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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:39:43 +0000
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Source: The New York Times
Date: August 1997
C.I.A. Admits Government Lied About U.F.O. Sightings
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The article is about a document which is authored by Gerald K. Haines
and appears in Studies of Intelligence, a secret CIA journal. Five
years ago, the agency began releasing unclassified versions of the
journal yearly. The UFO study forms part of the 1997 edition and has
just been published at the "Office of the Director of Central
Intelligence World Wide Web Site", which is divided in three
sections. The one in question is the site of "The Center for the
Study of Intelligence".
In the darkest days of the Cold War, the military lied to the
American public about the true nature of many unidentified flying
objects in an effort to hide its growing fleets of spy planes, a CIA
study says.
The deceptions were made in the 1950s and '60s amid a wave of UFO
sightings that alarmed the public and parts of official Washington.
The CIA study says the Air Force knew that most reports by citizens
and aviation experts were based on fleeting glimpses of U-2 and
SR-71 spy planes, which fly extremely high.
Those planes were developed in the 1950s and '60s to photograph enemy
targets. From secret bases, mainly in California and Nevada, the
aircraft repeatedly flew across the country and eventually overseas
to bases in countries that included Britain, West Germany and Taiwan.
While commercial airliners in the 1950s flew at altitudes of up to
30,000 feet, the U-2 soared to more than 60,000 feet and the SR-71
to more than 80,000 feet, or 15 miles, nearly the edge of space.
The planes carried powerful cameras to spy on foreign military
installations and sensitive electronic gear to capture radio and
radar transmissions. The spy craft were developed by the
intelligence agency and often flown by the Air Force.
Rather than acknowledging the existence of the top-secret flights or
saying nothing about them publicly, the Air Force decided to put out
false cover stories, the CIA study says. For instance, unusual
observations that were actually spy flights were attributed to
atmospheric phenomena like ice crystals and temperature inversions.
"Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s
were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights" over the United
States, the CIA study says. "This led the Air Force to make
misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay
public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national
security project."
The study, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90," was written
by Gerald K. Haines and appears in Studies of Intelligence, a secret
CIA journal. Five years ago, the agency began releasing unclassified
versions of the journal yearly. The 1997 edition, with the study on
unidentified objects, is at http://www.odci
gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ on the World Wide Web.
Mr. Haines is a historian at the National Reconnaissance Office, the
intelligence agency that builds and runs the nation's spy
satellites.
The admission of Federal deception on the issue appears to be a
first, experts said in interviews.
"It's very significant," said Richard Hall, chairman of the Fund for
UFO Research, a group in Washington. "Certainly they've lied about
not having any interest in the subject. But I don't know of any other
deception like this."
John E. Pike, head of space policy at the Federation of American
Scientists, also based in Washington, said the admission raised
questions about other federal cover-ups involving UFOs.
"The flying-saucer community is definitely onto something," in
charging that the military is hiding something, Mr. Pike said.
There are two schools of thought on the nature of such a cover-up.
One, from Mr. Pike and other aerospace experts, holds that many
sightings over the decades involved secret federal projects
featuring advanced aircraft and reconnaissance missions. The new
admission strengthens that view.
The other school holds that the government has come into possession
of extraterrestrial craft and beings and is hiding them from the
public, partly to avoid causing panic. That view was celebrated last
month on the 50th anniversary of an incident in Roswell, N.M., in
which conspiracy theorists say a saucer crashed to Earth and was
seized by the government.
The deceptions about the spy flights were issued in some of the
tensest days of the Cold War. The Soviet Union exploded its first
hydrogen bomb in 1955, the year that the U-2 flew for the first
time.
In 1960, a U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, leading to the
cancellation of an East-West peace conference. In 1962, a U-2
spotted a buildup of Soviet nuclear arms in Cuba, precipitating the
diplomatic crisis regarded by some experts as the closest the
superpowers came to nuclear war.
To make the spy planes harder to see and less likely to prompt UFO
reports, they were eventually painted black. The CIA study said
U-2's initially had silver bodies "and reflected the rays from the
sun, especially at sunrise and sunset."
The report added that "they often appeared as fiery objects to
observers below."
But the SR-71, which first flew in 1964, was apparently painted black
from the start. Its nickname was the Blackbird.
