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Congratul ati ons on your fi rs t i s sue o f Journal UFO. I found it to be qui te in te res tin g and esp­ecial ly en j oye d re ading the trans cript from the "Gerry Arms trong" cas e .

I have en cl osed the Apri l /May , 1 9 79 i s sue of our News le tter .

Sonnie Wheeler, President, Cambridge UFO Research Group.

(Thanks Bannie. Enjoyed reading your news letter. - E d . )

Th ankyou for mai ling me a copy of your new Journal UFO. It i s very we l l p l an­ned from an art and l ayout point of view and I app­rec i a te the qual i ty o f paper used i n the c over and contents . Very ex-

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(Hope you like the quality of the paper we 've used for the cover this issue� Earl. -Ed . )

Re ad the fi rs t volume o f Journal UFO an d found i t ve ry in te re s ting indeed .

Would l ike to see an ar ti c le on te leporting i f pos s ib le .

Keep up the good work , your Journal UFO i s need ­ed .

N. McLelland, Barrie, Ontario.

Congratul ations on an impre ss ive , h andsome ly pre s en ted firs t · i s sue! Your own arti cle on the mi s s ing s even hours was , o f cours e , of p arti cul ar intere s t, and I look for­ward to seeing more . P leas e en t_er us for a ye ar ' s sub s cription .

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Missing Seven Hours

I th ank you for forward­ing a copy o f your j ourn al with the mis s in g s even hours reve aled .

In s canning the book (The �ssing Se ven Hours ) � I was di s appoin ted that the s even hours h ad not been probed .

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l i ttle annoying in that he attempts to force his own b iase s on the s ub j ec t at times , r�ther th an s imp ly draw out his memory o f the expe rien ce .

I t speaks we l l for Ge rry that he re fus ed to respond to the ins i s ten ce th at h i s experi en ce i s symbo l i c . ·

Thanks again . J i m Lorenzen, International Director,

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(Thanks for your comments� Jim. I was a lso concerned about the 'symbolism ' app­roach� but was assured by the psychiatrist that he was simply exp loring al l possibi lities. For further discussion on this, please see the article on the an­alysis of the seven hour period in this issue. -E d.)

I re ad The Missing Seven Hours be fore Chri s tmas and I was deep ly s truck by i t. As your book de al s w i th ' synchron i s ti c ' phenomen a I would l ike to menti on the fo l lowin g even t .

Your book i s one o f thos e few whi ch h ave ' com­pe l le d ' me to buy them . Even th ough I dec i ded to pos tpone purch as ing i t ti l l afte r the vacations , I ye t found mys e.l f turnin g - almo s t b y a physi cal force - to purch as e i t anyway . I ' ve had a coup le o f experiences o f thi s s ort with books whi ch l at­er turned out to be h i gh ­l y s i gn i fi can t in some fashion . ( I am a hunch fo l l ower , in other words . )

My ex�erien ce fo l l owing

the purch as e was rather un ique , however . Havin g gotten the b ook home I lai d i t as i de and began t o prep are a me al . Whi le d o ­i n g so I fant as i zed (day­dre amed) th at a friend vi s ited me , s aw s ome "St ar Wars " posters on the wal l and s ome UFO l i terature , and asked me i f I re a lly be l i eved in "th at s tuff" . Whereupon (in imagination) the phone began to ring and when answered began to emi t a h orrid beeping . I ye l l ed to Bob t o swit ch on the t ape re corder ne ar him and gave him inst ruc tions to operat e i t so we cou l d get the noi s e on t ape . Aft erwards I to ld him th at th is s o rt of thing was no t Ma Be l l ' s fault but it had h appened to other Ufo l og­is ts (in the daydre am I was one ) and I showed a pas s age o r two in a b ook to prove that such s ounds (pul s in g beep s ) h ad been he ard ove r Ufo l o gi s ts ' t e l ephones and h ad been re corded . I exp l ained that our recording was ve ry im­por t an t becaus e it could be comp ared with others .

See ing th at I h adn ' t opened your book yet I th ink thi s rather viv i d daydr�am re al ly hit home with re spect to the mater­ial in the text cove ring the CFGM episode and the t aped phone l ine di sturb ­an ces (I ' m ce rt ain I never he ard o f e ither) .

I ment i on thi s episode no t t o brag (or b ore ) , but to help expl ain my convi c­t ions th at :

1) ' Synchronis ti c ' phen ­omen a are much more common th an our offi ci a l ly accep ­ted (academi c - s cient i f i c ­mech ani s ti c) wor ld-views al l ow for ,

2 ) Such event s appe ar to ' cl uster ' around certain types of expe riences whi ch tri gge r them3 e . g . inter-

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ests , love , ' peak exper ­ience s ' , a cal lin g to the re l i gi ous or shamanis t i c l i fe , s i cknes s , de ath , o r ne ar b rushe s with de ath , and UFOs and ' h aunts ' o f various sorts .

•.L. Cote, Montreal, P.Q.

(Thankyou for re lating your experience to us and for your commen ts on syn­chronicity. For your int­eres t this phenomenon has been r-eported by several we l l known authors in con­junction with their re­searches . Inc luded in this group are Neal Wi lgus (The I l l uminoids ) � John Kee l (Why UFOs ) and Dr. Jacques Vallee (Me s s en gers o f Dec ­ep tion ) . Va llee even goes to the exten t of proposi� an exp lanation for the ex­is tence of synchronistic phenomena which invo lves a comp le te re-thinking of our concept of space-time. Interes te d readers can read about this on pages 210-21? of Me s sen gers o f Decept ion pub lished by And/Or Press � P. O. Box 2246� Berke ley � CA� 94?02� USA. -Ed . )

Apathy or secrecy ?

I hope th at your amb i t ­i ous i de as wi l l succee d , not on ly in producing a good source of in formation for the unin formed pub l i c , but also b ring t o l i ght important data th at have been kept in the dark too lon g . Th os e of us who h ave been c once rned with thi s sub j ect s ince 1952 and e arl ier are seeing many repe tit ions o f o ld s i ght­ings , and in s ome c as e s so cal led new re leases that were known 2 7 ye ars ago . Many peop le h ave made the mi st ake o f i gn oring s ome vit al cases becaus e the mat e ri al did not fit their

pre - con ceived i de as . Now they wi ll be in a hurry in an at tempt t o l ocate thi s l ong forgot ten o r i gnored eviden ce .

In the Augus t i s s ue of UFO Report on page 1 1, i s a report o f a New Ze al and UFO fi lm taken l as t December . Th at fi lm i s i denti cal to an Adams ki fi lm , and be fore anyone st arts to l augh at the ment ion of his name , may I sugge s t th at such peop l e d o s ome re al homework that w i l l in clude such s ites as Cal i forni a ; Norwi ch , Eng­l an d ; Conn i s t on , Eng lan d ; and Washington . One d ay their e ffor ts wi l l be re­warded . Re al evi den ce doe s exi s t , known to a few an d ignored by many .

On p g . 1 7 o f Journal UFO Vo lume 1 , 1 , Mr . Sin c l ai r makes a b rie f re fe ren ce to Canadi an invo lvement in the withho lding o f in form­ation . Hi s knowl ed ge on thi s matter appears to be rathe r l imi te d . I s uggest that he cont act Mr . Arthur Bray in conne ct i on wi th the l arge mas s o f met al found in the river no t far from Ott awa in 1 9 6 1 , and inve s t i g at ed by the grouP in Ott aw a under the l e ad­e rship o f Wi lbert Smith . My own pers onal intere st in the met a l was we l l i l l ­ustrat ed in Topside . A number o f analys e s h ave been conducted on the met­al and the att itude of Can adi an Gove rnment s our­ces is known . The mas s of met a l minus s ome port ions used in the studi e s may s t i l l b e at the s ame p l ace whe re we l as t c arrie d out our s tudie s o f i t .

A l anding 30 mi les north of Mont re al in 1964 al s o pro duced evi den ce . The s corched e ffe ct etc . , that h as been seen al l over the wor ld was s een and stud ­ied . Photo graphs and dam-

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( Con t . from pg. 2) age d p l ant grow th were s ent to authorit i e s in Canada , who di d no t even h ave the civi lity to ans ­wer .

I t has been my exper­ien ce th at whenever I have sent s ome det ai ls of a few o f my own experien ces in the UFO study , there i s no response to the in form­ation that I s ent to tho s e UFO study groups . Wh at I do rece ive i s a copy o f the ir j ourn al and abs o l ­ute ly no acknow l edgement of the vital in format ion inc l uded in my report . One it em in p art i cul ar I h ave ch all enged anyone on the face o f thi s p l anet to di sprove , on ly t o b e ans ­wered by a s tony s i lence .

The many Wor ld - w i de authorities wi l l not act un l e s s for ced to by ove r­whe lmin g. circums t an ce s . In the p as t the United N at­i ons department c onne cted with Space Stud i es s t ated th at o ffi ci a l ly they could not act un l e s s asked by a few memb e r n ations . They h ave been asked , but h ave

not acted . What the wor ld ' s top authorit ies do no t know about UFOs coul d b e printed on the b ack o f a pos t age st amp . Th e sub ­j ect o f UFOs never h as been , i s not , and never w i l l be a domes ti c affair of the U . S . or USAF , but a matter for the U . N . Many nat i ons , in cluding Brit ain know as much and in some c as e s more about UFOs th an the USA .

R. Anstee, Montreal, P.()_.

(Thankyou for your inte r­es ting letter. I am not Oh) are of the A dams ki fi lm which you infer is simi lar to the recent lu taken New Zealand fi lm but m:Js t ser­ious researchers toda§­

have written off Adamski as a hoaxer� particularly since his s tory was the theme of an unsuccessful s cience fiction nove l he wrote prior to deciding to market it as fact. But it is also speculated by some that his appearance was very time ly� and inadvert-

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Durin g the l ast coup l e o f months both The UFO Ex­aminer an d UFO Canada h ave c e as e d to pub l i sh , neithe r for financi al re as ons . Ralph De Graw , a we l l known and re spected UFO re s e ar­che r and pub l i sher of The UFO Examiner� found le s s and l e s s t ime avai l ab le for the enormous t as k o f almost s ingle-handedly producing a j ourn al . (He as sures me the MI B have not put h im out of b us in ­e s s , a s some were qui ck t o sugge st!) W e are·p l e as ed

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by David Haisell to announ ce that Jour-nal UFO (JUFO) wi l l hen ce forth be incorporat in g The UFO Examine r� and wi l l be ful ­fi l l ing any outst anding subs cript ions . We hope al l those who h ave enj oyed The UFO Examiner wi l l l ikewise re gul arly sub s cribe to an d enj oy JUFO. I s e rved as Canadi an correspondent to Ra lph DeGraw , and Ralph has as sured me he wi l l re ­main as correspondent to JUFO.

Howard Gontovni ck and Robe rt S ap i en za , editors

ently (or was it p lanned that way?) cas t dispersion on the whole UFO s cene in the early 1950s . It cert­ain ly served the purpose of de laying se rious UFO research for a significant period of time.

We hope to be doing a fe ature on Wi lbe rt Smith in the near future and may be ab le to provide some added insight into the mysterious mass of metal you mentioned. Mr. Sin­clair 's knowledge� by the way� is much more extens­ive than you imply. Unfor­tunate ly space limitations prevented de tai led dis cus­sion of al l the points which were mentioned. You seem to know auite a bit about the degree to whi ch governments are fami liar with the nature of UFOs � yet you don ' t e laborate on the source of your know­ledge .

Final ly � in view of your reference to the United Nations� you may be inter­ested in what Michae l Sin­clair has to say in his article in this issue . Ed)

and pub l i shers o f UFO Can­ada s tate that the l a ck of s e ri ous intere st on the p art o f many UFO re se arch ­e rs and the general pub l i c in carrying out an ob j ect­ive study of UFOs an d I FOs ( i dent i fi ed flying obj ­e cts ) , i s the main re as on for the i r ce as ing pub l i c ­at i on and act ive res e arch . They cl aim the re seems "t o b e a more seri ous attitude tow ard flying s auce r inv­as ions , " than to ob j ec tive study . , I t i s surpri s in g that thi s prevai l ing att -

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DAVID A. HAISEU. In the. 6-Ut-6t .-05-6 u.e. o 6 JOURNAL UFO we. ptLU e.M.e.d the. tll.a.Yl.-6 CJU..pu o 6 the. tLe.gll.U J.>ive.

hypnoJ.>.-05 J.>U J.>ion-6 whieh we.Jr.e. eondu.ete.d by a Toll.onto pJ.>yehiat�t in an atte.mpt to de.te.�r.mi._ne. what Ge.My Mm6tll.ong e.x.pe.ll.ie.nee.d dl.l.JU.ng the. J.>e.ve.n hou.Jr. pe.ll.io d he. WM mi..f.l-6-ing M a :twei.ve. ye.aJL old in England in the. J.>u.mme.ll. o 6 7953. The. eonte.n.:t.-6 on the. tll.an-6CJU..pu J.>e.e.m to indieate. that AtLm6tll.ong had eo ntact with non-human inte.U.ige.neu dl.l.JU.ng the. -6 e.ve.n ho u.Jr. pe.!Uo d in qu.u lion but , M with any eao e. involving Jr.e.gll.U -6-i.ve. hypno�.>i-6 , the. mate.ll.ial m£Mt be. eaJz.e.fiu.Uy analyze.d be.fioll.e. any eonel£Mio YLJ.> ean be. dll.awn , i 6 -i.nde.e.d any ean be. d!z.awn at all. Thi-6 o.Jzticle. pll.u e.n.t6 a cU:.oe£MJ.>-i.on o-6 the. tll.an-6CJU..pu in vie.w o fi what we. know o -6 Jr.e.g�r.u �.>ive. hypno �.>� and ili £M·e. -<.n Ufiology , and in vie.w o fi what hao eome. to light eo nee.ll.Yling �.>e.ve.Jr.al othe.Jr. eaoe.J.> �.>-i.mi._lM -<.n J.>o me. fLU p e.et.-6 :to th a;t o 6 Ge.MIJ AJtrn6 .tJw n g •

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Re gre ss ive hypnos i s , as conceptual i zed by the psy­ch i atri s t consul ted in thi s cas e , is a spe ci al s t ate of ment at i on ent e re d in to b y the pe rcipient unde r the gui dance o f the hypnotherap i st . I t i s ch aract e ri zed b y extreme con centrat ion on the p art of the sub j ec t who i s then ab l e to examine h i s un con ­s cious memories o f a p as t event without the inter ­fe rence of current exte r­nal s t imul i whi ch he i s virtual ly ab l e t o e l imin ­ate . He i s , of course , s t i l l aw are o f the therap ­i s t ' s voi ce , but o f very l itt l e e l s e . The ch anne l of commun i cation i s main ­t ained by the sub j e ct ' s ' moni toring ego ' whi ch en ­ab l e s him to he ar the the rapist and to re spond to h i s dire ctions , but the sub j ec t is s t i l l ab l e t o prote s t a dire ct ive i f h i s moni toring ego so di c ­t ate s .

For examp l e , when Gerry Armstrong w as to l d by the hypnotherap i st th at he would not remembe r what he had des cribed during the re gre s s i on s e s s i on , he responded by exc l aimin g that he would remember . The moni toring ego i s al so

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cap ab l e of gui ding the therap i s t somewhat in order to reve al inform­ation in the uncon s ci ous whi ch i t fe e l s may b e re l evant to the di s cus s i on even i f thi s in format i on has not been direct ly re ­que s t ed by the therap i s t . Hen ce Arms trong ' s s t ate ­ment s "There 's more to te l l . Later moments" and '7 have to get back into the ship to te ll " . Thi s impl ies that the uncon ­s cious as s o ci ated the ad­d i t i on al in formati�n w i th wh at happened whi le Gerry was on board the ship .

Ge rry was an e asy s ub ­j ect t o work with , and no diffi cul t ies were enc oun ­t ered during the hypnos i s pro ces s . Neverthe l e s s h e was not an i de al sub j e ct because he i s so we l l re ad in both Ufo l ogy and psych­i at ry , in cluding hypnot i c t e chnique s . Thi s i s not an obst acle to di s covering what h appened during the s even hour period , but i t doe s ne ce s s i t ate caut ion in int e rpret ing the find­ings .

Pos s ib l e interpret ations fal l int o three main cat­e gorie s , n ame ly i ) he s uf ­fe red from de l i rium , i i ) Gerry was in a s t ate of con tinuing h a l lucino s i s and i i i ) he was actual ly phys i cal ly removed from

our frame of re al i ty dur­ing the s even hour pe ri9d .

The first two cate gori e s were c l as sed as h i gh ly un ­l ike ly by the p sych i at­rist . De l irium could be caus ed by sunst roke or a hi t on the head caus in g un cons ciousnes s for a per­iod of t ime, and in an at­tempt to exp l ain the mis s ­ing t ime a s ub j e ct might cre ate a s cenario such as th at reve aled during Gerry ' s hypnos i s . But due to the l en gth o f t ime in ­vo lved and t o other sub ­s equen t circums t ances in the c as e whi ch coul d no t have been c aus e d by de lir­ium , it w as e l imin at e d by the psych i atri st as an ex­p l an at ion for the mi s s in g s even hours .

Cont inuin g h a l lucinos i s i s a ve ry rare o ccurren ce more c ommon t o pers on s with epi l epsy , from whi ch Arms t rong does not suffe r . The h al l ucin ated events would b e re ality to the percipient and it wou ld be impos s ib l e for any hypnot­ic t e chnique to reve al them as fant asy . Again , thi s w as e l imin ated as a pos s ib le c ause for Arm­s trong ' s experien ce s .

The third cat e gory w as thought t o b e the corre ct int e rpre t ation . In other words Gerry was almost as ­suredly phys i cal ly removed

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from our frame of re a l ity fo r about a s even hour peri od . The me chan i sm by whi ch thi s was achi eved w as one of the fo l lowin g . E i ther Gerry proj ected h ims e l f into another re al ­ity (not to be con fus ed with an out -o f-body exper­ien ce - OBE - o r with s o ­cal l ed 'psych i c viewin g') , or he was the 'vi ct im' o f a UFO abduction . Cl as s i fy­ing th i s as an ex amp le o f b e in g removed from our frame of re al ity is a s omewhat question ab le cat ­egori z ation , but the re ad­er wi l l prob ab ly agree that th is i s not the usual type of o ccurren ce one woul d as s o ci at e w i th our con cept of everyday real event s . The psychi atri st was unab l e to acert ain wh i ch of these two me ch an ­i sms was the c as e , but s t re s s ed that thi s was no t an overly import ant po int . What was re l evant w as the fact that Ge rry did h ave c ont act with inte l l i gent non -human beings .

Even though he was not ab le to dete rmine whi ch me chanism was invo lved the psychiatri st neverthe l e s s expre s s ed the op inion that it was prob ab ly the form­e r , name ly , Gerry proj ect ­ed hims e l f to ano ther re ­al i ty . Thi s op inion w as b as ed on other cases with s imi l ar overtones with whi ch he had been invo l ve d and a l s o on the fact th at he fee ls Ge rry h ad shown thi s ab i lity in other ways in other ins t ances whi ch he d i d n ot repre s s from h i s memory . A cas e in point would be h i s st range t rip to Ni agara F a l l s ( see The Missing Seven

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P aperJacks , 19 7 8 , eh . 1 1 ) . Where as it wou ld be ex ­pe cted that a twe l ve ye ar o l d in his psycho logi cal st ate and environment would repres s the who le

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experien ce in vi ew o f it s b i z zare nature , he wou ld be more l ike ly to remember many o f the det ai ls of the Ni agara Fal ls inci dent s in ce it h appened in 19 73 , twenty ye ars l at e r , when he was in a much better pos it ion both ment al ly and psycho l ogi cal ly to accept and res o lve such an occur­ren ce .

