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If you go down to the woods today.. . It is Britain’s most celebrated UFO encounter:the sighting in 1980 of’alien’ craft in a Suffolk forest. Now,it has been revealed that the Government tried to hush up the affair. So what, asks MARK LUCAS, really happened in the strange case ofthe Rendlesham Incident?

renda Butler paused at the barbed-wire fence separating us from the field where the spaceship had landed.It was 2am.In the gloom I could just see the outline of the 60-year-old grandmother and UFO expert as she watched her partner,Peter,disappear into the darkness. He had gone in search of Marek, another ofour party; who had stepped over the barrier and walked into the field a

minute earlier. Not longafterward,a lone figure loomed out of the darkness, stumbling over the ploughed earth towards us. Peter was back."It’s your mate," he whispered to me urgently. "He’s passed out."

Half a mile behind us, down the Forestry Commission logging-road known as track 10,was RAF Woodbridge. This smaIl Second World War airfield used by the US Air Force until 1993, hidden in the depths of Rendiesham Forest, in Suffolk, had been back in the news recently after two decades of with the release of the Ministry of Defence’s Rendlesham Files. Now available for public inspection, the files contain information about Britain’s most celebrated UFO sighting; their release was followed on Monday by the parliamentary ombudsman’s announcementthat the MoD had repeatedly suppressed information aboutwhat had happened in the forest.Particular secrecy has surrounded a "restricted file", the contents of which have been whispered about for years. Over. three nights around Christmas 1980, it is said, several spaceships visited the airbase after one of their number ran into trouble and had to stop and make repairs. What makes the Rendlesham Incident unique is the subsequently released memorandum from the base’s deputy commander,Lt corCharles to the Ministry of Defence. In the memo, Halt, who was later promoted to full described how two airmen,investigating strange lights in the forest)came across a "metallic,glowing object", which "manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared", whereupon the animals on a nearby farm went "into a frenzy". Two nights later, he reported,the object returned. Halt was out in the forest with a patrol when they sawa "red,sun-like object". After they had followed the light through the trees, it divided i11to five, and part of it "beamed down a stream of light from time to time". Here, at last, was the evidence thatthe ufologist commmty had been waiting for: official endorsementofan extraterrestrial encounter. On the third night, Halt made atape on his micro-cassette recorder, covering several hours on just less than 19 minutes of tape. The greater part is taken up by

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electrical equipment. In the last few minutes of the tape, at around 2am, the men start to see lights moving through the trees.Their initial composure suddenly gives way to breathless panic: "It’s coming this way. It’s definitely coming this way... There’s something very, very strange,"says the deputy commander at one At 3.15am,the light-show is still going on as Halt exclaims:"Herehe comesfrom the south! He’s coming in towards us now!" Right beside him, another officer says: "Shit!",and a moment later,beams oflight start hitting the ground around them. "This is unreal," Halt gasps.

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Almost 22 years have passed since the Rendlesham Incident,butthe enthusiasm ofufologists has only intensified in thattime, with one author caIling the area "BlackHole DIsneyland",Several books and hundreds ofwebsites about the events either confirm Rendlesham’s status in the international ufologist community as being second only to Roswell in importance, or debunk the notion that anything out ofthe ordinary pened at The first book to be published, entitled Skycrash, was co-written by my guide on the expedition into the forest, Brenda Butler, who has spent two or three nights a week outin Rendlesham Forest since the alleged landing. I had phoned Butler, who could hardly be described as a sceptic, in the hope of discovering more about this tantalising chapter in the history ofUFO sightings and official secrecy. But it soon became apparent thatI would need someone to show me the landmarks in the 3,500-acre forest, so I asked ifI could accompany her on one of her sky-watches. As their popularity had increased,she had had to divide the group into two parties that patrolled different

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lation," she said. One day she was sitting on top of it when she "lost" four hours, a phenomenon known as missing time. We turned down a side-track.After a hundred yards, Parish led the way into the undergrowth off to the sIde, and we scurried through, bent over.to avoid low branches, which we politely warned one another and only straightening up when we emerged into a clearing. JIThis",said Butler; "is Colonel Halt’s landing-place." We sat in silence, contemplating the events thattook place there more than two decades ago:Halt andhis fellow officers had been taking radiation readings and measuring imprints in the ground when they suddenly saw a bright light moving near "Whatcan you feel?" Butler asked. My new friend Sinski broke the silence. jlIt’s strong, isn’t it?" he said. Butler’s dog, Mason, began dashing around us, growling happily.."He always goes mad where there’s energy or there’s been contact," she remarked.(IOnseveral occasions he’s been chased by strange lights which engulf him." Her online journal goes into more detail: "Mason had disappeared for several minutes",it states,of one typical evening,"during the time when Brenda spoke in an unknown language.He returned covered in red, green and blue fibre-optic-type lights,and licked each person,still in the circle, by placing his paws on their shoulders." Leaving ColHalt’s place,we returned to the smallavenue,veering right toward track 12. As we walked in single file along the narrow pathway,I asked Butler about her life. She had been a shetold me, with her own circle, and had been involved "in a lot of things paranormal, ghosts, poltergeists" ever since being contacted by an alien named Ra when she was five. "I’ve been abducted on several occasions," she added.Her kidnappers,she had learnt since undergoing regressive hypnosis) were the "greys" ({classic" small allens. She now worked in a home forpeople with learning difficulties. We came out into a clearing at the edge of the forest and saw the flash of the Orfordness lighthouse on the horizon.

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areas ofRendlesham;shewashappyfor me to join hers. On the nIght we were due to I had been fortiJYing myself at a party when I ran into a hypnopsychotherapist, Marek Sinski. When the quietly intense 40year-old learnt of my plans, he expressed a strong desire to come along, too. We met Butler at midnight beside the barrier to track 10. Behind ’me was the perimeter fenceofthe airfield; the disused runway lights loomed into the night sky. Ahead,the logging-road stretched awaylike a canyon, with its black waIls of 70ft-tall Corsican pines. By the dull glow of a car’s interior I could make out the small, dark woman surrounded by three reguiars on her sky-watches Terry, Paul and Jonathan and her partner, Peter Parish. Her German shepherd,Mason, galloped around us, chasing his ball. As we set offdown track 10on Butler spoke, in her soft Suffolk accent, of some of the experiences she had had here, seeing glowing orbs and meeting extraterrestrials. "Lastyear, the yeti was down here," she said matter-of-factly, "looking very, very sad." The yeti, she explained, had followed the group on many occasions: "Wehad somepeople from BIackPool down here, and they also saw him. He freaked them out, actually." Butler indicated a drain cover to our right. "It leads to an underground instal- "This’is Larry Warren’s landing-place," Butler declared, Indicating a field. It was then that Sinski stepped over the barbed-wire fence and strode purposefully into the darkness.

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tiny ETs dressed in white jumpsuits!" she exclaimed."I’ve seen them myselfl" "Doyou ever worry thatpeople may think

over onto her partner,who collapsed on top "We have a of their companion, laugh with them," she said. At 3am,we returned to the Woodbridge runway lights at track 10. Leaving Butler deep in conversation about UFO organisations’ finances with the second group, which had appeared from track I,Sinski and I walked over to our cars, discussing the night’s events.There was a hesitancy in his manner, but finally he leant toward me: "Somethingvery important happened here touight,"he told me,though an explanation would have to wait until morning. Driving home, I pondered the various theories that had been used to explain the incidents,mostly bypeople who weren’t sent. Georgina Bruni, author of the most recent book about the events,You Carrt ThU the People,believes that there were three nights of activity, with a full-blown close encounter ofthe third kind.At the other end ofthe spectrum is Ian Ridpath,editor ofThe O:ifard Dictionary of Astronomy. In his view,excited airmen were merely chasing the beam ofthe Orfordness lighthouse,and the starlike objects of Halt’s memo "were just that - stars."

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you’re a bit strange?"I asked her. She cheerfully dismissed my suggestion. "Idon’t care what they think," she replied. "It’s better than sitting at home drinking coffee and watching television day in, day Butiflwas finding things weird,Sinski was taking to it all like a duck to water. When Butler’s partner came out of the field to tell us thatthe psychotherapist had passed out, ufologists were quickly dispatched to carry him back,but he returned with them on foot without saying a word, and in the awkwardness ofthe situation,we found ourselves moving on. As we struggled through a dense patch ofundergrowth,I recalled the 1956Incident in which up to 18objects apparently combined to form a single radar echo,which was then clocked, and wiinessed from the air and on land,doing roughly 12,OOOmph over the airbase and wondered why UFOs were rarely seen nowadays. ’’You’rejoking,aren’t you?"Butler asked, before telling me about her last sighting, ;:"!,,,,,:.-; less than three weeks previously. Unfortunately,her partner had turned his flashlight on the spaceship, and it had disappeared. "I won’t be doing that again," he told me,sheepishly. As we headed down track 12, Butier explained why she had had contact there. "There’s a portal," she said: "they come i! through on interdimensional energy." On occasion,the ETs had pulled her put things in her pockets and hit Parish on the back of the head. One night, the Dark Shadow pushed her backward,and she fell

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feature. given the black world equivalent of the bum’s rush: a shrug of the shoulders and a polite reminder that the interview was over. Three weeks later, and only after persistent questioning, I was told that the depiction on the chart was a mistake and that Astra was really a high-speed airliner project that had been studied in the Seventies and very quickly cancelled. My first reaction in the face of such obfuscation was to laugh. But the lingering effects of the black world are subtle and insidious. Occasionally, in the small hours of a sleepless night, I wonder whether I didn’t just imagine the whole thing. It is this fine line between fact and fiction, as well as dream and reality, that defines the character of the black world and gives it its ethereal shape. Unsurprisingly, it has given rise to a whole host of conspiracy theories over the years, ranging from Pentagon mindcontrol experiments to alien cadavers stored in freezers at secret locations across the country. While there seems to be no end of people, many of them weaned on Nineties X-Files culture, who accept these yarns at face value, the US defence and intelligence community is not beyond putting its own spin on them

missing and strange things Nick Cookfollowed a trail Or is it a UFO?

from time to time. Two years ago, the CIA admitted that it had encouraged reports of flying saucers in the Fifties and Sixties to obscure flight trials of its then top-secret U-2 and Blackbird spyplanes. The overall effect is undoubtedly the desired one: when you enter this environment, you step into a looking-glass world where down is up. As Aviation

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journey from Washington DC to a top-secret US Air Force base in Nevada that probably owes as much to Hunter S. Thompson as it does to Mulder and Scully. My journey began in Washington because although entry points into the black world labyrinth are few and far between, here as is the case almost everywhere in the world - money can open doors. In a bizarre contradiction that is so often a characteristic of the deeply classified environment, the most secret thing about it - the cash that is its lifeblood is calculable thankS to American government accountgood ing procedures. Every year, the Pentagon submits its fiscal request to Congress in the form of a number of budget books that itemise just about every nut and bolt of defence equipment the armed forces are likely to need over the coming 12 months. When you add up all the line items, however, the total does not match the grand total of the overall budget request, which today hovers around the $270 billion Subtract the total for the line items from the grand total and you find a discrepancy of around $35 billion. It is this sum that makes up the black budget and, to put the figures into perspective, it almost exactly equates to the total UK defence budget.

spending billions of dollars on a similar progr me that’s visible to the public;’ says Rohrabacher. A likely example of this duplication, he maintains, is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s X-33 programme. The X-33 is a demonstrator vehicle being built by Lockheed Martin for a satellite launcher that will take off like a rocket and land like a plane. If it works as advertised, its operating costs will be a fraction of the Space Shuttle’s, which it is due to replace. Last year, Rohrabacher wrote to Clinton requesting that the administration declassify secret projects that perpetuate this overlap in spending. The project which overlaps with the X-33, he believes, is "Aurora", a black programme of mythical proportions to a hard-core of "watchers" who scour budget books, as well as

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history is anything to go by, he may have a long wait. The trail now led west, to the vast expanses of Nevada and the mythical nexus of black world aerospace development the US Air Force’s Groom Lake testing facility, otherwise known as Area For the past 45 years, Area 51 has been a test centre for top-secret aircraft such as the U-2, the Blackbird and the Stealth Fighter. In more recent times, it has also become a mecca for UFO watchers who are convinced that the US Government’ is testing captured alien spacecraft there. One of the first individuals I met on the road to Area 51 was Bob Widmer, a former head of design at General Dynamics Convair, now in his eighties. In the late Fifties, Widmer worked on an extraordinary spyplane design for the ’CIA

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During the Cold War, there were few dissenting voices on Capitol Hill over the rationale for the black budget, but lately: more have been making themselves heard. This is in part because the size of the black budget, as a proportion of an overall defence budget that has been shrinking in real terms for over the past ten years, has been increasing under the Clinton administration. One of the more vociferous campaigners against blackbudget secrecy has been Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, Republican chair of the influential space and aeronautics subcommittee of the House science committee. Rohrabacher’s beef is that a vast quantity of American taxpayers’ money is being spent on commercial aerospace projects - especially in the space field that already have a direct, but hidden, equivalent in the black world. "If we have a functioning technology in a black programme, we should not be

the skies, for evidence of top-secret defence projects. Aurora is perceived to be a "family" of very fast high-flying aircraft, the most sophisticated of which can effectively fly through space in the same" way that the X-33 is designe.d to. It was first spotted in 1987 as a mysterious line-item, consuming several billion dollars’ worth of funds in that year alone, in the reconnaissance section of the air force’s budget request. Several people claim to have seen it since the late Eighties, the best apparent sighting coming from a trained Royal Observer Corps "spotter" who saw a huge wedge-shaped aircraft overflying the North Sea oil-rig on which he was working in 1989. If Aurora exists - and Congressman Rohrabacher is fairly sure that it does it can most likely cross the Atlantic in something under 45 minutes. As yet, Rohrabacher has had no response to his letter to Clinton and, if

The SR-71 Blackbird supersonic reconnaissance aircraft (top),the U.2 spyplane (centre)and the F117A "stealth" fighter (above)were all tested at Area 51 .

that was codenamed "Fish". In the end, Fish lost out to its rival, Lockheed’s Blackbird, but for a reason that has never been altogether explained, the details of Widmer’s design remain top-secret, long after the Blackbird fleet was consigned to air museums across America. Could it be that Fish, whose general characteristics sound resoundingly familiar today, was actually a secret prototype for the Aurora? We may never know. Widmer was forced to burn almost all the plans for Fish and was instructed by the CIA

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AUR NCE Rockefeller, the American millionaire and philanthropist, is funding scientific research into crop circles, it emerged yesterday. Why? After all, this is a problem that everyone thought had been solved. The Crop Circle Mystery caused headlines and arguments nearly every summer

for 20 years. Strange shapes were appearing in cornfields in Wiltshire and other counties. From the ground, the com was seen to be beaten down, amazingly regular. From the air, the patterns appeared. They came first as simple circles, Later, there were circles within circles, then more intricate patterns still circles radiating spiral arms, circles joined by straight lines, circles arranged in squares, even snowflake patterns of amazing intricacy and beauty. For 20 years arguments raged. Were they caused by circular winds? Or were mysterious forces at work? The obvious solution was htunan hoax. But if so, how? In 1992,two Southampton men,Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, confessed to maldng corn circles: every stunmer night for 20years. Their method was simple:rakes and planks of wood

~op~ ~ g;a~ I~g~ P ~"es~ ~~e to guide straight lines. It began as fun but, as UFO theories snowballed,they wanted to see how credulous people could be. Dave Chorley died in 1996. The pair had retired from circle-maldng some time before. That should have been the end of the mystery. Yet corn circles continued to appear. ’They are worldwide,’ says Michael Green, President of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies. And this week, the first of this season’s Brttish crop, 12 of them,have been seen in fields and at

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appear.’

continued to And now Laurence Rockefeller, brother of the late Nelson Rockefeller, is funding a researcher to re-investigate the phenomenon.

IS paying Connecticutbased Colin Andrews to engage staff and they have flown reconnaissance flights over Wiltshire and Hampshire. Andrews has a database of 10,000 crop circles. With computers and satellites, the research and debate has re-opened. So what could cause them? ’First theories were circular winds, mini-cyclones or "dust-devils" [tiny tornadoes], says Montague Keen, scientific adviser to the Centre for Crop-Circle Studies for three years. ’A meteorologist devised a theory of "plasma vortexes", spiralling winds of electrically-charged Ball lightning was another possibility again circular, again involving powerful and littleunderstood forces of electricity. ’But straight lines do not come from natural phenomena,’ says Keen.’Thepatterns became increas. ingly complex and no natural phenomenon can change and evolve like that. There were too many for them all to be A U.S. physicist found evidence that corn inside the circles undergoes chemical and biological changes. It takes up more nitrates than com outside, and microscopic holes form in the stem tissue. These

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by JULIAN

CHAMPKIN changes seem to argue for a sudden, sharp infusion of energy into the circle far more than could come from men with planks or rollers. ’I was never quite convinced that his research was sufficiently rigorous’ says Mr Keen. ’but there were certainly electromagnetic changes within circles. Compasses behaved strangely; people felt either distress or euphoria inside the circles; and batteries went flat unaccountably often. ’All this seems to point away from hoax towards something very strange,indeed.There is clearly some kind ofintelligence behind And ifit is not natural intelligence? ’Well, then you are thrown back to imagining some wholly unnatural intelligence.’ As. for example, some form of psychic projection from htunan beings dead or alive. ’Some shapes of the early Eighties seemed similar to shapes carved into rocks by Palaeolthic man.’ said Michael Green, President of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies. Were mental energies of past minds being channelled into cornfields? The first corn-circle for which evidence is claimed appeared in Hertfordshire in 1678. A pamphlet shows a woodcut of a circle mown in a field of oats, and the devfl mowing. The pamphlet describes the sky over the field that night as being ’all of a flame’; so here, too, for those who are willing to believe, is a link with flying saucers and UFOs. For, of course, there are the aliens as the final theory of crop circles. Michael Green does not believe that little green men are responsible but he believes some kind of nonhtunan intelligence is behind them. He points to a succession ofshapes, from simple to complex to very complex indeed. Can these be messages to be read by all ofmankind? ’These are written large on the landscape. They are there to be seen. There is a non-human intelli- Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, July 11, 1990: The night gence behind them,’says Mr Green. there were ’That’s what points one towards this 555ft long design was created, ’strange accounts of humming sounds’ thinking the unthinkable.’