[W 3]******
Tuesday, August 5, 1997 - 1:15 p.m. (EDT)
Mr. Kenneth H. Bacon, ASD (PA)
DoD [USA Department of Defence] News Briefing
[edited section of meeting]
Q: On the <UFO> study that the CIA did over the weekend, or it was
released or reported on over the weekend -- as Pentagon spokesman
are you concerned about a report that says that the government
willfully misled individuals to conceal programs?
A: I've read the CIA study, and I have read what they said about the
Air Force. It's their characterization of what the Air Force said. I
have not gone back and checked what the Air Force said at the time,
so I'd prefer not to comment on what the study said. It is not the
policy of Secretary Cohen or any of the people who work for him to
mislead the public.
Q: Were you at all aware of any misleading of the public that was
done by the Air Force prior?
A: I was not aware of that. I will say that one interesting aspect of
the report was that for years, <UFO> people have been charging that
we've covered up the fact that there really are UFOs, and the CIA
study confirms, as has every other study done by the government, that
we have no evidence of UFOs. We have no evidence of extraterrestrial
visitors to this planet. The study goes on to say that one
explanation for many of these sightings might have been airplanes
that were being tested at the time.
Q: Do you think that applies to any programs that might be tested
now, or can you say categorically that the Department does not engage
in that kind of public relations activity in terms of programs that
are perhaps flying today?
A: First of all, we certainly have classified programs and we
certainly have legitimate reasons for not disclosing some of the
work we're doing, whether it's research and development or whether
it's operations. I am not aware that we are putting out stories that
misstate the truth about those programs. The distinction would be we
just don't talk about the programs at all, so I certainly wouldn't
talk about any of those programs today.
[W 4]******
From: duncan@life.com
Date: 4th August 1997
Source: UFO Magazine
Date: July/August 1997
Chile announces UFOs are for real
On 2nd April 1997, Chilean newspaper 'La Cuarta' published the
following headline 'UFO Sighting of Arica is Confirmed by La
Direccion General de Aeronautic Civil'.
Luis Sanchez, Chilean Director of Skywatch International said this
was the first time such an organization had attached it's name to
such a statement. La Direccion General de Aeronautic Civil said that
they publicly recognised that Chile was experiencing UFO sightings
and that the phenomenon was real, not meteorotic or climatic.
Sanchez said that the statement was due to the 'high quality' of an
observation made by control tower staff at Chacalluta International
Airport in Africa, the northernmost city in Chile.
On Monday, 31st March, 1997, at 12.55am, three UFOs were seen by
staff in the control tower and recorded on radar. They were tracked
at speeds up to 8,000 mph. According to the eyewitnesses, over the
Pacific Ocean, near Morro de Arica and remained there for two hours.
At about 3.00am, the objects "flew away at very high speed," heading
for the Andes.
Airport director Julio Schettner said the UFOs hovered "at an
altitude between 3,000 and 4,500 metres and emitted blue, red, green
and yellow lights which made them clearly visible to the naked eye."
Schettner added, "In our tower, it was not possible to track them on
radar, so we contacted control towers in (Arequipa) Peru and
Santiago (de Chile). None of them had flights registering in Arica at
that moment."
Schettner said "he had been doubtful about the existence of UFOs,
but not any more," adding that they left Arica "at an astonishing
speed."
On Wednesday 2nd April 1997, the Direccion General de Aeronautica
Civil (DGAC), Chile's civilian aeronautical ministry, announced that
the three UFOs in Arica had been confirmed on radar, DGAC radar and
Fuerzas Aereas de Chile (FACh) Air Force radar tracked the Arica
UFOs "travelling at speeds of up to 12,800 kilometres (8,000 miles)
per hour."
In the capital, Santiago de Chile, a DGAC spokesman said, "Chile is
experiencing OVNIs" (Spanish acronym for UFO).
uk.ufo.nw asks: Do any of our Chilean readers have further
information on this. Perhaps newspaper reports etc that could be
translated, typed and e-mailed to the usual address.
Visit UFO Magazines world wide web address address for full
subscription information:
http://www.ufomag.co.uk
[W 5]******
Source: The Times newspaper
Date: Friday 15th August 1997
Fossil footprints open way to row on 'genetic Eve'
>From Ian Brodie in Washington
The oldest-known footprints of a modern human being, dating back
117,000 years, have been found on the shores of a South African
lagoon.
Very possibly female, the fossils could spark a scientific debate
over whether they are traces of the "genetic Eve".
"These footprints are from the earliest of anatomically modern
people," said Lee Berger, an American paleoanthropologist at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who announced the
discovery yesterday at the National Geographic Society in Washington.
