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From: Ian Darlington CUFORG <cuforg@interweb-design.co.uk> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:58:34 -0000 Fwd Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:44:36 -0500 Subject: CUFORG: Skywatchers Newsletter --Issue 2, Part 3 Skywatchers Email Edition -- Issue 2 -- Sept.'98 - Jan. '99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 'SKYWATCHERS' is a quarterly publication from the Cornwall UFO Research Group (C.U.F.O.R.G.), which was founded in 1995. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PART THREE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My Paranormal, ET and UFO Experiences: Part 3 By Elaine Darlington Due To Technical Difficulties We Inadvertently Lost The Final Section of Elaine=92s Article Last Time - The whole article is available at our Web site http://www.interwb-design.co.uk/cuforg/ or by email on request. My daughter told me of a strange dream she had. She, her younger brother and myself are at the school. A UFO passes over and shines down a light, her brother decides not to enter the light but my daughter seeing me enter, follows. Suddenly she cannot breath properly. It's as though she is in water and she can only manage shallow breaths. Suddenly she is pulled out by a being that is purple in colour that looks like my troll. She says he is stooped over and has bumps all down his back. He tells her she is not supposed to be this side, but she tells him she is with me. She wanders down the corridor and a triangular like paper plane passes her. The next thing she knows her and a friend are carrying out an action rather like peeling wallpaper and a door opens. She did not know who the friend was. In sight now is me and the Nethum, he is hugging me, his head is bent down to the side placing his face upon the top of my head. She says he is wearing a white robe of some sort and boots. He asks her what she is doing there and she tells him she is with me. He then tells her that I am a "chosen one." The dream then ends. I have told her how tall he is and what he looks like, but I have never divulged the fact that he hugs me in the exact way that she has described, neither have I told her of what he wears, yet this was again correct. Either she has witnessed something or she has read my mind and it has replayed in her dreams. On the 20th/21st August I awoke in the night and overheard a conversation. I was lain in bed and heard a car go by outside the house and two girls' voices talking. The conversation was "Did they hit it, what is it, ah it's a cat". The next morning I searched opposite the house and up and down the road convinced that one of my cats had been killed. All my cats turned up for their morning feed what a relief. I thought no more about it, I wished I had, I must have overlooked the fact that in the past all of my premonition become reality two days later. It was the night of the 22nd/23rd my cat Nala did not return to feed her three-week-old kittens. The morning came and I remembered my two-day lapse with premonitions and knew that she would not be coming home. Ian went outside and under the bush opposite the house lay Nala. On the 26/10/97 I am relaxing and thinking the visitors are welcome in my house anything I have they can share. I get up in the morning and my engagement ring is missing from my side drawers. Ian and I search everywhere, we roll back the carpet, check in the drawers. I begin to get upset, saying irrational things like "What's the point in wearing the other rings without that one." Eventually I calm down, I remember thinking how stupid, it doesn't feed you, keep you sheltered or warm, it really is a non-necessity. The day passes and we retire to bed checking to see if it has turned up, but no it's still not around. In the middle of the night there is a bang like a clap. When I get up in the morning there in full view is my ring. It is placed upon a board with a small figurine that I had made. The figurine is of a calf, when I fashioned it I was trying to make a cat but it was as though the clay had other intentions. Suddenly I realise that Orion and the Pleiades are in the Taurus section of the sky. This is where I believe my visitors' origins are, so it's just another strange coincidence. There have been so many coincidences, I could take forever to tell them all, so I won't go on. In 1994, I had a break down. I feel it sort of re-established the values that maybe I was not completely abiding by. What happened in 1996, I felt was like a slap around the face, a wake up call. That year my life really changed, humans eat such rubbish, they are right. Now I'm vegetarian/vegan and don't eat anything with preservatives, additives or E numbers. There are underlying reasons for this diet. My strict moral values and principles are firmly back in place. I will not play at the physical worlds game, if lying, cheating or trampling others is the only way to succeed then I shall be proud to have failed. Respect all life, understand balance and be responsible for your actions. If we as a race wish to join them we have a lot to learn, just as we have laws here, there are laws that govern the universe. As we have a police force and a criminal justice system to prevent those that break the law from inflicting harm on the law abiding citizens, so, are the laws of the universe. There are those that enforce these. If someone tells you there have to be bad ETs, yes but those races are kept upon their planets and in their own solar systems until they reach true advancement, then and only then are they permitted what would be termed inter-planetary travel. The human race upon Earth is being guided and helped to qualify for such a privilege, we can accept their help or continue with our destructive behaviour. If this should be our choosing I fear it will be a long time before we reach this position of opportunity again. