Uk-Ufo-Nw - E-zine 84

United Kingdom Ufo Network - #84 - 8th November 1997

Updated: 14/11/97

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Editorial Index	Updated: 14/11/97
UK.UFO.NW IRC guests UFO/Alien songs Mexican UFO video Tidying things up

UK News Index	Updated: 14/11/97
[UK 1] Alien Experiences wanted for TV documentary [UK 2] UFO's & Kent 'F.T.' response from European Parliament [UK 3] Hot Stuff [UK 4] Puzzle over mystery light at Dedridge [UK 5] Gobsmacked by Dedridge light [UK 6] UFO attacked our nukes [UK 7] Must fly! Aliens are after me [UK 8] What the aliens told the equerry about Prince Philip [UK 9] White suited figure - ghost or alien

World News Index

Updated: 14/11/97

[W 1] Pilot: UFO wasn't weather balloon
[W 2] Authorities baffled by stringy UFOs
[W 3] Scientists close universe age gap
[W 4] CIA Black Budget revealed, first time ever
[W 5] Mars Global Surveyor to resume aerobraking
[W 6] The invasion is over - now we're waiting for the screaming!
[W 7] Heaven's Gate suicide site on the market
[W 8] Company offers trips into space in 3-5 years
[W 9] Mars Pathfinder winds down after phenomenal mission

Features Index	Updated: 14/11/97
A Fearful Symmetry - Part 6 Ballad Of The Greys Lyrics

Editorial Section

Updated: 14/11/97

UK.UFO.NW IRC guests

We are very proud to announce that the below are confirmed guests on our IRC UFO channel:

Dan Sherman - Project Preserve Destiny
Graham W. Birdsall - world respected ufologist, lecturer and editor of UFO Magazine.

Full details will be posted in the near future.

UFO/Alien songs.

We are on the look out for songs about our favourite subject UFOs and Aliens. Are you aware of any? If so please send us the song name, artist and album. Also the words to any related song if possible. Have you written any related songs or poetry yourself. Please send the words into us.

There are three songs that we are aware of. 'Ballad of the Greys' by Dana Ray band. You will find the words to this ballad towards the end of the e-zine. 'Chupacabra' by an unknown group. It came to my attention that the group Hot Chocolate had a sighting some years ago and made a record about it. The song is called 'No Doubt About It'. I recently found this song amongst my wifes collection and sure enough it does describe an encounter.

Both songs 'Ballad of the Greys' and 'Chupacabra' can be downloaded from the Art Bell web site and UK.UFO.NW home page. They are both in the Real Audio format.

http://www.artbell.com/
http://www.holodeck.demon.co.uk/ (select the Real Audio button)

Mexican UFO video

From the comments we have been receiving most of you have had no problems in downloading the Real Audio/Video file. However a handful did report problems. Anomalies such as 'link does not exist', 'file not available for download' or most common a screen full of strange characters. The link is obviously correct because I and many of you have successfully downloaded it without problems. Our web site counter jumped enormously during the week after the announcement. So it could just be that to many people were trying to download it at the same time.

However if you are still having problems we are prepared to send you the file as an e-mail attachment. Please bare in mind that the file size is 284kb and should download to you reasonably quickly. As we stated before the video sequence has lost some of it's clarity compared with the original AVI file. However unless you are doing serious study the reduced file size all-but makes up for this. The original AVI file was 4.5mb in size.

If you would like the file e-mailed to you send to:

ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk

with: 'REQUEST MEXICAN VIDEO' in the subject line.

The file requires 'Real Player' ver. 4 or above to view it. This program is free to download for various computer systems from: http://www.realaudio.com/

The Mexican Real Audio/Video file can still be downloaded from the link at: http://www.holodeck.demon.co.uk/

Tidying things up

Every time the e-zine gets posted out we have quite a few bounced/returned mails stating that the e-zine could not be delivered. One of the main reasons seems to be 'user not known'. Usually this means that a person has made a mistake in their subscription e-mail address or that the address no longer exists.

We are slowly going through a stage of tidying up our subscribers e- mail list. If an error occurs whereby you receive a message saying that you have been unsubscribed or you do not receive a copy of the e-zine for some weeks please resubscribe.

UK News Section

Updated: 14/11/97

[UK 1]******

Source: Channel 4 (UK) teletext

Alien Experiences wanted for TV documentary

(Channel 4 is the UK's 4th largest terrestrial television station)

Channel 4 is producing a major documentary series. We would like to hear from you if you have ever had an Alien Experience.

Call on 0171 284 1469

[UK 2]******

Source: UFO Magazine (UK)
Publish Date: November/December 1997
Url: http://www.ufomag.co.uk

UFO's & Kent 'F.T.' response from European Parliament

Chris Rolfe, whose group UFOMEK (UFO Monitors East Kent), investigated the major 'flying triangle' incident in early March which appeared near the residence of Michael Howard, MP. the former Home Secretary, persuaded Mark F. Watts and Anthony Wilson, members of the European Parliament, to raise this and other issues with the European Commission.

Anthony Wilson raised two question: "Does the Commission acknowledge that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is the most likely explanation for a number of unidentified craft?

"Does the Commission acknowledge that European airspace has been penetrated on several occasions by unidentified craft whose performance characterises, such flight and manoeuvrability, far exceed state-of-the-art aircraft design?

Mark Watts asked: " Is the Commision aware of reports on both the Folkstone Herald and Adscene in early March, concerning sightings of unidentified flying objects in the Donkey Street area of Burmarsh, close to the home of Michael Howard MP and the ruins of Lympne Castle? Eye witnesses described the objects as triangular-shaped crafts ringed with bright lights. I am concerned at possible danger to Mr Howard and Lympne Castle and anxiuos to ensure that these well- known ruins are protected from hazards of unknown origin. Does the Commission have any evidence of extraterrestrial activity in this area or in the English Channel?"

A reply was forthcoming by Mr Neil Kinnock, one behalf of the Commission: "In the performance of its duties under the Treaties, the Commission does not acquire information of the kind requested. It is therefore unable to answer the question."

[UK 3]

Source: The People newspaper
Publish Date: Sunday 2nd November 1997

Hot Stuff

By Heather King

Rising star Debbie Flett is enough to send any poor alien's pulsar racing.

The 24-year-old face of Richard Branson's Virgin company has now turned galactic cracker.

Debbie dressed to kill for the front cover of the November issues of men's magazine 'Stuff'.

And the gorgeous model was armed and dangerous as she illustrated a feature about scientists on the trail od UFOs.

Stuff staff voted Debbie their ideal alien babe and one member said: "She can enter our atmosphere any time - but for most of us she could have come from another planet."

