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Regular readers know that I have more than a few soapboxes I like to climb up on.

They might also remember a particular soapbox I climbed on a few issues ago, when I predicted that the opening up of space to countries other than the United States would produce a sudden blossoming of previously ‘unknown’ knowledge about our nearest planetary bodies. I may also have intimated that these ‘new’ discoveries would blow open the shroud of secrecy that has been thrown over the exploration of space.

Well! Lo and behold, Indian scientists have unexpectedly discovered evidence of organic matter on the Moon.

Yes, correct! On their first foray into space, Indian scientists have made a discovery that 40 years of American astronauts and moon probes and moondust samples have never ever revealed.

The question now is: do we really believe that NASA is that dumb? That after all this time and money and effort, they really didn’t notice biological traces on the Moon?

Or do we believe that they could be that sneaky? Could they have known all along that there was organic matter on the moon (and water, and underground tunnels, and oh, the list goes on), and they simply ‘forgot’ to tell us?

It is difficult to imagine that this could be the case. What would anybody have to gain from keeping such information a secret? What does it really mean to announce that there is ‘organic matter’ on the moon?

Admittedly this knowledge changes our perspective of ourselves and humanity’s place in the universe. It puts a small chink in our armour, makes us feel a tad insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It’s possible some people may feel vulnerable and insecure. I mean – life on the Moon? Cripes! Whatever next?

That’s the metaphysics of it.

The material part of it, the dirty part, is that we are now faced with the possibility that NASA – and by extension the western scientific establishment – has lied to us for a very long time. And if they haven’t been lying to us, if they truly didn’t know, then what the hell have they been doing with themselves for the last 40 years????

Which of course brings us to the next question… what do they know about Mars that they aren’t telling us?

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251 cOntains: sightings.........................................4 from england to stanthorpe...........................7 scotland’s forgotten ufo photos...................................8 the abduction account of rosalind reynolds........12

> president’s report...............16 news .................................................18 "The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed." - Malaysian proverb 3

marcH- DecemBer 2009 Nerang - Gold Coast hinterland, QLD, March 4 2009, 7.00pm Four witnesses observed a bright light high up in the sky approximately 50 times the size of a star. Over the next 30 minutes it descended vertically into the Nerang Forest and a glow could be seen where it settled in the trees. The object soon shot a subtle green hollow beam of light, like a "green tunnel", across to the neighbouring suburb of Highland Park.

Immediately another light flash responded from the other side of the forest from the Mt Nathan area. This light was described as "bright as a football stadium light". This flash only lit up for two seconds. Ten seconds later the first object split into two light sources while still low in the forest, then reintegrated, became brighter and disappeared.

The caller was shaken by what she saw and said she had no interest in UFOs until she had this sighting. She's 33 years old and two of the other witnesses were her husband and mother. The caller stated there was no housing in the Mt Nathan area so she was unsure what explanation could be found for the bright secondary flash of light. Her own home backed onto the Nerang forest. The entire incident occurred over a two hour period. The family have seen these lights five times since the 18th of February doing similar things and feel quite unsettled by the latest incident on March 4.

Virginia, Brisbane, QLD, March 3 2009, 5.45pm A cyclist riding on Sandgate Road observed a metallic spherical object about 2 o'clock in the sky on his right. It was at a 45 degree angle and shimmering. He estimated it was over the suburb of Wooloowin, very high about the height of a plane, then disappeared.

Caboolture, QLD, March 12 2009, 9.00pm The caller was a 13 year old girl who was in bed when she saw something fall

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from the sky. It was bright green, fluorescent and slowly started coming towards her glass window. Her room started to go dark and she saw a figure with 2 arms outside. It got darker then slowly started retreating. Then it spiraled like a tornado. The object became brighter like it exploded with sparks coming from it. 30 or 40 seconds later she saw a figure, which disappeared.

Redbank Creek near Esk, QLD, March 17 2009 The caller witnessed a bright white circular light emitting from the nearby creek. He first saw it emanating through the trees on the side of the creek. His wife woke up and she saw it too. The light was 2 metres in diameter and seemed to be hovering above the water.

It moved down the creek for 50 metres, paused, then moved back to its original position. Then it moved in the opposite direction and he watched it for 20 minutes before it disappeared.

Six years ago, between 7 and 9pm one night, he and his wife were at a BBQ with four other couples. They all saw an orange light in the sky that hovered over them for a few seconds before disappearing to the north "faster than a speeding bullet".

On another occasion they were returning from Ipswich and saw five black helicopters being followed by a white light that disappeared.

On another occasion while driving to Toogoolawah a bright light descended behind their vehicle, lighting up the interior of the car. It stayed momentarily then vanished. The light made no noise.

When he was three years old he was "sleepwalking" and stumbled across a presence in a shroud. It told him to "never to be afraid". When he was going through a divorce he kept hearing a voice

that repeatedly said Asha-Hama. He later discovered it meant Shaman or Indian Spiritual Man.

Labrador, Gold Coast, QLD, March 18 2009 9.00pm A man and his aunty were sitting outside when they saw a single white light in the sky. It moved across the sky in a few seconds, then did a sharp right angle turn, then headed west. The object seemed to go faster once it changed direction, disappearing extremely fast. It moved much faster than a plane or jet, no flashing lights, no sound.

Two years previously in the early morning while driving on Nappa Road near Seaworld on the Gold Coast, something caught his attention over the ocean. It appeared to be a bubble of light, 50 metres across. It was not transparent but appeared like an apparition. It was there, then it was not there. He only caught sight of it for a few seconds.

Berrick (Gippsland) VIC, March 19 2009 The caller observed an orange light moving slowly and intelligently near Hallam Road. It emitted no noise and traveled at the height of a small plane estimated to be less than 2000 ft. Parts of the light dropped off but the size of the light did not diminish. It repeated this dropping off, again without the diminishing of the size of the light. He had seen exactly the same thing in 1995 at Tooralgan and 1997 at Narrewarren.

He wondered if it had anything to do with the earthquakes in Melbourne at the time.

Logan Village, March 29 2009, QLD 8.00pm A man observed a white object moving south west while traveling along the Waterford Tamborine Road. It was moving erratically and appeared to be the size of a star but brighter. He observed it for 20 minutes.

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Sovereign Island, QLD, March 30 2009 10.00pm A security guard was looking towards Paradise Point from Sovereign Island when he saw two yellow-orange lights one behind the other. They were flying low, about the height of a small plane, moving north in a straight line. The objects seemed to remain an even distance apart. At the same time he witnessed the objects he could smell a strange odour like crushed tree leaves but he didn't know if it was related. There were two witnesses and the person reporting the sighting had been in the military.

Ipswich, QLD, April 1 2009 9.30pm The witness observed what she thought was a plane with no lights, moving at high speed. The object was cylindrical - cigar shaped - and was silent. It was moving faster than a plane and was lost to view behind trees and the street light.

Burpengary, QLD, April 30 2009, 8-9.00pm Three witnesses were looking west when they saw an egg-shaped ball moving faster than a plane across the sky. It was soundless as it moved then stopped and diminished to the size of a star.

Caboolture, QLD, April 30 2009, 4.00pm A photographer was driving north towards the Grant/Walker roundabout when he saw a silvery metallic object about 2 km away. It appeared to be 30 to 50 meters high, very small and gave the appearance of a foil balloon. He kept watching it and it was still there when he got to the roundabout. It turned and its surface became a matt grey where before it had been bright and shiny. It seemed to be moving to and fro 500 yards away. He stopped, got out of his vehicle and watched it for a minute while it was stationary. It now looked like a flat rectangle tapered at one end. Its distance was hard to judge. It moved away to the SE and disappeared over the horizon. The witness reported the sighting to the Caboolture police.

Sydney, NSW, May 3 2009, 5.40pm A man was on his way to a supermarket when he saw orange lights in the sky in a triangular formation. They appeared to be high up and far away. He stopped his vehicle and noted that the formation seemed to be moving away along his line of sight. One by one they faded into the sky. When seen at their closest, the lights were orange and brighter than the morning star. They moved W to NW, their line of sight 45 degrees over Five Dock.

The lights were observed for about 10 minutes in a clear sky.

Carindale, Brisbane, QLD. June 23 2009, 11.00pm Four witnesses observed a large bright yellow star with a tail in the western sky.

Then they observed another light in the north east which, on gaining closer proximity appeared to be six flashing

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lights. They moved low and slowly across the sky at tree height and were observed for 45 seconds to a minute.

park, when something bright came into view over the horizon. It was cigar-shaped and silver in colour, with long lines of light running from end to end - I have since determined that these were part of the craft's camouflage system, as they served only to disorientate myself and my wife and made it difficult to focus on the object.

