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

This issue comes in 3 parts. 
 

Editorial 
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Special Guests to the UK.UFO.NW - UFO - IRC channel. 

United Kingdom News 
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[UK 1] New UFO Explosions Over Scotland! 
[UK 2] Proof Positive of Military Cover-Up of UFOs 
[UK 3] Scientists step back 385m years 
[UK 4] A starless night and the ghost bomber roams the skies 
 

World News 
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[W 1] TWA Flight 800 
[W 2] Lego UFOs 
[W 3] Pilotless Stealth Fighter 
[W 4] MUFON Skywatch Investigations August 1987 
[W 5] Art Bell Show Satellite Hit With EMP? 
[W 6] Cy Gilson Polygraph test of Travis Walton 
[W 7] Mars Pathfinder - Still no signal 
[W 8] First sighting of KGB X-Files 
[W 9] Arthur C. Clarke - Why ET will never call home 
 

A FEARFUL SYMMETRY by D. Lynne Bishop 
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Part 4 

 
 

Editorial 
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Special Guests to the UK.UFO.NW - UFO - IRC channel. 

The uk.ufo.nw has had a very pleasant few weeks recently with 
various guests attending our weekly irc meetings. The most recent 
have been: 

John Velez 
Michael Lindemann 
Matthew Williams 
Stanton T. Friedman 

All have spent at least a couple of hours answering visitors 
questions live online. The number of people on channel during the 
meetings has been phenomenal. We would like to thank the guests for 
giving up their free time to be with us. We would also like to thank 
everyone who attended the meetings for doing so. 

It won't stop here though. We have more guests lined up for the 
future. Dan Sherman (see e-zine issues 80 & 81) will be with us 
later this year. Watch this space for more news. 

The log of the Matthew Williams and Stanton T. Friedman meetings 
will be sent out as special issues to subscribers shortly. Both make 
a worthy read. 

Full information on how to join us at our weekly irc meetings can be 
found at the foot of the e-zine. 
 

United Kingdom News 
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[UK 1]****** 

Source: Sightings on the Radio 
From: Skywatch 
Submitted by: Stig Agermose 
Date: 23rd September 1997 

New UFO Explosions Over Scotland! 

At 2:30pm Tuesday 23rd September 1997, news reports came in saying 
UFO's and bright lights were seen from Scotland to Tyne Tees on the 
previous night from 23:30-03:30 22nd & 23 Sept. 

The lights were witnesses by the residents up & down the East Coast, 
Scotland & Tyne Tees areas. 

These reports stated that many people had called local news and TV 
stations having seen bright objects of various sizes and shapes 
emitting bright lights and travelling at erratic speeds for a period 
of time not yet established. The lights were observed shooting across 
each other and then witnesses heard several loud explosions followed 
by bright flashes and a crackling noise which in turn prompted the 
immediate response of the nearby Rescue Services. The Life Boat and 
helicopters were out searching the areas for any sign of wreckage 
which at this time was thought to be a plane or other aircraft. Many 
of the people that telephoned the Rescue Services said that they 
thought that there had been a mid-air collision. 

Today a MOD person from RAF Kinloss Craig Lindsey said that the 
military are checking the area and have mounted an investigation into 
the reports. 

News is coming in all the time and I will be speaking to my source 
tonight to get the latest, and hopefully some eye witness accounts to 
report in the next few days will be available. 

[UK 2]****** 

Date: 9th June 1997 
Author: Matthew Williams 

Proof Positive of Military Cover-Up of UFOs 

By: Matthew Williams 

Copyright  1997 You can reach Matthew at truthseekers@celtic.co.uk 

Matthew Williams is a former civil servant who worked for HM Customs 
& Excise Criminal Investigations department who since his own UFO 
sighting, back in 1990, now investigates the UFO enigma full time. He 
has managed to get the MOD to unwittingly admit that they knew the 
whereabouts of UFO files which were listed missing - (which they 
secretly had hidden) - whilst at the same time they were spinning a 
web of untruths to public, press and MPs. He has also looked into the 
governments investigations of UFOs and had uncovered the amazing 
details of how one department, implicated in UFO investigations, 
operates from a super secret facility in Corsham, Wilts which is 
housed underground in 35 miles of nuclear proof tunnels. Matthew has 
become a whistle blower on the existence of this base and a number of 
other secret bases. Matthew believes in direct action to expose bases 
and has been involved in some actions against bases in the UK. 

                                            ****** 

The following information may to the uninitiated seem complex or 
trivial so it must be clearly pointed out that the reasons for 
providing this information are simple. The MOD says that there is no 
cover-up over UFO information and also they state that there have 
been no secret departments investigating UFOs. This we manage to 
disprove along with uncovering a policy of downplaying the UFO 
subject. The story gets even more interesting when you learn that 
after we found out these facts in a MOD file the MOD removed the 
incriminating file from public view. This file implicated Provost & 
Security Services (based at RAF Rudloe Manor), which is a deprtment 
that I have been researching for some years, as having investigating 
the UFO subject - a point which they deny. 

I have supplied snippets from the original government documents 
which show the points we are making. If anyone wishes to get hold of 
copies of the originals they can do so by visiting the Public Records 
Office in Kew, London where the files can be booked out and 
photocopied. 

File no AIR 2/16918 provides the best evidence to show that in the 
1960s there were no fewer than seven secret government departments 
within the Ministry Of Defence that were investigating UFOs. Former 
UFO public office investigator Nick Pope claimed that in his 
experience there were no other departments investigating UFOs. We 
have a problem with this statement in light of these new files which 
show otherwise. Could it be that Nick Pope in his low ranking 
position of Executive Officer (an entry level grade) was not aware 
of these departments, or is he covering them up? When questioned, 
Nick Pope assured me that he did not know of these departments when 
he was working in the MOD and had no dealings with them. 

When researching UFO files you encounter the thirty-year rule 
problem. This means that any information which is released through 
official channels is subject to a thirty year filing rule (sometimes 
longer). This means that by the time the files reach our hands and 
we learn things the departments which dealt with the information have 
probably closed down or had their names changed and so we cannot 
find out their current status or records, or even to make complaints. 
The departments clearly named many times in this file have no other 
documentation or references within the Public Records Office. 
Consequently we suspect that this file was probably not meant to 
reach the Public Records Office. Are we going a bit far in stating 
this? Perhaps not when you learn that after researchers exposed the 
file it was then removed from view at the Public Records Office and 
only returned after questions being raised in the House Of Commons 
by the Rt. Hon. Ieuan Wyn Jones, MP for Anglesey North. 

The confirmed departments involved in UFO investigation that we know 
of in the 1960's are: 

* AMOC (Air Ministries Operations Centre) 

* AIS (Air Information Service) 

* AI(Tech)4a (Air Intelligence Technical 4a) 

* AI(Tech)5b (Air Intelligence Technical 5b) 

* AI1 (Air Intelligence 1) 

* DSTI (Department of Scientific and Technical Intelligence) 

* DDI-Tech (Department of Defence Intelligence Technical) 

* Public departments investigating UFOs who were in fact simply 
letter writers that fronted these other departments are DS8 & Air 
Staff 2 & S6. 

* CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) has also conducted investigations of 
the UFO phenomenon, and has recently finished an investigation a near 
miss of a UFO and a jetliner coming which was making its final 
approach to Manchester airport. 

* Extra departments rumoured to be investigating UFOs include D155 
and DI64. 

The files which were used for the basis of these investigations are 
as follows: AIR 2/16918, AIR 16/1199, AIR 2/17318, AIR 20/7390, AIR 
20/9320, AIR 20/9321, AIR 20/9322, AIR 20/9994, AIR 2/17318, AIR 
2/17526, AIR 2/17527, AIR 2/17982, AIR 2/17983, PREM 11/855. 

We know from statements made to us by serving officers and also 
former serving officers and officials, inside the MOD, that many 
files exist which have never been released to the public. We also 
hear from Lord Peter Hill Norton, Commander of the Fleet (MODs 
highest position possible), that in his opinion there is a cover-up 
and UFOs are of defence significance. He states that films and 
evidence of UFOs are being withheld by the MOD. 

A MOD ruling from 1967 meant that all UFO reports would be preserved 
in the Public Records Office for viewing by the public, because of 
renewed interest in the subject of UFOs. However if the seven secret 
MOD departments were investigating UFOs back then, where are the 
departments files relating to this? No files are available or due to 
be released for these departments. It is as if they didn't exist and 
efforts to find out if these departments moved on to have new names 
have proved fruitless as this information is deemed sensitive and 
cannot be given out to the public. 

