NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE June 2006 Number 443 EDITOR/PUBLISHER: Lucius Farish • #2 Caney Valley Drive • Plumerville, AR 72127-8725 USA 0 THSERRWOO,RCLeb LY· Desert toWn known and revered for UFO activity BY MARK MUCKENFUSS . dancing light~ over at Goat Mountain. T. THE PRESS-~ I had a couple of skeptics with nie and hey stop.into Halliday'S 10 to . I said, 'You'll see one, one day.' And 15 times a week, looking for they did.'' . . . little green men. · The ligh~s were not the firs~ en Faith Sclirepping, the wom counter for Brady. In the 1970s, he an behind the counter in . says, he saw something that seriously Landers' only convenienqe mru:ket .-. ~;;;.'."'·~·,:>·''";·~··, . atfected him.· · · . about half of a 7- Eleven-points them He was in his truck on Bellfield · down Bellfield Road toward the Road when he loolmd up. · dolll·ed-Integratron and to the sandy · "A' couple hundred feet above my road beyond that leads to Giant Reck. . head there was like a white cloud with Both sites.are integral to the world of . lights," he says. · "I could see ·the · UFO enthusiasts and both have given portals." · . this sprawling but thinly populated At about that time, he says, Van desert town a place on the map . Tassel zoomed past in his Cadillac, . It's no Roswell, N.M., but locals say heading toward the Integratron. The the. intrigue .of otherworldly visita hovering craft, Brady says, took off, of tions is an accepted part the local following the car. . . . . · .. culture. • . · · . · THE ASSOCIATED PRESS · "I haven't talked about that in Giant Rock is said to be a site where Clockwise from bottom left, Nancy Ako, Arjuna, Alice Jones, Kathy" Fulton and years," he says,·-adding that recount alien beings landed and met with Wink Mann inside the lntegratron, purportedly designed by eXtraterrestrials. ~ ing the memory shakes him up.· · George Van·T assel, .a one-time aero~ . Reports of such sightings aren't -nautics engineer, beginning in 19o3. says ~e has lived in Land~rs most of he says. limited to Landers, of course. In fact, ,Van Tassel later spent years raising his life. At one time, his family owned "I've seen UFOs," Brady says, his . some say the desert lends itself to. money'.for and building - .but never Gi~mt Rock and operated the cafe v.oice muffled by the helmet that he extraordinary experiences; . completing .· - · his Integratron, a there~ .the Come On Inn, which· is never removes t has attracted, he said. base . of the tree," he said. The have a· ready natural explana In section two of the bo.ok, animal was shot but was never tion) the authors did not lay out Kelleher and Knapp detail the found. "We had videotape equip the full array of scie.ntific data hundreds of dars and nights spent ment, night vision equipment. We an<;l charts in the book, preferring on what was a .working. cattle started hunting around the' tree to gear their narrative· to the lay 3 ranch at the time, and the·o bser for the carcass. and there was no person. . . vations of many of its haunting evidence ·whatsoever." Did Kelleher feel his involve-· mysteries that happened to NIDS . The same problem was encoun ment with NIDS ~ which has researchers beginning in March tered when flying orbs were seen since disbanded after paranormal 1997. by several people. Expensive au- FOREIGN NEWS [All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.] "If bogus information, fakes and hoaxes by Tim Readman are more important than the.truth there is no tim.readman@Yrnltd.co.uk. point in carrying on. Why could they not have made something about the real thing?" A UFO investigator is to burn almost 20 Mr Kellett has been interested in UFOs and years of research because of house has investigated the paranormal since a wives' favourites Ant and Dec. "close encounter" in 1988. He was riding home on his motorbike Russ Kellett is upset that the Geordie duo's when he was hit by a bright light at a level movie about a faked alien autopsy is taken more seriously and grabs more headlines cr-ossing near Keighley. In the early 1990s he started a group called than "real" sightings of alien craft. the International UFO Research Network The 42-year-old from South Crescent Road, with members around the world and later Filey, has hours of footage showing what moved to Filey because of all the sightings. appear to be flying triangles, silver saucers He led a campaign to get the coastline and strange balls of light. between Filey and Scarborough named the But he says he will set fire to the dozens of video tapes_a long with hundreds of photo UFO capital of Britain after more than 50 recorded sightings of objects that "defy graphs and documents because of the movie physics" in 1994 and almost 100 sightings the Alien Autopsy, which tells the story of how an extra terrestrial autopsy is faked using a following year. · tailor's dummy, some raw sausages and a UPSET ..• Russ Kellett with a photo of a UFO One of the sightings in the Filey are~ haggis. 