UFO Newsclipping Service 1999 08 no 361

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EWSCLIPPI"G
SERVICE
August 1999
Number 361
G CANEY VALLEY DRIVE • PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS 72127 USA EDITOR/PUBLISHER: LUCIUS FARISH
After 32 years, UFO sleuth still has no answers
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1z&a.1(:,) john Schuessler was working as an answer, but I've got tons of says says
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a: Schuessler said.
No one ever figured out what
the c,tstronauts saw. And countless
Schuessler, 66, is deputy
director of the Mutual UFO
"When people have a serious Network Inc. Last month, he
! Eye of the storm ... hUeFlOp, ennocto umntoerc,k etrhye,y" nseaeidd wUFasO eRleer:sJe_eadr chc hCaioramliatino n,o fc otmhe
Schuessler. prising MUFON, the Chicago-
Schuessler brings impres- based Center for UFO Studies
~ By Joanna Grammon sive credentials to UFO inves- and the Fund for UFO Research
C§D It's one of the more bizarre incidents to be reported in a tigations. He headed the in Washington, D.C.
McDonnell Douglas team that In the basement of
., county that's seen its share of Bigfoot sightings and other ar-
built the life-support systems Schuessler's home are file cabi
cane events. for the Gemini spacecraft and nets crammed with data from
-« The National UFO Reporting Center received a phone call the Skylab space station. At the his investigations, including a
3: March 1 on its hotline that's worthy of an "X Files" episode. I johnson Space Center in Hous- 1980 encounter that left two
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heard part of the taped call through the miracle of modern ton, he helped train astronauts Texas women and a young boy
~ technology by downloading it from a website, as project managers for space with radiation injuries. He de
i www.nwlink..com/-ufocntr shuttle flight operations. tailed that case in his book,
,! The person on the line was a rational-sounding male who He was awarded NASA's which he self-published last
en identified himself as a forestry employee. The incident suppos public service medal for year. ·
ri edly happened February 25 in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens. designing and building NASA's The book documents the
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, story of a diamond-shaped
1&.1 A tree planting crew of 14 on that date reportedly witnessed a a 6 million gallon pool where object, chased by military heli
~ UFO pick up an elk from the ground and carry it away. astronauts learn how to work in copters, that hovered in front of
0 Peter Davenport of the UFO center and Robert Fairfax of zero gravity. Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum
iai: the Mutual UFO Network interviewed three of the 14 witness Robert Pratt, a Florida and her grandson, Colby .Lan
es. They also looked over the terrain and the carcass of a preg reporter who wrote the fore- drum, on a deserted Texas road
u nant cow found dead on a nearby logging road. word in in Decem-
~ This is what the tree planters reported: Schuessler's ber 1980.
z Three of the planters saw a small disc-shaped object as it book, The ·~~ Cash, who
ct came over a ridge to the south and descended into a valley. At Cash-Lan- would be ta,.L7.U"'· died last
~ first they thought it was a parachute, but they quickly realized Idnrcuidme nt,U FO happy with a terr~es t"rJ ial , iDn ecAelmabb~era .
~ wthhato wwaastcnh'te dth iet fcoars aet, lseoa stth tehyre cea mlliendu tteos .t he other 11 workers, dhiemsc raisb e"do ne exp la natt·a n fio r t ht ·s . .O r,. ~=suftfahl d1.d&t
The object came over a herd of elk and descended toward ~!al\~e s~~~ I would be happy.with.an ·
the animals. Some bolted, and it moved directly over a lone ous, intelli- extraterrestrial explana- 2ltribute:Ho
elk, then lifted it up with no visible means of support. The craft
wobbled as it increased altitude and the elk, suspended, was gent, quali- tian. I would like to see Tadlatim.
seen rotating slowly beneath the craft. finie dt hep eUopFlOe an answer, t:,J..orvw~u~h . , ·· kn"oWw e dwohna'tt
The elk still suspended in mid-air, (theme from Rod Ser business. He - John, Sc• usler it was," said
ling here), the craft brushed the treetops, then -reversed itself as doesn't leap Schuessler,
it made a 360-degree turn to gain altitude. It then began as to conclu- who led the
cending at a steep angle. Somehow as it ascended, the elk was sions. He MUFON
taken into the craft, although no door was visible. After a sharp doesn't speculate and accept it investigative team. "We went
ascent, the craft simply disappeared. There is a photo on the as truth." to every government instal-
website, with circles and arrows showing the path of the craft, Schuessler is "very level- lation around. We talked to
and an elk grazing in the clearcut. headed, very knowledgeable. every major agency in the gov
He's more cautious than most ernment. No one would claim
A report found at www .sightings.com/ufo2/elk said: "The
witnesses also stated that following the incident, the herd of ~opk about things," said it, and no one would claim the
Michael Curta, Colorado direc- helicopters. They would just
elk remained in the same general area, although (they) re tor for the Mutual UFO Net- pretend like it didn't happen."
mained more closely huddled to one another than had been the work Inc., an international Schuessler is not convinced
case earlier in the morning. The workers added that they, too, organization that probes UFO the object was from space. "I
had remained closer to one another until their departure from incidents. keep hoping it's some kind of a
the area at the end of the day." After he retired in May 1998, secret government device and
Coincidently, around the time this report finally got to me, Schuessler and his wife, Kathy, some day we'll find out. But if
around the end of April or the beginning of May, a Stevenson settled in a new home in south you look at the technology in
jefferson County to be near 1980, we couldn't fly anything
woman called to report th. It had pulsing, flashing lights in red,
their daughter and a grandchild. like that."
yellow, blue and white, and hovered over Bonneville Dam
Their home bears witness to Meanwhile, Schuessler
nightly for almost a month, she said, moving up and down and the space career and UFO pas- continues to probe for UFOs
side to side in the sky really fast. "It was definitely not a sion that have consumed more with an open mind. "I would be
plane," she said, "and it was not Mars." than half of Schuessler's life: totally happy with a terrestrial
To quote from "Hamlet," Act 1 Scene 5, Horatio says, "Q_h posters, photographs, 1,200 or explanation for this," he said.
day and night, this is wondrous strange," and Hamlet repl~e~. so books, several shelves filled "Or, I would be happy with an
"And as a stranger, give it welcome. There are more things in with space-related toys. · extraterrestrial explanation. I
heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philoso His favorite space movie? _,uld tike t9 ~ an answer
Men In Black. "I loved it." though." '
phy."
REVIEW-JOURNAL, Las Vegas, NV - June 13, 1999
OUT OF THis
WORLD
Area 51 cards lure
customers with
ingratiating aliens
By Greg Cheeseman
Review-Journal
The mention of Nevada's Area 51 invokes images
of sinister military conspiracies and mysterious,
probing aliens, but Robert and Margaret Kolar pre
fer to look at the lighter side of the classified patch
of desert.
The U.S. government refuses to acknowledge the
existence of the flight testing facility in central Ne
vada, but conspiracy theorists claim it plays a key
role in keeping otherworldly encounters secret.
So a husband-and-wife graphic design team has
created a line of greeting cards that features humor
ous images of aliens and their spaceships. One car<J__
shows a grinning exl.raterrestrial mowmg ~­
cles in a corn field. Another promotes the fictional
Area 51 Hotel-Casino - Motto: "Play the loosest
slots in the universe." Graphic artists Robert and
Of all the possible subjects for greeting cards, Ar Margaret Kolar have fash
ea 51 was a natural, according to Margaret Kolar. ioned a line of greeting cards
"Living in Southern Nevada, we're always hearing poking fun at Area 51 , a
the stories coming from Area 51. That sort of caught
patch of desert conspiracy
our interest."