We know that documents exist which have not been released to the UK 
public because these documents have been copied to the US government 
and have been released to US citizens under the American Freedom of 
Information Act. This release circumvented UK secrecy laws. Some of 
these documents show that UFO incidents have taken place on UK soil, 
involving American airbases. We also know that some of these bases 
have had overflights of UFOs, which subsequently interfered and 
rendered some of the nuclear weapons stored on the base inoperable, 
e.g. the 1980 Woodbridge / Bentwaters incidents. The mere fact that 
these weapons were stored in this US airbase on British soil is 
still a top-secret. (Proof of the nuclear aspect is available in a 
new book LEFT AT EAST GATE published by Michael '0 Mara books.) I 
have just secured my own evidence of the Nuclear aspect at Bentwaters 
by secretly visiting the site with a team of UFO investigators, 
including Richard Conway and two original witnesses. We visited the 
nuclear bunkers and will be releasing this proof soon. 

Readers should note that the proposals for a UK Freedom of 
Information act are clear in there being no responsibility for the 
MOD to take part. (Although it is my understanding that some MOD 
departments feel that they may be included so are preparing anyhow). 
I feel this is an unnaceptable situation and would only support a 
total government and military-wide Freedom of Information act. 

When looking at the files which follow, remember that whenever the 
MOD have been questioned on the subject of UFOs they have given a 
statement that UFOs are of "No Defence Significance". Clearly the 
files show that UFOs were of defence significance otherwise they 
would not be investigating them at such a high level. 

SO WHAT FILES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ANYHOW..... 

1. "Project Bluebook" was the USAF public project to investigate 
UFOs using air force resources. Its leader, Dr J Allen Hynek left the 
project in disgust saying that it was keeping the best and most 
unexplained records away from the Bluebook files. Subsequently he 
stated that the conclusions of the report, which were that most 
sightings could be explained and that no evidence of 
extraterrestrial life could be determined, was at the very best a 
cover-up of the highest order. (There were secret level 
investigations going on behind Project Bluebook which we now know of 
as project Sign and Grudge.) 

In this letter the MOD were writing to Project Bluebook and state 
that UFO investigations were carried out as part of the MODs Air 
Force Technical Intelligence Dept. Obviously the MOD, whilst writing 
to another Military unit, were prepared to admit to their 
investigations at a high level which is a point they would not admit 
publicly. This then shows that investigations went on at a high 
level than those of Airstaff 2a, the former office of Nick Pope. 

MOD admit to a policy of playing down the subject of UFOs. In doing 
this they avoid public or political pressure to mount a large scale 
- probably public - investigation on UFOs. It is not the military's 
right to make decisions that will affect politics. The military are 
supposed to be under the control of government and not acting in 
such a way as to dictate government policy. 
 

2. Nick Pope was asked directly about Provost and Security Service 
and RAF Rudloe Manors involvement in UFO investigations. He denied 
any knowledge of these facts although he was in office at a time 
when Kerry Philpott (Nick Popes successor) alleges that they sent 
reports to him. Work that out! 

Here we see a file letter showing that Provost & Security Service 
were investigating UFOs and that the files were classified as 
CONFIDENTIAL (a little hard to see on this photocopy). We also see 
that the MOD sent out officers to interview witnesses which may give 
rise to certain cases of "Men In Black" or "Men from the Ministry" 
visitations that have been reported by witnesses over the years. The 
MOD have denied that they ever sent out officers to visit witnesses. 
Nick Pope in his book OPEN SKIES CLOSED MINDS very firmly states the 
opinion that no MOD officers went out to visit witnesses and 
believes that these "MIBs" were just oddball characters - "Walter 
Mitty characters" who "dressed up" to scare witnesses and were 
nothing to do with the MOD. 

In fact this file gives the name of the officer who went out to 
interview the witness and page 2 of the report (which is not 
included in this file) goes even further into the fact that officers 
visited her on a few occasions. The witness, Mrs Ann Henson has now 
been visited by UFO researchers who confirmed that she was "advised" 
by the MOD to not talk about her sighting to press or public and not 
to discuss the MOD investigation. She kept to this silence for 30 
years until she was contacted by researchers. My question is how many 
other witnesses have been "advised" not to talk by the MOD in this 
fashion? 

Provost and Security Service is the department which has been 
rumoured for many years as being involved in UFO investigations and 
was first exposed in such a role in Timothy Goods book Above Top 
Secret. I featured my investigations into Rudloe Manor Alien 
Encounters a few editions ago and now it is clear the importance of 
this and other departments in the whole UFO investigations network. 
Provost & Security Services are based at RAF Rudloe Manor. Another 
interesting feature about RAF Rudloe Manor is that most of its 
facilities are housed underground in a labyrinth of 35 miles of 
tunnels. I have never heard any rumours of aliens down there, though 
- just a lot of intelligence work and war time control operations. 

3.  MOD have made statements that no UFO reports were classified 
secret yet in this Intelligence report, from one of the Secret UFO 
investigation units, we see the word SECRET clearly used. 

The report describes an object which was moving at speeds EXCEEDING 
1400Mph. No explanation could be found for the sighting. The speed 
was faster than any aircraft of the day.Officers who were 
experienced in radar made the statement that the reported contacts 
were not those of any conventional aircraft. 

We read that the MOD were unhappy to see reports of UFOs getting to 
the press and deny that the sighting was not backed up with radar 
evidence. This is clearly disinformation being fed to the British 
Public - proof again of a cover-up. 

The tone of this statement shows us that these secret investigators 
would pass on recommendations to civil servants in the publicly 
known UFO reporting departments (Nick Popes office) enabling them to 
make statements fit for public consumption. In this way the secret 
units could operate their investigations without being hindered 
because the names of these departments were hidden from view by the 
"front of shop" Whitehall MOD office writing replies to people. 

OTHER FACTS 

Some of the other documents available in UFO files include radar 
tracking of objects by the military. One incident which occurred in 
West Freugh which was forwarded to secret department DDI Tech was 
that of a set of five objects, which were measured to be as big as 
ships, which proceeded from 50,000ft to 70,000ft. A second radar was 
switched on and confirmed the objects at this height. The considered 
expert opinion of the military was that these objects were indeed 
unidentified and of an unknown type and origin. The radar operators 
were able to rule out the possibility of radar interference or that 
they may have misidentified charged clouds etc. This makes the 
incident very worthy of note. 

Other incidents include similar radar tracks of objects which 
travelled at speeds in excess of 4000 MPH. These speeds are faster 
than any known aircraft can achieve today, let alone back then in 
the 1960's! 

THE MISSING FILE 

In and around March 1995 the file which contained so many of these 
revelations about departments in the MOD investigating UFOs went 
missing after Nick Redfern was filmed for a documentary called Out 
Of This World. The official explanation for the missing file was that 
it has been misfiled. We suspected otherwise but it took the 
intervention of MP Ieuan Wyn Jones asking a question in the House Of 
Commons to bring the file back. The file was returned two days after 
the question being tabled. Still the excuse that we were given was 
that it had indeed been misfiled - this was after one year of 
looking for it and one major file search (known as a census). 

In a visit to the Public Records Office in 1996, myself and Richard 
Conway and Chris Fowler were told by Vivian Bales that the file was 
probably with the MOD as they often recalled sensitive files which 
they may have released information in by mistake. It was her opinion 
that this is possibly what had happened. We did not prompt her for 
this explanation and she gave it to us as an unofficial comment. It 
seems she may have been telling the truth as we shall see. 

I didn't buy the official missing file story so went on my own 
search for who might have had the file at the MOD. I used contacts I 
have in government to give me a lead about where inside the MOD where 
I might find an answer. I was given the details of a small department 
which is housed inside the Metropole Building in Northumberland 
Avenue. This is the Central Records Management Unit and after 
speaking to the staff there I was put onto the Deputy Departmental 
Records Officer, Mr I D Goode. Mr Goode checked his records and 
confirmed that he had records on the file being inside the MOD and 
sent to a department in November of 1996. He could not tell us which 
department because he said this was against the rules, but confirmed 
to me that by his records someone at the MOD had the file. I asked 
him to be very sure of what he was saying and he re-confirmed the 
details to me verbally and then by letter. 

This proved that an MP and members of the public were being lied to 
about the whereabouts of this file. Both the MOD and Public Records 
Office had assured us that they had carried out proper checks on the 
whereabouts of this file. If they had then surely they would have 
found out that it was booked to MOD. The fact that we were not told 
which department was dealing with the file was proof that there was 
some collusion behind the scenes. 

