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    The United Kingdom UFO Network - a free electronic magazine with
    subscribers in over 40 countries.

    This issue comes in 2 parts. 

    In this issue:

    Index
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    Editorial
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    A question
    Real Audio - Fox TV

    United Kingdom News
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    [UK 1] John Velez - Questions & Answers interview
    [UK 2] I met an alien says top RAF officer
    [UK 3] Scottish Air Traffic Control track UFO
    [UK 4] Crop circle messages, A UFO kidnap and a Mum made pregnant! by
    grey strangers... Close Encounters are getting ever close...
     

    World News
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    [W 1] Study: UFO sightings were U.S. spy planes
    [W 2] C.I.A. Admits Government Lied About U.F.O. Sightings
    [W 3] DoD News Briefing - partly on above
    [W 4] Chile announces UFOs are for real
    [W 5] Fossil footprints open way to row on 'genetic Eve'
    [W 6] As men in black opens, a scientist tells us what aliens will
    really look like

    A FEARFUL SYMMETRY by D. Lynne Bishop
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    Part 2
     

    Editorial
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    A question:
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    Question: Would it be possible using todays technology to land a
    robotic vehicle on a passing comet? To record information as the
    comet travels it's orbit into deep space. To be collected the next
    time it passes Earth, whenever that might be.

    Send you answers, thoughts and ideas to:

    ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk

    with: COMET THERORIES as the subject heading.

    Real Audio
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    UFOs: THE BEST EVIDENCE EVER CAUGHT ON TAPE

    Jonathan Frakes Narrates 'UFOs: The Best Evidence Ever Caught on
    Tape' Monday, July 28 on FOX From the producers of "Alien Autopsy:
    Fact or Fiction", this all new special chronicles shows how the
    modern UFO era has been intricately linked to the growing use of home
    film and video cameras, which may present the best chance of proving
    the existence of UFOs. The show also profiles witnesses, imaging
    experts and researchers whose lives have been forever changed by
    their involvement with the amazing UFO video evidence. Shedding light
    on this startling phenomena, FOX presents what may be the most
    compelling video and film footage of flying saucers in UFOs: THE BEST
    EVIDENCE EVER CAUGHT ON TAPE Monday, July 28
    (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SP-9804) (TV-PG)

    To download the Real Audio file of this documentary point your web
    browser at:

    http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/sounds/fox-ufo.ra

    Special thanks to Netware for creating this real audio
     
     

    United Kingdom News
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    [UK 1]******

    On Saturday 2nd August 1997, the United Kingdom UFO Network were very
    proud to receive as a guest on their IRC #UFO channel John Velez.
    John very kindly gave up a few hours of his time to answer questions
    from visitors to the channel.

    Below is a cleaned up log of the questions that John was asked along
    with his answers. The name inbetween the stars eg.*Nesssus* is the
    nickname of the IRC user asking the question and where you see
    <Velez> is of course the start of John's reply.

    CREDITS:

    We would like to thank Nesssus for arranging this meeting with John
    Velez. We would like to thank John Velez for attending this meeting
    and answering the questions put to him. We would like to thank
    Nesssus and Gandalf1 for moderating this meeting. We would like to
    thank all the people involved in asking questions. We would like to
    thank everyone who attended this meeting. We would like to apologise
    to Nesssus and Gandalf1 for not moderating the meeting due to
    connection problems and leaving them in the lurch at the critical
    time. WELL DONE GUYS.......Crow & Raine

    *Nesssus* Firstly could we welcome you John and say how much we all
    appreciate you attending, we know you have a busy schedule. The meet
    is going to be moderated, so you don't get overwhelmed with everyone
    talking in the channel at once. If you could please give everyone a
    short introduction and brief insight of your experiences, we will
    then invite the channel members to ask you any questions they may
    have. If you could could type '??' after you have finished answering.

    <Velez> Hello all. Very briefly then, my background is in human
    services and graphic art. The last five years have been spent working
    with Budd and trying to raise public consciousness about UFO's and
    althe alien presence on our world.??

    <Velez> You've got me for two hours, lets start taking questions.??

    *SeekeR* did ya see any aliens close up in the ufo, Velez?

    <Velez> Yes, I have several conscious memories (not derived thru
    hypnosis) involving being on board a UFO. Interaction was with Grey
    beings. I also have memories of some beings that appear to be larger
    versions of the little grey ones and much more "insect like" in
    appearance.??

    *Jorgen_* question: have the abductions been going on since you were a
    child, and are there others in your family who have similar
    experiences?

    <Velez> Jorgen, yes, a lifetime of unexplained experiences and
    phenomena. yes this is a multi-generational business (abductions) my
    whole family has been affected.??

    *skygypsy* QUESTION: Do the aliens exhibit any emotion at all?

    <Velez> Yes! Affection of all things, but only on one occasion that I
    can recall.??

    *pathFINDR* to velez--> at what age did you realise that something was
    occuring and when did you attribute it to alien abduction?

    <Velez> My earliest recollection is at about age 4 or 5. I didn't
    realize what was going on until 5 tears ago,...I was 43 years old at
    the time.??

    *pathFINDR* Do you have any children, do they have any strange
    dreams, how old are they?

    <Velez> two. My daughter is 25 and my son is 22. I'm also a grandad!
    And yes, both children have many abduction related memories and marks
    on their bodies. (ie:odd scoop marks and scars)

    *Hideout* can you ask, how many types of aliens he has witnessed

    <Velez> Three different types, none of them 'human looking' such as
    'Nordics'.??

    *TopGun* please ask him: I read your NOVA interview. You said that you
    have been implanted. Where is the implant in your body and did you
    remove it that it could be examined?

    <Velez> The "implant" is buried deep in the center of my head and is
    most likely inoperable. <Velez> I offered NOVA the opportunity to
    perform CAT scans or x-rays, but they refused.??

    *Crew^* Do you recall seeing any furniture in the craft?

    <Velez> A chair that appears to be a part of the walls and floor, (no
    seams) and the pillar-like table that so many report along with pillar
    like stools which also appear to be a single unit with the rest of the
    room.??

    *Law* velez: and what your gov says about it?

    <Velez> the "government denies all knowledge as you well know.??

    *Hideout* Does he feel there is any type of comunication or
    relationship between the 3 types of alien he has witnessed.

    <Velez> yes, always telepathic and occasionally 'empathic'??

    *Ralf* John, tell us about the Phoenix Sightings (in short plz)

    <Velez> Yes, glad to. On March 13th of this year a single large (or
    several smaller objects flying in formation were reported and
    videotaped over downtown Phoenix, Az.

    <Velez> the US air national guard claims that the sighting was
    attributable to 'flares' that were dropped over the Goldwater test
    range.

    <Velez> We know that it's blatant BS because we have video taken
    from several different vantage points. The objects were (over)
    Phoenix, and not 60 miles away as the Airforce claims.??

    *Avenger* how did you find out that you had been abductd?

    <Velez> I read Budds, "Missing time" it changed my life
    completely.??

    *grump* For John: "Hi from a friend of Errol and Sue and Tom and Lise
    .. can you tell us how many times you have seen a UFO? Not abducted,
    just sightings?"

    <Velez> Keerist, gotta be over a dozen times by now.

    <Velez> I've been having more sightings in the last two years than
    ever before in my life.??

    *Jez_UFO* Scars, scoops and now an 'inoperable' implant. Why hav'nt
    you paid for an X-ray/CAT scan?

    <Velez> Jez_UFO, CAT scans cost over $1200 american for a 'head
    shot! I'm a self employed working stiff, are you gonna pay for em?
    <G>??

    *ctropics* Question: Could you elaborate on the alien agenda/purpose
    and further, is there indication that their existence will be made
    known to the public in near future?

    <Velez> 1. Purpose. As I said in an earlier response, no one knows
    their 'ultimate' purposes. I don't indulge in idle speculation. I'll
    await scientific enquiry before formulating an oppinion about that.

    <Velez> 2.Due to the increase in reported sightings worldwide and the
    dramatic increase in abduction reports I'd say yes.??

    *UfatO* Could you please ask John. If the same craft was always used
    in his abductions, or did they differ in any way each time?

    <Velez> There have been different vehicles involved.

    <Velez> A small acorn shaped craft that only holds three, and larger
    varying types. ie; classic disc shaped objects and one time a huge
    glowing pyramidal shaped affair.??

    *forgiette* velez..hello..(1). do you think the beings (aliens), are
    living among us at the present time? (2)..do you think we are
    desendents of the beings? (3). can u tell when the beings are here
    although you can't see them?

