UFO Newsclipping Service 1994 05 no 298

20 Pages·1994·18.4 MB·English

UFO's Vacation In Florida
GASTON GAZETTE, Gastonia, NC
May 2, 1994 CR: G. Fawcett
UFO Light Up State's Skies
Callers Describe Sightings
fever
In Separate Areas
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~ Mufon Asst. State Director
strikes !3l It seems that when it rains it At this point the frrst officer tapped one on top of the other, like a figure
pours. Over the past week Florida the other officer on the shoulder and '8~ the object dropped behind a build
~ MUFON received several calls from pointed the object out Just as this ing and out of sight. The two officers
~ different locations in the state about occurred the object popped out. rrioved their vehicle behind the build
j:l., UFO sightings. The following is a "Gone just like 'Genie", gone, like ing in an attempt to see the object, but
report on one of these calls from the you turned out a light. Then the light did not see anything. Later, as the
1:3 east coast of Florida. At this time I reappeared to the left of us, starting partner was doing paperwork, the
!ia will not reveal the officers names or out vtiry small and progressively got frrst officer spotted another bright
Cleveland residents j location, as this report is still under larger." Both officers commenting light in the sky, as it hovered several
~ investigation. Theofficershavegiven they "thought it was going to land on aircraft flew close to it As each
think they've found their names and ftled reports with the their car, before the object popped approached the object, it would dis
proper authorities. out." appear and then return after the air
something strange Two police officers were work The officer said; "one of the craft had cleared the area. Finally
ing the late shift when the officer strangest things was, when on two popping out and disappearing alto
riding 'shotgun' spotted a bright light occasions it did a straight drop. Ba gether.
By La Toya Hankins in the sky. That officers frrst reaction sically it appeared up in the sky, then During separate interviews, I
Gazette Staff Reporter lO this sighting was to dismiss it as an it started dropping straight down, it asked both officers about the colors,
airplane making a routine approach was not like a falling star or it was not both described it as either brilliant
SHELBY -A little bit of UFO fever for landing at a local airport, how speeding. The best way I can de white or saying "when the object
touched down in Cleveland County ever, after observing the light it be scribe it was, it was like a parachute passed behind or through clouds, it
Sunday. came apparent this was not an air drop you see at the amusement parks. became a washed out reddish pink.
A field plane. "When I first spotted it, it was The first time was the light itself Like a flash light that one would put
t~g~~;Y 74 ''It looks like tlrikaeil ian gb iitg a lnidg hint wbeitthw eae nsm thaellreer w liagsh at dgeosicnrgi bsetrda iigt ahst d"forweenf.a"l l"B. oIt has okfefdic tehres rseodu ncde llaospshoacniaet eodv ewr.i"t h Tehiethree rw saisg hnto
is reported something from waving or wavery tail, that was when witness' if there was a trail oflight or ing.
to be the it was coming directly towards our any evidence of a residue from the The officers called local flight
site of a up above just vehicle. Next, the object began to object as it fell, both said there was controllers to inquire about possible
North Car came down and turn, normally you would see the not, only the light falling. aircraft and their location in the vi
olina ver whole airplane tum, but when this After this sighting the officers cinity of the sightings, all reports
sion of a pressed the field was turning, you saw the side view thought they would not see it any were negative, thus discounting pos
crop circle. and you could still see the back lights." more and had moved to another loca sible "Blimps, helicopters or other
down in a The officer went on to describe the tion a short distance away and were aircraft" Both sightings occurred
Residents pattern.'' object as smoky black. It was a talking to another officer. Describ between the hours of 4:30a.m. and
report see perfect oval with a tail, going on to ing the sky as an orangie-yellow, the 6:30a.m.
ing blades of describe it as a hologram that waved first officer happened to tum and . KEEP LOOKING UP and BE
grass bent Candy Hurtig in and out becoming transparent. As look in the rear view mirror and saw HIND YOU, also keep your eye on
down to Shelby resident the object turned it was described as the object dropping a second time, this column for the next few weekis. I
being "very long, extremely long". think you will be surprised.
form some only this time, there were two lights,
sort of pattern that is visible from an
airplane.
Candy Hurtig of Shelby said she
..;:t No explanation offered
noticed the patterns when she went ~
looking for a lawnmower with her
husband early Sunday.
"When I saw them, I told my hus 1(¥'\ f or sighting of 'lights'
band to turn the car around. It looked
like something out of 'Unsolved
Mysteries,'" she said.
Mrs. Hurtig said it appears the pat
No one has come forward with an explanation of the Interstate Highway," she says. "When I turned
tern is spread over 100 acres of wheat !; the unusual lights seen in the skies over Johnson the lights on in the house to look for the binoculars,
fields. She doesn't know what could
have caused it, but she has her sus County on March 2 and again on March 7, but the the lights suddenly moved away."
picions. ~ list of people who reported seeing the strange Sherri Gould of Buffalo says this same kind of
"The whole thing is just fascinating, ~ phenomenon continues to grow. sighting had been reported in Belgium during the past
it looks like something from up above ~ Several more people called the Buffalo Bulletin year. She is an associate director of the "UFO Con
just came down and pressed the field ~ after last week's issue was published to say they had tact Center. International. "
seen these "strange lights," but none of those calling "This is an organization which tries to help people
down in a pattern," she said.
~ believed they could identify what they were. who have had a 'contact experience,'" says Mrs.
A Cleveland County communications
~ One family said the lights seemed to come almost Gould.
spokesman said their department has
..J directly over their house and they could hear a ··roa "''ve been a psychic all my life," she says. "I've
not received any calls about the field. ~ ring" noise. They did not describe it sounding like a helped law enforcement people search for missing
Wesley Mullinax who works in the jet engine or a helicopter. persons in places like Colorado."
Beaver Dam Pantry across the street And the lights were also seen by some people in the Mrs. Gould says she did not see the lights in the
from the field thinks the whole thing Tensleep area the night of March 7. Phyllis Moses of sky earlier this month, but she senses there has been
could have been caused by something Tensleep says, "We also saw those same lights (two a lot of activity in the Buffalo area.
a little more natural than a flying sets of two side-by-side) hanging over the mountains Most people who had seen the strange lights simply
saucer. for about 10 minutes." don't have an explanation to offer. Some say they
"I think the storms we had not too "They didn't move much." says Mrs. Moses. don't believe in UFO's, and suspect it might have
long ago caused the field to be like "They were about where Tensleep Canyon is located. been some kind of secret military aircraft.
that," he said. "I guess we just got They moved on a ways and I presume they were at Whatever it was in the sky over Buffalo and other
around to seeing it." the top of the mountain ... and then gone." parts of Johnson County, remains a mystery for most
Alvina Curutchet, who lives east of Buffalo, says people. Yet, there is a large number of residents who
~he saw the lights near her home on March 7. "It did sc:e something that was "very unusual" and seems
looked like they were out over a construction area on to defy any "easy explanation."
1994
ing a lot, as often as five times a ·'You weigh a little bit less over
day, he says. a gravity low, one part m a mil
O'Brien has painstakingly re lion," Cordell said. "Humans
~orde~ this a~tivity. He videotaped would not detect it. But I guess ev
mterv1ews w1th local sheriff's dep ery little bit helps."
uties and everyday people. And he Added Gonzalez: "It's all very
compiled a small library of hand subtle. It would no way affect the
written notes and sketches - ac ability to track" UFOs nor pro
counts from neighbors and strang duce natural phenomena that ap
ers. pear as UFOs.
"A lot of people are pulling for O'Brien's not so sure. Many of
~e an~ think this is a good thing the sightings have been reported
I m domg. A lot of people think I'm near these subsurface anomalies.
absolutely off my rocker that I'm He suspects some connection.
creating this wave of ph~ntom But it's the valley's buried Indi
sightings. an lore that most intrigues O'Bri
"Some of that is fear-based. A en. This is where he believes the
lot of people pooh-pooh this type of answers can be unearthed.
re~earch because it wells up some "This stuff goes back thousands
thmg fear-related in their psyche" of years," O'Brien says as the
O'Brien says. ' black sedan cruises west on Colo
A portion of O'Brien's observa rado 112, toward the San Juan
tions have appeared in articles in
peaks. "You're looking at a very
the valley newspapers. But most
holy spot."
of his data stockpile is being fun
Some American Indian tribes re
nel~d into a book and documentary fer to Blanca Peak on the valley's
proJect (both titled "The Mysteri
south end as the "sacred mountain
ous Valley").
of the east," O'Brien says. Several
O'Brien's "Mysterious Valley southwestern tribes mention the
Tour" is a two or three-day pack "Sipapu," or "place of emergence
age that includes townhouse lodg into the fourth world," as being lo
ing in Crestone, one gourmet din cated near the San Luis Lakes.
ner and a rolling seminar on And other Indian legends refer
"America's Most Anomalous Re to a "door or gateway" on Blanca
gion," according to his fliers. The Peak through which the "sky peo
cost: $150 a day.
ple" arrive on "flying baskets."
Is O'Brien simply cashing in on
KIIP LOOKI NG UP: Chris O'Brien sees mo· re in the San Luis Valley skies thanT shet aDresn.v er Post 1 Bill Briggs ale hgaanlldyf ubul tocfh sEt:rready cmowetse?o rs and il ckaeny"Iss ,ta"h rsiena ky- st hOtha'etB' srN iweanthi.e v"reeT Ahthemeye rkrein aolw
"I've spent a lot of time on this something."
project and not been paid one pen
The Indian "sky people" stories
ny. I'm broke. If I want to continue date back many centuries, O'Brien
doing this, I had to come up with a says. Yet UFOs were being report
way for it to help pay the bills ... " ed in the valley as long ago as the
The black sedan nears the tiny 1800s.
town of Hooper, where two similar
In the late 1950s came scattered
~FO sightings have been reported reports of UFO sightings and alien
m the last 90 days. abductions. And in 1967, the fa
On Dec. 13, a witness saw what mous case of "Snippy the Horse"
was later described to O'Brien as a hit the area. It's considered the
"moon-sized glowing orb" that world's first documented animal
dropped "straight down" from the mutilation.
sky for three seconds. It then
The horse was found on a ranch
seemed to "disappear under
near Blanca Peak completely
ground" near Colorado 17 just
stripped of tissue from neck to
north of town. It occurred at 9:35
nose. Her hindquarters had been
p.m.
surgically removed. It drew re
Four weeks later, a family of
porters from around the world.
three driving south on Colorado 17
"So these latest sightings are
at 6:45p.m. reportedly saw an "or
ange ball" fall for three seconds n.othing ne~," O'Brien says. "Big
time ufolog1sts have investigated
out of the night sky and descend
the valley since the 1950s.''
"straight down" over Hooper.