David Roberts, the British-born South African geologist who uncovered
the three footprints, said: "The chances of finding something like
this are millions to one."
Unlike footprints unearthed in Tanzania, which were 3.6 million years
old, the newly found ones were made by a human being whom we have a
direct link. Physically she was the same as us, though not as
developed mentally, walking upright with jutting jaw, high forehead
and without the protruding eyebrow ridges of earlier man.
Mr Berger admitted it was highly unlikely that the actual "genetic
Eve" left the prints, but they were made at the right time on the
continent to be hers.
"Genetic Eve" is a hypothetical figure who lived in Africa between
100,000 and 300,000 years ago and who carried DNA potential of modern
women. Scientists measuring the range of DNA in different populations
today have concluded that we are all descended from one common female
ancestor.
The three footprints were discovered in rock along Langebaan lagoon,
60 miles north of Cape Town, where Mr Roberts was looking for them
on a hunch.
The discovery team believe the woman was a lone figure, perhaps 5ft
3in tall, trudging down a steep, chalky dune after a violent
rainstorm. Within a few hours the dune dried out and the wind filled
the footprints with sand. They were then buried and gradually turned
into stone.
The footprints are eight & a half inches long. The big toe, ball,
arch and heel are all clear as the walker crunched down the wet
surface. Since the discovery last year, nearby rocks have yielded
Stone Age tools thought to have been crafted by the same people who
walked the dunes.
The discoveries provide evidence of anatomically modern human beings
in an area of Africa that is believed to be the cradle of our
ancestors. How well these humans could think is debated by
scientists. They did not bury their dead nor leave traces of cave
paintings as other did 50,000 to 75,000 years later, Mr Berger said.
Ochre pigment has been near the lagoon that are up to 125,000 years
old and scientists believe they were used by the early human beings.
The earlier footprints found in Africa were left by pre-human apemen
from a far distant branch of our family tree.
Summing up his research, Mr Berger said: "An important message comes
to us from the lagoon footprints. As diverse as the world is, as
different as we look, we are an incredibly young species and all of
us Africans."
[W 6]******
Source: Daily Mail newspaper
Date: Thursday 14 August 1997
As men in black opens, a scientist tells us what aliens will really
look like
from Daniel Jeffreys in New York
Labrador-sized, four arms, a mouth in it's stomach, and one day
it'll land here
For the second year running, the big summer film blockbuster fuels
our obsession with extraterrestrials. Men in black, now showing in
Britain, is a comedy about two US government agents whose job is to
round up illegal aliens and pack them back to the planet.
But is the reality rather more worrying? An increasing number of
academics and experts believe that while such films are right to
show that we are not alone, they are wrong in their portrayal of
aliens.
They argue that we should prepare for a shock. When we run into life
forms from elsewhere in the galaxy, which will be very soon, they
will treat us with contempt, pushing us aside like insects.
Doctor Seth Shostak, one of the world's leading physicists and
astronomers, is among those who say there are millions of aliens.
And he says that when they turn up on Earth their technological
superiority will make our attempts to find them, such as the current
expedition to Mars, look puny.
He publishes this worrying analysis in his book Sharing The
Universe. Already his findings have been held by other scientists as
the most effective argument yet for believing the universe is teaming
with intelligent life forms, many of them far more ancient and
advanced than us.
Shustak, who is so confident that he has even described what the
aliens will probably look like, believes we would be better
diverting the billions spent on space exploration to working out how
to cope when the inevitable contact with extra terrestrial
civilisations take place.
He estimate that there are more than 1,000 planets in our galaxy
alone that house these super smart beings, many of which would regard
humanity like we regard insects or rodents. 'Give me a halfway
decent planet and I'll give you life,' he says, fresh from a radio
telescopic sweep of nearby planets.
'There are 50 billion stars in the Milky Way similar to our sun,
with 1.5 billion planets that share our characteristics. Many will
have intelligent life.'
More Americans believe alien landings have already taken place than
think President Clinton is telling the truth about his
extra-marrital affairs. If aliens are on their way, humanity has
never been more receptive to their arrival, so long as they treat us
nicely.
Books and films tend to depict aliens as either friendly, in which
case they resemble extra - large babies with big deer eyes (E.T.,
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) or hostile, looking like a cross
between an angry alligator and a malfunctioning set of chainsaws.
In the first case they, come to educate us; in the second they come
for lunch - and we're the main course. Neither of these is likely to
happen on man's first date with visitors from the stars.