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Barbary Castle, Wiltshire, May 4, 1997: The Kabbala tree of life, an occult symbol from Hebrew mythology -laid along the field’s existing tractor lines. Fascinatingly, circle watchers had prayed for just such a symbol to appear

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’ ’the size of a battt sIii Riddle of UFO CONSPIRACY theorists had a field day yesterday over reports that a UFO ’the size of a battleship’ had been spotted 28,OOOft above the North Both the Civil Aviation Authority and the Ministry of Defence confirmed they were

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investigating it, ’This may sound silly,’ said the CAA,’but it is a matter The MoD for the commented:’Ourpeople have been looking at it but we

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The Times 27 April 1999 Page 28

Defence projects to protect jobs BY CHRISTI’\E BL’CKLEY, I’\DLSTRIAL CORRESPO’\DE’\T

THOUSA~DS ofjobs in the defence industry were protected yesterday by the Government’s decision to gO it alone on a frigate buirding ~ gramme nd also to prooee deair \l.lth a fence project. of Defence The said vesterdav that it was withdra\\ing from the troubled rizon ~frigate programme, which it hfid been working on with France and Italy. in fa\’our of its O\\TI initiarl\’e, Defence analysts said that the decision wo ld bring more work to the LiK on the multibillion-pound programme to replace Type 42 destroyers and that the work could start soon-

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foundering on the allocation of work. The-building of the frigates is unlikely to generate work for the Govan shipyard on the Clvde. which has been put up for sale by its Norwegian owner, Kvaerner. as the

shipyards of VSEL are more suited to warship work. The UK Government has. however, reached agreement with France and Italy to build together the Principle Anti-Air \1issile Svstem (PAAMS)defence svst m for the new generation f frigates. :v1atra Bnnsh Aerospace Dynamics, the Anglo/French joint venture. \l.ill be the main contractor on the UK variant of PA~\1S, bringing work worth about E700 million to the LiK. A spokesman for BAe said: "We look forward to working closely with the :\1inistry of Defence to produce the world’s most advanced missile defence system."

are not investigating.’ One UFO spotter declared: ’Well they would say that,wouldn’t they?’The mysterioU$ craft -said to be silver-coloured and pencil thin with square windows along the fuselage was reported by a pilot on a

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The Times 27 April 1999 Page 4

New effort to cut red tape The Prime Minister has ordered a war on red tape after complaints that industry is struggling to cope with new regulations and laws. Government departments are to face checks to ensure that new laws do nor suffocate or overburden business or the professions with bureaucratic demands. Dr Jack Cunningham, Minister for the Cabinet Office, has been given the new forcement role inside Whitehall to tackle ministries which clutter legislation with unnecessary regulations and paperwork. He is to outlim: his approach tonight in a speech to the Social Market Foundation.

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75 miles awa}: We believe there was no danger involved." The Luton-based 96-seater plane was flying company executives from to be "the’size of a battleship". Linkoping, Sweden, to Humberside The shocked pilot and crew of a airport. A spokesman Debonair BAe146 plane reported being which runs cut-price for Debonair, flights throughbuzzed by "a long cylindrical object" as out Europe, said chief executive they flew over the North Sea. Franco Mancassola had been informed Three other pilots have also indepen- that a "great light in the sky" had dently logged seeing the bright object been spotted red near one of the compa-. 58 miles off the coast of Denmark. ny’s planes. Last night the Civil Aviation At one stage. the report says, the Authority confirmed a comprehensive object came to an abrupt halt before report of the pilot’s sighting had been accelerating past the airliner at thoureceived. sands of miles an hour. The report says the captain and crew A CAA source says the first became aware of the object was tracked by a military radarobject station in the underside of the plane after Yorkshire was after it entered UK air space. immersed in "an incandescent light". A spokesman for the 6.000 member A CAA spokeswoman said: "The. British Association said: "Weget captain reported seeing an unnatural reports Pilots of this nature from . bright light below his aircraft bers but they are few and farour flying at 28,000ft. The area belowwhile "In the past 10 years or so I between. him was illuminated for about 10 seconds there say have been around sixwould cases of by incandescent light and it was UFO’s cerbeing sighted. tainly not a light from another plane. "Many pilots are reluctant "Three other aircraft saw it such claims because it tendstotomake at a high speed or static.moving them open to ridicule. So when the\’lay ever, air traffic control wereHowdo inas far as making a report w do go formed and they confirmed that expect it to be given credence." there were no other planes in the A spokesman for the Ministry of vicinity. Defence insisted "Then,five minutes later, was tary aircraft in there were no milia brief radar return fromthere a spot saw nothing." the area adding: "We

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A CHURCH verger who bombarded a young woman Army officer with

who fell for a woman captain at the Army base where he

worked was found guilty yesterday of harassing her with letters signed to "DearBoo". Peter Parkinson, 52, from St Leonards, East Sussex, became besotted with Capt Angharad Crew after meeting her for the first time at All Saints Church on the Pirbright Army Camp in Surrey. He wrote telling her of his love for her and calling her by her nickname of Boo but was sacked after she became distressed by the letters and military police were called in. Parkinson,who was a civilian employed to assist the padre at the base, told magistrates at Guildford: "I was in love with her and that’s a fact of life. I wanted to show my feelings towards her." Sentence was adjourned for reports.

bizarre love letters was found guilty of harassment yesterday. Peter Parkinson, 52, Captain sent Angharad Crew a series of passionate notes, addressed to her barr room nickname of "Boo." She called in military police and Parkinson was . ilismissed from his post at I the Training Regiment in Pirbright, Surrey. He then sent hate mail to the regiment’s comhe manding officer,saying would be going to hell. Parkinson was convicted of harassing both at Guildford, Surrey. He

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The Mirror 28 April 1999 Page 18

Jet crew tell of close encounter with UFO A PASSENGER jet’s crew have reported a close encounter with an unidentified flying object. They said that they noticed an "incandescent" light below their Debonair BAe 146 as it headed over the North Sea from Sweden to Humberside. Then. they added. a long cylindrical silvercoloured object the size of a battleship flew alongside. The British plane’s shocked captain saw what seemed to be rows of square portholes on the UFO before it vanished at "enormous speed". The crew told the Defence Ministry about their sighting. An RAF radar station tracked the object, which was seen from three other planes.

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He had been working at the MOD for six years.But on this particular day he was moving within the department known as Secretariat (AirStaff) to the UFO desk (the only official post worldwide looking into sightings,a job he ended up doing for three years). He was pleased to have landed the position, even though he had no particular interest in UFOs. "Ithought it would involve dealing with a lot of strange people," he says."I thought I would spend my days writing letters like:’Dear Mr Smith,thank you for your letter concerning the strange lights you saw in the sky recently. sure it’s nothing to worry about. Now run along.. .’I could not have been more wrong." We duck out ofthe rain and enter a bar called a dimly lit backstreet offWhitehall. Pope tells me that this is where many MOD employees come drinking. We pass candlelit booths and huddles of suited folk engaged in earnest conversation (highly classified defence secrets perhaps?) and settle ourselves at a table. Nick Pope is 33 years old,5ft 8in tall, darkhaired and seems like an easy-going,down-toearth guy. Dressed in a blue and white striped shirt and dark suit,he loosens the tie around his neck,takes a slug of his white wine,nudges a pair ofdark-rimmed glasses up the bridge of his nose and begins the account of his conversion. "My predecessors at the UFO Desk mainly replied to people who reported sightings by suggesting a conventional explanation like airhe says."ButI decided to be craft more proactive than them. "Initially,this involved gathering information on, say, when and where Name Nick Pope Richard Branson flew his Virgin airAge 33 ships,or when and where military exer- . I Nationality British cises, weather balloon launches,laser i He was bom on 19September 1965in london,g)’fNI up in the light displays’or meteor events were due Surrey village of Rowledge,went to take place."Amazingly,nobody in the to lord Wandsworth College in had done this before.This meant he job longSutton,near Basin~oke do more than suggest convencould and then started but didn’tfinish to UFO sightings,he tional explanations a law degree. He drifted into the could confirm 95 per cent of them. CMI Service,thinkingthat it But that still left five per cent unexwould be a good measure while he decided what plained. Considering 13 million people to do with his life - almoSt 14 worldwide were reported to have seen years later, he’s Stillthe~. Since ’something’, 650,000 sightings were unhe took the MOD’sUF()job, his accounted for. Pope,being a methodical gjrtfriends have objected to,’ playing second fiddle t alienss() chap,felt he wouldn’t be doing hisjob of he’sstill single (although utterly protecting the defence of the realm in love with GillianArJderson). properly unless he checked out at least the British incidents. i Earning a few raised eyebrows from fellow officials, he immersed himself in the literature on the subject - every book,report,paper and .1 wacky UFO magazine he could lay his hands . on.He made contact with every researcher and investigator who had ever touched on the phenomenon."Iwasn’t swayed from my scepticism by others," he says."What changed my mind’ were the cases I personally investigated."

h,I see.You’ve got me under the light so it looks like I have a UFO over my head," says Nick Pope as we take his picture on London’s Embankment under a twilight sky."Fine." Kate Moss may have said she’d like to have a "one2one"with Elvis.But this guy decided that, despite being sorely tempted by Gillian Anderson,it would have to be with an alien. When the mobile phone radio ad aired,listeners heard Pope declare that he would ask the extraterrestrial creature where it was from,how long it had been here and what it wanted. The UFO lobby were furious with him.How dare he trivialise and make a mockery of their subject? What was he thinking of,selling out like that? "They were just jealous because they didn’t get the commission themselves," Pope jokes.But he simply saw it as a great opportunity for him to spread his message Official. wide:Aliens This is a man who on the morning of29 July 1991 walked along the pavements of As he puts it,he Whitehall to a new was a typically conservative,sobersuited civil servant.He passed the policemen at the entrance to Downing Street and entered the austere,grey Ministry of Defence HQ build~ ing across the road.

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There were two famous historic sightings which paved the way for his change of heart. The first one,known as Britain’s Roswell,was the Rendelsham Forest incident. At 3am on 27 December 1980,two security patrolmen,from the joint RAF/USAF airbase at Woodbridge in Suffolk,witnessed a 3x2m triangular metallic-looking object illuminating the coniferous woods with red and blue lights. When a team led by the deputy base commander, Lieut-Colonel Charles Halt, went to investigate the next day,they found dents in the ground and scorch marks up trees. But,most importantly,they saw the strange object for themselves.It conveniently returned for several hours before disappearing in a flurry of multicoloured pulsating lights into the blackness of space. The team submitted a report to the but it was never investigated detail. Despite the object being seenin by a number of trained military observers,it was judged to be of no defence significance. Case closed. "It was a tragic missed opportunity,"claims Pope."Herewas one ofthe ’nost important sightings anywhere 1 the world and nobody interviewed witnesses or checked radar and radiation data.SoI decided to reopen the investigation."When he checked the radiation taken by Halt and his team with the Defence Radiological Protection Service,he found that where the object had pressed into the ground, readings were ten times higher than

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The other well-known case that intrigued him was the wave of sightings over Belgium on the night of30-31 March 1990.Both the Belgian gendarmerie and Nato picked up the object on their radar screens.Nato authorised the scrambling of two F-16 fighters.These jets,capable of l,lOOmph,were airborne in minutes.But as fast as they locked the object onto their radar,it broke away at unbelievable speed.After a 75minute aerial chase,it vanished completely. A combination of public, police and pilot eyewitness accounts described.a triangular formation of coloured lights on the underside of a huge craft.The Belgian government admitted it had no idea what it

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what did he think it was then? "A real It was a bit of kit a quantum leap ahead of anything even on our drawing boards. Cases like this convinced me that an extraterrestrial explanation best fits the facts.There was simply nothing else it could be." Pope conducted a two-week investigation and sent a report to the assistant chief of air staff.MOD officials agreed with him - the case could not be explained.But they did not agree that it constituted a defence threat. "To me,that was so wrong-headed,it was laughable," he says."These people had their heads in the sand.They just repeated parrotfashion:’UFOs- no defence significance,’ giving no thought to how ridiculous that made them sound.It’s a nonsense to write this off as being of no defence significance." Conspiracy theorists may suggest shady dealings but Pope has no time for suggestions of . cover-ups."Several officials thought I was digging in areas best left untouched," he says."But this was not because they were hiding a secret.It comes down to ignorance,prejudice and belief systems.People find it frightening to have research which suggests we are not alone,shattering their cosy view of the world." Although Pope is adamant that there has not been any cover-up activity in Britain,he cannot be so sure about the States:"I’m more inclined to believe there are things which haven’t emerged there.But I don’t want to level any direct accusations of a cover-up because I have not been involved on an official level." Does Roswell not make him suspicious? "Roswell has turned into something of an industry.But there’s no getting away from the fact an awful lot of eyewitnesses saw something very strange there. The trouble is,now the case is 50years old,the number ofwitnesses who are still alive is small and declining. So it’s incredibly difficult to be certain about There used to be an official line of inquiry in the States similar to that managed by Pope in Britain. From 1948, Dr J Allen Hynek, Professor of Astronomy at Northwestern

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Exactly three years later,a similar wave of sightings occurred over Britain.When Pope came into work at 9am on 31 March 1993 he was inundated with witness reports.The most extraordinary account came from a meteorological officer at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. This man,who clearly knew his airships from his meteors,saw a triangular object the size of a Jumbojet flying erratically towards him at several hundred miles an hour.It swept a beam of light over the ground as if looking for something and then shot off at high speed,moving from about 30mph to a speed several times that of an RAFjet in an instant.

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University,Illinois,was employed by the US Air Force over a 20-year period to head up two research projects into UFOs - ’Sign’and ’Blue Book’. Hynek too became convinced that the phenomenon was genuine. But in 1969,Blue Book was closed down due to lack of proof of UFOs. Pope is withering about this:"I don’t mean to be blasphemous, but how can the same establishment that prints ’In God We Trust’ on its banknotes close down Project Blue Book for the want of evidence? Excuse me! Am I the only person who thinks that’s a little bit hypocritical?" It becomes clear how Nick Pope earned his nickname of the real Fox Mulder (which,he says,half-flatters, half-irritates him because it trivialises the serious side of his work).Not only did this sceptic, employed by the government to investigate UFOs. start believing in the phenomenon.but he became widely regarded as an outspoken mavelick on the subject.

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ut ifhe was sceptical about UFO sightings at first.he was plain annoyed with people who suggested they had been inside them.How was he meant to do serious. respectable research into unexplained craft when there were nutters bringing the subject into disrepute with their half-baked notion’s of alien abductions and intergalactic breeding programmes? Realising that there could be something in UFOs changed all Suddenly Pope realised that .transport’was a secondary concern.As he puts it, if the Queen’s motor drives up outside your house,you don’t faft around examining her wheels, you find out what the hell’s she’s doing there.Horrified at how dismissive he had been of reports of alien abductions before his UFO revelation in 1993.he set about trying to make amends with these victims. Slowly, war got out that the man from the ministry was now prepared to hear your tale,however bizarre. He spent hours with hundreds ofindividuals, listening carefully while they unravelled their

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Kent experienced near misses with unidentified objects. The first pilot, flying an Italian MD80 out of Lydd airport near Romney, reported that a grey, missilelike object flashed past his plane at 22,OOOft. A radar blip confirmed they had come within a few feet of being blasted out ofthe sky. The second pilot, flying a Boeing 737,saw a black ’lozenge-shape’object virtually scrape his wing tip.

6 January 1995 A British Airways passenger jet on its way from Milan to Manchester, was overtaken by a wedge-shaped craftjust above the clouds when visibility was ten miles. The object, which was covered with small white lights and possibly a black stripe down its side,flashed silently past at such a speed that the copilot ducked as it went by. A year-long investigation could not explain the incident.

--.e strange stories. They were often so traumatised by the memories that they broke down,sobbing hysterically on .Jis shoulder.As he emphasises, ach case is unique (don’tthink all aliens are grey,one was reported as being pink) but there are marked similarities between them. Many experiences take place on a lonely road at night where an instant of disorientation and sleepiness is followed by the realisation that the journey has taken a good few hours longer than it should have done.Sleep is haunted by nightmares of insects with huge black eyes. Reports later emerge.sometimes through hypnosis,of being taken onto a spacecraft and subjected to medical procedures often sexual in nature, with physical scars to show for Particularly interesting to Pope are city reports. He tells the story of Patsy (apseudonym) who was sunbathing in a London park one afternoon when suddenly she found herself floating above her body. "Sure,it could have been a dream or a hallucination;’ Pope admits. ..But she came away from the event with a huge scar on her inner thigh which left her unable to walk without sticks and left doctors baffled." The scars do indicate that something has happened in the physical rather than the purely psychological realm. But it seems incredibly far-fetched to suggest that this is due to alien intervention.Perhaps,hysteria - where hidden psychological traumas manifest themselves physically - could be the key. Or some sort of instability in the brain. Canadian psychologist, Michael Persinger,has shown that stimulation of the temporal lobes can create a fearful impression of a strange presence along with of ascending into the ,ctf’ Pope admits that,unlike the UFO phenomenon,there are no videos,photos,radar or radiation reports to back up the accounts. But he is quick to emphasise the straightforward

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nature of these people,who rarely have any’"," history of mentaldisorders. He quotes an experiment conducted b’H Dr Elizabeth Slater in 1983 wh after testing a group of abductees.L against a control group, concluded tIley showed no signs of psychopathology. The general consensus today (including the views of astronomers and astrophysicists) is that with potentially millions ofhabitable planets out there, life must exist elsewhere in the universe. But few of us honestly believe it has paid Earth a visit, let alone carried out abductions.Perhaps,as Pope suggests with the titles of his two books on the subject,Open Skie~; Closed Minds and The Uninvited, we are in collective denial because we simply cannot get our heads around the reality of extraterrestrial visitors.

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claims that huge numbers ofRAF personnel have secretly told him they have seen UFOs - he’s very envious of them,as he’s never seen one ("yet," he adds optimistically). But they fear the ridicule of going public.As one said to him: "I don’t fancy being known as Flying Saucer Fred for the rest of my career." But apparently awareness in the higher echelons of power is on the increase."In the last two years, there have been 30-40 questions tabled in parliament about UFOs.Look in Hansard;’he says. In a face-to-face situation Pope presents some convincing arguments.But one concern is that he has become so involved in the subject, it is hard for him to remain objective."I suppose that’s a fair point," he replies."But you might as well say Stephen Hawking is so involved in black holes that he can’t write any further papers on them."Fair point.

May we see your licence?

Mankind’s first line of defence against aliens isn’t a missile system,it’s the sphere of electromagnetic radiation TV and radio signals from , surrounding the Earth. Already 50light-years in radius,it’s expanding at the speed of Any aliens heading for Earth will, if they reach Alpha

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Centauri now,be bombarded with digital images of a pinkand-yellow monster saying

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Pope does a different job at the MOD now (hecan’t say what,only that it is a promotion), but still spends many hours every week dealing with cases of alien abduction in his spare time, listening and helping the ’victims’to overcome their trauma.He’s also writing a technothriller, Operation Thunder Child, about how the government reacts to a proven alien presence on Earth.It’s due to be published in the autumn. Whilst pointing out that we have a lot more evidence for the existence of aliens than the existence of God -"How many radar readings of God are there?"- Pope admits that until they land on the White House lawn ("Imagine the fights over first interviews and exclusive book deals"),the jury will remain He’s not trying to shovel his views down our throats.just challenge us to take note of the facts."Like a jury on a borderline case,you must weigh up the evidence.That’s all I ask.Weigh up the evidence for UFOs and alien abductions and tell me:How likely does this sound?"

