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Dan Sherman visited us on the uk.ufo.nw dedicated irc channel,
Saturday 31st January 1998. Here is the very interesting log of that
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[UK 1] Sighting in Wolverhampton | [UK 2] UFOs or Fakes? You decide [UK 3] Cornwall prepares for a total eclipse [UK 4] Strange case of the A46 UFO remains a mystery [UK 5] Scientists listen intently for ET |
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[W 1] Are aliens being cut off by gas in the galaxy? | [W 2] Philip Corso & the alien autopsy [W 3] Sleep Paralysis - Frequently asked questions [W 4] Toxic data at Area 51 ruled confidential [W 5] Email ET only at the Alien Contact Network [W 6] Mexico City video will air in March [W 7] Mir Cosmonauts to appear live on QVC |
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Roman Catholic Priest | Any East Anglia UFO groups |
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This time last year - A small edited collection of reports and news feature's from January 1997. | A Fearful Symmetry - Part 9 |
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Dan Sherman went into the United States Air Force like most other
Americans, extremely proud to serve his country and it's well
trained military. During his twelve years in service he was
recognised for heroism and has been decorated with the AF
Commendation Medal, as well as the AF Achievement Medal with two
oakleaf clusters and was honoured for service in the Persion Gulf
War. | Everything appeared to be going well for Sergeant Sherman until he was recruited into a special programme called 'Project Preserve Destiny' (PPD), an ABOVE BLACK project which would eventually change his life and result in him leaving the USAF. http://www.aboveblack.com/ An account of Dan's story has just appeared in the latest issue of Sightings (UK) - January 98 - Vol 2 - Issue 8 & From Beyond (USA) - January 98 From Dan's home page: About the Author Dan Sherman spent almost three years as an intuitive communicator while serving in the USAF. In ABOVE BLACK he tells of his training, things he learned from his alien contacts and the events that lead him to seek a discharge from the United States Air Force, at all costs. By coming forward, he hopes his story will encourage other insiders to do likewise. Sherman says, "The information I have come forward with is important in the sense that someone has to start talking... someone from the inside. Preserve Destiny is only one of many alien projects that I suspect the US government, as well as other governments, are heavily involved with. In releasing to the public what I know, I have tried to take a stand against the keepers of the grey flame within the sacred halls of the NSA, CIA, USAF, NRO and other agencies. Hopefully this will open the door for other insiders to peer through and feel more comfortable stepping out into the light of day. If not, 'they' will continue to suppress the most fascinating aspects of our own existence... that others exist!" Serving over 12 years in the United States Air Force, Dan Sherman has been recognized for heroism and has been decorated with the AF Commendation Medal and the AF Achievment Medal with two oakleaf clusters. He has also received the AF Outstanding Unit Award with three oakleaf clusters as well as being honored for service in the Persian Gulf war. He is married with no children. --- The Real Audio sound track of Dan's interview on 'Sightings On The Radio' can be downloaded for offline listening from the following addresses: Sightings On The Radio - August 6th 1997 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt1.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt2.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt3.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt4.ra dan_pt1.ra - 2.155Mb dan_pt2.ra - 1.948Mb dan_pt3.ra - 1.856Mb dan_pt4.ra - 1.165Mb Dans second interview on 'Sightings On The Radio' Sightings On The Radio - October 29th 1997 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan2-pt1.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan2-pt2.ra dan2-pt1.ra - 1.899Mb dan2-pt2.ra - 1.792Mb Dans interviews can be heard in streaming (online) Real Audio at the following addresses: Sightings On The Radio - August 6th 1997 http://www.audionet.com/shows/endoftheline/9708/end0806.ram Sightings On The Radio - October 29th 1997 http://www.audionet.com/shows/endoftheline/9710/end1029.ram Art Bell Show - November 10th 1997 http://ww2.audionet.com/artbell/abell/9711/ab1110.ram --- Raine Hello everyone and welcome to the United Kingdom UFO Network #UFO channel meeting here on Ultranet. We are very honoured to have with us here tonight as our special guest - Dan Sherman - Dan many thanks for taking the time to visit with us tonight. We hope that you enjoy your stay, as much as I'm sure we will. Dan when you have finished answering a question could you please type DS so that we know you are ready for the next question. Here is a short introduction to Dan Sherman: Dan Sherman went into the United States Air Force like most other Americans, extremely proud to serve his country and it's well trained military. During his twelve years in service he was recognised for heroism and has been decorated with the AF Commendation Medal, as well as the AF Achievement Medal with two oakleaf clusters and was honoured for service in the Persion Gulf War. Everything appeared to be going well for Sergeant Sherman until he was recruited into a special programme called 'Project Preserve Destiny' (PPD), an ABOVE BLACK project which would eventually change his life and result in him leaving the USAF. OK Dan, would you like to add anything to that or would you like the first question? Dan That's a good synopsis, let us begin.. color Welcome Mr.Sherman can you tell us about the type of genetic alterations the aliens did to you to create the type of conduit you became for the NSA? And if there are others in the public sector being biologically manipulated by them for those purposes and others? Dan I don't know exactly what procedure was performed.. all I was told was that I was a part of a genetic manipulation program designed to give humans the ability to communicate for a specific reason with this alien race. There are others that have the same ability. Tinman-BF When you meet your first alien contacts, How did you feel and was it expected ? Dan I have never "met" personally any alien. (Sounds funny even typing it!) I "intuitively communicated" with two separate aliens. mulder Do you know of cia involvement with ymca, using selected targets as manchurian candidates to carry out covert ops for cia/nsa? Dan I'm unaware of any CIA involvement with what you speak of. Sorry. color Do I recall that you mentioned a location in the Great Lakes area that was part of the information you recieved from the aliens? If so, can you tell me more about the area mentioned and the significance of that area? What is going on there? Dan I had received abduction data towards the end of my stay with the project. On three occasions I looked up the location of the abductions of which I was receiving information about. One of them was in Wisconsin somewhere. I didn't look at the specific area of Wisconsin. Dave_UFO Since leaving the USAF and PPD project have you met anyone else involved with the project? Dan No... neither do I expect to. Although, I guess it is possible someday. As people get out of the military under normal circumstances I'm sure there will be other intuitive communicators who come forward. Tinman-BF Do you, in you life time, think that the govenment will come out in the open to public about the presence of Aliens Dan I believe they will never do so voluntarily. But the more people who come forward who have knowledge, the more they will be forced out of the UFO closet. color While meeting abductees, have you come across meeting any that You had recieved information about them, while working for the NSA? from the aliens Dan I had never received personal data that would allow me to connect a certain person to the data I received. Angela- Mr Sherman does "k811" mean anything to you? If so , what do you associate it with? Dan If you replace the "8" with another symbol, yes. mush Dan: have you new information about the company of noise cancellation Dan Interesting question. A man named "Bob" that I have been communicating with has done a lot of research about that company since I released my book and has found out a lot of interesting information. I may be getting this onto the aboveblack.com website soon. Interesting stuff, all the correlations... Gandalf1 dan: you said that you intiutivly communicated with aliens... did you do this by "telapathic communication" if yes isn't this quite impossible as you have to have a certain focus on the person you are trying to communicate with? Dan I am always careful to NOT call it telepathy mainly because I'm not sure what telepathy specifically feels like. I "intuitively communicated" and from what I have read about telepathy, this is a much more real and vivid way of communicating. This is explained in the book a bit more in depth. mulder were u involved in project stargate,have u ever dealt with sas or sis in uk? Dan No I have never worked with these projects. Very classified projects are always extremely compartmented and the chances of someone working on several different highly