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THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS
by Raymond E. Fowler
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APRIL 1993 NUMBER 300
THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS Raymond E. Fowler
SLOW FIREBALL STARTLES MANY Walter N. Webb
REJOINDER TO CRITIQUE OF BUDD HOPKINS Walt Andrus 8
REPTILIANS 8. OTHER UNMENTIONABLES John Carpenter 10
STANLEY INGRAM 8. THE PLANTOS GAMES Don Worley 12
NEWS 8, VIEWS 14
THE UFO PRESS 16
CURRENT CASES 17
MUFON FORUM Letters 19
READERS'-CLASSIFIEDS 20
THE MAY NIGHT SKY Walter N. Webb 21
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE" Walter H. Andrus, Jr. 24
COVER- Charles Rak (Charlie Foltz being operated on.)
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THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS
Four weekend campers in Northern Maine find themselves taking the canoe trip of a lifetime!
By Raymond E. Fowler
MUFON Director of Investigations
Charlie Foltz can see his three naked friends waiting on a bench. Drawing by C. Foltz.
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n Friday night, August 20, 1976, four young motionless and soundless about 200-300 feet above the
art students in their early twenties left southeastern rim of the cove."
Boston, Massachusetts for a canoe and Chuck yelled for the others to look behind them.
camping trip in a wilderness area of Northern Maine There, rising above the trees was a huge oval glowing
along the Allagash River. The group consisted of object. As their eyes became adapted to its intense
identical twins, Jack and Jim Weiner, Charlie Foltz brightness, a gyroscopic motion was noted, as if there
and Chuck Rak. Upon arrival at a staging point, they were pathways :of energy flowing equatorially and
hired a pontoon airplane which flew them and their longitudinally from pole to pole. This divided the
canoes to TeTos Lake on the Allagash Waterway. sphere into four oscillating quadrants of bright colored
During the next several days they canoed and camped light. The color changes were very liquid and envelop-
along the Waterway. ing, as if the entire object had a plasmatic motion to it,
On the evening of Thursday, August 26, they reached like a thick sauce does as it starts a rolling boil.
Eagle Lake, set up camp and decided to go night fishing Charlie grabbed a flashlight and blinked it at the ob-
for trout. The pitch darkness of the area necessitated the ject. Instantly, the huge rising glowing object came to an
building of a huge bonfire to mark their campsite so that abrupt halt and began to slowly approach the canoe.
they could find their way back to it. Shortly after be- Simultaneously, a tube-shaped beam of light erupted
ginning to fish, Chuck became aware of a feeling of be- from the object and hit the water. A glowing ring with a
ing watched. He told us that: dark center reflected on the water's surface, indicating
"I turned toward the direction from where I felt this that the beam was hollow. The object and its beam of
and saw a large bright sphere of colored light hovering light began moving toward the canoe. Terrified, the
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doctors asked him to report any unusual experiences
The tube-like light seemed to hold the ca- that might be symptomatic of his condition. Jim de-
noe steady as each man was put back In his scribed strange experiences that he and his friends had
original seating position. experienced since the UFO encounter. These included
awaking at night to see strange creatures, levitation
campers began paddling frantically toward their bonfire from bed, and temporary paralysis while something was
and camp as the beam swept across the lake directly at done to the genitals. He also described their encounter
them and engulfed them. with a UFO and the period of missing time. Jim's doc-
It was from this point on that the conscious memories tors advised him to contact a UFO researcher as they felt
of the four differed according to each witness' vantage that Jim and his friends may have been involved in a
point. The next thing Charlie remembered was pad- UFO abduction experience. Jim contacted me during one
dling for shore and standing at the campsite with the of my UFO lectures in the Boston area.
others, watching the object move away. In January of 1989,1 initiated a formal investigation
Chuck Rak remembers staying in the canoe after the with MUFON Investigator and CEIII/IV specialist,
others had piled out in panic onto the shore. Transfixed, David Webb (Solar Physicist) and with MUFON
still holding his idle paddle, he could not take his eyes Consultant, Anthony (Tony) Constantino (Professional
off the object. Hypnotist). It was conducted in a careful and meticulous
Jack and Jim were able to consciously remember a bit manner over a period of 24 months.