'Our initial contact will most likely be with some sort of
self-replicating machine intelligence, 'says Schostak, who is the
director of the Institute For The Search For Extra terrestrial
Intelligence in California. 'It will have travelled astronomical
distances specifically to gather information not to make friends or
eat.'
The City institute is not a group of `UFO fanatics. It used to be
funded by Nasa until a cost conscious US Congress cut off its cash.
Now it's paid for with millions of dollars from high task
corporations like Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Pacard, reflecting how
seriously many take the existence of alien life.
This private sector fortune has allowed SETI to keep its massive
array of radio telescopes aimed at the stars, gathering libraries
full of information about distant solar systems every day.
'We know the nearest extraterrestrial intelligent life is a long way
away,' says Shustak, at 46 the world's leading authority on what
ET's need to thrive. 'Space travel is difficult, dangerous and slow.'
Experts say that it would take more than 100 years to reach the
nearest solar system which SETI thinks could support life,
travelling at around 40,000 miles per second.
No Star Trek fiction here. The Enterprise craft travels at the speed
of light, 186,282 miles per second - and hitting even a small space
rock at that speed would cause an impact equivalent to several
nuclear bombs, destroying the ship in an instance.
'Thats why an intelligent machine representing the alien culture is
probably a first visitor,' says Shustak. 'It will have been built by
a far superior intelligence and will be capable of rebuilding itself
and clones to launch on other missions.
'It will be programmed to expect an encounter with another
civilisation and will make efforts to communicate with us while
analysing our strengths and weaknesses.'
Imagine how we would react if an alien box of tricks suddenly turned
up riding alongside the Mir space station, electronically sniffing
the Russian craft like a dog marking its territory?
'It will be a testing time,' says Shustak. 'Some people will want it
destroyed, fearing that aliens who know we are here will want to
colonise or kill us.
'There's also the chance that contacts with a civilisation much more
advanced than ours will force humanity to develop an enormous
inferiority complex. And that could cause human civilisation to
crumble because we've assumed for so long that we're the top dogs.'
Collapse might be especially likely if the aliens were no bigger
than a labrador with reptillian skin, for arms and a mouth in their
stomachs, something Shustak believes is quite possible.
Using a mix of laws from physics, astronomy and biochemistry he has
reduced what the kind of appearance intelligence aliens will have.
'There's no reason to suppose insects or reptiles failed to develop
intelligence on other planets,' he says. 'The dinosaurs were on
their way to complex intelligence before a capitalism wiped them
out.'
Shustak and his SETI colleagues also agree the aliens are likely to
have heads, because that's an efficient way of housing a brain, and
the eyes and ears will be attached to their skulls.
'We have our hearing and sight near the brain for a reason, it
minimise the length of the bodies most complex nerve network,' he
says. 'But there's no pressing reason for the mouth to be in the
head. The stomach would be more efficient.'
As would more than two arms. The aliens will definitely have some
limbs, to allow them to manipulate tools, a necessary part of an
intelligent culture. Theyr're also likely to be smaller.
'We think Earth's gravity is unusual, 'says Shustak. 'Most alien
species will have more gravity and that means they'll tend to be
compact. They will need to be at least the size of a basketball to
sustain intelligence but after that any size up to three feet will
do.'
Shustak thinks we will probably be surprised by the aliens
'appearance.' Just go to the zoo and look at the diversity there,
then magnifying the species many thousands of times, 'he says.
'Aliens across the universe will come in many different shapes and
sizes, which will only intensify a anxiety when we meet them for the
first time.'
One alien life form we can probably rule out is giants. Even with
low gravity they are just not viable as an ancient advanced
civilisation. They eat to much, causing early depletion of their
planets resources, and they can barely lift a fraction of their own
weight. Brainy elephants are not likely to be the first aliens to
beam down.
The most chilling aspect of Shustaks research is his claim that
alien civilisations are much smarter than humans. He bases this
observation on the relative age of Man. We are a young civilisation
and many aliens will be much more ancient with technology we have
never dreamed of.
Take a look at what mankind has done to less intelligent species and
the prospect of the inevitable alien visit looks alarming. If we're
lucky we'll end up as pets; if we're unlucky we'll go the ways of
cows, mink or crocadiles.
Either way, it Shustak is right, our chances of staying free and
independent are remote. The aliens may be smaller than us but they
will be a lot smarter.
Sharing The Universe will be published by Victor Gollancz at 8
pounds 95 pence next month.
