Australian UFO Bulletin 2007 09 September

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AUSTRALIAN
BULLETIN
11 II II SEP- 2007
Victorian
U.F.O.
Research Society
P.O. Box 1043, Moorabbin, Vic. 3189, Australia
INCORPORATED 1988
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Contents
ARTICLE PAGE
Editorial ............................................................................................... 2
On The UFO Trail-Paul Norman ................................................... 3
Farewell to Judith Magee ................................................................... 5
The UFO "Why?" Questions-Stanton T. Friedman ..................... 8
The Early Years ................................................................................. 19
Sighting Report-Narre Warren South ......................................... 20
Meteor Victoria & South Australia. ................................................ 21
Victorian Sighting Reports .............................................................. 22
Sighting Report-Carnegie/Murrumbeena. ................................. 29
Geelong Newsclippings ................................................................... 30
Did You Know? ................................................................................. 31
Discussion Evening -Dates -Directions ...................................... 32
AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN 1
EDITORIAL September 2007
ON THE UFO TRAIL
r Paul N annan © 2007
The Australian UFO Bulletin has returned after an extended break. Firstly, we would like to
apologize to our members who have not received a copy of the Bulletin since the last While there had been a number of large viewing.
edition in December 2005. bushfrres in Victoria since late Decem­
ber 2005, some involving loss of life, the ones Unfortunately, on the first two visits, the roads
During 2006 it became increasingly difficult for the usual editorial team to produce the Bulletin. of particular concern to me were those in The to the lookout were closed due to burnt and
This was exacerbated by the retirement of Judith Magee after nearly 30 years as our President Grampians National Park, especially those damaged tree limbs endangering travellers.
and followed by Bernard Wilson. Judith & Bernard have been the stalwarts that have worked that occurred in the regions where our UFO To avoid allowing these two trips to be
tirelessly to produce a quality magazine for our members along with many other jobs that are activity usually occurred. I was particularly wasted, I took the opportunity to survey the
required to keep VUFORS running.
keen to discover what impact the bushfires residents living in locations from which they
might have had on the frequency, duration and could view the south side of the ranges. I also
The Committee and Members of VUFORS extend their heartfelt Thanks to Judith & Bernard
other characteristics of our UFO sightings. interviewed farmers, tourists, and personnel at
for the huge effort that they have put into the Society over many years and Wish them a happy
a number of motels, caravan parks, and camp­
retirement from ufology.
The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commis­ ing grounds.
Read more about Judith's history in a special article in this issue of the Bulletin. sion) reported on the 27th of January that The
Grampians National Park was still being Over the previous years I had covered the
Q&A We've received many questions from our members recently and here are our answers: threatened by a very large bushfire that had north eastern and western areas, and found a
been raging all week through thousands of similar response pattern. Farmers usually go
Is VUFORS still operating? Yes, even with the loss of Judith & Bernard VUFORS continues hectares of the mountainous terrain. At that to bed early and as a consequence rarely have
to operate into its 50th year. Our quarterly Discussion Nights are still occurring with good time, the Victorian fire fighters were studi­ night time sightings. Most of the residents
numbers of members and non-members in attendance to hear and view latest UFO news. ously watching the weather and the scorching have seen unusual lights, but usually passed
activities of the fire. them off as aircraft lights or stars, without
What about the missing Bulletins? Basically, we are resuming Bulletin production with this
deeper observation and consideration.
edition. Prior Bulletins will not be produced. Our efforts will go in to producing a regular
Halls Gap, where I usually reside while UFO
quality Bulletin for our members into the future. watching in The Grampians, was a staging Reports of UFO sightings by residents are few
point for fire crews planning their assaults on and far between, but relatively recently, some
Am I still a financial member? Yes, we have extended each membership so that members
will receive the number of Bulletins that they are entitled to. We also halted the sending out of some 300 kilometres of fire fronts. With residents have made one or two reports to our
membership reminders during 2006/07 but that will resume with this edition of the Bulletin. around 1000 fire fighters continuously moving UFO organisation. Over the past four years,
in and out of the town, and the town itself many of the interviewed residents had heard
Your website is out of date. What's happening? The website is available to the general being threatened by the fire, the roads into of the activities of the unusual lights, and had
public and does serve to advertise the Society and to share information with the world. The Grampians, and especially those into gone to nearby lookouts and ranges to see for
However, we will always provide information directly to our members via the Bulletin and our Halls Gap, were closed to non-essential visi­ themselves. Having seen this nightly activity,
Discussion Evenings firstly before it ever gets on to our website. This is the benefit of being a tors. many were not prepared to discuss their sight­
VUFORS member. ings openly, for fear of ridicule.