    <Velez> 1. Don't know. I suppose it's possible given the 'human'
    appearance of certain alien species that some have reported.

    <Velez> 2. Again, who knows? Questions that invite speculation are
    going to get a similar response.??

    <Velez> 3. I can only remember bits and pieces of these experiences on
    a conscious level. I don't particularly trust what I've gotten thru
    hypnosis. I don't remember if they came everytime I got the heebie
    jeebies (feeling like they are there)??

    *Nesssus* This question is from monkman who couldnt make it tonite:
    Have you heard of cerebrospinal fluid leaking from brain through nose
    (like a small clear nosebleed)?"

    <Velez> No, I haven't. Although if someone is leaking fluid from the
    brain pan I would imagine that death would be emminent. It's more
    likely an effusion from the fluids in the sinus cavities. At least
    that makes more sense to me.??

    *forgiette* velez ..do you think abductees are being cloned?

    <Velez> Possible but no one knows any of that for sure.??

    *Gandalf1* question by me... have you or still being visitited by Men
    In Black?, if so in what way do they appear to you?, also could you
    just briefly describe the craft(s) you were taken on board during your
    abductions

    <Velez> I have never seen MIB's and I already dicribed several craft
    in an earlier response. Check transcript later for answer to your
    question. ??

    *raine* Have you got any idea why they have chosen to abduct you or do
    you think it is purely random?

    <Velez> I think it has to do with my blood line. they appear to be
    following certain family trees.??

    *UfatO* some people claim that they have been taken to a much larger
    craft by the initial smaller craft, have you any recollection of this
    happening to you John?

    <Velez> Yes, on two occasions.??

    *pathFINDR* Do you ever remember seeing any egyptian glyphs during
    abduction, have your children undergone regression?

    <Velez> Yes to both. It wasn't egyptian looking. When I first saw it
    it looked like nothing I've ever seen before. A series of straight and
    sometimes curved lines, interspresed with dots.??

    *forgiette* velez..what is your imput on alien/gov't abductions?

    <Velez> Dr Greer from CSETI claims that the govenment is reponsible
    for up to 98 percent of the reported abductions! I think it's
    ludicrous to believe that the government is abducting citizens on the
    scale that the reports are coming in at.

    <Velez> Although it is possible that certain intelligence agencies are
    keeping tabs on some of the more 'public' abduction advocates.??

    *ctropics* are out-of-body experiences, assuming they are real,
    closely related to abduction experiences?

    <Velez> No, not at all. In an OOBE you look back and see your body in
    the bed, in abductions the person is missing. What we are having is,
    Out Of House Experiences! <G>??

    *forgiette* velez do u have any info about the 13 or more logzeners
    shapes in earth oceans, in regards of possible being/ufo bases

    <Velez> Sorry no.??

    *magus* one of the things that has been the topic in the Undernet ufo
    channel lately has been that of "acceptable proof". We have seen
    photos, experiences personal memories, often have scars symbols to
    show for our involvment. BUT ... is or should there be a DEFINITION of
    "acceptiable proof" or will that always remain a very personal,
    non-tangiable thing or should it try to be defined ?

    <Velez> I think that an academic/scientific inquiry will shed much
    light on the nature of these events.

    <Velez> The problem is that few have been made and few are in the
    works. Abduction as a subject of inquiry is a problem for mainsteam
    scientists intersted in protecting reputations and grant $.??

    *pathFINDR* .A series of straight and sometimes curved lines,
    interspresed with dots.??<---sounds almost like Mayan Indices??

    <Velez> you got me, what the hell are "Mayan Indices?" <G>??

    *pathFINDR* used to record their history

    *pathFINDR* info only Mayan indices destroyed in major part by
    spaniards durind christian crusade only 3 remain the Dresden Index
    being the most famous.

    *UfatO* John, did you at any time see other abductees while aboard the
    craft?

    <Velez> No. But many others do report that.??

    *Gandalf1* q? from me... I have seen you on a documantary being
    regressed by Budd, you said during that session that you saw your
    son... has he undergone regression to that event and what was the
    outcome.. ie was he there or not?

    <Velez> Yes, he underwent regression at his own request. Yes,
    (unfortunately) he was there.??

    *magus* and on a related note ... should we ever even consider
    trying to proove ourselves, qualify ourselves, to
    non-understanding/non-receptive individuals (should've been combined
    with previous q?)

    <Velez> No. Itell the truth in as unembellished a way as I can. It is
    a matter of conscience with me that I report to my fellow creatures
    what is happening to me and my loved ones. What people do with that
    information afterwards is up to them. I have done what I ??

    *forgiette* velez..after your abduction, for several days, do u feel
    out of reality in a sense that u know it has happened, but can't
    focuss due to the emotional haunting

    <Velez> Yes. It sticks in your head and replays itself over and over
    demanding attention.??

    *Raine* John, is there any one particular place you seem to be or a
    certain time of day when you have an abduction experience?

    <Velez> No. Abductions can happen at just about anytime. The
    frequency is once or twice every couple of three years or so.

    <Velez> They have happened at home and outside as well.??

    *rob* for john: How do you know you have an implant in your head if
    you haven't had a CAT scan? Do you have any evuidence or proof of it's
    existence?

    <Velez> No. I remembered getting it. It was the only thing that I
    recalled from that event. But I remembered it clearly. I even heard
    the 'dull cruch' when he pushed the probe up my nose and into my
    head.??

    *forgiette* velez...this could sound far fetch, but, is it possible
    that all humans have wittnessed abductions?

    <Velez> I have no way to answer that question I'm sorry.

    *Avenger* "who did the Aliens treated you? do you see your abduction
    as a tragic event?

    <Velez> No not at all. I see it as something that they feel they
    have to do. They are 'doing a job' I don't think there is any
    'intentional' harm or torture in it.

    <Velez> It is our own xenophobia that causes us to be traumatized.??

    *UfatO* Have you ever been given a look into the future by the
    aliens eg, warnings regarding the Earths future?

    <Velez> I have been shown appocalyptic visions. Whether they are
    'future events' or whether they are just testing me in some way I
    cannot say.??

    *forgiette* velez..nobody has ever seen God, what is your opinion on
    the being/alien is perhaps God.

    <Velez> God (in my belief system) is embodied in ALL THAT IS. And not
    in any one species or thing. ALL THAT IS is GOD. My views are very
    pantheistic that way.??

    *ctropics* thank you for your candid responses ..... Question: Have
    the aliens projected future events to you personally, i.e.... vast
    destruction and threat to the world and is this a common phenomena
    with other abductees? and if so what nature did it take?

    <Velez> Again, I want to preface my response by saying that no one
    knows for sure that we are being shown, "future events"

    <Velez> What I was party to was rescue missions involveing teams of
    humans and aliens piloting huge craft and persaving people from the
    mass destruction. Make of that what you will.??

    *Raine* I have read that you were shown 7 hybrids and told that they
    were your offspring, have you ever been shown them again at a more
    advanced stage?

    <Velez> No, although I feel a deep internal connection to them. They
    are partly mine. It's a sin to seperate offspring from biological
    parent, under ANY circumstances.??

    *magus* considering ONLY abduction/contact experiences YOU have been
    involved with ... regardless of the persons perceptions .. have you
    viewed any of the experiences as INTENTIONALLY malicious ??

    <Velez> *Magus* No, none that I can recall. The 'terror' was coming
    from me not them.??

    *ChromeB* velez: do you think we were genetically engineered by
    aliens and "seeded" on this planet? Do u think they are muddling with
    our genes in abduction scenarios?

    <Velez> In answer to the LAST question. yes and no. Again you ask me
    to 'speculate' and I dislike doing so.??

    *Lloydy* Why do you think your abductees were male in gender?

    <Velez> I have never said anything of the kind.

    *Nesssus* Thank you very much for taking the time out to visit us John
    it has been a good meeting.

    *Gandalf1* I would like to thank Mr John Velez for taking the time to
    answer this MANY questions... you did a GREAT job keeping up with
    all... thanks a lot

    *Raine* John please feel free to come again, maybe under less
    stressful conditions, just as a regular user :)

    <Velez> As for 'abductees' they are of all races, sexes,
    professions, sexual preference, you name it. The aliens aren't
    'bigots' that's for sure! thank you all and good night.

    Web sites:
    John Velez: http://www.spacelab.net/~jvif/bhhp.html
    Nesssus: http://www.tedric.demon.co.uk

    [UK 2]******

    Source: The Advertiser, Adelaide, South Australia
    Date: Monday 11th August 1997

    I met an alien says top RAF officer

    By Fiona Barton in London

    Military giants don't come much bigger than Air Marshall Sir Peter
    Horsley.

