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stalled car, p. 10.Secrecy, U F O s , an ddeath of the American re-public, by Dolan, p. 11.M U F O N Forum, p. 13.U FO Press, Cracks inthe Great Wall , p. 14.Calendar, p. 22.U FO Marketplace , p.23 .

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At her New Hampshire home, the late Betty Hill shows the dressshe was wearing when abducted in 1961. Results ofDNA testing onthe dress begin on page 3 . ( P h o t o by D w i g h t C o n n e l l y . )

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DNA analysis of Betty Hill's dressproductive, but inconclusive

By Phyllis BudingerChemical Analyst

Frontier Analysis Ltd.The January 2004 issue of theMUFON UFO Journal pre-sented the results of an exten-sive analysis w hich I did on five sam-plings of material from the new dressBetty Hill w ore during her 1961abduc-tion.This dress had suffered discolorationalong the top half of the dress, especiallyin the underarms, and on the bottom ofthe dress. Four swaths from the outsideof the dress were examined.These included three sw aths from dis-colored areas and a control swath froman area that was not discolored. Alsoanalyzed was a swath of the interior lin-ing, which had a stain.It was reported that the three outerdiscolored dress swaths had sufferedchemical attack on both the dye and thefiber. These swaths are coated with abiologically derived material w hich ismostly protein and a small amount ofnatural ester type oil.In part, some of these materials hadsuffered degradation over t ime (40years) . It was found that these sub-stances are concentrated on the exte-rior surface of the dress, showing theirorigin was from an external source.Th e lining stain contains a differentprotein material and some na tural ester,wh ich did not chemically attack the dyeor ma terial. It also originated from anexternal source.

All natural bodily sources, which mayhave originated from Betty, such asurine, perspiration, and vomit, wereclearly ruled ou t.The resu lts led to some speculations.Betty's description of a "most unpleas-ant" odor on the craft, along w ith pres-ence of the protein sub stance and natu-ral oil, led to the conjecture that the craftoccupan ts' n atural body elimination ofoils/respiratory agents m ay have trans-AUGUST 2005

Chemical analyst Phyllis Budinger, standing,and the late Betty Hill examine th e dress that Hillwore during th e 1961 abduction.ferred to the dress on contact.Also, I did not think the deposited sub-stances on the dress directly caused thediscoloration. It w as probably from natu-ra l biological growth that grew on thearea of contact after th e abduction.I felt that there w as a remote possi-bility that some of the captors' DNAmight be on the dress.How ever, judging from the dress his-tory, I did not know if any intact DNAwould remain after this amou nt of time,especially w ith the indication of som edegraded protein, whic h suggested thatit might have suffered biological attack.But it w as w orth a shot.D NA analysis w as done in the latterhalf of 2004, and I received a report w ason Feb. 22, 2005. This analysis w asdone on the three discolored, outsideswaths and the stained lining.

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The biochemists w hodid this work went the"extra mile," incorporat-ing the mos t moderntechniques to enhancea n y D N A f r ag m e n t s .They m ade a project outof it.[This is the samegroup of scientists whodid the DNA analysis ofthe "alien hair" recoveredin the Peter Khoury casein Aus tralia, as describedin the July issue of theJournal.]I also enlisted the aidof a DNA specialist, D r.M., to review th e report.She does not know thebiochemists w ho did it.Her c o m m e n t s : "Ifound the analysis to bepretty good and quite in-fo rmat ive . They ap-peared to be very care-ful with the DNA extrac-tion process to get all they could fromth e samples they had to w ork with."I did not tell Dr . M. that th e reportdealt with a UFO abduction case. Iffact, I don' t even know if she's inter-ested in the UFO ph enomen on, or evenknows about the Hill case.On th e l e f t s l e e v e a l p h aproteobacterium D N A w a s found. D r.M. relates: "These are bacteria that arefound in soils an d water. The bacteria

could be picked up anyw here. If the dresswas on the ground, some of the bacteriacould have gotten there very easily."I found he r observation q uite interest-ing because, from the location of thebacteria (the left sleeve), if Betty w asw earing the dress she w ould have to bein a prone position-flat on the ground atsome point. This is highly unlikely.There is only one time we know thedress w as "on the ground." This w as

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when the dress w as removed from B ettyinside the craft an d thrown crumbled onthe craft floor.Clearly, some of these bacteria couldeasily have been from soil/dirt on thefloor, brought in on footwear worn byBetty or the escorts. The abduc tion tookplace down a dirt road. Follow ing is theD NA sequence p rofile:Uncultured Alpha Proteobacterium( swathe left sleeve).On the skirt front only a small DNAfragment w as isolated, w hich was notvery definitive. The best we can say isthe DN A is mam mal origin. The frag-ments suggest human, mouse, or bovine.I suspect th e f ragment is human.TheDNA sequence profile follow s:H u m a n ribosomal DNA/ Mousegene for 18S/ Bos taurus externaltranscribed spacer, partial sequence:18S (mid-section).On the right sleeve u nderarm w e seehuman DNA. This is not Betty's. Igavethe biochemists a sample of Betty'sblood for DNA comparison.However, what w as found was DNAfrom someone of African extract. Sow e speculate th at this is from Barney.Barney m ay have been escorting Bettyat some time during that weekend , leav-ing some of his DNA deposited on thedress.

If so, it is most interesting that theD N A w a s still intact after all of theseyears. Following is the sequence pro-file.Unknown H u m a n mitochondria!se -quence ( right sleeve) H omo sapiens iso-late YYM22 D-loop. partial sequence:mitochondria!TITLE: G enetic Structureof Hmong-Mien Speaking Popu lations inEast Asia as Revealed by mtDNA Lin-eages1The D NA analysis of the lining stainidentified it as spider blood of the genuscoelotes terrestris, which is comm on tothe New Ham pshire area, and I suspectsouthern Canada.There are three suc h spots on the lin-ing on the back of the dress. So it ap-pears Betty could hav e sat on a nest ofspiders. It's difficult to say w h e n it hap-pened.Kathy Marden, Betty's niece, relatesthat hou rs earlier Betty had a hotdog in

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Swath #3Canada and sat at a picnic table to eatit. It is a good probability the contactcould have occurred there. Otherw ise,it could have happened sometime du ringthe event. The DNA sequence profilefollows.Coelotes terrestris 18S rRNA geneDNA Analysis SummaryThe outer discolored areas of the dresshave an assortment of DN A fragments.These include bacteria, probably hum an,which could be from m any people han-dling the dress over the years, and prob-ably Barney's DNA.2 The lining stain iscomposed of spider blood.SpeculationsMy original speculations regard ing thesubstances coating the discolored areasof the dress remain. I suspect respira-tory agents from the captors. Time hadtaken its toll on the deposited materialsand prevented positveconfirmation.It would appear trace remnants ofsomeof the original materials did remain,such as the soil bacteria. This wouldsupport Betty's account of the dressbeing thrown on the craft floor. Theevent occurred in a rura l area on a dirtroad. D irt could have been tracked in byfootwear worn by Betty and the craftoccupants.And finally w e know at some pointduring the w eekend Betty sat on at leastthree spiders (a nest perhaps) . She satat a picnic table several hours before the

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event to eat a hot dog. So it possiblycould have happened there.If not, the probability increases tha t itoccurred in an unremembered incidentduring the event. Clearly the chemicalanalysis, the DNA analysis, along withthe ripped lining and zipper show s some-thing bizarre happened to Betty's newdress on the night of Sept 19,1961. Thisdress was reduced to a rag as a result!Acknowledgementsl am grateful for the help of Bil lChalker for putting me in touch with thebiochemists w ho did the DN A analyses.And of course, I thank themicrobiolo-gists w ho made th e "extra effort" andprovided in-depth DNA information.They know who they are. I also than kDr. M., a DN A expert, who I consultedfor a second opinion.'The biochemist notes: "In the mito-chondrial sequence U nknow n H umanmitochondria! sequence (right sleeve)

there is a sequence polymorphism atposition 139 (po sition 16188in the m ito-chondrial region) . References to thissequence include the one below, sug gest-ing that this DN A belonged to Barney."B an d e l t , H. J., Alves-Silva, J.,Guim araes, P. E., Santos, M. S., Brehm,A ., Pereira, L., Coppa, A., Larruga, J.M., Rengo, C., Scozzari, R.,Torroni, A.,Prata, M. J., Amorim, A., Prado, V. F.,Augus t 2005

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Pena, S. D. (2001) "Phylogeography ofthe human mitochondria!haplogroup L3e:a snapshot of African prehistory and At-lantic slave trade" Annals of HumanGenetics 65 (Pt 6) : 549-563.2This analysis was a long shot be-cause any DNA introduced at the timeof the event w as highly subject to deg-radation. Some factors that help thisalong include time, temperature, humid-ity (w hich leads to microorganisms) lightand various chemical substances.See: Norah Rudin and Keith Inman,An Introduction to Forensic D N AAnalysis, 2nd Ed, CRC Press, NewYork, 2002, pg. 13. We definitely kno wthe time and microorganism factor are areality.