Sheriff's departments in three
At midafternoon, the black se
valley counties have investigated
dan rolls into Hooper. Due east of
dozens of mutilations since then.
town, road signs point the way to
Many of those incidents were ac
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a notebook bulging with I'm battling against. I'm sor Just ahead on Colorado 17 the They are an estimated 10,000 to DILNORII
glossy photos of mangled ry folks, this is news." site for one of those unusual ~pi­ 12,000 years old and formed at the Some of the 1,674 people living
farm animals and weird Up ahead, a sign on Colo sodes is approaching now. The end of the last glacial period sci in .the Rio Grande County seat are
lights. In his head spins a rado 17 reads ... black sedan, five minutes beyond entists believe. The 700-foot-high m!llworkers. Many toil in town at
Rolodex of theories - some Moffat, zooms toward an unmark sandbox is one of Colorado's most restaurants and retail stores. Oth
humdrum, some fantastic - MO ..A I ed spot in the two-lane road. peculiar places. But the dunes are ers work as miners in nearby Sum
that attempt to explain Saguache County once was Right here, on Jan. 7, a local just one of several geophysical mitville.
what's going on here. blanketed by boomtowns resident saw 12 to 15lights that phenomena in the valley. Far be But everyone here was talking
He steps into a waiting 'J!here discoveries of gold, moved like a swarm of bees neath the ranchland are heat and UFOs back in January.
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splashing the valley floor They've seen a lot. of how you relate what you saw. rift are less dense than the sur "A guy from NORAD told us to
with a brilliant yellow beam. With O'Brien acting as the local Until recently, there was no ont rounding rocks, causing a gravity, ~xpend all efforts to find out what
A brown hawk watches from clearinghouse for UFO tips, the looking into this, so who did you low, said Lindrith Cordell, are It was," says Rio Grande Under-
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seven sightings of unidentified he-
sheriff Brian Norton. "Later, we
told them we couldn't find any
thing and we nee~ed better coordi
nates. They said, 'Well, it's not that
big then.'"
It didn't end there.
On Jan. 13, a woman driving out
•of Monte Vista told police she saw
a "soft green light" "falling out of
the sky" in the same Rock Creek
area. Another witness confirmed
the sighting and said the ball ap
peared to crash in the Rock Creek
area.
Over the next six days, Rio
Grande authorities got additional
reports of B-52 bombers and un
marked helicopters flying low
through Rock Creek; a blue flare
in the sky over Rock Creek; and
two explosions in the area. Ground
searches again found nothing.
Says Norton, "When we called
(NORAD) and asked, 'What's all
these helicopters we're seeing up
here?' We were told, 'That's confi
dential information.' "
The investigation remains open.
Norton's deputies have been in
structed to keep their eyes on the
stars. They plan a broader search
when the snow melts this spring.
"At first we were just thinking it
was a downed plane or some
thing," Norton says. "Then the lon
ger it went, the story kept chang
ing. We tried to come up with our
own conclusions in this matter. Saucer legend spawned museums
But we didn't have any.
"We just kind of stood around,
scratched our heads and looked at
the sky."
The leading theory is that a By Steven Rosen no," confides John A. Price, cura
wayward cruise missile, perhaps Denver Post Arts Writer tor of UFO Enigma Museum. It
fired from the White Sands Missile ROSWELL, N.M. - Al opened April 4, 1992; the rival In
Range in New Mexico, crashed in though Guinness doesn't ternational UFO Museum opened
to the mountains near Monte Vis keep a record on such a in its prime location in October
ta. Subsequent lights in the area thing, this south-central New of that year. "I'd like to see one
may have been tracers fired to Mexico city of 44,260 probably survive and someday have one
track the missing missile, Norton leads the nation in the number of big, nice museum in Roswell."
says. flying-saucer museums per capi But that begs the more perti
"People suggested we call White ta. nent question. Why are there any
Sands, like they're going to say, It has two. UFO museums in Roswell? It all
'Oh yeah, we were just trying to One, right in the heart of a originated with a piece of Cold
take out the Bank of Monte Vista.' moderately bustling downtown, War folklore-the supposed
Even if they did know something, is the International UFO Muse 1947 crash of a saucer on are
they're not going to tell us" if they um and Research Center. It is the mote farm near Corona, N.M.,
screwed up, Norton says. town's "mainstream" flying-sau about 75 miles northwest of Ros
White Sands spokesman Jim cer museum, with a well-stocked well.
Eckles said the facility "hasn't lost gift shop, plenty of wall-mounted As the story goes, members of
any missiles recently." And test clippings about UFO sightings, the U.S. Army Air Forces base at
rockets are equipped with detona crop circles, alien abductions, Roswell recovered the space
tion devices that bring them out of and so on. There also is an im craft's pieces, along with the bod·
the sky if they leave base proper pressive flying-saucer mural and The Denver Post I Bill Briggs ies of aliens. The latter were
ty. a cute, wood-carved 4-foot alien HIGHER LOVE: Chris O'Brien believes in close encounters. shipped off to Dayton's Wright
"We know nothing about the with which you can have your Patterson air force base in Ohio,
source of this phenomenon up in picture taken. Blue Room." are more doll-like dead aliens, where they were stored - and
Colorado," Eckles said. The second museum, on the Behind a barrier - a sign says plus a rattlesnake with eggs, a well may remain today - amid
Still, military air maneuvers outskirts of town, is the "alterna "Caution, Restricted Area"-is rabbit, a spider, some rocks and super-secrecy.
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show, some residents believe. Enigma Museum, it shares space gether satellite-broadcast dishes. painted to look like a New Mexi ours, especially in Western states
The Colorado Air National - or did until recently - with a It has a tinfoil-embellished hole co mountain range, with specks full of mysterious, top-secret mil
Guard uses a portion of the valley video store. As its primary at in it, from which a doll-like alien of tinfoil attached. itary installations. Roswell Army
for training - an area north of traction, it has a true piece of protrudes. Its big eyes stare from Is there room for two muse Air Field was one such place in
Alamosa, close to the Sangre de folk art - a tacky but effectively its pillow-soft head. ums? Well, as a matter of fact,
Cristos. The training area does not eerie installation called "The On the carpeted floor around it probably not. "Not right now,
extend west to Monte Vista and
Del Norte.
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pers haven't been in the valley Its final destination is 60 miles of "the Ant People," who take.care many rumors regarding the flying this incident."
since August when they helped lo- to the northeast ... of American Indians underground disc became a reality yesterday In 1988, he and his partners
cal police in a anti-drug operation, when it is time for the Earth to be when the (bomb group) was fortu opened the Outa Limits video store
said Maj. Tom Shultz, spokesman CRISTONE cleansed. nate enough to gain possession of a at this site -because it was out
for the Colorado Air National Once a booming burg before the "I think there is a basis for truth disc ... "The release came from side city limits. It had a flying sau
Guard. Independence Gold Mine went in every myth in every culture," Col. William H. Blanchard, com cer logo, because it was near the
"It's also not uncommon for mil bust, Crestone now could make a O'Brien says, puffing on a ciga mander of the base. old Roswell Army Air Forces base
itary aircraft going cross country bid for America's quietest town. rette. "They're all based on some High military officials quickly and "Outer Limits" was a popular
to stop at a civilian airfield," It rests against the Sangre de thing real. contradicted the statement -they sci-fi TV show in the 1960s.
Shultz said. "That would account Cristos on the dead end of a two "Another theory is we (in tP.e fu said remnants of a weather bal Price noticed a few people stop
for maybe one or two nights worth lane road. It's home to five reli ture) have progressed as a species toon had been found. But for UFO ped in because of his business'
of sightings. But if this has been gious groups, including Buddhists to a point where we can't repro believers, Haut's press release has name. This was when Roswell-re
ongoing since then, I don't know and a hermetic community of Car duce. become as famous a document as lated books were appearing, and a
what we can add to that." melites who live in solar bunkers. "We become too inbred. (So we the Declaration of Independence. Japanese film crew had come to
It has continued, O'Brien says. An Indian legend says people will return in time and extract cattle To them it is proof that the U.S. town to investigate the story. So he
And the mystery has subtly split gather here in "the time of purifi parts) to breed back emotion.u government at one time acknowl decided the time had come to pro
the rural valley into believers and cation." The valley has been hit by at edged that flying saucers are real. mote the event.
nonbelievers. O'Brien landed here five yea~ least 23 animal mutilations if\ the In recent years, UFOers have pub At the 1991 Eastern New Mexi
It's the military. It's someone's ago when he visited for a fossil last 15 months. Each is unsolved. lished numerous books on the sub co State Fair Parade, he entered
imagination. It's space aliens. hunting trip. The former New O'Brien believes some attacks are ject; a Showtime movie premieres his flying-saucer-witl:r-dead-alien
"Some people are very cautious York City film-school student f'dl "otherworldly," performed by un this year. -now the centerpiece of his mu
about everything - the show-tnc in love with the spectacular known beings. Haut now is president of the seum's Blue Room -as a float.
type;" said Larry Shriver, a farm 14,000-foot peaks. The rest? nonprofit International UFO Mu "We didn't know if people would
er who owns a cabin in Rock He's been vaguely interested in "It's the government, Satanists, setWTl, And he often ii there to chat throw eggs at us or clap," he says.
Creek. "Others are very intrigued the paranormal for decades. But hoaxsters - a multitude of with the guests who crowd the "They loved it."
by it and wonder what happens he didn't launch his UFO invest~ groups, but all are piggybacking place. He's a bit bemused by his Meanwhile, Haut, too, was be
nex"Wt. hat makes it interesting i!i gvaatliloeyn tuenllt iel ehrei lhye sairmd iflraire nstdosr iine-st iolef itth eeixrt raagteenrdreasst orina ltsh?e >I rdeaoln t'ht iknngo. wIs wreanso walnm. oAstt tihme mtiemdeia, ttehley ifnocrigdoetntte n coming interested in the past, f>S3-
with NORAD being involved. It lighted objects in the night sky. "I can't wait to ask the Ant Peo after top military officials said it ( continued on page 4)
sheds a different light on it entire- Sitting in his one-room office, ple." was a weather balloon.