0532588 described flying triangles emerging from the North Sea while there have been multiple A disillusioned Mr Kellett said the film "glorified" the real-life hoax; never gets a chance to come out so I might as sightings of fleets of small objects flying in "It makes a mockery of everything UFO well burn it. formation around Scarborough. ainbvoeustt,i"g haeto srasi dd.o " Tanhder ec'hse naop epnosin wt ihna ct awr·J~" yainrge No"rTthhe Yreo'srk mshoirree btehianng fainlmywedh aerroe ubnudt hwehrea ti'ns GeHoerg ep'lsa Dnsa yto- Aspetr ilf2ir3e -toon ah ihsi llp naepaerrs W ohnit bSyt. on. the point if it's never going to be viewed by He added: "From the sky it came and now MOCKERY ... Ant and Dec in Allen Autopsy ·~n this fascinating video footage we have millions of people? it's going back there." ·Q_EsPin rfl! · · . ·. · · • · · · idn tryat:UFOsightings are limited to.lcine· ly AmeriCans wandering_home in the middle of ho~here after ajugortWo of moonshine/spotting flying objects is not a distinc;tly,Yanke'e pastime, .. · :Since 1_9,8~~ th~re h~~e be~n more -~:ha_n 6~00Q •C - and credibility concerning any "When it got level with me it was there ::c:Ea Dreepfoerntc ree rleegasaerddi bnyg tUhFeO Ms i(n"iUstFryO osr one second and suddenly went away from , just a lot or hot air", May 8). ThiS is me within two seconds." Then last September the . retired "c0 tthhee vgeorvye ernxmisteenntc beo odry t hthisa et ndiegnmiead believe it! forestry worker spied a deep red star-like ftl tor 50 years, object moving slowly over his Falmouth 'Q All this report does is humour Road garden. ~ and irritate (in equal measure) . 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Call the Evening Post's Roa_d, ~arley, called to say she and "The first one was mind-boggling, like a paranormal reporter on (0118) 918 3009. CHRONICLE, Congleton, England -Nov. 18, 2005 Farmer convinced there is life out there after sighting two U.F.O.s A Congleton farmer · "Suddenly, in a perfectly clear claims to have spotted two blue sky, th1s object resembling a flying saucer appeared. It was about U.F.O.s in the skies above the' size of a two pence coin and at Astbury in the last nine first I thought it might be a reflec years and is now con tion of something at my re!}r, but I could not see anything. . vinced that there must be "Looking forward again, the life on other planets. object was clearly visible immedi · George· Ball believes that the ately over Jodrell Bank. It appeared strange flare of light that he and ·to be ascending at a very high speed other local people saw travel and slowly diminishing in size until ling through the night sky in 1996 it finally disappeared after about 35 was likely t6 be no more than a seconds. I estimated its height to be around 90,000ft. and it appeared to large meteorite, but this summer be around 60 miles away." he claimed to have witnessed · . Mr. Ball said that the object was another flying object that was ·silver in colour, with a dome-shaped somewhat harder to explain. top and thin ·wings. An aeroplane Sixty-six-years.;old.Mr. Ball, of ·enthusiast, he said that it moved in Ciss Green Farm, Watery Lane, . a fashion unlike any man-made air Astbury, has a keen interest in craft he had seen. . Mr. Ball points to the spot where he claims to have witnessed his. ~pace travel and astronomy stretch This· recent experience left Mr. first U.F.O. nine year~ ago. (Submitted photograph). mg back many years, but his knowl .Ball "gobsmacked" and keen to . edge of shooting stars and .t he far learn more about the· unexplored corners of the galaxy did not pre depths. of the universe .. Now he pare him for what he experienced wants to know if other "Chronicle" on the afternoon of 16th July this · readers· have had similar ·ex peri Vastness way to land at Manchester. A year. ences they would like to share. spokesman for British Airways · While mowing the grass at a The first time he claimed to have He ·saia: "l think what. I saw said that the mystery craft flew so · property in Wharf Lane, Moreton, seen a U.F.Q. was in September, in the summer was a flying sau .close to the airliner· that it caused his attention was drawn to an object · 1996, when a strange, cigar-shaped cer and I do believe there must Mr. Stuart to duck in anticipation in the windscreen of his tractor. light was also reportedly witnessed be life on other planets. There of a crash. . Swallows and swifts by a further three local people. His may not be life in our galaxy, but After the close encounter the account of what he saw that night when you consider.t he vastness of mystery craft flew on and was He said: "What caught my atten appeared in "Quest" magazine, a the universe, who's to say there not tracked again - alth.ough tion to look through the upper part monthly national publication that isn't another world as advanced, similar incidents had been report of my tractor windscreen was the investigates claims. of spaceship or more advanced, than ours, in ed . in the past,. particulatly in swallows and the swifts feeding on sightings. · . another galaxy?" . . the "Pennine Corridor" stretching the insects that I was disturbing by At· the time he was convinced However~ one person who does . from the Midlands to the'North. cutting the grass. it was some kind of flying saucer, not share his enthusiasm for a.JI In fact,· during the 20. years , but nine years on Mr. Ba'll believes things extra-terrestrial is Mr. before this encounter there had .he had seen not a spaceship, but a Ball's . 