Robert Kolar, who does the artwork, said he was theorists claim is home to a
inspired by an investigative television news report top-secret military base. The
on Area 51, a nickname for the Air Force facility the orists believe the base, which
government declines to say exists at Groom Lake. the government denies exists,
Subsequent public discussion seemed to be cen plays a key role in keeping
tered on the possibility of an alien invasion or a otherworldly encounters se
massive government cover-up, but he saw other
cret. Therefore, the Kolars'
possibilities.
"' like to put things in tongue in cheek. I like to cards feature humorous im
make people laugh." ages of alien spaceships,
The Kolars gained some inspiration for the cards above, and Las Vegas' official
during the 105-mile drive north to Rachel, not far outer space icon, Alien Elvis.
from Area 51. They were traveling on what has been
designated by tourism officials as the Extraterrestri
al Highway when they got the idea for a card with a
bright yellow road sign marking a UFO crossing.
The couple's Boulder City-based Kolar Design
Courtesy Kolar Design Studio
for alien-themed cards because of set of customers. when they see it. Some of them
Studio was busy doing work for the popularity of the "Star Trek" "The thing people like about don't realize how close it is to Las
Las Vegas casinos and other eli and "Star Wars" movies and the the aliens and Area ·51 is they Vegas and want to be told how to
ents when it launched its line of "X-Files" television show. People are able to use their get *there."
Area 51 cards last year. Several were more apt to imagine aliens imagination."
hotels had commissioned the stu involved in wacky hi-jinks than Lynn Stanford. manager of the Kolar Design Studio has ex
dio to create unique cards for gruesome medical Bonanza World's Largest Gift panded i~ business by launching
their properties, and the Kolars experimentation. Shop on the Strip, said the a Web site (www.popart.com) and
decided to create their own line. "The whole subject is kind of store's Area 51 cards are second offering e-mail versions of its
"We just thought the timing intriguing but also fun. It was in popularity only to Las Vegas cards.
was right and it was sort of a fun time to have some fun with it." themed cards.
thing," said Margaret Kolar. The cards can be found in a "Anything that ~ins to ~
The Kolars displayed their variety of store~ in the United ea 6l or lliWe ~gays is popu
$2.50 apiece cards last month at States and the Kolars have re lar," she said.
the National Stationery Show in ceived reports of their popularity Stanford 5aid customer inter
New York. Their cards were hon in places as far away as Great est in Area 51 remains strong.
ored as one of the best new prod Britain and Sweden. "A lot of them are a little sur
ucts among 1,400 exhibitors. Robert Kolar attributes the prised to see (Area 51 novelties)
She said the timing was right success of the cards to the mind then they laugh hysterically
CONNECTICUT POST, Bridgeport, CT - May 16, 1999 CR: G. Mangiacopra
Mysterious 'flying saucers' sighted
This story ron in the July 7, /947 In another part the state John Rose, of
Bridgeport Post. The first flying saucer West Hartford, said today that his six-year
reports came from Washington State on June old daughter, Louisa, had spotted a "flying
25 and they spread mysteriously around the saucer" last night and that he and his wife
country. had viewed it. Mr. Rose said, "it fitted
newspaper descriptions perfectly" and was
Surprising no one particularly the "flying traveling east at ''terrific speed."
saucer" reported to be cavorting over most of In New Haven, Jack Tweed, manager of
the 48 states during recent days have fmally the Elm City's municipal airport, suggested
turned up in Connecticut, with Stratford and that the beams of revolving airplane beacons,
West Hartford residents listed as observers. some of which flash rapidly across the sky,
Elmer Holloway, 355 Highland avenue, may cause the "flying saucers."
Stratford and John Sleckenstein, 35 Griff'm A beam oflight resting on a cloud, Mr.
street, Stratford, reported seeing a "saucer Tweed pointed out, causes a disc-like
like" object in the sky between l 0 and ll reflection.
p.m. Saturday. Prof. Dirk Brouwer, Yale University
Mr. Holloway said that he and his wife astronomer, said today that the phenomena
and their daughter and son saw a "luminous A flying disc? Coast guardsman Frank may be part of a meteor shower.
oval object" which moved in a semi-circle Ryman reported he photographed this Another explanation for the "saucers"
and that he called neighbors for verification. mysterious "flying disc" near Seattle. came from Branford and Cheshire where
The "disc" was described as "larger than the People all over the country - including luminous spots zipping through the sky were
moon appears." two Stratford residents reported seeing found to be caused by carnival search lights
Mr. Sleckenstein said the "saucer" he saw the unidentified flying objects. playing on clouds.
"seemed to be spinning in the air." "People are just getting saucer-happy,"
After reading the accounts of the Stratford rocks on Lordship beach with his wife about said a Branford official. 2
"saucers" in this morning's Telegram. Robert l 0:30 p.m. Saturday and watched for about a A Cheshire Boy Scout, checking up with
D. Sharpe, 7 Briar cowt, Stratford, offered half-hour as the beam of the Lordship light binoculars, sputtered: "If that's what they're
what he believed to be an explanation. was reflected by a slight overcast over the seeing all over the country, we'd better forget
Mr. Sharpe said that he was sitting on the Sound. the whole thing."
TIMES HERALD, Norristown, PA - June 21, 1999
Buddies hit the road
in hopes of finding
·lpr,oof of ·UFOs
., .klcly ... way of New Hampshire, during the win
Tmes Herald Staff terof1996.
NORRISTOWN - It's not uncom And, although they were followed by
mon for a couple of recent college grads a mysterious car, which seemed to turn
to take off on a "break-free" trip once the off where there was nowhere to turn
cap and gown have been packed away without pitching down the side of a cliff,
but before settling in to life in the "real and although they had a close encounter
world." with a female moose in the middle of
However, Matt Holm and Jonathan the road, the two did not meet up with
Follett decided to any UFOs or aliens
make their sum- along the same
mer vacation a route the Hills had
five-week work "A high percentage of the driven.
ing trip in 1996. people we met are whackos or However, the
The result of that just publicity-seeking people experience and
working trip is who don't seem to care what Holms' telling of it
the book, "Gray the subject is, but the whackos to Follett only
Highway: An enhanced their
seem to be some of the most
American UFO e~tionsfor
Journey," which sincere people. They really are their upcoming trip
was released by convinced something hap to the '-tations of
the duo's own pened to them. We also met othet ll'FG ~:
publishing com rational people on both sides. " 1ll6a: .
pany, 'lbadspittle On.May2~
Hill Productions Matt Holm 1996, the two drove
of New York, laSt Author into Gulf Breeze~
December. Fla., the fillt stop
Best friends on their joUl'.Oey.
since their days as students at They had plans to meet Bruce and .Ann
Methacton High School, the two former Morrison. of the Gulf Breeze Skywatch,
Audubon residents decided to explore a group which, thanks to pictures taken ,
their intel'eft in U. UFO phenomenon by Ed Walters, have 80me of the beet-
after other friends who had p1aJmed to doeumentecHJyO ~· c.x.
vacation with them~ out of the trip. Sonte of Walters' pictures have ~I!
Now a resident «New Y9rk,' where taken With a SPecial sealed ~A~'' ''
he is an aasociate editor in the (A)py and designed by~ private in~ti:\"e
F~ ~tat (A)untryLj.ving UFO gt'9Up, MUFQN (Mutual q~~J
lJl81azine, Holm was in.'the area recently Network). He has taken 40' ph<>f:o:.'
on a trip to visit bia family. T d alwa,aJ u al~minute;, ~nd 4
been intereeted1n · aachei~&, •'9idJ-.pe,of;~~7J!!'O, h
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lieve these things had ~pp.ened to am~zed tha_t.~le paurlnleed dit off. Now,
her - and she's not really a pub havmg read more
licity seeker. She just wants to about the SUFt, we would have
NEWS, Dunsmuir, CA - June 16, 1999
educate the public." planned things differently."