Australian motoriststartled by strangefigure on side of road

O n J u n e 10, 2005, at 10 AM,Catherine R was driving on a countryroad on the outskirts of Bundaberg, aport city on H ervey Bay in Au stralia'sstate of Queensland, when she saw astrange figure standing in a meadowbeside the road.She says, "While driving in a one-and-a-half-hour drive on a country roadt h r o ugh mo s t l y b us h - l and , I sawthrough m y window a large d ark fig-ure about 7 or 8 feet tall."It had the appearance of a man, butwas far more muscular , wi th wideshoulders and a torso like a god. It w aslike nothing I'd ever seen."It w as dark and scaley-looking. Itscolor w as like ash. Its head w as insect-like. I was a scared 22- year-old fem ale.It w as just staring at me. I was ex-tremely uncom fortable."I was shocked and floored the ac-celerator. It stood still. I w as drivin g at100 kilometers per hour (60 miles pe rhour) w hen I saw it. I sped aw ay fromit at 120 kilom eters per hour (72 milespe r hour). I had never seen anything sostrange."Bundaberg, Qlnd. is located (180miles) north of Brisbane.-UFO ROUNDU P, Vol. 10, No. 26,Joseph T rainor.AUGUST 2005

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ries or ad hominum arguments.The papers m ust be between 1,500an d 3,000 words, not including sup-porting information. They m ust be ac-companied by a short (approximtely150-200w ords) biographical sketch ofthe submitter.Evidence Defined: All papers mu staddress the hypothesis that "UFOs arereal, they are technological, an d theyare not ours."McCormick's Handbook of the Lawof Evidence may be used as a guide toassist submitters in understanding thedescription of physical evidence, first-hand knowledge, expert testimony,competency of witnesses, demonstra-tive evidence, official written state-ments and records, best evidence, andauthentication. Future contests mayaddress other hypotheses.Format: Page size must be 8'/i x11. Papers shall consist of title, briefabstract, introduction describing thetechnological evidence, body of paperdescribing details that make this thebest evidence, and a conclusion. Allpapers m ust be written in English.Media Used: Each paper m ust besubmitted on CD in Microsoft Word orequivalent along with a printed copy ofthe paper. Supporting information maybe on the CD or in hard copy.Submittal: Papers and backup ma-terials shall be mailed to MUFON, PostOffice Box 369, Morrison, CO 80465-0369. All submittals should be clearly

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Second Place: $150plus free admis-s ion to al l sess ions of the 2006MUFON International UFO Sympo-sium.Third Place: $100 plus free admis-s ion to al l sessions of the 2006MUFON International UFO Sympo-sium.All other subm itters meeting the re-quirements defined for this contest w illr e c e i v e a C D copy of a v i n t a g eMUFON UFO Symposium Proceed-ings book .Only o ne prize w i l l b eawarded to an ind ividu al submitter.Schedule: All subm ittals must bereceived by MUFON Headquarters byOct. 1, 2005. Prizes will be awardedin January, 2006.Symposium summary

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Meteor watchers and UFOsA classic mismatch

D an Wright

By Dan Wright"It's a bird; it's a plane; it's ... aschool offish? Lake degassing? A jet-tisoned airplane tank?These of-ferings wereth e m o s tp rom inen t lyd i s cus s edposs ib i l i t iesduring a two-week periodin Apr i l andM ay w hen av o l u n t e e rgroup of me-teor watchersp o s t e dt h o u g h t s o ntheir internetforum (meteorobs.org) in response toan intriguing inquiry abou t a half-cen-tury rold event.W e 've all g r o w n w e a r y of thehaughty Big Science attitude towa rd theUFO subject. But those principals ofacademia and industry have reputationsto protect, and so are expected to showskepticism.Does that same snoo ty posturing ex-tend to segments of the citizenry w homerely dabble in one aspect or anotherof the sciences?A 60-year-old w om an nam ed Lindaha d harbored suspicions all her lifeabout the true nature of something shewitnessed as a young child.Finally, she decided to write a letterto the A m e r i c a n Meteor Society(AMS)-an organization devoted to (1)measuring the intensity of the annualmajor and minor meteor showers alike,and (2) describing to one ano ther in ex-quisite detail the occasional fireballstreaking through the heavens.Linda's email to the AMS was quiteout of the ordinary, so it offered outsid-ers a chance to assess how the meteorwatchers think on their feet. The textof her message:"In 1952, when I was 8 years old,my family lived in a house on a hill

over look ing T ow nl ine L ak e inLake view, MI. I was sitting on thescreened porch when I heard a loudsplash."When I looked up, I saw a largeround area of the lake boiling. I wasfrozen with fascination. The boilingarea looked to be perfectly round. It wasapproximately 50-75yards from shore(it's hard to judg e distance across thewater), and the round boiling area w asapproximately 30-40 feet wide."The boiling circle drifted to the leftabout 20-30 feet from where it had be-gun as if something was drifting dow nto the bottom of the lake at an angle.After watching it for several minutes,the boiling slowly stopped."Would a meteorite cause water toboil like tha t if it fell into a lake? Wouldit have cooled off enough to stop thewater from boiling in only a few m in-utes? Would a meteorite cause the wa-ter to boil in a perfectly round p attern?"Could a meteorite hitting earth bethat large and not cause any destruc-tion if it fell into a lake? I have alwayswondered what it might have been, andnow, 52 years later, I remember the in-cident like it was only yesterday an dam still perplexed by the incident."Importantly, Linda had not actuallyseen the object that entered the w ater,and when she w ent inside to inform he rmother after the boiling stopped, shemight have missed any concluding se-quence.But she was clear that a loud splashhad first attracted her attention , plus shehad offered details on the size and slowmovement of the boiling circle overseveral minutes.Meteor watchers who posted com-ments were in agreement that, what-ever caused the incident, it was no t ameteor.Given its likely entry speed in thethousands of miles per hour, a chunkof rock or metal sufficient in size to ef-fect a con t inu ou s 30-40 circle ofbubbles on the water 's surface wouldundoubtedly have first caused an enor-

About the authorDan W right has been active for anumber of years with both Michi-gan MUFON and MUFON interna-tional.He cond ucted a five-year study ofabductions, indexing more than 250verbatim accounts submitted by 20researchers.Wright was a 15-year Boardmember for MUFON, and served asdeputy director for investigations forMUFON for seven years, gradingmore than 1,000 reports, establish-ing review procedures, and assist-ing in creating the Worldw ide UFODatabse.H e authored three chapters of theM U F O N Field Investigator'sManual, has written numerous ar-ticles, and has spoken at severalMUFON symposiums.

mous sonic boom, followed by wide-spread destruction from the impact.As one member put it, "If such abolide came in, a huge end-of-the-world , thundering-smashing soundwould def ini te ly have been morememorable than th e bubbling lake,caused by the more dis tant massentering w ith cosmic velocity."Ignorant of the reported characteris-tics of discoid crafts entering bodies ofw ater over the years-or that 1952 w ashuge in terms of UFO activity acrossAmerica-no one in the group even con-sidered the possibility of a structuredcraft from beyond Earth as the culprit.Instead, what they did come up withas possibilities ranged from the plau-sible to the amusing. A sampling oftheir remarks:"My highly uneducated guess wouldbe that what (the woman) witnessedwas an instance of lake degassing,w h e r e i n b u i l d u p o f m e t h a n e ( abyprod uct of the decomposition of or-ganic matter) and/or CO2 reaches acertain pressure point, allowing th egas(es) to be spontaneously released en

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masse from lake-bot tom sediment .Such an event occurred on a muchlarger scale in 1986 on Cameroon'sLake N yos , killing over 1700 people.".This hypothesis (a lake version ofsw amp gas) ignores the loud splash thatfirst drew th e girl's attention.A second meteorobs p osting agreedwi th the not ion of carbon dioxidebuildup: "I believe the CO2 is in solu-tion much like the CO2 within a sodabottle before opening. After the pres-sure is released, the CO2 gas bubblesrush to the surface. Whatever hap-pened, it surely doesn't sound like ameteorite is at the root."The degassing idea, however, didhave one detractor: "Just wan ted to signin for a moment to say I agree that it isextremely unl ikely to be a meteor.However, I don't think it's C O2 gas,either. There w ould have to be a sourceof CO2 gas (usu ally volcanic), and thelake w ould have to be deep enough to'cork' the bott le with hydrostat icweight."Enter the fish, compliments of afourth meteor enthusiast: "Anothertheory is that she saw a fish fingerlingschool escaping from a predator. I haveseen it and it looks and m oves like shedescribed. It is also transient in thatmany fish don't school w hen larger andreally small fish stay in the shallows."

This hypothesis requires that the girlmisidentified the w ater's roiling actionfrom flapping fins for the bubbles sh einsists were seen.And finally the inconsiderate pilotnotion: "For what it is worth, in the 50sthe Air Force pilots u nde r certain flightsituations jettisoned belly tanks-emptyor otherwise-on what seemed to be aregular basis. Wh en possible they wereto be dropped over water. Sometimesaccidentally."At this point the intrepid UFO re-searcher entered the fray.In pertinent part, my posting read:"There is another possibility, which inthis case might be m ore plausible thananything derived from the annals ofw eird science. The y ear 1952 hap penedto includ e dramatic and persistent ap-pearances of UFOs."Numerous mi l i t a ry documents ,since acquired via the Freedom of In-formation Act, reported pilot chases,

uncorrelated rad ar targets, and repeatedin t rus ions o f a i r space a round thenation's Capitol . . . ."FYI, scores of eyewitnesses overthe years are on record as having ob-served metallic disc-type vehicles en -tering lakes and ocean w ater, m any ofwhom further described a bubbling onthe surface presum ably related to heatgenerated by the saucer 's exterior.Many of those persons further wit-nessed the reappearance of the disc asit emerged from underwater and flewout of sight."The next day brought some inevi-table derision, borrowed from the 18 thcentury Bri t ish phi losopher DavidHume: "That no testimony is sufficientto establish a miracle, u nless the testi-mony be of such a kind that its false-hood would be more miraculous thanthe fact which it endeavors to estab-lish." Gosh, I felt really put in my place.Fortuna tely, the witnes s herself cameto . my rescue. In a follow-up letter,Linda wrote:"I w ant to thank everyone very muchfor their speculations as to wh at I mayhave witnessed on Townline Lake in1952. While the lake w as stocked w ithbluegill and bass, I don't think it was aschool of fish, as it would have beentoo far away from shore for the smallerfish to school together.

