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Something surprising happened while we weren’t looking.

The last few months have seen a rash of very public speculation about the nature of extraterrestrial life from the most unexpected places – places and people from whom the UFO community has so far received only ridicule.

Ever since Stephen Hawking planted his robust seed of fear into the world’s minds, all anybody can talk about is not whether ET exists, but what ET will do with us when he gets here.

Thanks to Hawking (who has either lost his mind or is working covertly for the New World Order), the discussion in high places now centres around what ET could possibly want with, shudder, us! So far there’s been no mention of the old schlock standby ‘they want to suck our blood,’ but amazingly SETI, instead of its usual sideways denial of the ET reality, has joined the discussion.

But while Hawking argues that visitors to Earth see will see us only as a mineral resource, and, in order to rape and pillage the planet, will need to strip-mine us out of existence, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for SETI (whose very name conjures intimations of evil), poo-poos that notion, arguing that Earth is simply too far away to come for gold and tin.

Maybe.

However, just in case ET does decide to pop in for a visit, the UN has actually appointed a ‘space ambassador for extraterrestrial contact affairs.’ Even stranger, a group of scientists is preparing a demo-tape to keep them entertained while they’re here (they think ET will like Bach, although I roundly disagree). And, not to be outdone, the Pope is preparing to baptise any ETs that might drop into the Vatican. (Sure. That’s the first place they’ll go.)

Now, I don’t know about you, but given that just a few short months ago the existence of ET was still being hotly denied, this turnaround is, to put it mildly, somewhat startling. And in a somewhat more sinister vein -– do these people know something that we don’t know?

Like…

Could open contact be imminent?

Or… has the Hubble telescope spotted a big alien wrecking ball headed our way?

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June - sePTemBeR 2010 Mullumbimby, June 2010 A couple of days ago I read an article in the Mail (Tweed Heads local paper) of a man, Mr Stafford, who had sighted an Unidentified Object in the skies of the Tweed area.

I am writing to advise that I was driving home from Mullumbimby (the date of which I will have to confirm but it was approximately three weeks ago), I saw the exact same thing in the skies above the Chinderah (well approximately 10km south). It was amazing to see and took my breath away, along with my whole body covered in goosebumps and knowing I had just experienced something that rocked me to my core.

A blaze of light, soaring across the skies at one hell of a rate, lasting for 3-5 seconds and knowing it was not an everyday occurrence.

I am a JP, therefore am not prepared to risk my reputation on false reports.

Regent's Park, Qld, August 1, 4:51pm This afternoon at 4:51pm I was looking at a clear blue sky with only a couple of distant clouds visible. I was watching two birds flying when my eye caught an object in the far distance. I was looking east from Regents Park, Qld. The object initially appeared red and was sphere-like, but it was very high and far away. I looked away and told my family what I saw, looked again and it seemed to be getting further away and was now white in appearance. Upon trying to point it out to family members I lost sight of it and it disappeared completely.

Aspley, Qld, 7 September 12.40am Early this morning at 12:40am I saw a large bright object falling from the sky as I drove north along Gympie road through Aspley. It only appeared briefly,

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as it then seemed to break apart in a white burst of sparks. It didn't look like fireworks, maybe a meteor? I just thought I should report it in case someone else saw it also and had a better view.

Rochedale, Qld, September 7 2010, 9.01pm I live in Rochedale south. Our house is on a small hill right in the middle of a flight path and as I was closing the back door I looked up and saw a cigar-shaped object hovering. It was in the flight path.

Where I live, planes fly over about every 5 minutes, but, as I stood there looking at this object, there was nothing else in the sky. It was a bright orange colour and didn't make a sound. I was there for nearly a minute, not moving. Then, it flashed a whole heap of colours and disappeared -- gone, with no noise and no trace.

Wavell Heights, Qld, September 24 2010, 5.23pm On 24/09/10 from 5.23 to 5.27pm, I observed going from west to east over Wavell Heights, a round light that was soft yellow in colour and about the size of a tennis ball. I noticed it because it had no running lights or flashing strobe lights as normal aircraft do. It also backlit the cloud cover as it went through them.

Brisbane, September 25 2010 I saw a bright object in the sky in Brisbane in the east, stationary, but changing in brightness. I was in the city at Eagle St Pier looking east. My girlfriend thought it was a plane but it was stationary for almost an hour.

Moree, NSW, 1999 This sighting took place in November 1999, while I was involved in the Aerial Agriculture industry, working as an aircraft load/mixer for a local spraying company. The job sometimes took me

to airstrips away from town, mostly on large cotton properties. These properties had their own airstrips usually.

This night, I was working on an airstrip some 40km west of Moree NSW. I was loading two spray planes with insecticide.

The night was crystal clear with no cloud, a crescent moon and a light wind from the SSE. A UHF radio was installed in the vehicle and I was tuned to the company channel. The pilots would call me and give me the chemical rates, fuel requirements etc.

After loading one of the planes, I turned to prepare the next load. I was expecting another plane to return soon for fuel and reloading. The planes were spraying fields about 3km away from the strip, I could see both aircraft's work lights as they turned and flew low across the crop.

My attention was drawn to a clump of trees about 2km north of the airstrip. I could see a bluish glow and what seemed to be a white light at the base of the glow. I didn't give it much thought then... but soon after I realised it could not be one of the planes I was working with. At that moment, one of the pilots called over the radio to the other plane, asking his location and whether or not he was on a spray run. The other pilot replied that he was not in a spray run but was turning to commence a run and was at 700 feet AGL (above ground level). The first pilot asked if he could see the glow over to the north. The reply came... 'Yes, is that you?'... 'No, I'm over to the east'.....The discussion went on for a few minutes, each pilot trying to determine the other's position. Finally, a pilot asked me if I could see the glow to the north, I said that I could see it and that it looked like a roo shooter's spotlight.

One of the pilots was flying toward the glow to see if he could identify the source. As he approached the area, the blue glow seemed to shrink back into

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itself and become a bright white ball. It looked to be about the size of a 5 cent piece held at arm's length. The light rose vertically into the air, hesitated for a moment then moved briskly to the east, maintaining about 500 feet AGL. It was then that static was heard from the UHF radio in my vehicle. The object continued east until it was to my estimation about 5kms away, it then turned back to the south-east and accelerated and climbed away into the night sky. I tracked the object visually until it had faded from view.

One of the planes landed soon after, followed minutes later by the other plane.

We spoke at length about what we had seen. None of us were able to establish what the object was.

The two pilots have a total of over 30,000 hours between them. Both were commercial pilots with vast flying experience.

About a week later, I was working on the same airstrip during daylight hours. The aircraft I was working with encountered a small technical problem and the pilot returned to base to rectify the problem.

I decided to drive over to the clump of trees from where the blue glow was seen, to see if I could find any evidence of the object there. I found that an area of grass and small bushes was slightly flattened. The flattened area was about 40 paces across, and no sign of heat or burning was seen.

Mt Isa/Queensland Border, 2002 A friend and I were driving to Newcastle from Darwin in late 2002. I apologise I can't be sure of the specific date as it was some time ago.

We drove straight from Darwin to Mt Isa without any incident. We slept there for approximately eight hours and at around midnight my friend woke me and said 'come on let's get moving,' as he wanted to travel at night as he wanted to save fuel and not risk overheating his car driving at high speeds. About an hour or so out of Mt Isa we were heading toward the Queensland border I don't know exactly where we were as my friend had done this trip several times, but we did go past the Walkabout Creek Hotel not long before this happened.

Anyway, as we were heading down this stretch of highway you could see other cars and trucks coming up around the bend, and all of a sudden this bright, pulsating and large yellowy gold-coloured light didn't follow the course of the road and flew off the road into a field beside it. My friend and I looked at each other and said 'did you see that?' About a kilometre up the road there were cars and trucks pulled up on both sides of the highway, looking at this thing.

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Approximately 150 to 200 meters away in this field was what I can only describe as a light machine. This thing had what looked like two halves to it and big multi coloured lights coming out of it everywhere. It was quite mesmerising to look at. I went to get out of the car but my mate grabbed me and said 'get the **** back in the car!' and floored it.

We were driving for about fifteen or twenty minutes when my mate asked me what that bright light was behind him in his rear view mirror. I looked behind us and coming down the road at an elevation of probably 15 or 20 meters was the same pulsating light. Needless to say it was brown trousers time. My mate floored his car flat. It was that year's SS Commodore so we were moving.

The object broke off and flew up around this hill off to our left up around some radio towers which were discernable by the red lights on them. I looked up again not twenty seconds later and it was gone. We thought that was the end of it and continued driving, but at pretty ridiculous speeds.

Half an hour or so after this we came up to this road and there were signs leading up to it saying all sorts of things like "Do not drive down this road tresspassers will be prosecuted," and "Beware private property stay out" with skulls and cross bones on it, and the final sign was a Boral Concrete company sign.

Now this was a perfectly groomed dirt/ gravel road in the middle of nowhere and we came up to this massive installation thing. There was what looked like a castle wall with two massive guard tower things and double check point gates between the towers.