The final part of the saga is that an official clamp-down has come 
into force, and now we are told by Kerry Philpott of the MOD 
official UFO cover-up department that Mr I D Goode was in fact wrong 
and had made a clerical error and the records he had should have read 
Nov 95. This letter should not have come from Kerry Philpott anyway - 
it should have come from I D Goode who had made the statement to me 
in his previous letter. Why does it always happen when someone asks 
about UFOs or writes to government officials that a clamp down on 
details happens and you get a reply from Kerry Philpott? Why is it 
also that government denies that many other departments investigate 
UFOs and then send their watered-down conclusions through Kerry 
Philpott and Airstaff 2a for dissemination to the public. Well I 
think the answer to that question is obvious from the above. 

One thing is now clear, we have the ammunition to fight the 
government over the files of these seven secret departments who 
files do not appear in the Public Records Office. It has even been 
hinted to me by one insider that if any files for these departments 
did exist that they would not become public because most of these 
files are Defence Intelligence orientated and these types of files 
rarely get released, if at all! My source also tells me that these 
files would most certainly be screened for department names which 
were not to be public and our departments would probably come into 
that category. So a fight, it will probably have to be! 

SUMMARY 

What we have here is clear evidence of the Ministry of Defence being 
involved in playing down and covering up UFO sightings. UFO reports 
were classified as secret and details probably were not meant to be 
released to the public. Procedures were in place for the secret 
departments to lie to the public about conclusions of their 
investigations through the front of the Whitehall civil servant 
departments. We also know that the enormity of the sightings that 
were being reported back then show that UFOs were of extreme defence 
significance. Lastly we now know that the MOD were sending out 
officers to interview witnesses and these said same officers were 
trying to silence witnesses. It all fits together nicely. 

What we now need to know is where did those departments go and where 
do they operate from today. We also need to know where all of the 
investigations files from the many years of UFO research these 
departments have carried out. We are preparing to find these 
departments and to ask for the files. We will bring you further 
updates of any information we gather. Readers will be very 
interested to read about even more of the revelations in a new book 
by author Nick Redfern which will be released in September. It is 
called "A Covert Agenda" and will be published by Simon & Schuster. 

[UK 3]****** 

Source: Daily Mail newspaper 
Date: Thursday to October 1997 

Scientists step back 385 million years 

A set of ancient footprints discovered in Ireland may be the oldest 
in the world, scientists said yesterday. 

They were made by a 3ft long salamander like amphibian known as 
tetrapod, which was one of the first creatures to emerge from the 
sea. 

The creature lived around 385 million years ago - long before the 
first dinosaurs or mammals.. 

The fosilised trail, leading 60ft out of the sea on Valentia Island 
off County Kerry, is said to be so valuable that round - the - clock 
guards may be needed. 

[UK 4]****** 

Source: Daily Mail newspaper 
Date: Thursday to October 1997 

(see e-zine issue {73}for original story - available from:) 
(http://www.holodeck.demon.co.uk/) 

A starless night and the ghost bomber roams the skies 

By Chris Brooke 

For years, the mystery of the ghost bomber has been part of the 
folklore of the district. 

On starless nights, sightings of the fuzzy image of a World War II 
Halifax airplane would frequently be reported in the skies above the 
remote East Yorkshire village of Wetwang. 

With no other explanation to hand, locals speculated that the area 
might be haunted by some tragic pilot who perished in an act of 
wartime heroism. 

The legend of the ghost bomber spread, until an aviation buff in the 
neighbouring village of Fridaythorpe admitted: "Er, sorry - but it's 
probably all my fault." 

Richard Triners hobby is sketching. His favourite subjects are old 
aeroplanes...and occasionally, to give him inspiration, he projects 
a picture of an old bomber, on the night sky. 

The 52 - year - old former RAF personnel officer began his night 
time projections when he moved to the area seven years ago. 

It was at the time that the first sightings of a mystery four 
engined wartime bomber in RAF colours were reported. 

He carried on, unaware of the stir he was creating five miles away 
in Wetwang. 

"All the local papers carried stories but for some reason I didn't 
see them," a sheepish Mr Triner said yesterday. 

"Then a friend told me about the latest spate, which started three 
weeks ago. 

"That's when I was playing around with the image of a Halifax bomber 
to inspire me to sketch it. 

"I thought then that I'd have to tell people it's me, but I hope 
everyone can see the funny side." 

Mr Triner, who cares full time for his disabled wife Susan, added: 
"it might seem an eccentric thing to do but it's harmless and I'm 
very sorry if I've upset anyone. 

"I use a 100 - watt projector and need very dark nights, usually in 
the early morning. I can't always get the image in full focus, some 
times it works, some times it doesn't. 

"A ghostly appearance could be explained by the fact that the image 
often gets blurred. 

"It can look spooky and with clouds rushing past the image it looks 
like it's moving. Over the years it might have looked like the 
Battle of Britain out there." 

Not all the locals, however, are convinced by Mr Triners explanation 
for the dozens of appearances of the Wetwang bomber over the years. 

He projects images of the Halifax only at night and when conditions 
are cloudy to give the best chance of a perfect image - and many 
people claim they have seen the ghost airplane during the day. 
 

World News 
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[W 1]****** 

Source: Teletext - World News 
Date: Thursday 25th September 1997 

TWA Flight 800 

USA: Investigators believe that bundled wires may have caused the 
explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 last year, killing 230 
people. 

[W 2]****** 

Source: Teletext - Factfile 
Date: Thursday 25th September 1997 

Lego UFOs 

Danish toy giant Lego is pinning it's hopes of a Christmas jackpot 
on it's new range of high-tech UFO toys. 

[W 3]****** 

From: "Brian Straight" <briansxx@iquest.net> 
Source: Sunday Times newspaper 
Date: Sunday 21st September 1997 

Pilotless Stealth Fighter 

IN THE week that the future of America's F-117 stealth fighter is 
uncertain, following an unexplained crash at a Baltimore airshow, an 
American military contractor has revealed its plan for a 
next-generation, pilotless stealth fighter capable of flying at 
hypersonic speeds. 

The Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) has a wingspan of about 
27ft, and each fighter will cost about $12m (7.7m). The American 
air force hopes the first UCAVs could begin service in about 2005. 

The UCAV's tail-less design and futuristic rounded surface will 
allow it to avoid enemy radar, and an onboard computer will 
constantly randomise its flight path to confuse enemy tracking 
systems. 

Northrop Grumman, the Californian defence contractor that also built 
the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, is developing the first UCAV, which 
will use the same radar-deflecting material as the B-2. 

Greg Zwernemann, manager of advanced uninhabited concepts, says the 
UCAV will be used for dangerous missions such as deep strikes into 
enemy territory and attacking heavily guarded enemy bases. 

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"Real-time datalinks between operators on the ground and the weapons 
system mean that we can attack without risking an air crew," he 
explains. 

According to an American air force report on UCAV technology, 
intelligent programs will also be used in the aircraft's onboard 
computer. 

Zwernemann says that after take-off from an American airbase the 
UCAV would be guided towards targets by GPS, the global satellite 
positioning system. A second, smaller version that can be launched 
from current bombers is under development and will increase the 
UCAV's range. 

Once over hostile terrain, a constantly updated map of known 
defences will be used to pinpoint targets. Human operators will then 
take over to launch and guide missiles. 

Although the American military claims that most of the technology it 
intends to use to control the UCAV does not yet exist, a recent report 
reveals that there are already plans to use virtual-reality (VR) 
technology and even holographic displays to allow operators to control 
the UCAVs easily. 

The report also hints at the operators' ability to reshape the plane's 
entire wing, not just the rudders used in current plane designs. 
Several air-force contractors are working on such systems, and have 
already flown prototype versions. 

It is envisaged that operators will enter a room containing 
holographic displays and VR equipment, and because each UCAV would 
require attention only when near a target, each operator could control 
several units during a shift. 

Once the UCAV launches its payload, a "return-to-base" agent is 
activated, which can then fly back to a pre-programmed base without 
operator intervention. The agent is also able to recalculate 
constantly its course to evade detection by enemy radar. 

The report also recommended that the air force "aggressively encourage 
and exploit" thought-control systems, now being developed, to allow 
the disabled to move a computer cursor on screen. 

The main advantage of not having a pilot on board is that the plane's 
performance does not need to be stifled to ensure a pilot survives. 

Whereas a normal plane can accelerate only at about 10G, the UCAV will 
have an acceleration of about 20G, allowing it to outrun most current 
missiles. Because there is no cockpit, the design is flatter, making 
it even less visible to radar. 

Northrop Grumman's UCAV also includes a third wing, called a delta 
wing, on the front of the aircraft. This increases manoeuvrability, 
and the air force believes it will allow the fighter to dodge 
missiles. 

However, the delta wing, when combined with the plane's speed, also 
dramatically increases the stresses on the UCAV's airframe and would 
kill a pilot instantly. 

