TIMESNumber 17 Spring 1992 ISSN 0958-4846

Warminsterwilts

Does Warminster deserve tobe the British UFO Mecca?John Spencer reveals thedetails of the Faulknerphoto fake revelations.

Did an RAF Tomado reallychase a IJFO low overBlackpool Pleasure Beach orwas it a flight of fancy?Joseph Dormer, member ofthe Fylde UFO InvestigationGroup presents his findilgs.

And Serena Roney-Dougalconcludes her speculativebut fascinating paper on thefunctions of the PinealGland.

Plus... News, InvestigationsDiary, Skywatcher, readersletlers and more in your allnew UFO Times.

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CONTENTSEditorial ...........3

News ................ ......................4-5

The Warminster Hoax......................................6-9

by John Spencer

Glowing object with Tomado in pursuit........9-1 1

by Joseph Dormer

Investigations Diary........................................... 1 1

Cover Pictare: The Warminster pinting press on the day of the publication of the Faulkener Photograph

Will there come a time when all themajor UFO cases are explained? Is itpossible that with a little more objectiveinvestigation the sacred cows that ufo-logy hold so dear as positive proof of aUFO reality could be resigned to the IFOdustbin? When a case, which has been averitable cornerstone to ufology doestake a tumble it makes you think longand hard about all the others and take asceptical view

In British UFOlore. Warminster in Wilt-shire is one such sacred cow. The antics oflhe Warminster'Thing' has remained afoundation stone to the subject since its ap-pearance in 1964. Indeed it was these\lranPe occurrence\ lhat fired my rnlerert inufology back in 1976 when I read my firstUFO book, the Warminster Mystery by An-hur Shuttiewood. I am surc that many otherufologisrs in rhis counrry wcre dragged rorpushed) into the subject by the very samemeans. Even today, Warminster has re-emerged and consolidated its importance bybeing in the midst ofthe crop circle enigma.

If a reasonable amount ofdoubt could beplaced on lhe imponrnr evenrs of Warmin-ster then British ufology would have a prob-lem on it hands. A Mecca would no longer

exist and the strong mythology that sur-rounds the town would be shattered. Manyulblogisls lool, upon Warminster as eridence of alien visitation or in the very leastevidence ofsome form ofUFO reality. Thatcould all be washed away and of course abuilding cannot stay standing withoulstrong foundations.

The recenl Hoolon revelalions repardrngthe famous or inlamous Faulkener photograph maybe all that is needed to generatethe reasonable doubt required. JohnSpencer presents a detailed report of hisinvestigation of these allegations in thisissue of UT and without stealing John'sthunder he presents a nther cut and ddedcase. Apart from the hoaxed photograph,John has uneanhed a funher infrastructureof hoaxing and exaggerating cases li] teasethe sometimes gullible UFO buffs that be-sieged the town at the time.

With regard to the photograph specifi-cally, the one imponant area that John wasnot able to confim was whether AnhurShuttlewood himself knew thal lhe photo-graph was a hoax. This is the heart of thematter. Shuttlewood was the guru of theWarminster mystery. He publicised theevents in a string of books and newspaper

articles and was instrumental in puttingWarm inster on the UFO map. His joumalis-tic style ofwriting produced penuasive andpowerful imagery of what was happening.His knowledge of the hoaxed photographwould cast grave doubt on the contents ofhis many writings. John points out thatShuttlewood's son knew of the hoax andone can only speculate on how many othermembers of the Shuttlewood family alsoknew. Shutllewood himself is cunenlly inill health and has not responded to Jonn'squestions, we must therefore be patient topursue this grey area of the story at a laterdate.

Despite these loose ends, a questionmark has certainly appeared over the eventsof Warminster that was once an immortalenigma.

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Iing statistical sludies $,hich seemed to corr-finn a 9.00pm observational pcak andcorrehlions in duration of sighling $hicllscem lo be nlimored around thc worlLl.

Ir conclusion. V!llee intinl{le.l o ir

phlsical rcality. i lerwoven with a psychi-i:rl rrnrr r,:r'it). Hc i ( lir rl) ,'l rl.c uni-nion thitl lhe UFO expericncc has no singleanswer bul sevetal.

Vrllee will now slip bilck inrc thc shil,dows ol lhe UFO world and quielly work onhis own and cornc back in a couple ofyclr'srvith a new book.

New EarthMysteries GroupOpens in London

A new Eir h Mysteries Lircup c.lllcdTEMS (Travcl & Etrth Mysleries Socicly)catcring lbr peoplc in Soulh-we:t Londonopened in Januilry ancl incorpo|atcs thc Sur-rey and thc Micldlesex branches of ASSAPlnd is atlilirtcd lo the SulTe)' Eafth M\'\-lerics Group

TEMS is a social and sludv -sroup whichwill have a proSrtnnne ol spelkers. socialevenls rnd sile trips. The gK)up \\'ill cover ir

broad bilnd ol interesls such as ancicnl sitcs.crop circlcs. dowsing. htLlnlings. UFOs lndolhcr slrtrge phcnonlcna.

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Cr-op cilcle resea|chcr-. BLr\ly l'ilyl(n hrsnrade his p|edictions tbr the' l99l circlcseasor in an exclusivc intcn,ie$' rl,ith UFOTirnes- He lirrecasts th{l thc Wessex hotbedfir-circlc tbmrirlions will die clown. withoccuncnces ofcircles shiliing lurthcr nofthand south with pictograms slill mlking anappe{rance. Busly was also ol the opinionthat the crop circle phenomenon will nolalter wilhoul Doug and Dave on thc scene.I wish I was that confident.

Vallee Comes to BritainReport b! Mike Wootten

With the launch of his latest bookRevelalions (Souvenir Press), JacquesVallee visited Britain and gave t$othought provoking presentations 10 largeaudiences in London (organised by BU-FORA) and Manchester (organised btlhe tUN and Enigma Publishingr. giringa detailed overview of his verv latest re-search.

Vallcc fbcused on his study of SouthAmcrican cases. especially thosc in Brazil.wherc many significant cases which havcnot bccn contalninrled by the mcdia. havebcen unearthed. Villagers in rcnrotc areas ofBrazil are. according Io Vallee. expericncing close en-counlers on a regular basis,He under-lincd thc impofl-ance ol these ci$es as thcpercipicnts are generally unaware of the popularpcrcep-rion ol Ihc UFO phenome-non. but are able Io rclatccxperiences thal slronglyconelate to those reponedby more sophisticatedeyewitncsscs. Cases in-cludcd a villager who fired a

gun at an object and heardthe 'ping of the buller supposedly hitting metal, AUFO that disgorged a picceof aluminium which is cur'

rently under analysis and a

photograph ol an illlegedUFO takcn by a carto-graphic sulvey plane. Hea]so shor,r'ed some intercs

YUFOS in 'Secret'BBC Film Scam Busty Bets on1992 Circles

Recelrdy, the Yorklhire UFO Society haveciaimed thar fhe BBC are secrcdy wirhhold-ing a film sequence showing a llFO in fligha. it was alleged rhat the film, housed in a d€epvault at thc BBC Television Centre, had a clnssificaiion notice stating that it should not beshown under any circumstances.

The mystery sunounding the sequencc was easily cleared up by TV producer, JohnMcnish, whose excellent Crop Circle Cornm$ique video is selling in its fhousands aroundthe $orld, He quiet easily gained access to fhe iootage (which had na secrccy noticestamped on it at all), l,iewed if ard look a copy away for possible inclusion ir his plannedUFO video venlrl'e.

Joho was also kird enough to fumish YUFOS' very owu craham Birdsall with his veryqwr copy. Veteun UFO reseaicher, Alan Suirhs said, 'Yet anoiher YUFOS fantasy bit€srhe dusl'

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American Geologist backs Earthlights TheoryReporl by Mike Wootten

'The Earth is much stranger than we give it credit for,'said US (;eological Survey geophysicist John S. Derr as he presented his findingsat the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Den said that his new sludy suggestsnlany of lhe remaining 57. of UFO sight-ings have a natural explanation. Derr's the-or) ur\ met b) skeplici.m. but \ a\n l dr{.rnis\etl. Jim Mori. ir Ceological Surrey seismologist in Pasadena, Califomia cauliouslysaid. 'There is not a lot of hard evidence tosuppon it. bur I would dcllnirely nol rulc tlout. There is growing evidence that under-ground stress generates radio signals beforesonre quakes, and a similar phenomenonrrrry erplarn repofl\ ol qulle lighl.. N4ori

.irid. Derr's \ludy r\ intere\ling rnd l m

cautiously supportive, said Kendrick Frazier, editor of the Skeplical lnquirer maga-f,ine, which frequently debunks UFO re-pons.'l think he's possibly got something.I hope additional people analyse the data tosee how well il slands up.'

The study found that dozens of UFOsightings in Ncw Mexico during l95l and1952 were clustered within 60 miles (l0t)

kilomelres) ol lhe epicentres ol-lhree quakcsthat measured 4to 5 on the Richterscale andhappened less than a year after the sighFings. Derr believes the UFOS really wereearthquake lights - basketball-sized, glowing spheres ofeleclricily Ihat are identical 10

bcll lighlninp bul re !enerated b1 crurhingof rock or changes in groundwller l-low as

underground slress accumulates in themonlhs before an earthquake.'The typicalreporl is an orange ball oi lighl. althoughsome are blue-white and solne lend towardgreenish.'said Derr. who works in Albu-querque, New Mexico'They

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along through the air... Some people leelspooked. Some people teel awed. Thestudy uscd a computcriscd list of UFO.ightings reporteJ rhroughuut New N4c\icoduring I95l and 1952. Derr elininaledsighrings wirh obvious explanalions such as

\alellrles and pbncls. He \rF7 rl\o elrmr-natcd outlandish rcpons, such

^s people

claiming close encounters with aliens orspaceships(which is a pily as he may bemissing half the story). That lefl aboul 150repon:. of UFO. resernblinx ball li!hlninf.Den fo{rnd about 80 of the 150 sightingsclustered in time and krcation around theepicentres of qutkes that were centred eastof Tucumcari on Junc 20. 1951. nonhwcstol Carlsbad on May 22. I 952. ancl near LosAlamos on Aug. 17. 1952. Marthr Savag"..a research seismologisl at the Universily olNevada, Reno. said she was skeptical Derr'scofielrlion ber$eer UFO sighlin!. und im-pending earlhquakes was nnything morethan coincidence l m not convinced thatthe sightings really rnigratecl loward theearthquake locations.' she said.

The fact lhat lhere is a growing aware-'ncss within thc geologicrl community ofthis phcnomenon is vital for f'ufthcr research

to continue that will hopcfully reap rewards.

Sour'(?:Asto(iatcd Prcss l4 April 1992.

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THE WARMINSTER HOAXBy John Spencer

Oneofthe most frequent questions I am asked lvhen I appear on radio or television shorvs promoting UFO research is ,whatwas it that got you into this line of work in the first place?' Although I am sure I always lorne up iitl Jome sort or ansrrerwhich is in itselftrue I have never heen-able to put together the full"answer even to my own satisfaction. I he lactors that gelany of us into a lifelong commitment for no gain are no doubt very complex.

However, one incidcnl I do remembcr the projccl included olt_site observation antlvery clearly. When I was eleven years old xnalysis. Thcre had bccn nany skywatchespan ofmy morning 'routine was Io read my and olher obser.vatiolt periods at Wa|rnin-lather's rrewspaper. Thc Daily Minor, bc- slcr in thc six ycars previously. Clearyfore gelting our of bed. On Fridxy, I0rh Bakcr hacl cornpilecl filis o!. many of rhcseSeplember 1965 the fionr page olrhat news repon\.paper containcd the legend 'The ThingFirst picture centre pages . ( l) I was alreadyintereslcd in UFOS and had rcad sonreAmerican books on rhc lubject. I eagerlylurncd ro lhe ccnlre pa!cs. Therc. trlind rrplhe cnlirc.c.ltre p:r"e. ruitlr the eruepllot,of onc odvenisenrent lor Tesco shops), wasa huge photograph ol The Thing - Warminsler's owl] name lbr tlying sauccrs. Itwas accorrpanied by an article by AnhurShunlewood.

Anhur Shuttlewood will be wcll knownto rcade$ of UFO lircrature. In I967 hcpublished The Waminsler mystery. hisfirst ol many books on the subjcct of UFOs.:rnd UFO. nrcr Warmirrrter rrr f'rrticrlar

Hc was thc guru of what amounted 10flying saucer worshippcrs in Warminslerand regularly led partics of bclievers ovcrthe hillsaround lhe townon skywatches thatwere not a tribule to scientific research bulwere rather aD obscrvance of religious awe.

The iatc 1960's the world saw the bifthpirrU. oi uhrl $e ou cull thc \eu Ar'e :

many of the devotccs al Wanninster wereor would becomc - hippics of the 1960 s

and 197[J s. Thcy were scarchinc for neuways to express the p{ssions thrt thcy leltinside them- UFOS, and lhe influcnce ofArthur Shultlcwood, gave many pcople jusrthal new ,bnn of expression.

ln parallel 1() this atmosphcre there wcrcrnany scientiflc alrempts ro study the UFOsin Warminster At lcast. as scienlific as waspraclical or reasonable for thc tinte. Look-ing back on those attcmpts lhcy appear extrenely amateurish and inel-fectivc butwhile it is righr to poinr oul the errors ol-research in those days it is fair rc acknow-ledge (hat this is with the wisdom o[ hindsight.