The buildings were very curious and it felt eerily strange. One thing was certain, this wasn't a Boral Concrete facility! I'm a builder and I'm aware of what a concrete manufacturing plant looks like and where they tend to situate them.

My mate and I looked at each other and I said that we should get the hell out of there and we bailed as fast as we could.

Shortly after this we came up to this town with absolutely no power. Now I'm aware that some of these towns out in the bush turn off their power except for essentials like traffic lights etc at night to save generator power, but there was no power to this place whatsoever. The main street of this town was a few hundred meters long. When we were on our way out of the town EVERYTHING came to life. All the shops lights turned on and then the traffic lights all came alive as we drove through the second last set and then the last set came on we thought it was strange.

Then my mate slams on the breaks and

says 'look to your left Scotty.' I looked to my left and there it was in all its glory -- it was the same machine we saw earlier.

It was no more than 15 meters away and was kicking up dust and emitting a really deep, almost inaudible vibration. Next thing my mate once again planted his foot.

It's here that my memory goes pretty vague and blurry. The next thing I remember it was about 6 or 7 in the morning and my mate said ‘I need to sleep’ and we pulled over in the middle of nowhere and slept. I woke up first after a couple of hours had passed and by now it was getting hot. Now I noticed I was wearing a different shirt of mine and the shirt I was wearing I've never seen again to this day.

This night has never sat well with me and it's something that I really think I should look into but I'm partly terrified of what regressive therapy could reveal but at the same time it's like I know something's happened to me that I'm unaware of. If anyone's had an experience like this please contact UFORQ and they'll put you into contact with me as I know other people saw this object and perhaps someone knows something more about what's going on. I'd be happy to verify this to anyone and I've got nothing to gain from this except ridicule, but I feel very strongly I'm not the only one.

Thornlands, approximately 1998-2002 Between 8-12 years ago -- I don't remember the date or even the year, but the time was about 7.50pm at night -- I was in my bedroom looking out my window in Thornlands, looking south, and I saw an object as described in the accompanying image [below]. It was about a kilometre away. I could not tell the exact size of it, maybe about the size of an Airbus a319.

I saw it hovering in its position, dead still, no noise, though I doubt I would have heard anything anyway, and after about 15 seconds it disappeared. As I was young with great vision I only just saw it reappear about a third to a quarter of a second later, having moved around 300m.

It moved and then disappeared again and I could not follow as it moved behind the roof.

[above: object seen over Thornlands circa 1998-2002]

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AN ABDUCTEE’S STORY Craig Harris

What follows is a transcript of the hypnotic regression of a man called ‘Steve.’

Steve’s case is unique because he has been abducted by an alien race not known to humans. This would be just another abduction regression if not for the fact that Steve has also provided photographic evidence (of UFOs) taken years before his regression.

Steve’s case contains a wealth of information and an outside look at the Earth’s situation in regard to alien intervention.

Craig Harris is a a Past Life and Life between Lives Regressional Hypnotherapist who has been practising for more than 14 years. Craig can be contacted at craigsuw@live.com.au or (phone) 07 5578 2332.

It's late at night and the lights are off. I turn around and see something.

Something standing up. It's dark, it's big built, it's flashing. It’s shorter than I am but much bigger built, hunched over. When I look at it I can see an outline and a black silhouette with a flashing white strobe light. It's between two and three in the morning. I feel scared looking at it, so I roll onto my stomach and wish it wasn't there. I calm down and turn over to have another look to see if it's still there. I hear a voice saying 'it's okay' in my head. The voice sounds male and deep. I notice it’s walking closer. The being puts out its hand for me to grab and to get up. I get out of bed and start walking with the being. I close my eyes and start walking.

When I open them I find we are walking down a corridor. It's made of metal and is on a ship. I still keep my eyes closed and somehow I can see where we are going inside my mind. I can see the dull metal corridor is square but at the same time the corners are round, its 15 metres long.

There is a light source but you can't see the light directly. I enter a doorway open my eyes and find myself in a bigger room. Still scared, but this room is brighter. A second being appears in front of me. At the end of the room is all white light.

I then see a small person with a large

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head. He has normal size eyes just like mine. He's wearing a jumpsuit and the skin is white. His head is larger, almond shape but rounder with no hair. I think he is male and he's got normal pupils.

The jumpsuit is red with a zipper at the front. He has soft black boots, the type that just slip on. There is silver padding on the cuffs and collar. He has an emblem on his chest. There is an oval with an arch that hangs over the oval.

They stand there looking at each other, which seems like a very long time but is only a few seconds. The large black being behind me turns around and walks back down the corridor.

The being in front of me then grabs my right arm and begins to look at the hand. This feels weird but I am more relaxed. He is holding my hand with both his hands. The being's skin feels rough and warm. After studying my hand he lets go of it. The being then turns his head and looks at someone else that is standing inside the light.

There is another being just like him standing inside the light. They seem to be talking to each other with telepathy. He looks at me again. The other one-steps back into the light. (I will call them 'Alpha's' for a name.)

He starts to walk off, turns and looks at me as if to say, follow me. So I just follow him. I feel calm but at the same time a little bit scared. I have partial control but I think if I try any thing I will

be stopped. Seems like we have gone to another level in the ship. We are now in a smaller room. I can see a large TV screen; it's a curved screen. He walks me up to the TV, and tells me to look. I look at the TV and all I can see is black. Now I can see stars, it's a view screen looking into space. He says that he is watching me. He says he's always been watching me, so I feel special.

I've had a feeling that someone has been watching me. He has been observing me and protecting me.

Making sure I am not in danger. I get the feeling he wants me to do something but he can't tell me what that is. Something later, down the track but I will know when I find it, it's important.

From his thoughts he is showing me that there are a lot of planets out there, a lot of worlds with life. That we're not the only planet with life.

He's trying to tell me that other people are watching us too. I get the feeling that they're neutral in their observation of us. Just studying what we are and who we are. Because we're different.

We do different things than anyone else. We have the ability to choose.

We are always open to other options.

We can choose the illogical decisions and we can make mistakes. They have less options, because they are more logical in their decisions. We take risks

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because of our emotional free will.

They find that we are strange in our behavior, so they have an interest in us. They have less emotions, less passion, more logical. They spent time with their families but it's different.

They are completely different to the grey ET. The Greys are also watching me. He is aware that the Greys are watching me. The Greys are observing Earth more than his race. The Greys are all about control everywhere. They feel the need for it. Both races are aware of each other, but they do not get involved directly. His race feels the Greys have too much interaction with Earth. That humans should evolve by themselves. Humans must learn from their own mistakes. Because if we don't learn from our own mistakes now, then in the future our mistakes will be so much bigger, from our advanced technology. The Alphas have advanced technology, but it's more for practical use not luxury.

I think I'm on the top level of one of their ships. The Greys are having too much involvement with a lot of countries. Some countries think they're the only ones to have contact with the Greys. The Greys tell each country they're the only ones. The Greys are after bodies. Human DNA. They want to know how to make a human being, our biology. They know how it works with DNA. But they want to know how to replicate us, in our behaviour. They want to make an empty human being with no soul. So they can put an adult grey soul inside, to learn more. They can transfer their soul into a replicated human body. But when they do, the Greys find they don't fully adapt to all of our emotions.

It's still pretty bland. They can't fully work it. They can't run the emotions, it takes time. They have to experience several different bodies full time, transferring from one after the other before they can gain the full emotions.

They can transfer from the grey body to a human body and back again. They want to do emotions The Alpha tells me he wants to learn why we do what we do. They are curious about human behavior. They are a very logical people. A different love, they have no anger. We humans are very emotional. Making more choices and more mistakes No other race like the humans at all. That is why we are a curiosity.

The Greys feel that they have the perfect body. By cloning humans they hope to learn what emotions are like.

To somehow learn how to approach us and how we work. So they can better predict more of what we will do. The Greys feel we are unpredictable. Every person is different with different reactions.

The Greys have rules, that no other race has more contact with Earth than they do. They see no problem with other races visiting Earth. But someone else might have too much involvement. The Greys don't want to push their luck with the amount of contact with humans and risk everything they have been working on. The rules aren't always followed.

So they have told one other race to back off, and obey their rules.

The Alphas are worried the Greys are interfering with humans' natural advancement. They do not wish humans to have advanced technology, especially weapons. They will protect us with very advanced weapons as a last resort. There are not any threats in our area. We are in a remote area of space, the backwaters.

The Alpha sends this information into my mind. It's an interactive conversation between the three of us right now. The Alpha has always been watching me, that this is the first time we've had physical contact. The 16th of September 2003, and could be March. The Alpha then takes me instantly back in my room. Then I lay down in my bed. He says that this will be the last time I see him. He will be watching me because the Greys are watching me as well. I fall back asleep.

When I woke I could not consciously remember what happened that night.

Greys I recall a night at 12 o'clock. I woke up and felt there was a presence in the room. There is a Grey outside the room trying to find out what the Alpha had done a few months before. The information that the Alpha told me is not accessible to the Greys. But the Greys are present that night and are trying to find out what the Alpha wanted with me. I walk out into the hall. I sense a Grey in the lounge room.

