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minute earlier. Not longafterward,a lone figure loomed out of the darkness, stumbling over the ploughed earth towards us. Peter was back."Its your mate," he whispered to me urgently. "Hes passed out."
renda Butler paused at the barbed-wire fence separating us from the field where the spaceship had landed.It was 2am.In the gloom I could just see the outline of the 60-year-old grandmother and UFO expert as she watched her partner,Peter,disappear into the darkness. He had gone in search of Marek, another ofour party; who had stepped over the barrier and walked into the field a

It is Britains most celebrated UFO encounter:the sighting in 1980 ofalien craft in a Suffolk forest. Now,it has been revealed that the Government tried to hush up the affair. So what, asks MARK LUCAS, really happened in the strange case ofthe Rendlesham Incident?
electrical equipment. In the last few minutes of the tape, at around 2am, the men start to see lights moving through the trees.Their initial composure suddenly gives way to breathless panic: "Its coming this way. Its definitely coming this way... Theres something very, very strange,"says the deputy commander at one At 3.15am,the light-show is still going on as Halt exclaims:"Herehe comesfrom the south! Hes coming in towards us now!" Right beside him, another officer says: "Shit!",and a moment later,beams oflight start hitting the ground around them. "This is unreal," Halt gasps.
Haltg patrol of four officers assessing the site of a suspected landing,checking radiation levels and having trouble with their

Half a mile behind us, down the Forestry Commission logging-road known as track 10,was RAF Woodbridge. This smaIl Second World War airfield used by the US Air Force until 1993, hidden in the depths of Rendiesham Forest, in Suffolk, had been back in the news recently after two decades of with the release of the Ministry of Defences Rendlesham Files. Now available for public inspection, the files contain information about Britains most celebrated UFO sighting; their release was followed on Monday by the parliamentary ombudsmans announcementthat the MoD had repeatedly suppressed information aboutwhat had happened in the forest.Particular secrecy has surrounded a "restricted file", the contents of which have been whispered about for years. Over. three nights around Christmas 1980, it is said, several spaceships visited the airbase after one of their number ran into trouble and had to stop and make repairs. What makes the Rendlesham Incident unique is the subsequently released memorandum from the bases deputy commander,Lt corCharles to the Ministry of Defence. In the memo, Halt, who was later promoted to full described how two airmen,investigating strange lights in the forest)came across a "metallic,glowing object", which "manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared", whereupon the animals on a nearby farm went "into a frenzy". Two nights later, he reported,the object returned. Halt was out in the forest with a patrol when they sawa "red,sun-like object". After they had followed the light through the trees, it divided i11to five, and part of it "beamed down a stream of light from time to time". Here, at last, was the evidence thatthe ufologist commmty had been waiting for: official endorsementofan extraterrestrial encounter. On the third night, Halt made atape on his micro-cassette recorder, covering several hours on just less than 19 minutes of tape. The greater part is taken up by

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Almost 22 years have passed since the Rendlesham Incident,butthe enthusiasm ofufologists has only intensified in thattime, with one author caIling the area "BlackHole DIsneyland",Several books and hundreds ofwebsites about the events either confirm Rendleshams status in the international ufologist community as being second only to Roswell in importance, or debunk the notion that anything out ofthe ordinary pened at The first book to be published, entitled Skycrash, was co-written by my guide on the expedition into the forest, Brenda Butler, who has spent two or three nights a week outin Rendlesham Forest since the alleged landing. I had phoned Butler, who could hardly be described as a sceptic, in the hope of discovering more about this tantalising chapter in the history ofUFO sightings and official secrecy. But it soon became apparent thatI would need someone to show me the landmarks in the 3,500-acre forest, so I asked ifI could accompany her on one of her sky-watches. As their popularity had increased,she had had to divide the group into two parties that patrolled different

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areas ofRendlesham;shewashappyfor me to join hers. On the nIght we were due to I had been fortiJYing myself at a party when I ran into a hypnopsychotherapist, Marek Sinski. When the quietly intense 40year-old learnt of my plans, he expressed a strong desire to come along, too. We met Butler at midnight beside the barrier to track 10. Behind me was the perimeter fenceofthe airfield; the disused runway lights loomed into the night sky. Ahead,the logging-road stretched awaylike a canyon, with its black waIls of 70ft-tall Corsican pines. By the dull glow of a cars interior I could make out the small, dark woman surrounded by three reguiars on her sky-watches Terry, Paul and Jonathan and her partner, Peter Parish. Her German shepherd,Mason, galloped around us, chasing his ball. As we set offdown track 10on Butler spoke, in her soft Suffolk accent, of some of the experiences she had had here, seeing glowing orbs and meeting extraterrestrials. "Lastyear, the yeti was down here," she said matter-of-factly, "looking very, very sad." The yeti, she explained, had followed the group on many occasions: "Wehad somepeople from BIackPool down here, and they also saw him. He freaked them out, actually." Butler indicated a drain cover to our right. "It leads to an underground instal- "Thisis Larry Warrens landing-place," Butler declared, Indicating a field. It was then that Sinski stepped over the barbed-wire fence and strode purposefully into the darkness.

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lation," she said. One day she was sitting on top of it when she "lost" four hours, a phenomenon known as missing time. We turned down a side-track.After a hundred yards, Parish led the way into the undergrowth off to the sIde, and we scurried through, bent over.to avoid low branches, which we politely warned one another and only straightening up when we emerged into a clearing. JIThis",said Butler; "is Colonel Halts landing-place." We sat in silence, contemplating the events thattook place there more than two decades ago:Halt andhis fellow officers had been taking radiation readings and measuring imprints in the ground when they suddenly saw a bright light moving near "Whatcan you feel?" Butler asked. My new friend Sinski broke the silence. jlIts strong, isnt it?" he said. Butlers dog, Mason, began dashing around us, growling happily.."He always goes mad where theres energy or theres been contact," she remarked.(IOnseveral occasions hes been chased by strange lights which engulf him." Her online journal goes into more detail: "Mason had disappeared for several minutes",it states,of one typical evening,"during the time when Brenda spoke in an unknown language.He returned covered in red, green and blue fibre-optic-type lights,and licked each person,still in the circle, by placing his paws on their shoulders." Leaving ColHalts place,we returned to the smallavenue,veering right toward track 12. As we walked in single file along the narrow pathway,I asked Butler about her life. She had been a shetold me, with her own circle, and had been involved "in a lot of things paranormal, ghosts, poltergeists" ever since being contacted by an alien named Ra when she was five. "Ive been abducted on several occasions," she added.Her kidnappers,she had learnt since undergoing regressive hypnosis) were the "greys" ({classic" small allens. She now worked in a home forpeople with learning difficulties. We came out into a clearing at the edge of the forest and saw the flash of the Orfordness lighthouse on the horizon.

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youre a bit strange?"I asked her. She cheerfully dismissed my suggestion. "Idont care what they think," she replied. "Its better than sitting at home drinking coffee and watching television day in, day Butiflwas finding things weird,Sinski was taking to it all like a duck to water. When Butlers partner came out of the field to tell us thatthe psychotherapist had passed out, ufologists were quickly dispatched to carry him back,but he returned with them on foot without saying a word, and in the awkwardness ofthe situation,we found ourselves moving on. As we struggled through a dense patch ofundergrowth,I recalled the 1956Incident in which up to 18objects apparently combined to form a single radar echo,which was then clocked, and wiinessed from the air and on land,doing roughly 12,OOOmph over the airbase and wondered why UFOs were rarely seen nowadays. Yourejoking,arent you?"Butler asked, before telling me about her last sighting, ;:"!,,,,,:.-; less than three weeks previously. Unfortunately,her partner had turned his flashlight on the spaceship, and it had disappeared. "I wont be doing that again," he told me,sheepishly. As we headed down track 12, Butier explained why she had had contact there. "Theres a portal," she said: "they come i! through on interdimensional energy." On occasion,the ETs had pulled her put things in her pockets and hit Parish on the back of the head. One night, the Dark Shadow pushed her backward,and she fell

tiny ETs dressed in white jumpsuits!" she exclaimed."Ive seen them myselfl" "Doyou ever worry thatpeople may think

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over onto her partner,who collapsed on top "We have a of their companion, laugh with them," she said. At 3am,we returned to the Woodbridge runway lights at track 10. Leaving Butler deep in conversation about UFO organisations finances with the second group, which had appeared from track I,Sinski and I walked over to our cars, discussing the nights events.There was a hesitancy in his manner, but finally he leant toward me: "Somethingvery important happened here touight,"he told me,though an explanation would have to wait until morning. Driving home, I pondered the various theories that had been used to explain the incidents,mostly bypeople who werent sent. Georgina Bruni, author of the most recent book about the events,You Carrt ThU the People,believes that there were three nights of activity, with a full-blown close encounter ofthe third kind.At the other end ofthe spectrum is Ian Ridpath,editor ofThe O:ifard Dictionary of Astronomy. In his view,excited airmen were merely chasing the beam ofthe Orfordness lighthouse,and the starlike objects of Halts memo "were just that - stars."

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Daily Mail, Saturday, January 11,2003

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Seconds later the windows and doors begin to shake violently and the four-year.old announces to his mother, father and elder brother: Theyre waiting for me.I have to Jasons father, Paul, grabs his son and stops him from walking out into the downpour,but the boy.struggles violently, and as he does so the house shakes to its very foundations until, finally, he seems to wake from a trance and the shaking stops. It is the first sign that Jason Andrews is no

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times its a circular room with a metal floor. Its always cold. Theyre there. The big one touches me but I dont feelit,like as ifIve had an anaesthetic. Then he added poignantly: But you dont believe me,you just think Im making It all In fact, Ann d believe him,and went on to explore the phenomena affecting her sons life uncompliin a book, Abducted. This decent,conclusion catedwife and mother came to the not be alone. that we may Now, the rest of the world may be about to agree with her. After five decades of ridicule, official denials and alleged cover-ups, the possibility that aliens may have visited Earth is beginning to be taken seriously and not just by sci-fi fanatics and UFO freaks. Scientific researchers are increasingly convinced that thin,grey-skinned beings about 4ft tall, with large almond-shaped eyes set In an oval, hairless, head, may not on earth, but only have landedhuman bE1ingshave for also abducted bizarre experiments;whlle all the time there has been an official conspiracy to keep their visits secret. Tonight American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, the man who brought the world Close Encounters OfThe Third Kind and ET,will bring those convictions and aliens to life in his new mini-series, Taken, on BBC2.

Nowevery single opinion poll on the subject shows that millions of people Last June, was announced that Bonnybridge in Scotland boasted more UFO sight.lngsthan any other place ii1 the world, . a: Sky News poll showed 65per cent of its viewers believed in UFOs. In one of Five years earlier

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This thne the aliens he is depicting mixture of fact, are not trying to phone home theyre here to subvert, and ultimately control,the human race. the story of how aliens And the new TV series,his first since affected the lives of three the award-winning Band OfBr.othe~0"9 . American families over the past half" century. A massive hit in the U.S., where it I thought I couldnt do justice to was broadcast on consecutive nights this genre in a two-hour movie, - last month, Spielbergs series is the Spielberg explains. more time to do Wewould need a lot most expensive TV science faction drama ever made with a budget of justice to the hist ry of alien abducmore than f25million and its cer- tions, starting back in 1947 Iht tain to re-ignite public debate on this through to forever-contentious subject. Watching the first episodes,its clear But surely all this talk of aliens is that Spielberg has done everything In far-fetched? As a natural sceptic,Ive his power to create a fictional series always believed so, but over the past on the edge of fact. This is no weeks and montbs of reviewing the sci-fi comic book, no Invasion Of The evidence Ive come to the conclusion Body Snatchers, but a compelling that it does, in fact, warrant the and all-too-plausible drama. closest investigation. British UFO expert Mike Soper, of There certainly seems to have been Contact International,is as convinced an official conspiracy to keep the as Spielberg that alien abductions have happened. facts secret. In the past few months,for example, firm evidence about unexplained events connected with Unidentified TELLING fact Is that there Flying Objects (UFOs)and extraare features common to all the terrestrial phenomena has begun to peoples stories, he maintains. as governappear for the first time Theyall remember being taken ments around the world have released to a craft, and often talk about previously secret documents. And, for the first time, politicians being "examined". something being Many talk about have started to admit that evidence and when on the .possibility of extraterrestrial "implanted"in their bodies,triangular they return they often have life has been concealed. example, marks on their bodies and arent In October last year, for wearing exactly former White House Chief of Staff were before the the same clothes they abduction. John Podesta, who worked for PresiMinistry of Defence civil servant gov- Nick dent Clinton, called on the Pope,37,agrees. ernment to de-classify records that Abductions most definitely do are more than 25 years old and to he says. And although provide scientists with data that will occur, "alien abductions" is a the gift to in detelJIlinlng the real phrase assist them those people who want to deride it, nature ofthis phenomenon. people four years ago, fOlJIler Prime these are genuine, ordinarybeen in Only Minister Baroness Thatcher hinted to who believe that they have situations. British UFO researcher Georgina Bruni extraordinaryman with an anorak and Pope isnt a that there was considerable secret inf lJIl tion on the subject, adding mysteriously:Youcant tellthe no interest in aliens at all until 1991, when the MoD asked him investigate reports ofUFOs,alien abductions and was so struck by the other strange phenomena. The 100 or so people I interviewed remark that she used it as the title for her 2001 book on alien about being abducted by aliens sightings in Suffolk in 1980. werent publicity seekers merely after Shortly afterwards, former their 15 minutes oUame,he explains. I came to the conclusion that some Tory Secretary of State for Defence Michael Portillo also confided to her of thes.e people had to be -telling just one on the sUbject:I know a lot,but I tell the truth. And Ifis true, theof the impliabductees reports a little. cations for the human race would be After a campaign by Bruni and other researchers, the Government last profound and disturbing. convince One person who helped to month released scores of secret files on UFO sightlngs.1n this country, all Pope was 37-year-old British-born of which suggest that aliens can no make-up artist Bridget Grant, whom longer be dismissed merely as the he met seven years ago. She addressed an audience of 750 product of fevered imaginations. Certainly the majority of the pUblic people at theBritish UFO conference now seem to believe that aliens do in Leeds in 2001, where she talked exist.As the editor ofthe British UFO about her own abduction. She

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.in recent years. However, as sceptics point put, there have neen so many depictions of space creatures" with dome heads and that it is hardly large oval eyes this has becomesurprisin!> that somethIng of a stereotype. When Spielberg was researching the aliens for Close Encounters, he held lengthy consultations With the veteran American Dr J Allen Hynek a astronomer once-fierce critic of UFOs and alien phenomena who changed his mind completely after he became a tant on the Subject for the consulUnited States Air Force. . Hynek assembled the tive American dossierauthoritaonalien encounters, Project Blue Book, and advised Spielberg what aliens looked like. But the idea that rather than green little grey with elongated fingers, legsmen,neck, and may actually have visited this country still far-fetched sounds incredibly until yoU talk to Georgina Bruni. When I interviewed Lady Thatcher a few Bruni explains, I was years describing to her the fact that U.S. military personnel here in Britain had reportedly had contact with aliens, and an alien spacecraft, in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk in December 1980. I expected her to tell me that Id been watching too many episodes of the X Files. But she didnt shocked at all. Shejust said, look "You cant tell the people." twice:
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After several months, Tizard reported that all were explicable the sightings by natural events, although shortly afterwards the Government explicitly banned RAF personnel from discussing sightings not from the military. with anyone The U.S. Government adopted a shnilar pOlicy of had secrecy five years earlier, official in the wake of a spate of incidents near the U.S. Air Force base at Roswell, New Mexico, in July incidents that Spielberg1947 as uses starting point for his TV series. his And so the modern history of UFOs, aliens and officisl Coverups was born. British UFO researcher Randles, who has spent Jenny than 20 years investigatingmore UFO and alien Phenomena, maintains that in more recent times alien kidnapping has become much more common. An ever growing suspect that they tide of people abductees, she says.may be alien So is it fact or fiction? certain, but the evidenceIm not of nesses such as Jason Andrews witand Bridget Grant is hard to ignore. And its clear that, as the 21st century begins, opinions are changing. The Government announced recently that it was open-minded about the existence or otherWise of extraterrestrial life forms a markediy different official position from the one taken half a century ago. Perhaps the politicians are beginning to not alone. accept that we are certainJy does.Steven Spielberg

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shower in August 1993. It cast considerable doubt on this being an artificially prepared formation." His findings prompted further scientific research into crop circles. George Bishop, a journalist.turned-circle specialist at the Centre for Crop Circle Studies in London,believes that, despite the claims of Bower and Chorley, oniy 3.5 per cent of all circles are man.made and adds that possibly as many as 60 per cent of crop circles are never discovered. British researcher Colin Andrews insists that 20 per cent of all found circles "defy reasonable explanation",

but this is an estimate without substantial proof. Andrews conducted a four-year study in which he measured the Earths magnetic field in and around crop circles. He asserted that there was a magnetic flux present in the circles he researched and claimed they were not man-made. Andrews also said he was convinced something unresolved lies behind the many cases of "anomalous magnetic phenomena" such as spinning compass needles inside crop circles,
unusual failures of electronic equipment and radio frequency interference. The circles created by the hoaxers are

severely undermining the work being carried out by the likes of the BLT (Burke,Levengood and Talbot) crop circle research team in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is dependent on 700 volunteers worldwide. According to director Nancy Talbot, "The hoaxers work and talk about UFOs is threatening to deter scientists from concerning themselves with the circles. There are clues here that we need to

take seriously." Colin Andrews is waging his own war against the hoaxers, having launched a campaign to hunt them down. His methods include detective work, site inspections, physical evidence, aerial photography, personal experiences and information from members of the media who have paid to have artificial circles created by groups such as tbe three-strong Circlemakers, who

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the length of which is half the diameter of the formation. The vortex is created this way and perfect circles emerge. The artists measure exactly where each of them has to start and then work their way toward each other. The flattening technique is as follows: "Place each stem between thumb and forefinger and stroke until it starts to bend. When the stems are bent at a right angle about two inches from thi r base, place each sheaf at the centre of each proposed circle. If this service is not performed, a greater ratio of breakage \vill occur: "Cerealogists who find a sheaf of sharply-cut stems \vithin the finished formation tend to see this as a sign of genuineness," say the Circlemakers. Once theyve completed their . handiwork, the makers justhave to hope that it gets spotted within a few

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yles Formby,our Ministry ofDefence flying- saucer hunter-in- chief, was, and is, a fluent linguist, proficient in Chinese. A career RAP officer, during the war he worked in intelligence,and . .flew small planes with secret . dispatches in the Far After the war he became an expert on Russian aircraft which was why he was chosen to track down flying saucers. The frrst time the words flying saucer were used was by an Ameri an pilot in 1947, who reported seeing strange shapes skimming across the sky in front ofhim at remarkable speed, like a saucer would .if. you skipped it across the water. Soon everyone was seeing them,in Britain as well as America. And when RAP officers started seeing them t o, the authorities had to start taking an interest. The Cold War was at its says Clarke. People expected a Russian attackdaily. And they did not know what new sorts ofplanes the Russians might have. There was a real fear that the Soviets might have captured German .experimental planes from the last days of WorldWar IT. And some of the experic mental German rocket-plane desigus really did look like round circular saucer-shapes - who knows what their performance might have been? So when reports of strange, (ast-rnoving saucer shapes in the sky began to appear, military authorities did not fearit was aliens from outer space: they feared it was the Russians. Which accounts.for the choice of Wing Commander Formby to investigate them. There were not only strange lights and shapes in the sky; strange objects were appearing on radar screens as well - and radar was our first line of defence should World War ill break There were all kinds of hair-trigger incidents, says Roberts. In one, a warplane was scrambled and ordered to fire all its rockets at a UFO th t suddenly appeared ou radar sCreens over Suffolk. The pilot, with the target in his sights and his radar locked on to it, was seeking final authorisation to

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A spokesman said: "This confirms that Scotland is the nearest thing there is to the Costa del Sol for aliens."
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The area became known as the "Falkirk triangle" and other "sightings" have been recorded in neighbouring West Lothian.
Bonnybridge councillor Billy Buchanan has called for a UFO visitors centre to be built in the village.

Stirling-based UFO writer Ron Halliday said: "When you think of the number of sightings in Scotland compared to the size of its population, it is phenomenaL"
Of the Bonnybridge "phenomenon", he said: "One theory is that the area around Bonnybridgeissome kind of window into another dimension.

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"People are not so much seeing little green men as little grey men, tall grey men and different varieties of types."
Mr Halliday said it was important to emphasise that although there had been many reports of sightings, it was impossible to say that every one was an alien entity.

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The remarkable apparition was reported in 1955 by a bricklayer called Briggs. In a sIgned statement, he told how he had spotted the flying saucer while on his way to work at Broadlands, Mountbattens country residence in Hampshire. Briggs described how he had dismounted from his bicycle as the saucer hovered, and was amazed to see a tube descend from its centre.A platform appeared in the tube,conHe was wearing a dark suit or tamIng a overalls and a close-fitting helmet. As he watched, Briggs was suddenJy overcome by an unseenforce which caused him to stumble.The tube retracted into the flying saucer, which suddenJy shot straight up into the sky and disappeared. Later, the flying saucer and its occupant returned. Communicating via telepathy, the alien being invited Briggs on board and whisked him off to see the Egyptian pyramids a round trip that lasted just ten minutes. Before he was returned to Hampshire the allens told the bricklayer: IfLord Mountbatten met us, he cotd change the Sceptics might have their own view of this tale, but Mountbatten himself was fascinated. His personal records show that he

alien craft was shaped like a cross between an upturned saucepan and a childs spinning top. It was 20 to 30 feet in diameter, the colour of aluminium,with portholes around the side. And it was hovering over the home of Lord Louis Mountbatten, one of the most senior members of the British Royal Family.

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visited the scene of the sighting. They found marks in the snow consistent with Briggs account of his movements, but there was no evidence ofthe UFOs visit. But the very fact that Mountbatten took so much trouble to check out the story speaks volumes about the seriousness with which he and other members of the Royal Family and military elite took the whole strange subject of extra-terrestrial activity. A we will see,those who came to share his interest included the Battle of Britain mastermind Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding,the British Army general Sir Frederick BoyBrowning, and most astonishingly of all- Mountbattens nephew, Prince Philip,the Duke of Edinburgh. By the early Fifti s, a significant number of this discreet gentlemans club had become convinced that Earth was under observation by allens. To this day; Prince Philip has every issue of the magazine F1ying Saucer Review sent to and once him at Bucklngham Palace appointed an equerry as his personal UFO investigator.

THE story of the British Establishments interest in UFOs really begins in World War II, when pilots first began to report what became known as foo-fighters mysterious lights in the sky that resem-

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not a form of aeroplane from another planet but the actual inhabitants ofthat planet! Sensing the media headlines which sensational statements such as these wotd produce, Mountbatten asked Eade to keep his private opinions out of the newspapers. I know this sounds ridiculous and I am relying on you as a very old and loyal friend not to make any capital out of the fact that I have put forward such a far-fetched explanation.

For years, however,the question was hushed up and UFO investigators couId find no official documentation. It was onJy in 1986 that proof of RAF sightings emerged when the late.Goon Show star MichaelBentine,a formerintelligence officer with Bomber Command, spoke of debriefing crews who told of lights which were pulsating and had flown round the aircraft. Infact,such reports had long been taken with great seriousness within military circles partictarly in the years after the war, as fears grew about the threat from the Soviet Union. Some experts believed the saucers cotd be advanced

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Soviet aircraft. Mountbatten belonged to a small group ofhigh-ranking militarypersonnelwho believed flying saucers were from another world. He began collecting reports of sightingsusing his contacts in the armed services. His theories a\wut their origins were clear in letters he wrote to his friend Charles

Eade, editor.of the Sunday Dispatch, one ofthe poptar newspapers ofthe day. These extraordinary things have now been seen in almost every part of the world: Scandinavia, North America, South America, Central Europe, he wrote. It seems clear that the overwhelming weight of opinion from every part of the world will show that some new thing definitely exists which is capable of flying at very slow speed,or even perhaps of hovering and accelerating at an unheard-of speed several times the speed of sound. . The available evidence will show that they are not of human agency, that is to say If they do not come from thatis so,then presumably they must comefrom,",ome heavenly . body,probably a Mountbatten believed that the UFOs shotd be seen as the intergalactic equivalent of contemporary aircraft. Maybe it is the Shackletons or Scotts ofVenus or Mars who are making their first exploration of he mused. our But he also suggested that the flying saucers might be the . alien life-forms themselves

describe how the. subject had been dismissed as nonsense, but many intelligent and distinguished people in all parts of the world are intensely Interested, and treat such reports very seriously indeed. Eade quoted from a letter he had received from one of the most famous men alive today, whom he cotd not name but who commands universal respect and admiration. It was a discussion with this mystery man,Eade said,which led to his decision to place before the readers of the Sunday Dispatch all that is known about the flying saucers and all the theories about them,no matter how sensational and fantastic.

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an explanation, however, wotd apparently fill all known cases in which the flying saucer has so far been seen. Despite his desire to conceal his own beliefs, Mountbatten was keen to persuade the public totake the sUbject seriously.He urged Eade to publish weekly articles about UFOs in order to

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ten and the effect ofl1is intervention was to prove dramatic. Following publication of these stories in the Dispatch; accounts of UFOs poured into newspaper offices across the British Isles. In hindsight, it is clear that the aggressive newspaper campaign played a huge part in creating the fascination with UFOs that was to grip the country for decades to come.