classified projects at once is very unlikely. comet7 Dan, do you know what type of aliens these were and where they were from? Dan I'm unaware of the "type". and I never really was able to find out where they were from. I do know they manipulated time in order to travel. This would allow them to be from a great distance from earth. Dave_UFO Did you ever feel that there was an ulterior motive to your work in that you were perhaps being trained for something more than what you had been told? Dan Yes, most definitely .. especially towards the end. The cover story they told me about providing a means of worldwide communication in the futre because of an electromagnetic outage worldwide was most likely true (perhaps) but there was certainly more to it than that. SickBoy Hello Mr Sherman. Why do you expect people to believe your story? You have offered no evidence at all to substaniate your claims. Except you tell us about genetic alternations that modern medicine cannot do. That you are telepathic, but not with humans. You can make anything seem plausible to believers by introducing the alien factor. What do you feel is the most convincing thing about your story? Dan My background in the military can be verified. The bases I have been stationed at are "known" for there "interesting" missions. Other than that, it is based on faith. Just because someone does not have evidence of something does not automatically make it untrue. color what types of information did you recieve? And what information did you recieve regarding the abductions in Wisconsin? Or elsewhere? Dan I received "comms" for more than two years. The types of information varied throughout those years. They started with strings of numbers. But slowly evolved to images and towards the end it became what I readily identified as abduction data. It was not a great deal of data... things like time, date, lat/long (location) potentiality for recall, residual pain levels...etc. Nothing person specific though. Dave_UFO Dan I understand that your family may not know of your involvement in Project Preseve Destiny (PPD). Is this still the case? How do your friends & work colleague's react to you? Dan Something as different as my experience will automatically make people uncomfortable. This has been the case with a part of my family. There is a part of my family that does not know however because I learned a lesson when revealing it to the other poart of the family. If you want your relationships to be unfettered by mistrust, you simply don't bring it up. Coincidently, my firends are more readily accepting of this. My wife, however, has been rock soild throughout the whole ordeal as she knows me better than anyone else, and knows I wouldn't make this type of thing up. Crow Dan I know that you said you were taken to your comms room via a van with blacked out windows. Did you get taken directly into an NSA building or did the van park outside and you had to enter the building by walking Dan I was taken there via a blacked out van and a van without windows period. I was taken into a garage like structure. I never saw the outside of this structure. I went directly from the van to the door I entered to get to the elevator in the garage. buck7 Dan, how can you be sure that you were not being manipulated mentally by your NSA employers into thinking that you were in contact with aliens? With all due respect. Dan This is a popular question. The short answer is, Ican't be sure. But the nature of the communications would lead anyone to believe that it was from extraterrestrial origin. Humans have the mental structure of cmmunications compared to what I experienced. It is very difficult ot explain the difference. color would you be able to locate the region(north, south)in Wisconsin if You saw a map ? What do you think is happening there? Dan Have a "certain" structure of communications compared to what I experienced. (Correction) I believe it was in the southern part of the state. All I did was look at the lat/long and notice it was in Wisconsin. I didn't look at the specific city. Sorry! Crow Dan obviously you still have the ability to do these comms now, have you contacted spock or bones since you left the project Dan No, I have had no comms since I was relieved of duty from the program. It was like I dropped off the face of the earth. This was obviously government controlled. Dave_UFO How did you cope during the time you were involved with PPD with not being able to tell anyone? It must have been most stressful. Dan In the beginning it was very difficult. But, if you think about it, at the time peopel were not as ready as they are today to hear such an experience and believe it. Even if I had told someone, I would have been thought of as crazy. (Still am today by many but it's not quite as bad today. Plus, I don't care anymore. color How did the agency know to pick you to put into that program? How did they find out your special genetical development in order to select you from the ordinary group of military person? Dan This whole thing was co-orchestrated by the government and them. They have obviously kept good records. RavNmaD Dan, due to the nature of your communications, how were you able to discern between a true communication and what you *wanted* to see or hear? Dan This is a question that cannot be answered without experiencing it for yourself. The communication was not from the imagination part of the brain. It happened very lucidly. Very difficult to put into words. SickBoy Can you tell us why you left the military? Dan The abduction data really started to get to me mentally. There were many things going on at the time and an event happened that kind of broke the camel's back so-to-speak. I requested a discharge and my commander came back with a retort that basically said I was never getting out... even when my enlistment was up. So I took the only measure I knew at the time that would most definitely get me out of the military. For legal reason, I really can't go into specifics. Angela- You say you were 'geneticly' altered in the womb. Were you ever abducted? By the Govt/Military that you can recall? Either as a child or an adult? It would seem that 'someone' would need to track your progress as you grew in efforts to monitor the genetic changes. Dan No. I have no recollections of any post womb abductions. I was told my ability didn't become fully developed until my mid 20's. Evidently there was no need to "monitor" my growth. jarod what if anything does he know about E2SCD Dan Sorry, nothing. RavNmaD Dan, what do you know about 'Fastlane'? is that term familiar with you? Dan I feel pretty dumb, should I know these terms? No, sorry, not that one either. color Will you ever try to make a connection from the information you recieved to the actual abduction that took place? Creating a link between what you recieved as data to the actual event? Proving the info. Dan Unfortunately, at the time I received this data I had no idea that I would be talking about this to anyone. I never made any notes or anything like that. The only information that could be usefl that I received was locational data and date. I'm not sure how this would have been too helpful anyway. Dave_UFO I'm interested in knowing how people reacted to you when you came clean. Your wife must be the closest person to you. How did she react and how does she feel now? Dan She's right here. She says she was "amazed and intrigued, and believed every word of it." Also, that I am a wonderful person and tall, dark and handsome. :) (Okay, those are my words.) Her family was not as accepting as we would have liked, but tolerant. JeroenW Dan, are you still in comm contact with intelligence? Dan What intelligence, Jeroen? Alien or military? Either case it is "no". UnixKid Are you willing to take an independant polygraph test? As well as a mental health evaluation? Dan I would be willing to take either as my experience is very much reality and the truth. I have a very firm grasp of reality. Sometimes too firm according to my wife. RavNmaD Dan, what was your MOS in the AF? Dan Before it changed (BTW it's AFSC in the AF) it was 20570. They changed in the 90's and it became 1N570 (I think...can't remember exactly.) JeroenW The same agency who implanted EBE. I think it was Psi. minator Did anyone ever try to prevent you from writing your book or try to change the datails in it? Dan No. I wrote and released this book with very little fanfare. I purposely published it myself so as to start out with people like you who are the built in market and closer to the front lines of the alien worldwide story. Now that almost everyone in the "alien" community knows about it, it's very unlikely that the government is going to do anything about it since so many people "who care" and are monitoring, it would automatically justify what I am saying if anything were done to me. Now we are taking it to the next level... worldwide exposure. Stay tuned. mulder ever dealt with mi7 agents over the project in alaska? ever had involvement in chilean secret service? Dan You have to remember I didn't have access to any program but the one I worked on. I know the Alaska project may have ties to what I did, but I am unsure what they are specifically. buck7 Dan, Do you have any info on the extent of government involvement in this affair? In other words, does the involvement extend beyond the U.S. government,( ie Great Britain,Russia,etc.)