58-years-old wife been numerous sightings of what very bright meteorite. Rosemary, who remains scepti- became ·known as· the "Silent It was on.a Saturday· night and cal. · Vulcan" along the corridor, from he was on his way to fetch a cow She said: "I'm really not sure the Midlands through Derbyshire and her calf to his farmyard when what to make of it. I think he has and Yorkshire. · . he said his immediate surround seen something, he's ·not im~gin The ·object was named after the ings suddenly lit-up mysterious . ing it and wouldn't make it up, but British Vulcan bomber by U.F.O. ly. I couldn't say what he has seen." enthusiasts of the time. He said: "It was around Mrs. Ball joked: ''I think most 10.5lp.m. when · my shadow of the locals seem to think he Spate of sightings appeared on the ground and I could has gone crackers, but those who There. was also a spate of see all the surrounding fields, know him know that he did see U.F.O. sightings reported locally hedges, trees,. Congleton Edge and something." . in. the 1970s, particularly in the Mow Cop. I looked up and saw a · In r·ecent years, reports of Holmes Chapel area and Biddulph very bright light which was com U.F.O. sightings have been sparse areas. · ing from an object above me, the in the "Chronicle," but irt January, In .1975, 21-years-old Robert front of which was glowing very '199~, Congleton airline pilot Mark Wood of Leek said he caught sight bright red, with a white, illumi- Stuart and his captain were shaken of a strange glowing cigar-shaped ·niited tail." when their 'plane was "buzzed" object hovering over a field off by a mystery craft. A year after the A 54 and travelling from the. the sighting their experience was Bright Holmes Chapel direction towards officially recognised in a Civil the Congleton area. Mr. Ball said that his imme Aviation Authority report. Mr. Wood claimed that it was diate reaction was that it was a They were flying a Boeing around 150ft. high and had green flare, because it was so brilliantly 13 7 when they came frightening bright He explained that it origi ly close to a craft that passed flashing lights and portholes, add nally appeared to be about the size them at an unidentifiable speed. ing that three or four other motor of a golf ball, but grew in size as . They reported the "air ·miss" and a ists also stopped their cars to have it got closer to him. full independent investigation was a look. The object travelled over carried out by the C.A.A. At 7p.m. on New Year's Eve in 1979 a family were travelling Congleton in a north-easterly Relief from Middlewich to their Holmes direction in a long arc and as he Chapel home when they saw what watched it passed through a small The report by the Joint Air they described as a long flame, or cloud· at around 5,000ft., which ·Miss Working Group stated that a streak in the sky. It was aglow vanished as it did so, as if it had the findings of the investigation and travelling in the same direc burnt away. were "inconclusive" - meaning tion as themselves. Mr. Ball sai.d that as it got that the incident was recorded as jamesliggett@chronic/cseries. com lower the object changed in colour an unidentified flying object. The from red to orange, yellow, green, verdict came as. a relief for the blue, indigo and finally violet. pilots,_w ho had risked ridicule by "The object disappeared in the formally reporting the incident. direction of Woodford aerodrome. At the time, there were sug The whole experience lasted about gestions that the object could three minutes in total and then· it have been a military aircraft, but seemed to vanish. What was very experts had some 9oubts about odd was that there was. no noise that theory because such 'planes from it at all," he said. usually travel at a much greater Following his second experi altitude than the Boeing, which ence, Mr. Ball now tries to take a was travelling at 4,000ft. on its camera with him when he is out ~orking ·in the area and plans to. be even more vigilant of the skies in future. · · · 6 ·•. BEAN ME UP scoriaE: Thi picture that Nonnan Crossland took of.t he .. , · shlnunerini IJ8Y object seen flying over mW dam woods near the Heinz f~onMonday .c., . t· CIS 'a c CIS Q c w c CIS CD i ...... (J) ·.'.· 0 ~ " z z UJ ~ UFO SIGHTI-NG, OR J'UST .HALF;·BAKED? ing·.· '. ·.Ob·lec.t seen .• . BY CHARiES GRAHAM .:Fly<·.' SKYWATCH: . Nonnan UFOexpertowerei.WeatJCaUnc Crossland, this 'picture today after an ama-· - - whoaayshe Over Heinz factory photoaraphed ~~=ze~,: .a UFO . The.shlmmering·greyobject, said . but I certainly do now! It was .like ·object and I've got absolutely no . to be size of two jumbo ·j~ts, was something out of. a Hollywood' idea how to identify it. tracked ilCross the skies of Kitt ·film" "I could not stop staring at ifbut . Green by 61-year-old .Norman . R~tired· oil ind~ worker Nor":' !.managed to reach dpwn and grab Crossland of Standish. . man said the bi.zarte·spacecraft was my camera. · . · . .· He thought Hollywood block-. · twice the Size ~fa Boeing 747 but · · "My .own personal'view is that it buster War of the Worlds had come. did .not move like an aeroplane of might be a hi.:. tech new plane being to life when he saw the strange helicopter. · . · . , . tested'by the RAF or someone. · craft looming above the Heinz can- Norman, said: "The .thing was "They always try to kef!p these I ning plant. . · · movirig to the left at fil:st but then . things secretive but that's the only . Norman was carrying a pocket ~t changed direction and started explanation I ~an come up with. He said: "I may be mistaken but, camera and managed to record heading towards me. . · . J "Most people I have told have be lO!)king at the pictl,lres, I think I can these images of the UFO. ·. ·~·It was difficult to tell just how lieved me because 'they know I see another object' which could be a He said: "I was walking the dog big it was because it was so .far . ·would never make something like h,elicopter or small plane off to the last month .when. I felt like there away bl,lt'l reCkon it was at least this up; ' · · top left of the object. · . was someone behind me. I looked twice