there was really noadequate explanation.

It was that residue that was valua-ble. Allen compared the process tolooking for a few grams of radium intons of pitchblend. He encouragedme to bring other scientists into ourgroup. Fred Beckman joined us, fromthe University of Chicago, and BillPowers, the chief engineer at Dear-born Observatory, as well as severalmathematicians, engineers and psy-chologists. We re-investigated manyof the cases which the Air Force hadpushed under the rug.Strand: Why do histories of theUFO problem gloss over that period,which was a key transition point?Vallee: I can't answer that question.Perhaps they tend to concentrate onthe "official" side of things, the Con-gressional Hearings, the McDonaldcontroversy that made a big splashwith the media. The really importantthings occurred behind the scenes,and it may be a long time beforesomebody realizes that the true his-tory of the phenomenon has not beenrevealed, because many of the partic-ipants kept a low profile. You're thefirst person who has asked me ques-tions about that period.Strand: What do you think is missingfrom the historical analyses?Vallee: Two things: a sense of theslowly-changing positions of the keyresearchers rather than the big, sen-sational events; and the internationalperspective. American historians ofthe field have looked exclusively atthe U.S. scene, probably becausethey had to define the subject narrow-

ly to keep it manageable. But it wasalways apparent to us from thebeginning that the problem could onlybe tackled at an international level.Strand: Give me some examples ofthat.Vallee: Just look at the foreign indi-viduals and organizations that havehad a major impact. People likeOlavo Fontes in Brazil, or the British'Flying Saucer Review in London. NoU.S. magazine has ever comparedwith it, although a lot of money hasbeen squandered on flashy publica-tions that disappeared quickly. Rightnow I am working on three cases,one a physical evidence analysis, thesecond a photograph of a UFO, andthe third one an abduction. Only thelatter one comes from the UnitedStates.Strand: Obviously you think there issomething wrong with U.S. researchinto UFOs. What is it? A parochialattitude?Vallee: Too much talk and notenough research.Strand: Is that why you don't belongto any UFO organization at themoment?Vallee: You don't need to belong toa UFO organization to do UFOresearch any more than you need tojoin a wine appreciation club to enjoya good bottle. I believe that in thefuture you will find as much researchbeing done outside the organizedgroups as you will inside. There isroom for many approaches to thisproblem, and there is a continuingneed for some strong, structuredgroups. But if the main activity is tell-ing scary stories and speculating end-lessly about what the governmentmay be hiding, I am not interested.Strand: What do you think of theunexpectedly immense popular accep-tance of both Whitley Strieber's Com-munion and Budd Hopkins' Intruders?Vallee: There are several lessons tobe drawn from their success. First itshows to what extent the media andmany people in official positions hadmisjudged the depth of the phenome-

"MJ-12 could very well have existed, but its objec-tives might be other than what the UFO commun-ity thinks."non. Both of these books came outat a time when very few "sightings"were being reported, yet the tensionof personal experiences with thephenomenon was reaching a peakamong the public. But the UFOcommunity can be surprised, too: sixmonths prior to the publication ofthese books, a novel by John Fowlesentitled A Maggot was an interna-tional bestseller. Interestingly it passedcompletely unnoticed by UFO research-ers. Here you had one of the greatestliving writers in the English languagepublishing a masterpiece dealing entire-ly with the problem of alien contact,and our community ignored it com-pletely! A Maggot is the most fasci-nating book I've read in the last tenyears.Strand: What are your feelings aboutthe rampant use of regressive hypno-sis in abduction investigations?Vallee: I am repelled by the wayhypnosis is being used by many UFOresearchers today. It is not simplymisguided, it is irresponsible, unscien-tific and profoundly unethical. Doeshypnosis have a place in the arsenalof the investigator? Yes, when it isperformed by a professional psychia-trist with clinical experience in hyp-nosis and no personal bias withregard to UFOs, or by clinical psy-chologists. What makes the Hill caseso significant is the fact that the ses-sions were conducted by Dr. Simon,who meets these criteria. But shouldwe let engineers, artists and collegeprofessors untrained in such mattersmess with the minds of impressiona-ble witnesses? Emphatically no. Inmost cases other psychological tech-niques are available which are morereliable and less intrusive. That maysound more harsh than it needs tobe, but the UFO community shouldclean up its act without waiting forPhil Klass to do it every time.Strand: Can you be specific aboutwhat you regard as such abuse?Vallee: I cringe when I listen to taperecordings of sessions where wit-nesses are bombarded with leadingquestions by eager believers in this orthat particular theory. There are

innumerable examples. I know onewitness who developed a cardiacproblem during one such session,conducted by a San Francisco BayArea UFO group. The interviewersdid not know how to bring the sub-ject out of the trance. In another casea sincere witness in a close encountercase was actually interrogated underhypnosis in a roomful of other "abduct-ees", who took their turn describingtheir experiences! What is tragic insuch cases, of course, is that the realdata may be lost forever. Later hyp-notic regressions, even if conductedby a professional, are likely to bringback memories of the first trancerather than the event itself. All theinvestigators have done is to pollutethe mind of the witnesses.Strand: What about lie detectors orstress analyzers?Vallee: I think they have no scientificvalidity whatsoever.Strand: Previously you've said thatyou were not very interested in dis-cussing government coverup. Don'tyou think that the authorities are infact hiding something?Vallee: Sure they are hiding things,lots of things. But put it this way: ifthe government was trying to hidethe Andromeda Nebula, do you thinkthat would stop me from dragging myown telescope into the backyard to lookat it? UFOs are not a phenomenonyou can just confiscate and hide in adrawer. I am glad some of our col-leagues in UFO research are trying toget some of the hidden informationinto the light, but I can use my ownskills better going on with the kind ofresearch I have been doing.Strand: Do you think the govern-ment has physical proof of the exist-ence of UFOs?Vallee: If you mean that they have alot of interesting and relevant data,yes. My guess would be that they areas utterly confused about it as eve-ryone else, and they are reluctant tocome out and admit it. If you meanthat the Air Force has crashed sauc-ers and humanoid bodies, then I haveto tell you that I remain extremelyskeptical. That whole business abso-

lutely stinks.Strand: Do you have a personal the-ory about MAJESTIC-12 and its realpurpose?Vallee: We are entering a hall of mir-rors here. I am rather skeptical aboutthe ways through which the informa-tion has come out. You could makethe point that a deliberate leak hasbeen created to propagate the idea ofouter space visitors and give it credi-bility through the civilian UFO organ-izations, which are more than recep-tive to that kind of "proof. Given thenames on the list of MJ-12 scientists,however, it seems to me their workcould have had an entirely differentorientation, having to do with psycho-logical warfare. I scratched the sur-face of that issue in Messengers ofDeception, and I got burned becausethe UFO research community wasnot ready to even consider that sideof the problem.Strand: Now that a few years havegone by, and that more data hascome to light, can you restate themain point of Messengers?Vallee: The book states that theUFO phenomenon is absolutely real,but not necessarily extra-terrestrial.And that the idea of extraterrestrialvisitors can be exploited, and indeedhas repeatedly been exploited, byhuman organizations with very mun-dane goals. Many of our colleagues inufology thought I was saying that theUFOs were all human craft, some-thing I never even considered. Butthey cannot imagine something thatisn't from here, yet isn't from another"planet" either.Strand: Perhaps because everybodyhas been looking at a purely technicalsolution to the problem, a simpleextension of our engineering andscientific knowledge?Vallee: Those who saw the long-termimplications were outside the scien-tific community. When I met Mukte-nanda around the time I was writingMessengers, he knew exactly what Imeant. He told me: "They are notfrom another planet, they are fromanother planel"Strand: Many readers saw Messengersas a break with your earlier work.Vallee: It was not. We are con-fronted here with the challenge ofunderstanding not just another envir-onment, but another reality altogether.

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I introduced this idea in Passport toMagonia in 1969 and later in InvisibleCollege. Messengers was just thenext book in the series, consistentwith everything I'd written before. Butit went further, it added a new ideawhich was very sensitive at the timewith most ufologists: the UFO prob-lem is a social phenomenon, and assuch it can be exploited, and it isbeing utilized even now, for purposesthat have to do with contingencyplanning and psychological warfare.Strand: Do you have data to backthis up?Vallee: I think so. When you spendenough time in the field you comeacross cases that turn out to behoaxes, but hoaxes that were notcontrived by the witnesses. Insteadthey were contrived by somebodyelse for the benefit of the witnesses,as part of a covert exercise. Some-times the exercise gets aborted, othertimes it gets out of hand.Strand: Can you give some examples?Vallee: There are two major casesthat fit into this pattern, the UMMOaffair in Spanish-speaking countriesand the Pontoise case in France. Ihave researched both of these indepth. In fact I had been one of therecipients of the original UMMOmaterial, and I have tracked some ofits ramifications all the way to Argen-tina. I think UMMO is an exercisethat got out of hand. Pontoise is onethat was aborted.Strand: What could be the purposeof such manipulation?Vallee: A primary goal could be tostimulate the creation of a cult withstrong internal structure that couldlater be exploited for other purposes.This was certainly successful in theUMMO affair. In Pontoise, somethingwent wrong. I find it amusing that thewitnesses in the Pontoise affair with-drew their claims of abduction in thedays following publication of theFrench edition of Messengers of Decep-tion ...Strand: Are you hinting that therehave been similar cases in the U.S.?Vallee: Absolutely. But it isn't a sub-ject that is ripe for discussion. Andremember, this would only affect aninfinitely small number of reports.The problem is, those are the reportsthat tend to become well-knownthrough the media, and we as research

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"This is a phenomenon that challenges all ournotions of reality, and we need to bring many dif-ferent parts of view into the debate."ers may have to waste a lot of energyon them before recognizing them forwhat they are.Strand: Why do you say the subjectisn't ripe for discussion? The UFOcommunity is filled with rumors aboutcoverup and manipulation. That seemsto have become a primary topic inrecent years. 'Valle'e: Yet public opinion is stillextremely naive about the methodsand goals of the covert world. In theUFO field this gullibility is exacer-bated by the need to believe that thegovernment has all the answers andisn't telling us.Strand: Should they tell us, whetheror not they have the answers?Vallee: Not necessarily. When is thelast time the Government told us thetruth about anything else? It is thenature of bureaucracy to keep thingsto itself, especially when they arehandled in an incompetent manner.Every time I have had a chance togain some insight into the officialhandling of the UFO problem I'veseen either well-meaning, but poorly-organized efforts, or just outrightincompetence.Strand: Do you think MJ-12 is anoutright hoax?Vallee: No, I didn't say that. MJ-12could very well have existed, but Iwould look long and hard at theobjectives it could have been pursu-ing, other than what the UFO com-munity currently thinks they werepursuing.Strand: Such as?Vallee: In Messengers of Deception Itried to hint at what was happening. Imentioned "The Martians" and the"Double Cross Committee" of WorldWar II, which were high-level scien-tific enterprises of strategic decep-tion. I believe MJ-12 was in the samebusiness. This hypothesis fits abso-lutely with the names on that list,including Menzel's name.Strand:This brings us to ALINTEL,your recent novel in French which isbeginning to circulate here within asmall circle. In that book I was fasci-nated by your reference to Dopplershifts in connection with the objects.