? Dan I firmly believe there are several governments involved in the project. This may have to do with the "worldwide" phenomanon that is supposedly going to occur in the future. Other government's involvement was alluded to by Bones.. comet7 Dan, do you think that you are now.. after leaving the military , being highly monitored or watched because of what you know? Dan Probably right after the release of the book. We had some mail come to us opened. Perhaps still now. I'm not concerned because I believe I haven't released any "black" information that would cause them to have a reason. Rasputin have you been tested by others with the same ability? Birds of a feather and all that... Dan The project was so compartmentailized that I never met (other than at school and we couldn't talk to one another) anyone else with the same abilities. tinbox Dan, has the military exerted (or tried to exert) any pressure on you regarding the content of your book? Dan None. Crow Dan I know you have mentioned a Captain and gave out his name Captain Black did you get any repercussions from giving out his name? Dan No. Actually, this name I gave out was not the Capt in question but another Capt that I worked with that I was thinking of at the time. What a mess that was. UnixKid Can you give us the name of the chief field officer in new orleans? Dan Unfortunately, I have no idea what you are referring to, Unixkid. Sorry. Dave_UFO Now that you are no longer involved with Project Preserve Destiny do you feel that should a time come when communication systems fail, that you will be used as the project intended? Dan That's a good question. I think it depends on how many they have trained and how needed I would be. My guess, probably not. color Is it breaking security to reveal the operations of the agencies you were involved in? Especially a project unofficailly acknowledged as aliens/ufos are. Did you recieve the go ahead from them to talk? Dan In the book I explain the different levels of the classified "onion". There are many levels, the black one is the one that I have to be careful about not revealing any info. Unfortunately, they were almost all involved with the black projects. It makes it hard to talk about agencies. Raine, I must draw this to a close. Dave_UFO Dan what of the future. You are working, there is your book and you are doing the lecture circuits. What else does the future hold for you? Dan As everyone may know I have written a book about the experience. More info about getting it can be seen at the website. I will be a featured speaker at the International UFO Congress Conference in Laughlin NV which will be held starting tomorrow and going until the 7th of Feb. There will be many more things happening, including a movie that may be produced. Stay tuned. Raine I would just like to thank Dan Sherman for coming here tonight and sharing some of his valuable time with us and wish him all the best for the future. Crow Thanks for sharing your time with us all Dan. Dan Thanks for your time and everyone else. I look forward to hearing your comments about the book. Just that I thank everyone for attending. Don't automatically dismiss unusual events ro experiences coming from ex-military people. They may be the part of the big story that is missing. Keep your eyes and ears open. Crow Don't forget all Dans website is: http://www.aboveblack.com |
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[UK 1]****** | From: Howpark Howpark@aol.com Date: Friday 5th December 1997 Sighting in Wolverhampton My partner was coming back from a meeting at about midnight on 5th December (last night) when she saw what she at first thought was a barn owl flying past the car (this is Wolverhampton) but she then saw what she says was like five small plates grouped together but moving around very fast as if they were logging her movements. They were at about tree height but were not lights. They did not shine very much except with a sort of translucent light and there was no noise. She went into the house and when she looked out of the window they were gone. She is a complete sceptic and is not fan of sci-fi and she is unusually disturbed by this. Has anyone seen anything similar? Howard Parker [UK 2]****** Source: Sunday Magazine Publish Date: 30th November 1997 From: Calb1701 Calb1701@aol.com UFOs OR FAKES? YOU DECIDE Is there life beyond Earth? These new exclusive pictures of these UFO sightings in the UK were caught on camera and video by Sunday readers. Nick Fiace asked Nick Pope, a Ministry of defence expert and the author of the best seller Open Skies, Closed Minds, to give his verdict on the evidence. Now make up your own minds. I BELIEVE IN ALIENS! AND THIS IS THE FINAL PROOF Sci-fi freak Marcel Riddell could hardly believe his luck four months ago when his sister Ruth pointed excitedly through her bedroom window. In the sky above a neighbour's house, there was the classic UFO hovering. The 14-year-old snatched his sister's camera and began to fire off shots. This photograph was taken on her Hanimex camera, bought by their father Alan at a car boot sale for $4. He pressed the button twice but when Marcel went to take a third photograph the UFO had disappeared. Marcel whose from Dersingham in Norfolk, says: "It's the first UFO I've ever seen. It's marvellous, now I really believe they exist and there is life on other planets. Sadly, only Ruth and I saw it, even though it was there or a time. I believe UFOs come from outer space and are operated by people, not necessarily humans, who are much cleverer and more advanced than us. There are secret bases in the desert where this sort of thing is all worked out. I believe if UFOs landed whatever was inside the craft wouldn't want to harm us. But they might do experiments on humans to see what we are like and find out what makes us tick. When I told my friends, they didn't believe me. But when I showed them the photos, they had to take it as proof." Ruth who's 11, says: "I believe in UFOs. I've always been interested in them and I always asked about them but nobody could tell me very much. This is the final proof I needed." Marcel's 51-year-old farther Alan, who works in the village shop says: "My son has never told me a lie, and so if he says it is a UFO in the picture then I believe him. I have asked Marcel over and over again about it and he swears to me that this is no hoax." Nick Pope's verdict: "The photo appears to show a structured craft and it's one of the most interesting photos I've seen of late. It should be subjected to a full study at a photographic lab." IT STOOD STILL - THEN VANISHED IN A FLASH As bar manager Derek Davis relaxed during a work break, his boss Gordon Wilson pointed to a bright light, which had been hovering in the night shy for 10 minutes. Derek had been to busy watching TV and eating a snack in the room above the bar where he worked to spot the unexplained object. Gordon, co-owner of Dream Bar in Edinburgh, cried out: "Derek, there's a light in the sky that isn't moving." Derek, 26 and pictured right, recalls that the sighting was at about 10.30pm on August 15 this year. "Gordon happened to have his camcorder with him and he pointed it at the light. It was stationary and then vanished in the blink of am eye. "The light reappeared later and there was a red glow in front of the cloud cover. To the naked eye, the shape appeared as a ball of light from a distance." But when Gordon zoomed in on it with his camcorder, it revealed a spinning spiral, which was hovering, in the shy about two miles away. At first, I thought maybe it was a helicopter but it wasn't like any helicopter or aeroplane I had seen before. I'm quite open-minded about calling it a natural phenomenon. I believe that there are things in the sky we don't see everyday, but I'm not going to say I believe in alien life forms. Still, it was exciting and it makes you think." Nick Pope's verdict: "Sometimes when you zoom in, you get an image on the camcorder lens that regulates the light hovering or flying towards their field of view." DID OUR SECURITY CAMERA FILM A VISITOR FROM SPACE? When William Cox turned up for work, he was greeted by an excited security guard who had shot some remarkable footage an hour earlier in the sky. William, who worked for the electricity board, watched stunned with tape of a hovering disc-shaped object. The security guard had spotted the UFO at 6pm on September 12, 1993, in the Worsley area of Manchester. He decided to focus one of the outside security cameras on it and zoom in. William, a 47-year-old farther of one from Wigan, says: "I'd never seen a UFO before except on TV. When he showed me the film, I thought, 'What the hell is it?' I was shocked and stunned. |The guards were excited because they didn't know what it was. The security guard saw it travel across the skyline and when he turned the camera on it, it stopped in mid-air. It was there for about four minutes and then he said it just vanished suddenly." The UFO first appeared as a ball of light. But when the camera panned in on it, the shape rushed quickly towards the lens, before darting away and coming back again. The camera close-up revealed a circular light with a dark line shifting across the centre of it. It was just like a bright light in the sky, and it was only when he zoomed in with the camera that he saw the actual shape," says William. "His colleague confirmed everything. They called me and a couple of managers in and we all huddled in a cabin to watch it. There