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IT: To protect other members of your household children and those who cannot look after themselves. It is even effective after an abduction, helping prevent future UFO visits.

MENTAL STRUGGLE USE IT: In the first stages of abduction (symptoms: paralysis and a general feeling .of terror), or when your mind is still able to function -.although you may not be able to move. WHAT YOU NEED: Confidence that the technique will work. HOW TO 00 IT: Concentrate all your energy on moving one small part of the bodypreferably a finger or a toe. It comes down to willpower, patience and a high IQ.

RESULT: When movement occurs paralysis is broken and the visitor vanishes - supposedly scared off by your finger pointing. SUN RATING: 3 Who can be bothered thinking that much at 3.30am? Probably better to go back to sleep and let the aliens do what they came for. Besides, any ET who has travelled to faraway galaxies is hardly likely to be afraid of some toe-waggling.

PHYSICAL STRUGGLE USE IT: Before you can’t move. RESULT: The intent should There is a belief that aliens never be to .kill the intruder, travel on light and their bodies but to warn them you like your

are very fragile.

WHAT YOU NEED: To feel your rights are being violated, a good left-hook, or a heavy kitchen appliance. HOW TO 00 IT: The urge to fight should be swift and instinctive. It can be used when the aliens are present or seen approaching ou tdoors. Get angry and lunge at them.

privacy.

RATING: 5 - Dancing around like Prince Naseem should be enough to scare away any unearthly being. This worked for Will Smith in Independence Day. But avoid the technique if the alien has a ray gun. Being zapped hurts, so just say sorry and offer to buy it a pint. SUN

ARE you worried about being abducted aliens? Are the ETs giving y u the DTs? Fear not. The Sun’s fivepoint plan will help you avoid being kidnapped by a Klingon or spirited away by an outer ’ space spook. No, we haven’t been watching too many episodes of the X Files. A flying saucer dropped oH a mystical new book at our Wapping HQ called How To Defend Yourself Against Alien Abdudion. And we feel it is our duty to pass on its message. Yes, the truth is in there... apparently. Author Ann Druffel has spoken to more than 250 abductees and has come up with some alien-zapping tips. Here Sun writer DAVID GARFINKEL picks the bestwith his ratings out of ten.

How To Defen Yourself Against AI/en Abduction (Piatkus,1:0.99).

RIGHTEOUS AlGER USE IT: Before paralysis sets in RESULT: Shows the visitor you or combined with

Mental Struggle. This technique is best used after repeated visits or abductions by aliens. WHAT YOU NEED: To be awake, fearless and believe that all humans have a right to life and Jiberty - very American. HOW TO 00 IT: Take up a threatening stance and just shout strong commands at the alien like: "Go away" or "Leave me alone".

are not going quietly. But the anger must be focused towards asserting rights rather than hating the aliens. It’s a purely emotional technique. SUN RATING: 1 - WhaL selfrespecting alien monster is going to be worried about a human in pyjamas shouting: "Go away"? Instead, blast out a few Max Bygraves hits - if that doesn’t work, nothing will

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assertive voice and a good knowledge of rude words. HOW TO 00 IT: Focus on the intruder. Think of the family members you love and then curse to your heart’s content. But remember the "anger" cannot be rooted in fear or despair - try and be positive. RESULT: If you hold no grudge .or hatred, then the ET should get the message - it’s a bit similar to exorcism. SUN RATING: 9 -If nothing else the alien should break down in fits of laughter. Then jump in with Physical Struggle and give it a good bashing. But if you use this technique after the aliens have gone, make sure your neighbours understand you’re not swearing at them.

APPEAL TO SPIRITUAL

WHEN. TO USE IT: Effective whether you are asleep, on the toilet, or in any kind of "altered state" such as after visiting the pub. . . The most powerful technique yet discovered, since it can be readily used by most people. WHAT YOU NEED: Faith in a spiritual realm, after-life or angels. Basically, anything remotely religious. HOW TO 00 IT: Crouch down in front of the alien and start praying or waving the Bible. If the sky doesn’t open up and strike the alien down, call a priest to come and help out. RESULT: As long as the alien isn’t an atheist then it will get . back oil board. its UFO and bother someone else. SUN RATING: 6 Praying for a miracle may seem a good idea, but so is running away. Ask yourself this question: . "Have any of my prayers ever come true?" If not, quickly move onto the other techniques as someone up there obviously doesn’t like you.

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NINE WhitehalJ departments and agencies wilJ be named today as the worst prepared inside the Government to cope with the millennium bug, Topping the "high-risk" list of those whose computer systems may not recognise the date change from 1999 to 2000, are the Department of Trade and Industry, the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the Ministry of ~Defence, the Northern Ireland Office, the Environment Agency, the Medicines Control Agency, the NHS Estates and the Office of National Statistics. According to analysis of the departments’own plans, computer experts believe the nine are struggling to meet their own targets, are slipping behind deadlines and have not even started programmes of spot checks on their systems. Delays are likely to cost a total of up to no billion, as opposed to the f3 billion forecast by Tony Blair last March. But Taskforce 2000,an independent company which has analysed information lished by WhitehalJ, fears the picture could be even worse in the wider public sector, with emergency services under threat, and possible disruption of nuclear power stations, the Post Office, broadcasting and the utility companies. In a separate report yesterday the Audit Commission also warned that a number of local authorities and NHS Trusts were lagging behind in their preparations to deal with the bug. Andrew Foster, the director, said he would publish a !able of the bo<;Iles In the springoffending if action was not taken. ’

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Majesty’s Government: "Whether they will ensure that the answering-machine that the Ministry of Defence uses both to explain its policy on unidentified flying objects and to provide a facility for the public to report sightings is turned on at all times and not switched off outside working hours." Scoff if you want, but you’ll be deriding Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton, one of this nation’s foremost military minds and former Chief of the Defence Staff and chairman of the Nato Military Committee. He must know something.

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Screen out alien communications someone has Finally, invented a screensaver

that does more than tum your monitor into a virtual fishtank. The skywatchers at SETI the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence are designing software to enable PC-users to analyse data from distant galaxies. Scientists at the SETI Institute hope to involve a miIIion computer enthusiasts by the miIIennium. "You can participate by running a screensaver program that downloads and analyses radio telescope data," the online mission statement explains. ’There’s a small but captivating possibility that your compu. ter will detect the faint murmur of a civi1isation beyond Earth." The project echoes Jodie Fos-

ulabJy deafening. Up to now, SETI’s best efforts, scanning millions of frequencies simultaneously, have analysed only fraction of the noise. What havea they missed? If 50,000 PCs worldwide combine to sift data downloads using the SETI screensaver, they wilJ match the scale of the Institute’s current megabuck experiment, Project Phoenix. If 500,000 PCs combine, the home PC users wiII become the biggest scientific machine the known universe. And inwho knows, one of us may find a regu-

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THE TIMES MONDAY AUGUST 31 1998

The light way to track an alien Scientists have a new way of contacting extraterrestrials, says Nicholas Booth ET is trying to contact us, he won’t be phoning - he will use the powerful flashlights that are lasers to draw our attention. Like lighthouses on the unexplored seas of space, these unique flashes oflaser light,which astronomers can detect with simple equipment,

will soon tell us whether any stars are harbouring advanced civilisations. That is the startling claim of the Ameri-. can inventor of the laser, Charles Townes,

cal work will costjust $20,000 (fll,400)a year, a sign of the times for SETI research. Searching for aliens has been criticised by some as a kind of wishful thinking, a subject without a science. And American legislators certainly agree: Nasa’s ambitious program of SETI research using radio telescopes was cancelled in 1993. However, with private funding from supporters such as the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and the film director Steven Spielberg, SETIstruggles on. Others have said that finding evidence for alien civilisation will be impossible. A similar thing was said to Professor Townes during the late 1940s after he posed the forerunner of the laser,the maser (which produces microwave radiation rather than light). As a researcher at Bell Labs in New Jersey, he was a world ex-

who has long urged his colleagues to look for such tell-tale signs of alien intelligence. All scientific searches to date have involved listening for radio signals from alien civilisations: now a team from the University of California at Berkeley will use a simple, antiquated telescope to try to spot the laser flashes. At 83, Professor Townes,a Nobel prizewinner, is delighted to be vindicated. "I proposed this idea in the Sixties," he says. perton microwave spectroscopy,the realwill start to ing of gases using radio waves. He "Now a group of make.a search this autumn. I am very ised that by using molecules to amplify signals, he could generate a powerful pleased." This attempt is the start ofa new era of source of radiation. After he discussed the in a scientific journal 50 years method to according astronomy. The method is, it the astronomer in charge,"embarrassing- ago,"morethan oneNobel laureate said It was viewed as a cranever would ly simple". Embarrassing because it could have been undertaken at any time in the ’Cj, cute idea and there wasn’t much to Early o e spring morning in 1951,while past four decades, but Professor Townes’s sitting on a park bench in notion of looking, rather than Professor Washington, listening, was largely ignored. Townes had what he calls "di"If there are aliens sending how to of inspiration" vine will we us messages by laser, make a maser work and its see them," says Dan Werthirri"I recogapplications. possible er, the director of Berkeley’s nised that it could be a sensiSearch for Extraterrestrial Intive amplifier or atomic telligence (SETI)programme. he says. Unlike the aliens in movies, Throughout the 1950s, the who frequently speak English, used to probe gaswavelengths the real ones would probably es were made progressively not use Morse code. "’They. shorter so much so that he powerwould send very 2,500 could get down to optical ful pulses of laser light that lengths. Together with his would be unmistakable. It brother’in.law, Arthur Schawdoesn’t require that muchenerlow,he developed the laser.AcDr Werthimer says. gy to cordingly,Townes won the Later this autumn, he and bel Prize in 1964 (alongwith two Russians his colleagues will use a 30in telescope modest by professional standards at who had independently come across the Mount Leuschner, about 20 miles east of same principle). Lasers can now be found Berkeley, to look for laser flashes. Light everywhere, from supermarkets to home captured by the telescope will be split into CD players to hospitals. two and fall on to photo-multiplier tubes. "It comes home to me when I hear of which will amplify the signal. If both see friends who have had their sight unusual flashes "tspecific wavelengths stored," Professor ToWnes says."Tome,it uses -lasting perhaps"few billionths of a sec- was clear that the most importantoptics ond, with a power output greater than would come from connecting up electronics." and at they are looking stars they that of the Proof positive comes from the telescope will have hit the jackpot. . Seeing signals in the two separate now being used by Dr Werthimer’s team halves of the beam means that they could (it is normally used to train Berkeley undergraduates). In 1959 the same year in not be artefacts of the detection process. was developed ’Lasers are the only way that bursts of which a workable maserdeclared that detwo radio asttonomers light could be sufficiently concentrated. be the only would radio signals As with the powerful search beams of a tecting lighthouse,they could be directed to specif" way to find aliens. As a result,the scientific stars such as our Sun. Lasers work by ic community tended to dismiss any other exciting gas atoms and forcing them to wavelengths that could be used to send give up their energy in the form of an in- messages. By the mid-1960s, Professor Townes tense flash of light. ’We could easily send a message into had moved to Berkeley and was working space to other civilisations," Professor at the Space Science lab. By then,his idea Townes says. His Berkeley.colleagues was bolstered by the discovery of naturalagree. According to Dr Werthimer, you ly existing masers in space.There are vast could attach a simple laser to an opticaltel- clouds of gas between the stars which can escope and direct it to nearby stars and act as masers.Their constituentmolecules send messages.’’You could do that with a are naturally excited to such an extent that laser that transmits one megawatt," Dr they amplify microwaves across the vast Werthimer says. ’That’s about the same firmament of the heavens. Any sulficiently advanced alien civilisapower as a television station." But that is far into the future. For the tion would be well aware of that and Professor moment,the Berkeley team is starting its could emulateoutthethatprocess. these clouds have own modest search: improbably,thisopti- TOWIles points

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spokesman, said the brick building’s stage was increasingly unsuitable for modern drama and seating and front-ofhouse facilities were also desperately in need of refurbishment. However, the Art Deco frontage is listed Grade 2 starred and may be preserved in the redevelopment plan, partly funded by National Lottery cash.

Boy,four,died in holiday pool A four-year-old boy drowned in a pool at the start of a family holiday after his parents took their eyes off him for a moment, an inquest in Woking, Surrey, heard. Elliot Ribi, of Frimley, may have tripped at La Manga complex, near Alicante, Spain. He was found without his armbands which he always wore in the water. Verdict: accidental death. .

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of a major blast of wind released after a huge coronal mass ejection from the Sun. Satellite and power line operators braced themselves for possible damage. "You are looking for a green and reddish glow," Dr Andrew Coates, of the Mullard space science laboratory, said yesterday. "The best time is a couple of hours before midnight and a little bit after midnight."

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THE little green men from outer space have packed their bags, fired up their flying saucers and headed home. Or perhaps we have just become a little less credulous. Reported sightings of UFOs have fallen dramatically in Britain in the past year, according to the Ministry of Defence. In 1996,609

people told the ministry that they had seen an unidentified flying object. Last year, the figure dropped to 425. In the first six months of this year only 88 people reported sightings. Ministry officials differed. from UFO experts yesterday in explaining the decline. A ministry. spokesman suggested that Hollywood was to blame. The unusually high 1996 figures had, he said, been prompted by the ’film Independence Day, with its story ofaliens trying to destroy Earth. This was compounded. by Men in Black, last year’s film about aliens living on our planet. Similarly high numbers urred after Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind in the

late 1970s, when sightings rocketed from 435 to 750. The spokesman added that the comet and last year’s 50th anniversary of an American pilot coining the term "flying saucer" had contributed to the figures. "There was series of films and events in 1996 and 1997 which triggered off a spate of reports from the public," he said. "In contrast, this year we have had the World Cup.". His theory has a flaw: UFO sightings dropped from 600 to 250 after ET hit the screens in 1982. Nick Pope,a UFO expert and civil

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from 12,200 to 19,000 and to David Hencke cut the number of men from Westminster Correspondent, 26.000 to 19,000. Four ministries -the Government is to partment of Education and search out 7,000 women Employment. the Scottish to replace men to serve Office. the Department of on 1.100 quangos and public Social Security and Departbodies, David Clark. Chancel- ment of Health appointments lor of the Duchy of Lancaster. to NHS boards - aim to reach parity within three years. announced yesterday. Two other ministries the Women are to be given paritv with men in future ap- Northern Ireland Office (45 p intments for government per cent) and the Department bodies as part of a move to of Environment, Transport make the bodies more ac- and Regions (40 per - cent) countable and representative will just miss the parity tarof society. There is also to be get for 200l. The least progress comes a drive to increase the number of ethnic minority mem- from ministries with the worst records. The Ministry bers serving onquangos. The ambitioUs target of of Defence, whose quangos

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Staffordshire. It lit a trail over Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire before disappearing in a flash over North Wales. There were 288 calls to pOlice and coastguards in a 90-minute period from 11.02pm on Thursday night with reports ranging from a flying saucer and a blazing aircraft to the end of the world. There were even comparisons to the film Deep Impact in which the Earth is threatened by a comet. But as imaginations ran riot experts dismissed it as nothing more sinister than a shower of meteors probably little bigger than pebbles. unusually large meteor shower Because ofthe incredible speed they which takes when material and travel at they create a spectacular debris fromplace outer space comes dazzling effect as they burn up on through the upper atmosphere. impact with the earth’s atmosphere. ’When the material passes from a ’It was as if night had turned into zero-gravity zone into the gravity of said businessman Alan Lester the upper atmosphere, it burns up who witnessed the fireball on Thurs- because of the friction. is not day night as he walked his dog in unusual on a smaller scale,Itbut last Eastbourne, East Sussex. He said night’s shower seems to have been yesterday: ’My eyes are still hurting quite now because the light was so Dr Robin Catchpole, a research Janet Troop, 50, an environmental at the Royal Greenwich health technician of nearby Lewes, astronomer Observatory in Cambridge, said: said: ’1 saw an exceptionally bright ’The piece or pieces of rock were light, so large it lit up the sky. It was probably quite small in size, like a as if something was burning pebble or small stone. A Ministry of Defence spokesman ’But they can travel at speeds of said: ’We are satisfied this was and given that sort of meteor shower which broke up ona 45,OOOmph velocity, generate huge kinetic entering the Earth’s atmosphere, energy on hitting the atmosphere. causing the bright glow which peo’This accounts for the vivid bright pIe saw. There was no impact on the light which can be seen so clearly ground and therefore there is no with the naked eye. It is almost cercause for concern and no further tain the debris vaporised on contact action will be taken by us. the atmosphere and all that ’Initial reports suggest it was an with would be left would be

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of Wales and southern England, the air turned blue late on Thursday night when a particularly bright shooting star sliced through the sky. "We had more than a dozen calls around midBy ADAM LEE.POTTER night from people who had seen a single blue light that EMERGENCY services was bigger than a car," said were put on red alert Sergeant John Drake of yesterday after hundreds Staffordshire police. of callers claimed we were being invaded by a Many callers thought fleet of flying saucers. they had seen a flying sauPanicking Brits dialled cer, but it was more likely a 999 to warn the night -meteor: cosmic debris burnsky was alive with hoving up in the atmosphere. ering UFOs. The first to see it were pi.. J?ut the mystery blue lots of airliners. "It would llgnt turnea out to be a huge METEOR shower. .

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seem to be one very bright mobile phones when they meteor entering the atmo- saw the flash overhead. sphere somewhere over the "Some people described a Channel," said Robin tail behind the light, while. Catchpole of the Royal others said it looked like it I Greenwich Observatory_ was burning or flaming." Soon after lIpm police in said Sergeant Drake. Corn wall, Shropshire, A Ministry of Defence Staffordshire, Worcester- spokesman said: "Initial shire, Derbyshire, Oxford- reports suggest it was an shire, Berkshire, Sussex, unusually large meteor." Hampshire, GloucesterIts colour it conshire and north Wales were tained iron,suggests which in turn taking calls. The fireball suggests it was the remains had travelled north-east. of a small planet which Thames Valley Police broke up when the solar contacted Air Tr mc Con- system was formed 4,500 trol at Heathrow after they million years ago. received a caller from High This year a meteor Wycombe, Buckingham- shower called the Leonids is shire, who told them a expected when Earth passes burning plane had come near the route into land. Drivers on the of cometdebris-filled M4 near Reading in Berk- "Wemight Tempel-Tuttle. even lose a satelshire qUickly got on their lite," said Dr Catchpole.

