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JANUARY 1 9 9 6 NUMBER 333MUFON ON THE WEB: A Progress Report DennisStacyRAINING ON SAGAN'S PARADE Dr. Bruce MaccabeeUSE OF PSYCHICS BY MILITARY REVEALS UFOs Joe Lewels, Ph.D. 6EXAMINING MUFON's COMPUTERIZED UFODATA T.DavidSpencerNEWS 8.VIEWS 12SAUCERS AND THE SURREALCURRENT CASESTHE UFO PRESSMUFON FORUM

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MUFON ON THE WEB: A PROGRESS REPORTby Dennis Stacy

Sn ce w e w e n t o n l i n e l a s t m o n t h , th e MUFONWorld Wide W eb home page site has receivedsome 2000 "hits." or visi tors . Wait a minute , yousay, a) what is the World Wide Web, and b) what is ahom e page?We're glad you asked. T he Web, in shor thand, is acom pone n t of the global In te rne t , or Net for short, aworldwide connection of various computer servers, eachwi th an y n u m b e r of sites accessible by m o d e m . T heserver site of an indiv idua l , univers i ty , commercia l orother organization is k n o w n as a hom e page. T o reach aparticular home page, you direct a sof tware programk n o w n as a Web browser to that site 's specific URL, orUniform Resource Locator, address.Wai t another minute , you say.You're supposed tob e making th ing s s imple , and already you ' re throwingmore unkn ow n terms at me. You're right. All you reallyneed to k n o w is tha t th e major commercia l onl ine ser-vices like CompuServe and America O n Line have al-ready made the Net and Web available to their members.If you prefer, you can sign up w i t h a local providerwho wi l l connect you to th e Net and provide all thesoftware (PC or M a c ) you need, a bundle which typi -ca l ly i nc lude s a Web browser , a dial -up program, anewsgroup reader , and an E-mail program, usually aversion of something called Eudora, which allows you tosend an d receive electronic m ai l . Local providers typ i-cal ly charge anyw here from be tween $9.95 to $19.95 amon th, depending on the num be r of hours you expect toactually be connected, or on line. T he higher rate usuallya l lows un l i m i t e d access t ime and includ es the cos t ofyour o wn Web home page, should you decide to createone, in the bargain.Of course you'l l need a com pute r an d m ode m the faster the be tter to get this far. Once every thing i sin place, s imply open up your W eb browser. (NetscapeNav i ga to r is the most popular one,but there are m a n yothers un der d i ffe rent nam e s . ) N o w type in the f o l low-in g address ( u s u a l l y u n d e r a G o T o o p t i o n ) :ht tp: / /www.ru tgers .edu/~mcgrew/MUFON.This should take you to the M U F O N h o m e page.T he first t h ing y o u ' l l see is a graphic logo fo r M U F O N created by Vince Johnson fo l lowed by a greencounter, which looks much like an automobi le 's odome-ter, or mileage indicator. I t s imply te lls you how m anypeople have been here before you, and is a way for us tokeep c o u n t o f incom ing t raf f ic . Nex t , you wi l l notice alist of opt ions , in our case th e f o l lowi ng : An In t roduct ion to Ufology. More about MUFQN.

How to con tac t M UF ON.An appl i cat ion form to j o i n M UF ON.Excerpts f rom th e latest MUFON UFO Journa lon- l ine .Arch i ve of past issues of the M U F ON U F OJournal.Excerp ts from th e MUFON Fie ld Inves t igator ' sM a n u a l .W h a t to do if you see a UFO.Information on MUFO N's Staff Photoanalyst. andprocedures fo r subm i t t ing photos or videotape fo ranalys i s .How to order publ i ca t ions f rom MU FON .UFO events (sympos ia an d conferences, past andpresent) .The UFO Literature.Other UFO organ i za t i ons and publ i cat ions .UFO and related WWW and FTP sites.

The unde r l i ne d words w i l l show up in a d i f fe rentcolor f rom the surrou nd ing tex t . Th i s means tha tthey are "hotlinks," and tha t c l i ck ing on a particularunder l ined word or phrase wi l l take you to anotherpage, o r screen, devoted enti rely to that subject. Fo rexample, clicking on "Abou t MUFON" wil l take you toa general description of MUFONs history an d activities.Clicking on "TheU FO Literature" w ill take you to a rec-omm ended reading lis t . Clicking on the h i gh l i gh te d , oru n d e r l i n ed , area of "What to do if you see a UFO"gains th e viewer access to the U FO sightin g report Form1 f o u n d on pages 58-9 of the MUFON FieldInvestigator's Manual (4th Edi tion) . Selecting "Howtoorder publications from MUFON" brings up a list of an-nual symp os ium proceedings wh ich are s t il l avai lab le ,a long wi th the i r ind iv idual contents , p lus a l i s t of o therpublications an d videos av ai lab le f rom MUFON. Peoplenew to M U F O N ca n choose "A n application form tojoin MUFON," whi ch b r i ngs up an appl i cat ion formtha t can be pr in ted out,f i l led i n and mai led to MU-F O N . M a n y of the other op t ions are se l f -explanatory .

Ordinar i ly when you leave th e original home pagean d go to another page, there wi ll be a highl ighted op-tion at the bottom of the latter which wil l say somethingl ike "Return to the M U F O N h o m e page." Clicking herewill re turn you to the original home page or "menu." Ifno such opt ion is present, don't worry. Your browsershould a lso have a Back option, indicated by an arrowpointing to the left. Clicking on this button will also takeyou back to the previous page. Depending on how manypages you've selected or opened by now, you may haveto backspace several times to return to the original homeJANUARY 1996 NUMBER 333 PAGE 3


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Wil e th e M U F O N h o m e page consis ts of l inks toseveral other pages at the same site, or U R L , youwill notice that some hotlinks carry you to another URLor Web site enti rely. A gain, not to worry. A n y t i m e youwan t to return to the M U F O N hom e base, s im ply clickthe Back option as many t imes as is necessary unt i lyou see the or iginal MU FON logo. Welcome back!W e've in clude d num erou s hotl in ks to other s ites forseveral reasons. For one thing, it 's th e proper thing to do,since MUFONdoesn't claim a monopoly on UFOs an dufology in general. For another, it 's N et e tiquette: link toother sites and the y ' l l l ink to y o u . At the same time,M U F O N obvious ly has no i nput or control over thematerial that appears on other UFO Web sites. In short,while we p rovide the address(es) of other Web sites, theinformation thereon isn' t necessarily endorsed by M U-

FON or its Board of Directors. There is muc h good in -formation out there, but the viewe r should also be awareof Sturgeon ' s Law, which pos i t s tha t 90 percent ofeveryth ing pardon our French is crap. This isn' tmean t to denigra te any of the o the r W eb sites refer-enced, only to warn Net surfers that what you see onscreen often needs to be double checked in te rms of itsreality quot ient .At any rate , we welcome you to the MUFO N WW Whome page. W e reiterate tha t the site is not static, bu t willremain under cons t ruct ion for the foreseeable future. Ifyou'd l ike to complain about something that 's alreadyup, let us know. If yo u'd like to see some feature tha t wedon ' t have , let us know about that , too . If you havecompute r and Web experience, and w a n t to v o l u n -teer/share some of you r expertise, we 'd b e equally happ yto hear from you. The Web represents the new frontier ofufology, and MU FON, l ike everyone else on it, could al -ways use a few good pioneers . I can be reached via E-mail a t ds tacy@texas .ne t .

RAINING O N SAGAN'S PARADEby D r. Bruce MaccabeeD. Carl Sagan has w rit te n yet an oth er art icle inParade Magazine (Dec. 3, 1995) regarding U FOsightings an d aliens. "What ' s th e evidence," he asks."On s o imp or t an t a q ue s t i on as UFOs, the evidencemu s t be ai r t ight . People make mistakes. People playpractical jokes. People stretch th e truth fo r mone y , at-tention o r f ame . Pe op le occas iona l l y mi s und e r s t andw h a t they're seeing. A nd somet imes even se e th ingsthat aren' t there ." A ccord ing to Dr. Sagan, there is noconvinc ing evidence that UFOs are real.Methinks Carl doth protest to o m u c h for a personwh o, as a youn g ma n, was at least favorab le toward, ifnot to ta l ly conv ince d by, the early U FO sightings: "I tseemed pretty bel ieva ble to me ... apart from a few har-rumph s and giggles I cou ldn ' t find any counterargu-ments . How cou ld al l these eyewitnesses be mistaken?"After all, he is a propo nent of listening via radio to theuniverse in o rder to detect s igns of intelligent li fe "outthere." Hence he must be a be l iever in life out there .. .enough of a believer to comm it his and other people 'st ime and money to hours and hours of "l is tening." Isthere any evidence of life out there to l i s ten for? Onlyprobabil ist ic argum ents based on the exis tence of intel-ligent life here. There are no observation al data. This isin stark contrast to the situation regarding UFO sigh tingsfo r wh ich the re is a lot of observational data, whe ther ornot Dr. Sagan considers it "airtight."D r. Sagan points out that as he grew up and learned"how science works the secrets of its great success,"

