$THERN uF}­NEWS 159

Spring 1993

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COVER DESIGN BY: ROY SANDBACH ... . •. . .. .. LOGOS BY: BILL CALLAOHAN

CONTENT:- Usu",l fe~ t:ure5 plus; fI'h",t 15 wrong ~itb the sceptJcs? pp 2-4 . .. CirCU}"'T Logic p.6 . . . Ecl i psing t h e UnknoWD } "'5t p",rt . .. p.7 ... A new UFO movi e from Hol lywood .•. p.7 . . . C""se s from Derbyshire,Gwynedd,Humberside ",nd L"'nc""sblre (including the mystery helicopter is b~ck ",nd tbree yJ s u.,l.J.y ch,,11ensed m1 ce ) pp 12-14 ... C",se HistorJes... UFO over RAF ~'se ",nd '" CE 4 or DD ",bduc tioD from Oxfordshire? . . pp 14-16.

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Horthern UFO Hews 2 -

lIS: - APOLOGIES fOR me: COUPLE OF lIEEIS DElAy 10 THlS ISSUE. DUE TO EXl1l£JE flR£SSUR£ OF WRI AJrID BUSY HOlIS£ HUHTlMG A FEW MH.ES PROM STOCIPORT (K>iE OH ntAT ANON, OR - GIVEN THE STATE OF me: RXlSIHG MAHET - HO DOOBT AJfOM AJrID AIfOH). AS ALWAYS R£II£)IlER THAT JWH IS A nJE-GONSUMlHG TASJ: THAT I WIll TRY NEVER TO LET SLIP k)RE lliAH A eouPLE OF w:a:s BEHIND SCHEDUl..EO PRODucnON .

.:T. R. Co.nuoenta ... In ." vie" the UFO .-ov_t needs strong f::r:Hlc:1&& So _ do rely quHe hfHIv1lT upon th.. _tcb111lf br1e£ of .. laudable IITg4lli.roatlU1l IOuW oil'" ':Ill. BrlUsh tJlJd Irish SlepUcs' (UUt UK equl .. .,lent of the noted - or notoriou6? - CSICOP). m.y prodUC:. the journal • 11Ia !>kepUf::·.libich I strongly rlfCo-BDd as eS6allt1al readlnlJ to all (s_ the journ"l llstlnp thls 166ueJ.But "t U_ I IIOIIder wliere fba boundlJTT bet_ 6ceptic:1 ... IIUId da6perat1011 l.tes. PDtitilblT tiucb bodi_ 0W8 :It to tbe-;;.lveti to tllk .. a htJTd look at lUadly ~:Il.t lt :I. th.y hop" to ach:l."e.

My f::Onf::ernB bere are not really over principles. All serious investigators .ust know that tbere is 0 lot tbot ia rotten in the .tate of uupernaturoli ... but we sODBti.as need readndlng of that fect.I eupport 'The SkepUc' in tbiu 01. 100 per f::ent. Sa.e of US do try to police the fteld (rQ. withio Il1Id I think it &liQuId be a c<I<Iperative venture bet_en Qurselves end sceptJcd scient1utll and CQ-.!tatoru to {jght together, allbeit'o frE!" differing perspectives. tQ e.tabUsh the truth. I s .. e nQ ... jQr obstacle IIgainst that abHHy. but wonder why when _ brought the 8ceptics in to work with IIJFORA on the BircbWDOd &11 UfO vide<>. NUN publ1uhad the inconcluBive findings whHut they ullid nothing. If thlu joint res .... rch hlld sol~ .. d the caSe would they hove utl11 r..ain&d silent?

However.I think there 110 11 real denger thllt British sceptics will earn the 'bad boy' reputstion thllt .any '-oricen UfOlQgistu adopt tQwordu eSleOp and. in pllrtlculor.itu UFO co..entotoru.Tbe denger aee-o tQ be .. tem.Jng frQ. tbe _y hi ..nich tbis cooperstion h"s bec ... v ... ry _ch 0 <>n .. _y Btruet.

Serious researcheru into strange phenQ.ana take note of sceptic"l views. They .. re discussed end debllt&d and .... ven if not "ccepted ... t l .... st the critic. lire recognised and nmponded tQ. urOlogy. (or exaaple. takell not .. of th ... fact th .. t sceptical writings edut. Th .. y are not regarded as bBing in &o.e parallel universe. Sedly,! dQ not u .... .weh evidence that tha reveruu lu true.Th .. r .. se...s tQ be (ew occasions when the uceptics lire aven willing tQ ecknowlege thet • believeru' con ever hav.. enything poSitive to contribute. It i!: lite' goodies' versus' bIIddles' all the UJae.

I ... y b .. cynicd. but it rot her u_ to DB thllt it is an esuenc ... of scaptic:1sa tbat it .ust tgnQr .. the serious pouiti~e rese .. rchuru baceuBe their argu.entu sre far .are difficult tQ refuta.So they cQocentrate on the • .,,,,sy· t"'r8"tu; thoBe fQlk ..no hove what. to .any fellow reuearchftru. ore extre.e views and tell the world (or so it se.,...) thet thes ... eztrea1sts reflect th .. rule rather than the e"ception. Such select! vi ty bugs _. It h . 11

kind of 'headu _ ore right' and ·ta11u yQU era wrons' -mtaUty. We sea it _11 l11uutrllted in UFOIQgy. Tt.e ftIld again in TV and radio

shows wh6ll e sceptic ia brousht 00 to opposu 11 'believer' thuy era in their ele.ant if that belie~ur prQ.ateu conspiracy theorie •• £! 1nvou10nu and the like. If they do not. and insteod offer sobaring fecta (eg ..... accept that 95~ of 1111 UFO sisbtiogu or .. mistaken identity but believe the rest reflect new pheno.eoa lis yet W1l1ccepted by ucience ... ') then they flounder. All too often. rather than accept this end pllint " picture Qf cooperation with slightly different "-phaBis.th .. sceptics seeG to prefer petty diuogree-enta 60 as to aaintotn this pretence of CQofrQotation.But ..ny?

Northern UFO News

Bootleg videos are doinS" the rounds of " TV progr..- screened in Austr"U" in Septe-.ber 1991.1 h"ven't seen tt, but _s on .1 t '11 Ye' I«>

recall well how UFOlogll,ts Uke Jerry ClIIrk, BUl Chlllker, KeHh BasterUeld and I were pitted in this fe .. ture (ond others) "8"oinst reddent IIcepticlI ..no lIeea to hove """ ..... d oIl they h"d to do .... " "pout the old' it Cllll't be sa it isn't' inclllltotion and the ....tar"te vote WDuld gr"vltote their _y. This often see.s to be on the b .. sis that 'everyone 1<1>0 .... UFO buffs are slightly potty'. But when those UfO buffs, os we did, r..-d down the ca_ro focls,figures,stotistics IllId evidence it oppeored th"t they h"d never even heord "bout,let alone digested, they were left flopping about like" netfull of wet hoddock 00 the qUllyeide.

I felt no triulaph at this. When _bers of thl! Ilceptics eoaunJty In the audience approeched "fter the show and soid they felt 'e.oerressed' ,I did not lIee this os the couse to rush eround the roo. scre"aing " chorus of 'one-nll,one-nll'.l d.mply felt thet it shows a wonderful potential for cooperetion and fruitful dlaagree.ent lost. Is not science all ebout l«>aeoI1e

coaing up with e theory, so.aone else disogree.lng with thet idee IllId fro", the resultillg fr1endly but sharp dielogue the truth so_how emerging'?

Why then do the sceptics see'" so hopelessly W111bIe or unwilling to know es DUch "bout our evidence es we seem to do ebout their criticis"", of the ae .. e'? Why won't they hold their hends up froll! time to tJ .... end offer pr .. lse for !nternnL criticisll! within lllIy field ..nen it is accodonelly due'? 1 get the i.mpression thot unless the person who soyll so .... thing senslble "br " ~~ resolvell e c .. se ill e lIigned up me~er of the scepticlI perty then .. kind of collective emoellie dellcendll oVer the iIIOve_nt until, DIIybe yellrs l .. ter,someone fro .. the right side redillcoyerll the truth and C"n be heiled Oil .. victor .... eeking enother defe .. t onto the looney tune believers.