The Grey chases me down the hallway.

As soon as I grab the doorknob of my mate's bedroom, the Grey runs in the other direction. This was to cause fear in my emotions. So they could telepathically search my mind. They wanted to know what the Alpha has told me. The Alphas knew the Greys would try to search my memory. But the Alphas protected the information.

On the first evening with the Alpha,

with those flashing strobe lights, somehow sent my memories into a different part of my mind. Both races are protective of what they're doing, and in the information they find.

The Alpha knows this session will be accessible to the Greys now, because they have something like remote viewing. But I’m ok because of the time that has transpired. All the UFOs I have filmed are all Grey ships observing me. They do not wish to be filmed. They do not want to give us hard evidence. But it is a risk they're willing to take to find the answers.

I felt contact one other night. The being was inside my house studying my belongings. It can do it from outside but wanted a personal experience. But I don't know which race it was and it only took five minutes. Apparently there are rules.

And there would be trouble between the two races if they were to interfere with another races subject that they are studying. The Greys can't have physical contact. The Alphas protect and monitor from a great distance. Just like remote viewing.

They have been observing us over a very long time. We are a primitive race, as in not a lot of logic. And for this they will not make open contact with us. We are just too different, too illogical. Our emotions take over our options. We are capable of world peace but it will take a very long time.

The Alphas find there is no purpose to have communication with Earth. We would only abuse their gifts of technology. The Greys try to benefit from each country. They don't want to go public because that would interfere with their study of our biology. They are exchanging items of technology for abductions with certain governments.

But the Greys do not want to give us anything we can use, for we might destroy ourselves with it.

The Greys never die. The Greys reincarnate their soul from one body to another without going to the spiritual world; they go to a machine to get processed into a new body. Their soul carries across all the life memory of their last body. They keep their population numbers the same. No new babies. There are a few different types of Greys, but they all look the same. All Greys came from an original planet but then branched off. Their star apparently died. They seek new places to live. And different races change slightly in their appearance because of their new homes and

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environments. They're happy with their bodies. Which are 100% efficient.

Not like human bodies. If one of their bodies died without the machine, the soul waits until the machine is switched on. Their spare bodies have the capability to download all the memories of the new soul instantly.

The tall Greys are the bodies of their old souls with more experience; there are only a limited number of them.

There is hardly any decision-making because they will follow logic. But there are different planets withdifferent Greys. And they don't all get along. But there is only one type of Grey visiting Earth. The Greys that are controlling Earth would not allow any of their other races of Greys to interact with Earth. The Greys live for knowledge only, they are not spiritual.

The Greys can feel fear in a small way, it's the only emotion they have. They create fear in people to stop them being unpredictable. So we don't have a positive experience, so we don't follow them and don't want contact.

They have black eyes, but they can make their eyes clear. The reason is to scare people. Underneath they have normal pupils. It's like a large tinted contact lens, so you can't see where they're looking. It is also because our sun is too bright, it's just like sunglasses. Their sun is more distant.

They don't sense too much temperature. They eat and they absorb through their hands. They need hardly any blood to function. Minimal food, the liquid is absorbed through the pores of their skin. Their whole body doesn't need much to work, they made it that way, they evolved that way, then enhanced it. Their DNA is not so much different from ours There are a lot of human space travelers out there. They would look the same as us. Just like us. All races are aware of these human ETs. Humans have been pushed in a faster direction of evolution. It's almost like humans weren't originally on this planet.

Someone sped us up, it was not the Greys. The Greys found us by mistake.

One race found us first. I don’t think they are around here, not in this area; they might be back one day. They helped to get life started here. A second race helped to speed up our evolution. It's almost like we are a living experiment There is a different race that has produced the crop circles in England.

Each crop circle has a meaning behind each one. We have to figure it out

ourselves. It's a puzzle. An intelligence test. The Greys aren't concerned because it does not affect their work.

It's hard to say who the Mexico UFOs are. There is the possibility that the crop circle and Mexico UFOs might belong to the same race.

There are a lot of species out there.

More than one hundred in the Milky Way. Life is scarce amongst the stars and especially between galaxies. His race are closer to the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. The Alpha race could travel to other galaxies, but they have not because everything is here that they need. We are a valuable planet because we have unique life. There are organisations of civilizations. But not all races belong. We could join one of these organisations in the future, but not while we associate with the Greys. It will take a long time. There is neutrality between all the races.

Aggression will not be tolerated.

Everyone has enough of what they need at the moment, but are still wary of each other. There are between 20 and 40 races of humans and they are different in some way. They are more logical than us. We are more emotional than them. We are unique by our climate, and the distance between Earth and the sun. And minerals on Earth. The advanced human races see us as part of their human evolution. Not related directly.

There are only so many evolutionary patterns. Mammals, reptiles, insects.

The Alphas are not reptiles; the Greys are more like reptiles but not the same. Conditions determine what life will look like, what radiation and how much we get. Other species are not as dependent on sunlight, as ours is. They can live on a dark world.

The Alphas believe we have a soul. They do not believe there is a God personality. They breed and reproduce normally. They leave it up to the universe to fill the body with a soul. The Alpha's say that they only eat a small amount of food, once a day, they are vegetarians and have farms to grow food. They just accept the universe is what it is, not an intelligent being. We have to learn ourselves how the universe began. Time will tell if we can make logical decisions, to survive our future. There are other worlds out there, immature like our own. And there are some worlds that even we would call primitive, probably 20.

It will take a long time to develop the technology to reach their worlds. The Greys will share technology, but only

what we cannot reproduce. We are no threat to anyone, but if we were we could easily be defeated by the Greys.

But there are other alien species that would then be involved, there is a universal law. An advanced race cannot attack a primitive race. If this were to happen the other advanced races would band together, and neutralize the threat. Apparently this has happened before. Apparently this has happened with the Greys before. They are definitely pushing their boundaries.

There is something like a council or federation. There is an exchange of knowledge by belonging. If a race were kicked off the council, they would not have access to knowledge or technology. The Greys do not share their knowledge or technology. They choose to only work for themselves. To gain the upper hand. Apparently there was a conflict over Earth. That was a conflict between the Greys and a few different species over contacting Earth, and the Greys won control. But the others will go to conflict if the Greys get out of hand.

They wanted us to evolve naturally.

They objected to contact and a battle followed From time to time several races have minor conflicts between each other. If a conflict were to get out of hand, then the galactic council would intervene.

There could have been four races that were fighting over Earth. One of these were human. The only reason they lost was because the Greys were not afraid to die. Because the Greys can reincarnate into another adult body, whereas the others would die, and would have to be born again. It was a small conflict, and didn't last long. At this time the other races do not wish to push the Greys off Earth. It is a unique situation.

The Greys have animals, but not from their own planet. They have collected them from other worlds. Their bodies are 100% efficient. But it's hard to replicate something over and over without having problems. It's hard to repair their containers, so they are always looking for a new container.

They are trying to clone a hybrid between them and us. But to be 100% efficient.

The only reason the Alpha has had contact with me was to find out why the Greys are so fascinated with humans. Once the Alphas had contact with me, I was then tagged as their property. The Greys could not have abducted me because that would conflict with the ownership.

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GEORGEADAMSKI THE TOUGHEST JOB IN THE WORLD

TONY BRUNT Extracted from George Adamski: The Toughest Job in the World

by Tony Brunt © 2010.

CHAPTER FIVE -'THE BOYS' …ironically, it was not so much the sightings in the sky or Adamski's space trips that most tantalised his supporters: it was his assertion that he met the space people regularly and furtively in everyday society, and especially when he was on the lecture circuit. It was to place himself in the best possible position to exploit these private encounters that Adamski insisted on staying in hotels rather than private homes. This was a strict injunction that all his lecture organisers and hosts had to observe; when they broke this rule - as happened occasionally - he made his annoyance clear.

The most amusing example of an accommodation foul-up occurred in Australia in February 1959. 'At the airport, behind a barricade of people waiting to meet him, in the front row was a social woman, and as I remember, wearing a large flowery hat,' wrote Roy Russell later.

'George was to emerge from a room, walk across the front of the barricade and into a private room where we would meet him.

None of us had met Adamski. What should we expect?….We were released from our apprehensions when George Adamski finally came through the door formally dressed in a grey business suit, who took one look at the barricade, and on sighting the woman in the large flowery hat quickly made his way into the private room and said, 'Get me away from that bloody woman!' They were his first words to us on Australian soil. They sounded wonderful. We were dealing with a bloke that an Aussie could understand…This woman we later learned had visited Adamski in America and he'd not taken kindly to her persistent visits…We then had to tell him that that woman's home was to be his accommodation while here.

Sydney had broken the main rule…'

The 'main rule' existed because Adamski had come to live for his meetings with the visitors. These extraordinary exchanges sent him into a state of near euphoria. '[Never] have I outgrown the inner

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exaltation of being in their company,' he wrote in 1960, using language more suited to a religious experience. His most deeply observant host, Lou Zinsstag, of Basel, implied in her reminiscences that Adamski had elevated his relationship with the space people to a level that relegated his earthly associations to second class status. One is left to ponder whether he overromanticised his alien friends. Was his ardent evangelism the price that he knew had to be paid to earn the prized meetings? In 1960, Adamski warned of the tendency to deify the visitors. 'Keep balanced in all ways,' he wrote, 'and accept a man for what he is, not as a possible god, as so many have catalogued the space people.' The advice to keep balanced was something that George would ignore a year later.