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Sky At Night By Sue Herbert, Amateur Astronomer PART ONE Saturn the ringed Planet is the next step in our Solar System tour. The rings are composed of icy chunks, sized from fine dust, to house sized blocks, There are 3 broad rings visible from Earth lettered A.B.C. Hundreds of narrow ringlets, make up the rings. Between the A. and B. rings lies the Cassini division, where there are still ringlets, but less densely packed. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, all possess rings, but none are so grand as the rings of Saturn. Saturn is one of the four gas giants, and the second largest Planet in the Solar System, it has a diameter at the Equator of about 120,800 KM. Rotation is very fast, so it flattens at the poles, and bulges at the equator, A day on Saturn is 10 and a quarter hours, and a year on Saturn is 29.45 Earth years. Saturn is a cold planet of gases and ice, with a surface temperature, in the region of -170/degrees celsius. Saturn has 24 Moons, Titan is the largest at 5,200 KM, with a diameter larger than Mercury. It is also the only Moon to have a detectable atmosphere consisting of a layer of gases above the surface. Saturns other moons are heavily cratered, with icy surfaces, each has a distinct character. Mimas has a huge crater named Herschel. when impacted the collision must have nearly torn the planet apart! The moon Iaptus is 900 miles in diameter, its trailing hemisphere resembles those of other satellites, but the leading hemisphere is one tenth as bright, and is coated with a dark reddish layer of unknown origin. Further Astronomical Terms. Galactic Centre. The centre of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen from Earth, which lies in the direction of the Constellation Sagittarius. G. Star a star with characteristics like the Sun. Galaxy. a collection of stars, dust, and gas, which appear to be arranged in aggregations called clusters, ranging from a few members, to several thousand. The different types of Galaxy are elliptical, Spiral, and Barred Spiral, and also a group of irregular shapes. Geomagnetic Storm, a disturbance of the interaction, of the Earth's magnetic field, in the magnetosphere with incoming charged particles, often a result of a Solar Flare. Observations include the Orionids Meteor Shower which will be at maximum 21 October. The planet Jupiter will be well placed in Aquarius, close to the line of the Ecliptic. Saturn will also be visible having risen in the eastern sky shortly after sunset. Mars will only be observable through a high powered telescope. Venus will be to close to the Sun for observing. PART TWO The Asteroid Belt, lies in-between Mars and Jupiter, and is our next stop on our Solar System Tour, Asteroids are also known as the minor planets. There are two regions in Jupiter's orbit where Asteroids can become trapped, they are called , The Lagrangian Points, the first is about one sixth of an orbit in front of Jupiter, and the other one sixth of the way behind it. Asteroids within this region are called Trojans, hence the Trojan Belt. We know the orbit of more than 15,000 Asteroids. They are rocky objects smaller than planets, vary in size, and are numbered and named, for e.g. Asteroid Ida is 32 miles long. In 1989, Henry Holte, discovered an Asteroid, that came within half a million miles of Earth, and in 1993 another approached to within 90,000 miles away well within the Moons orbit. There are also about 200 Asteroids, that have orbits which in fact cross the Earth's orbit, these near Earth Asteroids are all capable of hitting the Earth, and there are probably 10 times that number, a mile or more across to be found. Jupiter is the great giant Planet of our Solar System. It is over 300 times the mass of the Earth! and approx., two and a half times the mass of all the other Planets put together! Jupiter rotates fast! once every 10 hours. Jupiter has the largest storm on any of the Planets, the great RED SPOT which is a whirlpool of wind, it is 30,000 miles long and one third as wide, and is about four times larger than the Earth! Jupiter's four main Moons are fascinating, Io is being constantly ravaged by sulphurous volcanic eruptions it is the closest to the Planet and is the most effected by Jupiter's gravitational pull. EUROPA, is further from Jupiter with an icy surface, a planet wide ice rink! GANYMEDE and CALLISTO are situated further out, and have older surfaces, of ice and are scarred by impact craters. Jupiter, and its four main moons are easily visible in a small telescope, and if observing on a regular nightly basis weather permitting!! you will find on one night, the four moons are all visible, while on another only two may be visible. A final thought, Jupiter has all the ingredients to become a second SUN!! . A few more Astronomical Terms. Finder. A smaller telescope, with a wide field of view, which is attached to a larger telescope, to assist in locating celestial objects. Flare. A disturbance in the upper chromosphere of the Sun, in the form of a flame. This may be accompanied by the emission of increased numbers of charged particles, which have enough energy to reach Earth, and interact with the magnetic field, causing geomagnetic storms, and with the upper atmosphere, cause Aurora. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Classic Sighting From 1977 Report by Dionne Jones Penwith, Cornwall's western most peninsula, is the site of one of the county's earliest documented and most well known UFO cases. The famous Newmill incident which took place on 22nd September 1977 was written up in some depth by Terry Cox, then Bodmin representative of the UFO Investigators' Network (UFOIN), for the Flying Saucer Review (1978 Vol.24/1, p28). The tiny hamlet of Newmill, between St Ives and St. Just, is surrounded by the remains of ancient stone circles, menhirs, tumuli, hut circles and standing stones. It's a remote rural area, with an almost prehistoric feel in places, so little has changed here over the centuries. An Unexpected Visitor It was 9.30pm on a Saturday night, when Caroline Bond stepped out of the Old Post Office, which she was then restoring, to go to her moped by the door. The autumn sky was clear and the air still outside. Caroline was planning to go out for the evening, but as she stood by the door she had a feeling that her partner, Pete Boulton, had followed her outside and was standing behind her. She turned around and saw: "this kind of green-haze-thing no more than 4 metres away". Caroline walked up to the object until it was only 2 metres away, staring at in disbelief. Then she went to tell Pete what she'd just seen, alling it a 'ghost' because she didn't know how else to describe it at the time. When Pete came down, the mist was moving away. It went up the barn steps and crossed in front of the barn. They watched for about two minutes, then Pete went to fetch his glasses, which he'd taken off whilst decorating inside. Meanwhile, Caroline went round to the front of the house and asked a couple using the telephone kiosk outside their front door to come and look at the apparition. They arrived just as Pete was coming down the stairs, and at first they could not see the object, but then spotted it by a big tree on the edge of their neighbour, George Stone's, property. Caroline described it as, "sort of red and green and silver, flashing at a thirty degree angle above the tree," adding that, "it seemed to have something below it... it seemed as if was on top of another thing". Whilst initially describing it as a 'mist-thing', Caroline felt it was not a vapour. "If seemed quite solid. You could not see through if when it moved in front of the barn. In fact it blotted out the stones," she said. She did not hear any noise at all. Later in the interview with Terry Cox she said that when the object was above the tree she thought it appeared a bit elongated, although it was oval when she first saw it in the yard. It also seemed as if it was "on a sort of pole". The object "glided in front of the barn about two metres above the ground and seemed about one metre wide and bright. But it was brighter when it was up in the sky'. Reactions Afterwards Caroline felt quite excited and went looking for it the next night. She told everyone else about the object, saying that it seemed like a spaceship to her. She and Pete both sensed an intelligence behind its movements. Pete commented on how the object lit up the corner stones of the barn as it moved. He thought it odd that the object moved across the barn, then doubled back on itself before gliding towards the field. Other Witnesses The couple in the telephone kiosk were Bill and Sally Beard from Birmingham. They were staying with Sally's mother, Mrs. Gibbons, who had herself seen the object from her house nearby. George Stone also saw the object when it was above the tree beside his house. He, like all the others, also noticed a second similar object visible in the night sky, to the north- west. Mr. Stone said the original object was clearly visible in the northern sky until it vanished about half an hour from the start of his observation, while the one to the north-west was still visible when he went indoors. He and his sister continued to watch it from his bedroom window, until retiring for the night sometime between 11 and 11.30pm. All the witnesses agreed that the objects seemed to have red lights within a sharply defined green oval and appeared to meander about the sky, making tiny angular movements, at 'helicopter height'. Saucer in Redruth That same night (Sunday 18th September), in Redruth, there was another UFO incident. Mr. Anthony Laity, a civil servant from Crowlas, was driving on the Redruth bypass when he saw a