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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:39:05 +0000
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Subject: UFO UpDate:{86} part 2 - United Kingdom UFO Network
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[W 7]******
Source: Newsday (Long Island) newspaper
Publish Date: 14th November 1997
Judge sends John Ford to N.Y. Mental Hospital
A Suffolk County Court judge ordered ufologist John Ford, president
of the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON) to be sent to an upstate New
York mental hospital on Thursday, November 13, 1997.
Ford, 49, was arrested June 15, 1996 by police of Suffolk County,
Long Island, "on charges that he was seeking to kill three officials
by putting radium in their cars and lacing their toothpaste with
radioactive material."
The grand jury indicted Ford on charges of conspiracy and possession
of radioactive materials. Ford has been held in jail without bail
bond for the past seventeen months.
"Three psychiatrists and a psychologist, two hired by District
Attorney James M. Catterson Jr.'s office, examined John Ford and all
four concluded that the former court officer (the defendant--J.T.)
isn't competent to stand trial."
"In one report, Robert H. Berger, director of Forensic Psychiatry at
Bellevue Hospital Center (in New York City-- J.T.), said that while
Ford seemed to understand his legal predicament, he thinks 'the
criminal case against him is in reality an intelligence operation
being run by the CIA together with the Israeli intelligence agency
Mossad.'"
"Ford, 49, of Bellport (N.Y.) is charged with conspiring to kill
Suffolk Couty Republican chairman John Powell, legislator Fred Towle
(R-Shirley) and Brookhaven public safety director Anthony Gazzola by
putting radium in their cars and toothpaste."
"Ford is expected to be transferred from the Suffolk County jail in
Riverhead to the upstate Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center in New Hampton
(N.Y.) next week. He will return to Suffolk to face the criminal
charges if doctors there determine he is competent to stand trial."
"Ford's lawyer, John Rouse, has maintained that the only reason
Catterson brought charges against Ford for the plot (was) that
prominent Republicans were the target. 'If the threats were against
you or I, John (Ford) would be walking the streets like an average
citizen,' Rouse said."
Ford and LIUFON had conducted an ongoing investigation of doings at
the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island since a UFO
incident near the lab back in 1994. Ford reportedly "said he
believed that visitors from outer space had crash-landed on Long
Island and that government officials were hiding the aliens at
Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton."
[W 8]******
Source: The New York Post
Publish Date: 23rd November 1997
Bill wanted UFO probe: Hubbell book
By DEBORAH ORIN
President Clinton was intrigued by UFOs and wanted to know if they
really existed, says a new book by his golfing pal, disgraced
Justice Department official Webb Hubbell.
Hubbell says finding out about UFOs was one of the top priorities
Clinton gave him in sending him over to a job as one of Attorney
General Janet Reno's top deputies.
Clinton had said, "if I put you over at Justice I want you to find
the answers to two questions for me," Hubbell recounts.
"One, who killed JFK. And two, are there UFOs."
"Clinton was dead serious. I had looked into both, but wasn't
satisfied with the answers I was getting," Hubbell adds.
Hubbell describes his failure to find out about JFK and UFOs as a
big regret when he had to resign as associate attorney general and
pleaded guilty to bilking law clients of $482,000.
Whitewater figure Jim McDougal has said Hubbell - who worked closely
with Mrs. Clinton and former White House lawyer Vincent Foster at
Little Rock's Rose law Firm - "knows where the bodies are buried" on
the land deal, but he stays pretty closed-mouthed in the book
"Friends in High Places."
The book touched off a courtroom battle when Whitewater counsel Ken
Starr tried to subpoena early drafts. Starr backed off, and in any
case Hubbell's book insists he can't remember much.
But Hubbell does toss out a tantalizing aside in examining why Bill
Clinton decided against running for president in 1988: a remark from
Hillary that, "We've got to straighten up Whitewater."