Zinsstag spent a total of six weeks with Adamski during his European trips of 1959 and 1963, and has left us a treasure trove of acute and multilayered observations about the enigmatic companion she guided through three countries. 'I confess that sometimes I was hurt by his impersonal casuality with which he treated not only passing guests but also Dora Bauer and myself,' she observed after his death. 'He never was much interested in people - not in those of this planet, at any rate. And although he wanted me to be around every hour of the day I felt that this was not out of friendship, he simply needed me.'

On his first morning in Basel, in 1959, Adamski had been in a 'splendid mood,' according to Zinsstag. ''Do you notice how happy I am?' he said, beaming. 'Yes' I said, 'but why? Did you have such a good

Dora Bauer (left), Adamski's Austrian co-worker, and Louise Zinsstag (centre), his Swiss co-worker, with George, in Basel, in 1959. Zinsstag confirmed with hotel staff that Adamski met with mysterious visitors, the 'Boys' in his hotel room in Basel.

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rest?' 'Yes indeed I had a good rest but in the morning I had the visit of two of the boys, they came to my room at nine o'clock.' I was quite flabbergasted because I knew what he meant by this.

It was his way to call his extraterrestrial friends 'boys' when he was pleased. It was hard even for me to believe him at that moment but he insisted that there were quite a few in Basel at the moment.

On several mornings of the same week he told me the same story and so I decided to check on it. I asked the hotel manager as well as the portier whom I knew well, if Adamski did indeed have visitors in the morning. 'Yes' both men said, 'there are several men coming around 9 o'clock, but never more than two at a time.' I felt that they were wondering about it. Of course, I could not enlighten them.'

One afternoon she got a good look at one of the mystery men. Zinsstag had left Adamski in his hotel room for a two hour nap and retreated to a sidewalk café downstairs. 'All tables but one were empty. There, a young man was sitting with a Coca Cola bottle and a glass in front of him. He looked very distinguished, well dressed, with his dark blond hair neatly cut and brushed down over his forehead… His skin had a strong suntan and his eyes were hidden behind large sunglasses…he looked very intellectual.' Zinsstag tried to guess his

Roy Russell, of Brisbane (above), was the publicist for Adamski's Australian visit of 1959. The two formed a close friendship.

George surprised Russell with the amazing claim that the space people had once been involved in the British shipping industry. The Australian saw his guest's earthy side but, like Desmond Leslie, also noted an eloquent spiritual dimension: '…he seemed to be all embracing and fathomless,' Russell wrote in 1998. 'On one or two occasions when we were alone, when brief silences occurred, we seemed to have a mutuality. These silent pauses were not awkward or embarrassing, but instead were times of accepted quietness, when understanding was complete and beyond any need of explanation.'

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nationality. 'I hesitated between American, Swede, Swiss, while I took a seat at a table at some distance.' As she started on her drink, Adamski appeared, smiling and lighthearted. 'Not so fast, Lou, not so fast!' 'I was much astonished to see him at this moment ….When, twenty minutes earlier, he had left me he had looked very tired. Now, he stood in front of me, fresh and wide awake, his eyes sparkling with pleasure. However it was easy to see that his smile was no longer directed at me but at the man sitting behind me….Adamski also ordered a Screwdriver and kept on smiling. After a while the stranger got up, leaving the open café and crossing the almost empty street, very slowly, while greeting George and me with a most friendly and prolonged smile. No word was spoken.

When he had disappeared from view I turned to George, urging him to tell me if he was one of the 'boys' who used to come to his room in the morning. 'Yes,' he answered, 'now that he has left us I can tell you that much.' He looked very pleased. Of course, I had guessed that a lively telepathic 'conversation' must have been going on behind my back, but what impressed me most, was the fact that the stranger seemed to have made George come down to where we sat.

Adamski confirmed that he had already slept but was wakened up. 'I did not know who it was or why he did it, but I followed the summons. It was just one of those hunches, you know.' Most unfortunately, I did not.'

One of the New Zealand tour organisers got a shot at George's undercover escorts.

She was waiting for him at Auckland airport on his return from a flight to a southern city. 'I noticed two good looking young men with fair hair disembark from the plane among the passengers and walk across the tarmac,' she said later.

'They could have been brothers but I didn't pay too much attention, apart from notice that they smiled at me as they approached the gate. George was the last person off the plane and when he got to me he said excitedly, 'did you see de boys?'' The woman said she let out an unladylike exclamation as it dawned on her that she had missed out on a unique opportunity. By the time they got into the terminal the men had disappeared, to her great regret.

Adamski's whole organising committee in Auckland might have spent an unwitting few hours with one of 'the boys.' George advised them that they had been 'checked out' by the space people before his arrival.

Thinking back on the months preceding Adamski's visit, committee members came to the conclusion that the standout candidate was a fair complexioned young

man of indeterminate race who had joined one of their afternoon meetings. This young man had arrived out of the blue at the home of two of the members, shortly before their departure for the meeting.

He claimed to have the same surname as theirs, was passing through Auckland from overseas, and believed they were related.

The couple had been pleasantly surprised by his arrival and asked if he would like to accompany them to the meeting. He was enthusiastic and came along. The visitor was quietly watchful at the gathering, apart from making one or two enigmatic comments. After that day his impromptu hosts never heard from him again.

In Australia, George had a mysterious escort who shadowed him on a number of his internal flights, a woman who dressed in black and wore a seahorse brooch. She was seen and photographed by his companions. Adamski suspected that she was a space person but was reluctant to approach her uninvited.

The concept of a clandestine ring of visitors from off the planet living quietly and watchfully in terrestrial society holds a sublime fascination: the 'secret agent' genre taken to its orbital extreme. The mind conjures with the problems - the ever-present danger of detection and exposure, the difficulty of obtaining fake papers, the mundane chore of getting your hands on cash. Epigrams abound Goodbye socialist utopia; welcome to Struggle Street! Those Coca Colas don't grow on trees. In fact, welcome to the real world, buddy! Lou Zinsstag gave Adamski pocket money, but never saw him spend it. She finally understood from a remark he made that he had given it to 'the boys.'

Perhaps there was a humorous downside to the inspiring meetings: '…that just about wraps up our treatise on telepathy, George. Oh, by the way, you haven't got a dollar you can spare?' Zinsstag didn't begrudge the money that she and George had forked over: the young man in the café had been a charmer. 'He looked so very nice,' she told a British audience in 1967, 'that I was quite happy to think that it was he who had got my money.'

Adamski told Roy Russell in Brisbane that the space people had once been involved in the British shipping industry in order to generate funds for their undercover operations He seemed to imply that they had moved on to other money-earning ventures in America.

Carol Honey may have come upon one of their more modest forays into capitalism when he accompanied Adamski on a lecture tour in the Pacific north-west in August, 1958. 'We had just finished breakfast…and were driving up the road towards our next stop, Grants Pass, Oregon. I was driving in my car and chose the route myself,' Honey wrote in 1959.

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'We passed a small café and as we went

by George had a 'telepathic hunch to stop.

I couldn't understand this as we had just eaten a short time before. He insisted, so I turned the car around and we went into the café. As we entered the door a very small blonde girl approached and George acted as if someone had hit him on the head with a hammer. In fact, he acted so strange about her that it caused me to get suspicious. After she showed me that she was reading my every thought, it finally dawned on me that she was probably a space person. She looked from a distance as if she was about 12 years old. Close up, however, she looked much older and I remarked to Adamski that I thought she was about 45 years old. I had been looking her over pretty close and when she let me know she was reading my thoughts I was very embarrassed. She didn't identify herself to George in any way and after his coffee and my pie we left and continued on our journey. George was silent for quite a ways and appeared deep in thought.

Finally I told him I thought this girl was one of the space people living and working among us. He agreed but said he wasn't absolutely sure…'

The two men continued on to Seattle, Washington, and stopped in a motel for the night. The next morning the phone rang in their room and a man told Adamski: 'Good morning. I called to tell you that you and the young man were both wrong. The girl you met in the café was not 45 years old…' Honey recounted that the caller advised that he had called to relieve George's mind about a couple of other things in relation to the woman, and he 'let us know that they had given George the telepathic impression to stop

at that particular café. We found out that the café was run by space people, as a way of supplying food and funds for those who came down among us on a mission and might need spending money to get around. Also other space people were in the café at the time we were there.'

The highly credible and well-documented 'Ummo' contact case in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s show-cased another example of humanlike visitors who apparently set up shop in order to carry out in-depth cultural study from within. The visitors disclosed a mine of information in scores of communications to a restricted network of correspondents, mainly in Spain and France. They seemed to seal their authenticity in a preannounced and much photographed flying saucer flyby in the Madrid suburb of San Jose de Valderas on 1 June, 1967. This sensational incident was headlined the following day on the front page of the daily newspapers, including 'Informaciones'.