the size o.f a B.oeing"U7. "There are always.s ome doubt~ "This may be towing some large up and noticed this thing conling "It seemt~d to. be·floating in the ·and I can understand that I'm not . sheet, perhaps an advertising ban-. over the top of the hills, I was mes- air but then changed direction.re- sure I would have b~eved it if I ner, which seems to have some kind merised. ·. . . ·. · · ally quickly. It dic;l not move like an · had not seen i~ with my own eyes." of logo· on it. It does look two-di- · "It was as c1.ear a day a:s you aeroplane and there were nq pro- Ian Hawthorne-co-ordinator of mensional. · · could have Wished for and it was pellors like on a h~cop.ter.. · , .WasPsi, the Wigan.group which,J,n- "I ain quite sceptical about' most ·th· e" I.onnelvye trhbinelgi einv ethdein s·kUyF. O. s.before . i· t· "VYfaosu fhlyamveg t,o,! tc lw~ass i td easfi an iUteFlyO aans,· . • .vc oenstvtignacteeds: the. unk.n . ow. . n -: is· ··n· ot ·sCiagthegtionr·yg.s" and this falls int·o that i·s the limit ~ Sky He and his partner then z started to look at other stories -often in newspapers - and tfor UFO hunters used telephone directories to . · contact the people who had reported the sightings .. The stories flooded in from all over the coUntry, with accounts from former ser· vicemen, pilots and policemen, as well UJ members of the public. "There is nothing better than speaking to someone first hand," said Mr Hanson. CATALOGUING unexplained "It's rather exciting talking to senior activities in the night skies airmen who have seen some amazh1g above the UK has been the 11· things." year project of Alvechurch However, the couple have also followed u.i couple John Hanson and up their fair share of hoax stories, includ· .J Dawn Holloway. ing one where a man photographed discs (z.) They have spent more than a on his car windscreen and claimed they decade researching and com· wereUFOs. 0 piling accounts of unidentified "We are firm believers that you can a: flying objects since 1940 ready only form your own ot~inions by doing :z: for a four-volume publication. your own research," said Mr Hanson, of 0 With. a working title of Red Lion Stre~t. · Haunted Skt~s. the book fea· The couple are now looking for a tal· tures in·depth accounts of en ted graphic artist to help them design a unexplained objects in the sky book cover. · ' presented chronologically. "We want the q).lality of the artwork to "We have included a lot of reflect the quality of the book," said Mr stuff that has never been cov· Hanson. ered before," said Mr Hanson. · Anyone interested in offering their The 58-year-old retired ·artistic services to the project can call Mr policeman explained he first Hanson on 0121 445 0840. became interested in the sub· ject after speaking to some fel· ltohwey o fhfaicde rsse aebno uint stohme enthiginhgt ..........~ . ;,.~ 7 skies over Binningham in the early 19908. • UFO researchers John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, · · Picture: SIMON MARSHAL.L SM46001 GAZEllE, South Shields, England -April20, 2006 HOVERING ... a police helicopter, returning_ from a routine patrol around the cliffs of Beachy liead, above, gave· chase to a mysterious cigar-shaped object over the skies of Brighton, Sussex, ·MBy MIK·YE HALLOWELL . friend Alan . Tedder has sent me information concerning. an eerie UFO sighting near Brighton. It's a while since I covered a good UFO story, so here we go. On August 11, 2000, the Sussex Police helicopter was returning to headquar ters from Beachy Head. The weather was fine and the two people on board - Sergeant John Trickner and paramedic Sean Mitchell - were no doubt enjoying the view HOT PURSUIT ... the highlighted cigar-shaped object was caught from their coasting altitude of 1,000 ft. hovering on the police helicopter's thermal imaging camera. Without warning, a bright, cigar shaped light suddenly appeared to from beyond planet earth. The police who originally covered the story. starboard. · · · Sergeant-later commented that never . Barbara has apparently moved on The object - according to press for a moment did he'think··the·· object t<;> pastures new, but Richard did send reports at the time-floated next to the was anything sinister an·d the two me copies, one of which is reproduced helicopter before shooting off into the crew members actually thought that here with the kind permission of distance, .. the incident was quite funny. . Sussex Police. · After they recovered from their ini· Chase I've highlighted the strange, verti~ tial surprise .the crew decided to give cally-hanging cigar, but can't offer any chase and immediately began an air During the chase they both joked clues as to what it was, I'm afraid. borne pursuit of the UFO. about the possibility of little green _That didn't stop some creative souls As it was evening, they attempted to men and admitted later that they having a go, however, and suggestions film it using·t he helicopter's thermal didn't·really take the incident seri were made by· unnamed experts that imaging camera. ously. the sighting could help prove that For three minutes they chased Of course, this doesn't mean that it there is life on other planets. · the object through the skies above wasn't a serious incident. Actually, all the sighting proves is Brighton before they eventually gave The fact is that something appeared that there was a very strange light in up and returned to base. in the sky over Brighton that night the sky over Brighton that night. The footage was quickly made_public and to date, it has not been satisfacto- The object seemed to have a flame and it wasn't long before UFO experts rily explained. . coming from the bottom and was around the globe began to speculate on I spoke to Sussex Police and, sadly, apparently under intelligent control, just what the witnesses had seen. ·they no longer have a copy of the foot but whether it hailed from Alpha The now-defunct UFO Magazine . age or any stills from it. Centauri or Accrington is another did a write-up of the incident and the · Richard Taylor, picture editor of matter. . fllm was even screened at a conference Brighton's local newspaper The Argus, As usual, Bizarre readers wiil have about the Brighton sighting and other. kindly searched the paper's archives· to make up their own minds. . 