"I have done a great deal of fishingin my life, and have seen many schoolsof fish being chased by predators, an dit did not look the same. And eventhough fish cause some splashing wh enthey are being chased, the splash I heardin 1952 was very loud. M uch louderthan a school of small fish makewhen fleeing a predator."The methane gas or even the UFOtheories seem m ore plausible to me, al-though I doubt i f the methane gas wouldhave caused a loud splashing noise.Perhaps a lou d bubbling noise."I am glad to know that everyoneruled out the meteorite theory, how ever,since that is w ha t I always thought itw as, and this information rules out thatpossibility."I was un aw are of the large num berof sightings of UFOs in 1952, and dono t positively rule ou t that theory, sincemy husband and I saw a UFO in Indi-ana in 1981."

She went on to say that, as volun-teer firefighters, they w ere mo nitoringthe Indianapolis air traffic control tow erwhen they heard pilots describing anunknown 35 miles south of the city-near the couple's home.They drove to a hill outside theirtown w here they spotted the object hov-ering at 3,000 feet.Linda reports: "It was round, silver,and had red and green lights scrollingaround its middle. The lights movedfrom right to left. It moved very slow lyacross the sky from east to west. M uchslower than an airplane could m ove andstill remain airborne."W e watched it for at least 30 min-utes while other airline pilots headingtoward Indianapolis reported the sameunidentified object to the control tow er.Finally, the object flew straight up and

ou t of sight within a matter of sec-onds."Unfortunately from an investigativestandpoint, Linda offered no date in hersummaries for either the 1952 or 1981event, and her email address has beenp r o t e c t e d by the me t e o r o b s . o r gwebmaster. Still, that second install-men t offered a measure of vindicationAs important, perhaps a few morewidemeteor watchers now believe inmiracles.Ozark Conference tapesTapes from the 2005 Ozark UFOConference are still available, acco rd-ing to Lou Parish, conference directorAlso, previous Conference tapesDVD s are available from Jack Fletcherwho used to tape the conferences, asare some tapes from other conferencesThe com plete lists an d prices are onthe website: w w w .ozarkufo.com.

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Not petroleum derivativesUFO odors suggest hydrocarbons fuel

Thomas M. Olsen, M.S.Retired Nuclear Engineer (UK)

Abstract: Odor descriptions in 16close-encounter reports are summa-rized and attributed to low-temperatureoxidation prod ucts of three hydrocar-bon fuels.NO 04 from atmospheric nitrogenfixation is discussed as another odor-ant.Odors are usually not experiencedin UFO sightings, since the object mustbe nearby, and the witness must bewithin the dow nw ind dispersion plume.

Even in close encounters wi th discUFOs, only about one out of three casesincludes perception of odors.Witnesses generally report an unfa-miliar, nauseating, pervasive and op-pressive smell, pungently irritating tothe m ucosal tissues of eyes, nose, andthroat.Depending on the magnitude of in-tegrated exposure, immediate effectsm ay include dizziness, upset stom ach,an d vomiting.The odor may still be noticeablehours later, from th e lungs and on theskin, w hich may peel. Severe exposuresmay be followed by temporary loss ofappetite and low blood lymphocytecount, and m ay necessitate hospitaliza-tion.1In a representative selection of 52close encounters w ith disc UFOs, in-cluding the 16 with odor which arenoted explicitly here, and 36 otherswithout odor,2 there is no significant sta-tistical correlation between occurrenceof odor and most other common fea-tures-including soun ds, smoke, haze ormist, colored glow , electromagne tic ef-fects, or sighting duration.Duration is evid ently statistically in -significant, as witnesses in several briefencounters noted imm ediate visibilityof copious vapor em issions, to whichthey attributed the reported odor.3Witnesses close to the UFO are sta-tistically som ew hat mo re likely to sensean y odors em itted by the UFO.48

In some of the CEII cases, odor atth e landing site is not detected u ntil th eground traces are inspected immedi-ately after th e sighting.The relative wind direction is unfo r-tunately not stated in m ost UFO reports,an d may be responsible for the appar-en t absence of odors in the majority ofclose encounters.In four of the 16 sightings w ith odor,the witnesses did note a distinct hiss-ing sound . This was not heard in any ofthe 36 typical close encounters with-ou t odor.A provisional ex planation for theodor evolves from literal interpretationof the specific odor descriptions, assummarized in Table 1, and from con-sideration of reported electrom agneticeffects of UFOs.15Thus, with the exception of ozone,

. w hich sometimes is misinterpreted asburning sulphu r, the specific odors re-ported appear to be from oxidationproducts of hydrocarbons: methyl al-cohol, me thyl benzene, and benzene.Evidently these are somehow avail-able in the UFO's vicinity, perhapsthrough venting or incomplete comb us-tion.It is significant that they are not pe-troleum derivatives; me thyl alcohol ismade from w ood, whi le the two ben-zenes are o btained from coal.On this planet, at least, these sourcesare m ore likely to be available in laterstages of technological developmentthan petroleum.The reported electromagnetic phe-nomena from UFOs are sufficient toprodu ce the necessary oxidizing agentsin the imm ediate vicinity. Th us, ozoneis expected in a region ionized by staticelectric and magnet i c fields, and bymicrow ave and optically visible elec-tromagnetic energy.Moreover, thecharacteristic yellowafterglow of active nitrogen,16 visible inspite of the quenching effect of oxygenin th e air,17 is described by some wit-nesses.18T he active nitrogen fixes oxygen to

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produce N O (unstable), N O (oxidizesto N O 2 ) , N203 (also unstable) , NO 2 an dN 205.The latter oxide is a wh ite, crystal-line solid below 30 degrees C (86 de-grees F). Thus, only NO 2 is consideredhere, in addition to ozone, as an effec-tive oxidizing agent.The fact that N 204 is used as a fueloxidizer in contemporary rocket tech-nology is ignored in the UFO contextsince, as discussed abo ve, the oxidiz-ing agent appears to be produced out-side of the U FO as an unavoidable con-sequence of the electromagnetic field.

In summary, consider ing the re-ported characteristics, UFO odors areattributed to externally produced oxi-dizing agents, ozone and NO^ ,andtheir reaction w ith methyl alcohol, me-thyl benzene, an d benzene: While itmay be difficult to accept th e implica-tion that hydrocarbons are used as anenergy source in disc UFO s, and w aste-fully too, th e reported descriptions ofoccasional black smoke em ission fromdisc UFOs must be recognized as fur-ther evidence.22Propulsion using the implied hydro-carbon fuels presumably requires atmo-spheric oxygen fo r primary combus-tion. This assump tion tends to support"mother ship" reports, suggesting themore com mo n, disc-type UFOs cannotoperate o utside Earth's atmosphere.Notes and References1. Coral and Jim Lorenzen:Encoun-ters with U FO Occupants (New York:Berkley Publishing Corp. 1976)p!2.2. Thomas M. Olsen (Ed.): The Ref-erence or Outstanding U FO SightingReports (Riderwood, Maryland 21139,USA: UFOIRC 1966).3. See e.g., Strange Effects fromUFOs (NICAP 1969), p53.4. Biserial correlation coe fficient =-0.3 with estimated distance in meterson a comm on logarithm scale.5. See Grey Barker: They Knew To oSuch about Flying Saucers (New York:University Books, Inc. 7956),p23; FSRJanuary/February 1966, p24, and F SR

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Table O ne: Odor description and interpretationSpecific ChemicalDescription Interpretation Form ula Remark sBurning sulphur Sulphur SO 2DioxidePepper in the air,6 Ozone (w itness O 3burned ou t elec- also sug gestedtrical motor7 or hot Bakelite).trnsformerFa t burning9 Fatty acids e.g.,appear in vapor formicor with com- acidbustion. HCOOHEmbalming fluid10 Formaldehyde H CO

H ot Bakelite Formaldehyde C H 5OHan d phenol (phenol)

Nitrobenzene 11 Nitrobenzene C 6H 5NO2

Ozone is more likely, but un-familiar to many witnesses.Expected in vicinity of electri-cal discharge and ionized air.Besides irritating upper respir-atory tract, ca n (bu t usuallydoesn't) produce headaches.Under low -temperture oxida-tion by moderately activeagents, formic acid is producedfrom formaldehyde or directlyfrom methyl benzene.Colorless, w ater soluable,highly poisonous, irritating gas.Occurs in low-temperature ox -idation of methyl alcohol bymoderately active oxidizingagents.Phenol (carbolic acid) is apungent solid at room temper-ature.From oxidation of methylbenzene;13 or UV radiation ofbenezene;14 both need suitablecatalyst. Produces skin burn s.Oily, yellowish liquid, poison-o u s , with strong, slightlysweetish odor like oil of bitteralmonds. Made in oxidationwith benzene by nitric acid.

