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JIM. MARRS

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Alien agenda : investigating the extraterrestrial presence among us /
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 CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

INTRODUCTION x
A Silent Bright Light xv
The Aurora Crash of 1897 xix
The Thing in the Pond xxv

CHAPTER 1 The Greatest UFO? 1

The Spaceship Moon Theory 9
Moon Lights and Monuments 13
NASA ATeans Never a Straight Answer 18
Alan eu vers in Outer Space 22

CHAPTER 2 Ancient Astronauts 27

Biblical UFOs 35
Ancient Artifacts 42
Mystifying Maps 46
The Amazing Pyramids 50
A Crash Victim’s Story 57

CHAPTER 3 Military Observers 60

The Los Angeles Air Raid 62
Foo-Fighters 64
Saucers of the Reich 66
Operation Eagle Flight 72
Ghost Rockets 76
Arnold and the Maurv Island Alysterv 79
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CHAPTER 4 The Road to Recovery 88

The Roswell Crash 89
A View of the Projects 100
The MJ-12 Papers 107
Official UFO Notice 120
JFK, Marilyn, and the UFOs 122

CHAPTER 5 Plausible Deniability

UFOs over Washington
The CIA Takes Control
Giant Artificial Satellites
N1CAP Fights Secrecy
A Landing at Socorro
The Great Blackout
The Condon Report

CHAPTER 6 UFOs Underground 157

The Bentwaters Case 162
UFO Command Flow Chart 167
Notes from the Underground 169
The Third Alternative 172
What’s Going on at Area 51? 176
The Scientist and the Saucers 179

CHAPTER 7 Face-to-Face 188

The Man from Venus 190
Over the Hills 197
The Pleiadian Connection 201
Know Your Neighbors 210

CHAPTER 8 Missing Time 213

Walton’s Missing Days 218
Star Children 222
Look into My Eyes 224
The Mack Attack 227
A Time of Communion 230
Midnight Visits 232
What’s Bugging You? 236
New York Enigma 240
UFO Pilot Wanted 243

CHAPTER 9 Death from the Sky 248

A Typical Mutilation 250
The Devil Made Me Do It 253
The Last Roundup 255
Mutilation Traits 257
Howe About Those Mutes? 261
An Abduction Remembered 266
Attack of the Goat Sucker 270
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CHAPTER 10 Going in Circles 273

Anatomy of a Circle 276
The Saga of Doug ’n' Dave 281
Science Takes a Look 287
Misunderstood Messages 290

CHAPTER 11 In the Mind’s Eye 295

The Bible Tells Me So 297
Viewing Remotely' 301
A View from Space 305
How to Make a Circle 309
A Dark Future 313
Intergalactic Boat People 316
Men from Mars 322
The Trouble with Remote Viewing 328
Galactic Federation Headquarters 330
What the Seers See 332

CHAPTER 12 A Metaphysical Exam 348

The Wee Folk 350
The Gods of War 354
Voices from the Ether 356
Aliens Save the Earth 362
An Alien by Any Other Name 366

EPILOGUE New Realities 373

APPENDIX Take Me to Your Leader 379

The Attempted Coup of 1934 380
Pass the Buck 382
Rule by the Few 388

INDEX 426

Photographs follow page 194.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It should be acknowledged that our current understanding of UFOs

and the alien agenda is the result of many hours of hard work by dedi­
cated and courageous individuals, too often the objects of ridicule, dis­
missal, or worse. These investigators—from well-known authors and
researchers to unheralded private citizens—are too numerous to list
here. But their combined efforts have contributed to our knowledge
and understanding. Likewise, any attempt to enumerate the many peo­
ple who have contributed to this work would prove excessively long
and most likely overlook someone. Suffice it to say, “None of us is as
smart as all of us.”
 INTRODUCTION

The controversy over the existence of UFOs is over.

UFOs are real.
Only those persons whose outlook prevents them from dealing
honestly with the massive amount of documentation and reports col­
lected over the past five decades still cling to the idea that nothing
soars in the skies of Earth but man’s imagination. Evidence accumu­
lated over the past half-century clearly indicates that UFOs represent
real and tangible objects exhibiting traits unlike anything that man can
yet produced.
Of course, arguments and protestations will continue. There are,
after all, some few folks who still refuse to believe that the world is round.
But, whether you believe in them or not, UFOs are now part of
our reality. Gather more than a half-dozen persons in a room and odds
are at least one of them has either had a personal UFO experience or
knows someone who has. UFO sighting stories permeate our society—
from migrant farm workers to former presidents. We are surrounded
by UFOs. They’re with us in books, comics, advertising, movies, and
television; on posters, T-shirts, billboards, trinkets, caps, and bumper
stickers.
There are those who still prefer to ignore the phenomenon,
hoping it will simply go away and stop intruding on their comfortable
world-view. Others are deeply fascinated by what the reality of UFOs
might portend. UFO researchers, organizations, and conventions con­
tinue to grow throughout the world.
The questions now are “What are they?” and “What do they
want?” What is the alien agenda?
 INTRODUCTION xi

The answers may be found by taking an overview of the total

UFO experience, a wide-ranging investigation through the maze of
UFO literature—much of it sensational, contradictory, distorted, dis­
jointed, and deficient in one way or another, although certain common
themes can be discerned.
This confusion is compounded by documented government
deceit and duplicity aided by the reluctance of conventional science to
publicly address the evidence. For few people—particularly among the
smug scientific and political intelligentsia—are willing to give any
public credence to the subject. By failing to publicly take notice of the
phenomenon, these bastions of conformity and conservatism have left
the field open to a wide array of private researchers, who range from
serious and dedicated investigators to the wildest of charlatans and
profiteers. This situation has meant that any serious and unbiased look
at UFOs immediately opened the researcher to a barrage of ridicule
and arrogant dismissal by those who have some reason to ignore the
subject.
So this is not really a book about UFOs. It is more a book about
mind-set.
Mind-set involves what you know and, perhaps more important,
how you know it. From the moment of birth we are continuously
imprinted by our experiences, our parents, the people and places
around us, and our social conditioning—the most dominant of which
are public education and religion. This conditioning continues
through life, aided principally by the print and broadcast media.
While the media obviously cannot dictate how we are to think,
they certainly set the agenda on what we are to think about. Who has
time for tedious stories of government conspiracies and financial
manipulations when the newspapers and airwaves are filled with crime,
accidents, and celebrities? Who bothers to notice when a prime-time
TV network "news break” contains nothing but sports scores?
For most people—perhaps the majority—UFOs represent an
issue to be avoided. So they bury their minds in the safe, conventional
world of the local newspaper and their favorite anchorperson who
nightly tells them everything is really okay—just after delivering the
day’s litany of death and sorrow. These people then assure themselves
theyr are well informed.
Added to this self-assurance is the regular media infusion of
conventional thinking by various experts, most of whom owe their
livelihood to government in one way or another. Most yield to the
immense pressure of the status quo and say nothing publicly that
might cause controversy. Those who do are usually' branded as kooks
or profit seekers.
 xii INTRODUCTION
A clear illustration can be found in comparing two UFO
authors with widely divergent opinions. Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, an
Annapolis graduate, Marine pilot, and associate of Charles Lindbergh,
began a study of the UFO issue almost from its inception in 1947.
During his career, Keyhoe developed close relationships with many
high-ranking military and government officials. Keyhoe wrote in
Aliens from Space, “During my long investigation of these strange
objects I have seen many reports verified by AF Intelligence, detailed
accounts by AF pilots, radar operators and other trained observers
proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on
Earth. Before the censorship tightened I also was given the secret con­
clusions by AF scientists and Air Technical Intelligence officers.” In
1957, Keyhoe was named director of the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena, one of the first private UFO
research organizations.
In 1968, noted U.S. meteorologist Dr. James E. McDonald
told a congressional committee, “I must stress that much checking
on my part has convinced me that Keyhoe’s reportorial accuracy was
uniformly high ... his reliability must be recognized as impressive.”
Major Keyhoe would seem to be a well-connected and credible
commentator on UFOs who, after careful study of the data, came to
the conclusion that the phenomenon represented extraterrestrial
visitation.
A more recent author, Curtis Peebles, also presented impressive
credentials. In 1995, Peebles saw the paperback publication of his
UFO book, Watch the Skies! The title is deceptive because Peebles,
after presenting a well-organized and documented overview of UFOs,
concluded the whole issue constitutes some sort of mass psychosis—a
myth with no objective reality. So why look up? According to Alex
Doster, editor in chief of the Smithsonian Institution Press, which
originally published Peebles’s work, his conclusion that UFOs don’t
exist represents “generally the views of the Smithsonian.”
Now consider how Peebles, who followed in the footsteps of
UFO debunkers like Philip J. Klass and Dr. Donald H. Menzel,
treated Keyhoe. First, he made the undocumented statement that “by
early 1949, Keyhoe was having problems making ends meet and was
looking for ideas,” implying that Keyhoe probably would write any­
thing to make a buck. Next, Peebles related how Keyhoe was assigned
to study UFOs by Ken Purdy, editor of True magazine, and stated,
“One thing stands out from Keyhoe’s meeting with Purdy. From the
very start, both were convinced that flying saucers were real, and that
the Air Force knew it and was covering it up.... Every comment,
every action, every rumor was fitted into this preexisting belief.” In
 INTRODUCTION xiii

other words, Keyhoe’s conclusion that UFOs represent extraterrestrial

visitors was wrong because he built his case based on a preconception.
But what about Peebles? In the introduction to his book, he bla­
tantly admitted to his own preconception when he wrote, “I am a
skeptic. I believe flying saucer reports are misinterpretations of con­
ventional objects, phenomena, and experiences. I do not believe the
evidence indicates the Earth is under massive surveillance by disk­
shaped alien spaceships.” Hasn’t he too operated from a preconceived
idea—his mind-set that there’s nothing there? This colors his interpre­
tation of all subsequent UFO issues, as evidenced by his flippant
remark about “massive” surveillance of Earth by “disk-shaped alien
spaceships.” Not all UFO researchers would agree to either “massive,”
“disk-shaped,” “alien,” or “spaceships” as a true depiction of the phe­
nomenon.
Peebles and others of his ilk are not true skeptics. They are
debunkers—determined to defend their mind-set against UFOs at all
cost—and will be referred to as such in these pages.
The truly skeptical must evaluate experts—particularly govern­
ment experts—in the same manner they would any individual: Has this
source proven trustworthy in the past? Unfortunately, the govern­
ment’s track record in veracity is shameful. UN ambassador Adlai
Stevenson, based on information given him by government sources,
assured the world that the United States had absolutely no connection
with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The public was told
there was “light at the end of the tunnel” in Vietnam just prior to the
1968 communist let offensive. President Richard Nixon said he was
not a crook just before he resigned to avoid impeachment. In 1975, the
public was told there was a serious shortage of gasoline, yet storage
tanks in Texas were filled to the brim. In 1980, President Ronald Rea­
gan gained office by promising to balance the federal budget, then ran
up a S2 trillion deficit. President Bill Clinton admitted he smoked
marijuana but declared he never inhaled. The list is endless. If the U.S.
government were an individual, no one would have anything to do
with him.
To get beyond such a restrictive mind-set, one must be open to
all possibilities—to seriously consider alternative theories and explana­
tions. One must look past the media pundits who narrowly define rhe
issues and paradigms of the day. One must seek truth in whatever form
it may appear—whether in alternative publications, video documen­
taries, newsletters, or even comic books. Only after absorbing as much
information on UFOs as possible, from as widely divergent sources as
possible, can the thoughtful individual begin to gam the overview nec­
essary to determine the realities of the phenomenon.
 xiv INTRODUCTION
With the proliferation of inexpensive video and automatic
cameras, hardly a month goes by without yet another UFO captured
on film or tape. Add to this growing photographic evidence ever-
increasing personal accounts as portrayed in both the print and
broadcast media.
While admittedly the UFO mystery is seriously deepened by
the lack of hard physical evidence, anyone who can state unequivocally
that UFOs do not exist either has neglected to study' the massive
amount of literature now available or is in a state of denial that no
amount of evidence will penetrate. “If you bet against UFOs, you’d be
betting against a sure thing,” stated U.S. astronaut John W. Young.
“There are so many stars that it’s mathematically improbable that
there aren’t other life sources in the universe.”
Many knowledgeable and visionary' scientists have spoken seri­
ously about UFOs. German Professor Hermann Oberth, who pio­
neered rocket technology; wrote, “It is my thesis that flying saucers are
real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think
chat they are probably' manned by intelligent observers who are mem­
bers of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.”
One of Oberth s former pupils and another famous rocket scientist,
Wernher von Braun, noted, “Professor Oberth has always been 20 to
40 years ahead of the rest of us.”
Today the entire UFO issue has become a multifaceted phe­
nomenon involving much more than spaceship hardware. Peripheral
issues involving physics, history; evolution, spatial dimensions, and
time enter into the discussion, as do spiritual and psychic matters. Yet
a tangible reality7 exists within these various aspects.
At least this is what the vast amount of material now available
on the subject suggests to me. And “me” is the key word here. So
much of the belief in UFOs and the weight placed on the evidence is
subjective.
Does one uncritically accept every report of a UFO sighting or
abduction? Or does one automatically discount such reports? Can one
give unquestioned credence co government reports and experts, or are
they all suspect? Lacking personal experience, who does one believe
and who does one disbelieve?
Its a genuine problem. I had heard of mud raining from the sky,
but until 1 experienced such a thing while living in West Texas, I con­
sidered it just another of the Lone Star States notorious tall tales.
Since one’s beliefs are inextricably tied to ones life experiences, I feel it
is necessary7 to step into this journalist narrative for a short time and
present a personal introduction to the subject.
 INTRODUCTION xv

A Silent Bright Light

To the best of my knowledge I have never seen a UFO. The only pos­
sible exception occurred when I was nine years old. The year was 1952
and my family was living in a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi. It was
Christmas Eve. Filled with the excitement and expectation of the holi­
day, I was unable to sleep. Well past midnight I lay tossing and turning
in my bed when, on a whim, I got to my knees and looked out the win­
dow. The neighborhood of moderate frame homes was bathed in
moonlight and especially quiet. Not even the usual barking dogs could
be heard.
As I stared out the window contemplating the activities of the
coming day, I became aware of a bright light in the sky moving from
my left to right. It passed low over the house next to ours. I saw no
colored lights and nothing blinking. It was a steady and very’ bright
light that I immediately thought must be an aircraft’s landing light. I
decided an airplane must be coming in for a landing.
But then two thoughts struck me. One, there was no airport
anywhere in the vicinity, and secondly, there was no sound. I listened
intently. Like many young boys of that time, I was fascinated with air­
craft and could recite names and specs at will. The P-51 Mustang and
the P-38 Lightning, two World War II workhorses, were still flying
and among my favorites. The reliable C-47, known in its civilian role
as a Douglas DC-3, was still widely in use. And, thanks to the Korean
War, I and my friends were familiar with the F-86 Sabre and MiG mil­
itary jets. The ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation made the big
B-52 and Soviet Bison bombers only too well known to us. Even at
that tender age, I was no babe in the woods when it came to aircraft.
Yet, I could hear no sound from the bright light passing over my
neighbors house. No piston engine sounds. No scream of a jet. I was
perplexed, yet I was not amazed. I was not well read enough to be
aware of the flap over “flying saucers.” I thought perhaps I was upwind
and the engine sound blew away from me. Or perhaps it was a meteor.
I went back to bed and finally fell asleep. But the incident stuck in my
mind, and as I grew older and learned about UFOs, I have often won­
dered about that bright, noiseless light.
Many people have had a similar experience or know someone
who has. Fast-moving lights in the sky, bright flashing illuminations that
hover in midair are common experiences. My own father-in-law once
described a most unusual-acting shining object he observed oft the east
coast of Mexico. This man had a responsible lifelong career with Braniff
.Airlines. He was not given to daydreams and wild imaginings.
 xvi INTRODUCTION
Yet such episodes prove nothing. My own experience could have
been a low-flying aircraft or a spaceship from Alpha Centauri. After
the event, there is simply no objective way of determining for certain.
Unimaginative debunkers would probably say I saw only Venus or, like
Ebenezer Scrooge, it was only the product of undigested beef. And
they might be right.
So one must take a longer view of the UFO issue. Consider all
the facts, including the human anecdotes. After all, we are all the sum
total of not only what we have personally experienced in life but also
of what we have heard along the way.
My Mississippi experience piqued my curiosity in the unusual
and I began reading science fiction. Authors such as Ray Bradbury,
Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke broadened my
horizons and stimulated my imagination as well as increasing my sci­
entific knowledge of the universe.
My mother, a devout Southern Baptist, complained that I was
cluttering my mind with nonsense. After all, as she patiently explained,
everyone knew that there was nothing outside our own planet and the
idea of space flight and orbiting satellites was preposterous.
But on October 4, 1957, she stopped saying such things.
I can still recall the confounded expression on my mother’s face
when I showed her the headlines proclaiming that the Russians had
placed Sputnik 1 in orbit around the earth. I too learned something
from Sputnik. I learned that just because authority figures say some­
thing is impossible does not make it so.
One authority figure who appeared to think nothing was impos­
sible was President John F. Kennedy. On May 25, 1961, shortly after
taking office, he committed the United States to placing humans on
the moon within the decade when he stated, “Now is the time to take
longer strides, time for a great new American enterprise, time for this
nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in
many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.”
The year after Kennedy spoke those words I was in college and
had a most disquieting conversation with one of my roommates. By
this time I had read much about UFOs and was thoroughly confused
on the subject. Many credible people claimed they were real and that
they were craft from other worlds, but the U.S. government, to
include the United States Air Force, had more mundane explanations.
One evening I was discussing the subject with my current room­
mate, whose father was an air force colonel stationed in the Pentagon.
Doug grew quite serious and told this story: Only a few years back
Doug and his father, whom he saw only infrequently due to military
assignments, took a fishing trip together. Late at night, around the
 INTRODUCTION xvii

campfire and after several beers, the topic of UFOs came up. Doug
asked his father what he thought about the subject, and his father began
to describe how he was part of a military7 team that had made contact
with an alien craft that landed at a military installation on the West
Coast. His father began to describe the craft’s occupants when he sud­
denly broke off the conversation, saying he had said too much. Despite
Doug’s pleadings, he refused to say another word on the subject.
Here was a story that might or might not be true. Doug could
have been ribbing me, but I don’t think so. He was too serious about
the matter and his story clearly brought out the strained relationship
with his father, a subject I doubt he would treat lightly. It was obvious
that Doug believed the story. So perhaps the air force colonel was jok­
ing with his son. But, if so, why confound his son by refusing to elabo­
rate or even finish his account? I was also struck by the credentials of
Doug’s father. He was no jokester, but a ranking air force officer. Why
tell something so outrageous if he was only joking with his son? And
why not admit to the joke later? Instead, Doug said he was later
instructed by his father never to repeat what he had been told.
Unfortunately, at this late date I have no way of checking on
this story. I have long since lost contact with Doug and I can’t remem­
ber if I ever knew his father’s name. But it is a story that typifies many
I have heard through the years as a journalist covering aviation, police,
government, and the military.
I have heard extraordinary reports from police officers, pilots,
military officers, air traffic controllers, and many others. While some
possibly were misinterpretations of explainable occurrences or the
product of an unbalanced mind, most came from credible sources who
were sincere in what they reported. But while these stories have
remained with me, few can now be substantiated. Other stories regard­
ing now-famous UFO cases stuck with me.
For example, in the mid-1960s while working for the Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal I met many people who clearly recalled the “Lub­
bock Lights” of 1951. They remembered how the U.S. Air Force con­
cluded the lights were the underside of ducks reflecting streedights.
They hooted in derision, certain that w hat they had seen could not be
explained as “duck butts.”
Later, working as a news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
during the late 1960s and 1970s, on three separate occasions I met for­
mer air force personnel who claimed they were stationed at Fort
Worth’s Carswell Air Force Base in 1947 when the infamous Roswell
UFO crash allegedly took place. All three said pieces of the crashed
object were brought through Carswell, and two of the men claimed to
have actually seen the debris. None of the three believed it to be a
 xviii INTRODUCTION

weather balloon. Only one of these men claimed to have knowledge of

alien bodies. This man said that while he had not seen the bodies him­
self, an air force buddy had guarded them and told him about them.
He was adamant that the story of recovered aliens was true. Unfortu­
nately, I made no notes as to names, dates, and places or, if I did, they
are long since lost
More recently I was interviewing a man with documented close
ties to secret government defense work. He suddenly began recount­
ing an amazing tale.
At the request of a supersecret UFO unit connected to the gov­
ernment, he was asked to join an expedition to a small lake in the
Northwest that was being regularly visited by a UFO. Determined to
study the craft, a group, including my storyteller, stood watch until a
three-dimensional diamond-shaped craft faded into existence above
the lake where it hovered in midair, apparently drawing up water. Sud­
denly, a bright beam of light shot out from the craft, blasting nearby
dirt and rocks. The men, including tough Special Forces types, fled
like frightened children.
My source laughed loudly recounting this display of military
fortitude but nevertheless gained my pledge not to reveal his identity.
I picked up these stories during work on other assignments. But
such accounts remained with me. Since I cannot document names or
other details, you’ll not find these stories in this book. But these along
with many other stories I heard during my reporting years spurred my
interest in the UFO phenomenon.
But don’t get the idea that I buy into every7 weird story that
comes my way. In 1969, I was the first reporter to tell the stoiy of a
“man-goat” monster that terrorized folks at Lake Worth just north­
west of Fort Worth. This beastie came to be known as the “Lake
Worth Monster” and became somewhat of a legend in the area. As
recently7 as October 1992, the Lake Worth Monster story was repeated
in an issue of Fate magazine. Consulting Editor Mark Chorvinsky
wrote, “Some believe that the monster is still on the loose, roaming
Greer Island [at Lake Worth] and the environs. . . .”
While I hesitate to dampen a good yarn with the facts, I tracked
the Lake Worth Monster story’ for nearly two years when, as duly
noted by Chorvinsky, I finally determined the entire monster scare was
initiated by some students from nearby Brewer High School using an
old gorilla suit and a clear plastic mask. I interviewed the students who
had confessed their prank to police on rhe promise that there would be
no prosecution or publicity. The early reports were genuine—people
had encountered something—but in the end it was all a big hoax. Yet,
because it involved minors whom I could not identify, the resolution of
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the story was never published, leaving the Lake Worth Monster free to
roam through accounts of the strange and bizarre.
Then in 1973, I got to investigate a genuine mystery. It con­
cerned a UFO crash that occurred only a few miles from where I now
live. It was an investigation illustrative of the problems and issues
involved in attempting to solve the UFO mystery; To tell the whole
story again requires a personal narrative.

The Aurora Crash of 1897

April 17, 1897, dawned clear and cool in North Texas when out of the
south came a large, silver, cigar-shaped object dropping lower and
lower as it approached the small hamlet of Aurora, Texas, less than
twenty miles northwest of Fort Worth. There it struck a windmill and
exploded, scattering debris—and at least one body—in all directions.
Or did it?
Despite straight-faced coverage in the local newspapers at the
time, the Aurora crash continues to be a source of controversy. Here’s
what I know:
In the spring of 1973, Bill Case, aviation writer for the now­
defunct Dallas Times Herald, wrote a series of articles about the Aurora
crash after being told the story by Hayden Hewes of the International
UFO Bureau. Case immediately looked up the April 19, 1897, article
in his newspaper’s microfilm library.
The story stated:

About six o’clock this morning the early risers ol Aurora were aston­
ished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing
throughout the country. It was traveling due north, and much nearer
the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of
order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles and hour
and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public­
square and when it reached the north part of town collided with the
tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went to pieces with a terrific
explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, w recking
the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower gar­
den. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one
aboard, and while his remains are badly disfigured, enough of the
original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of
this world.
Mr. T. J. VVccins, the U.S. Signal Service officer at this place
and an authority’ on astronomy; gives it his opinion that he was a
native of the planer Mars. Papers found on his person—evidently the
 xx INTRODUCTION

records of his travels—are written in some unknown hieroglyphics

and cannot be deciphered. This ship was too badly wrecked to form
any conclusion as to its construction or motive power. It was built of
an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum
and silver, and it must have weighed several tons. The town today is
full of people who are viewing the wreckage and gathering specimens
of strange metal from the debris. The pilot’s funeral will take place at
noon tomorrow. Signed- E. E. Hayden.

A similar story was published in the Fort Worth Register, but

in this account, it did not mention the hieroglyphics and stated
simply; “The pilot, who was not an inhabitant of this world, was given
Christian burial in the Aurora Cemetery.”
The similarities between the Aurora account and modern UFO
cases—silver, metallic, cigar-shaped object, small humanoid occupant,
unreadable hieroglyphs—were striking and argued against the hoax
thesis.
At the time I was an aviation/aerospace writer for the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram and decided to follow the Aurora story. I contacted Bill
Case and found him to be exactly what one would expect of an aviation
writer. He was a practical man who was highly knowledgeable of the
aircraft industry and, like most people in that field, very precise and
technical in his approach to issues.
Case told me he had spoken to some of the old-timers in Aurora
and was convinced that something had indeed occurred there in 1897.
I arranged to meet Case at the Aurora cemetery; where he showed me
what he said was the airships pilots grave. The grave was not full size.
It was obviously the grave of a child or very small man. At the head of
the grave was a crude rock headstone. It appeared that half of the
marker had broken off and was missing. On the remaining half was
etched a design that resembled a large V lying on one side. Inside the
V shape were three small circles. The entire design indeed resembled
one end of a saucer-shaped structure, and the small circles seemed to
be portholes. I was acquainted with the old cemeteries in the area,
many containing the graves of early settlers and the Maltese cross
markers of Confederate soldiers. This was a very unusual and intri­
guing marker.
Case told me that he had used a metal detector on the grave site
and it indicated at least three large pieces of metal in the grave. While
Case set out to find someone to analyze whatever might be retrieved
from the grave, I began researching the 1897 period, trying to put the
Aurora story' in perspective. What I discovered was astounding. The
Aurora story was not an isolated incident. The microfilm editions of
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area newspapers of the period were filled with various accounts of fly­
ing objects and even contacts with their crews.
It was the Great Airship Mystery of 1896-97, which all started
in the fall of 1896 when a large airship was seen in California on the
evening of November 17, 1896, by several hundred residents of Sacra­
mento. Observers were able to discern a definite oblong shape behind
the light and said it was moving purposely against the prevailing wind.
From California, sightings of the Great Airship began moving
across the country. Tens of thousands reported seeing the ship, or
ships, and estimates of its speed ranged from five miles per hour to
more than two hundred miles per hour. The reported high speeds are
noteworthy. I recall reading an article in the 1897 papers in which
prominent scientists asserted with authority that humans could not
survive speeds greater than forty miles per hour. Therefore, consider­
ing that the fastest transportation of the day—trains—crawled along at
speeds no greater than thirty-five miles per hour, to claim something
moved at greater than one hundred miles per hour meant it was travel­
ing faster than anything known.
It should be noted that in 1878, a Denison, Texas, farmer named
John Martin saw a dark flying disk high in the sky. According to the
Denison Daily News, Martin described his UFO as a “saucer,” thus first
coining a term that would not come into common usage for nearly a
hundred years.
There were hoaxes associated with the flap. In the 1960s, an
aging railroad telegrapher confessed that the entire airship story was
just a joke concocted by railroad men in Iowa. He said when the joke
spread to Texas, railroad worker Joseph “Truthful” Scully was selected
to initiate the tale. Pranksters in Iowa admitted they made luminescent
hot-air balloons out of tissue paper and candles, provoking sightings
across the southern portions of the state on April 10, 1897.
Yet hoaxes could not account for all the sightings. It was clear
that something was flying through the air in 1897. If that something
was a man-made dirigible, no one ever came forward to take credit.
The first recorded dirigible flight in the United States was in 1904
when Thomas Balwins “California Arrow” lifted off from Oakland,
California.
It was also clear that the Great Airship Mystery did not end in
Aurora. Reports of the craft continued for days after the reported
crash. Author Philip J. Klass wrote, “During a five-day period between
April 15 and April 19, 1897, The Dallas Morning News reported sight­
ings from 21 different towns in Texas. During the next nine days the
Houston Post carried nine others.”
Debunker Klass, after reviewing reports ot the airship, con-
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eluded, “The events demonstrate that when the public has been condi­
tioned by the news media to believe that there are strange objects in
the skies, many people will report having seen such objects—even
when the objects do not really exist” While Klass’s thesis undoubtedly
is sometimes true, it does not hold up when considering the slow
transportation and communication of 1897. Radio was nonexistent and
newspapers took days, even weeks, to be delivered. Many of the airship
witnesses in small Texas towns could not have heard of the other far-
flung sightings.
After reviewing the airship literature, I could not draw any firm
conclusion, so I began interviewing people in Aurora.
The population of the little hamlet in 1973 was less than five
hundred. They seemed almost evenly divided in their beliefs concern­
ing the crash—half claimed it really happened, while the other half
claimed it was merely a hoax perpetrated by Hayden, a “stringer” for
local newspapers who had previously written several satirical pieces.
I learned that Etta Pegues, a “stringer” for the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram in 1973, was a major source for the news media regarding the
crash. “It’s all a hoax,” she said flatly. “I have talked to people who
were alive then. They all said Judge Proctor had no windmill.” Her
primary source of information was Robbie Hanson.
Robbie Reynolds Hanson said, “They’re still trying to bring up
the hoax about the spaceship.” She was twelve years old on the day of
the crash, her family lived outside of town, and no one knew anything
about it until a man rode by several days later and told the story. “I
remember my father remarked that the judge outdid himself that
time,” she recalled. Wise County Historical Commission chairwoman
Rosalie Gregg has consistently decried the Aurora story as a hoax. Her
primary source of information was Etta Pegues.
Brawley and Etta Oates bought Judge Proctor’s property in
1945 and lived there for years. Brawley died about the time the 1973
publicity about Aurora broke. “I heard the story' for years,” said Mrs.
Oates, adding, “Nothing grew for years in that one spot in the field
where that spaceship is supposed to have hit.” The Oates family all
suffered serious health problems, including cysts and goiters, which
they told me were caused by drinking water from the old well where
the crash occurred. “I’ve been told it’s radioactive,” Mrs. Oates con­
fided.
By 1973, there were only three people still living who may have
had direct knowledge of the crash. One was Robbie Hanson, who
admitted she had no personal knowledge. Another living witness was
Mary Evans, then almost ninety-two years old. She said, “I was only
fifteen at the time and had all but forgotten the incident until it
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appeared in the papers recently. We were living in Aurora at the time,

but my mother and father wouldn’t let me go with them when they
went up to the crash site at Judge Proctor’s well. When they returned
home they told me how the airship had exploded. The pilot was tom
up and killed in the crash. The men of the town who gathered his
remains said he was a ‘small man’ and buried him that same day in
Aurora cemetery. That crash certainly caused a lot of excitement.
Many people were frightened. They didn’t know what to expect. That
was years before we had any regular airplanes or other kinds of air­
ships.”
Of these two elderly women, neither had any direct knowledge
and one said it happened because her parents told her about it, while
the other said it was a hoax because that’s what her father said. Pro and
con, you could take your pick.
Then there was Charlie C. Stephens. He was eighty-three in
1973 and, although somewhat physically enfeebled, appeared to retain
a clear mind. Speaking through the screen door of a relative’s house,
he told me that he had always declined to talk to reporters about the
crash because he “didn’t want to get involved.” Finally, after some
neighborly conversation—in my part of the country they call it “visit­
ing”—Stephens loosened up and gave this account.
As a boy less than ten years old, he was with his father putting
some cattle out to pasture on the morning of April 19, 1897, when the
pair saw a cigar-shaped object with a bright light pass overhead. The
craft was very low and moved straight ahead toward Aurora about
three miles to the north. The pair then heard what seemed to be an
explosion, and a fire lit up the northern sky for several minutes. “I
wanted to go immediately and see what had happened,” Stephens
recalled, “but my daddy said we had to finish our chores.”
Stephens said his father rode a horse into town the next day.
Returning to the family farm, he described a mass of torn metal and
burned rubble. He made no mention of the pilot. This struck me as a
credible detail. According to the contemporary accounts, the pilot was
buried the same day as the crash. So when Stephens’s father was in
town, there was no body to view and, being a conservative farmer type,
he declined to talk about anything he had not personally seen. But the
elder Stephens had no trouble talking about the crash.
“During the years I was growing up he told me the story many
times,” recalled Stephens, adding he was almost twenty years old
before he heard about the dead pilot.
A chart of the Masonic Cemetery showed no unidentified
graves. However, Mrs. Isla Finlayson, a resident of nearby Rhome who
cared for the cemetery in the 1960s and 1970s, said many people were
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buried without headstones and that early maps did not list all burials,
“There are a lot of people out there we don’t know about,” she told a
reporter.
On it went. For every claim, there was a counterclaim. All I was
left with was one witness, Stephens, some bits of metal gathered from
the crash site, and the grave. Hardly convincing evidence.
Then the story took an intriguing twist. After analyzing some of
the metal from the Aurora crash site, physicist Dr. Tom Gray of the
University of North Texas in Denton stated in a news release that at
least one fragment was “puzzling.” Gray said three of four samples he
studied using “highly sensitive” equipment had “properties and con­
tent common to metals of this area.” But the fourth “may require
more investigation,” he said, the fourth fragment appeared melted
and looked as if it had been “splattered on the ground.” Gray said the
most intriguing aspect of the fragment was that, although it was made
up primarily of iron, it displayed no magnetic properties. He added
that the piece was shiny and malleable instead of dull and brittle like
iron. The piece was determined to contain 75 percent iron and 25 per­
cent zinc with “a few trace elements.” Yet it was not magnetic like
stainless steel, which contains only 15 percent iron.
Debunker Klass later wrote, “Subsequent analysis of the frag­
ments by scientists at the National Aeronautical Establishment of
Canada reportedly showed the metal fragments to be commonplace,
without unusual composition or structural characteristics.” However,
Klass offered no citation for this statement, and I have remained
unaware of this development. Anyone with a suspicious mind might
asked if the Canadian study actually took place and if so, did they
receive all of the original fragments or just the commonplace ones? As
will be seen, there is a reason for my suspicions.
While the fragments were being studied, Bill Case and I had
written further on the Aurora story and had generated some interest in
exhuming the small grave. I was excited. An exhumation might settle
the matter once and for all. But it was not to be.
Despite the fact that no legal action had been taken to seek an
exhumation, several Aurora residents, including cemetery directors,
stood guard at the cemetery to prevent any unauthorized digging and
threatened to seek a restraining order against anyone who tried. “They
are afraid you’ll dig up Grandma,” explained Decatur attorney Bill
Nobles. H. R. “Pig” Idell, then Aurora’s city marshal, “rode shotgun”
on the cemetery for about two weeks to prevent any digging. “We
didn’t call out the National Guard,” Idell recalled. “There was me, the
sheriff, and a couple of deputies. That was enough.” The night after
the patrols stopped, the strange headstone was stolen.
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Vandals, souvenir hunters, anyone could have taken the head­

stone. More unexplainable was the fate of the metal in the grave. A few
months after the exhumation furor had died away, Bill Case met me at
the Aurora graveyard, saying there was something he wanted to show
me. When he ran his metal detector over the small grave, there were no
readings. He knelt down and showed me three small holes that had
been drilled in the exact location of the metal. “They took it away,” he
said cryptically. “Who do you think did this?” I asked. Case looked me
in the eye and replied, “The government.” Case died about a year later.
With the headstone and grave metal missing, an exhumation
impossible, and even the old-timers squabbling over the truth of the
crash, excitement over the Aurora story quickly faded. Displaying an
obvious lack of understanding about the crudeness of life in nine­
teenth-century rural Texas, debunker Curtis Peebles summed up the
Aurora crash thusly: “In retrospect, it is clear there is nothing to back
up the story of the Aurora ‘crash’ except the single newspaper article.
There were no follow-up articles, no photos, no police reports, no let­
ters or diaries mentioning the crash, no samples of the wreckage, nor
were the spaceman’s papers ever published. The other airship stories in
the Dallas Morning News were all tall tales.’ There is no evidence the
newspaper or its readers ever believed it was more than that.”
I continue to be undecided. I have tried to convince myself
there was nothing to the story, but there were too many oddities—the
context of the Great Airship Mystery, the small grave containing sig­
nificant bits of metal, the “puzzling” fragment, the deformities of the
Oates family, the recollection of Charlie Stephens. And, if the story
was merely a hoax, why would anyone use sophisticated equipment to
surreptitiously remove the metal from the grave?
To compound the puzzle, years later my wife, who was teaching
school in the area, was told in all seriousness by Pig Ideli’s son, James
Idell, that his grandfather had helped bury the pilot, described as “a
three-foot-tall, big-headed spaceman.” The son also said his father
knew who took the headstone but wouldn’t elaborate, indicating some
kind of official secrecy.
The Aurora crash story underscores the problems and issues
involved in seeking the truth about UFOs. The problem of unreliable
witnesses on all sides is magnified by what appears to be official complic­
ity in the maddening lack of physical evidence. Here’s another example.

The Thing in the Pond

On Monday, January 10, 1977, following one of the harshest blizzards
of that winter, William McCarthy of Wakefield, New Hampshire, dis-
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covered a three-foot-diameter hole in the center of an iced-over duck

pond he had dug five years previously. The overnight appearance of
the hole seemed strange to McCarthy, as the remainder of the pond
was covered with thick ice. It was as if something had fallen down from
the sky. Puzzling over the hole most of the day, McCarthy finally
called police and the saga began.
I became aware of the story the next day when the Associated
Press wire machine at the newspaper where I worked received a
twelve-paragraph dispatch with the lead, “National Guard and state
Civil Defense authorities were dispatched today to a small New
Hampshire farm where a mysterious object broke a hole in the ice of a
pond.” The story stated that New Hampshire deputy' attorney general
Thomas Rath said tests had been made on the object, which was still in
the pond. It also quoted a spokesman for the North American Air
Defense Command, who stated, “No artificial satellites have fallen
into the area.”
Within just a few hours, the AP again transmitted the story but
had added two paragraphs reading, “In Washington, meanwhile, Air
Force officials said today that tests conducted at the scene revealed no
radioactivity. Major John Duemmel, an Air Force information officer,
said reports of radioactivity have been ‘over-stressed.’ In Concord, an
Air National Guard source who asked not to be identified, said the last
reports he has seen show ‘no nuclear activity.’ ” Since the first report
had not mentioned radioactivity, I was intrigued by the sudden dis­
claimers and continued to monitor the wire machine.
Within a few more hours came a new story stating, “State offi­
cials who converged on a small farm pond because of reports that a
possibly radioactive object had fallen through the ice have found no
object and no radioactivity, a spokesman for Gov. Meldrim Thomson
said today.”
This story was followed by a lengthy piece by Associated Press
writer George Esper, who wrote, “Wakefield, N.H.—The Great Ice
Caper has melted into thin air. But it stirred up a lot of excitement
while it lasted in this normally serene, picturesque community of white
frame houses, snow-covered trees and 1,400 people on the
Maine-New Hampshire border.” Esper’s story described the entire
affair as a “comedy of errors” and went on to say that early reports of
high radioactivity were superseded by more sophisticated equipment.
He wrote, “A second reading 12 hours later was negative.” Remember
that twelve-hour time factor.
That was the end of that story, at least as far as the news media
was concerned. The initial story and the retractions hit the wires so
rapidly that most news outlets, including my own newspaper, did not
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even carry the story at all. But I was not satisfied that the whole story
had been told. My journalistic instincts were aroused. So I began tele-
phonically checking out the story of the thing in the pond. Here’s what
I learned:
A few days after the incident I got an account from Mrs.
McCarthy, who told me her husband was still outside trying to clean
up the mess left by officials and the news media.
She said McCarthy discovered the hole on Monday, January 10,
after a particularly heavy snow, which made it all the more conspicu­
ous. Peering into the hole, McCarthy saw what appeared to be a black
cube resting on the bottom of the pond. Growing more curious, he
probed the bottom of the pond with a six-foot-long piece of wood.
“He couldn’t feel anything and since the pond is only about three feet
deep, he thought that was curious,” said his wife. “In fact, he couldn’t
really tell if he was hitting bottom. It felt like it was all squishy, which
was strange because the bottom of that pond is like rock.”
She said later that day, her husband notified the local police,
who came out and checked the pond with a small Geiger counter.
“They came running back up to the house saying they had found high
radioactivity,” she recalled. About 2:00 A.M. Tuesday morning, she said
the police returned accompanied by a Civil Defense official. “They
wanted to know if they could make some tests, so we said, ‘Sure,’ and
went back to sleep. We didn’t hear any more until morning.”
Later on Tuesday, according to Mrs. McCarthy, the governor’s
office called and wanted permission to conduct further tests, which
they granted. After waiting for some time, the McCarthys left to run
some errands. “When we came back home, the state people were
there,” she said. “They were walking all around and then they inter­
viewed my husband. Then this assistant to the attorney general went
off to make a phone call. I thought that was strange. I don’t understand
why he didn’t call from our house.”
Mrs. McCarthy said both the state authorities and the local
police told her and her husband not to say anything to anyone about
the object in the pond. By Wednesday, everyone had left and the
McCarthys thought the incident was over. But about 4:00 P.M. she said
they received the first of more than five hundred phone calls inquiring
about the object, mostly from the news media. Later dial evening the
local police called to inform the McCarthys that state officials would be
at their home on Thursday to drain the pond and retrieve the object.
Early Thursday morning the local road maintenance engineer
arrived and said rhe state had ordered him to plow snow from the field
around the pond so a pump truck could be brought in. He said they
told him to be at the McCarthy farm at 6:00 A.M. “[That’s] like the
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middle of the night here,” commented Mrs. McCarthy. As the morn­

ing wore on people started arriving at the farm. “They were miserable
and cold and their cars were stacked all the way down our little drive,”
recalled Mrs. McCarthy. “I could have made a fortune selling hot cof­
fee. Then the police evacuated the area. They would not let the
reporters get near. This drove the news media up the wall.”
With the media held at a distance, the authorities continued
their work until one official told them it was too difficult to drain the
pond and work ceased. “I saw them carry away some plastic bags. I
don’t know what was in those bags. Mud off the bottom of the pond, I
guess,” said Mrs. McCarthy.
Suddenly the officials all left, and shortly the news media
poured in and stayed until late in the evening. Phone inquiries were
coming from as far away as Canada and Hawaii. “Since the officials left
with those plastic bags, no one in authority has contacted us,” Mrs.
McCarthy said. “I really don’t understand it.”
McCarthy in the initial wire story was quoted as saying he had
been ordered not to discuss the object. He added the thought that “all
the attention given to the hole in the ice is ridiculous.” In later stories
there was no mention of the gag order and he was quoted as simply
saying “ridiculous,” leaving the impression that the whole story was
unfounded.
Making further telephone inquiries, I learned:

• Governor’s spokesman Roland Jenkins said, “The entire mat­

ter was caused by false preliminary instrument readings” on
equipment that turned out to be “faulty.” He added that
“those who reported seeing an object apparently were misled
by shadows across the cracked ice.”
• The Wakefield Police Department denied knowing anything
about the incident. The officer I spoke with said it must have
happened someplace else.
• The Wakefield police chief, who initially told several persons
he had seen the object and confirmed the high radiation
readings, later denied saying any such thing. “No comment,”
he told me.
• A United Press International reporter who was at the scene
was asked if the initial wire stories were true or the result of
sloppy reporting. “Well, I can tell you it was not sloppy
reporting,” he replied. However, he would not elaborate on
what knowledge he had about the incident.
• Two McCarthy neighbors, Mrs. Ernest Bellow and Mrs.
Frederick Fisher, told me they understood that an object
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about eighteen inches in diameter was recovered from the

pond.
• The Wakefield town clerk said he thought the entire affair
was “damn foolishness” but admitted he had not been to the
/McCarthy farm.
• Wakefield selectman William Tomley told me he too had
been ordered by state authorities not to discuss the object.
He did confirm that there were “suspicious readings” initially
on radiation equipment but that later there were no more
readings.

Was there anything in the pond? Was there radiation? Was the
object sneaked away in the middle of the night? Or was it taken away
by officials in those plastic bags? Or was there never anything there in
the first place? If there was, could it have been a meteorite? A secret
weapon? A piece of a satellite? A part from a UFO? A child’s toy? Your
guess is as good as mine.
But the Wakefield story clearly illustrates how the news media
can be manipulated and how authorities can bypass what is supposed
to be an open and democratic system. Almost no one knew of this
story when it happened and no one remembers it today. How many
other stories like this one have been swept under the rug? And what
became of the black cube, if there was one? Could it be sitting next to
the Ark of the Covenant in that government warehouse depicted by
Steven Spielberg?
The sum total of my experiences has left me open and receptive
to all information—no matter the source—but likewise, skeptical of
all, particularly official pronouncements. The black cube story and
many others like it engendered in me a deep distrust for the facile and
self-serving explanations of officialdom.
Has the government obtained solid evidence of UFO activity? I
can’t say yes or no with any confidence. But based on my experience, I
can say with considerable confidence that there are persons within the
government who know a lot more about UFOs than they will publicly
admit. I am not alone in that belief. A 1995 poll by Scripps-Howard
News Service and Ohio University asked the question whether or not it
is likely that the federal government is covering up the existence of
UFOs. Forty-three percent responded it was “unlikely,” but a full 50
percent replied such a cover-up was likely and 7 percent were uncertain.
As long as there is official reticence to address the issue of
UFOs, it will remain a matter of personal belief and conjecture based
on mind-set. And the question of belief is compounded by the undeni­
able fact of a concerted effort on the part of certain authorities to con­
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ceal the reality of the subject. This effort amplifies a natural and innate
desire to deny their existence to ourselves. We all fervently wish to
preserve our belief systems about our world and the universe. Most
telling is the established fact that the government has denied the exis­
tence of UFOs and any interest in the issue, while internal documents
made public through the years show that a very real and serious inter­
est has—and continues—to exist.
This documented interest supports the confident statement that
UFOs represent a real phenomenon. They are not simply will-o’-the-
wisps or hallucinations. They are real.
But what is their agenda? In the following chapters, the many
issues surrounding the UFO mystery will be addressed. Veteran stu­
dents of UFO literature will be reminded of classic cases and contro­
versies. Their inclusion is necessary to present the full spectrum of the
UFO experience. But there are also many unpublicized or forgotten
issues along with some new accounts. Hopefully everyone will gain
some new knowledge or insight along the way.
I have sought out what I believe to be the most authoritative
sources, although this does not necessarily always mean the main­
stream corporate media. I also have relied on sources that over time
have proven to be credible in both facts and assertions. A world-
renowned physicist undoubtedly is more susceptible to government
pressure than a private citizen who has quietly made his own in-depth
study of UFOs over many years. Therefore, scrutiny should be given
more to the information and its source rather than the person who
presents it. In this work, the emphasis will be on issues rather than
personalities. Information is where you find it. The trick is to study it
all, looking for consistencies and agreement. The overview usually
yields discernible lines of truth.
So dropping back into a more formal journalistic style, let us
seek the alien agenda.
—-Jim Marrs
 THE
GREATEST
UFO?

One particularly bright, circular object has been observed moving

through Earth’s skies since the beginning of human history. Every per­
son on the planet has seen this object. We call it the moon.
Although this object is identified—at least we have a name for it
and we know it’s there—the moon cannot be hastily disqualified as a
UFO. Despite six visits by U.S. astronauts between 1969 and 1972, the
moon remains a riddle to scientists in many regards. The solutions to
these riddles could indicate an alien aspect of our familiar moon.
Before the Apollo missions, lunar scientists longed for the time
when humans could walk on the moon’s surface. By studying the
makeup of our satellite, they hoped to resolve some of the mysteries
of how our planet and solar system came into existence. Well-known
space expert and the first chairman of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration’s (NASA) Lunar Exploration Committee Dr.
Robert Jastrow has stated, “The moon is the Rosetta stone of the
planets.”
 2 ALIEN AGENDA

Six moon landings later, the public perception was that we had
learned all we needed to about the moon. However, those same lunar
scientists were no closer to agreement on how to answer even the most
basic questions—such as how the moon was created. Despite the
return of some 842 pounds of rocks and soil samples, photos and
videotape, and the placement of five nuclear-powered scientific sta­
tions on the lunar surface, there are still no clear-cut solutions to the
moon’s mysteries.
Quite the reverse: what we have learned about the moon in the
wake of the Apollo missions has only raised more questions. Science
writer Earl Ubell declared, “The lunar Rosetta stone remains a mys­
tery. The moon is more complicated than anyone expected; it is not
simply a kind of billiard ball frozen in space and time, as many scien­
tists had believed. Few of the fundamental questions have been
answered, but the Apollo rocks and recordings have spawned a score of
mysteries, a few truly breath-stopping.”
Consider some of these “breath-stopping” mysteries, or anoma­
lies, as scientists prefer to call them:

The moon is far older than previously imagined, perhaps even

much older than the earth and sun. By examining tracks burned into
moon rocks by cosmic rays, scientists have dated them as billions of
years old. Some have been dated back 4.5 billion years, far older than
the earth and “nearly as old as the solar system,” according to Jastrow.
The oldest rocks ever found on Earth only date back 3.5 billion years.
It is accepted by scientists today that the earth is about 4.6 billion years
old. Harvard’s respected astronomy journal, Sky and Telescope, reported
that at the Lunar Conference of 1973, it was revealed that one moon
rock was dated at 5.3 billion years old, which would make it almost a
billion years older than our planet. This puzzle was compounded by
the fact that the lunar dust in which the rocks were found proved to be
a billion years older than the rocks themselves. Chemical analysis
showed that the moon rocks were of a completely different composi­
tion from the soil around them. Since dusty soil is usually produced by
the weathering and breakup of surrounding rocks, the lunar rocks
must have come from someplace other than where they were found.
But where?

The moon has at least three distinct layers of rocks. Contrary to

the idea that heavier objects sink, the heavier rocks are found on the
surface. Stated Don Wilson, “The abundance of refractory elements
like titanium in the surface areas is so pronounced that several geo­
chemists proposed that refractory compounds were brought to the
 THE GREATEST UFO? 3

moons surface in great quantity in some unknown way. They don’t

know how, but that it was done cannot be questioned. These rich
materials that are usually concentrated in the interior of a world are
now on the outside.” Ubell, a former science editor for CBS television,
acknowledged this mystery, saying, “The first [layer], 20 miles deep,
consists of lavalike material similar to lava flows on Earth. The second,
extending down to 50 miles, is made up of somewhat denser rock. The
third, continuing to a depth of at least 80 miles and probably below,
appears to be of a heavy material similar to the Earths mantle...
Ubell asked, “If the Earth and moon were created at the same time,
near each other, why has one body got all the iron and the other [the
moon] not much? The differences suggest that Earth and moon came
into being far from each other, an idea that stumbles over the inability
of astro-physicists to explain how exactly the moon became a satellite
of the Earth.”

The moon is extremely dry and does not appear to have ever
had water in any substantial amounts. None of the moon rocks,
regardless of location found, contained free water or even water
molecules bound into the minerals. Yet instruments left behind by
xXpollo missions sent a signal to Earth on March 7, 1971, indicating a
“wind” of water had crossed the moon’s surface. Since any water on the
airless moon surface vaporizes and behaves like the wind on Earth, the
question became, where did this water originate? The vapor cloud
eruptions lasted fourteen hours and covered an area of some one hun­
dred square miles, prompting Rice University physicists Dr. John Free­
man Jr. and Dr. H. Ken Hills to pronounce the event one of “the most
exciting discoveries yet” indicating water within the moon. The two
physicists claimed the water vapor came from deep inside the moon,
apparently released during a moonquake. NASA officials offered a
more mundane, and questionable, explanation. They speculated that
two tanks on Apollo descent stages containing between sixty and one
hundred pounds of water became stressed and ruptured, releasing their
contents. Freeman and Hills declined to accept this explanation, point­
ing out that the two tanks—from Apollo 12 and H—were some 180
kilometers apart, yet the water vapor was detected with the same flux
at both sites, although the instruments faced in opposite directions.
Skeptics also have understandably questioned the odds of two separate
tanks breaking simultaneously and how such a small quantity of water
could produce a hundred square miles of vapor. Additionally, Apollo 16
astronauts found moon rocks that contained bits of rusted iron. Since
oxidation requires oxygen and free hydrogen, this rust indicates there
must be water somewhere on the moon.
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Moon rocks were found to be magnetized—not strong enough

to pick up a paper clip, but magnetic nevertheless. What makes this so
odd is that there is no magnetic field on the moon itself. So where did
the magnetism come from? The argument that perhaps the moon
picked up its magnetism from close contact with the earth collapses
when one considers that if the moon got close enough to pick up a
magnetic field, it was close enough to be ripped apart by the earth’s
gravitational pull.

The presence of maria, or large seas of smooth, solidified

molten rock, on the moon indicates nothing less than a vast outpour­
ing of lava at some distant time. It has now been confirmed that some
of the moon’s craters are of internal origin. Yet there is no indication
that the moon has ever been hot enough to produce volcanic erup­
tions. Stated Ubell, “The relative cool of the lunar interior (about
1,800 degree Fahrenheit as compared with the Earth’s interior temper­
ature of between 3,600 and 9,000 degrees) suggests that the moon was
pretty cool to begin with and that the interior contains less radioactivity
than the Earth or the surface of the moon.” Jastrow tried to explain this
conundrum by stating that the moon was volcanically active some bil­
lions of years ago but, being a small world, rapidly lost its heat. “Those
ancient lava flows look as though they had happened yesterday,” he
wrote. “This fact misled the hot-moon scientists into believing that
the moon had been volcanically active during much of its history.”
There are certain areas of the moon that remain “hot” during both
eclipse and daytime conditions, indicating internal heat. Another puzzle
is that almost all—four-fifths—of the maria are located on the moon’s
earthside hemisphere. Few maria mark the far side of the moon, often
erroneously referred to as the “dark side.” Yet the far side contains
many more craters and mountainous areas. In comparison to the rest
of the moon, the maria are relatively free of craters, suggesting that
craters were covered by lava flow. Adding to this mystery are the mas-
cons—large, dense, circular masses lying twenty to forty miles below
the center of the moon’s maria. The mascons were discovered because
their density distorted the orbits of our spacecraft flying over or near
them. One scientist proposed that the mascons are heavy iron mete­
orites that plunged deep into the moon while it was in a soft, formable
stage. This theory has been discounted, since meteorites strike with
such high velocities, they would vaporize on contact. Another mun­
dane explanation is that the mascons are nothing more chan lava-filled
caverns, but skeptics say there isn’t enough lava present to accomplish
this. Since the maria appear to have been formed by hot lava, why did
these heavy mascons not sink to the bottom? “What they are is a major
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moon mystery,” wrote Wilson. “It now appears that the mascons are
broad disk-shaped objects that could be possibly some kind of artificial
construction. For huge circular disks are not likely to be beneath each
huge maria, centered like bull’s-eyes in the middle of each, by coinci­
dence or accident.”

During the Apollo missions seismographic equipment was

placed at six separate sites on the moon. Between 1969 and 1977, when
this equipment ceased operating, up to three thousand “moonquakes”
were detected during each year of operation. Most of the vibrations
were quite small and were caused by meteorite strikes or falling
booster rockets. But many other quakes were detected deep inside the
moon. This internal creaking is believed to be caused by the gravita­
tional pull of our planet, as most moonquakes occur when the moon is
closest to the earth. However, an event occurred in 1958 in the moon’s
Alphonsus crater that shook the idea that all internal moonquake activ­
ity was simply settling rocks. In November of that year, Soviet
astronomer Nikolay A. Kozyrev of the Crimean Astrophysical Obser­
vatory set the scientific world on its ear by photographing the first
recorded gaseous eruption on the moon near the crater’s peak.
Kozyrev attributed this to escaping fluorescent gases. He also detected
a reddish glow characteristic of carbon compounds, which “seemed to
move and disappeared after an hour.” Some scientists refused to accept
Kozyrev’s findings. However, astronomers at the Lowell Observatory
also saw reddish glows on the crests of ridges in the Aristarchus region
in 1963. Days later colored lights lasting more than an hour were
reported at two separate observatories. Something was going on inside
the volcanically dead moon. And whatever it is, it occurs the same way
at the same time. As the moon moves closer to the earth, seismic sig­
nals from different stations on the lunar surface detect identical libra­
tions. Could internal shifting inside the moon always occur the exact
same way? Hardly likely. New York Thues writer Walter Sullivan
wrote, “It is as though the ups and downs of the stock market
repeated themselves precisely for each period of fluctuation.” The
question of identical vibrations prompted Wilson to conclude that
“it is hard to understand how this could be a natural phenomenon.
However, something artificially constructed could produce the same
identical seismic result, which could occur over and over.” For exam­
ple, a broken hull plate could shift exactly the same way each time the
moon passed near the earth.

There are many indications that the moon may be hollow. The
moons mean density—about 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter, or 3.34
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times as much as an equal volume of water—is significantly different

from the 5.5 gram density of the earths mantle. Studies of moon rocks
indicate that the moon’s interior differs from the earth’s mantle in ways
suggesting a very small, or even no, core. As far back as 1962, NASA sci­
entist Dr. Gordon MacDonald stated, “If the astronomical data are
reduced, it is found that the data require that the interior of the moon be
less dense than the outer parts. Indeed, it would seem that the moon is
more like a hollow than a homogeneous sphere.” Unwilling to believe
the moon hollow, MacDonald believed his data may have been faulty.
However, other studies tended to confirm his findings. Nobel chemist
Dr. Harold Urey has suggested that the density question may be
answered by what he termed “negative mascons,” or large areas inside
the moon where “there is either matter much less dense than the rest of
the moon or simply a cavity.” MITs Dr. Sean C. Solomon wrote, “The
Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the
moon’s gravitational field . . . indicating the frightening possibility that
the moon might be hollow.” Why frightening? The significance was
stated by astronomer Carl Sagan way back in his 1966 work Intelligent
Life in the Universe: “A natural satellite cannot be a hollow object.”

The most startling evidence that the moon could be hollow

came on November 20, 1969, when the Apollo 12 crew, after returning
to their command ship, sent the lunar module (LM) ascent stage
crashing back onto the moon, creating an artificial moonquake. The
LM struck the surface about forty miles from the Apollo 12 landing
site, where ultrasensitive seismic equipment recorded something both
unexpected and astounding—the moon reverberated like a bell for
more than an hour. The vibration wave took almost eight minutes to
reach a peak, then decreased in intensity; At a news conference that
day, one of the codirectors of the seismic experiment, Maurice Ewing,
told reporters scientists were at a loss to explain the ringing. “As for
the meaning of it, I’d rather not make an interpretation right now. But
it is as though someone had struck a bell, say, in the belfry of a church
a single blow and found that the reverberation from it continued for
30 minutes.” Dr. Frank Press of MIT added, “None of us have seen
anything like this on Earth. In all our experience, it is quite an extraor­
dinary’ event. Thar this rather small impact . . . produced a signal
which lasted 30 minutes is quite beyond the range of our experience.”
Later it was established that small vibrations had continued on the
moon for more than an hour. Dr. Press later attempted to explain the
phenomenon by saying the LM crash may have set off “a cascade of
avalanches and collapses over a very large area.” However, this idea
failed to explain why the seismic data showed long, sustained readings
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following the impact. The phenomenon was repeated when the Apollo
75’s third stage was sent crashing onto the moon by radio command,
striking with the equivalent of eleven tons of TNT. According to
NASA, this time the moon “reacted like a gong.” Although seismic
equipment was more than 108 miles from the crash site, recordings
showed reverberations lasted for three hours and twenty minutes and
traveled to a depth of twenty-two to twenty7-five miles. Subsequent
studies of man-made crashes on the moon yielded similar results. After
one impact the moon reverberated for four hours. This ringing cou­
pled with the density7 problem on the moon led some to conclude the
moon may have an unusually light—or even no—core. They hoped to
record the impact of a meteor large enough to send shock waves to the
moon’s core and back and settle the issue. That opportunity came on
May 13, 1972, when a large meteor stuck the moon with the equiva­
lent force of two hundred tons of TNT. After sending shock waves
deep into the interior of the moon, scientists were baffled to find that
none returned, confirming that there is something unusual about the
moon’s core. According to author Wilson, one NASA scientist has
admitted that the U.S. government has conducted experiments “which
were not publicly announced” to determine if the moon is hollow or
contains large cavities. Dr. Farouk El Baz was quoted as saving,
“There are many undiscovered caverns suspected to exist beneath the
surface of the moon. Several experiments have been flown to the moon
to see if there actually were such caverns.” The results of these experi­
ments have not been made public.

It seems apparent that the moon has a tough, hard outer shell
and a light or nonexistent interior. The moons shell contains dark
minerals such as titanium, used on Earth in the construction of aircraft
and space vehicles. Many people still recall watching our astronauts on
TV as they vainly tried to drill through the crust of a moon maria.
Their specially designed drills could penetrate only a few inches. The
puzzle of the moon’s hard surface was compounded by the discovery of
what appeared to be processed metals. Experts were surprised to find
lunar rocks bearing brass, mica, and amphibole in addition to the near-
pure titanium. They conclude it is the large amount of titanium in the
black mineral illeminite that gives the dark tone to the lunar seas. Ura­
nium 236 and neptunium 237—elements not previously found in
nature—were discovered in moon rocks, according to the Argone
National Laboratory. While still trying to explain the presence of
these materials, scientists were further startled to learn of rustproof
iron particles in a soil sample from the Sea of Crisis, in 1976, the
Associated Press reported that the Soviets had announced the discov-
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ery of iron particles that “do not rust” in samples brought back by an
unmanned moon mission in 1970. Iron that does not rust is unknown
in nature and well beyond present earth technology.

Undoubtedly the greatest mystery concerning our moon is how

it came to be there in the first place. Prior to the Apollo missions, one
serious theory as to the moon’s origin was that it broke off of the earth
eons ago, although no one could positively locate where on Earth it
originated. This idea was discarded when it was found that there is lit­
tle similarity between the composition of our world and the moon. A
more recent theory had the moon created out of space debris left over
from the creation of the earth. This concept proved untenable in light
of current gravitational theory, which indicates that one large object
will accumulate all loose material, leaving none for the formation of
another large body. It is now generally accepted that the moon origi­
nated elsewhere and entered the earth’s gravitational field at some
point in the distant past. Here theories diverge—one stating that the
moon was originally a planet that collided with the earth, creating
debris that combined to form the moon, while another states that the
moon, while wandering through our solar system, was captured and
pulled into orbit by Earth’s gravity. Neither of these theories is espe­
cially compelling because of the lack of evidence that either the earth
or the moon has been physically disrupted by a past close encounter.
There is no debris in space indicating a past collision, and it does not
appear that the earth and the moon developed during the same time
period. A current encyclopedia states that “there seems to be a record
of lunar magmatic [molten rock] processes in operation long before
any processes that can be deduced directly by terrestrial geological
studies.” As for the “capture” theory, even scientist Isaac Asimov, so
well known for his works of fiction, has written, “It’s too big to have
been captured by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having
been effected and the moon then having taken up nearly circular orbit
around our Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible.”
Asimov was right to consider the moon’s orbit—it is not only nearly a
perfect circle but stationary, one side always facing the earth with only
the slightest variation. As far as we know, its the only natural satellite
with such an orbit. This circular orbit is especially odd considering
that the moon’s center of mass lies more than a mile closer to the earth
than its geometric center. This fact alone should produce an unstable,
wobbly orbit, much as a ball with its mass off center will not roll in a
straight line. Additionally, almost all of the other satellites in our solar
system orbit in the plane of their planet’s equator. Not so the moon,
whose orbit lies strangely nearer the earth’s orbit around the sun or
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inclined to the earth’s ecliptic by more chan five degrees. Add to this
the fact that the moon’s bulge—located on the side facing away from
Earth, thus negating the idea that it was caused by the earth’s gravita­
tional pull—makes for an off-balanced world. It seems impossible that
such an oddity could naturally fall into such a precise and circular
orbit. It is a fascinating conundrum, as articulated by science writer
Wiliam Roy Shelton, who wrote, “It is important to remember that
something had to put the moon at or near its present circular pattern
around the Earth. Just as an Apollo spacecraft circling the Earth every
90 minutes while 100 miles high has to have a velocity of roughly
18,000 miles per hour to stay in orbit, so something had to give the
moon the precisely required velocity for its weight and altitude. ...
The point—and it is one seldom noted in considering the origin of the
moon—is that it is extremely unlikely that any object would just stum­
ble into the right combination of factors required to stay in orbit.
‘Something’ had to put the moon at its altitude, on its course and at its
speed. The question is: what was that ‘something’?” If the precise and
stationary orbit of the moon is seen as sheer coincidence, is it also
coincidence that the moon is at just the right distance from the earth
to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? While the diameter of
the moon is a mere 2,160 miles against the sun’s gigantic 864,000
miles, it is nevertheless in just the proper position to block out all but
the sun’s flaming corona when it moves between the sun and the earth.
Asimov explains, “There is no astronomical reason why the moon and
the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only
the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion.”

How does one explain these and many other moon mysteries?
Scientists are a conservative lot who all too often tend to ignore any data
not pertaining to their own particular area of expertise. They are as lost
at explaining our nearest satellite as they are at explaining tektites—
small glassy extraterrestrial blobs found at only a few sites on Earth. For
years scientists believed tektites were blown to Earth by meteorite
strikes on the moon. However, this theory was overturned when the
Apollo missions failed to find anything comparable on the moon.
In July 1970, two Russian scientists offered a bizarre theory’ of
the origin of the moon—but one that provided an answer to all the
mysteries.

The Spaceship Moon Theory

Little notice was taken when Michael Vasin and Alexander
Shcherbakov published an article in the Soviet journal Sputnik entitled
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“Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?” After all, who could
take seriously such an outrageous concept?
They advanced the theory that the moon is not a completely
natural world but a planetoid that was hollowed out eons ago in the far
reaches of space by intelligent beings possessing a technology far supe­
rior to ours. Huge machines were used to melt rock and form large
cavities within the moon, spewing the molten refuse onto the surface.
Protected by a hull-like inner shell plus a reconstructed outer shell of
metallic rocky junk, this gigantic craft was steered through the cosmos
and finally parked in orbit around the earth.
In their article Vasin and Shcherbakov wrote, “Abandoning
the traditional paths of ‘common sense,’ we have plunged into what
may at first sight seem to be unbridled and irresponsible fantasy. But
the more minutely we go into all the information gathered by man
about the moon, the more we are convinced that there is not a single
fact to rule out our supposition. Not only that, but many things so
far considered to be lunar enigmas are explainable in the light of this
new hypothesis.”
The Spaceship Moon theory was revitalized in 1975 with the
publication of Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon by Don Wilson, who col­
lected an impressive array of supporting facts. Wilson urged the sci­
entists of the world to take the Vasin-Shcherbakov theory7 seriously,
stating, “Too many pieces of evidence seem to fit to reject the ‘wild’
theory without investigation.”
Wilson said he rejected the theory at first as “unbelievable” but
changed his attitude in light of the information gained through the
Apollo missions. “Scientists themselves are continuing to uncover
bewildering and baffling scientific facts that indicate the moon is not
what it seems, but a world that may not be entirely natural,” he wrote.
Outrageous as the spaceship moon theory might first appear,
consider how all of the mysteries of the moon are reconciled by this
model:

It would explain why the moon gives evidence of being much

older than the earth and perhaps even our solar system.

It explains why there are three distinct layers within the moon,
with the most dense materials in the outside layer. This is exactly the
type of “hull” one would expect to find on a spacecraft.

This theory could explain why no sign of water has been found
on the moon’s surface, yet there is evidence it exists deep inside.
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It also would explain the magnetism found in moon rocks.

These rocks were magnetized as the mooncraft passed by planets and
suns on its journey through space.

The strange maria, or moon seas, are explained as dumping

pools for molten rock blasted from the moons interior. The mas-
cons—those dense masses located just below the center of each
maria—may be the remnants of the machinery used to hollow' out the
moon.

An artificial satellite could explain the odd, rhythmic “moon­

quakes” as artificial constructs reacting the same way during periods of
stress from the earth’s pull. And artificial equipment beneath the
moon’s surface might be the source of the gas clouds that have been
observed.

The “terraforming” of the moon could prove the solution to the

argument between “hot moon” and “cold moon” scientists—they are
both right! The moon originally was a cold world that was trans­
formed into a spacecraft by artificially heating and expelling vast quan­
tities of its interior.

This theory also could explain the seeming contradictions over

the question of a hollow moon. If the moon originally was a solid
world that was artificially hollowed out, there would be evidence of
both phases—exactly w hat we have with current moon knowledge.

An artificially hollow'ed-out moon would explain why the satel­

lite rings like a bell for hours after struck and w hy specimens of tough,
refractory metals such as titanium, chromium, and circonium, as well
as “rustproof” iron, uranium 236, and neptunium 237 have been found
there.

Finally, the Spaceship Moon theory may come closer than any
other in reconciling the questions over the origin and amazing orbit of
the moon.

There is even tantalizing evidence that in the dim recesses of

human memory' there have been recollections of a time before the
arrival of the moon.
Aristotle told of a people called the Proselenes who lived in
Arcadia, a mountainous region in central Greece, long before the com-
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ing of the Greeks. The name Selene—the Greek goddess of the

moon—has come to refer to the moon itself, and the term Proselenes
means “before the moon.” According to ancient legend, the Proselenes
held claim to Arcadia because they lived there “before there was a
moon in the heavens.” The Greek writer Plutarch also referred to
“prelunar people” in Arcadia, and the Roman author Ovid stated that
the Arcadian “folk is older than the moon.” The Roman Apollonius
Rhodius wrote that the Arcadians “dwelt on the mountains and fed on
acorns, before there was a moon.” In Tibetan texts, there are refer­
ences to a people on a lost continent named Gondwana, said to be civi­
lized before the moon shone in the night sky.
Iconoclast Immanuel Velikovsky also has written about an early
time before there was a moon. “The traditions of diverse people offer
corroborative testimony to the effect that in a very early age, but still
in the memory of mankind, no moon accompanied the earth,” he said.
Velikovsky quotes from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala regarding a
time “when the moon was placed in orbit.”
Legends and sacred writings across the world indicate that the
moon was once much closer to the earth. Marine sediment found in
the Andes mountains reaching twelve thousand feet higher than pres­
ent sea levels adds evidence that the moon may have been much closer
and exerted tidal pull thousands of years ago. However, British
astronomer John D. Barron pointed out that the study of coral growth
rings in the Bahamas indicated that 350 million years ago an earth day
was only 21.9 hours long. He attributed this to the pull of the moon,
which has lengthened the day by about two-thousandths of a second
every century, thus suggesting the moon has been in place for millions
of years.
In the Bolivian city of Tiahuanaco is a large courtyard called the
Kalasasaya, constructed by people who lived there long before the Incas.
This ancient calendar presents accurate descriptions of the equinoxes,
solstices, the astronomical seasons, and even the movement of the
moon, which takes into account the orbit of the earth. Based on astro­
nomical and solar alignments presented on the walls of the Kalasasaya,
author Graham Hancock concluded that the edifice was originally con­
structed more than seventeen thousand years ago, long before recorded
history. Some researchers even claim that symbols on the nearby Great
Idol indicate knowledge of a round earth and the moon arriving in its
orbit. Undeterred by the coral study, authors H. S. Bellamy and
Dr. P. Allen wrote, “The symbols of the idol record that the satellite
came into orbit around the Earth 11,500 to 13,000 years ago.”
Such fragments of legend provide provocative speculation but
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no real proof of the Spaceship Moon theory. Whether or not the

moon may eventually be shown to be a hollow “spaceship,” there
remains ample evidence that it harbors many anomalies.

Moon Lights and Monuments

Several thousand sightings of gaseous clouds, colored mists, and bright
moving lights on the lunar surface have been reported worldwide for
many years, many by prestigious astronomers and institutions. In
1968, a year before U.S. astronauts landed on the moon, NASA pub­
lished Technical Report R-277 entitled Chronological Catalogue of
Reported Lunar Events, which listed more than 570 moon anomalies
from 1540 to 1967.
Some of the more intriguing events in this study included:

A “star” was seen within the body of a crescent moon “directly

between the points of her horns” on March 5, 1587.

A small white “cloud” was seen on the moon on November 12,

1671, by French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini, who was direc­
tor of the Paris Observatory.

Flashes of light seen on the moon on May 18, 1787, by two

astronomers were explained as “lightning,” although lightning could
not occur on an airless world.

During March and April 1787, Britain’s Sir Frederick William

Herschel, a pioneer of the reflecting telescope and the discoverer of
Uranus, claimed to have sighted three “bright spots,” four “volca­
noes,” and lights moving “above the moon.”

In July 1821, a German astronomer reported sighting “brilliant

flashing light spots.” His was one of numerous reports of flashing or
blinking lights seen on the moon.

In February 1877, a line or streak of light was seen stretching

across Eudoxus Crater. This light was observed for about an hour, rul­
ing out the possibility that it was merely a meteorite striking the lunar
surface with a flash.

On April 24, 1882, moving shadows were seen in the moons

Aristotle area.
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A beam of light was sighted in the crater Clavius on April 23,

1915.

Two streaks of medium-intensity light were recorded on June

14, 1940, in the crater Plato, a location where reports of lights have
numbered in the thousands.

“Glitter” similar to an electrical discharge was seen near the

moons south pole on May 24, 1955.

On September 13, 1959, something blocked the view of the Lit-

trow area, and on June 21, 1964, something dark moved across the
moon’s surface near the Ross D. area. This mysterious dark mass was
observed for more than two hours.

A “black cloud surrounded by violet color” was seen in the Sea

of Tranquility by Canadian astronomers on September 11, 1967.

Such Lunar Transient Phenomena (LTP) are well known

among veteran astronomers. Bright and blinking lights, colorful dis­
plays, clouds, or mists have been reported in many lunar craters, espe­
cially those of Aristarchus, Plato, Eratosthenes, Biela, Rabbi Levi, and
Posidonius.
Author Don Wilson pointed out that NASA must have been
impressed with the lunar events study, “for soon thereafter NASA car­
ried out Operation Moon Blink, a search for unexplainable lights and
happenings’ taking place on the moon. It was done in conjunction
with cooperating observatories around the world, and in a short time
Operation Moon Blink reported ten more such inexplicable lunar phe­
nomena, three of which were confirmed independently and separately
by observers outside the program. In fact, by August, 1966, 10 Moon
Blink stations had detected 28 lunar events.”
Modern computer imaging technology has increased the ability
to scrutinize the lunar surface, but has yet to explain what can be
clearly seen in photographs.
For example, New York Herald Tribune science editor John J.
O’Neill on July 29, 1953, claimed to have seen a twelve-mile-long
“bridge” straddling the Mare Crisium crater. After reporting his find
to the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, O’Neill was
scorned by astronomers. However, a month later the “bridge” was
confirmed by British astronomer Dr. H. P. Wilkens, who told the
BBC, “It looks artificial. It’s almost incredible that such a thing could
have been formed in the first instance, or if it was formed, could have
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lasted during the ages in which the moon has been in existence.” Fur­
ther confirmation came from Patrick Moore of the British Astronomi­
cal Association, who declared the “bridge” had “popped up” almost
overnight.
Another most amazing structure is known as the “Shard”
located in the Ukert area of the moon, which is at a point nearest the
earth. The Shard was photographed by Orbiter 3 in preparation for the
Apollo missions. This odd monument towers up a mile and a half from
the moon’s surface. Dr. Bruce Cornet, an independent geologist who
has studied photos of the Shard at length, said, “No known natural
process can explain such a structure.”
Perhaps even more amazing is a huge upright structure in the
Sinus Medii region dubbed the “Tower.” Dr. Cornet said, “The Tower
represents an enigma of the highest magnitude, because it rises more
than five miles above the surface of the moon, and has been pho­
tographed from five different angles and two different altitudes. In all
four photographs the same structure is visible and can be viewed from
two different sides. The Tower exists in front of and to the left of the
Shard in the Lunar Orbiter III-84M photograph. The top of the
Tower has a very cubic geometry and appears to be composed of regu­
lar cubes joined together to form a very large cube with an estimated
width of over one mile!”
Private researcher George H. Leonard came to a startling con­
clusion regarding activity and structures on the moon. In 1977, after
years of “haunting” NASA photo files, Leonard claimed to have found
enough evidence to convince him that “the moon is occupied by an
intelligent race or races which probably moved in from outside the
solar system.” “The moon is firmly in the possession of these occu­
pants,” he added. “Evidence of their presence is everywhere: on the
surface, on the near side and the hidden side, in the craters, on the
maria, and in the highlands. They are changing its face. Suspicion or
recognition of that triggered the U.S. and Soviet moon programs—
which may not really be so much a race as a desperate cooperation.”
Leonard published a book in 1977 entitled Somebody Else Is on the
Moon in which he discussed more than two dozen NASA photos. While
many of these photos were indistinct to the untrained eye and might
have shown almost anything, some were indeed curious. Some seem to
show “bridges” across lunar chasms, evidence of “stitching” connecting
surface splits, domed-shaped objects in the center of lit craters, and
lengthy “tracks” in the moon dust. “The professionals choose io ignore
these signs. They do not fit into the orthodoxy.” wrote Leonard, adding
that an unnamed NASA scientist confided to him that “discoveries” had
been made but not announced to the public.
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After studying hundreds of lunar photos, Leonard concluded

that whoever is on the moon is doing at least two things: mining for
minerals—or perhaps water and oxygen—and repairing damage to the
moon’s surface.
Leonard is not alone in his beliefs. Some researchers claim that
moon photos show a series of transparent domes under which can be
seen orderly lines indicating the possible ruins of cities or large sta­
tions.
Add to these anomalies the fact that several distinct pyramids
have been reported sighted on the moon, especially in the Sea of Tran­
quility Apollo landing site. In November 1966, Lunar Orbiter II took
photos from twenty-nine miles above the sea showing what appear to
be several slender pyramids or obelisks similar to Central Park’s
Cleopatra’s Needle, some as high as a fifteen-story building. Pre­
dictably, NASA denied that the Orbiter photos disclosed anything
unusual on the moon, even as they released some of the pictures. Since
there was no official confirmation, most news outlets did not cover the
story. One that did was the Washington Post, which on November 22,
1966, carried the story on the front page with the headline, “Six Mys­
terious Statuesque Shadows Photographed on the Moon by Orbiter.”
Some scientists, such as Dr. William Blair of the Boeing Insti­
tute of Biotechnology, have claimed that these structures are geometri­
cally positioned, forming a right-handed coordinate system resulting
in six isosceles triangles and two axes of three points each. Russian
space engineer Alexander Abramov added to the mystery by stating,
“The distribution of these lunar objects is similar to the plan of the
Egyptian pyramids constructed by Pharaohs Cheops, Chephren and
Menkaura at Gizeh, near Cairo. The centers of the spires in this lunar
‘abaka’ are arranged in precisely the same way as the apices of the
three great pyramids.”
If these structures are pyramids and if they do match the layout
of the Egyptian pyramids, they might connect to the pyramid-shaped
structures photographed by a Viking probe of Mars in 1976. Objects
that appear to be pyramids, along with the controversial “face on
Mars,” were seen in pictures taken of the Cydonia area. Some
researchers have wondered if these monuments might represent some
grand marking system.
“It is the eerie similarity between the pyramidal structures that
have come to stand for ‘Egypt’ and those lying—empty and aban­
doned—at Cydonia, that almost scream of some ‘connection,’” wrote
Richard C. Hoagland, a science writer who has publicized the theory
of artificial structures on both Mars and the moon.
Hoagland suggested that perhaps the Apollo missions had an
 THE GREATEST UFO? 17

unstated agenda of seeking the truth of these anomalies. He and other

suspicious-minded UFO researchers have publicly wondered if the
destinations of some of the Apollo moon missions—such as the Sea of
Tranquility for Apollo 11 and the Taurus-Littrow area for Apollo 17—
were selected because of the high incidence of abnormal sightings in
those locations. If they were, nobody in NASA officially is talking
about it.
In March 1996, Hoagland, along with several men connected to
NASA or space engineering, held a press conference at the National
Press Club in Washington, D.C., for the avowed purpose of alerting
the American public to space photographs and films that they said
proved the existence of alien artifacts on the moon. A media release
stated, “These official mission films—analyzed over a period of four
years via scientific techniques and computer technologies literally
unavailable even to NASA 30 years ago when the original photographs
were taken—now provide compelling scientific evidence for the pres­
ence of ancient artificial structures on the moon. Further, it is now
apparent that the entire purpose of President John F. Kennedy’s sud­
den, all-out Apollo Program to land Americans on the moon within 10
years was to send American astronauts direcdy to these ruins, to
record them on film, and to bring back physical evidence—including
manufactured artifacts—for analysis on Earth.” At the news confer­
ence, speakers presented analysis and photographs to support their
arguments.
Although more than a hundred news media representatives were
present to see and hear this evidence, little or no coverage was given
the news conference by media outlets throughout rhe country. What
little mention was made was usually done in a flippant manner, such as
one reporter who wrote, “My son’s Barney videotape jammed this
morning, too. Is Barney pan of this conspiracy? What is Barney’s
planet of origin?”
But the questions raised in Washington deserve serious answers.
Many prominent scientists including Karl Gauss, Charles Gros, and
Joseph Johanne von Littrow have stated that the best way to alert
someone in outer space that intelligent beings inhabit this planet
would be to build huge artifacts such as canals, rowers, and geometric
shapes formed from rock or forests. “Patterns. Geometridlies.
Straight lines. It is assumed that a triangle . . will reveal the existence
of our brains, and it will,” wrote author George Leonard. “But then
we turn around and ignore exactly this and a thousand even more con­
vincing patterns on the Moon. This is science?”
Anomalies such as lights, odd structures, and moving shadows
are provocative, but hardly firm proof that someone other than the
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Apollo astronauts has been—or still is—on the moon. What, then, do
the astronauts have to say about their space experiences? Again, it’s
hard to determine the truth because of official denial and obfuscation.

NASA Means Never a Straight Answer

As a whole the U.S. astronauts appear to have maintained a united
front, stoutly denying than any valid UFO encounters have taken
place. Following the Hoagland news conference in March 1996, astro­
naut Alan Bean told the media, “It’s not true. No one, certainly not me
and Pete Conrad, who I was with the whole time, saw anything that
suggested ancient civilizations.” NASA spokesman Brian Welch added,
“Everything we found, we made public.”
On December 29, 1986, Neil Armstrong, the first man to step
onto the moon, told author Timothy Good, “There were no objects
reported, found, or seen on Apollo 11 or any other Apollo flight other
than of natural origin. All observations on all Apollo flights were fully
reported to the public.”
However, rumors have persisted for years that the astronauts—
nearly all military officers susceptible to being silenced under orders—
may have seen something more on the moon than rocks and dust.
According to transcripts of the technical debriefing following the
Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and
Michael Collins told of an encounter with a large cylindrical UFO
even before reaching the moon. Aldrin said, “The first unusual thing
that we saw I guess was one day out or pretty close to the moon. It had
a sizable dimension to it...Aldrin said the Apollo crew at first
thought the object was the Saturn 4 booster rocket (S-IVB) but added,
“We called the ground and were told the S-IVB was 6,000 miles away.”
Aldrin described the UFO as a cylinder, while Armstrong said it was
“really two rings. Two connected rings.” Collins also said it appeared
to be a hollow cylinder that was tumbling. He added, “It was a hollow
cylinder. But then you could change the focus on the sextant and it
would be replaced by this open-book shape. It was really weird.”
Two astronauts who appear to have broken ranks are Dr. Edgar
Mitchell and Gordon Cooper. On an Oprah Winfrey show on July 19,
1991, Mitchell hinted that all information regarding UFOs has not
been released, saying, “I do believe that there is a lot more known
about extraterrestrial investigation than is available to the public right
now [and] has been for a long time. . .. It’s a long, long story. It goes
back to World War II when all of that happened, and is highly classi­
fied stuff.”
On Dateline NBC in 1996, Mitchell was even more candid. “I
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have no firsthand experience, but I have had the opportunity to meet

with people from three countries who in the course of their official
duties claim to have had personal firsthand encounter experiences ...
with extraterrestrials,” he said. Asked if he thought extraterrestrials
have already visited the earth, Mitchell replied, “From what I now
understand and have experienced and seen the evidence for, I think the
evidence is very strong, and large portions of it are classified ... by
governments.”
Cooper, who retired as a colonel from the U.S. Air Force in
1970, has been even more vocal. In 1978, during a meeting at the
United Nations to discuss UFOs, a letter from Cooper was read, stat­
ing: “I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are
visiting this planet from other planets, which are obviously a little
more advanced than we are here on Earth.”
Also that year, Cooper wrote a letter to the ambassador of the
mission of Grenada to the United Nations supporting a UN initiative
to study UFOs. In his letter, which has since been made public,
Cooper stated that astronauts “are very reluctant to even discuss UFOs
due to the great numbers of people who have indiscriminately sold
fake stories and forged documents abusing their names and reputations
without hesitation. Those few astronauts who have continued to par­
ticipate in the UFO field have had to do so very cautiously. There are
several of us who do believe in UFOs and who have had occasion to
see a UFO on the ground, or from an airplane.”
Cooper’s mention of a “UFO on the ground” apparently was a
reference to his own experience at Edwards Air Force Base on May 2,
1957. In 1993, Cooper reportedly gave this account to German docu­
mentary producer Michael Hesemann: “I had a crew that was filming
an installation of a precision landing system we were installing out on
the dry lake bed, and they were there with stills and movies and filmed
the whole installation and they came running in to tell me that this
UFO, a little saucer, had come down right over them, put down three
gear, and landed about 50 yards from them, and as they proceeded to
go on over to get a closer shot of it, it lifted up, put the gear in, and
disappeared in a rapid rate of speed. ...I had to look up the regula­
tions on who I was to call to report this, which I did, and they ordered
me to immediately have the film developed, put it in a pouch, and send
them by the commanding generals plane to Washington, which I did.
And that was the last I’ve ever heard of the film.”
It is interesting to note that, despite the continued protests that
there is no government secrecy regarding UFOs, there is no public
report on this incident. Although the event was listed in the Project
Blue Book index, a full report and clear photos are suspiciously absent.
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Yet Cooper, who claimed to have reported the UFO landing, was
selected as a Mercury astronaut only two years later. In a 1996 inter­
view, Cooper said he discounts any conventional explanation for his
experience. Asked his thoughts on UFOs, the astronaut said, “Well, I
figured it was somebody coming from some distant place to visit us.”
One account of how the astronauts were muzzled came from ex­
NASA space program member Otto Binder, who accused his former
employer of censoring transmissions from Apollo 11 and other missions
by switching to radio channels unknown to the public. He claimed that
unnamed ham radio enthusiasts monitored Apollo 11 transmissions after
the astronauts landed in the Sea of Tranquility and overheard one of the
astronauts exclaim, “These babies are huge, sir ... enormous.... Oh,
God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft
out there . .. lined up on the far side of the crater edge ... they’re on
the moon watching us. ..
Binder’s account of an unexpected Welcome Wagon on the
moon was dismissed out of hand by all but the most credulous UFO
researchers. However, a variation on this story was repeated by Mau­
rice Chatelain in his 1978 book, Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space.
Chatelain wrote, “When Apollo 11 made the first landing on the Sea of
Tranquility and, only moments before Armstrong stepped down the
ladder to set foot on the moon, two UFOs hovered overhead.” He
added, “The astronauts were not limited to equipment troubles. They
saw things during their missions that could not be discussed with any­
body outside NASA. It is very difficult to obtain any specific informa­
tion from NASA, which still exercises a very strict control over any
disclosure of these events.”
It would be easy to dismiss Chatelain as quickly as Binder except
for the man’s credentials. Chatelain had every opportunity to know
what he was talking about, since he was in charge of designing and
building the Apollo communication and data-processing system for
NASA. Since coming to the United States from French Alorocco in
1955, Chatelain established a reputable career in the aerospace indus­
try. He was in charge of engineering new radar and communications
systems for Ryan Electronics in the late 1950s, receiving eleven
patents, including an automatic radar landing system used in the
Ranger and Surveyor moon flights. He began working on the Apollo
project after joining North American Aviation
Chatelain acknowledged that NASA had the capability to hide
secret Apollo transmissions among a wide variety of radio channels.
“When Apollo arrived within proximity of the moon, the communica­
tions carriers previously used could not reach that far so all communi­
cations went through one single, very powerful, transmitter with a
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directional antenna in the S band, between 2,106 and 2,287 MHz

[megahertz], with a great number of channels, each transmitting sev­
eral signals at the same time through multiplexing. For instance, there
were seven channels to feed medical information about the physical
condition of the astronauts, nine to retransmit the stored telemetry
data from the passage behind the moon that could not be beamed
directly,” he stated.
Further evidence of NASA’s willingness to hide information
from the public came from Representative Howard Wolpe of Michi­
gan, who in the early 1990s reported that congressional investigators
discovered a two-page set of instructions to NASA administrators
advising how to avoid disclosing “controversial” information. Accord­
ing to Wolpe, “This NASA document instructs government employees
to: 1. rewrite and even destroy documents ‘to minimize adverse
impact’; 2. mix up documents and camouflage handwriting so that the
document’s significance would be ‘less meaningful’; and 3. take steps to
‘enhance the utility’ of various FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)
exemptions.” A NASA official, unsurprisingly, said the document was a
“misrepresentation” of NASA’s polity of openness.
The space agency not only had the capability to suppress UFO
information but used it, according to Dr. Garry Henderson, a General
Dynamics researcher who worked with NASA. He said astronauts are
under strict orders not to discuss UFO sightings with anyone.
Add to this the power of secret intelligence agencies, some with
much more clout than even the CIA. As Don Ecker, research director
for UFO magazine, pointed out, “Sitting behind all this is the National
Security Agency (NSA), which monitors all transmissions and screens
all footage taken on missions.”
The refrain of censorship was recently joined by Brian O’Leary; a
scientist-astronaut during the Apollo program and deputy team leader of
the Mariner 10 Venus-Mercury television science group. “During the
late 1960s while I was a NASA astronaut, I had no knowledge of astro­
nauts’ UFO sightings,” O'Leary’ later wrote. “My enduring friendship
with one of the astronauts who had been reported to have had a sighting
did not seem to matter w hen I asked him about whether he had: He was
conspicuously evasive. Have the astronauts been sworn to secrecy? Was
this the main reason w hy all of us astronauts—civilians included—had to
have top secret clearances? If so, this situation has put the LTO
observers into the hot seat with respect to the Government—not an
enviable position.” O'Leary revealed his sentiments, however, by repeat­
ing the story of a ham radio operator who reportedly picked up this
transmission from a space shuttle flight in March 1989: “Houston, this is
Discovery. We still have alien spacecraft under observance.”
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In answer to the question of why NASA and the government

would hide away evidence of extraterrestrial life, several researchers,
including Richard Hoagland, pointed to a NASA report done by the
Brookings Institution in 1960. Entitled “Proposed Studies on the Impli­
cations of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs,” the report
stated, “While face-to-face meetings with [extraterrestrial life] will not
occur within the next 20 years—unless its technology is more
advanced than ours, qualifying it to visit Earth—artifacts left at some
point in time by these life forms might possibly be discovered through
our space activities on the Moon, Mars, or Venus.”
The report added, “Anthropological files contain many exam­
ples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disinte­
grated when they had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies
espousing different ideas and different life ways; others that survived
such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in val­
ues and attitudes and behavior.” This caution was picked up by writers
for the New York Times, which carried a headline crying, “Brookings
Institution Report Says Earth’s Civilization Might Topple If Faced by
a Race of Superior Beings.”
The idea seemed to be that the public should be protected from
the startling news of extraterrestrial life to avoid panic and chaos. Over
the years it must have become more and more difficult for the people
in power to admit that they had mounted a cover-up. It was the old
“one lie begets another” syndrome.
Interestingly, perhaps some of the most convincing evidence of
UFOs to date came from NASA itself—-video made from the space
shuttle Discovery in 1991.

Maneuvers in Outer Space

On September 15, 1991, a camera aboard the Discovery was taping the
curvature of the earth during mission STS-48 and transmitting images
to a NASA select channel cable television network. Donald Ratsch, a
Maryland space researcher, managed to tape the NASA feed and was
astounded to discover what appeared to be moving objects maneuver­
ing some miles from the space shuttle.
His find soon made the rounds of the UFO community, and
many others believed the tape showed UFOs in space. Soon a quality
copy of the Discovery tape was obtained from NASA files and analyzed.
The STS-48 story’, while discussed on several broadcast programs, still
is largely unknown to the general public.
In the dramatic four-minute tape segment, several bright
objects were seen moving at various speeds to the far right of the shut­
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tie. One object appeared to exit the earth’s atmosphere, then pro­
ceeded to fly parallel to the planets curvature until a bright flash was
recorded by the shuttle camera. At that moment, the object abruptly
changed course by almost 120 degrees and accelerated into space. A
second object that appeared stationary before the flash also accelerated
in the same direction as the first object. Meanwhile, in the right bot­
tom portion of the picture, two more bright objects moved parallel to
each other toward the top of the picture. Other objects were seen
moving in a variety of directions.
With the tape in the hands of the public, NASA was forced to
respond. A spokesman stated that the bright moving objects were
merely frozen droplets of water reflecting sunlight floating near the
shuttle. UFO researchers were unconvinced, since the shiny objects
obviously7 were accelerating, decelerating, and changing course—an
absolute impossibility7 for any7 natural floating object.
The issue became even more contentious when Dr. Jack Kasher,
a physicist at the University7 of Nebraska and a NASA consultant since
1991, determined to prove once and for all that the moving objects
were indeed ice particles as NASA claimed. Dr. Kasher carried impres­
sive credentials, having worked from 1975 through 1992 at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in connection with the
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars’’ program. However,
after careful study of the STS-48 tape and working through the math­
ematics, Dr. Kasher was forced to conclude that NASAs statement of
ice particles was a “completely untenable position.”
In a 1994 taped interview, Dr. Kasher said he determined that
the Discovery's camera was focused on “infinity7” when taping, which
made it impossible to record small ice particles near the shuttle. He
said the objects in the tape were about twenty' miles from the shuttle.
Dr. Kasher said nearly a half-dozen separate pieces of evidence proved
conclusively the objects were not ice particles. “And once the idea of
ice particles has been discarded,” he said, “there aren’t many options
left. . . . These objects are clearly above the air glow, the atmosphere,
maneuvering in outer space. Therefore, they arc some sort of space­
craft.
“The only viable alternative [to the ice particle theory ],” stated
Dr. Kasher, “is that these anomalous glowing objects arc intelligently
directed spacecraft that clearly arc accelerating and maneuvering
above the Earth’s atmosphere.” Despite Dr. Kashers findings and the
movement plainly seen in the STS-48 tape. NASA continued to sup­
port the ice particle idea.
Adding more fuel to the fire of rumors that NASA covered up
many encounters between astronauts and UFOs, former space worker
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Maurice Chatelain claimed, “It seems that all Apollo and Gemini
flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite
closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin—flying saucers, or
UFOs (unidentified flying objects), if you want to call them by that
name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Con­
trol, who then ordered absolute silence.” Chatelain went to far as to
state that rumors within NASA were that Apollo 13 carried a small
nuclear charge to be set off on the moon for seismic testing but barely
managed to return to Earth after being disabled by a UFO apparently
protecting “some moon base established by extraterrestrials.”
For years it has been the topic of discussion among UFO
researchers why the moon missions came to a complete halt after
Apollo 17. An obviously disheartened Chatelain wrote, “The program,
which had started in the 1960s with so much enthusiasm, ended amid
growing indifference and even some hostility from many Americans,
who were shocked to find out how high the cost of landing on the
inoon really was. Some even complained that the live TV coverage of
the moon missions had pre-empted their cherished football games.”
Many people, including most scientists, bemoaned the end of
the moon missions when new mysteries remained begging for solu­
tions and were dubious of the official explanation—lack of funding.
“It’s like buying a Rolls-Royce and then not driving it because you
want to save money on the gasoline,” groused Dr. Thomas Gold, pro­
fessor of astronomy at Cornell University.
Others offered a more sinister explanation. “For years, rumors
abounded that we were ‘asked’ to leave early on—by the much-
speculated ‘somebody else on the moon’—but that would have
caused massive questioning and perhaps panic if we suddenly
stopped, so we completed the program and then went into hiatus . . .
this idea is pure speculation and rumor,” wrote UFO researcher Don
Ecker.
Author Timothy Good, generally respected as a diligent jour­
nalist, added to this rumor when he published an unattributed report
on a conversation involving astronaut Neil Armstrong. According to
Good, an unnamed personal friend overheard .Armstrong at a NASA
symposium say, “It was incredible . . . the fact is, we were warned off.
There was never any question then of a space station or a moon
city. ... I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far
superior to ours both in size and technology—boy, were they big! . . .
and menacing.” Armstrong reportedly explained that the final Apollo
missions were completed because “NASA was committed at that time
and couldn’t risk a panic on Earth.”
Moon researcher George Leonard noted that prior to the lunar
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landings there was much media speculation on the profitable aspects of

a colony and mining operations on the moon. All such talk ended
abruptly after the Apollo missions were canceled. “We put enough bil­
lions into [the U.S. space program] to pull all the major cities of Amer­
ica out of debt, and then some. And after the successful Ranger and
Surveyor and Orbiter and Apollo flights, we dropped manned lunar
exploration like a hot potato,” he noted.
More recent space failures—the Challenger shuttle disaster, sev­
eral satellite washouts including the Titan 4, Landsat 6, and Hubble
telescope, plus the loss of both Soviet (Phoboy II) and American (Mars
Observer) Mars probes, as well as the Russian Mars ’96—have
prompted more thoughtful consideration of the concept of an alien
quarantine of Earth.
An early case was reported by Dr. Robert Jacobs of the Univer­
sity of Wisconsin, who in the early 1960s was a first lieutenant in the
air force. Dr. Jacobs stated that on September 15, 1964, he was in
charge of filming missile tests at Vandenberg AFB, California, and
photographed the launch of an Atlas rocket. A few days later, review­
ing the film with his superior, Maj. Florenz J. Mansmann, and two
unidentified plainclothes men from Washington, Jacobs was astounded
to notice “a UFO swim into the picture” as the Atlas reached an alti­
tude of about sixty miles. “It flew right up to our missile and emitted a
vivid flash of light,” Jacobs recalled. “Then it altered course, and hov­
ered briefly over our missile . .. and then there came a second vivid
flash of light. Then the UFO flew around the missile twice and set off
two more flashes from different angles, and then it vanished. A few
seconds later, our missile was malfunctioning and tumbling out of con­
trol into the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles short of its scheduled
target.” Asked for his assessment of the object in the film, Jacobs said
it was a UFO. Major Mansmann then told him, “You are to say noth­
ing about this footage. As far as you and I are concerned, it never hap­
pened!” Jacobs said the two unnamed men, believed to be CIA agents,
took the film and it has never been seen since. “It’s been 17 years since
that incident,” said Jacobs recounting his story in 1982, “and I’ve told
nobody about it until now. I have been afraid of what might happen to
me. But the truth is too important for it to be concealed any longer.
The UFOs are real. I know they they’re real. The Air Force knows
they’re real. And the U.S. government knows they’re real. I reckon it’s
high time that the American public knows it too.”
A recent example of failed attempts to probe beyond our planet
is the spacecraft Clementine, a joint NASA-Department of Defense
project to return newly developed sophisticated photographic equip­
ment to the moon. Launched in January 1994, hopes were high that
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the $75 million Clementine might transmit photos that could resolve
many moon mysteries. But control over the craft failed after a motor
reportedly misfired and yet another space probe with military connec­
tions was lost. In early 1996, hope was renewed that contact with the
Clementine might be restored.
It is reasonable to conclude that if indeed someone is tampering
with our space probes, our moon would be a logical base of operations.
The evidence suggests that someone has been there for a long time. As
an artificial world created billions of years ago to travel through space
containing timeworn ruins on or under the lunar surface, the moon
presents indications of activity obviously predating man’s history—per­
haps even man himself.
Since man has made such a tremendous effort to send astro­
nauts to the moon—thought by most to be a lifeless world—it must be
considered that someone might have made a similar effort to send
their astronauts to Earth. This could be happening today or it may
have taken place in man’s dim early history; leaving evidence that led
to the present widespread belief in ancient astronauts.
 ANCIENT
ASTRONAUTS

Until well into the twentieth century scientists believed that both the
earth’s history and man’s were marked by gradual, evolutionary
change.
This idea was set on its ear by the theories of a Russian Jew
named Immanuel Velikovsky. A practicing physician and psychiatrist,
Velikovsky traveled to the United States in 1939 intending to write
about the historical figures of Moses, Oedipus, and Akhenaten in con­
nection with the psychological concepts of Sigmund Freud. However,
in the course of his studies he discovered evidence leading to his the­
ory that the cultures of the world all describe sudden and violent cata­
clysms in man’s early history. Velikovsky theorized that these upheavals
were caused by the near miss of a comet that caused global disasters
and later moved into orbit around the sun, becoming the planet Venus.
Besides threatening the gradual-evolution theory of his day,
Velikovsky’s work was seen as a radical departure from the traditions of
religion, cosmology; geology; archeology, sociology; and psychology.
In a discussion of new or alternative theories, it is instructive to
consider the reaction to Velikovsky’s ideas. After failing to interest the
scientific community in his theories, Velikovsky' finally published his
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ideas in the book Worlds in Collision, released in 1950 to great popular
interest. “What followed was a modern classic case of academic dema­
goguery,” commented researcher Arthur Bloch. “Scientists and schol­
ars who supported Velikovsky’s thesis—and even those who simply
defended his right to be heard—were shouted down. Some, like the
astronomer Gordon Atwater and Macmillan editor James Putnam,
were summarily dismissed from their positions. Favorable reviews of the
book were killed before their publication, to be replaced by fervent
attacks on 'irresponsibility’ in the publishing industry. All too frequently,
these attacks were written by scientists who admitted they had not read
Worlds in Collision, while those who had read the book grossly misrepre­
sented the author’s position and ignored or distorted his evidence.”
There was even an attempt to create a scientific “theory-censoring
board” to prevent publication of the “wrong kinds of scientific books.”
Since then, many of Velikovsky’s theories have been proven correct,
and today the theory of planetary upheavals, such as Noah s flood and
the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs, is generally accepted as fact.
Playing off Velikovsky’s thesis that early legends had some
basis in fact, Swiss author Erich von Daniken advanced the notion
that ancient astronauts may have visited Earth centuries ago. In the
1970 American publication of his book Chariots of the Gods?, von
Daniken boldly stated, “I claim that our forefathers received visits
from the universe in the remote past even though I do not yet know
who these extraterrestrial intelligences were or from which planet
they came. I nevertheless proclaim that these ‘strangers’ annihilated
part of mankind existing at the time and produced a new, perhaps the
first, homo sapiens”
Like Velikovsky’s, von Diiniken’s theories were greeted by great
interest on the part of the public but were savagely attacked by tradi­
tionalists, who accused him of both sloppy research and writing. Even
British author Colin Wilson, himself a collector of occult and super­
natural lore, chastised von Daniken for “absurd guesses” and “distor­
tion of fact.” Wilson pointed to von Daniken’s description of space
flight and a loudspeaker in the Assyrian Epic of Gilgamesh, saying, “In
fact, a careful perusal of the [epic] reveals that these events do not
occur.” He even accused von Daniken of deliberate deceit in a later
book in which he described his visit to a cave system in Ecuador but
later admitted he had never been there. According to Wilson, von
Daniken excused this lapse of journalistic integrity7 by explaining that
writers such as himself are permitted to “embroider their facts.”
Another critic named Wilson was Clifford Wilson, a former lec­
turer with Australia’s Melbourne Bible Institute, who attacked von
Daniken based on theological beliefs. In a 1972 book whose cover was
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modeled after Chariots of the Gods? and entitled Crash Go the Chariots,
Wilson asserted, “Von Daniken is not the first—nor will he be the
last—who has foundered when he presumed to attack that impreg­
nable Rock of Holy Scripture.” His arguments against the ancient
astronaut theories, usually based on the premise that those who believe
the Bible simply knew better, were generally as weak as some of von
Daniken’s stretches of logic.
Von Daniken found himself attacked from all sides—from the
scientific establishment to religious conservatives. “The result of all
this,” commented Colin Wilson, “is that Daniken has now been totally
discredited and that the ‘ancient astronaut’ theory associated with his
name has few serious supporters. This is a pity; for there is far more
convincing evidence than that presented by Daniken.”
Indeed, many other serious writers, among them Andrew
Tomas, Maurice Chatelain, Zecharia Sitchen, Harold T. Wilkins,
Peter Kolosimo, Serge Hutin, W. Raymond Drake, and Jacques Vallee
have presented compelling evidence for the appearance of UFOs in
man’s early history. “There is, in short, no way around von Daniken,”
wrote science writer Richard C. Hoagland, who found himself at the
center of controversy with his theories of alien artifacts on the moon
and the Cydonia region of /Mars. “In order to look for the shadow of
Cvdonia on Earth—however faint the shadow—I must turn to the
Monuments of Egypt. In order to suggest transport between worlds, I
must invoke images of ‘humanoid’ astronauts and giant starships. As
soon as I do, they will find their way into blond, white space explorers
and—possibly—anti-gravity machines . . . Chariots of the Gods.”
Striking evidence connecting cultures from opposite sides of the
earth came in September 1996, when Han Ping Chen, an authority7 on
the ancient Chinese Shang dynasty; confirmed that markings found on
Central American figures dated to more than three thousand years ago
were clearly Chinese characters. The figures were from the Olmecs,
forerunners of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, and were discovered
in Mexico in 1955. Smithsonian archeologist Betty Meggers supported
Chens analysis, stating, “Writing systems are too arbitrary and com­
plex. They cannot be independently reinvented.”
Furthermore, a close study of mythology' from around the world
reveals striking similarities. Legends from different peoples living in
all corners of the earth seem to tell the same essential story—that in
the dim distant past certain individuals with “godlike” powers molded
mankind into a civilized state following a period ol cataclysmic
upheaval.
I he great teacher of the Aztecs was known as Viracocha, to the
Mayans as Quetzalcoatl, and to the ancient Egyptians as the Sun God
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Ra. Sargon, the first great leader of the Akkadian dynasty, which suc­
ceeded the Sumerians, attributed his knowledge to the god Anu, while
the Babylonian king Hammurabi was said to have gained power
through Marduk.
In India, it is believed that man is descended from gods who
flewr in fiery craft. The Teutons point to ancestors in flying “Wanen.”
The ancient Mayans thought their predecessors came from the
Pleiades, while the Incas said simply they were the “sons of the sun.”
Native Americans claim to be the sons and daughters of the great
“Thunderbird.” Chinese texts tell of long-lived rulers from the heav­
ens who sailed through the skies in “fire-breathing dragons.”
One common denominator of these ancient gods was their abil­
ity to fly through the air. Interestingly, these gods did not just appear
or disappear as one would expect of a god, but were constrained to fly
through the use of devices—flaming wheels, chariots, bright globes,
and the like.
Scholars have always faced two choices in dealing such ancient
texts and legends—assume they are allegorical fantasy or take them lit­
erally. For too long, they wrote off the old stories as myth. But in the
modern world, with recent advances in geology, archeology, and even
spaceflight, a whole new view of our past is taking shape.
It was once thought that the Greek poet Homer’s accounts of
the Trojan Wars were sheer fiction until Troy’s ruins were located by
Charles McLaren in 1822. Even then, it was not until the extensive
excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in 1870 that the reality of Troy
was accepted. Likewise, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur was
thought to be largely myth until it was discovered and excavated by
Leonard Woolley following World War I.
Author Zecharia Sitchen, who has made an extensive study of
ancient documents in their original language, stated, “Archeological
finds and the deciphering of Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite,
Canaanite and other ancient texts and epic tales increasingly confirm
the accuracy of the biblical references to the kingdoms, cities, rulers,
places, temples, trade routes, artifacts, tools and customs of antiquity.”
If the Bible is nowr being more and more accepted as containing
historical accuracy; perhaps other ancient writings deserve more seri­
ous inspection.
For example, three important Hindu texts—the Bbagavata-
Purana, Mahabharata, and Ramayana scriptures—date back to at least
3000 B.C. They are among the oldest writings known to man. These
works speak extensively about flying machines called vimanas that
could travel not onlyr through the air but also to other worlds. Richard
L. Thompson, an expert on India’s Vedic culture who has worked on
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NASA-funded satellite remote sensing, stated the Hindu v'mtanas

“could be grossly physical machines, or they could be made of two
other kinds of energy, which we can call subtle energy and transcen­
dental energy. Humans of this Earth generally did not manufacture
such machines, although they did sometimes acquire them from more
technically advanced beings.”
Vedic writings speak of gods from other planetary systems
called Devas who act as administrators for a hierarchical universal gov­
ernment, tell how the human soul—our sentient energy—inhabits a
succession of physical bodies, and how the ancient Vedic people were
regularly visited by the Devas, often in flying machines. “There is
much material in Vedic texts that is practically unknown to Western
people who do not have an explicit interest in Indian culture. Some of
this material shows parallels with commonly reported features of the
appearance and behavior of UFOs and UFO entities,” said Thompson.
Explaining why the UFO connection within the Vedas has not been
seen before, Thompson said, “Some meanings may differ so strongly
from what a person is accustomed to thinking that he will fail to grasp
them for a long time. He will tend to take words out of the context
understood by the author and force them into a context dictated by his
own cultural conditioning. This may cause him to reject the text as
absurd, and such rejection can create an impediment to true under­
standing.” This explanation could also apply in dealing with any writ­
ings of antiquity.
Thompson related how the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavata-
Purana described an incident that seemed to describe an aerial attack. It
spoke of a certain King Salva who asked his god, Lord Pasupati, to pro­
vide him with an impregnable flying vehicle that could go anywhere he
wished and terrify his enemies. Thus a “flying iron city” was con­
structed and presented to King Salva. This “whirling firebrand” was
used by Salva to besiege an enemy city. A description from the canto
reads, “From his excellent airship he threw down a torrent of weapons,
including stones, tree trunks, thunderbolts, snakes and hailstones. A
fierce whirlwind arose and blanketed all directions with dust.”
Many other attributes were given to the mysterious flying
vhnanas of Hindu legend, such as the ability to become invisible
(stealth technology?), to hear and see at great distances (radio and tele­
vision?), to ascertain the course of enemies (radar?), and to destroy
enemy craft.
One description of these fabulous machines stated:

These verily -wondrous, red of hue,

Speed on their course with a roar
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over the ridges of the sky . ..

And spread themselves with beams of light...
Bright, celestial, with lightning in their hands
and helmets of gold upon their heads.

Within the context of UFO sightings, the meaning of this

stanza seems self-evident.
Nor was such imagery confined to the Hindu Vedas. The Popol
Vuh. the hallowed book of the Mayan Indians of Central America,
described their ancestors as “admirable men ... able to know all, and
they examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the sky,
and the round face of the earth.” These Indians knew the earth was
round centuries before the Europeans, indicating they gained such
knowledge from someone able to view the earth from high above.
As in the Vedas, Mayan legends contained a close connection
with the heavens. The Popol Vuh mentioned that several gods, includ­
ing Hunahpu, Xbalanque, and the great god-king Quetzalcoatl,
returned to the stars after their life on Earth ended.
Italian author Peter Kolosimo made an in-depth study of Quet­
zalcoatl, described as the son of the sky-god Mixcoati, and concluded,
“In the opinion of many scholars, this legend may be interpreted as
follows. Upon Atlantis there descended one day a race of beings so
advanced that they seemed like gods—Mixcoatl-—in the eyes of the
primitive earth-dwellers. They were borne on a slender spaceship—the
cloud-serpent—and mingled with the people of Earth—Chipalman—
whom they raised to a high level of civilization.”
Across the world in Tibet, a book entitled the Kantyua, meaning
“the translated word of Buddha,” tells of flying “pearls in the sky” and
transparent spheres containing gods who come to visit men. A book
reportedly written by Tibetan lama T. Lobsang Rampa put forth these
ideas from ancient writings: “We [Tibetans] believe, firmly, that we are
reborn time after time. But not merely to this Earth. There are mil­
lions of worlds and we know that most of them are inhabited. Those
inhabitants may be in very different forms to those we know, they may
be superior to humans. We in Tibet have never subscribed to the view
that Man is the highest and most noble form of evolution. We believe
that much higher forms are to be found elsewhere, and they do not
drop atom bombs. In Tibet I have seen records of strange craft in the
skies. ‘The Chariots of the Gods,’ most people call them. The Lama
Mingvar Dondup told me that a group of lamas had established com­
munication with these ‘gods,’ who said that they were watching Earth,
apparently in much the same way as humans watch wild and dangerous
animals in a zoo.” The “Royal Pedigrees of Tibetan Kings,” a docu­
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ment dating back to the seventh century, states that the first seven
Tibetan kings came from the stars to which they eventually returned.
In Babylonia some 4,700 years ago a poem entitled the “Flight
of Etana” was written. It seems to be a lucid account of an ascent into
space, much as a modern astronaut might describe:

Etana looked down and saw that the earth had become like a hill and
the sea like a well. And so they flew for another hour, and once again
Etana looked down: the earth was now like a grinding stone and the
sea like a pot. After the third hour the earth was only a speck of dust,
and the sea no longer seen.

One of the strangest stories dealing with ancient visitors began

in 1938 when archeologist Chi Pu Tei discovered regularly aligned
rows of graves in the Baian Kara Ula mountains near the Sino-
Tibetan border. Beneath cave drawings of beings wearing helmets
along with depictions of the stars, sun, and moon, small frail skeletons
with unusually large skulls were found. Chi Pu Tei theorized that the
skeletons belonged to an extinct species of mountain ape and that the
drawings were left in the caves later by human Tribes. Since the graves
were in systematic rows, his theory was laughed at and forgotten until
1962, when stone plates found among the graves were translated by
Professor Tsum Um Nui of the Academy of Prehistoric Research in
Beijing.
The translation told an eerie story of a group of beings who
crash-landed on the third planet of this star system about twelve thou­
sand years ago. Unable to repair their craft, this group attempted to
make friends with the mountain tribes but were hunted down and
killed due to their nonhuman features. Since this account was not
compatible with the Western world-view, it too was dismissed.
But surprising support for the idea of men walking the earth tar
longer than presently acknowledged came in 1959. According to
author Serge Hutin, that year a joint Soviet-Chinese paleontological
expedition headed by Dr. Chu Ming Chen discovered a stone in the
Gobi Desert that proved to be about a million years old; embedded in
it was “the perfectly recognizable imprint of a shoe sole.” In 1920,
according to author Peter Kolosimo, a Professor Julio lello found
vases on the Peruvian coast depicting llamas with five toes instead of
the usual two. Tello went on to find prehistoric llama skeletons that
indeed had five toes. “The skeletons of five-toed llamas excavated by
Tello proved, contrary' to the general view; than mankind already
existed and, in some parts of the world, had reached quite a high
degree of civilization, at the time when the first mammals made their
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appearance and giant saurians were not yet extinct,” concluded

Kolosimo.
Many other physical oddities all across the globe attest to supe­
rior knowledge gained through aerial observation in the dim past.
The most well known of these are the pictographs and lines on
the plateau of Nazca in southern Peru. Scraped into the black volcanic
surface and preserved since prehistory due to lack of rainfall are hun­
dreds of different figures, from simple geometric designs to intricate
pictures of animals and birds—a whale, heron, hummingbird, condor,
pelican, spider, and monkey. All of these designs can be seen only from
high in the air. Until the advent of commercial aviation in the 1930s,
no one realized that this panorama of ancient artwork existed at
Nazca. Peruvian oral tradition claimed the markings on the desert
plateau were connected to legends of the “Viracochas,” bearded white
strangers who brought civilization following a great cataclysm. These
facts, plus several lengthy straight lines, both parallel and intersecting,
have caused some writers to speculate that Nazca was an ancient
spaceship landing site.
Author Graham Hancock discounts this idea, questioning why
extraterrestrials who could travel through interstellar space would
need landing strips. “Surely such beings would have mastered the
technology of setting their flying saucers down vertically,” he stated,
obviously believing that such beings would be far advanced of our own
space technology, which still requires a lengthy landing strip for space
shuttles. Yet he conceded to puzzlement over the Nazca lines. “The
truth is that no one knows their purpose, just as no one really knows
their age; they are a genuine mystery of the past.”
Author Peter Kolosimo quoted Pennsylvania University profes­
sor J. Alden Mason as saying that the lines “doubtless . . . were made to
be seen by celestial deities.” “There are said to be many other sites of
this kind in Peru and parts of Chile,” wrote Kolosimo, “but the Indi­
ans who know of them cannot explain their purpose, though they
related stories which suggest that the figures were intended to guide
the course of navigators from outer space who established bases on
Earth.” Von Daniken speculated that in the distant past “unknown
intelligences” landed at Nazca and laid down two runways before
departing. Pre-Inca tribesmen witnessed their arrival and later
extended the two runways plus added several of their own to induce
the “gods” to return.
Should this prove the case, it may have been the worlds first
“cargo cult,” which is still practiced today in certain areas of Melanesia
in the Pacific. Cultists believed for years that the sky gods would bring
them manufactured goods (cargo) in “big birds.” They thought this
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belief was fulfilled during World War II when American planes

dropped food and materiel in the jungles for advancing Allied troops.
After the war, the natives built mock airstrips and even bamboo
“radios” in an effort to prepare for a return of the “gods.” “Through­
out all these childish beliefs there were some bases in reality,” wrote
author Andrew Tomas. “In like manner the ancient legends of the
‘gods descending upon Earth’ and an era when ‘men and gods’ mixed
could be a folk memory of an epoch when sky ships of a different tech­
nology were seen in our atmosphere.”
Another amazing pattern found only by aerial observation was
described by NASA official Maurice Chatelain. He discovered that
drawing a circle on a map and connecting the venerated Greek island
of Delos to thirteen geographical sites—“sacred places marked by
temple ruins constructed over even more ancient ruins from time
immemorial”—within a radius of 450 miles produced the perfect fig­
ure of a Maltese cross, an ancient holy sign worn on the shields of
the Crusaders. Delos was considered one of ancient Greece’s most
holy sites, although no one has ever known exactly why. Wrote
Chatelain, “What interests us now is how and why such a gigantic
pattern was marked on the Aegean and surrounding lands. I do not
believe that even today’s land surveyors could so precisely mark such
a gigantic figure of over 360 miles jumping from island to island and
stretching over sea and mountains. Except from high up in the air
this Maltese cross would not be visible. To measure and mark all the
salient points, two very modem tools of mapping are an absolute
necessity. First, a fixed-position space satellite. . . . Then, to keep the
capsule stationary over Delos, one of our newest devices that was per­
fected only a short time ago—a navigation and distance-measuring
ground radar.”

Biblical UFOs
In the Bible, the foundation of Western thought and philosophy, there
are many accounts that seem to describe events with decidedly UFO
characteristics.
The Book of Genesis describes how Jacoh, founder of the
twelve tribes of Israel, camped while on a journey from Beersheba to
Haran. After bedding down for the night, Jacob dreamed he saw a
“ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven” and
he saw “the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” At the top
of the ladder stood a being who proclaimed himself “Jehovah, the God
of Abraham,” who told Jacob his descendants would proliferate and
spread to the four corners of the earth like “dust.” While most Bible
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scholars see this story as an allegorical dream, some believe Jacob may
have seen ancient astronauts exiting a UFO.
The beginning of Psalm 104 seems to be an account of flight,
stating, “O Lord my God ... Who coverest thyself with light as with a
garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the
beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his char­
iot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind ...”
Zechariah 6:1-7 (Living Bible) also can be interpreted as an
observation of flying machines on a reconnaissance mission when it
states, “Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from
between what looked like two mountains made of brass. The first
chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black ones, the third
by white horses and the fourth by dappled-greys. ‘And what are these?’
I asked the angel. He replies, ‘These are the four heavenly spirits who
stand before the Lord of all the earth; they are going out to do his
work. The chariot pulled by the black horses will go north, and the
one pulled by white horses will follow it there, while the dappled-greys
will go south.’ The red horses were impatient to be off, to patrol back
and forth across the earth, so the Lord said, ‘Go. Begin your patrol.’
So they left at once.”
Another familiar Bible story with UFO-visitor overtones con­
cerns the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the year
2024 B.C. Some progressive Bible scholars tend to explain the fire and
brimstone destruction of the twin cities as the result of some natural
disaster such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake that was interpreted
as an act of God. But the evidence denies this view.
The biblical account is quite clear that the devastation was
known in advance, since Abraham, a direct descendant of Noah and
the first Hebrew patriarch, was warned and even managed to bargain
with his God, revising the number of righteous persons for which the
cities might be spared down from fifty to ten.
According to the story, Abraham’s nephew Lot met two men at
Sodom’s gate, whom he somehow recognized as being very special, for
he bowed clown to them. The Bible calls them “angels,” although the
original Hebrew word Mal'akbim actually means “emissaries.” This
pair apparently appeared quite human, since Lot brought them to his
home and fed them fresh bread. Later that night when a crowd of
Sodomites demanded that the pair be given to them for sexual plea­
sure, Lot protected them, even offering his own virgin daughters in
exchange. Undeterred, the men attempted to force their way into the
house only to be temporarily blinded by the two strangers.
Following this incident, the strangers revealed to Abraham that
the cities would soon be destroyed. Lot tried to warn his neighbors,
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but none would listen. The next day, the two strangers told Lot it was
urgent that he and his family leave immediately, indicating that a spe­
cific time frame for the destruction was in motion. “Escape for thy
life,” Lot was told. “Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the
plain; escape to the mountain, lest thee be consumed.”
The two strangers then accepted Lot’s proposal that he flee only
as far as the small nearby city of Zoar rather than the mountains. Once
Lot was in Zoar, “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he
overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But Lot’s wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” Ancient docu­
ment scholar Zecharia Sitchen argues that the literal meaning of the
term Netsiv mclab (pillar of salt) should be “pillar of vapor.” Thus,
Lot’s wife was vaporized by the explosive destruction of the cities, seen
miles away by Abraham as “columns of smoke and fumes, as from a
furnace, rising from the cities there.”
As some writers have pointed out, this account sounds eerily
like those of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. But is
there anything to support this idea? According to Sitchen, archeolo­
gists have found evidence that communities near the southern end of
the Dead Sea—thought to be the site of Sodom and Gomorrah—were
suddenly abandoned in the twenty-first century B.C. and not reoccu­
pied for several centuries. Furthermore, one report claimed that water
in the area was found to be contaminated with harmful amounts of
radioactivity. This, plus the claim of a Soviet scientist that fused sili­
cone or glassy sand was discovered in the region, indicates an atomic
blast may well have leveled Sodom and Gomorrah.
Is this story of grand destruction simply a fanciful tale concern­
ing the consequences of immorality, or were the cities destroyed by
nuclear fire? Was it a deliberate act by or the result of warfare between
ancient astronauts? Or could it have been a crippled UFO whose
nuclear power went critical and exploded?
Another biblical story often connected with UFOs is the
account of Ezekiel and the fiery wheel. Again, most Bible scholars
believe Ezekiel, a sixth-century B.C. prophet during the Babylonian
exile of the Israelites, presented his messages in allegorical stories
derived from visions. However, a close study of the Old Testament
book indicates that Ezekiel was more a precise journalist than a starry-
eyed visionary.
In opening his book, Ezekiel docs not merely state that one day
he had a vision. He is very detailed in giving the time frame of his
experience. “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
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month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by
the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
God,” he wrote. If he was this precise with his dating, the remainder of
his book should be considered a literal account of his experiences.
Much confusion has stemmed from the semantics of the various
biblical translations. For example in the King James Version, Ezekiel
speaks of seeing “visions of God,” indicating he saw something that he
could only describe as a vision of something Goddike, beyond his
experience. This idea is reinforced in subsequent verses in which
Ezekiel states that the “visions of God” carried him to a city on a very
high mountain (Ezekiel 40:2); that the “spirit” of God took him up
accompanied by a “great rushing” noise (Ezekiel 3:12); and that the
“Glory of God” appeared out of the east with a sound “like the roar of
rushing waters and the whole landscape lighted up” (Ezekiel 43:1-2).
It seems plain enough that Ezekiel was attempting to described a
material object that he both saw and heard and that later even carried
him into the air.
Yet in recent translations, such as the Living Bible, Ezekiel 1:1
reads, “One day late in June, when I was 30 years old, the heavens
were suddenly opened to me and I saw visions from God.” “Visions
from God” implies a holy hallucination, a small but very critical depar­
ture from “visions of God,” implying a tangible object for which
Ezekiel has no word of description. Where the King James Version
says “In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel”
(Ezekiel 40:2), the Living Bible states, “and in a vision he took me to
the land of Israel.” With such slight, but significant, differences in
translation—compounded over the centuries by changes due to edit­
ing, copying, and interpretation—it is easy to see why there is such
confusion over the meaning of biblical verses.
It is clear that Ezekiel seems to be trying hard to describe the
“vision of God.” “I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the
north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by
brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal and in
the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their
form was like a man but each of them had four faces and four
wings. ... As I looked at the living creatures, I sawr a wheel on the
ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appear­
ance and structure of the wheels; they sparkled like chrysolite [a yellow'
or greenish gem] and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made
like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any
one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn
about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and
all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures
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moved, the wheels beside them moved, and when the living creatures
rose from the ground, the wheels also rose... . Above the expanse over
their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high above
on the throne was a figure like that of a man.” Later in the book,
Ezekiel has two more encounters with the same “vision of God,” stat­
ing in Ezekiel 43:3, “... and the visions were like the vision that I saw
by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.”
Von Daniken and others saw in these accounts the plausible
depiction of UFO encounters, with Ezekiel trying his best to describe
something totally foreign to him. One of Von Daniken’s readers was
NASA official Josef F. Blumrich, who said, “I began to read von
Daniken with the condescending attitude of someone who knows
beforehand that the conclusions presented can by no means be correct.
However, von Daniken quotes, among other things, passages from the
Book of Ezekiel, whose vague technical information he thinks is a
description of a spacecraft. With that he touches on a field very famil­
iar to me, since I have spent the greater part of my professional life
with design and analysis of aircraft and rockets. So I decided to use the
statements of the prophet to refute von Daniken and to prove the fal­
lacy of his allegations. Seldom has a total defeat been so rewarding, so
fascinating, and so delightful!”
Blumrich, after an exhaustive study allowing for the fact that the
Book of Ezekiel was fragmentary and written by someone other than
Ezekiel many years after the events, nevertheless concluded that not
only was the craft described by Ezekiel “technically feasible” but “very
well designed to fulfill its functions and purpose.” He said such a craft
is within today’s technological capabilities. “Moreover,” added Blum­
rich, “the results indicate a spaceship operated in conjunction with a
mother spacecraft orbiting the earth.”
“I want to say that I have carried it out from the viewpoint of
an engineer, out of technical curiosity, so to speak. Aly interest was
primarily focused on those parts of the Book of Ezekiel that contain
statements describing shapes and procedures relevant to my profes­
sional area of activity. These parts, incidentally, are almost without
exception clearly distinct from the prophetic content,” Blumrich
explained. “At all times we must remember that Ezekiel does not
interpret what he sees, because he cannot interpret it. What he does
is describe to the best of his ability the optical and acoustical
impression.”
Blumrich proceeds to depict a subspace landing module drawn
from Ezekiel’s account, which seems to be a cross between a space cap­
sule and a helicopter. Fie said rhe craft is “superbly suited” for tip-first
entry into the earth’s atmosphere, where it then could extend four
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helicopter blades to support the main body in a gentle landfall. He fur­

ther sees known and tested space technology in Ezekiels description of
the landing. The appearance of “glowing coals” could alternatively
refer to heating due to entry into the atmosphere or perhaps a nuclear
power plant; “two pairs of wings” may refer to helicopter blades that
allow the craft to fly through the atmosphere; and “a wheel in the mid­
dle of a wheel” is an accurate description of modern omnidirectional
wheels such as the casters on a chair, which can move in any direction,
a feat quite unknown in Ezekiel’s time.
Other explanations of Ezekiel’s experiences include the phrase
“the hand of the Lord God was there upon me,” which Blumrich states
could refer to the feeling of weight due to the pull of gravity while fly­
ing. When Ezekiel states he was taken upward “by the lock of my
head,” he could mean that static electricity caused his hair to stand on
end. His description of the craft’s commander sitting on a throne can­
not help but prompt a comparison with the padded, high-backed seats
in modern airliners.
“Moreover, with the exception of some misplaced Verses,
Ezekiel describes all the parts he saw in the order that corresponds to
the phases of the landing process,” said Blumrich. “Ezekiel begins with
the fire and the clouds of the braking phase; then he describes the heli­
copters during the aerodynamic flight, and the radiator of the reactor
and the control rockets as the spaceship is hovering; then he observes
the functioning of the wheels and the rolling on the ground. Thus, the
wheels appear in the text at the very place where they become neces­
sary from a functional point of view. This sequence is an additional
confirmation that the wheels were retractable, and further proof of the
accuracy of the description.”
Whether Blumrich’s interpretation is correct or not, it is ironic
that the most severe opposition to his theory comes not from scientists
but from Christian fundamentalists who claim to believe in the
inerrancy of the Bible on the one hand while rejecting Ezekiel’s story
as a truthful account of a real event on the other. “In the ven’ first
verse of his prophesy Ezekiel says that he saw ‘visions from God,’”
stated Clifford Wilson, who proclaimed “strong Christian beliefs” and
“acceptance of the Bible as the revealed Word of God.” “‘Visions’ are
not necessarily literal phenomena, and in fact the descriptions that fol­
low cannot all be taken literally in our physical sense,” Wilson con­
cluded.
The biblical stories suggesting flight more than two thousand
years before our time are mirrored by similar accounts on the oppo­
site side of the world. Chinese tradition tells of Hou Yih, an engineer
for the Emperor Yao, who described a flight to the moon in the year
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2309 B.C. in a craft “mounting the current of luminous air.” Once high
above the earth, Hou Yih said “he did not perceive the rotary move­
ment of the sun,” an accurate description that can be made only from
outside the earth’s atmosphere. Both Hou Yth and his wife claimed to
have visited the moon, which was described as “a luminous sphere,
shining like glass, of enormous size and very cold; the light of the
moon has its birth in the sun.” This is a most accurate depiction of the
moon’s hard, cold surface, which reflects sunlight.
But if accounts of ancient astronauts and fabulous flying
machines are accurate, why have there not been many more detailed
stories handed down over the centuries? Wouldn’t additional and even
more descriptive documents be available today?
The answer is a simple “no” thanks to the destructive nature of
man. Only some of Homer’s epic poems survived the destruction
of the collected works of the Greek tyrant Pisistratus in Athens.
Nothing survived the destruction of the Egyptian library in the
Temple of Ptah in Memphis. Likewise, an estimated two hundred
thousand volumes of priceless works disappeared with the destruction
of the library of Pergamus in Asia Minor. When the Romans leveled
the city of Carthage, they destroyed a library said to contain more
than five hundred thousand volumes. Next came Julius Caesar, whose
war against Egypt resulted in the loss of the library at Alexandria,
considered the greatest collection of books in antiquity. With the loss
of the Srnzpezzw and the Bruchion, a total of some seven hundred
thousand volumes of accumulated knowledge went up in flames.
What little survived was destroyed by Christians in 391. European
libraries also suffered under the Romans and later from zealous
Christians. Between the sacking of Constantinople and the Inquisi­
tion during the Middle Ages, an inestimable number of ancient
works were irretrievably lost. Collections in Asia fared little better, as
the Chinese emperor Tsin Shi Hwang-ti ordered wholesale book
burning in 213 B.C.
“Because of these tragedies we have to depend on disconnected
fragments, casual passages, and meager accounts,” wrote researcher
Andrew Tomas. “Our distant past is a vacuum filled at random with
tablets, parchments, statues, paintings, and various artifacts. The his­
tory of science would appear totally different were the book collection
of Alexandria intact today.”
We are left with fragmentary writings mostly from oral tradi­
tions to inform us of our distant past. Yet these stories arc filled with
strange and inexplicable accounts that continue to intrigue modem
researchers. But compelling as these stories may be, they hardly
constitute documentation of ancient visitations. Does any tangible
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proof exist today to support the idea of high technology in the dis­
tant past?
The answer would seem to be a clear “yes” after considering
some of the world’s known mysteries.