he became skeptical of UFO reports . He decided that"Essentially all the UFO cases were anecdotes," jus tstories, by people "who reported w hat they saw." Somesa w "natural if unfamiliar p h e n o m e n a .. . unconve n -tional aircraft. . . conven tional aircraft with unusual light-in g patterns; high altitude balloons; lumines cent insects ;planets seen unde r unusual atmospheric conditions; op-tical mirage s an d loomings; lenticular clouds; ball light-ning ; su n dogs; meteors, i ncluding green fireballs; andartificial satellites, nose cones and rock et boosters spec-tacular ly reente r ing th e atmosphere ." He also pointsout that "the field attracted rogues and charlatans," that"many UFO photos turned out to be fakes" and at leastin on e case a mass UFO sighting was of a hot air balloonwith candles. In other w ords, in D r. Sagan's opinion, be-cause some or m an y UFO sightings can be ex plained ashe has suggested, then all UFO s igh t ings can be ex-plained as he has suggested and hence there is no "air-t ight" evidence .A t the end of his article (in whi ch he also discussedcrop circles , which I do not discuss here because theym ay not be related to UFO s igh t ings ) he appeals toskepticism as a counte r to credul i ty an d l aments that th e"tools of sk ept ic ism are genera l ly unava i l ab l e to theci t izens of our society." T he impl icat ion i s that a n y o n ew ho "believes" in UFO reali ty is not be ing properlyskeptical but, rather, credulous (willing to believe in"anything"). Again m ethinks that Carl protests too muc h

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MUFON UFOJOURNALfo r it was by using th e "tools of skepticism" that I ar-rived at the conclu sion that UFOs are real.My "conversion" to "belief (really, acceptance) ofUFO reality was a result of considering and analy zingexplanations for UFO sightings. 1 analyzed a num ber ofthe classic (read, "older") sightings an d th e explana-tions for them and realized that the explanations wereunconvincing, at best, and jus t plain wr ong, at worst. Itwas at this time that I became skeptical of the skeptics. Ialso discovered that some of the more vocal skeptics ac tas if they have a desire to disbelieve, and some go so faras to become "debunkers" w ho discount U FO sight-ings without so much as a sideways glance at them.Sometimes these debunkers disparage or make fun ofpeople who report such sightings.Consider, for example. Dr. Sagan's suggestion thatsome s ightin gs were a ctual ly of high altitude balloon s(see above ). Is he aware tha t some of the earliest flyingsaucer/UFO sightings were made in clear daylight by thescientists who launched those balloons? Is he awarethat these scientists saw the ir own b alloons and strange,circular shiny objects f lying past or around the bal-loons? These men were trained observers of things in thesky, not to be tricked by any of the natural or m anm adephenomena regarded by Sagan as "the" solutions toUFO sightings.S o w h a t i f "many UFO photos " turned out to befakes; not all are. Does D r. Sagan know abou t thecinetheodolite f i lms shot on April 27, 1950 b y tech ni-cians at the White Sand Proving Ground ? According tomathematician Wilber Mitchell , t r iangulation showedthat the objects were traveling at a high rate of speedover the Holloman Range at an altitude of about 150,000ft. The objects were about 30 feet in diameter. Severalfilms of unidenti f ied objects flying over White Sandswere taken in the late spring of 1950.So what if many sightings could be explained bynatural phenomena , as Dr. Sagan suggested. There ar ealso m any w hich can't, such as the first wid ely reportedsighting, tha t of Kenn eth Arnold on Jun e 24, 1947.Many people have tried to explain Arnold 's sighting;none has succeeded. The late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, as-tronomer and c ons ultant to the Air Force Project BlueBook, was initially a severe skeptic of flying saucer re-ports. He was the first scientist to analyze Arnold 's re -port to the (Army) Air Force and attem pt to explain it, in1948. By 25 years later he had reversed his opinionabout UFO reports and realized that he hadn't explainedArnold 's sighting.In November 1986, th e Japanese pilot and two mancrew of a j u m b o je t freighter flying over Alaska wit-nessed a series of sighting events, includ ing radar de-t e c t i o n s , w h i c h w a s i n v e s t i g a t e d b y t h e F e d e r a lAeronautics Administration. In March 1987, the FAA re-leased a package of information on the sighting to thepublic and announced its "solution": the ground radarhad been fooled by mal functio ns that occurred jus t as the

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crew was reporting objects/lights near the aircraft. TheFAA had "no comment" on the visual sighting and nocomment about the object detected on the airplane radar.The Committee fo r Scien tific Investigation of Claims ofthe Paranormal (CSICOP) publicized its explanationfor the sighting misidentifications of Mars and Jupiter before the FAA released its reports. A month or solater, when it became apparent from the FAA-releasedinformation that th e visual sight ing direction was not inthe direction of these planets the skeptics revised theirexplanation to m oonlight reflected from clouds. Neitherexplanation w as satisfactory in view of the descriptionsgiven by the three witnesses on the plane.Try as he may, Dr. Sagan cannot get away from thefact that UFO sightings have been reported under "unim-peachable" conditions, includin g multiple witness day-light sightings of structured objects (seen well enough sothat identification wo uld be immedia te ly obvious if itwere possible), mu ltiple radar/visual sightings, multiplewitnessed photographic and video sigh tings and sight-ings that involved lan ding traces (several thousand ofthese on record). It is true that we, the civilian co mm u-nity of UFO investigators, do not have som ething wh ichwe are positive is a piece of a flying saucer. However,there is a mass of circum stan tial evidence of the typewhich, if this were to be tried in a court of law, would besufficient to prove th e case.If Dr. Sagan wishes to ignore all this, that is hischoice. He can go back to l is tening fo r aliens. But heshould leave the ufologists alone. We have enough in-born healthy skepticism to keep us from being overlycredulous, while no t t h rowing out the baby with th ebathwater. Furthermore, contrary to Dr. Sagan's statedopinion that we might "have a vested interest in dis-couraging skepticism," we encourage skepticism onboth sides of this issue.

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USE OF PSYCHICS BY MILITARY REVEALS UFOsby Joe Lewels, Ph.D.

A recent Congressional investigation into the useof psychics by the Pentagon and va rious intelli-gence services confirms the earlier research doneby a former New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Howard Blum, which says that "remote view-ers" located flying saucers hovering above Russian nu-clear submarines.O n N o v e m b e r 28, ABC n e w s reported tha t th eC e n t r a l I n t e l l i g e n c e A g e n c y (C IA ) , t h e D e f e n s eIntelligence Agency (DIA) and other security agenciesspent as much as $20 million over th e past 25 years onprojects in wh ich they used psychics on various top se-cret m ili tar y projects. T he psychics , called "remoteviewers," are able to perceive an d describe remote datathrough the use of their mental powers.T h e r e v e l a t i o n w as m a d e a s a r e s u l t o f aCongressional inquiry into th e value of continuing th eexpenditure of tax money on a phenomenon that manyscientists scoff at as being nonexis tent . A BC news ,which received a copy of the report, revealed that psy-chics had been used on numerous occasions to "see"events occurring in other parts of the world . Amongthese projects were the location of Iranian embassyhostages during the Iran crisis, the location of under-ground nuclear testing facilities in Russia, th e tracking ofSoviet submarines and finding Moammar Gadhafi priorto our bomb ing Libya.Ted Koppel, on the TV program "Nightline," inter-viewed former CIA chief Robert Gates, psychic Jo eMcM oneagle, phy sicist Edw in May (o ne of the projectdirectors), DIA project director Dale Graft, and a con-sultant to the Pen tagon identified only as "Norm."Although the report concludes th at no further use ofpsychics for defense purposes is warranted, psychic JoeMcMoneagle made it clear that th e projects had spec-tacular successes in many cases. Gates, Graft and May,however, minimized the value of the program, claimingthat only 12 out of 500 cases produced accurate results.All three agreed that the program was of little use to themilitary and that such experiments were "better ex-plored in an academic setting."Interestingly, one of those who helped prepare th estudy was Ray Hyman, a psychology professor at theUniversity of Oregon. Hyman is a member of the exec-utive council of CSICOP, an orga nizat ion dedicated todebunking the paranormal. Alth ough he remained skep-tical, his co-author Jessica Utts, a professor at the

University of California-Davis, said the psychics wereaccurate 15 percent of the time.These revelations confirm w hat Blum reported in his1990 book, Out There: The Government's Secret Questfor Extraterrestrials. Blum uncovered evidence of thePentagon's use of remote view ers for a top secret pro-gram called Project Aquarius, conducted by the DIA'sDirectorate for Management and Operations. This pro-ject was conducted right next door to the White House inthe old Executive Office Bui lding, in the Fall of 1985.The initial me eting that started th e project was held inth e office of George Ke yw orth , President Reagan 'sScience Adviser, and included staff of the Office ofScience an d Technology. The meeting was conducted bytw o scientists from the Stanford Research Institute (SR I).T he demonstration consisted of having a psychic fo -cus his powers on specific longitudinal and latitudinal in-formation and asking him to see what was there. The an-swer, which he gave correctly: a mansion. As it turnsout, the mansion belonged to Mikhail Gorbachev.The next phase of the demonstration was conductedby a Naval Commander, presumably from th e Office ofNaval Intelligence. He showed the psychic a group ofabout six photographs of Russian and American sub-marines, some armed with nuclear warheads, and askedthe viewer to give him the whereabouts of each of thesubmarines by stating th e specific coordinates of eachsite. The Commander had in his briefcase a list of thecurrent actual locations of each craft.The viewer then went into a trance, his head gentlybobbing up and dow n. Then he began an nou ncing thelocations of the ships: off the coast of South C arolina, offthe n orthern coast of Iceland, etc. But w hen he got to thephotograph of a Soviet Delta Class submarine, he stum-bled, "his face su dd en ly became twisted w ith the sur-prised look of someone who had just encountered asmall, but unexpected trouble in his path ... His trancebroke ... and he was clearly uncomfortable. No, one ofth e witnesse s decided: he was scared.""What is it?" he was asked. The viewer explained thathe had seen something else at the same coordinates,which were off the coast of Nova Scotia. It was "hov-ering above the submarine." The scientist asked theviewer to draw what he saw. Blum reports that "It wasthe d raw ing of a wingless aircraft. To ma ny in the roomthe draw ing was quite familiar. 'A rocket?' the scientistprodded."