John Cleary-Baker. PhD. a director ofBUFORA, was prcn]inent in collccting asmany rcliable reports as possible from IhcWamlinster area. In l97l he announccdProject WarIninster designed to 'investigatccurrent UFO reports al Warminster as theyarise. It will also review the besr of therepons which have come to Iight in $e areain the past. Apaft from historical research,

WHAT WAS REPORTEI)AT WARMINSTER?

Allhough known lbr sighlings of'ThcThing. Warrrinster produced a very widespeclrum ol UFO reponr.

. Car stops.

On Tuesday. lllh January 1966 ThcSouthern Evening Echo (2) rcported rhecase ol Major Bill Hill. Major Hill was acomn'randing olficer of the local TerribrialArmy and sullered a car stop when his cn-

-gine cul out al 45 lniles an hour His {jarlis hl\ ll rcker(d. '"\ hcn he !, 't oul lo in\ csli-gatc the problem he erlcountered somethinghe described as The Thing . Saying. "lrwas tantastic. Therc was a definite sensation of something prcssing downward. yetthe mosl eeric thin.s of all was rhc teniblenoise. Then ir subsided as though fading

into $c distancc. As soon as thc noiscstopped and lhc pressurc liliecl thc carstafled imntediately.. Entityl

The sane ncwspapcr (The SouthernEvcning Echo Tuesday. I I rh Janulr_v 1966)

(2) also reponed the cxtraordinan, sungcs-tion ol Wanninster's lrystery lnan . According Io the reporl. on rhe birrerly coldnight of 7rh October rhc n)ysrery an srag-

!creJ out Ul \or$iclr \.od ',reJrins rhirrlrousem and shin. no shoes or socks or coat.Apptuently during thrce days at WanninsterHospital hc relused to givc his namc or.address and discharged himself wcaring rhcsame clolhes. He rcfused a coal offered bvone ^l rheho5pitrl nJrr'uirhrheuord. t,,thank you. my dcar friends, I an1 well pro-vided for". Very probably he was eilher aneccentric or somewhat down on his luck atthe time. bul lhe focus ofatlention on UFOsled to nany believing hc might possibly bemore alien in origin. Rarher qualnlly. ni\strange origin was apparently based on thebelief thal "ln a Wilrshire v illage pcople iustdon't go around calling each other'my dear

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friends"', said one Waminster resident.

. Object sighted.

On 28th September 1965 Arthur Shuttle-wood saw through the window ofhis homea huge cigarshaped object gliding over Col-loway Clump near Wanninster at quarter tofour in the afternoon (3). It had an amberdome and was estimated to be 240 ft longand 365 ft wide. It was only one of manysightings reported in the area, ofcourse, butis of historic interest as il is credited withbeing the sighting which convinced MrShuttlewood that UFOS are ot'an extraterre-strial origin. The case was evalualed byJohn Cleary-Baker

. Poltergeist-likeWarminstersound.The 24th and 25th December 1964 repre

sented the first repons olstrange phenome-na in Warminster (3). On both days justbetbre dawn there were several repons ofsffange sounds. Knook Army Camp person-nel reported "a loud and strange noise likefall of chimney or other mass of masonry.Nothing to account for the sound". A MrRoger Rurnp, the Warminster post master,was awakened, together with his wife, by "atenifying noise resembling the ripping offand dropping off the tiles of the roof, fol-lowed by a humming or droning sound."Mrs Mariorie Page was tiightened "by anoise like beating of wings, then a soundlike gravel being tipped on a road, followedby drone".. Animal attacks.

In mid-April 1964, at 5 Ash Lane between Crockerton and Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, a gamekeeper heard the 'Warminster\ound and watched a flock ol wood pi-geons flying across his path (3). Several ofthem suddenly fell dead. Examination ofthebodres indicated no wounds or signs ol in-ju.ya Corn'circles',

ln the front is piece of Arthur Shuttle-wood's l97l book'UFOS - key to the NewAge'there are two photographs of flattenedcom in an area near Cradle Hrll in Warminster. These have nothing like the geometryof the circles of the 1980's and 1990's butclearly suggest cerealcrop damage that pre-dare. the olficial slan dale of 1980 (4).

And so it went on. warminster provideda wide range of dislanl sightings. closc en

countcrs, perceived UFO effects and so on.Add to these Arthur Shutllewood's beliefthat hc was in contact with extraterrestrials.indeed a belief taken up by rnany of histbllowcrs. and Warminstcr is sccn to havebeen a microcosm of ufology.

THE MEDIAAs is fairly typical ol the media. even to

the present day, there was a division be-tween those reporters which latched on tolhe sensarionalisl and ralher dubious claimsof those who wanted to believe the mostexrraordinary possibiliries about warmin'ster and those who tried to give coverage ofattempts at scientific analysis. Predictably,the sensational won out, and the public's

perception of UFOS was coloured then, andprobably remains to some extent colourcdto the present day, by the way the mediatreated the subject at Warminster in the late1960's. It was presented as confirmation ofan extraterrestrial origin of UFOS. lt sug-gested a link between the bi(h of the NewAge and alien intervention.

For many people this makes the subjectof UFOS untouchable, unscientific or simply outrageous and has unfortunately pro-vided the media with a role model to followin the years since. Modem ufologists havemade in-mads into that image but it hasbeen slow work alltooeasily set back by theextreme comments by the cultists of theUFO spectrum.

THE'THING'PHOTOGRAPH

Every phase of ufology has a beginning,most easily seen with the clarity of hind-sight. Just as Kenneth Amold coined thephrase flying saucer and anracted mediaintercst to the subject and Betty and BameyHill, through John C. Fuller's book 'TheInterrupred Joumey'. began an inlerest inthe subject of alien abductions, so GordonFaulkner's photograph allegedly ti:ken onthe evening of Sunday, 29th August 1965uas n hat confirmed a long medir interesl inWarminster as a focus of UFO attention. Itwas this photograph with which we startedthis anicle, it having found its way to thecentre pages of The Daily Miror news-paper.

According to Faulkner, he stepped out ofthe back door ofhis home on the evening ofSunday, 29th August and was going to see

his mother. He had his cxnlera with himbecause he was taking it to his sister whowanted to bonow it and suddenly saw 'TheThing' in the sky above him. Faulkner said,"As it flew fast and low overthe south ofthetown I could just make out the unusualshapes. It made no noise. Huniedly I got mycamera free and aimed. The line of flighl

was too fast to follow. So I held the camerawell in front of it and pressed the trigger as

it entered the view finder I didn't dream I'dget anything on the film at all. [t shook merigid when I saw what came out of it all."

On Monday,6th January 1992 I receivedat my office a letter fmm an Alan Raven ofNorwich. It had been addressed to me per-sonally but sent to BUFORA'S registeredoffice in Burgess Hill, Sussex and for-warded to me by them. The letter was datedlst January 1992. Mr Raven is a local Nor-wich businessman of some substance. Itmusl be said at the outset that his involve-menl in lhe subject has ollered him no financial gain, that he has not sought publicityfrom his assistance and indeed that he onlysought to put me in contact with RogerHooton.

According to Mr Raven, Roger Hootonhad assisted in creating the Wanninster'Thing' photograph as a practical joke. Heoffered to facilitate a meeting between my-selfand Mr Hooton so lhal Icould hear thisdirectly, and question Mr Hooton.

On Friday, lOth January 1992 I acceptedan invitation to meet with Roger Hootonand Alan Raven at Alan's house in Norwich.I was accompanied by my wife, Anne, whotook photographs during the meeting, assuggested by Alan Raven.

ln as much as it is possible to prove thalthe photograph was a fake I believe thatRoger Hooton presented sufficient evidenceand argument to make that claim a virtualcertainty. Since the full story of the hoaxalso included deliberate clues which shouldhave been picked up (and clearly were not)there seems little doubt that Hooton wastelling me the truth. That statement cannotbe made with absolute cenainty of coursebut I will now hold that belief until equallystrong contrary evidence comes to the light.

If Gordon Faulkner's photograph was afake then there are a number of implicationsfor ufology, and particulary the early daysof British ufology.

John Spencer ll) and Roger Hooton

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According to Roger Hooton the modelused to make the photograph no longerexists: as far as he could recall it was madefrom milk bottle tops, buttons and a cottonreel.

The hoax was apparently devised overdrinks in the Weymouth Arms pub and almost certainly created in the first place byone George Knock, an eccentric OAP (asdescribed to me), a well-known local prac-tical joker who was at the time RogerHooton's landlord. I understand that CeorgeKnock has since died and so could not bequestioned. Along with George Knock wasRoger Hooton and Gordon Faulkner andother members of lhe.lall oi lhe Warmin-ster Journal, the local newspaper. Thepossible significance of this will becomeapparcnt shortly. Gcorge Knock was described in one newspapcr arlicle as a man'who puts his ha( on with a spanner'. He\ Js 70 in Iq65 Jccordins I,r thilr anicle.

Apparently one of the reasons for theprank was a jokc on the Warminster Journal's owner and cdilor. Charles Mills An,olher reason was a continuing eood natdrcd'conflict between local people and thealmy garrison in Wanninster.

As RogerHooton put il to me. making upslories and hoaxes lo shoul to the army that''the Martians were coming" had been awell-known, cven somewhat Iired. praclicaljoke by young lads in the area for somelimc. The original titlc The Thing was ap-plicd lo lheir dirigible balloons which wereofien scen around Warminsler town. RogerHoolon said thal when the UFO 'researchcrs and believers arrived the locallads couldn l believc their luck: hcre theyhad an audience ol a group ol pcople whowere desperalc to be told silly stories. RogerHoolon and his young friends were only toopleascd to tell them.

Thc hoaxers apparcntly prnclised fbrsome tillle. during the mid-tliernoon, to gelthe photograph righl. Roger Hooton wouldthrow thc little model into rhc air and Gor-don Firullner u,'uld Iry lnd phot('!rrph rl.

Because Faulkncr's camera was nol'through the lcns thc objecl would

^lwayscome out slightly ofJcentre as iI docs in lheeventually publishcd pholograph. Hootensaid lha( Faulkncr ncver could {eI il centredpropcrly. One nllernoon rhcy were linallysel lo stagc lhe holx.

Thcy wcnt to the {ield opposite Roqer'shousc at l3 Church Slrccl. Wilnninsler lnorder lo givc as Durly clucs as possiblc as tolhe liikc nonc ol-rvhich were succcsslullvpickcd up by so callecl rcscarchcrs lbr ltlilnvycars lhey lirstly cnsurcd lhtt lhe piclurcscilher side ol lhe hoax pholograph wcfcinelevilnl and did nol be r oul lhc slory: yctno onc cvcr asked to see lhe uncul origintlnegiLtive. When I askcd Roger Hoolonwhere they wcrc Rogcr poinled oul to ntclhat in Anhur Shutllewood's book ThcWarminster myslery' Faulkner statcs. "Theprinl and negalive are yours. ficc. if they areuny use lo you". lhough ir is not conlpletely

clear who he is handing over the documentro (5).

The whole team then went to the chem-ists in Warminster to collect the prints andmade quite a fuss in the chemists so thatanyone going there to check up on themwould get a story; they would be rcmem-bered. In fact, apparently nobody everasked the chemists about the prints.

Regarding the time that the photographwas allegedly taken; in order to get animage they had to rake it in bright sunlighrin the early aftemoon. Faulkner claimedthat he took the photograph at 8.20 p.m. onSunday. 2qth Augu\I. ln facl by rhat rrmcsunset in the area was around half an hourto an hour earlier than that and if the state-ment had been true then rhe phorographwould have becn taken in vinual total dark-ncss. No one apparenrly challenged Faulk-ner on this point.

The print of the phorograph. logetherwith a short lettcr from Faulkner. was scntto the editor of the Warminster Joumal.Charles Mills, who publishcd it (6). Accord-ing to Rogcr Hoolon. Mills knew rhat hewas having his leg pulled bur rook it goodnaluredly and published rhe phorograph 1()

show he was a good sport and to go alon€lwith a popular localjoke. lt must be addcdhere thct $ hcn I il:kcd the prescnl adminl\lration of lhe Warminster Joumal (in lg92Jit'this seemed correcl they were certain thalCharles Mills would nor have published thephotograph that he knew ro be untrue. I didFel lhc impre'\ion lhJt they \ ere dclendinBhis no doubt genuine editorial honesryrather than considering his possible payfulscnse of humour as described by RogcrHooton. Hooton, it lnust be admiltcdlhoueh. onl) worked lbr the prper for ir le\\weeks during the summer ot' 1965.

It is noticcable that the local newspapernrade very littlc ofthe so callcd 'lirsl photo-graph' of Ihis extraordinary object - lessthan might have been expccted if it wcrebelievcd genuine. The photograph. an cn-largcmcnt of lhe phorograph and rhe lctteritself are very small dnd lale up less thanhali ol-a one column (live to a pagc) on page7 ol lhe journal- By the lime thc story hadarrived in lhe Daily Mirror the same day.lhrnl: ln Arthur Shultlewood. il wit\ u \ irlual lill ccntre prge spre d.