Can you elaborate?Vallee: I wrote ALINTEL in fictionform to say the things I couldn'tdevelop in Messengers of Deception.The book describes in detail for thefirst time what an encounter with amulti-dimensional craft would looklike, and what the consequenceswould be. Doppler shifts were partof the physical observation of anobject that is moving very rapidlywhile staying in one place, as a multi-dimensional craft would appear to do.the book is also concerned with thereaction of the intelligence commun-ity to the possibility of alien contact.Strand: You hypothesized that therewas an organization called ALINTEL,which means "Alien Intelligence Agen-cy". Does it stand for MAJESTIC-12?Vallee: Not exactly. MJ-12 would bea bunch of amateurs compared toALINTEL. The nice thing about fic-tion is that you can explore manypossibilities. In the novel, ALINTEL isa world-wide organization that linksEast and West, because the interestsof the major powers converge when itcomes to identifying UFOs.Strand: Will the book be available inEnglish?Vallee: I have been working on atranslation, but I have not put a lot ofenergy into it, because I don't have apublisher in view yet.Strand: One last question: What doyou think current UFO researchneeds most? Is it money, is itgovernment support?Vallee: We need many things, includ-ing money and support. But oneweakness that is especially deplorableis our lack of intelligent skeptics. Idon't mean closed-minded fanaticswho spend their time heaping ridiculeor personal attacks against UFO wit-nesses. There are plenty of those,and I find them easy to ignore. Butwe need informed skeptics who areready to look at the data. Withoutthem the arguments for UFO realityare very one-sided.Strand: Do you think there can beopen-minded skeptics in this field?Vallee: I'm thinking of people like thelate Dr. Christopher Evans, who did

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several series for the BBC on UFOsand on cults. He was a collaborator toOMNI. He was a true scientist andwas willing to approach the questionwith curiosity and honesty. He wasfrankly skeptical about UFOs, and hemade me reconsider many things, but

he had really done his homework on cults.This kind of critical dialogue would

enrich immensely the development oftheories about what UFOs might be.As long as we are trapped betweenfanatical believers in extraterrestrialsand quasi-religious skeptics, it will be

very hard to make good progress, toconstruct the sophisticated theoreti-cal framework we need. This is aphenomenon that challenges all ournotions of reality, and we need tobring many different points of viewinto the debate.

Pursuing The Ultimate EncounterBy Walter N. Webb

Walter Webb is a MUFON con-sultant in astronomy and staffmember of the MUFON UFOJournal.

There is a growing belief amongufologists that the key to the UFOmystery may very well lie in the sto-ries of abduction. Most of these con-troversial cases, however, feature onlyone individual's anecdotal accountwithout substantiation by anotherwitness. And nearly all multiple-witnessUFO abduction experiences haveheretofore involved friends or familymembers where the risk of contami-nation rendered suspect the hypnoticrecovery of shared abduction details.(Sometimes only one of the allegedparticipants has been regressed sothat there was no confirmation of theabduction. In other instances, one ofthe hypnotized members of the groupfailed to support an abduction.)

I have completed a very detailedand lengthy investigation into a dual-witness abduction experience which Ibelieve is unprecedented in at leasttwo important respects:

1. I was able to determine thatneither individual saw, spoke, or cor-responded with the other over the 10-year span between the conclusion oftheir experience and the initiation ofmy investigation. Despite this separa-tion and the usual period of missingtime, both observers independentlyfilled in their time lapses with ashared abduction scenario during re-gressive hypnosis, with astonishingagreement in many major and minordetails. (In Budd Hopkins' best com-parable multiple-witness case, "Susan"and "Al" recalled no mutually sharedon-board details, unlike the episodewhich follows; shared portions appar-8

ently were limited to a number ofelements outside the UFO.')

2. My five-year probe into theincident makes it the most thoroughlyinvestigated and documented of anysingle UFO abduction episode todate. I have written an in-depth casehistory of the encounter and itsinvestigation and have been seeking apublisher for the book.

The contents of this complex affaircan only be broadly summarizedhere.

The experience took place onAugust 7, 1968, at a private girls'camp on Lake Champlain north ofBurlington, Vermont. Many of thecounselors and campers had left thecamp during a two-day break whilethe swim team competed in Burling-ton at a state meet. Two of the staff— a 16-year-old whom I will call"Michael" and a 19-year-old, "Janet"— stood alone on the camp dock atsunset. (Both the primary and secon-dary witnesses in this report havebeen assigned fictitious names.)

FOUR OBJECTS

Michael, who had more consciousrecall of the UFO experience thanJanet, reported that just after sunseta glowing cigar-shaped object sud-denly swooped down across the lake.Three small round objects emergedfrom the cigar and proceeded tocavort about the sky. The largerobject departed.

At the end of the aerial display,two of the satellite objects streakedaway in opposite directions, leavingthe third one which advanced towardthe observers. The UFO, a classicdisc with a transparent dome andrevolving rim of spectral colors, ap-

proached the dock, halting first about60 feet from the end of the dock andthen only 10 feet away. According toMichael, two entities could be seenthrough the dome of the craft, and hesaid they communicated with him tel-epathically. Meanwhile Janet appearedto be frozen in a trancelike state.

The disc abruptly moved overheadand shone a brilliant beam of lightdown on the two witnesses. Michaelstated that he grabbed Janet and fellwith her on the dock. While underthe light, Michael thought he passedout for a few minutes.

The teenager's next memory washearing the slamming of car doorsand the voices of campers returningfrom the swim meet. From the park-ing lot, the UFO would have beenpartially concealed by a 15-foot-highbluff, a row of trees, and a pavilion.While most of the swimmers movedobliviously toward their cabins, two ofthe girls, 15-year-old "Susan" and "Bar-bara," ran down to the bluff, appar-ently attracted by the UFO's glow.

Michael asserted that the two camp-ers on the bluff cried out. At thatpoint the hovering disc rose slightly,directed its beam across the camp ina rapid-fire sequence of flashes, andthen angled upward over the lake,disappearing from sight in a matter ofseconds.

The male witness said he helpedhis dazed companion up the steps onthe bluff. In addition to a memory/time lapse, each suffered from abnor-mal fatigue and in fact fell asleep intheir separate quarters right after theencounter. Of crucial importance wasthe fact that neither co-worker dis-cussed the sighting with each otherafterward. The male observer who

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ELAINE(1ST UFO DEPARTURE?)

SUSAN & BARBARA(2ND UFO DEPARTURE ?)

PAVILION

MICHAEL&

JANET

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had a clear awareness of the closeencounter interrupted by a time lapserecognized that his partner seemedto recall little, and he said he wasafraid he might traumatize her furtherif he attempted to converse with herabout the night's sensational events.

Janet, as it turned out, possessedonly a vague memory of distantlights. She told me that the day afterthe UFO episode she desperatelywanted to talk with Michael but wasat a complete loss to know what shewanted to talk with him about. Campclosed a few weeks later, and the twowitnesses never saw each other again.(During my investigation the princi-pals met once in my presence. Thereunion was brief and completelycontrolled.)

Ten years later certain eventsoccurring over the span of one yearfinally prompted Michael to report hissighting to the Center for UFO stu-dies. Mimi Hynek recommended himto me as a New England investigatorwho had dealt with similar casesbefore. Thus, Michael telephoned meon Halloween of 1978 and the longinvestigation began.

ABDUCTED

Within six months Janet was locatedin a city in the Southeast. Duringseparate hypnosis sessions held inthe Boston area, Michael filled in hismissing-time gap with an abductionMUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

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sequence, while Janet confirmed notonly seeing the UFO at close rangebut undergoing an abduction as well.

In a point-by-point comparison be-tween the two narratives, the femalewitness verified 70 percent of hercompanion's alleged close-encounterdetails outside the UFO and 68 per-cent of his claimed on-board events.Janet confirmed being in a semicons-cious altered state both on the dockand inside the UFO. Both abducteesdescribed the faces of their alien cap-tors in similar fashion — large, elon-gated heads, enormous eyes, twonasal openings, and a small mouth-slit. Each was in constant telepathiccontact with a "guide".

Both witnesses were subjected tomedical examinations in the dimlyilluminated center of the craft. Michaeldeclared that as he stood next to hisguide, he watched Janet's body beingprobed and sampled on a table. Janetsaid at one point she sensed herpartner's presence on another examtable and remembered seeing him atleast twice aboard the UFO.