was quite a bit of excitement at the time. We reported it to the police and Manchester Airport but they were told there was nothing in the area at the time. It seemed strange to me, but our management decided there was no further action we could take." William says the sighting was a one-off and nothing had been seen in the area before or since. "We were more amazed than anything." He says. "You hear of these things and you see pictures on the television, but when it happens near your workplace, it makes you think. Perhaps there is something out there after all." Nick Pope's verdict: "Again, I think this is the consequence of zooming in and out. There's a possibility that the light could have been Venus viewed from an exceptionally bright magnitude." [UK 3]****** Source: Daily Telegraph newspaper Publish Date: Monday 8th December 1997 From: Crow & Raine Cornwall prepares for a total eclipse Sean O'Neill talks to the council officer who will keep disaster at bay when the lights go out. ASTRONOMERS will tell you that it is unmissable, something worth travelling thousands of miles to see. A total solar eclipse of the kind which will be visible from Cornwall on the morning of Aug 11,1999, is a once in a lifetime event: midnight darkness in the middle of a summer day. There has not been a total eclipse visible from the mainland since June 1927; there will not be another until September 2090. The centre line of the 1999 eclipse, along which totality will last for two minutes six seconds, finds land near St Just, runs eastward through Falmouth and on towards Europe. Half a million are expected to travel to see it, adding to the half a million visitors who will already be in Cornwall at the height of the holiday season. Whatever the astronomers say, the Cornish will tell you it is a recipe for disaster. Expect 30-mile traffic jams, no hotel beds, overpriced fast food and mountains of rubbish. An Eclipse Summit is being held in Truro this week at which scientists, planners, police, firemen, health officials, transport chiefs and other interested parties will try to bring order to the expected mayhem. Steve Winston, Cornwall's emergency planning officer, likens the task to waiting for a meteorite to hit. "The eclipse itself will do no harm, but the people who come to see it could cause great damage," said Mr Winston. "Off-the- wall planning is what we do in this department, dealing with catastrophe. This might not be a catastrophe, but it could be in that league." Without a cash injection from Government, the eclipse could create a financial crisis for Cornwall. It will place a massive strain on local resources and produce little in return. Cornwall's biggest gripe is that the eclipse will happen when the tourist season is at its peak. The county's hotels, campsites, beaches and bars will already be full. "At that time of year we normally expect to double the population of the county," said Mr Winston. "We expect accommodation problems. I know some hotels took bookings from astronomers as long as seven years ago." Many are already fully booked for eclipse week. Mr Winston lists a myriad of other problems: Can archaeological sites be protected against New Age eclipse rituals? How will ambulances get along congested roads to reach the injured? And can he be sure everyone will heed the safety warnings not to look directly at the eclipse with the naked eye? "We have to strike the balance between making sure people get the maximum from viewing the eclipse and preventing them from doing themselves permanent eye damage," he said. Despite the preparations, there is one problem beyond any planner's control. Should it rain or cloud over, as if often does in Cornwall in August, there will be nothing worth seeing. "In which case," sighed Mr Winston, "we will have half a million very fed up people on our hands." UK.UFO.NW says: We will be there to witness this and will bring you a full report and photographs late in 1999. [UK 4]****** Source: Leicester Mercury newspaper Publish Date: 23rd December 1997 From: Calb1701 Calb1701@aol.com Strange case of the A46 UFO remains a mystery What did all these people see in the sky? UFO Investigator Kirk Hargrave-Parsons likes to keep an open mind. "If something is not fully and properly explained beyond a shadow of a doubt then every explanation is true and every explanation is also untrue." He set up the Charnwood UFO Research Group (CUFORG) a number of years ago after a fascination that has been going on "since I could read." The biggest mystery to date came early on in its history. It started in East Stafford-shire and moved into Leicestershire and then Rutland. "We had 30 reliable sightings including policemen, school dinner ladies, teachers, and we investigated it thoroughly. We still don't know what it was. "The Ministry of Defence said it was nothing to do with them and East Midlands Air-port didn't pick anything up." One school of thought was bat it was a military aircraft. "Someone tried taking a picture but all they got was a black photograph," said Kirk. It was first sighted by two teenage boys in Burton-on--Trent. Red light They described a diamond shaped formation of white sights with a single red light in the centre, which moved steadily and was accompanied by a faint electrical humming or whining. both boys said the lights appeared to be on the under-side of a flattish craft. When investigators drew a blank they appealed in local papers and were inundated with similar tales of clusters of lights. A group of students travelling on the A46 towards Leicester claimed to see a cluster of tights moving over Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake towards South Croxton and Lowesby. And a man, who only identified himself as Jim X, who aid he was carrying out illegal metal-detecting at Sauvey Castle near Owston, on the sight, wrote that his detector consistently malfunctioned and of the atmosphere becoming- heavy and oppressive. He said that he flashed his torch into the sky a few times and claims to have received answering flashes. He then realised his torch- beam was reflecting back off a large metallic craft. He panicked and ran. GUFORG concluded all the evidence pointed to a strange craft flying around the East Midlands. It was probably dark grey, flattish and roughly oblong with a pointed or tapered front end. Kirk said: "We like to get there as soon as possible and interview witnesses face to face, you can find out an awful lot by watching their body language, and it is a chance to see where the sighting took place." No stone is left unturned in their efforts to uncover if we are not alone. They check Ordnance Survey maps, where the object came from, the direction it went to, then they contact airfields and Leicester Astronomical. Society and even BR. Some mysterious sightings turn out to have quite comical explanations. Kirk recalled one man who had recently moved home who spoke of regularly seeing lights moving quickly outside his home. What he hadn't realised was his new home was close to a railway line. Hoax "We try to eliminate as many possible reasons for a UFO as we can and in 99 out of 100 we find the UFO is of a fairly mundane origin or a hoax." And believe it or not there are usually a glut of calls around November 5. "1 would hope they were joking, but we get calls from people saying there were bright lights suddenly disappearing after a loud bang." But then there are the one per cent of cases where there is no rational expla nation... Venus may be that UFO VENUS can account for a large number of so-called UFO sightings. Dr Martin Barstow, Leicester University lecturer in physics and astronomy. believes people are genuinely mistaken when there is an obvious explanation. "I don't believe UFOs exist, I have never seen any good evidence "As scientists we are here to try to prove things, it is easy to prove something exists once you find it, but trying to prove something doesn't exist is very difficult. "As part of a research programme in the States we were flying rockets and nearly every time we got about 100 reports of UFOs. "It gives you an idea of how bright things affects people's perception of what is going on." He said that Venus, currently visible in the night sky as a bright light, was one of the most commonly mistaken lights in the sky. "If you are moving around or driving it will seem that Venus is following you and moving very quickly. Because it is faraway it tricks your brain and you lose all sense of perspective and you get this optical illusion," added Dr Barstow. Helicopters displaying lights may often produce the same results. [UK 5]****** Scientists listen intently for ET British scientists are to help American experts search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire are to take part in a project linking two of the world's biggest radio telescopes. The 250ft Lovell Telescope, which is operated by the University of Manchester, will provide support to the vast 1,000ft telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico. It is hoped the project will start next month. Over a 10-year period, the two instruments will listen for artificial radio messages which could signify an attempt at communication by an alien civilisation. The telescopes can pick up radio waves within a range of 150 light years from the Earth. They will be focusing on the parts of space where 2,000 stars similar to our sun are located. The programme is a turning point for