Debbie, from New Malden, Surrey, made her name as a hostess with Bruce Forsyth's game show Play Your Cards Right.

She was later plucked from thousands to become the face of Virgin.

But even if she keeps her feet on the ground it certainly looks as if her career is out of this world.

uk.ufo.nw says: 'Stuff' magazine and the UFO feature is now available from UK stores.

[UK 4]

Source: Herald & Post newspaper
Publish Date: 16th October 1997
From: Vadir

Puzzle over mystery light at Dedridge

A livingston woman froze with terror after spotting a strange light coming from the sky in Nigel Rise, Dedridge, just after midnight on Tuesday.

"I've never seen anything like it," said the 31-year-old-, who prefers not to be named. "People have told me that it must have been a laser light, but you don't get laser lights that wide - it lit up the whole side of the house in front of me."

The woman told the Herald & Post that the blue light, which appeared to be coming out of the sky from the direction of the TA centre at Dedridge, reminded her of someone using welding gear.

"It definitely wasn't lightning, but it came on and went off a couple of times," she added. "Strangely, two planes came over the sky at different times and each time the planes were there the light went off."

Now the woman is looking to hear from anyone else who may have seen the light at the same time.

If you have spotted the strange light, contact the Herald & Post at (UK) 01506 634436. Don't forget us here at UK.UFO.NW

[UK 5]

Source: Herald & Post newspaper
Publish Date: 23rd October 1997
From: Vadir

Gobsmacked by Dedridge light

An Eliburn woman has reported seeing the strange light which was spotted above Dedridge last week.

"I was gobsmacked," said the 27-year-old mum of one, who asked not to be named.

"When I read the article in last weeks Herald & Post I told my husband - "that's what I saw!"

The woman said she spotted the light about 4.30pm while walking across the footbridge between Ladywell and Craigshill.

"I do a bit of star gazine," she added, "and I know for a fact that it wasn't a satellite, although it did look a bit like one.

"It was very slow moving in the sky and was about the size of a football.

"It had a very subtle blue light and reminded me of Trebor mints.

"It looked like it was straight above Dedridge.

"I stood there for a couple of minutes watching it."

[UK 6]******

Source: The People newspaper
Date: 2nd November 1997

UFO attacked our nukes

Britain's former military supremo is asking the government to investigate whether aliens fired laser beams at our nuclear arsenal. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton, retired Chief of the Defence staff, wants the probe to be launched into the sighting of a UFO hovering over RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk. He has now tabled questions to the Ministry of Defence asking whether nuclear weapons stored at Woodbridge were struck by light beams fired from an unidentified aircraft.

He claims that US Air Force personnel who saw the "attack" filed reports which are being covered up by the MoD.

He said: "The Ministry has doggedly denied that anything untoward happened and I simply can't believe them." Defence minister Lord Gilbert refused to confirm or deny whether the base was equipped with nuclear missiles.

He added: "There is no evidence to suggest that the Ministry of Defence received any such reports."

The mysterious sighting happened in December 1980 and was picked up on RAF radar. Phantom jet were scrambled and pilots reported intense, bright lights in the sky.

[UK 7]******

Source: News Of The World newspaper
Publish Date: 26th October 1997
From: Calb1701@aol.com

Must fly! Aliens are after me

A SCREAMIN man who believed aliens were about to abduct him tried to open a plane door and get off at 30,000ft. Passengers gaped in horror, as he struggled with handles to-escape.

British Airways crew members quickly realised he had failed to take prescribed medication and was halluncinating.

Stewardess Susan Harwood calmed him by pretending to be a nurse after hearing he had recently had a coronary by-pass operation in Brisyol. She coxed him away from the door and led him gently to his "ward" - the crew's rest area.

Keeping up her act, Susan opened the plane's first aid box and took his blood pressure. Then she persuaded him to rest in his hospital bed- three seats with the arm-rest rasied.

Susan's clever ploy helped avoid a diversion to Moscow for Flight BA26 from Hong Kong to London. She said: "He was convinced he even called me matron."

[UK 8]******

Source: Sunday Times newspaper
Publish Date: Sunday 2nd November 1998
From: "Brian Straight"

What the aliens told the equerry about Prince Philip

by Hugh McManners and Walter Ellis

WHAT would you do if you were an alien observer keen to establish contact at the highest level with the British Establishment?

You might attempt to reach the prime minister but it's so hard to get through. The same would apply to the Foreign Office, the defence ministry and the intelligence services. Most likely, they would have you thrown out or locked up.

Janus, an interstellar emissary assigned to the British beat, decided to go for broke: he would arrange an audience with the Duke of Edinburgh.

Thus it was, on a damp and misty evening, in the winter of 1954, that Squadron Leader Peter Horsley, equerry to Prince Philip, found himself driving out of the main gates of Buckingham Palace on his way to the strangest, and most unearthly, en

A meeting had been arranged by a general for him to meet a Mrs Markham in a flat in Smith Street, Chelsea. The squadron leader was expecting little more than sherry and biscuits.

What he got, he said last week, was an introduction to man's destiny in the stars and a briefing on the supreme being, the Great Force, who commands the universe.

Had such a claim appeared in the National Enquirer or the Daily Sport, it could readily have been dismissed. In fact, it came from Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley, former deputy commander-in-chief of Strike Command, whose memoirs, Sounds From An

"Prince Philip," said the stranger, "is a man of great vision, a person of world renown and a leader in the realm of wildlife and the environment.

He is a man who believes strongly in the proper relationship between man and nature, which will prove of great importance in future galactic harmony."

Horsley destined to be in charge of sending British nuclear bombers on missions deep inside the former Soviet Union in the event of war realised he had to tread warily. Janus, fortunately, understood this as well.

"Where would you like to start?" he asked.

Many would have wished to begin by taking a better look at this mysterious stranger from the other side of the galaxy. Not Horsley.

"It is difficult," he writes, "to describe him with any accuracy; the room was poorly lit by two standard lamps and for the most part he sat in a deep chair by the side of a not very generous fire.

"In fact, I never really got any physical impression of him."

Tall, thin, short, fat, grey, white or green: Horsley does not recall. Instead, no doubt aware that such an opportunity might not come again, he pressed straight in with his questions.

"As an airman," he began, "one of the difficulties I have with the idea that UFOs fly here from another planet is the vast distances involved."

Quite so. "That's a good start," his visitor replied, before launching into a long disquisition on the reality of interstellar travel.

Apparently, in the next century or so, mankind will become bored with its exploration of the solar system and press on into deep space, employing technology that bends the time-space continuum and enables us to travel 1,000 light years in (rel

The future air marshal was understandably intrigued not least by his realisation that Janus was telepathic and could read his thoughts.