An instrumented panel on the wallbeyond the tables proved to be a keyelement, providing solid evidence fora shared abduction experience. Thisdevice was briefly introduced duringone of Janet's hypnosis sessions. Itwas subsequently corroborated anddepicted in greater detail during Mich-ael s own hypnotic interviews andfinally substantiated fully by Janet in

her last session.In short, despite the absence of

communications between them sincetheir experience, both observers sup-ported many specific details of eachother's close encounter/abduction seg-ments, strongly indicating the suc-cessful recovery of original memorytraces.

A persistent search for Susan andBarbara not only turned up these twoimportant secondary witnesses, butalso uncovered a possible third aswell. The two former members of theswim team retained vague memoriesof seeing an unidentified, silent, dark,circular object with lights along itscurved edge race away from thewaterfront. (Susan's memory of thisfleeting event was explored underhypnosis.) Their dim remembrancesof a UFO leaving the area, but notarriving, could be explained if theysuddenly came upon the unknownobject as Michael alleged and wit-nessed its hasty departure. Neitherwoman unfortunately could positivelyrecall Michael or Janet at the scene.

The playhouse director, "Elaine"(25 years old in 1968), recollectedthat her cast was rehearsing a playwhen there were shouts at the doorabout "lights" in the sky., Everyonedashed out of the playhouse andheaded toward a clearing on the bluff.Although Elaine's view was obscuredby trees, she said she was aware of asilvery glow emanating from a nearby

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moving source. By the time shecaught up to the campers at theclearing, the glow had already recededacross the lake and was fading fromsight. Upon questioning the youngs-ters about what the light was, Elainesaid she received varied and confusedanswers — none of which she nowcould remember. Her sighting occur-red sometime during the same weekof Michael and Janet's encounter.

If Elaine's and Susan's and Barba-ra's sightings did indeed happen thesame evening as the primary event —and this could not be definitely sub-stantiated — it is possible that Elainemay have viewed the UFO's firstdeparture (the abduction flight) andSusan and Barbara, the UFO's finalretreat after returning the abductees.The speculation is aided by each par-ty's differing time estimates for theobservations. Elaine said it was earlydusk while the latter stated that itwas totally dark out — between 910

and 10 pm.This abduction experience occurred

during a period of local, regional, andglobal UFO activity. In fact two moreUFO sightings were uncovered inJuly or August involving two othercounselors at the same camp, andtwo instructors at a second camp onthe lake 25 miles to the south.

Michael and Janet were given MMPI(Minnesota Multiphasic Personality In-ventory) tests, PSE (PsychologicalStress Evaluator) exams, and back-ground character checks. It wasestablished to my satisfaction thatboth witnesses were basically honest,credible individuals who did not per-petrate a hoax (indeed they had noopportunity for collusion) nor suffersome sort of shared hallucination ordelusion.

The probability is high that Michaeland Janet experienced a real externalevent of unknown origin.

* 1988 Walter N. Webb

(Figure 1 portrays a profile view ofthe camp waterfront. According toMichael, UFO halted three times atclose range during its initial approach— at about 60 feet from end of dock(1), 10 feet (2), and overhead (3).Position 3 also represents site ofobject's return to dock, and position4 is elevated hover point prior to finaldeparture. Diagram by author.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the campshowing UFO and paths of the var-ious witnesses. Diagram by author.)

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The Gulf Breeze, FloridaPhotographic and CE III Case - Part II

by Donald M. Ware, Florida State Director, Charles D. Flannigan, Lead Investigatorand Walter H. Andrus, Jr., International Director

Copyrighted by the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON) March 1988

INTRODUCTION

The date, November 11, 1987,introduced one of the most uniqueon-going UFO cases in UFO history,in which investigators and researchershave had an opportunity to workalongside the principal and very coop-erative witness as the case unfolds.By journalistic policy, the MUFONUFO Journal does not publish aUFO sighting report until it has beenthoroughly investigated, evaluated andassigned a definite classification: UFO,hoax, misperception, or deluded wit-ness. It is extremely rare to have anopportunity to study a continuingcase of this nature and caliber.

As we said in the March 1988issue, we are breaking a precedent byinviting our readers to join the teamof field investigators via the pages ofthe MUFON UFO Journal, in theirsearch for evidence and answers tothe incredible photographic case thatmay be classified as a CE I, CE II, CEIII and possibly a CE IV case.

Officially, the Mutual UFO Net-work will not, under any circumstan-ces, issue a statement on the authen-ticity of this case until our investigationhas been concluded and all of thefacts and evidence are revealed,recorded and evaluated by pertinentmembers of the MUFON Board ofAdvisors — our consultants. In themeantime, everyone can benefit bylearning the methods and techniquesused to unravel this mystery as itunfolds before us. If this case isexposed as a grand hoax, Journalreaders will be the first to know. Atthis stage of the investigation, it iseither one of the most incrediblecases in UFO history or a most fan-tastically orchestrated hoax, one thatwould challenge the production skillsof Steven Spielberg to duplicate.

New readers to the Gulf Breeze,Florida scene should refer to theMUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

March and April 1988 issues of theMUFON UFO Journal for publisheddetails up to this point. Yes — thephotographs are continuing to bemade. The latest photos were madeon March 17 and 20, 1988, with dualPolaroid Sun 600 LMS cameras mount-ed on a tripod stand and boom toobtain stereo photographs as directedby Dr. Bruce S. Maccabee. On Feb-ruary 26, 1988, Mr. Ed made tenexposures of a long, multi-lightedcraft at Shoreline Park South with aspecial 3-D Nimslo camera shippedby San Antonio-MUFON to DonWare for this express purpose. Seephoto in this issue and story in theApril "Director's Message".

If your International Director soundsenthusiastic about this case, he is. Atthe same time there are questionsand doubts plaguing Walt Andrusthat must be answered by furtherstudy and investigation in order todocument this case according to theprinciples and practices outlined inthe MUFON Field Investigator's Man-ual. On the other hand, skepticalviews have been expressed by RobertD. Boyd, Alabama State Director,and CUFOS Investigator Coordina-tor, and Dr. Willy Smith, UNICATProject, which are being consideredand investigated. Due to time andspace, only the major events will beelaborated upon in Part II.

The photograph appearing on thecover of the March Journal and page13 (Photo No. 19) was made on Jan-uary 12, 1988. This was the firstphoto that had sufficient referencepoints to compute the size of theobject and distance from the camera.The width of Highway 191-B at thispoint was 20 feet. In his analysisusing the original Poloroid photo-graph, Dr. Bruce S. Maccabee deter-mined that the object was 12 feet indiameter and 8 feet in height, notcounting the light on top. By utilizing

the tire indentations on the left handside of the highway where Mr. Ed pulledhis pickup truck off on the softshoulder, and aligning a tree abovethe object with this point, the dis-tance to the object was approxi-mately 185 feet. (Definitely a CE-Iclassification, since it was still daylight.)

None of the investigators could findany evidence of damage to the black-top highway or the dual yellow linesdown the center of the highwaywhere the object allegedly hovered.Tom Roche, Santa Rosa County CivilDefense Director, performed a radio-logical survey of the highway with aCD V-700, Model #6 radiac meterand found no readings above thebackground radiation level of lessthan 0.1 milliroentgens.

CEII

On December 17, 1987, at 1:05a.m., Ed made Photo No. 14 asdepicted on page 10 of,/ the MarchJournal where the object is hoveringa few feet off the ground and illumi-nating the dry grass below it. Cha-rles D. Flannigan and the photo-grapher conducted a survey of thefield to determine if there was anyevidence that the object may havetouched down during the numerousapparent visits to this area. Theyfound a circle of dead grass whichmight have indicated a potential land-ing trace case. Bob Boyd was advisedby Don Ware on February 2, 1988by telephone, concerning their find-ing. On February 12, 1988, a team ofinvestigators composed of Don Ware,Charles Flannigan, Duane Cook, Dun-can Crow and Mr. Boyd convergedon the area to conduct an investiga-tion of the alleged landing site.

The circular area measured 14 feet,6 inches in length (north to south) by13 feet, 3 inches in width (east towest). The only observable difference

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Gulf Breeze investigators (left to right): Gary Watson, Bob Reid, Donald Ware andCharles Flannigan.

in the "oval-circle" area consisted ofdead grass within the circle comparedto the green grass outside of it. WhenWalt Andrus visited the site onMarch 5, 1988, the contrast betweenthe dead and green grass was evenmore obvious due to normal growth.(See published photo.) The soil in thefield had a high sand content whenexamined by Walt.

Soil samples were taken by RobertBoyd from the center of the ring andcontrol samples 15 feet west of thecenter. No basic differences werefound in moisture, salinity, tempera-ture, pH, or other basic factors. TomRoche, Santa Rosa County CivilDefense Director, surveyed the circu-lar area with a CD V-700, designed todetect and measure gamma radiationand detect beta radiation. None wasdetected. There was no evidence toindicate that the object may havetouched down, only hovered as report-ed by the witness and substantiatedwith a photograph. The coincidencesbetween the diameter of the circle inthe field and the diameter of theobject over State Highway 191-B areintriguing. If a person was perpetrat-ing a hoax, they would have had touse considerable finesse to duplicatethe oval-circle of dead grass and the12

dimensions of the object over thehighway. Samples of the grass andsandy soil from the circle have beensubmitted to a laboratory to test forpesticides, weed killers and petroleumderivatives to determine if their pres-ence could account for the deadgrass. All tests were negative. Possi-ble root damage from heating is nowbeing investigated. Investigators livingnear the scene will periodically pho-tograph the circle and visually inspectit for changes in appearance andgrowth patterns.

CEID

Please refer to the March 1988issue number 239 of the MUFONUFO Journal for two different occa-sions when small entities were involved.A single entity was observed duringthe night of December 2, 1987 peer-ing through the French doors of Mr.Ed's master bedroom. Five similarentities were deposited on StateHighway 191-B at about 5:30 p.m. onJanuary 12, 1988 as he was hidingunder his pickup truck on the leftshoulder of the road (see Photo No.19 for the event both on the maga-zine cover and page 13. Also note adrawing of the entity on page 8).