    A war hero who flew Mosquitoes against the Germans, he has held one
    of the highest ranks in the RAF and been an adviser to the Queen and
    Prince Philip.

    He has also, he claims, met a visitor from another galaxy. Sir Peter
    has kept his close encounter with the mysterious man he calls Mr
    Janus in a London flat a secret for 43 years. But now, at the age of
    76, he is ready to go public.

    With a steely gaze, he says; "We talked for hours about travelling
    in space and time... He didn't say he was a visitor from another
    planet but I had that impression. I believe he was here to observe
    us." "I never saw him again. I have no qualms about the reaction to
    my experience with Mr Janus. I don't care what people think. It is
    what happened."

    His extraordinary testimony in his autobiography, Sounds From
    Another Room, to be published in October by Leo Cooper, and his
    uncompromising belief in Unidentified Flying Objects will no doubt
    ruffle the men at the Ministry. For, incredible as it seems, it is
    the evidence of a man who once ran the country's defence at RAF
    Strike Command, and was a Buckingham Palace aide for six years.

    At his cottage in Hampshire he discusses the presence of alien
    spacecraft with unswerving nonchalance.

    "I would say they come from another planet somewhere in the universe
    but not in our galaxy. They are benign, not aggressive and, like us,
    are explorers," he says.

    His interest in UFOs began, he says, in 1952 while he was an equerry
    to the Duke of Edinburgh and was started by news- paper reports at
    the time. Sir Peter says he talked to Prince Philip of his interest
    in UFOs.

    "He was quite interested. His mind always open."

    Sir Peter started by interviewing people who had claimed to have seen
    UFOs and invited an airline captain to visit him at Buckingham
    Palace. His own encounter came in 1954.

    He says he was introduced to a General Martin who arranged for him to
    visit the Chelsea home of a Mrs Markham. "Janus was there, sitting by
    the fire in a deep chair. He asked, 'What is your interest in flying
    saucers?'"

    And then he gave an account of space travel at the speed of light,
    with spare body parts in the luggage.

    Sir Peter's interest in the paranormal stayed with him during his
    rise through the ranks to the crucial post of chief of the RAF's
    Strike Command in 1973.

    But at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, jaws are dropping. As
    one senior officer put it: "Oh God, how unfortunate that the public
    will learn that the man who had his finger on the button at Strike
    Command as seeing little green men."

    [UK 3]******

    From: duncan@life.com
    Date: 4th August 1997

    Scottish Air Traffic Control track UFO

    Scotland in the United Kingdom is still experiencing UFO activity
    over it's airspace.

    Yet another UFO incident took place on Wednesday 16th April 1997,
    involving the Royal Mail flight from Inverness to Edinburgh (ZAP6
    ALPHA) northwest of Perth.

    Something had apparently attracted the attention of the pilot
    between 8.45 and 9.00pm, leading to discussions between the aeroplane
    and Scottish ATC. At 9.00pm, the pilot switched frequencies and was
    transferred to Edinburgh ATC (EDN ATC).

    EDN ATC: "...or somebody is flying out there at the moment...I'm
    quite interested in tracing it because someone reported it about
    three months ago and it was up at about eight to nine thousand feet."

    ZAP6A: "That's exactly it... It was at eight thousand feet... It'
    spot level with us... Seven miles straight infront of us... Then lost
    sight of it... Scottish told us it was behind us at about four
    miles."

    EDN ATC: "Okay... That's understood... ZAP6A... A couple of
    questions on that light that you saw... were they navigation lights
    or could you see cabin lights... and also... was it fast moving?"

    ZAP6A: "Ahhh... sounds funny I know... but it was just... white
    lights and it was directly in front of us."

    EDN ATC: "Roger 6A... and you replies check with what I put in a
    report about three months ago... It was almost like cabin lights at
    eight thousand feet and they weren't able to trace anything
    unfortunately."

    ZAP6A: "Yes, sounds like the same as we had... it was definitely
    above the cloud by about two thousand feet and like I say... kept an
    eye on it and next minute Scottish told us it was behind us."

    EDN ATC: "Roger."

    One thing is absolutely certain about this sighting. The UFO was
    tracked on radar by the staff at the Scottish Air Traffic Control.

    "...Scottish told us it was behind us... six o'clock at about four
    miles."

    uk.ufo.nw asks: Do any of our Scottish readers have further
    information on this. Details to our usual address please.

    [UK 4]******

    Source: The People newspaper
    Date: Sunday 10th August 1997

    Crop circle messages, A UFO kidnap and a Mum made pregnant! by grey
    strangers... Close Encounters are getting ever close...

    ET gives us a ring!

    By Robert Kellaway

    Crop circles could be messages left by aliens in a bid to contact
    humans, according to new research.

    Experts believe the massive patterns are so complex they could not
    have been made by people on the ground.

    Some flatterned crop stalks are completely undamaged with no sign of
    the use of tools or ropes.

    Visitors have reported being overcome by energy surges and
    experiencing mysterious healing powers within the circles.

    Researcher Lucy Pringle has spent 10 years investigating reports
    sent in by people who have experienced strange effects in and around
    them.

    She says: "A few crop circles are definitely man made - hoaxes or
    pranks. But these are relatively easy to detect. Others are much
    more mysterious. I believe the stalks are caused to soften at the
    base and fall due to electro-magnetic and low frequency radiation.

    "I cannot explain where this energy comes from but I do believe we
    are not alone in this universe. I believe they could be an attempt at
    communication by intelligences not from this planet."

    Lucy, 52, of Petersfield, Hants, first experienced the healing
    powers of crop circles in 1990.

    A shoulder injury meant every arm movement left her racked with
    pain.

    She said: "There is no way I could even lift my arm to brush my
    teeth.

    "I came across a rather plain circle near Morestead in Hampshire. I
    felt a great energy in the circle.

    "When I left my injury was completely healed.

    "A freind with me at the time was suffering a cronic illness. I left
    her for a few minutes and on my return she was lying flat on her
    back.

    "She said she'd not been able to do that without discomfort for 15
    years."

    One of the most striking images is the Torus Knot, the most complex
    crop circle yet seen. The image appeared in a barley field outside
    the village of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire.

    Lucy said: "To anyone interested in geometry this figure is one of
    the most beautiful there is.

    "You can see it would be impossible to execute without the aid of an
    aerial view and extensive ground marking.

    "This is a truly mysterious site."

    Another beautiful image is the Flower of Life - a central ring
    surrounded by six crescent shapes spiralling off at 60-degree
    intervals.

    But the most striking site for Lucy is a five-pointed star cut into
    a wheat field near Avebury, Wilts.

    Lucy says: "When I visited this formation I immediately felt
    uncomfortable and within a few minutes terribly ill.

    "I had to leave as quick as possible."

    Her book The Sky Is Not The Limit is to be published next year.

    Riddle of book and The Men In Black

    A leading alien abduction expert claims time travel has been
    discovered - and that humans from the future are teaching children
    in secret schools throughout the world.

    Author Whitley Strieber says that he was such a pupil for three
    years from the age of nine.

    And when the Texan, now 52, started writing a book about it, he
    believes his office may have been firebombed by sinister Men In
    Black - similar to those in the hit film - to shut him up.

    The teachers - known as The Sisters of Mercy because they looked
    like nuns - gave him nine lessons at a secluded place in Texas called
    Olmos Basin.

    Whitley adds: "These seminars seemed to be about mankinds future,
    how we need to evolve before our population spirals totally out of
    control."

    Whitley's book is already out in America and he has received letters
    from people who said they were also pupils.

    He says: "The most intriguing letter cam from a 12 year old boy who
    is also being taught by the Sisters, so the schools do seem to still
    be out there now."

    The schools are held in secret because of the problems related to
    time travel - notably what is known as the Grandfather Paradox, where
    someone might meet their own grandfather and do or say somthing to
    alter his life - and their own future.

    Whitley also wrote the alien abduction book Communion, which was
    turned into a movie.

    Adapted from The Secret School by Whitley Strieber (Simon &
    Schuster, 15 pounds 99 pence).

    Butchers from another world

    Aliens are being blamed for the slaughter of hundreds of animals in
    the beautiful countryside where the TV hit Heartbeat is filmed.

    Farmers in North Yorkshire are gripped with fear after a series of
    bizarre deaths on open moorland.

    In the latest, nine sheep were found with their stomachs ripped out
    in the village of Snainton.

