MUFON UFO JOURNALNUMBER 218 JUNE 1986

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In this issueWHEN IS A HOAX NOT A HOAX? by Cynthia Hind 3A CHILEAN OVERVIEW by J. Antonio Huneeus 5UFOS AND TELEPORTATION by Daniel Eden 10NEWS'NVIEWS 14LETTERS 16THE NIGHT SKY by Walter N. Webb 18DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE by Walt Andrus 20COVER (Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan)

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WHEN IS A HOAX NOT A HOAX?By Cynthia Hind

Cynthia Hind is MUFON'scontinental coordinator for Africa.She lives with her husband inHarare, Zimbabwe.

I always feel that investigators likemyself are so eager not to be taken for aride by contactees in UFO cases thatwe are rather inclined to lean overbackwards in favor of the incidentbeing a hoax. During the years I haveworked in Africa (about 15) I have hadseveral extremely puzzling cases, oneswhich I have not been able to prove ashoaxes although I must say my intuitionleads me to believe that they are not asgenuine as the witness(es) want me tothink. When I have presented them atConferences or Workshops, thegeneral consensus of opinion fromMUFON hierachy has been todenigrate the case, despite the fact thatthey have not been involved with thewitnesses.

I have a case here in Zimbabwewhich has made me think very seriouslyabout how investigators sh'ould

' approach these rather 'way out' cases.It happened in July, 1975, while

there was a spate of sightings inZimbabwe, most of a circular lightwhich appeared to move at will.Nothing was ever proven but I hadreports from a BOAC pilot on his wayfrom Johannesburg to London and twopolicmen who chased the light until itdisappeared.

UFO BURN?

On the 28th July, I received a tipfrom a local journalist that a man inMacheke, about 140 km from Harare,had been burned by a UFO. OnSaturday the 2nd August, together withfour other interested persons, I set offby car for Macheke. The man involvedwas John Clark, aged 53, a slightly-builtman who served as a clerk in the localFarmers Co-Operative Stores.

What initially made me suspiciousof him was that when I entered the

Store and introduced myself asrepresenting MUFON, an internationalUFO group, he said immediately, "Oh, Ididn't think it would go this far."

His story was that he had beenhome all afternoon that Saturday as itwas a cold and miserable winter's day.He had a roaring fire in the fireplace andat about 7:15 in the evening, he decidedto go out across the road and buy somefish and chips for his supper. Hestacked up the fire before he left so thatit would burn for a while and went out,followed by his cat. Although he wasmarried, his'wife was the live-in Matronat a girl's school in Marondera about 50km away, and only came home everyalternate weekend.

When he got outside, it was dark,and he was immediately aware of a verybright light in the sky, just above thetree tops and telephone wires adjacentto his house. Even as he looked up, abrilliant beam of light shot out from theobject and hit him, knocking him to theground. He remembered hearing hiscat shriek and it disappeared rapidlyinto the bush.

He could not move; he wascompletely paralysed. He tried to moveout of the beam of the light but he wasstuck where he had fallen. He

. remembered nothing else until he wokesometime later. The beam of light andthe object had gone. He was sore andaching all over and could barely manageto get back to the house, where hecrawled into bed. He did noticehowever, as he got into the house, thatthe fire was out and the fireplace quitecold. He lay in bed all next day (Sunday)and then on Monday morning, althoughtoo ill to go to work, he did report thematter to the police.

He was badly bruised all down oneside of his body. The papers had said hewas 'burned' but when he took off hisshirt to show me his chest, it lookedmore like bruising to me.

Although Clark could not leavework to show me his home where all

this had happened, he did give mepermission to go to his house and look itover.

First of all, we called at the policestation to verify that Clark had indeedreported the matter. The policeman onduty was young and skeptical andremembered the report. "If it had beenanyone but John Clark, I might havebelieved him," he told me. "He's aheavy drinker and after a few beers onthe weekend, he could have seenanything," he laughed.

We then visited the local inn, atypical small-village inn in my countrywhere everyone knows everyone elseand hears all the gossip.

Several of us knew the landlordand he was most helpful. "Clark boughta bottle of brandy and a 6-pack of beeron that day," he said. "It's no secret forme to tell you that he is a heavy drinker,everyone around'here knows it." Healso said, "He's a bleeder too, youknow."

I thought to myself, well, that couldexplain the bruising under the skin.

We then called at Clark's house,set fairly well back off the main road,and thickly hedged and tree-ed.

On the fairly long driveway to thehouse, I noticed that a hard ridge hadformed in the center of the road, withdeep ruts on either side to' take thewheels of the car. The house was asClark had described it.

If he had come out of the backdoor, as he said, he would have animmediate view of the bright objectabove the trees and telephone wires.

But we also speculated that ifClark was looking up at the light andhad been drinking quite a bit, he couldeasily have tripped and fallen on thehard ridge in the center, thusaccounting for the heavy bruising onthe one side of his body.

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We looked for any burn marksamong the bushes near where he had .fallen or any deterioration of theundergrowth, but there was nothing tonote. There was some withering on the.hibiscus hedge, but that could havebeen effected by the frost which hadoccurred some days earlier. It wasobvious to me that Clark could haveimagined the whole thing. That washow 1 felt about it and my UFOinvestigators agreed with me.

Unfortunately, 1 was so keen hot tobe taken in by a hoaxer that I failed tofollow through with this case. I shouldhave had Clark hypnotized and beenmore insistent about a medicalexamination. I had suggested this, buthe had refused, saying that he "did nothave much faith in doctors." Because ofthe policy' of most of the large UFOgroups, I tend to lean towards negatinga case when there is a single witnessand the character of the person is 'inquestion. 1 also knew that MUFON andmost Ufologists would have agreed withmy belief of this wintess.

1 forgot — or almost forgot —about these incidents unti l November,1985 when I was driving with somepeople to Nyanga, the mountainousdistricts of Zimbabwe.

A' lady travelling with me told methat the owner of the Crocodile Motel inRusape had had a UFO experience. 1was under the impression that it hadoccurred recently, but when westopped to interview her, I discoveredthat it had happened in 1975.

"If was a few days before the storyof the man in Macheke appeared in thepapers — it happened on a Saturdaynight!"

I realised immediately that it musthave been on the same night that Clarkhad his alleged experience as his storyhad first appeared on the Tuesday orWednesday, following the Saturday(29th/30th).

The woman involved was JuneBarnes. At the time she was returningto the Motel with her partner, TonyAlexander.

They were in Marondera at about 9o'clock in the evening, when theystopped to buy cigarettes and a coke.When June got out of the car, she could

smell a strange odor, almost likesewerage but not quite as bad as that.She mentioned it to Tony and hesmelled it too.

Then about five minutes later, justas they were passing Peterhouse, alarge Boy's School, she saw a bigorange light in the sky through thetrees. It seemed to be egg-shaped, cutoff at the top. At first she thought it wasthe moon.

She said, "Oh, I've never seen, amoon like that before."

As they moved on the object rosehigher and higher unti l it was above thetrees. It seemed to be in the center ofthe road. At this stage she turnedaround and ' there, out of the backwindow of the car, she could see themoon,.a white moon, whilst the otherlight was a lovely orange color. Junethought to herself "It can't be the sun,as the sun wouldn't be out at that timeof night. Also, if it were the sun, I wouldnot be able to look at it directly."

Tony, who appeared to be• nervous, said, "It isn't the sun, nor is i t '

the moon. It is something strange. Lookat how it is moving."

June thought it might be themovement of the car but she realisedthe light was now hovering.

By this time they had reachedMacheke (where, if you can believeClark, he was lying in his garden,unconscious.)

Macheke is a tiny village with themain road .from Harare to Mutarerunning through it. There are twogarages there; one just before enteringthe village and the other opposite toClark's house. His house is also on themain road but well back from it, withaccess from a rough track runningparrallel to the main road.

As June and Tony came to the firstgarage, June persuaded Tony to pullover and stop. The garage was lit up butthere was no one there. It was duringthe War of Independence and garages 'were not manned at night.

When they stopped, the objectstarted coming closer. June noticedthat this time it was quite round, like aball, but still that warm, orange color.She was quite sure now that this was noreflection. The moon, which was clearlyvisible, was white.

Tony had not turned the engine of

the car off. He was clearly very nervousand his breathing was harsh andirregular. June knew he suffered fromemphysema and asthma and she wasworried about him.

She kept on telling him to calmdown. "Whatever it is," she said, "theyare superior to us. If they had wantedto, they could have done away with usa long time ago."

Tony shouted at her. "Stop it, stopit, you're possessed by them...."

HEAT

Suddenly he pressed his foot downon the accelerator and they shotforward, passing directly underneaththe object.

Tony immediately complained ofthe heat. June also felt hot, but she said,"it .was like a hot-flush," and she

' thought it was caused by all theexcitement.

She had the window of the caropen, trying to peer but and see theobject as they moved. The light of theobject surrounded the car and lit up the.surroundings. Now she again couldsmell the objectionable odor. She said itsmelled like 'Durban-Bay' and. I amtrying to obtain a chemical analysis ofthat smell from the Port Captain inDurban.

Tony remained extremely agitatedand in trying to calm him, June thoughtshe would make a joke.

"Just think," she said, "if they hadcome down to us we could have hadthem to tea at the Crocodile Motel.What marvellous publicity that wouldhave been."

But Tony was not amused. All hecould think of was getting back to theMotel. June hoped the object mightkeep on following them. She wanted tostop, to get a better view of it andperhaps find other people to verify theirsighting. She saw the lights of a house inMacheke — it could even have been thelights of John Clark's house — and sheurged Tony to stop so that she couldcall some witnesses.

But he refused and drove evenfaster. Shortly after they reachedHeadlands, about 20 minutes furtheron, the light suddenly shot off at a

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A CHILEAN OVERVIEWBy J. Antonio Huneeus

J. Antonio Huneeus is aChilean-born freelance journalistpresently living in New York and aMUFON Research Specialist.

The goal of this report is to give anoverall view of the state of ufology inChile, the selection of a MUFONRepresentative there, and theprospects for MUFON to capitalizescientifically on Chile's vast publicinterest in UFOs.