CONFIRMING WITNESSES

A family friend, Patrick Hanks(pseudonym), age 20, and a junior col-lege student, had visited Mr. Ed'shome on numerous occasions duringthe later part of December 1987, hop-ing that he would be present if theobject reappeared. On December27th at 8:15 p.m. he rang the doorbell and was greeted by Ed's wife,who said "it's here." Patrick walkedstraight through the house to thefamily room window where he simul-taneously observed a distant hoveringobject and Ed by the swimming poolin the foreground. The object was attree top height in the southeasternsky at an estimated distance of 500feet from .Patrick. Ed had observedthe same object and was cominginside for his camera. Patrick's pres-ence was noted by Ed as he enteredthe house, but at the same time theobject "blinked out"; consequently,no photographs were made. (Takenfrom a tape recorded interview con-ducted by Charles D. Flannigan onFebruary 20,1988).

On January 26, 1988 at approxi-mately 8:00 p.m., Ed's wife was intheir backyard when she observed asimilar object seen on a previous

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Circular ring of dead grass found where UFO hovered.

sighting on January 16th. She imme-diately called for Ed to come out,however he was in the shower. Thisobject appeared to be smaller with an"energy veil" coming from the bot-tom. She got the camera and tookone photo before Ed arrived. Thefirst photo shows their dog in theforeground next to the pool, alongwith the distant object. The secondphoto shows a rear view of Ed with abath towel wrapped around him andthe object in the distance. He isclenching his fists and waving at theobject, yelling "get out of my life orland." Since these two photographswere published in the Gulf BreezeSentinel and in the WEAR-TV Chan-nel 3 documentary titled "The Sight-ings" aired on March 4, 1988, wehave permission to publish same inthe Journal. (Now we have anotherphotographer on the scene.)

On February 7, 1988 at approxi-mately 7:00 p.m., Ed's wife was feedingtheir dog in the backyard. Suddenly ablue beam approximately 28 inches indiameter appeared near her. SheMUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

called for Ed to come out, but hedidn't hear her. Their daughter saidloudly "Daddy, Mommie needs you."As Ed ran to the back kitchen door,he picked up his camera. Ed's wifesaid the circumference of the beamwas "rotating" fast and leaves werebeing drawn up by this action. WhenEd reached the back kitchen door,another "blue beam" appeared nearthe door, blocking and apparentlydiscouraging Ed from rushing outsideto help his wife. (He was very cogniz-ant of his prior experiences with theparalysis induced.) Ed made a photofrom their kitchen window of thisbeam, with his wife attempting to getpast it to enter the back door. Edrefused to allow this photo to be rep-roduced, since his wife is clearly pic-tured and could be identified. (Theprincipal investigators have seen thisphotograph.)

POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION

When Budd Hopkins visited Mr. Edin Gulf Breeze, Florida, and appeared

in the WEAR-TV documentary titledThe Sightings," he strongly recom-mended that Ed take a polygraphexamination as further evidence con-cerning his experiences and photo-graphs. During a private meetingMarch 4, 1988, Charles Flannigan,Gary Watson, Bob Reid and WaltAndrus again proposed this idea toEd and his wife. It was at this meetingthat he revealed that he had beengetting so perturbed with peopleimplying that he was lying about thephotographs that he had made a per-sonal decision to submit himself at hisown expense to a certified polygraphexaminer.

The examination was conducted inPensacola, Florida on February 18and 23, 1988 by Harvey W. McLaugh-lin, Jr., Examiner. The purpose of theexamination: To verify the authentic-ity of photographs, personal sightings,experiences, and general informationsupplied by Mr.concerning his experiences with UFOssince November, 1987.

Point 3 of the Pre-test Interviewstated: "During the approximate 5-6hours of pre-test interviewing the sub-ject sincerely presents this informa-tion and states that it is his desireonly to aid in the verification of theinformation that he is taking theexam. He claims to desire no per-sonal gain or remuneration fromthese sightings." (He had refused abook company offer.)

The examiner contacted both Cha-rles Flannigan and Donald Ware tosolicit applicable questions that couldor should be asked, in addition tostandard test questions that are nor-mally used for such purposes. Thefollowing quotations are taken fromthe examiner's report dated March 1,1988:

Following two separate multiplechart specific issue examinations therewere no specific physiological reac-tions of a deceptive nature /ioted toany of the reviewed test questions.General areas of questioning followedas: "Did you lie or falsify the informa-tion you have furnished me concern-ing the UFOs?" "Did you in any wayfalsify or lie about the humanoidbeings that you saw or any otherphysical evidence that you have pres-ented?" With the information that ispresent at this time, furnished by the

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examinee no consistant deceptiveresponses are seen.

Opinion of Examiner: With theinformation that is available to thisexaminer at this time, it is felt thatMr. truly believesthat the photographs and personalsightings he has described are trueand factual to the best of his ability.

Approved:Harvey W. McLaughlin, Jr.Examiner

NW FLORIDA SIGHTINGS

The investigative team of CharlesFlannigan, Gary Watson, Bob Reidand Donald Ware have been delugedwith UFO sighting investigations thathave been referred to them since theNovember 19, 1987, edition of the14

Gulf Breeze Sentinel hit the news-stands and followed with weekly sto-ries. Additional articles by the Pen-sacola News Journal and the 30-min-ute, professionally produced documen-tary by Mark Curtis of WEAR-TV(ABC) Channel 3 in Pensacola addedfuel to the fire.

We are indebted to this fine team ofinvestigators for all of their reports,but space does not permit the Jour-nal to elaborate on each of theNorthwest Florida sighting reports.These are the same investigators whohave been working so diligently onthe Gulf Breeze case. Donald M.Ware, State Director for Florida,must be commended for regularlyteaching Field Investigator TrainingCourses, because without these train-ed investigators, who were "baptized

under fire," this case could not haveprogressed to this stage.

PHOTO ANALYSIS

Dr. Bruce S. Maccabee, Chairmanof the Fund for UFO Research and aconsultant in photo analysis toMUFON, made copies of the first 23Polaroid color photographs taken byMr. Ed. He has also received twosets of stereo photographs made onMarch 17 and 20, 1988, plus samplesof the 3-D photographs from theNimslo camera shot on February26th, supplied by San Antonio-MUFON.Dr. Maccabee's speech at the MUFON1988 International UFO Symposiumwill be titled "An Analysis of the GulfBreeze, Florida Photographs". He willshare the techniques used to deter-

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mine their authenticity — regardlessof whether they are hoaxes or credi-ble. Walt Andrus will present a sli-de/illustrated lecture of the "GulfBreeze Case" prior to Bruce's pres-entation, so as to set the stage forthe analysis. This case has challengedsome of the top authorities in thefield of Ufology, therefore we areexpecting a resolution to this intrigu-ing mystery.

Dr. Willy Smith, UNICAT Project,paid a visit to Gulf Breeze, along witha team of investigators on March 19,1988 to obtain first-hand informationon the case and to view the original23 Polaroid color photographs. Hehad previously been dealing with pub-lished photographs in the MUFONUFO Journal and a few secondgeneration prints in his personalphoto analysis study. He is very anx-ious to obtain detailed copies of thestereo photos made on March 17 and20, 1988. As a physicist, Dr. Smithhas noted serious discrepancies inthe first five Polaroid color photosthat he has had an opportunity to study.However, he has been handicappedby not having high resolution copiesto evaluate. (It is evident to WaltAndrus, after studying first generationcolor prints, that the first five photoswere not taken within a 3 to 4-minutetime span as claimed by the witness,due to movement of the clouds anddecreased sky illumination.)

On the other hand, Robert Boydhas been playing the part of "the dev-il's advocate" on the team, which is ahealthy situation, provided that hedeals with facts and not emotions, orsimply "a gut feeling". Since the GulfBreeze case seems to be continuing,the MUFON UFO Journal will keepits readers as current as the logisticsof publishing a magazine will permit.On the advice of several people onthe investigative team and in theinterest of detailing each event, Mr.Ed has submitted material to a liter-ary agent for consideration and eva-luation for a potential book on hisexperiences and photographs. If thiscase is able to stand on scientificdocumentation and intense scrutiny,it has all of the requisites for a "bestseller". However, on the other side ofthe coin — if the investigation dis-MUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

closes that a hoax has been perpe-trated upon the UFO community,MUFON will be the first to acknowl-

edge and announce this revelation.

(See Note page 2)

MUFON RADIO NETTUNE IN!

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Revival of 61-Month Wave TheoryBy Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D.

Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. isMUFON state director for Washing-ton and a consultant in researchpsychology and quantitative meth-ods.

The Knowles family CE-II encoun-ter with an ovoid-shaped UFO on theNullarbor Plateau in Western Austra-lia January 20th was right on target interms of time and place, according tothe 61-month wave cycle first pro-posed by Dr. David Saunders back in1971. At least two other UFO encount-ers of major importance occurredthat same night in Australia andTasmania. If the indications are cor-rect and this is not an isolated inci-dent but the beginnings of a majorUFO wave, we will have to recon-sider the significance of this long-termprediction in terms of our ability topredict and act upon the occurrenceof this and future UFO waves.

Dr. David Saunders first noticedthe regularity in major AmericanUFO waves (1947, 1952, 1957 and1967) in the early months of 1971while working with the UFOCATcomputer catalog at the University ofColorado. He determined that whatdistinguished these UFO waves fromother, possibly publicity-generatedUFO waves, was the shape of theirdistributions. These were waves ofUFO reports in which the frequencyof daily reports began building slowly,built to a crescendo, and then dimin-ished rapidly. These negatively-skewedUFO waves occurred with a periodic-ity of five years, or more accurately61-months, with an accuracy in peakprediction to within a day or so (1).