David Kyte, saw one plunge into the sea at Eastbourne, Sussex. He said: "/ w s on the beach fishing when a fireball the size of a fridge flew over my and landed in the sea half a mile offshore. ..It was very spectacu-

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are many There strange people on the

birth of their child and rejected by his adopted parents. No

most of them are human. Eddie Page says he isn’t. This Vietnam veteran claims he is one of 32 extra-terrestrial hybrids manufactured by cloning technology between 1953 and 1955. Of the 21 females and II males, Eddie believes threequarters are already dead: The experiment, he says, was sanctioned by US government officials in exchange for alien science secrets. What makes Eddie’s story stand out is not only the extraordinary detail - medical records, government documents. witnesses but the way he tells it. His pages at www.worldfamous.com are an extended advertisement for three

all those experiences unscarred. But I would trust his testimony still less if he was always lucid and unscrambled instead of jittery and paranoid. Being half-alien would make anyone paranoid. He appears much more anxious to tell his story than sell his wares. After you have downloaded the four long summaries a full picture emerges. His description of a battlefield abduction and the military investigation that followed are classics of their kind. The details from hypnotherapy, including science fiction-style names for the aliens and their planet, are less convincing. But inevitably the imagination supplies extra infomJation to fill gaping holes in conscious memories. The medical reports including Rrobes into Eddie’s nonhuman internal organs and the removal of unknown metals from his brain are apparently not imaginar)’. Can you open your mind wide enough to accept any of this? The evidence is there. Judge for yourself.

Internet. But at least one.alien or not, could survive

videos. The first features Eddie, alone and conscious,talking to camera. The second records a hypno-regression experiment with Eddie in a trance recalling 1l days aboard a space-

ship. The third, with Eddie in still deeper trance, shows him . apparently communicating with the beings who created him. He is not, it’s fair to say, a totally credible character. He was accused of desertion in Vietnam, abandoned by his first wife immediately after the

Uri Geller’s Web site is at http://www.urigeller.com

The words to Bohemian Rhapsody, with its Galileo reference, came from the late Freddie Mercury, seen here onstage with May technology has raced ahead in the past decade they have also been used at the Midi mixing stage.

May bought a Sony Digital Multi-Trax system which was used for Queen alb ms from The Miracle onwards. The original machine could mix 20 channels and was used on his first solo

album. Since then, the snooker room of his mansion in Sunningdale has been turned over to a "dream desk"capable of mixing 60 channels and recording directly on to hard "If we hadn’t had digital technology, we couldn’t have made the last Queen album," says May. This was because

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Mercury’s health was fading fast towards the end, and it was a race against time to get that last album finished. "Freddie would record scraps whenever he could, while we’d be writing at full pelt," May adds. After spending 18 months in front of a Pro Logic machine, mixing the fragments together,

May is most proud of the track I Was Born To Love You because it sounds like a spontaneous jamming session. "We didn’t tell anybody at the time how it was really made," he says.

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more than other summed up the at this year’s E3 gaming trade show in Atlanta - "next generation 3-D", The world’s largest event of its kind. the three-day show attracted more than 30,000 visitors anxious for a Sr1eak preview of 1,600 new titles. The market is booming, largely thanks to the trend of titles being released simultaneously on several or all formats,for both PCs and consoles. But the consensus at E3 was one of disappointment at the lack of original product, with sequels and copycat titles dominating.While most .

large games companies are American or Japanese, Britain still plays a vigorous part in development.Probably a third or more of the titles on show at the cavernous Georgian World Congress Center are the brain- geon. You can even tickle your children of British design teams. creatures and, after you’ye paid At American-owned Electronic them,let them go to the casino to Arts, it was Guildford-based unwind, then fix the odds and Bullfrog Productions which’ cre- grab back your money - alated some of the keenest interest though this doesn1 make them with its follow-up to the hugely very happy." popular Dungeon Keeper. Lead At the stand for Fox InteracprogrammerShaun Cooper said tive, a News Corporation comof Dungeon Keeper 2: "111e’ pany, the lead title is a’ unique sequel brings more depth and gaming episode of the cult telehumour to the game. Now you vision series The X-Files. The must positively encourage rats game stars David and bats to inhabit your dun- Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

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as FBI agents Mulder and Scully in a specially-commissioned adventure. But it was one of Fox’s other titles, Aliens Vs Predator, which’ many dubbed ilie game of the show. Made by Oxford’s Rebellion, this is a blast-feast where players adopt one of three roles Alien, ,Predator or Colonial Marine and one weapon is loaded with leilial acid Among many titles from Hasbro Interactive was a colourful children’s game emanating from Interactive Studios in Leamington Spa. Glover is a 3-D fantasy platform game with two characters roaming mirrored worlds, one good the other Scotland, too, was making its mark. Affectionately nicknamed Scotsoft, the Scottish Games Alliance last year drummed up, E20 million worth of development contracts and this year many of those came tofruition at the show, including the 3-D makeover of the popular Earthworm Jim series. Earthworm Jim 3D, developed for Interplay by Vis Interactive.

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Red Orb. The original dominated sales charts first time round on the older consoles, and the masterful update is clearly destined for massive repeat business. The big three console giants Sony, Nintendo and Sega easily dominated the show with the biggest stands. 111e remal’kable success of the PlayStation in Another money-spinning 2-D the past few years has been put platform game now back with a down to the extensive range of good-looking 3-D makeover is software available, Sony tipped Prince ofPersia 3D from Surrey- Namco’s Tekken 3 as its winter based Broderbund’s games arm, bestseller while Nintendo is

putting its money on The Legend ofZelda for its N64 machines. While a lack of software for the 32-bit Sega Saturn console has seen performance faiter,the company was making much of its Dreamcast console, due to debut in Japan in November and in Anlerica and Britain next year. Promising ambitious 128-bit capabilities, it will be twice as powerful as the N64 and four times faster than the PlayStation. Hardware peripherals were also in evidence. Nintendo will continue to squeeze profits from

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thing ever seen in a 3-D environWe are really pushing the engine for this, with loads of textures." The lucky few wimessed some of the most superb effects ever seen in a computer game,including rippling water, stunning laser lights and shadow effects. For those who can’t wait, among other Eidos titles was Daikatana also from Romero, . who brought the gaming world

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THESE are the most astonishing UFO pictures ever taken in Britain. The stills come from an incredible 35-minute video

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The most amazing thing was they weren’t attached to the craft. Since then I have had filmed in Suffolk and the film analysed by ex,passed exclusively to the perts from UFO Magazine News of the World, showing: and they say it is an exTHREE flying saucers shooting traordinary sight. They ; past in a blaze of lights in three cannot explain separate incidents. Now I’ve found other A CIGAR-SHAPED craft accelerat- people who also saw the UFO that night and were ing at incredible speed, and HUGE triangular objects engaged equally amazed. I am just thrilled I in a,mock dogfight. We showed the full 35-minute caught it on video because I fear people video to acknowledged UFO exwould not have beperts-and they were stunned. lieved me otherwise. Graham editor of UFO Magazine. said after analysing it: Bllt tha t was just the "It is absolutely amazing, the most opening shot of the exstriking UK footage I have seen," traordinary X-File film. A month later his camNicholas Redfern, author of acera caught the first flying claimed UFO study A Covert Agenda, agreed and added: "It’s on saucer. Recalls David: "it a par with anything filmed any- was just after 9pm when I where in the world, I firmly believe looked out of the window this is extra-terrestrial." and saw a very bright object in the sky. I grabbed the camera and rushed into the garden. "I filmed this amazing The video was compiled over five months last year by UFO spotter saucer-shaped craft David Spoor, 54, who said: "1 still slowly moving from the East. it was very bright can’t believe what I filmed, and had a shimmering "Now I am convinced there is another life out there. SURE appearance. "I called Jean and she they are from another planet." openthere His wife, Labour district coun- stood mouthed in wonder cillor lean. 49, said: "I know of no earthly craft that could have alongside me. behaved in this manner." David said he filmed the first UFO last August from his "Ther’e was no sound three-bedroom bungalow and as it slowly moved in the village of Oulton towards me I saw a light Broad, near Lowestoft, on one side. Suffolk. He explained: "We shouted out to our C I was just closing my neighbours to witness it but they were too busy garage door about 7.45pm when I looked up watching TV!" and saw a bright cigarJean said:. "it didn’t shaped object flying spook me. it excited me. And it was exactly how I slowly through the sky. imagined a flying saucer I was so excited I would look," grabbed my video camera On October 7 last year, from the house and David rushed for his started filming camera again,.. I propped the camera He revealed: "This one on the fence and filmed it was almost identical to as it went towards the the lashcraft. coast. "1 was in the garden After about 30 seconds saw these amazing and it suddenly accelerated at flashing incredible speed-far the sea. faster that a jet plane ever "1 was so intrigued I could-and just vanished. I couldn’t believe what I jumped on my bicycle and rode towards the coast. had seen. "There I saw this saucer-shaped object hover-

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alies such as paranormal events which mayor may not include encounters with UFOs and aliens." One reason for the increase in reports is the huge amount of coverage that UFO and associated matters now receive in the media and on television machine because otherwise we grammes such as The X Files. The would find ourselves having all opening programme of a new sorts of people who cIaim they BBC television series ofEverymnn have seen all sorts of on 24 May will include the The position of the MoD is timonies of people who cIaim to that it is only interested in UFOs have been abducted. if they constitute a threat to Malcolm Robinson ofStrange national safety,as the answering Phenomenon Investigations, machine message makes clear. which has offices in London But most of the reports are and Scotland, said: "People are made hours,days or even weeks becoming more prepared to after the alleged sightings, by report their sightings." which time any threat would be He agreed that around 95per long gone. cent of all rep0rted sightings can In any case, the MoD re- be explained.It is the remaining mains confident that any gen- five per cent that interest him. "Igot into all of this in an effort uine threat would be picked up by its huge pyramid radar at RAF to disprove he said,"butyou Fylingdales in North Y rkshire, realise that,once you have swept which constantly monitors the away all of the debris,there is a

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RAF spots speeding UFOs with new radar BRITAIN’S X-Files may be opened up amid claims of stunning evidence that UFOs fly over Britain. Tapes to be shown to British and American experts are said to show objects which change shape in mid-air and a battleship-sized aircraft travelling at 33 times the speed of sound. The details are due to be

cannot explain what they are." The most spectacular discovery is a craft spotted by Fylingdales and the Dutch Air Force over the North Sea. Described as "the size of a battleship", it zig-zagged at up to 24,OOOmph for 15 minutes, "as if it wanted to be spotted". Another tape shows a group of 12 oval objects seemingly change shape, to the amazement of observers. But the RAF is expected to withhold some X-Files. It is feared they could reveal how sophisticated their new radars

revealed in early June at a Space Symposium at the . RAF’s Cranwell staff college. A senior RAF source claims the mystery craft have been picked up by the latest Phased A{ray radar at the Cold War listening post at Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. One senior officer said: "What we have seen are not secret weapons. They are craft are.

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’24,OOOmph UFO buzzes Britain THE RAF has tracked a UFO ’as big as a battleship’ off the coast of Britain, military sources revealed yesterday. They said the massive craft was tracked flying in a zig-zag pattern at 17,OOOmph over the North Sea.

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It then accelerated to 24,OOOmph and zoomed off towards the Atlantic. The Dutch air force also tracked the UFO,but two F-16 fighters scrambled to intercept the object were unable to

keep up, it is claimed. RAF officials are said to be balDed by the object, spotted by the Ministry of Defence long-range listening station on Fylingdales moor in North Yorkshire. ’It was definitely under control, jUdging by the various manoeuvres executed,’said a source.’It appeared to be triangular and was around the size of a battleship (aboul900fllong).’ Radar records of the craft are due to be presented to science and military experts from around the world, who will examine how to exploit space for military purposes at a conference at RAF College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire, in June. Other tapes of

popularity among some dedicated UFO watchers is that the military deliberately release stories about UFOs as a ’smokescreen’ and that witnesses are really seeing topsecret experimental aircraft. The base at RAF Fylingdales has been watching the skies since the end of the Cold A large pyramidshaped, 360-degree radar has now replaced the gigantic landmark ’golf balls’ tracking system. The concentrated on tracking satellites and pieces of space junk circling the Earth.

thought to have been made during the last two years are withheld because they give too being much information about the radar base’s scanning ability. However, military chiefs may release a second series of tapes, reported to show 12 UFOs changing shape in mid-flight. While the ’battleship’UFO is most likely to be an experimental aircraft or a sighting caused by a freak weather effect, UFO watchers believe it is further evidence that the Earth is being visited by alien craft. The popularity of TV series such as the X-Files has rekindled interest in fiying saucers and conspiracy theories in recent years. A spokesman for the Fortean Times,the journal devoted to UFOs, psychic phenomena and the paranormal, said: ’The vast majority of strange objects seen in the sky have a more down-to-earth explanation. But most UFO investigators would be very interested in seeing these tapes.’ The latest theory gaining

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reports of crashed UFOs are compiled. He has spent years investigating official memos and uncovered top-secret documents which prove that the Government does not want us to know how much it knows about aliens. And in the book he describes how dozens of spacecraft have flown over military bases, by..passing flight security systems. At the height of the Cold War, the Government was so concerned about UFOs that it contacted the Soviet Union to establish a joint task force to examine the, security implications of alien crall. \ But it is the evidence that UFOs have ALREADY landed in Britain which is the , most scandalous cover-up in British UFO

here. But the details have been kept hidden from all of us in a giant cover-up similar to that in TV’s The X Files. That is until now. A sensational new book A Covert Agenda reveals that the alien visits are fact and not fiction. , The author, full-lime UFO researcher Nichoias Redfern,. maintains that the Ministry of Defence and the RAF have known for hall a century about spacecraft which have crash-landed throughout Britain. At least SEVEN UFOs have crashed in Britain since the end of the Second World history. ’War. Hu~dreds more UFOs have been turn the page for the fun amazing

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"It is my suspicion that US special retrieval teams have been, and still are, prepared to go into action into any crash location within its sphere of rn.ilitary or economic influence such as was exercised with NATO in the artefact retrievals in England and West Germany."

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A WAVE of phantom helicopters black with no identifying markings - were sighted in areas of Britain where UFOs were reportedin 1"973-74. They were probably rapid deployment teams sent to investigate UFOs. according to Redfern. One such event happened at 8.30pm on)anuary 23. 1974. A UFO crashed into Cader Bronwen. a 2,000ft peak in the Berwyn Mountains near Corwen. North Wa}es. One witness. Anne \Villimns, said: "I saw a bright light in the sky. It had .a long, nery tail which went dim and then very brilliant - like an electric fire which keeps coming to life. "It was like an electric bulb in shape, with rough edges. The object Jell behind the hills at the back of my "bungalow and the earth shook. Off-duty police officer Gwilym Owen was drinki1H! in The there Dudley Arms pub was a roar, a bang and glasses in the pub shook. The sky was lit up over the mountains. Police stations as far away as 60 miles received phone ca1ls reporting the tremor. At the Institute Of Geological Sciences in Edinburgh,-the crash measured four on the Richter

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A UFO which was sighted over the lake District wasn’t witnessed by just members of the public 10 police officers saw this extraordinary sight too. Shorlly after midnight on August 28, 1977, a large object described either as triangular or diamond-shaped was seen over the Windermere area of Cumbria, As officers reported seeing the craft, colleagues atong the UFO’s path also con!irmed the sighting. After 20 minutes, as the ship hovered above the A592 at Bowness, PC David Wild spoiled it at a height he estimated to be1,500ft. It eventually vanished, witnessed by two other officers, at sea over Morecambe. The most detailed descripllon was given by John Platt, He said: ’" was looking up into what appeared to be a giant ocean-going catamaran with twin hulls, "A large structure at the front supported what appeared to be two giant lights. lis surface was a dull, shadowy, charcoal colour."

Scale. They told journalists that a meteorite had come down on Cader Bronwen,

Witness Ken Haughton saw a "luminous sphere" 90 minutes after the crash in the area. He said the sphere was 400ft across and travelling at a height of aboul l5,OOOfl. Army personnel were quickly dispatched to the scene. The next day, a mountain rescue team went to investigate, while the RAF carried out a photographic survey of the area. No trace of a craft or any meteorite was found. "One can only assume," said Redfern. "that unless the UFO exited on its own volition, it was removed by the Army." Yet another UFO was seen in the area at 7.l5pm that day. "1 believe it mav have been searchingfor the of the struck the Benvvl1 vehicle which . " mOLl/1lains, said Redfern.

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UFO enthusiasls have long for nearly two months. believed that highly- Redfern said: "Given that classilied investigations into department 56 at the Air UFO activity take place at Ministry was supposedly the Rudtoe Manor in Wiltshire. tocal point for receiving Redfern oilers proof. II is UFO reports, it seems odd otficially aCknowledged that that P&5S wouid neglect to Rudloe Manor is the inform 56 of the details tor headquarters of the RAF’s almost two months. "Unless, as seems to be Provost and Security Services (P&S5), where the case, P&S5 have a investigators are trained in mandate to conduct their own independent inquiries." counte.’-intelligence. A lelter received by But Rudloe Manor is also the base of the’Flying Redfern written by Air Complaints Flight, which Commodore J L Uprichard, investigates cases of low- the P&S5 director, confirms that they have investigated flying military aircraft. A former speciai RAF UFO sightings. He wrote: "The 1962 investigator said: "I’m sure that all investigations into report is a rare example of UFOs are carried out by an alleged UFO sighting P&S5 investigators serving being treated as a lowin a small secret unit with Flying Complaints Flight." A report of one sighting in 1962, in Taunton, Somerset was forwarded by the RAF straight to P&Ss. The report was not forwarded to the Air Ministry

flying incident and investigated accordingly." Redfern said: "The importance of this lelier cannot be over-emphasised. Allhough such investigations are rare, this is documented proof from the director of

P&SS himself that UFO encounters have been treated IIas iow-Ilying incidents. Retired RAF medic Jonathan Turner told Redfern: "UFO sightlngs by military pilots were never recorded in their flight logs. "The station commander

would be advised 01 the situation and, from there, all information would be torwarded to P&S5. "If national security was considered an issue, the pilots and crews would be advised to keep quiet and reminded they were bound by the Otficial Secrets The.Ministry of Defence has admitted P&55 involvement in UFO

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sightings. A spokesman said: "Rudloe Manor is the headquarters of RAF Police. "In the past it was indeed the RAF co-ordination point

for reports of unexplained aerjal sightings. This role came to an end in 1992."