Ancient Artifacts
In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered an ancient ship lying in
waters near Antikythera, a small island off the coast of Crete. After
much work and a second trip to the site later that year, the divers man­
aged to retrieve several bronze and marble statues from the wreck,
which were taken to the National Archeological Museum in Athens,
Greece.
Awed by both the quality and quantity of the statues, observers
initially gave little notice to some lumps of corroded bronze among
the find. When finally studied by archeologist Spyridon Stais in May
1902, it was discovered the lumps contained complex cogwheels and
gears. There was an immediate dispute as to what this mechanism rep­
resented. One thought was that it may have been an astrolabe used for
measuring the elevation of heavenly bodies.
Only one thing seemed certain: Based on inscriptions found on
the mechanism’s case, its date of manufacture was about 80 B.C.
The Antikythera Mechanism, as it came to be called, remained
an enigma until 1958, when British scientist Dr. Derek J. de Solla
Price pronounced the device a predecessor to our modern computer.
“It appears that this was, indeed, a computing machine that could
work out and exhibit the motions of the sun and moon and probably
also the planets,” he wrote in 1962. Price was amazed by the piece,
stating, “Nothing like this instrument is preserved elsewhere,” he
wrote. “Nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific
text or literary allusion. On the contrary, from all that we know of sci­
ence and technology in the Hellenistic Age we should have felt that
such a device could not exist.”
The device consists of dials set into a wooden box containing at
least twenty wheel gears plus an astounding system of differential
gears, not known to exist prior to clocks made in the late 1500s. In
1971, X-ray photographs showed a full array of meshing gears inside
the machine far more complicated than even the earliest known clock­
works. The sophistication of the device prompted Price in 1959 to
state, “Finding a thing like this is like finding a jet plane in the tomb of
King Tutankhamen.”
Despite the fact that the Antikythera Mechanism has been
described as “one of the greatest basic mechanical inventions of all
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time,” most modem Americans are unaware of its existence, and even
those who are have never considered it as evidence that someone with
technological superiority may have visited the earth nearly two thou­
sand years ago. Scientist and acclaimed science fiction writer Arthur C.
Clarke admitted, “Looking at this extraordinary relic is a most disturb­
ing experience.” However, Clarke cannot allow himself to view it as
evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, instead commenting, “We can be
absolutely certain that the Antikythera computer is the product of
human skill; but if there is anywhere one might expect to find crashed
spaceships or other alien artifacts, it would be in the oceans that cover
three-quarters of our world.” Clarke may have rebutted his own argu­
ment when he wrote, “If the insight of the Greeks had matched their
ingenuity, the Industrial Revolution might have begun a thousand
years before Columbus. By this time we would not merely be pottering
around on the moon; we could have reached the nearer stars.” Since
man has not yet reached the stars, couldn’t this be evidence that the
Antikythera Mechanism was given to humans or perhaps copied from
one of nonhuman origin?
Giving credence to the idea that our forefathers may have used
electricity, an energy source we are taught was only discovered by
Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani about 1786, is a series of vessels dis­
covered in Iraq that can only be ancient batteries. In 1936, a German
scientist named Wilhelm Konig was working in the Iraq Museum
when he found several odd pieces, including a clay vase containing a
copper cylinder held by asphalt. In the center of this was a protruding
iron rod tipped by oxidized lead. “After all the parts had been brought
together and then examined in their separate parts, it became evident
that it could only have been an electrical element. It was only neces­
sary to add an acid or an alkaline liquid to complete the element,”
Konig wrote.
Naturally, Konig’s conclusions were hotly contested by tradi­
tional scientists, but became muted after another German scientist,
Egyptologist Dr. Arne Eggebrecht, came across yet another pot and
tube device among treasures on tour from Iraq. Testing his theory,
Eggebrecht poured freshly pressed grape juice into the copper cylin­
der, which promptly caused an attached voltmeter to register half a
volt of electricity. Eggebrecht has stated that the electric current pro­
duced by the “Baghdad battery” may have been used to electroplate
gilded statuary more than a hundred years before the birth of Christ.
Many other mysterious objects support the concept of either
unknown early civilizations or visits by technologically adxanced trav­
elers. The so-called Skull of Doom is especially perplexing. A near
life-size human skull, this intricate artifact is caned from pure quartz
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crystal and is believed by some to be the remnant of a lost South

American civilization. Despite the fact that it cannot be accurately
dated and some controversy swirls around its discovery, it remains a
genuine enigma compounded by the existence of a second crystal skull
on display in the Museum of Mankind, a part of the British Museum.
The museum has no idea as to the origin of its skull, which was bought
from New York’s Tiffany’s jewelers in 1898.
Yet a study of the two skulls in 1936 prompted scientists at the
British Museum to state, “It is safe to conclude that they are represen­
tations of the same human skull, though one may have been copied
from the other.” The concept of copying appears strong since the
museum skull is much cruder and is one piece compared to the crafts­
manship and separate jaw of the “Skull of Doom.”
The latter skull belonged to Anna Mitchell-Hedges, who
claimed to have discovered it herself in 1927 while excavating the
Mayan city of Lubaantum in British Honduras with her father,
explorer F. A. Mitchell-Hedges. Her father declined to detail the cir­
cumstances of the find, saying only that “I have reason for not reveal­
ing.” This reticence, of course, led to controversy over the skull, with
some claiming it is more likely of Aztec origin than Mayan. All appar­
ently agree that the age of the skulls goes back more than three thou­
sand years.
Controversies aside, there can be no doubt of the existence of
the skulls, and exactly who made them and how remains a mystery to
modern scientists. Mitchell-Hedges himself speculated that the skull
carving “must have taken 150 years, generation after generation work­
ing all the days of their lives, patiently rubbing down with sand an
immense block of rock crystal until the perfect skull emerged.” To add
to the mystery, when the British Museum Laboratory examined the
museum skull recently, they discovered evidence that a “powered cut­
ter” may have been used in its creation. Is this evidence of a hoax or of
technology predating man’s history?
Oddities from different times and cultures provide support for
the presence of technology long before we would expect it. In 1869,
miners near Treasure City; Nevada, unearthed a fist-sized piece of
feldspar, a silicate mineral, containing a two-inch-long metal screw. Its
taper and threads were clearly visible. The stone in which the screw
was embedded has been estimated as much older than mankind. Tom
Kenny of Plateau Valley, Colorado, was digging a cellar in 1936 when
at a depth of ten feet he uncovered a smooth, level pavement com­
posed of mortared tiles five inches square. The mortar used to cement
the tiles was of a composition of material not found anywhere near
Plateau Valley, and scientists estimated the date of the pavement’s ori-
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gin as almost a million years ago, since the fossil of a three-toed

Miocene horse was found in the same geological stratum of earth.
This discovery was closely duplicated when workmen in Blue Lick,
Kentucky, discovered a broad pavement of well-cut and neatly fitted
stone slabs beneath the bones of a prehistoric mastodon. The perfectly
symmetrical giant round balls—some eight feet in diameter weighing
more than sixteen tons—found in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica rep­
resent a technology not known until modern times.
Alan Landsburg produced such impressive television programs
as The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The March of Time, and The
National Geographic Senes in the 1960s and 1970s. Not given to flights
of imagination, Landsburg nevertheless became intrigued with histori­
cal anomalies around the world. His 1974 book, In Search of Ancient
Mysteries, included these intriguing items:

Ornaments formed from molten platinum found by anthropolo­

gist J. Alden Mason in Peru. Since platinum’s melting temperature is
1,730 degrees, it is unclear how early primitives could have generated
such heat.

Landsburg himself found a gold object in Colombia that “was a

clear model of a delta-winged jet fighter and it was thought to be
2,000 years old.”

Former British Naval Intelligence officer Ivan Sanderson dis­

covered a manufactured gold chain in a Pennsylvania coal deposit
believed to be at least a million years old.

In the mid-1800s, about sixty stone cubes were found in Ireland

containing inscriptions found to be “a very ancient class of Chinese
characters.”

Ancient concave mirrors—identical to modern parabolic optical

reflectors—were uncovered near La Venta, Mexico.

Cuneiform tablets from Babylon in the British Museum

described an outer planet that could not have been seen in ancient
Babylon without the aid of modern telescopes.

The list goes on. Individually, such cases might he explained

away as hoaxes or misinterpretation of data. Much harder to explain is
the existence today of ancient maps that depict an accurate knowledge
of both prehistoric geography and astronomy.
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Mystifying Maps
The Greek geographer Strabo, who lived during the time of Jesus,
wrote that there were people living in the temperate zone north of the
parallel passing by Athens and west of the Atlantic Ocean. Lucius
Annaeus Seneca, the Roman tragedian, wrote in Medea. “Another
Tiphys shall disclose new worlds, and lands shall be seen beyond
Thule.” This was a clear reference to North America, as Tiphys
referred to the pilot of the legendary ship Argos and Thule has been
identified as Iceland.
Even the sacred Hindu text Vtsbnu-Piirana speaks of a continent
composed of two lands lying south of the North Pole, a fitting enough
description of North and South America. A timeworn chart found in
Tibet was deciphered by the Soviet philologist Bronislav Kouznetsov
in 1969 as a map referring to the ancient nations of Bactria, Babylonia,
Persia, and locations including the Persian city of Pasargady,
Jerusalem, Alexandria, and the Caspian Sea. This map provided some
of the first hard evidence to support the idea that prehistoric Tibetans
had links with Persia and Egypt centuries ago.
Researcher Graham Hancock told of a Chinese map copied
from an earlier one onto a stone pillar in 1137, which indicated sophis­
ticated concepts of longitude and spherical trigonometry. “Indeed, on
close examination, it shares so many features with the European and
Middle Eastern maps that only one explanation seems adequate: it and
they must have stemmed from a common source,” he wrote.
But one of the most compelling bits of evidence indicating a pre­
historic knowledge of the world’s geography is found in the two surviv­
ing maps of the sixteenth-century Turkish cartographer Admiral Piri
Reis. Under the translated title Book of the Seas. Piri Reis published 210
well-drawn maps. One of his maps, still in the possession of the National
Museum of Turkey, is dated 1513 and depicts the western coast
of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of
Antarctica. In a letter dated July 6, 1960, Air Force Colonel Harold Z.
Ohlmeyer of the 8th Reconnaissance Tactical Squadron of the Strategic
Air Command stated, “The geographic detail shown in the lower part of
the [Piri Reis] map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seis­
mic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British
Antarctic Expedition of 1949. This indicates the coastline had been
mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.”
The English explorer Captain James Cook attempted the first
scientific visit to Antarctica in 1773 but returned thinking the entire
area was nothing but frozen ocean. Mainland Antarctica was first
sighted by the American sea captain Nathaniel Palmer in 1820. Explo-
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ration of the Antarctic region continued well into the twentieth cen­
tury. It was once believed that the southernmost continent had been
covered by thick ice since its creation. However, the discovery of ice-
encased Cenozoic unicellular algae in 1983 indicated that Antarctica
may have been at least partly free of ice as late as three million years
ago. The discovery of meteorites in the ice sheets has allowed testing,
which indicates some sheets formed as recently as ten thousand years
ago. The late Professor Charles Hapgood, who taught the history of
science at Keene College in New Hampshire, advanced the theory in
1953 that Antarctica may have moved further south by some two thou­
sand miles due to “Earth-crust displacement” and therefore could have
been partially free of ice until as late as 4000 B.C. This is still a thou­
sand years before traditional academicians believe that the first true
civilizations of Egypt and Sumer with their seafaring explorers began.
So the puzzle is how Piri Reis could have accurately drawn the
contours of Antarctica, since it was not discovered until some three
hundred years after he drew his map and is covered with an ice sheet
more than six thousand feet deep and at least six thousand years old.
Fortunately, Piri Reis was helpful. He left behind notes telling
how he acquired the information used in his maps. Piri Reis said that
in the year 1501, when he was thirty-one years old, he joined an uncle
in fighting against Spain. Following a naval battle, maps were found on
a Spanish sailor who claimed to have sailed with Columbus. The cap­
tive said he had obtained the maps from Columbus, who had made
them after reading an old book dating from the time of Alexander the
Great. However, Piri Reis said the Columbus map was not his sole
source of information. In a marginal note to his map, he wrote, “In
preparing this map I made use of about 20 old charts and eight Mappa
Mundis, i.e. of the charts called Jaferiye by the Arabs and prepared at
the time of Alexander the Great, in which the whole inhabited world
was shown.” It is known that Piri Reis had access to the Imperial
Library in Constantinople, where many ancient manuscripts were
kept. Obviously, Piri Reis was making use of charts and maps drawn
farther back than ancient Greece, whose intellectuals admittedly drew
from even older Egyptian and Sumerian sources.
But the idea that someone had accurately mapped an ice-free
Antarctica in prehistoric times paled beside the fact that Piri Reis’s
1513 map also depicted the correct position of the Falkland Islands,
not discovered until 1592, and the rivers of South /Vmerica—the
Orinoco, Amazon, Parana, Uruguay, and others not fully charted until
the advent of satellites.
And the Piri Reis maps were not simply flukes. Perhaps drawing
on the same sources as Piri Reis, mapmakers Gerard Kremer, known
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as Mercator (1569), Oronteus Finaeus (1531), and Philippe Buache

(1737) also produced maps of the Antarctic topography that are still in
existence.
Studying this issue prompted Professor Hapgood to comment,
“The evidence presented by the ancient maps appears to suggest the
existence in remote times, before the rise of any of the known cultures,
of a true civilization, of a comparatively advanced sort, which either
was localized in one area but had worldwide commerce, or was, in a
real sense, a worldwide culture.”
Hapgood based this speculation on knowing that whoever pro­
duced the antique maps of an ice-free Antarctica must have traveled
there thousands of years before our known history. The same could be
said for the mapping of the South American rivers—unless both
achievements were accomplished by aerial mapping. Von Daniken saw
evidence of this due to slight distortions of the South American coast
on the Piri Reis map. He claimed this same type of distortion is
noticeable on satellite photos in which corners of pictures warp due to
the curve of the earth’s surface. Von Daniken concluded that Piri Reis’s
source documents may have been drawn from aerial photographs. Of
course, the thought that someone may have flown over Antarctica and
South America prior to 4000 B.C. cannot be seriously considered
within the context of traditional history.
Therefore, both Hapgood and his student, author Graham
Hancock, have concluded that a previously unknown human civiliza­
tion, with very advanced technology, existed in prehistoric times. Nei­
ther man appeared willing to publicly postulate that such a civilization
might have been the result of extraterrestrial contact. Yet the evidence
for this theory continues to grow.
In 1912, a New York antiquarian named Wilford Voynich dis­
covered an old manuscript inside a locked chest in an ancient castle
near Rome. Despite several serious attempts—including the experts
who cracked the Japanese and German codes of World War II—no
one has been able to decipher the manuscript, which has been dated
before 1500. Drawings in the document depict cross sections of leaves
and roots that could only have been produced with the aid of a micro­
scope. But even more telling is a drawing of a spiral with eight legs and
a cloudy mass of what appears to be stars in the center. A partially
translated caption reading “by the navel of Pegasus, the girdle of
Andromeda and the head of Cassiopeia” may indicate a reference to
the Andromeda galaxy, which would have been invisible without a
modern telescope.
In fact, some of the most substantial artifacts found in the world
all seem to have a connection with the heavens. One ancient wonder is
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the stone megaliths of Stonehenge built upon Salisbury Plain in south­

ern England. Its most notable features include concentric rings of
stone slabs surrounding an upright horseshoe of stone and a solitary
vertical slab known as the Heel Stone. It is generally accepted that
Stonehenge was built toward the end of the Stone Age, between 1900
and 1400 B.C., as both a religious center and an observatory.
Stonehenge is only the most famous of about a thousand stone
circles in England and northern France, all of which remain a total
mystery as to who built them or why. Centuries ago, writers attributed
these megalithic circles to the Druids, mystical Celtic priests who
studied astronomy, because they were mentioned by7 Julius Caesar.
However, there is no evidence directly linking Stonehenge to the
Druids and, in fact, the Druids seemed to have flourished more than a
thousand years after their creation.
Some of the giant stones used in Stonehenge come from more
than two hundred miles away in southwest Wales with at least three
rivers intervening. Yet scientists today have focused on the speculation
that ancient Stone Age Celts quarried these stones, floated them across
rivers, and rolled them on logs before pulling them upright into their
present positions. Some of the stones weigh up to sixty tons. In 1938, it
took twelve men five days of work using steel cables to restore a small
eight-ton stone to its original position. We are told the ancients’ tools
consisted of handmade rope, stone axes, and picks made from discarded
deer antlers. This concept prompted one author to comment, “Our
remote ancestors must have been strange people; they liked making
things difficult for themselves and always built their statues in the most
impossible places. Was it just because they liked a hard life?”
Scientists were disconcerted to discover that hardly any of the
stone circles were actually circular. There was clear evidence that who­
ever built them intentionally made them in odd elliptical shapes, which
indicated some premeditated purpose. That purpose connects to the
stars.
Following a detailed computer study of Stonehenge, Boston
University astronomer Gerald Hawkins concluded that the stone circle
was nothing less than an astronomical computer. The builders of
Stonehenge revealed knowledge of the fifty-six-year cycle of lunar
eclipses. Reporting on his own study, NASA official Maurice Chatelain
reached the same conclusion. In 1978 he wrote: “The scientific skill
and astronomical knowledge of Stonehenge is rooted in the 56 Aubrey
holes, in which at different dates of the year were placed wooden poles
of different height, giving an astounding variety of precise alignments
with the celestial bodies. It made Stonehenge a huge, cleverly and
skillfully executed calculator.”
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The theory that Stonehenge and other stone circles were used
to calculate the movement of the stars was confirmed in the 1960s with
the restoration of the Newgrange Tumulus tomb located near
Drogheda, Ireland. Professor Michael O’Kelly of University College
in Cork discovered that a small quartz “shutter” above the tomb’s five-
ton stone entryway illuminated the tomb on precisely midwinter sun­
rise each year. Another monument clearly designed on astronomical
knowledge is the Maes Howe tomb in the Orkney Isles north of Scot­
land, which aligns with a monolith each winter solstice. Teacher Mag­
nus Spence, who first recorded the connection in 1893, wrote, “The
alignment formed with this long passage of Maes Howe and the
Standing Stone of Barnhouse indicates directions too remarkable to be
merely accidental.”
More remarkable than simple celestial alignments is the theory
that Stonehenge is an energy transmitter. Support for this concept
came in 1979 when a scientist-led team detected ultrasonic energy
pulses emanating from the Rollright Stones, a circle of seventy-seven
stones near Oxfordshire.
The greatest astronomical calculator of them all—and another
structure claimed to contain powerful energy—is the Great Pyramid of
Cheops. The last surviving member of the Seven Wonders of the
World, the Great Pyramid has been a source of mystery and contro­
versy throughout man’s history’.

The Amazing Pyramids

In the fifth century; the historian Herodotus was told by guides that
the major Egyptian pyTamids were built by Cheops, his son, and
brother. Herodotus repeated this hearsay in the earliest known
account of the pyramids. “All other commentators, up to the present,
continued uncritically to follow in the Greek historian’s footsteps,”
stated author Graham Hancock.
Although its creation is popularly attributed to the pharaoh
Cheops, there is no indisputable evidence of this idea. In fact, the best
evidence points to the existence of the pyramid thousands of years
prior to the Egyptian empires. This evidence is the obvious vertical
erosion found principally on the nearby Sphinx, but to some degree on
the Great Pyramid.
John Anthony West, the author of both travel guides and seri­
ous scholarship, claimed vertical erosion can come only from continu­
ous downpours of rain over long periods of time. Since the Sphinx is
supposed to have been built by Cheops’s son, Khafre, its creation has
been placed around 2500 B.C. West pointed out that no significant
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rainfall has occurred on the Giza plateau—site of both the Sphinx and
the Great Pyramid—since before 10,000 B.C. This can only mean that
both structures were built more than seven thousand years prior to the
Egyptians, a conclusion conveniently ignored by traditional Egyptolo­
gists.
West took the initiative from French scientist R. A.
Schwaller de Lubicz, who, after making a study of the Luxor Temple
during the 1940s, claimed to have found mathematical evidence that
early Egyp­ tian science was much more advanced than
previously thought. Schwaller also mentioned that Egypt was subjected
to devastating rains and floods more than twelve thousand years ago.
After verifying these claims by his own studies, West said the fact of
vertical rain erosion is “ironclad evidence for the existence of a
previously unidentified high civilization of distant antiquity.”
While the ancient Egyptians undoubtedly mimicked the Great
Pyramid by building much smaller and fragile pyramids, most of which
have long ago fallen into ruin, the origin of the prototype remains a
mystery. Its sheer physical size provokes awe in everyone with knowl­
edge of construction techniques. Rising nearly7 five hundred feet in the
air, the Great Pyramid covers thirteen acres of land at its base and is
built of stones with an average weight of two and a half tons. Some
stone blocks weigh almost a hundred tons yet are so well crafted that a
single piece of paper cannot be slipped between them.
At the nearby Valley Temple of Khafre hundreds of stone blocks
weigh more than two hundred tons. According to Hancock, “At pres­
ent there are only two land-based cranes in the world that could lift
weights of this magnitude. ... In other words, modem builders with
all the advantages of high-tech engineering at their disposal, can barely
hoist weights of 200 tons. Was it not, therefore, somewhat surprising
that the builders at Giza had hoisted such weights on an almost rou­
tine basis?”
Commenting on the technology needed to construct the pyra­
mid, I. E. S. Edwards of the Egyptian Department of the British
Museum wrote, “Cheops, who mayr have been a megalomaniac, could
never, during the reign of 23 years, have erected a building of the size
and durability of the Great Pyramid if technical advances had not
enabled his masons to handle stones of considerable weight and
dimension.”
Another oddity is the lack of written history for the Great Pyra­
mid. The only mention of Pharaoh Cheops, alternately called Khufu,
in the pyramid is in markings found in 1837 by Col Howard Vyse.
However, the Vyse find has been called into question, as it is known he
was in desperate need of justification for his expenses; no other men-
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tion of Cheops has ever been found; the lack of any other inscriptions
and the fact that the markings contained mistakes in both spelling and
grammar. In fact, Vyse and his assistants were caught in one hoax con­
cerning a wooden coffin and human remains reported discovered by
Vyse in a smaller pyramid. Author Zecharia Sitchen reported, “The
fact, however—known to scholars for some time now but for some
reason still hardly publicized—is that neither the wooden coffin nor
the skeletal remains were authentic. Someone—undoubtedly that
Colonel Vyse and his cronies—had brought into the pyramid a coffin
... and bones from the even much later Christian times, and put the
two together in an unabashed archeological fraud.”
Other Egyptian documents, such as the Inventory Stela, made it
plain that the Great Pyramid was already built prior to Cheops’s rule.
These, however, have been ignored or dismissed by traditional Egyp­
tologists. It is also interesting to note that the Bible, which, theology
aside, is a detailed history of the Hebrew people, never mentions work
on the pyramid, although they were the slaves of the Egyptians for
many years.
The questions concerning the purpose of the Great Pyramid
equal that of its construction. Traditionally, it was thought to have
been the tomb of Cheops. However, no inscriptions or funeral regalia
have been found. In fact, as Graham Hancock pointed out, “Not a sin­
gle one of these monuments had ever been found to contain the body
of a pharaoh, or any signs whatsoever of a royal burial.” So what was
its purpose?
While theories abound, the most credible involve a connection
to the stars. In the 1930s, American architect James A. Kane presented
a detailed study that he saw as proof that the three Giza pyramids were
built according to geometrical and surveying principles connected to
astronomical observations. The idea that the pyramids’ design was
based on the stars has been supported by Egyptologist I. E. S. Edwards
and archeologist Martin Isler. R. O. Faulkner, a translator of the Pyra­
mid Texts, wrote: “It is well known that the Ancient Egyptians took
great interest in the stars ... inscribing star-maps and tables in their
coffins and tombs ... in which the stars were regarded as gods or as
the souls of the blessed dead.”
A look at the orientation of the Great Pyramid confirms its
well-planned and sophisticated design. Each of its four sides precisely
face the four points of the compass with only a one-twelfth degree of
variation, which has been explained by the gradual movement of the
earth’s axis rather than any mistake on the part of its designer. Also,
although there are slight differences due to damage by both man and
nature, the height of the Great Pyramid is proportional to the radius
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of the earth and the perimeter to the circumference. Measurements of

the two base halves yield the numbers 365.256 and 365.259, the exact
number of days it takes for the earth to compete its orbit of the sun
and the time it takes to return to its starting point in the elliptical
orbit. More astounding is the fact that during the International Geo­
physical Year (1957-58) satellite technology established that the earth’s
mean polar radius was 150,265,030.4 British inches. One ten-millionth
of this distance would be 25,0265 British inches—the exact figure
found in three separate measurements inside the Great Pyramid. The
number 25,000 also happens to be the distance from the earth to the
sun and the number of years in the precessional cycle, the time it takes
for the earth to pass through the twelve zodiacal constellations.
These amazing facts go far beyond any chance of coincidence or
lucky guesswork. They tend to confirm the idea that whoever built the
Great Pyramid was in possession of astronomical and geophysical
knowledge unsurpassed even today. Author Peter Lemesurier
described the Great Pyramid as “an architectural symbol for the planet
Earth itself.”
Using the North and South Poles, the equator, and the earth’s
center as reference points, the pyramid accurately sections the entire
planet into a three-dimensional grid of thirty, sixty, and ninety degrees.
Utilizing these grids, any aircraft can successfully navigate from the
pyramid to any location on Earth with only a minor deviation. When
first built, the Great Pyramid was covered with a reflective casing of
fine white limestone, making it highly visible—an excellent aerial navi­
gation marker. In fact, several researchers have determined geometric
patterns with the pyramid as the center that they said could indicate
ancient flight paths.
Furthermore, it is known that the faces of the Great Pyramid
are not flat but slightly concave. “The most astonishing result of this
arrangement is that it pushes back the two half bases of the pyramid by
a quarter degree so that the two halves form an angle of '/> degree.
This results in a difference of two minutes of solar clock time and
could have served the ancient astronomers to set their water clocks or
hourglasses to the exact solar time,” wrote Maurice Chatelain, who
concluded that the Great Pyramid is a keeper of time among other
things.
Chatelain said the pyramid also functions as a solar calendar. He
produced complicated mathematical formulae based on the Egyptian
calendar that he claimed showed clear correlations to the amazing
Antikythera Mechanism. Chatelain also saw the Great Pyramid as an
astronomical observatory.
Authors Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert believe they may
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have found the secret astronomical reference point for the Great Pyra­
mid. In studying ancient religious writings found in Fifth and Sixth
Dynasty pyramids known as the Pyramid Texts, they found continual
references to Osiris, including a passage stating, “O Horus, these kings
are Osiris, these pyramids are Osiris, these constructions of theirs are
Osiris. . . .” Osiris was the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld
with life-giving powers connected to the constellation Orion.
After extensive study, Bauval determined that the configuration
of the three Giza pyramids—two in line while the third is offset—
indeed match that of Orion. Furthermore, one of the small tunnels
inside the Great Pyramid long described as an “air shaft” indeed
aligned with the star cluster of Orion’s Belt.
But to their astonishment they realized that the arrangement of
the Giza pyramids reflected the position of Orion as it would have
only appeared about the year 10,450 B.C.—a date more nearly match­
ing the growing body of evidence confirming a prehistoric genesis for
the Great Pyramid.
Just as strange energy readings were found at the ancient Roll­
right Stones in England, similar results have been found in Egypt’s
pyramids, leading to tales of mystic magic and psychic power.
Although largely discredited in the public mind, the sensational stories
of “pyramid power” carry elements of truth. Many studies indicate that
razor blades stay sharp longer and fruit ripens slower when placed
within a properly oriented pyramid.
In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Luis W. Alvarez, with
the full cooperation of the Egyptian government and Ein Shams Uni­
versity of Cairo, devised an investigation of the Khafre pyramid—the
second largest—utilizing cosmic rays. Since such rays would register
higher intensity in hollow spaces, it was hoped that any hidden rooms or
passageways would be revealed. But, according to the London Times,
nothing worked properly. Instrument readings differed from one day to
the next. Computer analysis of the readings produced “garbled non­
sense” so that not even the direction the instruments were being aimed
could be determined. The equipment was rechecked. It worked fine
except within the pyramid. Frustrated, Dr. Alvarez returned to America.
“As impossible and improbable as it may seem,” commented
Chatelain, “apparently the ancient Egyptians must have been capable
of predicting the future and set up radiation barriers against us, impen­
etrable even to electronic scouting. It looks as if somebody or some­
thing thousands of years ago had installed electromagnetic radiation
sources in at least one of the pyramids or their vicinity just to prevent
the electronic devices of later generations from discovering their hid­
den secrets.”
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The mysteries of the Egyptian pyramids do not represent some

fluke of the ancient world.
The pyramids of-Mexico and Central America are just as aston­
ishing and just as mysterious. One of the artifacts left by the Olmec
civilization of Mexico is a large pyramid remarkably similar to those
found in Egypt. The Olmecs are believed to be the ancestors of the
Mayans, who also built pyramids, including some that had a limestone
facing like the Great Pyramid.
As the similarities of widely spread cultures continue to
be appreciated, a pattern of common worldwide connections is
emerging. Egyptian legends tell of Tep Zept, or the First Time,
an age when sky gods came down to Earth, raised the land up
from under mud and water, flew through the air in flying “boats,”
and gave man laws and wisdom through a royal line of pharaohs. It
is intriguing to note that these ancient gods displayed very human
attributes. They required food and clothing. They liked to imbibe
wine and were not above consorting with comely young ladies.
Likewise, South Ameri­ can legends tell of the white, bearded
“Viracochas” who lifted indige­ nous natives out of ignorance and
taught them civilization, producing intricate highways and other
wonders. They too lived among the native peoples for a time,
eating, bathing, and conducting themselves in a veiyr human way.
“A . .. global influence clearly existed more than a millennium
ago as evidenced by the remarkable similarities between ancient
Mayan and Egyptian cultures,” wrote author William Bramley, adding,
“One thing that remained consistent was the building of pyramids.”
Researcher Graham Hancock concurred, writing that “a global legacy
must have been handed down—a legacy of inestimable value, in all
probability incorporating much more than sophisticated geographical
knowledge.” He added that “certain mysterious structures scattered
around the world were built to preserve and transmit the knowledge of
an advanced civilization of remote antiquity which was destroyed by a
terrifying upheaval.”
There are many Japanese traditions that include UFOs. Earthen
statues dating back more than three thousand years have been found
that depict humanoids eerily similar to the descriptions of modern
UFO witnesses—creatures with long arms and large heads that appear
to be wearing one-piece suits along with helmets bearing air filters and
goggles.
In light of so many strange and unexplained ancient monu­
ments, artifacts, and similarities of cultures, the presence of a prehis­
torical technological society appears almost certain. This gave renewed
credence to the legends of Atlantis—that great Atlantic Ocean island
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that many people believe was the progenitor of all the early civiliza­
tions. The question now is whether such a civilization was a strictly
human one that evolved naturally, then mysteriously vanished, leaving
few traces, or if such a civilization, perhaps in some ways technologi­
cally superior to our own, was the result of extraterrestrial contact.
The latter idea cannot be summarily dismissed due to the numerous
and obvious connections between the ancients and advanced astro­
nomical knowledge. Furthermore, almost all of the world’s cultures tell
of “gods” coming from the heavens in antiquity.
Zecharia Sitchen, a New York author who made a detailed study
of ancient literature for more than thirty years, often reading from the
original texts, has written a series of books entitled The Earth Chroni­
cles, which present his interpretation of many early writings—princi­
pally from Babylonian and Sumerian sources. Sitchen recounted how
man’s early history was shaped by visitors from a twelfth planet in our
solar system called Nibiru by the ancient Sumerians and Marduk by
the Babylonians. This planet reportedly is on a thirty-degree inclined
orbit to the parallax of our solar system, which takes it far into space,
preventing viewing today. It comes close to the earth every 3,600 years
and is due back between the years 2060 and 2065.
Incredibly enough, in 1983—twelve years after publication of
Sitchen’s first Earth Chronicles book, The 12th Planet—the Washington
Post News Service reported, “A heavenly body possibly as large as the
giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to the earth that it would be
part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constella­
tion Orion by an orbiting telescope called the Infrared Astronomical
Observatory (IRAS).” For some astronomers, the discovery was no
surprise. In 1981, astronomer Thomas Van Flandem reported to the
American Astronomical Society that irregularities in the orbit of Pluto
indicated that our solar system contained a tenth planet. The Detroit News
commented, “If new evidence from the U.S. Naval Observatory' of a 10th
planet in the solar system is correct, it could prove that the Sumerians, an
ancient eastern Mediterranean civilization, were far ahead of modern man
in astronomy.” Sitchen’s idea of a twelfth planet and the discovery of a
tenth planet are compatible, as Sitchen, like the ancient Sumerians,
counted the sun and the moon as “bodies” in the solar system.
In an elaborate and compelling analysis of ancient literature,
Russian-born Sitchen, one of fewer than two hundred persons who can
read the Sumerian language, began with this new planet, which was
said to have entered our solar system about four billion years ago and
demolished a planet, creating the asteroid belt beyond Mars. His
translations wove a story of alien civil war, personality clashes, and col­
onization efforts on Earth to include the creation of modern man.
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In this account, a ruler named AJalu was overthrown and fled

from the twelfth planet Nibiru, which was losing atmosphere and
dying. Landing on Earth more than four hundred thousand years ago,
he discovered that gold—one of the best conductors of heat and elec­
tricity—could be used to stabilize the atmosphere of Nibiru. As the
quantity of gold was depleted, ground stations soon spread from the
Middle East to Africa, where the hardship of the mining operations
caused a revolt among the aliens, prompting their leaders to create
modern man as slave workers by genetically manipulating early
humans. This new race of Homo sapiens was taken to the Fertile Cres­
cent in Mesopotamia about three hundred thousand years ago and
allowed to multiply. Much to their fellow colonists’ disgust, some
aliens began to interbreed with the humans.
Sitchen claimed the offspring of these alien-human contacts are
the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis 6:4, and indeed most Bible trans­
lators have concluded that the term Nephilim “designates ancient
heroes who . . . are the products of sexual union of heavenly beings . . .
and human women.”
About thirteen thousand years ago, the aliens realized that the
return of their home world—the twelfth planet—would cause
widespread floods and tidal waves on Earth. They agreed not to share
their knowledge with the humans but to allow the cataclysm to deplete
their population. One alien, however, broke the agreement by warning
the human Noah of the impending disaster.
Following the Great Flood of biblical times, years of wars and
internal political unrest wrecked the alien expedition. Many were
killed, while others returned to their home planet, leaving only ruins,
legends, and vague bits of knowledge for the surviving humans, w ho
began the ancient civilizations of Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt.
Sitchen’s account is easy to dismiss—he even claimed the Great
Pyramid at one time was equipped with instruments for guiding shut-
de craft to a post-Diluvial “Spaceport” in the Sinai—until serious con­
sideration is given to his depth of research. Drawing from records of
our ancient civilizations, Sitchen’s conclusions are coherent, internally
consistent, and well supported.

A Crash Victim’s Story

On August 13, 1947, just a little more than a month after the infamous
Roswell incident, six Native Americans discovered a still-smoldering
metallic object crashed in the New Mexico desert. Inside they found
an alien creature who, though injured, was still alive.
Hearing the approach of military troops, the men decided to
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keep the being from capture and care for him themselves. Taking him
to their home, they found the being could communicate with them
through a crystal device that conveyed images.
One of the rescuers was the now-deceased grandfather of
Robert Morning Sky, a Native American of Hopi and Apache extrac­
tion, who today tells his ancestor’s story and lectures on an alternative
history of Earth as pieced together from the crash victim. His account
of the being’s rescue has been supported by other Native Americans
who claimed they too have heard the story of the being called the
“Star Elder.”
Morning Sky said the basic message of the “Star Elder,” whose
name was Bak’Ti, was simple. “Star Beings have been here since Earth
was a barren rock. They were here throughout evolution. In some
cases their involvement was benevolent; in some cases it was not. Man
has been guided ... and he has been misled. The Star Beings have
been our gods ... and our devils. They have always been here, and
they are still here now.”
The story of man’s history as recounted by Bak’Ti is strikingly
similar to those of Sitchen and other sources. According to Morning
Sky’s work entitled “The Terra Papers,” humans were created by DNA
manipulation to provide labor for alien mining operations. The leader
of these creator aliens was vying for control of Earth with his brother.
To gain an edge, this leader placed some of his own DNA in the
human gene pool, thus making them his own “children” after a fash­
ion. Other alien DNA was contributed by a birdlike race that were
“emotional and soulful.” As humans began to breed and grow in num­
bers, two distinct groups came into being—one a docile bunch easily
controlled by their alien overlords and the other an emotional and
intelligent group that quickly developed independent will.
One faction of aliens, headed by the creator’s ambitious brother,
tried to destroy the willful humans by first casting them into the
wilderness to the and later allowing a great flood to consume
them. However, the creator leader managed to save a small group of
humans.
This conflict over the stewardship of the human race continues
today, according to Morning Sky, with one alien faction using ele­
ments of the U.S. government to hide their activities. Another faction
has bases on the moon, which has been declared “off-limits” to
humans.
“We do not realize the extent of alien influence behind the
scenes of our world’s political and economic systems, so we are easily
manipulated in favor of alien agendas,” wrote Karen Degenhart, who
reported Morning Sky’s story. “They use our planet’s natural
resources, they use our bodies for genetic material to continue their
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breeding experiments, and they use our government agencies, like

NASA and the CLA, to maintain the UFO cover-up. The aliens don’t
want us to know they are here, or we might try to regain control of
our planet.”
According to Morning Sky, a later alien leader named Ra sought
to destroy all evidence of mans real history to keep humans ignorant
and controllable. But Ra lost power to an alien race descended from
lizards, which today are known as the “greys.” Today, the greys are
reportedly involved with yet another alien race and are seeking to add
specific human DNA to their own to enhance their well-developed
intellect with the addition of human emotion and intuition.
Whether or not the accounts of Morning Sky, Sitchen, and oth­
ers have any foundation in fact, the evidence for prehistoric technology
is very compelling. But is it possible for a highly advanced civilization
to disappear so thoroughly that even with modern scientific methods
we cannot say with certainty it ever existed?
“I have asked this question myself and I think that I have found
an answer,” wrote Maurice Chatelain. “No material except solid rock,
which is not easily transported, and maybe solid gold, can last for
12,000 years. Most other materials oxidize and turn to dust.” He also
pointed out that many objects now in museums are the unidentified
remnants of an ancient society. Add to this the great destruction of
antiquities done by the Romans, Christian crusaders, invading Turks,
Conquistadors, and New World explorers and it is easy to appreciate
why so little of our heritage remains.
Nothing in the known record precludes the idea of extraterres­
trial contact in prehistoric times. In fact, considering the preceding
information—which merely skims the surface of the subject—there is
much to recommend it.
No serious researcher wants to follow the much-assailed path
trod by von Daniken, but the issue of ancient astronauts refuses to go
away as evidence of extraterrestrial contact in antiquity continues to
grow, coupled with the recent controversies concerning the sightings
of pyramids on both the moon and Mars.
If ancient astronauts operated on the earth in the distant past,
they must not have vanished for good because UFO sightings have
continued down through the centuries.
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OBSERVERS

Floyd Thompson was piloting his fighter-bomber on a bombing run

over Italy during World War II when he noticed a light-colored oval
object trailing behind his formation. After completing the mission, the
bomber formation split up for safety’s sake and began the harrowing
trip home. Thompson noticed the strange metallic object was still
there. But no one in his unit talked about it until they returned to base
and were debriefed.
“Anyone see anything unusual during the mission?” the pilots
were asked. Only then did several admit to seeing the strange orb,
which seemed to be monitoring their flight. In light of reports such as
this, most UFO researchers—or ufologists as they are often called—
trace the advent of modern UFO sightings back to World War II.
Lights in the sky or strange flying craft had been reported
throughout the ages, but it was during that period of global strife that
the first unequivocal reports of unidentified flying objects came to
public attention.
Prior to the war, strange aerial sightings were recorded
throughout the centuries, even back to ancient civilizations. British
author B. Le Poer Trench quoted from fragments of a papyrus of
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hieroglyphics believed to date back to Pharaoh Thutmose III, who

ruled Egypt between about 1468 and 1436 B.C.: . the scribes of the
House of Life found it was a circle of fire that was coining in the sky
.. . they went to the Pharaoh .. . to report it.... Now after some days
had passed, these things became more numerous in the sky than ever.
They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun, and
extended to the limits of the four supports of the heavens. ... Power­
ful was the position of the fire circles. The army of the Pharaoh looked
on with him in their midst. It was after supper. Thereupon, those fire
circles ascended higher in the sky towards the south. . .
Such reports were common through the time of the Roman
Empire. While many were probably misinterpretations of comets or
meteors, others obviously referred to something flying through the air.
One Roman writer, Julius Obsequens, reported that in the year
212 B.C. “things like ships were seen in the sky.” The respected histo­
rian Titus Livius wrote that the next year an “altar” was seen in the
Italian sky accompanied by “the strange spectacle of men in white
clothing.” Roman scientist Pliny the Elder told how in 66 B.C. a
“spark” fell to Earth, becoming as large as the moon before returning
to the sky.
Reports of lights, strange craft, and even crosses in the sky con­
tinued throughout the Middle Ages. In 840, the archbishop of Lyons
told of a “certain region called Magonia from whence come ships in
the clouds” and how he prevented the stoning death of “three men and
a woman who said they had fallen from these same ships.”
W. R. Drake, author of an article entitled “Spacemen in the
Middle Ages,” recounted how a Christian church in England was saved
from Saxons in 776 when craft bearing “the likeness of two large
shields reddish in color” hovered overhead, scaring off the attackers.
While some of the hundreds of sightings during early European
history undoubtedly can be explained as natural phenomena or even
hoaxes, many show a definite correlation to modern UFO reports. In
1113, religious pilgrims in southwest England saw a fire-belching
“dragon” emerge from the sea into the air. In January7 1254, it was
recorded that in Saint Albans, England, “in serene sky and clear air,
with stars shining and the Moon eight days old, there suddenly
appeared in the sky a kind of large ship elegantly shaped, well
equipped and of marv elous color.” One mealtime at Yorkshire’s Byland
Abbey in 1290, the friars were frightened by “a flat, round, shining, sil­
very object” flying overhead. There were even reports of a sky battle
over Nuremberg, Germany, on April 4, 1561, supported by a woodcut
depiction by artist Hans Glaser. Ball-shaped objects, disks, and crosses
emerged from two large black cylindrical craft and seemed to fight
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each other. In 1566, a similar sight was seen over Basel, Switzerland.
Most of these events were seen as “signs” from God.
By the 1800s, although descriptions of lights and objects in the
sky continued, they were couched in more modern terminology.
Objects were described as dirigibles or airships, and less religious con­
notations were placed on them. Such sightings continued well into the
twentieth century but, with the exception of the previously mentioned
Great Airship Mystery of 1896-97, received scant media attention.
Two great military conflagrations—World Wars I and II—over­
shadowed any concerns over flying objects. Unidentified artillery
shells, mortar rounds, observation balloons, airplanes, and dirigibles
were all too common, particularly near battle zones. The public had
became accustomed to ever-advancing technology and lost interest.
They were more concerned with personal safety and comfort. What­
ever was in the skies seemed to be drawn primarily to military activity.
In the early and mid-1930s, there were reports of “ghost” air­
craft passing over military installations in the United States, Britain,
and Scandinavia. No one could identify them and no nation admitted
responsibility. Most people dismissed these reports as secret reconnais­
sance missions by the Germans or Soviets. Yet there was definitely a
strangeness to the reports. The flights often came in weather that
would have grounded conventional aircraft. Reports stated the craft
would cut power, yet circle several times. Their flight paths seemed to
indicate a point of origin inside the Arctic Circle, and they often were
accompanied by powerful searchlights and flashing colored lights,
hardly advisable on secret missions. Others claimed Europeans were
simply getting jumpy during this time when Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini were rearming their nations.
War nerves also were blamed for a never fully explained inci­
dent in wartime Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Air Raid
By late February 1942, just three short months after the Japanese
bombing of Pearl Harbor, tensions were high on the West Coast—
with just cause. America had been attacked without warning and there
was a fear of imminent invasion. Air raid drills had been conducted
regularly since the attack, and on February 23, a Japanese submarine
had shelled the Banldine Oil Company refinery in Goleta, just north
of Santa Barbara.
At 2:25 A.M. on February 25, Los Angeles County residents
were awakened by the wail of air raid sirens. Most believed it was sim­
ply another drill. They were blissfully unaware that one of America’s
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most recent military secrets—radar—had picked up blips indicating a

flight of approaching aircraft about 120 miles west of Los Angeles
shortly after 2:00 A.M. According to a report on the incident sent to
President Franklin Roosevelt the next day, 1,430 rounds of antiaircraft
ammunition were fired at the incoming craft, yet no planes were shot
down and no bombs were dropped. There were no casualties among
American military forces and no army or navy planes were involved.
The firing, which went on for about an hour, caused consider­
able damage to several homes and public buildings. The city was
littered with pieces of metal from exploded ordnance. At least six
civilians died as the result of automobile accidents and heart attacks
attributable to the gunfire. The all-clear signal did not come until
7:21 A.M., and traffic jams lasted well into the morning rush hour.
For all the commotion, there was no evidence that an enemy
attack had taken place. Embarrassed military officials immediately
began to downplay the incident. In Washington, Navy Secretary Frank
Knox said “that as far as I know the whole raid was a false alarm and
could be attributed to jittery nerves.” But his reassuring statement was
not supported by West Coast witnesses.
They told of fast-moving red or silver objects high in the sky
accompanied by a large slower-paced—some said as slow as sixty miles
per hour—object, which then hung motionless in midair for some time
as antiaircraft shells burst all around it.
Peter Jenkins, who was on the staff of the Los Angeles Evening
Herald Examiner, said, “I could clearly see the ‘V’ formation of about
25 silvery planes overhead moving slowly across the sky toward Long
Beach.” Long Beach police chief J. H. McClelland said he watched
from the roof of Long Beach City Hall and gave this description: “An
experienced Naval observer with me using powerful Carl Zeiss binoc­
ulars said he counted nine planes in the cone of a searchlight. He said
they were silver in color. This group passed along from one battery of
searchlights to another, and under fire from antiaircraft guns, flew
from the direction of Redondo Beach and Inglewood on the land side
of Fort MacArthur, and continued toward Santa Ana and Huntington
Beach. Antiaircraft fire was so heavy, we could not hear the motors of
the planes.” Paul T. Collins, an employee of the Douglas Aircraft
Company, observed the objects as he stood beside his car. He said he
saw several “unidentified red objects ... appearing from nowhere and
then zigzagging from side to side.” Collins said he and other observers
estimated the objects’ top speed “conservatively to be five miles per
second.”
With such witnesses running into the thousands and the dam­
age done to the area, the official explanation of “jittery nerves” fell on
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suspicious ears. “There is a mysterious reticence about the whole

affair,” editorialized the Long Beach Independent, “and it appears some
form of censorship is trying to halt discussion of the matter.” In feet,
prior to the 1974 release of the day-after report to Roosevelt, U,S,
military authorities had claimed they had no record of the incident.
Some researchers have offered the opinion that the whole thing
was caused by the ascent of meteorological balloons, one of which
apparently indeed was released carrying a red flare by an antiaircraft
unit in Santa Monica in response to the alarm. While this theory is
supported by the fact that batteries were officially chastised for wasting
ammunition on targets moving too slowly to be aircraft, it was shot
down thanks to an Associated Press photo that showed one of the
objects caught by converging searchlight beams and surrounded by
bursting shells. This photo prompted one commentator to correctly
conclude: “That it was not a balloon seems probable because the
escape of no balloon has been reported as well as because it failed to
collapse under intense and apparently accurate shell-fire.”
Lost quickly amidst the reports of the battles and home-front
campaigns of World War II, the Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942 has
been all but forgotten except to those who lived through it. But toward
the end of the Second World War, aerial warfare took on a new—and
unexpected—aspect.

Foo-Fighters
In late 1944, Lt. Donald Meiers of Chicago was flying in a British-made
twin-engined night fighter called a Beaufighter over Germany’s Rhine
Valley when what appeared to be flaming globes suddenly appeared and
moved toward his plane. “I turned starboard and the balls of fire turned
with me,” Meiers recalled. “I turned to port side and they turned with
me. We were doing 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right
up with us.... When I first saw the things ... I had the terrible thought
that a German ,.. was ready to press a button and explode them....
They just seemed to follow us like will-o’-the-wisps.”
This was one of many such reports of circular objects chasing
Allied aircraft. They became known as “foo-fighters.” There has been
some confusion regarding the origin of that name. Some have said
“foo” is an adulteration of the French word for fire, feu, thus indicating
a “fire fighter.” However, author Paris Flammonde reasoned that since
the term originated with young American flyers, it more probably
came from a play on the term Beaufighter by using the words of a pre­
war comic strip character named Smokey Stover, who frequently
voiced the gag line “Where there’s foo, there’s fire.”
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Regardless of the origin of the name, “foo-fighters” soon caught

the attention of the American news media. The New York Herald Tri­
bune of January 2, 1945, reported, “Now, it seems, the Nazis have
thrown something new into the night skies over Germany. It is the
weird, mysterious foo-fighter balls that race alongside the wings of
Beaufighters flying intruder missions over Germany. Pilots have been
encountering this eerie weapon for more than a month in their night
flights. No one apparently knows what this sky weapon is. The ‘balls
of fire’ appear suddenly and accompany the planes for miles. They
seem to be radio controlled from the ground, so official intelligence
reports reveal...”
Lieutenant Meiers explained, “There are three kinds of these
lights we call foo-fighters. One is red balls of fire which appear off our
wing tips and [the second, which] fly in front of us, and the third is a
group of about 15 lights which appear off in the distance—like a
Christmas tree in the air—and flicker on and off.”
Despite an extensive investigation by the U.S. Army’s 8th Air
Force, there was no conclusive solution to the mystery of he foo-fighters.
Various explanations were offered—Saint Elmo’s fire or ball lightning
could have explained the lights dancing on wings and fuselage; the
“Christmas tree” lights may have been flares or aluminum “window”
strips tossed from Allied bombers to confuse German radar. One inge­
nious theory was that the lights were light reflections from ice crystals
formed when interior air leaked into colder exterior air due to battle
damage holes. Of course, “combat fatigue” hallucination was a ready
catch-all explanation. And several sightings of a “ball of fire” thought
to be a Japanese attack plane outfitted with a large searchlight reported
by B-29s on their way to bomb Japan were explained away as an excep­
tionally bright Venus. But none of these proved satisfactory answers to
all sightings.
For instance, on the night of December 22, 1944, Lt. David
McFalls of the 415 th Night Fighter Squadron was over Hagenau, Ger­
many, when he observed two “huge, bright orange lights” climbing
toward his plane. He quickly put his plane into a dive and banked
hard, but the lights stayed with him for two minutes before peeling off
and disappearing. Similar reports came in from the 415th dating back
to September. A London Daily Telegraph story early in 1945 stated
Royal Air Force pilots described their tormentors as “strange orange
lights which follow their planes, sometimes flying in formation with
them, and eventually peeling off and climbing.”
As author W. A. Harbinson noted, “Most reports indicated that
they appeared to be under some kind of control and were certainly not
‘natural’ phenomena.”
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Similar incidents were recorded in the Pacific theater of war. As

early as 1943, pilots flying the “Burma hump” reported being buzzed
by glittering objects that caused their instruments to fail. On August
10, 1944, on a bombing mission from Ceylon to Sumatra, Cpt. Alvah
M. Reida of the 792nd Squadron, 486th Bomb Group, reported a most
unusual encounter just after making a bombing run in his B-29. His
report stated, “At about 20 or 30 minutes later the right gunner and
copilot reported a strange object pacing us about 500 yards off our
starboard wing. At that distance it appeared as a spherical object, prob­
ably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange
in color. ... It seemed to throb or vibrate constantly. Assuming it was
some kind of radio-controlled object sent to pace us, I went into eva­
sive action, changing direction constantly as much as 90 degrees and
altitude at about 2,000 feet. It followed our every maneuver for about
eight minutes, always holding a position 500 yards out and about two
o’clock in relation to the plane. When it left, it made an abrupt 90-
degree turn, and accelerated rapidly, disappearing in the overcast. . .
Adding to the mystery of the foo-fighters was the fact that cap­
tured enemy airmen—both German and Japanese—claimed they too
had been followed by the fiery objects. They expressed the belief that
the orbs were American or Russian secret weapons.
Of course the Allies believed they were Japanese or German
secret weapons—and therein lies a fascinating and largely untold story
that some people believe may shed light on the origin of at least some
modern UFOs.
Saucers of the Reich
There is no question that the Germans produced a number of scien­
tific breakthroughs in their quest for war technology during World
War II. The V-l buzz bombs—an ancestor of today’s cruise missiles—
and the V-2 rockets that terrorized London are two of the most
famous examples, along with the Messerschmitt 262, the world’s first
operational jet fighter.
As respected British historian Barrie Pitt noted, “The Nazi war
machine swung into action utilizing as much as it could of the most
up-to-date scientific knowledge available, and as the war developed the
list of further achievements grew to staggering proportions. From
guns firing ‘shells’ of air to detailed discussions of flying saucers; from
beams of sound that were fatal to a man at 50 yards, to guns that fired
around comers and others that could ‘see in the dark’—the list is awe­
inspiring in its variety.”
Pitt stated while some German technolog)- was less developed
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than imagined at the time, “some were dangerously near to a comple­

tion stage which could have reversed the war’s outcome.”
Secret German weapons nearing completion in 1945 included
the Messerschmitt 163 Komet and the vertically launched Natter
rocket fighters, the jet-powered flying wing Horten Ho-IX and the
delta-winged Lippisch DM 1. Another secret weapon that might
account for some of the “foo-fighter” reports was an antiradar,
unmanned device called the Feuerball, or Fire Ball. Piloted by remote
control, the Fire Ball was designed to interfere with the ignition sys­
tems and radar operation of Allied bombers. According to author
Renato Vesco, the Feuerball was “a highly original flying machine ...
circular and armored, more or less resembling the shell of a tortoise,
and was powered by a special turbojet engine, also flat and circular,
whose principles of operation .. . generated a great halo of luminous
flames.. .. Radio controlled at the moment of take-off, it then auto­
matically followed enemy aircraft, attracted by their exhaust flames,
and approached close enough without collision to wreck their radar
gear.”
Vesco claimed that the basic principles of the Feuerball were
later applied to a “symmetrical circular aircraft” known as the Kugel-
blitz, or Ball Lightning, automatic fighter, which became an “authentic
antecedent of the present-day flying saucers.” He said this innovative
craft was destroyed after a “single lucky wartime mission” by retreat­
ing SS (Schutzstaffel, or Defense Force) troops and later kept secret
from the Americans and Russians by the British military, who captured
plans for the craft.
Here the story of a Nazi saucer becomes more fragmentary and
questionable. British author W. A. Harbinson wrote two novels based
on the idea that the Nazis developed a flying saucer and secreted them
away after the war in a hidden base in Antarctica. He claimed that he
got his ideas after discovering postwar German articles concerning a
former Luftwaffe engineer, Flugkapitan Rudolph Schriever. According
to information gleaned from articles in Der Spiegel, Bild am Sonntag,
Luftfabrt International, and other German publications, Harbinson
learned that Schriever claimed to have designed a “flying top” proto­
type in 1941, which was actually test-flown in June 1942. Tn 1944,
Schriever said he constructed a larger jet version of his circular craft
with the help of scientists Klaus Habermohl, Otto Miethe, and an Ital­
ian, Dr. Giuseppe Belluzzo. Drawings of this saucer were published in
the 1959 British book German Secret Weapons of the Second World War
by Maj. Rudolph Lusar.
Lusar described the saucer as a ring of separate disks carrying
adjustable jets rotating around a fixed cockpit. The entire craft had a
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height of 105 feet and could fly vertically or horizontally, depending

on the positioning of the jets.
“Schriever claimed that his ‘flying disc’ had been ready for test­
ing in early 1944,” wrote Harbinson, “but with the advance of the
Allies into Germany, the test had been canceled, the machine
destroyed, and his designs either mislaid or stolen. His story was, how­
ever, contradicted by alleged eyewitness Georg Klein, who later stated
to the German press that he had actually seen the test flight of the
Schriever disc—or one similar—on February 14, 1945.”
Schriever reportedly died in the late 1950s, and according to a
1975 issue of Lufifahrt International, notes and sketches concerning a
large flying saucer were found in his effects. The periodical also stated
that Schriever maintained until his death that his original saucer con­
cept must have been made operational prior to war’s end. This possi­
bility is acknowledged by British author Brian Ford, who wrote,
“There are supposed to have been ‘flying saucers’ too, which were
near the final stages of development, and indeed it may be that some
progress was made toward the construction of small, disc-like aircraft,
but the results were destroyed, apparently before they fell into enemy
hands.”
Another candidate for inventor of a German UFO is the Aus­
trian inventor Viktor Schauberger, who after being kidnapped by the
Nazis reportedly designed a number of “flying discs” in 1940 using a
flameless and smokeless form of electromagnetic propulsion called
“diamagnetism.” Schauberger reportedly worked for the U.S. govern­
ment for a short time after the war before dying of natural causes.
Shortly before his death, he was quoted as saying, “They took every­
thing from me. Everything.” No one ever knew for certain if he meant
the Nazis or the Allies.
While a number of books and documentaries have suggested
that the Nazi hierarchy dabbled in occult practices, there is no ques­
tion that the Germans were experimenting with a variety of innovative
aircraft and propulsion systems toward the end of the war and that
they at least contemplated building a flying saucer. There are tantaliz­
ing bits of evidence that Nazi Germany indeed added a flying disc to
its inventory of secret superweapons. But there is no indication what
became of it.
The solution to this puzzle may7 be found by studying the man
in charge of Germany’s high-tech weapons programs—SS Obergrup-
penfiihrer Dr. Hans Kammler. In mid-1943, SS chief Heinrich Himm­
ler sent a letter to Germany’s minister for armaments and munitions,
Albert Speer. “With this letter, I inform you that I, as SS Reichsfuhrer
. . . do hereby take charge of the manufacture of the A-4 instrument,”
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it read. The A-4 rocket was later designated by Hitler as the V-2—V
for Vengeance weapon, the V-l buzz bomb being the first. The V-2
was Germany’s most secret high-tech weapons system. Himmler then
placed Kammler in overall command of the rocket program.
According to Speer, Kammler insinuated his way into all phases
of the V-2 program until Hitler finally put him in charge of all air
armaments, including any possible secret saucer project. “Thus—just a
few weeks before the end of the war—he had become commissioner
general for all important weapons,” wrote Speer, who bemoaned the
fact that as the war drew to a close, Himmler’s SS gradually assumed
total control over Germany’s weaponry production and research.
Working closely with Kammler on the V-2 project were Wem-
her von Braun, who after the war headed America’s National Aeronau­
tics and Space Administration, and his superior, Luftwaffe Maj. Gen.
Walter Dornberger, who later became vice president of Bell Aircraft
Company and of Bell Aerosystems Company in the United States.
Alarmed by progress on the V-2 rockets, Britain’s Bomber
Command sent 597 bombers on the night of August 16-17, 1943, to
raid Peenemunde—Germany’s top-secret rocket facility7 built on an
island at the mouth of the Oder River near the border of Germany and
Poland. Because so much of Peenemunde was underground or well
camouflaged, much was left undamaged. Author Brian Ford described
the results: “Even so, over 800 of the people on the island were
killed. . . . After this, it was realized that some of the facility had better
be dispersed throughout Germany; thus the theoretical development
facility was moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, development went to
Nordhausen and Bleicherode, and the main wind-tunnel and ancillary
equipment went down to Kochel, some 24 miles south of Munich.
This was christened Wasserbau Versuchsanstalt Kochelsee—experimen­
tal waterworks project—and gave rise to the most thorough research
center for long-range rocket development that, at the time, could have
been envisioned.” It has been noted that a certain portion of top-secret
Nazi weaponry development was moved to an area near Blizna,
Poland—the same area w’here Allied air crews first encountered the
“foo-fighters.”
As Kammler, von Braun, Dornberger, and company worked
feverishly to perfect the V-2s and other secret weapons, Himmler was
taking steps to separate his SS from normal party7 and state control. “In
the spring of 1944 Hitler approved Himmler’s proposal to build an
SS-owned industrial concern in order to make the SS permanently
independent of the state budget,” wrote Albert Speer.
In moves that w ere to be copied in later years by America’s Cen­
tral Intelligence Agency, SS leaders created a number of business
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fronts and other organizations—many using concentration-camp

labor—with an eye toward producing revenue to support SS activities.
These highly compartmentalized groups headed by young, ambitious
SS officers neither required nor desired any connection with Ger­
many’s high-profile leaders. Their purpose was to continue Nazi goals
long after the defeat of Germany.
Speer conceded that there were weapons developments he knew
nothing about and even mentioned one SS scheme in 1944 for a secret
weapon plant requiring 3,500 concentration-camp workers. “The
Fiihrer protocols make no mention whatsoever of this new weapon,”
Speer wrote. “[But] it was certainly not the ‘flying saucers,’ which
extreme right-wing circles now claim were secretly produced by the SS
toward the end of the war and concealed from me.”
But with secret projects in the hands of the fanatical SS and
with factories and research facilities scattered over—and under—the
countryside, it is entirely conceivable that a UFO device could have
been developed without the knowledge of anyone except Himmler,
who committed suicide by poison capsule on May 23, 1945, after being
caught trying to sneak through British lines disguised as an German
army private. Perhaps after the war, certain right-wing circles with SS
connections did know more about German saucers than Speer or other
ranking Nazi leaders. Consider the fate of Hans Kammler.
As the war drew to a close, Kammler made no secret of the fact
that he intended to use both the V-2 scientists and rockets under his
control as leverage for a deal with the Allies. On April 2, 1945, on
Kammler’s orders, a special train carried rockets, five hundred techni­
cians, and engineers escorted by a hundred SS troopers to an Alpine
redoubt in Bavaria. According to von Braun and Domberger, Kamm­
ler planned to “bargain with the Americans or one of the other Allies
for his own life in exchange for the leading German rocket specialists.”
Yet on April 4, 1945, when von Braun pressed Kammler for per­
mission to resume rocket research, the SS officer quietly announced
that he was about to disappear for ‘"an indefinite length of time.” True
to his word, no one saw Kammler again. As everyone knows, von
Braun, Domberger, and other scientists—and many of the V-2 rock­
ets—eventually made their way to the United States, becoming found­
ing members of our modern space program.
Author Jean Michel, himself an inmate of concentration camp
Dora, which provided slave labor for Kammler’s rocket program,
wrote of Kammler, “The chief of the SS secret weapon empire, the
man in Himmlers confidence, disappeared without a trace. Even more
disturbing is the fact that the architect of the concentration camps,
builder of the gas chambers, executioner of Dora, overall chief of all
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the SS missiles has sunk into oblivion. There is the Bormann mystery,
the Mengele enigma; as far as I know, no one, to this day, has taken
much interest in the fate of Obergntppenfiihrer SS Hans Kammler.”
Michel, along with others, wondered “why had the ‘cold and brutal
calculator’ described by Speer so abruptly discarded the trump cards
he had so patiently accumulated?” Did Kammler escape with weapons
plans even more technologically advanced and secret than the V-2
rocket? Did the Reich, or an extension of it, have the capability to pro­
duce a UFO or the clout to deal from a position of strength with one
of the Allied nations?
Information, principally from Dornberger, suggested that
Kammler committed suicide when the Czech resistance overcame SS
troops in Prague. However, there was no proof of this, and the issue is
far from settled. As Michel mentioned, there was a long-standing con­
troversy over the proclaimed deaths of Hitler’s deputy Martin Bor­
mann and the notorious SS Dr. Josef Mengele.
Mengele reportedly died in recent years after hiding in
Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay for decades. Another ranking SS offi­
cial, Obersturmbannfiihrer Adolf Eichmann, escaped to Argentina but
was abducted to Israel in 1960, where he was tried for war crimes and
executed.
But the biggest fish to get away was Reichsleiter Bormann.
Rumors persisted for years that Bormann was living in South America
and running a worldwide Nazi empire, which included the infamous
organization to aid escaping Nazis, Organization der Ehemaligen
SS-Angehorigen (ODESSA). In 1972, Munich bishop Johannes
Neuhausler made public a church document stating that Bormann
had escaped Berlin during the final days and gone to Spain by airplane.
Later that year, Berlin workmen unearthed two skeletons near the
ruins of the Lehrter railroad station and, in 1973, West German offi­
cials held a news conference proclaiming that one of the skeletons had
been identified as Bormann and that he had died in 1945 trying to
escape Berlin.
Bormann’s identification was based on dental records prepared
from memory in 1945 by Dr. Hugo Blaschke on orders of a U.S. Army
investigation team. By 1973, Blaschke was dead and the actual identifi­
cation was made by a Fritz Echtmann, a dental technician who claimed
to have made fittings for Hider, Eva Braun, and Bormann. The entire
case for the Berlin death of Bormann rested on dental records pre­
pared from memory by a dentist who had been a loyal Nazi for many
years and the sole statement of a dental technician who had been
imprisoned in Russia due to his proclaimed knowledge of Bormann’s
dental work. Adding to suspicions that Bormanns death announce-
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ment was a bit too convenient was the fact that Willy Brandt’s govern­
ment canceled all rewards and warrants for Bormann and instructed
West German embassies and consulates to ignore any future sightings
of the Reichsleiter. These suspicions were compounded by statements
from several persons who claimed that the body found near the rail­
road station was placed there in 1945 by troops commanded by Waf-
fen SS Gen. Heinrich “Gestapo” Mueller, who was known to have
used decoy bodies on other occasions. Bormann’s death notice did not
convince Simon Wiesenthal of the Documentation Center in Vienna,
who said, “Some doubts must remain whether the bones found in
Berlin are really those of Bormann.”
Was it possible that Bormann and other Nazis wielded enough
power to misdirect West German investigations and silence foreign
governments and news organizations? The simple answer appears to
be yes. To understand, one must look at German business history and
Bormann’s activities beginning in mid-1944.

Operation Eagle Flight

By early August 1944, many top Nazi officials could see the writing on
the wall. The French town of Saint-Lo, center of the German defense
line feeing the Normandy beachhead, had fallen on July 18, opening
all of southern France to Allied armor and infantry. The German army
hastened eastward toward the Fatherland, narrowly escaping total
encirclement at Falaise. Only the Rhine River and overextended sup­
ply lines slowed the Allied advance in the west. With the Russians
pressing ever deeper into the Reich on the eastern front, Nazi leaders
knew the end of the war was only a matter of time.
Adolf Hider, who according to captured medical records was on
a roller-coaster ride of euphoria and depression due to large daily
doses of amphetamines, increasingly lost contact with reality. How­
ever, the second most powerful man in the Reich, Hider’s deputy Mar­
tin Bormann, was not so incapacitated. On August 10, 1944, Bormann
called together German business leaders and Nazi Party officials. They
met in the Hotel Maison Rouge at Strasbourg. Bormann explained the
purpose of the meeting to one attendee: “German industry must real­
ize that the war cannot now be won, and must take steps to prepare for
a postwar commercial campaign which will in time insure the eco­
nomic resurgence of Germany.”
These “steps” came to be known as “Aktion Adlerflug,” or
Operation Eagle Flight. It was nothing less than the perpetuation of
Nazism through the massive flight of money, gold, stocks, bonds,
patents, copyrights, and even technical specialists from Germany. As
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part of this plan, Bormann, aided by the black-clad SS, the central
Deutsche Bank and the powerful I. G. Farben combine, created 750
foreign front corporations—58 in Portugal, 112 in Spain, 233 in Swe­
den, 214 in Switzerland, 35 in Turkey, and 98 in Argentina.
Bormann’s efforts were substantially helped by close connec­
tions with foreign banks and businesses begun long before the war. As
documented by former New York Times writer Charles Higham, Amer­
ica’s International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (ITT) sold Germany
communication and war material, including as many as fifty thousand
artillery fuses per month, more than three years after Pearl Harbor.
Illustrating the interconnecting business associations of this time was
ITT’s German chairman Gerhardt Westrick, a close associate of John
Foster Dulles, who would become U.S. secretary of state under Presi­
dent Dwight Eisenhower, and partner to Dr. Heinrich Albert, head of
Ford Motor Co. in Germany until 1945. Two ITT directors were
German banker Baron Kurt von Schroder and Walter Schellenberg,
head of counterintelligence for the Nazi Gestapo.
Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil also came under investigation
during World War II for a series of complex business deals that
resulted in desperately needed gasoline reaching Nazi Germany.
“None of these transactions was ever made public,” reported Higham.
“The details of them remained buried in classified files for over 40
years. However, it proved impossible for Ralph Gallagher and Walter
Teagle (both Standard chairmen)... to conceal the fact that shipments
of oil continued to fascist Spain throughout World War II, paid for by
[Spanish dictator Francisco] Franco funds that had been unimpounded
by the Federal Reserve Bank while Loyalist funds were sent to Nazi
Germany from the vaults of the Bank of England, the Bank of France
and the Bank for International Settlements. The shipments to Spain
indirectly assisted the Axis through Spanish transferences to Hamburg.
At the same time, there were desperate shortages in the United States,
long lines at gas stations, and even petroleum rationing. While Ameri­
can civilians and the armed sendees suffered alike from restrictions,
more gasoline went to Spain than it did to domestic customers.” Ques­
tioned about this situation by the New York Times, a spokesman for
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull explained that rhe oil was coming
from the Caribbean, not the United States. What was not explained
was that Standard Oil, under the leadership of William Stamps Farish,
had early on changed the country of registration tor Standard s tanker
fleet to Panama. Higham pointed out that both Standard chiefs Farish
and Teagle were “mesmerized by Germany” and were close associates
of I. G. Farbens Hermann Schmitz.
Such ties were buttressed by banking connections such as the
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1936 partnership between the J. Henry Schroder Bank of New York

and Rockefeller family members. According to Higham, “Schroder,
Rockefeller and Company, Investment Bankers, was formed as part
of an overall company that Time magazine disclosed as being ‘the
economic booster of the Rome-Berlin Avis? The partners in
Schroder, Rockefeller and Company included Avery Rockefeller,
nephew of John D., Baron Bruno von Schroder in London, and Kurt
von Schroder of the [Bank of International Settlements] and the
Gestapo in Cologne. . . . Their lawyers were John Foster Dulles and
Allen Dulles of Sullivan and Cromwell. Allen Dulles (later CIA direc­
tor and Warren Commission member) was on the board of Schroder.
Further connections linked the Paris branch of [the Rockefeller] Chase
National Bank to Schroder as well as the pro-Nazi Worms Bank and
Standard Oil of New Jersey in France. Standard Oil’s Paris representa­
tives were directors of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had
intricate connections to the Nazis and to Chase.”
It is interesting to note that throughout the war, Chase main­
tained its financial connections with the Nazis through its Paris bank
and that I. G. Farben chief Hermann Schmitz served as Chase presi­
dent for seven years prior to the war and eventually held as much stock
in Standard Oil of New Jersey as the Rockefellers. “Schmitz’s wealth—
largely I. G. Farben bearer bonds converted to the Big Three succes­
sor firms, shares in Standard Oil of New Jersey ..., General Motors,
and other U.S. blue chip industrial stocks, and the 700 secret compa­
nies controlled in his time by I. G., as well as shares in the 750 corpo­
rations he helped Bormann establish during the last years of World
War II—has increased in all segments of the modern industrial world.
The Bormann organization in South America utilizes the voting power
of the Schmitz trust along with their own assets to guide the multina­
tionals they control, as they keep steady the economic course of the
Fatherland,” wrote investigator Paul Manning, who added, “The Bor­
mann organization is not merely a group of ex-Nazis. It is a great eco­
nomic power whose interests today supercede their ideology.”
Further documentation of this unpublicized world power came
in 1996 when the U.S. National Archives released declassified reports
from a variety of intelligence agencies proving that Allied officials
from the start had known all about the money relationship between
top Nazis and their Swiss bankers. According to The Guardian of Lon­
don, “The evidence . . . suggests that something on the order of 15 bil­
lion Reichsmarks was banked, invested, moved, and laundered through
Swiss banks. That was the equivalent of three percent of America’s
gross domestic product (GDP) in 1944. To put this into today’s terms,
three percent of America’s GDP is $200 billion, which is more than
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the entire GDP of Switzerland. Allow for interest, compounded over

50 years, and the value of the Nazi cache that went through Switzer­
land moves into the region of a trillion dollars.”
These long-standing banking and business connections coupled
with the Schmitz business network allowed Reichsleiter Bormann to
forge a formidable Nazi-con trolled organization for postwar activities.
Author Jim Keith wrote, “In researching the shape of totalitarian control
during this century, I saw that the plans of the Nazis manifestly did not
the with the German loss of World War II. The ideology and many of
the principal players survived and flourished after the war, and have had
a profound impact on postwar history; and on events taking place today.”
Orvis A. Schmidt, the U.S. Treasury Department’s director of
Foreign Funds Control, in 1945 offered this description of the Nazi
flight-capital program: “The network of trade, industrial, and cartel
organizations has been streamlined and intermeshed, not only organi­
zationally but also by what has been officially described as ‘personnel
union.’ Legal authority to operate this organizational machinery has
been vested in the concerns that have majority capacity in the key
industries such as those producing iron and steel, coal and basic chem­
icals. These concerns have been deliberately welded together by
exchanges of stock to the point where a handful of men can make pol­
icy' and other decisions that affect us all.”
Could one of those “decisions” have been the creation of Nazi-
developed UFOs? While this notion may superficially appear to be
sheer nonsense, the public record offers compelling—if incomplete—
evidence to support this idea.
There are two theories offered in this area. The first is that Bor­
mann and other top Nazis escaped to South America or a secret base
in Antarctica where they built UFOs so sophisticated that their secret
Nazi empire has exerted significant control over world events and gov­
ernments to this day. While there can be no question that the business
and financial network created by Bormann wields a certain amount of
power even today; evidence for the existence of a major Nazi base con­
taining UFOs is virtually nonexistent, consisting primarily of the
known exploration of Antarctica’s Queen Maude Land—renamed
Neuschwabenland by the Germans—in 1938 and some unverified
statements. Reportedly; German navy7 grand admiral Karl Doenitz
stated in 1943, “The German submarine fleet is proud of having built
for the Fiihrer in another part of the world a Shangri-la on land, an
impregnable fortress.” And it has been reported that U.S. Admiral
Richard Byrd, upon his return from an expedition to Antarctica in
1947, stated it was “necessary for the LLSA to take defensive actions
against enemy' air fighters which come from the polar regions” and
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that America could be “attacked by fighters that are able to fly from
one pole to the other with incredible speed.”
Advancing the idea that the Nazis continually shipped men and
materiel to the South Pole throughout the war years, Harbinson wrote,
“Regarding the possibility of the Germans building self-sufficient
underground research factories in the Antarctic, it has only to be
pointed out that the underground research centers of Nazi Germany
were gigantic feats of construction, containing wind tunnels, machine
shops, assembly plants, launching pads, supply dumps and accommo­
dation for all who worked there, including adjoining camps for
slaves—and yet very few people knew that they existed.”
But, while tales of a secret Nazi base in Antarctica may appear
plausible to some, the idea that it has remained undiscovered and no
one has escaped or deserted the place in more than fifty years stretches
belief to the breaking point. It is more likely that Antarctica was
merely a way station for Nazi leaders traveling on to their new homes
in Argentina and Paraguay.
The second theory of Nazi UFOs—and a much more believable
one—is that the German saucer program was used as bargaining lever­
age by the Nazis and secretly developed by one or more of the Allied
nations after the war.
If this theory is correct, it could solve one of the postwar UFO
mysteries—the “ghost rockets” of Sweden.

Ghost Rockets
Beginning in May 1946, strange objects spouting fire were seen over Swe­
den. By August, reports of the UFOs were coming in from all over
Europe and even from the northern and eastern portions of the Mediter­
ranean. On August 11, after investigation by a special committee of
military and aviation officials, Swedish authorities acknowledged the phe­
nomenon, stating, “Ghost rockets—mysterious spool-shaped objects with
fiery tails—have become a common sight in Sweden.” In addition to the
description of the objects as metallic rocket-shaped devices, some with
small fins, about thirty fragments reportedly fallen from the objects were
studied. They were determined to be pieces of slag that did not seem to
be part of any rocket. By December 1946, reports of the “rockets” waned
and Swedish authorities claimed that 80 percent of the sightings had con­
ventional explanations, leaving only 20 percent “unidentified.” They seri­
ously considered the idea that the craft were captured German V weapons
being sent over Sweden by the Russians for purposes of intimidation.
British researcher Mark Birdsall, after an intensive study of Nazi
secret weapons, concluded, “Without question, nearly all Foo-Fighter
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and Ghost Rocket reports can be categorized as advanced technology

channeled from these various secret German WWII scientific facilities.”
Authors Renato Vesco and David Hatcher Childress, citing Italian
Ministry of Aeronautics documents dated September 16, 1946, claim the
British may have been the originators of the devices. They reported that
in August 1946, the BBC reported that a new aeronautical research cen­
ter was to be built in Bedfordshire that would produce “machines that it
is hoped will be able to reach at least 1,500 mph.” The report added,
“According to some experts, these planes have already been built and
tested and it is probable that in the near future they will be flying over
Great Britain. If necessary, such planes could fly nonstop around the
world many times, because they need fuel only for takeoff and landing.
Great Britain has already astonished the world with its excellent turbojet
engines, but this new development of British scientists is the greatest
step that aeronautics has taken since man began to fly.”
Since no such craft were ever flown in England, Vesco and
Childress concluded that testing must have been carried out else­
where—namely in the wilds of southwest Canada.
They cited a report in the Toronto Star, in which Minister of
Defense Production C. D. Howe told the House of Commons that a
new type of aircraft was being built in a collaboration between the
Royal Canadian Air Force and A. V. Roe Ltd. (AVRO) at facilities near
Malton, Ontario. The newspaper commented that Howe’s woras were
“adding weight to reports that AVRO is even now working on a
mockup model of a ‘flying saucer’ capable of flying 1,500 miles per
hour and climbing straight up in the air.”
The United States may have shared in this new technology, as
suggested by another Toronto news story that stated, “A mockup of the
Canadian flying saucer, the highly secret aircraft in whose existence few
believe, was yesterday shown to a group of 2 5 American experts, includ­
ing military officers and scientists.” This partnership was confirmed on
October 25, 1953, when U.S. Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles
released a statement advising, “We are now entering a period of aviation
technology in which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight charac­
teristics will begin to appear.... The Air Force will fly the first jet-pow­
ered vertical-rising airplane in a matter of days. We have another project
under contract with AVRO Ltd. of Canada, which could result in disc­
shaped aircraft somewhat similar to the popular concept of a flying
saucer.... While some of these may take novel forms, such as the
AVRO project, they are direct-line descendants of conventional aircraft
and should not be regarded as supra-natural or mysterious....” The
AVRO saucers—there were at least two versions, the AV-9 and the AZ-9
“AVRO-Car”—were disc-shaped, jet-powered craft designed by John
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Frost for AVRO Ltd., which reportedly were first flown in 1959.
When the United States began working with the Canadians, the
idea of a circular aircraft was not new. It had produced its own flying
saucer in 1942 when Charles H. Zimmerman designed the V-173 “Fly­
ing Flapjack” for the U.S. Navy. This experimental, disc-shaped craft
was built and test-flown by Chance-Vought Corp, but reportedly was
abandoned in 1947 as impractical. An original V-173 was on exhibit in
the Smithsonian Institution for several years. Likewise, the AVRO-Car
saucer project reportedly was termed a failure and canceled in 1960.
“However,” wrote Harbinson in 1991, “while the Canadian and
U.S. governments have insisted that they are no longer involved with
flying saucer construction projects, there are many who believe that
they are lying and that the Canadian, British, U.S., and even Soviet
governments are continuing to work on highly advanced, saucer­
shaped, supersonic aircraft based on the work done in Nazi Germany.”
Lending weight to this allegation was a CIA memorandum dated
October 19, 1955, which stated, “[AVRO-Car designer] Mr. Frost is
reported to have obtained his original idea for the flying machine from
a group of Germans just after World War II...
A stranger variation of this charge came from former U.S. Air
Force Lt. Col. George Edwards, who claimed he worked on the AVRO
project and came to understand that it was a cover for testing a “real
alien spacecraft.” Edwards said, “The VZ-9 was to be a ‘cover’ so the
Pentagon would have an explanation whenever people reported seeing
a saucer in flight.” This theme was taken up by writer Robert Dorr, an air
force veteran who claimed to have learned of an alien saucer recovered
from a crash on the East Coast in 1953. Dorr said use of the AVRO-Car
as a “smoke screen” to shift public attention away from the real UFO
answered many questions about the AVRO program—such as why the
weapons system was never designed to be armed, why as the current
aerospace leader the United States entered business with a secondary
power like Canada, and why the AVRO was so publicized when first
announced in 1955 but not publicized when test-flown in 1959.
It is intriguing to note that as will be seen shortly, Americas
first highly publicized UFO sightings took place in the northwest
United States and, in both cases, the UFOs flew off toward Canada.
But before the first great UFO “flap” occurred, it should be
mentioned that a literary endeavor may have built up both public
reception and perception of the coming events.
In 1938, a Wisconsin-bom hunchbacked dwarf named Raymond
A. Palmer had been named editor of Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine
targeting adolescent boys with tales combining heroic adventures,
robots, science fiction, ghosts, and wartime patriotism. For example, one
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story in the March 1943 issue concerned “A new asteroid [which] came
to the solar system and circled Earth—and became a base for Nazi
bombers!” In January 1944, Palmer ran a letter from a Richard Sharpe
Shaver, a worker in the Philadelphia shipyards, who claimed to hear
"voices” coming from his welding equipment. Encouraged by having his
letter published, Shaver sent Palmer a rambling manuscript penciled
onto envelopes, sacks, bills, and other scraps of paper entitled, "A Warn­
ing to Future Man.” Shaver said his writings were based on memories of
life on the long-lost continent of Lemuria induced in him by "alien
minds” who had come to Earth 150,000 years ago and were still living in
vast caverns within the earth. Palmer expanded Shaver’s manuscript
threefold and published it in March 1945 as “I Remember Lemuria!”
Despite the outre nature of Shaver’s narrative, Palmer published
it as a true story, though in later years he admitted to being aware that
Shaver had spent some years in a mental hospital. Magazine sales
soared to more than 250,000 a month, and stories about spaceships
and aliens increased. In mid-1946, Palmer wrote, “If you don’t think
space ships visit the Earth regularly . .. and if you think responsible
parties in world governments are ignorant of the fact of space ships
visiting the Earth, you just don’t think the way we do.”
Author Curtis Peebles commented, “One would be hard pressed
to find a more concise summary of the flying saucer myth. Yet this was
a year before the first widely publicized sighting.” The stage was set
for the first major UFO reports, with visiting extraterrestrials, flying
craft with miraculous energy systems, and government secrecy already
a part of the public lore.

Arnold and the Maury Island Mystery

The year 1947 proved pivotal, separating previous accounts of objects
in the sky from modern UFO sightings. Most people believe this
stemmed from one major case that year. In fact, there was an epidemic
of UFO incidents that year. These continuing sightings were only
mentioned in local newspapers and many have remained unknown
until today.
The beginning of one widely publicized UFO event of the
modern era occurred on June 21, 1947, on Maury Island in Washing­
ton State’s Puget Sound. Harold A. Dahl, a harbor patrolman,
reported that at 2:00 P.M. he—along with two crewmen, his teenage
son, and his dog—had guided his boat into a Maury Island bay to
escape bad weather when they saw six “doughnut-shaped” objects
about two thousand feet in the air. Five appeared to be circling the
sixth, which seemed to be in difficulty and was losing altitude. They
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were described as gold and silver metallic objects approximately one

hundred feet wide with a hole in the center and what appeared to be
portholes around the perimeter and a dark window underneath. Fol­
lowing a small “explosion,” hot slag showered the area, killing the dog
and slightly injuring the son’s arm, Dahl said. Fearing the craft might
crash, he beached his boat and started taking photos with a small cam­
era. Soon the six UFOs rose and moved off to the northwest toward
Canada and the Pacific. Dahl said he tried to radio a report, but his
equipment was jammed with interference. Gathering up some of the
fallen metal, Dahl and company returned to his Tacoma base, where
he sent his son for treatment and gave the metal samples, his camera,
and film to his superior, Fred Lee Crisman.
Crisman, angered over damage to the boat, disbelieved Dahl’s
story but agreed to investigate Maury Island and look at the reported
“20 tons” of fallen debris. But the next day, before anyone had been
informed of the events on the island, Dahl said a man dressed in black
visited his home and told him, “Silence is the best thing for you and
your family- You have seen what you ought not to have seen.” The fol­
lowing day, June 23, Crisman visited Maury Island as promised. There
he later reported finding glassy, dark material and shiny foil strewn
along the beach. He said his inspection was interrupted by the appear­
ance of one of the inner-tube-like UFOs, which silently passed over­
head before disappearing into the clouds.
There the matter rested until after the most famous of the ini­
tial modem UFO sightings.
On June 24, 1947, thirty-two-year-old Kenneth Arnold, a success­
ful Boise, Idaho, businessman, pilot, deputy federal marshal, and a mem­
ber of the Idaho Search and Rescue Mercy Flyers, was flying home when
he decided to help in the search for a Marine Curtiss C-46 transport
plane believed to have crashed somewhere in the Cascade Mountains. A
$5,000 reward was an added incentive. The sole occupant of a Callair
private plane, Arnold had taken off from Chehalis, Washington, with a
scheduled stop at Yakima, when he diverted from his flight path to
search the Mount Rainier plateau for the missing transport. Sometime
after 2:00 P.M., while he was cruising at an altitude of about 9,200 feet, a
“tremendously bright flash lit up the surfaces” of his aircraft. Seeking the
source of the flash, Arnold could see only a Douglas DC-4 airliner off to
his left. As he was about to decide that the flash had been caused by the
sun glinting off the wings of a rapidly passing military fighter, another
flash drew his attention to the skies north of Mount Rainier.
“I observed far to my left and to the north, a formation of very
bright objects corning from the vicinity of Mount Baker, flying very
close to the mountain tops and traveling at a tremendous speed,” Arnold
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later reported. “They didn’t fly like any aircraft I had seen before ...
they flew in a definite formation, but erratically ... like speed boats on
rough water or similar to the tail of a Chinese kite that I once saw bob­
bing in the wind ... they fluttered and sailed, tipping their wings alter­
nately and emitting very bright blue-white flashes from their surfaces.”
As the objects were moving almost directly across Arnold’s
flight path and passing behind some of the mountains, he had no trou­
ble in calculating their speed. Arnold checked his watch as the first of
the nine objects passed Mount Rainier and again as the last object
passed the crest of Mount Adams. One minute and forty-two seconds
had passed. Later, after checking the distance between the two peaks,
Arnold determined the objects were flying close to 1,700 miles per
hour—twice the speed of sound. No aircraft of that time had achieved
speeds anywhere close to this.
After landing, Arnold related his experience to other pilots,
many of them military veterans. The suspicion grew that he had
encountered the secret testing of new military devices, either ours or
the Soviets’. Arnold later wrote, “They were guided missiles, robotly
[sic] controlled. I knew that speeds of this velocity the human body
simply could not stand, particularly considering the flipping, erratic
movements of these strange craft.”
That evening after flying to Pendleton, Oregon, Arnold dis­
cussed his encounter with a staff member of the East Oregonian news­
paper. He said the objects “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it
across the water,” describing not the appearance but the flight charac­
teristics of the UFOs. News of Arnold’s sighting reached the Associ­
ated Press, which called the UFOs “saucer-like objects” and wired the
story all across America. The term “flying saucer” quickly become part
of the language. “The significance of this,” wrote John Spencer, vice
chairman of the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), “is
that it shows the power of the media in influencing the public’s per­
ception of events and indeed it could be held that the media misrepre­
sentation of Arnold’s phrase has created part of the mythology around
UFOs which is incorrect, and worse, masks the reality.”
While Arnold’s sighting certainly did not initiate the modern
UFO age—with no supporting witnesses, no photos, and no radar
confirmation, it was a rather weak case—it did ignite the first
widespread media attention. And it was media attention that precipi­
tated the next phase of the Maury Island story, which brought together
Kenneth Arnold, editor Raymond Palmer, and the Maury Island wit­
nesses—and a story filled with insoluble puzzles that presaged the cur­
rent bewilderment over UFO cases.
A few weeks after his sighting, Arnold said he was visited by a
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Cpt. William Davidson and Lt. Frank M. Brown, who said they were
with Military Intelligence of the Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field,
California. The officers listened wide-eyed as Arnold recounted his
experience, then returned to their base.
Meanwhile Amazing Stories editor Palmer was quick to direct his
readers to the nationwide reports of flying saucers as proof of Richard
Shaver’s claims of unearthly visitors in spacecraft. He had received a letter
from Dahl and Crisman relating the Maury Island story. Interestingly,
Crisman had written to Palmer previously, claiming to have battled in a
cave with a mutation created by one of Shaver’s aliens. Later Palmer even
said he recognized Crisman’s voice as that of a man who had telephoned
him at various times from different parts of the United States.
Having communicated with Kenneth Arnold regarding his
Mount Rainier sighting, Palmer wrote again asking the pilot to inves­
tigate the Maury Island case.
Arnold, his curiosity piqued by the avalanche of saucer reports
plus an advance of $200 from Palmer, agreed and flew to meet Dahl on
July 29. Here the story began moving into the bizarre. Incredibly—
and largely unknown even to serious UFO researchers—Arnold expe­
rienced a second UFO encounter on this trip. During a descent for
refueling at LaGrand, Oregon, Arnold said about twenty-four small,
brass-colored UFOs similar in configuration to those he had seen five
weeks earlier passed rapidly within four hundred yards of his plane.
But these objects appeared to be much smaller than the earlier ones,
measuring only two or so feet in diameter. Arnold filmed this flight of
UFOs, but due to the brevity of the encounter, his film only showed a
few small dots and was not considered strong evidence.
Arriving in Tacoma for his meeting with Dahl, Arnold found
there were no hotel rooms available. In a final attempt at accommoda­
tions, he tried the most expensive hotel in town and was shocked to
learn there was a room reserved in his name, although no one was sure
who had made the reservation. On July 30, Arnold met with Dahl,
who said he was hesitant to speak after his experience with the man in
black. At Arnold’s insistence, Dahl relented and repeated his story but
failed to produce the photographs of the UFOs, claiming Crisman had
misplaced them. Dahl did provide Arnold with a specimen of what he
said was UFO debris from Maury Island. Arnold was unimpressed, as
the material appeared to be nothing more than volcanic rock.
Arnold was even more dumbfounded when Dahl told him about
an anonymous letter he had received once word of the Maury Island
incident got out. As later recounted by Arnold in a book with Ray­
mond Palmer entitled Coming of the Saucers, the letter writer claimed
that saucers were occupied by beings less dense than ourselves who
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had become visible to us only because of radiation released by atomic

blasts and that they were here to protect humans from outside influ­
ences and enemies.
After interviewing Crisman, Arnold felt uncomfortable with the
Maury Island story. He later said he felt Crisman was attempting to
monopolize the story, diverting any real investigation, and was hiding
his actual identity. Seeking help, Arnold contacted and was joined by
United Airlines pilot Cpt. E. J. Smith. Both men reviewed the story
and evidence and both felt the story indicated a hoax or a “dangerous”
espionage plot. Their suspicions were heightened when they learned
that someone had provided the United Press International office in
Tacoma with verbatim transcripts of their interviews and conversa­
tions. Yet an extensive search of their hotel room revealed no bugging
device. Author Paris Flammonde commented, “Arnold appears not to
have connected the fact that when he arrived in Tacoma he could not
get a room in several hotels, but found himself registered by an
unknown benefactor and an unidentifiable clerk in a specific room of a
pre-selected hotel. It would have been little problem for a professional
intelligence operator, trained in electronic surveillance, to secrete a lis­
tening device in quarters into which Arnold would be channeled by a
simple arrangement of circumstances.”
Arnold and Smith were now highly suspicious, both of Crisman
and because they could not interview Dahl’s son—reportedly in the
hospital for treatment of his arm—nor the other crewmen, who could
not be located. Furthermore they could not verify that Dahl or
Crisman actually were harbor patrolmen and their “launch” turned out
to be little more than an ill-kept fishing boat. They examined pieces of
metal given to them by Dahl and Crisman as UFO material and con­
cluded the evidence was “fake.” “We had seen hundreds of piles of this
stuff in salvage dumps many places throughout the United States
where surplus Army bombers had been junked,” Arnold later wrote.
However, he noted that the “stuff” did not match Dahl’s earlier
description of “extremely light white metal.”
Arnold said he wanted to bring military intelligence into the
case, a proposal that met with mixed reactions. Smith agreed without
enthusiasm, Crisman seemed overjoyed by the prospect, while Dahl
said he would refuse to speak to military men and seemed reluctant to
continue with the investigation. Undaunted, Arnold telephoned Lieu­
tenant Brown, who refused to accept his call at his base but soon
returned the cal) from a public pay phone. Brown agreed to join the
investigation. Before the day was over, both Brown and Captain
Davidson had arrived to join Arnold and Smith.
Despite their rapid response, once on the scene both Brown and
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Davidson seemed strangely unconcerned. “They gave me the impres­

sion they thought Smith and I were the victims of some silly hoax,”
Arnold wrote later. “When we offered them pieces of the [UFO] frag­
ments ... they were just not interested.” Debunkers believe the two
intelligence officers simply recognized both the story and the evidence
as phony. The pair left Arnold and Smith near midnight, not even
bothering to take the UFO fragments.
However, according to Arnold, as Brown and Davidson were
departing for the airport, Crisman ran up to their automobile and
handed them a carton thought to be UFO debris. Arnold said that as
they loaded the carton in the trunk, he glimpsed the material, which
“looked similar to the fragments we had in our room” but somehow
“looked more rocky and less metallic.”
The next morning the case took a more ominous turn. Arnold
and Smith were stunned to learn that the B-25 carrying Brown and
Davidson had crashed after takeoff, killing both men. Two enlisted
men had parachuted to safety. The fatal crash could have been simply a
tragic end to a hoax story. Instead it only added to the puzzle.
At the invitation of Tacoma’s UPI chief Ted Morello, Arnold lis­
tened to a recorded interview with Master Sgt. Elmer L. Taff, one of
the survivors of the B-25 crash. Taff said he had only hopped a ride
home on the plane and did not know any of the other three occupants.
He did say that he saw the two officers (Brown and Davidson) load a
heavy7 carton on the plane just before takeoff. Taff said about twenty
minutes after takeoff, the plane’s left engine burst into flame and when
one of the crewmen tried to activate the emergency fire-fighting
equipment, it was inoperable. According to Taff, Lieutenant Brown
came from the front of the plane and ordered the two enlisted men to
don parachutes and jump. Taff recalled that it was approximately ten
minutes between the time he jumped and the plane plunged to earth.
He had no explanation why the two officers could not have parachuted
themselves or radioed a distress call.
The air force said the crash was caused by a mechanical defect in
the left engine that set the wing on fire, but others were not so sure. The
August 1, 1947, issue of the Tacoma Times carried headlines reading “Sab­
otage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso” and “Plane May Hold
Flying Disc Secret.” An unidentified informant told newspaper staffers
that the plane had been tampered with to prevent the UFO debris from
reaching the officers’ California base. The paper quoted a Maj. George
Sander as confirming the plane carried “classified material.” Author
Curtis Peebles made no mention of the heavy carton and dismissed the
“classified material” as “only a file of reports they had offered to take
back to Hamilton; the reports had nothing to do with flying saucers.”
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Major Sander, after arriving on the scene, tried to convince

Arnold and Smith they had been conned and that the UFO debris was
only slag taken from the Tacoma Smelting Company. Yet, Sander was
adamant that all of the material be turned over to him. “We don’t want
to overlook even one piece,” Arnold quoted him as saying. It was defi­
nitely an odd demand from someone who plainly stated the entire
episode was a hoax. Researcher Harold Wilkins claimed in a 1967
book that some of the slag was independently tested and found to con­
tain an unusually high proportion of unoxidized calcium along with
iron, zinc, and titanium, which indicated an unknown manufacturing
process.
Saddened by the deaths and disgusted with the uncertainties of
the investigation, Arnold decided to drop the whole affair. But before
leaving Tacoma, he decided to pay one last visit to Dahl and
Crisman—only to find that both men had disappeared without a trace.
While Crisman may have vanished from the Maury Island case,
he did not disappear from the conspiracy stage. In yet another bizarre
twist, Crisman in later years turned up in another major mystery—the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In 1968, Crisman was subpoenaed before a grand jury by New
Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who claimed to have uncov­
ered a plot in his city to kill Kennedy. Garrison said the plot involved
accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans International
Trade Mart director Clay Shaw, former FBI agent Guy Banister, CIA-
Mafia agent David Ferrie, and others. In a press release dated October
31, 1968, Garrison stated, “Mr. Crisman has been engaged in under­
cover activity for a part of the industrial warfare complex for years....
Our information indicates that since the early 1960s he has made
many trips to the New Orleans and Dallas areas in connection with his
undercover wrork for that part of the warfare industry engaged in the
manufacture of what is termed, in military language, ‘hardware’—
meaning those weapons sold to the U.S. Government which are
uniquely large and expensive.”
Crisman, for his part, stated from his home in Tacoma that he
was willing to testify but knew nothing of an assassination plot,
although he personally believed that Kennedy indeed was killed by a
conspiracy. Crisman was connected to the Garrison case through New
Orleans disc jockey Thomas Edward Beckman. Crisman told newsmen
that Beckman was a “banker” for “Cuban freedom fighters,” and
apparently Garrison thought he might know something of importance
regarding Beckman. According to Garrison’s sources, Crisman also
was closely connected to Clay Shaw and, in fact, was “the first man
Clay called after being told he was in trouble.”
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Shaw’s background added to the intrigue. According to his offi­

cial biography, Shaw was an aide-de-camp to Gen. Charles O. Thrasher
during World War II, an officer involved in the handling of top Nazi
prisoners, many of whom were resettled in the United States under a
highly classified program known as Project Paperclip. Shaw admitted to
having been a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a fore­
runner of the CIA. He also was listed as a board member of Permindex,
whose parent company, Centro Mondiale Commerciale (World Trade
Centers), was considered by Italian authorities as an intelligence front
headed by prominent fascists such as Benito Mussolini’s undersecretary
of agriculture, Prince Gutierrez di Spadaforo, whose daughter-in-law
was related to former German minister of finance and Reichsbank pres­
ident Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, the man who had brought
Hitler and wealthy German industrialists together.
According to CIA files, Crisman too was a member of the OSS
during World War II, serving as a liaison officer with the British Royal
Air Force. At the end of the war, Crisman, supposedly discharged from
the military, entered a special OSS Internal Security School and was
quietly transferred to the newly formed CIA, where he operated as an
"‘extended agent,” primarily as an internal security specialist in “dis­
ruption” activities. The files show Crisman was involved in a highly
classified subsection of Internal Security known as ISece, Easy Sec­
tion, a disruption planning unit whose very existence was denied by
the CIA. The CLA documents detailed Crisman’s activities over the
years—including secret reports to the agency on military officers dur­
ing the Korean War and company officials while working for Boeing
in Seattle—but contained no mention of the Maury Island affair. They
did state that “Crisman left the Rainier, Oregon, area and spent several
months in New Orleans where he appears to have been very friendly
with several political figures and he made the city of New Orleans a
headquarters for several small disruption areas. . . . He was ... later
remembered by Garrison. Garrison did not know at this time that
Crisman was a CIA agent or that he was in any way a federal
employee.”
Crisman testified before the New Orleans grand jury; divulging
nothing useful and denying that he was any kind of agent. The public
took little notice when he died on December 10, 1975.
In 1987, UFO author John Keel published the theory that
Crisman may have been working on behalf of the fledgling Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) and, after hearing of the Kenneth Arnold
experience, enlisted Dahl’s help in fabricating the Maury Island UFO
story to cover up illegal dumping of radioactive slag from the AEC’s
plutonium processing plant in Hanford, Washington.
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Most UFO researchers today do not even mention the Maury

Island affair in their writings, having written the whole thing off as a
hoax. But in doing so, they have missed the deeper significance of what
was behind the story. Did Dahl and Crisman actually have a brush
with alien spacecraft? Were they pressured by intelligence operatives
into covering up the event? Or was it truly a hoax? For what purpose?
If it was to gain fame and fortune, neither man did. Was it a setup to
discredit Kenneth Arnold? Was it to cover up illegal waste dumping by
the AEC? Was the story obscured to protect the secrecy of Project
Paperclip? Or was it to distract attention from the secret testing of
Nazi saucer craft?
Debunker Curtis Peebles accepted the official air force report
on the matter, which stated, “Both [Crisman and Dahl) admitted that
the rock fragments had nothing to do with flying saucers. The whole
thing was a hoax. . ..” Kenneth Arnold was not so certain. Writing in
1952, Arnold said, “Today it is still as big a mystery as to what actually
took place in Tacoma as it was on August 3, 1947.” Award-winning
investigative journalist Anthony Kimery noted, “What is clear is that
the intelligence community was deeply immersed in the very events
that launched contemporary ufology.” It also seemed clear that the
Maury Island witnesses, particularly Crisman, knew much more than
they were saving.
A couple of hoaxers is one thing, but this case obviously
involved much more. If nothing else, it set the tone for many later
UFO cases with its undocumented encounters, disappearing evidence,
questionable witnesses, “men in black” issuing gag orders, and the
involvement of intelligence agents.
It should be noted that hardly anyone at the time—except per­
haps Raymond Palmer and the readers of Fflte, a magazine he founded
after departing as editor of Amazing Stories—seriously considered fly­
ing saucers to be extraterrestrial spacecraft. In fact it was the spring
1948 initial issue of Fate that carried a story by Kenneth Arnold in
which he first stated that flying saucers might be from outer space.
Most people believed them to be secret government weapons, either
from the United States or Russia.
No one was more aware of the threat of advanced foreign air­
craft than the Pentagon, where certain high-level military officials
must have known about the AVRO-Car saucers and perhaps others.
Although every branch of service proclaimed uninterest in such
reports, by mid-1947, the involvement of the United States military in
rhe UFO issue was well established.
 THE ROAD TO
RECOVERY

The year 1947 was a watershed for both UFOs and the United States
military. The Kenneth Arnold and Maury Island stories were widely
disseminated by the news media, and UFO reports began to pour in to
authorities. The military, always concerned over new foreign technol­
ogy; began to consider the possibility of recovering a crashed speci­
men—either by accident or design.
Media pundits wondered aloud if growing reports of flying
saucers represented some new invasion of the skies or if UFOs had
been there all along and were only just now being publicly acknowl­
edged. In hindsight, it would appear to be the latter.
In the mid-1990s, Jan Aldrich, a retired U.S. Army Field Artillery
noncommissioned officer, began his one-man Project 1947, an effort to
cull North American and foreign newspapers published between June
24 and July 15, 1947, for UFO reports. Aldrich, who eventually enlisted
other researchers in his project, discovered more than a thousand docu­
mented UFO incidents alter screening more than 3,200 publications
worldwide—and those were just the reports that found their way into
print and were located. Aldrich said there were indications that thou­
sands more cases might be uncovered with continued effort.
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But one case in particular was to become the most publicized

and mysterious UFO story of all time—it concerned the reported
crash and recovery of a UFO in July 1947 in New Mexico.

The Roswell Crash

No UFO story has captured the imagination of the public as has the
reported crash at Roswell, New Mexico. It remains one of the most
well documented of UFO issues, yet there is no clear consensus even
now on what actually happened.
To search for the truth, one should first consider a chronologi­
cal account of the matter.
The story began on Tuesday, July 1, 1947, when radar installa­
tions in New Mexico started tracking an object that zigzagged across
the state, exhibiting unconventional speeds and maneuvering ability.
On Wednesday, an object was sighted over Roswell. On Thursday,
some Washington officials flew in to observe the object.
Late Friday night, the object wras lost on radar screens and
believed crashed.
Saturday, July 5, Grady L. “Barney” Barnett claimed he, along
with some archeologists who happened to be working north of Roswell,
discovered wreckage and reported it. The Roswell Volunteer Fire
Department wras called to the scene, which was on a ranch thirty-five
miles north of Roswell. The rancher, William “Mac” Brazel, found
debris scattered over an area three-quarters of a mile long and several
hundred feet wide—so much debris that his sheep refused to walk
through it. On Sunday, July 6, Brazel drove to town and talked to the
sheriff, who suggested that the military be notified. Soon, military units
arrived and cordoned off the area. Later in the day, Brazel spoke with air
intelligence officer Maj. Jesse A. Marcel and showed him a piece of the
debris. Brazel returned to his base and notified higher authorities that
something unusual had occurred. By Monday, July 7, a systematic exam­
ination of Brazels field by the military began, including an air search.
Early on Tuesday morning Major Marcel stopped by his home
as he returned to the airfield and showed unusual material to his wife
and son. The military authorities must have felt the debris did not
constitute a serious security problem, for later that morning the infor­
mation officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field—
the only unit armed with atomic weapons at the time—was authorized
to issue a press release announcing that the military had recovered a
“flying disc.” This stirred media interest all over the world. That after­
noon, Major Marcel was ordered to fly with the debris to Carswell Air
Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Meanwhile in Washington, higher military authorities either

learned of new developments—some researchers believe they had
learned of the discovery of the main body of the UFO and alien bodies
by military searchers—or had second thoughts about publicizing the
debris. According to the Associated Press, Deputy Chief of the Army
Air Forces Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg moved to take control of the
news out of Roswell. On Tuesday evening, 8th Air Force commander
Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey from his Carswell office told newsmen that
Marcel and others had been mistaken and that the “flying disc” actu­
ally was nothing more than a weather balloon. Ramey’s weather offi­
cer, Warrant Officer Irving Newton, was brought in and identified the
debris he saw as belonging to a weather balloon. Photographers were
allowed to take pictures of the “balloon” wreckage. Years later,
researchers Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt claimed the origi­
nal debris was replaced by balloon wreckage in Ramey’s office minutes
before newsmen were ushered inside.
Following announcement of the balloon explanation, media
interest quickly faded. In those security-conscious days following
World War II, with fear of Russian attack becoming a way of life, no
one thought to question the official version. There the matter rested
until 1978, when Jesse Marcel broke his silence, telling UFO
researchers Stanton Friedman and Leonard Stringfield that the object
he recovered was not from the earth. Since then, the story of the
Roswell crash has become a focal point of UFO research, spawning
dozens of books, TV documentaries, and videos.
There can be no doubt that something dropped out of the skies
near Roswell on July 4, 1947. The question is what. Once again, we
encounter conflicting mind-sets. One mind-set accepts the official
explanation that a secret military balloon crashed, somehow was mis­
taken for a spaceship by otherwise competent intelligence officers, and
was hidden away for security’s sake for almost a half-century. Another
accepts that a downed spacecraft containing alien bodies was recovered
by the military and hidden from the public.
Everyone agrees that no spaceship wreckage or alien bodies
have been made public. Therefore, the truth seeker is left with only
human testimony and official pronouncements. The basis for accept­
ing the balloon version rests exclusively on government reports,
which deny any unusual aspect to the Roswell case. A lengthy recita­
tion of past official lies, disinformation, and deceit should not be
necessary to establish that such pronouncements cannot be accepted
at face value.
Some recent theories contend that the wreckage actually was a
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secret test of a ten-balloon cluster device under Project Mogul, which

was launched July 3 from AJamagordo, New Mexico, or a secret navy
“Skyhook” balloon. If it were either of these devices, competent intel­
ligent officers should have been able to distinguished it from a flying
saucer. Furthermore, if this theory is correct, a common weather bal­
loon must have been substituted for the Mogul or Skyhook balloon for
the news photographers in Fort Worth, substantiating claims that the
air force deliberately deceived the news media and the public. And if
they lied about one thing, it stands to reason they would lie about
another.
According to several reports, both the debris and alien bodies
were taken to Roswell’s military hospital, then flown first to Andrews
Air Force Base in Washington and on to Wright Field at Dayton,
Ohio.
Debunker Curtis Peebles scarcely mentioned alien bodies in
his book, concentrating instead on the debris as exhibited in Fort
Worth. Peebles gave the accounts of only four witnesses, one of
whom was Barney Barnett, whose story he correctly discounts, as
Barnett’s location of the crash site differed from most versions and
since investigators in 1990 found that Barnett’s 1947 diary contained
no mention of the Roswell crash. Peebles was able to state that Bar­
nett’s story was “unsupported by any documentation or additional
witnesses.” After alluding to some of the more outrageous theories
concerning the Roswell incident, Peebles smugly concluded, “If all
these extraneous stories are removed, one is left only with a few frag­
ments in a field.”
On the other hand, consider these “additional witnesses” drawn
from the well-documented book The Truth About the UFO Crash at
Roswell by researchers Randle and Schmitt:

William Woody, watching the skies south of Roswell on July 4

with his father, saw a brilliantly glowing object with red streaks.
Unlike other meteors he had seen, it was brighter, the wrong color,
and took a long time to fall.

Mother Superior Mary Bernadette, from the roof of Roswell’s St.

Mary’s Hospital, saw a bright light go to earth north of town and
recorded the time as between 11:00 and 11:30 P.M. July 4, in a logbook.

Sister Capistrano, a Franciscan nun standing beside Morher

Superior Bernadette at St. Mary’s Hospital, also saw the object come
down.
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Cpl. E. L. Pyles, stationed south of Roswell Army Air Field, saw

what he first thought was a large shooting star with an orange glow fall
through the sky sometime between 11:00 P.M. and midnight.

James Ragsdale, a camper who saw a fiery object crash near his
camp on the night of July 4. The next day, Ragsdale discovered a
crashed circular craft and small bodies. He fled when the military
arrived, thinking he might get in trouble.

Trudy Truelove, a camping companion with Ragsdale, confirmed

his account, stating she also saw the craft and bodies.

Jason Ridgway (a pseudonym to protect the man’s identity) saw

the crashed object, identified it as a saucer craft, but refused to talk
about it for many years. He was a friend of Mac Brazel, the rancher
who owned the property.

C. Curry Holden, one of several field archeologists who stumbled

upon the crash site, described a “fat fuselage” without wings. He also
said he saw three bodies, two outside the craft, one partially visible
inside.

Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, a paleontologist working in the area,

heard of the crash and bodies from Holden and encountered the mili­
tary cordon thrown up around the site.

Maj. Jesse Marcel, the Roswell intelligence officer who was first
on the scene and announced the crash of a “flying disc,” took pieces of
strange metal that would straighten out after bending home to show his
family. Although Marcel did not contradict the balloon explanation at
the time, in later years he said he was correct the first time about a craft
from space and that he was muzzled by military authorities. “It was not
anything from this Earth. That, I’m quite sure of,” Marcel said. “Being
in intelligence, I was familiar with all materials used in aircraft and in
air travel. This was nothing like this. It could not have been.”

Dr Jesse Marcel Jr., Major Marcel’s son and an Air National

Guard flight surgeon, who clearly remembered markings on the metal
brought home by his father as consisting of “different geometric
shapes, leaves and circles” akin to hieroglyphics. His father told him
the metal came from a flying saucer, then had to explain what a flying
saucer was to young Marcel.
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Col. William Blanchard, Roswell Army Air Field commander, vis­

ited the crash site and initially indicated to Marcel that the crash
involved something highly unusual, perhaps a Soviet secret weapon.
He immediately passed the entire matter up to his superiors. Nothing
was said about a balloon.

Maj. Edwin Easley, Blanchard’s provost marshal in charge of the

military police who guarded the crash site, told researchers a large vol­
ume of crash debris was loaded onto trucks and taken to the Roswell
base, where it was place on an airplane. In recent years, Easley said he
promised the president he would not reveal what he saw, but indicated
he believed it was an extraterrestrial craft.

Sgt. Thomas C. Gonzales, one of the guards at the site, later con­
firmed the recovery of “little men'’ with large heads and eyes.

Steve MacKenzie, stationed at Roswell, tracked the object on

radar for almost twenty-four hours and then visited the crash site,
where he said a major from Washington took charge of the dead bod­
ies, described as small with large heads and eyes. MacKenzie said if the
object he tracked had been a weather balloon, secret or not, his superi­
ors would have ordered him to ignore it.

Lt. Col. Albert L. Duran, a member of MacKenzie’s unit, has

acknowledged seeing the small bodies.

Warrant Officer Robert Thomas flew to Roswell from Washington

with a team of experts, including two photographers, early on July 4
after learning of the erratic path of the object. All were on hand at the
crash site, according to MacKenzie.

Master Sgt. Bill Rickett, a counterintelligence corps agent, arrived

late at the crash site but described what he saw as a curved craft with a
batlike trailing edge that had struck front first into the side of a cliff,
scattering a great deal of debris. Rickett was assigned to assist Uni­
versity of New Mexico scientist Dr. Lincoln La Paz. According to
Rickett, La Paz, apparently unaware of the bodies, concluded the craft
was an unmanned probe from another planet.

Sgr. Melvin E. Brown later told family members he helped trans­

port alien bodies from the crash site to a Roswell hanger. He described
them as smaller than humans with leathery skin like that of a reptile.
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Frank Kaufmann of the 509th Bomb Group staff told of a single

large crate that was placed in a cleared-out hanger at Roswell and pro­
tected by armed guards. He said he understood the crate contained
bodies recovered at the crash site.

W. O. “Pappy” Henderson, a pilot with the 1st Air Transport

Unit, flew the crate and debris in a C-54 transport plane to Andrews
Air Field in Washington, then on to Wright Air Field in Ohio, accord­
ing to Steve MacKenzie. Henderson’s widow, Sappho, said he had
described the debris as “weird” and nothing he had ever seen before.
She added that, following a TV special in 1988, Henderson confirmed
the descriptions of small recovered bodies.

Sarah Holcomb, who worked at Wright Field at the time, told

researchers she heard from a crew member that a plane had landed
with bodies from a flying saucer. Later the base commander came
around and said there was no truth to the story but added that anyone
mentioning the “rumor” would be subject to twenty years in jail and a
$20,000 fine.

Helen Wachter also was at Wright Field and said she overheard
the husband of a friend tell excitedly about the arrival of “alien bod­
ies.” At first, she thought he meant people from outside the country,
but she quickly understood he was referring to extraterrestrials.

John Kromschroeder, a close friend of pilot Henderson with an

interest in metallurgy, said he was given a piece of metal by Hender­
son, who said it was part of the interior of the crashed craft. Krom-
schroeder said the metal was gray and resembled aluminum but he was
unable to cut it, even using a variety of tools.

Maj. Ellis Boldra, who may have studied the same piece of metal
as Kromschroeder, told his family that the fragment was incredibly
strong and did not melt when he subjected it to an acetylene torch but
in some way dissipated heat.

Floyd and Loretta Proctor, nearest neighbors of rancher Mac

Brazel, recalled that Brazel showed them pieces of the debris, which
could not be cut or burned.

William Proctor, the Proctors’ son, saw a large amount of debris

and took some home. Later, according to family members, he was
forced to turn it all in to the military.
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William W “Mac” Brazel, owner of the crash site, said he heard

an explosion during a thunderstorm on the night of July 4 and the next
day, along with William Proctor, found a field full of scattered debris
and described many big pieces of dull gray metal that was unusually
lightweight and could not be cut or burned. Four days later, after
being held by military authorities and accompanied by military offi­
cers, Brazel told the Associated Press the debris was actually found on
June 14 and consisted of string, paper, some tape, and bits of metal
that covered no more than two hundred yards in diameter. Oddly
enough, he ended this obvious description of some sort of kite or bal­
loon by saying, “I am sure what I found was not any weather observa­
tion balloon.”

Bill Brazel, Mac’s son, said his father was held for eight days by
the military and released only after swearing not to discuss the inci­
dent. He told his son he was better off not knowing about it but swore
what he saw was not a balloon. Bill Brazel said his father was muzzled
by military authorities. He also said he handled some of the debris
found later on his father’s ranch and that it resembled aluminum foil
but when wadded into a ball, it would straighten itself out smooth. He
too said it could not be cut or burned. The younger Brazel said he
showed pieces of the metal to friends.

Sallye Tadolini, the daughter of another of Mac Brazel’s neigh­

bors, told researchers that she recalled Bill Brazel showing her a piece
of dull-colored metal that he balled up into his fist and, when he
opened his hand, returned to its original shape.

Frank Joyce, in 1947 a radio announcer for Roswell station

K.GFL, confirmed to researchers that Mac BrazePs story after being
taken into military custody was “significantly” different from an initial
interview. Joyce said that when he talked to Brazel privately, the
rancher admitted that he had changed his story but said “he had been
told to come in or else.”

Glenn Dennis, then a mortician working for Ballard’s Funeral

Home in Roswell, said about 1:30 P.M. July 5, he received a call from
the Roswell base mortuary officer asking if the funeral home could
provide a number of small caskets that could be hermetically sealed.
Dennis said he realized something strange had occurred when the offi­
cer called back and asked how to prepare a body that had been burned
or left out in the elements for a time. Later that day, Dennis drove to
Roswell Field to deliver an injured airman. At the base hospital he saw
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strange pieces of wreckage in the rear of an ambulance but soon was

chased off by an officer, who told him not to talk or “somebody will be
picking your bones out of the sand.” A few days later, Dennis said a
nurse friend told him she was called in to assist in the autopsy of three
“foreign bodies” that gave off an overpowering odor. She said the bod­
ies were small with large heads and hands with four fingers ending in
pads that looked like suction cups.

E. M. Hall, former Roswell police chief, confirmed to researchers

that he heard Dennis talking about the base requesting coffins for “the
bodies from a flying saucer” within days of the incident.

George Bush, whose sister Mary worked as secretary to the base

hospital administrator, told researchers he would never forget the day
in July 1947 that she came home and told him she had seen a creature
from another world.

Chaves County Sheriff George A. Wilcox kept a carton of crash

debris left by Mac Brazel but was ordered to turn it over to the mili­
tary. For some time, Wilcox complained how the military usurped his
authority, even barring his deputies from the crash site. Worse yet,
Wilcox and his wife, Inez, were told by military police that if he ever
talked about the incident, his entire family would be killed.

Barbara Dugger, the granddaughter of George and Inez, said her

grandmother quoted military police as saying if anything was ever said
about the incident in any way, “not only would we be killed, but they
would get the rest of the family.” Years later, Inez Wilcox also confided
to her granddaughter that a flying saucer had crashed near Roswell.

Frankie Rowe was the teenaged daughter of Dan Dwyer, a

Roswell fireman who went to the scene on Saturday morning and later
told his family he saw the wreckage of a flying craft, two small dead
bodies, and “a very small being about the size of a 10-year-old child.”
According to Rowe, military authorities threatened her family, and one
man told her if she talked about the incident, she would disappear into
the desert and never be seen again.

Brig. Gen. Arthur E. Exon was a World War II combat pilot who
spent time in a German POW camp and later was stationed with the
Air Material Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, as it was
known after Wright Field and Patterson Field merged. In recent years,
Exon became the highest ranking officer to confirm that a quantity of
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material from Roswell arrived at Wright Field for testing by a “special

project” team of lab workers. He said the material was “unusual,”
looked like foil, but couldn’t be dented even by hammers. He also said
that he flew over the crash site and was able to see where the craft had
come down. Exon added that bodies were found with the main portion
of the craft, which ended up in a separate location from the debris.