Sep tember /October 1968, p7; andStrange E f f e c t s from UFOs, op. cit., pi.6. Charles A. Maney and Richard H .Hall: Th e Challenge of UnidentifiedFlying Objects (NICAP 1961), p29.I.FSRNovember/December 7967,p6; Lorenzen, op. cit., p!2.8. Th e APRO Bulletin April 7977,

P2.9. NICAP: U FO Investigator July/Augus t 1961, p5. Formic acid can betanked an d used in fuel cells to chemi-cally produce electricity. It b urn s simi-larly to petrol an d compares w ith moreu s u a l fuel-cel l mater ia ls , includingmethyl alcohol: Electronic EngineeringTimes November 13 , 1978, p28.10. Strange E f f e c t s from UFOs, op .cit.,p5, an d Vallee's Challenge to Sci-ence, the UFO Enigma, p40.I1. Vallee, op. cit., p53. T he related

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benzene derivative, aniline, CfiH5NH?is a colorless, poisonous liquid w hichrums dark red on standing and d estroysred blood cells.12 . D. R. Cloyd and W. J. Mu rphy:Handling Hazardous M aterials (U.S.Government Printing Office: N A S ASP-5032 7965),p66.13. George S. B rady and H enry R.C l aus e r : Materials Handbook, llthEdition ( N e w Y o r k : M c G r a w - H i l lBook Co. 7977), p577.14. William Albert Noyes, Jr. andPhilip Albert Leighton: The Photo-chemistry of Gases (New York: DoverPublications, Inc. 7966), App. B-n andc-i,n.15. J a m e s M. M c C a m p b e l l :UFOlogy-New Insights from Scienceand Common Sense (1 2 Bryce Cou rt,Belmont , Ca l i forn ia 94002, U S A :MUF O N UF O JO URNA L

Jaymac Company 7973 [hardcoverand Millbrae, California,, USA: Celes-tial Arts 7976 [paperback of highequality]), pps 23-41 [hardcover], w iththree paragraphs on odors.See also McCampbell's subsequenpapers in various AIAA and MUFONsymposia proceedings and M U F O NUFO Journal.16. A. N elson Wright and C arl AWinkler: Active Nitrogen (New Y orkAcademic Press, Inc. 7965), pps 1,1917. Wright an d Winkler, op. cit., pp264-267.18. E .g., Strange E f f e c t s from UFOsop . cit., p42: a "yellow tail" appearedwhen the hovering object m oved horizontally.19. Cloyd an d Murphy, op. cit., pp s73-79.20. Cf. color and specific gravitywith description in Strange E f f e c t s fromUFOs, op. cit., p42.21. Cf. descriptions in C.R.I.F.ONewsletter (Cincinnati, Ohio: CivilianResearch, Interplanetary Flying Objects) November 1956, p4 ("an overpow ering, noxious, nauseating odor"an d Olsen, op . cit., p3-13 ("worse thanburning flesh-an awful smell").22. E.g., O lsen, op . cit., pps 3-24 and3-49.

Ohio U FO collectionlarge and gr owingThe Ohio State University's mainlibrary's rare books and manuscriptdivision has more than 1,000 items inits William E. Jones U nidentified Object Collection.The collection is one of the largesin the coun t ry , accord ing to E lvaGriffith, a library associate.The assortment of material, rangingfrom books to reports to periodicals, hasbeen do nated over the past 15 years byJones, a C o l u m b u s l a w y e r , OhioMUFON State Director, and membeof the Board of Directors of the J. AllenHynek Center for UFO Studies.Jon es is also a m e m b e r of theRoundtown UFO So ciety of Circle villeOH , headed by Pete Hartinger.Although every piece in the co llection is not rare, the collection is no t circulated, thus keeping th e materials ingood cond ition for researchers.9

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Woman says UFO stalledcar on lonely Texas roadOn Tuesday, July 5, 2005, at 8:50PM , eyewitness M.R. reports, "I wascoming home from a fishing trip inSargent, TX. I had jus t turned offFM587 on to FM2611 when , all of asudden, the lights in my car blinkedtwice, an d then the car went dead."I coasted to a stop at the top of asmall hill that was on a curve. I wasfrightened. For one, I am female an dwas traveling alone, and I w as in themiddle of nowhere."I thought that the reason for thepow er giving out in my car was because

my brother had been using my car bat-tery earlier in the day and m ay not havetightened the battery cables properly."I didn't have a flashlight on mean d I grabbed m y cell phone to letsomeone know what had happened.Then I decided to get out of the car,knowing that my cell phone had a brightlight on it, and I w as going to check thebattery cables."Before I could open my cell phoneto turn it on, a bright blu ish glow startedto light up a wooded area across thehighway from me."A t first I thought it was another ve -hicle coming up behind me, and I pan-icked for a moment because my car hadstopped on top of the hill on a curve,and, if the vehicle w as coming up thecurve too fast, it w ould hit m e."But I realized quickly that i t wasno t another vehicle. I couldn't quiteidentify the light, but the woods gotsuddenly brighter. The light wen t brightlike a blue-w hite light bulb."It was more like the light from agiant blue f lashl ight or helicopter(search) light. I sat in com plete silencewhile I watched it slowly move up outof the trees u ntil it was abov e the treesan d clearly in the sky with the stars fo ra background."It was a huge b luish translucent ballof light, with the center of the ball mu chdarker than the outer edges.The outeredges of the ball seemed to vibrate ortremble slightly.10

"It continuously rose up into the sky,at first slowly, but, th e higher it got, thefaster it went. Which was straight upinto the sky until it disappeared."I sat in the silent darkness for a fewseconds and then turned my car keys,w h i c h I had never t aken out o fthe ignition sw itch, and the car startedright up."Sh e says the UFO "was about 30 to40 feet (9 to 12 meters) up. It was huge,maybe 30 to 40 feet across, but I couldbe mistaken. It was much larger thanmy car-a Volvo D L wagon. I resumedmy drive to Sweeny, TX."Sargent is in Matagorda Cou nty, onTexas' Gulf of Mexico shore about 40miles (64 ki lometers ) southwest ofGalveston. (Email Form Report)-Thanks to UFO ROUNDUP, Vol.10, No. 28, Joseph Trainor.Large glowing objectreported in TennesseeOn M arch 17, 2004, a 42-year-oldman ( name on file) says he was walk-

ing on the bank of South Holson Lakein Sullivan County, TN, looking for oldfishing plugs, when he glanced up about6:20 PM and saw a stationary glow ingobject w hich w as perfectly circular.It w as about the size of a basketballat arm's length, and he estimates theobject w as 100 to 500 feet away.Other than a bright yellow glow,there were no distinguishing features,and it w as not translucent. H e observedthe object for about two minutes be-fore it shot straight up int o the sky andwas gone.The witness is a retired veteran ofmilitary special forces. He reported thesighting to the cou nty sheriff, w ho re-ferred the sighting to Kim Shaffer, Ten-nessee MUFON ASD/FI.State & local newslettersIf you r group is not currently send-ing your new sletter to the Journal, w ewould appreciate receiving it.MUFON UFO Journal

computerhacker looking for ETand 9-11 coverup nowfacing extradition

A 39-year-old une mp loyed UFO en-thusiast has been accused of commit-ting the biggest military computer hackof all time by the US government, whileauthorities in Britain chose to releasethe No rth Londo ner w ithout charge.H is in teres t in the sys tems w assparked, as it was for m any others, byan interest in science, science fiction,an d the unknown.It was the search for proof of extra-terrestrial life and a potential cover-uparound the events of 11 September,2001, that led him to the restricted gov-ernment sites.H e was, metaphorically speaking,able to walk right in, look around, an dmake himself at home in what are sup-posedly some of the most secure sys-tems in the world.Although breaking into the D epart-men t of Defense (DoD) required acombination of ingenuity and hours ofmindless drudgery, ultimately it was the"dangerously lax IT systems" that madeit possible, he claims.And as for the "minor" damage tothe systems concerned, it was not de-liberate, he says, bu t happened acciden-tally while he was trying to cover histracks.Gary McKinnon has a lot to worryabout. His job prospects ar e bleak. H ewill shortly have to leave his hom e inNorth London, an d could be facing upto 70 years in a US federal prison-aprospect that terrifies him.H is actions have been w ell recorded.Over a period of years he managed tobypass the security of what should bethe most sophisticated IT systems onthe planet, many of w hich belong to theUS DoD and NASA .That w as back in 2002, and he hasalready been investigated thoroughly bythe legal authorities in the UK and re-leased w ithou t charge.But the slow-w orking cogs of the USlegal system have finally clicked intoaction, leaving him hanging in limboaw aiting an extradition hearing.