UFOs an.d ETs discussed Following stops in Memphis and Calling by phone from his borne
at Graceland in Tennessee, as well in Boston, Follett noted, "As far as
as in Bovina, Texas, and New validity goes, I think whenever I
Salem, N.D., the two young men was fairfy skeptical and talked to
Dr. Steven M. Greer; cons'fdered members -of Congress, the UN · CSETI resear~h-teanis arid Or. Greer moved on to Roswell, N.M., the some of the people we interviewed,
by some to be the world's foremost Secretary General, senior US Joint indicate that ET communications infamous site of the July 1947 I got the feeling that 'something'
authority on the subject of extrater- Chiefs of Stafff, and various interna- involve technologies which can
"UFO crash," one of the least happened to them. But there is no
restrial intelligence. will be at the tiona! leaders. directly interfaced with conscious
explained, most secret phenome hard evidence to verify that they
Mt>unt Shasta City Park for a work· Some of the information he will ness and thought, and that by doing
nons this country has ever ex have been abducted.
shop and lecture on June 25th and share in Mount Shasta has been dis- so. obliterate the vastness uf outer
26th. cussed with top US and European space." perienced. The two found the fame "Ever since Ezekial, there have
of the 1947 incident, and not much been wheels in the sky so I think,
The Center for the Study of government and military officials. · /\t the workshop, Greer will give
else, is what is still keeping the whether there is something phys
Extraterrestrial Intelligence is host- In his lecture, Greer will discuss an in-Jepth look at the meetings and
town alive. ical happening is hard to say, but
ing the workshop, entitled extraterrestrial intelligence evidence historic events which he says have
The two traveled through the there have always been spiritual
E~t~t.n...W lntelllgence: The and how he believes its release will recently occurred with various
government's secret Area 51; things happening and that's the
Evfdence and Implications. impact economics, science, religion world leaders and will discuss the
through Bottomless Lakes State conclusion I've come to about
Greer, the founder and interna- and the environment. experiment:~! protm:ols whilh he has
tiona! director of CESTI will give a He will outline what he told the created for communiCating with Park and White Sands, N.M.; there being another world. I'm
lecture on June 26th, from 7:30p.m. CIA Director and other senior offi- extraterrestrial spacecraft and life through Meteor Crater and Sed always open to new ideas."
- 10 p.m. Cost is $5, cash. - cials in our government. He will dis- forms. He will also discuss his ona, Ariz.; and on to Mount Shasta. Holm's agrees that he, too, has
A workshop will follow on June cuss what the evidence is relating to understanding of the nature of Landers, Mount Palomar and El · not reached a definite conclusion
26th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is extraterrestrial intelligence, what extraterrestrial reality. Cajon, Calif.; before returning as to whether we've been visited
$40, cash. the implicatioll6 are of disclosing through Rachel and Las Vegas, by beings from other worlds.
' An emergency room physician, the truth as he sees it, why he The Center for the Study of Nevada; Mount Rainier, Wash.; "I'm still not sure," he said. "I'm
Greer has led research teams believes extraterrestrials are here Extraterrestrial Intelligence is a 50! Sand Dunes State Fores~ Minn.; the kind of person that needs to
throughout the world, investigating and how we should view the matter C-3 nonprofit corporation dedicated and Dayton, Ohio. see it myself,:f suppose."
the existence of extraterrestrial and how he feels we might safely· to the furtherance of our understand Admitting that "a high percent Holm and Follett are currently
intelligence, and claims to have sue- create open relations with non- ang uf ~.:xtraterrcstrial intelligence. age of the people we met are completing work on their next
cessfully established preliminary human intelligent species. Call the Visitors Bureau for more whackos or just publicity-seeking book. "Preparing for the Ap
contact• and communication with "The lecture is designed to give information, 926-4865. people who don't seem to care ocalypse" is due om in September
extraterrestrial spacecraft at close us an understanding of the nature of what the subject is," Holm said, Copies of ~'GOIY Highway" are
range. according to ~nformation pro- extraterrestrial's reality," say the "but the whackos seem to be some available a~s Books in the
vided by Virginia Delwiche of organizers of this event, " ... their of the most sincere peopie. They Plaza at King ef Prussia or at
Mount Shasta, the regional organiz- understanding of space, time and really are convinced something amazon.com on the Internet.
er for CSETI. consciousness, and the interface h@pened to tpem. We also met
Greer has provided brietings on developed by them as it relates to
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· Photos by Sean Dougherty/The WaShington Times
People attending the International UFO Symposium at the Hyat R~ncy Crystal City look over vendors' goods, including videos-and aliens.
For devout, truth
about space aliens
is close to home
Speakers recount being abducted
much in the same detached way
By Julia Duin that farmers view a breeding herd
THE WASHINGTON TIMES of livestock. Speaking last week
B
everly Trout is demure, 70, end on "Thlking Back to Aliens and
the daughter of Iowa far Humans:• she ventures that there
mers and - she adds em- · is communication between the two
phatically - a frequent species, but that "it's one very dys
abductee by space aliens. functional relationship."
Mrs. Trout was among the Sounds like "The X-Files" come
speakers over the weekend at the to life? The very idea has sparked
MUFON '99 International UFO media reports ranging from Fox
Symposium at the Hyatt Regency TV to PBS' NOVA show. Essentially Bob Kathman (left) of Baltimore and David Huggins of Hoboken, N.J.,
Crystal City, which drew 400 atten the scenario is the same: Alien kid tour a room full of "abductee art," including some by Mr. Huggins.
dees, many of them scientists and nappers snatch unsuspecting peo
government workers. Also attend ple and perform sexual experi
ing were curiosity seekers, New ments on them in the hopes of
Agers and artists, who fllled one creating a hybrid human-alien
room with "abductee art" of race.
creepy scenarios featuring small, Aliens are apparently multi told conferees, she found a trian abduction stories contaminate the
gray beings with large heads and generational, too. "Ever since I gular cut burned into her abdomen effort. They're difficult to prove
limpid, black eyes. was a child, I've had encounters," and began experiencing uterine and difficult to believe."
Normally, the Seguin, Thxas Betty Ann Luca of Hays, Va., said bleeding. People in the other cars, Physicist Robert Swiatek of
based Mutual UFO Network sticks at a press conference. After intro she said, claimed to have been Fairfax said there has been plenty
to more provable pheliomena, ducing her daughter, Becky, she taken into alien ships. 1\vo of them, of evidence over the past SO years
such as the mysterious, huge V said even her grandchildren and she said, emerged with strange that "something is going on," but
shaped object that floated above great-grandchildren "have had ex shaped slashes on their inner "there is no definitive evidence to
Phoenix for 106 minutes on March periences." thighs and ankles. civilian UFO researchers that the
13, 1997. Residents flooded police The star speaker at the confer UFO researchers from a nearby UFO phenomenon is extraterres
departments and Luke Air Fbrce ence was Kelly Cahill of Australia, university combed the site in tial in origin. If there were, we
Base in nearby Glendale with ter who kept several hundred people hopes of finding some traces of wouldn't have to be trying to con
rified calls. spellbound with her account of a paranormal activity and came up vince these people there is legiti
This year, the MUFON confer multiwitness "abduction." It oc with strange holes about 191/2 feet mate phenomena to be studied."
ence ventured into far riskier ter curred early in the morning of apart burned into the ground, as if "I don't know where UFOs
ritory by turning over much of its Aug. 8, 1993, she said, when six a giant tripod had rested there. A come from, I don't know what they
speaker slots to more radical terri persons in three different cars told soil test revealed an abnormally are, I don't know who or what
tory: People who claim to have authorities of being forced over to high concentration of sulfur in the mans them," he said. "It's my per
been kidnapped by aliens. the side of a road east of Mel area. sonal opinion it's an extraordinary
"This phenomenon is very diffi bourne, the capital. Mrs. Cahill said her religious phenomenon of nonhuman intelli
cult," admitted MUFON board After they had gotten out of convictions have radically gence .... I cannot prove it to you
member Thomas Deuley of San their cars to investigate what changed since the incident, as the definitively."