Once the fires around the Halls Gap Township
The team will be endeavoring to continue to produce a high quality magazine in the Australian had been subdued, the roads into Halls Gap Finally on March 20th at 08:00 p.m., on my
UFO Bulletin for all VUFORS members well into the future. We hope you enjoy the content of were reopened to tourists and visitors, I made third attempt to reach Reids Lookout, the road
this edition. As always, if you have suggestions for articles you would like to see, subjects you
three trips to the township with the intention had been cleared and I was successful. A few
would like covered or even if you would like to lend a hand, then please drop us a letter or
of travelling to Reids Lookout to see what minutes after stopping, extracting my bug
email.
impact the bushfires had had on the UFO detector and setting it to its minimum sensitiv-
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ity, I looked up to see a brilliant glowing Farewell to Judith Magee
white light.
The detector commenced beeping and illumi­ VUFORS President since 1978 retires
nating its coloured LEDs. These events oc­
curred for a time interval of less that one min­ As an air hostess in the 1950's Judy Peter Norris resigned from the Committee
ute and then ceased abruptly. Not realising Magee was fascinated to watch the in 1978 and Judy took over the presidency.
that I would not see any further activity that Captain on a flight to Darwin track and film To her credit she maintained Peter's
night, I waited and watched until 10:00 p.m., an unidentified flying object. She was rational, scientific approach to ufology and
and then returned to the Halls Gap YHA, and already interested in the the Society continued
my warm bed. Y•tl crab: 'one of the new species. Picture: AP new subject of ufology to grow. At one stage
• and in the late fifties we had a membership
S�arch ·for· ET.
I finally got to the lookout on 20th March at she joined the Victorian ofnearly 500.
08:00 p.m. I had only settled down with the Flying Saucer Research
instrument set to minimum, and looked up lS�'heatlng up Society. She was A notable event
when a bright white light flashed brightly the invited onto the during Judy's tenure
Committee, became was the disappearance
instrument went to all three levels for less OSL-OM arin·cer eSal-o"a'Fn uno dat,i on
.t uretsh rib.vya i wnhgi icsahs ponosfo r S e cretary and of pilot Frederick
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but stars for two hours so I got impatient and thiAnctka r.icctei.cpt eifovowepNrh lA oeSa Aln fndot re r­ investigation by the
Thhiasbs o otslitee-d are
drove back to YHA. oritehsap tl aneesttisenl d iti enp lacesW hen Paul Norman Society into the
othtehr.aE na ratrheo thtehearthra n" . migrated from the incident. More than
suitfao.lbrils tece l,e Anm·o ftnngd sy ear
On 21st March, I went back to the lookout at tisasitydse sterwdearsyeh. r thisicm lpasm,s United States he joined fifty sightings of the
8 pm and sit for another two hours with no oAfifbs woh1eu 5rent0 e tamw5yo 0pn.0ateg nhs 4bd0e a 7 cvC'te living eon.ritn tb a hye the Society and went aircraft along the
lights but stars visible. During the two days nemwa risnpee -cineosoo rf t hAet lantiocnto the Committee as flight path from
and nights I saw no birds, kangaroos or any iannaCdln l ogfurub odsry ft'iMtcra aebdrsaO ·c enartonho, Af s cen· Sightings Officer. This Moorabbin Airport to
siIosnl atnhdhe o t·
wildlife in the mountains, there was no vege­ gascarsase t -hyfiau"eos•,au i cnntcd· ho · eert sdstev ae_ en vtde or-c u led to a unique and King Island were
tation in the two valleys unburned so I as­ l7n0g-rnteasoCet eai.nirtosnochn ufhemt s em eo ren lasltentehad doed tn. o ugh dynamic trio of Peter obtained including a
sumed if scanning was what UAP was doing MariLniet e.. ," ThIitssh m eo 'se tx- Norris, Judy Magee and sighting of the
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the lights, which are beeping and blinking. isA usu.ab < perlo,-gortraA mn tarctiCuan;d iecre to travel to the United States, Canada and Allen Hynek described her as "Australia's
Jacqui has phoned me that she has the lens · manaar,tet rh.,. ue� , '-'lOOm thief(.. · ... REtmRS the United Kingdom. In those countries she Coral Lorenzen. " Coral was the widely
installed and is ready for action. I think that took the opportunity to meet leading UFO respected co-Director of America's Aerial
we will hear more of evolution of a camera Herald Sun-12 December 2006 researchers and made valuable and lasting Phenomena Research Organisation
later. • contacts. (APRO ).