more. Jack said that "It was just behind us and I could It was obvious to us that the period of missing time
see that we were never going to outrun the Beam. It was had to be sandwiched between sighting the object and
advancing too fast and I remember thinking, 'Holy shit! reaching shore. The beam of light hitting the canoe
This is it! We'll never get away.' The next thing I knew, seemed to be the dividing point between memory and
we were on the shore getting out of the canoe looking di- amnesia. During the first of a long series of hypnosis
rectly at the object which was now about 20 or 30 feet sessions, it was decided to concentrate on this segment
above the water. The beam was coming out of the bot- of the terrifying encounter.
tom of it like the object was sitting on the beam. It hov- Under hypnosis, all four witnesses relived detailed
ered there, right in front of us, completely silent for and traumatic UFO abduction experiences during the pe-
what seemed like four or five minutes. riod of missing time. All were transferred from their ca-
"Suddenly the beam was pointing up towards the noe into the UFO by the hollow tube-like beam of light.
sky. The object began to move up and away from us to- On board, they encountered strange humanoid crea-
wards the southwestern sky and then shot into the stars tures that exerted some kind of mind control over them
and was gone in just a second." so that they could not resist their demands.
Jim Weiner said that "There was no mistake that it
was coming directly to us. Then I remember standing on All were made to undress and sit on a plastic-like
the lakeshore watching the object hovering above the bench in an area illuminated by diffuse white light.
lake 50 to 75 yards in front of us ... Then the search After looking at their eyes and in their mouths with a
beam went upward into the sky and we saw it moving pencil-sized rod with a light on its tip, the aliens placed
away at a tremendous speed. them in a harness and flexed their arms and legs. Then,
"We all seemed to be in a state of shock . . . We just one by one they were made to lie on a table where each
stood there unable to move or talk." was examined by a number of strange hand-held and
larger machine-like instruments that were lowered over
W hen the strange anesthetizing effect wore off, their bodies. During this segment of the examination, the
Chuck got out of the canoe and joined the others alien entities removed samples of saliva, skin scrap-
as they trudged dreamily up the beach to their camp. ings, blood, feces, urine and sperm from each of the ab-
Even in this state, they were dumbfounded when they re- ductees.
alized what had happened to the huge bonfire that had After the examinations, the abductees were made to
just been blazing several minutes ago. dress and enter another room which had a round portal
"When we left to go fishing," said Jim, "we set very in one of its walls. They were lined up and made to walk
large logs on the fire to burn for a good 2 to 3 hours. The into the portal. Strange sensations surged through their
entire experience seemed to last, at the most, 15 or 20 bodies as they found themselves floating down the hol-
minutes. Yet the fire was completely burned down to red low beam of light into their canoe which was now in
coals." shallow water near their campsite. The tube-like light
At that time, they had no memory of what happened seemed to hold the canoe steady as each was placed in it
during the time it took for their huge bonfire to burn in the same seating positions they were in prior to the
down. This would remain a puzzle to them for years. abduction.
A few years later, Jim suffered a head injury which As the hypnosis sessions continued, much detail was
caused tempero-limbic epilepsy. During treatment, Jim's recovered about their on board experience. Also, it was
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discovered that the twins had had bedtime visitations by Jack and Mary were brought to stand in front of a
alien creatures and abduction experiences since early huge house-sized glowing object sitting on a blue light
childhood. These experiences were relived in vivid de- that enveloped its underside. The glow around the object
tail under hypnosis. itself was changing colors from white to yellow to or-
During the course of the investigation an extraordi- ange and purple and back to white. No noise emanated
nary event occurred. Jack and his wife Mary were ab- from the object, but the air was filled with the acrid
ducted from their remote mountain home in smell of ozone. Then, Jack and Mary were made to
Townshend,Vermont. walk into the blue light under the object. Instantaneously
During the night of May 20, 1988, Jack's dog woke they were transferred inside of the glowing object. Mary
him up when he scratched at the door wanting to go out was separated from Jack, who was made to undergo
to relieve itself. When Jack got up to put him out, he was examinations similar to the one that he and his friends
shocked to see a blue light shining through the kitchen had experienced twelve years earlier. After the exami-
window. He went out to look and saw a glowing object nation, Mary rejoined Jack and they were literally
hovering over the field adjoining his house. He decided floated across the lawn from the craft to their house,
to bring the dog back in. In the morning, he thought he through the unopened front door and to their bedroom,
had dreamed about the whole thing. However, under where they went back to bed in a strange lethargic state
hypnosis, he relived a shared abduction experience with of mind.