Initially, the UCAV is likely to use existing fighter jet engines. 
However, the air force has revealed that a future version is likely 
to use a combination of existing jet engines and new, air-breathing 
engines capable of reaching hypersonic speeds of up to Mach 15 
(about 5km a second). The UCAV will also have an altitude range of 
85,000ft-150,000ft. 

According to the report, this will allow accurate strikes to be 
carried out anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes. 

Although Northrop Grumman and the air force have not yet revealed 
exactly what payloads the UCAV could carry, the air force has 
admitted it is developing a high-powered airborne laser (ABL) to 
destroy slow-moving targets such as missile launchers. Several 
fighters could work together to destroy larger targets with an ABL. 

The UCAV will also be able to carry a range of guided missiles 
weighing up to 1,000lb. 

The air force also revealed plans for tiny microexplosive missile 
systems, carrying only a few grams of explosive, that could be used 
to track and detonate when they hit an individual soldier moving 
round the battlefield. 

[W 4]****** 

Source: Sightings on the Radio 
From: George A. Filer: MUFON Eastern Director 
Date: August 1997 

MUFON Skywatch Investigations August 1987 

In July, UFO air crews were on vacation, but August activity has 
suddenly increased. 
 

NEW JERSEY 
 

(Case 97/8/6) David Stein, a computer expert was driving home late 
from work on the Garden State Parkway, when he saw blue circular 
lights low over the highway. At approximately 10:00 p.m., his and 
other cars started slowing near the Hazlet exit about twenty miles 
south of New York City. The bright blue lights were not blinking, but 
seemed to contract and expand in intensity causing traffic to stop 
and look at the amazing sight. The UFO moved up and down and to the 
left and the right of the roadway. David believes other drivers must 
have seen the low flying craft, because so many cars stopped on the 
heavily traveled highway. The craft appeared as a disc about three 
inches in diameter at arms length. David estimated its actual size 
was much larger than an automobile. After the traffic stopped, the 
bright blue lights suddenly flew off to the west between some trees 
at high speed and then traffic resumed. David Stein was very shaken by 
the sighting. He said, "He had always been a skeptic about UFOs, but 
not any more. I feel no helicopter or other craft could perform those 
maneuvers." Further investigation is continuing. 

GEORGIA 

(Case 97/2/20) John Thompson, GA State Director has finished the 
investigation of a sighting over La Grange. The witness, a mechanic, 
saw four bright white lights in the Northeast sky. Each light was 
larger than Venus and formed a rectangle that stood 45 degrees above 
the horizon. He slowed his vehicle to obtain a better look and his 
truck lights angled up on a hill. The four separate lights suddenly 
merged at instantaneous speed, and then flew almost straight up. The 
lights were like spotlights, brighter and larger than anything the 
witness had ever seen in the sky, except for the sun or moon. Total 
viewing time was over a minute. The exact date of the sighting is 
unknown, but occurred in the second half of February of this year. 

FLORIDA 

(Case 97/6/17) Jean and Eugene Brown MUFON State Section Directors, 
field investigators Carol Hammond, and Polly Bryer have finished the 
investigation of a Tampa daylight sighting. Olga Booker, the primary 
witness was driving home at 11:20 a.m. when she spotted what she at 
first thought was a blimp with red and white lights. She then 
realized it was not blimp and started to follow in her car. The 
object was moving slowly from the south to north low over some trees 
and buildings looking like a heavy iron pot. The object was pyramid 
shaped with one side slightly curved with three pulsating orange to 
red colored lights on each corner. There were also a series of white 
twinkling lights on the UFO. About thirty lights were on the rear 
curved portion of the car sized object. It was flat like a pancake 
and had no wings, tail, or windows. It was a dark green/grey/brown 
color. It had scratch or grain like lines running left to right that 
reflected a copper or gold like color on its surface. Two male 
witnesses also saw the object. One looked at the UFO and said, "What 
is it?" It flew off to the east at high speed. 

The object was sighted just a few miles north of MacDill Air Force 
Base and coming from that direction. The Air Force said, "It was not 
theirs." Olga appeared on local TV showing a drawing she made of the 
craft. 

FLORIDA 

(Case 97/08/11) In Key West, Shayna Szmiot reports seeing a hazy ring 
around the moon. She stated then, "There were flashing lights similar 
to a police car that zipped around the moon and passed over my house 
within 20 seconds. It then showed a strobe light then disappeared 
within 30 seconds with a similar flash of bright lights!!!! Their 
phone number is: 305 295 1356 Shayna address is: 1411 Truman Ave. Key 
West, FL 33041. Thanks to John Thompson, GA State Director and ISUR. 

KENTUCKY 

Mr. Hutch, age 24 reports sighting two UFOs at 12:20 a.m., August 12, 
1997 near Buffalo, in central Kentucky. He and his wife saw two 
objects moving directly overhead at a high altitude but, too far away 
to tell the size or shape. They looked like stars, but were moving 
fast in random patterns. They moved too fast for normal aircraft, and 
too erratic for the meteors. They both seemed to be moving at same 
time, but not in same format or direction. It was a warm, dark night, 
there was a slight mist in the air and storms were forecast. The 
craft darted around the sky for 15 minuets The sighting took place 
near an urban area, where there is an air route close by. Thanks to 
B.U.F.O.D. Website Case R207, Ben at Ben@abcfield.force9.co.uk or 

http://www.abcfield.force9.co.uk 

TEXAS 

On the evening of Friday, July 25, 1997, Cliff S. and his young son 
were in their pickup truck going west on Farm Road 1488, in eastern 
Texas when they saw something unusual in the sky. In their farm 
county, Cliff explained, "They're used to seeing air traffic traveling 
between Dallas and Houston in a north-south direction. So when a 
strange object appeared in the western sky, he took notice. They saw 
two bright beams, a blinking red in between rather unusual in the way 
it was going. It seemed to hang in the sky and not move, so we 
watched it for a while. I reached back and got my binoculars (which) 
I'd left in the truck since the (Hale-Bopp) comet, and pulled over. I 
looked at it. It was about the size of an airliner, but much closer. I 
could see a faint gleam of a cockpit in the middle, with window 
panes. I was having a weird feeling, such as I remember having as a 
kid whenever I'd seen unusual things in the sky." Cliff's son took the 
binoculars and confirmed the sighting. Then Cliff watched and said, 
"Now that I realized that they were very close, I couldn't hear any 
sound. I turned off the truck engine to hear better, and we both got 
out. It was just overhead, but the only sound around it was like its 
wings cutting through the air. Directly overhead...we couldn't see 
the outline, but it seemed triangular. It was black or dark. No red 
lights visible from below. A pair of white lights close together, side 
by side...then another pair behind it, less bright, then another 
pair, bright again, at the rear. They also had two bright white 
spotlights at the tip of each wing. It seemed to be following our 
(farm) road to the east, and would slowly bank to one side, then to 
the other." (Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for this news story.) 
UFO ROUNDUP, #31 Editor Joseph Trainor, Masinaigan@aol.com 

ARIZONA 

On 5 Aug. 1997, in Ash Fork, AZ. Wheels Wegener II reports seeing two 
sets of very bright blue/greenish lights. There were five or so, he 
cannot remember exactly how many. He reports, "The lights were 
hovering over peak across the valley from where I live with one 
American made chopper with them. The chopper was in area the day 
before. One set of lights turns on end, and drops into the top of the 
mountain, or behind it, then comes back up and into horizontal 
formation and all three leave. A couple of days before, a bright 
silver ball was in the sky moving toward Phoenix. It vanishes into a 
bright blue circle and then the blue circle vanishes. Thanks to 
Wheels165@aol.com and Skywatch International at Skywatch@wic.net 

QUOTE FROM FIRST CIA DIRECTOR 

Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first Director of the CIA 
(1947-1950). Stated in 1950, "Unknown objects are operating under 
intelligent control. It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come 
from and what their purpose is." The source for this quote is: Bruce 
Maccabee, Maryland MUFON State Director 

"What The Admiral Knew: UFO, MJ-12 and R.Hillenkoetter," 
International UFO Reporter, Nov/Dec., 1986. 

FIRE OFFICER'S GUIDE 

Jerry Washington, Kentucky MUFON State Director provides us with 
several paragraphs out of chapter 13,"Enemy Attack and UFO Potential" 
of the "Fire Officer's Guide To Disaster Control, (2nd Edition)." The 
authors: William M. Kramer, Ph.D.,District Fire Chief, Cincinnati 
Fire Division, and the Director of Fire Science, University of 
Cincinnati; and Charles W. Bahme, J.D., Deputy Chief of the L.A. Fire 
Department (Retired), Captain, USN Reserve and Attorney at Law, have 
penned the vanguard publication used throughout the fire and disaster 
control fields as a teaching tool. 