By comparison with Adamski's secretive network, the Ummo infiltrators were surprisingly up front about how they had operated. There is some evidence that they financed their lifestyle by bringing in diamonds from off the planet and feeding them unobtrusively into the world gem trade. Their numbers appeared to peak in the late 1960s when they said they had nearly 90 observers in place.

While the Ummo visitors' primary focus was on Spain and a handful of Spanishspeaking countries in South America, they mentioned that they also had had people in France (their first point of infiltration in 1950), Denmark, West Berlin and Australia (Adelaide), among others. In the Middle East crises of 1967 and 1973 when ArabIsraeli conflicts threatened to escalate into a superpower confrontation, the Ummo visitors took fright from their probability calculations of nuclear war (38% in the 1967 crisis) and were temporarily evacuated, in pickups that occurred in Spain, Brazil and Bolivia. The Ummo visitors maintained that they had tentatively identified two other groups of humanlooking extraterrestrials living secretly in Earth society. The motives of the other groups, they George being introduced to Adamski committee members wrote, indicated 'no in Auckland in the delightfully named Royal Empire negative character'.

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Chapter Nine -Dents in the Legacy George Adamski's historical legacy was dented by more than just his derailment in 1961-62 and the liberties he sometimes took with the facts. Less well known to researchers who came afterwards and sifted through the paper trail was another personal liability now lost to archivists unless they possess an old fashioned reelto-reel tape recorder and a spool or two of his lectures: he was a poor public speaker.

Adamski had an undoubted ability to establish a warm, easy rapport when speaking one-to-one or in small groups.

In such relaxed settings where he had time to listen to his intuition and think at his own pace, George could convey views and information - even scientific conjecture - in a credible and impressive way. He seemed to have an ability to recover lost ground from his meagre schooling and impress with the depth of his knowledge and the sagacity of his insights. People were taken with the assurance and thoughtfulness with which he expressed himself.

But on the speaker's platform the excitement of an audience eager for his views produced a cocksure exuberance that spelled the end of structure, clarity, rhythm and just about every other quality necessary for a good presentation. If any of George's minders ever schooled him on the basics of public speaking, it didn't show. He spoke without notes of any kind, letting adrenalin fuel his delivery. Adamski could do a leisurely, flattering introduction well enough - '…your beautiful country...' etc - but after that came the deluge: a stream-of-consciousness flow where sentences ran into each other with no space for full stops, light touches, irony, leisurely rests, or oratorical flourishes.

There was polite applause at the end of the night but generally no other gaps to allow for audience reaction. Occasionally George managed a touch of humour that brought a laugh, squeezed in before the next sentence. In Auckland he was asked whether the visitors had taken anyone else up into space. 'Yes, they have,' he said, stabbing a finger, 'but I'm the only fool that stuck his neck out.'

Adamski spoke with the rapid-fire clip and swagger of a New York cab driver. His warm tenor voice projected well in auditoria, but audiences had to listen carefully to pick out the nuggets in his ungrammatical and inexact, even sloppy, delivery. George's upbringing in a home where English was the second language, required audiences to make a courteous adjustment to his gnarled syntax. He cut

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off sentences with one-size-fits-all suffixes: '...and so fort', '...and all a dat.'

These distractions were easily tolerated when Adamski spoke about his unique personal experiences with 'the boys'.

These episodes were hypnotically interesting, no matter how clumsily they were described. They were what people had come to hear. You could hear a pin drop when Adamski recounted in a lowkey, blow-by-blow action sequence the 1952 encounter near Desert Center. His acting out on stage the gestures and uncertainties of the transaction with 'Orthon' had a naturalness and authenticity that were riveting. But all too often his talks wandered off into long, pseudoscientific speculations on space, physics, public policy and human evolution that were unconvincing to all but the most gullible. It was as if Jed Clampett, from the Beverly Hillbillies, had gone on an excited speaking tour to talk not about the gunshot that caused the gusher, but the chemistry of petroleum. Adamski's talks would have been equal to the need if they had stuck to the subject.

He also quoted liberally, and sometimes at tedious length, from newspaper clippings and official documents that he felt bolstered his case. Often these reinforced his claims only because he had misread them or took liberties with their contents. It wasn't all blather, though. Sometimes George hit his stride with a certain sandpapered eloquence. For 15 minutes at the end of his lecture in the Auckland Playhouse Theatre, Adamski held his audience with a sustained and deeply absorbing account of the alien lifestyle, as he knew it - but then it all went sideways: 'So now I'm gonna stop here for a while and what questions you have in mind that I have not brought out durin' the lecture I hope you just put it over here after the picture's over and I'll try to answer, but as I say there's so much to be said you could talk here for twenty days steady, every day, for two, three hours each day and still not give you all that's already piled up in the world knowledge in this field in relationship to life, as well as their progress made in field of science, and the relationship to the system which is also goin' on for Earth in relationship to...' A few more head-spinning convolutions and it was all over.

Three positives shone through the meandering verbiage - the man's sincerity, the nobility of his purpose, and his luminous courage - but generally his talks were suggestive of someone who overrated his abilities and charisma, a performer who felt that he could wing it on stage without the humility of careful preparation and the need to provide his audience with value for time invested.

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Adamski, seated second from left, at his 1959 lecture in Napier, New Zealand.

As a consequence, Adamski's literary legacy received little support from the hundreds of public appearances he made.

These unvarnished displays served as a showcase for his weaknesses more than his strengths. They were a net subtraction from his reputation.

Particularly fraught were the question-andanswer sessions of these meetings. They delivered a bilious roller coaster ride for those hoping to reach a conclusion one way or the other about the man. When the questions focussed on his experiences with the 'space people' the audience hung on every word of his reply because fascinating morsels sometimes dropped out of the fender-bending circumlocution.

But question time also gave scope for those with an interest in the occult to seek Adamski's views. These questions traversed territory that George had reconnoitred systematically in the years before flying saucers. He charged recklessly on to this exposed ground with mouth blazing when a more cautious approach would have been advised. Not content with being the go-to guy for UFOs, Adamski was Mr Knowitall on metaphysics as well, and often unconvincingly. For those who had accepted the strong evidence of an astonishing relationship between Adamski and mysterious visitors but recognised his carelessness with facts, sorting out the truth was a baffling task.

It seemed that only a fumbling mix of gut feel and shrewd deduction stood a chance of arriving at the approximate shape of the true story. There were times when George resembled a hapless Mr Magoo; at other times he displayed the wisdom of Solomon. This spectacular contradiction is Adamski's great gift to the science of personality.

George's ungainly campaigning shines an interesting light on the tolerance, and even tenderness, of the space people who attended him. Their consistent support

for his tours speaks volumes for an egalitarian and nonjudgmental attitude more seraphic than pragmatic. The Brothers were, indeed, as kindly as George claimed. Desmond Leslie looked back with fascination at the visitors' improbable choice of envoy and felt that perhaps they had identified their man decades before.

'I often wondered why he should have been singled out as the prime prophet of saucery,' he wrote after Adamski's death.

'He believed that he had reincarnated from another planet through karmic reasons to give this teaching, and I find that idea quite acceptable.'

There is no doubt that as the 1940s unfolded Adamski seemed hardwired for his future role. He had been stargazing with astronomical telescopes since the early 1930s, snapping photos of celestial bodies. This had gathered pace after George left Los Angeles in 1940 and took advantage of the darker night skies that rural California offered. After 1947, flying saucers became an obsession. All George's actions from this time on speak of a hankering, almost a desperation, to be involved in - and a herald of extraterrestrial contact. In 1949 two important things happened - firstly, he privately published a work of science fiction using his 'Professor' moniker which described an imaginary trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus. In this, George distilled all his hopes and beliefs about the nature of interstellar space and life. And secondly, he began speaking at service clubs and other groups about the visitors. So driven was George to take his message public that surprised visitors at the roadside cafĂŠ found themselves co-opted as reluctant listeners to his presentations. In mid-1952 two teenagers who called into the cafĂŠ for lunch on their way to the Mt Palomar Observatory were caught up in one of these bizarre offerings. When they were in midhamburger, George stepped out of a side

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door and began addressing the handful of diners. 'I looked at Bob and he looked at me, and we said nothing,' one of them wrote 50 years later. Their skeptical questions afterwards were out of tune with those of the other diners. 'We concluded that we'd been dissing Santa Claus and continued on our trip.'

Dissing George is easy to do when we look back at his funnier antics. Justice demands that we should turn an equally cold eye on those who opposed him and enforced, deliberately or unwittingly, something far more awful than anything he propounded: a despotic, totalitarian paradigm - Earthman Supreme and Alone.

Inside this asylum of conformity that the establishment erected was an intellectual atmosphere so toxic to dissent that it could dissolve reputations and livelihoods at the merest touch. Face-to-face contact with extraterrestrials became almost a conceptual impossibility, even if it occurred.

