BUFORA Bulletin2 No.08 Jan Feb 1999

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Robert Moor
It has been expressed to me recently that I should be more "tolerant' towards "new age"
s and ideas; concepts which I have criticised in my editorials and elsewhete in BUFOM
To them I have two wotds - 'Remember Jonestown!"- To that they will doubtless sayi
nothing to do with IJFOiI We'rc scientilicl we're evidentiatly basad; not a cultl
witt eE! die lor UFosl' ffhomas F. Mantell notwithstanding...l. To that lhave another 3 words;
'Remembet Heavenb Gater" To this, I am sure these same people will surely retort 'Ihat
ao do with UFOS (eithet) I That was conbcteeism; another subiect attogether.'.".
I personally feel this view is wrong. Applewhite dressed his beliefs with the trailer
populist ufology beloved of American supermarket tabloids. Which is ufology to many people in
USA! Furthermore, the belief that Hale-Bobb was associated with a giant spacecraft was
(and endorsed) by many fringe Utological figures. lndeed, the "immanent' arrival of a
"Deathsta/' packed with "reptiods" has been whispered off tor years in the USA abductee scene.
As we crash pell-mell into the Millenium my greatest fear is that a powerful "new-age"
may decide to "hasten" a second coming (either ot "God", or the "space brothers") with an act
tenorism. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, and modern Russia virtually under
of organised crime, it could prove all too easy for a rich cult to get hold of a nuclear device
even a fully-functional atomic bomb)! We have already had a (albeit "minoi') hint of what such
are capable of in Japan. Who knows what is next!
It is a pity humanity cannot find a true "sparituality", uncorrupted by false hopes, fanaticism,
and the power-hungry lusts of lhe morally bankrupt. Such a goal would be a worthy task
in the next centuryl
And here's a suggeslion for a new years resolution. Can some of those interested in
stop looking to them to fullil vadous spiritual needs? An anomalous aerial phenomena is merely
mystery, requiring the highesi standards of logic, reason and science to properly understand. lt
be nothing more.
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Contents
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I'FO NEIiIS 4
A WEEK WITH A REMOTE VTEIIER 5-8
CEAI,I.ENG ING RV 8-9
ONE PTCFI'RE IS ?'ORTH A TEOUSAND I{ORDS 10-13
INVESAIGATIONS DIARY 14-15
..UE\'"
BY I.IOONLIGET 16
TNE LEEDS INCIDENT L7 -23
A LEITER TO T'II'LOGY 24-25
BOOK REVISWS 26-27
EVENTS & 1999 A.G.M NOTICE 2A
BUFORA UFO SIGHTING STATISTICS 1996.1997:
A SCHEMATIC DEPICTION OF REPORTED "UFO" EVENTS.
Robert Moore.
Shown below is a pie-chart schematic of "UFO" sightings reported to BUFoRA
over a six month period, from October 1996 to ilarch 1997.
This is a fairly simple depiction, showing distribution by shape (and UFO
As can be seen below, reports of disc shaped "UFOS" (running at 20olo) are still
and - in this sample at least - outnumber reports of "flying triangles" by 10%. lt
interesting to see whether this remains the case in the future.
UFO Sightings Reported To BUFORA
October 1996 to March 1997
El "Lishts tn Tho sky"
! "Disc" UFos
10.0%
El "Triansle" UFos
I "Cisar" uFos
f] ctose Encounters
s7 -o.L
Total = 237 Reports
ln this data-set, reports of "Lights in the sky" (LITS) - observations ot distant
- remain the most common type of "UFO" experience. However, around 90% of
are demonstrably lFOs (ldentified Flying Objects); observations of mundane
and phenomena such as planets, stars, aircraft, meteors, laser-light displays, advertising
airships, etc.
By comparison, of a sample of 1003 reporls collated by the Northern UFO
the years 1975-1979, 13% (or about 130 sightings) were "Close Encountef
which is close to the figure of l0% Close Encounter events appearing in this
ol BUFORA "UFO" data.
A \[/eek \[/ith A llemote Viewer
Richard Conway.