The book portrays Hillary Clinton as an ambitious woman who dreamed
of succeeding her husband as Arkansas governor and paints Bill
Clinton as someone unable to face his wife on whether she should use
his last name or hers.
Hubbell recounts that in 1981, after Clinton got beaten for
re-election as Arkansas governor - a campaign in which his wife's
use of her maiden name, Rodham, was an issue - he asked Hubbell to
press her to change her name.
He quotes Clinton as saying: "She needs to do this ... Webb, you're
her friend. Will you talk to her about it?"
Hubbell says he did so and Mrs. Clinton agreed - "but I suspect it
hurt for some reasons she's never understood herself."
Later in 1990, Hillary Clinton seriously talked of running to
succeed her husband as Arkansas governor when Bill Clinton seemed
bored with the job, he adds.
"Hillary had actually floated her candidacy past Vince Foster and me
in the event that Bill didn't run," writes Hubbell, then a law
partner of Mrs. Clinton's and Foster's.
"We questioned whether if the reason Bill wasn't running was he had
been in office too long, voters would think they were just getting
the same thing."
Hubbell adds that Mrs. Clinton "talked about how it might energize a
new generation of females in the state, and when she said that, I
knew she was really thinking about it."
[W 9]******
Source: Electronic Telegraph
Publish Date: Monday 24th November 1997
From: Stuart Lester <slester@email.msn.com>
Clinton looked for evidence of UFOs
By Charles Laurence in New York
PRESIDENT Clinton is a believer that there might indeed be UFOs,
according to a Little Rock associate. When he appointed his friend
Webster Hubbell to a job in the Justice Department, he told him he
wanted him to go through government records, and find out if UFOs
existed. He also wanted to know who really assassinated President
John Kennedy.
The startling insight into Mr Clinton's convictions comes in Friends
in High Places, a book by Mr Hubbell, who was the President's
golfing partner in Arkansas, and left the government in disgrace
after pleading guilty to milking clients of his legal practice of
$482,000 (293,000). He reveals that the President made the UFOs a
priority when he appointed him as an associate attorney general.
He writes: "Clinton had said, 'I want you to find the answers to two
questions for me. One, who killed JFK. And, two, are there UFOs?'
Clinton was dead serious. I had looked into both but wasn't
satisfied with the answers."
When it was first announced that Mr Hubbell was writing a book,
there was controversy because it was believed that he knew the
secrets of Whitewater. The Whitewater special prosecutor, Kenneth
Starr, tried to subpoena drafts. However, he backed down, and, in the
book, Mr Hubbell says he can remember little.
[W 10]******
Source: New York Post
Publish Date: 4th December 1997
Bill's UFO interest is saucer full of secrets at the White House
By Deborah Orin
WELCOME to the great White House UFO cover-up.
All the president's men seem quite embarrassed by the revelation -
from disgraced First Pal Webb Hubbell - that President Clinton asked
him to use his top Justice Department post to find out if UFOs
exist.
After all, the president as UFO maven isn't exactly Clinton's dream
image. Some might even find it laughable - remember how Dems
tittered over Nancy Reagan's fascination with astrology?
And so, White House spokesman Mike McCurry is doing a full stonewall
- he refuses to say whether Hubbell is telling the truth. What is
amazing - and appalling - is that the White House press corps is
letting him get away with it. As Hubbell tells it in his new book,
Clinton sent him to Justice with this mandate as a personal
priority: "I want you to find the answers to two questions for me.
One, Who killed JFK? And two, Are there UFOs?"
Lest anyone think this was a jest, Hubbell adds: "He ^Clinton_ was
dead serious. I had looked into both, but wasn't satisfied with the
answers I was getting." In fact, Hubbell conceded on CNN last
weekend that he was serious enough to ask about UFOs when he met with
officials at NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command in
Colorado, which monitors satellites and other objects in the skies.
"They said no," Hubbell reported. Presumably, this was one of the
answers that didn't satisfy him.