Naturally, considering the clash of mind-sets, questions have

been raised about both the competency and veracity of the Roswell
witnesses. But even if half of these witnesses are discounted, the
remainder should be more than enough to convince anyone with an
open mind that something quite extraordinary occurred at Roswell in
the summer of 1947. That the incident stayed on the minds of men in
power is illustrated by a story related by William Pitts. A former mili­
tary man who today is a lecturer for the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers, Pitts is the head of Project Blue Book, a private organiza­
tion sanctioned by the U.S. Air Force to investigate UFO sightings.
He said that in early 1977 he and others, including J. Allen Hynek,
were summoned to a meeting regarding UFOs by Dr. Frank Press, sci­
ence adviser to newly elected President Jimmy Carter. “The first ques­
tion,” recalled Pitts, “was regarding Roswell. What did we know about
Roswell? I turned it around and ask them what they knew about
Roswell and they did not reply. They went on to something else.” It
was not until more than a year later that UFO researchers began to
hear the saucer crash story from Jesse Marcel and interest in the
Roswell case was revived.
Various theories have been advanced to explain what was recov­
ered at Roswell. These include a Rawin Target weather balloon, a
Japanese Fugo balloon bomb, or a V-2 nose cone containing monkeys.
None of these theories can explain away all the evidence now available
about this event, and if any of these theories are correct, it would still
mean the air force deceived the public when the weather balloon story
was announced.
Responding to a request by New Mexico Republican represen­
tative Steven Schiff, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)
conducted a document search on records pertaining to the Roswell
incident, which only added to the mystery. In July 1995 the GAO
reported, “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) administrative records
(from March, 1945, through December, 1949) and RAAF outgoing
messages (from October, 1946, through December, 1949) were
destroyed.” Schiff's press liaison, Barry Bitzer, stated, “Having spent
24 years in the military, [Schiff] did express some surprise that those
records were destroyed, supposedly against regulations and without
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traceable authorization.” Only two records were found, a unit history

report stating that a “flying disc” turned out to be a radar tracking
balloon and an FBI teletype stating that the military reported that a
high-altitude weather balloon was recovered near Roswell. Of
course, it was these two reports—official pronouncements produced
only after the official version was conceived—which were used by
debunkers to dismiss the Roswell crash story. The FBI teletype was
especially odd, as it indicated the Bureau may have been monitoring
Roswell base telephones and it clearly stated a “disc” was sent to
Wright Field. The teletype read, “[name blanked out] further
advised that the object found resembles a high-altitude weather bal­
loon with a radar reflector, but that telephonic conversations
between their office and Wright Field had not borne out this belief.
Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by special plane
for examination.”
Adding to the confusion were claims that other disc-shaped
craft may have been recovered at other times and in other locations.
Saucers reportedly were recovered in Paradise Valley north of
Phoenix, Arizona, in October 1947; near Aztec, New Mexico, in
March 1948; and in Mexico near Laredo, Texas, later in 1948. Any one
of the crash stories could have been real with the others acting as red
herrings, or all the stories could be false. Information on these crashes
is meager compared to Roswell and involved the familiar charges and
countercharges of lies and hoaxes.
Even a purported autopsy film of an alien body recovered in
1947 has been offered as proof of the crash recovery. During 1995,
Ray Santilli, owner of a small London video distribution company,
caused a worldwide clamor by revealing what he claimed was authentic
1947 black-and-white movie film of the autopsy of an alien creature
found in New Mexico. At first glance, the film—an “Alien Autopsy”
complete with 1940s telephone, clock, and medical instruments and a
“real” handheld shaky quality—seemed to offer objective evidence that
alien bodies had indeed been recovered in New Mexico.
But the clash between mind-sets quickly engulfed this piece of
evidence, along with other problems such as conflicting statements
and foot-dragging by the film’s owners. Debunkers swiftly went to
work attacking the film, and scientists took a standoffish attitude. Dr.
Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said he
believed the body was a fake because “It’s most improbable that aliens
could have evolved to look so like humans.”
Arguments raged back and forth about the legitimacy of the
autopsy film until even many ufologists grew tired of the issue and it
faded into the background—although no one was ever able to prove
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beyond question that it was a fake. Such is the fate of issues mired in
the uncompromising battle between mind-sets.
Without resorting to convoluted speculation with little or no
supporting evidence, it would appear that the most straightforward
explanation of the Roswell story is that a very unusual craft crashed
and the occupants—whether dead or alive—were taken into custody
by the U.S. military, which then conducted a cover-up.
The military’ is the key here.
Certainly bv the time of the “foo-fighters,” ranking members of
the military' establishment must have known that something new and
unusual was in the skies. Some researchers even contend that authori­
ties became aware of UFOs prior to World War II. Contingency plans
must have been drawn up with an eye toward the eventual capture or
recovery of unusual aircraft. Such plans would have been activated
after an examination of whatever was recovered at Roswell.
It is fact that this period marked a definite turn in the mili­
tary’s response to UFOs. Prior to Roswell, the military had been
intensely interested in UFOs and open to the idea that they repre­
sented extraterrestrial visitation. But with the knowledge gained
from the Roswell incident, the military' became secretive and pub­
licly offered every mundane explanation possible to account for
UFO sightings. It may even be that the Maury Island affair was a
military intelligence contingency' plan to plant a discrediting UFO
story in the public mind that was activated after the Roswell crash.
Although the incident reportedly' happened on June 21, 1947, there
was only the word of Dahl and Crisman to substantiate that date, as
it was not reported until after the time of the Roswell crash. And the
intelligence background of Crisman added considerable weight to
this consideration.
Whether Roswell play’ed any role in subsequent events or not, it
is a fact that on September 15—less than four months after Arnold saw
discs soaring over Mount Rainier and only two months after the Roswell
incident—President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Nation­
al Security Act of 1947, which among other things created the National
Security Council (NSC) and the air force as a separate branch of service,
united the military’ branches under a Department of Defense, and cre­
ated Americas first peacetime civilian intelligence organization, the
Central Intelligence Agency. According to unauthenticated docu­
ments—collectively known as the MJ-12 papers—a small, select group
of prominent military officers and scientists answerable only to the
president was created at this time to deal with UFOs.
Shortly after this establishment of our modern military and
intelligence institutions, the U.S. military took its first official step to
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identify the source of the burgeoning UFO reports, although interest

had been high since the first saucer sightings appeared in the media in
mid-1947.

A View of the Projects

Shortly before the air force became a separate service, chief of staff of
the Army Air Force, Brig. Gen. George Schulgen, requested informa­
tion on UFOs. Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, former chief of staff of the
U.S. Army and at that time chief of the Air Material Command, Air
Technical Intelligence Center, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Dayton, responded with a letter stamped “secret” dated September 23,
1947.
In his letter, Twining began his conclusions by stating, “The
phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or ficti­
tious.” While Twining admitted that some UFO reports may have
been caused by natural phenomena such as meteors, he said the
reported operating characteristics of UFOs “lend belief to the possibil­
ity that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automati­
cally or remotely.” After giving a common description of UFOs, Twin­
ing stated that, while it may have been possible “within the present
U.S. knowledge” to construct such a craft, it would be a costly and
time-consuming process that would only draw resources from existing
projects. He recommended that a permanent group be established to
study UFOs.
Twining’s letter also contained a sentence that would be used
against those who argued that a crashed saucer was recovered at
Roswell. One would expect an officer of Twining’s position to be
knowledgeable about a recovered disc. Yet more than two months after
the Roswell incident, Twining said consideration must be given to “the
lack of physical evidence in the shape of crashed recovered exhibits
which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects.” It is
intriguing that he wrote about “crashed recovered exhibits,” yet indi­
cated that none existed. Was this simply wistful thinking or was it his
way of saying something without saying something?
Since Twining’s letter was marked “secret” and since any refer­
ence to a real UFO crash at Roswell undoubtedly would have been
classified much higher, it is hardly surprising that Twining would
obscure the fact. It should also be noted that if both the Roswell inci­
dent and UFOs were as clearly explained as some suggest—particu­
larly if the issue involved some top-secret military balloon or aircraft
tests—Twining certainly would not have recommended an intense
study with reports to be passed along to the navy, the Atomic Energy
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Commission, and several other agencies. Roswell authors Kevin Ran­

dle and Donald Schmitt suggested that Twining’s letter sought further
study of the UFO phenomenon on the one hand, while attempting to
close off any discussion of a crashed vehicle on the other. Another item
that may support the idea that Twining knew more than he was telling
was found in a secret memo from General Schulgen’s Air Intelligence
Requirements Division dated October 28, 1947. Entitled “Draft of
Collection Memorandum,” the five-page document stated, “While
there remains a possibility of Russian manufacture, based on the per­
spective thinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans, it is the
considered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact repre­
sent an interplanetary craft of some kind.” Materials mentioned for
such a craft included “various combination of metals, metallic foils,
plastics, and perhaps balsa wood or similar material ... to achieve
extreme light weight and structural stability.” This description is very
close to the material described by Maj. Jesse Marcel, indicating Schul-
gen may have been aware of the material recovered at Roswell.
As a direct result of Twining’s recommendation, a UFO study
group was formed within the air force, complete with a high national
priority rating—2A, with only 1A being higher—yet with the lowest
security classification, “restricted.” It was designated Project Sign.
Some Sign members may have heard rumors of a saucer crash,
for soon the officers found themselves sharply divided between those
who believed UFOs were secret Soviet technology and those who
believed UFOs represented something unearthly. “The division grew
greater as it became increasingly clear that the ‘ordinary’ foreign tech­
nology explanation was untenable,” wrote Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who
joined Project Sign in early 1948 while director of Ohio State Univer­
sity’s McMillin Observatory. While conceding that the original 237
reports studied by Sign members were not too convincing and did nor
support “visitors from space,” Hynek nevertheless said the group
moved closer toward accepting the extraterrestrial thesis. Author Pee­
bles noted that at least a dozen reports remained “unidentified” even
after every possible alternative explanation was considered.
Hynek began as a skeptic. “Before I began my association with
the air force, I had joined my scientific colleagues in many a hearty
guffaw at the ‘psychological postwar craze’ for flying saucers that
seemed to be sweeping the country and at the naivete and gullibility of
our fellow human beings who were being taken in by such obvious
‘nonsense,’” he wrote in later years. “It was thus almost in a sense of
sport that I accepted the invitation to have a look at the flying saucer
reports. ...I also had a feeling that I might be doing a service by help­
ing to clear away ‘nonscience.’ After all, wasn’t this a golden opportu-
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nity to demonstrate to the public how the scientific method works,

how the application of the impersonal and unbiased logic of the sci­
entific method—I conveniently forgot my own bias for the
moment—could be used to show that flying saucers were figments of
the imagination?”
But over time, Hynek’s attitudes began to change. “It was not
until several years had passed and data of similar nature continued to
flow not only from this country but from many others that I had occa­
sion to feel that the phenomenon was indeed being proved: there were
too many occurrences that couldn’t be explained in ‘ordinary’ terms.”
Others in Project Sign began to share Hvneks views, particu­
larly after some decidedly odd UFO incidents.
One such incident involved what some researchers considered
the first recorded human death attributed to a UFO.
On January 7, 1948, Kentucky Air National Guard Captain
Thomas F. Mantell Jr. was piloting an F-51 (a postwar version of the
famed P-5 ID /Mustang) en route to Standiford Air Force Base,
Kentucky, accompanied by three other Guard planes. Shortly after
1:30 P.M. Kentucky State Police reported that citizens were sighting a
large circular object over Mansville, Kentucky. Similar reports soon
came in from Irvington and Owensboro. It was seen from the control
tower of Godman Air Force Base. The object, described as large,
round, and white with a red light near the lower part, was slowly mov­
ing southward. About 2:40 P.M. Man tell’s flight was asked to investigate.
One pilot received permission to continue his flight, while Mantell and
two others began climbing in an effort to intercept the UFO. With
Mantell in the lead, the three Mustangs soon reached fifteen thousand
feet, where Mantell radioed, “The object is directly ahead of and above
me now, moving at about half my speed.... It appears to be a metallic
object or possibly reflection of Sun fr om a metallic object, and it is of
tremendous size. ... I’m still climbing ... I’m trying to close in for a
better look.”
Reaching twenty-two thousand feet. Mantel Is two companions
turned back, as the World War II fighters had not been equipped with
oxygen. Mantell continued on and apparently passed out from lack of
oxygen as his plane leveled off at about thirty thousand feet. It then
plunged into a spiral dive, crashing to earth on the William J. Phillips
farm near Franklin, Kentucky. According to the official accident
report, Mantell’s body was still strapped in the wreckage. His watch
had stopped at 3:18 P.M.
By 3:50 RM. the UFO had been lost from sight at Godman, but
reports continued to come in from areas further south and even into
Tennessee.
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The cause of Mantell’s death prompted immediate debate. Two

days after the incident, the New York Tinies carried a story with the
headlines “Flier Dies Chasing a ‘Flying Saucer” and “Plane Exploded
over Kentucky As That and Near States Report Strange Object.”
Speculation that the UFO caused Mantell’s death was quickly put to
rest by the air force, which announced that the fighters were chasing
Venus and Mantell crashed due to anoxia (oxygen deprivation). Both
pilot and his engine simply ran out of oxygen at the higher altitudes
and the craft fell to earth. But as with many UFO issues, nothing is as
simple as it can be made to seem.
While anoxia is the most probable explanation of Mantell’s
death, it does not explain the report of a witness cited by the newspa­
per. Glen Mays, who lived near Franklin, said he saw the aircraft
explode in midair. “The plane circled three times, like the pilot didn’t
know where he was going,” reported Mays, “and then started down
into a dive from about 20,000 feet. About halfway down there was a
terrific explosion.” Neither does it explain why Godman base com­
mander Guy F. Hix, who told reporters he observed the “flying saucer”
for almost an hour with binoculars, would confuse the object with the
planet Venus.
Richard T. Miller, who would later record incredible communi­
cations from what he termed “space brothers,” also objected to the
official explanation. Miller said he was in the air force and standing in
the operations room of Scott Air Force Base in Belleville, Illinois, dur­
ing the time of the Mantel! chase and heard the radio talk between the
Godman tower operators and the pursuit planes. Miller claimed to
have heard Mantell’s last radio transmission, which was, “My God, I
see people in this thing!” In a subsequent briefing he said that he
learned that according to the crashed F-51’s instruments, Mantell had
flown for more than an hour after his fuel ran out. “No one could
account for this,” recalled Aliller. He also said that farmer Mays did
not specifically say he saw an explosion. “He said as the aircraft
reached tree-top level, it was enveloped by a brilliant white flash of
light. This light was so bright, it was like looking at the sun. The air­
craft appeared to fall out of this light and pancake into the ground.
Now whatever this brilliant light was, it brought the aircraft out of a
spin, and slowed its rate of descent.... Some mysterious force had
somehow interfered with the crash of this aircraft. When the plane hit
the ground, Captain Mantell’s shoulder straps broke, he flew forward
over the control stick and it impaled him through the chest. That is
how Captain Mantell died.”
Miller said the morning after Mantell’s crash, investigators had
concluded that Mantell died “pursuing an intelligently controlled
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unidentified flying object,” but that by evening Air Technical Intelli­

gence Center officers from Wright-Patterson AFB arrived and
ordered all personnel to turn over any materials relating to the crash.
“Then after we had turned it over to them, they said they had
already completed the investigation,” he said. “I was no longer a
skeptic. I had been up to that time. Now I wondered why the
government had gone to all of the trouble of covering it up, to keep
it away from the press and the public.”
Supporting Miller’s version of Mantell’s crash is the testimony
of Cpt. James F. Duesler, today living in retirement in England. In a
recent interview, Duesler stated that he was one of several military
observers who saw the UFO hovering over Godman Field in 1948. A
pilot and crash investigator, Duesler described the UFO as a “strange
gray-looking object” that looked like a rotating inverted ice cream
cone.
Duesler, who visited the crash site shortly after Mantell’s body
had been removed, was puzzled by the wreckage. “The wings and tail
section had broken off on impact with the ground and were a short
distance from the plane,” he recalled. “There was no damage to the
surrounding trees and it was obvious that there had been no forward
or sideways motion when the plane had come down. It just appeared to
have 'belly flopped’ into the clearing. There was very little damage to
the fuselage, which was in one piece, and no signs of blood whatsoever
in the cockpit. There was no scratching on the body of the fuselage to
indicate any forward movement and the propeller blade bore no tell­
tale scratch marks to show it had been rotating at the time of impact,
and one blade had been embedded into the ground. The damage pat­
tern was not consistent with an aircraft of this type crashing at high
speed into the ground. Because of the large engine in the nose of the
plane, it would come down nose first and hit the ground at an angle.
Even if it had managed to glide in, it would have cut a swath through
the trees and a channel into the ground. None of these signs were
present. All indications were that it had just belly flopped into the
clearing. I must admit, I found this very strange.” The official report
of the Mantell incident contained a “certified” statement by crash
investigator Duesler. However, Duesler said he never made such a
statement and the one presented in the official report was a “fake.”
While it now appears likely that Mantell indeed passed out and
crashed from lack of oxygen, the question of what he was chasing
remains open, as does the question of the circumstances of his crash.
For some time the media were satisfied with the air force expla­
nation that Mantell, an experienced World War II combat pilot, was
climbing past safe limits after Venus. Only his friends and family ques-
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tioned this verdict. A friend and fellow pilot said, “The only thing I
can think was that he was after something that he believed to be more
important than his life or his family.”
Soon after Mantell’s death, UFO researchers were able to
demonstrate that at the time of the incident Venus was only thirty-
three degrees above the horizon, hardly in a position to be “above”
Mantell, and it was at only half its maximum brightness, which would
have made it nearly invisible, especially in midafternoon. Discomfited
by these facts, the air force officers of Project Sign began to seek a
more defensible explanation. They found one in the Office of Naval
Research, which on September 25, 1947, began launching large “Sky­
hook” balloons designed to test the atmosphere high above the limits
of conventional aircraft. Until well into the 1970s, the navy launched
an average of about a hundred Skyhook balloons a year. Thus, air
intelligence officers were able to shift the object of Mantell’s chase
from Venus to a balloon, although they were unable to locate any
records showing that such a balloon had been sent aloft during the
time in question.
It was obvious, however, that the air force did not wholeheart­
edly believe UFOs to be nonexistent. Immediately following the Man­
tell incident, Air Force Directorate of Intelligence Brig. Gen. Charles
P. Cabell—who later would become deputy director of the CIA—sent
a secret memo on February 12, 1948, to the director of Plans and
Operations urging that all air force bases in the United States and
Alaska provide a minimum of one fighter plane “or interceptor type
aircraft” equipped with “gun camera and such armament as deemed
advisable” to obtain data on “any reported and sighted unusual phe­
nomena, of the ‘flying disc’ type, in the atmosphere.” Although
Cabell’s request was turned down as impractical, the memo showed
how concerned the air force had become to obtain further intelligence
on UFOs.
It should be noted that Mantell’s UFO—or another like it—was
seen in the days following his death. On January 9, 1948, residents of
Clinton, North Carolina, reported a red cone-shaped object with a
green tail dancing through the sky at an amazing speed. It was so
bright they could see its outline even behind clouds. On February 1, a
metallic UFO emitting a bright orange light was sighted near the
ground at Circleville, Ohio. By the end of February*, strange sightings
were reported as far north as Boise and Emmett, Idaho.
Another extraordinary incident—which has never been satisfac­
torily explained—occurred on October 1, 1948, and has been
described as a dogfight or aerial duel between a plane and a UFO.
George F. Gorman, a twenty-five-year-old construction company
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manager and a second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National

Guard, was at seven thousand feet preparing to land his P-51 at Fargo,
North Dakota, about 9:00 P.M. when a bright object swept past his
right wing. Occupants of a nearby Piper Cub also saw the object mov­
ing swiftly to the west. The Hector Airport Tower reported no other
craft in the vicinity. To Gorman the object appeared to be heading for
the airport tower, so he gave chase but realized his plane could not
match the object’s speed. Banking hard to his left, he attempted to
head off the object, which then turned toward him. “Suddenly, the
thing made a sharp turn right, and we were headed straight for each
other!” Gorman stated. “Just as we are about to collide, I guess I got
scared. I went into a dive and the light passed over my canopy at about
500 feet. Then the thing made a left circle about 1,000 feet above me,
and I gave chase again.” Gorman described the object as a clear white,
perfectly round globe—only eight inches in diameter. Again it turned
toward his plane. “When collision seemed imminent, the object shot
straight up into the air. I climbed after it to a height of about 14,000
feet, when my plane went into a power stall. The thing now turned in
a northwest-north heading, and vanished.” Later, Gorman told
authorities, “The object was not only able to out turn and out speed
my aircraft . . . but was able to attain a far steeper climb and was able
to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my aircraft. ... I
am convinced that there was definite thought behind its maneuvers.”
With this clear description of the encounter, supported by the
occupants of the Piper Cub and the tower controllers plus an indica­
tion of unusually high radioactivity readings on Gorman’s plane,
Project Sign investigators issued an Estimate of the Situation report
stating that something highly unusual had occurred. The report was
rejected and ordered destroyed a few days later by Air Force Chief of
Staff Vandenberg, citing insufficient evidence. By the end of 1948, the
Gorman “dogfight” was explained as an encounter with a lighted
weather balloon, its “maneuvers” simply an illusion of the light and
lack of any reference point. The radioactivity was explained as the nat­
ural result of increased cosmic ray bombardment at higher altitudes.
This official rejection of UFOs as an unearthly phenomenon set
the tone for Project Sign, which by the end of the year had explained
away all but seven of the reports assigned to it. On February 11, 1949,
the group’s name was changed to Project Grudge after the news media
became aware of their existence and erroneously dubbed the endeavor
Project Saucer. “While I was still working on my report for Project
Sign, it became Project Grudge, and the Pentagon began to treat the
subject with subtle ridicule,” Hynek wrote.
Where Project Sign members’ conclusion that UFOs were real
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and probably from another world was kept secret, Project Grudge offi­
cers began a public relations effort assuring the public that all UFO
reports could be explained away. “The change to Project Grudge sig­
naled the adoption of the strict brush-off attitude to the UFO prob­
lem,” commented Hynek. “Now the public relations statements on
specific UFO cases bore little resemblance to the facts of the case. If a
case contained some of the elements possibly attributable to aircraft, a
balloon, etc., it automatically became that object in the press release.”
Air Force Cpt. Edward J. Ruppelt, who would later head
another UFO project, stated, “This drastic change in official attitude is
as difficult to explain as it was difficult for many people who knew
what was going on inside Project Sign to believe. . . . Here were peo­
ple deciding that there was nothing to this UFO business right at the
time when the reports seemed to be getting better. From what I could
see, if there were any mind-changing to be done, it should have been
the other way....”
This official lack of interest in and disdain for a phenomenon
that was stirring the public imagination is indeed difficult to under­
stand unless it played a part in another controversy in the UFO issue.

The MJ-12 Papers

On December 11, 1984, UFO researcher and TV producer Jaime
Shandera heard his daily mail drop through the slot in his front door.
He also heard his screen door shut. Opening the door, he found a
brown envelope. It bore no return address but was stamped and bore a
cancellation mark. Inside was a roll of thirty-five-millimeter Tri-X
black-and-white film.
When Shandera and fellow researcher William Moore devel­
oped it, the film proved to contain photos of what purported to be
eight pages from a November 18, 1952, “Briefing Document” pre­
pared for President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower concerning “Opera­
tion Majestic 12.” Both the top and bottom of the pages were stamped
TOP SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY.
The documents were extraordinary, to say the least. They listed
twelve prominent men as members of Operation Majestic 12, “a TOP
SECRET Research and Development/Intelligence operation responsi­
ble directly and only to the President of the United States” who were
to deal with the UFO issue at the highest level. The papers went on to
detail how a “secret operation” was begun on July 7, 1947, to recover
the wreckage of a disc-shaped craft from a crash site “approximately 75
miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base.” Also, “four small human­
like beings [who] had apparently ejected from the craft” were found
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dead about two miles east of the wreckage site. The document added,
“Civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed, and news
reporters were given the effective cover story that the object had been
a misguided weather research balloon.”
It was believed the dead beings, termed ‘‘Extra-Terrestrial Bio­
logical Entities or EBEs” in the documents, possibly came from Mars
or even “another solar system entirely.” It was stated that efforts to
decipher “a form of writing” found in the wreckage and to determine
the method of propulsion were unsuccessful, and added, “It is assumed
that the propulsion unit was completely destroyed by the explosion
which caused the crash.” The documents explained that “a need for as
much additional information as possible about these craft, their perfor­
mance characteristics and their purpose” led to the creation of Air
Force Projects Sign and Grudge. To assure security “only two individ­
uals within the Intelligence Division of Air Material Command”
passed along information from the projects to Majestic 12.
The “briefing” papers ended by stating, “Implications for the
National Security are of continuing importance in that the motives
and ultimate intentions of these visitors remain completely unknown.
In addition, a significant upsurge in the surveillance activity of these
craft beginning in May and continuing through the autumn of this
year [1952] has caused considerable concern that new developments
may be imminent. It is for these reasons, as well as the obvious inter­
national and technological considerations and the ultimate need to
avoid a public panic at all costs, that the Majestic-12 Group remains
of the unanimous opinion that imposition of the strictest security
precautions should continue without interruption into the new
administration.”
As listed in the documents, Majestic-12 members included:

Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, the third director of Central Intelli­

gence who became the first director of the CIA upon its formation in
September 1947, was a logical choice for a top-secret group. Hil-
lenkoetter, after retirement from government, joined the private UFO
group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
(NICAP), and stated publicly that UFOs were real and “through offi­
cial secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown
flying objects are nonsense.”

Dr. Vannevar Bush, an eminent American scientist who in 1941

organized the National Defense Research Council and in 1943, the
Office of Scientific Research and Development, which led to the pro­
duction of the first atomic bomb, was another prime candidate for a
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high-level UFO group. In 1949, the U.S. Intelligence Board asked

Bush to study ways of combing intelligence from all agencies. Bush’s
plan was initiated by James Forrestal, also listed as an MJ-12 member.

Secretary James V. Forrestal became secretary of defense in July

1947—the time of the Roswell incident—but resigned in March 1949,
a month before he reportedly committed suicide at Bethesda Naval
Hospital. According to a footnote in the MJ-12 documents, more than
a year passed before his MJ-12 position was permanently filled by
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s chief of staff and former U.S.
ambassador to Moscow, who had replaced Hillenkoetter as director of
Central Intelligence.

Gen. Nathan F. Twining, commander of the Air Material Com­

mand based at Wright-Patterson and a man already heavily involved in
the UFO issue, in fact canceled a scheduled trip on July 8, 1947, “due
to a very important and sudden matter.” This was the day the Roswell
Air Base press release regarding the recovery of a flying saucer was
issued. UFO researcher William Moore claimed that Twining actually
made a two-day trip to New Mexico. It was Twining’s recommendation
that resulted in the creation of the UFO study group, Project Sign.

Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, air force chief of staff and a former

director of Central Intelligence, had ordered the original Project Sign
report that UFOs were real destroyed. Many UFO researchers believe
Vanderberg’s public posture was to maintain security for MJ-12.

Dr. Detlev Bronk, a physiologist and biophysicist with interna­

tional credentials, chaired the National Research Council and was a
member of the medical advisory board of the Atomic Energy Commis­
sion. Bronk also was on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the
Brookhaven National Laboratory with Dr. Edward Condon, who later
headed a major UFO study for the air force.

Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, an aircraft designer, chaired the Depart­

ments of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology' and the National Advisory Committee for Aero­
nautics.

Mr Sidney IV Sorters, a retired rear admiral who in 1946 was the

first director of Central Intelligence, was executive secretary to the
National Security’ Council in 1947 and remained a special consultant
on security matters for a time after leaving that post.
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Mr. Gordon Gray, assistant secretary of the army in 1947,

became secretary of the army in 1949 and a year later was named a
special assistant on national security affairs to President Truman.
According to one source, Gray directed a psychological strategy'
board consulted by CIA director Walter B. Smith in regards to
UFOs.

Dr. Donald Menzel, as a director of the Harvard College Obser­

vatory, was a respected astronomer. He also became a widely known
debunker of UFOs after writing three books in which he explained
away most reports and dismissed others, saying, “All non-explained
sightings are from poor observers.”

Gen. Robert M. Montegue was base commander at the Sandia

Atomic Energy Commission facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
from July 1947 to February 1951. Researchers believe Montegue
undoubtedly would have known about any crashed saucer at Roswell.

Dr. Lloyd K Berkner worked under Vannevar Bush as executive

secretary of the Joint Research and Development Board in 1946 and
headed a study that resulted in the creation of the Weapons Systems
Evaluation Group. Berkner also was a member of the 1952 CIA-
sponsored panel headed by Dr. H. P. Robertson that concluded that
UFOs did not constitute any direct threat to national security.

These distinguished men appeared to have two things in com­

mon—they were all connected to the highest levels of the military and
national security and they were all dead at the time the MJ-12 papers
surfaced and thus unable to answer any questions about their role, if
any, in such a group.
For more than a decade, various UFO researchers have tried to
establish the authenticity of the MJ-12 documents. As debunker Philip
Klass declared, “Either [the documents] are the biggest news story of
the past two millennia or one of the biggest cons ever attempted
against the public.”
Any attempt to determine the validity of the MJ-12 documents
must begin with a look at UFO researcher William L. Moore. In
1979, Moore, a former high school English teacher turned novelist,
authored a book entitled The Philadelphia Experiment with Charles
Berlitz, which for him began a serious interest in UFOs. In 1980 he
and Berlitz published The Roswell Incident, one of the better investiga­
tive efforts on the story at that time and a popular success. While
publicizing his book, Moore later claimed he was recruited as an
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operative by government agents. His primary contact was a man he

would only identify as the Falcon. Falcon told Moore he represented
a group within intelligence who wanted to get truth about UFOs to
the public and offered to help Moore if he would help them. Moore
agreed, hoping this contact would lead him to more solid UFO infor­
mation. Soon Falcon put Moore in touch with Master Sgt. Richard C.
Doty with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at
Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, and Moore was given his first under­
cover assignment.
It involved investigating the strange activities of Dr. Paul Ben-
newitz, a physicist who was president of a small Albuquerque electron­
ics firm. Bennewitz previously had reported to the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization (APRO), of which Moore was a director, that
he had monitored audio transmissions from UFOs with equipment he
designed and even captured UFOs on film. Bennewitz said his stud­
ies—which he called “Project Beta”—had convinced him that aliens
were controlling certain people by implanting tiny devices in their
body during an abduction. Moore went to Albuquerque to meet with
Bennewitz after the AFOSI asked him to evaluate the man’s claims.
Bennewitz maintained his UFO monitoring had disclosed that two
types of extraterrestrials were active on Earth—peaceful “white” or
“blond” aliens who wanted to help mankind and the more sinister
“grey” aliens who were behind cattle mutilations and human abduc­
tions. He added that certain people within the U.S. government had
met with the “greys” and had agreed to allow them to build an under­
ground base in New Mexico in return for advanced space and weapons
technology. Bennewitz said this relationship had deteriorated and that
open warfare appeared imminent.
Reporting back to Falcon through Doty, Moore said he learned
that for almost three years AFOSI agents had been conducting a “dis­
information” campaign against Bennewitz. This involved giving Ben­
newitz “official” documents detailing the alleged alien-government
contacts through a variety of sources. This was designed to “systemati­
cally confuse, discourage and discredit” Bennewitz, Moore said. Ben­
newitz was lured deeper into an investigation of underground bases
and mind control that took him away from his surveillance of UFOs
and their transmissions.
For four years, Moore watched as Bennewitz’s mental and emo­
tional state deteriorated until he was hospitalized with a breakdown.
He may have even contributed to Bennewitz’s decline, since it was
Moore who in February 1981 gave Bennewitz a pre-Majestic-12 docu­
ment known as the “Project Aquarius Telex.”
This document purported to be a message from AFOSI head-
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quarters in Washington to the Kirtland AFB office concerning UFO

photos taken by Bennewitz. One sentence stated, “The official U.S.
Government policy and results of Project Aquarius is still classified
Top Secret with no dissemination outside official intelligence channels
and with restricted access to ‘MJ Twelve.’” It was the first mention of
Project Aquarius and MJ-12. In 1982, Moore worked with reporter
Robert Pratt in a plan to publish information concerning Project
Aquarius as a novel.
Next came another incredible document, nine pages of a presi­
dential “Executive Briefing” that stated, “This document was prepared
by MJ12.” Moore said he was allowed to photograph a copy of these
documents after being summoned to Maryland by unnamed govern­
ment agents. UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe said she too was
shown the document—or one very similar—on April 9, 1983, by
Sergeant Doty in the Kirtland AFB AFOSI office.
According to these briefing papers:

Only MJ-12 has access to Project Aquarius.

Project Aquarius was created in 1959 by order of President

Eisenhower and placed under the control of the National Security
Council and MJ-12.

Project Aquarius was funded by nonappropriated confidential

CIA money.

The purpose of the project was to “collect all scientific, techno­

logical, medical and intelligence information from UFO/IAC (Identi­
fied Alien Crafts) sightings, and contacts with Alien Life forms.”

Information gained through Project Aquarius was used to

advance the United States Space Program.

“In 1947 an aircraft of extraterrestrial origin crashed in the

desert of New Mexico. The craft was recovered by the military, four
Alien—non-homo-sapiens—bodies were recovered in the wreckage.”

“In late 1949 another Alien aircraft crashed in the United States
and was recovered partially intact by the military. One Alien of
extraterrestrial origin survived the crash. The surviving Alien was male
and called itself, ‘EBE.’ This being came from a planet in the Zeta
Reticula star system, approximately 40 light years from Earth. EBE
lived until June 18, 1952, when he died [due] to an unexplained illness.
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During the time period EBE was alive, he provided valuable informa­
tion regarding space technology, origins of the Universe, and exobio-
logical matters.”

Beginning in 1947, the U.S. Air Force began a series of pro­

grams to determine if these aliens posed a threat to national security.
This program operated under the code names Sign, Grudge, and Blue
Book. These programs determined that 90 percent of an estimated
twelve thousand analyzed reports were considered hoaxes, explainable
aerial phenomena, or natural astronomical objects with 10 percent
considered “legitimate Alien sightings and/or incidents.”

In 1953, President Eisenhower ordered a parallel reporting and

study program begun under the name Project Gleem, which then
became Project Aquarius in 1966.

In 1958, an abandoned but operational UFO was recovered in

Utah that provided a large amount of technological data, only some of
which scientists could understand.

In 1966, the United States established contact with aliens and

“felt relatively sure the Aliens’ exploration of Earth was non-aggressive
and non-hostile . . . [and] did not directly threaten the security of the
United States.”

Project Blue Book was conducted to “satisfy public curiosity,”

and when it was closed in December 1969, “Project Aquarius contin­
ued operation under control of NSC/MJ12.”

“MJ 12 feels confident the Aliens are on an exploration of our

solar system for peaceful purposes” but it was decided to “observe and
track” the aliens in secret.

The living alien, EBE, stated “that 2,000 years ago his ancestors
planted a human creature on Earth to assist the inhabitants of Earth in
developing a civilization. This information was only vague and the
exact identity or background information on this homo-sapien was not
obtained. Doubtless, if this information was released to the public, it
would cause worldwide panic.”

A program was developed “for a gradual release of information

over a period of time in order to condition the public for future disclo­
sures.”
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Project BANDO was established in 1949 to collect and evaluate

medical information provided by EBE and alien autopsies and to seek
“certain answers to the evolution theory.” It was ended in 1974.

Project SIGMA, originally part of Project Gleem, became a

separate project in 1976 for the purpose of establishing communica­
tion with aliens. Primitive communication was begun in 1959, which
led to a three-hour face-to-face meeting between two aliens and an air
force intelligence officer on April 25, 1964.

Project SNOWBIRD was a program to test-fly recovered alien

aircraft and is continuing today in Nevada.

Project POUNCE was established in 1968 and designed to

evaluate all alien information pertaining to space technology.

Most UFO researchers believed these documents “too good to

be true,” and their suspicions were justified. In 1982, after air force
officials declared the Aquarius Telex a forgery based on flaws in both
style and format, Moore admitted that he had retyped the document
and added a date stamp. Respected British UFO author Timothy
Good proclaimed the document “an actual classified AFOSI message
that had been skillfully doctored.”
With questions raised about the authenticity of the Aquarius
documents, researchers turned to the MJ-12 papers. Objections were
immediately raised by several researchers, especially longtime
debunker Philip Klass, who attacked the legitimacy of the documents
with everything from the curious mixture of military and civilian date
forms, to misspellings, to oddities of punctuation and style such as the
use of the term “media,” which did not come into vogue until the
1960s.
Klass argued that members of the MJ-12 group could not have
had knowledge of crashed UFOs and bodies, since several spoke out
publicly against the reality of UFOs. This argument totally ignored
historical precedents showing that prominent men will often say the
opposite of what they know to be true, particularly if they feel it is in
the nation’s best interest. Furthermore, Klass questioned why such a
group would include a mere astronomer like Donald Menzel. His ques­
tion was answered by respected UFO researcher Stanton Friedman,
who learned that Menzel led a double life. After studying Menzel’s
unpublished autobiography and speaking with his widow, Friedman
found the astronomer was a covert consultant for the CIA and the
National Security Agency with a Top-Secret Ultra security clearance.
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He was also involved with secret research programs for more than
thirty companies and made frequent trips for the government to
Washington and to New Mexico. Menzel also was closely associated
with MJ-12 listees Bush, Bronk, and Berkner. Friedman was convinced
that no hoaxer could have known of Menzel’s secret connections to
government intelligence, thus indicating the MJ-12 documents were
legitimate.
But the arguments continued. What was needed was yet
another official document that could substantiate the MJ-12 papers.
Just such a document conveniently turned up in the National Archives
in 1985—but its discoverer was none other than Moore again. He was
at the archives with Jaime Shandera when they said they found an
unsigned carbon copy of a memo to Gen. Nathan Twining from Presi­
dent Eisenhower’s special assistant Robert Cutler. Dated July 14, 1954,
and stamped “Top Secret Restricted Security Information,” the
memo’s subject was “NSC/MJ-12 Special Studies Project.” The text
stated that the President had decided that a MJ-12 briefing should take
place during an already scheduled White House meeting on July 16
rather than afterward as planned. Here was another document that
substantiated the existence of the MJ-12 group—or did it?
Immediately, this document came under fire, with Klass arguing
that the memo used a large pica type while the Eisenhower White
House used a small elite type. Yet Friedman claimed to have found
more than a dozen examples of the memo’s typeface used on other
White House messages. Furthermore, Friedman said, “In the case of
the Cutler-Twining memo, we have the original paper, so you can see
the watermark on the onion skin with the name of the company that
made the paper. We contacted them to find out when they made this
particular paper, and we were told between 1953 and 1973. That’s
good, it covers our time period.”
However, critics pointed to the “Top Secret Restricted Security
Information” classification, staring that the Eisenhower Library’ agreed
that “Top Secret” and “Restricted” were two separate classifications
never seen together on any other Eisenhower document. Furthermore,
an official with the Freedom of Information Office of the National
Security Council said the classification “Top Secret Restricted Infor­
mation” did not come into use until the Nixon administration.
Next Klass attacked a memo signed by President Harry Truman
that accompanied the MJ-12 documents, claiming that the president’s
signature was identical to one on a letter to Vannevar Bush, an impossi­
bility for two separate signatures. T hen he found a document expert who
said the Truman memo was typed on a Smith-Corona typewriter first
sold in 1963, fifteen years after the memo was supposedly produced.
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To compound this controversy, yet another MJ-12 document

recently surfaced—an April 1954 “Majestic-12 Group Special Opera­
tions Manual.”
A member of the Fund for UFO Research, a group headed by
former U.S. Navy physicist Dr. Bruce Maccabee that paid researcher
Stanton Friedman $16,000 to investigate the initial MJ-12 documents,
received the operations manual—also anonymously and also on a roll
of thirty-five-millimeter film. The manual is incomplete but, accord­
ing to Roswell author Kevin Randle, it “reveals that a great deal of
work went into its preparation.” “This was no simple, quick, and dirty
job. It suggests someone who is familiar with the style of military man­
uals of recent decades. The cover is impressive, looks authentic, and
even includes a ‘seal’ to add to the visual impact,” Randle wrote.
According to the operations manual, “Operation Majestic-12” was
created by a special classified presidential order on September 24, 1947,
on the recommendation of Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and
Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Joint Research and Development
Board. Its purpose was to recover and study “all materials and devices
of a foreign or extraterrestrial manufacture” as well as “entities or
remains of entities not of terrestrial origin,” establish “Special Teams”
and facilities to accomplish this—all the while maintaining “absolute
top secrecy.” It also stated, “Several dead entities have been recovered
along with a substantial amount of wreckage and devices from downed
craft, all of which are now under study at various locations.” The man­
ual gives descriptions of various types of UFOs and occupants along
with instructions on how to secure a crash site, prepare materials and
bodies for shipment, and even how to present “false statements to pre­
serve the security of the site.” “Meteors, downed satellites, weather
balloons and military aircraft are all acceptable alternative” explana­
tions, it offered.
Numerous arguments were quicldy presented against the
authenticity of the manual, such as discrepancies in the classification
codes, internal inconsistencies, possible anachronisms, and even refer­
ence to a “MJ Form 1-007.” Randle concluded, “In short, the MJ-12
Operations Manual, like the rest of the MJ-12 documents, is a fake for
these reasons: It does not conform to the regulations, it contains inac­
curate information, and it is incomplete. We have no provenance for
it, we can’t find independent verification of it from other government
agencies, and no evidence for its validity has ever been offered.”
Richard Davis, director of national security analysis for the
General Accounting Office, said there have been many FOIA requests
made to various government agencies concerning the MJ-12 papers. In
1995 he wrote, “In each instance these agencies have stated that they
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have no knowledge of the documents and that there is no evidence

that the Majestic 12 written material constitutes actual documents
originally created in the executive branch. During our review for Con­
gressman Schiff we could not find any evidence to contradict these
statements.”
The battle over the MJ-12 papers raged on, and UFO
researchers took sides based on their individual mind-sets. Debunkers
like Klass were joined by Randle and coauthor Donald Schmitt, who
stated flatly that the MJ-12 documents were a hoax and hinted
broadly that Moore may have had a hand in the fabrication. On the
other side were Friedman and British author Timothy Good, who
wrote in 1988, “My inquiries into the authenticity of the Majestic 12
story during research during a recent trip to the United States in
1986 have led me to believe that the group did indeed exist, and the
document seems authentic enough. Unfortunately, all the members
are now deceased and my questions addressed to a former director of
the CIA, as well as two ex-Presidents, remain unanswered, which is
hardly surprising.” But by 1993, even Good was backtracking. Writ­
ing that “valid objections have now been raised,” Good stated he
believed the MJ-12 documents to be fraudulent but added that based
on his own research “some information contained therein, at least, is
essentially factual.”
Charge and countercharge, undercover agents, “disinformation”
campaigns, phony documents—the whole thing carried the odor of
rotting fish. It was apparent that the MJ-12 documents were produced
by someone with extensive knowledge and expertise in military docu­
mentation, as everyone agreed the papers presented the appearance of
authenticity. So if the MJ-12 documents were fabrications, many
researchers reasoned it signaled a sophisticated “disinformation” cam­
paign on the part of someone within the U.S. military7. Such a cam­
paign would clearly show that the U.S. military—particularly the air
force—had long taken a keener and deeper interest in both the UFO
phenomenon and its investigators than previously imagined, a highly
curious circumstance in light of the fact that the air force had long
denied that there is anything going on in the first place.
So whether real or bogus, the MJ-12 and Project Aquarius doc­
uments and others would seem to establish beyond doubt that certain
persons within the government were concealing their intense interest
in UFOs. If they are genuine—a determination that does not appear to
be within easy reach anytime soon—they would explain much in
regard to continued government secrecy.
One simple test failed to establish fraud. By 1995, a researcher
and aerospace worker named Lee Graham had decided that either the
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MJ-12 documents were genuine or someone had committed a felony

by fabricating and publicizing top-secret government papers. Graham
worked for Aerojet, a firm that did contract work for the U.S. Air
Force, and had signed a secret security agreement that stated, “If I am
uncertain about the classification status of information, I am required
to confirm from an authorized official that the information is unclassi­
fied before I may disclose it.” Graham learned that any document
bearing a top-secret classification stamp came under Department of
Defense regulation 5200.1-R. Therefore, when Graham obtained a
copy of the MJ-12 documents in 1987, he was obligated under regula­
tions to report that top-secret material may have been compromised.
On May 24, 1990, after he had written to then Vice President Dan
Quayle, Graham received a letter from the Defense Investigative Ser­
vice (DIS) that included a copy of his Quayle letter along with the
MJ-12 documents, which Graham noted had been marked “Unclassi­
fied.” In subsequent correspondence, DIS agent Dale Hartig stated
that the MJ-12 papers were authentic. “Going by the lawful security
procedures governing the handling and disposition of classified docu­
ments, there can only be two possible conclusions,” Graham wrote,
“the Briefing Document: Operation Majestic 12 is legitimate, or Dale
Hartig should be charged with violating DoD Regulation 5200.1-R.
There is no middle ground!” Graham noted that “in this instance, the
security breach committed by Moore/Shandera was apparently
ignored by all government agencies, including the presumed current
MJ-12 group or their successors.”
This ignoring of security violations was confirmed by an FBI
investigation launched in the wake of the disclosure of the MJ-12 doc­
uments. Spurred by a letter from Philip Klass in 1987, the Bureau
began an investigation of the MJ-12 documents, which, whether legiti­
mate or a fabrication, would constitute a grave security violation.
Bureau agents spent more than a year trying to determine if the MJ-12
papers were stolen government property or forgeries. Why would
someone go to the trouble to fabricate the documents? they asked.
Who had the knowledge and experience to concoct such an elaborate
and credible hoax? If someone forged the papers, he would have had to
know details of people and events more than almost fifty years ago plus
the correct form of writing, dates, and security stamps. By the end of
their investigation, FBI agents could not find any agency or individual
willing to admit that the papers had been purloined from the govern­
ment or make a formal complaint of forgery. Author Howard Blum
wrote that one FBI agent involved in the MJ-12 investigation con­
fided, “All we’re finding out is that the government doesn’t know what
it knows. There are too many secret levels. You can’t get a straight
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story. It wouldn't surprise me if we never know if the papers are gen­

uine or not.”
So today—and for the foreseeable future—questions over the
authenticity of the papers continue to swirl in a cauldron of contro­
versy, with heated arguments coming from all sides. Once again, it
would seem to be a question, not of final proof, but of which mind-set
one chooses to accept. Interestingly enough, there does appear to be a
general agreement among UFO researchers matching Good’s conclu­
sion that, even if the documents are proven to be false, they still may
contain elements of truth. For there is some legitimate documentary
evidence indicating that an MJ-12 group—similar in operation if not
in name—indeed existed and that UFO crash recoveries may indeed
have taken place.
In the 1991 book UFOs, MJ-12 and the Government: A Report on
Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, authors Grant
Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr. reported that Dr. Eric A. Walker, for­
mer executive secretary for the Defense Department’s Research and
Development Board, felt the publicized MJ-12 documents were not
authentic. However, he admitted knowing about an MJ-12 group since
its inception in 1947. Walker said MJ-12 was “a handful of elite, and
they are not all Americans.” Walker also admitted attending meetings
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base concerning recovered UFOs.
Asked about UFO occupants, Walker replied that not much had been
learned from them. “We are not working with them,” he added, “only
contact.” “As to the existence of a special committee to oversee UFO
crash retrieval operations—which may or may not have been named
MJ-12—there is a wealth of data to support its reality,” authors
Cameron and Crain concluded.
For example, several government documents have become pub­
lic mentioning MJ-12, including a pay record for Bob Lazar, a man
who claimed to have worked with crashed UFOs, and a CIA document
reporting on a crashed saucer and alien bodies mentioned by /Marilyn
Monroe. All such documents are branded fakes by debunkers,
although none have been proven to be so and their number seems to
be increasing.
One intriguing story regarding MJ-12 came from longtime
UFO researcher Tommy Bland, who recalled that in 1990 he met a
woman who seemed to know all about the secret group. “Margaret
Fuller lived in the same apartment complex as we did. She was a
widow and lived alone and one day I helped her move some things into
her apartment. On the walls I saw framed photographs of her with
President Truman and Allen Dulles and several other people I only
knew from history. Some of them were ranking military officers that I
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knew from my research had been connected with the UFO issue. Over
time I got to know Mrs. Fuller quite well and found out that since
World War II she had been an executive secretary for several top-
ranking Army generals. She finally showed me many files relating to
her work and told me that there was a secret group in control of the
UFO situation. She said it was not then called MJ-12 but it operated
the same way that MJ-12 was described. She said this group was still in
existence.
“According to Mrs. Fuller, most early UFO sightings involved
aeronautical experimentation with captured Nazi technology. Later
the issue grew to include psychological warfare and disinformation
campaigns. However, she said that within all this was some real but
unknown things bordering on magic. She said these things were classi­
fied at a much higher level. Some of the generals said there was a con­
nection between the unknown UFOs and spiritualism.
“Mrs. Fuller said she had photographs of most of the original
members of this UFO group and she was looking for them the same
week she had a heart attack. As they were wheeling her out of her
apartment, she grasped my arm and said, ‘Tommy, don’t let my family
get those files.’ They took her to a hospital in Nashville. She died
while in the hospital. A relative told me that she saw a nurse give Mrs.
Fuller medication which was not prescribed for her. Some people who
claimed to be her family came, sacked up her files in plastic bags and
took them away. It was all highly unusual.”
But while anecdotes such as this might be easy for some to dis­
miss, other evidence that the government had laid its hands on real
UFOs—if not alien bodies—is harder to disregard.

Official UFO Notice

There is an amazing FBI document that indicated that Director
J. Edgar Hoover had knowledge of an early UFO recovery. This 1947
FBI memorandum recommended the Bureau not investigate UFO
sightings, “it being noted that a great bulk of these alleged discs
reported found have been pranks.” At the bottom of the page assistant
FBI director and Hoover’s roommate Clyde Tolson added, “I think we
should do this.” Hoover added in his own handwriting, “I would do it
but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to discs recov­
ered. For instance in the [La?] case the Army grabbed it and wouldn’t
let us have it for cursory examination.” Some researchers think the
illegible “La” in the memo might stand for Los Alamos, where some
wreckage from Roswell reportedly was taken, or it might refer to a
reported saucer recovery in Louisiana. Regardless, this memo was
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strong support for the idea that a UFO was recovered and being stud­
ied within the government.
The FBI continued to receive UFO information. A March 22,
1950, office memorandum to Hoover from the special agent in charge
of the FBI’s Washington office reported, “An investigator for the Air
Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in
New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with
raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occu­
pied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in
metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a
manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test
pilots.”
More support came from a foreign source. In November 1950,
Wilbert B. Smith, an official with the Canadian Department of Trans­
port, wrote a secret memorandum to his superiors recommending that
a UFO research project be created. Smith said he had learned from
American scientist Dr. Robert Sarbacher that “flying saucers exist” and
that the issue was considered to be of “tremendous significance” by
U.S. authorities, who had classified the matter at a “rating higher even
than the H-bomb.” He also wrote that the study of UFOs by a “con­
centrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor
Vannevar Bush.” The Canadian Department of Transport responded
to Smith’s recommendation by creating Project Magnet in December
1950, downplayed later as “a small program of investigation in the
field of geomagnetics.” Yet, another Smith report on August 10, 1953,
stated, “It appears then, that we are faced with a substantial probability
of the real existence of extraterrestrial vehicles.. ..”
Smith’s source of information, Dr. Robert Sarbacher, was a
respected scientist on the U.S. governments Research and Develop­
ment Board as well as president and board chairman of the Washing­
ton Institute of Technology. On November 29, 1983, in response to
queries from UFO author William Steinman, Sarbacher wrote a
provocative letter, stating, “Relating to my own experiences regarding
recovered flying saucers, I had no association with any of the people
involved in the recovery and have no knowledge regarding the dates of
the recoveries. ... Dr. Vannevar Bush was definitely involved, and I
think Dr. Robert Oppenheimer also. ... I did receive some official
reports when I was in my office at the Pentagon but all of these were
left there as at the time we were never supposed to take them out of
the office. .. . About the only thing I remember at this time is that cer­
tain materials reported to have come from flying saucer crashes were
extremely light and very tough. I am sure our laboratories analyzed
them very carefully. There were reports that instruments or people
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operating these machines were also of very light weight, sufficient to

withstand the tremendous deceleration and acceleration associated
with their machinery. I remember in talking to some of the people at
the office that I got the impression these ‘aliens’ were constructed like
certain insects we have observed on earth. ... I still do not know why
the high order of classification has been given and why the denial of
the existence of these devices.”
Author Good reported that in 1950 none other than Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs Gen. George C. Marshall admitted to a
friend that there had been at least three UFO landings that “proved
disastrous for the occupants.”
Another fascinating story involved the late comedian Jackie
Gleason. According to Gleason’s second wife, Beverly McKittrick, he
returned home visibly shaken one night in 1973. Gleason, who was
known to have an avid interest in UFOs, said his friend President
Richard Nixon had arranged for him to visit Homestead Air Force
Base in Florida, where he viewed the remains of small alien beings
under tight security. This story was confirmed by Larry Warren, who
said Gleason met with him in May 1986 to hear Warren’s account of a
UFO experience in England. During their conversation, Gleason
related the Nixon-aliens story7 and said the experience traumatized him
for weeks. “You could tell that he was very sincere,” said Warren. “He
took the whole affair very seriously, and I could tell that he wanted to
get the matter off his chest, and this was why he was telling me all of
this.” Before his death in 1987, Gleason was asked about this incident
but declined to comment, a most interesting circumstance, since it was
an opportunity to refute the story if it was false.

JFK, Marilyn, and the UFOs

An even more bizarre story concerned a UFO connection between
President John F. Kennedy and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe—for
years the subject of rumors linking the actress romantically with both
John and Robert Kennedy.
In 1994, Los Angeles private investigator Milo Spiriglio, who
wrote three books about Monroe’s controversial death, obtained a
poorly reproduced copy of what appeared to be a CIA report dated
August 3, 1962—just two days before the actress died of a reported
drug overdose. The report stated that, through a telephone wiretap,
agents had listened in on a conversation between the renowned
reporter Dorothy Kilgallen and a close friend in Hollywood. The
friend talked about a breakup between Monroe and the Kennedys and
said the actress was attending parties hosted by Hollywood’s “inner
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circle,” where she was threatening to hold a press conference and

reveal “secrets” she had learned from both John and Robert Kennedy.
According to the report, these secrets included her knowledge
of “bases” in Cuba—perhaps a reference to the Soviet missile sites that
led to the crisis a few months later—and Kennedy’s plans to kill Fidel
Castro,
But the first listed “secret” was a “visit by the President at a secret
air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.” Kilgallen
did not seemed shocked by this statement. In fact, according to the CIA
report, she replied that she might know the source of such a visit—a
crash in New Mexico in the late 1940s. She stated that in the mid-1950s,
she had learned from a British government official about a secret effort
to identify the origin of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies.
Spiriglio, a court-certified document expert, declined to reveal
the name of the person who provided the report, saying that at least
two federal agencies were investigating the matter, although no official
word has been forthcoming. But he added that several ex-CIA contacts
had verified the document’s contents. “It appears to be a summary
designed to be transferred to other agencies,” commented researcher
Vic Golubic, who investigated the document for more than a year and
still could neither confirm nor deny its authenticity. “I have checked
with many people and 50 percent say it’s authentic and 50 percent say
it’s not. Either it’s a very clever hoax or it’s legitimate.”
The document appeared to be signed by none other than James
Angleton, former chief of CIA counterintelligence. Adding to suspi­
cions about the document’s legitimacy was a reference to Project
Moon Dust and a smudgy imprint at the bottom that appeared to read
“MJ-12.”
However, there is some intriguing support for the notion that
the story might be true. First is an article by Dorothy Kilgallen pub­
lished in 1955. Under the headline “‘Flying Saucer’ Wreckage Assures
Britons of Reality,” she wrote, “I can report Sunday on a story which is
positively spooky, not to mention chilling. British scientists and air­
men, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are
convinced that these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions, but
are actually flying saucers which originate on another planet. The
source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who
prefers to remain unidentified. ‘We believe, on the basis of our
inquiries thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men—proba­
bly under four feet tall,’ my informant told me. ‘It’s frightening but
there is no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.’ This
official quoted scientists as saying a flying ship of this type could not
possibly have been constructed on Earth. The British government, I
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learned, is withholding an official report on the ‘flying saucer’ exami­

nation at this time, possibly because it does not wish to frighten the
public. In the United States, all kinds of explanations have been
advanced. But no responsible official of the U.S. Air Force has yet inti­
mated the mysterious flying ships actually vaulted from outer space.”
Considerable support for Kilgallen’s story came during that
same period, when British Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, com­
mander in chief of RAF fighters during the Battle of Britain, told the
London Sunday Dispatch knowingly, “I am convinced that these objects
[UFOs] do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on
Earth. ... I think that we must resist the tendency to assume that they
all come from the same planet, or that they are actuated by similar
motives. It might be that the visitors from one planet wished to help us
in our evolution from the basis of a higher level to which they had
attained. Another planet might send an expedition to ascertain what
have been those terrible explosions which they have observed, and to
prevent us from discommoding other people besides ourselves by the
new toys with which we are so light-heartedly playing. Other visitors
might have come bent solely on scientific discovery and might regard
us with the dispassionate aloofness which we might regard insects
found beneath an upturned stone.”
Further support for high-level knowledge on UFOs came from
a former steward aboard Air Force One who told of a cryptic remark by
President Kennedy Bill Holden , who also served as loadmaster for. #
Force One, traveled with Kennedy to Europe in the summer of 1963. He
said a UFO conference in Bonn, Germany , prompted a discussion of the
subject aboard the President’s plane one morning.
Holden said he turned to Kennedy and asked, “What do you
think about UFOs, Mr. President?” He said Kennedy became quite
serious and thought for a moment before replying, “I’d like to tell the
public about the alien situation, but my hands are tied.”
Spurred on by such tantalizing bits of evidence, some
researchers even claimed that Kennedy’s assassination was to prevent
him from revealing the news of extraterrestrial visitation to the public.
Not only do these accounts appear to provide some substantia­
tion for the recovered saucers story, but recent government letters
make it plain that Project Aquarius—the subject of the telex that
started the whole document controversy—actually exists.
When a researcher sent a Freedom of Information request to
the National Security Agency (NSA), Dennis Chadwick, chief of infor­
mation policy, responded, “Please be advised that Project Aquarius
does not deal with unidentified aerial objects.” Chadwick added,
“Since you indicate in your letter that you will not be paying the
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$15,000.00 fee to search for records pertaining to Aquarius, this

response completes our action on your request.” Undaunted, the
researcher inquired further and on April 15, 1986, received this
intriguing reply from Julia Wetzel, the NSAs director of policy: “The
document located in response to your request as stated in your 7
March letter has been reviewed by the Agency as required by the
FOIA and has been found to be currently and properly classified .. .
and remains TOP SECRET . .. The document is classified because
its disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally
grave damage to the national security....” While confirming the exis­
tence of TOP SECRET Project Aquarius, the NSA gave no indication
if it involved UFOs. Considering past government reliance on seman­
tic ambiguity, some researchers believed the denial that the project
concerned “unidentified aerial objects” left open the question of iden­
tified objects on the ground.
It was ironic that as the government’s official line that UFOs
simply don’t exist hardened, such documentation as above along with
official reports and anecdotes increased in both quality and quantity.
Something definitely was going on, but the public would not find out
what through official government channels.
 PLAUSIBLE
DENI ABILITY

In the early 1950s, the shift of attitude toward denial of UFOs solid­
ified within the highest levels of military and civilian leadership.
Like a pebble in a pond, it rippled down through the lower levels of
authority.
Project Grudge foundered, strapped by political, economic, and
manpower problems. Edward J. Ruppelt, who soon would head the
new official air force UFO investigation, said, “Project Grudge lapsed
more and more into a period of almost complete inactivity.” He
termed it the “Dark Ages.” One of the only reports to come out dur­
ing this period was characterized by a newsman as “quite impressive,
but only in its ambiguousness, illogical reasoning, and very apparent
effort to write off all UFO reports at any cost ... to cover up the real
story.” Ruppelt himself spoke of a “schizophrenic approach” at the Air
Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC). “On the surface they sided with
the belly-laughers on any saucer issue, but if you were alone with them
and started to ridicule the subject, they defended it or at least took an
active interest,” he said.
This all changed in the fall of 1951 when ranking officers in the
Pentagon, irritated that the public and news media would not drop the
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subject, ordered a reorganization of Project Grudge. On October 27,

1951, the new Project Grudge was officially established with Captain
Ruppelt in charge.
UFO reports improved in quality, and the air force even issued
orders to its pilots and air controllers on what procedures to follow
should one be encountered. These instructions were known as Com­
munication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings
(CIRVIS). The orders themselves caused problems for the military.
Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication (JANAP) 146 directed pilots
to report UFOs but keep the reports secret under penalties contained
in the Communications Act of 1934 and espionage laws. Air Force
Regulation (AFR) 200-2 limited the distribution of UFO reports to
three air force intelligence groups.
Soon this censorship and secrecy was extended beyond the mili­
tary. On February 17, 1954, air force officials met with representatives
of the nation’s major airlines. According to Scripps-Howard News Ser­
vice, commercial pilots had been reporting between five and ten UFO
sightings per night prior to this meeting. Pilots would notify the air
force of their sightings through their companies after landing. To “get
the reports in the quickest possible way,” air force officers instructed
pilots to radio such reports directly to Military Air Transport Service
(MATS) intelligence in Washington or to the nearest air force base.
According to one news account of the meeting, “Airline pilots are
asked not to discuss their sightings publicly or give them to the news­
papers.”
This unsubtle muzzling of commercial pilots prompted one to
tell news reporters, “[The air force policy is] a lesson in lying, intrigue
and the ‘Big Brother’ attitude carried to the ultimate extreme.” Nearly
five hundred airline pilots signed a petition protesting this policy, but
to no avail. Someone with a great deal of power was determined to
close off public discussions of UFOs.
Researcher and author Maj. Donald Keyhoe pointed to the
CIRVIS regulations as proof the air force was suppressing UFO infor­
mation. “Because of JANAP 146 and AFR 200-2, hundreds of new,
dramatic encounters have been kept under cover,” he wrote, adding
that the UFO secrecy* policy was coming from an MJ-12-type clique of
highly placed men he termed the “silence group.”
Despite the official attitude that UFOs didn’t exist, it was quite
apparent that top officials were seeking as much information as possi­
ble. But still there were no hard-and-fast answers.
One good example is what came to be known as the “Lubbock
Lights.” Beginning on the evening of August 25, 1951, and lasting for
several more nights, a strange line of bluish, glowing lights were seen
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flying swiftly over Lubbock in far West Texas. Four professors from
Texas Technological College—a geologist, a physicist, a chemist, and a
petroleum engineer—witnessed the lights on several successive nights.
After careful study, the academicians decided they were under intelli­
gent control. A college freshman named Carl Hart Jr. managed to take
five photographs of the V-shaped formation of lights. The air force
eventually decided the whole incident was caused by mercury vapor
streetlights reflecting off the backsides of birds, first identified as
plovers, then changed to ducks when it was pointed out that plovers
usually traveled only in pairs. This explanation was not well received
among the hundreds of Lubbock residents wrho witnessed the flyover.
Ruppelt, who personally investigated the Lubbock Lights, also
was not convinced by the bird story. He stated the photographs could
not be proven to be a hoax and discounted the streetlight reflection
theory, since people far from the city also saw the formation. Further­
more, there were radar tracks and sightings as far away as Albuquerque
to support the sightings. He stated that government scientists and
intelligence officers “were convinced that some of the UFOs that were
being reported were interplanetary spaceships and the Lubbock series
was one of these reports.” But in his 1956 book, Ruppelt finally stated
that, after he received information from a source he could not identify,
the lights were a “very commonplace and easily explainable natural
phenomenon.” It was a most unsatisfying conclusion.
Ruppelt generally brought a fresh and objective viewpoint to
the air force investigation. He claimed to have dismissed three staffers
for being either too skeptical or too accepting of the spaceship theory.
And he quickly immersed himself in the quagmire of UFO reports. In
January 1952, Ruppelt and a scientist met with employees of General
Mills in Minneapolis, who claimed they had witnessed UFO sightings
for more than a year. These people had a special place in the ranks of
UFO witnesses. Ruppelt explained, “The Aeronautical Division of
General Mills, Inc., of Wheaties and Betty Crocker fame, had
launched and tracked every Skyhook balloon that had been launched
prior to mid-1952. They knew what their balloons looked like under
all lighting conditions and they also knew meteorology, aerodynamics,
astronomy, and they knew UFOs. I talked to these people for the bet­
ter part of a full day and every time I tried to infer that there might be
some natural explanation for the UFOs I just about found myself in a
fresh snowdrift.” This set the theory that many—if not most—UFO
sightings had been Skyhook balloons on its ear.
With new hopes of resolving the growing UFO phenomenon,
the name Project Grudge was finally scrapped in March 1952. The air
force investigation, now working closely with the Air Defense Com­
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mand, became a separate organization officially called the Aerial Phe­

nomena Group. This soon changed to Project Blue Book. Another
change came due to Ruppelt’s disgust that the term “flying saucer” had
come to represent anything and everything decidedly strange and
unworldly. He popularized the term Unidentified Flying Object, or
UFO, in the belief that this more closely represented the object of the
air force investigation.
Where the air force had been trying to discredit all UFO
sightings, Ruppelt and Blue Book were trying to keep an open mind.
However, they quickly dismissed any report that appeared to have a
conventional explanation, which came to about 60 percent. They con­
centrated on the remainder.
Public perception was electrified when Life magazine published
an article in April 7, 1952, entitled, “Have We Visitors from Space?”
Not only did the article seem to substantiate the idea that aliens were
here but, by citing certain high-placed sources, appeared to endorse
the concept. Many people felt the air force was trying to leak truth in a
nonthreatening manner. Ruppelt and author Peebles both concurred
that the idea of interplanetary spacecraft was certainly the personal
opinion of several Pentagon officers at the time. Both, however,
stopped short of Major Keyhoe’s belief that the Life article was part of
a process approved at the highest levels to condition the public to the
idea of extraterrestrial visitation. One thing was certain—the idea of
aliens on Earth, while ridiculed at lower levels, apparently was taken
quite seriously at higher ones.
Blue Book, engrossed with the effort to reorganize, was unpre­
pared for the rash of sightings that began in the summer of 1952. Said
Ruppelt, “By mid-July we were getting about 20 reports a day plus
frantic calls from intelligence officers all over the United States as
every Air Force installation in the U.S. was being swamped with
reports.” And this was only the beginning.

UFOs over Washington

The reality of UFOs became undeniable—at least to the population of
Washington, D.C.—on July 19, 1952, when more than eight UFOs
were tracked on radar at both Andrews Air Force Base and Washing­
ton National Airport. The objects would cruise along at low speeds of
100 to 130 miles per hour and then accelerate to “fantastically high
speeds.” The objects were observed by experienced pilots and air con­
trollers as well as tracked by radar for several hours. Ominously, they
were well within Washington’s most restricted airspace—passing over
both the Capitol and the White I louse.
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Over the ensuing days, the UFOs reappeared, first here and
then there. The sightings came as a surprise to the Blue Book staff,
although, in hindsight, they shouldn’t have. Ruppelt reported later
there had been a steady buildup of sightings along the East Coast for
some months.
When the sightings first began, news reporters and photogra­
phers pressed into the radar room at National Airport to watch the
UFOs cavort. Quickly, however, the media were ordered out with the
explanation that classified radio frequencies and procedures would be
used to vector fighters to the UFOs. “I knew that this was absurd
because any ham radio operator worth his salt could build equipment
and listen in on any intercept,” Ruppelt later wrote. He said he learned
that the real reason for dismissing the media was to prevent them from
learning the reality of the UFOs, should one be brought down.
F-94 military jets were sent aloft to intercept the bogies, which
were flying through restricted airspace. But every time the jets would
close in, the UFOs would accelerate and disappear. Radar positions
would be given, but ground observers couldn’t see anything. It was all
very frustrating. And the news media had a ball. “Fiery Objects Out­
run Jets over Capital—Investigation Veiled in Secrecy Following Vain
Chase” and “Jets Alerted for Saucers—Interceptors Chase Lights in
D.C. Skies” screamed the headlines.
Responding to the clamor, Maj. Gen. John Samford called a
news conference for the afternoon of July 29. It was the largest and
longest press conference convened by the air force since World War
II. According to Ruppelt, General Samford hedged on some questions
simply because he didn’t have an answer. He finally passed the buck to
an intelligence officer who speculated that the hubbub over Washing­
ton was caused by temperature inversions, a phenomenon creating
pockets of warm air unable to rise due to similar temperature layers in
the sky. Temperature inversions might reflect light and might be
picked up on radar, it was explained. The news media then reported
“Air Force Debunks Saucers as Just Natural Phenomena.”
The Civilian Aeronautics Authority, forerunner of the Federal
Aviation Administration, conducted a study and concluded that “tem­
perature inversion had been indicated in almost every instance” of the
Washington sightings. It was an explanation warmly embraced by
debunker Peebles but systematically picked apart by Ruppelt. Blue
Book’s investigation determined that UFOs had been seen frequently
over Washington—fifty targets were tracked on May 23 alone—and that
each night there was a sighting the temperature inversions were never
strong enough to affect radar . Ruppelt also found that while inversions
occurred almost every night during June, July, and August,
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the “slow-moving, ‘solid’ radar targets appeared only on those few

nights.” “So the Washington National Airport Sightings are still
unknowns,” Ruppelt concluded.

The CIA Takes Control

Following the mid-1952 Washington saucer scare, the factions within
Blue Book were beginning to agree on one thing—it was time to end
the official secrecy regarding UFOs.
This idea was hurried along due to Secretary of the Navy Dan
Kimball, who had his own UFO experience while flying to Hawaii in
April 1952. Two disc-shaped craft, flying at speeds estimated at more
than 1,500 miles per hours—an impossible speed in those days—
zoomed in and circled Kimball’s executive plane and another plane
carrying Adm. Arthur Radford. Upon landing, Kimball radioed the air
force with a report. Some time later, Kimball was outraged to learn
that the air force had apparently not seriously investigated his case but
would not even release to him what analysis they did prepare. He
quickly ordered the navy to begin a parallel UFO investigation with
the newly created air force. This action soon yielded one of the best
documented UFO cases to that time.
On July 15, 1952, Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C.
Newhouse and his wife had just driven through Tremonton, Utah, just
north of Salt Lake City, when they saw a group of twelve to fourteen
bright shiny objects maneuvering in formation at high speeds. Stop­
ping his car, Newhouse, a navy photographer for twenty-one years,
grabbed his film camera and set the turret at the three-inch telephoto
lens. He exposed about forty feet of film before the objects flew out of
sight. Moments before disappearing, one of the objects split off from
the main group and headed east. Later, Newhouse said the objects
looked like “two pie pans, one inverted on the top of the other.”
This time the film went to the Navy Photo Interpretation Lab­
oratory near Washington, where analysts closely studied the objects
and soon ruled out aircraft, balloons, and birds. Their final conclusion
was “unknown objects under intelligent control.”
With the navy entering the UFO picture with this startling film
footage and with Ruppelt and the air force officers wanting to speak
publicly about interplanetary spaceships, it appeared obvious from the
standpoint of a person in highest authority that something had to be
done. And it was.
Major Keyhoe, a man with considerable insider contacts, later
reported that he learned that the CIA had been keeping tabs on the
UFO situation and the air force investigation almost since its incep-
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tion. “Admiral Hillenkoetter told me afterward, this had been going

on since 1948, when he was CIA director,” wrote Keyhoe. This was
the same Hillenkoetter named in the dubious MJ-12 papers.
According to Keyhoe, the CIA managed to stall any meaningful
action by Navy Secretary Kimball until after the November 1952 elec­
tions. With the election of Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, Kimball
became a lame duck and lost strength in his effort to break up UFO
censorship. “Even though the Kimball threat seemed ended,” Keyhoe
wrote, “the CIA knew another Navy fight could erupt, and the AF had
shown it was not tough enough to cope with such a danger. The only
answer was to seize control of the AF investigation and insist on a
hard-boiled, ruthless censorship, to kill off public belief in UFOs.”
To this end, CIA officials convened a panel of distinguished sci­
entists to make a secret study of the UFO evidence up to that time.
The CIA director in early 1953 was Walter Bedell Smith, another
name on the MJ-12 documents. Smith was replaced that same year by
CIA Deputy Director Allen Dulles, a former Office of Strategic Ser­
vices officer under William “Wild Bill” Donovan and one of the men
who help create the CIA. Dulles’s brother, John Foster Dulles, was
Eisenhower’s secretary of state. The Dulles brothers would set U.S.
foreign policy for almost a decade.
In a 1952 memorandum, CIA director Smith told the National
Security Council, “Since 1947, approximately 2,000 official reports of
sightings have been received and, of these, about 20 percent are as yet
unexplained. It is my view that this situation has possible implications
for our national security which transcend the interest of a single ser­
vice. A broader, coordinated effort should be initiated to develop a
firm scientific understanding of the several phenomena which appar­
ently are involved in these reports, and to assure ourselves that the
incidents will not hamper our present efforts in the Cold War or con­
fuse our early warning system in case of an attack.” In another Smith
memo, declassified in 1977, he told the director of the CIA’s Psycho­
logical Strategy Board that he was sending the NSC a proposal “in
which it is concluded that the problems connected with unidentified
flying objects appear to have implications for psychological warfare as
well as for intelligence and operations.”
The CIA scientists—which interestingly included Dr. Lloyd
Berkner, another name on the MJ-12 list—began meeting on January
14, 1953, in Washington. The panel was chaired by Dr. H. P. Robert­
son, a California Institute of Technology physicist tightly connected
with U.S. intelligence. In 1943, Robertson had studied the German
V-l program and reported to the government that it was a legitimate
threat. One member, Johns Hopkins University astronomer Dr.
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Thornton L. Page, set the tone. “At the start I thought it was a lot of
nonsense and said so,” he recalled. Page was silenced by Robertson,
who went to some length to assure everyone present that the CIA-
created study was to be serious and open-minded. He and his allies on
the panel then set out to debunk every bit of UFO information pre­
sented, including a “very hot and very highly controversial study” initi­
ated by Ruppelt and Blue Book government liaison officer Maj. Dewey
Foumet. “The study was hot because it wasn’t official and the reason it
wasn’t official was because it was so hot,” wrote Ruppelt. “It concluded
that the UFOs were interplanetary spaceships.”
J. Allen Hynek, who had returned as an adviser to both Blue
Book and the Robertson panel, later wrote he was dissatisfied with the
panel’s cursory examination and lack of curiosity. Furthermore, he
stated, “The panel was not given access to many of the truly puzzling
cases.”
“Supposedly, this was to be a careful, objective examination of
the best verified reports,” wrote Keyhoe. “Actually, the CIA-selected
scientists were known skeptics. Most of them had no real knowledge
of UFOs and they considered the subject nonsense.” The CIA men
in charge of the scientists limited the material and skewed it in such a
way that led the willing panelists to a negative view of UFOs. Key­
hoe said he was told by one of the AF officers at the meeting, “We
were double-crossed. The CIA doesn’t want to prepare the public—
they’re trying to bury the subject. Those agents ran the whole show
and the scientists followed their lead. They threw out the Utah
film—said the Navy analysts were incompetent. We had over a hun­
dred of the strongest verified reports. The agents bypassed the best
ones. The scientists saw just 15 cases, and the CIA men tried to pick
holes in them.”
Under these circumstances, it was not surprising that the Robert­
son panel concluded that “evidence presented on Unidentified Flying
Objects shows no indication that these phenomena constitute a direct
physical threat to national security” but added that “the continued
emphasis on the reporting of these phenomena does, in these perilous
times, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective
organs of the body politic ... that the national security agencies take
immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special
status they have been given and the aura of mystery they’ have unfortu­
nately acquired.” They were more concerned with public perceptions
than with the phenomenon itself.
Al Chop, Project Blue Book’s civilian press officer, told Keyhoe,
“They killed the whole program. We’ve been ordered to work up a
national debunking campaign, planting articles in magazines and
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arranging broadcasts to make UFO reports sound like poppycock .”

Keyhoe quoted Ruppelt as adding , “What Al Chop told you isn ’t the
worst of it. We’re ordered to hide sightings when possible, but if a strong
report does get out we have to publish a fast explanation — make up
something to kill the report in a hurry , and also ridicule the witness ,
especially if we can ’t figure out a plausible answer . We even have to
discredit our own pilots . It’s a raw deal but we can’t buck the CIA. The
whole thing makes me sick—I’m thinking of putting in for inactive.”
Substantiation for this policy of secrecy came from none other
than Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, who then served as chair­
man of the Senate Armed Services Committee and later as a member
of the Warren Commission. Russell, after sighting a UFO while in
Europe, declined to speak publicly about his experience, stating, “I
have discussed this with the affected agencies of the government and
they are of the opinion that it is unwise to publicize the matter at this
time.”
Deceit also was a part of the secrecy policy. Despite the 1947
Twining memo that concluded UFOs were “something real and not
visionary or fictitious,” Air Force Headquarters Lt. Col. L. J. Tacker in
the early 1950s stated emphatically, “There never has been an official
Air Force conclusion that the Flying Saucers are real.”
To give some idea of both how long this policy of secrecy and
deceit was maintained and at what levels, it is instructive to consider a
letter to Keyhoe from former House majority leader John McCor­
mack, who said he was unable to gain UFO information even in closed
sessions with top air force officers despite “strong efforts” to learn the
truth. Further substantiation came from Senator Barry Goldwater,
who served as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. In a
letter written on March 28, 1975, Goldwater stated, “The subject of
UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About 10 or
12 years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that
has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied
this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.” In 1979, Goldwater,
who for years was a major general in the Air Force Reserve, wrote to
researcher Lee Graham, “This thing has gotten so highly classified . . .
it is just impossible to get anything on it.” It seems incredible, but
UFOs—which officially don’t exist—are so wrapped in secrecy that
even ranking senators cannot get at information about the subject.
In fact the entire military-UFO issue became a “catch-22” situa­
tion. Dr. Robertson, in comparing the UFO investigation to his own
study of German guided missiles at the end of the war, noted, “The
absence of any ‘hardware’ resulting from unexplained UFO sightings
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lends a ‘will-o’-the-wisp’ nature to the ATIC problem.” In other

words, only “hardware” could prove the reality of UFOs. But any
“hardware” to be had was hidden away by the military.
“The Robertson Panel did get someplace,” concluded Hynek
later. “They made the subject of UFOs scientifically unrespectable,
and for nearly 20 years not enough attention was paid to the subject to
acquire the kind of data needed even to decide the nature of the UFO
phenomenon.”
In this atmosphere, it was no wonder that ranking members of
Project Blue Book begin leaving after the Robertson panel dissolved;
by 1956 Major Ruppelt was one of these. Later that year, Ruppelt pub­
lished his authoritative book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Saucers,
which was critical of the air force’s handling of the subject and sup­
portive of the idea of extraterrestrial visitation. According to author
Paris Flammonde, “Captain Ruppelt, with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, was
probably the best, most honest man the military ever had operating in
the area of Unidentified Flying Objects.” This assessment has been
echoed by many others familiar with the investigation in those days. As
the former head of Project Blue Book, Ruppelt lent unquestioned
authority to the UFO subject and would have been a person to be
stopped by anyone hoping to distract the public from the issue.
His attitude, much to the relief of the debunkers, changed
within two years. In May 1958, Ruppelt wrote a letter to a member of
the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
(NICAP) reversing his position. Sounding very much like an official
press release, Ruppelt wrote, “I have visited Project Blue Book since
1953 and am now convinced that the reports of UFOs are nothing
more than reports of balloons, aircraft, astronomical phenomena, etc. I
don’t believe they are anything from outer space.” Was his conversion
real, or had Ruppelt been muzzled in some way? No one can say for
certain, since Ruppelt died only two years later.
Reportedly, Ruppelt’s widow said his change of mind was due to
the continuing lack of physical UFO evidence as well as the introduc­
tion of contactees into the issue. Keyhoe had another version. “[Rup­
pelt] frequently gave me valuable leads, and when I became director of
NICAP he steadily cooperated, praising the organization for its strug­
gle against secrecy. But in 1959 this suddenly ended. Ruppelt then was
working with an aerospace company with Air Force contracts. Some­
thing happened which obviously put him under heavy pressure to stop
criticizing AF UFO activities. One explanation—which is unproved—
is that the AF implied his company contracts and his job might suffer
if he did not cooperate. Perhaps there is another answer, something
powerful enough to make him give in. The main target was his reveal-
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ing book. Somehow, he was forced to repudiate it completely. . .. Like

several others who knew Ruppelt well, I have always believed that the
enforced retraction and bitter criticism [of his integrity] were partly
the cause of his premature death from a heart attack.”
After the departure of Ruppelt and others from Blue Book, one
thing became very clear, although it was little understood both at the
time and even by modern UFO researchers: The CIA, despite their
protests, had taken hidden control of the official UFO investigation.
Yet the air force’s Blue Book project continued as the visible
response of the government. “The Air Force entered upon a long
period of unfortunate, amateurish public relations,” wrote Hynek, who
remained as a consultant. He added, “Some of the Blue Book evalua­
tions of sincere reports were often so transparent and irrelevant that
they had later to be retracted.” Hynek sensed—or knew but couldn’t
say—the truth of the situation when he wrote, “Was this all a smoke­
screen, a cover-up job for which Project Blue Book was a front, the
real work and information being handled by another agency?” Ruppelt
stated that an “unpublicized but highly important change took place:
another intelligence agency began to take over all field investigations.”
The screening of UFO reports began with the 4602nd Air
Intelligence Service Squadron, which during another reorganization of
Project Blue Book in March 1954 was designated as the group’s chief
investigators. Only sightings that could not be explained away by the
4602nd would be passed along to the Blue Book offices. Unexplainable
reports went to what Ruppelt only called “another intelligence
agency.” Coral Lorenzen, who would become director of the Aerial
Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), had worked at Holloman
Air Force Base in New Mexico for several years. She too came to sus­
pect that Blue Book was “nothing more than a public relations front”
and “that if a cover-up was in effect, it was being accomplished at CIA
level or higher.”
Author Peebles explained, “The goal of Blue Book was to lessen
public hysteria in order to lower the number of reports and lessen the
danger of missing signs of an impending Soviet attack.” If this indeed
was the goal, it proved to be a dismal failure. In 1962, Edward R.
Trapnell, assistant for public relations to the secretary of the air force,
was shocked to learn that by that time the rate of UFO sightings was
three times higher than in the early days of Project Blue Book.
As the 1960s began, the air force tried several times to rid itself
of Project Blue Book. In July 1957, with private UFO groups charging
a cover-up, the 4602nd AISS was disbanded and its investigative func­
tions transferred to the 1006th Air Intelligence Service Squadron,
which curtailed activities due to limited funding. ATIC first sought to
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pass Blue Book to the Air Research and Development Command, but
the ARDC declined. The AF Office of Public Information also wanted
nothing to do with the headaches connected with UFO investigations.
It was even suggested that NASA take over the investigation of UFOs.
However, this idea was nipped in the bud when it was pointed out that
such a move might convince even more people that aliens and their
spaceships were something real. In the end, Blue Book remained
within the air force, a quiet office where only the most explainable
sightings were sent for filing and public dissemination.
But if the air force was quiet, the entire UFO situation was any­
thing but.

Giant Artificial Satellites

Not only did UFO sightings increase, but stories even stranger than
simple lights in the sky began to circulate. One of the earliest of these
was reported by Maj. Donald Keyhoe, the leading advocate of the the­
ory that the government and military were hiding the truth.
In his book Aliens from Space, Keyhoe flatly stated, “Since 1953,
[the air force] had known that giant spaceships were operating near
our planet.” He said it was during that year that the military began
experimenting with new long-range radar equipment. “While making
the initial tests,” Keyhoe wrote, “AF operators were astonished to pick
up a gigantic object orbiting near the equator. Its speed was almost
18,000 miles an hour. Repeated checks showed that the tracking was
correct. Some huge unknown object was circling the Earth, 600 miles
out.” According to Keyhoe, shortly after this object was detected, a
second large object came into orbit about four hundred miles out and
was also tracked on air force radar.
Keyhoe wrote, “Alarmed Defense Department heads hurriedly
set up an emergency satellite-detection project at White Sands, New
Mexico. The scientist in charge of this secret search was Dr. Clyde
Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto [and] the only noted
astronomer who had admitted sighting a UFO. The ‘sky sweep’ was a
combined armed forces project, under Army Ordnance Research.”
A serious look at this preposterous-sounding story yielded a
good example of the ambiguity and secretiveness associated with the
UFO phenomenon.
Keyhoe’s story of the detection of two giant satellites was sup­
ported by investigative journalist Warren Smith, who stated that a CIA
source told him that huge unidentified satellites were picked up on at
least thirteen separate occasions in 1953. Dr. Tombaugh indeed was
chosen in 1953 to head a satellite search program encompassing the
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world. And he did have a UFO experience about the same time as
Kenneth Arnold.
Shortly before 5:00 P.M. on July 10, 1947, Tombaugh, his wife,
and his two daughters were driving down a New Mexico highway when
he observed a “curious shiny object” hovering in the air. It was a well-
defined elliptical object whose surface appeared polished. The object
began rising and accelerated through some cloud cover at a speed esti­
mated by Tombaugh at between six hundred and nine hundred miles
per hour. The astronomer concluded, “The remarkably sudden ascent
convinced me it was an absolutely novel airborne device.”
It is most interesting that a scientist with such an experience was
selected to head a satellite search program four years before the Sovi­
ets put Sputnik 1 into orbit. It is also interesting to note that in March
1954, after word of Tombaugh’s secret satellite search project w as pub­
lished in an article in the newsletter of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific, Army Ordnance officials at White Sands issued a press release
stating that the military was searching for small “moonlets” similar to
asteroids that had come from space and entered orbit around the
earth.
This story was picked up by Time magazine, which carried the
headline “Second Moon?” in its March 15, 1954, edition. According to
this article, “Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted the planet
Pluto (1930), is looking for a nearer and even more elusive object: a
second satellite of the Earth. [Army Ordnance] may merely want to
know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter
when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious
interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base in
space than the much-discussed artificial satellite.” The article said Dr.
Tombaugh refused to give any details of his program, referring all
questions to Army Ordnance in Washington. This prompted Time
writers to comment, “It is fair to assume that the famous rocket men
who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project.” The arti­
cle then discussed the possibility of a new satellite, but in a strange,
ambiguous manner: “A small satellite close to the Earth would be hard
to spot. It might circle near the Equator, invisible to most of the
world’s observatories. In any case, it would spend nearly half its time in
the shadow of the Earth, where it would be invisible.”
Speculative as this sounded, the article then prompted its read­
ers to help look for such an object, stating, “Best time to look for a
small satellite would be at dawn or dusk, when it would be shining
brightly. . .
Further notice of this story came in the March 20, 1954, edition
of Science News Letter, which noted that “a telescopic search for the cir-
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cling nioonlets is being made for the armed forces by Drs. Clyde
Tombaugh and Lincoln La Paz, director of the Institute of Meteoritics
of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.” The
article quoted Dr. G. M. Clemence, director of the U.S. Naval Obser­
vatory, as saying that chances that one or more small satellites exist
between the earth and the moon are “very good” but “spotting them
will be difficult.” “Such tiny objects, which could serve as ready-made
space platforms, might have made Earth-splashing meteorites if they
had not been captured by our planet’s magnetic field,” he added. This
article also advised the best way to both observe and photograph the
new satellites. “Move the camera at the same speed as the satellite
being hunted would flash through the sky,” it advised.
Were there satellites there or not? The record remained
ambiguous. In its October 1955 edition, a writer for Popular Mechanics
described Tombaugh’s small metal shed on the grounds of the Lowell
Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where “a close watch will be kept on
the satellite that the United States plans to launch in 1957-58.” “From
this shed,” the article continued, “the United States already is main­
taining a surveillance of the space that surrounds the Earth, all the way
out to the moon. From here, presumably, regular observations are
being made of the Earth’s first artificial satellite that is rumored to
have been launched into space a year ago. Exclusively reported in the
May, 1955, issue of Popular Mechanics, the existence of this manmade
moon has not yet been officially confirmed. But unofficially it is
understood that our first artificial satellite is still sweeping around the
Earth. The latest information is that its orbit is slowly changing into
an ellipse because of the pull of the moon. Possibly the success of this
first experiment lies behind the announcement that we will launch an
instrument-carrying satellite two years from now, in connection with
the International Geophysical Year, to gather new information about
outer space.”
The May 1955 Popular Mechanics had indeed reported that for
some time “persistent” reports from “various independent sources”
had described a satellite traveling more than sixteen thousand miles
per hour at a distance of eight hundred miles out. The magazine
noted, “The implication is that this was an experiment which worked
too well. A rocket that was expected to return to Earth inside a certain
impact area kept on going ... at an angle and speed that put it into
orbit around the Earth.”
Popular Mechanics editors stated that Dr. Tombaugh's satellite
search equipment was so sensitive “it could detect a white tennis ball
1,000 miles away.” Then they presented a most peculiar quote: “Pro­
fessor Tombaugh is closed mouth about his results. He won’t say
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whether or not any small natural satellites have been discovered. He

does say, however, that newspaper reports of 18 months ago announc­
ing the discovery of natural satellites at 400 and 600 miles out are not
correct. He adds that there is no connection between the search pro­
gram and the reports of so-called flying saucers.” Since no one but
himself had brought up the subject of flying saucers, Tombaugh obvi­
ously knew more than he was saying.
Then came an announcement by astronomer John P. Bagby
through the Adler Planetarium in Chicago that “tiny moons” had been
discovered orbiting the earth at a distance of 475 miles and traveling
about eighteen thousand miles per hour. Bagby, a member of the Amer­
ican Meteor Society’ and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
said he had enlisted the aid of several skilled amateur astronomers to
help him track the objects. Bagby, like Tombaugh, never hinted that
these “moons” might be artificial.
Cpt. Howard T. Orville, head of the President’s Weather Con­
trol Commission, was asked during a radio interview if he knew of any
conditions under which two objects could have naturally entered orbit
around the Earth. “No, not that I know,” replied Orville. The captain
admitted that the circumstances of the orbiting objects was puzzling,
but noted that “military security would prevent discussion.”
To compound the mystery, a NASA press release in October
1954 stated that the agency had picked up strange signals from an
unknown orbiting object. This announcement was corroborated by a
French astronomer who claimed to have also detected indecipherable
signals from some unknown source in orbit around the earth. Then in
1955, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Steward Alsop wrote
that he had discovered through insiders within government agencies
that the satellite detection program actually was looking for artificial
satellites. Well into the 1970s, Dr. Tombaugh still had not published
the results of his satellite search.
Keyhoe said such large craft had already been sighted prior to
the radar contacts in 1953. He claimed that before the CIA took over
the UFO investigation, he saw a 1952 report about an air force
bomber crew that tracked a formation of UFOs at more than five
thousand miles per hour over the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly another
formation of UFOs came up behind the bomber, slowed down, then
raced past it. A large ship had suddenly appeared on the bomber’s
radar, which showed all the smaller UFOs merging with the larger
craft. “Evidently this was a prearranged rendezvous for retrieving the
smaller-sized units,” surmised Keyhoe. “As soon as they were taken
aboard, the huge carrier ship accelerated to a speed of over 9,000 miles
per hour and went off the scope.”
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Keyhoe even had a theory on what had prompted the sudden

outbreak of UFO activity in the late 1940s. In his 1955 book, The Fly­
ing Saucer Conspiracy. Kevhoe related the story’ of how Swiss physicist
and astronomer Dr. Fritz Zwicky participated in a secret Army Ord­
nance project to bombard the moon, Mars, and other planets with
projectiles launched on V-2 rockets in 1946.
Zwicky, who had been director of research at California’s Aero-
ject Engineering Corporation from 1943 to 1946, reportedly devel­
oped a plan to carry scores of projectiles high into the ionosphere,
where “shaped charges” would blast them into deep space. It was
hoped that when these projectiles struck other space bodies at high
velocities it would create a huge nuclear-like explosion that might pro­
vide important data on the world’s makeup to observing Earth scien­
tists.
“Missiles like that could cause real trouble,” surmised Keyhoe.
“If they hit an inhabited planet—say, Mars—the people would cer­
tainly believe we were trying to attack them. I’d think that if they did it
to us.” He added that the onslaught of UFO activity may have been to
ascertain if the missiles being fired from the earth were meant as
aggression. Keyhoe said such tests may have been stopped, but noted
that the damage had already been done.
Based on all the evidence, it is apparent that something large
was orbiting the earth in 1953. But if anyone within or without gov­
ernment knew’ for certain what it was, they have yet to go public with
this knowledge.
According to Keyhoe, the authorities lost contact with both
satellites prior to 1955. But prior to that loss, there was an apparent
effort to divert public suspicions by terming the satellites natural
objects. An Associated Press story stated, “Pentagon scare over the
observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the Earth has
dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural , not artificial ,
satellites . Dr. Lincoln La Paz , expert on extraterrestrial bodies , of the
University of New Mexico , headed the identification project . One
satellite was orbiting at about 400 miles out, while the other was tracked
at 600 miles.” La Paz later retracted his statement, probably realizing how
foolish the idea that natural satellites could simply arrive and orbit the
planet sounded.
Something obviously was going on in the years just preceding
the successful launch of the Sputnik satellite—but exactly what? There
could have been no secret launch of a U.S. satellite, or we certainly
would never have long allowed the Russians to claim the distinction of
putting up the worlds first satellite. It was not a Russian satellite, or
they would have gleefully revealed it. The idea that anything natural
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could come in from space and somehow find just the right speed and
trajectory to enter orbit is dubious at best. Since there were no reports
of giant meteors falling to Earth, this leaves only the possibility of
giant UFOs that entered orbit, then departed.
Whatever was circling the globe did not fall but left orbit before
the launching of Sputnik I—an impossibility for any natural object.
Even odder was the naivete of the American public in accepting the
military’s story that two “moonlets” had suddenly moved into orbit
around the earth, then disappeared. It was another example of mind­
set overcoming critical thinking.

NICAP Fights Secrecy

By the mid-1950s small groups of UFO enthusiasts were gathering
across the United States and calling themselves flying saucer clubs.
Most fell to internal bickering and did not last long. One of the most
successful—and powerful—was the National Investigations Commit­
tee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), formed in early 1956 and formally
incorporated on October 24.
After initial struggles with inadequate funding and personal
squabbles, Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe was elected director. He soon
assembled an impressive board of governors, which included former
CIA director Hillenkoetter, former Blue Book liaison officer Fournet,
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association president J. B. Hartranft,
Canadian Department of Transport engineer Wilbert B. Smith, radio
commentator Frank Edwards, and a slew of ranking military officers
and scientists.
One of Keyhoe’s first moves at tearing down the curtain of
UFO secrecy seemed reasonable enough. With the clout of NICAP
behind him, Keyhoe sought public congressional hearings on the issue.
After all, the much publicized army-McCarthy hearings had recently
brought down the demagoguery of anti-Communist senator Joseph
McCarthy. Keyhoe and NICAP members felt it was time to clear the
air about UFOs. Keyhoe’s contact with Senator John McClellan’s Sen­
ate Subcommittee on Investigations was well received and hearings
appeared imminent.
However, in January 1958, after meeting with air force officials,
McClellan’s subcommittee chief counsel, Donald O’Donnell, advised
the group to drop the matter—and they did. Keyhoe commented,
“They’ve given in under pressure, obviously.”
Meanwhile, Keyhoe had another experience that convinced
him—and many others—that free discussion of UFOs was being muz­
zled at very high levels. Keyhoe was invited to participate on a live
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broadcast of the CBS television program Armstrong Circle Theater.

However, he was required to use a preapproved script. When air force
officials objected to Kevhoe reading from government reports, the
network cut out the offending statements. Keyhoe cried “censored
script,” while the network stated it did not want “an open battle with
the Air Force.” When the show, entitled “UFOs: Enigma of the
Skies,” was broadcast on January 22, 1958, the frustrated Keyhoe
blurted out, “And now I’m going to reveal something that has never
been disclosed before. . . . For the last six months, we have been work­
ing with a congressional committee investigating official secrecy about
UFOs. If all the evidence we have given this committee is made public
in open hearings it will absolutely prove that the UFOs are real
machines under intelligent control.” Before he completed the first sen­
tence, his microphone was turned off. No one in the broadcast audi­
ence heard his complete statement. For whatever purpose, it was an
obvious move to censor talk about UFOs.
Thwarted in their attempt to initiate hearings before the
McClellan subcommittee, Keyhoe and his supporters in NICAP con­
tinued to seek an official investigation. Their efforts were rewarded
somewhat in February 1958, when a McClellan subcommittee investi­
gator confirmed that the CIA was behind the Robertson panel. This
revelation prompted further congressional interest. In June 1958,
responding to an inquiry by Ohio representative John E. Henderson,
air force officers provided a “special” briefing for congressmen. What­
ever was revealed mollified the politicians, who informed the voters that
any UFO publicity at that time would be “unwise.”
In August, Representative McCormack requested a hearing on
UFOs before his House Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena.
The week long meeting with air force officials was closed to the public
and unrecorded. Whatever was said here also “apparently satisfied” the
politicians, who discontinued any further hearings. “To close off the
possibility that NICAP and Keyhoe might try again,” noted author
Curtis Peebles, “the Air Force established a new policy in 1959. The
policy statement said that the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations had periodically requested information [on UFOs ] and,
after preliminary' investigation, they indicated that it did not plan to hold
hearings.”
Keyhoe and NICAP continued to press for public hearings dealing
with UFOs , and the air force — which still denied their existence —
continued to stall . In 1961 , McCormack enlisted the service of
Representative Overton Brooks to study UFOs. Brooks, chairman of
the House Science and Astronautics Committee, created a Subcom­
mittee on Space Problems and Life Sciences and scheduled hearings
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for early 1962. But in August 1961, a Brooks assistant, Richard P.

Hinds, was given a private tour and briefing by air force intelligence.
One week later Hinds reported to the air force that Brooks had
decided not to conduct the UFO hearings.
Regardless of Keyhoe’s motives or credibility, he was correct
in stating that the government in the form of the air force was mak­
ing extraordinary efforts to prevent any meaningful public debate
over UFOs. And obviously something was being said to would-be
congressional investigators that convinced them to abandon attempts
at finding the truth behind the UFOs. What information could be so
powerful that veteran politicians would refrain from conducting
highly visible public hearings on a topic of such great concern to so
many people? There are no hard-and-fast answers even today, since
the curtain of secrecy remains drawn tight.

A Landing at Socorro
One UFO incident that took place during the time that Keyhoe and
others were trying to interest Congress in the subject concerned a
police officer and a landed UFO. Hynek called it “one of the classics of
UFO literature.”
About 5:45 P.M. on April 24, 1964, Patrolman Lonnie Zamora, a
five-year veteran of the Socorro, New Mexico, police department, was
chasing a speeding black Chevrolet north on U.S. 85 when he heard a
roaring sound that changed from high frequency to low frequency and
then stopped. He then saw a flame in the southwest sky and became
concerned that a dynamite shack in that area belonging to the Socorro
mayor might have exploded. Abandoning his chase, Zamora turned off
the highway and drove over rough gravel road toward the flame, which
he described as blue and orange, pointing downward, and narrower at
the top.
After being slowed attempting to drive up a steep incline,
Zamora reached the top and noticed a shiny object between 150 and
200 yards south of his position. He thought at first glance it was a car
turned upside down. Then he saw it was an egg-shaped object that
appeared to be made of aluminum or some shiny white metal. He saw
two figures in white coveralls standing beside the object. They
appeared normal in shape but diminutive, either “small adults or large
kids.” One of them turned to look at his patrol car and appeared star­
tled, jumping slightly.
Zamora lost sight of the pair and the craft as he maneuvered his
car around some low hills toward the site. When he reached the
object, it began ascending into the sky with a roar “not like a jet.” He
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noticed a two-and-a-half-foot insignia on the side, which looked like a
stick arrow pointing up over a horizontal straight line enclosed in a
semicircle. Much later, UFO author Jacques Vallee, who reportedly
was portrayed as the French scientist Lacombe in Steven Spielberg’s
film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, would identify this insignia as
the Arabic astrological sign for Venus.
Fearful of the noise and the flames now issuing from the craft,
Zamora sought protection behind his car but stumbled and lost his
prescription glasses. The object, after rising straight up, moved off
horizontally, “traveling very fast.” Zamora said the craft left behind
smoldering plants that were oddly cold to the touch.
Very soon, Sgt. M. S. Chavez of the New Mexico State Police
joined Zamora, and they both examined indentations in the earth
where Zamora said the UFO had rested. These marks were still there
some time later when Hynek arrived to investigate. “I visited the site
several days later and verified the landing marks and the charred
plants. Chavez had, he told me in a long interview, verified the marks
and the burned greasewood plants, which had still been smoldering at
the time he first met Zamora at the site.”
Although Hynek was unable to interest the air force in
making an in-depth investigation of the Socorro incident, he
personally continued to look into the affair for nearly a year. “My original
investigations , directed toward breaking apart Zamora ’s account by
seeking mutual contradictions in it and also by seeking to establish
Zamora as an unreliable witness , were fruitless ,” wrote Hynek . “I was
impressed by the high regard in which Zamora was held by his colleagues
, and I personally am willing today to accept his testimony as genuine ,
particularly since it does fit a global pattern.”
Impressive as the Zainora story was, mind-set once again came
into play. Dr. Donald Menzel, the longtime UFO debunker whose
name was on the infamous MJ-12 list, speculated that Zamoras speed­
ing motorist was a decoy who lured the officer to the remote site, then
used a walkie-talkie to signal hoaxers, who released a balloon with a
phony flying saucer attached to it. This grasping-for-straws theory was
put to rest by Hynek, who noted that a brisk wind was from the south
that day and the UFO flew west. Debunker Philip Klass discounts
Zamora’s accounting of the landing because the marks at Socorro don’t
correspond to the symmetrical landing legs of NASA spacecraft. Both
Klass and, more recently, Peebles take particular note that the landing
site was on property owned by the Socorro mayor, who later discussed
a tourist attraction. “The implication was the landing was a hoax, to
bring in tourist dollars,” he wrote.
Neither Peebles nor Klass took note that two days after the
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Socorro sighting, the Orlando Gallego family of La Medera, New

Mexico—all of whom declared they had heard nothing of the Socorro
incident—reported seeing a UFO land that was identical to the one
described by Zamora. Police officers found charred vegetation around
the La Medera landing site as well as four depressions in the ground,
just as at Socorro.
While the hard-nosed debunkers remained unpersuaded, Hynek
was slowly changing his mind about the validity of UFOs. One case
that helped open his mind was brought to his attention in 1961 while
he was on an official Blue Book visit to the British Air Ministry. “I
learned at that time that the British military view of the UFO problem
was essentially the same as that of Blue Book; indeed, the British—and
other governments as well—were looking to the U.S. Air Force to
solve the problem,” he said, apparently unaware that the CIA was the
true authority behind UFO investigations. Hynek also learned of an
incredible UFO sighting that occurred during two nights in June
1959, and involved a priest.
Reverend William Bruce Gill, an Anglican priest and graduate
of Brisbane University, was in charge of a mission in Boainai, Papua,
New Guinea. By June 26, 1959, there had been more than sixty UFO
sightings in New Guinea. Reverend Gill was outdoors and observing
Venus about 6:45 P.M. when he noticed above the planet a bright,
sparkling object that began descending toward him. Several mission
members joined him as the craft drew nearer. It was circular with a
wide base from which four “legs” protruded. Occasionally a blue shaft
of light would project from the object into the sky, and soon four fig­
ures were visible on the upper deck of the craft. Shortly after 7:00 P.M.
the craft rose through accumulating clouds and disappeared, only to
come back in about an hour. This time several smaller circular ships
maneuvered around the larger one, their lights reflecting on the
clouds.
Despite his experience, Reverend Gill was somewhat skeptical.
To a friend he wrote, “I do not doubt the existence of these ‘things’—
indeed I cannot now that I have seen one for myself—but my simple
mind still requires scientific evidence before I can accept the from-
outer-space theory. I am inclined to believe that probably many UFOs
are more likely some form of electric phenomena or perhaps some­
thing brought about by the atom bomb explosions, etc. ... It is all too
difficult to understand for me; I prefer to wait for some bright boy to
catch one. . . .” His letter was signed “Doubting William.”
The next day the friend received another letter from Reverend
Gill, stating, “Life is strange, isn’t it? Yesterday I wrote you a letter ...
expressing opinions re the UFOs. Now, less than 24 hours later, I have
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changed my views somewhat. Last night we at Boainai experienced

about four hours of UFO activity, and there is no doubt whatsoever
that they are handled by beings of some kind. At times it was abso­
lutely breathtaking. Here is the report. .. .”
Rev. Gill’s second report was even more remarkable than the
first. On the night of June 27, a mission nurse summoned the reverend
to observe a bright, shiny, round object descending toward them. As it
approached, figures again could be seen on an upper deck. “And so we
waved,” reported Reverend Gill, “like that—Hello—and we were a bit
surprised now, and the thing waved back. And then Eric, who was with
me, my constant companion, waved his two arms, along with another
lad, and the figures waved two arms back.”
Not only was Reverend Gill’s mind changed, but the case has­
tened along the conversion of Dr. Hynek, who wrote he was
“impressed by the quality and number of the witnesses and by the
character and demeanor of Reverend Gill as revealed by his report and
tapes.” Debunker Menzel poo-pooed the whole event, stating that
Rev. Gill only saw Venus without his eyeglasses and his congregation
all signed statements just to be supportive. Menzel’s theory conve­
niently ignored the fact that the cleric plainly said the episode began as
he was watching Venus and that the craft came under cloud cover. His
theory regarding Reverend Gill’s eyesight was that astigmatism was the
“assumed myopic condition of Father Gill” or that “Part of the effect
may have been from eyelid defraction apart from irregularities, such as
blood cells on the retina.” Menzel’s myopic arguments were enough to
make many researchers think perhaps he was operating on behalf of
MJ-12 or something like it.
In 1965, UFOs figured in one of the most publicized events of
that year.

The Great Blackout

Over the night of November 9 and 10, 1965, a massive power blackout
spread from southern Canada to Pennsylvania, affecting some thirty
million people. Nearly one million were left stranded in the New York
subway system. It was an event never to be forgotten by those who
experienced it. And intriguingly, there were many minors at the time
linking the Great Blackout to UFO activity. Some years later, an
abductee named Betty Andreasson claimed aliens admitted to her they
had caused the blackout.
Immediately after the blackout, Washington officials and most
power grid experts agreed that the problem began near the Clay power
substation south of the giant Niagara Falls generating stations. How­
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ever, no one had an explanation for why the blackout occurred.

Charles Pratt, chief of the Niagara-Mohawk generating plant, said,
“We have no explanation. There were no severed transmission lines,
defective generators or faulty circuit breakers.” A Consolidated Edison
spokesman commented, “We are at a loss to explain it.” Even the
chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Joseph C. Swidler, said
after a two-day investigation, “The Northeast blackout may never be
fully explained. . .
Others thought they had an explanation. The Syracuse, New
York, Herald-Journal reported UFOs were seen near the Clay substa­
tion at the time of the blackout. On November 14, NBC newsman
Frank McGee reported that a pilot had sighted a UFO near the Nia­
gara Falls power plant just before the blackout. Other media outlets
picked up and circulated the UFO connection. Someone within the
government must have been concerned that such speculation might
lead to in-depth investigations that might crack the secrecy over
UFOs.
But all UFO speculation ended on November 15, when it was
announced that one broken relay in a Canadian power plant had
started the whole thing. Somehow the broken relay had been missed
despite an intensive five-day investigation. This explanation seemed to
lull both the media and, hence, the public. But serious questions
remained.
According to an article in the industry publication Power written
by Executive Editor J. J. O’Connor, late on the afternoon of Novem­
ber 9, a relay tripped shut in Adam Beck Plant No. 2, disconnecting
one of five powers lines to Toronto. The other Toronto lines then
tripped shut and within four seconds, the entire grid connecting
Canada with the United States collapsed. A large surge of power “cas­
caded” southward, knocking out the Clay substation and other plants.
The power surge knocked out pumps, air compressors, and other aux­
iliary equipment, preventing immediate restarts. The entire power
grid went down, leaving millions with power for several hours—all
because one small relay tripped as though from an unexpected over­
load.
According to Donald Keyhoe this latest explanation still was not
satisfactory. While this account might explain how the collapse
occurred, it did not address why.
The Power article reported that the errant relay was not broken
but tripped shut, a job for which it was designed. The subsequent col­
lapse of the entire electrical grid indicated that the much-vaunted grid
safety system was a “dangerous fraud.” “But this was preposterous,”
noted Keyhoe. “It would mean the utility companies had deceived the
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government, operating under the constant risk of a huge blackout,

hoping there would be only minor power failures. The Federal Power
Commission almost certainly would have discovered the conspiracy,
and company heads would have been exposed to White House and
congressional attack, public indignation and probably legal action....
Besides this, the grid safeguards had already met the threat of a large
power failure. Over several years there had been a few smaller-scale
blackouts and the safety devices had kept them from spreading....
There was only one true explanation—an unpredictable, overwhelm­
ing E[lectro]M[agnetic] interference the safety devices were not built
to handle.”
If Keyhoe and Andreasson were correct and the Great Blackout
was caused by UFOs draining power, it didn’t stop there. Through the
end of November and into December 1965, there were large-scale
blackouts in Minnesota, both East and West Texas, New Mexico, and
Mexico.
The blackouts certainly caught the attention of those affected by
them, but once a mundane explanation was offered by those in authority,
whatever lessons were to be learned were quickly forgotten. Electricity
blackouts could be explained in technical language indecipherable to the
average citizen. There was no need for extreme explanations like “ball
lightning” or “Saint Elmo’s fire.” In fact, it was rationales such as these
that proved the death of Project Blue Book

The Condon Report

On March 20, 1966, residents of Dexter, Michigan, reported seeing a
brilliant light in nearby marshland. Sheriff’s deputies were summoned
and approached the light, which they said was a football-shaped object
with a rough, pebbled texture pulsating with light. After hovering for
some time, the object shot over the witnesses heads and disappeared. The
next night, a similar object was seen by a Civil Defense director, a college
dean, and eighty-seven coeds at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan,
about forty-five miles southwest of Dexter. This group watched the oval
UFO maneuver for four hours and loop around an airport beacon before
disappearing into nearby marshes . The number and quality of witnesses
prompted Michigan State Police Commissioner Fredrick E. Davids to
comment, “I used to discount these reports too but now I’m not so sure.”
Dr. J. Allen Hynek was dispatched by Project Blue Book to
investigate the Michigan sightings. After a few days of slogging about
the marshes, Hynek held a news conference on March 26 to quell what
he described as “general bedlam.” In consultation with several other
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scientists, Hynek spoke of the possibility that the lights were caused by
marsh gas, swamp lights, will-o’-the-wisp, or fox fire. This tentative
explanation was picked up by Blue Book officers, who made it sound
like an official position.
The nation’s news media convulsed. “Air Force Insults Public
with Swamp-Gas Theory” was one typical headline. Particularly
incensed were the people of Michigan, who quickly pressured their rep­
resentatives in Congress to counteract public perceptions of Michigan
as the “Swamp Gas State.” Responding to this clamor was Representa­
tive Gerald R. Ford, who in a letter to Armed Services Committee
chairman L. Mendel Rivers wrote, “In the firm belief that the Ameri­
can public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the
Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investiga­
tion of the UFO phenomena.”
Ford’s recommendation resulted in a hearing by the Rivers
committee on April 5, 1966. Although literally hundreds, if not thou­
sands, of UFO witnesses along with scientists, pilots, and officers of
NICAP and APRO conversant with the best UFO cases could have
been called to testify, the committee restricted testimony to only three
representatives of the air force—Air Force Secretary Harold D.
Brown, Blue Book commander Cpt. Hector Quintanilla, and Hynek,
none of whom ever claimed to have seen a UFO.
In spite of the obvious attempt to narrow the scope of the hear­
ing, Hynek took the opportunity to voice his changing attitude toward
UFOs by stating, “Despite the seeming inanity of the subject, I felt I
would be derelict in my scientific responsibility to the Air Force if I
did not point out that the whole UFO phenomenon might have
aspects to make it worthy of scientific attention.. .. [It] deserves close
scrutiny by a civilian panel of physical and social scientists. . . . That
would be the gist of my statement. However, I have been scooped by
Secretary Brown, who has mentioned that the Scientific Advisory
Board has recommended the same thing.”
Indeed, just weeks before the hearing, a letter from the air force
director of information requesting the formation of a scientific panel
to review Project Blue Book had prompted Scientific Advisory Board
chairman Dr. Brian O’Brian to appoint an ad hoc committee that
included astronomer Carl Sagan. This group recommended that
“Contracts be negotiated with a few selected universities to provide
scientific teams to investigate promptly and in depth certain selected
sightings of UFOs.” They also recommended improved Blue Book
reports but added that “anything which might suggest that informa­
tion is being withheld ... be deleted.”
By the summer of 1966, several Ivy League schools had been
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contacted with an eye toward conducting the civilian UFO investiga­

tion. All, well aware of the public and press clamor as well as the
secrecy within the government, declined the honor.
The air force, with the CIA and possibly other intelligence
groups in the background, managed to find the right blend of accep­
tance and credentials. On October 7, 1966, AF officials announced the
University of Colorado had accepted the study, which eventually
totaled more than $500,000 in government funding.
Most observers—even those who did not especially support the
alien visitation theory—saw the study as a clear example of “you get
what you pay for.” Noted physicist Dr. Edward Uhler Condon was
named director of the study, with Colorado assistant dean Robert Low
as project coordinator. A former director of the National Bureau of
Standards, Dr. Condon had long-standing ties to government secrecy;
having worked on the development of the atomic bomb and radar.
Less than three months into the study, the tone was set when Dr. Con­
don was quoted in the media as stating, “It is my inclination right now
to recommend that the government get out of this business. My atti­
tude right now is that there is nothing to it.” “But I’m not supposed to
reach a conclusion for another year,” he added with a smile.
With Condon’s attitude at the top clashing with the field inves­
tigators on the bottom, the study group soon broke into rival factions.
Bickering and recriminations, exacerbated by external meddling by
UFO organizations, believers, disbelievers, intelligence agents, and
newsmen, whether well intentioned or otherwise, brought any mean­
ingful investigation to a near standstill.
This was noted even by outside consultants. Dr. Jacques Vallee,
a French-born astrophysicist who was a Department of Defense inves­
tigator, in November 1966 was one of the first scientists to be asked to
brief the committee. Vallee quickly saw that Coordinator Low was
“clearly the key decision maker on the team, although he had no sci­
ence degree and seemed to have little interest in the matter.” “Not
surprisingly, a few months later the work of the committee had come
to a standstill,” Vallee noted.
At one point, almost all of the committee’s staff were consider­
ing turning in their resignation. One who did was Mary Louise .Arm­
strong, Condon’s administrative secretary; In her resignation letter, she
accused the study’s leadership of foot-dragging, dissembling, and oper­
ating from “prejudged opinions.” “Bobs [project coordinator Low]
attitude from the beginning has been one of negativism. While I doubt
that he would agree with this statement, I would expect most of the
staff would. Bob showed little interest in keeping current on sightings,
either by reading or talking with those that did. ... To me, too much
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of his time has been spent in worrying about what kinds of ‘language’
should be used in the final report so as to most cleverly avoid having to
say anything definitive about the UFO problem.”
Armstrong alluded to outside control of the study by pointing
out that Low had instructed her to send certain UFO cases containing
“confidential information” to debunker (and MJ-12 listee) Dr. Donald
Menzel. She also remonstrated against inaccurate conclusions, stating,
“But to say in our final report, as I believe Bob would like to, that
although we can’t prove ‘E[xtra]T[errestrial]I[nteiIigence]’ does not
exist, we can say that there isn’t much evidence to suggest it does,
would not be correct. I do not understand how he can make such a
statement when those who have done the work of digging into the
sighting information do not think this is true.”
The credibility of Low and the study suffered a further batter­
ing when staffers discovered a 1966 memo from Low to the dean of
Colorado University’s graduate school. It may have revealed the reality
behind the Condon investigation. Low wrote, “Our study would be
conducted almost exclusively by nonbelievers who, although they
couldn’t possibly prove a negative result, could and probably would
add an impressive body of evidence that there is no reality to the
[UFO] observations. The trick would be, I think, to describe the proj­
ect so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study but,
to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of
nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having an almost
zero expectation of finding a saucer. ... I’m inclined to feel at this
early stage that, if we set up the thing right and take pains to get the
proper people involved and have success in presenting the image we
want to present to the scientific community , we could carry the job off to our
benefit .” Infuriated that his memo leaked out, Low argued that his comments
were misconstrued. The memo speaks for itself. And the Condon study followed
Low ’s line of thinking . Two study staffers who openly criticized Condon and
Low’s directed verdict were fired for insubordination.
“No critique of the Condon Report can avoid mention of the
choice of data for study/’ wrote Hynek some years later. “By concen­
trating largely on current cases—40 of the 90 cases studied were in the
year 1967—and also on relatively few cases out of the thousands avail­
able to them, they could not pay attention to the worldwide patterns of
sightings during the previous 20 years.” Hynek also pointed to Con­
don’s definition of the purpose of his committee: “The problem then
becomes that of learning to recognize the various kinds of stimuli that
give rise to UFO reports.” Hynek commented, “The assumption here
is clearly that UFOs are all misperceptions of natural things and that
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the entire work of the committee was to learn and memorize the vari­
eties of natural stimuli for UFO reports. . ..” Hynek could not restrain
himself from adding, “Scientific method! What sort of scientific inves­
tigation is it that assumes the answer before starting.”
Not unlike the Warren Commission before it, the Condon
committee was burdened with predetermined conclusions, selective
choice of evidence, and a report that made pronouncements unsup­
ported by—or even in contrast to—its own raw data. Needless to say,
no one was satisfied with the result.
In order to forestall dissatisfaction with the committee’s report,
the air force took steps, including dropping Dr. Hynek as a consultant
after twenty years, attacking scientists who questioned the report, and
arranging for a secret panel of the National Academy of Science (NAS)
to review the report prior to release. In November 1968, the NAS val­
idated the Condon Report, which prompted protests from several
quarters, including former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall,
who characterized the NAS—most of whose members were dependent
on grants—as “a virtual puppet of the government.”
Dr. Paul Tyler, former director of the Armed Forces Radiobiol­
ogy Research Laboratory at Bethesda, Maryland, had a long associa­
tion with both science and the military as both a navy captain and a
medical doctor. “My experience with the National Academy of Sci­
ences is, well, you tell me the answer you want and I will give you a
committee that will give it to you. I can sandbag a committee any way
you want,” said Dr. Tyler, adding, “A classic case of having your mind
made up before you start was the Condon report. Everybody read the
Executive Summary and all everyone got was that there was nothing to
it [UFOs]. But you go back and look at the raw data and maybe 15 to
20 percent of the case reports say, ‘Hey, there’s something here. This
one may be real.’ Now here’s one we know was the northern lights.
But this one, we don’t know what it is. And Condon picked up the case
that was the northern lights and shelved the other, saying, ‘There’s
nothing to it.’”
The Condon Report was officially released on January 9, 1969,
with the pompous title “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying
Objects.” The report stated, “Our general conclusion is that nothing
has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added
to scientific knowledge . Careful consideration of the record as it is available to
us [emphasis added] leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs
probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced
thereby.” In other words—there's nothing here, folks.
Even debunker Curtis Peebles, who undoubtedly embraced the
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report’s findings, could not wholeheartedly endorse the committee’s
study. “The final assessment of the Condon Study is this,” he wrote.
“It was impossible for the different factions to come together in a
common effort. Their views were so divergent they could not under­
stand each other. The Condon Study was a microcosm of the Sixties.”
Others were less kind. “[The Condon Report is] one of the
most deliberate cover-ups ever perpetrated on the public,” said John
Northrop, eighty-year-old founder of Northrop Aircraft Company
and cofounder of Lockheed Corporation. “The 21st century will the
laughing at the Condon Report.” University of Arizona physicist Dr.
James E. McDonald pointed out that Condon’s conclusions were not
supported by the full study, which contained many unexplained UFO
cases. A review by a subcommittee of the American Institute of Aero­
nautics and Astronautics (AIAA) agreed and stated, “There are differences in the
opinions and conclusions drawn by the authors of the various [report] chapters ,
and there are the differences between these and Condon ’s summary . Not all the
conclusions contained in the report itself are fully reflected in Condon’s summary
7.”