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meet an equally enigmatic woman named Mrs Markham at a flat in Chelsea. Arriving from Buckingham Palace one night in 1955, he was.ushered into a second-floor drawing-room on Smith Street occupied by a man referred to ouly asMrJanus. Janus asked Sir Peter to tell him everything he knew about UFOs. Sir Peter asked what was his inter est in the subject. The answer was simple: 1 would like to meet the Duke ofEdinburgh. Sir Peter and Mr Janus proceeded to discuss a variety of esoteric subjects, including how the flYing saucers were trying to save the Earth, and the perils which faced mankind as a result of technological progress.

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embroidered with Claims that the saucer was crewed by small men, probably under four feet tall. Kilgallen said the Government was holding back from issuing an official statement becauSe it does not want to frighten the public. She claimed her source was a BritiSh official of Cabinet rankwho wished to remain anonymous. Rumours went around that it was Mountbatten. Since Kilgallen was a well-known figure at high-society parties where she mixed with royalty and aristocrats, this was not totally implausible although it seems unlikely that Mountbatten wQuld have let slip state secrets to a gossip columnist over cocktails. After Kilgallen refused to elaborate on her story, UFO enthusiasts became convinced that she had been silencedby the EstabliShment.Her sudden and some claim mysterious death in 1965 added to their suspicions that there was a conspiracy to hide the truth about UFOs. Years later, Margaret Thatcher, would fuelthese cover-up theories. At a cocktail party in 1997, author Georgina Bruni claimed she discussed alien technology with the

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own personal audience with Mr Janus. But the alreadY surreal story took a further step into the twilight zone. For when Sir Peter tried to contact Mrs Markham, he found she had vaoished and his other contact, General Martin, suddenly became distant and evasive. Puzzled, Sir Peter retraced his steps to the Smith Street address where he had met Mr Janus and found it empty.Neighbours said its occupant had left in a hurry. Had he been the victim of an elaborate hoax designed to ensnare the Royals? Sir Peter remained convinced that he might actually have made contact With a visitor from another world. On one level, this and other accounts of royal and aristocratic involvement with the earJy development ofthe flying saucer myth may be read asjust celebrity gossip. But the influence of the BritiSh Establishment upon the formation of public opinion during the Fifties was immense, and should not be underestimated. Rightly or wrongJy,their endorse-

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on the unusual,the offbeat,the une>"1>laine, paranormal? Let me lie on this couch awh tell you.Well,maybe it makes me feel like a again.There is also the possibility that the v experience ofNovember 5,1976 the sigh the humiliation that followed it - intensme ability to empathise with people whom ma others would dismiss as crackpots.Ive beer bought the T-shirt:I know what its like to "Oh. Thanks." to unusual beliefs and to suffer mockery fOl When I went back outside to check on the sure that some ofthe more out-there progress ofthe object,it had gone.For some reason, ufologists Ive met would have another hypl my dear old mum thought it would be a good idea that the craft I saw landed in my street and] to get in touch with the local paper,the Crawley abducted by the aliens on board,that they Observer.Possibly for the same reason,I agreed, programmed me with a mission to enlighte without considering the consequences.A fi:iendly world about all kinds ofweird and wacky Sl, reporter chap sounded mildly interested and said and then erased my memory.Perhaps I shm someone might get back to me.He didnt say,"ifwe my head examined:it may contain an elabo: dont have any better news this week",but thats implant fashioned from an otherworldly m, what the cynical,grown-up part ofme hears now But I really dont think so.You see,althm; when I recall the conversation. experience was a defining moment,even pe There was a call for me at the office the following passport to an unusual career,I have grave d week.Was I the youngster whod seen the flying about its authenticity.I have tried over and saucer?Yes,I said,ifthats what it was.In the cold again to replay that memory,clean it up,br light ofday,I was on the point ofdisowning the to something approaching DVD quality,so experience and starting to clutch at rational determine exactly what I saw:Ive tried to re explanations.I also wished that I hadnt phoned the those moments through meditation,and paper.I gave a half-hearted and not terribly back there in dreams.I cant make myself 18 articulate interview,mumbling into the receiver lest even with a lengthy series ofhormone injec my story be heard by my work colleagues,many of its a tough one.But what follows is the best whom held diplomas in the art ofmickey-taking. It is already quite dark.The air is heavyw The reporter asked ifa photographer could call smoke from early bonfires and fIreworks.I c and take a picture."No;I said,"the UFOs not there probability,the Hanger Lane gyratory system had them popping and fizzing at regular intervi any more.It disappeared after several minutes."No,a been built by extra-terrestrial visitors.The movie attention is attracted by lights in the sky,abc picture ofme,the local hack patiently explained. Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind came out in rooftops.There is at least one red light,at lea "Oh, okay then;I must have said,because a snapper 1977,and I gorged on that as well. white light,and they are glowing and winkil duly turned up on the doorstep one evening.As a But like many adolescent enthusiasms,my eerily.The lights arent self-contained dots,I: Sunday Times writer I have had the pleasure of obsession inevitably waned.I put away childish in the air. Ifwhatever is responsible for the li working with some fIne photographers since,but things,grew up,switched my career tojournalism, making a noise,I cant hear it over the sound this guy had an imagination like no other."Could and eventuallyjoined The Sunday Times.In 1997, the bangers and rockets and roman candles. you pick up something round?"he asked."Like a the editor ofthis magazine,unaware ofmy former may explain why I told the local paper that tJ saucer? And look at it?"The nearest such object was life,spontaneously decided I wasjust the person to object was hovering "absolutely silently:) C a cheap ashtray with a photograph ofBlackpool fly to Roswell,New Mexico,to cover the 50th my neighbours is standing outside one ofth Tower in its centre,a souvenir from a distant holiday. anniversary ofthe legendary UFO crash there. houses nearby,but I cant bring myself to spe I held it up and smiled,and the flash went Roswell was the assignment I was born I had him or her;my memory doesnt make it enti "ThatUFO was no fIrework;ttumpeted the already done half ofthe research,unwittingly,in my clear who they are or what sex they are. (My Observer,above the picture ofme and the ashtray. teens.The town was packed with nutters in alien reluctance to speak to this neighbour may bl The anonymous reporter had had some easy fun suits,and earnest ufologists arguing the toss about on uncertainty as well as shock:I dont want with the story:i\ir traffic control at Gatwick spaceships and weather balloons,and I could never share this experience until I have established missed the scoop ofa lifetime on Friday,when a go far without meeting someone who wanted to it really is an experience.I am also very shy.) UFO hovered overWest Green..:My age was discuss how alien technology was secretly used by I continue to watch the object for a fewn~ omitted,giving me an enigmatic village-idiot modern stealth bombers,or who needed to offioad It doesnt seem to be moving away from me I quality.Friends and co-workers went through the their own stories ofalien abduction.Some ofthese towards me,but hovering and wobbling fron whole pantomime ofridicule,the most repeatedjest tales made The X Files look like Bob the Builder. side.It is at this point that I realise - or rather being that I must have "had a few:(I still have a And not only did I get to interview the celebrity believe that I am seeing something very Spl problem with this clich that alcohol is a potent abductee Whitley Strieber,author ofCommunion, begin to worry about alien landings.It has be hallucinogenic.When was the last time you "saw but we had an enjoyable ifabstruse argument about tough week at work,I hate programming things"after having one beer too many?) One ofmy time travel after he suggested that the Roswell craft computers and I need a break.Yippee,this is mothers female office colleagues looked at my had come from the far future ofour own world. and my life will never be the same again. photo and commented that I was a "nice-looking This was also my fIrst visit toAmerica.Imagine As special-effects designers know,ordinal lad",blithely ignoring the terrible threat ofalien that - your fIrst impression ofthe good 01US ofA can appear extraordinary when they are flitel invasion implicit in the isnt Manhattan,Disneyland or the Golden Gate through smoke.And,as good UFO investiga The sighting "has certainly increased my interest Bridge but a southern hick town in the desert, aware,everyday objects may appear alien whc in these things",I had told my interviewer."NowI with pictures ofblack-eyed "greys"gazing out from are viewed from unusual angles,and their tr<l; would like to find out more about it:True to my most of the shop windows. may not be perceived correctly.Ifa flying ma word,for months afterwards I read every ttashy Subsequent assignments have seen me hunting were travelling away from me,it might seem: paperback about UFOs and aliens I could get my for ghosts at the site ofthe Battle ofGettysburg, static or wobbling from side to side. hands on.The more I read,the more I was prepared attending pagan rituals in Britain,hanging out with The answer is so obvious.But I think Ive 1 to believe that not only were wejust one ofa Monster Raving Loonies,andjoining an aliendenial for a long time,because I so wanted th myriad ofintelligent races in the universe,but also loving religious group for nude meditation in experience to be truly supernatural.Reader, : that Stonehenge,the Egyptian pyramids and,in all Canada.Why,people frequently ask me,do I fixate really sorry.I think it was an aeroplane.

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5l3th Combat Support Group (CSG), which provided document management services to the Third Air Force; they had located a copy of the Halt memo. As the USAFs own copy had been "properly disposed of in accordance with Air Force Regulations," the copy now provided to Todd had been obtained by the CSG directly from the British government. 1 In April 1983, when British ufologist Jenny Randles and fellow investigators put questions to MoD department DS8, it was confirmed to them that "USAF personnel did see unusual lights" at RAF Woodbridge, but they were ambivalent about the existence of the memo from the commander of an American base on British soil- a document whose existence DS8 could not confirm or give Jenny permission to view, and yet here was Jenny in the MoD waving a copy she had obtained from Todd. This silence - or at least, reticence - was interpreted as a denial, giving rise to the view that something was being concealed. However, the MoD was indeed keeping a file on Rendlesham and now, thanks to the diligence of UFO historian and fortean researcher Dr David Clarke, it was released to him in May 2001. Clarke explains: Towards the end of the year 2000, an application was made under the present Code of Practice on Access to Government Information for a copy of the file, assembled by

two nights in December 1980,just after Christmas, strange lights were seen in Rendlesham forest, Suffolk, adjacent to the RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge airbases. The twin-base complex was operated by the American military as part of NATOs front-line defences. On both occasions, American personnel left the Bentwaters base to investigate the mysterious lights in the belief that an aircraft might have crashed. Disoriented and puzzled, their testimony, given sometime afterwards, has contributed to a widespread belief that the airmen had a close encounter with a UFO. While it was known that the Deputy Base Commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Halt, had sent a memo to the Ministry of Defence (MoD)about the disturbing incidents, he never received any official reply and the Ministrys subsequent denial of- or at least silence on - the incidents fuelled suspicions among UFO believers that the MoD not only knew the truth about UFOs but was covering up prominent cases. The Rendlesham encounters and Col Halts memo, they argued, established that definitively. At long last, the Ministry of Defence has released its file on Rendlesham; in 155 pages, it chronicles the Ministrys own investigations of what happened on those two December nights 21 years ago. Unfortunately, for both conspiracy aficionados and UFO buffs, what is revealed by the MoDs internal documents could not be further removed from the cover up of an alien visitation. The close encounter first made headlines in 1983 when American researcher Robert Todd discovered the existence of Col Halts memo to the MoD and informed the UFO community. In the United States - where ufologists have had a long and successful run of requesting the release of government and military documents under their Freedom of Information Act Todd decided, in 1983, to make a speculative enquiry about the Rendlesham incidents. In time, he received a response from the

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Secretariat Air Staff 2a (the successor to DS8) on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident. In addition, a search was requested of other files that might contain documents relevant to the report from RAF Bentwaters." "According to the Ministry, the majority of the papers contained within came from one file that was assembled some time after the alleged event that opened with Halts memo and largely consisted of correspondence. Because the file appeared incomplete, the MoD carried out a search to identifY any other relevant papers from UFO files covering the same period, 1981-2. This search located a number of other documents relating to the incident that have now been placed within the original file opened in

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convinced this most famous British UFO case was fundamentally flawed. The first impression given by the newly-released MoD file is that it puts paid to the accusation that the British government was engaged in a UFO cover-up. This historic, official UFO file - containing over 150 secret docu. ments, demonstrates that the MoD did in fact spend some time investigating those purported Rendlesham forest UFOs even if the results seem pretty lacklustre. One of the first and most important results is independent confirmation of the dates of the two UFOincidents: the first beginning at around 0300 on the morning of 26 December and the second in night/early

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his memo, Halt describes the two events from his own recollection. On the first occasion, he writes, three patrolmen were given permission to investigate a possible aircrash "outside the back gate" of the Bentwaters base, adjacent to Rendlesham Forest. The patrolmen, Halt says, reported encountering a "strange glowing object in the forest," which was "metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three metres 10ft) across the base and approximately two metres high." The object, according to Halt, "had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath" and was "hovering or on legs." As the patrolmen approached, the object "manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared." The next night, Halt and others witnessed more "strange lights" they could not explain. "A red sun-like light was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed," he wrote. As both incidents centred on Rendlesham Forest and as this was outside the jurisdiction of the US Air Force, Halt says it had been deemed a matter for the Ministry to investigate. Halt never received any confirmation of receipt or further instructions. In the following years, the Rendlesham case received enormous publicity, being endlessly cited in a stream of books and TV documentaries as a double whammy, evi. dence of both the existence of UFOs and of a high-level cover-up. However, as time went by, a growing number of ufologists became

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morning of 27/28 December. (Halt erroneously records these as 27 and 29/30 December respectively.) Astonishingly, the file includes a letter from science writer and astronomer Ian Ridpath to DS8 in 1983 alerting them to the fact that Col Halt had recorded erroneous dates in his memo - dates that could have been confirmed, as Ridpath had found, from local police records. When DS8 wrote to an RAF officer at the base to check Ridpaths claim, the officer chose to accept Halts dates over Ridpaths. As Dr Clarke notes: "The MoDs assessment that the UFO events reported to them by Lt Col Halt were of "no defence significance" was flawed because their analysis of radar data was concentrated upon incorrect dates!" How could Halt have been so mistaken? Its a question which I may be the only person ever to have raised, albeit by On 13 May 1997, American journalist Salley Rayl interviewed Halt and kindly asked on my behalf: "We received an e-mail earlier in the day from a fellow by the name of James Easton who lives in Scotland and apparently has been researching this case during recent months. One thing that he mentioned, and a question that I would like to pass on to you, is why have there been variances in the dates given for both incidents? Your memo claims that the dates were on the evening/early morning of the 26th/27th and 29th/30th of December, respectively. But elsewhere, in interviews, the dates have been given as 25 to 26 and 28 to 29, he says. So why, why are there differences in those dates" Halt replied: "Well, I tried ro go back and recover the police blotter and the security blotter - I think I mentioned to you earlier - to reaffirm the dates. Keep in mind, I wrote the memo several weeks later. And it was not a really important memo. The date was not critical. The critical portion was, you know, what halpened and are you interested) And how about getting involved and lets investigate this. Its possible that I, I put the date down wrong. But I dont believe so. I tried to verify later and the police blotters had been taken

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Halt didnt take statements from any of the witnesses until a full week after the events. He told Sally Rayl that this delay was due to the holiday period: "Around New Years Eve, I took statements and interviewed the men who had taken part in the initial incident." I acquired these statements in 1998 and revealed them first, exclusively, on the Intetnet. 2 Four of the five statements agree and verify the date of the first incident as 26 December, so there should never have been any confusion. If, as Halt stated to Rayl, he attempted to substantiate the correct dates before sending his memo, why did he not refer to the testimonies he had personally obtained from the witnesses? In his memo, Halt informed the Ministry that following a sighting of "unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge" a patrol was allowed to "check it out." He wrote: "Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The on-duty flight chief responded and allowed three patrolmen to proceed on foot. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest."

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there were a fire inside. All the windows were bright red and sort of flickering and I was quite concerned for the occupants of the house." During the past year, local researcher Robert McLean managed to retrace, on more than one occasion, Halts route from the microcassette notes Halt made in the forest that night. McLean easily located the same farmhouse and was able to see for himself the house on fire effect. It is, he says, "quite an effective iIlusion" but is only a result of local lighting conditions. Halts memo goes on to describe the "beacon light": "The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three metres across the base and approximately two metres high. It iIluminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it man uvred through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back
gate."

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three patrolmen, Airman Ed Cabansag, it seems the "strange glowing object" was a farmhouse,. The group had entered the forest thinking "it had to be an aircraft accident" and walked at least two miles (3.2km), trying to get to a vantage point that would clarify this light in the distance. "Our route through the forest and field was a direct one, straight towards the light," he continues. "We figured the lights were coming from past the forest, since nothing was visible as we passed through the woody forest. We could see a glowing near the beacon light, but as we got closer we found it to be a lit-up farmhouse." Indeed, it was the same glowing farmhouse at Capel Green which alarmed Halt during the second incident. When the UFO was reported again the next night, he ventured into Rendlesham forest in search of

The testimony of the three security patrolmen seems be at odds with Halts account. Not one of them describes a triangularshaped object in their statements. StaffSergeant Jim Penniston was the only one who claimed to have seen what he believed to be a metaIlic object, associated with the lights. His original written account describes

how he was never able to get closer than 50 metres (160f)to the elusive source, which his accompanying sketch clearly showed to be box-shaped. Pennistons account changed radically after he underwent regressive hypnosis. Contrary to his earlier testimony, he began to claim the object was triangularshaped. Significantly, however, the final member of that patrol, Airman First Class John Burroughs, was adamant they never observed a craft, merely some lights which implied an object was there. Cabansags statement refers only to some unfamiliar lights, the origin of which was never resolved, except for the "beacon light" - quite a different scenario from the one outlined in Halts memo. (When I contacted him recently, John Burroughs stiIl maintains they saw only some anomalous lights.) In popular retellings of the Rendlesham encounters, the lights are said to man uvre through the trees before disappearing. But, as explained in Burroughs statement, the patrolmen saw the lights next to a farmhouse before they were lost from sight: "We got up to a fence that separated the trees from the open field and you could see the lights down by a farmers house. We climbed over the fence and started heading towards the red and blue lights and they just disappeared. Once we reached the farmers house we could see a beacon going around, so we went towards We followed it for about two miles before we could see it was coming from a lighthouse." Then, said Burroughs, "We had just crossed a creek and were told to come back when we saw a blue light to our left in the trees. It was only there for a minute and it just streaked away. After that, we didnt see anything so we returned to the truck." Conspicuously absent in Halts memo is the story of how that lighthouse played a role in those first and formative UFO perceptions. The "blue light" which seemed to "streak away" is the sole basis for Halts contention that, "The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate." If the Ministry had also been advised by Halt that the tiny pulsating light (confirmed by Halt to Sally Rayl) he personally observed within Rendlesham forest, was seen again "clear off to the coast" (documented in his microcassette recording), the entire context

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Left at East Gate. McLean also obtained aerial Senior Airman Kenneth shots of the locale and one of these, taken by Greene, stationed at RAF the depicts Warrens UFO landing site Bentwaters, recently told me about in It shows some discoloured areas the UFO which he and a fellow one of which appears to be circular - in the servicemen encountered, in 1978, field. However, this RAF aerial photograph on their way to Bentwaters one Halts official was taken in 1953 (27 years earlier) and the night for the midnight shift. "I was living off UFO report created much marks are interpreted by experienced aerial base at the time in a small town called excitement and optimism in reconnaissance folk as typical patterns Darsham, near Saxmundham, Suffolk. My the UFO community. in crops caused by underground room mate and I were on a small country road Ostensibly, it threatened ruins. .. not evidence of an alien and as we came round a curve there was a to blow apart the MoD spaceship landing. small triangular object, about eight feet UFO conspiracy, and the speculaIn a new development, theres a (2Am) in height, stopped in middle of the tion was fuelled by Pennistons possible explanation which seems to road. This object had a small flashing orange increasingly elaborate recollections account for UFO-like impressions beacon on top and bright white lights emaunder hypnotic regression. He now experienced by Burroughs, Cabansag nating from it at various points." claimed to have examined a landed and Penniston. Ultimately, the catalyst "Our immediate thought was that it was a craft at his leisure for 20 minutes. In for all that followed was the UFOthey UFO, but it turned out to be a very small farm contrast, his fellow patrolman John witnessed, and the source of those enigtractor. The top width was shorter than the Burroughs resolutely maintains: "I never saw matic lights was found near a farmhouse. bottom width and the two sides slightly anything metallic or anything hard." Again: Recall Burroughs statement: "We got up to a angled toward the top. "We did not see a structured craft... all we fence that separated the trees from the open actuallyup the operators This shape was compartment. saw were lights that seemed to imply a strucfield and you could see the lights down by a However, viewing this at night when the ture of some kind." farmers house. We climbed over the fence and white lights were on created an initial impresThis divergence in the eyewitness testimo- started heading towards the red and blue sion of a triangle. It wasnt until the operator ny rarely featured in the more enthusiastic lights and they just disappeared." extinguished some of the lights and moved off media reports. The storys factual genesis was In a sketch which depicted the triangular- the road that we realized it was a tractor." confused further by the publication of Left at shaped light fonnation, Burroughs clarified that Could this have been what was witnessed East Gate (1997) by ex-USAF airman Larry the top red light, which resembled a beacon, by the USAF patrol, stressed after their long Warren, who claimed to have been directly was "red and orange." Especially prominent was chase through the dark forest, by the glowing involved with others in a dramatic close white light which projected downwards from farm, sparking off the UKs most famous encounter during the UFO incursions. Halt UFOaffair? the source. It occurred to me that I had seen and Penniston were, however, scathing of something similar... the field lights used by a We may never know for sure. However, in Warrens assertions; in Warrens original the first book written about this case - SkY account he claimed only that he had heard Crash (1984)co-authored by Jenny Randle;, about the UFOtales while stationed on the Brenda Butler and Dot Street - Jenny writes base, but later, after hypnotic regression he of Butler and Streets visit to the site, within a too was claiming a closer contact. couple of months of the UFO events: "Brenda Warren referred to his designated UFO and Dot were directed to see a Mr Brown, who landing site as momentous physical evidence owns a house about three quarters of a mile of UFO visitation. The photographs in his [I,200m]further down the path which skirts book describe the location as: "Capel Green, the field... He had a large pink house with site of the incident. Crafts point of contact plenty ofold huts around the back, and a clearly visible as discolored area..." and "Capel tor standing idle... He abruptly pointed out that he knew nothing about a UFO." 3 In fact, he might have known a lor more about it than he realised! [

more evident. In the memo, Halt also drew attention to radiation readings taken at what was believed to be the first nights UFO landing site. We can now see from the MoDs file that they wasted time on this. Its long been demonsttated that the levels were minuscule. In fact, Halt himself tecords incidental radiation readings from a nearby field which were higher than most of the landing site readings.

of these UFO alarms might have become

Green, 1995, showing landing site still blighted 15 years after Larry Warrens
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Robert McLean has been able to locate

Larry Warrens purported landing area, using the visual clues in Warrens CD, also called

tractor at night. As it moved around a large field, delivering food to cattle in an otherwise dark landscape, the numerous top and side lights created a spectacular display and on top was an amber beacon warning light.

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2. James Easton, Rendlesham Unravelled (1998). See: www.rendlesham.com

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RECOMMENDED READING

SKY CRASH: A COSMIC CONSPIRACY (1984) Brenda Butler, Dot Street and Jenny Randles AND NOT SO RECOMMENDED... LEfT AT EAST GATE (1997) Larry Warren

RECOMMENDED SURFING

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: A view from the forest edge near where Top: John F Burroughs - saw anomalous lights.

Co!. Halt saw a flashing UFO.

www.rendlesham.com James Eastons definitive website on the subject

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THE ISSUES RAISED.BY THE RENDLESHAM CASE HAVE SPLIT THE UFO COMMUNITY. WHILE JAMES EASTON REPRESENTS A WHAT FEW FACTS CAN BE ESTABLISHED, THERE IS A THRIVING OPPOSITION PRAGMATIC VIEWPOINT BASED UPON THE FACE VALUE OF WHICH BELIEVES THE SAME DATA SUPPORTS THE THEORY THAT UFOS HOVERED OVER THE NATO INSTALLATIONS FOR ALMOST FIVE THAT MEMBERS OF THE USAF, STATIONED AT THE TWIN RAF BASES INHOURS AND LANDED IN THE NEARBY FOREST. GEORGINA BRUNI BELIEVES SUFFOLK,DID ENCOUNTER UFOS DURING THAT CHRISTMAS WEEK IN 1980.