In the Daily Mirror. Arlhur Shufilcwoodis r ef-crrcd lo as lhe edilor of thc WarminslerJoum l. According to Roger Hooton. rvhenShuttlcwood arrived bilck aI lhe journal ol'liccs he was takcn asidc bv lhe actual cditor.Ch:rrl.* Vrll.. .r'r\l l,'l(i i (' L r(cnirircnrs whiLl Mills thoughl ol rhis rnisrep-r escnlntion. AppiLrently Shutllcwood go1

irwil! $'ilh it on the {rounds thnl hc hildilllcr irll gol verv snlilll circulalion newspaper highly publiciscd in o e ol lhe biSgcslcircul tion nali(nral dailies.

Roger Hoolon wils ablc to prove lo mchis resiclence in Wanninsler ts he himscllhacl been thc subjecl ol a small mysterywhen a pond had spontaneously appcared inhis gardcn rl23 Church Strecr. Wamtinsler.

This had been recorded in the local news-papers, which he had retained irnd indeedhanded to me for safe keeping. I also have aphotograph ofRoger Hooton outside No 23,apparently taken by George Knock, scveralphotographs of the pond in the garden, aphotograph taken at the time of the field inwhich 'The Thing' hoax was creared. Inaddition Roger apparently took a photo-grrph ol rhe prinling presses in rhe Warmin-ster Joumal on the day of the hoax itself toshow the rather limited facilities available.Hooton wanted me to understand thal theWarminster Joumal in lhose days was verymuch a small local operation - hence thecamaraderie betwecn the workers. (Apparenlly every individu^l newspaper was hand-cul by shears!)

The important poinr raised by RogerHoolon ,,\ r. lhrr one of the people $ or k tngin the Warminster Joumal at the timc. andIikely 1() havc been well a\\ are of rhe hoaxbeing created. was Afihur ShLrltle\L,ood's.on. I h:lr beinp lhe c,r.c. Ro!cr Hoolr,n i.most interesled to kno\\ on $hat basis didAfthur Shuttlewood take lhe pholognphand \tory lo the Di i) Mirror'.' fhe qLenrnnis, did hc know thar it was a fake:)Ordid hecome to find out at some timel

Unfortunalely investigation into theShuttlcwood connecrion wilh rhe photo-graph has reached a dead end so fir ArthurShultlewood is apparently in poor healrh. Ihave writlen to him and received a verbalrepl) on m) telcphone an\wcrinp ma(hinctrom his wite saying that he is nol inrerestedin dealing with malters rclating to UFOs atthe prescnt time. I acknowledged this and.enr brck onl) one luflher lelter porntin€out that there would undoubtedly bc interestin this subject and asking him to considerpultins his own position firmly on record.This would avoid the allegation of'Youmust draw your own conclusions fronlsilence,'and so on. However. at the samelime Irclno\aledge lhat il he i:. unr cll i\nol proper to pul undue pressure on him orhis lamily. They also sent mc a messa-gelhrou!h lhc prc.enr on ncr\ ul lhc W.rrmin-sler Joumul thrl lhe) rre nol inrere:.I(J Ilrdealing with these enquiries and neilherwere Ihey interesled in Iny suggestion lhat Ispcak 10 Anhur Shuttlewood s son. TheWxnuinster Journal also seeIned to take thevicw thal fufther cnquiries were perhaps oIa delrinrental nature and have soughl not toiLssisl lunhcr: I think thrr rhis is out ol-respect ti)r a local figure. Thc_v also do not seeany signillcance in this ralher old and. a\ luras lhcy were conccrned. insignificant storv.I rc.pe{l Ihrir r rc.,n,'tnr .'n.t rrr.lccrl rlt:uiklhen lbr lhc bclp lhe) save nrc though I donol inleDd t() rclax investigillion into \,,hal I

rcgard ils a significanl poilll in British ufblo-sy.

The Warminstcr photographs werc nolunive$ lly acccplcd as genuine. In lhe BUFORA Joumal ol winter 1966/67 it wassuFlc{lcd lhrl th< utld: nerc 6(' lo lU inlavour of the aulhenticity of lhc Faulknerpiclure lhouJrh ,rne lcfson bclievcd lhrl ilwas 'a snap of a schoolgirl's hul'. Several

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GLOWING OBJECT WITHTORNADO IN PURSUIT

by Joseph Dormer

other magazines and anicles were cautiousas to the authenticity of the photograph.Despite this it is still one ot' the landnarkcvents ol Warminster

We should also recognise that the War-minster photograph was part ofa chain thatserved a valuable purpose. It focused attention on one person, Arlhur Shuttlewood,who collected UFO and other paranonnalrepons tiom the area. Even if that photo-graph was a fake it still led to a concentralion of presunably genuine claims whichwere then collecled togethcr over a periodoflime and published in severalbooks. Thisis a weallh ofmalerial lor UF0 researche$and a valuable contribution to the subjecl

over lhe sea in the south-west. Hc had bare-ly been walching il for more than a coupleol- \econd. when it rnor ed ol[ at lanta5licspeed, f'astcr than thc cye could see' to un-other pan of the sky. Here, it hovered for a

furlher couple ol-seconds before repeatingthe rrlanoeuvre, finally disappcaring ou1 ol'sight in the nonh west.

Wrllrrn rro rnolc thrl tr\c..\'onJ. ilftrrlhe object wenl out ofsight. an RAF Tomado plane, flying vcry Iow al 400 500'lsornewhat lowcr than Blackpool Tower,519 1 {nd very fast, wilh its wings swcptright back, shot across the sky fiom overthe-e:l in lhe Jirecrion ol rhe UFO. rs ii inpursuil of il. "lt had no lights on ar all '. saidVr. Billing. which wxs unusuill becau{e rlwir\ du.k. lhough nol complclcly darl. Ar rl

camc across. I saw smoke in fionl of theaircraft and al'u behind. q ith a Jull

'laih in

the middle." This. the witness believes.could only have been an air- to-air missilebeing fired at the object.

The witness said he then went immedi-ately to South Shore police slation lwhjchwas later confirmedl to repor( what he hadseen. The desk sergeant told him they wouldget in touch with the RAF, bur added rharthey lthe RAF] would not tell them any

that cannot be ignored.

What it does show up as significant isthat standards of research at the time wereso bad that there can be very little relianceon the accumcy of anything other than thefirsFhand witness testimonies. By goingback to these original sources a great deal ofmodem UFO reports arc given a uselul hi.-toricalperspective.

And fbr my pafl, I am left with a slighrtingc of sadness that the excitemenl of theeleven year old boy I once was was basedon a false premise. However, it hooked meinlo what I think is an imponant subject; fbrthat I am Srateful.

JD: "Did you hearany sound at all?"

AB: "I've been puzzling over rhis one.Therc was no noise tiom the glowing ob-ject... well, you wouldn't cxpect any, wouldyou'l But there was no noise lrom thc Tor-nado either. which was very odd."

Later. AB reciilled thiLl. ofcourse. thc carcrgine would havc bccn runnins al thc tilre.Nevenhclcss. hc licls thlt this shorld havcnrade little dillcrcncc. itnd he still shoulclhave hcard thc Tom{do.

AbsurdThc whole incident scemcd absurd.

Nevcrtheless. we wrole lo British AeRr\pacc xl nearb\ Wanon. \ herc fornaLlo Jircrati are buill and lest flown. to ask i[ thcrchad been any Tornados in the areu at thetime. They replied that. having checkedwith their Flight Operations people. theycould confirm ihat they did not have anyTomados in lhe area at the time.

We also checked with Blackpool Airportto see if anything unusual had been pickedup on radar, but werc told that unfortunatelylhe radar wa\ nol in operation at lhe lime.

References:(l) Daily Minor newspaper Friday, lOrhSeptember 1965.

(2) The Southem Evening Echo Tuesday,I lth January 1966.

(3) Warminster case files compiled by JohnCleary-Baker (BUFORA archives).

(4) UFOS Key to the New Age by AnhurShuttlewood published Regency Pressl9'11.

(5) The Warminster mystery by,irthurShuttlewood published Neville Spr- rrmant967.

(6) The warminster Jounral Friday, l0rhSeptember J965.

Could Andrew Billing have been mis-

you what kind ofTomado it was - it was anF.3."

JD: "How sure are you that a nissile waslaunched?"

AB: "Well. I'In pretly sure... I supposc.though. I'd have 1{) say about 50./r becausc.likc I say. I didn'l actually see (he missilc.only the smokc llt thc front and back tnd dnoriLnsey lhsh al thc blck so thc afier-burners must hiLVc been on."

JD: "Bul how surc are you in your ownmindl"

AB: "l'd sry about 90%".

In the initial telephone conversation. thewilness had estimated the apparent sizc oflhe objecl r. heine aboul r quJner lhe si,/eol Ihc MooD, but later. on a rcport fblm wehad scnt him, hc said it was about Ihe size ol-a two pence coin held al ann's length.

A lurther discrepancy was with the timc.According to Arrdrew Billing, lhe incidentoccurred at ll.l0 pm. Bul lighting,up timethat evening was 10.14 pm, and by ll.l0pm it had been dark for some time, and notdusk as the witness suggested.

On the 27th July, we obtained an inter-view wilh the wilness. Andreu Billing is inhis middle thinies, married and has worked

lfa person reports an incident which is so crazy that it could not possibly have happened, then that person must be lJing. At least, thatis the view of most people. Yet perfectly sane, sensible people continue to report things we know couldn't have happened - yet rdithouta shred ofevidence to suggest they are hoaxing, and often plenty to suggest they are not, The Tornado affair is a case in point,

On Wednesday,6lh July'89. taxi driver. thing. Later, we learned from a friend whoAndrew Billing, rang the FUFOIG hotline works as a radio operalor for the same tinn taken abour ir bcing a Tornado? I asked himto report the siShting ofa UFC) over the sea IREDCABS] lhal A.B. had also reported aboul this during a second telephone con,and Central Promenade at Blackpool. At back to base inmedialely after the incidenr, versation. He said quietly that, no. there wasI I .10 prr the previous evening, Mr B illing though he had not mentioned this to us. really no possibilily of his mistaking il forwas driving down Gmsmere Rd. lowards As Andrew Billinr had not volunteered something else. He said, ..1 comc fromCentralDrive, when he noticed, through the anv intonnation eboui *1..rfr".fr" f,ua n.u.J Hampshire where there is lhe large Royalopen window of his cab' a large' red- rny sound from rn. uro, t quesrioir.J lim Aircrati Establishment ancl I've had quite aorange, brightly-glowing obicct in the sky on this. lol to do with these things. In fact. I can tcll

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as x litxi driver fbr ntany yea$. Hc is softly\folcn rn(l (\prc.\': hIn\cll i il qui(1.precise and ssured w{y. Aoy lendency loexaggemte or ovcr-inugine is ce ainlv not{pparcnt. Hc askcd il we had rcceivcd anyolhcr rcporls ol-the incidenl. I told hinr wchad not und neither had thc folicc. Thissccrled lo puzzle and disiLppoinl hiln. I

xsked him il he thoughl that rnyone elserDighl have wirrcsscd it. He replied thal hcdidn't know. bul shonly allcr lhe Tornadohad disappcarcd out of sigl'rl he hiLd Doticedsome people looking up at thc sky. Immedi-ately alierwlrds he hacl got ajob lo SoulhPicr rrh, rc lrc hrrd.ccr l\rn fcoflc lninlrnjlownrds lhe sky. On neilher occasion was hcin r posilion () lpprouch theIn.

I nlerlioncd thc discrcpancy in csli raling thc appr|cnt sizc of thc !lou ing objecl.bclwecn u'hat he hrd lirst told us ilnd rvhalhc hatl ulittcn on lhc rcpofi li)nD. He \li(I.''I1 s dillicult lojudgc. I suppose il rou saidils uppirrcnt dianrclcr uns lbout one hall-Lhcsize ol thc Moon. vou ight be nclucr thcnrtrk, In riny ciisc. il wlrs sonrc considcrilblc\i/c.

I rskcci hirl il hc \\'its \ur'e about the tiirre.sincc b) 11.10 pnr. il hud heen dark lirr\onrc lirDc. Quilc \ure . hc srid. Lller. $'cdid discovcr. lo our s[{)risc. lhilt thc dil-lcrcncc bclwcen lirht condilions ncrr thcseu. irnLl cvcn ir liltlc inland. \\'ls \ullicicnllo lccounl li)r lhc discrclil|c\'. E!el] thoushinliuld it hird beel] dlrl li)r ilboul lur hoLll. bvthc scir. thlyc $ il\ sl ill i! lilllc nrlur!l lighl h)ll.l0pnr.