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MUFON U F O J O U R N A Lthis report supports that observation. From Table 2-2, 50pe rce n t of the s ight in gs occurred Tuesday thro ughThursday, peaking at 20 percent onWednesday. For theperiods 1985-1989 (191 events) an d 1990-1994 (239events), the percentage in each of the middle three daysdiffered by no more than 1 percent from the total, forboth CEs and distant s ightings.Further analysis identi f ies two exceptions:1. The MA type had 23 percent, not 19-21 percent, onWednesday .2. The AN type had a peak of 25 percent on Friday,not Wednesday.

Table 2-2. Percentages of Events by Day(Prior to 1995)D AY

S U N D A YM O N D A YT U ES D A YW E D N E S D A YT H U R S D A YFRI D A YS A T U R D A Y

%O FTOTAL

(482)1112IS20IS1314

%1985-1989

(191)13111621141 213

%1990-1994

(239)8

121620161513

% C E(201)

14101420161313

% D I S T A N T(281)

8131620151315

T h e MA exception is not significant e nough to dwel lon, but the AN exception may be an indication that A Ntype sightings were no t closely related to other sightings.This possibility is studied in the analyses of locations(Section 3) and sky conditions (part of Section 4).W h y d i d p ea k n u m b e r s o f s i g h t i n g s h a p p e n o nTuesdays , Wednesdays , and T hursday s? Appropr ia tedemographics w ould probably provide an answer, s incethere is no kno wn reason to expect UFOs to have any in-terest in our de s igna t ion of the week or days of theweek. No netheless , the s tat is t ic is a curious one.TIMES OF THE DAYChart 2-4 d epicts the ev ents by t im e of day for each ofthe three year in te rva ls and the to ta l . The hours areshown start ing at noon in order to display th e peak dis-tr ibution near th e center. A total of 582 events con-t r ibute to this chart, 96 before 1985, 225 between 1985and 1989, and 261 between 1990 and 1994.Peak Times fo r SightingsThere are variations, but the time intervals and the totalagree that the peak n um be rs of events occurred betw een1800 ho urs (6:00 p.m.) and2400 hours (midnight), themaximum du ring 2100 hou rs (9:00 p.m .). This five hourtime period includes 61 percent of all data.

Greenwich Mean TimeT he data in Chart 2-4 is based on local times for thesightings, including Standard and Daylight Savingstimes. In an effort to reduce the mystery of peaks, theGreenwich Mean Time (GMT) for each sighting wasused for a comparison. If sightin gs were ge ograph icallyevenly d is tr ibuted, normalizing th e t imes (gett ing time-zone independent values) should make th e dis tributionmore uniform. A more pronounced peak in the GMTdistribution wo uld suggest that sightings we re indep en-dent of local times.As illustrated in Chart 2-5, there is some bro aden ingof the peak's shoulders. Primarily, the single peak isreplaced by two, indicating that a significant percentageof cases occurred in two neigh boring time zones, a find-in g which is studied in Section 3 ( locat ion).The GMT peak is le ss pronounced than the localt ime peak, suggesting that th e "2100 hours" phe nom e-n on was a social demographic (associated wi th th ehabi t s of people).Time by MonthFrom 558 events that include both m onth and t ime , allmonths exhib i t th e m axi m um numbe r of sightings be-tween 1800 an d 2400 hours, but there is a difference be-tween the s ix months s tart ing April and that s tart ingOctober. As depicted in Table 2-3*, the peak period fors ight ings dur ing the six mo nths s tarting A pril began at2000 hours and ended at 2400 hours, and the 2200-2400 hours period has had an average of 24 percent oft he s igh t ings . Fo r e ve ry m on th s ove r t he ne x t s ixmo nths, the percentage of s ightings du ring the 2200 -2359 hours period dropped to 16 percent, wh ile the av-erage percentage in the 1800 - 1959 hours period in-creased from 6 to 23 percent (350% increase in then u m b e r of sightings).* N ote: Alth ough Table 2-3 reduces the data to quar-ters of the year, the m on thly data exh ibit the same typeof results.Even wi thou t D ay l igh t Sav ings T ime , it gets darkerearlier from October through March than Apri l throughSeptember.Table 2-3. Percent of Quarterly Sightings by Time(558 reports include both time and month.)

MONTHSJ A N - M A RA P R - J U NJUL-SEPOCT-DEC

H O U RL Y PORTION OF THE DAY0000-1159HR S23252821

1200-1759HR S134713

1800-1959HR S

2357

23

2000-2159H R S23403529

2200-2359HR S

18262314

TOTAL100100100100

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CHART 2-2. U.S. EVENTS BY MONTH(Before 1995. 539 with month.)

90-'94|/'85-'89

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CHART 2-4. U.S. EVENTS BY TIME OF DAY(Before 1995. 582 with time ofday.)

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MUFON UFO JOURNALgesting that cold weather influenced potential witnessesto not be outside as la te during these mo n t h s .Since these t ime and qua nti ty shif ts occurring in thedata are explainable, i t is conjectured that this peaksighting time frame (1800 - 2400 hours) is a result of de-mographics-related parameters. Since U FO ph en o men aare not detectable unless they occur wi th in t ime f ramestha t witnesses a re ava i lable to view them, they mayhave been hap pen ing equa l ly dur ing all h o u r s of allmo n t h s .Time by Day of WeekSight ings be t ween 2000 and 2400 hours have variedbetween 43 and 60 percent (average 52 percen t ) of theda ta, depen ding on the day, but data averages fo r everyday of the week agree that this time period has resultedin more sightings tha n any other , based o n 481 reportsthat include data for both day and t ime.Time by Type of SightingFrom 582 cases that include the time of day, a larger per-centage of sightings (66 percent) occurred during 1800- 2400 hours than an y other six-h our period, irrespectiveof th e type of sighting (CE, MA, FB, or A N ) .DURATIONNot surprising, mo st sightings ( tw o out of three, ac-cording to this da ta ) las ted no more than 10 m inutes .Three out of 11 lasted 10-99 minutes, and one out of 20lasted 100 mi n u t e s or longer.Duration by Type of SightingThe resul ts based on the type of sighting are giv en inTable 2-4. As could be ant icipated, the FB and AN typesightings - the "fly bys" and anomalies - had a largerpercentage at the low en d ( less than one m inute ).

Table 2-4.Sighting Duration, Percent by Type of Sighting(578 events ident i fy durat ion . )Duration by Month, Day of Week, and Time of DayD U RA T IO N

(Minutes )0.01-0.090.1-0.91.0-9.010-99

100-999

% C E(254)

41749246

% MA(187)

41242348

% F B(100)

72846180

% A N(37)

34327243

With 480 reports, analy sis of durat ion by m on th, day,an d t i me ad d s no new or dif feren t i n f o r m a t i o n . T h esighting durat ion has been ind epe nde nt of these para-meters.

SUMMARY OF FINDINGSYearFor al l years in the database, 1989 resulted in the mostUFO reports.Month Distan t s igh t ings were more predom ina te b e tweenJu ly and October than any other t ime of the year, th epeak month being October . CEs (c lose encoun ter s) have occurred wi th a lmo stequal regular ity by m onth th rougho ut the year .Day Wi t h the exception of AN ( a n o m a l y ) types of sight-ings, Wednesday has been responsible for the highestrate of sightings du rin g the wee k, regardless of the timeof year . Tuesday and Thursday h ave shared the honor ofth e second-highest rate. AN t ypes of sighting s have occurred w ith greatestfrequency on Friday.Time of the Day Times for sightings have been specific to local - notglobal - measures. They have been associated with timestha t poten t ia l wi tnesses a re bes t ava i lable , which i sprobably not just the times that observable anomalies oc-cur. The peak t imes for sightings has been 1800 - 2400hours (6:00 - 12:00 p.m.), regardless of the mo nth , day,or type of sighting. T he peak rate of sightings has oc-curred during 2100 hours (9:00 - 9:59 p.m.).Duration Over 65 percent of the sightings have lasted less t h an10 minutes . The AN and FB types have a higher percentage ofsightings last ing less th an one mi nu t e , compared to CEan d M A ty pes (38 versus 19 percent , ave rage). Sight ing dura tions have been independen t o f .mo nth ,day, and t ime.Significance of Meteor ShowersMeteor showers have not contr ibuted significantly to thedatabase (10 percent or less).PREVIEW OF SECTION 3Locations of sightings, shifts over the years, coordi-na tes represen ting the max imum n umb ers o f s igh t ings ,an d related issues ar e discussed. Are AN types of sight-ings different from the others? Are CEs more concen-trated b y locat ion than other types? Sect ion 3 wil l helpresolve these and other quest ions.