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Unlike most UFO reports, there is official evidence in the public

domain to prove that the Rendlesham Forest incident was genuine. The first real evidence emerged in 1983, when an American research group obtained a document released through the Freedom of Information Act. This was a memorandum authored by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, the Deputy Base Commander, himself a witness to one of the events. The document, which was sent to the MoD soon after the incident, described how military witnesses encountered a triangular-shaped object in Rendlesham Forest, on the perimeter of RAF Woodbridge, and explained that radiation readings were taken at the landing site. More evidence surfaced in 1984 when Colonel Sam Morgan, the then base commander, sent copies of a tape recording to British researchers. The tape, which was made by Halt during one of the events, confirmed that radiation readings were taken at the landing site, that indentations were found in the ground where an object . . . was said to have landed, and that the --.......--....-patrol encountered UFOs. During research for my book You Cant Tell The People: The Definitive Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000), I located USAF photographs taken at the landing site the morning after the initial These photographs feature USAF personnel and British police examining the ground indentations as described in Halts recording. Ive worked on this case for five years and have been frustrated by the way in which the MoD and USAF have played down the incident, claiming it was of "no defence significance". Im not alone in my internal exchanges of frustration. Former Chief of the Defence between departments correspondence Staff Lord Hill-Norton (below) has been Defence Intelligence of the RAF and Staff (DIS). These trying to get answers since 1983. He has documents offer some tabled 16 Questions in Parliament this spired after the MoD idea of what tranreceived Halts memyear: Questions that concern the case as orandum and, contrary to the official line presented in my book. The answers were that the incident "no defence not convincing, even though great significance", show was of that the report was, pressure was put on Baroness Symons, indeed, taken seriously. Minister of State for Defence One document reveals that tape recordProcurement, to release informaed evidence of the incident was handed tion on the case. But Lord Hillto General Gabriel, the Chief of the Norton did not give up and, earlier United States Air Force in Europe, and this year, his persistence paid off we learn that the Americans did not when the MoDs file on this case share this information with the MoD. was released under the Code However, Halt has since told me of Practice on Access to that a British agent was Government Information. among those who debriefed There are numerous docthe witnesses after the uments in the file, the most So could it be that the important of which are the BIG CHIEF: Hill-Norton

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MoD documents, at least those now in the public domain, are not the full story? Several documents, referenced in the file, are missing. The documents make it clear that there was concern over the above average radiation readings, as reported in Halts memorandum. We also learn that RAF Watton had found fault with film of the reported sighting (the RAF routinely take film of its radar screens)for the night in question. It was later discovered that film on the days prior to and after the reported phenomena were also faulty. If the incident was thought to be of "no defence significance", it is interesting that the MoD considered sanitising Halts memorandum before releasing Another document reveals that the decision to allow its release "might have to come from Secretary of State for Defences office particularly if any security or intelligence implications are read into the reported sighting." Although there are a number of missing documents and no further information concerning what transpired once DIS became more involved, I consider the file to be extremely important. Nick Pope who worked in Secretariat (Air Staff) for three years agrees. He told me: "These revelations are sensational, and Im sure there will be pressure for an inquiry into both the incident itself and the subsequent actions of both the MoD and the Its unlikely there will ever be a Public Inquiry, but efforts are being made to obtain more information, both from the MoD and the USAF.

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Unlike most UFO reports, there is official evidence in the public
domain to prove that the Rendlesham Forest incident was genuine. The first real evidence emerged in 1983, when an American research group obtained a document released through the Freedom of Information This was a memorandum authored by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, the Deputy Base Commander, himself a witness to one of the events. The document, which was sent to the MoD soon after the incident, described how military witnesses encountered a triangular-shaped object in Rendlesham Forest, on the perimeter of RAF Woodbridge, and A.JJ explained that radiation readings were -.--- O^l~ _. taken at the landing site. More evidence surfaced in 1984 when Colonel Sam Morgan, the then base commander, sent copies of a tape recording to ----D-British researchers. The tape, which was made by Halt during one of the events, --. -~ L..<;," confirmed that radiation readings were taken at the landing site, that indentations were found in the ground where an object was said to have landed, and that the . __ -SPOl";Xt patrol encountered UFOs. During research for my book You Cant Tell The People: The Definitive Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000),I located USAF photographs taken at the landing site the morning after the initial These photographs feature USAF personnel and British police examining the ground indentations as described in Halts recording. Ive worked on this case for five years and have been frustrated by the way in which the MoD and USAF have played down the incident, claiming it was of "no defence significance". Im not alone in my internal exchanges of correspondence frustration. Former Chief of the Defence between departments of Staff Lord Hill-Norton (below) has been Defence Intelligence Staff the RAF and (015). These trying to get answers since 1983. He has documents offer some idea of what trantabled 16 Questions in Parliament this spired after the MoD received Halts memyear: Questions that concern the case as orandum and, contrary to the official line presented in my book. The answers were that the incident was of "no defence not convincing, even though great significance", show that the report was, pressure was put on Baroness Symons, indeed, taken seriously. Minister of State for Defence One document reveals that tape recordProcurement, to release informaed evidence of the incident was handed tion on the case. But Lord Hillto General Gabriel, the Chief of the Norton did not give up and, earlier United States Air Force in Europe, and this year, his persistence paid off . we learn that the Americans did not when the MoDs file on this case share this information with the MoD. was released under the Code However, Halt has since told me of Practice on Access to that a British agent was Government Information. among those who debriefed There are numerous docthe witnesses after the uments in the file, the most So could it be that the important of which are the
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MoD documents, at least those now in the pUblic domain, are not the full story? Several documents, referenced in the file, are missing. The documents make it clear that there was concern over the above average radiation readings, as reported in Halts memorandum. We also learn that RAF Watton had found fault with film of the reported sighting (the RAF routinely take film of its radar screens) for the night in question. It was later discovered that film on the days prior to and after the reported phenomena were also faulty. If the incident was thought to be of "no defence significance", it is interesting that the MoD considered sanitising Halts memorandum before releasing Another document reveals that the decision to allow its release "might have to come from Secretary of State for Defences office particularly if any security or intelligence implications are read into the reported

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Although there are a number of missing documents and no further information concerning what transpired once 015 became more involved, I consider the file to be extremely important. Nick Pope who worked in Secretariat (Air Staff) for three years agrees. He told me: "These revelations are sensational, and Im sure there will be pressure for an inquiry into both the incident itself and the subsequent actions of both the MoD and the USAF." Its unlikely there will ever be a Public Inquiry, but efforts are being made to obtain more information, both from the MoD and the USAF.

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AHEAD OF THE FIELD...

MARK PILKINGTON REVIEWS THE PICK OF THIS SUMMERS lATE CROP OF CIRCLES. PHOTOS BY STEVE ALEXANDER.
Above BARROWDEN, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: One of the years other impresssive creations.

Left - CHILBOLTON, HAMPSHIRE: The Aricebo formation sent the nations press into a circle frenzy.
Right MILK HILL, WILTSHIRE: The megaglyph, also known as the Galaxy. It has been called the "mother and father of all crop circles" and is almost a thousand feet in diameter.

s another summer fades, so another crop circlemaking season closes. This year, however, things have been rather different, with initial apathy turning to awe and a resulting media frenzy not seen since the heady days of the early 1990s. Things got off to a fairly bleak start. Restrictions imposed due to the Foot and Mouth epidemic saw any determined circle artistes facing fines of several thousand pounds - a deterrent considerably more potent than the f100 paid by Matthew Williams, who exposed himself to the law last year. Compounding the situation was the month-long delay in planting crops after one of the wettest winters on record. April, usually the month in which the seasons first daubings appear, was

conveniently situated between a theme park and the local airport. The years first dazzlers, a Meso-American-style maze and an intriguing, curved pyramid lens, landed in Barrowden Northamptonshire, and Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, in the first few days of June. From then on it was a circle summer much like any other until, on the torrential night of 11-12 August, something incredible appeared on the top of Milk Hill- at 900 ft (247m)up, the highest point in the surrounding area - the first time it had been visited by the circlemakers. The formation, known as the Megaglyph, was a relatively

straightforward fractal spiral but was, at around 900 ft (274m) across, simply enormous, consisting of over 400 individual circles, some of them over 70ft (21m) in diameter. Writing in the Guardian, John Vidal called it "boring and predictable", but the croppy community was ecstatic. "The formation that has brought the phenomenon back to the people," cried Stuart Dike on Crop Circle Connector, the croppies online focal point, "it is the mother of all crop circles." Even veteran circlemaker John Lundberg was blown away: "I was well and truly godsmacked, I just kept returning to the image and

staring at The size of the formation was unlike anything else wed seen in the fieIds before, if was off the scale!" Perhaps the designs somewhat "retro" flavour, which harked back to the heyday of 1995/6, had something to do with the heros welcome it received. The print and TV news media, which had ignored the phenomenon until now, were clearly overjoyed at being able to fill pages with new circle speculation. It was almost as if the past few years had never happened.

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formation-free. The years first circle, an impressive six.fold flower,

appeared not in Wiltshire, but in field of oil-seed rape outside Zierenberg in central Germany on 15 May. As if in immediate response, a simple concentric circle design appeared in Hampshire the next day - at last the season had begun 25 May saw F&M restrictions lifted in Wiltshire and Hampshire, with a few relatively straightforward creations popping up in the usual places, as well as one in Bournemouth, Dorset,
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GREAT SHELFORD, CAMBRIDGESHIRE: An asymetrical formation in wheat.

following week, someone - or something - laid down a perfect riposte, this time in Chibolton, Hampshire, beside a radio telescope that has hosted formations several times before. One showed a humanoid face, not unlike the Face on Mars. The other, dubbed the Aricebo Response, almost replicated the binary signal designed by astronomers Frank Drake and Carl Sagan and beamed to the star cluster M 13 in 1974, from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The key differences were the humanoid figures enlarged head perhaps a reference to its supposed ET origins - and a few misNaturally placed pieces of

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rhese served as cues for intensely Jera ed analyses from croppies,

self-professed geneticist, and, more surprisingly, a bemused response from SET! astronomer Serh Shostak. Shostak admitted r, aelmiring the circlemakers work. bur pointed out several Ir,)blems with the image, and one \\Irh rhe notion of a reply in "1\1 13 is 25,000 light-years ,I"rant. which means that rhe 1Il sa,ge will not reach its target [,I anothel 250 centurie".. The dll CIrcles are decorati,e, IInpressive, and provocative, but n,,t II1f"rmarive. We can expect bettt! from true extraterrestrial
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proximityof the the ne,\rhy IIHlrsrellar observatory at l :hilh,,Iwn, where some SETI Ir(),grammes are carried ()ut. "By my standards," Michell wid FT, "rhe Face is a grear w()rk ()f an,
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Such was the excitement surrounding these new formations that several websites had to close down as bandwidth demand far exceeded the limits of their service providers. Even the mighty Crop Circle Connector was forced to close its doors temporarily, upping its allowance from 50MB to a cost!y I 501v18 f r August. After a sluwish start, its been a remarkahle year in circlemakin,g. with a respectahle 88 formations in the UK (mmpare,!w 134 last year) and another 30 as L1r afield as Pulan,L Serhia and Veteran researcher Colm ,Andrews W,1S clearly moved as he appeared l)n Art Bells radio sh()w: "Theres never been a hetter sea,()n, this is hy far the Iinnacle of the last 20 years,.. there have heen time, in my work where I have privately cried to mvself; it s()unds extra(Jrdinary I know. hur its Just ,SlJ ,pecial" Thank you

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Colin. The !,hen()men()n has. it seems, c()me full circle.

SOURCES The Guardian, 21 Auq: The Independent, 26 Auq 2001: Crop Circle Connector www.cropcircleconnector.com CIrclemakers www.circlemakers.org
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sucked rather than pushed its way through the atmosphere. Had Schauberger created an anti-

gravity device? And had the Americans got wind of it? The conquering Americans

held Schauberger under house arrest and debriefed him thoroughly.

and told me more about what had happened in those fateful days when Germany was collapsing. One of the five machines Schauberger was engineering was dubbed the.flying saucer. And it was this which the Americans seized upon when the war ended. They seemed to know what they were looking for a radical form of aeroengine which

are round
circulmo shape would :be ideal for . moving in any direction at the flick of a switch. Nazi researchers are said to have ,beIieved the round shape was ideal for carrying a jet engine to generate the electricity needed to charge the flying saucer. The danger in creating antigravity is that any method used has to tap mto the infWte power of sub-atomic particles. Tbis power cotdd be deliberately or accidentally released in an uncontainable sub-atomic reaction that could create an explosion big enough to destroy half of Europe. This may m y be a theory - but so was the atomic bomb just a few years before one was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

in 1946, had the rudiments of an entirely new propulsion medium: one which 18 months later would have Nathan !\vining, a US Air Force general in charge of technology secrets, saying that e US had the knowledge and the ability toconstruct a piloted aircraft with the operating characteristics of a UFO within the foreseeable future. A craft that seemingly defied the laws of physics. But what happened to this knowledge? Why, nowadays, do we not travel in aircraft capable of phenomenal speeds and no longer dependent on jet engines? American scientists were predicting a golden age of antigravity for the Sixties. A fue!less proptilsion source was on the horizon. But it didnt happen. Why? For the niost simple and deadliest of reasons: the fear that anti-gravity cotdd not only be used to revolutionlse the world of aerospace,but cotdd also become a destructive force so powerful that it had the potential to destroy the world. Their discoveries struck terror into the hearts ofthe keepers of the secrets of anti-gravity. They realised that if you fiddled with the building blocks of nature in a way that they cotdd not fully understand, then you might set off a chain reaction like a nuclear explosion,but hundreds of times more severe. And worse,if America could do it, then so cotdd any rogue state. n simply wasnt a risk worth taking. No wonder that someone,somewhere, took the view that anti-gravity shotdd be kept a secret for a very long time.

Now t!Ie Americans,

Extractfrom The Hunt For Zero Point: One Mans Journey Th Discover The Biggest Secret Since The Invention OfThe Atom Bomb,by Nick Cook,to be published by Century on September 16at Ell.99. Th order a capyfor E16.99 (free p&p), teleplwne 01206 255800.

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of the worlds foremost aviation and space scientists once told me about a place a virtual warehouse where ideas that were too . dangerous to develop into hardware were locked away for ever,like the Ark of the Covenant in the Harrison Ford film Raiders Of The Lost Ark At the time, I dismissed it as one of the more fanciful chapters from the wilder shores of science fiction. Not . any more. I am now convioced,after ten years of research,that one of these discoveries, locked away for half a century, is the biggest secret since the invention ofthe atomic bomb. A source of energy so great that it offers the world a limitless supply of power: anti-gravity. So great that, in_.the. _wrong_ hands, it _could destroy the world. Occasionally, the hardware emerges from the layers of security designed to keep these secrets from public scrutiny.Thke,forexample,the strange craft spotted from the mid-Eighties onwards in a triangle bordered by New Mexico to the south, California to the west and Nevada to the Nearby, on the edge of the desert, is

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Palmdale, home of the Skunk Works, a legendary aircraft-manufacturing facility. because, in the.Forties, foul-smelling chemicals emanated from its secret facilities on the edge of the main Lockheed aircraft plant. Other factory workers, not knowing what was going on there,joked that it was being used to make moonshine, or

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Did they make a plane that flies at 5,300mph?

sknnkjuiceas it was referred to in the Vil Abner cartoon strip of the day. Sknnk Works employees work on secret projects and are highly skilled engineers.They are recrnited from the works parent company, Lockheed, which today builds everything from Stealth fighters to space launchers and satellites. Could a team from its 4,000

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experiments of Viktor Schauberger, an Austrian inventor enlisted by the Nazis at gunpoint. He actually produced an antigravity machine which flew-and I tracked down his grandson, Jeorg, who has devoted much of his life to researching his grandfathers work. Viktor Schauberger,said Jeorg, was a forester and engineer who had been working on an energy device. As the war drew to a close,the Nazis chanced upon his secrets and ordered him to devote himself to the German war effort, on pain of death. What appealed to them was a machine of his that had a dual purpose it could be both an energy generator and a power plant for an aerospace vehicle of saucer-like appearance. One ofSchaubergers They stole the later said that the firstcolleagues flyi,ng south-western 1!mted time they NazIS discovenes tried to run the machine - which Aurora was also linked toSta.tesl a dark, triangular shape that had been had a diameter of5ft arid weighed spotted over the North Sea by 300lb the flying saucer rose trained observers.in 1989. Techuical Services - the body set unexpectedly to the ceiling and Since thelate Eighties,there ha up to ensure that German tech- then was wrecked. It rose been talk ofa secret replacement nology was moved rapidly into upwards.trailing a and for the revolutionary Blackbird:a American in ustry - the doc- then silver-coloured mythical plane that supposedly uments contained a wealth of It was a process Schauberger flew twice as fastand on the edges material which very likely con- called implosion - at its simofspace:The prognosis was thatit tained practically all the scien- plest,a three-dimensional energy was.a massive leap forward in tific, industrial and military pattern channelled inwards, not aerospace terms, powered by a secrets of Nazi Germany. outwards which generated new form of engine that gave it a I became convioced that hidden -phenomenal force levels. His cruising speed of anything up to away among the tens of thou- grandson Jeorg showed me the Mach 8 - that is 5,300mph. sands of tons of paperwork were rusting remains of the machine There were also rumours that the Reagan administration had embarked on a massive programme of aerospace and defence research. If you know how to interpret the Pentagons annual defence budget, and calidea of goes the theory. it will exhibit culate the difference between. anti-gravity is the thrust" towards the positivc pole. unclassified expenditure for the holy grail of If it is horizontal. the plate will three armed services and the aviation. It is based lose weight hecause it will rise grand total, you can work out on quantum as the negative underside pushes what is allocated to the so.called physicists belief up towards the positive top side. black budget. that gravity is actually created by But, sa\" bclic\"crs. it.s more In 1988,the sum was worked out little...:kllown forces working at a than just pushing up and down: to be $30 billion for research, sub-atomic level all around us. charging different parts of tht, development and secret weapons The theon"is that if these minute plate \\ill make it move in an\" forces cm] be manipulated. antiprogrammes-more than Britains directiun. Becallse the powel~ or entire defence budget. If Aurora gravity could be created to make gravity is so great. using it in existed - or research into.antian object loseits weight. this way would mean tht, f)bjcct One idea for how this could be gravity was taking place this is could movc at incredihle speeds. where the funding came from. done is clectrogravitics. At its If this idea works, there is fine A lot of the expertise on antimost simple level. the theory is shape of aircraft ideal for using based on magnetism: if a metal gravity dated from decades earthe electrogravitics force: a lier, and Nazi Germany in plate is given a positive electric flying sallcer. The rounded lOp particular. Much of what formed charge on one side and a and bottom would make the most the basis of the Skunk Works negative charge on the other. of the lifting force while the projects came from the German

technology and expertise plundered by the Allies at the end of the Second World War. Germany was a treasure trove of desirable technology, covering everything from weaponry and electrouics to textiles and medicine. It was a magnet for the Allies, including the British. Ian Heming, who was later to write the James Bond novels, set up what was virtually a private army tasked with tech-plunder. But the British.were ill-prepared to take advantage of the opportunities which faced them. Not so the Americans. They simply removed the paperwork for hundreds of thousands of patents and shipped them home. According to the US Office of .

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Sierra Nevada mountains, scratched the soil and said: They sieved the dirt for a thousand yards from the impact point. A few weeks after they left, it was like nothing ever happened Whatever happened or not -took place back in July 1986. Lopez,after partying until dawn on a camping trip with friends, was settling into her sleeping bag when the crash occurred just a dozen miles from Bakerafield,Califorriia. A supersonic jet roared overhead with a sonic boom like a clap ofthunder.Then the horizon was flaslilit,by an enormous explosion,flames shooting skywards as the jet ploughed into a desert
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Sheriff Amelia Deputy led me into the the Lopez distant scrub of

By Nick Cook
AVIATION EDITOR OF JANES DEFENCE WEEKLY
gone more than half-a-dozen miles fighter. The troops at the crash site towards the point of impact before were part of a Pentagon red team her face was forced into the dirt, a helicoptered in to secure the area boot was in her back and a gun was at and to keep the secret of the Stealths her head. These were not or ary highly classified technology. U was a measure of the lengths the soldiers,but SWAT-types brandishing Colt Commandos, wearing night- US military goes to guard its secrets. vision goggles and issuing threats ButI was to discover there is an even boutgovernment property and greater secret which is no less than the aerospace equivalent of the Holy national security. It was not until 1988 that the out- Grail anti-gravity. In other words, going Reagan administration admitted the plane,strictly classified even Continued on Page 44

in the area, were determined to find though it had been in service for out what had happened.They had not three years, was an F-117A Stealth

Lopez and her friends, like others

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the action of levitation where gravitys force is more than overcome by electrostatic or other propulsion. For some time I had regarded an anti-gravity system as the ultimate

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taking- and most closely guarded discoveries. Anti-gravity is a discovery born of the Nazis desire to conquer the world. And it could also explain tbe

quantum leap in aircraft design. Something dreamed about, but beyond reach and likely to remain so. It was the stuff of science fiction. Or so I thought until my investigations, undertaken over the last ten years, led me to change my mind. I am now convinced it is one of tbe last centurys most breath-

thousands of sightings of UFOs that have occurred since the Second World War. In the light of antigravity,the notion ofX-Files-type flying saucers doesnot seem so strange. The draconian measures applied at the Californian crash site were among the final pieces in a jigsaw I had been putting together ever since photocopied pages of an old popular science journal had been placed

anonymously on my desk at Janes Defence Weekly, the British magazine which documents the day-today dealings of the multi-billiondollar global defence industry. I have worked there for 14years as aviation editor and aerospace consultant, covering everything from Chinese combatengines to radar systems.But this was way off my usual beat.The cutting,about revolutionary US military research,was dated 1956. The headline ran: The G-Engines Are Coming! It contained a drawing ofa US airman stepping out ofan aircraft that had no wings and no visible

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means of propulsion.The article claimed: By far the most potent source of energy is gravity. Using it as power, future aircraft will attain the speed of light. Scientists, desiguers and engineers are perfecting a way to control gravity a force infinitely more powerful than the mighty atom. The result of their labours will be anti-gravity engines working without fuel weightless airliners and space ships able to travel to 170,000 miles per On any other day,this article would have been consigued to the bin as sheer fantasy. But something in the next paragraph caught my eye. This gravity research, it said, had been supported by Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company, Bell Aircraft, Lear and several other American aircraft manufacturers who would not spend millions of dollars on science fiction. It quoted Lawrence D. Bell, founder of the plane company that was the first to break.the sound barrier: Were already working on nuclear fuels and eqnipment to cancel out George S. IHmble, head of Advanced Proat Martin Airgrams craft, added: The conquest of gravity could be done in about the time it took to build the first atomic They were openly predicting a golden age of anti-gravity in the Sixties. They set out the notion of a fuelless propulsion source, one that could deliver phenomenal performance gains over a jet perhaps

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their allies. The key man was a German engineer and administrator, Hans Kammler,who began as a civil servant with the Reich Air Mioistry but whose ambition led him to the SS, where he became head of the Building and Works divisions that masterminded the concentration camps. Albert Speer, Hitlers Minister for Armaments, noted that Kammler was blond,blue-eyed, long-headed, always neatly dressed and well bred ...capable of unexpected decisions at any minute. It was the S8, not tbe Luftw ffe, that controlled Hitlers

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secret weapons programme and Kammler,a qualified engineer, soon became deeply involved. He was clever and cruel- 20,000 slave workers died creating the vast galleried complex hacked out under the Harz Mountains in Germany, where Kammler oversaw production: of VI rockets. One day in March 1945,the guards hanged 52people in Gallery 41,tying a dozen at a time to a beam which was then pulled up by a crane. Those next in line were forced to watch. These were Kammlers hallmarks. Kammler rose to the rank of SS General,in charge not ouly of all air. craft and missile programmes but also his own high-powered research and development think-tank. He set up his secret operation in the vast Skoda industrial complex in CzechQ-

slovakia, a country which t regarded as its own private de According to my researches, tists there were working on W! systems so futuristic that they Germanys VI and V2 rocketI look pedestrian. Among thes! nuclear power plauts for rock! aircraft, highly sophisticated I lasE weapons and Butthere was more.A Polish told me the extraordinary Sl TheBell.Experhoents had be ing place in a mine close to the border. They involved feedin! doses of electricity into an I

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ground chamber where a bell-shaped device emitted a pale blue light. Five scientists exposed to the device had died of side-effects. Word had it that they were investigating some kind of anti-gravitational effect. The Bell,

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theory gaining more credence is that gravity is caused by littleknown forces-"ithin atoms magnetism is caused by forces within a magnets atomic structure. Master science fiction writer H.G.Wells came up with an idea 100 years ago for a spacecraft to use a substance called Cavorite which_ shielded the forces of gravity, allowing craft and their occupants to escape Earths pull and fly to,!he Moon. Since then,scientists~ay -7C::

involved the rapid spinning of two cylinders in opposite directions. The chamber in which the experiments took place was deep below ground. Duly The Bell itself was preserved after a series of tests, each lasting about one minute.Even the room was ,destroyed and rebuilt. Various plants,and animals such as frogs, mice and rats, were exposed . to The Bells sphere of influence. Rapid decay set in and people who helped conduct the experiments suffered from sleep problems, memory loss and muscle spasms. One of the

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dreamed of building such a machine. In)\!Ioscow last week, scientist EvgenyPodkletnov said he had perfected a machine to push objects mvay from the pull of Earths gravity, using superconducting magnets. He has called this anti-gradty effect a gravity shield rather like Wellss Cavorite. Then there are rapidly spinning gyroscopes. Scots inventor Sandy I dd was inspired by an experience he had walking down a Vulcan
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where,assumed any persona and no Kamner in his generals uniform, one would have noticed. striding for the camera,his capwith Kamner, who had moved his HQ to Munich,told Albert Speer he would offer the Americans jet planes and rockets.He also let slip he had other developments up his sleeve. He probably went east, back to his special projects group in Czechobombers_ steps when he was an RAF slovakia,rather than simply wait for the Americans to arrive in Munich. technician in the Eighties carrying a He had a two-fold purpose in malting still-spinning heavy gyroscope he his dangerous journey. First, to vVhen he stepped had just removed. retrieve the mother lode of docon the ground he was flattened by a umentation and blueprints. And secblow to his back...transmitted from the gyroscope. ond,to hide it prior to setting up the deal which would buy his freedom. After three years, he built an antigravity"machine with two Although the Skoda Works were in the Soviet zone of occupation, my gyroscopes at each end of a flexible research shows that US forces had arm. When he switched it on he was the run of the place for six days amazed to see it levitate and settle before the Red Army turned up. three inches above the workbench. Plenty oftime to remove something you want if you know ,it is there. Or