The conversation ranged far and wide, ranging from Genesis and the Pyramids to the prospect of a universe teeming with life forms, all owing allegiance to the Great Force.

Horsley remembers the encounter with total recall and noted it down in a report to his superiors. What they made of his tale is not known.

But ever since, the retired air marshal, author of the Journal of a Stamp Collector and holder of the Portuguese Order of Christ, has been "at intellectual peace with the concept of God as a universal spiritual force without shape or habitat,

As for Prince Philip, Horsley left the Smith Square flat and made no attempt to pass on the extra-terrestrial invitation to his royal master.

When he later returned to the flat it was empty, and he never saw Janus again.

He thought no more about it until now. "I was aged 33, very busy and had to get on with my job. So that's what I did."

[UK 9]******

From: duncan@life.com

White suited figure - ghost or alien

My friend Joan and I came across something bizarre whilst traveling along the Fleet Road towards Aldershot at lunchtime on 25th February 1997. We had taken a short cut down Claycart Road and suddenly caught sight of a figure running through the trees on our left.

The figure was running incredibly fast and at first we both thought it was a ghost.

However as we drew level, we could see it was a figure dressed in a tight white fitting suit. It then darted right infront of the car and ran across the road. At this point in the road there was a hump - the figure disappeared under the hump via a tunnel by the side of the road.

By now, Joan and I were terrified, and just wanted to get the hell out of there.

After the incident, Joan and I asked several locals what they knew of the area, and were surprised to hear that sightings of these white suited beings were very common. They also informed us that soldiers from a nearby army compound regularly cordon off the area without warning to prevent public access.

Our only conclusion is that the white-suited beings are aliens, as nothing human could ever run that fast, and that the military are aware of their presence.

Joan and Nikki, Aldershot

World News Section

Updated: 14/11/97

[W 1]******

From: kondor@kondor.demon.co.uk

PILOT: UFO WASN'T WEATHER BALLOON

An unidentified object narrowly missed a SWISSAIR Boeing 747 while the aircraft was at 23,000 feet, passing in air space between Philadelphia and New York, on Aug 9, Swiss radio reported this morning. Major newswires are taking the story and moving it. The pilot described the object, which passed within 50 yards of the aircraft, as "white, elongated and without wings," and strongly rejected U.S. explanations that the object was a weather balloon, the radio report said. The object was moving at very high speeds, Swissair spokesman Erwin Schaerer tells the NTSB. The plane was Zurich-bound, from Philadelphia. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE is reporting that there may be passenger witnesses to the incident...

[W 2]******

Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Publish Date: 22nd September 1997
From: kondor@kondor.demon.co.uk

AUTHORITIES BAFFLED BY STRINGY UFOS

Santa Cruz--

Just what were those stringy, spider-web like strands drifting throughout the skies of Santa Cruz County yesterday? Authorities were baffled as speculation varied wildly on the source of the unidentified floating objects spotted from Felton to Watsonville.

"From a meteorological perspective, I cant explain it." National Weather Service forecaster Bob Benjamin said.

No major fires were reported that could spread debris in such a widespread area.

Robert Franklin, airport operator at the Watsonville airport said....the strands were about 3 feet long, and faced every which way. "Its like you took a piece of wet chewing gum and stretched it with your fingers. It had strands," Franklin said. "Then it went straight up into the sky like a hot air balloon."

Santa Cruz sheriff's Sergeant Craig Wilson saw a few strands near downtown Santa Cruz and identified them as seed pods. ".....I'm not a botanist. But that's what they look like ," Wilson said.

...Could it have been related to El Nino, the much-hyped weather phenomenon expected to mess up the climate world-wide? Bob Benjamin (of the national Weather Service) said no, but "sure, go for it. Everything else has been blamed for it."

[W 3]******

Source: Washington (Reuter)
Date: 3rd October 1997
From: kondor@kondor.demon.co.uk

Scientists close universe age gap

U.S. astronomers said Friday they were helping to close one of the most troublesome age gaps of all time -- the discrepancy between the age of the universe and the stars in it.

Many of the measurements taken by scientists indicate that some of the oldest and most distant stars are actually older than the universe -- something obviously impossible and extremely irritating to cosmologists.

Physicists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio said they had come close to sorting out the problem using measurements from the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite.

They say these distant globular clusters, once thought to be as old as 15 billion years, are 11.5 billion years old. They are also farther away than experts once believed.

This fits in with estimates made in February by European scientists. "If the stars in the globular clusters are actually farther away than we thought, they must also be brighter than we thought," said Lawrence Krauss, who led the research.

"If brighter, the stars are burning faster. This means the stars would evolve more quickly, and thus the globular clusters would be younger than we originally thought."

Age and distance of such stars tell physicists how fast the universe is expanding. This, in turn, tells them how long ago the Big Bang that started everything was, and gives hints as to whether the universe will keep on expanding forever, will eventually flatten out and stop, or implode back in a Big Crunch.

Krauss said the latest measurements pointed to a flat universe.

[W 4]******

Source: Washington (Reuters)
From: kondor@kondor.demon.co.uk

CIA Black Budget revealed, first time ever

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government Wednesday unveiled for the first time its annual spending on the CIA and sister intelligence agencies, a secret for 50 years.

"The aggregate amount appropriated for intelligence and intelligence-related activities for fiscal year 1997 is $26.6 billion,'' CIA Director George Tenet disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit that left scant choice but declassification of the figure.

The disclosure of the so-called Black Budget capped a heated political debate involving Congress, the White House and directors of central intelligence for the past 20 years.

In making public the overall intelligence budget figure for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, Tenet said he had acted after consulting President Clinton and appropriate agencies.

In April 1996, the White House said Clinton had determined that making the sum public would not harm U.S. intelligence activities, a stance shared by then-CIA director John Deutch.

Clinton made clear at the time, however, that he wanted to declassify the total in concert with Congress, apparently to share any backlash from critics who might otherwise accuse him of undermining national security.

The Republican-led House and Senate had refused to join Clinton in the maneuver on the ground that Congress did not rightly have the power to declassify and that this was a responsibility for the administration alone.

In a statement, Tenet said the circumstances of the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit "do not allow for joint action'' with the Congress, as Clinton would have preferred.

"We believe this action is appropriate because it does not jeopardize the ability of our intelligence agencies to carry out their missions and serves to inform the American people,'' he said.

The lawsuit was brought by the Center for National Security Studies, a Washington group seeking greater intelligence agency accountability, on behalf of Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

"This is a long-overdue reform,'' Aftergood said in a telephone interview. "Significantly, it took a lawsuit to accomplish this. Congressional oversight couldn't get it done.''

Kate Martin, counsel in the case and director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the CIA had been forced to unveil the budget figure Wednesday because it could no longer defend withholding it.

