From: James Easton <voyager@ufoworld.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:34:10 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:43:58 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Voyager Newsletter No. 14
Voyager Newsletter No. 14
CONTENTS
1. 'Star Kids', or the Exploitation of Children in 'Ufology'?
2. Larry Warren and the Foibles of 'Regressive Hypnosis'.
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1. 'Star Kids', or the Exploitation of Children in 'Ufology'?
Appreciation to Errol Bruce-Knapp and 'UFO UpDates' for
highlighting concerns about the following:
SUMMER CAMP FOR KID E.T. ABDUCTEES
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- When E.T. phones home this summer, he may
be calling from Santa Cruz, California.
That's where a UFO researcher is holding the world's first summer
school for kids of E.T. origin.
Dr. Richard Boylan's space-age summer school is for children who
have been genetically modified by aliens.
Boylan claims these so-called "star kids" are not only brighter
than other kids, they can have strange superpowers such as
levitation, invisibility and teleportation.
Besides reenacting their alien encounters via puppets and role-
playing, students will listen to lectures including one titled,
"From Fraidy-Cat To Cosmic Kid: What's It All About."
The E.T. Summer School Weekend will take place August 25.
CONTACT: Dr. Richard Boylan,
Sacramento, CA; (916) 422-7479
[End]
The full details can be found on Boylan's web site, at:
http://www.jps.net/drboylan/strkidwk.htm
He declares, "This Weekend Summer School is designed for those
special young people, ages 4 and up, and their parents, who have
been touched by heritage from the stars".
"Telepathic downloading of information, often during the night
in what are made to seem like 'Dreams', increases the range of
knowledge and perspective with which these children operate.
These children seem at home with complex devices which their
parents sometimes struggle to master".
Children who have dream-like dreams and can operate video remote
controls are presumably relatively common.
"Some of these children are what I call Star Kids. These
children's very conception was due to more than mere human
reproduction", claims Boylan.
This does seem to transcend the 'relatively harmless' dismissal
which so much UFO related nonsense merits and Boylan adds,
"Saturday morning we'll start with Dr. Boylan presenting slides
and pictures of the various kinds of ETs. He will tell about what
each are like, and what they are interested in. Then each child
will have an opportunity to express in their own way how the ETs
came to them, and what took place during their encounter".
Where this differs from the normal 'alien abductions' conference
is of course that children are being targeted, some might even
say, exploited.
What happens to any potential 'Star Kid' that doesn't actually
have a story about mythical monsters to tell. Will they be
'encouraged' to 'remember and believe' that they did meet
aliens, or were 'specially selected' by them. Certainly sounds
like it and where does this stop short of 'brainwashing'
children of '4 years old and upwards'.
In addition to Boylan, the 'Facilitators' of this 'Summer
School' for kids are 'Daniel Creegan, Ph.D, Lucia August, MFT,
and Debbie Imhoff, B.A.'.
Brief biographies can be found on the 'Star Kids' web page and
note that Lucia August "is an experiencer", whilst Debbie Imhoff
is a "mother of 2 children, one of whom is an experiencer".
A cursory Internet search provided no further information
concerning Creegan and Imhoff, only confirming that Lucia
August's involvement in 'lesbian and gay issues' included a
contribution to a seminar at, 'The Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay
Community Center', for 'lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
women'.
It's not reassuring that Creegan, August and Imhoff are declared
to be suitably qualified as members of a purportedly
professional body, 'the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter
Therapists (ACCET)'.
I wondered if this so-called 'Academy' was founded solely by
Boylan and it was no surprise to find the apparent confirmation
at:
http://www.jps.net/drboylan/accetpg.htm
Boylan's biography states:
"Dr. Richard J. Boylan is a Ph.D. behavioural scientist,
university lecturer, certified clinical hypnotherapist,
consultant, and researcher".
A slight omission here and indeed seemingly something of a
oversight anywhere on his web site, is that on August 4, 1995,
the 'Medical Board of California' revoked Boylan's licence to
practice either as a "Psychologist, Licensed Social Worker, or
Marriage, Family and Child Counsellor".
For further details, see:
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jul/m22-021.shtml
Coincidentally, the issue of children being used to verify that
'alien abductions' are real, is one I had recently raised
following a separate matter. During ensuing public discussions,
it has been confirmed that the supposedly more highly regarded
'abduction researchers', such as Dr. John E. Mack, M.D. and Budd
Hopkins have interviewed young children about their possible
abduction experiences.
For example, Mack writes [my thanks to Chris Rutkowski for the
reference]:
"A two-year-old boy that I interviewed said that he was taken
into the sky by a man who bit his nose. A not yet three-year-old
boy said that owls with big eyes (it is common for children to
remember the alien beings disguised in animal forms) take him up
to a ship in the sky, and he is afraid he will not be able to
get back to his mother".
