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- -. .-- : ·']t"le.!:prq.�rf¥1l�Tl� .. 9n�y �-.:t�gcg�d-�?� .'U�93tw���,)>�g��;�g �:���:- �ti� ·b� t§'":��o1;r�� �-me�be:.-s of southern groups atmp Cradle Hlll , Warm:I,nster , vallanti§ sRywatcM�fig · �fl·-ia/·mB;(�n­bathed night.The tone was much like "wo look for ct1iens_as a basic human need"r whieh seems reasonable enough, but I doubt TV Cri tic Herbert Kretzner ,in. the Di�ILY NAIL-who said, "this is whn.t the UFO W8.tchers si:·;11a�1hopefullyitl every night,Thc:y�-­know there is intelligent life in outer space." Oh really? I didii , t rectlise tr1at �ew' that.Strike one more plus for.tho skywat�hing'ETH fans. · ·

In fact HORIZON approached me last October to �)pear on the pro�ramme,I w�s to give the '·'informed ufr)lo.gists" o�inion ( asthey put it ) ,Of course , this opinion w1.s

predet ermined! UFOs were alien , v0hicles n.nd I w:as supposed to present a pnJcls : j_--, about thirty seconds I expect). of what 'evidence there - was ! Naturally>I de clined ·· the offer, and told. them thirty sec9nds was rather a lon� time to have to spi�-­out the answer."There isn't any" would take about two or three: A rather bemuse;c HBC mA-n said,"That's what Allen Hynek sa1d. • • • we couldn't 3et him to appear oi'\:.h8_r;: As it ha•)pens the skywatcl'\ piece was not harmful and in· fact rather poignently summarised the emotional pwod of skywatchers ( snd�i t was 1 suggested , humanity ) . Their longi�J �lances skywards spoke volumes . , . far more than all the silly UF� pro.csrn.mmes the BBC has concocted in the past. We need _there to be aliens··- bacL\}

As the evidence unfolded it became clear these ali'en;:; were shy cri tte rs t .Scmt. astrophysicists were shown playing their parlour game with Drake's equation, making up the numbers as they went along with an a�bitrary · nature which showG just.how little we r-eally ktlbw-,Peter and .. :I· explain . the process in .UFOs:A B:Rrr:rsn VIEWPOINT. The truth is, wht.ist':istronomers ·love Lto· spC.CuJ.ate �(don' ,t we all?):: we don·' t ha ve a clue . Tho number·, of planets wl. th" J:�ntemli:,;ent iife li;�s .somewh�re . . oe .. tween infin� ty·. <ln(l rzGrO. .

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·wrote on t)1e. compqy�r. -t�:pe,! ·) t Vfli�ch � s �<;:n' uru;e:PB?�·ed:o�le.�f! ;no� a.

Whisper has bee.n h�arq :(rOIJl tn� ra_Q.I O ·t�lescope se aTchE!s c)f l1llkeiy ·.stars_.J;>�ter' S. ".�l�ph�nt·

. "f. lap" and. hi�� 1>1-�chc;3l• k L c�t'-'f�ct p "' �ff �c t wure .·rocroillised;" if t?�rt:.-i·wer� .l Q�y", on:·?· o:e two civilisa,tiOD:I3, i.��te�d · c r -_the ·Bill!:lons tli�- ca. str6physic-J..: §lt s .-conJffC�l:lrJY.- � .

. then· the galaxy would h�vG beentrcoloriised a:rict th�Y:- would be here .noH" ,.As.;thGy ::t.rf·: _._;_·-notw. (they said' that not mti!). then 'it' seems that Wf· mus� bE? I alop.�.. � � .

. ' . . . Whils.t not bein� an EI'H suppoJ:ter,but no·t dismi13si:Q.� it either ( in true'·'on

�he,. fence' fashion) this arr�ume�t .seems· ridiculous;ty nq.ieve .Apa;rt fr?m th0 � bv:�_c Ls

c0unter "maybe they are· here" , which ( it se�ms thanks to Al;Len Hynek �d me) ·H�s

riot. even postulated,I can think of' two points off th� top of' iny h�aQ. which' soom �prov�de a few little 'problems� for this wlld assumption. ·

1) Why assume that if they were ·here we would red'o.:;nise them? "tife as we kno�·, i�" is a common-- -:phrllse, but as we by definition don't know ''life as we dfun't ijrio,; it" if it ,wore here we, would pro bel.bly 9�. i:Snorant.I?oes· the ant khow we exist? Does the. t�ee'? Our senses detecta very narrow ran:3e of. th.e EM SJ_Jectrum.Our thin­king is so constrained to earthly expectations.ThE? uni ver·se is a darhed. big p:;,<�cG. If we look throu.c�h a slit a few micromillimetres thick for som,et�in�s-· i t�elf no wider, but. which c.ould be anywhere on a scale millions of time$ greater, should ·: .. ·· Gxpe_ct to fihd

'it? And should we presume· it tl.besn't exist becc;tuse we don'-t fi .. L �:: t

try? Somethin:� tells me man is go in,� to have to stop befung such an e�-;otist J '

2) Why assume thn.t an advanQed civilisation would:. use ra4io telescope s to m2jre contact? We've had them forty: years and know· 'that as _interstellar :te�.eph'?nes i.·,: . . , are useless (im��ine calling mother and hear1ng her answer in ten 4thoupand ye;__1..:� j

• I. • Tp presume they are the ultimate in �ommunication is silly.In tw,enty years· He mi3,ht have the Googleplex Transceiver (a hypothesised �ystem f'ar superior ) . .All·. advanced civilisation would probably use thR.t ,or somethinJ else.The use of :Cf�.d:_'') telescopes would be .an implausable •oincide�.-Before the dE1velo,pment of radio "-C; had. other' means of lon�g distance communic[-l,tioh. ( eg _,shouting )\ but who wou:J..cl ever dream of shouting' your message to cousin Joe iri A\ls'-t-raii a ! I' m not at all · suprised we haven't heard from them.It seems like a'big was.te of �oney to me.

and fun but a bit <hn, the shallow side. Yet w-he:' L

NORTHERN UFOLOGY • • • 2 laugh heartily or sit back and tsape . Few of us think really deeply ( Aime Nichel :. _ a notable exception) . We think they sholild be just like us • • • but why? If God hacL -:-· · ounce of sense he. would have learn-t' by His mistak�s· . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -The next NORTHERN UFOLcx:;Y will be the JULY issue. The theme will be "VEHICL� IN':'ltG? . FERENCE • • • possible causations". You can start thinkin-:s and speculatin:3 for that·.· now .Articles must be in by June 30 .