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"BOMBS" OVER BRAZILO n J u n e 3 0 , 190 8, so m e t h i n g exp l o d ed ab o ve th eSiberian taiga north of Lake Baika l , near the Tungus ka(S tony ) Rive r , devastat ing some 2000 square kilometersof hea vy forest in a single gigantic f lash. Theories as toth e or ig in of the so-cal led Tunguska Event have gener-ated nu m ero us ar t icles and several books . They rangefrom a large asteroid or comet, to a nuclear- fueled space-s h i p o f ext ra ter res t r ia l o r ig in .Now i t appears someth ing s imi la r may h ave t ran-spired in the eq ually sparsely populated Brazil ian junglein 1930, according to a recent article in the Engl ish sci-ence we e k ly . N e w S c i e n t is t ( N o v e m b e r I I , 1995, p.12) . T he Brazi l ian event was reported in some n ewspa -pers at the t ime , and w as even invest igated by a Catholicmissionary. Father Fidele d 'Alviano, w ho wrote a reportfo r L'Osserva tore Romano, the papal newspaper . Butd 'A lvia no's account had largely disappeared from view.It was first cited in a 1931 paper by Leonid K u l i k of theSoviet Academy of Sciences, who i n i t i a l l y inves t iga tedthe T unguska explosion, and then again in a 1989 articlein The Journ al of the Internat ion al Me teor Organ izat ionby scient ists Nikola i Vasi lyev and Gen n ad i j An d r eev ,re fe rencing K ul i k ' s or ig ina l c i ta t ion .B r i t i s h a s t r o n o m er M ar k Ba i l ey , o f t h e Ar m ag hObservatory, backtracked the reference to d ' A l v i an o ' soriginal article, aided by two local schoolboys, DamianMarkham and James Scriven. Based on interviews witheyew itnesses, d'A lviano describes the even t and its con-s e q u e n c e s it happened at e i g h t in the mo r n i n g ,August 13, 1930 in graphic style, bu t omits many ke ydetails that would aid astronomers in ascertaining origin.

Hope is s t i l l held, though, as d 'Alviano kept vo lum inousdiar i es , wh i ch the Vatican sti l l possesses, and whichBai ley w a n t s to review.Shor t ly before the explos ion a long it s border withPeru in n o r t h wes t e r n Br az i l, s ays d ' A l v i an o , the suntu rned red and then the sky went to ta l ly dark, fol lowedby a rain of wh i t e ash and an ear-piercing whis t le . Thenthree f irebal ls streaked across the sky and exploded ,t he i r ru mb l in g s heard hundreds of ki lometers a round .Months later, some of the affected forest w as s t i l l smol-dering.Bailey notes that three house-sized objects were prob-ably i n v o l v e d , r e s u l t i n g in a combined one-megatonexplos ion, or about a t en th of the est imated energy re-leased in the Tunguska Ev ent . Whatever t h e i r cause th e Brazil ian bombs occurred at the height of the annualPerseids meteor shower such large scale invadersmay be far more common than we previously suspected,says Bai l ey , w h e n c o u p l e d i n t i me w i t h th e ear l i erTungus ka explos ion , perhaps t en t imes as common."The Earth may be subjected to three or four [suche ve n t s ] a century," he warns.As far as the tw en t i e t h cen tury is concerned, then,that 's two down and perhaps two to go, which could cer-t a in ly make fo r some M il l en n iu m- en d in g or beginningf i reworks. I t seems paten t ly u n l i ke l y an yo n e is a imingthese th ings , but here's hoping , if they are, tha t theycon t inue to target h i gh l y unpopula ted areas as in thepast . Otherwise, we' l l all read about it except thosedirectly impac ted . Dennis StacyTO O GOOD TO BE TRUEFor almost eight years the UFO sightings in the GulfBreeze/Pensacola area have remained u n s o l v e d .Depending on your point of view, there ar e only two an-swers:

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MUFON UFOJOURNAL1) T he UFOs are real and as yet still unident i f i ed , or2) th e UFOs are not real; they are s imply mis ident i -f ied.M a n y scores of wi tnesses have come forward to te llof seeing a wingless, soundless, f lying object performaerial feats apparently impossible for conventional ai r-craft. Even so, ei ther of the above answers can e xp la i n

these single witness and multi -wi tness UFO sightings.Scores of photographs and video tapes have beentaken du rin g local UFO sightings. If the photographs andvideo tapes show a di s tant g lowing l ight , or the pho-tographs show no st ructura l deta i l , again, either of theabove answers s ti l l applies .But . . . w h a t if the pho tographs an d video tapesshow an "oops, there it is," "knock your socks off,"f lying, wingless , soundless ob ject in b road day l i gh t?T he debate wi l l con t inue despi te any a mo unt of def ini -t ive proof .The reason for this is a psych olo gical one (k ind of aknee- je rk , human nature k ind of t h ing) : The more ab-solute the evidence , the more i t cannot be rea l , andsince it can't be real . . . answ er # 2 app lies . . . i t m ust be ahoax . Why? Because , if UFOs were real, our govern-m e n t off icials would tell us every th ing they know aboutUFOs, w o u l d n ' t t h ey ? Therefore UFOs c a n ' t b e real,right?So here is the dilemm a. W hat is it so man y people aresee ing? What i s i t they are photographing and v ideot ap in g ? The photographs I took e ight years ago andsome more recently, show "something" tha t looks l ikew h a t "can't be." I wrote tw o books about wh at so m a n yof us have seen or tho ught we saw.

So, what is it? W h a t was that spherical, silver objectthat shows so clearly in the picture I took on January 12,1994. Y ou know, that unbe l i evable p ic ture t ha t s howswhat "couldn't" be an F-15 je t fighter rac ing past in frontof w h a t "couldn't" be a UFO. The Air Force said the jetf igh ter was a N a v y F-14, and the n o n - U F O was "abunch of weather balloons tied together."A h , n o w w e a re ge t t ing somewhere . . . "a b u n c h o fweather balloons." Great! At least i t 's an answer (eventhough it doesn't even come close to looking l ike "ab u n ch of weather bal loons") ins tead of the usual "nocomment."Seriously, my po int is this . There seems to be a nor-mal reaction whenever clear, factual U F O evidence ispresented. W hich is , if the UFO eviden ce is too good, itcan ' t be real.N ot so long ago, on July 21,1witnessed several "fly-bys" an d captured them on video. The UFO can be seenc l ea r l y ente r ing th e f ie ld o f view, cross ing ha l f w a y( cam e ra was on ful l z o o m ) an d re ve r s i ng d i r e c t i on .B e low the UFO can be seen th e Gulf Breeze shoreline,th e Santa Rosa sound, and the 40-foot tall trees t ha tcover Shoreline Park. T h e UFO brief ly cast it s shadowon the trees tha t l i ne the beach. Wh at does tha t mean?T h e UFO i s real; and the shadow proves it .

UFO wi tnesses , UFO photos, UFO videos, shadowevidence , e tc . etc.... S o wh a t do you t h i n k ? Is i t all toogood and too m u c h to be t rue, or a r e we w i tne s s i ng ahi s to r i c e v e n t ?Jo in me in c o n s i d e r i n g the poss ib i l i t i e s . Based onth e w o r l d w i d e d is t r ibut ion of The GulfBree-e Sightingsand U F O Abductions in Gulf Breeze, t hous an ds o f UF Owitnesses con t i nue to send m e the i r s ight ing reports,t h e i r U F O p h o t o g r a p h s an d v i de os . T h e e v i d e n c e iso v e r w h e l m i n g but it is not too good to be true. It isto o good to be ignored . (R e p r i n t e d from the PensacolaB e ach , FL Islander.)