Antonio. MUFON had sidestepped looked like a hovering craft with kind of Christianity she had known
the issue for some time until the bright orange lights, they were ap had no category for her experi Budd Hopkins, a UFO investi
number of people calling their of proached by 7-foot beings, cloaked ence. Conferee organizer Susan gator living in Manhattan, said: "If
fice with abductee stories got too completely in black with luminous Swiatek, an Episcopalian, said ab something violates physics as we
numerous. Now "we're in the posi red eyes, she said. Partly because ductees, including participants in know it ... somehow it has to be
tion of having to deal with it:• he of her Pentecostal background and an "abductee support group" in rejected. It's very difficult to get to
said. partly due to the evil feel of the Centerville, have been shunned by people who've already made up
Dressed in a dark -colored pant "energy wave" emanating from church members. their minds."
suit with silvery hair, Mrs. '!rout these creatures, she first thought "Christians need to look at this He compared the UFO phe
looks more like a denizen of county they were demons. with new eyes and say it's not all nomenon to early accounts out of
fairs and rural school board meet She said she was knocked to the demons and delusions," she said. the Auschwitz concentration camp
ings than an abductee of alien ground and temporarily blinded. "It's either real or a new mental in 1945. "[Both] were inherently
spaceships. Mrs. '!rout started "Let go of me," she overheard her illness." unbelievable. How could they have
speaking out about 18 months ago husband saying. Then, she remem Not everyone attending the con happened?" he asked. "If you find
·when she realized she had to ex bers a "sarcastic, beautiful male ference agreed that "abductees" the material is inherently unbe
press the truth as she sees it. voice" with no accent informing should have been given time at the lievable ... and inherently disturb
"I was in the line of fire, and I them that "we are a peaceful peo podium. Vincent J. Mooney of ing, you're not going to get people
got hit:• she says of her abduction ple" and telling his companions he Fairfax called their tales "a never opening up their minds and allow
experiences that began during her would not harm her because, never land" of confusion. ing their curiosity and their scien
childhood years. "We are being uti "after all, I am her father." "UFO stories are complicated tific impulses to see what in fact is 4
lized [by aliens]. There is some This frightened her, she said, as to explain as it is," he said. "The going on."
kind of breeding program under her real father was still alive. She
way." remembers little after that, until
Most distressing, she reports, is she and. her husband found them
the way aliens perceive humans - selves back in their car. Later, she
MESSENGER, Topanga, CA - July 29, 1999 CR: P. Dennett
By Preston Dennett •the Entrada lady who experienced
a bedroom visitation by a short entity
Anyone who has lived in Topanga who temporarily paralyzed the witness,
for any amount of time knows it is a probed her body, clipped off a lock of her
strange and magical place. I learned this hair, and left as mysteriously as it had
firsthand in 1987, when several Topanga arrived;
•the Fernwood teacher who was
residents began telling me of bizarre
awakened by helicopters hovering over
experiences with UFOs. Two years later I
the state park and saw a shiny metallic
sent an article, detailing their stories, to
the Messenger. The article was published disk scooting down the Canyon, easily
evading the helicopters;
in January 1989, and was the first UFO
•the couple who was chased down
article ever printed by the Messenger.
the boulevard by bright glowing objects
But it ·was by no means the last. In
that moved silently and darted at right
July of 1992, Colin Penna (then editor of
the Messenger) published the article, angles (I have at least five cases of UFOs
chasing cars down the boulevard), and
"UFOs Over Topanga-The Sixth
Encounter: They Came Once More." The •_the man who saw a fiery red globe
of light land next to the boulevard near
article described an incredible event
which occurred on the night of June 14, the video store.
1992. On that night four separate These are only a few of the nearly
witnesses called the Lost Hills/Malibu 100 cases I have uncovered in Topanga
Sheriff's Station reporting UFOs over Canyon. It wasn't long before news of
Topanga. One couple said their car was my investigations spread and, the next
chased by three objects as they drove thing I knew, I was leading groups of
through the Canyon. Another person people into the Canyon for the purpose
said he was tailgated from above by a of seeing UFOs. Amazingly, we were
brightly lit object which cast beams down successful more than once. On one
on his car. Another couple reported that occasion, the television program
they too were followed by a light, which "Encounters" filmed a segment in
hovered over their car and lifted it in the Topanga and actually caught an
air. The final call came from a couple anomalous light on film! The local KTLA Entering the Twilight Zone is author Preston Dennett at Entrada
who was awakened by a bright object news also did a segment, and "Unsolved UFO landing. .
hovering over their home near the Mysteries" expressed strong interest. In
boulevard. May 1995, the Messenger published my
Calls also came into the office of the follow-up article, ".UFOs Over
Messenger--one reporting an odd star Topanga-the 1994 Sightings" which
like obj~ct which darted across the sky, only touched the tip of the iceberg in
and another reporting blinding· beams of terms of the sheer number of sightings.
light outside the witness's home. However, it was not the last UFO article
Colin Penna put the accounts printed in the Messenger. In 1998,
together in an article. Shortly after residents along Calion called the
publication the article sent shockwaves Messenger's office and reported sightings
through Topanga, and beyond. Several of strange lights. More details appeared
letters were sent to the Messenger, some in the editorial article, ''UFOs Anyone?"
of which were published. · which was published in October '97. e -UFO
More calls came in, both to the police Today, I have collected all the Sighting
and the Messenger, reporting more UFOs. Topanga accountS and published them in
The article was quoted in both the Daily a new book titled, "UFOs Over Topanga Henry
News and the Los Angeles Times, and Canyon." Just released by Llewellyn Ridge
eventually found its way into ·a Publishers, it tells the story of the 1992
UFO wave which actually lasted for more
mainstream book in England, where the
event was listed as one of the most than two years. I also discovered that
significant UFO encounters of that year. Topanga Canyon has a history of UFO
As more and more calls began to encounters stretching back to the 1940s! I
flood the Messenger office, Colin recalled found activity strong in Malibu and
my earlier article and referred the calls to Santa Monica, and to this day I still get Topanga
me. He said, ''You're a UFO investigator. calls from residents who are seeing
See if you can find out what happened UFOs. State
that night." All of this and more is covered in the
I agreed, and so began the single book, whjch is on sale at bookstores Park
everywhere. But if you're a true
?'ost . complicated case I have yet
rnveshgated. I not only found additional Topangan and don't feel it necessary to
descend into the smoggy city, you can
witnesses to the events of June 14, 1992,
find the book at local Topanga retailers
bu~ I interviewed many other Topanga
~estdents who had seen strange activity including The Spiral Staircase, Country
rn the days and weeks following June 14. Natural Foods, and Fernwood Market
I networked with the police station, and (where, I am told, it is flying off th~
they began referring callers to me. shelves). Or you can order directly by
Before long I had interviewed well calling (800) The-Moon (800/843-6666).
over a hundred Topanga residents and Preston Dennett grew up in Topanga ami
uncovered dozens of encounters of all resided here for more than 20 years. Today he
types. Topanga, it seemed, was in the lives in nearby Canoga Park, but plans
middle of a UFO wave of activity. I got someday to make Topanga his home again.
calls from longtime residents throughout Anyone wanting to .report UFO .sighting_s
the Canyon-from the Top 0' Topanga can reach Dennett at [phone]. •
trailer park to the top of Fernwood, down
Old Canyon Road and up Entrada, and
everywhere in-between.