Hubbell ought to know if Clinton was serious. The disgraced
ex-associate attorney general is Hillary Clinton's former law
partner and was Bill Clinton's golfing buddy before Hubbell admitted
bilking law clients out of $482,000 and went to jail.
It's easy to see that Hubbell's revelation poses a big problem for
the Clinton team.
To confirm it would be to paint Clinton as a bit of a UFO nut (and
JFK conspiracy theorist) and invite ridicule from late-night comics.
But it would be dumb and dumber for Clinton aides to call Hubbell a
liar. That would hand Whitewater prober Ken Starr a weapon, as he
seems to be out to prove Hubbell is lying when he denies the fat
fees Clinton aides arranged for him were really hush money.
Besides, Hubbell is loyally insisting - despite a stint in jail and
the risk of another one - that the Clintons did nothing at all wrong
regarding Whitewater or anything else. That's not the kind of ally
whom you want to tick off by calling him a liar.
So McCurry did an all-out stonewall when he was asked if Hubbell is
right in saying Clinton has a UFO fascination: "I am not going to
respond to the specific things in books that are written."
Huh? "A lot of people are going to write books in the course of the
next several years ... I'm just not going to respond to each and
every thing that occurs in any of these books," McCurry insisted.
Oh, wonderful. Books are now off-limits - a kind of v-chip to screen
out messy questions. Just imagine if Mayor Giuliani insisted he
wouldn't answer any questions about, say, bus advertisements. The
press would skewer him.
Or imagine if Ronald Reagan's spokesmen had dared refuse to answer
questions on books. After all, Nancy Reagan's astrologist popped up
in - what else? - a book. Written by ex-Reagan Chief of Staff Don
Regan, who was a known enemy of Mrs. Reagan.
No one would have stood for the no-books nonsense if Reagan's team
had tried it. But McCurry did, and only a few members of the White
House press corps protested - everyone else just giggled or rolled
over and played dead.
Which does show you something about the degree to which the Clinton
White House has perfected the art of stonewalling.
The Clintons will be back in New York next week, of course, to pass
the cup for still more money for the broke Democratic Party. Word is
it'll be a unique Clinton husband-and-wife tag-team effort.
First, on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton is slated to star at a
Women's Leadership Forum. Next day, the president passes the cup.
There's also supposed to be a "message event," but no word on what
it might be. That's the supposed policy event on which the White
House likes to piggyback fund-raising trips.
[W 11]******
Source: The Times newspaper
Publish Date: 22nd November 1997
Hacker who broke into Nasa walks free
Prosecutors say case was no threat to security, writes Stephen
Farrell.
A COMPUTER hacker charged with breaking into United States Air Force
computers causing damage estimated at Pounds 300,000 walked free
from court yesterday.
Mathew Bevan, 23, smiled as he left Belmarsh Crown Court, southeast
London, with representatives of a tabloid newspaper six months after
a London teenager, Richard Pryce, was fined Pounds 1,200 for
admitting similar offences.
Prosecutors decided it was not in the public interest to pursue a
costly case expected to last up to three months involving witnesses
flown from America to give evidence against Bevan, the son of a
Fraud Squad detective.
The decision comes three and a half years after two hackers
codenamed Kuji and Datastream Cowboy used the Internet to penetrate
Rome Laboratories, the US Air Force's premier command and control
research facility at Griffiss Base in New York.
Sources close to the US investigation said the intrusions had
"serious implications" but did not involve national security.
According to a report to the US Senate Affairs Committee the
intruders gained access in March 1994 to unclassified files held at
Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre and computers belonging to
Lockheed.
Pryce, then 16, from Colindale, North London, who went on to win a
scholarship to study the double bass at the Royal College of Music,
was fined after he admitted 12 charges of gaining unauthorised
access under the Computer Misuse Act. Magistrates were told he
"caused more harm than the KGB".