his wife in minute detail. Mary only remembered dream- This experience left physical evidence behind in the
ing about deer with big eyes coming to their bedside. form of burns on the bottom of Jack's feet. Jack also re-
She did not respond to hypnosis. The following is an ex- ceived a biopsy-like scoop mark above his ankle during
cerpt from Jack's hypnosis sessions. still another abduction.
"It's blue. A blue light. And I think, 'That's funny. The scoopmark was located just above a scar left
That's not the moon.' And then I go to the window and behind during an operation for an anomalous lump that
I look out the window and what I see is amazing. I see a had appeared overnight on Jack's leg several years prior.
big, bright light and it's right over the truck in the field Jack's local doctor thought it was a cyst, but was unable
outside the house. And I'm thinking, 'Oh my God! I to drain it so referred Jack to a surgeon who removed it.
can't believe that!' And so I say, 'Mary, get up. Get up Jack was told that local pathologists did not know what
and look!' And I run to the door and I go out the door it was and that it had been sent to the Center for Disease
and I'm running towards the light up in the field . . . Control in Atlanta, Georgia, for further analysis.
Then I see the dog running alongside me ... And so I However, when we checked Jack's medical records, we
pick him up and I run back to the house. . . The light is found that it was sent to military pathologists in
still there and it's moving . . . And then I put the dog Washington, D.C.. where it was examined by a United
back in bed and I'm thinking, 'I don't want to do this. I States Air Force Colonel. Attempts for further informa-
don't want to do this now!' I don't want to look at the tion about the anomalous lump were thwarted as the sur-
light... So I'm going back to bed ... And I'm thinking, geon would not cooperate with our enquiry.
'I don't want to deal with this now. Why are they here
now?' And I'm scared ... so I pull the covers over my D uring the course of the investigation we conducted
head . . . and Mary's next to me. And then I know, I witness background checks, examined medical
know that something's in the house. I just know that records and diaries, cross-checked witness testimony, co-
they're there and I'm under the covers and I think, 'Oh ordinated witness psychological profile tests, correlated
God, oh God! Why are they here now? I don't want this witness accounts with other reports and conducted fif-
to happen.' (Gasps) And then the covers move and I feel teen hypnosis sessions over a period of 14 months. The
something on the cover . . . And then the covers are final 10-volume report numbered over 700 pages. It
down and I'm looking there and I was right. They're was made available to UFO researchers and became
right there! Oh God! They're right there, right next to the basis of a book on UFO abductions to be published
my bed ... It has big eyes and a big head and it's dark by Time-Life.
and there's light behind it coming in the door. And it's In summation, this UFO abduction case is unique in
just taking the covers away and I don't want to look at it a number of ways. It involved four credible persons
... And I look at Mary ... There's another one there and who all consciously shared the same close-encounter
it's next to Mary. And I wish that I could do something with a UFO in 1976 during a canoe trip along the
but I can't. I have to do what they want. And the light is Allagash Waterway in Northern Maine. All percipients
out there and they want me to go out there . . . They're experienced missing time and relived traumatic com-
lifting me. Mary's standing and they're making us move plementary UFO abduction experiences under hypnosis.
towards light . . . And the dog isn't doing anything. Two of the abductees are identical twins, which was of
We're through the door . . . We walk up the lawn and I great interest to their alien abductors. Our enquiry re-
feel like I'm floating ... our feet are on the ground, but vealed that each of the witnesses exhibited the typical
my feet are not doing what I want them to." benchmarks characteristic of other abductees. Lastly,
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all of the witnesses are artists and were able to provide during abductions, not enough is known about the
detailed sketches of different aspects of their experi- OBE altered state to link it directly to the interdimen-
ences. This has provided the UFO research community sional hypothesis. Other psychic phenomena such as
some excellent impressions relating to the appearance of telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, precognitive
alien beings, their instruments and their craft. dreams, etc. seem to be widespread human talents
The many-faceted and intriguing elements of The which may or may not be "interdimensional." My
Allagash Abductions also provided a catalyst for a de- own experience with remote-viewing under laboratory
tailed correlation of the witnesses' experiences with conditions seems to indicate that it works within our
benchmarks exhibited in other abduction reports being physical universe, but this is a purely subjective
investigated and studied. Such were derived from an ex- observation. Parapsychologists, although they have
haustive survey of 270 reported UFO abductions in the been trying for over a century, have not yet deter-
United States and abroad compiled by Dr. Thomas E. mined the source or nature of psychic phenomena.