Pacific Ocean
The stories shared with me by
Topangans were truly incredible, such as:
Map of UFO sightings in Topanga.
•the Entrada family who
experienced a metallic craft landing
outside their home for three days in a
(continued on page 6)
row, on several different occasions;
• the Fernwood family who 5
encountered three disks on their way to
the local market, and experienced a
period of missing time;
(continued from page 5 - MESSENGER, Topanga, CA - July 29, 1999)
s ·over Topanga: numerous articles when strange craft hit
:~uFO'
the fan in Topanga in the summer of
Eyewitness Accounts of the
1992.
California Sightings" by Preston Born .and raised in the Canyon, the
Dennett, $12.95, Llewellyn writer began leaving flyers around town
inviting anyone with experience or
Publications, 1999
knowledge of UFOs to please contact
him.
Slow at first, responses began to
pour in-and continue to this day.
Dennett believes that the appearance of
the "Sixth Encounter" story in the
Messenger opened the floodgates to a
collective memory, and encouraged those
embarrassed by them to realize that they
were far, far from alone.
Review by Colin· Pen no Some encounters went back decades,
including a striking one in a chapter the
With recent scientific discoveries author calls "Missing Time on
being what they are-snowballs from Grandview Drive." It began one summer
afternoon in 1961 or '62, when Fernwood
space bombarding the Earth with
·thousands of tons of water d~ily; comets, resident Beverly Smith and her two
meteors and other space junk scattering young daughters were heading back up
"building block" chemistry all over the the hill in their Volkswagen van after a
place; and the almost monthly discovery trip to the market.
of yet another distant sun surrounded by "It was Beverly who saw it
planets-it would seem not a matter of first-two or three large, shiny metallic
whether there is intelligent life out there, disks hovering at eye level (to them) on
but why aren't we having lunch with the opposite ridge of the Canyon ... over
the Entrada area." They pulled over and,
them?
almost 40 years later, Beverly told
Topanga native Preston Dennett is
Dennett exactly what she saw: "I saw
one such person who feels that way.
these two-what we referred to then as
In his just-published second book
'flying saucers' or whatever--outer space
"UFOs Over Topanga Canyon," Dennett
supplies an intriguing compendium of things. I saw these two ... over near where
sightings, incidents and encounters over the park is. You could see them really
the Canyon and beyond-from Santa clearly, and it was just really strange.
Monica to Malibu and across the _ They were round, like the. pictures you
mountains. . see these days-similar to those tops that
While he hangs the structure of his you push and spin, the old fashioned
book around the June 14, 1992 UFO scare spinning tops."
w,hich was written up in the Messenger as Beverly and her daughters decided
uThe Sixth Encounter: They Came Once to continue on home and fetch some
More," and contends that the Canyon binoculars, and that's when their
these days is.a UFO hotspot, the author is memories vanish. Beverly says, "I
careful to reach into the past to bolster remember somebody saying we had been
his case·. gone an awfully long time just to go to
On February 25, 1942, in a still th~ store ... "
famous incident that eclipsed anything The majority of the sightings and
the Japanese enemy would bring to bear, experiences in the book, though, are
the population of Los Angeles was scared centered in our own time-the
to death by the appearance of a large, 1990s-and range from ho-hum colored
disk-shaped object over the city. The 37th lights-in-th-e-sky stuff to the truly
Coast Artillery Brigade opened fire, and extraordinary. A great many are from the
debris from exploding triple-A shells corridor along the boulevard-"where
killed three people. Many homes and the Canyon gets deep"- from the Center
buildings were destroyed as "the object north to_ the Valley ridge, where Top 0' Yer. This is a drawing of the craft that one family saw land by the state park
eventually proceeded at a leisurely pace Topanga gets its share. of Entrada.
over the coastal cities between Santa ~~ ... As I looked across the road over
Monica and Long Beach." The craft was the water tower, this huge, humongous,
seen for several hours by many gigantic red object lit up red with little
thousands of people. lights-it came flying over the water In struggling to explain the
Dennett scoured the literature to tower. I would say it was about three or concentration Gf sightings (and, if you
bring us this gem from the 1954 book, four times the width of those water believe it, landings) in the state park, the
"Flying Saucers on the Attack"-"Freda towers. The thing was huge." writer leans to a vortex as a possible
owns a house in Topanga Canyon. One What you get from the book (if you reason: "A vortex is an area with a high
night ... she got up, looked out, and saw a care to believe the scores of Canyon level of geo-electromagnetic energy."
silver bar hanging in the sky, quite near. people interviewed by Dennett) is that Quoting Anthony, a contactee who has
It hopped around here and there. It the occupants of many mysterious craft had two UFO sightings over Topanga
would vanish and then_ return, as if are mighty interested in the area over, Canyon, there exists an even larger
quartering the neighborhood, looking for above, and around Topanga State Park. vortex over Topanga Canyon. "He
something ... a number of people have The ongoing story of one very nice (Anthony) says that he can actually see
seen a round object showing different and normal-sounding couple is most the energy from the vortex. According to
lights and colors, moving fast through compelling. They live, judging from the him, it is a negative vortex, meaning it
the clouds, by day or night." book, near where those beautiful rotates counter-clockwise. Also, the
And so it goes through the meadows border the lower road along vortex is giant, spanning the entire Santa
decades-fascinating stories which lead the approach to the park at the top of Monica Mountain range including all of
one to think that, back then, Santa Entrada. Topanga Canyon and Malibu, and parts
Monica Bay rather than the mountain "On Saturday, June 20, 1992, at of Santa Monica and Woodland Hills."
interior is where the action was at. around 2:45 a.m., Sarah was awakened Preston Dennett's "UFOs Over
"Well, even in the sixties, families from a very strange dream ... She saw a Topanga Canyon" is a damned good
were going down to the beach and large object hovering outside her read, made especially succulent by
waiting for a UFO to pass by," Dennett bedroom window: 'It was in the field endless references to spots around the
quotes Malibu resident Robert M. Stanley across from my house. And it was a corner or across the Canyon from the
as saying. "By the early 1970s, whole ship!"' reader.
families were going down to the beach at Dennett devotes a whole chapter, Along with the possible reality of
Point Dume at night to watch the multi "Contact," to Sarah's story, in which her God,.our existence as a species on this
colored UFOs that would sink under the husband Roger was also involved: "He riotously fecund little planet, and our
water at times." leaned forward, looked out his bedroom imbued and/or evolving intelligence, I
But it's the Topanga stories th::~t window, and received the shock of his can think of no more interesting area of
really grab you. Maybe it's the life. Less than 50 feet away a giant, contemplation.
locale-the fact that you're reading a metallic-looking, disk-shaped craft The truth is out there-perhaps right
book talking about the street around the landed in a field. The object ... sat next to over our heads.
comer from you, and every location is as the road in full .view of several houses. Former Messenger editor Coli11 Penna is
familiar as your own back yard. He soon realized that whatever the object presently greenhouse manager at a 11ursery in
Quiet, polite, studious and even shy, was, it wasn't going away anytime Oregon. • 6
Preston Dennett was already a field soon ... So, in the interests of not
investigator for the Mutual _UFO becoming a specimen himself, Roger
Network (MUFON) and author of remained inside."
REVIEW-JOURNAL, Las Vegas, NV - June 11, 1999
other life forms, the public would
handle it differently than if tele
vision news agencies announced
the findings while showing
scenes of riots in cities.
"It could all depend on who the
As urvey shows that people think they would handle first contact with aliens calmly but believe the reporter is," Kelleher said, add
government and their neighbors would react poorly to the sHuation. ing that hysteria can be conta
gious.