    And deer were found with holes in their head and drained of blood in
    the Dalby Forest area.

    Over a three year period, similar strange deaths have been reported
    all over the North York Moors.

    Former police sergeant Tony Dodd, now a UFO expert, says all the
    evidence points to aliens.

    "There have even been reports of the dead animals falling from the
    sky, often coinciding with UFO sightings," he says.

    "Without doubt, there is something very sinister going on."

    In America, UFO experts believe aliens caused the death of up to
    10,000 cattle, found with heads and necks as skeletons but the rest
    of their corpses intact.

    Similar strange cases are still unexplained in the Scottish
    Highlands and, in October 1995, along the Ulster border.

    Spacship abducted one man and his dog

    By Joe Brady

    Broadcaster Lawrence John has told for the first time how he and his
    faithful pet dog Lobo were abducted by aliens.

    They were beamed onto a spacship during an astonishing close
    encounter.

    Lawrence, 46, who runs his own radio station and two record shops,
    said yesterday: "People might say I'm barking mad but we are not
    alone..."

    Lawrence and his three year old bichon frise Lobo, were exploring
    the eerie St Patrick's Chair and Well rock formation on the northern
    side of the Co Moneghan border when their out of this world encounter
    happened.

    "We were suddenly enveloped in a blinding white light," said
    Lawrence. "I found myself outside what appeared to be some sort of
    spacecraft and several aliens appeared in front of me.

    "They were greyish, dullish and human in form. They appeared to be
    hovering. They were about 5ft tall and seemed to be wearing
    something resembling a kaftan.

    "I asked if I was safe and one simulated my voice to reply that I
    was and I could shortly go back to where I came from.

    "The craft we were in was enormous. While on board I saw probably
    four or five aliens. But they kept coming and going and all looked so
    alike, so it could have been 50."

    Suddenly they were back at St Patrick's Chair and Well.

    He checked his car clock and estimated he had been on board for
    around an hour and a half.

    Lawrence, of Belfast, said: "Lobo now often just sits at the window
    and just stares at the sky.

    He has had two other meetings with aliens at the same spot since
    that first encounter last September but apart from brief flashbacks
    he can remember little. He said: "I've witnessed something
    incredible. Yet for some reason they do not want me to remember
    clearly."

    UFO expert Myles Johnston believes the spot is part of an energy
    line which the aliens us as a refueling station.

    I had an alien's baby

    Mum of two Debbie Jordan had an out of this world experience - she
    was made pregnant by aliens!

    Then the sinister grey figures invaded her body again - to whisk
    away the child before it was born.

    Since those first bizarre experiences they have repeatedly taken
    control of the 37 year old farm girl's thoughts, transforming her
    from average intelligence into a super boffin with an IQ of 150.

    This week Debbie travels from her remote US farmhouse in Indiana to
    pay her first visit to Britain.

    She will tell her remarkable story - authenticated by doctors and
    scientists - at next weekend's British UFO Conference in Sheffield.

    Debbie was 18 when she was abducted one night in November while in
    her car with two schoolfriends. Afterwards she found herself back in
    her bed at 5am.

    "A few months later I found I was pregnant. The doctor timed the
    date of conception back to that night.

    "It was weird - then things gott stranger still. Later when I went
    for a check-up, I discovered that I was no longer pregnant. I'd not
    miscarried.

    "At first shrinks thought I had some buried trauma and treated me
    for stress disorders.

    "Others thought I was nuts. I had lie detector tests, barin scans
    and every pyschological test going. They all showed I was of sound
    mind."
     

    World News
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    Source: CNN
    Date: 3rd August 1997

    Study: UFO sightings were U.S. spy planes

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- With growing hysteria over alleged UFO sightings
    in the 1950s, the Air Force repeatedly concocted false cover stories
    to hide the fact that their super-secret spy planes had been spotted,
    an intelligence study says.

    Historian Gerald K. Haines writes that the Air Force, responding to
    alleged UFO sightings during the Cold War years, frequently provided
    explanations that were untrue to deflect attention away from the spy
    planes.

    "Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s
    were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2)
    over the United States," Haines wrote in the spring issue of Studies
    of Intelligence, an unclassified CIA journal.

    The article was found Saturday on the Internet.

    Concern about the public finding out about the secret spy planes
    "led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the
    public in order to allay public fears and to protect an
    extraordinarily sensitive national security project," Haines wrote.

    "While perhaps justified, this deception added fuel to the later
    conspiracy theories and the cover-up controversy" regarding the
    existence of UFOs, he added.

    Haines, a historian at the National Reconnaissance Office, based his
    article on a review of CIA documents from the late 1940s to 1990.

    He described how the Air Force sought to deflect attention from the
    development of its high-altitude experimental aircraft, the U-2 and
    the SR-71.

    The early U-2s were silver and reflected the sun's rays, especially
    at sunrise and sunset, and often appeared as fiery objects to people
    below, Haines said. The U-2s were later painted black.

    Air Force investigators "aware of the secret U-2 flights tried to
    explain away such sightings by linking them to natural phenomena
    such as ice crystals and temperature inversions," Haines wrote.

    By 1956, the Air Force internally had clear explanations for 96
    percent of all UFO sightings, Haines wrote, referring to the
    experimental aircraft. "They were careful, however, not to reveal
    the true cause of the sighting to the public."

    He also said the CIA, during the height of the Cold War, hid its
    involvement in studies into UFO sightings because the agency was
    concerned if word came out it would lead to a national hysteria that
    could be exploited by the Soviet Union.

    The director of space policy at the Washington-based Federation of
    American Scientists, John E. Pike, said the study raises questions
    about other possible government cover-ups involving unidentified
    flying objects.

    "The flying-saucer community is definitely onto something" in
    accusing the military of hiding something, Pike told The New York
    Times, which reported on the study in Sunday's edition.

    Haines' study, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90," is
    available on the Internet at
    http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ufo.html.

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    Source: The New York Times
    Date: August 1997

    C.I.A. Admits Government Lied About U.F.O. Sightings

    By WILLIAM J. BROAD

    The article is about a document which is authored by Gerald K. Haines
    and appears in Studies of Intelligence, a secret CIA journal. Five
    years ago, the agency began releasing unclassified versions of the
    journal yearly. The UFO study forms part of the 1997 edition and has
    just been published at the "Office of the Director of Central
    Intelligence World Wide Web Site", which is divided in three
    sections. The one in question is the site of "The Center for the
    Study of Intelligence".

    In the darkest days of the Cold War, the military lied to the
    American public about the true nature of many unidentified flying
    objects in an effort to hide its growing fleets of spy planes, a CIA
    study says.

    The deceptions were made in the 1950s and '60s amid a wave of UFO
    sightings that alarmed the public and parts of official Washington.

    The CIA study says the Air Force knew that most reports by citizens
    and aviation experts were based on fleeting glimpses of U-2 and
    SR-71 spy planes, which fly extremely high.

    Those planes were developed in the 1950s and '60s to photograph enemy
    targets. From secret bases, mainly in California and Nevada, the
    aircraft repeatedly flew across the country and eventually overseas
    to bases in countries that included Britain, West Germany and Taiwan.

    While commercial airliners in the 1950s flew at altitudes of up to
    30,000 feet, the U-2 soared to more than 60,000 feet and the SR-71
    to more than 80,000 feet, or 15 miles, nearly the edge of space.

    The planes carried powerful cameras to spy on foreign military
    installations and sensitive electronic gear to capture radio and
    radar transmissions. The spy craft were developed by the
    intelligence agency and often flown by the Air Force.

    Rather than acknowledging the existence of the top-secret flights or
    saying nothing about them publicly, the Air Force decided to put out
    false cover stories, the CIA study says. For instance, unusual
    observations that were actually spy flights were attributed to
    atmospheric phenomena like ice crystals and temperature inversions.

    "Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s
    were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights" over the United
    States, the CIA study says. "This led the Air Force to make
    misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay
    public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national
    security project."

    The study, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90," was written
    by Gerald K. Haines and appears in Studies of Intelligence, a secret
    CIA journal. Five years ago, the agency began releasing unclassified
    versions of the journal yearly. The 1997 edition, with the study on
    unidentified objects, is at http://www.odci
    gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ on the World Wide Web.

    Mr. Haines is a historian at the National Reconnaissance Office, the
    intelligence agency that builds and runs the nation's spy
    satellites.

    The admission of Federal deception on the issue appears to be a
    first, experts said in interviews.

    "It's very significant," said Richard Hall, chairman of the Fund for
    UFO Research, a group in Washington. "Certainly they've lied about
    not having any interest in the subject. But I don't know of any other
    deception like this."

