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UFO INVESTIGATION
Just wher e shou l d one draw t he l i mitat ions
on truth? Should we push forward 1-lith no
or li ttle regard for the co nsequences or
should •~ s top when s omeone begins t o
sho.- si gns of being upset? Hith ufology
trut h i s a ver y d iffi cult commodity to
work with, because someone always ge ts
upset no matter ;/hat is sai d or by ;Jhom.
During t he years t hat PROBE have been
conduct i ng investigations into alleged
UFO sight ings , our terms of reference
have a ltered , and our approa ch has under-
gone some radica l changes due to a kind
of 'gro;~ing up' through experie nce . It
has to be said here that much of that
growing up is at tr ibutable to SCUFORI
( S~ri ndo n Centr e for UFO Research and
Investigation ) who had already reached
·:·~ a leve l of maturity that far surpassed
·;.: a.eything that we as members of local UFO
groups had previously encount er ed. ( Row
over"-'Orked that word has no>J become).
liith an element of guidance PROBE t ried
to emu l ate t he work being carried out by
SCUFORI and i t i s f air to s~ t hat we a s
a team t hink ·~ f aired OK over those
years, but certai nly not forgetting that
there is always room for improvement.
An:to ley , that asi de , it increasingly
became obvious , that by applying more
r igorous and thorough parameters in the
inves tigations , more and more initial
'UF0s ' vanished and 1vere replaced by
funnel clouds, plasti c a l uminium lami-
nate bal loons and aircraft amongst ma ny
other explanat i ons. Yet the se reports
~~re no different than the ones t hat we
used to r e ceive >lhen o>e all worked under
the name of UFO INFO EXCHANGE LIBRARY,
a now-extinct group originall y based in
Trowbridge, Wi l tshire. They were more
or l ess ident ical i n nature, i e, the
letter· or completed sighting report form
contai ned accounts of brightly lit discs
that moved qu ickly and silently across
the sky and i t couldn't poss ibly have
been a n air craft or else t he wi tness
would ha're heard i t, (and s o it goes on ) .
]lot t aking anythil'.g away from the ,,dtness
t<ho in all honest y may have per ce i ved t he
obje ct as s o, but wher eas w-e Nould have
published the a ccount ·~rbat im in early
years and not l ooked into alternative
explanations other thall a definite UFO,
the lat ter understand i ng of the '1ork
that we were i nvo l ve d in showed that
some of these cou ld be identified , and
not only tent ative ly so. I n some cases,
a more thorough check would have
positive ly identified s ome of t hem a s
ai rcr-aft and astronomical ob j ect s, I 'm
16 MARIGOLD WALK
ASHTON
BRISTOL BS3 2PO
ENGLAND
VOL 3, NO 3. (ISSUE 11)
ORGANISATION EDITORIAL
sure. Of course, not a ll of the reports t hat
were r eceived t hen , or even now, cou l d be
explained - it i s n't as simple as that. But
the point being made is that , l<hilst ;19 were
pri nting every case put in front of us , we
thought ;.e w-ere amassinc: t remendous volumes of
evidence to support t he theories that UF'Os
really did exist and that they w~re so l id ,
t angib le objects occupying our time and space.
But s l owly, at the realisation t hat everythil18
;laS not as it at first seemed , t hat somewhat
dimini shed t he enthus iasm for the subject.
But, aften.a.rds it became more apparent that
thi s was perhaps the best way to get i nvolved
«ith )lfology and tackle it at root l evel.
For some, once the magic and romance of a
mystery is gone, it never seems quite t he
s ame. Pa.ul llegg 1 'm sure has ruined the
Bermuda Triangl e for many people. Hilary
Evans restored some sanity i nto the D,yfed
s tor ies of a few years back by diligently
starting at the beginning and tackling the
probl em from the roots. I t wasn't because
these people 1.anted to destroy modern-day
concepts, but because as dedicated students
of ufology they wanted to know the truth.
PROBE -;,-anted to know the truth over the
ci rcles that appeared in the westcountry. 1~
investigated t hem and applied logical explan-
a tions to them - not because we wanted to get
up peoples' ba cks - but because we wanted to
discover the truth behind t hem. And what
happens? PUFORG call me suspi cious, devious
and sinister and accuse me of operating a
cover - up . (See SiillfALS) J e nny Randles,
••h.ilst· addressiJ18 the llUFORA AGM last December
put forward good arguments which postulated
that many UFO eightings may be subjective
experienoe.s caus ed by the mind lapsing into a
semi -dream state, initially called the •oz
Fact or'. This t heory wasn' t put forward to
vanquish UFOs, but to offer s ome thoughts for
further research and ser i ous debate. Yet,
one gent l eman stood up and accused her of
working f or t he Government and out to depress
UFO report s .