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AN alarming number of UFOs were sighted around military bases in 1957. One sighting at RAF West Freugh, WigtowJlshire, was published by several newspapers. A secret Air Ministry report declassified after 30 years. reads: "It is unfortunate that the Wigtownshire radar incident fell into the hands of the Press. "We suggest that the Secretary of State does not specifically refer to thesc:,: incidents as sightings on Six years later, after another batch of sightings, the Air Ministry tried to dampen speculation but they failed to point out that many reports were by RAF pilots and radar operators. One of the most controversial sightings took place in Belfast eight years ago. The f01l0wing is an extract from a report in oftciaI Civil Aviation AuthOl;ty files about an incident on November 11, 1989. "UFO passed above aircraft at 11,200ft and burst into a cascade lio-hts. Heading due ProximityC of cloud intensified brightness of light. Sighting confirmed by another

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Riddle of .the Black Triqngle AN Independence Day-

By FIONA MAY

style UFO has been spotted hovering menacingly over a British city. The dark triangleshaped craft was completely motionless

before racing away. Many reports have described the colossal craft as at least twice the size of e jumbo jet and pOSSIbly 500 yards like the UFO wide which hovered over in the hit WiD Smith Hollywood film Independence Day. The craft, nicknamed the "Black Triangle", has been appearing for months in the Lancaster area. Sometimes it emits’ three binding flashes of

plane being developed by British Aerospace at

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the only test aircraft being flown in. the Lancaster area was the

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The Observer 17 August 1997 Page 19

Fury at ’sell-out’onjets for Jakartabe-

A FURIOUS parliamentary row has erupted over Minis, refusal to answer fur-

weapons to suppress rebels in East Timor. Labour back~ncher Ann writing in Tribune, says Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has failed in the first test of his new ethical foreign policy. ’Hehas done what he had constantly criticised the previous government for doing by refusing to make a statement on the floor f the Commons so that some of the 148 Labour MPs who had signed a Commons motion calling for an end warms sales to Indonesia’could question him over his apparent

ters’. thei’ queStions on the contro- Clywd~ versy over Britain’s sale of 16

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The Government claims commercial confidentiality U60 million deal, over

and says further disclosures can ’only be given with the agreement of British Aerospace,which makes the Opponents of the deal are furious about the refusal. They ’say t Edets, earm ked for ti ningpilots, will be fitted with ground attack

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There is special anger cause suspicions have been raised at the way in which the Department of Trade and Industry announced in a written answer on 11 July that contrary to earlier information given to pariiament export licences had, in fact,already been granted by the previous government. PreViously Parliament had been told incorrectly that this was not the case. Left.wing Labour MPs are suspicious that Ministers are being misied by officials eager to protect valuable

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by the or a saint. Religious imagery is now fashionable. and people who believe they have had paranormal experiences are more likely to recount how they have met a man from outer space. And many are convinced that they have been abducted or raped by the little green men. but when pressed are characteristically short of the detail that would have made the story so fascinating. and added ve-

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to holidaymakers THE hot weather has produced the

usual problems for seaside holidaymakers. This week visitors to beaches in East Anglia have been suffering from jellyfish stings. The tentacles ofjellyfish release a mild toxin when they are touched. usually causes little more trouble It than some reddening of the a faint rash which is mildly irritant.skin, The symptoms are readily aIleviated by a simple painkiller Veganin. for instance, for adults, paracetamol for children, and inflammation reduced by the application ofis hydrocortisone cream. If of the tentacle remains stuck to part the skin an application of vinegar from basket will usually cause it tothe picnic drop off, or it may be removed by applying sticky plaster and tearing Some patients are allergic to such stings. If the reaction is very severe they may need an immediate subcutaneous injection of one in a thousand adrenalin, and in the very worst cases transfer to hospital.

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THE introduction of anti-psychotic 30 years ago was a huge advance drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia. Unfortunately 25 per cent of patients failed to respond to these drugs. and half of those with them relapsed within two treated years.. Many of the drugs also have unpleasant side-effects. Over the past year or two new era in the treatment of schizophreniaa has with the advent of the atypical started leptics. The indications for the neurotion of Risperdal has recently been extended. The advice to doctors to use Risperdal with caution in the elderly been replaced with the statement that Itas it is well tolerated in older patients. . Dr Tonmoy Sharma. senior lecturer at the Maudsley Hospital. "These new drugs offer a London. said: proven treatment with fewer side-effects older treatment. Patients are lessthan the likely to suffer excess tiredness. dysfunction. gross weight gain. orsexual uncontrollable movement to the face and limbs than are those taking conventional The new drugs are alsoneuroleptics. at controlling a wide range of better psychotic svnlntnrn "

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BY TOBY MOORE AND IVOR KEY CONSPIRACY theorists have reacted with typical scepticism to the "leaked" news that thousands of UFO sightings were not alien observers at all. A historian has claimed that half of the sightings of "aying saucers" spotted in the Fifties and Sixties were in fact secret sPYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;plane missions which the US Government did not want to admit to at the time. Interest in UFOs has spawned not omy a multi-million dollar tourist industry in so-called "hot-spots",but the influence of hit TV programmes - notably The X-Files - has fuelled widespread claims of a cover-up of alien visits and abductions. .

HOLLYWOOD has been followed by an unlikely force the CIA in the rush to tell us about aliens. Interest in hit films like Men

in Black and Independence Day will doubtless soar in the ligbt of the CIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s admission that it covered up the troth behind UFOs.

continues.

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a government agency infamous for subterfuge and misinformation is quickly dismissed. UFO enthusiasts sald that an admission of cover-up by the CIA can only mean that another cover-up lurks behind its new-found honesty. " "They’re still lying, said Richard Hall, chalrman of the Fund for UFO Research. "TheAmerican public is not stupid," added Walter Andrus’ international director of the Mutual UFO Network. "They’ve been lied to by the government so often over the years that they’re not going to believe it now."

Top historian Gerald Haines however, claimed in his research in . paper, The CIA’s Role that the 1947-90, o’fUFOs study "false cover story"is true. "Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnalssance flights," he said. "This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project." The paper claimed that test mghts by the top-secret, high-altitude U2 spy plane were mistaken for UFOs from its launch in 1954 until 1960,when the Soviets shot doWn Gary Powers in one. Later, existence of the futuristic SR-71 Blackbird was also denied, as was Project Y ironically, a prototype fiying saucer developed by Western powers, including Britain, which could even hover. The latter aircraft was kept secret,it was claimed by Mr Haines, because of"agency fears

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Even the National S"ecurity . Council was urged to "debunk UFO reports and institute a policy of public education to reassure-the public of the lack of evidenc ’behind UFOs". As the Cold WBI between Russia and the US intensified, fiying saucer sigltjngs increased. A special panel of scientists, asked to investigate the security implications of allen invasion,

concluded unanimously in 1953 that there was no credible evidence of allens, nor evidence of a direct national security threat. Mr Haines sald that by 1956, the US Air Force was able to attribute 96 per cent of all UFO sightings to the high altitude U2 and SR-71 intelligence gathering planes. He sald that the Air Force, while allowing the flights over populated areas where they might very well be seen,took care "not to reveal the cause of the sightings to the public". In:the following 20 years, all sorts of explanations were offered to a disbelieving public, including ice crystal formations, "temperature inversions" and even the sunlight refiected off seagulls. Even Mr Haines admitted that the CIA did itself no favours by continuing with such a weak

cover-up.

He wrote that by steadfastly concealing its interest in the matter, the CIA "contributed to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up". He added: "The UFO issue will probably not go away soon,noor matter what the agency does says. "The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue amenable to rational . exPlanation and evidence." Hardened Ufologists remain testing were that the !:’)oviets unconvinced by the CIA’s devices". similar admission, which closely follows if, The cover-up,however several others by the US indeed,there was one Government. backfired as early as 1952 when In M!U"ch, the military claimed officials feared mass hysteria a spate of sightings over the would soon break out because of that desert were the result of Arizona unexplained of the rash fiares fired into the desert skies. sightings. And in June,the US Air Force Mr Haines said they feared the sald that the famous Roswell Soviets would cash in on the UFO crash of 1947 contained panic by staging mass UFO crash test dummies and not sightings which would disrupt dead aliens. America’s air defence systems It has not, however, explained and enable a surprise nuclear the truth behind a secret 1’llm launched. be to attack recently released to the media Top secret monitoring. which was alleged to be an enlisting discussed . organisations of one of the alien autopsy even schools, work clubs and Walt Disney to help prevent "hysterical mass behaviour".

victims. "Thefiying saucer community is definitely on to something in charging that the military is hiding something," said John Pike, head of space

policy at the Federation of American Scientists. The US revelations have also prompted requests that the British Government now comes clean about a 50-year spate of

incidents oveI’here. Joe McNally, associate editor of Fortean Times,the leading journal of strange phenomenon, said that "intense secrecy" fostered by governments has simply kept the UFOs alive in the public’s imagination. "There have now been three different explanations of Roswell,first it was a rocket, then it was a balloon now it’s

crash test dummies,to encourage scepticism." Typically,the Ministry of Defence sald yesterday that it was not involved in any secret monitoring of UFOs spotted over

Britain.

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Russian cargo ship. The officer reported eye damage after photographing the Kapitan Man in US waters north of Puget Sound off Washington State. He was serving as a crew member on a Canadian Forces CH-124 Sea King helicopter. Photographs show a red light below the port bridge on the ship and the DoD suspected it may have been a laser targeted at the helicopter to blind the occupants. After an investigation the DoD said it was a port navigational running A search of the ship by US Coast Guard and Navy personnel found no evidence of a laser or modifications to the ship which would indicate the removal of a laser.

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Dispenser to get start after 87-day break The US Air Force Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD)programme is looking "at anything we can do" to jump-start its schedule following 87 days of stopped work, WCMD programme manager Lt Col Steven WelCh said. The programme, which has been on the fast track since its inception, came to a halt when Alliant Techsystems protested against Lockheed Martin’s winning of a contract to finish WCMD development and begin production. The US General Accounting Office rejected the

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Air force and Lockheed officials held their first post-protest

meeting this month to look at the schedule and begin debating trade-offs. The upcoming milestones are critical, so trade-offs will be "scrutinised well", Col Welch said. "We won’t trade quality for schedule:’

BY STACEY EVERS WASHINGTON DC

The meeting’s agenda included a briefing on Lockheed-proposed technology insertions and contractor plans for how to install the Sensor Fuzed Weapon. Foreign military sales options are also an issue, as Lockheed Martin has begun

looking for markets and the USAF international affairs office has started developing an export strategy. The WCMD tail kit assembly system is expected to improve the precision of tactical munitions such as the Combined Effects Munition providing a ’smart’ guidance by capability.for the existing dispenser. The developmental test and evaluation flight test, which was to start in May, is scheduled to run from September to January. However, the contract award

USAF presents ’Case Closed’ over Roswell

Alien bodies supposedly recovered in New Mexico in 1947 were actually human-like dumif’ mies dropped during the mid-1950s, the US Air Force revealed in a new report on the famous Roswell UFO incident. The USAF contends that the reported 1947 crash of ". ~’.. . an "extraterrestrial flying disc" . .1 and its "alien" occupants .".-......"’... """’-:’1’’’’.’0 " were debris from Project <\;’~l; Mogul, a high-altitude balloon research project. The programme was to determine The first pictures of the USAF’s high-altitude balloon whether a sound channel exists experiments in the upper atmosphere that and (inset)the dummies dropped in the mid-1950s (Photo: US DoD) could be used to detect ballistic bodies came in the late 1970s, mies as part of missiles. high-altitude airleading USAF officials to argue craft escape The mostly unclassified Pro- that projects called High the memories of witnesses Dive and Excelsior. ject Mogul used acoustical have consolidated air force These programmes aimed to sensors, radar reflecting targets activities for a period of years devise methods and other devices attached to a into a handful for of days in July pilots or astronauts returning train of weather balloons more 1947. The witnesses are "wrong by parachute should to earth than 180m long. In 1947 a about the 1947 they be date", said USAF forced to escape rancher turned in the radar tar- Col John Haynes at extreme in a Pentagon altitudes. gets to the local sheriff, allegedly briefing. The dummies, transported after hearing media reports of From 1953 to 1959, the Air by balloons to altitudes as high flying discs. Force The first claims to have seen used Aero Medical Laboratory as 98,000ft (30,000m),fell freely anthropomorphic dum- while instruments recorded

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B-52. Early operational capability for the B-52, originally set for

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body movements and escape equipment performance. Fortythree high-altitude balloons carrying 67 dummies were launched and recovered across New Mexico between 1954 and 1959 and 30 were dropped by aircraft over White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, in 1953. "The dummies were sometimes transported to and from off-range locations in wooden shipping containers, similar to caskets, to prevent damage to fragile instruments mounted in and on the dummy," the report said. In 1994 the USAF released its first Roswell report on the order of a New Mexico congressman. The USAF said it has volunteered this second Roswell report to answer "lingering questions" about sitings of alien bodies, a subject not discussed "extensively"in the 1994 paper. Subtitled ’Case Closed’, the new document also serves as a pre-emptive strike against the publicity that is surrounding the 50th anniversary of the

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morning they were Cl1nyinced they saw three, perha s four. small grey ligures in human form. "At no stage did the soldiers feel threatened. They simply coul not believe what they were seeing. ’The alien forms made no move towards them but judging from what the soldiers told their regimental priest and commanding officer. the aliens knew the soldiers were there. It was like a stand-off. \\ thin a few minutes, probably much less. the aliens disappeared. "All the men can recall is that in a very quick space of tim<: they saw a brief flash of tight in the .\1r O’Brien added: "These 111(’// Irere fit. Idghly-trailled observers alld 10 pllt it dowll to

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lAM indeed familiar with the work of Dr Allen Hynek. I have his book beside me. I see he cautions us . against "uninhibited theOt-ising" in the explanation of UFOs because we<must rely on anecdotal reports. Dr Hynek points out that "uninhibited theorising", the yeast of the scientific method, is appropriate only where such theories can be put to direct test, which we have failed

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that s’:!ggests it is I think we are all agreed that it is Aliens at Roswell? As US officials spe~ulatio unlikely that we will ever make both unscientific and improper to contact with another civilisation. dismiss UFO reports without due switch stories again, ..former Earth is an ideal place for intel- consideration. But we should all k P ope The MoD sky watcher Hlc ligepJ life to develop. Nevertheless remember that the letters UFO ’h it took 4500 million years for it to stand for Unidentified Flying d e b a t es U FOs WI’th G reenwlc appear in a form capable of com.: Object. They do not and should not miinication. .When the Earth was be to refer .to a spaceship wit,~ Observatory astronomer born the Umverse was already at or wIthout "httle green men, least 6000 million years old. Clearly which I would call a perfect exam-: ’ Robin Catchpol~ .~. there has been enough time for a

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Dear Robin, IN DECEMBER 1980 numerous mil. itary Personnel witnessed a UFO in

Randelsham’Forest in Suffolk. Radi. ation readings were taken from the site where a metallic craft landed, and the defence radiological protec. tion service confirmed these were 10 times background levels. On March 31, 1990 two Belgian F1G fighters were scrambled in an attempt to intercept a UFO that had been seen by several thousand wit. nesses and simultaneously detected on Belgian and Nato radar systems. The pilots locked on to the mystery craft, but it took evasive action. The Belgian air staff adjudged that it had been under intelligent control. On November 5, 1990 a squadron of RAF Tornado jets were caslliill~ overtaken by an unidentirted craft while on March 199:1 a UFO th( ~i7.(, of a iumho iet31,was seen bv Inili

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would see vastly superior technology as governments exploited their secret knowledge. But we do Although we should take UFO observations seriously. they are dif. ficult to analyse. Astronomp.rs have more productive ways of searching include the search for for life. planets around other stars, investig1’tion of organic materials on comets, the forthcoming examination of primitive life on Mai’s, and hopefully Ganymede and Callisto, and the search for intelligent radio signals. Although it seems lonely out there, I share your optimism that we may not be alone.

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investigating UFO sightings for the MiI1sUy ofDefence. He wrote a best-selling book last year, Open Skies. Closed Minds, which detailed his startling findings. Now he’s got a new book out,The Uninvited, which looks at alien abductions. It’s a sobering read,and his concJusions are a mite unsettling he believes abductions really do happen and they’re far more widespread than anyone previously

thought.

In his early thirties,Pope scarcely seems old enough to have worked in such a prestigious job he was, after all, the UK’s only official researcher into the subject. But what he lacks in age, he more than makes up for in enthusiasm. been in the Ministry since he explains,’but they move you around every two or three years to give you a broad spectrum of experience. And just out ofthe blue I was asked, "How would you like to look at UFOs?",so Ijumped at the chance. just come from a job where been working in the Joint Operations Centre during the Gulf War. so you couldn’t get more differ-

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give these other intelligences, the evidence from folklore and legendand all legends are rooted in some sort offact is that these things have been with us fora long,long time. ’A lot of people say religion and UFOs don’t mix, and I think up to a point that’s true. But at the end ofthe day those people who believe in God would presumably take the view that God is the God notjust of Earth but of the entire Universe. Therefore surely a Universe full of life only enhances the majesty of God’s creation. not religious myself, but I have a huge amount of respect for people with religious beliefs, up to the point where they start knocking UFOs and demanding At that point, I say "Well, how many photographs have you seen of

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And what about the aliens’ motives in abducting us? Is it correct to say they’re teaching us to be more compassionate? ’I wouldn’t necessarily use the word ’teach’,he says carefully. ’What I’ve found most striking in the abduction cases that I’ve investigated is the transformative nature ofthe experience,the way in which it has affected the witnesses. Ifsomebody has been through what,at face value, is quite a traumatic experience taken against their will and subjected to some rather strange and unpleasant procedures you would expect there to be a great bitterness, a great anger. But I find many instances of people who take a much more positive view. Some people have developed spontaneous interests in environmenta]issues, some people

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"0 <:1\\ that \\ iih the Heaven’s Gate skills as spiritual heakr:" We are ,lll:,\[i;’[1 in ..\merica (the cult perhaps being changed in ,Some way, d’J11m tled mass suicide when they but the key issue is whether it’s being thought aliens from the Hale-Bopp taught or not - whether it’s for our comet would beam them up), so we purposes or whether it’s fortheirs. always have to be on our guard The modem UFO staJ1ed in 1947 against that. But if you can get rid of with Kenneth Arnold and the the cults and get rid of the cranks, Roswell crash. If we were being you’re left with a hardcore ofextraorobserved in the 40s by intelligent dinary accounts coming from very extra-terrestrials, what would they ordinary people. Many ofthe people have seen? The Second World War spoke only on condition that with all its horror and misery, the nyms were used. They certainly firebombing ofcivilian targets, and weren’t interested in money or then they would have seen us publicity, they just wanted some develop V2 rocket technology, straight answers, which would eventually lead to the ’There’s a marvellous story that Apollo programme. They would someone sent a letter to the MoD have seen an intelligent species,but after I left, [ have to say - asking what committing the most horrendous their policy w i on alien abductions, ’evil,even upon our own people and And the reply came back, our own environment; and then "Abduction is a criminal offence, and looking as if we are about to make as such it is a matter for the that jump out into space. Maybe Some abductees regarded that with that’s worried the extra-terrestrials, great humour,some with great anger, and maybe they are trying to do 1 think it does show that there are something about it to make us of attitudes that need to be changed and a there is work still to be done,but we Pope feels sure that there’s more are much further along the road then than one alien race behind it ’I we were five years ago. More and think it’s very unlikely that if there are more good cases are coming intelligent extra-terrestrials forwru’d,and more and more serious, elsewhere in the Universe,there’sjust mainstream people are beginning to one other planet. Even mainstream take rul interest, both in science and science is now coming round to the the media. I think the next few years view that the Uni erse is probably are going to be very, very exciting.’ teaming with life. Amongst the big Although Pope has now left the names in the scientific community, ’UFOdesk’ (Tocoin a phrase: he you’d probably only find one or two says,’the X FILES have been closed who would be prepared to say that down’), he still works in a private we were absolutely alone in the capacity as a UFO researcher. If you Universe. So ifthere is life elsewhere think you’ve seen a UFO,or better in the Universe, then there’s likely to still been abducted by an alien, you be a huge variety of can write to him at the following ’Whenyou look at the reports ofthe address: abductees, although there are Nick Pope c/o Simon & Schuster common themes,there are plenty of Ltd West Garden Place Kendal differences too. And although a lot of Street London W2 2AQ people see these short grey creatures with the large heads and the huge The Uninvited by Nick Pope is almond-shaped black eyes,that’s not published by Simon & Schuster at to say that there aren’t other types. f/5.99 ’I think there is still chronic underreporting of abductions. But if you imagine how difficult it is for someone to come forward and talk about a UFO sighting,often because of their responsible position in society, imagine how much more difficult it is for them to come forward with an abduction account. [ suspect that there are cases out there where the material has just not yet