The craft was moving slowly from the south to the north. It was not silent - it made a whirring noise that, while soft, Archerfield, Qld, November 7 2009, 10.00pm was clearly audible. As it passed across I record motorsport racing in SE QLD and the setting sun I lost sight of it. was doing this at Brisbane International Speedway last Saturday night. In a break Wishart, December 10 2009, 1.30am during the racing, I noticed some strange lights in the SW sky and do not have a Early on Thursday morning 10 December clue what it/they were. Unfortunately 2009, at about 1.30am I got up to go to they appeared behind a tree and the bathroom. I happened to look at the therefore I could not get a totally window and saw a very bright light just unrestricted shot of it. This was about hanging in the sky. Our bathroom 10.00pm last Saturday night alongside window faces south-east so from where Archerfield Airport at the Speedway, I was looking out my window in Wishart looking in a south-westerly direction . If it seemed to be somewhere out towards you can figure out what it is, please let the bay maybe. me know. There was no sound from it On Thursday morning I told my husband (possibly it was too far away). about the light and he said it was probably the moon. I know this was not Brisbane area, November 11 2009 the moon that I saw because this is not On the 11.11.09 my mum and dad were the first time I have seen this type of outside. My dad came into my room and light. Over the past few years I have told me that there was an enormous star seen this type of light probably two or outside, so I went out and looked. Me three other times. But I've never thought to report it. and dad looked at the star for about 5 minutes then we got the binoculars. It Generally the light appears to be round/ looked like there was more than one oval and is very bright. On Thursday thing there. The light was amazing. We morning the light was just hanging in took photos - we turned off the flash and the sky, barely moving, hovering. On sat it on the tripod on timer mode. The previous occasions I have seen the light drop down really suddenly and then pictures were so strange, they came out continue to hover. It seems too strange as squiggles. I showed my friend who I for this type of movement to be a plane was talking to on msn at the time, she and there are no flashing lights on it said it was also scary. I am 14, and I like a plane would have. have seen a thing like this another time when I was sitting in the car with my I hope this account helps with your records. I would love to know if someone mum waiting for dad to come home else saw what I saw. Next time I see it I because we didn't have the key. I was will grab my camera and try to take a looking in the rear vision mirror and it short video of it. lit up blue. I freaked out, turned around and told mum to look, I think it was a Hoppers Crossing, VIC, December 21 2009, 10.55pm meteor. I am not making this up.

I was standing in my back yard emptying a used can of drink and while Kilkivan, Qld, November 19 2009, 9.51pm looking up towards the stars saw this At 9:51pm on the 19th November 2009 I unusual object fly by quickly. was putting the calves away outside It was light brown in colour, shaped like when I looked up at the stars and saw a this -: (being rectangular shapes close thick faded white line across the sky. This together). From my position it was line wasn't straight, but after I went approximately the size of a large egg. It inside to get the camera it was fading was not 100% clearly outlined but it was and when I went to video it, it was so something I’ve never seen before. It did faded that I could only just see it. not make any noise while passing over.

All I saw was three light brown Lake Eyre, September 2009, rectangles pass over, there was no Three weeks ago, while trekking through stream or flashing lights or anything like the Lake Eyre National Park, my wife and that. It passed across the sky in a dead I had what can only be described as a straight line. As it passed over it just close encounter of the third kind. It was disappeared without fading away or early evening, and we were coming to anything like that in a westerly direction the end of a day-long nature tour of the at approx 80 degrees to the horizon. It

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was also a clear night so no wind clouds or rain.

The only reaction was the surrounding dogs in the area barking on and off for 20 minutes after I saw it. There were no physical effects or changes afterwards except for goosebumps from head to toe as I’ve never seen something like that before.

After the sighting I saw a shooting star.

It was a very clear night so all the stars were visible. Sadly no photographic evidence as it passed over quickly. I did stay out for a while after to see if it would come back but it didn’t. I am also very familiar with aircrafts and do have some astronomy knowledge.

Gold Coast, January 8 2010, 8.30pm I just have a quick question to ask, as I hope that someone with a bit more knowledge can shed some light.

Last night Friday 8th January at around 830pm me and a couple of mates where drinking on the beach - just to verify I had not been drinking as I was driving.

We were watching shooting stars when my mate caught his eye on one and we all found it too. It did not have a star trail at all but still just looked like a star, and all of a sudden it changed direction a few times then proceeded to do a “uturn,” and went behind a couple of clouds. I think it lasted for about 15-20 seconds then just vanished.

I would like to know, do shooting stars change direction like this and speed up and slow down??? I assure you this is no prank, I am merely asking a question as it has left me wondering.

Western Australia, 1959-1960, reported November 24 2009 My name is Harry, and I live in Western Australia and have been very interested in the UFO subject for many years. What started my interest in the UFO factor is the following: Back in the year of 1959-1960, I recall looking into the night sky; it was dark about 8.30pm on a summer's night. I noticed four red lights moving slowly from east to west, each where a uniformed distance between each other, approximately forty to fifty yards apart.

As I kept watch the red round discs moved at an even pace, they would stop and start, and then moved in a stop and start fashion but individually, that is one disc would move off then stop until the next disc caught up then it would stop until they where all together, this went on for about fifteen minutes, then they all stopped and suddenly and very quickly they all took off each in a different direction.

Unfortunately I have not seen them since. Although I still occasionally go out in the evenings in a hope I might see more unexplained objects.

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Stanthorpe, 1993 My husband and I used to walk the dog after supper. One evening we were walking along Mount Tully Road and we watched a searchlight beam move over the bush to our left. It moved fairly slowly and came close to us by about 20 metres. But there was no sound at all, no helicopter to explain it.

Spring Bluff, near Toowoomba, 1999 I went to the property of a man who was a Homeopath who lived on a bush property with his wife, a nurse. They bred Clydesdales and I went to take photographs because I was commissioned to make a lifesized Clydesdale horse in fibreglass. I turned up with my sketchbook and tape measure and they invited us to take tea. he then told me how his Clydesdale mare had been killed an mutilated. The unborn foal had been taken, part of the jaw and ear taken also. He found no tracks or apparent disturbance and although he informed the stock inspector, nothing was done. I had asked him if the remains had been properly examined but he said not. I had wondered if the jugular vein had been opened and blood drained as I had heard that these animal mutilations might have been for bood 'food'. he didn't know and only mourned the loss of a friend and valuable breeding animal.

Glen Aplin, 12 kms south of Stanthorpe, 2006 I had called an ambulance for my husband who had severe chest pains. We lived on a dirt road - it was about 11pm and I stood outside the front door so that when the ambulance arrived I could flag them down. As I stood idly staring ahead, I became aware of a very bright light, almost squarish, travelling slowly

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towards Stanthorpe. As I watched it descended and then disappeared. It took about 25 seconds.

Glen Aplin, 10 kms south of Stanthorpe, 2006 A woman friend who lives on the new England Highway used to sit out on her verandah in the evenings. On more than one occasion, just on dusk she noticed a bright light coming up parallel to the new England Highway, then at about her place they would turn at a right angle and continue on towards Stanthorpe.

She would watch them descend and disappear

Severnlea, about 6 kms south of Stanthorpe, October 2009 Two woman friends had been out for a meal in Stanthorpe and were motoring home; they had not been drinking, they said. As they drove past the Topaz caravan park they notice a bright light slowly going east over the bush at Severnlea. It descended and then disappeared and I conjectured that it may have passed over the Ananda Palli buildings in Back Creek Road. The girl that told me this was quite embarrassed - she said that people would think you crazy if you told them you had seen something like this!

Glen Aplin, November 25 2009 A woman invited me onto her property and showed me the place where some orb like lights danced about - just about 50 metres from her house and she had found this disturbing. Some neighbours about 100 meters away from her moved out last year in a hurry, she told me, because apparently they had been really frightened by something - too frightened to even describe to her what had happened. These people live close to the Severn River.

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If you live in the Stanthorpe area and you, or someone you know, has seen a UFO, why not report it to our new Stanthorpe Affiliate?

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Part 1 England This was a strange situation indeed and it implies that a teacher knew what was going on and maybe helped arrange it.

I was employed as a co-ordinator for a Centre for personal growth in 1972, at the East London Encounter Centre. It was decided that group leaders needed to be taught and that classes should be made available for them. It cost 45 pounds and a weekend in Oxfordshire was arranged at what was a Quaker conference centre called Charney Manor. I drove there in my old van and took with me a couple of friends.

We were presented with classes on dream interpretation, creative symbolic expression in clay, art therapy, bioenergetics, primal therapy and other topics. It was interactive and I volunteered to be 'guinea-pig' for the primal therapy re-birth group.

After the group finished and we had eaten, I saw one group leader, Yann Rees, with two others in the gardens waving his arms about and I asked him what he was doing.

"Clearing the grounds" was his reply; I didn't understand what he meant but went to the dormitory style bedroom and lay down on the bed. Although there were 4 beds in the room, only one was taken by Yann's secretary, Barbara, and she was resting too.

I closed my eyes and felt really good - a nice sort of tingly feeling. Then Barbara said: "Carolyn, there's a light over your bed,"

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and sounded sort of surprised.

I couldn't be bothered to answer, and the tingling I felt grew stronger.

"Carolyn, it's getting brighter," she said, more strongly this time. I still didn't move as the tingle feeling felt so good.

Then Barbara got really upset and she said," Carolyn open your eyes. The light is getting so strong and it's hurting my eyes."

Like one nagged to do the washing up I opened my eyes and stared above the bed in fascination. What I saw was a scene just like the night skies - dark sprinkled with stars except for the central part which was black. (Please note the article in this edition of Encounter from Argentina. the witness here walks under a UFO to get home and when he looked up, he saw a circular area of what looked like the night sky. This and my experience leads me to question if this could be a portal of some kind).

- back to the story As I gazed into this dark area, suddenly I wasn't in the room any longer but out 'there' somewhere. Then I sort of encountered an entity and the only way I could describe the experience was wonderful - something so good and wise and I must have sort-of fused with it - like an ethereal hug! The next memory is of that being back on the bed - Barbara was asleep and it was now dark. So over an hour had gone by. I would like to undergo hypnosis when I find a suitable practioner to see if I can get at any more detail.