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - · - -N�WS :: Bill Skellon .. of DIGAP asks to point out ( after the July 1980 ecli torj_al."' that he has lon3 pos.tula ted Ufolosy cannot be recognised as a science �l .. s he .say�� "We don't seem to have �ot beyond f!quare one and if the 'flying saucers 1 del&j_dn :-.. J. leave the earth and we human beinss all that we could pass down to our childTorJ. ; ��--· children would be the usual stories of myth and legend of marvellous flyin3 angels, little gnomes and wee men.that appeared suddenly'' Sound familiar? ?

a: SKYSCAN, the Worcester croup (59 Rydal Close , Warndon, Worcester) h.:-tvt; announced a chan�e in status.I t seems to continue the healthy trend reported last month which FUFOR and. NUFOIS have followed and which IvTIJFORA is presently cnnsiderin6·· SKYSCil.N have become a restrictive membership s:IDciety with no publi� interface . Their masazine is suspended and will be replaced by selected detailoc cP�se studies, published for the benefit of other Ufolorsists . A step into the Iti·; .. : .

a: UFO INTERNATIONAL announce publication of a catalogue of sir:;htings 1977-79 . This i s available ( at £3) with a set of statistical tables at an extr2. [�·, Contact: Alan Parsons 160 Courtn ey Rd, Kin:sswood, Bristol , . Avon o

:a UFO PHENOMENA, that exc0llent I talian production (in Eri·?lish) , has ask:: i me to promote it to British readers , of which it would like to att��ct more.Thc level of content is incredibly hL-sh , with first-deGree research papers from le2..d_,_'H3 ufolo·.�ists world-wide . Pr.tst volumes are available at ::815 and a sup:norting sub·­scription costs ::850 (us). I t's worth� try . � • • if you can afford·it!

:: Another. ne.w magazine is shortly to be launched onto the scene.,.d;nt:i.t1·;:l COIDtiON GROUND ('studies on the frin�e �t human experience,.)

, i t is a eo opera ti v8

effort from many of .Britain's leadin5 paranormal researchers . The aim is to study paranormal phenomena as separate entities and explore th�ir links from the visw·" point o� human experience . The first issue is scheduited for Iv1ay publicn.tion and ·� .­

promisses to have much of ufolo�;ical interest.More details will be announced �..-:,e:L plans are fully form�lated,If you want to know more then send an SEE to Kevin HcClure at 8 Scotland Rd,Little Bowden,Market Harborough,Leics. But please all;:J�·. time for � reply . - - - - � - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -ii!LSEWHLBRE THIS f·10NTH • • • • • ASWR 12 is out ( 5 Egton Dr,Seaton Carew,Hartlepool� TS25 2AT ) (£2 sub) reviewing books and journals in earth mysteries , m.::v.3ic1UFOf' etc • • • • GUZRNSEY UFO RESEARCH Mar 81 ( 15p from Highcliffe,Avenue Deauvais , Ville Au Roi,St Peter Port,Gurnsey) latest news from the Channel Isles • • • • NORTHElli�

i.G/\RTH NYSTERIES Feb 81 ( 30p from 61 Clumber St , Hull HU5 3RH) has some fascina��in ,. stuff this time • • • a 'bo�sgart; /ghostie/UFO entity observation from NottinghamshJ.Ll3 which should be studied by all ufologists,the Eden legend , a ditch in Manchester, an exp.edi tion to Shap Fell and more,. ,Finally, THE LEY HUNTER ( i$sue 90) ( 95p f1.r·­PO Box 13 Welshpool,Powys) has many theses on leys in Britain, the Bard's on ali en animals c:tn(l an interestinc;commentary on f1IBs,coincidences and that exceJ � __ . -

piece of UFO theorising, the novel MIRACLE VISITORS .

SCHOLASTIC ENCOUNT�RS • • • • • Jenny Handles

"h.lastair' s doing a UFO project at scl\ool • • • you' 11 help him, won't you t' So came the request a few weeks ago . After fatefully saying 'yes' and supplyinJ 0omc written material I suddenly ·found my?elf scheduled to talk to Alastair's class� So, as a true friend,I roped in Peter vla:r"rington too and we mad,; due arran.::;emen·c::: to visit Stockport School in Offerton ( ri�ht ort David Roes ' s doorstep , we noted� as soon as we �ot there!)

March 23 was a miserable,wet day with dark . clouds and low-flyin3 jumbos roaming above the school building."A couple:of

.other classes got interested and

w.-iq.t to come,111�that will be OK?\', teachei:: asked of_us.Ivlumbling agreements.amic��t trembling trepiriati.ons �we went to set up our slide� and . prepare for the onslou._;[y.· , ., when in troopeol .... the classes •• • and the classes • • • and the classes!It seemed lil<:c h8.lf the school: !:lad arrived, chat terine and buzzing with something (we hoped an -r,: . .. -�· ipation) . They ranged from· timid eleven year olds to brawny ( alleged) sixteen·-yG�-,_-r-

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HORTHERN U�OLOGY .• • ,J olds,Gulping in fresh a1r, not hearing the incre0ulous �polo�ies of a teacher as overwhelmed as we were we set back and prepared our att�ck.