8 Whatever it was; Trickner and to see if they had a copy, while their Send your eerie tales to bizarre( Mitchell didn't seem to think they'd news desk tried to put me in touch ans@tiscali.co.uk or write to Mike: had a close encounter with something with Barbara Davidson, the reporter directly at the Gazette. . .form of magic designed to give 'humans .power over the anlmals ·they hunted. As I iay on ~ 'couch in a darkened roo!llin the For millennia, man ·. thTeh 2is0 tihd ecae nptruervya ibleudt ifto lrs m huacrdh .toor see why because it was so patently ancient city of Bath, the streets outs1de grew . wrong. We can tell what our quiet ·and deserted and offered few clues to ancestors ate by the animal bones remind me of the 'familiar world. It was .. discovered fn the caves, and these lruemasfsuuoruins gd itaol tolnf dm.yt h watr iIs tcwoautlcdh ~ itfil Il hreeladd i tth f:ue has been seduced · draerpeilcyt edm ona ttchhe wathllse. creatures More importantly, many or the frToennt m oifn muteys epyfie$ss.e d then· 2 0,· then 35. I began· to feel bo · rme· d.a , · itmhaatg ehsa vfeea ntuervee rf aenxtiasstteidc omno Ensatrethrs. restless, even a little biase. But at the ehd of the ftrst hour of Known as ·•therianthropes', they tvoiOg-diuli,s tw coohfv enenor .wI t hhtraeirtee dm, ytao nl e.se gtnase nwrdvo auutlpidn · agnn ofdet ewwboalelrklnt .ea srs~ hcatd, aIm wbaua· s~h· ede m y. . by glimpses of the tahrTeeh h~'aByl fe'i naacnslitum-Mdaela sasuntcedhr h' gaorlffo· . mttehasenq u.· Terso aiss lini:bs the slightest· physical effort set off uncontroijabl~ Freres cave 1n France. Deeply tremors and stumbling,· and I completely lost my .sensed9I ·engraved into a rocky ceUing, this ·fdbeaeIll lrra.b.eon amfcc etekl.mn Aeaxb lwhletaaryeuv,,dse tt ,hoe w was research into of uninvited g).les.ts. They the origins· of our belle! in the stayed firmly in. view even repeated over that length of time. .supernatural. But ,·I must when I opened my eyes-for .s ame mysterious . And just as significant Is the fact admit to another, much more the most part anonymous and · that similar images can be found all .·tp p hae1eirtns hfpouarnled adv lte iomoa utdohsot i tvarweou imtatuhs m b mwoneny le laf. ac n·ta dbn emcre'ysr . lhsihkeAaea d fdte,ohsww ed syyoh,ow ouswnhn.oeg ud. b l tldhoeen~idsr mfhaucaennsc, thahneeddy,, Aaarrfcorhiucanae.do lItohnge is atw s ocharalvdve e - idnin scoNotaavmberlieybd ii ana, fuexcusable failure to be at his had the look of the grave. beings from a terrltytng painting of a ftgure with bedsloe during the last few As these eerie. visions the feet and legs of a human being days of his life because I was· continued, I fell into a dream and the body, head and massive too busy working. state for what seemed a very jaws of a lion. It Is thought to be Part of the appeal of thi~ long time. In tlashbacks of that around 27,000 years old. frankly risky experiment was night I believe I see my father .p arallel.u niverse? · ··• ·. In South Africa, I have seen among the crowd of phantoms stunning rock paintings of beings The figures gathered around me. · · that are half man, half praying s·ometimes these images are mantis. In Tanzania, there are had.t he look.o f · so poignant and intense that I weird images of human bodies with can almost· bell eve he. Il)Ust · Insect heads, including 'feelers' and the grave . wreaallklyin gh abvye w·bietehn d oigunti ttyh ea.rnea1 eyCelse aornl ys,t alskusc. h image.s ·are not wpaaisn f,i jguhstitn ags h hise cdaindc ewr.h en he dePictions of a hunter's prey. They undoubtedly its promise of thFeo rv imsioornes tehnadne 1d2 Il ).roeumrsa ainfteedr might humadn f rc onsct.iho usbnoedsys awnecsiteenrtn c av. eE suyrsotepme.s of sHouerthe,· -area pnidct uthrees qouf seusptieornn aitsu, rhaol wbe ianngds a•enndc otuhnet p~orsss iwbiltlhit ya nocf ecslotosrusr'e, .vwiaollke.n tIltY w ialls annodt wunatsi lu tnwaob·l d~a ytos . cubiner dclueibrm esrtaatnec ceertsa oianmn d · . bseep ceocmiael · ybee·atwr·s e eang o4, 0,o00u0r apnredh. i3s0to,0.r 0i0c wanhcye swtoerres ?t hey conjured up by our that it seemed to offer, later that I felt completely. able to . interact with this ancestors · chose to paint The answer. almost certainly lies fn As the poison remorselessly better and was able to· retlect otherwise hidden. realm? beautiful · and enigmatic another mysterious set of recurring tightened its grip, I fell prey to fully on what I had seen. · . In other . words, could my images on rock faces shrouded images ln 'the caves: enigmatic ipnhdyessiccarli.banadb lpes yscehnics autnieoansse . oItf siInfg Il e wdeerfein itnog ~muianllatyt eo f tmhey . p'bearllcue.pcitnioatniosn· os'f ~ rveea l bbeeenin rgesa?l ·i nT dhaer kgnreeasst .p atnted caves. such ngeeto$m, leatdrdice rpsa atntedr znisg -szuacgh li naess g. rids, was as ft my body was. being . vlsfon~. it woul ha,ve to be outlandisn though the idea as Chauvet, Lascaux and Peen These patterns are central to the sslmowaslhye da SnI1d-d dissymsteemmbaetriecda,l l. y mthaetitre. rre hmowar •koatbhelerw soernldsely -' thneyo. sreosuenadrsc,h . ·hmasy· co. nsvui~nsceeqdu emnte . iMn eSrlpea iinn ,F croannctaei,:n a snodm Ael toafm tihrea· wmourckh -orfe Dspaevcidte dL ewpisr-oWfeisllsioamr s, oaf My ears ruled with· a were - of being real, . that it may; in tact •.b e true. . oidest art in the world. archaeology 1n South Africa, who · tbruemzzeinndgo.