Other cas e s in whi ch the psych i atri s t h ad been in ­vo lved inc lude th at of a woman who i s app arent ly abl � to proj e ct hers e l f to other p l anets and pain t l ands capes o f the s cenery she ob serves . Hi s opini on in thi s case h as been con ­curre d with by psychi at­ri sts in Ge rmany , South Ame ri ca and New Ze a l and who h ave also examined t� woman . There i s no proof , o f course , but the qual i ty o f the e xperi en ce s she de s cribes are s imi l ar t o Ge rry's .

P sychokinet i c ab i l ities h ave been di sp l ayed in s ti l l other cas es he h as han d le d . A woman in h i s o ffi ce un con s cious ly caused an asht ray to l i ft from a t ab l e , cro s s the room , and turn ups i de down ove r h i s l ap . She was j us t as amazed as he , but ad­mi tted when que st i oned that she ob j e cte d t o his smoking in her p re s en ce . In another ins t an ce it was reve al ed th at a woman consulting him h ad un con­s cious ly caused a co at rack to fal l on him durin g a moment in whi ch she fe l t ange r t oward h im . Thi s woman even tual ly l e arned to cont ro l her psychokin ­et i c ab i l i ty . E ven though mos t of Ge rry's app arent psychok ine t i c ab i l i ties seem invo lun t ary , the psy­ch i at ri s t fee l s th at he too may even tual ly le arn to contro l them , and thus fe as ib ly 'go anywhe re ' .

Al though in The Missing Seven Hours it was specul ­ate d th at the re may be s ome connection between the vari ous e xpe rien ces o f the Arms tron g fami ly , the doctor fe lt th at thi s was no t nece s s ari ly the c as e , and sugges ted th at Ge rry' s percept ive ab i lit ies may be further deve loped th an most , or th at he may even h ave an ab i lity to actual ­ly b ring the s e events ab out . He is a cre at ive pe rs on , un afrai d o f app ar­en t i rrat ionalities , and would not ment a l ly 're ­make' h i s experien ces to con form with expe cted re ­ality as s omeone l e s s in ­c l ined mi ght do . The re i s a di stinct pos s ibi l i ty th at he i s now more at ­tuned t o othe r re al i ties , an d as such h as de ve loped more psych ok inet i c ab i l i t ­ies .

As far as the me aning o f the seven hour encounter i s con ce rned the psych i at ­ri st fe e l s the re w as no purpos e other th an j ust t o make cont act . I n brie f , un de r hypnos is Arms trong remembered two al ien ap ­pe arin g b e ings who accomp ­anied h im t o a 'spaceship' des cribed as a b al l of l i ght , an d who then took him on b o ard . He w as shown things by di ffe ren t beings who di d mos t o f the t al k ­ing , and he was app arently to ld nothin g he di d not al re ady know or would not eventual ly know at s ome future po int in time . (One won de rs j us t h ow much o f wh at h e was ·to ld in fluen­ce d wh at was to be h i s way of thinking in l at e r ye ars . )

I t i s ce rtain that in the twenty- five ye ars bet­ween the event an d the re ­gres s i on s ome det ai l s h ave been l o s t whi le others may h ave �een revis e d or re ­organ i zed by his uncon -

s c i ous . Had thi s event happened to him more re­cent ly , some of the de ­tai ls may have been remem­bered and des cribed quite di ffe ren t ly . Neve rthe less , the psychiatri s t fee l s the e s s en ce o f h i s expe rien ce i s s ti l l the re - Gerry di d have con t act with non­human beings , this contact in i t i a l ly fri ghtening him . I t s eeme d to him th at he was p i cked up and carried to the 'ship' by two of these beings , but thi s may be a re - cons tructi on s in ce i f he di d invo lunt ari ly proj e ct himse l f to anothe r re ality he wou l d not h ave been ab l e to exp l ain i t at twe lve ye ars of age , and thi s may have been his way of res o l ving the exper­ien ce .

I t wou l d be impos s ib l e on the b as i s o f hypnos i s al one to di s tin gui sh whether the sub j e ct was rep orting wh at he actual ly e xpe ri en ced during the s even hour period or was us ing conven ient symb o lism to convey the impre s s i ons to whi ch he was subj e c t . I t is pos s ib le th at the experien ce was s o b i z z are th at it was impos s ib le for Arms trong to de s cribe i t us ing termino logy from our con cept o f re al i ty . Wh at Ge rry s aw as a ship , or wh at he s aw as a room in­s i de the ship may not have been a ship or a room at al l , but these terms were the cl os e s t he could use t o convey wh at he h ad s een . The s ame comment goes for the l adde r . I f Ge rry and the bein gs on either s i de o f him 'fl oat­e d' to the ' ship ' , why wou ld the re have been any need for a l adde r to 'cl imb aboard'? 'Ladde r' may h ave been the on ly word he could think o f to convey his me aning . Thi s i s furthe r i l lus t rated by

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his re sponse to the psych ­i atri st when asked about the l adde r wh i le he was under hypnos i s . He rep ­l ied , "I dunno. It 's jus t in front of me. . . this thing. I dunno. . . round thing . . . I dunno what it is". Studen ts o f the B ib le wi l l rec al l Jacob 's l adde r whi ch i s int erpreted sym­bo l i c al ly by most , whe re as Jacob ce rt ain ly seemed to des cribe it as a l adde r in h i s dre am. Was he re al ly dre amin g , or was he to ld by others th at he mus t have dre amt i t ?

I t was to s e e i f symb o l -i s m was invo l ved th at the psych i atri s t sugges te d to Ge rry th at "the hi dden meaning of the room" would be reve al ed , that the being in red was a symbo l and wou l d "change into something", that the sh ip was a symb o l an d was go in g to ch ange i n to wh at it re a l l y was , in e ach cas e at the count o f th ree . Th is pro ces s was not ve ry frui t ful s in ce the room re ve al e d "every thing - al l things - al l is one.- they do know all things " , the being in red was reveale d to be a "teacher. . . his form is the same . He only says to teach", whi le the ship s t ayed the s ame , "i t has no t changed". I t wou 1 d s eem th at i f Gerry was des crib ing h i s experien ce us ing symbol i sm he cert­ain ly had an experien ce o f an extreme ly met aphysi cal nature . The other al tern­at ive i s th at he des cribed the even t as it actua l ly happened .

Even though the psych ­iatri s t gave h i m amnes i a at the en d o f the hypnos i s se s s i on to prevent the sudden t rauma of remember­in g everythin g at on ce up ­on awakening , he fee l s th at over a period o f time Gerry wi l l rememb e r the

det ai ls of the inci dent i f his un cons ci ous wan t s to remember . So far , thi s h as not been the cas e .

C AS E COMPARIS ON S

In view o f the l arge number o f purported UFO abduct i on s during the l ast few ye ars an d the app arent wide vartety of characte r­i s ti cs di spl ayed in these en coun ters , i t may be me re ly an academi c exe r­ci s e to note any simi l ar­ities among such in ci dents when they app e ar to -be outnumbere d by di s s imi l ar ­ities . Neve rth e le s s , in the in tere s t of t ryin g to as certain any common thre ad , no matter how tenuous , i t i s o f value to compare s ome aspects of Arms tron g's expe rien ce with thos e of a few other we l l known cas e s . Some of these fact ors could be h i ghly s i gni fi can t if the percipients are in fact des cribing the i r en count­ers as they re al ly h appen ­ed , rather th an re s ort ing to symbo l i sm .

P at ro lman Herb S chirme r expe rienced a UFO en count ­er whi ch took p l ace on De cember 3rd , 196 7 outs i de Ash l and , Nebraska . I f we comp are the trans cripts o f h i s eventual hypnoti c re g­res s ion as re corded in The Book of Encounters , by Warren Smi th ( Zebra books , Kens ington Pub l ishin g Co . , New Yo rk , N . Y . , 19 76) we find s everal s imi l ari ties to the ch aracte ri s ti cs reve a led in the Arms trong t rans cripts .

Both craft h ad a co ld l adder le ading to the ent ­ran ce h at ch . In both cas e s the ship appe ared init i al ­ly as a ve ry int en s e l i ght . In both case ·s a s imi l ar form o f mot ive

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power may have been imp ­l ied , although the re fer­en ce made by Armst ron g , ("energy transition") , i s vague , an d may not re l ate t o powe r at al l . The re we re seve ral s imi l ari ties in the appe aran ce of the o ccup an ts . They were t iny , about four and a hal f feet tal l with whi t is h - gray skins , smal l mouths and funny eyes . Communi cation was not ve rb al but seemed to be on a ment al l e ve l , an d both men experienced p ain when re ce iving com­muni cation . In b oth cas e s the percip ien ts were s o ast on i shed at what they were experiencing th at they were on l y convinced they were not dre aming when they were touched by the ent i ties . In both in ­s t an ce s it was imp l ied by the ent i ties th at some ­thing i s wron g on E arth at pre sent , an d fin al ly when they dep arte d , the al i ens in b oth cas es indi cate d they would return , and us ed a word app arent ly not unders t an dab le to the per­cip i ent s .

Another int e re s ting as ­pect i s the role p l ayed by the win ged s e rpent in e ach case . Under hypnos i s S ch i rmer drew a p i cture o f the al ien beings an d their uniforms and noted they wore a winged s e rpent emb ­l em on thei r ri gh t ches t . In The Missing Seven Hours it i s re l ate d th at a s i l ­houette drawing o f a win ged s e rpent mys te ri ous ­ly appe ared and l ater di s ­appe ared from the Arm­s t rong girls ' b l ackboard short ly afte r Mr . and Mrs . Armst ron g tried ( and ap ­p arent ly p artly succeeded) t o make cont act w i th a UFO p as s in g overhe ad .

In the Arms tron g re g ­res s i on t apes i t was re ­ve a led th at at ab out the time Gerry cl imbed the

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l adder t o the ship the be­in gs di d s omething to the b ack of h i s n e ck , for he fe l t s eve re p re s sure on i t for a short whi le . Immed­i ate ly aft e rward , howeve r , h e fe l t re l axed. When he was found by his cl as s ­mate s an d te achers h e no ­ti ced a burning s ens at i on at the b ack o f his ne ck , and it was con fi rme d by the camp do ctor th at it was red an d sore . S chi rme r h ad the s ame prob l em . He had a red we l t running down the nerve cord of h i s neck , ri gh t be low his l e ft e ar . The we lt was about two inches l on g and a h a l f an in ch wide. When S ch i r ­mer w as pre s ent ing h i s cas e t o the Con don Commi t ­tee one o f the committee memb e rs to ld h im th at ji we lt at th at spot was tne s i gn th at a person had h ad a memory los s afte r en­counte rin g a UFO . Some ­th in g more th an a re gul ar s i ght in g h ad o ccurred. Ac ­cording t o S ch i rmer the members o f the commi ttee became re a l ly exci ted when he ment ioned the red we l t and also when he men tioned having a t in g l in g fee l ing al l over h i s body when he drove b ack to the pol i ce st ati on after the en count ­e r . Re ca l l Ge rry Armst ron g a ls o fe lt numb on the way back t o camp after he was found .

The re h ave been s eve ral ins t an ces whe re the ap ­pe aran ce o f a red we lt on the b ack o f the n e ck s eems to be re l ated to an al leged UFO ab duct ion . Another examp le was the cas e invo lvin g at t orney Raymond She are r (a ps eud­onym) whos e en counter o c ­curred in Apri l , 1 9 70 j us t out s i de Madi son , Wis con ­s in . The inci dent fo l l owed the fami li ar pattern di s ­p l ayed in S chirme r ' s and Betty and B arney Hi l l ' s

en counte r , name ly the sub ­j e ct was driving a car late at n i gh t and was brough t to a hal t by a l ande d UFO , and then app ­ro ached b y the o ccupants . Fo l lowing h i s en coun te r , whi ch al s o invo lve d time l os s , Sheare r di s cove red a sma l l , tende r we l t on the back o f h i s neck . By noon of the s ame day the we l t had b l i ste red up , becoming extreme ly sore and p ain ­ful . A doct or ' s examin at ­ion th at afternoon reve a l ­ed s cores o f t iny perfor­at i ons of the skin within the we l t . The doctor put some s a lve on it and it gradua l ly went away .

Later , during re gre s s ive hypnos i s s e s s i ons , it was reve al e d th at s e conds afte r he stepped out of his car he fe lt a s li ght tin g l in g s ens ati on ove r h i s body . One o f the b e ­ings then pre s s ed a met al ­l i c devi ce agains t h i s neck and he was to ld th at it wouldn ' t hurt but woul d he lp him be ab l e t o talk to them . He fe l t funny for a minute , an d then his fe ar s eeme d to le ave him . Later he spe cul ate d i t may have been s ome type o f tranqui l i ze r th at remove d the fe ar from a human dur ­ing an en counter . Re cal l that Armst rong a lso fe l t re l axed aft e r the pressure on h i s neck .

Furthermore , as with Armst ron g and S chirrner , when She are r was cl imb in g aboard the craft he found the l adder and the ins i de of the ship to be ve ry co l d .

Ano the r s imi l arity i s that i n e ach o f the three cases the pe rcip ient even ­tual ly found h ims e l f s t an ­din g i n front o f a s creen ­l ike devi ce . Armst rong ap ­paren t ly viewed h i s l i fe on the s creen , S chi rmer s aw s cene s out s i de the

craft , whi le She are r w as t o l d they were t aking h i s pi ct ure , b ody temperature , b rain wave s , wei ght , h e i ght , e tc . , through the use o f the s creen . He w as a lso t o ld they us e the s creen t o see out s i de the craft . When Armst rong was t aken for a ri de ( or s o i t s eemed) the s creen was ap ­parent ly us ed t o show him the p l anet he was from (pre sumed t o be E arth) , and l ater , the s creen s eemed to be used as a te aching devi ce .

At the beginning o f h i s encounter , Ge rry was moment ari ly p aralyzed . ("Can ' t move . . . can ' t nvve my Zegs ") . S ch i rmer like ­wise s uffere d temporary paraly s i s as he app roached the UFO . He fee l s he was s truck by a ray - gun b e am , al though i t i s pos s ib le he walked int o the force fi e l d whi ch he was t o ld the al i ens us e to p rot e ct the c raft in the vi cin i ty o f E arth . Thi s fee l ing o f paralys is i s a l s o common t o many UFO incident s when a c lose approach to the craft or o ccup ant s o ccurs .

Durin g S chirme r ' s ini t ­i a l re gre s s i on s e s s ion wi th Dr . Leo Sprink l e at the Unive rs ity of Co lorado on February 1 3 , 196 8 the re w as app aren t ment al con ­t act b etween S ch i rmer and the b eing with whom he commun i cated during his UFO en coun te r . Thi s con­t act s eemed to prevent him from reve a l in g eve rythin g he was to ld during his ex­perien ce . Simi l arly , n e ar the end o f the firs t Arm­s t ron g re gre s s i on se s s i on on July 19 , 1 9 78 it was apparent that Gerry was also in commun i c at i on with h i s b e in gs : Q: What do you see? R : Everything. Q: Te Z Z me . R : A Z Z things . They say

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aZZ things . . . aZ Z is one . AZ Z things . Yes� they do know . . . aZ Z things . I wuierstand� and I wi Z Z .

Q: Who are you taZking to? R : They are he re again .

B oth S chirmer and Arm­s t rong were l e ft w i th the impre s s i on th at furthe r in format ion and under­s tan din g woul d be forth­comin g at a l at e r date , "the proper time and prop­er p Zace" according t o S ch i rmer , and 'hlhen the moment is right" accordin g t o Arms trong . A lso Arm­s tron g adde d "But he 's saying� ' Zater nvments you ' Z Z be ab Ze to ex­pl-ain . "' S ch irme r fe lt i t wou l d b e wron g t o s ay any­thing e l s e unt i l the prop ­er time and proper p l ace , and even though Arms t rong was t o l d he wou l d not for­get , he was al so tol d n ot to t e 1 1 ( "Mus tn ' t te Z Z . " "They s aid not to te Z Z"J .

Final ly , when She arer was es corted from the ship his b ody t ingl ed as i f from e le ct ri city . The b e ­ing accompanyin g him a l s o s quee zed h i s shou l der and s ai d they would meet again .

THE AN D RE AS SON AFFAI R

Another very intere s t ing case h as re cent ly come to l i ght whi ch shows ·a s tart ­l ing res emb l an ce in many ways to the inci dents a l ­re ady des cribed . The e x ­perien ces o f Betty An d ­re ass on , as documented by Raymond E . Fow l e r in The Andreasson Affair� P ren ­ti ce Hal l , In c . , Eng l ewood C l i ffs , New Jersey , 0 7632 ( Copyri ght 1 9 79 , Raymond E . Fow le r and Betty An d­re as son) add t o the growing s tockpi le o f evi ­dence for the cas e o f ap -

parent UFO abduct ions . The book , whi ch is reviewed e l s ewhere in thi s i s sue , goe s into gre at de tai l re ­l ating the events expe r ­ienced by Andre as s on as reve al ed by re gre s s ive hypnos i s .

Touch ing b ri e fly on s ome o f the s imi l ar i t i e s we note that Betty Andre as s on found hers e l f in a dome ­shaped room , b ri l li an t l y l i t , the' i l lumin ati on not coming from a s ource such as a l ight bulb but rather "from aZ Z over the p Zace" (p49) . Re cal l that Arm­s trong was also puz z led ove r a seemin g l ack of· a l i ght source . The bein gs An dre as son en countered ''were aZZ the same kind� but one was taZ Zer than the others . " (pS 1) They h ad gray , c l ay- l ike skin , fi xed , s car- l ike mouths , and c at - l ike eyes whi ch Betty des cribed as '�o funny . " (p32) Again , thi s i s s imi l ar t o the des crip-

. t i on gi ven by Armst rong in cluding the fact th at one of the beings was t al l e r than the rest . Even though she found them s c ary to l ook at she w as not afrai d b e cause she s ensed k in dnes s in them . "They are very kind and they don ' t mean any harm� but they are s cayY to Zook at. " (p30) "I 'm not afraid of him be cause there 's a fee Zing that he 's not go­ing to hurt me . "(p32 ) When she di d fee l pain during her phys i cal examinat i on they "touched the top of my head and took i t CMay � " (p5 1 ) the s ame e ffec t th at Armst ron g reporte d .

Other s imi l ari ties in­clude the fact th at Betty Andre as s on he ard the b e ­ings ' commun i cation i n he r mind , as di d S chirmer and Armst rong ( and many oth ­ers ) , and th at the re·were many domes at the p l ace to

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CONVERSATION \NITH

ARTHUR BRAY

Arthur Bray , a retire d N avy pi l ot , h as been re searching the UFO phen omenon s in ce the e arly 1950s . In 196 7 he wrote and pub l i she d h i s first book Science, The publi c And The UFO - A Phi losophi cal StudY, and has j ust comp­l eted h i s se cond b ook The UFO Connection, whi ch i s awai t ing pub l i cation . He re s i de s in Ot tawa and te ache s an evening cours e on Ufo logy at Al gonquin Co l le ge .

JUFO : AJtthWt , c.ould yo u t� U6 exactly how yo u bec. ame involved in the whole UFO pic.tWte?

ARHTUR : Yes , my interest s tarted b ack in 1 9 4 7 or 1 94 8 when UFOs firs t came t o pub li c attention . I was a n avy pi lo t at the t ime and I be came interested j ust out of curi os i ty b e ­caus e I was flyin g around the sky . The se things were apparently flying around the sky al s o and I was curi ous as to what e l s e w as up there th at I di dn't know about . Now th at was how I got s t arted , and I was very skept i cal th at they mi ght be from outer sp ace and thi s s ort o f thin g . I was qui te skep ­ti cal ori gin al ly but as time went on and I studied the subj e ct more , my in ­tere s t incre as ed . I became more invo lved , and one thing led t o an other , and i t eventual ly grew into an avocation re al ly , _and I 've been at it ever s in ce .