INTRODUCTION

I left New York in early October of1985 to visit Chile. My main goal was apersonal one, namely, to celebrate withmy family the 50th wedding anniversaryof my parents. Besides this reunion anda needed vacation, I brought with me aselection of UFO slides with the aim ofgiving a lecture.

My second UFO-related goal wasto find a MUFON Representative inChile. As it turned out, the publicinterest in UFOs was phenomenal andthe lectures were a tremendoussuccess. But beyond the great interest,I realized there is hardly any seriousUFO organization in Chile andtherefore, a great need to establish anetwork capable of scientificallyinvestigating UFO cases. I took theinitiative to launch a Chilean MUFONsection because of this combination ofwidespread interest and lack of properinvestigation.

The idea was received with greatenthusiasm. At the end of this report, Iwill explain the steps taken so far, aswell as the prospects, research goalsand required guidelines from the UnitedStates.

MASSIVE SIGHTING

It is not the purpose of this reportto give data about UFO sightings inChile since one of the main goals of theMUFON section will be precisely to

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compile a catalog of Chilean cases. Noorganization or individual has done thisup to now. A brief discussion of themassive sightings of August 17, 1985,however, is necessary to understandthe increasing social acceptance of thephenomenon.

I have obtained a copy of a reportfrom the General Administration ofCivil Aeronautics published in theOctober issue of their official magazine,"Informacion Aeronautica," whichanalyzed in depth this incident. Thepurpose here is to give only theincident's main facts, and to note theimpact it had on the public's perceptionof UFOs.

An estimated 2 million people incentral Chile observed two UFOs forseveral hours beginning at 15:30 in theafternoon of August 17, 1985. Thegeneral area where the objects wereobserved inc luded Santiago'smetropolitan area, the central coastalarea around the main port ofValparaiso, and various other resortsand locations in central Chile. Acrossthe Andes in Argentina, the UFOs were

also observed in the evening hours inUmkal, Mendoza and other sites nearthe border with Chile.

The objects were described asdistinct luminous spots which movedslowly and remained motionless attimes. They were not similar to the so-called "luminous clouds" widely seen inthe Southern Cone, which have beenassociated by James Oberg with Sovietspace launches. (I generally agree withOberg's solutions regarding SouthAmerican cases and have assisted himin locating some reports, but it doesn'tfit in this case.) The objects were seenby literally hundreds of thousands,were filmed with special equipment bythe national TV station, Channel 7, andphotographed by astronomers from theUniversity of Chile's Cerro CalanObservatory in Sahtigo.

They were also detected on theradar screens of Santiago-s ComodoroBenitez International Airport, asrevealed in the Civil Aeronauticsreport. The Air Force's Weather Office

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initially dismissed the UFOs as weatherballoons but this hypothesis did nothold. There is a distinct possibility thatonly one of the objects could have beena French high-altitude research balloonlaunched from South Africa, but thesecond and more prominent objectremains unidentified.

I quote from the conclusions of theCivil Aeronautics report: "Up fo themoment of finishing this report, theapparitions of that day still remain anenigma to be added to the 'archive of

•unexplained phenomena."

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, . As one can see from all this, theAugust 17 incident brought back theUFO controversy ,to the front page ofthe newspapers .everywhere in Chile.The interest in UFOs was reawakeneddramatically since practically everyChilean; either 'saw the . objectspersonally or on TV, knew somebodywho did or read about it in the papers.People are now hard to convince thatUFOs are merely illusions or .hoaxes.

Interesting, • another UFO wasspotted in Santiago after midnight onJanuary 6, 1986, while I was still inChile. Because of the late hour, not toomany people saw it, but. it wasphotographed by a reporter from thedaily newspaper "La Tercera." Since I.am a contributor to that paper, I wasable to obtain prints of the photos., The h i s t o r y of the UFOphenomenon in Chile presents similarcharacteristics to other countries.There are different types of cases, fromIFOs like the luminous clouds causedby the deployment of Russian EWCosmos satellites, to close encountersof the 1st, 2nd and 3rd kinds and evenreported abduct ions ; scrambleincidents with jet fighters and radarcases, registered in various airports;photographs and films, etc.

Like elsewhere, reports go back tothe late 40s; flying saucers haveappeared on and off in the media sinceat least the 50s; and there is the usualgovernmental silence and secrecytowards the issue with no recourse toprocedures like the FOIA. Unlike othercountries, Chile never developed UFO

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groups capable of conducting aprofessional investigation of UFOcases. There are a few individuals whohave pursued ufology and are listed inthe following section.

A large percentage of the peopleinterested in the phenomenon,however, have tended to follow amystical or religious interpretation of"extraterrestrials" along the lines ofNor th Amer ican "contactees."Although we are not talking of a largesocial following by any means, there are

. several contactee groups operatingright now in Chile. Some of the locallyfamous include the "RAMA groups"founded by the Peruvian contactee,Sixto Paz Wells; followers of thenotorious Italian contactee, EugenicSiragusa; and a spiritual communitygroup in the valley of Elqui, headed by aMother Cecilia, which follows thetradition of the so-called "WhiteBrotherhood" and is allegedly in

contact with the "galactic fleet."These and other groups are

portrayed in the TV documentary"Extraterrestrial Cults" produced byChannel 7, of which I have a copy. Thisbackground combining contacteegroups with the growing popularinterest in the phenomenon isimportant for us in order to understandthe necessity of impor t i ng aninvestigative group like MUFON toChile.

CHILEAN UFOLOGISTS

The following list does not attemptto be a complete one, sincere there arevarious individuals — some of themscientists — .who are .studying thephenomenon in Chile's northern andsouthern regions. I will try to cover theentire country in the future with a

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projected lecture tour. In any case, thelist does include the main charactersinvolved in the Santiago area.

1. PATRICIO VARELA is aprofessional broadcaster who has had alate night radio talk show devoted toUFOs for about 20 years. In Chileanterms, he can be compared to FrankEdwards or Long John Nebel in theU.S. His program "La Hora Espacial"(The Space Hour) is aired everyMonday from 11:00 p.m. to midnight aspart of his daily night talk show"Saludando la Noche" on RadioPortales, the country's largest and mostpopular AM station, reaching all ofChile and even parts of Argentina.Although Varela is more a popularizerthan a field researcher, in the course ofhis 20-year program he has compiledextensive files and interviewed lots ofUFO experts and witnesses. He has awide following and considerableinfluence in the local UFO scene. I haveappeared numerous times as a specialguest on his program. He recorded theintroduction to my lecture andannouned it in his shows. (He couldn'tdeliver it live because of a time conflictwith his radio show.) Varela is a keyfigure for any UFO-related project to bedeveloped in Chile.

2. FERNANDO NOEL is anastronomer who works at theUniversity of Chile's Cerro CalanObservatory in Santiago. He has beeninterested in the UFO field for severalyears f rom a more academicstandpoint. He changed his attitudetoward UFOs when he witnessed aUFO formation that he could notexplain. Professor Noel authored thechapter on UFOs in the book, "ARCA -Intelligent Life in the Universe,"published by the University of Chile'sFaculty of Astronomy. Fernando Noelis a member of Professor Sturrock'sSociety for Scientific Exploration. Hehas also assisted James Oberg'sresearch on the Plesetsk IFO affair.

3. HUGO CORREA is a wellknown science fiction writer andnewspaper columnist who has writtenregularly about UFOs over the years.At one point he headed UFO Chile, anow-defunct small research group. Onthe other hand, he has very good

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connections with the government sincehe works with one of the daughters ofPresident Pinochet in a culturalfoundation called Fundacion Chile. Inhis widely read weekly column"Cronicas Terres t res" in thenewspaper "La Tercera," Correadiscusses UFO cases from time to time.

A similar role is played by anotherwriter and journal is t , ANDRESROJAS MURPHY, the President of theScience Fiction Club of Chile.Significantly, Rojas Murphy is currentlydoing an ongoing series on UFOs forthe magazine "Pillan," an official youthpublication of the Chilean Air Force(FACH). •

4. CIO is the Centro deInvestigaciones OVNI or Center forUFO Invest igat ions headed byHUGO PACHECO. Ostensibly, CIO isthe only investigative group in Chilep a t t e r n e d a l o n g f o r e i g n UFOorganizations. It has been in operationfor 4 or 5 years, and has probablyanywhere between 25 and 50 members.Although I have good relations with Mr.Pacheco, who assisted me on myprevious trip to Chile in 1984,1 found onthis visit that CIO is now somewhatdiscredited because of the religiousindertone that Pacheco has given it.This caused the defection of its morescientific-minded members, whoformed the splinter group ORION. As it

could be expected, CIO does havegood-files on Chilean cases, but itscurrent methodology and level ofoperations is a far cry from thestandards required by MUFON orCUFOS. They have no regularpublication.

5. ORION is a small investigativegroup headed by LUIS RIQUELME andAQUILES CASTILLO, who were oncein charge of CIO's TechnicalCommission. Because of disagree-ments with the way Hugo Pacheco wasleading the organization, Riquelme andCastillo decided to form their owngroup over a year ago.

Although not a formal organizationwith membership or legal status,ORION is the closest thing in Chile to ascientific UFO investigative team as weknow them in the United States.Besides their field experience of severalyears, ORION's main asset is a quietnetwork of a few scientific consultantswho are interested in the phenomenon.

Another plus is an ATARIcomputer which Requelme has recentlyinstalled in his home to begincomputerizing ORION's UFO files. Ihad several meetings with Riquelme,Castillo and other members fromORION. They expressed full support tothe idea of establishing a MUFON

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branch in Chile, of fer ing 'theircooperation, contacts and even thepossibility of merging ORION withMUFON.

6. CIVIL AERONAUTICS is thegovernment agency in charge of civilaviation, officially known as theDireccion General de AeronauticaCivil. As it can be gleaned from copiesof their official magazine, "InformacionAeronautica," the agency has a keeninterest in the UFO phenomenon.