Furthermore, another characteris-tic of these five-year waves was theprogressively eastward movement oftheir loci of activity. The first wavecrested in July 1947 and occurredpredominantly in the Pacific andMountain States. The 1952 wavereached its peak in late August 1952with the majority of reports comingfrom Midwestern States. Each suc-16

The 61-Month Wave Cycle and Corresponding UFO Waves

PredictedDate

July 1947Aug. 1952Sept. 1957Oct. 1962Nov. 1967Dec. 1972Jan. 1978Feb. 1983Mar. 1988

Actual PeakDate

July 8, 1947Aug. 3, 1952Aug. 21, 1957

Sept. 1962Oct. 24, 1967

Nov. 1972?9

Feb. 1988 (?)

PredictedLongitude

120° W90°W60° W30° W0°W30° E60° E90° E120° E

ActualLocation

Northwestern U.S.Central and Eastern U.S.Central and Eastern U.S.BrazilAtlantic, EnglandSouth Africa99

Australia (?)

cessive wave appeared to move approx-imately 30 degrees east in longitude.The absence of a 1962 wave wasaccounted for by a search of SouthAmerican references which revealeda Brazilian and Argentinian UFOwave in September, and the 1967wave — which began on the Easternseaboard of the United States —actually crested in November of thatyear in England.

PREDICTION

Saunders was able to make his firstprediction that a major UFO wavewould occur in the vicinity of 30degrees East longitude and peak inDecember 1972 over a year prior toits occurrence.

This prediction was borne out bythe occurrence of a UFO wave inSouth Africa in late November. How-ever, most ufologists lost interest inthe theory when the predicted wavesfor 1977-78 and 1983 failed to mate-rialize (so far as we can tell). Both ofthese waves should have occurred incountries controlled predominantly bygovernments unfriendly to the West.Saunders continues to have faith inthe theory and has offered a consist-ent, convincing response to critics:that it is unfair to judge the merits ofthe theory on what we may or maynot hear about from the Soviet

Union.A corrollary to the Saunders' spatio-

temporal wave theory is that physicalevidence cases should occur at approx-imately the same time worldwide;thus, if the Australian close encoun-ters continue to occur during the pre-dawn hours, we should expect U.S.CE-II cases to occur in the eveninghours between 4 and 10 pm, sincethe United States and Australia havea time difference of some 8-11 hours.

We shall soon see if the new evi-dence merits the revival of an oldtheory.

(1) Saunders, D.R., (1976). A spatio-tempo-ral invariant for major UFO waves. In N.Dornbos (ed.), Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOSConference. Evanston, IL: Center for UFOStudies.

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Uninvited Guests" — A PreviewBy Richard Hall

Richard Hall was both AssistantDirector and Acting Director ofthe National Investigations Com-mittee on Aerial Phenomena(NICAP) in the 1960's, and a con-sultant to the University of Colo-rado UFO Project sponsored bythe Air Force Office of ScientificResearch. A former editor of theJournal, he is presently Directorof Publications for MUFON, Con-sulting Editor to CUFOS, and aNational Board Member of theFund for UFO Research. Unin-vited Guests: A Documented His-tory of UFO Sightings, Alien En-counters, and Cover-Ups is sched-uled for publication in May 1988by Aurora Press, Inc. of Santa Fe,New Mexico. The approximately350-page quality paperback willretail for $14.00.

To a large degree, this bookrepresents the culmination of a longpersonal odyssey which began moreyears ago than I care to remember. Iwas "there at the creation" as a highschool student when Kenneth Arnold'ssighting led to the term "flying sauc-ers"; on active duty as an Air Forceenlisted man when Major Keyhoe'sbook Flying Saucers Are Real waspublished in 1950; published a "littlenoted nor long remembered" newslet-ter on UFOs while attending TulaneUniversity in the mid-1950's; and wasan officer of the National Investiga-tions Committee on Aerial Pheno-mena (NICAP), in Washington, D.C.from 1958 to 1959. Later, I becameactive in MUFON and CUFOS andcontinued my personal quest towardunderstanding the nature and mean-ing of UFOs.

Uninvited Guesfs draws on thislong experience and represents mysumma u/o/ogica — my maturethoughts on and interpretation of theUFO phenomenon. My views will giveno comfort to self-styled "skeptics"(more accurately, debunkers) or opin-MUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

ionated scientists who don't bother tostudy the phenomenon in any depth,yet think they have all the answers.Nor will the basically European schoolof thought, that UFOs represent apurely "sociological phenomenon,"find support here. To be sure, thereare many sociological and psycholog-ical aspects of the UFO subject towhich scholars in those fields canfruitfully apply their expertise; butsocial or psychological events are notthe genesis of UFO reports to anysignificant degree.

My conclusions, in a nutshell, arethat (a) UFO reports are describing areal, presently unaccounted-for phe-nomenon of potentially enormoussignificance; (b) the reported eventsprobably represent activities of "beingsfrom elsewhere" (a carefully chosenphrase so as not to exclude originsother than planetary systems inspace); and (c) there has been aGovernment cover-up in which vitallyimportant information has been sys-tematically withheld from the public,whether or not Government officialshave all the answers (or most ofthem) based on secret studies. Iwould not presume to suggest that Iknow the location of "Elsewhere," orwhat these "beings" are up to. How-ever, the book contains a considera-ble amount of carefully reasonedargument and speculation designed toweigh the alternatives and narrowdown the possibilities, and to stimu-late thought and (hopefully) raise thelevel of public discussion on theseissues.

A thoughtful Foreword by Dr. JohnB. Carlson (astronomy professor atthe University of Maryland) placesmy work in the context of the"Galactic Club" and alternative viewson the likelihood of extraterrestrialintelligent life and visits to PlanetEarth. He terms the book a "stimulat-ing intellectual exploration" of theUFO mystery, and concludes that"the potential significance [of UFOs]

is awe inspiring ...The book is divided into four parts.

Part I reviews and analyzes the var-ious types of UFO reports, with astrong focus on UFO-vehicle encoun-ter cases, including chapters on human-oids, "crashed saucers," and abduc-tion reports. Part II examines thehistory and range of human reactionsto UFO reports and the various the-ories advanced to explain them. PartIII tackles the problem of how toevaluate UFO reports and attain- anunderstanding of their overall mean-ing for us. Finally, Appendices includea substantial Case Book of UFOincident report summaries represent-ing a cross-section of the UFO mys-tery, Government UFO documents,and other material. It is my hope thatthis will provide useful source mate-rial for serious students of the UFOsubject.

Throughout, I have included anec-dotes and inside information from theNICAP years, results of personalinvestigations, and some little knownbut highly significant unpublicizedUFO cases.

Uninvited Guests provides a broadhistory of the UFO subject and howpeople and governments have reactedto it. Inevitably,. any serious discus-sion of UFOs involves rehashing ofimportant UFO reports, includingwell-known cases. I have tried to res-trict retelling of reports for their ownsake (the careful reader will discoverthat I have totally omitted or barelymention some famous cases), andinstead use reports to illustrate andanalyze certain features or patterns inthe data, or to make some pointabout interpretation of the data. UFOreport junkies not satisfied by thosein the text will find ample material inthe Case Book Appendix.

Most of all, Uninvited Guests is abook of ideas; a logical, philosophical,scientific statement of the problemand appraisal of its potential meaningfor Humankind. It will challenge the

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reader's beliefs head-on and offerhard facts, careful arguments, anddocuments that must be consideredbefore minds can be made up. Iintend for this book to be informativeto the inquisitive layperson who has

limited knowledge of the subject;challenging to scientists — includingtrue skeptics — who want to learnabout the hardcore evidence; andthought-provoking to new or expe-rienced UFOlogists. It offers not only

a wealth of factual information andideas, but also a long-term perspec-tive that may be useful to those whohave the wisdom to appreciate it andto integrate it ihto their thinking.

MUFON Management: A Quiet CrisisBy Dan Wright

Dan Wright is a MUFON dep-uty director.

Over the past few decades, oursociety has experienced a continualonslaught of books and articles devotedto management theory, the total the-reof probably outstripping the pro-duction capacity of any single papermill. Discussions of vertical and hori-zontal organizations, centralized anddecentralized schemes and so forthare endlessly massaged.

Two guiding principles, though,seem to cut aross all the verbiage,regardless of whether a commercial,government or volunteer enterprise isbeing addressed. First, as its person-nel and functions increase, so also dothe levels of accountability. Bankpresidents, for instance, do not call inevery teller to determine how to max-imize security. That is properly handledat a series of decision-making points.

Second, as an individual rises withinthe organization, hands-on "mission"work is replaced by managerial func-tions. Citing the same example, onpayday the branch manager does notleap behind a cash register to helpwith the influx of depositors. Rather,in preparation a sufficient number ofqualified staff are hired and trained,business hours may be adjusted, andefficiencies are put into place.

MUFON Management

As conceived by its founders, MUFONis largely a "grass roots" investigativeorganization. Encompassing every U.S.state and Canadian province, adher-ence to these two principles of man-agement is ever increasingly impor-tant. In all fairness, we have not asyet cast our "net" over every countyand parish essentially because many18

of those appointed to managerialpositions (regional, state, and statesection directors) have not performedthe implicit duties of their- assignedroles. Consequently, untold numbersof sighting reports by the public con-tinue to suffer quick deaths on policeblotters and in air traffic control tow-ers. This, in turn, means a skewing ofthe data for later research.

In retrospect, the most importantfactor in assessing the volume ofrecorded reports from one state orprovince to the next has not been itstotal population, geography, climate,or the number of military bases andnuclear facilities. Instead, the prepa-ration and responsiveness of its inves-tigative group outweighs all otherconsiderations.

After two years as MUFON statesection director, six as state directorfor Michigan and three as the centralregional director, I am at once encour-aged and disheartened. Encouragedby the direct knowledge that, in manylocales, MUFON can and does makea significant contribution. Citizens insearch of a listening ear, open mindand expertise have been helped inlarge numbers, despite the benignneglect of officialdom. Discouragedbecause our patchwork of investiga-tive coverage is, after two decades,still far from constituting a completedquilt.