JUFO : White yo u w�e &ly­ing Mound up thefte did yo u eveft -6ee anything that yo u c.ouldn't explain whic.h c.onvinc.ed yo u that thefte.

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Wa6 -6o mething to the phen­o menon that had been fte­poftted?

/. ARTHUR : N o , n ot whi le I was flying . I h ave s een s ome UFOs or what I con ­s i der to be UFOs , but not whi le I was flying . They've a l l been s i ghted from the ground .

JUFO : Could you eiab oftate on exac..tly what yo u -6auJ in -6o me o� the mo fte -6igni6ic.­ant iMtanc.u ?

ARTHUR : Yes , one part i c­ul arly intere s t ing case was in Hali fax , and it was w i tnes s ed by al l of my fami ly . We were h avin g dinner one n i ght , it was summertime , broad day ­l i ght , about s i x o'c lock , and we n ot i ced out of the window th at there was thi s bri l li ant , very l arge white obj e c t suspen ded over the hi l l s o f H al i fax . I should exp l ain th at we were l iving in Dartmouth , across the h arbour , and we were on the h i ghes t point of l and in the are a . So we h ad an exce l lent view acro s s H ali fax Harbour and the who l e city o f H al i fax . And here was thi s thing

that looked j ust like a s tree t l i ght , a bri l l i ant white l i ght , h an ging in the sky mo tion le s s . So we rushed out s i de to get a better look at i t . We s tood there for about a minute , and then I rushed b ack in to get my movie c amera , and j ust as I came out to t ake a pi cture , it shot o ff out over the o ce an , trave l led at thou ­s ands o f mi l e s an hour . I 'm convin ce d of th at be ­caus e it di s appe ared in ab out a s econd and a h al f , i t went th at fas t , right out over the sea and di s ­appe are d . Th at was a parti cul ar ly in tere s t in g case . _

And there was another day light s i ght ing th at I h ad mys e l f . A dis c -shaped s i lver ob j ec t was flyin g s trai ght across the sky but weaving as it went . I wat ched i t move about , I

gues s , 1 2 0 degrees o f arc across the sky . I j us t happened to be out i n my yard s unb athin g at the t ime and I was lying out there looking up at the sky , and thi s thing came right acros s . I t was de f­inite ly di s c-shaped , not very h i gh ; I couldn't t e l l you the hei ght , but it was very c l e ar . There h ave been two or three more s i gh tin gs . We had a ve ry intere s t ing s i ght in g ri ght out here one n i ght , here on our front l awn during the l at e 1960's . My firs t impre s s i on was th at i t w as a sate l l it e becaus e it looked like one , and it w as movin g in a s trai ght l ine , as s ate l l it e s do of cours e . But then it sud­den ly made a ninety de gree ch an ge in dire ction . I t was coming from the north , made a ri ght an gle turn to the wes t and made another nin e ty de gree ch an ge of direction b ack t o the north . Then it revers ed i t s e l f . I t di dn't turn , j us t revers e d i t se l f , and con tinued on in a souther­ly dire ct ion , and then the l i gh t b l inked o ff . There were no clouds in the sky so it didn ' t go b ehind the c l ouds . The sky was cl e ar . You c ou l d see the moon and s tars , everyth ing . And then about twenty de grees south of where it di s ­appe ared i t b l inked on again and continued on in a souther ly direct ion un ­t i l it faded from s i gh t .

Another s i ghtin g I h ad was out the s i de door one n i ght . I t was a very l arge , pul s at in g red b lob 6 f 1 i gh t , very 1 ow . I t j us t appe ared behind the rooftop of the hous e acros s the s treet , veered b eh ind another roo f , dis ­appe ared moment ari ly , re­appe ared , then di s appe ared b ehind the trees up on the

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hi l l . I t was abso lute ly s oundles s , and travel lin g very fas t , about the spe e d of a j et . I would e s timat e i t coul dn't have been any more th an 200 fee t h i gh because o f the w ay it came behind the rooftop s and the trees . Very interest ­ing . Very puz z ling .

JUFO : I n the laX;teJr.. in­cident did LfOu eveft tJty to get any in t)oJtmation o ft evide.nc.e nfto m the aiftpoftt a6 to whetheft they pic.k.ed il W'J on ftada.Jt?

ARTHUR : No , I di d not .

JUFO : Ok.aLf , thfto ughout yo� navy c.a.Jteeft , I imag­ine il Wa6 & ai!tly well k.nown amo ng the people that LfOU Wefte WOftf<.ing With that you wefte inteftuted in UF0-6. What -6oftt ofi at­titudu did LfOu ftun into , fr{Mt o & all among yoUJt &eUow o&&ic.eM , and -6e.c.­o ndltJ among yoUJt -6 enioM oft youft c.o mmanding o&&ic.­eM ?

ARTHUR : Wel l certain ly for many ye ars I was s ub j e c t t o a cons iderab l e amount of ri di cul e , but as t ime wen t on this l e s s ened , and o ther peop l e became more and more -interes ted as more pe op le b e gan to re a l ­i ze that there re al ly was s omething t o the who le UFO bus ines s . Cert ainly I found that the number o f skept i cs and s co ffers de ­cre as ed tremendous ly as the ye ars went by . But the firs t few ye ars I was in ­tere s ted , everywhere I turned I met with ri di c ­ule . No matter who I t alked t o . So I got we l l used t o bein g l aughed at . As for my commanding of­fi cers, I would s ay there weren't re ally any prob ­l ems pose d there ; in fact , I got co - operation from

the mi l i t ary when I pub ­l i shed my firs t b ook .

JUFO : Re.allLf? I n what way did they c.o-ope.ftate?

ARTHUR : We l l , for one thin g I w as given as s i s t ­an ce in wording s ome of the things I s ai d about the Uni ted St ate s Air Force . I f I could show th at wh at, I wrot e had b een previ ously s t ated by some ­onw e l s e I was encouraged to quote the s ource . I was de fin i te l y given en cour­agement in thi s re spe ct .

JUFO : Wefte you given ac.­c.u -6 to any ac.tuai do c.u­mente.d ftada.Jt e.videnc.e , t)oft in-6tanc.e , a ftec.oftd 0 n antJ UFO incident-6 in whic.h the Canadian Aftmed Foftc.U had been involved?

ARTHUR : No , and as a mat­ter of fact I was very care ful not to ob tain any mi l i t ary in format ion b e ­caus e h ad I done s o , I wou l d not h ave been al l ow ­e d t o pub l i sh my book , s ince I h ad t o get c l e ar­an ce from the mi li t ary be­cause I w as s erving in the n avy at the t ime . I h ad t o inc lude a dis cl aimer i n the book s t ating th at n o in format i on h ad b een ob ­tained from Dep artment of N at i onal De fen ce s ource s . So I h ad t o b e very care ­ful .

JUFO : When you lent the Aftmed Foftc.u we.fte. yo u fte­quifted to -6ign oft -6Wea.Jt to any -6oftt o& doc.ument that you would not fteveai -6 o UJtc.e.-6 o � in & o Jr.mCLtio n that yo u had ac.c.u -6ed while yo u weJr..e in the Aftm­ed Roftc.u , ftega.Jtdtng UF0-6?

ARTHUR : We.l l , the answer is 'no' to that one .

JUFO : Ok.a y , but M Oft.

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Hyvte.k hM -6aid the. aMWeJc. would be. ' vto ' even �6 � WeJl.e. r ye.-6 r •

ARTHUR : Yes . But with res ­pect to obtaining data from the mi l i t ary for my book , I made a special point to not s eek infor ­mati on from the Department of Nat i ona l Defence be­cause I knew that my who l e activity i n thi s area wou ld be in j eopardy if I did . I , of course , was subj ect to mi l i tary s e cur ­ity whi l e in the Forces and so I had to make thi s effort ; otherwi s e I would not have been ab l e to pub­l i s h my book .

JUFO : V�d you he� the.vt o� hav e you he.�d -6�nee. o fi -6to�e.-6 , o� whate.v � you want to eai.l theJn, fi�om people �nvolv e.d �n the Anme.d Fonee.-6 w�h whom yo u may hav e been a-6-6 o �ate.d , who had e.xp�e.nee.-6 eLth� �n -6�g �ng UF0-6 o� b�ng �nvolv e.d with doeume.nte.d e.v�de.nee. finom oth� p eople. who had -6 e.e.n UF0-6 on ne.­eonde.d the.m ?

ARTHUR : Oh yes , I ' ve come across many mi li tary peop l e who have seen UFOs , and talked to them , in fact . Even whi l e I was s ti l l in the s ervice . But talking and l i s t ening t o peop l e descr ibe their ex ­per i ences i s qui t e di ffer ­ent from having access to written document ation , a s you wi l l apprec i at e ; and c ertainly since I l e ft the s ervice I have talked to many mi l i tary per s onnel who have had UFO ex­periences .

JUFO : We. ' �e. alway-6 h�ng v� new6 pap eM and oth� UFO -6 o uneu that Cana�an plavtU �e., vtot eo mnual­ly, but e.veJc.y onee. �vt a wWe. b�ng -6 eMmble.d to

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' ehM e. ' a UFO on -6 omet�ng that � an alleg ed UFO whleh hM b een dete.ete.d on nad� -6 Meen-6 . Would you hav e avty n�t- havtd �nfion­mailo vt abo!Lt any ofi thu e. type.-6 o fi ailiv�e.-6 ?

ARTHUR : No , I have no first -hand information on thi s . The on ly informat i on I have i s what I have read in the l i t erature , whether i t be newspap er reports or whether i t be the fi l es of Nat i ona l Research Counci l and the various UFO pub­l icati ons and s o forth . But I have no fir s t -hand informati on on thi s .

JUFO : 1 vt 1950 the. Cana�an gov�nme.nt wa-6 �Mp�e.d to e.xam�ne. the UFO phenomenon �Vl a 6� amount 0 n deta.jd_ u.vtd� the �e.ilio n ofi a Ve.p�e.nt o fi TnaM po� e.ng�ne.� named W�b� SrnU:h . Vo you have any knowle.dg e. 0 n tw 0 p �­�on , wheth� � UXL6 a -6 ueeu-6 o� fiMl�e ?

ARTHUR : We l l , a l l I would care to s ay on thi s sub­j ect at the present t ime is that I have done con­s iderab l e res earch into the work done by Wi lbert Smi th and thi s wi l l be made avai lab l e pub l ic ly in a new book whi ch I have writt en which I hope t o have pub lished s ometime soon .

JUFO : · pnoj e.et Magnet WM the o fi fi�� name o fi tw p�e� -6tudy; al-6 o th�e. wa-6 a -6tudy eai.le.d P�oj e.et Se.eond Stoney . WM th�e. a �e.lailon-6 �p bet­ween Pnoj e.et Magnet and P�oj e.et S e.eond Sto�e.y, and �n -6 o eould you e.labo�e. on that �e.lailoM �p ?

ARTHUR : We l l , even though Magnet and Second Storey were two di s t inct pro j ect s

there was a r e lat i onship between them in that Wi l ­bert Smith was invo lved in both . But Proj ect S econd Storey was a committ ee of mi l i tary and c iv i l ian peop l e , s c i enti s t s , whi ch was s et up rea l ly t o de­termine what act ion the gov ernment should take with r espect to UFO s ight ­ings and the story of that wi l l a l s o appear in my book .

JUFO : To yo un knowledg e UXL6 theJc.e. any ne.lailo M �p between t� Cana�an -6tudy and what the U�e.d State.-6 wa-6 do�ng at the -6ame .ti.me.; �n otheJc. wo�d-6 � � a eo - opeJc.ailv e. type o fi ve.nt�e.?

ARTHUR : Not real ly . I found that there was very l i t t l e co -operat ion bet ­ween Canada and the Uni t ed States . There was s ome , but very l i tt le , at that t ime .

JUFO : HM that ehang e.d, to yo� knowledg e , �e.ee.ntly?

ARTHUR : No , the s i tuati on hasn ' t changed to my know­ledge . I can ' t real ly be sure of that , but to my know ledge i t hasn ' t changed .

JUFO : The. ne.M on 1 a-6 ke.d � that 0 ne 0 n the ne.pow whleh ha-6 �e.ee.ntly been ne.le.M e.d due to the. F�e.e.­dom o fi 1 nfionm�on Aet �n the Unile.d Statu eone�M a -6�ghting o v eJc. both AmeJc.­�ean and Cana�an � -6paee. wheJc.e. app�e.ntly a UFO � o b-6 eJc.ve.d ne� the. nouh�n bondeJc. 0 6 the. State.-6 and � UXL6 p�eke.d up on Cana�n �ad� . T� UXL6 �ou.nd the. SudbMy �ea 1 be.Ue.ve. , and app�­e.nily U . S . planu weJc.e. -6 eMmble.d to ehM e. �­That � why 1 M ke.d �b

theJc.e. wa-6 any eo - op�o n between the two eou�u .

ARTHUR : Yes , there i s co ­operati on in thi s r espect , c ertain ly . I was over l ook­ing that parti cular point . NORAD of cour s e i s a j oint Canadian/ U . S . air defence organi zation , s o there i s rea l ly for a l l pract i cal purposes , no nati ona l bor ­der . S o that i f an unknown obj ect i s tracked on rad ­ar , fighters wi l l be scramb l ed e ither in Canada or the Uni t ed States or both , on ins truc t i ons from NORAD .

JUFO : We he� many e.x-planailon-6 finom v�o u.-6 -6 �e.�u ne.g��ng -6�g �ng-6 , one b�ng the fiaet that nad� � eapable. o fi p�e�ng u.p 1 -6 uppo-6 e. what the laype.M on would eaU m�g u , and that � � -6 om�me.-6 pne.tty � 6 -fi�eult, 1 und�tand, fio� an e.xp�e.nee.d opeJc.ato� to tell the �n fi eJc.enee bet­ween a minag e. and a -6 o�d body on the -6 eope. . Now �n -6 ome eM U wheJc.e. JW.d� :tM.ek.-6 what app�e.nily � a -6 o�d body go�ng at fian­tMtie -6 pe.e.d-6 and ma�ng �ght angle. t�n-6 , the o fi -6�� ne.pou � that .tw UXL6 a minag e. , on -6 ome.thlng .that �e.aUy �d no.t e.wt but WM p�eke.d u.p by !W.� anyway, peJc.�ap-6 a me.te.o�­olog�eal phenomeno n . When you weJc.e. �n .the. anme.d fion­eu �d you �un �nto tw .type ofi thlng , and �d you ac;t.uail._y -6 e. e. ne.t�n-6 on JW.d� that tunne.d out to be no n-phy-6�eal o bj e.et-6 ?

ARTHUR : No , I have no per ­s onal experi ence with cases of that nature .

JUFO : That ' -6 �nteJc.uting . We. g e.t the. �de.a that � � a n�Y eommon type o fi t�ng , at le.Mt fi�om 0 t -

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6�ualdom when they .tny to e.xp�n the.-6 e. t�vtg-6 . Okay, to ehang e. the. -6 ub ­j e.et a little , d o you have. any p� onal op�Mon-6 M to what � be.�nd the UFO phenomenon?

ARTHUR : You ' re looking for theori es now , are you? We l l , I think there are s everal pos s i b l e exp lanat ­ions . A coup l e come to mind immediate ly . Certain­l y , the extraterrestr i a l hypothes i s i s one pos s ib ­i l i ty whi ch may exp lain some UFOs . I a l s o have come to the conc lus i on after many years of look­ing into this that some UFOs may very we l l ori g in­ate in a para l l e l univ­ers e . I think the evidence i s growing a l l the t ime to support that particular theory , and I dea l with thi s a spect in my new book . I think that thos e are the two mos t l ikely exp l anat i ons in my person­a l opinion . I rea l i z e that there are many other ex­p l anat i ons as we l l put forth by various · peop l e , but tho s e happen t o be the two that I think are l ike­ly t o account for most UFOs .

JUFO : What .� � abou,t the. e.x;tlta;te.Mu� hypothu ­� that le.ad-6 you to be­�eve that � may not ne.eu-6�Y exp�n UF0-6 ?

ARTHUR : We l l , I don ' t think i t exp lains a l l UFOs . I think s ome UFOs can be account ed for as probab l y physical craft from e l s ewhere , but c ert ­a in ly there are many s ight ings whi ch c annot b.e exp l a ined in that way due to the various c ircumstan­c e s surrounding many cases such a s disappearance , mater i a l i zati on and d emat ­eria l i zati on . I think

thes e are more l ikely to be exp lained by a d epar t ­ure into a paral l e l univ­ers e . I think thi s is what has happened in some case s , and I think the evidence is very strong for thi s . Certainly there have been many cases go­ing back for as long as I have been s tudying the subj ect , which invo lved material i zat ion and demat ­erial i zat ion o f UFOs , and I think we have to look s omewhere other than the nuts and bo l t s theory to account for thi s , and c er ­tain ly there are many a s ­pects o f parap sycho logy which would indicate that ther e is a para l l e l univ­ers e .

JUFO : What p�eulan M ­pe.et-6 o fi pa!W.p-6 yeholog y would lead you to b�e.ve. t� ?

ARTHUR : Wel l , I dea l with thi s at great l ength in my new book . I ' d rather l eave i t at that for the moment , but I would l ike t o s ay s imp ly that a great deal of work has b een done by many s c i ent i s ts , in many different countries , over a good many year s , whi ch indi cates to me that there i s another exis t ence bey­ond our physi c a l exi s t ence with whi ch we are fami l iar and which i s und etectab l e b y orthodox s c i enti fi c methods .

JUFO : 1.t -6 ound-6 M .thoug h , b y a p�e.l uMv e.M e. you �e.aUy �e. tal�ng about an additional �e.n-6�o n to o� �e.�y. Tw b�ng-6 up anotheJc. point . The.Jte. �e. �umoM , and at t� po�nt the.y Me. o nl.y �­moM , about an e.xp�e.n.t that wa-6 eonduete.d �n .the statu -6 houty afiteJc. .the. Se.eo nd Wo�d WM, w�eh � te.ehMeai.ly known a-6

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the Philadelphia Expenim­ent , whe.Jte appa.Jtenil.y a -6 hip in the Philadelphia -6 hipyaftd-6 � telepo�ed to anothe.Jt lo �ation, b�enly, and then appa.Jt­enil.y ftdWLned. Now, thi-6 � -6 Uppo-6 edly, nftOm my -6 0UJt�e-6 anyway, a te�hn.i�­al expe.Jtiment tha.X the United state-6 wa-6 involved with and appa.Jtenil.y a boo k hM jU-6t �ome out o n the ma.Jtket whi�h detail-6 thi-6 . Have you hea.Jtd o n thi-6 , and in -6 0 ' i-6 thi-6 the type o n �o n�ept to whi�h you a.Jte fte n�ng ?

ARTHUR : Yes , I certainly have heard of it . I am quite fam i l iar with the story , whether i t is true or not , I don ' t know . But I have no reason to doubt it , quite frankly . I t wouldn ' t surpri se m e i f it were true . I have not s een the book yet , but I have heard it was coming out very short ly . Thi s is the kind of thing whi ch sup ­ports the pos s ib l e exi st ­ence of another rea l i ty , another dimen s i on , a par ­a l l e l universe or what ever you want to ca l l it .