"Only because the CIA was required to present its defense to the court today has it released the figure,'' she said. The annual spending total had been kept secret since the CIA was founded 50 years ago.

Tenet runs the Central Intelligence Agency and serves as board chairman for the 12 other U.S. spy outfits whose aggregate funding level was at issue, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and National Reconnaissance Office.

In his statement, Tenet stopped short of promising to continue to release annual combined totals for intelligence spending, most of which is buried in secret Pentagon accounts.

"Disclosure of future aggregate figures will be considered only after determining whether such disclosures could cause harm to the national security by showing trends over time,'' he said.

Executive branch officials would continue to protect from disclosure "any and all subsidiary information concerning the intelligence budget, whether the information concerns particular intelligence agencies or particular intelligence programs,'' Tenet added. "In other words, the administration intends to draw a firm line at the top-line, aggregate figure.''

The overall level of U.S. intelligence spending has long been considered one of Washington's worst-kept secrets, widely estimated at $28 billion to $30 billion. A few years ago, a House panel published the figure inadvertantly.

[W 5]******

Source: Nasa press release
Date: 30th October 1997

Uk.ufo.nw says: See last issue of e-zine {83} - [W 9] & [W 10]

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR TO RESUME AEROBRAKING

(edited for length)

After a two-week hiatus, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) flight team will resume lowering the spacecraft's orbit around Mars beginning Nov. 7. The effort will proceed at a more gradual pace than before, which will extend the mission's aerobraking phase by several months, and will change Global Surveyor's final science mapping orbit.

The decision to resume aerobraking came after intensive engineering analysis, computer simulations and tests with representative hardware to characterize the current condition of one of the spacecraft's two solar panels, which began to flex more than expected during the spacecraft's lowest dip into the Martian atmosphere on Oct. 6.

"After sufficient time to study the observed motion, we concluded that it is possible to perform additional aerobraking at a slower rate, without putting undue stress on the solar panel in question," said Glenn E. Cunningham, Mars Global Surveyor mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA. "This changes Mars Global Surveyor's final mapping orbit, but it should not have a significant impact on the ability of Global Surveyor to accomplish the mission science objectives."

The spacecraft is currently in a 35-hour elliptical orbit which brings it 107 miles (172 kilometers) above the surface of Mars at its closest approach to the planet.

"There are several types of desirable orbits for us to consider in the next several weeks that will give us global coverage of the planet and yield all of the science data we expected to return," Cunningham said.

Even if we wind up in an elliptical orbit, we will have an opportunity to study Mars at closer range than we originally planned because the spacecraft's periapsis -- or closest passage over Mars -- will be closer than the 234-mile (378-kilometer) circular orbit that was to be its original mapping distance."

A new color image from the MGS Mars Orbiter Camera of the giant volcano Olympus Mons is available on the Internet at the following URL:

http://barsoom.msss.com/mars/global_surveyor/camera/images/index.html

Additional information about the Mars Global Surveyor mission is available on the World Wide Web by accessing JPL's Mars news site at URL:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews

or the Global Surveyor project home page at URL:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov.

[W 6]******

Source: The People newspaper
Date: 2nd November 1997

The invasion is over - now we're waiting for the screaming!

The silent invasion has begun. Former military intelligence operative Philip Imbrogno claims he has the evidence. Drawing on his contacts in the CIA and US Air Force the has built up a terrifying dossier of alien abductions. He has researched the claims of thousands of people. Today Matthew Benn's presents their terrifying testimony.

George and Maria have a daughter who is almost two. One day she brought out her doll and asked her mum to open its head.

Maria asked her where she had seen something like that and the little girl told her mother: "they do it too daddy at night."

George and Maria are not alone. Thousands claim to have been abducted by aliens.

When scientific researcher Philip Imbrogno began to talk to the worried couple be discovered a chain of events that he believes will stun the world.

Imbrogno served with US Special Forces in Cambodia on a secret CIA operation called Shadow. He used his CIA contacts to verify George and Maria's story.

Then he followed up more people who claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens.

Imbrogno discovered several chilling similarities.

Most terrifying of all was that almost every one of these people shared the same rare blood group.

Imbrogno placed the abductions on a map and found they all formed straight lines that pointed to the Hudson Valley outside New York. A CIA former colleague told him: "the invasion is over. All we are waiting for is the screaming."

Imbrogno believes those screens will start where the UFOs were first spotted in the towns along the Hudson Valley.

The alien invasion had begun quietly. Middle school head Douglas Harlow arrived at his office to find that every clock in the school was 10 minutes fast.

"I couldn't figure it out," said Harlow.

But it was not just the school clocks. Every electric clock in the town had gained 10 minutes. A spokesman for the Conneticut Light and Power Company blamed a power surge - even though shift supervisor Philip Gervais said there had been no surge.

Then the witnesses came forward. Mrs Diane Duont, 40, was driving her car when she saw a large boomerang pattern of lights slowly moving through the night sky.

She said: "I watched as these lights approached and I was surprised that I heard no sound at all.

"The object then passed directly over my car and as I looked up I saw a dark mass blocking out the brighter night sky."

Police and the local radio station were deluged with reports of the slow moving flying wing with white and red lights.

Arnold Sprinster said the giant triangular shape was the size of a football pitch and took 10 minutes to pass over his car.

"It looked like one of the space ships in the science fiction movies but this was real."

Local police chief Herbert Peterson said: "if this thing can come here and do this, I want to know where the hell are our country's defences?"

But Imbrogno believes it is too late to worry about defences - the aliens are already here.

Imbrogno began his search for evidence by calling a general meeting in a valley town called Pine Bush.

He asked people to write down any experience they had with UFOs.

He was stunned. 40 percent of the people in the room had been in contact with aliens.

George and Maria are so used to the night time visits from alien creatures that when they appear Maria tells her husband: "your friends are here."

Bill, a 32 years old computer programmer who would not give his surname, saw the giant UFO in the Hudson Valley as he drove home from work late at night. He saw the space ship pass over his car but remembered nothing else about the incident until he had hypnosis.

Bill relieved the ordeal. "There is someone standing in the road and he's walking towards the car. Who are you?"

The alien replied: "Do not be fearful. We need you. You have been selected."

Bill said: "I feel strange, like I am floating in air. It's all dark. I am now on this table and these guys are all around me.

"They have large heads with long black eyes, the eyes are so black I can't see any pupils. They look like shark eyes.

"The one that is near my head is moving some type of thing up and down the side of my head. It looks like a portable vacuum cleaner.

"He is moving it closer and it is making my head vibrate, it feels like a drill going through my head. STOP, STOP, IT HURTS.