While a compliant news media and academia patrolled the safe ground, Adamski had the courage to journey way beyond the Pale to a nether region of public opinion where the only enduring consequence - if the cover-up held - was ridicule and infamy. To meet with ET's covertly was one thing; to broadcast the fact in books and lectures in the midst of history's most pernicious organized concealment was another thing altogether. Adamski was not going to sit quietly and tolerate an official line which condemned his planet to a blithe and harmful provincialism. He had seen through the charade, in fact he had been given a Trekkie's journey into the very cell structure of its bowels, and there was too much at stake to remain silent. Modernity's Primary Fact - the arrival of the visitors, the discovery that we were not alone could be finessed by officialdom and its cowed outriders, but a humble pensioner from California was damned if he was going to join the epic deceit and live a life of comfort and good repute.

Adamski was perfectly placed to make the sacrifices that his unique role involved. He had catapulted into the headlines with less to lose than most. There were no family ties to hinder the punishment he was prepared to take. His brothers and sisters were 2,000 miles away in Dunkirk, New York, keeping their heads down. There was no career to protect, there never had been, nor any noteworthy community stature to jeopardise. George liked to point to his war service as a volunteer air raid warden in remote Valley Center as a civic contribution. Financially he had nothing to lose. Adamski owned no real estate, at least until he left Palomar and moved to a house in Carlsbad as he approached the age of 70. His UFO books brought in some money but generally he lived on a tight budget. In 1958 Lucy McGinnis wrote a desperate letter to the international network appealing for funds to stave off financial hardship.

George's assets were rather of the intangible kind: a remarkable courage, and philosophical and metaphysical leanings apparently attuned to those of the aliens.

He was a man they could do business with: he could be summoned without a telephone call, he broadcast the information they felt was important - and he kept their secrets. His reticence when asked certain questions was sometimes mistaken for rudeness. 'There were rare occasions when Adamski's way of evading direct answers to straight questions would bring about a real short circuit in conversation,' Zinsstag wrote. Adamski told her that on many subjects he had to adhere strictly to his silence pact with the visitors. 'Would you betray a name or a source of vital information,' he asked impatiently, 'if you were told that you would lose the connection instantly in doing this?'

This was where George's verbal indirection sometimes served him well on the public platform: when he needed to be evasive without being abrupt. Spiralling sentences produced a verbal fog that revealed shadows rather than shapes. The space

people had rebuffed an articulate, university-educated British blueblood because they doubted his discretion, and thrown their weight behind an unimaginable character with a double major in hardscrabble and esoterica. He was incongruous but he was cagey, and that quality was important for the Brothers. They were frightened of technology leakage to a planet hell-bent on self-destruction. Strict injunctions related to some of the gadgets Adamski saw on board their craft; these could not be described in detail.

The visitors had mounted a sophisticated, labour-intensive, cloakand-dagger operation spanning years and continents that provided ground and air support for their chosen man, despite his limitations as a messenger. In embracing their imperfect friend they demonstrated that they were - whoever they were - the truest of democrats. But most of the load for this amazing crusade fell on the shoulders of one man. With an all too human portfolio of weaknesses and strengths, George Adamski campaigned boldly against nothing less than the culture of his own planet and became the international face of flying saucers.

George Adamski: The Toughest Job in the World by Tony Brunt (2010) is an expanded and illustrated version of ‘George Adamski and the Toughest Job in the World,’ first published in July 2009 on the UFOCUS NZ website as part of the ‘Secret History’ series.

Published by Vailima Press, 53 Endeavour St, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600, New Zealand It is available as a free download from http://www.scribd.com/doc/ 36608149/George-Adamski-TheToughest-Job-in-the-World., and the author can be contacted at: tony.brunt@xtra.co.nz.

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UFO STUNS PRETORIA July 26, 2010 http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/ UFO-stuns-Pretoria-residents-20100726

An unidentified flying object which apparently consisted of three bright lights, astounded residents from Booysens in Pretoria for two consecutive nights for several hours. Engela van der Spuy, 67, who lived in Attie Street in Booysens, contacted Beeld after she watched the strange set of lights on Thursday night for the second consecutive night. "I'm not saying it's green little space men," said Van der Spuy. "We just really want to know what it is."

"I couldn't make out the shape of the object because the three lights were too bright, but it almost had a heart shape because there were two lights on top, a blue light on the left and an emerald green light directly next to it, on the right side, with a big bright white light underneath it which shone straight down," she said.The UFO hung in the air for two hours without moving and then, at about 20:30, slowly started moving down, diagonally to the left and still down, disappearing behind the horizon.

On Thursday night,the UFO again appeared shortly after sunset and at 20:30 again started moving down before disappearing.

"I called all the neighbours and we looked at it together, but no one could figure out what it could be. All we knew, was that it definitely was not a star or a normal plane."

Henrico Swart, 19, Van der Spuy's neighbour,who looked at the UFO through binoculars, was dumbfounded. "It has to have a very strange shape, because even through the binoculars I couldn't make out the shape," said Swart. "All you could see, were three bright lights."

On enquiry, spokespeople from the Hercules police station, the Johannesburg Planetarium and the South African Air Force had no knowledge of the incident and were unable to explain the phenomenon.

UFO SHUTS AIRPORT FOR AN HOUR September 13, 2010 Zhang Xuanchen, http:// www.shanghaidaily.com/article/ ?id=449133&type=National

The appearance of an unidentified flying object had forced an airport in Baotou in Inner Mongolia to delay the landing of

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three planes by nearly an hour on Saturday night.The UFO, the third reported in China so far this year, was seen hovering about four kilometers east of the Baotou airport at 8pm, the online news portal Dbw.cn reported today.

Airport officials immediately called off the landing of three flights from Shanghai and Beijing at 9:14pm out of safety concerns.

Another two planes were ordered to land in neighboring Ordos Airport and Taiyuan Airport.The airport operation went back to normal by 10pm, the report said. But officials gave no further details about the object.

INCREASE IN UFO SIGHTINGS IN CYPRUS July 22, 2010 http://www.phenomenica.com/2010/07/ dramatic-increase-in-ufo-sightings.html

If aliens are choosing Cyprus as a holiday destination, it appears it is becoming more popular, as the number if sightings have shot up recently.

In Protaras on Monday, over a dozen people reported seeing a strange orange light passing slowly through the sky, before ascending over a hill. "It was beautiful and mesmerising," Shirley Daniels told the Cyprus Mail, "It was fairly high in the sky and moved with no sound, it also had a beautiful white aura."

The mysterious object appeared to float from Famagusta towards Protaras, but was also later spotted by other baffled witnesses in Dherinya, Ayia Napa and even Oroklini.

"My niece and I watched it for about 20 minutes, it really was the most awesome sight I have ever seen," Daniels added.

A few weeks ago witnesses watched an oval shaped object accelerate very quickly and then swing from side to side near Larnaca beach, that was followed by reports of a 'comet shaped craft' hovering in the skies near Xylophagou. Clusters of mysterious craft, bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported in Cyprus over the past year.

UFO enthusiasts have been increasingly interested in documenting local sightings since an account by a former British soldier who claimed he witnessed an 'alien craft' crash in the Troodos Mountains. Former soldier Tom Clarke, who was part of a six

man British Army unit on a late night patrol in 1973 recalled what happened when they spotted strange lights in the sky.

"We were all awoken at about 2am by a brilliant bluish dazzling bright light in the sky, what happened next is hard to explain.

There was not an explosion, but we were all hit by a shockwave and fell flat to the ground.The light just disappeared or went out," Clarke said.

The soldiers were ordered to collect debris and place it into black plastic bags; Corporal Clarke managed to conceal some small pieces of golden tinted foil from amongst the wreckage - which is now in the hands of UFO Magazine.The Troodos range, which is home to several military communication stations, has been location of dozens of reported "UFO incidents" over the past half century.

UFO SPOTTED IN NORTH COL OMBIA COLOMBIA Friday, 10 September 2010 07:58 Adriaan Alsema http://colombiareports.com/colombianews-lite/news/11778-ufo-spotted-innorth-colombia.html

Locals in the north Colombian department of Magdalena say they spotted a UFO, local media reported Friday. According to eyewitnesses the unidentified flying object was spotted on Wednesday just after noon. One of the witnesses recorded the object with his cell phone.

The UFO was reportedly visible in the sky above Magdalena for some fifteen minutes before it disappeared. According to local newspaper El Informador, members of the Colombian Space Commission have contacted the man who filmed the object with his cell phone.

The sighting comes only days after a giant fireball was seen in the skies above the Santander department, south of Magdalena.

One scientist said that the mysterious object may have been a fragment of a Russian satellite.

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UFOS TO APPEAR IN 201112: CHINESE 2011-12: ASTRONOMER August 3, 2010 http://www.phenomenica.com/2010/08/ ufos-to-appear-in-2011-12-chinese.html

Wang Sichao, an astronomy and minor planet scholar, made the forecast under recently-heated speculations about UFOs, as some unidentified flying objects have been spotted in several Chinese regions of Zhejiang, Hunan, Chongqing and Xinjiang since last month, the China Daily reported.

A UFO spotted in Zhejiang's provincial capital of Hangzhou disrupted air traffic over east China for an hour in early July.