JUFO : Okay, -6 o fteally it i-6 n ' t a pMallel un.iv e.Jl.-6 e pe.Jt -6 e, one that eWU Oft �o - ewu along with U-6 , it i-6 fteally anothe.Jt dimen.-6ion to oWL �oneept 0 n fteality with whi�h we a.Jte not n� yet, and hav en ' t fteally examined . To me, a pa.Jtallel un.iv e.Jl.-6 e impliu anothe.Jt lin e oft anothe.Jt whole -6 e.Jtie-6 o n exi-6ten�e-6 o����ng along-6ide ouM , wheJteM the Philadelphia �xpe.Jtim­ent, in in nad the.Jte i-6 anything to il, implie-6 tha.X the.Jte i-6 , let ' -6 -6ay, an added dimen.-6ion to oUJt ftealily. Now, be that M il may, we ' v e al-6 o Jtun into , in -6tudying the UF 0

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phenomenon, people who �aim to hav e had eontau with othe.Jt intellig en�e-6 . The �ommon n eeling among mo-6t o n the publi� ftega.Jtd­ing thu e �ontaw i-6 that thu e othe.Jt intellig ent en.-Ut<..e-6 Me being-6 nftom othe.Jt plan m . I take it then that you Me j U-6t M pfto ne to b eliev e that we a.Jte po-6-6ibly dealing with entJ.;tte-6 nftom thi-6 addil.­io nal dimen.-6io n ftathe.Jt than nftO m 1 let I ,6 ,6 ay t a n W hundJted Oft thoU-6and lig ht yeaM a�o-6-6 oUJt own galaxy .

ARTHUR : Yes , I think we ' re e s s ent ial ly s aying the same thing , except that I think perhaps we put s l ight ly di fferent interp­retati ons on the t ermino}­ogy , with respect to par ­a l l e l univer s e and s o forth . Certainly with respect to a paral l e l un ­iverse I mean another un­iverse whi ch co - exists wi th ours and whi ch inter ­penetrat es ours , undetect ­ab l e by norma l s c i entific means and that thi s may be where s ome UFOs do ori g in­t e . That i s what I mean by a para l l el univer s e . Now ther e could very we l l be a r e lationship between the Phi l adelphia Exper im­ent and thi s , I don ' t know for sure because I don ' t know enough about the Phi lade lphia Experiment . I haven ' t got enough fact s o n the case . I t wi l l b e interesting to s e e thi s new book , to s ee what new fact s are brought out as to what rea l ly was the purpose behind it and what did in fact happen .

JUFO : Getting ba�k to yoWL involvement with the a.Jtmed noft�U , L eo na!td Stning ­nield fte�enil.y �ame up with a ftev elation that -6 eemed to e�ho and expand

what a Pfto n U -6 0ft CaM had -6aid a n W yea.Jt).) benOfte­hand , that he hM had a lot o n -6 0U!t�e-6 ' -6 ome -6 e�ond- hand -6 ome ni!t-6t-hand �on�e.Jtning �M hed UF0-6 in the Statu being fte�ov e.Jted, and in -6 ome �M U alien.-6 ev en being fte�ov e.Jted , and appa.Jtently, thu e thing-6 Me ftepo!tted­ly hidden at v�oU-6 MA F oft�e bM u in the Statu . Vo you hav e any �omment on thi-6 ?

ARTHUR : Yes , thi s i s ex ­ce l l ent work that Str ing ­fi e ld i s doing , and I rea l i z e the di fficu l t i es he must be having in thi s particu l ar kind of re­s earch . I pers ona l ly sus ­pect that there may very we l l be s omething to thi s , as far out as it may seem . I know there are many ar ­guments against the pos s -ibi l i ty o f these crashes , especia l ly so many . How­ever , I think i t i s quite s ignificant that in a l l cases the peop l e ins i st on comp lete anonimi ty and thi s i s important becaus e to me i t rul e s out hoax e s . A person who i s j ust s eek ­ing pub l i c i ty ident i fies hims e l f because pub l ic ity is of no va lue if he i s not ident ified . I t does nobody any good . I rea l ly fee l that these may be factual cases that are be­ing reported to Str ing­fi e ld by peop l e who are s t i l l under an oath of secrecy in the Uni t ed State s . They don ' t dare ident i fy thems e lves be­cause of the troub l e they would g et into if they do . So they are wi l l ing to speak out provided they ar e guaranteed anonimity , and I c ertain ly hope that String fi e ld cont inues on with this research becau s e it ha� interesting pos s ib ­i l it i e s .

JU FO : A6 yo u mentioned, -6 ome o n the �-6 -6 eem fteally outlandi-6 h to the g ene.Jtal publi�, and in we go ba�k a nw yeaM we Jtun into anothe.Jt �hap ealled Adam-6 IU.. who al-6 o made -6 ome fteaily outlandi-6 h �-6 . Now U hM been -6pe�ulated by -6 ome ftU eM�he.Jt-6 that Adam-6 ki wa-6 planted me.Jtely 6oft the pU!tpo-6 e o 6 �oming out with -6ueh �-6 and that be�au-6 e o 6 thi-6 the g ene.Jtal publi� wouldn ' t giv e any �eden�e to any UFO ftepofl.U . SU-6 piuon.-6 have now been a.JtoU-6 ed that the -6am e type o 6 thing i-6 b eing done with St.Jting ­nield . Vo you think the.Jte i-6 any po-6-6ibility that St.Jting 6ield ' -6 -6 ouJt�U hav e like..wi-6 e been planted 6oft thi-6 pU!tpo-6 e ?

ARTHUR : The pos s ibi l ity i s a lways ther e , of cours e , but I have a gut fee l ing that thi s is not the case . Part l y , I fee l this way becaus e of many of the things I have c ome across over a period of thirty years ; many thing s whi ch are very difficult t o put your finger on . Peop l e I have talked to , things I have read . When you weigh a l l of the evidence to­g ether rather than s ing l e r eports I think there i s a d i s t inct possibi l ity that thi s is rea l ly happening , that i t i s not j ust a ques t i on of peop l e being p l anted to d i s credi t the who l e thing .

JUFO : O n �oU!t-6 e , the othe.Jt thing that �omu to mind i-6 that in p eople Me be­ing planted to fu �edit the whole thing why a.Jte they being planted ? It would -6 eem that in they �AXLnted to di-6 �edit the whole UFO pidU!te they Me g oing about U in a v e.Jty ba�kwa.Jtd lAXLY, M in they

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a.Jte t.Jtying to �o v eJt up -6 omething el-6 e whi�h may be even mofte -6ig ni6i�ant, mofte Mtounding than the UFO phenomenon it-6 el6 , and fteaily the only thing that �omu to my mind would be the nad that the United Statu oft -6 ome othe.Jt powe.Jt hM been woftking on dev el­oping -6 ome �ant o 6 it-6 own that will behav e in the way that many UF0-6 a.Jte ftepo!tted to behav e, deny­ing the la.W-6 o6 gftavUy 6oft in.-6tan�e, and the UFO pidUJte it-6 el6 would be a pe.Jt6e� �o v e.Jt-up 6oft thi-6 . Vo you undefl.-6tand what I mean ?

ARTHUR : Yes I do . I t i s a good question . What would be the reas on behind such att empts ? I don ' t know that I can answer thi s in any adequate way , Dave . Again the pos s ibi l i ty ex­ists that thi s i s happen­ing . I t may we l l be an attempt by the U . S . gov­ernment t o d i s credit peop l e becaus e they are covering up something big­ger . I j us t don ' t . know , frankly . I rea l i z e that one shouldn ' t bas e one ' s thinking on any gut fee l � ing , thi s i s very uns c i en­t i fi c , but again I put to­gether many l i tt l e incid­ents that have occurred over a great many years , many types of evidence whi ch I can ' t rea l ly e l ab­orate on now , but · i t is the s ort of thing that l eads one to adopt c ertain views over a long per i od of t ime . Frank l y , I per­s ona l ly don ' t think it is a cover-up of thi s type on the part of the govern­ment . There i s a cover-up a s far a s UFO evidence i s concerned , I am c onvinced of this , but I do not think that the s tor ies o f crashed s aucers and s o forth i s a n at tempt to

d i s credit peop l e .

JUFO : 0 6 �ouM e , anothe.Jt thing that would tend to -6uppo!tt that i-6 the 6ad that UF0-6 a.Jte -6 een and fte­po!tted aU ove.Jt the wo!tld , and il ' -6 well- known that the RU-6-6ian-6 Me ai-6 o .{.n the thi�k o 6 UFO inv utig ­atio n them-6 elv u , and that they ' fte involved in th� own -6ig hting-6 , and M 6a.Jt M we �an: deteJLmine , thei!t OWn �O V e.Jt- Up o n in6 oJtm­atio n . You ' ve been in­volv ed in UFO inv utigat­ion and ftU ea.Jt�h noft thi!tty yeaM . Ove.Jt that pe.Jtiod hav e you deteued any t.Jtend towMd a��ept­an�e o6 the 6ad that UF0-6 ewt?

ARTHUR : On the part o f whom , Dav e ?

JUFO : Pe.Jthap-6 o n the paJLt o n the publi� I -6Uppo-6 e . I t i-6 mofte -6pe�ulat.iv e to talk about t.Jtend.-6 on the pa.Jtt 0 n g 0 V e.Jtnment-6 , al­thoug h I -6uppo-6 e that the fte�ent Fften�h g o ve.Jtnment -6tudy and the ftUuit-6 nftom it mig ht be -6 omething you might want to �o mment o n .

ARTHUR : Certain ly as far a s the pub l ic i s conc erned there is no doubt in my mind that an increas ing propor t i on of them are now quite prepared to accept that we may be being vi s it ed by a l i ens from s omewhere e l s e , this s ome­where e l s e not neces s ari ly having t o be a phys i c a l s omewhere e l s e , but s ome­where e l s e . Thi s trend has continued over the years , and certainly ga l lup po l l s can confirm thi s . The maj ­ori ty of peop l e now are be l i evers in the real ity of UFOs and the theory that they may very we l l be spacecraft . L think the French s tudy i s part i cu l -

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arly interesting . I t has gone further than mos t studi es i n other countries and thi s indicates a part ­icular interest on the part of the French govern ­ment , and I hope that the comp l et e s tudy wi l l be re ­leased very s oon , pub l i c ­ly .

JUFO : Vo you think t� � meJLei..y jrMt the Fftenc.h goveJLnment ' � attitude? About ten ye� ag o the Co ndon c.om�ee dJt� thw c.onc1.u-6ion-6 whic.h I think mo�t people who �e t)amili� with UFO� and UFO ftU e�c.h fteaUz e W:l-6 j rMt a whUeJ).)(U h , and that � eemed to be the g eneftal attitude o t) mo�t g o v eJtn­me� ac.Jto�� the wo!tld at that time . The ftea.�.> on I � ked about a tendenc.y O V eJL the lMt t)� ye� � that I don ' t think the F!tenc.h goveJr.nment �tudy m elt) had anything mofte �ignit)ic.ant to woftk with in the way o t) evidenc.e, and yet W �tudy hM pfto v ed po�ilive, in t)ac.t thw c.o nc.lMio M �e that UFO� do e�t and do ftep­ftu ent a "flying machine . . whose modes of sustenance and propu lsion are beyond our knowledge . " Now theJte � no Jr..eaJ.> on why the Cond­o n c.ommittee c.ould not have c.ome up with that c.onc.lrMion it) they had wanted bec.arM e they ha.d pJtac.:ttc.aUy the �ame type o t) evidenc.e to woftk with . Vo you detec.t o ft d o you �M pec.t � ome � oJtt o t) bLend Oft even � ome � oJtt o t) plan­ned bLend on the paJtt o t) wo!tld gov eJr.nmenU in t� di!tec.tion?

ARTHUR : Yes , I think I do detect thi s . I think France is to be commended in this respect for the attitude they have adopt ­ed . I a l so suspect that

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the American government is changing i t s att itude very s lowly , but very subt ly . For examp l e , there i s a new TV mov i e to be re­leas ed very short ly . I can ' t recal l the name of i t but i t i s a documentary whi ch i s being produced with the ful l co-operat ion of the United States gov­ernment . I understand that i t is pro UFO , a very pos itive fi lm , and if i t was i n fact produced wi th the ful l co-operation of the U . S . government as I am t o l d it was , then this repre s ents a s i gni ficant step on the part of the American government . I t would indicate that they may be engaged upon a cam­pai gn to educate the pub ­l ic , rather than c omiryg out with a sudden an ­nouncement that UFOs are rea l . I fee l that they want to educate the pub l i c on a gradual bas is . Thi s i s what i t indicates to me .

JUFO : I n otheJt woft� it � a p� yc.hologic.al ' wahming ­up ' o t) the Ameftic.an public. whic.h � i.Jr.o nic. in a uny bec.arM e I think that tw ha.�.> been in pftogJr..U� in a v eJr.y � ubile way du!ting the lMt ten to t)it)teen ye� anyway . I t) what you �ug ­g u t � Vc.ue , U now ap­peaM that the go v eJtnment � pftepMed to put thw o 6 t)ic.ia.l �tamp o 6 appftoval on it. Okay , what do yo u � ee M youJt involv ement in UFO ftU e�c.h, M�umi.ng that you Me g oing to c.on­tinue, in the ne� t) utuJte ?

ARTHUR : We l l , I cons ider my personal invo lvement to be mainly as an educat i on ­al one . I think my main thrust over the years has been trying to educate the pub l i c concerning the facts of UFOs . Thi s was

the purpose of my first book , to bring the fac t s to t h e att ent ion of the pub l i c . I ac cepted an in ­vitation t o pres ent a course at Al gonquin Co l ­l ege on thi s bas i s because I fe l t that thi s was an opportuni ty to educate the pub l i c concerning the fact s , and I have always taken thi s approach with respect to a l l the media as wel l . I think that one of the biggest d i ffi cu l t ­i e s that ufo l og i s t s face is the lack of knowl edge on the part of the genera l pub l ic , and I think that onc e the genera l pub l i c i s more knowl edgeab le o n the subj ect res earch wi l l be­c ome much eas i er . It wi l l b e much eas i er t o obtain s ight ing reports whi ch are now so di fficu l t to obtain because peop l e are afraid of ridicu l e . Al s o they don ' t know where to report in many cases . Government s are covering up but I think i f enough peop l e know the facts about UFOs , then more pressure can be put on the governments to re l ease their informa t i on . So again , my thrust has main ly been an educati ona l one , and I think for the fors eeab le future it wi l l continue in that way .

JUFO : So unwittingly oft not, you � eem to b e play­ing a paJtt in the p� yc.hol­ogic.al c.onveMion o t) the public. to an ac.c.eptable attitude towaJr..d the UFO . And t� , i t) we �tand bac.k and loo k at it t)Jr..om a � ­tanc.e, would tend to � up­poJtt � ome o 6 the c.laitn& that Jac.quu Vallee � been p!topo�ing o v eJr. the lMt 6� ye� , that in � ome way, whic.h � not de� Jtig ht now, theJte � � ome � oJtt o t) c.ontJtol t)ac.t­oJt whic.h hM w hand in the UFO pic.tuJte . It ' � well ( s ee B RAY , p . 3 1 )

WJ/fO s M l c h a e l S l n c l a l r

U FO AUTHORI TI ES ANV GRENAVA URGE THE UNI TEV NATI ONS ORGAN I Z ATI ON TO STUVY U FO REPORTS A�V THE UFO PHENOMENON - But What Happen-6 Next?

Th i s a rt i c l e i s b a sed pa r t l y on UN O f f i c i a l Re co rd s . The v i ews an d s ugges t i on s of the U FO a u t h o r i t i e s wh o s poke to t h e Gene ra l Assemb l y ' s S pe c i a l P o l i t i ca l Comm i t tee ( S P C) a re s umma r i ze d i n the s umma ry re co rds o f the S P C 1 s mee t i n gs on N ovembe r 27 an d De cembe r 8 , 1 9 78 ( see UN do cumen t s A/ S P C / 3 3/S R . 35 , A/ S P C / 3 3/S R . 36 an d A/S P C/ 3 3 /S R . 4 7 , a l s o UN P re s s Re l e a se GA/59 42 , 5 Feb ru a ry 1 9 79 , p . 1 5 7) . Th e ma j o r p re s e n t a t i on s t o t h e S P C an d s ome b a ck g roun d an d an a l ys i s o f th i s e ven t appe a re d i n International UFO Reporter, Vo 1 . 3 ( N o . 1 0 / 1 1 , O ct . /N ov . 1 9 7 8) , wh i eh i s t he s ou r ce fo r s ome o f the q u ot a t i on s i n th i s a r t i c l e .

An import an t mi l e s t one in the h i s t ory of present ­ing the cas e for incre ased internation a l s ci ent i fi c re se arch about UFO reports and the UFO phenomenon o c­curred at the United N at ­i ons in New York l ate l as t year . On De cember 1 8 , 19 7 8 the UN General As s emb ly adopted , without a vote , a recommendat i on from i t s Spe ci al P o l i t i cal Commit ­tee ( SPC) t o undertake what could be des cribed as an exp l orat ory ro le to en ­courage and t o as cert ain in formation , on a nation al leve l , ab out coordin ated s ci ent i fi c re s e arch int o ext raterrestri al l i fe , in ­c luding UFOs . The SPC heard a dive rs e oral ( and fi lm) present ation about UFOs on November 2 7th and on De cember 8 , 1 9 78 adopt ­e d by consen s us a draft reso lut ion to recommend t o the General As s emb ly th at i t ( 1 ) '�nvites interested Member States to take ap­propriate steps to co-ord­inate on a national leve l s cientific research and investigation into extra­terrestrial life , includ­ing unidentified flying objects, and to in.form the Se cretary-General of the observations, research and

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eva luation o.f s uch activ­i ties ; " ( 2 ) "reques ts the Secre tary-General to tran­smit the s tatements of the de legation of Grenada (which had promoted a UN UFO study) and the re lev­ant documentation to the Commi ttee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, so that it mo:y consider them at i ts l9?9 meeting; " and ( 3 ) th at this "Committee 's de liberations (about this documentation, and. after a presen tation, if request­ed, by Grenada) wi l l be included in i ts report which wi l l be considere d by the General Assemb ly at i ts thirty-fourth session " ( l ate in 19 79 ) . The s e are the subst ant ive aspects o f the General Ass emb ly ' s de ­c1s1on . No government o f other UN member st ates h ad open ly supported Grenad a ' s propos al , advan ced e ach year s in ce 1 9 75 , for the General As s emb ly t o di s ­cus s and act pos it ive ly about the '�stab lishment of an agency or a depart­ment of the United Nations for undertaking, co-ordin­ating and disseminating the results of research into unidentified �ying objects and re lated phen­omena. "

The h i s tori c p resent ­ation about UFOs on N ovem­ber 2 7 , 1 9 7 8 , began . w i th Grenada ' s then prime min ­is ter , S ir Eri c G airy , t e l ling the UN SPC th at the UFO phenomen on '�as evi dent everywhere on earth and was causing ser­ious concer.n� not on ly to national GOvernments and s cientists, but also to ordinary men and women, especia l lu younger and better educated peop le who were year.ning for sensib le exp lanations of the phen­omenon from those in a posi tion to provide the answers. "

Grenada then introduced a draft reso luti on ( A/SPC/ L . 20 ) for the SPC ' 's con­s ideration . (Th e text of the draft reso lut ion ' s pre amb le re ferred to the General As s emb ly ' s "com­mi tment to promote inter­national co-operation in so lving international prob lems , " a l so the grow­ing intere s t in UFOs amon g the worl d ' s peop l e s . Th i s draft re so lut i on , i f i t had been adopted b y the SPC , wou l d h ave urged the General As s emb ly to recom­mend that the United N at ­i ons "initiate, conduct and co-ordinate research

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into the nature and origin of Unidentified Flying Ob­je cts and re lated Phenom­ena, " and reque st the Sec ­retary - Gene ra l to invite UN "Merriber States , spec­ia lized agencies and non­governmental organizations to transmit to him by 31 May 19 79 information and proposals which would fac­i litate the proposed s tudy . " Al so , the Secret ­ary- Genera l woul d be re ­que st ed "to appoint . . . a three-member group of ex­perts Ufl,der the aegis of the Commi ttee on the Peaceful Uses o.f Outer Space _, for the purpose of defining guide lines for the proposed s tudy . " The dra ft re s o lut i on ' s l as t three paragraphs proposed that the General As s emb ly dec i de t o h ave the three memb e r expert group mee t during t h e s e s s ions o f , and work through the Com­mi ttee on the Pe ace fu l Use s o f Outer Sp ace and report through it to the General As s emb ly . ) S everal we l l -known persons as s o c ­i ated w i th UFO re s earch and report s then spoke t o the SPC as p art of Gren­ada ' s de legat i on .