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about Greys, medical experiments and soon, my experience was very reassuring and I feel that with more understanding I might be able to repeat this experience.

"Guadian Angel?" Yann Rees asked when I told him about it the next day.

"No, I am not religious," I replied but what ever it was, I told him, if those sorts of entities were looking after this planet, we didn't have to worry about anything.

Part II Australia 1987 Murphy's Creek I was engaged to export foliage to Japan and Europe. We roamed over about 6000 acres of bush, picking on private properties, the National State Forest, and what was when then a Gatton Agricultural property and there were about 8 pickers. We used compasses, lots of maps, motorbikes, and made paths and produced about 1000 bunches a week of caustis blakei and varied amounts of Australian Grasstree fronds (called Blackboys then) under Cites agreements. One of our pickers had a strange experience.

Des was driving with his son one night, 'bobby dazzling' or dazzling rabbits with the car headlights to shoot them for his dogs. In the headlights he saw a bright orb, about 30cms across, rolling down the road ahead (White mountain road). Then the car electric started to play up. First the lights went out, then the ignition and they couldn't move. The car only came to life again after the orb had disappeared.

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Scotland has seen its fair share of UFO sightings over the years with much of the UFO activity occurring over the skies of Fife and the town of Bonnybridge in Stirlingshire. However, there are two cases involving photographic evidence that are rarely seen in the public domain, two very different but nonetheless quite incredible photographs and experiences.

THE CRAIGLUSCAR RESERVOIR UFO INCIDENT, SCOTLAND’S MOST FAMOUS UFO PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE 19TH OF FEBRUARY 1994 Good UFO photographs are few and far between; sophisticated computer enhancement rules the roost and blows out of the water any potential UFO photographic candidate. Scotland has rarely seen what could be termed a ‘good’ UFO photograph (apart from the Polmont Reservoir 1991 picture), but all this was soon to change, for on Saturday the 19th of February 1994, Scottish Ufology was presented with what I feel to be ‘the best UFO photograph to have been captured on film in Scotland’. Not only is the photograph clear and sharp, but the witness testimony in regards to the actual incident itself is, I feel, the most honest and lucid testimony that I have ever heard spoken in all my years as a UFO researcher. The actual case itself was passed on to me by Nick Pope of the British Ministry of Defence, who at that time was still occupying his seat at the UFO desk in Whitehall, (Air Staff). In fact, Nick was informed about this case in the first instance by the Scottish Daily Record

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Newspaper. In a typed statement to the author witness Ian McPherson (44) from a town near Dunfermline had this to say about his UFO encounter.

“On the afternoon of Saturday the 19th of February 1994, I drove to Craigluscar Reservoir just outside of Dunfermline in order to take some photographs of that area. I am an amateur artist, and wanted the photographs to assist me in producing a painting of the reservoir. I am a member of the local angling club who stock and have the fishing rights to the water. Already having taken photographs there in the summer, I wanted to have several of the landscape in the winter. I took a number of photographs as I walked along the bank of the reservoir, and pondering whether I should take some photographs looking east, away from the water, I became aware of what I can only describe as a kind of humming noise, such as that from high voltage power lines. I also felt very uneasy, and turned slowly towards the reservoir.

“Fairly high in the air, and coming slowly in my direction, was a disc like object which was definitely an ‘aircraft’. I was holding my camera in my hand but somehow felt unable to use it. I have never experienced such a feeling before. I did not think of taking a shot.

In retrospect, it seems as if there must have been some kind of compulsion.

I was concentrating on the craft, yet not really absorbing what was happening. At that

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point I was very afraid, but I now realize that the fear passed and was replaced by a sense of ‘relaxed resignation’, (I don’t have better words to describe it). I later realised that I must have been looking at whatever it was for more than fifteen minutes. The craft came close enough for me to see that it was definitely metallic, and had several points of diffused light on its underside inside a darker colored ‘rim’. As the craft began to move away, all sense of the feelings that had stayed my hand disappeared. I raised my camera and took two photographs. The craft’s acceleration was phenomenal. By the time I had wound the film on between the two shots, it was a mere dot in the sky to the west. There was no noise at all, apart from the ‘humming’ when it was near to me. I know nothing at all about UFOs, and the subject does not interest me. But nothing of what I saw or experienced was in my ‘imagination’.

Of that I am certain. Later that day, I telephoned R.A.F. Pitrevie to enquire as to whether there had been any unusual air activity that day. I was told there had not been. I am an aircraft enthusiast myself, and pride myself in their recognition. I know that what I saw was no conventional aircraft”.

FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 1994 “After speaking with Malcolm Robinson of BUFORA last night, it seems a lot easier to put down my thoughts about what I saw last Saturday without feeling ‘silly’. Because I did! Even when talking to the people from the newspaper”. (Ian knew that he had photographed something quite extraordinary, and that if he developed these photographs himself, he would probably be labeled a hoaxer, and so he felt that by handing them over to the Daily Record Newspaper to develop, this might be more acceptable. But then of course there was the added thought, that what he had photographed, might not come out on film! Still, he had to chance it. Something extraordinary had happened, and he not only needed verification, but he wanted to know what it was). Ian continues the story. “I felt there was only so far I could go. But here was someone who was not only knowledgeable and enthusiastic, but someone who could if not explain it, then at least reassure me on certain points.

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Not least was Malcolm’s contention that the inability to use the camera at certain times was not unusual. I was glad to hear that. Because all week I have been asking myself “why”? It was not, as a friend suggested, the drama of the situation overwhelming me. Not at all. I didn’t feel that ‘anyone’ was ‘telling me’, I just had ‘NO RIGHT’ or ‘WILL’ to take a photograph. I was asked about the colour of the object/craft/whatever. I now think it was neutral grey, apart from the differences in tone, caused by the direction of normal light falling on it. It was not ‘shiny’, nor chrome, or aluminium like. The simple word I’ve been searching for to best describe it, was ‘dirty’!! It did not look pristine, either in form or finish.”

“Malcolm asked me if I’d seen ‘port holes’ in the top structure, (because he had seen a copy of one of my first sketches in which I ‘did’ depict circular marks there). But, in retrospect, those marks appeared to be more of the surface rather than windows.

It has taken me days of pondering and wondering to come to this conclusion. He surprised me too, by asking me if I’d had dreams about what I had experienced.

Dreams have never meant much to me, it’s not so much dreams, but more an ‘inability to forget’. All the time, even when I am doing totally unrelated things, the experience comes back. Day and night. Maybe then it ‘does’ come part of ‘dreams’ I don’t know. Points of clarification. When I first saw the object or craft, I seem to be saying that it was both static and moving towards me. What

[above] DRAWING BY IAN MCPHERSON OF CRAIGLUSCAR RESERVOIR UFO

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I mean is, it was no longer traveling. I am certain that it did come very slowly nearer, but this came from its size and shape increasing almost imperceptibly, and not from any sight of actual movement, (I hope this makes sense!)

“And had I not had my camera ready for use, i.e., out of it’s case, lens cap off etc, I ‘know’ I would not have been able to even attempt to capture anything, because from first moving off, when I became able to photograph it, till it disappeared in the distance, was definitely no more than one or two seconds.”

Ian McPherson This then was the written statement submitted to SPI by witness Ian McPherson. He also related that he found himself continually trying to draw what he saw, but felt that he just couldn’t get it right. No matter how hard he tried, he was just short of creating the right impression to what he saw that day.

Indeed, he tells that on one occasion, he found himself sitting in a chair in his living room not knowing how he got there. He doesn’t remember getting out of bed, or going downstairs to the living room, he just suddenly found himself sitting in a chair in his living room, looking at a painting that he had done of the reservoir. As stated, Ian was troubled by the image in his mind of the ‘craft’ he just had to sketch it correct. Another important point in regards to the

photograph that Ian took of the UFO, is when he relates that on the photograph, the object actually looks slim, and resembles a frisbee, in other words it’s ‘thinly structured’. However, when he was actually transfixed and staring at it, he informs me that it had a large squared structure on top which was quite noticeable, and just before the object departed from view, this square structure actually ‘descended’ into the main body of the ‘craft’ it then tilted slightly, then streaked off into the sky at a terrific rate. He only wishes that he had taken his photograph seconds earlier, for if he had, he would have managed to capture the object in all its entirety. The SPI Investigation of this impressive case was extensive, and we could find No evidence of any aircraft that were in that area at the time of the sighting. I spoke with the Daily Record’s picture Editor Mr Andrew Allan, who has been with the Record for more than 2O years, and he said to me that he was very impressed with the photographs.

He had seen others during his time at the Daily Record, but these were certainly the best that he had seen so far. Ian Torrence, the Record’s top photographer, developed the roll of film himself, and he was of the opinion that the negatives had not been ‘touched up’ in any way, and he too, was very impressed. Needless to say, this impressive sighting with accompanying photographs was featured in the Daily Record a few days later, with both comments from Ian McPherson and myself. At this time, copies of both photographs were in the hands of the Ministry of Defence in London for evaluation, and I was told that I would be sent a full written report of their evaluation once it was completed. For the readers information, the make of the camera was a Chinon, model C.5, and its age was about 15 years old, but it was in good condition. The focal length was set at B-1OOO sec, and the F Stop at 2.8. By September of 1994, I still had not received any reply from the Ministry of Defence, and I remember continually phoning them nearly every two weeks.