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Unfortunately time catches up with all of us interest in the subject. VUFORS
and, with indifferent health and advancing
years, Judy decided to retire from the On behalf of all our members, we extend to
Committee late last year. She was the Judy and Bernard our warmest thanks for
50TH ANNIVERSAY
their contribution to VUFORS and wish
longest serving President of VUFORS and
her service to the Society has been them long, happy and healthy retirements.
•
invaluable.
1957 2007
Earlier this year the remaining Committee
members arranged a farewell dinner for
Below: VUFORS Committee
Judy and Bernard Wilson, who has resigned
This year, 2007, see VUFORS celebrate its 50th anniversary.
from the Committee. Judy will remain a
VUFORS member as she still has a keen
During the last 50 years many people have contributed their time and skills to the running
of our organisation. The committee members, investigators, area representatives and
specialists volunteer their personal time to the many tasks required to run VUFORS from the
investigation of sighting reports; preparation of the Bulletin; running the Discussion evenings;
through to paying the bills and maintaining our membership database.
VUFORS has also been blessed with a very loyal band of members, without whom VUFORS
would not exist. Membership fees go towards paying the costs related to investigations;
.
Bulletm production and the running of our Discussion evenings.
The interest and participation of our members are the reasons for the existence ofVUFORS.
This anniversary is an opportunity to Thank all of the above people for their efforts and
support over the last 50 years. These contributions have made VUFORS into an organisation
that is respected across the world in the field of UFO research.
In early July, 1947, a mysterious object
crashed on a ranch 30 miles north of
Roswell. The Roswell Army Air Field
(RAAF) issued a statement claiming to have
recovered a crashed "flying disk." An article
ran on the front page of the Roswell Daily
Record and the next day, RAAF changed its
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statement to say that the object was a
IsA VAILABL2E4 h ouras d ay-7d aysa week. weather balloon, not a flying disk as they
previously reported. This revised statement
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continued to be a topic of debate 60 years
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1900
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The UFO "WHY?" Questions
The Questions
UFO ''WHY?"
byS tantoTn. F riedman 2. WHY don't the aliens, if they technology. Their vehicles are clearly
are real, just land on the White faster, more maneuverable, and have
4thA nnuaUlF O CrashR etrieCvoanlf erence
access to huge space carriers (mother
House lawn and say "Take me
LasV egasN,V Novembe1r0 -12, 2006 ships) with lord-knows-what capability.
to your leader."?
www .stantonfriedman.com They have no reason to negotiate when
Obviously I don't speak for any aliens. they can already do what they please.
Reprinted with permission
However, let us note three facts:
WHY in the world would
3.
ABSTRACT The simplest answer is that it is the only A. The White House is in a forbidden aliens want to come here if, as
conclusion merited by the enormous flying zone. Our response to intruders in
I have been fortunate enough to lecture you have claimed, we are a
amount of evidence. In my lectures I such zones is to take immediate action to
(usually "Flying Saucers ARE Real") over primitive society whose major
review 5 large scale scientific studies and escort the intruders away or shoot them
700 times in 18 countries. My audiences,
ask after each one how many have read it. down. As far back as the summer of 1952 activity is clearly tribal
mostly college and professional groups,
Typically fewer than 2% have read any. I when, in July, UFOs did fly over the warfare?