By Michael Amon hurting each other. Glen Campbell of the Area 51 Re If extraterrestrials land, who According to the poll, people do
Review-Journal Only 1:J percent thought the search Center. should make first contact? not trust the government to han
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listeners turn out to be right? als in a calm and reasonable mental, like "discovering a new event ment would release any informa
Aliens would make contact with manner. continent." tion.
humans, and everyone would The disparity betwe<'n what The survey suggests people do Only 20 percent said they
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mation to the public? ers capable will do, not what they'll does not do federal officials would suppress
and actively discourage civilian
Just maybe, the world would of surprised much to dispel
find some time to act rationally Dr. Colm actually do." that notion. knowledge of cqntact.
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done in April and released Tues Roper Organization to conduct ings in New Jersey and New York What do you think UFOs are? "That's the way that Ameri
day, most people think they could the survey in April. City among people who thought -<:ans have always thought. Amer-
handle contact with aliens in a "To us that .ueans that eilher the broadcast was a live news 1cans have always distrusted the
rational manner without the hy people don't trust other people, or feed. tovernment," Campbell said.
perbole of a worldwide catastro they haven't thought about the Welles' version of "War of the Space industry officials are in
phe. questions very much," Kelleher Worlds" also caused riots when ~gnant at the thought of mis
But few trust their neighbors said. played in Chile and Ecuador and, trust.
to react so calmly. When commenting on how they as recently as 1988, in Portugal. "Who would they trust (to han
tthheTa tip ttolhelled o m"fT a1hj,9eo 7rDi1ta ypy oe Aof pAfltmee rre eCrpiocoanrttttaesc,d t ," wftauoclluty,l d3p 2rre eppaeacrrtc eteodn tnto es wahiasdn otdhfl aeely ii tew,n ae cnroedn etadcF tteh wwaot s udtluedtd ahiiealsv t ehh aeov nee fh fbeuecmet naa lncioe cnniv dciuolicn t Jl~lisAekS eitdA).? sTphoek eDsemnavne rB Briraonn cWose?l"c h
84 percent, said they do not think 17 percent said they would have zation, Kelleher said. He said When dealing with a hypothet
human contact with alien life to seriously rethink their places that the results of the survey did lcal situation such as discovering
forms would change how they live in the universe. Only 16 percent · not rule out the possibility of .tien life, it is difficult to develop
from day to day. said they would be seriously mass hysteria as portrayed in •n exact, comprehensive plan for
Yet, 25 percent said their peers shaken, and 5 percent said they "Independence Day." Jnforming the public about scien
would "totally freak out and pan would be extremely distraught. tific findings, Welch said.
ic," 14 percent said alien contact Thirty percent said they wouldn't "That really depends.o n how He points to how NASA recent
the information is presented,"
would cause most people to be care. .. handled the announcement of
have strangely, 36 percent said The survey had a margin of er Kelleher said. a. theory that basic life forms ex
most people would be very con ror of 2.5 percentage points. If a military leader or a scien llted_on Mars. The theory was
cerned, and 10 percent said their "We're looking at a survey of tist calmly informs the public ~ on findings that Martian
fellow humans would become ir what people think they will do, that contact has been made with pks discovered in Antarctica
rational and dangerous, perhaps not what they'll actually do," said Mike Johnson/Review.Journal ~t»ntained fossils of microbes.
Welch said the government did matic as movies make it out to
•ot want to hype the Martian be.
.ndings before they were solidi Welch said most of NASA's ef-
.ed. ..fQrts at firs~<m_~ct are ~!!!g
'*We didn't want to do anything made through listening for in
to inhibit our scientists from get coming radio waves from space
ting a paper published," Welch that have signs of intelligent life
taid. "We kept it secret. We took and searching for signs of basic
extra special care that we at life on the planets and moonR n.f
NASA kept our mouths shut and the solar system. - ·
People surveyed by the Roper Organization were asked six questions with pre-set mu~iple let the scientific process take its "It's not so much.a question of
choice answers in face-to-face interviews. Before every question, a disclaimer read 'The next course." what are we going to do when the
few questions may sound a bit unusual ... ' Here is a sampling of.p araphrased poll questions
The possibility of contact is starships come down to the plan
and responses.
very plausible, Welch said, but et. It's how do we communicate
To what extent would the announcement of the discovery of allen life change the contact may not be so dra- (with them)?" Welch said.
iour lifestyle?
To a very lar9t1 degree 3%
To a modest degree 11
To a slight degree 42
Notataa. 26 EAGLE, Crestone, CO - July 1999 CR: C. Carpenter
Who cares/1 wouldn~ believe it 16
The Myste_rious Valley Forum
What would the government do If undeniable evidence of advanced
extraterrestrial life were confirmed?
Advise the public of the findings 9
Convene a civilian sciQfrtific panel ttlat would study the topiC • 7 Understanding UFOs, cattle mutilations & other
Conduct a study by gd\temment scientists and release the information 14 phenomena with David Perkins July 10
Classify the infonnation and not allow it ~ be seen by the public 48
Classify all aspects and suppress civilian sources from obtaining or
disseminating information about the topic 23 by Caryl Dennis cryptozoology, evolutionary biolo
Noanswer 2 David Perkins will be the gy, religion and mythology.
How would you react to undeniable evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life? speaker at the Mysterious Valley David's lecture is guaranteed
I am fully prepared to handle it 32 Forum on July lOth. David's lec to be intellectually challenging to
I would have to rethink my place in the universe 17 ture is entitled "Understanding anyone with a healthy sense of
1w ould be seriously shaken 16 UFOs., Cattle Mutilations and curiosity about the great mysteries
I would be extremely distraught 5
Other Paranormal Phenomena: of our times. Both unsettling and
I don~ care one way or another 30
Noanswer 1 The (Almost) Final Answer." His uplifting, David's often controver
How would other people react? eclectic presentation employs a sial in.sights offer new dimensions
A calm and rational manner 13 dazzling array of slide images to to ponder for both skeptics and
Very concemed 36 augment a bold and innovative believers.
Very strangely 14 synthesis of current theories on the It all takes place at the POA
Irrationally and possibly dangerously 10
Would totally freak out and panic 25 origins of unexplained phenomena. Hall. Vendors open at 6:00 pm
No answer 1 In his quest to arrive at a '_'unified and Parker Whitman will offer
NOO!: Nlll'bers may not add 14> to 100 pert:ent because of rourdng. field theory of paranormal phe world anomaly updates beginning
Source: Rooer Organizatioo nomena", Pavid draws from a at 7:00, followed by David's presen
Mike Johnson/Review-Journal broad spectrum of sources, includ tation The cost is $5. To inquire
ing popular culture, science fiction, about vendor space or for general
quantum physics, cosmology, psy information about the MVF, call
7
chology, consciousness studies, Caryl at 256-4959.
space exploration, anthropology,
LINCOLN TIMES-NEWS, lincolnton, NC - July 9, 1999 CR: G. Fawcett
Local UFO collection goes to museum The largest-of-its-kind collec
tion of UFO materials on the
globe is located near the site
where in 1947 a "flying disk"
Assortment pus was nearly deserted, Fawcett was reported to have been found
recalled. Nearly everyone was on a farm,
accumulated . cramming for exams.