Lest y()u tbink this e tod perllllold, I e", .. fr .. id th .. t you con see it ell tha ti_ in the sceptics IKIv.......,t.EYen in the fine peges of 'The Skeptic' .

Look .. t some eX6.mples. In ,..,y 1992 the .... g .. zJne rebuked sources for feiling to point out thot the object thet ""' .. reportedly involved in the aid- eir UFO encounterll over Britain was only relatively 11 ... 11. There wnG not 11 word lJIentioning the filet thll.t UFO groups InvBst1g .. Ung the ellse never hid thot fect, nor the idee th .. t e blllIoon _8 responsible. Indeed one BUFORA officer went out of his _y to calm down e hystericol ..,die_ Since 'The Skeptlc' get BUFORA ... teriol,re"d the cuttingu with these co_mto in end elso get NUN ..nich h"d e sober .. nd detdled ossess_nt of the 61ghUngs whIch hardly went overboord ebout the. end cartoinly hid no cruci"l focta -then how co.e 991 of IIceptics,who never reed these sourcell,must assU1118 (yet "S"in) th .. t UFOlogists were useless .. yth_kers IllId thet only the intrepid sceptics hed enything sensible or worthwhile to sllY on the c .. se?

Ok"y,one exnaple,but fer froD olone.Look et how sceptics tre"ted crop circles. To be Gure there was e lot thot needed criticising there, but there were some ()f ull doing exectly th"t for a long, long ti_. Where were the sceptics between 1980 IIJId 1989 when 'Circul .. r Evidence' first eppe .. red? Nowhere.The f .. ct thllt the first hoas WIIS exposed In 1983 (by urOlogists) or that vigorous debete within the field h .. 1I gone on for ye .. rs ch"IIenging the .. 11eged evidence for .Ylltic forces or the popular view thot there WIIS no reil! input frOD hOllxes 011 becII_ on irrelev .. ncy. As soon es the subject IIItIde big news, in .... rched the sceptics, clllled everyone essociated with the field an idiot IIJId ran off with the honey pot slll11ing and pretending they were the only onell riding in to the rellcue of comom lIense end senUy.ln oppollitjon were the ... ssed oraies of twittering nutters to which every eereologist hed beeo.., subscribed overnight. This Is slaply untrue.

Horthern UFO Hews . -I have sent two l etter. to 'The Skeptic' respectfully pointing nut

that not 1Il1 circl e resaarchers .. re the _. Neither letter .... s pubUllhed. Agnln, the INIgazlne re"iewed 11)' leclure at tnaSTs '£T or not ET"

conference in April 1992.ThI. wos done feirly,but the ridiculous inference e_rged th .. t nobody knew why the vitne .. who took the alien photogr .. ph on Ilklay MOor h .. d • caeera witb hi. up there at dawn.lt wos al50 notad that he .... s anOllySlQU8, in ter_ designed to ..ae it .ees that the case _. poorly Investigated. Yet, as .any of YOII kno ... and a. 'The Sk.ptic' ought to havs known because they get tbis --aezlne,W8 pr •• entad e long and det .. iled report on thie ces. in HIJJf Yi.ich enswered both those quest10nB .ery clearly. Tbe wit ness _s publJcly anony ...... beceuse of hie Job but hie identHy _B known to all the invetltigators Yi.o hed worked with hJ .. And fro. day one we had enquired Yi.y he had the caeera with his Cit _s to flls dawn coaing up over the village in the valley belov). Without quibble _ had thus received every neg .. Uve before IUld efter the 'e11811' shot on the roll of fU. and thJ . at le .... t partly aupported the .tory.1 should add th .. t I wrote to 'Tbe Skept1c' Md .. 6kad th .. lo point these fects out. I do not suppose you need two gue ... e to work out thet th.y heve yet to do 80.

I dare say you aight accuse .. Cnot unreasonably) of bl .. o.1 do find it herd to beUeve that eny objectivs rsvJewer,hoWBver good or b .. d the book ... y be,could deIKribe 'Spontaneous HUSIIfl Coebustion' by Peter Hnuah end -rself es being ' credul ou.a beyond belisf' end so worthless. But 'The SkepUc' do. The book _y be rubbi sh, but critics e l aawbere heve &aid it _e p .. lnutekingly fectu.Dl in pointing out both tbe prOll end cone.

However, to _ fIIr _re dieturblng then all of that is the WIly In Yi.ich the lanlJ.llry 1993 i1isue o r ' The Skeptlc' features .. coluwoist actueUy seee1ng proud of the fact th .. t - despite appearing nol to have read it - a boot on sponteneous hu.e.n co.bust1on _s subjected to what ie al_t censure. The book bed been lKIU6ht for (utw-e publication by a coepany and the Sk8ptlc coluenist off ered evidence to show their .. rketing people the downlllde of proceeding with such a title. The ,.,..1>I, .. hO/: .. ~ . u...,,,, ... ..t _k • .aDey.But why reac t IJke thIs? Because the nase of Its author WIlS enough to show thIs coluenist it would contain no scepl1cl ... within its p .. ges!

Po&sJbly, since no autbor n .... s. book titl es or publi shing cooopany er. given by 'The S1tepUc' thla eight r afer to a diUerent work;altb<Kf6h eta -r knowledge) no other book on this unuaual subject ~s published during 1992 and so WIlS lIkely to be subJoct to such ..... ketJng discuusione. Ho_ver, even if the d ted book were not 'Spontaneous HUSIUl Co.oust:l on' by Peter Hough and .yself,tbe principle is the aa.e.ln ., viev Ills overslepping the .. rk to do anything th .. t eight even hint at lryins to stop .. book fro. .. ppearing without reading it end 6e~n!ly on the grounds that it le froe an author who ..... ites on strange pheno..na and discusses a subj ect that, as a sceptic, they appear t o be unwilling to accept could poB&fbIy edst .

If it _. 'SpontlUleoua KUSIIIl Co.busllon',you will be pleasod to hear thet Benles publish It in paperback In MDy end a US hardback Cfro. Mftrboro) and then lat er a US paperback <fro. Bark.lay) will both follow.

I say theae thln86, not out of api t e o r angar.! beli.v. in what 'Tbll SItllptic' 1u her. to do. But there 18 a "ery ra .. l donger of goIng t oo far. So pleaaa, step hack fr08 the brink and take a tock ... We do need your Input.

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Morthern UFO Haws , -IlEWS ROUND UP:

.• Further to the above note, Brlgllntia hlls evidently been hllving "<.>me proble-s but they hllve a"sured .e they are back to so.ething like 11 nor.."l schedule. The recent issue (no 52) was the first since last "u..er but no 53 16 proaised before the April NlIIf is due with you.So all job! "ub6cribers tlllee note Md contect Briganth direct if you experience any difficultie6.

.. Also b .. ck on schedule i6 UFO He_fUe, the BUFORA dige6t of Brltilih press stories. There have been 3 issues since the la6t NlIIf SD a" to catch lip! The fir"t of 1993 (no 12) brinss you a wide renga of cutUnl5" frOll around the UI.With their help I can Dffer copies of these three Issues (nos 10 - 12) to one lucky reader. We ran this co-petition before and 1t proved fun, so all you h"ve to do h. pretend you "re" beadline writer with the 'D"l1y HeWIJ of the Sport World Sun' Md invent a UFO rel"ted helldl1ne; either nbout n renl or 11 fictlonlll ca"e. We'll print " 6elecH<m Dnd the best will get 1111 three copies. Send entries by lllpproprbtely "noUSh!) 1 April, plense! For those wllO prefer to tIIke the ea6Y .... y. you CM get the next s i" issues of UFO ReWRrUe by sendins £6 (£5 if 8UFORA .e.ber) to: - 'BUFORA Ltd' lit 16 South WII, Burges'6 Hill Sussex RHlS 9ST.