seem to have no problem accepting the
note the 5000-plus physical trace cases that White House, orders were given to
detailed factual data that I present leading Answers to this question depend very
Ted Phillips has collected from over 70 military interceptors to shoot down UFOs
to my conclusions that SOME UFOs are countries. In these people see a craft land if they don't land when instructed to do so. m�ch on one's picture of the local galactic
alien spacecraft and that the subject of neighborhood and of the situation on our
and then take off leaving behind various This is described in detail in Frank
flying saucers represents a kind of Cosmic planet. The SETI cultists seem to think we
markings on the soil such as bum circles Feschino Jr.'s new book "Shoot Them
Watergate. But what seems to be of most d are the Crown of Creation and that there
landing gear marks, small footprints, drie Down ." Major General Roger Ramey
concern, judging by the Question and . may be "as many" as 50,000 civilizations
out rings of soil, etc. These are not crop proclaimed that interceptors had been
Answer sessions, are the "WHY?" in our Milky Way Galaxy, which has a few
circles where normally no saucer is seen. scrambled hundreds of times without any
questions. Why would saucers crash? Why About 1/6 of these cases involve reports of luck. As an indication of the zeal of pilots, hundred billion stars. It is almost 100� 000
would aliens visit Earth? Why doesn't the light years across which, accordin to
small beings. I refer to the more than 1000 I have heard of at least 7 specific cases in
government tell us what it knows? Why Frank Drake, means there may be another
abduction cases that have been whic� th� UFOs zapped attacking
would aliens not land on the White House civilization "only" 1000 light years away.
investigated by Budd Hopkins, David earthhng aircraft. Tim Good in his new
lawn or at the United Nations? Why would This would, of course, make us very
Jacobs, John Mack, and Raymond Fowler book "Need to Know" recounts similar .
people fake MJ-12 documents? Why do special as one of the elite civilizations. I
and the Betty and Barney Hill case as cases. I am working on a claim by a pilot
you say SETI stands for Silly Effort To think that there are probably many
recorded by John G. Fuller. I review the that UFOs took out 20 of our planes in
Investigate? Why have you kept at it for 39 advanced civilizations within our local
outstanding work by Marjorie Fish clearly Europe in the early 1950s.
years? Why hasn't the government taken neighborhood on planets around some of
indicating that Betty's star map makes �
you out? Perhaps my answers will help the B. It may come as a surprise to many the 300 stars within 54 light years,
sense and provides information not
reader answer his "WHY?" questions, or Amen. cans, but the President of the USA especially the 46 that are very similar to
previously known to us. Furthermore, I
lead to more such questions. doesn't speak for Planet Earth. After all the sun. The driving fact here is that we
have spent time at 20 archives, had a
have only had fancy technology for
who elected him World President?
security clearance for 14 years, and find it
THE UFO "WHY?" QUESTIONS perhaps 100 years. But the earth is about
Certainly not the billion people from India
perfectly obvious that crucial data has been
1. WHY have you concluded withheld and many government people or the 1.3 billion people in China. 4.5 billion years old and has been suitable
for life for well over a billion years.
that the evidence is have lied with regard to UFOs. Saying Obviously the UN also does not speak for
Planet Earth, either.
overwhelming that Earth is some UFOs are of ET origin, of course, Just down the street, 39.4 light years away,
being visited by intelligently doesn't answer other questions such as we find a pair of sun-like stars, Zeta 1 and
C. Normally, negotiations only take place
WHY are aliens coming here, WHY Zeta 2 Reticuli. These are only an 1/8 of a
c o n t r o e d between roughly equal parties. Surely it is
I I haven't I seen one, where are they from, light year apart from each other but are a
Extraterrestrial Spacecraft? etc., etc. not difficult to see that aliens have billion years older than the su�. In other
technology far in advance of earthling
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The UFO "WHY?" Questions The UFO "WHY?" Questions
words, there has been a great deal of time few hours. The space station goes around C. Mining engineers similar to those who might explain why we have black, brown,
for other civilizations to establish the entire earth in 90 minutes. went to California and the Klondike and red, yellow and white races.