the American organisation dedicated to discovering whether or not we really are alone in the universe. The SETI Institute (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) currently operates a relatively small 140ft radio telescope at Greenbank, West Virginia. Later this year the the institute will switch to using the telescope in Puerto Rico. At 1000ft in diameter it is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. How will it work? The telescope at Arecibo is built in the natural hollow of a mountain and uses the rotation of the Earth to scan the sky. Jodrell Bank's role will be to confirm any likely candidates for extraterrestrial messages and help locate their source. Using two telescopes at different points on the Earth will also reduce ground-based interference and enable the astronomers to locate the source of a signal much more accurately. SETI's space scanning programme, Project Phoenix, was launched in the 1970's. Dr Richard Davis, senior lecturer in physics and astronomy at Manchester University, said: "People often wonder why SETI hasn't been successful so far, but a serious search has not been made to date. "This is the first time we've had a system that's really up to the job. If there are any transmissions out there, we'll find them." Scientists hope the Lovell telescope can be devoted to SETI for at least one month a year. "Crossing the threshold" Dr Seth Shostak, from the SETI Institute, said he expected to find clear evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence in the next 10 to 15 years. "It seems not unreasonable to think we may now be crossing the threshold," he said. Dr Shostak said the best hope of success was to find a message that was sent to Earth by aliens who intended it to be discovered. Other ET broadcasts might well be completely unintelligible to humans. Dr Davis is a little less confident than his American colleague about locating a signal. "Hand on heart, we don't know if we'll be successful. The chances are that something like 100th of the star systems out there will have planets like the Earth. I'm keeping an open mind." |
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[W 1]****** | Source: Daily Mail newspaper Publish Date: Thursday 8th January 1998 From: Crow & Raine Are aliens being cut off by gas in the galaxy? IF little green men really are trying to call Earth, they may be having problems getting through. According to a new theory from astronomers, signals from alien civilisations to mankind are likely to be disrupted by vast clouds of gas, deep in the heart of space. If the theory is right, we may have already been contacted by extra terrestrials - but failed to recognise the message. Every year, intriguing radio signals are picked up by U.S. scientists working for SETI - the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. But because the signals have been fleeting, and have never been repeated, they have been put down to random noise from space or glitches in the equipment rather than calls from another civilisation. Now some of the most respected astronomers in America say those brief messages might herald tantalising clues about deep space. Few radio signals picked up by SETI have even lasted more than 20 or 30 seconds, supporting the old random origins theory. But a new academic paper says the signals may be distorted by electrically charged gas between the stars. This could alter a reading by 20 times, either boosting it or reducing it. That means scientists wouid have to search a patch of sky tens of thousands of times before they had a chance of recording a repeat signal, whatever its origins. According to Joseph Lazio, one of the paper's authors, current SETI data is inconclusive. 'It's compatible with both zero and tens of thousands of ET civilisations,' he sald. 'Many more observations are needed before we can say anything concrete.' [W 2]****** Source: Philip Mantle (BUFORA) e-mail: Philip Mantle el51@dial.pipex.com Date: 8th December 1997 Philip Corso & the alien autopsy I don't know what to make of Colonel Philip J.Corso and his book 'The Day After Roswell', but Corso was recently interviewed in the UK-based magazine 'The X-Factor' (issue 25). One question put to Corso was: Have you seen the Roswell autopsy video ? I saw the Roswell footage and I saw some things in it that nobody could have known about, so maybe that gives it authenticity, I don't know. I lean towards the opinion that it is authentic, but I can't really tell you that I'm 100 per cent sure. What this says about Corso and Ray Santilli's film I'm not sure. Any comments ? Philip Mantle. [W 3]****** From: Joseph Polanik jpolanik@mindspring.com Date: 9th December 1997 UK.UFO.NW Dave says: I read the below report from Joseph with great interest as I have experienced sleep paralysis myself, although I have to say Alien's and UFOs were not involved. Sleep Paralysis - Frequently asked questions Skeptics often use 'sleep paralysis' to explain (or explain away) Alien Abductions, Old Hag Attacks and other paranormal phenomena. How realistic is this? Q. What is Sleep Paralysis? During REM-sleep [Rapid-Eye Movement or dream sleep], the brain sends out a signal immobilizing the body so that we do not act out our dreams. That is sleep paralysis. Everyone experiences it several times a night, whenever they enter a period of REM sleep, about every 90 minutes. Q. Well, okay, but we're usually not aware of all these episodes of sleep paralysis. Precisely! It's the presence of *Awareness* during Sleep Paralysis [ASP] that makes a difference. Q. ASP? Could you be a little more specific? Have you ever found yourself lying fully conscious or in a dreamlike state, unable to move or cry out, while perhaps experiencing auditory or visual phenomena? If so, you have experienced Awareness during Sleep Paralysis [ASP]. ASP experiencers often feel intense fear and may even believe that they are dying. Experiencers often sense the presence of an unseen, malevolent being. An episode of ASP can occur while the body sleeps in any position, but it is much more likely while sleeping on one's back. Often experiencers feel the pressure of a crushing weight on their chest as if being pushed downward into the bed. A few sense a what seems to be a phantom being sitting on their chest. They may be unable to feel the breathing process continue, but those who see their chest can see it continue to inhale and exhale --- they just don't feel it as the body has gone to sleep while the consciousness remains alert despite reduced sensory input from the body. Q. How can Sleep Paralysis be used to explain Alien Abductions, Old Hag Attacks and other paranormal experiences? Sleep Paralysis *can't* explain any of these or other anomalous experiences. Since everyone experiences sleep paralysis, it does not differentiate between those who report Alien Abductions Experiences, Old Hag Attacks, Incubi/Succubi Visitations, Lucid Dream Events or Out-of-Body Experiences, and those who don't report these unusual experiences. What *does* differentiate between experiencers and non-experiencers is that experiencers report Awareness during Sleep Paralysis. Q. How does this make a difference? Someone for whom the Awareness is more immediate, more significant, than the feelings of bodily immobility may take control of the situation and aim for a more positive outcome. The experience of bodily immobility may become a gateway to a lucid dream or out-of-body experience. Q. What about people who believe they are being abducted by aliens? How do they turn the situation toward a more positive outcome? Abduction researcher, Ann Druffel, found numerous abductees who warded off an impending abduction or aborted an abduction in the early stages. Interestingly enough, the techniques these abductees used are the same as those used by others to ward off visitations by entities not perceived as being aliens but as demons, the old hag or whatever. Q. What are these techniques? They range from attempting to move a finger or a toe (in order to end the paralysis and, hence, the experience), to invoking the name of a spiritual entity. Q. How can I learn more? A lengthy file on the subject of responding constructively when Aware during and episode of Sleep Paralysis, Respond.txt, is available from ASP-L, the Awareness during Sleep Paralysis mailing list. To obtain the file send an email msg with the command 'Get-Respond.txt' (without quotes, but with the file extension) in the SUBJECT: field to: --- ASP-L is a mailing list for the discussion of Awareness during Sleep Paralysis [ASP] and experiences with which it has been associated: Lucid Dreaming, Out-of-Body Experiencing, Alien Abductions, Old Hag Attacks and Supernatural assaults such as the Incubus/Succubus assault. To subscribe to the list, send the word "Subscribe" (without quotes) in the SUBJECT: field of your msg to: nightflyer@mindspring.com ASP-L is a service of the Trionic Research Institute, http://www.trionica.com Joseph Polanik List Moderator [W 4]****** Source: Las Vegas Sun Publish Date: 8th January 1998 Toxic data at Area 51 ruled confidential By Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO - An attempt to pry loose information about alleged toxic waste burning at a secret Air Force site in the Nevada desert - said to be the "Area 51" of extraterrestrial lore - hit a stone wall of secrecy in a federal appeals court Thursday. Lawyers for five current and former workers at the base, and