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Between 2,45 and J.45.we went strai�ht for the heart.We demolished Von Daniken , showed how 9�b of UFO reports are mistakes and laser-beamed the �TH (One percepti�o lad quipped afterward?• 'I thou,�ht you believed in UFOs but yo�' ve just said they don't exist' ) Well• not. qu�te! Our epilog was a potted version of the objective-· subjective parc:tdox, ar .. :;uin:; that there were two differont " UFO phenomenons" and not yeildin.g to the intense pressure of " blilt what do Y.2:i think they are? " We thrust tests thefur way, providing four " puzzles" (mis�dentifications reported as UFOs) . Their sugcestions were Qlways sensible,often incisive and_ somebody got every one of them ri3ht • • • includin� one which l haven't found an investigator yet who did! (You'll eet your chance as I include the question in a quiz in my new book UFO STUDY) . Peter and I concludGd that this lot were poten�i�lly better investi�sators than haldr British ufolo·;y, which has to tell us something! . ·

Questions came, etnd thirty or so stayed on for an hour of demanding SS grillifl�� There was no si3n of. a let-off when a kind-hearted teacher decided�at 5pm to abduct them aboard b.s. B.s ( Orange school buses)� But.questions were·a3ain very sensible,We had an interesting de�te with.� well informed boy of about 12 over the B etty & Darney Hill saga leadin� on to 'sh�ed h�llucinations �We were asked about the relation. between factual and fictionalised _UFOs, leadinr� to Jun(; and ti· c-; mandala concept.A petite .l::�.d asked whY, aliens were always humanoiil.d ·arid a·ctually seemed to understand-the p�radoxes this.created! We were left amazed by the objectivity of many of these youngsters,Indeed we have seldom experienced a more r:�tional rtnd thfull{_sht-provoking question session with adult �rQups ( let alone ufolo�ists!) . ·-. · · . .

Certainly our schol�stic encounter made us think about much maligned child witnesses.If this was r1-nythin � .like a reforesentitive sample then very· few· are .gullible,open to wild imagin�ns-s and less reliable than: ?-dult . .UFO spotters,IndeecL if as trends indicate UFOs are seen more often by chil��ren it mi�ht not be je.::: ··· because of so-called vivid ima�ination,It could be that· these ufonauts, being �

perceptive lot,know just who best to talk to!

Some facts ellicited, • • ( from about 2 00 who were timetabled,so not there by choice) A bout 9C1/o had seen C:LOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND .

• • • A"oout 757o were interested (and 157., enou.3h to ,3ive up their spare time) hbout 5� admitted publically to h�ving had a puzzling sighting ( others may come confidentially as we_ follow up our contact with the scbo,ol) • .. ·

· � · About lryp thou3ht there was nothing strange in UFO reports .: lOO::fo agreed they had once· met a weird looking being ( •. • • . . their. {eacher! )

- - 7 NOTHING IS RE�L • , • • , Nigel Watson

Ther0 is nothing ' harder than tryin� to write about a person who has recently died,This is only compunded when th�t p�rson i.s struck cl0wn in a ·vi olent and senseless manneroSuch a task falls u�on me when I try to focus my thou�hts on the brutal slaughter of John Lennon,His son��s, and those he created and performed with the Beatlos, have had tremen�ous impact on our society,How much they init iated or reflected social change is an intan:sible question,blit no doubt most o.c­us can remenisce about how they invaded our own mental environment.

�he content of Beatle songs has been under the critical microscope of peo�le more learned than myself, but you find in them an amazmng diversity of style � ide as

and imageseThe sheer qu�ntity and quality of output in 8 hectic years iB sta�GGr · ; ing,As an .,ex" Beatle, with se·cond wife Yoko One,Lennon went into a frenzy of activlty with happenin�s,experim€mtal films and some equally strange vinyl pro­ducts,with Ono displaying her marked inclination to scream and.screech·like a

drunken banshee,Durin� this time Lennon dissipated his,utopian ideology in such songs as 'Ima..;ine' and 'Give Peace a Chance'·,The essence of Lenn0n was. th�t h:is strong feelings were injected,intensity funtact , into his songs.

Lennmn and his ilk represent the spirit. of the sixties�Times were chan3ing (a songster named Dylan noted th� t) . The Russian and American s:pace. race turned mr.:­

attention to the stars, this being the trigger for th:1.t enigmatic and brilliant film "�OOl:A Space Odyssey" and trash like " Chariots pf the Gods" .There was optimism in the air.Science,and drugs! ,-would transcend· old barriers and cement

new patterns of human relationships.The "-Seargent Pepper" album represents the

per-tk of sixties optimism with its grandeur and psychedlic ima{�ery. UFOs played their part in this dream.In 1967 Britain was subjected to a huGo

wave of si6htin:s,drowni�� the capabilities of UFO investigators.Warminstor and

NORTHERN UFOLOGY • • • 4 its " thin�" became a focal poirit· ··for UFO .P.�icip:l ants , in vesti_sa tors and new a-;e �reamers.Tho Beatles were intrigued by the, su�ject of U?Os and the paranormal� In "A Twist of Lennfun" , by Cyri,th1a (his ffu.tst 1-life) she-tells (p.137)· how in 1966 they met a·couple whQ ,said a UFO had landed near their nome in Spain and they ha.l reGular communiP-ation �ith it.The Be�tles were invited to listen and as one . ' percipient 'tuned in his special recEiver he exclaimed • • . " Thoro can you hear that-�- · · We' ve almost -�iot throw�h • • • • They are tryin3 to reach us'' • I t was painfully ob­vious no spacemen were trying to communicate and one af the Boatles had to sadly admit " I'm awfully sorry , folks , but I think our friends are findinJ it impossibla to reach us" If we are to believe , as- Stephen S-)iel;t>er:_j has it , that UFO occupants are musical geniuses then the opportun��y to jam with"the Beatles must have had them cursing all the way back to l�lpha:· Centauri .