Ed Walters

Saucers and the Surrealby Paul Rydeen

T h e c o m p a r a t i v e r e l i g io n / c o m p a r a t i v e m y t h o l o g ya p p r o a c h t o u f o l o g y i s o n e I ' v e f o u n d i n s i g h t f u l .R e c e n t l y I ' v e found ano the r s ou rce o f p e r t i n e n t im -agery: the art of the Surrealist M o ve m e n t . Som e may ar-gue t h a t al l UFO i nc iden t s ar e surreal , but I see m orespecific paral lels as we l l .M ax Erns t is a good e x a m p l e . He assembled three"novels" cons i s t i ng e n t i r e ly o f collages made f romwoodcu t e ngrav i ngs i n popu la r w orks o f f i c t i on JANUARY 1996 NUMBER 333 PAGE 13


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S^&^^KliIllusiraiions hy Men Ernti"dime nove ls" of roman ce and adven ture f rom the t u rnof the ce n tu ry . Lafemme 100 tetes (1929) was the first.It is a v a i l a b l e in the US from George Braz i l l e r ( N e wYork, 1 9 8 1 ) u n d e r th e mis t rans la ted t i t l e T he HundredHeadless Woman. Pages 167, 171. and 18 1 show largef l y ing d i s k s in the air. Page 241 s hows a huge globeborne aloft on a suspended tapes t ry be tween two t rop i -cal trees. Pages 163 and 169 show crashed spheres beinge xcava te d . Page 17 9 s hows two g i an t Catherine w h e e l sriding "the bit ter waves." Th e caption s variously refer tothe hund re d - h e ade d wom an who chas es m e n dow n onthese globes or d i s k s for her own m ys te r i ous e nds . If Iread th e "novel" correctly, th e hundre d - he ade d wom anis the spi r i t o f Sur re a l i s m he r s e l f , whom Erns t pu t sforth as the hera ld of a new modern age.Ernst 's A Litt le Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil (1930) ,also p u b l i s h e d by B raz i l l e r (1982 ) , s hows on page 91 as l e e p i ng wom an appa re n t ly abduc te d by th r e e ve rya l ien- look ing ind iv idua ls , one of w h o m h o l d s a g l o w i n gglobe above her head as the o the r s lay her in a coff in .U ne Semaine D e Bonte (A Week of Kindness , or igina l1934, pu bl ish ed in the US by Do ver, 1976), is alsoworth se eking out .M.C. Escher was not an actual member of the move-men t , but his recurr ing themes are defini te ly in the spiri tof Surrealism. "His Dream" ( 19 35 ) s hows a s leepingbishop upon whose ches t a giant mant i s s i t s .Whi t l eyStrieber mentions such a m an t i s w h i l e r e cou n t i ng h isv a r i o u s a b d u c t i o n e x p e r i e n c e s i n t he be s t - s e l l i ng

Communion. Studies fo r Escher's engraving show th ebishop w as modeled af ter a mummified body resting ina catacombs.Insects are qui te common in surrealist works . Whi lenot wishing to stretch my point too far, I find the ants of-ten shown by Salvador Dal i remini scent of the "hivemind" recent ly a t t r ibuted to our alien abductors . They

may represent industry, but they also speak of decay an ddeath . Erns t ' s three novels also abound wi th insect ac-tivity.There ar e m an y other images associated w ith variouscontactees. Certainly few are the sole property of ufol-ogy, but their placement seems to call to mind the me t h -ods of Sur re a l i sm . Incongruous com b i na t i on of seem-ingly disparate elements is one of the strongest. Randomassemblages based on intuition rather than reason are an-other. T he or igina l Surreal i s ts exper imented with auto-matic wri ting, hypnotism, and dreams in order to bypassth e conscious day-world and reach th e secret Other .Sound famil iar?In short, wh at I propose i s an exam inat ion of o therpossible sources of imagery which may shed light on theU FO e n i gm a . We may no t ans we r th e ques t ions How?or Why?, but we may gain a better understanding of whywe react the way we do. That alone is worth the effort.

By T . Dav i d Spe ncerMU FON Deputy Di rector , Inve s t igat ions

LOG #951111C, CE-1, 09/15/95. Investigator: Amaraand Kyle KubiakA t 0430 hours , Ken an d Jane t (p s e udonym s ) we repreparing to go to bed. K en looked out the w i n d o w andsaw a distant light low in the sky and thought it might beone of the m an y he l i cop te rs he had seen f lying overth e area that even ing. Instead of f lash ing lights , Ken no-ticed four unw ave r ing, wh i te l ights one on each s ideand two in the middle , which convinced him it m u s t b esomething o ther than a helicopter. "Oh, m y gosh, i t 's aUFO!" he e xc la i m e d to Jane t , t he n ran out the doorwi t h her to get a better view.On the porch, they watched as the object si lent ly de-scended toward them, coming into plain v i e w be g i nn i ngabout one-h alf mile away. The object reached 600 feet orso dis tance in about 10 seconds. "It was right in front ofus, f loating." Janet explained.Suddenly , "it got really bright where w e were s tand-ing," and the object appeared directly over them. Janetsa w a smooth, metallic-surfaced disc, looking like tw oplates, wi th one inverted over th e other and the four

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MUFON UFO JOURNALwhi te l ights in the gap between them. I t was hovering30-50 feet above their house. Blue and red lights out-l ined th e edges of the "plates," the blue above and thered below and to the sides of the fo ur wh ite l ights.Very shortly, there was a fa int booming sound fo l-lowed by a roar like a jet engine, and the object streakedof f upward and westw ard into th e distance, out of sight.L O G # 950924cC, MA-1 , 07/30/94. Investigator: EdSurma

No bl e ( pseu d o n ym) had the first of two sightingsnear dusk on July 30, 1994, wh i le he was looking overhis corn field located northwest of a small tow n in northcentral Texas. He t h o u g h t he saw a plane approachingfrom a distance, with flashing whi t e l igh t s at both endsof a str ing that also contained red and green l ights.Then, th e lights stopped m ovin g, dropped to half their al -t i tude , and ascended back to their previous level . Theyturned 90 degrees and moved in a zig-zagging, erraticm a n n e r wes t wa r d unti l they were out of sight .N o object w as seen, but the m o v e m e n t s of the lightswere as if at tached. The al t i tud e was est imated to beclose to 1,000 feet , and the span of the l igh ts wast hough t to be "about the same size as a small plan e at amile away." (T he Field Investigator estimated distance tobe about 4,000 feet, based onNoble's estimate of heightan d elevat ion angle.) Speed w as est imated to be 200m.p.h . or less.LOG #950924dC, MA-1 , 08/01/94. Investigator: EdSurma

On August 1, 1994, at dusk, Noble again saw thelights. As h e w as driving west on a rural road, he lookedto his right (nor thward) and saw the same configurat ionhe had seen tw o days earlier, white-green-red-red-green-white, m ov ing southward. This t ime, how ever, th e lightswere rapidly pulsing, and a second set of l ights fol-lowed them . The second set was gaining on the first, butveered away when they were close to each other. Noblethen lost sight, due to driving.Later , No ble returned to the corn field with his father,an d the l ights returned, com ing toward them . The wh itel ights ext inguishe d and the o thers f l ickered . The as-sembly of l igh t s then m oved to the sou thwest wi th outtu rn ing (still facing the two m en ), accelerated to a highspeed, and disappeared in th e dis tance .

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PSYCHICS - Continued from Page 6Then finally he blurted out "what was on the m inds ofnearly everyone in the room: ". . . yo u ' r e not going totell m e it's a f lying saucer.""Yes," said th e viewer , "that's it exactly."

B lum reports that with in s ix mo nths of th i s dem on-s t r a t i o n , t h e DIA a n d t h e O f f i c e o f N a v a lTechn ology launc he d a classif ied operat ion th at em -ployed several "viewers" to scan th e globe fo r Russiansubs and that over the n ext 14 m onths at least seve nteenhover ing uniden t i f iable objec ts were reported by thepsychics.It wo uld seem th at this project supp orts the com-m o n l y held view among ufologists that UFOs are par-ticularly interested in nuclear installations and tha t mi l -itary personnel have observed and reported such craft onnum e rous occasions hove ring around missi le si los andother highly sensitive areas. Indeed, the famous Roswellincident occurred near the only nuclear bom b storage fa -cility at the t ime, Roswell Army Air Field.Blum's story does not end there, however . I t seemsthat one person present at the demonstrat ion, a ColonelHarold E. Phi l l ips of the DI A, had seen a UFO fortyyears previously and had a part icular interest in fol-lowing up on what he sawthat day. He decided to seekth e assistance of the remote viewers on another case hekn ew about .It seems that at NO R AD headquarters, buried deepwith in Cheyenne Mounta in in Colorado, radar used tom oni to r space debris had recent ly picked up an unu sualu n k n o w n object travelling at a high rate of speed andchanging course, something that spacejunk doesn ' t do .T he incident had caused great alarm at the t ime, butth e object ev entu al ly disappeared from the screens asmyster iously as it had appeared.Col . Phil l ips decided to ask the viewers to con duct anew experiment . T he precise l a t i tude and longitude ofthe object 's original location was given the viewers andthey were instructed to scan fo r an y t h i n g unusua l atthat location wi th in the past 48 h ours and to draw wha tthey saw. Each v iew er was placed in a separate isolationchamber before being given the instruct ions.A t the end of the day the three sketches were faxed toth e colonel's office at the Pentagon. Blum reports, "Theywere all crude, largely geometric pencil draw ings. Eachwas obviously th e work of a different artist, but all werequi te similar. T hey were all roun ded , wingless aircraft."With this evidence, "the D IA w as persuaded th e timehad come to co n ven e a top-secret working group to in-vestigate the possibility that extraterrestrialswere mak-ing contact with this p l a n e t . . ."