(continued from page 3 - POST, Denver, CO -March 15, 1994) EXAMINER, San Francisco, CA - April 15, 1994
vpieecwtaeldly f oarf tae rb ohoe kh. aHd eb aenedn ainntoetrh er UFO fans clu~rges Fred Whiting, a UFO
man started the International I.JUifnnd Washington PR&ruy
UFO Museum and Research Cen- who once served as pre~;s secre
retaliate for
ter in 1991. · tary for two members of Con
In early 1992, they found a loaa greo~. Whiting-who abo
tion on the seventh floor of a bank being ignored writes for the Sq,ruin, Tcxn~;­
building. Then, in October, the In bused Mutual UFO Network
ternational UFO Museum & Re
sspeaacrceh, wCheincthe ri tf oleuansde sit fsr coumr rtehnet SK EPTICS CORNER: Jtioonu rwnilal lb-acfkeafirrse t bhcec ducumsoen ~th;ter a­
city for $1 a year. Sen. Burh11ra Boxer, public tends Lo dislike demon
More than 30 volunteers, most D-Calif., hns gotten strat.ors of any kind: '' Peoplo
elderly Roswell residents, help national attention for yelling 'yo, yo, people have a
out. In fact, there is a waiting list her claim that ~he is right to know' sounds like blith
for volunteers. This museum is a
flooded with an unusual amount ering idiocy."
source of community pride.
of com;tituent mail. But there's ORTK hus 200 paid mem
By the end of 1993, it had 19,000
visitors. Admission is free, though one group that isn't happy with bers, said Dun Pinchua of Dar
donations are accepted. And there Boxer's handling of mail: UFO nestown, Md., who edits the
is a thriving gift area well-stocked bufft~. 'rhey ~.:omplain that t~he group's newsletter. He said Box
with mugs, caps, shirts, bumper doesn't rca pond to letters on er "was only selected as a target
stickers, Frisbees and other mem Uft'O!l. because she had not been too rc
orabilia.
They're so unhuppy, in futt, bponsive to Jette~ to her oaking
"It's just one of those things
where we were in the right place that a UFO group culling it.l)clf that she obtain (tiecret govern
at the right time," Littell says. Operation Hight to Know or ment) information on the H.os
ORTK plans to picket Boxer's wcll crush" - an ullcgcd saucer
EISegundo crash in H.oswdl, N.M., in 19<17.
office ut 1 But Linda Marson ofthe ~erul­
~ p.m.onMny t..or'd Wu::~hingum oflice said,
~·· l.Thcfiight- "We have not received any Jet
~~ to-Knowers te~ about UFOt~."
alaodemand ORTK altW plnnH Lo picket
that the fed the Pentagon on May 23, and
eral government release "secret" hat~nccut~cd Sen. Sum Nunn, D
informatiOn a~'t UFOs. (The Ga., ofinscn::~itivity to UFO ia
government maintains that aucH. At this point in the column
there arc no such secrets). I would U!;uully t:ell Et joke, but
But the planned demonstra the sheer sillinc~ss of these people
tion ltns split the UFO commu
siJcaks for itself.
nity. "It's a pretty lousy idea,"
HERALD JOURNAl., Syracuse. NY - April 15, 1994
Volunteers search cornfield
after reports of fallen UFO
.,. Witnesses saw with infrared night vision devices.
glowing lights. One of the witnesses, Steve
Ponko, said he was leaving his
Chopper helps out. house to go the store when he
glanced across the cornfield and
Search finds nothing.
saw red lights heading toward him.
"There were one or two rows of
The Associated Press red lights ... sort of shaped like a
Daily News/S. MacGROGAN·ELUS plane. It was coming toward me.
UFO watchers trek to Gulf Breeze OSWEGATCHIE - Dozens of Then all of sudden, it dropped into
volunteers combed a cornfield in the field," Ponko told The Ogdens
Northern New York Thursday, re
burg Journal.
suming the search for something
By SHERRY SAPP witnesses said they saw fall out of A woman driving along a nearby
the sky the evening before. highway, a U.S. Border Patrol
Daily News Staff Writer It may all be the result of one part wishful At least four people reported the agent and another woman each
G ULF BREEZE - Connie Acevedo sells home thinking, one part heightened interest, object as having two rows of bright called police to report seeing the
red lights. bright red lights.
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regulars who frequent the restaurant for a bite en gatchie, about 90 miles northeast semble any type of conventional
route to their UFO vigils. of Syracuse, at 8:15 p.m. and aircraft," said Kit Smith, district
Barry Karr, editor of The Skeptical Inquirer maga dropped· straight down· into the deputy fire coordinator.
zine headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., can pinpoint the It was the conviction of a longtime, well-respected field . .
pretty, little wateriront city of Gulf Breeze on a map friend of hers that convinced Acevedo the phenom But rescue and police agencies Smith said Ogdensburg Interna
wpgheittethnionougmt aetthn iatnh.k ei ntgru ttwh icoef .a Tll hseo rmtsa goaf zoitnhee ri-sw doervldoltye d to eJun"onSnioh wre 'aLds e bawegeounret .ho Mnl ootohskte i noCgf i ttiyhn etCos.oe u anrcei lp; esohpel'de wbeheon sitna nthde cDAnoirrguumhlmdty,n. h'eTte vhlfieiecnn od cp hwtaoei prt htpfh reiotrnhm gwe naWhsee aeelrdpqbn uyeoi psfFd poaaeryndt cBtmirouiasnrfslatii.ln o gnAt oifnrrp,o oVmrtt . ,a ahnnaydd tnihnoce ro aamdiirionp gotr rata niisrn
The interest in Gulf Breeze UFOs heated up some to lose a lot more by speaking up (about havirtg seen
five years ago when photographs purported to be of a UFO) than by keeping quiet," Acevedo says.
hovering spacecraft were published by the hometown "All I know· is these people started .coming to my
paper. Since then, tabloid-style news programs and restaurant and it's not like this is Pensacola or
programs such as "Unsolved Mysteries" have fo Pensacola Beach; this is a pretty conservative com "I don't know, I guess whenever
cused attention on the UF,Os of Gulf Breeze. munity. I started listening to what they were saying." people have an interest in looking §:
"We're still getting people from as far away as Patti Weatheriord, a spokesperson for the local at the sky and there is some sort tH:" '
Japan," says Jamie Williams, owner of a boutique at branch of Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Net of astronomical event, all of a sud- o<
"HTahrberoeu'rst oswtilnl aS hlootp opfi ncgo nCtreonvteerr siyn sGuurlrfo Bunredeinzge . those wskoyr-kw, astacyhse slo acfatle mr peumbbliecrast ioonf MofU tFhOe Np hsottaorst.e d nightly sdkeyn, ewvheor ywbooduyld'sn 'lto oorkdininga aritl yth bee ," ~
pictures." MUFON is an international organization that has Russo says. "It doesn't always ~C/l
Real or not, however, enough other area people existed about 20 years. have to do with UFO's, it could be ,".".i
claim to have seen the same sort of things that the Weatheriord says that from 1990-91 when she any major event such as a space
stood vigil regularly, she experienced some "75-80 shuttle launch or the appearance
belief in extraterrestrial visitations persists. :c
sightings of something I could not explain. On one of Halley's Comet.
"They used to go and watch every night," Acevedo (") ,~..
says. "They don't go that often anymore, but they occasion, I saw the actual structure." "I try to keep an open mind ~ ~
still go pretty regularly." seePnra scotimcaeltlhyi nevge oryr ohnaes ian rGelualtfi vBer eoerz ae feriitehnedr whahso pabraocutti ciat.l lBy uatl l I UdFo Ob esliigehvtei ntghsa ta re := :0l
anAd csehvee'dso m hoarse aottre lnedses dc oan fveiwn csekdy. -watches herself, claims to have seen a UFO, says Weatheriord, who is accountable. ~ I1t::1): 1
"I've seen a UFO myself," says Acevedo. ''I'm not em"pI laolyseod l ibkye ttheen nsitsa taen das a ae rfoieblidc sa,"u dsihtoe re. mphasizes "It's true there have been a few Q1It-)' • .n~:
saying I've seen a disc or little green men, but I've to point out she's no different than anyone else. that haven't been explained. But
se"eTn hseoym'reet hjuinsgt ruepg uthlaerr efo ltkhsa. t Tchoeuyld'rne' tp broe feexsspiloaninaelsd.. ingI,t omnaey p aallr tb hee tihgeh treenseudl ti noft eorneest ,p oarnte wpiashrtf uplo twhienrk o f Bthleune tBhoeo Ak iirn Ftohrec e'5 0hsa, d'6 P0rso ajencdt t":"'j'
They're well-educated. Many of them are scientists. suggestion and one part inexplicable light in the '70s in which they investigated
ThMeyo satr ebnel'ite lvuen athtiec s".v Tishietoyr sh"a vaer el ifvreosm." another plan nigThotn syk Ry.u sso, who teaches astronomy at Okaloosa athbilse etox hfainuds taivneyltyh ianngd (wcoenrcel unseivvee.r) ?I"t")" i
et, another dimension or a future and are trying to Walton Community College takes students out to "I can't deny that UFO sightings
convince Earthlings to take better care of the planet view celestial skies from time to time, has never do occur, but whether or not ~0\ 4
or improve their behavior in some way. seen anything that couldn't be explained. there's any real basis for believing
"Most people believe they're good, that they want they are extraterrestrials, I just \C
\C
to help," Acevedo says. don't know," Russo says. ~
GLOBE, Boston, MA- April 21, 1994
Dr.JohnMack
one · arvar could use the
.,
help as critics rip
his research on
I alien abductions
GLOBE STAFF PHOTO I MICHELE MCDONALD
"'t's can ca lnble IOIII8body collld dllpe .... of CG~ne," uya llarYwd pardUtrtat Jolla Mack of the research subject who ~ aheiiMIIted stories of .... .wuctioll.
fire from critics of both Mack's methodology and his duction" contains detailed case studies on 13 of. those
By Joseph P. Kahn
UFO-friendly mindset. patients.
GLOBf; STAFF
Time magazine fired the loudest shot in a report. Bassett also charges Mack with billing insurance
C
AMBRIDGE- The big Mack attack has that one "experiencer" on whom Mack practiced hyp companies improperly for therapy sessions that were
just begun. And no one has heard from the notic regression therapy, Donna Bassett, says she actually research. Furthermore, the Time story, writ
little people yet. faked tales of her encounters with space aliens - and ten by veteran investigative reporter James Will
The aliens, that is. that Mack not only believed the stories but also failed werth, suggests that Mack's work is riddled with sci
"Abduction," the much-publicized book to obtain consent forms from his research subjects. entific improprieties. including supplying patients
by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack about extrater Mack has seen or treated more than 100 abductees with accounts of other abduction experiences before
restrial visitations, had barely touched down in book since 1991, most of whom say they are victims of sex hypnotizing them.
stores this week before it came under heavy ground- ual or genetic experimentation by their captors. "Ab-
For Mack, a tenured Harvard way or another. Or logic. Only reluc bill third-party insurers for some Most, though not all, signed the little doubt that their emotional suf
professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning tantly did he come to believe in them therapy sessions, he kept none of the forms, she maintains. Meanwhile, fering is real, not invented.
biographer, these attacks on his himself, Mack says. money for himself. The total amount, Mack stopped billing insurers in or
credibility have hit a raw nerve. But this latest flurry hits below he says, which he estimates to be be der to be "absolutely scrupulous" Duped or double-crossed?