Nick Pope continued to inform me that the MoD had other things to contend with and that it was a case of prioritization but they would get round to it eventually!

Copies of these photographs were also submitted for testing to the University of Paisley near Glasgow but they were unable to reach any firm conclusion as to what the object might be, however, what they could tell me was that the object depicted in the photographs was most certainly real. With the help of BUFORA’s (then) Director of Investigations Philip Mantle, we enlisted the help of Jeff Sainio of Heartland WI. USA. Jeff is MUFON’S (THE MUTUAL UFO NETWORK) staff photo analyst and was someone who has looked at numerous alleged UFO photographic and video evidence. Jeff conducted computer

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enhancement tests of the photographs, and the following is an extract from a letter that he sent to Philip Mantle, it reads as follows.

“Two photographs were submitted showing a lake under overcast skies. An aerial flat disc is clearly seen in one photo, the other shows a tiny dot. The second photo’s image is too small for any useful analysis; it could be say, a distant bird or airplane and be indistinguishable. The first photo is plainly not a misidentification. The disc is either an unknown object, or a fraud.

The second photo corroborates the witness testimony but adds nothing more. A focus check of the UFO edges shows that the edge sharpness of the UFO versus the horizon is as would be expected for a distant object. The diffuse horizon trees appear noisy, as would be expected, and the apparently rounded edges of the UFO give the appearance of poorer focus than it really is. So the UFO is plainly a ‘distant object’.

“Distance with many lenses can mearly be past 5 or 1O meters easily in range of a thrown model, so this proves little. A thrown model may show evidence of motion streaking during the camera exposure, none was found, nor was any of the horizon appeared to be streaked due to camera motion as the photographer paced the UFO. This also corroborates the witness testimony, although a quick exposure or a thrown model which is moving directly away from the camera would naturally show no evidence of motion streaking. The ring on top of the UFO appears to be evidence of more than mearly a paint ring typical of a frisbee. Since it is not visible on the opposite side of the UFO this is consistent with a raised disc attached to the main disc. This shape is typical with a frisbee, but some hubcap would need to be considered. The disc is slightly reddish green on the central disc, and bluish on the outer disc. After colour correction compared to the sky. A simple chrome hubcap would ‘not’ show this colour variation. The evidence is weak, but argues ‘against’ a hubcap theory” Jeff Sainio The findings from Jeff were not conclusive ‘either way’, but at least we had tried to get someone who receives material like this on a daily basis to have a look at what we had. Further research with flying clubs and model aircraft enthusiasts, drew a blank. We wondered if perhaps any people living locally to the reservoir might have seen something peculiar that day, and I telephoned a nearby farmhouse to ask this question.

STRANGE CASE OF THE LANDROVER !

I spoke with a local farmer and after telling him a brief part of what had happened near to his farm, I asked if either he or any members of his family had witnessed anything strange that day.

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He replied that they had not, but there was one incident which had them perplexed, and it was something which had happened to his daughter and her friend. After speaking with his daughter, I then asked her to type out a statement concerning what had happened, and the following is Shona’s statement. She wrote: “My friend June picked me up in her Landrover Discovery diesel between 7:45pm and 8: OOpm. We left straight away and I did not notice anything unusual until we were half way down the farm road when I could not get the radio to work. I had been trying to get a tape to work since just after leaving my house, but it wouldn’t play so I took it out. I continued to play with the radio until we reached the end of the road when June and I both realised that the head lamps of the Landrover were really dim. I think they had been gradually getting dimmer since we left the house.

For some reason, just as we crossed the cross roads at the end of the farm road, June switched the window wipers on, and they went unusually slow.”

“I was still playing with the radio which by this time had no light coming from it, and I told June that it was not working. At around the same time, we noticed that the lights on the car phone had gone off. The headlights were getting dimmer all the time, until they just ‘faded out completely’ about half a mile on from where they had began to fade. We did not know what was happening, and June drove really slowly as we could hardly see. I can remember that the engine was running normally.

After passing a bend in the road, the lights slowly came on again, as did the lights on the phone and the radio. I could not be sure about how long everything was completely out, but I don’t think that it could have been longer than 2 minutes, possibly less.

We then drove to June’s house about half a mile away where we phoned a friend to come and see what was wrong. He said that he could not see anything wrong with the car at all. June took the car to a garage the next day where it was checked over, but nothing was found to be wrong with it”.

Shona Green The above account is quite unusual, and came two days before the actual observation of the UFO by Ian McPherson.

Of course the event described here may have absolutely nothing to do with what followed two days later, but let us bear in mind the fact that this type of effect has been heard of time and time again within the realms of the UFO phenomena, but usually however, some form of aerial object is seen during the course of a car stalling or a car’s lights and radio failing. Was a UFO the reason for this vehicle’s strange interference?

Nothing was seen by the two girls. I

present this incident here purely as a side issue on this important photographic case.

It may mean absolutely nothing, but then again it might strike a chord with a Ufologist elsewhere into remembering that they too have had something similar documented. This is why we Ufologists should present ‘all’ pieces of information, no matter how irrelevant they may seem.

We should, as I’ve said before, be very careful that we don’t end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater!! The Craigluscar Incident then is one of those cases which has the added bonus of some photographs, but the witness testimony that we also have from Ian McPherson, is equally impressive. I am of the opinion that this case is not a hoax, and is not the result of misinterpretation by Ian of something that might have been thrown up into the sky. Let us not forget, Ian saw this object for nearly 1O minutes, an incredible amount of time for anyone to have witnessed a UFO. Frisbees and hubcaps don’t stay in the air that long!

THE POLMONT RESERVOIR PHOTOGRAPH I’ve said many times before that it is extremely easy to fake a photograph and claim that it represents either a ghost or a UFO. When one is researching the UFO subject, you tend to find that from time to time someone will approach you with what they claim is a photograph of a UFO. Of course having witness testimony backed up with a photograph of a UFO is extremely valuable and one must look very carefully at not only the claims of the witness, but to ensure that proper analysis of their photograph is undertaken as well.

Such a photograph came to my attention during the early years of my Investigation into the Bonnybridge phenomena. Phil Trevis is an aspiring musician who plays guitar in a local Grangemouth rock band, but on the night of November 12th 1991 (before the Bonnybridge wave exploded) was taking photographs with a friend for a project about photography. In a written statement to the author, Philip had this to say about his sighting: “My friend and I were taking photographs of the B.P. Chemicals Plant in Grangemouth from Polmont Reservoir, when we noticed a dim, or rather two small dim flashing lights over by the two flashing pylons at Kincardine Bridge. We watched the object, which we thought was a helicopter, fly slowly over the bridge to above the brightly lit Grangemouth Stadium. We watched it hover for about 5 minutes. It was then that we noticed that the ‘craft’ wasn’t making any noise. Normally if it was a helicopter you would hear the rotor blades.

It then turned round and faced our direction. It was roughly 2,OOOft above the ground. Then it dipped, and increased dramatically in speed. At the point of the photograph it was about 2OO to 3OO feet directly above. It was then that we heard the light pulsing ‘hum’ of the object. My

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friend and I were quite shaken at the time, but afterwards had an overwhelming sense of excitement.

Since then I have shown only a handful of people my photograph, and have also destroyed the negative. I have no reason for destroying the negative, but now obviously regret my actions”.

Phil Trevis The actual photograph was handed over to me by a friend of the photographer’s at an SPI meeting held in Stirling. It was taken with a Halina 35mm camera using Kodak 24 exposure on gold film. What one should bear in mind whilst looking at this strange photograph, is that what you are actually looking at, is the underside of the object, becausewhen this strange device was above both of the startled witnesses, Philip had to actually bend over backwards in order to take his photograph. In the photograph you can see that the middle of the object appears to be concave, various bright white lights are seen shining out from this circular object which creates a sort of halo effect in the sky around it.

So what did our Investigations uncover, was there a natural explanation to account for this photograph? I firstly contacted the local police to see if any members of the public had contacted their station with a similar sighting - no one had. I then submitted many letters to the various Scottish Airports to see if perhaps some kind of aircraft or helicopter had been flying in this area on the night in question. Prestwick Airport at Atlantic House in Ayrshire replied in June 1995 by stating that, (A) Records for the period in question were no longer held. (B) It was improbable that a Military Aircraft flew over Grangemouth on the night in question. (C) Gas Venting often takes place at this petro-chemical plant, an occurrence which could appear alarming.

Both witnesses were well aware what this ‘gas venting’ looked like, and this most certainly was not what they both had witnessed.

Aberdeen Airport was not able to offer any explanations as were both Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Ministry of Defence in London replied that because this sighting was of no defence significance, they were unable to assist, (now where have I heard this before)!

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terms of information. This plant, which is extremely explosive, is a beautiful sight when lit up at night, and looking at it from a distance one could be forgiven for thinking that they were looking at Las Vegas, such is the enormity and brightness of this complex. In a letter received by the author from a Mr Bill Moore, press officer for B.P. Chemicals dated 9th June 1995, Bill stated, and I quote, “I can confirm that helicopters carry out pipeline inspection duties on behalf of B.P. Chemicals. These flights occur at fortnightly intervals and only take place during daylight hours at weekends. I should point out that the helicopters do not tend to fly over the site as they are more concerned with following the separate pipeline routes connecting Wilton and Mossmorran to Grangemouth. Micro-lights or controlled kites with cameras do not fly over the complex. I have checked our records, and there is no indication of any aircraft having flown over the Grangemouth complex on the 12th of November 1991”.