In the booklet accompanying his " Walls and Bridges" LP Lennon states 'On thG 23 August 1974 at 9 ' o'clock I saw a UFO' but further detai ls have eluded me ( I t . was reported in NEW NUSICAL EXPR�SS a-t the time and was a ci�5ar-shaped object, i{ Irecall ••• JR) · ·

Disillusionment manifested on arrivfl.J. of the seventies.The bubble burst undei�-­the pressure of decimalisation , British entry into the EEC , the arrival of the· Osmonds and the disa·ppJarance of the mini' ·skirt: But in · conc.lusion I'd simply. like to statea John Lennon; Rock in Peace!

1 ) TIMEWARPS WINDOW AREAS:- What a�e· they??

by Geoff Grundill . '.... ' .

Geoff _is a regul�� reader and investigator in Cumbria for NLUFOIG

Are Winrlow areas timdwarps? I tend to think that these zones· could be warped areas of time· & space , or oven 'black hcles' ·which exist in. �nother :dimension and suc•k in or release out anti-matter particles.UFos· could. th{?n use these as sign-posts to enter our reality , in too same way that t�host's and psychic phenom--ena dv . .

Or perhaps it could be that nature uan cause warped .-magnetic fields by ord-­inary events in this worlcl.Perhaps the- ... tilting of·.the··earth's axis at certain times in its history . Yet we know .that black holes·, ._if they exist in space , _suck in matt�r allowinG nothing to escape the enormous gravitational pulloBut if a black-hole exi��s in another dimension this may be reversed so that anti-ma�ter leaks from i t .C.an this then come near to our planet 1 •

The Window areas could be smaller versions of the Bermuda Triangle - P9p�ibly ., But then n.re UFOs responsible· for the vanishings in the t"rian;Sle? (No - Ch�rles Berli tz is! • • • JR )

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UFOs thus coming from these postulated window areas mi�ht b� projections of anti-matter , or a mirro:e image of ourselves in the_future.Some. l[f"�s'appear to. be none-solid.Perhaps they have just entered a window area; mate.rialisfng from anti­matter and becoming se lid matter . The reason - to make one . think thn. t it is ro:•.l 1

If et solid object wore to enter a window area it would h;"Lve to change its whole atomic structure until i t reached. tl)e exit point , where it could then chan�;;e back to normal.This .might oe the explanation for tho apparant translucemcy of some UFO experiences.

(Readers who find this theory interesting would be advised to read the book OTHER WORLDS , by Dr .Paul Davies.This expounds , in simple · terms, the amazing consequences of modern theories of quantum an� sub-atomic physics.Much of it reads like a theoretical verification of this conception! I am also aware of experfuments being conducted in quantum physics in Australia�which throw some very intri�uinG light on physical UFO phenomena.A book on the question is in the planning stages • • • • E:d� tor) .. _ .

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2 ) THE PROBLEMS OF PUBLICITY, ·or • • • Double-�lazing for Wind0w areas by Kevin McClure

Kevin is a UFOIN member , BUFORA RIC and member of the SFrt UFO sub-committee. Wi th his wife Sue he produc�d �he booklet STARS & RUMOURS OF srARS in 1980 , de-tailing his work on the· ·paranormal aspects of the Welsh religdus revi valo He lives in Leicestershire . 1

NORTHE�� UFOLOGY • • • 5

No doubt many of you will remember, only too well, Harminster at its worst. Indeed, unless Shuttlewood's books do the decent thin� (along,- perhaps,with somo of Peter Paget's) and spontaneously combust (simul�aneously) we will scaren3ly have the chance to forgot.

Warminster was, in the end, an embarassment to all sensible researchers and investigators.It was also a window area or UFOcal.Very probably, there wis somo sound, t.1.rigible basis for the later absurdaties committed by journalists and UFO­lo�ists alike.But how �an we possibly establish, if we are willing to accept that belief plays a part in the perception of ·pheno�ena;when the spontaneous incidents ceased and the anticipated incidents began?,_ If we suspect a window area exists, we should perhaps keep very quiet in. order to minimise the occurrence of belief/ anticipation-inspired incidents. · --- - -- ··

Perhans we can differentiate between window-area and UFOcal.The latter is, perha·ps, in some way a :!Jroduct of the former, ::t product resul tin� from medin. and investign.tor interest in an area where there is a tendancy for anomaloms .events to occur.The one n.rea of which I can claim to have any real,long-term knowledco is the Cambrian coast of North Wales between Barmouth and theLleyn Peninsula.It has a lon� history of anomalous,aerial li:�ht phenomena,running at least .from 1692 to 1910.Yet it is not .a UFOcal.There is no modern expectation of li?J�ts -­no one out there skywatching.In their time the Gwynedd phenomena were probably more remarkable than those reported more reqently in Dyfed (and now under �rave suspicion) - but in 1905 nob:IDdy anticipf1ted UFOs.Instead they exp<�cted relicsous nhenomena, and that is what they ·�ot; UFOs that Hovered !ovar cha")els, and ones that followed an evang1.list halfway rnund North Wc=tles. . .

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So really, it may well be that our c�se for the existence of window areas i� beyond accurc1.te statistical analysis, ·or scientific proof.We. can already argu0 rertsonably that the distribution of reports· is sot random -._that their incidence is in some way inversely related to population density�.dut if we try_to make a

stronger case than that, to say either that anomc1.lous events are more likely to occur in one �articular area than.another, �r, morespecifically, that UFO �ttention is focused, possibly in som� curious_way, on an area,we must be carefuJ that we do not contribute,by our words or actions,to that liklihood or focussiD:_;,

- 3) THE LUTON & DUN STABLE FOCUS by Ken Phillips Ken, a_ forrper NIC of BUFORA, is· a UFOIN investigator in the Bedforshire/Buckin::-· h�Iflsnlre rtrea, runnin� a hotline to' attract all types of par�normal phenomenac

It has often puzzled investigators o� UFO and other phenomena why certain areas of the country generate more reports. than others.Is this state o� n.ffn_:i..:r:s

< Fl. direct result of popmla tion density., . or of press fe:1. tures? Perha-ps an unknonn terrestrial f�ctor is involved or some ether obscure char�cteristic pertinent to the �rea in question.