Mack is in the launch phase of an all the professional belt, the clinician tween $2,000 and $3,000, went to a about the clinical division between "It's conceivable somebody could
out publicity blitzkrieg ("Oprah" "48 contends. now-defunct support group known research and therapy. Jupe me, of cow·se," Mack says, re
Hours," People, Larry King) that in "Why do they pick the most rle as Group for Research and Aid to As for his methodology, Mack fen·ing to Bassett, "but I've had a lot
cludes network TV interviews with structive part of the story and focus Abductees (GRAA). calls it "very legitimate" to raise of clinical experience. And this
several of his research subjects. on that?" Mack asks. "One or two questions about how he has gone fTime l article says I'm damaging
These people are clearly emotionally disaffected persons come forward. Missing consent forms ab0ut recover·ing memories of alien people. Where is the evidence for
and psychologically vulnerable, Why don't they look into he1· back encounters. In "Helping Abductees," that?"
whatever the underlying cause ground? It surprises me they fTimel Last year, Mack founded The a 1992 article in the International
might be. And so, to a degree, is would go so far to discredit me when Program for Extraordinary Experi UFO Reporter, Mack noted that he Furthermore, he asks, "How
Mack, whose credentials far they claim to be seriously interested ence Resea1·ch (PEER) to oversee "had little training in hypnosis as a could I possibly keep everybody hap
outweigh those of any previous in in the phenomenon." his abduction t·esearch. PEER in psychiatric resident and had virtual py?-There are bound to be one or
vestigator publicly aligned with the Mack insists he is bound by doc tum is overseen by, and funded ly to teach myself.'' He credits pio two disaffected people. That's what I
abduction-recovery movement. tor-patient confidentiality not to dis through, the Center for Psychology neering investigator Budd Hopkins object to, the focus on them. It ig
Yes, Mack says, he anticipated cuss in any detail his work with Bas and Social Change, a nonprofit orga with helping him refine his tech nores the dozens and dozens of peo
the mainstream media would have sett, a researcher now living in nization co-founded by Mack in 1983 niques. Hopkins, a visual artist, has ple I've helped."
difficulty swallowing his conclusion North Carolina. He will say, howev to facilitate scholarly research into written two popular books on the ab Mary (who asks that her last
that these abduction reports are re er, that he dealt with Bassett "in topics such as human psychology duction phenomenon, "Missing name not be used) is one of those
ality-based. Skeptical criticism of his good faith" and that if he gave her and the nuclear arms race. Time" and "Intruders." people. A data management special
work is to be expected, he says, even any UFO-related a1ticles to read, it According to Karen Wesolowski On numerous occa~ions, Mack ist in Rhode bland - and an exper
welcomed. was only to satisfy her own curiosity of PEER, billing and consent proce continues, sitting in his cramped of iencer who claims her first abrluction
Moreover, Mack harbors few illu about the abduction experience. dures changed once Mack stopped fice located behind Cambridge Hos took place when she was 7, <~ncl her
siom; that anyone hung up on West "People can be angry for all sorts treating incoming abductees as pri pital. other therapists and research last encounter just 10 da.w ago-she
ern ,;cientific rationalism will cede of reasons," he maintains. "I douht Vllte psychiatric patients. At that €~rs have been present to observe - met Mack in 1992 after reading
m:\1uacrhk J<hriomunsrel lfto c<h~ilmls ian btdhuisc tidoenh,a;t e<.1 Jth.rre• m\n\dT."it er checked out her back cpooninste, nts hfme msasy tso, aPll Fo:fE MR amcka'sil eadb rlouuct· athnadt svaulbirjle<c~ttes e-xptherei enrecleiv uedn detrra uh,mYila abo(ucto hnist ianbduuecdte e owno rkp aing eth e6 B)o "·5
"great m.\·~tery" that defy proof. one \'lack al,;o says that while he diu tPe patients. current and former. no,.:is. Tapes of these ::;essions leave
(continued from page 5- GLOBE. Boston, MA- April 21, 1994) ISLANDER. Pensacola Beach.
t~,, ~ ;:. ,,, "'·'.'"}:.:.e-ly:-: ~ht' i~ ... furi1', ~·· t" ht· h,vpnotizt>d. ~h<' aJ;-;, mallltalll~ FL - April 13, 1994
and ··~addPned" at the way Time and t hilt real harm may hav<:> heen clonP F amiliar
l;a,,dt han• gone after Mack. to at Jpa;-;t ,;orne of hi~ r<:>;;earch sub
.. The piec<· triP~ to slant opinion ject..", who have been ~tripper! of oth V i sit:or
that John i~ leading people on in er psych<Jio,~;ical :;upport system~.
"hT_qhlallto',t;i <·a r,t;>a)d. !rme;i-,;;~ito·nP,p"r eM~enatrayt iosna yos.f in~ist";T-;h,i ~s piesank'ti nagb obu,vt UphFoOnes, "f t·Bomas sheetrt Comes
hi,; rest>areh. J'q• had quite a few home in Nmth Carolina. "This is a
<:otbciou,; experienc:e,; that I've had \l'a,\· to hide human experimentation Back
no trouble remembf'ring..;, that's been undertaken for a person
To attal'k Mark, ~he ~ays, is to al political agenda.'' I-Iome
make it more difficult and more That ag-enda. contends Bassett, is
painful for other abduetees to come reflected in the message Mack
fonrard. No one has been coerced cliams to have distilled from pa By. Patti Weatherford
into doing so, she says. And no one tients' encounters \\<ith aliens: that Sightingsofthefamiliarandrou
,;he kno\r,; was predisposed to be the planet is threatened by ecologi tine "red light" UFO have picked up
lie\·e in the alien explanation. . cal destruction, that eruthlings must lately. On 3/29/94, several witnesses
Ha~ Mack lived up to his thera wake up before the destruction goes at Shoreline Park saw a white light lO
peutic duties? "Definitely," Mary too far and that human-alien cross thesouthatabout30degrees,drifting
,;ays. "But it's unfair to think Dr. breeding may be the only way to eastward and winking out. Almost
Mack can be all things to all people. save a doomed t·ace. Mack would 25 minutes later, at about 7:50p.m.,
I 11 my opinion it is [Bassett's] ethics hardly quibble with that assessment a steady red "Bubba" llgbt came into
that shoulrl be questioned, not his." of the message, only with how the view, moving to the west before dis
Time reporter Willwerth is more messenger - himself-is being treat appearin,s. On 4/5194, at about 8: 15
skeptical. He dismisses Mack's com ed by opponents like Bassett. p.m., two wiUlesses were drivmg
plaints about lack of background "Contrary to what some critics across the bay toward Gulf Breeze
checking as nonsense. A specialist in say," says Mack, "I was surprised by and hasjustcleared the large hump of
health-research abuse. Willwerth the message of earth's destruction." the bridge when they saw what they
says he thot·oughly reviewed both Mack does admit, though, that described as a huge white light pop in
Bassett';; c:harges and the ;;upport colleagues warned him long ago that to the east of the water tower. It
ing evidence, while Time's lawyers in he would open himself up to profes winked out and Lhen came back in
tum thoroughly vetted his piece. sional criticism - if not outright ridi white and then appeared farther west
"The bottom line is, there was no in cule - by pursuing abduction re a third time as a familiar red "Bubba"
funned consent going on," says the search. Still, he insists, he has no re type. Again on Thursday, 4-7/94,
\\l'iter. "We checked this out 13 ways grets. wiUlesses at Shoreline Park saw an
from Sunday." "I have this innocent confidence amber light with a red top, moving
that if you do yow· work in a compre east to west out over the Gulf. It
UFOs and politics hensive and objective way," he says, appeared that the object was pursued
"it stands on its own. by a helicopter and the light disap
Bassett first met Mack in Sep "I'm not wmTied the attacks \Viii peared.
tember 1992 and underwent three silence me. What l wotTy about b Here is a list of programs that
·•regression '' se::~sions with him over giving-support to the wonderful ah· Professor John E. Mack from Harvard
the next four months. She says read ductees and others who are helpint!' In "Abduction," psychiatrist John Mack studit.'s 13 patients who Medical School will be featured on
ing other a1ticles by Mack about ab this pt·oce::~s. I don't want to di"'"' this month. In case you did not know,
duction: "told me exactly what ht> point them." daim to have been kidua~ped and s!_u~!ed -~Y_ a~ie~-~·--- __ he is the author of the recent! y pub
wa~ looking for" when >:hf' pretended lished book, "Human Encounters with
Alien Abductions". He will be a
guest on Oprah on 4/18; 48 Hours on
MORNING NEWS. Springdale, AR - April 6, 1994 CR: V. White 4/20; and Dateline 4/26. Be sure to
tune in.
Expert: Feds Should Come Clean on U FOs
Report your UFO sighting to the
UFO Hotline [phone].
Kay B. Hall quick: method of heat-surgery is used. incidents, some of which have proven and other measures to get at the truth.
The Morning News This is somuimes done, she said, unexplainable, although some have H0we describes alien types:
before the aPimals die. Evidem:c of been hoaxes. In these cases. srran~re • "( 'r·• '-\ •· 1 re thf' :mctrc'i d w0rke r~
Linda Moulton Howe, nationally shock is founu m some, and all blood symbols, circles and diagrams, easily Small in sLJiutc with large eyes, eyes
~nown television broadcast journal is drained from bodies. seen from the air, cause crops or gras th:.H may be ltke wrap-around win
ist, documentary producer and inves Satani.: cults arc not the answer any ses to be killed by some kind of dows covering electronic equipment.