Our shortcomings as an interna-tional group cannot be passed off asthe inevitable result of sporadic activ-ity in the skies. Particular states suchas Massachusetts, Pennsylvania andMichigan have spawned vigorous mem-berships even during lean years ofreports from the public. To the con-trary, leadership — or the lack of it— is at issue. Clearly, some individu-als have been given management

responsibilities prematurely, whileothers with that potential are lan-guishing at entry levels, waiting forthe opportunity to demonstrate theirpotential.

In order to set the record straight,the following outlines the minimumexpectations for those who aspire tomake a difference.

SECTION DIRECTOR

This, the first level of MUFONmanagement, is for the person whoseeks to directly investigate incomingreports in addition to directing fieldinvestigators. A foremost expectationis the recruitment of at least oneenergetic person to assist on casesand thereby learn the business. Afterall, witness sessions with dual inter-viewers are far less susceptible to over-sights and misinterpretations. And,obviously, multiple investigators arebetter able to handle a sudden influxof reported activity. A state/provincialsection director is likewise expectedto establish working relationships withmunicipal police, local airports, news-papers and the electronic media, andother public agencies.

To those section directors whohave been serving, in effect, as fieldinvestigators while ignoring their assign-ed managerial duties, it is only fair toask why.

STATE/PROVINCIALDIRECTORS

The director of a state or provinceserves in the organization's most cru-cial role. MUFON's overall successesand failures can be traced directly tothem. Without substantial and relent-less efforts to recruit, train and dis-patch investigators to the sites of late

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breaking UFO events, any organiza-tional structure is only a paperexercise.

Imagine the havoc if the nation'sweather were reported without anetwork of reporting stations mannedby dedicated meteorologists. Yet, acomparable state of affairs exists overmajor portions of the U.S. and Can-ada as to UFO investigative coverage.

The state/provincial director is notexpected to be a super-investigator,racing across wide areas to handlenew cases. Rather, five basic tasksare a must: (1) Find and enlist quali-fied people to enter training; (2) cor-respond with them in a standard for-mat; (3) meet with and instruct themregularly; (4) establish statewide con-tacts with police and airport authori-ties to obtain and assign raw sightingreports; and (5) lay the groundworkto receive, review and forward reportsof completed investigations.

In short, it is an administrative role.The achievements of those in thisposition are measured not by thenumber or quality of case reportspersonally generated, but by thestrength of the membership and linesof communication.

It is expected that public appear-ances will be made, both to informaudiences as to the true nature of thephenomenon and to enlist new mem-bers. MUFON did not grow to itspresent numbers by quirk of chance.There is no magic, no secret formulaby which some states have dozens ofqualified investigators while otherslanguish with only a few. The formergrew to their current stature becauserecruitment and training were priori-ties.

Having acquired a cadre of volun-teers, the director of a state or pro-vince must be acutely aware of thefragility of newer members' interest.In any organization, out-stationed staffneed regular updates regarding recentdevelopments in order to retain asense of purpose and belonging.Newsletters on at least a bi-monthlybasis are indespensable for outliningactivities in progress and invitingmember input.

Periodic membership meetings con-stitute the third expectation of thisall-important position. Thereby, twoMUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

purposes are simultaneously served:Through repeated gatherings, friend-ships and a communal spirit areformed. Equally important,'experts inspecific fields with a bearing on theUFO subject can impart their knowl-edge. In virtually every town or cityand on every college campus, thereare available speakers on the funda-mentals of astronomy and physics,aviation, meteorology, engineering anda host of other pertinent topics. Theyneed only to be asked. Perhaps notsurprisingly, MUFON members travelhundreds of miles to meetings withregularity when the agenda is alluring.

The fourth expectation is to estab-lish firm links to the state/provincialpolice posts, sheriff departments andmajor airports. Wherein MUFON isnot widely represented locally, this isall the more critical. A well structuredletter of introduction, renewed annu-ally, ensures word of claimed anomal-ies. Most police and airport officialsrealize they are ill-equipped to resolveUFO reports and are willing to deferto someone competent.

The fifth basic function is to clarifyto the membership that all investiga-tive summaries and supporting mate-rials must be sent to the state/pro-vincial director for initial review. Origi-nal documents are then forwarded tothe international headquarters andcopies to the investigations directorfor evaluation and response. Havinglaid the groundwork, this ensures asatisfaction that cases are recordedfor comparative analysis.

The administrative duties inherentto the position would seem barelyworth mentioning. Yet, in only asmattering of states and provincesare they conducted. Where there areonly a small handful of members, nonewsletter, no meetings, no contactswith police and airports, and noprocedure for report processing,should it surprise anyone that veryfew UFO reports ever reach the lightof day?

REGIONAL DIRECTORS

Overlying the state and provincialgroups are four regional director-ships. Contrary to past and current

practice, the intention of MUFON'sfounders was not to reserve animportant sounding title for a fewlongtime members who have grownweary of the battle.

Regional directors have an essentialmonitoring duty. If a state or pro-vince is disorganized and stagnant, itis the regional director's responsibilityto assess the causes and initiate cor-rective actions. From their years ofexperience, they have myriad oppor-tunities to share insights and resour-ces. Correspondence would seem tobe an obvious means. Where a state/-provincial director has not been per-forming and is unlikely to begin, it islogical to assume that the regionaldirector would recommend a replace-ment. Yet, these basics have nothappened. Again, one must ask why?

For several years we have beenindividually and collectively anticipat-ing another wave of UFOs descend-ing over the continent. With somenotable exceptions, however, our stateand provincial memberships are ill-equipped for the occasion. In effect,an investigative disaster is waiting tohappen. Completed reports arrivingwith regularity now suggest we areentering such a period. It can only behoped that we as an organization cansomehow catch up in a real hurry towhat is happening. This is undeniablyamong the most important of humanendeavors. To approach the taskcasually is to cheat the purposes forwhich MUFON was founded and thepeople out there who need someonein whom to place their trust.

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Looking BackBy Bob Gribble

FORTY YEARS AGO - May1948 — Many residents of Memphis,Tennessee, observed a daylight dis-play of small shiny star-like objects

i moving at high altitude in a straightline from west to east with the appar-ent velocity of meteors. Occasionallyone would deviate from its coursemaking sharp angular turns. Theyseemed to disappear in the distancerather than burn out and vanish sud-denly. Estimates given mention thenumber of objects at between 50 to60. While Memphis citizens thoughtthey were meteors, Air Force expertssought more advice before jumping tothat conclusion. Checks were madewith military installations in the regionto rule out any mass flights of air-craft. In the process of investigatingthe incident, Lt. Col. James C. Beamdiscussed the case with Dr. PaulHeget of the Cincinnati, Ohio Obser-vatory. Dr. Heget expressed seriousdoubt that the 50 or more objectsobserved on the 7th were meteors.

***THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO -May 1953 — Numerous residents ofBouffioulx, Hainault, France observeda flat, circular, shining object movingacross the sky at 8:15 PM, aboutmid-May. The disc stopped abruptly,with an oscillating motion. Suddenlythere was a loud explosion accom-panied by strong vibrations. As thedisc became stationary and sharplytilted, what looked like white threadsdetached themselves from the craft.The threads moved away from thedisc, then vanished as they fell. A fewseconds later the disc levelled outand streaked away at a high rate ofspeed.

***THIRTY YEARS AGO - May1958 — A bright silvery UFO overUruguay on the 5th created such20

intense heat in the cabin of an air-plane that the pilot was forced toopen the windows and door, andremove his jacket. Carlos Alejo Rodri-guez, flying his Piper aircraft fromSan Carlos to Montevideo, saw thebrilliant object approach on an east-erly course and apparently stop,wobbling slightly. Rodriguez, an expe-rienced pilot and parachute instruc-tor, closed to within 800 yards andsaw a metallic-appearing "top-shaped"object, its form symmetrical aboveand below. Then, as the object tookoff at fantastic speed south towardthe sea, intense heat filled the cabinof the plane. Rodriguez had alwaysbeen skeptical about UFOs. After hisexperience, however, he reported theincident to the Director of Aeronau-tics and Air Force authorities. Laterhe described it publicly over theradio. Rodriguez said that the heatfrom the object caused him to "sweatprofusely." The outside temperaturewas only 77 degrees. He estimatedthat the object, which was hoveringin the vicinity of a Naval Air Base,was about 50-60 feet in diameter.

About 8:30 PM, (date unknown),James H. McCloud, 56, was on hislunch break in the scarfing yards atthe Kaiser Steel plant in Fontana,California. As he gazed up at the skyhe spotted two silver, disc-shapedobjects about 1,000 feet in the air.They were perfectly round and theirsurface was "rough, like tiny honey-comb pits." The discs came from thenorth at about 200 to 300 mph, thenstopped in mid-air at about the centerof the mill. "I'm guessing they were100 to 200 feet wide. They stayedthere four or five minutes, then tiltedforward and downward at about a 45-degree angle, then swooped upsidedown and went back to where theycame from," McCloud said. They hadno openings, no flashing lights andwere absolutely silent. "They were soquick it amazed me," he added. "Ithought no group of people on earth

were capable of building those discs. Ithought it might cost me my job so Ikept quiet. I was afraid if I went tothe sheriff they'd have a trip to Pat-ton (mental hospital) for me, so Inever mentioned it."

***TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO -May 1963 — A 17-year-old apprent-ice mechanic came upon a myste-rious oval-shaped UFO while drivingbetween Glencoe and Mount Gamb-ier, Australia, on the 20th. The youth'sfather said his son had returnedhome "white, upset and frightened."The youth who did not want hisname released because people wouldthink he was "crackers," saw theobject at about 9:30 PM. "The objectwas on one side of the road, and Ithought it was a truck or a bul-ldozer," he said. "When my car wasabout 20 yards away, a bright lightcame on and dazzled me. I pulled upand the object moved across theroad, and I then speeded up my car.The object suddenly shot straight upinto the air and hovered above thecar while I drove underneath. It dis-appeared for a while until I reachedthe main road, but I saw the objectagain at about the six mile post.Although I was driving at about 50 or60 mph, the object followed the car.It disappeared soon after." The youthsaid the object was about five meterswide and three meters high. Severalother sightings of the object werereported to the police.