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Secrecy, UFOs, and the deathof the American Republic

Richard Dolan

By Richard M. DolanOne ce rtainly hears a lot these daysabout "American fascism." Certaincommentators like to point ou t that fas-cism w as a distinct historical develop-m e n t t h a tevolved from theE u r o p e a nwreckage afterWorld W ar One.S ome ma i n -tain that to callwhat is happen-in g in America"fascism" is ad i s s e r v i ce tothose w ho livedu n d e r H i t l e r ,M u s s o l i n i , orother dictators.It's true that there are major differ-ences here today with certain featuresof those regimes. There has been noopenly acknowledged coup d'etat tow hich one can refer . But the changesto America have yet been profoun d.I believe that the Jacobin-styled revo-lutionaries w ho run Am erica these dayshave learned an important lesson fromthe past: that the best revolutions aresilent.Manage the media, manage the othermajor institutions of power, and you canhave your w ay about almost anything.Y ou ca n change the structure of soci-ety at the m ost profound levels, as longas you keep the old appearances. I callthis invisible fascism.But my main quarry fo r this paper isno t empire, not the covert influence ofbig money, no t globalization, not the co-option of w hat was once an indepen-dent media, no r even fascism per se inAmerica.There is another disease eating aw ayat America. It is something which re-ceives nearly no attention, even fromthose people w ho think and care abou tsuch qu aint issues as republican virtueand freedom.That is that matter commonly re-ferred to as UFOs and the cancerousA UG US T 2005

Editor's NoteThe initial portion of this articleoriginally discussed in some detailDolan'sconcerns with what he feelsis a move toward "American fas-cism" an d various activities of thegovernment, such as the Patriot Actand the activities of the governmentrelated to 9-11.As this was not directly relatedto UFOs, most of this material was ,with th e author 's permission,not in-cluded in the current edited article.This additional material is avail-able on the author ' s websi te atwww.keyholepublishing.com.

effect of UFO secrecy on the Ameri-can Republic.Of science and politicsThe development of invisible fas-cism in America is of such historicalsignificance, you migh t ask, "w hy talkabout UFOs?" There is no shortage ofculprits, so why bring in the lunaticfringe?Conversely, there are also UFO re-

searchers w ho wan t no part of politicalanalysis interfering w ith their field ofstudy. This is a scientific issue, theymaintain. Introducing political perspec-tives just m uddies the waters . A nalyzethe evidence, kno w your facts, and stayobjective.But the UFO topic has importantpolitical im plications. W e cannot affordto ignore them. One of these is the dam -aging effect UFO secrecy has had onour society. It is an issue that intimatelyaffects pub lic policy, national secu rity,and our very freedom .Indeed, as I will argue, the topic ofUFOs and the extreme secrecy con-cerning them w ill determine a signifi-cant course of our civilization's future.Reality of UFO phenomenonUFOs are not fun and games, theyare not delusions. They ar e real. Thephenomenon has involved real technol-ogy, doing real things that are not sup-posed to be possible.MUFON UFO JOURNAL

About the AuthorRichard Dolan is the author of UFOsan d the National Security State (2000),w hich covers the period from 1941 to1973. He is currently completing thesecond volume, 1974 to the present.Dolan did undergraduate work atAlfred University in history, English,and philosophy, earned a scholarship toOxford , and did graduate work at theUniversity of Rochester in political sci-ence. He has spoken at several UFOc o n f e r e n c e s , i n c l u d i n g M U F O N ' s2002 an d 2005 symposium s.This technology, since at least WorldW ar Tw o, has engaged in a confronta-tional and provocative manner withU.S. m ilitary forces on m any occasions.It ha s involved both air space viola-tions an d alarmed responses, and haselicited the concern of some of the high-est ranking m ilitary and intelligence of-ficers in the country.W e know this because, for a rela-tively brief period in America's history(primarily the late 1970s and into someof the 1980s), the Freedom of Infor-mation Act enabled researchers to ob-tain official documents from govern-ment agencies which clearly demon-strated this.Not that FOIA is officially dead to-day, but it has had its ups and downsover th e years. As far as obtainingUFO-related information, FOIA's mo-ment of glory w as long ago, in the post-W atergate and post-Vietnam era.Thus, agencies such as the CIA,DIA, FBI, and pick your alphabet-soup

agency, w hich fo r years ha d steadfastlydenied having anything to do wi thUFOs, suddenly released thousand s ofpages of docum entation pro ving the op-posite.It is true that, amo ng these officiallyreleased documents, there is no abso-lute smoking gun-e.g. a memo from thePresident stating "Okay, w hat do we doabout these pesky aliens, anyhoo?"There are, however , qui te a fewdocuments that are one cut below this.11

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That is, d ocuments that describe utterlyawesome military encounters with th eunexplainable.Taken individually, such FOIA docu-ments do not prove the existence ofUFOs as something "not us." After all,even military w itnesses can mak e mis-takes. Radar can be faulty or misinter-preted.But, taken as a w ho le , th e releasedFOIA docu men ts provide a large bodyof evidence relating to serious militaryencounters with UFOs. After yo u readthe first fifty of these, yo u start to w o n-der. Let's review a couple of thesedocuments.The 1949 Kirtland documentWe have, for instance, a docum entfrom Kirtland Air Force Base in NewMexico from Jan. 31, 1949, directedto the USAF Chief of Staff.There w as a flurry of UFO activitygoing on in New M exico at this time.The docu ment in question described yetanother of these sightings from the pre-vious day, seen by about 30 people. Thedocum ent states:"Estimate at least 100 total sightings.AEC, AFSWP, 4th Army, local com-mand ers perturbed by implications ofphenomena... . All appear to be sameobject at different points in trajectory.Unless instructed to contrary this of-fice will make all out investigation with

view to location of impact point if any."All those agencies were "perturbedby implications of phenomena." Yes,indeed. I would be perturbed, too.On the same day that the Kirtlanddocument was issued, Strategic AirCommand sent a memo to FBI Direc-tor J. Edgar Hoover.It stated that the matter of UFOs w as"considered top secret by IntelligenceOfficers of both the A rmy and the AirForces."A 1950 Confidential M emorandumwith the heading, "Flying Disks." Thisme mo is remarkable, and I w a n t toseparate each sentence from one para-graph, so that you read it carefully:The 1950 Hanford document."Since 30 July objects, round inform, have been s ighted over theHanford AEC Plant."These objects reportedly wereabove 15,000 feet in altitude."Air Force jets attempted intercep-

tion with negative results."All units including the anti-aircraftbattalion, radar un its, Air Force fightersquadrons, and the Federal Bu reau ofInvestigation ha ve been alerted for fur-ther observation."The Atomic Energy Commissionstates that th e investigation is continu-in g an d complete details wil l be for-warded later."Where oh w he r e are the academichistorians regarding this m em o? Failedintercepts? Anti -a i rcraf t bat ta l ions?Good lord. And whatever happened tothe AEC investigation an d report?The answer to that last questionmight be contained in the wording ofthe 1949 me mo sent to H oover. It statedthat the matter of UFOs w as "consid-ered top secret."Yet, of the thousands of UFO-relateddocuments that were released throughthe Freedom of Information Act, onlythe smallest handful of (highly cen-sored) documents were actually TopSecret.The rest w ere typically classified Re-stricted or C onfidential, or at most Se-cret. Lower levels of secrecy, in otherwords. So where are the Top Secretdocuments?Despite the best efforts of FOIA re-searchers, the best reports an d intelli-gence remain far removed from thepubl ic domain. Despi te what somepeople ha d hoped, the FOIA has notturned out to be a magic bullet.It is also fairly obvious that UFOsecrecy invo lves classifications higherthan Top Secret. Higher classificationsare themse lves c lass i f ied , so whoknow s how far they really go.James Bamford in Body of Secrets,a study of the NSA, writes, "like anendless spiral, there are secret classifi-cation systems w ithin secret classifica-tion systems."

What we do know is that Canadiangovernment official Wilbert Smithw rote in 1950 that he had made "dis-creet enquiries through the Canadianembassy staff in Washington" andlearned that the subject of UFOs w as"the most highly classified subject inthe United States government."Robins Air Force BaseThe last of the early memos I wantto show you is from Robins Air Force

Wilbert SmithBase in Macon, GA, dated July 9,1951.It describes a ten-minute aerial UFOencoun ter that took place in the earlyafternoon.

Th e pilot, a first lieutenant, w as fly-ing an F-51 on a routine flight fromLawson AFB in Columbus, GA. Notfar from Augusta, he encountered anobject that w as "flat on top and bottomand appearing from a front view to haverounded edges an d slightly beveled."At one point the object dived whilein front of the pilot's view. When it didso, it appeared "completely round andspinning in a clockwise direction."The a mo unt of detail on this reportis remarkable. It continues: "From frontview as object dived observer notedsmall spots on the object ...Object didnot appear to be alum inum. Only 1 ob-ject observed. Solar white. No vaportrails or exhaust or visible system ofpropulsion. Described as traveling attremendous speed."The object eventually "disappearedunder his plane."Not only w as this for an extendedduration, but the pilot got to w ithin 300to 400 feet of the object. He estimatedits size at about 10 to 15 feet in diam-eter. This object w as mov ing very fast.According to the report, the pilotthought the object was moving at thespeed of a jet. H e felt a "disturbance inthe air described as a b ump w he n ob-ject passed und er plane.... Pilot flew incombat in Europe for 12 mo nths 1944-1945. Pilot considered by associates tobe highly reliable, of mature judgem entand a creditable observer."There are other documents like this.

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Taken as a group, they establish that,during this early period at least, therewere quite a few events that were re -corded an d classified by U.S. militaryand intelligence personnel that they tookseriously. It is easy to understand w hy.Soviet? American? Other?Were these objects of Soviet origin,developed perhaps with the aid of cap-tured German scientists-someof whomw ere indeed experimenting w ith disk-shaped platform s? This possibility w asinvestigated, and rejected.Today, years later, there is still no evi-dence that the Soviets invented "flyingsaucers" after World W ar Two.What about the Americans? Theycaptured their ow n cache of Germanscientists, after all. One can speculateon the possibility that some break-through w as made in the immediatepost-World War Two years, in deepsecrecy, as a result of purely terrestrialscience.But there are several problems withthis theory, as well. First, the documen-tation that w e have indicates seriousefforts on anti-gravity com mencing inthe mid-1950s.If anything started sooner w ithin theUnited States, w e have no documen-tary evidence. That is not to say it didn'thappen, but there are no docum ents toshow it .