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BREAKTHROUGH: THE NEXT STEPby Whi t l ey S tr ieberHarperCollins, 1995, hb, 297 pp . , $23

Reviewed by Sean Casteel

Wen W hi t ley S tr i eber first hit the top of the NewYork Times bestseller list in 1987 with the first inhis series of f i rs t-person alien abduc t i on accoun t s , th enow legendary Communion , much of w h a t he had to sayblazed n ew trails o f unde r s t a nd i ng about th e abduc t i onexperience and popularized th e subject with m i l l i o n sof readers who had never before taken UFO s tor ies se -r iously at al l . When he f o l lowe d tha t up wi th the re-spec tab ly successful sequel. Transformation, the re wasagain a huge audience wai ting and eager to dive intoStrieber's fur ther adventures wi th th e al ien ent i t ies h ehas most often referred to as "the Visitors."But Strieber sort of "checked out" for a while shor t lyafterwards. He said recently that he realized he waspart of the process of br ing ing t he ab duc t i on e ncoun te rexperience closer to mil l ions of people, and t ha t heworr ied cons tant ly whe ther he was helping those peopletoward some sort of al ien-centered e n l i gh te nm e n t orinstead playing th e role of a Pied Piper leading th e chil-dren to something both te rri fying and evi l . Af te r hiscrisis of conscience w as over, he wrote Breakthrough:The Next Step ma inly for other people who have had theexperience and wi th w h o m he could share his own in -sights and methods of coping.

There are those cynics who say tha t Str i eber reallywrote Breakthrough because he f ound his own horrorfiction did n ' t se l l near ly as wel l as his abduct ion bookshad. Released last May. the new book has yet to crackth e bestseller l i s t , an d Strieber is already at work on afourth book called The Secret School whi ch w i l l te llth e story of m any of his chi ldhood encounte rs , th e m e m -ories of which have recen tly started to com e bac k to himin a virtual f lood.Breakthrough isdivided into three sections, each ofwhich takes up a different aspect of the p h e n o m e n o n as

experienced by Strieber, his family, and a few of hisfr iends. For i ns tance , in the first section of the bookcalled "The Communication," he invi tes a few friendsan d a film crew to spend th e weekend at his cabin in thehope t ha t "the Visitors" wil l show up and reveal them -selves. The al iens do arrive, and the co nfusion tha t fo l -lows is reported wi th th e same painful honesty thatcharacterized the first two books .S tr i eber is also shown how h is own life ove r l ap swi th close friends and how his relationships are inter-twined toward specific purposes that "the Visitors" seem

From the mega-bestselling author of C o m m u n i o n

i t l e v S t r ito oversee wi th a firm and guidin g hand. T he chapterswhere the aliens make their presence felt not only toWhit ley but also to one of his old f riends, a womann amed Dora Ruffner , i m p ly an under ly ing f rameworkfo r th e guiding of the personal relationships of abducteesthat somehow serves both experiencers and the aliens si-mul taneous ly .T he middle sect ion, ca lled "Beyond Com munion,"cons i s ts o f f u r t h e r de ta i l s o f Strieber's experiencesmatched agains t his own ph i lo s oph i ca lan d psycholog-ical musing an d ponder ing. T he death of Michael Talbot,the author of T he Holographic Universe and a closefriend of Strieber's, is an emotional ly d evas ta t ing ex -perience fo r Strieber, but it is also an opportuni ty fo r fur-ther speculation on the b l e nd i ng of the New Phys icswith th e al ien abd uct ion events cons tant ly happening toStrieber and the people around him.

The third and c on clu din g section, called "The OfficialStory," is a thoughtful sum ma ry of current cover-upan d conspiracy th eories as well as Strieber's take on var-ious governmental games des igned to keep UFO be -l ievers confused and of f -ba lance , parano i d and suspi-cious. While this sort of th ing has neve r been Strieber'sreal area of expertise, he does very well at reporting onPAGE 16 NUMBER 333 JANUARY 1996


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MUFON UFO JOURNALthe si tuat ion and giving readers new to this subject agood overview of the gap between th e public denials a n d .the private classif icat ion of relevant information by agovernment determined to keep the l id on the subjecttha t has so captured us all .I 'm r emi n d ed of the joke s i n g e r - so n g wr i t e r J o n iMitche l l made to an audience as she laughingly apolo-gized for not wri t in g songs the same way she used to.S he said, "It's like saying to Van Gogh, 'Hey, Vincen t ,paint "A Starry Night" again, man!'" I suppose that isthe same demand we make if we expect Whitley Strieberto give us another Communion or Transformation. We'reasking the impossible of a writer who's already given som uch to the f ield of UFO research merely by l ivin gand wri t ing his own story with an hones ty and an un-f l inchingly thorough se l f -exam ina t ion tha t br ings th ereality of "the Visitors" closer to us with every turn ofth e page. T he courage to reveal th e deeply personal ,subjective elements of the experience to a world al-w a y s on the verge of laughter at the tales abductees tell(w h ich they often d o w i t h a n ea rl y co m pu l s i ve h o n -esty) lays th e groundwork for a deeper understanding ofalien abd uct ion ou ts ide the f ramew ork of "nu ts andbolts" or "typical" a bd uction scenarios. S im ply becausean experience hap pen s to jus t one person does n ot me anthat it cannot be considered relevant to the field overall.W e are not merely a medica l or psychological speci-men of "the Visitors," Strieber tells us, but are thinking,feeling enti t ies enter ing into what may prove a longand productive relat ionship with them. A nd forging thatrelationship, as slow and painfu l as that process oftenseems, may e ven tual ly be the salva t ion of the w orld.Sean Casteel, a frequent contributor to these pages,is a freelance writer with an interest in UFOs. Helives in Ventura, California.

Expedientes Insolitos: El fenomenoOVNI y los Archives de Defensab yVicente-Juan Ballester OlmosRe vi e we d by Richard F. Haines

H aving kn o wn Vicente-Juan for many y ears I con-t inue to mar ve l at his long-s tanding persona ldedication to high quali ty U FO research and hisprolific writ ing for the benefit of others. He has pro-duced four majo r and excel l en t ly w r i tt en books aboutUFOs and . unfor tuna te ly for Eng lish speaking people,al l are in Spanish so far . N evertheless, his research isfirst rate and his select ion of topics is both interestingand valuable . This is no less true for his latest bookw h o s e t i t l e in E n g l i s h is "Wei r d F i l e s : T h e U F OPh en o men o n and the Defense Archives . " Publ ished bythe large and prestigious firm of Temas 'de hoy (Madrid)

in April 1995, this 300-page book presents many dia-grams, p hotos, an d actual facsimiles of Sp anish militarydocuments obta ined by the author over th e years.T he book's prologue is by noted Spanish journal istJavier Sierra and its epilogue is by Jacques Vallee, awri ter and studen t of the phen om ena w ho needs n o in-troduction.T he first two chapters inc lude a collect ion of twe lveU FO reports of high strangeness from Spain obtainedover th e past te n years, fol lowe d by several cases aboutobjec ts and o ther phenomen a w hich were subseque nt lyidentified. T he object ive? T o show tha t most UFO ob -servat ions are mi s i d en t i f i c a t i o n s of natural , i .e . , ex-plainable events. The third chapter turns to the importantsubject of the kinds of research methods one needs in or-der to study UFO pheno me na. In order to stay as close tothe evidence as possible, th e author wisely focuses onhis own research f indings over the past thir ty years l and i ngs an d t race s ta t i s t i cs , human tes t imony, evencases involving death ("probably caused by UFO radia-

tion"), etc. are covered.The longes t ( four th) chapter (83 pages long) is titled"The A ir Force Revea ls its Secrets." It presen ts, for thefirst t ime, declassif ied abstracts of this v alua ble mater-ial. Ballester Olmos begins this seminal chapter w i t hhow he succeeded, almost single handedly, in get t ingformerly closed m ilitary files declassified and released.M a n y Am erican, Bri t ish. French, German and other in-vest igators would do well to read how he did i t . Hemoves forward to outline some statistics on the forty fiveAir Force caseshe received (e.g., the frequency of UFOreport occurrence continues at a rate of about zero tothree cases per year except for 1968 which had 21) .The remainder o f th is chapter presen t s extended ab-stracts of 37 selected reports of sighting s ma de by AirForce personnel and others; they should be translatedinto E n g l i sh for the benef i t of American researchers.The last two chapters focus on the effor ts and ac-compl i shments of num ero us so-called "first" and "sec-ond" generat ion UFO researchers in Spain (chapter 5),and a we l l kn own A mer i can U FO invest igator (chap ter6), not o nly to recogn ize their effor ts but to en courageyounger enthusiasts to follow in their footsteps. BallesterO l mo s states in this regard, ". . . if science does notcover this subject (prov ing that this enigma i s amenableo f scient if ic study), it will be a f ie ld en t i re ly left tocharlatans."Expedientes Insolitos is a valuable addit ion to thecollections of serious UFO investigators of any country.Those of us in the United States ca n only hope for anEngli sh language edi t ion in the near future.V i c e n t e - J u a n B a l l es t er O l mo s is MUFON'sRepresentative for Spain and a contributor to MU-FON's fourth edition of the Field Investigator'sManual.