Bullard of the University of Indiana. Some major simi- The "intradimensional hypothesis," as used by me,
larities noted were: alien interest in the reproduction refers to the hypothesis that there are other dimensions
system and the extraction of sperm from each of the wit- besides our four-dimensional physical world (three space
nesses; a series of UFO and related paranormal experi- dimensions and one time dimension). For example,
ences that dated back to early childhood; physical marks Theodor Franz Kaluza's 1919 proposal to Einstein of a
on the percipients' bodies typical of those on the bodies five-dimensional theory of gravity interested Einstein be-
of other UFO abductees; and, the overnight appearance cause a fifth spatial dimension provided enough "room"
of a lump above the tibia of one of the twins. to fit the electromagnetic force into Einstein's theory of
In addition, all witnesses were subjected to detailed gravity, a problem which Einstein had been unable to
interrogations, rigorous character reference checks, 12 solve. Mathematicians of the present day continue study
recorded/transcribed hypnotic regression sessions and a into the multidimensional theory.
battery of psychological profile tests. We also examined The implication for ufology, of course, is that other
a number of alternate theories advanced to explain UFO dimensions might be peopled by intelligent, non-hu-
abductions: hoaxes, fantasy-prone personalities, psy- man creatures. Following out this assumption, it is hy-
choses, birth trauma memories and archetypical images pothesized that abducting entities interpenetrate from
from the collective unconscious. Each of these theo- their own dimension into our own space-time, work
ries was critiqued and eliminated in the light of the ev- their mischief, and disappear back into their own di-
idence collected during our investigation. mension, leaving little or no verifiable traces.
The investigation concluded that the moral character As Jacques Vallee has described in his book
of the witnesses, the graphic reliving of their experiences Dimensions, writing about incubi, faerie folk, etc. and as
under hypnosis and the extraordinary correlations be- Gordon Creighton has so elegantly written about the
tween their experience and that of others provided over- jinns of the Muslim world in FSR (Flying Saucer
whelming evidence that their experiences were objective Review), there seems little doubt that the human race has
in nature. Such evidence combined with typical physical been harassed for thousands of years by non-physical in-
effects on the witnesses' bodies prompted me to evalu- telligences whose true nature and motives remain a
ate this case in the great significance category. mystery. The "abducting entities" currently being stud-
ied avidly by ufology, in my opinion, might have noth-
Ray Fowler's The Allagash Abductions will be
ing at all to do with physical UFOs, but are simply an
published by Wildf lower Press in May of 1993.
old human problem, currently posing as "UFO ex-
traterrestrials." The situation cries out for continued
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SLOW FIREBALL STARTLES MANY
By Walter N. Webb
O
n October 9, 1992, about 7:50 p.m. EOT, recent times was the one seen and photographed from
hundreds of people from Kentucky to the the Western U.S. on August 10, 1972. This bright day-
District of Columbia were awed by a green- time fireball plodded along for up to a full minute or
to-orange fireball that moved slowly across the sky on more! It was generally believed to have been an asteroid
a flat southwest-to-northeast trajectory before break- that was temporarily captured in Earth orbit before es-
ing up over southeastern New York state. The fiery caping back into space.
object dropped a 27-pound stony meteorite through It is a myth that all meteors must "fall," that is, follow
the trunk of Michelle Knapp's parked 1980 Chevy steep downward arcs. The path depends upon the mete-
Malibu in Peekskill, New York. oroid's entry angle into the atmosphere. Four of the
Because it was a Friday night in autumn, many of the five spectacular fireballs which I investigated in recent
witnesses happened to be attending high school football years had nearly horizontal trajectories.