L.igative reporter of animal mutila more than attacks by other animals, intense heat or radiation. Some They rn:.~y emit electronic sounds or
tions and UFO phenomena, updated she said. The .;urgical and systematic ground has been found to be as hard humming. JOURNAL. Monte Vista, CO
UFO devotees at the sixth annual removal of ~ex organs, one eye, one as ceramic tile after a "crop circle." • Hununoids come in different
Ozark UFO Conference last weekend ear, the LOngue and pan of the jaw The soil remains untillable for as long sizes, shape> and aho have catlike Jan. 19, 1994
in Eureka Springs. leaves the rest of the animal intact. as two years. Signs have appeared on eyes with verucal pupils. Satellite
Howe began by saying it may hav::: And there is no ripping or tearing as if pasture lanct, on crops of rye, rice, • Some are rcoortcd to be a card-
been of national security and top by prey. lt's as if, she said, parts are oats, barley and grass fields around board color. ·
secret priority in 1947 to close files on surgically removed and carcasses left the globe. • Aliens with mushroom-shaped
Lhe alleged spacecraft crash at Ros behind to be fouud. When planting and growing heads appear to be scientists and usu detects
well, N .M., but with half a century Organ removal leaves evidence of returns, it is accelerated, she said. ally wear a patch on clothing of over
gone by, it's time the government heat-instruments or laser-like tools "There arc biochemical and physi lapping triangles, a symbol of energy
opened its files and told the truth. being used. Some of the surgical cal changes in the crops, as much as of two worlds. explosion
lf, she said, the crash wiUlessed by edges are serrated in very even notch 45 percent (yield increase)," she said. Howe said some aliens may prove
many Air Force personnel, was simp es, like those made from pinking And while she believes the govern to be pan human, pan android. The
iy a "weather balloon" as the govern shears, she said. ment monitors all crop circle inci universe, she said, is one of spectral
ment claims, why all the secrecy? She showcrl film :~nrl ~l irlr• ofthl!se dents as well JS :::nimal m:.:L!<itiuiiS. it dir.·,cii;;ion wii.11 a worid built on By Chris Donlon
Why are weather balloons classified various animal mutilations from all releases little or no information to the sound patterns and different frequen
national top secret? If, as reported by over the country where she and her public. cies, all interdependent and subject to It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a an
Air Force personnel and other eye crew worked with official She added that government infor environmental catasrrophe. error on the part of the NORAD.
witnesses, there was a spacecraft investigators. mation released is censored or fhis may be why the increased On Wednesday, the federal mili
crash and alien bodies found, and if Margaret Polk, she said, an Alaba "blacked out" and proves of no help. activity, to prevent cnv1ronmental tary agency, North American Air
there was an order, as alleged, for sev ma cattle owner, described the cuts on It's time to lift another iron curtain, :atastrophe in Lhc universe. she saiJ.
Defense Command, called the Rio
eral "child-sized caskets," we need her cattle as "cookie-cutter" cuts with she said, the curtain of secrecv su;.
Grande County Sheriffs office to
answers. no blood remaining anywhere. rounding information on a-;11mal
Surprisingly, she said, the Rus And some animals are found only mutilations, crop circles and UFO report a possible fire or explosion
sians may be forthcoming with infor 30 feet from the house. Domestic ani sightings and meetings as reported by between Rock Creek and Fuchs Res
mation before the United States. mals have been victimized but not lO some of the government's own ervoir in the Rio Grande National
"Stalin checked out the Roswell any great extent, she said. Cats in personnel. Forest, said Brian Norton, the Rio
incident, and four similar crashes Vancouver, British Columbia, Plano, Howe gave a summary of "~dien Grande County Undersheriff.
took place in Russia in the same time Texas, and Gulf 13rcczc, Fla., have types" from information she had Apparently aU .S. satellite detected
period. We may have more luck wilh been discovered. rese3rched anC: from descriptions a large flre or explosion in the area
their paper chase than with ours," she "When a c:H has been lound, it has given by alleged UFO abductees.
and transmitted the information to
said. be-en t:UILic:Jnly in half with the entire Many abductecs alleging Lhcy were
Why, she asked, if the Roswell bacl. half mt~s.ng. There is no blood taken by alien beings claim to be NORAD, whose officials called to
incident was only a weather balloon, left." physically examined and electroni ask the sheriff to search the area.
were Air Force and civilian wiUlesses Sightings of strange, unidentified cally "tracked." Most willingly A deputy went up in a plane that
transferred to other jobs or bases after flying ObJects are often reported prior undergo polygraph tests, livJmOSIS evening but was unable to locate any
Lhe crash? Why were locals cautioned to animal mutllauons, she '>aid. and thing suspicious. The next day, an
not to talk to anyone about the inci several mstances have tl.;xn reported other search of the area was per
dent? Why were small coffins of reports of anim:u~ 'iCUl bemg lifted formed and no signs of an explosion,
ordered? Who or what was buried - to an airborne ve1.1ck HI a !>~am of fue or downed plane were visible,
and where? light.
according to Norton.
Few of the public, she said, would She hypothesizes on the possibility
"It'sjust one of those things," said
panic at proof of alien worlds or of of a hybrid program in effect where
higher technology. "We arc in a revo blood, protc10 and organs might pro the undersheriff. 'We checked and
lution of discovering that we are not vide some kind of biochemical sub there were no reports of downed
alone." stance, "photon energy'' for a hybrid. planes or overdue planes in this area."
In her update on animal mutila MutilatiOJ•S have occurred as CR: T. Adams
tions. she said cattle, sheep, goats and rt:<.:CIJL!y as J.,nuary and again in 6
horses are primary victims of syste March in Al:lb:tm:~ where similar am
matic, surgical removal of body mal mutilations hJve been found.
:;1nc; and blood. Test results show 11 Her t.l'lr :0t·chect on "crop ,.;.cle"
NEWS-PRESS, Santa Barbara, CA - Feb. 6, 1994
UFOscome
in out of
twilight zone
By BEN HELLW ARTH
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
T
he remaining seats at Victoria Hall in down
town Santa Barbara are filling up fast
Two dozen people are still lined up 0\~tside,
waiting to pay $8 each to get in.
As newcomers join the line, they often check
to make sure they have come to the right place. People
phrase the question differently, but always in the same
sheepish tones, the kind you use to minimize potential
embarrassment among strangers.
"Is this the line for the thing on, urn, UFOs?" Some
put it even more discreetly: "Are you waitingto see Mi
chael Lindemann?"
There is no simple way to describe the audience
gathered this Wednesday night in December to hear
Lindemann, the futurist and founder ofthe Santa Bar·
bara-based 2020Group who's building a national repu
tation as a knowledgeable, down-to-earth UFO
researcher.
Generation X-ers are there, some in grungewear,
others in more traditional garb. Senior citizens fill a
good number of seats. Baby Boom-era professionals
are clearly in attendance-men and women who look
like they do their shopping at Nordstrom and do lunch
at the Wine Cask.
And scattered throughout the room are colorful
characters like the tallish man with a graying ponytail
who, judging from his black-and-white Sturgis T -shirt,
probably rode a Harley to the evening lecture.
The only other place you might expectto find a simi
lar spectrum of humanity is at a Rolling Stones con
cert
As for Lindemann, he stands at the lectern in a blue
suit and Ivy League tie looking the part ofa CEO. Affa
ble. Articulate. Confident, but not cocky. Serious, but
hardly bombastic.
His message: Unidentified flying objects, whatever
they are and wherever they may come from, are one
form ofs trong evidence that "non-human advanced in
telligence" is operating on and around the Earth. But
more important, Lindemann says, is that the facts
about UFOs have become one ofhistory's best-kept of
ficial secrets.
A select few within the U.S. government and other
STEVE MALONE/NEWS-PRESS major governments know the whole truth about alien
Futurist Michael Undemann is gaining a national reputation as a knowledgeable UFO researcher.
visitation, he says. Officials may (His master's thesis title: "The cently resigned after two and a half Lindemann thought. !:ierious re tenth of this is true, I've really
once hat~e had good reason for Forms of Discipleship.") years as executive director of San searchers worry about global missed the boat' "
keeping quiet, but it's time for the But after two years, his guru ef ta Barbara's Peace Resource Cen warming, deforestation, overpopu
truth, he argues. Otherwise, earthl fectively gave him an ultimatum: ter to start The 2020 Group, which lation and nuclear accidents.
ings will remain in the dark about a school or me. Lindemann says it he envisioned as a kind of think Lindemann hoped his colleague Sincerity. Command of English.
phenomenon that could turn was the toughest choice of his life. tank for studying "forces shaping was just kidding. But he wasn't. The rules oflogic. Sober. Many peo
human culture upside down as He stayed with the guru, started a the future," which is what futurists "I was incredulous. I was unpre ple say the same kinds of things
completely as when Copernicus music store in San Francisco and like Lindemann study. pared for that. Ifithadn'tbeenhim, about Lindemann, whether or not
proclaimed that the Earth is not eventually burned out on his spirit Among other things, he was I would have been out the door," they happen to agree with him.
the center of the universe. ual training and came to Santa Bar trying to understand the motiva Lindemann says. His colleague "Michael's very competent, very
Lindemann exudes a missionary bara. tion for U.S. weapons programs handed over some audio tapes dedicated and a very pleasant guy
zeal as he speaks, but offers all the that seemed inconsistent with the recorded from a program on Los with a nice sense of humor. We
secular arguments you would ex end of the Cold War and efforts to Angeles radio station KPFK and must have lunch soon!" said Bob
pect of a political science profes Nearly three hours after his Vic cut the budget deficit asked that Lindemann give them a Fitzgerald of Montecito, a retired
sor. He defines terms. He poses toria Hall presentation began, only "This is a futurist kind of ques listen. lawyer who was president of the
open-ended questions. He cracks a few listeners have slipped out tion," Lindemann explains during Community Environmental Coun
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of Love, to find a different world At10:25p.m.,50orsopeoplestick "which to me was extraordinary. wise. sion. Lindemann will teach a class
from his native Milwaukee, Linde around for a question-and-answer Why are we developing a whole Cooper, Lindemann say&, :;erved for the first time through adult edu
mann explains some weeks after session. new generation of delivery sys in the U.S. Navy on an intelligence cation beginning the first week of
the lecture. Tum back the clock four years tems? Who's the target? I posed briefing team for the Pacific Fleet March on "The UFO Phenomenon:
The son of a corporate middle and Lindemann would have that question to lots of people." in the 1970s, which Cooper claimed Personal Impacts/Future Implica
manager, Lindemann became an laughed in your face if you had told One of those people was some gave him access to top-secret docu tions."
"archetypical '60s guy" and fin him that he would someday talk one Lindemann prefers to describe ments pertaining to UFOs. "I've checked around and every
ished up his bachelor's degree in about unidentified flying objects only as "a trusted colleague." The The two speakers' credentials body gives rave reports about him
psychology at Antioch University and space aliens as ifthey were the person's identity is not important, were "good enough," but Linde as a person and about his informa
in San Francisco and did further harbingers of the next Copernican Lindemann says - although he mann was struck by something else. tion," Downing said.
study in psychological counseling revolution. will say the colleague is "a guy like "I thought I was hearing sinceri Michael ShermP.r. nimct.oroft.hf>
through the Psychosynthesis Insti For the record: Lindemann me who never cared for the conven ty. I thought I was hearing people Altadena-based Skeptics Society
tute, also in San Francisco. doesn't claim ever to have seen a tional wisdom." who were going way out on a limb. and a professorofthe historyofsci
By the mid-1970s, Lindemann UFO or met a space alien. He.does Their schedules were full, so the They touched me where I live in a ence at Occidental College in Los
"decided enlightenment was the claim to put his full energy into two finally got together at Frim certain sense. They were outra Angeles, met Lindemann last fall
only game in town" and he became researching seemingly far-out is ple's "at like one in the morning," geous ideas, but they were not stu for a well-attended UFO-related
a student oflndian guru and author sues that many assume to be the Lindemann says. ''He says, 'You pid. They were not simplistic," Lin debate in Santa Barbara.