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. evebecome psychic,or developed skills as spiritual heakr:,. We are perhaps being changed in way. but the key issue is whether it’s being taught or not - whether it’s for our plllpOses or whether it’s tor theirs. ’The modem UFO stm1ed in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold and the Roswell crash. If we were being observed in the 40s by intelligent extra-terrestrials, what would they have seen? The Second World War with all its horror and misery, the firebombing ofcivilian targets, and then they would have seen us develop V2 rocket technology, which would eventually lead to the Apollo programme. They would have seen an intelligent species, but committing the most horrendous ’evil,even upon our own people and our own environment; and then looking as if we are about to make that jump out into space. Maybe that’s worried the extra-terrestrials, and maybe they are trying to do something about it to make us less of a Pope feels sure that there’s more than one alien race behind it ’I think it’s very unlikely that ifthere are intelligent extra-terrestrials elsewhere in the Universe, there’sjust one other planet. Even mainstream science is nuw coming round to the view that the Uni erse is probably teaming with life. Amongst the big names in the scientific community, you’d probably only find one or two who would be prepared to say that we were absolutely alone in the Universe. So if there is life elsewhere in the Universe, then there’s likely to be a huge variety of ’Whenyou look at the reports ofthe abductees, although there are common themes,there are plenty of differences too. And although a lot of people see these short grey creatures with the large heads and the huge almond-shaped black eyes,that’s not to say that there aren’t other types. ’I think there is still chronic underreporting of abductions. But if you imagine how difficult it is for someone to come forward and talk about a UFO sighting,often because of their responsible position in society, imagine how much more difficult it is for them to come forward with an abduction account. I suspect that there are cases out there where the material has just not yet surfaced. Is Pope worried about what the future may hold? ’There is the danger of cults getting involved,and tragically

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You could easily be mistaken for believing that Americans are the only ones lucky enough to be plagued by crashed saucers. Jonathon Dillon looks into Britain’s UFO history and asks whether the British Government is simply more experienced at the old cover-up routine.

The British Government holds the dubious honour of being the most secretive in the First World despite promises to be more open with the public. The USA,Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Denmark, Holland and a host of other countries have a Freedom ofInformation Act, which over the last few years has enabled investigators all over the world to explore thousands of hitherto classified documents and papers which refer to the UFO subject. By these governments’ own admission, thousands more documents are being witheld in the ’interests ofNational Security’ proving without doubt, that the subject is of great interest and seriousness to the world’s elected leaders. But our own government keeps quiet about everything and the general public can only gain access to documentation released under terms of the 30, 75 or 100 year ruling. These papers flow from the Air Ministry, RAF and Ministry of Defence, and roughly amount to just a dozen already released files covering the period 1950 to1964. Now with the arrival ofthe Scott Report, the need for a British Freedom of Information Act is more than evident.

Sadly, Her Majesty’s Govermnent will be amongst the last to willingly confess to the fact that our airspace is being penetrated regularly, by unusual intelligently controlled devices, that are way beyond our cutting edge technology. However, there seems to have been a turnabout on the part of the authorities in recent years, with more and more credible military personnel, government officials and people in power coming forward to tell of their UFO experiences. Through the hard work of many UFO investigators across the country, it has been disclosed that several Ministry of Defence departments at Whitehall and the Armed Services have been, and continue to be, actively engaged in covert research into UFOs. According to several informers, investigations have been carried out by the Royal Air Force, The Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)and the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence. The DIS in particular, is a mixed organisation of serving officers and civillian research staff, scientific’staff and linguists headed by the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI).This essential element of the government’s central intelligence machinery has several tasks to perform and it evaluates a range of studies. One of its most important duties is to concentrate on UFO reports. Basically, some reports are handled by the Provost and Security Police Special Investigators who are attached to the Flying Complaints Flight Base at RAF Rudloe Manor.

Stimulating news, which has been a long time coming,just came to light recently, with the shock admission by the MOD’s Kerry Philpott, of Secretariat Air Staff2a (the MOD UFO desk), that RAF Rudloe Manor was indeed a co-ordination point for reports of UFOs. This facility is known to be staffed by senior non-commissioned officers trained in numerous methods of special investigations. MI5 also works with Rudloe. Much of the collaboration relates to Rudloe’s work in checking the 1 of 3

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also works with Rudloe. Much of the collaboration relates to Rudloe’s work in checking the credentials of RAF employees who work with classified data. They keep bulky files on RAF employees with "highly subversive" interests, Animal Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, Liberty etc. It is not known for certain whether or not the Security Services take on UFO matters, but according to an ex-MI5 employee I managed to interview, they do monitor the activities of individual UFO investigators and civilian UFO research groups.

The reports that come into the MOD are sent to DI55 who then forward them to the Director of Security and Provost Marshall (RAF)in London, who in turn will inform an infrastructure of other departments such as Air Force operations and Airborne early warning/ground environment. Some of these organisations are amongst the most well developed military systems in the modern world. Additional research has exposed an international liaison with other foreign intelligence authorities such as the American NSA, CIA, US Air Force Office of Special Investigation and the State Department’s Office of Security Assistance, Science and Technology. The Defence Intelligence Liaison branch ofthe MOD (DIALL)provides this affiliation through the Government Communications Head Quarters. Intense Government interest in the UFO topic doesn’t end with the MOD’s preoccupation. According to my source, the Home Office plays an operative role, sustaining teeming computer files on the subject. The MOD’s Air Staff2a has computerised UFO files, but most of them are pretty innocent. Nick Redfern, an outstanding Intelligence researcher, told me the database held by the Defence Intelligence Staff is meant to be explosive and refers to National Security Agency files (despite their being no such agency). My source told me there is a ’Main Computer’ within the Home Office (F10 Division) which contains a database on several governmental issues, including UFOs. My contact also said that "only selective people can use the computer system in the matters ofNational Security". He continued, "I had a meeting with the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and at the end of it I asked him about the UFO predicament. Howard didn’t say much about the subject and went very quiet." This publicity will certainly be unwelcome. The Police Force also takes in a reasonable portion of UFO reports. The UK Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary are regularly briefed to anticipate UFO sightings in the proximity of atomic energy installations. They are to take no other action but are to prepare a report, which they then send to their superiors.

Unquestionably, our own armed forces are lively UFO researchers. Numerous instances have come to light involving UFO/RAF dog fighting, crash retrieval ventures and clandestine research into Alien technology at places such as RAF Farnborough, where during the mid-50s, secret research was conducted into UFOs, according to several RAF sources. The Defence and Evaluation Research Agency have a facility at Farnborough, rumoured lately to be housing a downed UFO and Boeing 747jumbo

jet.

During the 70s there was an impressive UFO encounter in Minley Manor Woods, not far from Farnborough. My source, who I’ll call ’Hannah’told me there was a strong military attendance in the woods after several hexagonal shaped UFOs visited the district. Nowadays, the area is a Mecca for enigmatic unmarked helicopters and when questioned the local Air Force, Police and Airport assure me their aircraft are not in the territory. Last year, a helicopter hovered over a housing estate early one morning. The residents got up and went outside to see what all the fuss was about and it was then they saw four pulsing red lights above a corn field. The helicopter began to close in on the lights and as it got nearer, the lights shot off at great speed towards Aldershot.

In retrospect, it is now obvious that the British Government investigates UFO reports, but has it drawn any conclusions? According to some sources, the RAF did indeed reach a UFO decision asserting the root of the phenomena was extraterrestrial and that humankind was somehow related to the visitors! Was Darwin wrong? I daren’t say, but I have learned that during the 1960s a building called Riverwalk House, which was used by the Intelligence Services (SIS,MI6, MI5) for the compilation of Eastern bloc and Russian affairs, did have some of the sought after answers. Apparently, during a document review in the building’s library, two female colleagues came across a

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eonfidential file which stated the British Government had solved the UFO mystery, and that we really aren’t alone!

Certainly, some UFO cases have come to light through US documents released under provisions of the Freedom of Information Here, ministers use secrecy to suppress embarrassing findings and to protect themselves from public challenge. But the findings about UFOs may be so powerful, governments acting in our names, may only be doing so because they feel it is the right thing to do. Afer all, government influence affects just about every aspect of our lives. In matters of national security, it seems obvious for governments to become mute, but I believe it is time for the curtain to be lifted and governments should become more honest with society.

Act.

Encounters would like to thank Jonathon Dillon for this fascinating insight into our government’s guarded silence. Should you have any information relating to RAF/MOD/Military involvement etc. with the UFO subject, Jonathon would like to hear from you. He can be contacted at 176 Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, Lancashire, BBll

4NJ.

Finally Jonathon would in turn like to thank Matt Williams, of the Truthseekers Review, for the Photograph, Nick Redfern and Robert Gray for their help with this article. _

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U.S. Air Force and the General AccountThe Amerin abound who theorists The conspiracy have both issued lengthy reports sayOffice ica and literally swann on the Internet might found in 1947 came from a wreckage the mg point out that 18 years is about as long as little balloon evidence of Soviet nuclear track to used with pointy heads and wraparound gray beingsbeen explosions. in beds their stealing people from eyes have alien speculation mounted with the arrival the middle of the night and forcing them to take ofAs Hale-Bopp comet and the suicide of Calithe breeding intergalactic program. of kind part in a take abductions The fact that most of these fornia cultists. a Defense Department spokesplace in the United States, said Philip J..Klass, a man, Ken Bacon, stated, "We cannot substaneither than tiate the existence of UFOs, and we are not longtime skeptic, is an indication Americans are tastier, or "we have more harboring remains of UFOs.., kooks. Bacon said that between 1947 and 1969, Ufology began 50years ago this summer whena’ as part of "Project Blue Book." the air force a pilot. Kenneth Arnold. reported sighting investigated 12,618 sightings and found no formation of silvery disks above Mount Rainier’ evidence that any were extraterrestrial on June 24, 1947. Newspapers coined the ex- vehicles. What the Pentagon spokesman did not and pression "flying saucers:’ and within a few . months accounts of more sightings started pourcould not explain is why so many Americans in by the hundreds. and a growing number of people around the : ingTwo weeks after Mr. Arnold had his vision, a world believe that they have been abducted by .’ rancher in New Mexico found some unusual. aliens. The mythology about alien kidnapping . . wreckage - bits and pieces of a thin,lightweight began to accrue in the 1960s with the pubthat resembled’ lication of John G. Fuller’s book, uThe Inpanerns silvery material with -.-. terrupted Journey," which told how a couple, hieroglyphs. The wreckage was taken to the’ Barney and Betty Hill, were abducted off a where a spokesman nearby Roswell Air lonely road, taken to a space craft and subannounced that the Army Air-’.Corps had rejected to medical experiments. covered a "flying disk." In the 1980s, a New York artist called Budd Although the statement was quickly retracted, Hopkins uncovered hundreds of similar stories the lore about aliens spread unchecked amid the by hypnotizing subjects, writing about their exsecrecy surrounding America’s nuclear weapons in two books, "Missing Time," and development, and now srems as deeply im- periences "Intruders." He sent many of the subjects to a I planted in the human consciousness as earlier Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack, whose views, myths about fairies, witches or demons. "is wlch he wrote about in a 1994 best-seller called i. 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A MYSTERY plane crash that vanished without trace left

witnesses and rescuers baffled yesterday.

SEARCH: Rescue teams join the hunt for the mystery plane .

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on the 511th Derbyshire, fire and a.mbulance cre\\,"S, more than 100 men and dogs from seven mountain rescue teams, an RAF helicopter and the West Yorks police helicopter joined in. Police said: "It certainly is a Monday I saw. None of this adds up." mystery and extremely baffling But despite scouring the moors what The search began after she and reliable witnesses clearly saw for 24 hours. not one piece of, other witnesses reported a blinding thing go down," wreckage Wa;:; found. orange flash and billowing smoke The spot is just three miles from Now people in Hope,South Yorks, as the twin engined plane crashed where the Dakota crashed in 1945; are talking of a ghost plane after on the Pennines above Forest. all seven Canadian crew. killing Hope recalling an identical mystery Fifty police from Yorkshire and, Two years ago postman Tony Ingle. 53, reported seeing a Dakota crash in the same

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Report recommends free ld deal nders legal advice for guilty pleas ases because they considered e offence too minor to merit rther action. The CPS would also be obliged provide an on-call service at eekends and evenings and ould have greater administra’ve back-up in reviewing files.

EGAL REPRESENTATION speed up the process once a rial’ gets to court the report ecommends changing the way egal aid and representation is rovided. Where defendants promise to lead guilty they would be given fee legal advice on the morning the court appearance regardess of whether they were entitled ’,0 legal aid. HO\vever, if defendants plead!1g guilty want their own lawyer :hey will no longer,be able to ie!ay procedings until he is availlble. The court would impose a solicitor on them iftheir own ’0

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choice,could not be made’ avail-

able in time. MAGISTRATES’ COURT More powers would be given to Clerks to the Justices to manage pre-trial hearings. Only when the cases were readv for trial would they go before magistrates who would decide only on bail, guilt and sentences. The clerks would be given . many new powers induding the right to extend bail, dismiss cases when’ no evidence was offered, request pre-sentence reports in guilty pleas and arrange the timetable for the proceedings. Defendants could appeal against any decision to the magistrates ifthey felt it unfair.

TRIAL BY JURY The most controversial recommendation involves taking away the defendant’s right to insist on trial by jury when a magistrate decided the case should be tried

summarily in a magistrates’ court. This applies to those cases classified as "either way" offences which could be tried in either court. In the year to September 1996, this cate24,170 defendants inCourt trial, gory chose a Crown often in the hope that they might have a greater chance of acquitThis amounted to around a quarter of all the cases tried at Crown Court. But two-thirds of them later pleaded guilty, wasting considerable money and three-quarters of all defendants electing for jury trial were later convicted. The report recommends that the defendant lose the absolute right to demand a jury trial against the recommendation of the magistrate. It estimates that the proposal would result in 18,000 of the 24,000 cases being heard in the lower court. Critics argue that for someone of good character even a minor conviction for dishonesty can have a grave impact on their reputation and so they should be

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The report entitled to a jury accepted that this might be taken into consideration by the magistrate but quoted one who said he could not remember the last timt someone had chosen a jury " "for reasons of reputation". This could save up to no mik , lion, it is estimated. Also recommended is that seri.;: ous cases like murder which were certain to go to the Crown Court should go straight there rather than spend half their life in magistrates’ court. By completing cases more quickly it should also "reduc~ prisoner escapes". YOUTH COURTS The report recommends revers" ing the 1991 Criminal Justice Act whIch placed 17-year-olds in tM jurisdktion ofthe youth courts. It suggests they be returned the adult courts as "they tend to, be experienced as offenders" f This would affect 35,000 cases; Those youths receiving cautions or conditional discharges coul have conditions attached to them; Editorial Comment: Page 29

trial’

IN BRIEF

’Courtruling paves

BBC admits error: over campaignc:

way for sportsmen ,.to challenge bans

The BBC admitted last night that it was wrong to allow Ben Bradshaw, one of reporters, to campaign for Labour while on paid leave.: Mr Bradshaw, 36, was sus~ pended from Radio 4’s The World At One to ensure impartiality after his selection as Labour candidate for Exeter last September. He could not be found alternative work and was released on full pay, prompting Tory ,; complaints.

its-

By Will Bennett

A RUGBY international won a landmark legal ruling yes-

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sp.ortsmen to challenge disciplInary regula-

decisions by tory bodies in the courts. Mark Jones, a 16-stone for"":as granted an injuncl.lftmg his suspension for fIghtmg during a match until his appeal has been heard. The case marks an important .extension of legal interventIOn in sporting disputes. In the past judges have been :rt?luctant to get involved in disciplinary matters. More challenges are expected after Mrs Justice Ebsworth told the High Court that disciplinary decisions now affected the livelihoods Mrs Justice Ebsworth:baris’affect pIyers’ careers of professional players. ,’", Jones, who plays for Ebbw was sent 9ff after a but the new professional W,elsl,(l\ugbyUnion was

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’Satanic aliens’;:

Aliens are among us and are under Satanic control~ according to UFO Concern, II predominantly Anglican pressure group founded ’Lord Hill-Norton, a retired Admiral of the Fleet and former Chief of Defence Lord Hill-Norton has writ... ten to interested parties’ about the threat, says the Church Times. He claims. UFO incidents have been cov-

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rages over keys to Bayreuth

he arehelypal 11 controversy.

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rol~ as po","yed at Bayreuth in the PO’!war yea"

of the past are summoned again and again. Nike, whose qualifications are those of musical critic rath~r than di-a rector, proposed that the ner festival be staged Wagtwo years instead of every to aIlow new ideas to annually develop. The conventional comparison of the Bayreuth Succession contest is with the antics of the Ewing family in the Dallas soap opera. The family, and

the plot, are indeed tangled. Wolfgang considers both Nike and her brother, Wolf-Siegfried (a talented stage director), to be disloyal and unworthy of Bayreuth. Even as a child Gottfried was banned from plaYing with them. Eva, Wolfgang’s daughter by his first marriage, is a talent scout for the tan Opera in NewMetropoliYork but

by the great Gennan ba"-bari’nn~

she, too, is not considered

worthy successor by Wolf-a gang. Gottfried’s lasting concern with Wagner’s antiSemitism seems to exclude The most likely member of the family to take over after Wolfgang’s death is his second wife, Gudrun. Bayreuth need not be controlled by a Wagner. The festival is managed public foundation withby ana

him.