ENEMY ATTACK AND UFO POTENTIAL 

In this chapter we will now turn our attention to the very real 
threat posed by Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)...if the apparent 
visits by alien beings and their space vehicles should pose any type 
of threat, it will, as always, be the fire service that is called upon 
to provide the first line of life-saving defense and disaster 
mitigation... 

Hence, as we near the year 2000 and move beyond, any comprehensive 
disaster plan should address the potential for panic and other 
deleterious effects that might befall a populated area when 
unexplained phenomena occur. We will see, as we continue our 
discussion in this chapter, that widespread blackouts, communication 
disruptions, and other potentially disastrous conditions have been 
linked directly to UFO sightings. Hence, fire service leaders who 
want to ensure that their disaster planning is complete will not 
neglect an appendix to outline these things that could be done in 
preparation for an occurrence of such phenomena... 

The subject of UFOs was not included in previous editions of this 
book. The first edition was the "Handbook of Disaster Control" which 
Chuck personally published in 1952 following his release from active 
naval duty in the Korean War. Although his services in the conflict 
as Security Coordinator for the Chief of Naval Operations involved 
the creation of a worldwide disaster control organization for the 
protection of the physical properties of the Navy, it must be admitted 
that the directives approved for this new organization did not 
reflect any significant concern for a flying saucer threat to its 
shore establishment. That was in the 1950s. Now that we are in the 
1990s it is doubtful that the UFO potential would be brushed off so 
lightly by our military security forces. This change of attitude was 
evidenced as far back as December 24, 1959, when the Inspector 
General of the Air Force issued the following Operations and Training 
Order: "Unidentified Flying Objects -- sometimes treated lightly by 
the press and referred to as 'Flying Saucers' -- must be rapidly and 
accurately identified as serious Air Force business..." 

[W 5]****** 

Source: Sightings on the Radio 
Date: 12th September 1997 

Art Bell Show Satellite Hit With EMP? 

David Kressman, Director, STA 
 

GE-1 HIT WITH APPARENT E.M.P. DURING "AREA-51" CONFESSION 

Art Bell hosts "Coast-to-Coast AM," a nightly talk show from Pahrump, 
Nevada, a small town near "Area 51" (an airbase which the U.S. 
government officially denies the existence of, despite the massive 
size of the complex. UFO's are frequently seen near this site.) Art's 
radio program is relayed from the studio in Pahrump to the network 
headquarters by satellite GE-1. At about 1AM EST, Friday, September 
12, 1997, he designated one phone line for Area 51 employees to call 
in and "spill the beans." Several interesting and convincing callers 
took the bait. Then came one bizarre call from an obviously 
distraught and terrified man who claimed to be a former Area 51 
employee recently discharged for "medical" reasons. He cited 
malevolent extraterrestrials at Area 51 and an impending disaster 
that the government knew would take out "major population centers." 
Midway through this call (according to GE engineers) the satellite's 
"Earth sensor lost lock" and the craft rolled into an attitude where 
it no longer pointed at the uplinks, causing 50 channels to go 
off-air for about 30 minutes. Shortly after the outage began, the 
live internet video feed from Art's studio was lost as well. 

Unaware of these events, Bell continued talking to the caller for 
another minute during the outage until he heard a scream and the 
phone went dead. A reporter from Penthouse visiting the studio to 
gather information for a story about the program witnessed the event 
and furiously took notes. Minutes later, Bell received a call from 
his network on a conventional analog "hotline" saying that he was 
"off the air." He checked the uplink transmitter and saw that it had 
suffered complete loss of communication with GE-1. At this point they 
resumed transmission on a 56k digital phone line and went back on the 
air. Then the analog "hotline" to the network cut out and Art was 
unable to speak to network engineers. 

One of the first callers after the outage was someone who claimed to 
be from Area-51 "security." He said that his job was to "close gaps," 
the network had been "pulsed" and that we "would not hear from the 
caller again." (An ElectroMagnetic Pulse is a method of overloading 
electronic equipment in a target area; EMP generators were funded 
under the original SDI research. The phenomenon was discovered by 
accident during the 1960's when the phone network in Hawaii was 
disabled by a nuclear test 800 miles distant.) Speculation about an 
EMP continued as this was "verified" by several callers: 

A man from Kingston (also near area 51) said he was on hold waiting 
to go on the air, and both his home telephone lines went dead. 
Another caller, an RF engineer employed at Hughes AeroSpace in Tucson 
(and an expert on EMP shielding), stated that he had suffered "cloud 
bounce" from the pulse and his personal computer and digital watch 
were wiped clean. 

A third caller reminded the audience that author Nick Begich stated 
in his book "Angels don't Play this HAARP" that a military antenna 
array in Alaska has the capability to remove individual satellites 
from service and generate such pulses. (Incidentally, the HAARP design 
bears a great similarity to the work of Nikola Tesla, who publicly 
made claims about the potential of his inventions to generate EMP 
anywhere on the planet.) Finally, another caller reminded the audience 
of an event several months prior where it was confirmed that a number 
of employees at the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear-hardened underground 
base convinced as many friends and family as they could to move 
immediately to a remote location in South America. 

Art closed the show by speculating on whether (in the mind of the 
government) the "enemy" of National Security had now become the 
American people. 

[W 6]****** 

Date: 4th February 1993 

Cy Gilson Polygraph test of Travis Walton 

The Final Test 

The following report on the final polygraph examination of Travis 
Walton was actually sponsored by a skeptic, Jerry Black. The test 
was performed with the latest state of the art equipment, by Cy 
Gilson, the most highly respected polygraph expert. 

4 February 1993 

Mr. Jerry Black 
(Address) 
Blanchester, Ohio 

Dear Mr. Black, 

On February 4, 1993, a polygraph examination was administered to Mr. 
Travis Walton. The purpose of this examination was to determine 
whether or not Mr. Walton was being truthful in his statement about 
seeing a UFO and being abducted by the UFO plus other facts 
surrounding the abduction. 

During the pretest interview, Mr. Walton said he had worked for Mike 
Rogers intermittently for about six years on a seasonal basis. He 
never socialized with any of the crew. 

On November 5, 1975, they had worked a little later than usual trying 
to meet the contract commitment. By the time they were driving back 
to town, the sun had gone down but there was some light, like 
twilight. 

As they were driving, he could see a glimmer of light in the trees 
ahead. At first he thought it may be a downed airplane. The light 
was unusual. As they neared a clearing he saw the object he called a 
UFO. This object will be referred to as a UFO throughout this report. 

As the truck came to a stop, Mr. Walton got out. Believing it may 
take off, he walked briskly towards the UFO but slowed his pace 
before reaching it. He described it as being round and hovering about 
20 feet above the ground. He did not go underneath it but stood there 
looking up at it. He said the UFO started to wobble slightly and make 
a noise. Mr. Walton said the noise was like a low rumble that 
developed into a higher pitch that seemed to increase in frequency. 
At this point he became afraid and decided to go back to the truck. 
He recalls being hit with an electrifying type of shock that stunned 
him, leaving him unconscious. 

He recalls he slowly regained consciousness. He found himself in a 
small room that was damp or humid. He had pain throughout his body 
but mostly in his chest and head. He then saw three creatures he 
described as being about four feet tall with large, dark eyes. He was 
lying on some type of table. As these creatures approached him he got 
off the table. There was some type of shelf near the wal1 where he 
found a straight pipelike object lying on it. He describes it as 
being round like a piece of pipe but lightweight. He cannot recall if 
it was solid or hollow. He picked it up and started to lash out at 
the creatures to keep them at bay. The creatures left the room by an 
open doorway, turning right. 

Mr. Walton walked to that doorway, looked down a hall and he went 
left. He walked into another room, trying to find an exit from this 
enclosure. He did not know if he was in a spaceship or a building. A 
humanlike creature came into the room, took him by the arm, leading 
him to another very large room where several more humanlike 
creatures were. By this time most of the pain was gone. He was forced 
down on a table and had a mask, similar to an oxygen mask, put on his 
face. He does not remember anything else until he awoke next to the 
road, just outside Heber. As he regained consciousness, he looked up, 
seeing the UFO or one similar to the original one, hovering overhead. 
As he looked up at it, the UFO sped off into the sky. 

Mr. Walton said his story is true. He said accusations made about 
him are lies. He had not been on any drugs of any kind. He was not 
hiding out somewhere on the Gibson ranch. He urinated in a jar and 
this sample was given to Dr. Kandell later that same day. Mr. Walton 
denies he conspired with Mr. Rogers to perpetrate a hoax to help him 
get out of the Turkey Springs contract with the Forestry Service. 

Two series of questions were asked to cover all the areas we believe 
were important. 