the widows of two workers allegedly killed by toxic wastes, are not entitled to learn whether hazardous substances exist there or how they are handled, the results of a federal toxics inspection or even the name of the base, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. The 3-0 ruling upheld the Air Force's claim that giving out that information could endanger national security and a 1995 order by President Clinton further restricting disclosure. Before arguments in the case last November, the judges reviewed confidential government statements, while Air Force security officers guarded their conference room. Besides the classified statements, the court cited an unclassified filing by Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall, who said information about certain chemicals in the soil or water "can reveal military operational capabilities or the nature and scope of classified operations." The court, in an opinion by Judge Pamela Rymer, said the disclosure of even "seemingly innocuous information" can be barred if it is part of a "mosaic" of classified information. "The court cannot order the government to disentangle this information from other classified information," Rymer said. She said the court was persuaded not only that the information was properly withheld, but also that "any further proceeding in this matter would jeopardize national security." Jonathan Turley, a Georgetown law professor who represented the workers, said the ruling "sets an extremely dangerous precedent" for anyone seeking information from the military. "This case has nothing to do with national security," he said. "I obviously know what happened at Area 51. My (clients) worked at Area 51. ...This case has to do with criminal violations" of hazardous waste laws. He said he would seek a rehearing from the entire court and, if unsuccessful, appeal to the Supreme Court. But Turley said the two lawsuits have also accomplished an important goal: forcing the government to acknowledge the site and conduct a toxics inspection, although results of the inspection were not made public. Justice Department spokesman Joe Krovisky declined comment, saying government lawyers had not seen the ruling. Area 51, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, is a base where military aircraft such as the U-2 and Stealth fighter were tested. Its secrecy and remoteness have been prime fodder for UFO buffs, who link the site to the supposed crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell, N.M. - a scenario played out in the movie "Independence Day." In the current case, the government identified the site in question as "the operating location near Groom Lake" and denied it was Area 51. The court left the denial unchallenged after reviewing classified material. Turley scoffed at the denial, saying the name was verified in a government security manual as well as declarations from workers and security officials. The lawsuits said employees at the base routinely put hazardous chemicals in open 55-gallon drums and burned them. The suits said the exposure killed two workers, Walter Kasza, 73, and Robert Frost, 57, whose widows Turley represents, and injured the other plaintiffs. Turley said Frost, before his death, lost a workers' compensation claim for his injuries, and Kasza never filed one. The workers sought no damages but requested a court finding that the Air Force stored toxic wastes without a permit, and orders forbidding transportation and burning of toxics. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro denied the requests but ruled that the results of an Environmental Protection Agency inspection of the site, conducted in response to one suit, would have to be made public unless Clinton intervened. The president then barred disclosure under a law that lets him exempt any federal facility from requirements of a federal toxic cleanup law. The government appealed Pro's ruling, saying the report should have been declared secret under national security without the president's intervention, which must be renewed annually. The court declined to decide the issue, saying it was no longer a live controversy because of Clinton's action. Rymer's opinion denying disclosure and ordering dismissal of the case was joined by Judge Harlington Wood of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, temporarily assigned to the panel. In a separate opinion, Judge A. Wallace Tashima said secrecy was proper but should require a presidential order rather than a subordinate's declaration of national security. The case is Kasza vs. Browner, 96-15535. [W 5]****** Source: alt.alien.visitors" Date: 14th January 1998 From: bernhard.nahrgang@ob.kamp.net (Bernhard Nahrgang) Transmit An ET-mail Into Space Email ET only at the Alien Contact Network For a limited time we are offering the users of this newsgroup the opportunity to transmit an ET-mail (for free) into space using our very powerful 12Kw 2meter transceivers. The signal is relayed by at least four other high power radio stations in a 50 mile radius. If they are out there, they will hear us. We also listen 24Hrs. This is a genuine World's First !! Let's see how soon we get shut down.. http://www.alien-contact.net Any other 2m radio stations out there who want to join the fun please email webmaster@alien-contact.net uk.ufo.nw says: At the time of publishing we have not visited this site but would be interested to hear from anyone who has. [W 6]****** From: Mark Lee Center enzoab@ix.netcom.com Date: Saturday 17th January 1998 MEXICO CITY UFO VIDEO WILL AIR IN MARCH Another major special, this time on the UPN network, will feature the already-famous daylight UFO videotape shot over Mexico City on August 6, 1997. Though stills from the video and a quick-time version have been posted on the web, this UPN special, scheduled for Wednesday, March 11, will provide the first opportunity for most Americans to learn about this Mexico City event. Posted promo on the show reads as follows: "From executive producers Henry Winkler and Ann Daniel ("Sightings"), this riveting one-hour special centers around never-before-seen video footage of a recent UFO sighting in Mexico City, and explores the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects while examining other recent, mysterious observations in the night sky. Stephen Kroopnick is the co-executive producer. The special is produced by Fair Dinkum and Ann Daniel in association with Paramount Network Television." Since the UFO video was released to Paramount by famed Mexican newsman Jaime Maussan, CNI News expects the TV special will also include excerpts from Maussan's videotaped interviews with Mexico City eyewitnesses who saw the August 6 UFO. This should be a good program. The special, titled "UFO Sighting!" airs Wednesday, March 11 at 9pm Eastern time. Check your local listings. [W 7]****** Source: QVC Inc Date: February 3rd 1998 edited for length: Mir Cosmonauts to appear live on QVC Company press release Live From Outer Space: MIR Cosmonauts To Appear On The First Intergalactic Edition Of QVC's "First Friday: Extreme Shopping" - MIR Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin also Scheduled to appear from NYC's 'Catch a Rising Star' airs Friday Night, February 6th from 1 am - 2 am (ET) Somewhere in Outer Space -- QVC will take shopping to new heights as it welcomes Russian cosmonauts, live via satellite from the MIR Space Station, to take a break from their navigational duties and join the party at ``First Friday: Extreme Shopping.'' The February edition of QVC's late-night series will focus on out-of-this-world treasures including Mars rocks, meteorites, space uniforms and the famed ``astronaut'' space pens. This special ``Extreme Space'' edition will air live from legendary Catch a Rising Star comedy club in New York City on Friday, February 6th from 1:00 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT - 2:00 a.m.ET/11 p.m. PT. Russian Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin, flight engineer on last summer's historic edge-of-your-seat MIR mission, will also share his harrowing adventures with QVC viewers. Lazutkin will appear live on the telecast from the Catch a Rising Star comedy club in New York City along with five rising young comics whose spacey observations will provide comic relief. ``QVC not only scours the planet, it scours the universe in its search for unique products,'' said Fred Siegel, senior vice president of marketing for QVC. ``In the true spirit of interplanetary detente, we are delighted that the Russian space agency has accepted QVC's invitation to 'go live' from the MIR.'' MIR Cosmonauts will demonstrate the uses and features of the Fisher Space Pen, the only pen to write in the gravity- free void, freezing cold (-50 F) and extreme heat (+250 F) of space. Since 1967, astronauts on manned space flights, including the moon, have used the Fisher Space Pen, with its sealed pressurized ink cartridge, to write at any angle, even upside down. For viewers looking for a more complete space experience or just unique evening attire, QVC will make the Sokol KV- 2 Pressure space suit available. The standard launch and reentry suit is used by all cosmonauts and worn by American astronauts for emergency reentry from the MIR Space Station. The suit weights approximately 22 lbs., includes a pressurized hood and is complete with boots, gloves plus all fittings. QVC will make three suits available for $25,000 each. Straight out of the heavens, viewers will also have an opportunity to buy meteorites and chunks of Mars. A limited amount of meteorites from Earth's most recent meteorite shower will be available, which occurred in China on February 15, 1997 (Valentine's Day in the U.S.). Many Chinese believed the shower foreshadowed the death of Communist Party Leader Deng Xiaoping. Three meteorites of three inches in diameter will be on sale for $2,500 each and twelve smaller meteorites measuring one and one-half inches will be sold for $850 each. |