Dr . J . Al ien Hynek , n ow fu l l - time director o f the Cent er for UFO studie s in Evanst on , I l l inoi s and re ­cent ly ret ired profe s s or o f as tronomy at Northwes t ­e rn Univers ity , des cribed UFOs as "a phenomenon so s trange and foreign to our dai Zy terrestrial mode of thought that i t is fre­quent ly met by ridi cule and derision by persons and organizations Ufl,ac­quainted with the· facts . " Not ing that "in the popul­ar mind the UFO phenomenon is associated wi th the concept of extra-terrest­rial inte l ligence and this might yet prove to be cor­rect in some context� " h e

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s t at ed th at "UFO reports have been assemb led from 133 different CO W'/, tries " and "in significant num­bers have been made by high ly responsib le per­sons . " The thous ands of UFO report s on record '�n­cZude extreme ly intriguing and provocative accoUfl,ts of strange events exper­ienced by high ly reput­ab le persons . events which chal lenge our pres­ent conception of the world about us and which may indee d signal a need for a change in some of these concepts . " ( Th i s point h ad been noted i n a 19 7 4 radio b roadcas t by the Fren ch de fense min i s t ­er who s t re s s ed "the im­portance of inves tigating the truly Ufl,known . " ) /

Re fe rring in part i cu l ar to evi den ce from the more th an 1 300 report s o f c l os e encoun ters of the second kind ( phys i cal t race c as e s ) on record Dr . Hynek s ai d that "any phenomenon whi ch touches the lives of so many peop le and whi ch engenders puzz lement and even fear among them, is therefore no t only of pot­ential s cientific interes t and significance but also of sociological and poli t­ical significance_, espec­ially since it carries wi th it many imp li cations of the existence of intel­ligences other than our own . " Intere s t ingly , he re ferred to the "growing comrrrunity of s cientis ts from many coun tries ( esp­ecial Zy France and the U. S . ) who have de clared an interes t, either private ly or open ly, in purs uing the chal lenge presented bu the UFO prob lem and who are gathering and anaZy zing the re levant data. " Fur­the r , "there is a surpris­ingly large number of in ... dividuaZ scientists who

have expressed to me, pri­vate Zy and personal Zy , " Dr . Hynek s ai d , "their in­volved concern with the challenge of the UFO phen­omenon and who entertain opinions consistent with " the conclus ions o f the Fren ch report that "most of the cases carefully studied . . . invoZved a mat­eria Z phenomenon that could not be exp lained as a natural phenomenon or a human device . " (Th i s was h i s unders tanding o f the maj or con clus i on of a re ­c ent s cient i fi c study on UFOs sponsored by the Fren ch government and un ­dert aken by a diverse group o f s cientists . )

Dr . Hynek s t re s s ed that the s ci ent i s ts and o ther spe cia l i s t s a ct ive ly studying the UFO phenomen ­on col lective ly 'possess information and results whi ch, in my opinion, are important and s hou Zd be shared wi th their co l­leagues e Zsewhere, " b ut they '�ave no means by which they can share the res ults of their research­es with other. workers , or poo Z them for the benefi t of others as i s s tandard practice in s cientifi c matters . " H e al s o emphas ­i zed th at he was "not ask­ing that the United N at­ions organization create its own commission to con­duct researches into the UFO .fie Zd, but mere Zy to provide a means whereby work and inves tigations aZre adJj carried out and accomp lished bu s cientists in their own countries could be expedi tious ly disseminated to their co l­leagues in other coUfl,t­ries, " al so t o be ab l e t o meet t o know e ach other and t o "interchange their ideas and their investig­ative . work with co lle agues in other merriber nations . "

"Data of high potential significance to science and the world is contin­ual ly being los t for lack o.f a means to prevent its loss , " he added .

The UFO phenomenon '�as aroused the concern, and often the fear, of signif­icant fractions " o f popul ­ations in the 1 33 count ­ries in whi ch UFO s i ght ­ings ( or expe rien ce s ) h ad been reported , in c l uding in those countri es rep re s ­ented on the SP C , Dr . Hy­nek ob s erved . Al s o , it ''has great possib le soc­iologi cal and po li tical imp lications , as we Z Z as s cientific potentia! . " "The creation of a mechan­ism wi thin the Uni ted Nat­ions to faci li tate the ex­change of UFO reports and s tudies made in various Member States wi Z! . . . hast­en the day when, " he s ai d , h i s op in i on , "as a s cient­is t who has devoted many years to i ts s tudy , that the UFO phenomenon is real and . . . has both grave and importan t impli cations for s cience and for the poli t­ical and social we Z !-being of the peop les of this Earth " ''wi Z Z be trans Zated into firm s cientific know­ledge . " The UFO phenomen on appe ars to re fle ct "the action of some form of in­te Z Zigence _, " and "a ser­ious concerted approach ( i s needed) to this most outs tanding chal lenge to current s cience . "

Dr . J acque s F . Val lee , an as trophys i ci s t and c om­puter expe rt who is as s o c ­i ated with s everal re ­se arch ins ti tutions , open ­ed his remarks to the SPC by obs e rving th at new know l edge common ly t ri g ­gers "emo tional reactions with far-reaching cultural and poli tical effec ts , " that "new beliefs are born out of this confrontation "

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and th at "the frequent re­porting" o f UFOs "presents an opportunity to observe both of these processes . " The UFO phenomenon , he s ai d , h as three aspe cts : ( 1 ) "a physical manifest­ation that can and should be investigated through a lready avai lab le s cient­ific equipment; " ( 2 ) ''psy­cho-physiological " aspec t s ( such as "disorien tation symptoms , " et c . ) and in p art i cul ar ( 3) "the social be lief system . . . • generated (wide ly) . . . by the expect-ation of space visitors _, " whi ch ''has been nurtured by the lack of serious at­tention given to genuine reports of UFOs . "

He als o s tres s e d h i s conclus ions , from l ong pers on al s tudy , about the UFO phenomenon ' s s o ci al e ffec t-s . First , "the be­lief in space vi si tors is independent of the physic­al reali ty of the UFO phenomenon . " Secon dly , "the be lie f in the irrmin­ence of UFO ' Con tact ' is an indication of a widen­ing gap be tween th� pub li c and s cience . " Thi rdly , "in the absence of serious, unbiased research . . . the be lief in the imminence of UFO ' Contact ' undermined the image of Man as a mas­ter of his own des tiny " and the arguments , unprov­en though des erving o f s eri ous s tudy , "that the earth had been visited by space trave l Zers in pre­his toric times " "encour­ages passive expectation of another visi t by friendly space creatures to so Zve current human prob lems . " Moreover , Dr . Val lee s ai d that the se ar­gument s are "leading many peop le to suggest that the great achievements of man­kind would have been im­possib le without ce les tial intervention. " Fourth l y ,

"the expe ctation o f con­tact wi th space visitors promo tes the concept o.f po litical unification of our p lanet " and "a s trong and beautiful yearning for global peace is expressing itse lf. " Nonethe l e s s , ''whether this becomes a factor .for positive or negative social change wi ll depend on the way in whi ch these emotions are treated Jxnd on the ser­iousness with which the underlying physical phen­omenon is inves tigated. " Dr . Val l ee con clud e d h i s remarks t o the S P C b y s ay­ing that s ci enti s ts he knows who are studying the UFO eni gma '�ouZd we lcome an opportuni ty to share their data and their ideas wi thin any (UN) structure that could be avai lab le for this purpose . "

Varying views ab out the n ature of UFO report s and about the imp l i cat i ons of the UFO phenomenon were evi den t in the othe r pre ­s ent at i ons to the SPC . Lieut en ant Co l . L arry Coyne , a U . S . mi l it ary o f­fi cer who appe ared be fore the SPC in a private c ap ­aci ty , urged the commi ttee to real i ze that in ciden ts l i ke that on O ct ober 1 8 , 19 73 , invo lving a U . S . Army uti l ity he l i copter in whi ch he was the pi l ot in command , were due t o re a l ob j ect s "and these types of incidents should re­quire a thorough inves t­igation . " The SPC then agreed t o Grenada ' s requ­est t o show "a documentary fi Zm, prepared especia lly for the Corrmi ttee . " Dr . Hynek provi de d a n arration for the de le gate s . In the afternoon s e s s ion on Nov­ember 2 7th a letter re ad t o the SPC from former U . S . as tronaut Gordon Cooper expres s ed the be l ­i e f that UFOs are "extra-

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terres trial vehi cles " vi s ­i t ing E arth from more techni cal ly advan ced p l an ­ets . ( Cooper h ad been in ­vited to addre s s the SPC but at the l as t minut e was unab l e to be pre s ent . ) He urged "a top Zeve Z co-ord­inate d programme to s cien­tificaZ Zy coZ Zect and an­aZy ze data from aZZ over the earth concerning any type of encounter_, and to de te rmine how bes t to in­terface with these visi t­ors in a friendly fash­ion . " lt w as quite ap ­p ropri at e to te l l a United N at i ons committee that '�e ( i . e . , mankind) may first have to show them that we have learned to reso lve our prob lems by peaceful me 'erns _, rather than war­fare _, before we are ac­cepted as fuZ Zy qualified universal te am me77UJers . " He added that "this accep­tance would have tremend­ous possibi lities of ad­vancing our world in aZZ areas _, " and "certain ly then it would seem that the Unite d Nations has a veste d interest in hand­ling this subject properly and expeditious Zy . " The few as tronauts who h ave cont inued s ome p arti cip at ­ion in the UFO fie l d h ave done so very cautious ly , he s ai d , bec ause us e of the ir names had s omet imes been abus e d .

Stan ton Friedman , a nuc­le ar phys i ci s t and we l l ­known UFO rese archer and speaker , t o l d the de l e g­ates that peop l e through ­out the wor l d are al l "earth Zings " and "that there was ove nvhe Zming ev­idence to sugges t that the p lanet was being visited by inte Z ZigentZy control­Zed extraterre s trial veh­icles . " Noting the abi l i ty o f UFOs "to move and man­oeuvre at thousands of mi Zes an hour, " he specul -

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ated on ext raterrestri al s ' mot ives for in tere st in "a primitive societu " whi ch , from an a l i en viewpo int , h ad no central p o l i t i cal un it and '�hose major act­ivity was tribal warfare . " T ak ing "an earth ling orientation_, " he s ai d , cou ld as s i s t m an ' s trying "to see himse Zf as others ( i . e . , a l i en s ) saw him_, " and this mi ght h e lp to promote "man 's very sur­vival . " There are "no bomdary Zines " "from up above " when app ro ach ing p l anet E arth . Mr . Friedman al s o sugges ted that i f UFOs are e xt raterre s tri al then their s ol utions to the important quest ions of pe ace , survival , energy and hunger could b ene fit mankind . /

The p re s ent at i ons t o the SPC p art ly re fle cted the d ivers ity of viewpoints about the UFO phenomenon and the s i gn i fi can ce an d caus e ( s ) o f UFO rep orts . Di fferent views may al s o exi s t on an unoffi ci a l l eve l among UN members as t o any app ropri ate or use ­fu l UN act i on about the UFO puz z l e . Be fore the Spe cia l Po l it i cal Commit ­tee ' s meeting on Decemb er 8 , 1 9 7 8 , Gren ad a ' s de l e g ­at ion re al i ze d that the i r draft reso lution p rop os ing a maj or UN UFO s tudy woul d no t b e adopted due t o the absen ce , it seemed , o f s upport from SPC memb e rs . The re fore , Grenada de cided not to p re s s for a vote on i t b ut ins t e ad was then ab le to s e cure support for the dec i s i on final ly adop ­ted by consensus whi ch , Gren ada fe 1 t , "proposed the offi cial adoption of provisional rreasures to per-mit future discussion of the i tem ( emb odied in Gren ad a ' s withdrawn draft re s o l ut i on) in a manner considered s atisfactory by

aZZ Me77UJer States . " The de cis ion o f the SP C ,

adopted b y the Gene ra l As ­s emb ly , rep re sented a typ­i ca l UN compromis e whi ch o ccurs in s i tuations when the gove rnmen ts of UN mem­ber st ates do not want to commit thems e lves - espe c ­i al ly on controvers i al i s ­sue s - but at the s ame t ime wish t o avo i d o ffend­ing a sma l l new member . Thus , the re i s l i tt le s i g­ni fi can ce to th i s UN de c ­i s i on t o date an d the re l ike ly wi l l b e even l e s s as the new government o f Gren ada is n o t expec ted t o promote a UN study of UFOs whi ch the t opp l e d S ir Eri c Gairy di d when he was the country ' s prime min i s ter .

On the o ther hand , h ope­fu l ly , thi s ye ar may wit ­nes s s ome re al progre s s through the sub j e ct ' s re ­ferr a l t o the General As ­s emb ly ' s Committee on the Peace fu l Us e s of Outer Sp ace . We must w ai t and s ee . However , i f this proves to be unpro duct ive , anoth e r approach would b e t o have the sub j ec t o f the UFO eni gma re fe rred to the Un i te d Nat ions E ducat i onal S cien t i fi c an d Cul tural Organ i z at i on ( UNES CO ) , one o f the speci al i z ed agen ­cies whi ch form p art of the UN fami ly or sys tem . Thi s wou l d seem qui te appropri ate as two o f UNESCO ' s three funct ions pres cribed in its con s tit ­ut i on are ( a) to "coZ Zab­orate in the work of ad­vancing the mutual know­ledge and understanding of peop Zes . . . and . . . to promote the free fiow of ideas by word and image _, " . . . and ( c) to "maintain_, increase and diffuse know Zedge . . . By encouraging co-operation among the nations in aZZ branches of inte ZZe ctuaZ activity _, including the international exchange of

persons active in the fie lds of education_, s ci­ence and culture and the exchange of pub li cations _, obje cts of artis ti c and s cientific interest and othe r materials of inform­ation; ( an d) By initiating methods of international co-operation calculated to give the peop le of aZ l coun tries access to the printed and pub lished mat­erials produced by any of them. "

Thi s sugge s t i on to re fer the UFO sub j e ct for study by and/or through UNE S CO i s con s i stent with the spe ci fi c sugge s t i ons whi ch Dr . Hynek and Dr . Val lee made to the SPC . Bo th urged i t t o faci l it ate the exch an ge of in format ion about UFO report s and t o enab l e inte rch ange s bet ­ween s cient i s ts and o the rs fami l i ar with the UFO phenomenon . Such an ap­pro ach mi ght not be un ­accept ab l e t o many UN mem­bers , in c ludin g the United S t ate s and othe r in fluent .­i al count ri e s , and there ­fore cap ab le o f b eing ach ­ieved . I t wou l d not com ­mi t any UN memb er gove rn ­ment t o a pos it ion o n a controve rs i a l sub j e ct and wou l d invo lve on ly ve ry sma l l cost s . Ano ther sug­ges tion i s for maj or UFO groups to inve s t i g at e the pos s ib i l ity of the ir s e c ­uring consultat ive arr an g­ements wi th UNESCO as in­tern at i on al non - governmen­tal organ i z ations (NGOs ) act ive in a fie ld o f re ­se arch re l evant to the general aspects o f UNESCO ' s fun ct i ons . I f such st atus were s ecured it could en ab l e seve ra l pos s ib le deve lopments whi ch woul d as s i st in the promot ion o f s cient i fi c UFO re s e arch , e . g . , some support for do cument at i on , spe cial studi e s and part -

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i cipation in con ferences . A l s o , UNES CO o c c as i onally de l e gates some of i t s t asks to N G O spe ci al i s ts and s ch o l ars to un dert ake enquiries on numerous top ­i cs o f con cern t o member nat i ons of UNE S CO . S cient ­i sts an d others who are convinced th at the UFO en­i gma i s worthy o f a maj or internat ional s cien t i fi c s tudy would then have new forums - and s ome s uppor t ­in g ass i s t an ce - for their att empt s t o convin ce othe rs .

Even i f the UN were to unde rt ake a maj or UFO study we shou ld l e arn the l e s sons from the cont inu­ing col le ct i ve fai lure o f mankind - i . e . , o f the worl d ' s gove rnments act ­ing through the Uni ted N ations sys tem , othe r in ­tern at i onal mechanisms and inte rgove rnment al forums ( such as the Commonwe alth of N at i ons ) - to res o l ve such maj or worl d prob l ems as , for examp l e , hunger , human ri ghts , re fugees and the arms race . Thi s e x ­perience shoul d · suggest l itt le room for opt imism re garding the UN ' s ab i l ity to re ach de finit ive con­c lus i ons about the UFO en ­i gma, espe ci al ly in l i ght o f the nature of the e v­i den ce in support o f mos t UFO reports . Moreover , the UN may be un l ike ly t o agree on imp l i cations about the n ature of the comp lex UFO phenomenon . In any event , the prob l ems pos ed for the wor l d ' s peop le s and gove rnments by the unexp l ained and per ­haps unexp l ainab l e compon ­ent o f UFO report s may or may not be as important as the above and nume rous othe r , s e emingly intract ­ab l e int e rn at i onal p rob ­lems .

A UN sponsored UFO s tudy might be ab l e t o re ach

de finit ive c onc lus ions i f i t i s we l l s et up as re ­gards i ts t e rms o f re fer­en ce , prin cipal res e arch ­e rs , their methodo logy , res ources and integrety to purs ue inve s t i gat ion and res e arch thorough ly and with comp le t e independ­ence . Th i s appe ars to h ave been t rue o f the UFO re ­s e ar c� s tudy sponsored by the Fren �h government , and that group ' s voluminous report re ce ived a favour­ab l e review from an indep ­endent and interdi s cip l in ­ary pane l o f s ci enti s t s .

The t ask at hand , h ow ­ever , i s t o get a begin­ning for a systemat i c UN spons ored s tudy o f UFO re ­ports and o f the UFO phen­omenon . To accomp l i sh this woul d fi rs t require a sig­ni fi cant me asure o f pub l i c an d po li ti c a l ( i . e . , gov­ernment ) suppott in a few in fluenti al count ri e s and then some con certed n at ­ional le ade rship t o prom­ote and ensure intern at ­ion al action under UN or o ther inte rn at i onal aus ­p i ce s . Rec o gnit ion that the UFO phenomenon and the unexp l ained nature of many UFO report s , e spe ci a l ly tho s e with '�igh s trange­ness _, " const i t ut e an int ­e rn ational prob lem wi l l on ly occur as a result o f a po l it i cal de ci s ion by governments th at thi s is so . Such a b o l d dec l ar­at ion is un l ike ly to be forth coming , re gard l e s s o f how many more reput ab l e s ci ent i s t s in di f ferent countri es s tudy and then s t at e that b oth are re al and import an t and th at genuine ly unexp l ained UFO report s repres ent a puz z le to s cien ce and potenti a l s i gni fi can ce i f the puz z le i s ( some would s ay can b e ) so l ved . Perh aps the e f­fort s o f s erious s tudent s o f the UFO sub j e ct woul d ( s�e U . N . , p . 3 1 )

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At about 7 : 1 5 on the evening of November 1 , 19 7 8 , a teenage d gi rl was out j ogging in a fie ld bes i de her home ne ar Ne s t l et on , Ont ari o . Nes t ­l eton i s ab out 2 5 mi l es s outh - e ast o f Lake S imcoe and 30 mi l es north - e as t of Toront o . She was s tart l ed to s ee what appe ared t o be two l i ghts on e i ther end of a dark , unde fined obj ­e ct at about a 30 degree e levat i on above an adj ­acent fie l d .