themselves. Having an easily observable Electromagnetic signals take 117 of a Australia for gold, or to Texas and the
neighbor nearby would provide far more second to circumscribe the earth. Middle East for oil. As it happens, the G. Jailers. This may be a penal colony on
incentive for the development of earth is the densest planet in the solar which aliens dropped off their bad boys
interstellar travel than we have out here in Remember, we have just started on our system, so would be expected to have and girls and that is why we are so nasty to
the boondocks. My view is, per a fine technological kick. Think back to 1900. more of the rare but very important very each other. Georgia and Australia were
analogy from physicist Beatriz Gabo Note no TV or radio or microwaves or heavy metals such as gold, uranium, first settled by convicts. Letting the
Rivera, that we are like the gorillas in a nuclear power plants or satellites or DNA rhenium, platinum, tungsten, osmium, etc. convicts go bother other civilizations who,
nature preserve in Africa who know testing or lasers or computers or airplanes These are all much denser than lead. We unlike us, have learned to live peacefully,
nothing about what is going on outside the or rockets or nuclear weapons or know from studying star spectra that they may be a no-no in the galactic rule book.
preserve. I think aliens have been traipsing transplanted organs. I am convinced that, are rare. They also have very
around the neighborhood for a very long unless we stupidly destroy ourselves, there special properties. H. Vacationers. This may be a recreation
time indeed. I think it is hilarious that Dr. will be a time when star travel is not center. Notice how many people visit
Seth Shostak, one of the noisier SETI considered any more far out than crossing D. Mining engineers extracting more Hawaii and Las Vegas and Orlando. If the
guys, says there is nobody at ZR 1 or ZR the Atlantic on a 747 is today. I recently common metals from the nodules on the travel wasn't easy, how many would
2, because they were listened to by a flew nonstop from Newark, New Jersey, to bottom of the ocean and from the asteroids venture forth to see Mickey Mouse or
Southern Radio Observatory 10 years ago. Hong Kong, China, in less than 17 hours. between Mars and Jupiter. We have been gaming tables or surfing beaches?
One would think he knows what Nuclear submarines circumnavigate the talking about doing this. Obviously war is
equipment and frequency alien globe without surfacing. Obviously there much more important than ocean mining to I. Specimen gathererers for ET zoos and
communicators way ahead of us would are those who think star travel is us, so we build nuclear submarines to stay aquariums. We are still finding
use, and that they are trying to attract our impossible. If that were true, which it isn't, in the depths of the ocean carrying their new specimens.
attention, which is totally absurd. obviously nobody could be coming here multitude of nuclear tipped missiles. There
J. Local galactic horticultural societies
from the stars. are also abundant supplies of so-called rare
collecting specimens for their displays and
Answers also depend greatly on how earths, many used in the electronics and
genetic cross breeding.
difficult it is to travel within the Think of all the people going through nuclear industries. It should not be
neighborhood. If one is a SETI cultist O'Hare Airport in a year and the huge forgotten that a century ago the primary
K. Medical researchers. They may have to
noting (as on the terrible Peter Jennings, variety of reasons for travel. To get the use for uranium was to prepare yellow
evaluate the genetic material of loads of
Feb. 24, 2005, TV mockumentary) that our ball rolling, here are some reasons for glazes for pottery. Zirconium and titanium
specimens to find genetic defects or super­
fastest spacecraft is the Voyager probe and coming here. I am sure the reader can were essentially worthless. Now nuclear
special genes. There are a number of
that it would take 70,000 years to get to the think of more. navies use zirconium based alloys because
conditions whose frequency in the
nearest star, trips would be very of their splendid nuclear and anticorrosion
population is quite small (for example,
uncommon indeed. A much more realistic A. Graduate students doing their thesis properties. Titanium is used in aircraft like
only one person in 14,000 has hemophilia)
approach is to note that Voyager hasn't work on the development of a primitive the SR-71 because of its high strength and
had a propulsion system on it since it left society, on a planet where, amazingly, low density. so many specimens must be checked.
there is no planetary government, and
Earth. It is coasting, helped by some
L. Honymooners. Perhaps this is the
cosmic freeloading. Can we estimate the where there are many different languages; E. Operators of refueling and rest and
honeymoon capital for this comer of the
time it takes to cross the ocean by on various strange biological specimens, or relaxation centers on the back side of the
neighborhood. Special rates for a week on
throwing a bottle in? Can we tell how long on genetic variations of the moon or in the depths of the ocean or in
Earth ... side trips to the moon and Mars ...
intelligent beings. the asteroid belt.