Sri Chinmoy. A couple of years lat stuff of tabloids and fairy tales. want to know about the weapons?' I demann says. "He struck me as a very intelli
er, he also became a student at the Lindemann assumed the same, said, 'Yeah. Tell me something I "These men both had command gent, polite, well-intentioned indi
Graduate Theological Union in he says, until a late night rendez don't already know.'" of the English language, they both vidual," said Shermer, who is none
Berkeley, where he intended to get vous at Frimple's on State Street in The answer came as a shock: understood the rules of logic and theless unconvinced by Linde·
da omctaosrtaetre's. idn ecgormeep,a arantdiv peo rsesliibgliyo na. AuAgtu tsht a1t9 t8i9m. e, Lindemann had re- UFCOrsa.c kpots worry about UFOs. pproewseernftueldly t. hAenmds eIl vseasid s.o 'bIfe relvye ann da (continued on page 8) 1
(continued from page 7 - NEWS-PRESS, ~~~======~--------------, JS light flares, weather balloons and 1!\l!n
Santa Barbara, CA - Feb. 6, 1994) experimental aircraft. (Quite possible, consider
1::7\
"'-.. , 1.aottwrswhobellevetnt>re lite he descnbes as "very hand to Dennis ing the aerospace industry in our state.)
1=> menl to claims of alien en mouth." Futurists don't get rich Indeed, there are dozens of exotic homemade
counters and government cover quick Mostly, Lindemann says he
ups. makes a living from the sale of his FleDling aircraft (and various hot air balloons) which fly
"The evidence is so weak it published works and from giving out of the Tracy airport.
St:'Pms like kind ofa waste oftime if lectures, like the one at Victoria As to the cloud? Well, coming from the
you've got other things you're inter Hall, to audiences around the directions of farms and fertilizer plants, there
ested in," Shermer sa.id,. "This guy country. Over the next month, he are any number of explanations. (We noticed
tise roebsvtiso."u sly bright and has other in Thaasm psca haenddu Olerlda nadpop, Felaar.,a innc Aetsl ainn u< Manteca Bulletin columnist there was no odor.) It was also very contained,
and appeared to leave no trail nor point of
ta, and back in California at Fresno
State University. Strange sighting origin.
After Lindemann heard the Sometimes timing-and "blind I had a more diabolical hunch: What if some
tapes of Lear and Cooper, he was luck"-can be a budding futurist's kid just got carried aw.ay with a chemistry set
intrigued, but disbelieving. "It was best friend, as was the case last in Manteca sky he got for Christmas? His dad wouldn't let him
like I was hearing an alternate real month just before Lindemann left
use it in the house (ever since the cat turned
ity.·· He figured it shouldn't take for planned speaking engagements
long to lay claims of a cosmic in Phoenix and Albuquerque. colors) so he was using it out on the 14th
Watergate to rest. Days before Lindemann's depar Granted, this isn't something a lot of people fairway.
"I fully expected that I could, ture, U.S. Rep. Steve Schiff, a New would write in the newspaper. Most people It went boom boom, and that kid's probably
with some effort, blow this apart," Mexico Republican, asked the Gen would just keep quiet about it and let it gnaw still running.
dLoinindge.m "aI nwna snatyesd, htios cvhoeiccek c irte oscuet.n I etirgaalt Aivcec aorumnt ionfg C Oonffgirceess- -thet oin lvoeosk at their gut for a while. Year's later they end Or, what if someone was just tuning up an
wanted to tear it apart. I wanted to into the possibility that a govern up on the sidewalk telling anyone who will old car? Heck, the last time I started up my
rip it to shreds and kill it, OK? But I ment cover-up followed the July 2, listen until a police officer comes and moves old station wagon lots of people called up to
couldn't ignore it. And that was a 1947, crash of a mysterious object them along. report it.
fateful decision. I mean, I could near the ranching community of Not me. I'm not real bashful, and hardly ON THE OTHER HAND, LET'S not rule
Ihh aacvvheee csikagienddo ' rPietf dot! u iGtt.,i "vo ef mcoeu ar bsere. aI kc.o' Buludt Cofo" RrEoovnseawn, e ailflb,to hNuis.tM a7.l5 l pmriolvees sn toor bthew roeus t aitn yone takes me seriously anyway. I'm used to 1o uwt atsh ew laittctlhei nggr eseonm metehnin gfr oomn oTuhtee rL sepaarncein gth ing.
He is still checking it out. tine and explainable, this is just an I wasn't drunk and I wasn't tired. As to Channel not long ago about the possibility of
In the process, he has met others example of how government raises whether or not I'm crazy, well I guess the life outside our solar system.
like Lear and Cooper who, in Lin suspicions and rumors among the jury's still out on that. The documentary pointed out there are about
demann's view, have risked ridi public about how they themselves But the other night I was out running and 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy
cule and solid professional reputa handled it," Schifftold NBC News saw something really strange. It was up in the alone. So let's say that out of these solar sys
tlpiiuokbnels iU cblFyy O wab rsoiitguinht gbti inbzgoasor,rk eas lpaihenendn taoabmldkeuinncga kinnT omhwiedn -," JmRaoandsuwea rehylel. aIdnlciindeesn itn," 1 9a4s7 i, ti nis eaixrp, lahianr dilty. anybody saw it and no one can ltiefme sf, oormnlsy a1t aplelr. cTenhta th alevaev etsh e1 0p omteinltliiaoln .f oLr eat'nsy
tions, cattle mutilations and crop cluding a prominent front-page sto I WAS RUNNING DOWN UNION just over say that out of those solar systems with any
circles. ry in·the Santa Barbara News the railroad tracks about 7 p.m. when I saw life forms, only 1 percent have intelligent life
Lindemann says he has also met Press. A number of books have what looked like a small glowing cloud over (Yes, our planet counts - "Beavis and Butth
his share of kooks and found plenty been written about the incident the golf course (or in that direction). I was ead" is a freak of nature.) That leaves 100,000
tohfi n"kfuinzgzy." thinking" and "wishful ohvimers ethlfe a ymeoanrsg. tLhoinsdee wmhaon cno cnosuidnetsr going to tum on Crom anyway, so I figured solNaro wsy slteetm's s sawyi thth aint teolnlilgye n1t pliefrec. ent of those
His 1991 book, "UFOs and the it one ofthe best documented cases I'd wait to check it out.
Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints," a that something fishy is going on. As I got closer I found two people, a man have life so intelligent they've developed space
collection of interviews and back Soon after Schiff's announce and a woman, from a couple of nearby apart travel, and that leaves 1,000 planets (again,
ground information, is like an in ment, Lindemann's phone !;tarted ments. They had been walking in separate including ours).
troduction to the UFO writers and ringing. The Albuquerque Journal directions when they noticed it, too, and had Granted, ours is still primitive, so let's say
rmeasneanr tchhee rms owsht,o " ipmeoppreless wedh oL idnodne' t cwaalsle adl sfoor qauno intetder vinie awn. LAinssdoecmiaatnedn stopped to watch. The three of us looked at it ptrearvceeln tt hoofu stahnodses oarfe tismoe sa dtvhaen csepde etdh eoyf claignh t
need aliens to be complete Press story about Schiff and the for a minute and then looked at each other.
humans." Like nuclear physicist GAO investigation. We laughed half-heartedly and openly wondered (186,282 miles per second) to make traveling
Stanton Friedman, award-winning This is welcome recognition for a what to do. 1trrough the galaxy practical. This leaves at
documentary filmmaker Linda man on a mission The woman agreed to go in and call 911, least 10 solar systems in our galaxy (some
Moulton Howe, and artist Budd But what if Lindemann is wrong? experts put the number in the thousands, but
Hopkins. Smart people. Sane peo What if he someday learns that but only if we promised to stay where we were rm being conservative) holding civilizations that
pleF. our years ago he had never tihneterlel iigse nnoce n, othn-ehruem ias nn oadthvianngc etod athnidn kn owt el ehaavde thoe rs waleoanr eo tno oeuxrp lmaiont.h e(Ar'cs tugarlalvye, sI have the power to bounce around at will.
heard of any of them Now Linde Roswell or any other alleged gov and each give her a major credit card.) It could happen.
mann considers such people ernment knowledge of aliens? She came back, and complained she had DO I BELIEVE ALL THIS? Well, sort of.
friends and colleagues. wr"oIn gc,o" uLlidn dbeem aabnnso slauytse. l"yB duet aaldl been referred to several different agencies and Omny staenryio ucsl,e aurn nexigphlat inwehde ng lothwreineg pceloopulde wovaetcr ha na
my instincts and all my intelligence wasn't getting anywhere. Meanwhile, the glow
empty golf course we will develop romantic
Lindemann's compact apart tell me this is for real. I haven't got a in the sky was slowly dissipating and I had to
ment, in the shadow of Calle Real doubt in my mind. And I still allow go to the bathroom. (UFO'~ Men't real sensitive notions of exactly that it was.
near Highway 154, is evidence of a that I could be completely wrong." to our own bodily functions.) Myself, I'm still going with the kid with the
chemistry set running his tail off for momma's
KEEP IN MIND THAT A UFO by defini
skirts.
tion is simply an unideallfied llying object .1t Dennis Fleming's column appears Mondays in
does not mean there are men from outer space.
t~ Manteca Bulletin.
Most reported UFOs are dismissed by experts
j
UFO Network: Group landing here
"This was a close-in observation. "With the typical sighting, the
Everyone was in awe looking at it," person sees something strange, but
Summers says. convincing others is a hard thing to
t!i 8 Greensboro couple hosting meeting minds of individuals, Summers says. Deter If you want to have an encounter, do. Until you see one, you remain
mining what is true and what isn't is the you're in the right spot. In the skeptical," Summers says. "Ninety
of Mutual UFO Network. challenge of being a UFO buff, albeit a United States, North Carolina percent of people who see some
~ conservative one. ranks around fifth in sightings and thing don't report it to anyone other
u BY MILLICENT ROTiiROCK "Something is happening that is affecting interactions per capita, Summers than their friends.
~ Staff Writer people worldwide and that is clear. There asareyass. Maroosutn sdi gehatritnhgqsu oackceu fra uinlt sr uarnadl mi"nPde owpalen tss eteo seoxmpleatihni nigt aawnday thaes
can be no argument about that," he says.