He was a leading Nazi,implicated in the Final Solution yet protracted searches in the US National Archives yielded not a single mention. How could this monster, the most powerful individual outside Hitlers inner circle, be so easily forgotten? It was only as I gazed at the single wartime picture that exists of

deaths head badge enough to one side to betray more than a hint pf separation. Both were associated vanity that I began to understand. Kammler was fair. Takeaway the with anti-gravity. These secrets were undoubtedly uniform,and he could have b,een any Kamners ticket to safety once war 40-year-old European male. In the chaos of the colll\psing Reich, had ended. By mid-April of gone anyKammier had dropped off the map. Kammler could

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under an enemy or neutral flag. Either way,Kamner had the means thousands of tons of docu- mentation,equipmentand personnel pretty mu h where he wanted. At the end of the,Second World War, via captured technology from Germany that hasnever seen the light of day,America acquired knowledge of

f The Bell and other teclinology, the German secret weapons programme had yielded the ability to design a radically different form of aircraft; A craftthat was circular or elliptical, made no sound and could turn on a sixpence. And one involving a process which could also be harnessed to create a weapon more destructive than the hydrogen bomb. With the help of German-derived science,Americas technologicallead over the rest ofthe world accelerated after the war. Kammlers secrets from the Skoda Works had moved 4,000 miles to the west and somehow, I just knew,Kamner had come with The extensive US recruitment gramme would have bent over backwards to accommodate Kammler, keeper of the Third Reichs most exotic military secrets. There is evidence that the Americans did

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duce such technology. A memo I found in the archives ofthe Imperial War Museum,written by Lieutenant General Nathan TWining, head of US Army Air Forces Air Material Command, a brigadier in USAAF intelligence in September 1947, stated that objects approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to be as large as a manmade aircraft were neither visionary nor fictitious. TWining went on to write that it was possible within the present US knowledge - provided extensive detailed development is undertaken to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object above which would be
capable of an approximate range of 7,000 miles.... His memo was written just three months after the supposed crash ofa UFU atRoswell, New Mexico,fuJuly 1947;the period. many people tQut as the real start of . the modern UFO sightings. Not all attempts to produce disc technology were successful. It emerged, during the 1959 hearings of the.Space Committee of the.US Congress, that the US Department of Defense had been working with the Avro Canada company to develop a flying saucer. The.Avrocar, as it was called, was the brainchild of gifted British engioeer John Frost,who had moved to Canada after the war. News leaked as early as 1953, when a Canadian newspaper revealed plans

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for iUo take off and land vertically, existing jet-fighters..And the US air force had bought Avros disc-shaped and fly at 1,500mph. It was easy to see why Avro played designs for craft caned Project down reports of the Avrocar. One Silverbug,capable of almost instant look at the prototype,underpowered high-speed turns in any direction. Were the Americans using the and unstable,was enough to confirm it would never achieve supersonic Canadians to perfect the aeroflight. It became an aviation joke dynamics of a flying saucer? Or had the disastrous Avro programme been hushed up to avoid embarrassment? Either way, it showed that man-made flying saucers existed. There was no golden age, as The G-Engines Are Coming! had prespotted dicted. At least, not in the open. But I discovered evidence of mysterious which drifted into obscurity. Yet, aircraft wmch chimed with reduced the intention. gravity systems. that may have been Since the Eighties,there has been Recently declassified papers show of speculation about the existence of a thatAvro was working on a range Aurora that flying saucers capable of eclipsing mythical plane calledthe edges of supposedly flew on space. In 1992, there was a detailed sighting of a massive triangularshaped aircraft spotted flying in formation with US air force bombers above theNorth Sea. In Belgium, in 1989 and again a year later, hundreds of .people reported seeing silent triangular-

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shaped craft all over the country. They were tracked by Belgian radar and pulled turns of about enough to kill a human pilot. The Belgian air force confirmed their existence in a government report. I also discovered evidence of the Pentagons enormousblackbudgets which finance deeply classified . defence programmes. Huge amounts ofmoney have been spent,often i areas ofthe US where UFO reports are most common. What happened . to. Kammlers secrets,and was anti-gravity among them? My research would soon take me to the deserts of America, home of the strange Stealth fighters, the leading edge ofaeronautical science and much more.

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TWO neighbouring freak shows are going shrunken head to shrunken head in a bitter battle to pull in the punters. It began when Bobby Reynolds, curator of the Believe It Youre Nuts exhibition, installed a two-headed baby - at 30p a peep at the building where Dick Ziguns Sideshows by the Seashore museum is based. Soon after, Mr Reynolds red-and-yellow tent was put up nearby, amid colourful giant banners touting Siamese twins, a miniature , frog band and a fire-eater. Mr Zigun claimed that his rival was stealing his customers on New Yorks Coney Island with a second-rate exhibition made up of waxworks and toys. In response he poached Mr Reynolds nephew to perform as a sword-swallower. Mr Reynolds now plans to hit back by displaying the body of a dead alien he claims to have bought from the government.
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published when he was interviewed for this months edition of Pilot magazine. He said: Quite a few airline pilots see UFOs while they are flying - but I have never heard of one being photographed like this.

picked it up a few days ago I asked them they thought it was. They refused to say anything and simply answered: "Nocomment". Mr Hastings took the picture in June 1998 but only allowed it to be

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cybersex and the computer. Candace Bushnell is to write a set of new stories under the title The Morning After which will be sent to subscribers through their e-mails. Deborah Davis, vice-president of US company Email Shows, which is producing the project, said Ms Bushnells notoriously dishy writing style was considered a perfect match for the medium of e-mail literature because it provided a voyeuristic reading experience. The show will consist of e-mails written by Ms Bushnell and her manager, Clifford Streit, about their lives. The writers book, Sex and the City, inspired the US show which is shown on Channel 4.

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A [5MILLION pledge from the Government has increased the chances of a British spacecraft landing on Mars early in the next century. Lord Sainsbury, the Science Minister. yesterday committed the money to the Beagle Two spacecraft, leaving its backers - led by Colin Pillinger of the Open University - another [S million to find. Professor Pillinger has been promised [3million from the Particle Physics and my Research Council. and [13million from industrial companies. The mission is expected to cost between US million and [28 million. Beagle Two. named afIer the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed to South America.

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is intended to form part of the European Space Agencys Mars Express mission. due to be launched in 2003. About the size of a microwave oven, the lander will drop on to the surface of Mars while the ESA vehicle orbits the planet taking pictures. The all-British craft, designed by scientists from the Open and Leicester Universities. will deploy a robot "mole" to burrow into the Martian soil and look for chemical signs of life. Professor Pillinger said yesterday: The really important signal that Lord Sainsbury has sent with his contribution today is that the Government are behind us. That enables me to go to many people I had

sounded out about the project. and say this is a serious and mature project that stands every chance of coming to
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given the black world equivalent of the bums rush: a shrug of the shoulders and a polite reminder that the interview was over. Three weeks later, and only after persistent questioning, I was told that the depiction on the chart was a mistake and that Astra was really a high-speed airliner project that had been studied in the Seventies and very quickly cancelled. My first reaction in the face of such obfuscation was to laugh. But the lingering effects of the black world are subtle and insidious. Occasionally, in the small hours of a sleepless night, I wonder whether I didnt just imagine the whole thing. It is this fine line between fact and fiction, as well as dream and reality, that defines the character of the black world and gives it its ethereal shape. Unsurprisingly, it has given rise to a whole host of conspiracy theories over the years, ranging from Pentagon mindcontrol experiments to alien cadavers stored in freezers at secret locations across the country. While there seems to be no end of people, many of them weaned on Nineties X-Files culture, who accept these yarns at face value, the US defence and intelligence community is not beyond putting its own spin on them

from time to time. Two years ago, the CIA admitted that it had encouraged reports of flying saucers in the Fifties and Sixties to obscure flight trials of its then top-secret U-2 and Blackbird spyplanes. The overall effect is undoubtedly the desired one: when you enter this environment, you step into a looking-glass world where down is up. As Aviation

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journey from Washington DC to a top-secret US Air Force base in Nevada that probably owes as much to Hunter S. Thompson as it does to Mulder and Scully. My journey began in Washington because although entry points into the black world labyrinth are few and far between, here as is the case almost everywhere in the world - money can open doors. In a bizarre contradiction that is so often a characteristic of the deeply classified environment, the most secret thing about it - the cash that is its lifeblood is calculable thankS to American government accountgood ing procedures. Every year, the Pentagon submits its fiscal request to Congress in the form of a number of budget books that itemise just about every nut and bolt of defence equipment the armed forces are likely to need over the coming 12 months. When you add up all the line items, however, the total does not match the grand total of the overall budget request, which today hovers around the $270 billion Subtract the total for the line items from the grand total and you find a discrepancy of around $35 billion. It is this sum that makes up the black budget and, to put the figures into perspective, it almost exactly equates to the total UK defence budget.

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spending billions of dollars on a similar progr me thats visible to the public; says Rohrabacher. A likely example of this duplication, he maintains, is the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations X-33 programme. The X-33 is a demonstrator vehicle being built by Lockheed Martin for a satellite launcher that will take off like a rocket and land like a plane. If it works as advertised, its operating costs will be a fraction of the Space Shuttles, which it is due to replace. Last year, Rohrabacher wrote to Clinton requesting that the administration declassify secret projects that perpetuate this overlap in spending. The project which overlaps with the X-33, he believes, is "Aurora", a black programme of mythical proportions to a hard-core of "watchers" who scour budget books, as well as
history is anything to go by, he may have a long wait. The trail now led west, to the vast expanses of Nevada and the mythical nexus of black world aerospace development the US Air Forces Groom Lake testing facility, otherwise known as Area For the past 45 years, Area 51 has been a test centre for top-secret aircraft such as the U-2, the Blackbird and the Stealth Fighter. In more recent times, it has also become a mecca for UFO watchers who are convinced that the US Government is testing captured alien spacecraft there. One of the first individuals I met on the road to Area 51 was Bob Widmer, a former head of design at General Dynamics Convair, now in his eighties. In the late Fifties, Widmer worked on an extraordinary spyplane design for the CIA

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During the Cold War, there were few dissenting voices on Capitol Hill over the rationale for the black budget, but lately: more have been making themselves heard. This is in part because the size of the black budget, as a proportion of an overall defence budget that has been shrinking in real terms for over the past ten years, has been increasing under the Clinton administration. One of the more vociferous campaigners against blackbudget secrecy has been Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, Republican chair of the influential space and aeronautics subcommittee of the House science committee. Rohrabachers beef is that a vast quantity of American taxpayers money is being spent on commercial aerospace projects - especially in the space field that already have a direct, but hidden, equivalent in the black world. "If we have a functioning technology in a black programme, we should not be

the skies, for evidence of top-secret defence projects. Aurora is perceived to be a "family" of very fast high-flying aircraft, the most sophisticated of which can effectively fly through space in the same" way that the X-33 is designe.d to. It was first spotted in 1987 as a mysterious line-item, consuming several billion dollars worth of funds in that year alone, in the reconnaissance section of the air forces budget request. Several people claim to have seen it since the late Eighties, the best apparent sighting coming from a trained Royal Observer Corps "spotter" who saw a huge wedge-shaped aircraft overflying the North Sea oil-rig on which he was working in 1989. If Aurora exists - and Congressman Rohrabacher is fairly sure that it does it can most likely cross the Atlantic in something under 45 minutes. As yet, Rohrabacher has had no response to his letter to Clinton and, if

The SR-71 Blackbird supersonic reconnaissance aircraft (top),the U.2 spyplane (centre)and the F117A "stealth" fighter (above)were all tested at Area 51 .

that was codenamed "Fish". In the end, Fish lost out to its rival, Lockheeds Blackbird, but for a reason that has never been altogether explained, the details of Widmers design remain top-secret, long after the Blackbird fleet was consigned to air museums across America. Could it be that Fish, whose general characteristics sound resoundingly familiar today, was actually a secret prototype for the Aurora? We may never know. Widmer was forced to burn almost all the plans for Fish and was instructed by the CIA

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CHELSEAS biggest landlord is to buy the Duke of York barracks on the Kings Road and turn it info a complex of shops, flats and offices, writes Ben Leapman. The Ministry of Defence said today it had agreed fo sell the military building to Cadogan" Estates. The Territorial Army will continue to use part of the

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Andrew Thomas, author of the crop-circle book, Vital Signs,claims that the Bower-Chorley confession was itself a hoax: They could not explain how they laid the stalks so perfectly; nor why the circles have

for 20 years. Strange shapes were appearing in cornfields in Wiltshire and other counties. From the ground, the com was seen to be beaten down, amazingly regular. From the air, the patterns appeared. They came first as simple circles, Later, there were circles within circles, then more intricate patterns still circles radiating spiral arms, circles joined by straight lines, circles arranged in squares, even snowflake patterns of amazing intricacy and beauty. For 20 years arguments raged. Were they caused by circular winds? Or were mysterious forces at work? The obvious solution was htunan hoax. But if so, how? In 1992,two Southampton men,Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, confessed to maldng corn circles: every stunmer night for 20years. Their method was simple:rakes and planks of wood

AUR NCE Rockefeller, the American millionaire and philanthropist, is funding scientific research into crop circles, it emerged yesterday. Why? After all, this is a problem that everyone thought had been solved. The Crop Circle Mystery caused headlines and arguments nearly every summer

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to guide straight lines. It began as fun but, as UFO theories snowballed,they wanted to see how credulous people could be. Dave Chorley died in 1996. The pair had retired from circle-maldng some time before. That should have been the end of the mystery. Yet corn circles continued to appear. They are worldwide, says Michael Green, President of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies. And this week, the first of this seasons Brttish crop, 12 of them,have been seen in fields and at

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changes seem to argue for a sudden, sharp infusion of energy into the circle far more than could come from men with planks or rollers. I was never quite convinced that his research was sufficiently rigorous says Mr Keen. but there were certainly electromagnetic changes within circles. Compasses behaved strangely; people felt either distress or euphoria inside the circles; and batteries went flat unaccountably often. All this seems to point away from hoax towards something very strange,indeed.There is clearly some kind ofintelligence behind And ifit is not natural intelligence? Well, then you are thrown back to imagining some wholly unnatural intelligence. As. for example, some form of psychic projection from htunan beings dead or alive. Some shapes of the early Eighties seemed similar to shapes carved into rocks by Palaeolthic man. said Michael Green, President of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies. Were mental energies of past minds being channelled into cornfields? The first corn-circle for which evidence is claimed appeared in Hertfordshire in 1678. A pamphlet shows a woodcut of a circle mown in a field of oats, and the devfl mowing. The pamphlet describes the sky over the field that night as being all of a flame; so here, too, for those who are willing to believe, is a link with flying saucers and UFOs. For, of course, there are the aliens as the final theory of crop circles. Michael Green does not believe that little green men are responsible but he believes some kind of nonhtunan intelligence is behind them. He points to a succession ofshapes, from simple to complex to very complex indeed. Can these be messages to be read by all ofmankind? These are written large on the landscape. They are there to be seen. There is a non-human intelli- Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, July 11, 1990: The night gence behind them,says Mr Green. Thats what points one towards this 555ft long design was created, there were strange accounts of humming sounds thinking the unthinkable.

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IS paying Connecticutbased Colin Andrews to engage staff and they have flown reconnaissance flights over Wiltshire and Hampshire. Andrews has a database of 10,000 crop circles. With computers and satellites, the research and debate has re-opened. So what could cause them? First theories were circular winds, mini-cyclones or "dust-devils" [tiny tornadoes], says Montague Keen, scientific adviser to the Centre for Crop-Circle Studies for three years. A meteorologist devised a theory of "plasma vortexes", spiralling winds of electrically-charged Ball lightning was another possibility again circular, again involving powerful and littleunderstood forces of electricity. But straight lines do not come from natural phenomena, says Keen.Thepatterns became increas. ingly complex and no natural phenomenon can change and evolve like that. There were too many for them all to be A U.S. physicist found evidence that corn inside the circles undergoes chemical and biological changes. It takes up more nitrates than com outside, and microscopic holes form in the stem tissue. These

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Barbary Castle, Wiltshire, May 4, 1997: The Kabbala tree of life, an occult symbol from Hebrew mythology -laid along the fields existing tractor lines. Fascinatingly, circle watchers had prayed for just such a symbol to appear

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private charter flight between Linkoping,in Sweden,and Humberside on February 3, The pilot, from the Lutonbased airline Debonair, was flying a BAe 146jet when the cockpit was immersed in incandescent light,

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Defence projects to protect jobs

BY CHRISTI\E BLCKLEY, I\DLSTRIAL CORRESPO\DE\T

The Times 27 April 1999 Page 4

THOUSA~DS ofjobs in the defence industry were protected yesterday by the Governments decision to gO it alone on a frigate buirding ~ gramme nd also to prooee air de\l.lth a fence project. of Defence The said vesterdav that it was withdra\\ing from the troubled rizon ~frigate programme, which it hfid been working on with France and Italy. in fa\our of its O\\TI initiarl\e, Defence analysts said that the decision wo ld bring more work to the LiK on the multibillion-pound programme to replace Type 42 destroyers and that the work could start soon-

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shipyards of VSEL are more suited to warship work. The UK Government has. however, reached agreement with France and Italy to build together the Principle Anti-Air \1issile Svstem (PAAMS)defence svst m for the new generation f frigates. :v1atra Bnnsh Aerospace Dynamics, the Anglo/French joint venture. \l.ill be the main contractor on the UK variant of PA~\1S, bringing work worth about E700 million to the LiK. A spokesman for BAe said: "We look forward to working closely with the :\1inistry of Defence to produce the worlds most advanced missile defence system."

foundering on the allocation of work. The-building of the frigates is unlikely to generate work for the Govan shipyard on the Clvde. which has been put up for sale by its Norwegian owner, Kvaerner. as the

New effort to cut red tape

The Prime Minister has ordered a war on red tape after complaints that industry is struggling to cope with new regulations and laws. Government departments are to face checks to ensure that new laws do nor suffocate or overburden business or the professions with bureaucratic demands. Dr Jack Cunningham, Minister for the Cabinet Office, has been given the new forcement role inside Whitehall to tackle ministries which clutter legislation with unnecessary regulations and paperwork. He is to outlim: his approach tonight in a speech to the Social Market Foundation.

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worked was found guilty yesterday of harassing her with letters signed to "DearBoo". Peter Parkinson, 52, from St Leonards, East Sussex, became besotted with Capt Angharad Crew after meeting her for the first time at All Saints Church on the Pirbright Army Camp in Surrey. He wrote telling her of his love for her and calling her by her nickname of Boo but was sacked after she became distressed by the letters and military police were called in. Parkinson,who was a civilian employed to assist the padre at the base, told magistrates at Guildford: "I was in love with her and thats a fact of life. I wanted to show my feelings towards her." Sentence was adjourned for reports.
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A PASSENGER jets crew have reported a close encounter with an unidentified flying object. They said that they noticed an "incandescent" light below their Debonair BAe 146 as it headed over the North Sea from Sweden to Humberside. Then. they added. a long cylindrical silvercoloured object the size of a battleship flew alongside. The British planes shocked captain saw what seemed to be rows of square portholes on the UFO before it vanished at "enormous speed". The crew told the Defence Ministry about their sighting. An RAF radar station tracked the object, which was seen from three other planes.

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He had been working at the MOD for six years.But on this particular day he was moving within the department known as Secretariat (AirStaff) to the UFO desk (the only official post worldwide looking into sightings,a job he ended up doing for three years). He was pleased to have landed the position, even though he had no particular interest in UFOs. "Ithought it would involve dealing with a lot of strange people," he says."I thought I would spend my days writing letters like:Dear Mr Smith,thank you for your letter concerning the strange lights you saw in the sky recently. sure its nothing to worry about. Now run along.. .I could not have been more wrong." We duck out ofthe rain and enter a bar called a dimly lit backstreet offWhitehall. Pope tells me that this is where many MOD employees come drinking. We pass candlelit booths and huddles of suited folk engaged in earnest conversation (highly classified defence secrets perhaps?) and settle ourselves at a table. Nick Pope is 33 years old,5ft 8in tall, darkhaired and seems like an easy-going,down-toearth guy. Dressed in a blue and white striped shirt and dark suit,he loosens the tie around his neck,takes a slug of his white wine,nudges a pair ofdark-rimmed glasses up the bridge of his nose and begins the account of his conversion. "My predecessors at the UFO Desk mainly replied to people who reported sightings by suggesting a conventional explanation like airhe says."ButI decided to be craft more proactive than them. "Initially,this involved gathering information on, say, when and where Name Nick Pope Richard Branson flew his Virgin airAge 33 ships,or when and where military exer- . I Nationality British cises, weather balloon launches,laser i He was bom on 19September 1965in london,g)fNI up in the light displaysor meteor events were due Surrey village of Rowledge,went to take place."Amazingly,nobody in the to lord Wandsworth College in job had done this before.This meant he longSutton,near Basin~oke could do more than suggest convenand then started but didntfinish tional explanations to UFO sightings,he a law degree. He drifted into the could confirm 95 per cent of them. CMI Service,thinkingthat it But that still left five per cent unexwould be a good measure while he decided what plained. Considering 13 million people to do with his life - almoSt 14 worldwide were reported to have seen years later, hes Stillthe~. Since something,650,000 sightings were unhe took the MODsUF()job, his accounted for.Pope,being a methodical gjrtfriends have objected to, playing second fiddle t alienss() chap,felt he wouldnt be doing hisjob of hesstill single (although utterly protecting the defence of the realm in love with GillianArJderson). properly unless he checked out at least the British incidents. i Earning a few raised eyebrows from fellow officials, he immersed himself in the literature on the subject - every book,report,paper and .1 wacky UFO magazine he could lay his hands . on.He made contact with every researcher and investigator who had ever touched on the phenomenon."Iwasnt swayed from my scepticism by others," he says."What changed my mind were the cases I personally investigated."

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what did he think it was then? "A real It was a bit of kit a quantum leap ahead of anything even on our drawing boards. Cases like this convinced me that an extraterrestrial explanation best fits the facts.There was simply nothing else it could be." Pope conducted a two-week investigation and sent a report to the assistant chief of air staff.MOD officials agreed with him - the case could not be explained.But they did not agree that it constituted a defence threat. "To me,that was so wrong-headed,it was laughable," he says."These people had their heads in the sand.They just repeated parrotfashion:UFOs- no defence significance, giving no thought to how ridiculous that made them sound.Its a nonsense to write this off as being of no defence significance." Conspiracy theorists may suggest shady dealings but Pope has no time for suggestions of . cover-ups."Several officials thought I was digging in areas best left untouched," he says."But this was not because they were hiding a secret.It comes down to ignorance,prejudice and belief systems.People find it frightening to have research which suggests we are not alone,shattering their cosy view of the world." Although Pope is adamant that there has not been any cover-up activity in Britain,he cannot be so sure about the States:"Im more inclined to believe there are things which havent emerged there.But I dont want to level any direct accusations of a cover-up because I have not been involved on an official level." Does Roswell not make him suspicious? "Roswell has turned into something of an industry.But theres no getting away from the fact an awful lot of eyewitnesses saw something very strange there. The trouble is,now the case is 50years old,the number ofwitnesses who are still alive is small and declining. So its incredibly difficult to be certain about There used to be an official line of inquiry in the States similar to that managed by Pope in Britain. From 1948, Dr J Allen Hynek, Professor of Astronomy at Northwestern

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There were two famous historic sightings which paved the way for his change of heart. The first one,known as Britains Roswell,was the Rendelsham Forest incident. At 3am on 27 December 1980,two security patrolmen,from the joint RAF/USAF airbase at Woodbridge in Suffolk,witnessed a 3x2m triangular metallic-looking object illuminating the coniferous woods with red and blue lights. When a team led by the deputy base commander, Lieut-Colonel Charles Halt, went to investigate the next day,they found dents in the ground and scorch marks up trees. But,most importantly,they saw the strange object for themselves.It conveniently returned for several hours before disappearing in a flurry of multicoloured pulsating lights into the blackness of space. The team submitted a report to the but it was never investigated in detail. Despite the object being seen by a number of trained military observers,it was judged to be of no defence significance. Case closed. "It was a tragic missed opportunity,"claims Pope."Herewas one ofthe nost important sightings anywhere 1 the world and nobody interviewed witnesses or checked radar and radiation data.SoI decided to reopen the investigation."When he checked the radiation taken by Halt and his team with the Defence Radiological Protection Service,he found that where the object had pressed into the ground, readings were ten times higher than

The other well-known case that intrigued him was the wave of sightings over Belgium on the night of30-31 March 1990.Both the Belgian gendarmerie and Nato picked up the object on their radar screens.Nato authorised the scrambling of two F-16 fighters.These jets,capable of l,lOOmph,were airborne in minutes.But as fast as they locked the object onto their radar,it broke away at unbelievable speed.After a 75minute aerial chase,it vanished completely. A combination of public, police and pilot eyewitness accounts described.a triangular formation of coloured lights on the underside of a huge craft.The Belgian government admitted it had no idea what it

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Exactly three years later,a similar wave of sightings occurred over Britain.When Pope came into work at 9am on 31 March 1993 he was inundated with witness reports.The most extraordinary account came from a meteorological officer at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. This man,who clearly knew his airships from his meteors,saw a triangular object the size of a Jumbojet flying erratically towards him at several hundred miles an hour.It swept a beam of light over the ground as if looking for something and then shot off at high speed,moving from about 30mph to a speed several times that of an RAFjet in an instant.