It has frequently become apparent to well as the role of the other viewers. I was
UFO investigators that there is a great deal of surprised to find out by the end of lhe week
the paranormal involved in ulology. The how little the RV programme had to do with
'ology tries to put some scienlific perspective UFOs.
and methodology in the subject. However, in
some instances there are things involved that David had said that he had viewed
defy reason or explanation are involved on some UFO targets with other viewers (off the
the periphery of the subiect. record) but had not been directly asked to
view a UFO target by anybody in the
During lhe course of April 1998 | intelligence community.
spent a week in Stowemarket io meet the
legendary
He had told
David us,
though
Morehouse, thal, that the
author of
"govemmenf'
"Psychic wouldn't
Wardo/'. have asked
them to view
Having a anything they
small interest already knew
in rem ote the answer
I
viewing was lo.
quite
looking
forward to this To this, many
course but (including
thought that myself)
Morehouse with seminar organiser Roy
what we would would agree
be learning with, ll
would benefit other people bul not me. signifies that whatever is behind the UFO
enigma, the govemment knows aboul il
There was a mixed bag of people at already.
the course, several interested
hypnotherapisls, a shaman (Leo Rulherford) One of the targets that I found most
and a president of lhe Society for Psychical fascinating that the viewers had to view was
Research (Arlhur Ellison) to name a few. the Tunguska incident, also known as the
'Great Siberian Explosion'.
The course stafied off in a really
bizane manner. We were told that we able to This incident happened in 1908 and
ask whatever questions we wanted. Some of resulted in an explosion in the Tunguska
the questions and answeG exposed aleas of forest, whose remnants can still be seen
his private life that got to be quite upsetting at loday. Experts have advocated that this was
the time. For an entire day we were allowed caused by a comet, meteorile or other space
to ask questions and get an idea of lhe debris. However, 17 remote viewers
history of the RV proglamme, his role in it, as witnessed very similar things when doing a
routine training exercise in the military eleciromagnetic body signature. This means
program. They saw a rip Open up in the sky that every person is (reportedly) able to be
and a structured craft of some sort come followed by special spy satellite cameras.
through the rip. David Morehouse described Talk about an invasion of privacyl
having a feeling that lhe pilot ot lhe craft was
nothing more then a learner driver of sorls. One other thing that he mentioned
was something that many conspiracy
This and other accomplishments theorists have advocated a long time. This
were made possible through remote viewing was gleaned from files and conversations
because, to the advanced, time is no longer with military personnel. Microwave weapons
a barrier. exist that could potentially induce a
suggestion into the brain of an lndividual. ll is
The first response of a sceptic and further thought that this technology can be
indeed myself is that, if this was so, then why used in exactly the same way to alter the
don't they get the lottery numbers and walk mindset of many people. These two things
away trom the remote viewing program with alone are enough to put a chill in most.
large amounts of cash in their pockets? We however, it continues. Even viewers are not
were told that. although the past can be seen safe, apparently. There exists technologies
qu{e easrly, there were things that viewers that can track a remote viewer's
didn't have access to; such as the future. consciousness while he/she is a visiting a
Scientists at SRI claimed that the future could certain place.
not seen through the eyes of a viewer
because of lhe number of variables that It would seem that viewing alone
change between the moment of viewing and cannot accomplish all of the things that the
the particular point being viewed in the future. intelligence community needs to win the
ultimate public service award, so one better
Morehouse had a very compelling than this - the science of remote
argument for the authenticity of remole influencing - reportedly exists, which puts
viewing; he could do what he said, simple as thoughts into people's brains, etc. This has
that! We saw old military files that were apparently been used in the past for remote
sneaked out by many of the viewers showing death
the result of their exploits. One target, which
impressed me a great deal was that of the To understand the viewers and what
'gun museum. they do it is best to trace the history ot their
lives, as the only viewer I have put questions
The gun museum target [ras done by to I will retrace Morehouse's military history
Dave Morehouse early on in his career as a very briefly. lt allstarted for him when he was
viewer. We wer€ able to verify what had training Jordanian troops in the art of warfare.
been written in his book. The information that He was hit by some random gunfire in the
he had gleaned lrom viewing the larget was desert. During this time he remembers
phenomenal, in that he was able to pick out nothing of dese.ts or unconsciousness but
all the details of the museum even through he only that tor a minute eveMhing disappeared
had never been lhere. and he stood opposite several people.
During the course, many questions As he walked towards them, very
were asked of his life and his career in the angrily, one of them told him that his life had
army and army intelligence. That said, we been misguided and that soon he would
learnl some phenomenal things about some follow a different path, the way would become
of the technologies that the Americans are apparent to him soon. The interesting thing
purported to have. lt has been alleged that about this was that a tremendous amount of
they now have the technology lo track an visionary experiences had occurred to many
individual by satellite from his/her other people in that particular valley, including
the prophet Mohammed. the course. This involved the use of random
co-ordinates which when applied in
Morehouse awoke to lind that he had conjunction with methods used for RV, allow
been given a new lease ot life, literally. When the viewer to define salient characteristics of
the soldiers he was commanding examined the target. The other form of RV is Extended
his helmel they said that (by all rights) he Remote Viewing (ERV) . This is done wilhout
should have been killed; ihe bullet wasnt a the use of co-ordinates.
ricochet, it was lodged into his helmet. Weird!