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A s usual, our bookshelf sags under the weight ofunreviewed books. One of the best of these comesfrom Europe and represents the painstaking investigationand a naly sis of a classic photographic case. The title ofthis singular work, conducted by the Belgium-basedCa e l e s t i a Pro j ec t , is Unidentified Aerial ObjectPhotographed near Zwischbergen, Switzerland, on July26 , 1975: A Case Analysis. This isn 't exactly th e sort ofsensationalistic title or come-on guaranteed to ensurehigh sales, but it is indicative of the industry an d seri-ousness with which the Caelestia Project and authorsW im va n Utrecht an d Frits van der Veldt undertoo ktheir study.The case, also popularl y referred to as the "Saas Fe ephoto," after th e nearby well-known sk i resort of thesame name, has been highly regarded within ufologicalcircles. The late Dr. J. Allen Hyn ek once referred to it asone of the best UFO pictures ever taken, an d it's beenfeatured on the cover of several books an d videos. (Asharp, professional color print made from the originalslide is included with the book.) But is it a photograph ofwhat Bruce Maccabee refers to as a TRUFO a trueUFO?I won't give away th e authors' conclusions here, butwill sa y that any one seriously interested in learning th eart, as well as the science, of UFO investigation should

consider this the classic textbook example of how toconduct one, from interviewing th e original witnessesand after-the-fact photoanalysis, to the meticulous ac-cumulation of meteorological and other data over-turning every stone an d fol lowing every clue whereverit leads in the process and the final compilation of aclear, readable, comprehensive report.The amoun t of work that went into this project ismonumen ta l and shows on almost every one of thebook's 240 pages, which include more than 80 pho-tographs, draw ings and maps. G iven the resources, thisis how we wo uld like to see every U FO case investi-gated if only we could.The format is that of a quality paperback, w ith slickcovers an d high -q ualit y intern al pages, nicely illustratedas already said . And did I men t i on tha t i t 's all inE n g l i s h ? T he price ( $27 .00 US) is a bit high forAmeri can readers, but the in format ion and lessonstherein verge on th e invalu able .To order, or for add itional inform ation regarding theC a e l e s t i a P r o j e c t , w r i t e W i m v a n U t r e c h t ,Kronenburgstraat 110, B-2000 Antwerpen , Belgium.

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MUFON UFO JOURNALhardbound book isn' t an equa l labor of love, only thati t ' s sometimes hard to figure out what author DougRu by intend s to say vs . wha t he does say, and what, ifany, probative value th e whole has . As best as this re -viewer can determine, Ruby ( the dustjacket describeshi m as a former Air Force and commercial airlin e pilot)once read a handful of books about crop circles and,wi thout so muc h as ever visiting a single site in person,nonetheless had a personal epiphany about their ultimatem e a n i n g one day in the l i v ing room of h is CapeCan averal, Florida, apartme nt, resul ting in the presentvo l u me . I suppose more has been made of less, butrarely so picturesquely as here. For one th ing, Rubynever so much as even remotely entertains the notionthat some of the circle formations he employs to such ef-fect may hav e been the hand iwork of "simple" homosapiens, i.e., hoaxes, as opposed to enigmatic ex trater-restrials.If I read the author correctly, Ru b y apparently be-lieves that crop circles are a two-dimensional represen-tation of a three-dimensional reali ty, an d tha t th e latterreveals the true nature of UFOs and their propulsion sys-tems. As I say, it 's all very vague, but worked out sowonderfully that on e almost w ishes Ruby w ill eventuallybe proved righ t. But the scientist in me says the chancesof such v indication are s l im.Wha t R uby does is take diagrams of various cropcircles and "insectograms" and turn them on edge, o r atr ight angles to reali ty. Thus the lateral pathway of acomplex pictogram becomes a vertical spindle to whichthe various elements ar e attached at 90 degree angles.The whole is then modeled in wood, painted, attached toan electrical motor, spun at high speed and photographedin black and white and glorious l iv ing color. In fact,hardly a page of The Gift passes without some sort ofgraphic diagram or photograph. A s said, th e result is awondrous work ( the cost of the entire enterprise musthave been con siderable), and one a reviewer feels some-what churlish about fo r criticizing at all . But could suchlove 's labor lost be w ho lly with out scientific merit?Alas, I 'm afraid so. But that wo uld n' t necessarily pre-vent me from plunking dow n $32.95, postage included,fo r what amounts to a uniquely subjective point of view.Another l ike it you wo n' t encounte r soon.Mail orders to Bl ue Note Books, 110 Polk Avenue,Suite 3, Cape Canaveral , FL 32920, or call 1-800-624-0401.

Th e Gods Have Landed: N ew Religions from OtherWorlds, edited by James R. Lewis, is another one ofthose books that engenders am bivalency . On the on ehand it 's an academic collection of essays that treats asubset of the UFO phenomenon (contactees and cults)with seriousness (something we al l welcome); on theother, it 's evidenc e that some ma instream psychologistsand sociologists either haven't read th e available litera-ture, or, whe n they hav e, still can 't quite seem to get the

most basic and fundam ental facts s traight (which we alldeplore).In short, there are some very good chapters, or essays,here, and some very bad ones in the bargain, wh ich , con-sidering the high academic price tag ($57.50), isn't tha tmuch of a bargain. You may w ant your l ibrary to ordera copy before you do, in other words, or opt for themuch more affordable paperback edit ion ($19.95, IS BN0-7914-2330-1). One of the book's decided p luses isChapte r 10, "The F ly ing Saucer Contactee Mo vemen t ,1950-1994: A Bibliography," consis t ing of more than at hous and b ib l i ograph ica l r e f e re nce s com pi l e d by J .Gordon Melton an d George M . Eberhar t .A m o n g th e better essays: Melton's "The Contactees:A Survey," "Waiting for the Ships: Dis i l lus ionment an dth e Revitalization of Faith in B o and Peeps UFO Cul t"b y Robert W . B a l c h , a n d " S p i r i t u a l i s m a n d U F OR e l ig io n i n N e w Z e a l a n d : T h e I n t e r n a t i o n a lTrans mis s ion o f Mode rn Sp i r i t u a l M o v e m e n t s " b yRober t S . El lwood , wh ich de a l s w i t h , among o the rthings, Adamski's 1959 tour of New Zealand . The GodsHave Landed (343 pages, illustrated) is availab le fromState University of New York Press, c/o CUP Services,PO Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14851, Fax: (800) 688-2877.

Th e Strange But True? Casebook by Jenny R andies isbased on the British TV series of the same name pre-|ANUARY 1996 NUMBER 333 PAGE 19


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M U F O N U F O J O U R N A Lsumably somewhat similar to "Unsolved Mysteries" fo r which Randies serves as s to ry consu l tan t . Th is is aprofusely illustrated, trade-sized paperback of 191 pages,Part Six of wh i ch is devoted to UFOs. Cases of healings,ghosts, poltergeists, an d near-death experiences are alsocovered. In general , th e co n t en t s appear to be a cutabove the usual sort of thing of this st ripe. Th e En glishprice is 10.99 Pounds , or approximate ly $22.00 US.The publ i sher i s Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Limited. 5Windmi l l St ree t , London W1P 1HF, England . Fax:0171-436-7137.Without Consent, by Carl N agait is and Ph il ip M antle,is subti t led "A Co mprehensive S urvey of M issing-Timean d Abd u c t i o n Ph en o m en a i n t h e UK. " T h e w r i t i n gstyle is somewhat breathless, but the concentration onUni ted Ki n g d o m abd u c t io n cases provides much newmaterial for the American reader. This 204-page hard-back, i l lustrated and with appendices , is pu b l i sh ed byRingpul l Press. Unfor tuna te ly , I don ' t ha ve a price forthis one. Interested parties s hou ld con tact K irsty Watt at011-44-0625-850037.Encyclopedia of the Unexplained, by J e n n y R a n d i e sand Peter Hough, is a wel l i l lustrated col lect ion of theodd and unusual, profusely i l lustra ted and r u n n i n g to240 pages. B arnes and Nob le is the pub lish er of theAm er ican ed i t ion , wh ich you can pr o bab l y f ind on salein t h i s co u n t r y f o r u n d e r $10.00. M an y o f th e ph o -tographs wil l be unfamiliar. There is much UFO and re-lated material here, including sect ions on Men in Black,Ball Li g h t n i n g , an d A n i ma l M ut i l a t i ons .L av i sh ly i l lustrat ed boo ks seem to be the t rend, andU FO s and How to See Them by Jen ny Randies is no ex-cept ion .The dus t jacket says there are more than a h u n -dred pho tographs here in , "many in color and p u b l i s h e dhere for the first t ime." This book w as first pu b l i sh ed inEngland in 1992, but is well worth t racking dow n. FromA n a y a Pub lishe rs Ltd. , Strode House, 44-50 OsnaburghStreet , London N W 1 3ND, E n g l an d . Alas, the Engl i shprice of 14.99 P ounds t ran slates into abo ut $30.00 U S .