"They are looking for something and they've found it. I can't hear them speak, but I know what they are saying.

"He is telling me that they come from a place which is very ugly in comparison to ours and they would like to live here but they cannot."

The next thing Bill recalls is finding himself back in his car one hour later than the last time he looked at his clock.

A CIA source told Imbrogno that an alien craft landed at a US military base shortly after the Second World War.

The aliens were dying out and needed humans to infuse fresh genetic material into their species. They offered new technology in return.

The US government allowed the grey aliens to abduct people for genetic experiments.

Imbrogno took blood tests from people who claim to have been abducted.

The outcome astonished him - 95% had the rare B-negative blood type.

The said: "people with B-negative blood may be off-shoots of the hybrid race that the aliens are trying to create."

If that is true, the silent invasion has begun.

Contact Of The 5th Kind by Phillip J Imbrogno and Marrianne Horrigan published by Llewellyn at 7 pounds and 99 pence.

[W 7]******

Source: CNN
Date: 29th September 1997

Heaven's Gate suicide site on the market

Anyone wanting to purchase the home where 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide six months ago must put in a bid within two weeks, says a California real estate agent selling the home.

Realtor Burt Sveine said the home, located in a posh San Diego neighbourhood, is being offered on a sealed-bid-only basis, with all offers due by October 14. "Come and see your perception of the new 'Heaven's Gate' estate," says a flier about the sale of the sprawling home where members of the sect committed suicide in March for what they hoped would be a rendezvous with a UFO trailing Comet Hale-Bopp.

The nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate -- complete with swimming pool, tennis courts, putting green, sauna and elevator -- is worth about $2.2 million to $2.5 million, Sveine said.

The flier adds, "This property is being sold with the 'movie rights' passing to the new owner and in 'as is' condition and status."

For those interested, Sveine can be reached at 1-888-2- HEAVEN. Sveine represents owner Sam Koutchesfahani, who rented the home to the cult.

[W 8]******

Source: New York Times
Date: 14th October 1997

Company offers trips into space in 3-5 years

By EVERETT POTTER

{edited for length)

The Halloween season is usually a time of heightened UFO sightings and tales of UFO abductions. But if Mike McDowell has his way, some future UFO sightings will be readily identifiable, modern spaceships operating under the banner of his company, Space Adventures.

Inside will be well-heeled Earthlings paying upwards of $100,000 for a chance to take a suborbital flight into space on the ultimate adventure travel trip. "It's three to five years away," McDowell claims.

As president of the recently formed Space Adventures, McDowell is the first entrepreneur to offer immediately available simulated adventures in space and the prospect of suborbital flight. He's so confident that he's taking $6,000 deposits on a first-come, first-served basis -- money that will be held in escrow accounts.

McDowell figures, admits that "it will probably cost them $75,000 to $100,000 each."

Before anyone dismisses McDowell as a dreamer, consider his background. As founder of Quark Expeditions, the Australian-born McDowell pioneered travel through the Arctic and Antarctica on polar-class icebreakers.

He's also a partner in Adventure Network International, the only private company offering air flights in Antarctica.

A man who has climbed Mount Everest, dog-sledded to the North Pole and skied across 400 miles of Antarctica, the amateur climber, diver and small aircraft pilot personifies the adventurous spirit.

McDowell's partner in Space Adventures is Gloria Bohan, the founder and president of Omega World Travel, the ninth-largest travel agency in the United States, according to Business Travel News.

The company's advisory board includes Dr. Suzanne Churchill of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Giovanni Fazio of the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory and four astronauts: Captain Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson, Dr. Byron K. Lichtenberg, Dr. Charlie Walker and Dr. Owen Garriott.

"These guys all want to go back themselves," McDowell explains. But since five years is a relatively long time to wait, and $75,000 to $100,000 a considerable sum for most Earthlings, Space Adventures has alternative adventures as well.

First, there are "Terrestrial Tours," a series of programs that start as low as $750 per person and are designed to give an insider's perspective on space science. They include Rocket Scientist Training, where participants design, build and launch a 10-foot-tall rocket; a Space Camp Adventure at Rocket City in Huntsville, Ala., for amateurs to train for a simulated space shuttle mission; and a Star City Russia Tour, for those who would like to train as a cosmonaut in the space station Soyuz.

Then there are "Zero G Flights," zero gravity flights in an Ilyushin- 76, a Russian-made four-engine jet aircraft.

NASA has trained its astronauts for years in similar aircraft to achieve zero gravity, and Ron Howard used this type of aircraft to film the weightless scenes of his movie Apollo 13.

"The only way you can produce weightlessness on Earth is with one of these aircraft," McDowell explains. "Basically, you follow a roller-coaster profile, making parabolic passes. You're weightless for up to 30 seconds at a time, and ideally you can do this 15 or 20 times on a flight."

The price starts at $5,500 per person, with air fare and accommodations extra. Finally, the closest thing to space flight for civilians these days is Space Adventures' "Journeys to the Edge of Space." One lucky soul accompanies a pilot in a two-seater Russian MiG-25 military jet for the ride.

For example, while the Concorde goes as high as 50,000 feet, the MiG- 25 goes over 70,000 feet. It uses afterburners to stand on its tail and reach a point where 99 percent of the Earth's atmosphere is below the aircraft. Ahead of pilot and passenger is the black, star-studded sky.

"It's like being in a rocket," McDowell says, "but without the discomfort." Except, perhaps, on the wallet. These flights, on which McDowell says the pilot often lets the passenger take the controls, start at $11,900 per person and leave from Zhukovsky Air Field outside Moscow.

"There are plenty of people out there who have a heartburning desire to go into space," McDowell says. "And it's a great thing to tell your friends."

For more information, contact Space Adventures, 9411 Lee Highway, Suite J, Circle Towers, Fairfax, Va. 22031; call 888-85-SPACE; or access http://www.spaceadventures.com on the Internet.

[W 9]******

Source: Nasa press release
Date: 4th November 1997

MARS PATHFINDER WINDS DOWN AFTER PHENOMENAL MISSION

After operating on the surface of Mars three times longer than expected and returning a tremendous amount of new information about the red planet, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission is winding down.

Flight operators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, made the announcement today after attempting to reestablish communications with the spacecraft over the last month. With depletion of the spacecraft's main battery and no success in contacting Mars Pathfinder via its main or secondary transmitters, the flight team cannot command the spacecraft or the small rover named Sojourner that had been roving about the landing site and studying rocks.

"We concede that the likelihood of hearing from the spacecraft again diminishes with each day," said Pathfinder Project Manager Brian Muirhead. "We will scale back our efforts to reestablish contact but not give up entirely.