" Midnight 800ks hlls produced its 'New Year SII1e ' catalogue IIfth so_ rare se<:ond hand titles (eg Allingh""s InflllllOus 'flying SlIucer Fro. MIIrs' end EO.., very useful very old iSSUe" of FSR). Send 110 SA£ to new address of: ­The Mount Ascerton Rd SIdmouth D .. von F,XtO 9HT T .. l, n:i95-51~ •• 6

Snippets fro. re .. deni < .. Ir your vieWR, ask Md nnswer questions) .•.

... Mtartin Schofield sugg .... t .. investigators cheCk out 'Aircraft Illustreted' IIG each IIIOnth they cerry detllil6 on .. lr events and often r .. port ailitery e"erciseG due to lllte pIece over certnin regionG. Very helpful idea. Thanks .

... Paul Green ponderG the fil. footage froe Russi .. shown dd n recent SKY NEWS document .... y. DoeG !Utyone hove details? He .... G elGO ... st illpre" ...... by the Grooe Lnke Nevad" f<><ltage of whet l<><lk Uke "e<:ret Ilircraft .

... Victor keen suggests that the 'Fog fro. Nowhere' report (NUN 158) waa aissing GO .... det ... Thia .... s just a brief GuaD!lry of a 20 pllge BUFORA investig .. tion. Ho elso SU88ssts e raUoolll alternative to lIlterpret this "n"A. thnt lh .. h" .. p in the ra"d """" " " fr.ctur .. in the Car ."""u",t and ~ilencer <le .ufner, to US n .. ders). Leaking carbon .anoddu fumes .e.tght have created the 'weird' feel1ogs.An unu .. u"l idea which I'll pass onto the inveGtlgator ..... Tt. MIlt the_ note.. <m this case thet there .. re other accoWlts of aiG6ing traffic IUId distorted car journles but he has never heerd of e lIultlple pile up nsult!ng froe ona of these Ch: Fllctor/CE 4. In fect it ls IUl interestIng 1Ul00000ly I have noticed that Guch caSeS tend not to occur on .... tor .... ya where any fore of U_ lapse or encounter ...tIUst Itoing ro 1'11'" ,"""uld inevItably prove dilla"teroUG .

. .. ['"ul John note6 thet Hick fope et the MoD hila written to hi. (21 De<:) offering to In(ore invest1gntors of any calles that tie in with e dated dghting they hnve if you pes8 on details to Air Staff 2A.11e will also be happy to 'any .are generel questione· thet you have concerning the UFO phenomenon'. A welco.., change of epproach lit MIIin Building, Whitehall.

No .. the .. n UFO N .. _ 6 -

OEATH OF A UFO PIONEER

It I .. sad to hllv .. to .. ecord the death. Just .. fter CI1.r1&t_&. of another of UFOlogy' B _t l..port .. nt pioneers. the French sdenc.. .,,-i ter end Investig .. tor ,\1 .. Mich .. l. Mlchel _ot .. &everol book. thllt _r .. tren61 .. ted Into EngU&h during th .. 1950' & and th ..... bec..- ._ of th .. fir.t r ... lly ... 6 .... Uel pubUe .. Uooo. In the 1960' . his ...,rk via PSI bro"8"ht us CI .. 6.1c Cases .. uch ... V .. l .. nsol .. and n .. X.atlll _jo .. svent. thank .. to his e~c .. ll .. nt C .. 6e hI6tOrl ..... He ha& been ill fo .. so_ It_ and hi .... cth .. contrlbuU()n$ to the field really ended a good whil .. aao.But 10 Ai .. Mich .. 1 we hav .. 10$t anothe .. of the gr .. at n_& f .. oe. the fir.t three doead •• of th .. UFO 1Sf6t .. ry.

CIRCULAR LOGIC ~ ~ '@J ~ The winter .onthe hav .. producsd an _tr .. ordlnery b .. ttle In the crop

drcle world.~OH Journ .. l publi&hed an IIrticle f .. os Jis SclmebQI .. bout wh .. t h .. s been .. call .. d the ·Swang .. t .. • tapeli.Sclmabel ... n Aae .. lcan researcher living In Englllnd.h ... In the pR"t Infuri .. ted the ci .. el .. ca..unlty with hi .. ·in .. lder' "XP06.,.,6 of coordln .. t .. d ho .. xlng .. ctlvity which he hlle written for S\A'ldey gI0&&ie6. He hl_elf won &BCond prize in 1"8t yo .. ro 'hollx 11 clrc l .. • ca.potltJon,.alr:Jng .. plctogr ... flying 6010, He 0180 appeared talUng .. bo"t hoaxlog 00 th .... rk two ver&lon of th .. Equioo~ docuaentll"y l.&t October.

Schnllbel · . KlFOH "rtlcl. provok .. d th ........ th of so_ top .. ee .... r c h .. r. who re6ponded llIlarlly to this p6 .. udonyai&ed .. eport. JI .. pU .. & IlIld cOWlt .... repUe6 h ....... flown and the d16put .. for a U. bec_ quit ... dl .. ty scrop.

In SO far "e I Can tell f .. o. the publi&hed acCOWlt .. the elisenc" of th .. ",to .. y see_ to revolv .... roWld alleglltion6 .. t .. . conf.,renc .. lllot .. ut ...... conc .. rnlog &ecrel .. genta who _y (or _y not) hllv. b ...... InftIt .... ting both UFO .. nd circl .. group6. You _y rec .. ll ay ref .... ooc. to th .. se &a-e"lled • birds' 10 NUN 157. Paul Fuller io Ilut CI:ml ""'tcher I .. ((9 for 6, :3 Selborna Court T .. v16tock CI06e Io.&ay Heap&hlr .. 5051 7TY) offar& ......... rk .. bly full and frank account of what is supposed to h.v .. hoppened.coaplat .. with trllnsc .. lpts of r.co .. ded phona clllls and b ..... vel y nlllliog all n_6.

The gist u .. _ to be th.t Sehonbel and 11 collell8"s cloi_d to be work1ng for so ... sort of sec .. al .. gency (Swan}.Th .. y spun .. f .. bulous till. but (Fulle .. s"ys) offered his evidenca that Ihe whola .. tory _s " spur of th .. BOBeOt rus ... p.rtly to See hoy far such 11 coo&piracy theory 81ght &p .... "d In thlll fi.ld. Lllter, ... en when th .. truth _a rave .. led. so_ 6OW"CeG ill UFOlogy and c .... eology IIllesadly had t .. oubl .. IIcceptiog that It r ... lly _s " t .....

That .. llegatlon is flall,. dispuled by thoae lIOurc.s. but Scbnllbel and hla colle .. ~ Rob Irviog (whose _rk Fuller publil5he. 10 TCW) COU'lter­.. rgue othervis ... Aa &uch the b .. ttl .. h .. s W8r.ad up " dull wintera sceo ...

Likewise. CONTACT UJ& 'A ... ren ...... • ClI o...sal .. y CIa.. !le .. Mrlratoo Oxon OXJ OJS) h .. ve upd .. ted those ...a:zlng cl .. i_ IIbout thair .. eee .... cher havtna dIrect cont .. et with the entltias &uppoaedl,. c .. a"t1ng ci .. cle6.ln the ftrat edition of 1993 th .. y publl&b the • entities' .. epIt .. s to questions solicited fro. reoders.A 'big incrells'" 10 'blS art' cl .. cl .... will necur 10 1993 and 11 _jo .. UFO .. vent will c.- on )larch 12 (110 by oov you &hould koov!) "..-an • .. r .. 'rl&lI:log the .. aglnS energy "tt"cklns' <?) As for ET - ther .. one .. _e lire on _rstand pria1\1ve I1f •• :d.t .. on venua but the nordie .. and their 11k of UFO .bductlon 10r. are' oot a r.ollt,.· ... So now you kDOV.

Northern UFO News , -FIRE IN THE SKY, THE MOVIE

I Jlef\t1oned briefly last issue that a big Ho~lywood IDOYie of this title 1 .. 1-.tnent. The fll. is .... itten by UFOlogist Tracy Tar_ (l believe the 60fl of singer Mel) who has penned several 'St .. r Trek: The Nflrl Generation' episodes. I«IfOH in the USA are aiding ParllaOunt· s publicity for the fn.' s release (due in .td MIIrch>.