Bill Moore In a further letter, this time from a Mr K.W. Smith, Estates & Pipelines Coordinator for B.P. Oil at the Grangemouth Plant, he stated and confirmed that B.P. Oil do not use microlights or any other controlled flying devices to inspect pipes, and that air space immediately above the B.P. Petrochemical complex is a ‘restricted area’ to aircraft. He went on to state that according to a limited search by him, he could find no evidence of anything unusual on the night in question.

After these checks and several others, it was plain to see that nothing conventional was to blame for what both witnesses saw. Analysis on the photograph proved very little and did not help to prove the case either way, and as we know, the witness destroyed the negative for reasons which even now, he can’t fully understand. In fact, he was

actually going to destroy the photograph as well but was talked out of it by a friend.

Having spoken to Philip on a number of occasions now, I still have no reason to doubt his honesty and I do believe that what he and his friend saw that night, was something totally unexplainable by rational means. Sadly Phil’s friend passed away in a motor accident and so therefore I was unable to obtain any clarification to Phil’s story. The Phil Trevis photograph is clearly unusual, and is most certainly part and parcel of the Bonnybridge phenomena. The area, in which he took his photograph, is only several miles away from Bonnybridge itself. An unusual photograph then and one of the very few photographs that we have which shows UFO activity over Scotland.

UFO CASE FILES OF SCOTLAND: Amazing Real Life Encounters

by Malcolm Robinson

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In the publication of Malcolm Robinson's first book, he looks to enlighten you with the most fascinating UFO cases that Scotland has to offer. This work is not meant to be definitive; instead it is Malcolm's own reflection on his research and thoughts on what represents to be Scotland's most intriguing and unexplained UFO cases.

The full story regarding the wave of UFO sightings over the town of Bonnybridge is given here, as is the full story of Scotland's first 'reported' UFO abduction. Other close encounter cases are also looked at in great detail.

This is an epic book, a book that clearly shows that Scotland as a country has been touched by the UFO presence.

This book will leave you with little doubt that mankind is dealing with a very real and bona fide phenomenon, as the witnesses in this book can clearly testify to.

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[above] PHOTOGRAPH OF THE POLMONT UFO, 1991

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GOING PUBLIC WITH YOUR CLOSE ENCOUNTER EXPERIENCE:

THE ALIEN ABDUCTION ACCOUNT OF

ROSALIND REYNOLDS

Philip Mantle

In the l990’s I was fortunate enough to become involved in the research and investigation of a number of close encounter cases better known as cases of ‘alien abduction’. The bulk of my research was published in the book I coauthored with journalist Carl Nagaitis entitled ‘WITHOUT CONSENT’. I traveled the length and breadth of the UK and interviewed witnesses to both well known events and many cases that were totally unknown. There were a number of witnesses that stood out for me and one such was Rosalind Reynolds. Rosalind was one of a few brave enough at the time to go public with her account which I will relate here in brief. I caught up with Rosalind in February 2009 to ask what it was like and what happened to her once she went public. But first her story: It was September of l982 and CB radio fan Rosalind Reynolds and her boyfriend at the time, Philip, were on a late summers drive through East Anglia when an encounter with a UFO changed her life forever. The couple had set off from Clacton in Essex and they were en-route to Corby in Northamptonshire to meet up with relatives. The approximate journey time was two and a half hours and they were both looking forward to it.They had stopped for some food after leaving Clacton and were heading towards Sudbury. It was a nice warm evening and the car windows were down, the radio was playing. On the outskirts of Sudbury they drove under a string of electricity pylons which spread out across the hillside.

Suddenly they were confronted by a strange configuration of lights as they emerged from underneath the power lines. A horseshoe-shaped set of lights was approaching them at high speed. The multi-coloured, mostly orange and red object swooped low over their car. It was at this point that Rosalind noticed the silence and stillness that seemed to surround them. As the UFO moved across the sky a flash of blue electric light illuminated everything around her.

“It made everything look like a photonegative,” recalled Rosalind. A peculiar, foul smell, almost like rotten eggs seemed to be coming from the object.The odour became stronger the closer it got.

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Bemused by the whole event the couple drove on through Sudbury and at Long Milford joined the A604 to Haverhill. As Philip concentrated on the driving Rosalind took in the surrounding countryside. It was at this point that her eyes glimpsed something in the distance. “Look another one,” she shouted, pointing to an ovalshaped object that seemed to be heading towards them. Philip thought it might be a plane but Rosalind was adamant that it was heading in their direction. “Why would a plane draw level with us?” she asked as she looked across to see a ball of light pacing their car. Philip was having none of it and continued to drive on.

the car had stopped seemed as if its battery had just suddenly been drained. As they stood looking at the car’s engine its headlights came back on.The couple looked at each other and Philip jumped back in the driver’s seat and tried the ignition. It started first time. Rosalind climbed in and they drove off leaving the UFO behind them.

After putting some distance between themselves and the UFO the couple finally began to relax.Then a few miles further away Rosalind saw what she thought was the same object again shooting straight up into the sky with a pencil-thin blue light streaming out behind it.

Rosalind tried to ignore the thing that was following them but it was no good, she knew it was there. Philip simply refused to acknowledge it no matter what.They drove on and suddenly they were plunged into darkness.The car’s engine and electrics cut out and the disabled car rolled to a stop.

“Philip was glued to the steering wheel, looking straight ahead as if he had blinkers on” remembered Rosalind. She assumed that, like she, he was shocked and scared by the presence of the UFO. The thing was now so close they could not avoid looking at it. Big, bright and round, sitting just sixty feet away from them.“It was like a big ball

Glad to be on their way again they seemed to make good progress, but when they got to Corby their host was not answering their knock on the door. After a while, a bedroom window opened and someone asked:“What time do you call this? It’s half past one in the morning.” Their two and a half hour journey had taken five and a half hours. Rosalind and Philip were stunned by the events of that night, and by their missing hours. But the after effects of that encounter would be equally astonishing. Within months the couple broke up after six years together. “He was a different person, not the Philip I knew,” said Rosalind.

Rosalind had changed too. She dramatically lost weight, despite developing a craving for sweets, especially chocolate, and went down to just six stones. She gave up drinking and smoking and suddenly became creative, speedily writing complicated scientific papers on such topics as: How The Universe Was Formed and What Religion Really Is. But Rosalind was desperate to discover why she had lost three hours from her life. What had happened on that summer’s evening ?

of light with lots of little lights around it,” Rosalind told investigators later.

The couple reluctantly climbed out of the car and lifted the bonnet to see if they could find out what had caused it to stop.The way

Rosalind saw the chance to discover why she had three hours of missing time when she spotted an article in her local newspaper about a UFO group in East Anglia. Rosalind made contact with the group and eventually they arrange a session of regressive hypnosis. The hypnosis took place at Rosalind’s home but it went disastrously wrong. A Bright beam of light came into the room, the video recording was wiped out and all the clocks stopped,” said Rosalind. After the abandoned hypnosis session Rosalind was advised to see a psychic and was introduced to the man she would eventually

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marry. Mark Reynolds-Parnham was that man. Mark arranged a second hypnosis session in which Rosalind was taken back to her 1983 encounter. She recalled being approached by four or five small beings after their car had stopped. The aliens, for that is what she assumed they were, forced her into their craft. They took her to an examination room where she was undressed and laid on a clear perspex-like table for observation. Rosalind became agitated, embarrassed and frightened during the hypnosis session. She described how the aliens undressed her and laid her on the table, but then she became quiet.

Suddenly Rosalind sat bolt upright in her chair and screamed: “No I don’t want any babies.” So concerned were the hypnosis team by Rosalind’s distress in trance, they decided to end the session. Rosalind is convinced that she underwent some kind of gynecological procedure but still prefers not to speak about her hypnosis session.

and answer session was arranged and this is what she had to say: Q: How did your friends and family react when you told them about your experience?

A: My friends just laughed and joked about it. I was really worried about that night and everyone just thought it was a laugh. From then onwards all my friends just backed off and I saw less and less of them. I found it difficult to tell my mother, she was away working abroad and when she returned it was a few weeks after the event. By then with my experience of my friends I just thought it best to keep it to myself. We were

Since that night she has suffered irregular menstruation which she feels has cost her the chance of having children.

Medical tests failed to find a cause for the problem. Rosalind also reports an unexplained scar in her groin area, which she assumed is linked to her abduction experience.

Additionally she developed a buzzing in her head which troubles her to this day.

Rosalind was one of a handful of ‘abductees’ who went public with her experiences when my book was published in the mid-1990’s. I have occasionally kept in touch with her since then but in early 2009 I wanted to ask what it was like for her going public. How was she treated by both friends and family. A short question

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Q: How were you treated by the media?

A: To my face they seemed very sincere and genuinely interested in what I had experienced, but all they seemed interested in was “What did they do to me in the ship? Did they put anything up my… well I leave the rest to your imagination.

Once the interviews went out I found they were badly edited to show a completely different story focusing on what happened to me, it was played up to be a kind of joke with the addition of some corny music and voice over and invariably at the end of my interview an“expert”who had never had an experience in his life was brought on to say why it could NOT have happened. Of course I never was offered a chance to question the“expert”or put my side back to his argument. Of course the Newspaper ones were frightening with headlines like “ALIENS STOLE MY WOMB”! How could a journalist seem so sincere to my face then write things up like that?