Fawcett, a senior, tucked his It is said that a mortician was
text book and notes under his called following the alleged crash
over 50 years ann and began his daily sojourn and asked if he had four child
across campus. He passed by the size caskets. According to the
By BILL HEWITT administration building at 10 : 15 story, he was called a second
L TN Staff Writer a.m. time and questioned about pro
Some paopte-consider UFOS""-. "'It looked like a large tractor cedures used to embalm bodies
to be only the imaginings of chil tire but orange against a dark found in the desert.
dren and others with child-like blue sky. It was about 300 feet Secrecy is said to have
minds. Others wonder how Earth high and that same distance shrouded the event. But if the
could be the singular oasis of life away. I watched the object for mmiber of people visiting the
in this vast expanse of stars ex four-and-a-half minutes. It museum is any indication, the
tending beyond eyesight and even moved up and down like a yo yo secret is out. Over 500,000 visi
beyond the realms of imagina on a string, and then it took off tors from across the U.S. and
tion. at a 45-degree angle," Fawcett over 50 nations have toured the
Lincolnton's George Fawcett said. museum since its opening in
believes we are not alone and has That same night in Staunton 1992.
spent his adult life studying the Virginia, according to Fawcett, a
phenomena of extraterrestrial life woman reported an orange UF6 For his life-long contribution
and unidentified flying objects. had exploded in her backyard to the study of UFOs, Fawcett
Over that time, he has and set her lawn on fire. was inducted into the museum's
amassed a large personal collec Fawcett has always been curi Hall of Fame last week.
tion of UFO reference material. ous about UFOs. He recalls an "Its a field of dreams come
Last week Roswell's Interna entry he made in his WWII tru.e for me," he said.
tsieoanraclh UCFeOnt erM oupseeunemd aan d2 ,0R0e0 George Fawcett peruses his out.-of-this-world collection of bscorya pscboouotk. that intrigued him as a Fawcett wondered as a boy
square foot ·library and archives UFO sightings. Fawcett's lifetime collection of extraterrestrial "Paris, Dec: 13, 1944. Asso why the Germans never used
where Fawcett's work will re investigations and research is now featured in the archives of ciated Press. As allied annies their secret weapoo..
the International UFO Museum and Research Center in
main on permanent display. ground out new gains on the Since those early days, Faw
·Roswell New ~xico. ·
'The event was surrounded western front today, the Germans cett has dedicated his life to the
with pomp and fanfare. National Bob Sabo of Florida donated Fawcett's collection represents were disclosed to have thrown a scientific inquiry of l]FOs. He
Geographic and the HistQry their collections of nearly 50,000 over a half century of research new 'device' into the war - estimates he has traveled
channel were both there filming, documents, photographs, maga and a passion that took root in mysterious silvery balls which 200,000 miles over the past 55
said Fawcett. zines and books valued at Virginia. float in the air."' years investigating sightings.
He and fellow UFO researcher $250,000 to the museum. The Lynchburg College cam- What he has learned has con
vinced him·that UFOs are real.
'They are not natural phe
nomena. They are unconven
tional objects with a high degree
of technology. They represent a
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR - July 25, 1999
-Book maps hot spots triangular-shaped craft. However, it threat to our national security
was discovered that this town was in and to our survival," said Faw
a military flight zone. She believes cett.
for UFO site-seekers anbowly thIFaOt tsh e[ iUdeFnOti frieapbolret sf alyrien gp roobb leaNrno wfro tmhe Fwaowrlcde,t to'sr wwoorrlkd sa,t cthaen
jects]-military aircraft."
As for Little Rock, it was "one of museum and critique his conclu
the few U.S. cities involved in the sions.
It's not exactly a vote of confi worldwide UFO wave of 1900-1910.
dence when a guidebook starts with Jack According to an account described
a disclaimer from the publisher. in several UFO encyclopedias, the
That's the case with UFO USA, sub Schnedler sightings began in March 1909 on
titled A Traveler's Guid£ to UFO Sight England's east coast and quickly
ings, Abduction Sites, Crop Circks and Booked spread across the globe. Witnesses
Other Unexplained Phenomena. , to Travel consistently reported seeing a tor
The disclaimer appears on the sec pedo- or cigar-shaped object with
ond page of this Hyperion Paperback some sort of searchlight."
Original: ''The publisher does not en A TRULY UNIQUE TRAVEL GUIDE This apparition "apparently hit
dorse the authors' views, nor does the skies of Mabelvale, a small com
.the publisher express any opinion munity just minutes away from Lit
on the veracity of any of the materi tle Rock, on Dec. 13, 1910. A local
-al and information presented by the resident reported seeing a bright, light phenomena, planets, satellites,
authors." <The back cover lists UFO bobbing light that was moving stars. unconventional or secret mil
USA in the category "Travel/Humor.") rapidly through the sky. At first, itary aircraft, weather balloons.
It likewise can put a dent in a German spies were the suspected
-book's credibility when the authors culprits but that belief gave way to MINORITY OF MYSTERIES
moose to remain anonymous, list the speculation that what people But what about the remaining 10
ing themselves only as The Society across the globe may have been percent? Those are the mysteries
for the Preservation of Alien Con seeing was a UFO airship." that keep UFO enthusiasts going,
tact Evidence and Geographic Ex Never mind the puzzle of why says UFO USA And where are the
ploration <SPACEAGE). there would have been a German best places to hunt UFOs? The
That decision to lie low is ex spy scare in the peaceful year of greatest number of reports come
plained on the book's second page 1910. when the Great War that erupt ''from the Northeast and the South
as well: "Because of the controversy ed four years later was barely a blip west. Bush, N.Y.; La Grange, Ga.;
surrounding many of the sites on the horizon. UFO USA recom Phoenix; Colorado's San Luis Val
SPACEAGE identifies as 'of signifi mends Pinnacle Mountain State ley; and Gulf Breeze, Fla., ~re the
cant interest to the quest for evi Park on Little Rock's western out United States' most consistently ac
dence of extraterrestrial contact,' skirts as a prime spot to scan the tive UFO hot spots."
the members of SPACEAGE prefer skies for cigar-shaped airships and And if you decide to include a
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outside the orbit of UFO true be Cleverly drawn flying-saucer icons thors and everyone else in between." come excited, you're likely to forget
lievers, there's little overt sermoniz identify the kind of location According to the book's introduc to notice important details.
ing about the validity of visitations throughout the book. tion, "Serious ufologists will tell you 3. Know some basic astronomy. The
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land will be unsurprised to find the County seat of Marshall are two of more - Unidentified Flying Object.!" tigators have never seen one in tlw S
longest chapter devoted to sightings the Natural State's most active ar The authors supply a list of air skies.
in California, whose onetime chief eas for unidentified flying objects. borne objects most commonly mis 5. Wear sneakers. You just never
executive Jerry Brown was dubbed According to UFO USA, "Bishop taken for UFOs: airplanes, atmos know when you'll have to make a
"Governor Moonbeam" by the late says that Marshall was quite a hot pheric disturbances, ball lightning, run for it.
Chicago columnist Mike Royko. spot for many years. especially for blimps. meteors. naturally occurring
FOREIGN NEWS
[All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.]
SUNDAY EXPRESS, London, England - Feb. 28, 1999
The stran e adventures
of an alien investi ator
F
TONY DODD was a no-nonsense, hard-headed IRST ENCOUNTER: It was abduction stories, many of which I have
2.30am on a bitterly cold night in probed in depth.