"Given that, and the fact that Pathfinder is the first of several missions to Mars, we'll say 'see you later' instead of saying goodbye," he said.

Since its landing on July 4, 1997, Mars Pathfinder has returned 2.6 billion bits of information, including more than 16,000 images from the lander and 550 images from the rover, as well as more than 15 chemical analyses of rocks and extensive data on winds and other weather factors. The only remaining objective was to complete the high-resolution 360-degree image of the landing site called the "Super Pan," of which 83 percent has already been received and is being processed. The last successful data transmission cycle from Pathfinder was completed at 3:23 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Sept. 27, which was Sol 83 of the mission.

The team plans to continue sending commands and listening for a spacecraft signal on a less frequent basis.

"Basically we are shifting to a contingency strategy of sending commands to the lander only periodically, perhaps once a week or once per month," said Mission Manager Richard Cook. "Normal mission operations are over, but there is still a small chance of reestablishing a link, so we'll keep trying at a very low level."

The Ballad of the Greys Lyrics

Updated: 14/11/97

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the Greys, the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away; I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night, laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, I'm afraid I'd die from fright.

They can paralyse you with their eyes and levitate you out of bed, pull you right up through the ceiling and start messing with your head; Now if they would just stop at that I wouldn't mind too much, but I've heard they'll probe you up and down and you won't like where they touch.

The witnesses say they're a humourous bunch and by that I'm quite surprised, do they watch all the reruns of I Love Lucy and The Best of Saturday Night Live? I don't wanna be a live experiment; father children in a place unknown, but they'll splice your genes and make grotesque things; leave my tadpole guys alone.

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the greys, the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away; I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night, laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, I'm afraid I'd die from fright.

When Eisenhower signed the treaty, he never thought they'd stay, maybe hang around long enough to mutilate some cattle and they'd be on their way;

We built them underground bases and they're feelin' right at home, like that Dreamland in Nevada where the antelope and aliens roam. And Art Bell knows what's going on, they probably give him rides for free; for all we know he's one of them, that's why he's on radio... and not ... TV.... (think about it).

Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the greys, the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away; I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night, laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, I'm afraid I'd die from fright. Laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, don't let me die tonight!

..(nanoo-nanoo my foot!)

A Fearful Symmetry - Part 6

Updated: 14/11/97

CHAPTER SEVEN

At the conclusion of the hypnosis session, I found myself both amazed and shocked by the information recovered. It was very unsettling to discover that an encounter with the "unknown"-- and possibly unknowable--had happened to me as early as the age of four. The two events--one at ten years old, and one at four--had been so different in nature from the ones occurring in my teens. Through regression, I had come into contact with the child I had been, and had relived those events. As I recalled them during the session, I had even spoken differently--more childlike, and with a child's wonder at the strangeness of the universe.

The trip home from Springfield was uneventful, although we had got into the habit of checking our watches periodically, to make sure we were not "missing time" anywhere along the way. Even though we laughed at ourselves for doing it, we still would catch each other surreptitiously glancing at the clock in the car. We felt compelled to make "reality checks" every so often--and often wondered sardonically which reality we were checking on.

I had finally entered the "gray area" on my map to the new world I was inhabiting. I had accepted the gauntlet that had been thrown at me, and now found myself dueling with conflicting struggles. One side indicated that these aliens truly existed and that what I had seen and recalled were true events--and the alternative indicated I was dealing with imaginal events made real. And, in a very real sense, I no longer knew which world I belonged to. I was straddling a fence, waiting for something to push me over into the thorny brush of one side or the other.

On August 3, I visited with my sister, and gave her a brief rundown on what had transpired at my last session. She startled me by saying, "Do you want to know why I knew something strange had happened down at your horse-tree?" I wasn't about to say, "No," so I asked her what she had in mind, and she replied, "When I saw you at the tree, you were glowing blue." I had no answer for this, but my life was becoming stranger by the minute! I told my sister about my encounter at four years old, and described the pajamas I had been wearing during the experience. My sister reminded me that we still had some old family photographs, and perhaps something from that era would be among them. Like children on an Easter egg hunt, we searched through the old albums, finally coming across some "glossies" dating around 1957. There, in a portrait taken of my brother, sister, and me, was the very pair of pajamas I had seen in my memory!

On the day of my session, my sister and brother had taken a metal detector down to the tree near the pond, where I had played with my horse figurines so many years ago. The tree's roots had become gnarled with time, and digging in the rocky ground was a daunting task. However, they had completely circumnavigated the tree, and found several old nails and wire, and one unusual rock. With just a little imagination, you could almost discern the outline of a saucer- shaped craft caused by the natural striations of the stone. It was almost as if Nature, itself, was laughing.

I wrote John to fill him in on the latest information my sister had supplied, and through correspondence found that there would be a public meeting on August 14. At this meeting, he would be presenting a slide show of several of the drawings which had been made by numerous persons who had been affected by the alien abduction phenomenon. My husband and I decided to attend this meeting. I was very curious about what other people had reported seeing, and was intrigued as to whether there would be any similarities to my drawings.

The evening of August 14 arrived, and we again made the trip to Springfield. I was excited, and also nervous as the lights were turned down, and the presentation began. An expectant hush fell over the crowded room. As the first drawing flashed on the screen, I knew my fence- straddling days were beginning to draw to a close. It was an eerie feeling, watching face after face appear, all drawn by different hands--and all depicting the same nonhuman creature-- time after time.BB Shortly after the presentation, my sister and mother had an experience that left them shaking. Since first looking into the missing-time event back in April, I had been noticing odd happenings. They were just vague premonitions that things were occurring--things that I just couldn't quite put my finger on, but knew were happening, somehow. I had awakened many mornings to find bruises on my arms and legs that weren't present the day or night before, and that couldn't be accounted for in the glaring reality of daylight. I had lucid dreams on an almost regular basis, and many of them contained elements of alien abduction scenarios. Still, while interesting, and somewhat thought-provoking, there was nothing that I could really declare to be alien phenomenon occurring in my present life. Then, my sister and mother shared what appeared to be a common "dream" one night--and yet they lived in separate houses.

Mother's "dream" began with her standing by her kitchen sink, looking out the back window into the wooded area behind her house. As she watched, a blinding group of lights appeared in formation, white and red in color. This object drew near her house, and she immediately had the thought, "Oh, my God! It's a UFO!" With this realization had come the devastating knowledge that the aliens were coming for her younger grandson. She somehow knew they had already taken the older boy previously, and she was frantic with fear for the safety of the younger one. Without thought for herself, she tore out of her home, running toward my sister's house, a few hundred feet away. Ignoring the darkness outside, she ran to save her grandson. Winded, she finally reached the backdoor to the house, and threw the door open, bolting inside. With surprise, she noted there were five "men" standing in the den area. They appeared to be wearing blue outfits. She recalled weaving among the "men," refusing to look above their waists, trying to locate her grandson, but having no success. After an abrupt scene shift, she realized the encounter had taken on a sexual connotation. A brief lapse of time occurred, and Mother heard a roaring sound that rattled the house, as the UFO finally departed.