Two articles. published in thismagazine in 1985 and 1984'givea.list ofseveral sightings that were registered inthe logs of various Chilean airportsbetween 1972 and 1985, The articlesconclude with the following instruction:"Report your experience to the ,AirTraffic Service Department of theDirection of Aerial Navigation Services.They are interested in a detaileddescription of the phenomenon, thetext entered in the Log Book, theweather report, a cassette of allcommunications involved, clippings ofpress reports, statements of othervisual witnesses, etc....Thanks."

The Public Relations Departmentof Civil Aeronautics was invited to myUFQ lecture, and they sent arepresentative who recorded it, gaveme copies of their magazines andexpressed interest in cooperating withMUFON.

MILITARY

7. ARMED FORCES. Like mostcountries, the Armed Forces of Chile,composed of the Army, Navy, AirForce and National Police, have theirsecret history regarding UFOs. Militarypersonnel were involved in some ofChile's most famous cases, such as theabduction of corporal Armando Valdesin Pampa Lluscuma, Arica, in 1977, andthe scrambling of F-5E fighter jets fromthe Cerro Morena Air Force Base inAntofagasta in 1978 and 1979.

These cases were released butmany others have not been. There arefumors that the services have in theirpossession moviefilms and other kindsof UFO evidence.

Since Chile is presently undermilitary rule with no recourse to things8

like the FOIA, it is entirely up to themilitary to cover-up or publicize a UFOcase according to its needs. We know,that officers of the Air Force, Army andNavy attended my UFO lectures. Otherthan an invitation to the- Air Force'sP.R. Office, no formal contact wasestablished with the Armed Services atthis time. Those contacts could beestabl ished but i t would takeconsiderable time and;care.

8. JORGE ANFRUNS is the newMUFON Representative in Chile. I metMr. Anfruns when I was looking for amanager to produce my lectures.- Heaccepted and the lectures were a totalsuccess. Jorge Anf runs has abackground in Public Relations, hasfollowed independently the .UFOphenomenon for some 20 years, and iscurrently the publisher of "Pensar," arecently released'science and culturalmonthly magazine. When I mentionedto him that I was looking for a MUFONRepresentative in Chile, he volunteeredimmediately. In the following weeks, Iwas able to observe first-hand hisperformance and contacts as we puttogether my "Historial OVNI" lectureand slide show. The .success of thisevent with the ensuing prospects ofcreating a MUFON branch in Chile aredetailed in the following sections.

UFO/LECTURES

My UFO lecture and slide showhas been given on numerous occasions,including two SBI Symposiums inAlbany and New York City in 1983 and1984, the FAECE (Argentinian UFOFederation) International Congress inSanta Fe,, Argentina in 1983, aSymposium organized by IreneGranchi in Rio de Janeiro in 1984, theNUFOC Conference in Cleveland in1984, and various engagements inDetroit, Santiago, New York City,Vermont and Houston.

During my previous trip to Chile in1984, I gave two .lectures — onesponsored by CIO in Santiago'sNational Press Building. The lectureswere a first step without muchtranscendence at the time; the hallswere small and there was no publicity.However, the 1984 trip was usefulbecause of the contacts made with keypeople in the field, such as Patricio

Varela, Fernando Noel and HugoPacheco, as well as media outlets likethe daily newspaper "La Tercera" andthe radio station Portales, both of whichare the largest of their kind in Chile.N a t u r a l l y , a l l these e lementscontributed greatly, to the lectures'impact on this occasion.

My original idea was to give onelecture for an audience of 200 or 300people. As it turned out, this goal wassurpassed when almost 500 peopleattended the first lecture at the HotelGalerias Nacionales in downtownSantiago on the evening of November29, 1985. With a waiting list of 200, asecond lecture was given in the samehall on December 10 — 300 peopleattended. Of course, none of this wouldhave .been possible without theassistance of Jorge Anfruns and theteam of dedicated people, whoproduced the shows.

MEDIA COVERAGE

Undoubtedly, exposure to themedia was a key element for the publicappeal the lectures had. My .first movewas to contact Patricio Varela shortlyafter, my arrival in October. I hadalready appeared several times onVarela's "Space Hour", during 1984,and I had mainta ined somecorrespondence with him since then. Iwas immediately invited to this show totalk about any new ufologicaldevelopments in the U.S. or elsewhere.

In the course of this and sevenother programs, I discussed a numberof events, including a whole show onthe "ghost estimate of the situation" AirIntelligence Report No. .100-203-79, theBentwaters incident, the Westchesterflap, the luminous clouds from Plesetsk,crashed saucers and Len Stringfield,the Billy Meier hoax, American UFOorgnaizations with emphasis onMUFON, Brazilian cases, etc. Theradio show was also used to announceand publicize the lectures, as well asreceiving later feedback from the radioaudience, who could either phone theprogram or send letters which Varelareads the following week.

The other strategy was to send apress release to various newspapers,

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other radio stations and televisionchannels. "La Tercera de La Hora"published the full text of the pressrelease on November 27 under theheadline, "Chilean Investigator WillReveal Secret UFO Documents." "LaTercera" also published a shortannouncement on December 9 that thelecture would be repeated.

Other newspapers publishedreviews of the event. The populartabloid "La Cuarta" published a lighterand somewhat sensationalized accountunder the headline, "UFO Boss LeavesUs Jumpy With Space Tales," OnDecember 1 "Las Ultimas Noticias"gave a more sober review, "ChileanInvestigator Reveals UFO Secrets," onDecember 2.

The University of Chile's Channel11 was the only television network tocarry the event; first as a regular itemon the evening news, and later in aninterview for the program "Extra,Mujeres, Extra," a news magazineproduced by women.

The most thorough story waspublished on December 10 by thenewspaper "La Segunda" as a longinterview under the headline, "ChileanInvestigator in the United States: UFOsExist'." This is not entirely surprisingsince I was a regular contributor for "LaSegunda" between 1974 and 1977,publishing numerous articles aboutscience, the environment, space, andeven some of my first UFO stories.

Other radio stations commentedupon the lectures and I was interviewedby the monthly magazine "LaBicicleta." The ' story will appearsometime in February or March.Finally, I am also expecting a copy of"Buen Domingo," the SundayMagazine of "La Tercera," with anarticle I wrote about crashed saucers. Iwas told by its editor, Ines MariaCardone, that UFOs are a subject thatalways interest their readership.

MUFON ACTIVITIES

Given the degree of interest thatJorge Anfruns and his team showed forMUFON, we decided to include theorganization in the program of the"Historial OVNI" lecture. This was not

a whimsical initiative but a well thoughtout one, due to the large public interestin the subject and the lack of seriousgroups capable of providing someanswers without a mystical slant. As aResearch Specialist for MUFON, I.found that this was the right thing to do,since this was one of my prime goals onthis trip. MUFON's name was used onthe podium, as you can see in thephotographs, and also in the poster andpress release which describe .me as itsrepresentative.

Furthermore, a brief description ofMUFON was included in the programsheet of "Historial OVNI." Informationon how to become, a member andMUFON's address were also included.I don't expect, however, that you willget too many members from thisannouncement for economic andlinguistic reasons. In Chile's depressedand debt-ridden economy, $16 (3,200pesos) is too high for the averagecitizen. They will also have difficultyfully understanding English in theMUFON UFO JOURNAL.

Enclosed with the program sheet,we distributed a form requestingpeople's name, phone and address,work, education, and a brief statementof any UFO sighting they had had in thepast, or why they were interested in thephenomenon. Altogether, 80 formswere completed and returned to thefront desk. Mr. Anfruris will send me adetailed breakdown of the list, butroughly speaking, a fourth had degreesor some technical training.

As MUFON's Representative,Jorge Anfruns will stay in contact withthese and other people to form a localMUFON network in Chile. LuisRiquelme and Aquiles Castillo ofORION expressed their full supportand cooperation with the idea, addingthat they would even dissolve theirgroup if MUFON should take a definiteshape. The ORION people arenecessary because they are one of thefew in Chile to have actual experienceas UFO field investigators; andsecondly, because they have a fewsc i en t i f i c consu l t an t s from theU n i v e r s i t y of Concepcion, theUniversity of Chile, and other well-qualified institutions.

I realize that this is perhaps asomewhat unusual situation regarding

MUFON and representatives in foreigncountries. Nevertheless, there is aprecedent that is useful to point out,that of CIU-CUFOS Buenos Aires, TheCommission of Ufological Investiga-tions, basically composed of GuillermoRoncoroni, Alejandro Agostinelli andAlejandro Chionetti, is also the CUFOSRepresentative in Argentina.

Besides their own magazine,"UFO Press" (considered one of thebest of its kind in Latin America), CIU-CUFOS Buenos Aires also publishes aSpanish edition of the InternationalUFO Reporter. This possibility can beconsidered with the MUFON/ORIONgroup in Chile, top. Jorge Anfruns isalready involved in the publishingbusiness with his magazine "Pensar,"and he expressed the willingness to do aMUFON publication in Spanish withMUFON's approval.

RESEARCH GOALS

1. The immediate goal is to form acore group to consolidate the interestgenerated by the lectures, the poll andmeetings between ORION, Anfrunsand myself. I am presently expectingMr. Anfruns' first report and. he is alsoexpecting from me guidelines from theU.S. As a first step, I will send a copy ofthe MUFON Field . InvestigatorsManual to Chile, where they can startdigesting it and eventually translatingparts of it into Spanish.

2. To establish a network ofinvestigators and consultants, not onlyin Santiago, but throughout thecountry. UFOs are a widespreadphenomenon in Chile from Arica toPunta Arenas. In fact, some regions likethe northern Atacama desert, are moreprone to UFO sightings than the centralregion around Santiago. One of myplans for the future is to conduct alecture tour throughout Chile's maincities, where numerous new contactscan be established and integrated intothe MUFON network.