[A FEARFUL SYMMETRY - part 2]
United Kingdom UFO Network would like to thank Lynne Bishop and
Bookfinder Publishing for permission to serialise 'A Fearful
Symmetry'
Readers may like to visit the web sites of both Lynne and Bookfinder
Publishing at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3862/
http://www.bookfinder.simplenet.com
All parts of this serialisation previous to the current segment can
be read in their entirety at Bookfinder's web site above.
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A FEARFUL SYMMETRY
A TRUE STORY OF ALIEN INTRUSION INTO HUMAN LIVES
By D. Lynne Bishop
A FEARFUL SYMMETRY Copyright 1995 by D. Lynne Bishop
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or
otherwise without prior permission of the publisher, except by a
reviewer who may quote brief passages.
First Printing September 1995
Printed in the United States of America
BOOKFINDER PUBLISHING
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CHAPTER TWO
The event which led to my discovery of something bizarre in my life
began innocently enough on a beautiful, warm, springlike day in 1972.
I was eighteen years old, having recently graduated as Salutatorian
in the rural high school I had attended. My mother and I had tended
to some personal business in a large city in Central Arkansas. At one
o'clock in the afternoon, we had left the city to begin the trip back
home--a trip of approximately three hours' duration. We were both
relaxed that day, and in pleasant moods. Our business had been
successfully transacted, and as we drove toward home, our
conversation was animated and lively--but not containing any element
of unusual topics.
After two hours of driving time, we approached a small town located
at the base of a valley ringed by a part of the Ozark Mountains. A
road crew was blasting that day on the mountainous road leading into
the valley, and one of the crew members flagged us, signaling the
traffic in our lane to stop. Our car was in the lead, with three or
four other cars behind us at the time. After clearing the road of
debris from the blasting, the road crew allowed our lane to continue,
and we drove slowly down the mountainside, nearing a turn we would
take at the junction of an intersecting highway. Mother and I both
recalled seeing the turn--and then everything went totally blank.
I groggily "came to" just seconds later, or so I thought. Mother was
still driving the car, but seemed unusually quiet, particularly since
we had just been laughing and joking, and talking about only being an
hour away from home. We suddenly looked at each other, realizing we
had no idea where we were! We were on a stretch of unfamiliar paved
road, with no road signs or other indicators of our location. The
pavement was pitch black and completely new looking, as if it had
been freshly laid and never driven on prior to our being there.
You can imagine our agitation as the situation slowly dawned on us.
Only moments before, we had been on a familiar highway, headed home .
. and now we had no earthly idea where we were or what had happened
to us. With one accord, we agreed we should turn around, hoping that
by doing so we would regain our lost territory. The road was
extremely straight and narrow, and hemmed in on both sides with huge,
overhanging trees, and an expanse of deep forest to either side.
After a few minutes (although it seemed like hours!), we located a
very small turnaround on the left-hand side of the road, and Mother
prepared to turn into it. As she did so, I screamed, "Mother, there's
a car coming toward us!" She completed the turn, and we both looked
to see where the car had gone, for it would have been on a collision
course with us as we pulled into the small area. To my amazement and
chagrin, there was not a car anywhere in sight.
Completely baffled and perplexed, as well as thoroughly shaken by the
entire experience, we turned around and continued driving in the
opposite direction. Suddenly, we realized that we were on the wrong
side of the town, but we had not driven through it to get there! We
found our turn onto the intersecting highway (from the opposite
direction), and continued the drive toward home, puzzled about what
had just occurred. The event had led to a buildup of unease and a
desire to get home as soon as possible. As we continued driving, a
vague sense of strangeness caused me to glance occasionally out both
windows, gazing into the tree-lined roadside. With my heart in my
throat, I managed to barely croak to Mother, "Do you see that silver
craft that's following us?" We were terrified by this time, and had
no desire to stop the car. The windows were rolled down, and Mother
managed to confirm that there was, indeed, a white or silver-colored
craft that seemed to be pacing our car, falling neither behind nor
pulling ahead of us. The craft was cigar-shaped, with no wings or
tail, and there was no discernible sound emanating from the craft.
There were no identifying marks on it, and this particularly bothered
Mother, who, along with my father, had served in the U.S. Army, and
both were very knowledgeable about aircraft. After several minutes of
"cat-and-mouse," the strange craft finally moved off out of sight,
and we sped off toward the safety of home.