Another institution allegedly penetrated by the pair was Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, where wilder elements among UFO
conspiracy theorists believe alien spacecraft are secretly held.
Bevan, who cheerfully acknowledges being obsessed with aliens,
nevertheless denied three charges of gaining unwarranted access to
USAF and Lockheed computers between March and May 1994.
The charges related to the alteration of data by the alleged
insertion of a "sniffer" program designed to gain access to systems.
The investigation was carried out by Scotland Yard's Computer Crime
Unit and the US Air Force's Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
Initial charges of conspiracy against the pair were dropped at an
earlier hearing.
Pony-tailed Bevan, an X Files addict, obsessed with UFOs, lived a
twin existence and saw himself as the Nick Leeson of the hacking
world.
An Admiral Insurance computer operator by day, at night he sat
beneath posters of his fictional FBI heroes, Mulder and Scully,
hacking around the world as real-life American investigators on his
electronic trail suspected him of being one of the most sophisticated
and dangerous hackers they had ever encountered.
In an interview with The Times Bevan admitted gaining access to
computers belonging to the US Air Force, Nasa and the defence
contractors Lockheed, but adamantly denied ever altering data.
He insists his motive was curiosity, not personal gain. "I was after
information about UFOs. I just wanted to find evidence of all the
conspiracy theories - alien abductions, the 1947 Roswell landings
and Nasa faking the moon landings - and where better to look than
their computer files?" he said. "The US Air Force posts details of
its personnel and network addresses on the Internet so anything you
want you can get if you know how. It was a challenge."
One source close to the American investigation, however, said: "At
one stage they were connected to Latvia and the South Korean Atomic
Research Institute, which raised serious concerns about the former
Eastern Bloc and information warfare." Bevan was 12 when he was
given a Sinclair ZX81 for Christmas from his parents, Elaine, a
nurse, and Thomas, a detective sergeant with the South Wales Fraud
Squad.
Despite spending up to 36 hours at a time on the keyboard the family
telephone bills never exceeded Pounds 60 because he mastered the
technique of "blue-boxing", gaining free calls by sending electronic
pulses down the line to trick BT software into thinking a call was
over. His Holy Grail was to prove that alien spacecraft are stored
in conditions of strict secrecy at Area 51 of Wright Patterson Air
Force Base in Ohio - as suggested in the film Independence Day .
Although he claims to have seen convincing evidence of their
presence, no evidence is forthcoming.
Pryce was arrested at his parents home in Colindale in May 1994 and
Bevan in June last year. All his equipment was seized, leading, he
admits, to withdrawal symptoms. "It is all about control, really.
I'm in my little room with my little computer breaking into the
biggest computers in the world and suddenly I have more control over
this machine than them. That is where the buzz comes from. Anyone who
says they are a reformed hacker is talking rubbish. If you are a
hacker, you are always a hacker. It's a state of mind."
uk.ufo.nw says: The below report appeared in issue {73} of the
e-zine.
Source: Today@NASA
Date: 6th March 1997
Yes, it's true. We got hacked. We're back.
At noon EST on March 5, hackers got into the server that houses the
main NASA Web page, www.nasa.gov, and replaced it with a page of
their own design. The replacement page, which was available for about
30 minutes, contained a diatribe against commercialization of the
Internet and protested the criminal prosecution of two hackers.
After system administrators assessed the damage (none beyond the
affected page) and did some other work to prevent a recurrence, the
server was back online at 9:30 a.m. March 6. Apologies to those who
were unable to access desired pages.
[W 12]******
Source: Fox10 News
Transmission Date: 18th November 1997
From: bernhard.nahrgang@ob.kamp.net (Bernhard Nahrgang)
Men in Black intercept 'Phoenix Lights' video footage?
(transcribed from a FOX10 NEWS (Phx.) report reported by Jim
Schnebelt)
FROM THE FOX-10 '10 files'...