More weird than that was when he had his The TWA incident
first Out of Body Experience in the desert.
Following this were a string of similar One of the things that Dave Morehouse
experiences and also many nightmares, was involved in after leaving the military was
which he now believes had meaning. This a project by the newsgroup CBS. This project
chain of strangeness in his life resulted into he did in conjunction with olher viewers and
his inclusion in the remote viewing program at the target was a plane that had exploded by
Fort Meade. There he met many other Long lsland as it had just taken off. The crash
viewers who had other strange lales too investigator's report showed that it had been
numerous to mention. a spark in the fuel tank, which had then
meant that Boeing had to refit all the planes
One of these in itself was interesting. in their fleets with new fuel tanks to avoid any
We were laught on the course that lhe 'theta' danqer in the future.
brain state could be achieved through
visualisation. This was the brain state that The viewers, however, gave a difierent
enabled the remote viewer to gather account and their investigation proved to be
information lrom distant places to be used in fruitful. They had gone back to that point in
conjunction with normal intelligence gathering time and seen lhe plane explode in the air,
data. A remole viewer called 'Kathleen'was in however, they saw the entire side of the plane
a place called 'sanctuary', which can be cave in, they saw heads explode as well as
considered as the plac€ that a viewer starts bodies. The coroners that investigated the
off. An example of a sanctuary was that of victim's bodies had seen them without their
Dave Morehouse's, this was a transparent eyes, skin deformities, elc.
roomjike structure in space. Kathleen had
her sanctuary invaded by anolher viewer. The viewers found out - through many
This meant thal another viewer was able to viewing sessions - that what had actually
enter and interact and spy on a remote happened was that a microwave weapon was
fired in a test and this weapon had ripped
through the plane (which had been delayed at
Up to this point in time the majority of the airport and was off-schedule) .
this should read like science fiction. However,
as one who has done the course and has had There was a boat oul into the sea, which
a number of successes with target siies, I can had been firing a missile over the land lo be
assure you that it isn't. The majority of people destroyed by a microwave beam weapon
on the course had a great deal of success from the Brookhaven National Labs. The
with their remote viewing experiences. Some whereabouts of the boat which the navy
of the people that I studied with have gone denied was conlirmed via French satellite
onto doing other courses and have been photos. The whole investigation in fact was in
extremely successful in viewing their targets. the palm of their hand, until the producer had
a visit from some people who stole and
I should state at this point that there trashed all their research. Some of the
are two types of remote viewing that were viewers were then threatened. At the end of
developed at the SRl, the first is Cootdinate the day, alltheir hard evidence "disappeared".
Remote Viewing (CRV), which we learnt on
j lltc
cnaLlE]lc Ry
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r;i-i"i!i:"6i'i:],.,""J,
recently discovered some new fih
Project Cobra Mist (an experimental over-the- A response to
horizon radar system located at orford Ness). 'A week with a Remote Viewer',
At the time I was in the PRO with BUFOM
investigator Judith Jaafar, who was perusing Kevin McClure
the files looking for some relevant information
that could be usetul to extend our knowledge
of Ml activity around the time of the
Rendlesham incident.
After talking publicly about this TWA
case at a lecture, she pointed out the
similarities between excuses in this case and ',
excuses given by the American government "tt may be,hat remole viewing is inl
who were in control of Project Cobra Mist fact lhe next stage of human evotution, loi
when something like this happened. ,lind out wha, we are reatly capable of as a
ilssPpgecctieasS, aaanqd uthlca.' . wwe6 aarrcc gg.rcedataeetr than the
ln the instance ot Cobra Mist (a project ',ssuumm oofl oouurr Ppaarttst"s. ".