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Hans Hntt",

elected board. But five 24 seats are reservedout of for Wagner family members and they, or rather Wolfgang, usually carry the day. His rule is crumbling, however, and like King Lear the kng of Bayreuth is stumbling on banishing his children,blindly, disinheriting and pronouncing curses. This, say Wagnerians, will be the year that the fourth generation strikes

back.

ests Pentagon ’UFO’site revealed on film

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THE Pentagon is bracing itself for calls from conspiracy theorists after news that Area 51, a site where the American Government tests stealth aircraft and is alleged to have captured UFOs, has been revealedheld on camera (AnjanaAhuja writes). The fIlm, made in 1964, does not record details of the site but shows a scientist chldking on a blackboard the phrase

top-secret

"move out to Area 51". The authorities have never acknowledged often deny its existence. the site, and The footage was uncovered McDaid while shooting Robot by Hugh a documentary on unmanned Warriors, According to Mr McDaid, theaircraft. film was a briefing film for military and intelligence personnel. The scientist shown writing on the blackboard was

top-secret

Clarence "Kelly"Johnson, the Lockheed U2 spy plane.who designed The refusal of the USAF confirm or deny anything regarding to the fuelled speculation that it is a site has cover for something more sinister than testing new aircraft. Some believe the US Government has captured flying used the base to conduct saucers and experiments on the vehicles and their inhabitants.

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Which is why theories about MIBs often in numbers Qr in code to each other and . note in the UFO literature; go far beyond involvement in the simple presented military ID for people with interest in the extra-terrestrial now mechanics of UFO sightings. In this mil- who later turned out not to exist. One at an all-time high, alien encounters lennial age where the end ofthe world is MIB was minus aJ! arm (poor MIB). seem to be ten-a-penny. Back in 1957, saidtobenigh-orifnotnighthenatleast Another had wires coming out of his however,a native ofVenus materialising due the day after nigh - the MIBs are now flesh. They have apparently hypnotised in a West Midlands living room w!1s on being fingered for much,much more.Ask their witnesses and threatened them,but: . the unique side. around a bit and you will soon find people never do they s m to have made good Oil And yet, nearly four decades on from willing to accuse them ofeverything from s c ’threats.Oh,and th ve-always : Cynthia’s frequent encounters, ’what murdering Beethoven,thtoughtoStalin’s driven about in those huge black . interests the Ufolbgists is not what the purges,to detonating the Oklahoma bomb. The assumption among less sceptical US itor had to say, r how he said it, but his No wonder they keep their heads down. investigators has always been that these tailoring. ’Cynthia Appleton’s is the first Nevertheless, the first account of MIB were aliens trying to encourage ;vitness. ,.. British encounter with one of the Men In activities was decidedly UFO-related and es not to another word about the Black,’ says leading UFO researcher it happened in America. (Well,what did UFOs theysay had spotted. Jenny Randles. The Venusian, you see, you expect? Belgium?) Shortly after For national pride,it;:nay be reassuring’ came in black suit,tie and homburg hat. W orld War n, Albert Bender had to know that, aside from the Cynthia He was. in short, a particularly well- founded the grandly titled International Appleton case,British MIBs have always dressed alien. Flying Saucer Bureau, an organisation been rather less bizaITe. Sure,Britain has No one could claim that the Men In dedicated to the belief that UFOs were reports of the weird.But aur weird is less : Black or MIBs, as the aficionados call craft from outer space. And why not? weird than their weird. ’Here, it has I them have been thronging While it only boasted a few hundred mem- almost always been perceived that these streets ever since. Reports remain res- hers,it did manage to publish a magazine people were from the Government,’says : olutely few and far between.But interest called Space Review.The edition of JennyRandles,who has uncovered about: in this little-talked-about aspect of the ber 1953made curious reading;In it, Ben- a dozen cases from the past 40 years for: UFO phenomenon is definitely on the up. der claimed that the authorities had her book. ’Inthree quarte1’3 of they Next year,thefortieth anniversary ofCyn- solved the mystery ofthe flying saucers show ID.And they have always seemed to thia’sencounter,seesthepublicationofa and were soon to reveatall. He said visit people who sighted UFOs where new book by Randles that explores the would like to publish the evidence but . something away from the ;}orm histor and myth of the MIBs. The Inter- had been told he could not. Shortlyaftet Where a door on the UFO was said to have net is now groaning with thousands of that,Bender closed down both his maga- opened or close<i in a peculiar way. thing like that.The point is,it was always . pages dedicated to their activities;includ- . zine and his organisation. ing a new on-line magazine titled MIB.. When asked by his local paper for an. very easy to.dislniss these MIBs as men There’s also a major Hollywood movie explanation,he said he had been visited from the Inte1lige ce Ser’i<’’es. It could be called, simply, Men In’Black;starring by ’three men wearing dark suits’and driOr maybe in Britain we just invent Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith,due for ving a Cadillac, who had simply ordered stories with less release in the spring. Hell, why not beat him to stop printing material on UFOs. In the Sixties,a Carlisle fireman called the rush and prepare yoUl’wardrobe now? They had,he said, scared him so much Jim Templeton photographed what. Buy yourself a black suit, white shirt, that he ’couldn’tactually eat for a couple looked like somealien creature out on the . black tie and hat. No self-respecting fol- of days’. At first, he claimed they were moors, hovering over his young daughlower of kooky fashion will be without members of the US government. Later, ter’s shoulder,as aliens are probably wont them next year,... however,he changed his story: now they to do ofa Suuday.Jim wa.:; iater visited y In truth,Cynthia Appleton’s experience were dreadful aliens in human disguise two MIBs who drove him back to the was decidedly atypical.In the classic MIB who had come to Earth to suck up lots of scene in their Jaguar,asked him aboutthe scenario,the visitor is notidentifiably an sea water, which they needed for some weather at the time,how thP. wildlife had alien in a suit (althoughthere are many great alien project.This version ofevents reacted and then tried to get him to suggestions that they may be), and they rather undermined Bender’s credibility in confess that actually he had taken are rarely as friendly or open as Cynthia the eyes ofmany researchers. said hers was. As befits indiViduals who Other US sightings have been equally like to wear officious-looking:outfits and bizarre. In 1976, a doctor by the name of drive around in big,black scary cars,their Herbert Hopkins from Maine, who had common currency is threat and menace. become involved with investigating a They are generally accused f trying to UFO sighting,was visited by a man claimscare the bejesus out of anybody who ing to be a member of another UFO reports a UFO sighting and,while no one research organisation. The visitor wore has come up with a plausible theory as to the classic uniform:black suit,tie and hat where they come from or where they go and a white shirt. But when he took his back to when they disappear,they stand hat off he revealed he had no hair at all. accused of being pa,rt of a massive con- And when he brushed his hand across his ’Albertsaid he visited by three ’. lips it appeared he was wearing lipstick, spiracy to cover up The The Truth being, of course,that aliens which smudged desperately. 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visited by alien spacecraft. Just to prove what a jolly nice place the MoD happens to be, he’s still employed there,though he’s no longer on UFO watch. ’The MIBs are certainly a part of UFO folklore:he says now. ’But personally I can’t help thinking that it’s all part of urban myth. I never once had a case where somebody phoned up and said who were those strange people you sent round to my house? And I handled 300 cases a

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do. On the question of the MIBs and the demons,she claims not to be burdened by faith or belief in their existence. ’I know about them because I have experienced these things.’ So had she actually met any MIBs? ’I’ve never had three men turn up at my door with a black Cadillac. But that’s because I don’t think they would dare. ’There are unseen realities,’ she says. ’AndI think the Men In Black are mani. festations from those unseen realities. They trade in fear.I suspect there are non. human beings feeding off the human life force and that, when they find people whose soul has become separated from their intellect, they become easy prey to these non.human beings.’ These poor, dislocated individuals are then the protagonists behind conspiracy and,just to jolly them along, the MIBs occasionalIy appear out oftheunseen real. ities to keep the conspiracy on course. And, when necessary, kill people like .

there are MlBs out there, then I sus. pect they are merely Walter Mitty char. acterswholiketodressup.You know,like those people who pretend to be policemen or doctors. Sometimes when I go to UFO conferences I see people dressed in black sitting in the front rows furiously taking notes.I think they arejust people who like obviously the more bizarre it is, the less wearing black and being mysterious.’ likely they are to want to discuss Also, course, if Nick Pope was Mr MIB, he’s the comments MIBs make to witnesses hardly likely to admit it now,is he? In the are phrased in ways which would encour. world of UFOs and conspiracy theories, age people not to talk about any of They you have to keep your wits about you~ _"- Beethoven. say,oh people will just laugh at you. Or Still, we are in need of a solid explana. Enough,already. they are told it’s a matter ofnational secu- tion, something to help us plough a reaThe MIB myth is a variation ofthe modrity so they don’t say a sonable furrow through the mound of em conspiracy theory; the idea of some But exactly who are the MIBs? Randles rumour and myth piling up before us. greater truth hidden from the mass. has a theory. ’My that there is a Well,there is one.It’s a bit bizarre. Which In September,being The New American magadepartment within the Ministry of is to say,a bit more bizarre than anything me,mouthpiece of the John Defence.which more seriously so far (morebizaITe even.than aliens with Birch Society, dedicatedright.wing an issue to than they are letting on. For the vast green eyes,one arm and lipstick). But it’s ’Conspiracyfor Global Control’. the majority of sightings say 95 per cent worth looking at,inasmuch as of this In his introduction to the edition, there is an explanation. But occasionally is worth looking The theoryany is this: the William Jasper argues that criminal repGrts will come along that can’t be .MIBs are the manifestation evil from conspiracies to control mankind are as explained away and then they have to go unseen realities who come intoofthis world ancient as history itseIf.There is now,he out and interact with the witnesses.’ to prey on our souls. says,’a communist conspiracy. CommuTo do so,she Says, they have appropri- See? It all makes perfect sense. nism has been, and remains, the single ated theUS myth and folklore ofthe Leslie Kenton lives in the of place most dramatically significant It wou1 be a great cover for carrying out where you can imagine thatkind TI1hap-. non of our In this vast and investigations. And they would pen,and that’s definitely Things with a uniquely entertaining conspiracy theory, get to drive around in really natty black capital ’T’. Here in deepest W est Wales, the United Nations is the motor of a camJ^ work if you can get the sea crashes its brow against the dark, paign for world domination. It has, he disputes Randles’s explana. fractured cliffs and the wind tugs and claims, an organisation as evil as ti . ut then you would expect him to. pulls at the hedgerows and trees so that Spectrebecome in James movies and will For tllree years,Pope was the man in the every plant leans away in one direction as eventually take Bond over the world and MoD who was employed to sit at a desk if trying to escape the advancing shore. us all. sifting through and collating reports of It’s the perfect place for a Californian enslave In the course of his argument,Jasper IJFOs from all over the country. At the woman like Kenton. claims that this virulent conspiracy is end of his three years he claimed to have Now in her fIfties, she has lived in responsible for-take a deep breath nowbet:n converted from sceptic to believer. Britain for years, first as a health and the machinations ofthe Mafia,the rule of Accordingly,this summer he published a beauty journalist, now books on AI Capone in Chicago,the rise of Stalin, book called Open Skies, Closed Minds alternative health andwriting ageing, forever the rise ofHitler and hence the Holocaust, - which stated that we were indeed being directing her faithful readers to replace the multi.billion dollar drugs cartels,the the refined foods and lifestyles ofthe late rise ofIslamic fundamentaIism,the shoottwentieth century with the natural and ing ofPope John Paul II in 1981,the assas. unsullied. sination ofYitzhak Rabin and the OklaIf she is particularly famous for any- homa City bombing (the last two in an thing,it is for eating the placenta after her attempt to discredit the radical Right,who last child was born, to help her get in would be and were blamed.).. touch with her womanhood. This gives So, what is the truth? After all of this, you an idea of the territory she occupies. there are just two options.The first is that Kenton is relevant because, three years aliens have made contact,the MIBs have ago,she published a long (verylong)novel been sent out to shut up the people who called Ludwig. It argued that Beethoven know this, demons are trying to control gained his musical pQwers from the gods our souls.and the communists, despite all and that. because he refused to put his the setbacks ofrecent years. are working composition skills at the service of to take over world. a devilish conspiracy to subvert the The second is that, as the millennium of mankind, he was poisoned by the Men approaches,certain portions ofhumanity In Black. have decided to be just a little more It is easy to ridicule Leslie Kenton..!Dut bonkers than usual. that doesn’t mean it is the wrong thing to I know which I favour.

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might seem fatuous to review a book Lesley Grayson that’s been hovering around the top five of the bestseller lists for some weeks, but there’s always the Published by the British hope that someone out there will Library, this is one of its be prevented from letting exKeynote series giving an overview of the literature in varCivil Servant Nick Pope have a close encounter with their ious active policy areas. It is indicative of the path that modOne can pass over the foreword ern science is taking that a volby Timothy Good in discreet ume on scientific deception silence except to note that he is should be up there with ones on sure Pope’s book "will do much to environmental audit and scidispel the myth that UFOs are a ence parks, as five years ago ridiculous nonsense". If only it such a thing would have been were a myth, and if only Pope did. unthinkable. Until recently, He deserves credit for having bothered to read up on UFOs once he the science establishment has considered landed the job of dealing with sighting deception to be a relatively minor problem, reports at the Ministry of Defence, and for ccnmitted by isolated mavericks and easily taking the time to interview witnesses. revealed. It is significant that most of the Unfortunately, he seems to have been literature cited is post-1990. In the nineties, caught up in the hothouse of British realisation has dawned that scientific fraud ufology in the process,with the result either has been much more widespread and subtle that his brains cooked or he left than people had been pretending and that a them in Whitehall. His account of more orgahised approach to dealing with it historic cases worldwide begins was required; hence this volume. It is, basically, an annotated bibliography. with the ritual quotation from Ezekiel (groan), and goes so far It begins with a well thought out and downhill that he calls Erich von trating look at the culture of science,acceptD niken an arch ologist. Pope ing that science is not purely an impartial cheerily takes virtually every way of looking at the universe but also a wild claim ever made about social construct articulated by participants UFOs as grist to his mill, from in the process. It then surveys fraudulent the airship wave of 1897 and behaviour, citing a fascinating range of Roswell to the Area 51 hokum, vant literature,which takes in volumes well never once addressing the outside mainstream scientific literature, reams of critical literature on such as Richard Milton’s Forbidden Science. It encompasses much of Fortean interest, the cases he adduces. One above and beyond the consideration of scisuspects he simply hasn’t read The photo section is full of fake pictures entific fallibility, including arch ological that are never identified as such. His faking (such as Piltdown Man and skimpy, sceptic-free bibliography includes Schliemann’s Troy), Cold FUsion,Pasteur as one of ufology’s most unhinged books, a deceptionist, the first AIDS victim and the Linda Moulton Howe’s An Alien Harvest. way established scientists prevent the This, presumably, caused him to call cattle publication of radical ideas. It is a surprisingly easy read for a science mutilations "a proven fact" - which they are,but not in any ufological sense. He even policy document and provides an excellent goes so far as to claim that the Belgian window into how science works and how it "triangles" seen in 1990 correlated with can go wrong. radar targets, when even the most vocifer- BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON, 1995, PB E24.50, ous proponent of that mildly farcical event $37,40. ppl07. INDEX, BIB. ISBN: 0-7123-0831-8, admitted they did IAN SIMMONS The level of his thinking is shown well enough by his answer to the question "Why don’t aliens land on the White House lawn?". "Aliens may well be aware that the White House is surrounded by controlled Janet and Colin Bard airspace," he explains, apparently with a straight face, and "the barrage of secret service agents and their firepower would Regular readers of the authors’ ’Secret Country’ feature in FT will know prebe a"’esome". It’s not surprising that a polite silence cisely what to expect and they are not greeted Pope’s suggestion that the MoD disappointed. Newcomers to the writing of should draw up contingency plans for war Britain’s most venerable brace of geowith tJoe aliens. What’" really depressing graphical folklorists are treated to thei: knowledgeable and eclectic collections of about this book is not that it has become a local lore, organised usefully in chapters best seller, but that no one at Simon &

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MI5 also works with Rudloe. Much of the collaboration relates to Rudloe’s work in checking the credentials of RAF employees who work with classified data. They keep bulky files on RAF employees with "highly subversive" interests, Animal Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, Liberty etc. It is not known for certain whether or not the Security Services take on UFO matters, but according to an ex-MI5 employee I managed to interview, they do monitor the activities of individual UFO investigators and civilian UFO research groups.

Intense Government interest in the UFO topic doesn’t end with the MOD’s preoccupation. According to my source, the Home Office plays an operative role, sustaining teeming computer files on the subject. The MOD’s Air Staff2a has computerised UFO files, but most ofthem are pretty innocent. Nick Redfern, an outstanding Intelligence researcher, told me the database held by the Defence Intelligence Staff is meant to be explosive and refers to National Security Agency files (despite their being no such agency). My source told me there is a ’Main Computer’ within the Home Office (FI0 Division) which contains a database on several governmental issues, including UFOs. My contact also said that "only selective people can use the computer system in the matters ofNational Security". He continued, "I had a meeting with the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and at the end of it I asked him about the UFO predicament. Howard didn’t say much about the subject and went very quiet." This publicity will certainly be unwelcome. The Police Force also takes in a reasonable portion of UFO reports. The UK Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary are regularly briefed to anticipate UFO sightings in the proximity of atomic energy installations. They are to take no other action but are to prepare a report, which they then send to their superiors.

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During the 70s there was an impressive UFO encounter in Minley Manor Woods, not far from Farnborough. My source, who I’ll call ’Hannah’told me there was a strong military attendance in the woods after several hexagonal shaped UFOs visited the district. Nowadays, the area is a Mecca for enigmatic unmarked helicopters and when questioned the local Air Force, Police and Airport assure me their aircraft are not in the territory. Last year, a helicopter hovered over a housing estate early one morning. The residents got up and went outside to see what all the fuss was about and it was then they saw four pulsing red lights above a com field. The helicopter began to close in on the lights and as it got nearer, the lights shot off at great speed towards Aldershot.

In retrospect, it is now obvious that the British Government investigates UFO reports, but has it drawn any conclusions? According to some sources, the RAF did indeed reach a UFO decision asserting the root ofthe phenomena was extraterrestrial and that humankind was somehow related to the visitors! Was Darwin wrong? I daren’t say, but I have learned that during the 1960s a building called Riverwalk House, which was used by the Intelligence Services (SIS,MI6, MI5) for the compilation of Eastern bloc and Russian affairs, did have some ofthe sought after answers. Apparently, during a document review in the building’s library, two female colleagues came across a

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confidential file which stated the British Government had solved the UFO mystery, and that we really arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alone!