The objectiv,e 0f this article is to focus attention on a relatively narrow strip of terrain on the periphery of the south midlands,namely Luton and Dunstab�_c ( perh'lps extending as far west as Ivin;;hoe Bect.con) ,\fell attested reports GO b;"�c}:: to 1957,and there _mn.y beothers further b�ck.If one were to read the archives of all major UFO societies in the UK it w0uld soon becfume ap!1arant that reports perta i..nin3 to the south midlancls · tend to cluster in and nround this region. Hh:1t does it mean?

The Luton-and Dunstable district is a largely J!Cpul�ted ·and industri<1liseC. zone and,ns such,must reflect the world in microcosm.This must inevitably includ0 man's fears,aspirations and belief syste.ins,Putting it another way,there arc

plenty of people around here to witness sky and ground phencmeria,but is this tho true reason for the re1)ort clusters that s·eem to so characterise this :1.rea?

Perhaps the best wn.y of gaining an insight to this qu.astion is to compare tho window area with that of a ufolo�ically quiet location.This would be quite a scientific undertakin3,bearing in mind that ther� has never been a proper (known) scientific study of UFOs in any case!

Another ".t�n.y would be to consider ;mother window-areA�say,Chirtgford in foii:: London .Intense w.1.ves of sky phenomena have been �)ercei ved there -from time to time,but,to the knowledge of ccrt�in London investibators,not one known report hr.ts emerged from the adjacent Lnndon borough of Enfield.(In the book THIS HOUS:S IS HAUNTED, by Guy Lyon Pl:1.yfair,which concerns a polterKeist ·in �nfield.a number of UFO sightings are mentioned in passinc; as having occurred in the local di.st .. ci. :; -:-_

NORTHERN UFOL(X;Y • • • 6 . • • • JR ) _..) The only ba�ri er separatinrr Enfte ld from Chin:�f0rd i s the Lea Valley

Water complex , consi sti p � of lar �e re s�rvoir� almo �t 30 feet �ac� and affordin� an unre stricted view for c er tain �11fie ld r � s.idents . o ver - the h� i l s of Ohin_;forci . T her5.2ore , either the re sident s of Enfi e ld.· s.J.w· some thin�; and kept qui et about i- t , or they saw nothin:s whi l s t their nei-�hbowtts in C hin��ford were observing un- . known sky phenomena . .

Do e s pre ss coverage stimulate further re port s ? W e l l , thi s fac to� must o pen th0 �qteway to some ext en t , even i f ohly to plant the g erm of belief ( or di sbe li ef ) i n the minds of the pop�lac e .After all much of public atti tude i s entirely moulded by newspapers , TV and the. medi a in ;eneral . B ut what of the ini tial report s fouunded o n _ observatio ns before the attenti on of the _media was at trac ted ? Could it be that a concept is bei ng p lan ted in the minds of the se early perc i pi ents , whi ch is eventually to be incubated ·by- the media and finally acc e pted into the be lief systems of the people ? ( S8e IvlESSEl'{G�S OF D.C:C�PI'I ON by Jacque s Vallee , And/.Or , l979 ) I f Vallee ' s theory ha s rm e l emen t of truth , then why a geo.3rrtphi cal focal - poi nt ?

From the environmental point · o f vi ew , the nature of the local geo loGy co�ld be a major physical influ enc_e on sky and r;round phenomena ( se e. , " S pace -.timtJ transiefl_ts & Unusual e vents" -Pe rs inger/Lafrcni er , Nels on�Hcil l ) C ertainly the local terrc;li n in and around Dunstable and Luton i s impre s si ve . I t i s here th�t the mi dland pla in. sweeps down from the north to lap :=tgai n s t the s l o pes of Dun stable Downs. whi ch , of course , form the ;NbJ ar , m of the C hi lt.ern · Hi l l s . I n fac t , i t · forms a natur;-;,1 �eo�raphi c boundary betwe �n the ch�lk hi l l s of sou thern en�land and the fertil0 so i l of the midland plain . I t i s not yet e stabli shed whether earth faultins exi s t s in thi s area .

Runnincs alonr� the fn ot of thi s terre strial bcun<l.ary i s the prehi·storic track , I cknielci Way . This has much le:�end attatched to i t , de scribin� such thins s as .

�ho stly R�am ar�i e s , chari o te ers , dogs and other ' tale s of unease ' � I cknield Way also 0.ro s s e s a. number of prehi stori c alignmen t s ( se e VIEW OV.f!JR ATILA.t'fTI S by John Mi chal , Abac�s ) I t al so inter sec±s the roman road , Watling Strccl t , at the c en tre of Dun stcible Town . All thi s i indicates. a scene of much human endeavour , some of whi ch i s of : great an tiqu:i ty ·. - - What then dloe s thi s short e s say prove ? I n a word , nothins ! But what eners c s i s circum s tancial- evidenc � whi c h g i ve s u s an indic ation of where t o l o o k in the

· · future . But what so we da about it ? As tt - i s , ·there exi sts . a simpl� .an� - �heap ( and thus ufo lo�ic�l ! ) way of moni toring the situatio� . A ll that members of UFO groups and c e l l s need do is mere ly subscribe to local j ournal s in focsl areas and scan the page s . Thi s is where 9�fo of our raw d�ta comes from and any member of a c e ll can then spo t the tran sients , e3 gho sts , UFO s , poltergei sts , Forteana e tc c

A t the very least one can re cord the e vent plac e and time for archival purpo se s . Even more , by conductin�· �n on-si te inve stigation , one can achi eve the n e c e s sary empha si s , or subtle intui tive fe e lings about . the case in qua sti on . By enquirin� into the personal backsround �f the wi tne s s , th e _ who l e fi e ld of transient phenoin·ena become s enriched beyond the bounds of c?rpora te human knowledge .