Hynek, growing bolder in his assertions that UFOs were real,

also concurred with McDonald regarding good information passed
over by Condon, stating, “Several scientists told me that it was a study
of the Condon Report that first led them to realize that the UFO
problem was one worthy of investigation. The repudiation of its sum­
mary conclusions awaits, in my opinion, only a calm and unbiased
study of the UFO phenomenon...Hynek added, “The Condon
Report settled nothing. However, carefully read, the report constitutes
about as good an argument for the study of the UFO phenomenon as
could be made in a short time, and by a group of specialists in their
individual disciplines having no prior knowledge of the subject.”
Hynek was trying to be kind, as was author Richard L. Thomp­
son, who wrote, “So one way to look at Condon’s position is that he
recognized that the UFO phenomenon threatened his scientific belief
system and he chose instinctively to do what was logically required to
keep that system intact.”
Others claimed Condon went along with the government cover­
up in exchange for exoneration of anti-American charges brought
against him during the McCarthy witch-hunt. After Condon’s death in
1974, Dr. Paul Santorini, a Greek UFO researcher and former col­
league of Albert Einstein, wrote, “It is a pity that an eminent scientist
of his level blindly executed orders to back with his name a ‘Report’
that constitutes a scientific shame. But, I understand, this was done to
please some authorities unhappy with his ‘securities’ affairs.”
In 1973, Condon was quoted in the New York Times as admitting
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that “my own study of UFOs was a waste of Government money.” It
was even worse than that based on what happened to the committee’s
UFO files. “One would think that they belonged to the scientific fra­
ternity or to the public domain, since American taxpayers paid for the
‘research,’” commented Dr. Vallee. “Not so. When the project wrote
its report the files were locked up by the University of Colorado in
Boulder. They were later transferred to a private home and were
burned shortly thereafter.”
There is no question that the Condon Committee—the most
recent and last official word on UFOs—was superficial as a scientific
document and inadequate as a response to a legitimate public concern.
Skeptics of officialdom claimed the air force paid for the Condon
study simply to avoid any meaningful investigation by Congress. The
real question became whether this bungling of an official investigation
was purely accidental or by design. Today, only those people who
agreed with Condon’s conclusions continue to believe that the com­
mittee operated by accident.
For example, later in 1969, the members of the prestigious
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), puz­
zled by the thinly disguised whitewash of the Condon Report, decided
to conduct a UFO symposium at the annual meeting in December.
Serious efforts were made to halt or at least distract from the sympo­
sium. According to author Raymond Fowler, Dr. Condon “was work­
ing hard behind the scenes to convince the AAAS to cancel the UFO
meetings! He wrote to each board member pleading with him to boycott the
meetings . His attempts proved futile, however , and the symposium went on as
scheduled.”
The idea of internal manipulation is supported by a letter
to author Raymond Fowler from an administrative assistant to Dr.
Con­ don during the University of Colorado study. The assistant
was responding to Fowler’s request for details of a 1954 UFO sighting
and wrote, “I am trying to obtain some information on a
UFO sighting.... There’s a good deal of indication of an Air Force
‘conspiracy’ or foul-up in communications. Frankly, on this case. I
suspect the former.”
The air force for some time had wanted to dump Project Blue
Book, its public UFO investigation, and with the Condon Report stat­
ing that there was no scientific justification for such a study, it got its
chance—and its timing was perfect.
Al though a decision had been made in March, it was not until
December 17, 1969, just as the AAAS UFO symposium was about to
begin in Boston, that Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr.
announced the end of Project Blue Book, saying, “The continuation of
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Project Blue Book cannot be justified either on the ground of national

security or in the interest of science.”
“The announcement could not have been timed better for a
negative effect,” wrote Fowler. “It appeared to be a deliberate attempt
to undermine the AAAS Scientific Symposium on UFOs. My suspi­
cions were confirmed shortly thereafter during a telephone call con­
cerning the symposium with Dr. Donald Menzel. Menzel admitted to
me that the Air Force announcement at this time was more than a
coincidence and coyly suggested that he had been involved in the deci­
sion to release it at this time as an Air Force consultant.”
The air force announcement further dampened the public’s
interest by reiterating its long-standing view that “No UFO had given
any indication of a threat to national security... . There was no evi­
dence any unidentified sightings represent technological developments
or principles beyond the range of present-day knowledge. ... There is
no evidence UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles.” After twenty-two
years of off-again, on-again public attention to UFOs, the air force
closed its Blue Book.
An objective appraisal of Project Blue Book was that there was
never a serious, unbiased, and honest study of the UFO phenomenon.
Today it is clear that the air force investigation was merely a cover, a
whitewash to lull the public while the CIA and perhaps even more
secret groups seriously probed the UFO issue.
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UNDERGROUND

While the general public, led by the media, turned away from the
topic of UFOs, it is now apparent that behind a curtain of secrecy and
professed unconcern, official interest increased over the years.
In the early 1990s a document made its way around the UFO
research community that may point to where some of the most secret
UFO studies took place. Called the “Pentacle memo” by Dr. Jacques
Vallee, the document was found among the papers of the late Dr.
J. Allen Hynek. It was stamped “Secret, Security Information” and was
dated January 9, 1953—less than a week before the CIA’s Robertson
panel met—and was written by Howard C. Cross, a senior staff mem­
ber of Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. The memo was
written to Mr. Miles E. Coll of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio, and concerned “a preliminary recommendation to ATIC on
future methods of handling the problem of unidentified aerial objects.”
Cross said the recommendation was based “on our experience to date
in analyzing several thousands of reports on this subject” but added
“our analysis is not yet complete.”
Referring to the upcoming Robertson panel, Cross’s memo
stated, “Since a meeting of the panel is now definitely scheduled we
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feel that agreement between Project Stork [a preliminary UFO report

for Project Blue Book] and ATIC should be reached as to what can and
what cannot be discussed at the meeting. ...” It is clear that Battelle
had much more knowledge of UFOs than any normal private company
and that there were matters concerning that subject that “cannot be
discussed.”
Battelle Memorial Institute began operating in 1929 under the
leadership of Horace W. Gillett, who has been called “the Dean of
American Metallurgy.” The institute began a close relationship with
the U.S. military in 1939 when its scientists undertook a study on how
to improve armor plating. After World War II, Battelle scientists stud­
ied the fabrication of uranium and later produced uranium fuel rods
for the world’s first nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Ruppelt mentioned in his 1956 book that scientific experts were
needed to support Project Blue Book’s UFO studies. “It was, of course,
impossible to have all of these people on my staff, so I decided to do
the next best thing,” he wrote. “I would set up a contract with some
research organization who already had such people on their staff; then
I would call on them whenever their services were needed... . Their
organization cannot be identified by name because they are doing
other highly secret work for the government, I’ll call them Project
Bear.” Ruppelt then identified this project as “a large, well-known
research organization in the Midwest” with several hundred engineers
and scientists who “run from experts on soils to nuclear physicists.”
Researcher Keith Chester, after a detailed study of Battelle,
became convinced that Battelle indeed provided the scientists for
Project Bear. “If crashed UFOs did exist, and were being hidden from
the public eye, then it is logical to assume that the scientific commu­
nity was involved with the UFO phenomenon from the start. Having
craft in government possession meant that it was imperative to ensure
that only top scientists and laboratories were handling the material.
Battelle was capable of conducting state-of-the-art research on a
recovered alien craft, especially one made of unknown metal,” Chester
noted. “It is highly probable that contributions by Battelle, including
laboratory experimentation and extensive study of retrieved UFOs,
were ongoing since 1947 and in the years to follow.”
Other candidates as a science center secretly dealing with the
UFO issue are the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island
and the quasi-private Mitre Corporation, headquartered in Boston.
Mitre administers the Jason group, an “ultra-elitist organization” of
top scientists working on a variety of hush-hush Defense Department
projects.
Jason was formed following the Soviet success with Sputnik in
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the late 1950s and worked on such Cold War problems as turning
radios into radiation detectors. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Jason
developed an acoustical apparatus for detecting human movement
along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam. Operating in near total
secrecy, the Jason group has consistently refused to file reports in com­
pliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, according to
researcher Vicki Cooper. But true to its charter, the Jason group con­
tinues to advise the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in
secret on matters of science and technology.
Early on there may have been a legitimate rationale behind such
secrecy. When UFO reports first starting coming in, intelligence offi­
cers believed they might represent advanced Soviet technology'. Later
they surmised that Soviet spies were using UFO investigations as a
cover to learn about new U.S. technology. But the continued use of
ridicule and deception ultimately convinced many serious researchers
that something very deep and mysterious lay behind the government
facade of Blue BooL
Blue Book files are missing numerous cases and even one whole
report—Report 13. One Blue Book report mentioned that some gun
camera film had been sent for analysis, yet the master index listed no
such film.
Military officers were chagrined to learn that reports they had
filed on UFOs did not show up in Blue Book files. Col. William Cole­
man was piloting a B-25 Mitchell bomber over the southern United
States back in 1955 when he spotted a UFO and gave chase, eventually
reaching treetop level. “We were within an eighth of a mile of it and
there was this perfect round shadow of this thing, going over the tree-
tops,” he recalled. Coleman filed a report of his sighting, yet some
years later when he was assigned to Project Blue Book, he failed to
find his report or even any record that it had ever arrived. He later
indicated to author Timothy Good that he became aware that serious
UFO reports were rerouted away from Blue Book.
This, of course, was vehemently denied by the air force. Before
a nationwide TV audience in 1958, Air Force Secretary Richard E.
Homer proclaimed, “The air force is not hiding any UFO informa­
tion. And I do not qualify this in any way.” This statement was
ridiculed by every one familiar with Project Blue Book, including for­
mer CIA director Hillenkoetter, who commented, “The Air Force has
constantly misled the American public about UFOs.. .
One researcher very familiar with air force secrecy was Leonard
H. Stringfield, who was selected in the 1950s for an “off-the-record”
role in the official UFO reporting system. “[I] worked cooperatively
with the Air Defense Command of the USAF, 1954-1957,” he stated.
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“On their request, I screened and reported UFO activity occurring,

real time, in the tri-state area of southwestern Ohio, northern Ken­
tucky and southeastern Indiana. At that time, many UFO sightings
came to my home from police departments, sheriffs offices, state
police, the media and citizenry. I was assigned a code number—Fox
Trot Kilo 3 Zero Blue—which would identify me at the telephone
exchange to report, by phone, to the Air Defense Command Air Filter
Center at Lockbourne AFB, in Columbus, Ohio. If my screened UFO
report was confirmed by radar, or other means, Air Force interceptors
were scrambled. At this point I was told that the resultant actions were
classified. The Air Force paid my phone bills.”
John L. Acuff, former president of the NICAP, commented,
“There is no doubt that the decision was reached by the Air Force to
classify most of the case material relating to UFOs. This classification
took place throughout the operation of Project Blue Book. The recent
decision of the Air Force requiring the deletion of witness names,
investigator comments, etc., before UFO records are made available to
the public through the National Archives, will make those files almost
worthless for research purposes. The real question is not whether
secrecy did exist, or still exists; the question is why was it imposed.”
William H. Spaulding, a director of Ground Saucer Watch,
said over the years he continually heard comments from witnesses
and former government officials ‘‘that directly infer a UFO conspir­
acy by our various governmental departments. I have seen repetitive
reports citing film confiscation and editing, a landing area being
plowed under and the witnesses receiving cruel and unnecessary offi­
cial ridicule.”
“Since 1953, Blue Book had merely served as public-relations
diversion,” noted James Lorenzen, international director and
cofounder of the APRO. “Its purpose was to solve PR problems for
the Air Force—relative to UFOs—and it was closed when it began to
create more problems than it solved. Recent information has come to
my attention which indicates the military establishment, having appar­
ently learned a lesson from Watergate, now rewrites history in connec­
tion with UFO incidents to the extent of altering and purging records
and framing individuals within their ranks to make sure—apparently—
that no telltale material exists for further investigative committees to
uncover. Hopefully the purged material is preserved at some higher
echelon, as normally happens when classified material is upgraded and
called forward; otherwise it is lost to science forever.”
Canadian researcher John B. Musgrave, who was affiliated with
several UFO groups in the United States, discovered how even foreign
governments were constrained by the unwritten UFO secrecy. “With
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few exceptions, official Canadian policy toward UFO reports and the
UFO phenomena consistently reflects official U.S. policy. This is
hardly a surprise. Canadian military is subservient to the U.S. military
through so-called joint commands such as NORAD and NATO, and
police bodies such as the RCMP are closely linked to their U.S. coun­
terparts through networks such as FBI and CIA computer centers. As
in the U.S., UFO sightings that have become public are downgraded,
and sightings that have come to the private attention of military or
police personnel are covered up.”
“We have the answer as to why Blue Book failed,” wrote
researcher Art Crockett. “It was merely a cover for the real investiga­
tion going on in secret. The most important cases, undoubtedly, did
not go to Blue Book at all, but to the secret agency. This may also
explain why so many of Blue Book’s files are missing. .. . The most
annoying aspect of the whole affair is that the high-ranking Air Force
officials who said that they intended to get the subject of UFOs out of
the public realm have succeeded!”
Paris Flammonde noted, “As far as the newspapers and the tele­
vision network news facilities were concerned, at a certain point in the
early 1960s UFOs [had] simply ceased to exist.” The same could be
said today as ongoing UFO reports appear relegated to local media,
the tabloids, or “tabloid” TV programming. By the end of 1969, with
the public confused and divided by conflicting views and the cancella­
tion of Project Blue Book, the subject ceased to officially exist for the
U.S. Air Force as well.
Further confirmation of government deceit was found in the
minutes of a meeting of the air force’s Scientific Advisory Board on
March 17 and 18, 1948. In a transcript obtained in recent years by
researcher Bill LaParl, briefing officer Col. Howard McCoy stated,
“We have a new project—Project Sign—which may surprise you as a
development from the so-called mass hysteria of the past summer
when we had all the unidentified flying objects or discs. This can’t be
laughed off. We have over 300 reports which haven’t been publicized
in the papers from very competent personnel. .. . We are running
down every report. I can’t tell you how much we would give to have
one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they
are.” Debunkers pointed to McCoy’s statement as proof that the
Roswell crash of 1947 did not happen. But, as pointed out by Dr.
Bruce Maccabee, who has provided UFO briefings to the CIA, McCoy
was not at liberty to mention a crash at Roswell to the advisor) board,
which was meeting under merely “Secret” security level.
The more important fact of McCoy’s statement was the men­
tion of three hundred reports. A review of the master list of Project
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Blue Book for this time period showed only about 135 reports cata­
loged, leaving 165 reports unaccounted for and adding considerable
weight to statements that Project Blue Book was kept in the dark
about many of the most credible and significant sightings.
At the same time as Project Blue Book was being canceled,
NICAPs battle against government secrecy was lost. With a declining
membership—some claimed due to Major Keyhoe’s obsession with the
secrecy issue rather than reporting UFO sightings—and financial
problems, the NTCAP board of governors ousted Keyhoe as director,
in what he termed a “coup.” Although the organization lingered for
more than a decade, Keyhoe refused to attend any meetings and it was
never again a viable force in the UFO controversy. Its place was taken
by the Midwest UFO Network, which eventually changed its name to
the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Former NSA employee Todd W. Zechel claimed that Keyhoe’s
removal was orchestrated by the CIA to silence this vocal critic of gov­
ernment secrecy. Pointing out several NICAP officials with links to
the agency, Zechel wrote, “Perhaps Keyhoe deserved to be fired from
the organization he built with his own sweat, blood and sacrifice. The
timing couldn’t have been better, in any case. Keyhoe, after all, was
beginning to focus on the CIA in 1969, instead of his tunnel-visioned
attacks on the Air Force. ... If they wanted to destroy the leading
anti-secrecy organization of the 1960s, they couldn’t have done a bet­
ter job if they’d tried.”

The Bentwaters Case

As time moved on, official secrecy regarding the UFO phenomenon
became the order of the day. One classic example of a well-documented
but subsequently hushed-up UFO encounter occurred in England in
December 1980 and involved U.S. military personnel, radar contact,
and was even recorded in official reports.
Just after midnight on December 26-27, 1980, radar installa­
tions on the east coast of England began tracking an object that
dropped below radar coverage near the East Anglian town of Ipswich.
Nearby were the NATO bases of RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwa­
ters, both leased by the Royal Air Force to the U.S. Air Force as head­
quarters for the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing. U.S. Air Force personnel,
as well as civilians, saw something descend into Rendlesham Forest,
which surrounded the two bases.
One witness was former USAF Sgt. John Burroughs, who had
been stationed at Bentwaters since July of that year. Burroughs said
both he and his supervisor saw “some strange lights” near the base’s
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east gate. “We decided to go on down off base and kind of check the
edge of the woods to see maybe what was going on because it didn’t
seem right. . . . There was radio traffic back and forth and the decision
was made by the shift commander that I should accompany two secu­
rity guys into the woods,” Burroughs recalled. Walking into the
woods, Burroughs said he saw “a bank of lights, differently colored
lights that threw off an image of like a craft. I never saw anything
metallic or hard.” One of the security men with Burroughs, identified
only as “James Archer,” however, later described an object “triangular
in shape, with three landing legs ... about 10 to 12 feet in diameter
and eight feet high, with a blue light on top, red lights and a white
light in the middle and a brighter white light emanating from the
underside.” “Archer” was certain he saw something inside the craft. “I
don’t know what, but the shapes did not look human. Maybe they were
like robots,” he said.
Another witness, acting security police commander Sgt. Adrian
Bustinza, recalled that he too was ordered to check out lights in the
forest that night. “When we got to Point A—the sighting of the
object—we had trouble turning the light-alls on. Our truck wouldn’t
run either. It was kind of like all the energy had been drained out of
both light-all units,” he told researchers in 1984. “We proceeded to
look and in the process found kind of like triangular tripods . ..
burned into the [ground] at three different standpoints.. .. They were
like it was a heavy object. They took radiation readings of the holes,
and they got a radiation reading as I recall. Then I recall we were
walking through the woods and we came upon the lights again. And
that’s when I first saw the object. . . Bustinza described the object as
a circular craft, thicker at the center than the edge, with a red light on
top and several blue lights on the bottom. He said it was a “tremen­
dous size” and kept moving about in a large clearing.
Yet another witness, then USAF Sgt. Larry Warren, said that as
he approached the woods he saw a strange mist covering the ground.
“It looked like a ground fog but was somehow lit up,” he recalled. “It
glowed very brightly and has the definition of a roughly shaped circle
... as a small red light. . . made a downward arc and was directly over
the fog.” Warren said the red light suddenly exploded in a blinding
flash and a large “arrowhead” craft appeared. “The main body was
pearl white with a rainbow color effect,” he said. “It was constantly
distorting as I looked at it. At the bottom was a bank of extremely
bright cobalt blue lights. Below that, I thought I could make out dark
landing gear. Covering the entire surface were what looked like boxes,
pipes, and strange extensions.”
The witnesses said the craft lingered in the area for more than
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an hour and that other air force personnel arrived, including the
Woodbridge deputy base commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt. Report­
edly, both American and British authorities made both film and audio­
tapes of the astounding event, along with radiation tests.
By 4:00 A.M. on December 27, the giant craft was joined by—or
perhaps divided into—at least five smaller glowing objects that, follow­
ing a moving light display, eventually disappeared into the sky.
The Bentwaters event received little media attention at the
time, largely due to denials by the U.S. Air Force. Official spokesmen
denied that any audiovisual recordings were made of the event or that
any official records existed. This statement was proven false in late
1983 following a Freedom of Information Act inquiry that resulted in
the release of a corroborating official report.
The report, entitled “Unexplained Lights,” dated January 13,
1981, and signed by Colonel Halt, stated:

1. Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L), two

USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back
gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed
or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the
gate to investigate. . . . The individuals reported seeing a strange
glowing object in the forest. The object was described as being
metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to
three meters across the base and approximately two meters high. It
illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had
a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath.
The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached
the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this
time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was
briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.
2. The next day, three depressions 1½ deep and 7" in diame­
ter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground.
The following night (29 Dec 80) the area was checked for radiation.
Beta/Gamma readings of 0.1 milliroentgens were recorded with peak
readings in the three depressions and near the center of the triangle
formed by the depressions. A nearby tree had moderate (.05-07)
readings on the side of the tree toward the depressions.
3. Later in the night a red sun-like light was seen through the
trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw
off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects
and then disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three star-like objects
were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the
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south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the horizon. The
objects moved rapidly in sharp angular movements and displayed
red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be
elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned to full cir­
cles. The objects in the north remained in the sky for an hour or
more. The object to the south was visible for two or three hours and
beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous indi­
viduals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities in para­
graphs 2 and 3.

Astonishing as Colonel Halt’s report appeared, in later years he

told Timothy Good, “There are a lot of things that are not in my
memo. . . .” Halt also confirmed that film of the incident was person­
ally taken by overall base commander Gen. Gordon Williams to a
fighter plane at Bentwaters, which delivered the film to USAF Euro­
pean Headquarters at Ramstein AFB, West Germany. The film has
never been acknowledged by the air force nor seen publicly.
The official denial that anything out of the ordinary occurred at
Bentwaters—one explanation was that all concerned were simply see­
ing the beam from the Orford Ness lighthouse five miles away—suf­
fered further loss of credibility in 1984 when an edited version of a
tape recording made by Colonel Halt at the time of the incident was
released by a former Woodbridge base commander. The eighteen-
minute tape clearly reveals the excitement and consternation of air
force personnel, including Colonel Halt, as they searched the woods.
“Straight ahead of my flashlight, there, sir... . There it is!... Yeah, I
see it too. . .. What is it? ... We don’t know, sir. It’s a strange, small
red light. .. . Everywhere else is just deathly calm. . .. There’s no
doubt about it—there’s some type of strange flashing red light
ahead.... It appears to be maybe moving a little bit this way? It’s
brighter than it has been. It’s coming this way. It’s definitely coming
this way! Pieces of it are shooting off. There’s no doubt about it—this
is weird!”
Despite Halt’s official report to the RAF, the tape recording,
and the witnesses, nothing has been acknowledged officially about the
1980 incident. But this was not the first—or apparently the last—
strange event at the Bentwaters-Woodbridge bases.
During the night of August 13-14, 1956, ground radar opera­
tors at Bentwaters recorded a UFO flying directly over the base at
speeds exceeding two thousand miles per hour, far beyond any conven­
tional aircraft of the time. The object was seen by both air controllers
and pilots as it performed aerobatic maneuvers. Two RAF Venom
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fighters were scrambled but were outclassed by the UFO’s maneuvers

and soon lost it. Even the stolid Condon Committee was forced to
conclude that “the apparently rational, intelligent behavior of the
UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most
probable explanation.”
In 1988, Bentwaters witness Larry Warren returned to England
while preparing a book on his experience. He and researcher Peter
Robbins were treated to yet another extraordinary aerial display near
the base on February 18. According to Robbins, “Commencing at
approximately 9:30 P.M., all hell broke loose in this forested area and
above it, and we watched over the next one and a half hours a variety
of UFO activity—all soundless—including star-like UFOs, green fire­
balls flying through the forest and around trees, something which
seemed to have white headlights and red tail lights rise on an extreme
diagonal in front of an 80- to 100-foot-high stand of evergreens and
blink out as it reached the tops.
“Several good-sized, pulsing, disc-shaped things coasted about
changing size and color ... appeared and disappeared, a huge flood of
light shined out from the forest floor which gave the impression of
being the size of one or two football fields with several hundred flood­
lights lined up, aimed at the sky, and what I can only describe as what
seemed to be something on the ground at the far end of the field
which had three rectangular, dark orange—I can only say windows—
and possessing an elliptical shape which had articulated movement in
front of it. There were no plants, trees, animals between us to create
such movement.
“During this time, we observed what we identified as two [U.S.]
Air Force security perimeter patrols in jeeps pull up approximately a
hundred or so yards in front of us, seemingly to observe these activi­
ties.”
Warren said that despite honorable service—he was among the
military contingent that greeted the returning hostages from Iran in
1981 pictured on the cover of Time magazine—when he tried to reen­
list, he was informed the air force had no record of him.
It is now obvious to any' serious student of the subject that the
U.S. government is hiding away information regarding UFOs and has
been for many years. Whether or not these hidden secrets pertain to
crashed saucers and alien bodies remains to be seen. But something
very troubling to someone is being kept under wraps. What exactly
this may be remains unproven, but the cumulative evidence strongly
suggests it may well pertain to the certain knowledge of intelligent
extraterrestrial life by some of the most powerful persons in the world
(see Appendix).
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UFO Command Flow Chart

If there has been a conscious decision to suppress knowledge of UFO
contacts or technology, it undoubtedly has been made at this ruling­
class level. This decision, in turn, would become official policy passed
down through the ranks of military and government personnel.
Michael Lindemann, president of The 2020 Group, a private
organization dedicated to investigating UFOs, stated, “On the avail­
able evidence, I consider it likely that the emergence since 1947 of a
highly complex, secretive and manipulative intelligence bureaucracy,
including the CIA, DIA and NSA, was prompted in part by an urgent
need to gather and assess UFO/Alien information while shielding it
from public scrutiny. Beyond doubt, today this intelligence bureau­
cracy is virtually uncontrollable, exercising extra-legal policymaking
power and techniques of public deception and manipulation with
regard to any issue deemed relevant to national security. Such activi­
ties, regardless of their genesis or intent, represent a grave assault
upon our democratic institutions, our constitutional rights and even
our legitimate national security.”
“Socially and psychologically speaking, an operation of this cal­
iber would have been easy enough to secretly implement,” stated
Anthony Kimery, an award-winning Washington journalist. In a 1989
article, written under the pen name James Neilson, Kimery wrote that
information provided to him by several sources who asked to remain
anonymous led him to conclude that “policy issuing from the highest
levels of U.S. Government, military and intelligence directs a secret,
centralized command structure to deal with the UFO situation ..,
[and] has been in operation since the mid-to-late 1970s and continues
to handle the UFO situation from the ranks of the National Military
Command Center, the level at which the Joint Chiefs of Staff in direct
link with the White House ‘war room1 deploy U.S. military forces
worldwide and would manage planning and operations in the event of
a nuclear war.”
Kimery was told by his sources that Project Blue Book was
“deliberately disbanded in 1969 to make way for the top-secret gov­
ernment agency to assume centralized control over UFO-related
matters.”
Kimery concluded, “To be a matter of military preparedness
directed at this high command level, the UFO situation is clearly per­
ceived by the government as a threat worthy of continuous, in-depth
monitoring and surveillance and, if the need arises, military confronta­
tion.”
Evidence collected from the United Nations by Michigan
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researcher Tad Sherburn provided confirmation that top military offi­

cers in the United States are at “the heart of UFO operations.” After
repeated Freedom of Information Act requests and negotiations with a
source within the State Department, Sherburn obtained documents
that refer to a “secret” 1977 UN resolution to create an agency as a
“clearinghouse for the exchange of data and coordinfation of] research
on UFOs.” This special political UFO group was chaired by the prime
minister of Grenada, Sir Eric Matthew Gairy. Sherburn said a study of
hundreds of documents show that UFO reports have been gathered
from 133 countries. In the United States, UFO data reaches the level
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff but includes top civilian authorities.
While actual policy is probably determined by the men and
women of the ruling elite, most of whom are largely unknown to the
public, overall authority over this UFO command structure, according
to Kimery and others, begins with a small high-level group—corre­
sponding to the unproven MJ-12 group. Others have referred to this
body as the “UFO Directorate,” “The Committee,” or “the UFO
Working Group.” This group reports to the National Security Coun­
cil (NSC), which obtains legal authority from presidential directives,
although it is doubtful that any president’s knowledge of UFOs would
be extensive. Several UFO researchers claim the president is informed
of UFO/alien issues on a “NTKBO” (need-to-know basis only). The
president, as usual, would simply be a figurehead, whose orders could
be passed along by a senior civilian official such as the National Secu­
rity Advisor. Another candidate for the decision-making office of a
secret UFO command structure is the State Department’s Office of
Security Assistance, Science and Technology, a nexus of military, intel­
ligence, political, scientific, and corporate authority. Operational
orders would then be given to highly compartmentalized secret units
staffed by personnel carefully selected for their loyalty and silence
within the military and intelligence agencies.
Depending on the individual mission or need, such matters
could be handled through the North American Air Defense Com­
mand (NORAD), Aerospace Defense Command (ADC), Blue Berets
Rapid Deployment Inter-Service Forces, National Reconnaissance
Office (NRO), National Reconnaissance Office of Air Force Intelli­
gence (NROAFI), National Photographic Interpretation Center
(NPIC), Intelligence Threat Analysis Center (ITAC), or one of the
military projects already described such as Aquarius, Sigma, Snow­
bird, or Garnet, which may or may not be still active. UFO matters
handled within the intelligence community could go to one or more of
the alphabet groups including the CIA, National Security Agency
(NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Air Force Intelligence
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Service (AFIS), Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI),

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and others.
Lest anyone think that this is all simply a paranoid’s nightmare,
consider that the New York Times reported in early 1996 that the
National Reconnaissance Office alone lost track of more than $2 bil­
lion. This situation was “created by the extraordinary secrecy under
which the reconnaissance office works,” explained the newspaper.
“The reconnaissance agency is really a set of secret offices—so secret
that they have been shielded from each other, like safes locked within
safes. Each office, and each program, had separate management and
accounting systems.”
Meanwhile, media, academic, and other government leaders,
jealous of their jobs and positions of authority, would be expected to
follow official policy and maintain that there is no evidence of life out­
side the earth. Most would be sincere in such conservative statements,
since direct knowledge of such existence is a closely held secret and
not widely available. The public would be aware of the possibility of
aliens only through fiction in books and broadcast, by sporadically
hearing reports and rumors, and by taking note of the amazing burst
of technology in recent years.
And as strong as the desire for power and control is in some
people, there is yet a stronger impulse—survival. In past centuries,
when warfare or plague threatened a society, the wealthy elite simply
moved to safer environs. In Europe during the two world wars, when
the going got tough, the tough got going—on extended visits to Africa
or the Americas. Once the bombs stopped falling, the powerful fami­
lies of Europe returned home, picked up the pieces of their commer­
cial empires, and continued business as usual—often with financial aid
from their victorious associates in the allied nations.
But the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United
States presented a new problem. With nuclear weapons in the military
arsenals, there was no place to run—no haven on earth that could be
guaranteed safe from radioactive fallout.

Notes from the Underground

Whether or not it was at the instigation of the ruling clique, it is a fact
that beginning in the 1950s and continuing through today, the U.S.
government embarked on a massive program to design and construct
mammoth underground facilities.
Some of these constructions—such as the famous military com­
mand center under Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado—were obviously a
necessary’ component of the nation’s postwar defense plans. However,
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many other similar bases were constructed in secret and could house a
much greater population than the small cadre of military and govern-
ment personnel needed to survive and fight a nuclear war.
Richard Sauder, Ph.D., a financial and military researcher in the
Southwest who conducted an in-depth study on the issue of under­
ground bases, concluded, “I consider it an absolute certainty that the
military has constructed secret underground facilities in the United
States, above and beyond the approximately one dozen ‘known’ under­
ground facilities. ...”
Sauder reported such sites at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; West Point,
New York; Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, California; Groom
Lake near Nellis AFB, Nevada; White Sands Missile Range, New
Mexico; Table Mountain, near Boulder, Colorado; Mount Blackmore
and Pipestone Pass, Montana.
While the existence of many other giant underground bases has
not been confirmed, there is absolutely no question that both the U.S.
government and private companies have long maintained active plans
for their construction. Sauder presented numerous papers, patents,
plans, and government contracts to prove not only the interest but also
the digging technology to accomplish such an endeavor. This technol­
ogy ranges from conventional drilling and boring machines to exotic
“ground disintegration” devices using microwave, plasma, ultrasonic,
electron beam, and laser technology. A 1986 Los Alamos laboratory
report and two 1988 reports from NASA researchers at Texas A&M
University even detail plans for a “Lunar Tunnel er” designed to exca­
vate space for a working colony under the surface of the moon.
Sauder noted, “The first thing to understand is that there are
actual tunnelling machines that crawl through the ground like giant
mechanical earthworms with huge appetites. These tunnelling
machines are used on construction projects all over the world to build
perfectly ordinary sewers, subways, utility lines, highways, railroads,
aqueducts, hydroelectric projects—as well as jazzy, high-profile pro­
jects like the ‘Chunnel,’ the tunnel underneath the English Channel
that now makes it possible to travel on dry ground between England
and France.”
Some of these underground facilities are not military at all, yet
they are still very secret. In addition to a large Federal Reserve facility
within Mount Pony near Culpepper, Virginia, there is Mount Weather
near Bluemont, Virginia, which was built in the 1950s as a giant gov­
ernment bomb shelter. Today it is under the control of the massive
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which under a
variety of executive orders can assume control of the nation in the
event of an “emergency.” “Although it is the headquarters for FEMAs
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far-flung underground empire it does not even appear in the agency’s

published budget,” reported Sauder.
During the Iran-contra scandal in 1987, it was revealed that cer­
tain Reagan administration officials, including Marine Lt. Col. Oliver
North, drafted a plan to suspend the Constitution and turn over
national control to FEMA during an “emergency.” Such an “emer­
gency” was defined as “nuclear war, violent and widespread internal
dissent or national opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad.”
These revelations drew a letter of protest from Attorney General
William French Smith and prompted Arthur Liman, chief counsel of
the Senate Iran-contra Committee, to declare that such plans grew
from a “secret government-within-a-government.” Such plans are still
abiding in locked government files.
According to Sauder, the FEMA Mount Weather facility is the
hub of ninety-six such installations collectively known as Federal Relo­
cation Centers. “Just how many of these secret centers were newly
constructed during the 1980s, and how many are older facilities that
the Reagan administration merely converted to its purposes—
expanded, remodeled and modernized—is not known,” he stated.
Even nongovernment organizations have underground facili­
ties. At least one oil giant, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
maintains an underground center near Hudson, New York. Northrop
has a similar facility near the Tehachapi Mountains to the northwest
of Lancaster, California, while Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas
each operate California facilities near Hellendale and Llano, respec­
tively.
The initial purpose of such facilities apparently was to ensure
that the leaders of industry’ and finance could survive a nuclear war.
Some researchers believe this purpose may have been modified in
recent years.
As communism collapsed in Russia and Eastern Europe, so did
the Cold War. While the threat of mass nuclear destruction appeared
over—though not the threat of localized nuclear terrorism—new wor­
ries arose. Through their ownership and control over both scientific
and social foundations as well as “think tanks,” it became clear to many
in the ruling elite that an underground bunker may not be adequate
protection from widespread natural and environmental disasters. A
haven hundreds of feet underground will not help in the event of mas­
sive earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. And there is no purpose in sur­
viving if one must exit an underground shelter to find the earth lifeless
or radioactive.
The certain knowledge of the existence of a nongovernmental
ruling elite coupled with their known resources and their instinct to
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survive has led some researchers to a chilling conclusion, one that may
be the sum total of all the most paranoid suspicions—the ultimate con­
spiracy.

The Third Alternative

The premise of Alternative 3 is simple. The earth’s real rulers—in
terms of wealth and power—have long realized that overpopulation
and environmental degradation will soon make the planet unable to
support human society as we know it. Therefore, a secret plan has
been adopted using unpublicized space technology to relocate selected
people to colonies on Mars via clandestine bases on the moon. This
conspiracy involves cooperation between persons in both the United
States and the former Soviet Union and has been in place for many
years.
Such a plan is apparently only the latest in survival schemes for
the ruling elite, who for some time have realized that mankind’s
excesses on this planet have passed beyond the point of redemption.
According to Jim Keith, a prolific author and researcher into such
matters, “Alternative I ... consisted of detonating nuclear bombs in
the atmosphere to allow pollution and heat to dissipate into space,
whereas Alternative 2 was a plan to construct vast subterranean habi­
tats for the elite to escape into when the going gets tough.”
It is obvious why Alternative I was discarded. An atmosphere of
radiation is hardly an improvement over pollution. Alternative 2 was
considered viable for a longer time, considering the massive under­
ground construction that took place during the 1950s and 1960s. But
today, knowledgeable eyes look beyond Earth. Only recently have
details been made public of the technology required to support a
large-scale evacuation of our planet.
In 1996, it was announced that NASA had selected Lockheed
Martin to design and build a $941 million X-33 prototype space shut-
de scheduled to fly by 1999. Utilizing a “new type of engine potent
enough to propel [the shuttle] into orbit without boosters,” the cost of
sending payloads into space was to be reduced from the current
$10,000 per pound to only $1,000. If this technology was being made
public by NASA in 1996, it is certain that the U.S. military and per­
haps other secret agencies had use of it years earlier.
Most leading scientists do not dispute the idea that the earth is
environmentally in trouble. The arguments are simply to what degree.
Almost all current world problems stem from one basic issue—human
overpopulation.
Warnings about the results of overpopulation have been widely
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disseminated since the 1960s. Stanford University professor of popula­

tion studies and author Paul R. Ehrlich warned of the consequences of
overpopulation in his popular 1968 book. The Population Bomb. It is
sobering to know that when Ehrlich was born in the 1930s, the worlds
population was just two billion. Today, it has almost reached six billion.
This explosion of humanity has already begun to strain our social and
governmental systems.
As Ehrlich noted, “In the United States, drivers in virtually
every large metropolitan area now can encounter gridlock at practi­
cally any hour of the day or night. Visitors to our nation’s capital find
homeless people sleeping in the park opposite the White House, and
drug abuse and crime sprees fill the evening news. News about the
AIDS epidemic seems to be everywhere, as is talk of global warming,
holes in the atmosphere’s ozone layer, and acid rain.”
Ehrlich’s doomsday visions are supported by scientists all over
the globe. Famed underseas scientist Jacques-Yves Cousteau in a 1992
lecture said with current trends the earths population will reach more
than sixteen billion within eighty years, bringing about a world where
people will be “surviving like rats.” World leaders must “realize the
urgency of drastic, unconventional decisions,” said the explorer. One
1988 statement from the Club of Earth stated, “Arresting global popu­
lation growth should be second in importance only to avoiding nuclear
war on humanity’s agenda.”
It is inconceivable that people with wealth, power, and authority
are as oblivious to this situation as the average citizen. Their positions
were not gained through blindness and unconcern. So it is reasonable
to conclude that discussions of alternatives to an overpopulated and
dying earth surely have been conducted at the highest levels of
authority.
The first public presentation of this interplanetary escape plan
came on June 20, 1977, with the broadcast in England of a docudrama
entitled “Alternative 3.” Produced by Anglia TV and written by David
Ambrose and Christopher Miles, the show was a compilation of inter­
views and news footage depicting the worsening conditions on Earth.
It outlined the plan to evacuate a number of humans selected for their
potential to contribute to a new society—along with a number of
brainwashed worker drones described as simply “batch consign­
ments”—to domed bases on the moon and Mars.
The program prompted much outraged in Britain, where it was
quickly depicted as mere fiction presented as a documentary. And
there were certainly many reasons not to take the program seriously. A
key interviewee—a former U.S. astronaut named Bob Grodin—was
not a real person, nor was he an American, as evidenced by his British
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slang such as “We’re right out of beer!” and “Have a proper drink.”
Other participants in the program also were actors.
British author Leslie Watkins, who went beyond the TV show
with a 1978 book entitled Alternative 3, was very forthright in a letter
published by Keith. “This original TV version, which I expanded
immensely for the book, was actually a hoax which had been scheduled
for transmission on April Fool’s Day. Because of certain problems in
finding the right network slot, the transmission was delayed.”
However, it would be premature to completely write off Alter­
native 3 as unworthy of study, as has been the case with many UFO
researchers.
Continuing with his letter, Watkins wrote, “I initially took the
view that the basic premise was so way-out . . . that no one would
regard it as non-fiction. Immediately after publication, I realized I was
totally wrong. In fact, the amazing mountains of letters from virtually
all parts of the world—including vast numbers from highly intelligent
people in positions of authority—convinced me that I had accidentally
trespassed into a range of top-secret truths. ... So, summing up, the
book is fiction based on fact. But I now feel that I inadvertently got
very close to a secret truth.”
Linda Moulton Howe, a respected UFO researcher and author,
said she became acquainted with Alternative 3 as a science and
medicine documentary producer for WCVB television in Boston. She
recalled questions raised among the staff there as to why the Corpora­
tion for Public Broadcasting did not want the docudrama broadcast in
the United States.
“I was curious,” Howe said, “and I had a discussion with a BBC
producer about it. I was told that the program began as a BBC docu­
mentary on the so-called British ‘brain drain’ of the 1970s. You
might remember that a large number of British scientists were leav­
ing, reportedly for better paying jobs in America. I was told that the
program never came off because the BBC could not locate any of
the scientists once they left Britain. It was all very odd. It was like they
disappeared.”
Howe said writers Ambrose and Miles wrote a script for Alter­
native 3 based on real interviews conducted by BBC. And indeed both
the TV show and the book made much of the disappearance of scien­
tists. AVhile the scientists mentioned in the show and book appear to
have been fictitious, author Keith listed more than thirty scientists
from around the world that were connected to the Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars” program and either committed suicide,
disappeared, or died under mysterious circumstances. These deaths
and disappearances, along with several bombings of defense installa-
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dons, were publicly acknowledged during the 1980s. Kurt Rebmann,

then federal prosecutor for West Germany, stated in 1986 he believed
there was a “coordinated offensive” against the SDI program.
To recap the issue: There just might be a grain of truth some­
where in the Alternative 3 scenario, since an abundance of documenta­
tion has revealed the existence of a wealthy ruling elite interconnected
with secret societies, international corporate business, and publicity­
shy organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilateral Commission. This elite was surely aware of the many cata­
clysms—both natural and man-made—that could spell doom for
industrialized society. Evidence suggests that this elite, through their
hirelings and associates within government, may have instigated mas­
sive underground construction projects for survival during the 1950s
and 1960s. This same group would be intensely interested in any
advanced technology that might help maintain their wealth and posi­
tion. This group has used the CIA as a covert security7 arm almost
since the agency’s inception in 1947 and, as has been shown, the CIA
secretly took over matters concerning UFOs in the early 1950s. To
this mix must be added the post-World War II fascists, whose survival
and power were detailed earlier.
Keith wrote, “It is in this environment of extensive collabora­
tion and infiltration by Nazis and Fascists, a collaboration that involves
a long-term continuance of Nazi [racial] goals separated from earlier
German territorial goals, and an overall shepherding and betrayal by
international monied interests, government and intelligence agencies,
that America’s descent into totalitarianism, genocide and mind control
becomes understandable and the Alternative 3 template first becomes
visible.” Keith added that for Alternative 3 to be a viable plan for sur­
vival there must be a number of controls set in place. These include
mastery7 of mass populations through a controlled media, television,
drugs, religion, or mind-control techniques, control of the military of
the major nations possibly through the United Nations, and contin­
gency plans in the event of war, social upheaval, or the “sudden recog­
nition [of such control] by the masses” or natural catastrophes. “This
broad outline of controls is a repetition, in almost all specifics, of the
details of Alternative 3” Keith observed.
If there is any truth to Alternative 3, it might answer many
questions raised over the years by various researchers: Why would top
leaders in business and banking meet secretly over the years and why
would they deal with Nazis? Why has advanced energy and engine
technology been repeatedly suppressed over the years? Were Nazi-
designed flying saucers actually built, and where on earth have they
been used? Could such saucers represent a covert space technology’
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that might then account for the dismissive attitude toward UFOs by
the government and military? Could bases on the moon and Mars
account for the sightings of numerous anomalous structures on both?
The Alternative 3 concept is intriguing, but hard evidence is
difficult to obtain. And the sheer audacity and magnitude of the con­
spiracy argues against it. But there have been cracks in the protective
wall of security thrown around such matters that added support for
such speculation. Recent rumors and several articles—mostly outside
the mainstream media—have speculated that perhaps the United
States is indeed experimenting with clandestine space technology at a
top-secret base in Nevada.

What’s Going on at Area 51?

At almost 5:00 A.M. on May 16, 1991, a party of UFO researchers,
including Norio Hayakawa of the Civilian Intelligence Network and
Gary Schultz of Secret Saucer Base Expeditions, sat outdoors in south­
east Nevada observing a bright orange and yellowish light hovering
overhead. The shiny object then moved to the right and hovered for
some time, then appeared and disappeared for approximately fifteen
minutes.
In February 1992, six civilian pilots, including Valentino Kent
and Ken Brazell, camped out in Lincoln County, Nevada. They had
heard stories that strange things had been seen in the skies, and as
Kent explained, “Pilots are interested in anything that flies, so we went
out there just to see what was going on,” The pilots were told to camp
on a certain point of high ground by the local sheriff, who examined
their identification and wrote down auto license numbers. That night
all of the men experienced odd sensations of paralysis and fearfulness,
leading them to believe they may have been drugged by a low passing
helicopter. “I remember the dusting of Agent Orange in Nam, you
know,” Kent said. “I remember putting my head up, trying to at least
keep my head up .. . looking at the moon and it was moving
around. ... I assume because my head was bobbing and I went out.”
Brazell said, “I literally felt drugged. Who knows?” But before this
incident, all of the pilots witnessed a spectacular aerial show involving
a large, noiseless, bright gold lighted object along with “red balls fly­
ing around with little strobe lights.”
These groups were only a few of the hundreds of persons who
since 1989 have flocked to the area after hearing stories that the U.S.
government was experimenting with “flying saucers” there. While
there is yet no hard evidence or official admission that this is the case,
something strange definitely is flying in the Nevada skies. “Multiple
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reports from well-qualified observers lend substantial credence to the

existence of numerous secret aircraft flying from remote bases in the
southwestern U.S., regardless of the political, funding or technical
arguments against that probability,” reported the prestigious periodical
Aviation Week & Space Technology.
One of these remote bases, as mentioned by Sauder, is Groom
Lake, Nevada, which has become somewhat of a cause celebre when
news of strange, circular, silent flying craft sighted over this facility
leaked out.
Located almost ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas on the
northern perimeter of the Nellis Air Force Range, this above-top­
secret facility spreads hangers, enormous parabolic antennas, and one
of the earth’s longest runways across Groom Lake’s dry bed. It is popu­
larly known as “Area 51” or “Dreamland” and is the source of much
speculation regarding the government and UFOs.
Government actions regarding Area 51 have only added to pub­
lic interest in the area. “It is a matter of public record that the United
States Air Force conducted a blatantly illegal land seizure [in 1984]
involving tens of thousands of acres in the vicinity,” reported the mag­
azine UFO. “When the Air Force was asked by a U.S. Congressman by
what authority they acted, the Air Force said that the authority could
be revealed, but only behind closed doors.” In 1995, agitated air force
officials made a successful grab for an additional four thousand acres
around Area 51—primarily the high points and mountains from which
the curious had been watching for UFOs. As usual the government got
what it wanted despite public hearings in 1994 by the Bureau of Land
Management, in which ranchers and environmentalists protested this
further loss of the desert ecosystem and UFO researchers protested
what they saw as unwarranted secretiveness.
This intense secrecy concerning Area 51 has done little to dispel
stories of government work on UFOs, whether of new design or as the
result of recovered crashes such as the one at Roswell. It was only after
the Area 51 expansion hearings in early 1994 that the government
even admitted that anything was there, despite the fact that UFO
researchers and others had talked about the place for years. “We do
have facilities within the complex near the dry lake bed of Groom
Lake,” the air force admitted in an official statement, adding that the
Nellis Range Complex—which includes /Area 51—is “used for testing
and training technologies, operations and systems critical to the effec­
tiveness of U.S. military forces. Specific activities conducted at Nellis
cannot be discussed any further than that.”
Abe Dane, senior correspondent for Popular Mechanics, wrote,
“Groom Lake has been where our government has come when it
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wants to be alone. . . . It’s a terrestrial black hole into which it’s esti­
mated millions of tax dollars disappear each day while hardly a word of
explanation escapes.”
Secrecy is nothing new to the Nellis Range. Some of America’s
most top-secret aircraft—from spy planes like the U2 and the new
SR-71 to the recent F-117A Stealth Fighter—have rolled from the
hidden hangers of Area 51. But today, craft that break with conven­
tional aviation technology have been sighted in the area. According to
Aviation Week & Space Technology there have been many sightings of
a “triangular-shaped, quiet aircraft seen with a flight of Lockheed
F-117A Stealth Fighters,” “a high-speed aircraft characterized by a
very loud, deep rumbling roar reminiscent of heavy-lift rockets .. .
[which] makes a pulsing sound and leaves a thick, segmented smoke
trail or contrail,” and “a high-altitude aircraft... observed as a single,
bright light—sometimes pulsating—flying at speeds far exceeding other
aircraft in the area, and at altitudes estimated to be above 50,000 ft.”
The publication’s editors noted, “In addition, there is substantial evi­
dence that another family of craft exists that relies on exotic propul­
sion and aerodynamic schemes not fully understood at this time.”
Another innovation may be the use of private guards to watch
over this government installation. “Five years after the fall of the
Berlin Wall, the lights of Groom Lake burn throughout the night with
wartime urgency,” noted Dane, who made a walking trip to the area
along with curious researchers. “And whatever secrets lie there are
guarded with undiminished vigilance. Armed, unidentified men stalk
the sagebrush in camouflage fatigues. Unmarked Black Hawk heli­
copters sweep the hills. Electronic sensors hidden along the approach­
ing roads report the presence of vehicular traffic. Keep in mind that
you’re subject to all this on public land, before you make it to the bor­
der marked with signs reading ‘use of deadly force authorized.’”
The men in camouflage toting automatic weapons were not
U.S. military personnel but employees of the private security firm
Wackenhut Corporation, whose board of directors is filled with CIA,
FBI, and Pentagon officials such as former FBI director Clarence Kel­
ley, former CIA deputy directors Frank Carlucci and Admiral Bobby
Ray Inman, former DIA director Gen. Joseph Carroll, former Secret
Service director James J. Rowley, and former Marine Corps comman­
dant P. X. Kelley. Before becoming President Ronald Reagan’s CIA
director, Wackenhuts outside legal counsel was William Casey,
blamed as the primary mover behind the October Surprise and Iran-
contra scandals.
Wackenhut has a long and dubious history of connections with
some of the government’s dirtiest tricks, beginning soon after it was
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taken over by George Wackenhut in 1958. A close Wackenhut friend,

Senator George Smathers of Florida, helped find a loophole in federal
statutes forbidding private detectives from working for the govern­
ment. Since that time, Wackenhut Corporation grew to include thirty
thousand armed employees, an estimated four million files on “sus­
pected dissidents” in the United States, and revenues of $600 million
in 1991. According to Spy magazine, the company helped supply
sophisticated U.S. weaponry to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
Wackenhut guards zealously protect Area 51, even to the extent
of harassing and detaining citizens on nearby public roads and confis­
cating cameras at gunpoint. Such illegalities prompted investigative
reporter Anthony J. Hilder to write an intemperate open letter to Lin­
coln County; Nevada, district attorneys Patty Cafferata requesting a
grand jury investigation into Wackenhut’s authority at Area 51. “The
reason for the urgency of this action,” he wrote, “is because of the
rapidly increasing number of ‘life-threatening’ situations created by
unidentified paramilitary personnel who operate under the color of
law to harass, intimidate and suppress the constitutional rights of many
hundreds of American citizens and Japanese nationals who come to
view the Unidentified Flying ‘Saucer-Shaped Disks’ being tested over
your county.”
Unconventional flying craft and tough private security guards
with a company closely connected to the CIA help perpetuate the idea
that secret elements within the government may be experimenting
with alien technologies. Debunkers cling to the notion that all this
simply represents highly secret conventional military aviation develop­
ment, an outgrowth of the still-classified air force B-2 triangular
bomber. Unofficial reports state that a new type or even class of air­
craft—designated “Aurora,” curiously enough—is under development.
No one has denied that new and unusual craft are being tested. The
question remains: Did this advanced technology stem from human
ingenuity7or alien reality?
One man who claims to know the answer has provided an
intriguing—and controversial—glimpse of the work being performed
at Area 51.

The Scientist and the Saucers

Robert Scott Lazar, better known as Bob, has a boyish smile, thick
glasses, and a quiet unassuming demeanor that makes him appear like
the computer nerd from next door—a smart guy who can program
your VCR. Yet this articulate, educated man has publicly claimed that
he worked on alien flying saucers for the U.S. government at Area 51.
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Needless to say, Lazar’s story has prompted much controversy

both within and without the UFO research community.
His story began in June 1982 when the young scientist said he
was working as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico. He ran into the famous Dr. Edward Teller prior to a lecture
there. Teller was reading a news article about Lazar, who had built his
own jet car. “Hi, I’m the one you’re reading about there,” Lazar said,
starting a conversation with the noted physicist. In 1988, after Lazar
left Los Alamos, he wrote Teller a letter mentioning their meeting and
the fact that he was job hunting. Lazar said he soon received a call
from Teller saying he had forwarded Lazar’s resume to a Nevada com­
pany with government contracts. “I’d say it was no more than 10 or 15
minutes after he hung up that I got a call to come down for an inter­
view at EG&G [Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier] Special Projects.
So that’s how my services were solicited, if you can even call it that,”
he recalled. Lazar said when he went to EG&G’s office, he was inter­
viewed and hired by agents from the Office of Naval Intelligence
(ONI).
Gradually, after strenuous security checks including requests for
permission to monitor his telephone and search his home, Lazar was
recruited to work on what he understood was “an advanced propulsion
system” at Groom Lake. “I thought I was going to be at Area 51,
where an awful lot of projects are done, including a lot of the black
projects such as the SR-71 and so forth.... We landed at Area 51, and
moments later we got on a bus and started driving and driving. And I
realized, gee, I don’t work at Area 51. Then, about 15 miles south of
there, I was told that S-4 was the destination.”
At S-4, sometimes referred to as “Dreamland,” the “Ranch,” or
“Skunk Works,” Lazar began to have second thoughts about his new
job. He said security was oppressive and that guards even put a gun to
his head. “They did that even in the original security briefing,” Lazar
said. “They did everything but physically hurt me. ... Guards there
with M-16s. Guys were slamming my chest, screaming into my ear.
They were pointing weapons at me. Like I said, it’s not a good place to
work.” Lazar began to suspect that there was something very dark and
mysterious about this work when he noticed posters all over the place
showing a hovering UFO with the caption “They’re Here.” His appre­
hension was not eased when he learned that he had been hired to
replace a scientist who was one of three killed in April 1987, when an
attempt was made to cut into an alien power plant reactor.
Once on the job, Lazar found he was to study and reverse­
engineer the power plant from a UFO—a matter/antimatter reactor.
He said he discovered the reactor, which was similar to our nuclear
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reactors but only the size of a soccer ball, produced “waves” nullifying
gravity through the use of a superheavy substance he named Element
115 after its theoretical atomic number. “I was the one who identified
115,” Lazar said. “That was my only contribution to the project. And I
don’t stand on the fact that it’s 115, but if it’s not, it’s 114. It’s right in
there.”
During his work at S-4, which lasted from December 1988 to
April 1989, Lazar said saw nine alien craft housed in a row of huge
hangars. One he was able to touch in passing and another he witnessed
taking a short test flight. Intrigued, Lazar said he studied the craft
closely. “I gave everything names,” he said, “the ‘top hat’ one, the ‘jello
mold’ and the ‘sport model’ [which] operated without a hitch. I mean
it looked new, if that is what a flying saucer looks like. One of the them
looked liked it was hit by some sort of projectile. It had a large hole in
the bottom and a large hole in the top with the metal bent out like
some sort of large caliber [projectile] had gone through it. ... I got to
look inside, and it had really small chairs. I think that was the first con­
firmation [of alien technology] I had.”
Lazar recalled that one day while walking down a corridor at
S-4, he glanced into a room and saw two men in lab coats “looking
down and talking to something small, with long arms.” Knowing that
some people would say he saw a living extraterrestrial, Lazar noted,
“They play so many mind games there. Maybe they stuck a doll in
front of these guys and made me walk by it and look at it, just to see
what my reaction would be. But, when we did turn around to do some­
thing, and walk back, it was gone, and the two guys were gone. So, I
don’t know what I saw.”
Interestingly the idea that aliens may be living at Area 51 was
advanced by two unnamed government agents—identified only as
“Falcon” and “Condor”—in the 1988 TV documentary UFO Cover­
up? Live!
While Lazar’s exposure to the saucers was short-lived and spo­
radic, the most astounding information came from more than two
hundred pages of “briefing” documents he was required to read to pre­
pare him for his job. Within these blue booklets, which bore no docu­
ment numbers nor secrecy stamps, Lazar said he learned of other
secret projects such as the study of a gravity drive (“Galileo”), looking
back in time (“Looking Glass”), and a neutron beam weapon (“Side­
kick”), all under a program called “Project Overview.” Lazar read that
aliens had been visiting Earth—which they called “Sol 3”—for millen­
nia and that mankind was the result of sixty-five genetic “corrections”
made over thousands of years. At least one group of small ETs—
referred to as “The Kids”—came from a planet in the Zeta Reticuli
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star system. Lazar also was astounded to learn that the saucers in gov­
ernment hands were not all the result of accidental crashes. “I think
. . . that we received those craft more by friendly means than by crash­
retrieval or stealing them or however else,” he said.
Even after all he had experienced, Lazar said he was still skepti­
cal of statements made in a thick document pertaining to religion.
This paper stated that the aliens consider humans as “containers.”
Asked to clarify this, Lazar replied, “Maybe containers of souls. You
can come up with whatever theory you want. But we’re containers, and
that’s how we are mentioned in the documents; that religion was
specifically created so we have some rules and regulations for the sole
purpose of not damaging the containers.. ..”
One intriguing aspect of Lazar’s briefing concerned his descrip­
tion of an apparent battle between aliens and humans at a secret base
in 1979. He said he read that a human guard tried to take a weapon
into the alien’s area, which resulted in fatal head wounds to security
personnel. Lazar’s description of this incident matches exactly with an
account by UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz. In a 1985 letter to author
Timothy Good, Bennewitz wrote, “In 1979, something happened.
The alien . . . said [there had been] an argument over weapons ... 66
[security people] were killed, 44 got away.” The story has it that the
aliens departed, leaving behind equipment, some of which was that
studied by Lazar.
Lazar said he was not impressed with the caliber of work taking
place at S-4. Only a handful of people were working on the UFO he
saw and they seemed more like military people out of their league than
world-class scientists. “Everything I saw, every step of the way, just
showed me that such an incredible project is being handled not only in
an unprofessional manner, but it bordered on the ridiculous.” He said
he understood that radioactive plutonium had been tried as fuel for the
antimatter reactor.
If his account is true, it could explain a mysterious and unsolved
UFO case near Houston, Texas. About 9:00 RAI. on December 29,
1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Landrum’s young grandson
were driving home on when a huge, bright diamond-shaped UFO
approached their car spewing sparks. As the craft passed near their car,
the light and heat became intense. The women were shocked to see
about twenty helicopters—some large, twin-rotor craft along with
smaller ones—surrounding the object, as if in escort. Shortly after this
bizarre experience, all three witnesses developed headaches, nausea,
skin sores, hair loss, and other ailments diagnosed as symptoms of
radiation poisoning. Dr. J. Allen Hynek termed the Cash-Landrum
experience a “really crucial case” due to the “absolutely unequivocal
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physical effects” involved. After developing cancer, Cash joined with

Landrum in suing the U.S. government in the belief that the incident
involved an experimental craft. But in 1986, their case was dismissed
after military and NASA officials denied the government was operat­
ing any such craft.
Lazar complained that he had no way of obtaining detailed
information on the project or the people working there. “You cannot
just start a conversation with someone,” he said. “They work on the
buddy system. You’re assigned with one other person, and he is the
only person you carry on conversations with, period. As for grabbing
someone in the hall, that’s out of the question. In fact, even when you
go to the bathroom, you’re followed by security”
Lazar said he did not work at S-4 for any real length of time or
even on a regular basis. According to Lazar, security officials learned
from his monitored telephone that Lazar was having marital problems
and, while not wanting to confront Lazar with this information, con­
sidered him a security risk. “That’s why I left S-4,” he explained. “I
didn’t actually leave, they denied my clearance. But that also left them
in somewhat of a predicament, because here they had basically told me
three-quarters of the story of what’s going on, I had hands-on experi­
ence with everything, and that’s when tensions began to rise, as soon as
I got out.”
Not helping to ease his security problems was the fact that,
prior to leaving his work, Lazar took five of his friends to the moun­
tains surrounding Area 51 to watch lights flying in the sky. After his
clearance was denied, Lazar appeared in black silhouette on a Las
Vegas TV program. Identified only as Dennis—the name of his work
supervisor—Lazar first told his story of alien craft at Area 51 in the
spring of 1989. In October, he retold his story using his name and face
for a series entitled “UFOs: The Best Evidence” aired on CBS affiliate
KLAS-TV.
The show’s commentator, newsman George Knapp, attempted
to corroborate Lazar’s background and found problems. Officials of
EG&G, the firm where Lazar claimed he was interviewed by ONI
agents for his S-4 job, stated they had never heard of him, as did offi­
cials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’.
However, there were problems with the problems. Knapp
located a 1982 Los Alamos laboratory internal phone book that listed
“Robert Lazar” along with the other scientists. When confronted with
the phone book, one official backtracked, admitting that Lazar had
worked there but only on “nonsensitive” projects. Knapp also located
several Los Alamos employees who confirmed that Lazar had worked
with them on top-secret work concerning the SDI “Star Wars” pro­
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ject. Lazar also produced a W-2 Wage and Tax Statement for 1989
that showed his employer as “United States Department of Naval
Intelligence, Washington, D.C.” and an OMB identification number
was listed as “E-6722MAJ.” According to researcher Robert Oechsler,
a former NASA mission analyst with good intelligence connections, an
official with the Department of Energy (DOE) confirmed that the
number “E-6722” was an Office of Management and Budget number
representing a DOE contract and that the letters “MAJ” represented a
“point of contact.”
Lazar said while at S-4, he was required to wear a white security
badge containing a blue diagonal strip across the top left corner and
the letters “MAJ” printed down the right side. He said “MAJ” was
“Majestic” and was spelled out on the badge of his supervisor. Lazar
admitted that perhaps the “MAJ” designation, which brought to mind
the MJ-12 controversy, was merely an inside joke but added that
everyone wore an “MAJ” badge. Lazar said before being denied a
security clearance, he was given a temporary clearance thirty-eight lev­
els above the top-secret “Q” clearance, which he said was reactivated
from his Los Alamos work. One government official denied that any
security levels above “Q” exist. However, author Timothy Good deter­
mined that special access levels do exist as part of a Sensitive Compart-
mented Information (SCI) program dating back to World War II. It is
used to inform a person only on the details of secret operation he
needs to know to deal directly with that project. Author Williams E.
Burrows, in his 1988 book, Deep Black: The Secrets of Space Espionage,
stated there were more than thirty SCI categories in use within U.S.
intelligence by 1986.
Dr. Teller did nothing to clarify matters when asked about his
knowledge of Lazar by a TV cameraman. Obviously disquieted by the
mention of Lazar, Teller vacillated, saying, “Look, I don’t know Bob
Lazar. ... I probably met him. I might have said to somebody that I
met him and I liked him, after I met him, and if I liked him. But I
don’t remember him. ... I mean, you are trying to force questions on
me that I simply won’t answer.”
The contradictions in Lazar’s background prompted newsman
Knapp to conclude that Lazar’s education and work records have been
intentionally altered or hidden. More ominously, Lazar said that after
his first TV interview someone shot at him from a white car as he left
the studio.
Following the shooting incident and death threats, Lazar said
his decision to go public with his story was prompted partially by self-
preservation and partially by other considerations. “I tried to protect
myself in several ways. One of them was going on the air and getting
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some of the information out.... Once that was done—unless they do

things for revenge, and I don’t believe that they operate that way—
there would be no reason to hassle me anymore,” he said. “Any action
on their part right now would guarantee what I’m saying is true. ...
[Another] of the reasons I’m coming forward with this information is
that it’s not only a crime against the American people, it’s a crime
against the scientific community, which I’ve been part of for some
time,” he said. “It’s just unfair not to put it in the hands of the overall
scientific community. There are people who are much more capable of
dealing with this information, and by this time, would have got a lot
further along than this select group of people working out in the mid­
dle of the desert.”
Considering the threats involved in Lazar’s experiences, it was
no surprise when several polygraph (lie detector) tests proved “incon­
clusive.” Initially, polygraph examiner Ron Clay said Lazar showed to
be truthful on one test but deceitful on a second. At Clay’s request,
former Los Angeles policeman and corporate security expert Terry
Tavernetti was brought into the case. Tavernetti administered four
tests on Lazar and concluded he did not attempt to deceive. His con­
clusion was supported by a third polygraph test, but a fourth indicated
Lazar, while not trying to be deceitful, may have been relating hearsay
information, not his own experience. “The difficulty in determining
Lazar’s truthfulness stems from the fear that was drilled into him,” said
Tavernetti.
The case for Lazar’s veracity was further damaged in 1990 when
he pleaded guilty to one count of pandering in connection with a
Nevada house of prostitution and was sentenced to three years proba­
tion and 150 hours of community service, and advised to get psycho­
logical counseling.
Some UFO researchers suspected this brush with the law was
a setup to discredit Lazar. However, a close check of the facts indi­
cated that the entire episode was initiated by Lazar himself when he
mentioned that he had installed electronic equipment for a Las
Vegas brothel during a TV interview. Faced with this public
acknowledgment of prostitution, authorities were forced to act,
since it was located in one of the three Nevada counties where pros­
titution remained illegal. The case was a hotbed of unrequited love,
youthful naivete and—at least according to allegations in court
papers filed by Lazar—possible police corruption. Although there
was some debate over whether or not Lazar knew the operation was
illegal, the essence of the case showed that all he did was install
some computer and security equipment for a friend. Both the vice
squad and the district attorney recommended no jail time. A close
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friend indicated that further legal action to reverse the guilty plea
may be forthcoming.
But the controversy over Lazar and his incredible story con­
cerning Area 51 and its saucers continues unabated. Although several
researchers claim to have spoken with other Area 51 workers who con­
firm Lazar’s account, none have agreed to subject themselves to the
scrutiny that Lazar has undergone. The TV whistle-blowers “Condor”
and “Falcon” corroborated elements of the Lazar story but remain
publicly unidentified. Another source has been identified as a former
CIA officer who worked for Lockheed named Marion Leo Williams.
According to researcher Andrew Basiago, Williams claimed to have
been transported to Area 51’s Dreamland in the 1970s, where he
learned that recovered UFOs were being studied in a supersecret
underground government laboratory.
George Knapp, the Las Vegas TV newsman who spent consid­
erable time investigating the Lazar story, said, “We know a lot of
secret stuff goes on in Area 51 . . . and there’s been this lingering, nag­
ging voice floating around at the test site for many years that some­
thing else, something alien, was up there, but no one’s ever bothered
to check it out. But Bob is the first to come forward to say anything
about it—to have inside knowledge. I’ve spent almost a year on the
Lazar story. We’ve gone over every aspect of the story again and again.
Knowing him really sells a lot of it, because he’s not out to impress
anyone and hes not trying to make a million dollars with this. .. . The
story has been consistent again and again.” Knapp added he knew of
several people who offered to confirm Lazar’s story but were warned
off by men who said they were government agents.
Timothy Good, who examined the Lazar case in great detail,
concluded that “it is my opinion that his story is substantially true”
and may be part of a “public indoctrination process” to accustom the
public to the concept of extraterrestrial visitation. Knapp harbored
similar suspicions. “I sometimes wonder if he wasn’t in fact chosen for
the release of this information,” he said.
Scientist-author Jacques Vallee, while impressed with Lazar’s
sincerity and scientific knowledge, nevertheless came away from an
interview thinking that he had hit a “wall of absurdity.” Vallee ques­
tioned the lack of scientific equipment at the S-4 site and the casual
manner in which he was shown the “briefing” documents. “Robert
Lazar’s experience had been pure theatre,” he wrote in 1991. Vallee
indicated his suspicion that the Lazar saucer story may have been used
to screen secret nonalien military research.
Don Ecker, who wrote extensively about the case, also believed
that Lazar is sincere. “But what’s behind all that is the real story. I
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think he was fed huge amounts of disinformation, but for what reason?
Something against the Soviets? Against the people in the UFO field?”
he wondered. “I can’t believe that if Lazar actually was involved in
government saucer research and was telling the truth that they would
allow him to live.”
Author Curtis Peebles, who dismisses all UFO stories as simply
misinterpretations of reality, apparently did not know how to handle
the Lazar story. He brushed it off in less than two pages and only
stated that “Lazar’s story has some holes.” Peebles did note Lazar’s
pandering conviction and took special interest in the fact that Lazar
was not listed as a member of the American Physical Society or the
American Nuclear Society.
Lazar himself has never flatly denied that he may have been an
unknowing participant in some government disinformation scheme,
but he declared, “I am telling the truth—I’ve tried to prove that.
What’s going on up there could be the most important event in his­
tory. You’re talking about physical contact and proof from another sys­
tem—another planet, another intelligence. That’s got to be the biggest
event in history—period. And its real, and it’s there.” In another inter­
view, Lazar was even more emphatic: “I saw what I saw, and you didn’t.
I don’t care who believes me and who doesn’t. Screw the rest of you
guys.”
The truth behind possible government secret space technology,
cover-ups, disinformation campaigns, and the military possession of
UFOs and aliens remains unproven. If indeed there is development of
craft based on alien technology, what is its purpose—to wage war
against terrestrial enemies or intergalactic visitors ... or could it be to
provide a means of escape for the world’s wealthy elite?
What is clear today is that the UFO phenomenon has spread far
beyond mere sightings of unknown craft in the sky. By the 1970s, even
stranger ingredients had been added to the mix of UFO lore—animal
mutilations, crop circles, and human abductions.
 FACE-TO-
FACE
Undaunted by ongoing government secrecy and dismissive media
reports, UFOs continued to appear in the world’s skies. But a new—
and more personal—note was added to the mere sightings of flying
objects.
Back in the 1950s, nothing so divided the fledgling UFO
research community than the idea of physical contact between humans
and UFO occupants. To a large extent that division remains today,
straining the faith of even the most enthusiastic UFO devotee despite
ever-in creasing media attention to the subject. Seeing unidentifiable
lights and objects in the sky is one thing. But meeting or being
abducted by unearthly creatures is quite something else. However,
once again history demonstrates that this phenomenon is nothing new.
In the biblical account, Ezekiel not only saw the “wheel” in the
air but was taken aboard. After falling prostrate from the sounds and
dust cloud signaling the arrival of the “vision of God,” Ezekiel was
addressed by a man bathed in a brilliant radiance: “Stand up, son of
dust, and I will talk to you.” “Then the Spirit lifted me up and the
glory of the Lord began to move away, accompanied by the sound of a
great earthquake,” Ezekiel wrote. “The Spirit lifted me up and took
 FACE-TO-FACE 189

me away to Tel Abib, another colony of Jewish exiles beside the

Chebar River. I went in bitterness and anger, but the hand of the Lord
was strong upon me.” To some this sounds like a credible account of
an abduction.
Hindu literature scholar Richard Thompson wrote, “There are
Vedic accounts in which a human being is abducted for motives of lust
by a member of another humanoid race.” One such tale comes from
the fifth Veda known as the Ramayana in which a Raksasa humanoid
named Ravana abducted Sita, the wife of the noble Lord Ramacandra.
One account of this abduction stated,

Unseen dwellers of the woodlands watched the dismal deed of shame,

Marked the mighty-armed Raksasa lift the poor and helpless dame,
Seat her on his car celestial yoked with asses winged with speed,
Golden in its shape and radiance, fleet as Indra's heavenly steed!. ..
Then rose the car celestial o'er the hill and wooded vale.

As previously related, there were many reports of face-to-face

meetings between citizens and the mysterious “airships” of the late
1800s. Typical was the experience of John Barclay, who lived near Hous­
ton, Texas. He told the Houston Post that on the night of April 21, 1897,
he saw an oblong object with lights “much brighter than electric lights”
hovering in a pasture near his house. Grabbing his Winchester, Barclay
advanced toward the machine when he was met by a man who asked
him to lay down his weapon, as no harm to him was intended. Barclay
was asked for some lubricating oil, a couple of cold chisels, and some
bluestone (stone treated with copper sulfate). Barclay obtained the oil
and chisels but could not locate any bluestone. Upon his return, the man
offered Barclay a ten-dollar bill for his effort, which he declined. When
Barclay ask to see inside the craft, the man refused, saying, “No, we can­
not permit you to approach any nearer, but do as we request you and
your kindness will be appreciated, and we will call on you some future
day and reciprocate your kindness by taking you on a trip.” As the
encounter was ending, Barclay asked where the man was from and
where he was going. The odd reply was, “From anywhere, but we will
be in Greece day after tomorrow.” With that, the craft shot out of sight.
In the summer of 1947, as the Kenneth Arnold and Maury
Island stories were beginning to generate UFO interest in the United
States, a strange contact occurred in the Alps north of Venice, Italy.
The story; as reported by UFO researcher Jenny Randles, told how
geologist Rapuzzi Johannis was searching for rocks near the Italian vil­
lage of Villa Santina on the morning of August 14, when he discovered
an oval craft embedded in the slope of a mountain. Spying what he
 190 ALIEN AGENDA

thought were two boys, he yelled and motioned for them to come
see what he had found. As he approached the pair, Johannis was
shocked to see two small beings about three feet tall with overlarge
heads and huge round eyes. They were wearing close-fitting
bluish garments over what appeared to be greenish skin. When
Johannis raised his hand containing a rock pick as a friendly salute,
one of the creatures, perhaps misinterpreting the gesture as an
aggressive move, touched his belt and Johannis was knocked to the
ground dazed. While lying help­less, he saw the beings enter the
craft, which proceeded to move into the air, shrink in size, and silently
disappear.
But such stories were either lost in history or ignored by the
media of the time, leaving many to believe that strange contacts with
occupants of flying machines began only as the flying saucer era got
under way in the late 1940s. The few contact stories that did surface
were quickly dismissed by early UFO researchers as too fantastic to
even consider. They were having trouble enough dealing with mysteri­
ous flying objects.

The Man from Venus

The first well-known UFO contactee was Polish immigrant George
Adamski, who early in this century worked at a number of odd jobs
and even served with the U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border between
1913 and 1916. By the 1920s, Adamski began teaching philosophy and
by the early 1930s had founded a monastery in California called “the
Royal Order of Tibet.” Here he acquired a special license to produce
wine during Prohibition for “religious purposes.” During World
War II, Adamski operated a hamburger stand named Palomar Gar­
dens, which was located on the slopes of Mount Palomar near the
giant Hale telescope. Apparently this proximity to science along with
his philosophical teachings prompted him to call himself “professor.”
Adamski claimed that nearly two hundred UFOs had passed
near the Palomar telescope during the war years. He wrote of these
craft in Fate magazine in 1950. After taking some photographs of an
aerial object, Adamski’s reputation as a UFO researcher began to
spread, despite the questionable quality of his photos. Adamski voiced
the hope that he might one day actually meet the inhabitant of a UFO.
His wish was granted on November 20, 1952, when he, along
with six others, saw a silvery, cigar-shaped object floating in the sky near
Desert City, California. Driven to a site near the craft, Adamski asked
his friends to wait nearby while he approached the object. He later
claimed he met a man with shoulder-length hair and a one-piece brown
suit and recognized the man as “a human being from another world!”
 FACE-TO-FACE 191

Using a combination of hand signals and mental telepathy,

Adamski claimed he was able to learn that the man’s name was Orthon,
and that he had come to Earth from the planet Venus to warn humans
about the dangers of nuclear bomb tests. Orthon confirmed that ships
were visiting the earth from both within our solar system and beyond
and that some had crashed as the result of human interference. He said
no overt landings would take place since “there would be a tremen­
dous amount of fear on the part of the people, and probably the visi­
tors would be torn to pieces by the Earth people, if such landings were
attempted.” He also indicated that some Earth people had been taken
aboard craft such as his, which he said was simply a “scout” ship fer­
ried to Earth by a large “mothership.” When Adamski attempted to
take photos, Orthon took his film with a promise to return it.
A few days later, Adamski said the craft returned and dropped
his film out of a porthole. When developed, the film was found to con­
tain a series of symbols that have never been deciphered. Adamski
wrote a short account of his UFO experience, which was added to a
UFO book by British author Desmond Leslie. An astute publisher
made Adamski’s experience the focal point of Leslie’s book and pub­
lished it in 1953 as Flying Saucers Have Landed. It quickly became a
best-seller. Over the next decade more books by Adamski—apparently
ghostwritten and embellished by others—were published, and his
accounts of life in outer space were expanded to include descriptions of
trees and rivers on the moon and creatures from most of the planets in
the solar system.
“He died in April 1965,” wrote author Jenny Randles, “his views
having split the UFO community into two camps which still exist
today. The occult-oriented Ufologists, fervent believers in friendly
extraterrestrials, accept much of what Adamski said as gospel, literally.
Most UFO researchers, however, believe his stories were at best hallu­
cinations and perhaps outright fantasies. There is no doubt that
Adamski’s evidence is barely persuasive. His photographs have con­
vinced few, and many allege analysis shows them to be small, crude
fakes. His stories about conditions on other planets in the solar system
were found to be scientifically absurd even before he died.”
Like so many other aspects of the UFO story, it is tempting to
simply write Adamski off as deluded or a hoaxer. Ray Stanford, one of
Adamski’s most eager followers, later quoted Adamski as saying, “Dur­
ing Prohibition I had the Sacred Order of Tibet. It was a front. Listen,
I was able to make wine. . . Hell, I made enough wine for half of
southern California. In fact, I was the biggest bootlegger around.
Then that man Roosevelt came along and he knocked out the Prohibi­
tion. If hadn’t been for that man Roosevelt, I wouldn’t have had to get
 192 ALIEN AGENDA

into all this saucer crap.” Even Adamski’s former publicist, Harold
Salkin, noted that in 1963 Adamski’s account of a saucer trip to Saturn
before a Washington crowd in many ways contradicted the same story
he had told earlier in the day to close friends. Salkin also pointed out
that at least one of Adamski’s UFO photos was proven a “fraud,” since
the UFO image extended beyond the frame of the film. “He appar­
ently fell into the trap which had snared many of the contactees of the
1950s and 60s,” Salkin stated. “In order to whet the appetites of his
regular followers, he—like the others—was convinced that he had to
come up with some event that was really spectacular. In Adamski’s
case, it was the trip to Saturn.”
But there is some evidence that indicates a possible darker
aspect to Adamski’s stories. Several UFO researchers have implied that
Adamski may have been “set up” in his role as an early contactee
celebrity. Randles noted that at the same time Adamski was gaining
notoriety, the CIA was convening the Robertson panel in an effort to
turn official opinion against UFOs as real objects.
Agency personnel also wanted to deflect serious public attention
and noted how the contactees had “reduced the credibility of UFO
evidence in the eyes of many people.” Adamski himself lent support to
the idea that he was used by intelligence when in a 1953 speech he
began by saving that his material had been “cleared” by the FBI and
air force intelligence. Adamski backed down from this statement a few
days later when FBI agents questioned him about such clearance.
Author Jacques Vallee noted that Adamski admitted that government
scientists from Point Loma Naval Electronics Laboratory near San
Diego had asked him to cooperate in studying UFOs, thus helping to
launch his career as a contactee. “Adamski’s major supporter abroad
was a former intelligence officer with the British Army,” stated Vallee,
adding, “A man who hosted Adamski during his tour of Australia has
told me that ‘Good old George’ was traveling with a passport bearing
special privileges.” One of the scientists Vallee mentioned, Gene L.
Bloom, denied any involvement with Adamski, saying, “Everything
Adamski wrote about us was fiction, pure fiction.” An associate with
Adamski at Palomar Gardens, Jerrold E. Baker, said he overheard a
tape recording of Adamski’s desert experience before it happened,
leading him to write, “I was able to determine that the desert contact
was not a mere stab in the dark or a picnic in the desert, but a planned
operation.”
Another intriguing aspect of the Adamski case came with a 1954
attempt to bring the contactee into federal court. Researcher Thomas
Eickoff, incensed that Adamski had written in a later book entitled
Inside the Space Ships that two government scientists could confirm his
 FACE-TO-FACE 193

out-of-this-world trip, believed Adamski would be forced to produce

the scientists in court. Should he fail to produce the pair, Adamski
would be subject to fraud charges. Eickoff s plan never got off the
ground because his lawyer received a letter from CIA director Allen
Dulles stating that, while Eickoff did have a federal case, no one would
be permitted to testify regarding Adamski’s book because the subject of
UFOs was a matter of maximum security. It was unclear if the CIA’s
position was an attempt to shield Adamski or the UFO subject in gen­
eral. Such an activity would strongly support the theory that he was
somehow connected to a government operation. It was definitely an
indication of the intense—and highly secret—interest in the subject
within the intelligence community.
There is no doubt that on at least one occasion Adamski was set
up as the object of a hoax. Long after his death, two writers—-James
W. Moseley and Gray Barker—admitted that, as a joke, they had con­
cocted a letter implying an endorsement of Adamski’s view’s on State
Department letterhead. Adamski had widely publicized the fraudulent
letter from a nonexistent official named “R. E. Straith.” The two writ­
ers decided not to reveal the joke at the time because federal agents
u’ere investigating this apparent misuse of official letterhead stationery.
Then there were some strange bits of information that seemed
to lend support to some of Adamski’s stories. For example, British
author Timothy Good recounted a story of two Yorkshire police con­
stables who in January 1978 encountered an “absolutely, awe-inspir­
ing” glowing object on a country lane. “There were these three great
spheres underneath, like huge ball bearings—three of them equally
placed around it,” said one constable. “There was a hollour area under­
neath and like a skirting around the bottom, but these things pro­
truded below that.” Good noted, “The three spheres seen under the
craft have been observed in a number of incidents, most notably by the
much vilified George Adamski, whose photographs and film of this
type of craft taken in 1952 and 1965 have been ridiculed and
denounced as hoaxes.”
A 1965 incident concerned an eight-millimeter film Adamski
took at the home of Madeleine Rodeffer at Silver Spring, Maryland,
on February 26. Both Adamski, Rodeffer, and other witnesses said a
UFO maneuvered over the house. It hovered and raised and lowered
one of three round “landing pods” on its bottom side. Rodeffer said
she could discern human figures in portholes ringing the circular craft.
But when the film was returned from developing, Rodeffer claimed,
“The film I got back is not the original film at all.” However, it w'as
believed that some original frames remained and experts split over its
authenticity. Author Good, supported by a former Eastman-Kodak
 194 ALIEN AGENDA

optical physicist, determined that it would have been impossible to

produce certain distortion effects seen in the film or to build a small,
inexpensive model that could convincingly raise and lower its landing
gear. A NASA scientist believed the object in the film was no larger
than three to four feet across and considered the film a “fake.” The
interesting point is that the film depicted a craft identical to Adamski’s
1952 photographs. Was this support for his claims or merely support
for the idea that he had kept a scale model hidden away for thirteen
years?
Adding to the mystery was Stephen Darbishire, who told Good
that in February 1954 he took two photographs of a UFO in Lan­
cashire, England, that was identical to those described by Adamski.
Unfortunately, both negatives and the prints have since disappeared.
Whether Adamski was sincere but deluded, a hoaxer or a partic­
ipant—knowingly or otherwise—in an intelligence operation, the
results were the same. The work of Keyhoe and NICAP to break gov­
ernment secrecy on UFOs was blunted. “Publicity given personalities
such as the late George Adamski, who claimed to have flown in flying
saucers, dealt the final death blow to any open scientific discussion on
UFOs,” noted researcher Raymond E. Fowler.
But if serious scientific interest in UFOs was scotched, the pub­
lic’s appetite for stories of contact was undiminished. Other contactees,
following on the heels of Adamski, began coming forward with their
own tales of UFO rides, space brothers, and trips to other worlds:

Howard Menger, a U.S. Army veteran who operated a sign-paint­

ing business, claimed to have been an alien in a previous life and to
have been contacted by “space people” since 1932, when he was a
child. He said he had ridden UFOs to most of the major planets in our
solar system. In the 1960s, Menger denied his alien contacts, saying
the CIA had used him to test public reaction to extraterrestrial
encounters. Later he recanted the CIA story and began preaching a
message of “love and understanding.”

Daniel Fry, the self-proclaimed “best-informed scientist in the

world on the subject of space and space travel,” first met his space con­
tact, A-lan, when he encountered a saucer near White Sands Proving
Ground in July 1950. As he approached the craft, A-lan told him,
“Better not touch the hull, pal, it’s still hot. Take it easy, pal, you’re
among friends.” Fry said he was offered and accepted a ride on the
saucer to New York City and back, a ride he calculated took about
thirty minutes. During the trip, A-lan told Fry that his race were
descendants of ancient Lemurians who had fled to space following an
 Photo courtesy 0/ North 'lexas State University Pnhlh Infontititimt OJJiiT
SPACEMAN'S HEADSTONE?
This rore photograph shows the partial
headstone in Aurora, Texas, marking the
place where, according to legend, a
small person who was “not of this earth'’
was buried in 1897. The ballpoint pen at
right corner gives perspective. Shortly
after this photo was made in the early
1970s. the headstone was stolen and
was never recovered.

A PUZZLING FRAGMENT.
Physicist Dr. Tom Gray of the
University of North Texas exhibits a
fragment found at the site of the
alleged 1897 crash of a UFO in
Aurora, Texas. In a 1973 study.
Gray said the fragment was
“puzzling" because it showed no
magnetic properties even though
it was composed primarily of iron.

Photo coNrlcfy vjjint Kn/Jel

THE MOTHER SH1P? Jim Kuffel took this photo of whaf appears to be a giant
UFO near Antioch, Illinois, on November 10, 1996 Kuffel, intrigued by this aerial
apparition, used a 35-mm camera with a 52-mm lens to shoot the thing against the
setting sun. In all likelihood, this Independence Day looking "craft" was actually created
by temperature inversion caused by layers of warm air mixing with cooler air. But this well
illustrates the problem of many misidentifications of normal events as UFOs. However
many sightings are harder to explain.
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Drawings courtesy uf David Hatcher Childress

NAZI FLYING DISK. These drawings depict one of the noiseless and exhaust-free
“flying disks" developed by Austrian inventor Viktor Schauberger for the Nazis.
Schauberger’s disks, at least one of which reportedly was test flown, were powered by a
rotating water system called liquid vortex propulsion. Some researchers contend that Nazi
disk technology was gained through contact with extraterrestrials and that this
technology fell into the hands of the Allies after World War II, thus beginning the modern
flying saucer era.
 J. Allen Hynek
FIRST REPORTED
UFOs. Pilot Kenneth
Arnold was the first person
to receive widespread A CONVERTED
publicity after reporting UFOs SCIENTIST. The late
flying near Mount Rainier on Dr. J. Allen Hynek was chairman
June 24, 1947, just prior to the of Northwestern University's
Roswell incident. Arnold Astronomy Department and a
reported that the objects longtime consultant on UFOs to
acted “like a saucer would if the U.S. government. Over the
you skipped it across the years. Dr. Hynek moved from
water,” and subsequent writing off UFOs as mere swamp
reporting put the term flying gas to calling for a scientific
saucer in the public investigation of what he
vocabulary. concluded was a genuine ana
tangible reality.

Phntt lOHHrsy of Gene HuQ

THE UFO SCIENTIST, Physicist Bob Lazar claims to have participated in the
reverse engineering of UFOs in the custody of the U.S. government at a secret base in
Nevada known as Area 51. Lazar said the UFOs were powered by gravity wave amplifiers
that allowed the craft to travel the vast distances between stars by "folding" space. He
also stated that his immediate supervisor during his UFO work wore a badge with the
word Majestic on it.
Photo courtesy of Linda Moulton Htme

ALIENS ARE HERE. Television documentary

producer Linda Moulton Howe began her UFO career
with her 1980 Emmy Award-winning documentary A
Strange Harvest, which explored the cattle mutilation
mystery. Since then, Howe has explored many other
facets of the UFO issue and concluded "that
intelligences other than human are forcing glimpses
of other realities upon us."

CONTACTEE OR CONMAN?
George Adamski, back in the early 1950s,
claimed to have been taken on rides in
outer space by a Venusian named Orthon.
While most people discounted Adamski's
stories and crude photographs, more
recent study has shown that his popularity
may have been engineered by
government intelligence agents.
Photo courtesy of UFO Magazine

BILLY AND THE PLE1ADIANS. No story of

alien contact is more bizarre or more well supported
Pbutu courtesy of Ul O Magazine

than that of Eduard Albert Meier, better known as

Billy. Between 1975 and 1978, the one-armed Swiss
handyman produced nearly 2,000 pages of notes
made from conversations with aliens from the
Pleiades star system plus hundreds of astoundingly
clear and detailed photographs of the Pleiadian
"beam ships." Although laughed off as a hoax, the
Meier story had many intriguing aspects.
 Photo courtesy of George Wingfield
CROP CIRCLE
COMPLEXITY. with the
dawn of the 1990s, the
complexity of crop circle
designs continued to increase
as seen in these photographs.
Picture A, taken in July 1991
near Barbury Castle in England,
displays a working knowledge
of Euclidean geometry. Some
circles even included one
mathematical theorem
previously unknown to man.
Picture B depicts a design know
as an “insectogram" created in
a field across a highway from
legendary Stonehenge (top
center). The sheer number and
distances involved in the
worldwide crop circle
phenomenon conclusively
disprove the notion that all are
hoaxes.
Photo irnrrtcvf of George Wingfield
 FATHER OF REMOTE
VIEWING. New York artist and
scientific researcher Ingo Swann is
credited with helping to develop
the laboratory methods used in
the psychic phenomenon called
Photo courtesy ofIngo Swann

remote viewing. During the 1970s

and '80s, Swann's methods were
successfully used by military
intelligence officers within the
army’s Intelligence and Security
Command to gather information
on the Soviet Union.

AMERICA'S FIRST PSI

SPY. Melvin C. Riley was one of
the first military men recruited into
the army's remote viewing unit.
An accomplished remote viewer,
Riley was the mentor to several
military officers who use the
Photo courtesy of A Ichtn C. Riley

psychic phenomenon to locate

hidden enemy military assets. Riley
told of viewing both beings and
spacecraft from other worlds and
commented, "When you can go
out and see the universe, who
wants to go look at a Russian
submarine?"

ONE OF THE LAST

VIEWERS. Former Army Major
David Morehouse was one of the
last persons to be trained in
remote viewing by the military.
Although regarded as an
unusually gifted remote viewer,
Morehouse was persecuted by
Photo courtesy of Dinul A lot chouse

the army after he decided to go

public with the remote viewing
story. His book Psychic Warrior
enjoyed popular success after an
initial attempt to publish the
military remote viewing story was
terminated under unusual
circumstances.
 A CLOWING TO Look st

Photo by Prcdcric lutrxon, San Francisco Chronicle

NOT AT OBJCOT

Phobos

AN INTERCEPTOR FROM MARS? The sketch on the left, produced by a

military-trained remote viewer, depicts an irregular-shaped object approaching the
Russian Phobos II. which was lost as it neared Mars in 1989 Months later, visiting Soviet
cosmonaut Col. Marina Popovich (right) displayed one of the last photographs sent back
to earth by Phobos II. It showed an irregular-shaped object approaching the space
probe and appeared to verify the remote viewing account. Scientists were at a loss to
explain the nature of the object with any certainty.

Jtm M<i

REMOTE VIEWING CENTRAL. For nearly two decodes these two small
wood-frame buildings at Fort Meade, Maryland, were the headquarters of the
psychic spy unit known variously as GRILL FLAME. CENTER LANE, and STARGATE, it
was here that military intelligence officers, using laboratory-tested methods of
psychic remote viewing, furnished information on secret Soviet weapons and
installations. Every viewer also encountered UFOs during their searches for foreign
technology.
 The American Association of Remote l iewers,
/ .
QUARANTINE
ENFORCER?
Several remote
viewers have seen
small objects such as A UFO INVENTORY. Based on remote viewing
this one hovering in sessions, various UFO designs such as these have
orbit, apparently to been sketched by the viewers, who claim that various
enforce a quarantine extraterrestrial races are currently visiting the earth for
of earth. About the a variety of reasons. Although some alien agendas
size of a hand seem less benevolent than others, none are seen as
grenade, these multi­ overtly hostile. Viewers said that aliens interacting with
faceted objects humans are but a very small percentage of races
reportedly are the that exist throughout the universe.
cause of many space
setbacks such as the
1993 Titan 4 and the
Mors 96 rocket
launches, which
foiled to reach orbit.
TAe American Association of Remote I'irwers, Inc.

Some researchers
speculate that military
and weapons space
flights are being
blocked by
extraterrestrials.

A BLEAK FUTURE. In a structured remote viewing study, viewers foresaw the earth
devastated in the near future by ultraviolet energy due to widening holes in the ozone
layer. In their view, humans will be forced underground and into domed cities (depicted
above) to survive. Various viewers also foresaw extraterrestrials working side by side to
replenish the earth's atmosphere.
 FACE-TO-FACE 195

atomic cataclysm. He added that mankind needed help because our

physical science had far outstripped social science and religion and that
man was incapable of dealing with true “understanding,”

George Van Tassel, an airline mechanic, who claimed that in 1951

he received telepathic knowledge from a council that ruled our solar
system. Van Tassel said humans are a hybrid race created by the inter­
marriage of Venusians and Earth apes. He began successful “Giant
Rock Saucerian Conventions” between the mid-1950s and 1970 at his
airport/cafe at Giant Rock, California. He also founded the Ministry
of Universal Wisdom, Inc. Van Tassel lost influence after authenticat­
ing UFO photos sent to him by a New York lawyer, who then exposed
them as a hoax.

Truman Bethurum, loudly denounced by Dr. Edward Condon,

claimed to have been abducted by eight small beings from a saucer
while sleeping in his truck west of Las Vegas in 1952. He developed a
relationship with the saucer’s captain, a beautiful space woman from
the planet Clarion, which is hidden from the earth on the far side of
the sun. The woman promised to take him to her misery-free home
world but, despite several further contacts, the trip never happened.

Elizabeth Klarer, who claimed to have been taken from her

South African home to a planet near Alpha Centauri with a man called
Akon in 1954, described the planet Meton as a world of vegetarians
free from the problems of humanity. She said she had a child by Akon
but had to return to Earth because she was uncomfortable breathing
the air of Meton. Akon and her son visited her in 1963, she reported.

Orfeo Angelucci, labeled as sincere in his delusions by psychiatrist

Carl Jung, claimed highly mystical and religious experiences through
UFO contact. In May 1952, Angelucci got off work at Lockheed and
encountered two green glowing balls that spoke to him about man’s
evolution. Two months later, he boarded a saucer that had landed in a
dry riverbed and was taken high above the earth. A “Space Brother”
named Neptune told him that man was in danger because his technol­
ogy’ was threatening the world. He warned of a global catastrophe in
1986.

All of the Adamski-like contactees exhibited similar attributes—

the use of books, newsletters, and lectures to gain money and notoriety,
the idea that each was a special contact between humans and benevo­
lent “Space Brothers,” a lack of any independent corroboration of their
 196 ALIEN AGENDA

experiences, and ongoing messages of love, peace, and brotherhood.

Many contactees formed groups that today would most probably be
termed cults.
One exception to such characterization was a twenty-three-
year-old Brazilian farmer named Antonio Villas Boas, whose ordeal
may have marked the beginning of the modern abduction experience.
Although Villas Boas claimed to have been taken on October 16, 1957,
due to a lengthy investigation coupled with translation and publication
delays, his story was not publicized until late 1964.
Villas Boas, who never profited from his story, told a journalist
and a doctor it began about 1:00 A.M. as he was operating a tractor on
the family farm near Sao Francisco de Salles, Brazil. He said he had
seen a bright light in the fields the previous night, which returned. Vil­
las Boas described a red light at the front of a circular craft with a
rotating cupola on top. The craft dropped three landing legs and
landed nearby. When Villas Boas tried to flee on his tractor, the engine
failed and it stopped. As he tried to flee on foot, he was grabbed by a
humanoid about five feet tall. He pushed the being to the ground and
again tried to run but was stopped by three more beings, who dragged
him to the landed saucer.
Inside, he was placed in a small, cold, square room with seam­
less walls. Here he was stripped naked and coated with a gel. Soon he
was taken to another room containing a bed with a strange hump in
the center. Using tubes, the beings extracted blood and then left Villas
Boas alone. After perhaps a half hour, he noticed a noxious odor that
made him sick. After another wait, a woman entered the room. She
was less than five feet tall and looked human except for an angular face
with catlike eyes. Her hair was long and white, but her arm and pubic
hair was dark red. Inexplicably, Villas Boas said he became aroused and
proceeded to have intercourse with the woman, who appeared relieved
when it was over. As she was leaving, she gave Villas Boas a look he
thought reflected pity. She then rubbed her belly, pointed to him, then
pointed upward. Villas Boas interpreted her signs as a warning she
would return, but in light of modern abductions, many researchers
believe she meant that she would bear his child in space.
Although angered because he felt “all they wanted [was] a good
stallion to improve their stock/’ Villas Boas was soon given back his
clothes and taken on a short tour of the craft before being returned to
the field near his home. Upon his arrival, he found that more than four
hours had passed.
The young farmer was examined by a doctor in Rio de Janeiro,
Olavo Fontes, who found Vilas Boas to be rational and unimaginative.
The doctor also found the man to be suffering from weakness and
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nausea. Several small bleeding lesions were found on his body. All this
was consistent with mild radiation poisoning, Dr. Fontes concluded.
By 1978, Villas Boas had become a lawyer and was the father of four
children. In a Brazilian TV appearance, he changed only one portion
of his account—he then said the strange woman had taken a sperm
sample during the act of intercourse. Interestingly, Villas Boas recalled
every detail of his experience without the need for hypnosis.
Fascinating as Villas Boas’ abduction was, it was only a precur­
sor to the main event of the 1960s—the abduction of Betty and Barney
Hill.

Over the Hills

Although the Hills’ case actually began on September 19, 1961, it
would not be until 1966 that it reached the public. But when it did—
through a book and a film—it set the tone for subsequent abductions
with the themes of missing time, claims of medical experimentation,
and recollection through hypnosis.
The Hill story most likely would never have occurred but for
weather reports of a hurricane off the East Coast. In 1961, Barney
Hill, thirty-nine, a black mail sorter, commuted 120 miles each day to
Boston from his home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Betty, forty-
one, was a white social worker with a heavy caseload. Both were active
in their church and in the civil rights movement. Pressures were heavy
on the interracial couple, and they had visited Montreal, Canada, for a
short holiday. Upon hearing the hurricane report, they decided to cut
short their visit and return home to Portsmouth.
Driving south on U.S. Highway 3 shortly after 10:00 P.AI. on
September 19, they both noticed a bright star, which suddenly
appeared and seemed to be following them. Barney was skeptical,
rationalizing the light as an airplane or satellite. But when the light
remained, Betty grabbed some binoculars to view the object. She
claimed she could see a double row of windows on the craft. With the
object hovering a mere fifty feet away, Barney stopped the car south of
Indian Head and took a look for himself. He said it appeared to be a
large glowing pancake. Looking closer, Barney thought the object
must be some sort of secret military weapon and said to himself, “How
interesting, there is the military pilot, and he is looking at me.” I Ic saw
there were others looking at him through a window in the object and
became terrified, convinced somehow that he and Betty' were about to
be captured. Barney raced back to the car and they drove off, accom­
panied bv a odd “beeping” noise that seemed to come from the cars
trunk. The sound made them drowsy. After a second experience with
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the beeping sound, they suddenly came fully awake and found them­
selves a few miles south of where Hill had left the car to view the
object. Unable to recall precisely what had occurred, they drove home.
Expecting to be home by before 3:00 A.M., the Hills noted that
it was 5:30 A.M. when they finally arrived. Puzzled by their experience,
Betty called her sister the next day, who heightened her fear by sug­
gesting that some type of radiation might have been involved.
Wrongly thinking that a compass might register radiation, Betty went
to the car, where she was surprised to discover “a dozen or more shiny
circles scattered on the surface of the trunk, each perfectly circular and
about the size of a silver dollar.” The compass never moved when she
placed it on other areas of the car, but when placed on one of the shiny
spots, the compass needle began to spin. Convinced that something
strange had happened to them, the Hills filed a report of the UFO
with Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth just thirty-six hours after the
incident. In recent years, the Hill story gained some substantiation
when it was learned that, according to Report No. 100-1-61 of the
SAC 100th Bomb Wing, Pease radar registered an “unknown” at the
exact time the Hills encountered their UFO.
In October 1961, the Hills met with investigator Walter Webb,
chief lecturer for the Boston Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden
Planetarium and a representative of the UFO group NICAP. Webb,
though highly skeptical, stated, “I was impressed that the Hills under­
played the dramatic aspects of the case. They were not trying to sensa­
tionalize. They did not seek publicity.” It was through Webb that the
Hills first realized that more than two hours were unaccounted for in
their story. Something more than a simple UFO sighting must have
occurred.
Shordy after the UFO incident, both Hills began to experience
physical and psychological effects of the experience. Betty had night­
mares in which she found herself taken aboard the UFO and examined
by little humanoid beings. Barney began to suffer from high blood
pressure, exhaustion, ulcers, and a strange ring of warts in his groin
area. Both saw a series of medical specialists during 1962 and eventu­
ally met Dr. Benjamin Simon, a respected Boston psychiatrist and neu­
rologist with an extensive background in hypnosis therapy.
Dr. Simon started six months of hypnosis sessions with both
Hills at their own expense beginning in late 1963. Both Betty and Bar­
ney told essentially the same story under hypnosis. They now recalled
that their car stalled and stopped in the road near a band of little men
dressed in black uniforms and that they were taken aboard a nearby
landed circular craft. Barney was terrified, saying he felt like a rabbit
before a predator. He described the craft’s leader as a “German Nazi”
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wearing a shiny black jacket, cap, and scarf. Betty said a long needle
was inserted in her stomach as part of a “pregnancy test.” Hill said a
circular device was attached to his groin. Following Betty’s examina­
tion, she was given a brief tour of the craft and shown a “star map”
when she asked the origin of the UFO. After being told that they
would not remember the experience, the Hills were released by their
car, and the UFO, appearing like a huge, bright orange ball, departed.
Although the Hill story was circulated among their friends and
some UFO publications, it was largely unknown to the general public
until 1966, when Look magazine publish a two-part excerpt of a book
by John G. Fuller entitled The Interrupted Journey. Fuller’s book soon
became a national best-seller, and the story gained even wider notice
when it was made into a 1975 NBC-TV movie entitled The UFO Inci­
dent, starring James Earl Jones as Hill and Estelle Parsons as Betty.
Hill died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1969, while Betty went on to
become a celebrity in the UFO community.
Their reported abduction was so similar to that of Antonio Vil­
las Boas, whose story neither of the Hills had heard, that it was consid­
ered strong circumstantial evidence for the reality of the experience.
With the proliferation of abduction stories resulting from the Hill
story publicity, it was a circumstance never to be repeated. Once the
general abduction scenario was out in the public, debunkers could
always claim ongoing reports were simply copycat accounts. British
UFO chronicler John Spencer called the Barney case “one of the most
important and significant UFO sightings and abductions in UFO
lore.”
The credulous saw the Hill story as confirmation of extraterres­
trial visitation, while the vast majority of the public was content to be
titillated by this new form of science fiction. The Reverend John D.
Swanson of Christ Church in Portsmouth wrote, “First let it be said
that I do not and cannot doubt the veracity of the Hills’ account and I
believe in the factual reality of their experience. Anyone who has spo­
ken with them, has heard the recordings made when they were under
hypnotic recall, and has examined all the evidence, cannot doubt that
what they describe did in actuality happen.”
Those with a doubting mind-set were not persuaded by the
media hype. Dr. Simon, a professional with understandable hesitation
in supporting any outrageous UFO account, gave this caveat in his
introduction to Fuller’s book: “There is little produced under or by
hypnosis that is not possible without. The charisma of hypnosis has
tended to foster the belief that hypnosis is the magical and royal road
to TRUTH [emphasis in original]. In one sense this is so, but it must
be understood that hypnosis is a pathway to the truth as it is felt and
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understood by the patient. The truth is what he believes to be the

truth, and this may or may not be consonant with the ultimate nonper­
sonal truth. Most frequently it is.” Dr. Simon added that the existence
of UFOs was of less concern to him than “the experience of these two
people showing the cumulative impact of past experiences and fan­
tasies on their present experiences and responses.”
Author Curtis Peebles was more to the point when he wrote that
while the Hills may have been sincere in their belief of abduction, “The
supposed event was only a dream.” This assessment eventually was voiced
by Dr. Simon, who stated in a letter to UFO debunker Philip Klass, “The
abduction did not take place but was a reproduction of Betty’s dream
which occurred right after the sighting. This was her expression of anxi­
ety as contrasted to Barney’s more psychosomatic one.”
If it was all just a dream, it was a most unusual one. For one
thing, Pease AFB radar tracked an “unknown” at the same time as
their dream abduction, and both Hill and Betty gave very similar
accounts of the experience down to small details that coincided with
the “dream” of Villas Boas, whose story they had never heard. For
another, they also must have rubbed a dozen small shiny spots on their
car unconsciously to support their shared dream.
Also, Betty claimed to have been given a pregnancy test by her
captors, yet some years previously she had had a hysterectomy. During
this “test” a long needle was inserted into her navel, an unknown pro­
cedure in 1961. Yet, today such a procedure is common in the removal
of a woman’s eggs for in-vitro fertilization.
Dream or not, the Hill story set the stage for more than two
decades of abduction reports.
Nearly ten years after the Hill story was widely publicized, a
forty-one-year-old French farmer reported an experience with themes
common to that of the Hills and others. On July 1, 1965, Maurice
Masse was preparing to work a field near his home in Valensole north
of Marseilles when he heard a whistling sound he thought was a mili­
tary helicopter landing. Walking toward a craft that was standing in his
field, Masse was shocked to find an egg-shaped device with two small
beings standing beside it. He said they were about three feet tall with
large heads, almost no mouth, and large lidless eyes. One of them
noticed Masse and pointed a small tube at him, whereupon he was par­
alyzed, though he remained conscious. Despite this experience, Masse
later said he somehow knew the beings meant him no harm. Soon they
entered the craft and it vanished from sight. Masse told author Jacques
Vallee he was not certain whether the craft moved away so quickly he
couldn’t follow it or if it actually disappeared. A short time after his
experience, UFO researcher Aime Michel showed Masse a photograph
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of a model made from the description of Policeman Lonnie Zamora,

who encountered two beings and a UFO in Socorro, New Mexico, the
previous year. The similarities were so great that Masse grew excited,
thinking someone had photographed the UFO in his field. Masse
claimed no knowledge of the New Mexico sighting.
As the ordeal of the Hills moved alien contact into the arena of
unwilling abduction and medical experimentation, the glamour of the
contactees dwindled away—except for one fascinating story involving
extensive details, clear photographs, and multiple witnesses, which
largely remains a mystery to this day.

The Pleiadian Connection

Improbable as it sounds, believers claim that an advanced civilization
from the Pleiades—a small cluster of stars in the Taurus constella­
tion—selected a Swiss-born, one-armed jack-of-all-trades with only a
fifth-grade education to help persuade the people of Earth that they
are not alone in the universe.
Selected for this role was Eduard Albert Meier, born on Febru­
ary 3, 1937, to farming folk in Biilach, Switzerland. Today he goes by
his nickname “Billy” because of his fascination for Billy the Kid and
other Bills of Wild West fame.
The story of Billy Meier is another prime example of the clash
of mind-sets that appears inevitable around stories of alien contact and
interstellar messages. Billy Meier’s account of alien visitation has per­
haps generated more controversy, contradictory statements, and
charges of exploitation and hoax than any other single UFO issue. It is
probably one of the most documented and studied cases on record—
yet even today there seems to be no clear-cut proof for or against the
legitimacy of the Billy Meier story, with its beautiful photos and films
of “Pleiadian Beamships” carrying messages of peace and hope.
Most researchers, including some UFO organizations such a
MUFON, have branded the entire Meier story a hoax. Others say that
while some hoaxing and exploitation may have later become involved,
there may be a kernel of truth in the early accounts. Some simply say
to listen to Meier’s message and intuit for one’s self if it rings true or
false before attacking the messenger. Both as a well-documented
encounter story and a representative view of how such tales are
received by the public, it is worth closer study.
One of those intrigued by the Meier story was investigative
journalist and attorney Gary Kinder, who spent three years carefully
researching the issue. Kinder presented his findings in an 1987 book
entitled Light Years.
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At age five, Meier along with his father had a UFO encounter.
The year was 1942, and when young Meier asked his father what it
was, he was told, “It’s a secret weapon of Adolf Hitler.” Disbelieving
this explanation, Meier described the sighting to the village minister.
“He told me that he knew about these flying objects—back then they
were not called UFOs—this was nothing new to him,” Meier recalled.
“The people who flew in them would come from another world, not
from Earth. He told me that he understood this, but that he could not
talk about it. He was a priest and he would shock people. He told me
to try to learn telepathy, to try to give answers. So I tried as I was told.
After a few weeks it worked, and I was able to answer. I remember very
well that Father Zimmermann told me not to talk about it to anyone,
otherwise everybody would say I was crazy.” Meier said he learned that
he was receiving telepathic messages from a Pleiadian named Sfath,
who informed him that he had been chosen as a contact between the
Pleiadians and humans.
If this experience wasn’t enough, by the time Meier reached
adulthood, he already had lived a lifetime of adventures—not all of
them good. At age fourteen, young Meier was placed in a boy’s home
for being a constant truant from school. He promptly ran away from
the home and finally quit school before completing the sixth grade.
While working a variety of menial jobs, he was arrested for stealing
but ran away from a detention center and joined the French Foreign
Legion. Unimpressed with military service, Meier fled back to
Switzerland and then, in 1958, began a journey to the Middle East.
On the road, Meier traveled to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, then
through Jordan and into Pakistan and on into India, where he studied
Buddhist philosophy. All this time, he hitchhiked and worked at a
number of odd jobs to survive. In August 1965, he was returning to
Europe when the bus he was riding was in a collision near Iskenderun,
Turkey. He was thrown through a window, and his left arm was sev­
ered just above the elbow. Left for dead for several hours, Meier finally
was taken to a hospital, where he recuperated.
Continuing his return home, Meier met a seventeen-year-old
Greek girl in Thessaloniki named Kalliope Zafireou. The pair fell in
love and were married. Billy and his bride, nicknamed “Popi,” traveled
to Switzerland and settled in the small town of Hinwel. Meier was
employed as a night watchman, and life settled into a peaceful—if
impoverished—existence for Billy, Popi, and their three children, Gil-
gamesha, Atlantis-Sokrates, and Methusalem.
Throughout this time, he claimed to have maintained telepathic
contact with the Pleiadians, who counseled him and aided him in his
travels. He said he was even forewarned of the loss of his arm, indicat-
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ing the Pleiadians had some sort of vision into the future. But it was
not until January 28, 1975, that physical contact with the Pleiadians
was achieved.
That day Meier said he received a telepathic message to take a
camera and go to a remote field near Hinwel. When he arrived on
his moped, he saw a large, silver, circular craft sail in over the trees
and set down nearby. Held immobile by the craft’s energy field,
Meier could only watch as a slender being stepped out onto the
grass. It was a beautiful woman with flowing reddish gold hair and
pale blue eyes, wearing a one-piece suit that reminded Meier of ele­
phant skin. The suit had a ring around the neck apparently for con­
necting a helmet. Through telepathy, Meier said he learned the
woman’s name was Semjase.
Over a long series of meetings, Meier learned much from Sem­
jase. “Semjase first explained briefly that Pleiadian civilization origi­
nated many thousands of years ago, not in the Pleiades, a star system
much younger than our own, but in the Constellation Lyra. When war
ensued, before the planet was destroyed, much of the population
migrated to other star systems—in the Pleiades, the Hyades, and to a
planet orbiting a nearby star known as Vega. On one interstellar jour­
ney, the new Pleiadians discovered Earth and its early life evolving in
an atmosphere hospitable to [them],” Kinder quoted Meier. “Since
that time, according to Semjase, Earth had been destroyed twice by its
own inhabitants: first by a civilization evolved from early Pleiadians
who remained behind and mated with primitive Earth humans; and
second when a later generation of Pleiadians colonized Earth and pro­
duced advanced technology until war again destroyed the planet. Sem­
jase and the Pleiadians who had chosen to return again to Earth were
descendants of a peaceful Lyrian faction that now felt responsible for
guiding Earth in its spiritual evolution, so the Earth humans could
avoid the setbacks long ago experienced by their Pleiadian ancestors.”
Semjase explained that allowing Meier to photograph their
saucer ships was part of his mission aimed at alerting humans that they
are not alone in the universe. “The Earth human calls us extraterres­
trials or star people, or whatever he wants,” Semjase explained. “He
attributes to us supernatural abilities, yet knows nothing about us. In
truth, we are human beings like the Earth human being, but our
knowledge and our wisdom and our technical capabilities are very
much superior to his.
“We, too, are still far removed from perfection and have to
evolve constantly,” she also told /Meier. “When we choose to come in
contact with an Earth human, we do so because we feel an obligation
to the developing universe, and to life which is already existing
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throughout the universe. We are not missionaries or teachers, but we

endeavor to keep order throughout all areas of space. Now and then
we begin contacts with inhabitants of different worlds by searching out
individuals whom we feel can accept our existence. We then impart
information to those contacts, but only when their race has developed
and begins to think. Then slowly we and others prepare them for the
truth—that they are not the only thinking beings in the universe.”
According to Meier, Semjase explained that the Pleiadians felt it
was inadvisable to make open contact with Earth. “The masses would
merely revere us as gods, as in ages past, or go off in hysteria. That is
why we regard it as prudent to make contact with individual persons
only for the time being, to disseminate, through them, the knowledge
concerning our existence and our coming to this planet.
“Furthermore, all Earth governments are made up of human
beings for whom power hunger and a thirst for profits are characteris­
tic. They only want, under cover of peace and friendship, to occupy
our rayships, to exercise absolute rule over the Earth. But they would
not stop there. They would try to capture the cosmos, because they do
not know any limits. They, on the other hand, are not even able to cre­
ate peace and friendship among the nations on Earth, not even in their
own countries. How then could they be capable of holding such might
in their hands as our rayships? It is for the present advisable to main­
tain contact only with single Earth humans, and by them to slowly
allow the knowledge of our existence and mission to become known,
and to prepare others for our coming.”
Interestingly, the concept of aliens directing messages to
selected humans has been advanced by some thoughtful scientists.
James W. Deardorff of Oregon State University in a published paper
theorized that an alien communication strategy “might involve their
communicating with just one or a very few recipients about the
globe. ... However, in order that scientists in general should not be
alerted, only the recipient would be allowed to partake in the commu­
nication sessions and to witness the extraterrestrials themselves. The
messages might, moreover, contain vague descriptions of extraterres­
trial technological achievements that would read like magic or science
fiction. They might even contain a few absurdities purposely added;
these .. . would help ensure than any scientists who happened to learn
about the communications would regard them as hoaxes or fiction. . . .
Meanwhile, the messages would get published, translated into various
languages, and distributed throughout the world amongst other occult
literature.” Deardorff’s theory compares remarkably well with the
Meier story.
After each of his meetings with the alien Semjase, Meier would
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return home and type out detailed notes of the conversations on an old
typewriter. He claimed that Semjase arranged for the conversations to
be “played back” in his mind, allowing him to type them up verbatim
with his right hand. When the contact with Semjase and the Pleiadians
ended in October 1978, Meier had counted 115 face-to-face meetings
that produced more than 1,800 pages of notes, hundreds of unusually
clear and detailed color photographs and slides, and at least one film of
the Pleiadian “beamships.” It was “the hands-down greatest UFO case
of all time,” effused one researcher, “the biggest, most spectacular,
longest-running, most productive case in the history of the phe­
nomenon.”
But was there proof that any of this was anything other than a
brilliant, complex hoax orchestrated by this near-penniless, one-armed
Swiss security guard?
The arguments for hoaxing start with the fact that the clear and
colorful photos of the “beamships” simply appear to be too good to be
true. Large detailed UFOs can be seen in Meier’s photos hanging in
the clear Swiss alpine air over breathtaking vistas of verdant valleys.
“When someone brings you pictures like this your first reaction auto­
matically is, ‘This is a lot of crap,’” said Willy Bar, owner of Bar
Photo, where Meier brought his photos for developing. “I never saw
anything suspicious in the black-and-white film I developed, nor was I
ever told to manipulate anything. ... My personal opinion was always,
‘I don’t know about UFOs, but the pictures are real.’”
The most damaging evidence against the validity of the Meier
photos came from Martin Sorge, one of the hundreds of people who
flocked to Meier’s farm once his story reached the public. Although
Sorge was impressed with Meier and the consistency of his story of
Pleiadian contacts, he remained skeptical. One day after he witnessed
an argument between Meier and his wife, Popi came to him and gave
him several color slides that had been charred by fire. The slides were
of a model spaceship in various settings, and Popi admitted that her
husband had worked with models. Sorge decided to see if he could also
use a model to duplicate Meier’s early pictures. He was partially suc­
cessful. He admitted that his photos were not up to the quality of
Meier’s, and author Kinder described them as depicting “a crude and
somewhat stark beamship frozen in an otherwise familiar setting; but
they lacked the feel of Meier’s, the natural relationship that appeared
to exist between his background and his ships. They had no depth.”
Nevertheless, since he had found evidence of models, Sorge became
convinced that Meier was a fraud.
Supporters of Meier have explained that early in his contacts,
Meier decided to build a model to sec if his photos of “beamships”
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could be duplicated but then decided to burn the slides to avoid

charges of hoaxing. Popi got hold of the photos and, in a fit of anger,
gave them to Sorge. In later years, Sorge himself supported Meier in
an oblique way, telling Kinder, “Billy’s intellect and his spiritual level
are much below the message he preaches, therefore it is not possible
that he could have invented this. So this indicates he must have gotten
it from some other source. ... I am certain he has these contacts, but
not in the way he’s telling us. He may receive them in the form of
visions, the way mediums receive things. He may not even know him­
self if these visions are real. But for him it is reality, and to prove it he
has to go out and build these things.”
But even Sorge’s model story, which appeared to be the basis for
subsequent arguments that Meier’s photos were fakes, could not fully
explain the better shots of craft in the sky. Eric Eliason, a research
computer scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ari­
zona, subjected some of Meier’s pictures to computer analysis and con­
cluded that nothing had been added or dubbed into the photograph of
the countryside. “And if that dubbing was registered in the film, the
computer would have seen it. We didn’t see anything,” said Eliason.
“That doesn’t eliminate the idea of somebody taking a little model and
throwing it out there. That’s a hoax but you couldn’t tell that with
image processing.”
In fact, Meier’s photographs could never be properly analyzed
because of their treatment. By all accounts, Meier would get his rolls
of film processed at Bar Photo, then leave both negatives and prints
lying everywhere, sometimes in a shoe box under his bed. Visitors
would handle them, “borrow” them, and never return them. Others
were given away and some just disappeared. According to Kinder,
since no one could determine whether or not a photo was first genera­
tion, there was never definitive proof of their validity.
Dr. Michael Malin, a space scientist at Arizona State University,
was impressed with Meier’s photos. “These pictures are much nicer
pictures of UFOs than any I’d seen before in terms of the number and
the quality for that number,” he said. “You can see they look like real
objects. Not just on the impression level, but on a demonstrable level.
They glint in the sun, there are distinguishable reflections in the
metallic objects, things like that that make them much better
pictures. ... What I found was that the quality of the data ... wras
insufficient to do a detailed analysis. . .. But to the level of the quality
of the data he gave me, I could not see anything obviously wiong with
the images. Couldn’t see any hoax to it. There is a proper amount of
blurring of edges and distance fading and things like that.” Like a true
scientist, Malin hedged his bets by adding, “To the level that I saw it, I
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can say that the thing was not a photographic fake. But that doesn’t
mean that it wasn’t a photographic fake.... It could still be an object
twenty feet across held up by a helicopter above it on four strings.”
The whole problem with Meier using sophisticated equipment
and models to fake the photos came back to the fact that there
appeared to be no time or privacy for this. During the time of the
reputed Pleiadian contacts, Meier became somewhat of a cult figure.
His home was constantly filled with visitors, including such notables as
actress Shirley MacLaine and author Erich von Daniken. In later
years, a group formed around Meier, calling itself the Freie-Interessen-
gemeinschaft fiir Grenz-und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien
(FIGU), the “Free Community of Interest in Border and Spiritual Sci­
ence and Ufology.” More than a dozen members of the FIGU took up
residence in the Meier home. Meier was alone only when he left at
odd hours of the day and night to meet the Pleiadians. Even then, nosy
neighbors watched him closely as he entered the forests and fields.
Suspicious farmers would often grant him only a few moments of time
in their fields, and the mountain weather was unpredictable and usu­
ally windy. Add to this the fact that most of Meier’s photos appear to
have been shot sequentially, with the “beamship” beginning as a small
dot and then growing larger as it approached the camera. Most pic­
tures showed the ships high over a deep mountain valley where there
was no place to hang a model, certainly with enough wires to keep it
from swinging in the stiff breezes. In some photos it appeared that tree
branches were superimposed over a “beamship,” indicating that if the
craft were a model, it would have to have been more than twenty feet
in diameter. And, in an eight-millimeter film shot by Meier, tree leaves
swayed in reaction to the passage of one of the circular craft and,
under close scrutiny, a red light could be seen flashing along one edge.
Wally Gentleman, an experienced special effects technician,
studied the Meier photos for “perspective interlock”—a geometric
analysis measuring Meier’s “beamships” against known objects in the
photo such as tree trunks, houses, and the like. Gentleman found that
both the size and location of the “beamships” were exactly as described
by Meier.
Dr. Robert Nathan with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’ in
Pasadena, California, was consulted about Meier’s photos. After some
study; Nathan said, “If this is a hoax and it looks like it to me but I
have no proof, this is very carefully done. Tremendous amount of
effort. An awful lot of work for one guy.” UFO researcher Lou
Zinsstag commented, “Meiers a smart man and he’s got a good mind,
but he has only one arm, and he’s limited in equipment, and he’s
watched by a lot of people. I don’t see how he can do all these things.”
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Herbert Runkel and Harold Proch were two of Meier’s early

friends. Both men lived at Meier’s home for some time and both
searched for evidence that Meiers contacts were a hoax. They even
managed to sneak into locked storage rooms and searched through
closets and drawers. Nothing was found. “Herbert constantly
searched,” wrote Kinder, “but found no equipment, rigging or models,
not even scientific journals or technical books from which Meier
might glean his knowledge of so many things. iMeier never left the
house unless it was to go on a contact, usually late at night, and no one
came to the house to meet with him secretly.” Other friends and
neighbors did report seeing strange lights and objects in the sky, hear­
ing buzzing or humming noises, and other odd occurrences.
Meier would suddenly arrive home totally dry in the midst of a
heavy rain. He explained his condition by saying he had just been
materialized from a “beamship.” Others saw him suddenly disappear
and reappear in a mysterious way. Englebert Wachter, who was help­
ing Meier work on his farm, saw Meier suddenly appear in a nearby
field. “I was looking around, looking at the trees, but somehow my
glance was pulled back on that meadow,” Wachter recalled. “And as
soon as I looked back Billy stood in the middle. In the middle of the
meadow there are no trees. I looked at that meadow and I could prac­
tically see Billy appear out of nothing.” Many people felt that if Meier
was faking his contacts and photographs, he must have had help. Yet
many people, when inspecting contact locations, found only one set of
footprints leading in and out.
Hans Schutzbach was with Meier one afternoon when he man­
aged to tape-record what Meier said were the sounds of a “beamship.”
According to Kinder, it was “an eerie and grating noise, like a high-
pitched cross between a jet engine and a chain saw” and seemed to
come from a point in midair about thirty feet over Meier’s head. Later,
a woman named Eva Bieri also taped the sounds of a “beamship” as it
hovered invisibly overhead. This tape was subjected to a digital audio
analyzer, which determined the sounds were not in the common 50 to
60 hertz line frequencies. Steve Ambrose, an electronics consultant to
many rock stars, studied the tape with a spectrum analyzer and con­
cluded they could not have been produced with a synthesizer.
Then there is the matter of the metal triangle. Meier claimed it
came from one of the Pleiadian “beamships.” In time, it was given to
Marcel Vogel, a research chemist for IBM and the holder of thirty-two
patents. Studying the small piece of metal under an electron micro­
scope, Vogel was disconcerted to find “the most peculiar maze of ele­
ments he had even seen.” The triangle contained a combination of
“exceeding pure” silver, aluminum, potassium, calcium, chromium,
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copper, argon, bromium, chorine, iron, sulphur, silicon, and, surpris­

ingly, thulium, which was discovered in two grooves micromachined
into the metal. wIt is totally unexpected,” stated Vogel. “Thulium was
only purified during World War II as a by-product of atomic energy
work, and only in minute quantities. It is exceedingly expensive, far
beyond platinum, and rare to come by. Someone would have to have
an extensive metallurgical knowledge even to be aware of a composi­
tion of this type.”
Vogel found another oddity of the triangle. “It looks like a
metal, it has the lustery appearance of metal, but now when you take it
and go under the polarized light you find that, yes, it is metal, but at
the same time ... it is crystal!”
Excited, Vogel arranged to meet with another scientist the next
day to get his opinion on the odd metal. But—as so often happens in
such cases—when he reached into his pocket for the specimen, it was
gone. A frantic search failed to find it. According to author Kinder,
“Vogel never recovered the lost piece of metal, nor could he explain its
disappearance.”
Lee Elders and his wife, Brit, spent more than two years and
thousands of dollars investigating the Meier story. In 1979, they pro­
duced a coffee-table book containing Meier’s “beamship” photos enti­
tled UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades. This immediately opened them
to the charge that they were in it only for profit. Brit commented, “It
took us two years to figure out you’re never going to prove [Meier’s
story] and you’re never going to disprove it. It’s just there.”
The Meier case left author Gary Kinder perplexed. Photoanaly­
sis was inconclusive because the originals could not be studied. The
metal triangle had disappeared. The testimony of friends and neigh­
bors was just hearsay. “Almost everyone I interviewed in the UFO
community warned that I was wasting my time on an obvious hoax,”
he wrote. “Having experienced the setting in Switzerland I, like others
before me, could not understand how Meier could have created
sophisticated special effects in his photography. Then there were the
sounds, metal, landing tracks, films, the explanation of the beamship
propulsion system, all of which lent credibility to the story.”
But Meier’s models and some photos found to be copied from a
magazine tarnished that credibility. “Meier seemed to possess more
evidence than nearly all previous UFO cases combined,” stated
Kinder. “But that evidence would be seen by few and studied by even
fewer, because Meier’s preposterous and sometimes misunderstood
stories of traveling back in time to see Jesus and photographing the
Eye of God would be laughed at and dismissed as nonsense.”
Even persons within the UFO research communit) could not
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agree on the merits of Meiers case. One group, Ground Saucer

Watch, studied Meier’s photos and pronounced that “All of the pic­
tures are hoaxes...However, sometime later a photo that same
group proclaimed “genuine” was found to be a forgery, so a question
remained. Others maintained that the Meier story was a total fraud,
which prompted one UFO writer, Lucius Farish, to remonstrate with
his fellow researchers: “You are free to think anything you wish con­
cerning the Meier case or [the] investigation of it. However, the fact
remains that you have no proof that the case is a hoax. I’ve heard all
kinds of accusations, but I have yet to see one iota of real evi­
dence. ...” Despite the continuing lack of firm evidence of fakery,
most ufologists today—not having studied the case closely—accept the
idea that it was all an elaborate hoax.
This conclusion vexed Lee Elders, who had spent so much time
investigating the case. “I didn’t know if we could prove the case to be
real, but I knew we had tangible evidence,” he lamented. “Not one of
these UFO people had ever been to Switzerland. They hadn’t spent
five minutes with Meier. None of them has been there. So how can
they say it’s a hoax? That’s what frustrated me the most.”
Respected British UFO researcher and author Timothy Good
followed the Meier case closely beginning in the 1960s. He has noted
that Meier’s photos bear an uncanny resemblance to UFOs reported
in the mysterious Area 51. He nevertheless concluded, “I remain
unconvinced by much of Meier’s material, but do not doubt that he
has had some genuine experiences and that some of his photos could
be authentic.”
Kinder published his research on the Meier case and went on to
other things. “Finally I realized, as the Elders had years before, that
the truth of the Meier contacts will never be known.”
Meier himself downplayed the importance of his material evi­
dence, indicating they were only a means to an end. “The photographs
are only to make people think, to show them something,” he told a
researcher. “People shall come for these pictures, but they shall study
the teachings, and they shall come to know.”