It is actually a draantiGlltion of the (ftaOUS 'Travia Walton' abduction which b .. ppened in an Ar:h:on .. forest in Noveaber 1975; dtho"8h witb so_ fictionalised bits it .......... The .... Gound Gllghtly o.tnous aiven th .. t Tracy Tor .... felt the need to apoloaise ' for theao up front In 11 letter to MUFON 10urnlll! Tr .. vi .. Walton 111 r .. hilluina hill own Iona out of print book undlll'" the new title of the .,vie to coincide with release.

It is intriguing th .. t this fil. IIdopts th ......... f .. irly W1ullulIl Utle .. s lIy own publJshed booklet with BUFORA llbout ths Peter D .. y IIOvie fil .. published .t yellrB ago and which has half SMIII publicity in th USA. Dre_ (';ob) of ... ga riches winging our _y are probably doo.,d 1111 titles ( .... d to sllY) cannot be copyrighted. Indeed, Ti. Good h .. s b@en kind eno"8h to .. pologi .... to _ on behalf of his US publ1shers who h .. ve h .. d the br .. in_ve of retitl1ng his book 'Alien Li .. sons· lnto 'Alien Contact· for its US rele .. se. despite hi. tellIng the. of .y book of th .. t s..- n..-. Of course. I re .. lise its not Ti.·s f .. ult, IUId there's no probleJII o.nyhow .. s I .... sill91y .. rrlUlgtng for .y publl .. herG to stumble upon the bright ide .. of retitling .. pl ...... ed new edition of 'Abduction' to nets see,oh yo,,;) 'Above Top Secret·.

Seriously, ih Just one of those things .. nd (tn o.ny casu) I had the last l"ygh when P .. rftaOunt let _ orgoni .. e the novulty of 0 cOl.petition prize which is to be 0 UFO v .. c .. tion to Brit .. in. This will be offered in conjunction with the ~vle's US rel .... s .. 00 port of .. plftnDed TV .. dvertis ing cBlllf'Bign, I believe. Should be fun.

I hope to per .. Uftde th ... to do the ....... thing ID raver .. e (1e offer .. prize of .. UFO hoUdoy to thu USA) when the .,,,le c o.,8 to Britain later in the year. More oC thot, with .. bit of luck, in lhe next issue.

ECLIPSING TIlE UNKNOWN <.t> by Robed Frrmce

In Celtic tr .. dition the othervorld io divorced fro. the I ...... of thu hUlllftn world, yet SeeJIS port of the hu.an world. Its edstence _G separate fro .. yet in direct contr .. dlction, had, by Its very natW"e, to b@ unified with, the hWlftll vorld.

The legends stete thllt tbis olherworld Is ne .. r, yet hr IInd ot One end the s ..... time -..oy pIeces. Entry to it wes underground vi .. caves end burl .. 1 ~und6, .. t the botto. of lakes and river ... lt Is veiled fro. the -.rld of hUM!lllo but I .. ol""ys just .. round the Corner of re .. Hty.

Th:te 1lI1 certainly does heve 11 lot tn co~n with the contradictory n .. ture Ilnd sources of the aliens, wqho cloi. to Ca-B froa one plo.net .. nd yet .. cross section of .. bductees .. re gIven ...my plo.nat n ..... e. The .. Hens .. Iso cl .. j. to co ... fro. nenrby or for 8al .. xiee.Abductees also cl .. i. to h .. ve been taken underground, throll8h aountBin pao""8ell IUId under the sea, wh11et bel"8 tuen to the olien relllity.

n .... warping 1& .. Iso involved. Tr .. vel ti_ in olien craft Clln hIke frOll .. few .tnutes to .. few hours. Abduclees .. ru un .. ble to .. ccW" .. tely report how long they h .. ve been gone, 0J0e h .. Ying returned hours l .. terwfth .. ever .. l doye growth of bel!tl"d. In thu lBnd of fllerie.legend haG it, there 1& no ti_.

Northern UFO He_ - .-With this otherworld content, the verious II1ssions and quests for

objects of power,elc, there is an undoubted Arlhurian overtoDe entering the UFO pheno-anon.This Can dso be (ound to an eJrtent with quests to find one's 'cosaUc no .. ' ss 0 new eae 'star child' - ie people born On earth hut believing the.selves o( alien oriaio.Mosl aytholoates mate .uch play o( the _!pckal sian1ficance of n~Si e8 at the 'Round Table' Arthur's I<n1ght6 would find their na.Q& appearing at the appointed places.

Beneath the alien sheen an incredible ...aunt of sy.t>olisa e ...... to be adopting real-life proportions. Why Is this? Relevant factors do de.onstrate that en exclusively extraterrestrial hypothesis is not valid.

Regardless of how this article II1ght heve see.arl I .. not a sceptic. On the .contrary, I ... heavily inv<l]ved In tbe C<lntact_ phenowm<X1 as a p .... ticipant guided by 'n<ln hu...n' sources.Uke .any, I aleo hove ., 'lI1ssi<ln',which includes the recovery of artifacts,and through this I have experienced a great ded. As such I consider II)'sel f an dJlOst • ided' researcher because I do not have to be convinced by anybody that so.athlng is g<ling on.8ut what ls going on eJractly? That is quite another .atter!

Of cOUTse,aany s088est that the old legends were dressed up es 'fairly land' !>iltply because the ancient pIl<lples could n<lt conceive the idea <I(

extraterrestrls1 life. So the phena.qn<ln wore a disguise. But then why should thu cia'. that they .. re extraterrestrials n<lt si"91y be another disguise? The .. c .. d .... cs taday seek such eJrtraterrestrial (ET) life through technology and this is done just os devoutly os -.dievol experts c<lnteaploted devils and faerie folk.! doubt meny would be happy if SEll was a search f<lr fairy-land. In our society searching for ET Is accept .. ble;so ia legend simply adjusting to occeptability?

Any readers ..... 0 fe .. l they have relevant experiences or co_nta are invited t<l writ .. to .e and I will reply to every letter received. write t<l'­

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Als o new to report is the Southa.pton UFO Group newsletter which is a soo<! old (a.hioned duplicated .heet of the Hke dl UFO !,"oups once used to have.Oeteil. Iro. Steve Garrerd et 25 We.ton OroYe Id , Southaapton 502 gEE

UFO Tl.es Suamer 92 (inc 8UFORA sub: - 2C Leyton Id Knrpenden Hert. AL5 2TL) Nil/her lilts (!J Ilrrivinl! in aid odnter, but 11 double i,.,._ to try to cfttcb up. Be,.t de61lf1led UFO -tr lUJywhere theBB day6,/ouperbly Iftid out lJIId l!lOBsy. Hobert Itoore ft66e66e6 IFO optlO11s,lIanfrfJd Ca,.lOlrer surveys lIFOlotfista belie(s.~erry Blower on 'elilllll' cry61,,1,. lJIId" det"llsd Ken Phl111pfi raport on /J do_ ancount#v "t " convent. A 10lllf _H, but OIl look,. "Ion. worth H.

PesOfiUS Spring 93 (DeteUs: - 126 OrlJJlge Id Guildford Surre, GU2 6Qf') A pot pouri o( sluff on ~t,.,lays, IJnClent IIstron"utfi ond /JF06 of relev"nce to the Surrey IfTfle.Loved the brlllllflJtly funny '6fJ6sip ' colu.J eyen if thlf IdlM ...,6 B116hUy hlllf Inched fr_ Paul Fuller's Crop IMtcher.

World UFO 2 <Detailfi: - 16 Newton Green Gre"t Dwwow ~")( eMS IOU) I couldn't beHav. th,,! tll. Potter, IflIntle, ""I ... 1ey ertld. on CEIV6 tJnd Ar_Seddon hlf6 I!tppel!tred yet IflIllin (for the zllIionlh ti_) - sUll,Hs sood if you h"ven't Seen it ... There ere e160 u6eful COpi.6 of _die "rtlcl.6 In her. wHh lots of strtJntf. tel.6 Md reports frOM lfround tJnd ebout.