Certainly, some UFO cases have come to light through US documents released under provisions of Here, ministers use secrecy to suppress embarrassing findings and the Freedom of Information to protect themselves from public challenge. But the findings about UFOs may be so powerful, governments acting in our names, may only be doing so because they feel it is the right thing to do. Afer all, government influence affects just about every aspect of our lives. In matters ofnational security, it seems obvious for governments to become mute, but I believe it is time for the curtain to be lifted and governments should become more honest with society.

Act.

Encounters would like to thank Jonathon Dillon for this fascinating insight into our governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guarded silence. Should you have any information relating to RAF/MOD/Military involvement etc. with the UFO subject, Jonathon would like to hear from you. He can be contacted at 176 Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, Lancashire, BB 11

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Finally Jonathon would in turn like to thank Matt Williams, ofthe Truthseekers Review, for the Photograph, Nick Redfern and Robert Gray for their help with this article.

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The sound woke a family on a:; Association. and since Research Ministry f Defence denied then they ’The everything untUApril camping holiday, and the father, have become increasingly convinced when Squadron that Leader Donald.1983, theI:e IS something out there. checked that his own children Moreland ’ admitted that the stories were "I a.believer," were safe inside their tent. correct’ except,he says Hough. "It of aliens. said,for the involvement Disturbed by the thought of a child is as from time to time, another ’1 out on her own miles ITom nowhere; reality temporary eclipses our . Verdict: MoD own. ’cover-up. ’ """’,_ he went to look for her. He wrapped uuugs are only asI.!!! we can . himself up warmly against as. the tu:derstand.them to am always morning chill ..’ and. followed her voice. Wllling to l1e convinced ’-. the the woods. Then,suddenly, evidence,not by what I believe by or what MQor . the singmg stoPped. ther people tell us to belie~e." . iI /. -IN December , 1 1987. ’Later the family recounted Horigb ex-policeInan traces his Phillp fasclnation for Spencer the their took an early mOrning’Walk. story to a local to his. childhood. He across Ilkley Moor Shocked.he unexplained became dis11l.usioned told them that inhistorian. in Yorkshire to . 1858 a v1llager had been with science .visit his at . father-in-law. because it couldn’t provide him convicted ofmurder after throwing WIth As his he all the answers. little daughter down a passed a small overgroWn . mineshaft. quarry. he saw something He turned to’"books, move out: The site’ of the mine of the newspa.per.. comer was articles and ’.magazines n the’ saw a "smallofhis eye. He turned and exactly where the little girl’s . green creature".. singing had stopped. And when the P3.ranPrmalwhicblefthimWIthmore It quickly scuttled’ away,’ questions and even fewer answers. then. camping family had been stopped and made a dismissive, decided "to.cut out the at dawn, it was, to the wakened n;uddle movem nt with its right man, day, he the rIght hand. As.It ’ says. I wanted to 137th anniversary of the did so, Spencer photographed to the people murder. it. i who were "He these experiences instead of followed the creature around Chilling. inexplicable havmg I outcrop an. exactly theunearthly. and found sort of case that FBI Ithem filtered through someone a "hovering else.. became an investigator." special agents Fox Mulder and ! f~t?,_th,e silver Randles specia11s in Ufology. She I in The X-Files on: believes there . terri speed and TV eachinvestigate is "an intelligence" week.. a cI?Ud. gWhen behind some of tlie UFO inci1dents the he But today the SUnday returned. home he" realised he Was "missing".two Mirror can pair have reco.rded. reveal that Britain He also began hours. . its very own . The ts out there. And by . to’havecreCurr Scully and Mulder,has dreams of ng a who have spent mvestzgatmg the cases belflw. starry sky. the last 20 years inve<;Ugating Under hyPnosis. he RandIesa:ndHoughareas~ed the real-life X Files. drawn towards the told of being . . as and Mulder hovering disc and zt. then finding himself She is Jenny Randles. a inside a white room: where he Was world expert on aliensrecognjsedThe and physically: the examtned by He is Peter creatures with . ears and big eyes. pointed,:. 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died. The experience turned’him into’, a recluse. He was’known to breed’ toads and to talk t birds which would sit on his head and shoulders. Villagers believed he was a witch.. The year 1944 was a bad one for.; Lower Quinton. Despite an early’ spring, the harvest was poor, livestock : went mi.ssing and the beer went sour in local pubs. The finger of blame was i pointed at Charles Walton. I On February 14,1945, Walton was found on Meon Hill with a pitchfoI:k through his neck. A cross had been . carved from the back of his neck to his stomach and the bill-hook which . had been used was 5till ’wedged t>etw en his ribs. A few days after the . murder a black dog was found hanged .

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Alleged space craft photographed at Silver Springs, Maryland by Madeleine Rodeffer in 1965 the last few houses made of straw. One of the most significant claim to have worked there say ’. new Revolutionary years something theories are to have occurred in the ;! changes the underground base is home , .... extraordinary bas hammering at the doors of an field of UFO research has been to extraterrestrial discs, which been happening endless list ofscientific theories the increase in the number of are supposedly being ’back’ in Britain. The in physics, medicine and respected academics who have engineered’ for military use. archaeology,to name but a few. been prepared to risk their trickle of interest in UFOs and L’lke also believes that: ’Tbe A climate ofuncertainty has thus reputations by becoming X-Files has had a remarkable paranormal phenomena,which involved. TIlls has occurred in has traditionally been invest- been created which provokes effect on the British public. This both demands for change and the poJitical arena as weIl, programme has acted as a ig?,ted by a collection of an infectious, all-pervading ’flinge’ groups, and normally especially in Americ , where catalyst for many people who curiosity at all levels of our interest in the UFO phenfills the columns of a small originally were not interested omenon has become a public in UFOs but have now begun to number ofspecialist magazines, society. It could also be that due to obsession. get more involved.’ has suddenly become a raging the vast increase in interest in Roy Lake, who heads a UFO torrent. It appears that what Nick Pope: the study group in London and has was once considered the the lJFO phenomenon,whether maverick at the MoD domain of a few enthus:’lstic in the form ofscience fiction or been investigating the phenom- When Tbe X-Files was first i,’ documentaries or media enon for states: ’There 43 years, amateurs has now become a investigations, a more open is no doubt that interest in UFOs screened on BEC 2, its viewing subject of major public atmosphere has been created and alien visitors is at an all-time figures of6.2 million mack it the fascination,increasingl~’fuelled channel’s most popular progra. in which high.’ He believes paI1 of the by the mainstream media who confident about It’s success has been slIch mme. reason for this is to do with the discussing the are falling over themselves in a that it has since transfel1’ed to 70f flood of materia] coming from competitive frenzy to feed this BEC 1 and is now showing twice wilii America. l There has ancrill re been a IS:. exponential growth in all things scientists admitting evel)’ If you beJi~ve the massive growth of interest in just how weird, wonderful and celJainly limited their knowledge is, subjects such as Area 51, the characters in Tbe X-F c:s to be extraterrestrial. being agnostic about UFOs notorious US military instaJlation pure fiction, then think again. The reasons behind this seems an ever more reasonable at Groom Lake, Nevada, where Although quite clearly not in explosion. of interest arc position. One thing is certain ’black budget’ operations arc the same league as the teJevision complex and .mu]tifaceted. though: the actual number carried out - the building of the character, refers Perhaps part of the reason lies reported sightings increased Stealth bomber and ’Sial’ Wars’ as ’the real Fox in the fact that many old ulder’. From 1991 to 1994, enoflllously over I.las the last fewl technology research for paradigms arc collapsing like years. example.Variolls witnesses who special c!epat1ment at

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The at first stationary, moved craft seemed to be zig-zagging security’ might be a simple red however, done undercover b}’ erratical1y towards him at a at phenomenal speed all across speed of several hundred arious intelligence agencies. herring,a justiJ ation forfurther miles It could just be, therefore. spending on weapons of war the country. ’By lunchtime’, an hour. At one point it t red a even. All we can do is hope that Pope realised, ’it became beam of light at the ground, that Pope’s Concern at his their intentions are benign, obvious that I was right in the colleagues’cynicism is misplaced which swept the Count0’side - few of them would because it is obvious that ifthey centre of the biggest wave of from left to know if right as if it was wanted to destroy us they would UFO sightings ever reported in looking for there was top secret.research something.’ The most likely have the capacity to Britain’. being undertaken in this officer reported seeing the do so. For them we could be One ofthe sightingsin Wales Coumr\’ into UFOs, and wbile object for a full t lT minutes _ just a diverting anthropological \yas reported by a man ,,’ith state security agencies \yould long enough to estimate that it field trip, I’ast experience in aviation and hal’e ready access to all ofPope.s was larger than a jumbo jet and Although Pope stares that mathematics. Knowing thelocal lues (without his knowledge!. to notice that it was emitting his conversion from sceptic to terrain extremely Pope himself \vould be unable well, he had the same low frequency bass believer Occurred gradually _ managed to time the UFO’s hum previously to discO\"er the extent - or even reported. ’Thedrip,drip,drip effect’, as he passage between two points on the existence - of intelligence Pope then conducted a describes it he also asserts that the horizon databases and, knowing the on all the \’arious UFO investigation if it was particular cases arriving distance between these land- alITten’estlial explanation phenomena. could on his desk thar were respons- marks, was Takeaway food? ible for tipping the balance. the craft able to calculate that along at Although Pope was sent reports’ ’\’Tere I to name one day in the about \vere ripping erc.1t his.Lob. 100 mph - roughly ElL He could t nd none. He itofalleged alien abduction cases. three years I spent as the equivalent to the top speed of realised that ’\’as not in his brief to deal there were roo ministry’s UFO expert which an F-16 jet t ghter aircraft. with them,so he passed details many visual sightings from convinced me that extraA group of t ve people in of the cases on to UFO experts. tmsrworth}" sources to ignore terrestrial spacecraft are regularly Staffordshire described seeing He was also aware ofthe strange the impIications ohvhat he had visiting the Earth, it would have a huge diamond-shaped object animal mutilations that ha\’e heard, and wrote a detailed to be ;\’Iarch 31st. 1993.’ t1ying so low over their heads report for his been occurring 011 a large scale bosses at the March 31st 1993 that could estimate its size since 1967, primarily in Ministr~". much to_his In the morning Pope received a to be about 200 metres in A.merica. In 1993 he began to surprise, \vent the call from a police constable in diameter - far larger than ’ r cei\’e the first reports of any assistant Air Devon who, along with his man-made flying machine. animal mutilations in Britain. ’H As it colleagues, described initially \vent past them they heard a In se\’eral places jn the south of . was little else he could do. seeing two bright lights, very low humming sound, England it was discc":ered that so together with a third, fainter horses and family pets had been deep it was similarto the bass at what disturbed Pope he one darting across the night subjected to an inexplicable a rock concert. The low bass was the fact that whate"er The officers \vere com-inced it frequcnc)’reverberated method of mutilation where through had zig-zagged across Britain on was like nothing they had ever their bodies. Utterly t1esh is removed in neat circles, amazed, the nighr of the 30th lvlarch had seen before, and stated in their they jumped into their and genitals and other organs car and invaded British air space and bored report that they were three craft screeched down the road in Pope was required hot probed military instal1ations to refer these cases on to the Hying in tight formation. . pursuit, but the craft had gracewithout e’"en being picked up police or to rhe ;\linistry of Pope then began to be fully accelerated away.They had . radar early warning systems. Agriculture, by besieged by calls from other no hope of catching with Fisheries and Food. up Its technical superiority was so \vitnesses, who described Unsurprisingly, their ’clear up So far, the reports had great that.should it hal’e prol’en rate’ was a little on tbe low seeing exactly the same objects originated from non-military to be hostile, there could have side. Pope is now planning a tra\’elling at extremely high personnel, so when Pope been no defence against If follo\v-up book which wi]] speed,then stopping instantane- received a call from a meteoroel’er there was an issue of cover the ’alien abduction’ ously and hoveIing in mid-air. logical officer stationed at an national securiry for the illoD. phenomenon.

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After all, what remained fairly stationary, and therefore succeeded in general public or from le ranks could better demonstrate their failed to show any revealing exposing a vast world-wide of govemment.’ disaffection with dogmatic details as the autopsy took place. audience to the existence of Pope says that his elders than to openly embrace The story was that this autopsy the UFO phen-omenon. It has years spent investigm:i gUF the idea of alien beings whose had been conducted in a tent clearly illustrated that the i eritwis" ’al 1 ’g po\ver far outstrips that of any because of the urgent need to public (and UFO experts) are v )’aiic’ and one terrestrial government? operate on the badly decompo- far less gullible than many that has turned his world view The interest in aliens and sing body. expected them to be, and it has completely inside out. He UFOs also seems to have The footage was presented clearly been one of the major concludes that the in1plications inttrated the rave scene, with by Philip J\lantle, head of the factors responsible for trigger- of the reality of an alien the appearance of a number of famous British UFO Research ing the exponential growth of presence on earth are beyond clubs which cater for these Association (BUFORA), who interest in many of the more the means of adequate combined interests. Club Alien has received a great deal of serious aspects of the whole expression: ’It is beyond the in London is a good example, criticism from the UFO alien and UFO subject in scope of any single indiYidual where the organisers invite UFO community for his ’support of general. to comprehend or put into experts to lecture at the club and association with’ Mr. one as There’s no doubtthat if But, member words. panel and to hang out with the ravers Santilli, the producer who observed, much of the interest sucha presence were ’officially’ who can then ask questions claims to have bought the in the footage probably stems established it would change the about theirfavourite UFO topics. footage from the US military from the fact that two main way humanity views itself for Alien autopsy Hl1n cameraman whoshotitin 1947. questions still have to be gets the thumbs down During the discussion on the answered: Who made the film \\Then I persisted in asking Nick Pope has been very busy authenticity of the footage, and why was it made? He also him where he thought the this yeard0 1g the lecture circuit chaired by Mantle" the over- points out that, although he answers to the UFO phenomand promoting his book. He whelming consensus was that believes it to be a hoax, ’Noone enon lie, he finally replied: ’If recently appeared at the Fortean this was an elaborate hoax. has actually come along with you want to know where the Unconuention held on April When the audience were asked absolute proof that it’s a fake. answer is to what is actually 20th and 21 st in London. if they thought it was a fake, \’(Thich leaves the uncomfo11able going on with the whole UFO Amongst the plethora of weird prankaJIy all hands shot up. element of possibility that it and alien subject, the place to subjects under discussion was The most interesting aspect could yet tum out to be real’. fmd it is almost defmitely buried the ’alien autopsy’film associated of the Santilli film is that it is Open skies but a lot of somewhere deep within the with the Roswell incident. still the centre of so much American government.’ closed minds A discussion panel met attention. Despite 99 per cent Given the seemingly optimistically,that: following a showing of the film of the UFO community ’When unquenchable public thirst for in its entirety, including the condemning it as a hoax, it will change their more information,and its need a notorious ’tent sequence’. This continues to fascinate the -’p; to be given some real answers, A lot of involved a similar type of ’alien’ public. In fact, if the footage is perhaps one day those secrets rf is very body to that seen in the footage part of some elaborate sensational and therearealotof will finaJIy emerge. mI first shown to the media back in disinformation campaign greatcasesthatwillm~kepeopJe the summer of 1995. This designed to discredit the look at this in a whole new sequence proved to be even Roswell crash, it seems to have light.’ But he adds that: ’UntiJ less convincing than the footage backfired dramatically. Like we have the sta11 key ofan actual shot in the ’autopsy room’. 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PHILIP MANTLE, of the British UFO Research Asso tion (BUFORA), has interviewed many of the BO Britons daiming alien encounters says: "There ore too IT1CI1)’ He involving sane, sober, and honest people for itdecent to be lSCOUnted. "The f oct t h at 0 II

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RETIRED forester Bob Taylor will never forget that day in November 1979 when he was attacked by a UFO in a Scottish wood. Bob, 78, who now in Tayside, says: "I lives was walking through Dechmont woods with my red setter Lara and as I turned this corner there was this 250ft spinning top thing in front of me. "These sea-mine-type things with spikes on them came out of the back and grabbed my trousers ripping right" through to my

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crawled the mile to f home and told his wife he’d been attacked by a UFO. The police were called to the scene and their report "The marks Dad-of-five Bob states: indicated an object

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deserted. SUddenly, bright 3:The girlfriends lights appeared to hover Dateline: uly, 1981 in front of Vivien Hayward’s car. AB, Roseman’ Hawkins Valerie WaiterS noted thatand a machine. Valerie I’ecalled: the huge object ahead was silent. "Something grabbed my shoulFoster carer 40, ders and a voice told me not to recalls that nightRosemary, 15 years ago: be afraid. "Our engine lost power. was in a room with no dool’S the object’s lights dimmedThen and a tall, long-haired man it disappeared. We arrivedand and at woman appeared. The a police station at 2.50 we’d female tried on my shoes and fell. I lost half an hour." asked what they wanted and was Under hypnosis, Rosemary told: will be a time when remembered being scanned in you’ll"There understand’."

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’,amed by electric pylons and ow hilI’s: There’s a bridge (not remotely bonny), a . Chinese takeaway, two pubs and 5,450 people. - and from the There’s also plenty of window of their seventh-floor flat, pensioners Bill and Mabel Bestall can see most of If thev arc preoccupied with the view, few can them. From their windows, they have witnessed UFO activity on no less than three occasions. Bizarrely, pemaps, this small, close-knit community has become the scene of Scotland’s real-life a town where, with startling regularity, resIdents report evidence of alien activity, The.most dramatic of these sightings took place In ,the early hours of the morning last January. It was about a quarter to five, and got up in the night,’ remembers ’Suddenly, a large circular light hovering over Bonnybndge and reaIised it was heading towards our flats. ’Next, two smaller circular objects came into view, spinning around the larger one. [ was intrigued and called the wife to corne and look. However, as it got nearer, we became scared. It was huge and it was heading straight for us. But then it suddenly rose up and over . the top of the flats.’ Perhaps it was a plane. Or a helicopter. Or pemaps Mr Bestall is completely batty. and so is his wife who, incidentally. confinns everv detail. All these are possibilities. But when look at the sheer statistical mass of sightings bv people in the Bonnybridge area. then the likelihood is that tile Bestalls are telling the truth. For some reason, this corridor of countryside between Glasgow and Edinburgh is a UFO hOL~p<Jt. Of all sightings in Scotland, two-thirds occur witll n it. ’To my knowledge, 3.000 people have seen sometlllng unusual in our skies during the past few years,’ says Bonnybridge councillor Bill Buchanan. ’And there must be many more I who have been afraid to come forward.’ Walk down the main street, and everyone knows someone who’s seen a UFO. At the electrical goods shop, it’s Anne Stewart’s daughter, Carol, who had a night encounter with bright, flying objects whik driving home. ’We were at the pub when she rang us, terrified,’ says her mother. ’The whole bar piled outside to have a look, but whatever it was had Meanwhile, at the post office, Marlene Flenng has been keeping a secret for years. It concerns an elderly friend who went fishing one and saw a bright night at nearby St Helen’s

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