Know Your Neighbors

Here is a sampling of the “knowledge” as gleaned from the notes of
Billy Meier:
The Pleiadians are part of a federation of civilized worlds that
live by the words of an advanced race in the Andromeda Galaxy. This
race is so spiritually evolved that they no longer require a physical
body. They are almost beings of light energy. The Pleiadians occupy
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four planets around the sun Taygeta, in the star system designated by
Earth scientists as M45.
Their home world is the planet Erra, which is very similar to
Earth, being only 10 percent smaller. Manufacturing processes are
confined to other planets, and the four hundred million Pleiadians on
Erra live in a utopian world free of pollution, war, hunger, and disease
thanks to advanced technology and spiritual awareness. Because the
population communicates by telepathy, there is no dishonesty. All basic
necessities are provided freely, and anything beyond that is acquired
through individual barter. There is no money and, hence, no irrational
grasping for wealth and power.
There are no massive cities. The population is spread out across
their world, connected by a series of sentient tubeways that not only
transport the population but educate and inform them along the way.
What government is necessary is provided by a “High Council” com­
posed of the wisest and most evolved Pleiadians. Any changes to their
social order must be approved by a vote of the highest percentage of
the population.
According to the Pleiadians, more than three thousand alien craft
visit the earth annually. Most have little or no concern with humans and
only a very small percentage attempt communication, and this is usually
by telepathic means. Due to our common ancestry, the Pleiadians have
taken a special interest in Earth. However, they have agreed to abide by
federation rules, which state that no race shall be allowed to interfere
with the normal evolution of a planet until that world is capable of
leaving its solar system. The Pleiadians state that the earth has almost
reached this ability and they are concerned that earth humans may
reach a point where a hostile alien invasion could occur. Presently, the
Pleiadians prevent such a situation by their mere presence around
the earth.
During conversations with Meier, the Pleiadian Semjase
explained that she was able to travel the five hundred light-years
between Earth and her planet Erra in only seven hours because
“beamship” technology allowed the Pleiadians to move into “hyper­
space” and convert themselves and their ships into “fine-matter parti­
cles that can travel faster than the speed of light.” The technology7
involved warping time and space. “I am not allowed to give you any
further details,” Semjase told Meier back in the 1970s. “But I can tell
you that your advanced scientific circles are already working on sys­
tems known as light-emitting drives and ‘tachyon’ drives. 'The elemen­
tal principles are already known to them.” Tom Welch, a friend and
business associate of Lee Elders, was highly skeptical of Billy Meier.
But he was intrigued by Meiers description of the Pleiadian tachyon
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drive. “We did learn later that for some period of time specialists
either connected with NASA or with companies like General Dynam­
ics had been quietly working on that as a propulsion concept. What’s
interesting is that the man who wrote the notes has a formal education
equivalent to the fifth or sixth grade. He does not live near major
libraries, he does not live near major scientific centers, he doesn’t have
immediate contacts in those fields. At the time, we didn’t know what
‘tachyon’ meant. Most physicists didn’t know what a tachyon was. And
to apply the concept of theoretical tachyon to space propulsion is a
huge step to take,” said an impressed Welch, adding, “But the thing
that was startling to me was that as soon as we started to dig into that,
all of a sudden something else would pop up, in the notes or through
Billy, that was equally sophisticated, unique, and advanced in a differ­
ent field.... It all seemed out of context with his personality. It
seemed as if the man had a tutor in various fields who was one incredi­
ble tutor.”
Randolph Winters, who claimed that Billy Meier appointed him
to write and lecture on the Pleiadian mission, said Meier’s work was to
prepare mankind for the new major event in history—“open contact
with life forms from other worlds and taking our position in the family
of man in the universe.” Winters said Meier was only one of more
than seventeen thousand humans contacted by the Pleiadians, mostly
through telepathy, and that, while contact with Meier has ceased, the
Pleiadians still man underground bases in Switzerland and Russia
where they maintain a mental connection with a number of humans.
Winters produced a book containing a detailed “history” of cre­
ation, alien visits to Earth, and a chronology of human progress,
including views on spiritual growth, death, and reincarnation—all
based on Meier’s notes. While some of Winters’s writings appear quite
rational and well developed—such as his “New Constitution of the
People of Earth”—others still seem outlandish to most. Debunkers, of
course, consider it all hogwash.
But if the UFO researcher ranks were split by rancor and con­
tention over the ambiguity of the Meier contactee case, it was nothing
compared to the next great UFO controversy—one that struck much
closer to home.
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By the late 1960s, the day of the contactees’ preaching intergalactic
peace and harmony appeared over. Reported contacts with alien beings
became terror-filled experiences involving kidnapping, experimenta­
tion, and missing time—yet also filled with awe-inspiring revelations
and portents.
Somewhat ominously, these contacts no longer happened to
people out in the desert or on lonely roads. Now the phenomenon was
taking place as people slept or sat in the perceived safety of their
homes.
On the night of January 25, 1967, Betty Andreasson (now Betty
Luca), described as a “simple, unsophisticated country girl,” was in her
home at South Ashburnham, Massachusetts, along with her parents
and seven children, when the lights flickered and then went out. The
family saw a “curious pink light” shining through a kitchen window,
which pulsated and grew brighter. Her father, Waino Aho, looked out
a window and saw small “Halloween freaks” hopping along in line. All
of the family members, except Andreasson, became immobilized and
lost consciousness.
Andreasson was shocked to sec four small beings advancing in a
line through the closed kitchen door. She described them as small
creatures with large pear-shaped heads, gray skin, small slits for ears,
nose, and mouth, and “large wraparound catlike eyes.” She said they
looked like “Mongoloid” people and wore dark blue uniforms with
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eaglelike insignia on the left arm. Her daughter, Becky, later had a
conscious memory of the visitors before she too lost consciousness.
Through nonverbal communication—apparently telepathy—
Andreasson learned the group’s leader was called Quazgaa, who indi­
cated they knew her name and were there for her particularly. After
some conversation regarding the safety of her family, Andreasson gave
Quazgaa one of the family Bibles, and he presented her with a small,
thin blue book filled with symbols. Andreasson was asked if she would
go with the creatures. Being a devout Christian, she kept asking if they
were men of God. They did not answer this but said they had come to
help save the world, which was “trying to destroy itself.”
Sensing no hostility, Andreasson allowed herself to be floated
inches off the floor, passing through the closed kitchen door along
with the group. Outside, she was taken aboard an oval UFO resting on
struts. On the underside of the craft were three large balls, similar to
those reported by other abductees and depicted in the George
Adamski photos. Once inside, Andreasson was asked to disrobe. After
donning a white robe, she was given a “medical examination” that
included a long needle piercing her navel. When she asked the pur­
pose of the exam, she was told it had to do with creation, but that
“there was some parts missing.” Interestingly, Andreasson had under­
gone a hysterectomy some years previously. During the examination,
Andreasson was treated very much like a medical patient. One of the
creatures told her, “These things won’t hurt you. Just lie still—very
still.” She said that during this ordeal, something was removed from
behind her eye with a long flexible needle.
After the exam, Andreasson said she was allowed to dress and
then taken down what seemed like an “underground corridor” to a room
where she was enshrouded with a “translucent canopy” that soon filled
with a thick gray liquid or gel. She was told to keep her eyes closed and
breathe through tubes. She then felt she was transported to a different
place. Later, under hypnosis, Andreasson declared, “I left this Earth. I
believe we were in space, and somehow I believe we were in the center
of the Earth. Now how can you be in both?” Author Raymond E.
Fowler, who chronicled Betty’s saga, noted that during the entire experi­
ence “Betty felt somehow under their control.” He wrote, “Their polite
requests created an illusion of free will, but in reality, she found that her
choice always corresponded with their wishes. Her willpower seemed
mesmerized by powerful influences beyond her ken.”
Andreasson’s experiences took a yet stranger turn as she claimed
to be escorted into a world where “the atmosphere was a vibrating red
color” and strange lemurlike creatures with eyes on stalks climbed
around on stucco-type buildings. Next, she passed through a green
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world with vegetation. Like Ezekiel, Andreasson was unable to identify

or even describe some of the sights. Under hypnosis, she said with a
sigh, “We are stopping because there is something white there. There
is something white. I don’t know what it is! It is something like—I
can’t ever explain it.” She said she soon arrived at a city with large
crystals hanging in the air. One pyramid-shaped building had a
sculpted face at its apex that “looked sort of like an Egyptian head.”
She was brought before a large living bird—she could see it
breathing—with a bright light behind it. This was to be the high point
of her experience. Under hypnosis, she described the scene: “I’m
standing before that large bird. It’s very warm. . .. And that bird looks
like an eagle to me. And it’s living. It has a white head and there is
light in back of it—real white light. .. . It’s very, very hot here. . .. The
bird, the feathers are just fluffed out. The light seems so bright in back
of it. It’s beautiful, bright light.” Believing herself in the presence of
God, Andreasson was filled with fervent emotions. One of the crea­
tures told her, “Your own fear makes you feel these things. I can
release you, but you must release yourself of that fear through my
son.” Andreasson said she cried out, “Thank you, Lord.... I know I
am not worthy. Thank you for your Son.”
Suddenly the huge bird disappeared. In its place was a fire with
heat that hurt Andreasson, and from the ashes of the fire came a large
gray worm. This obvious symbolism troubled author Fowler, who
wrote that the Phoenix-like bird was not a “readily discernible aspect
or symbol of modern Christianity.” However, Fowler was surprised to
find an encyclopedic notation that “the Phoenix figures prominently in
early Christian art and literature as a symbol of immortality and the
resurrection.”
Andreasson then was taken back to the craft, again immersed in
syrupy gel, and transported home. During this time, the leader Quaz-
gaa also told her his group had come to help the human race. “Love is
the greatest of all,” he told Andreasson, adding that because of love
they could not allow man to continue in the way he is going and that it
would be better to lose some than to lose all. Quazgaa said it would be
easy to hand man the knowledge of life but that he is not yet worthy
and must seek such knowledge for himself. He also indicated that
Andreasson was only one of many humans his group, or clan, had
taken. Finally, she was told, “Child, you must forget for a while.”
Under hypnosis, Andreasson was asked if the aliens had any
hand in the notorious power blackout of 1965. She indicated they had
caused it for the purpose of revealing to man his true nature. “They
have powers,” she said. “They can control the wind and water and
even lightning.”
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She said the visitors explained that the blackouts were caused to
show man his true nature, namely that “Man seeks to destroy himself
[through] greed.... Everything has been provided for man. Simple
things. He could be advanced so far, but greed gets in the way . ..
other worlds are involved in man’s world. Man is very arrogant and
greedy and he thinks that all worlds revolve around him.” She claimed
to have been given information that seventy different alien races—
“Some come from realms where you cannot see their hiding place.
Some come from the very Earth”—have been working for the better­
ment of mankind on Earth “since the beginning of time.” These races
all work together except for one that is an “enemy.”
Once home, Andreasson said she kept the small blue alien book
for about ten days but that it then disappeared from her closet. She
said she had been told she could not keep it long.
Due to the outlandishness—or “high strangeness,” as some call
it—of Andreasson’s story, a twelve-month investigation was launched
by the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which included interviews,
hypnosis, background and character checks, and the use of lie detec­
tors and a Physiological Stress Evaluator (PSE). The 1972 PSE analy­
sis report on both Andreasson and Becky concluded, “They were
telling the truth with regards to the 1967 incident. ... In the opinion
of this analyst, the results are conclusive.”
Betty’s story was first published twelve years after the incident,
leaving little room for the argument that it was concocted for profit.
Andreasson’s hypnosis was conducted by Dr. Harold J. Edelstein,
director of the New England Institute of Hypnosis. Dr. Edelstein con­
cluded that both Andreasson and her daughter, Becky, truly believed in
the truth of their story. “During deep trance hypnotic regression ses­
sions, Andreasson and Becky relived their traumatic experience in
great detail,” noted Fowler. “They each expressed natural apprehen­
sion, fear, wonder, concern, pain and joy. Their facial expressions,
voice tones and tears were obviously genuine.”
In considering the religious connotations of Andreasson’s expe­
rience, Fowler considered “that Quazgaa may have paid lip service to
Betty’s religious convictions simply in order to ensure her compli­
ance.” He also mused that if the entire trip was “stage managed” by
the aliens as a “reward” for Andreasson, “it’s not inconceivable that
they might have picked a symbol [the Phoenix] that was obsolete by
some 1,500 years!” Such speculation led Fowler to wonder, “Could it
be possible that visiting extraterrestrials might in actuality be interstel­
lar missionaries?”
In an introduction co Fowlers book, CUFOS director Dr.
J. Allen Hynek wrote that the Andreasson case revealed how “surpris-
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ingly complex” the UFO issue had become. “The man on the street’s
simple opinion that either UFOs are all nonsense or that visitors
from outer space do exist is brutally destroyed by close study,” he
stated, adding, "Those who still hold that the entire subject of UFOs
is nonsense will be sorely challenged if they have the courage to take
an honest look at the [Andreasson] book. For whatever the UFO
phenomenon is—or are—it is not nonsense. It would take an imagi­
nation of the highest order to explain the reported happenings
described herein as mere misidentifications of balloons, aircraft,
meteors, or planets! Neither is there the slightest evidence of hoax or
contrivance.” Interestingly enough, vocal debunkers Philip Klass and
Curtis Peebles failed to address the Andreasson case in their books.
They did give space to a 1973 incident involving two
Pascagoula, Mississippi, fisherman who claimed they were abducted
and given a physical examination by aliens. Charles Hickson, forty-
five, and Calvin Parker, nineteen, both shipyard workers, said that on
the evening of October 11, they were fishing on the Pascagoula River
when they heard a “zipping” sound, then saw three small beings exit
from a glowing UFO hovering nearby. The creatures, described as
three feet tall with gray wrinkled skin or covering with slits for eyes
and clawlike hands, floated over and took the immobilized men aboard
their craft. Inside, both men were scrutinized by a football-shaped
device that resembled a large eye. After the exam, which lasted less
than an hour, the men were returned to the river dock.
Sheriff Fred Diamond questioned the pair and stated, “They
were scared to death and on the verge of a heart attack.” A tape
recorder was left running while the pair were left alone, yet their
demeanor didn’t change. One was heard to cry out, “God help me.
Don’t let me die.” They were even examined unsuccessfully for radia­
tion at nearby Kessler AFB. Investigator Dr. James Harder from the
Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) arrived and con­
cluded, “The experience of Hickson and Parker was a real one. It was
not a hallucination.” With Harder was Dr. J. Allen Hynek, by now
head of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), who concluded,
“There simply is no question in my mind that these men have had a
very real, frightening experience.” Hickson and Parker became
celebrities, appearing on a number of radio and TV programs.
Debunker Philip Klass soon arrived in Mississippi and the clash
of mind-sets began. Klass argued that operators of two nearby toll­
booths had not reported any UFOs that night. Next, Klass denigrated
the polygraph test that depicted the men as truthful because he
claimed the operator was inexperienced and noncertified. Klass noted
minute discrepancies in Hicksons story; such as first calling the alien’s
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mouth a “hole” and changing it to a “slit.” And, of course, Klass

hauled out the old standby charge that the men concocted their story
for money. This latter charge was strengthened when local attorney
Joe Colingo signed a contract to handle all publicity for the pair. How­
ever, in 1987 when the vice chairman of the British UFO Research
Association (BUFORA), John Spencer, visited Hickson, he “was
instantly impressed by [his] obvious sincerity and honesty.” Spencer
quoted Hickson as saying, “I was offered all kinds of money to let
them do a movie. I declined. I am still declining. Making money is not
what this experience is all about.”
This same clash of viewpoints—also involving lawmen, lie
detectors, psychiatrists, believers, and debunkers—was soon visited on
another well-publicized abduction case with predictable results. Unlike
other abduction cases, this one had six witnesses, the abductee was
reported missing at the time, and no hypnosis was required to bring
forth details of the experience.

Walton’s Missing Days

Travis Walton was a frisky twenty-two years old on November 5,
1975, when he and six other men were returning home to Snowflake,
Arizona, in a large truck following a hard day of clearing brush in the
Sitgreaves National Forest. Walton loved adventure. He was a bungee
jumper and race car driver. He even once said he would willingly go in
a UFO if he got the chance.
He got his chance shortly after 6:00 P.M. that day. As the work­
ers drove down a rough logging road, they said they saw a UFO hov­
ering about a hundred feet away. Walton told his boss, Mike Rogers,
to stop the truck and then jumped out and ran toward the glowing
golden object.
Suddenly, a bolt of bluish white light flashed from the UFO,
knocking Walton back into some brush. His companions raced off in a
panic. After about a quarter of a mile, they saw a streak of light in the
sky and, believing the UFO had departed, returned to check on Wal­
ton. But he could not be found.
Driving to Heber, Arizona, the workers told their story to
Navajo county sheriff Marlin Gillespie, who was understandably skep­
tical. Nevertheless, several fruitless searches for Walton were mounted
over the next few days. Suspecting that a homicide may have been
committed, the six workers were administered a lie detector test on
November 10 by C. E. Gilson of the Arizona Department of Public
Safety. The test on one of the workers, Allen Dalis, who first spotted
the UFO, was “inconclusive.” Dalis said he was too upset by the expe-
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rience to respond correctly, but author Philip Klass noted that some­
time later Dalis was charged with theft and may have flunked his test
due to the fear of incriminating himself. As to the other five, Gilson
concluded, “These polygraph examinations proved that these five men
did see some object that they believe to be a UFO and that Travis
Walton was not injured or murdered by any of these men. ... If an
actual UFO did not exist and the UFO is a man-made hoax, five of
these men had no prior knowledge of a hoax.”
Early on November 11, Walton called home from a telephone
booth near Heber and shortly was able to tell his own story. He said
the beam of light from the UFO in the woods knocked him out. When
he regained consciousness, he found himself in a strange room. In
pain, his first thought was, “Thank God, I’m in a hospital.” But then
he saw around him three small humanoids dressed in one-piece cover­
alls. “They had bulging, oversized craniums, a small jaw structure, and
an undeveloped appearance to their features that was almost infantile,”
Walton recalled. “Their thin-lipped mouths were narrow and I never
saw them open. Lying close to their heads on either side were the tiny
crinkled lobes of their ears. Their miniature rounded noses had small
oval nostrils.” Later he described these beings as overgrown fetuses
with large eyes.
Panicky; Walton picked up a device like a glass rod and was con­
sidering attacking the trio when they hurried out of the room as
though they could sense his intent. He then made his way though what
apparently was a spacecraft. Wandering into a dome-topped room
containing a chair and a console of sorts, Walton noticed that as he
approached the chair, one wall became increasingly translucent,
revealing stars against the blackness of space.
Suddenly he was confronted by a man standing in the doorway.
Walton said the man was more than six feet tall, muscular, with coarse,
sandy blond hair that covered his ears. The man wore a blue one-piece
suit and a transparent helmet. This man, with piercing gold-hazel
eyes, did not speak but motioned Walton to follow him. Walton was
led through some sort of airlock and into a large hangarlike area that
contained three small saucerlike craft. He was taken into a room
beside the hangar, which contained two more men and a woman, all
dressed identically to his guide. Walton said all four looked “alike in a
family sort of way, although they were not identical.” Walton lay down
on a table, and the woman approached him with what looked like an
oxygen mask. The next thing Walton remembered was waking up on
the highway outside Heber and seeing a bright circular object rise into
the night sky. Exhausted, Walton was fully dressed but discovered he
had lost eleven pounds during his five missing days.
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While law enforcement officials quickly lost interest in the case,

UFO researchers did not. Funded by the tabloid National Enquirer, an
investigator for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO)
interviewed Walton and arranged a meeting with two psychiatrists and
a polygraph test. Administering the test was veteran examiner John J.
McCarthy, who learned that Walton had experimented with drugs and
had been convicted of stealing and forging payroll checks four years
previously. With this in mind, McCarthy said he believed that Walton
was holding his breath, attempting to sabotage the test. McCarthy
then concluded, “Based on his reactions on all charts, it is the opinion
of this examiner that Walton, in concert with others, is attempting to
perpetrate a UFO hoax, and that he has not been on any spacecraft.”
Jeff Wells, an Enquirer reporter, described Walton during this
time as “mute, pale, twitching like a cornered animal.” Supporters say
Walton, like Dalis, was suffering from shock and failed to respond
appropriately on the lie detector test. Others saw his condition as ner­
vousness over a concocted story.
Even doctors differed in their opinions, probably reflecting
their respective mind-sets. Lamont McConnell administered a Min­
nesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test that showed “no devia­
tions that would point to psychosis.” Dr. Jean Rosenbaum, one of the
psychiatrists who examined Walton, told ABC News, “Our conclusion,
which is absolute, is that this young man is not lying, that there is no
collusion involved, and no attempt to hoax.” However, psychologist
Lester H. Steward, who saw Walton about nine hours after his return,
claimed to have seen a fresh puncture mark on the man’s arm, which
he initially ascribed to his UFO trip. But as Walton returned to nor­
mal, Steward became convinced that Walton had been on a drug trip
and that the abduction was a hoax. Friends and neighbors, including at
least one clergyman, continue to support Walton and say that, for all
his foibles, he is telling the truth. None of the other six workers with
Walton that day have confessed to a hoax, although the media pressure
and payments offered to do sb have been significant.
In February 1976, a composed Walton, along with his brother
and mother, passed a second lie detector test administered by George
J. Pfeifer. Predictably, other polygraph experts differed with Pfeifer’s
interpretation of the test results, and debunker Klass declared the posi­
tive test should be written off, since it indicated a truthful response
when Walton declared he was not a UFO “buff,” although he had spo­
ken about UFOs at length with his family. Would everyone who sim­
ply discussed the Civil War with family members describe themselves
as a “buff”? This kind of pettifoggery does little to determine the truth
of such situations.
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Klass’s more serious objection to the Walton story was that

Walton may have concocted a hoax to get his employer out from
under a Forest Service brush-clearing contract that was already run­
ning behind schedule and facing heavy penalties. Klass, who noted that
Walton admitted watching the TV movie The UFO Incident concern­
ing the Hill abduction, contended that if the contract could not be
completed due to outside circumstances, then no penalty would be
applied. According to Klass, this is exactly what happened. But while
this situation provided a credible explanation for a hoax, it was not
proof that such a hoax took place except for those predisposed to the
idea.
Travis Walton’s ensuing media adventures did not help convince
detractors of his veracity. In 1978, his popular autobiographical book,
The Walton Experience, was published. Then in 1993, his book was
turned into the $15.5 million film Fire in the Sky, which starred actor
D. B. Sweeney as Walton. The movie itself stirred much controversy,
particularly among UFO researchers concerned with its sinister scenes
of aliens in ooze-covered rooms. ‘‘The thing that’s disturbing about
the movie is that they would take such liberties and still call it a true
story,” commented Dr. James Harder, the APRO investigator who first
obtained the Walton story under hypnosis. “I don’t think he’d [Travis]
willingly be a party to the distortions.” According to writer Quendrith
Johnson, the movie’s producers, in a deal with Industrial Light and
Magic, requested an alien setting that differed from those depicted in
the CBS-TV miniseries Intruders, which aired about the time of the
film’s release. The film’s scriptwriter, Tracy Torme, stated, “There is
no script that I ever wrote that has that sequence—that you see on the
screen—in it. My script was virtually identical to what people read in
[Travis’s] book.”
A new Travis Walton book was published in 1996 to counteract
the negative publicity surrounding the film. All this, of course, opened
Travis to the charge that he made up his story for profit, the same alle­
gation made against the Pascagoula fishermen. In response Travis
commented, “Looking at the positive, I have to say I’ve learned a lot
about people, about humanity. It’s given me some real insight into
people and the kind of contortions that their reasoning goes through
when confronted with something that they cannot accept. This applies
to any controversy. When people have an emotional stake in what’s
going on, it really skews their reasoning. . .. My feeling is that you’ll
be a much more effective person if you can face the facts as they are.
I’d have to say I’ve learned a lot about some of our institutions and the
quote-unquote experts from [my] experience.”
In 1977, shortly before Travis Walton published his first book,
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filmmaker Steven Spielberg released Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

which set the standard for UFO themes such as government secrecy
and strange encounters as well as the appearance of diminutive aliens
with oversized heads. From this point on, adding in the TV abduction
movies, debunkers would claim that all alien contact stories showed
similarities simply because the witnesses shared these common cultural
connections. While worth considering, this argument did not address
all cases, nor did it explain the reports of alien interest in reproduction
that occurred long before any popular presentation of that theme.

Star Children
In 1982, New York artist Budd Hopkins published a book entitled
Missing Time dealing with abduction cases he had studied since 1975.
His book prompted twenty-three-year-old “Kathie Davis” to write and
tell of a “missing time” incident involving her sister years before. She
also said that on the night of June 30, 1983, she had seen a strange
“spotlight” in her backyard, then found a burned area in the grass and
the family dog cowering under a car.
After some time, Hopkins met with the woman, and over a
course of months, aided by hypnosis, he learned an incredible story he
published in a book called Intruders. Kathie now has been identified as
Debbie Tomey, who lived near Indianapolis, Indiana.
Under hypnosis, Tomey told of multiple contacts beginning as a
child in 1966 when she recalled a small creature visiting in her home
and leaving her with a small scar on her leg. As a new bride in 1978,
she awoke one night to find two small beings with large heads and eyes
that were “pitch black in color, liquid-like, shimmering in the dim
light” of her bedroom. Over the next few years, Tomey recalled under
hypnosis that she was taken aboard a UFO for gynecological studies
several times.
On October 3, 1983, following an earlier encounter with a
small, gray-skinned creature, Tomey recalled being taken from her
home and placed in a UFO. After yet another physical examination,
Tomey was shown a small infant and led to believe it was hers, the
result on an earlier abduction. In an emotional interview with Hop­
kins, Tomey described the event: “A little girl came into the room . . .
escorted by two more of them [aliens].. . . She looked to be about four.
She looked about [my son’s] size. He’s four, and she didn’t look like
them, but she didn’t look like us either. She was real pretty. She looked
like an elf, or an ... angel. She had really big blue eyes and little
teeny-weeny nose, just so perfect. And her mouth was just so perfect
and tiny, and she was pale, except her lips were pink and her eyes were
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blue. And her hair was white and wispy and thin ... fine . . . real thin
and fine. Her head was a little larger than normal. especially in the
forehead . . . the forehead was a little bit bigger . . . but she was just a
doll.” Tomey said she somehow sensed that the child belonged to her.
Later the aliens would tell her that this was one of nine children they
had created from tissue taken from her body over the years.
Hopkins believed that the child shown to Tomey was the result
of an abduction in 1978. which would have made the child the right
age. Hopkins gave descriptions of the UFO medical procedures to Dr.
John Burger, director of gynecology and obstetrics at Perth Amboy
Hospital in New Jersey. Dr. Burger said they sounded remarkably sim­
ilar to procedures modem medicine uses to take female reproductive
cells for creating “test-tube" babies. Hopkins also compared Debbies
experience with other cases he had studied and commented. “Whether
we Like it or not the patterns exist—fight, clear patterns which are
often buttressed by existing medical evidence.”
“So we are left with two possible lines of explanation." wrote
Hopkins. “The first requires the existence of a new and heretofore
unknown psychological phenomenon, in which women ‘hallucinate’
nearly identical scenes, involving nearly identical semi-human babies.
And this previously unknown psychological phenomenon apparently
affects the results of chemical tests for pregnancy, turning negatives
into positives... . The other remaining explanation is simple but
‘untenable’: The women [Hopkins cited four separate cases] are actu­
ally remembering what they saw. Their experiences were real. Both of
these explanations, it is safe to say, violate conventional wisdom."
Author Curtis Peebles raised a valid point by detailing Tomey s
medical history; which included obesity due to hormonal imbalance,
“having had her gall bladder and appendix removed, and having suf­
fered from hepatitis. Legionnaires' disease, fused vertebrae, an asth­
matic attack, years of insomnia and paralyzing anxiety, a collapsed
lung, heart arrhythmia, hypoglycemia, hvperadrenism, high blood
pressure, chronic allergic reaction co medications, ovarian cysts and
kidney failure." Peebles dryly noted that her medical record “makes
her an extremely dubious donor for high-quality genetic mate­
rial.However, as illustrated by the hysterectomies ot Hill and
Andreasson. apparently a deficient medical profile is no guarantee
against abduction.
Naturally, debunkers of the concept of alien hybrid experimen­
tation claim that all such reports are the result of psychological unbal­
ance aided by reading or hearing of other such stories. Author Peebles
pointed to the precedents set by TV shows and movies. including the
unemotional Air Spock of Star Trek. “The abductee myth has nutncr-
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ous similarities with science fiction,” Peebles proclaimed. Countering

this argument was historian Dr. David Jacobs, who said, “Contactee
stories were deeply rooted in a science fiction model of alien behavior
[while] abductee stories have a profoundly alien quality to them that
are strikingly devoid of cultural programmatic content.” British author
Jenny Randles noted, “Prior to 1987 at least, this phenomenon [alien
abductions involving reproduction] was unknown even to UFO
researchers such as myself. We did have a fairly uncontaminated
period for case collection. Any sign of such things within the records
are very important and it is quite astonishing to see to what extent this
does emerge from a study of the evidence. Often these cases had no
publicity outside rare sources within Ufology or, indeed, not uncom­
monly, no publication at all prior to 1987.”

Look into My Eyes

“Hopkins’ abductees had no overt memories until they were hypno­
tized. The question becomes whether the abduction story is only a
product of being hypnotized,” commented author Peebles, joining the
chorus of voices who claimed that much—if not all—of abduction rec­
ollections stemmed from prompting by their hypnotists. The use of
hypnosis has caused considerable controversy both within and without
the UFO research community, especially in light of its increasing use
in a variety of issues from abductions to child abuse.
Critics of hypnosis were gratified by the results of a test con­
ducted in 1977 by Dr. Alvin H. Lawson, an English professor at Cali­
fornia State University and a UFO researcher. Dr. Lawson asked eight
hypnotized persons to imagine an abduction experience. With little or
no prompting, at least four of the subjects produced an abduction tale
remarkably like those of supposed real abductees. Author Peebles
claimed the test “shows that nearly anyone can, under hypnosis, pro­
vide an abduction story.” However, Dr. Lawson’s test was roundly crit­
icized by various authorities for using too small a test group, using
leading questions rather than the neutral language of most hypnotic
regressions, and emphasizing similarities where significant differences
abounded.
Researcher Hopkins further pointed out, “We’re getting
extremely detailed descriptions of abductions from kids six years and
under. . .. The child is telling about the little man who stuck a needle
in her belly button, and then she hikes up her blouse, and there’s a
puncture mark and a red spot. . . . The childrens memories do not
seem adequately blocked and therefore they’re coming up with much
more detailed memories. Hypnosis is not an issue here.”
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Even some devout believers in alien abductions question the

validity of hypnosis as an investigative tool. “I have seen what I feel are
abuses perpetrated by ‘investigators’ who are really nothing more than
part-time, unlicensed and unregulated mental health care counselors,”
said self-professed abductee and author Whitley Strieber. “They are
carrying out their activities in an inappropriate, misguided and danger­
ous effort to use hypnosis to build a so-called ‘credible’ case for UFO
abduction.” Strieber added that he still supports hypnotism as a thera­
peutic device, “as it is uniquely capable of enabling the subject to break
fear-amnesia.”
Budd Hopkins, the artist turned abduction researcher, agreed
that caution is needed when dealing with hypnosis. “All testimony,
hypnotically elicited or otherwise, is affected to some extent by the
questioner,” he said. “In a court trial, a calm, non-leading judge can
elicit one kind of information, a bullying prosecutor another.” But
Hopkins disputes the contention that all abduction stories are the
result of leading questions under hypnosis. “In roughly one-fourth of
the abduction cases I’ve investigated, the subject has recalled virtually
all of his or her basic abduction scenario prior to hypnosis,” he said. “It
should also be mentioned here that in 25 borderline but possible
abduction cases, we have used hypnosis with no abduction scenarios
coming to light. I am sure that these 25 individuals are not abductees,
and their cases attest to the scientific objectivity of our use of the hyp­
notic process.” Hopkins also pointed out that most hypnosis used in
his research has been conducted by enlisted professional psychologists
and psychiatrists.
Hopkins also said that many abductees experience “screen
memories,” a cover story or false image implanted in their minds to
mask the true abduction experience. “The function of a cover story is
to soften a disturbing memory and render it more benign and accept­
able,” he said. “One never finds a screen memory working the other
way—escalating the terror.... But more important here is the fact
that screen memories clearly establish the need for hypnosis if we are
ever to know the whole truth about any abduction experience.”
Dr. John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at the Cambridge
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and founding director of the Cen­
ter for Psychology and Social Change, has found hypnosis a credible
tool in the study of the abduction phenomenon. “My personal experi­
ence is that abduction material recovered under hypnosis parallels
what has been obtained by conscious reporting,” he said, adding in
some cases hypnotically retrieved information seemed more accurate
because it was less self-serving, more consistent, and more emotional.
Both supporters and critics have been impressed with the raw
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emotions exhibited by abductees under hypnosis. “It is hard to imagine

how the psyche could generate so intense a level of emotion without
some kind of exposure to an extraordinary experience as the template
for that emotion,” noted Dr. Mack. Hopkins likewise wrote, “There is
no way for me to convey ... the emotional authenticity of the hun­
dreds of letters and phone calls I’ve received and the interviews I’ve
conducted over the . .. years.”
Author Raymond Fowler, investigator of the Andreasson mother
and daughter, wrote, “We were amazed at how, week after week, the
witnesses would pick up their accounts at the precise point where Dr.
Edelstein had left off the week before. Deep trance hypnosis, properly
administered by a skillful hypnotist, can produce near-total recall of
everything a subject has ever experienced. In this trance state, a person
must tell the truth, as he or she believes the truth to be.”
In the debate over hypnosis, all parties agree that the “truth”
revealed by hypnotized persons merely reflects their version of truth,
not necessarily an objective truth.
Speaking of details obtained through hypnosis, Hopkins said, “I
completely trust the accuracy of these small, highly specific details
only when they recur in case after case, but I have no doubt as to the
usefulness of hypnosis in unlocking the general abduction scenario.. . .
Hypnosis is simply one more investigative tool UFO researchers use
to examine our most disturbing modem mystery;” His thought was
echoed by author Richard Thompson, who probably spoke for the
majority of abduction researchers when he stated, “Since the experi­
ences remembered with the aid of hypnosis tend to be much the same
as those remembered without it, it would appear that the process of
hypnosis itself is not a major cause of abduction accounts. .. . Hypno­
sis, it seems, is an imperfect and poorly understood tool that can pro­
duce useful results but cannot be fully trusted.”
Dr. Thomas Bullard of Indiana University undertook an in-
depth study of the hypnosis issue in the mid-1980s and found that
responses differed widely from hypnotists’ expectations. He con­
cluded, “Rather than a full-scale shaping force as postulated by the
skeptics, hypnotists appear less the leaders than the led.” Flatly declar­
ing that the abduction phenomenon was not the result of hypnosis, Dr.
Bullard stated, “The potential for misuse of hypnosis is undeniable, yet
an examination of abduction evidence points to a reassuring conclu­
sion: . . . Outcomes in every comparison give little reason to believe
that Svengali-like hypnotists lead witnesses or impose standardized
abduction stories onto them.”
Clearly debunker Peebles did not present an unbiased portrait
of the hypnosis issue when he wrote, “Clearly, hypnosis is not the fool-
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proof truth-finding technique the abductionists make it out to be." As

Dr. Bullard pointed out, “However rigorous the procedures, however
unequivocal the comparative analysis, doubters looking for ways to
condemn abduction evidence without facing up to it can always create
doubt by questioning hypnosis.”
Hypnosis was not the only target of debunkers in the abduction
debate.

The Mack Attack

Dr. John Mack, who authored a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of
T. E. Lawrence in addition to his credentials at Harvard, immediately
incurred the wrath of those with an antiabduction mind-set with the
publication of his book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens in
April 1994. Mack’s greatest sin, it appeared, was that he broke ranks
with most other credentialed scientists who in the past had maintained
a strict “hands-off” attitude toward UFOs in general and abductions in
particular.
His book details the accounts of thirteen out of nearly a hun­
dred abductees he studied. Of the hundred abductees, nearly sixty
agreed to hypnosis or relaxation sessions. “It is remarkable to me how
many people do want to go further [with the study of their experience]
... even though they know that the recovery of these experiences is
going to be disturbing to them....” Mack even had four of the
abductees given a battery of psychological tests, “three of whom came
out high-functional, healthy, normal range. One young man was quite
troubled . . . although those disturbances did not explain his abduction
experiences.” Mack’s study agreed with other abduction researchers,
who have found that abductees generally are no different in physiolog­
ical or psychological makeup than the rest of the population. “None of
the efforts to characterize abductees as a group have been successful,”
Mack stated. “They seem to come, as if at random, from all parts of
society.”
Addressing those who claim abductee stories may be the result
of suppressed sexual abuse, Mack noted that the majority of cases he
studied indicated no such abuse was involved. “But it was also clear in
the cases where there has been sexual abuse—when they’ve had both
experiences—die abductees are quite able to distinguish the dimen­
sions of trauma that come from sexual abuse versus those which are
alien related. The most convincing argument is chat some of these
people are very solid, healthy, sometimes prominent, well-put-
together people, who upon examination do not give evidence of having
any other kind of trauma.”
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Mack, who said he started his abduction work as “an intense

skeptic” studying the work of Budd Hopkins, was intrigued with the
consistency of the abduction stories and attendant evidence. “In virtu­
ally every case there are one or more concrete physical findings that
accompany or follow the abduction experience, such as UFO sightings
in the community, burned earth where UFOs are said to have landed,
and independent corroboration that the abductee’s whereabouts are
unknown at the time of the reported abduction event,” he said. “Seem­
ingly unexplained or missing pregnancies, a variety of minor physical
lesions, odd nosebleeds, and the recovery of tiny objects from the bod­
ies of experiencers are also widely seen.” While intrigued by reports of
unnatural and abortive pregnancies, Mack was quick to point out that
“there is not yet a case where a physician has documented that a fetus
has disappeared in relation to an abduction.”
Still, while striving to maintain an objective approach to this
outlandish topic, Mack did bring to the subject his knowledge and
acceptance of Eastern spirituality and some tested tools from his expe­
rience as a clinical psychologist. When one critic assailed his book as a
“subversive assault on psychoanalysis as a science,” Mack defended his
approach by stating that too many debunkers reject information sim­
ply because it conflicts with their mind-set. “To exclude data because
it does not fit a particular view of reality can only, in the end, arrest
the progress of science and keep us ignorant,” he wrote. He also
stated that innovative methods must be employed in the study of
abductions and the beings behind them because “These entities seem
to belong in the parallel universe, but they cross over and manifest in
the physical world. They are not of one or the other. The Western
Newton-Cartesian paradigm has no way to deal with that.”
Alack was viciously attacked for his belief that abductees repre­
sent normal humans who have experienced highly abnormal situations,
but other less high-profile studies supported his views. Nicholas
Spanos and psychologists at Carleton University in Canada studied
nearly two hundred persons, some claiming UFO experiences. In their
report, the psychologists reported no significant difference between
people who have experienced UFOs and others. “These findings
clearly contradict the hypothesis that UFO reports—even intense
UFO reports characterized by such seemingly bizarre experiences as
missing time and communication with aliens—occur primarily in indi­
viduals who are highly fantasy prone, given to paranormal beliefs or
unusually suggestible,” they reported. Other studies, such as those by
psychologist Dr. Richard Boylan, also support Mack’s research.
But it was Mack who bore the brunt of the debunkers’ ire.
Shortly after the publication of Mack’s book, a woman named Donna
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Bessett came forward to announce that she had made up stories of

alien abductions that were accepted as truth by Mack. “I faked it,
women have been doing it for centuries,” she told one audience glibly.
She said Mack’s abductees were “intelligent, imaginative, but poorly
educated” and told the doctor only what he wanted to hear. Bessett’s
story was widely publicized in such publications as Time magazine. She
even confronted Mack during the 1994 annual conference of the
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranor­
mal (CSICOP) as a “surprise speaker,” a tactic termed “uncon­
scionable” even by some CSICOP members.
Mack, constrained by patient confidentiality, nevertheless put
the matter in perspective by stating, “I saw Donna in good faith sev­
eral times. If in fact she did fool me, which could happen—it’s not
impossible—then she was lying to me consistently. That would follow
certainly from her claim that she hoaxed me. If, in fact, she has estab­
lished herself as an effective and thoroughgoing liar, then how can she
be considered an authority on matters of integrity regarding my work,
methodology, patient-client and physician relationship? The assump­
tion is that she fooled me into using her material as part of my
database. The fact is I didn’t use one word she had to say in my book.”
Mack, like many others in the UFO research community, won­
dered aloud “why Time magazine would go to such lengths to put aside
any other positive material [such as interviewing other abductees who
have worked with the doctor] to create a story to slander me.” Mack
said some weeks later Time did admit receiving many letters support­
ing his work but “by that time the damage was done.”
The “damage” was a “Special Faculty Committee” formed in
1994 at the Harvard Medical School to assess Mack’s work. Attorney
Daniel Sheehan, founder of the Christie Institute, which has involved
itself in several political causes, argued that Macks right of due process
was violated by the mere act of forming such a committee. Sheehan
also stated that the panel wrote a preliminary “Draft Report” criticiz­
ing Mack for “affirming the delusions” of his abductee patients and
violating Harvard standards without affording Mack any chance to
present his side of the issue.
However, in August 1995, after abduction researchers along
with Mack’s attorney, Eric MacLeish, mobilized widespread support
for Mack’s work, the committee quietly closed shop without any offi­
cial censure of Mack or his work. “John Mack is just as he started
out—a perfectly full-fledged member of the Harvard faculty with no
adverse action taken,” stated Anne Taylor, a committee member.
While certainly not a ringing endorsement of Mack’s public
statements that extraterrestrials have “invaded our physical reality,” the
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committee’s decision not to condemn or restrict Mack’s work did seem

to lend strong support to those who take the abduction phenomenon
seriously. Committee chairman Arnold Reiman even quipped, “Har­
vard University isn’t going to take action against someone who takes
unorthodox views, and with whom it may disagree. John Mack may
win the Nobel prize and go down in history as the modern Galileo.”
Despite the work of several professionals in the abduction field,
perhaps the one person who most popularized the abduction concept
was the author of science fiction and horror tales.

A Time of Communion
Already successful as a novelist dealing with issues such as nuclear war
and environmental catastrophe, Whitley Strieber launched himself
into the maelstrom of the UFO issue in 1987 with the publication of
Comnninion: A True Stony. The book, which quickly hit number one on
the Neiv York Times nonfiction best-seller list and went on to become a
worldwide success, detailed Strieber’s account of his experiences with
UFO occupants.
Strieber claimed his experiences ranged over a period of years
beginning in childhood and later moved between his New York City
apartment and a secluded cabin in upstate New York. It was at the lat­
ter residence in December 1985 diat Strieber had his first conscious
meeting with what he came to call the “visitors,” a term deliberately
chosen for its vagueness. His account included all the staples of abduc­
tion lore, such as feelings of dread and apprehension, strange lights,
missing time, abduction, and medical examination. As an articulate
person as well as an accomplished author, Strieber was able to convey
the subtleties and emotions of the contact experience much better than
others.
Following his abduction experience, Strieber visited both his
own doctor and psychiatrist Dr. Donald Kline. Both pronounced
Strieber entirely normal. Furthermore, a lie detector test adminis­
tered in February 1987 by Jeremy G. Barrett, managing director of
Polygraph Security Services of London, determined Strieber “truth­
ful in response to all questions,” including “Are the ‘visitors’ a physi­
cal reality?—Yes.” Strieber’s experiences were further corroborated
by hypnosis.
After the success of a second Strieber book, Transformation,
investigative journalist Ed Conroy looked in detail at Strieber’s story
and background. He found childhood friends who confirmed strange
events in the authors past, including balls of light in the sky and a
charred circle in his backyard—although the latter could have been
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caused by gasoline balloon bombs the youngsters admittedly made. An

interview with film director Philippe Mora revealed that Mora wit­
nessed strange events while staying with Strieber in his remote cabin.
Mora said he saw lights moving in the sky. “It looked as if it were a
satellite, but I’m calling it space junk. I don’t know what it was,” he
recalled. “Then we all went to bed. ... I was relaxing. I had the experi­
ence of lights blasting through the bedroom window, lights blasting
under the crack under the door of the bedroom—I tried to turn the
light on in my room, and I couldn’t turn it on and I was pushed back
into the bed. All the while I was consciously saying to myself, ‘This is a
hell of a nightmare.’ Then I remember being outside the guest room
door, in the kitchen area, and the whole cabin lit up—every opening,
every exterior opening, the whole thing was lit up with moving lights.”
It was Mora who directed Communion, an 1989 movie based on
Strieber’s book, which brought the subject matter to an even wider
audience. Actor Christopher Walken reenacted Strieber’s confronta­
tions with small gray beings.
By 1996, Strieber claimed to have received more than 165,000
letters from people all over the world, many of whom said they had
similar experiences. Because of this plus his own experiences, Strieber
is convinced that both UFOs and abductions represent a physical real­
ity. “The game is over,” he said of the contest of mind-sets over UFOs.
“We’ve won, thanks to the advent of the camcorder. These things are
real!”
However, Strieber does not necessarily believe that aliens from
space are conducting the abductions, a position that placed him at
odds with other abduction researchers such as his old friend Budd
Hopkins. “What is not proved is if there is any connection between
the objects and abduction experiences. I feel the phenomena are
related,” he said. Strieber said that in all his research he knew of only
one incident where a human may have died as the result of a UFO
encounter. “There was a family living by a lake who saw what they
thought were little children playing by the water. The grandfather
took a gun and ran down to chase them off. They heard a low boom
and found the grandfather dead by the lake. He had not been shot. An
autopsy did not reveal the cause of death,” he said. Strieber acknowl­
edged that this case was not absolute proof of a UFO-related death,
but he said he found nothing enjoyable about his experiences. “The
abduction experience is comparable to being run over by a train,” he
said. “Your whole life changes. But I guess I’d rather have the abduc­
tion experience because you can survive that.” He compared an abduc­
tion to a near death experience and said that the shock is “so deep it
threatens more than life.”
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In 1990, Strieber became so disenchanted with the personality

conflicts and squabbles within the UFO community he closed his
Communion Foundation abductee support group and withdrew from
the UFO scene. He complained that our society is “monstrously inhu­
mane” to persons with UFO encounters and called ufologists “the cru­
dest, nastiest, craziest people I have ever encountered.” But by 1995,
he was back with a new book entitled Breakthrough espousing new
visions and interpretations of his experiences. “I stayed away from all
this,” he explained, “but the visitors didn’t stay away from me and I
grew and changed.”
Strieber said he continues to bring his story to the public
because “If this is ‘real,’ then it is very important as a testament to this
kind of contact. If it is a ‘mind thing,’ then the book serves notice that
something extraordinary is happening to our minds. ... It has enor­
mously expanded my consciousness. I have gone from a level of about
10 to a level of about 6,000. I have been opened to so many provoca­
tive possibilities. I have discovered that this is an extraordinary, quasi­
physical reality that somehow emerges out of us. Therefore, the
human mind is a bigger, more incredible, and wonderful thing than we
have ever dreamed.”
Speaking of his new views on the human ability to grow and on
visitor benevolence, Strieber wrote, “The message is clear: we are our
own greatest resource, and there is someone here willing to take us by
the hand—or nudge us or push us or kick us if need be—to help us
find that out.
“We can choose to let this experience destroy us through fear
and anxiety,” Strieber stated. “But I choose to grow from it.”
His comment echoes reports from some people who claim to
have had pleasant contact experiences.

Midnight Visits
Researcher and California artist Jefferson R. Weekley reported a pleas­
ant visit with unearthly beings as the result of a psychedelic experience
in 1992. Although his admitted use of a potent psychedelic may cause
many to discount his story as a drug-induced hallucination, it is worth
noting the similarity of his account with other descriptions of alien vis­
itation.
Three months after ingesting a mushroom containing psilocy­
bin, Weekley said he awoke in the middle of the night to find three
small figures standing by his bed. “They were white with small, frail
bodies, large triangular heads and big luminous black eyes,” he
recalled. “Fear gripped me. I felt helpless. The figures just stood there
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staring at me. They were really there! They were emanating a feeling
of surprise and curiosity. Then somehow I knew that they hadn’t come
to me but I had entered their world. I decided to treat this as a lucid
dream and I willed myself to ‘wake up.’ I could sense a feeling of
bewilderment coming from the three creatures as they receded from
me. I returned to my normal state of awareness and I looked around.
The room was empty.”
Weekley said this and other experiences caused him to take an
interest in UFO literature, since the depiction of the popularized
“greys” was very similar to the little beings he saw in his home. “The
little people were curious and playful beings that were more elf-like
than the alien scientists doing frightening genetic experiments on
unwilling subjects,” he added. “I knew these beings were not from
some other planet. They exist in a world that is just next door, and
they are waiting with happy expectation for us to come through.”
While the frightening alien abduction scenarios grab the pub­
lic’s attention, there are many people not using drugs who also report
benign contact.
Charlene Adams is a forty-seven-year-old registered nurse in
Dallas, Texas, who is now convinced that she has been the subject of
alien visitations all her life. “I’ve been abducted since a young age,” she
said, “and it scared me very much. I knew I would the of fright, but I
didn’t. It was very strange and unreal and I couldn’t remember much
of w hat happened. So I didn’t tell anybody. But all my adult life I have
had the feeling that aliens—die greys—have been around me.”
Adams said a late-night visitation in 1995 awakened abduc­
tion memories within her and finally convinced her of the reality of
her experiences. “One night there was one in my bedroom. I could
couch it in terms of a dream, but it wasn’t. It was reality. I know
because I reached out and touched him. It was real. It felt familiar,
loving. I lost all fear. He told me they had been waiting a long time
for me to awaken. He said his name was Orion. When I asked where
he was from, he replied he was from Waxahatchie [a small commu­
nity south of Dallas popular for its Indian name, pronounced Wock-
se-hatch-ee]. He definitely had a sense of humor. He also said I was
part of some 3,000 people on Earth that wrere part of his network.
He said these people were at different levels of consciousness
regarding his presence. Some of these people are consciously aware of
his involvement, but many others are not. I am now one of the con­
scious ones. My life is no different now except the fear is gone. Now
I’m a volunteer.”
With her experience, Adams joined a growing but largely unre­
ported group of people who view the abductions as an ongoing part of
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alien visitation in connection with the evolution of mankind. They
believe they have a role to play in this movement.
Regardless of their view on the issue, abductee self-help groups
have sprung up all across the nation, and many mental health profes­
sionals have begun taking a serious look at the matter. These profes­
sionals along with researchers have logged a number of common
aspects to the abduction experience over the years.

A change in the participant’s perceptions, such as weakness,

drowsiness, or lightheadedness usually at the beginning of an abduc­
tion, has been termed the “Oz factor” by British researcher/author
Jenny Randles. “It suggests that witnesses are plunged into an altered
state of consciousness at the onset of the experience,” she stated. Many
people noted an eerie stillness or total silence—normal ambient noises
from traffic, crickets, birds, or neighbors ceased. Many report that a
bright blue or white light permeates their room or car, often accompa­
nied by a buzzing or humming sound. There is usually a sense of
apprehension or expectation.

In many abduction cases, there is an attendant power failure.

Lights, appliances, vehicles, and other equipment cease to function.
Many researchers claim that the closeness of UFOs creates electro­
magnetic interference, knocking out radios, televisions, and other elec­
tronic gear.

Abductees give various descriptions of their captors. The most

common is what has come to be termed the “greys,” diminutive
humanoid beings with hairless, overlarge heads, chalky gray skin usu­
ally encased in one-piece coveralls, with large dark eyes and small ves­
tigial ears, nose, and mouth. Occasionally, handsome full-size humans
with blond hair are described as well as truly alien beings that resem­
ble reptiles or a praying mantis. While it is argued that popular fiction
may account for the similarity of descriptions, it should be noted that
the descriptions preceded any widespread media presentation and were
derived from UFO witnesses. It is a classic case of what came first—
the reality or the publicity?

Many abductees, such as Betty Hill and Betty Andreasson,

reported that their abductors had the ability to literally float through
solid objects such as doors and walls. This one factor has created much
resistance to abduction stories, since the penetration of solid materials
goes against our materialistic world-view.
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Descriptions of the general configuration of the UFOs involved

in abduction cases are remarkably similar, although the craft appar­
ently vary in size. Often the initial UFO joins with a larger one or
“mothership.” Usually a circular craft, these UFOs contain a control
room or deck as well as a small room for medical examinations. Once
aboard, many abductees are given brief tours of the craft, and occa­
sionally, as in the case of Andreasson, there is even what seems to be a
trip to another world. Researcher Fred Youngren asked Andreasson to
make sketches of the interior of the UFO. After studying them, Youn­
gren concluded, “The fact is that the combination of these sketches
into a coherent craft has produced a powerful corroboration of the
witness’s account.”

Medical examinations are the most commonly reported experi­

ence of abductees, with various instruments used to probe nearly all
parts of the body. Special emphasis appears to center on the reproduc­
tive system. After being placed in a white, sterile hospital-like room,
women report needles being inserted in their navels while men tell of
various devices being placed over their genitals. “The purely physical
or biological aspect of the abduction phenomenon seems to have to do
with some sort of genetic or quasi-genetic engineering for the purpose
of creating human/alien hybrid offspring,” opined Mack. Many people
report being scrutinized by an eyelike ball device on a metal neck or
stalk that passes over their body. There is no documented case of any
abductee being seriously harmed by these examinations, although the
fear and apprehension of many is immense, probably due to feelings
that they have no control over the situation.

In cases where there appears to have been a long journey

involved, several abductees reported being immersed in a thick liquid
similar to that described by Andreasson. Many researchers theorize
this is a means of protecting the person against the stresses of deep
space travel or rapid acceleration and deceleration.

Abductees often are provided various types of information,

vshich they' recall with varying degrees of consciousness. Often it
requires hypnosis to bring forth this information. Most often the wit­
nesses are exposed to scenes of nuclear holocaust or environmental
degradation resulting in a lifeless and sterile earth. Some researchers
believe these scenes are predictions of our future, while others feel
such visions are used to generate fear and anxiety in the witnesses, as
part of the aliens’ studies or agenda. Said Mack, “Some abductees
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receive information of battles for the fate of the Earth and the control
of the human mind, between two or more groups of beings, some of
which are more evolved or ‘good,’ while others are less evolved or
‘evil.’”

Abductees are returned home at the end of their experience,

usually with far less recollection of the return than of the initial abduc­
tion. Vague memories of their experience and resultant messages
remain. Occasionally abductees are returned some distance from their
point of capture and are dressed differently; some have returned with
their clothing on inside out.

Only rarely are abductees seen or found missing during the pro­
cess of abduction. “Independent witnessing of an abduction does
occur,” wrote Mack, “but is, in my experience, relatively rare and lim­
ited in nature.”
Another facet of the abduction experience involves the reported
implantation of tiny devices in an abductee’s body. This new wrinkle
on the abduction theme is only now being studied carefully by a few
researchers.

What’s Bugging You?

In September 1955, when Richard Price was eight years old, he was
playing in some woods near his home in Troy, New York, when he saw
a saucer-shaped UFO land nearby. Strange beings took Price up an
elevator into the craft to a laboratory-like room.
During a medical examination similar to that related by other
abductees, young Price watched a wall view screen as the beings placed
a tiny device in his penis.
In 1981, Price showed Dr. Neal Rzepkewski an odd lump on his
penis at the exact location he recalled the implant being placed. Rzep­
kewski, although puzzled by the swelling, recommended doing noth­
ing unless it changed size or became painful. In 1989, Price discovered
the object protruding through the skin, and soon, after apparently pro­
ducing a sensation akin to an electrical shock, it was free. Price showed
the small object to David Pritchard, a teacher of physics at the Mas­
sachusetts Institute of Technology, who conducted an analysis.
Pritchard, along with Dr. Tom Flotte of Massachusetts General
Hospital, tested the object with a light microscope, a scanning electron
microscope, and a secondary ion mass spectrometer and determined it
to be a collection of organic material suggesting nothing unearthly.
Some odd hooklike appendages were found to be cotton fibers appar­
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ently from Price’s clothing, which penetrated the skin. The bulk of the
object consisted of “carbon, oxygen and hydrogen plus substances that
looked like collagen, cholesterol, and layers of degenerated cellular
matter” consistent with “an old trauma site on the body.”
The lack of definitive proof that an alien implant came from
Price’s body was typical of the problems encountered with this issue,
despite the object’s sensitive and atypical location.
While this report was disappointing to anyone hoping to find
proof of an alien implant, it should be noted that such evidence cannot
be regarded as absolute proof that such implants don’t exist. Dr. John
Mack noted that it would be “extremely difficult to make a positive
diagnosis of the nature of any unknown substance without having
more information about its origins.”
Mack was given a small, wirelike object by one of his clients,
who said she took it from her nose following an abduction experience.
Analysis showed it was a twisted fiber composed of carbon, silicon,
oxygen, and traces of other elements. “A nuclear biologist colleague
said the ‘specimen’ was not a naturally occurring biological object but
could be a manufactured fiber of some sort. It seemed difficult to know
how to proceed further,” he added.
Dr. Richard Neal, a medical doctor who has studied the UFO
issue since the early 1960s, is cofounder of the Southern California
UFO Research and Abductee Support Group. In an exhaustive study
of abduction cases, Dr. Neal wrote, “The nasal cavity, ears, eyes and
genitalia appear to be the physical areas of greatest interest to abduct­
ing aliens. The umbilical region—navel—is as well, but in females
only. Many abductees have described a thin probe with a tiny ball on
its end being inserted into the nostril—usually on the right side. They
are able to hear a ‘crushing’ type sound as the bone in this area is
apparently being penetrated. Many will have nosebleeds following
these examinations.. .. Many researchers believe that alien technology
is being used to insert an implant into this area for future tracking of
the individual. It is interesting to note that many of the individuals
subjected to nasal probing now have a history of chronic sinusitis.”
The idea of aliens using devices to trace individuals—much like
the electronic tags game wardens place on certain animals to keep
track of them—is supported by several abductees, including one of
Mack’s clients, who claimed her abductors told her an object placed
within her body was “to monitor me.”
Abductee Betty Andreasson reported that during her examina­
tion, her captors removed something from behind her right eye with a
long needlelike probe pushed up through her nose. Author Raymond
Fowler, who chronicled the Andreasson story, was able to link this
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extraction to an abduction of Andreasson in 1950 when she was only

thirteen years old. Under hypnosis, she recalled that at that time, her
abductors removed her eye and inserted a small glass ball about the
size of a BB along with one or more small slivers using “two long,
glowing needles.” “Perhaps the device placed behind Betty’s right eye
allowed an alien monitoring device thousands of miles away to actually
record all that Betty' herself sees!” speculated Fowler.
Dr. Neal, Dr. Mack, and others also noted that small scars were
often reported on the bodies of abductees, along with the claims of
implantation. Mack wrote that abduction experiences “frequently left
physical traces on the individuals’ bodies, such as cuts and small ulcers
that would tend to heal rapidly and followed no apparent psy^chody-
namically identifiable pattern as do, for example, religious stigmata.”
Neal noted, “Scars have been observed on the calf—including just over
the tibia or shin bone—thigh, hip, shoulder, knee, spinal column and
on the right sides of the back and forehead.” He added that these scars
usually included a one- to three-inch-long straight, hairline cut and/or
a one-eighth- to three-quarter-inch circular depression as much as a
quarter inch in depth.
Researchers see such scars and marks, while not medically sig­
nificant considered by themselves, as significant corroboration for the
abduction experience. A proven implant would be even more signifi­
cant but, as is the case in the whole UFO issue, firm evidence is elu­
sive.
Two recent researchers—one a California doctor and the other
a Texas hypnotherapist—claim they may be on the verge of a break­
through in the alien implants issue.
In August 1995, Dr. Roger K. Leir, a experienced podiatrist in
Ventura, California, assisted by a retired surgeon, removed three
objects from a man and a woman, both of whom claimed to have been
abducted. Also present was an attorney, a psychologist, two writers, a
still photographer, and a video cameraman to document the event.
Two objects were taken from the woman’s foot, while the other object
was removed from the hand of Pat Parrinello. The woman declined to
be identified other than as Patricia.
Parrinello, who was not charged for the minor operation, said
he had experienced massive headaches prior to the surgery on his
hand. The headaches stopped immediately upon removal of the object,
which resembled a quarter-inch-diameter fly. “They took something
out of me I didn’t want in there,” he said.
“Surprise number one. The soft tissue surrounding the object,
when the report came back, had no inflammatory cells,” said Leir,
explaining how the human body generates such cells as a defense
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mechanism against foreign material. He also was surprised when the

pathology report indicated the presence of nerve cells in the tissue sur­
rounding the object. “The nerve cells don’t belong there/’ observed
Leir, “because anatomically they don’t have any position in the soft tis­
sue surrounding the toe, which is mainly fat and fibrous connective tis­
sue. You don’t find nerve cells.” Noting that the woman patient
reacted with pain when his scalpel touched the object, Leir speculated
that it may have been designed to transmit messages to the brain. “You
want to get in touch with the brain?” he asked rhetorically. “You don’t
have to go to the brain; you don’t have to go to the neck or spinal
cord. You can go to any nerve plexus and you’ve got routing to the
brain.”
According to the pathology report, the three objects were found
to be encased in a tough, black membrane containing hemocyterin, a
pigment that aids in oxygenating the blood. “What is hemocyterin
doing comprising a membrane wrapped around a foreign body? [It]
doesn’t belong there!” commented Leir. “I discussed the reports with
the pathologists in all cases, trying to get their opinion, and basically
they don’t have any. Finally, one of them on the phone just said,
‘Damned if I know.’”
At the heart of each of the strange objects, Leir found a
metallic core with a most unusual property. “These objects are
highly mag­ netic,” he said. “They even stuck to the scalpel when
we removed them. I went over it with a stud finder and a
magnetometer, and they would make the stud finder just stand on end.”
Working with Leir on the alien implant issue was Derrel Sims,
chief of abduction investigations and director of physical investigations
for the Houston UFO Network. Both Sims and Leir cofounded the
nonprofit Foundation for Alien-Human Research, dedicated primarily
to studying implants. Small sections of the metallic cores of the three
objects Leir removed were sent to the private laboratory of a Fortune
500 company but were returned as too small for proper testing. More
samples were prepared, but the results were not immediately publi­
cized.
Sims, who proclaimed, “If the evidence is out there, I’m going
to find it,” said several of the country’s top laboratories along with six­
teen “top scientists” had agreed to analyze some thirty objects he
claimed to have acquired from abductees. However, with the exception
of Warren Laboratories near Houston and the University of Houston,
Sims declined to name any of them.
Sims said he pledged to protect the identities of the profession­
als working with him against corporate or government reprisals.
Sims and Leir said they have found keratin, a substance nor­
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mally found in surface tissues such as hair and nails, in the objects,
which gave off an odd green fluorescence when subjected to ultraviolet
light. Sims said he suspects that the implants may concern behavior
modification. “We have only scant evidence to indicate that might be
true” he said, “but there again, scant evidence is better than none.”
Author and abduction investigator Budd Hopkins urged
extreme caution in dealing with oddities removed from people’s bod­
ies. “Mere anomalousness is not enough for the skeptics,” he told one
reporter. “It must be something we all agree is not something of this
Earth. .. . There is sort of an assumption we make that these things
will be monitoring or transmitting devices. But they may have differ­
ent functions than anything we can possibly imagine. And when it
comes to non-human or ET technology, we have to assume there will
be implant qualities that we can neither measure nor detect.”
With hard evidence of alien implants still up in the air and
nothing but a multitude of accounts of abductions, UFO researchers
continued to seek that one case that would capture the public’s atten­
tion.
Several thought they may have found it in a recent incident—
still under investigation—which involved multiple witnesses, including
government agents and a ranking United Nations official. But this
case, like the abduction phenomenon in general, is not susceptible to
an easy explanation or interpretation.

New York Enigma

In April 1989, Linda Napolitano, publicly identified as Linda Cortile,
contacted abduction author Budd Hopkins to say she had experienced
abductions since childhood. On November 30, she contacted Hopkins
to say that she had been abducted early that morning but could not
recall many details. The forty-five-year-old New Yorker stated that as
she lay awake in bed at about 3:15 A.M., she felt a paralysis come over
her body and saw a gray alien standing by her bed. Resisting the intru­
sion, she threw a pillow at the creature but then lapsed into uncon­
sciousness and recalled nothing until she came to in bed some time
later.
Under hypnosis, Linda recalled being escorted by three crea­
tures as they “floated” her through the closed twelfth-story window of
her East Side apartment to a hovering UFO outside. Her husband
remained in bed asleep throughout this activity. She said a beam of
blue light drew her and the aliens into the UFO, where she was given
a medical examination before being returned to her bed. Her experi­
ence and subsequent events were chronicled in a 1996 book by Hop-
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kins entitled, Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO
Abductions.
This would have been only one more typical abduction experi­
ence except for activities that began in February 1991, when Hopkins
received a letter from two men claiming to be policemen identified
only as “Richard” and “Dan.” The pair said they had witnessed Linda’s
abduction from their car parked a few blocks away. They said they
were on duty in Manhattan when they saw a woman being floated
from a apartment house into a hovering UFO, which then dived into
the East River not far from the Brooklyn Bridge. After the UFO failed
to return after more than forty-five minutes, the pair became anxious
over the fate of the woman. Hopkins informed Linda of the men’s let­
ter and alerted her that they might contact her.
Linda indeed was visited by “Richard” and “Dan” some weeks
later. They appeared greatly relieved to find her alive and well and, on
her urging, agreed to contact Hopkins again. The author soon
received further correspondence from the pair as well as a taped mes­
sage. They explained that they could not go public because they were
really security agents who on the night of Corti le’s abduction were
transporting an international political figure to a rendezvous with a
helicopter. Although Hopkins referred to this person only as “the third
man” in his book, several publications identified him as none other
than former United Nations secretary-general Javier Perez de Cuellar.
The agents said their car had suddenly stopped and, while waiting, all
three men witnessed the abduction. This statement led Hopkins to
believe that the entire episode had been a “display” to prove the reality
of abductions staged by aliens for the benefit of Cuellar, who report­
edly was accompanied by two U.S. government officials and two other
statesmen plus several security agents. Some of these witnesses recalled
seeing the UFO, while others only remembered that their cars stalled,
according to “Richard.”
Months later, Hopkins said he was contacted by a retired tele­
phone operator who said her car also stopped while crossing the
Brooklyn Bridge in the early-morning hours of November 30, 1989.
The woman said she too witnessed the abduction. Drawings made of
the event by this woman reportedly closely matched drawings made bv
one of the security agents. By the publication of his book on the case,
Hopkins claimed to have found a total of six separate witnesses to the
event.
Many ufologists initially thought the Brooklyn Bridge abduc­
tion story to be the “case of the century,” the one account that would
prove the reality of the abduction experience. But like so much of the
whole UFO issue, it too fell into disarray as investigation continued. A
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government agent unconnected to the case said early-morning rides to

helicopters violated normal security protocols, and a spokesman for
Cuellar stated that the secretary-general was home in bed at the time
of the abduction. Hopkins would not reveal the identity' of the tele­
phone operator. Debunkers decried the lack of additional witnesses,
pointing out that several people working on a loading dock of the New
York Post, located across the street from Linda’s apartment, saw noth­
ing. Hopkins blunted this attack by noting that in addition to the
scarcity of workers at that time of the morning, the dock’s door faced
away from Linda’s building. “The self-styled ‘skeptical investigators’
circulated a great deal of erroneous information because none of them
ever bothered to call me for clarification of any issue about which they
were uncertain,” he complained.
To increase the confusion, Linda said that on October 15, 1991,
she was abducted again—this time by agent “Dan,” who took her to a
beach house on Long Island and forced her to put on a white night­
gown like the one she had worn during her abduction. She said agent
“Richard” arrived at the house and sedated “Dan.” Linda said she later
received a letter from “Dan” written from a mental institution con­
taining an implied threat that he planned to kidnap her—a threat he
attempted to carry out, according to “Richard.”
Hopkins’s investigation revealed the abduction case as one that
involved not only repeated abductions of both Linda and her children
but also involved the alien abduction of “Richard,” “Dan,” and the
man they were assigned to protect. He also described hypnosis sessions
that indicated that there was some sort of interconnection between all
of the principals in the case. Hopkins published an X ray of Linda’s
head showing a small implant in her nose, which later strangely disap­
peared after all four family members awoke one morning with similar
nosebleeds.
While debunkers undoubtedly will continue to dismiss this case,
the details Hopkins provided are persuasive. “As for me,” he con­
cluded, “it was easier to believe that the unanimity of eyewitness testi­
mony and the existence of many kinds of supporting physical evidence
attested to the reality of the event, rather than to believe in the exis­
tence of a vastly complex plot . .. conceived and orchestrated by a
middle-aged housewife of modest means, a mother of two young boys,
who would forever be dependent upon—and hostage to—a small army
of accomplices.” Linda herself added a strong challenge to the
debunkers when she asked Hopkins, “If I was only having a hallucina­
tion that night in 1989, why not ask a psychiatrist how so many people
could have seen my hallucination?”
“This abduction event so drastically alters our knowledge of the
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alien incursion in our world that it is easily the most important in

recorded history,” Hopkins wrote. “No previous case has had such a
profound effect on so many lives, and none has ever been observed by
so many independent witnesses.” Hopkins also said this case indicated
that the UFO crew attempted to affect global politics by their selective
abduction in full view of a world leader.
He added, “It seems obvious that the UFO occupants—whoever
or whatever they are—are deeply and intimately involved in the lives
of certain human beings. Apparently they can manipulate the behavior
of these people, at least temporarily, with near absolute precision.
“Everything I have learned in twenty years of research into the
UFO abduction phenomenon leads me to conclude that the aliens’
central purpose is not to teach us about taking better care of the envi­
ronment. Instead, all of the evidence points to their being here to
carry out a complex breeding experiment in which they seem to be
working to create a hybrid species, a mix of human and alien charac­
teristics.”
Although the case is still ongoing and considered by many a
strong argument for the abduction experience, it has further split the
UFO research community as to its validity.

UFO Pilot Wanted

A most incredible abduction experience was reported by retired mili­
tary intelligence officer Lyn Buchanan, who said he now has had two
recent experiences that convince him that it really happened.
In the mid-1960s prior to joining the army, Buchanan was a
young student pastor at the Midway-Elwood Methodist Church near
Huntsville, Texas. He had been assigned to a new church and was
preparing to move. “My wife and family had already left and I was fin­
ishing packing up in the unfurnished parsonage,” Buchanan recalled.
“It was about 2 A.M. and I had bedded down with some blankets and a
pillow when I heard something overhead coming down into the back­
yard. I suddenly realized that I was wide awake but I couldn't move. I
became frightened when I heard some people moving around both
sides of the house toward the front window.
“The next thing I knew it was morning and I was standing in the
living room, completely disoriented. Then I remembered I was mov­
ing, so I packed up and left. That was all I knew at the time, but ever
since that time I could never leave home without a compulsion to go
back for something, a strong feeling that I had forgotten something.
Time and time again I would return home to check on things. It drove
my wife crazy. Finally about five or six years ago, I was roaming
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through the house checking on things I felt I had forgotten. Sarcasti­

cally, she said, ‘Have you checked the backyard?’ and it all came rushing
back to me. Over time and using various methods—including remote
viewing and hypnosis—I remembered what had happened to me.
“I still don’t remember how I got there, but I was in a ship sit­
ting in a row of seats with a scared little old lady beside me. Besides me
there were about fifteen people in this room and a large window in the
front. A tall person walked by and I asked if I could sit by the window.
He seemed shocked and looked at me as if to say, ‘Uh-oh, the sharks
are loose in the pool.’ I think he was surprised that I was conscious and
had spoken to him. He ran forward and returned with a little guy with
weird eyes who spoke with me. I got the impression he was the pilot.
He allowed me to move forward by the window. We were lifting off
and setting down, several times.
“Then the pilot came back and said it was time for the ‘long
trip.’ I had watched him at this control panel and I asked if I could fly
the ship. He said I couldn’t operate the ship because my hands were
too small. But I have unusually large hands and held one up. He put
his hand on mine, palm to palm, and was impressed that they almost
matched. After a while he let me sit at the control panel. It was like I
was flying the ship, but I really wasn’t. He said he had to take back the
controls and soon the ship landed. There were two other saucers sit­
ting there. There was a line of people getting off one and a line getting
on the other. We all got out in a line and began to walk up this path to
a pavilion-type place on top of a hill. It was dark outside, although it
was daytime. And it was real warm and humid. I looked up and the sun
was at about the ten o’clock position, but it was a different color than
ours and was much dimmer. I knew we were not on Earth.
“The short guy came up and pulled me out of line and we sat on
the hillside as the people moved up to this open-sided pavilion. That’s
when the sounds started. First I heard laughter, like belly laughs, but
then also screaming as if in terror. A woman screamed and screamed
and everyone else just laughed. But then she started laughing with
everyone else and someone else started screaming. I didn’t understand
what was happening but it scared me and I was glad that I had not
gone with the other people.
“The little guy said he wanted to introduce me to someone and
soon another guy came up and we compared hand size and talked. For
the longest time I could not remember what we talked about but a few
years ago I went to a hypnotherapist. I made sure I got one who did
not believe in UFOs and I didn’t tell him what had happened to me. I
only said that I wanted to recover some memories. This hypnotist led
me to remember that this second guy was offering me a job flying
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saucers. I was excited. I said, ‘Okay, but I need to go get my family.’

He replied that there were no families there and that I could never
return if I took the job. So I turned it down. He said I would have to
go back with the others. So as the people came back down the hill I
rejoined the line back to the ship.
“While waiting there I again talked to the pilot and told him
this was a fascinating experience and he replied, ‘You won’t remember
any of it.’ I pleaded, ‘Please let me remember this,’ but it did no good.
The next thing I can remember is standing in the living room of that
house in East Texas not knowing where I was or what was happening.”
Buchanan said that after he finally recalled the experience, he
still could not decide if it was real. “But now I know,” he said. “I had
feedback which allowed me to believe that it was all real.”
His “feedback” first came in the form of two men “immacu­
lately” dressed in black who in the late 1980s took him into a small
room at the headquarters of the Defense Intelligence Agency for a
debriefing. “I think they heard about my experience and wanted to
find out if I was crazy because they began to question me about the
abduction,” Buchanan said. As an E-7 in the service, Buchanan had
worked on various classified projects for the U.S. Army before being
assigned to a military intelligence unit at Fort Meade in the early
1980s.
He was familiar with interrogation techniques and said one of
the men in black asked all the questions while the other sat silently,
showing no emotion. “If you react or show emotion, it can influence
the answers,” he explained. “So, at one point I was describing the con­
trol panel in the ship and how it worked. I went through it once but
was asked to explain it again, which is another technique to see if you
contradict yourself. But this time as I was explaining the function of
the control panel, the silent one suddenly asked, ‘You mean such and
such?’ I said, ‘No, I mean thus and such.’ He slapped his knee and
exclaimed, ‘So that’s it!’ I knew right then that they had one of diosc
things but hadn’t known how to work it. The other guy, the one who
had been asking all the questions, got furious and the two men quickly
left.
“About a year later I was on a tour with a group through a
building—I’m not allowed to say where or why—to look at some
mock-up exhibitions of airplane crash sites. I was looking at one of the
exhibitions and there was the control panel like the one on the ship.
Without thinking, I turned to this officer and said, ‘That’s not out of a
plane. That’s out of a flying saucer!’ This officer looked shocked but
finally said stiffly, ‘It’s reported to be.’ Within four minutes my group
was ushered out of the building and reminded not to talk about our
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visit. After those two experiences, I became convinced that my abduc­

tion experience was real and that the government knows a lot more
than it’s saying.”
Undeniable evidence to support stories like Buchanan’s is always
elusive, but the sheer number of abduction accounts—as well as their
consistency—is overwhelming. A 1991 poll of nearly six thousand
Americans by the Roper organization indicated that several hundred
thousand—perhaps more than three million—citizens may have had
an abduction experience. Respondents answered questions concerning
strange encounters, missing time, unusual lights in their room, and
puzzling scars on their body. Needless to say, these figures have been
sharply criticized by the debunkers, who said if the numbers are valid,
the skies would literally be filled night and day with abducting UFOs.
In the words of British author Jenny Randles, “To prove ... or
establish that we really are being visited by strange creatures, requires
much more solid evidence than an honest person’s self-conviction.”
Randles then enumerated an extensive list of supportive data, includ­
ing corroborating witnesses, photographs of UFOs—admittedly some,
if not many, are hoaxes or film imperfections—physical evidence such
as marks or holes on the ground as well as marks on the body, and
anomalous internal “implants” taken from abductees.
Dr. Mack bundled these aspects into one list of “five basic
dimensions” that he said must be addressed to ensure a truthful expla­
nation of abductions:

A high level of consistency between the various abduction

accounts as well as the reliability of most abductees.

The absence of detectable psychiatric or psychological illness

among abductees.

The physical manifestations—bruises, lesions, scars, and the

like—found on abductees in many incidences.

The connection between the abductions and UFO activity,

often reported independently by witnesses not associated with the
abductees.

Abduction reports from children, some as young as age two

or three.

“Clearly, no explanation that addresses all of these elements is

apparent at the present time,” concluded Mack.
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Raymond Fowler, who chronicled the Andreasson story and

later claimed to have had an abduction experience of his own, also
noted the commonality of abduction reports and concluded, “All of
these elements provide strong circumstantial evidence that abductions
are grounded in reality. Finally, proposed alternative hypotheses for
abductions fall short of explaining them in earthly terms.”
In studying the many abduction stories, Hopkins too concluded
the experience is real. He noted, “These men and women are neither
devoured nor saved. They are borrowed, involuntarily. They are used
physically and then returned, frightened but not deliberately harmed.
And the aliens are described neither as all-powerful, lordly presences,
nor as satanic monsters, but instead as complex, controlling, physically
frail beings who apparently need something for their very survival that
they are forced to search for among their various abductees.”
Author Richard Thompson, who also appeared to accept at least
some UFO and abduction reports as genuine, stated, “It is possible
that actual non-human beings are responsible for many reported UFO
communications. These beings may be trying to condition people’s
thought processes by making use of themes taken, in some cases, from
the people’s own cultural traditions.” After reviewing several theories
that suppose the phenomenon to be simply the product of the human
imagination, Thompson pondered, “To me, it seems doubtful that
ordinary humans have the power to call into being flying objects that
can reflect radar, chase jet planes, and interfere with automobiles. If
human imagination has so much power, then why don’t typical sci-fi
movie monsters materialize in American cities?”
Dr. Mack stated the abduction experience is real but admitted
that we do not know precisely who is behind it or for what purposes.
“UFO abductions have to do, I think, with the evolution of con­
sciousness and the collapse of a world view that has placed humankind
at a kind of epicenter of intelligence in a cosmos perceived as largely
lifeless and meaningless,” he said. “As we, like the abductees, permit
ourselves to surrender the illusion of control and mastery’ of our
world, we might discover our place as one species among many whose
special gifts include unusual capacities for caring, rational thought,
and self-awareness. As we suspend the notion of our preeminent and
dominating intelligence, we might open to a universe filled with life­
forms different from ourselves to whom we might be connected in
ways we do not yet comprehend.”
Outlandish as the abduction phenomenon may appear, at least
there have been no substantiated deaths connected with it. This is
more than can be said for another aspect of the UFO issue—one that
concerns death and mutilation.
 DEATH FROM
THE SKY
In 1967, a Colorado couple, Berle and Nellie Lewis, decided to ask
Nellie’s brother to pasture their horse, a three-year-old Appaloosa
mare named Lady. The brother, rancher Harry King, had good pas­
tureland in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, and it seemed
like the obvious solution for where to keep their horse.
Their decision was to have fatal and far-reaching consequences.
For on September 9, rancher King found the body of Lady
lying in chico bush not far from his home. The horse’s head and part
of her neck had been stripped clean of flesh. The remainder of the
body was untouched. The skull was so white and clean, it appeared to
have been bleached by exposure to sunlight for many days. But King
knew that Lady had been alive less than two days earlier. There was no
blood and no tracks around the mares corpse. The cut on her neck
was smooth and precise. Rancher King was stunned. “That neck was
cut so smooth it couldn’t have been done even with a sharp hunting
knife,” he said later.
The Lewises, too, were impressed by the precision of the neck
cut. “It wasn’t hacked off—but it was very neat and that was what was
so odd,” recalled Nellie Lewis after viewing her dead horse on
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September 10. She noted a peculiar medicinal odor at the site, some­
thing “like incense.”
Two weeks after Lady’s death, the body was examined by Dr.
John Henry Altshuler, then a pathologist at Rose Medical Center in
Denver. Dr. Altshuler found the horse had been cut from the neck
down to the base of the chest by a “vertical, clean incision.” He also
discovered that the edge of the cut was firm and of a darker color, as if
the flesh had been cauterized with a laser beam. However, as Dr. Alt­
shuler noted, “There was no surgical laser technology like that in
1967.” At least there was no such technology as far as the public knew.
The doctor also discovered that some of Lady’s internal organs
were missing, notably the heart, lungs, and thyroid. “Most amazing
was the lack of blood,” Dr. Altshuler recalled years later. “I have done
hundreds of autopsies. You can’t cut into a body without getting some
blood. But there was no blood on the skin or on the ground. No blood
anywhere. That impressed me the most.”
The strangeness of Lady’s death increased when it was learned
that several people reported seeing a UFO in the area just before the
mutilated horse was found. San Luis Valley resident Duane Martin
said he had seen several small “jets” zooming around at very high
speeds but at very low altitude in the area of Lady’s death. Even Harry
King’s eighty-seven-year-old mother, Agnes King, claimed a “large
object” had passed over the King ranch house the night Lady died.
Mrs. King said that due to failing eyesight, she could not be sure what
the object was. By the first week in October 1967, news articles about
the mutilation had been published in nearby Pueblo, Colorado.
In the news reports, Lady was misidentified as “Snippy,” the
name of her mother corralled near the King ranch. But, mistakes aside,
the connection between the horse mutilation and UFOs was too good
a story to pass up. Reports were picked up and disseminated by news
services. One headline read, “Dead Horse Riddle Sparks UFO Buffs.”
It was also the first widely reported animal mutilation case in
the United States, and it set the stage for reports of mutilations that
continue even today. Much later, various theories were advanceded to
explain Lady’s death. One veterinarian, Dr. Robert O. Adams, postu­
lated that someone found the horse suffering from a severe infection
and cut her throat to end the pain. Another, Dr. Wallace Leary,
claimed to have found two bullet holes while reconstructing Lady’s
hindquarters, and Dr. Richard O. Norton, drafting a report for the
Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, concluded that
since there were thunderstorms in the area at the time of death, Lady'
may have been struck by lightning. “None of these persons, except Dr.
Altshuler, examined the horse at the time of death,” noted mutilation
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expert Linda Moulton Howe. “This is just an attempt to reconstruct

history.”
Since 1967 animal mutilations, mostly of cattle, have been
reported in numbers reaching into the thousands. Mutilation reports
reached a crescendo in the mid-1970s. However, with the large infor­
mation-distribution centers like Washington and New York more con­
cerned with conventional news, mutilation stories were largely confined
to medium-sized and rural weekly newspapers. When ever-increasing
news reports of mutilated cattle began spreading from upper Montana
through the Midwest and into South Texas, rural residents of Middle
America began to react with fear and anger.
In many cattle mutilation reports, there were attendant sight­
ings of strange lights and objects in the skies as well as military-style
helicopters bearing no insignia or lights seen in the vicinity.

A Typical Mutilation
A typical mutilation account can be found in the following March 10,
1975, “Officer’s Report” from the Cochran County, Texas, Sheriff’s
Department, filed by Sheriff C. G. Richards:

Darwood Marshall came into my office and said he had found a

heifer, about 6 miles south of Whiteface, Texas, on his farm, that had
been mutilated. I went to the scene and this is what I found.
About two miles over in a field was a perfectly round circle.
The heifer was laying in the middle of this circle with the head to the
north and it twisted straight up in the air. The bottom jaw was cut
back and the tongue was gone. The sex organs were cut off and
gone. The navel was cut out in a round circle and the meat inside
was not touched. There was no blood on the ground or on the cow.
While I was checking this out, Mr. Marshall came up to me and said
if you think this is odd, look at that place about a quarter of a mile
west. We went over there and found another circle that was the same
as the other one. He told me they had drug a steer out of this circle
and it was over in the pasture. We looked at the other steer later.
This circle was the same as the other one, but the wheat was about
four inches tall and it had been burned clean and these circles were
about 30 feet across them. I thought, this is a mystery, so I could not
get this out of my mind.
I went back to town and got a Geiger counter and checked
the circles and it showed that there was radiation present. I called
Reese Air Force Base and they sent a team out. . . . They found half
of one percent radiation and they told me not to worry about the
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radiation. There was not enough to hurt any one or thing, and they
left. What I want to know [is] how did it get there in the first place.
I have had reports of UFOs in this area, but have not seen any
myself. The people that have been reporting this all tell the same
story. It is about as wide as a two-lane highway, round and looks the
color of the sun when it is going down and has got a blue glow
around it. I have watched the news and the paper and when these
people see this thing, in two or three days later, we hear about some
cows that have been mutilated. I don’t know what is doing this, but it
sure has got everyone around here up tight, so who knows. . . .

Reports such as this multiplied all across the United States.

From Texas to Montana, heavily armed posses of irate ranchers and
friends went on alert for whoever was surgically slaughtering their
cattle. They roamed back-country roads for any sign of suspicious
behavior.
The prospect of vigilante justice prompted Carl Whiteside,
head of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which was coor­
dinating an assessment of the cattle mutilation situation, to state in
1975, “The important thing now is that we deal in fact, not fiction, so
that fear doesn’t become the victor. And that’s what we’ve got in Col­
orado now—fear.”
In an effort to calm the public clamor, the CBI issued a report
concluding that 95 percent of the mutilations were simply the work of
predators. The report was jeered by both law enforcement officers and
private researchers who had been investigating the mutilation phe­
nomenon. Even the report itself did not accurately reflect the situa­
tion. According to the report, out of 206 reported mutilations between
May and December 1975, only 35 carcasses had been sent to the Col­
orado State University veterinary pathology lab. Only nineteen were
autopsied due to advanced decomposition. Of the nineteen actually
autopsied, fully eleven were confirmed as being cut with sharp instru­
ments. Ignoring the fact that many others may have shown evidence of
cuts if they had been studied, Whiteside dismissed the significance of
the report’s numbers by saying, “That’s little more than five percent of
all the reported mutilations that were cut by humans.”
Ranchers and cattlemen also put little stock in the CBI report.
Manuel Gomez, who had raised cattle for more than twenty years near
Dulce, New Mexico, set the tone when he said, “I’ve been ranching my
entire life. I know what predators do and this is nothing like it.” His
tone was echoed by Sheriff Ray Lee of Cheyenne County, Kansas, who
commented on the lack of blood at mutilation scenes, “You couldn’t cut
up an animal like that without it getting nasty.”
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Sheriff George Yarnell of Elbert County, Colorado, became

particularly upset when mutilation hide samples continued to come
back to him with the conclusion that predators were the cause. Yarnell
knew better. To test his suspicions, Yarnell cut a piece of flesh from a
cow with his hunting knife and notched it for identification. The sam­
ple was then sent to CBI chief Carl Whiteside, who routinely sent it to
Colorado State University’s Department of Veterinary Medicine labo­
ratory—where all other CBI mutilation evidence was examined. Sure
enough, the specimen came back to Yarnell with the conclusion that
the cut was the work of predators. When confronted with the truth, a
lab pathologist lamely explained. “We’re human. We make mistakes.”
What was not explained was why the “predator” explanation was
offered in every single mutilation case.
The idea that coyotes, vultures, and other animals were respon­
sible for cattle mutilations was firmly put to rest by reporter Dorothy
Aldridge of the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, In an article,
Aldridge noted that a November 1975 blizzard left thousands of cattle
dead in the Midwest. Wolves and coyotes immediately moved in for a
feast. Yet when reporter Aldridge checked with a rendering plant at
Tribune, Kansas, which processed some thirty thousand of the dead
cattle, she was told that predators had not touched the cows eyeballs,
ears, or sexual organs, the parts usually taken by the shadowy midnight
mutilators.
Veteran ranchers and lawmen never did buy into the predator-
did-it theory. Officer Gabe Valdez with the New Mexico State Police
summed up their feelings in 1979 when he told this author, “If it is
predators, than we have predators with super powers. It is hard to
believe that predators can pull a steer’s heart out through a small hole
in its neck. And I have seen that.”
As reports of mutilations grew in mid-1974, rural sections of the
nation went to full alert. After a Nebraska pilot checking power lines
near Grand Island was shot at by a fearful rancher, the Army National
Guard ordered its helicopters to fly at one thousand feet or higher
rather than the usual five hundred feet and to report any unauthorized
helicopters. Patrols by both armed citizens and local lawmen became a
near nightly occurrence.
Reports of strange nocturnal activities grew. The Associated
Press reported in 1976 that several persons, including two police offi­
cers, saw a huge flying creature in the lower Rio Grande Valley of
Texas. Officer Arturo Padilla of San Benito said the creature had a
wingspan of more than twelve feet, a batlike face with eyes the size of
silver dollars, and a beak three or four feet long. “I’ve done a lot of
bird hunting, but this thing was much bigger,” said Padilla. “It scared
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me for a while but now many people are saying it is a condor from
South America.... If I get a safe shot at it, I’m going to shoot.”
Padilla added he thought the big bird might be responsible for recent
cattle mutilations in the area.
Another down-to-earth explanation for the animal deaths was
that bloodthirsty cults were on a nocturnal prowl.

The Devil Made Me Do It

Dr. Richard Thill, a professor of German at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha who also taught noncredit courses on witchcraft,
termed the mutilations “ritualistic.” “It could be someone setting up a
fertility cult of some kind, or it could be someone putting you on. If
they are putting you on, they are pretty sick,” Thill told a news
reporter in 1974.
Persons with a keen interest in Satanism were quick to jump on
the bandwagon. A. Kenneth Bankston, who at the time was serving a
sentence for bank robbery at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in
Kansas, wrote to Kansas state senator Ross Doyen, stating the mutila­
tions were the work of a secret order of devil worshipers called the
Sons of Satan. In an exchange of letters with Doyen and UFO
researchers, Bankston elaborated, saying that this Satanic cult used
hypodermic needles to draw out the animal’s blood and that sex organs
were used in fertility’ rites. Bankston continually asked to be trans­
ferred from Leavenworth to some small county jail because he feared
reprisals due to his snitching. Bankston also implicated another man,
Dan Dugan, who was serving time in a Texas prison for crimes related
to auto theft, and said that if authorities would transfer both men to a
safe place, they would be ready to talk.
After both Bankston and Dugan separately expanded their account
of animal mutilations to include plots by Satanists to seize a nuclear mis­
sile, steal plutonium, set off terrorist bombs, and assassinate newsmen
and members of Congress, including then Minnesota senator Hubert
Humphrey; authorities decided to take the tales seriously. Donald E.
Flickinger, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, was brought in to investigate, and Minnesota federal judge
Myles Lord issued an order to bring both Bankston and Dugan to
Minnesota for questioning.
In the spring of 1975, the two prisoners told an elaborate story
of a widespread “cult of Satan” that included Hell’s Angels-like bikers
as well as millionaire stockbrokers. This unlikely group, operating in
at least twenty-two states, were behind the cattle mutilations, they
claimed. Bankston said a potent animal tranquilizer, PCP, was used to
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sedate the cattle. Then, after amyl nitrite was held to the animal’s nose
to induce a rapid heartbeat, its blood was withdrawn using a large
syringe. Footprints were concealed by wrapping their feet in card­
board, and blowtorches were used to melt snow, obliterating tracks.
Round holes were punched in the earth to simulate landing gear in an
effort to misdirect investigators. Both Bankston and Dugan claimed
the Satanists wanted the mutilations to appear like the result of an
extraterrestrial visitation.
The mens allegations stirred up a spate of news stories. The
public was alternately calmed by the prospect of a human explanation
for the mutilations and horrified at the prospect of rampaging cultists.
But then this fascinating explanation began to fall apart.
Both Bankston and Dugan, in separate incidents, escaped jail.
Both were quickly recaptured, but authorities suspected that the men
had concocted their stories as part of an elaborate escape plan after
reading news accounts of mutilations. Furthermore, an enterprising
Texas reporter obtained the criminal record of the man Bankston and
Dugan identified as the cults leader. The man’s record showed he had
been in jail most of the time Bankston and Dugan claimed he was lead­
ing the nightly surgery sessions. Other leaders of the cult the two con­
victs fingered passed lie detector tests as to their activities at the times
in question.
The sheer enormity of the Satan-did-it theory worked against
it. For example, in the two years between 1975 and 1977, more than
fifteen hundred cattle were killed and mutilated in twenty-two states.
This would mean that the cultists had to locate, anesthetize, kill, and
butcher more than two cows each day. Counting travel time to each
occurrence, the cultists would have had to spend every waking hour
slaughtering cattle.
“We ran extensive undercover investigations on cults around
that time,” recalled Colorado CBI chief Whiteside. “We could prove
that these groups existed, but we could never prove that they were
involved in any criminal activities, including cattle mutilations. This
doesn’t mean they weren’t responsible for a few of those animals. It
just means we were never able to gather any evidence on it.
“It wouldn’t have mattered anyway. ... [Some] people simply
will not accept an earthly, normal solution to this tiling. They want it
to be flying saucers or a government conspiracy. They won’t accept
anything else. . . .”
No cultist ever broke ranks and talked about this incredible
achievement, and various police agencies could find no hard evidence
substantiating this possibility. It was all too much to swallow, and the
Satanist theory was quickly dropped by the news media.
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But by the late 1970s reports of cattle mutilations continued to

increase, and western ranchers and lawmen were not accepting glib
explanations of predators and Satanist cults. The issue finally reached
Senator Harrison Schmitt of New/Mexico, the last American astronaut
to walk on the moon. Schmitt decided to do something about the
mutilation issue.

The Last Roundup

Schmitt scheduled what was to be the first—and last—conference on
cattle mutilations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the last week in April
1979. Opening the conference, Schmitt stated:

There are few activities more dangerous than an unsolved pattern

of crime. There is always the potential for such crimes to escalate
in frequency and severity if allowed to go unsolved and unpun­
ished.
Such a dangerous pattern of crime is the mutilation killings of
thousands of cattle, horses and other animals over the past several
years. These crimes are obviously continuing in spite of the excellent
efforts of state and local law enforcement officials and the growing
publicity the mutilation incidents have received.
For at least five years, and probably longer, in at least 15
states, animals have been killed and systematically mutilated for no
apparent reason by persons unknown.
One of the most extraordinary facts of this problem is that the
group or groups responsible for the mutilation killings have shown
almost unprecedented discipline. There have been no leaks or infor­
mants to assist the state and local law enforcement officials in their
investigation efforts.
When I entered politics in 1975, one of the first issues my
constituents confronted me with was their loss of cattle and other
animals by theft and then mutilation. This has continued to the pres­
ent. Now the economic losses suffered by individuals probably have
reached $2.5 million or more nationally.
In response to these inquiries and my own curiosity, I began
to put together a file on the history and nature of mutilation killings
in New Mexico.

After learning that some of the mutilations occurred on Indian

reservations, which are federal property, and that the illegal use of
unmarked helicopters may have been involved, Schmitt was able to
have the Justice Department authorize FBI involvement in the mutila-
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tion case. This was a step forward, since back in 1975, Senator Floyd
K. Haskell of Colorado had asked the bureau to investigate mutila­
tions, but bureau officials declined. Then FBI director Clarence Kelley
said that evidence of interstate activities was not strong enough to war­
rant federal involvement.
Schmitt, in welcoming guests, described the 1979 animal muti­
lation conference’s purpose as one “to further define the scope of the
problem, the full basis for federal assistance to state and local authori­
ties and to examine the possible FBI activities which will be of value in
solving these crimes.”
“Finally, someone is going to do something about this,” said one
jubilant sheriff’s deputy. Cattlemen, ranchers, and lawmen from sev­
eral states had flocked to Albuquerque, eager to learn what might be
responsible for the mysterious mutilation deaths.
They were sorely disappointed.
From the start the one-dav conference seemed to pit ranchers,
law officers, and private researchers against a host of state and federal
officials who were obviously taking a “let’s-not-get-excited” attitude.
In fact, almost every government official, especially from the federal
quarter, showed near hostility toward the whole issue.
Even the experts were divided. Dr. James Prine, a veterinarian
pathologist from Los Alamos, New Mexico, said he had examined six
cattle carcasses and concluded the “cut wounds” were probably caused
by animals. He cited one incidence of a family dog making lesions on a
dead horse similar to those in mutilation cases. However, Dr. Clair
Hibbs of the New Mexico State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory said
that while his investigation of Kansas mutilations showed that some
apparendy were the work of coyotes, several others indicated the use
of surgical instruments.
Dozens of law enforcement officers attending the conference
planned to share their mutilation evidence but were warned against
this at the start of the meeting by New Mexico U.S. attorney R. E.
Thompson, who asked the officers “not to bring out any evidentiary
material which might be used at a later trial.” That meant no statements,
no photos, no toxicology reports, no nothing. Although a conciliatory
Schmitt later urged the officers “not to shy away from the evidence too
much,” many of the attending law enforcement personnel privately said
they felt “muzzled.”
Cpt. Keith Wolverton of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Depart­
ment in Great Falls, Montana, was one of the lawmen expected to
present sensational evidence he had gathered during his mutilation
investigations. But when requested to present his material, Wolverton
merely announced, “I have nothing to offer at this time.” Later, when
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asked if the decision not to present his material was entirely his own,
Wolverton replied, “No.”
So, with law enforcement officials effectively silenced, the con­
ference quickly degenerated into spiteful arguments between irate
ranchers and mutilation researchers versus government experts and
spokesmen who offered various explanations, most of which centered
on the discredited idea that predators were mostly behind the mutila­
tions.
Apparendy even Senator Schmitt began to have second
thoughts on his crusade to learn the truth about mutilations. At the
end of the mutilation conference, Schmitt urged that a multidisci­
plinary scientific task force be created to study the phenomenon, then
added, “That’s all I have to say.”
No such task force was ever forthcoming. However, four days
after the ill-fated conference, the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration (LEAA) announced the awarding of a $50,000 grant to
investigate cattle mutilations. Former FBI agent Ken Rommel, who
had displayed skepticism at the Schmitt conference, was placed in
charge.
After a year studying only fifteen of the twenty-nine mutila­
tions reported to him, Rommel issued a 297-page report entitled
“Operation Animal Mutilation” in May 1980. Since prior to the
release of his official report Rommel had stated he was convinced
there was nothing unnatural going on, it was no surprise when his
report concluded, “There is simply no concrete evidence to support
the theory that mutilations are being conducted as experiments by
highly skilled individuals using precision instruments. The facts cited
to support this belief are at best questionable, and in many cases
involve incredible flights of fantasy.” It appeared that mind-sets were
again clashing.
But if nothing else, the New Mexico conference was an excel­
lent opportunity for persons from several different states interested in
mutilations to compare notes.

Mutilation Traits
Researchers and lawmen discovered that there were certain factors
common to classic mutilation cases. Among these were:

The absence of blood. Mutilated cattle were systematically

drained of blood, often through small holes punched in their jugular
vein. Much evidence indicated that the cattle were still alive, if uncon­
scious, when the blood was taken.
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Cuts on mutilated animals displayed sophisticated anatomical

knowledge as well as the use of surgical instruments. In some cases,
cuts were found to include heat searing to seal surrounding tissue and
blood vessels preventing blood loss. In cases where jaws and other
bones have been cut through there is no bone debris or dust, indicat­
ing some sort of high-pressure vacuum system may have been used.

In most cases, internal organs—especially the sex organs—were

removed from the animals.

In some mutilations, evidence of residual radiation or tranquil-

izing chemicals were found.

Increased numbers of UFO sightings were common in the areas

where the mutilations occurred. Physical evidence was cited in a num­
ber of cases, such as circular depressions in the ground and flattened
circles in crops or grass. One physical oddity involved a small blue
plastic valise or satchel found on the property of a Colorado rancher in
the late summer of 1975. According to a CBI report, the valise “con­
tained a scalpel, part of a cow’s tongue, an ear, and several plastic—
arm’s length—artificial insemination gloves.” This discovery prompted
lawmen to speculate that someone might be producing copycat mutila­
tions. Since the contents of the valise could not be connected to any
local mutilation, CBI Chief Whiteside said the issue was passed to
another jurisdiction with no investigation.

Along with the UFO accounts were numerous reports of

blacked-out helicopters with neither insignia nor identification num­
bers seen in the vicinity of cattle mutilations. There were also reports
of large white vanlike trucks with government license plates seen in
the same areas. Some researchers theorized that the vans were used to
transport the black helicopters from one state to another.

Some mutilated animals were found with broken legs and backs,
even horns pushed into the ground, as if they had been dropped to the
ground from a significant height.

With no immediate official explanation for the phenomenon

forthcoming, coverage of the mutilation issue in the mainstream media
dwindled away, leaving only the smaller papers and rural weeklies to
report on nearby mutilations.
Though it was clear that the mutilations were continuing, only
a handful of dedicated private researchers continued to compile ongo-
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ing developments. On August 20, 1994, the Associated Press noted,

“Reports of mutilated cattle, suggestive of cases around the nation 20
years ago, are on the rise again in New Mexico. In the past 16 months,
nine ranchers reported 27 cattle mutilated, the largest number near
Eagle Nest. ...”
A classic case was reported in May 1995, in Carroll County,
Tennessee, when Jerry Chandler of the J. B. Simmons farm near
McKenzie discovered a mutilated newborn calf as he was searching for
a missing bull. According to news accounts, “The calf was missing its
reproductive and alimentary organs, lower lip, tongue and left eye. In
addition, a semicircle section of the left ear approximately an inch and
a half wide had been removed. .. . The area around the missing half­
moon section of ear tissue appeared to be very smooth and with a fine
brown beading covering it, as though it might have been subjected to
heat. . . . Also unusual was the condition of the animal’s hoofs. The
bottom of all four hoofs had apparently been subjected to some kind of
grinding process, leaving deep serrated marks. Hoof material had been
removed from the left front appendage to a depth that almost eroded
into the bed beneath. There was no blood visible around any of the
spots where specimens had been removed from the animal—not even a
large and near perfectly round hole about five inches in diameter in
the animal’s hindquarters where the vagina and anus, and connected
interior organs, had been removed. . . . One strange thing was the lack
of stiffness in the animal. Although the animal was found dead several
hours before, it was still totally free of rigor mortis and extremely lim­
ber. The small pool of blood inside the body cavity also appeared very
fluid and showed no signs of clotting.” Sgt. Randall Dunn of the
county sheriffs department initially speculated the calf was killed by
“Devil worshippers” but after studying the animal at the scene, com­
mented, “I’ve read about it, but I’ve never seen anything like it. ... I
don’t see how it was done without any blood anywhere.” A local news­
paper said several persons, including two attorneys, reported black,
unmarked helicopters in the vicinity prior to the mutilation.
According to law enforcement officials, more than sixty cattle
mutilations were reported during 1995 in southeast Oklahoma alone.
Undersheriff Kenny McKee of the McCurtain County Sheriff’s
Department reported, “Right off the top of my head, we had two cattle
mutilations in the last half of 1995 and I believe we’ve already had one
in 1996.”
One of those who continued to investigate the mutilation phe­ nomenon
was Linda Moulton Howe, who in 1979 was director of special projects for the
CBS television affiliate station in Denver. I folding a master’s degree in
communications from Stanford University, Howe
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had already received several local, national, and international awards

for her newswork, gaining a reputation for producing timely and inci­
sive documentaries.
“On September 1, 1979, I began researching bizarre animal
deaths,” she recalled. “Much of my television work ... involved stories
about environmental issues. I thought perhaps I was dealing with a
contamination story—maybe the government had accidentally released
some kind of poison into the land and was randomly spot-checking tis­
sue from grazing animals to monitor the contamination’s spread.” But
after pouring through newspaper files, Howe learned that animal
mutilations had been reported worldwide, with some reports dating
back to the 1700s.
Yellowed news clippings and books showed the mutilation phe­
nomenon was nothing new. There were accounts of sheep mutilations
in Great Britain and Australia in the 1800s, some in connection with
UFO sightings. One of the earliest accounts linking an animal mutila­
tion to UFOs came from the April 23, 1897, edition of the Fanner's
Advocate of Yates Center, Kansas.
In a sworn statement, Yates Center farmer Alexander Hamilton
said he was awakened at about 10:30 P.Al. on April 19 by the bawling of
his cattle. Leaving his home to investigate, Hamilton saw “an airship
slowly descending upon my cow lot about 40 rods from the house.”
He described the craft as cigar-shaped, approximately three
hundred feet long with a transparent, brilliantly lit undercarriage.
Inside the ship were “six of the strangest beings he ever saw” who
turned a beam of light on him. Hamilton said the ship began to make a
buzzing sound and rose to a height of about three hundred feet from
where a two-year-old heifer was drawn aboard by means of a thick
cable. The craft then flew off, leaving Hamilton staring in amazement.
The next day Hamilton was having trouble believing what had
happened until he learned from a neighboring farmer that the hide,
head, and legs of his stolen heifer had been found.
Hamilton, a former member of the U.S. House of Representa­
tives and a respected member of his community, stated, “I don’t know
whether they are devils or angels, or what, but we all saw them, and
my whole family saw the ship, and I don’t want any more to do with
them.” Local people who signed an affidavit attesting that Hamilton’s
story was “true and correct” included the local sheriff, deputy sheriff,
justice of the peace, postmaster, registrar of deeds, a banker, an attor­
ney, and the druggist. However, author Jerome Clark said that in the
mid-1970s an elderly woman claimed Hamilton was a member of a
local Liar’s Club and had concocted the story as a prank.
Be that as it may, Hamilton’s account matches those of other
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reports of the period concerning livestock found slaughtered with

medical precision. Some reports, dating back into the 1800s, came
from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, Europe,
and even the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa.

Howe About Those Mutes?

Intrigued by her research into the mutilation mystery, Howe produced
an Emmy Award-winning 1980 documentary entitled A Strange Har-
vest, which linked cattle mutilations to UFOs. In 1989, Howe pub­
lished her ongoing research in a book entitled An Alien Harvest: Fur­
ther Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien
Life Forms.
Her careful and well-documented investigation eventually moved
Howe to conclude that two separate forces appear involved in mutila­
tions within the United States: unidentified flying objects of unknown
origin and unmarked helicopters, apparently of government origin.
She was intrigued by official government reports indicating
intelligent guidance of UFOs.
One such report from the Air Force Aerospace Defense Com­
mand headquarters included a section of the North American Air
Defense (NORAD) Command director’s log dated November 8, 1975.
The report stated that two F-106 fighters were scrambled from Mal-
strom Air Force Base in Montana to chase as many as seven UFOs
traveling at twelve thousand feet. The document further stated that
“[Air force observers] reported that when the F-106s were in the area,
targets would turn out lights, and when the F-106s left, targets would
turn lights on. F-106s never gained visual or radar contact at any time
due to terrain clearance. This same type of activity has been reported
in the Malstrom area for several days. ..Howe and other
researchers saw this report as firm evidence that these UFOs were
under intelligent control.
Howe continued to follow the cattle mutilation story into the
1990s, and reports became even stranger, such as the case of Bill and
Linda Dzuris. The couple had worked around cattle their entire lives.
On September 9, 1982, the couple found a six-year-old pregnant cow
mutilated in a field less than a half mile from their home. In the offi­
cial sheriffs report it stated that there was a hole about two feet in
diameter where the rectum had been, most of the udder was missing,
and it appeared “these areas were cut by some type of instrument
rather than being torn away by some type of animal.”
It was a typical cattle mutilation except for one thing—this cow
was killed and mutilated in broad daylight.
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The Dzurises reported they had checked on the cow at noon.

“Everything was okay. So we went back to the house and had lunch/’
Linda Dzuris later recalled. “We worked outside on the truck all after­
noon. It was a pretty day and we hadn’t seen or heard anything.” At
5:00 P.M. when Bill Dzuris drove off for a load of hay, he say the cow
lying in the field dead.
An even stranger account came from a rancher near Waco,
Texas, who asked not to be identified. He told of stumbling upon two
four-foot-high “creatures” while out searching for a missing cow. In an
interview with Howe, the rancher related how he saw the pair carrying
a calf between them. He described the calfriappers as looking like small
adults, neither fat nor skinny but slightly muscular. Their heads were
shaped like eggs with the smaller end down. There was no hair or
nose. Their eyes were angled upward and came to a point. “They were
sloe-eyed,” he said, “like big, dark almonds. I was afraid of them seeing
me. I’ve read all about them abductions and I didn’t want them taking
me away in some flying saucer! I took off down the hill pretty fast to
my truck.”
The rancher said that two days after his encounter, he returned
to the scene with his wife and son. They found the calf’s hide turned
inside out lying on the ground. Nearby was a calf’s backbone, but with
no ribs to be found. There was no signs of blood or predators.
With stories like this, it was obvious that the need to calm the
public was as strong as ever. Four years after Rommel’s report that
nothing was really happening, public concern over the mutilations
was further mollified with the 1984 publication of Mute Evidence,
written by Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers. Kagan, a New York City
resident who had been a rock singer, a correctional officer, and man­
ager of a traveling theater as well as a magazine and book editor, and
Summers, a book illustrator and science fiction writer, claimed to
have solved the mutilation problem that had vexed professional ani­
mal experts and law enforcement officials for years. Leaning largely to
the belief that cults were behind a paltry few cattle mutilations and
the remaining reports the result of hysteria, Kagan and Summers pro­
claimed, “The mutes are for the most part nonexistent.” Their bias
was obvious from the start when, in reporting the words of Senator
Schmitt, they wrote, “This was a senator talking, not some flying­
saucer nut.” They also seemed to uncritically accept the word of “offi­
cial” spokesmen, as though the concept that government officials
might—out of perceived necessity—hide the truth had never occurred
to them.
They did find plenty of space to attack the private researchers.
Although grudgingly admitting that Linda Howes film Strange Har-
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vest “came across like a documentary—with narration, on-camera

interviews with lawmen, ranchers and scientists, captioned frames indi­
cating the dates and places where these people had been interviewed,
and practical demonstrations,” they insisted it was “entirely a product
of Linda Howe’s singular vision of the cattle mutilation phenomenon.”
Later they stated, “Her real goal was showing quite blatantly. It did
not matter whether her ‘investigating’ produced reliable information.
What mattered was how Linda Howe would benefit from cattle muti­
lations and UFOs.” Apparently they never intended to profit from
their own book.
“There is nothing in my professional life to suggest that my
investigations were motivated by profit,” responded Howe in a recent
interview. “In my time as a staff employee for KMEH-TV, the CBS
affiliate in Denver, Colorado, I was paid a weekly salary as director of
special projects which included many documentaries other than cattle
mutilations. Kagan and Summers only proved what an obnoxious and
incompetent research team they are. From what I could tell, they
never intended to do a meaningful report in their book. Early on they
came to the TV station, screened my documentary with me. Then
Daniel Kagan proceeded to lecture me that there was nothing to the
animal mutilations except predators and that they would prove that in
their book. So you can see there was nothing about their so-called
investigation that was objective.”
Kagan and Summers trivialized the numerous mutilation accounts
as hearsay, yet accepted police accounts of widespread cult activity
despite the fact that these reports were largely hearsay themselves and
stories from paid informants, who are disposed to tell the authorities
whatever they want to hear. They were forced to note that there were
never any arrests or convictions of cultists in connection with the cat­
tle mutilations, a decidedly odd circumstance if the grisly killings had
indeed been perpetrated by large-scale cult activity over many states.
Another researcher targeted by Kagan and Summers was Tom
Adams, who in 1978 began publication of a newsletter entitled Srig-
mata to disseminate information about the mutilations. Adams, still
active in UFO research circles, made it a point to maintain an objec­
tive attitude in his public statements. Kagan and Summers were dis­
appointed when they were unable to force Adams into making a
statement they could use against him in their book. “He avoided the
dilemma by simply refusing to answer the question. He tried to turn
it around on us. ‘Well, that depends on how you define objectivity.
How do you define it?’ he asked. We were at an impasse. Tom Adams
would never throw off his mask,” they wrote, apparently unable to
accept that Adams’s attempt to be objective was sincere. Today, Adams
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said he still does not voice an opinion because “I have no opinion. I
am still trying to remain objective and let the evidence lead to its own
conclusion.” He added, “But I defy any rational, objective person to
look at the evidence, the whole evidence, and say that there’s nothing
to it.”
The perspective of sophisticates Kagan and Summers once
again reflected mind-set. They chose to believe official hearsay
rather than eyewitness hearsay and they dismissed the very idea that
officialdom might cover up mutilation evidence. So, unable to prove
the nonexistence of the mutilations—after all, there were plenty of
dead cows—Kagan and Summers fell back to offering some ques­
tionable psychological opinions on the phenomenon. While they
admitted that the “little tribe of mutologists” did not start the whole
thing, they concluded that such researchers, with profit as a motive,
did provide a susceptible news media with horror stories that, in
turn, caused well-meaning people to simply see a mutilation where
none existed.
“Once people had made the assumption that there were cattle
mutilations and that there was something bizarre about them, their
perceptions followed their beliefs. They began to see ‘evidence’ where
there was none, because they had assumed evidence would be there.
They began to read meaning into meaningless events,” they wrote. To
Kagan and Summers, the cattle mutilations were simply an outgrowth
of the times—the disillusionment of the Vietnam War, shaken confi­
dence in government thanks to Watergate and the CIA scandals. It was
all in our heads. Debunker Curtis Peebles echoed this refrain when he
wrote, “The image one gets [of the cattle mutilations] in retrospect
was of the development of a parallel myth—connected to the flying
saucer myth, but still apart, existing outside it.”
This was the same psychobabble and unproven theory used to
deny the existence of UFOs in the first place. But unlike the sparseness
of physical evidence in the case of the UFOs, there still remained the
problem of explaining all the mutilated cows and attendant strange
stories such as those of two Colorado ranchers.
On December 23, 1985, Denvers Rocky Mountain News carried a
mutilation story that seemed to have involved a UFO. Myron Scott, a
young rancher near Trinidad, Colorado, saw lights hovering above a
nearby pasture. The next day Scott found a dead steer at the site.
According to the news clipping, “Scott said he is used to death.
He loses a few head to lightning and disease each year. But he said he
had never seen anything like this. The six hundred pound steer’s hide
was pulled up over its body ‘like you’d roll a cigarette paper’; its
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tongue was cut out and its horns and spine were broken as if it had
fallen from a considerable height. Yet there was not trace of blood, no
footprints. Coyote tracks stopped about 30 feet from the body.” Scott’s
experience, multiplied by hundreds more, clearly showed that a gen­
uine phenomenon was taking place, not just overheated imaginations
due to media reports.
A former U.S. marshal turned cattle rancher may have gotten a
look at one of the mysterious craft. Late one afternoon in August
1993, Leslie D. Weisenhorn was irrigating fields on his ranch near
Holly, Colorado, when he saw a large silver “dome” squatting on the
ground in a pasture. Based on the distance between fence posts,
Weisenhorn estimated the object as fifty feet wide and about twelve
feet high. “It was almost glowing,” he recalled, “and at first I thought
it was a great big old stock trailer. I figured someone was stealing cat­
tle. So I ran back to the house to get my guns. I was going to shoot
them and then call the sheriff to come pick up the bodies.”
Weisenhorn raced back to his house, donned a bulletproof vest,
and grabbed two guns. Returning to the field, he found the object was
gone. He was puzzled that he could find no tracks—neither tires not
footprints—in the muddy field. However, in checking the field early
the next morning, he discovered one of his calves dead from precise
but bloodless incisions. “It was strange,” said Weisenhorn. “You could
tell this 350- to 400-pound calf had been spun in almost a perfect cir­
cle by the marks in the mud, yet there was no footprints or tire marks
anywhere. None of the other cows would come to that section of the
field and even the calf’s own mother wouldn’t come close.” Weisen­
horn, who retired as a supervisor of marshals after seventeen years of
federal service, said the government knows much more than it admits
about these things. “They don’t want the people to know that on the
evolutionary scale, we’re not much more evolved than the ordinary
pissant,” he commented.
In August 1995, Weisenhorn found another mutilated steer in
the same location. “This is the same kind of substantial link between
mutilations and UFOs that has been going on for forty years,” com­
mented Howe.
Howe said the one case that most persuaded her that extrater­
restrials were behind the mutilations involved a woman named Judy
Doraty, who may have been one of the only persons to actually witness
an animal mutilation in progress.
The woman suffered from headaches and anxiety for several
years until in 1978 she underwent hypnosis, which revealed memories
of an abduction.
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An Abduction Remembered
On March 13, 1980, at the urging of Linda Howe, Judy Doraty under­
went hypnosis by Dr. Leo Sprinkle, then director of the Division of
Counseling and Testing at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. It
was then that her entire ordeal came out.
It was a late evening in May 1973 as Doraty, her teenage daugh­
ter, her mother, her sister-in-law, and her brother-in-law drove home
from playing bingo in Houston, Texas.
“What’s that light?” asked her mother, pointing out of the car
window. “I think it’s a helicopter,” said the brother-in-law. “See that
big spotlight. They must be looking for something.”
“But it’s not moving,” commented Doraty.
After several miles the light was still hanging in the night sky.
“It’s a helicopter, I tell you. It’s probably heading for Galveston
Airport. It’s heading away from us and that’s why it doesn’t appear to
move,” offered the brother-in-law. The light didn’t change in size.
The whole episode was beginning to puzzle Doraty, so she pulled the
car to the side of the road and listened for the sound of helicopter
rotors. There was no sound on the night air. She stepped out of the car
and could see that there was something of substance behind the bright
light. Walking to the rear of the car, she saw a pale yellow light
extending to the ground from the hovering craft. It was a light that
appeared to have substance to it, like dust particles in a swirling
motion.
Looking up, she saw a calf in the light, looking quite small as it
was drawn up toward the light. She immediately had a feeling that she
should not have been seeing this. “I’m not suppose to talk about this,”
she thought. “It is an accident that I am seeing this.”
Suddenly Doraty felt as though she was in two separate places at
once. Part of her was still standing by the side of the road while
another part was inside the hovering craft.
The part in the craft was aware of two little humanoids standing
beside her. They had long clawlike hands and large heads. They were
only about three feet tall. They wore gray body suits, and the skin of
their hands and heads appeared white and somewhat translucent.
Their eyes were large with no eyelids. They were piercing and fright­
ening.
The “men” were talking to her in English, the voices high-
pitched, as though someone were holding his nose while he talked. She
could not see them talking with a mouth, but she heard them distinctly
nevertheless. She came to feel their communication was mental.
“You’re not suppose to be here,” was the message. She
somehow
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knew she was in a laboratory where the pair conducted tests. But the
time was not right to explain what the tests were about. The pair indi­
cated they were stationed here on earth and were only doing a job.
They indicated their work was necessary and for the betterment of
mankind—that mankind could destroy itself through pollution.
Though she listened attentively, the men said she probably wouldn’t
understand their explanation.
The problem apparently involves man-made toxins working
their way through the food chain. It has something to do with chemi­
cals and chemical changes. It has to do somehow with nuclear testing
or wastes, which are causing a change in certain chemical composi­
tions. Much more is involved than simple pollution.
She understood that the problem has already passed a certain
state. It has moved from water to vegetation onto animals. She was
told the situation can still be reversed but there will still be loss of life
because it has gotten to the point where there is so much poison in the
water that people are going to the from it. The extent of contamina­
tion was being determined by studying the reproduction system of ani­
mals.
Doraty decided she was being treated like a child by the pair. If
they felt a need to respond to her questions, they would. Otherwise
they ignored her or made her feel stupid for asking questions.
She asked the pair about God and they responded, “He’s the
same to us as He is to you.”
All the while the pair continued to work on the calf that had
been lifted into the craft. It was in a tiny round room. Moving quickly,
the two excised parts from the calf. For some reason the calf’s heart
was not removed and it did not the immediately. Probes were inserting
in various parts of the calf. There were examinations of the teeth,
tongue, eyes, ears, and reproductive organs. They were particularly
interested in the reproductive organs because they said that with each
generation, the poison becomes more pronounced.
Doraty understood that these tests were not confined to cattle,
but done on almost every animal imaginable. She watched as the calf
was dropped to the ground near where it had been taken. It was dead,
and she was sickened by what she had witnessed. She heard the two
beings laughing and saying that she would not remember any of what
happened anyway. “Its like they are busy doing whatever they are
doing and just don’t want to bother to take the time to make me go
away,” she thought to herself.
Then came the most horrible experience of all.
Doraty saw her daughter Cindy stretched out on a table in the
craft. She was afraid they would do to her what they had done to the
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calf. The men examined Cindy, taking tissue scrapings from the inside
of her mouth.
But presently Doraty and her daughter were back in their car.
No one in the car remembered the encounter with the craft. But the
strange light in the sky followed them home and was seen by relatives
and neighbors. Several children chased the light into a nearby pasture,
where it suddenly shot straight up and disappeared into the night sky.
This and many other similar reports created a sense of awe in
Howe, the veteran documentary maker. The mutilations obviously
represented a phenomenon that persists right up to today. “There has
never been a year since 1967 when mutilations have not been reported,
so it’s not as if they got what they needed and went away,” she said.
“It’s an ongoing situation.”
Over her years of research, Howe has met and talked with many
people in the government and military. She is convinced that there is
some connection between the government and the cattle mutilations.
Her best guess is that the government—in the form of black heli­
copters with no insignia and unmarked trucks with official license
plates—is tracking the mutilations, which are being committed by
someone—or something—else.
She cited one documented case in the 1970s when a sheriff and
his deputies joined some fearful ranchers to stake out a pasture where
mutilations had occurred repeatedly. Nothing was seen or heard, and
when dawn came, the sheriff returned to his office to drop off some
things before heading home for some sleep. No sooner had he arrived
at his office than his phone rang. It was the rancher he had spent the
night with informing him that a mutilated cow had been found right in
the middle of the pasture they had watched all night. This w'as not the
only such report.
“Whatever the phenomenon is, it is able to cloak itself,” com­
mented Howe. This assessment is supported by retired Sandia Labora­
tories physicist Dr. Henry Monteith. After studying mutilations at
length, Dr. Monteith concluded nonhumans who were able to make
themselves invisible were conducting an “environmental testing pro­
gram.” He found that Southwest Indians were particularly terrified of
the phenomenon, burying carcasses as soon as they were found. Nev­
ertheless, the Indians advised him not to probe the issue, saying, “The
‘star people’ know what they’re doing and should be trusted.”
“Overall,” Howe wrote, “the strange characteristics of these
mutilations suggest that human technology is not involved, and natural
causes definitely can’t account for it, so that begs the question, How
does it occur? Alien activity has to be considered. ... I am convinced
that one or more alien intelligences are affecting this planet. I would
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like to know what they are, what they want and why the government is
so silent. Deception marks the behavior of both.”
Howe is convinced of the government’s knowledge of the reality
of UFOs because of something that happened to her in the early
1980s.
“On April 9, 1983, I was taken onto Kirtland Air Force Base in
Albuquerque, into an office where an Air Force Office of Special
Investigations agent pulled out an envelope and said his superiors had
asked him to show these pages to me. They contained a summary of
this government’s retrieval of several crashed disks and alien bodies,
including a live alien from a second crash near Roswell in 1949. The
paper said this extraterrestrial had been taken to Los Alamos National
Laboratory, where it had been kept until it died of unknown causes on
June 18, 1952. Then the paper summarized some of the information
that had been learned from this distinctly7 alien life form about our
planet and its civilization’s involvement with this planet. One of the
paragraphs said, ‘All questions and mysteries about the evolution of
Honio sapiens on this planet have been answered and this project is
closed.’
“I remember reading those words, and reading them a second
time, and reading them a third time as the implications of such a
startling sentence washed over me. Because the paper was implying
that this gray alien life form had been able to answer all of the govern­
ment’s questions about the evolution of Homo sapiens. Further, it stated
that these gray7 extraterrestrials had been personally involved in the
genetic manipulations of already7 evolving primates on this planet, sug­
gesting that Cro-Magnon was the result of genetic manipulation by
the gray7 extraterrestrials. Well, if any or all of that is true, then what
we are coming up to, after decades of animal mutilations and human
abductions and UFO flaps and all of the drama associated with the
phenomenon over the last four or five decades, might be some kind of
an introduction between them and us.”
But Howe, as everyone who has researched the cattle mutilation
phenomenon, was still puzzled. Why were the mutilations mostly per­
formed on cows?
The answer to the latter question may have come from a United
Press International story that was carried on the news wires in Febru­
ary 1984: “A scientist has discovered than humans share many of their
innermost genetic secrets, represented by ‘perfect match’ chromo­
somes, with another mammal—cows,” UPI reported.
“The discovery was unexpected and just developed in recent
months,” said James Womack, an animal geneticist at Texas A&M
University. “What we are finding are big chunks of cattle chromo­
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somes identical to large regions of human chromosomes. These are

big blocks of homologous material, perfect matches. The genes fall in
the same sequence. We must have more in common [with other mam­
mals] than previously believed.”
Researchers have speculated that perhaps UFO occupants are
studying cows to determine how man-produced radiation, both atomic
and electromagnetic, and environmental pollution are affecting
humans. After all, they say we are what we eat. And obviously no one
has gotten as upset over some mutilated cows as they might over a
similar number of mutilated humans. Howe speculated that “ET’s are
harvesting deoxyribonucleic acid (the building blocks of life known as
DNA) to create biological clones, robots or something unimaginable.”
In recent years, many researchers have come to the firm belief
that the mutilation phenomenon is clearly connected somehow to the
issue of human abductions. “Most accounts by persons who believe
themselves to be abductees involve emphasis on human sexuality, pro­
creation and medical experimentation. And, of course, the connecting
point is UFOs,” said Howe. “I think the most important and definite
parallel between the animal mutilations and the human abductions is
this. In the human abduction cases, pieces of tissue from various parts
of the body are often taken. In women, there are often reports of vagi­
nal exams of some sort and the removal of ova or eggs from the
ovaries. In men, it is common to have a description that sperm is
somehow removed. In both cases, you have a focus on the reproduc­
tive organs....
“When you go over to the animal mutilations, you’ve got a par­
allel in the sense that tissue is excised. Great quantities of fluid are
removed. The genitals are taken, for the most part. There’s a parallel
there, but the difference is that the animals are returned to pastures
dead and mutilated, while humans for the most part are returned with
these odd excisions, or burns, or various things done to their bodies;
but they are alive.”