3. To compose a standard UFOquestionnaire for field investigatorsbased on the current one fromMUFON.

4. To train new investigators withinMUFON standards. This phase should

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UFOS AND TELEPORTATIONBy Daniel Eden

Steven Spieldberg, the superlativegenius who has given us ET, Raiders ofthe Lost Ark, and Amazing Stories,likes to combine shimmering WaltDisney panoramas with Rod Sterlingundertones. In Poltergeist he broughtus the story of a sweet little girl with avery strange TV. If you saw the movie,you may remember the famousteleportatioh scene. It caught the eye ofthe science-fiction author, and mathprofessor, Dr. Rudy Rucker, whomentioned it in his book, The . 4thDimension: Toward A Geometery ofHigher Reality, (Houghton Mifflin Co.,Inc. Boston, 1984). He described it likethis:

"Most modern ghost tales do notbring in the fourth dimension. Aninterest ing exception . is StevenSpielberg's movie Poltergeist. The 4-Daspect of this movie arises when ballsthat are thrown into the closet of oneroom appear from the ceiling of anotherroom....indicating a route through thefourth dimension!"

Dr. Rucker illustrates his 4-Dexplanation with a cartoon by the artistDavid Povilaitis. The cartoon shows aseries of balls passing out of one roomof a two-dimensional "flatland" house,moving into a higher dimension, andthen falling back into another room ofthe house. To a two-dimensionalflatlander, this whole process wouldseem eerie and incomprehensible.However, from the perspective of ahigher dimension, it becomes obviousthat a higher space allows a freedom ofmovement that would be undreamed ofby those trapped in a lower space.

WHAT IS TELEPORTATION?

When an object seems to vanishfrom one location, only to appear atanother location, the object is said tohave been "teleported." The termteleportation was coined by the writerCharles Fort more than 50 years ago.He documented a large'number of10

cases where people, animals, or objectsseemed to appear or disappear. Fort'smajor books have been combined andpublished as The Complete Books ofCharles Fort, (Dover Publications, Inc.,New York, 1974).

The importance of teleportationfor ufology was recognized in 1963 bythe technical writer, Luis Schoenherr,in a series of articles that he wrote forthe Flying Saucer Review. He used theterm "dematerialize" for teleportation,and he argued as follows:

"There is even some evidence thatUFOs are able to dematerialize otherobjects...In my opinion this could onlybe the result of shifting the objects intoanother dimension inaccessible to us."

This 1963 article was recentlyreprinted by FSR in their October 1985issue (Volume 31, No. 1), under thet i t le , "UFOs And The FourthDimension: A Re-Examination." Thearticle gives an overview of UFO/hyperspace ideas. In a letter to thisauthor (Eden), dated, 20 November1985, Luis Schoenherr admitted thatmore than two decades later, he stillfinds the. higher space approach to be,"one of the most reasonable."

INDIVIDUAL CASES

The book by Raymond Fowlerent i t led The Andreasson Affair(Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1979)involves both human and humanoidteleportations allegedly witnessed byMrs. Betty Andreasson (Luca) in 1967.She described how some humanoidsteleported into her home, through aclosed door. Oddly, the humanoidsseemed to move along by forming aseries of multiple images; a little like arolling ball being photographed by useof a stroboscopic light.

A possibly related effect has beendiscovered in some UFO photographswhich seem to show a series of multiple-UFO-images. For instance,' see theUFO photos shown in Adrian Vance's

book, UFO's, The Eye and TheCamera, (Barlenmir House Publishers,New York, 1977). In his book Vancespeculates that the multiple imagesmay be due to certain interdimensionaleffects, or perhaps to some form oftime-related anomaly.

Another case of te leport inghumanoids, very similar to theAndreasson case, was described byBrinsley Le Le Poer Trench (LordClancarty) in his book, OperationEarfh (Neville Spearman Ltd., GreatBritain, 1969). It is alleged that, in 1957,one Mrs. Cynthia Appleton wasrepeatedly visited by some humanoidswho popped into her home, "like a TVpicture on the screen, a blurred imageand then suddenly everything is clear."During this apparent teleportationprocess, the witness noticed that therewas an odd whistling sound whichreminded her of the sound that "the oldwireless sets used to make when tuningin to a station."

Another odd feature was that anewspaper on the floor was trampledby an intruding humanoid and thepaper was mysteriously burned by hisfeet. Perhaps the moral here is, if youare going to teleport — wear thickshoes and carry a fire extinguisher?

MEN-IN-BLACK

A bizarre case that comes to usfrom the dark side of the twilight zone isreported in Dr. Berthold Schwarz'stwo-volume work, UFO Dynamics,(Rainbow Books/Betty Wright, Florida,1983). He details the story of a medicaldoctor, Herbert Hopkins, whose briefstint as a ufologist was interrupted byone of the legendary Men-in-Black(MIB).

A completely hairless MIB,sporting red lipstick and a black derby,allegedly directed some threats to thedoctor. Next, the strange fellow

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Figure 3. Betty's rendition of how the entities appeared through the closed kitchendoor: they "moved in a jerky motion, leaving a vapory image behind"(drawn April 10, 1977)

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casually teleported a penny from Dr.Hopkins' outstretched hand. Dr.Schwarz quotes the doctor as saying:

"He (the MIB) told me to keeplooking at the coin; as I did so the coinslowly became light blue in color, andthen it began to become blurred to myvision. My hand was in sharp focus, buttry as I might I could not seem to focuson the silver-blue penny. It becamemore blurred, became round like a littleblue fuzzy ball, and then becamevaporous and gradually faded away."

The dour Man-in-Black myster-iously informed the doctor that,"Neither you nor anyone else on thisplane (not planet) will ever see that coinagain." After a few more absurdthreats, the strange fellow staggeredaway, leaving the doctor in a state ofhigh anxiety. Well, such is the stuff oflegends and of the twilight zone ofufology.

Many ufologists today will notstudy a MIB case because they knowfrom past experience that these casesare often hoaxes. However, Dr.Schwarz may have a point when heasks us to examine all of the oddreports that surround ufology. Byskeptically examining such reports wemay be able to determine whether they

are only folklore, calculated mischief, ortrue cases of anomaly.

URI GELLER

Perhaps the strangest UFO-oriented book is Andrija Puharich's,Uri:' A Journal of the Mysfery of UriGeller, (Anchor Press/Doubleday &Co., Inc., New York, 1974). Dr.Puharich reported that objects wouldappear and disappear around the Israelipsychic, Uri Geller, on an almost dailybasis. UFOs were sighted, and evencontacted, via mysterious and torturousmeans. Whether hoax, or reality, orsomething in-between, this must be oneof the oddest and most complex caseson record:

In a.follow-up book, Uri Getter: MyStory, (Praeger Publishers, Inc., NewYork, 1975) by Uri Geller, (or ghostedby John Fuller, according to MartinGardner) the psychic claimed that hewas teleported bodily from the EastSide of Manhattan toOssining, N.Y., ora distance of more than thirty miles.

As a result of these books, andbecause of Geller's growing fame,several of the more irate "debunkers,"began firing continuous salvos ofridicule at Geller, Puharich, and allthose who would seek to study Gellerscientifically. Parapsychologists, and

others who were interested in Geller-type phenomena, soon retreated fromthe heavy shelling of continuousridicule. Was the Geller controversythe result of ingenious tricks, strangeparanormal truths, or some subtlemixture of tricks.and truth? The onlycertainty is that ridicule overruledrationality.

Here I have touched upon only afew of the highly intricate andemotionally supercharged UFO/CE-IIIteleportation cases. However, there aremany more. The various humanoidcatalogues contain scores of bizarrecases that I haven't mentioned, and theCE-III literature is a goldmine of data.Buried in this avalance of. oddities arethe clues that will someday give ourgreat-grandchildren the secrets of thisstrange world that we live in.

Ufologists who care to searchother l i terature for teleportationphenomena w i l l f i n d f o r t e a n s ,parapsycholgists, historians, and manyothers have amassed a huge quantity ofdata that supports the general notion ofteleportation.

The parapsychologist, Dr. NandorFodor, once filled' an entire book withteleportation cases. His impressiveworkd, Mind Over Space (The CitadelPress, New York, 1962), is an unrivaledclassic in this obscure area of research.Unfortunately, the late Dr. Fodor didnot cover any of the modernUFO/humanoid cases that seem soprevalent today. Some of Dr. Fodor'scases have been reprinted in LeslieS h e p a r d ' s t w o - v o l u m e w o r k ,Encyclopedia of Occultism andParapsychology, (Gale ResearchCompany, Michigan, 1979). Mr.Shepard relates relevant cases underseveral different categories, including:"Apports," "Asports," "Teleportation,"and even "Ectoplasm."

But if many teleportation cases arepure fantasy, then others would seemto straddle the fence somewherebetween fantasy and fact. A goodexample of this would be William L.Moore and Charles Berlitz's ThePhiladephia Experiment (Fawcet tCrest Books, New York, 1979). Thebook has since been adapted to afictional adventure movie.

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TELEPORTATION, Continued

The legend has it that in 1943, theU.S. Navy tried, to shield a ship fromeither magnetic mines, -or possiblyradar waves; but ended up teleportingthe ship and losing some crewmen.

In a privately published paper in1984, William • Moore updated his

. research on this case. His conclusionwas that most of the story w.as probablyonly folklore, but 'that the Navy didattempt some kind of experiment thatinjured or killed .'some of the • crewmember's,'on'.a ship. Embarassment,then, rather than anomaly may explain.most of the legend.

FORTEANA

Another source of teleportationreports is, of course, the forteanjournals. Each of these journals carries"fortean data" which includes materialsimilar to that studied by Charles Fortin his early (1919-1930's) books onanomalies.

According to the leading fortean,Robert J.M. Richard, the three primaryfortean journals are: Fortean Times( w h i c h he f o u n d e d ) , , INFO(International Fortean Organization),and Pursuit (Journal of the Society .forthe Investigation of the .Unexplained).These journals also publish much UFO-related material: (Charles Fort was oneof the first to recognize the potentialsignificance of strange things in the sky.He even suggested that aliens mightteleport to earth to "be degraded.").

Borrowing largely from the forteanjournals, the author Francis Hitchinglists a number of human and animalteleportation cases in his interestingwork,The Mysterious World: An Atlasof the Unexplained (Holt, Rinehart andWinston, New York, 1978). He includesmaps that give an overview of theworld-wide distribution of teleportationevents. These maps can also give yousome idea, of the great distancessometimes claimed to be involved..