Some media reports said the UFO might have been a private aircraft, because of the increasing number of privately owned aircraft.

As for what British cosmological physicist Stephen Hawking claimed about aliens in April this year, saying "an alien encounter could have bad consequences for humans and earth had better watch out", Wang called it too early to make a conclusion.

Wang also urged scientists to design and create more advanced and agile telescopes in order to observe the unidentified flying objects that usually turn up for only seconds at a time.

A NOT-SOSUSPICIOUS MIND: ELVIS WAS OBSESSED WITH UFOS Monica Garske, http://www.aolnews.com/ weird-news/article/elvis-presleys-lifelongufo-sightings-detailed-in-new-book/ 19583253

Elvis may be the undisputed King of rock 'n' roll, but did you know he was also supposedly the King of UFO sightings?

Turns out, the hip-swiveling pioneer of rock may have been the first official rock star to truly embrace UFOs due to his reportedly deep-rooted, lifelong connection to flying saucers.

Luckman told AOL News that out of all pop culture rock icons, Elvis Presley, by far, had the strongest tie to UFOs, experiencing several documented sightings throughout his life.The author claimed that it all began the night the King was born -- Jan. 8, 1935 - when a strange, unidentified blue light reportedly hovered in the night skies above Elvis' childhood home in Tupelo,Mississippi.

"The light was seen by the doctor who delivered him and by Elvis' father, who later told Elvis all about it," alleged Luckman.

FUTURIST ON UFOS: TIME TO GROW UP August 10, 2010 Billy Cox, http:// devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11124/ futurist-on-ufos-time-to-grow-up/

Last week's directive by the Brazilian government ordering its air traffic controllers, as well as military and civilian pilots, to file all UFO reports into a central

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database runs counterintuitive to U.S. policy. But the announcement didn't surprise Dr. John Petersen.

The Arlington Institute founder/director John Petersen says the adult conversation could begin if NASA places its UFO photos in the public domain. "I don't think anything stays the same as it is, and there's a growing kind of awareness on this subject around the world," says Petersen, founder of a nonprofit futurist think tank called The Arlington Institute. "It's inevitable that humans - and Americans - will get to a place where this issue can be discussed openly, in a non-threatening manner.

"It's demeaning to presume that most people will freak out or somehow panic when this reality is confirmed. When I talk about it with my wife, she goes, 'What's the big deal, I don't understand. Are we going to stop shopping, are we going to go to work in a different way? What?'"

Brazil's announcement just happened to coincide with the release of 'UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record,' in which journalist Leslie Kean chronicles the accelerating worldwide efforts to address the phenomenon, then lobbies for the formation of a new U.S. scientific study. Among those endorsing the book was Petersen, whose resume includes a stretch with the National Security Council. Citing an idea advanced by author Whitley Strieber, Petersen says it wouldn't take much for Uncle Sam to join the conversation.

"If NASA would just say, look, we've got these pictures, we don't know what they are, that would give the National Science Foundation something to work with," says Petersen, who lives in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. "Suddenly everybody follows the money and it'll be legitimized.You wouldn't have to get into the conspiracy stuff - who knows where conspiracies start and end?

Throwing rocks at people certainly is not the way to get people at the top to cooperate. You let the facts lead the way and let people find out what's there to be found out."

Petersen, a retired naval flight officer with a background in electrical engineering, describes 'UFOs On the Record' as "a good start" toward that end. With any luck, he says, American mainstream science will take a cue and explore Kean's book.

DO WE DARE LET ALIENS KNOW WE'RE HERE? 17 August, 2010 Clara Moskowitz, http://www.space.com/ searchforlife/stephen-hawking-alienattack-seticon-100817.html

Even if humanity could reach out to an intelligent alien civilization, scientists are polarized over whether we should. Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has argued that the extraterrestrials we contacted would be likely to harm us, a view that divided the experts here at the SETIcon convention.

"No one can say that there is no risk to transmitting," John Billingham, former chairman of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics, said via a statement read at the convention Sunday. "Personally, I agree with Hawking and think it may be unwise to transmit."

However, Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at the SETI Institute, said of aliens: "Even if they tend to be hateful, awful folks, can they do us any harm at interstellar distances?"

Hawking, 68, claimed that any civilization with which humanity could communicate is likely to be much older and more technologically advanced than ours. So they would probably have the ability, and possibly the motive, to eradicate humanity and strip-mine our planet for parts. It would be safer not to actively broadcast our presence, he said.

Billingham said listening for signs of life is safe, but sending out signals of our own could be asking for trouble. He recommended establishing an international conference to decide whether the whole world supported "active SETI," or METI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

Canadian science fiction author Robert Sawyer agreed that international opinion should be consulted before a small group of scientists made any "arrogant" choice on behalf of the planet. "We've got to stop and think about this, whether this is a wise thing to do," Sawyer said.

But SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak said such a conference is unlikely to be productive. "The idea that we can solve this problem with international consultation strikes me as naivete of the first order," Shostak said. He argued that the whole issue is moot because Earth has been radiating signals into space for decades. Every radio and television broadcast in history has beamed out electromagnetic radiation to the cosmos - an effect scientists refer to as leakage.

While these signals haven't been particularly powerful or targeted to extraterrestrials, a sufficiently advanced civilization would have no trouble detecting them, Shostak said.

Furthermore, he and other experts questioned the logic of an alien civilization wanting to attack Earth. Vakoch said it would take quite a lot of time and energy for extraterrestrials to come all the way to Earth to wage war or try to extract resources from our planet. The cost of traveling here to collect them, not to mention transporting those resources back to the aliens' home, would far outweigh the benefit, he said.

"It's completely analogous to ordering a book from Amazon and paying $60,000 for shipping," Shostak added.

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POPE'S ASTRONOMER SA YS HE WOULD SAYS BAPTISE AN ALIEN IF IT ASKED HIM http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/ sep/17/pope-astronomer-baptisealiens?CMP=twt_gu

Aliens might have souls and could choose to be baptised if humans ever met them, a Vatican scientist said today.The official also dismissed intelligent design as "bad theology" that had been "hijacked" by American creationist fundamentalists.

Guy Consolmagno, who is one of the pope's astronomers, said he would be "delighted" if intelligent life was found among the stars. "But the odds of us finding it, of it being intelligent and us being able to communicate with it - when you add them up it's probably not a practical question."

Speaking ahead of a talk at the British Science Festival in Birmingham tomorrow, he said that the traditional definition of a soul was to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love and freedom to make decisions. "Any entity - no matter how many tentacles it has - has a soul."

Would he baptise an alien? "Only if they asked."

Consolmagno, who became interested in science through reading science fiction, said that the Vatican was well aware of the latest goings-on in scientific research.

"You'd be surprised," he said.

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, of which Stephen Hawking is a member, keeps the senior cardinals and the pope up-to-date with the latest scientific developments. Responding to Hawking's recent comments that the laws of physics removed the need for God, Consolmagno said: "Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist."

The pope's astronomer said the Vatican was keen on science and admitted that the church had got it "spectacularly wrong" over its treatment of the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo confirmed that the Earth went around the sun - and not the other way around - and was charged with heresy in 1633. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Tuscany. Only in 1992 did Pope John Paul admit that the church's treatment of Galileo had been a mistake.

UNITED NATIONS TO APPOINT ALIEN AMBASSADOR? 27 September 2010http:// www.space.com/news/united-nationsalien-ambassador-100927.html

When aliens finally land on Earth and utter those five fateful words "Take me to your leader," the United Nations will know just who to call. Or will they?

According to some British news reports, the U.N. is set to appoint Malaysian

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astrophysicist Mazlan Othman as the world organization's space ambassador for extraterrestrial contact affairs. This would make Othman the first point of contact if aliens ever reached out. But it seems there may be some confusion as to whether these reports are real. In response to an email inquiry by The Guardian, a U.K. newspaper, Othman wrote: "It sounds really cool but I have to deny it."

Othman currently serves as the director of the U.N.'s Office for Outer Space Affairs, which is a branch of the General Assembly that is "responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space," as stated on the official website. The Office for Outer Space Affairs was established in 1962 and is based at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria.

Earlier news reports stated that Othman would have to present the position of ambassador at a scientific conference in Buckinghamshire, England next week. If the notion is approved by the U.N. scientific advisory committees, it will move to the General Assembly, according to Wired UK. Wired also reported that at a recent lecture, Othman claimed that in the search for alien life lies the hope that "someday humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.

When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject."

IF ALIENS EXIST, THEY WILL PROBABLY LOVE BACH Clara Moskowitz, http://www.space.com/ searchforlife/aliens-contact-art-musicseticon-100814.html

If we ever make contact with aliens, they might be more interested in learning about Van Gogh and Bach than Einstein or Newton, scientists said Saturday.Art may attract aliens more than academics because any extraterrestrial civilization that we are able to get in touch with is likely to be much older than us and more technically advanced, researchers said here at the

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Humans would probably have little to teach them about science and mathematics that they don't already know, the theory suggests.

However, our art and music is singularly human, and could likely be fascinating to an alien species.