    John E. Pike, head of space policy at the Federation of American
    Scientists, also based in Washington, said the admission raised
    questions about other federal cover-ups involving UFOs.

    "The flying-saucer community is definitely onto something," in
    charging that the military is hiding something, Mr. Pike said.

    There are two schools of thought on the nature of such a cover-up.
    One, from Mr. Pike and other aerospace experts, holds that many
    sightings over the decades involved secret federal projects
    featuring advanced aircraft and reconnaissance missions. The new
    admission strengthens that view.

    The other school holds that the government has come into possession
    of extraterrestrial craft and beings and is hiding them from the
    public, partly to avoid causing panic. That view was celebrated last
    month on the 50th anniversary of an incident in Roswell, N.M., in
    which conspiracy theorists say a saucer crashed to Earth and was
    seized by the government.

    The deceptions about the spy flights were issued in some of the
    tensest days of the Cold War. The Soviet Union exploded its first
    hydrogen bomb in 1955, the year that the U-2 flew for the first
    time.

    In 1960, a U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, leading to the
    cancellation of an East-West peace conference. In 1962, a U-2
    spotted a buildup of Soviet nuclear arms in Cuba, precipitating the
    diplomatic crisis regarded by some experts as the closest the
    superpowers came to nuclear war.

    To make the spy planes harder to see and less likely to prompt UFO
    reports, they were eventually painted black. The CIA study said
    U-2's initially had silver bodies "and reflected the rays from the
    sun, especially at sunrise and sunset."

    The report added that "they often appeared as fiery objects to
    observers below."

    But the SR-71, which first flew in 1964, was apparently painted black
    from the start. Its nickname was the Blackbird.

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    Tuesday, August 5, 1997 - 1:15 p.m. (EDT)
    Mr. Kenneth H. Bacon, ASD (PA)

    DoD [USA Department of Defence] News Briefing

    [edited section of meeting]

    Q: On the <UFO> study that the CIA did over the weekend, or it was
    released or reported on over the weekend -- as Pentagon spokesman
    are you concerned about a report that says that the government
    willfully misled individuals to conceal programs?

    A: I've read the CIA study, and I have read what they said about the
    Air Force. It's their characterization of what the Air Force said. I
    have not gone back and checked what the Air Force said at the time,
    so I'd prefer not to comment on what the study said. It is not the
    policy of Secretary Cohen or any of the people who work for him to
    mislead the public.

    Q: Were you at all aware of any misleading of the public that was
    done by the Air Force prior?

    A: I was not aware of that. I will say that one interesting aspect of
    the report was that for years, <UFO> people have been charging that
    we've covered up the fact that there really are UFOs, and the CIA
    study confirms, as has every other study done by the government, that
    we have no evidence of UFOs. We have no evidence of extraterrestrial
    visitors to this planet. The study goes on to say that one
    explanation for many of these sightings might have been airplanes
    that were being tested at the time.

    Q: Do you think that applies to any programs that might be tested
    now, or can you say categorically that the Department does not engage
    in that kind of public relations activity in terms of programs that
    are perhaps flying today?

    A: First of all, we certainly have classified programs and we
    certainly have legitimate reasons for not disclosing some of the
    work we're doing, whether it's research and development or whether
    it's operations. I am not aware that we are putting out stories that
    misstate the truth about those programs. The distinction would be we
    just don't talk about the programs at all, so I certainly wouldn't
    talk about any of those programs today.

    [W 4]******

    From: duncan@life.com
    Date: 4th August 1997
    Source: UFO Magazine
    Date: July/August 1997

    Chile announces UFOs are for real

    On 2nd April 1997, Chilean newspaper 'La Cuarta' published the
    following headline 'UFO Sighting of Arica is Confirmed by La
    Direccion General de Aeronautic Civil'.

    Luis Sanchez, Chilean Director of Skywatch International said this
    was the first time such an organization had attached it's name to
    such a statement. La Direccion General de Aeronautic Civil said that
    they publicly recognised that Chile was experiencing UFO sightings
    and that the phenomenon was real, not meteorotic or climatic.

    Sanchez said that the statement was due to the 'high quality' of an
    observation made by control tower staff at Chacalluta International
    Airport in Africa, the northernmost city in Chile.

    On Monday, 31st March, 1997, at 12.55am, three UFOs were seen by
    staff in the control tower and recorded on radar. They were tracked
    at speeds up to 8,000 mph. According to the eyewitnesses, over the
    Pacific Ocean, near Morro de Arica and remained there for two hours.

    At about 3.00am, the objects "flew away at very high speed," heading
    for the Andes.

    Airport director Julio Schettner said the UFOs hovered "at an
    altitude between 3,000 and 4,500 metres and emitted blue, red, green
    and yellow lights which made them clearly visible to the naked eye."

    Schettner added, "In our tower, it was not possible to track them on
    radar, so we contacted control towers in (Arequipa) Peru and
    Santiago (de Chile). None of them had flights registering in Arica at
    that moment."

    Schettner said "he had been doubtful about the existence of UFOs,
    but not any more," adding that they left Arica "at an astonishing
    speed."

    On Wednesday 2nd April 1997, the Direccion General de Aeronautica
    Civil (DGAC), Chile's civilian aeronautical ministry, announced that
    the three UFOs in Arica had been confirmed on radar, DGAC radar and
    Fuerzas Aereas de Chile (FACh) Air Force radar tracked the Arica
    UFOs "travelling at speeds of up to 12,800 kilometres (8,000 miles)
    per hour."

    In the capital, Santiago de Chile, a DGAC spokesman said, "Chile is
    experiencing OVNIs" (Spanish acronym for UFO).

    uk.ufo.nw asks: Do any of our Chilean readers have further
    information on this. Perhaps newspaper reports etc that could be
    translated, typed and e-mailed to the usual address.

    Visit UFO Magazines world wide web address address for full
    subscription information:

    http://www.ufomag.co.uk

    [W 5]******

    Source: The Times newspaper
    Date: Friday 15th August 1997

    Fossil footprints open way to row on 'genetic Eve'

    >From Ian Brodie in Washington

    The oldest-known footprints of a modern human being, dating back
    117,000 years, have been found on the shores of a South African
    lagoon.

    Very possibly female, the fossils could spark a scientific debate
    over whether they are traces of the "genetic Eve".

    "These footprints are from the earliest of anatomically modern
    people," said Lee Berger, an American paleoanthropologist at the
    University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who announced the
    discovery yesterday at the National Geographic Society in Washington.
    David Roberts, the British-born South African geologist who uncovered
    the three footprints, said: "The chances of finding something like
    this are millions to one."

    Unlike footprints unearthed in Tanzania, which were 3.6 million years
    old, the newly found ones were made  by a human being whom we have a
    direct link. Physically she was the same as us, though not as
    developed mentally, walking upright with jutting jaw, high forehead
    and without the protruding eyebrow ridges of earlier man.

    Mr Berger admitted it was highly unlikely that the actual "genetic
    Eve" left the prints, but they were made at the right time on the
    continent to be hers.

    "Genetic Eve" is a hypothetical figure who lived in Africa between
    100,000 and 300,000 years ago and who carried DNA potential of modern
    women. Scientists measuring the range of DNA in different populations
    today have concluded that we are all descended from one common female
    ancestor.

    The three footprints were discovered in rock along Langebaan lagoon,
    60 miles north of Cape Town, where Mr Roberts was looking for them
    on a hunch.

    The discovery team believe the woman was a lone figure, perhaps 5ft
    3in tall, trudging down a steep, chalky dune after a violent
    rainstorm. Within a few hours the dune dried out and the wind filled
    the footprints with sand. They were then buried and gradually turned
    into stone.

    The footprints are eight & a half inches long. The big toe, ball,
    arch and heel are all clear as the walker crunched down the wet
    surface. Since the discovery last year, nearby rocks have yielded
    Stone Age tools thought to have been crafted by the same people who
    walked the dunes.

    The discoveries provide evidence of anatomically modern human beings
    in an area of Africa that is believed to be the cradle of our
    ancestors. How well these humans could think is debated by
    scientists. They did not bury their dead nor leave traces of cave
    paintings as other did 50,000 to 75,000 years later, Mr Berger said.

    Ochre pigment has been near the lagoon that are up to 125,000 years
    old and scientists believe they were used by the early human beings.
    The earlier footprints found in Africa were left by pre-human apemen
    from a far distant branch of our family tree.