R.J.M. Richard has written someclassic fortean books (coauthored withJohn Michell) that describe a number ofpeculiar teleportation cases; see theirtwo works: Phenomena: A Book ofWonders (Thames and Hudson Ltd.,London, 1977) and Living Wonders

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(Thames and Hudson Ltd.,- London,1982). These books' are visualmasterpieces and they are sometimesconsidered: two,, of the greatest"fortean" books written, since thedeath of Fort, himself.

The fortean writers, Jerome Clark(editor of Internationa} UFO Reporter),and Loren Coleman coauthored TheUnidentified-(Warner Books, Inc., NewYork, 1975), and Creatures From.'TTieOuter Edge (Warner Books, Inc., New.York, '1978).-. Their material '.includesanimal, human; and "monster"teleportat iqns.- Coleman,'s .recent;Mysterious America (Faber and Faber,Inc., Massachusetts, 1983), contains.asection entitled, "Teleporting Animals"that complements similar writings byMichell and Rickard, and by the earlierCharles Fort.

POLTERGEIST CASES

In his Presidential Address givenbefore the Twelfth Annual Conventionof the Parapsychological Association,in 1969, Professor Hans Benderdescribed a number of teleportationcases uncovered during his poltergeist,research in Germany. His lecture waspublished in the Proceedings of theParapsychological Association, No. 6,1969.(Ed. by W:G: Roll, R.L, Morris,and J.D. Morris, North Carolina, 1971).

According to Bender, "Four of.ourcases were highly suggestive of thephenomena involving an irregulartrajectory, indication of penetration ofmatter through matter; and t . thesensation of warmth associated, withtele:.apported objects, as well as theapparent formation "in the air."

Bender claimed that tools .fell outof a locked toolbox, clothes fellmysteriously from a ceiling, nails rainediri showers,, etc. He wrote ..thatwitnesses saw objects that, "rushed outof the wall," and "when picked up, theobjects gave a sensation of beingwarm."

Dr. Bender was led to speculate:"Perhaps the hypothesis of a higherspace, or a fourth dimension, should beconsidered." And, echoing a commentpreviously made by A.R.G. Owen, heobserved, "Clearly, no room is closed ifan object can take a trajectory in higherspace. It will, in addition, appear or

disappear instantaneously."; One of the. major classics of

poltergeist research is A.R.G. Owen'sbook entitled, Can 'We Explain'The

.Poltergeist?' (Hel ix Press/GarrettPublications; New York, 1964.) In a 32-page chapter entitled "Apportation andTeleportation," Owen : describedseveral poltergeist/teleportation casesand their possible implications of higherspace: He wrote as follows: ,

' " I t remains, therefore, a'1 purelyopen question whether or not there isan actual space of higher dimension notusually' accessible to matter or energy,but which" physical objects could inprinciple get into. If so there ispresumably some force which holds thephysical continuum together and stopsthings from leaking away into othercompartments of higher space."

This postulated force is sometimesreferred to as'a "dimensional barrier,"because such a force would act as abarrier that actively prevents objects,like ourselves, from drifting in thedirection of a higher space. Somewhatsimilarly, our Earth's 'own gravity actsas a kind of "barrier" to prevent us fromgoing to the moon (unless we use spaceshuttles and lots of expensive energy!).Just as gravity holds us qnto.the surfaceof the earth, so a dimensional barrierwould hold us within the "hyper-surface" of our normal three-dimensional world. The concept of adimensional barrier may prove to be avery powerful tool in helping us tounderstand the nature of our world.

OUT-OF-BODY

Hilary Evans, writing in theMay/June 1979 issue of Flying Saucer 'Review (Volume 25, No. 3) suggestedthat ou t -of - the-body experiences(OBEs) such as those studied byp a r a p s y c h b l o g i s t s , m i g h t haveimplications for ufology.

His article was entitled, "Signpostto a Parallel Universe?" He discussedthe OBE experiences of the famouspsychic, Robert A. Monroe. Mr. Evanswrote as follows:

"Monroe's explorations seem tohave brought him to a world whichcould — just could — be the place from

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which our UFOs come; or, if not thatplace, then it could indicate the kind ofplace we should be looking for."

Followers of Monroe's adventuresmay be interested to know that thisapparently multi-dimensional explorerhas also reported some possible

.teleportation effects. In his recentbook, Far Journeys (Doubleday&Co.,Inc., New York, 1985), Mr. Monroereports that money- sometimesmysteriously appears in clothes placedin one closet in his home. He modestlyadmits that, "very few people reallybelieve it, and I don't blame them." Headds, "I wouldn't if it didn't happen tome."

I r o n i c a l l y , C h a r l e s F o r tcommented on the possibility thatpsychics might be able to teleportmoney.. He wrote:

"I have collected notes upon'mysterious robberies,' wonderingwhether a teleportative power hasever been used criminally. As toapports, if a medium could transportsea shells from the sea to his cabinet, hecould abstract funds from a bank to hispocket."

HUMAN TRANSLUCENCY

One of the strangest byproducts ofMonroe's OBEs is that his bodysometimes seems to become partiallytranslucent. This,reminds one of thesereports, where UFOs, o r - e v e nhumanoids, are said to be translucent,or transparent like cloudy quartzcrystals.

Two highly credible witnesses toMonroe's ' translucency' .were themedical reser'achers, Dr. Stuart W.Twemlow and Dr. Fowler Jones.According to a report in Far. Journeys,Monroe was being monitored with EEGequipment, in an OBE experiment,when suddenly, two of the researcherssaw his body go visually out of focus.Dr. Twemlow and a colleaguedescribed it as follows:

"He was observed by us througha one-way window.... Simultaneously,Dr. Jones and SWT (Dr. Twemlow)turned to each other and reported theimpression of a heat wavelike distortionbeginning at Monroe's waist, so that it

was difficult to" get a clearly focusedpicture of his upper body, although hislower body was in clear focus." .

Oddly, a similar translucency ofthe human body is sometimesreported in connection; with humanteleportation cases. See, for example,the Dr. Z case, among others, reportedin Dr. Fodor's, Mind Ouer Space.

• If Hilary Evans is. correct in hissuggestion that the OBE phenomenonis of .fundamental importance toufology, then Robert A. Monroe'sexperiences are clearly a wonderfulplace to begin searching for usefulclues.

CONCLUSION

There are several hundred reportsof teleportation buried in the ufological,parapsychological , and fo r t eanliteratures. Some of his material seemsunderstandable when viewed in termsof a higher dimensional perspective. Ifeven one case of teleportation is real,then we are holding the keys to amassive, intellectually-locked, door.Dare we unlock the door, or likefrightened children, will we only hidethe keys under our beds? As Huck Finnmight have admonished Tom Sawyer, Idouble dast dare you!

REFERENCES

.Dr. Martin H. Sable was able tocite 53 references to UFO-relatedteleportations in his bibliographic work,Exobiology: A Research Guide (GreenOak Press; Michigan, 1978). Writingthe foreword to Sable's book, Dr. J.Allen Hynek sagely informed thereaders that, "these new empiricalobservations and phenomena no longercan be summarily dismissed."

.Another bibliographic guide thatcovers teleportation accounts, isGeorge Eberhart's massive reference,A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies(Greenwood Press, Connect icut ,1980). His material is arranged withemphasis on the geographic locationsof anomalies.

ADDRESSES

1. Fortean Times: 96 MansfieldRoad, London, NWS 2HX, United

Kingdom ($12.00 for four issues).2. Flying Saucer Review: FSRPublications, Ltd., Snodland, Kent ME65HJ, England ($15.00 for six issues).

3. Pursuif: Situ?Pursuit, NH 07739-0265 U.S.A. ($12.00 for four issues.Published by the Society for theInvestigation of The Unexplained.

4. /NFQ: International ForteanOrganization, P.O. Box 367, Arlington,

'Virgina 22210-0367 USA ($10.00 forfour issues).

Copyright ® 1986 by Daniel Eden .(all rights reserved) , • "

Illustration from The Andreasson Affair byRaymond E. Fowler,® 1979 by Raymond E.Fowler. Reprinted by permission of the publisher,Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

SAY YES TO MICHIGAN

17TH ANNUAL

UFOSYMPOSIUM

JUNE 27-29

1986

KELLOGG CENTERFOR CONTINUINGEDUCATIONMICHIGAN STATEUNIVERSITY

PRESENTED BY

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NEWS'N'VIEWS

HILL REVISITED

Although I share many of WalterWebb's views MUFON Journal, #215,March, 1986, page 16), I would hope notto throw the baby out with the bathwater. I have known Betty Hill and beeninvolved with sporadic research withher since around 1976, and I believewhat may be happening in association

. with her now may, anthropologically, atleast, be as interesting as the originalabduction report.

In parapsychological research. there is what is known as the (Kenneth)Batcheldor Effect, based on extensiveresearch of the past 25 years.

.Psychodynamically speaking, it seemsto involve these steps in the productionof psychokinetic or PK (and, probably,visual) .effects: (1) fraudulent or"pseudo" (accidental) production ofPK, as through mistaken observation,(2) psycholgoical dissociation (as insleep-walking or hypnosis) of personsrelative to the fraudulent PK, and, then,(3) occurrence of genuine PK which hasa physical reality which is tangible tocameras and all present. For details, thereader is referred to the several articlesby Patric Giesler, in J. Amer. Soc.Psychical Resch. and ParapsychologyReview, 1984-85.

Many UFOlogists will object that itis misleading to use "psi" (ESP and PK)to explain bizarre effects of some UFOcases. Anthropologists will object thatthe anthroplogy of psi is still in itsrelative infancy (mainly since 1974). Butthe application of Batcheldor's theoriesto some known cases in the socialsciences seems to provide an exact fit(e.g., Giesler's and Sidney Greenfield'swork in Brazil and mine and J.J.Williams' in Jamaica).

As my discussion of one UFO casenoted (CUFOS Assoc. Newsletter4(2):5-8, 1983), whatever Mrs. Hill hasseen in recent years, it seems evidentthat there have been some genuinesightings and in fact CE-III's in

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association with Betty Hill's "UFO.watching parties" in Kingston, NH.