Attack of the Goat Sucker

Beginning in March 1995, a new wrinkle appeared in the animal muti­
lation story—reports of strange bloodless animal deaths in Puerto Rico
that spread to Mexico and into Texas. Unlike the classic cattle mutila­
tions, these deaths were attributed to a creature, or creatures, fre­
quently seen by residents.
Many animals, ranging from chickens and pet birds to cows and
horses, were found drained of blood and with unusual puncture marks
and a unknown viscous substance on their bodies.
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Large circular puncture marks were found on haunches, necks,

and even in the top of the head.
Superstitious islanders immediately branded the killer a Chu­
pacabra (goat sucker) and tried to connect the beast with ancient Indian
legends. Police and government authorities were less creative. They
attributed the animals’ deaths to packs of wild dogs or monkeys
escaped from some laboratory. Neither explanation was acceptable to
the frightened citizens. Dog packs had presented no problem in the
past, and the idea that a small monkey could kill and drain a large cow
or horse seemed preposterous.
Besides, several people reported seeing the culprit, and their
descriptions were consistent. It was described as a four-foot-tall crea­
ture with powerful hind legs, thin forearms ending in three-fingered
hands with long claws, a pear-shaped torso covered with fine gray hair
with dark spots, and topped by a large oval head with small slits for
nostrils and mouth. The most noticeable thing about the Chupacabra
was its large, slanted red eyes, which, according to some reports, actu­
ally gave off light.
As in the cattle mutilations, there seemed to be a connection
between the Chupacabras and UFOs. Most reports of animal attacks
came from areas with a large number of UFO sightings. Jose Soto, the
mayor of Canvanas, Puerto Rico, said more than 150 animal deaths
had been blamed on the Chupacabras and added he believed the crea­
ture could be from outer space.
Despite appeals from those affected by the Chupacabra attacks,
Puerto Rican authorities reacted the way the U.S. government has
officially reacted to UFOs—they did nothing, apparently in the hope
that the reports would go away. They didn’t. Through 1996, the
reports continued to come in and various grassroots attempts to kill or
capture a Chupacabra proved fruitless.
Late in the spring of 1996, reports of Chupacabras had spread to
Mexico with an ominous addition—the victim list now included
humans. An unidentified farm worker in the Mexican state of Jalisco
were treated at a village clinic for bite wounds. He claimed to have
been attacked by “a beast three feet tall with a huge snout and dark,
velvety skin.” According to a news report, “It has the fangs of a vam­
pire, the wings of a bat and the personality of an extraterrestrial.”
Chupacabra reports poured in from the countryside,
prompting the Mexico City Times to proclaim, “Goat-Sucker Fever
Sweeps rhe Nation.” The state of Sinaloa even created a task force to
deal with the problem. This group concluded that no goat sucker exists
hut that pollution has gotten so bad that its driving ordinary
animals—wild dogs and wolves—to crazed behavior. Ernesto Enkerlin,
a wildlife biologist
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at the Technological Institute of Monterrey, stated, “This is a sign of

collective psychosis. I don’t know if it’s the [economic] crisis or what,
but this is an exaggerated amount of noise about a fairly common
occurrence.”
By summer, reports of the Chupacabra were coming from
Miami, where Dade County officials dismissed the death of forty ani­
mals in three days as wild dog attacks. Then came a report from the far
South Texas town of Donna, interestingly enough, not far from the
town of Puerto Rico. It was here that Sylvia Ybarra discovered her pet
goat, Nena, dead from three puncture wounds in the neck in early
/May 1996. “I’m scared,” her mother, Maria, told news reporters. “I
have a lot of grandchildren around here. We’ve always had a lot of ani­
mals and we never had this happen before.” Steve Edelstein, a local
veterinarian, said Nena probably was attacked by a dog and the bites
became infected.
With Spanish-language radio and TV stations carrying lurid
accounts of the attacks, word of the Chupacabra grew to include a song
and a video game. But legend, song, games, and “collective psychosis”
aside, authorities are still left with hundreds of animals dead from
strange puncture wounds, killed by a creature that witnesses have
linked to UFOs. Theories on the Chupacabras range from hungry space
aliens to CIA genetic experiments gone awry.
But if researchers thought cattle mutilations and Chupacabras
had them running in circles, another mystifying UFO field began
gaining public notoriety—the mystifying patterns in crops.
 GOING IN
CIRCLES

On November 14, 1976, Joyce Bowles and a friend, Ted Pratt, were
driving on Chilcomb Lane near Winchester in Hampshire, England,
when the car’s engine suddenly stopped. The pair watched in amaze­
ment as a large UFO landed nearby and a tall being in a silver suit
approached their car.
Mrs. Bowles and Pratt were subsequently taken to a room—pre­
sumably inside the UFO—where they were met by three tall beings.
Later, after reporting her experience, Mrs. Bowles said she received
telephone calls from someone who said the British government was
annoyed with the publicity given to her story and warned her to keep
quiet. She reportedly replied to the caller, “This is a free country and I
shall talk to whom I please, and neither you nor the government will
stop me.”
The Bowles experience would have simply been another in the
long line of LIFO sighting and contact stories except for one thing:
Seven weeks after the encounter and some twelve hundred yards along
Chilcomb Lane was discovered one of the first publicized crop circles.
Crop circles are quite simply circles that increasingly have been
discovered in fields of cereal grains such as wheat, rye, barley oats, and
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rapeseed (a European cabbagelike herb fed to sheep and hogs). Other

crops such as corn also have been affected. Beginning in the late 1970s,
crop circles have appeared regularly throughout southern England,
with the highest concentration in the large grain-growing counties of
Wiltshire and Hampshire. Alany crop circles in this region have been
found near some of the world’s most mysterious structures—the giant
stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge and legendary man-made Sil-
bury Hill. Some researchers have wondered if the circle makers are
drawn to these places or if these ancient circular structures were built
in reverence to the mystifying circles.
Though largely ignored at first, crop circles eventually grew
into a popular subdivision of the UFO field. Like mutilated cattle, the
evidence remained in place for some time, available for measurement
and study. But unlike the animal mutilations, which involved unnatural
death and destruction, the crop circle phenomenon involved visions of
natural beauty and the awe-inspiring appearance of intelligent design.
As with other UFO-related issues, a close study revealed that
crop circles were not a recent phenomenon—only the widespread
reporting of them. One account dated back to 1633, when a Air. Hart
walking at night in a Wiltshire field encountered “greene circles” with
“an innumerable quantitie of pigmies or very small people dancing
rounde and rounde.” He reported that the little creatures “pinch’d him
all over, and made a sorte of quick humming noyse all the time.”
Another account from 1678 referred to the “mowing devil” of
Hartfordshire, which both impressed and frightened a farmer by mys­
teriously cutting his field of oats overnight. The devil “cut them in
round circles, and plac’t every straw with that exactness that it would
have taken up above an age for any man to perform what he did in that
one night.”
Of course these old accounts are open to various interpreta­
tions. So while some researchers claim they may refer to crop circles,
no clear-cut proof of such has been offered. However, it is clear that
the phenomenon began before the 1970s. When Simon Brown, a vet­
eran farmer near Winchester, was told in August 1986 that a classic
crop circle had been discovered in one of his fields, he replied with
equanimity, “Oh, it’s in that field this year, is it? My father used to
point those circles out to me when I was a lad. They have appeared in
one of my fields almost every year for the last 28 years that I can
remember.” Another farmer near Whiteparish, Gordon Sparkes, said
he had found several such circles during his twenty-nine years of farm­
ing in the area. Area resident Evan Scurclock told researchers, “We
used to find them close to Pepperbox Hill, near the spot where an
aeroplane crashed, around 1936 to 1940.”
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Whether or not these reported circles represent genuine mod­

ern crop circles or something else, it is apparent that the mysterious
circles have increased in number only since the late 1970s. The Royal
Commission on the Historical Monuments of England possesses a col­
lection of aerial photographs going back more than fifty years known
as “Greater Wessex from the air.” None show classic crop circle for­
mations, an argument against the theory that the circles are a natural
and regular atmospheric occurrence.
In mid-1965, two separate incidents highlighted a crop circle
found just off the Warminster-Westbury7 Road in Wiltshire, England.
On August 10, truck driver Tim Simpson encountered a large red ball of
light that gave off “enormous vibrations” before spinning out of sight.
On September 7, British army major William Hill also experienced seri­
ous vibrations after his car stalled on the same stretch of road. Hill
described a noise like “the sounds of high-powered refrigeration units
or deep-freeze equipment, but .. . magnified many times.” Soon after
these incidents, crop circles were discovered in nearby fields.
The connection between the circles and the UFO incidents was
so obvious that many researchers and newsmen immediately labeled
the depressions in the fields “UFO nests.” To most observers it
appeared as if some spinning craft had descended close to the earth or
landed, creating the swirled patterns in the crushed crop. Thus, the
crop circle and UFO phenomena became intertwined right from the
start.
As the 1980s progressed, so did reports of crop circles. In 1988,
three circles forming a triangle were found in a field near Cheesefoot
Head. Byr 1990, circle formations had grown from small, simple circu­
lar depressions to large, elaborate designs involving straight lines,
rings, rays, bars, circles within circles, spurs or serifs, and other geo­
metric figures such as triangles and rectangles. Some formations even
had rectangular areas with protruding spikes reminiscent of the human
hand. Such complicated designs came to be known as “pictograms” or
“agriglyphs.” Reports of such circles spread from England to include
Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Japan,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and the
United States.
As the circles took on more complicated designs, more
researchers were drawn to the phenomenon, all seeking an explanation
of how such circles might have been created. They began to call them­
selves cerealogists after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. All
researchers attempted to deal with the first and most obvious question
of the crop circles: I low were they formed? Later, they would ask who
formed them and why.
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Anatomy of a Circle
Three basic theories regarding the creation of crop circles were
advanced, based on the mind-set of the person offering them. For
debunkers, the circles were obviously hoaxes perpetrated by humans
fueled by mischief, alcohol, or both. The skeptics, which included
many UFO researchers, regarded the circles as the result of some pre­
viously unknown atmospheric phenomenon. The mystically credulous
saw in the intricate designs a new form of communication by nonhu­
man intelligences.
As these theories clashed in the arena of public opinion, serious
researchers of all stripes worked hard to document the factual evi­
dence. It was found that crop circles generally encompassed the fol­
lowing characteristics:

Very few of the circles—perhaps only 2 percent—are perfectly

round. Many are elliptical and others oblate. Researchers saw this fact
as a strong argument against the circles being a creation of nature,
which generally acts with strict geometrical precision.

The crop is generally swirled outward from the center. Most go

in a clockwise pattern, although once this was publicly noted, many
counterclockwise patterns were discovered.

The crop is pressed down in different layers, with some layers

sw irling in a direction opposite to the layer above or below.

The crop stalks are pressed to the ground, many at a ninety­

degree angle, yet are not damaged or broken.

Often the stalks are interwoven, braided like hair.

The crop remains alive, yet will not grow upwards again follow­
ing a circle formation. Instead the crop grows horizontally.

Recent scientific studies show changes in the molecular struc­

ture of the affected plants, consistent with the application of intense
heat for a short duration.

Straight paths of flattened crop have been found both within

circles and connecting circles. Yet these paths show- no sign of human
footprints, nor can they be traced to the edge of the field.
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Atmospheric conditions appear to play no part in the phe­

nomenon. Crop circles have been formed in all types of weather.
There are even reports of circles formed during daylight, although the
vast majority are formed at night.

Topographical features also seem not to affect the creation of a

circle. It is as if a giant cookie cutter has been pressed to the earth,
making a circle regardless of the contours or features of the landscape.

Circles never overlap the borders of the fields and appear to

take into account existing features such as tractor tracks and pathways,
adding to the idea of intelligent control.

The boundary edge of circles between the flattened and stand­

ing crop is always clearly defined. The edge is sometimes abrupt and
sharp and, at other times, serrated, notched, or even interlaced—a fur­
ther argument against hoaxing. Boundaries appeared “mechanically
precise,” noted researcher Pat Delgado, who added, “It is an astound­
ing and unnaturally' instant cut-off point.”

Circles apparently are created in a matter of seconds, since the

longer it would take to press stems to a horizontal position, the more the
likelihood of damage. “From the evidence we have,” wrote Delgado, “it
would seem that the flattening, swirling, whorling and swathing takes
place over the whole of the circular area at the same time. This
unknown force creates all the various circle floor details in less than a
half minute but probably more than five seconds. We conclude this
because to achieve a swirled, flattened condition pressed hard to the
ground, the stems must have a maximum vertical to horizontal transfor­
mation time, above which they would be damaged by whiplash. Once all
the stems had started moving in a steady manner, the whole circle, what­
ever its size, would be formed in possibly 20 seconds.”

Despite the fact that the crop in most circles is undamaged,

there is evidence that a violent force has been at work. “Some plants
are pulled up randomly or ejected from the soil and thrown into the
peripheral standing crop,” observed author Pat Delgado, a retired
British electromechanical engineer who spent seven years in Australia
working for the British military and NASA. He also said there is evi­
dence that one circle has been superimposed on another. “We know
some circles have been re-affected later because the stems have a com­
pletely different lay to the lay recorded on our first visit,” he wrote.
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“Despite this double exposure, the crop usually continues to ripen nor­
mally and the head remains intact.”
Another curious effect is “combing.” Researcher Vince Migliore
explained: “When a rectangle is seen from the air, there appear to be
distinct edges to the design. But if all the crop inside the rectangle is
laid down bending north, then you would expect at the north end of
the formation that the erect standing stalks would interfere with bent
stalks, creating a tangled confusion of erect and flattened plants. This
is not the case. Instead, the bent stalks are neatly combed and inter­
leaved between the standing plants.”
Delgado noted that in a few circles, “Bundles of stems lie one
over the other to form a typical plait or braid, the stems remaining
straight in all cases. Some of the bundles have had two or more bun­
dles laid at differing angles over and under them, so they are actually
intertwined. The force field that produced this would have to be oper­
ating like a knitting machine. On wo occasions, in two different cir­
cles, some bundles of these braids have been laid in opposition to each
other. There seems to be no limit to the complication of lay that this
extraordinary unknown force cannot [wc] produce.”
In addition to the circles themselves, a variety of other effects
have been noted in connection with the phenomenon, such as lumi­
nous balls, flashing lights, colors, knocking, whining or humming
sounds, as well as subtle energy fields detected by both humans and
animals.
Theories as to how the circles and their effects were achieved
are as varied as the researchers themselves. However, the more preva­
lent theories tend to fall into one of wo broad categories—intelligent
or nonintelligent design.
One of the leading proponents of nonintelligent design is Dr.
Terence Meaden, editor of Britain’s Journal of Meteorology and founder
of Britain’s Tornado and Storm Research Organization. Meaden
opined that the circles are formed by an atmospheric anomaly he
called “plasma vortex.” According to this theory, wind currents are
broken up as they pass hills or other obstructions, and when they
rejoin, a vortex of air, similar to a whirlwind or dust devil, is created,
which can dip down and form a circle in the crop. He speculated that
the swirling vortex might separate and concentrate electric energy in
the air, thus creating both visible fireballs and humming sounds. While
this idea sounds perfectly plausible, it describes an exceedingly rare
phenomenon and fails to account for the lack of damage to the plants
or explain the complex noncircular patterns.
In the early 1990s, researcher Donald L. Cyr found supporters
for his technically detailed theory that crop circles were caused by
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“whistlers,” very’ low frequency radio waves accompanied by charged

particles produced by lightning bolts. These charged particle waves,
which produce a whistling sound, then ricochet off the Van Allen belt
in the upper atmosphere back to Earth in set trajectories, creating
swirled circles in southern England. “All the favorable factors have to
line up, like the ‘go’ conditions in a computer program,” Cyr
explained. “Maybe only one lightning stroke [sic] from Marion Island
[near Prince Edward Island off the southern tip of Africa] per storm is
powerful enough to penetrate to the ground in the Wiltshire region,
producing a crop circle, or what I prefer to call a ‘whistlegram.”’ The
whistler theory, in addition to being based on several highly technical
controversies and dubious assumptions, does not account for the fact
that the fields of southern England have been well surveyed and pho­
tographed for many years, yet the large and complex crop circles have
appeared only recently.
Other nonintelligence explanations include:

Electromagnetism. While experiments showed that electromag­

netic force could bend plants, it required an immense amount of force
to flatten them. This kind of force would require a large amount of
heavy equipment, including generators.

Piezoelectric energy. Here the same problem comes up: How

can a person or a group of people move the equipment necessary to
produce energy into and out of fields without detection? And how
could they produce such complex patterns without intricate guides and
assistance in use over a lengthy period of time?

Subterranean gas or energy pressure. While there is some scien­

tific basis for this conjecture, it remains to be explained how such a nat­
ural phenomenon could produce such regular and repetitive patterns.

Even more earthly theories have been offered by debunkers

seeking a rational explanation. Some claimed the circles were caused
by rutting deer, hedgehogs in heat, or swarms of hungry7 crows—none
of which could possibly have flattened circles of grain without damage.
None of the strictly earthbound explanations adequately address
all the mystify ing evidence found in the crop circles. Despite this,
many skeptics—including some ufologists—lean toward the natural
explanations. John Spencer, Paul Fuller, and author Jenny Randles
worked with Britain’s National Farmers Union and concluded that
“there was a high probability7 that rhe cornfield circles were a natural
phenomenon, the result of hurricane vortex action.”
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In the mid-1980s, several scientists in Britain formed Circle
Effects Research (CERES) to study the issue, and by 1989 they had
categorized twenty-four common circle patterns. But after eight years
of research the CERES scientists still could find no adequate theory to
explain the phenomenon.
The fact that natural explanations cannot reconcile all of the
facts known about crop circles has led many people to speculate on the
possibility that the circles are artificially created—by humans or other­
wise.
One fascinating theory involving humans is that the crop circles
are produced by lasers or energy beam weapons that constitute Amer­
ica’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or “Star Wars” satellite pro­
gram. If this is the case, it is small wonder that the U.S. military would
maintain secrecy over millions of tax dollars being wasted just to create
beautiful patterns in English crops a few months out of the year. Why
not melt elaborate holes in Antarctic ice shelves, where their work
would be unobserved?
It should be noted here that circle researchers have indeed long
noted a very obvious military presence in the areas of crop circles.
Southern England has many military installations, which could
account for some of the activity. Military helicopters and troops
equipped with infrared and other monitoring devices have been seen
near crop circles. Most researchers believe that the authorities are tak­
ing a much greater interest in the phenomenon than is generally
believed. Why such interest if ranking military officers knew that the
circles are the result of military tests or experiments? Again, wouldn’t
such activities be conducted in more secluded areas?
Such speculation added to the mystery of the crop circles, as did
the ever more complex and compelling designs found as the 1990s
began. “The circles and rings present numerous inconsistencies,”
noted Delgado. “As soon as we think we have solved one peculiarity,
the next circle displays an inexplicable variation, as if to say, ‘What do
you make of it now?’”
Another example of apparently intelligent teasing came when
about fifty scientists in the spring of 1991 prepared to keep watch on a
field where crop circles had regularly appeared. The day before they
set up a variety of monitoring equipment, a classic circle appeared. Yet
during the eight days they watched the field, nothing happened. Dis­
gusted and bored, the scientists packed up and left the field only to
discover that a new circle had appeared in an adjoining field.
In his fact-filled 1989 book, Circular Evidence, written with
Colin Andrews, Delgado wrote, “It is very sobering to stand in one of
these circles and ponder what force could have arrived and departed,
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leaving behind this beautiful record of its visit with no clue how it was
achieved.” But if Delgado and others didn’t have a clue in 1989, they
certainly got one in 1991. Then the entire world learned of the sim­
plest explanation of all—the mysterious crop circles were merely the
creations of very human hoaxers.

The Saga of Doug ’n’ Dave

It is most probably no coincidence that with the arrival of even more
wondrously elaborate crop circle designs in the early 1990s came
Doug and Dave—by now arguably the worlds most famous hoaxers.
After all, the new complex circles drew ever-increasing worldwide
media and public attention. Officialdom could no longer ignore the
phenomenon, nor could they offer any satisfactory conventional expla­
nation.
In England, authorities met the situation with a quiet confer­
ence of high officials.
According to George Wingfield, a lecturer with Britain’s Centre
for Crop Circle Studies, the meeting was held in September 1990 in
London and included the Ministries of Defense, Agriculture, and
Environment. Wingfield, who claimed to have obtained information
on the meeting from a person who attended, stated, “The meeting
lasted long and the conclusion was that the cause of the crop circles
was completely unknown. Stationary whirlwinds were ruled out and it
was stated that hoaxing only accounted for an insignificant percentage
of the circles. Responsibility for keeping track of what was happening
was left firmly with the Ministry of Defense, who had for some years
used Army helicopters to photograph new circles.”
It was decided that should the need arise, the Ministry of
Defense might take “appropriate measures” to quell public excitement,
including the possibility of “disinformation,” Wingfield learned.
Exactly one year later the British tabloid Today published an
expose with the headline, “Men Who Conned the World.” “The mys­
terious corn circles that baffled scientists around the world are a gigan­
tic hoax, Today can reveal,” crowed the tabloid’s copy.
The hoaxers were identified as two Southampton men in their
sixties named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. The pair claimed they
had created “no less than two hundred corn circles” in the Hampshire
area over a period of thirteen years beginning in 1978. Doug said he
decided to confess to the hoax after his wife, Ilenc, became suspicious
of his nightly absences. “It started to cross my mind that he might be
seeing another woman,” quipped Ilene. The Today story was accompa­
nied by photographs of Doug and Dave pressing down corn with
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wooden planks guided by a length of rope. In one fell swoop, a grow­

ing mystery with definite UFO connections was dispensed with—it
was all a hoax perpetrated by Doug and Dave and a few7 copycats.
It was not the first attempt to discredit crop circles as hoaxes. In
1990, BBC-TV along with Nippon TV had engaged Pat Delgado and
Colin Andrews to participate in a program called Operation Blackbird
designed to keep watch over a crop field in an attempt to photograph a
forming circle. Some hoaxed circles initially fooled the Blackbird
observers. An amateurish attempt—artifacts such as horoscope charts
and crosses were left in the circles—it was soon judged to be a hoax
designed to implicate “New Age” groups. The Blackbird hoax story
was not widely known. “I certainly don’t have any doubts that the hoax
wras perpetrated by the British Army, and also that other maneuverings
that I’m awrare of at Blackbird were also played by the Army’s hand,”
stated Andrews. In the 1980s, a man named Francis Shepherd claimed
to have hoaxed several circles but later admitted that a newspaper had
paid him to confess so as to discredit circle stories in a rival publica­
tion.
The Doug and Dave story, on the other hand, was immediately
picked up by America’s Associated Press and distributed widely. “Most
British newspapers ignored the story,” commented Wingfield, “but
many U.S. ones seemed prepared to accept it at face value.”
Not one news organization seemed capable of simply taking a
look at the crop circle statistics for the previous two years. Dr. Terence
Meaden, a proponent of natural causation, reported some four hun­
dred circles were documented in 1989. In 1990, this number rose to
nearly a thousand with more than three hundred new formations in
the first few crop months of 1991 in Britain alone. Considering that
the British growing season is five months long, this means that Doug
and Dave would have had to somehow trample down more than fifteen
hundred crop circles within a period of fifteen months. This would
mean the pair would have had to create nearly four circles every
night—a patently impossible task especially in view of the distances
between discovered circles. And this calculation does not even take
into account the hundreds of crop circles that by the mid-1990s were
reported in remote parts of Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan, and the
United States, nor the fact that circles were reported years before
1978.
As if to give particular lie to the hoax story; researcher Michael
Strainic reported more than twenty crop circles in Canada within a
ten-week period at about the same time that the Doug and Dave story
was being circulated worldwide. “It was as if we had been assaulted by
a circle-making SWAT team,” commented Strainic. Likewise a classic
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crop circle with undamaged stalks laid over in a swirl pattern was dis­
covered in September 1990 by Roger and Lynda Lowe in a sorghum
field south of their home in Osceola, Missouri,
Furthermore, there is evidence that Doug and Dave gleaned
information used in their story from some young crop circle
researchers. Julie Varden and three companions were watching crops
overnight a few weeks before the Today story broke. “These men are
liars,” she told Wingfield adamantly, “and we can prove that they are
liars. We met them at Cheesefoot Head on August 20th and they have
taken things we spoke about and rehashed them in the Today story.”
Varden said at their meeting she mentioned some jellylike sub­
stance found at several circle sites and was told by Doug, “I know what
that was. It’s the discharge from an aircraft toilet.” In the Today story;
Doug indeed tells of being knocked unconscious by “something which
fell from space” while creating a crop circle. “But when we got into the
light I saw the mess on my head was the frozen discharge from an air­
craft toilet,” he recounted blandly, apparently repeating his previous
conjecture to Varden unaware that he most probably could not have
survived such an event.
Another of the researchers who met Doug and Dave at Cheese­
foot Head, Nick Riley, said he showed the pair some ore he had found
near a crop circle. Despite Riley’s insistence that it was simply iron,
Doug declared it to be a meteorite. In the Today story, Doug claimed
that he and Dave had collected some meteorites and placed them in
one of their circles near Stonehenge. “Theyr did indeed leave stones
there, not that that proves they made the Stonehenge circle,” said
Wingfield. “But I also met the man who found these ‘meteorites’ and
they were, of course, just the sort of stones described by Nick
Riley.. . . Local knowledge and a close study of the various books on
the Circles has given a veneer of authenticity to what then seemed
plausible claims.”
In short, Doug and Dave’s hoax proved to be a hoax itself. Yet
the public—particularly in the United States—is only aware that there
was a brief crop circle craze that turned out to be merely the work of
pranksters.
Is this erroneous view simply a creation of a lazy and inattentive
media, or is it the result of something more sinister? Several crop cir­
cle researchers, including Colin Andrews, George Wingfield, and oth­
ers, have publicly accused the British government of perpetrating a
“disinformation” campaign using Doug and Dave. And there is cir­
cumstantial evidence to support this charge.
First is the way that writers at the tabloid Today ambushed
researcher Pat Delgado. These tactics may have simply been normal
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procedure for circulation-seeking tabloids or they may reflect a con­

scious effort to discredit circle researchers. Tabloid writers took Del­
gado to Sevenoaks in Kent one week before publication of the Doug
and Dave article and asked his opinion of a new crop pictogram later
referred to as an “insectogram” because of its resemblance to some
sort of insect. Delgado was amazed at the sight of a formation that
previously had only been found in Hampshire and Stonehenge.
Although it did not exactly match previous such circles, Delgado ini­
tially confirmed it as a genuine crop circle. He was asked to keep quiet
about this circle and he did. A few days later. Today staffers brought
Doug and Dave to Delgado’s home. “In quick-fire succession they
confronted him with proof that they had made the Kent formation,
then laid claim to this circle and that circle and so on until he was lit­
erally reeling on the ropes,” commented Wingfield. “The Today
reporter, Graham Brough, then wrung all sorts of unwise concessions
from his hapless victim, which were subsequently printed in the paper.”
Soon fellow circle researcher Colin Andrews arrived at Del­
gado’s home and began questioning Doug and Dave. He quickly found
that “when they were asked how they could have made such precise
circles which have appeared by the thousands, accurate within three
millimeters and up to 700 yards in diameter, these guys couldn’t come
up with the answers.” Andrews said Doug and Dave, unable to answer
pertinent questions, were quickly whisked away by Brough and others.
When the well-orchestrated Today story broke, Doug and Dave
demonstrated their circle-making ability for the news media in a Sus­
sex wheat field. “Photographs clearly show that this was nothing like a
genuine crop formation,” said Wingfield. “The laid crop is all over the
place and there is no swirl pattern. The edge of these circles is rough
and bears no resemblance to the precise cutoff which many of us have
become so used to. . . . Today excused this shortcoming by saying that
this was caused by the trampling of the TV crew.”
But there were deeper mysteries than Doug and Dave’s inability
to duplicate a genuine crop circle. Researchers noted that while the
tabloid story noted “Today has paid no money” for the Doug and Dave
account, it was copyrighted by something called “MBF Services.” A
Today editor identified MBF only as a freelance press agency that “put
us in touch with these people [Doug and Dave] so they own the copy­
right” and declined to say more. Doug and Dave both denied any
knowledge of MBF Services.
Researcher Wingfield discovered that no press agency with the
name “MBF Services” was listed in England, but did find a “MBF
Consultancy” described as a “scientific research and development
company.” One of the company’s directors was Dr. Andrew Beech
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Clifford, owner of Maiden Beech Farm (MBF) in Somerset. Dr. Clif­

ford was a scientist who admitted doing confidential work for the Min­
istry of Defense, some of which involved America’s Star Wars pro­
gram. He denied any connection between MBF Consultancy and MBF
Services.
Another MBF company, Macfarlane Business Forms in Scot­
land, also performed confidential work for the British government.
But again no connection could be made with MBF Services.
Wingfield then made contact with sources inside Britain’s MI5,
their equivalent to the CIA, and discovered some interesting informa­
tion regarding “disinformation.” He was told that one method used by
MI5 in a Northern Ireland antiterrorist campaign was to “set up a
bogus private news agency and supply the disinformation story to a
selected newspaper.”
Pat Delgado, who was so effectively ambushed by Doug, Dave,
and the Today staff, studied the matter and concluded, “Investigations
so far have brought to light a well-orchestrated misinformation and
debunking campaign that was initiated last year by ‘official depart­
ments.’ There are at least two other countries involved in this network
of intrigue, the USA and France. The two men, Bower and Chorley,
who claimed hoaxed all the crop circles, are but pawns in a plan to dis­
credit me and the crop circle subject.... Neither the two men nor
anyone else have offered me a shred of evidence, either photographs,
video or anything else, to substantiate their claims.... I feel the reason
for ‘departments’ concern is the enormous surge of interest in crop
circles by the whole spectrum of mankind throughout the world,
including professional, scientific and people in so-called high places
who are now seen to be heavily associated and involved in the manifes­
tation of a subject that cannot be officially controlled. 'The fact that
the subject carries very significant spiritual connotations, by opening
up people’s awareness and unifying them beyond belief, may also be
very worrying, or even seen as some kind of threat.”
Delgado went on to recount an incident on September 26,
1991, when a “strip of shapes” was discovered in a cornfield near
Highland, Kansas. He said men in dark suits soon arrived, secured
the field, and then questioned nearby residents. “It was obvious
there had been an attempt to destroy the ‘pictogram.’ A new hot
wire fence had been placed round the site. Photos and diagrams are
available to confirm all this. It has been confirmed the vehicles and
men were from the government and the CIA. You have not heard
the last of crop circles by any means and the subject is far more sig­
nificant now than it ever was. Why are the ‘official departments’
running scared?”
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Following publication of their story, Doug and Dave went on an

extensive tour of Europe, where they freely talked to any media that
would listen. “One can’t help wondering who finances these trips?”
questioned Wingfield. “It’s obvious they’re backed by a lot of money,”
noted researcher Andrews. “But it’s not traceable.”
“What we have here are perhaps the early signs of a major dis­
information campaign,” he added, “because the governments of the
world do not know what is going on. They feel they must deactivate
the level of public interest in the situation.”
Wingfield agreed. “There seems little doubt now that the Today
story' is part of a deliberate campaign of disinformation to persuade
people that the circles phenomenon is just an illusion—a trick perpe­
trated by two old jokers and by others who have copied them.”
Whether or not a “disinformation campaign” truly existed, the
Doug and Dave story—and more particularly the major media’s
uncritical dissemination of it—has indeed blunted general interest in
the crop circles.
The Doug and Dave explanation was invoked as recently as
December 1995, when astronomer Carl Sagan produced an article for
the widely distributed Parade magazine using the pair to debunk UFOs
in general and the crop circles in particular. “They dreamed it up over
stout one evening in their regular pub, the Percy Hobbs. They had
been amused by UFO reports and thought it might be fun to spoof the
UFO gullibles,” Sagan explained. “At first they flattened the wheat
with the heavy steel bar that Bower used as a security device on the
back door of his picture-framing shop. Later on, they used planks and
ropes. Their first efforts took only a few minutes. But, being inveterate
pranksters as well as serious artists, the challenge began to grow on
them. Gradually, they designed and executed more and more demand­
ing figures. ... Bower and Chorley were delighted [with the subse­
quent publicity], especially when scientists and others began to
announce their considered judgment that no merely human intelli­
gence could be responsible.”
In an odd kind of reverse argument, considering how much
the Doug and Dave hoax story turned public interest away from the
subject of crop circles, Sagan concluded, “Those who have some­
thing to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in
power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discourag­
ing skepticism.” Addressing the crop circle phenomenon in a mass­
audience article without mentioning the anomalous nature of the
circles struck many researchers as joining the effort to discourage
any public interest.
John Mitchell, editor of the Cerealogist, noted, “The common-
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sense belief, that the crop circle phenomenon is nothing but an elabo­
rate hoax, is now established as the official doctrine.”
But while the media and the general public seem to have lost
interest in the circles thanks to the Doug and Dave publicity, this has
not stopped new circles from being formed each year, nor has it
stopped a growing legion of researchers studying the phenomenon—
with more surprising results.

Science Takes a Look

Analyses ranging from simple compass readings to elaborate labora­
tory’ tests confirm that something very strange separates the vegetation
within crop circles from surrounding plants.
Researcher Charles Thomas, using a 1944 type Pll boxed air­
craft compass such as used in World War II bombers, documented
magnetic disturbances that resulted in the compass needle swinging
from five to ten degrees off true north within crop circles. After some
careful study, Thomas concluded that “the process of crop-circle for­
mation in these cases appears to have produced a local magnetic
anomaly detectable with a reliable instrument.... The anomaly
appears to be linked to the direction in which stalks are flattened and
that the strength of the anomaly appears to vary with the distance
from ground level—or possibly proximity to crop-ear level. There may
be a suspicion that the magnetic field is created at the time of forma­
tion and decreases through time. ... I have no idea what this means,
nor which of the many alternative hypotheses—if any—it supports.”
Dr. W. C. Levengood holds degrees in both physics and bio­
science, seven patents including a seed analyzer, and is owner of Agro
Sciences, Inc., and Pinelandia Biophysics Laboratory in Michigan.
After lengthy study. Dr. Levengood found evidence of consistent
changes in cell structure, seeds, and growth within circle plants.
For example, within the cells of circle plants, he found a 21 per­
cent average increase in the diameter of pits, microscopic cavities that
allow organic compounds and gases to pass through the cellular struc­
ture. Levengood also found that cell pit size consistently grew larger
from the outer edges of the plant into the center, indicating the effect
was caused by some outside agency. The only way he was able to
duplicate such cell pit changes in control plants was to place them in a
microwave oven. After heating the plants for thirty seconds on one
side, he found cell pits were enlarged 14 percent. Further heating
caused dehydration. Since crop circle plants were still alive, Leven­
good came to the same conclusion as researcher Pat Delgado—the
heat applied to circle plants must be intense but brief, no more than
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thirty seconds in duration. “There is no way a hoaxer can do this by

simply tromping on the plants,” noted Levengood. Similar changes
in the molecular structure of circle plants were detected by chemist
Kenneth Spelman of Signalysis Laboratories in Rodborough, England.
Further evidence of heating came from a flat porcupine. On
August 29, 1992, Canadian farmer Joe Rennick discovered a circle in
his Saskatchewan wheat field. In the center was a dead porcupine
pressed flat with its four appendages splayed outward. Although the
animal apparently had been dead for several days, there was no odor
nor evidence of decay. The body was desiccated, dried up, and the
ground within the circle was hard and dry while the rest of the field
was soggy. “That ground was hard as cement, like someone put it
inside an oven and baked it,” said Rennick. Canadian researcher Chad
Deetken speculated the porcupine, rather than running away as most
animals, may have rolled itself into a ball for protection and was
sucked into the circle at the time of its formation. “Its quills lay in the
same direction as the swirl of the wheat,” he noted. Unlike those in the
surrounding field, wheat seeds taken from the crop circle were dried
and shriveled like many found in the British circles.
Studying seeds, Levengood was surprised to find a complete
lack of development in early-season crop circle plants. But an even
bigger surprise came when he found that more mature plants—from
July onward—not only produced normal-appearing seeds but germi­
nated faster than control plants, sometimes as much as 45 percent.
Researcher Linda Howe noted that agriculture seed experts say a 5
percent increase in growth rate is considered quite successful. “Forty-
five percent is astonishing,” commented Levengood.
Professor Bruce Rideout of Ursinus College in Collegeville,
Pennsylvania, discovered that plants taken from some Pennsylvania
crop circles also exhibited cell pit diameter enlargement as well as
growth nodes—the bulges on a plant stem where the leaf or bud is
attached—which were split or cracked along with some that were mys­
teriously bent. His findings were confirmed by Levengood, who
stated, “There was a pronounced elongation and lateral twist of the
growth nodes anywhere from 30 to 90 degrees from the vertical.” Both
scientists found lateral cracks across the outside of the bent nodes.
“This lateral splitting was observed in all four sets of circle samples,”
noted Levengood, “and was not seen in the four sets of control sam­
ples. The formation of this type of fissure would require complex
stresses in order to rupture the semi-rigid longitudinal fibers in the
epidermal tissue. For example, it would require the node to be weak­
ened and expanded from an internal force such as might be caused by
transient heat energy. This would be followed by a longitudinal exten­
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sion or tension stress. That combination of forces is unlikely to be

generated by a wind storm.”
Yet another anomaly was discovered by Marshall Dudley, a
designer of radiation detection equipment in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
who, along with researcher Michael Chorost, found evidence of unnat­
ural radioactive isotopes in crop circle specimens. They found eleven
such isotopes that were not present in control plants taken just several
feet from a circle. “None appear to be residues from Chernobyl or
atmospheric nuclear tests, not do they appear to have any other mun­
dane origin.... The authors believe this finding definitively rules out
hoaxers for that particular formation.”
After three years of study including the discovery of distur­
bances in the cell walls of crop circle plants, Levengood concluded,
“Whatever is doing these formations, is affecting the fundamental bio­
physics and biochemistry of the plants. . . . The consistent pattern of
conductivity measurements in some formations compared to controls
indicates that the basic micro fibril structures of the plants have been
altered. Such cellular changes cannot be hoaxed.”
So something in motion seems to be applying intense heat of a
short duration to fields in order to form the genuine crop circles—but
what? Although it appears to be the official position of governments
and the news media and other public authorities, hoaxing of all the cir­
cles is out of the question. Likewise, no solid evidence of a natural
phenomenon has been forthcoming. Once again, UFOs must be con­
sidered.
Residents of Bristol, England, reported seeing flashing lights
and one large dark object in the night skies on July 16-17, 1991. About
3:30 A.M. the warden of nearby Barbury Castle heard a pulsating hum­
ming roar like hundreds of airplanes passing overhead for a few min­
utes. At 6:00 A.M. a crop pictogram composed of a 177-foot triangle
enclosing a circle with three circles at each apex was discovered near
the castle. The formation “embodies geometry of the very highest
order,” commented researcher Wingfield.
Pat Delgado told of several circles being formed near Westbury,
England, in 1989 following the sighting of a large UFO ringed by
orange lights in the vicinity. “UFOs are claimed to be capable of pro­
ducing the most extraordinary behavior and phenomena,” commented
Delgado. “The control of force fields unknown to us may well result in
rings and circles. It may well be within the capability of a UFO to
manipulate a rotary force field which is enclosed in a sharp cut-off
electro-magnetic shield. It is also possible that UFOs are only visible
when they wish to be in our light spectrum, so the forces they may
control could be demonstrated with or without their presence.”
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There does appear to be significant differences, however, in

classic UFO sightings and reports of objects near crop circles. Many
people, including author Whitley Strieber, have reported circles near
the scenes of UFO sightings. These tend to be circular areas that give
evidence of a crushing weight with occasional signs of charring or
smoldering such as experienced by New Mexico patrolman Lonnie
Zamora. UFO sightings usually involve sizable craft in a variety of
shapes, whereas crop circle sightings mostly have been of small balls of
light or spinning globes. It may be that two distinct phenomena are at
work here with one having little or no relation to the other.

Misunderstood Messages
Many researchers, after studying the geometry, complicated swirls and
braiding, cellular changes, and their undetectable creation, have con­
cluded that crop circles must involve nonhuman intelligence. Physicist
and astronomer Archie Roy of Glasgow University is convinced
mankind is encountering an advanced intelligence.
Are there indications of intelligent thought behind the circles?
The answer appears to be yes, especially in light of the work of scien­
tist Gerald S. Hawkins, already well known for his studies of Stone­
henge as an ancient observatory. Hawkins, retired chairman of Boston
University’s Astronomy Department and a science adviser to the direc­
tor of the U.S. Information Agency, became intrigued by the crop
circles while visiting England in 1990. He discovered geometric rela­
tionships in several circles that matched the diatonic ratios of the
musical scale.
Hawkins explained, “A ratio in the diatonic scale is the step up
in pitch from one note to another. It can be measured exactly. From C
to G is an increase of 1.5 times, or the ratio of 3 over 2. The whole set
makes an octave of eight white notes on the piano.
“As a careful scientist, I’m not saying the patterns are musical,
only that the sizes follow the same mathematical law as the intervals in
western music. The creators [of crop circles] seemed to know of these
fractions, taking care to encode them in the shapes so that they could
be retrieved by somebody studying aerial photographs. The accuracy
required in a typical 20-ineter circle is about 15 centimeters, or six
inches. Without the precisely-made edges, my analysis would not have
been possible.”
Studying the precise measurements of eighteen crop circle pat­
terns, Hawkins was able to find an exact match of geometric ratios in
eleven of them. His findings seemed to exclude the idea of natural
causes such as whirlwinds. Hawkins knew these measurements
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involved more than blind luck, so he began studying geometric rela­

tionships within other circles.
According to writer Ivars Peterson, Hawkins discovered five
separate geometric theorems concealed in crop circle geometry. “It
was the approach I had taken at Stonehenge. It wasn’t just one align­
ment here and nothing there. That would have had no significance,”
explained Hawkins. “It was the whole pattern of alignments with the
sun and moon over a long period that made it ring true to me. Once
you get a pattern, you know it probably won’t go away.”
Peterson wrote, “Remarkably, he could find none of these theo­
rems in the works of Euclid, the ancient Greek geometer who estab­
lished the basic techniques and rules of what is known as Euclidean
geometry7. He was also surprised at his failure to find the crop circle
theorems in any of the mathematics textbooks and references, ancient
and modem, that he consulted. . . . The hoaxers apparently had the
requisite knowledge not only to prove a Euclidean theorem but also to
conceive of an original theorem in the first place—a far more chal­
lenging task.” Following his discoveries, Hawkins sent a letter to con­
fessed hoaxers Doug and Dave asking how they wrere able to produce
“ingenious, previously unknown geometric theorems” in their circles.
No satisfactory answer was forthcoming.
Hawkins continued to seek the intelligence behind the circles
despite the scientific community’s willful indifference. “My scientific
colleagues have checked out the mathematics and they confinn what I
have discovered, but usually their interest stops there,” he said.
“Unless I can tell them how the circle makers have entered the fields
undetected, managing to bend living plants without cracking the
stalks, they regard the events as a problem of no scientific interest. I
suppose in our modern academic climate, it wrould be difficult for
them to get a grant for crop circle research. For me, I do not need a
grant, and I look beyond the circle makers’ newr communication tech­
nology7 to the intricate information conveyed.”
But at least one man didn’t have to rely on mathematical theo­
rems to obtain a message. Bryce Bond was walking in an English wheat
field after dark in the spring of 1991 when he suddenly found himself
paralyzed. He tried to scream but couldn’t find his voice. “Seconds
later,” he later recounted, “another voice . . . low and gentle was heard
in my head. It said, ‘Be at peace. We mean no harm. You are standing
in the middle of our craft. We are not of your dimension.' When the
paralysis wore off, Bond found himself in the middle of a crop circle.
Others without such direct experience have offered much spec­
ulation as to the meaning of the crop circles. As writer Vince Migliore
noted, “The crop circle problem is inextricably tangled with UFOs,
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psychic readings, ancient history, religious monuments, ley lines,

mythology, occult Earth sciences, metaphysics and spirituality. This
‘borderland’ can be viewed as a quagmire or the mother lode, depend­
ing on your point of view.”
One idea finding currency in both Britain and the United States
is that the circles are the manifestation of energy from the living
Earth, sometimes referred to as Gaia. Several researchers have
reported their recording equipment registering audible oddities within
crop circles, such as noises, static, and humming. “This suggests that
there are transients present all across the electromagnetic spectrum—
from DC to daylight, as technicians would call it,” noted Migliore.
“Whether the medium is microwaves, radio waves or audio frequency
radiation, the point is that some sentient mind is responsible for it.”
Mother Earth or Gaia is crying out against man’s misuse and abuse of
her natural resources, so the idea goes.
The concept of organic energy is quite similar to the idea of a
primal life-giving force called “orgone energy” by psychoanalyst Dr.
Wilhelm Reich, who died while imprisoned by U.S. authorities in
1956 for selling “orgone” boxes for personal therapeutic use, despite
the support of Albert Einstein and others.
Such beliefs have led some circle researchers to the use of dows­
ing rods in an effort to determine if energy, or ley, lines play a pan in
the phenomenon. Interestingly enough, while conventional science
discounts the validity' of dowsing, some researchers claimed to have
found consistent energy lines within circles, especially along a major
axis and at ninety-degree tangents to the edge of rectangles. Psychics
also have been used to study the crop circles, and several report they
are the product of an energy flow toward the earth that is spiritual in
nature.
One researcher, Jon Erik Beckjord, claimed “it is simply invisi­
ble UFOs that are using force-beams to ‘write’ the crop circle pic­
tograms, in all countries they occur” in a four-thousand-year-old
Norse language called Tifinag. Beckjord said it was highly unlikely
that “a crew of Tifinag-knowledgeable hoaxers were cruising around,
making 30-50 crop forms per day during the season. ..He added
that “Alien logic is not human logic” and that the aliens don’t like
world leaders, so they bypass them. “The vibes are wrong,” he
explained, “so they—illogically to us—approach simple people, good
people, nice people, psychic people—people with little or no power”
with their crop messages. While admitting his translations are “specu­
lative” and “more like an art or craft than science,” Beckjord claimed
to perceive such crop messages as “This is the place of the Serpent or
devil, an evil place” and “This is a dangerous place to camp.”
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Researcher Dennis Stacy criticized Beckjord, asking, “Which of

the world’s many anomalous phenomena couldn't be explained by the
introduction of invisible UFOs. Why stop at crop circles ... ?” Point­
ing out numerous flaws in Beckjord’s theory, Stacy noted, “Trying to
make sense of the symbolic meaning of the circles has resulted already
in interpretations based on ancient Sumerian and Semitic languages, as
well as modem weather chart symbology! Tifinag ... is only the latest
such fruitless search.”
Stacy and many other UFO researchers have expressed the diffi­
culty they have in believing that space aliens who have the knowledge
to travel to Earth from light-years away couldn’t devise a better means
of communication than etching out incomprehensible symbols in some
grain field. This rational thought argues well for the idea that if indeed
the crop circles are communications, they may not be intended for us.
Author Peter Hewitt, who has written about the supernatural
within a scientific framework, suggested that the circle messages may
come from earthly intelligences long mentioned in legends and myths
as fairies, pixies, dryads, satyrs, and elves. “No one any longer believes
in or attends to the nature spirits. But they want recognition,”
explained Hewitt. “The circles are their graffiti.”
Some researchers with an even more mystical bent, such as
George Wingfield, see the crop circles as messages aimed at the
human subconscious, signaling a new step in the evolution of human
consciousness. Pragmatists like Dennis Stacy see them as meaningless
expressions of nature like rainbows and waterspouts. “The Circles are
saying nothing more than we humans force them to say,” commented
Stacy. “We don’t argue, for the most part, that a sunbeam is sending us
a particular message.”
Vince Migliore, on the other hand, sees just such a message.
“One view is that [the subject of crop circles] should simply be appre­
ciated for its beauty and mystery. For instance, are the northern lights
or the dance-language of the bumblebee any less awe-inspiring now
that scientists can explain the phenomena?” he wrote. “Aren’t they still
beautiful and astounding? And, aren’t these same documented wonders
still studied because the observer is forced to decide whether this is
just some quirk of Nature, or is it, like the rainbow, a sign, a promise
from God, that he is loved?”
Hewitt speculated that once the novelty of the circles has worn
off—for both us and the makers—they will cease.
Events proved otherwise. Classic crop circles of even more elab­
orate and complex designs were reported during the 1996 crop season
in England. According to circle researcher Andy Thomas, one intri­
cate design composed of more than 140 circles of various sizes appar-
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ently was created within a half hour in July 1996 in a field adjoining
Stonehenge. “A pilot flew over the field at around 5:30 P.M. and there
was no formation,” reported Thomas. “When he returned shortly
before 6 P.M., there it was.”
Hoaxing can account for only a small percentage of the world’s
mysterious crop circles, and natural phenomena have been pretty well
ruled out, especially in light of the latest scientific findings. Other than
to ignore the subject, one is compelled to begin thinking of the circles
in terms of signs from a nonhuman intelligence—whether from Earth
or elsewhere. Many researchers, such as Michael M. Chorost, who has
studied crop circles firsthand since 1990, claim there are two possibili­
ties if the circles are communications; Either humans have failed to
interpret them or their content is not meant for us. The question as to
why an advanced intelligence could create these mysterious circles but
can’t seem to find a way to communicate with us lends support to the
latter possibility.
The arguments over the meaning of such messages will
undoubtedly continue for some time. One thing is certain: Attempts to
understand nonhuman or alien intelligence has caused many thought­
ful people to search deep within the mental and spiritual nature of
humanity for insights and answers. Some of these people were in the
U.S. military, and what they discovered was almost as unbelievable as
the UFO phenomenon itself.
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MIND'S EYE
One day in the fall of 1985, according to author and Pulitzer Prize
nominee Howard Blum, a collection of ranking military officers met in
a lead-lined conference hall on the third floor of the Old Executive
Office Building across from the White House to watch a psychic in
action.
Seated in front of the officers and the president’s science adviser
were two Stanford Research Institute (SRI) scientists and a man
known for his psychic abilities.
The occasion was a demonstration of the phenomenon known
as remote viewing (RV)—the ability to mentally perceive a person,
place, or thing from any distance by other than the normal five senses.
It was a psychic ability that had been studied and developed by U.S.
intelligence and the military’ for more than a decade at that point. But
on this day, what to most people was extraordinary moved into the
fantastic.
After the psychic successfully described the country dacha of
Mikhail Gorbachev by coordinate remote viewing, a second test was
begun. This one was designed to demonstrate the use of RV against
submarines. A series of photographs depicting various submarines
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were shown to the viewer. He calmly gave their current locations: One
Soviet sub was oft the coast of Iceland, another located in international
waters off the coast of South Carolina.
But the last photo—that of a Soviet Delta-class submarine—
caused the viewer some consternation. He hesitated as though he had
seen something unexpected.
The viewer announced that the sub was patrolling a sector of
ocean between Maine and Nova Scotia. But he hesitated again. There
was more, but he appeared uncomfortable in saying so. More than one
member of the audience thought the viewer appeared frightened.
"What is it?” asked one of the scientists.
The viewer explained that w hile searching for the submarine he
had seen something else at the same coordinates, something that hov­
ered above the submarine.
“Was it an airplane?” queried the scientist. The remote viewer
w ould only shrug his shoulders.
The viewer was asked to sketch w'hat he saw; He rapidly began
drawing circles; one was elongated, apparently the submarine. But
above this was a circle with no wings.
Asked if he saw a rocket, the remote viewer again would only
shrug. Finally, expressing the hopes or fears of many in the room, the
scientist said, “Well, w'hat else could it be? I mean, you’re not going to
tell me it’s a flying saucer.”
“Yes,” replied the viewer, “thats it exactly.”
Despite this brush with the fantastic, Naval Intelligence and the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) accepted the legitimacy of the
demonstration and within six months launched a classified operation
using remote viewers to seek Soviet submarines called Project Aquarius.
“Over the next 14 months there were at least 17 recorded sightings of
‘hovering unidentified flying objects’ by the scanning participants in
Project Aquarius,” reported Blum. It is unclear if this was the same Proj­
ect Aquarius mentioned in the MJ-12 briefing documents.
The 1985 demonstration and its acceptance by high-ranking
military, intelligence, and science officials was just one more episode in
a long history of Washington duplicity. While officially scoffing at any
publicized report on UFOs, various government agencies quietly con­
tinued to give serious attention to such matters, even to the extent of
using psychic remote viewers.
And why not? After all, nearly all modem UFO close encoun­
ters appear to involve some form of telepathy or mind-to-mind com­
munication. Many abductees report that their captors communicate by
mental means. They “hear” alien voices inside their own head.
Abductees Betty and Barney Hill, Betty Andreasson, and Iravis Wai-
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ton, among many others, all said they never saw their captors’ mouths
move but instead “felt” their thoughts.
If alien visitors are using mental or psychic powers to communi­
cate with humans, perhaps humans could use those same powers to
penetrate the alien agenda. In fact, many people familiar with remote
viewing believe this process may be the best method yet available to
penetrate the UFO enigma. If this is so, the question becomes, do
humans indeed have such a psychic capability and can it be proven
reliable?
The U.S. government, based on the fact of continued funding
and study by both the military and intelligence agencies, obviously
believes the answers to these questions are in the affirmative. To
understand how they arrived at such a controversial conclusion, one
must study the history of psychic phenomena.

The Bible Tells Me So

All of the world’s great religious texts, from the Bible to the Koran to
those of Oriental mysticism, contain a wealth of stories involving
prophecy, visions, and spiritual instruction. And all seem to involve
visual input. The biblical book of Isaiah opens with the statement
“These are the messages that came to Isaiah, son of Amoz, in the
visions he saw during the reigns of King Uzziah, King Jotham, King
Ahaz and King Hezakiah—all kings of Judah.”
According to the Holman Bible Dictionary, early biblical prophets
influenced almost every institution of Israel, despite the fact that they
often were viewed with contempt, locked up, ignored, and persecuted.
Prophets formed guilds or schools and their assistants recorded their
words for posterity.
Biblical prophecy was not limited to men. In the Old Testament
book of Judges, we find that a “prophetess” named Deborah provided
the Israelite leader Barak with information about the military disposi­
tion of Sisera, the commander of the forces of the King of Canaan.
Sisera’s forces were routed and thus Deborah, using psychic intelli­
gence, played a pivotal role in the conquest of the Promised Land.
Even in the New Testament, prophecy and visions played an
important role as the messianic plan unfolded. Saint Paul offered some
advice on prophecy that modern people might well take to heart. “Do
not scoff at those who prophesy, but test everything that is said to be
sure if it is true, and if it is, then accept it,” he advised church members
in Thessalonica.
Prophecy also figured largely in ancient Greek literature from
Homer to Aristophanes—and in Greek history as well. According to
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the Greek historian Herodotus. King Croesus desired to learn strate­

gic military information from the available prophets and oracles. But
he was skeptical and wanted to assure himself of their accuracy. So
about the year 550 B.C., Croesus conducted the first recorded test of
psychic abilities. He sent messengers to the top seven oracles of his
day with instructions to approach the oracles exactly one hundred days
after their departure. They were to ask the oracles to describe what the
king was doing on that day. On the appointed day, Croesus chose an
unkingly activity—he cooked up a stew of lamb and tortoise using a
bronze kettle.
Only the oracle at Delphi correctly reported the king’s activity,
stating,

“Can I not number all the grains of sand, and measure all the water
tn the sea?
Tho’a man speak not I can understand;
Nor are the thoughts of dumb men hid from me.
A tortoise boiling with a lamb I smell:
Bronze underlies and covers them as well.”

King Croesus, having satisfied himself of the Delphic oracle’s

accuracy; asked jf he should cross the Hal vs mountains and attack
Cyrus of Persia. The oracle replied, “When Croesus has the Halys
crossed, a mighty’ empire will be lost.” Croesus, thinking his plans
were promised success, attacked Cyrus. But Croesus was defeated and
it was his “mighty empire” that was lost. This experience attests to
both the problem of correctly interpreting psychic information and
correctly relaying that information.
Such accounts continued throughout history; Joan of Arc was a
visionary and diviner who used her power of supernatural sight co
great advantage during her battles to liberate France from the English.
But the visions of Saint Joan pale when compared to the most
famous of medieval seers—Michel de Nostredame, better known to
history as Nostradamus. Nostradamus, already well respected in his
own time as a physician and scientist, assured his place in history as a
prophet by the publication of his book Centuries in 1555, which
included accurate predictions even to naming future leaders such as
“PAU, NAY, LORON”—a fairly obvious anagram for NAPAULON
ROY, Napoleon the King—Franco as a leader of Spain, and a Ger­
manic tyrant Nostradamus called HISTER.
There was a legitimate reason for such word games. Due to the
zeal of the Inquisition, Nostradamus was forced to use a skillful com­
bination of puns, anagrams, and scientific and astrological jargon to
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prevent his arrest as a practitioner of witchcraft. Actually; Nos­

tradamus, whose family included men educated in both the Christian
and Jewish traditions, became a devout Christian and always attributed
his prophetic insight to powers given by God.
While admittedly there is no certain interpretation of all of
Nostradamus’s writings, his predictions have been uncannily correct in
many instances, enough so that everyone who has studied the French
seer at any length has realized that his accuracy rating went far beyond
any simple trick or ingenious interpretation.
In Centuries, Nostradamus described how he gained his
prophetic insights. He would closet himself at night in a secret study
and place a cup of water on a brass tripod. After quieting his mind,
Nostradamus would stare into the water until, acquiring a meditative
state, he would see visions of the future. This method is strikingly sim­
ilar to that devised for remote viewing.
A more modern parapsychological researcher was Charles
Richet, a member of the Society for Psychical Research founded in
1882. A professor of physiology' at the University of Paris medical
school and a Nobel Prize winner, Richet studied clairvoyance by hav­
ing subjects identify plating cards placed in opaque envelopes, thus
pioneering the methods later used by the well-known psychic
researcher J. B. Rhine.
Joseph Banks Rhine and his wife, Louisa, both became heavily
involved in psychic research at Duke University in Durham, North
Carolina. The thrust of the Rhines’ experimentation was initially sta­
tistical. Using specially designed cards, hundreds of subjects would try
to guess which card would come up next. The Rhines and their associ­
ates had by 1932 clearly demonstrated the existence of psychic phe­
nomena. Rhine applied the term “extrasensory perception” (ESP) to
his findings. But, perhaps more importantly, he had demonstrated that
ESP involved natural relationships in the same manner as ordinary
psychological phenomena.
From 1927 until J. B. Rhine’s death in 1970, the husband-and-
wrife team produced a prodigious quantity of scientific papers demon­
strating the existence of both ESP and psychokinesis (PK), the ability
to move physical objects. This exciting research into psychic phenom­
ena was presented in dry papers with titles such as “Experiments Bear­
ing on the Precognition Hypothesis: Pre-shuffling Card Calling” and
“A Review of the Pearce-Pratt Distance Series of ESP Tests.”
The Rhines did have their fair share of critics. Yet over the years
they quietly, yet steadfastly, answered every criticism that came up. In
1940, the Rhines, along with other parapsychologists, produced a hook
entitled Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years, a compendium of
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psychical research up to that time. The research in this book was so

careful and scientific that the book became assigned reading for intro­
ductory psychology classes at Harvard for the 1940-41 academic year.
Even the most cursory look back over the historical record of
psychic phenomena should convince the most ardent skeptic that there
is definitely something beyond the five human senses at work. Louisa
Rhine wrote in 1967, “The ESP process has revealed itself, or enough
of itself, in the studies of parapsychology so far made, that a consistent
outline of it can now be seen. Naturally, because parapsychology as a
science is very young, knowledge about this process is still far from
being complete. No doubt it will be a long time before many of the
puzzles it presents can be fully resolved. Even so, there is little ques­
tion that the outline of its progress as traced from the deep uncon­
scious into the consciousness is a true one. . .
Psychic research continued despite objections within the ortho­
dox scientific community; and much headway was made. Techniques
such as “ganzfield” sensory deprivation experiments and “meta-analysis”
or an all-inclusive study of psychic experiments proved successful in
proving the existence of psychic phenomena. “Several lines of parapsy­
chological research are undoubtedly producing consistent, reliable
effects that cannot be attributed to chance, poor methodology; or the
vagaries of a few experimenters or unusual studies,” noted Dr. Richard
S. Broughton, a former president of the International Parapsychologi­
cal Association.
One of those researchers who produced consistent and reliable
effects was New York artist/scientist Ingo Swann, who had experienced
psychic incidents since childhood. In the early 1970s, Swann met with
Cleve Backster, a New York polygraph operator who in 1966 had made
the amazing discovery that plants hooked up to the polygraph machine
registered responses to outside stimuli just like humans.
His finding—now termed the “Backster effect”—was the object
of an immensely popular 1973 book entitled The Secret Life of Plants.
After finding that any living tissue, including even the bacilli of yogurt,
exhibited reactions on his graphs, Backster concluded, “Sentience does
not seem to stop at the cellular level. It may go down to the molecular,
the atomic and even the subatomic. All sorts of things which have been
conventionally considered to be inanimate may have to be re-evaluated.”
Swann worked in Backster’s lab for about a year. Backster’s
work, verified and augmented by other scientists around the world,
convinced Swann that something very real was transpiring on a psy­
chic or subconscious level.
By the end of 1971, Swann was engaged in psychic experimen­
tation with Dr. Karlis Osis and his assistant Janet Mitchell at the
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American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York. This

work was done under the auspices of Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler with
the Department of Psychology at the City College of the City Univer­
sity of New York and a board member of ASPR. The results of this
experimentation were generally good, with more “hits” than “misses.”
But, on at least two occasions, the tests resulted in something
quite extraordinary. On March 3, 1972, the target box had been lined
with white paper and Swann reported that there was printing on a por­
tion of the paper. The tester commented that this test was a “miss”
because there was no printing on the paper. “To everyone’s chagrin,
when the box was taken down and inspected, there was the printing
just as I felt I had seen,” recalled Swann. It seems the person lining the
box had missed the printing.
In another instance, Swann was valiantly trying to view the
inside of a lighted box, but all he perceived was darkness. “The god­
damned light is out over the target,” he shouted to the testers, who
replied, “Impossible!” However, when one of the monitors climbed a
tall ladder to reach the target box, it was discovered that the light had
indeed gone out, just as Swann had perceived. With results like this,
Swann’s psychic ability began to flower and the concept of remote
viewing drew nearer.

Viewing Remotely
It was during this work for Dr. Schmeidler and Dr. Osis that Swann and
Mitchell first used the term “remote viewing.” “It was coined to identify
a particular kind of experiment—not a particular kind of psi ability,”
Swann later wrote. “I suggested that we call [these experiments]
‘remote-sensing.’ Shortly, though, it became clear that I didn’t just sense
the sites, but experienced mental-image pictures of them in a visualizing
kind of way. Without at all thinking much about it, and before the end
of 1971, we began referring to the long-distance experiments as remote­
viewing ones, since this term seemed the most suitable.”
During this time Swann learned of a proposal from Dr. Harold
E. Puthoff, a physicist at Stanford Research Institute (SRI)—now
called SRI International—in Menlo Park, California. Puthoff wanted
to study basic research into quantum biology and had no interest in
psychic phenomena. But, after several conversations with Swann, both
men agreed to test remote viewing, but only under the strictest scien­
tific protocols. This began nearly twenty years of remote viewing
study at SRI. It was “the most severely monitored scientific experiment
in history,” according to Jack Anderson investigator Ron McRae.
During his time at SRI, Swann devised a method of using coordi-
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nates to determine a remote viewing target without telling the viewer

what was at the location in advance. By giving a viewer the name of a
target—such as the Eiffel Tower—the viewer automatically could draw
on memory’ and his own imagination to produce a picture of the target.
“I did some experiments at the ASPR in which I moved my
viewpoint to some remote location and described what was there. That
was fun to do and the studies were statistically significant,” Swann
recalled. “I said I think I could look anywhere in the world if you just
gave me some coordinates like latitude and longitude. Let’s design an
experiment around that!”
And with that suggestion, coordinate remote viewing moved
into the SRI laboratory. At first it was hit and miss. But in a final run of
ten coordinate remote viewing tests, Swann was given seven “hits” by
independent judges and only one clear “miss” indicating that, like his
experience at the ASPR, his ability improved as he went along.
Swann would simply be presented a set of coordinates and he
would describe what he “saw” at those coordinates. A world atlas
would be consulted—National Geographic was found to be an excellent
reference source—and the researchers would get immediate feedback.
The Australian desert, Madagascar, Hong Kong, Borneo, the Great
Salt Lake, Mount Shasta, the Yukon, and the Indian Ocean were just a
few of the sites given to Swann only as coordinates.
In a 1993 interview, Swann said there was one particular remote
viewing session that convinced him of the reality of the phenomenon.
“They were using a wall map to get their coordinates,” he recalled.
“Now this map had a picture of Lake Victoria in Africa, so they
plunked a coordinate down right in the middle of the lake. I reported a
land-water interface, a peninsula getting narrow here, etc. They said,
‘Well, that’s not correct,’ and I said, ‘It has to be correct, I mean that’s
what I saw.’ I told them that the wall map ratio was pretty small and
suggested that we consult a bigger map of Lake Victoria.
“So away we went and jumped in the car. We went over to a
bookstore and Hal had to plunk down SI 10 for this huge atlas. We
opened it right away, right there in the store, and there in Lake Victoria,
on this larger-scale map, was a land peninsula sticking out with a narrow’
point. Bingo! There was the coordinate right over it. They didn’t knowr
that—nobody knew that. I said, ‘Okay, Hal, this is what I’m going to
offer the client as a repeatable experiment Believe me, it is repeatable. So
that is how it got started.”
Their chief “client” proved to be the Central Intelligence
Agency. CIA officers were responding to the public’s reaction to a
1970 book entitled Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Shiel a
Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. This books postulated that the United
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States was lagging behind the Soviets in psychic research based on the
authors’ tour of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
According to Puthoff, two CIA men approached him at SRI in
1972. “They knew of my previous background as a Naval Intelligence
Officer and then civilian employee at the National Security Agency
several years earlier, and felt they could discuss their concerns with me
openly,” Puthoff recalled. “There was, they told me, increasing con­
cern in the intelligence community about the level of effort in Soviet
parapsychology being funded by the Soviet security forces; by Western
scientific standards the field was considered nonsense by most working
scientists. As a result they had been on the lookout for a research labo­
ratory outside of academia that could handle a quiet, low-profile classi­
fied investigation, and SRI appeared to fit the bill. They asked me if I
could arrange an opportunity for them to carry out some simple exper­
iments with Swann, and, if the tests proved satisfactory, would I con­
sider a pilot program along these lines? I agreed, ...”
This remote viewing study—dubbed Project SCANATE
(SCANning by coordinATE)—proved so successful that CIA funding
continued until 1976, when the psychic program was taken up by the
U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). More
than a dozen military intelligence officers were trained using protocols
developed at SRI and, in 1976, were formed into Detachment G, also
known as Project GRILL FLAME, located at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Over the years, the project was variously known as CENTER LANE,
SUN STREAK, and STARGATE.
This unorthodox military unit of psychic operatives—or psi
spies—was the creation of Maj. Gen. Ed Thompson, then the army’s
assistant chief of staff for intelligence. “I became convinced that
remote viewing was a real phenomenon, that it wasn’t a hoax,” recalled
Thompson. “We didn’t know how to explain it, but we weren’t so
much interested in explaining it as in determining whether there was
any practical use to it.”
Although apparently never utilized as a primary intelligence
source—prejudice among ranking officers against anything psychic
remained strong—remote viewing was used to locate enemy military
installations, rocket-launching sites, and submarines. In the Gulf War,
it was used in an attempt to locate Saddam Hussein’s biochemical
weapon stockpiles.
It was learned that multiple viewers strengthened the accuracy
of any remote viewing. The more viewers involved, the more reliable
the information, just as at an auto accident scene where a symthesis of
eyewitness testimony generally produces near 100 percent accuracy.
That the army, and later the DIA, believed there were credible
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and practical benefits to be gained from remote viewing is attested to

by the fact that both RV studies and the operational psi spies unit were
continued until mid-1995. Then, following the abrupt and unusual
cancellation of a major book on the subject, the CIA first admitted its
role in psychic research. Although the story was covered on ABC-TV’s
Nightline and the Washington newspapers, little or no coverage of the
remote viewing story made it into local media. The American public
remains largely ignorant of the intense and lengthy government study
of this psychic phenomenon and its use as an intelligence tool.
A CIA-commissioned report issued on September 29, 1995, by
the American Institutes for Research tried to downplay the issue.
While admitting that “a statistically significant effect has been
observed in the recent laboratory experiences of remote viewing,” the
report writers nevertheless concluded that “continued support for the
operational component of the current program is not justified.” Echo­
ing the position of the mainstream scientific community, the report
stated, “To say a phenomenon has been demonstrated, we must know
the reasons for its existence.” In other words, if we don’t know how
something works, it must not be truly working. It was the old conflict
of mind-sets all over again.
An official CIA statement swept the issue even further under the
rug by claiming that the remote viewing program, “always considered
speculative and controversial—was determined to be unpromising.”
What was not explained to the public was why this “unpromising” psy­
chic program had continued under at least three separate government
organizations and four presidents for more than a quarter of a century.
The reason, quite simply, was that remote viewing works. Or as
Puthoff stiffly put it in a formal report, “The integrated results [of the
RV studies] appear to provide unequivocal evidence of a human capac­
ity to access events remote in space and time, however falteringly, by
some cognitive process not yet understood.”
Another aspect of the psi spies program conspicuously absent
from the media stories was that every remote viewer had, at one time
or another, encountered UFOs in their mental searches. Initially
ordered to locate high-flying, high-performance aircraft in order to
view new Soviet technology, the psi spies were amazed to discover
craft that did not originate on Earth.
The laboratory studies of remote viewing had demonstrated
that the phenomenon is not limited by time or space. Some viewers
were able to perceive persons at a specific location even before they
arrived. And no amount of distance seemed to diminish the viewer’s
insights. It has been speculated that space exploration may be one of
the most important and cost-effective applications of remote viewing.
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A View from Space

The use of remote viewing in space exploration was confirmed in the
early 1970s, when Ingo Swann recorded his impressions of various
bodies in our solar system. His visions were taken lightly at the time,
but later confirmed by various NASA deep space missions.
While undergoing endless tests with the SRI scientists, Swann
grew eager for some diversion. “In the midst of this desperation during
March, 1973, I noted with growing interest the approaching bypass of
NASAs Pioneer 10 spacecraft with the distant planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10
would begin to send back data about Jupiter approximately December
3, nine months away. Wouldn’t it be interesting if a psychic probe of
Jupiter could be compared to the eventual feedback from Pioneer 10:”
Swann mused.
Swann, in conjunction with another psychic, Harold Sherman,
conducted a remote viewing of Jupiter on April 27, 1973. The
recorded impressions of both Swann and Sherman were virtually iden­
tical.
Swann’s description stated, “There’s a planet with stripes. I hope
it’s Jupiter. I think that it must have an extremely large hydrogen man­
tle. If a space probe made contact with that, it would be maybe
80,000-120,000 miles out from the planet’s surface. . .. Very high in
the atmosphere there are crystals, they glitter, maybe the stripes are
like bands of crystals, maybe like the rings of Saturn, though not far
out like that, very close to the atmosphere. ... Now, I’ll go down
through. . .. Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look
beautiful from the outside. From the inside they look like rolling gas
clouds—eerie yellow light, rainbows. I get the impression, though I
don’t see, that it’s liquid. Then I came though the cloud cover, the sur­
face looks like sand dunes. They’re made of very large grade crystals so
they slide. Tremendous winds sort of like maybe the prevailing winds
of Earth but very close to the surface of Jupiter. From that view the
horizon looks orangish or rose colored but overhead it’s kind of green­
ish-yellow. If I look to the right, there is an enormous mountain
range... . Those mountains are huge but they still don’t poke up
through the crystal cloud cover.... I see something that looks like a
tornado. Is there a thermal inversion here? I bet there is. . . . I’ll move
more towards the equator. I get the impression that there must be a
band of crystals similar to the outer ones, kind of bluish. They seem to
be sort of in orbit, permanent orbit down through another layer far­
ther down which are like our clouds but moving fast. . . . Tremendous
wind. It’s colder here. Maybe it’s because there’s not a thermal inver­
sion there.. . . The atmosphere of Jupiter is very thick.”
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Crystal rings? An atmosphere? These were ridiculous concepts

at the time. Even after the passage of Pioneer 10, there was not enough
data to substantiate Swann’s descriptions. SRI scientist Puthoff said,
“In post-experiment discussions with astronomers, the consensus was
that the results of our experiment were not at odds with either what
was already known or what additional data were radioed back by the
flyby, but no definite evaluation could be made either.”
Full confirmation of Swann’s descriptions did not come until six
years later with the 1979 Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.
Time magazine reported, “The most unexpected phenomenon,
however, occurred when Voyager began detecting a stream of matter
inside the orbit of Amalthea [one of Jupiter’s satellites]. Fortunately,
mission controllers had programmed the camera shutter to remain
open for 11.2 minutes on the remote chance—no one took the possi­
bility' very seriously—that Jupiter had some kind of ring. To everyone’s
amazement, Voyager's time exposure produced a streaky image that the
scientists could explain only as a ring of boulder-sized debris. The
findings seemed so unlikely that the NASA team delayed making the
information public for several days while the data were checked and
rechecked. Saturn was long the only planet known to have rings and
considered to be the only one that could have them. In 1977 that the­
ory was shattered with the discovery of rings around the planet
Uranus. Jupiter itself was surveyed earlier by the Pioneer 10 and 11
spacecraft, but it is easy to see why no Jovian ring was found. Jupiter’s
is almost paper thin, perhaps 1 km (0.6 miles) high and impossible to
view from earth.”
But not impossible for Ingo Swann to have remote-viewed six
years earlier. Many other Jovian features described by Swann were
confirmed by the later NASA missions: the high winds, towering
mountain ranges, and thick cloud cover.
On March 11, 1974, Swann made a mental trip to the planet
Mercury in anticipation of the upcoming Mariner 10 flyby. This
remote viewing session was monitored by Dr. Janet Mitchell. Swann’s
comments were recorded, transcribed, notarized, and deposited by
noon, March 13, with various parties, including the Central Premoni­
tions Registry in New York.
He stated, “I guess I have to go in the direction of the Sun, so I
can see the Moon in back of me. There we go. Do you suppose Mer­
cury has—what shall we call it?—a magnetosphere. Like a circular
sphere of magnetism, of magnetic belts around it, except with Mer­
cury, they are not a sphere but on the sun side of Mercury, it is set
closer to the planet’s surface and on the far side of the planet, it is sort
of pushed out into space. . . . Everything seems very clear. Oh, I don’t
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know why! There seems to be a thin atmosphere, but it is not enough

to—it doesn’t make a blue sky like on earth, so you see blackness
except where the sun is, maybe it is purple, I guess. There is not much
haze. I get the impression of humidity—water. And tides, huge tides;
liquid tides ... as the planet turns, the sun creates waves of earth tides,
so that the surface has lots of cracks and fissures. The gravity must be
uneven, pulling more towards the sun at all times. I see clouds—elec­
trical storms now. These clouds come and go very fast and they form
sort of on the day side of the planet, on the two peripheries of the day
side. I see rainbows that seem to leap up. They arch—they are more
like auroras, I guess. On the surface there is both a liquid—it seems
heavier than water—but liquid. It’s water of some sort and land tides,
both water tides and land tides and a fast condensation cycle. I guess
that is what you would call it. This creates the leaping rainbows in all
directions sometimes. It must have different gravities, depending upon
which side you are on. It’s beautiful—God, it’s beautiful. ... I see land
masses, but they look waterwashed, as if the water just twirls around
the planet all the time. ... It seems a lovely little planet. There are dif­
ferences in land masses, in a way mountainous, but not too mountain­
ous. Everything looks chewed down, I guess because of the land tides.
I’d say that the planet is characterized by sort of a low-keyed electric
magnetic splendor. That’s all.”
Swann’s detailed description of Mercury was thought to be a
novel oddity by those few astronomers who read the report. After all,
it was established dogma in scientific circles that Mercury had no
atmosphere, no magnetic field, and no ionosphere.
The established view of the planet was overturned less than a
month later when the Mariner 10 flyby began producing man’s first
close-up photographic view of Mercury.
Science News reported, “Until last week, the majority of planet-
ologists felt, with good reason, that Mercury was a pretty nothing
planet. No atmosphere—the solar wind would blow it away—no mag­
netic field—the planet’s slow rotation would not create the dynamo
effect necessary to sustain one—no ionosphere—no magnetic field to
trap the ionized particles—no moons. All in all a dull world. Now it is
‘strange,’ ‘startling,’ ‘spooky,’ and ‘fascinating,’ all thanks to a few days
of observations by Mariner 10. The first spacecraft ever to fly by Mer­
cury has taken close-up photos which reveal a heavily cratered surface
and transmitted reams of surprising data that invalidates many of the
theories about the sun’s nearest and smallest planet.”
One by one, Swann’s remote viewing observations about Mer­
cury were proven correct as the data from Mariner 10 continued to
come in. Science News reported, “A major surprise was the discovery
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that the supposedly airless world has an atmosphere. . . . The atmo­

sphere is extremely thin, less than one hundred-billionth as dense as
earth’s . . . but is indisputably there. . . . The most significant discovery
about the atmosphere ... was the existence of a helium ‘tail’ streaming
out from Mercury in a direction away from the sun. It was significant
because shaping the tail was another unexpected Mercury feature, a
magnetic field. . .. About 20 minutes before the spacecraft reached its
closest distance to Mercury—about 466 miles—there were very clear
signs of a bow shock, a shock front formed by the solar wind ricochet­
ing off the planet’s enveloping magnetic field, of which the moon has
little or none.... There are definite signs of lava flows suggesting vol­
canic activity and long, not-too-twisted cliffs and fissures pointing to a
planet with at least a somewhat active history.”
A year later, Mercury s magnetic field was confirmed as
Mariner 10 again swung close to the planet. Snewe News reported,
“Surviving a knuckle-whitening last-minute cliffhanger, the crippled
Mariner 10 spacecraft this week revealed that the magnetic field of
Mercury, a complete surprise when the probe first detected it a year
ago, is definitely the planet’s own, intrinsic to Mercury, rather than
something generated from outside by some complex interaction with
the solar wind.”
Swann had correctly identified Mercury’s thin atmosphere,
magnetic field, and the helium trail streaming out from the planet
away from the sun. These observations were in direct contradiction to
the scientific thinking of the time. Swann certainly didn’t read about
such planetary attributes beforehand.
Since the credibility of remote viewing in space appeared estab­
lished by the Swrann experiments coupled with scientific feedback, seri­
ous consideration must be given to the off-planet experiences reported
by trained remote viewers. What sounds like the wildest fantasy to
most of the public became the norm for these government-trained
remote viewers. Knowing their superiors did not want to hear discom­
forting reports of UFOs and alien races, the psi spies created “Enigma
Files” in which they accumulated their most extraordinary cases. It was
a real-life forerunner of The X-Files. These cases involved remote
viewing sorties that went far beyond Earth.
Their work continued even after leaving the military. In 1989,
several of the military-trained viewers formed a private company
named PSI TECH Inc. They planned to offer their remote viewing
expertise to organizations and business. For several reasons—not the
least of which was lack of capital—all but one of the military remote
viewers had left PSI TECH by 1996.
One of PSI TECH’s clients was the short-lived Center for
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North American Crop Circle Studies in New Canaan, Connecticut,

which was studying the crop circle phenomenon.

How to Make a Circle

In June 1992, five experienced remote viewers made a study of the
mysterious crop circles, concentrating on a well-documented case at
Barbury Castle near Marlborough, England. It was considered a par­
ticularly good case because the circles were outstanding in their geo­
metric complexity and because witnesses heard pulsing hums in the air
and saw flashing lights in the sky.
In a final report, their “Key Assessments” were that the crop
circles arc not symbols intended as a message to man, but rather sign­
posts or reference marks produced by aliens moving in both space and
time. “At least 12 different species of extraterrestrials, all from differ­
ent points of origin, use and recognize these crop circles. Apparently a
great dual of importance is attached to these pictographs because these
vehicles often change direction after a flyby. Some stop in the vicinity
of the circles for what appears to be communications checks,” stated
the report, adding that crop fields arc selected as the medium for their
messages because they are temporary. Apparently, the aliens don’t want
permanent marks that would draw the attention of scientists and the
authorities. “This is not in the ‘game plan of these visitors, who are
attempting to maintain a covert presence, as much as operationally
possible.”
According to the RV report, these circular marks, or
similar ones, have been made for centuries, and their presence
has been reflected in mans stories of the supernatural, like the idea of
elves and their green rings, Navajo sand paintings showing sky “gods
and circles, and the figures on the plain of Nazca. Strongly associated
with these observing missions are indications that an intelligent
agency is/has been intervening in human affairs at critical
junctures,” the report noted. “Certain key historic events seem to have
been manipulated . . . [although it] is not determined whether the
agencies responsible for producing the circles arc themselves involved
in this intervention, or arc acting merely as ohservcrs/recordcrs.”
However, at least one of the remote viewers who participated in
the circle study said he got a different picture of the phenomenon than
was reflected in the report. Lyn Buchanan said he had no idea he was
supposed to be viewing the formation of crop circles. “Basically, I got
the impression of a teacher and some students sitting at desks which
moved in different patterns around the teacher. It was some type of
flight school and they were doing touch-and-goes, hut not on an air­
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field. Instead it was in tall grass. They would swoop down and stop at
certain points which would leave these patterns in the grass. The cir­
cles were not messages, but simply the result of their maneuvers.”
The report stated that to produce the crop circles, the aliens use
two different devices, which may have been used separately or in con­
junction with each other. One produces both heat and pressure waves
that bend and twist plant stalks in different directions. It also produces
a bursting effect within the plant’s cells. The other is a rotating glow­
ing globe, about fifteen inches in diameter, that produces a ray some­
what like a laser, but there is no transmission of energy. There are only
energetic effects at the ray’s target. This device disrupts and disables
the molecular structure of the plant, which collapses and falls over. It
accomplishes this with surgical, programmed precision, creating intri­
cate designs in the crop. It is interesting to note that the description of
these molecular changes perfectly matched recently published scien­
tific studies indicating just such effects.
By the time of the crop circle report, the concept of aliens visit­
ing the earth was nothing shocking to the military-trained remote
viewers. All had experiences that took them far beyond our world.
“During early training sessions, I was aware that there was some
sort of noise or interference—something outside the realm of my reality,”
recalled former army major David Morehouse, who entered the remote
viewing unit in 1988. “I was told, ‘You’ll find out all about that later.’”
Morehouse went on to have a wide variety of experiences beyond Earth.
He described other planets in other solar systems as well as dimensions
close to ours, all filled with beings both strange and wonderful.
Computer expert Lyn Buchanan said he was “blown away” by
his first remote viewing attempt. “What I got was a tall flagpole with a
large American flag on it,” he recalled. “I saw it from the vantage point
of standing on the wooden front porch of an abandoned dirty white
house nearby. The windows had no curtains and I described a table
with a gingham tablecloth I saw through the kitchen window. But then
I was told that I had missed it—that the target had been a water tower.
“But when we drove out to the water tower to get my feedback,
we found the water tower was blue with red and white stripes. I had
viewed my feedback, not the target. And then we found nearby an
abandoned dirty white house with a wooden front porch and no cur­
tains on the windows and we could see a gingham tablecloth on a table
in the kitchen. I was just overwhelmed by the experience but the most
surprising thing was that I was the only one surprised by it. Everyone
else—who had been remote viewing for some time—took it in stride.”
Buchanan recalled the first time he remote-viewed into space.
“It’s just like viewing things on Earth,” he said. “The first time I was
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given an ET [extraterrestrial] target I experienced bilocation—I call it

perfect site integration—where the mind is so absorbed that the viewing
experience seems real. I looked up and I was not in the room anymore
but in the mouth of a cave looking out on a desert with mountains in the
background. But the sky was too dark and the sun was too small. I real­
ized that I was not on Earth. It dawned on me that only a second or
two before I was in a remote viewing session. It scared me, and sud­
denly I was back in the room at Fort Meade.”
Mel Riley, who was among the first members of the Grill Flame
unit, also claimed to have visited other worlds and dimensions via
remote viewing. To him, it’s no big deal.
“It’s interesting that a bunch of soldiers, GIs, started out with
the skills to look inside of things and ended up doing these kinds of
things,” said Riley. “But all this has been such a part of my life for so
long that it’s just part of my life.”
Linda Anderson, another experienced remote viewer who was
trained by Buchanan, agreed. “There’s no doubt in my mind that it
works. But it took a while for me to think that I could really do it. I
don’t think of myself as a psychic. Now when strange things happen,
I’m not surprised anymore,” she said. “You want to say, ‘Yep, it just
works that way,’ but it’s still amazing. I thought it was amazing that
you can be trained to do this.” Anderson too said she has remote-
viewed beyond Earth. “I did that in training sessions,” she said, “but I
never knew where I was until after the session. We just seem so small.
There is so much out there in the universe.”
The psi spies said it is difficult to concentrate on the day-to-day
problems of Earth, once a person has traveled to other realms. “When
you can go out and see the universe, who wants to go look at a Russian
submarine?” quipped Riley.
“As remote viewers we went to places that were so beautiful.
And that’s about where your ability to describe it ends,” Morehouse
explained. “I guess one of the hardest things to fathom is that we are
all so insignificant. We’re just a small part of one dimension. And there
are other dimensions, dimensions with countless worlds in them.
Countless, I know that now. I’ve seen them. Our world is like one
page—one thin page in a thick encyclopedia, an encyclopedia with vol­
umes which stretch on forever. No beginning, no end. Worlds within
worlds. Places so beautiful that wc don’t have the ability to describe
them. You just can’t imagine what it’s like out there! We just don’t have
the ability to come back and describe to people what we’ve seen.”
But Morehouse did describe one visit to an extraordinary place.
It occurred during a remote viewing session in his home. Stretching
out on his couch, he began the process of allowing his mind to relax
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and clear. “This is going to be an open search,” he thought to himself.

“I’m just going to let my mind go and see what’s out there.” More­
house said he closed his eyes and felt his mind drifting on its own.
Suddenly he felt a faint yet familiar tearing. He had experienced
this before during out-of-body sessions. It was the onset of bilocation.
Opening his eyes, Morehouse found himself in a large chamber of
light. He was standing directly behind three huge golden thronelike
chairs covered with strange hieroglyphics. But what really caught his
attention was the three giant beings that occupied the chairs. They
wore great golden beards that flowed to their chests. They each wore
large golden helmets. They looked to him like Greek gods.
One of the beings turned and looked right at him. He was petri­
fied. He had no idea of where he was or if these beings were friendly.
He wanted to run but had no idea where to go. The great golden man,
for they all had the appearance of humans, looked at him, and More­
house felt as though feelings were being projected into him. Without
knowing why, he suddenly felt safe and secure. He somehow knew that
these three creatures meant him no harm.
The one who had acknowledged his presence returned to his
activity. “He knows I’m here, but he has nothing to say to me,” More­
house recalled thinking. “It would be like me noticing a fly on the wall
and then going back to work on my computer. I’m not mad at the fly. I
don’t mean it any harm. I’m just indifferent to it.”
Meeting no opposition, Morehouse slowly began shifting his
attention to his right. Passing the end figure, he notice a great golden
wall in front of the trio. The wall was filled with carvings in high relief,
and there were humanlike creatures standing in front of it. The carvings
or impressions were many and varied. Most were incomprehensible to
Morehouse. But one looked like a depiction of a sun, a circle with stylized
flames radiating out from it. The entire wrall was radiant and golden.
After a short time, Morehouse noticed that the three golden
men on the chairs seemed to be directing the people before them to
touch certain portions of the wall. He decided the wall must be some
sort of control panel, one that he couldn’t come close to explaining or
even understanding. But he was convinced that these people were run­
ning something by their work on this wall. As he stood in that strange
place and tried to make sense of his surroundings, he was suddenly
pulled away. Morehouse realized that his consciousness had returned
to his body lying on the couch in the living room of his home.
He said he lay still for a long time, thinking about his experi­
ence. He had experienced many dreams and this definitely was not a
dream. “I knew it. I felt it. My visit to the golden hall was as real as
anything I had ever experienced in my life,” he said.
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One of the sights most fascinating to remote viewers who have

soared through space is not the vehicles flying around with living
beings inside, but towers located on airless worlds throughout the
galaxy. They seem to be sort of relay towers. They claim these towers
appear to fling vehicles beyond light-speed from one part of the galaxy
to another, by passing time and space. “There are technologies
far ahead of us out there,” commented Morehouse.
All of the psi spies said such wondrous visions only strengthened
their religious beliefs. “Once you know, really know, that death is not
the end of your existence, then you are truly liberated, truly free,” said
Morehouse. “The only thing I can imagine it being like is going into
the presence of God and standing there in a four-dimensional world
where you can go forward in time and backwards in time—everything
at any given distance. Omniscient, omnipotent, that’s how you
become. That is the realm of God.
“We hear people stand in a pulpit and read words, saying God is
omniscient, omnipotent and all knowing. And we sit back and say how
the hell can you be that? But if you’ve been to a fourth dimensional
world, then you see how that can be. I’ve seen it. Mel and the others
have seen it.”
Morehouse and Riley recounted an incident when the psi spies
made an attempt to describe their experiences in the fourth dimension:
“There was this funny time in the office one time. Mel and myself sat
down with a block of butcher paper. We decided that we were going to
describe a four-dimensional world. It didn’t work,” Morehouse
recalled. “We tried to draw pictures. Then we tried to draw pictures
on top of the pictures. Because in a fourth-dimensional world, every­
thing is translucent, you can see inside everything. I could see inside
my coffee cup in the fourth-dimensional world. We all had coffee in
our hands. I was sitting right next to my familiar desk trying to
describe this fourth-dimensional world where we had all been. Mel
had a black marker in his hand, standing in front of the butcher paper.
He was saying, ‘Well, it sorta looks like . . . maybe try this . . .
perhaps I could draw it this way.... Oh, screw it, let’s go drink some
beer.’ It was hilarious. It just can’t be done.”
He added that the psi spies have learned that other dimensions
apparently intersect with our own, so it is often unnecessary to “go out
there” to experience these worlds.

A Dark Future
Unfortunately, all of the remote viewing experiences have not been as
uplifting as Morehouse’s visit to the golden room. Within the “Enigma
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Files” are reports laden with foreboding. One of these has to do with
the continuing problem with our ozone layer.
In March 1992, five remote viewers agreed to explore the rami­
fications of the ozone problem. Their contract came from the Institute
for Human Potential, a think tank formed in honor of Senator Clai­
borne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Funding for the institute comes primarily from grants by Laurance
Rockefeller.
“The outlook is grim,” succinctly stated a cover letter with the
final project report, which stated, “Atmospheric ozone depletion/
replenishment was perceived to be driven by a natural ebb and flow
process—a geophysical cycle. But this process has become over­
whelmed by manmade activity. ... The complex natural ozone
cycles/patterns, in combination with the manmade alterations, make
it extremely difficult for present scientists to figure out just what is
happening. A long series of tests, research and small-scale experi­
ments, using several types of chemicals, will be undertaken . . . but
these efforts to stop the ozone decay will have little or no impact—
they are only ‘Band-Aid’ approaches. A critical point is reached,
circa 2005-2012, where the destruction will begin a runaway course,
in a fashion analogous to metastasis—the transfer of malignant cells
from one location to another. During this period, the problem—and
its potential consequences—will no longer be subject to
question. . . . The ozone decay will not necessarily be slowed down,
but its effects temporarily ameliorated by coincidental volcanic
activity, possibly as early as 1996. One such related event will be the
explosion of an ‘extinct’ volcano in the North American Cascade
chain. . . . The volcanic activity will literally and figuratively eclipse
the ozone problem, but decreased sunlight will wreak havoc with
crop production in many places. Chaotic weather patterns in combi­
nation with decreased sunlight will necessitate the construction of
huge environmentally-controlled greenhouses, so that food produc­
tion can carry on without being subject to vicissitudes of
climate/weather. Unwittingly, these structures form the templates
for technologies which will become increasingly critical to sustain­
ing human life. They will begin to be seen as sanctuaries—then
habitats, as society begins to ‘migrate’ into them. ... A point is
reached where very little life is seen outside of the artificial struc­
tures. The atmosphere outside these ‘biospheres’ is almost antisep­
tic. The sky is striated and multi-hued. Earth’s remaining (surviving)
inhabitants have either been driven underground or into these very
large, climate-controlled domes which now house complete
medium-sized cities. Our children’s children are residents there.
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There is no perceivable violence. Most creative energy is directed to

questions of survival.”
But the report goes farther into the future, indicating that
humankind is not doomed.
According to the report, the human race will adapt to the new
conditions and to living in domed cities. Although our bodies will
become less attractive, they will be more durable. And there will be
efforts to return plants and animals to the earth.
Lyn Buchanan was one of the viewers who worked on the
ozone report. “I was tasked to find out what was needed to help the
Earth recover,” he recalled. “What I saw was there were far-sighted
people who had taken samples of materials later killed by the ultra­
violet rays. After the ozone was in recuperation, they reintroduced
them into the environment. They had cultivated microbes—
especially mosses and lichen—away from the harmful UV. This is
something someone should be doing right now. As far as I know, no
one is doing this.”
Furthermore, the viewers foresee another race—not from
Earth—joining us in the near future. “They were once endangered
also and suffered similarly, but now serve as ‘consultants,’ friends,
brothers from another place,” stated the report, adding, “Eventually,
the inhabitants jointly build very large generators which will produce
molecules, not oxygen, that rise to ‘seal’ and form a protective layer,
artificially restoring the Earth’s atmosphere.”
The truth of these dire predictions probably won’t be known for
several years, but the negativity of their view of the future did not
deter the viewers from continuing to probe “Enigma” targets.
They claim to have answers where other researchers have only
offered theories or raised questions because their remote viewing
brings “direct knowledge,” or as the old adage goes, “Seeing is believ­
ing.” They also state that they are close to learning some long-sought
answers regarding life beyond earth. They base these answers on con­
tinuing studies of UFOs, which they refer to as “aerospace anomalies.”
Their quest began with NORAD (the North American
Aerospace Defense Command), which has a number of satellites called
DSPs (deep space platforms) more than five hundred miles out in space
that monitor missile launches on earth. Using “over-the-horizon” radar
technology, these deep space satellites can pick up the launch signal of
any missile fired on the planet.
What the DSPs were not programmed to monitor were high-
performance craft approaching the earth from deep space. These fast­
moving objects became known as “fast walkers.” NASA claimed they
are merely small meteors called “boloids.” But some of these “boloids”
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possessed characteristics suggesting they were of artificial origin. They

accelerated, decelerated, and changed course. So the psi spies began
taking a special interest.
Late in 1988, Riley recalled that their superiors brought them a
satellite photograph to study. The photograph showed simply a glow­
ing object. But remote viewing sessions indicated the object had
humanoid people in it and it was hovering above a nuclear storage
facility. Their impression was that these visitors were taking inventor)7
of the number of armed warheads at this depot.
It didn’t take long for the psi spies to realize that these “fast
walkers” contained technology that was neither American nor Soviet.
“We found they were ‘man made’ but not by anyone from around
here,” Morehouse said.
When the psi spies remote-viewed and tracked these objects
back to their point of origin, they found they came from subsurface
locations on our moon and from Mars and that they would come to
rest in subsurface locations on Earth.
The psi spies did not tell anyone—even their own superiors—
about their “Enigma” sessions because “everyone would think we had
gone nuts, and because none of the intelligence services, particularly
DIA, had any charter to study such things,” said Morehouse.
He explained that initially the psi spies applied remote viewing
against almost everything, willy-nilly, one target to the next—an
abduction here, a sighting there, next a photograph of a moving
object. Due to lack of systematic work, they were not able to form a
broader understanding of the UFO phenomenon.
“We only now have some inklings into the agenda, but this is
largely personal opinion, based on individual interpretation,” said
Morehouse.

Intergalactic Boat People

The psi spies then began to systematically study these visiting vehicles.
As they continued to work with the “Enigma Files,” their fascination
increased. Remote viewers had to learn how to distinguish man-made
objects from those of nature. Morehouse said man-made objects
almost always deal with combustion technology and were easily distin­
guished by the viewers. On closer examination they began to classify
other types of flying vehicles as alien in nature. Morehouse added that
the psi spies were not able to closely study all of the vehicles they
encountered in their psychic travels because there were just too many
of them. “Many of these craft are just passing through,” he said. “You
might say they’re just intergalactic boat people. We would probably be
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better off working on the problems of this world instead of making a

big deal out of extraterrestrials.”
Morehouse described remote viewing as very hard work. You
look at one thing at a time. You don’t get interested in the surround­
ings. Like a pilot on a bombing mission, the viewer is intensely think­
ing about the target. He said the entire subject of these vehicles and
their occupants is much more complex and subtle than first thought
and is very sensitive, as it has to do with potential contact between
species.
Eventually, the psi spies accepted the idea of alien cultures and
other dimensions as a matter of fact. “This is just part of the overall
cosmos. They’ve always been here, before humans, and they will be
there after we’ve gone,” said Mel Riley. Lyn Buchanan concurred,
pointing out that there are different confederations of aliens with
many different agendas.
Amazing and unbelievable as all this must seem to many, there
is now feedback on at least one of the psi spies’ “Enigma” cases that
strongly corroborates their claims.
This case concerned the Mars Observer, which vanished August
20, 1993, just as it was about to go into orbit around Mars. Both scien­
tists and laymen had high hopes that the Mars Observer would transmit
photographs back to Earth that might solve some of the Martian mys­
teries—such as the human “face on Mars” and the three symmetrical
pyramids seen in NASA photographs.
The 5,672-pound Mars Observer spent eleven months traveling
to our neighboring planet and was scheduled to go into orbit around
Mars on August 24. The $980 million satellite was to begin a two- to
six-year mission to map the planet in greater detail than ever before. It
was to be the vanguard of several spacecraft not only from the United
States but from Russia and Japan.
But contact was broken and the craft hasn’t been heard from
since. What happened?
NASA officials initially theorized that the probe’s timing clock
malfunctioned, making the onboard computer unable to process com­
mands being radioed from the Jet Propulsion Lab. But as days passed
and communication was never resumed with the craft, hopes dimmed
of ever knowing precisely what happened to the Mars Observer.
But the psi spies knew.
Less than a week after the Mars probe was lost, remote viewers
reported that the fate of the Mars Observer was identical to that of the
Soviet Phobos II. In March 1989, the unmanned probe was lost just as
it too was about to move into orbit around Mars. Communication was
lost as Phobos 11 passed into the vicinity of Phobos, one of the two Mar-
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tian moons. The Soviets issued a communique suggesting that the

craft had spun out of control due to an erroneous ground command.
There the matter rested until mid-1991, when remote viewers
formerly with the GRILL FLAME unit were commissioned by offi­
cials within the Russian space program to study the cause of Phobos IPs
disappearance. Six remote viewers were asked to view what really hap­
pened in the space near Mars in March 1989.
Their final report, entitled “Enigma Penetration: Soviet Phobos
II Space Craft Imaged Anomaly,” was issued on September 29, 1991.
The report stated:

Sometime after entering Martian orbit, the Phobos II space craft

appears to have entered an “ADIZ” [Air Defense Interrogation
Zone, an electronic zone which protects national boundaries]
of sorts, triggering an ensemble of actions in response to its presence:
A disc-shaped object, Object 1, arose from the planet’s surface to
meet the probe, briefly perused it, then returned to the surface.
Another object, already in space, was also attracted. Object 2 moved
into close proximity and, in an act having some similarity to an
“IFF” [Interro­ gation, Friend or Foe aircraft transponder] query,
directed a very powerful, wide, penetrating particle beam into the
interior of the space craft. Shortly afterwards, Object 2
departed. The directed energy was neither reflected nor absorbed by
the probe’s skin. How­ ever, the beam inflicted serious damage upon
the space craft’s elec­ tronic components, altering or rearranging
their material structure at the molecular level to such a degree
that circuits became para­ lyzed, in turn rendering many systems
dysfunctional. Phobos II attempted to “fix itself’ but became even
more paralyzed in the pro­ cess, creating short circuits and locking
up servo mechanisms. Con­ tinued ground commands caused
chaos, exacerbating the already hopeless situation. Subsequendy,
Phobos II underwent a radical course change, after [emphasis in
the original] which—in a totally random event—a small meteoroid
administered the coup de grace, effecting catastrophic damage to
the space craft. At no time did the viewers detect hostile intent in
connection with the [re]actions of Objects 1 and 2. Moreover,
unintentional damage notwithstanding, Phobos II—an “alien”
object—seems to have merited merely passing interest and cursory
inspection. There are certain perceptions atten­ dant with viewing
Objects 1 and 2 that persuade one to label them as “escort vehicle”
and “navigational buoy” respectively. A parallel idea is connected
with yet another object that viewers detected on the Martian
surface during this project. This takes the form of a tall,
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pyramid-shaped edifice which serves as a type of “comer reflector”

or “glide path homing transponder,” a passive navigational aid. It
designates a site around which much or all of this activity seems to
focus. In the vicinity of this marker, beneath the Martian surface,
something is existing—something living—that is periodically visited
by “others” on “caretaking” missions. Perceptions that are strongly
connected with this resident life form include: ancient, marooned
and desperation combined with associated ideas of tremendous
tragedy, grief and pathos.

Once again the psi spies had produced a report that read like a
science fiction story. And again, the question of feedback arose. Was
there anything to prove the validity of what the viewers saw?
Ingo Swann, the father of remote viewing, urged caution when
he stated, “In the case of the ET [extraterrestrial] thing, there may
never be feedback. ‘The public gets very excited....’ ‘Oh gee, a
highly-trained remote viewer is going to try to view the extraterrestri­
als.’ I mean, there’s a lot of sensational interest in that!” he com­
mented. “But there is a bottom line. The bottom line says ‘feedback,’
and without that [the whole thing] could be a waste of time.”
Swann’s caution is well advised, but in this instance there was
feedback—astounding feedback from the Soviets themselves. It first
came from Alexander Dunayev, chairman of the Soviet space organiza­
tion responsible for the Phobos II project. Dunayev announced that the
doomed probe had photographed the image of a small odd-shaped
object between itself and Mars. He suggested the object might have
been “debris in the orbit of [Mars moon] Phobos” or even jettisoned
parts from the spacecraft. His tone was anything but certain.
More detailed—and exciting—news came in December 1991,
when Soviet cosmonauts visited the United States. Retired Soviet air
force colonel and cosmonaut trainee Marina Popovich displayed to
newsmen in San Francisco one of the last photographs received from
the Phobos II. She said the photo was given to her by cosmonaut Alexei
Leonov, a high official in the Soviet space program.
The photo showed the silhouette of an odd-shaped object approaching
the spacecraft. Popovich said the picture was taken on March 25, 1989, in
deep space near the Martian moon Phobos shortly before contact with the craft
was lost. She said the object very well may have been an alien spacecraft but
would not say so. “The reasons for its disappearance are unknown,”
commented Popovich. “The photo is only information for thinking . . .
information for all kinds of decisions.”
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Several theories about the object in the photo were advanced;
some thought it might be a small undiscovered Martian moonlet or
simply a product of a Phobos II camera malfunction. Professor Emeritus
James Harder of the University of California at Berkeley and former
director of research for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization,
stated, “No one can answer precisely what it is.”
The photographed object bore an uncanny resemblance to the
object drawn in the remote viewer’s Phobos II sketches. The remote
viewers of PSI TECH saw the photo and its similarity to their vision
as confirmation—feedback—of what they viewed months earlier. And
if their account of the demise of Phobos II is correct, then serious atten­
tion must be given their statement that the same fate befell the Mars
Observer.
“It appears that whoever is up there does not want us to know
about them,” commented Morehouse.
A “micrometeorite” was described by two separate remote view­
ers as delivering a coup de grace to the Phobos II. This may have been no
accident. The psi spies said it seems like all of the technology we put
into space is scrutinized closely. If it would reveal alien activities, then
it is decommissioned. They noted the similarity of fetes between the
Phobos II and the Mars Observer and the Titan 4 rocket, which blew up
carrying a supersecret spy satellite in August of 1993.
That same month, we lost our newest weather satellite. The
weather satellite, NOAA-13, was lost shordy after its launch on August
9, 1993, according to the Associated Press. The polar-orbiting satel­
lite, designed to permit a view of the entire Earth during the course of
one day, had been operating successfully until contact was suddenly
lost, said officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis­
tration. Later in 1993, on October 5, a new Landsat 6 satellite was lost
after being released 180 nautical miles from Earth from a Titan 2
rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. No once knows
what happened to it.
An article in Science News said the loss of the Landsat 6 would
force both private companies and government agencies to rely on the
Landsat 5 satellite for images of Earth. The Landsat 5, which lost part
of its ability to transmit data, was launched in 1984.
The Titan 4 rocket, carrying a top-secret military cargo,
exploded moments after takeoff on August 2, 1993. According to Space
News, the cause of the explosion was thought to have been linked to a
solid rocket motor segment that had undergone repairs by the manu­
facturer.
A less mundane cause was cited in the same article. It stated,
“But in a strange twist, [U.S. Air Force colonel and the Titan 4 pro-
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gram manager Frank] Stirling said he has been told that the Air Force
video of the launch shows an unidentified object apparendy striking
the Titan at an altitude of about 110,000 feet, shortly before the rocket
blew up. Stirling is not a member of the Air Force investigation team
and has not seen the official Air Force video of the launch and the
explosion. His office, however, is conducting its own investigation.”
Remote viewers believe all of these mysterious space losses may
be attributable to the same cause: small, faceted objects that remote
viewers have seen dipping out of an earth orbit and striking man-made
spacecraft.
These objects are described as “little multifaceted devices whose
facets look like shiny, polished graphite.” These devices, according to
some viewers, measure eight inches wide by about twelve inches tall.
They said there appears to be about fifty or sixty up there at any given
time. Several military remote viewers who wrere familiar with top-
secret projects contend these objects are not the “brilliant pebbles” of
our Star Wars system. They are alien. They are hollow inside, and the
faceted surface comes apart upon striking something, very similar to a
fragmentation hand grenade.
One remote viewer who has seen these small objects is George
Byers, a public affairs officer for a large corporation in the Southwest.
Byers studied RV under a former military remote viewer.
In December 1993, four months after the Titan 4 disaster, Byers
took a mental look at that event. “I ended up identifying what
destroyed the missile,” he said. “It was something like a small projec­
tile, about fist sized. It was shiny and hit the missile. It was definitely
not a natural object. It hit and burst apart like a grenade. I did get the
very distinct impression that it was not made on earth and that it was
directed at the Titan 4 for the purpose of destroying it. Whoever made
this thing knew what they were doing. In other words, it accomplished
the job for which it was intended.”
The viewers saw that something illuminated the Titan 4, and
one of these little devices detected that illumination. It then swung
down out of orbit, accelerated, and punched through the Titan 4.
There was no sign of a propulsion system. Some viewers said it cer­
tainly appears as if this planet is being kept in quarantine for some
reason.
The concept of a quarantine, or embargo, of Earth is not limited
to science fiction writers and remote viewers. Many reputable scientists
such as James W. Deardorff with the Department of Atmospheric Sci­
ences at Oregon State University have theorized about the possibility.
In one scholarly article, Deardorff mused, “The arguments are . .. that
our Galaxy is nearly saturated with extraterrestrial life forms, that our
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existence requires in hindsight that they were and are benevolent toward us,
and that our lack of detection of them or communications from the implies that
an embargo is established against us to prevent any premature knowledge of
therm... Any sudden lifting of the embargo in a manner obvious to the public
would cause societal chaos and possibly touch off a nuclear exchange, while
any communications received via radio telescope would likely be either
quickly confiscated by government agencies and not revealed to the public, or
heavily censored... It follows that any embargo not involving alien force must
be a leaky one designed to a now a gradual disclosure of the alien message and
its gradual acceptance on the part of the general public cover a very long
time-scale."
Time senior writer Lance Morrow mused publicly, "Perhaps a master
system of intergalactic ethics dictates that no planet may have contact with
another until it has subdued its own selfi-destructive violence, Maybe he
Earth is under a sort of quarantine."
As if the idea of an imposed quarantine of Earth was not hard enough
to swallow, some remote viewers have a so talked about the Martians.

Men from Mars

Since its inception, members of the psi spies unit had come into mental
contact with extraterrestrial vehicles and their occupants, On occasion they
passed along information to various government intelligence and scientific
agencies, These agencies challenged the viewers to locate some “ground truth"
some tangible “alien" person or device that could be studied or a place where
nonhuman activities could repeatedly he observed Thus began a lengthy
search that continued even after most of the psi spies left the military.
Over time they began to differentiate between the various types of
beings they encountered, They said many alien cultures had been noted but
that there appeared to be: three prominent groups involved with humanity,
One was survivors of a calamity on Mars. They were material beings,
humanoid in appearance, who worked with a second group—small gray
creatures with large, luminous eyes who originally came from outside our
solar system, Both used exotic technology in their activities.
These “greys” were living creatures but without the
ego-centered consciousness of humans, They related more to whales and
dolphins than humans. There was a sense that these creatures were
somehow artificially produced. There were indications that these “grays”
may have played a role in the rescue and preservation of the Martian race.
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The actual Martians were also material beings. They

were glimpsed infrequently and seemed to include the pilots of the
visiting craft. They were very interesting to the remote viewers
because they could relate to them as soldiers. These beings had
feelings similar to soldiers in an underdeveloped country. They had an
attitude of smugness. being superior to the natives. Yet, there was no
sense of hostility. They were on a peaceful mission.
A third group invoked energy beings—termed ’'Transcenden­
tal'" by some of the remote viewers. Although energy beings with only
the “idea” of form. these shapeless, phantomlike entities appeared able
co manifest themselves in any way. shape, or form. They exist m other
dimensions and therefore outside of our time. They can apparently
“pop” into time at any point they choose, often carrying out opera­
tions tn different times concurrenly.
Unlike the humanoid aliens, these beings can perceive
remote viewers looking at them. Further, they can affect the nmng
to the point of editing the process. There appeared to be a
tremendous amount of religious symbolism connected to the
Transcendentals. For all intents and purposes, the descriptions,
activities, nature, and capa­ bilities of these beings matched the
characteristics that Church fathers have attributed to “angels.”
The Transcendentals often appeared to be teasing the remote
viewers They seemed to have access to all levels of human conscious­
ness and appeared Milling to reveal some details of their operations
when confronted by human researchers who displayed an objective
anti open-minded attempt at understanding.
Morehouse said two separate reports from a Canadian consult­
ing firm concerned “anomalous phenomena” in New Mexico, where
some viewers thought they had located an underground Martian base
as far bjek as 1984.
The first report, dated November 30. 1991. cold of a trip
to New Mexico by researchers, including at least one remote newer.
This was just one of more than a dozen visits to the site since its
discovery through remote viewing. Various types of scientific
equipment were used to study the area, including a very sensitive
portable spectrum jnalyzer. two batten-powered, twelve-channel strip
chart recorders, a portable scintillometer, and a portable
broad-beam microwave peak detector. These instruments were set
up and monitored over the course of one night.
“Main tests were halted at 06:30.” stated the report.
“Vichough this was deemed to be well outside the normal optimal
tiewing time for rhe phenomena, it is believed that significant
observations Mere recorded.”
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According to the report, the monitoring equipment recorded

short bursts of high-amplitude microwave signals that may have been
the residue from some sort of propulsion process. Investigators heard a
high-frequency squeal that they could not pin down and saw an
extremely bright white object low in the western sky about 3:30 in the
morning. It winked off and on several times before disappearing. They
felt it was an artifact of some sort of propulsion process. “The data
presented above support the contention that an unusual but dis­
cernible and measurable phenomenon is manifest at the site in ques­
tion,” concluded the report.
Investigators found further strange events taking place at the
site during another visit on June 26, 1992. A report on this visit again
noted various anomalies and concluded, “The observations present a
continually challenging enigma. . . . Each trip to the site appears to
supply us with more pieces to the puzzle. It’s as if we are being shown
just enough to keep us interested in the site.”
According to remote viewers, this issue has been studied since
1984. Since that time they developed enough data to formulate an
astounding, but incomplete, picture of an ancient Martian civiliza­
tion—one that predates ours by millions of years. They claim to have
seen their structures on the surface of Mars. They also knew that the
Russians have had a continued interest in this matter.
An account of Mars’s history, based on remote viewing sessions
by multiple viewers and public statements, indicated that in the far dis­
tant past—about sixty-five million years ago—a passing body in space,
perhaps a meteor or small moon, caused a cataclysm on both Mars and
the earth. This object struck the earth and the resulting devastation
apparently caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
This same object sideswiped Mars, ripping away most of its
atmosphere. The resulting atmospheric disturbance produced tremen­
dous storms and volcanic eruptions on the planet’s surface for many
years and eventually caused a complete loss of the atmosphere. As con­
ditions worsened, Mars’s humanoid inhabitants were forced to build
increasingly stronger communal shelters, first on the surface and then
later underground. When it became apparent that their atmosphere
had deteriorated beyond the point of regeneration, the surviving Mar­
tians began working with small “grey” aliens, who helped place them
in hibernation using technology far beyond what we have developed. It
was similar to people today who have themselves placed in cryogenic
suspended animation to await new technologies that may cure their
health problems.
One group of Martians managed to leave their planet in search
of sanctuary. It appears they came to Earth during prehistoric times.
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They found that Earth’s surface conditions were not hospitable, but
food was available and survival was possible. This group went deep
underground, where conditions were similar to those they had become
accustomed to on Mars.
There are continuing visits here by Martian space vehicles that
come from deep space and vanish, only to reappear on landing pads
within these subsurface bases. These bases appear to be standby shel­
ters, storage sites, and operations centers located mostly in caverns,
although some are under the sea. These shelters exist on both planets
and are mostly insurance against another planetwide catastrophe.
These Martians are angry at us right now, according to one
report. They’ve been waiting centuries for human civilization to
advance to the point where our technology might be able to help them
in their plight. They hoped to join with us in inhabiting the earth. But,
today, while both our technology and our consciousness have risen to a
point where the two races might work together, we humans have
almost wrecked this world through pollution and deforestation. The
Martians see no humor in the irony of being forced to abandon their
planet due to cosmic accident, and now seeing their hopes for Earth
being dashed due to our primitive ignorance.
This situation may explain why the remote viewers say the Mar­
tians consider humans to be inferior to themselves, much as most
adults tend to discount the worth of children. But they also realize that
mutual cooperation between the races might vastly improve both’s sur­
vival prospects. They are also well aware that man’s technology’ has
reached the capability to categorically detect their activity. They are
taking steps to postpone this eventuality.
Asked if these Martians are trying to take over the earth, More­
house replied, “We don’t think so. If that was their purpose, they could
have done it years ago, before we developed the technology to resist. I
think they are biding their time, hoping that human consciousness will
evolve enough to accept the idea of sharing the planet with them.
Imean, look how the races of man can’t get along. What would hap­
pened if every one suddenly became aware that Martians were among
us? No, I think we still have further to travel on the evolutionary'
scale.”
Some of the viewers believe that, for now, the Martians are sim­
ply using the earth for necessary raw’ materials. That’s where the
UFOs come in. Many are shuttle craft used to transport certain chemi­
cal fertilizers—especially potash—plasticizers, milk, and other natural
resources back to the survivors on Mars. This work is being done with
the assistance of specialized organic beings that have become known as
the “greys.”
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Several remote viewers claim the Martians are not responsible

for human abductions. They state that Martian activity on Earth is not
connected with the abductions, which appear to be a much more eso­
teric—even metaphysical—experience involving the Transcendentals.
However, the greys do seem to be somewhat involved in abduc­
tions. They appear to be assisting the Martians, yet are also responsi­
ble for certain human abductions. The impression received by some
viewers is that they may be members of some sort of intergalactic Red
Cross—or, more correctly, they seem to be conducting something akin
to an oversight role, like a United Nations peacekeeping force.
According to some remote viewers, the greys are working
to save the Martians, who have underground bases on Mars and
Earth and who are being monitored by the Transcendental energy
beings. They all apparently interact. But there’s little doubt that the
Transcendentals are the ones in charge—at least on Earth missions.
They, in turn, seem to be carrying out orders from some controlling
authority located at a distant point beyond our own galaxy. It’s as if
they have a job to do and they are doing it with scant regard to our
presence or desires. They seem very professional.
The theme of this synthesis of remote viewing reports
was echoed in 1996 with the publication of Cosmic Voyage by Dr.
Courtney Brown, an associate professor of political science at Emory
University in Atlanta, who studied remote viewing under a former
member of the army’s psi spies unit. After several RV sessions,
Brown wrote, “There are [emphasis in the original] Martians on
Earth, but one must think clearly about the implications of this
before ringing the alarm bell. These Martians are desperate.
Apparently they have very crude living quarters on Mars. They
cannot live on the surface. Their children have no future on their
homeworld. Their home is destroyed; it is a planet of dust.”
George Byers also came face-to-face with Martians during his
remote viewing training. “I was a total skeptic,” Byers recalled. “I
remember thinking, ‘Why am I doing this? I’m wasting my time. I
could be out mowing the yard.’ But then, real late in my training, I was
put in front of a Martian. He was stocky with a sunken, wizened face,
dark complexion and Mongoloid or Indian features—a Fu Manchu
type of face. I didn’t know who this was. I just kept describing him
until the session ended. Then I learned my target—‘Martians—present
survivors.’ I was confident enough [in my remote viewing] by this time
to just accept what I saw. I was eye-to-eye with a Martian high priest.
It’s hard to sell others on this, but I’m sold on it myself. There’s no
longer any doubt in my mind.”
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Interestingly enough, new thinking in science appeared to sup­

port the remote viewers’ incredible claims of Martian life. Christopher
P. McKay, a planetary astronomer in the Space Sciences Division of
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, wrote,
“Results from recent studies point more and more toward an early
Mars that was astonishingly like the early Earth when life gained
foothold here. . .. The Viking results strongly suggest that no life
exists on the surface of Mars today; it is too dry, too cold, and too oxi­
dizing. But the Viking landers only scratched the surface—both liter­
ally and figuratively—in their search for life on Mars. Underneath the
surface it may be possible for liquid water to exist and persist for long
periods of time. After all, the outflow channels offer direct evidence
that liquid water has been present in subsurface aquifers on Mars
throughout most of its history. ... To get to the evidence for life on
Mars we will have to dig deep into the surface. This is true whether we
search for fossil evidence of past life or try to reach present forms in
their subsurface habitats.”
In mid-1996 the study of a four-billion-year-old rock believed
to have originated on Mars revealed microscopic forms providing
compelling evidence to support the concept of life on the red planet.
NASA administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced that a team of scien­
tists “made a startling discovery that points to the possibility that a
primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more
than three billion years ago.” Goldin, well aware of the current clash
of mind-sets regarding extraterrestrial life, quickly added, “These are
extremely small, single-cell structures that somewhat resemble bacteria
on Earth. There is no evidence or suggestion that any higher life form
ever existed on Mars.”
Despite at least one scientist calling this proof of life “unequivo­
cal,” the debunkers responded appropriately. As NASA announced
plans to launch further missions to Mars in an effort to validate the
findings, a spokesman for Taxpayers for Common Sense said, “Here
come the space spin doctors with a billion-dollar bacteria boondoggle.”
Some mainstream scientists were typically hesitant to embrace
the concept of Martian life but clearly understood the significance of
the issue. “If the results are verified, it is a turning point in human his­
tory;” said astronomer Carl Sagan. Others were more casual. Harvard
paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould commented, “E.T. is a 12. A bac­
terium is a 1.7. Its so unsurprising. It’s not evoking in me and most
paleontologists any wondrous new thoughts because we’ve been well
aware of the likelihood that Mars was inhabitable for at least a billion
years of its history.”
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Religious leaders fell into predictable camps concerning the dis­

co very of bacteria fossils in the Martian rock, which was discovered in
1986 by a scientific expedition to Antarctica. “I don't see it as a big
obstacle to religious thought” said Minnesota theologian and physicist
Ian Barbour. “To be sure it’s a further displacement of humanity from
a unique status, but we’ve been facing that for a long time.” Speaking
on behalf of Christian fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell pronounced,
“They can spend a trillion dollars looking for it [intelligent life] but
they’ll never find it. The Bible makes clear that Jesus Christ is the only
mediator between God and Man.”
Author Kim Stanley Robinson, who has written extensively
about the possible colonization of Mars, said, “It might take a few
days, a few weeks, even a few decades for this to sink into the popular
culture. Bur when this sinks in, anyone who believes in the scientific
method will see the thousands of stars in the night sky in a whole new
way. They'll be looking at a universe just stuffed with life. If it hap­
pened two times in this one solar system, it means life is very common
in the universe.”
The evidence for previous life on Mars was hailed as a “stun­
ning” discovery by the mainstream media. But for the many people
who have claimed this for years—including the remote viewers—it was
just further scientific substantiation for what they have known all
along.

The Trouble with Remote Viewing

However, none of this means that government-developed remote
viewing can be considered 100 percent reliable. From a scientific point
of view, the technology is just too new. And individual beliefs and
interpretations can cloud perceptions.
One problem with the remote viewing of Courtney Brown, for
example, is that he was tutored by Maj. Edward Dames (U.S. Army,
Ret.), a former member of the army’s GRILL FLAME unit. Dames
provoked controversy within the UFO research community after pub­
licly stating his views on LTOs, which included the idea that Martians
are a dying race, some of whom are hibernating in a New Mexico cav­
ern. At a 1992 conference in Atlanta, Dames shocked his audience by
stating that the 1947 Roswell incident never happened. According to
Dames, it was actually “brain wave entrainment—something akin to
electromagnetically-induced mass hypnosis” that aliens generated as
an experience that seemed ‘real’ to the human participants.” Dames
did admit that this was his personal opinion based on “a cursory
probe.” Later, other military-trained remote viewers disputed this
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claim, stating that based on their experiences, the Roswell incident

appeared to have been based on real events.
Amid this dissent, further credibility was lost in early 1993 when
Dames publicly stated his hopes that he might facilitate a meeting with
the Martians in New Mexico. “We want the face to face,” he told UFO
writer Antonio Huneeus. “If we don’t have it by the end of August,
were getting out of the UFO game.” It didn’t happen.
Ingo Swann continued to express reservations about placing
undue emphasis on the results of RV sessions, particularly when it
involved UFOs. “If parapsychology is the illusive science, then clearly
UFOlogy is virtually the ‘Feedbackless Science’—with the true excep­
tion so far of the hundreds of camcorders that have filmed UFOs,” he
wrote. “To my knowledge, UFOs and ETs do not cooperate with
humans regarding our efforts to substantiate anything about them.
“Those alleging themselves to be remote viewers, then, cannot
simply ‘remote view,’ but are obligated also to show positive evidence
of the ‘viewings’—e.g. positive feedback. Without the feedback, such
‘viewers’ are merely offering unsupported accounts that may or may
not be of psychic origin,” he added.
In 1996, writer Michael Miley spent considerable effort
researching the remote viewing story. After studying remote viewing
literature, Miley attacked the claims of both Dames and his pupil,
Courtney Brown. He reported that Joe McMoneagle, one of the origi­
nal psi spies, had contradicted many of Dames’s statements regarding
his remote viewing experience. McMoneagle stated that Dames was
never commander of the psi spies unit and, in fact, was simply' a moni­
tor, never a remote viewer, and had no connection with the research
portion of the program.
Miley concluded that the Martian story from Dames and Brown
was “scientifically' dubious” and was the result of “front-loading”—
where the biases and knowledge of the monitor are passed along con­
sciously or unconsciously to the viewer. “Ed Dames, a monitor and
trainer with publicly professed views on aliens and UFOs, trains
Courtney Brown on a pool of targets that they' both select before­
hand,” he explained. “Brown, while still in training and with no pub­
licly documented profile of accuracy on mundane ‘real’ targets, turns
his brand-new skills to metaphysical, unverifiable ones. Together, they
gather their ‘data.’ After initial sessions, they have lunch together and
worry' over the fate of the aliens, based solely on the result of their RV
findings—despite the lack of concrete feedback.”
“My conclusion is a sad one,” Miley wrote. “I began this project
in search of a new paradigm for researching UFOs and aliens—and
Ifound it. It had been carefully developed over 24 years by a group
of
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dedicated people—though it wasn’t used primarily on anomalous tar­

gets. What I then found was a couple of space cowboys, drunk in the
heart of the temple, destroying the covenant.”
Perhaps lost in the controversy and contradictions in this issue
is the fact that no one with direct knowledge of the CIA/army/DIA
remote viewing program has denied that UFOs and aliens were per­
ceived by all concerned. It seemed that only Dames and Brown had
the intemperance to speak about it openly. Others have been more cir­
cumspect.
But the consistency of descriptions of remote-viewed life on
other worlds and the UFOs visiting Earth passed far beyond the possi­
bility of simple coincidence. It created the appearance of factual
reporting. For example, in 1988 Mel Riley gave a description of what
he termed “Galactic Headquarters” that eerily matched a description
from an unconnected source given years later.

Galactic Federation Headquarters

Riley said one of the factors that prevented the remote viewers from
understanding the agenda behind their off-world experiences was the
inability to relate them. “It all sounds far-fetched because none of us
has the ability to describe the things we’ve seen beyond Earth. We just
don’t have the words,” he explained. “But we did get the definite feel­
ing that all is not chaos. There is a method to what is going on.
“We thought that we might better understand by going straight
to the controlling authority, you know, going from the top down
rather than the other way. The complexity is just too great at our level,
the bottom levels. We already had done considerable remote viewing,
backtracking spacecraft and such. We knew that the controllers were
outside our galaxy. We also knew there was many types of races out
there and that there was some sort of federation. So, just for lack of a
better word, I tagged on the term ‘galactic,’ meaning that it encom­
passed all the nearby galaxies. It was just a concept. We wanted to see
this controlling authority, so we simply termed it ‘galactic federation
headquarters.’”
Riley recalled his experience, which was recorded in a report
dated January 13, 1988. “Well, after starting my remote viewing, I
began to bilocate, to really experience it,” he said. “Soon I was sailing
along, not really knowing where I was. I began describing terrain and
then a structure. This was definitely a physical place in whatever
dimension I was in. From one mile overhead, the view was dark, black
and empty—a feeling of nothingness. Upon descending, I got the
impression of very high, very rugged peaks. There was a flat, plateau­
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like area and below this, a blue body of water that seemed to be sur­
rounded by a flat, open, grassy plain. It reminded me of pictures of
Lake Titicaca.
“Then I got the impression of a round structure located on the
flat top of what seemed to be something like a mesa. There were
streaking rays, like sun streaks, emanating from, or going into, this
structure. I wound up going into this structure through some sort of
inclined passageway, like a causeway. And I was moving forward
through this place. It was dark and cool and seemed to be made of
rough stone, like a cavern. At the end of the causeway was a long,
dimly-lit, rectangular corridor constructed of smooth, dressed stone
on all sides.
“At the end of the corridor was a steep incline with a very high
ceiling. This corridor ended in a large room with a very high, vaulted
ceiling. It appeared man-made because it was squared off—you know,
corners and angles and things of that nature. Now I’ve never been in a
pyramid, but it reminded me of that kind of thing.
“There was a polished-stone platform in this room, like a slab or
altar. And, for some reason, I had the urge to walk up there and lie
down on this slab. There were these white-robed people—entities, that
is—standing in a semicircle to one side. Some of them were in a line,
but one was behind me. A female, I think. The room was dimly lit and
there was a feeling of something sacred, or holy, there. It was like this
was a religious place. It also felt familiar, as if I been there before.
“And as I was lying on this slab or whatever, one of these enti­
ties walked up to my side. Suddenly I was illuminated by a shaft of
white light—some type of beam—from head to toe. It was coming
from overhead. And as this was going on, the individual who had
walked to my side held his hands out over my abdomen, my solar
plexus. And that’s when it started fading out and the session was over.
“It was a very beautiful experience. I felt very calm and secure.
I’ve always had a feeling that there was something I should have
remembered about that. That something should come back to me,
something relating to that experience. Its almost as if I had been to
that place before. It’s like I should have remembered that place.”
In 1996, Ray Bordon, a Dallas-area linguist, began organizing
remote viewers with an eye toward promoting further public study of
the phenomenon. Bordon learned remote viewing in the 1970s while
working for a military contractor. But his education was unofficial and
he had no contact w ith the military-trained viewers. Although sensitive
about the reaction to his statements, Bordon too spoke privately about
alien life-forms—he called them “biokinds”—UFOs, and a catastrophe
on Mars millions of years ago. He too claimed to have seen the tran­
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scendental energy beings, which he called the “disincorporates.” Bor-

don said that in the 1980s, he remote-viewed the GRILL FLAME
viewers at Fort Meade because “they were making bubbles in the
ether.”
During a 1996 interview, Bordon mentioned that our galaxy is
controlled by one of seven “Confederation Headquarters” scattered
throughout the universe. He gave this description of this headquarters:
“It is reminiscent of a Sumerian temple with obelisks similar to the
Washington monument standing before a long inclined entrance
ramp. It was made of white, polished stone, like Italian marble, and
surrounded by sand on a plateau. Inside is a room with a high vaulted
ceiling covered with ornate carvings, pictures, signs and letters. The
center of the ceiling is light which can change color depending on who
is in the room, kind of like the old mood rings. On the floor in the
center is a raised platform or offering place, though not really an altar.
I knew I had been there before. This was not a feeling. I had been
there before.”
As can be seen, the similarities in Bordon s and Riley’s descrip­
tions are uncanny. Either they have been reading from the same script,
which seems unlikely since both claim no contact with the other, or
they are both describing the same place—a place far outside our solar
system. It is highly intriguing, but certainly not the kind of concrete
feedback that debunkers would demand.
Nevertheless, it would appear that remote viewing may provide
real insights into the alien agenda if the scientifically developed proto­
cols are rigorously applied by serious researchers.
What the Seers See
Just such an effort was organized by the American Association of
Remote Viewers, Inc., in mid-1996. Seven experienced remote view­
ers, whose level of performance was known based on prior testing,
were commissioned to look at the UFO issue.
Their raw input—the results of their individual RV sessions—was
sent to a judge termed “process control” who analyzed the material,
matching responses to the five original questions. It was a “double­
blind” study in that none of the participants, including the process
control judge who assigned each viewer their numbers, knew the
object of their viewing. Randomly chosen numbers represented each
question. The individual responses as well as drawings produced by
the viewers were passed along to the “target officer”—the person who
knew which number represented which question. This person checked
the analysis against the raw data, then sent the viewers “second-order”
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questions based on their initial responses. A “project officer” studied

the analyses and compiled a final report.
The report was issued on September 4, 1996. “Due to the
nature of the subject of the study, all research remote viewers have
opted to remain anonymous; each is identified by a randomly assigned
set of four numbers,” stated a cover letter.
Despite being unaware of the object of their search, five of the
seven viewers immediately realized that they were looking at nonhu­
man beings and craft. Their realization of the UFO target prompted
the intrigued viewers to add several questions of their own to the
study. Over a two-month period—-July and August 1996—these view­
ers conducted remote viewing sessions using number coordinates rep­
resenting the questions. Their responses follow.