(A po int Ken makes here i s worth rG·statmn3 and emphasi sing . A s likely window areas in your �roups locale may n o t qe' inhabi ted by inve sti Jators , the on ly. way to ke ep a check on the si tuat� on is to moni tor their local media re.�:;ularly .Groups mi�ht like to consider thi s simple on3oin._� exerc i se • • . • EDITOR ) .

4) vliNDOW AREAS : A POSSI BL:B ©:PLANATION by Grrmvi lle Oldroyd & I an Cre s swe l l

Granvt lle an(l I an l i ve - in t h e M orecambe are a o f N orth Lancashire and are both inve s ti�ator s for N LUFOIG . I an has workGd onthe compi lcttion of thG hi storical datCJ. catalogue between NUFON and CONTACT since 1976 and Granvi lle i s _ invo)..vGd i n a

cro s s -eroup study of early Bri ti sh UFO sightin6s , e speci �lly of airshi ps .

To the que sti on ' Do 1vindow areas exi st ? ' the an swer would appear t o be yes " Our definition - of suc h areas would �e as follows : ' ' The se appe�r to be local ­i t i e s from which , over a l en�thy ,peri od of time , many more report s oribinate than from surrounding area s . " .

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only do there appear to be . definite window areas for UFO aqt i vi ty but also for varying type s of psychi cal/paranormal incillen t s . There i s some evidence that su:��e st� bot� type s of act i vity occur within the same window arc.:1 , and sometime s ev�n contemporaneo�sly .

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NORTH�RN UFOLOGY • • • • 8 5 ) U -FOCAL IF YOU WJ1NT TO • • • • J enny Handles

In tho s e paraphrased immortal words of Masgie Thatcher I state my current po sit�on on the UFOCAL/Window Are� s��a . I t is a po sition that might seem odd . I t does somewhat baffle me , becau se there looks to be a reasonable degree of

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e videnc e that window .1.�e�s do exi st . I nde ed Paul and I have jlj st. 'bompleted a bo ok b�sed around the topic ( now c al l ed ALIEN CONTACT , and subti tled ' Window on hno ther World 1 ) . So what on earth am I talking abou t ? I ' m not sur e . I ' IP slmpll_ . st1cking by my trusty intui tion .

· , · · · · Firstly , le t me say that in one sen se I acc ept wi.ndow areas do : oxi st . That i s 1

there are un�oub tedly zon e s where UFO reports con3regate . Warminster i s the . , c lassic oxample . Dyfed ( sub j e c t of no less than thre e recent �o oks ) i s ano ther , althotilt;h very recent re search by Hilary H:van s ( to be .publ i shed to an undoubted storm in the UFO li terature shortlty ) seem s to have ex-ploded that parti cular myth the way o thers did for the B ermuda Tri ang le . C l�d , the primci ple fo�al point of our - humble manuscript , i s a third , \vhat I doubt is that such areas are more than i llus i ons , genorated by several factors . I f that is the case then , whi lst real in one . se.nse , I would hesi tate to pin <1 self-perpetun.tinf� label on them .

Let u s lobk .it soma mechani sm s we have to con sider �R emember th�t UFO reports come to publi c attenti on f"tlmost invariably due to one of two reason s . Ei ther the mod.in.. report s an observati on or an inve sti :�ator/official "bqdy drbe s so . Le t . u s now exami ne some characteri stic s of the s e methods .

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a} The media i s both nati onal ancl_ loca,l . By far the mo s t UFO si_:thtin3 s are publi shed by ·loc al inodi a . Sinc e , at time s . of low news flow , they- wi ll publi sh th.i most dreary of low definiti on observn..tmon s a . more intri -::;uir!.·:( one oft�I}:-��!c;.nts a fair sized story . Naturally thi s loads t.o a snowbal l - effec t as UFO s become a subject for local . di scussion ( in pubs and supermarkets ) ·. other s , c c;m s c iously or subc ons ciou sly , are on the lc:xkkout for " the thin�;" . Often they see pomethin� " odd" ( which may be a met ebr 1 or a balloori , or whatever • • • somethins· they,: have never · :

bothereil to notic� · before ) .All .the psyc ho l ogi cal fac tor s then c ome into play . " Gee ... what ' s · that ? N\lkt be . tbat UFO . ' --and the gre en ball of fire in vi ew five seconds turns into a dcmed disc with a floure scent glow that seated the local ; cows as it flashed. overhead . ( The ' c o·w'S just ha!"pen ed·· to be moving to · keep·· war1n , · but nobody bothers . to . find that out ) The . feedback , which the medii3:. · often actively encourag e s ( " Tell us what you have sGerf' - rat�er di sin tere s ted in whether t!·1i s . be fac t or ficti on ( so long .as i ts a . e,Sood yarn ) , fan s the f·lames . " What i·s · thd mysteri ous thing!" it · .proclaim s , bui lding up the s�ory in· the · minds of · the po p­ulac·e �A flap i s created alm o s t wi thout -effort , J�.l1p. tho se who · do · have genui ne experienc e s see a temporary lowering of the credi bi lity thresh-ho ld and take the c hanc e �o report · their experi_enc e s . If ·.we take , as an arbitrary[ fi�:;ure , that in one ·We ek ·, in a ten square mi �e radi� s1 10 TRUE UFO eric'ounters ·occur . I t . mi��h� stand a 1 ih 10 chanc e . of bein5 reported �d. then a l in 10 ch::'{nc e of fi ndin":; i t c:; way i nto the me<i.ia ( l in 160 overall ) , At the sa:me time ( as we know there · are n ih e time s rts many I FO s as UFO s ) 90 mi sidentifi c ati ons occur ; with maybe · the ' same percentage ( i e 9 ) actually reported .Adding the sG to the 1'RUE UFO · •:te port thsre i s a 10 in lOO ( l in 10 ) ch�nc e of , somethir1g oein� r eported i n the media · ·but a 'Jo% probabi l i ty i t will not be the TRUE UFO · . G i ven a flap ;· however , perhaps as many as 90 mi sidentiftcati ons are now ac tually reported , increasinG the odds of at least one being· publi shed. cfunsid;erably ( indeed , because of the :snowball effect on medin. intere st proba1,ly several would be ) , TRUE UFO observati ons wi ll not · incre::tse very much � i t s eems li kely , ancl naybe n ow only 4 or 5 of the 10 or 2 0 whi c h d o occur will b e reported . These might b e strangEir , and s o more likely to find their way . into the medi a , but they : .wi ll st.ill be competing wi th 90 I.FO s for a plac e . The li kely re sult i s that the medi� will publi $h one or two cases in that week whicQ aro TRD� UFO � �longsid� several I FO s , cnosen from the 3reat inf=·.uz . I n o ther words di s torti on of the ' real situation occurs . I n c ompar-3..--sen�- " with other areas , no t pos se ss inG thi s media stimulu s , the locale seem s 'to have not only a lot of sightinGs but a hi�he� proporti on ·of TRUE UFOs ( perhaps two out 0f the six in that we eks paper , which i s a 3i% figure not the normal lryfo )