ION De<: ($30 US lor 6: - 2457 W Petenon Aye Chicego IL 60659 USA) As usual tJII inv"1u,,b1e aiz . .. peru",,1 Ihr0"8h tha archives o f the lete er"y Bl!trker (he af the oril!J.naJ IlIB f ..... ) .•. " detailed r."l.1I of the SpHzberSeIJ UFO crash lJIId .. report on ft CE 2 fro. Ru_la {or Is H the CIS, ?

MUFOH Joornftl ($30 lor 12: - 103 Oldtown. Rd Seguln TX 78155- 4099 USA) NeeUy rede6ilP'ed for 1993 lIIId with undoubtedly Iha bJ86.&t cJrcuhtlon in the world (over 4300) Md If. the world6 only UFO _thly _at be 11 serious con&iduatian for thos .. wnntintf to atay tn t ouch. IlK and lsw. iS6ues have the S""'"S"I. IIrtlc1 .. /1.tters pro Md con. Ther.'s a pi.ce on udnl! polItIcal pr.6SUrS to tret //FO action . . Th .. Ed IMlter" photos rlHUSlle6611d (a/lll]n) tJnd lira '6tJll vtllld' IInd ther.s IIn J.nter .. stins look et the tl_- travsl theory.

BAf Ouc (S25 CAN c06h 2 Sl Cllflr Ave We&t St. 607 Toronto Ontario MY4 lL5) Thi5 15 a really Japrl!66ive Md J.#Iporlant CtJnlldlM bl- .onthly l>III.lch focu&e& on closl1 encounter6 fro. a p6ycholotficl!tl, but nat lSCeptJ.clll, perspedi" •. It d1tfe&is the 11 terllture in specl.ll. t Jour-naI& r.r the aind, hypnosl., .tc, tJnd carri •• lotIO of feedbllcl on topics fro. 6uDscribinl! lay UFO r ...... rchers.

Orbit.r No" (ElIchange for dolll onl,: - PO Box 652 R_ding MA 01867 USA) Has a detalled presentation of whet ha6 been a &eri.s af Ilide1y circulated 'undersraund' reports w/deh 6iId" to underlline the credJ.bJlHy o( the nDV

infiWOus '.KanhatttJn TrtJn5fer' .bductlon liIere If world leader SUPP06edJy UII

aCE 4 tale plac ... Includes Jerry C1ark' & reet60lled r.6pal6a to the p .. per&.

ru.l C"usa Dac (S20 US, for 4.: - PO Box 218 Coventry CT 06238 USA) The semllb1 .. review of the let",.d offlcI"l docu.ents,savernaent cover-ups et c by the authors of the &eaine1 work on this th ..... 'Clear Int.nt'.

Swa.p Gas Hov (Detlll1&:- Box 19 18 Winnipeg Manitoba lJe 3R2 C/IOlldll) Chris Rutlo.,Gld 's al.,.y" Infor-.d ttnd e1way6 entertalnintf look 1ft UFO lJIId cIrc le happenings In CtJntJde ttnd, fro. CMada, ca-nting on ."erywhflre e1se.

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Fortean TiMes 67 (£2,.ajor newagents:sub yia 20 Paul Streat Fro.e BAll IOX) All tbe ususl wonderful news stories lVJd Klrlds tderdest ItrtJcles; lnc If

looJr 1ft tbe Sweedl6b ."stery under_tar UFO/sulnlarlnes iU/d If behlnd tbe scenes .. ssessae.nt of tbe BBCs no ... lnfM«1us balloOleeO 'Gb06t flfetch' stunt.

Annals Oec (f5,for 4:- 'Gerry Lovel)' 8 St John St Wells SOMerset BAS lSW) No ... tbis hes SlfttJed do_ iU/d the DTP progr_ ls not 60 overpo~:l.nlf lt ls If nlce looJc1nlf. el_ys :l.nterestJlJIf. a1,.-ture of ..... 11 tIOd el!lsily dl[festlble lte.s OIl NI lncredlble rNlIfI! of striU/fl8 phena-ena. A c",t",losue of the tderd.

Skeptic (£J2 (or 6: Oept B PO Box 475 Manchester M60 2TH) Desplte whst I sey ln .y edltorlal tbls ls e very l~rtant publlcation iU/d you ' 0_ it to yourselves to r .. ",d It.L1J: .. _.you probsbly won't sfITee Jdth everythll11f. but you do need to keep up Jdth tbe /U"lfWtIJIlts./ki!t. hlJs I!I very useful p1ece by Steulfrt C~bell ",sk1nS if bell l1shtnlntf eJdsts (quite '" turn",bout for", UFOI0tf1st who once erlfUed UFO c",ses were Bt!) In l.tw. ther .. ls If f"'sc1nIJUng, fITueso.e, but (1f it were aod1f1ed!) not I!It ell bad.1del!l to test 'psst 11fe' stories ..• by SlJ8lIet>t:lnll thl!lt, eg,in .y reported cl!Ise of '" ...,JIIll/J who ·beee ... I!I plg flJI".eT (see 'The IIfterllfe') &be be hrtnded I!I 11ve plg IIDd ",sited to turn it lnto s",us"8es whllst under bypnos1s ... £r, Yes,_ll

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BOOKS OF THE MOMENT

Just I!I note to report thl!lt Fourth Jl'!Icobs book on ..t....rlciU/ l'!Ibductlon Cl'!Ises; 'Secret .:id Jfercb. Its ldentlcl!Il to tbe lIS ed:ltlon tUld lf you bought thls fro. EnllJDl'!I st thelr super de .. l price soon sner its US release lsst year you OIOI]'t heve lost .. penny th",t you tho~t you .ught hIJve seved had you "'~lted the UX edltlnn (6holJ8 h<HI lI"od Enlf!JMs US 1aport d ..... Js ",re). I'll be rev1etdng the book n ..... t lssue ..... lVJti .... the UX edltion ls ln 6hops st £14.99, ..... "'ctly the prlce (post free) fro. EnltpM DesifIT' "t 15 Ryd"J Street BurnJey Lancs BBI0 IllS.

1I1so just out ls 'The IIfterllfe', '" PJ"tkus h"rdbllcJr frfHI P~ter Hough DOd . • yself.This revlews ,,11 the pros tUld cnns of the evldence for stu-vlvaJ tUld lets the re"der judge thls e8 you OIf)uld In '" trl"'l tUld then effectIvely k1rlte the concludlng P"8e of the book l'!Ic;cordlng ta ynur mm verdict.lt hl'!IS quite l'!I feu plctures l'JIOd 1s l'!IVl'!Il1sble for £16.99;l'!IlthoUfIh " ch .... per fill Salth bookclub d .... l Is coa1ntI soon If yo" subscrlbe to th ....

IIlso due out in " busy .clnth af IMrch ls " co-p1l,Jt10n edlted by Dsvld Bsrcl"y (UFOs: The Flnl'!I1 .J!ns .... r). I kno ... nnthl"lI l'!Ibout lt yet, except thl'!It Bll!Uldford publlsh ln h"rdbl!lck. If I get " copy by n ..... t :Issue 1'11 revleu it.