Previous sightingsIt uirs dLrrinl lhi\ lir:l urcctin! $ilh thc

$itncss lhilt hc lold Lrs ol lhrcc prcviouss igh lings ol lcriill fhcnonrcnn \," h ich hc $ il\urlulrlc lo c\l)lllirr. Orrc trl thc.c oucurr'crl orr

\crr Ycur's Erc l9?S.'' I hird just lali nr\ !ilh iln(l \\ il\ l.loing int()

ntr lurLrsc ulterr Irr)liccrl Ier()\\rl ()l l)c()|lclilrirrr ul) ill the \k\. I look.(l up 1o \cc \\ hxlh:rrl ellLrght lhcir rllcnlr)rr. I slu l tir:utshrrIerl obit'cr \ ilh lrShlcrl Ir{)flh()lc\: lh.rc\ u\ rlso u liSlrl \Lrn()rL rdirlS llrc {)l)jccl: i

.ould hcit| n{r soLrnrl lih nd \\r\ it \rro[.cr ',r..\' i. .\'.L.lr \ Lr ..l\. rir'Ihcn th. obi\]c( luflrc(l in\\ilrd lnd !.irin.dh.ight. irnrl LN it !l d 'o. 1h. 'rr,)1. lriril.lr.t. ' l t, l',r".' r.' r: r,rr ll ir.o clocl rrr:rt s lhitt c\.rriIl! \u\ r rc|(n1oltlFOs bcing \c.n Ln lhc \{)rrh \\csl. \Vhul\ r\ r[\crib.(l \ u\ .\ilcrl\ !\ hill ] hr(l s.cn.l-irlcr- \\hcr I s|okc to onc Lrl thc pcolrlc\\ho hld h.cn lr)oking Lrll ll thc \k\ rindl\lcd hrnr il h. hild \..n i1. Hc s:ritl. I'u$.' r, rlr,r : Lrl I " \t, r \L.rl | .'. ''

Intcra\lin!l\ cnou!h. rniln\ olhcr paol)lareportcd .ccirl: lr ciriu \lllrl).(1 ('hitrl ()\ rrrhc \orrh Wc\r oi I:rrglrind rhrrr.ighl. $hllhc\ hild in lrcl scan \\ r\ ()fa ()1 1|e RLr\\rrnt,' I I'\ .-.trr..lhc iltrrr()\l)llcrc. .\rr(l \\ lrilc. nllu'lll\rnough. D)ln! rl)i\l)cr!ci\ cd \ hirl lhc\ \ crcsccin!1. lhc) did rrot sildly do so. All lcDoftcd cierr shilpcd- or c)'lin(lricul objc!l\:

l0

no one rcportcd a disc-shaped objccl tbrexamplc.

This particular sishling then. xr lelsl.$,as a rrisidcnlilication - nol iL hoax. On onctir11hcr occlsion. r sighling by Ihis particul:rr' rr it ru.. * rr, r r'rilre,l. On.) ,r ,lln l h iltrclIhc Tonrdo sighling. Anclrcw Billi s nnslrre lo say lh l hc had oncc agitin sightcdsoilelhil1s unusual. l you rc nol going lobelievc lhis. brt... ]- A1 ,1.30 pln. on 6drAullusl. hc hud watchetl two helicoptcrslake off logcthcr tiorn Blilckpool Airportand chirsc sonrc unide lilied. black obicctsuhich were heading out to sca. 11 rvrspoirled out rc hiln lhrl hclicoplcrs do notliikc ol losether: Devcrthclcss. hc stuck ()his stor-y. Lrtcr: wc lburrd oul lhat whutADdrcw Billing hrd sccn wcr-c sorre ntocl"-lhelicoplers contft)llcd b\' thc co-pil()ls o1'

r..rl lr,.lrL'lrtcr', lr r'r'her.r.:rl t',t .r (lr:,ltJcvcnl \\'hich !\lls going lo bc stagc(l nlSouthporl. lWhich go!'\ lo rihow lhll _]usrhcctlr\e rou can t lhink of r convcnlionll(\l'l.lrtirtilrr ,h,c.rl l rl.,rr l,',i \ .llr.( t'tt l

ortcl. Ancl thcy clicl takc oll logclhcr.

lrtlcntion lhcse previous sighlin!s be-,. r..c I th' rk tltcl I (,'i.r' re lIlrl,'rl: rL. 'asscssinq thc crcdibilil! ol thc wilnc\s. Orr

bolh occasions hc lvls dcscribin! whtt hcthoughl hc slw.

Sincc this inilial inlcn ic\\'. I. lnd olhernrelnbcrs oI FL]FOIC htvc ntet AndrewBilling on a nunlbo ol occlsiolls. al]d tieltl , n i. r,' (jl\,n I,' 1,..r\t lli, .11,1_tl)l,rrr Ru t,l.r. rr lr. lr.rpp.rrL,l l.' rr(.r lr.r'r

al our- conlerencc aI Blackoool quilc bvchance. {nd without k owing who he \\as.iilso fell thc siulc way. As she l ler contmcnlcd 10 nre. '(While you cau nL-\'!.r bc'

sure)... hc scenrs lypicll o{ lhe largc sllb\ctol_ wilncsscs \\,ho lclually lill lbc ccnlralrolc wilhin ulblogy. sinccrcly rcporlin! iln-possiblc lhings withoul cilhcr nroliVllioI oreviclcncc ol-a hoax. bul wilhout it scrtp ol'cvidcnce lo support thc lilcral rcalily ol thecvcrll... l couldn'l agrcc rnorc. To mvmind. thcrc is no sood rcrson lo bclicve thdlAllrheu' Billing wrs lyi

-g. nn(l sevcfttl iosuqgesl lhat hc was Iclling the lruth. Notlcast among lvhich hcing thtl the wholcinciclcnl $ iis so absLrrd lhill oDe {eels lhrl i1'

he hild bccn rltcnrpting loperletrate u hoiL\.he could \ur.l\ hLl\ c in\,crled it mor e pltusiblc \lon Il $ls in luct lhis itbsufciit)' thrlcon\ incc(l u\ ol lhe lirlility ol mirkin! cxtcnsir r cnqLrir ic.. \cveflhclcss. onc ol ournr.rDber\ InrJ\ \\ilh \lt-FORAldid rDrrkclirflher cnquiric\. includin! to lhc' VOD.lllol \\ hich cilnrc uf hlrnk.

Evcn thc rr itnc.. hinr.cll. on onc lcrcl.secnls lo rL'co!ri\a thirl th!' incidenl (locsnol nlilkL'nruah \!'n\c lli\ ulliludc sc.nt\ lobc. \\tll. pclhrp' I\oullln t hx\c bc'li$ed.l rr)\'1.I'rr. L { rl $rll rrr.,r'rtcrr.i

ConclusionSo n,hat i,i loinr onl To nro\t. c!clt lo

s(nrc wilhin uli)lo-c\ \\ho hll\c lt()l \et rc.rli'.,r t Ir. .,'rr,I'tr''. tr ,'r tlL lrlt( , tt r. tNIl. il

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is simply a case of either the witness islying, or there really was a Tomado F.3.firing a missile at a UFO over a populatedarea. Yet there is nojustification for believ,ing that either is the case. I would like tosuggest, tentatively, an altemative explana-tion for both this and similar cases.

The clue, I believe, lies in the reportedsilence ofthe Tomado. Silence is a frequentcharacteristic of hallucinations. Now Iu ou ld like ro male ir quite clear ar rhis pointthat I do not regardAndrew Billingas in anywav a'loony'. On the contmry he seemspsychologically perfectly sound. What I amsuggesting is that it is possible for sane.orJinrry people to hallucinale. perhaps ju.lonce in i lifetime. [The L FO experience isf'ar more complex than that. but I believe weare on lhe rishr tracl.l And it is inlereslinglhar \ilenre i\ also a frequent chara(lerislicof the ghost' experience, which inde-pendenl e\ idence .uggesls is oI an halluci-natory nature l"There was no sound offoot-steps as... (lhe ghos0... walked". reads onereporl: another describes, "no sound ofbrexlh. lhough ir seemed ro be brearhinevery heavily"l.

Of course. those who have had UFO ex-perience\ $ r ll prolesL that there wrs nolhinghallLcinatory about what they saw: "Theobject !vas real, solid, metallic..." Burghosts too. conffary to popular belief, seemas real and substantial at the tine as any-thing else in the physical world. It is onlyIater thal lhe subject realises that what hehas seen cannot be physically real lbecausethe person seen is found to have died, forinstancel.

Further. there is evidencc [beyond thescope of this articlel that in such experiences. the whole of the environment is hallucinated. the real environment being re-placed by a substitute one, almosr Ibut nolquitel identical to it. In the case under dis-cussion. it is jusr possible that the peoplelooking up at the sky aftcr thc Tornado haddisappeared out ofsight nlay have been prnof the hallucinalcd subslilule' environlltent.

lf the UFO cxperience is essentially anhallucinatory one. what llrc we 1() make ofmultiple-witness cases of 'high-slranee-ncss ? Can hallucinations be shared? Bi-zaire as it seem!. somcthing of dtis naluredocs seem to be happening. In any case- ifsanc. ordinary people can havc hallucina-tions which lhey are untble to distinguishtiorn realily. lhen clearly it is lilne ro rewrite the psychology Icxtbooks.

The Fylde UFO Investigation Groupare a very active team of investigatorswho cover Blackpool and the sur.roulding area il you are interested intheir activities then you can contactthem at the following address:

293 Devonshire Road, Blackpool,FY2 07W

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NEWSCUTTINGS FORl99l

The final total for l99l was I ll0 - only100 down on 1990. This very high levelwasagain due Lo at lea\l h0'; o, rhc lolal beingabout crop circles mrny \ ith no menlionat allofUFOS. This trend has continued into1992. January produced 65 cuttings - ofwhich l8 were about circles and at least lwomade no mention of UFOS at all.

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Continual new requests for provisionalstatus have pushed numbers towards 50 forthe first time since I became Director oflnvestigations. This is the thinking behindthe new postal training course which wehope to get off the ground in theSpring/Summer. Already l4 members haveapplied. I would like ro thank them and wehope all will take part. They willbe individ-ually notified as soon as we have more de-tails to offer.

NEW Rl FORMI would like to thank all who worked

hard on the redevcloprnenl of this. I bclievewe now havc a first rale new linrn.

BROADCAST NEWSTimothy Good has made a Gw ilppcaran-

ce\ reuenll) Io prornorc rhe lupedJrk ol hi'conlroversi{l book Alicn Liuison . Hc wasnoted on Radio l. fbr cxunple.

Meanwhilc on Radio 2 I was casl in therole ol sccptic by The Jamcsons on 2March in a J0 minule leature about a nliurfiom Brighlon who claims to be in conlaclwilh an advanced racc. He tppears Io bcsomething ol an old fiLshioned contaclcc.who flrst heard thc voice when hc was u

youth nlany ycars ago in Sunderland. Hewas lold rhal whatever he did lbr lhe rcst ofhis litc did nol maner until hc wds 54. lhcthey would conlact him rgain. In so lilr as Icould galher the wilness. Ray Logan. believes he was conlactcd by this r'ace ofsupcrbeings when hc got ofl a lrlin in Susscx byimpulse and wcnt inlo a pub where he had a

long conversation with a 'man who could

nol be human.ln response to myquestion as

towhyhefelt this I gather it was because theman commented that our race was in a badway in a phraseology that indicated hecould not be a member.

I apologise to Ray Logan if I have notfully folloued this bul lhe BBC linl linewent down and I missed some of what hesaid. However this appeijred to be lhe gisrofit. I gather that he has a (selfpublished?)book called The Uni\,ersal Mind'in prinr:although I have not been able to trace anydetails of it. Can anyone help readers out ifthey want to find it?

A week later I was called on as a sub byBBC- I's 'People Today'TV show. This wasthe day before the election was to be announced and they felt an item scheduledwas too political (obviously they knewsomething aboul Mr Major's plans upfront!) Anyhow since rhey had a copy ofmynew book 'Looking tbr the Aliens' (co-authored with Peter Hough and publishedby Blandlbrd) and as I lived locally and haddone the show before they ropcd me in at

{he very last minute to talk about aliens.Since nehher the producer nor interviewer(ex'Thal's Lile's'Adrian Mills) had readthe book or knew what points we Inake,MrMills might as wellhave been talking in hisfamcd ridiculous Spanish acccnt. Slill i1

passed a fiw amilble minutes of timc.

Slay tuned lbr l99l as Jonathon Ross hasrepuledly been woocd from Channel 4 onf 10.000 a show to makc a I J-week series ofhouI long proeramrnes for the ITV nctworkaboul what the! temr '{liens and thc para-norrnal - Onc ponders the deep and objec-tivc rcsearch lhrt will be going into thalserious venlure. Whilst rcscarching a bookaboul spontrneous human combustion overthe pasr couplc ofyears Peler Hough and I$ere uorrircrcd h1 u noteJ T\ inrncdlirn\^h,, \ jrnlcd hclf' to $tile J.,,mcd) \Lrrplfbr childrens TV about this disturbin-s sub-ject. Wc h{ve hrd visions cvcr since ol'Jcrcmy Be dle laking rights in our book toproducc a new series titled You'vc bccntlamcd ... Ijusl hopethalnevcrhnppcnsandlhal lhis colninq ll wcck scries proves fiore\ober than lhc choicc of presenter nightinlply. Therc's nothing wrong wilh lreatingthe prranormal as show-biz bul the networks havc long needed serious cover^ge ofthese issucs. Whether they are going ro gctil very much remains to be secn.

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CAS EFI LECAS E FI L ECAS E F I L ECASE F I LE40-001 1940 Alperton, Middlesex Ken Phillips

Bizane with bells on. A small flying object shaped like a metallic 'wasp'entered a house and flew about. The witness failed to dentit with an axe and the cat was scared out of the house for a week. The witnesses mother said it was a Nazi secret weapon, but thewitness (then aged 9) said it was some sort of alien probe. Anamnesis is pending. There are parallels with part of a recant MargarctFry investigation from the same time period in South Wales when a small metal insect lured a young boy towards a cliffedge.