games, resulting in at least two dozen videos of the aer- For ufologists the supposed anomalousness of
ial event. (As we all know, camcorders have become in- green meteors flying horizontally stretches back to the
creasingly important tools in capturing elusive aerial green fireball (GFB) furor of the late 1940s and early
objects.) Recently Bernard Haugen, a MUFON State '50s. The green hue is actually quite common in many
Section Director in North Carolina (Oxford), asked me fireballs. The color can come from either atmospheric
if I would review one of the videos of the object which oxygen glowing around the meteoroid (the same ele-
was shown on Durham's WTVD. Subsequently, Field ment associated with the production of the green auro-
Investigator trainee Joe Moore of Butner forwarded the ra borealis) or from magnesium which is abundant in
tape to me. stony meteorites. Yet another source of this spectral
The video was shot by television cameraman Brad color may be frozen nitrogen present in glowing icy
Loch, who was covering a football contest in Fayetteville. meteoroids, the leftovers of old comets. In fact, most
His equipment caught about seven seconds of the me- meteors, including many large fireballs, are of
teor's nearly horizontal path as it passed over the bleach- cometary origin — ice and dust conglomerations that
ers. The object appeared in the sky as a teardrop shape vaporize completely in the atmosphere, disappearing
with a short wiggling tail. Complicating matters was a before striking the Earth's surface. (Dare I say that
false report on the WTVD newscast that the object "had this might account for the famed GFBs?)
fallen to the ground" east of Morgantown, West Virginia, No question that some fireballs do appear anomalous
"is still glowing," and "police have cordoned off the to first-time observers. The New England fireball of
area." (At my request Haugen attempted to track down June 14,1990, produced a number of UFO reports. This
this rumor. It may have been spawned in part by the ap- object flashed bluish-white bursts of light bright enough
parent proximity of the fireball as it passed over the lo- to cast moving shadows on the ground and was fol-
cal horizon. It is a common illusion that bright meteors lowed by a delayed sonic boom after it disappeared.
seem much closer than they really are, appearing to fall One excited woman thought she was being visited by a
or land "in the next field" or "just over the hill.") UFO. She reported the bluish-white light shining
I have investigated many slow-fireball sightings, through her bedroom window and then felt a "vibrating
and I can state unequivocally that the Fayetteville and pulsating ... It was like the ground was shaking un-
object was indeed a fireball. The colors, long duration, derneath me."
and nearly level path are not particularly unusual fea- In this article I have used several related terms — me-
tures of large meteors. Their variable colors are due to teor, meteoroid and meteorite. A meteor refers to the vis-
a mix of glowing atmospheric gases surrounding the ible light surrounding an incoming space particle or
meteoroid, the object's own stripped-off elements, and mass — a meteoroid. A meteoroid that survives its fiery
decelerating velocities as the object plunges through journey through the atmosphere and lands on the Earth's
denser layers of air. surface is called a meteorite.
The October 9 fireball exceeded 17 seconds on some Incidentally, I owe a debt of gratitude to MUFON in-
videotapes and may have approached half a minute in to- vestigators in my region who have often contacted me
tal duration. "The Great Northeast Fireball" of March 6, with sighting reports following the passage of an unusual
1991, was visible in broad daylight for some 30 seconds. fireball. Not only have I received these reports voluntarily
It followed a similar flat trajectory and covered at least from MUFON State Directors and other UFO investi-
600 miles, like the October object. (One widely quoted gators in New England, but I have also availed myself of
airline pilot called the '91 fireball "the mother of all me- this valuable resource by actively seeking fireball reports
teors"!) Perhaps the most famous long-lived meteor of from these same individuals.
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REJOINDER TO THE CRITIQUE OF BUDD HOPKINS
Until a certain dignitary steps forth, the "Linda Cortile" case continues to generate controversy.
By Walter H. Andrus, Jr.
