From: Ron Decker <decker@wt.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 08:53:27 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 10:56:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Voyager Newsletter, Mogul Parchment Parachutes
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Re: Voyager Newsletter, Mogul Parchment Parachutes
>Date: Sat, 05 Jun 99 11:49:54 PDT
>>Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:50:47 -0500
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>From: Dennis Stacy <dstacy@texas.net>
>>Subject: Re: Voyager Newsletter, Mogul Parchment Parachutes
>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>>>Subject: Re: Voyager Newsletter, Mogul Parchment Parachutes
>>>Date: Thu, 03 Jun 99 08:26:28 PDT
>>Arnold may well have been aware of the writings of the people
>>you mention. But judging from his own writings, he based his
>>belief that UFOs were some type of living organism on his own
>>experiences. See the following, for example:
>>"This is the same sort of impression [of a living thing] I got
>>after seeing these same things again in 1952. Two of them flew
>>under me at Mount Lassen. I got a movie of these, and one was
>>just as solid as a Chevrolet car. But you could see the pine
>>trees right through the other one that was following it. I too
>>got the feeling that here was something that was alive, rather
>>than that they were machines."
>>From time to time (though fairly rarely), UFO witnesses have
>reported the sensation that what they were observing was a
>living object. On June 1, 1933, a mountain climber on Everest
>told of seeing winged objects which "seemed to pulsate in and
>out as though they were breathing." There is the famous
>Crawfordsville, Indiana, monster story from September 1891, not
>to mention the tradition of pwdre ser ("rot from the stars," aka
>"star jelly"). Plus the remarkable case from Biskopsberga,
>Sweden, in May 1808, a full account of which was published in a
>contemporary issue of Transactions of the Swedish Academy of
>Sciences. Again, I refer interested listfolk to my coverage of
>these and related matters in The UFO Encyclopedia, 2nd Ed., pp.
>872-77. If any of you know of other cases, I encourage you to
>post them here.
Mr. Clark,
If memory serves, I recall reading years ago an account of
seemingly living UFOs in Brad Steiger's book, "The Gods of
Aquarius" (I'm working from memory here so don't hold my feet
to the fire on the author and title).
The UFO encounter went something like this: some pilots in a
western state went flying one day and landed their airplanes
atop a mesa for a rest and look-see. To their surprise a small
UFO landed near them. It appeared to be in distress due to
something having taken a bite out of its rim. The bite looked
like one one might take from a sandwich. The group saw metal
strips hanging from the 'wound.'
To their greater surprise several larger UFOs soon descended to
the mesa top, appeared to attend the 'wounded,' smaller UFO and
escorted it away.
The impression of the witnesses was that the actions of the
small UFO and its larger counterparts were identical to that of
a young animal that had been attacked by a predator, escaped and
ministered to by its pack.
I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing you requested list
members post but here it is. This was the first time I'd read
any report that even hinted at the possibility of UFOs being
anything other than piloted machines. At the time the oddity
of the concept made quite an impression on me.
Best regards,
Ron Decker
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