VISIONS Of TIlE BOWMEN AND ANGELS Kedn McClure 32pp booklet 1993

'1I11d Pl"ces' specll1l ",ssessins the letpmdllry vislons of pbiU/ta. bo ...... l'JIOd ""lIels supposedly Seen by "l1led soldlers OIl the bloodled flelds of the herotc 'defe",t· lit Hons ln 1914 on the outset of ""rld /oIor I. Dewt .. rl'!Iges oIlS to ~sther the story waS lnsplrstianol flction, so.e J:lnd of psychosis or l'!I tIenu1ne f>l'!Irl.'UJnr .. J] e1tperlence l'JIOd there sre f",sclnetintI twlsts DOd turns ln the sft..."t to f"tho. th1s out. Kev1n ls '" spec1"l1st ln sett1"lI behind rtmlOurS tIDd S5 such does IJ splend1d job nf presentintI sll thls d",tll. £2 (post free) (£2. 50 o/s): - 42 Vlctor1l'!I Rd Ht Ch"'rles St Austell PL25.fqtJ

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MEDIA MATTER S

A look at UFOs in the public eye

UFO wifie there _re e couple o( bill recent &torle •• Tbe flnt senerated a lot of attention in -.id Dece.ber when there _. a . pectscuhr fitsf\l1ng ov... the SheU .... d I.lande. Tbe Glasgow He .. ald (U Dec) told how a UFO 'bla~lng a trail of &po .. k. end a vapour cone In It. ~e' pa&&ed ove .. the Sull0. VOB 011 te .. -.inol (whe .. e 60Qll art .... a _Jar ecol"lllcal dluster b"ouaht the world'. eedia OocUnll). Vs& thi. a tt_ travelUnll UFO a f_ weeks early? Pe .. haps npt.Acco .. ding to the cOG&tguo .. d he saw the object fa .. at least 30 seconds a .. ound 21.00 00 12 Dece.be ...... d it _. • ... 11 within the at.ospne .. e and abov .. lhe douds·. Tbe object gl~d dull red and c ..... f .. OII the north -..t. passlnp; the vUlaRe of B .. ae then the oU te .. alnal. It .oved • feste .. than a Jet fighte .. but slo ...... than .. IIhooUng .t ... •. Th .......... e 16 olhe ...... po .. ts _de ( .. 0. the coast .. l arS .. of lhs Islands.L ... wick Oblle .. voto .. y were beeusingly said to havs no explanUon to offe .. and saw nothing.

The IIto .. y coincided with neW6 of lhe Au.-ora spy phne .. eleased f .. oe the USA. The Gyo .. dloo (6a_ day) de6cribing this a6 having a top speed o( 5500 Mf'H also picked up on Le .. wick· s co_nt and 0 police .. tate_ot th .. t 'we Just haven't a clue whal it could be' to &uggellt • link with a Gee .. et fllghl of the JeLlJ<>wQve .. ,Jt tOQk a local astrono .... to &UMest what is c learly the eost p .. obable 1I01uUon - that tl>1 • .... apac. Junk. The I2A.1lx Reco .. d (who did not ask .y view) cHed ey then .. ecent book (UFO. and How to see thee) a .. singling out Scotland. whi ch _11 unfo .. tunate a& It seeaG likely lhis _s irrelevllllt her •• The UFO _s steply bethr &een f .. oe Shetland because o( the cla .. lty of sky and open a .. pect sur .. oundlng the a .. ea.

The 1I0lulion .. s.Uy .... s conf1reed when it bec_ clea .. that right across northern Scotland (eg a .. oWld Aberdeen) the s._ object _" l;efUl .. t the sa .. tt_. Thus It _ . ailes high tn the ateasphera.Although the -ateor theory took hold for a tJ .. thJ ~ WOII neve .. an option. The long duration and 6~date pasl;age clearly proves thi~ had to be he .. vier.-alalic Dnd artifiCial space Junk - a booste .. rocket r e-ente .. iog the ateo5phere. Th.~e svents a .. e becoaing ea .. e and eora f .. equlllnt al; _ shoot so .uch IIItuH inlo o .. bit and when they decay and co .. back down age1n, as be .... thaJr firey death in the furnace of ateol;phe .. Jc frl c tlon can be very s pec tac ula .. lndeed.

The oth.... btS t .. le _Ill "esardtng Innuary' . 'OlolHoI Con5plracy' confe .. ence at Weebley. You will find a p .. evtew on p. 16 of the last NUM Dnd it _ . dOlO p .. oeated up front on UFO Call. I Sather it ead. it onto the I ..... Whale &how on TV too. All of which .akes quit. pU%~IJns the eedJa tale that lhere wos so .. 50rt o( barrie .. to 5top it being publlcl • .a.

The ~ Telegraph (21 Ded repo .. ted how tha o .. S .... I ...... had goabled £120,000 on hirtng Weebley ..... en .. for the 12 hou ....... 100111 on a cl .. taed global conspiracy (bringing in UfOe, Kennedy, AIDS. etc). Yet by then only 51 of the 12.000 6eata h .. d been Bold. Ten doys 10ter,no doubt partly thanko to this PR. a huge story' Save the world. seots in all parh' ... po .. ted a rise to 105 salll& with Just a _ell. to so.Qu11e .. e"pectable.one would have thought. had such a huga hall not been booked for what wo. to ea"t pllople a rathe .. ephe-aren.l confertulce. Indeed the o .. gentserlll aven told .. HOT to proeote It as a UFO evant.which __ y not hava helped .all it to NUN 0 .. UFO Call r"1!lulars. The underclII"rent o( the conspiracy unde .. revJ e w _" al60 rather vague and yet v .. st. thus .aklnS it pratt, hard rar _st to take In.

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Of the proble. reteiUng ticketa one orgeniaer .... a dted aa aaying thet it hod to be hard to Just sell 60 few. But,""'en the big weekend arrived IWt Gu!!.rdian (6 ran) told us thet the event hod been .coved to e ...... 11er 2000 seot venue at Wel&bley. It elleged thot one organiser atated thot 'we hove hod no advertiaing published in UFO .... sazlnea.Their printing _chinea heve broken down. All of th .... • Thet atetelEllt alght hove been thought true, but 60 far es this Htlle UFO _Snzine Is concerned it is utter to .. h. Our printer .. got NUN out without any h .. ssle end UFO Cell g .. ve full detei1s includIng the box office ntmber for over 0 _k.

Anyhow, co_ the doy. con .. pirecy or oot.300 tw-ned up - e figure eny UFO conference tn Britnin would be delighted with. The ObBener reviewing the event (in sarcastic ter.a) again refered to the printlns press to atory.lt would he interesUng to know whot lies at the heert of this bel1ef, .. s presumnbly there BU6t be 80_ slimaer in It? Does anybody knoW?

It wss left to the We,bley Observer (26 lan) to reelly su. it up with words I dore not repeat ao I suspect they were libellouo.The Weabley press officer (obviously chuckling hia Uttle aocks off) added;' We cleared the roof to .give rOOB for eny Wlusual craft to l end but it .... " all in v .. ln.'

BRIEF CASES

So_ current investiSetions

The Derbyshire Flap:

My thanta to NUN reader .. end Omoar Fowler et PRA for infor_tion on os sp .. te of sightings in Derbyshire oround the turn of the year.

They began In Nove.t>er when 0 hU8e triensle with red lights at the side wos seen on severol occeoions;eg et Pleesley (3 Nov) and Breedsoll (11 Hoy). Then on 30 HoYa..her when e white liSht ...... seen by fow- groups of w1. tnesses in the I.onshy Mill "re .. , including .. t least one poUce officer. At 21.00 th .. t night e couple et Calwich Bank .. aw a red light .. nd e green light in vertic .. l erray .aving north over Ellastone. They then stopped end retreated on the s" .... patb. There .... 01 010_ speculation about a alreae of trnffic lights en Or lasers being Ulled hy ilton Towars th..- pnrk.

00 7 Deceaber at 16.~5 n man lit Hartlngton heading into BUlCtOn snw two bright lights,one e1ther llide of the rond."", he wstched Onll .aved end eppeared as en elongated bright light. Then they vanished.l.llter lh .. t night, nt 21. 40 trnvllllers rlltw-ning fro .. Ashbow-ne to Derby "t Edn .. stOll lIaw a bright object thllt scurried aCroes the sky towsrds Derby faster then a pilUle.

Moving into 1993 the reports continued. One of them ..ade brief .... ntion In the national press and on TV. A police sllrgelUll (Phll Gelrner) and PC Hnrry Dick reported a bright light aroOUld 18.00 over .lllburn on 12 Il1nuary. They were responding to a 999 colI fro. 0 housewife who had eeen it banging in the sky. Meny other 61ghlngs occurred thet evening oround Cheaterfield end It .... s seld to reseable 0 't .. dpole' end be yery bright. The relll clue is that it .. tayed "",re or lesll In one plnce for age6 and wes seen in the 11 ....

pl .. ce next night. There Is no doubt that in these 11 end 12 lanuary reports the UFO WS .. the planet venus, extr ..... l,. br1ght in the early eyening sky dw-Ing Jllnuary and the source of ..... y cnlls. We even got so_ chlUllleled vie loorell Bank end it _s 11 hit eab .. rrassinS having to tell witnesses that their UFO wes 0 planet, so .... thing one would a6S11DE1 lodrell aJght have known!