it would take to fly from New York to Los
Angeles by putting a feather in the air? It M. Cartographers. Local neighborhood
B. Broadcasters with weekly shows such F. Visitors checking on old colonies
took Charles Lindberg 3 3 hours to cross maps may describe, for example, the
as "Idiocy in the Boondocks." established by their ancestors. Perhaps
the Atlantic. The Concorde did it in just a equivalent of English coaling stations in
there were many different ones which
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the 19th century. 4. WHY is the government not admitted in 1995 that it had launched a vehicles, move at very high speed, make
telling what it knows? bunch of Corona electromagnetic right angle turns, move straight up and
N. Sports enthusiasts. There may be intelligence satellites to monitor Soviet down - typically with little noise, no
Are they afraid of War of the Worlds
special excursions to observe various such radar and communications systems starting visible engines, no exhaust. They would
panic? I hardly think so. After all, New
events. Don't forget that a World in 1960, after 12 secret failures. The first make wonderful weapons deliv ery and
Jersey was being destroyed by Martians.
Championship Chess match was held one that worked provided more data than defensive systems. Since we have
What could we do against them? Panic
in Iceland. all the previous secret U-2 flights that recovered wreckage at least as early as
was not inappropriate. First we have to
preceded it. The Soviets knew about the U- 194 7 (see "Crash at Corona", Ref. 3) we
recognize there is a Cosmic Watergate and
0. Scouts seeking the best site for a new 2, but dared not admit that they couldn't would have set up a highly classified
a long history of government lies about
amusement park in the solar system. do anything about it. The American people project (call it Operation Majestic 12 as
UFOs such as I described in Ref. 1, which
had not been informed. Similarly the described in my book "TOP SECRET/
P. Weapons inspectors. If we make the lists lies from the FBI, CIA, USAF, NSA, Soviets had shot down a number of MAJIC" (Ref. 4)) to try both to evaluate
eminently reasonable assumption that etc. Some want to insist that (A) military reconnaissance aircraft probing the wreckage and to obtain measurements
every advanced civilization is concerned governments can't keep secrets, and (B) Russia, North Korea, and China causing of flight characteristics using airborne and
about its own the real secret is that the loss of 166 crew members. Their space-borne and earth-based radar sets,
they don't know
survival and WHY is the government families were lied to: unfortunate accident, cameras, electromagnetic sensors, and
what is going on and
security, than we crashed at sea, etc. It was not until 200 1 other instrumentation. Surely governments
would expect that not telling what it c an ' t admit that the USA had a meeting with families have very much more sophisticated
our development of that either. of the crew members that they were told instruments and observation platforms
knows?
Weapons of Mass what happened, even though most of the than do private individuals. The key rule
Destruction and the ================= I disagree with both. losses occurred in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. here is that one can't tell one's friends
A few examples of
means for delivering Medals were distributed. William Burrows without telling one's enemies. It appears
secret-keeping that have leaked out: The
them in the lGcal neighborhood would be tells the story in his book "By Any Means that there have been many UFO crashes
Manhattan Engineering District employed
of great concern. Clearly after world War Necessary" (Ref. 2). including ones overseas (Varginha, Brazil,
130,000 people to develop the atomic
II it should take less than a century for us for example). There is a long history of
bomb at a cost of several billion dollars in
to master fission and fusion and other new The National Reconnaissance Office first countries gathering and evaluating crashed
total secrecy during World War II. The
technologies to allow us to take our brand admitted in 2005 that it had launched 7 vehicles of their enemies. This does not
Allies broke the German code during
of friendship/hostility ... out there. Thus, a Poppy satellites between 1962 and 1971. require a conspiracy; everybody has the
World War II and had 12,000 people
logical reason to visit is to quarantine us Their function was to conduct very same self interest concerns.
working at Bletchley Park in the UK
until we develop a technique for learning sophisticated monitoring of electronic and
intercepting, decoding and translating
to live at peace with each other. No radar installations on Soviet ships. B. Each country worries about its enemies
German military communications. If the
galactic federation new-member Thousands of people were involved. determining the secrets of saucer
secret had come out, the Germans would
committee would allow us to join. Too technology before they do and must be
primitive. I suspect that the SETI cultists have changed their codes. There was really So yes, indeed, secrets can be kept. The concerned about how to defend against
think they would be welcome guests. Not nothing in public until 25 years later annual US Black Budget is estimated at new vehicles and also how to learn what
very likely. despite the obviously great improvements 30-40 billion dollars. That is a lot the other guy has already learned. Soviet
in technology. We also had broken the of secrecy. spies at Los Alamos apparently shortened
Q. Producers. Having worked on a lot of Japanese military codes -again in secret. the time it took the Soviets to test their
motion picture documentaries at many With regard to B, note that the military So WHY keep UFOs secret? first A-bomb (1949) by at least a year.