Upon arriving home, we discovered that a trip normally requiring
three hours had taken us over four. It was apparent that something
peculiar had happened between our "blank" spell, and "coming to" on
the wrong side of town. And yet, twenty years were to pass by before
we could bring ourselves to publicly seek answers to this
mind-boggling affair.
As I sat across from John Carpenter on April 25, 1992, the enormity
of what I was preparing to do rushed in on me. I was stepping into
"terra incognita," with no idea of the outcome--and no way of
predicting it. I had no basis for comparison--nothing in my life that
I was aware of had prepared me for dealing with the concept of alien
abduction. Intellectually, I felt prepared for the undertaking, but I
had not even begun to realize the emotional toll this "journey" would
exert on me.
Prior to the actual induction of hypnosis, we relaxed with a
pre-session conversation, touching on the many aspects of the UFO and
alien phenomenon. John asked if there had been anything, in
particular, which had gotten me interested in UFOs. I responded,
"It's been lifelong." I told him that Mother had seen a "classic" UFO
in Houston, Texas, when my twin sister and I were just babies. I
could recall hearing about Sputnik as a very young child, and
remembered my entire family watching the satellite Echo go over when
my father had been stationed in Germany. Suddenly, I realized that a
major portion of my life had been spent in sky-watching--and I
wondered why. Had some hidden force been manipulating my actions and
life so long ago?
John also questioned whether I had ever seen anything I couldn't
explain. His question elicited the memory of an orange sphere that my
family and I had seen often during the 1970's. I described the object
to him, "This particular object was an orange disc-like thing. It was
a vivid orange, ranging toward the red spectrum. A slow-moving
object, it always seemed to move with a slow, steady glide--almost
floating. We usually saw it on Thursdays, and it seemed always to be
on a North- South trajectory."
"What about dreams?", John then asked. For the first time that
morning (but certainly not the last!), I became quite agitated and
nervous. He had hit a nerve with that almost innocently slipped-in
question. There had been one "dream" in my past that had continued to
plague me throughout my adult years, because I had never been certain
it was truly a dream. There had been a "feeling" to it not associated
with the normal dreams I had.
"Well, I've had two dreams of different kinds of aliens. The first
one actually bothers me more than the second.
"In the first 'dream,' I'm at the residence where all of us lived as
young teenagers, where Mom's house was. I'm in the house, and I'm
aware that other family members are there, but I'm not really seeing
them. I'm just aware that they're there. There was a sliding glass
door that faced the West, and it looked out into a small pasture, or
meadow-like area in front of our barn. Suddenly, something catches my
eye, so I look closer, and it looks like your standard UFO going over
at about treetop level.
"When I see this, I go rushing out the door. The craft is not very
big--it looks like just a small landing-craft. It continues flying
northerly, toward our pond. Like an idiot, I just stand there in the
pasture, watching . . . and as it reaches the pond, it stops. It's
daylight--right around dusk-- so I can see it clearly.
"Suddenly, it starts moving back toward me, and I panic, thinking
that it's seen me, so I bolt for the house. I yell to my family to
start locking the doors and windows, because we're being invaded. I
finally get inside the house, turn around to look out the door again,
and see that the craft has landed and some aliens are getting out.
The aliens are humanoid, kind of small. They have an almost
flowing-type movement--not jointed like a human, but more loose. I
realize that we're in trouble, because I know there is nothing we can
do to keep them out.
"All at once, these creatures are inside the house--and although this
sounds crazy--my family and I are frozen in place. One of the
entities starts approaching me, and I have such a feeling of dread. I
don't want it to touch me, but it's getting closer . . . and my eyes
fixate on its hand as it reaches out toward me. The hand is so
long-fingered! I think, 'Don't touch me!' even as its hand comes
near. And then I hear in my head this thought from the creature,
'This is how we breed.'"
John then asked about the second dream I'd recalled. While this
didn't carry with it the intensity of feeling the first one had, I
felt I should describe it also, in case it contained hidden
information that would be useful in ferreting out answers.
"In this dream, I'm at the same residence. I'm out in the front yard,
and there's a flyover of what appears to be military helicopters.
They fly across the street in an east direction, to an area where
there is another pond on some neighboring land. There is a large
quantity of ducks on the pond, and as the helicopters pass over the
water, they drop off these hairy, apelike alien creatures (like
Bigfoot). The ducks panic when the aliens land, and start running
across the highway in front of our house. I run out to the highway to
try to divert the traffic on the road, to prevent the ducks from
being crushed. One car pulls over, and the driver--a lady--gets out
and asks me what's causing the ducks to panic. I tell her about the
helicopters and the aliens.