She s t opped j ogging to l ook more c lo s e ly at the obj e ct , and as she di d i t s t arte d to move on an angle' t oward the e as t , p as s ing ove r s ome ne arby trees . She ran b ack to the hous e to cal l her b rother out to l ook at the obj ec t whi ch both o f them des ­cribed as being perfe ct ly s i lent . S in ce it was so close t o them an d appe ared to be comp l ete ly uni dent ­i fi ab le , they ran b ack int o the house an d lo cked al l the doors , w at ch ing the obj e ct from the ir w in ­dow for about fi fteen min­ute s as i t altern ate ly hovered and moved s l ow ly in an e as te r ly di re ction . I t eventual ly di s appe ared b ehind s ome t rees about a quarter o f a mi le away , appe aring t o h ave l anded .

At 7 : 45 thei r p arents arrived home , but were in a hurry p reparing for the �vening ' s act ivi ties . They

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�ere surpri s ed to find the doors l ocked , but di dn ' t pay too much at ten t i on t o the re as on given . Since they l ived in a farming communi ty the fami ly us ­ual ly l e ft thei r doors un­l o cked .

At a coup le of minutes to e i ght the gi r l and her b rothe r , now fee l ing a l it t le bo lde r , l e ft the house to w alk up the high � way t o see i f they cou{d spot the obj e ct at the l oc at i on at whi ch i t h ad appe ared t o des cen d . A coup l e o f minutes l ater the ir mother l e ft in the c ar in the oppos ite direc ­t i on t o go to a meeting in ne arby B lack s to ck . At about 8 : 05 PM the two teen agers s aw the obj e ct appe ar from the general are a in whi ch it had di s ­appe ared north o f the h i ghway . They watched i t as i t p as sed at not t oo high an al t itude immed ­i ate ly ove rhe ad , cros s e d the highway and curved around t ow ard B l acks tock . As i t p as s e d overh e ad they di s tinc t ly h e ard a dul l whi rring s ound coming from the ob j e ct whi ch they coul d now see c l e arly and des cribed as an e l on gated dark shape w i th a red l i ght on each end , one o f them fl ash ing on an d o ff .

Me anwhi le , between 8 : 05 PM and 8 : 1 0 PM the i r mother not i ced a strange ob j e ct in the sky from her c ar j us t b e fore re ach ing B l ack s to ck . She pul l ed o ff the road t o w at ch i t , re -

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parting that it had char­a cteri s ti cs i dent i cal to those des cribed by her chi ldren . She wat ched i t s l ow ly re cede i n a SE dir­ect ion un ti l it bec ame j ust a poin t in the sky . I t s lo cat ion from her car corresponded to that re l ­ated by her chi ldren at the s ame t ime . We athe r condi t i ons th at evening were c l e ar , coo l and c a lm .

The teen agers ' p arents re gretted th at they hadn ' t paid more att ent ion t o what the i r ch i ldren had t ried to te l l them when they arrive d home , but they were t oo busy pre ­p aring for the i r evening ' s act ivit ies an d only hal f p ai d attent i on . I t was on ly when the mother s aw the s t range ob j ec t whi l e d riving int o B l ack s to ck th at she rec al led s ome o f wh at he r chi l dren had re l ­ated . She al s o re al i zed th at they mus t h ave been re a l ly fri gh tened at the time in o rde r for them to h ave l o cked a l l the doors .

The n ext day she made s ure t o get al l the de ­t ai ls and had e ach o f her chi ldren individual ly draw what they h ad seen . They both drew an ob j ec t w i th characteri st i cs s imi lar to the one she h ad s een ( s ee Fi g . 1 ) and re al i zed that the t ime and pos i t i on o f thei r s e cond s i ght ing co­in ci ded e xactly with the ir mother ' s .

The fol l owing day when she w'as trying to deter­mine how to report the in-

ci den t she heard me t al k ­in g about UFOs on a radi o program and was ab le to get in touch with me at the s t at i on . On November 5 th I went out to int er­view the wi tnes s e s . I was impre s s ed with the d e fin ­i te des cript ion o f the ob ­j e ct and its behavior I recei�ed from both the boy and g1 rl , who were inter­viewed s ep arate ly , and al though e ach was a l itt l e shy at fi rs t , both event­ual ly des cribed the event in almost i denti cal de ­tai l , the on ly di fferen ce being that one o f them drew a s l i ght ly ' fatter ' ob j e ct th an the other . Th i s was prob ably due t o their h aving di fferen t ab ­i l i t i es when i t came to represent ing perspe ctive on pape r .

Further corroborative t e s timony was provided by a farmer and h i s d aughter whose farm i s j ust to the NE o f the area whe re the obj e ct was reported to have apparen t ly l ande d . They were comp l ete l y un ­aware o f the s i ghtin g re ­port ed by the previous fami ly , who h adn ' t men ­tioned the in ci dent to anyone in the area for fe ar o f ri di cul e . The t ime , dire ct i on , and char­acteri s t i cs des cribed by the pai r who were on their w ay from the ir b arn to the i r house when they s aw the ob j e ct corre sponde d to those reported by the teen age rs and the ir moth ­er . A s earch o f the area for phys i cal t race s o f a l anding proved ne gat ive .

Nest l et on i s about 20 mi l e s ENE of the are a of the s ight ing reported by Mr . A, de s cribed in the first i s s ue of Journal UFO (pg . 2 2 ) . As in that c as e w e have been unsuc ce s s fu i in i dent i fying wh at the wi tne s s e s s aw .

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Durin g l ate Novemb er of 1 9 7 8 , the B ruce Peninsula was the s i te of one of thos e frus t rat ing UFO cas e s whi ch occas i onal ly occur seeming ly mere ly to aggravate the witne s s e s an d the inve s t i gators . Thi s p art i cular in ci dent al s o serves to re fle ct the indi ffe ren ce of o ffi ci al ­dom , an atti tude whi ch can be , an d o ften · · l S , ml S -in te rp reted by some as sme l l ing of a " cove r-up " .

For thi s re as on I s h a l l not on ly det ai l the UFO s i ghting its e l f , as repor­ted by its seve ra l wi t ­nes ses , but shal l a l s o at ­tempt t o des cribe , as bes t as I have been ab le to as ­ce rt ain , the invol vemen t of no les s th an three pol i ce det achments in the inves ti gat i on .

The witnes s , Bren da Ni co l of Wi art on des c­ribed what happened in her own wo rds : "On N ovember 20 , 1 9 7 8 at 6 : 35 PM I l e ft my house for the town o f Wi art on . About h a l f a mi le from home I noti ced a bri ght orange - red l i ght in the sky . I di dn ' t pay much at ten tion to it at fi rs t thinkin g i t_ was an ai r�

pl ane , but I kep t seeing i t out the corner of my eye and thought it aw fu l ­ly bri ght and b i g t o be a l i ght from a norma l ai r­craft . It was t rave l ling from e as t to wes t at fi rs t , then turned to a northe rly di re ct i on ove r

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about th ree quarters o f a mi le furthe r down the road on my le ft again . I th ough t i t s o unus ual th at I s t opped my car on the e ast s i de of Pike Rive r to w at ch i t , bec ause it seem­ed to be , not movin g . I t was moving , but unusual ly s l owly , I th ought , for the s i ze of the l i ght . I thought th at a b i g j umbo at th at height would move along at th at p ace , but the s i ze l e ft me wonde r­ing . Thinking it had to be an ai rp l ane , I cont inue d on t o Wi arton to pi ck up my s on from h i s hockey ?ract i ce . The t ime was now about 6 : 5 0 PM .

Upon he ading home at about 7 : 05 PM I s ai d to my s on , Te rry , who i s twe l ve "K

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red l i ght in the sky . " He rep l i ed , "Wh at is it ? " I s ai d , " I don ' t know , j us t look , " and afte r a coup l e o f minute s h e ye l le d , "There it i s ! "

Sure enough , there it was again . Jus t a few s e c­onds l ater it turned whi te and then g l owed a b lue co l?ur : We then lost s i ght o f 1t 1n the t re e l ine . I t re appeared wheh we pas s ed th at s e ct i on o f trees , but as

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As we appro ached P �ke R1 ve r again , I no ­t l ced another vehi cl e s t opped . I t was now about 7 : 1 5 PM . He appe ared to be

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wat ching wh at we were s o I c ros sed over the b ri dge and p arke d .

The l i ght was now on the s outh s i de of the road and appeared as firs t one , then two b ri ght red l ights about h al f a mi le up and away . I turned o ff my radio , he at e r fan an d en ­gine thinking it w as c l ose enough to he ar , but there was no s ound . In the me an ­time the othe r veh i c le parked in front of me . Three peop le c ame out o f i t and cros sed the road t o wat ch . I j umped out of my c ar and asked , "You w atch ­in g th at thing , too ? " The l i ghts flew in a ci rcul ar di rect ion acros s the high ­way s ti l l keep ing the s ame dis t an ce . Now on the north s i de of the ro ad , the two l ight s were des cendin g an d he adin g ri ght for us . I remember the man and two young teen agers rushing to thi s s i de o f the road , the man s aying , "that ' s no airp l ane , the l i ghts shoul d be fl ashing ! " I was fri ghtened an d s ai d , "Come on , Terry . We ' re going t o contact the authori ties . " Wi th th at , we l e ft the thin g s t i l l coming . One o f the other b oys s ai d , "Let ' s go get John - ? - " , as I was get t ing into the c ar .

W e turned off the h i gh ­way about 300 feet up the road , and we re he ading north . Terry s ai d the now orange -red l i ght was fo l ­l owin g us . Sure enough , i t was there again . W e t rav­e l l ed in thi s di re ct i on for about h al f a mi le , and then turned west . Terry s ai d it was s t i l l coming , and I che cked again . I t was . About thi s time a whi te -b lue l i ght appe ared sudden ly in front of the now b ri gh t re d l i gh t for about one o r two s e conds . As the whi t e -b lue l ight

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di s appe are d , Te rry ye l l ed , " I t ' s comin g at us , mom . " I kept goin g an d thought , " I ' ve got t o get some one who knows me or they won ' t be l i eve me . " Thi s al l h appened in another hal f mi le s t retch o f road .

I then stopped at a friend ' s house another h a l f mi le up the ro ad . My two friends j umpe d into my car and we went b ack to Pike River whe re , to the south , they too s aw the oran ge - red l i ght . At thi s point i t s eemed t o di s �p ­p e ar i n the t rees whe re P ike Rive r meets Bo at Lake . The t ime was now about 7 : 30 P M .

The orange - red l i ght was very comp arab l e in co l our to that o f the tai l l i ght ?. o f a car or a radio beaC: on . We cou l dn ' t make out the shape of anything ex ­cept when i t was comin g at us . At thi s t ime I vague ­ly remember a sh ape b e t ­ween and above the l i ghts . One o f my two friends h ad al s o seen the orange -re d b al l -shaped l ight on her way home from Wi art on about 6 : 30 PM .

I remembe r that when the l i ghts were comin g at us I though t i t mi ght crash , as it was get ting s o cl os e to the house . I also thought th at i t must h ave manoeuv ­e red i n an unusual way for it to get b ack up in the sky in the amount of t ime i t h ad to fo l l ow us . "

M "ob j e ct " simi l ar to th at des cribed by Brenda an d fri ends was . seen by Tony Hame r who l ives at home wi th B renda . Afte r she h ad l e ft to pi ck up Te rry , he was b us y p rep ar­ing suppe r an d l i stening to s ome mus i c . After a wh i l e he l e aned on the s l iding g l as s door at the e as t s i de of the house and not i ced a l arge , dul l red l ight on a northwes t traj -

ectory . He e st imated it to be about a h al f a mi le aw ay , at a low al t i tude because it trave l l ed a cours e ab out two feet b e ­l ow the top o f a ne arby cedar t ree , but ab ove s ome SO foo t t rees whi ch are about 1 S O yards beyond the ce dar . Un fortun at e ly , th is wou ld s ti l l not be o f h e lp in det e rmining the d i s t ­ance , un l e s s the actual s i ze of the "ob j e c t " were known . He wat ched i t for an unknown length o f t ime unt i l he l o s t s i ght of it as it appe ared to ne ar the are a o f Red B ay . He coul d not di s tin gui sh a shape around the l i ght , or a chan ge in speed , cours e or al t itude . He also turned o ff the radi o , b ut cou ld he ar no noi s e from the "obj e ct . " The evenin g w as ve ry s t i l l and quie t .

He di dn ' t think too much o f the in cident unt i l B renda and Terry arrived h ome with the i r st ory , and then he conc l uded that he had seen the s ame th in g . The re i s n o proo f , o f cours e , that i t w as the s ame thing , b ut the coin ­ci dence i s provokin g , al ­though Tony admit ted s ee ­ing n o co l our or course chan ge . · He immedi ately cl imbed into the car , but al l they s aw about h al f an hour l ater w as a smal l p l ane whi ch d�oned noisi ly on i t s way in a n ortherly di re ction tow ard W i arton .

When they arrived home again B renda t e l ephoned the Wi art on Ai rpor t , but the re was no answe r . She then cont acte d the Owen S ound OPP and to ld them the story , t a lking with a woman dispat cher for ten to fi fteen minute s . She w as t o ld th at the Wi arton det achmen t of the OPP would be con ta cted . Brenda then not i fied the Wi arton T own P ol i ce of the s i gh t -

in g , and they sugges ted she cal l back in an h our to s ee i f they had been ab l e to det e rmine wh at it was she h ad seen . When she di d cal l b ack she was in­fo rmed th at the Owen Sound OPP had been n oti fi ed by them , and th at they ( Owen Sound OPP ) had c al led C an ­adi an Force s Bas e Tren ton to han dl e the case . Brend a asked i f anyone e l s e had report ed the UFO and w as tol d th at Owen Sound OPP h ad h ad s eve ral other cal l s . Natura l ly , she fe l t s omewh at re l ieved .

So far , even th ough three po l i ce det a chments we re invo lved , the inve s t ­i gat i on seemed t o be pro g ­res s ing s at i s factori ly . But th en con fus ion s e t in . The next day B ren da cal l ed the Owen Soun d OPP t o s ee how things were pro gre s s ­i n g on ly t o b e to l d th at there was no re cord o f Trent on b eing cal l e d , un ­l e s s the Wi arton OPP h ad cal led them s ince her re ­port was prob ab l y t rans ­fe rred t o Wi arton . She then ca l l e d the Wi art on OPP wh o con fi rmed th at her report h ad been t ran s fer­red to them by Owen Sound but denied th at Trenton had been c al l ed , and al s o in formed her th at she was the on ly pe rs on to have repo rted the UFO . They di d affi rm that Wi arton OPP Con s t ab l e N * * had inves t­igated the are a of the s i ghtin g , b ut with ne gat­ive results .

Brenda, obvious l y upset at thes e deve l opment s , went t o the Wi arton Town Po li ce that evening to in­qui re further , and s aw a copy o f the report whi ch s t ated th at "OPP Owen Sound noti fi ed , wh o con­fi rmed s imi l ar cal l s and who in turn noti fi e d the Trent on Ai r For ce B as e wh o t ook ove r the inve s t i gat -

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ion . " We have s ince re ­ceived a copy o f the Gen­e�al Occu�rence Report from the Wi arton Town Po li ce , whi ch does indeed cont ain thi s st atemen t .

W e h ave a l s o obt ained a copy o f the repo rt of the inve s t i g ation conducted by the Wi art on OPP from the Const ab l e invo l ved , not Cons t ab le N* * , as Brenda was in fo rmed , but Cons t­ab le B * * . He s t ated as fo l lows :

"On November 20 , 1 9 78 at approximate ly 8 : SO PM, I w as advi s ed by Owen Sound OPP radio di spat che r , (mal e n ame given ) , th at h e h ad re ceived a phone cal l from the Wiarton Po li ce Department report ing a UFO s i ghting in the are a o f B o at L ake . I t woul d s eem th at the ori gin al fema le Owen S oun d di spatche r Brend a spoke with di d not report the in ci dent to Wi art on OPP . It was not p as sed on to the Wi arton OPP unti l the Wi art on Town Po l i ce not i fied the Owen Sound OPP , sp arked by Bren da ' s c a l l to them afte r she spoke t o

·the fe ­

ma le dispat che r in Owen Soun d . Con fus ing ? Re cal l the wordin g o f the Wi art on Town P o l i ce report : "OPP Owen Sound not i fied , who confirmed sirrri la� cal ls . . " The s imi 1 ar cal l s. must have been the ori gin al cal l Brenda made to Owen Soun d . ( We cou l d not con­fi rm th i s s in ce Owen Sound OPP did not respond to our request for furthe r in for­mat i on on th is case . ) I t al so appe ars th at neither det a chment not i fi ed Trent­on , s ince , when Tony Hamer ca l l e d Trenton on November 21 to che ck on the 1 a test deve l opment s he was to ld by a Capt ain B * * that they knew noth ing of the inci d­ent . Thi s was furthe r con ­fi rmed in the Wiarton OPP

report from Constab l e B * * who wrote "Owen Soun d OPP has no record o f h avin g c a l l ed Trent on but s omehow they we re cal led by s ome ­one becaus e a Cp l . B * * ( should re ad Capt ain B * * ) from Trenton ca l led our o ffi ce November 2 1 s t to get the res u l t s of our ob ­s e rvat i ons . "

And wh at were tho s e re ­sul t s ? Cons tab l e B * * ' s re ­port conc l udes : " I pro ­ceeded to B o at Lake and made a comp l ete ci rcui t of the l ake . I di d not ob­s e rve anyth ing out of the ordin ary . I then advi s e d Owen Soun d OPP o f th i s . Later in the evening , I cont acted Wi arton Ai rport . They advi s ed me they di d not h ave radar an d th at they h ad not re ce ived any UFO report . ' '

O f course they h adn ' t . Bren da re ce ive d no answer when she cal l ed . And ob ­vious ly , by the t ime Con ­s t ab l e B ** was not i fied o f the in ciden t , the l i ght or ob j e ct or what eve r i t was ' h ad lon g s ince di s appear-ed . Perh aps if B renda h ad c al l ed the authori t i e s when s h e fi rs t arrived at he r friends ' hous e , as she h ad o ri gin al ly in tended , i t mi ght h ave been di ffe r ­en t , but al l s h e cou l d think o f at the moment was to get s omeone e ls e to s ee wh at i t was she and her s on had s een . I s omehow doub t that i t would have made much di ffe rence any­how , s ince i t took about SO minut e s for her s igh t ­in g report to eventua l ly fi lter through to Con s t ­ab l e B * * .

As for the other wit ­ne s ses at the b ri dge , by the time B renda , Te rry , and thei r two fri ends arr­ived b ack , they were gone . And it h as been impos s ib l e t o lo cate them s ince in the exc i tement of the

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moment Brenda di dn ' t get their names or the l i cence number of the Jeep - l ike vehi c le they were driving .

A week fo l l owing the in ci dent , Brenda h e ard o f our organi zat ion an d con ­t acte d me . ( Luck i ly I was in Owen Soun d at the t ime being int e rvi ewed on the l o c a l radio s tation ) . In the cours e of fo l l owing up the c as e I t alked wi th Cap tain B * * at Trent on , but he cou l d not throw any addit i on al l ight on what h ad h appened . Afte r che ck ­ing w i th Ot t aw a h e in form­ed me that " al l rep orte d UFO in ci dents are fi led in the non -meteorit i c fi l e s at N RC ' s Dept . o f P l anet ­ary S ciences , " someth in g most Canadi an UFO re sear­che rs alre ady know . When I w as in Ott awa in June o f th is ye ar I che cked these fi le s . Bren da N i co l ' s s i ght ing h ad not been re ­corded , at l e as t , not in those fi l e s .