locations, I would suggest perhaps some agencies have monitoring systems that
visitors are planning epic fiction and provide far more information than we A. All major countries and many terrorist C. What if an announcement were made,
factual movies for film companies at civilians can obtain-and in secret. groups would very much like to duplicate by highly trusted individuals around the
the flight technology of the saucers. They
home... shooting on location hither world, such as the Queen and the Pope,
The Naval Research Laboratory finally can literally fly circles around our
and yon.
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saying that indeed SOME UFOs are ET paddle if an announcement were to be of supposed airplane crashes in the USA atmospheric electricity levels because of
spacecraft? Here are some things I believe made. They have had a great deal of and overseas in the early 1950s. Three storms or the great dryness of the desert
would happen: political clout. military pilots, each of whom flew over air. Or unexpected high altitude hail. We
100 missions in Korea where they had to know a radar set was on over at White
(1) Church attendance would increase. E. Making an announcement would require deal with marauding MIGs, crashed when Sands because of an impending rocket
that governments admit they have been they came back home. That seems very launch and the fact that it used vacuum
(2) Mental hospital admissions would lying through their teeth for decades. I suspicious to me. tubes. This was a tracking radar pointed
increase. don't know of any government that wants North. Crossing the beam might have led
to do that. 5. WHY would saucers crash? to a small hiccup in the control system for
(3) The stock market would go down; Usually this is accompanied by a comment a magnetoaerodynamic propulsion system
uncertainty is always the enemy. F. If an announcement were carefully that it makes no sense that a sophisticated leading to a collision and subsequent
made without the scare mongering of "War vehicle coming from many light years collision of the lead saucer and its
(4) Based on my more than 600 college of the Worlds", a lot of people would think away could possibly crash. Please note that wingman's saucer. Perhaps a US military
lectures, the younger generation, which, that surely, aliens, who can come here, the vehicle could have come from a base rocket launched in the neighborhood might
unlike me, was must be far more on the back side of the moon, in the have inadvertently homed in on a saucer.
never alive when a d v a n c e d asteroid belt, on Mars or some alien Perhaps there was a momentary loss of
there wasn't a space WHY would saucers technologically than "coaling station" in the local attention when the Trinity highly
program, would are we, since we neighborhood. I once did 25 college radioactive site, at which the first atomic
push for a new view crash? can't go out there. lectures in 35 days in 15 states. I was gone bomb was tested, was noted. We certainly
of ourselves as This would strongly all the time from when I left home until I have no reason to believe that aliens never
E A R T H L I N G S ==========,:= = = = == :;= ;===;= == suggest that soon returned rather than going back and forth make mistakes, or never run into the
instead of as there would be new methods of energy to home after each lecture. unexpected. Some day perhaps the
Americans, Canadians, Greeks, Peruvians, production, air and ground transport, government will release the report that was
etc. Many would think that would be great. computers and communication systems, A. In the first place, there are many undoubtedly written as to the causes of the
But I know of no government on Earth that i.e. economic chaos. We are not very good indications that what crashed at Roswell crashes. Just because we don't have that
wants its citizens to owe their primary at large scale economic changes in a hurry. and in the Plains of San Agustin in New report, it doesn't mean the event didn't
allegiance to the planet (where it belongs) Think of the Soviet Union which, at our Mexico in early July, 1947, were small take place.
instead of to individual national strong demands, had democracy, elections, Earth excursion modules rather than the
governments. Nationalism is the only freedom, capitalism. On the average, interstellar, very large vehicles (space 6. WHY haven't you seen a
game in town. I believe that alien visitors except for the high price of oil, are carriers? mother ships?) which would have flying saucer?