    Summing up his research, Mr Berger said: "An important message comes
    to us from the lagoon footprints. As diverse as the world is, as
    different as we look, we are an incredibly young species and all of
    us Africans."

    [W 6]******

    Source: Daily Mail newspaper
    Date: Thursday 14 August 1997

    As men in black opens, a scientist tells us what aliens will really
    look like

    from Daniel Jeffreys in New York

    Labrador-sized, four arms, a mouth in it's stomach, and one day
    it'll land here

    For the second year running, the big summer film blockbuster fuels
    our obsession with extraterrestrials. Men in black, now showing in
    Britain, is a comedy about two US government agents whose job is to
    round up illegal aliens and pack them back to the planet.

    But is the reality rather more worrying? An increasing number of
    academics and experts believe that while such films are right to
    show that we are not alone, they are wrong in their portrayal of
    aliens.

    They argue that we should prepare for a shock. When we run into life
    forms from elsewhere in the galaxy, which will be very soon, they
    will treat us with contempt, pushing us aside like insects.

    Doctor Seth Shostak, one of the world's leading physicists and
    astronomers, is among those who say there are millions of aliens.
    And he says that when they turn up on Earth their technological
    superiority will make our attempts to find them, such as the current
    expedition to Mars, look puny.

    He publishes this worrying analysis in his book Sharing The
    Universe. Already his findings have been held by other scientists as
    the most effective argument yet for believing the universe is teaming
    with intelligent life forms, many of them far more ancient and
    advanced than us.

    Shustak, who is so confident that he has even described what the
    aliens will probably look like, believes we would be better
    diverting the billions spent on space exploration to working out how
    to cope when the inevitable contact with extra terrestrial
    civilisations take place.

    He estimate that there are more than 1,000 planets in our galaxy
    alone that house these super smart beings, many of which would regard
    humanity like we regard insects or rodents. 'Give me a halfway
    decent planet and I'll give you life,' he says, fresh from a radio
    telescopic sweep of nearby planets.

    'There are 50 billion stars in the Milky Way similar to our sun,
    with 1.5 billion planets that share our characteristics. Many will
    have intelligent life.'

    More Americans believe alien landings have already taken place than
    think President Clinton is telling the truth about his
    extra-marrital affairs. If aliens are on their way, humanity has
    never been more receptive to their arrival, so long as they treat us
    nicely.

    Books and films tend to depict aliens as either friendly, in which
    case they resemble extra - large babies with big deer eyes (E.T.,
    Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) or hostile, looking like a cross
    between an angry alligator and a malfunctioning set of chainsaws.

    In the first case they, come to educate us; in the second they come
    for lunch - and we're the main course. Neither of these is likely to
    happen on man's first date with visitors from the stars.

    'Our initial contact will most likely be with some sort of
    self-replicating machine intelligence, 'says Schostak, who is the
    director of the Institute For The Search For Extra terrestrial
    Intelligence in California. 'It will have travelled astronomical
    distances specifically to gather information not to make friends or
    eat.'

    The City institute is not a group of  `UFO fanatics. It used to be
    funded by Nasa until a cost conscious US Congress cut off its cash.
    Now it's paid for with millions of dollars from high task
    corporations like Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Pacard, reflecting how
    seriously many take the existence of alien life.

    This private sector fortune has allowed SETI to keep its massive
    array of radio telescopes aimed at the stars, gathering libraries
    full of information about distant solar systems every day.

    'We know the nearest extraterrestrial intelligent life is a long way
    away,' says Shustak, at 46 the world's leading authority on what
    ET's need to thrive. 'Space travel is difficult, dangerous and slow.'

    Experts say that  it would take more than 100 years to reach the
    nearest solar system which SETI thinks could support life,
    travelling at around 40,000 miles per second.

    No Star Trek fiction here. The Enterprise craft travels at the speed
    of light, 186,282 miles per second - and hitting even a small space
    rock at that speed would cause an impact equivalent to several
    nuclear bombs, destroying the ship in an instance.

    'Thats why an intelligent machine representing the alien culture is
    probably a first visitor,' says Shustak. 'It will have been built by
    a far superior intelligence and will be capable of rebuilding itself
    and clones to launch on other missions.

    'It will be programmed to expect an encounter with another
    civilisation and will make efforts to communicate with us while
    analysing our strengths and weaknesses.'

    Imagine how we would react if an alien box of tricks suddenly turned
    up riding alongside the Mir space station, electronically sniffing
    the Russian craft like a dog marking its territory?

    'It will be a testing time,' says Shustak. 'Some people will want it
    destroyed, fearing that aliens who know we are here will want to
    colonise or kill us.

    'There's also the chance that contacts with a civilisation much more
    advanced than ours will force humanity to develop an enormous
    inferiority complex. And that could cause human civilisation to
    crumble because we've assumed for so long that we're the top dogs.'

    Collapse might be especially likely if the aliens were no bigger
    than a labrador with reptillian skin, for arms and a mouth in their
    stomachs, something Shustak believes is quite possible.

    Using a mix of  laws from physics, astronomy and biochemistry he has
    reduced what the kind of appearance intelligence aliens will have.

    'There's no reason to suppose insects or reptiles failed to develop
    intelligence on other planets,' he says. 'The dinosaurs were on
    their way to complex intelligence before a capitalism wiped them
    out.'

    Shustak and his SETI colleagues also agree the aliens are likely to
    have heads, because that's an efficient way of housing a brain, and
    the eyes and ears will be attached to their skulls.

    'We have our hearing and sight near the brain for a reason, it
    minimise the length of the bodies most complex nerve network,' he
    says. 'But there's no pressing reason for the mouth to be in the
    head. The stomach would be more efficient.'

    As would more than two arms. The aliens will definitely have some
    limbs, to allow them to manipulate tools, a necessary part of an
    intelligent culture. Theyr're also likely to be smaller.

    'We think Earth's gravity is unusual, 'says Shustak. 'Most alien
    species will have more gravity and that means they'll tend to be
    compact. They will need to be at least the size of a basketball to
    sustain intelligence but after that any size up to three feet will
    do.'

    Shustak thinks we will probably be surprised by the aliens
    'appearance.' Just go to the zoo and look at the diversity there,
    then magnifying the species many thousands of times, 'he says.
    'Aliens across the universe will come in many different shapes and
    sizes, which will only intensify a anxiety when we meet them for the
    first time.'

    One alien life form we can probably rule out is giants. Even with
    low gravity they are just not viable as an ancient advanced
    civilisation. They eat to much, causing early depletion of their
    planets resources, and they can barely lift a fraction of their own
    weight. Brainy elephants are not likely to be the first aliens to
    beam down.

    The most chilling aspect of Shustaks research is his claim that
    alien civilisations are much smarter than humans. He bases this
    observation on the relative age of Man. We are a young civilisation
    and many aliens will be much more ancient with technology we have
    never dreamed of.

    Take a look at what mankind has done to less intelligent species and
    the prospect of the inevitable alien visit looks alarming. If we're
    lucky we'll end up as pets; if we're unlucky we'll go the ways of
    cows, mink or crocadiles.

    Either way, it Shustak is right, our chances of staying free and
    independent are remote. The aliens may be smaller than us but they
    will be a lot smarter.

    Sharing The Universe will be published by Victor Gollancz at 8
    pounds 95 pence next month.
     

    [A FEARFUL SYMMETRY - part 2]

    United Kingdom UFO Network would like to thank Lynne Bishop and
    Bookfinder Publishing for permission to serialise 'A Fearful
    Symmetry'

    Readers may like to visit the web sites of both Lynne and Bookfinder
    Publishing at:

    http://geocities.datacellar.net/Athens/3862/
    http://www.bookfinder.simplenet.com

    All parts of this serialisation previous to the current segment can
    be read in their entirety at Bookfinder's web site above.

    ---

    A FEARFUL SYMMETRY

    A TRUE STORY OF ALIEN INTRUSION INTO HUMAN LIVES

    By D. Lynne Bishop

    A FEARFUL SYMMETRY Copyright 1995 by D. Lynne Bishop

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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    First Printing September 1995

    Printed in the United States of America

    BOOKFINDER PUBLISHING

    ---

    CHAPTER TWO

    The event which led to my discovery of something bizarre in my life
    began innocently enough on a beautiful, warm, springlike day in 1972.
    I was eighteen years old, having recently graduated as Salutatorian
    in the rural high school I had attended. My mother and I had tended
    to some personal business in a large city in Central Arkansas. At one
    o'clock in the afternoon, we had left the city to begin the trip back
    home--a trip of approximately three hours' duration. We were both
    relaxed that day, and in pleasant moods. Our business had been
    successfully transacted, and as we drove toward home, our
    conversation was animated and lively--but not containing any element
    of unusual topics.