The relevant questions asked and the answers given are as follows: 

Series #1: 

Question #R1: 

On November 5, 1975, in the forest area called Turkey Springs, did 
you see a large glowing object hovering in the air? 

Answer: YES 

Question #R2: 

While you were standing near that UFOlike object, did you believe 
you were struck by an energy source emitted from that large object? 

Answer: YES 

Question #R3: 

After regaining consciousness in a small, humid room, did you see 
nonhuman creatures with large dark eyes? 

Answer: YES 

Question #R4: 

Did you conspire with your brother Duane or anyone else or act alone 
to stage a hoax about your UFO abduction? 

Answer: NO 

Series #2: 

Question #R1: 

Between November 1 and 11, 1975, did you use any drugs, either legal 
or illegal? 

Answer: NO 

Question #R2: 

Between November 5 and 10, 1975, were you hiding anywhere on the 
Gibson ranch? 

Answer: NO 

Question #R3: 

Was the urine sample given to Dr. Kandell on November 11, 1975, your 
first voided specimen following your UFO experience? 

Answer: YES 

Question #R4: 

Was this UFO incident a conspiracy to help Mike Rogers get out of 
his Turkey Springs contract? 

Answer: NO 

Mr. Walton's physiological responses were monitored during the 
presentation of these questions by means of a Scientific Assessment 
Technology's Computer, Model CAPS 700. The following responses were 
recorded on this instrument's strip chart: relative blood pressure; 
skin conductance; thoracic and abdominal respiration. Data from 
three presentations of these questions were respiration. Data 
obtained for each series, and were subject to numerical scoring and 
computerbased analysis. 

The numerical score of Series #1 was +34. The numerical score of 
Series #2 was +26. In the system of numerical scoring developed and 
validated at the University of Utah, total numerical scoring of +6 
or more is considered indications of truthfulness. 

The computerbased analysis returned a posterior probability of 
truthfulness of .964 in the first series, and a .961 in the second 
series. These indicating that charts like these produced in each 
series, by Mr. Walton, are produced by truthful examinees 96% of the 
time. 

Based on the numerical score of the polygraph charts and the 
computer based analysis, it is the opinion of this examiner that Mr. 
Walton was being truthful when he answered these relevant questions. 

Sincerely, 

Cy Gilson 

Thank you, Jerry Black! These examinations clear the air with a 
thoroughness, an utter finality, which can't be refuted. Cy Gilson 
used a widely practiced, extremely accurate, stateoftheart method 
developed and perfected at the University of Utah. This involves a 
computerized monitoring and analysis of the tracings along with a 
pointscoring system of the charts applied by the examiner. 

In summary: The computer put all three of us near the top of the 
range designated as conclusively truthful (almost no one ever 
achieves the theoretical maximum of 1.00), with me at .964 and .961, 
Mike at .990, and Allen at .993. On the numerical score I was first 
with +34 and +26 points, Mike had +31 points and Allen had +22 
points. 

- Travis Walton 

[W 7]****** 

From:  owner-iso_update@lists.primenet.com 
Date: Friday 3rd  October 1997 

Mars Pathfinder - Still no signal 

The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft team has been experiencing 
communication problems with the lander spacecraft on Mars. The last 
successful data transmission cycle was completed Saturday morning, 
September 27, 1997 at 3:23 am (sol 83). 

On September 27, at 11:15 pm, (sol 84) no signal was received. The 
spacecraft was powered on at 2:00 am local Mars time to perform 
early morning weather measurements and sky images. The lack of a 
signal, at that time was thought to be caused by a possible reset, 
ground system problem or low voltage condition. A reset or a low 
voltage condition, caused by the aging battery, would cause the 
spacecraft sequence to automatically stop and not execute its planned 
communication with earth. 

On September 29 at 1:30 am (sol 85) the team attempted to command 
the spacecraft to send a carrier signal to earth over the low gain 
and high gain antennae. Neither signal was received. 

In the early morning of September 30 (sol 86), the team again 
attempted to command the spacecraft to send a carrier signal to 
earth over the low gain antenna. This attempt was done at Mars local 
noon in order to ensure maximum power on the solar arrays in order to 
power the s/c transmitter . No signal was received. At this point a 
preliminary assessment was made of possible problems. As in the 
past, loss of communication can be caused by problems with the ground 
system, flight software and/or flight hardware. 

On early Wednesday morning, October 1, (sol 87), assuming a possible 
hardware problem, the team commanded the spacecraft to switch to its 
auxiliary transmitter. At first no signal was received but at 
approximately 4:23 am, a signal was received that lasted for about 
20 minutes. The team also attempted to power on the secondary string 
of the main transmitter but no signal was seen. 

Thursday morning, October 2, (sol 88), the team attempted to get 
digital data from the auxiliary transmitter. During the beginning of 
track the spacecraft auxiliary transmitter signal was seen again. 
The signal turned off at 11:30 local solar time on Mars indicating 
that the s/c computer had enough power to wake-up and turn off the 
transmitter. Because of the late wake-up there was no time to 
attempt to receive digital data from the s/c. At this point the team 
assessed that the s/c may be seeing extra loads on the bus resulting 
in late wake-up times. Since this could be related to a battery 
failure, commands were sent to put the spacecraft in a mode where it 
does not use the battery and takes it off-line. It is not clear 
whether these commands were received. 

October 3, (sol 89), the team once again attempted to get digital 
data on the auxiliary transmitter. No data was received. However, the 
time of day in which it was necessary to try and send data due to 
tracking station elevation requirements may have been too early for 
the s/c to have been awake. A later attempt was made to send and 
activate a sequence on the s/c which put the Pathfinder in the safest 
state possible for a potential non-operational battery. There was no 
signal indicating that these commands executed on the s/c. The 
problem of not seeing this signal could have been ground station 
related. 

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The rover continues to be in a contingency state. Sojourner will do
nothing until Sunday, October 5 (sol 91) and then will begin to
drive in an arc around the lander.

The team continues to investigate a number of possible scenarios.
Since so little information is currently available from the s/c the
number of possible scenarios is large. However, since the s/c
battery has exceeded its expected lifetime by a factor of 3,
scenarios associated with the degradation of the battery are probably
most likely. Learning how the s/c operates without the battery is
something the team is in the process of doing.

Although the Pathfinder mission has extended far beyond its expected
lifetime, the team is currently doing everything possible to attempt
to get back on schedule with Pathfinders extended mission. -- In
Search of: http://www.in-search-of.com For questions
e-mailto:Ask-Dr.Dan@in-search-of.com or:
http://www.in-search-of.com/ask-dr.dan.shtml

[W 8]******

Source: News Of The World newspaper
Date: 28th September 1997
From: Calb1701@aol.com

FIRST SIGHTING OF KGB X-FILES

The clearest photos ever taken of UFOs have been unearthed in a
massive KGB archive hidden since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

And the dozens of pictures PROVE we are being visited by aliens,
says the first Western expert given access of the incredible X-Files.
British-born Philip Mantle showed some pictures exclusively to the
News Of The World. He said: "They're fantastic, among the best I've
seen." "Most UFO photos are taken at night, but these are all
daylight shots of great clarity." Explained Philip: "In the 1980s the
KGB instructed military personnel to report to report any sightings.
Their files are huge, the biggest UFO study in history. "The
information in them is superb and no body outside Russia ever knew
about them."

Flashing

News of the archive comes just after 48 hours of Swissair jumbo jet
captain insisted he had a "spherical" UFO at 23,000ft over New York.
And a flying saucer features in one of the best KGB-file photos.
Taken in Moscow on October 13 1990, it clearly shows a dark craft
flashing by residential tower blocks at high speed. Author and
lecturer Philip, 39, of Leeds, a former investigations chief of
British UFO Research Association, concludes: "This is going to show
that there ARE strange things in our skies.  They are either aliens
....or something even more sinister. "I am sure the truth will come
out." US investigations have now revealed evidence of alien
technology implanted in humans. California surgeon Dr Roger Leir has
removed three "highley anomalous implants" from a couple who claimed
to have had UFO encounters. Two were removed from the woman's toes.
The third was in the man's hand. And all were attached to nerves were
known to exist. Dr Leir, working with Houston-based alien
investigator Derrel Sims, said the implants were ultra-hard magnetic
cores surrounded by a dense grey membrane which could not be cut.

Tissue

The membranes, made of tough proteins formed from skin and blood,
prevented signs of inflammation or rejection. No one knows how the
objects entered the body because no scar tissue or entry point was
found. Dr Leir said "If these can teach us how to prevent tissue
rejection, we could revolutionise surgery."