The proper elements are there: animaginative person who sights thePease Air Force Base aerial "garbage,"thinking some of it is UFOs. and areasonably gullible audience ripe forpsycho log ica l d i s soc ia t ion and"creation," if you will, of a genuineUFO, with physical characteristics forall to observe (or catch on radar,photographs, etc.). (Inter alia, this kindof "creationist" explanation is not at allto suggest that UFOs are not real oreven that they are not extraterrestrial;the simplicity of my brief explanationhere is misleading in that respect.)

In sum, I believe that there aregenuine UFOs in the Kingston area,and that Mrs. Hill may well be the"trigger" for their "appearance"(seeability?). That assumption is asunprovable as its opposite, but whensociological realities have a patternedand verifiable (e.g., photographic)aspect, it is probably significant at a.level deeper than that of mere "beliefsand traditions" (i.e., cultural patterns).

Joseph K. LongProfessor of-Anthropology

Plymouth State CollegePlymouth, NH

YEAR-END REPORT

Over the past year, the Fund forUFO Research has sponsoredinvestigation/research projects on theUFO crash/retrieval issue and UFO"abduction" reports, as well ashistorical research and other topics.The final report on the psychologicalstudy of "UFO "abductees," by Dr.Aphrodite Clamar, Budd Hopkins andTed Bloecher was released in 1985, andcopies were -sent to major psychologysocieties. The study had one majorfinding: that after study by well-qualifiedprofessional psychologists, UFO"abductees" are essentially normalpeople who display the symptoms of

victims, not "crackpots."A major catalogue of UFO

abduction cases, with analysis of. recurring patterns and significant

features, has .been compiled by Dr.Edward Bul la rd . This massivedocument will 'be 'released by theFUND in 1986, along w i t h - acomplementary study by MichaelFrizzell conducted independently.Together, these two reports willbecome sourcebooks and will provideguidance for all future studies ofabduction case reports. They willprovide an overview of the nature andscope of the UFO abduction question,which should stimulate furtherresearch.

A major study of the 1896-97"mystery airship" reports in the U.S.,by Robert G. Neeley, Jr., is in anadvanced stage and is expected to bereleased in 1986. Research support bythe FUND enabled Mr. Neeley to travelextensively throughout the-U.S. to visitmajor libraries and depository sites andto obtain a large amount of newinformation, despite' the face thatseveral other people already 'haveconducted f a i r l y comprehensiveresearch of this topic. The resultingcatalogue and analysis should be themost definitive study yet conducted ofwhat might be called the first wave ofUFO sightings in the U.S. If, in fact,there is a conventional explanation forthe reports, the information compiledby Mr. Neeley will be 'an importantfactor in resolving this question.

In parallel with the U.S. study, theFUND recently approved a grant to ateam of British investigators to compileand analyze data on "mystery aircaft"reports in the British Isles early in the20th Century. This study will get underway in 1986.

Another project funded over thepast two years and expected to result ina final report during 1986 is an update(considerably expanded) of the studyby V.J. Ballester-Olmos of Iberian

Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) UFOcases involving physical effects--otherwise known as Close Encountersof the Second Kind. The originalcatalogue of Iberian Peninsula CE-IIcases was published by the Center ofUFO Studies in 1976. Again, theexpanded data collection and analysisis expected to provide a clearer pictureof the nature and scope of CE-II casesworldwide.

A long-time goal of the FUND hasbeen to encourage UFO researchprojects in the college/universitycommunity,, to provide funding forgraduate and post-doctoral levelstudies. Colleges and universitiespotentially are a major contributor t'oUFO research. A 'proposal from agraduate s tudent at • astronomycurrently is being evaluated by theNational Board, -and thus it ispremature to discuss it more fu l ly at thistime.

The FUND, over the past fewyears, also has received inquiries orproposals from documentary filmmakers and others regarding majorprojects that are presently beyond ourexisting financial resources. This ismentioned in order to illustrate thatthere is no lack of people willing to dothe work we all would like to. seeaccomplished--if only the funds w"ereavailable. That is the sole purpose of theFund for UFO Research, Inc., P.O. Box277, Mount Rainer, Maryland 20712.

NASA vs. ET

"On occasion, we run across littletid-bits of information that send oursensibilities spiraling. Frequent lyamusing, often astounding, they can belittle glimmering gems of knowledgethat sparkle an otherwise dreary day.Such is the following find:

"Chapter V, title 14, section 1211of the Nationa Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration Regulations, empowerthe body with the ability to quarantineany person, or persons, who have metan extraterrestrial being. Additionally,should you come in contact with anylittle green men and fail to report same,you could wind up facing a $5,000 fine,and one year in jail. In other words, ETmay have had to phone home, butyou'd have to call NASA.

"The very first thing that strikes usabout this regulation is who enforces it?Does NASA have a squad of agentswho traverse the country, from Biloxi,Mississippi to Tucumcari, New Mexico,interviewing all the people who claim tohave been in touch with beings fromother planets? Has anyone ever been soquarantined? Just how thorough isNASA in this regard?

"In the off chance that thebureaucracy has not met its completeresponsibilities in this regard, we'reoffering you the chance.to come clean.If you've had extraterrestrial contact,and have never told NASA, WRITE andtell us. We'll then send your letters toNASA, and see what happens."

KOMO Radio & TVCourtesy: A. Heller

ABDUCTION QUESTIONS

I have the following questionsabout Budd Hopkins' "AbductionR e f l e c t i o n s " ( M U F O N U F OJOURNAL, April, 1986): 1. Whatproportion of people, who describesperm or ova sampling operations,have, the expected scars? 2. Howfrequen t ly are scars, abductionrecol lect ions , and independen tevidence of UFO activity (other thanreports given under hypnosis by thesubjects) found together? 3. Do peoplewho describe tissue sampling-typeexperiences ever comment aboutfrequently being mistaken for someoneelse or looking like someone else? 4. Isthere any,way to investigate whetherthe, families that seem to have beenstudied over several generations haveany relationship to each other, such ascommon maiden names, or anything incommon about their ancestors? 5. Isthere anything unusual about thefamilies? 6. Is there an increasedfrequency -of possible UFO sightingsamong their in-laws and neighbors?

—Irena Scott, Ph.D.Physiology Consultant

Columbus, Ohio

PROJECT BOLIDE

It is possible that many UFOs mayturn out to be the product of (1) aphysically real stimulus combining with(2) the percipient's mental response to

that stimulus resulting in (3) a part-real,part-illusory image which the percipientdescribes as, and believes to be, whollyreal.

The response will be as varied asthe minds in which it occurs; but theoriginating stimulus which provides thetrigger is likely to be one of a finite, andpossibly very limited, number ofcauses.

Many phenomena are describedby percipients as 'balls of light'. Thiscatch-all label is no more than adescription, but it is sufficient to showtha t many phenomena generallyconsidered as distinct may havequalities in common. While these maybe lim.ited to outward appearance, it isopen to conjecture that there may bef u r t h e r correlat ions re la t ing tostructure, behavior and physicalnature. Whether study confirms thedifferences or the similarities, it will ine i t h e r case cont r ibute to ourunderstanding of the phenomena.;

In any case it would seem that thisis the facet of the UFO phenomenonwhich is most amenable to scientificstudy. The work of Persinger,Devereux and Mattson, together withthe critiques of Rutowski, Mauge andothers;, the investigations of ProjectHessdalen, Project Identification, andthe various Spook Light manifest-ations; the researches of Corliss,Gaddis and the McClures, and mostrecently Clarke & Oldroyd — all thesetestify to the degree of interestcurrently being shown by researchersfrom many disciplines.

Since it is by no means certain towha t s c i e n t i f i c .d i sc ip l ine thesephenomena relate, it is no easy matterto co-ordinate research into theirnature. Meteorology and the earthsciences are manifestly involved, buthardly less so are mythology andanthropology on the one hand, and onthe other physiology, psychology andparapsychology. Yet almost certainlythe vast majority of practitioners ofthese disciplines are unaware of thephenomena occurring on the fringes oftheir field of study, or of their potentialrelevance for their work.

It is to remedy this situation thatthere has been set up a project known

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Dear Editor,My attention has recently been

drawn to the UFO report made byBetty Cash and Vickie Landrum (afteran alleged incident near Huffman,Texas, on 1980 Dec. 29). My source ofinformation is John Schuessler's article"Blind terror in Texas" in TheUnexplained 9(107) 2121-25, (1982).

Looking for an astronomicalexplanation I noticed that the giventime (9 p.m.) could not be correct; thewitnesses reported seeing the Moon,but the Moon did not rise until just after1 a.m. Nor is it likely that, after diningout, they were returning home as earlyas 9 p.m. A more likely time is nearmidnight. :

Just after midnight Canopus, thesecond brightest star in the whole sky(magnitude -0.71), lay at only 7° altitudedirectly south (180°). Highway FM 1485runs in a dead straight line almost duesouth for 4 miles on a slight downwardgradient (1 in 621 on average). Withforest on either side of the road, thiswould have given the travelers a head-on view of Canopus if they were on thatroad at the time Canopus was lined upwith it.

At that low altitude, the light fromCanopus would have been bothrefracted (into spectral colors) anddistorted (with streamers to theground). The description given isconsistent with other accounts of starsseen at low altitude. The conclusionmust be that Cash and Landrum, notknowing that they were loking at a star,concluded that it was a UFO, ideasabout w h i c h i n f l u e n c e d the i rperception. Their conclusions that thecar became hot and that they sufferedburns must be the result of hysteria.

One would have liked to know howmuch alcohol they had consumed andwhat UFO lore they had alreadyabsorbed. One would also have liked toknow whether or not the road surface(where they imagined the UFO to be)was affected by heat. I predict that no

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such damage will have been found.Although it is alleged that the

object later moved "away over the treetops" it must be concluded that thislater object was not Canopus, whichwould have disappeared behind theforest. It is not clear from Schuessler'sarticle exactly where subsequentobjects were seen, but Jupiter (atmagnitude -1.8) later rose in the west(accompanied by- Saturn in closeconjunction). The witnesses may havethought that Jupiter was the sameUFO.

Yours faithfullyStcuart Campbell

Scotland

TO ALL OF THE MUFON GROUP,Just a note to thank all of you for

your very hard and time-consumingwork that you have done for Vickie,Colby (Landrum) and myself. Withouteach of you, I really don't know what wewould have done.