Yorkshire policeman until one night in 1988 January 1978. As a sergeant in I believe that the abductees who come
the North Yorkshire Police with forward are only the tip of an extremely
when a strange encounter changed his life 15 .Years of experience, my job large iceberg. There are many, many
was to supervise the night people who have experienced
forever. In the first of two extracts from his patrols in the area around Skipton. I disturbances in their life and have no
knew the roads around the North idea of the cause.
book, Alien Investigator, he describes his own Yorkshire Dales well and, at this time of I
night, this narrow lane was the quickest N 1993, Tracey, Darren and their
first-hand experiences and how he came to route we could take. daughter Georgina and sons Daniel
As we approached a curve in the road and Marcus rented a cottage near
catalogue hundreds of bizarre cases of human me and my colleague noticed a glow of Wakefield for four months. One
light coming from around the bend. evening they heard a strange loud
ENCOUNTERS: Tony Dodd alien interadion on a hitherto unsuspected scale There were no buildings nearby, and my humming noise from outside. After
first thought was that another vehicle a few moments a very bright light
with lights on full beam was coming suddenly engulfed their cottage. It was
towards us. But the light was too big, an intense white light coming from the
too diffuse. sky, but they could not see the source of
We were suddenly confronted by a it. It lasted for about 15 minutes
huge airborne object about 200 feet in according to the clock, although it
front of us. It was a massive disc with a seemed "nly a few seconds as they
dome shape on top, small, round dark watched it.
portholes along the side and a skirting The next morning, Darren discovered
at the bottom. that the wrought-iron
Coloured lights - red, gates at the front of the
green, blue, white - cottage had been
: The truth is out there pulsed on and off, in no wrenched open and
discernible sequence twisted, and that the
- around the skirt and three sets of stable
the whole object, which doors - all secured
was hovering about 100 with padlocks - had
feet above the ground, also been forced open.
for new UFO society glowed as if white-hot. This forcing of the
I slammed on my stable doors continued
brakes and we skidded intermittently while
to a halt almost the family lived there,
underneath the disc. usually happening
We both instinctively about once a week.
"cC opened our doors and Soon after they
..! jumped out. Slowly and moved to the cottage
wcQ sbielgenantl yt o tmheo ve oabwjeacyt hToraspceitya l fwore nat chinetsot
into the distance until operation. The wound
it was over a forest a became seriously
few fields from us, infected. When she was
where it appeared to allowed home, the
descend among the bandage on the wound
trees. From our was secured with white
vantage point, all we surgical tape which
could see was a covered the whole of
glowing ball of white her chest.
light until we lost sight One morning she
of it completely below Tracey told of woke to find the
the ridge of treetops. bandage had gone.
Neither of us had There was no sign of it
spoken, nor had we felt waking to see anywhere in the bed,
any fear. Still without or in the room. Darren
speaking we climbed two vecy tall men, even pulled the bed out
back into the car. to check behind it, and
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> what we had seen, · the furniture was
w without being able to blue eyes cleared, there was still
a: make any sense of it. no sign of it.
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hard-headed individ pain. The wound was
....JJ ual. Yet I had seen monk-like habits clean and healthy
~ •Is there anybody out there? Michael Carter scans the skies for signs of alien life forms. something that I could looking - until then it
w IF there's anyone out what satellites look like "Moments later two jet ticular subjects well." snaonte ,e rxeplliaabinle -collaenadg uae hbaand dleaagkees d atnhdr os~tgahi nthede
> there with an interest on a 90-minute orbit of fighters appeared and His mother, Mrs had witnessed it, too. It bothered me, the bedding every night.
3: in UFOs and the para- the earth, and aircraft started to chase the Margaret Coles, is also and before I went off duty I made a pact On one occasion, Darren woke to see
normal, Michael with navigation lights lights. Many other people interested in the subject with myself that I was going to get to a figure near the bedroom window. Still
~ Carter would like to and so on. What we saw, reported seeing the snme nnd keen to help Michael the bottom of it. At that moment I had drowsy, he assumed it was Tracey. It
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0 er who helps to look "Of course I'm not of psychic phenomena as strange happenings can The more I looked for "them", the more window: there was nobody there.
U. after people with learn saying they were visitors well as UFOs. ring Mr Carter on Dean I saw, and I soon became eerily aware
ing difficulties, wants to from outer space, but it "For instance, the [phone] or Mrs that they appeared to be looking out for 0NE morning, Darren went into
start a Forest UFO and was something that can f-orest is a fanning area, Coles on 825662. me as much as I was for them. I quickly the bathroom for a shower.
paranormal society to not be explained as a nor· and in Scotland for Michael is expecting realised that plenty of other people Tracey followed him within a
investigate any strange mal phenomenon." example there havt' heen two new arrivals for the were also seeing mysterious objects. In second or two. To her
happenings in the area. · It was nothing like the severn! cases of animal planet this summer- he 1988 I retired from the police. I had astonishment, Darren. was not
Although he comes experience he had when mutilation which cannot and his wife have twins enjoyed my years as a country copper, there. Puzzled, she looked into
from Glastonbury - a hot he was younger of see be explained mtionally. due in either June or but gradually my interest in UFOs took the shower: it was wet and had
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tim pan of the worltl is also ing from hehind We: could look into anv and questioning people who believe was no sign of him. From the window
a hot-spot of UFO activity. GI:Jstonbury Tor. clairns like tim. · they have been abducted by aliens, she could see that his car was still on
"I was at Symonds Yllt "It was covered in all ··1 thought we might checking out their stories and the drive, so she ran downstairs and
with some friends not sorts of lights," he said. first meet in " pub or arranging for them to take part in searched the rest of the house. As she
long ago when we saw "It came towards us and something to talk over regressive hypnosis sessions. I now went back up the stairs she saw Darren
something over the Black circled above the house, setting up the group and have a whole filing cabinet full of on the landing, a towel around his
Mountains," he said. and then all at once it then we could have field
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(continued from page 9 - SUNDAY EXPRESS, London, England - Feb. 28, 1999)
Illustrations: STUART BRIERS
[Help from
our ET
brothers
waist, dabbing at a nick in his chin imprint of four fingers on both sides rounded ends: it was not completely unable to look at them properly
from shaving. He was bewildered of his torso. circular -but was curved at the because she could not turn her head.
when Tracey told him what had Significantly to me, because of corners. She was unable to move, but This was enough for one session,
happened: he was adamant that she what I know of other cases, Tracey could feel no physical restraints. but in future· Tracey will be having
had never walked into the bathroom, woke one morning to fmd her right There was a poweiful white light more hypnotherapy to talk about
and that he had been there all the nostril bleeding slightly, and shining down on her, and her chest other incidents. Like most of the
time. hurting. Because she was pregnant was exposed. others who had hypnotherapy, she
Shortly after this, Darren began to with her fourth child, I was not felt a sense of calm and relief after
lose time. A five-minute journey to prepared to let her be hypnotised. A SHE SAW what she described the session. My own belief is that
the local garage would take half an few months after the birth of her as a mechanical object
Tracey, and probably Darren, are
hour, with no memory to account for son, Branden, Tracey was put under coming down from above,
the missing minutes. On more than hypnosis. She told of waking in the with a long silver-coloured being abducted on a regular basis.
one occasion Tracey saw two tall, middle of the night to see two very needle at the end, and a line of They themselves have found it hard
thin old men with long white beards tall men at the foot of her bed, both red lights flashing up and to accept the idea of abduction but
and black habits at the foot of the wearing monk-like habits, and both down the needle. The needle came they have open minds and they
bed looking at her. All the family, with piercing blue eyes and white down as if automatically and believe the hypnotherapy will
with the exception of the baby, beards. entered the open wound in her chest, provide some answers. Both Darren
Daniel, would fmd strange marks Not knowing how she had got and she felt a burning sensation. She and Tracey are sensible, intelligent
and bruises on their bodies, and one there, she then found herself lying recalled seeing shadowy figures people who ask for nothing more
morning Marcus clearly had the on a white table in a room with moving about the room but she was than a happy, normal family life.
e Alien Investigator by 1bny Dodd is
Calling Molder
available in hardback (Headline,
£16.99) <D Tony Dodd 1999.
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amazed as the UFO changed from a diamond Mr Matthews often admires the night sky $4:.!6 a person. Those wanting to stay Sunday night pay only about
shNapoew intthoe a stirgiahntignlge . is to be checked by the 9w0a tmchininugte ssa. tellites that pass over Britain every $95, with breakfast and dinner included in the price. Children under
British UFO Research Association which has He is satisfied it was not a heavenly body_ the age of five stay free, while kids age five to 14 stay for half price. To
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