"What would the other guys want to know about us? What in the world do we have to offer?" asked Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif. "If they're so advanced, we probably can't teach them about science, but we can tell them what it's like to be at this precarious point where we don't know if we're going to continue as a species."

Advanced alien civilizations will probably have overcome the issues that threaten adolescent species like our own, such as how to live sustainably without degrading the planet, and how not to destroy ourselves with biological or technical warfare, Vakoch said. Advanced extraterrestrials might even have forgotten what it's like to live as we do, with the future in question. And the best way to teach them about what it's like to be human may be through art and music, Vakoch added.

However, aliens are likely to be so different from us that it will be difficult for them to understand our art. We may do best to present works based on the language and patterns of mathematics, which might be more universal, Vakoch said.

Pierre Schwob, author and creator of the classical music repository ClassicalArchives.com, suggested that a piece like Bach's "Goldberg Variations," which is built on mathematical patterns, might be particularly accessible to extraterrestrials. "If anything I would think, yes, any civilization whatsoever would gather that this is extraordinarily beautiful," Schwob said. "But we really don't have any

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idea what would be appreciated by an alien civilization."

As for visual art, comic book artist Paul Duffield suggested showing extraterrestrials examples of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. "The richly three-dimensional, almost photographic representation could be more easily interpretable," he said. "And it's very expressive."

Likewise, learning about how aliens create art could be one of the most interesting aspects of making contact.

DNA PROOF OF BIGFO OT MA Y BE BIGFOOT MAY ONLY MONTHS AW AY AWA Grant Lawrence, http:// beforeitsnews.com/story/157/682/ Scientific_DNA_Proof_of_Bigfoot_May_be_Only_Months_Away.html

For centuries throughout the world there have been reports of Bigfoot or Sasquatch like creatures. Over the last several decades, there have been casts of foot prints, bone and hair samples, voice recordings, photos, and videos of what my indeed be the Bigfoot creature.

In the 60s there was a video taken by Roger Patterson of a reported Bigfoot.The video is controversial and shouldn't be included as definitive Bigfoot evidence. But there has amassed over the years more and more evidence that Sasquatch may indeed be lurking in the woods.

Now David Paulides of North American Bigfoot Search.com and the author of 'Tribal Bigfoot,' has been busy collecting bone and hair samples of purported various Bigfoot. His research has led him into DNA evaluation of these samples and he reports on Coast to Cosast AM that results are very promising so far.

In fact, Paulides and highly respected DNA expert Dr. Melba S. Ketchum have found that some samples appear to have both human and animal characteristics. Dr. Ketchum believes that very shortly she will have the final conclusions to the DNA testing.Then the results will be submitted for peer review in scientific journals and an announcement will be made.

Both Dr. Ketchum and Paulidies believe the research is very promising and that the

DNA may indeed offer definitive DNA proof of an existence of a Bigfoot type of creature.

Still, final DNA testing needs to be carefully concluded so that skeptics will not be able to attack the DNA findings as being based on faulty or sloppy science.

MO ON MA Y BE MOON MAY SHRINKING August 20, 2010, http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/ technology/7794028/moon-shrinking/

The moon may be shrinking, according to new research. However, the reduction is minimal, and not visible to the naked eye.

Scientists have identified cracks on the surface, which they believe indicate that the moon in contracting as its interior cools.The cracks are landforms called lobate scarps.

Fourteen scarps have recently been captured by a NASA space probe.

Thomas R. Watters, from the Centre for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, told the Associated Press, " ... the faults are so younglooking that you can't escape the possibility that this contraction occurred recently, and could indicate that the moon is still active."

It's understood that the size of the scarps indicates a shrinkage in the size of the moon of about 100 meters (328 feet).

Robert Matthews , http:// www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/ 1384420/Mysterious-force-holds-backNasa-probe-in-deep-space.html

Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force.The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature.

Dr Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing works.

If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation," said Dr Laing, of the Aerospace Corporation of California.

EARTH AS SEEN FROM MERCURY August 20, 2010 http://news.discovery.com/space/a-doubleplanet-seen-from-mercury.html

This latest view from NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) spacecraft is a jaw-dropper. For the first time we see Earth - in astronomical parlance -- as a fully illuminated superior planet 114 million mile outward from Mercury. Earth really looks like a double star because the moon is snuggled up next to it.

If in some parallel universe Mercury had intelligent life, its science equivalent of Galileo would have cataloged Earth as a "double planet," because our moon is so comparatively large next to Earth.

In fact, recent news from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that the moon is a geologically active world. Call it a "satellite planet" -- a teasing oxymoron introduced by Pluto explorer Alan Stern.

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MYSTERIOUS FORCE HOLDS BACK NASA PROBE IN DEEP SP SPACE ACE

Pioneer 10 was launched by NASA on March 2 1972, and with Pioneer 11, its twin, revolutionised astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and Saturn. In June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our solar system. Both probes are now travelling at 27,000mph towards stars that they will encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than seven billion miles from Earth.

Research to be published shortly in The Physical Review, a leading physics journal, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph per century - a barely-perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than gravity.

Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors aboard the probes, or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be responsible. Both have now been ruled out. The team says no current theories explain why the force stays constant: all the most plausible forces, from gravity to

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the effect of solar radiation, decrease rapidly with distance.

The bizarre behaviour has also eliminated the possibility that the two probes are being affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the solar system.

Assertions by some scientists that the force is due to a quirk in the Pioneer probes have also been discounted by the discovery that the effect seems to be affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in the solar system. Data from these two probes suggests the force is of the same strength as that found for the Pioneers. Dr Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University, says even such a weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic scale.

"It might alter the number of comets that come towards us over millions of years, which would have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the question of whether we know enough about the law of gravity."

GOOGLE DENIES TESTING OUT UNMANNED SPY DRONES Adam Hartley, http://www.techradar.com/ news/internet/google-denies-testing-outunmanned-spy-drones-708803

Google has denied reports that it is looking to use unmanned flying spy drones to augment its Street View and Maps features in the future. Earlier news reports claimed that Google was working with one German manufacturer, Microdrones with the latter company claiming to have sold an unmanned flying drone to Google.

Microdrones has already supplied such unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to British police and special forces.

Speculation as to why Google would want to purchase and use such a device began in earnest, particularly after Microdrones' CEO Sven Juerss told German business publication Wirtschafts Woche that: "The drones are well suited to deliver up-to-date image material for Google Maps."

When contacted about the news, a Google rep told TechRadar that the company was, "always looking at ways to improve our mapping services," though was quick to add that, "as part of this effort we explore many different technologies but we are not using or testing this one."

While Google claims that it has no current plans to roll out the use of such flying photographing drones to augment Street View or Google Maps, should the company want to pursue such a plan in the future it is also likely that Google would require authorisation from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to ensure the use of such unmanned drones was not a threat to public health.

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AUTHOR LAURENCE GARDNER DIES 19 August, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ obituaries/laurence-gardner-alternativehistorian-whose-work-helped-inspire-danbrown-2056096.html

Laurence Gardner was a prominent author and speaker in the "alternative history" genre of research and writing, whose eight published works presented often controversial revisionist theories, challenging orthodox views of world history.

He was born Barry Laurence Gardner in Hackney, London, in 1943 and worked at first as a stockbroker in the City before turning towards the arts in general and to writing in particular. His first alternative history work, Bloodline of the Holy Grail (1996), developed ideas that had emerged in Holy Blood and Holy Grail (Baigent/ Leigh/Lincoln, 1982) and in turn provided some of the inspiration for the development of Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code (2003).

The success of the first book was emulated

by Genesis of the Grail Kings (1999), which furnished detailed genealogical research by Gardner to provide a supposed link from Jesus to King Arthur and the Royal House of Stuart. This was followed in 2001 by Realm of The Ring Lords: The Ancient Legacy of the Ring and the Grail, in which Gardner traced the legends of the Ring and Holy Grail through history.

Perhaps his most controversial work was the 2003 Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark: Amazing Revelations of the Incredible Power of Gold, which became another bestseller.In this book he expounded his theory of a substance

known as monatomic "White Power Gold", which he claimed was used ritually by the ancient Egyptians to provide heightened spiritual awareness.

According to the book, The Ark of the Covenant may have been a machine used to manufacture this substance. His most recently published work, The Grail Enigma: The Hidden Heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (2008) continued the "bloodline" theme and explained how the image of Mary Magdalene has been managed and adapted by the Church throughout the centuries.

Barry Laurence Gardner, writer: born Hackney, London 17 May 1943; married Angela (one child, and two children from a previous marriage); died Exeter 12 August 2010.

LT COL WENDELLE STEVENS DIES September 7, 2010

Retired USAF Lt Col Wendelle Stevens passed away on T u e s d a y , September 7, 2010 at 4.21pm of a heart attack.

Born in 1923, Stevens enlisted in the US Army in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II and in a project in Alaska to map the Arctic land and sea area, where the data collecting equipment onboard B-29s being used for mapping picked up several UFOs. Stevens retired from the Air Force in 1963.

Wendelle Stevens was actively involved in UFO research, mainly as Director of Investigations for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in Arizona.

His most public case involved Billy Meier, in Switzerland.

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