[W 9]******

Source: The Times newspaper
Date: 5th August 1997
From: "Brian Straight" <briansxx@iquest.net>

Arthur C. Clarke on the myth of the extra-terrestrials

Why ET will never call home

It is probably too much to hope that the US Air Force's belated
revelations about the source of many UFO sightings will put a stop
to this tedious nonsense. Could anyone ever have seriously imagined
that the Earth's skies have been full of alien visitors for the past
half century, without the matter being settled one way or another?

For decades now, the radars of the great powers have been able to
track all objects much larger than a football that come anywhere
near our planet. Of course, it may be argued that alien spacecraft
invariably use Stealth techniques  but it is hard to see why they
should bother, since they seem so willing to make contact. In any
case, that would hardly help them to evade detection by the legions
of amateur astronomers who constantly scan the skies.

Though it is perhaps unkind to do so, I would like to remind the UFO
fanatics how earlier, widely accepted stories of alien meetings
turned out to be ludicrous fabrications. Does anyone still remember
George Adamski's Flying Saucers Have Landed? He reported cities on
the other side of the Moon, and I believe there was once a lady who
made a good living lecturing about her honeymoon on Venus.

Well, we have seen the lunar Farside (and I've never forgiven the
Apollo 8 crew for resisting the temptation to report a black
monolith there) and we know that any Venusian rivers are likely to
consist of molten lead. We will have to go further afield than our
immediate neighbours to look for intelligent life  perhaps life at
all.

What is particularly ludicrous is the widespread idea ( la
Independence Day) that for several decades some super-secret branch
of the United States Government has had alien spacecraft  and aliens
in its possession. Anyone who will believe that will believe
anything. I have known many of the people who would have been
involved in such a cover-up, and I can assure you that it would have
a half-life of about 48 hours. As one Pentagonian once remarked
sadly: "I wish it was true then all us majors would be colonels." I
think that settles the matter; but then of course, I may be part of
the conspiracy.

Indeed, at least two of my friends were on the CIA committee looking
into the UFO question, at a time when it was seriously considered
that spaceships might be involved. One member (the late Professor
Luis Alvarez, now famous for his theory that dinosaurs were
exterminated by an asteroid 65 million years ago) told me how easy it
was to dispose of most of the sightings, because the average observer
simply does not know how many remarkable things there are in the sky.

Frankly, if you have never seen a UFO, you're not very observant  or
else you live in the city and don't have access to the sky, which
nowadays is an all-too-common state of affairs. I have seen at least
ten UFOs, and several of them were very convincing: it took quite an
effort to convert them into Identified Flying Objects. And I still
can't get over the fact that my most dramatic sighting was from
Stanley Kubrick's penthouse on the upper East Side  the very night
we had decided to make a little home-movie together. (I'm embarrassed
to say that the brilliant light we watched moving across the sky
turned out to be the Echo balloon satellite, seen under rather
unusual circumstances. Also, Stanley and I were in somewhat exalted
mood, and perhaps not as critical as we should have been.)

One of the chief reasons I have never been able to take reports of
alien contact seriously is that no spaceship ever contains aliens
the occupants are always human! Oh, yes, they do show a few minor
variations such as large eyes, or pointed ears (Hi there, Mr Spock!)
but otherwise they are based on the same general design as you and
I.

Genuine extra-terrestrials would be really alien  as different from
us as the praying mantis, the giant squid, the blue whale. Nature is
incredibly ingenious: just look at the fantastic variety of
creatures on this planet. We are products of thousands of throws of
the genetic dice; if evolution was re-started once again on Earth, at
any point the branches of the tree of life might have taken a
different direction  and we would not be here. But something would be
 . .

The recent excitement about Mars has again focused public interest
in the possibility (most experts would say the the probability) of
life on other worlds. However, we should not expect too much even
from the fantastically successful Pathfinder mission.

Watch out for Mars Surveyor, next month  though, personally, I have
considerably greater expectations for life beneath the ice-floes of
the Jovian satellite Europa, for reasons given in my book 3001: The
Final Odyssey.

With any luck, within the next few years (what a millennial present
that would be!) we may have an answer to a question that has haunted
mankind since our first ancestors started looking at the skies. And
let me give the last word to the brilliant team of engineers and
scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab who have amazed the world with
such detailed close-ups up of the Red Planet.

In reply to my message: "Hope Rover's hub-caps aren't stolen
overnight," they responded: "But how exciting if they are . . ."

And who says that scientists have no sense of humour?
 

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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

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First Printing September 1995

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CHAPTER FIVE

I now knew the hidden information that had lain behind my amnesia,
but it gave me little comfort. I had opened a Pandora's box, and like
the figure from Greek mythology, had watched in horror as all manner
of things foul in nature had sprung forth. And yet, like Pandora, I
could no more close the lid on the revelations that were forthcoming
than she could. I could only hope that personal growth and
understanding would be the ultimate result of my actions.

During my search for answers in the midst of the maelstrom, I had
drawn my sister into the vortex. She, too, began recalling
fragmentary dreams, and subconscious promptings from old, buried
memories. Many of the fragments suggested that she, too, was tied
inextricably into the alien abduction phenomenon. The ever-widening
pattern of involvement distressed me terribly. I could hardly bear
the thought that Mother and I were a part of it, much less my
fraternal twin sister. The implications of inter-generational alien
intrusion were more than I wanted to contemplate--and the fact that
my sister had children made the implications even more frightening.

My sister's curiosity was aroused by the possibility of her
involvement, so a session was arranged for her, to be held July 12.
While she knew of Mother's and my sessions, she was not aware of the
details derived from those sessions

On July 12, 1992, my husband and I drove my sister and her husband to
the arranged session. Excerpts from that session are included here.

During the pre-hypnosis discussion, my sister described several
"dream" fragments, which would be explored during the session. There
was also a discussion, included here, that had direct bearing on the
potential inter-generational aspect of the phenomenon, relating to
the possibility of implants in abductees. At this point, my sister
was not hypnotized:

John: Okay. You've written about a possible dream that might not be a
dream. About what age would you have been?

Laura: I think I was about twenty . . . maybe nineteen.

John: So that would have been about 1972 or '73?

Laura: Uh, huh. There might be two incidents. In one, something is
going on, and I was in bed. Something disturbed me . . . so I get up,
and I know other family members are there. I know the aliens are
coming in. So, anyway, we're going to try to prevent them from coming
in, but I know there's nothing we can do to prevent it, really. By
that time, I'm in the living room, and I see something bright. Then
there's a panic goin' on, or something . . . and we're trying to lock
doors. But we always have trouble locking them; they don't work well.
So, we're in the living room, and I knew they were going to come down
the chimney. I knew they were on top of the house and out back--we
were surrounded.

John: Okay. What's the next thing you can recall?

Laura: The final thing I remember is being in the living room, and I
thought this part was so funny, because I had frozen, and had told
everybody to just freeze and act like statues. I remember all of us
being frozen in these positions, and thinking I had told them to do
that. (Laugh). I thought . . . it was like they couldn't see us, if
we couldn't see them. Then I felt . . . like a . . . a semi-float
feeling. It wasn't like I was walkin' with them or anything like
that. I just . . . had a view of the fireplace and everybody still
standing there. That's all I remember. But when I woke up, it was
much more clear. I wanted to go wake everybody up and tell them, "My
God, I've been on a UFO!"

John: Have you and your sister talked about this?

Laura: No. I haven't discussed any of this with her.

John: You mentioned that your children had a lot of nosebleeds . . .
Tell us about those . . .

Laura: Both my sons had a lot of nosebleeds. One of them . . . I took
him to the doctor . . . I think he was in about the 2nd Grade, so
this would have been late '80's. And, uh . . . he had a hole . . .
(laugh) . . . and, uh . . . that never did freak me out until now.
I'm not real freaked out by it, even at this point, you know. But,
the doctor said, "The vein has a hole in it. Take a look." And I did.
It was circular . . . and I saw it with my own eyes. The doctor
cauterized it.
 

HYPNOSIS SESSION July 12, 1992

John: (Setting the time-frame) . . . And you can recall the early
'70's . . . the house and your family, when you were around nineteen
or so . . . and you can begin to describe all that you see around you
 . .

Laura: The bedroom has red wallpaper, and the bedspread is gold. The
light is a chandelier. The closet is dark . . . with a sliding door.
I'm gonna sleep. It's getting dark. It's nighttime.

John: Is there any action?

Laura: I'm getting up. It's really dark. I'm in the hallway now.
There's dark paneling and red carpet, and the bathroom is blue.
There's a light on, somewhere. I go look out the front doorway. I
might have heard a car . . . maybe a motor. I thought it was a car.
The fireplace is on my left, the TV's on my right. I'm sitting on the
fireplace. I don't know why I'm there. There are newspapers there,
and I think about reading one. Then I go to the backdoor.