87-029 July l9E7 Walthamstow, London Ken Phillips

A man and his daughter observed a small irregular mass which was drifting over the garden. It was said to look like battered-inmetal with a central ring inset . The witnesses considered the possibility that it was a weather balloon. It does look to be a partiallydeflated balloon or a bag blowing in wind.

89-028 23 Feb 1989 Woodville, Leicestershire Clive Potter / Kevin Flannery

A man driving to work saw a white 'star' which has been evaluated as almost certainly being an aircraft on route to CastleDonnington reflecting the rising sun.

89-029 4 July 1989 Pirbright, Surrey Jenny Randles

A man visiting the shooting range from up north saw an object drift by that was clearly one ofthe halfsilvered balloons commonlysold at fairs and fetes in the summer.

90-027 2l December 1990 Streatham, London Ken Phillips

A new member, who seems well qualified, observed a blue patch of light at 06.30 via a bedroom window (there was thick fog atthe time). It then moved away pulsating at 4 Hz frequency and was visible for l0 seconds. I am not convinced. but this may be anaircraft with lights made to look very unusual and spread out via the mist.

91-10 18 Februarv I991 Pembroke,Wales Rl onlv

A child reported a pulsating red patch of cloud moving against the wind. This sounds like aircraft light through low cloud. Thewitness was only aged eight so the Rl was not followed up.

91-03 23 March 1991 Chingford, Essex Rl only

Doug Cooper

A classic blue/green fireball meteor with tail was seen at 22.28 hours.

91-11 6 July 1991 Sidmouth, Devon

This is a daylight photographic case. The witness heard a 'jet'noise, went outside but saw nothing. Then the noise faded and hespotted a small white object high in sky.It took 20 minutes to drift across and in that time he got one shot ofthe UFO with a PractikaSLR with 200mm lens. The object looks rather like a balloon upon initial consideration but investigation confirms that the only metballoon launch known that day probably could not be the UFO given wind speeds and directions.

Please note that the telephone number given for Jenny Randles was incorrect and should not be used.

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UFOs, States of Mindand The Pineal Connection

PART II

By Serena Roney-Dougal

Earth MagicAll matt€r is a complex interrveaving of charges and fields; all matler is both electric and magnetic. Electromagnetism [e-m] seems tobe the interfac€ between matter and spirit and between body and mind. It is not chi, nor M-ana, uut is

"eiui"? to flr"- through thequantum reality of which it is a part and which is purely outside of time and space ana

"n""gyln1uit". ,*rit5,,

---Electroslatics is the aspecl of electricily Northcrn Lightsl intense magnetic lield Rocks on Earth are magnetised accord-thal cxuses lightning or eiectric sparks .torrrl,"ou."iby flur.s on the sun's surface. ing 1rl the rime when they came to the surWhen rrmber i\ ruhbed. il caure, rhinCs lu .,,

be rllrJcled ro ,r. or ir g,ue" ofl rpr,.l.. Thi Werre.crqrri.itclysenritrvetothrsnra.. lirce Jnd (ooled rnd lo lhe prevailing EMF

chlrsc on irmbcr o,.ron1 .,n o" ',JJli

ncricfieldol rheEanhlE\4Fl: irhu.beerr ::::i'l:,:1l:,".'::'usee'tionrhitue rc

mirtid rhrough rhc humrn to.ly. silico,' loun(l lhol \ e do hcve a magnelrc serr:.e ol scn:'lllvc lo lhe\c groulrd chrnger in mry

lsandl is half way ber*""n un inrulrro. uid direclion. a sixth sense. If w"e rre in a drrk i,-t^i..]ltll^ 1: ] l":e alreadv mentioned'

a conducror or electriciry. crass i. -aa! underground room and arc ,;;;.r";i;,' :T::iir':""11]:::,-,jii;,jij i,Yl,3fi,|iifrom silicon and computers fiom silicon ch-ir and then asked to poinl nonh when we .".rJr,J" rrry,#. ii""ce the25 hourclock,chips. Old crystalline granite stones- such as come to rest. we can do so if wc "gi\,e up

""A ,f* ,ff.'.i*g "i"ur emotions through

are found in slone circles. are made of sili- and guess" in rypical, subliminrl mentrrron ou, fror.on"i. li" or" possibly sensilive tocon and quanz. They have what are called fashion. If we are taken blindlbld on n chunges u., small as one fwenty thousandthelectric lallices, and so discharge their static rwisty tuming bus ride and at the end {re of the EMF.electric charge under certain colrditions. asked to poinito where we havecome from,Thus thcy are connected with slrong electric once again we can do so if we let Ihe subnd n)irncri. tield*. tightning r)pe rparls -^-.^,:,,. ,",. . .;..-:.--- , ..

.nd c.ckr und erecrrr. in".'- rio"" ,,,np ::,1'::","; ,:ffii.'i."l Lll, :::::'"- lil The pineat Gtand and rhecry.lal- irrc uorring wirh lhi\ crecrro.lrric ,, ''*,u ' Earth.s Magnetic Fieldener!). ll i. rtso toind in rhe piezoetectriu fll::,t.,o"'\cn'rlrrrry lo lhr

effect. Ifyou squeeze a crystalyou create an posslble thiLt our dlrecllon tetlse is due to lt has been fbund that our sensitivity toelectric ipark, as in modern electronic or the pineal gland because at pubefly our pi- psychic infonnation is aft-ected by changesgas cooker lighters. Ball lightning. will o- nealgland calcifies- in lhe EMF. such thal. if it decreases inthc-wisps and other UFO-related lighr phe- tn orhcr words. ir crysrallise\. tike bonc. ]:i:lltl l::.""1r::"re reportcd occurren-nomena seem ro be erecrrostaric. rr has been round that bone. ;;;;;. il. :ilj: ::,jlilT#:,;li':fl;l_::l"J!jl

The body is electric - some people are feathers. horn and flngernails are all pie "i"i;ir. A;i.;;;;n the EMF increases,

supersensilive to elcctricity ihus wc cx- zoelectric: is this the basis hehind the ntagi- such as, durinq sotal .loms, then therc arcperience headaches, faiigue and irrilation cal propenies associlred wilh thesc boclily -"r" ,.p;;;;i;;;;*nces of dearhbed ap_from pylons Electricily is an agent ofstress organs? paririons and poltergcislsi Ihe more intenscaffecting our chakras and the whole of ourbody-mind syslens. However, there arcalso healing propertics in magnetism: . -._ --,

pul.cd magneti.m i\ u:.ed in ph):rothcrap)Irurseu rnagnelsm ls used ln pnysrothempy I llil:*:::;:::::f:t:'i:.:T.:"::i::11111' | ,"* -':*::the aura is this electric body lield surround

-,.-

- - f l.-ir r

ing all living malter. Onc researcher evcn

s+***ii*** #Thc Lirrth i\ ir uiirnl but rnijlnel. Thc \olrr '-.F

. 1. Ic .rlle. r' rhc Llnh \ r ir!lncli.m Ilr mi!))wJ):\:u!h Js r \trcrne w"rtli"'. * rrnt", t.n, -&pereturc.. Ienpth ,'l- crop Srowrng .eir.,rn. '.:-.-:.grow1hpatlemoflrees.admissiontomental''..:,}':t|ffi.ffihospitals and political and social change.Thc mosl extreme exarnple is lhar of the 'l'he Rollright Ston(

U!'O Times l3

types ofpsi. These show a peak at 3 am,justwhen the pinealbeta- carboline is thought tobe at its peak: when the veils are thinnestand when most people are born and die.

The change in EMF intensity, either up

ordown, seems to affect the pinealenzymesin a similar way: lo increa.e lheir aclivily.There is also what is called a window effect:in other words, only magnelic field changes

in the region ofthe EMFhave been tbund to

affect the pineal gland. Also, changes in the

hoizontal orientation ofthe field affects the

pineal gland. Thus, we are affected by rocks

of dilfercnt ages il they change suddenly'say, at a geological fault line where tworocks ofdifferent ages meet, or where therc

is what is called an intrusion in which a rockof a different age pushes up through a sur-

rounding rock. Houses can enhance or de-

stroy this affecl. Concrete houses with elec-

trical wiring crc darnaging Io our sen\illvily.hence. hauntings are more frequent in oldstone houses in their pre-electric slale.

This gives a ready understimding offielddowsing. which can be seen as subliminalsensitivity 1o changes in the EMR and ofwhich running water is wcll known to be

dcle,lable at ground lcvcl. Thi. senritivitlhowever is a typical subliminal sense and so

only thosc wllo are aware at this level willbe able 1() dowse: it is all dependent on the

psychological conditions I have mcntionedearlier. That is why experimental findingsrre noloriou.l) unreliable lbr do\ sing.though it has been widely used throughoutthe age. lor detecling water. as \ ell as in

archaeology, but more frequently in the

search for gas. oil and mineral deposits.

Stresses on geological faulls create elec-

lric ellecls through lhe pie/oeleclric efleclIt has been ptoposed that eanhquake lightscould well be related to UFOS. The sudden

change in EMF at a geological fault.together wilh electrostalic effects, interact$ith our electrir-cnergl body. The br.rin.

with itsmillions ofneurons atquantum sen-

sitivity, together with output ofthe beta-car-

boline hcllucinogcn from thc pineal trrg

gercd by these electromagnetic changes, af-fccts us so that we arc in a slate of con-

sciousncss which is morc susceplible topsychic input and we sive foml and shape

Io this electrical ea(h-cnergy and scc UFOs

or fairies according lo our bcliefsyslem and

lhc pr<\ iiltrl! r',lle.l'\ c trll. !,ll.cinLr: "1 uul

socieiy.

As Paul Devcrcux says: On the onc

hand the nystcies of the univene can be

rcllrrl(d bJ(k Io the rlrltrneLl con{(i('.1'nlind of lhc witness. rvhile on lhe other a

IJr nlore comnlun oc. Lrtrellce - all th.'t i.displaycd are elerrents from the common.uhural ethos. u.uall) In lhe comrc \tllpmedia imagery that has now become the

menlirl curcnu) lbr kccpine our colleuli\eheliet.s. fears and dreams alive. If the UFOpageanl resembles nothing more than the

incoherent ravings of a fivered mind, then

that is the true reflection ofour current men-tal situation."

We must take responsibility for our vr-sions and our voices. Just because we chan-

nel something verbally or visually does notmean that it is good or right. We canchannelor expcrience garbage far more easily than

we can channelwisdom.

Sacred SitesThere is an ancienl folklore linking stone

circles and other sacred sites wilh psychicevents. Fortean events, UFOS

^nd fairies.

elc.. Britain is renowned throughoul thcworld for the quantity olpsychic phenome

na ihal ociur herc. For examplc. il itreckoned that I in l0 people in Britain see a

ghost at some point in their livcs, and I in 5have an OOBE. This is a very PsYchiccountry. It is also a heavily geologically-faulted country with every agc ofr{Jck pres-cnt at the surface somewhere. Therc are 286

stone circles: of thesc 235n arc on prc-

Puck The Shape Shifting Hobgoblin

Amorican rcck outcrops:85c/. circles on

.16.o hnd ma:.r fsicl. Ererl \lone uirulc inEngland and Wales is within a mile of a

surface f'ault or lies on an associated inlru-sion.

Paul Dcvercux recorded all sorts of plle-noDrena al Rollright Circle whcn membersof his Dragon Prcject operated Cnussnle

ters. infia rcd caneras. ultra-sonic dctectors. dowsing and Ccigcr couiters lhcrc.Thcy reckon that the siones rrc coidenser\hnldr'r! el(Lrro\lrlir encrg). Jr.l lll( 'u'f',-cion at the lnoment is that thc circles are

placcd specilically fbr particular eleclro-magnctic earth-cnergy using material thalinleracts specifically to create an e m el-l-ecl

thal is highly psi- conducive.

Associaled with the stonc circ_les and

olher sacred sites are the so-called ley lineswhich also seem to bc places of UFO si-qht-

ings. hauntings, poltergeists and fhiry tales.Perhaps there is some subtle Earth cunentllnked in some \ ay \ ilh electromagncliimor electrostatics that is concenlrated along

these so called Dragon lines. Certainly,there are plenly of barows associated withley line. rnd lhe composllron of blrro\ \ Is

that of layers of organic and inorganic marcrirl\ u h;ch rcducc\ ambient e m lield. In

a similar manner to modern Faraday cham-bcrs, or Reichian orgone chambers. Thisreduction in e-m lields is linkcd with psy-chic awareness and stimulation oI the pinc^lgland. So it really does seem rs if lhere was

some sol1 of ncolithic psychic technology.

My tentativc speculations xl lhe nlomenlare that the barrows are constructed specifically to affec1 our state ol- consciolrsness so

that we become more reccpli\e to lelcPlthy.clairvoyance and the other pslchic phc

nomcna shown by Persinger-lo be linkcdwith a decrease in :nagnelic field. $ hil\t theslone circles are related lo ps)'chic el'lects

linked with ar incrcase irr magnctic lield:this has yet lo be shown experirnentall\.