I f you have fo llowed all the above ( and i f no t . read i t again for i t i s importa,nt ) ymu wi ll see how ' thi s can be obs erved in the Dyfed regi on ( the ·

Broadhayen scho o l report in February 1977 .- ; pened the floodgate s on that occasi on ) Probably i t hA-ppened at Warminster too. ( put I wasn ' t around· then to know � Y

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C ertainly- i t occurred · in mi nor fashion in Clwyd ( although on�y very l{ttle local �--------��L� ! .

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a win�ow area • • • a . position which we expect to alter aftar publication of our book , and· we are of course not un<1.ware of the potential study value of this ! )

Once -. people in an A.rea are alerted to the phenomenon they become " sensiti sed" for some while . People continue _�to· look for "the thin�" . Ufoloeists invade the 0 rea ( we have ·tJFO· - --spottin� weekenct.s in hotels run by enterprisinG locals at both Warminster �nd Dyfed ; Genuine witnesses probably still feel ' their ' mect.ia is more. sympathetic and may be more likely to report TRU� UFO s . The ne� result is a perpetuation of the window �rea , although we would expect it to be tempfurary , with _ the 'sensitising effect wearing off in time . This seems to have occurred �ract.ually over the 15 ye�rs since Warminster became popular .Recently one local UFO publication asked " I s Warminster a UFO gho st town ?" No • • • I thihk it may just have become desensitised anq perhaps it has finally become normal again .

b ) UF.O investi"'=�ators are relatively thin on the :�round , active ones even less so 1 I s it mere coincidence that Warminster is synonymous with Arthur Shuttlewood , or that Randall Jones-Pugh ( the only ufologist for miles ) should just happen to live in the heart of the Dyfed ufocal ? It is not a simple question , and there arc no investigators ( nor have there even been 8-ny) in the C lwyd "Ufocal" .Yet I have to suspect this must have influence generally .A distribution map of UFO siehtings in the UK , congregates in areas where there Rre most ufologists .This is an obvious statement , but it i s overlooked by most people . I t may · be a chicken and e�� situation ( does the uffucal att�act ufolo�ists or ufolo�ists the ufbcal ? ) but it is important to ret=�.lise that apne1.rant 'J.focals may simply be special cases of _a normal process which fosters throu�hout the country. ·

�n short I am far from convinced that we cannot explain the - mystery in terms of the media and socir:, lo!�ical snowball , combined with a catslytic - UFO investieato-:' � The . ·Clwyd are does offer some evidence to the contrary ( but I will le<1.ve it to the book to il+ustrate th'ts·'"' and voice my suspicions about int±insic mechanisms that might be occurring ) . I f they do accur I will not be suprised .Aiter all natural phenomGna , like _ thunderstorms , focalise ct.ue to certain ground features , and controlled clevice s , liko aircraft , tencl to crystalise around mysterious locations called "Airports" ; Yet , in the absence of a proven ufocal- free from all sociological cont-�tmin�tion ( and Clwyd might be one ) I am not convinced that these windows will let in any light.

CASE 8063 HAY 15 00 . 40 INVESTIGATI ON S�CTI ON

BIDSTON , . Wirral Level A MIGAP ( Hlan 13ell ) Witness i s a teacher who was returnin3 on the M53 north to Moreton , passing Bidston Hill ( which has an observatory) . I t was a mild , dry ni�ht ( amidst a hot spell) with · a 7 knott easterly wind . The road was quiet . -- ; ·_� k-��-- ., He saw the objec:t first as a white li--;ht to hi s right :·:·:;.; 1�:..\�.... _ �--

dr�ve under a bridg8 to co�e l�vel .At 20MPH , itn,d ra�her . ------ �� __..rj_ __ _ _ . fr�:>;htened , he wound down h� s w1ndow and saw the obJect · �:.--�. hoverihg 100 yArds aw::�.y , the hei�;ht of a block of flats ·· {t- f , ___ ,. .. OH ( below the skyline of the hill)' . I t was so low and large ( bigger "than a·- golf ball at arms length) that he could not see all of its shape --But it had two rounded black cones which had shimmering pink/red flames behind ·them .These emitted a Jti,�htbeam eA.ch \which cut off before reachintS the ground . He _ drove past and on reacr�ng home ( 3-4 mins later) could still see the flamGs . He took hi s mother bac_k but the object had gone . The object was over a populated area and 1 mile from Wallasey where I ( JR ) was that ni�ht . Indeed Paul and I . had driven ��st the very spot just 2 hours before <1.nd hadbeen w�lking the hill three days before !