What are UFOs?

While five of the seven viewers quickly and correctly identified
their target as UFOs, all said that UFOs represent a physical object
that can fly. Descriptions included “bright lights,” “vehicles, like
buses,” objects “like pebbles, hopping and skipping over ... water,”
“objects, but flying in the air . .. very bright, like a light,” and one
even described “plumed serpents,” a possible reference to the Aztec
god Quetzalcoatl. Two viewers reported seeing unmanned or “drone”
craft belonging to small alien “greys.”

What technologies are in use?

As only one of the viewers had a technical background—as a pilot
and software engineer—answers to this question were limited to descrip­
tions of effects. Some of the descriptions included “very high electrical
voltage, humming, weird material [that] changes shape like rubber but is
strong and light”; “vertical takeoff like a chopper, but silent... must be a
weird vehicle because it’s shaped like an egg and its got like wings”;
“many-sided, like polygons, tetrahedrons, things like that... uses streams
of.. . energy; radiation energy”; “geometric shapes acting like dynamos
of some kind,” “lots of electromagnetic fields around.” One viewer
described a round undercarriage at the base of a craft that drops down
and gives off a white light. Another described “a dome-like structure on
the top part of the ship [with] eight windows set into it, the bottom part
giving off orange-colored light.” Yet another viewer was astounded and
reported, “Interesting craft. It can travel in time and in space. Good God!
This was built about 200 years in the future. And it is here now: It’s
already been in service tor about as long.” Another stated, “The technol­
ogy is about 2,000 to 3,000 years ahead of ours, but there are others that
are less advanced than that—about 300 to 500 years, that’s all.”
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Is this technology on Earth today?

The viewers agreed that UFO technology is indeed operating
widely around the world. “Yes, it’s here all right,” one reported. “I see
bases of theirs, not one race, but several. These are living quarters and
craft bases for people. I see them inside mountains, at the bottom of
the ocean, on the floors of lakes in both northern and southern hemi­
spheres of the Earth.” “Oh, yes, they are everywhere actually,”
reported another. “I see them in the skies, inside mountains, under
water . . . more than one . . . kind.” A third said, “Oh yeah, I’ve seen
them ... not the greys, but human-looking ones. They—and there’s
more than one kind—are here. Bases in the ocean, inside mountains in
what looks like caves, but they are man-made, or alien-made.” “Yes,
this technology is definitely on the planet,” reported a fourth, “been
here for millennia, I sense, for a long, long time. They have brought
this technology with them. They are everywhere.” A fifth stated,
“There are like bases in environments that are ocean-like, large caves
in mountains, even desert-like conditions and forests and jungles. On
Earth? Could be, but I don’t want to commit to anything on this one
just yet.”

Is UFO technology in government hands?

This question split the viewers in half: “Three of them saw it in
official hands, while three others did not see anything that would indi­
cate to them any sort of government involvement.” The seventh had
no opinion, saying, “[It’s] hard to see on this one.” One viewer saw
what appeared to be a hangar with men in blue military uniforms
inside while another sensed a “cave-type of setting” complete with air
filtration system. Another said, “To have it in hand is one thing and I
sense there are craft in vaults underground in two different places. But
it’s quite another [thing] to know how to work it. I sense whoever is
going through the craft and other artifacts in their possession doesn’t
understand it all just yet. The physics is partly understood in theory,
but the technology is not there yet—at least what we can produce.
They—especially grey ones—will share things with human counter­
parts; I take these presences to be formal, which to me means govern­
ment types, but there are things they will not [share] particularly what
we know as engines—a weird-looking contraption . . . looks like small
ball and you hold it between your legs.... You put your hand on it...
and you move it and the thing flies.” This viewer began to bilocate,
due to the intensity of his experience. “Jeez, this thing’s completely
wired to my brain; it’ll do what I think as I think it. Nice piece of
work, this thing,” the viewer continued. “I’m seated on a chair-like
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contraption that molds to me. I hear a soft hum coming from every­
where. Good God! We’ve taken off! There are greys—little ones—
three of them and two humans, soldier types. The greys know I’m here
and don’t seem to mind. One of the humans has a box-like thing on his
lap, larger than a laptop. The grey one I’m in is letting me steer this
thing. He—this one feels male—is quiet, almost sad inside, even
bored. This is a job for him. Hey, wait a sec! The soldier-boy just
found out I’m here. He doesn’t like it [and] is telling the grey to let me
go. He’s entering something into this box-like thing on his lap. He’s
seated close by... . These guys—the humans—are learning about the
craft. This is a crew. Wait! He’s doing something to me, this soldier­
boy. What is that? Feels like I’m on fire, like a thousand ants are biting
me all at once. Uhuh ... I just lost it.”

How many contacts and how often with nonhumans?

This question—one of those generated by the remote viewers
themselves—revealed that at least three of the viewers had experienced
alien abductions in the past. “[I] lost count on both number and fre­
quency,” stated one. “When I was a child, I used to get picked up every
other month. This went on for several years.” Another reported, “My
sense is that I’ve been in touch with them. Yes, ever since my teen
years, I’ve participated in their campaign. They are getting something
from us. Greys, I mean. They certainly were from me. I don’t know' to
this day w'hat it was. I don’t know how often. And I don’t know about
anybody else. I don’t think I want to know.” A third reported contacts
“in the hundreds ever since I was a child.” This viewer saw the con­
tacts as benevolent. “I mean that I got traumatized, but then got past it
and began to see what was really going on. I could then dialogue with
them without having to be consciously suppressed. Now it’s like old
friends. They still come and they still visit,” added the viewer. A fourth
viewer reported no physical contact but did disclose numerous dreams,
daydreams, and meditations involving “grey beings with great big
eyes.” Another viewer indicated that contact has been numerous over
time. “It would be very hard to tap into the experience of every single
person that’s been in contact with them,” said this viewer. Yet another
viewer reported being in a well-lit room with an assembly of greys.
“I’m asking them this question,” the viewer said. “Millions, says one.
Many millions, says another. All the time, since the beginning, says
another. What’s the beginning, I ask. When you were created, says one
of the tall ones. You were not supposed to have been created for the
reasons you were, said the same tall one. What do you mean, I ask.
You are the product of your kind and our forefathers, whom we also
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uphold because they are like us and like you. We are caretakers and we
host advancement of your kind. Your forefathers are divided and you
are the prize. This does not uphold life and we preserve and protect
life. But you are not yet ready to face this and it is coming.”

What is the current level of human adoption or duplica­

tion of UFO technology?
Although there were differences in the responses to this ques­
tion, all the viewers indicated that work connected to alien technology
is being done on Earth today. One saw a huge hangar where a half­
dozen humans in flight or pressure suits were working to install a
black, football-shaped device into “one of those sleek, black planes you
see in the movies.” Another envisioned what appeared to be an under­
ground laboratory. One viewer seemed to witness a demonstration of
exotic technology for President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. This
viewer reported a round room filled with furniture, with a round
design “like a bird of some kind” on the floor. “I’m in the middle of
some kind of meeting here. ... I can’t tell what’s going on, except I
could swear I’m looking at [President Clinton].... There are two uni­
formed guys with a little black case of some kind. These guys are setting
up whatever’s in this case. Well, I’ll be ... It looks like a rectangular
doughnut of some kind and there are two inverted either conical or
pyramidal shaped objects inside, tip to tip so to speak, but the tips don’t
quite touch. On the upper side ... is a flat cone of sorts that points
upward, with a pin-like thing sticking out from its center. There are a
couple of rows of switches inside this case and one of the two uni­
formed guys is switching the top row of switches. Then each of the
other rows.” This reporter said remote viewing was suddenly cut off at
this point as though blocked in some way.
Yet another viewer gave a report that sounded very much as
though exotic technology had been used as a weapon. “I’m at a
seashore of some kind and there are guys there. It’s totally dark and
deserted. No one else around. I see eight of them. Way yonder’s a
truck of some kind, box-like and black. It’s got a small dish on top and
there are cables, thick ones going from the truck to the group of guys
on the beach.... I also see ... that one of the guys has a contraption
on his head, like head-gear of some kind, with a dark visor. It’s a man,
human definitely, and he’s holding some kind of pole-like thing that
has a handle of some kind that sticks downward at one end. He’s got
great big hands and he’s dressed in a cowboy shirt, plaid, and I think
blue jeans. There is a kind of needle that sticks out of this tube thing,
on the opposite side of the handle, and there is a circle at the tip of this
needle. This is some sort of weapon. I say that because he’s holding it
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like you would hold a rifle and he’s aiming it upward. This is strange.
It’s night time, I can see the stars and clouds and a rising half moon.
Oh, he’s also got some sort of earpiece on. He’s about to fire this
thing.... I am seeing a yellow-green something come out of the end
of this thing and going upwards. It’s going up into the night sky. Inside
this light-like stream coming out of this thing, there is a streak of light
that extends forever upwards. It looks like a wave of some kind, but it’s
real intense. I sense a great deal of heat and some kind of field coming
off this stream. The target is something up there, but I can’t tell. This
thing lasts for a very short while and then the whole thing is repeated.
There is a whirring sound around as this thing . . . powers up? I can’t
tell what the sound is, or where it comes from, but it’s all over this
place.”

Who is currently visiting Earth?

Another “blind” question, it provoked varied responses—yet all
were in agreement that various nonhuman beings are presently operat­
ing on and around our planet. One viewer saw a parade of alien beings.
“I see your standard big-eyed greys, both tall ones and short ones. I
also see the reptilian type, with leathery skin and eyes larger than
humans,” said this viewer. “Here come the blond ones, tall ones. This
is weird. I’m seeing albinos now; but one has black eyes and the other
has glowing red eyes.... They are like floating past my field of vision.
Like they are saying hello.”
Another viewer stated, “There is this entity right in front of me.
It’s like he’s—yes, it’s a male all right—it’s like he’s making it possible
for me to see him. He’s telling me something . .. that he will see me
soon ... that he’s related to me, to all humans. This is one humungous
dude. He’s a lot taller than I am and I’m not exactly short. What is so
striking about him is that he is a complete albino, in the true sense of
the word. And what I sense about him right now is a profound kind­
ness, as if his whole body permeated this feeling and exuded it like a
field.”
A third viewer saw the albinos and greys together on a world
other than Earth. “It’s like the greys are helping these albinos,” said
the viewer. “Oh, God, these greys are bringing these other ones, the
albinos, here. But why? Good Lord, there are others like them here
already. They are all over ... hidden.” Another viewer saw little greys
and albinos working with humans. Yet another saw various races of
beings at a structure on another world, strangely similar to the one
Riley and Bordon described. “This is an entrance to a beautiful, white
pyramid-type structure on a rocky promontory; . .. There is a whole
city behind me. . . . There is like a platform that goes up to this big
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opening. The door is interesting. There isn’t one! But you can’t go
inside unless invited. There are two Indian files of people dressed in
what I would call ancient dresses. Long flowing gown-like things. One
of the Indian files is made up of men, males, I mean.. . . Blond, all of
them, about the same height, can’t tell size. Their robes are a beautiful
gold color and have hoods, and they have hair, beautiful golden
hair. . . . They are walking slowly toward the entrance. I’m not allowed
to go past the portal, I’ve been told. But I’m welcome to be there w'ith
them.” One of the viewers who had indicated being an abductee wit­
nessed nothing but the grey aliens in the context of a consensual work
program on Earth, while another former abductee said the viewing
was somehow' being blocked. “Someone or something was not wanting
me to see anything, hear anything, say anything about anything,” this
viewer reported. “I’m feeling like I’m being shut out of the loop, so to
speak.”

What is the aliens’ purpose here?

Another “blind” question, it produced varied responses. One
viewer said he spoke directly with grey aliens and w'as not afraid or
angry'. “They are here to help us,” this viewer explained. The greys
said a planet is about to make an appearance in our solar system within
the next sixty years and will “wreak havoc here” because “this time this
thing is going to pass on the side of the sun facing us and the sun won’t
be there to protect us.” The viewer added that the greys are concerned
about the survival of the human species and that they want nothing
“except that we remain alive” because we are related to them. Another
viewer offered the same theme, stating, “This is a high-risk planet. . .
and that their perspective is much longer, in terms of time, than ours.
These people are worried about us and yet they know that we could
conceivably make it. It will be rough for a while, but it won’t kill us all.
There are people who will be taken aloft before the trouble begins
down here. . . . This sort of thing happens every so often that it isn’t
the first nor the last time this will happen.” The viewer who saw a tall
albino said, “This tall dude . . . with a kind face and red eyes, keeps
telling me that they don’t have a choice about the visits, that every' so
often, the planet on which they live comes this way and they get to
visit what I take to be their old stomping grounds, so to speak. He also
says that they colonized Earth a long time ago and that they are
responsible for the human race, just as the blonds are responsible for
them. The blond with this guy is a little smaller in size but he is still
big by human standards. ... He says that everything is being done to
preserve and protect rhe human race and all other forms of life on this
planet from extinction. He says that there arc differences of method
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and reality in the approach to things . .. between the tall ones he is

with right now and the tall ones who are already in this solar system.
He says we will have a choice as to who we want to believe in and go
with.”
One viewer reported observing the “grey” aliens. “I am sensing
a lot of ships—UFOs—like in the atmosphere above. I am on one of
them and there are little greys on board. There are also two humans
on board. This is like a training exercise of some kind,” reported this
one. According to the report, there are at least two kinds of “greys”
and perhaps more. “I’m in what looks like a city,” reported another.
“There are lots of people around. There are some that have very dark,
black eyes. [They] look like black contact lens. These people are fairly
tall. When I’m around them, I close up. I don’t want them to know
me. Just a hunch. These guys are not . . . these people are not exactly
good. They are misguided. They do things for their own people and
be damned with everybody else. I see them clear as day now.”
One viewer saw a variety of alien life-forms—“greys, reptilians,
blonds, albinos and several variations of human-like forms”—moving
through “subspace or hyperspace” to appear in Earth’s atmosphere.
One newer described some visitors as disincorporated energy beings.
“I’m not sure that I can say they have a body like we do. But whatever
or whoever is ‘they,’ they exist nonetheless. I feel them. I sense them,
more than see them or can touch them in the physical sense. However,
I can see something of what they are. Some are like dissipated, but
brilliant at the center. Others are like the outlines or forms of bodies
that they must have had, but no longer are... . Then there are those
. . . who cannot live like that and wish to get back into this world and
those who are quite well adjusted to where they are now. Golly! These
things, especially the ones' who aren’t well adjusted, feed on fear. To
them it’s like food. But their real aim is to get back in here any way
they can. Jeez Louise, this is getting weirder by the minute. Where am
I? There are all kinds of remnant energy beings here. They come from
all the worlds that exist, I can sense. That they want to come back into
the world is not wishful thinking; its a plan of some kind. They are
being kept there somehow ... it is their will not to be there, but they
are there by someone elsc’s will, something or someone very powerful.
These guys also communicate with people here. One of them tells me
that they can interpenetrate . . . this reality. They can’t affect it or act
in it, but they sure can influence it by influencing the folks who are in
the world through our minds. But there is a problem with that, too.
Some will listen but not act as these guys want them to act and others
will act on their behalf, unconsciously of course, but cannot be kept
under control for very long periods.. . . And there is some sort of gate
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or place they can go through but only with willing people in the world
calling for them. God, this gets complicated ... I’m going to termi­
nate this session now.”

Describe any interaction between Earth governments

and visitors beginning one hundred years in the past and
moving two hundred years into the future.
This question provoked some of the most fascinating answers in
the report. Although only three of the seven remote viewers offered a
time line with their reports, it seemed like there was unofficial contact
up until the 1950s. One viewer told of speaking with a grey alien as a
writer/storyteller in the 1890s. The viewer gave that time frame
because sailing ships and horse-drawn carriages were seen. The alien
told him of “submarines and airplane, wonder drugs and new medical
procedures” in English. This viewer was told that preferred means of
communication during this time period was through “dreams and wak­
ing-state reverie.”
Another viewer indicated that mental contact with aliens may
have taken place early in this century by one or more persons in Ger­
many. “I have never been in Germany and I’ve had no interest in Ger­
man since I can remember,” stated this viewer. “But I speak German
somehow because I can understand what’s being said around me.... I
can understand this very complicated calculus and all these equations.
I’m in what feels like an island, but it’s an island in a river, not the sea.
We’re talking about.. . high physics here. There are people here that I
only recognize by name. This is some kind of symposium .. . some­
time during the 1920s. . . . This place is like some sort of castle or
something. There’s a man called Heidel . . . something, that everyone’s
talking about. There is also talk of splitting the atom and the harness­
ing of energy. But I don’t understand the explanation. ... There are
people from America here. No, from England. I can hear the British
accent. They are all talking about physics and tensor . . . and what the
hell’s a quantum field? . . . There are people here who look human but
they are not. I can see this guy, this blond guy,... and from time to
time I get a flash of ... I don’t know . . . something that looks like a
praying mantis. Small head, tallish, skinny, that sort of thing. But only
for a split second.”
One viewer gave an intriguing account of a meeting between
aliens and President Dwight Eisenhower in what seemed like the early
1950s. “What I hear right now is a band playing ‘Hail to the Chief’
like they do on political conventions when the President comes into
the hall. But this is not this time. ... I see a highway sign on what
looks like a two-lane road, but it’s desert-like in this place. This is
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sometime during the day. I feel the heat of the sun. There is some sort
of airstrip, like an airport around here, close by I can tell. I’m hearing
the sound of aircraft, like jet planes. This is some sort of restricted area,
though. I see some guard or observation towers.. . . There is a convoy
of cars, dark cars, coming down this blacktop road where I was. No,
wait a minute! This is a base, a military base. An Air Force base. Peo­
ple get out of the car and go inside this building. They are all dressed
in suits, dark suits.. . . Now this is interesting! There are two, no,
three saucer-shaped craft approaching. One of them lands while the
other two stay up. Another lands and the third lands. Then the third
lands. The first that landed opens up. One of the black cars and a cou­
ple of jeeps go out to it. Two, no three, greys appear and descend from
the craft. They are not walking. They, like, are floating to the ground.
The door of the car opens and this tall, older man steps out, then a
couple of military guys and one other civilian type. This is a hot place,
the temperature is desert-like. . . . Two of these greys are small, one is
tall, but not as tall as the older human. Something funny about this
guy. Wait a sec! Holy shit! It’s one of our past presidents.” (The viewer
later acknowledged it was Eisenhower.) This viewer said the group got
in a big black Cadillac that took them to a nearby building. “They are
scooted in quickly by some people in blue and white helmets, big guy's.
The President and his party and the greys go into a room, conference
room it looks like. Just a minute! I’m sensing this whole thing to be
preplanned. This thing was supposed to happen. Both sides feel antici­
pation, but the feeling tone is low-key, almost muted. The greys are
interested in opening and maintaining communication. This civilian
type asks how this can be done. The tall grey responds that they will
provide them with the means to communicate with them locally and at
a distance. This tall one also asks that they (the humans) not fear them.
The President asks why are they here and the tall one replies that they
are here in anticipation of future changes and that they will help accel­
erate the rate of development. Not for war purposes, says one of the
little ones. They want an understanding with them, says the tall grey,
but not an alliance. The President wants to know how long they have
been around. The short one replies, a long time. He says longer than
your recorded history. He say s we were abandoned by our forefathers,
our makers.. . . The civilian type is visibly' upset, like he’s about to
have a heart attack. The three grey's turn and look at this guy. Wow!
He calmed down almost immediately. They like the President. They
feel he is steady. They don’t like the civilian type with him, no, actu­
ally; they feel sorry for him. The President says he wants friendship
and cooperation with the aliens and the tall grey sayrs they too want the
same. He also says they will continue to observe and wait to see what
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we do, how we act towards them. But, he says, they will continue to be
active here. The civilian type wants to know what changes are coming.
One of the small greys says they will tell us more when it is the right
time. Soon, he says. The tall grey turns toward me now. Whoaa! He
knows I’m here. One of the military guys kinda wakes up and wants to
know what’s wrong. Nothing, says the tall grey, just that we have a visi­
tor. How can that be possible, asks the military guy. It is not yet time
[to explain], says the small one.” This viewer said his RV session ended
abruptly after this incident, as though his thoughts were being blocked
“as though there were still things to talk about in private, without
eavesdroppers around like me.”
Another viewer added details to the idea of coming changes
when he remote-viewed a meeting between yet another American
president and greys “sometime in the future from where we started
[the mid-1950s]).” “Can’t tell you when this happened but I’ll venture
to say a little before the year 2000,” reported the viewer. “There are
four greys here, two tall ones and two short ones. Besides the two men
in dark suits, there are others around in military suits and regular suits.
I don’t see a ship or anything like that, just some chairs . . . [which
look like they are] made out of grayish gum-like substance. When you
sit down on it, it molds around you and holds you very well. But it
doesn’t constrain your movements. These greys are sitting on them,
one to each of them. So they are talking. The greys are telling about
the orbit of something. They say it’s an anomaly, but it’s something
that was done to preserve life. It required a lot of energy, the tall one
that looks like a praying mantis says. He says they and others are going
to do everything to help avoid catastrophe on the surface. . .. He’s
speaking of models. He says the way it looks now is that they will have
to wait until the values can be entered when this thing gets nearer
because the gravitation of this thing is so disruptive that every time it
comes, it affects everything else differently each time. . . . He’s also
telling the guys in suits that they are staying out of the squabble. He’s
not specifying what this is. He’s also recommending that they—the
guys in suits—stay out of it. One of the men—the tall one, I think—
says that we will have to defend ourselves if any one of the parties
involved tries to enter secured zones. It is necessary; he says, to protect
our own development and it is in our best interest. [But he] does not
specify what development he’s talking about. But he also says we are
not taking sides and your vessels ... will be respected under the mar­
itime and space human laws and treaties.”
Yet another viewer also envisioned a meeting between aliens and
human leaders in which coming geophysical changes were discussed.
“The changes, is saying the tall skinny grey, are going to affect the
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planet. He says that every 25,000 revolutions around the sun, the
Earth is pelted by large stones from the sky. He must be talking about
meteors or asteroids. There is also a planet that crosses the orbits of
planets in this solar system and that, this grey says, causes a lot of
problems for Earth and the other planets. This thing’s apparently big
or at least bigger than Earth.. . . He just produced like a hologram of
the orbit of this thing cutting across the plane of the orbits of the plan­
ets in our solar system. That’s neat! He’s showing the guys in suits that
this planet is going to be close to Earth as it begins to accelerate in its
own orbit going out of our solar system. This hologram also shows
them that there are asteroids from the asteroid belt that get dislodged
from their orbits and decay. Some get pulled in by the Earth and miss
it barely, others hit it head on. ... He tells them to get people involved
in putting up a—the best I can come up with here is ‘shield’ because
he’s talking about protection. He tells the honchos that there is not
much they can do now, meaning at this time. ... The guys in suits
have questions—how many will die? What can they do to plan for this
event? That sort of thing. The tall skinny grey speaks to them again.
He says they must build underground facilities for themselves and
their people—not just where they are but in other places where there
are mountains and bedrock. What about the rest of the people, asks
the guys in suits. The grey replies that there are humans who will the
because they are not prepared. He says that the job of the guys in suits
is to prepare the people for this event and to tell them how to prepare
themselves. Panic, he says, is inevitable but there are means of keeping
problems to a minimum and we will give you those means.” This
viewer went on to describe how humans in orange jumpsuits left with
the greys after a “ceremony of departure.”

What are the ambassadors, technicians, and police?

This question was asked by the remote viewers themselves after
all but one saw references to these types in their sessions. Two saw
alien beings in the role of ambassadors, two saw unearthly technicians
working on and near Earth, while two more envisioned alien police­
men involved. One saw ambassadors representing many alien races
conducting a meeting in “a grand meeting place. Are they like ambas­
sadors of some kind? I can’t think of any other way of looking at them.
They are not blocking anything from me. They know I’m here,” stated
this viewer. Another viewer saw what was described as an alien techni­
cian of sorts. “There’s this robed guy tall and he’s like shimmering all
over. ... He is telling these others that it is very important to have the
energizer working properly and tested soon. He’s also saying that the
amount of energy must be modulated carefully so as not to harm life
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forms. There’s no mention of where or what kind of ‘energizer’ was

spoken about.” Yet another viewer saw one bunch of aliens protecting
“two guys who knew how to do or perform something technical.” One
viewer who saw these guards referred to them as police. “These guys
are funny to me because they don’t have any sense of humor at all,”
reported this viewer. “They are as serious as the plague and they take
their jobs very seriously. They work in pairs, just like cops on the beat,
you know. But there’s a reason for that. It’s got to do with protection.
One of them tells me that if they are in danger, they can together call
for help and it is instantly given. Whereas when you ask for help alone,
you have to go through like a central switchboard of some kind, but
together with someone else, you get instant resonance—whatever that
means about this? Makes no sense to me. ... These guys say theyr have
a hierarchy and they work in groups of twelve, six pairs. He says there
are thousands and thousands of them in pairs all over the galaxy. They
just work this galaxy, says one. He says until I understand what life
really is, I won’t understand fully what it is that they do. He also says
their primary duty is to uphold life, whatever that means”

Why is there a quiet war going on right now?

This is another question asked by the viewers after several
got the definite impression that some sort of secret conflict is taking
place around the earth today. Five of the seven remote viewers
provided some insight into the situation. “There is a guerrilla war going
on, I’m sensing,” reported one. Another added it was more like “a lot
of hit- and-runs between two groups. They don’t like each other. We
are in the middle of it. It’s like we’re one pawn in this war.” Another
view was even more ominous. This viewer saw “a whole armada of
very large ships just outside our solar system, like they’re waiting for
something or someone to come. Kinda reminds me of that movie with
Luke Sky walker and the bad guys.” One viewer described the
conflict as “between two factions of the same party.” “They don’t see
things eye to eye and one side feels very responsible for Earth, while
the other side wants to use Earth, wants to rule it and take things
from there. There is a larger group of many kinds of beings that don’t
like what’s going on but won’t do anything about it. They just try
to keep the peace and prevent... these guys from hurting us or anyone else.”
Another viewer explained, “It’s not as simple as it all appears to
be. This is not a hatred war, where one side hates the other. No, this
has been going on for a long time. This thing’s about survival of one of
the two sides. This side wants to live here and the other side says no, it
belongs to us. This is what I’m getting. It feels like a ‘Star Wars’ kind
of situation, like science fiction, but I can’t shake the feelings and
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impression.” Yet another viewer said, “This war, if it is a war, is like
two dogs fighting. They are not out to kill each other but rather to
have one expose the neck to the other so they can get back to being
peaceful. But one side doesn’t like that approach, I sense. This thing’s
not over yet by far.” None of the viewers got any sense on when this
conflict began nor when it might be ended.

Does the UFO issue involve matters usually thought to

be of a spiritual religious or metaphysical nature?
This was another “blind” question that produced truly intri­
guing responses. Several questions regarding this topic were added by
the viewers. All got various visions, but all indicated that intelligent life
does not end at the boundaries of Earth. “As best I can, I’d call it the
feel of a mantle of some kind,” responded one, “like being covered by
a bed cover when it’s cold or being inside a cocoon of a kind that’s
everywhere and I mean everywhere. Like this whole universe was full
of life just waiting to happen. . . . It’s like everything is a humungous
pattern and there isn’t really one person but rather it’s one whole
cloth. I’m a seamstress and I can only think of the whole thing as if I
were making a gown and the extent of this thing is, well, you can make
billions and billions of gowns from it and it would still be endless.”
Another viewer said, “I’m sensing that there is what we call God
but it’s not like we think of God at all. It’s more impersonal. It’s not a
personal thing at all. What is personal is that, well, as best as I can say,
it’s like people who have gone before us, who are now serving as role
models and guides to how things are and how we’re supposed to do it
while we’re here. I’m gonna call them ‘people’ because they are like me
in every conceivable sense of the word, ’cause I don’t feel different from
them and that’s weird in itself. The way I’m getting this is that we are
actually all the same, just different casings. The pattern is the same. It’s
like a conspiracy7 for life, all kinds of lifeforms, that is. The little guys
[greys] know and understand all this and so do most of the others. I
don’t see them having a religion like we do. They experience the force
field of what we would call the Creator, with a capital C. Oh, but they
do have their ceremonies. They are not like our masses [this viewer is
a Catholic], quite different in spirit. That’s it! When they do things
like that, like a ceremony of something, spirit is there. I can feel it and
it feels good, like an embracing cocoon, it kinda envelops you. I’ve
never been in a tub of warm molasses, but I wouldn’t bet it’s much dif­
ferent. Maybe it would be. At any rate, it feels good. I’m there
now! . .. It’s like a raised plateau. There’s a .. . Good grief! It looks
like one of those Mexican pyramids except it has a door at the bottom
and some kind of entrance mall leading up to it.”
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Another viewer also mentioned a “temple” where hooded

beings met for worship. “It’s very bright in there,” said this viewer.
“There is a low humming sound and the color of light changes with
the intensity of the sound. It feels really good. I can’t quite go inside
this temple because I’m not allowed to go inside the main room where
everybody is. But I’m in like an anteroom. There is like a monolith in
the middle of this room and there is a reddish, eight-sided stone, large,
about halfway up this thing. Looks like onyx or black granite . . . Well,
I’ll be damned! This humming is the prayer! That’s how these guys
pray. But to whom or what? Everybody, comes the answer.”
One viewer witnessed another ceremony involving water—“the
water of life, they call it.” Perhaps a hundred hooded beings partici­
pated in the ceremony in a large rectangular room with the walls cov­
ered by hieroglyphics. “Everybody is praying and giving thanks to the
One. Maybe this One should be capitalized. Maybe this is God to
them. No, this is a little different, feels a little different. This is a form
of what I would call God but it’s like the whole lot of them and every­
body who is alive. I mean the sum total of our spirits ... God
Almighty! Could it be that they are praying to all of us put together? Is
that what One is?”
One possible answer came from another viewer who told of a
conversation with a hooded being who patiently tried to explain that
each individual being is the eyes and ears of the Creator. “When one
forgets that, there is separation and separation is unnatural,” this
viewer was told. “He says that regardless of w hat body form we have,
we are also made of something that interfaces with body form. He says
we call this the mind, but it’s more than that. . . . He says mind and
feelings go together and have always gone together, but that emotions,
strong emotions cloud awareness. He’s also telling me that to really
live simply means to live without fear. Everything is energy, he says,
and that I must try to understand things in terms of energy exchanged,
shared and not to steal energy from another. He says this is what real­
ity really is—energy and energy exchanges. He’s now telling me that
what I think the world—no, the universe—is really like, isn’t. He says I
am relying too much on what others tell me and what I and others
agree is. He says for me to go on a discovery. Find out things, he says.
And now he takes off his hood. It’s a guy with shoulder-length light
brown hair and light eyes, hazel, I think.” One amazing aspect to this
portion of the remote viewing report was that two viewers separately
provided sketches of the site on another world where they saw the One
worshiped—and they are virtually identical.
The conclusion of the remote viewing report was that multiple
species of extraterrestrials—including variations of the familiar greys
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as well as energy beings—are visiting Earth. While no incontrovertible

evidence was offered, several sessions strongly suggested that there is
interaction between some of the ETs and representa fives of govern­
ment, both former and present, to include recovered or donated craft.
It was apparent that the technologies in use with UFOs far exceed
those of present-day humans, but no clear definition of such technol­
ogy was given. It was suggested that this may be due to the lack of
knowledge on the part of the remote viewers—as only one had any sci­
entific training. It appeared from the reports that Earth is caught in
the middle of a conflict between factions of the same race. A good part
of the secrecy concerning UFOs may be due to national leaders seek­
ing more time to determine which side—if either—they might want to
align with. Finally, the experiences of the viewers when dealing with
the metaphysical aspects of the UFO phenomenon are most com­
pelling in their similarities and consistencies. It lends considerable
weight to the argument that remote viewing, done properly with
established protocols, may well prove to be an effective tool for deter­
mining the alien agenda.
 A
METAPHYSICAL
EXAM

The year was 1917, and the seventy thousand people gathered near a
small Portuguese town all saw the UFO. The rain, which had contin­
ued all morning, suddenly stopped about noon. The clouds parted, and
the sun appeared to throw out shafts of colored light in hues of violet,
blue, and yellow.
There was a strange fragrance in the air, and some heard a soft
humming sound. Then came the revoking flat disk, spinning down
toward the earth in a zigzag pattern before reversing its course and
disappearing into the sun. The crowd—many of whom thought the
object was the sun—was shocked to realize that their rain-soaked
clothing was now completely dry;
Although fully documented by attending journalists and investi­
gated thoroughly by the Catholic Church, this case is rarely acknowl­
edged in the UFO literature. It is reserved for the religion shelf. It has
become known as the miracle of Fatima, a small hamlet located about
seventy miles north of Lisbon. According to believers, it represented
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an earthly visit by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who brought messages of

love and prophecies of coming cataclysms.
But others, such as longtime researcher and author Dr. Jacques
Vallee, saw a definite connection with the UFO experience. “The
famous apparitions at Fatima offer a historical example of the religious
dimension of UFO encounters,” wrote Vallee.
The last apparition appeared on October 13, 1917, and ended
six months of sightings, each of which occurred on the thirteenth day
of the month. The only persons to actually claim to have seen and
heard the Virgin Mary were three young children who said they were
first approached by a beautiful lady surrounded by brilliant light on
May 13, 1917, while tending a flock of sheep.
“The final ‘miracle’ had come at the culmination of a precise
series of apparitions combined with contacts and messages that place it
very clearly, in my opinion, in the perspective of UFO phenomena,”
stated Vallee. “Not only was a flying disk or globe consistently
involved, but its motion, its falling-leaf trajectory, its light effects, the
thunderclaps, the buzzing sounds, the strange fragrance, the fall of
‘angel hair’ that dissolves upon reaching the ground, the heat wave
associated with the close approach of the disk—all of these are fre­
quent parameters of UFO sightings everywhere. And so are the paraly­
sis, the amnesia, the conversions, and the healings.”
Retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel Dr. Nelson S.
Pacheco has made an in-depth study of Marian phenomena, while
Tommy R. Blann, a former researcher to the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
has studied UFOs since the early 1960s. In their self-published book
Unmasking the Enemy, both men argue that religious apparitions
exhibit some major differences from UFO encounters.
“First, the Fatima message is the traditional Judeo-Christian call
to return to God,” they wrote. “As with prophets of old, the Virgin
Mary linked the establishment of peace in the world not to geopolitical
considerations, but to the cessation of sinfulness . . . [while] UFO
manifestations’ . . . appeal is amoral—having more to do with our own
human potential, the destruction of the environment, government
secrecy, and so forth.
“Second, the imagery of Fatima fits traditional Catholic
archetypes, and the feeling reported by the visionaries is one of
peace—except for the vision of hell—quite different from the typical
imagery and emotions typically reported by UFO visionaries....
Finally, the miracle of the sun at Fatima stands by itself in its magni­
tude. It is paralleled only by Old Testament miracles and makes even
the most magnificent UFO display seem minuscule in comparison.”
All three authors do share a common belief—that the UFO
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phenomenon involves nonhuman intelligences that are not necessarily

aliens from another planet.
“I believe that the UFO phenomenon is one of the ways
through which an alien form of intelligence of incredible complexity’ is
communicating with us symbolically” stated Vallee. “There is no indi­
cation that it is extraterrestrial. Instead, there is mounting evidence
that it has access to psychic processes we have not yet mastered or
even researched.”
Today there is a growing belief among UFO researchers that
the issue involves much more than simple flying machines from outer
space. There appears to be an interconnection between sightings, con­
tacts, and abductions that involves matters previously thought to be
the sole province of parapsychology, anthropology, and even religion.
For many this is a troubling thought.
As author Whitley Strieber noted, “Any explanation of the phe­
nomenon that is not prosaic must inevitably lead to a profound chal­
lenge to cherished theories about the nature of mind and universe and
man’s place in the cosmos.”

The Wee Folk

Once again, a search of both UFO and mythology literature indicates
that various phenomena involving both can be traced back to man’s
prehistory. It is nothing new.
Vallee, who has made an extensive study of folklore, observed,
“It is difficult to find a culture on Earth that does not have an ancient
tradition of little people that fly through the sky and abduct humans.”
Vallee also stated that, based on his studies, he has been tempted to
hypothesize “that in times remote contact occurred between human
consciousness and another consciousness, variously described as
demonic, angelic, or simply alien.”
These “little people” went under a variety of names: the Scandi­
navian trolls, the ihkals of Mexico, and the Malaysian bunions. The
British Isles provide a wealth of such legends, from the Celtic stories
of babies abducted by elves to Irish leprechauns and Scottish sleagh
maitb [good people]. In France, these legends concern fees, or fairies,
and a diminutive race known as the fions. Interestingly, these wee folk,
like the Christian stories of angels and demons, are said to form two
basic groups—the good and the evil. “Such elemental beings have
formed a backdrop to the religion and folklore of all nations for some
millennia,” stated author Jenny Randles. “The consistency between
belief in such entities is truly remarkable.”
“It would be a grave mistake to believe that we, in the late twen­
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tieth century, are the first people smart enough to recognize that this
phenomenon is worthy of investigation and obeys certain fixed pat­
terns,” commented Vallee. “Priests and scholars left books about the
legends of their time concerning these beings. These books had to be
found, collected, and studied. Together, these stories presented a
coherent picture of the appearance, the organization, and the meth­
ods of our strange visitors. The appearance was—does this surprise
you?—exactly that of today’s UFO pilots. The methods were the
same. There was the sudden vision of brilliant ‘houses’ at night,
houses that could fly, that contained peculiar lamps, radiant lights
that needed no fuel. The creatures could paralyze their witnesses and
translate them through time. They hunted animals and took away
people.”
Richard L. Thompson, the former NASA scientist who has con­
nected UFOs to the ancient Vedic literature of India, urged more
openness to the legends of other peoples. He suggested that a massive
cross-cultural study “would result in a unified picture of human cul­
tures that attributes much greater reality to each culture’s world view
than modem science allows.”
To Vallee, the commonality of the world’s legends goes far
beyond mere coincidence of some ancient stories. “This is not simply a
case of a few tales relating encounters between a few humans and
strange creatures from the sky,” he wrote. “This is an age-old and
worldwide myth that has shaped our belief structures, our scientific
expectations, and our view of ourselves. I do not use the word myth
here to mean something that is imaginary; but on the contrary some­
thing that is true at such a deep level that it influences the very basic
elements of our thoughts.”
He even postulated that the intense interest in UFOs may
presage a new mythological movement. “Through the UFO phe­
nomenon, we have the unique opportunities to observe folklore in the
making and to gather scientific material at the deepest source of
human imagination. We will be the object of much contempt by future
students of our civilization if we allow this material to be lost.”
Much to the chagrin of some within the UFO research commu­
nity, Vallee pointed out that he sees no unquestioned proof that UFOs
are extraterrestrial spacecraft. The phenomenon may, he asserted, rep­
resent “something even more interesting: a window toward undiscov­
ered dimensions of our own environment.
“Although I am among those who believe that UFOs are real
physical objects, I do not think they are extraterrestrial in the ordinary
sense of the term. In my view they present an exciting challenge to our
concept of reality itself,” he wrote. “I believe that a UFO is both a
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physical entity’ with mass, inertia, volume, and physical parameters that
we can measure, and a window into another reality.”
To support this thesis, Vallee noted several UFO traits that indi­
cate that something other than simple space travel is involved:

UFOs not only travel through the air, often violating the laws of
motion as we understand them, but according to many accounts, they
can materialize and dematerialize—wink in and out of existence.

UFOs have been sighted throughout history and always within

the context of the time period. Ancient peoples regarded them as gods.
In the Middle Ages, they were manifestations of magic. During the
Great Airship Mystery of the late 1800s, they were believed the u'ork
of scientific geniuses. Today, they are believed to be visitors from
another planet. Of course, this could be the result of human interpre­
tation rather than any conscious effort on the part of aliens.

Many abductees claimed to have experienced loss of time and to

have been transported to worlds similar to, but not, our own. With
recent developments in physics, the nature of the UFOs has to be
expanded to include the possibility of origins outside of our normal
time and/or dimension.

Although most abductees and contactees remain silent about

this aspect of their experience, many report that their perceptions of
themselves and the universe undergo a drastic change following a
UFO experience. Some even claim to have developed increased psy­
chic powers.

Whatever the experience, UFO contacts appear to always occur

under conditions controlled by the UFO operators. One such underly­
ing condition seems to be a factor of absurdity, such as the pancakes left
behind in one case. Such absurdity, reasoned Vallee, “leads to a rejection
of the story by the upper levels of the target society and an absorption at
a deep unconscious level of the symbols conveyed by the encounter.”

Vallee claimed the idea that UFOs are simply spaceships from
another planet is naive. “The explanation is too simple-minded to
account for the diversity of the reported behavior of the occupants and
their perceived interactions with human beings,” he explained.
New Yorker John Keel, a longtime student of UFOs who has
authored several books on the subject, reached similar conclusions. In
UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, Keel stated, “Thus, by all the standards
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of our sciences—-and our common sense—the UFOs do not really

exist as solid objects. They may be a constant part of our environment,
but they are not an actual part of our reality. We cannot, therefore,
catalog them as manufactured products of some extraterrestrial civi­
lization sharing our own dimensions of time and space. They are extra
dimensional, able to move through our spatial coordinates at will but
also able to enter and leave our three-dimensional world. If this is a
true hypothesis, then they may also be operating beyond the limita­
tions of our time coordinates. Our years may be minutes to them. Our
future may be their past, and thus they have total knowledge of the
things in store for us.”
Referring to the conditioned-response studies of behaviorists
such as B. F. Skinner, Vallee drew a comparison with UFO activity. “I
suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and condi­
tioned,” he stated. “When I speak of a spiritual control system I do not
mean that some higher super civilization has locked us inside the con­
straints of a space-bound jail, closely monitored by entities we might
call angels or demons. What I do mean is that mythology rules at a
level of our social reality over which normal political and intellectual
trends have no real power.”
Vallee noted that the most effective form of reinforcement is
one that combines regularity with unpredictability, he said, “Learning
is then slow but continuous. It leads to the highest level of adaptation.
And it is irreversible. It is interesting to observe that the pattern of
UFO waves has the same structure as a schedule of reinforcement.”
Considering the past fifty years of UFO history, there seems lit­
tle doubt that a conditioning process has been taking place—whether
intentional or not. Polls taken in the 1950s indicated that very few
people believed there was any form of life outside the earth. Today’s
polls show the opposite. A Roper poll in 1987 indicated that slightly
more than 50 percent of those questioned believed that UFOs are real.
Interestingly, that figure jumped to 65 percent among people with col­
lege degrees. The December 1996 edition of George magazine quoted
from a Luntz Research poll of more than eight hundred Americans
that indicated that respondents who believed that there is life on other
worlds had increased to 55 percent. Of this number, 53 percent believe
that aliens have visited the earth within the past hundred years and 70
percent believe the government has covered up the fact.
It stands to reason that if an alien civilization is advanced
enough to reach Earth in flying craft, it would be advanced enough
socially to realize the disruption a public appearance would cause in
our planet’s evolution.
A clear example of such enlightened concern can be found in the
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story' of the Tasaday Indians, a primitive Filipino tribe first discovered in

1966. Although questions have arisen about the authenticity of this
“Stone Age” tribe, it is nevertheless instructive to note how modem sci­
ence reacted to its discovery. In past history, many indigenous peoples—
American Indians among them—were literally destroyed by the advent
of Western European culture with its guns, Bibles, and disease.
In the early 1970s, it was decided that direct confrontation with
the Tasadays would occur only after a period of acclimation. Slowly,
over the course of months, anthropologists would allow the Tasadays
to view them at a distance. Finally, a face-to-face meeting was
arranged. Even then, only a few metal knives were given as presents.
This prevented a total disruption of the Tasaday culture, giving scien­
tists an opportunity to study what was hailed as “one of the most
intriguing anthropological finds of the century.”
Some thoughtful UFO researchers have wondered if perhaps
the earth’s population is experiencing a similar type of conditioning, in
preparation for a face-to-face meeting with extraterrestrial neighbors.
Others see a more sinister form of conditioning in the UFO
phenomenon.

The Gods of War

When researcher-author William Bramley began a seven-year investi­
gation into the causes of war, he fully expected to find profit as the
prime motivating factor behind mankind’s turbulent history. After all,
as Bramley discovered, war is not only very profitable to those who
lend money or sell arms but it is an excellent means of social and polit­
ical control. War can be used to “encourage populations to think in
ways they would not otherwise do, and to accept the formation of
institutions that they would normally reject. The longer a nation
involves itself in wars, the more entrenched those institutions and ways
of thinking will become,” he noted.
Studying man’s history of warfare, Bramley found abundant evi­
dence of third-party manipulation. “It is no secret, for example, that
prior to the American Revolution, France had sent intelligence agents
to America to stir up colonial discontent against the British Crown,”
he wrote. “It is also no secret that the German military had aided
Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution of 1917. Through­
out all of history, people and nations have benefited from, and have
contributed to, the existence of other people’s conflicts.”
What Bramley was unprepared for was the discovery of UFOs
as a continuous influence in history. From the concept of “ancient
astronauts” to the modern flying saucer phenomenon, he found the
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traces of UFO manipulation—whether as space beings or spiritual

entities—well documented throughout the ages. “As I probed deeper
., . I was compelled to face the possibility that some human problems
may be rooted in some of the most utterly bizarre realities imagin­
able,” Bramley wrote in his well-researched and documented 1990
book, The Gods of Eden, “Because such realities are rarely acknowl­
edged, let alone understood, they are not dealt with. As a result, the
problems those realities generate are rarely resolved, and so the world
seems to shamble from one calamity to the next.”
According to Bramley, the earth’s population remains under the
hidden control of an alien race of “Custodians” that use war as an
effective means of control. “Human beings appear to be a slave race
languishing on an isolated planet in a small galaxy,” he concluded. “As
such, the human race was once a source of labor for an extraterrestrial
civilization and still remains a possession today. To keep control over
its possession and to maintain Earth as something of a prison, that
other civilization has bred never-ending conflict between human
beings, has promoted human spiritual decay, and has erected on Earth
conditions of unremitting physical hardship. This situation has existed
for thousands of years and it continues today.”
Bramley’s thesis echoes that of Charles H. Fort, a writer and
researcher whose interest in obscure and bizarre facts led to the forma­
tion of the Fortean Society in 1931, the year before Fort’s death. Fol­
lowing a lifetime of collecting strange and little-known information,
Fort concluded, “I think we’re property. I should say we belong to
something: that once upon a time, this Earth was No-man’s Land, that
other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among them­
selves for possession, but that now it’s owned by something. That
something owns this Earth—all others warned off.”
If Bramley and Fort sound preposterous, it should be noted that
their ideas are supported by none other than Dr. Fred Hoyle, one of
the world’s foremost astrophysicists. In a 1971 news conference, Hoyle
stated, “Human beings are simply pawns in the games of alien minds
that control our every move. They are everywhere, in the sky, on the
sea, and on the Earth. ... It is not an alien intelligence from another
planet. It is actually from another universe which entered ours at the
very beginning and has been controlling all that happened since.”
Hoyle added that many of his scientific peers believed in the existence
of such non human entities, but declined to say so publicly.
Students of a controlling alien presence, such as Bramley, Fort,
and Hoyle, relied on research and documentation to provide the foun­
dation for their beliefs. Others were more fortunate. They simply
received messages from the aliens themselves.
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Voices from the Ether

Richard T. Miller, a participant in the famous Mantell UFO case, left
the air force in 1949 but served as an undercover civilian UFO investi­
gator for ATIC [Air Technical Intelligence Center] until 1952 on a
part-time basis. Full-time he worked as a television repairman.
In the summer of 1954, Miller met George Hunt Williamson,
one of the early contactees, who claimed to have received alien trans­
missions using ham radio equipment. Williamson gave Miller a list of
radio frequencies that he said carried the transmissions, and on
September 10, 1954, Miller and some friends did indeed hear a strange
broadcast in English. Thinking some fellow ham operators might be
pulling a joke, Miller and others used direction-finding equipment to
trace the powerful signal but failed to locate the source. The Federal
Communications Commission was called in, but agents also failed to
locate the signals source. After one of the ham operators accidentally
broke his antenna, it was discovered that the signal was being beamed
straight down on the earth from the direction of the North Star.
Shordy after beginning to receive these strange signals, Miller and
some friends had another starding experience at his home.
“A glowing UFO came down to treetop height, jockeyed back and
forth and lined itself up beautifully with our little [radio] unit, sat there,
and then did the next most impossible thing electronically we could think
of—it modulated the glowing force field around the craft at an audio
rate, and sent us a message.” The message, among other things, advised
the listeners to contact none otlier than contactee George Adamski at
Mount Palomar and warn him of a coming earthquake. Although tVIiller
failed to reach Adamski, he learned from newspapers that a mild earth­
quake had indeed struck Mount Palomar on the designated date. “That
was all the verification we needed,” said Miller, who went on to record
dozens of transmissions from “our friends from outer space.”
Some time later, Miller claimed to have been taken aboard a
UFO for a lengthy conversation with a human-appearing alien named
Soltec. Following this experience, Miller said he was able to converse
with the space beings by telepathy alone. By this means, he was able to
accumulate much information.
Miller said he was told the UFO that took him was a “Galactic
Survey scientific ship” named the “Phoenix” measuring “magnetic
field anomalies'’ and cosmic radiation around the earth as well as on
the moon. He learned the craft represented a Galactic Confederation
that had been studying and observing the earth for millions of years.
Miller was told that the earth was somewhat “unique” from other
worlds due to the “crudeness and ferocity” of its life-forms and that
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the planet was “approaching the end of a cosmic cycle and there was
going to be a form of transition into a new state.”
“He said they were primarily attempting to reach as many peo­
ple as they could,” Miller recalled. “They had instrumentation on
board their ships, that as they flew around the planet, they could pick
up on individuals who had telepathic potential. The main reason they
were here was to help raise the general level of awareness of all life
forms on the planet Earth.”
Miller learned that, unlike the newborn of other worlds,
humans were bom with no memory of past lives or conscious tele­
pathic powers. This deficiency was one of the basic causes of human
strife. “As a result of all this, they quarantined the planet Earth and it
has been quarantined ever since,” Miller stated in a compilation of his
communications published in 1979. In these detailed and intricate
messages, an astounding history of the earth was revealed, including
references to ancient civilizations such as Atlantis and Lumeria. One
part dealt with the Great Pyramids of Egypt, which, according to
Miller’s notes, were built by aliens as giant “motion stabilizers for the
planet,” eliminating a dangerous wobble in its rotation about forty-five
thousand years ago. In this account, the pyramids originally were built
on the earth’s equator but ended up on the thirtieth degree of north
latitude following a prehistoric axis tilt. This shift resulted in the Great
Flood of Noah, which nearly exterminated mankind.
According to Miller, these aliens used a form of energy surround­
ing them even in deep space. “[Soltec] described it as being the electro­
magnetic and electrostatic lines of force that they twisted or bent parallel
for a fraction of a moment. This provided them with all the energy they
needed,” he wrote. “Aboard this particular space ship, they did have a
small fusion generator, an atomic generator which was like a starter
motor. It generated the power to create a force field, which in turn, could
bend the lines of force and release the energy they needed.” Interestingly
enough, there has been productive modem research into just such
energy—called zero point energy: Research at the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Austin, Texas, has determined that the vacuum of outer space
is neither empty nor tranquil, but filled with phantom particles of energy'
and fluctuations only now being discovered. According to physicists John
Wheeler and Richard Feynman, there is enough energy in the vacuum of
a solitary lightbulb to boil all the earth’s seas. It has been speculated that
zero point energy may be “the Rosetta stone of physics, explaining every­
thing from gravity' to atoms to the origin of the cosmos itself.”
Through telepathic communication, Miller recorded a variety
of messages from nonhuman beings with names like Hatonn, Korton,
Voltra, Ashtar, Mon-Ka and Lalur, who spoke on everything from a
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prehuman history of Earth to giant spacecraft production plants under

the surface of Mars to a tour of “Galactic Central.”
One of Mon-Ka’s messages stated that many world leaders,
including President Dwight Eisenhower, were contacted prior to 1956
regarding the aliens’ presence. “Some choose to listen to our state­
ments and believe,” related Mon-Ka. “Others, unfortunately, choose
to circumvent our offers by not informing their people of these con­
tacts. Mankind on your planet is eager to know the truth. It is a pity
that a few would decide that the majority should remain ignorant.”
Mon-Ka went on to indicate that the U.S. government had several
alien craft in its possession.
Mon-Ka, as recorded by Miller, also dealt with the metaphysi­
cal, stating that the universe consists of both many worlds and dimen­
sions, all under a force he called “the thought of Our Divine One.”
“All consists of energy, matter and thought,” he explained. “Three
manifestations of that which is known as original with our Creator—
all existing [as different forms of energy] upon planes of reference
known as vibration, or more commonly, frequency.”
Miller was only one of a long list of people who claimed to have
made contact with nonhuman intelligences through various means,
primarily telepathy.
One of the most notable of such persons was Edgar Cayce, a
Kentucky farm boy who dropped out of school in the ninth grade but
became world famous as a prophet and psychic healer while in a
trance. This quiet, unassuming man, widely known as “the sleeping
prophet,” recommended psychically received treatments for more than
fourteen thousand patients who sought him out until his death in
1945. According to authors David Wallechinsky and Irving and Amy
Wallace, “Unlike most psychics, Cayce kept complete transcripts of his
trance-induced utterings. These transcripts, together with the follow­
up research done on his patients, proved that Cayce’s methods had an
amazingly high success rate. Cayce’s prophecies have also been uncan­
nily accurate.”
Cayce alluded to visitations by alien beings, said Rob Grant, a
researcher with the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.,
a group devoted to the study of Cayce’s words. In Reading 1616-1:27,
Cayce said one patient was once “among the priestesses of the Mayan
experience.” “It was just before that period when those as from the
east had come, and there were the beginnings of the unfoldments of
the understanding that there were other portions of the same land, or
those that were visiting from other worlds or planets,” he added.
Cayce also saw human experience on Earth as only a small por­
tion of sentient life in the universe. “For, the Earth is only an atom in
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the universe of worlds,” he wrote. Cayce explained, “Man’s origin was

as a spirit, not a physical body. These souls projected themselves into
matter, probably for their own diversion, interrupting an evolutionary'
pattern then going on in the Earth. Through the use of his creative
powers for selfish purposes man became entangled in matter or mate­
riality to such an extent that he nearly forgot his divine origin and
nature.”
Jane Roberts, a poet from Elmira, New York, claimed to have
encountered a disincorporated entity named Seth, described as an
“energy personality essence.” She said Seth spelled out messages while
she experimented with a Ouija board in late 1963. “Not long after,
however, I felt impelled to say the words aloud, and within a month I
was speaking for Seth while in a trance state,” she recalled. Over time,
the entity Seth, speaking through Roberts, dictated the book Seth
Speaks, which enjoyed some popularity in the early 1970s.
Seth claimed to have consciously entered our three-dimensional
reality to educate humans to their inherent potential. “You are truly
multidimensional personalities,” he explained through Roberts. “The
entire personality structure dwells in many dimensions, and simultane­
ously.
“Your concept of reality as seen through your physical senses,
scientific instruments, or arrived at through deduction, bears little
resemblance to the facts—and the facts are difficult to explain... .
Your planetary systems exist at once, simultaneously, both in time and
space. The universe that you seem to perceive, either visually or
through instruments, appears to be composed of galaxies, stars, and
planets, at various distances from you. Basically, however, this is an
illusion. Your senses and your vety existence as physical creatures pro­
gram you to perceive the universe in such a way. The universe as you
know it is your interpretation of events as they intrude upon your
three-dimensional reality. The events are mental. This does not mean
that you cannot travel to other planets. .. .”
According to Seth, “The self that you know is but one fragment
of your entire identity. These fragment selves are not strung together,
however, like beads on a string. They are more like the various skins of
an onion, or segments of an orange, all connected through the one
vitality and growing out into various realities while springing from the
one source.”
Seth offered this analogy to explain why humans seem to have
blocked any remembrance of their multidimensional selves from mem­
ory: “A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is
learns little, because he cannot forget that wealth that is available to
him. Though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man, and lives in
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the same poor house for a day—or for a year or five years—he knows
he has his mansion to return to. So you hide these things from yourself
so that you can relate. You forget your home so that you can return to
it enriched.”
He said scientists are only just now learning what some philoso­
phers have espoused for centuries—that the mind can influence mat­
ter. “Consciousness creates form. It is not the other way around. All
personalities are not physical. It is only because you are so busily con­
cerned with daily matters that you do not realize that there is a portion
of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown
by the ordinary self. You have lived other existences, and that knowl­
edge is within you though you are not consciously aware of it.
“You may think of your soul or entity ... as some conscious and
living, divinely-inspired computer who programs its own existences
and lifetimes. But this computer is so highly endowed with creativity
that each of the various personalities it programs spring into con­
sciousness and song, and in turn create realities that may have been
undreamed of by the computer itself.
“The fact is that each of you create your own physical reality; en
masse, you create both the glories and the terrors that exist within
your earthly experience. Until you realize that you are the creators,
you will refuse to accept this responsibility. Nor can you blame a devil
for the world’s misfortunes. You have grown sophisticated enough to
realize that the Devil is a projection of your own psyche, but you have
not grown wise enough to learn how to use your creativity construc­
tively.”
Seth said some UFO sightings are instances where human and
nonhuman thought projections touch and represent only our percep­
tions of “visitors from other realities.” “What happens is that you have
an attempt to exchange camouflage realities,” he explained. “The
beings entering your plane cannot appear within it as themselves.
Since their atomic structure is not the same as yours, distortions must
occur in order to make any contact possible. Thus you are greeted
with a certain set of sense data. You then try to figure out what is hap­
pening but the sense data, you see, means that the event is already dis­
torted to some degree. The physical vehicles that are often perceived
are your interpretation of the event that is actually occurring.”
A Ouija board also figured into another successful book based
on channeled information, this time from a collection of soul entities
claiming to bring messages from a higher plane of existence under the
name Michael. Michaels messages were compiled into a popular 1980
book by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro entitled simply Messages from Michael.
Michael, like Roberts’s Seth and Miller’s space friends, acknowl­
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edged one supreme force but refused to call it God. “We prefer not to
use the word God in speaking of the ultimate creative force of the uni­
verse,” Michael explained, speaking through an unidentified California
woman. “Primarily because the word God in your society has become
masculinized and requires the use of the masculine pronoun, thus per­
petuating the personification of the universal creative force. . . .
Unfortunately the word God gives rise to anthropomorphic fantasies
that have no place in this teaching. For our purposes we shall call this
constant creative force the Tao, for it is impossible for the Western
mind to construct any visual image around this word.”
Michael also stated that we are all parts of a greater whole, liv­
ing in a “pandimensional universe.” The Michael entity explained that
each individual is a bit of sentient energy or soul that is separate from
the personality. This soul is “trapped” in a series of physical bodies
“for as long as it is necessary for them to experience all of life through
the cycles. ... There is growth on the higher planes as well, very like
those of the physical plane, and as the soul grows older on the physical
plane it becomes more aware of this higher evolution. .. . The contin­
uous creative force that is universal casts out entities into physical
lifetimes. These entities fragment and become many different per­
sonalities. Their integration is the evolutionary pattern for all souls.
You do not feel the desire to seek the remaining fragments of your
entity until the last physical cycle. Then, at that time, there is almost a
compulsion.”
“Let us use an analogy,” Michael explained. “Imagine the
Atlantic Ocean as the whole; imagine filling 10 test tubes, then sealing
them so that they are both airtight and watertight, then imagine drop­
ping them back into the ocean. They are part of the whole, yes, but
unless some outside force liberates them, they are remote from the
source and trapped in an effective prison. This same way the soul is
trapped in the body. The body is very limited in what it can do. The
soul in its true spiritual state has no limitations or handicaps.”
Like Seth, Michael warned against creating a new religion
around such messages, stating, “It is too easy for you to be lured by
your expectations into making this a new faith, which is in complete
opposition to our intention. Blind faith eliminates understanding, and
without understanding there can be no growth or agape, which is the
goal.”
Wien asked if humans are the only ones to have souls that grow
through reincarnation, Michael replied, “There are two such species
on this planet. Human beings and cetaceans. This is, whales and dol­
phins. I lowever, we think you should know that there are over 10 mil­
lion ensouled species in this galaxy alone.”
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Aliens Save the Earth

Another recent self-proclaimed representative of disembodied beings
was a personable man calling himself Drunvalo Melchizedek. This
person, whose human name was never publicized, reportedly volun­
teered to leave his body in 1972 in exchange for an unspecified “gift.”
His absence allowed the personality of Drunvalo Melchizedek to enter
this dimension for educational purposes.
Interestingly, the Bible mentions in Hebrews 6:20 that Jesus
himself was “a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek” (New
International). Hebrews 7:1-5 states that Melchizedek had no mother
or father nor any ancestral record; was never born and never died, but
was like the “Son of God,” a priest forever who was given a tenth of all
he possessed by the Old Testament patriarch Abraham and praised by
the author of Psalms. Obviously this strange and mysterious
Melchizedek was a powerful authority in the eyes of the biblical
authors.
A Melchizedek was said to be someone who can consciously
traveled through dimensions. Drunvalo reportedly traveled through
many levels of both physical and spiritual existence to reach Earth. On
this journey, he visited advanced civilizations in the star systems of
Orion, Sirius B, and the Pleiades.
“Drunvalo doesn’t tell these stories about himself to prove that
he is anyone special,” reported Drunvalo student Bob Frissell in his
1994 work, Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things
Are. “To the contrary, it is to serve as a reminder to you, to show how
special you are. Consider, for example, the possibility that you too are
a higher-dimensional master here on special assignment. Consider also
that in order for you to properly do your job, it is necessary to become
as human as possible; that is, to go to sleep and forget, and at the
proper time you would be reminded of your true nature. You have
done the first part perfectly. Now it is time for phase II. Drunvalo does
remember and that is the difference.”
Drunvalo weaves celestial mechanics, ancient alien visitations,
spiritualism, multidimensionalism, and religion into one grand uni­
fied explanation. He stated that we have all entered a new age of
enlightenment. Author Frissell explained, “As a civilization we gath­
ered a certain amount of information since the days of Sumcria 6,000
years ago until 1900. Between 1900 and around 1950 we doubled
that amount of information. Then from approximately 1950 to 1970,
we doubled it again, from 1970 to 1980 again. Information now is
doubling so fast that NASA is about eight years behind in gening
some things into its computers so they can even use them. We are so
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far from catching up with ourselves that we have already entered a

new phase of history while pretending that everything is the same
way it’s always been. Not so.”
According to Drunvalo, humans are multidimensional beings
unaware that we share this planet with others. “Dimensions are sepa­
rated from one another by wavelength much as the notes are on a
musical scale,” explained Frissell. “Each tone on the scale sounds dif­
ferent because of its wavelength. The piano has eight white keys and
five black keys, which together give its player the chromatic scale. In
between each key and the next are 12 harmonic points; in dimensional
terms these are the overtones. It is also the same as changing channels
on a TV set. When you operate the channel control, you are turning
to different wavelengths.... This planet has many different worlds;
they are all right here, but our consciousness is tuned to one particular
wavelength. Meanwhile, we literally exist on all dimensional levels and
our experience on each level is completely different.” Frissell said that
archeologists are working in the wrong vibration, which explained the
lack of evidence proving the existence of early civilizations such as
Atlantis and Lemuria.
Drunvalo also dismissed the idea that man is at the top of the
intellectual heap. “We think that we are the most advanced, but the
whales and dolphins are far, far beyond us,” wrote Frissell. “We think
we are the most advanced because we can create external things. . ..
The most advanced life forms do not create externally. They create
everything they need internally.”
Referring to a variety of concepts such as “sacred geometry,”
Eastern mysticism, meditative breathing, the internal “chakra”—or the
basic vibration centers of the body—system, and the merging of mind,
spirit and body into one “Christ-Consciousness,” Drunvalo asserted
that the human purpose is to evolve into a higher dimensional plane.
“According to Drunvalo we have already reached the point where l’Z
billion people will definitely make the conscious shift, and the ‘mas­
ters1 [inter-dimensional light beings here to assist] are projecting that
everyone or almost everyone will make it into the next dimension,”
wrote Frissell.
Drunvalo claimed it is extremely important to perfect the qual­
ity of our thoughts here on the third dimension because in higher
dimensions, mere thought will create our reality. “This is what Jesus
meant when he stressed the purity of thoughts,” Frissell stated. “Love
and peace and unity and being kind to your neighbors are ultimately
very practical because they work reciprocally. These things are impor­
tant on the third dimension also, but, because of the time delay in
manifestation, we get away with playing dumb and not seeing cause
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and effect. The third dimension seems to be a realm for mastering lim­
itations or victim consciousness. In victim consciousness, the ultimate
victim is one who doesn’t know that he or she is creating reality, and
believes than things just happen to them.”
An interesting twist to Drunvalo’s teachings is the idea that
aliens altered this planet’s predicted doom in 1972. According to this
story, Earth was subjected to a gigantic solar flare on August 7, 1972,
u'hich would have destroyed all life on the planet, since we had not yet
achieved the higher consciousness or vibration necessary to shift into a
higher and safer plane of existence. According to Drunvalo, intelligent
beings from Sirius, assisted by about a hundred other races, were given
permission by “Galactic Command” to experiment and try to avert
this disaster. They established a holographic energy field around the
earth and everything on it that not only protected life against the solar
flare but made everyone blissfully unaware of the event.
Indeed, in 1972 Science News noted, “The early days of August
saw a severe disturbance on the sun that produced four major flares
between August 2 and August 7 ... among the most major ever
recorded. . . . The August 7 flare ran the X-ray sensors off the scale.”
This event caused unforeseen results, according to Drunvalo,
who claimed all previous predictions regarding the future of Earth—
such as those of Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus—are no longer valid
due to the change of 1972.
“According to Drunvalo,” Frissell wrote, “extraterrestrials regu­
larly visit a planet like ours. But it is against universal law for them to
interfere with us. For this reason they enter one overtone higher than
the one the planet sits on so that they are invisible to us. But they can
monitor us very clearly from this higher overtone. In fact, the next
higher overtone on our planet is right now so full of vehicles filled
with curious occupants that more recently arriving visitors have had to
go into the second overtone, and they have now almost completely
filled that one. There are even beings from distance galaxies here to
watch.”
One alien race now on Earth that is mentioned frequently by
Drunvalo is the familiar “greys.” By his account, the greys are distant
ancestors of Martians, who are even now struggling with the loss of
atmosphere and environment on their own planet. Both the Martians
and the greys tried to cope with their realities by external intellect.
They built spaceships and other devices to help them in their evolu­
tion, but lost the internal energy of love and emotion—the so-called
Christ-Consciousness—that allows all sentient beings to connect with
the universal whole.
“The Greys now' realize that to get out of the trap they created
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for themselves by separating themselves from the source of life, they

have to get back their emotional bodies. Unfortunately, the only way
they know how to do this is by studying us intellectually, which, of
course, will never work,” explained Frissell.
However, according to Drunvalo, the greys made contact with a
“secret government’' on Earth prior to World War II and have traded
their advanced technology for the right to experiment on the earth,
which included animal mutilations and human abductions. “Whether
you call them the secret government, the Illuminati, the Bilderbergers.
the Trilateral Commission, or the Council on Foreign Relations, the
name is irrelevant,” Frissell noted, echoing the statements of Brantley
and others. “The ‘secret government’ is basically made up of the rich­
est people in the world. There are about 2,000 of them and they have
been controlling our so-called governments for a long time. They con­
trol who gets elected, when, and where; they control when there is a
war and when there isn’t. They control planetary' food shortages and
whether a country's currency is inflated or deflated. All these things
are dominated completely by these people. They can’t control natural
disasters, of course, but they can and do control a lot.”
Drunvalo said that by the late 1960s, this “secret government”
learned from scientists that a planetary’ disaster was imminent and
began to join their assets in both the United States and the former
Soviet Union in an effort to design an escape plan for themselves. He
said that both nations secretly used grey technology to build their own
saucers and that “about 50 percent of the UFOs sighted are our own.”
He added that this “secret government” has built secret bases on both
the moon and Mars, explaining some of the anomalies on both.
However, in basically' supporting this Alternative 3 scenario.
Drunvalo said that the people within the “secret government” have
become like the grey s and are in danger of losing their emotional Bod­
ies to sheer intellect. According to Drunvalo, the greys are on the way-
out, not having learned enough regarding inner growth to sunive on
their physical plane. And members of the “secret government” have
begun to realize that they cannot sunive on their own. They need love
and “unity consciousness” too and so are allowing more and more
material to be made available to a wider public audience in opposition
to their previous policy' of maintaining strict secrecy.
Unbelievable as all this sounds to most people, it echoes the
basic message of a book first published back in 1955, which has
attracted a small but loyal following. The Urartu Book is nearly three
thousand pages of an obtuse and overly detailed description of the
nature of God and the creation and structure of both Earth and the
universe reportedly’ channeled from a variety of nonhuman entities,
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including an entity also named Melchizedek. According to The Urantia

Book, the original Melchizedek was a direct creation of God who,
along with another direct creation, Gabriel, administers our known
universe, referred to as Nebadon, which contains ten thousand inhab­
ited systems. Urantia is this books name for Earth.
The book’s authors made it clear that sentient life exits both on
other physical worlds as well as other dimensions. They also stated
that humans are spiritual beings living simultaneous existences on
many different levels but that most people have lost this knowledge
except in regard to religious matters. “We worship God, first, because
he is,” wrote the authors, “then, because he is in us, and last, because
we are in him.”
This book agreed with other researchers in stating that a wide
variety of nonhuman life-forms, many of them energy beings, visit and
work on the earth for the purpose of assisting in the planet’s evolution­
ary growth toward God. It stated that Lucifer, once a distinguished
administrator of God, fell from grace by thinking that his own intellect
was the same as God’s—the same mistake attributed by others to the
grey aliens. The struggle between good and evil on this world is a
physical manifestation of the struggle between those beings who chose
to follow their own desires and intellect and those who would follow
the sum total of creative energy—God.
While such words of love and immortality, whether channeled
or otherwise, are written off by most people as some sort of “New
Age” balderdash, there is an intriguing consistency to these messages.
Whether this is due to some cosmic truth or simply the result of an
evolving mythology among writers of such material who read each
other and then add their own interpretation appears a matter of indi­
vidual belief.
What is certain is that once again, the clash of individual mind­
sets enters the picture, particularly in considering the religious impli­
cations of the UFO phenomenon. And while individual belief and faith
are matters far beyond the scope of this work, it is instructive to note
the various positions advanced by the voices of those speaking for reli­
gion.

An Alien by Any Other Name

A diminutive being with large, hypnotic eyes is encountered during a
walk in the woods. Should he/she/it be regarded as an angel, a devil,
an elf, or an alien? It would appear to depend upon the observer’s per­
spective.
A pragmatic debunker such as Curtis Peebles would probably
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deny the whole encounter, chalking it up to some passing psychologi­

cal anomaly or badly digested food. A peaceful person oriented toward
New Age philosophy might believe she had encountered a “space
brother” working for man’s enlightenment. A person with a mythical
bent might believe he had met an elf or wood faerie. For the suspicious
fundamentalist, fearful of damnation and the erosion of his tightly
constructed world, it would be a disciple of the devil. For the more
positive-thinking religious person, the figure would be an angel. After
all, there are currently numerous books, records, and videos concerned
with angels. In fact, there’s almost a whole subculture of those
intrigued by angels. How are we expected to determine whether a
manifestation is an angel, devil, or alien?
Authors Pacheco and Blann concluded that since deceit and
misrepresentation are so prevalent in the UFO field, entities relating
with humans must be evil. “As difficult as it may be to accept in our
materialistic society, the real answer behind the paranormal might not
lie in science, but in the occult,” they wrote. Stating that society’s
attempts to separate the physical from the spiritual are doomed to fail­
ure, they said, “Discussion of metaphysical entities such as ‘angels’ or
‘demons’ infer the existence of a moral code which our society is grad­
ually jettisoning. If instead of ‘angels and demons' we used such words
as ‘Jungian archetypes’ or ‘interdimensional realities’ then this would
be more acceptable, since it would not imply a conflict of ‘good versus
evil’ and certainly would not suggest the existence of either a God or
Satan.”
Similar arguments have been raised by researchers who point to
the reported behavior of aliens, particularly those blamed for abduc­
tions. They intrude into people’s homes, incapacitate their victims,
take them by force, and then subject them to unwanted and frighten­
ing medical examinations and procedures. Many people ask how any­
one could call such behavior benevolent.
Others argue that it could well be a situation comparable to a
small child being grabbed up and taken to a hospital, where efficient
medical personnel operate on her in a coolly professional manner. The
child is terrified and does not understand what is happening, while the
ones operating treat her as a patient to be processed. Such an attitude,
born of repetition and weariness, can be found in emergency rooms all
over the country;
Pacheco and Blann claimed that due to the combination of
“widespread paranormal phenomena” with current geophysical and
political events, mankind must be entering the hiblical “end times”:
“Perhaps not the ‘end of the world’ in a physical sense, but at least the
end of the current phase of human existence.”
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They went on to conclude that “our society is in the midst of a

concerted campaign of deception being promoted by certain individu­
als who are themselves under deception by ‘consciousness’ that inhab­
its the twilight world between the real and the surreal—similar to what
Carl Jung called ‘archetypes of a collective consciousness,’ and what
religions call angelic beings.” In other words, we are all involved in the
age-old battle between good and evil, God versus Satan.
“Some of these manifestations are constructive, respect our free
will, and assist us in our path toward ultimate good, or God. These are
the angelic phenomena typified by ‘messengers of God’ and true
apparitions of the Virgin Mary,” they wrote. “Others are summarily
evil, and attempt either to seduce us through seemingly ‘good’ mani­
festations, or force us to adopt a false belief, while undermining our
rational thought processes and our human spirit. These are primarily
the manifestations reported as UFOs.”
This summation is supported by many religious writers, includ­
ing John Weldon, who, along with Hebrew Christian author and lec­
turer Zola Levitt, warned, “It is perfectly reasonable, from a Biblical
point of view, to expect that the UFOs represent demon activity. Con­
tact with them will grieve God . . . and He will remonstrate with man
in a disastrous way.”
Author Dr. Clifford Wilson, who attacked the ancient astronaut
theories of von Daniken on biblical grounds, made clear his belief that
UFOs have no connection to God. He wrote, “To argue that God’s
heavenly messengers need UFOs to achieve His purposes is to limit
God’s powers, and his thoughts, to those of men. Much of the modern
writing about UFOs and the Bible tends to think of God as little more
than a glorified astronaut. . . . The physical principles by which UFOs
operate might well be utilized for the purposes of God, but the Bible
certainly does not confine Almighty God to a heavenly ‘super-car.’
“The fact is, this is serious. The aliens are here,” he added. “We
say, not from other planets. Not from outer space. Not just from the
innermost depths of human reality. We say the answer is paraphysical
and that the author of terror (Satan) is himself the perpetrator of these
phenomena.”
Paul Davies, author of The Mind of God and Are We Alone?\
explained the anxiety of religious fundamentalism concerning nonhu­
man intelligent life thusly: “Belief that mankind has a special relation­
ship with God is central to the monotheistic religions. The existence
of alien beings, especially if they were further advanced than humans
intellectually and spiritually, would disrupt this cozy view.”
Pacheco and Blann offered this formula for dealing with nonhu-
inan intelligences. “Although we claim that there are both good and
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evil manifestations, we are not able to tell the difference in any system­
atic or definitive way. . . . Therefore, one could argue that the best
approach is to avoid any such manifestations.”
As every Christian fundamentalist has been taught, Satan is the
Great Deceiver. The New Testament book 2 Corinthians 11:14
(Revised Standard) states, . for even Satan disguises himself as an
angel of light.” “Those who look upon such phenomena as the UFOs,
contactees and the occult as benevolent are playing into his hands,”
wrote Weldon and Levitt.
Since the UFO researcher is told that from the human perspec­
tive he cannot separate angels from demons posing as helpers, he is
trapped in a spiritual “hall of mirrors” just as confusing as the one
erected about UFOs by government deceit and disinformation. Small
wonder that so many people choose to ignore the UFO phenomenon
rather than deal with all its ramifications.
The problem is even more acute for those who have experi­
enced a UFO sighting or an abduction firsthand. Some are awed and
excited by their experience, such as Lyn Buchanan, who said he almost
accepted an offer to become a UFO pilot. Others are frightened and
disoriented, such as Travis Walton.
“They [UFO visitors] respond to wrhat you give out to them,”
explained author and abductee Whitley Strieber in a recent interview.
“If you look at the experience with fear, it will be fearful. They are
projecting their subjective reality to us and we are projecting our sub­
jective reality to them. They spent ten years playing games with my
fears.” Strieber said he has noticed that negative UFO experiences
tend to increase around military bases, where fear of attack and infil­
tration is most intense.
This thesis seems to have been true for the military-trained
remote viewers, who voluntarily chose to take a mental look at UFO
occupants and had confidence in their RV expertise. None of them
apparently have suffered any ill effects simply from viewing what they
perceived as alien races.
But while religious fundamentalists may have trouble dealing
with the concept of aliens as opposed to angels and demons, many
clerics voice a certain equanimity w’hen it comes to the idea of life out­
side the earth.
Speaking in reaction to the discovery of the meteorite said to
contain fossils of ancient Martian life, the Reverend James A. Wise­
man, chairman of the Department of Theology at Catholic University,
said, “Personally, I’ve always believed we will find life on other plan­
ets.” He said those whose faith might be shaken by aliens are those
who believe “God created life on Earth and Earth alone.” He added
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that changing such an “egocentric and ethnocentric mind-set” might

require a massive shift in beliefs comparable to Copernicus persuading
the public that the earth actually revolved around the sun.
“What this challenges, interestingly enough, is not classical
Christian and Jewish theism, which has always known that everything
that is, is God’s creation,” stated Stanley Hauerwas, professor of theo­
logical ethics at Duke University Divinity School. “It challenges the
high humanism that has been characteristic of our lives since the 17th
century, namely that the human species is what it’s all about, that
everything exists to serve us.”
James Leo Garrett, a professor at the conservative Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, did not exclude
the possibility of extraterrestrial life. “We need to be cautious saying
that life on other planets is precluded, because [the Bible] also says that
God is the creator of all,” he said.
New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary professor Burton
Visotzky remarked that the stories of creatures, spirits, demons, and
angels down through history suggests that nonhuman beings might
exist. He indicated that rabbinical tradition has accepted such a possi­
bility since the fourth century- Fathi Osman, a retired professor of
Islamic studies at the University of Southern California, provided a
quote from the Koran that seems to indicate that God created life out­
side of Earth. He pointed to Surah 42:29, which reads, “And among
His signs is the creation of the heavens and the Earth. And the living
creatures that He has scattered through them. And He has power to
gather them together when He wills.”
While the debate over the existence of intelligent extraterres­
trial life continues, more and more people are claiming to have made
contact with beings from beyond, and recent scientific discoveries have
brought new knowledge that lends support to the concepts offered in
metaphysical messages.
Contactees, remote viewers, and spiritualists have all spoken of
visiting planets outside our solar system for many years. Yet it was only
in April 1994 that Penn State astrophysicist Alexander Wolszczan pub­
lished convincing data proving what until then had been only specula­
tion: that planets do exist outside our solar system. Wolszczan confirmed
the presence of three planets circling a pulsar star in the constellation
Virgo. His discovery was quickly followed in 1996, when San Francisco
State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Buder
announced the discovery of two planets—one in the Ursae Majoris sys­
tem and the other in the Virgo constellation—which appeared to be
temperate enough for water to exist in liquid form, a presumed prereq­
uisite for life as we know it.
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As noted by U.S. News & World Report writer Traci Watson,

“The discovery that other planets exist boosts the chances that some­
where aliens do, too.” The 1996 discovery of what appear to be Mar­
tian fossils in a meteorite only increased the chances further.
When the military-trained remote viewers returned from their
mental voyages and described multiple dimensions, distance planets,
and stars and travel through time, their own bosses were so skeptical of
their claims that they refused to pass such information along to higher
authorities.
But in a series of recent books, sober-minded physicists are now
claiming to have found evidence of a “top quark,” which they take to
be a key element in their current view of our physical universe.
According to some scientists, “It is a universe where space exists in 10
dimensions, where one can travel through time into the past, where
holes in the fabric of space and time pop up and serve as shortcuts to
other parts of the universe, and where the visible universe may be only
one of myriad mini-universes that coexist like so many soap bubbles in
a cosmic froth.”
But no hard-and-fast answers are available to the objective
researcher as yet, for such answers transcend the material world. They
cannot be answered with a computer, slide rule, microscope, or tele­
scope. They can only be addressed by each individual as his or her
mind-set allows.
 NEW
REALITIES
As the twentieth century draws to a close, cattle mutilations continue,
crop circles are more elaborate than in the past, and the abduction
experience appears to be more widespread than ever, in spite of the
debunkers and media-supported public disbelief.
The UFO issue appears to be coming to head. New realities are
impinging upon our collective consciousness.
Two concepts increasingly accepted by all but the most intransi­
gent skeptic are that there is much more to life than our own brief
material existence on Earth and that we are not alone on our world.
The concept that we are not alone is supported by overwhelm­
ing evidence, including multitudinous sightings, photographs, films
and video, radar contacts, personal confrontations, abduction reports,
crop circles, animal mutilations, channeled messages, multiple-witness
reports, and physical evidence such as indented landing sites, holes in
the ground, burned vegetation, human scars, and implants. Some of
the human reports and photographic evidence undoubtedly arc the
product of misinterpretation or hoaxers, but the sheer number and
consistency of descriptions argues against all of them being mistakes or
fakes.
 374 EPILOGUE

Another argument supporting the idea of nonhuman visitors is

the longevity of the reports. If sightings had occurred only in recent
times, they might be attributable to some passing mass psychosis, an
aberrant copycat function of minds frightened by the onrush of mod­
ern technology. But reports of flying machines and unearthly visitors
predate man’s history. And the evidence of technology superior to ours
in the distant past is particularly compelling. Although there is no
clear indication that such technology was the product of alien visita­
tion rather than some lost civilization of man, the many ancient tales
of sky-gods and their flying craft tip the scales in favor of alien contact.
The possibility of ancient astronauts provides not only a credi­
ble explanation for legends and strange artifacts in man’s history but
also for the documented anomalies on the moon and Mars—some of
which appear strikingly similar to our own mysterious Great Pyramid.
It would seem that early UFOs were viewed and reported
through the perspective of the times in which they were observed.
Thus, it was only near mid-twentieth century that UFOs began to take
the form of flying machines. In view of the sum total of evidence avail­
able today, it would appear that the earth is being visited by a wide
variety ofcraft bearing many different species. This created confusion
in the past because most people had trouble conceiving of even one
type of visitor to Earth.
There can be no doubt that beginning at least with World War
II, military and government authorities in the United States took a
keen interest in reports of flying craft and the glowing orbs that chased
warplanes. Much material exists to suggest that the leaders of Nazi
Germany may have developed a flying saucer based on advanced tech­
nology, which ended up in the hands of another nation. Whether this
saucer was the result of human ingenuity or perhaps alien contact has
yet to be been determined.
The year 1947 marked an obvious turning point in the govern­
ment’s attitude toward the subject, adding considerable weight to spec­
ulation that something unearthly was recovered near Roswell, New
Mexico, and perhaps other locations. Where the government had
acknowledged the possibility of extraterrestrial craft and beings prior
to 1947, a new attitude of dismissal and ridicule was instituted. Right
up to today, official denial has effectively blocked any public considera­
tion of the phenomenon. Yet consistent internal reports and testimony
from a variety of people showed that official interest in UFOs at the
highest levels of government never diminished—only went deep
undercover.
The Brookings report coupled with numerous public statements
by several different officials indicated that leaders were fearful of the
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knowledge they had concerning UFOs. They feared disruption of

public institutions and panic. Military officers, as always, viewed exotic
technology as potential weapon systems to be kept secret from any
potential enemy. Other leaders may have been less concerned about
the public’s state of mind or military security than about their own
interests in maintaining control over public institutions, technologies,
and profits.
It is clear from the record that beginning in 1952, government
intelligence, initially the CIA, began to assume control over the
UFO issue. U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book became merely a pub­
lic relations front with a twofold purpose: to quiet the public clamor
by dismissing as many UFO reports as possible and yet at the same
time quietly collecting serious UFO information that was passed
along to higher authorities.
It appears highly plausible that about this same time, a top-level,
highly secret group of military officers, scientists, and other leaders was
established to study the UFO issue—an MJ-12 group in effect if not in
name. According to a wide variety of sources, such a group still oper­
ates today. Such a group would clearly more represent the wealthy top
2 percent of the United States population than the bottom 98 percent,
and it is fair to assume that their interests—particularly from the stand­
point of self-survival—might not coincide with the best interests of the
general public. Then there are the bizarre stories—too many from too
many different sources to ignore—that at some point representatives of
the government may have in fact made contact with aliens.
All of this would presuppose the tightest secrecy’ possible by
government—exactly the situation discerned by a study of the histori­
cal record. However, this wall of silence may have developed some
cracks in recent years. It may be that our leaders are making sporadic
efforts to condition the public to the idea of alien visitation. Strange
alien creatures have been showing up in everything from expensive
Super Bowl TV ads and children’s cartoons to series such as The
X-Files and Dark Skies, not to mention blockbuster movies. While the
profit motive undoubtedly plays a large part, that such airings are
allowed indicates to many that such concepts are being encouraged by
the leadership of the tightly controlled mass media.
A truly free and democratic people—such as we like to think of
ourselves being—should assert their right to the same knowledge as
the wealthiest members of society. After all, we will all share equally in
the future of Earth. It could very well be that the reason so many ordi­
nary people claim to have had contact with alien beings is that those
human leaders who have sought to keep the public ignorant of the
alien presence are being bypassed.
 376 EPILOGUE
Despite what appears to be a concerted effort by government
and others to hide away this alien presence, an ever-growing number
of people are becoming conscious of this new reality through a variety7
of means, including personal contact, channeled messages, the wider
dissemination of news and information through computer networks,
books, movies, TV, videos, a growing number of public speakers, plain
old intuition, and military-developed remote viewing.
A consistent message is becoming clear—we are all free-willed
multidimensional beings composed of both the physical and the
spiritual. Our individual bodies are made up of physical matter that
must conform to physical laws. But our bodies are energized by a
thinking form of energy—the soul, if you prefer—which, like all
energy, can neither be created nor destroyed, only change form.
Many researchers into our spiritual side believe that mankind is in
the process of shifting into a higher plane of existence—one that deals
from the heart, not the intellect.
Our multidimensional side has blocked conscious memory of
our true nature because of the lessons to be learned during our physi­
cal existence on Earth. At the level of this sentient and creative energy;
we are all—humans as well as all other life-forms in the universe—
connected in some type of comprehensive energy grid, akin to Ein­
stein’s unified field theory. This appears to operate at the submolecular
level or beyond, w7hich our science is only just now discovering. It is at
this level that man’s intuitive and psychic abilities come into play.
According to nearly all personal reports, most alien beings are more
aw'are of this reality than ourselves, which may explain their apparent
delicate handling of the contact between us.
This could also explain why there has been no direct Indepen­
dence Day-type attack or physical attempt to subjugate humanity. After
all, if their intentions were hostile, common sense dictates that they
would have moved against us much earlier than today when they
would face our deep space platforms and “Star Wars” weaponry.
This may also explain misconceptions regarding the abductions.
Many believers in this all-are-one concept contend that abductees have
agreed to work with the alien greys at one of the basic unconscious lev­
els. Yet, when contact is made, the conscious mind is terrified at the
experience. “Besides,” commented one metaphysical student, “the greys
have no bedside manner.” The greys are trying to learn to deal with
humans. They are probably puzzled that abductees feel abused by their
medical experiments. Additionally, according to some researchers, the
greys are living in a state of fear, and that fear is often reflected by
the humans they contact.
It has been said that they must learn to reach higher levels of
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consciousness through the heart, not through the mind. It is ironic

that apparently the only way they know how to learn about love and
emotion is through cold, intellectual study. It’s a bit like trying to teach
someone to dance—you can explain about steps and count all you want
but unless they have rhythm, forget it.
The alien agenda obviously encompasses much more than one
race seeking to enslave or exploit the earth. Considering all accounts,
there are many different races visiting us today, apparently for many
different reasons—some benign and helpful, others perhaps more self­
ish. No one motive can be established any more than a Fiji Islander
could ascribe one motive to the many travelers daily flying high over
his head on trans-Pacific jetliners.
Whatever the motivations and whatever the technology in use,
this agenda involves all concerned, human and otherwise, and it
involves the prime creative force in the universe—the creator of all. As
abductee Judy Doraty was told by an alien grey when she asked about
God, “He’s the same to us as He is to you.”
It would appear that religion—or more specifically spiritual­
ism—is interconnected with the alien agenda. While most religions
address facets of spiritual truth, none can claim exclusive knowledge.
The world’s religions can be compared to the story of the blind men
and the elephant. They all have a piece of the truth, but their inter­
pretations may not be on the mark. Today, many feel that organized
religion is about the control of understanding. It is the mind of man
trying to interpret the heart of God—and not doing a very good job
of it.
It has been said that every human feeling originates from only
wo basic emotions—love or fear. Love, the basis of compassion, sym­
pathy, and understanding, stems from man’s highest energy level, while
fear, the producer of intolerance, hatred, and violence, comes from our
basest energy level. Love, said to flow from God, is of the heart. Fear
is a product of the mind. Unfortunately, too many religions focus on
fear—fear of Satan, fear of death, and fear of the afterlife—to control
members.
All of humanity may be moving into a higher consciousness.
Some call it “Christ-Consciousness.” There is no question that the old
order—the old systems, the old ways of doing things—is crumbling.
New dimensions, new realities are on the horizon. And each of us has
a role to play. Mankind is only as strong as its weakest link. There are
no victims or castaways. Everyone is involved. Each of us is like a tun­
ing fork. When one resonates with the higher frequency of heartfelt
love and understanding, others follow.
Many feel that the aliens of energy and light, called the Tran-
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scendentals by the remote viewers, are here to witness—and perhaps

help—our shift to new realities. It is literally a rebirth and, like any
birth, there will be pain as we all move through the physical transi­
tions. Fear will only make it worse. Yet, fear will continue to be a large
part of our experience until we are able to break through the govern­
ment secrecy and media-driven illusion of life to gain full knowledge
of our world, our true history, our future, and our relationship with
others in the universe.
The advent of the UFO phenomenon on our collective con­
sciousness in recent years may well be a wake-up call—a not-so-subtle
message that human intellectual knowledge is not the end-all of exis­
tence or any assurance of peace and tranquillity. It won’t be proven
with a slide rule nor seen in a telescope. For true love and understand­
ing, the basis for everything good and desirable, we must look inward.
We all know truth when we hear it. It resonates deep within the indi­
vidual being. We will know it by the subtle signals from the heart.
Mankind in its present growth phase might be compared to the
college student, who as a freshman believes she knows everything but
as a senior realizes she knows very little. Our adolescence is coming to
an end and it is time to break free from Mommy and Daddy—all dog­
matic authority figures—and begin to take our rightful place as free-
thinking and responsible members of a universal public.
After all, to anyone not from Earth, we are the aliens—and fear­
some ones at that with our primitive and destructive ways. Perhaps we
are the focus of universal concern and are all being guided by a host of
nonhuman life-forms.
To paraphrase that great possum philosopher Pogo, “We have
found the alien agenda and it is about us.”
 TAKE ME TO
YOUR LEADER
The sleek silvery saucer-shaped UFO glided silently over the country­
side, finally coming to rest in a field near a farmer who stood transfixed
in awe and wonder. Out stepped a diminutive emerald-hued figure who
approached the farmer with one hand held aloft in a universal sign of
friendship.
“Take me to your leader,” intoned the little green man.
This scene has become a cliche in popular science fiction litera­
ture. But while depictions of alien visitors has evolved from the blood­
thirsty monsters of the 1950s and 1960s to the strange but often kindly
creatures of E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the question of
leadership has acquired new significance.
Who is our leader? WTio speaks for Earth? Clearly, neither the
American nor the Russian president speaks for Earth. Many question if
they even speak for their respective nations. Certainly, at this time no
single individual or group appears to speak on behalf of Earth as a
whole. Many UFO researchers believe that no public contact with
unearthly intelligences can take place until a representative can speak
for the planet. If this is so, it becomes incumbent upon us to determine
who—if anyone—is in charge on this world. This section will address
this question.
 380 APPENDIX

To begin, one must address the two basic theories of history—

accidental and conspiratorial. The former idea was summed up by
Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security
Advisor and a former director of the Trilateral Commission. “History
is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy .. . increasingly,
policy makers are overwhelmed by events and information.”
The idea of conspiracy in history has been largely dismissed by
American politicians and the media. However, while Webster's Third New
International Dictionary defines conspire—literally “to breathe together”—
as a secret agreement between two or more people to commit a criminal or
treasonous act, it also means “to concur or work to one end: act in
harmony.”
In today’s business-oriented society, a company owner or man­
ager who would admit to not having any business plan would be
laughed out of the room as a soon-to-be-bankrupt loser. Yet, a busi­
ness plan, while not necessarily criminal, is usually secret, at least from
the competition. It is a form of conspiracy.
The act of conspiring is an ancient and well-documented part of
human history. From the brothers of the biblical Joseph to Watergate,
the record is replete with conspiracies. The assassinations of Julius
Caesar and Abraham Lincoln, the American Revolution, the Spanish-
American War, and World War I were all the results of human con­
spiracies. That master politician Franklin D. Roosevelt was quoted as
saying, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was
planned that way.”

The Attempted Coup of 1934

A classic but little-known example of conspiracy within the United
States can be found in the attempted overthrow of Roosevelt early in
his presidency. It is not only an example of hidden U.S. history—you
didn’t hear this story in high school—but also the lengths to which
powerful persons will go to exert their will.
Only a year after Hitler came to power in Germany, many
wealthy Americans looked with favor on a fascist system to act as a shield
against socialism and communism. Many were disgrunded with Presi­
dent Roosevelt’s social policies and felt he was secredy a communist.
“Early in 1934, Irenee du Pont and [General Motors president
William S.] Knudsen reached their explosion point over President
Roosevelt,” reported author Charles Higham. “Along with friends of
the Morgan Bank and General Motors, certain Du Pont backers
financed a coup d’etat that would overthrow the President with the aid
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of a $3 million-funded army of terrorists, modeled on the fascist

movement in Paris known as the Croix de Feu.”
The undoing of this scheme was Marine Corps commandant
Gen. Smedley Butler, who was approached by the plotters and urged
to head the new military-based government. Butler, who had openly
attacked Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, however, proved to be a
loyal citizen and immediately informed Roosevelt of the treasonous
conspiracy.
“Roosevelt.. . knew that if he were to arrest the leaders of the
houses of Morgan and Du Pont, it would create an unthinkable
national crisis in the midst of a depression and perhaps another Wall
Street crash. Not for the first or last time in his career, he was aware
that there were powers greater than he in the United States,” noted
Higham.
Roosevelt decided to leak the story to the press, which generally
downplayed it as a “ridiculous” rumor. Nevertheless, some of the pri­
mary plotters skipped the country until the furor died down, and the
story prompted Congress to appoint a special committee to look into
the matter. Yielding to the powerful interests involved, the committee
dragged its feet for four years before finally publishing a report
marked for “restricted circulation.” Although downplaying the signifi­
cance of this attempted coup, the committee’s report did state that
“certain persons made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in
this country” and that the committee “was able to verify all the perti­
nent statements made by General Butler.”
This was the last overt move against an American president by
powerful business interests until 1963. However, it revealed that
America’s hidden rulers were not always content to operate within the
confines of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that this attempted over­
throw of the government is not mentioned in history texts illustrates
the deficiency of this nation’s public education in such matters, thanks
to a mass media more concerned with “Mickey Mouse” topics than
investigative news. It is ironic that today the Disney empire includes
many news media organizations.
In the preface to their book Fifty Greatest Conspiracies of All
Time, authors Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen point out, “The
‘Disney’ version of history could just as easily be called the ‘New
York Tinies version’ or the ‘TV news version’ or the ‘college textbook
version.’ The main resistance to conspiracy theories comes not from
the people on the street, but from the media, academia, and
government— people who manage the national and global economy of
information.”
Mankind’s history has indeed proven to be one long evolution-
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ary movement into larger and more complex communities built upon
one conspiracy after another. From tribes to city-states to nations to
economic communities, the world has continued to move toward uni­
fied, planetwide rule. While this movement may be inevitable, many
people today fear becoming a mere cog in some centrally' controlled
“New World Order” machine. Many fear that the people most likely
to represent Earth—due to their power and wealth—may not repre­
sent the best interests of the average person. Many question whether
this fear is valid. Is there evidence of a history of conspiracies by elitist
individuals and groups?
The record is clear—the answer is yes. And it is in this record of
conspiracies that the answer to who rules Earth may be found.

Pass the Buck

Power and wealth go hand in hand. To determine who has the power,
one must look at who has the money. For this, one must gain a basic
understanding of money itself.
Early man had no need for money. He hunted when he was
hungry' and farmed to stockpile food for the winter. But as civilization
progressed, work became more specialized. The chicken farmer would
barter a hen for some tomatoes. This soon proved impractical, espe­
cially for those like the sheepherder who could not always take his
herd to the marketplace. Humans soon turned to coins as a measure of
wealth. Precious metal, especially gold, was limited in supply, always
desirable, and easily transported as small coins imprinted with words
or pictures to guarantee purity. But heavy, bulging sacks of gold were
burdensome, not to mention a tempting target for thieves and robbers.
So paper currency came into being. A paper bill was simply a
promissory note to be exchanged for specified goods or services. This
method worked well for a time, but then certain individuals learned
that paper money could be much more than simply a means to an end;
if loaned at interest, money could be used to earn more money. Early
goldsmiths who warehoused gold coins used this stockpiled wealth as
the basis for issuing paper money. Since it was highly unlikely that
everyone would ask for their gold back at the same time, the smiths
became bankers, loaning a portion of their stockpile to others for
interest or profit. This has become known as fractional-reserve bank­
ing—loaning out more money than is actually kept in the bank. This
system worked well unless everyone suddenly wanted their deposits
back and started a “run” on the bank.
Added to fractional banking was the concept of “fiat” money,
intrinsically worthless paper money made acceptable by law or decree
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of government. An early example of this system was described by

Marco Polo during his trip to China in 1275. Polo noted that the
emperor forced his subjects to accept black pieces of paper with an
official seal on them as legal money under pain of imprisonment or
death. The emperor then used this fiat money to pay all his own debts.
“One is tempted to marvel at the [emperor’s] audacious power and the
subservience of his subjects who endured such an outrage,” wrote author
G. Edward Griffin, “but our smugness rapidly vanishes when we con­
sider the similarity to our own Federal Reserve Notes. They are
adorned with signatures and seals; counterfeiters are severely punished;
the government pays its expenses with them; the population is forced to
accept them; they—and the ‘invisible’ checkbook money into which they
can be converted—are made in such vast quantity that it must equal in
amount to all the treasures of the world. And yet they cost nothing to
make. In truth, our present monetary system is an almost exact replica of
that which supported the warlords of seven centuries ago.”
Author William Greider, former assistant managing editor of the
Washington Post, wrote, “The money illusion was transferred to a new
object with the rise of demand deposits, better known as checking
accounts.... It took generations for the public to overcome its natural
distrust of checks, but by 1900 most people were persuaded. Personal
checks, written by the buyers themselves, were accepted as just as valu­
able as dollar bills. The nationalization of currency issuance, completed
with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, simply continued this
arrangement. A new dimension of trust had added to the illusion.
Finally, the last prop for the money illusion was kicked away in this
century: the gold standard was abandoned.” Today, money is increas­
ingly only numbers in a computer accessed by plastic cards at ATMs.
There is nothing to back it up. Yet as this illusionary money is loaned
by institutions, interest is added. As the total amount grows, the value
of the money decreases. This is called inflation, in effect a built-in tax
on the use of money.
In the Great Depression of the 1930s, money retained its value.
It was simply hard to come by and prices were depressed to reflect its
scarcity. Today, America is experiencing an inflationary depression—
prices continue to increase because of an inflated money supply.
The answer to what controls this money supply is the central
bank of the United States, better known as the Federal Reserve Sys­
tem, or “the Fed”—a collection of twelve large regional banks
described as an “independent department” of the federal government.
Its connection to government is tenuous at best. The twelve Fed banks
are owned and controlled by commercial banks, which, in turn, are
owned and controlled by private investors.
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Arguments over the need of a central bank have raged since

before the training of the U.S. Constitution. “I sincerely believe,”
wrote Thomas Jefferson, a leading opponent of a central bank, “that
banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and
that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the
name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” On the
other side was Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s treasury
secretary. “Hamilton, believing that government must ally itself with
the richest elements of society to make itself strong, proposed to
Congress a series of laws, which it enacted, expressing this philoso­
phy,” wrote historian Howard Zinn. “A Bank of the United States was
set up as a partnership between the government and certain banking
interests.”
A quick look at the fate of the first two central banks of the
United States is instructive. The first, the Bank of North America, was
chartered by the Continental Congress in 1781 and was modeled after
the Bank of England. Due to the expediencies of the Revolutionary
War, the bank was granted a government-sanctioned monopoly to cre­
ate and issue paper money. Before the end of three years, runaway
inflation quickly prompted the desire for hard specie money. This
resulted in the end of the bank.
The Bank of the United States fared little better. Granted a
twenty-year charter in 1791, it was a near duplicate of the failed Bank
of North America. This bank too was given a monopoly to issue
banknotes as well as serve as the official repository for all government
funds. This bank too created inflation by the issuance of fractional-
reserve notes. Money merchants prospered but the average citizen suf­
fered. A vote to renew its charter was defeated by one vote in both the
Senate and House in 1811. It was the end of a central bank for a time.
Although the names of the prominent Americans who profited
from this bank have been lost to history, one name pointed to an inter­
national arrangement. Author Gustavus Myers wrote in 1936, “Under
the surface, the Rothschilds [the famous European banking family]
long had a powerful influence in dictating American financial laws.
The law records show that they were the power in the old Bank of the
United States.” It is clear that conspiring European bankers and their
New World associates were trying to gain control over America’s
money supply.
Despite ongoing public opposition to a central bank, interna­
tional banking interests never gave up. After the turn of this century,
there were a series of bank panics caused not by consumers or lack of
money, but by internal banking problems such as currency drains. In
November 1910, Senator Nelson Aldrich—father-in-law of John D.
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Rockefeller Jr.—convened a secret meeting between top executives of

the Morgan and Rockefeller interests at the hunting lodge of financier
J. P. Morgan on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. Here plans were
laid to create a central bank for the United States.
Griffen noted, “What emerged [from the Jekyll Island meeting]
was a cartel agreement with five objectives: stop the growing competi­
tion from the nation’s newer banks; obtain a franchise to create money
out of nothing for the purpose of lending; get control of the reserves
of all banks so that the more reckless ones would not be exposed to
currency drains and bank runs; get the taxpayer to pick up the cartel’s
inevitable losses; and convince Congress that the purpose was to pro­
tect the public.”
Following this meeting, Aldrich introduced appropriate legisla­
tion in Congress, but it was defeated because of deep suspicions about
his international banking connections. Aldrich, a Republican, was too
closely identified with Wall Street bankers. Cloaked in a new wrap­
ping, the legislation was finally pushed through Congress in 1913 by
the chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Vir­
ginia’s Carter Glass—a Democrat. Twenty-two years after the fact,
Frank Vanderlip, president of the Rockefeller National City Bank and
an attendee at the Jekyll Island meeting, wrote, “Although the Aldrich
Federal Reserve Plan was defeated when it bore the name Aldrich,
nevertheless its essential points were all contained in the plan that
finally was adopted.”
The Fed—only today publicly acknowledged as a central
bank—controls the economy of the United States through the use of
three main tools: setting the reserve requirements of all depository
institutions (what fraction of wealth they must keep on hand; raising
requirements reduces loans and slows the economy), setting the dis­
count rate the Fed charges commercial banks to borrow money, and
open market operations in which the Fed directly buys and sells gov­
ernment securities. Additionally, the Fed controls other banks through
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Also, through the buying
and selling of foreign currencies, it influences the exchange rate and
coordinates international financial policy.
“The Federal Reserve governors also made prophecy;” added
Greider, “but they had the ability to make their own predictions come
true.”
In other words, the Fed controls the economy and hence, the
very life of the United States. Greider wrote that the Federal Reserve
System “coexisted with the elected one, shared power with Congress
and the President, and collaborated with diem. In some circumstances,
it opposed them and thwarted them.” He added that the Fed was “the
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crucial anomaly at the very core of representative democracy, an uncom­

fortable contradiction with the civic mythology of self-government.”
Other observers were less kind. Wright Patman, the longtime
Texas congressman who headed the House Banking and Currency
Committee, stated, “In the United States today, we have in effect two
governments. We have the duly constituted government. Then we
have an independent, uncontrolled and un-coordinated government in
the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are
reserved to Congress by the Constitution.”
In 1913, Congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr. warned that cre­
ation of the Fed “established the most gigantic trust on Earth. When
the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money
power . .. will be legitimized. The new law will create inflation when­
ever the trusts want inflation.” Representative Louis McFadden, a suc­
cessor to Glass as chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee,
stated, “When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these
United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being
set up here—a super-state controlled by international bankers and
international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for
their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal
its powers hut the truth is—the Fed has usurped the government.”
In a 1963 publication, Fed officials explained, “The function of
the Federal Reserve is to foster a flow of money and credit that will
facilitate orderly economic growth, a stable dollar, and long-run bal­
ance in our international payments.” If indeed this is the Fed’s func­
tion, it has failed miserably. Author Epperson evoked a conspiratorial
view by wryly suggesting that perhaps the “system was created to do
exactly the opposite of what it tells the American people!”
Griffin called for abolition of the Federal Reserve because it is
incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives, it is a cartel operating
against the public interest, it is the “supreme instrument of usury,” it is
our “most unfair tax,” it encourages war and destabilizes the economy,
and it is “an instrument of totalitarianism.”
Every schoolkid knows that much of each years revenues to
the United States goes to “retire the national debt”—which today is
nearing six trillion dollars, a totally unimaginable figure. In 1994,
according to the Treasury Department, $296.3 billion, or more than
20 percent of total federal outlays, went to pay interest on a public
debt of $4.6 trillion. What this means is that nearly a quarter of our
tax dollars go to pay interest on the money borrowed in the past to run
the government. Since it was the Federal Reserve banks that loaned
the money in the first place—with the authorization of a cash-strapped
Congress—they get the interest payments. They are paid to create our
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money, which decreases in value as rhe supply grows ever larger,

requiring ever more loans.
Usury' is a term that has all but disappeared from the language.
Once the word was defined as any interest charged for a loan. But
today dictionaries define it as “excessive” interest. The Texas Constitu­
tion once defined “usury” as any interest in excess of 6 percent. This
ceiling was increased over the years until the whole concept was
deleted from the document. Critics have noted that even the Bible
only required 10 percent for God.
“Charging interest on pretended loans is usury, and that has
become institutionalized under the Federal Reserve System,” argued
Griffin. “The . .. mechanism by which the Fed converts debt into
money may seem complicated at first, but it is simple if one remem­
bers that the process is not intended to be logical but to confuse and
deceive.” Greider noted, “The details of [the Fed’s] actions were pre­
sumed to be too esoteric for ordinary citizens to understand.”
According to Greider, the money dealers designed such intri­
cate and esoteric details about their financial operations that it
assumed the proportions of a cult. “To modern minds, it seemed
bizarre to think of the Federal Reserve as a religious institution,” he
wrote. “Yet the conspiracy theorists, in their own demented way, were
on to something real and significant.... [The Fed] did also function in
the realm of religion. Its mysterious powers of money creation, inher­
ited from priestly forebears, shielded a complex bundle of social and
psychological meanings. With its own form of secret incantation, the
Federal Reserve presided over awesome social ritual, transactions so
powerful and frightening they seemed to lie beyond common under­
standing. . . . After all, money was a function of faith. It required an
implicit and universal social consent that was indeed mysterious. To
create money and use it, each one must believe and everyone must
believe. Only then did worthless pieces of paper take on value.”
Throughout the years of its existence, the Fed has rebuffed
every attempt at a meaningful independent audit.
“The result of this whole system is massive debt at every level of
society,” wrote William Bramley, who began his research studying the
underlying causes of war. “The banks arc in debt to the depositors, and
the depositors’ money is loaned out and creates indebtedness to the
banks. Making this system even more akin to something out of a
maniac’s delirium is the fact that banks, like other lenders, often have
the right to seize physical property if its paper money is not repaid. At
the national and international levels, we read today of Third World
nations staggering under huge debts. Most of these debts arc ‘illusion-
ary’ in the sense that the bulk of the loans come from banks which
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generate or channel ‘created-out-of-nothing’ money. Some of these

banks, such as some represented by the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), have the right to dictate economic policies and demand auster­
ity measures within the indebted nations to get the loans repaid.” This
type of control represents real and significant power.
Rule by the Few
There is no doubt that the incomprehensible and unauditable Fed is
our most powerful institution, but does it always act in the best inter­
est of the citizens of the United States?
Greider emphasized the unequal distribution of the wealth of
America’s families as reported in a study by the Federal Reserve Board:
“54 percent of the total net financial assets were held by the two per­
cent of families with the greatest amount of such assets and 86 percent
by the top 10 percent; 55 percent of the families in the sample had 0 or
negative net worth.”
This cycle of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer
has been growing since 1968. It gained added momentum in the
1990s, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. From 1992 to 1994, the
wealthiest 5 percent’s share of the national income rose 14 percent,
nearly twice that of everyone else’s gain during the past twenty-five
years. It was this richest percent that Hamilton wanted to ally with
government, and this group can be counted on to act in its own self­
interest. It’s the “Golden Rule”—those that own the gold make the
rules—as some humorists have put it. Obviously it is this oligarchy—
this 2 percent—that represents the true rulers of our nation.
David Wallechinsky, who along with Irving Wallace produced
the popular The People's Almanac, wrote, “There are many forces at
work in U.S. society, but the most powerful by far are the interlocking
directorates of the major banks, corporations, and insurance compa­
nies, with the backing of the leaders of the military.”
This interconnectedness of the top banks and corporations was
confirmed in 1978 by a Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting and
Management of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
“Chaired by a western Democrat senator, Lee Metcalf of Montana, the
subcommittee asks who controls American business, and it comes up
with the answer. Eastern monied interests,” reported journalist Milton
Moskowitz. “New York City banks, through their trust departments,
exercise a huge chunk of control by the shareholder votes they cast.
Even though they may be holding these shares for the real owners,
such as pension trusts, they have the voting rights. . . . Since the banks
are such heavies, who owns the banks? The answer, wouldn’t you
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know, is that the big banks are controlled by other big banks. For
example, the largest voter of stock in J. P. Morgan & Co., the parent of
Morgan Guaranty; is Citibank, which has 2.6 percent of the votes. And
the largest stock voter in Citicorp, the parent of Citibank, is Morgan
Guaranty, which holds 3.2 percent of the votes.
“Morgan is also the largest voter of stock in three other giant
New York City banks, Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical and Bankers
Trust. Chase Manhattan is the largest voter of stock in one of
Chicago’s banking giants, First Chicago. And between them, Morgan
Guaranty and Citibank vote more than five percent of the shares in the
nation’s largest bank, the Bank of America, based in San Francisco.
Getting to the bottom of who controls is a little like a scene from
‘Alice in Wonderland’ or an Abbott and Costello comedy routine.”
While Moskowitz’s data is somewhat outdated today—Manufacturers
Hanover no longer exists, having first merged with Chemical in 1992,
which in turn merged with Chase Manhattan in 1996—the system has
only become more concentrated.
For the average citizen it is often difficult to conceive how a
handful of people could control a large nation or the ivhole world. Yet,
anyone who has lived in a small town easily understands that in each
community of people there exists a pecking order of power. In any
given city or town, a few individuals are the acknowledged decision
makers. These individuals may include the local politician, banker,
police chief, or maybe even the undertaker. But usually the person at
the top of the pecking order represents wealth and long standing in
the community. Sometimes this person makes the decisions, some­
times he merely guides others to a consensus. But make no mistake
about it, the pyramid of command exists.
Every adult can understand this fact of life. We also understand
that sometimes, those decision makers can be criminals. Many recall in
the old grade-B westerns, it was the kindly banker who turned out to
be boss of the rustlers driving the settlers off their land so it could be
bought by the bank and sold to the railroad at great profit. Researchers
of this issue are puzzled that so many people cannot seem to extrapo­
late this understanding to national and international politics. Of
course, the corporate media tell us daily that everything is really okay
and disparage any talk from “conspiracy’ theorists.”
The ruling elite makes its will felt in a variety of ways, not the
least of w'hich is ownership control over the major media of nations
such as the United States, which today is becoming concentrated in
fewer and fewer hands. No wonder six of the top ten “censored sto­
ries” of 1995 as determined by Al ternet involved business issues such
as the monopolization of telecommunications, the worsening child
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labor situation, increased government spending on nuclear arms, med­

ical industry fraud, the chemical industry’s battle to subvert environ­
mental laws, and the broken promises of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Like media ownership, the Federal Reserve System is run by
men and women beholden to the oligarchy. Greider, who basically
favors the Fed, explained, “With only scattered exceptions, the Fed
governors were drawn from two disciplines—financial economics and
banking. In the case of the Federal Reserve Board, the American meri­
tocracy allowed capable people to rise to the top, but it also screened
them carefully. There were no radical thinkers or original theorists
among them. No one with unorthodox opinions would be chosen.”
This portrait appeared identical to that of many corporations today.
Obviously, there was no room for anyone who might consider ques­
tioning the need for the Fed or a banking system based on paper
money and credit. The connection between business and the Fed was
explained by Greider as a “revolving door” that “created an unofficial
fraternity of industry insiders, men who spoke the same language and
traded gossip, not unlike the military officers who left the Pentagon to
work for defense contractors. Indeed, the professional esprit at the Fed
resembled the professional officers’ corps of the armed forces. ‘You
almost don’t have to give orders,’ one former economist said, ‘because
the troops already know what the orders will be.’”
That both present and former officials of the Federal Reserve
System are members of this “fraternity” is undeniable. In addition to
their business contacts, these officials are members of organizations
with international connections such as the Trilateral Commission and
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Such officials include Fed
chairman Alan Greenspan, former Chairman Paul Volcker (who went
on to become North American chairman of the notorious Trilateral
Commission), Cyrus R. Vance, Bobby Ray Inman, E. Gerald Corri­
gan, Robert P. Forrestal, Anthony M. Solomon, and many other
prominent men.
Media members of the CFR read like a “Who’s Who” of the
industry. They include CBS chief Laurence A. Tisch, anchorman Dan
Rather, NBC chief John F. Welch Jr., anchormen Tom Brokaw and
David Brinkley, ABC chief Thomas S. Murphy and anchor Diane
Sawyer, PBS’s Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, the Washington Post's
Katharine Graham, CNN’s Daniel Schorr, U.S. News's David Gergen,
the New York Times's Harrison Salisbury, columnists George Will, Meg
Greenfield, William F. Buckley Jr., Georgie Ann Geyer, Ben J. Wat-
tenberg, and many others.
The CFR is the American branch of the British Round Table
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groups founded by Cecil Rhodes, who in the late 1800s grew wealthy
from his monopoly on South African diamonds thanks to the coopera­
tion of the Bank of England and Rothschild banking interests. Carroll
Quigley, professor of history at the Foreign Service School of George­
town University, wrote, “The Rhodes Scholarships ... are known to
everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous
wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself
to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what
does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society . . .
continues to exist to this day.”
In his 1966 book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our
Time. Quigley addressed the question of historical conspiracy by writ­
ing, “There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an interna­
tional Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way
the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network,
which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to
cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and fre-
quently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I
have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the
early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aver­
sion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been
close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the
past and recently, to a few of its policies—notably to its belief that
England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be
allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain iso­
lated from Europe—but in general my chief difference of opinion is
that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is
significant enough to be known.”
Quigley added, “Since 1925 there have been substantial contri­
butions from wealthy individuals and from foundations and firms asso­
ciated with the international banking fraternity, especially the
Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and other organizations associated
with J. P. Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney families. ... The chief
backbone of this organization grew up along the already existing finan­
cial cooperation running from the Morgan Bank in New' York to a
group of international financiers in London led by Lazard
Brothers. ... At the end of the war of 1914 [World War I], it became
clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended.”
Quigley explained that “front organizations” were created for
the Round Table Group. In London, this was called the Royal Insti­
tute of International Affairs. In America, it was the Council on Foreign
Relations, a “front for J. P. Morgan and Company in association with the
very small American Round Iable Group.”
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It should be noted that Quigley is not a “conspiracy theorist”

but a respected historian, and the acknowledged mentor of President
Bill Clinton, himself a Rhodes scholar. But the mainstream media con­
sistently fails to mention the connections between Americas leaders
and the organizations to which they belong. Other CFR members of
the first Clinton administration included, but were not limited to: Vice
President Al Gore, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, Secre­
tary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin,
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development Henry Cisneros, and Secretary of Health and
Human Services Donna Shalala.
Conspiracy-minded researchers have been concerned for years
that these government officials along with their media associates rarely
mention their own membership in such groups, nor do they break
silence and report on these activities.
One recent example involved the 1996 meeting of the Bilder-
bergers, a shadowy group of internationalists and CFR members
named after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, where they
were first discovered in 1954. Their secret conferences are attended by
world leaders in government, finance, business, media, and labor.
Although the Bilderbergers are pledged to silence about the subjects of
their meetings, the group’s first chairman, Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands, gave a good indication of what they’re about in 1964
when he wrote, “It is difficult to re-educate the people who have been
brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing part of their
sovereignty to a supernational body. . ..”
Between May 30 and June 2, 1996, the Bilderberger group met
in King City near Toronto, Canada. Attendees included President
Clinton’s senior adviser George Stephanopolous, Defense Secretary
William Perry, Henry Kissinger, Lloyd Bentsen, and David Rocke­
feller. At least some of the current government officials attending the
meeting traveled at taxpayer expense. The Canadian media was filled
with w'hat news it could gather, carrying headlines such as “[Canadian
prime minister Jean) Chretien to speak at secret world meeting,”
“[Canadian publisher Conrad] Black plays host to world leaders,” and
“World Domination or a round of golf?” The American media, as
usual, was mum on the subject.
Bilderberg officials have long tried to picture this gathering of
the wealthy and powerful as just an informal discussion group. This
image w'as shattered by one outspoken member, Jack Shcinkman,
chairman of Amalgamated Bank, who told reporter Trisha Katson he
had attended ten Bilderberg annual meetings. Sheinkman said, “In
some cases discussions do have an impact and become [official] policy.
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The idea of a common European currency was discussed several years

back before it became policy. We had a discussion about the U.S.
establishing formal relations with China before Nixon actually did it.”
If future public policy is being discussed at these meetings, why
are they not reported by America’s “watchdog” media? A secretary for
attendee William E Buckley Jr. replied, “I don’t think that is the
nature of the meeting, is it?” Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal was
more explicit when he explained, “The rules of the conference, which
we all adhere to, are that we don’t talk about what is said. It is all off
the record. The fact that I attended is no secret.”
Based on the evidence available today, there can be little doubt
that a small clique of the wealthy elite exercise unprecedented conspir­
atorial control over much of the world’s business and government,
despite denials from the very media they own. But would this group
take any interest in extraterrestrial life?
The answer would have to be yes because of the possible impact
of any alien energy technology alone. But this is a highly speculative
area, with but a small amount of evidence available.
What is clear and undeniable is that through calculated and
aggressive government and corporate planning/conspiracies, our world
has been made totally dependent on two major forms of energy:
petroleum and nuclear. Activist Barry Commoner wrote that develop­
ing an inexpensive, abundant, and nonpolluting energy source is a
“social need, and it is hopeless to expect to build it on the basis of pro­
duction decisions that yield commodities rather than solutions to
essential tasks; that produce goods which are maximally profitable
rather than maximally useful; that accept as their final test private
profit rather than social value.”
Don Kelly, a design engineer and author of The Free Energy
Manual, stated, “Both the oil and nuclear options have brought about
the rise of monopolies which have functioned at the expense of the
planet’s environment. It’s no wonder that the reported extraterrestrial
visitors must consider our planet a wide open insane asylum when we
consent to the adoption of dubious energy’ sources which have the
clear potential of destroying the planet and all its inhabitants.”
More than a few conspiracy researchers see this undeniable
energy7 monopoly—supported by massive government subsidies and
protections—as further proof of a plan to suppress any uncontrolled
energy source, whether from UFOs or innovative human inventors
like Nikola Tesla. A study of possible alternative energy sources led
magazine editor Vicki Cooper to conclude that “the real energy' solu­
tion lies not in a change of politics or government priorities, but in a
change of consciousness.”
 394 APPENDIX

Certain members of the world’s wealthy elite have expressed a

more than casual interest in UFOs and their occupants. Laurance S.
Rockefeller, for example, sponsored a UFO project within the non­
profit foundation BSW, Inc. A recent BSW report said preliminary
results of the UFO project—which is both multidisciplinary and
multinational—have been presented to government leaders. Limited
to only one thousand copies, the 1995 report, entitled Unidentified Fly­
ing Objects: The Best Available Evidence, noted, “But if UFOs are real, as
the information in this report strongly suggests, the issue in this case is
access to knowledge of potentially profound significance with regard
to man’s place in the universe, to human society, and to science.” The
report also stated, “We believe this material has made a substantial
impression on the present [U.S.] government and that there is an
interest now to gradually open the door on UFO information.” Hou
quickly that door opens remains to be seen.
Since the wealthy elite—through mechanisms such as the Fed­
eral Reserve System, the World Bank, and the International Monetary’
Fund along with private groups such as the Council on Foreign Rela­
tions and the Trilateral Commission—exert a substantial degree of
control over the w'orld’s governments, it wrould stand to reason that
they would be very concerned with UFOs and life in space. Such a
group would desire to be foremost in any alien contact so as to gain
control of or suppress any alien technology’ that might unbalance the
status quo. Any technology that might unseat the monopolies of
energy, communication, or health care would be viewed as dangerous to
a position of power. After all, would the long-suffering public continue to
pay ever-increasing prices for ever-decreasing reserves of gas and oil if
they knew for certain that fuel-free, nonpolluting electro-magnetic or
antigravity technology existed? Would the public remain passive with
the certain knowledge that there were cures for AIDS, cancer, and
perhaps even old age?
Viewed from this perspective, the cause for secrecy concerning
extraterrestrial contact becomes abundantly clear.
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xii “my long investigation”: Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens front Space: The Real Story
of Unidentified Flying Saucers (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1973), p. x.
xii Dr. James E. McDonald: Ibid., p. xi.
xii represents Smithsonian views: Author’s telephone interview' with Smithsonian
Institution Press editor in chief Alex Doster, February 12, 1996.
xii Peebles on Keyhoe: Curtis Peebles, Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying
Saucer Myth (New York: Berkley Books by arrangement with Smithsonian Insti­
tution Press, 1995), pp. 44-45.
xiii “I am a skeptic”: Ibid., p. xii.
xiv Astronaut John W. Young: David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, “It’s a Bird,
It’s a Plane—What Is It?” In The People's Almanac #2, ed. Roy Sorrels (New'
York: Bantam Books, 1978), p. 596.
xiv Hermann Oberth: Antonio Huneeus, “Prof. Hermann Oberth: Confirmed
UFO Believer!” Unsolved UFO Sightings 4, no. 2 (summer 1996), p. 66.
xiv Wernhervon Braun: Ibid., p. 67.
xvi Kennedy quote: LeRoi Smith, ed., We Cante in Peace: The Story of Man in Space
(Chicago: Classic Press and Professional Press, 1969), p. 18.
xviii Lake Worth Monster: Jim Marrs, “Fishy Man-Goat Terrifies Couples Parked aL
Lake Worth,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 10, 1969, p. 2-A.
xviii “Some believe”: Mark Chorvinsky, “Our Strange World,” Fate, October 1992,
pp. 31-35.
xxi tens of thousands viewed the light: Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! (New York:
Ballantine Books, 1976), p. 97.
xxi First “saucer” report: Jacques Vallee, UFO's in Space (New York: Ballantine
Books, 1965), p. I.
xxi first dirigihle flight: Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings (New
York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1995), p. 23.
xxi continued news reports: Philip J. Klass, UFOs Explained (New York Random
House, 1974), p. 259.
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xxii public conditioned by media: Ibid., p. 255.

xxii Aurora residents: personal interviews and media reports.
xxiv Dr. Tom Gray: Paula Doyle, Press Release, Public Information Office, North
Texas State University, May 29, 1973.
xxiv “Subsequent analysis”: Klass, op. cit., p. 263.
xxv Peebles summation: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 240-241.
xxvi AP wire stories: Original wire transmissions in author’s files.
xxvi Wakefield accounts: Jim Marrs, “A Black Object Fell Into a Pond—Yes or No?”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 18, 1977, p. 1-B and original notes in author’s
files.