Nor would it seem logical that thisw as a deep black Am erican program,at least when viewing th e confronta-tional nature of some of these encoun -ters.T he 1951 pi lot encounter ci tedabove, fo r instance, or the many intru-sions ove r military bases an d researchcenters, don't make sense as a secretAmerican project, at least not on theface of it.Unless, of course, you speculate thata rogue hum an group obtained radicallyadvanced technology; a group beyondthe control of official militaries an dgovernments. I can't prove this, but isit possible? Of course.That, frankly, seems to be the con-servative interpretation, an d it's notexactly conservative. Then there is themore radical interpretation, which isthat this technology wasn't human inorigin at all.

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MUFON ForumWitness revealedEditor's Note: The "Cisco GroveBow & Arrow case" w as summarized

in the April M U F O N UFO Journal inan article by Preston Dennett.from hisbook UFOs Over California.There w as discussion in the Forumin the June issue of the name of the mainwitness. Dennett's full report of the in-cident, as it appears in his book, fol-low s this letter to the Forum by the wit-ness' wife:Dear M r. Connelly,I have the answer to the name dis-cussion by Mr. Dennett, M r. Heiden,an d Mr. Good printed in the MU FONForum, page 10, of the MU F O N U F OJournal of June, 2005.The w itness in the Cisco Grov e Bowand Arrow case of 1964 is my husbandof 42 years, Donald R. Shrum. H efought them off all night and got away.Don is 67 years old now, and is in goodhealth andretired.Paul Cerny was Don's MUFONinvestigator in 1964. KathylynBunyardtold of of Paul's passing. We have thegreatest respect for Pau l. H e treatedDon very well, an d always kept us in-formed about Don's case.Paul and Don agreed to keep D on'slast name confidential because of theprevailing attitudes in the early 60's.Paul used Mr. S and Donald S. Donw as introduced to Stanton Friedman,though, as Mr. X by Paul in the 70's inSacramento, CA. Later on, Paul usedDonald Smythe.Richard Hall neve r had our permis-sion to use Don's last name. M r. Hallw as so very close: he added the letter cto Don's last name. We have never metMr. Hall.Don's name w as leaked by whomw e w ill never know. Paul; Dr. AnitaBrothers of Berkeley, CA; ProfessorKillick; James Harder; and U.S. AirForce Capt. McCloud and a sergeantw ho were with Intelligence Command(who grilled Don off base for serveralhours; I w as present then) w ere the onlyones w e knew who had Don's fullname, address, and possibly phone

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number. Nevertheless, his leaked nam e,etc. did cause some problems, not toobad.-Warmest regards,Mrs. Judith ShrumFollowing is the case as describedin UFOs Over California:On Labor Day weekend in 1964, anow classic U FO case took place in thew ilderness outside Cisco Grove, nearTruckee, California. Three hunterswere using the long weekend to dosome bow-and-arrow hunting. On Sep-tembe r 4, the three m en separated fromeach other and began the hunt.One of the hunters, Donald Smythe,

had no idea that he was about to be-come the hunted. After a long day ofhunting, Smythe had become lost andw as having trouble finding his way backto camp. W hen he saw a light dartingback and forth above him, he assumeda helicopter had been sent to rescuehim.Instead, the object came overheadan d hovered silently above him. Whenthe object suddenly landed, Smytherealized that it was something outsideof his experience. H e became fright-ened an d climbed up a nearby tree.Smythe then sa w three figures exitth e craft an d come tow ards him. Tw oof the figures were about five feet talland dressed from head to toe in silvery-gray material. The third figure appearedto be robotic, w ith two reddish-orange"eyes" and a rectangular opening for amouth.The three figures approached the treeand appeared to try and climb it. Therobotic figure opened its rectangular:mouth and belched ou t clouds of foul-smelling gas which made Smythe chokeand lose consciousness.He climbed further up into the treeas the three figu res continued to taun thim. The three figures stayed for hours,despite Smythe's attempts to dissuadethem by dropping b urning bits of pa-per and clothing. He then shot at therobot with his arrows. Although therobot w as knocked dow n, the arrowsbounced off the metallic surface.This w ent on all night. When daw n

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broke, the figures w ere still there. Sud-denly, a fourth figure exited the craftand Smythe saw that i t was anotherrobotic figure, identical to the fust. Thetw o robots emit ted a huge cloud ofsmoke wh ich enveloped Sm ythe, caus-in g him to lose consciousness. W henhe aw o ke , th e f igures and "dome-shaped" craft were gone.Smythe hurriedly returned to cam p,where he found his friends looking fo rhim. U pon hearing his account, one ofthe hun ters reported that he also saw a"bright, glowing, large light" swoopd ow n and travel at low altitude acrossthe sky. Both companions also re -marked that th e incident undo ubtedlyhad something to do w ith the fact thatthe government w as already hi the arealooking for a "meteorite."Smythe's wife saw him after th eincident and provided additional details:"I knew something w as w rong with himwhen I saw him. He w as as white as asheet, and his eyes were dazed look-ing. He spoke to me in a very shakyvoice.H e had dark circles und er his eyes.H e looked terrible...he had scratches allover his arms. He came in and didn' teven say hi, hello or an ythin g.. . .he thenproceeded to tell m e about hi s CiscoGrove experience. His h ands shook andhis voicewas subdued... he was on theverge of crying [and] was so badlyshaken that he took a week off from

work."Smythe was badly traumatized bythe incident and reported it to the AirForce. While the Air Force suggestedhe w as perhaps the victim of a prank,pioneering UFO investigator CoralLorenzen calls the case "the m ost spec-tacular report I have ever examined,"an d believes "it is an authentic incidentan d important to the documentation of'occupant' incidents."UFO investigators Ted Bloecher andPaul Cerny also conducted an in-depth,onsite investigation and came a w ay to-tally convinced.W rites Cerny, "Having just reviewedthe case files on this fascinating andunusua l encou nter, there is absolutelyno doub t in my mind that this inciden tis factual and authentic. I have spentconsiderable time and many visits withthe main witness, and along with th etestimony of the other witnesses, I canrule out the possibility of any hoax."

Cracks in the Great Wall-UFOs andTraditional Metaphysics by CharlesUpton, 2005, Sophia Perennis, Light-ning Source, LaVergne, TN, ISBN 1-59731-024-7,88pages, soft cover, 6x9,No index. $18.95.

Reviewed by Dwight ConnellyThe au thor purports to explain w hatUFOs are by using a com bination ofscience and metaphysics, utilizing pri-marily the view s of ufologist JacquesVallee and metaph ysicist Rene Gueno n.Vallee is, in fact, th e only ufologistin which the author seems to placemuch faith, and it is clear that Uptonhas only limited know ledge of ufology.Still, the writing is clear an d intelli-gent for the most part as he presentsmaterial to convince th e reader thatUFOs are manifestations of the anti-Christ."I consider," says the author, "thecontemporary UFO experience, an dparticularly the occurrence o f 'alien ab -duction,' to be the most direct mani-festation conceivable of these powersof darkness-a manifestation which hasbecome possible on su ch a widespreadbasis only because the present world-age is rapidly drawing to a close: it istruly an 'end time' phenomenon."Although Upton seems unable to dif-ferentiate between New Age groups,such as Heaven's Gate, and groupssuch as MUF ON , he does spend sev-eral pages cr i t iquing the late JohnM ack's approach to both the abducteesand the abductors.The au thor concludes that the UFOentities are mem bers of the Jinn of theKoran-beings inhabiting a plane sub-tler than the Material, but grosser thanthe Imaginal and Angelic: the seven thplane in the Great Chain of Being."He says that not all Jinn are evil, "butthe Jinn who are staging the presentUFO manifestations almost certainlyare demons," an d "are here to prepareus for the religion of the antichrist."H e adds, "If today's al ien showsmany similarities to the traditional

'vampire,' it is because both of themsteal our 'blood,' our life-energy, whichin the most fundamental sense is noth -ing other than the spiritual attention w eowe to God as the source of our l ife."H e adds, "Just as an adultrous affairdestroys marriage by diverting eroticenergy, so the 'alien' and the 'entity'destroy ou r relationship to Go d by di-verting spiritual energy."T he author says he wil l accept ,"w ithout apology, the existence of in-visible w orlds, and the ability of suchworlds to impinge u pon and alter thephysical one."Overlooking few issues, Upton alsospends some time explaining why hebelieves reincarnation and time travelare impossible.H e says that the UFOs cannot beinterplanetary spaceships because,based on Vallee's conclusions, "thereare simply too m any of them ; it is notlikely, fo r example, that th e possiblytw o million Am ericans w ho have beenabducted by aliens w ere kidnapped byastronauts."The author quotes Orthodoxy andth e Religion of the Future that "themanifestations of today's flying saucersare quite w ithin the ' technology' of de-mons; indeed, nothing else can ex plainthem as w ell. The multifarious demonicdeceptionsofOrthodox literature havebeen adapted to the mythology of outerspace, nothin g more..[their] purpose isto awe the beholders with a sense ofthe 'mysterious,' and to p r o d u c e'proof of the 'higher intel l igences'('angels,' if the victim believes in them ,or 'space visitors' fo r modern men) ,and thereby gain trust for the messagethey w ish to communicate."This book probably won't changemany minds, but Upton does a reason-ably good job of presenting his view ofufology: "a true postmodern demonol-ogy-though all too m any of those w hobelieve that Unidentified Flying Ob jectsare extraterrestrial visitors treat it moreas a post-modern religion."

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1 I T"HJUjyDirector, MUFON Eastern Region

Note: These reports ar e presented in or-der to keep readers informed of some of thevast number of s i gh t ings being reported.However, these cases have no t been officiallyinvest igated.Massachusetts teardropUFOBOSTON - The passenger and hisdaughter were flying in an AA 757 toEurope on June 19,2005.