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ut ifhe was sceptical about UFO sightings at first.he was plain annoyed with people who suggested they had been inside them.How was he meant to do serious. respectable research into unexplained craft when there were nutters bringing the subject into disrepute with their half-baked notions of alien abductions and intergalactic breeding programmes? Realising that there could be something in UFOs changed all Suddenly Pope realised that .transportwas a secondary concern.As he puts it, if the Queens motor drives up outside your house,you dont faft around examining her wheels, you find out what the hells shes doing there.Horrified at how dismissive he had been of reports of alien abductions before his UFO revelation in 1993.he set about trying to make amends with these victims. Slowly, war got out that the man from the ministry was now prepared to hear your tale,however bizarre. He spent hours with hundreds ofindividuals, listening carefully while they unravelled their

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A British Airways passenger jet on its way from Milan to Manchester, was overtaken by a wedge-shaped craftjust above the clouds when visibility was ten miles. The object, which was covered with small white lights and possibly a black stripe down its side,flashed silently past at such a speed that the copilot ducked as it went by. A year-long investigation could not explain the incident.

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galaxies. And nearly everyone thinks that if extra-terrestrials were visiting us our Government would do everything in its power to cover it up, according to a new survey. Unsurprisingly, sci-fi fans, particularly enthusiasts of the TV series The X-Files, are most likely to assume a conspiracj; with 86 per cent expecting the Government to lie. "Even people who do not believe in CFOs believe the Government wouldnt tell the truth if they ,knew there was alien life." said Paul Simpson. editor of Focus magazine. which polled more than people, Overall. more than 50 per cent of the CK population believes there is intelligent life on other

by age, and geographically. The biggest believers in alien intelligence ,live in the South West, where . more than two-thirds think that we are not alone, while Londoners are the most scepti- I Pensioners were the least likely to accept the idea of extraterrestrials. "A lot of scientists are coming to the view that alien life is out there," said i\Ir Simps~, "Our poll shows that

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A GROUP of retired and police officers are risking ridicule by coming forw to tell all abo t their alleged encounterswith UFOs. _ than 20 officers have responded to an advertisement in Police Review inviting them to I taken aboard a space _- craft and -. i recount their close encounters of, examined by aliens. police officer says he took five the third kind. These in ude I stories of alien abdction and photographs of a UFO while on . gigantic blocks of light hovering duty in the West Midlands in the 19808, but that the MoD confis-

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IT: To protect other members of your household children and those who cannot look after themselves. It is even effective after an abduction, helping prevent future UFO visits.

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USE IT: In the first stages of abduction (symptoms: paralysis and a general feeling .of terror), or when your mind is still able to function -.although you may not be able to move. WHAT YOU NEED: Confidence that the technique will work. HOW TO 00 IT: Concentrate all your energy on moving one small part of the bodypreferably a finger or a toe. It comes down to willpower, patience and a high IQ.

RESULT: When movement occurs paralysis is broken and the visitor vanishes - supposedly scared off by your finger pointing. SUN RATING: 3 Who can be bothered thinking that much at 3.30am? Probably better to go back to sleep and let the aliens do what they came for. Besides, any ET who has travelled to faraway galaxies is hardly likely to be afraid of some toe-waggling.

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WHAT YOU NEED: To feel your rights are being violated, a good left-hook, or a heavy kitchen appliance. HOW TO 00 IT: The urge to fight should be swift and instinctive. It can be used when the aliens are present or seen approaching ou tdoors. Get angry and lunge at them.

RATING: 5 - Dancing around like Prince Naseem should be enough to scare away any unearthly being. This worked for Will Smith in Independence Day. But avoid the technique if the alien has a ray gun. Being zapped hurts, so just say sorry and offer to buy it a pint.
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How To Defen Yourself Against AI/en Abduction (Piatkus,1:0.99).

ARE you worried about being abducted aliens? Are the ETs giving y u the DTs? Fear not. The Suns fivepoint plan will help you avoid being kidnapped by a Klingon or spirited away by an outer space spook. No, we havent been watching too many episodes of the X Files. A flying saucer dropped oH a mystical new book at our Wapping HQ called How To Defend Yourself Against Alien Abdudion. And we feel it is our duty to pass on its message. Yes, the truth is in there... apparently. Author Ann Druffel has spoken to more than 250 abductees and has come up with some alien-zapping tips. Here Sun writer DAVID GARFINKEL picks the bestwith his ratings out of ten.

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assertive voice and a good knowledge of rude words. HOW TO 00 IT: Focus on the intruder. Think of the family members you love and then curse to your hearts content. But remember the "anger" cannot be rooted in fear or despair - try and be positive. RESULT: If you hold no grudge .or hatred, then the ET should get the message - its a bit similar to exorcism. SUN RATING: 9 -If nothing else the alien should break down in fits of laughter. Then jump in with Physical Struggle and give it a good bashing. But if you use this technique after the aliens have gone, make sure your neighbours understand youre not swearing at them.

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are not going quietly. But the anger must be focused towards asserting rights rather than hating the aliens. Its a purely emotional technique. SUN RATING: 1 - WhaL selfrespecting alien monster is going to be worried about a human in pyjamas shouting: "Go away"? Instead, blast out a few Max Bygraves hits - if that doesnt work, nothing will

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WHEN. TO USE IT: Effective whether you are asleep, on the toilet, or in any kind of "altered state" such as after visiting the pub. . . The most powerful technique yet discovered, since it can be readily used by most people. WHAT YOU NEED: Faith in a spiritual realm, after-life or angels. Basically, anything remotely religious. HOW TO 00 IT: Crouch down in front of the alien and start praying or waving the Bible. If the sky doesnt open up and strike the alien down, call a priest to come and help out. RESULT: As long as the alien isnt an atheist then it will get . back oil board. its UFO and bother someone else. SUN RATING: 6 Praying for a miracle may seem a good idea, but so is running away. Ask yourself this question: . "Have any of my prayers ever come true?" If not, quickly move onto the other techniques as someone up there obviously doesnt like you.

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The light way to track an alien

Scientists have a new way of contacting extraterrestrials, says Nicholas Booth
ET is trying to contact us, he wont be phoning - he will use the powerful flashlights that are lasers to draw our attention. Like lighthouses on the unexplored seas of space, these unique flashes oflaser light,which astronomers can detect with simple equipment,

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will soon tell us whether any stars are harbouring advanced civilisations. That is the startling claim of the Ameri-. can inventor of the laser, Charles Townes,

who has long urged his colleagues to look for such tell-tale signs of alien intelligence. All scientific searches to date have involved listening for radio signals from alien civilisations: now a team from the University of California at Berkeley will use a simple, antiquated telescope to try to spot the laser flashes. At 83, Professor Townes,a Nobel prizewinner, is delighted to be vindicated. "I proposed this idea in the Sixties," he says. perton microwave spectroscopy,the realwill start to ing of gases using radio waves. He "Now a group of make.a search this autumn. I am very ised that by using molecules to amplify signals, he could generate a powerful pleased." This attempt is the start ofa new era of source of radiation. After he discussed the according to method in a scientific journal 50 years astronomy. The method is, the astronomer in charge,"embarrassing- ago,"morethan oneNobel laureate said it It was viewed as a craly simple". Embarrassing because it could would never have been undertaken at any time in the Cj, cute idea and there wasnt much to Early o e spring morning in 1951,while past four decades, but Professor Towness sitting on a park bench in notion of looking, rather than Professor Washington, listening, was largely ignored. Townes had what he calls "di"If there are aliens sending vine inspiration" of how to we will us messages by laser, make a maser work and its see them," says Dan Werthirripossible applications."Irecoger, the director of Berkeleys nised that it could be a sensiSearch for Extraterrestrial Intive amplifier or atomic telligence (SETI)programme. he says. Unlike the aliens in movies, Throughout the 1950s, the who frequently speak English, wavelengths used to probe gasthe real ones would probably es were made progressively not use Morse code. "They. shorter so much so that he powerwould send very 2,500 could get down to optical ful pulses of laser light that lengths. Together with his would be unmistakable. It brotherin.law, Arthur Schawdoesnt require that muchenerlow,he developed the laser.AcDr Werthimer says. gy to cordingly,Townes won the Later this autumn, he and bel Prize in 1964 (alongwith two Russians his colleagues will use a 30in telescope modest by professional standards at who had independently come across the Mount Leuschner, about 20 miles east of same principle). Lasers can now be found Berkeley, to look for laser flashes. Light everywhere, from supermarkets to home captured by the telescope will be split into CD players to hospitals. two and fall on to photo-multiplier tubes. "It comes home to me when I hear of which will amplify the signal. If both see friends who have had their sight unusual flashes "tspecific wavelengths stored," Professor ToWnes says."Tome,it uses -lasting perhaps"few billionths of a sec- was clear that the most importantoptics ond, with a power output greater than would come from connecting up stars they are looking at they and electronics." that of the Proof positive comes from the telescope will have hit the jackpot. . Seeing signals in the two separate now being used by Dr Werthimers team halves of the beam means that they could (it is normally used to train Berkeley undergraduates). In 1959 the same year in not be artefacts of the detection process. was developed Lasers are the only way that bursts of which a workable maserdeclared thatdetwo radio asttonomers light could be sufficiently concentrated. radio signals would be the only As with the powerful search beams of a tecting lighthouse,they could be directed to specif" way to find aliens. As a result,the scientific stars such as our Sun. Lasers work by ic community tended to dismiss any other exciting gas atoms and forcing them to wavelengths that could be used to send give up their energy in the form of an in- messages. By the mid-1960s, Professor Townes tense flash of light. We could easily send a message into had moved to Berkeley and was working space to other civilisations," Professor at the Space Science lab. By then,his idea Townes says. His Berkeley.colleagues was bolstered by the discovery of naturalagree. According to Dr Werthimer, you ly existing masers in space.There are vast could attach a simple laser to an opticaltel- clouds of gas between the stars which can escope and direct it to nearby stars and act as masers.Their constituentmolecules send messages.You could do that with a are naturally excited to such an extent that laser that transmits one megawatt," Dr they amplify microwaves across the vast Werthimer says. Thats about the same firmament of the heavens. Any sulficiently advanced alien civilisapower as a television station." But that is far into the future. For the tion would be well aware of that and the process. Professor moment,the Berkeley team is starting its could emulateout that these clouds have own modest search: improbably,thisopti- TOWIles points

cal work will costjust $20,000 (fll,400)a year, a sign of the times for SETI research. Searching for aliens has been criticised by some as a kind of wishful thinking, a subject without a science. And American legislators certainly agree: Nasas ambitious program of SETI research using radio telescopes was cancelled in 1993. However, with private funding from supporters such as the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and the film director Steven Spielberg, SETIstruggles on. Others have said that finding evidence for alien civilisation will be impossible. A similar thing was said to Professor Townes during the late 1940s after he posed the forerunner of the laser,the maser (which produces microwave radiation rather than light). As a researcher at Bell Labs in New Jersey, he was a world ex-

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"If wed have found them earlier, then we could have developed the laser soonProfessor Townes says. "We didnt Other civilisations might have taken 1:\:1eir cue from natural masers in will This autumn, the Berkeley group sygtematically look at 2,500 nearby stars. The criterion is fairly simple: they will be Sun"like stars, around which planets like ours - and corresponding civilisations could have evolved. All involved agree that the search is a long shot, with truly astronomical odds

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The Royal Shakespeare
Company may demolish its theatre in Stratfordupon-Avon, which it says is unsuited to modern productions. Adrian Noble, the RSC director, has reportedly approached an architect to design a new building to replace the 1932 Art Deco riverside theatre as part of an f80 million redevelopment plan. Ian Rowley, an RSC
spokesman, said the brick buildings stage was increasingly unsuitable for modern drama and seating and front-ofhouse facilities were also desperately in need of refurbishment. However, the Art Deco frontage is listed Grade 2 starred and may be preserved in the redevelopment plan, partly funded by National Lottery cash.

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Boy,four,died in holiday pool

A four-year-old boy drowned in a pool at the start of a family holiday after his parents took their eyes off him for a moment, an inquest in Woking, Surrey, heard. Elliot Ribi, of Frimley, may have tripped at La Manga complex, near Alicante, Spain. He was found without his armbands which he always wore in the water. Verdict: accidental death.
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did not make the occasion a national event.

the good and she was much loved by the nation. "I think that on this anniIon. aph versary I will pray for her the And I would like to

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of a major blast of wind released after a huge coronal mass ejection from the Sun. Satellite and power line operators braced themselves for possible damage. "You are looking for a green and reddish glow," Dr Andrew Coates, of the Mullard space science laboratory, said yesterday. "The best time is a couple of hours before midnight and a little bit after midnight."

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people told the ministry that they had seen an unidentified flying object. Last year, the figure dropped to 425. In the first six months of this year only 88 people reported sightings. Ministry officials differed. from UFO experts yesterday in explaining the decline. A ministry. spokesman suggested that Hollywood was to blame. The unusually high 1996 figures had, he said, been prompted by the film Independence Day, with its story ofaliens trying to destroy Earth. This was compounded. by Men in Black, last years film about aliens living on our planet. Similarly high numbers urred after Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind in the

THE little green men from outer space have packed their bags, fired up their flying saucers and headed home. Or perhaps we have just become a little less credulous. Reported sightings of UFOs have fallen dramatically in Britain in the past year, according to the Ministry of Defence. In 1996,609

late 1970s, when sightings rocketed from 435 to 750. The spokesman added that the comet and last years 50th anniversary of an American pilot coining the term "flying saucer" had contributed to the figures. "There was series of films and events in 1996 and 1997 which triggered off a spate of reports from the public," he said. "In contrast, this year we have had the World Cup.". His theory has a flaw: UFO sightings dropped from 600 to 250 after ET hit the screens in 1982. Nick Pope,a UFO expert and civil

lQ csUFO project." Graham Birdsall, editor of UFO Magazine, said official reports .of sightings had declined because the ministry decided last year to stop taking them in person over the telephone, installing an answering machine instead. This put people off making a report. He claimed that the official figures represented only 10 per cent of UFO sightings, most of which went unreported because observers were afraid of being mocked. Many other reports, made to the police and airports, did not reach the ministry. The official figures were given in a written parliamentary answer to Lord
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THERE IS "compellingphysical evidence" that sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)have some basis in reality, an independent group of scientists has concluded though they reckon alien craft are probably not involved. The finding was welcomed by UFO groups, despite the sceptical tone of the scientists, who hinted that natural phenomena are probably at the root of many reports. "The fact that a number of scientists from different coun. tries and credible backgrounds have been prepared to look seriously at the data is amazing. It wouldnt have happened 10 years ago," said Graham Birdmagazine, a sall, editor of UFOwith a worldBritish publication wide circulation of 140,000. A nine-member panel led by a physicist from the august Stanford University in Califor. nia declared yesterday that some of the thousands of UFO sightings reported over the past decades merit further

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Drive for quango sex balance

from 12,200 to 19,000 and to David Hencke cut the number of men from Westminster Correspondent, 26.000 to 19,000. Four ministries -the Government is to partment of Education and search out 7,000 women Employment. the Scottish to replace men to serve Office. the Department of on 1.100 quangos and public Social Security and Departbodies, David Clark. Chancel- ment of Health appointments lor of the Duchy of Lancaster. to NHS boards - aim to reach parity within three years. announced yesterday. Two other ministries the Women are to be given paritv with men in future ap- Northern Ireland Office (45 p intments for government per cent) and the Department bodies as part of a move to of Environment, Transport make the bodies more ac- and Regions (40 per cent) countable and representative will just miss the parity tarof society. There is also to be get for 200l. The least progress comes a drive to increase the number of ethnic minority mem- from ministries with the worst records. The Ministry bers serving onquangos. The ambitioUs target of of Defence, whose quangos

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Staffordshire. It lit a trail over Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire before disappearing in a flash over North Wales. There were 288 calls to pOlice and coastguards in a 90-minute period from 11.02pm on Thursday night with reports ranging from a flying saucer and a blazing aircraft to the end of the world. There were even comparisons to the film Deep Impact in which the Earth is threatened by a comet. But as imaginations ran riot experts dismissed it as nothing more sinister than a shower of meteors probably little bigger than pebbles. unusually large meteor shower Because ofthe incredible speed they which takes place when material and travel at they create a spectacular debris from outer space comes dazzling effect as they burn up on through the upper atmosphere. impact with the earths atmosphere. When the a It was as if night had turned into zero-gravity material passes fromof zone into the said businessman Alan Lester the upper atmosphere, it gravityup burns who witnessed the fireball on Thurs- because of the friction. It is not day night as he walked his dog in unusual on a smaller scale, but last Eastbourne, East Sussex. He said nights shower seems to have been yesterday: My eyes are still hurting quite now because the light was so Dr Robin Catchpole, a research Janet Troop, 50, an environmental the Royal Greenwich health technician of nearby Lewes, astronomer atin Cambridge, said: Observatory said: 1 saw an exceptionally bright The piece or pieces of rock were light, so large it lit up the sky. It was probably quite small in size, like a as if something was burning pebble or small stone. A Ministry of Defence spokesman But they said: We are satisfied this was a 45,OOOmph can travel at speeds of and given meteor shower which broke up on velocity, generate that sort of entering the Earths atmosphere, energy on hitting the huge kinetic atmosphere. causing the bright glow which peoThis accounts for the vivid bright pIe saw. There was no impact on the light which can be seen so clearly ground and therefore there is no with the cause for concern and no further tain the naked eye. It is almost cerdebris vaporised on contact action will be taken by us. Initial reports suggest it was an with the atmosphere and all that would be left would be

nomenon hurtled across Cornwall and Devon, then on over Sussex. the Thames Valley and

By JAMES GOLDEN IT started with a ball of blue light flashing across the night skies. The dazzling flame-like phe-

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Meteors may have carried the seeds of life to the Earth,according to one theory. An American scientist examining a meteor was startled to find it contained the served spore of a fern simifar to ones that existed on Earth 100miflion years ago. estimated 14million meteors enter the atmosphere every day weighing a total five tons but indivdually they are mostly the size of a grain of sand. Research suggests that one In 100 could come from beyond the solar system. On an average clear, dark night an observer will see five to ten meteors an hour. Meteors can be used in radio communications to bounce brief messages up to 1,200 miles from station to station.

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David Kyte, saw one plunge into the sea at Eastbourne, Sussex. He said: "/ w s on the beach fishing when a fireball the size of a fridge flew over my and landed in the sea half a mile offshore. ..It was very spectacu-

of Wales and southern England, the air turned blue late on Thursday night when a particularly bright shooting star sliced through the sky. "We had more than a dozen calls around midBy ADAM LEE.POTTER night from people who had seen a single blue light that EMERGENCY services was bigger than a car," said were put on red alert Sergeant John Drake of yesterday after hundreds Staffordshire police. of callers claimed we were being invaded by a Many callers thought fleet of flying saucers. they had seen a flying sauPanicking Brits dialled cer, but it was more likely a 999 to warn the night -meteor: cosmic debris burnsky was alive with hoving up in the atmosphere. ering UFOs. The first to see it were pi.. J?ut the mystery blue lots of airliners. "It would llgnt turnea out to be a huge METEOR shower.
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most of them are human. Eddie Page says he isnt. This Vietnam veteran claims he is one of 32 extra-terrestrial hybrids manufactured by cloning technology between 1953 and 1955. Of the 21 females and II males, Eddie believes threequarters are already dead: The experiment, he says, was sanctioned by US government officials in exchange for alien science secrets. What makes Eddies story stand out is not only the extraordinary detail - medical records, government documents. witnesses but the way he tells it. His pages at www.worldfamous.com are an extended advertisement for three

Internet. But at least one.alien or not, could survive

birth of their child and rejected by his adopted parents. No

ship. The third, with Eddie in still deeper trance, shows him . apparently communicating with the beings who created him. He is not, its fair to say, a totally credible character. He was accused of desertion in Vietnam, abandoned by his first wife immediately after the

videos. The first features Eddie, alone and conscious,talking to camera. The second records a hypno-regression experiment with Eddie in a trance recalling 1l days aboard a space-

all those experiences unscarred. But I would trust his testimony still less if he was always lucid and unscrambled instead of jittery and paranoid. Being half-alien would make anyone paranoid. He appears much more anxious to tell his story than sell his wares. After you have downloaded the four long summaries a full picture emerges. His description of a battlefield abduction and the military investigation that followed are classics of their kind. The details from hypnotherapy, including science fiction-style names for the aliens and their planet, are less convincing. But inevitably the imagination supplies extra infomJation to fill gaping holes in conscious memories. The medical reports including Rrobes into Eddies nonhuman internal organs and the removal of unknown metals from his brain are apparently not imaginar). Can you open your mind wide enough to accept any of this? The evidence is there. Judge for yourself.

Uri Gellers Web site is at http://www.urigeller.com

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May bought a Sony Digital Multi-Trax system which was used for Queen alb ms from The Miracle onwards. The original machine could mix 20 channels and was used on his first solo

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Mercurys health was fading fast towards the end, and it was a race against time to get that last album finished. "Freddie would record scraps whenever he could, while wed be writing at full pelt," May adds. After spending 18 months in front of a Pro Logic machine, mixing the fragments together,

May is most proud of the track I Was Born To Love You because it sounds like a spontaneous jamming session. "We didnt tell anybody at the time how it was really made," he says.
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The venue and the stars may have been American - but most of the talent was British. Tim Wapshott in Atlanta reports from the worlds biggest gaming show
more than other summed up the at this years E3 gaming trade show in Atlanta - "next generation 3-D", The worlds largest event of its kind. the three-day show attracted more than 30,000 visitors anxious for a Sr1eak preview of 1,600 new titles. The market is booming, largely thanks to the trend of titles being released simultaneously on several or all formats,for both PCs and consoles. But the consensus at E3 was one of disappointment at the lack of original product, with sequels and copycat titles dominating.While most
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large games companies are American or Japanese, Britain still plays a vigorous part in development.Probably a third or more of the titles on show at the cavernous Georgian World Congress Center are the brain- geon. You can even tickle your children of British design teams. creatures and, after youye paid At American-owned Electronic them,let them go to the casino to Arts, it was Guildford-based unwind, then fix the odds and Bullfrog Productions which cre- grab back your money - alated some of the keenest interest though this doesn1 make them with its follow-up to the hugely very happy." popular Dungeon Keeper. Lead At the stand for Fox InteracprogrammerShaun Cooper said tive, a News Corporation comof Dungeon Keeper 2: "111e pany, the lead title is a unique sequel brings more depth and gaming episode of the cult telehumour to the game. Now you vision series The X-Files. The must positively encourage rats game stars David and bats to inhabit your dun- Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

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as FBI agents Mulder and Scully in a specially-commissioned adventure. But it was one of Foxs other titles, Aliens Vs Predator, which many dubbed ilie game of the show. Made by Oxfords Rebellion, this is a blast-feast where players adopt one of three roles Alien, ,Predator or Colonial Marine and one weapon is loaded with leilial acid Among many titles from Hasbro Interactive was a colourful childrens game emanating from Interactive Studios in Leamington Spa. Glover is a 3-D fantasy platform game with two characters roaming mirrored worlds, one good the other Scotland, too, was making its mark. Affectionately nicknamed Scotsoft, the Scottish Games Alliance last year drummed up, E20 million worth of development contracts and this year many of those came tofruition at the show, including the 3-D makeover of the popular Earthworm Jim series. Earthworm Jim 3D, developed for Interplay by Vis Interactive.

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lulder. She has yet to play the new X-Flies game, preferring to concentrate on motherhood
Ime Boy handheld business 1 now boasts a mono digital ra that works with the lal Game Boy and Pocket

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shows off the performance of the . pad. The second new plug-in is the SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel, a steering wheel for driving games which reaHstic driving experiences with atmospheric vibrations. Two other software titles creating excitement at the Microsoft stand were Urban Assault best described as a 3-D Command & Conquer, due to hit shops this year and Age of Empires II: The Age ofKings,the sequel to the superb empirebuilding game. This will be released next year. The hottest title at the show was seen by fewer than 300 visitors. [n a small office inside the Eidos stand, Ion Storms Tom Hall offered the chosen few

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Quake and Doom. One of the more unusual Eidos titles is the smart and good-looking topdown business caper Gangsters: Organisers Crime from Bristols Hothouse. Director Peter Moreland explained: "It is all about control, extortionand gang warfare as four underworld gangs fight it out for domination of a Chicagoiike city. "Once you have built an empire by bullying you retire, go legitimate then run for public office by buying businesses to launder your ill-gotten gains. If you are not intimidating enough, however, the straight businessmen squeal to the police." Another sure-fire winner is the futuristic Omikron: The Nomad Soul, developed by Eidos France with a decidedly naughty French You have the freedom to explore every inch of the animated 3-D world - including a seedy red-light district complete with peep-show and lap dancers.