Letters to Mufon UFO JournalROSWELL'S FLYING WINGK e v i n Randle 's response to Stan Friedman's l ist of 38" f a l s e c l a i m s m a d e b y K e v i n R a n d l e a n d / o r D o nSchmitt" ("Search fo r Truth About Roswel l , " Journal ,October 1995), includes yet another repet i t ion of thefalse claim I "told people Roswell was explained as af ly ing wing" (c la im 27) . This i s a base canard (no punintended), and Ran d l e kn o ws i t and has k n o w n i t forover twoyears.O n May 18, 1993, during a conversat ion on the sitewhere rancher Mac Brazel discovered the debris tha t

launched a thou sand speculat ions and several books, i twas suggested to me Roswell may have involved thecrash of a Northrop f ly ing w i n g . A f lying wi n g buffsince chi ldhood, I was high ly skeptical, but my sourcewas someone whose suggestions on e takes seriously, an dj u s t t h e d ay before , a l leged R oswe l l wi tne ss Fran kKau fman n had told me the crashed craft was winglike.So I did some checking. About tw o hours of researchestablished w i th o u t a doubt that as an explanat ion forRosw ell , the f lying wing does not f ly. In a telephoneconversation on June 12, 1993, I discussed the f lyingw i n g not ion and my doubts about i t wi th CUFOS'sM ark Rodeghier in mu ch the same terms outlined above.I fol lowed up with a let ter to Rodeghier on June 28,1993, summing up my negative findings. O n July 12,

1993,1provided these findings to Randle and Schmi t tfo r use as a supporting discursive footnote or sidebar toan art icle they were preparing fo r the'InternationalU F O Reporter, d e b u n k i n g th e f lying wing explana t ion .(They did not use the material , so in sl ight ly differentform it became a letter to the editor in IUR, Sept/Oct1993.) In late July, I discussed m y negat ive views andwhy I had bothered to pursue th e mat ter at all wi th D onSchm i t t in person.Randle c i t es as co n f i r ma t i o n of his false claim anewsle t t er a r t i c le by Ter ry Endres and the l a te Pa tPackard. In this art icle, Endres and P ackard t ransm utemy comments to Mark Rodeghier from those of an in-vest igator intent upon pursuing a plausible if doubtfullead to an unequivoca l endorsement of a crashed f lyingwing explanat ion for Roswell . They also report Roswellphotographer Jack Rodden incorrect ly identif ied ashav ing "firsthand knowledge of the Roswell debris"claims I told him I t ho ugh t a crashed f lying w in g couldwell be the answer to Ro swe ll. This claim is particularlycurious, since my breakfast (not, as reported by Endresan d Packard, lunch) meet ing with Rodden took place onMay 15 , 1993, three days before th e f lying wing ideaw as suggested to me. The Roswell saga has m a n y pe-culiar elements, but to my knowledge, this is the first in -stance of precognit ionT h e bo t t o m l i n e : Ran d l e kn o ws I never have e n -dorsed a f l y ing wing explana t ion for Roswel l . So w hydoes he con tinue to repeat this falsehood? K arl T. PflockPlacitas, N M

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"M Y $20 OPINION"S i x - f i n g e r alien looks to o h u m a n ? W h y no t? O ur ances to rsw e r e c r e a t e d i n t h e i m a g e o f t h i s c r e a t u r e ! F o r g e tH o l l ywo o d ' s aliens and androids. O ur univer se is f u l l of l i t t l eMiss Sixfingers. Alien autopsy or Angelic autopsy, th e d i f f e r -ence m ay on ly be seman t ics . George N . Stock, E v a n s v i l l c ,Ind .DECEMBER 1995 N U MB ER 332 PACE 21


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Bright Planets (Evening Sky):V e n u s dominates t he S W early e v e n i n g sky a t m a g n i t u d e -4.2an d sets about 9 PM in m i d m o n t h . It passes o n ly about 1above Saturn on the 2nd, a l though Venus is some 13 0 timesbr ighte r . O ur conspicuous planetary neighbor l i es near the lu-nar crescent on February 2 1 ; V e n u s is occulted (covered) b yth e Moon from Hawaii af te r sunse t .S a tu r n (1.2), in Aquarius, continues it s decline in the SW a td u sk , setting in the W about 7:30 PM in mid-February. For theth i rd an d f ina l time in a r ow. Earth catches up to Saturn,c a u s i n g th e giant planet's r ing system to narrow to a needle-t h in l i n e an d f ina l l y to vanish as our p l a n e t crosses th e r ingpl ane on the 1 I t h . A f t e r t h i s edge-on v i e w of the rings, th esys tem gr a dua l ly reappears a s a w iden ing l i n e , th e south faceof the rings n ow exposed ( fo r th e next 13 years).Bright Planets (Morning Sky):J u p i t e r (-1.9), in Sagittarius, rises in the SE about 4 A M inm i d m o n t h .Moon Phases:F u l l moonFebruary 4 f" )Last quarterFebruary 12New moonFebruary 18First quarterFebruary 26The Stars:T h e W i n t e r Circle a n d Orion t h e H u n t e r a re arrayed br i l -l i a n t l y across th e southern e v e n i n g sky. Of a l l th e constella-tions in northern l a t i t u d e s , Orion i s the o n l y o n e w i t h tw obr ight , I s t - m a g n i t u d e stars (ac tua l ly brighter than tha t a t zerom ag n i tu d e ) . B lu i sh - w h i t e Rigel, 7 th brightest star in the n i g h tsky, marks th e Hunter's left knee. Reddish Betelgeuse, I O thbr ightes t s ta r , i s in the r ight shoulder . The three fa in te r 2nd-m a g n i t u d e stars in a row between Betelgeuse and Rigel an df o r m i n g Orion's be l t bear th e Arabic names, from l e f t tor i g h t . Alnitak, A l n i l a m , a n d M i n t a k a a l l , i n t e r e s t i n g l ye n o u g h , variations of the same word for "belt."R ige l is one of the seven sp a rk l i n g luminaries composingth e W i n t e r Circle. T h e others a re clockwise, Sirius in CanisMajor the Big Dog, Procyon in Canis Minor th e Little Dog,Pol lux an d Castor in Gemini th e Twins, Capella in Auriga th eChar io t - Dr ive r , an d Aldebaran in Taurus th e B u l l .The precursor of spring,Leo theLion, is w e l l up in the east-ern heavens in midevening. Look for its famous sickleor re -verse question mark, th e star Regii lus being t he do t in t h i spunctuation symbol.

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March 15-17 Gulf Breeze UFO Spring Conference on the beachof the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Speakers have been confirmed. Forinformation Call 904-432-8888 or Fax 904-438-1801 or write:Project Awareness. P.O. Box 730, Gulf Breeze, FL 32562.April 12-14 Eighth Annual Ozark UFO Conference, Inn of theOzarks Conference Center, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. For furtherinformation write to: Ozark UFO Conference, #2 Caney ValleyDrive, Plumerville, AR 72127-8725 or call (501) 354-2558.April 20 BUFORA presents "A Day of Abductions," PennineTheater, Sheffield Haliam University, Sheffield, England. For infor-mation write to BUFORA (Abduct), 1Woodhall Drive, Batley. WestYorkshire, WF17 7SW, England.May 4-5 2nd Annual UFO & Alien Abduction ResearchConference. Holiday Inn, Greenville, South Carolina. Forfurtherinformation, call coordinator Shannon Kluge at (803) 675-9328July 5-7 Twenty-seventh annual MUFON International UFOSymposium, Holiday Inn Four Seasons/Joseph H. KouryConvention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. Details for reser-vations will appear next month.July 27-28 Great Plains UFO Conference, Howard JohnsonConvention Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For information call603-497-2633 or write P.O. Box 84131, Sioux Falls, SD 57118.

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MUFON UFO JOURNALDIRECTOR'S MESSAGE - Continued from Page 24from police agencies na t i onwi de , we are now preparedto expand i ts coverage. All State Directors were ad-vised by a letter nearly a year ago to utilize th is numb erfo r filing hot UFO cases tha t came to the ir at tention. Ale tte r ann oun cing the 800 n umber w as mai led to a l lsheriff 's offices an d police ch iefs in Texas last spring asa means of tes t ing an d e va lua t ing th e effectiveness ofth e system.T he majority of our calls, to-date, have been frompeople w ho called the 800 directory and asked fo r"UFO" to report sightings or to seek U FO informat ion.To send letters to every police department an d sher-iff 's off ice throughout th e U.S.A. w ould obvious ly beboth expens ive and t i m e - c o n s u m i n g . W e would l ikefo r every S tate Director, S tate Section Director, FieldInvestigator, and Field Inve stigator Trainee to notifyyour local sheriff, police chief, an d state h ighw ay patroloffice of M U F O N ' s 800 n u m b e r via a postcard thatthey m ay post on their bulletin boards or at th

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