UFO UpDates Mailing List
From: AUFORA News Update <dwatanab@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:54:14 -0700
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 09:59:49 -0500
Subject: AUFORA - Alien Insurance Pays Off
AUFORA News Update
Wednesday, December 25th, 1996 - Merry Christmas!
______________________________
ALIEN INSURANCE PAYS OFF
by David Walmsey in London
It could be the perfect case for agents Mulder and Scully.
In true X-Files style, an electrician claims he was lifted from the ground and
knocked unconscious by a UFO near London.
He is apparently to be paid $2 million by insurers who covered him against
abduction by aliens. Industry sources, however, are suggesting that the payout
could, just possibly, be an out-of-this-world publicity stunt.
The story starts on October 8 when Joseph Carpenter, 23, of North London, claims
he was struck down by a mystery light at Swindon.
The area is a "hot spot" for such phenomena, says Mr Carpenter, who runs a UFO
hunting group called the Majestic Twelve.
"On the evening in question, an intense beam of light, like a police helicopter,
had me," he said.
"The anti-gravity force within it lifted me above the ground. I passed out as I
went directly into it. All this was captured on film."
By an amazing stroke of luck, Mr Carpenter had paid $205 for cover against such
an eventuality to a company called GRIP, run by insurance broker Simon Burgess.
Mr Carpenter was able to produce "compelling evidence" of his ordeal, including
camcorder footage, witnesses and DNA samples taken from what he said was a claw
found at the scene.
Mr Burgess said last night: "The work on the DNA sample was carried out by a
research fellow at Cambridge University -- I can't give you the name. But the
work proved conclusively that the sample was something that had never been seen
before and which was not of this Earth."
Mr Burgess says Mr Carpenter was expected to receive his $2 million yesterday
at a London hotel from Scully herself, X-Files star Gillian Anderson.
The broker, described by one industry source as "an unhelpful maverick", is
believed to have made a deal with a Sunday paper for exclusive coverage of the
presentation.
Industry insiders say he is almost certain to make a profit from Mr Carpenter's
claim.
One said: "If he plays his cards right, he will claw the money back by wisely
selling the world rights of the video evidence to TV companies. If he co-wrote
a book using the evidence, the money would also roll in."
__________________
AUFORA News Update
News, Information, Facts from the world of UFOlogy
To subscribe send e-mail to: dwatanab@acs.ucalgary.ca
AUFORA Web: http://www.aufora.org/
AUFORA News: http://www.aufora.org/news/
Helios Science News: http://www.helios.org/
UFO UpDates - Toronto -
updates@globalserve.net
Operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp - ++ 416-696-0304
A Hand-Operated E-Mail Subscription Service for the Study of UFO Related
Phenomena.
To subscribe please send your first and last name to
updates@globalserve.net
Message submissions should be sent to the same address.
|
Link it to the appropriate Ufologist or UFO Topic page. |
Archived as a public service by Area 51 Research Center which is not
responsible for content.
Financial support for this web server is provided by the
Research Center Catalog.
Software by Glenn Campbell.
Technical contact:
webmaster@ufomind.com