Source:
http://www.peer-mack.org/mit92.html
Yet there are numerous UFO reports where schoolchildren were the
main or only witnesses, including publicised incidents at 'Broad
Haven School' in Wales [February, 1977], Voronezh, Russia
[September, 1989] and the 'Areal School', Ruwa, near Harare,
Zimbabwe [September, 1994].
There were seemingly no concerns about these children being
interviewed, sometimes by the media, and encouraged to describe
their sightings. These were regarded as interesting news
stories.
And isn't there a comparison with many religions, where children
are brought up to believe in something which those who do not
share that conviction might perceive to be equally unreal.
Consider also children's accounts of 'near-death' experiences
and encounters with a 'being of light', 'angels', etc. Not only
are these considered acceptable testimonies, they are regarded
as invaluable because the experiencers might be 'untainted' by
religious archetypes and knowledge of comparative, near-death
accounts.
So where should necessary boundaries be in place?
Perhaps a significant aspect is the objectivity and
professionalism of those involved.
Most, if not all, 'abduction researchers' have a preconceived
belief in the reality of stories recounted under apparent
hypnosis. However, the majority would surely claim to impart
some objectivity into their research, although I wonder what
percentage of those who undergo 'analysis' do _not_ eventually
believe they have been selected as a suitable specimen for
attention.
The 'Star Kids summer school' sends alarming signals because
there evidently isn't any objectivity at all and some might
conclude it comprises elements of a cult. Outlining the longer
term plans, I note Boylan affirms, "It is anticipated that this
Summer School Weekend will also create the foundation for an
ongoing Star Kids School, to begin operation soon".
It's by no means everyone who believes they may be an 'abductee'
or 'experiencer' that would condone the related involvement of
young children and some have expressed their objections clearly.
It's also understandable why some 'ufologists' - I'm never quite
sure what that encompasses these days - protest Boylan isn't
'one of us' and express an earnest desire to distance themselves
from his activities. I'm sure the vast majority would agree.
However, far from being an outcast, the facts prove otherwise.
The Mutual UFO Network' [MUFON], although essentially American
based, remains the world's largest UFO related organisation and
a glance at Boylan's lecture schedule confirms he is still in
demand as a speaker at local MUFON meetings.
His other appearances also share the stage with speakers who
frequently appear at the most prominent 'UFO' conferences - see:
http://www.jps.net/drboylan/00ufocfs.htm
It seems difficult to reconcile how 'ufology' can ever detach
itself from Boylan and his ilk, whilst at the same time
embracing them.
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2. Larry Warren and the Foibles of 'Regressive Hypnosis'.
Meantime, in the UK, some of this year's most prominent UFO
conferences will also soon be upon us, with 'UFO Magazine'
inviting Larry Warren and Peter Robbins to provide an update on
the Rendlesham forest case.
I wonder if this will feature any of the considerable material
published by myself and others in recent times and which has
proven the UK's most celebrated UFO incident to have a rather
more mundane foundation.
In 'Rendlesham Unravelled' - see:
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/rend2.htm
I wrote:
"Warren's tales have grown in the telling over the years, as
illustrated by an early statement, not to my knowledge
previously published, which he made whilst then under the
pseudonym of 'Art Wallace'.
He wrote: "In March of 1981, I met in the room of a Sgt. Bustina
[Note: should be Bustinza] and two other people we discussed
what had happened reassuring each other that we had seen what we
saw...
They told me about the underground facility and the UFO store
down in that facility also about a number of other things I
probably should not ever go into.
I don't know if it's true or if it isn't true but they certainly
seemed to believe it and I didn't have any reason not to believe
it, seeing the high strangeness of the events that we had
experienced together anything I would have believed".
What was the catalyst that resulted in Warren subsequently
believing it was all true?
Enter Budd Hopkins...
Having been placed in the requisite, apparent, hypnotic trance
by Hopkins, Warren not only 'recalled' these events reportedly
taking place, he was now fundamentally involved in them himself.
However, that's not the full story and I can exclusively reveal
in this newsletter that Warren was previously hypnotised, with
significantly different results.
I'm assuming it was previous to Hopkins involvement because of
the content and I don't know who the hypnotist was. I do however
have a copy of the full transcript which has, to my knowledge,
never before been published.
It's simply headed, 'Larry Warren - Regression' and this was
conducted by someone identified throughout as "Pat". If anyone
can confirm this person's identity and date the transcript,
please let me know.
One of the notable differences from this 'regression' is how
Warren remains adamant he was never in the underground facility
- this was merely a story he heard. For example:
Pat: I want you to tell me about the underground facility you
were taken to. Can you describe it to me?
Larry: No.
Pat: Why?
Larry: There were other guys who went to that.
Pat: Didn't you go too.
Larry: No.