PRIHIDSE

The third in thi s series o f st range ly beh aving noc­turn al l i gh ts seems to be almost exp l ain ab l e except fo r a coup l e of puz z ling aspects whi ch le ave s ome e lement o f doub t . I f wh at prob ab ly appe ars t o be the c aus e of thi s s i ghtin g w as indeed the cause , it i s neve rthe less an in tere s t ­ing case in th at it i s a good examp l e o f h ow a s ource of l i ght severa l mi l e s away can appe ar to an inte l l i gen t , we l l -mean ­ing , and quit e di s cern ing indivi dua l , unde r what c ou l d on ly h ave been pec ­u l i ar l o cal i zed me te oro l ­ogi c al condi t i ons . Th i s , in sp ite of as suran ce from the mete oro l ogi cal o ffi ce that noth ing abno rma l was

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app aren t at th at time , nor di d the witnes s no ti ce any st range we ather condi t ­ions .

Mr . Jim B ade r le ft h i s home i n She lburne , Ont ario shortly be fore 7 : 00 on the morn ing o f Mon day , De cem­ber 1 1 , 19 7 8 . In a few minute s he was headin g e as t a long Highw ay 89 t o ­ward P rimrose whe re h e was to turn s outh on Highway 10 . Just b e fore re aching Highway 10 he not i ced a coup l e o f l i ght s ri s in g above s ome trees growing on a not i ce ab le hi l l ahe ad of him on the le ft (north ) s i de of Hwy . 89 , b eyon d the Hwy . 1 0 j un ct i on . He pul led o ff the ro ad , ro l ­l e d down h i s window , shut off h i s en gine and watche d . The l ights , yey� l owish - or an ge in co lour , rose s low ly t o an est imat ­ed 1 5 to 20 de grees in the sky and then fe 1 1 s low ly behind the trees again . There was no soun d , the morning was s t i 11 and ove rcast . Day l i ght had not yet b roken . As he watche d the l ight s di s appe arin g behind the t rees h e no ­t i ced two more s imi l ar l i ght s , sp aced farthe r ap art , " come on" above the tree s . They , too , came down to with in tree- top leve l and he l d the ir pos ­it ion for a whi le , then went b e l ow the t ree- l ine , g l owing b ehind the t rees , and soon di s appe are d .

Puz z l e d , he s t arte d h i s car ag ain an d turned south on Hwy . 10 . He h ad b are ly t rave l led a few hundre d yards when he no ti ced , in h i s re ar -view mirror , two b ri ght ye l l ow- oran ge l i ghts again . Looking b ack over h i s shou lde r , he no ­ti ced they we re of " fai r s i ze" an d exh ibited the s ame intens i ty of b ri ght ­nes s acro s s the ir comp l et e diame ters . He ag ain pu l le d

h i s car t o the s i de of the ro ad an d wat ched . The l i gh ts ros e above the trees as b e fore ; one re ­mained up whi le the othe r came down , go ing behind the t rees again . He n o ­t i ce d th at i t " l i t up the who le are a of t rees with an eerie orange-ye l l ow g l ow . " Then both l i gh ts fade d .

He nee ded gas o l ine for h i s car , so he s t art ed down the highway again , but out o f curi os i ty stopped at the top o f a hi l l about h al f a mi l e south o f Hwy . 89 . Ag ain h e s aw two more l i ght s whi ch , i f they h ad been di re ct ly ove r the trees in que s t ­ion , wou l d h ave been about 800 - 1000 fee t in a lt i tude . They s l owly fe l l to about 100 to 1 5 0 feet above the t rees and seemed to hover . As he wat ched they s t arte d get t ing b i gge r and bright ­er , as i f they were app ­roaching h im . He cou ld s ee no s o l id s t ructure between them . S l i ght ly al armed , he t ook o ff down the hi ghway to the gas s tation on the o ther s i de o f the h i l l , t e l l ing h i s s tory to the attendant . I t was short ly after 7 : 00 AM .

Afte r he h ad fi l l ed up he not i ce d day was b reak­ing and fee ling a l itt l e bo lde r , he returned up the h i ghway to the l ast p l ace he h ad stopped , but s aw no th ing . He c ontinued on his way to work and c a l l e d U . P . Invest i gat ions Re se arch In c . , 1 at e r th at evenin g .

When we met Jim B ade r l ate r that week at his home in She lburne we di s ­cove red that h e was a g l i de r pi lot , fami l i ar with p l anes and thei r l i ght s as we l l as with the appe aran ce o f fl are s , and he was ce rtain that what he had s een could not b e

acc ounte d for b y any o f the se caus e s . We vi s ited the area o f the s i gh ting , fo l l owed through his act ­ions o f the mo rning o f De cember 1 1 , and con fi rmed his e s timate o f 1 5 t o 2 0 de grees for the maximum e levat i on o f the l i ghts .

On returning to h i s house w e t a lked t o h i s wi fe and were to ld th at thre e eo -wo rkers o f hers in Dundalk had l e ft the i r home in Markd a1e at 5 : 00 AM to drive to work on December 1 1 an d h ad been fri ghtened by two round , b ri gh t oran ge 1 i ghts th at had sudden ly appe are d from b ehind a b arn on the e ast s i de of Hwy . 1 0 . Un fortun ­ate ly , they re fus ed to t alk furthe r about the inc i den t to anyone .

Another witne s s in P rim­rose had been cal l e d t o the window a t 6 : 00 AM by her s on , and s aw two or­an ge b al l s of l i ght in the s ame d i rect ion reported by Jim B ade r . The s on h ad t aken a photograph whi ch un fortun ate ly di dn ' t turn out . They not i ced seve ral c ars pu l le d o ff the h i gh ­way at that t ime , appar­en t ly wat ch ing the l ights .

Can adi an Forces B as e Borden i s about s i xteen mi les beyond P rimrose in the gene ral di rection in wh i ch the l i gh ts were ob ­s e rved , s o we contacted them an d we re to ld th at they were invo lved in a t rainin g exerci se s imu l at ­ing a downed -p l ane res cue during the e arly morning hours of De cember 1 1 . The rep ly to our enquiry re ads as fol lows : "The exe rci se commen ced short ly afte r 3 : 00 AM and ended by 1 0 : 00 AM on 1 1 De cember . During the hours o f d arkne s s two CC1 30 Hercul e s aircraft were invo l ved , one orb i t ­i n g a t approximat e ly 4500 ft AGL and the othe r

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o rb i t ing at 1000 to 2000 ft AGL . The ai rcraft h ad norma l l i ght ing and did not us e any spe cial l i ght s or l anding l i ghts .

From approximat e ly 3 : 30 AM unt i l short ly aft e r dawn , about one hundred fl are s were dropped and , with on ly a few l aps es , a continuous li ght was provided in the exe rci se are a . The fl ares , whi ch h ave a burning time o f five minutes , i gnited at 4000 ft AGL and burned out at approximate ly 1 500 ft AG L . To provi de a contin ­uous l i gh t , one o r two fl ares were dropped ab out every four and a h a l f min ­utes w i th the result th at as many as four flares were burn ing at one t ime .

The fl are s produced a white t o p a le ye l low l i ght o f 2 , 000 , 000 candl e power . At a di s t an ce , at ­mospheri c condi t i ons can produce unusual e ffe cts . The l i ght c an be o f a di f­ferent co lour , the l i ght s ource may appe ar large r and the l i ght can fli cke r or pul s ate .

The exe rci se act i vi ty cent red on l ati tude 4 4° 1 5 ' N , l ongitude 79° 5 7 ' W in the CFB Borden train in g are a . The orb i t ing ai rcraft s tayed within a radius of approximately five n aut ­i cal mi les from th at point whi le the flares burned within a radius of one n auti cal mi le . "

Thi s seeme d t o exp l ain what it was that al l the witne s s e s h ad seen . But there we re s ti l l a few que s tion s t o be cons i der­ed ; als o Jim B ader was ad ­amant in h i s op1n1on th at wh at he had s een we re n ot fl ares . He h ad a point . CFB Borden s tated the flares we re "dropped . . . ig­nite d at 4000 ft AGL ( ab ­ove ground leve l ) an d burn­ed out at approximate ly

1500 ft AGL. " But the l i ghts Mr . B ade r s aw fi rs t were "rising above some trees . . . rose s low ly to an estimated 15 to 20 degrees in the sky and then fe ll s lowly behind the trees again . " Th i s hapl?ened not on ce but twi ce . When he was s topped on Hwy . 1 0 "the lights rose above the trees as be fore . " Why wou l d fl ares dropped from a n l ane ;i s e first ? E ven i f they were init i al ly pro j ected up from the p l ane (whi ch was flyin g at about 4 5 0 0 ft AGL) they di d n ot i gnite unt i l they h ad fal l en t o 4000 ft AGL .

A se cond in te re s t in g point i s the e levat i on t o whi ch Jim B ader s aw the l i ghts ri s e . Since CFB Borden i s about 1 6 mi les from Primrose , a l itt l e e lemen tary t ri gonome try reve al s th at an al t i tude of 4000 ft AGL would be equivalent to an e levation o f only three de grees to an obs e rve r 1 6 mi l e s away , nowhere ne ar the 1 5 t o 2 0 degrees reported b y B ade r . Could h e have been that far o ff in his e s timat e ? This als o as sumes the wit ­nes s i s at the s ame e l ev ­at i on a s ground l eve l b e ­ne ath the l i gh t s ource . A topographi cal map o f the re gion reve al s th at Prim­ros e is around 5 0 0 fee t higher that CFB B orden . I n addit i on , there was a n o ­ti ceab le t reed h i l l in ter­fe ring with B ade r ' s l ine of s i ght in the di re ct i on o f CFB Borden . Al l of thi s shoul d h ave served to c aus e the app aren t e l evat ­i on of the maximum hei ght of the fl are s to be l e s s than three degree s , and perh aps t o be not even vis ib le from P rimrose at al l .

Furthermore , the l i ghts B ade r s aw " l i t up the who le area of t rees wi th ( s ee L I GHTS , p . 32 )

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fin al ly s tudying . . . Now I c an te l l . . . o f

my experien ce . . . an en co un ­t e r i n 1967 with UFO o c ­cup ant s . . . " (p . 19 ) . Mrs . Betty Ann Andre as s on wrote the s e words to Dr . J. A l ­Ien Hynek i n Augus t 1 9 75 , and The Andreasson Affair i s the re s u l t of the e xt ­ens ive inve s t i gati on whi ch even tua l ly fol lowed . I t i s a very inte re s ting , super­b ly i l lus t rated , though somewh at unsett ling book about a mos t unusua l UFO abduct ion case (wh i ch i s s omet imes re fe rre d to a s a close en counter o f the fourth k ind - CE IV) . Most of the book con s i s t s of Betty Andre as s on ' s det ai l ­e d verbat im account , re l ­ate d main ly unde r re gre s s ­ive hypno s i s , of he r in ­t ri guing and somet ime s fri gh tening abduction e x ­peri en ce . At age 30 she was a l legedly abdu ct e d from h e r home i n South Ashburnh am , Mas s achusetts , onto a UFO craft for about four hours commen cing a­round 6 : 30 p . m . on January 2 5 th , 196 7 ( a ye ar o f many UFO reports ) . Betty ' s par­ents and her e l de s t chi ld B e cky , then age d 1 1 , a ls o w itnes s e d the beginn ing o f the ab duct i on experi en ce .

L ike other UFO abductee s Betty Andre as son h ad al ­most no con s cious memory o f the det ai l s o f her ex ­perience . She vague ly re -

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cal led the initi al appe ar­an ce of four , perh ap s five b i z z are , gnomi sh ent i ties in he r l iving room , and as the ye ars p as se d she re al ­i ze d that s omething very unus ua l h ad h appened to her . She h ad a "h azy yet vivid" re eo l le et ion (p . 1 8 ) o f the e xperien �e , _ including o f a "pu l s atuvg l i ght 1 1 (p . 1 32 ) . Be cky l ater thought that her own vague re co l le ctions of he r mother ' s temporary dep art ­ure were a b ad dre am , but a very re a l one .

After s ee in g a l ocal newsp ape r art i cle ab?ut the Center for UFO S tud1e s i n Augus t 1 9 75 Betty wrote t o Dr . Hynek , the Cent er ' s dire ctor . Her reque s t -actua l ly a p l e a - for as ­s i s tan ce w as l ate r for ­warded t o Ted B loe che r , eo - ch airman w i th Davi d Webb o f the Humanoi d Study Group , whi ch i s as s o ci ated w i th the Mutual UFO Net­work , Inc . (MUFON ) , one o f the maj or privat e U . S . -b ased UFO invest i gat­ion org an i z at ions . Some of MUFON ' s inve s t i gators in Mas s achusetts sub s equ­ent ly were asked to pursue the cas e . Ray Fow l e r , the book ' s author , j oined the inve s ti gat ive t e am after thi s case appeared to b e b o th intere s t ing and cred ­ib le . A l on gt ime and res ­pe cted UFO inve s t i gat or , Fow ler i s the author o f UFOs : Inte� lanetary Visit�

ors (Jeri cho , N . Y . : E x ­p os ition Pres s , 1 9 7 4 , and soon to be pub l i shed in s oft cover by P rent i ce ­Ha l l ) , and edi tor o f the MUFON Fie ld Inves tiqator 's Manual ( 2n d ed . ; S e guin , Texas : MUFON , 1 9 75 ) . Hi s extens ive fami l i arity with UFO encounte r cases in ­clude s the c l as s i c inci d­ent whi ch became the sub ­j ect o f John G . Ful ler ' s bestse l l ing p aperb ack In­cident at Exe ter (New York : G . P . Putn am ' s Sons , 1966 ) . Ray Fow ler operate s the Woods i de P l anet arium and Obs ervatory in Wenh am , Mas s achus etts .

Mos t o f The Andreasson A.ffair pres ents verb atim trans crip tions ( from Fow­l e r ' s 5 2 8 p age con fi dent ­i a l report of the c as e ) o f the que s t i ons asked an d B e tty ' s , and much less frequent ly Be cky ' s , res ­ponses when unde r re gre s s ­ive hypnos i s . Ve rb atim ac­counts are also provided from the inve s t i gat ors ' debrie fing di s cus s ions (whi ch cont ain much impor­tant in formation ) he l d with them a t the end o f each hypnos i s ses s i on w Fow ler inte rspe rs e s luci d n arrative exp l an at i on and comment in orde r to p rov­i de c l ari ty and cont inu­i ty . The hypnos i s s e s s ions were conducted on 1 4 sep ­arate o cc as ions b etween Apri l , and July 1 9 7 7 unde r the supervi s ion o f Dr .

H aro ld J . E de l stein , di ­re ctor o f the New Engl and Ins t itute of Hypnos i s in Wake fie ld , Mas s achus et ts . Even the printe d word can p artly convey the anxi ety and s ome time s out ri ght te rror Betty fe lt when re ­l at ing the more b i z arre aspe ct s of he r experien ce .

Unde r hypnos i s Mrs . And­re as s on re cal led her 1 967 abduct ion experience as in cluding ( app arent ly) her unde rgoing a somet imes pain ful medi cal examin at ­ion on a UFO craft ; a s tran ge vi s it s omewhere in Magon i a l and ; obs e rvan ce o f the de ath and rebi rth o f the huge l e gendary e ag l e ­l ike b i rd cal led Phoen i x ; re ce ipt o f a mes s age o f s al vat i on intended for mank ind , and b eing given a thin b lue book (but on ly for t en days ) . Several as ­pects o f her experience , in cluding the n ature of the mes s age for the worl d , con t ained s t art l in g re l i g ­i ous ove rtones (perh aps re fle cting her s t rong con ­vi ctions as a fundamental ­i st Chri s ti an) . There are als o h ints of an e arl i e r abduct i on by the s ame ent ­i t ies and th at they at l e as t on ce inte rceded into Betty ' s s tatements unde r regre s s ive hypnos i s , a lso th at their subs equent in ­terfe rence in her l i fe may h ave caus ed a fami ly t rag­e dy . Afte r Betty ' s per­ceived expe ri en ces are re­l ated the auth or b rie fly comp are s 1 3 di fferent asp ­e c t s of it with th ose o f other UFO CE I I I ab ducti on and other cases . The book con t ains an e as i ly re ad ­ab le type se t , an exce l lent index , a good b ib l iography and 40 det ai led i l l us trat ­ions provide d ( afte r pos t ­hypnot i c sugge s t i on s ) by Betty Andre ass on - an ex­ce l l ent amateur arti s t -about her c aptors , the i r

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craft , and other aspe cts of her abduction exper ­ience .

Seve ral examp l e s are provided of the inve s t i g ­ato rs ' re se arch to es tab ­l i sh impre s s ive credib i l ­ity o f the witnes ses and veri fi cat i on o f aspects o f the reported experience . The inve s t i gators were abl e to i dent i fy the d ay and approximate t ime dur­ati on of the abduct i on ex­perience , al so the prev­ai ling weather condi t i ons , that a cert ain te levi s ion pro gram w as shown l o c al ly an hour or two b e fore the abduct ion began , and th at a power fai lure occurred in S outh Ashburnham , Mas s . th at day . They al s o est ­abl ished th at Betty and Becky were we l l re garded in their community , and faci l i t at e d Betty ' s vo lun ­t ari ly t akin g a psych i at ­ri c in terview . Fow ler w rites that " the do et o r found n o symptoms o f act­ive thought dis o rders or obvious psych i atri c prob-1 ems " (pp . 2 0 9 - 1 0 ) . The first appendi x di-s cus s e s and graphi cal ly i l lus t ­rates re sponses to que s t ­i ons in a psycho l o gi cal s t re s s evaluator ( PSE ) tes t t aken by Betty And ­reas s on . �ecky al s o took such a test , and Fow le r ci tes the certi fied PSE analyst who admini s t e red thes e t e s ts , Enerst C . Re i d , as concludin g th at Betty and Becky "were te l ­l ing the truth with reg ­ard to the 1 96 7 incident . " Rei d ' s report a l s o s ai d : " I t i s extreme ly unus ual . . . th at we would render an opini on as de finit ive as we wou ld in thi s p arti cu l ­ar ins t ance , " an d " in the opini on of thi s analyst the results are conclus ­ive " (pp . 2 1 0 - 1 1 ) .

The book exhibits sev­eral we aknes s es in spite

o f the s e indi cat i ons of thorough , competent inve s ­t i g at i on and ve ri fi cati on . Not ab ly , i t de al s in adequ­ate ly with the mos t impor ­t ant res e arch que s t i on . Fow l e r provide s s ome d i s ­cus s i on i n Appendix B ab­out the use o f hypnos i s as an inve s t i gat ive te chnique in UFO re se arch and in pol i ce work . Curious ly , h oweve r , he doe s not re fe r e i ther the re o r in the b ib li ography to the pub ­l i shed wri t in gs by Dr . Al ­vin H . Laws on in the Proceedings of the 19 76 CUFOS Conference and in the 197 7 MUFON UFO Sympos­ium Proceedinqs whi ch rai s e seri ous que s t i ons con ce rning the re l i abi lity and validity o f in format ­ion , s e cured through re g­ress ive hypnos i s , about the ob j e ct ive rea lity of al leged UFO abduct ion ex­perien ce s .