Q: How did UFO researchers react to your experience?

Rosalind says the after effects of that encounter were truly deverstating to her. The initial weight loss left her friends and family worried that she might be anorexic and she worried about her missing periods. “I could not talk to anybody about these things because I thought they would think I was a freak,” said Rosalind. “I just bottled it up. I became a recluse for a while worrying about what had happened.”

Rosalind’s husband Mark has helped her come to terms with her experience, but she now believes she may well have had UFO encounters in the past. There are other events of missing time that she finds hard to ignore.

tend to joke back at them. And if they whistle a tune such as close encounters, I tell them to get up to date it’s the X files they should be singing.The strangest thing is I get jeered at to this day!

never close anyway, so she would not have noticed anything out of the ordinary. I have no other family other than my mother.

Q: You eventually went public with your experience, how did members of the public react?

A: It was embarrassing. I found walking down the street difficult as people would jeer or whistle “UFO” style tunes after me. After a while I grew a thick skin and nowadays if asked “have you seen any UFO’S lately?” I

A: Well that was a difficult one as I naively believed they had the answers. After all that is why I contacted them when I found out such clubs (not necessarily researches) existed. My first encounter with a UFO group who I approached, I was invited to their meeting, told to sit in a corner and not allowed to talk to anyone by the club owner. I was chaperoned and found all the questions were answered by the person who had invited me to the club and I couldn’t say a thing. I felt instead of getting answers, I was some kind of prize to be brought out and displayed. It was very upsetting. I wanted genuine answers to genuine questions. Cold hard facts and I felt I was amongst a group of extremists who would believe a spot of light in the sky was a UFO without questioning the object or anything.

Then I met researchers such as Jenny Randles and Philip Mantle. I have a lot of time for them and the greatest of respect.

They have a tough time and the public and media give them a tougher time.They made me feel like a person again and that there was something in it. I was not

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something to be exploited and that I had experienced something.

More importantly they believed me and gave me the courage to go back and try and find my own answers.

Q: Did you feel that regressive hypnosis was a benefit or not and would you recommend its use in future research?

A: I absolutely believe that in the wrong hands this type of thing can do more damage than good. My own experience produced an exceptionally strange effect and which to this day has affected those in the room with me at the time.This simply compounded the belief that something other than what we know in our own world was happening. Sometimes it is bigger than any of us, and not the time for us to know. Let it be until the time is right. If you have a block, then let it take its own time to lift. Do not push it, it is there for a reason.

If hypnosis is the only way then it must be under controlled conditions and by a professional who is a trained professional in psychiatry as well as hypnosis Q: Do you regret at all going public with your account?

A: I regret that the media cannot seem to present the information with the same sensitivity they would a rape victim’s account, and through the bad presentation, the public see us as a laughing stock, side show or freak. Properly handled and presented then the public can see there are many depths to life and not to laugh at it.They still can easily accept a ghost story, or a religious event, yet the mere mention of “aliens” sends them into giggles, sniggering at us as we walk past.

At least my story going public has hopefully meant that others who were lost could now at least see they were not alone. Others who had experiences no matter of what nature could take heart they were not going mad, or something was happening to them they could not talk to anyone else about. If I have helped one person who has had an experience deal with their own experience then I do not regret going public one bit.

Q: Looking back now what do you feel is the nature and origin of your experience?

A: I think this could be a book on its own as it is complex. To this day I am still split between two theories. The logical side to me says that we (my boyfriend and I) inadvertently were present when an experimental craft using some form of unknown technology had a malfunction.

It did not crash, but something could have been wrong with it and we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, I still have very vivid recollections of beings and other things on the craft, so it leaves me with the second theory it was

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actual aliens as in not of the world we live in and not necessarily outer space, other world type aliens. Either way it was technology not of the world we know. I have theories of it being inter-dimensional, as there are many depths and heights to the space we exist in, many phases. One of which is the ghost, or spirit world for instance. My biggest question still remains.. WHY ME? I found out just before my mother died that she too had experiences.These were backed up as just before my father died. Independently and totally not knowing of my experience or that my mother had told me hers, he told me of his and his brothers recollections which tied in to just before my conception.

This leads me to believe maybe there are certain lines of humanity that are being monitored for reasons we are not aware of?

I could write a book on the information I know and believe but the hard facts are. I have scars, I have medical history. What we experienced was for real and there was nothing around to my knowledge and through my investigation which could have maneuvered the way that craft did then.

Those facts alone mean that either theory fits.

Q: What would you like to say to the skeptics who dismiss all such accounts?

A: I think this sums it up nicely ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ Sherlock Holmes.

And I say that to both the skeptics, who would insist I saw the moon when there was

no moon that night and to the other end of the scale, to the people I have met who go to UFO clubs who would believe without question a light to be a UFO when it is nothing more than a light, I put that to both equally.

I have spent many years looking at my experience with cold hard eyes, trying to find the truth. It doesn’t matter to me what they (the skeptics) want to believe, but I feel that they should look at each case as an individual one and not try to label us all the same, as it is exactly that, a unique experience to each person. We have been given a gift, a chance to see a new life a new way the universe works. Who are we to judge why. And who are the skeptics to say it didn’t happen if it enriches our lives, and hurts no one?

Rosalind Reynolds I was and still am grateful to Rosalind for going on the record with her experience and for allowing me to share it both in my book and here in this article. I don’t pretend to have the answers to the abduction experience and there are some wise words spoken here by her. I have no doubt though that Rosalind Reynolds did experience what has become to be known as an ‘alien abduction’ of that I am sure. If you have had such an experience and are unsure whether or not to go public with it then perhaps Rosalind’s words above may be of some assistance to you.

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Multidimensional Mass Healing night with breathtaking Spirit, Orb and Light Ship Presentation from Adelaide This workshop will be conducted by Kevin Robb - Director of Universal Healings & Australian Cosmic Connection Adelaide with Special guest Brenda Kay Visionary Artest Who will be drawing the guides working with me on the night Kevin has had encounters with multi-dimensional light beings and spirit energies and has a great deal of insight into the bigger picture of his job as a light worker here on this planet and of coming changes.

In this work shop he will give you the tools to free yourself of all fears you may hold and may not be consciously aware of. We are multi-dimensional spirits living in a multi-dimensional universe and some of us may have been conditioned to think pain and fear are real but they are not, it is an illusion, there is only unconditional love. The energy heals, clearing and transforming any misguided energies the client may have not in line with their highest good. Some people have also claimed to feel lighter and say they have had a load taken off them. Kevin will also show you how and where negative thought may come from and how to very easily let them go - a truly empowering work shop not to be missed. Everybody on mass will receive the healing with unconditional love. Friday 5th March 2010 7.30pm to 10.30pm.

At: Windsor Spiritual Centre, 8 Thorne Street, Windsor, Qld and Saturday 6th March 2010 7.30pm to 10.30pm. At: The Community Group for Personal Growth, 183 Lillian Ave, Salisbury, Qld.Donation only. Bookings Essential.

Divine Source Enhancement Healing Two Day Workshop Kevin Robb from Adelaide has been using healing energies since 1996 and has developed ‘Divine Source Enhancement Healing’ (DSEH) which utilises universal and cosmic healing energies with the client. It has been developed directly through spirit, utilising unconditional love, the breath and cosmic energies.

The intent is to heal the client on all dimensional levels of their existence. The healing may transform any negative thought forms, pain and subconscious or emotional blockages the client may have. The intent is also to raise their consciousness, perception, strength and will as well as psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and physically healing the client on all 984 dimensional levels of their existence, positively. The healing is done in line with their highest good. DSEH is a truly unique healing modality.

Course Dates & Times: Saturday, 6th March 2010 (9.30am to 5.30pm) Sunday, 7th March 2010 (9.30am to 5.30pm) Venue: Windsor Spiritual Centre 8 Thorne Street, Windsor, Qld Requirements & What to Bring: Wear Comfortable Clothing, Massage Table (if you have one), and BYO Water & Food for Morning Tea, Lunch & Afternoon Tea, Notebook & Pen. Investment for Two Day Workshop: $100.00 Deposit to secure your spot. $300.00 if you pay or put a deposit down by the 31st January 2010. Bookings after this date are $330.00. People who have already completed the course can attend again - contact Kay direct for cost details. Payment strictly cash on the day or a money order made out to ‘Kevin Robb’. Payment can be sent to Kay McCullock at: 122 Blackwood Street, Mitchelton, Qld, 4053. Receipts will be issued on the day.

To compliment Kevin’s spiritual training and studies he has developed ‘Divine Source Enhancement Healing’, undergone training in Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho, levels 1, 2 and Masters. He has also completed a course utilizing the Indian medicine wheel, Ayurvedic Massage level 1 & 2, two health auxiliary training courses, Certificate 3 in Aged Care as well as Ear Candling and Introduction to Body Electronics, the Science of Bodily Regeneration. He has completed the Healers course with South Australian Spiritual Healers Association Inc of whom he is a member and is also a member of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists.

All Bookings Kay McCullock, ND after 6pm Ph or Text: 0429-641-222 Email:cosmicshaman.blog@gmail.com

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UFORQ PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2009

Sheryl Gottschall

The following report outlines the activities of UFO Research Queensland Inc from October 1 2008 to 30 September 2009.

UFO Reports This year UFORQ received 123 reports. 69 were received by email, 54 were received by phone. reflecting the social trend in switching to electronic media.