The witness states, 'Twenty minutesafter takeoff a horseshoe crab-shapedsilver object wasquickly overtaken byour aircraft at 8:14 PM ."The crab-shapedUFO was flying atour altitude and not recognized as an air-craft. Weestimated the object was at a1/4 mile distance from our AA 757, butit wasdefinitely not a plane, and seemedto be hanging almost vertically north ofus."On landing at Manchester, England,they asked the pilot and co-pilot aboutthe UFO. They did not see it or pickanything up on radar.Thanks toPeter Davenport, Director,www.ufocenter.com.U K cigarCOVENTRY - On June 17,2005, at2:10AM, a train engineer and anotherrailway worker witnessed a multi-col-ored cigar-shaped object low in the sky.The engineer at Coventry Station wasdriving locomotive 66537 (4006).The engineer reports, "About half amile before Cov station I noticed at abouta 35-degree angle from eyesight a largegreen light above Coventry City Centre.It appeared to be stationary and was asteady light.

"Getting closer to the station, the lightturned to a steady red or slightly orangeglow. I couldn't remain in permanentfocus with theobject because I wasrun-ning on to a red signal."I observed that the light had a tube-like shape and a red light at the rear. IAUGUST 2005

would guess that it was only about acouple of hundred feet in the sky, andwas moving northeast over Coventry."There was no noise I could hear,butthen again Iwasina66 locomotive. Alsothere was a rail grinding machine on thedown slow platform, and the driver ofthat was on the platform watching theUFO.

"Maybe it wasa barrage balloonor Zeppelin typecraft? But whythe steady lightno tflashing, plus Ihave never seenthese at night, andalso it appeared tobe thin and tubeGeorge Filer like."Thanks toPeter Davenport.

Disc attacks Stealth bomber?INDIANAPOLIS - Two witnessesdecided to walk around the outside ofthe Indy 500 Race Track. They werewalking south on Georgetown Road onthe left sideof the street on May 29,2005,at 11:30PM, and overheard people saythe Stealth was almost there and pointedit out.

The witness reports, "Soon, we sawthe Stealth bomber coming straight overGeorgetown Road, andnearby therewasa disc moving like achrome ringing bell,then hovering in one spot, bunding simi-lar to the sun shining on chrome."The thing washigh, higher then theStealth, and thedisc seemed to be wait-ing for the Stealth. As the Stealth flewunder the hovering disc, the disc seemedto attack the Stealth bomber.

"The disc stopped glistening, andsmoked a little as it hit the right wing ofthe Stealth plane, then started shiningagain. The plane circled the track onelap and went west in the direction of the

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Indianapolis Airport."The rightwing hadsome smoke com-ingfrom it.Maybe that's normal, but thefirst 12seconds were something to see.After I saw the smoke from thewingofthe Stealth, I couldn't spot the disc."There were a couple of witnessesleaving fo r the race. The female lookedat the disc or bell and said, 'Cool.'"Thanks to Peter Davenport.Possible new Roswell info

Dave writes: "I wanted to relate astory to you about my father, Joe, whowas on the Civil Engineering faculty atthe University of Texas."In mid-Julyof 1947, myparents weredriving late at night, westbound fromClovis, NM, trying to make Santa Fe.My Mother said that west of Clovisabout 15 miles the road was open withno traffic. It was a clear starry night

"She said th e road was 'mounded' up,built uphigher than thesurrounding ter-rain. There was (and is) a railroad trackthat parallels the road, but located downbelow, and that its telegraph polesreached only slightly higher than theroadsurface."This stretch of road is about 40 milesnortheast of Roswell, N.M. Today, asthen, the road is still built up and, whilethere are more utility poles, mere are stilllong sections where theroad isabout theheight of the tops of the poles."If you are westbound, to the left is along, descending plain that runs almostto Roswell, devoid of trees, power line,and any other obstructions. As manyplaces in the West, you can literally see25 to 30 miles.

"Suddenly Dad slammed on thebrakes, a very hard setdown with smokeand boiling, screaming tires. As they satthere, in front of them about 150 feet,was a huge craft which had come upfrom the plainson the left, out of thedark-

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ness, and was skimming south to northacross the road surface, not touching theroad, but about two feet above it.

"The wind draft of this object waspulling some dust and straw along withit. Mom said they could not see the topof the object until it passed, but that itfilled the windshield view and rose outof sight vertically.

"She said that it looked like an expresspassenger train, racing across a gradelevel crossing right in front of them.However, it was no train, it was hugewith 'lighted' windows and some dark-ened windows, racing by, giving a pas-senger train effect of train windows go-ing by.

"However, think of trains stacked ontop of each other so high that it fills thewindshield until out of sight.It was mov-ing somewhat faster than any expresstrain she had ever seen, maybe 130MPH, yet was so big it took some timeto pass."Obviously, Dad had seen it comingat the last minuteup out of the dark plainson the left, They both said that it hadcome ' f rom below' on the left to justskim the road top. Dad said it would havehit them had he not seen 'movement inthe dark of f to the left.'"Both parents stressed that this 'wasno t a train,' no head lights. After it passedthey looked for a track in the road, cross-ing signs, or any other evidence of rail.There was nothing."They did say the asphalt was hot, al-most steaming, but there were no marksor anything. Anddefinitely no railroadtracks."They also said it certainly wasn't atrain, as it washuge-thesize and heightof the UniversityofTexas Memorial Sta-dium.

"Both my parents were college edu-cated and intelligent. They both werereligious and very skepticalof new things,of technology. So I am convinced that'something' was seen there. It was af-ter the Roswell incident by only dayswhen my parents got 'buzzed.'" Thanksto Dave.North Carolina UFOBELMONT - A Navy veteran andproject manager with a mechanical en-

gineering firm was driving home onSouthpoint Road on May 28, 2005, at11:15PM, parallel to Lake Wylie,whenhis wife observed an object flying in astrange manner.

He reports, "My wife snatched myarm and pointed to the object. I was intotal awe, as the object was only a halfmile from us and flying over Lake Wylieat 1,000 feet or less."We slowed down and were movingat a snail's pace on the road to observethis phenomenon. The object stopped,appeared to hover, and then performeda swift 90-degree turn and was headingin our direction towards the steam plant."The Charlotte International Airportis very close by, but we were nowhereclose to its flight paths. We kept driving,but the object turned west. We thenturned our vehicle around and went backto theoriginal spot wherewe had viewedthe object.

"When we arrived, the object wasback in its original position. The crafttook a southerly course and flew overGaither Road towards theother side ofLake Wylie. The craft made no soundand had a dull yellow glow on the bot-tom. The three lights were dull, also, buta tad brighter.

"When the craft pulled away, it keptat a very slow pace and was very closeto us. The other witnesses were ourkids(seven, five and two). The children ob-served this craft and were visibly/emo-tionally disturbed by it. This was trulyamazing!!"Colorado sighting by Mackay

DENVER -"Greetings from GlennysMackay, National Director MUFONBrisbane, Australia. I thought it is fittingto report a first-hand sighting on June 8,2005, while visiting friends living up onBlueMountain overlooking Golden, CO."At 7:15 PM, I was standing on thebalcony admiring the view when wewere attracted to what we thought atfirst to be a very large bird flying fromwest to east.

"I commented to my fr iend JohnTracey (also visiting from Brisbane, Aus-tralia), 'What ahuge bird,' when it passedthe tall Ponderosa pines, it was in clearvision.

"This object was flashing a blue light,andon turning towards us was silver andround, and appeared to be landing on aclear grass area between the treesacross the valley. It then climbed up toeye level and started to fly towards us."By this time there were three otherpeople who witnessed this UFO: AverillBoylan from Tauranga, New Zealand;and our hosts, Ainsley and Darlene Bell.

"As we watched, it seemed to turnalong the contour of the hills beforechanging direction and flying across thevalley towards the rocky outcrop on ourside of the valley before it took off atgreat speed towards Denver, then, dis-appearing up into the clouds.

"Wewere able to take two photos asit began to gather speed. Thereport wasgiven to John Schuessler at MUFON thefollowing morning.

"I think, George, this really made ourtrip to the USAapretty exciting one; asour host and hostess had never seen aUFO or believed upuntil this time."North Dakota saucer sightedTUTTLE - The observer reports, "Iam a 16-year-old girl, and my 17-year-old male friend and I were driving aroundour small town at 2 AMonMay28,2005,when we saw a straight line of red lights.

"We were curious, so we followed thelights that were southwest of us. As wegot closer we saw a circular object withred lights with little bars across them. Atthis point you could see it was very big.

"I lost it as it crossed the road, but myfriend pointed to the other side of theroad towards the east. So, we turned onthe next gravel road towards the objectand watched it go right over my friend'sfarm.

"It was hovering for at least a minutew h e n there appeared a smaller saucerright below the big one.