So how far must one search f or the truth? I
f eel t hat we must delve e•ren deeper despite
upsetting ~1hat were former friends. PUFORG
will no longer supp ort" our work be cause t hey
feel threat ened by what we are achieving.
They r efer to the mystery circles work as
'tedious' which refle ct s the.ir total r ejection
of it. What we are doiJ18 as an i nvesti gation
team is hopefully of benefit to ufol ogy by
offering reports that have been thoroughly
ohecked out. If we put forward r eports that
could easily be expla ined, that would make
the aut horities even more amused.
In tl:.e meantime , we must endure the
abuse that comes from some quart ers,
and carry on with tlle job , no mo.tter
nho it upsets. So the ans~~r to the
queations asked at the beginning
seem to be to push ahea: a.nd. ha~
tho consequences .
Because t he truth r~ins someoi2S ' e
afternoon tea party , what does that
matter? If peopl e wish to ignore
what is offered , a'ld ans,.er back in
a s cathing manner , so be i t . If any
or the PROBE team put f'orw-d.I'd a
plausible explanation for an alleged
UFO sighting that puts it i nto the ·
ranks of 'Identifi ed ', that doe s not
make s anti-UFO . l f ~ are able to
eliminate a so-called 'UFO' from a
report , is that operating a cover-up ,
working for the Goverm;ent, be i ng
INTRODUCING •.•
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CONTENTS
CASE CLO&~D SPECIAL
·rHE !iLIEtr M:OIIGST US (Mar in Shi pp) __ 3
SIGNALS - lE'I.'TERS ·ro TiE £DITQR _ __ 14
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ant i , or just plain telli ng the
truth? I' m sure some of you ~ri 11
poruisr that question for a l ong time
to come .
Somebody once sai d ' Scepti cism is a
malady ~~ich care l essnecs and inatt-
ention alone can remedy' . I have no
i ntention ., tsoever of being care-
less or inattentive .
Ian l>!rzyglod (phonetic - Dlazz-ee-glod)
Editor
quarterly and i t is u s ually mailed to .~
all subscribers in t ime to coincide with
the 1st day of the publication month .
However, BUFORA will be distribut i ng ·~
·thio journsl in a manner which be st ties
in with the other BUPORA p-.tblications
tha.t also have to be d ispatched, a nd
minor de~s m&¥ be experienced . All
:SUFORA enauiriea are s till to be se nt t o
the norrnai BUFORA officers .
So , with that out of the way, y our ed.i;or
t akea this oppor tunity to welcome the new
reader s , thank the older ones for st i c~
ing with us ••• and to apologise for t he
ma j or goof that crept into the last
issue . Pages 11 and 12 , although printed
in corre ct numerical order , were in f act
numbered wrdngly and p12 should have been
read before p11. Try it tba.t »-a,y!
To furt her confuse everyone , the April
issue will be published in early ~larch
because 1 won' t be in this country during
the whole of Apri l. Please continue to
f or>-:ard l etters , exchange journa s and
anything else to thi s addre ss , but don ' t
e xpect a r eply unt il ~ a.y .
THE CURIOUS OBJECT DO'r/N ON
BIRDFIE LD FAR!I! (Jer.J'\Y !la.rldlcs ) - - - 1
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 SPECIAL-
The ~!an-In-Black 'syndrome' has been
~<i th us for many years now, allegedly
plaguing UFO inve s tigator s to the
ertent that many gave up their work
and destroyed all their documents,
books and magazines on the subject.
With threa ts of death thrust upon
them, that were seemingly genuine,
this course of action was not
;;holly unreasonable. Yet these
accounts of death threats and
messages of warning were always
considered to be happening more on
the other side of the Atlantic, and
really to be a thi!lG of the past. So
it ie fair to say that when such a
case came to the ;~stcountry, no-one
was really prepared for what was to
ensue. b!artin Shipp chronicles the
events.