(on screen: stock "Phoenix Lights" footage, of lights suspended in
sky)
voiceover: Months after this (March 13) sighting there are many
questions regarding the strange lights over Phoenix. Is this a solid
craft, or merely lights in an empty sky?
What could be the conclusive evidence is now mysteriously missing.
Richard Curtis claims his home video is proof that this sighting was
a huge flying craft. And he claims his video shows a solid object in
the sky passing over his home.
(on screen: cut to head shot of Curtis.)
Curtis: I saw the bottom part (of the craft) as it went over
Phoenix, because the lights lit the bottom of it, and it partially
blocked out the clouds and the stars.
voiceover: Curtis called city councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood,
wanting to show her the footage.
(on screen: cut to head shot of Barwood)
Barwood: He said he had it on two videotapes, and would I like them,
so I said, "Of course I would.", and could he give me copies of
them. He said he would. I told him how to get them to my office and
to mark them 'personal and confidential'.
(on screen: cheesy slo-mo video "re-enactment" of Men in Black
walking about)
voiceover: But before Curtis could send copies to Barwood, he's paid
a visit by two mysterious men in black.
Curtis:(voiced over MIB reenactments) They were dressed in black
suits, with black hats and sunglasses. They asked me if I had tapes
for coucilwoman Barwood, and I said "Yah, they're laying right
here." They said, "We've stopped by to pick them up." So I said,
"Great!" and just handed (the original tapes) to them.
(on screen: cut to head shot of Barwood)
Barwood: I didn't get them, and I have no idea who these two men
were since I have just females working in my office. Its absolutely
puzzling to me.
(on screen: cut to slo-mo MIB, one of them now holding
videotapes...(!) )
voiceover: Did the tapes ever exist, and if so were they proof of
more than "lights" in the sky? And who were these mysterious Men in
Black who allegedly took them?
(as slo-mo MIB vid continues...)
Curtis (voiced over): I think someone listened in on that phone call
and wanted those tapes.
Barwood (voiced over): I can't explain it. Its just eerie.
Voiceover: The mystery continues. Jim Schnebelt, Fox-10 News.
end story, cut to anchor
[W 13]******
Source: USA Today
Publish Date: 20th November 1997
Records Destroyed
The (USA's) National Archives and the Navy blame each other for the
inadvertent destruction of records chronicling what the Archives
calls "some of the most significant technical achievements in the
20th Century."
The 4,200 scientific notebooks and 600 boxes of correspondence and
technical memos of the Naval Research Laboratory were "pulped beyond
recognition," the Archives said. Some records were of rocket
development, the early space program and development of radar.
[W 14]******
Source: BBC World Service
Publish Date: Wednesday 19th November 1997
Chile to investigate reported UFO sightings
The Chilean airforce has set up a special committee to investigate
reported sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
A government spokesman said reputable sources -- such as pilots and
air traffic controllers -- had sometimes reported seeing objects for
which there was no immediate explanation.
The committee, he said, would attempt to determine whether or not
the objects were naturally-occurring phenomena.
There are said to have been about sixty incidents this year alone.
In May a convention of UFO experts was held in the Chilean capital,
Santiago.
[W 15]******
Source: CNN News
Date: Sunday 7th December 1997
Brazil to Host UFO Forum
Brasilia will host the 1st World Forum of Ufology from December 7 to
14, the Rio de Janeiro-based Periodico de Comercio daily reported
today.
The term ufology refers to the Unidentified Flying Object, or
popularly known as the UFO.
Nearly 60 specialists from the United States, Russia and Latin
America are scheduled to join the event.
Organizers said the forum will be based on the conviction that the
increasing number of people who have witnessed some kind of
phenomenon related to UFOs, or that can be described as UFOs, is
enough evidence to give it official acknowledgment.
In June 24, 1947, an American businessman reported he saw a flying
"saucer- shaped" object. It was the first time the world heard about
UFOs. Since then, civil and military pilots reportedly have claimed
to have seen such "aircraft."