·u M11y eyreisniggihntg r ap·iadnldy se·Tehmee ds t~oi rgilti mppseeo cpalrer ieId whiatdh 'h· ru mbealnl ewv~o ttlhda at lsmuocsht acne retaxitnrlay· thIet iAs lstoa m'wloran dcraovuess twhaerte w thlresnt hdeacso cdoimnge cthloes mery thstaenri aens yoofn cea veels ae rtto. bedegceasm wei tho bstsrtarnugcet ebdla cakt lintehse, .ctheertmai.n atny uannads ssoalli,ldaibtyl.e . a·u ra or da oveass et xriaSntg,. e~· odf mthyastt eitr ieoxupsl aainnds · · .co epnetnuerdy ,a atc tahdee tmulrcns orfe tfhusee 2d0 ttoh thLee rweissu-Wltsl lollfa vmarsi owuass n ienutrroigpusyedch boy lniok el ofnengceer -speoe smtsy, 'wSOa tthcha ta In cdo hualdd th·Teh ceo reex paenrdie In cceo uslndo no,okt meaes-iltYo pseheemnionmgleyn a thautn eh'aOvnen ebceteend bcaevlleemvee np wriemreit icvaep aabnlde. osaf vsuagche vloogliucnatle eerls( periumnednetrs inm owdheircnh to abandon all control of time. .· accept the scienttnc view that ·recorded·t hroughout human creativity, suggesting instead laboratory conditions were given Gre'at gusts .of dizziness hit these were just. hallucinations, hlstoey-!rom.t he sightings of that· the paintings we.re ·hallucinogenic substances and me .. and I winced at the mere products of my mind. elves and gobllils in the Middle .ingeniouS: fakes or graftlti left .asked to describe their etrects. 'terrifying sensation of on the contrary, ~ felt obliged Ages to todsi's.rriuch-ridiculed. ·behind by bored R9man. During these tes~. the volunteers balancing on a swaying. to explore an alternative stories of UFOs and allen soldiers. ·. · ·. reported seeing various kinds of tightrope over a bottomless possib1Uty - an explanation . abduction,s.. · · . Much ·of the .a rt depicts. abstract geometrical patterns satbiyllsnse. sTsh wenh,e nin m ay m eoymese· wnte roef ttoh acto nssciiedne~c e is unwilling eve·n. -=====:;::+ !aanmim11a1l'asr thtoat wouourl d. p, r}elahvies tboereinc · knSoinwcne assc i'eennttoisptsti cb eplhieevne9 tmheant an'.e i lcouelfpao ivsoneeftds ea,,r tavew ilbva1~ibnda,tor nsrrgwae t ibverril esiani,ropganc bt hapeepossepq saputneerdyds · . spinoaMhrmaailgeblhe·i htlt iatd.tbnhimete sser.p tnaois~ri tioutu nanw?ldo liArysl dnced oax,v niisedttr s ieiotnds, beMxeYiins tgSesEn AcbeeRg-&C;Holl t df o~sr~ uPp prwoeirotnfh aiontfu ttrhbaeel . iaa.d· nnTecdhae i wssth tooqoarultslity csh kuIelclylh $p .Ug aaainsvn 9hettoi _nrrhigsssese.s w,t ob·e i rSteho aen· · .. aWatnhnto iecarlrl eltll shat fhtmneoe itsrr h s abre vewa elasaroilasciutgs l we5ed0d is,hr 0iioazn0veu0g e r oyh pefsa aerosere uschn,rh .i L bsametrnowaugricienishcds- 9 the same geometric patterns had tner. entered hallucinatory states. (continued on page 10) (continued from psge 9 - DAILY MAIL, London, England - Dec. 3, 2005) He began to speculate that the reality -they are merely illusions · shamans of the prehistoric era abstract patterns painted on the thrown up by our fevered brain chose to paint pictures b! dwarfish cave walls represented what our chemistry when we are in altered ftgures with extremely distinctive Palaedlithic predecessors saw states of consciousness. features: large domed foreheads, when they were in some kind or I wondered how he could be so . narrow,. pointed chins and big; deep, visionary trance -much like conndent about this. We might . slanting, almond-shaped eyes. the one I had entered in Bath after !eel very sure that there ls. no There are ·examples in. many consuming ibogaine. more to reality than the material European caves. The first time I It was an extraordinary theory, world in which we live, but we saw· one was at Pech Merle in tbou st uLpepwo1rst-W it iilnl1 athmes tfeosutnimd oenvyid oefn acne caTnhneootr pertoivcea ltlhya tth theirse i sc tohuel cda sbee. pFraarnticc~we1a rlayn md entahceirneg sapreec imf·oenusr extinct tribe of southern African other realms, other dimensions. engraved on the walls of the c.ave bushmen known as the San. Indeed, that possibil.itY is not of Los Casares fn Spain. · · Until1927, when the last otncial only central to all the world's . I also found myself staring into . permit was issued for hunting great religious traditions but also · one of these eerie and unsettling a common hypothesis in modem · faces in the Drakensberg bushmen, it was legal for whites in .Mountains of South Africa, as I South Africa to murder the San: , examined a rock shelter tllied With whose body parts were kept ana Is this how we the· cave pilintings of the San boastfully displayed as trophies. bushmen. . Anticipating their annihilation as can lift the veil · . It these dome-headed dwarves early as the 1870s, a German · sound familiar, ·it is beca\,lSe they llnguistics expert. named Wilhelm on other worlds? are almost· identical to ·the Bleek conducted interviews with descriptions of elves and goblins the few surviving San tribesmen ~o which have been part of our record their way of life before it folklore since the Middle