    After two hours of driving time, we approached a small town located
    at the base of a valley ringed by a part of the Ozark Mountains. A
    road crew was blasting that day on the mountainous road leading into
    the valley, and one of the crew members flagged us, signaling the
    traffic in our lane to stop. Our car was in the lead, with three or
    four other cars behind us at the time. After clearing the road of
    debris from the blasting, the road crew allowed our lane to continue,
    and we drove slowly down the mountainside, nearing a turn we would
    take at the junction of an intersecting highway. Mother and I both
    recalled seeing the turn--and then everything went totally blank.

    I groggily "came to" just seconds later, or so I thought. Mother was
    still driving the car, but seemed unusually quiet, particularly since
    we had just been laughing and joking, and talking about only being an
    hour away from home. We suddenly looked at each other, realizing we
    had no idea where we were! We were on a stretch of unfamiliar paved
    road, with no road signs or other indicators of our location. The
    pavement was pitch black and completely new looking, as if it had
    been freshly laid and never driven on prior to our being there.

    You can imagine our agitation as the situation slowly dawned on us.
    Only moments before, we had been on a familiar highway, headed home .
     . and now we had no earthly idea where we were or what had happened
    to us. With one accord, we agreed we should turn around, hoping that
    by doing so we would regain our lost territory. The road was
    extremely straight and narrow, and hemmed in on both sides with huge,
    overhanging trees, and an expanse of deep forest to either side.
    After a few minutes (although it seemed like hours!), we located a
    very small turnaround on the left-hand side of the road, and Mother
    prepared to turn into it. As she did so, I screamed, "Mother, there's
    a car coming toward us!" She completed the turn, and we both looked
    to see where the car had gone, for it would have been on a collision
    course with us as we pulled into the small area. To my amazement and
    chagrin, there was not a car anywhere in sight.

    Completely baffled and perplexed, as well as thoroughly shaken by the
    entire experience, we turned around and continued driving in the
    opposite direction. Suddenly, we realized that we were on the wrong
    side of the town, but we had not driven through it to get there! We
    found our turn onto the intersecting highway (from the opposite
    direction), and continued the drive toward home, puzzled about what
    had just occurred. The event had led to a buildup of unease and a
    desire to get home as soon as possible. As we continued driving, a
    vague sense of strangeness caused me to glance occasionally out both
    windows, gazing into the tree-lined roadside. With my heart in my
    throat, I managed to barely croak to Mother, "Do you see that silver
    craft that's following us?" We were terrified by this time, and had
    no desire to stop the car. The windows were rolled down, and Mother
    managed to confirm that there was, indeed, a white or silver-colored
    craft that seemed to be pacing our car, falling neither behind nor
    pulling ahead of us. The craft was cigar-shaped, with no wings or
    tail, and there was no discernible sound emanating from the craft.
    There were no identifying marks on it, and this particularly bothered
    Mother, who, along with my father, had served in the U.S. Army, and
    both were very knowledgeable about aircraft. After several minutes of
    "cat-and-mouse," the strange craft finally moved off out of sight,
    and we sped off toward the safety of home.

    Upon arriving home, we discovered that a trip normally requiring
    three hours had taken us over four. It was apparent that something
    peculiar had happened between our "blank" spell, and "coming to" on
    the wrong side of town. And yet, twenty years were to pass by before
    we could bring ourselves to publicly seek answers to this
    mind-boggling affair.

    As I sat across from John Carpenter on April 25, 1992, the enormity
    of what I was preparing to do rushed in on me. I was stepping into
    "terra incognita," with no idea of the outcome--and no way of
    predicting it. I had no basis for comparison--nothing in my life that
    I was aware of had prepared me for dealing with the concept of alien
    abduction. Intellectually, I felt prepared for the undertaking, but I
    had not even begun to realize the emotional toll this "journey" would
    exert on me.

    Prior to the actual induction of hypnosis, we relaxed with a
    pre-session conversation, touching on the many aspects of the UFO and
    alien phenomenon. John asked if there had been anything, in
    particular, which had gotten me interested in UFOs. I responded,
    "It's been lifelong." I told him that Mother had seen a "classic" UFO
    in Houston, Texas, when my twin sister and I were just babies. I
    could recall hearing about Sputnik as a very young child, and
    remembered my entire family watching the satellite Echo go over when
    my father had been stationed in Germany. Suddenly, I realized that a
    major portion of my life had been spent in sky-watching--and I
    wondered why. Had some hidden force been manipulating my actions and
    life so long ago?

    John also questioned whether I had ever seen anything I couldn't
    explain. His question elicited the memory of an orange sphere that my
    family and I had seen often during the 1970's. I described the object
    to him, "This particular object was an orange disc-like thing. It was
    a vivid orange, ranging toward the red spectrum. A slow-moving
    object, it always seemed to move with a slow, steady glide--almost
    floating. We usually saw it on Thursdays, and it seemed always to be
    on a North- South trajectory."

    "What about dreams?", John then asked. For the first time that
    morning (but certainly not the last!), I became quite agitated and
    nervous. He had hit a nerve with that almost innocently slipped-in
    question. There had been one "dream" in my past that had continued to
    plague me throughout my adult years, because I had never been certain
    it was truly a dream. There had been a "feeling" to it not associated
    with the normal dreams I had.

    "Well, I've had two dreams of different kinds of aliens. The first
    one actually bothers me more than the second.

    "In the first 'dream,' I'm at the residence where all of us lived as
    young teenagers, where Mom's house was. I'm in the house, and I'm
    aware that other family members are there, but I'm not really seeing
    them. I'm just aware that they're there. There was a sliding glass
    door that faced the West, and it looked out into a small pasture, or
    meadow-like area in front of our barn. Suddenly, something catches my
    eye, so I look closer, and it looks like your standard UFO going over
    at about treetop level.

    "When I see this, I go rushing out the door. The craft is not very
    big--it looks like just a small landing-craft. It continues flying
    northerly, toward our pond. Like an idiot, I just stand there in the
    pasture, watching . . . and as it reaches the pond, it stops. It's
    daylight--right around dusk-- so I can see it clearly.

    "Suddenly, it starts moving back toward me, and I panic, thinking
    that it's seen me, so I bolt for the house. I yell to my family to
    start locking the doors and windows, because we're being invaded. I
    finally get inside the house, turn around to look out the door again,
    and see that the craft has landed and some aliens are getting out.
    The aliens are humanoid, kind of small. They have an almost
    flowing-type movement--not jointed like a human, but more loose. I
    realize that we're in trouble, because I know there is nothing we can
    do to keep them out.

    "All at once, these creatures are inside the house--and although this
    sounds crazy--my family and I are frozen in place. One of the
    entities starts approaching me, and I have such a feeling of dread. I
    don't want it to touch me, but it's getting closer . . . and my eyes
    fixate on its hand as it reaches out toward me. The hand is so
    long-fingered! I think, 'Don't touch me!' even as its hand comes
    near. And then I hear in my head this thought from the creature,
    'This is how we breed.'"

    John then asked about the second dream I'd recalled. While this
    didn't carry with it the intensity of feeling the first one had, I
    felt I should describe it also, in case it contained hidden
    information that would be useful in ferreting out answers.

    "In this dream, I'm at the same residence. I'm out in the front yard,
    and there's a flyover of what appears to be military helicopters.
    They fly across the street in an east direction, to an area where
    there is another pond on some neighboring land. There is a large
    quantity of ducks on the pond, and as the helicopters pass over the
    water, they drop off these hairy, apelike alien creatures (like
    Bigfoot). The ducks panic when the aliens land, and start running
    across the highway in front of our house. I run out to the highway to
    try to divert the traffic on the road, to prevent the ducks from
    being crushed. One car pulls over, and the driver--a lady--gets out
    and asks me what's causing the ducks to panic. I tell her about the
    helicopters and the aliens.

    "Then there's a horrible 'roaring' sound from the direction of the
    pond, and these apelike aliens start pouring forth. As they capture
    all of us, I discover that the military and the government have made
    a pact with these creatures. Basically, they have agreed to let the
    aliens have a part of the world, in exchange for subduing it, and the
    government and the military will have a co-control."

    As the preliminary interview drew to a close, John asked the question
    I had been both dreading and expecting, "Knowing that you've had some
    kind of memory lapse, what do you expect will come out of all this?"
    It was a question I had already asked myself--and I still had no real
    concrete answer to it. I replied to him, "I've analyzed that a lot,
    and I really don't know what to expect. I'm afraid of not breaking
    through that blank space. And I've been a skeptic on the idea of
    aliens and interaction with humans. If something like that were to
    come out during this, I'd have to do a lot of rethinking."