Please accept my apologies forsuch people that you have to listen tosuch as Steuart Campbell. People likethat are to be pitied. He said he evendoubted our credibility — well I doubthis mentality. All I can say is that it issuch a shame it was us. It should havebeen him and then we would see if hewould have said it was a star. Just oneday of what we have suffered wouldhave been too much for him — not evenspeaking of the years.

May God bless each and everyoneof you for your great work.

Betty CashAlabama

Dear Editor,Thought you might be interested in

this passage I came across in MaryKingsley's Travels in West Africa(London, Virago Press, 1982, from aturn-of-the-century original edition), p.254. Ms. Kingsley was on an 1895exploration at Lake Ncovi between theOgowe and Rembwe rivers, then in the

region of the Niger Protectorate andGabon, when she went out at nightalone to bathe and canoe on the lakewaters. Then:

"...I saw a strange thing happen.Down through the forest on the lakebank opposite came a violet ball the sizeof a small orange. When it reached thesand beach it hovered along it to and froclose to the ground. In a few minutesanother ball of similarly colored lightcame towards it from behind one of theislets, and the two waver to and fro overthe beach, sometimes circling roundeach other. I made off toward them inthe canoe, thinking — as I still do —they were some brand new kind ofluminous insect. When I got onto theirbeach one of them went off into thebushes and the other away over thewater. I followed in the canoe, for thewater here is very deep and, when Ialmost thought I had got it, it went downinto the water and I could see it glowingas it sunk until it vanished in thedepths."

Later, on asking the natives in thisvery remote region, they explain it as an"Aku" — a devil. There is no furtherexplanation or discussion of theincident.

I'd tend to dismiss it as an insecttoo, except for its underwater dive. Ms.Kingsley is an eminently practical,matter-of-fact, not in the least fancifulobserver and a highly intelligent andperceptive travel writer. This incidentrecalls other "tiny UFO" oddities of thesort reported by Fort and others.

One more point: the use of theword "aku" in West Africa — there'sthe same correspondence noted inother vocabulary to similar terminologyin Polynesia (and elsewhere???). Onemight speculate about possiblewidespread dissemination of the sameor similar names for spirits inprehistory. But that's really getting intodeep waters!

-Robert ColtmanS. Chelmsford, MA

Dear Editor,Beware of alleged "UFO evidence"

when there has been no UFO sighting.This principle applies to photographs of"UFOs" when no UFO was seen andother types of reports, but is especiallyillustrated by the North Carolina UFORing article (No. 216, April 1986).

No UFO report, nothing tosuggest any physical depressions ofgrass or soil, and no indication that theinvestigators have checked for naturalexplanations such as the one thatshould immediately spring to mind inring cases: so-called "fairy rings,"caused by a few different species ofmushroom or fungus (the details ofappearance may differ a little dependingon which species is involved.) Thereader is referred to Allan Hendry'sUFO Handbook (Doubleday, 1979, p.81-83) for some sound advice, and a1977 case of a "large gray ring" (as in theN.C. case) and its s c i e n t i f i cidentification as a particular species offungus.

Also, see any good encyclopediaunder "fairy rings" or "mushrooms."My Encyclopedia Britannica (1969), forexample, identifies the Marasmiusmushroom as a common cause of "fairyrings." For this species, "Fairy ringspersist year after year, with the [ring]diameter gradually increasing and 'segments dying out ti l l the ring can nolonger be discerned." Growth of thegrass in the ring is stimulated in somemanner.

I am not saying that "fairy rings" isthe definite .explanation of the N.C.case; only that there is no justificationfor invoking UFOs until this and othernatural explanations are thoroughlyinvestigated. I have written to the N.C.Agriculture Department scientist aboutthe chemical analysis, querying himabout the possible fungus explanation,and will share the reply (if any) with theJournal.

Richard HallBrentwood, MD

Dear Editor,It is d i s appo in t ing to see

investigators jumping to conclusions. 1refer to George Fawcett's article on themystery soil circle. I suspect that thisring is an ordinary manifestation of afairy ring (see American Heritage

Dictionary [1976] page 471, -FAIRYRING). Such fungal artifacts should befamiliar to all investigators. They arek n o w n t o a l t e r . t h e m i n e r a lconcentrations of the soil, enrichingsome minerals and depleting others.Over the period of years the fungalmycelia grow outward from a centralpoint, attaining diameters of ten to fiftyfeet. Then they fruit often producing aring of mushrooms (but not in allspecies). At fruiting or sporing they alsoproduce toxins that may prevent plantgrowth for several years.

To misperceive such occurrencesas evidence for UFO landings with no'other supporting evidence is to show anunhealthy bias. It is just this lack ofobjectivity which keeps the subjectfrom being taken seriously. The soilsshould have been analyzed bymycologists for mycelia, fungal tissueand spores. If the subject is to be takenseriously, the quality of investigationsmust be more thorough.

I know George Fawcett wellenough to know he supports theextraterrestrial spaceship hypothesis.But, to use dubious evidence not onlydoesn't provide support, it calls thewhole hypothesis into questions. I donot wish to offend George, but somehealthy criticism is in order.

Lastly, the fairy;r ing hypothesismay be diff icul t to prove at this latedate, but deserves at least equalconsideration with any others.

-David K. HackettState DirectorKnoxville, TN

Dear Editor,I was sorry to hear that David K.

Hackett of Knoxville, MUFON StateDirector for Tennessee, took issue withthe article "Touch-Down in NorthCarolina?" that was'published in theApril, 1986 MUFON UFO JOURNAL.

The article was written in thehopes of arriving at a solution for theground markings investigated nearMocksville, N.C. At no time did I jumpto conclusions as to the cause of themystery soil sample, nor did any of theother investigators.

In fact in the article we mentionedthat all the theories to date were butpure speculations at this point in thecontinuing investigations.

We were stumped primarily by thepotassium index measurements foundin the circle, in the ring-and outside the30-foot circle.

I was aware of a possible fairy ringexplanation, but the Agronomist at theN o r t h ' Carol ina Department ofAgriculture did not mention this in hisanalysis.

I have forwarded a copy of Mr.Hackett's letter to Mr. Tucker at theNCDA for his comments and furtherevaluation and will respond to theresults and response as a follow up inthe MUFON UFO Journal in one of itsfuture issues.

Finally, I'm glad that we havesomeone of Mr. Hackett's caliber tooffer a second opinion. 'Healthycriticism is always welcome by me andserves well the search for truth in theUFO field, which is a goal we are alltrying to achieve with MUFQNworldwide.

George D. FawcettAsst. State Director

North Carolina

CHILEAN, continued

be in the hands of the ORIONinvestigators, and perhaps at somepoint in the future, somebody from theU.S. can go to Chile to give a seminar.

5. To initiate the compilation of acomprehensive UFO catalog of Chileancases, something nobody has done yet,and which can be computerized by LuisRiquelme of ORION.

6. To develop a publication withlocal cases and investigations, as well asmaterial from the MUFON UFOJOURNAL.

7. To educate the Chilean publicabout UFOs through the media, publicevents and, at an appropriate time, afirst UFO Symposium in Chile. As Imentioned earlier, the contactee-oriented extraterrestrial philosophiesand beliefs pervasive in Chile need to becounteracted by a more sober,informative and scientific view. Mediacontacts like Patricio Varela in RadioPortales and Ms. Urquieta in "LaTercera" should facilitate this goal.

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NEWS, Continuedas 'BOLIDE a happy acronym forB a l l - O f - L i g h t I n t e r n a t i o n a l DataExchange. BOLIDE is neither a societynor. a publication; it is simply a meansfor shar ing and d i s semina t inginformation which seems to relate tothe various phenomena which comeinto this del iberately undefinedcategory.

The area of study ranges from therelatively 'hard' phenomenon known as.ball lightning (albeit its nature is far frombeing well understood) to the all-but-taboo manifestations of the seanceroom (where 'spirit materializations'frequently commence as BOLs).Between these extremes are all kinds ofunexplained .phenomena — spooklights, min-min lights, marsh lights, willo' the wisp and feux follets, St Elmo'sfire, foo fighters and many more-1—.along with a number of incidents whichseem to fit no category at all, such as 'the extraordinary 'light pillar' reportedfrom Finland in the Nordic UFONewsletter (1985/2)..

Nobody is claiming that all thesephenomena are basically one; indeednobody is claiming anything at all at thisstage. More data is needed; and for thisit is essential that we should all be awareof such data that exists, without •assigning it prematurely to this or thatpigeonhole.

BOLIDE will seek to do this bycirculating gatherings of data suppliedby its contributors, which may take theform of articles in learned journals;press clippings with or withoutconfirmation; private research reportsfrom groups or individuals; or personalspeculations and hypotheses. The onlycriterion will be a possible relevance tothe subject as a whole. These data willbe sent out at irregular intervals, as theyaccumulate, to subscribers who will pay 'only the cost of copying and mailing: theinitial subscription is £10/$15/120F.

Even though at the time of writingmany of those invited have not had timeto reply, response has already beenenthusiastic. BOLIDE already hassubscribers in France, Spain, Norway,Sweden and Canada, as well as Englandand Wales. Further details can beobtained from BOLIDE'S co-ordinator,Hilary Evans, 1 Tranquil Vale, LondonSE3 OBU, England.

THE NIGHT SKYBy Walter N. Webb

MUFON Astronomy Consultant

JUNE 1986

Bright Planets (Evening Sky):

Venus, brightest celestial object except for the sun and moon, continues to rulethe western sky. Gleaming at magnitude -4.0, the planet does not set untilalmost 11 PM daylight time in midmonth.

. Mars, in Sagittarius, now resides in the ESE about 10:30 in mid-June. As theearth catches up to its neighbor world, the red planet appears to back up(retrograde motion) on the 9th and move westward. Mars has brightened tomagnitude -2.0, rivaling Jupiter. Amateur astronomers with telescopes shouldtake advantage of the planet's proximity to us. over the next few months.Surface details are more easily discerned as the small world's disc grows larger.In July Mars is nearest earth, its closest in 15 years.