Pat: You didn't go?
Larry: No.
Pat: How do you know they were taken and you weren't? Did anyone
tell you?
Larry: I don't know what happened. [End]
However, Warren's participation in the alleged events
underground, particularly his telepathic communication with
unseen alien entities there, became a mainstay of his published
story.
In 'Left at East Gate', co-authored by Warren and Peter Robbins,
Warren claims he was kept in this underground facility for some
two days, emerging bewildered into the sunlight on 31 December,
1980.
In the book, Warren mistakenly identifies the date of his
adventures in Rendlesham forest as the night/early hours of the
28/29 December, 1980. There's no debate his claims relate to
events which took place on 27/28 December and which involved Lt.
Col. Halt and others. Warren mentions several occurrences from
his alleged participation which tie in with a number of other
confirmed facts from that night.
I'm not sure if anyone else has spotted the connection with two
messages Warren states he heard over the radio:
"Then I heard a radio transmission: 'You people have to avoid
these hot spots. Remember they're marked, October Number One.
Over'. I knew the code October One meant first officer on site.
[...]
The radios were active. I could hear what sounded like pilot
communications. Someone reported over the air: 'Here it comes.
Here it comes. Here it comes'." [End]
In fact, these are almost certainly snippets from the
communications which Halt recorded on his microcassette that
same night, namely:
1. HALT: The sample...you're going to mark this sample number
one...have them cut it off, and include some of that sap and
all...is between indentation two and three on a pine tree about
five feet away, about three and a half feet off the ground.
[...]
HALT: Same place where the spot is, we're getting a heat...
[...]
HALT: This is strange. Here, someone wanna look at the spots on
the ground? Whoops, watch you don't step...you're walking all
over 'em. OK, let's step back and not walk all over 'em.
2. HALT: 03:15. Now we've got an object about 10 degrees
directly south, 10 degrees off the horizon. And the ones to the
north are moving. One's moving away from us.
VOICE: Moving out fast.
VOICE: This one on the right's heading away, too.
HALT: They're both heading north. Hey, here he comes from the
south, he's coming toward us now. [End]
Not 'October Number One', it was 'sample number one' and not
pilots, but Halt and company in the forest. Warren does mention
the presence of Halt and others, the light-alls which wouldn't
work (they were notoriously unreliable) and officers who seemed
to have come straight from a function (Halt had been called away
from the officer's belated Christmas party).
In the aforementioned statement made under the pseudonym of 'Art
Wallace', Warren dates the UFO incident as 29 December. In the
'regression', Pat seems to think it was the 30th and tells
Warren:
"Your mind is very sharp.
[...]
Now I am going to count from five to one. On each descending
number you are going deeper. You are going further back in time.
When you hear the number one it will be December 30, 1980. Your
memory will be very sharp. Your images and visions will be very
clear...
It is December 30, 1980 and I want you to give me detailed
descriptions of today's events...". [End]
Warren then describes his UFO encounter which actually took
place, if at all, two days previous.
This does seems to prove how unreliable 'memories' recalled
under hypnosis can be. Whilst Warren should have been recounting
an unrelated event, he's clearly focused on telling the UFO
anecdote.
Perhaps most interesting of all is that when Warren is similarly
asked to detail the events of December 29th, he states, "I have
the day off. I went to see a football game. Not too much to do".
Yet according to 'Left at East Gate', Warren would actually have
had his traumatic UFO encounter by this time and apparently
spent the 29th in that underground tunnel, the drugged captive
of a nefarious 'cover up'.
Instead, he may well have been watching Ipswich Town, his
favourite local football team.
On Saturday 29th December, 1980, Ipswich Town did indeed play at
home, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0.
It's a pity that Pat didn't ask him who was playing and what the
score was - it would have been interesting to see if Warren
could remember this accurately!
Pat's 'regression' is expansive and in his account of the UFO
incident Warren mentions some intriguing details which I've
never seen him refer to elsewhere. I'll have to leave it aside
for now, this requires further thought and the study of a local
Ordnance Survey map. It's frustrating not knowing if any of this
particular account is reliable. It's highly detailed and
certainly different in some respects from that published in
Warren's book.
Pat also 'regresses' Warren to the 27th December, the factual
night of any involvement he had.
Extraordinarily, Warren tells Pat that on the 27th he went to a
club called 'The Loft', near Wickham Market, some "five miles
from the base".
Asked what happened afterwards, Warren, apparently in the
company of "Steve" and "the new kid, Dean", recalls how their
car hit some black ice and skidded off the road and eventually
they "went back to base".
The transcript then reads:
Pat: What time is all this happening?
Larry: 2:30.
Pat: What happened now?
Larry: We went to bed. [End]
A fascinating insight and perhaps offering a notable case study
into the reliability of 'regressive hypnosis'.
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