run by the Americans), when oil tankers and :
ships exploded in the North Sea due to high i lMrtoodoe"mr RRVV ccaarrrriieess wwiitthh iitt iittss oowwnn,,
energy microwave pulses (used in over-the- mmaassssiivvee,, ccaauuttiioonnaarryy ttaallee:: tthhee HHaallee--BBoopppp//l
horizon radar), the excuse was always that HHeeaavveenn''ss GGaattee ttrraaqgeeddyy.. TToo qquuoottee aann eeaarrllyy,,l
there was a spark that had ignited the fuel lpprree--ssllaauugghhtteerr rreeppoorrtt lfrroomm tthhee UUSS UUFFOO
tanks. This was about 20 years before the Magazina, Jan-Feb 1997, amateur astronomerl
TWA incident ever took place. This can also ch;ck Shramek had found that;
be read at the PRO if anybody is interested; i
more government lies in print. So, as James 'Beside the comet was a 'mYstery'
Bond once said, 'governments may change obiect tha, appeared to have a Satun'tikei
but the lies stay the same". ring around it, and descdbed as beingi
p.ih"p" much as 4 times the size oI
"t
Earth. Shramek sent the photogrcPh to
Conclusion: rcdio /€,tk show host Ad Betl .
I would urge anybody who has an i
interest in this subiect or wants to explore Sho/lty thereaftet, Eerrs ' idio
greater possibilities to do this course. prognmme leatured both Dr Courtney
Brown, author ol Cosmic Voyage, andi
I am a testament to the fact that it horrot-fiction writer Whitley Streiber,i
works, as are many others on the course. lt author ol the Communion books. Brown'1
may be that remole viewing is in fact the next has ctaimed ao know a nationally renowned
stage ot human evolution, to find out what we astronomer (unnamed) who has beenl
are really capable of as a species, and that fottowin-gB rtohwisn 'obiect', and yes - it is tutl oll
we are greater than lhe sum of our parts aliens. claims that ahe viewers have,
atso been rcmote viewing the White House,l
Remote Viewing seminars will be and President Wi iam J Clin,on hasJ
held by David Morehouse every two to three retuctantly agread tha, there wilt be an
months in either Stowemarket near lpswich olliciat announcemena of the alienl
or in London. They normally take place over presencel"
a weekend. Please contact the course
organisers, Roy and Susan Farrell, on 01'149- I t nopu I wouldnl need to remind anyl
614765 for further information. BUFORA member how many membeF ol the
HHeeaavveenn''ss GGaattee ggrroouupp ddiieedd aass aa rreessuulltt ooff tthhiiss Ii WWhhyy iissnn''tt iill uusseedd ttoo pprreevveenntt aanndd ssootlvvee
idiotic claim. or to point out just how stupid itl lcrime? lf tests such as I've suggested coutd
makes any unverified report of RV appear. i be passed repeatedly by remoie viewers, it
The claims for RV Conway does accept seeml lwould only be a short time betore courts all
no less irrational Just how offensive to those I lover the world accepted RV!
bereaved in the TWA incdent is the claim that
"-...a microwave weapon was fired in a test II lt tttese claims for RV are true, then
and this weapon had ipped through the] viewers could retum to a crime scene, and see
plane", and sick is the report that the vrewers] precisely how a crime was committed, the
"saw ahe enaire side of the plane cave in,l ]sequence ot evenls, what was said, and who
they saw heads explode as wetl as bodies? I lwas responsible. Where a child goes missing,
i(say taken away in a car). the remote viewer
As for the "17 remote viewers" who lcould go back those few hours or days, look at
supposedly hovered over the Tunguska Foresl lthe car, note its registration number and
in1908 and "saw a rtp open up in ttre sky" description, describe the person or persons
and Morehouse's "feeling lhat the pitot o116el who took the child away, and presumably,
craft was nothing more than a leamer driverl lbeing able to move al will in space or time,
of some sorts'; why would any intelligenti ifollow the car and lead the Police lo where the
person accepl lhese extreme and eiolic has been taken
lchild
reports as lrue, without explicil proof that these
"viewers" could accurately report far simple, r RV could also be used to investigate air
(and more easily verifiable) events? I jcrashes and other disasters. lt could be used
. ilo monitff human rights abuses world-wide,
Surely such tesls could - compared 1e 611 lwith prisons and other establishments being
tlnhriss ttrraavveerl irnn tlrimmee aanndo ssppaaccee -- bDee eeaassilllyy ivYi,sJi,tresdu via RV. Brutal regimes !,rould fear the
performed. For instance, why not use RV t; irevelations made by remote viewers! War
find out the makes, colours and registration crimes trials could be transformed: the remote
numbers ol cars parked in a nearby car-park?l viewer providing precise evidence of how
Or lo discover the colours of front doors and torlure and killing had taken place, and who
front garden layouts of houses in a particular ]was responsible What court would refuse to
road? Or maybe RV the titles, authors and accept the evidence of RV?