Ages. diTsahp~p_enaoxt:eedb.o oks containing his tqhuaatn tuamn p.hlny!silnchsli ew ·h nicuhm subgegre sotsf · Munocraen dniyst u-rrebsienmglby,l atnhceye ·h taov ~t hane · nreematal.iyn'e-wd rhititdldme n in Soturathn·sA cfrriicpatns 'aploanraglsliedle uonuirv oewrnse. s' may ·e xist ·raelipeonrst ws ohfo. U feFaOtu srieg hInti nmgosd. e~-· day . archives until Davld Lewis It so, then perhaps the brain is Extraterrestrials. have ·been Wllllams rediscovered them nearly as much a receiver as a generat9r· · described in thes(! terms since the a century later. · ' of consciousness and can· be nne very first cases of alien abductions . The San were remarkably-clear tuned in altered states to pick up were reported at the dawn of the about the beautiful and mysterious wavelengths that are normally :Q.Ot. space age. One of the earliest took ~bl~J>~~f~r:fe8 th~ th;~c~~ifs access1b1e to us. · · . place in 1961 and concerned an iwwpaovaaalmhmnsncnopnoTOIaefoycandypdwi-shrbvcnougtae e eerhnte tem eg ayioahmientsger ctu phat gcreutsIhsheleagereo ,d ifnmeav ne noh t ottvi eiitgrts thaereoroae Qlh wtetdn't lyrl sehhea te ·taoh,i wbhtdeei msnwneraotyie meektirhtrmi ta nomrah ti sfe linh tetapeasafth oo slJYn1ihihStilenr·ef ots s aehriita sa we'hn,tm a:,aenr d-s nigig lneeawn plbieat duolidehiep.us mnhe inrr tasri,dpsasoish tgaeotcbherss i elrdn oneiwsym ol wt " fl acstawnoo rQeittihteno.rrnehnhhc erlmilt.ddoepe~cedes . · sTsststhsfgssahhaaoapehuanhePPowmecuippanpederesmrnsyma iuree rewet,dh r.htri s wd-a diaenh anI antna ratneperahppe e nrsados tw easswl gcs noutua t, t rhaeooihh erI ngendyr oanvitradothgc w sol·mesltitbuh eo.dasro ueo y s -eyo,ucltcg tl ·rhe,diltah t he1nix t aashnet hwo phteytthara e tuha,eh w iti ·vhlysrrtthtsialmeeohhiu so tvemht aco s erhea daiplelr ven leivvdfooy lantemow ies,yntwwistwl i .lsloOi mee oahoef ortwP ayDrwnrlaatriho,ndef hlsivde~~imludsrs !denheetI ..,l, .. · ! tthcdtAhbcsaoehohouaaeineScAmteemwnvippcacdiinicmtueehpdtrra iicgo r m penoshrcioisrdbda1luBcsea sr san ewea aerdhf erwt tncdddtoi hiwilstno sm! nlitnt ecayomht'yegmg.ehso r f r · ·oca ' uepea ktar.ihgu o pta aHinnUgien dsl at dnhiesFmhd tn·ll .s t haOl Te .asniaot, Arezr topV algfat eln mpoh e pH twsadedh ahhellal hd·ideetoculdtse ol f-rwhm snsos aBbo,eii slh ndaylfta fota.w sine aer h.uwupfsngctyoeeam hceeeeeoirorihdddesyes-r,tf . .· · . . ·Sswdltmwrwaohep eeSIoaoeospr ebphusrhkodroaaienneoeaiurcrs 'sd dmttstgtt.c ote d sathaoadhufitnonvts\ rrltmvesuet'eoihs,uhnk rt euw etl ere tnghl ebmdh t.mteh s ie hatsn ptoiwnepehagmamy repir ae toarpcewrkhh nleIanei l oi vynwaetasbresr dltrlae o·rsod p slo rri· wa.wowre itiaecvfwohnh sa etUea ehd·ida n nniiF·fnbScn gtaOodhegsIrtI · ttwrUuppecghehxorrnTeFeleeeaitn naOoolhrhttdbne aroSi iodyrlseos.? nea .ttmact r ohS, otdtt teraeioefrioiodoki,mn c c nl e aksol ecs risclf aob onihhfivlfyrekaeya eetrv nsm h re daat,aiua i·aenrstnas nrntt dryti.adni see 'Sisefil d claimnhnoe boitsgas rdor nwoyevt a vhs mtmrehawuiyr anleogeb•eeftch rngusb eioao·et gen troamowsonhgetlff oartdhueor uws oarnldd e· bxyh aumsetianngs foorfm aonf . aarsg tu·heed Xth-Faitl eths,e aHnidll si ta cnodu .lodt hbeer sshyammbaonliss eu ndtehrgeo insgu fthfeer ijnogur_n eoyf · Their bodies are tddhaeinhscy ewd.r oLauetiwlodins -h WaanYUdel ibalymepdse rtreova eleinsxteitdlra tethmioaent "Obp1iNeUcEtey s oloifer set hvinied etmhnceoe s e.rtxo rtc rotahmoiSrpd epilonUsasnr1gy- .pablooBipreurunotl wahari obcnwudglu tuctdhrtoeee .es wse e iwmeexarpgel eassi nimf rtophmley ·. sid.nte Ti.tlsohlc ep,rtyrhia bepce otodirs ttvheri aevsyrhidw ailtmYo ar.a lsbndY ai_:s nt;mr aai btgnoeo dosnar iywds.ie hnaogl dsmismasehmebde arnedd · consistency of the supern:.tural appearance of such f'lgures in .the. process in. which sh'amans·must weTnht·eo .n sh tearmriafnYsi ng vborieUsiiginnoiglnnessss o asve reexwr pi etne h rsaeio ecamnceeceoep nsdtse .n tbshyea . •htr eu·:ta mhl'~e, iinrt .· pgarhrPteee oarnsftoo ..o nmuiarnel lpntYero.er nIeh hsiasattn vode.ri i nnch e aavntvecher~e hsa·ta lodwUr saaF?ny.O ys tuthhnTerdhunee srryteg sotu·a lrlaark ens cocytefimo sbn bl.oa tlcihkcr oddueegva. uhths . · w.a tnhhdoe iimnfaogrems.a, tion wsehnicsha tiiso ·nhas rd~wiarnedd psychic journeys hissua cvdhei f sfbiimceueillnat r,rt oesp truoanrntdgeeedr .eswntacitnohdu- ·nshutoecrwhs · rwsecigethap rtadi cmeidsi xmatlu .lere.nY oeaftb ,i dn·dutoicf tfiemorney ns·~ tueo tartineedsr ··sbahnoaddmy t oabnnefg'sou rheee taahndrd,o wpdiiiensrgmc eteh mheib spe inre echceikss sinaTtmoh eeo ylui rbs rbpareraycin ufsol.ra taell othf aust, iatn ids tthhaet -~j~~;:~ttlult~J~ss. so many .astonishment, ·I found myself in different directions. · it can be accessed ·only in altered -ithwosHssanhoctaunWLherflaemtcenaoela-nithuxwocnrtee eec amefcng itns-ics ohottneb - et heWrutSla odtyh eytgltdha o ide h.elyettn ehrly hheox1 y yjapp e oeaim r drasstm u erotp tihecrealtnrsphnteoaunn atryeearedmcrcnieslyrcndee g ainms e .tcowlee, thpdai futn seala e hbcne crfntmcaeeerdiotdovo tie stu y nentmhihrphn n dgnaea aataitst rsmeitbsoht tni ra. aoo aet ettmnahnhensudndedseeset. iAawhkackSgm.inn nunTSrovhnodaoomdiu1hiumgcw wt1teA·aehebh t1 ninntsh fl siihAf r aq anaesaseiertcumso- sailtra oy eucthtiStenuhnah, rlero sr noeiec etb hcait cta hdsnheCaryhvo oet k rbbcetead og.ho.e rlr ti aa-peeflie lhi srndeaea eneuttst c-niv aton nahicoiedpelurnedidf eefMen radEe dsinitd nr su oa ..t.hg swe h MrnaEuuurdo esrobicmg ipatddleerhgyyere lari.r po a ahd,aiono tndnngsa r,f, . .