Another import an t omi s s ­ion i s the abs en ce o f dis ­cus s i on about the imp l i c ­at ions o f the s i gn i fi cant emoti on al stre s s Betty An ­dre as s on experience d p rior t o and just b e fore the ab­duct ion and in cre as ingly so for t en ye ars unti l , and after , she re l at e d h e r pe rception o f i t under hypnosis in 1 9 77 . On Dec ­ember 2 3 , 1 966 , five weeks b e fore her ab duction , her husb and James h ad been seve re ly inj ured in an automobi le acci dent and was in intens ive care and traction in h ospit a l for s eve ral month s . On January 2 3 , 1 96 7 - four d ays b e f­ore Be tty ' s abducti on - he was t rans fe rred to a hos ­� i t al too far away for Betty to vis i t h im dai l y , a s she h ad done s ince the acci dent . Moreover , owing to thei r l on gs t an ding in ­cre as in g mari tal tens ion Betty was under emotion a l s t re s s for some time prior

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to the 1 96 7 in c i den t , an d al s o s ub s e quen t ly un ti l an d b eyon d the peri od o f t h e hypnos i s s e s s i on s i n 1 9 77 . S h e and he r husb an d sep arated l ate i n 1 9 75 o r in . l 9 76 ( Fow l e r doe s n o t indi cat e exact l y when ) an d Betty h ad to r ai s e the s even chi ldren a lone , though she h ad b een re c ­e i vin g h e l p from he r p ar­en ts . Durin g the four month pe ri od of the hyp ­n os i s s e s s ion s she w as p l anning the fami ly ' s move t o Fl ori da in s e arch of a bette r l i fe . The s e c i r ­cums t an ce s o f human t rag ­e dy obvi ous ly caus ed B e t ty con s i de r ab l e emo tion a l s t re s s b ut , un fo rt un ate l y , Fow l e r doe s not d i s cus s the i r po s s ib l e e ffe ct on e i the r the ab duct i on e x ­pe rien ce an d/ o r he r inte r­pre t at i on of i t ten ye ars l ater . Anoth e r omi s s i on ab out i n fo rmat i on obt aine d un de r hypnot i c re gre s s i on i s the abs en ce o f d i s cus s ­ion ab out the p rob ab le re ­l i ab i lity of de t ai l s re ­cal l e d s uch a l on g t ime - ten ye ars aft e r the inci dent , in c luding ve rb ­atim t e l ep ath i c conve rs at ­i on s wi th the hum an oi ds (pgs . 32 , 1 2 9 ) .

Other impor tant re s e arch i s s ue s are not d i s cus s e d . We are to ld th at afte r the 1 96 7 experi en ce Betty re ad "books an d art i c l e s on UFO s " and th at much of th i s mat e ri a l appe ared to be from " obvi ous l y . . . un ­cri ti c a l UFO l it e rat ure (p . 1 81 ) . Fow l e r s ays th at Bet ty ' s letter to Dr . Hy­nek indi c ates th i s b ut the portion cit e d qoe s not cont ain th i s in format i on . I ne xp l i cab iy , the ent ire l et t e r is not reproduce d a s an appen di x . T o wh at exten t might Betty ' s re ad ­ing o f s uch UFO l i t e rature h ave in fluen ced he r s ub -

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un de r hypnos i s and o ther• wi s e , of her UFO ab duction expe rien ce ? ( B e tty app ar ­en t l y h ad n o in tere s t in or knowl e dge of UFOs prior to her 1 9 6 7 expe ri en ce . ) Yet anothe r que s t i on i s i f any re s e arch w as unde r­t aken to t ry to i dent i fy the e agl e - l ike in s i gni a on the ent i t i e s ' c l o th es .

Addit i on al weaknes ses are th at the book does not provi de any indi cat i on o f at tempt s wh i ch m ay or may no t h ave b een made t o i den ti fy a few othe r spec ­ifi c aspe cts o f Betty ' s expe rien ce wh i ch can b e sub j ected t o at le as t s ome ob j e ctive veri fi cat i on . Di d the inve s t i gat ors t ry to fin d lingui s t s t o i den ­ti fy Betty ' s spe e ch in ;a s tran ge unre co gni z ab1 e th ough pe rh aps inte l l i g ­ib l e l an guage ( s ee pp . 1 3 8 , 1 4 0 , 1 5 7 ) ? Cou l d a medi cal examin ati on - even ten ye ars aft e r the fact -con fi rm i f a sma l l "BE ­sh aped ob j e ct " h ad b een in serte d into the b ack o f he r n o s e prior t o 1 9 6 7 and removed t h at ye ar ( s ee pp . 5 7 - 5 8 , 1 8 3 ) ? Coul d any l ink b e e s t ab l i shed b et ­ween the Andre as son fami l y and B et ty ' s aut omat i c wri ­t in g o f " s t ran ge symb o l s " wh i eh were " foun d t o b e ve ry s imi l ar t o the s o ­c a l l e d spirit wri ting practi ce d by the Sh ake rs , an e ar ly Ame ri c an re l i g­i ous se ct " (p . 1 89 ) ? Why w as an i l l us t ration not p rovi de d of B e t ty ' s draw ­in g o f the " s tran ge s cript " in the thin b lue book ( s ee p . 15 3 ) ? In any sub s e quen t e dit ion o f lhe Andreasson Affair th i s re ­viewer wou l d hope th at the s e and any oth e r un an s ­wered que s t i ons o r i s s ue s wou l d b e d i s cus s e d .

Fow l e r s t ated in fi rst ch ap t e r that and B e cky "b e l i e ve d"

the B et ty

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Betty ' s abduction exp e r ­i en ce actual ly "h appened" and that he doe s t oo ( p . 2 1 ) . E ven i f the re ad ­e r con curs ( an d the re app ­e ars t o b e n o re as on not t o) we are al l noneth e l e s s s t i l l i n the d ark as t o the u l t imate re a l i ty o f Betty ' s experien ce . ( But th i s i s in the n ature o f s uch genuine UFO ab duct ion and other cas es . ) Was it a re a l phys i c al h appening? I f s o , who an d/or wh at caus ed i t ? E x tra -t e rre st ­ri a l v i s i t ors ? A l i ens from anoth e r dimens i on o r re a lm? Or , w as i t a psy­chi c al o r p aranorma l e x ­perien ce ? Some thing e l s e ? A comb in at i on o f the s e ? S uch q ue s t i on s are cruci a l b e caus e o f the many "hi gh s tran gene s s " fe ature s o f th i s c as e . Towards th e en d o f the hypnot i c/ debrie fing s e s s i on s Dr . E de l s t e in o f­fe re d th i s view : " I th ink th ere is s ub s t an ce he re , b ut i t c an ' t b e pushe d b e ­caus e you ' 1 1 fri ghten he r . . . . I don ' t know i f you can b e l ieve eve ryth in g , b ut I b e l i eve who l ehe arted ly th at in many in s tan ce s , she b e l i eve s wh at she ' s t e l l in g you" . . . (pp . 16 1 -6 2 ) . Ray Fow l e r does not draw any con c lus i on ( s ) ab ­out the u l t imate re a l i t y o f B e t ty An dre as s on ' s e x ­pe rien ce thou gh he frequ ­ent ly , perh ap s in adver t ­en t ly , us ed t e rms o r rhe t ­ori c a l q ue s t i ons wh i ch im­ply th at he fe e l s that it w as caused b y extra - te rr­es t ri a l vi s it ation - i . e . , vi s i tors from anothe r p l anet . H i s mos t importan t con c ludin g remark i s that the maj o r re s e ar ch que s t ­i on i s unre s o lve d : "Just h ow much of the An dre as s on Affai r correspon ds to phy­s i ca l re a l i ty remains a matte r for con tinued s tudy an d s'pecu l at i on " (p . 2 0 4 ) .

One l e s s on from th i s ( s ee R E V I E W , p . 3 2 )

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wh i ch Bet ty w as taken . Al s o , th e fee l ing of fl oat ing w as again des ­cribed . Betty found h e r ­s e l f flo ating s eve ral in ches above the ground . Her l e gs fe l t s t ran ge ; in fact her who l e body fe l t we i gh t l e s s .

Ano th e r pe cu l i ari ty no ­t i ced by Arms tron g was th at at one point he thought he s aw one o f the b e ings go through a wal l but he remarked th at the r� mus t h ave been a doo r We l l maybe there wasn ' t � for An dre as s on reported the s ame th ing . 'We was s tarting out the door and I was going through

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same thing� the wood� that they were . " (p33) But if they c an walk through w al l s one mi ght wonder why they need do ors on the i r ' craft ' . Betty w as to ld "they have me tals they cannot penetrate . " (p l 4 4)

I t w as s uspe cte d that durin g the S ch i rme r and Arms t rong re gre s s i on s e s ­s i ons the percip ien t s were being dire ct ly cont act e d a t one p o i n t by the en tit ­i es invo l ve d in the i r res ­pect i ve en counters . Th i s w as even mo re app aren t in Betty Andre as s on ' s re gre s ­s i on . During one o f the s es s i ons '�er face became contorted . It looked as if she

. were struggling aga&ns t someone or some­thing that was taking con­tro l of her spee ch facil­ities . " (p l 3 7 ) When as ked i f she fe l t the en tit i e s were control ling her words at that momen t she rep l ied th at they were , an d th at they we re al s o re s trainin g her arms , h an ds an d fe et whi ch h ad b e come numb .

Fin a l ly , Bet ty w as t o ld th at many oth e r peop l e h ad b een t aken on b o ard and e x amined . One won de rs who

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were the ch i l dren th at Ge rry Arms trong s aw wh i l e he was in the dome shaped s t ruct ure during his en ­counte r .

The re are many other s imi l ari t i es amon g vari ous a l l e ge d UFO ab duct i on cas e s but we mus t exe rci s e cau� i on

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the 1 r s 1 gn 1 f1 can ce s i n ce the re are j us t as many di s s imi l ari t i e s . Wh at doe s i t al l me an ? Look ing at the Arms t ron g cas e by i t ­s e l f i t i s pos s ib l e t o in terpre t i t as e i ther a proj e ction or an ab duc t i on an d pe rh aps not b e ove r ly con ce rn e d with the me ch an ­i cs . But i n view o f the rep ort ed number o f th i s type o f in ci dent t h e me ch­an i cs of the con t act , in my op 1n 1 on , t ake on a gre ate r s i gn i fi can ce . The an alys i s and evaluat i on o f s uch c as e s shou l d the re ­fore b e of top pri ori ty t o re � e archers , an d co -ope r­atlon s�ou l d be s ought from s ci en t i s ts o f al l di s cip l ines t ow ard achi ev­in g s ?me m�ch needed prog ­re s s 1n t h 1 s fi e ld . .

E ven though i t i s i m­pos s ib l e in the Arms tron g case to comp i l e any fur­the r phys i c a l evi den ce to ind� c ate he actua l l y e x ­pe rlen ce d a _ UFO ab duct i on , this shou ld neve rthe l e s s b e a pri mary obj e ctive in a l l future s uch inci den ts . Evi den ce such as thi s , al ong wi th a gre ate r un ­de rs t an ding o f the ro l e p l ayed b y hypn ot i c time re gre s s i on , wi l l go a l on g way tow�rd demon s t rat ing whether 1nde e d al i en b e ­ings are inter-re l at in g w i th ce rt ain human s . The monumen t a l ques tion then b e come s "Why ? " e

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known that UFO� �� not a mod�n ph�nom�non, th�y ' v� b��n �o und 6o� e�ntUki� ,

and p�hap� tho�an� o 6 Y �a.Ji!> ;__ 6 w� d;__g d � �p .,(nto an��nt ��eo�� . T� .,(n m e1.6 woui.d t�nd to � ­elaim th� th�o�y that w� · �� b�ng �xplo��d � on� planet woui.d �xplo�� anoth� planet 6�om a t�ehnolog.,(eal v.,(�po.,(nt and that .,(n fiaet w� � �eln to b� a pawn .,(n th� han� o fi a eontnol 6aeto� wh.,(eh may b� .,(nt�d.,(m��.,(onal T� � what VaU�� �ug � g �u . Vo � t� � ��m a v.,(abl� �p�eui.at.,(on to you ?

ARTHUR : Y e s i t does . I th ink there i s a l ot t o b e s a i d for Va l l ee ' s theory wi th respect to c ontro l . Va l l ee i s a very a s tut e s c i ent i s t . What h e s ays makes a l ot of s en s e to me . I don ' t know that I can e laborat e on that any more Dave , but I th ink he is one of the foremos t re ­s earchers today .

JUFO : It ' � b��n a pl�M M� talk;__ng w.,(th you A�. Than� v�y mueh and good luek w.-Uh YOM n�w book . e

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be bet ter d i re c t e d t ow ards t rying t o get di ffe ren t groups o f s ci ent i s ts to s tudy the UFO en i gma i n ­depen den t l y o f t h e Uni t e d Nations ?

Re gard les s o f wh at eve r UN s tudy or a ct i on , i f any , deve l ops as a resu l t o f Gren ada ' s ini t i at i ve and the UFO expe rt s ' pre ­� en t ati ?n� to the UN Spe c ­l al Po l 1 t 1 cal Commi ttee a us e ful be ginn i n g h as b een made in p re s s ing the cas e for a mai o r inte rn at i on al s ci en t i fi c s tudy o f the pers i s ten t worl dwi de UFO phenomenon .

( E d . ' s n ote : A much s h o r t ­e ; a n d ot he rw i s e s l i gh t l y d I f fe re n t ve rs i on o f t h i s a r t i c l e appe a re d i n UFORUM

- O f f i c i a l N ews l e t te r o f the U . F . 0 . Re s e a r ch Cen t re : On t a r i o ( U FO R CO ) , Vo 1 . I V ( No . 1 , Ap r i l 1 9 7 9 ) . The a u t h o r h as been i n te re s te d i n an d vo l un ta r i l y a c t i ve i n s uppo rt of the Un i ted N a t i on s fo r twen ty -s i x ye a r s , s l i gh t l y l on ge r th an h i s i n te re s t i n the U FO phen omenon . He i s cu r­re n t l y ch a i rman o f U FO RC O an d i n te rn a t i on a l coo rd i n ­a t o r fo r the M u t u a l U FO N e two rk , I n e . ( MU FON ) . The v i ews e xp re s s e d i n th i s a r t i c l e a re h i s own an d , do n o t n e ces s a r i l y re f l e c t those o f U FO RCO , MU FON o r JUFO . e

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an eerie oran ge -ye l l ow gl ow . " Thi s should not b e the case with a s ource o f l i gh t s ixteen mi l es away , even i f it i s 2 , 000 , 000 candle p ower , un l e s s the re were s ome pecul i ar we ather condit ions such as a temp ­e rature invers ion cau s ing a wi ld index of re fr act -ion .

A b ri ght l i ght through s ixteen mi l e s o f atmos ­phe re would t ake on the ye l lowish -oran ge c o l our reported by B ade r . In fact it should h ave been more re ddi sh - oran ge . I t could also appear l arger and mi ght puls ate , as he re ­ported in one ins t an ce . The next s tep was t o est ­ab l i sh the mete oro logi cal condi tions on th at morn ­ing . Jim B ade r re c al l e d i t w as s t i l l and overcast .

Gene Dure t , our meteor­o l ogi cal consultan t che ck ­e d with the we athe r o ffi ce at Toronto Inte rn at i on al Ai rport and obt ained the we ather conditions for that morning as re corde d at Mount Fore s t , thi rty mi l e s we st of P rimrose . Thi s i s the clos e s t we ath­e r s t at i on to Primrose , but a che ck with othe r

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ne arby st ati ons reve a led fai rly uni form re adin gs . The offi ci al report at 7 : 00 AM w as cloudy , with 2� mi les vi s ibi l ity , s cat ­tered snow fl urries and a me asured 2200 ft ce i l ing . There w as cert ainly n o tempe rature invers i on an d n o index o f re fraction whi ch could cause the w i t ­n e s s to s ee the fl are s di rect ly . The pos s ib i l ity of dire ct observat i on cou l d n ow be e l imin ated anyw ay , with a me asured ce i l in g of 2 2 00 ft .

I f wh at Jim Bade r s aw was indeed the CFB Borden fl ares some ext reme ly strange re fl ections from the cl oud cover were in ­vo lved . I l ike t o think that I could te l l the di f ­ference between a &!re ct source of l i ght and a cl oud re fl e ction , espec ­ial ly i f there were seve r ­al inst an ces i n a row t o experi en ce as the re were with J im B ade r ' s s i gh t in g . And what about the s i gh t ­ing made b y the three women from Markdal e ? Mark ­dale i s about 40 mi l e s from CFB Borden .

E ven th ough the t ime s of the s i ght ings and the h i gh number o f l i ghts invo lve d seem to corre l ate to the CFB B orden exe rci se , I for one c annot con clude with cert ainty th at that w as· what the witne sses obser­ve d . Jim B ader certain ly doe sn ' t think so . But i f th at i sn ' t the exp l an ­at i on , what i s ? e

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case i s cl e ar ; UFO inve s t ­i gators should note Betty ' s expec t at i on o f them . She des cribed her fee l in g after she asked Dr . Hynek to inve s ti gate her b ewi lde rment : " . . . here ' s s omebody th at re al ly is inte rested in finding out about i t . . .

They are re a l ly going to spend t ime se arching out the thing . I fe lt re l i eved . . . " (p . 1 34 ) . How many other Betty Andre as s ons are s ti l l l ooking for quali fied peop l e with whom to sh are s imi lar unset t­l ing experien ce s ( see p . 146 ) ?

Notw i th s t anding i t s short comin gs thi s revi ewer high ly re commends �e And­reasson Affair to both UFO re s e archers and the gener­al pub l i c . Dr . Hynek ' s in ­troduct ion foret e l ls the re ade r th at i t " i s a book th at wi l l c aptivate , both ­e r , intri gue , and even frighten as one pursue s i t and contemp l ates i t s imp l ­i cat ions" (p . 9 ) . The book doe s a l l th i s , and more . I t may be the best inve st ­i g ated , reporte d known UFO ab duct ion case and i s pos ­s ib ly the one most extens ­ive ly written up and pub ­l i shed s in ce the c l as s i c we l l known cas e o f Betty and B arney Hi l l , whi ch was the sub j ec t o f John Ful l er ' s b e s t s e l l in g p aperb ack The Interrupted Journeu (New York : De l l Pub l i sh in g Co . , In c . , 1966) . The Andre as s on Af­fai r may or may not be as s i gni fi cant , and it i s an on goin g continuin g cas e .

We l l inve s ti g ated but unexp l ained UFO ab duc tion cases require gre at e r s ci ent i fi c study b y pro ­fe s s ion al s in numerous fie lds . Hop e ful ly , thi s book wi l l provide a s t imulus for more such attention .

Mi ch ae l Sincl ai r Toronto , Canada

( E d i tor 1 s n o te : Re a de rs i n te res ted i n th i s cas e s h ou l d a l s o s ee Ted B l oe ­ch e r ' s re v i ew o f �e And­reasson Affair on pp . 1 5 - 1 6 o � the May 1 9 79 e d i t i on o f The MUFON UFO Journal. ) e

( Con t . f rom page 4 ) itude shou ld cause them to drop the ir res e arch , even though it doe s exi s t . As I have mentioned b e fore ' the s cient i fi c appro ach does not consist o f -

draw ­in g con clus ions firs t and then c o l l e ct ing data wh i ch s eem to support the s e con ­c lus ions , wh i le i gnoring non -supportive dat a . We have a puz z l ing phenomenon on our hands , and an al l out e ffort shou l d be made t oward res o l ving the puz z ­le , re gard l e s s o f those who th ink th at they have al l the answers . I , for one , hope th at Gontovni ck and S ap ien z a re con s i de r their dec i s i on t o ce as e active res e arch .

In August , my wi fe and I l e ave for London , En g ­l and t o at tend the Firs t London Int e rnati onal UFO Congre s s , organi zed by the Brit i sh UFO Re s e ar ch As s ­o ciat ion ( BUFORA) . I shal l be repre s enting Can ada on the Work ing P arty whos e obj e ct ives are to e s t ab ­l i sh internat i onal s t and­ard� ?n

. the Te rmino logy ,

De f1n 1 t 1 ons and Cl as s i fi c ­a�ions o f Ufo l ogy , and t o d1 s cus s th e app li c ation o f mi cro -pro ces sors to the dat a , ho lding a common dat a b as e , an d common com­puter s o ftware and h'ard ­w�re . Dr . J . Al l en Hynek w1 l l be repres enting the U . S . , and other countries repre s ented in cl ude Be l ­gium , Denmark , France I t aly , the Netherl ands and � . K . , and perhaps more . I t 1 s to b e hoped that s ome cons t ruct i ve progre s s wi l l resul t , and I hope t o re ­port on the results in our next i s sue .

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