The following day, Mother discovered my sister had also "dreamed" that night-- about five men wearing blue clothing, who had come from the hall into her bedroom. It seemed that these "men" had distracted her while a possible abduction occurred elsewhere.

This event shook up the proverbial apple-cart, and we again contacted John Carpenter to let him know of their shared "dream," and a possible shared event of which they had conscious memory. He requested that they not discuss their memories on these two events with each other, until sessions could be arranged to explore each of their conscious recalls on an individual basis. A session was arranged for my sister, to be held August 23.

On August 20, I felt compelled to mail a letter to the hypnotherapist. I had recalled a puzzling incident from the distant past--or actually, several puzzling events- - centering around a deceased friend of the family. In the past, during times of personal crisis, I had dreamed of this longtime friend, and had mentioned this to John Carpenter in the beginning of this "strange journey." An excerpt from this letter follows:

"You'll recall that I mentioned in the questionnaire I had three dreams in the past about a deceased friend of the family, who in these dreams gave me assurances of some kind of continuation after death. This friend was George Mahon, the City Marshall of a small town. He had been in police work for most of his adult years, and had many friends and acquaintances among the State Troopers, FBI, and various other associated organizations. He and several of his "buddies" would often drop in on our family during their routine beats. These visits were both day and night, and we always looked forward to them.

"Because our father was away so much of the time, George became a surrogate father for us, and we often sent him Father's Day cards, as well as sending them to our real father. The caring that he gave was of inestimable value, and we weren't the only ones who felt that way toward him. On the day of his funeral, the entire school turned out, so all the students could attend. There was standing room only, and not very many dry eyes. His loss was felt by the entire town.

"He was a very special person, and filled many needed roles for many people, both children and adults. He was highly respected by his peers, who often sought his advice and assistance.

George always felt very drawn to our and enjoyed the visits with us as much as we did. The interesting family--thing is that occasionally George would come by our house, and tell us that 'our house had disappeared' the night before--that he had driven by on his regular beat, and could not see the house at all, even though we always left lights on. We always laughed about it, and joked with him about our 'having gone somewhere', but in retrospect, I think he knew there was something different about either us or the place, and that was his way of letting us know."

I had no idea what compelling force was working on me at the time I mailed the letter to the hypnotherapist, but knew it was important, somehow, that I let him know. Then, in going through some memorabilia, I discovered the source of my desire to let John know about my old friend--August 22 was the date of George's birthday, and also the anniversary of his death. I felt that in some obscure manner, I had again been in touch with a friend who had been very important to me.

The day of my sister's session dawned bright and clear, and my husband and I drove with my sister to her appointment. She was a little tense this time. The possibility of an ongoing phenomenon--one not relegated to the past, but happening in the "here-and-now"-- was unsettling.

The following excerpts have been taken from the conference with the hypnotherapist, prior to the induction of hypnotic regression:

John: Tell us about this dream that you and your mom had. Consciously, what do you remember?

Laura: I'm in my bedroom, and the door opens. A woman comes in and announces, "These men want to have sex with you." There are five men, wearing dark blue suits, lined up around the bed, and they all look the same. I tell them, "But I don't know you," and they say, "Yes, you do. We've come a long way for this." (What followed was a natural progression.)

And then, in the morning, Mother came in and she was totally flipped out. She said, "I've got to tell you about this dream I had last night!" And then she describes the blue outfits they have on, and I start thinking, "This is strange. This is a little more strange than . . normal."

In fact, it bothered her so much, she wasn't able to work well, that day. And, see . . . I work for a real estate company--normally, I'm very handy to my kids--but that day I had gone out to do an appraisal. A little boy had spent that night with my younger son, and they got up early and went across the street to play with a new kid in the area. My older son woke up later, and didn't know where he'd gone. He got worried and tried to call me, but I was out, so he called Mother. She was in an important meeting at her place of work, but she freaked out. She thought maybe "they" had picked up my younger son and forgot to bring him back home, so she left work immediately and went home to locate the boys.

John: Why do you think she was so uptight about your younger son?

Laura: Well, we know that my older boy has a hole in his nose . . . and there's some anxiety there. Mom thought, when she saw the lights, that they had already gotten her older grandson, but they weren't going to get her younger one, if she could help it.

I want to tell you another thing, too. I had a really hard time coping after the last session, because I wanted to deny it all. The first week was super hard, and then by the second week, I was starting to come around a little bit. And I finally came to grips with it, and I believe it now. After examining the facts, I can't deny it.

John: Okay. Let's hear about this airplane dream, now. (This referred to a conscious event my sister had recalled, and had written the hypnotist about previously.)

Laura: Oh. That wasn't a dream. It happened in the late '80's. My mother and I-- and the kids, I think--were coming back from town. The grocery store, I think. And just about a mile from our house, just over the trees came a white airplane with no engine. It was coming down . . . and I braked immediately, 'cause it was so close I thought it was gonna fall right on us. Well, when I braked, it kept on--went across the road still in a decline. I pulled up to get a better view, and kept inching forward, because I was afraid of being rear-ended. I thought, "God, we're going to see a biggie here!" But nothing happened. It just eased on down, like it had found a way to land under the power lines. And we had a lot of amnesia about it-- couldn't remember what all we had done. I could remember pulling into someone's driveway and also going to the airport. When we got there, there were three men refueling . . . and they were kinda strange. I went inside to talk to the manager, and he acted like it wasn't even important.

Since the time of the incident, a friend of my older son mentioned to me that my son had asked him if he'd ever seen a plane crash. His friend told him, "No," and my son told him that he had once seen a plane crash when he was in the car, and that he even remembered numbers on the plane. I have never been able to recall any identifying numbers at all, though.

John: What does your mother think about this airplane incident?

Laura: She says it's as strange as what happened to her and my sister (in 1972).

John: Okay. What else was it that you remembered about your sister burying that little thing by the tree?

Laura: Well, when I was under hypnosis that first time, when I had looked at my sister down there, she had a glow around her. A funny-looking glow. It was light blue.

John: Do you remember how long it lasted?B
Laura: No . . . not very long. But . . . I have seen . . . uh . . . "glows" around other people. And I'll tell you about one, but then no more weird stuff. There was this man one time, and I knew he was going to die that day, see. And that's why I don't really like this aura thing. I don't like to tell other people when I see things, 'cause that one weirded me out. He had come to our house that day--he was a nice old man who was our neighbor, and we had a lot of fun. And he was "gray." I was a teenager at the time, and I thought, "Oh, he's getting ready to die." And he died of a massive heart attack that night.