· · .ivslmsfnnaehiIcys gettaei .h l omTwsrale intndgaao i hAmsud dn rolma soeeiddl .nna ~mki.gez T's ~wo t otmheou nsileefyr.ttod bh t oachaii y krdnehaett e gfhmhan artuuemtlo~ aierscorrsntePacmds sepa~le ye ehrv' isnruai-nps.tvl: -il sloieme oanxon.ynns- f' · · .rspddtbtrbomheureyaieTefTaspmreo isrbsghnthnyseocrulietecefd enrrc padiuseist sdanwbrpeeile sl esg e eodim hpt nax a·su ea·s rebg pnernlomba b sdbded coeceIoyira u e Xfa1cn ic sicdlvmm·nogpanlhtuDeegr eueycseerrrn r rnteyoendii oo eeas stmst wsdnsn.b a uJ iic cpednnoSnbmooes rudj hou·ssnie B.chf mlen tehosdatra aqmn eierreevlttssec sp hnMeey.ttaoesmo doe.s bt.fre a ini ru eBeaobttct·tmlrh~h· etnllukl loneyeydyes-·t· · · saitnpsattpc·moaotruone ulICacga . nner·rtpthe eceehvdf eeoitrslee·e .visyht.rterr:,va. io e . ratteo.ie iae mra rt' nrbewodeln a xaclc-uun natyngaoapt bdtsndi,o-hsnl n elaey wcsaeaiorai, cforeti np. tloyn hi hymse roi,nfogo!oevetru ptow sirl ·oes uUstwit utell wns iuacoetvsmow eivttdhn oeorvisnuoalr ylonnseyld,llbu n na.nrt-n lwhylre ly giheyydt oten dr ah Im w aatlttswef.odsib t eh sgs' vol lfn .uaeoo'acu·alt vncrsuurnliasdonheele rtlt 'mbeyni ltloeWpnntieicas tpleahrtnee nr.o ·vm oelunna't eeexrpse riemnacnedy rseaGpttyrWer.sea,k nh aanmlfd ym atihanonlml,o ahgl aypl af. rgtcsoo.a ntt·, a tlhpes . .· ~d sinister iHPnratoerfvrevasirsedow rMe de odmric ;a:anPly s ySpccehhoioapot;llre,y ww· hhaoot . ot·h nOi! n nroe ·na t-lh rweeao lr- oltdht hianesg rws eih nci~motnedca,ed · n. 1t!r atthede hs·haAalBfm -fbaoenr asts hbtee l itmehveoerndlsa ttnhrotahut rtsoo pp eaenls!t,-e mr ttahhnee, macreiindnt oaatu arubsur, u~•·a·s- w·ihtpehha daan m-_t_aa; slm}a'nsa dgb ootrhdieyc tahned cs1onnitsrtaerry, ,a thhaerysh w, ecroem ~merarnifdyilrntgg b•ceHaliitehsv eerdin tehp' ewayth ihoea nddte sbs ecreinb eaidbn dacu lmuctdeetedadl. srreihgaahlm ta anandnd icc sa unvp igeeiwvrne a·outrsu rgtahulei bd eawinnocgrels da a nrides ovtahrieoruwso ralndi mthaely fohramds toan dad othpet coPmopbuinlaarti counl otuf rme·a kne eapnsd ahloivres et.h ·e ptIe aslesno.c sea. w w. hat could easily be ibnesitnrgu minesenrtt e'mda aybboeu at sfioxo ti nlcohnegs' hcaenlp s iene oimurm lievdeisa otenl ye ahrotwh, k tnho~wn iwnge paintings depicted them at various legend or the-.werewolt, and tales . described as space ships, rotating into one of her nostrils. a•bout them would have vastly. stages of their transformation. ot mermaids - part human apd in the sky and pulsing with life, 'I could feel something breaking increased our ancestors' chances The !act that s1mllar images can part nsh - are common around :and had the·distinct feeling that I in my head,! she claimed. 'The of survival. · · wbeo srlede nsu inp pcoavrtee sdy Lsteewmiss- Wacirlol1sasm ths'es the world. Even the Bible contains ·wthaesm g. oing t.o b·e ·t aken up into . allen broke something to get it In my view, it is beyond serious rtwaorel.rBalhm ntdoehacrs eiriehndk .wa keadsiobn rlregkeitn uoththfaae esllr lhodeuaardc·ynm i cnstaiothnnagagstet, ea n atsnihn cdoed yppf e rl dawaieteniesentrtspegs, . ·vfTlIaianipoEesc npisezto,ahste nraa ke.i.s m.it.b : e.iB ouotelhf lonan lohol stassu k onoem p fd or ocare faforn p Enaep-o a azehhrtneatuueskigrmmt ilte eehsaa.ld e ln,w e thhbsihyetecheabirn vritOgbioed,enul sdassr. ·-kaawsniIhn ncwaade nth os o ictatlroohel vl ureelislrnnsd i.-t ow taoehnbao sedsrc idutrlgnyscer,t·aai ibpttoIe e ni o wni ftens ahxtptsehepi irreehrep r adsircevea .noaitmnevcudeeegr hp'k~EeanAv~rnoasniw~e•co,lk ~iftef h osodietan,'r~ ws b a lg o ~aotfac~ai knb~Megl~ged ar\t eooic~ny ukh; t'ae~,s s a t~r·plh op.!a e•oa c~nmte if~es owhntuiitntp~sdh,, . ecoaa~xucud~tcslar!t opeucrtmtordaer~eite nli~ ayogp:n nh pd!esutn. czo pozm ·rm· leo i~tncefh~ gnoe p~n.a nct n~h,ep d~eppr e; ~tmvir~oayc~1snes1a!~tse1vm ~rneoi~gde- f tsaohucre hcsseiheen va sesot drrbya ot nhddceryoep-supri igvemharc tapiioynhn gy ,ihs nisac ttvaahelre vs cabtarteveieoes!nns! lodhiiapgsveheentm ilnbaaoglrsdg aoieen drdbe -evevyeoiesnlvis oi n~dnges l awlolclth r oeinbefr:elewsd ha ainnbcddhy yapneaCadionr asut lilaidneg gnoIsst . ab.t reeen ~rseh-aaoltlf y st aphliolr muitssaa,n·nfi fadeisrsi teaos ! ·itttwnho e omam byf.o eTseipnhtiagenlyse pw.i noMessrpyiete idecoontniitnn,i rggme shysoep mbri.r aei'ecIt h kwwi ntaaogss ·· ths.hua Oevcifher c stfoipomuiurrnei$t.des , a w·irfae ·yw rsee a adln;o· da n aadc vcthearpa·it ·te tttyhh eaoyEt where the paintings were created. people under the intluence of the tions of the same supernatural tingling and cold. It was a,wtul. 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Visions have go up int6 the sky ... they are tacular multi-coloured paintings. consistentlY thrown up images or white in colour or shiny like silver All this lett me sure that David strange, anlma1-human hybrtds is . metal ... you just float away with Lewfs-Williams is right that such - to say the least - tantalising. that rope'. trances were "the inspiration for But it is another set. or creatures · . Other·shamans-from .as far prehistoric cave art. But I found that recur in cave art that should. apart as Siberia, Australia: and myself disagreeing with him on ' really give us pause .for thought. · North America ....;... talk or these one ·fundamental point. Deep in their rocky labyrinths, in . •ropes' or •cords' being let down 10 In Lewis-Williams's view, the the low guttering light cast by the by boats, birds or 'flytng shields'. entitles encountered during ·the torches and stone lamps that we As I read these accounts, there trances have no existence in know were us.¢d at the. time, the

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