Chapter One: The Greatest UFO?

1 “Rosetta stone”: Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs (New York: W.W.
Norton, 1990), p. 115,
2 “spawned a score of mysteries”: Earl Ubell, “The Moon Is More of a Mystery
Than Ever,” The New York Tinies Magazine, April 16, 1972, p. 32.
2 “nearly as old as solar system”: Jastrow, op. cit., p. 108.
2 Sky and Telescope-. Don Wilson, Sftrrtx of Our Spaceship Moon (New York: Dell,
1979), p. 166.
2 “refractory elements”: Ibid., pp. 173-74.
3 layer description: Ubell, op. cit., p. 32.
3 “why ... all the iron”: Ibid., p. 33.
3 “wind” of water: Ibid., p. 50.
4 craters of internal origin: The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 538.
4 “The relative cool”: Ibid., p. 51.
4 scientists misled: Jastrow, op. cit., p. 114.
4 mascons: Ubell, op. cit., pp. 50-51.
4 internal heat: The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 541.
5 “artificial construction”: Wilson, op. cit., p. 156.
5 “moonquakes”: The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 17, p. 662.
5 Nikolay A. Kozyrev: Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 1, p. 294; Vol. 27, p. 546.
5 glow moved: Wilson, op. cit., p. 18.
5 reddish glows: Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 546.
5 like stock market: Walter Sullivan, “Seismic Net Set to Find Source of
Tremors as Moon Nears,” New York Times, August 4, 1972, p. 1.
5 artificial construction: Wilson, op. cit., p. 159.
6 small or no core: Editors, The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 534.
6 MacDonald: Dr. Gordon MacDonald, report, Astronautics, February 1962, p. 225.
6 “negative mascons”: Wilson (1979), p. 97.
6 Solomon: Ibid.
6 Sagan quote: Ibid., p. 94.
6 moon reverberated: Ibid., p. 100.
6 Ewing and Press: Ibid., pp. 101-02.
7 “reacted like a gong”: Ibid., p. 104.
7 large meteor: Ibid., p. 106.
7 Dr. Farouk El Baz: Ibid., p. 107.
7 uranium 236: Ibid., p. 171.
7 rustproof iron: Ibid., p. 124.
8 magmatic processes: Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 549.
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8 Asimov: Wilson, op. cit., p. 85.

9 give moon the velocity: William R. Shelton, Winning the Moon (New York: Lit­
tle, Brown, 1970), p. 58.
9 “no astronomical reason”: Wilson, op. cit., p. 87.
9 Vasin and Shcherbakov: Ibid., p. 75.
10 not completely natural: Wilson (1975), pp. 11-12.
10 “world .. . not be entirely natural”: Ibid., p. 161.
11 Arcadians: Ibid., p. 120.
12 Gondwana: Peter Kolosimo, Timeless Earth (Nw York: Bantam Books, 1975), p. 49.
12 moon placed in orbit: Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision (New York:
Doubleday & Company, 1950), p. 359.
12 closer moon: Maurice Chatelain, Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space, trans.
Orest Berlings (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1978), p. 158.
12 Coral reef study: John D. Barron, The Artful Universe (Oxford: Oxford Univer­ sity
Press, 1995), p. 116.
12 the Kalasasaya: Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (New York: Crown
Publishers, 1995), p. 77.
12 the Great Idol: Erich von Daniken, Chariots of the Gods? (New York: Bantam
Books, 1971), p. 19.
12 symbols on idol: II. S. Bellamy and P. /Vilen, The Calendar of Tiahuanaco (Lon­
don: Faber & Faber, 1956), p. 21.
13 NASA moon event study': Ibid., pp. 25-30.
14 Operation Moon Blink: Ibid., pp. 28-29.
14 “bridge": Don Ecker, “Long Saga of Lunar Anomalies,” UFO 10, no. 2 (March/
April, 1995), p. 23.
14 “It looks artificial”: Wilson (1975), p. 151.
15 “Shard”: Ecker, op. cit., p. 24.
15 “Tower”. Ibid.
15 moon “occupants”: George Leonard, Somebody Else Is on the Moon (New York:
Pocket Books, 1977), p. 23.
15 professionals ignore signs: Ibid., p. 27.
16 statuesque shadows photographed: Wilson (1979), p. 23.
16 Blair and Abramov: Ibid., pp. 20-21.
16 “eerie similarity”: Richard C. Hoagland, The Monuments of Mars (Berkley, CA:
North Atlantic Books, 1987), pp. 267-268.
17 Barney’s planet of origin: George Rodrigue, “Lunar-Tic Fringe,” The Dallas
Morning News, April 1, 1996, p. 7C.
17 “This is science?”: Leonard, op. cit., p. 199.
18 Alan Bean and Brian Welch, “Claims of Ruins on Moon Just Not True, Says
NASA,” Houston Chronicle, March 22, 1996, p. 6A.
18 Armstrong: Timothy Good, Above 'I'op Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up
(New York: Wiliam Morrow, 1988), p. 387.
18 cylindrical UFO: Wilson (1979), pp. 44-45.
18 Edgar Mitchell. Timothy Good, Alien Contact (New York: William Morrow,
1993), pp. 206-07.
19 “evidence is very strong”: 'transcript of Dateline AW? aired April 19, 1996.
19 Cooper letter: Good (1988), pp. 379-80.
19 ambassador letter from Cooper: J. Antonio Huneeus, “UFO Chronicle,” Fate
48, no. 7 (July 1995), p. 21
19 Michael Hesemann: Ibid., p. 18.
 398 SOURCES

20 Gordon Cooper’s thoughts: Robert T. Leach, “Col. L. Gordon Cooper Speaks

Out,” UFO 11, no. 4 (July/August 1996), p. 28.
20 “they’re . .. watching us”: Good (1988), p. 384.
20 Armstrong and UFOs: Chatelain, op. cit., p. 17.
20 NASA “strict control”: Ibid., p. 16.
20 Chatelain background: Ibid., pp. 1-7.
21 “great number of channels”: Ibid., p. 10.
21 Rep. Howard Wolpe: Don Ecker, “Superpower Problems in Getting to Mars,”
UFO 8, no. 6 (November/December 1993), p. 35.
21 Dr. Garry Henderson: Good (1988), p. 381.
21 National Security Agency: Ecker, op. cit., p. 25.
21 astronaut was evasive: Brian O’Leary, Exploring Inner and Outer Space (Berkeley,
CA: North Atlantic Books, 1989), p. 92.
22 Brookings report: United Press International, “Mankind Is Warned to Prepare
for Discovery of Life in Space,” New York Tinies, December 15, 1960.
23 Dr. Jack Kasher and STS-48 tape: Dr. Jack Kasher interview, AFS/Dialogue,
Minneapolis, MN, 1994.
24 Apollo and Gemini flights followed: Chatelain, op. cit., pp. 16-17.
24 Apollo program ended: Ibid., p. 13.
24 “like .. . Rolls-Royce”: Ubell, op. cit., p. 56.
24 “we were 'asked’ to leave”: Ecker, op. cit., p. 25.
24 “we were warned off”: Good (1988), p. 386.
25 “like a hot potato”: Leonard, op. cit., p. 215.
25 Dr. Robert Jacobs and Atlas rocket: Ibid., pp. 292-93.
25 Clementine-. Sean Casteel, “NASA and DoD Share Clementine Data,” UFO
10, no. 2 (March/April 1995), p. 26.

Chapter Two: Ancient Astronauts

27 Velikovsky: David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, “Famous and Infamous
Scientists,” in The People's Almanac, ed. Arthur Bloch (Garden City, NY: Dou­
bleday & Company, 1975), pp. 929-31.
28 von Daniken quote: Von Daniken (1970), p. viii.
28 von Daniken chastised: Colin Wilson, The Mammoth Book of the Supernatural
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991), p. 505.
29 “von Daniken not the first”: Clifford Wilson, Crash Go the Chariots (New York:
Lancer Books, 1972), p. 51.
29 von Daniken discredited: Colin Wilson, op. cit., pp. 505-6.
29 “no way around von Daniken”: Hoagland, op. cit., pp. 266-67.
29 Chinese characters on Olmec figures: Charles Fenyvesi, “A Tale of Two Cul­
tures,” U.S. News & World Report, November 4, 1996, pp. 46-48.
29 various beliefs: Erich von Daniken, Gods from Outer Space (New York: Bantam
Books, 1972), pp. 161-62.
30 “accuracy of biblical references”: Zecharia Sitchen, The 12th Planet (New York:
Avon Books, 1976), p. vii.
30 vimanas’. Richard L. Thompson, Alien Identities (Alachua, FL: Govardhan Hill
Publishing, 1993), p. 201.
31 parallels with UFOs: Ibid., p. 211.
31 context dictated by conditioning: Ibid., p. 388.
31 King Salva’s attack: Ibid., pp. 213-14.
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31 One description of machines: Zecharia Sitchen, The Wars of Gods and Men
(New York: Avon Books, 1985), p. 67.
32 “admirable men”: Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (New York: Crown
Publishers, 1995), p. 156.
32 return to stars: Ibid., p. 141.
32 Quetzalcoatl legend: Kolosimo, op. cit., p. 163.
32 “strange craft in the skies”: T. Lobsang Rampa, The Third Eye: The Autobiogra­
phy of a Tibetan Lama (London: Martin Seeker & Warburg Ltd., 1958),
p. 140.
33 Tibetan kings: Andrew Tomas, We Are Not the First (New York: Bantam Books,
1973), p. 117.
33 “Flight of Etana”: Ibid., p. 113.
cave graves: von Daniken (1972), pp. 96-99.
33 “imprint of a shoe sole”: Serge Hutin, Alien Races and Fantastic Civilizations
(New York: Berkeley Medallion Books, 1970), p. 5.
33 “five-toed llamas”: Kolosimo, op. cit., p. 207.
34 vertical landing technology and “genuine mystery”: Hancock, op. cit., p. 38.
34 J. Alden Mason and navigation guides: Kolosimo, op. cit., p. 206.
34 Landing at Nazca: von Däniken (1972), p. 105.
35 “folk memory”: Tomas, op. cit., p. 121.
35 Maltese cross: Chatelain, op. cit., pp. 72-74.
35 Jacob’s story: The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version (London: Collins’
Clear-Type Press, 1948), Genesis 28:11-14.
37 “Escape for thy life”: Ibid., Genesis 19:17.
37 “brimstone and fire”: Ibid., Genesis 19:24-26.
37 “pillar of vapor”: Sitchen (1985), pp. 313-14.
37 “columns of smoke”: The New Layman's Parallel Bible (Living Bible) (Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1981), p. 45.
37 communities abandoned and radioactivity: Sitchen (1985), p. 315.
38 “visions of God”: 77>e Holy Bible (King James Version), Ezekiel 1:1.
38 Ezekiel’s description: The New Layman's Parallel Bible (New International Ver­
sion), pp. 2108-10.
39 NASA official: Josef F. Blumrich, The Spaceships of Ezekiel (New York: Bantam
Books, Inc., 1974), foreword.
39 “technically feasible”: Ibid., p. 3.
39 “distinct from prophetic content”: Ibid., p. 7.
39 “does not interpret”: Ibid., p. 13.
39 phases of the landing: Ibid., p. 63.
40 visions not literal: Wilson, op. cit., p. 59.
40 Hou Yih’s moon travel: Tomas, op. cit., pp. 114-15.
41 past is a vacuum: Ibid., pp. 8-9.
42 “a computing machine”- Ibid., p. 127.
42 “device could not exist”: Simon Welfare and John Fairly, Arthur C. Clarkes
Mysterious World (New York: A&W Publishers, 1980), pp. 65-66.
42 jet plane in tomb: Tomas, op. cit., p. 128.
43 Clarkes comments: Welfare and Fairly, op. cit., p. 67.
43 Wilhelm Konig: Ibid., p. 62.
43 Dr. Arne Eggebrecht. Ibid., p. 63.
44 “same human skull”: Ibid., p. 54.
44 “perfect skull emerged”: Ibid., p. 53.
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44 screw and pavements: Frank Edwards, Strangest of All (New York: Ace Books,
Inc., 1956), pp. 100-01.
45 “intriguing items”: /Man and Sally Landsburg, In Search of Ancient Mysteries
(New York: Bantam Books, 1974), pp. 20-22.
46 Strabo and Senaca: Tomas, op. cit., pp. 84-85.
46 Vishnti-Purana: Ibid., pp. 85-86.
46 Bronislav Kouznetsov. Ibid.
46 Chinese map: Hancock, op. cit., p. 32.
46 Col. Harold Z. Ohlmeyer: Ibid., p. 3.
47 Charles I lapgood: Ibid., p. 10.
47 Columbus’s map: Tomas, op. cit., pp. 87-88.
47 “20 old charts”: Ibid., p. 89.
48 Mercator, Oronteus Finaeus and Buache: Hancock, op. cit., pp. 18-22.
48 “worldwide culture”: Tomas, op. cit., p. 90.
48 aerial photographs: von Daniken (1971), p. 15.
48 Voynich manuscript: Ibid., p. 91.
49 steel cables: Welfare and Fairly, op. cit., p. 87.
49 “liked a hard life?”: von Daniken (1971), p. 94.
49 Gerald Hawkins: 'Fomas, op. cit., p. 128.
49 “calculator”: Chatelain, op. cit., p. 150.
50 Newgrange and Maes Howe: Welfare and Fairly, op. cit., pp. 91-93.
50 Magnus Spence: Ibid.
50 energy pulses: Ibid., p. 96.
50 following historian’s footsteps: Hancock, op. cit., p. 294.
50 John Anthony West: Hancock, Ibid., pp. 418-19.
51 “ironclad evidence”: Ibid.
51 land-based cranes: Ibid., p. 342.
51 I. E. S. Edwards: O’Leary, op. cit., p. 100.
51 Col. Howard Vyse: Hancock, op. cit., pp. 302-3.
52 “archeological fraud”: Stichen (1985), p. 136.
52 no signs of burial. Hancock, op. cit., p. 313.
52 Kane, Edwards, Isler, and Faulkner; Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert, The
Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids (New York: Crow n Publish­
ers, 1994), pp. 50-51.
53 British inches: Peter Lemesuricr, The Great Pyramid Decoded (New York: Avon
Books, 1977), p. 299,
53 “architectural symbol”: Ibid., p. 8.
53 pyramid as navigation tool: William Bramley, The Gods of Eden (San Jose, CA:
Dahlin Family Press, 1990), p. 64.
53 pyramid as time keeper: Chatelain, op. cit., p. 57.
54 Pyramids are Osiris: Bauval and Gilbert, op. cit., p. 122.
54 “airshaft”: Ibid., p. 173.
54 10,450 B.C.: Ibid., pp. 192-93.
54 “garbled nonsense”: Chatelain, op. cit., p. 64.
54 “radiation barriers”: Ibid.
55 “global influence”: Bramley, op. cit., pp. 188-89.
55 “global legacy”: I Iancock, op. cit., p. 32.
55 Japanese earthen statutes: Jacques Vallee, Dunensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), pp. 9-JO.
56 story of Nibiru: Sitchen (1985), pp. 345-50.
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56 “A heavenly body”: Thomas O'Toole, Washington Post News Senice, “‘Mys­

tery Body Found in Space,” Detroit News, December 30, 1983, p. 4-A.
56 Thomas Van Flandern: Hugh McCann, “10th Planet? Pluto’s Orbit Says ‘Yes,’”
Detroit News, January’ 16, 1981, p. 1.
56 Sumerians “far ahead”: Ibid.
57 Nephilim “heroes”: Trent C. Butler, ed., Hobnan Bible Dictionary (Nashville,
TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 1991), p. 1017.
58 Robert Morning Sky' and Star Beings: Karen Degenhart, “Robert Morning Sky
and the Extraterrestrial Connection,” Fate 49, no. 9 (September 1996), p. 48.
58 “the extent of alien influence”: Ibid., p. 49.
59 no material . .. can last: Chatelain, op. cit., p. 185.

CHAPTER THREE: Military Observers

60 FJoy’d Thompson: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary llsitors (New York:
Bantam Books, 1974), p. 226.
61 Thutmose III: Jacques Vallee, UFOs in Space (New York: Ballantine Books,
1965), pp. 5-6.
61 Roman sightings: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 15.
61 ships from “Magonia”: Jerome Clark, UFO Encounters & Beyond (Lincolnwood,
IL: Publications International, Ltd., 1993), pp. 12-13.
61 “two large shields”: Vallee (1965), p. 9.
61 "dragon,” large ship and battles: Brookesmith, op. cit., pp. 16-17.
62 “ghost aircraft” characteristics: Ibid., p. 32.
62 Los .Angeles raid: Good (1988), p. 15.
63 Navy Secretary' Frank Knox: Terrenz Sword, “The Battle of Los Angeles,
1942,” UFO Sightings 4, no. 1 (spring 1996), p. 61.
63 Peter Jenkins and Chief J. H. McClelland: Ibid.
63 Paul T. Collins: Good (1988), p. 16.
64 “censorship”: Ibid.
64 balloon theory': Sword, loc. cit., p. 62.
64 commentator: Ibid., p. 63.
64 Lt. Donald Meiers: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 135.
64 Smokey Stover: Ibid., p. 136.
65 Herald Tribune report: W. A. Harbinson, Inception (New York: Dell Publishing,
1991), p. viii.
65 three kinds: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 134.
65 Japanese searchlight plane: Klass, op. cit., pp. 90-91.
65 Lt. David McFalls: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 35.
65 Daily Telegraph: Harbinson, op. cit.
65 Harbinson: Ibid.
66 Captain Alvah Reida: Good (1988), p. 19.
66 enemy airmen followed: Brookesmith. op. cit., p. 35.
66 “discussions of flying saucers”: Brian Ford, German Secret IFeapuiis: Blueprint for
Mars (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), p. 6.
66 Pitt: Ibid., p. 7.
67 Fencrball description: Renato Vesco and David Hatcher Childress, Man-Made
UFOs 1944-1994. 50 Years of Suppression (Stclle, IL: Adventures Unlimited
Press, 1994), pp. 85-86.
67 Kwgr/A/frs; Ibid., pp. 156-57.
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67 Rudolph Schriever's saucer Harbinson, op. cit, p. ix.

68 "designs mislaid or stolen”: Ibid.
68 Schriever’s death and plans- W. A. Harbinson. Gfwenr (New York: Dell. 1982).
p. 590.
68 "flying saucers” in final stages of development; Ford, op. cit. pp. 34-35.
68 Viktor Schauberger: Vesco and Childress, op. cit, p. 243-45.
68 Himmler’s letter Albert Speer, Infiltration. Hik Heinrich Himmler Schemed to
Build An SS Industrial Empire (New York; Macmillan, 1981), pp. 207-8.
69 Kammler as commissioner general: Ibid., p. 209.
69 failities moved; Ford, op. cit, p. 22.
69 Blizna, Poland: Mark Birdsall, “Nazi Secret Weapon Foo Fighters’ of WW
II,” UFO 7, no. 4 (Julv/August 1992), p. 32.
69 Himmlers proposal”: Speer, op. cic, p. 3.
70 secret weapon plant concealed from Speer: Ibid., p. 179.
70 Kammler to “bargain": Jean Michel, Dora (New York: Holt. Rinehart and Win­
ston, 1980), p. 290.
70 "disappeared without a trace”: Ibid., pp. 296-97.
71 Bishop Johannes Neuhausler: Paul Manning. Martin Bormann: Nazi m Exile
(Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1981), p. 15.
71 Dr. Hugo Blaschke and Fritz Echtmann. Ibid., p. 16.
72 SS General Heinrich Mueller: Ibid., p. 17.
72 Simon Wiesenthal: Louis L. Snvder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (New York
McGraw-Hill, 1976), p. 37.
72 "postwar commercial campaign"- Manning, op. etc, p. 24.
73 750 front corporations: Ibid., p. 136.
73 ITT: Charles Higham, Trading icitb the Enemy An Expose of the Nazi-American
Money Plot 1933-1949 (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 99.
73 Gerhardt Westrick- Ibid., p. 95
73 Schroder and Schellenberg: Ibid., p. 93.
73 oil to Spain: Ibid., p. 59.
73 changed registry/dose associates: Ibid., p. 35.
73 anking connections: Ibid., p. 22.
74 hase and Schmitz: Manning, op. cit, p. 159.
74 Schmitz’s wealth”-. Ibid., p. 280.
74 Martin Walker, “Banking on Nazi Crimes,” The Guardian, reprinted in World
Press Reviea, vol. 41, no. 11, November 1996, p. 31.
75 Nazis did not die: Jim Keith, Casebook on Alternative 3: UFOs. Secret Societies
and world Control (Lilburn, GA-. DlumiNet Press, 1994). p. 148
75 Orvis A. Schmidt- Manning, op. at, p. 146.
75 Admiral Karl Doenitz: Editors, “Hitler Vanishes—Where Did Der Fiihrcr
Go?” The National Police Gazette, January 1977, p. 32.
75 Admiral Richard Byrd: Harbinson (1982), p. 594.
76 "underground research factories”: Ibid., p. 599.
76 Swedish statement: Flammonde, op. cit, p. 139.
76 80 percent identified: Peebles, op. cit, p. 4.
76 Foo-Fighters “advanced technology ”: Birdsall, loc. cit, p. 32.
77 BBC report- Vesco and Childress, op. cit, p. 225.
77 Toronto Star report- Ibid., pp. 252-53.
77 Americans shown saucer: Ibid,, p, 255.
77 Donald Quarles: Ibid., p. 259.
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78 V-173 “Fixing Flapjack”: David C. Knight, UFOs: A Pictorial History from Antiq­
uity to the Present (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), p. 34.
78 governments are lying: Harbinson (1991), p. xi.
78 CIA memo: Good (1993), p. 143.
78 Lt. Col. George Edwards: John Spencer, ed., The UFO Encyclopedia (New York:
Avon Books, 1991), p. 103.
78 Robert Dorr: Good (1993), p. 144.
79 Richard S. Shaver: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 4-7; Flammonde, op. cit., pp. 174-80.
79 “concise summary of flying saucer myth”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 7,
80 “Silence is the best thing”: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 38.
80 "tremendously bright flash”: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 163.
80 Chinese kite tail: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 45.
81 speed calculated: Peebles, op. cit., p. 10.
81 “guided missiles”: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 166.
81 "significance of this”: Spencer, op. cit., p. 25.
82 Davidson and Brown: Flammonde, op. cit., pp. 184—85.
82 Palmer and Crisman letter: Peebles, op. cit., p. 14.
82 Arnold’s second encounter: Flammonde, op. cit., pp. 185-86; Good (1988), p. 571.
82 hotel room, volcanic rock, and anonymous letter: Flammonde, op. cit., pp 186-89.
83 hoax or espionage: Ibid., p. 190.
83 “secrete a listening deuce”: Ibid., p. 191.
83 “fake” stuff: Ibid., p. 192.
84 “more rocky’and less metallic”: Ibid., p. 197.
84 B-25 crash and cause: Ibid., pp. 200-2; Peebles, op. cit., p. 16.
85 Harold Wilkins: Roger Ford, “A Secret Never to Be Told?” in UFOs: The Final
Answer, ed. David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay (London: Blandford
Press, 1993), p. 110.
85 Crisman and “hardware”: Anthony' L. Kimeiy, “The Secret Life of Fred L.
Crisman,” UFO 8. no. 5 (September-October 1993), p. 35.
85 first man called: Ibid., p. 36.
86 Permindex and CMC: Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (New
York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 499.
86 Crisman as “extended agent”: Extractions from CLA file: CRISMAN, Fred Lee,
Number OSS/CLA 4250ece, located at Control Records Dispatch, Davenport,
Iowa.
86 John Keel theory: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 39.
87 air force report: Peebles, op. cit., p. 16.
87 “still ... a mystery”: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 206.
87 “intelligence . .. deeply immersed”: Kimery, loc. cit., p. 38.
87 first mention of outer space: Peebles, op. cit., p. 28.

CHAPTER FOUR: The Road to Recovery

88 Project 1947: Jan L. Alrich, “1947: A Progress Report.” UFO 11, no. 2
(March/April 1996), pp. 22-25.
91 Barney Barnett discounted: Peebles, op. cit., p. 298.
91 “fragments in a field”: Ibid., p. 302.
91 additional witnesses: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
About the UFO Crash at Roswell (New York: Avon Books, 1994). These
witnesses are only a partial listing taken from a cursory study of this
well-documented book.
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92 “not anything from this Earth”: Ibid., p. 155.

97 Frank Press regarding Roswell Authors conversation with Wiliam Pitts, April
12, 1996.
97 GAO report: Editors, “NEWS: GAO Comes Up Empty Handed on Roswell,”
UFO 10, no. 5 (September/October 1995), p. 5.
98 FBI teletype: Peebles, op. cit., p. 300.
98 other crashes: Good (1988), pp. 388-98.
98 Dr. Chris Stringer: “Autopsv of the Third Kind,” World Press Review, October
1995, p. 38.
100 “secret” letter: Art Crockett, “The ‘Project Blue Book’ Cover-up,” in The Total
UFO Story, ed. Milt Machlin (New York: Dale Books, 1979), p. 147.
100 Gen. Nathan Twining’s report: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 17-18.
101 Randle and Schmitt suggested: Randle and Schmitt, op. cit., p. 109.
101 Schulgen memo: Good (1988), p. 262.
101 2A priority: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (Chicago:
Henry' Regnery Company, 1972), p. 174.
101 “division grew greater”: Ibid., p. 170.
101 reports not too convincing: Ibid., p. 172.
101 a dozen repons “unidentified”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 19.
101 Hymek’s “sense of sport”: Hymek, op. cit., p. 2.
102 “phenomenon ... being proved”: Ibid., p. 171.
102 Mantell’s comments: Official Air Intelligence report reproduced in Good
(1988), p. 481; amplified in Peebles, op. cit., p. 23.
103 Tinies headlines: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 218.
103 Glen Mays: Ibid., p. 219.
103 “no one could account for this”: Richard T. Miller, Star Wards: Welcome Home
Earthman (Middletown, CA: The Solar Cross Foundation, 1979), p. 3.
103 “Some mysterious force”: Ibid.
104 Captain James F. Duesler: Tony Dodd, “The Fatal Flight of Captain Thomas
Mantell,” UFO Magazine, July/August 1996, p. 29.
105 “he was after something”: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 37.
105 Venus nearly invisible: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 24-25.
105 “Skyhook” balloons: Klass, op. cit,, p. 34.
105 no records located: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 232.
105 Cabell’s memo: Good (1988), p. 263.
105 other 1948 UFOs: Vallee (1965), pp. 72-73.
106 Gorman statements: Flammonde, op. cit., pp. 259-260.
106 Pentagon’s “subtle ridicule”: Hynek, op. cit, p. 2.
107 public relations effort: Peebles, op. cit., p. 40.
107 “brush-off attitude” in releases: Hynek, op. cit., p. 174.
107 “change .. . difficult to explain”: Ibid., p. 175.
107 Jaime Shandera finds film: Howard Blum, Out There (New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1990), pp. 239-41; author’s interview with Jaime Shandera, Septem­
ber 7, 1996.
107 MJ-12 briefing papers: Copies in author’s files; Good (1988), pp. 545-51; Blum,
Ibid., pp. 282-89.
108 Hillenkoetter quote: Good (1988), p. 259.
109 Twining trip canceled and Wiliam Moore: Ibid., p. 260.
110 Gray and psychological strategy board: Ibid., p. 259.
110 Menzel quote: Blum, op. cit,, p. 247.
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110 ’‘biggest cons”: Ibid., p. 219.

111 “systematically confuse . .. Editors, “Disinformation Ploy Revealed,” UFO 4,
no. 4 (September/October 1989), p. 4.
111 “Aquarius Telex”: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 310-11; reproduction of telex, Good
(1988), p. 528.
112 Project Aquarius briefing papers: Don Ecker, “The Aquarius Document," UFO
7, no. 1 (January/February 1992), pp. 8-10.
114 “skillfully doctored”: Good (1988), p. 234.
114 Menzel’s double life: Ibid., pp. 249-50.
115 paper maker checked: Ralph Steiner, “Stanton Friedman: The Case for UFOs
as Alien Spacecraft and the Government UFO Cover-up,” in UFOs and the
Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints, ed. Michael Lindemann (Santa Barbara, CA: The
2020 Group, 1991), p. 45.
115 Classification not used until Nixon: Randle and Schmitt, op. cit., pp. 230-31.
116 identical signatures and 1963 typewriter: Peebles, op. cit., p. 321.
116 MJ-12 Operations Manual: Copy provided by GAO to Rep. Deborah Pryce,
15th District, Ohio, copy in authors files.
116 “a great deal of work”: Kevin D. Randle, “The MJ-12 Operations Manual:
Another Forgery ?” International UFO Reporter (spring 1996), p. 9.
116 Manual a “fake”: Ibid., p. 10.
116 Richard Davis: Letter to Rep. Deborah Pryce, September 12, 1995.
117 “document seems authentic": Good (1988), p. 260.
117 “essentially factual”: Good (1993), p. 123.
117 Lee Graham and DIS: Lee Graham and Ron Regehr, “One Man’s Journey to Veri­
fication: Going by the Rules,” UFO 10, no. 1 (January/February 1995), pp. 25-27.
118 FBI probe and quote: Blum, op. cit., pp. 263-67.
119 Dr. Eric Walker: Letter from T. Scott Crain Jr., UFO 7, no. 1 (January/February
1992), p. 5.
119 Tommy Bland on Mrs. Margaret Fuller: Author’s interview, June 28, 1996.
120 FBI memo: Good (1988), p. 541.
121 Washington SAC memo: Ibid., p. 527.
121 Smith memo and report: Good (1988), pp. 183-85.
121 Dr. Sarbacher’s letter: Ibid., pp. 525-26.
122 Gen. George C. Marshall: Ibid., p. 414.
122 Gleason story: Good (1993), pp. 104-5.
122 Larry Warren: Timothy Green Beckley, “UFOs Among the Stars,” UFO Sight­
ings, 3, no. 4 (winter 1996), pp. 27-28.
122 Milo Spiriglio: Vicki Ecker, “UFOs Linked to ‘Marilyn’ Conspiracy,” UFO 10,
no. 2 (March/April 1995), pp. 19-20.
123 Vic Golubic and CIA report: Author’s interview, June 25, 1996.
123 Briton tells of UFO crash: Dorothy' Kilgallen, “‘Flying Saucer’ Wreckage
Assures Britons of Reality',” Fort Worth Star-Telegnnn, May 23, 1955.
124 Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding: Good (1988), pp. 47-48.
124 “my hands are tied": Authors interview with Bill Holden, May 14, 1996.
125 NS A and Project Aquarius: Good (1988), p. 425.

CHAPTER FIVE: Plausible Deniability

126 “Dark Ages” Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 63.
126 “cover up the real story”: Ibid., p. 67.
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126 “schizophrenic approach”: Ibid., p. 86.

127 CIRVIS and airline meeting: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors
(New York: Bantam Books, 1979), pp. 234-35.
127 “Big Brother” attitude: Ibid.
127 Keyhoe on regulations: Peebles, op. cit., p. 134.
128 “interplanetary spaceships”: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 109.
128 “natural phenomenon”: Ibid., p, 110.
128 General Mills witnesses: Ibid., p. 120.
129 personal opinion at the Pentagon: Ibid., p. 132; Peebles, op. cit., p. 70.
129 20 reports a day: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 154.
129 “fantastically high speeds”: Ibid., p. 158.
130 “media were ordered out”: Ibid., p. 164.
130 headlines: Ibid., p. 166.
130 press conference and resulting headline: Ibid., pp. 168-69.
130 “temperature inversion ... indicated”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 79.
130 Ruppelt’s findings: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 170.
131 Dan Kimball: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space (New York: Doubleday and
Company, 1973), pp. 79-80.
131 “two pie pans”: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 224.
131 “under intelligent control”: Keyhoe (1973), p. 82.
132 Admiral Hillenkoetter: Ibid.
132 Smith memo: Good (1988), p. 511.
133 “study was hot”: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 218.
133 Hynek on panel: Hynek, op. cit., p. 169.
133 scientists “known skeptics”: Ibid., p. 83.
133 “double-crossed”: Ibid., p. 85.
133 Robertson panel conclusions: Peebles, op. cit., p. 102.
133 Al Chop: Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 85.
134 Ruppelt quote: Ibid., p. 86.
134 Sen. Richard B. Russell: Ibid., p. 89.
134 Lt. Col. L. J. Tucker: Ibid., p. 9.
134 majority leader John McCormack: Ibid.
134 Sen. Barry Goldwater: Good (1988), p. 405.
135 UFOs “scientifically unrespectable”: Hynek, op. cit., p. 169.
135 assessment of Ruppelt: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 173.
135 Ruppelt’s widow: Peebles, op. cit., p. 168.
136 Ruppelt forced to repudiate book: Keyhoe (1973), pp. 90-91.
136 Hynek quotes: Hynek, op. cit., p. 173.
136 “another intelligence agency”: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 231.
136 Coral Lorenzen: Peebles, op. cit., p. 168.
136 “The goal of Blue Book”: Ibid., p. 132.
136 rate of UFO sightings: Ibid., p. 172.
137 Keyhoe on giant satellites: Keyhoe (1973), p. 157.
138 Tombaugh sighting: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 171.
138 “second satellite”: Editors, “Second Moon?” Time, March 15, 1954, p. 83.
138 search for “moonlets”: Editors, “Tiny Earth Satellites,” Science News Letter 65,
no. 12 (March 20, 1954), p. 80.
139 “first artificial satellite”; Editors, “He Spies on Satellites,” Popular Mechanics
104, no. 4 (October 1955), p. 106.
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139 rocket kept going: Editors, “Have We Sent a Rocket into Space?” Popular
Mechanics 103, no, 5 (May 1955), p. 112.
139 “Tombaugh is closed mouth”: Popular Mechanics (October 1955), p. 334.
140 John P. Bagby: Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy (New York:
Henry7 Holt and Company, 1955), pp. 260-61.
140 Captain Howard T. Orville: Ibid., p. 198.
140 NASA release, Stewart Alsop: Keyhoe (1973), pp. 161—62.
140 Tombaugh not published: Carl Sagan and Thornton Page, eds., UFOs-A Scien­
tific Debate (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972), p. 29.
140 bomber crew experience: Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 164.
141 Dr. Fritz Zwicky and rockets: Keyhoe (1955), pp. 105-7.
141 satellites as natural objects: Ibid., pp. 194-95.
142 NTCAP members: Peebles, op. cit., p. 139.
142 Keyhoe comment: Ibid., p. 157.
143 CBS censors Keyhoe’s statement: Ibid., pp. 154—55.
143 AF “special” briefing: Ibid., p. 157.
143 McCormack hearing and Peebles quote: Ibid., p. 158.
144 “one of the classics”: Hynek, op. cit., p. 144.
144 Zamora account: Brad Steiger, ed., Project Blue Book: The Top Secret UFO Find­
ings Revealed (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), pp. 115-21.
145 insignia as sign for Venus: Vallee (1988), p. 33.
145 “verified the marks and ... plants”: Hvnek, op. cit., p. 145.
145 attempts to break story “fruidess”: Ibid.
145 Hynek and Menzel’s theory: Steiger, op. cit., p. 134
145 “landing was a hoax”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 185.
146 La Medera landing: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 81.
146 Rev. Gill letters and report: Hynek, op. cit., pp. 147^49.
147 Menzel’s theories: Ibid., p. 242.
148 no blackout explanation quotes: Keyhoe (1973), pp. 213-14.
148 news reports on UFOs: Ibid., p. 215.
148 Power article: Ibid., p. 216.
148 fraud “preposterous”: Ibid., p. 217.
149 blackouts in Texas, New Mexico: Spencer, op. cit., p. 44
149 Fredrick E. Davids: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 357.
150 typical headline: Peebles, op. cit., p. 205.
150 Gerald R. Ford letter: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 360.
150 “worthy of scientific attention”: Hynek, op. cit., pp. 196-97.
150 ad hoc committee: Thompson, op. cit., p. 92.
151 “there is nothing to it”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 217.
151 “committee had come to a standstill”: Dr. Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook
of Alien Contact (New York- Ballantine Books, 1988), p. 211.
151 Armstrong resignation letter: Hynek, op. cit., p. 244.
152 “confidential information” to Menzel: Ibid., p. 249.
152 “F.TI” does not exist: Ibid., p. 246.
152 Low’s memo: Peebles, op. cit., p. 211
152 “choice of data”: Hynek, op. cit., p. 195.
152 “problem” defined: Ibid., pp. 203-4.
153 Stewart Udall: Keyhoe (1973), p. 282.
153 Dr Paul Tyler: Author’s interview, August 16, 1993.
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153 Condon conclusion: Peebles, op. cit., p. 225.

154 “final assessment” of Condon Study: Ibid., p. 229.
154 John Northrop quote: Fowler (1979), p. 159.
154 Dr. James E. McDonald: Ibid., p. 238.
154 AIAA review: Thompson, op. cit., pp. 95-96.
154 “worthy of investigation”: Hynek, op. cit., p. 230.
154 “Report settled nothing”: Ibid., p. 195.
154 “scientific belief system” threatened: Thompson, op. cit., p. 95.
154 Dr. Paul Santorini: Raymond E. Fowler, The Watchers (New York: Bantam
Books, 1990), pp. 335-36.
155 “waste of Government money”: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 16.
155 UFO files burned: Vallee (1988), p. 211.
155 Condon tries to halt AAAS: Fowler, op. cit., p. 166.
155 air force “conspiracy”: Fowler, op. cit., p. 284.
155 Robert C. Seamans Jr. statement: Peebles, op. cit., p. 229.
156 Menzel’s admission: Fowler, op. cit., pp. 165-66.
156 Ah' reiterates views: Peebles, op. cit., p. 230.

CHAPTER SIX: UFOs Underground

157 Howard C. Cross memo: Vicki Cooper, “"Pentacle’ Controversy,” UFO 8, no. 3
(May/June 1993), pp. 6-7-
158 Battelle background: Keith Chester, “Blue Book’s ‘Institute of Choice,’” Ibid.,
pp. 8-11.
158 “Project Bear”: Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 118.
158 “contributions by Battelle”: Chester, loc. cit., p. 8.
158 Jason group: Vicki Cooper, “Jason Group: DOD’s Secretive, Scientific ‘Elite,’”
UFO 7, no. 6 (November/December 1992), pp. 7-8.
159 Col. William Coleman: Good (1993), pp. 128-129.
159 AF Sec. Richard E. Horner: Keyhoe (1973), p. 9.
159 Hillenkoetter: Ibid., p. 12.
159 Stringfield as UFO spotter: Leonard FI. Stringfield, UFO Crash Retrievals: The
Inner Sanctum-Status Report F7 (Cincinnati, OH: Leonard H. Stringfield, 1991),
p. 141.
160 John L. Acuff: Leonard FI. Stringfield, Situation Red, the UFO Siege! (Garden
City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977), p. 155.
160 William H. Spaulding: Ibid.
160 James Lorenzen: Ibid., p. 156.
160 John B. Musgrave: Ibid., p. 160.
161 “why Blue Book failed”: Crockett, loc. cit., p. 158.
161 “UFOs simply ceased to exist”: Flammonde, op. cit., p. 353.
161 Scientific Advisory Board: Bruce Maccabee, Report on America Online: TEwa
70220, May 6, 1996, p. 1.
162 Todd Zechel: Good (1988), p. 349.
162 John Burroughs: Antonio Huneeus, “Two Points of View-The Bentwaters UFO
‘Crash’: Friend or Foe?” UFO Universe 1, no. 4 (August/September 1991), p. 20.
163 “James Archer”: Good (1988), p. 83.
163 Sgt. Adrian Bustinza: Ibid., pp. 85-86.
163 Sgt. Larry Warren: Huneeus, loc. cit, p. 22.
164 Col. Halt’s report: Ibid., p. 25.
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165 “lot of things that are not in my memo”: Good (1988), p. 96.
165 film delivered to HQ: Ibid., p. 93.
165 tape transcript: Ibid., pp. 89-90.
166 “a mechanical device of unknown origin”: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 61.
166 Peter Robbins and lights: Terry Ecker, “UFOs Still Cavorting Around Bentwa­
ters AFB,” UFO 6, no. 2 (March/April 1991), pp. 6-7.
166 no records on Warren: Ibid.
167 “a grave assault”: Michael Lindemann, “UFOs and the Alien Presence: Time
for the Truth,” Summary Report I, Visitors Investigation Project of the Democ­
racy and Security Conference, a division of The 2020 Group, March 1990,
pp. 13-14.
167 Neilson per name for Kimery: Author’s interview, 1997.
167 “secret, centralized command structure”: James Neilson, “High-Level Disclo­
sures: ‘Secret’ U.S./UFO Structure,” UFO 4, no. 1 (March/April 1989), p. 4.
168 Tad Sherburn: Editors, “U.N. Runs UFO Agency, Says Researcher,” UFO 10,
no. 3 (May/June 1995), p. 10.
168 UFO chain of command: Neilson, op. cit., p. 5, plus several sources who
requested anonymity.
169 NRO loses $2 billion: New York Times, “Secretive Agency Misplaces $2 Billion,”
Portland Press Herald, January 30, 1996, p. 5A.
169 secret underground facilities and locations: Richard Sauder, Underground Bases
and Tunnels: What Is the Government Tying to Hide? (Abingdon, VA: Dracon
Press, 1995), p. 11.
170 “Lunar Tunneler”: Ibid., p. 101.
170 projects like the “Chunnel”: Ibid., p. 84.
171 FEMA installation not in budget: Ibid., p. 49-50.
171 Oliver North, Arthur Liman, and FEMA plan: Alfonso Chardy, “Plan Called
for Martial Law in U.S.,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 5, 1987, section 1, p. 9.
171 how many not known: Sauder, op. cit., p. 52.
172 Alternatives 1 and 2: Keith, op. cit., p. 7.
172 X-33 space shuttle: Editors, “The Shuttle That May Put You in Space,” U.S.
New & World Report, July 22, 1996, p. 13.
173 gridlock and homeless people: Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich, The Popula­
tion Explosion (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 11.
173 Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Associated Press, “As Population Grows, People Will
Live ‘Like Rats,’ Cousteau Says,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1992, p. A17.
173 second only to nuclear war: Ehrlich, op. cit., p. 18.
174 “actually a hoax”: Keith, op. cit., p. 14.
174 “very’ close to a secret truth”: Ibid.
174 Linda Howe and BBC producer: Authors interview, July 8, 1996.
175 Kurt Rebmann: Keith, op. cit., p. 56.
175 “infiltration by Nazis”: Ibid., p. 41.
175 “broad outline of controls”: Ibid., p. 159.
176 Norio Hayakawa and Gary Schultz: Don Ecker, “Dark Chopper 'Fries to Crash
S-4 ‘UFO Party,’” UFO 6, no. 4 (July/August 1991), p. 10.
176 Valentino Kent and Ken Brazell: Don Ecker, “Strange Camp-out at Area SI,”
UFO 8, no. 3 (May/Iune 1993), pp. 12-15.
177 “numerous secret aircraft”: Editors, “Multiple Sightings of Secret Aircraft Hint
at New Propulsion, Airframe Designs,” Aviation H eck & Space Technology, Octo­
ber I, 1990, p. 22.
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177 “illegal land seizure”: Don Ecker, “Strange Camp-out at Area 51,” UFO 8, no. 3
(May/June 1993), p. 12.
177 air force statement: Abe Dane, “Flying Saucers: The Real Story,” Popular
Mechanics 172, no. 1 (January 1995), p. 50.
177 Abe Dane: Dane, loc. cit.
178 sightings described: Editors, “Secret Advanced Vehicles Demonstrate Technologies
for Future Military Use,” Aviation Week & Space Technology, October 1, 1990, p. 20.
178 “guarded with undiminished vigilance”: Ibid.
178 Intelligence chiefs at Wackenhut: John Connolly, “Inside America’s Secret
Secret Police,” Spy, September 1992, p. 49.
179 armed employees, files and revenues: Don Ecker, “Corporate Spooks Ride
High at Wackenhut,” UFO 8, no. 1 (January/February 1992), pp. 9-10.
179 Anthony J. Hilder letter: Copy dated July 30, 1992, in author’s files.
179 Bob Lazar and Dr. Edward Teller: Lindemann, op. cit., pp. 89-90.
180 S-4 destination: Ibid.
180 gun to head: Don Ecker, “The Saucers and the Scientist,” UFO 5, no. 6
(November/December 1990), p. 17.
181 Element 115: Lindemann, op. cit., p. 106.
181 nine UFOs: Ibid., p. 18.
181 small “doll”: Good (1993), p. 208.
181 briefing papers and “containers”: Ibid., pp. 210—12.
182 UFOs gained by “friendly means”: Lindemann, op. cit., p. 105.
182 Paul Bennewitz letter; Good (1993), p. 210.
182 “unprofessional manner” and “buddy system”: Lindemann, op. cit., p. 108.
182 Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum: Thomas R. Adams, The Choppers—the and
Choppers, rev. ed. (Paris, TX: Project Stigma, 1991), p. 36.
183 “why I left S-4”: Ibid., p. 92.
183 Los Alamos phone listing: Ecker (1990), loc. cit., p. 16.
184 W-2 form and “E-6722MAJ”: Good (1993), p. 202.
184 “MAJ” and SCI clearance: Ibid., pp. 172-73.
184 Dr. Teller vacillated: Ibid., pp. 171-72.
185 “crime against the American people”: Ibid., pp. 194-95.
185 polygraph tests: Ecker (1990), loc. cit., pp. 17-18.
185 legal action: Author’s interview with Gene Huff, July 16, 1996.
186 Marion Leo Williams: Good (1993), p. 207.
186 George Knapp: Ibid., pp. 198-99.
186 “public indoctrination process”: Ibid., p. 212.
186 “chosen for release of this information”: George Knapp, “Lazar’s Story Un­
changed,” UFO 5, no. 6 (November/December 1990), p. 19.
186 “wall of absurdity” and “theatre”: Vallee (1991), p. 227.
187 “huge amounts of disinformation”: Author’s interview with Don Ecker, July 16,
1996.
187 “story has some holes”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 329.
187 “I am telling the truth”: Good (1993), p. 213.
187 “I don’t care who believes me”: Ecker (1990), loc. cit., p. 19.

CHAPTER SEVEN: Face-to-Face

188 Ezekiel’s account: The New Layman's Parallel Bible (Living Bible), p. 2113.
189 “vedic accounts”: Thompson, op. cit., p. 226.
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189 Ravana abducts Sita: Flammonde, op. tit., p. 48.

189 John Barclay: Vallee (1988), pp. 42-43.
189 Rapuzzi Johannis: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts & Abductions (New York: Ster­
ling Publishing Co., 1994), pp. 16-17.
190 George Adamski: Peebles, op. cit., p. 115.
191 “tom to pieces”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 116.
191 “embellished by others”: Randles, op. cit., p. 19
191 “hallucinations . .. fantasies”: Ibid.
192 “saucer crap”: Peter A. Jordan, “The Early' Days,” UFO 10, no. 3 (May/June
1995), p. 34.
192 Adamski a “fraud”: Harold D. Salkin, “George Adamski—Cosmic Saint or Sin­
ner?” UFO Universe 2, no. 4 (winter 1993), pp. 22-23.
192 “reduced the credibility”: Ibid., p. 20.
192 scientists and “Good old George”: Vallee (1988), p. 223.
192 Gene L. Bloom: Peebles, op. cit., p. 114.
192 Jerrold E. Baker: Ibid., p. 119.
192 Thomas Eickoff: Good (1988), pp. 341-42.
193 joke letterhead: Peebles, op. cit., p. 160.
193 two constables: Good (1988), p. 117.
193 Silver Spring film: Ibid., pp. 374-77.
194 Stephen Darbishire: Ibid., p. 377.
194 “final death blow”: Fowler, op. cit., p. 40.
194 contactees: Thompson, op. cit., pp. 172-73; Brookesmith, op. cit., pp. 65-67;
Peebles, op. cit., pp. 113-25.
196 Antonio Villas Boas account: Randles, op. cit., pp. 24-27; Brookesmith, pp. 61—63.
197 Betty’ and Barney’ Hill account: Ibid., pp. 27-32; pp. 74-75; Peebles, op. cit.,
pp.193-99.
197 “military pilot”: John G. Fuller, The Interrupted Journey (New York: Dell Pub­
lishing Co., 1966), p. 145.
198 “shiny circles”: Ibid., pp. 38-39.
198 Pease radar “unknown”: Vallee (1988), p. 103; Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 75;
Spencer, op. cit., p. 145.
198 Walter Webb: Fuller, op. cit., p. 53.
198 “German Nazi”: Ibid., p. 115.
199 Rev. John D. Swanson: Fowler (1979), p. 297-
199 Dr. Simon’s caveat: Fuller, op. cit., p. 9.
200 “cumulative impact”: Ibid., p. 10.
200 “only a dream”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 200.
200 “abduction did not take place”: Ibid., p. 273.
200 Maurice Masse account: Ibid., pp. 24-25; Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 83; Randles,
op. cit., pp. 36-38.
202 “secret weapon”: Gary Kinder, Light Years (New York: Pocket Books, 1987), p. 89.
202 Father Zimmermann: Ibid., p. 90.
202 Meier background: Ibid., pp. 92-96.
203 Semjase and Pleiadians: Ibid., pp. 98-99.
203 “still far removed from perfection”: Ibid., p. 17.
204 no open contact: Ibid., p. 65.
204 “one or a very few recipients”: James W. Deardorff, “Possible Extraterrestrial
Strategy for Earth,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomy Society 27 (1986),
p.99.
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205 Willy Bar: Kinder, op. cit, p. 207.

205 Martin Sorge: Ibid., pp. 260-63.
206 Eric Eliason: Ibid., pp. 273-74.
206 Dr. Michael Malin: Ibid., pp. 275-78.
207 Wally Gentleman: Ibid., p. 283.
207 Dr. Robert Nathan: Ibid., p. 281.
207 Lou Zinsstag: Ibid., p. 105.
208 Herbert Runkel and Harold Proch: Ibid., p. 42 and p. 49.
208 Englebert Wachter: Ibid., p. 70.
208 “eerie and grating noise”: Ibid., p. 21.
208 Steve Ambrose: Ibid., p. 240.
208 Marcel Vogel and triangle: Ibid., pp. 290-91.
209 “Vogel never recovered” triangle: Ibid., p. 292.
209 Brit Elders: Ibid., pp. 303-4.
209 “wasting my time”: Ibid., p. 305.
209 “evidence would be seen by few”: Ibid., p. 220.
210 Ground Saucer Watch; Ibid., pp. 229-30.
210 Lucius Farish: Ibid., pp. 235-36.
210 Lee Elders: Ibid., p. 237.
210 “genuine experiences”: Good (1993), p. 256,
210 “Finally I realized”: Kinder, op. cit., p. 306.
210 “they shall come to know”: Ibid., p. 215.
210 Meier’s “knowledge”: Randolph Winters, The Pleiadian Mission: A Time of
Awareness (Yorba Linda, CA: The Pleiades Project, 1994), pp. 64—74.
211 “beamship” technology: Kinder, op. cit., pp. 216-17.
211 Tom Welch: Ibid., pp. 217-18.
212 new major event in history: Winters, op. cit., p. vii.

CHAPTER EIGHT: Missing Time

213 “Mongoloid” people”: Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Affair (New York;
Bantam Books, 1980), p. 13.
214 help save the world: Ibid., p. 22.
214 “some parts missing”: Ibid., p. 43.
214 “lie very still”: Ibid., p. 52.
214 “I left this Earth”: Ibid., p. 80.
214 “powerful influences beyond her ken”: Ibid., p. 59.
215 “something white”: Ibid., p. 73.
215 “real white light”: Ibid., p. 83.
215 “Thank you for your Son”: Ibid., p. 87.
215 no symbol of modern Christianity: Ibid., p. 91.
215 “symbol of immortality”: Ibid., p. 93.
216 Man and greed: Fowler (1980), pp. 132-33.
216 seventy alien races: Ibid., pp. 137-38.
216 PSE results “conclusive”: Ibid., p. 211.
216 “hypnotic regression sessions”: Ibid., p. 9.
216 “interstellar missionaries”: Ibid., pp. 201-3.
216 Hynek quote: Ibid., p. ix.
217 UFO phenomenon is “not nonsense”: Ibid., p. x.
217 Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker account: Fowler (1979), pp. 307-8.
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217 Sheriff Fred Diamond and tape recorder: Ibid., pp. 40-41.
217 Dr. James Harder: Peebles, op. cit., p. 242.
217 “very real, frightening experience”: Randles, op. cit, p. 41.
217 Klass argued: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 243-44.
218 Hickson declined money: Spencer, op. cit, p. 240.
218 Travis Walton account: Travis Walton, The Walton Experience (New York:
Berkley Books, 1978); Randles, op. cit., pp. 44 -46; Brookesmith, op. cit.,
pp. 111-12.
218 C. E. Gilson and polygraph test: Peebles, op. cit, p. 275.
219 Dalis feared self-incrimination: Randles, op. cit., p. 45.
219 humanoids description: Walton, op. cit., p. 106.
220 John J. McCarthy: Peebles, op. cit, p. 276.
220 Jeff Wells: Ibid., pp. 276-77.
220 Travis and lie detector: Quendrith Johnson, “Tire in the Sky’ Inquiry,” UFO 8,
no. 3 (May/June 1993), p. 21.
220 Lamont McConnell and test: Good (1993), p. 85.
220 Dr. Jean Rosenbaum: Ibid.
220 Lester H. Steward: Peebles, op. cit., p. 387.
221 Klass and Forest Service contract: Ibid., pp. 279-80.
221 Dr. James Harder: Johnson, loc. cit., p. 21.
221 Tracy Torme: Ibid., p. 22.
221 “some real insight”: Ibid., p. 23.
222 “pitch black” eyes: Budd Hopkins, Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley
Woods (New York: Ballantine Books, 1987), p. 17.
222 description of child: Ibid., p. 223.
223 “the patterns exist”: Ibid., p. 235.
223 Dr. John Burger: Ibid., pp. 253-54.
223 two possible lines of explanations: Ibid., pp. 267-68.
223 Tomey medical history and comment: Peebles, op. cit., p. 388.
224 “similarities with science fiction”: Ibid., p. 287.
224 “profoundly alien quality”: Ibid., p. 286.
224 unknown prior to 1987: Randles, op. cit., p. 162.
224 “no overt memories”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 288.
224 anyone can provide a story: Ibid., p. 289.
224 abduction stories from kids: Vicki Cooper, “Studying ‘Anomalous
Experiences,’” UFO 6, no. 4 (July/August 1991), p. 16.
225 “abuses perpetrated”: Whitley Strieber, “Technique Out-of-Control,” UFO 2,
no. 4 (May/June 1989), p. 22.
225 “break fear-amnesia”: Ibid., p. 23.
225 “All testimony . . . affected”: Budd Hopkins, “One UFOlogists Methodology,”
UFO 2, no. 4 (May/June 1989), p. 27.
225 “borderline . .. abduction cases”: Ibid.
225 “screen memories”: Ibid., p. 28.
225 “hypnosis parallels . . . reporting”: John E. Mack, Abduction: Human Encounters
•with Aliens (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994), p. 430.
226 “extraordinary experience” as template: Ibid.
226 no way to convey emotional authenticity: Hopkins, Intruders, p. 176.
226 “We were amazed”: Fowler (1980), p. 32.
226 one more investigative tool: Ibid., p. 304.
226 Thompson on hypnosis: Thompson, op. cit., pp. 152-53.
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226 hypnotists are led: Dr. Thomas Bullard, “Hypnosis No ‘Truth Serum,’” UFO 4,
no. 4 (May/June 1989), p. 34.
226 potential for misuse undeniable: Ibid., p. 35.
226 “Clearly, hypnosis is not. . . foolproof”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 290.
227 “doubters ... create doubt”: Bullard, loc. cit., p. 35.
227 “it’s remarkable to me ... Richard Cutting, “Q&A: John Mack, M.D.,” UFO
9, no. 5 (September/October 1994), p. 26.
227 one young man troubled: Ibid.
227 They come . .. “at random”: Mack, op. cit., p. 4.
227 sexual abuse vs.... alien-related: Cutting, loc. cit., p. 28.
228 “concrete physical findings”: Mack, op. cit., p. 389-90.
228 no fetus disappeared: Ibid., p. 27.
228 “keep us ignorant”: Ibid., p. x.
228 entities from parallel universe: Cutting, loc. cit., p. 27.
228 Nicholas Spanos study: Thompson, op. cit., pp. 157-58.
229 Donna Bessett at CSICOP: Geoff Olson, “‘PSI-COPS’ Bite into Abduction
Claims,” UFO 9, no. 5 (September/October 1994), pp. 14-15.
229 Mack on Bessett: Cutting, loc. cit., p. 31.
229 Mack on Time: Ibid.
229 Daniel Sheehan on committee: Vicld Cooper, “Point Piece: Committee Targets
John Mack’s Work with Abductees,” UFO 10, no. 3 (May/June 1995), pp. 6 and 46.
229 Anne Taylor: Alex Beam, “Harvard Takes ‘No Adverse Action’ on UFO
Researcher,” Boston Globe, August 3, 1995, p. 1.
230 Arnold Reiman: Ibid., p. 22.
230 Strieber’s lie detector test: Ed Conroy, Report on Communion (New York:
William Morrow, 1989), p. 61.
231 Philippe Mora’s experience: Ibid., p. 210.
231 “We’ve won”: Author’s interview, Dallas, Texas, January 13, 1996.
231 family living by lake: Ibid.
232 “the crudest, nastiest”: Sean Casteel, “Q&A: Strieber Sounds Off,” UFO 8, no.
5 (September/October 1993), p. 21.
232 “I stayed away from all this”: Whitley Strieber talk, Unity Church, Dallas,
Texas, January 13, 1996.
232 “If this is ‘real’”; Djuna Wojton, “Whidey Strieber’s Journey Beyond Commu­
nion,” UFO Universe 1, no. 1 (July 1988), p. 66.
232 “The message is clear”: Whitley Strieber, Breakthrough: The Next Step (New
York: HarperCollins, 1995), p. 281.
232 “We can choose”: Strieber talk.
232 psychedelic visitors: Jefferson R. Weekley, “Denizens of the Psychedelic,” UFO
8, no. 4 (July/August 1993), pp. 33-34.
233 “I reached out and touched him”: Authors interview with Charlene Adams,
August 11, 1996.
234 “Oz factor”: Randles, op. cit., p. 16.
235 Fred Youngren: Fowler (1980), p. 225.
235 “human/alien hybrid offspring”: Mack, op. cit., p. 24.
236 battles between “good” and “evil”: Ibid., p. 26.
236 Independent witnessing “rare”: Ibid., p. 20.
236 Richard Price account: Vicki Cooper Ecker, “Alien Implants, Part I: State of the
Evidence,” UFO 11, no. 2 (March/April 1996), p. 18.
237 substances from “old trauma site”: Ibid., p. 21.
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237 Dr. Mack and twisted fiber: Mack, op. cit., p. 27.
237 Dr. Richard Neal’s study: Fowler (1990), p. 232.
237 “to monitor me”: Mack, op. cit., p. 111.
238 “alien monitoring device”: Fowler (1990), p. 55.
238 “cuts and small ulcers”: Mack, op. cit., p. 7.
238 “Scars have been observed”: Fowler (1990), p. 233.
238 no inflammatory cells and nerve cells: Vicki Ecker, loc. cit., p. 20.
239 “routing to the brain”: Ibid.
239 hemocyterin in membrane: Ibid.
239 stud finder stood on end: Ibid.
239 Derrel Sims and objects returned: Vicki Cooper Ecker, “Alien Implants, Part II:
Fate of the Evidence,” UFO 11, no. 3 (Alay/June 1996), p. 24.
239 keratin, green color, and “scant evidence”: Ibid., p. 26.
240 Budd Hopkins quotes: Ibid., pp. 27-28.
240 Linda Cortile account: Budd Hopkins, Witnessed (New York: Pocket Books,
1996); Randles, op. cit., pp. 132-35; Brookesmith, op. cit., pp. 136-37; “News
Notes: UFOologists Take Sides on Volatile ‘Linda Case,'” UFO 8, no. 1 (Jan-
uary/February 1993), p. 13.
242 “a geat deal of erroneous information”: Hopkins (1996), p. 389.
242 “... as for me”: Ibid., p. 389.
242 Linda’s retort to debunkers: Ibid., p. 381.
242 “most important in recorded history”: Ibid., p. xiii.
243 “manipulate the behavior”: Ibid., p. 376.
243 “complex breeding experiment”: Ibid., p. 378.
243 UFO pilot recruited: Authors interview with Lyn Buchanan, August 9, 1996.
246 1991 Roper poll: Mack, op. cit., p. 448; Dennis Stacy, “Millions of Americans
Abducted?” Fate 45, no. 9 (September 1992), pp. 60-61.
246 “more solid evidence”: Randles, op. cit., p. 104.
246 “five basic dimensions”: Mack, op. cit., pp. 28-29.
247 “All of these elements”: Fowler (1990), p. 353.
247 “These men and women are neither devoured”: Hopkins, op. cit., p. 277.
247 “It is possible”: Thompson, op. cit., p. 196.
247 “To me, it seems doubtful”: Ibid., p. 168.
247 “UFO abductions have to do ... ”: Mack, op. cit., p. 420.

CHAPTER NINE: Death from the Sky

248 Account of Lady’s death: Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evi
dence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms (Lit­
tleton, CO: Linda Moulton Howe Productions, 1989), pp. 1-2.
249 Dr. John Altshulert Ibid., pp. 3^4.
250 “an attempt to reconstruct history": Author’s interview' with Linda Howe,
August 7, 1996.
250 Sheriff C. G. Richards’s account: Cochran County Sheriff’s Department Offi­
cer’s Report, March 10, 1975, copy in author’s files.
251 Carl Whiteside on fear-. Bella Stumbo, “Cattle,” Los Angeles Tinies, wire report
LBYLOYYFRYYR (1975), p. 7.
251 CSU veterinary' pathology' lab. Daniel Kagan and Lin Summers, Mute Evidence
(New York: Bantam Books. 1983), pp. 78-79.
251 “little more than 5 percent”: Ibid.
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251 Manuel Gomez: Jim .Marrs, “Conference on Cattle Mutilations Gives No
Answers," Fort Worth Star-Telegram. April 26, 1979, p. 1-B.
251 Sheriff Ray Lee: Dorothy Aldridge, “Are Satan’s Phantom Killers Mutilating
Cattle?" Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. June 13, 1975, p. 3-B.
252 Sheriff George Yarnell: Howe interview, August 7, 1996.
252 Dorothy Aldridge: Dorothy Aldridge, “Do UFOs Fly in Colorado?" Colorado
Springs Gazette Telegraph. April 24, 1977.
252 Gabe Valdez: Marrs (1979), loc. cit., p. 1-B.
252 Arturo Padilla and creature: Associated Press wire story, “Night-Flying Crea­
ture Is Sighted in Valley,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram. January’ 10, 1976, p. 1-A.
253 Dr. Richard Thill: Jim Ivey, “Ranchers Fear Devil Cultists in Mutilations," Fort
Worth Star-Telegram. September 8, 1974.
253 Kenneth Bankston: Ed Sanders, “The Mutilation Mystery’," Oui. September
1976, pp. 52 and 92.
254 Carl Whiteside on cultists: Kagan and Summers, op. cit.. pp. 322-23,
255 Sen. Harrison Schmitt: Marrs (1979), loc. cit., p. 1-B.
256 Dr. James Prine and Dr. Clair Hibbs: Ibid.
256 U.S. Attorney R. E. Thompson: Ibid.
256 Capt. Keith Wolverton’s decision: Ibid.
257 Ken Rommel’s conclusion: Peebles, op. cit., pp. 264-65.
258 Carl Whiteside and valise: Kagan and Summers, op. cit., pp. 324-25.
259 1994 mutilations: Richard Benke, “Cattle Mutilations on Rise in Northern New
Mexico,” Albuquerque Journal, August 14, 1994, p. 4-G.
259 McKenzie mute: Jim Chandler, “Strange Case of Cattle Mutilation Discovered
Near McKenzie,” The McKenzie Banner. May 17, 1995, p. 3.
259 Undersheriff Kenny McKee: Telephone interview, May 30, 1996.
260 Alexander Hamilton: Flammonde, op. cit., pp. 113-14.
260 Hamilton and Liar’s Club: Clark, op. cit., p. 31.
261 Bill and Linda Dzuris: Howe (1989), pp. 72-73.
262 rancher sees calfnappers: Ibid., pp. 83-84.
262 “mutes .. . nonexistent”: Kagan and Summers, op. cit., p. 490.
262 “flying-saucer nut”: Ibid., p. 10.
262 Howe’s film: Ibid., p. 124.
263 Howe’s “real goal”: Ibid., p. 482.
263 Howe’s response: Author’s telephone interview, May* 31, 1996.
263 Tom Adams: Kagan and Summers, op. cit., p. 405.
264 Adams still has no opinion: Author’s telephone interview’, May 30, 1996.
264 “Once people had made the assumption": Kagan and Summers, op. cit., p. 491.
264 “The image one gets”: Peebles, op. cit., p. 269.
264 Myron Scott: Howe (1989), op cit., p. 85.
265 Leslie Weisenhom and Howe’s comment: Author’s interviews, May 31, 1996.
266 Judy’ Doraty account: Howe (1989), pp. 48-58.
268 phenomenon is cloaked: Ralph Steiner, “Linda Moulton Howe: The ‘Alien
Harvest’ and Beyond,” ed. Lindemann, op. cit., p. 67.
268 Dr. Henry Monteith: Good (1993), p. 55,
268 “Overall, the strange characteristics”: Steiner, loc. cit., p. 63.
268 “I am convinced”: Howe (1989), op. cit., p. 224
269 taken to Kirtland AFB: Ibid., pp. 80-81.
269 James Womack and cow chromosomes: United Press International wire story,
“Bovine Beasts, Humans Share ‘Perfect March’ Chromosomes,” Texarkana
Gazette, February' 27, 1984.
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270 parallel between mutilations and abductions: Steiner, loc. cit., p. 69.
270 Puerto Rico deaths: Scott Corrales, “Close Encounters with Puerto Rico’s Chu-
pacabras,” UFO Sightings 4, no. 2 (summer 1996), pp. 24-26.
271 Mayor Jose Soto: Fernando Del Valle, “‘Goat Sucker’ Fears Sweep South
Texas,” Dallas Morning News, May 7, 1996, p. 13 A.
271 Mexico fear: Washington Post, “Blood-Sucking Goat Killer Has All of Mexico
Talking,” Des Moines Register, May 13, 1996, p. 1.
272 “collective psychosis”: Ibid.
272 Sylvia Ybarra, Maria and Steve Edelstein: Del Valle, loc. cit.

CHAPTER TEN: Going in Circles

273 Joyce Bowles quote: Good (1988), p. 71.
274 Mr. Hart and pigmies: R. M. Skinner, “A Seven teen th-Century Report of an
Encounter with an Ionized Vortex?” Journal of Meteorology, November 1990,
p. 346.
274 Simon Brown: Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews, Circular Evidence: A Detailed
Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon (Grand Rapids, Ml:
Phanes Press, 1989), p. 37.
274 Gordon Sparkes and Evan Scurclock: Delgado and Andrews, op. cit., pp. 55-56.
275 “Greater Wessex from the air”: Charles Thomas, “Magnetic Anomalies,” The
Cer eulogist, no. 5 (Winter 1991/2), p. 10.
275 Tim Simpson and Maj. William Hill: Brookesmith, op. cit., p. 160.
275 “UFO nests”: Ibid.
277 “mechanically precise”: Delgado and Andrew, op. cit., p. 132.
277 “From the evidence we have”: Ibid., p. 156.
277 “... some plants are pulled up”: Ibid., p. 158.
277 “... we know some circles”: Ibid., p. 121.
278 combing: Vince Migliore, “Crop Circle ‘Evolution,’” UFO 6, no. 5 (September/
October 1991), p. 18.
278 “no limit to the complication”: Delgado and Andrews, op. cit., pp. 127-28.
278 Donald Cyr and “whistlegram”: ed. Donald L. Cyr, Crop Circle Secrets-Part Two:
America's First Crop Czrr/c (Santa Barbara, CA: Stonehenge Viewpoint, 1992), p. 7.
279 “hurricane vortex action”: Spencer, op. cit., p. 73.
280 “numerous inconsistencies”: Delgado and .Andrews, op. cit., p. 12.
280 intelligent teasing: Sean Devney, “The Circles: England’s Greatest Unsolved
Mystery,” UFO Universe 1, no. 5 (July' 1990), p. 32.
280 “It is very sobering”: Ibid., p. 158.
281 “appropriate measures” and “disinformation”: George Wingfield, “The Doug
’N’ Dave Scam,” 77?r Cerealogist, no. 5 (winter 1991/2), p. 5
281 Today headline and copy: Ibid., p. 3.
282 Blackbird hoax: Howe (1993), p. 27.
282 “accepted at face value”: Ibid.
282 four hundred in 1989: Jon Erik Beckjord, “The English ‘Circles’ Mystery,”
UFO 5, no. 6 (Novembcr/Deccmber 1990), p. 10.
282 “nearly a thousand”: Migliore, loc. cit., p. 21.
282 “circle-making SWAT team”: Michael Strainic, “Canada’s Wave of Circles,”
UFO 6, no. 6 (November/Dccemher 1991), p. 7.
283 Julie Varden and toilet discharge: Wingfield, loc. cit., p. 6.
283 “meteorites”: Ibid.
284 “reeling on the ropes”: Ibid., p. 5.
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284 guys couldn’t come up with the answers: Vicki Cooper, “NEWS: Experts Assail
Brits’ Hoax Claims,” UFO 6, no. 6 (November/December 1991), p. 6.
284 MBF owns copyright: Wingfield, loc. cit., p. 5.
285 “bogus private news agency”: Ibid.
285 “debunking campaign” and CIA: Pat Delgado, “LETTERS: Claimed Hoaxing
of Crop Circles,” The Cerealogist, no. 5 (winter 1991/2), p. 24.
286 “who finances these trips?”: Wingfield, loc. cit., p. 6.
286 a trick by two old jokers: Ibid.
286 major disinformation campaign: Cooper, loc. cit., p. 7.
286 Doug and Dave in Percy Hobbs Pub: Carl Sagan, “Crop Circles and Aliens:
What’s the Evidence?” Parade (December 3, 1995), p. 12-13.
287 “official doctrine”: John Michell, “Editorial Notes,” The Cerealogist, no. 5 (Win­
ter 1991/2), p. 2.
287 magnetic disturbances: Charles Thomas, loc. cit.
287 cell pit changes: Howe (1993), p. 45.
288 “no way a hoxer can do this”: Ibid., p. 47.
288 Joe Rennick, Chad Deetken and porcupine: Ibid., pp. 67-68.
288 “Forty-five percent is astonishing”: Ibid., p. 49.
288 Bruce Rideout and splitting: Ibid., pp. 50-51.
289 unnatural radioactive isotopes: Marshall Dudley and Michael Chorost, “The
Discovery of Thirteen Short-lived Radionuclides in Soil Samples in an English
Crop Circle,” The Cerealogist, no. 5 (winter 1991/2), p. 25.
289 biochemistry of plants affected: Ibid., pp. 51 and 83.
289 George Wingfield and Barbury Castle: Ibid., pp. 4-5.
289 UFOs manipulate rotary force field: Delgado and Andrews, op. cit., p. 168.
290 Archie Roy: Howe (1993), p. 4.
290 “A ratio in the diatonic scale”: Howe (1993), p. 54; Editors, “Crop Circles: The­
orems in Wheat Fields,” Science News 150, no. 15 (October 12, 1996), p. 239.
290 “accuracy required”: Ibid., p. 55.
291 Stonehenge approach: Ivars Peterson, “Euclid’s Crop Circles,” Science News
141, no. 5 (February 1992), p. 77.
291 Euclidean geometry and letter: Ibid, and p. 76.
291 “intricate information conveyed”: Howe (1993), p. 58.
291 Bryce Bond: Migliore, loc. cit., p. 24.
292 “borderland” quagmire or mother lode: Ibid., p. 22.
292 audible oddities: Ibid.
292 Dr. Wilhelm Reich: David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, “Gallery of
Important Persons in the History of Sex,” The People's Almanac, ed. Ed Rehmus
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), pp. 1002-3.
292 Tifinag Norse messages: Jon Erik Beckjord, “UFOs Did It: ‘Decoding’ the
Agriglyphs,” UFO 6, no. 5 (September/October 1991), p. 26.
293 “the latest such fruitless effort”: Dennis Stacy, “Counterpoint: A Faulty Transla­
tion,” UFO 6, no. 5 (September/October 1991), pp. 27-28.
293 fairies, pixies, and elves: Peter Hewitt, “A ‘Question of Psychology’: Cosmic
Graffiti,” UFO 6, no. 5 (September/October 1991), pp. 31-33.
293 “The Circles are saying”: Dennis Stacy, “Crop Circles: Brief History and
Overview,” MUFON 1991 International UFO Symposium Proceedings (Versailles,
MO: 1991), p. 290.
293 “a promise from God”: Migliore, loc. cit., p. 24.
294 circle done in half hour: Andy Thomas, “Fields of Dreams. A Breathtaking
Phenomenon,” Sightings, no. 5 (fall 1996), p. 17,
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: In the Mind’s Eye

296 “it’s a flying saucer”: Blum, op. cit., pp. 37-38.
296 Project Aquarius: Ibid., p. 39.
297 “Prophets formed guilds”: Trent C. Butler, gen. ed., Holman Bible Dictionary
(Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 1991), p. 1142.
297 Deborah: Judges 4:4-16.
297 Saint Paul: 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 (Living Bible edition).
298 Croesus: Richard S. Broughton, Parapsychology: The Controversial Science (New
York: Ballantine Books, 1991), pp. 50-51.
298 Joan of Arc: Justine Glass, They Foresaw the Future: The Story of Fulfilled Prophecy
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969), p. 96-98.
299 Nostradamus’s method: Centuries: Erika Cheetham, The Prophecies of Nos­
tradamus (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), pp. 20-21.
299 Charles Richet: Broughton, op. cit., pp. 64-65.
299 J. B. and Louisa Rhine: Ibid., pp. 66-68.
299 Harvard textbook: Ibid., p. 72.
300 “a consistent outline”: Louisa E. Rhine, ESP in Life and Lab: Tracing Hidden
Channels (New York: Macmillan, 1967), p. 267.
300 “consistent, reliable effects”: Broughton, op. cit., p. 296.
300 Backster’s conclusion: Backster: Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret
Life of Plants (New York: Avon Books, 1973), p. 27.
301 Printing on paper and light out: Ingo Swann, To Kiss Earth Goodbye (New York:
Dell Publishing, 1975), pp. 135-36.
301 “remote viewing” term coined: Authors interviews with Ingo Swann, August
27-28, 1993; Ingo Swann, “On Remote-Viewing, UFOs, and Extraterrestrials,”
Fate 46, no. 9 (September 1993), p. 75.
302 “most severely monitored .. . experiment”: Ronald M. McRae, Mind Wirs: The
True Story of Government Research into the Military Potential of Psychic Weapons
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), p. 99.
302 Lake Victoria: Swann interviews.
303 CIA u'ants experiments: H. E. Puthoff, “CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Pro­
gram at Stanford Research Institute,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 10, no. 1
(1996), p. 65.
303 Gen. Edmund Thompson: Jim Schnabel, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi,” Indepen­
dent on Sunday, August 27, 1995, p. 11.
304 CLA-commissioned report: Michael D. Mumford, Andrew M. Rose and David
A. Goslin, “An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications,”
prepared by the American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995,
pp. 5-1, 5-4, and 5-3.
304 “unequivocal evidence”: Puthoff (1996), loc. cit., p. 76.
305 Pioneer 10 bypass noted: Swann, op. cit., p. 149.
305 Swanns description of Jupiter: B. Humphrey, “Swann’s Remote Viewing
Probe of Jupiter,” SRI International Report (Menlo Park, CA, March 17,
1980).
306 “no definite evaluation”: Targ and Puthoff, op. cit., pp. 210-11.
306 “The most unexpected phenomenon”: Time, March 19, 1979, p. 87.
306 Ingo to Mercury; Targ and Puthoff, op. cit., p. 211; Swann interviews.
307 “a dull world”: “Science News of the Week: The Strange and Cratered World
of Mercury,” Science News 105 (April 6, 1974), p. 220.
308 world has an atmosphere”: Ibid., pp. 221-22.
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308 “a complete surprise”: “Science News of the Week: Mercury’s .Magnetism

Is Its Own," Science News 107 (March 29, 1975), p. 188.
309 12 species of extraterrestrials: PSI TECH report entitled, “Final
Project Report: Enigma Penetration: Crop Circles,” June 1992, p. 2.
309 “flight school”: Author’s interview with Lyn Buchanan, August 9, 1996.
310 “Two different devices”: PSI TECH report, loc. cit., pp. 3-6.
310 David Morehouse: Author’s interviews, 1993 and 1996.
310 Lyn Buchanan: Author’s interviews, 1993 and 1996.
311 Mel Riley: Author’s interview; 1993 and 1996.
311 “It just works that way”: Authors interview with Linda Anderson,
December 3, 1993.
312 golden giants on thrones: Morehouse interview; August 29, 1993.
314 ozone: PSI TECH report entitled “Atmospheric Ozone Depletion—Projected
Consequences and Remedial Technologies,” February 24, 1992; viewer’s notes
including sketches.
315 reintroduce life to environment: Buchanan interview’s
316 “intergalactic boat people”: Morehouse interviews.
317 “part of the overall cosmos”: Riley interviews.
317 Mars Observer: William J. Cook, “The Invasion of Mars,” U.S. News &
World Report, August 23, 1993, pp. 50-59.
318 Phobos 11: Final Report, “Enigma Penetration: Soviet Phobos II Space
Craft Imaged Anomaly,” PSI TECH (September 29, 1991), pp. 1-2.
319 Swann cautions: Vicki Cooper, “The Business of Remote Viewing,” UFO 8,
no.
3 (1993) p. 27.
319 Dunayev: Patrick Huyghe, “Martian Mystery: Is the Red Planet Host
to a Third Lunar Body or UFOs?” Omni, May 1993, p. 79.
319 Marina Popovich: Jack Vlots, “Soviet Photo of a UFO Near Mars,” San
Fran­ cisco Chronicle, December 7, 1991.
320 “Several theories”: Huyghe, loc. cit.
320 Weather satellite missing: Associated Press, “New Weather Satellite Lost,”
Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1993.
321 Col. Frank Stirling: Ben lannotta, “Titan 4 Motor Is Prime Suspect,”
Space News, August 23-29, 1993, p. 1.
321 orbiting devices: Author’s interview with George G. Byers, May 19, 1994,
and September 12, 1996.
321 Earth embargo: James W. Deardorff, “Possible Extraterrestrial Strategy
for Earth,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomy Society 27 (1986), p. 94.
322 “system of intergalactic ethics”: Lance Morrow, “Is There Life in
Outer Space?” Time, February 5, 1996, p. 51.
323 New Mexico site: George D. Hathaway, “Report on Preliminary
Invesigations of Anomalous Phenomena in Western New’ Mexico,” prepared
by Hathaway Consulting Services, Toronto, Canada, November 30, 1991, p. 10.
324 Second visit: George D. Hathaway, “MJ5 Trip Summary Report Western
New Mexico Site #1: May 12, 13 & 14, 1992,” prepared by Hathaway
Consulting Services, Toronto, Canada, June 26, 1992, p. 13.
325 Martians on Earth: Internal correspondence, PSI TECH, Inc.,
“Long-term Study: A Martian Civilization,” September 23, 1991, pp. 1-2;
author’s inter­ view's.
326 “There are Martians on Earth”: Courtney Brown, Cosmic Voyage: A
Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth (New York: Dutton, 1996),
pp. 68-69.
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326 Face-to-face with Martian: George Byers interviews.

327 “subsurface habitats”: Christopher P. McKay, “Did Mars Once Have Mar­
tians?” Astronomy, September 1993, pp. 28 and 33.
327 NASAs Daniel S. Goldin: John Noble Wilford, “Clues in Meteorite Seem to
Show Signs of Life on Mars Long Ago,” New York Times, August 7, 1996, p. 1.
327 “bacteria boondoggle”: Traci Watson, “The Martian Chronicles,” U.S. News &
World Report, August 19, 1996, p. 48.
327 Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould: David Colton, “Discovery Would Equal
Finding the New World,” US'.4 Today, August 7, 1996, p. 1A.
328 lan Barbour, Jerry Falwell, and Kim Stanley Robinson: Ibid.
329 “We want the face to face”: J. Antonio Huneeus, “UFO Chronicle,” Fate 46,
no. 9 (September 1993), p. 32.
329 “Feedbackless Science”: Ingo Swann, “On Re mote-Vie wing, UFOs and
Extraterrestrials,” Fate 46, no. 9 (September 1993), p. 80.
329 the need for feedback: Ibid., p. 79.
329 Joe McMoneagle on Dames: Michael Miley, “Remote Viewing and Alien Tar­
gets: Room with an (Alien) View,” UFO 11, no. 3 (May/June 1996), p. 40.
329 Miley’s summation: Ibid., p. 41.
330 “space cowboys”: Ibid., p. 42.
330 “Galactic Federation Headquarters”: Mel Riley, “Remote Viewing Session
Summary7,” January 13, 1988; author’s interviews.
332 “Confederation Headquarters”: Author’s interview with Ray Bordon, April 17,
1996.
333 “opted to remain anonymous”: Letter of Transmittal from American Associa­
tion of Remote Viewers, September 4, 1996.
333 UFO descriptions: A. R. Bordon, Project Officer, UFOs and Alien Agenda (Dal­
las: American Association of Remote Viewers, Inc., 1996), p. 6.
334 technology’: Ibid., pp. 6-7.
334 technology' in government hands: Ibid., pp. 7-8.
335 box-like laptop: Ibid., p. 8.
335 numerous alien contacts: Ibid., pp. 9-10.
335 three abductees: Ibid., p. 9.
335 “millions”: Ibid., p. 10.
336 adoption of technology7: Ibid., pp. 12-13.
336 craft in hangar and cave: Ibid., p. 7.
336 President Clinton: Ibid., p. 12.
336 weapon on seashore: Ibid., p. 13.
337 “parade of aliens”: Ibid.
337 “humungous dude”: Ibid.
337 “white pyramid”: Ibid., p. 14.
338 “shut out of the loop”: Ibid., p. 15.
338 planet “wreaks havoc”: Ibid.
338 “training exercise”: Ibid., p. 17.
339 “not exactly good”: Ibid.
339 “remnant energy beings”: Ibid.
340 1890s writer: Ibid., pp. 21-22.
340 Germans: Ibid., p. 22.
340 one “like praying mantis”: Ibid., p. 25.
340 Eisenhower meeting: Ibid., pp. 20-21
343 hologram; Ibid., p. 23.
 422 SOURCES

343 “grand meeting place'1: Ibid., p. 26.

343 “energizer": Ibid., p. 27.
344 “just like cops”: Ibid., pp. 27-28.
344 “guerrilla war": Ibid., p. 28.
344 “a whole armada": Ibid.
345 “two dogs fighting”: Ibid., p. 29.
345 “billions of gowns”: Ibid.
346 “low humming sound”: Ibid., p. 30.
346 “separation is unnatural”: Ibid., p. 31.

CHAPTER TWELVE: A Metaphysical Exam

349 “a histoneal example”: Dr. Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Con­
tact (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), p. 173.
349 “The final ‘miracle’”: Ibid., p. 178.
349 major differences with LIFOs: Nelson S. Pacheco and Tommy R. Blann,
Unmasking the Enemy: Visions and Deception in the End Tinies (Arlington, VA:
Bendan Press, 1994), p. 103.
350 “communicating ... symbolically": Vallee (1988), p. 257.
350 “a profound challenge”: Ibid., p. x.
350 “ancient tradition of little people”: Jacques Vallee, Revelations: Alien Contact and
Human Deception (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991), p. 275.
350 “demonic, angelic or simply alien”: Vallee (1988), p. 32.
350 “a backdrop to the religion”: Randles, op. cit., p. 7.
350 “a grave mistake”: Vallee (1988), p. 65.
351 “scholars left hooks”: Ibid., p. 64.
351 “cross-cultural study”: Thompson, op. cit., p. 12.
351 “worldwide myth”: Vallee (1988), p. 99.
351 “folklore in the making”: Ibid., p. 146.
351 “undiscovered dimensions”; Ibid., p. 203.
351 “real physical objects”: Ibid., pp. xiii-xiv.
352 “mass, inertia, volume”: Ibid., p. 202.
352 UFO traits: Ibid , pp 159—60.
352 “too simple-minded”: Ibid., p. 158.
352 John Keel: Clifford Wilson, The Alien Agenda (New York: Signet Books, 1988),
p. 159.
353 “spiritual control system": Ibid., pp. 246-47.
353 “schedule of reinforcement”: Ibid., p. 245.
353 Luntz Research poll: Editors, “What Does America Believe?” George, Decem­
ber 1996, pp. 114-17.
354 “intriguing anthropological finds”: Editors, The New Encyclopedia Britannica, vol.
11, 15th ed. (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1991), p. 569,
354 war as social control; Bramley, op. cit,, p. 3.
354 third-party manipulation: Ibid.
355 “utterly bizarre realities”: Ibid., p. 4.
355 humans as “slave race”: Ibid., p. 37.
355 “we’re property”. Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort (New York: Henry-
Holt, 1941), p. 163.
355 Dr. Fred Hoyle: Otto O. Binder, “UFO’s ‘Own’ Earth and All Mankind!” Saga,
December 1971, p. 36.
 SOURCES 423

356 “A glowing UFO”: Miller, op. cit., Prologue, p. 8.

357 “attempting to reach as many people as they could”: Ibid., p. 15.
357 energy in space: Ibid., p. 22.
357 one bulb boils seas: Owen Davies, “Volatile Vacuums,” OMNI (February’ 1991), p.
54.
357 “Rosetta stone”: Ibid., p. 50.
358 world leaders informed: Miller, op. cit., p. 6.
358 “the thought of our Divine One”: Ibid., p. 78.
358 Cayce uncannily accurate: David Wall echinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wal­
lace, The Book of Predictions (New’ York: Bantam Books, 1981), p. 371.
358 “Mayan experience”: Author’s interview with Rob Grant, Research and Devel­
opment, Association for Research and Enlightenment, September 3, 1996.
359 Man’s origin as spirit: Edgar Evans Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis (New York:
Paperback Library’, 1968), p. 82.
“speaking for Seth”: Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks (New York: Bantam Books, 1972),
p. vii.
359 “multidimensional personalities”: Ibid., p. 459.
359 “an illusion”: Ibid., p. 41.
359 like an onion or orange: Ibid., p. 13.
359 “poor for a day”: Ibid., p. 485.
360 “Consciousness creates form”: Ibid., p. 5.
360 “divinely-inspired computer”: Ibid., p. 40.
360 “visitors from other realities”: Ibid., p. 473.
360 God as Tao: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Messages front Michael (New York: Berkley
Books, 1980), p. 23.
361 “pandimensional universe”: Ibid., p. 208.
361 entities fragment: Ibid., p. 65.
361 test tubes in ocean: Ibid., p. 64.
361 “Blind faith eliminates understanding”: Ibid., p. 51.
361 “two such species”: Ibid., p. 268.
362 information doubles: Bob Frissell, Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly
How Things Are (Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 1994), p. 10.
363“musical scale”: Ibid., pp. 21-22.
363 whales and dolphins: Ibid., p. 46.
363 “every’one will make it”: Ibid., p. 171.
363 “what Jesus meant”: Ibid., p. 173.
364 “X-ray sensors off Lite scale”: Editors, Science News 102, no. 8 (August 19, 1972), p,
119.
364 “extraterrestrials regularly visit”: Ibid., pp. 19-20.
365 “secret government”: Ibid., p. 165.
365 they need love: Ibid., p. 168.
366 the local universe of Nebadon: The Urantia Book (Chicago, IL: Urantia Foundation,
1955), p. 1.
366 “we are in him”: Ibid., p. 196.
367 “the occult": Pacheco and Blann, op. cit., p. 28.
367 separate physical from spiritual: Ibid., p. 39.
367 “end of world”: Ibid., p. 364.
368 “campaign of deception”: Ibid., p. 9.
368 “UFOs represent demon activity ”: John Weldon with Zola Levitt, UFOs: IChat on
Earth Is Happening? (Irvine, CA: 1 larvest House Publishers, 1975), p. 23.
 424 SOURCES

368 “heavenly super-car”: Clifford Wilson, op. cit., pp. 208-9.

368 “author of terror”: Ibid., p. 227.
368 “special relationship with God”: Paul Davies, “The Harmony of the Spheres,”
Time, February 5, 1996, p. 58.
368 “both good and evil manifestations”: Pacheco and Blann, op. cit., p. 63.
369 “the best approach”: Pacheco and Blann, op. cit., p. 63.
369 “playing into his hands”: Weldon and Levitt, op. cit., p. 15.
369 projecting subjective reality: Author’s interview with Whitley Strieber, January
13, 1996.
369 Rev. James A. Wiseman: Bill Broadway, “What Life on Mars Could Mean,”
Portland Press Herald, August 17, 1996, p. 1C.
370 Stanley Hauerwas: Ibid.
370 James Leo Garrett: Ibid.
370 Burton Visotzky and Fathi Osman: Ibid., p. 2C.
370 Alexander Wolszczan: Traci Watson, “Astronomy: A Big Find, No Kidding,”
U.S. News fa World Report, May 2, 1994, p. 12.
370 Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler: Michael D. Lemonick, “Astronomers Have
Detected Water-Bearing Planets Around Nearby Stars,” Time, February 5,
1996, p. 53.
371 “aliens”: Watson, loc. cit., p. 12.
371 “bubbles in a cosmic froth”: William F. Allman, “Alternative Realities: Beyond
the Top Quark Lies a Bizarre New Realm of Theoretical Physics,” U.S. News fa
World Report, May 9, 1994, p. 59.

APPENDIX: Take Me to Your Leader

380 Zbigniew Brzezinski: Hedrick P. Smith, “Brzezinski Says Critics Are Irked by
His Accuracy,” New York Times, January 18, 1981, p. L3.
380 Franklin D. Roosevelt: A. Ralph Epperson, The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to
the Conspiratorial View of History (Tucson, AZ: Publius Press, 1985), p. 7.
380 The coup of 1934: Higham, op. cit., pp. 163-64; also see Jules Archer, The Plot
to Seize the White House (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1973).
381 “Disney” version: Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, Fifty Greatest Conspiracies
of All Time (New York: Citadel Press, 1995), p. xii.
382 Marco Polo and fiat money: G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island:
A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Westlake Village, CA: American Media,
1994), p. 156.
383 “money illusion”: William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve
Runs the Country (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 228.
383 “independent department”: Ibid., p. 49.
384 Thomas Jefferson: Martin A. Larson, The Essence ofleffierson (New York: Joseph
J. Binns, 1977), p. 196.
384 Alexander Hamilton: Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (New
York: Harper & Row, 1980), p. 100.
384 Rothschilds’ power: Griffin, op. cit., p. 331.
385 “five objectives”: Ibid., p. 23.
385 Frank Vanderlip: Ibid., p. 464.
385 prophecy: Ibid., p. 60.
385 “opposed them and thwarted them”: Greider, op. cit., p. 11.
386 “crucial anomaly”: Ibid., p. 12.
 SOURCES 425

386 Wright Patman: Epperson, op. cit., p. 174.

386 Charles Lindbergh: Ibid., p. 173.
386 Louis McFadden: James Perloff, The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign
Relations and the American Decline (Appleton, WS: Western Islands, 1988), pp.
23-24.
386 1963 publication and Epperson’s comment: Epperson, op. cit., p. 173.
386 abolition of the Fed: Griffin, op. cit., p. iii.
387 “The ... mechanism”: Ibid., p. 207.
387 “too esoteric for ordinary citizens”: Greider, op. cit., p. 12.
387 Fed as religious institution: Ibid., p. 53.
387 the result is massive debt: William Bramley, The Gods of Eden (San Jose, CA:
Dahlin Family Press, 1989), p. 432.
388 unequal distribution of wealth: Ibid., p. 39.
388 Census Bureau statistics: Editors, “Inequality: Still on the Rise,” U.S. News &
World Report, July 1, 1996, p. 15.
388 “interlocking directorates”: Wallechinsky and Wallace (1975), p. 464.
388 interconnected stock: Milton Moskowitz, “If Banks Own It All, Who Owns the
Banks?” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 28, 1978, p. 5b,
389 top ten censored stories: Editors, “Unfit to Print,” Utne Reader (July-August
1996), p. 22.
390 “no radical thinkers”: Greider, op. cit., p. 73.
390 unofficial “fraternity’”: Ibid.
391 “secret society”: Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment: From
Rhodes to Cliveden (New York: Books in Focus, 1981), p. ix.
391 “international Anglophile network”: Carroll Quigley, The World Since 1939: A
History (New York: Macmillan, 1968), p. 290.
391 “The chief backbone”: Ibid., p. 291-92.
392 first Clinton administration and CFR: Annual Report, 1991-91, Council on
Foreign Relations, New York City.
392 Prince Bernhard: Epperson, op. cit., p. 206.
392 Jack Sheinkman: Trisha Katson, “Some U.S. Bilderbergs Break Silence,” 72>e
Spotlight 22, no. 25 (June 24, 1996), p. 1.
393 William F. Buckley Jr. and Paul Gigot: Ibid., p. 4.
393 energy’ as “social need”: Barry Commoner, The Poverty of Power: Energy and the
Economic Crisis (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976), p. 238.
393 “wide open insane asylum”: Don Kelly, “Successful Devices at Hand: Update
on Tree Energy,”’ UFO 6, no. 3 (May/June 1991), p. 27.
394 Laurance Rockefeller and BSW: Editors, “Point Piece: ‘Elite’ Foundation
Launches UFO Project,” UFO 10, no. 1 (January/February 1995), p. 6.
 INDEX

ABC, 220 American Institute of Aeronautics and

Abduction stories, 213—47. 266-70
Astronautics (AIAA), 154
Abraham, 36-37 Ancient world, 27-59; see also Egypt;
Abramov, Alexander, 16 Greece; Roman Empire
Acuff. John L., 160 Andreasson. Betty, 146. 149.213-17, 234.
Adams. Charlene. 233-34
235.237-38.296
Adams. Tom, 263-64 Andrews, Colin, 280, 282. 283, 284
Adamski, George, 190-93, 194
Angelucci. Orfeo. 195
Aerial Phenomena Group, 129 Animal mutilations, 248-65. 270-72
Aerial Phenomena Research Organizations Antarctica, 46-47, 48, 75-76, 328
(APRO), 111 Antikythera Mechanism, 42-43. 53
Aerospace Defense Command (ADC), Apollo missions. 1. 3. 5. 6-7, 16—17. 18-20.
168 25
Air Force Intelligence Service (AFS), Area 51, 176-79,210
168-69 Argone National Laboratory, 7
Air Force Office of Special Investigations Aristotle. 11
(AFOSI). 111. 169 Armstrong, Mary Louise, 150-52
Air Force Regulation (AFR) 200-2, 127 Armstrong, Neil. 18, 24
Air Research and Development Command Army Ordnance Research. 137, 138
(ARDC), 137 Arnold, Kenneth, 80-85. 86, 87, 88. 99,
Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), 138,189
126. 136-37, 157. 158 Asimov, Isaac, 8, 9
Aldrin, Edwin (“Buzz”). 18 Associated Press, 7. 64, 141,259. 282, 320
Aldrich,Jan, 88 Association of Lunar and Planetary
Aldrich. Nelson, 384-85 Observers. 14
Alexander the Great. 47 Assyria. 28. 30
Allen, P.. 12 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 138
Altshuler, John Henry. 249 ATIC. see Air Technical Intelligence
Alvarez. Luis W.. 54 Center
Ambrose, David, 173, 174 Atlantis. 55-56, 357
Ambrose, Steve, 208 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 86
American Association for the Advancement Atwater, Gordon, 28
of Science (AAAS). 155-56 A viation Week & Space Technology
American Association of Remote Viewers. (magazine), 177. 178
Inc.. 332-33 AVRO Ltd., 77-78. 87
American Institute for Research. 304 Aztecs. 29
 INDEX 427

Babylonia. 30, 33, 45, 56-57 Brown. Simon, 274

Backster. Cleve. 300 Brzezinski. Zbigniew, 380
Bagby, John P.. 140 Buache, Philippe. 48
Baker, Jerrold E., 192 Buchanan. Lyn, £43—46, 309-11, 315, 317.
Bak’Ti, 58 369
Bankston. A. Kenneth. 253, 254 Buckley. William F.. Jr., 393
Barbour. Ian. 328 Bullard, Thomas, 226. 227
Barclay, John. 189 Bureau of Land Management, 177
Barker. Gray, 193 Burger, John. 223
Barnett, Grady L. (“Barney”), 89. 91 Burroughs, John. 162—63
Barrett. Jeremy G.. 230 Bush, Vannevar, 108-9. 110, 115, 116.121
Barron. John D.. 12 Bustinza, Adrian. 163
Basi ago, Andrew, 186 Butler. Paul. 370
Battelle Memorial Institute. 157. 158 Butler, Smedley. 381
Bauval. Robert. 53-54 Byers. George, 321,326
BBC, 77. 174,282 Byrd, Richard, 75—76
Bean. Alan, 18
Beckjord, Jon Erik, 292-93 Cabell, Charles P„ 105
Bellamy, H. S„ 12 Caffereta, Patty. 179
Belluzzo, Giuseppe, 67 Cameron. Grant. 119
Bennewitz. Paul, 111-12, 182 Cargo cult, 34—35
Bentwaters case (1980). 162-66 Carlucci. Frank. 178
Berkner, Lloyd V.. 110. 115, 132 Carroll. Joseph, 178
Berlitz. Charles. 110 Casey, William, 178
Bessett, Donna. 228-29 Cash. Betty, 182—83
Bethurum, Truman. 195 Cayce. Edgar, 358-59. 364
Bible. 35—40. 57. 188-89, 214. 297. CBS. 143
368-69,370 Center for North American Crop Circle
Bilderbergers. 392-93 Studies, 308-9
Binder. Otto, 20 Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). 216
Birdsall, Mark, 76-77 Central Intelligence Agency (CTA), 25. 78,
Bitzer, Barry7, 97-98 86, 99. 110, 112. 122, 123,131-37.
Blair, William. 16 143. 156, 167, 168, 175, 179. 194.
Bland. Tommy. 119-20 264,302-3,375
Blann. Tommy R.. 349. 367, 368-69 Chadwick. Dennis. 124—25
Blaschke. Hugo, 71 Chandler. Jerry, 259
Bloch. Arthur, 28 Chatelain. Maurice, 20-21. 24, 29, 35, 49,
Bloom. Gene L., 192 53,54.59
Blue Berets Rapid Deployment Inter­ Chavez, M. S.. 145
Service Forces, 168 Cheops, 16. 50-52
Blum. Howard. 118-19, 295 Chester, Keith, 158
Blumrich, Josef F., 39-40 Childress, David Hatcher, 77
Bond. Bryce, 291 China. 33,40-41,46.383
Bordon. Ray. 331 -32 Chi Pu Tei. 33
Bormann. Martin. 71-73. 74. 75 Chop, Al, 133-34
Bower. Doug. 281-87. 291 Chorley. Dave, 281-87, 291
Bowles, Joyce, 273 Chorost, Michael. 289, 294
Boylan. Richard, 228 Chu Ming Chen, 33
Bramley. William, 55. 354-55, 387-88 Chupncabra, 270-72
Brazel, William (“Mac”). 89. 92. 94, 95 Circle Effects Research (CERES). 280
Brazell. Ken, 176 Civilian Aeronautics Authority, 130
British Museum, London. 44, 45 Clark, Jerome, 260
Bronk. Dctlev, 109, 115 Clarke, Arthur C.. 43
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 158 Clay, Ron, 185
Brookings Institution, 22, 374 Clemence, G. M„ 139
Brooks, Overton, 143-44 Clementine (spacecraft), 25-26
Brough, Graham, 284 Clifford. Andrew Breech, 284-85
Broughton. Richard S.. 300 Clinton, Bill. 336. 392
Brown. Courtney, 326, 329 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film).
Brown, Frank M.. 82. 83-84 222,379
Brown. Harold D., 150 Club of Earth. 173
 428 INDEX

Coleman, William, 159 Doenitz, Karl. 75

Coll. Miles E„ 157 Donovan. Wiliam (“Wild Bill"). 132
Collins, Michael. 18 Doraty, Judy, 266-68. 377
Collins. Peter T,. 63 Domberger. Waller. 69. 70. 7)
Columbus. Christopher. 47 Dorr. Robert, 78
Committee for the Scientific Investigation Doty, Richard C., Ill
of Claims of the Paranormal Doyen, Ross, 253
(CSICOP). 229 Drake. W. Raymond, 29, 61
Commoner, Barry, 393 Dudley, Marshall, 289
Communication Instructions tor Duesler, James F.. 104
Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings Dugan. Dan. 253, 254
(CIRVIS). 127 Dulles. Allen. 74. I 19. 132. 193
Communications Act of 1934. 127 Dulles, John Foster, 132
Condon, Edward Uhler, 109, 151-52, Dunayev. Alexander. 319
154-55. 195 Dunn. Randall. 259
Condon Committee. 166 Du Pont. 380,381
Condon Report. 149-56 Dzuris, Bill and Linda, 261-62
Conrad. Pete, 18
Conroy. Ed. 230-31 Ecker. Don, 21.24. 186-87
Cook. James. 46 Edelstein, Harold J., 216, 226
Cooper, Gordon, 18, 19-20 Edwards, Frank. 142
Cooper, Vicki, 159, 393 Edwards. George, 78
Comet. Bruce. 15 Edwards. I E. S.. 51
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 174 EG&G, 180, 183
Cortile. Linda. 240-43 Eggebrvcht. Arne. 43
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). 175. Egypt, 16, 29, 50-55. 61. 357, 374
390. 394 Ehrlich, Paul R.. 173
Cousteau. J ucquex-Yves, 17 3 Eickoff, Thomas, 192-93
Crain. T. Scott. Jr.. I 19 Eisenhower. Dwight D., 107. 112. 113.
Crisman, Fred Lee. 80, 82. 83. 85-86, 87. 115,132,340-41,358
99 Elders. Bril. 209
Crockett. Art. 161 Elders. Lee. 209, 210
Crop circles. 273-94, 309-10 Eliason. Eric. 206
Cros, Charles. 17 Enkerlin, Ernesto, 271-72
Cross. Howard C., 157-58 Epic of Gilgamesh, 28
Cuellar, Javict Perez de. 241.242 Ewing. Maurice. 6
Cutler. Robert. 115 Ezekiel. 37*0. 188-89
Cyr, Donald L., 278-79
Falwell. Jerry. 328
Dahl. Harold A.. 79-80, 82, 83. 85, 86. 87. Farish. Lucius, 210
99 Fatima, Portugal, 348-49
Dames, Edward. 328-29 Faulkner, R. 6., 52
Dane. Abe. 177-78 Federal Advisory Committee Act. 159
Darbishire. Stephen, 194 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 118.
Davids, Frederick E.. 149 120-21. 192,255
Davidson. William, 82. 83-84 Federal Communications Commission,
Davies. Paul. 368 356
Davis. Richard. 116— 17 Federal Emergency Management Agency
Deardorff, James W„ 204, 321-22 (FEMA), 170-71
Deetken. Chad. 288 Federal Relocation Centers, 171
Defense Advanced Research Projects Federal Reserve System, 383, 384-88, 394
Agency (D ARP A), 169 Feynman, Richard. 357
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIAl. 167, Finaeus. Oronteus, 48
168.296.303 Flammonde, Pans, 64, 83. 135. 161
Denenhart. Karen. 58-59 Flickinger, Donald E . 253
Delgado. Pat. 277-78.280-81.282. Fontes. Olavo. 196-97
283-<84.285,287,289 FuO-fighters. 64-66
Delphic oracle. 298 Ford. Brian. 69
Department of Defense, 25. 99, 118, 158 Ford. Gerald R., 150
Department of Energy (DOE). 184 Fortes tai, James V.. 109. 116
Discovery (shuttle), 22-23 Fort, Charles H., 355
 INDEX 429

Foundation for Alien-Human Research, Hartranft. J. B.. 142

239 Harvard University. 229-30
Foumet, Dewey, 133, 142 Haskell, Floyd K.. 256
Fowler, Ravmond E., 155, 156. 194,214, Hauerwas. Stanley, 370
215,216,226,237-38,247 Hawkins, Gerald S.. 49. 290-91
Freeman, John, Jr., 3 Hayakawa, Norio, 176
Friedman, Stanton. 90, 114, 115. 117 Henderson. Garr}’, 21
Frissell. Bob, 362, 363, 364-65 Henderson, John E., 143
Frost, John. 77-78 Herodotus. 50
Fry, Daniel, 194-95 Herschel. Frederick William, 13
Fuller, John G., 199 Hesemann, Michael, 19
Fuller. Margaret, 119-20 Hewitt. Peter. 293
Fuller, Paul, 279 Hibbs, Clair, 256
Hickson. Charles. 217-18
Gairy, Eric Matthew, 168 Higham. Charles. 73. 74, 380
Gallego, Orlando, 146 Hilder, Anthony J-. 179
Galvani, Luigi, 43 Hill, Barney, 197-200.296
Garrett, James Leo. 370 Hill. Betty, 197-200,234, 296
Garrison, Jim, 85 Hill. Wiliam. 275
Gauss, Karl, 17 Hillenkoetter, Roscoe IL. 108, 132. 142.
General Mills. Inc., 128 159
General Motors, 74. 380 Hills. H. Ken, 3
Genesis (Bible book), 35-36, 57 Himmler. Heinrich, 68. 69, 70
George (magazine), 353 Hinds, Richard P., 144
Ghost rockets, 76-79 Hindu texts, 30-32
Gilbert, Adrian, 53-54 Hitler. Adolf, 69, 70. 71, 72, 202. 380
Gill, Wiliam Bruce, 146-47 Hix, Guy F„ 103
Gillett. Horace W, 158 Hoagland, Richard C., 16-17,22,29
Gilson, C.E., 218-19 Holclen. Bill, 124
Glaser. Hans. 61 Homer. 30.41,297
Glass, Carter, 385 Hoover. J. Edgar, 120
Gleason, Jackie. 122 Hopkins, Budd. 222-23, 224-25, 228. 231.
Gold. Thomas, 24 240-41,242-43. 247
Goldin. Daniel S.. 327 Horner. Richard E., 159
Goldwater, Barn; 134 Hou Yih, 40-41
Golubic, Vic, 12 3 Howe, C. D.. 77
Gomez. Manuel, 251 Howe. Linda Moulton, 174, 250, 259-60,
Good. Timothy, 18,24. 114, 117. 122. 165, 261-63, 265, 266. 268-69, 270. 288
182, 184. 186, 193-94.210 Hoyle. Fred. 355
Gorman, George F., 105-6 Hull, Cordell, 73
Gould. Stephen Jay, 327 Humphrey, Hubert, 253
Graham. Lee. 117-18, 134 Huneeus. Antonio. 329
Grant, Rob, 358 Hunsaker. Jerome. 109
Gray, Gordon, 110 Hutin, Serge, 29, 33
Great Blackout (1965), 147-49 Ilynek. J. Allen, 97, 101-2, 106-7. 133,
Greece, 11-12, 30, 35, 41,42-43, 297-99 135. 136, 144, 145, 147. 149-50,
Greider, William, 383, 385-86. 387, 388 152-53, 154. 157. 182,216-17.349
Griffin, G. Edward, 383. 385, 386. 387
Ground Saucer Watch, 210 Infrared Astronomical Observatory
(IRAS). 56
Habermohl. Klaus, 67 Inman, Bobby Ray, 178, 390
Halt, Charles. 164-65 Institute for I luman Potential, 314-15
Hamilton, Alexander, 260-61 Intelligence and Securin' Command
Han Ping Chen. 29 (INSCOM). 303
Hancock. Graham, 12, 34. 46. 48, 50, 51. Intelligence Threat Analysis Center
52,55 (IT AC), 168
Hapgood. Charles. 47. 48 International Monetary Fund (IMF), 388,
Harbinson. W. A., 65, 67. 68, 76, 78 394
Harder. James. 217, 221.320 International Telephone & Telegraph
Hart, Carl, Jr.. 128 (ITF), 73
Hartig. Dale, 118 Isler. Martin. 52
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Jacob. 35-36
Jacobs, David, 224 Leonard. George H.. 15-16, 17. 24-25
Jacobs. Robert, 25 Leslie, Desmond, 191
Jason group, 158-59 Levengood. W. C., 287-89
Jastrow, Robert, 1, 4 Levitt, Zola, 368, 369
Jefferson, Thomas, 384 Lewis. Berle and Nellie, 248-49
Jenkins, Peter, 63 Life (magazine), 129
Johannis. Rapuzzi, 189-90 Liman, Arthur. 171
Johnson, Quendrith, 221 Lindbergh. Charles, Sr.. 386
Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication Lindemann. Michael, 167
(JANAP) 146. 127 Lockheed Martin, 171, 172, 178
Jung. Carl. 195, 368 London Daily Telegraph. 65
Jupiter, 305-6 Lorenzen. James, 160
Lorenzo, Coral. 136
Kagan, Daniel, 262-63, 264 Los Angeles air raid (1942), 62-64
Kalevala (epic poem), 12 Low. Robert, 151, 152
Kammler, Hans. 68-69, 70-71 Lowe. Roger and Lynda. 283
Kane. James A., 52 Lowell Observatory. 5
Kasher. Jack. 23 Lubbock Lights, 127—28
Katson. Trisha, 392 Lunar transient phenomena (LTP). 13-14
Keel, John, 86,352-53 Luntz Research poll, 353
Keith, Jim, 75, 172. 174, 175 Lusar, Rudolph. 67-68
Kelley. Clarence. 178. 256
Kellev. P.X.. 178 Maccabee. Bruce. 116. 161
Kelly, Don. 393 MacDonald, Gordon, 6
Kennedy. John F„ 17. 85. 122, 123. 124 Mack. John E„ 225-26, 227-30, 235-36.
Kennedy. Robert. 123 237,238,246,247
Kent, Valentino. 176 MacLaine, Shirley, 207
Keyhoe, Donald. 127. 129, 131-32. Alalin, Michael, 206-7
133-34. 135. 137, 140-41. 142-44. Alarming, Paul. 74
148—49, 162 Alansmann, FlorenzJ.. 25
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 122-24 Alantell, Thomas F., Jr., 102-5
Kimball, Dan, 131, 132 Maps, in ancient world, 46-50
Kimery, Anthony, 87, 167 Marcel, Jesse A., 89. 90. 101
Kinder, Gary, 201. 206. 208. 209. 210 Marcy, Geoffrey, 370
King. Harry. 248, 249 Alars. 16,25.29, 172, 173.317,322-28
Klarer, Elizabeth. 195 Marshall. George C., 122
Klass, Philip. 110. 114. 115. 117, 118. 145, Mason. J. Alden, 34. 45
200,217-18.219.221 Masse. Alaurice. 200-201
Kline, Donald. 230 Maury Island mystery. 79-85. 86-87. 88,
Knapp. George, 183, 186 99. 189
Knox, Frank. 63 Alayans, 29, 30, 32
Knudsen. William S. J,. 380 Alays, Glen, 103
Kolosimo. Peter. 29. 32, 33-34 AlcCarthy, John J., 220
Konig. Wilhelm, 43 AlcCarthy, Joseph, 142. 154
Koran, 370 McClellan. John, 142, 143
Kouznetsov. Bronislav, 46 McClelland, J. H„ 63
Kozyrev, Nikolay A., 5 AlcConnell, Lamont, 220
Kremer, Gerard, 47 AlcCormack. John, 134, 143
McCoy, Howard, 161-62
Landrum, Vickie. 182-83 AlcDonald, James E., 154
Landsburg. Allan. 45 McDonnel Douglas, 171
LaParl. Bill. 161 AlcFadden, Louis, 386
La Paz, Lincoln. 139, 141 McFalls, David, 65
Law Enforcement Assistance AlcGee, Frank. 148
Administration (LEAA), 257 McKay, Christopher P., 327
Lawson. Alvin H., 224 McKee, Kenny, 259
Lazar, Robert Scott, 179-87 McMoneagle. Joe, 329
Lee, Ray, 251 McRae. Ron, 301
Leir. Roger K.. 238-40 Meaden. Terence. 278, 282
Lemesurier. Peter, 53 Aleggers. Betty, 29
Meier. Eduard Albert (“Billy”). 201-12
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Meiers. Donald. 64, 65 National Enquirer, 220

Melanesia, 34-35 National Investigations Committee on
Melchizedek. Drunvalo. 362-66 Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), 108,
Alengele, Josef. 71 135. 142-44,162
Alenger, Howard. 194 National Alilitary Command Center, 167
Menzel. Donald, 110. 114—15, 145, 147. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
152,156 Administration (NOAA), 320
Mercator. 48 National Photographic Interpretation
Alercury, 306-8 Center (NPIC), 168
Alesopotamia, 30 National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Aletcalf, Lee, 388 168. 169
Alichael, 360-61 National Security Act of 1947, 99
Alichek Aime, 200 National Security Agency (NSA). 124—25.
Alichek Jean, 70-71 167. 168,303
Middle Ages, 41,61.352 National Security Command (NSC). 168
Aliethe, Otto. 67 National Security Council (NSC). 99.
Aligliore. Vince. 278, 291-92. 293 132
Aides. Christopher, 173, 174 Native Americans, 30. 354
Aliley, Alichael. 329-30 Nazi Germany, 66-76. 86, 120, 374
Alilitary Air Transport Service (Al ATS), NBC, 148
127 Neal. Richard, 237, 238
Aliller, Richard T.. 103-4, 356-58 Neilson. James, 167
Alitchell, Edgar. 18-19 Neuhausler. Johannes. 71
Alitchell-Hedges. Anna, 44 Newhouse. Delbert C„ 131
Alitchell-Hedges. F. A.. 44 Newton, Irving, 90
Alitchell. Janet. 300, 301,306 iVrzr York Herald Tribune. 65
Alitchell. John, 286-87 Netv York Times, 22, 73, 103, 154. 169
AIJ-12 papers, 107-20, 123,375 Nixon, Richard. 122
Alon-Ka, 3558 Noah, 28, 57
Alonroe. Alarilyn, 119. 122—23 North, Oliver, 171
Montegue. Robert M.. 110 North American Air Defense Command
Alonteith, Henry, 268 (NORAD), 168,261,315
Aloon, 1-26 Northrop. John, 154
Aloore. Patrick, 15 Nostradamus. 298-99, 364
Aloore. William L., 107, 110-12, 114, 115.
117 O’Brian. Brian, 150
Mora. Philippe. 23 1 Observer (space probe), 317
Alorehouse. David. 310. 310-13, 316-17, O’Connor, J. J.. 148
323.325 O’Donnell. Donald, 142
Morello, Ted. 84 Oechsler, Robert, 184
Alorgan Bank. 380, 381.385, 389, 391 Office of Alanagement and Budget (OAIB).
Morning Star, Robert, 58-59 184
Morrow, Lance, 322 Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 180,
Moseley, James W, 193 296.303
Moskowitz, Alilton. 388-89 Office of Naval Research. 105
Mueller, Heinrich (“Gestapo”). 72 Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 86
Museum of Mankind, London. 44 Office of the Security Assistance, Science
Alusgrave, JohnB., 160-61 and Technology, 168
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), 162 Ohlmeyer, Harold Z.. 46
Alyers, Gustavus, 384 O’Kelly. Alichael, 50
O’Leary7. Brian, 21
Napolitano. Linda, 240-43 Olmecs. 29
Nathan, Robert, 207 O’Neill. John J., 14
National Academy of Science (NAS), 153 Operation Aloon Blink, 14
National Aeronautics and Space Oppenheimer. Robert. 121
Administration (NASA). 1, 3, 7, 13, Orville. I toward T.. 140
15. 16-17. 18-24, 137. 140. 170, 172, Osis. Karlis, 300, 301
212.305,315,317,327,362 Osman. Fathi, 370
National Airport, Washington, D.C., 129, Ostrander. Shiela. 302-3
130-31 Ovid, 12
National Archives, 115 Oz factor, 234
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Pacheco, Nelson S., 349, 367. 368-69 Putnam, James, 28

Padilla, Arturo, 252-53 Pyramids, 16. 50-56, 357. 374
Page, Thornton L.. 133
Palmer. Nathaniel, 46 Quarles. Donald, 77
Palmer. Raymond A., 78-79. 81.82, 87 Quayle, Dan, 118
Parker, Calvin, 217 Quigley, Carroll. 391-92
Parrinello. Pat, 237-38 Quintanilla, Hector, 150
Patman, Wright. 386
Peebles, Curtis. 79, 84, 87, 91, 129. 130, Radford, Arthur, 131
136, 143, 145, 153-54, 187.200,217, Ramy, Roger, 90
223-24. 226-27, 264, 366-67 Randle. Kevin D„ 90. 91, 101, 116, 117
Pentagon Papers. The. 159 Randles, Jennv. 189, 191,224,234.279,
Peru, 34 350
Peterson, Ivars, 291 Ratsch, Donald. 22
Pfeifer, George J.. 220 Reagan. Ronald. 171. 178
Phobos II (space probe). 317-20 Rebman. Kurt, 175
Pitt. Barrie. 66-67 Reich, Wilhelm. 292
Pitts, William. 97 Reida, Alvah M., 66
Pleiades, 201-12 Reis. Piri, 46, 47, 48
Pliny the Elder, 61 Reiman. Arnold. 230
Plutarch. 12 Remote viewing (RV). 295-97, 301-16,
Popovich, Marina, 319 321-47
Popular Mechanics (magazine), 139 Rennick, Joe, 288
Pratt. Charles, 148 Rhine. Joseph Banks. 299
Pratt, Robert, 112 Rhine. Louisa, 299-300
Pratt, Ted, 273 Richards, C.G., 250-51
Press, Frank. 6, 97 Richet. Charles, 299
Price, Derek J. de Solla, 42 Rideout, Bruce, 288
Price. Richard, 236-37 Riley. Mel, 311. 313, 316. 317, 330-31,
Prine, James, 256 332
Proch, Harold, 208 Riley. Nick, 283
Project Aquarius. 112, 113, 114, 117. Robbins, Peter, 166
124-25, 168,296 Roberts, Jane. 359
Project BANDO, 114 Robertson. H. P.. 132, 133. 134-35
Project Bear. 158 Robertson Panel. 132-35. 143, 157, 192
Project Blue Book. 19, 97. 113, 129. 133, Robinson, Kim Stanley. 328
135, 136-37, 146. 149-50, 155-56, Rockefeller. Avery, 74
158-62, 167,375 Rockefeller. Laurence S., 394
Project CENTER LANE. 303 Rockefeller family, 73-74
Project Garnet, 168 Rodeffer, Madeleine, 193-94
Project Gleem, 113, 114 Roman Empire, 12, 41,61
Project GRILL FLAME, 303, 318-19. Rommel. Ken, 257, 262
332 Roosevelt. Franklin. 63, 380-81
Project Grudge, 106-7, 108, 113. 126-27, Rosenbaum, Jean. 220
128 Roswell, NewAlexico. crash. 89-100, 374
Project Magnet, 121 Rowley, James J., 178
Project Moon Dust, 123 Roy. Archie, 290
Project 1947. 88 Royal Commission on the Historical
Project Overview, 181 Monuments of England, 275
Project Paperclip, 86 Runkel. Herbert. 208
Project POUNCE. 114 Ruppelt, Edward J.. 107, 126, 127, 128.
Project SCANATE. 303 129. 130, 131, 133. 134. 135-36. 158
Project SIGMA, 114. 168 Russell. Richard B.. 134
Project Sign. 101-2, 105, 106-7, 108. 109. Russia. 25. 171
113,161
Project SNOWBIRD, 114, 168 Sagan, Carl, 6, 150, 286. 327
Project STARGATE, 303 Salkin. Harold, 192
Project Stork. 158 Sam ford. John, 130
Project SUN STREAK. 303 Sander, George. 84-85
PSI TECH Inc.. 308-9, 320 Sanderson. Ivan, 45
Puthoff, Harold E.. 301. 306 Santilli. Ray. 98
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Santorini, Paul. 154 Speer, Albert, 68. 69, 70,71

Sarbacher. Robert. 121 Spence. Magnus. 50
Sauder. Richard, 170. 171. 177 Spencer. John. 81, 199,218, 279
Schauberger, Viktor, 68 Spielberg. Steven. 222
Schiff, Steven, 97-99 Spiriglio. Milo, 122
Schmeidler, Gertrude, 301 Sprinkle. Leo, 266
Schmidt, Orvis A.. 75 Spurclock, Evan. 274
Schmitt, Donald R.. 90. 91, 101. 117 Spy (magazine). 179
Schmitt, Harrison. 255-56, 257 Stacy. Dennis, 293
Schmitz. Hermann, 73. 74, 75 Stais. Spyridon, 42
Schriever. Rudolph. 67 Standard Oil Company, 73-74, 171
Schroeder, Lynn, 302-3 Stanford, Ray, 191
Schulgen, George, 100, 101 “Star Wars" program, 23, 174-75, 183,
Schultz, Gary, 176 -280
Schutzbach. Hans. 208 State Department. 168, 193
Schwaller de Lubicz. R. A.. 51 Steinman, Wiliam. 121
Science News (magazine). 307-8, 320. 364 Steward, Lester H., 220
Science News Letter (magazine), 13 8-39 Stirling, Frank, 321
Scott, Myron. 264-65 Stonehenge, 49-50
Scripps-Howard News Service, 127 Strabo, 46
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.. 155-56 Strainic. Michael. 282-83
Semjase, 203-5, 211 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). 23.
Seneca. Lucius Annaeus. 46 174-75. 183,280
Sensitive Compartmented Information Strieber, Whitley. 225. 230-32, 290. 350.
(CSI). 184 369
Seth, 359-60, 361 Stringer. Chris, 98
Shandera, Jaime, 107. 115 Stringfield. Leonard H.. 90, 159-60
Shaver. Richard Sharpe, 79, 82 Sullivan, Walter, 5
Shaw. Clay. 85-86 Sumeria, 30. 56-57
Shcherbakov, Alexander. 9-10 Summers, Ian. 262-63. 264
Sheehan, Daniel, 229 Swann. Ingo, 300, 301-2, 305-8, 319, 329
Sheinkman, Jack, 392-93 Swanson, John D.. 199
Shelton, William Roy, 9
Shepherd, Francis, 282 Tacker. L.J., 134
Sherburn. Tad, 168 Taff, Elmer L., 84
Sherman. Harold, 305 Tavernetti, Terry. 185
Simon. Benjamin. 198. 199-200 Taylor. Anne, 229
Simpson. Tim, 275 Teller, Edward. 180. 184
Sims. Derrel, 239—TO Tello. Julio. 33
Sitchen, Zecharia, 29, 30, 52, 56-57. 58. Thill, Richard, 253
59 Thomas, Andy, 293-94
Skinner, B. F„ 353 Thomas, Charles, 287
Skull of Doom. 43-44 Thompson, Ed, 303
Sky and Telescope (journal), 2 Thompson. Floyd, 60
Smathers. George. 179 Thompson, R. E.. 256
Smith, E. J.. 83-84, 85 Thompson, Richard L., 30-31, 154, 189,
Smith, Walter Bedell. 109, 132 226.247.351
Smith, Warren, 137 Thrasher, Charles O.. 86
Smith, Wilbert B„ 121. 142 Thutmose III (pharaoh), 61
Smith, William French, 171 Tibetan texts. 12. 32-33
Socorro, New Mexico, landing. 143—47 7zwe (magazine). 138. 229. 306
Sodom and Gomorrah, 36-37 Tolson, Clyde, 120
Solomon. Sean C.. 6 Tomas, Andrew, 29. 35. 41
Sorge, Martin, 205-6 Tombaugh, Clyde. 137—40
Soto. Jose, 271 Tomey, Debbie, 222—24
Souers. Sidney W, 109 Torme, Tracy, 221
Soviet Union, 7-8, 159, 172,317-20 Trilateral Commission. 175, 390, 394
Space News (magazine), 320-21 Truman, Harry S., 99. 110, 115
Spaceship Moon theory. 9-13 Tsum Um Nui, 33
Spanos, Nicholas, 228 Twining, Nathan F., 100, 109, 115, 134
Spaulding. William IL, 160 Tyler, Paul, 153