Beginning in January of this year, authors Joseph of charges. Linda was literally on trial. After several
Stefula, Richard Butler and George Hansen began cir- hours of crossrexamining Linda and presenting their
culating a 25-page document titled "A Critique of own testimony, Butler and Stefula reluctantly admitted
Budd Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda that there was insufficient evidence to support their
Napolitano." Stefula is a former Special Agent for the hoax theory. They conceded that there were a few
U. S. Army Criminal Investigations Command and a inconsistencies in the statements made to them by
former MUFON State Director for New Jersey. Linda, in a private interview, versus what she had told
Richard Butler is a former law enforcement and secu- Budd Hopkins. Even though Butler and Stefula were
rity police specialist for the U. S. Air Force, now embarrassed by their lack of evidence to prove their
researching abductions and government cover-up. hoax claim, they have continued to write articles for
George Hansen is an author and parapsychologist liv- potential publication, probably encouraged by George
ing in New Jersey. The document has been published Hansen.
whole or in part in several UFO newsletters, including However, based upon their knowledge of the case,
the HUFON Report, and on various electronic bulletin they felt that Linda should file charges to prosecute the
boards. As we go to press, we understand that it is two security men, identified previously as "Rich" and
also scheduled to be printed, in whole or in part, in the "Dan," for kidnapping and physical assault. Since we
March/April issue of the International UFO Reporter, have been unable to positively identify the security
edited by Jerry Clark and published by the J. Allen agency employing Rich and Dan, going to the New
Hynek Center for UFO Studies. York City Police Department and filing charges for
such an unusual event might have made Linda's pre-
C
lark invited several of the people denigrated in posterous story look like a joke in the eyes of police of-
the "critique" by Stefula, Butler and Hansen to ficials. Linda was also reluctant to file charges because
write a rejoinder to be published concurrently she felt that if Rich and Dan were government agents,
with their rambling article in IUR. After heading up they were only acting in behalf of national security. It
the Mutual UFO Network for 22 years, I have firmly es- was the considered opinion of several of us present that
tablished my personal integrity and credibility in the under the circumstances this would have been a futile
field of Ufology, therefore feel it is unnecessary to re- and non-productive method to secure restitution from
spond to implied character assassination or to defend the Rich and Dan. It would have meant attempting to sue an
stature of MUFON to three publicity-seeking agitators. unknown security agency through a mailing of letters to
The following narrative, then, is basically an update all possible such organizations within the U.S.
to the two articles published in the MUFON UFO Government. This case has ramifications far more im-
Journal by Budd Hopkins about the "Linda Cortile" portant than suing Rich and Dan.
case for the benefit of UFO researchers. As a participant
in the October 3, 1992 meeting at Budd Hopkins' apart- MORE WITNESSES
ment in New York City, I welcome the opportunity to Since there were many more witnesses to the event on
share with readers what actually occurred at the called the Brooklyn Bridge, and an unknown number of po-
meeting. In previous correspondence with Budd tential witnesses in automobiles also stalled near the
Hopkins, Stefula, Butler and Hansen asked for a hearing security vehicle manned by Richard and Dan, it was
of their charges that the case was a hoax perpetrated by considered prudent to refrain from filing any court suits
Linda. Mr. Hopkins made a wise decision by giving that might squelch potential volunteer witnesses from
them a tribunal to present their evidence to a panel of coming forward to testify. It is still imperative that Rich
qualified and vitally interested researchers, including and Dan reveal their last names and agree to testify
those of us who are now responding to their accusations. publicly or in confidence as witnesses. If the identity of
the "third man" could definitely be confirmed and if he
LINDA ON TRIAL would agree to share his experiences, this would literally
Linda, her husband and two sons related their indi- "blow the lid" off the reality of the UFO abduction sce-
vidual experiences in an environment reminiscent of a nario. Strong speculation exists that the visual abduction
courtroom trial. Rich Butler, acting on behalf of the of Linda was staged for the dignitary's benefit, because
claimants, represented them as a proverbial antagonis- he experienced the "full treatment," so to speak.
tic prosecuting attorney, working from a prepared list
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Based upon the significant importance of such dis- George A. Filer, III, who replaced Joe Stefula as
closures by the dignitary and additional witnesses, Jerry New Jersey State Director, was also present and lis-
Clark and I made an appeal to the team of Stefula, tened attentively at the October 3rd meeting. Mr. Filer
Butler and Hansen to refrain from making a formal re- offered me an insight into what may have prompted
quest for a federal investigation of the government Mr. Stefula to become a party to this debunking exercise.