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THE BRIGHTEST star to edu tional, dictionaries and visit E3 triggered queue of encyclopedias. They are there autograph-hunters stretching when I have some time." the length of the main exhibiderson filmed her inserts tion hall. Gillian Anderson, for the X-Files CD-Rom over better Imown as FBI agent six days, between working on Scully in The X-Files, arrived the series and the on Saturday to help promote movie. Will she do another Fox Interactives spin-off game? "If this is successful I
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mad, the misguided and, per- milltary aircraft. The number of reports of haps occasionally,the privileged. The machine, in the office of "close encounter experiences"is the MoD Secretariat (Air Staff), also increasing,Mrs Dixon said. is the one conduit where the "The close encounter experipublic can pass on sightings of ence is a problem,as although it UFOs to the Government. is interpreted as being like a UFO Even believers admit that the encounter this may not be the vast majority of UFOs reported case.These extraordinary events turn out to be IFOs- identifiable could be linked to other anom-

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RAF spots
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BRITAINS X-Files may be opened up amid claims of stunning evidence that UFOs fly over Britain. Tapes to be shown to British and American experts are said to show objects which change shape in mid-air and a battleship-sized aircraft travelling at
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revealed in early June at a Space Symposium at the . RAFs Cranwell staff college. A senior RAF source claims the mystery craft have been picked up by the latest Phased A{ray radar at the Cold War listening post at Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. One senior officer said: "What we have seen are not secret weapons. They are craft are.

cannot explain what they are." The most spectacular discovery is a craft spotted by Fylingdales and the Dutch Air Force over the North Sea. Described as "the size of a battleship", it zig-zagged at up to 24,OOOmph for 15 minutes, "as if it wanted to be spotted". Another tape shows a group of 12 oval objects seemingly change shape, to the amazement of observers. But the RAF is expected to withhold some X-Files. It is feared they could reveal how sophisticated their new radars

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keep up, it is claimed. RAF officials are said to be balDed by the object, spotted by the Ministry of Defence long-range listening station on Fylingdales moor in North Yorkshire. It was definitely under control, jUdging by the various manoeuvres executed,said a source.It appeared to be triangular and was around the size of a battleship (aboul900fllong). Radar records of the craft are due to be presented to science and military experts from around the world, who will examine how to exploit space for military purposes at a conference at RAF College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire, in June. Other tapes of

It then accelerated to 24,OOOmph and zoomed off towards the Atlantic. The Dutch air force also tracked the UFO,but two F-16 fighters scrambled to intercept the object were unable to

THE RAF has tracked a UFO as big as a battleship off the coast of Britain, military sources revealed yesterday. They said the massive craft was tracked flying in a zig-zag pattern at 17,OOOmph over the North Sea.

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thought to have been made during the last two years are withheld because they give too being much information about the radar bases scanning ability. However, military chiefs may release a second series of tapes, reported to show 12 UFOs changing shape in mid-flight. While the battleshipUFO is most likely to be an experimental aircraft or a sighting caused by a freak weather effect, UFO watchers believe it is further evidence that the Earth is being visited by alien craft. The popularity of TV series such as the X-Files has rekindled interest in fiying saucers and conspiracy theories in recent years. A spokesman for the Fortean Times,the journal devoted to UFOs, psychic phenomena and the paranormal, said: The vast majority of strange objects seen in the sky have a more down-to-earth explanation. But most UFO investigators would be very interested in seeing these tapes. The latest theory gaining

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filed with local UFO-spotters of a triangular craft, grey in colour, hovering in an area 15 miles around Howards home. Hall wrote up her experience for her paper but was astonished to find that when it appeared, the location had; been moved from near Howards home to the other side of the marshes at New Romney. "Events seemed to have been relocated several miles away. I dont know how this about; I have asked but have not been given an explanation." When Hall attempted to suggest in a later article that Howards home had been the real site of the visit, the Tories began to fight back. Michael Buxton, Howards agent, telephoned the paper to complain: the stories stopped. Neither the local police nor the Ministry of Defence have any record of an incident that evening, despite the series of sightings. A police spokesman, however, said it might have been dealt with by Howards own police protection team. Sheila Gunn, John Majors press secretary, said last week she was aware of reports at the time of an extraterrestrial sighting. but the Tories had managed to keep them out of the national papers. "It was all rather strange," she said, "but then, that election campaign was pretty strange all round, wasnt it?" The <: se is now being pressed by Mark Watts, the Labour MEP for Kent East, who is asking the European parliament to investigate.

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vative party media machine desperate to avoid embarrassing headlines and cartoons. Senior Tory spin doctors say they were aware of the story, which appeared in a local newspaper, while Howards agent has admitted halting publication of detailed reports about the incident in the paper b)1 complaining to the editor. The bizarre story began 0 I the night of March 8, 1997, week before John Major nounced the date of the general election but with all th parties already firmly in cam paign mode. At 3am Sarah Hall, a reporter on the Folke stone Herald, was drivin along Donkey Street Lympne, near Hythe, whe she heard a strange hummin and stopped her car. Ahead of her she saw a hugq triangular craft hovering a field. "It had a large dome a one end and lots of brigh lights around the sides and looked quite shinv. I had no idea what it I felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck," she said. "After a few seconds it off and stopped 500 metre away. It then moved an stopped four times before liv . ing off." Her sighting was confirmed by Chris Rolfe, a local UFd spotter. "This tallies with an unofficial account I was giver/ that it was seen bv two fireJ

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Reports from a wi e stretch of northern England and Scotland of strange glowing lights in the sky and a possible explosion left emergency sc/Viccs baffled yesterday. Coastguards,police and the RAF began receiving calls from worri~d members of the public at 9am.The descriptions varied but included yellow,orange and. white trails in the sky sometimes accompanied by the sound of whooshing or a loud explosion. Sensors at the Geological SUIVey team in Edinburgh . recorded some form of "sonic event"in t Moray Firth area. cxtensive searches by RAF search and rescue helicopters. checks by coastguard and discussions with the e:\1ens at the AmeriC<!n space agency Nasa failed to produce any explaoalaw in the Borders after a sug- I craft were reported missing or gestion that the lights were an overdue and the Royal Astro- aircraft, but found nothing. He nomical Society and Nasa could added that there were similar not explain the phenomena. reports from the Continent in They were not aware of any particular around Brussels yesstray matter in space heading terday morning. towards the Earth. David Galloway,ofthe GeBill McFadyen,ofAberdeen ological Su/Vey in Edinburgh, Coastguard,said the calls came said a "sonic event" had regisfrom Tyne Tees up along the tered on six of its seismometers Scottish coast to the southern t 9am.This would be caused tip of the Outer Hebrides and normally by an aeroplane gofrom well inland."Its very un- ing supersOnic or a meteorite usual to have something on this or a satellite burning up. He scale all the way up the north. pected that the lights were a me- I ern coast of Britain. Its a com- tcorite coming down,but which plete mystery to us. I get the had vaporised on entering the feeling that there was a series. Earths atmosphere,He said re. of events. I would be surprised ports of were probably exif it was just one large event." aggerated by atmospheric A spokesman for RAP Kin- conditions which were aIpl loss said they had searched an fying whatever was out there. area between Duns and GreenLouise Jury

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reports of crashed UFOs are compiled. He has spent years investigating official memos and uncovered top-secret documents which prove that the Government does not want us to know how much it knows about aliens. And in the book he describes how dozens of spacecraft have flown over military bases, by..passing flight security systems. At the height of the Cold War, the Government was so concerned about UFOs that it contacted the Soviet Union to establish a joint task force to examine the, security implications of alien crall. \ But it is the evidence that UFOs have ALREADY landed in Britain which is the , most scandalous cover-up in British UFO

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objects - later known as Foc Fighters - were reported throughout the latter part of the Second World War by both Allied and Nazi servicemen. The reports certainly went through official channels. American journalist Dorothy KilgalJen was toJd by "a British official of Cabinet rank" about a Foa Fighter which had crashed in Britain a case similar to the famous Roswell incident in New Mexico 50 years ago when alien corpses were recovered. KilgaJlen was told: "British scientists and airmen examined the wreck of one mysterious flying ship and are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions but are flving saucers which oriainate n -another ::>
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In 1958. Fontes ~ already known to Brazils governmentwas visited by two men who said they were from Naval Intelligence. Fontes claimed that. after initialIy trying to persuade him to give up his work, the oflcers revealed that six UFOs had crashed throughout the world during the Second World Three were in North America. one in the Sahara Desert. one in . S~andinavia - and one in
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intelJif!ence officer Gordon Creighton said he believed Kilo-allens source was Lord Mountbatten. KilgaIlens story was backed up by Dr O]avo FOlltes. a

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black with no identifying markings - were sighted in areas of Britain where UFOs were reportedin 1"973-74. They were probably rapid deployment teams sent to investigate UFOs. according to Redfern. One such event happened at 8.30pm on)anuary 23. 1974. A UFO crashed into Cader Bronwen. a 2,000ft peak in the Berwyn Mountains near Corwen. North Wa}es. One witness. Anne \Villimns, said: "I saw a bright light in the sky. It had .a long, nery tail which went dim and then very brilliant - like an electric fire which keeps coming to life. "It was like an electric bulb in shape, with rough edges. The object Jell behind the hills at the back of my "bungalow and the earth shook. Off-duty police officer Gwilym Owen was drinki1H! in The there Dudley Arms pub was a roar, a bang and glasses in the pub shook. The sky was lit up over the mountains. Police stations as far away as 60 miles received phone ca1ls reporting the tremor. At the Institute Of Geological Sciences in Edinburgh,-the crash measured four on the Richter

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Mr M L was visiting friends in the Churnet Valley. Staffs, on July 19. 1991. when he saw an object fall from the sky at nearby Ipstones. The time was 1Opm. M L described the object as metallic - 1ike aluminium lOft long. cigar-shaped and very bright. He immediately contacted police. They searched the woodland. A helicopter was used as No object was located but an area of newly-broken branches was found which gave the

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A SMAll twin~tailed aircraft crash-landed on the runway at RAF Boscombe Down, on Salisbury Plain four miles !rom Stonehenge, at about 11 pm on September 26, 1994. Several aviation enthusiasts listening on airband radios drove to the air base the next day, They were stopped by police at roadblocks. Before being ushered away, several enthusiasts saw a disabled craft at the end of the runway covered by tarpaulins,

Two days later, the wreck was flown to a California military base. Although the craft was initially believed to be a thensecret US military plane known as TR-3A, one witness said the crashed craft was completely silent and was able to hover vertically abilities the TR-3A didnt possess, A month before the crash, a lorry driver reported seeing a UFO over.Salisbury. Its description matched that of the crashed craft,

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sightings. A spokesman said: "Rudloe Manor is the headquarters of RAF Police. "In the past it was indeed the RAF co-ordination point

AN alarming number of UFOs were sighted around military bases in 1957. One sighting at RAF West Freugh, WigtowJlshire, was published by several newspapers. A secret Air Ministry report declassified after 30 years. reads: "It is unfortunate that the Wigtownshire radar incident fell into the hands of the Press. "We suggest that the Secretary of State does not specifically refer to thesc:,: incidents as sightings on Six years later, after another batch of sightings, the Air Ministry tried to dampen speculation but they failed to point out that many reports were by RAF pilots and radar operators. One of the most controversial sightings took place in Belfast eight years ago. The f01l0wing is an extract from a report in oftciaI Civil Aviation AuthOl;ty files about an incident on November 11, 1989. "UFO passed above aircraft at 11,200ft and burst into a cascade lio-hts. Heading due ProximityC of cloud intensified brightness of light. Sighting confirmed by another

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before racing away. Many reports have described the colossal craft as at least twice the size of e jumbo jet and pOSSIbly 500 yards like the UFO wide which hovered over in the hit WiD Smith Hollywood film Independence Day. The craft, nicknamed the "Black Triangle", has been appearing for months in the Lancaster area. Sometimes it emits three binding flashes of

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white fight from each corner. It flies frequently over nuclear plants at Heysham and Sellafield. Some UFO experts think it may be a new war-

look perhapS that is whre the reports stem from," But Simon Lewis, of the North Lancashire UFO Investigation Group who has pictures ofthe "I not craft, said:forwoutd it is sure like to say extra-terrestrial but that has to be a possibclity."

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week when the National Audit Office published its report on problems with the countrys defence procurement pro ramme, including delays in the delivery of the its own Westland Merlin helicopter. But all this is a diversion from a growing or er book at Westland and GKNs strong performance across its range of businesses. The recent bullish results have sent the shares upwards to f:l2.65 but the group still trades ata small discount to the sector. GKN has demonstrated an impressive ability to avoid the worst ravages of the strong pound and under C K Chow, the new chief executive, there are plans for expansion and the mood is upbeat.

The Observer 17 August 1997 Page 19

A FURIOUS parliamentary row has erupted over Minis, refusal to answer fur-

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weapons to suppress rebels in East Timor. Labour back~ncher Ann writing in Tribune, says Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has failed in the first test of his new ethical foreign policy. Hehas done what he had constantly criticised the previous government for doing by refusing to make a statement on the floor f the Commons so that some of the 148 Labour MPs who had signed a Commons motion calling for an end warms sales to Indonesiacould question him over his apparent

volte-face.

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and bury links between the CIA and UFOs. They do have a point - if the CIA were innocent, why bother going to such lengths to prove their point? Sticking with the factual side of ufology, weve also got a smashing article written by Australian antigravity engineer, Ted Roach. Roach explains the science behind anti-gravity powered flying vehicles, proving that the technology to built these craft is firmly in our grasp. The ramifications of this discovery are huge - imagine the sudden worthlessness of fuelpowered aircraft, resulting in a new independence from fossil fuels. Topics like this should really be public knowledge, yet they are consistently ignored by the media at large. It seems that George Orwells fictional Big Brother scenario is rapidly becoming fact. It only remains for ALIEN ENCOUNTERS to rise above these political silences, and attempt to inform as many members of the public as possible. We havent been silenced by the powers that be as yet, and hopefully we never will.

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by the or a saint. Religious imagery is now fashionable. and people who believe they have had paranormal experiences are more likely to recount how they have met a man from outer space. And many are convinced that they have been abducted or raped by the little green men. but when pressed are characteristically short of the detail that would have made the story so fascinating. and added ve-

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THE introduction of anti-psychotic 30 years ago was a huge advance drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia. Unfortunately 25 per cent of patients failed to respond to these drugs. and half of with them relapsed withinthose treated two years.. Many of the drugs also have unpleasant side-effects. Over the past year or two a new the treatment of schizophrenia has era in with the advent of the atypical started leptics. The indications for the neurotion of Risperdal has recently extended. The advice to doctors tobeen Risperdal with caution in the elderly use been replaced with the statement that Itas it is well tolerated in older patients. . Dr Tonmoy Sharma. senior lecturer at the Maudsley Hospital. "These new drugs offer a London. said: proven treatment with fewer side-effects than the older treatment. Patients are less suffer excess tiredness. sexual likely to dysfunction. gross weight gain. or uncontrollable movement to the face and limbs than are those taking conventional neuroleptics. The new drugs are also better at controlling a wide range of psychotic svnlntnrn "

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BY TOBY MOORE AND IVOR KEY CONSPIRACY theorists have reacted with typical scepticism to the "leaked" news that thousands of UFO sightings were not alien observers at all. A historian has claimed that half of the sightings of "aying saucers" spotted in the Fifties and Sixties were in fact secret sPYplane missions which the US
Government did not want to admit to at the time. Interest in UFOs has spawned not omy a multi-million dollar tourist industry in so-called "hot-spots",but the influence of hit TV programmes - notably The X-Files - has fuelled widespread claims of a cover-up of alien visits and abductions.
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a government agency infamous for subterfuge and misinformation is quickly dismissed. UFO enthusiasts sald that an admission of cover-up by the CIA can only mean that another cover-up lurks behind its new-found honesty. " "Theyre still lying, said Richard Hall, chalrman of the Fund for UFO Research. "TheAmerican public is not stupid," added Walter Andrus international director of the Mutual UFO Network. "Theyve been lied to by the government so often over the years that theyre not going to believe it now."

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Even the National S"ecurity . Council was urged to "debunk UFO reports and institute a policy of public education to reassure-the public of the lack of evidenc behind UFOs". As the Cold WBI between Russia and the US intensified, fiying saucer sigltjngs increased. A special panel of scientists,
asked to investigate the security implications of allen invasion,

victims. "Thefiying saucer community is definitely on to something in charging that the military is hiding something," said John Pike, head of space

policy at the Federation of American Scientists. The US revelations have also prompted requests that the British Government now comes clean about a 50-year spate of

Top historian Gerald Haines however, claimed in his research paper, The CIAs Role in . study ofUFOs 1947-90,that the "false cover story"is true. "Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnalssance flights," he said. "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 paper claimed that test mghts by the top-secret, high-altitude U2 spy plane were mistaken for UFOs from its launch in 1954 until 1960,when the Soviets shot doWn Gary Powers in one. Later, existence of the futuristic SR-71 Blackbird was also denied, as was Project Y ironically, a prototype fiying saucer developed by Western powers, including Britain, which could even hover. The latter aircraft was kept secret,it was claimed by Mr Haines, because of"agency fears

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concluded unanimously in 1953 that there was no credible evidence of allens, nor evidence of a direct national security threat. Mr Haines sald that by 1956, the US Air Force was able to attribute 96 per cent of all UFO sightings to the high altitude U2 and SR-71 intelligence gathering planes. He sald that the Air Force, while allowing the flights over populated areas where they might very well be seen,took care "not to reveal the cause of the sightings to the public". In:the following 20 years, all sorts of explanations were offered to a disbelieving public, including ice crystal formations, "temperature inversions" and even the sunlight refiected off seagulls. Even Mr Haines admitted that the CIA did itself no favours by continuing with such a weak

incidents oveIhere. Joe McNally, associate editor of Fortean Times,the leading journal of strange phenomenon, said that "intense secrecy" fostered by governments has simply kept the UFOs alive in the publics imagination. "There have now been three different explanations of Roswell,first it was a rocket, then it was a balloon now its

crash test dummies,to encourage scepticism." Typically,the Ministry of Defence sald yesterday that it was not involved in any secret monitoring of UFOs spotted over

Britain.

He wrote that by steadfastly concealing its interest in the matter, the CIA "contributed to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up". He added: "The UFO issue will probably not go away soon,no matter what the agency does or says. "The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue amenable to rational . exPlanation and evidence." Hardened Ufologists remain were testing that the !:)oviets unconvinced by the CIAs devices". similar admission, which closely follows if, The cover-up,however several others by the US indeed,there was one Government. backfired as early as 1952 when In M!U"ch, the military claimed officials feared mass hysteria of sightings over the would soon break out because of that a spate were the result of Arizona desert of unexplained the rash fiares fired into the desert skies. sightings. And in June,the US Air Force feared the Mr Haines said they sald that the famous Roswell Soviets would cash in on the UFO crash of 1947 contained panic by staging mass UFO crash test dummies and not sightings which would disrupt dead aliens. Americas air defence systems It has not, however, explained and enable a surprise nuclear the truth behind a secret 1llm to be launched. attack recently released to the media Top secret monitoring. which was alleged to be an discussed enlisting . autopsy of one of the alien organisations even schools, work clubs and Walt Disney to help prevent "hysterical mass behaviour".

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Therefore, there was absolutely no reason to reveal anything to the public about such sightings. "Wehave always sald that we sald a dont believe in spokesman. "Wehave no competency in that area. We only take note of reported sightings to establish if there is any threat to UK airspace." The conspiracy theorists will never believe such a seemingly rational explanation. They also now have something else to chew on Gerald Haines published his research in a CIA

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Russian cargo ship. The officer reported eye damage after photographing the Kapitan Man in US waters north of Puget Sound off Washington State. He was serving as a crew member on a Canadian Forces CH-124 Sea King helicopter. Photographs show a red light below the port bridge on the ship and the DoD suspected it may have been a laser targeted at the helicopter to blind the occupants. After an investigation the DoD said it was a port navigational running A search of the ship by US Coast Guard and Navy personnel found no evidence of a laser or modifications to the ship which would indicate the removal of a laser.

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The meetings agenda included a briefing on Lockheed-proposed technology insertions and contractor plans for how to install the Sensor Fuzed Weapon. Foreign military sales options are also an issue, as Lockheed Martin has begun
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looking for markets and the USAF international affairs office has started developing an export strategy. The WCMD tail kit assembly system is expected to improve the precision of tactical munitions such as the Combined Effects Munition smart guidance by providing a capability.for the existing dispenser. The developmental test and evaluation flight test, which was to start in May, is scheduled to run from September to January. However, the contract award

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story and it was accepted. Now, four years later, it has been revealed to an Ulster UFO study group by a former Army intelligence officer. Belfast-based expert Hugh
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morning they were Cl1nyinced they saw three, perha s four. small grey ligures in human form. "At no stage did the soldiers feel threatened. They simply coul not believe what they were seeing. The alien forms made no move towards them but judging from what the soldiers told their regimental priest and commanding officer. the aliens knew the soldiers were there. It
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s:!ggests it is I is Aliens at Roswell? As US officials spe~ulatiothatthat will ever make boththink we are all agreed that it to we unlikely unscientific and improper contact with another civilisation. dismiss UFO reports without due switch stories again,former .. should all MoD sky watcher Hlck P ope The Earth is an ideal place for intel- consideration. But weletters UFO ligepJ life to develop. Nevertheless remember that the it to h for Unidentified Flying d e b a t es U FOs WIth G reenwlc it took 4500 million years for com.: stand They do not and should not appear in a form capable of Object. miinication. .When the Earth was be to refer .to a spaceship wit,~ Observatory astronomer born the Umverse was already at or wIthout "httle green men, least 6000 million years old. Clearly which I would call a perfect exam-: Robin Catchpol~ .~. there has been enough time for a

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lAM indeed familiar with the work of Dr Allen Hynek. I have his book beside me. I see he cautions us . against "uninhibited theOt-ising" in the explanation of UFOs because we<must rely on anecdotal reports. Dr Hynek points out that "uninhibited theorising", the yeast of the scientific method, is appropriate only where such theories can be put

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FIRST became involved in lIFO w .tching in 1991, as part of my I am a civil government servant at the Ministry of Defence, and betwren 1994 I worke in a dlvisiOlI called Secretariat (Air Staff),, where my job was to investigate reports of UFO sightings. I confess to being initially sceptical. I I}elieved UFOs were vague lights in the sky seen by I AM always pleased when scien. people out late at night walking tists such as yourself get involved their dogs - perhaps on their way Pope (left)and Catchpole (right) in the debate about UFOs, and the back from the pub! I was wrong., an astronomer fact that I received between two and th:ree (including prototype craft),. both in puts I?e m mmd of of the hundred UFO reports each year.. terms of speed and manoeuvrabil- ~ foundmg fathers of serIOUS lWO and carried out detailed investigaresearch, the late Dr J am tions in attempts to correlate sight-I canI only convinced this technology As you may know, Hynek be extraterrestrial. ings with aircraft activity, was Professor of .Astr?noI?Y at Yours sincerely; astronomical phenomena, etc. North Western ym:rersIty m the Nick Pope After a rigorous investigation, US and was sCientific consultant between 90 and 95 percent of sight. to Project Blue Book, the US Air ings could be explained as, Forces study into the UFO phe. known misidentifications of - any.i I AM an astronomer, and in my 35 nomenon. He felt the UFO situaobjects and phenomena of observation and research tion merited serious scientific thing from aircraft lights to I yearsnever come across anything II study, and set up a study group weather balloons: This left what I have describe as a UFO,although I when Blue Book was closed down. would called the real UFOS. love to.share I of my The real UFOs are structured did once call off a pollee car from own official findmgs wIth you, but . of pursuing Venus setting beneath a: suspect that until and unless the craft of unknown origin, capable penetrating our sophisticated air thunder cloud. I am glad to see that UK has a Freedom of Information defence network with impunity.I Roswell was not mentioned in your Act, this will not be possible. What Sometimes they show up on radar, letter, even though this debate must I can do is point you in the direc. They have been mark its 50th anniversary. and sometimes tion of some of the Ministry of As a scientist, I respect observa. Defences old UFO files from the seen by civil and military pilots, and on occasion. RAF jet" have tions and particularly your claim fifties and sixties. Now de.classi. been scrambled to try and intercept that between 1991 an 1994 there fied, they are available to all at the these mystery craft; we have not were between 10 and 30 reports per Public Record Office in Kew, and year, made by qualified observers make fascinating reading. been able to catch them. . which you had no explanation. While I understand the point I accept that just because a UFO This is, of course, a valuable body about the lack of radio signals sighting remains unexplamed. It IS not unexplainable. But these craft of data that should be published from an extraterrestrial civilisa. display a technology whIch goes and made available to the scientific tion, I will quote philosopher Ter. beyond the cutti ng edge of at:y- community. Until this is done I can. ence McKenna, who said: "To not thing in our terrestrial inventotes fromaccept your deductive jump search expectantly for a radio sig. the observations to the exis. nal from an extraterrestrial source tence of craft that go beyond our is probably as culture-bound a pre. existing technology. . sumption as to search the galaxy I would like to open the debate I for a good Italian restaurant". wider and. at the risk of blemish.! Yours sincerely, jng mv position as a narrow. Nick Pope

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pie of "uninhibited theorising". To come to your quotation from: Terence McKenna, apart from <he ; obvioas ohservation t!1at there are many good Italian restaurants on Earth,.which is surely part of our galaxy, I would point out that although net culture-bound, our u:1iverse is science-bound. I know that it is both dangerous and unfashionable to imply we know the laws that govern our Uni. verse but the essence of a restau. rant,namely the need to provide the building material for replicat. ing life forms, would, I feel, be uni. As would the need to communicate using the fastest available means, ilamely electro. magnetic radiation or radio waves. I therefore fmd the great silence out there sadly lonely, although I live in h pe that we may yet hear

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something. Yours sincerely, Robin Catchpole.