. Saturn, in Scorpius, is low in the SE after sunset and advances across thesouthern sky during the night.

Bright Planets (Morning Sky):

Mars lies low in the SSW at dawn. The gibbous moon is near the planet on the' 23rd. - . •

Jupiter, in Aquarius, rises in the east shortly before 1 AM in midmonth andmoves to the SE at dawn. The giant world shines at magnitude -2.4.

Saturn sets in the WSW about an hour before sunrise in mid-June.

Halley's Comet:

Binoculars and telescopes are necessary to view the dimming comet. Startwatching at the end of evening twilight. The object lies in the obscureconstellation of Sextans the Sextant (below Leo) all month, and there it fadesfrom magnitude 7 to 8. On the 1st Halley is 20° up (in midnorthern latitudes) inthe WSW and sets about midnight. Moonlight will interfere from about the 10thto 22nd. On the 15th the comet is only 9° up in the WSW as dusk ends and setssoon after 11 PM. Its position is at R.A. 10 h 29 m, Dec. -5° 29'. At that timeHalley has receded 213 million miles from earth. By June 27 the faint visitor setsin the west as twilight ends, and during the first few days of July it vanishes in thetwilight. After that, only large amateur telescopes can follow it once it emergesin the morning sky in late October.

Moon Phases:

New moon--June 7

First quarter-June 15

Full moon-June 21

Last quarter-June 28

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MESSAGE, Continued

favorable response to this ballot hasbeen very gratifying. We want tothank you each and every member fortheir vote of confidence for this publicrecognition.

MUFON will also present anengraved plaque to Dr. J. Allen Hynekin recognition of his lifelong dedicationand contributions to UFO research andpublic information. Due to Dr. Hynek'suntimely death on April 27, 1986, theaward will be delivered to Mrs. MimiHunt, his widow.

* * *Because of the great interest in

obtaining UFO video films anddocumentaries for public events,Nation UFO Information Week, UFOmeetings and conferences, andpersonal libraries, John A. Stewart, amember residing at 168 West HanoverAvenue, Randolph, New Jersey 07869,is proposing a new service for theexchange of VHS video tapes. John'sspeciality is compiling a complete andup-to-date library on all UFO andrelated topios. He has volunteered tocoordinate a program wherebyinterested parties nationwide couldwrite and exchange copies of their VHStapes in return for UFO tapes that theydo not have. John is equipped with twoVHS video recorders (Beta notavailable) to produce personal copies.He has composed a list of tapes in hislibrary that he will mail to anyone uponsubmission of a stamped self-addressedenvelope. All correspondence must behandled directly with Mr. Stewart, since

MUFON cannot be involved.The M U F O N 1986 UFO

Symposium Proceedings will beavailable by mail after July 10, 1986 for$10.00 plus $1.50 for postage andhandling via fourth class book ratepostage.

* * *On May 16, 17, and 18, Walt

Andrus attended the National UFOConference in Phoenix, Arizona,hosted by Hal Starr, the State Section -director for Maricopa County. Adiverse group of speakers presentedpapers. Some of the papers may havebeen considered controversial from theviewpoint of a conservative scientificUfo log i s t , however it was anopportunity to meet and evaluate bothnew and old people in this field. (Each ofthe speakers had a right to expresstheir personal opinions.) It is imperativethat each of us maintains an open mindso that we may study and evaluate factswhich might ultimately lead to thesolution of the UFO enigma. Anyscientist with a closed mind is an insultto his/her profession.

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tremendous speed and disappeared.When they reached the Motel,

Tony rushed into the bar to telleveryone what they had seen. All thepeople there laughed and joked about itand told him to "take more water with itnext time." But when he said June hadbeen with him, some of the peoplechanged their minds. June did not drink

The Stars:

All three stars of that famous heavenly symbol of summer, the SummerTriangle, are now in full view above the eastern horizon after nightfall. Thestellar trio is composed of Vega, Deneb, and Altair. Each star making up thetriangle resides in its own constellation-respectively, Lyra the Harp, Cygnusthe Swan (the "Northern Cross"), and Aquila the Eagle.

Meanwhile the spring groups-Leo the Lion, Bootes the Herdsman, and Virgothe Maiden-have slid past the celestial meridian into the west. While the BigDipper begins its downward swing in the NW, Scorpius creeps along thesouthern horizon. Don't confuse the scorpion's bright red star Antares with theyellowish planet Saturn above it.

Directly on the meridian at 11 PM in mid-June is a semicircle of seven stars,Corona Borealis the Northern Crown. It represents the mythical coronetpresented to Princess Ariadne by Bacchus.

and they knew it.Tony phoned the newspapers and

their response was, "Oh, not anotherone," as there was a flap going on in thecountry in July, 1975.

Once I had the story on tape, I felt Ishould follow it up with several furtherinvestigations, despite the fact that,sadly, it had happened such a long timeago.

I tried to contact John Clark to seehow he had fared over the years. I droveto Macheke and his house but thepeople living there had no recollectionof him, and even the police stationcould not tell me where he was.Eventually, through a friend, I was incontact with one of the Directors of theStore where he had worked. JohnClark died in about 1982 and his wifehad left the country with no forwardingaddress. At the moment I am trying toget hold of his death certificate toascertain the cause of death.

As far as June Barnes isconcerned, I am arranging for her toundergo regressive hypnosis. AlthoughI don't believe that is the perfectsolution, it might give us some insight asto what really happened on thatSaturday night in July, 1975. Also as Ihave said, I have written to try and findout what sort of "odor" June and Tonysmelled.

It seems to me a rather sadindictment of our society when UFOinvestigators like myself are inclined todenigrate cases which don't fit the"norm," particularly in relation to ourfellow investigators. Whom, or what,are we afraid of?

MUFONAMATEUR

RADIONET

EVERY SATURDAYMORNING

AT 0800 EST (OR DST)ON 7237 KHzSSB

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGEby

Walt Andrus

"UFOs: Beyond the Mainstream ofScience" is the theme for the 17thannual MUFON 1986 UFO Symposiumto be held June 27, 28, and 29, 1986 atthe Kellogg Center for ContinuingEducation, Michigan State University inEast Lansing.

Registration for the symposiumand reservations for rooms at theKellogg Center are still available bywriting to George Coyne, 6171 RiverRoad, Flushing, Michigan 48433.Registration for the MUFON 1986 UFOSymposium is $25.00 in U.S. funds($30.00 after May 27) by check ormoney order made payable to MichiganMUFON, Inc. Rooms at the KelloggCenter are $36.40 per night, taxincluded, for single occupancy or$21.84 per person, per night, taxincluded, for double occupancy.Michigan MUFON will forward yourroom reservation request immediatelyupon receipt. Reservations received bythe Kellogg Center after May 27 cannotbe guaranteed, however they willcontinue to fill reservations until allrooms are sold-out, so please do not letthis fact deter you from attending.(Motels are available nearby if theKellogg Center is filled.) If you will bearriving after 6 p.m. on the first night ofreserved room occupancy, you mustprepay by separate check/money orderor major credit card number toguarantee the room to Kellog Center.

If you will be needing MUFONshuttle service from Capital CityAirport, Lansing; AMTRAK, EastLansing; or Greyhound-Indian Trails,East Lansing; please so indicate whenyou are making your reservations andregistrations now. We will be lookingforward to personally meeting many ofyou in East Lansing, Michiganfor MUFON's Seventeenth AnnualUFO Symposium.

The MUFON Annual CorporateMeeting will be held on Sunday morningJune 29, 1986 at 9:30 a.m. following the"Breakfast with the Speakers" in aroom to be announced. State Directors

William I. McNeff

or their representatives should beprepared to give short oral reports oftheir statewide activities and submitmore detailed written reports. Electionof corporate officers will be conducted.

* * *In this mobile world in which we

live and earn a living, MUFON officersare no different. Robert Engberg,State Director for Minnesota, has acontractural position in western NorthDakota for over a year, taking him outof the state. Mr. Engberg and Walter J.Moe, Asst. State Director haverecommended William I. McNeff ofCoon Rapids, Minn., presently theState Section Director for Anoka andHennepin Counties, to become theState Director for Minnesota. Mr.McNeff is an electrical engineeremployed by a major computer firm.Your director met Bill when heattended the UFO Conference at theUniversity of Nebraska in 1983.

Don Mason resigned as StateDirector for Idaho when he wastransferred out of the area. Richard R.Suchocki, the Asst. State Director andState Section Director for Kootenai,Benewah, Shoshone, Bonner andBoundary Counties, has been

promoted to State Director. Mr.Suchocki is an engineering technicianwith the City of Couer d' Alene. Julius L.Benton, Jr. Ph.D. has volunteered histalent as a Consultant in Astronomyand State Section Director for theGeorgia counties of Chatham, Bryan,Effingham and Liberty. Dr. Benton is aformer member from South Carolinawho now resides in Savanah, Georgia.

* * *Harold H. Fulton, the Director

for New Zealand, has approved theappointment of Murray Bott to becomethe Section Director for the NorthIsland. Mr. Bott is active with theA u c k l a n d U . F . O . R e s e a r c hAssociation. Mrs. Lorraine Davis,M.A., an educator/lecturer living inMontague, Mich, volunteered herexpertise as a Research Specialist inConsciousness Studies. Her master'sthesis was titled "Comparing UFO andNear Death Experiences."

The March 1986 issue of theMUFON UFO Journal contained aballot in which each subscriber wasinvited to cast his/her vote for one ofthe candidates who will be the recipientof the MUFON AWARD FOROUTSTANDING WORK IN THEUFO FIELD. The award will bepresented at the MUFON 1986 UFOSymposium to the person judged by theballot of members who has done themost for the UFO subject during theMUFON corporate calendar year fromJuly 1985 through June 1986. Thecandidates nominated for the 1986award by the Public Information andPublic Education Committee (P.I.P.E.)are listed alphabetically -- MargeChristensen, Barry Greenwood,Budd Hopkins, Bruce Maccabeeand Dan Wright.

In addition to the plaque beingawarded by MUFON, the Fund forUFO Research will make a monetaryaward of $250 to the awardee inmemory of Isabel Davis. The

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