I'm not saying I'm special . . . It's just that if you're observant, sometimes, you can see things . . . that anybody can see. It's just that they don't pay attention to it.

So, anyway, that's why I knew that day at ten, that something unusual was going on with my sister. Because she had a glow--a light blue glow.

John: Now, you all took a metal detector down to that tree . . .

Laura: Yeah, and I found a very unusual rock down there. I brought it here today to show to you. It has kind of an unusual shape to it . . (Gave rock to the hypnotist.) I guess you could call this some comic relief, maybe. (Laugh).

John: Are there any other things you'd like to mention?

Laura: I'm going to tell you the truth. I don't want to see aliens, like they (mother and sister) all see. I don't want to see the gray bodies. If I look at 'em, I'm gonna make 'em pretty. I'm gonna give 'em hair . . . But, when you would ask me to stare at their eyes, under hypnosis, it changes. And then, when I'd glance away, I'd see what I want to see, again.

One other thing, about the dream Mom and I shared recently. One Saturday, about 3:00 in the morning, my husband started talking in his sleep, and he said, "You decidin' who to put in the hamster wall tonight?" I jumped up, and said, "Where are you?" He replied, "I'm in a cellar." He said there were a lot of holes in it, and it was honeycombed. He started waking up then, and realized where he was. His description reminded me, you know, of that "Intruders" movie, because of the scene with the man in the tube. And then again, maybe it's just Saturday night hysteria. (Laugh).

HYPNOSIS SESSION August 23, 1992

John: (The hypnotist had decided to explore the airplane event, so the time- frame had been regressed to the 1980's.) . . . Drift back through time . . . What do you notice about the car, and what do you see?

Laura: The car's blue. The front seats are bench cloth. I don't really hear any sound. It's not cold. It's spring. The windows are rolled down. There's a mobile home park on the right side. There's one house, and then a whole bunch of trailers--bunch of mailboxes. And big trees.B
John: What do you notice, as you're driving along?

Laura: It looks like a plane, but it's blurry. It's over the trees. It's not making any noise. It's bigger than both widths of the road. It looks like it's spinning. Like a fan . . . like a boomerang. It's moving so fast, I can't slow it down. It's white, and shiny. There's something kinda orange--like a fire--under the bottom. It's a circle.

John: Can you see what happens next?

Laura: It made all sorts of weird movements. (Gestured with hands) . . Up and over, then down, and then up. It's more of a bell-shape, actually. The top, when it turns this way, has got like a black dot on it. The bottom has the orange circle. It looked like volcanic rock on the bottom.

John: Okay. Does anyone say anything, or what happens next?

Laura: We were curious. My older son's hanging out the back window, watching. I told him to get back inside. It looked like a bell.

John: How did it change from a boomerang to a bell?

Laura: It was spinning.

John: What's the very next thing you notice?

Laura: I pulled down around the corner and got out of the car. I was in the driveway of this house. Mother got out, too.

John: And what do you see now that you look at it again?

Laura: It went underneath the power line. The whole thing turned orange for a minute, and I could hardly see it. Then it went under the lines.

John: Notice what happens next . . .

Laura: We're talking about going to the airport. It had gotten really far away. Then it landed, and I thought it was an airplane again. My younger son thought it was a helicopter. He's on the other side of my older son.

--To Be Continued -

Jacket Notes

"As each human voice from the UFO abduction syndrome is offered for public consideration, I am impressed by the similar patterns of events from case to case. Lynne Bishop's story, like so many others, involves orange, glowing discs, small spheres of white light, night paralysis, her body transported literally through walls, physical examinations, body marks and rashes, animal mutilations, telepathic communication, encounters with non- human beings that include small "gray" and tall "ant-like" entities, humanoids, glowing "angel- like" beings, and Bigfoot-type creatures. The reason for all this, in the alien intelligence's own words: "This is how we breed." The increasing number of human testimonies that insist an alien life form is harvesting genetic material from our planate should give us all pause. Who - or what - is interacting with our planet? And what are the implications for our past, present and future?"

Linda Moulton Howe, TV Producer and Author of An Alien Harvest and Glimpses of Other Realities

"I found A Fearful Symmetry to be a fascinating look at how the alien experience can affect the lives of an entire family, often without their conscious knowledge that such events are taking place. There is much here that correlates with other testimonies...but there are also details which seem unique."

Lucius Farish, Editor, UFO Newsclipping Service

"A Fearful Symmetry, by Lynne Bishop, is a unique and compelling account of alien abductions that have intruded into the lives of an entire family for many years. While such stories are not new, Ms. Bishop's account is especially convincing because it includes the testimony of not only her own experiences, but also events involving several members of her family, recalled consciously as well as through the memory- enhancing aid of regressive hypnosis. The story is extremely well-written, insightful, and honest. Ms. Bishop's fearlessness in pursuing the truth behind her bizarre experiences is a lesson in courage for anyone who has been forced to deal with the alien presence, and her determination to be more than a passive victim, to find ways to alter the experiences, sets a new standard for other abductees to emulate."

Karla Turner, Ph.D., Author of Into The Fringe, Taken, and Masquerade of Angels

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If you are using one of the dedicated IRC programs such as the excellent MIRC available free from: http://www.mirc.co.uk/index.html enter one of the below irc server addresses into your program. The nearer the server to your location the faster the connection. If one fails then try another.

London.UK.EU.UltraNET.Org
Belgrade.YU.EU.UltraNet.org
Kalemegdan.YU.EU.UltraNet.org
Singidunum.YU.EU.UltraNet.org
Bor.YU.EU.UltraNet.org
Zemun.YU.EU.UltraNet.org
Gloucester.UK.EU.UltraNET.Org
Uppsala.SE.EU.UltraNET.Org
Johnson-City.TN.US.UltraNet.Org
Haifa.IL.AS.UltraNET.Org
Mons.BE.EU.ultraNET.Org
Neuilly.FR.EU.UltraNET.Org
Hofors.SE.EU.UltraNET.Org
Bergen.NO.EU.UltraNET.Org

Once you are connected to a server join channel:
#UFO

The uk.ufo.nw #UFO channel is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Visit the channel at any time. There is usually someone there to talk to.

For those of you needing help connecting to our IRC meetings send your questions to:

ufo-irc-advice@crowman.demon.co.uk

If you want to be a little more adventurous and perhaps use one of the dedicated IRC programs such as the excellent MIRC visit the below urls for advice:

http://www.crowman.demon.co.uk/ultranet.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/phil.light/irchelp.htm

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