***FIFTEEN YEARS AGO - May1973 _ "What I am about to relateto you," said Ms. Margaret K. Roffe,of Coatsville, Pennsylvania, "happenedthe first part of May, when I was stillworking as an aide at CoatsvilleVeterans Hospital." Carrying out herevening duties, Ms. Roffe was walkingfrom one building to another shortlyafter 9 PM when she heard "thesound of swishing leaves high abovethe buildings." (There were treesalongside the buildings.) She lookedup, watching in awe as a disc-shapedcraft hovered directly over one of thebuildings. "As I watched, the discdescended slowly down to the roof of

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Building I, which is four stories tall.The surrounding leaves were movingviolently all the while, and soon foursilver-colored legs eased slowly fromthe disc-shaped craft to the roof."Ms. Roffe felt an impulse to run, butmanaged to contain it, remainingwhere she was, between the twobuildings about 150 feet away fromthe landing spot.

Next, she said, a ramp containingsteps emerged from the disc to theroof, and as she stared in disbelief,three creatures climbed backwardsdown the steps. "Each creature walkedto one of the jutting legs of the disc,and appeared to be examining it."While they were on the roof, Ms.Roffe noticed they were talking amongthemselves, their voices audible as"high" and "squeaky," sounding "likeso many birds." She said, "the beingnearest the edge of the roof had avery large elongated head, grayish-looking skin; arms that extended wellbelow the knees, and what lookedlike claws instead of fingers. His legsappeared rather short." She addedthat the creature appeared to be old,with no hair on its head. Ms. Roffesaid she was able to observe every-thing clearly despite the darknessbecause "the roof where this craftlanded is illuminated by a light in thelarge dome on the left of the roof."

One of the creatures turned andsaw Ms. Roffe watching. "The onethat saw me first must have saidsomething to the others, becausethey moved to the steps and wentslowly up them." The disc then roseslowly from the rooftop, again caus-ing a flurry among the tree leaves.The stilt-legs were pulled up beneaththe disc, and the craft disappeared upthrough the trees into the night. "Itold no one of what I saw because ofa fear of ridicule. I knew theywouldn't believe me anyway ... Mostpeople will not believe anything theydo not see themselves ... I don't careif anyone believes me; I know what Isaw, and I still keep thinking aboutit." The witness firmly believes sheobserved visitors from another planet."They must be far more technicallyadvanced than us," she said, "or elsethey surely wouldn't be here."

About 8 PM on the 2nd, Mr. R.R.Zadow was driving across his prop-erty near Kalyan, S.A., AustraliaMUFON UFO Journal, No. 241 May 1988

when his truck engine stopped andthe lights went out. When he came toa stop he noticed a UFO over a pad-dock about 30 yards from his vehicle.He described it as a "very bright,glowing object which appeared to beabout 18 inches in diameter." As itmoved silently toward his vehicle heestimated it was about 40 feet abovethe ground, but the bright object didnot illuminate the ground. As itdeparted over the rear of the vehicle,the truck's lights came on, and theengine suddenly started.

Brian Toomey and Mick Chewobserved a shiny, silver object shapedlike a rocket or a cigar, stationary inthe sky over Lakeside Hospital at Bal-larat, Victoria, Australia, on the 4th.The UFO appeared to be about tenfeet long and flashed in the sunagainst a clear blue sky at 8:30 AM.Suddenly it took off like a flashtoward Melbourne. Neither man heardany sound.

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TEN YEARS AGO — May 1978 -A dome-shaped object was seen by14-year-old Tracey Segasby and herfriend Michaela Field, 13, when theywere putting away their horses afterriding near Lowestoft, England, theevening of the 13th. The girls sawthe object hovering near the groundamong some trees about a quarter ofa mile away from them. "We glancedacross the marshes and spotted thecraft. It had a silvery appearance withbright orange lights around it. Westared at it and after about 10seconds the orange lights changed toa pinky-red and then to a dazzlingwhite. It then began to slowly riseabove the ground, hovering for aboutfive seconds and it then landed again.When it did so the lights turned tobright orange again," Tracey said."Then they began to fade away. Itwas then that we noticed four figurescoming towards us. There were twolarge creatures standing side by side.On either side there were two smallones. They did not walk towards us.They moved in a jerky manner, atleast five feet every time. The crea-tures then disappeared and the UFOgradually started to rise into the airand fade away in about 10 seconds. Itwas pretty scary," Tracey said that

horses nearby were going "reallymad," rearing up, and that dogs werehowling and barking and cats startedrunning about.

UFOs were observed and trackedby radar for more than an hour bypersonnel at the Pinecastle ElectronicWarfare . Range, a Navy bombingrange in the Ocala National Forest,Florida, on the 14th. The first reportcame from a man driving near SilverGlen Springs with seven other adults.The man described the sighting as anobject 50 or 60 feet in diameter withflashing lights. He said it flew rightover the top of the vehicle he wasdriving, close enough to get a goodlook. Following this report to theNavy facility, SK-1 Robert J. Clark,the Duty Officer, ordered the radarturned on, and the tracking devicerapidly picked up an object on thescreen. "We locked, in on it and thenall of a sudden, it was gone. I'venever seen anything like it and I don'twant to see anything like it again,"said TD-2 Timothy Collins, who wasmanning the radar scope. "First itwas heading south and then it washeading north, all in the split of asecond. Planes just don't have a turn-ing radius like that," Collins said. "Ijust know I couldn't lock in. We weretracking it, and at first I thought I hadit. But it started moving and by thetime I caught up with it, it hadchanged direction." "The computerwouldn't handle it," said Pinecastle'sLt. Commander John Sullivan.

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ence Program Director, and CarolOstrom, Conference Organizer, areall involved in this paranormalconference. For more information,please write to: Dr. M. L. Albertson,Room 203, Weber Bldg., ColoradoState University, Fort Collins, CO80523.

Why plan just an ordinary va-cation? Combine exotic Rio deJaniero with an even more exoticInternational UFO Congress onSeptember 3-9, 1988. Featured speak-ers will be Cynthia Hind, Bill Moore,Bob Pratt, Leo Sprinkle, andJacques Vallee to name just a few.For further information contact:Irene Granchi, C.I.S.N.E., CX.Postal 12.058 Copacabana, Rio deJaniero, 22022, Brazil — Telephone(021) 246-6187.

Even though the U.S. PostalService increased the price of allpostage mailed in the United States,the subscription price of the MUFONUFO Journal will not change. Theonly revision will be for foreignsubscribers who ask that they receivetheir magazine by Air Mail. Increasesin the number of •membership/sub-scriptions starting in 1987 andcontinuing into 1988 has placed theJournal in a firm financial position forthe first time in many-years. Pleaseinvite your friends and relatives tojoin MUFON, so they may read theonly monthly magazine in the worldestablished by a UFO organization.

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The Night SkyBy Walter N. Webb

MUFON Astronomy Consultant

May 1988

Bright Planets (Evening Sky):Venus still dominates the western evening sky. Our planet neighborachieves greatest brilliancy on the 6th at magnitude -4.5. At this time itappears as a crescent in small telescopes and even in binoculars. But it isgetting a bit lower in the sky each night, setting about 11 PM daylight timein mid-May and around 10 PM by month's end.

Saturn, retrograding in Sagittarius, rises in the ESE about 10:30 inmidmonth. Shining at magnitude +0.2, the ringed planet is brighteningtoward a June opposition. From now into September is the best period totelescopically observe the ring system at near maximum tilt. The northface of the rings is the side exposed to view.

Bright Planets (Morning Sky):Mars, moving from Capricornus into Aquarius, rises in the ESE about 2AM in mid-May. Keeping pace with Saturn in brightness, the red planetgleams at zero magnitude. The quarter Moon lies less than a degree belowMars oh the 9th. Jupiter enters the morning sky on the 2nd but is tooclose to the Sun to be visible this month. Saturn stands low in the southby dawn.

Meteor Shower:A gibbous Moon washes out all but the brightest Eta Aquarid meteors,which peak on the morning of May 4. Under better conditions, observersmight have seen up to 20 meteors per hour. The shower lasts from aboutMay 1 to 8 in lesser numbers.

Moon Phases:Full Moon — May 1Last quarter — May 8New Moon — May 15First quarter — May 23Full Moon — May 31

Two full moons in a single month. The second full moon is called a "bluemoon". The last time this occurred was July 1985; the next timeDecember 1990.

The Stars:May is an excellent month to view three star patterns near the celestialmeridian about 11 PM daylight time.vThe Big Dipper, in its best position ofthe year high in the north, points the way to the other two groups. Followthe curve of the dipper's handle to find bright orange Arcturus. This staris located at the bottom of kite-shaped Bootes the Herdsman. He issupposed to be driving Ursa Major the Great Bear across the heavens;the Big Dipper is part of that animal. Indeed, Arcturus means "bear keeper"

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tion Director for Sebastian, Craw-ford, Scott and Logan Counties inArkansas; and Jennie Zcidman, StateSection Director for Franklin andDelaware Counties in Ohio. Three ofthese outstanding people were intro-duced at Eureka Springs, and orallyexpressed their sincere desire toserve as the Central Regional Direc-tor if elected to the MUFON Boardof Directors by their peers. A ballothas been enclosed in this issue of theMUFON UFO Journal to all membersin the Central States Region so theymay vote for their choice. All ballotsmust be received by MUFON inSeguin, Texas, by June 20, 1988, tobe counted. Dan Wright has done asuperb job, therefore it will be a chal-lenge to maintain his track record ofleadership and accomplishments. (Pleasevote promptly so your vote may bereceived before the deadline.)