    HYPNOSIS SESSIONS
    Lynne: April 25, 1992
    Frances: May 3, 1992
    Springfield, Missouri

    Although the hypnosis sessions were conducted independently, they
    have been combined to show the corroborating parallels between the
    two testimonies. No sharing of memories recalled under hypnosis
    occurred until both sessions were completed. What follows are
    excerpts from the actual transcripts of those sessions: John:
    (Hypnosis has been induced and the subject's memory has been returned
    to the time of the event.) You're in the car next to your mother.
    What are you wearing, and can you picture the car?

    Lynne: I've got on blue jeans. It's a white car with a red interior.

    Frances: It was not my favorite car. I thought it looked boxy.

    John: . . . and you're going down the hill, and you can see your
    turn. Describe what you notice as you look out, anything that you
    notice . . .

    Lynne: Well, I can see a car . . . it only has a driver in it. There
    are no passengers. I think it's a guy who's driving. He's kind of got
    a weird look . . . like he's seeing something . . . like he's shocked
    or something.

    Frances: I see a car . . . I don't know if I thought he'd hit me, or
    I'd hit him . . . I see a light flash, off and on . . . He said
    something I couldn't hear.

    John: And what do you do, as you notice the car? Feel the car, and
    remember . . .

    Lynne: (At this point, I broke out of hypnosis. I opened my eyes and
    sat up.) (Expelled breath) . . . (Nervous laugh) . . . Ooh . . . That
    was weird!

    John: (Calming the subject) . . . Relax, just relax . . . (Re-induced
    hypnotic state) . . . Just be like a camera and report the images . .

    Lynne: (Nervous laughter) . . . The car . . . went forward . . . and
    up!

    Frances: . . . The car . . . moving so fast . . . I moved so fast!

    John: . . . and if you were to look at your mother right now, what is
    she doing? How does she seem"

    Lynne: She's . . . not doing anything . . . just sitting there. I can
    see her hands on the wheel, but she's not driving it.

    Frances: . . . The car was moving so fast, I couldn't control it . .
     Didn't seem to need to . . . John: . . . At this point, you may
    have said something to each other, or perhaps not . . . but you can
    hear clearly anything that you might be able to hear, any sound . . .

    Lynne: I don't really hear any talking.

    Frances: I don't . . . I don't hear anything.

    John: . . . Notice what happens next . . . if anything changes . . .

    Lynne: Um, it's kind of an odd thing. I can kinda . . . for some
    reason, I can see Mom and me standing . . . like, Mom's here, and I'm
    here (accompanied by hand motions).

    Frances: I'm standing.

    John: Do you see your car at this point?

    Lynne: Uhhh . . . (Nervous laugh) . . . I don't really see the car.

    Frances: No.

    John: Notice, as you're standing there . . . look and see if you can
    tell what your feet are touching, or what's right around you.

    Lynne: It's a solid floor of some kind, just kinda gray. There's a
    gray wall in front, probably ten feet away. There are no windows. No
    dividing line where the wall meets the floor. It's not angular. It
    just kinda looks molded . . . It's not a normal room . . .

    Frances: It's in a . . . like a circle. Silvery . . . I see a door .

    John: . . . Now that you're seeing more, you can really tune it in .
     . You'll be even more alert to see everything around you, and to
    notice all that happens . . .

    Lynne: I get a feeling of movement . . . the focal point seems to be
    real limited . . . I'm moving, but not walking . . . It's like a
    conveyor belt . . . I don't see Mom. I don't know . . . someone else
    may be with me . . .

    Frances: I don't see (my daughter) yet. (Pause) . . . Um, a figure .
     . That . . . There's (my daughter)! There she is! A long way away .
     . there were four . . . but it was so far away, I couldn't tell who
     . . a long corridor . . . (My daughter) is with them. They're all
    in stride, even the short one. Two are about her height (5'6"). She
    didn't scream.

    John: Okay, and now you can . . . If it's hard to look at, you can
    just take a peek and freeze it, like a snapshot. Take a quick, safe
    peek, and describe all that you can notice about them

    Lynne: . . . Clothed in silver, no defining line at the waist,
    form-fitting and skin-tight. Like a body suit. No hair, a bald head .
     . rounded, not human-shaped. Bigger head with large brain area,
    smaller neck. The outfit (it's wearing) has a turtleneck. Suit seems
    to continue down, covering the feet. Hand is definitely not human.
    (Nervous laugh) . . . Um, let's see. It's . . . longer fingered. I
    can see an opposable thumb, but I don't think it has the same number
    of fingers (as humans). It kind of curled its hand when it reached
    out. It's face . . . is kind of odd. It's really flat on the
    bottom--like it's wearing a mask. There's a bulge in the forehead
    region. I'm not seeing eyes right now. It's like the forehead kind of
    bulges up and out. And the rest of the face is flat and narrowed
    down, very sharp. It's a helmet . . . I see a visor . . . like a
    motorcycle helmet. No ears . . . Long sleeved outfit . . .

    Frances: . . . Two arms, two legs . . . (Laugh) . . . Uh, they don't
    have heads like people have heads. Like a mask . . . faceplate . . .
    faceplate. Head shape is ovoid. Faceplate . . . reflective, plastic-
    looking. Curved across the face. They do have eyes . . . like big
    sunglasses. (I wear sunglasses; doesn't everybody?) Don't see hair.
    Hands are bony-looking, long-fingered . . . I didn't count 'em.
    Sensation of pale blue form-fitting outfit with long sleeves. No belt
    around the middle. I didn't see any ears.

    John: Okay, watch and see how the scene changes. What is it that you
    do . . . or what changes the scene in some way?

    Lynne: I see Mom again. There's a scene shift . . . a different
    place. I see . . . I keep wanting to talk to her. I want so badly to
    get a response from her. She's standing on something black. It's
    strange . . . I keep getting this idea of . . . almost like a tube.
    She's in it . . . she's standing there so quiet . . . It's a clear
    tube, just big enough for her to fit it--like a one-person size.
    There's a...like a "Command" area here . . . like an instrument
    panel. It has a smooth top, like glass or something clear. I can see
    an array of something in that area. I see a "flash" of the back of
    one of the entities working the controls there. It bothers me . . . I
    think it's doing something that pertains to Mom.

    Frances: (My daughter's) here, behind me. We're in this room
    together. Makes me think of a submarine. It's got . . . instruments .
     . dials and a thing in the middle . . . like a periscope . . . a
    shaft, big, heavy. I see readouts, but I can't read 'em. Like
    computer . . . monitor. Old, scribed writing. I'm under this
    periscope-thing. Like it was open . . . something to do with the
    opening. They told me to do something. I wanted (my daughter), and I
    did something . . . something with this periscope-thing.

    John: All right. Move forward in time to a point where you see
    something different. Notice all that you can tell, and when something
    changes. What's the first thing you notice happening differently?

    Lynne: Hmm . . . I see us standing on grass! That's the first color
    I've seen. That's kind of nice! I've actually got some green! My
    vision is circumscribed, though . . . very, very inhibited. I see the
    grass and us, but it's like . . . there's no vision out there . . .
    no peripheral vision, or something.

    Frances: We're out . . . back on the ground.

    John: I wonder how you got to the grass? Move back just one step in
    time, back up slowly . . . and see how you got to the grass . . .

    Lynne: I had a feeling of movement at a diagonal . . . like an
    invisible escalator. A hatch opened up . . . and then that feeling of
    the invisible escalator. Looking up, I see something circular,
    spherical. I get the impression of a silver color again, and toward
    the outer edges there's an indentation, or a fluted area. It's
    hovering; it's not moving. There's something else in the center--a
    shape that's moving. It doesn't stay constant. It's a fluctuating,
    changing geometrical shape--seems to be moving counterclockwise.

    Frances: It's like that thing was open . . . like a porthole . . . an
    iris. I slid back into myself. We stood under the craft.

    John: Moving ahead in time, how does that image change?

    Lynne: I see the car on the side of the road, not very far away . . .
    not even a couple hundred feet, maybe, or even closer. We walk toward
    the car and get into it, and drive away. I see the craft leave. It
    takes off fast, straight up and then toward the left.

    Frances: The bottom closes up, and then I'm in the car. The craft is
    up, up. It's going away. Like . . . it goes straight up. And I see it
    going away.

    [Part 3 in issue {80}]

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