"Then there's a horrible 'roaring' sound from the direction of the
pond, and these apelike aliens start pouring forth. As they capture
all of us, I discover that the military and the government have made
a pact with these creatures. Basically, they have agreed to let the
aliens have a part of the world, in exchange for subduing it, and the
government and the military will have a co-control."
As the preliminary interview drew to a close, John asked the question
I had been both dreading and expecting, "Knowing that you've had some
kind of memory lapse, what do you expect will come out of all this?"
It was a question I had already asked myself--and I still had no real
concrete answer to it. I replied to him, "I've analyzed that a lot,
and I really don't know what to expect. I'm afraid of not breaking
through that blank space. And I've been a skeptic on the idea of
aliens and interaction with humans. If something like that were to
come out during this, I'd have to do a lot of rethinking."
HYPNOSIS SESSIONS
Lynne: April 25, 1992
Frances: May 3, 1992
Springfield, Missouri
Although the hypnosis sessions were conducted independently, they
have been combined to show the corroborating parallels between the
two testimonies. No sharing of memories recalled under hypnosis
occurred until both sessions were completed. What follows are
excerpts from the actual transcripts of those sessions: John:
(Hypnosis has been induced and the subject's memory has been returned
to the time of the event.) You're in the car next to your mother.
What are you wearing, and can you picture the car?
Lynne: I've got on blue jeans. It's a white car with a red interior.
Frances: It was not my favorite car. I thought it looked boxy.
John: . . . and you're going down the hill, and you can see your
turn. Describe what you notice as you look out, anything that you
notice . . .
Lynne: Well, I can see a car . . . it only has a driver in it. There
are no passengers. I think it's a guy who's driving. He's kind of got
a weird look . . . like he's seeing something . . . like he's shocked
or something.
Frances: I see a car . . . I don't know if I thought he'd hit me, or
I'd hit him . . . I see a light flash, off and on . . . He said
something I couldn't hear.
John: And what do you do, as you notice the car? Feel the car, and
remember . . .
Lynne: (At this point, I broke out of hypnosis. I opened my eyes and
sat up.) (Expelled breath) . . . (Nervous laugh) . . . Ooh . . . That
was weird!
John: (Calming the subject) . . . Relax, just relax . . . (Re-induced
hypnotic state) . . . Just be like a camera and report the images . .
Lynne: (Nervous laughter) . . . The car . . . went forward . . . and
up!
Frances: . . . The car . . . moving so fast . . . I moved so fast!
John: . . . and if you were to look at your mother right now, what is
she doing? How does she seem"
Lynne: She's . . . not doing anything . . . just sitting there. I can
see her hands on the wheel, but she's not driving it.
Frances: . . . The car was moving so fast, I couldn't control it . .
Didn't seem to need to . . . John: . . . At this point, you may
have said something to each other, or perhaps not . . . but you can
hear clearly anything that you might be able to hear, any sound . . .
Lynne: I don't really hear any talking.
Frances: I don't . . . I don't hear anything.
John: . . . Notice what happens next . . . if anything changes . . .
Lynne: Um, it's kind of an odd thing. I can kinda . . . for some
reason, I can see Mom and me standing . . . like, Mom's here, and I'm
here (accompanied by hand motions).
Frances: I'm standing.
John: Do you see your car at this point?
Lynne: Uhhh . . . (Nervous laugh) . . . I don't really see the car.
Frances: No.
John: Notice, as you're standing there . . . look and see if you can
tell what your feet are touching, or what's right around you.
Lynne: It's a solid floor of some kind, just kinda gray. There's a
gray wall in front, probably ten feet away. There are no windows. No
dividing line where the wall meets the floor. It's not angular. It
just kinda looks molded . . . It's not a normal room . . .
Frances: It's in a . . . like a circle. Silvery . . . I see a door .
John: . . . Now that you're seeing more, you can really tune it in .
. You'll be even more alert to see everything around you, and to
notice all that happens . . .
Lynne: I get a feeling of movement . . . the focal point seems to be
real limited . . . I'm moving, but not walking . . . It's like a
conveyor belt . . . I don't see Mom. I don't know . . . someone else
may be with me . . .
Frances: I don't see (my daughter) yet. (Pause) . . . Um, a figure .
. That . . . There's (my daughter)! There she is! A long way away .
. there were four . . . but it was so far away, I couldn't tell who
. . a long corridor . . . (My daughter) is with them. They're all
in stride, even the short one. Two are about her height (5'6"). She
didn't scream.