John: As you go to the backdoor, are you alone?

Laura: I'm not sure . . . (my sister) might be there. But I wouldn't
want her to be there. I'm afraid something would happen to her.

John: It's okay, it's all right to see everything now. You're safe;
you can know what happened . . .

Laura: I think she's there, and we're talking about the barn . . .
about going out there. There was a green light, or maybe blue . . .
She's telling me about it. She went to the patio, but I'm not going
to go. I see something white in front of the barn . . . silver in the
center with a white glow around it. It's pie-shaped and as big as the
barn. It whirs. There are three legs . . . it's sitting on them. It's
pretty low, but you could walk under it.

John: Are you alone in the house now?

Laura: Everyone's asleep except (my sister). She's awake, see . . .
She's right there. I think she wants to go out there, but I don't
think it's a good idea at all. I'm not goin'

John: Take another good look . . . and see if you see anything else .
 . as you look out there.

Laura: It has little windows in the middle. They're square. There's a
blue light coming out of them. The grass is moving underneath in a
circular pattern. It's bent flat.

John: What's the very next thing that's different; that changes the
scene?

Laura: We went outside and looked at the light and the backdoor. And
the trees . . . I just went as far as the trees. (My sister) went
clear up toward it . . . but I'm not goin'. There are two little
friends . . . two little beings. They're holding her hands, one on
each side. They're little and skinny . . . and there's an orange
light. I keep trying to figure out what that might be. The light from
the craft makes them appear to be different colors.

John: What would their actual color be? Describe what they look like.

Laura: White. They don't have clothes. They have three long fingers,
and one that might be a thumb, but it's in front . . . in the wrong
place. The fingers are long and rubbery. I think they have mittens
on. Their arms are long. They have big heads and they're bald. Their
face gets kinda longer on the side, though. They're squashed . . .
and then kinda gets concave a little further down. They don't have a
nose--it's all flat back down there to the chin line. I don't see a
mouth. I think they wear a mask. It's kind of on the top half, and
their eyes are covered up. They're almost as tall as my sister. They
wear helmets. The fingers are bulbous on the ends.

John: And what are they doing?

Laura: They're walking toward the craft with my sister. Their
movement is just . . . smooth. I can't tell if my sister's walking.
She has on a long nightgown. I just stay by the tree. I don't think I
can move. There's a door on the craft that opened . . . on the front
toward the bottom. There's a black and gray light. The door opened
like a camera iris. And they're going to go up. The gray light is
solid, but it's got sparkles . . . pink sparkles. And they go up the
light into the craft, and then the door closes.

John: And then what happens?

Laura: I waited by the tree, and then the door opened and she came
down that gray thing, again. She's really quiet, doesn't say
anything. I think she's going to go back into the house. I'm going to
follow her . . . I know the spaceship will go away soon.

John: How old are you and your sister right now, as you're standing
by that tree?

Laura: I think we're about sixteen . . . maybe seventeen.

John: (Since this episode was new, and not related to any of the
dreams she'd had, the hypnotist initiated a new line of questioning,
in an attempt to bring out the dream memory.) . . . Now that you've
seen the craft, it won't be hard to remember the other time, when you
felt you needed to protect your family . . . go to that feeling . . .
perhaps you can notice how old you were . . . at that time . . .

Laura: Younger, I think. 'Bout ten years old.

John: Okay. Perhaps you can recall what you were doing; why you might
have felt protective at some point . . .

Laura: I think it's because we had just moved there. That's why it
all happened, I think.

John: Go to that first time . . . you can remember that first moment
and where you are . . .

Laura: I keep thinking it's because she's under the . . . by the
pond, where the tree is that she buried her little horses. I think
it's because she was down there alone all the time. There's something
down there, behind the pond, where it runs off . . . I think she
found something. She showed it to me . . . it looked like a
diamond--but a mirror. It was reflective . . . triangular. I think
she buried it under the tree. It was really pretty, shiny . .

John: Why did she bury it?

Laura: She put every . . . she buried every . . . her stuff. It was
all buried there. Little horses. When they broke their legs. It was
funny to me. I thought it was funny. I laughed.

John: Oh, when they broke their legs, she had to put them out of
their misery?

Laura: Uh, huh.

John: Why would she bury this diamond-shaped thing?

Laura: I think she liked it. And so she put it there so she'd know
where it was.

John: Was she not supposed to show it to anybody?

Laura: Probably not, but she showed it to me. She treated it like a
big secret.

John: And who gave it to her?

Laura: I don't know . . . She showed it to me behind the pond.
(Chuckle) . . . Maybe a man gave it to her, if she didn't find it. I
didn't find it with her; she just showed it to me.

John: Okay. And so, at age ten, we were talking about a time when you
felt a need to protect the house . . . that you felt "they" would get
in, no matter what. Can you describe where you were when you had that
feeling?

Laura: I was in the front bedroom. There was something bright outside
the window. It was round, like a basketball. It was in the sky,
coming down. It's across the street. I think it crashed. It was
mostly white . . . it was like a meteorite. Only it wasn't quite that
fast. And it kinda glowed. I stood at the window and watched it come
down.

John: What's the very next thing you do?

Laura: I think I'm just gonna stay. I'm just gonna lay in my bed. I'm
gonna cover my eyes with my hands and not look . . .

John: But what about everyone else in the house?

Laura: I'm not gonna think about 'em.

John: What are you gonna do?

Laura: I think my mother would get up. Anyway. She would get up, and
she'd open the door--the front door--anyway.

John: So your mother got up?

Laura: Uh, huh. I think she opened the front door.

John: So, where's your sister?

Laura: She's on the other bed, and she's sleeping.

John: So, why would you need to hide in bed?

Laura: I don't know. There are . . . all those things . . . I just .
 . I wouldn't wanta look. I wouldn't wanta look.

John: So, what did you do?

Laura: I got up with my mother, and went to the door with her.

John: What did you see, when you went to the door with her?

Laura: People . . . I think. But they're . . . hmm . . . I bet
they're . . .

John: Are they neighbors?

Laura: No. Not really. There are two or three people there.

John: What do they look like?

Laura: They're like . . . dark . . . clothes. It's like a dark blue,
really. Midnight blue. And they have a different . . . they're
wearing weird hats. (Nervous laugh). They look like sailor hats . . .
Little Boy Blue hats . . . like . . . they're so weird!

John: And what happens? What does your mother do?

Laura: She let them come in. I think she felt like they needed to
use the phone. They're in there, using the phone. I think they just
wanted to come into our house. That scared me.

John: Well, how do they look, themselves?

Laura: They look like . . . identical triplets.

John: Triplets . . . Can you describe their faces?

Laura: They have dark eyes . . . dark brown eyes . . . really dark
brown. They look . . . more like . . . Oriental . . . crossbreed. One
is kinda tall, and there are two shorter ones. The eyes are bigger .
 . weird looking . . . there are no whites around the eyes.

John: Do they do anything?

Laura: They really . . . (laugh) . . . They like us. They were happy
they came there to use the phone. I don't know why they want to use
the phone. They pick it up, but I don't think they really use it.

John: When they talk, what is their voice like?

Laura: They make you think you're hearing them.

John: Take a good look, and zero in on the face.

Laura: Hm . . . They're full, though. They have lips and a little
nose. No teeth, but they kind of smile.

John: Okay. Be very aware of the next thing they do, and who all is
in the room with you.

Laura: I think all of us came in. My brother and sister, too. We're
all just listening and standing there, looking. They don't really use
a voice, but they're talking to us. I don't really want to listen.
I'm just bored, or something. But they were really happy when they
came in the door. They were glad to see us . . . almost smiling. I
don't know what they were saying, because I was so impressed with
their dumb hats. They acted like they were gonna use the phone, but
didn't really. I think it was just a good excuse to get in the door.
My brother and sister were listening to them, but I was bored. I just
kept staring at them. Their eyes were dark, Oriental-looking . . .
Egyptian-looking. Kinda elongated. But they're just so dumb looking,
'cause they need to take those hats off!

John: Could you tell what color their hair was?

Laura: If they had eyebrows, they were really pale. I don't see any
hair at all.

John: Can you describe their outfit a little more?

Laura: Midnight-blue clothes. It's a one-piece, tight- fitting.
They're probably uniforms. It's got a gold stripe on it, vertical to
one side. And on the hat, too. (Laugh) . . . That's why I thought it
was so ugly.

John: Do you have any idea how long they stayed?

Laura: It was all night, I think. They talked to us . . . but I
thought it was boring. And then they left. They walked in unison,
like triplets. They all moved together, and they walked back up the
road to the hill . . . where the light came down.

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