~ With his bushy, slightly pointed eyebrows "Ultimately, it becomes a question of what military installations. something conventional. But they
Military installations? Aren't you get to thinking about it and they
~ and short, straight hair, he looks a little like you want to believe and how much of the likely to see just about anything can't explain it. Skeptics depend on
- a small version of Spock. He's fascinated story you want to believe. Something hap
floating above a military installa the lingering doubts of not being
>. with outer space and he's seen a UFO. pened to these people. Some of it is a
tion? And don't various gas bubbles able to explain for sure what it is -
~ But Nick Summers is not one of those. You product of the human mind. But not all of sometimes come out of the earth's they use it to explain the whole
know the ones - people who claim to have it." Summer's experience with the unknown
1 had encounters of the third kind and come took place in 1959 rural Kansas. He, his crust? A fault line would be the thing away."
perfect means for escape. Because people need to talk
~ up with all kinds of tales about what goes on parents and two local chiropractors had True, says Summers. But not all about their sightings, MUFON has
o inside those silver crafts. heard stories about a truck driver who sightings can be so easily ex started support services for people
He believes a little of this and a little of claimed to have seen two small extraterres- plained. who believe they have had an expe
~ that concerning UFO sightings and contacts. Of the sightings MUFON investi rience with a UFO or extraterres
~ Half is real, the other half is invented in the Nick Summers gates, most can be explained, Sum trial. Through the state
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The trucker took the entourage shot out of sight, right as Summers "Where We Are Going in the UFO two types of UFO experiences - thing and they need to talk to other
§ out into the black Kansas night and was catching his breath, a military Field in 1994." abductions, which occur mostly in experiencers and they need to talk
8 they waited. Suddenly there ap jet appeared out of no where and Summers also belongs to a local the United States, and the tradi to clinical persons," Summers says.
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It was something from out of this are more accepting, he says. on around here, anyway? say the extraterrestrials are watch
world, he says. Plus, Summers knows he is not While driving down a rural road ing us and have been watching for
. "All of a sudden, it went straight alone. in the fall of 1989, a lady in Ashe some time. They are concerned
up in the air, clear up in the air as He is one of 4,500 people world boro and her cousin had a close about our militancy and nuclear 8
far as our eyes could go. It left a wide who belong to the Mutual encounter with a circular craft with weapons. They are telling us we
vapor trail. It moved so fast we UFO Network. The North Carolina glowing lights floating about 150 are destroying our environment
couldn't see it. It just formed an chapter is meeting today from 1 to 6 feet in the air. Other motorists also and we are going to destroy our
instant vapor trail." p.m. in the Faculty Center at saw it. ~e]vps if we don't clean up our act
TIMES, Seattle, WA - April 26, 1994
For psychiatrist john Mack, 'Abduction' is an alien matter
BY TERRY MCDERMOTI yesterday.
Seattle Times staff reporter "None of these possible explanations
In a way, john Mack is lucky he didn't came close to accounting for this and so I
live 400 years ago. was left with a dilemma. What do I do?"
Then, he would have been burned at What Mack has done is write a book,
the stake. Now, he is merely regarded as "Abduction," and set off around the
misguided. country promoting it, trying in the pro
Mack for the past four years has cess to persuade people not that these 90
devoted most of his clinical psychiatric people have been snatched by aliens, but
practice in Cambridge, Mass., to patients that they might have been and there is
who are normal in every way but one. for the moment no better explanation of
They all think they have been abducted what they have to say.
by aliens. "In short," he writes, "it is what it is,
He has about 90 such patients. Some although the ultimate source of these
have been sexually manipulated; others experiences remains a mystery."
experimented upon; inculcated with Mack is a professor of psychiatry at
ideas; physically and emotionally scarred Cambridge Hospital, a part of the Har
or otherwise traumatized; but they have vard Medical School. He is 63 years old
all been abducted. and has been a psychiatrist for almost 40
Mack's heresy is not in treating them. years. He founded the psychiatry depart
It is in believing them. ment at Cambridge and, when it merged
"I went on for a long time trying to with Harvard, became its chairman. He
find other explanations, looking at other wears professorially frumpy clothes and
hypotheses, at displacement from sexual peers over the top of professorially MIKE SIEGEL / SEATTLE TIMES
abuse, picking up some things from the John Mack's new book, "Abduction, "tells stories ofp eople who believe they've had close
media, but none of them fit," Mack said encounters with visitors from outer space.
tJerched half-glasses. He is the au some are male, some female - but
thor of a Pulitzer Prize"w inning biog Mack says it is the similarities among DAILY RECORD, Roswell, NM - March 28, 1994
raphy of T.E. Lawrence and of a the stories that makes them more UFO experts say military used
classic text on dreams. compelling.
fte was regarded as a mainstream Those similarities include being
t>sychiatrist whose only mild devi floated through walls in a semi
~tion from the middle of the road was conscious state, being taken onto decoy story .t o cover up crash
a flirtation with Werner Erhard's est, alien spacecraft and examined with
a consciousness-raising regime. prods and probes, being relieved of
sperm and embryos, and most of all
flant\1g1 inogf othuist wwiethnt abliye ntsh e boards bbeeirn agn uyn oabf liet . tTo hceosnes ccioourrsolyb orreamtioemns , Nate McMahon mo"rWe teh abne 5li0e0v pee owplee'.v e put gthoeo dd etsiemrte, .d rAtnt kainbgo,u hta· v1i1n:g2 0a
when he began hanging out with as Mack refers to them, helped lead Record Staff Writer together the chronological p.m., the sky lights up. An
people who say they have been the psychiatrist to the dangerous order of events for the first object whizzes overhead. and
1\anging out with aiiens, people like conclusion that these people were Two UfO researchers say time," Schmitt said. "We both crashes a mile away.
Dave Jones. jones is a 43-year-old telling the truth. their work not only proves a came into this case as skep Ragsdale and his friend ten. .
marketing executive with a health jones and most of Mack's other spaceship piloted by aliens tics. but It's made believers out taUvely investigate, and see a
maintenance organization in Indiana. patients undergo regression therapy, crashed in Roswell in 1947; It of us. shoe heel-shaped craft stuck
He is traveling with Mack as a sort of a method that employs hypnosis to proves no other explanation "Now, if we can just get the into a hillside. Nervous in the
iive Exhibit A for the defense. recover repressed memories. This fits the facts. rest of the world to pay darkness, they wait until
He's good-looking and wears sort of therapy has been highly con Donald R. Schmitt and attention." morning to venture further
navy blazer's. He doesn't drool or rant troversial of late for its use to support Kevin D. Randle of the Center Here is thefi account: and then find what look to be
and rave. He doesn't have to. Every accusations of sexual abuse. for UFO Studies gave a presen It's early June 1947, and dummies in strange clothing
word out of his mouth seems guaran Elizabeth Loftus, a University of tation outlining their theory people around the United laying about. .
teed to send someone like Mack Washington psychiatrist who has Sunday at Pearson States are seeing strange The military shows up Julr
scurrying for Freudian cover. been critical of regression therapy, Auditorium. objects in the sky. Newspapers 5 and cordons the site ofT.
"That happened at Christmas said Mack has ignored or dismissed The presentation. attended document stghUngs, as well as It is 35 miles north of
time, this incident when my daughter the most obvious explanation of his by about 200 people. was a military efforts to find the Roswell.
and I had the encounter," jones says. ~ems recovered memories. They synopsis of their new book, craft. After the military takes
"The encounter that I had was at a never occurred. 'The Truth about UFO Crash Army alrbases along the charge soldiers place five
time when my daughter was dying "Confabulation and false belief at Roswell." It follows on· the West Coast are looking for the bodies with humanoid but
and these little aliens came back and I construction is an explanation in and heels of their 1991 book. "UFO strange aircraft July 4, 1947. · obviously non-human fea
had an encounter right in the hospital of itself," she said. Crash at Roswell," and is the Jim Ragsdale and his girl tures in lead-lined body pag:;
at 4 a.m. in the morning. They were
showing me that this energy that I She said Mack wouldn't be "the culmination of five years of friend aren't.
had received through them could first gullible psychiatrist with good research and interviews with They're just camping out in
help my daughter. And actually it all credentials." The credentials do not
started through prayer. When I make the case, she said, but added,
thought I was connecting with a "If there's some non-zero-possibility
higher being, it turned out to be I had that this occurred, then I guess you and meticulously clean up On July 6, though, officials Why does the official Air
connected with these aliens. And could say somebody has to be first." every scrap of wreckage. need a way to muddy the Force :'Blue Book" UFO inves
they showed me that by connecting Even this small measure of pro About 36 hours later the waters after Brazel's account. tigation list other UFO sight
with my own daughter's energy, and fessional charity is not widely in bodies are flown to Washing An Idea blossoms, and damage ings in July 1947, but not the
her energy was a part of my energy, I evidence among Mack's critics. ton, D.C .. for Inspection and control begins. Roswell Incident?
was able to communicate with her to Mack said he has been shocked at then to what Is now Wright A carefully sculpted press Why did BrazeJ a.lle.gedly1Jell
get well." "the vehemence with which the faith" Patterson Air Force Base In release goes out to the media Frank Joyce of radio station
Jones says this as if he were of mainstream scientific belief is Ohio. saying a flying disc was found KGFL the wreckage he found
giving yesterday's weather report. being guarded. He is working in a High-ranking officials pat on Mac Brazel's ranch. was of a weather balloon. but
He talks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone realm with few guideposts and his themselves on the back for Nothing is said of the other add, "You know those stories
about previous lives he has lived (and profession demands he provide a burying the Incident. but site. about little green men? Well,
in one case lost to musket fire), about roadmap. something new arises. It Newspapers across the land they aren't green."
being abducted as a 6-year-old farm He says his critics want what he seems Mac Brazel, a rancher run the story about the flying Why did Edwin D. Easley,
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who in 1992 referred him to Mack. don't want to talk about this. They gers like quicksilver, and what cocted, accepted and the Ros tedly say, "Oh - the
By then Mack had begun writing said, 'Don't admit you take this seri could later be described as well Incident Is largely forgot creatures?"
about abductions and had become ously because people will ridicule fiber-optic cable. ten. No follow-up investiga Of course. many logical
active in the UfO .i..otellectual under you.'" Two months later, well tions are asked for. and the explanations covering the Ros
ground. Peoplel'kejones were being What is really at issue here are lrnown scientist Lincoln LaPaz public never lrnows about the well Incident can be found. For
referred to him. not dinner plates, but methods of would find a spot five miles real site. the people at Sunday's presen
knowing. Western science demands from the debris field at Brazel's Schmitt and Randle say this tation. though. the theory pre
Abduction stories vary physical proof. Mack offers mainly ranch were sand had been Is what really happened the sented by Schmitt and Randle
There are great differences subjective belief. To one side the fused into glass. weekofJuly4, 1947. They.also seemed to be much more
among them. They are from all sec truth in all of this is unknowable He would come to the con ask questions. interesting.
tions of the country, of all ages and without proof. To the other it is clusion that an extraterrestrial If a: weather balloon really
ethnicities. None knew the others unprovable without knowing. craft had crashed on the ranch hit, they ask. why so much
before they started seeing Mack. and launched again. Such a wreckage? Why did top mili
Their stories vary in many in craft might have been airborne tary investigators take days to 9
stances - some describe gray aliens. only a few miles before crash realize the debris was the foil,
others white; some of the aliens are ing again, with more deadly cloth and balsa wood found In
said w be hairless, others hirsute: results. a weather balloon?