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However • .or. puzzUna .r. the triangl .... nu",. r.turned to £ll""too. a.nd Woatton on 19 lenuar,.1"\IO .an pv. ch""Q in .. car but lo"t It on the -.or ... no! ... is the ...,rland .. reil .... ere th.,r. h .. v .. bo!:en .any .. transe LITS report .. in the pll .. t.I .. th .. phanto. helicopter on thQ ·-ov ... s .. in?

Thr.e 8UI3

visulIll, Dece.ber

chllll.nged alc. 1981 Or .... don. CII.rnllrvon, Gwyn~d ,"".RA Cf-'

Mr L _s in bOld lit 02.00 with hi. prlfriead .... en sh. h.llrd alce in the cevit, floor. He went upstllirs and lit ber insi&ience ... t 11 trllp.Ten .tnut ... lllt.r the trllp _t 0(( and h .. _t up to I1nd thnt it hlld Idlled ..

"'U6e. So be dJ6C .... ded the body and r.,..et it. Twice _re tI •• trllp cnuaht .tce In the __ , over the D&l<t h .. lf hour. '" L ..... ys;· I don't know .... , I did tht ... I hllv. never kill.d anythlll8 before or sI.nce.· Aft.r the third ... U68 h. decided Ilot to reset the trllp. About 20 alnutes IIfter pt tlng bllck into bed h. llwoke to find three ..all blue/green lights with 11 whit. centr •. Th.y for_d 11 trilUlgl. end hov.red In the corner of the roo .. Hudaing hi .. alrlfdend .. he "wok .. to see th ... too. no"y both _tch.d for 2- 3 ainutes until they fllded out. Tbey h .. ve of tan tlllk~ IIbout it and concluded thllt ths&& UFOs ware in het the soul .. of the three atee they had killed. Wh"tever the CII".,. th .. t .. st be the worlds _ .. t unu"ual IFO .xpl .. nation!

8433 22 April 198' Ori.aby.Hu.ber"id. C3-5

On thl. dllle ,.. W and hi • .other obseryed a for_tlon III light. n,ina e .... t_rd out to .... " (roe th .. bedt-..... o( th .. ir house. Training btoocular&

- ) onto the array two Jet "Herbur ... .,r.. _re

~:;~~ .. _~. ...,.n and he wrote the thing off"" eircraft.

But l .. ter a fri""d fro. Cleethorpe ... r"ported "' ... .. .. h .. chllsed it to th .. boating I ...... at ...... t

:;'-::::;-;-::--'::0=="';:-,,-::::-.-. proved the 6e.a1e ti_ < .. round 23.30). He ..., ... directly undern.,ath it .. nd hnd de.cribed it .... " huge triangul.r for.atlon s tudded with white 118ht" and' rollin8' rorwnrd, It is ieportant to not., th .. t this occurred on the s...a day .... the r ..... us 'Saltne"t' ca .. ., .... d aaidst III wnve or RAF Incidents <"8 .. landing .. t Llan8 .. rnyw. Clyvd end an object hovering outsid .. Lokanh .... th Air Forc" BlIse).Ther. was .. leost certllinly " .tlltllry eX8rct"e on .. t that ti ... and so .. o( thes .. event .. .ust pr" .......... bly relate to unusual lIf;thtty connected with thllt.

9034 9 Deceeber 1990 PllUng. Lanc .... hir. C3- '

A fllr ... r "nd 8 ...... 8 .. "",,".r "t 11. 45 obser .. ed " . ..... throup! triangular object above eac"arh ... Sands. They ... id that it hlld .. reddish Slav inside and we. floating over th .... ends h .. lld1na out to 6 .. ". Arter "haut a .tnute It SWivelled .. roWld in .... h .... p .:IUOn <without banking) and then d16l1ppeared Into .. point SOurce o( light ... So ... "ind or .. unset ~rage e(f .. ct,perhllps?

9123 16 October 1991 Llendudno.Cwynedd Mar8l1r .. t Fry .3-6

A lIOn and wife ob68rved " brlsht object ne .. r th" Llttl. Or ... end vi" binoculars .... w it as "11 oval with' bays' Inset. It __ ln vl .. w (or 2 hour .. , perhape sUUe6tJn8 ..- kind o( .... tronoeJ.c ll.l explenlltlon. Do any r .... der. hllve any possibllitl.,e a. J h .. ve not co .. up wllh IIny obvious candid .. te ... Ho doubt St e .... rt Caepl>ell """"}d rec~ &088 kind o( .. strOftOlllc .. J airage !

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9124 4 Jfov-':Ht~ 1991 Llandudnc:l, Gwynedd ,\4-7

Th. _ two witneBseB a few daYB late~ observed a Bi.-11 .... object at 03.33 but thiB _s s_ller and presant for only 15/20 ainuteB before 'dillllppea~ing aB suddenly as it arrived·.On tbia cx:caaion a 8econd witnell" nearby 01"0 ...... an obj.ct near around level over Ueld" by her hou .... She intiependantly described it a" 11 do.a witb a r .... of -..lU- coloured Ughts "CroBB the top.

CASE HISTORIES

UfO OVER RN BASE Report by len Phillipe

1 _t thia wi tneBB on the recent • The Tt_. Tbe Plac.· TV show and ha agr.ed to offer a datal1.d ~Bpo~t which Ken thankfully secured.

The incident occurrBd on e Sundey In 19!56 when th • .,.. Mo th..., in the RAF.VOIB at" AkrotJ~ie baBe on Cyp~UII.H1B Job at the U_ waB to ferry pilot.. to flight control and although ther. weB no flytng on thtB Bunny day he was with 6 Or 1 of thea telking when they Bpotted the object.

It wa .. de6crtbed aB being slang .. U. cyUnder -.d. of diver IUId reflecting the sunlight. They wstched 1t standtng still for Ba.B ainuteB IUId the beBe -..t onto .. for. of alert. A C .... berra _ .. then Iler .... l.d and took off 1n purButt of the object . Msny then on be ... >Mre able to _tch .. B lb. plena ;j1

-'\ . ...- . clt.bed ... p to_rd the hovering object. JO , •

AB .it closed tn there _B " dr .... u .c ",---:, .. j' chense In behsvtour. The UFO .... ddenly (.) fUpped onto He IIdge and r.v ... I.d theot ( . )

it ~1I .. lly _B dish Bhape.Fo~ 1!51-.1nuh.B:_::;=-,,;:::-:-;;.-;;;;-;:;-;;;;:;""';;-_ _ _ sround besed witne •• ea had only Been it. rt. fro. a Btde on position.

In wh .. t .. ppt!ared e clear r ... pon ..... to the approach of ths Canberra the UfO now accelerated ~apldly "'pwarda tn an arc that '_ds th. Canberra See. to Btand Btill·. The 8lIparienced air crew eBtt_ted that it _ved fro_ zero to .Bbout 2000 Mf'H tn unde~ 30 Beconds and that the~ ........ t ha.,. be..., a way to Bhield the crew (rOIl' G' forceB.

It wss IBter d1BCo.,e~ed during the exteuB1.,e deb~ier1ng that followed that the object had been clearly recorded on radar •• .,en before it a~rtved above th. ha .... and _s tracked for 80_ diatance .. fter H deperted. It wso; .. t a height of about 500 feet GOd _a SO clellT GOd dt&tlnct th .. t. aa ... 11 .aYB;·All th06e In the 8quadron accepted that ·the,· e.iat GOd nothing ~ll ever aller .y kno .. ledge that Is .... thia thln& .•

Haa anyone eny ideas about how t.o tr .. ct doo.m any posBlble recorda of thiB incident - so like Be.,eral otherB fro. tbe tl ... we've reported in NUN over the past (eg the Co--ander Towneend-VltberB .. ffalr over BOBCOabe Down and the recently ~eported Augullt 1956 intercept nea~ the 1.1. of Wtght)?