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UK.UFO.NW have received a mail in confidence requesting that we ask
if any of you out there know of a Roman Catholic priest, English
speaking and preferably resident in the United Kingdom who
specialises in counselling Roman Catholics who have experienced
abductions. | If you are able to help with any information please mail us here at: ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk In the subject area please put: ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST --- From: Tim Nightingale tim.nightingale@virgin.net Date: Saturday 31st January 1998 Any East Anglia UFO groups I'm interested in joining a UFO interest group in East Anglia. Are there any such groups. If so could you provide me with a phone number or e-mail address? Thanks in advance, Tim Nightingale |
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January 1997 | (UK) - Police baffled by massive explosion which rocks a Midland Housing estate. Local BBC news reported it as either a sonic boom or an unknown phenomenon. (UK) - Ministry of Defence scientists blow up a Boeing 747 in an attempt to find a bomb-proof passenger jet. (UK) - More than 200 giant asteroids all at least two-thirds of a mile wide could be heading towards the Earth's orbit. The asteroids broke away from two giant clusters which follow Jupiter's orbit around the sun. (Tel Aviv) - Israel's Channel Two TV, stationed crews across the country on Sunday night to capture any arrivals. Predicted by mystic Helinor Harar who grabbed the spotlight with her extraterrestrial News Years forecast. (Italy) - Italy indulged in a bout of UFO fever on Tuesday after witnesses reported seeing a strange green light flash through the evening sky near Rome's main airport. It did not show on radar. (Java) - According to tests on fossils found, not one but three different human species co-existed on Earth around 35,000 years ago. In other words, homo erectus survived for 250,000 years longer than anyone thought. (US) - Astronauts building an international space station high above the Earth are to be protected by a massive ray gun. It is not that they fear an attack by aliens, but rather space junk from screwdrivers to asteroids. (UK) - A photograph of a mysterious triangular-shaped object taken by a landscape photographer is being treated by UFO experts as proof that Britain is secretly developing a stealth-type warplane that is light years head of the opposition. (US) - The US Air Force became the latest victim of a series of hacking attacks on government computers last week. Its home page was covered in obscenities and bizarre allegations of alien landings. (Paris) - (Reuter) PARIS - Earthlings will get a chance to send messages to space aliens this year on a rocket bound for Saturn's biggest moon, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday. |
| A Fearful Symmetry - Part 9 |
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A FEARFUL SYMMETRY | A TRUE STORY OF ALIEN INTRUSION INTO HUMAN LIVES By D. Lynne Bishop A FEARFUL SYMMETRY Copyright 1995 by D. Lynne Bishop All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages. First Printing September 1995 Printed in the United States of America BOOKFINDER PUBLISHING http://bookfinder.simplenet.com/ Lynne Bishop's home page http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3862/ --- CHAPTER 10 The next several days following the Midwest UFO Conference were quiet and uneventful. Each of us digested the information we had obtained--and I realized that, like an appetizer, the Conference had only taken the edge off my hunger for knowledge. I had been introduced to vast new expanses of space and time, and with each flight, my horizons were expanding. I could see no end in sight, and I was aware of how infinitesimal a speck I was in the universe I had, willingly or unwillingly, become a part of. On September 26, my husband and I visited with some friends in a neighboring town. We had been close friends for several years, and because they knew us so well, my mood swings had been apparent to them. I had been unwilling, in the beginning, to tell them what was causing the moods, but had finally thrown chance to the wind and blurted the story to them--warts and all--so the topic of UFO phenomenon had become common. My husband and Jack never miss an opportunity to get together to pursue their favorite pastime of playing with and talking about computers. This night was no different, and Mary and I sat on the couch, trying to tune our husbands out. We had watched television off and on most of the evening. It was a warm, Indian-summer night, and the windows were down, letting in the faint breeze. During a lull in the conversation, we heard a distinctive click, and the lights dimmed as the power fluctuated, and a surge protector connected to their computer shut off. We noticed it was around 8:30 P.M. My husband and I laughed, telling our friends that the power at our house fluctuated constantly. They replied that they very rarely had brownouts. We forgot about the incident and continued our visit, while my husband and Jack continued talking about the latest advancements and updates in computer software. Mary and I have a tendency to doze off when they get started using "computerese" language, so we were startled by the next power drain that occurred about 9:30 P.M. This was beginning to seem a little odd, but still fell within the purview of a normal happening. When the third, and final outage struck at 10:30 P.M., we were really mystified, and our hackles were rising. This just couldn't be a normal occurrence! Nothing further happened to alarm us, and my husband and I said our farewells at 11:30 that night. Jack and Mary followed us outside, as we walked toward our car. I had just opened the car door on the passenger side, when Jack exclaimed, "Look at that strange light!" Following his gaze, we all turned toward the northern sky. There in front of us was an orange-red sphere, floating silently in space. There were no strobe lights and no other color, other than the single orange glow. Its movement was eerie--it seemed weightless. I gulped as I stared at it in fascinated, rapt attention. With a recognition born of sightings twenty years in the past, I knew this was the same disc I had watched as a teenager. Mary said, "That's the same thing I used to see when I was around eleven or twelve years old!" I stared at her in amazement. Jack ran back inside to get the binoculars, and the rest of us continued watching the object, as it moved between the constellations of Cassiopeia and The Big Dipper. The sky was clear with no overcast and no moon, and our vision was impeded only by some large trees in the distance. Only a few seconds passed, before he returned with two pairs of binoculars. We progressed on down their driveway, as we attempted to keep the glowing object in sight. The sharp gravel suddenly reminded Jack that he had no shoes on, so he returned to the house again. As he returned for the second time, the orange "light" had passed on out of view behind the range of trees. The entire sighting had probably only lasted between two and three minutes. We all walked back down the driveway toward our car, talking excitedly about what we'd just seen. Speculation was running rampant for a few seconds--could this be a true UFO? There were no red, white or green lights on the object. It had been just the one solid, steady orange glow. There were no strobes that would be indicative of regular aircraft, so we were non-plussed. My husband and I got into our car and waved to Jack and Mary. During the drive home, I scanned the sky frequently, hoping beyond hope that it would show up again, but it remained an elusive enigma. During the next few days, my husband and I settled back into our regular work routine. I seemed to have reached a plateau in my search for answers to the alien abduction phenomenon. The fence I was straddling had become familiar, if not comfortable, and I wasn't sure there was an open avenue to follow. Throwing myself into my daily job seemed the best idea, so I began focusing my attention on more mundane matters. My husband and Jack planned to attend a computer seminar in St. Louis, Missouri on September 29, and for several days our energies were devoted toward preparation for the trip. Due to the distance involved (roughly a six-hour trip, one way), my husband would need to leave by 2:00 A.M. that morning. Having never needed an alarm clock, I awoke at 1:00 A.M. and told my husband it was time to get up. He mumbled something incoherent, and rolled over. I again tried to wake him up, and he growled at me. About that time, the alarm clock he had set went off--and he got up in a slight huff. I decided it was an excellent time to make him a cup of something with caffeine in it. I headed toward the kitchen and microwaved (technology is a wonderful thing!) a