Brisbane Greater Queensland Airlie Beach Babinda Boodua Burpengary Busselton Caboolture Cairns Canungra Cape York Childers Cloncurry Dalby Dayboro Gold Coast Gympie Hervey Bay Holloways Beach 1 Ipswich Jimboomba Killarney Logan Mackay Maryborough Mitchell Moreton Bay Moreton Island Moura Mt Isa Mt Tamborine Pratten Redcliffe Sunshine Coast Toowoomba Townsville Wallaville Sub Total

4 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 78

Other States Alice Springs NT Ballina NSW Canberra Colac VIC Dubbo NSW Elliminyt VIC Gilgandrq NSW Grafton NSW Kalgoorlie WA Kardinya WA Melbourne VIC Moree NSW Narrabri NSW Perth WA Sydney Sub Total

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 16

Brisbane Greater Queensland Other States Other Countries

28 78 16 1

TOTAL

123

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28 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 1 1 1 2 1 1 25 1 1

Public Meetings In 2009 our public meeting attendance increased markedly. One reason for this may have been the regular guest speakers who presented on a wide array of topics. These included UFOs and the Spiritual Connection, UFOs and Astrology, Hypnosis and UFOs, Close Encounters, Crop Circles, Orbs, Telepathy and Remote Viewing, Australian Police and UFO Disclosure.

In addition it was observed there had been a renewed interest in the UFO subject beginning late 2008 and this could possibly have attributed to increased attendance numbers.

Public meetings are very important to this association for many reasons and having to relocate to a new meeting venue in 2009, although initially difficult to find, proved to be an easier transition than expected. The challenge for meeting venues is to find something centrally located at a reasonable price and in these current economic times this has proved difficult. We are now located at the Legion Memorial Club in Fortitude Valley and although a touch short of space, for now it meets many of our criteria. We will continue to look for other venues as our needs evolve with the goal of remaining in the inner city area.

Public meetings provide something that the internet can't, and that is, a safe space for people to come together who share a similar interest, to engage with others who might have had similar experiences and to gain access to information.

Meetings also help people develop a sense of belonging in society, while finding social support. It's no secret that many individuals who have an interest in extraterrestrial life also have an interest in improving terrestrial life for themselves and their fellow humans. It's not always easy having to live by a different set of rules other than your own, particularly in the workplace which values enterprise and competition over expression of our individuality and the exploration of that which feeds our soul. So the social aspects of meetings helps return that balance to us by exploring the unknown and acknowledging that society must accommodate the whole range of human truths to maintain a healthy and balanced evolution.

thank you goes to Tino Pezzimenti who gives up his valuable time to do this every Tuesday night. Just a reminder that the show can be heard on the net via a link from the UFORQ home page.

We also participated in the week-end long Dalby Expo, and aided promoters from Think Tank Films in promoting the Nicholas Cage movie - Knowing.

Martin and I gave public presentations at the Logan Central Library, Marvelous Mature Women's Group, Logan View Club, Beenleigh Library and Logan North Library.

All were well attended with around 30 people on average. We have since received further requests from other community groups by way of referral to speak at their meetings in 2010.

Membership Memberships to UFORQ fluctuate between 100 and 130 per year. Currently membership stands at 102. During the excitement of the 90s and the huge UFO waves in Australia at the time, UFORQ membership increased to over 330. Today no such UFO waves are occurring which would ordinarily aid in maintaining public interest. Until such events occur again organizations such as UFORQ need to seek innovative methods to increase those interests.

Affiliates UFORQ currently has six affiliates, being the Ipswich UFO Society, Gympie UFO & Paranormal Research, UFO Hotline and Abduction Research Gympie, Lightning Ridge UFO Watch, Blue Mountains UFO Research Group and Cosmic Connections in Adelaide. The newest addition is Stanthorpe Skies run by Carolyn Wilson. We wish Carolyn our very best and all our support for her endeavours. UFORQ has recently been approached by someone in Toowoomba who we hope will also take the step towards affiliation sometime in 2010.

Library Library use has been less this year probably due to fewer new DVDs being made available in the library. Until now I have been making copies of conference DVDs for the library but due to being very busy with public relations duties this year I've been unable to continue doing this. I hope this will change in 2010. Meanwhile we are happy to receive offers of help with this task.

Bookstore

This has been a very busy year regarding public relations. UFORQ received various requests for information, contacts and interviews with journalists from Q-Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Weekender, ABC Radio Darwin, Documentary makers on the Pine Gap - ET Connection, BBC Radio Sydney, a freelance writer following up on the Westhall Incident, Brisbane Courier Mail, Channel 9 News, Gladstone Observer, Cairns Post and Radio 4BC.

Since our previous sales person moved interstate I took over the book and DVD sales with my usual grandiose dreaming.

Since my tentative start I've sought a wholesaler who could supply us with a good range of UFO and related books and I've recently found one in Victoria who seems to foot the bill. I've also been looking for distributors of hard to get books as well as new releases and most seem to be located in the UK and US. I've made contact with a few requesting their full book lists and hope to begin ordering from those companies next year.

We continue to participate in the weekly radio 4BC program Paranormal Panel which has now been running for ten years. A special

It's been a learning curve for me and there are some difficulties in doing something like this for such a small market, that being

Public Relations

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just over 100 members and those who attend our monthly meetings. Most companies have a minimum order that can be placed at any one time, but this ties up our funds in stock. Other requirements are the need to know something about the book that's being ordered, which obviously can be gotten from the distributors, but doesn't always necessarily turn out to be an accurate reflection of its own advertising. So I find myself asking people what they are reading, how useful the book is and whether they think it worth recommending to others.

carried out to finally complete that work.

Once in electronic format individuals with an interest in creating data bases are able to do so more readily. From there various research studies can be undertaken revealing information and trends as yet unknown that can be published on the UFORQ website. The next step would be to send email notifications to known worldwide UFO organizations about the placement of such information on our web site and perhaps the fruit of this labour can help researchers make various determinations that can further the subject.

I also have to spend time reading the books myself, at least in a "skimming" fashion, so as to be able to promote the books properly. I can already see that I will eventually need an assistant to run the bookstore, which I hope will also be online in the first half of next year. The other requirement is to have a mobile eftpos machine for the bookstore since people don't carry as much cash as they used to.

This can also be used at other events as well as for membership payments.

As reported in the President’s report of 2006, the UFORQ web site still holds the largest collection of UFO reports by Australians that date back to 1998. We've received much favourable feedback about the UFORQ web site from various sources who find it simple to use with information easily accessible.

There's a lot more work to do but I think the bookstore has potential to make some much need profit that will keep us financially afloat.

Public Liability Insurance This year we were referred to an insurance company who took over our public liability insurance for $300 less than other companies were offering. UFORQ currently holds a $10 million public liability insurance policy that provides members with protection from any litigation that may arise from claims of personal and/or property damage. Unless we find a cheaper cover we will probably remain with the same insurer in 2010.

The World Wide Web According to the latest figures published by the Internet World Stats website, web user growth has increased from the year 2000 through 2009 by 380.3% worldwide.

Oceania stats that cover South Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia during the same period have increased by 175.2%. That's 80.1% of the population. It's obvious in this day and age that UFORQ must maintain a web presence that offers sought after information from our region and can be made available worldwide.

Stumbling blocks to disseminating reports that come to UFORQ is the backlog of reports dating back to 1939 that need to be converted into electronic format as well as the time required to transcribe new reports received by phone into text.

Reports that are sent in via email are easier to make available on the web site in a timely fashion but often lack the details that can be mined from face to face and telephone interviews. Its possible that some voice recognition software could be used to speed up this process but we won't discover its efficacy until we experiment with it.

Perhaps a project undertaking the transcription of older reports could be

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The Question of a Taking a Scientific Approach to UFO Research The UFO community continues to scream for scientific investigation into the UFO phenomenon. Dealings with skeptics throughout 2009 has re-impressed upon us that there are individuals who believe their expertise in other disciplines makes them more qualified to state their opinions regarding the UFO issue. However, the question remains as to how any human being can be an expert in anything extraterrestrial without having had the experience of ever stepping off this planet or having interacted with an ET. While true that there exist individuals who have developed skills in human endeavours, the truth remains staring us in the face that on a cosmic scale these skills and knowledge may prove worthless when dealing with an extraterrestrial civilization. So the call for professional skills in the UFO field could possibly turn out to be a waste of breath.

What IS needed is open mindedness, flexible thinking, and a lot of common sense with the ability to make room in our mind for new concepts and new experiences. There's a scripture in the bible that calls on man to "know thyself", perhaps if a similar amount of time were spent in studying the field of human potential as Ufology spends juggling UFO data, Ufology as a subject may advance itself in a far shorter time span.

What the field of UFO research may find it needs is to develop new tools that we can wield to unweave the complex and abstract nature of extraterrestrial visitation, but perhaps those tools should be used on our own minds and behaviour first. Or perhaps we should investigate using existing tools from other modalities that had not previously been used out of their own field. Abraham Maslow once observed: Give an adult a hammer and we treat the whole world like a nail. Give a child a hammer and they may dig with it, sculpt with it, weigh down papers with it with leaves stuffed in between, or knock down apples with it, because nobody told them it was to hit a nail. Maybe there's something in the quote that says "to enter the kingdom of god we must become like little children." Maybe that's the simple clue to cracking open the UFO subject after all.