The Fairy-Faith Philosoph.v-'

There is a legcncl thal thc people wltobuilt thcse megulithic moiltnenl\ are lhe

samc as those who populale our nlvths andIcgcnds: the British f'air lblk. nnd the nlorcmodem Anhuian legcnds de\cendcd ftonlthem. It is fell lhat these lege d\ represent

lhe deprJdcd rernr)rnl ol lhc old Brll '1r lni-mistic religion, now rcsursinr r\ \\'iaca. orPaganism. or naturalmacic. or lhe sfirituiLlsidc of the Green movement.

There are four distinct t] p.\ ol I ir lblkin our legend:-

a The coarse and countr)'lair). iL\ e\emplified by Puck and Robin Goodtillow:cvery coulrtry house had its bro$nie orspritc.

a White ladies, Banshee. fair\ \\ olnenspirit-guardians oldle grandcr mlLnsions

a BriLlsh el\es: lound in col rlnuniLicsmainly by sacrcd sites.

. Pagan deities - Tuatha de Danaan. Gwynap Nyth, Rhiannon. Cerrid$en. Herne

the Hunter and Pan.

The number of limes ihcse dii_teronttypes of beings are rcporled. nnd their aclual

shape described, rescnlbles quitc closelythat reponed in UFO lileralure.

Fairyllnd exisls as a supcrnomlll sllte olconsciousness into which \\c ttlll\ tcmporirnl) <Ilel irl orc lln\. .r:rll( r' 'tr \: ll(iJ\c! \l jrlrt' c(r drliorl\, I'r' ur .rr, lll,lrl illll( l\'rod at dcalh: it is not onl) lhe ltrrd ol Iair lolkand ofdivinc imrnor'tals. bul llso lhc lend ol'the deiLc!. This rebi h. or rcincanliition phil-osophy. was a cenltul rspccl ol thc taiDfaith. Ian Stevenson hrs doDe somc cxcel-lenl rescarch inlo childrcn uho rccall pre-

vious Iivcs which givcs good cffthing

Isicl to this belief s],sten. Fairyland is olienassocialed with bnrrows.

^nd if you look al

the pictures ofarcund mound with its circleol lighl end dancinp hcrny". lhis imuge i\very similar to that oflen reported for UFOs.

Il is well known in psychic research that iheshape ol the perceived imagc rs o[ primeimponance, and what we label this shape

tends to be determined by various psycho-

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logical factors overlaying the primary per-ccptroir.

Time to the lair folk is ol a differenrorder: one ol their days is one of our years- we are to the fair fblk as a gnat is to us.since onc ol our days is as thiny years to agnal. This suggesrs thar rhe fair fblk areexisting in a statc closer to the speed ofIight. remembering lhar rime srands still arrl'ris spced. This rinte/encrgy aspecr has obvious close links to UFO phenomena.

There a|e scveraldil'fbrent sh.ands 1(] lescnds o1 thc tail lolk:I ) The clcmenlals. known as Devas. arc

to be fbuncl all over the world whcr-ever there is an iLnimislic religion thalrccocni-cs tlrc \firil ul ir plrre. bcinpor thins.

2) The psychic-spirirual aspcct. besrcxemplilied by the rraditional view ofthe poltcrgeisr. in which if you hadbroken faith wilh drc fair folk guar.clianof \'our house. lhen they would l(n.rncnt )'ou, As sonteone remarked ofnrediurnislic r{pping ol iables. the phcnorncna resenblcd nothing so lnuch asa nrischievolrs. childish prtnk; whichis just whar some of rhc tair lblk arecnn.idcrcJ tn b< like. I hi' 'rrrre rni.-chievous. prankish elefienl is also tobe fbund in the modem corn circles.Thcsc have bccn connccled withUFOs. u,hich in tum hlvc been connectcd wilh ceftain aspecls ol-legendssurrounding thc lair fblk.

3) Memorics. nlyths ilnd legcnds of thcneolithic peoples. Ther.e are rnarryslrrnds to this aspccl o,-the legends.Thc iair folk arc said ro live in barrows.lo dance in circles in thc slone circles.to walk along fairy palhs which can belinked ro ley lines, ro control the nragnetic currents of thc Earth. cIc..

The f'air tblk dre parlicularly said ro hareiron. ulrich relrle\ holh l', elcclrolrrgneli.sensitivity, and to a prc iron agc culturc.They are said ro have raughl agriculturc.spinning. weaving, dying. hcaling andhelb:rl lnrc tnd all other urirtl. of ( ivili\r-tion.

They are especially a magical pcople.said to be highly gificd in psychic manersand able Io teach humans this art. This rc-lates to the infonnation conling out nowconcerning socred siles; their spccial placcs.Like all guardians ol high philosophy, rheyare said to have taught the mordlity andcthics which has come down to us as thevadous taboos such as the okllorc concerning poltergeists menrioned above.

Music and dancing is of their essencc:they are cenainly unlike the stem Judeo-Chrirtian parriarch Cod u hu Irou ns orr fun.In ta(1. the es\encc of lherr magic. lheirenchantment. is rhrough poetry, rhythm andmusic. Therc are loads of stories aboutpeople who married members oI the fairfblk, and about changelings or children ofthe tair folk. Many of these stories are con-nected with witchcraft. the so-called oldreligion also called Wicca or Paganism.

Second sight originally was ascribed tothose who conversed with fair folk. It wasonly later thal these contacts came to bereferred as psychic abilities in general."Mrgrc w* the suprenle \cience bccau\e lraised its adepts out ofthe ordinary level ofhumanity to a closer relationship with thepLrd* and crealive po\ crs. Nor was il ascience to be had for thc asking. Neophyresoflcn spent twenfy years in severe study andtrrrning. Vo:l of the tnlrterie. ol anliquit)wcrc p.yihrr or rny\tiLrl in rhcrr rrrrrure.'Vigils olten lasting over two weeks wercdone in troughs in Nerv Grange or otherbanows.

Thc basic essentials of rhe nagical philosophy of the fairy tailh is idenlical wilh aworld wide animistic religion. such as theaboriginal and rhe Anlerindian, etc..I ) Thcre is ar spiritual world ol causes as

thc background of the phcnonenalworld ofeff'ccts [c.f. Bohm s ImplicateOrderl.

2) The materiitlsubslancc conposing ourbodrc.i i- tnercl) :l rnciln\ ol c\nrc\:tonfor life: a conductor fbr an unknownforcc which cxhibits volilion ancl anindividualconsciousncss thatwhichwe call our soul.

i) The soul is an indesrruclible unil ofinvisiblc powcr possessing consciousrre..;rr,l rolrtiol illd i, Jhlc ro c\i\lindcpcndenrly ol rhc hunran body.

4) The personaliry is d remporary combi-nation wholly dcpendenr upon rhe ego- therc is no pcrsonal immorlalily.

5) All evolutiondry processes. reachurgliom rhe lowesr to the highest. illuslrate a gradual unlblding in thc sensuous world of a pre existing psychicalpowcr lhrough an cver-increasingcomplexity of specialised structuresithis complexily being broughr abourby natural selection. Life is equivalentto psychical power which is equivalentlo il rcservoir olconsciousness. 11 is thesoul monad that survivcs. which is irrr-

mortal, which gives unity to each tem-porary personality and this soul is thebearer of all cvolutionary gains madein each temporary personality throughwhich it reflects itself. It is the permanent evolving principle.

6) Some races have evolved out of thchuman plane of existence into thc di-vine plane. Hence the gods are thebeings which once were human andlhe ictull rrcc ot human, \{ ill in timebecome gods. There exisls a need innature, by virlue of the working ofe\ olulionJry la\ .. lor people lo str i\ eto reach divinily.

7) Magicians arc able to produce magicaleffects because they are able to tuneinto the soul stuff, and all spirits andfairies are portions ofsuch universallydiflused mana, the soul of the worid.

8) Mysticism is lundamenlally rhc samein allages and arnong all people. Mod-cm mysticism. dcrived mainly ftomcaslenr 5our,c\. link: with lhc tiriryfailh handed down lrom our ancestorsbec use thc two occupy a commonprychical rerrirory. lronically. wirh thenew physics. thc animistic view ofhu-mJlr\ i' nlorc in lrrnnonl uilh \cien-tific premiscs than any other.

To me. this fllilh. rhis philosophy. is rhebasrs behind rhe Icwly evot\ inc prgrni:rnirt Bnt:rirr lnd Americr Parirp.lthologl. rngiving us the scicntilic grounding formagic, is confinning rhis philosophy ofspiril. is giving us it sciencc of the spirit. sothat we can grow a world-view in lune withour times that will be in hamtony with whalour planet nceds lbr survival. lf thc presentday UFO phenomcna are in sorne caseslinkcd with this eanh magic, then it wouldbe rcally rather lovcly if our collective cul-turel \ubcol\rlnu\ could \hiI tn pcrceivcthis energy in irs older lairy tbrm mrhcr thanin the rather mcchanical and oflen horrifically filscist abduction tbflnut dtat we aresuftering now.

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WATCHEREd ted by Gary Anthony

While some observers will be keeping an eve out for the first white March Hare to appear,others no doubt will be endeavouring to look af the heavens despite the recent poorweather, In This feature we will have all the regular nervs on planetary positions, phasesof the moon plus Space news will take a look at Ulysses a new generation of solar spaceprob€s and IML-l which was key to lhe Januarf Shuttle mission.

The Planets

Venus - March. Rising less than an hourbefore the Sun at rnagnitudc 3.9 andrcmirin5 very lo\ in lhe eusl. The Moon i.near on the 2nd.

April. The planel is clinginS to theeaslem horizon throughout the month andslill {t magnitudc 3.9.

Mars March. The red planet is also lowin lhc casl bctbre sunrise. Satum appearsclose on the 6th/7th and the moon is nearonthe lsl and J lsl.

April. The red planet is inconspicuouslylow in thc cast al a dull magnitude ol 1.2 tbr

a brighl sky.

Jupiter - March. Is a brilliant objecl ofmagnitude -2.5 in the conslellation ol Leo.The moon is nearby on thc l6th/171h.

April. Still a brighl obiect and dominaFing lhe evening cnd rnominS:ky. hur seltingby 03hrs lal in the nonth. Moon is near onthe l2thll3th.

Salurn - Mxrch. l\ rn earl) momingobject rising some two hours before Ihe sunby the 3lst. not well pldced fbr UK ob-servers moon is near on the 2nd and 9th.

April. Jupiter rises by 02 hrs by the 30th.Moon is near on lhe 26th

5PACENEWS

Micro GravityTests for

DiscoveryThe lnternational Miclogravitl, Labora-

tory was the payload on board the success-

lul Discovery rnission in Janual'.

The IML I uscd thc Spaceliib press-uriscd l:tbLrrutrrrl nlrrch rr.. Je\(lon(.1 inthe l{te 70's by ESA which hls alreadr been

llown in spacc five tinre\ \\ ith Spacelah I. IIIl: D I and Astro-l rlrisrions. The proiectallows astronauts. u,o ing in shilis. to pcr',lbnrr r rlriet) ol e\perinlcnl. Ilr ir .llirlslceved environnent tbr lJ hour\ J da\'.

Microgravily or' u,eightlessness is uselullo rnrn) scientilic di.cipline,. rn plorrdingvital research. In an orbiting spacecraft thegravity levels are reduced bv a liclor ofonethousand to a hundred thousand: Illese corFditions are far removed tiont dn) that couldbe reconstructed on the Eafih. The \ inualabsence of gravity can be utilised in nlanydifferent ways fbr cxample in medical rc-search and alternatively lbr producing al-loys and semi-conductor materiah \\ ith beFler physical properties. Anolher area ofpromising research concems prolein cr)s-tals, complex 3-dimensional slruclureswhich are almosl impossible to gro\ on

Earth. In orbit. high qualily cl-1'srals can begrown where their internal structures can be

determined using standard X-ra). diffracliontechniques.

Experimenls onboard IML- I $eredivided inlo lwo categories - Lile sciences

and Material sciences. ESA providc-d thelwo facilities described as multi uscr fir-cililies - meaning that diff'erent expcrimcntswere repeatedly perfbrmed using the \amebasic equipment. One is called the Bio rack.which will cany l7 experiments devoted tosmall life-fbrms, cells. planls elc. It u,as

used to scrulinised biological DlechnnisInsat the cellular level and allowed study ofradialion effecls. The other has been namedthe Critical Point facility. allowing fbr theinvesligatiorl irlto physical properties atcrilical poinls, where liquid and vapourphases co-exisl. At {he critical point. n1any

physical properties adopt cxtreme values.For crlmple. rn willer lhe critrcrl pointwherc liquid water and steam coexist is at370oC and 220 bar pressure.