"We followed it for at least five min-utes before itdisappeared, and it seemedlike it was running away from us."Thanks to Peter Davenport.N ew York loss of satellite radioGLENS FALLS - The witness waslistening to Sirius Satellite Radio w h e nthe signal started to break up for no ap-parent reason on May 28,2005, at 5:55

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PM.Satellite radio is designed to provideperfect radio reception, since there isnothing blocking the receiver's path.The w itness reports, "Suddenly, therew as no signal/sound. W hen I checkedaround, I jokingly stated to my family thatthe sa tellite must have exploded, w hichprompted me to look up."To my surprise, I noticed a 'blackdot' (craft) in the sky. The object nevermoved. On this day there were somepassing clouds at different altitudes.Clouds w ould pass over the object and itwould remain in view."A series of clouds passed below theobject, and visual was lost. Momentslater the radio began to regain the signalof the satellite. W hen the clouds passed,the object was gone"One w itness was able to retrieve bin-oculars an d make a visual, but all thatcould be established w as that the objectwas reflecting the sunlight. The satelliteradio w as lost for about 10-15 m inutes.Visual of craft w as about 3-5 minutes."Thanks to Peter Davenport.Washington sighting byexpertsMT. A DA M S - One of the witnessesreports, "There were four Boeing man-agers present on Saturday, June 4,2005,to aUFO sighting. The four professionalaerospace witnesses, including myself,know better than armchair naysayerswhat celestial objects are observed."I have seen dozens of miss i l elaunches, myriad aircraft u nder all con-ditions, and Iam intimately familiar withthe US radar, space, an d missile tech-nology and adv anced capabilities.

, "At lO:15PM,I t r i ed topowerupmydigital camera for the really aw esomeone of the four UFOs I saw, butIwastoo late. W e were looking towards themountain until midnight"W e were guests of James Gillilandat his ranch, 13 miles south of Mt.Adams, w hen we saw a star-sized w hitelight crossing the sky directly abov e usheading south at a fairly fast clip, 'snak-ing' back an d forth by several nearbystars."It moved across the sky for about20 to 30 degrees of arc, and stopped,parked there, and dimmed. With the hun-AUGUST 2005

dreds of stars visible and the fact that itstopped mov ing, I soon lost track of theUFO's exact position."Our host had a telephoto lens, an dsaw a red light attached to its tail wh ileit w as moving. I spotted the U FO first,as I have exceptional long range vision."The second sighting was a brighterstar-sized UFO w hich came into viewmoving w est and traveling 10 to 15 de-grees of arc across the sky at about a60-degree angle from the ground."It took a smooth 35-degree arcingturn to the NNW , traveled a short dis-tance , and stopped high above M tAdams. No dimming."The third and best sighting w as a me-dium bright star-sized UFO which camein from the W SW and meandered some-what randomly in an easterly direction.It stopped right next to a dimmer star."Sudden ly it lit up hundred s of timesbrighter than it was for four seconds,moved off into space, and dimmed tonothing in a snaking trajectory. W henthat puppy lit up, everyone gasped,cheered,hooted,hollered, and w ent wild."The fourth sighting was a star-sizedUFO traveling south w hen it 'flashed'like a strobe pulse, then returned to avery dim object. A few seconds later, itflashed again, and dimm ed."This scenario w as repeated 12 times

while crossing directly overhead an dtraveling 35 degrees of the sky, chang-ing directions multiple times. The flasheswere random ly timed. The UFO thenstopped above us, and parked there forthe rest of the night." Thanks to R.AIllinois teardropFRANKLIN PARK - The witnessw as in his yard having a smoke and sawa bright flash of light like a camera flash,but pinpoint in size to the west at 11 PMon M ay 22,2005.H e says, "My view w as obstructedfor about 15 seconds by trees, but it washeading towards me. A s it approached,I began to see color and shape. It passeddirectly overhead and continued east untilI could no longer see it."It was glowing an orange-yellowcolor, and the lights on the bottom of itappeared to be segmented into threerectangu lar shapes, nearly the same in

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shape an d size.There was ahalo of lightsurrounding it that w as more yellow incolor an d appeared misty. That is howme teardrop type shape w as seen."The object was rotating counter-clockwise on w hat appeared to be anasymm etrical axis at one revolution ev-ery 3 or 4 seconds. The revolutions andlateral speed were constant."Though the defining lines of the ob-ject could not be seen clearly, I got adistinct view of the underside . I calledmy step-daughter ou t, but she only sawit briefly rotate in the distance."Thanks to Peter Davenport.Minnesota triangleFERGUS FALLS - Three witnessesat different locations made o bservationsof a flying triangle.Witnesses in the tow n were observ-ing the Northern L ights in the distancewhen they observed a bright orange tri-angle tha t appeared from the east at tree-top level and moved slowly north, disap-pearing at 3 AM on M ay 20,2005.The object made no sound. The nightw as clear and still. The object would fitinside the full moon, if the full moon wasabout half its normal size.Another w itness in Fergus Falls indi-cated that the object was in the northernsky, from his vantage point. The secondwitness, w ho lived three blocks to thenorth of the first w itness, indicates thatshe had seen the object to the south, fromhe r vantage point at her home.If that second report is true, the ob-ject may have been located between thetw o witnesses.Canada flashing saucer lightsT OR ON T O - A g n e s Sroczynsk iwrites, "O n June 22,2005, at about 10PM , in the Flemington Park area of thecity, m y friend and I witnessed a disc-shaped m etallic object from the eleventhfloor window of my friend's apartment."The object had large, wh ite, spheri-ca l lights on the sides, flashing quicklyand erratically. It was close to the b uild-ing, and not far above us. Only one ortw o lights were visible at any one time."The object danced a dizzying patternin the sky while it continued travelingwest, extremely fast. This is a good spotfor sightings in Toronto." 17

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Physical TracesBy Ted Phillips

Ted Phillips

Occupants and physical tracesIn looking throug h m y files I notethat 731 events, or 23.9% of all reportedphysical trace events, involved the ob-servation of occu pants, an d 41% of thereported occupant events involvedmultiple witnesses.These occupants are usua l ly de-scribed as quite sm all, 1 meter tall, w ithvery thin bodiesand little hair.The majori tyof trace land ing

cases w ith sight-,i n g s o f b e in g sfollow th e sames to ry l ine : theobject lands inthe most remotesection of a farmand generally ou tof sight of thefarmer's home.Very often it's that pesky farm dogbarking that alerts the witness to theevent. It appears that the last thing"they" w ant is contact of any kind.M an y cases invo lve the wi tnessstanding in the middle of a dense woodsin the dark of night-the perfect chance,to snatch him aw ay and do a little prob-ing, but this rarely occurs.There are events which seem to in-dicate a problem with the object, theneed to download something w hich ismany times described as a luminousspray which ca n have quite an effecton the soil and plants. It doesn ' t seemlikely the y are jus t flying around spray-in g plants to help farmers with theircrops.In one case in Kansas, I believe thatthe object was forced to land near asheep pen, crashing its wa y into the areabecause it had to. It just happened tobe the very best spot to conceal such adevice in some really flat country.When th e device finally took off, itcrossed a road and bumped across afarm field with th e irate farmer w atch-18

ing. Unless "they"have an odd conceptof flying, they were having problems.Perhaps the high tech w e seem to as-sume is there, is not.T h e f o l l o w i n g cases f ro m th eTRACAT/CPTR files represent signifi-cant hum anoid observations and the re-sulting physical traces found at the siteof the reported ev ents.

Pre-1950 Events06/12/1790 0500. France,Alencon: Several fanners caug ht sightof a large globe wh ich was surround edby flames. A whistl ing sound w asheard. The spherical object slowed,made some oscillations, and moved to-w ard the top of a hill, unearthing plantsalong th e slope.The heat w as so intense that grassan d small trees started burning. In theevening th e sphere w as still w arm .Witnesses: tw o mayors, a doctor,three other authorities, in addition to thedozens of peasants who were present.A kind of door opened, and a personcame ou t of it. The person w as dressedin a strange w ay, wore a tightfitting suit,saw all the people, said some w ords thatwere n ot understood, and ran into thewoods.The sphere exploded silently, throw -ing pieces everyw here, and these piecesburned until they were powder. (Froma report of June 17,1790, byPolice In-spector Liabeuf)-1893 Australia, Central NSW: Afanne r observed a circular object on theground, th e w itness approached, a manin odd clothing exited the object, andpointed some kind of "torch" at thew itness, hitting his hand, and throw ingthe farmer to the ground.The witness w as stunned, an d w h e nhe regained consciousness the objectand occupant were gone. The hand ,wh ere the torch beam had struck wasreportedly paralyzed fo r life.05/18/09 2300 W ales, Caerphil ly:The w itness was walking along a roadnear the mountains w hen he saw on the

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grass a large tube-like object. He sawtwo m en wearing fur coats and talkingin a language he couldn' t understand.Thegrass was found depressed wherethe object rested after it ascended02/22/22 0500 NB, Hubbell: Will-iam Lamb w as follow ing strange trackswhen he heard ahigh pitched sound andsaw a circular object. It became verybright and landed in a hollow. A being2.4 m tall w as seen. It left tracks in thesnow.02/05/34Norway, M alselv: Peopleon both sides of Fager Mountain sawan aerial object crash land on the mou n-tain. The next day, a kind of machinewas seen on the mountain. Rescuersfound no machine, bu t a circular traceand footprints. .07/00/39 1200 Spain, Zahara DeLos Atunes: Several young chi ldrenwere resting in the shade under somelarge trees w hen nearby goats becameagitated and stampeded down a nearbyhill.The children saw a huge metallicd isc-shaped object which flew lo wabove them , emitting a strong heat. Theobject descended and landed in a greatcloud of dust in a nearby clearing. Itemitted a loud whistling sound as ittouched the ground.The object had a band of red, yel-low, and green lights around its edge.A door opened, and a tall figure clad ina silvery suit, w ith headgear a nd a w idebelt, emerged, quickly followed by ashorter similarly dressed figure.They both walked with very stiffmov emen ts. Their silvery suits coveredtheir faces, and both had t