John: Okay, and now you can . . . If it's hard to look at, you can
just take a peek and freeze it, like a snapshot. Take a quick, safe
peek, and describe all that you can notice about them
Lynne: . . . Clothed in silver, no defining line at the waist,
form-fitting and skin-tight. Like a body suit. No hair, a bald head .
. rounded, not human-shaped. Bigger head with large brain area,
smaller neck. The outfit (it's wearing) has a turtleneck. Suit seems
to continue down, covering the feet. Hand is definitely not human.
(Nervous laugh) . . . Um, let's see. It's . . . longer fingered. I
can see an opposable thumb, but I don't think it has the same number
of fingers (as humans). It kind of curled its hand when it reached
out. It's face . . . is kind of odd. It's really flat on the
bottom--like it's wearing a mask. There's a bulge in the forehead
region. I'm not seeing eyes right now. It's like the forehead kind of
bulges up and out. And the rest of the face is flat and narrowed
down, very sharp. It's a helmet . . . I see a visor . . . like a
motorcycle helmet. No ears . . . Long sleeved outfit . . .
Frances: . . . Two arms, two legs . . . (Laugh) . . . Uh, they don't
have heads like people have heads. Like a mask . . . faceplate . . .
faceplate. Head shape is ovoid. Faceplate . . . reflective, plastic-
looking. Curved across the face. They do have eyes . . . like big
sunglasses. (I wear sunglasses; doesn't everybody?) Don't see hair.
Hands are bony-looking, long-fingered . . . I didn't count 'em.
Sensation of pale blue form-fitting outfit with long sleeves. No belt
around the middle. I didn't see any ears.
John: Okay, watch and see how the scene changes. What is it that you
do . . . or what changes the scene in some way?
Lynne: I see Mom again. There's a scene shift . . . a different
place. I see . . . I keep wanting to talk to her. I want so badly to
get a response from her. She's standing on something black. It's
strange . . . I keep getting this idea of . . . almost like a tube.
She's in it . . . she's standing there so quiet . . . It's a clear
tube, just big enough for her to fit it--like a one-person size.
There's a...like a "Command" area here . . . like an instrument
panel. It has a smooth top, like glass or something clear. I can see
an array of something in that area. I see a "flash" of the back of
one of the entities working the controls there. It bothers me . . . I
think it's doing something that pertains to Mom.
Frances: (My daughter's) here, behind me. We're in this room
together. Makes me think of a submarine. It's got . . . instruments .
. dials and a thing in the middle . . . like a periscope . . . a
shaft, big, heavy. I see readouts, but I can't read 'em. Like
computer . . . monitor. Old, scribed writing. I'm under this
periscope-thing. Like it was open . . . something to do with the
opening. They told me to do something. I wanted (my daughter), and I
did something . . . something with this periscope-thing.
John: All right. Move forward in time to a point where you see
something different. Notice all that you can tell, and when something
changes. What's the first thing you notice happening differently?
Lynne: Hmm . . . I see us standing on grass! That's the first color
I've seen. That's kind of nice! I've actually got some green! My
vision is circumscribed, though . . . very, very inhibited. I see the
grass and us, but it's like . . . there's no vision out there . . .
no peripheral vision, or something.
Frances: We're out . . . back on the ground.
John: I wonder how you got to the grass? Move back just one step in
time, back up slowly . . . and see how you got to the grass . . .
Lynne: I had a feeling of movement at a diagonal . . . like an
invisible escalator. A hatch opened up . . . and then that feeling of
the invisible escalator. Looking up, I see something circular,
spherical. I get the impression of a silver color again, and toward
the outer edges there's an indentation, or a fluted area. It's
hovering; it's not moving. There's something else in the center--a
shape that's moving. It doesn't stay constant. It's a fluctuating,
changing geometrical shape--seems to be moving counterclockwise.
Frances: It's like that thing was open . . . like a porthole . . . an
iris. I slid back into myself. We stood under the craft.
John: Moving ahead in time, how does that image change?
Lynne: I see the car on the side of the road, not very far away . . .
not even a couple hundred feet, maybe, or even closer. We walk toward
the car and get into it, and drive away. I see the craft leave. It
takes off fast, straight up and then toward the left.
Frances: The bottom closes up, and then I'm in the car. The craft is
up, up. It's going away. Like . . . it goes straight up. And I see it
going away.
[Part 3 in issue {80}]
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