ESA astronaul ULF Merbold, who flewon Spacelab-l in 1983, will operate as pay-load specialisr on lhis IML mission.

skydnrnMARCH 1992 APRII,

4rh l-3 h

I2rh 05 h

New Moon 3rd 05 h

Fir\l Quiner lOlh l0 h

t8rh l8 h

26rh 02 h

Full Moon lTth 05 h

Last Quaner 21th 22 h

DecRA DecRA

-Eustcm Horizon- Eastem Horizon-

-Euslcnr Horizon- Mars

-Easlem Horizon-

IOh > I2h

20h > 22h

] ,lu" ' *?*100 > ?00

Jupiter lOh > I2h 00' +20"

20h > 22h -10. > -20"Saturn

MIName lBegins Ma\imum

eteor Showers

enas nlu* zgn lnuai.rnt c"";;-inates

Virginids lM:rr 5 Mrr 20 Apr 2 1l+ 190" RA +(X)o Dec

Lyrirls lApr le Apr 2l Apr 2,1 I0+ 272" RA +J2o Dec

Note: All co-o.dinales reler lo the

t6 UFO Times

GREAT BALLS OF FIREA brilliant fragmenting fireball was seen

to enter the atmosphere over the Bristol zutdSwansea area on the lOth January 1992, byseveral competent observers. According toa local policeman the phenomena occuredat approximately 9.58 pm and was de-scfibed as fiery and fmgmenting into aboutsix elongated pieces. The fircball was prob-ably caused by space-debris re-entering, al-though no agency has yet confirmed thisexplanalion.

ULYSSES UPDATEOn thc 8th February 1992, Ulysses. Eu-

ropes firsl \olar-polar space probe en-counterad the nlassive gravitational field oflhc liJIl plJnet Junilcr. to u*e a pravitr-tional as\isl manocuvre to propel the probeout ofrhe planetary ccliptic and send it backin thc dircction of rhc Sun's polcs.

The sling shot etfect was a success andno$ Ulysses is hcading fbr the Sun at anincredible escapc velocity of ll.4 km's persccorld. $,hich mcans that Ulysses is thclastesl man ,nade object cver.

The regions surrounding thc Sun's polesarc unexplored territory, wc cannot sccthcm clearly because a hot turbulent solaratnlosphere interferes and Earlh makcs apooa vantagc point. ulysses is expected tofl)' over the southem solar pole region in the\urnrrcr ot Iq94. trrns\ersinF lhc ecliplicfor a nonhem solar pole fly-by in the fol,Iowing year and giving the first 3-dinensional view of a star. our Sun.

The rpacccrafl is cquipped wrrh nirresophisticated instrumcnl!, which are honed10 ileasurc charged particles. neutral gasand cosmic dust in the interplanetary mc-dium (planetary ecliptic), as well as changesin the Sun's lnagnctic field and solar wind.Ulysses will also search for radio emissions.plasma and gravitalional waves (if detect-able) and X and Ganma ray radiation burslsthat occur in extra

'nassive objccts such as

bluck holes ir)J rl rhe cenlre ot palaxie: invcry violent rcaclibns. So the joinl Eurc)pean Space Agcncy (ESA) and NASAUlysses mission is sel to play the rolc of'cosmic detective , pcrhaps opcning newwindows for scicnce and cosnrology if gra-vitational waves can be detectcd.

A\ well a\ probing rhe Sun. Jt Jupil<rUlysses provided a bonus to the mission bymcasuring lhe Jovian magnetosphere ofJupiler and surveving regions which wcrcunexplored by thc Pionecr and VoyagerProbes.

All information courresy of ESA andNASA

If any investigator requires asfionomicalinformation fo help with the elaluation ofcase invesfigatioN please write (enclosingan sae) to:

Gary Anthony, BUFORA ARP, 119Askew Avenug Hull, North Humberside,rru4 6vt

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Earthlights: An IndependentConsensus

Dear Editor.

Just a quick comment on the letterfrom Paul Devereux in UFO TIMES forSeptember,

I wish to lake nothing away from thework that Persirrger inJ De\creu\ did indefining the geophysical nature of UFOSbut readers should not be underthe impress-ion that Paul Fuller and I have ignoredeither man. Thcrc is a chaprer in 'Crop Circle:.: A \4)ste0 Solved which pre\enls tndetail the full hislory of the work they didand puts it into context with other contribu-ror\ such a. fribul\rh. whu tcnd lo lcl lor-gotten. Therc is not the slighrcst quesrion ofuny over\ighl on our parl l, 'r credil \r here ilis due.

However. it is equrlly a bit unfair of PaulDcvereux to attcmpt lo suggest that I am alatecomer to lhc idea. He knows that is northc case. My flrst book 'UFOS: A BritishViewpoint'. writlen in 1978. very clearlyshows how some of thc UFO data is cx-plainablc as novel alnospheric and nreteor-ological processes. It first applies the termUAP (Unidentified Atmosphcric Phenomenon)- Indeed. somc seclions ol it prc-emptthe Meaden vonexl which sLrrprised mcwhcn a reader poinled it out recently.

Soon after lhat (indeed fbr rny third book'Thc Pennine I FO N4]slcr] - \rrilrsrr rn

1982 and published in summer l98l) I dc-\cloped rhc rheor) Irom Briti.lr Vieunoinlinto practicc by looking at the data basc o[one aclivc region (thc Penninc Hills on theYorkshire/Lancashire bordcrs). I was thcrrexcitcd by the Pcrsinger work. jusl published in the USA and 1() which I was introduced by Ken Phillips. The book showshow again and again clues pourcd out fromreal on the spol investigalions ie not arm-chair theorism - thal Persinger was on thcright lines. It concludes very clearly thareven close cncounters could be rcduced togeoph)iictl .limuli. You cannol deny lhis

fact, as il is there in black and white andsecond hand book shops!

Paul Develeux was writing 'Earthlishls'at lhe sume timc: allhough we lnera nolhingof cach olhers work. When it appeared'Pennine' was wrilten but a few monthsaway lrom being published. I lacked ontothc very last page ofthe book one paragraphin small print at page prool stagc so as toalert readers to the signilicance of Devere-ux's just released book. These facts are cru-cial because rhey show that both bookswere entirely independent of one another.Yet they rcached such remarkably similarconclusions and this was surely a signifi-canl dcmonstrarion of the basic validity ot'thc UAP concept. lndeed. in'Eanhlights',Devereux had even bemoaned the lack ofdala for a pred ictcd Pennine 'window - theprecise one I was aI that same mornent ex-posing through years of actual UFO data.This funher indicatcd lhe srrengrh of theidea.

It was in the context of all this thal I gotimrnediately involved in circle research andwhy from the very stan I knew thal Meadenwas onlo somelhins. In no tuture book didI ever shirk fr-om giving lull crcdit to Pcr-singer and Dcvereux. You will find suchcommentary in thc likes of Science and theUFOS'(l9ti5) and Mind Monsrcrs'(1990) -both ol which develop the theme inlo amodern context.'Mind Monsters'. in parlicular. is a book thtl lew UFOlogists haveread and yct il is a crucialexpression ofmyth iDking.

Pe$ontlly, I have been surpriscd by rhenumber of people who havc alleged mytheorics and viewpoints have changed drasIically over the ycars. It is somerhing I havebeen vilified for, but I belicve thal if youread Brilish Viewpoint, Penninc UFO Mys-tcry, UFO Reality, Science and thc UFOs,Mind Monsters and Crop Circles in chrono-logical sequence (as they werc wrillen) theyshow a progressive development ol thesame cssential argumenr fbr the UFO mys-teryl which is this:-

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(1) There are several different basic UFOphenomena, one of the most important ofwhich is a complex atmospheric process(the UAP) interacting with the human mindvia altered states of con sciousness.

(2) You can endeavour to explain many ofthe phy\ical. physiological and p:ychological factors ofthe UFO evidence as a consc-quence of this interaction.

(3) Although things such as earrhlighrs,ball lightning, plasma vonices or other UAPmay appear unique and to some degreecould well be - there is at the least a threadconnecting them together and they couldvery well be no more than different cxpress-ions of the same fbrce ofnllhrre

As to whether all of UFOlogy is rhuscxplained, I have toyed with lhe idea andliom timc to time been almost convincedthal iI was. bul I am far lcss assured by thatbrave hope at prescnt than I was a couplc ofyelrr. ill.!,r. J do nol \hut the door nn rn tlicncunponcnt (see 'Abduction ) However. IIm .i.rtislied lhe.e lorcc\

'epre.ent ir major

laclor in the puzzling UFO dala base whichis capablc of reducing the true unknowns lowhal lbr some would seem to be a liighterringly small residuc.

UFOlogists havc an in-brecl fear ol finding the answeA nd rcact wilh hosliliryo-gainsl anyone who is striving lo cone upwith vidble solutions. Perhaps rnore peopleshould sil down {nd lhink quiclly why rheyrespond to our cvidcnce in lhis way. Aficrall. our purpose as UFologists IS to solvelhe nysleries befbrc us - nol lo keep lhemgoing.

That statenenl sunlmarises one of thercal reasons why UFOlogy has nlade solittlc prngrcsr in rno.t uur\iLler\ cyc.. ll r\rJlhcr lile r Brili.h r(^cnllnent bJclincproporlionrl represcnlalion. lhus prob{blyguarllnlccing it will be elected out ofolllcc.Il rr:r) bc ri!hl. h nrry nr,rk( \en\e. Bul it

Joc\n l hxppen beriru:.c the c\ejuli('ncr'\lir'.t r ictirn is t:rr l,r) likcl) lnhchin):,elt.

Therc is a sobcring lcsson there lbr UFO-logy. cvcn lhoush I do l\lOT believe UFOlogy has nolhiD-g to conrribute- If I did I$,'ul(l n,n lrir\ r

' l(\,,l.,l .n nrirrrr ycur. to it

.lenny Randles, Stockport, Cheshire

Editor's commentIt i.t (l@) that althouqh Eurthliqhts unLl

tltt , t'tI t l't ,'l trt' rltl,tiu, ,l 'thtt.'sllltrt i,phc ornt,nu ak td tulisin.q tfutIi(.t to c\l,l,uu tlt. UFO , tttlnrt t,ttrl LtDt ,lntl'tnqds Lt s PPt)rlu ). ntu( h ntorc wtrk hu.r to bt,l,,tt, t,,,tr il,ttL UIr, ( ri,,/, ?r/, {,1,1,/\/(u! u(titit) untl utnurpherit unrrtktlu'.\.IJsitt! dnd nunil)uluting tht gntwint cont-

l)utrt dukthus( ncottls thut BUFORA uttlt)l h( t ()t t!dn ild I i(rts (u n cnl!\' ltot!st, i s i ntIr)pittion itlt(gid! to nrukint contrcte linksIhuI tunt th?()t\ ink) knd(tstltndi g.

UFOIN Files: The IUNRespond

Dear Editor,I Have been following with interest the

past few issues of UFO Times in tvhichthe UFOIN files and the Aveley booklethave been discussed and would like tocomment accordingly.

a) Whatever Andy Collin' commenlsmay have been he did initially write toPhilip Mantle and tell him he could do wharever he wanted with the case file. Furttrcrmore, I have in my possession a letter fromAndt stating he has no objections whatsoever to the case being re-published pro-viding he is narned and credited and this hasbeen done.

b, Jenn) s hi{tory of UFOIN i\va5rlyinIercsting. but forthe purposes oflhe prcscntdiscussion ralher pointlcss. Neither I norany menrber of the IUN is really inrerestedin lhe monkey squabble thar lead to theUFOIN filcs cnding up ir Nottingha orwhy NUFOIS wouldn't hand them over( \ny group is bigger lh{n your group" etc).That s dead history. probably interpreteclJnd revi\ed rn rhc wi]y lhat unll Lrtbloei.rsseem lo bc able lo do.

cr I m lleirscd Jenn) i.n l inlcrc.ted illbitlerness and rccriminalions'. thal willsave the IUNs B & I Dept. lime and troublewe could better expend elscwhere lor morccfTcct. Bul I'n1 afraid shc's nol going ro be'happy'. because the filcs are staying exacFly where lhey are. Jcnny claims thal rhc fileslre al 'somcbody's' privale housc. whenshc knows full well that they are in myhousc. currenlly occupying a filing cabinerncxl Io my desk and bencath ! ghelloblaster.why be coy'l I don t mind.

d) They are st{ying whcre they are fbrthesc rcasons: i) They were given lo theIUN and thats that - when we gct bored oflhem ue ll uivc thern t'r *orrebod) elrcccrluinl) nul Bl I-ORA. llr I hr\c:.een rn

the prst lhe slale of both lhc NUFON andBUFORA filcs. all of which (though thismay havc changcd) were sluffed uncere-moniously into cardboard boxcs. iii) Addilionally lhe previous practicc ol havingthem stored in a public placc has led ro aqrci:tl rnany Iiles being. basically. stolen.and there are greal -saps in the sequences. Atleast in their prcscnt localion thal won'lh:rppen trrnlc.. I iIn ijcLu.,e,l ol \tc lin!'Ihcm by having lhen1 in which case.tough) rnd lhey re now all in individualtblders and n,ill soon bc cataloguecl. Theyilrc acccssiblc lo anyone who wishes lo sec

them in surrounding a damn sighl nlore conducivc and accessible lhan some publicpliice lhlt is only open on wct Wcdncsdaysir February between 9.J0 and 2.15. Addi-lionally they are being madc available loresearchcrs lbr thc cosl ol pholo-copyinga facility no othcr eroup ollils.e) Suddenly in onc of her linal paragriLphs Jenny turns inlo an Ethics Girl. I

should coco. Whilsl I hrve dlways kcpt outof Jcnny s vurious arguments with dnd

about witnesses, I am fully aware that thereare many people who believe that her ethicsin publishing books containing witness details are, shall we say, Iess than ethical.That's fine by me. Jenny and others must dowhat they have to do,just as the IUN will dowhat they have to. And anyway, keen slu-dents ofufology know full wellthat ufolog-ists use the tem 'ethics'to support whateverbug bear they have got at that moment. Asfar as the IUN are concerned all filesmarked will have personal delails delcrcdunless the witness has marked otherwise onthc R I or the uase ha. been in rhe rrredrr. inwhich case it is now public donain.

l u ill close by 'a) ine rh.rr trc lt \ r:.usual extends its file openness to tn\ re-searcher and I think that our treiltment ot lheUFOIN liles demonstrates Ihis. File\ nre nouse if no-one sees lhem. bccomins likestamps in collection to which onl\ I terhave access. Additionally lesl rhe abo\ e rhemisinterpreted by anyone I \\oulcl lik!. romake il clear that I have lhe hishesr rcgifdtbr Jenny. both as a researcher and I person.