agents responsible for the alleged felonies for at least six Having been trained in police investigative techniques,
months This would allow time for other witnesses to Joe has difficulty accepting evidence in his own mind
come forward and permit present witnesses to testify pub- that is not purely black or white. He has also admitted to
licly. On October 3, 1992, Joe Stefula was MUFON's Mr. Filer that he really does not believe in the reality of
New Jersey State Director, whereas Rich Butler and UFOs, therefore, like Philip Klass, he may have been
George Hansen had no MUFON affiliation. After mak- searching for an alternative explanation to the abduction
ing a sincere appeal to these three men, both Joe Stefula scenario. Richard Butler professes to be an abductee
and Richard Butler consented to the proposal to "buy and was attending Budd Hopkins' abduction support
valuable time." Hansen, on the other hand, became very group sessions where he met Linda. Butler brought Joe
belligerent, refusing to concede to the six-month de- Stefula as a guest to two sessions, where he interro-
lay, and flatly stated that he was personally going to file gated two females present until they were in tears. As a
charges as a citizen of the U.S.A. The meeting effectively distinct outsider, George Hansen injected himself into
adjourned, since it was apparent that as an outsider. the Linda case by volunteering his writing ability, ap-
Hansen had decided to disregard any recommendations parently hoping to gain some degree of recognition in
and to take things into his own hands, irrespective of how the UFO field, regardless of whether it was positive or
it might hurt Linda and her immediate family. negative.
Mr. Hansen has no connections whatsoever with the
UFO community and apparently feels that by denigrat- CASE OF THE CENTURY?
ing the major personalities in UFO and abduction re- Both Stefula and Butler totally disregard the eyewit-
search, he could thus elevate his own questionable ness testimony of Rich, Dan, the dignitary and the lady
stature. After two somewhat threatening calls to Walt on the bridge, and then deny that such people really
Andrus, George proceeded to forge ahead on his own. exist. If they are actually trained in police investigative
The January 8, 1993 article, "A Critique of Budd techniques, as they profess, they must be cognizant that
Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda eyewitness testimony is acceptable in a court of law. It is
Napolitano," was spitefully written, apparently in hopes difficult for me to understand that on one hand, the wit-
that someone would publish it. nesses do not exist, and in the next breath they want to
sue them for alleged felonies.
W hile I have no intention of responding to the George Hansen has written to several government
claims, falsehoods and implied innuendos that departments demanding that they conduct an investiga-
are so prevalent in the article, obviously written by tion into their agents' atrocities. The U.S. Secret Service
George Hansen, but also signed and supported by Joe contacted Linda and scheduled an interview with her
Stefula and Richard Butler, I do feel that it is imperative which was also attended by Budd Hopkins. After hear-
to mention one item which the trio has proposed to ex- ing their testimony, the two special agents made an of-
plain their suspicions that Linda orchestrated the story. ficial report for their records and thanked Linda and
They selected passages, names of characters and events Budd for their cooperation. They advised Linda that if
from the science fiction novel Night Eyes by Garfield any other agency should contact her, she should simply
Reeves-Stevens, published in Canada in April 1989, a refer them to the Secret Service special agents who
few months before Linda revealed her abduction expe- conducted the interview for further information.
rience to Budd Hopkins. In order to make these claims Apparently, they did not take Hansen's claims seriously,
sound legitimate, it was necessary to change names and treating him as another eccentric or "crank writer."
events throughout the book to find similarities between In conclusion, after nearly 30 years in the UFO field,
Night Eyes and the Linda case. They imply that Linda I have developed a sensitivity to recognizing witnesses
read the science fiction book and then proceeded to or- who are prevaricating or fabricating a story. I am con-
chestrate the entire event, witnesses and all. Is this sci- vinced that Linda is telling the truth as she knows it. She
entific research or simply, a "shot in the dark" by three is mentally and physically incapable of planning and im-
disgruntled individuals? plementing a hoax scenario of this magnitude. I predict
Again, I have no intention of debating or refuting that continued investigation of reports from additional
point by point 25 pages of typed single-spaced accusa- witnesses and public disclosures by the known wit-
tions, references to diverse publications, a science fiction nesses will confirm that the Linda case is indeed "The
book and even fantasy role-playing in the game Case of the Century."
"Dungeons and Dragons." What does the latter game
have to do with scientific UFO research?
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