------" A DR£A)I OF ALIEJfS Report by Jllelnnle Warrenllune C ..... ron

..... Jf reed an articleB In a -.,' .. _gazine about abucUon c .. sea IUId begsn to wonder .. bo ... t her .,ery alailllr '<Ir ...... o( "11\1 Jndlde .. UFO. noe event occ urred about lata aprtna 1981 tn Chtlton,OlIrordllhtre but the witn .. ne now 11veo; to Lancaahlr. and _B dudled by the abo.,. 1n.,eBUsators.

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,... Jf 1 •• ald to ba _rriad with on. cbild,. pr.dict.1ne: Chri.tian and ~lthout !ntar •• t In UfO. or tb. p.ranonaa1.She had .ssuaed it to be • '_ird night.r.' until reedlng thlt ~.l:1n •.

Sll. &_d to .~e .t .bout I _ to _ • bright l1abt outaide IInd got out of bed Ilnd ~kad downs tairs (without trying to ..Ji:e bar bu.bIlnd).ShQ r.lt 'guided.' but _ .. d.f1n1tely .,dna und.r bar """' control.

Once outBide rW ••• " • • buge .pac.llhlp' .bov. tb. road. It _s round with. do_ an top and GurrOW\ded by wlJJte ligbt.. It cov.r.d lb. width of ten ho ........ but. _ . utterly .11ent. Sh. th_ felt bar •• lf 'lifted up' and put on • t.bl • ..aer. _ 'ucruU.Ungly pIllnful' ..,. ...... noUoa or ber internal org_. occurred.. Sb. _ ...... bl. to atop thia. balne: paralyaed. acr-tne: 10 pain and r ",:"lltng 11tn •• 1ae bafor. 10a1np; con.ciousn ••••• xc.pt tbat thr ••.• things' _r .. besid. h .. r (h"" by b.r f_t and th. other by her head). She could not describe tha. but Doted that other thing. (lik. robot.) ........ in tb .. background. Sh .. added that they see-.:! to hav. no conc.pt of h .. r lIurferina and likened H to a TV doe_tDr, she sa" 1at..- .... er .. BDl ..... were caught,tassed. and reIQa5ed.The entItle. did th.ir Job obli.lous to bow it .tgbt be hurUng the fish In .. xactly lh. _y that she _G tr .. ated.

When &he awok •• he ~ted to writ. the Inc1d.nl art a. a night_re but "Ull felt the pain.8e<;"uG. of th ... p.ain and ex8Ainatton of her body ab ... "tnod 10 tb. b"thrOOll "fraid to ptlliB _t .. r. She then went to a airror to look lOt herself and D& if tb1& werD a post hypootic spell all tb .. pDln suddenly di6Gpp"ar.d.Sh. had no obvloUl! •• t .. rnDI Barklng&.

,.... M bed difficulty .l.eplng for &0_ U_ after_rd6 but &b .... till reg.rd .. it ". a very vivid drll .... althougb belnS puzzl.d by the Inten"ity and Ungering p.ain.lfIIr .oVII to Lancashire 16 .onths lOIter WIllS unconnected and &he ~ to h.". no troubla coping sev.ra! yeers l"ter. Th. in"e&tigaUOII tea. decided llIJllinst regre&&1on hypno&!s or the ide" of showing ber pictures of different type. of "Uen.

This first rate CD&e in"eatigation •• plorlls all thQ opUon .. with a witness who 16 dafintely not .lIeking ... n6atlon.U .... 5h •• duall, apologieed to th~ fnVR~t1gfttors for c.u.Jng thea to coae and ae .. h.r.Hra Jf clai .. to ha". r.ad nO booIia on the subject nor to be Int.r.sted In Ibductlona, but did know about UFO., of coursa. She WIII& very bone ... t .bout thQ probl_ anyon. haG .cceptlng it ". reality,i. tha (act that no neighbours ( 1.1.ad to &ell

it. Th .. eventG,lnt.restingly, took place near an .toaic po_r .tation. Over.ll, thiB iB • very IIlpres&!". c.se wtIic b reelly puts ua right at

the heart of the dl1...a about the CE " e.perience.By 1981 tbare had been enouah d"ta i n print In tabloid ~peper .. and on TV about abduction cane for fe ... to be truly i-.... fro. contact even if not --'ne: sucb d"ta out. It i6 prllsent in the subconGc1ous and aigbt .U-..lat. • yhid fant.sy. On the othllr hand, if CE 4s do bappen in so __ , 11thill'" thlll1 • • pur.ly vlalon.ry encounters,then tbera .re ... ev.ral points In Mr. Ma atory th"t s ... to _tch little kn~ "&pecta of such" r.aUty.For ."a.apl., thll analogy wltb b.ing tre.ted 11k. _ tag 8<ll_n or the focua1na: or tb. poln/fear aroW\d the genital/gynaecoloaical er."s or th. body.

How does one .ak. " diGl1nct1on bel_en MI.thar tbi. iB a rHl prototype CE 4 or 'Just' a dr.",. "" tbe wiln ... ss bers.lf thinks? In the USA regr •• s ion would be encouraglld, but ... kno~ that aight trtlJ8.r a d.apar leve l fIlnt.sy (used on thi & &tarting point' -.or,') as easlly ft. it aiabt &tl ... late ftCtual recall of "ny bypoth.Uc"ll, burried Incident. Th. A_de"n ...... uld .. y that by doing the bypnoa1s _ have the dftt. to evaluate. We tend not to pr.sa if • witness i& reluc lllOt and then are left with only permanently unrellOlvlld queations ••. Whlch 1. tbe right way to go?

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F r N A L W 0 R 0 S

Up c:wU.nfI Is the SOS aVNr NmlliJl European conference JII Lyr:ms. '11Ils ,ear H I. on J.QL.J.Z. MlcJ.J.. end If 'OU c'"" speak French It pra.lSBS to be .. reel treet. For Further details of w.at Is on" of £urOPIf'. _In .... enl. <;"an lllCt the DrtJenlser. ,d Bo. 324 /3611 Af~fJII-PrDrenclf Ced_ I .

Nearer ha.. the BIJFORA lecture prDtJr_ contl/w.s et thlf London BIISJn.ss SdlooI (Resents Perk OUter CJrdlf,1IeGr the Buer Sf tube) at 6.30 ,.. on .oiru. 2 .dRcll- Busty TayIor td.ll sire e pJdorJlJJ rerl_ o f l"st ,eMS crop drde crop ••. on .sa.t 1 &x Ken Phll1Jps trill tlfckl. aodern cont"dees.

Delells have also been 1lflI10tm<;"ed "bout this 6_r6 -.1n <;"onferen<;""s. Thar. "re h., (so Far/) '111. BflFORA erent ."'es SOlllh For Ihe flrst tJ_ In " FIf., yeers. This tJ_ · H le "t the Ilrd'Vlfrtdly of BrJstol School of Chttalstry on C..."tocks Close, Brlstol. O"tes ore ~ H lJd.x L £m H l.JIlx . To i;/"te speakers lined lip Indude MlFON IIOtorlee,hlerl<;"en nsel!lr<;"hen; Io'IIlt Jtndrue "nd Dermis SI"c" ".ycholOfllst Or John S1J"., and the usual renffl! of lnvlfstJs"tors prasentJll6 their _r08. For full d"t" end bookfl>fJ for. _He, ­BIIFORA Consre6!i ",e Le,s Sufte I 2C Leyton Rd IhJrpenden Horls AL5 21I.

As IIsllaI there odlI also be .... e .. .."I "t S1IefFJeld;iJlthoqrl! "nett ven"e he6 H.." round (The Pol,tecllnfc II!Jln BuJ.ldlns on Pond StreetJ.Ostes l!lre &.l1J. 4JI6 L Sua J.5. 4U6. r ha_ yet to See a 111$/ o f speakers but I S"thtilr H /s set to fndude LJnd" "'ulten HoOle. the /JS <;"aUl e eJtJl,JtlolJf; exrert, end Hood Napkins 8Glcfrw lfIIother of his trips to our ,;ho,. .. s to updlfte hl6 ebduction .... rk. o..1,,11s lJre aveJ1"ble ,d" the rUN "ddre6S halol#:-

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