Andy RobertsBrighouse, West Yorkshire

Editor's commentAs I and other hd\'a tc.a tl\ !tuttl itl thc

pdsl, lh( (thi&l issuc tt ,.athlisht ! tnltalin cstigahr's wn k hus ulvlr; htLn t thrn-nI issue. Hor'?ict-. I thittk tur ltcrt nrLt<lc

|ou posilion (r|stal cJcr?/ /r/rdA1r^\/. /\(/.1not 1nvt( thut Attd| Callins lal hLriLLtlhgi|en fou & e bkrn(he tt) l)nlilish ltis \olut1t[]k)us a((,unt of the Ayeler uhluLri,tn usil sldnds ontl thank \'ou lr)t tli&trin! this

Poitlt p. M| on!\'(onutnt t), thi\ l)tut t)tIh? dis( ssion is lhut Anbs ttuntt, t,rtsrother hicl.lan on lh( in:iile tt tl .,ha,kl.tand not plucetl v'herc it sltoulLl ltLr L, bt,ut -on the.lnnl corer Hopclitlh tlti\ \\ill l).u) n e ( ted i n.fit t ut-( tlji ) t- r.\.

Ilith rcgartl.r to BU FOR.-{.\ r rr\./i/. \ l?rthat hate btcn u ntt.rs.t;)t- n:]]n\' \ t:dt \ \ hl(11tlns a lcgutt tt lt.\l nusn,rt)td!t:t)k'nt, hutthankJillt nnr thr.r( n:autt tht)l\dnd.\ ol'(45t t('l)t)tls tddtitt! l)dt l. d.\ 14t ut !9-12)ut r h(itl! t trntputrr t ttrLthtyucd ual bindul.This is in satrk r onrrrtt nt rhc L:FOIN liL:s*hich rtnly unntunr to ultPto.tin (ll 150

't "ttlt r lt:ltt, r tttnttt. \tt tttttt t \t i t.n .

,And I sct:nr tt) rcntnthct \out-olTu ol lu:lpt ' n'ttr'.t'tiu th Bt fOR\ ,J''. ,/,'/,;,i\ hi(h did toDbu ttonnrlt.SaLlontscoft

Finullt it tlots sccn rhut tttu utc nturtu-gin!: Ihc UFOIN tc(otl\ ntu(h bruo-thdnN U FOIS evr dil yt kfcp uli th? gtx)clAr)t k.

R 1 CommentDear Editor

Please allow us to express our grati-tude for publishing our article on "Ufo-logy in lreland" in UFO Times no. 16.

Whal a surpr-ise to open pagc 22 and sccour articlc on thc pages of BUFORA s veryentertaining. infbrmativc. cducational and

llFO Iimesl8

al tiInes. conlroversial Dllgazine. We plan tose d more updales lo UT in the futurc.

Whilsl we are in a cornplemcntary frameof mind. nray we say that the ncwly revisedBUFORA lighting questionnaires are ex-cellenl and are a viNt improvemenl on theold ones.

The layoul and design of lhc tbrm cer-tainly bring BUFORA inlo thc 1990 s. Italso makes it much easier for the invcstiga1or lo lead and evaluatc and fbr the witnessto fill in. Wc also notice that there is onccxtra qucstion on thc new fotm. whereasthcre was only l4 on the old one.

Thc section dcaling with "some life and'inncr world crlcflcncc. ' oi lhe \ ilne.s i\ncw, bul is a ncccssary addilion. we leel asit is vcry importanl lbr the investigator toknow if thc witncss is psychic etc as it cancoDlribute greally lo thc caso in hand.

We siDlply cdn l wait fbr BUFORA tosend us soDle copies so we havc photoco-pied the one in UFO Tinres. Although, wehave to rdlllil lhrl it will bc quite some timebefore we can use thcm as we have onesmall problen. Wc still havc a lot of the oldstyle R and I fbnns in our files and we lhinkit would bc bctlcr io usc them ralher thanthrow then ou!.

Finally. Congratulations to Ken Phillips.Alcx Kcul and Mike Wootten for devisingand designing the new ques(ionnaire. Theyobviously put a lot of thoughl and hardwork into it belorc rcvealinq it ro BUFORAmembeN.

Pat Delaney and Anne Griffin,BUFORA Ireland, Dublin.

Editors comment'lhdnk \\)tt .lt[ ttntr uvnls (t s pport-

Contntents so litr.fitnt tht ntantfurship havbecn of u positit natul(' ]':'ith sonc r?t \'(t)nsltu(liIc (rili(isnts uhi(h hutt ltetthken ou lnurtl.Thc nc|l qucstionnaite \\'d.t

tti:,t',rtJJt 1t't\tlt,tt tlh ltt\t Nla 1u t.All':rt t c i !:etltrd! agrccnt(nt tlt t thi.t.fi)rnlht ucloptcd as soon as ptssiblc t.tLeltt.lbr u

.lat Dtinor dlt(t-otit)ns- lt is hopad thut\t h k\ Atll lL ,t\,nl,t1,lt \,'utctin\ ,lt,titt\

Are The fakers Faking?Dear Editor

As a newcomer to BUFORA, thoughnot a newcomer to UFO investigation, Iwelcome the opportunity of e\pressingmy views in your excelient journal, Ul'OTimes. Although I do not claim to be anexpert I haye had certain experiencesnecessitating the applicalion of a littlecommon sense. ie. being a relired FltingOfficer and having served for 30 years asa police officer in Sussex.

Wilh referen.e Lo lhe rni.le Cont FirLe.in UFO Tirrcs Septcmber 1991. I f'ccl compcllcd tn rni c lhc lollou in! commenls:

Of course many crop circles havc beenf:&es. some more obviously lhan others.

There have a[vays been idiots who thinkil's funny to impede scientific progress andat the same time causing thousands ofpounds worlh of damagc. However, genuinc circles are known to contain a mys-Iery fbrce which h{ve been rcgistered oninstrumenls and picked up by BBC microphones. This being something which falerscannol produce.

As tbr the clailns of Messls Bower andChorley. I flnd at least one of thcir explana,tions utter rubbishl Bolh on TV and in thelocal 'Evening Argus'thcy claimed lo beingable lo move acrcss a ficld in a straight lincby neans ol sight afflxcd to the peak oltheir bascball caps. Anyone can look at adi*tirnt Lndm:rrk lhrough ir si-eht un Ihcrrcaps, but it ccnainly does nol ensure thatthcy will wclk in u dead stnight line Io thatmark- I could zig-zag and slill keep evcry-thing in line!

For some years. sincc rctiring lionr thePolice, I have been a skippcr ol a deep sea

angling club. Ii I had pul a sight on the bowsofthe boat and aliencd il wilh Iny eye and a

rnilrk on llrc .lrorc I could kecp it thcm inline thc wholc Iimc. bul rny course to theshorc would bc morc ol-a arc becausc oftidal drifi. Thc whole poirlt being that aslong as the boat kepl poinling lowffds then)rrk il woulilll l nlirller how cnutic ilicourse r\r\. Er:rirl1 tlre *rrrnc poinr applie.to wllkers.

I sincerely hopc that those twopenllernen rlc n,'t cnjoyin! il world urur{eon moncy thcy hrve been aw{rded fbr al-lcgerlly *olving llrc r)sier). Sorneonc s

been pulling someonc s lcgl

One lurtherconment on crop circlcs: DrTerence Meaden s plasma vorlcx theorycannol be the answer tbr thc lbllowing rea-son. Nobody is disputing thc cxistcnce ofsuch vorticcs. thcy certtinly exisl- However. il must hc obvious that lhey haveexisted probably ever sincc Earth was cre-alcd, so why htvc they only decidcd toDlanitcsl thcmsclvcs in lhe ldsl few ycarsl

APain I crn urtl) L.rll ,,n c\l,criel(e'when, in lhe summer of 1944. I was coDt-pleling my radio/flying training at RAFYrlesbury, this being only a stoltc s throwaway fiom thc silcs ol- a nunber or rcccntcirclcs and pictogranrs. Wc llew daily overWiltshirc 4nd its surrounding counties {lhcighls up 10 dbolrl 3000 li bul dlerc wcrcno pallerns in crop\. in spilc of lhc hcI thttnrorc Lrup\ \\etc h(irl..-, ,:ruwrr irr rarrrlrnrc.

Also. I spcnt many hours rolaxing on lopol Silbury Hill aticl loaming thc downs xrwcckcnds.,The only slrange lhiDg I rcmcmbcr wrs thal whalever lhe wind was cloing rl-ground level il wirs always stilliud wairn onlop, even when slllDding.

Bicflv. my own lhcory is thill some otherintclligcncc is crcating thcsc gcnuine prtlcms to draw our illtcntion lo the powcrwithin. This could amount to a natural nalional (or even inlemirtional) grid systcm ofpower which. whetl harnessecl, could mcanour dispensing with oil. coal rnd drngcrousnuclear power

Why are most of these genuine circlesfound along leys. did I hear someone ask?My theory is thal thousands ofyoars ago wehad extratcffestrial visitors (who havc nowrctumedt, Our iln(ienl Jncc\lor\. \eeinglhese craft hovering along these lines, poss-ibly replenishing Ihcir supplies. regardcdthen as 'gods'and latcr built sk)1e circles,nrmuli and earthworks on Ihis'sacred'ground fiom which to worship these gods.Now we in our present age just connectthese structurcs with lines and call themleys.

I. ln1 olliciel \(iertific ellurt bcingmade to look into thc possibility ofa naturalpower? Perhaps that is the real rcason whyStonehenge has bccn closcd to the public!

.lohn L. Clarke.Hove. East Sussex.

Editor's commentSin(e th? dust has sontcv hat scttled olier

lhe ntadie slornl tllat Doug antl Dareh'hipped up, qutstions are.fbnning oter thetuliclitt ofthcir tlaims. Cartaitll'- their tct h-niques (intluding tha sightitry apputatusus(al) hur( conrc ittto qu!:stion dnd utllbrtunalcl| Doug and [)dt? ut" l|in9 v^ loh.tl'l'tut tltl.t,t^,titinq tlt? l,hhli, dtit'tr ,'l tlt. it,'utt lt,"'[..,,' tt i l|tJ t,, 1tr tl,tri1i,,tti,,tt.litnt thent. Dcspitc this I.tn1 stilI ol t11(

opinion thot the nkiorit oJ the.nu, c tont-

lrle\ (irc[as a]e ht)atcs leo|ing telativl),.lb$ sintplet gc uin( tittlcs to rascuttlt.

Dcspitc toui |iav's otl th( ntn ?.\isttn((,,1 t't1 14,90,ir,lc.r. rhrc is u,'u\lt tti-derrc to sht)\'that Lit(l(s her( app(at?d inthc past. But !runtcd, tlot to th( sdnr l(r'cll.als \r'? dt c t!.tp(t-it:n(ing at prcs(nt. Hou ev\aft?r rurclit! teslafth lr| BUFORA it uestlistov'rctl lhdt nai sttains oJ rtttps wereuyailublc in th( lut? 1970 s thut i tpn^cdtltc licltl lter stt nt v hi.h hu[ modc th( (topsrulhct lop hcut\', lh s nvkine lhcDt nnftp|t)11(, k) uinl dantugt. Whatfur tltit hos,ttty l,'ttritt\,,rt tlt. lt\ t\t: it,inlLt itutlt lcut. b ! thc (oin(idcn( is worth ntl

Yttrrr usstrtion that thcs( (it(lcs uk th(nturkints ntudc hy e-ttruterrcstrials hus no

li)unlutit)a.ll *. ur( d.tling with u hiqltri t(lliR( tu c thun out oyyt sutclt tlttt uttultl(ontntuni(utc uith us itt u nutra inrcl!iqih!c.l!)nt. Errn il thd trird it in tlu: curlr 1980tt \t'ttltl .n\'ut \tn\il,l! L',t\.\ttntt tltdt tlk\uwultl huvc rcolisctl h\- n()r' lltul thi.t t it(uktj- !)tltnlunit utiot) i\ a li!!lc t)11. idK! t d\\'(t rol h(in.g unl(t-slot)(l- A ncu tutkuttultl surc!y hu\'( lrc(n inl)lrnk,ul?d b\'

Finu!It. tht noin n:ostnt v ltt Stttnchttt,gttLus t lovtl to thc pulllit aus lltdt p(pl(u crt vndulising it untl ltot king bits tll ol itk) ktk( l1tr11?. Tlk, nlunj huttdt(ds t)l ot11(i'

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