TRIBUNE, Tampa, FL -March 27, 1994
Nevada town's reputation for UFO activity brings in
By TIMOTHY R. GAFFNEY UFO tourism has become so Important known UFO investigators cover the walls. believers
Qf Co:~: News Service to business that proprietors Joe and Pat There's a strange matter-of-factness about
Travis have named their place the Little It, the saucer photos getting equal play with
RACHEL, Nev. - This tiny sprawl of A'Le'lnn. "Earthlings always welcome," photos of the F-117 Stealth attack jet and
trailer homes on the vast Nevada desert Is proclaims a large sign along the highway. the Air Force Thunderbirds air show team. came through our door, we believe there is
aonff eorass tihs eo of nsloyr gtsa st,o f otohde awneda rloyd gtrianvge olenr .t hIet "When we took It over, It was the Ra The Little A'Le'!nn offers an assortment something here. We told it to make itself at
two-lane state highway that runs past It chel Bar and Grill," Pat Travis explained of mementos - T -shirts that show an allen home:~
after serving a Saucer Burger Platter sipping a cold one, allen coffee cups, alien That was one night in the winter of
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the dusty back lot . In 1990, they decided to give their estab restrial themes. bright light streamed. around the edgeS of
OChla, imansd tahlaiet ntsh, et oAo.& i' Force is secretly lish"mWeen t nae ecdaetcdh iae rn naammee .t hat would ·cover extrYaoteur rdeostnr'ita lhsa vtoe gtoe ts wseeravri cteo tah ebreel.i e"fW ine tbhaer ,"m sehtael sadiodo. r. "It illuminated the whole
testing fiying saucers just across the jagged everything we had," Pat Travis said. "The have to stay totally neutral," Pat Travis The aliens are friendly, she said. "I
Groom Mountains from Rachel has brought UFO activity had started and was escalat sald. "Our beliefs are our own." have one [alien] I've named. His name is
a growing stream of UFO investigators, cu ing. So, why not?" But, she added, "We do believe there Archibald and he travels with us."
riosity seekers and media to this town. Pictures of aliens, saucers and well- are UFOs. And after that beam of light She credits Archibald with sending her
a telepathic warning to slow down her car
one night on the highway. The highway
crosses an open cattle range, and Pat Trav
Is said she slowed her car just before the
California the time interval of thirty years. In massive shape of a Black Angus bull
R~hAdds turn, the Independence temple site loomed in the headlights.
referred to in 1830 would seem to The Travises don't attempt to draw a·
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Salt Lake site and Salt Lake City. But said. "A lady here in town was followed by
Salt Lake City was not founded until a craft all the way acr053 the Tikaboo Val
Gulf Breeze UFO Analysis 47 years later in 1847. Of unusual ley from Alamo." A husband and wife say
interest is that 900 miles X two equals they were abducted in the valley, she said.
1,800 miles--and this can be com Extraterrestrials notwithstanding, local
by Kenneth Lloyd Larson sured line is parallel to the Salt Lake pared to the date of A.D. 1800. military training nights ensure exciting ae
Between the years 1987 to 1994, City to Independence line and the UFO Fits Pattern rial displays.
~ the Gulf Breeze UFOs seem to have Salt Lake City to Levelland line is "The airplanes are fantastic out here. ...
~ measured two parallel lines of 900 parallel to the Gulf Breeze to Inde Clearly, the Gulf Breeze UFOs Sometimes they try to tear the building
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'0 of the ftrst measured line represents the Mormons under Brigham Young the 1957 Levelland UFOs. At the to ny - and girls, too."
~ the seven brilliant and egg-shaped arrived at Great Salt Lake. The first same time, 1987, plus seven equals
~ objects that landed on the fields and leader of the Mormons was Joseph 1994, and 1994, plus seven equals
~ highways around Levelland, Texas, Smith, and he dedicated the lot or site A.D. 2001. The Gulf Breeze UFOs
~ November2and3,1957,(seetheLos at Independence on August 3, 1831, seem to refer back to Levelland 1957
Angeles Times, November 3, 1957). and for a future Temple Complex. and forward to the Independence
t~f~) This straight line extends for 900 This Temple site (the temple was Tuneumspulael isnittee raenstd i st ot hAe .hDis. to2r0i0c1a.l faOcft
miles and ends at Gulf Breeze never built but is to be built in the
that in 1897, the United States expe
Florida. Over the years starting i~ future) was also cited during the year rienced a "wave" of the UFOs. In WATAUGA DEMOCRAT, Boone, NC- Feb. 16, 1994
""'" November, 1987, and extending up 1830. On July 2, 1952, U.S. Navy
deed, the celebrated Mount Rainier,
to 1994, various witnesses reported warrant officer Delbert Newhouse
Washington, nine saucers (or UFOs)
seeing red and white and ruby col filmed a group of circling UFOs near appeared on June 24, 1947. Hence,
ored UFOs over Gulf Breeze (see the Tremonton, Utah. In the same month 194 7, seems to represent the modern
book by Ed and Frances Walters, The and on July 20, 1952, various UFOs day start of the phenomenon of the
Gulf Breeze Sightings). This mea appeared over Washington, D. C. UFOs. As the reader can see, 1897,
sured line can be divided into 30 According to the Los Angeles Times, plus 100 years equals 1997, and
equal units of 30 miles each or a total the crew of the U.S. S. Sebago saw a Mount Rainier 194 7, plus 50 years
of 900 miles. brilliant object speeding from south equals 1997. Perhaps the year 1997,
represents some striking or signifi
cant event related to the coming of
the Gulf Breeze and the mount Rainier MUFON is :1 sc ific worldwide liFO organization with state
and the Salt Lake and the Levelland branches, established in 1969 as • non-profit organi:r.ation to solve the
UFOs. In a 1994, published book mystery of CFOs through invesi~;~tive research. Membership is $5 a
called Gulf Breeze UFOs: Topo year.
graphical Center of North America Local MUFON meetings arc hd&tevcry second Sunday at the Harrill
Senior Center on E:.tst King Strc,·t.
and South America, this writer '·Our lucal meetings tend w JCQy from UFO discussions and veer off
showed how Gulf Breeze is located on ·nctaphysic;;l tangents;' !:i2id meeting organizer Chuck Donoghue.
on latitude 30 degrees North or the "MliFON rakes a strictly ~cnt\tlc;1 objective approach to UFOs, but
same latitude as the ancient Great Jctu<lllly seeing one is a very subjt:ctive experience," he said.
Pyramid of Giza in Egypt(circa2600 Donoghue is one of the state's section directors for MUFON. In
B.C.), the site ofGulfBrccze and the ch:1rge of the area covering Ashe. Avery, Mitchell and Watauga coun
Great Pyramid exhibit a mathemati ties, Donoghue's joh is to send out field investigators to research UFO
cal juxtaposition or relationship to sightings.
Local MUFON meetings have been gathering for about a year.
the sites of the North Pole, South
"MUFON hds about 165 members ft-om 65 different cities. At our an
Pole, Earth'scenter, and equator line.
nual conventions, people C• >~ne-flt>m as far as Spain and japan," Fawcett
Advanced Knowledge said.
On this bas.ts, ihe Gu.ll breeze "_'In the l:nited States, C:.tlifom'ia is number one in reported sightings.
UFOs may have an advanced type~ Oht(' and Penn:,ylvan•a are lied fOf" sec.Ol?d Mew Mexico is third North
Call)]ina is fourth ;~nd Florida is fifth. We'v~ consistently been in ilie top
of scientific/mathematical design
five for quite a few vears. ··
knowledge related to the original 1\:UFUN's :Jnnual. report nnted several ditferent instances of UFO
forming or fashioning of the round ~ightings in North Carolina where the UFOs seem to stay in view for a
planet Earth and its subsequent his tew moments anJ then fly offwitl1 "meteoric" speed, as if they were just
tory and perhaps some future events. m the nctglth()rhovJ and wanted to check in on us.
As the writer shows in his 1994 book, In Pumpkin Cc:nt(-r, at 7.30 p.m. on feb. 24, ·four men watched a
the Gulf Breeze and other American large, cigar-shaped 'object" with etght to I 2 "''hi"te lights (that turned
UFOs may be related to the future red) maneuve,· <1bout 3d0 feet above the ground for a few moments
coming from space of the huge space l·dvrc it left.
city (1,500 miles long, 1,500 miles Diane \X'ilkins, a vke presi<..leAt l'f a manufacturing plant in Lin
wide, and 1,500 miles high) called in colnton, was intrigued by :l family ofbunrues in her backyard and went
the Bible the New Jerusalem. The to get video recon.kr to film~
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In addition to this measured hne to north and about 200 miles south of North Commonwealth A venue, Los suspended 111 the blue morning sJ..y· for 11 seconds.
between the 1957 Levelland UFOs the Mississippi River mouth (No Angeles California 90004. Perhaps "People have S\J many different fl\.lt'tions to UFOs when they see
and the start of the 1987 Gulf Breeze vember 5, 1957). the UFOs represent some kind of them," Fawcert said. "We hor:icthat more will stop trying to explain it
UFOs, a second measured line can be protection in case of some interna away anJ report it to MCFON sottt. we can los it into our computers
established between Salt Lake City, Line Points To Date tional crisis or tribulation. Accord and ~et our to investigate it''
Utah, and Independence, Missouri. ing to the Bible, our present Earth is
This measured line also consists of If the Salt Lake City and Inde to be renewed or glorified. The space CR: G. Fawcett
30 equal units of 30 miles each or a pendence measured line equals 900 city New Jerusalem would be an ad
total of900 miles. Furthermore, these miles and the Levelland to Gulf vanced celestial world illuminated
two equal and measured lines are Breezelinemeasured900miles, what by the glory of God and to come
parallel to each other and form a would be the purpose or significance down from God out of heaven.
of the two equal and parallel lines?·
mathematical pattern known as a par
The Levelland UFOs of November 2
allelogram (a four-sided geometrical 10
and 3, 1957, seemed to point forward
ftgure with opposite sides equal and
in time to the Gulf Breeze UFOs
parallel to each other). In this case,
starting on November 11, 1987, and
the Levelland to Gulf Breeze mea-