Dear Robin,
IN DECEMBER 1980 numerous mil. itary Personnel witnessed a UFO in
RandelshamForest in Suffolk. Radi. ation readings were taken from the site where a metallic craft landed, and the defence radiological protec. tion service confirmed these were 10 times background levels. On March 31, 1990 two Belgian F1G fighters were scrambled in an attempt to intercept a UFO that had been seen by several thousand wit. nesses and simultaneously detected on Belgian and Nato radar systems. The pilots locked on to the mystery craft, but it took evasive action. The
Belgian air staff adjudged that it had been under intelligent control. On November 5, 1990 a squadron of RAF Tornado jets were caslliill~ overtaken by an unidentirted craft while on March 31, 199:1 a UFO th( ~i7.(, of a iumho iet was seen bv Inili

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Yours sincerely, Nick Pope

Dear Nick,
YOUR evidence is so compelling, why does it always seem tu be left in splendid isolation by those for whom it has serious implications? There is no doubt that secret mil. itary activity is oftell mistaken by the public and military as evidence of aliens. The need to hide this activity has led to a belief that gov- , ernments conspire to hide alien contacts. If this were true, we

would see vastly superior technology as governments exploited their secret knowledge. But we do Although we should take UFO observations seriously. they are dif. ficult to analyse. Astronomp.rs have more productive ways of searching include the search for for life. planets around other stars, investig1tion of organic materials on comets, the forthcoming examination of primitive life on Mais, and hopefully Ganymede and Callisto, and the search for intelligent radio signals. Although it seems lonely out there, I share your optimism that we may not be alone.

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investigating UFO sightings for the MiI1sUy ofDefence. He wrote a best-selling book last year, Open Skies. Closed Minds, which detailed his startling findings. Now hes got a new book out,The Uninvited, which looks at alien abductions. Its a sobering read,and his concJusions are a mite unsettling he believes abductions really do happen and theyre far more widespread than anyone previously

ent. was assigned to Secretariat(Air He

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desk. was able to look at UFO sightings and alien abductions from the inside, and I was perhaps able to put a different spin on them.I had abductees phone me up at the MinisUy and ask for help, and thats how I first came to the subject. People may pick up my book because of my background at the MoD - theyll read it and realise theyre not alone in these experiences, and then theyll come forward.I think were going to see the floodgates open in the next year or so,and its going to be extremely interesting to see whats going to A key point in Popes book is that the UFO phenomenon can be shaped by the witnesses themselves. Human perceptions are very important when looking at abduction reports, he explains, They may playa part in shaping the phenomenon itself. Put it this way,if a religious person sees a form at the end of their bed, they might say that theyve seen the Blessed Virgin Mary. If a ghost hunter saw exact]y the same thing theyd say they were seeing a ghost,

In his early thirties,Pope scarcely seems old enough to have worked in such a prestigious job he was, after all, the UKs only official researcher into the subject. But what he lacks in age, he more than makes up for in enthusiasm. been in the Ministry since he explains,but they move you around every two or three years to give you a broad spectrum of experience. And just out ofthe blue I was asked, "How would you like to look at UFOs?",so Ijumped at the chance. just come from a job where been working in the Joint Operations Centre during the Gulf War. so you couldnt get more differ-

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and if a UFO researcher saw something,theyd say "Oh my gosh, being abducted." Its the belief system ofthe witness thats really crucial, the olden days there were plenty of accounts of people being taken away by the fairies to the fairy world where time behaved in very different ways to mortal time. And its quite striking to see the parallels between these folklore tales and the modem account~ ofso-called missing time. Someones driving back down a lonely country road at night arrives back two or three hours later than they would have expected,and then it subsequently emerges that there was an abduction involving small

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Inquiries into the where. abouts of Gnat aircraft. which are similar to Hawks. also revealed no flights, rhe possibilit~ .that unregistered ex-mlhtary craft had taken off from a pnvate airstrip was ruled out as "inconceiv.able" because radar in the area would make detection a certainty. The Civil Aviation Authority group set up to examine the incident said yesterday that there was no doubt that the pilots "saw something and agreed in some detail in their descriptions". Group members speculated that the object could have been a model aircraft, an advertising balloon, or even plastic sheeting. . But the lack of radar eVIdence "meant that could feel reasonably certam that what had been seen was not an aeroplane". . Similarly, the degree of risk the jet from the incident, to . which occurred last June, was "impossible to . Aer Lingus saId Its pIlots the event had reported because they were trained to do so. The airline predicted that the incident was "like!y to remain a mystery".

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You could easily be mistaken for believing that Americans are the only ones lucky enough to be plagued by crashed saucers. Jonathon Dillon looks into Britains UFO history and asks whether the British Government is simply more experienced at the old cover-up routine.

The British Government holds the dubious honour of being the most secretive in the First World despite promises to be more open with the public. The USA,Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Denmark, Holland and a host of other countries have a Freedom ofInformation Act, which over the last few years has enabled investigators all over the world to explore thousands of hitherto classified documents and papers which refer to the UFO subject. By these governments own admission, thousands more documents are being witheld in the interests ofNational Security proving without doubt, that the subject is of great interest and seriousness to the worlds elected leaders.
But our own government keeps quiet about everything and the general public can only gain access to documentation released under terms of the 30, 75 or 100 year ruling. These papers flow from the Air Ministry, RAF and Ministry of Defence, and roughly amount to just a dozen already released files covering the period 1950 to1964. Now with the arrival ofthe Scott Report, the need for a British Freedom of Information Act is more than evident.

Sadly, Her Majestys Govermnent will be amongst the last to willingly confess to the fact that our airspace is being penetrated regularly, by unusual intelligently controlled devices, that are way beyond our cutting edge technology. However, there seems to have been a turnabout on the part of the authorities in recent years, with more and more credible military personnel, government officials and people in power coming forward to tell of their UFO experiences. Through the hard work of many UFO investigators across the country, it has been disclosed that several Ministry of Defence departments at Whitehall and the Armed Services have been, and continue to be, actively engaged in covert research into UFOs.
According to several informers, investigations have been carried out by the Royal Air Force, The Defence Intelligence Staff (DI55)and the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence. The DIS in particular, is a mixed organisation of serving officers and civillian research staff, scientificstaff and linguists headed by the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI).This essential element of the governments central intelligence machinery has several tasks to perform and it evaluates a range of studies. One of its most important duties is to concentrate on UFO reports. Basically, some reports are handled by the Provost and Security Police Special Investigators who are attached to the Flying Complaints Flight Base at RAF Rudloe Manor.

Stimulating news, which has been a long time coming,just came to light recently, with the shock admission by the MODs Kerry Philpott, of Secretariat Air Staff2a (the MOD UFO desk), that RAF Rudloe Manor was indeed a co-ordination point for reports of UFOs. This facility is known to be staffed by senior non-commissioned officers trained in numerous methods of special investigations. MI5 also works with Rudloe. Much of the collaboration relates to Rudloes work in checking the
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also works with Rudloe. Much of the collaboration relates to Rudloes work in checking the credentials of RAF employees who work with classified data. They keep bulky files on RAF employees with "highly subversive" interests, Animal Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, Liberty etc. It is not known for certain whether or not the Security Services take on UFO matters, but according to an ex-MI5 employee I managed to interview, they do monitor the activities of individual UFO investigators and civilian UFO research groups.

The reports that come into the MOD are sent to DI55 who then forward them to the Director of Security and Provost Marshall (RAF)in London, who in turn will inform an infrastructure of other departments such as Air Force operations and Airborne early warning/ground environment. Some of these organisations are amongst the most well developed military systems in the modern world.
Additional research has exposed an international liaison with other foreign intelligence authorities such as the American NSA, CIA, US Air Force Office of Special Investigation and the State Departments Office of Security Assistance, Science and Technology. The Defence Intelligence Liaison branch ofthe MOD (DIALL)provides this affiliation through the Government Communications Head Quarters.
Intense Government interest in the UFO topic doesnt end with the MODs preoccupation. According to my source, the Home Office plays an operative role, sustaining teeming computer files on the subject. The MODs Air Staff2a has computerised UFO files, but most of them are pretty innocent. Nick Redfern, an outstanding Intelligence researcher, told me the database held by the Defence Intelligence Staff is meant to be explosive and refers to National Security Agency files (despite their being no such agency). My source told me there is a Main Computer within the Home Office (F10 Division) which contains a database on several governmental issues, including UFOs. My contact also said that "only selective people can use the computer system in the matters ofNational Security". He continued, "I had a meeting with the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and at the end of it I asked him about the UFO predicament. Howard didnt say much about the subject and went very quiet." This publicity will certainly be unwelcome. The Police Force also takes in a reasonable portion of UFO reports. The UK Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary are regularly briefed to anticipate UFO sightings in the proximity of atomic energy installations. They are to take no other action but are to prepare a report, which they then send to their superiors.

Unquestionably, our own armed forces are lively UFO researchers. Numerous instances have come to light involving UFO/RAF dog fighting, crash retrieval ventures and clandestine research into Alien technology at places such as RAF Farnborough, where during the mid-50s, secret research was conducted into UFOs, according to several RAF sources. The Defence and Evaluation Research Agency have a facility at Farnborough, rumoured lately to be housing a downed UFO and Boeing 747jumbo

jet.

During the 70s there was an impressive UFO encounter in Minley Manor Woods, not far from Farnborough. My source, who Ill call Hannahtold me there was a strong military attendance in the woods after several hexagonal shaped UFOs visited the district. Nowadays, the area is a Mecca for enigmatic unmarked helicopters and when questioned the local Air Force, Police and Airport assure me their aircraft are not in the territory. Last year, a helicopter hovered over a housing estate early one morning. The residents got up and went outside to see what all the fuss was about and it was then they saw four pulsing red lights above a corn field. The helicopter began to close in on the lights and as it got nearer, the lights shot off at great speed towards Aldershot.

In retrospect, it is now obvious that the British Government investigates UFO reports, but has it drawn any conclusions? According to some sources, the RAF did indeed reach a UFO decision asserting the root of the phenomena was extraterrestrial and that humankind was somehow related to the visitors! Was Darwin wrong? I darent say, but I have learned that during the 1960s a building called Riverwalk House, which was used by the Intelligence Services (SIS,MI6, MI5) for the compilation of Eastern bloc and Russian affairs, did have some of the sought after answers. Apparently, during a document review in the buildings library, two female colleagues came across a

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eonfidential file which stated the British Government had solved the UFO mystery, and that we really
arent alone!

Certainly, some UFO cases have come to light through US documents released under provisions of the Freedom of Information Here, ministers use secrecy to suppress embarrassing findings and to protect themselves from public challenge. But the findings about UFOs may be so powerful, governments acting in our names, may only be doing so because they feel it is the right thing to do. Afer all, government influence affects just about every aspect of our lives. In matters of national security, it seems obvious for governments to become mute, but I believe it is time for the curtain to be lifted and governments should become more honest with society.

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Encounters would like to thank Jonathon Dillon for this fascinating insight into our governments guarded silence. Should you have any information relating to RAF/MOD/Military involvement etc. with the UFO subject, Jonathon would like to hear from you. He can be contacted at 176 Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, Lancashire, BBll

4NJ.

Finally Jonathon would in turn like to thank Matt Williams, of the Truthseekers Review, for the Photograph, Nick Redfern and Robert Gray for their help with this article.
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Bacon said that between 1947 and 1969, Ufology began 50years ago this summer when as part of "Project Blue Book." the air force a a pilot. Kenneth Arnold. reported sighting investigated 12,618 sightings and found no formation of silvery disks above Mount Rainier evidence that any were extraterrestrial on June 24, 1947. Newspapers coined the ex- vehicles. What the Pentagon spokesman did not and pression "flying saucers: and within a few . months accounts of more sightings started pourcould not explain is why so many Americans around growing number of : ing in by the hundreds. Arnold had his vision, a and a believe that they havepeopleabductedthe been by Two weeks after Mr. world . rancher in New Mexico found some unusual. aliens. The mythology about alien kidnapping . . wreckage - bits and pieces of a thin,lightweight began to accrue in the 1960s with the pubsilvery material with panerns that resembled lication of John G. Fullers book, uThe In-.-. terrupted Journey," which told how a couple, hieroglyphs. The wreckage was taken to the Barney and Betty Hill, were abducted off a where a spokesman nearby Roswell Air lonely road, taken to a space craft and subannounced that the Army Air Corps had re- jected to medical experiments. -. covered a "flying disk." In the 1980s, a New York artist called Budd Although the statement was quickly retracted, Hopkins uncovered hundreds of similar stories the lore about aliens spread unchecked amid the by hypnotizing subjects, writing about their exsecrecy surrounding Americas nuclear weapons in two books, "Missing Time," and development, and now srems as deeply im- periences "Intruders." He sent many of the subjects to a I planted in the human consciousness as earlier Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack, whose views, myths about fairies, witches or demons. "is wlch he wrote about in a 1994 best-seller called i. 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on the 511th Derbyshire, fire and a.mbulance cre\\,"S, more than 100 men and dogs from seven mountain rescue teams, an RAF helicopter and the West Yorks police helicopter joined in. Police said: "It certainly is a Monday saw. None of mystery But despite scouring the moors what I search began this adds up." reliable and extremely baffling The after she and witnesses clearly saw for 24 hours. not one piece of, other witnesses reported a blinding thing go down," wreckage Wa;:; found. orange flash and billowing smoke The spot is just three miles from Now people in Hope,South Yorks, as twin engined plane crashed where the Dakota crashed in 1945; are talking of a ghost plane after on the Pennines the above Hope Forest. killing all seven Canadian crew. recalling an identical mystery Fifty police from Yorkshire and, Two years ago postman Tony Ingle. 53, reported seeing a Dakota crash in the same

Locals dialled 999after seeing the plane explode in flames as it hit a remote Yorksl moor. Emergency services from two counties launched a huge search on

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able in time. MAGISTRATES COURT More powers would be given to Clerks to the Justices to manage pre-trial hearings. Only when the cases were readv for trial would they go before magistrates who would decide only on bail, guilt and sentences. The clerks would be given . many new powers induding the right to extend bail, dismiss cases when no evidence was offered, request pre-sentence reports in guilty pleas and arrange the timetable for the proceedings. Defendants could appeal against any decision to the magistrates ifthey felt it unfair.

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summarily in a magistrates court. This applies to those cases classified as "either way" offences which could be tried in either court. In the year to September 1996, this cate24,170 defendants inCourt trial, gory chose a Crown often in the hope that they might have a greater chance of acquitThis amounted to around a quarter of all the cases tried at Crown Court. But two-thirds of them later pleaded guilty, wasting considerable money and three-quarters of all defendants electing for jury trial were later convicted. The report recommends that the defendant lose the absolute right to demand a jury trial against the recommendation of the magistrate. It estimates that the proposal would result in 18,000 of the 24,000 cases being heard in the lower court. Critics argue that for someone of good character even a minor conviction for dishonesty can have a grave impact on their reputation and so they should be

The report entitled to a jury accepted that this might be taken into consideration by the magistrate but quoted one who said he could not remember the last timt someone had chosen a jury " "for reasons of reputation". This could save up to no mik , lion, it is estimated. Also recommended is that seri.;: ous cases like murder which were certain to go to the Crown Court should go straight there rather than spend half their life in magistrates court. By completing cases more quickly it should also "reduc~ prisoner escapes". YOUTH COURTS The report recommends revers" ing the 1991 Criminal Justice Act whIch placed 17-year-olds in tM jurisdktion ofthe youth courts. It suggests they be returned the adult courts as "they tend to, be experienced as offenders" f This would affect 35,000 cases; Those youths receiving cautions or conditional discharges coul have conditions attached to them; Editorial Comment: Page 29

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The BBC admitted last night that it was wrong to allow Ben Bradshaw, one of reporters, to campaign for Labour while on paid leave.: Mr Bradshaw, 36, was sus~ pended from Radio 4s The World At One to ensure impartiality after his selection as Labour candidate for Exeter last September. He could not be found alternative work and was released on full pay, prompting Tory ,; complaints.

way for sportsmen ,.to challenge bans

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A RUGBY international won a landmark legal ruling yes-

decisions by tory bodies in the courts. Mark Jones, a 16-stone for"":as granted an injuncl.lftmg his suspension for fIghtmg during a match until his appeal has been heard. The case marks an important .extension of legal interventIOn in sporting disputes. In the past judges have been :rt?luctant to get involved in disciplinary matters. More challenges are expected after Mrs Justice Ebsworth told the High Court that disciplinary decisions now affected the livelihoods Mrs Justice Ebsworth:barisaffect pIyers careers of professional players. ,", Jones, who plays for Ebbw was sent 9ff after a but the new professional W,elsl,(l\ugbyUnion was

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the plot, are indeed tangled. Wolfgang considers both Nike and her brother, Wolf-Siegfried (a talented stage director), to be disloyal and unworthy of Bayreuth. Even as a child Gottfried was banned from plaYing with them. Eva, Wolfgangs daughter by his first marriage, is a talent scout for the tan Opera in NewMetropoliYork but

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elected board. But five out 24 seats are reserved of for Wagner family members and they, or rather Wolfgang, usually carry the day. His rule is crumbling, however, and like King Lear the kng of Bayreuth is stumbling on blindly, banishing his children, disinheriting and pronouncing curses. This, say Wagnerians, will be the year that the fourth generation strikes

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Which is why theories about MIBs often in numbers Qr in code to each other and . note in the UFO literature; go far beyond involvement in the simple presented military ID for people with interest in the extra-terrestrial now mechanics of UFO sightings. In this mil- who later turned out not to exist. One at an all-time high, alien encounters lennial age where the end ofthe world is MIB was minus aJ! arm (poor MIB). seem to be ten-a-penny. Back in 1957, saidtobenigh-orifnotnighthenatleast Another had wires coming out of his however,a native ofVenus materialising due the day after nigh - the MIBs are now flesh. They have apparently hypnotised in a West Midlands living room w!1s on being fingered for much,much more.Ask their witnesses and threatened them,but: . the unique side. around a bit and you will soon find people never do they s m to have made good Oil And yet, nearly four decades on from willing to accuse them ofeverything from s c threats.Oh,and th ve-always : Cynthias frequent encounters, what murdering Beethoven,thtoughtoStalins driven about in those huge black . interests the Ufolbgists is not what the purges,to detonating the Oklahoma bomb. The assumption among less sceptical US itor had to say, r how he said it, but his No wonder they keep their heads down. investigators has always been that these tailoring. Cynthia Appletons is the first Nevertheless, the first account of MIB were aliens trying to encourage ;vitness. ,. British encounter with one of the Men In . activities was decidedly UFO-related and es not to another word about the Black, says leading UFO researcher it happened in America. (Well,what did UFOs theysay spotted. had Jenny Randles. The Venusian, you see, you expect? Belgium?) Shortly after For national pride,it;:nay be reassuring came in black suit,tie and homburg hat. W orld War n, Albert Bender had to know that, aside from the Cynthia He was. in short, a particularly well- founded the grandly titled International Appleton case,British MIBs have always dressed alien. Flying Saucer Bureau, an organisation been rather less bizaITe. Sure,Britain has No one could claim that the Men In dedicated to the belief that UFOs were reports of the weird.But aur weird is less : Black or MIBs, as the aficionados call craft from outer space. And why not? weird than their weird. Here, it has I them have been thronging While it only boasted a few hundred mem- almost always been perceived that these streets ever since. Reports remain res- hers,it did manage to publish a magazine people were from the Government,says : olutely few and far between.But interest called Space Review.The edition of JennyRandles,who has uncovered about: in this little-talked-about aspect of the ber 1953made curious reading;In it, Ben- a dozen cases from the past 40 years for: UFO phenomenon is definitely on the up. der claimed that the authorities had her book. Inthree quarte13 of they Next year,thefortieth anniversary ofCyn- solved the mystery ofthe flying saucers show ID.And they have always seemed to thiasencounter,seesthepublicationofa and were soon to reveatall. He said visit people who sighted UFOs where new book by Randles that explores the would like to publish the evidence but . something away from the ;}orm histor and myth of the MIBs. The Inter- had been told he could not. Shortlyaftet Where a door on the UFO was said to have net is now groaning with thousands of that,Bender closed down both his maga- opened or close<i in a peculiar way. thing like that.The point is,it was always . pages dedicated to their activities;includ- . zine and his organisation. ing a new on-line magazine titled MIB.. When asked by his local paper for an. very easy to.dislniss these MIBs as men Theres also a major Hollywood movie explanation,he said he had been visited from the Inte1lige ce Seri<es. It could be called, simply, Men InBlack;starring by three men wearing dark suitsand driOr maybe in Britain we just invent Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith,due for ving a Cadillac, who had simply ordered stories with less release in the spring. Hell, why not beat him to stop printing material on UFOs. In the Sixties,a Carlisle fireman called the rush and prepare yoUlwardrobe now? They had,he said, scared him so much Jim Templeton photographed what. Buy yourself a black suit, white shirt, that he couldntactually eat for a couple looked like somealien creature out on the . black tie and hat. No self-respecting fol- of days. At first, he claimed they were moors, hovering over his young daughlower of kooky fashion will be without members of the US government. Later, ters shoulder,as aliens are probably wont them next year,... however,he changed his story: now they to do ofa Suuday.Jim wa.:; iater visited y In truth,Cynthia Appletons experience were dreadful aliens in human disguise two MIBs who drove him back to the was decidedly atypical.In the classic MIB who had come to Earth to suck up lots of scene in their Jaguar,asked him aboutthe scenario,the visitor is notidentifiably an sea water, which they needed for some weather at the time,how thP. wildlife had alien in a suit (althoughthere are many great alien project.This version ofevents reacted and then tried to get him to suggestions that they may be), and they rather undermined Benders credibility in confess that actually he had taken are rarely as friendly or open as Cynthia the eyes ofmany researchers. said hers was. As befits indiViduals who Other US sightings have been equally like to wear officious-looking:outfits and bizarre. In 1976, a doctor by the name of drive around in big,black scary cars,their Herbert Hopkins from Maine, who had common currency is threat and menace. become involved with investigating a They are generally accused f trying to UFO sighting,was visited by a man claimscare the bejesus out of anybody who ing to be a member of another UFO reports a UFO sighting and,while no one research organisation. The visitor wore has come up with a plausible theory as to the classic uniform:black suit,tie and hat where they come from or where they go and a white shirt. But when he took his back to when they disappear,they stand hat off he revealed he had no hair at all. accused of being pa,rt of a massive con- And when he brushed his hand across his Albertsaid he visited by three . lips it appeared he was wearing lipstick, spiracy to cover up The The Truth being, of course,that aliens which smudged desperately. 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Enough,already. they are told its a matter ofnational secu- tion, something to help us plough a reaThe MIB myth is a variation ofthe modrity so they dont say a sonable furrow through the mound of em conspiracy theory; the idea of But exactly who are the MIBs? Randles rumour and myth piling up before us. greater truth being hidden from the some mass. has a theory. My that there is a Well,there is one.Its a bit bizarre. Which In September, The New department within the Ministry of is to say,a bit more bizarre than anything me,mouthpiece of the American magaright.wing John Defence.which more seriously so far (morebizaITe even.than aliens with Birch Society, dedicated an issue to the than they are letting on. For the vast green eyes,one arm and lipstick). its majority of sightings say 95 per cent worth looking at,inasmuch as anyButthis Conspiracyfor Global Control. edition, of In his introduction there is an explanation. But occasionally is worth looking The theory is this:the William Jasper arguesto the that criminal repGrts will come along that cant be .MIBs are the manifestation of evil from conspiracies to control mankind are as explained away and then they have to go unseen realities who come into this world ancient as history itseIf.There is now,he out and interact with the witnesses. to prey on our souls. says,a communist conspiracy. CommuTo do so,she Says, they have appropri- See? It all makes perfect sense. nism has been, and remains, the single ated theUS myth and folklore ofthe Leslie Kenton lives in the most dramatically significant It wou1 be a great cover for carrying out where you can imagine thatkind ofplace non of our TI1hap-. In this vast and investigations. And they would pen,and thats definitely Things with a uniquely entertaining conspiracy theory, get to drive around in really natty black capital T. Here in deepest W est Wales, the United Nations is the motor of a camJ^ work if you can get the sea crashes its brow against the dark, paign for world domination. It has, disputes Randless explana. fractured cliffs and the wind tugs and claims,become an organisation as evilhe as ti . ut then you would expect him to. pulls at the hedgerows and trees so that Spectre in James Bond For tllree years,Pope was the man in the every plant leans away in one direction as eventually take over movies and will the world and MoD who was employed to sit at a desk if trying to escape the advancing shore. enslave us all. sifting through and collating reports of Its the perfect place for a Californian In the course of his argument,Jasper IJFOs from all over the country. At the woman like Kenton. claims that this virulent conspiracy is end of his three years he claimed to have Now in her fIfties, she has lived in responsible for-take a deep breath nowbet:n converted from sceptic to believer. Britain for years, first as a health and the machinations ofthe Mafia,the rule of Accordingly,this summer he published a beauty journalist, now books on AI rise book called Open Skies, Closed Minds alternative health andwriting forever theCapone in Chicago,thethe of Stalin, ageing, rise ofHitler and hence Holocaust, - which stated that we were indeed being directing her faithful readers to replace the multi.billion dollar drugs cartels,the the refined foods and lifestyles ofthe late rise ofIslamic fundamentaIism,the shoottwentieth century with the natural and ing ofPope John Paul II in 1981,the assas. unsullied. sination ofYitzhak Rabin and the OklaIf she is particularly famous for any- homa City bombing (the last two in an thing,it is for eating the placenta after her attempt to discredit the radical Right,who last child was born, to help her get in would be and were blamed.).. touch with her womanhood. This gives So, what is the truth? After all of this, you an idea of the territory she occupies. there are just two options.The first is that Kenton is relevant because, three years aliens have made contact,the MIBs have ago,she published a long (verylong)novel been sent out to shut up the people who called Ludwig. It argued that Beethoven know this, demons are trying to control gained his musical pQwers from the gods our souls.and the communists,despite all and that. because he refused to put his the setbacks ofrecent years. are working composition skills at the service of to take over world. a devilish conspiracy to subvert the The second is that, as the millennium of mankind, he was poisoned by the Men approaches,certain portions ofhumanity In Black. have decided to be just a little more It is easy to ridicule Leslie Kenton..!Dut bonkers than usual. that doesnt mean it is the wrong thing to I know which I favour.