cover colours of books on a particular shelf in a |
local library? ]i None ot this happens. lnstead, celebrity
; jviewers go around charging substantial sums of
l'm noi aware that any remote viewer, lmoney telling wild and untestable tales that
despite the extensive claims made for nV, nas spring not from hard fact, but from pre-
eevveerr Dpuubblliiccllvy ssuucccceeeeddeedd iinn., oorr eevveenn aatftleemmpoteted,d immlilllleennnnliaall ccoonnssppilrraaccyy tlhheeoorryy aanndd fleeaarrss oofl aa NNeeww
such straightfonvard but potentially convincing iwodd Order. Remote viewing isn't new:
tests. Co-uld Conway, with his newlyJearnei although those running the courses hardly
skills, be the fi|.st to succeed? l,m sure that.] mention it, it has a clear pre-history of more
through the Association for Skeptical Enquiry, li than 60 years in astral projection and out-of-
could find a number of universitaes willing'1ei body experience: only the gloss' the stories of
test him, and publicise the results. i aliens and the hatred of governments, has
been added.
ln avoiding the 'lottery numbers'issue,
Conway states specifically that "the pasl canl I And no, this isn'tthe next slage of human
be seen quite easily''. lf RV really can bel ievolution: it's been going on for years lf the
leamed, and operaled so specifically that 171 ivarious 'celebrity' remote viewers (and their ilk)
remote viewers can travel back g0'vears tol iare the most reflned product of evolution
precisely the same place, and thi samei lthrough nalural selection at the end of this
momeni in time, why it is only used for suchi lcentury, perhaps they could nip off and check
trivialand useless purposes? llwhether Charles Darwin is spinning in his
grave!
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ONE PICTURE IS WORTH
THOUSANDWORDS
Barbara Becker
For those not familiar with the Gulf to the Sentinel on December 3, 1987,
Breeze, Florida (usA) UFO story or one of accompanied by a letter by an anonymous
it's most controversial characters, Edward person, later to be called "Jane".A second
Walters, I will present a briet history. A batch of nine photographs was submitted to
complete account can be found in The Gufi the Sentinel on December 23, 1987 by a
Breeze Sightings: The Most Asaounding person using the pseudonym of "Believer
Multiple sightings of UFOS in U.s' History. Bill". One ol the nine photos, along with a
Ed Walters and Frances Walters. Monow letter from Bill, was printed in the Sentinel on
Publishing, 1990. December 24. These are photos 39 and 40 in
the book.
According to Walters, on November 1 1,
1987, he was at his home in Gulf Breeze, What do they have to do with Ed
when he looked out of a window and saw a Walters other than lend credibility to his
greyish blue craft hovering just beyond a pine story? Well, actually they challenge his story.
tree in his lront yard. He grabbed his Polaroid
Colorpak camera and proceeded to take five During the first week of January 1988 a
photographs of the mysterious object. He friend of the Walters' family, Tommy Smilh,
showed the photos to his wife, Frances, admitted to his father that he had been
together they decided to turn them over to involved in walters' UFO "prank". Smith said
friend and edilor of the Gulf Brceze Sentinel that Walters had originally asked him to claim
NewspapeL Duane Cook. to be the photographer of hoaxed UFO
photos and to deliver them to the Sentinel but
Six days later, on November 17, Ed he refused. Among Smith's other assertions
Walters and a companion entered lhe offices was a claim that the "Believer Bill" and "Jane"
of the Sentinel and left five photos of the photos printed in the Sentinel were actually
object tor Duane cook. The first and fiflh ot taken by Walters in cooperation with another
this series, along with a letter from the friend.
photographer, "Mr. X.", were reproduced in
the Sentinel on November'19. The Walters' first book, The Gult
Br€oze sightings was published in 1990 and
Ed Walters claimed he continued to included the following copyright notice and
photograph the obiect(s) until May 1, 1988. (t acknowledgement "Copyright: 1990 by Ed
is impossible to know exactly how many Walters and Frances Walters. Clippings on
pholographs Walters actually took, since the the page following page 256 reprinted wilh
Polaroid numbering system allows for multiple permission of Pensacola NewsJournal." As I
photographs with the same sequence and read that I wondered why "Believer Bill" and
serial numbers). Thirty eight of Walters' "Jane" had not been acknowledged for their
photos are used in the book, along with two contribution as lhe Pensacola News Journal
photographs from undisclosed sources. This had been?
paper will focus on the two other photographs
and issues involving them. How could Walters use the "Believer
Brll" and "Jane" photos without the permission
The tirst photographs seemingly of the photographers? I wrote to the
corroborating Walters' photos were submitted publisher, Willaam Morrow, and asked them