- they may be our landlords, for all we Russians better off today than they were brought them to Earth just as our large
I have no idea, though I have mostly lived
know - think of us as earthlings even 17 years ago?? aircraft carriers carry 7 5 or so small
in cities and am watching for traffic rather
though, because of our military traffic, airplanes whose mode of propulsion is
than looking to the skies. I check my
they would be well aware of different G. Because I am convinced that military distinctly different from that of the carrier.
audiences after my lectures and find that
ruling groups in different places. pilots in many countries have been
typically 10% have seen one, which covers
disintegrated or "disappeared" by UFOs, I B. Secondly, when we examine major
D. A small group of religious think governments would all be very efforts by the Transportation Safety Board many decades. Only 1 0% of those were
fundamentalists (Jerry Falwell and Pat resistant to telling their citizens that we to determine the cause of aircraft crashes, reported. I have never seen Tokyo either or
Robertson come to mind) have already tried to attack UFOs and they returned the we often find, after much effort, that it was had polio or HIV. I know people who have
loudly proclaimed that UFOs are the work favor -only they succeeded. The head of simple unexpected things ranging from seen Tokyo, had polio, or HIV. I spent
of the devil and there is no other intelligent the American Rocket Society in 1952 took loose bolts, to ingested birds, to faulty many years chasing neutrons and gamma
life outside Earth. What an insult to the President Truman to task for the attack wiring, to pilot error, to ice in the wrong rays. Never saw one of them either. They
are also real.
notion of an all powerful GOD! They orders. Frank Feschino Jr. ("Shoot Them place. It could have been very high
would be up the creek without a religious Down") has gathered hundreds of reports
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7. WHY do you say SETI stands lifetime of a civilization, or the fraction of
for Silly Effort to Investigate? planets that have intelligent life or that
develop technology. We have data on one Research Society
Frankly I find that there is very little
"civilization" on one planet in one solar
science behind the SETI effort. It is
system. Real scientists don't extrapolate or
assumed that there are civilizations using
interpolate from one data point. The SETI
communication technologies similar to P.O. Box 1043, Moorabbin, Vic. 3189, Australia
people omit colonization and migration
ones we have developed to try to attract INCORPORATED 1988
which could greatly lengthen the life span
our attention. It assumes there is no
of a civilization. That is pseudoscience, no
colonization and no migration and that
matter how many degreed professionals
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are involved. Admittedly, their job security
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German General just before the start of
we have visitors is true?
World War II in Europe noted (see Ref. 2)
that the Brits were building a whole array Obviously I don't speak for the
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of tall (more than 200') towers with cross government. I am careful in what I say,
pieces which he figured had to be part of a and I don't break the law in seeking
radar net. The Graf Zeppelin slowly classified data from people with
moved parallel to the array and listened clearances. I may be doing exactly what
and found no signals. The frequency being they want, that is, preparing the public for
used was 1 0 times higher than what the the date when the great secret is released. I Editorial ............................................................................................... 2
Germans were using and they fortunately have never had an unlisted telephone On The UFO Trail-Paul Norman ................................................... 3
were never aware of how well their planes number. It is in my books and on my Farewell to Judith Magee ................................................................... 5
were being tracked. website. All those lonely drives to Roswell The UFO "Why?" Questions-Stanton T. Friedman ..................... 8
would provide plenty of opportunity. My
If civilizations, with a great deal of answering service is instructed to give out The Early Years ................................................................................. 19
common heritage and similar background my travel information to callers. Frankly, I Sighting Report-Narre Warren South ......................................... 20
and access to similar science, can't can't live my life looking over my Meteor Victoria & South Australia ................................................. 21
correctly predict the technique to be used shoulder. Some have suggested I was too Victorian Sighting Reports .............................................................. 22
by similar people a few hundred miles well known and that a sudden death would
Sighting Report-Carnegie/Murrumbeena .................................. 29
away, why assume we can second-guess be suspicious ...
Geelong Newsclippings ................................................................... 30
aliens? They persistently say there is no
evidence for UFOs, but always avoid 9. WHY would people fake a Did You Know? ................................................................................. 31
dealing with the large scale scientific bunch of documents? Discussion Evening -Dates -Directions ...................................... 32
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studies. Check their references. Look I am not a psychiatrist, but I would suggest
carefully at the Drake Equation, their Holy to enhance status; to think "Gotcha"; or to
Grail. We have no way to determine the disinform the public so that the fake
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