The date of the first UFO report, 50 years ago, will be commemorated
at the forum in Brazil.
[W 16]******
Source: BBC
Publish Date: Sunday 7th December 1997
Brazil - largest UFO meeting ever (December 1997)
Close encounters of an extra-terrestial kind
Grainy photos, allegedly of flying saucers, have failed to prove the
existence of UFO's.
International scientists have gathered in the Brazilian capital,
Brasilia, for a week-long conference which aims to take a serious
look at unidentified flying objects.
The conference has been billed as the largest gathering of its kind,
with more than 50 top UFO researchers from across the world expected
to take part. The theory that intelligent beings have visited or are
visiting Planet Earth has attracted its share of eccentrics.
But ufologists, as they call themselves, want the United Nations to
recognise their science as a legitimate subject for study.
Mars fragment rekindled debate over extra-terrestrial life.
The discovery of fossilised micro-organisms in a tiny fragment of a
meteorite from Mars has rekindled the debate over extra-terrestrial
life. According to Nasa scientists, the fossilised remains are the
first scientific proof that life can exist elsewhere.
I want to believe.
The popularity of science fiction films like Hollywood's Men in
Black and television series like The X Files are a testimony to our
fascination with the subject of extra-terrestial life.
A recent poll in the United States showed that some 60% of people
believe in the existence of intelligent life-forms in space.
'Take me to your leader'
Despite decades of grainy photographs of flying saucers and other
supposed space ships, the existence of UFOs has never been proven.
A recently declassified CIA document claims that many of the UFO
sightings were experimental jets and the top secret spy planes of
their day.
Rational explanations often fall on deaf ears. Ufology is a science
which lends itself to conspiracy theories and claims of massive
government cover-ups.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico claims to be the sight of an UFO
crash landing in 1947 in which the bodies of aliens were found. It
has built a thriving tourist trade around its extra-terrestial
connection and even boasts a UFO museum.
Speakers from across the world
The list of international speakers invited:
Antonio Las Heras (Argentina)
Barry Chamish (Israel)
Bob Brown (USA)
Bud Hopkins (USA)
Colin Andrews ( England)
Cynthia Hind (Zimbabwe)
Darush Bagheri (Iran)
Derrel Sims (USA)
Donald Ware (USA)
Edgar Mitchel (USA)
G C Schellhorn (USA)
Gbor Tarcali (Hungary)
Glennys Mackay (Australia)
Graham Birdsall (England)
Jaime Maussan ( Mexico)
Jaime Rodriguez (Ecuador)
James Hurtak (USA)
Javier Cabrera Darquea (Peru)
Javier Sierra (Spain)
Jerome Clark (USA)
Jesse Marcel Junior (USA)
Joaquim Fernandes (Portugal)
John Carpenter (USA)
John Mack (USA)
Johsen Takano (Japan)
Jorge Alfonso Ramirez (Paraguay)
Jorge Martin (Port Rico)
Leo Sprinkle (USA)
Leonard Nimoy (USA)
Linda Howe (USA)
Mario Dussuel (Chile)
Mark Carlotto (USA)
Mauricio Baiata (Italy)
Michael Hesemann (Germany)
Per Andersen (Denmark)
Richard Hoagland (USA)
Robert Bauval (England)
Robert Dean (USA)
Roberto Banchs (Argentina)
Roberto Pinotti (Italy)
Rodrigo Fuenzalida (Chile)
Ryszard Fiejtek (Poland)
S. O. Svensson (Sweden)
Stanton Friedman (Canada)
Sun-Shi Li (China)
Timo Koskeniemmi (Finland)
Tony Dodd (England)
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (Spain)
Walter Andrus ( USA)
Wendelle Stevens (USA)
Yuri Guerassimov (Russia)
Yves Bosson (France)
Yvonne Smith (USA)
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