The Annual MUFON Award forthe most outstanding contribution toUfology for 1987-88 will be presentedat the MUFON 1988 UFO Sympo-sium in Lincoln, Nebraska, on June25, 1988. The following people havebeen nominated by members of theMUFON Board of Directors as ofApril 18, 1988, in alphabetical orderfor this prestigious award: BarryGreenwood, Budd Hopkins, DavidM. Jacobs, Bruce Maccabee, Paul B.Norman and Dan Wright. A ballothas been enclosed with this issue ofthe MUFON UFO Journal so allmembers and subscribers may votefor their choice to receive the plaqueand recognition by their colleagues inUfology. It was previously suggestedthat a short paragraph be preparedabout the accomplishments of eachof the nominees. This would seemsuperfluous or even repetitious to

Journal readers, since all have beenspeakers at prior MUFON symposi-ums. With the exception of Paul B.Norman, the MUFON Representativefor Victoria, Australia, all live in theU.S.A. and are very well knownthrough the pages of the Journal andtheir own books. All ballots must bereturned to MUFON in Seguin byJune 15, so adequate time is allowedto engrave the recipient's name onthe plaque.

As the Deputy Director of Investi-gations, Dan Wright has proposed anew award to recognize an individualor a team of investigators for a spe-cific UFO sighting case which hasbeen thoroughly investigated, reportedand documented according to theprinciples and practices outlined inthe MUFON Field Investigator's Man-ual. This will be a means of recogniz-ing an investigator(s) for exceptionalwork in our prime field of responsibility.

To qualify as the best case(s) com-pleted in a given year, the only res-triction would be a high preliminaryrating, as currently designated by theSpeiser Classification. That is, a Strange-ness Factor of S4 (strange; does notconform to known principles) or S5(highly strange; suggests intelligentguidance), together with a ProbabilityFactor of P4 (credible and sound) orP5 (highly credible, leaving almost nodoubt) would be required.

For the case selected as mostdeserving, a framed certificate entitled"Meritorious Achievement in a UFOInvestigation" will be presented at theLincoln, Nebraska symposium by DanWright. In the circumstance of multi-ple investigators covering a singlecase or multiple cases of equal merit,duplicate certificates will be awarded.The calendar year January 1987through December 1987 will apply tosubmittals for this award.

or "bear guard". The star is the third brightest luminary in the entire night sky;only Sirius and Canopus are brighter.

If the curve from the dipper's handle is continued through Arcturus, the nextbright star that one comes to is bluish-white Spica in Virgo the Maiden. Spica isat the base of a huge crooked "Y" which slants up to the right. The upperbranches of the "Y" embrace "The Realm of the Galaxies," a wondrous regionfull of countless blurs of light — each one a spiral galaxy of billions of stars.While amateur telescopes can see the brightest of these, it is estimated thatmore than 30,000 fainter galaxies inhabit this particular region of space at anaverage distance of about 50 billion light years from Earth.MUFON UFO Journal. No. 241 May 1988

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In addition to the newsstand maga-zjne titled UFO (formerly CaliforniaUFO), published and edited by VickiCooper and Sherie Stark, a newmagazine will go on sale June 4, 1988with the colorful title UFO Universe.Edited by Tim Beckley (TimothyGreen Beckley) and published by AlWeiss, the premier issue will featuresuch articles as: Beyond Communion,A Candid Conversation with WhitleyStrieber; UFO Abductions: Will YouBe Next?; Aliens Among Us?; Identi-fying the "New Age" Space Channels;Can ETs Cure Cancer and Aids?;and a special — John Lennon's CloseEncounter, plus "shocking new colorUFO pix!"

It may be a new magazine, but TimBeckley's style is reminiscent of thesupermarket tabloids. He is solicitingarticles and photos for future issuesin return for a small fee for those thatmay be interested. Your Directordeclined an invitation to submit arequested article and photos.

I sincerely hope that Tim Beckleydoes a better job on the magazinethan he does on his newspaper calledUFO Review. (Time or Tim will tell.)

The "9th Rocky Mountain Confer-ence on UFO Investigation" will beheld June 30, July 1 and 2, 1988, atthe University of Wyoming in Lara-mie. Featured speakers are KennethRing, Ph.D. (University of Connecti-cut); Keynote speaker — C.B. "Scott"Jones, Ph.D. (Special Assistant toU.S. Senator Pell of Rhode Island)and Whitley Strieber. This confer-ence has been organized by June O.Parnell, Ph.D. (PRO/UFOS) and R.Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D. (IF UFOCS).For information on registration andlodging, please write to: University ofWyoming — Conferences and Insti-tutes, P.O. Box 3972, Laramie, WY82071-3972.

While some of our members maybe in the Rocky Mountains on vaca-tion, they may also be interested inattending the "International Confer-ence of Paranormal Research" slatedfor July 7-10, 198 at Colorado StateUniversity in Fort Collins. MauriceL. Albertson, Ph.D., ConferenceChairman, Dr. Dan Ward, Confer-

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Director's MessageBy Walt Andrus

"Abductions and the E.T. Hypothe-sis" is the theme for the MUFON1988 International UFO Symposiumto be held June 24, 25, and 26, 1988,at the Nebraska Center Hotel, Uni-versity of Nebraska in Lincoln. Thespeakers presently scheduled and thetitles of their papers are the following:Marge Christensen, "Hynek's LastWish for Ufology"; Jerome Clark,"The Fall and Rise of the Extraterres-trial Hypothesis"; Walter N. Webb,"Encounter at Buff Ledge: A UFOCase History"; Raymond W. Boeche,"Public Reaction to Alien Contact: AStudy"; Budd Hopkins, "The Abduc-tion Experience"; David M. Jacobs,Ph.D., "Post Abduction Syndrome";Bruce S. Maccabee, Ph.D., "Analy-sis of the Gulf Breeze, Florida Photo-graphs"; Walter H. Andrus, Jr.,"The Gulf Breeze Case", (a slide/il-lustrated lectureO; and William L."Bill" Moore, "MJ-12 Update". Thesymposium proceedings will also con-tain a published paper titled "UFOs:Four Questions for Theological Semi-naries" by Dr. Barry H. Downing.

Advance registrations for the sym-posium are now being received forthe package price of $35 for all ses-sions. Please make a check or moneyorder payable to "MUFON 1988Symposium" and mail to MUFON1988 Symposium, P.O. Box 94627,Lincoln, NE 68509. Individual sessiontickets will also be available for Sat-urday morning, afternoon, eveningand Sunday afternoon.

Special hotel rates will be $35 forsingle occupancy and $38 for doubleoccupancy plus tax per night. Reser-vations should be sent directly to theNebraska Center Hotel, 33rd andHoldrege Streets, Lincoln, NE 68583-0901 or telephone (402) 472-3435.

A get-aquainted reception will beheld Friday, June 24th at 6:00 p.m.Formal meetings will start Saturday,June 25th at 9:00 a.m. and extend to5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 26, 1988.

A meeting for State and Assistant

State Directors is scheduled on June24th from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., tobe chaired by the Regional Directorsand Marge Christensen. The AnnualMUFON Board of Directors Meetingis set for Sunday morning, June 26th,from 9:00 a.m. till 12:00 noon. Pleasecome prepared to discuss importantissues concerning the role of MUFONin the future of Ufology. Dan Wrightand Marge Christensen are preparingan agenda for the State DirectorsMeeting. They are soliciting proposalsand ideas from the Regional Directorsto include on the agenda docket.

If you plan to fly to Lincoln, pleasemake your airline reservations nowso that you may take advantage ofthe special reduced fares. We lookforward to seeing our long-time friendsand personally meeting those peoplewho are new members in MUFON.The MUFON 1988 UFO Symposiumwill be the most important event ofits kind in the world. Make yourvacation plans now to attend.

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Marge Christensen is remindingeveryone that the "4th National UFOInformation Week" is scheduled forAugust 14-21, 1988. Each state organ-ization should start now to constructphoto exhibits, plan public UFO lec-tures, and contact their public librar-ies and shopping malls for coopera-tive displays.

Bruce A. Widaman, State Direc-tor for Missouri, has made the follow-ing appointments in his state organi-zation: Wendy S. Hodgden of Kan-sas City to State Section Director forJackson, Cass, Lafayette and John-son counties; Ralph H. Fromme, St.Charles, MO, to State Section Direc-tor for St. Charles, Lincoln andWarren Counties; and Alex P. Hor-vat, living in St. Charles, to AssistantState Director for Public Information.

Tom A. Benson, State Directorfor New Jersey, promoted Paul M.

Makuch to State Section Directorfor Middlesex County. Ralph Sava-rese, a retired minister in Gulfport,Miss., was reassigned as State Sec-tion Director for Harrison, Jackson,and Hancock Counties by G. DaveBerryhill, Jr., M.D., State Director.Joseph Juliano, M.D., has beenappointed Assistant State SectionDirector for Travis and Bastrop coun-ties in Texas to help Floyd N. Petri,Jr. Joe is an active amateur radiooperator with the call letters WV5Xin Austin.

Steven Goldsmith, M.D., residingin Fitchburg, Mass., volunteered tobecome a Consultant in Psychiatryand Hypnotherapy. John L. John-son, M.S., a clinical social worker inFt. Smith, Ark. was so impressedwith the outstanding UFO Confer-ence hosted by Bill Pitts in EurekaSprings that he volunteered his exper-tise as a Research Specialist in Clini-cal Hypnosis. Donald M. Ware,State Director, appointed Muril V.D.Garten to State Section Director forOkaloosa and Walton Counties inFlorida.

Richard D. Seifried has reas-signed Dale Wedge and RichardDell 'Aquila as Co-State SectionDirectors for Geauga, Lake, Cuya-hoga and Ashtabula Counties inOhio, since they are working as ateam.

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vying for the position of CentralRegional Director to fill the vacancycreated when Dan Wright was ele-vated to Deputy Director of Investi-gations on the Executive Committee.In alphabetical order, they are: GeorgeCoyne, Co-State Director for Michi-gan; Richard P. Dell 'Aquila, J.D.,Co-State Section Director in Ohio(listed above); Bill Pitts, State Sec-

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