saucer shaped object on his nearside at rooftop height. It had a glowing white dome on top and was a yellowish hue underneath. When he accelerated the saucer also increased its speed, moving on a parallel course until it faded into the distance. After Effects A week after the Newmill sighting, Caroline and Peter were struck by a mysterious illness which induced vomiting, muscular pains and headaches. Peter was most afflicted and was sent to hospital for testing, but the doctors remained baffled by his symptoms. Caroline, however, was diagnosed as suffering from appendicitis, but apparently, a perfectly healthy appendix was removed. Whilst the couple were excited and interested during the encounter itself, both became fearful afterwards (perhaps because of the effect on their health?). Caroline would no longer cross the moor unaccompanied after dark, even though this had not bothered her before. This change of behaviour was repeated by another local lady whom we interviewed after a ground level encounter in Zennor on 23rd May 1997 (see Skywatchers No.19). This particular lady had, however, read about Caroline's experience, indeed it was she who brought our attention to this article. Strange Perceptions The interesting thing about this case is the uncertainty about the appearance and nature of the object. At first it was perceived to be a kind of mist or 'ghost', then we are told it seemed quite solid, yet it's shape changed from oval to elongated and other colours became apparent when it moved over to the tree. The idea that it may have been a spaceship seems to have occurred after, rather than during the sighting, as the witnesses tried to interpret what they had just seen. If the object were a solid, physical vehicle, why was it so hard to describe? What kind of vessel can look like a mist and hover a few feet away from people without making any noise whatsoever? I don't think this is a 'nuts and bolts' UFO. From the description it seems more likely that what we're dealing with here is either a non or semi-physical object/force or a perceptory enigma, maybe even a bit of both. Did the villagers witness an as yet, unidentified energy - a fluid, possibly sentient, force which affected or interacted with their minds? Or was the object simply so strange that the human brain, having no familiar reference point with which to compare it, made its own interpretation, as it does when processing an optical illusion? I'm not saying that I think it was a hallucination, because too many people saw the same thing, but I'm not convinced it was a fully physical object. The symptoms that Caroline and Pete experienced after the encounter sound very much like the effects of exposure to a strong electromagnetic field. In fact this is true for most of the physical symptoms linked with abduction, UFO and fairy encounters. Exposure to EM (electromagnetic) fields can trigger headaches, dizziness, poor concentration, weakness, fatigue, nausea, insomnia, skin rashes, allergies, asthma and at very high doses even blackouts and heart failure. It can also affect the mind. But even if electromagnetic energy was present in this case, was it the cause of the experience or just a by-product? Did the witnesses experience an unusual energy form, or was the energy emitted by an object that they couldn't perceive clearly because of the EM effect? What came first the object or the energy? It's interesting that another object was seen in the sky once the first one had captured their attention, and that the 'UFOs' were seen again the following night when people went out deliberately looking for them. Were the objects/ controllers/ beings, exhibiting 'intelligent behaviour' by making a repeat visit, or were the witnesses by then in a sufficiently suggestible state to see anything? Perhaps the repeat performance indicates something special about the time - it did, after all, occur only a month before the infamous interception of an ITV Southern news broadcast by the Ashtar Galactic Command. Was this, then, a time of 'preparation?' +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ All material used herein is Copyright =A9 1998 - 1999 C.U.F.O.R.G. unless otherwise stated. C.U.F.O.R.G. reserves the right to edit submissions where necessary. No unauthorised reproduction, posting on the Internet, etc without permission. Please ask - requests will usually be granted providing full credit is given. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CLOSING NOTES +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ENJOYED 'SKYWATCHERS'? If so, please tell others so they can request delivery of their free issue so they can find out how much they enjoy it too. Requests to: mailto:cuforg@interweb-design.co.uk READY TO SUBSCRIBE? If you've received one or more trial issues of Skywatchers and are ready to subscribe, here's how: SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP One year's subscription to 'Skywatchers' costs =A315.00 per year, single copies =A33.00. One year's membership of C.U.F.O.R.G. costs =A315.00 per year and includes free subscription to 'Skywatchers' and reduced admission to the Group's monthly meetings. SEEN OUR WEB SITE? 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