Committee Thanks Members have no idea how much work actually goes into running an organization like UFORQ. They receive the bi-monthly journal UFO Encounter and possibly attend monthly public meetings.

Along with the web site and the weekly radio show these provide the public face of the association. However there is so much more that goes on behind the scenes that can only happen when committee members willingly volunteer their time. So I would like to extend a very BIG thank you to the committee for doing so all year long.

I often put out a call for people to become more actively involved in the work of this association. You might be asking yourself right now why you should volunteer your time when you have so little free time already? Think back to the times in your life where your decision to take a specific path changed your life. It will probably be a time when you decided to put your personal beliefs into action. You know, the moments when it became very clear to you that it was time to walk your talk, and when you did how empowered you felt by doing it.

People often ask me why I do what I do and I usually answer - because I can't not do it. Throughout your life there is a voice that only you can hear, a voice which mythologists label the "call". Years ago the call from the future, the unknown, that which is yet to express itself, a greater reality, the promise of a different world as yet unborn, went out and I answered it.

After that I made myself available. Since then my life has never been the same and I have no regrets about it.

It doesn't matter if you think you don't have the qualifications or experience to help UFORQ or even to take that step further by volunteering by becoming a committee member. Once you make the proclamation that you are "available" that call will qualify you to do the rest in whatever way you can. This stepping up to do the work not only leads you to use the skills you already have but to discover and develop abilities you never dreamed you possessed. In this way becoming a volunteer provides so much more than any personal development class ever could because you are given the opportunity to put YOURSELF into action.

By becoming actively involved in the work of UFORQ you can make a difference, impact the future, develop skills you never knew you had, fulfill something deeper within yourself all while making new friends and having fun. If you're interested in becoming involved now is the time to do it, but if the time is not right you don't need to wait another 12 months until the next AGM. The management committee can adopt you at any time and would be glad to.

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conversation between the pilot and the airport tower has just been made public in China. The report was released at a scientific forum held in Shanghai.

BULGARIAN ACADEMY SCIENTISTS REPORTED TO BE IN TOUCH WITH ALIENS November 23, 2009 http://www.novinite.com/ view_news.php?id=110282

Scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) have been reported to be in touch with extraterrestrial beings.The Bulgarian Novinar Daily has reported that the Bulgarian scientists are currently working on deciphering pictograms which are said to have come in the form of the so called "crop circles" with which the aliens answered 30 questions posed by the BAS researchers.

"They are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time.They are not hostile towards us; rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to establish direct contact with them. They are ready to help us but we don't know what to request from them in case of contact," said Lachezar Filipov, Deputy Director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as quoted by the Novinar Daily.

Filipov has said that even the Vatican had agreed that aliens existed. In his words, the humans are not going to be able to establish contact with the extraterrestrials through radio waves but through the power of thought. He has stated that the human race was certainly going to have direct contact with the aliens in the next 10-15 years.

The deputy head of the Bulgarian Space Research Institute has also told the Novinar Daily that the extraterrestrials were critical of the people's amoral behavior referring to the humans' interference in nature's processes.

Filipov's team is reported to be analyzing the 150 new crop circles which appeared around the globe in the past year.

The publication of the Novinar Daily about the BAS researchers communicating with aliens comes in the midst of a controversy over the role, feasibility, and reform of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which last week even led to the exchange of offensive remarks between Bulgaria's Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, and President Georgi Parvanov.

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ORGANICS REPORTEDLY FOUND ON THE MOON December 16 2009 http://news.discovery.com/space/moonorganics-indian-probe.html

Indian researchers say they have found organic matter on the moon, a discovery that may be seconded by U.S. teams analysing a plume of debris kicked up by the deliberate crash of a rocket body into a lunar crater.

Indian Space Research Organization scientists announced last week that a probe dispatched from the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter detected chemical signatures of organic matter. The Moon Impact Probe, or MIP, separated from the Chandrayaan-1 orbiter on Nov. 14, 2008, and flew into Shackleton Crater, located on the moon's south pole.

NASA followed with a similar mission in October that excavated a much larger debris plume from the crater Cabeus, also located on the moon's south pole. Both teams reported finding water.

ISRO's Surendra Pal said at a conference in Bangalore, India, last week that MIP also found organic compounds, though scientists were still working to confirm the results. "It is an intriguing suggestion," NASA's chief lunar scientist Michael Wargo told Discovery News. "We are certainly very interested in learning more of their results."

CHINA: SECRET PIL OT UFO FILE PILOT RELEASED Michael Cohen, http:// www.allnewsweb.com/page9799893.php

A detailed UFO report of an incident involving a commercial pilot that includes radar images and recordings of the

The event occurred on March 18 2009 in the morning in Shanghai. Later that day hundreds of readers rang a local newspaper 'The Xinmin Evening Times' to report a strange object they had seen in the sky. One of these callers was the Tower Manager at Hongqiao Airport, Mr Jin Xin. He mentioned that a UFO had been spotted by tower staff and picked up by radar and that he had the recording.

Mr Jin Xin added that he requested that a pilot due to take off at exactly the same time chase the object and the pilot, who agreed, had reported that the UFO, seemingly made of two parts, was circling around his plane. A transcript of the conversation between the pilot and tower control has also been preserved.

The pilot witnessed the UFO for no less than 9 minutes and described the UFO in the conversation with the tower as initially a glowing fireball displaying extraordinary flight characteristics and quickly shifting position before 'Descending sharply, changing colour from red to black and then separating into two objects: The top one a sphere, the bottom a rectangle.The craft travelled in a Northeast direction at level flight before climbing and disappearing.' The pilot, Mr Zhu Zhaoyuan , was highly experienced at the time and was flying for Jinan Airlines.

The aircraft he was flying was small commercial plane.

A number of UFO research societies were asked to investigate this event as well as scientists. Professor Wang Sichuao of Nanjing's Purple Mountain Observatory (Of the July Eclipse UFO fame) thinks that this was an extraterrestrial encounter while the custodian of the recording, Mr Jialu Wu, an ex-engineer at the Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute and now director of the Shanghai UFO research centre believes the UFO was in fact two airplanes misidentified by the pilot.

In the process of releasing this astonishing file, a researcher from the Purple Mountain Observatory, Mr Liu Yan, revealed that the institution had investigated many thousands of UFO reports received from the public.

According to Mr Yan, 90 percent of such sightings are eventually identified.

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inc

www. uforq. asn. au email: info@uforq.asn.au phone: 07 3376 1780

be com e a member bec ome Membership with UFO Research Queensland Inc costs $30.00 annually for membership [$40.00 AUD for International members]. Membership entitles you to benefits such as discounts on meeting entry, Library membership, and sees six issues of UFO Encounter delivered to your door. Cheques and money orders should be made payable to ‘UFO Research Queensland Inc’ and mailed to UFO Research Queensland Inc, PO Box 15222, City East, Queensland, 4002. Overseas applications should be made

by International Money Order or bank drafts in Australian dollars.

publi c meetings public Public Meetings are held on the last Friday of every month [except December] at 7.30pm sharp.

Meetings are held at the Legion Memorial Club, 28 Church Street, Fortitude Valley.Undercover and street parking is available [see map below].

Admission is $5.00 for members and $8.00 for non-members.

PLEASE NOTE: Membership cards MUST be produced for member-discounted entry.

For further enquiries call 07 3376 1780.

ufOr q library ufOrq The Library now has over 500 books, videos and DVDs on its shelves, with new additions being made all the time - which makes it the largest UFO library in the Southern Hemisphere! Members are able to borrow books, periodicals, dvds, videos, audiotapes and other items on a monthly basis. Items are available to borrow and return at Public Meetings.

LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP IS FREE TO UFORQ MEMBERS

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www.uforq.asn.au email: info@uforq.asn.au

affiliates sightings hOtlines

uforq ipswich [qld]

Brisbane - Martin Gottschall (07) 3376 1780 Public Meetings are held at the Ipswich Trades Hall, Gympie - Roma Ravn (07) 5486 4458 Third Floor, 4 Bell Street, Ipswich, on the first Friday of the month, commencing at 7.30pm. Admission: $4.00.

Ipswich - David Keyworth (07) 3282 8795 contact: David Keyworth, (07) 3282 8795 Stanthorpe - Carol Watson 0403 918 336 Lightning Ridge - Bruce Cuming (02) 6829 2252 gympie ufo and Tully - Claire Noble (07) 4068 1538 paranormal research [qld] Public Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month at the or email - info@uforq.asn.au Community Centreplace,, 24 Lawrence St, Gympie, commencing at 7.30pm. Admission: $3.00. contact: Roma Ravn, (0754) 864 458 or Carlo Riva, (0754) 852 116

ufohsar - ufo hotline and abduction research gympie [qld] contact: Carlo Riva, (0754) 852 116

stanthorpe

contact: Carol Watson, Stanthorpe Skies, 0403 918 336 PO Box 513, Stanthorpe, QLD 4380, or email: mosaicart62@hotmail.com

lightning ridge [nsw]

contact: Bruce Cuming, (02) 6829 2252

blue mountains ufo research group [nsw] contact: Rex Gilroy (02) 4782 3441 email: randhgilroy@optusnet.com.au website: http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/rexufo/australian-ufos-mainpage.html

cosmic connections [sa]

contact: Kevin Robb 0406362340 email: krobb@bigbutton.com.au website: http://www.australiancosmicconnection.com.au/ 20

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