cup of tea for him, which he drank in a somewhat better humor. He finished dressing, and having forgiven me for waking him ten minutes early, gave me a cheerful goodbye as he headed out the door. I turned to retrace my steps to the bedroom, and noticed the digital clock in the living room. It was 2:01 A.M. Contemplating several more hours of restful sleep, I had no clue that all hell was about to break loose. My little half-breed mutt padded along behind me as I returned to the bedroom, her footfalls adding a syncopated beat to the heavier tread of my feet. She joined me on the bed, taking her usual, (but not favorite), location down at the foot of the bed. After some scrambling for position, she finally settled in, straddling my legs. I closed my eyes, but was restless--and my legs had a cramped feeling not related to the dog lying there. I shifted position a couple times, and finally came to rest in the center of the bed. It had turned off cool that night, and the dog seemed intent on sharing body heat, for she again plopped down on top of my feet. I closed my eyes, thoughts of the dog and my husband revolving through my consciousness. With no warning at all, I was suddenly and painfully jolted by a shock wave! In a panic, my thoughts screamed out, "It hurts! It hurts!" I had no idea what was happening to me. With a jolt beginning at my toes and working immediately up my body to my scalp, I was paralyzed. It was instantaneous and complete--there was not a hair on my head capable of moving. I lay there, screaming in my mind, "What's going on? I can't move! It hurts!" As if wrapped in a blindingly bright, white cocoon, my only sensation was of light through my closed eyelids--yet there were no lights on in the bedroom. With a sickening lurch, I felt as if I had been upended, and slammed into the headboard of the bed. The motion continued into a twisting, spiraling, upward movement. Nauseated, I thought frantically, "Oh, God--don't let me throw up!" In horror, I realized I was spinning toward the ceiling. My eyes flew open for one brief moment, and I saw the ceiling fan and light only inches from my face. As I rapidly approached the ceiling, I closed my eyes again. Awaiting the inevitable pain of smashing into the ceiling, I was instead wiped out by the realization that I had passed through the ceiling and was continuing a twisting, turning motion upward--higher and higher into the night sky. There are moments in life that are transcendent--when a human being comes into contact with something so far beyond the pale, that he cannot survive the event without having been forever changed. This was my moment. My screaming thoughts became more coherent as the spinning slowly began to ebb, and my nausea lessened. My fear was overwhelming--I knew what had happened, but tried vainly to deny it. My consciousness swam in and out, and I blacked out. Upon regaining consciousness, I was lying prone on a hard, smooth surface. I sensed motion around me, and struggled against the invisible bonds that held me tightly in place. Nothing happened! Desperation set in, and I fought harder against the paralyzing grip that bound me--to no avail. The harder I struggled, the tighter the force became. I was tiring rapidly, and gaining nothing. With more guts than good sense, I decided to try something different. My proof of the entire alien phenomenon was here before me--if I would just take that chance. All I had to do was open my eyes and look. Such an easy thing . . . The decision to do just that was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Feeling like my eyelids were made of lead, I eased my eyes open a faint crack. "Oh, Goddamn--they're real!" I screamed in my mind. The gray-white, doe-eyed alien standing by my waist on the right-hand side flinched, as if a force had hit him. Panicked, I closed my eyes, fighting to regain some composure. Several minutes passed, and I reasoned, "I can't believe it, just because I saw one alien. I'm going to look again, and if it's still there, I'll know they are real." Summoning up every ounce of courage I possessed, I again opened my eyes. To my left, at about waist-level, was another gray-white alien. In the short moment before my consciousness faded, I was able to see that his head was flatter on top and he wore a white outfit, similar to a smock. As I stared directly into his Oriental dark-brown eyes, I was soothed by an intense wave of relaxation and peace. I knew this alien. He was my protector, my friend--my companion of past years, and guide for the years to come. With the cessation of fear and anxiety, I closed my eyes and drifted, his promise of, "No harm will come to you," ringing through my head. "Fingers!", I mentally screamed, as I came bolt alert, both eyes wide open and focused on the smaller, large-headed alien. With astonishing dexterity, the long fingers beat a rapid rhythm across my belly, from right to left. Having finished one circumference, they began again, in fast succession. Disgust and horror rose within me, completely stifling any thoughts of peace and goodwill. With each palpation, the clear, gelatinous goop adhering to its hand left a sticky, wet residue behind. Depression overcame my senses. I was completely impotent, at the whim and mercy of an entity that was not human. At that moment, I surrendered. I closed my eyes and went away mentally--away from a creature whose motivations I could not understand, and away from what it was doing to my body. My proof had been established on a conscious level, but I could not watch further. Some time passed, and I again became clearly aware of my surroundings. As my eyes blearily peered ahead, I saw a piece of striated tissue, red and black, lying near my feet. "Surgery," I thought dimly. Feeling woozy and anesthetized, I tried to make out features of the tissue, but could not identify it. With my head swimming, I sank again into oblivion. And awoke to find myself somewhere else. With my sense of hearing returning, but still paralyzed, I was being half-lifted, half-dragged through a room containing numerous small end-tables. These tables were stacked with odd equipment and books, and flanked the left-hand wall. As my unseen escort dragged me through the room toward a doorway, three men--dressed in black--watched impassively, no hint of emotion warming their cold features. Completely in my escort's power, I was dragged past these men into the room beyond, and dropped on the floor, like a piece of baggage. From my vantage point, I could barely discern the hint of a laboratory in the gleam of metallic equipment. I heard and saw what appeared to be a stream of water, running down a sluice. Clear at first, the water quickly turned a murky, dirty color, and strange clumps of a vaguely meat-like substance floated through. An apparatus with a suction-cup device attached to the end was lowered into this liquid, perhaps suctioning out the tissue. A salty, tangy smell assailed my nostrils, and I was momentarily nauseated again. The sound of a male voice drifted from behind, and a swarthy, middle-aged man entered my field of vision. As I gazed at him--thick black hair, full mustache, heavy jowls, possibly a Latino or of Mediterranean extraction--the hatred I felt for this man was a palpable force. I knew this man--knew I hated him. And I was in his power. Within seconds, a woman joined him. Also of dark complexion, she was a fitting companion for this man I detested. Her long, jet black hair was parted severely down the middle, and fell past her shoulders, flowing into the black dress she wore. She stood there arrogantly, as if daring me to recognize her. With a gut-wrenching sense of betrayal, I knew this woman had in the past been a trusted friend--and now knew her to be a traitor. The two conferred with each other briefly, and my still unseen escort roughly lifted me from the floor. Upon regaining an upright position, I realized I had some mobility, and the ability to speak was returning. As our strange group exited the laboratory and reentered the room with the end-tables, I purposefully gazed into the woman's face. "I will remember you. I will remember this!", I said to her with vengeance in my heart. Shock was evident in the startled glance she threw at me. Regaining her composure, she all but sneered, "No, you won't." With utter conviction, I replied, "Yes, I will!" We exited a very human-looking high-rise building, and the man and woman walked toward a very sleek, highly polished black car. My escort manhandled me into a nondescript black car, and got behind the wheel. As the couple drove by us, heading in the opposite direction, with a last defiant gesture, I stuck up the middle finger of my right hand. The look on the woman's face told me I had broken through her self-control. I had no time to congratulate myself--for quite suddenly I was lying on the table in the ship again. My silly, familiar, always-in-trouble dog was walking toward my face--and I suddenly thought of my brother's dachshund, its features appearing in my swirling, nebulous thoughts. My thoughts became less substantial, finally drifting away. At 4:00 A.M., with no transition from a sleep state to an awake state, I was back home, in bed. The dog was unusually quiet, and made none of her characteristic movements. I was scared to death and angry--and no longer straddling the fence. Alien abduction was a physical reality. |
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