__ Curses � Yet another " localised" and " personalised�� "•impossible" case . UNKNOWN

CASE 8065 DEC 30 22 . 30 HUDDERSFIELD , W .Yorks Level C Graharn Birdsall Two men ( inc an RAF gunner on leave ) and an independant third 10 miles North , saw a green oval , object pass across the sky in an arc . I n view 4/5 seconds . A vey thorou�h i_nvesti ;ation was con�ucted and sevGral possibilities are in evidence , but it seoms likely this was a fireball meteor . Pass NETEOR CASE 8105 JAN 26 21 . 00 KI+fGSLEY , Cheshire Level B MUFORA ( J Handles )

A n 1 1 yr old boy o n edGe o f Delarnere Forest was o n a nigtit orientation exercise with school . Suddenly he looked up and saw a bright oran�;e/red dfu sh with white li:shts cbn the rim . It shot <1.cross the sky very fast , passin1� at an estima tect. looo '

and causing them to rustle ( althou�h th� ni3ht was calm) .He

NORTH�--�uFOLQ;Y . : • • · 10 caLled to two·. other boys who also saw it , but no teacher d id . ::-Ie claims his hand compa. ss ·span through- 360 de:Sree s as the object shot over we stHards . MUFORA decided that whi lst there was ne obvi ?)u s ' rer-tson to que s-ti on the b oys story hi s leve l of -rorbal de scription ( plus the fac ts the". other boys saw it only " as � flash" ) led �hemt to leave the cas e open , w�thou± pro spec t of further analysi s . INSUFF DATA

· -T� LUI SI CONTACT EXPERIENCE Summari sed from ?lpp NLUFOIG report by Gordon Barraclou�h & I an Cresswell .

E�1.rio. i s a 36yr' old mill -worker ( pre sen;tiy out of work d11e , to a hernia) , Jie is ex•. army , with �wards for observati on , has lived in the area all . hi s life , and is re �

carded as a locc=tl . charc=tc te:ri ( -although not one likely to make up a story - he i s Hell liked ) . He has been wrfting a' bock o n the local countryside fo:r; ' some· time . He lives in Burne side , a Village north of Kendal , Cumbria , wi th .his _ s�cond wife and three teenar,e c hi ldrem . · On November 21 l980� at 2·0 . 1 5 ,-despite pouring rain and blustery wi nd , Mario· wa s walkin6 a fi eld near hi·s :home ( he love s walks anq the Heather would not · deter him ) There was some lisht in the fi e ld due to reflec tions from floodlights at � ��arby paper mill ,Noticing an object by a tree ho took it to be a . cow { c ommon tn the . area ) . Then. he reali secl it was not and .took i.t to be a · sheep-shelter ( he :l_sfve:ry familiar with the local environment ) .As he sot· closer he . �hone his hand..:.held yellow ?lastic battery lantern at it and saw it was a stran�e crait hovering 3 ' off the [7ound . I t was stone grey , like .:1 squa.'shed up helicopter or etirplane with

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a dark r.;lass canopy top , I t emi tted no ligh� - at all , but had st�ange insignia on · ·· the front and rear { neetr a kind o:f tail gin ) . I t was 16 ' long anf 8- wide approx • .

. . .. . • Towards the .front w9-s a kind of door . . ana · a step under ·g· · � n�ath thi s .He . _ then peard a squelch:i,ng sound of foot-� "' 4�'--. steps , turned and shone his lantern , whereupon there was .,,.._

.. a sudden flash of bright li.-�ht . Th�s . came from a penci l · like ob ject held by one occupant ( .feiJ1a,le ) . rt. came out

· o1;1er . and struck the lantern , sme1shirr5 the slass , and whrping tl)e metal re£lector1 which fell out at h�s feet . H� fel t no force or re coi l. �nd kept hold _ 9f the lanterh i in a state of consider ble shock .

The figures �9re about 5 ' 6'.' tall with cl?-rk one pi ece suits and ,c,lt , They had v;ery beautifu l f�ce s , and the woman had

r--·· - very femintne fisure , She wore a . cape over her shou { r::·:· ! ) - 1.ders , wpiP? was

_ 0-lso dark. The ir fuaes were pale but -;.\..� ( . · " J actuc�l .. . featur� s of them wore noted , Hair was in a ,-r·\ \

prtge-boy style and shoulder lenLSth . I t was blonde , On3 j ; f eature' whi ch is int'ens�ly · p1a.zzline to the witness :is w • ... . �� .i il that , despi te the l)e-1.vy rain· and high wind , nei ther the ,..tJ t---:t � ·

suit or the o�cupants seemed wet and the ��ir did no t "J · \ appear to move at all out o'f place • . The womA.n · spQke iD . / J\

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him in perfect English saying they had c om8 in peac e and he was She n.lso told him not to reveal the markin�--� s an the craft', which

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Nario felt paraiys-ed -�t the leg s , but could mov� the rest of · .. hi s body , The entities clambered into the do o r and the object lifted vertically , eventually �;nlshing into clomds and ap�earing as a blue/whi te · glow throu�h �loud s , He

· f',�JL"ld he c ould move , ran home e1.nd reported the inc ident . lbo the police ,A noi :;hbour , whom he .. told , contacted the pro ss . Hi s wife attest s that he was whi te and shaking c Hp· was norvous , could not sleep1 and . suffered stomach pains and o�her shock symp�oms jor several d�ys . He also hardly left the hou s� for several weeks ,

: D etai l s of the psycho lo_�ical te sts cannot be described here , bu t he was found to be � - .i te normal , al thour,h hi s belief in UFOs . was boosted to c onsiderable intere s t- -· �nd .�e is planning to write a book . He beli eve s they . c�!fle ·from space ,

The _ �antern wa s analysed by police foren sic exp�s for UFOIN . They concluded the damag·e could have been caused by a blowlamp, Further de tailed tests , using a lantern of identical type , are pre sently underway wi th a profe ssi onal _ electrical eJ?.�irieer . When h i s report�.r :1� . �vailanle thi s w-tll be r_ec ordert . The. -sfEe was analysed by NLUFOIG but no trac e s . we�e foun� . R ecen tly Mar1o . has contacted a 'fv�UFORA inve stigator_ . ( who is a . so llici tor :=tnd who video -taped an interview . _,. �

session) . He asked him to find a publi sher as he · was now re ady to reveal the· t ; ·; .:.n.rkin3s on the craft ! The case i s still proceeding and a full report ·wi ll ;e publi shed in FSR in due course . ·