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a series of effortlessly lUCId books t?ne explaining evolution. He has <OlIl and proceeds by telling Illummatmg parables drawn from the natural world. In this he is really the anti-Lyall Watson. Both write in the same, calm authoritative manner. anticipating and addressing the readers objections just before they voice them, and using keen observations of nature as the backbone of their argument. However, while Watson deals in vague truisms and is blissed out on mystic wonderment, Dawkins homes in quite mercilessly to skewer facts and tease out the biological mechanisms that underlie the behaviours, and fascinating stuff it is too. Mount Improbable is basically a rewrite of his most successful book The Blind Watchmaker, in which he used computer simulations to model evolution and natural selection. The same programmes are stilI called into use here to make the same points that the popular idea of evolution as a random process is wrong. The objections to it based on the impossibility of complex structures evolving are mistaken and the Neodarwinist model of evolution can explain all life as we know Here he retreads his explanation of the evolution of the eye, comparing the perception and the truth of the process to a mountain which has an impossibly sheer face on one side and a gentle slope round the back Mount Improbable. He then replays the argument from other angles, using as examples such phenomena as spider webs and fig wasp behaviour. Some classic Forteana - such as simulacra and the frog with its eyes in its mouth - pop up throughout. Dawkins makes a convincing and case for his beliefs, ably illustrated by his (former Dr Who assistant) wife, Lalla

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The reports that come into the MOD are sent to DI55 who then forward them to the Director of Security and Provost Marshall (RAF)in London, who in turn will inform an infrastructure of other departments such as Air Force operations and Airborne early warning/ground environment. Some of these organisations are amongst the most well developed military systems in the modem world.
Additional research has exposed an international liaison with other foreign intelligence authorities such as the American NSA, CIA, US Air Force Office of Special Investigation and the State Departments Office of Security Assistance, Science and Technology. The Defence Intelligence Liaison branch ofthe MOD (DIALL)provides this affiliation through the Government Communications Head Quarters.

Intense Government interest in the UFO topic doesnt end with the MODs preoccupation. According to my source, the Home Office plays an operative role, sustaining teeming computer files on the subject. The MODs Air Staff2a has computerised UFO files, but most ofthem are pretty innocent. Nick Redfern, an outstanding Intelligence researcher, told me the database held by the Defence Intelligence Staff is meant to be explosive and refers to National Security Agency files (despite their being no such agency). My source told me there is a Main Computer within the Home Office (FI0 Division) which contains a database on several governmental issues, including UFOs. My contact also said that "only selective people can use the computer system in the matters ofNational Security". He continued, "I had a meeting with the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and at the end of it I asked him about the UFO predicament. Howard didnt say much about the subject and went very quiet." This publicity will certainly be unwelcome. The Police Force also takes in a reasonable portion of UFO reports. The UK Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary are regularly briefed to anticipate UFO sightings in the proximity of atomic energy installations. They are to take no other action but are to prepare a report, which they then send to their superiors.

Unquestionably, our own armed forces are lively UFO researchers. Numerous instances have come to light involving UFO/RAF dog fighting, crash retrieval ventures and clandestine research into Alien technology at places such as RAF Farnborough, where during the mid-50s, secret research was conducted into UFOs, according to several RAF sources. The Defence and Evaluation Research Agency have a facility at Farnborough, rumoured lately to be housing a downed UFO and Boeing 747jumbo

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During the 70s there was an impressive UFO encounter in Minley Manor Woods, not far from Farnborough. My source, who Ill call Hannahtold me there was a strong military attendance in the woods after several hexagonal shaped UFOs visited the district. Nowadays, the area is a Mecca for enigmatic unmarked helicopters and when questioned the local Air Force, Police and Airport assure me their aircraft are not in the territory. Last year, a helicopter hovered over a housing estate early one morning. The residents got up and went outside to see what all the fuss was about and it was then they saw four pulsing red lights above a com field. The helicopter began to close in on the lights and as it got nearer, the lights shot off at great speed towards Aldershot.

In retrospect, it is now obvious that the British Government investigates UFO reports, but has it drawn any conclusions? According to some sources, the RAF did indeed reach a UFO decision asserting the root ofthe phenomena was extraterrestrial and that humankind was somehow related to the visitors! Was Darwin wrong? I darent say, but I have learned that during the 1960s a building called Riverwalk House, which was used by the Intelligence Services (SIS,MI6, MI5) for the compilation of Eastern bloc and Russian affairs, did have some ofthe sought after answers. Apparently, during a document review in the buildings library, two female colleagues came across a
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confidential file which stated the British Government had solved the UFO mystery, and that we really arent alone!

Certainly, some UFO cases have come to light through US documents released under provisions of Here, ministers use secrecy to suppress embarrassing findings and the Freedom of Information to protect themselves from public challenge. But the findings about UFOs may be so powerful, governments acting in our names, may only be doing so because they feel it is the right thing to do. Afer all, government influence affects just about every aspect of our lives. In matters ofnational security, it seems obvious for governments to become mute, but I believe it is time for the curtain to be lifted and governments should become more honest with society.

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Encounters would like to thank Jonathon Dillon for this fascinating insight into our governments guarded silence. Should you have any information relating to RAF/MOD/Military involvement etc. with the UFO subject, Jonathon would like to hear from you. He can be contacted at 176 Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, Lancashire, BB 11

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Finally Jonathon would in turn like to thank Matt Williams, ofthe Truthseekers Review, for the Photograph, Nick Redfern and Robert Gray for their help with this article.

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Research The sound woke a family on a: Association. and since then they The Ministry f Defence denied everything untUApril .1983, camping holiday, and the father, have become increasingly convinced when Squadron Leader Donald checked that his own children that theI:e IS something out there. Moreland admitted that the stories were correct "I a.believer," were safe inside their tent. except,he says Hough. "It of aliens. said,for the involvement Disturbed by the thought of a child is as from time to time, another 1 . Verdict: reality temporary eclipses our own. out on her own miles ITom MoD cover-up. """,_ he went to look for her. Henowhere; uuugs are only asI.!!! we can . wrapped himself up warmly against the as. tu:derstand.them to am morning chill ..followed her voice. Wllling to l1e convinced always and. -. the evidence,not by what I believe by what the woods. Then,suddenly, or MQor . the singmg stoPped. . i /. ther people tell us to belie~e." , Later the family recounted Horigb traces his fasclnation for the -IN December 1987. ex-policeInan Phillp 1I Spencer took an early mOrningWalk. their unexplained to his. story to a local childhood. across Ilkley Moor in told them that inhistorian. Shocked.he became dis11l.usioned with scienceHe Yorkshire to . 1858 a v1llager had been at . because it couldnt provide him .visit his father-in-law. convicted ofmurder after throwing his WIth all the answers. As he passed a small . little daughter down a mineshaft. quarry. he saw somethingovergroWn He turned to"books, move out: The site of the mine of the newspa.per.. saw comer ofhis eye.He turned and was exactly where the little girls articles and .magazines . n the a "small green creature".. singing had stopped. And when the P3.ranPrmalwhicblefthimWIthmore It quickly scuttled away, questions and even fewer answers. then. camping family had stopped and decided at dawn, it was, tobeen wakened n;uddle movem nt withmade a dismissive, the day, the its right hand. As.It man, he says. "to.cut out the I 137th anniversary of the did so, Spencer photographed rIght to the people whowanted to murder. it. i were "Hefollowed these experiences instead of Chilling. unearthly. inexplicable the havmg I outcrop and foundcreature around an. them filtered through someone exactly the sort of case that a "hovering silver else.. special agents Fox Mulder and FBI I became an investigator." ! f~t?,_th,e Randles specia11s in Ufology. She I investigate in The X-Files on: believes . terrig speed and TV each week.. there is "an intelligence" a cI?Ud. When he behind some of tlie UFO inci1dents the But today the SUnday returned.home he" realised he Was Mirror can pair have reco.rded. reveal that Britain He also began "missing".two hours. . ts out there. And by . tohavecreCurrng Scully and Mulder,has its very own . The dreams of a starry sky. who have spent mvestzgatmg the cases the last 20 years inve<;Ugating belflw. Under hyPnosis. he . RandIesa:ndHoughareas~ed drawn towards the as real-life X Files. told . and Mulder the hovering of being zt. then finding himself disc and She is Jenny Randles. a inside a white room: where he Was world expert on aliensrecognjsedThe and the physically: examtned by creatures with He is . ears and big eyes. pointed,:. Brl tains leading Peter They were about., . lecturer and four feet tall and had researcher into enormous hands .and feet With unexplained .LIKERoswell, phenomena. three scene the earth throughbig digits.He saw. . most famous UFO i of Americas Like Scully. Jennys a.Window and cident. the realised he was in space. quiet included briefing senior work has is a woodland ofRendlesham Forest : . .:, He was then shown place of many secrets. POliticians at Westminster on UFOs. She . 1lSt has also To the north is Size.well, about how two iims. The humans with its destroY1Ilg earth.The second were . controversial nuclearpower stations. not The coastal spit, along its eastern about, even under he could hypnosis; ,..j :housesmaximum-Security The Photograph, American ieseh units. Right in the heartoJ;. .:under-exposed andwhich came out;1 ed Suffolk forest are shaking, ~D1ainsoneblof the from ; . whicb"were leased to two air bases. disputed PIeces most ." tbeAmericans . evidence of extra-terrestrial .,..1 forN:ATO defensive duties. ever to be recOrded. -. . . 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Alleged space craft photographed at Silver Springs, Maryland by Madeleine Rodeffer in 1965 the last few houses made of straw. One of the most significant claim to have worked there say . years something Revolutionary new theories are changes to have occurred in the the underground base is home ;! , .... extraordinary bas hammering at the doors of an field of UFO research has been to extraterrestrial discs, which been happening endless list ofscientific theories the increase in the number of are supposedly being back in Britain. The in physics, medicine and respected academics who have engineered for military use. archaeology,to name but a few. been prepared to risk their trickle of interest in UFOs and Llke also believes that: Tbe A climate ofuncertainty has thus reputations by becoming X-Files has had a remarkable paranormal phenomena,which involved. TIlls has occurred in has traditionally been invest- been created which provokes effect on the British public. This both demands for change and the poJitical arena as weIl, programme has acted as a ig?,ted by a collection of an infectious, all-pervading flinge groups, and normally especially in Americ , where catalyst for many people who curiosity at all levels of our interest in the UFO phen- originally were not interested fills the columns of a small omenon has become a public in UFOs but have now begun to number ofspecialist magazines, society. It could also be that due to obsession. get more involved. has suddenly become a raging Roy Lake, who heads a UFO torrent. It appears that what the vast increase in interest in Nick Pope: the study group in London and has was once considered the the lJFO phenomenon,whether maverick at the MoD domain of a few enthus:lstic in the form ofscience fiction or been investigating the phenom- When Tbe X-Files was first i, documentaries or media enon for 43 years, states: There amateurs has now become a investigations, a more open is no doubt that interest in UFOs screened on BEC 2, its viewing subject of major public atmosphere has been created and alien visitors is at an all-time figures of6.2 million mack it the fascination,increasingl~fuelled channels most popular progra. in which high. He believes paI1 of the by the mainstream media who confident about mme. Its success has been slIch reason for this is to do with the discussing the are falling over themselves in a 70f flood of materia] coming from that it has since transfel1ed to competitive frenzy to feed this ancrillre America. There has been a BEC 1 and is now showing twice IS:. wilii l exponential growth in all things scientists admitting evel) If you beJi~ve the massive growth of interest in just how weird, wonderful and celJainly limited their knowledge is, subjects such as Area 51, the characters in Tbe X-F c:s to be extraterrestrial. being agnostic about UFOs notorious US military instaJlation pure fiction, then think again. The reasons behind this seems an ever more reasonable at Groom Lake, Nevada, where Although quite clearly not in explosion. of interest arc position. One thing is certain black budget operations arc the same league as the teJevision complex and .mu]tifaceted. though: the actual number carried out - the building of the character, refers Perhaps part of the reason lies reported sightings increased Stealth bomber and Sial Wars as the real Fox in the fact that many old ulder. From 1991 to 1994, enoflllously over I.las last fewl technology research for the paradigms arc collapsing like years. example.Variolls witnesses who special c!epat1ment at

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Presumably, the fact there definitely must that these alien beings are able As Pope points out in his to travel across the universe book, the 1976 US Freedom of be something going and land undetected in Our Information Act allowed the on." t eIds, in craft whose method of release of man) documents in the States that demonstrate the propulsion we can only wonder He co.ordinated the locations RAF base in Shropshire, he of the reports and discovered seriousness \vith which the at, might be an indication that became very concerned. The our technology is, in that the craft had been seen American establishment views officer saw the most the possible existence and comparison to theirs,light years over Devon,Cornwall,Somerset, astonishing sight of that whoJe W!ales and as far north as the behind. Thus being concerned potential threat of UFOs. Most amazing night. An object in the of the work was, and . about the risk to our national Midlands and Yorkshire. The at first stationary, moved craft seemed to be zig-zagging security might be a simple red however, done undercover b} erratical1y towards him at a arious intelligence agencies. herring,a justiJ ation forfurther at phenomenal speed all across speed of several hundred miles It could just be, therefore. spending on weapons of war the country. By lunchtime, an hour. At one point it t red a even. All we can do is hope that Pope realised, it became beam of light at the ground, that Popes Concern at his their intentions are benign, obvious that I was right in the colleaguescynicism is which swept the Count0side - few of them wouldmisplaced because it is obvious that ifthey centre of the biggest wave of from left to know if right as if it was wanted to destroy us they would UFO sightings ever reported in looking for there was top secret.research something. The most likely have the capacity to Britain. being undertaken in this officer reported seeing the do so. For them we could be One ofthe sightingsin Wales Coumr\ into UFOs, and wbile object for a full t lT minutes _ just a diverting anthropological \yas reported by a man ,,ith state security agencies \yould long enough to estimate that it field trip, Iast experience in aviation and hale ready access to all ofPope.s was larger than a jumbo jet and Although Pope stares that mathematics. Knowing thelocal lues (without his knowledge!. to notice that it was emitting his conversion from sceptic to terrain extremely Pope himself \vould be unable well, he had the same low frequency bass believer Occurred gradually _ managed to time the UFOs to discO\"er the extent - or even Thedrip,drip,drip effect, as he passage between two points on hum previously reported. the existence - of intelligence Pope then conducted a describes it - he also asserts that the horizon databases on all the \arious UFO and, knowing the investigation if it was particular cases arriving distance between these land- alITtenestlial explanation phenomena. could on his desk thar were respons- marks, was Takeaway food? ible for tipping the balance. the craft able to calculate that \ ere I to name one day in the about \vere ripping along at T his.Lob. erc.1t Although Pope was sent reports 100 mph - roughly of ElL He could t nd none. He it alleged alien abduction cases. three years I spent as the equivalent to the top speed of realised that \as not in his brief to deal there were roo ministrys UFO expert which an F-16 jet t ghter aircraft. with them,so he passed details many visual sightings from convinced me that extraA group of t ve people in of the cases on to UFO experts. tmsrworth}" sources to ignore terrestrial spacecraft are regularly Staffordshire described seeing He was also aware ofthe strange the impIications ohvhat he had visiting the Earth, it would have a huge diamond-shaped object animal mutilations that ha\e heard, and wrote a detailed to be ;\Iarch 31st. 1993. t1ying so low over their heads report for his been occurring 011 a large scale bosses at the March 31st 1993 that could estimate its size Ministr~". much to_his since 1967, primarily in In the morning Pope received a to be about 200 metres in A.merica. In 1993 he began to surprise, \vent the call from a police constable in diameter - far larger than r cei\e the first reports of any assistant Air Devon who, along with his man-made flying machine. animal mutilations in Britain. H As it colleagues, described initially \vent past them they heard a In se\eral places jn the south of . was little else he could do. seeing two bright lights, very low humming sound, England it was discc":ered that so together with a third, fainter horses and family pets had been deep it was similarto the bass at what disturbed Pope he one darting across the night subjected to an inexplicable a rock concert. The low bass was the fact that whate"er The officers \vere com-inced it frequcnc)reverberated method of mutilation where through had zig-zagged across Britain on was like nothing they had ever their bodies. Utterly t1esh is removed in neat circles, amazed, the nighr of the 30th lvlarch had seen before, and stated in their they jumped into their and genitals and other organs car and invaded British air space and bored report that they were three craft screeched down the road in Pope was required hot probed military instal1ations to refer these cases on to the Hying in tight formation. . pursuit, but the craft had gracewithout e"en being picked up police or to rhe ;\linistry of Pope then began to be fully accelerated away.They had . by radar early warning systems. Agriculture, besieged by calls from other no hope of catching with Fisheries and Food. up Its technical superiority was so \vitnesses, who described Unsurprisingly, their clear up So far, the reports had great that.should it hale prolen rate was a little on tbe low seeing exactly the same objects originated from non-military to be hostile, there could have side. Pope is now planning a tra\elling at extremely high personnel, so when Pope been no defence against If follo\v-up book which wi]] speed,then stopping instantane- received a call from a meteoroeler there was an issue of cover the alien abduction ously and hoveIing in mid-air. logical officer stationed at an national securiry for the illoD. phenomenon.
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After all, what remained fairly stationary, and therefore succeeded in general public or from le ranks could better demonstrate their failed to show any revealing exposing a vast world-wide of govemment. disaffection with dogmatic details as the autopsy took place. audience to the existence of Pope says that his elders than to openly embrace The story was that this autopsy the UFO phen-omenon. It has years spent investigm:i gUF the idea of alien beings whose had been conducted in a tent clearly illustrated that the i eritwis" al 1 g po\ver far outstrips that of any because of the urgent need to public (and UFO experts) are v )aiic and one terrestrial government? operate on the badly decompo- far less gullible than many that has turned his world view The interest in aliens and sing body. expected them to be, and it has completely inside out. He UFOs also seems to have The footage was presented clearly been one of the major concludes that the in1plications inttrated the rave scene, with by Philip J\lantle, head of the factors responsible for trigger- of the reality of an alien the appearance of a number of famous British UFO Research ing the exponential growth of presence on earth are beyond clubs which cater for these Association (BUFORA), who interest in many of the more the means of adequate combined interests. Club Alien has received a great deal of serious aspects of the whole expression: It is beyond the in London is a good example, criticism from the UFO alien and UFO subject in scope of any single indiYidual where the organisers invite UFO community for his support of general. to comprehend or put into experts to lecture at the club and association with Mr. But, as one panel member words. Theres no doubtthat if and to hang out with the ravers Santilli, the producer who observed, much of the interest sucha presence were officially who can then ask questions claims to have bought the in the footage probably stems established it would change the about theirfavourite UFO topics. footage from the US military from the fact that two main way humanity views itself for Alien autopsy Hl1n cameraman whoshotitin 1947. questions still have to be gets the thumbs down During the discussion on the answered: Who made the film \\Then I persisted in asking Nick Pope has been very busy authenticity of the footage, and why was it made? He also him where he thought the this yeard0 1g the lecture circuit chaired by Mantle" the over- points out that, although he answers to the UFO phenomand promoting his book. He whelming consensus was that believes it to be a hoax, Noone enon lie, he finally replied: If recently appeared at the Fortean this was an elaborate hoax. has actually come along with you want to know where the Unconuention held on April When the audience were asked absolute proof that its a fake. answer is to what is actually 20th and 21 st in London. if they thought it was a fake, \(Thich leaves the uncomfo11able going on with the whole UFO Amongst the plethora of weird prankaJIy all hands shot up. element of possibility that it and alien subject, the place to subjects under discussion was The most interesting aspect could yet tum out to be real. fmd it is almost defmitely buried the alien autopsyfilm associated of the Santilli film is that it is Open skies but a lot of somewhere deep within the with the Roswell incident. still the centre of so much American government. closed minds A discussion panel met attention. Despite 99 per cent Given the seemingly optimistically,that: following a showing of the film of the UFO community When unquenchable public thirst for in its entirety, including the condemning it as a hoax, it will change their more information,and its need a notorious tent sequence. This continues to fascinate the -p; to be given some real answers, A lot of involved a similar type of alien public. In fact, if the footage is perhaps one day those secrets rf is very body to that seen in the footage part of some elaborate sensational and therearealotof will finaJIy emerge. mI first shown to the media back in disinformation campaign greatcasesthatwillm~kepeopJe the summer of 1995. This designed to discredit the look at this in a whole new sequence proved to be even Roswell crash, it seems to have light. But he adds that: UntiJ less convincing than the footage backfired dramatically. Like we have the sta11 key ofan actual shot in the autopsy room. 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mystery. He says: NI hove absolutely no doubt that some of these accounts do happen and that some sort of oftefl eged abductees risk ridiCIJle when Jgence may be oIved. mv talk pubrldy must deter the "Ofthe MoD UFO sightings, aanks." five _to ten AN MoD SPOKESMAN p/oined. per cent are unexdismissed the threat "On number of accosions, as "negrJgi>le". He RAF arriving heredont of aliens to jetsa have been saambled said: "We perceive any try and intercept UFOs." threat from

PHILIP MANTLE, of the British UFO Research Asso tion (BUFORA), has interviewed many of the BO Britons daiming alien encounters says: "There ore too IT1CI1) He involving sane, sober, decent and honest people for it to be lSCOUnted. "The f oct t h at 0 II

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FORMER policeman Philip Spencer was . . : PhilipSpencer ..! walking across York- . ,: .;Datel DeCember e:, 1,1987 . shires kley Moor Location:llkIeyMoor;Yorkshire just after dawn when he encountered what appeared to be film. During later two giant silver thing incredible. hypnotic regression Philip rea! . saucers stuck Philip described name)was c;arrying a together. the craft and. The craft shot being put on a table camera to take some snaps of the town upwards and into the by creatures with when it got lighter_ clouds. pointed ears. When he got back Hearing a humHesald they ming Sound, he into town, Philip showed hirn two looked up to see a realised it was lOam films, the first conhed "lost" two taining scenes figure he is convinced hours. He of had wasnt human. destruction photos developed the vation. lie and starto said he lie took a photo find the creature and followed It to been captured had was not allowed to on discuss the second.

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The thing started IThJ\lng hack light in [h.: and fonh J.noss the water. saV5 1 Jrlenc. Then it st:.1rt.:d following my fri.:nd. wh() lkc"lJ.:d [0 bJ.ck home. By the tim.: he rcac!J:G the house. he was f1Jnning for all he was worth. Marlenes friend never made his ordeal public. and many others feci the same way. Th.:re is. however. someone they can turn to. And thats John Jenkins. 60-year-old piano tuner from nearby Penicuik. John was a spaceship sceptic until one mOll1ing in 1992. when he saw ill1 orangegolden ball in the sky just outside Edinburgh. It was travelling in an absolute straight line and at great speed. recalls John, 1 thought the whole city would be in an uproar. but although there was an article about it in The Scotsman, it was quickly forgotten. But not by him. Before long. he was seeking out others who had experienced close encounters. One was Andy Swan, a 27-year-old electric

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,amed by electric pylons and ow hilIs: Theres a bridge (not remotely bonny), a . Chinese takeaway, two pubs and 5,450 people. - and from the Theres also plenty of window of their seventh-floor flat, pensioners Bill and Mabel Bestall can see most of If thev arc preoccupied with the view, few can them. From their windows, they have witnessed UFO activity on no less than three occasions. Bizarrely, pemaps, this small, close-knit community has become the scene of Scotlands real-life a town where, with startling regularity, resIdents report evidence of alien activity, The.most dramatic of these sightings took place In ,the early hours of the morning last January. It was about a quarter to five, and got up in the night, remembers Suddenly, a large circular light hovering over Bonnybndge and reaIised it was heading towards our flats. Next, two smaller circular objects came into view, spinning around the larger one. [ was intrigued and called the wife to corne and look. However, as it got nearer, we became scared. It was huge and it was heading straight for us. But then it suddenly rose up and over . the top of the flats. Perhaps it was a plane. Or a helicopter. Or pemaps Mr Bestall is completely batty. and so is his wife who, incidentally. confinns everv detail. All these are possibilities. But when look at the sheer statistical mass of sightings bv people in the Bonnybridge area. then the likelihood is that tile Bestalls are telling the truth. For some reason, this corridor of countryside between Glasgow and Edinburgh is a UFO hOL~p<Jt. Of all sightings in Scotland, two-thirds occur witll n it. To my knowledge, 3.000 people have seen sometlllng unusual in our skies during the past few years, says Bonnybridge councillor Bill Buchanan. And there must be many more I who have been afraid to come forward. Walk down the main street, and everyone knows someone whos seen a UFO. At the electrical goods shop, its Anne Stewarts daughter, Carol, who had a night encounter with bright, flying objects whik driving home. We were at the pub when she rang us, terrified, says her mother. The whole bar piled outside to have a look, but whatever it was had Meanwhile, at the post office, Marlene Flenng has been keeping a secret for years. It concerns an elderly friend who went fishing one and saw a bright night at nearby St Helens

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