The most famous Men-In-Black case on
record is that of Albert K. Bender,
an American UFO r esearcher who formed
the International Flying Saucer
.·. Bureau in April 1952. As the IFSB
~ have come, the message has been the same
rapidly grew, with branches all over
the world, ·including Britain's branch
the British Flying Sauoer Bureau,
~nich i s based in Bristol, it suddenly
closed do~n. Bender claimed that he
>las stopped from making kno;m his
kno1~ledge of UFOs by threats from
Men-In-Bl ack (M!Bs ) . I n September
1953, Bender, after finally securing
the missing pieces for his theory as
to the origin of flying saucers, wrote
down his thesis arA sent it off to a
friend he felt he coul d trust.
The following day three men appeared
at Bender's door and one of them held
the thesis. The men, dressed in black
- hence the name - told Eender that
he had t he correct answer ·to the UFO
enigma. They gave him a.ddi tional
information and then told him to close
do•~ the IFSB a nd tell no-one of his
findings .
"They were pre t ty rough with me",
Bender sai d. "T;;o men did a.l l the
talking, while the other one kept
wat ch ing all the t i me. He didn't
take his eyes off me."
Bender's wall of silence after the
visit convinced others that he ;ms
A ODGST us
MARTIN SHIPP
"'-
telling the truth. However, he
wasn't the only UFO investigator to
have the company of the MIBs. For a
few months later, Edgar Jarro ld,
organiser of the Australian Flying
Saucer Bureau, reported being
visited__!?,y~~ dressed .i .n blac)c_ who -·
persuaded him to stop his research.
According to some researchers, there ar~
hundreds of people who have been visited
by 'ominous' strangers bringing threats
and warnings.
It seems that MIB visitations were not
the only method used to deter the invest-
igators. Jack Robinson, editor of
SAUCER NEWS in 1967 claimed to have
received mysterious telephone calls.
"On two occasions a.n electronic-type
voice, definitely not human, has told
me to stop all saucer research. It
sounded l ike the strange kind of •voice'
that might be produced by a Voder
machine. Each time the phone calls
- stop all saucer research."
SAUCER SCOOP editor Robert stiff was
also harassed by a. series of telephone
calls ~~ning him t o cease all his UFO
investigations into a particular case,
and direct his energies elsewhere. The
caller was both threatening and sarcas-
tic.
"I would suggest you drop your invest-
igations int o certain so-called UFO
reports," the voice said with a trace
of mockery.
"Who is this?" Stii'f demanded.
"That doesn't matter," the voice told
him , "But do as I say for your own
good."
I t appears thai most early prominent
UFO investigators were the victims of
IHB visits, thieatenifl€ telephone calls
or letters of warnifl€. This also seems
to have been a product of the 1950 - 60s
as today, reports of M!Bs are practic-
ally unkno;m. The 1950 - 60s was a
period of time when ·it was the considered
opinion of most ufologists that UFOs
were flying saucers or spaceships
being piloted by alien beings who were
surveying the Earth. It could then be
3 said that most urologists thought they

~le re : investigating
alien spaceships and
therefore the threats to try and st op
their research must have come from
either the 'aliens' thems e l ves or
'government . officials' trying to cover
up the truth.
Today, a completely different pi cture
can be painted. The contemporary
ufologist is, in the majority, a n
objective, down-to-Eart·h, unbiased
i nvestigator . He has no preconceived
ideas a s to the origin of UFOs, but
feels that a phenomenon exists that
requires scientific research and ·
analysis. The ideas of 'flying saucers'
'spaceships', ' MIBs' and aoforth , are
not hing more than a. product of two to
three decades ago. Therefore 1 when an
~len-In-Black-type case H!l.S suddenly
thrust onto a serious Uli'O research and
investigation group in 1980, i t seemed
as though the past 1<as coming back t o
haunt.
The Swindon Centre for UFO Re sear·ch
and I nvestigation (SCUFORI ) is a s ix-
member group, and that membership is
arrived at by invitation only. We use
all our r esources , both f inanci al and
other wise to investigate r eport s of
UFOs . Over several years ;.'9 have
managed to build up a good reputation
for identifying many cases presented
to us and such exp lanations range
from hoaxe s through to misidenti fi-
cati ons. SCUFORI has no corporate
views as to lihat UFOs are or ,.here
t hey originate . from . With this
attitude , i t i s not surprising that
when we were inundated with a. series ·
of threats , h~ be l ieved t hat they
were not hing more than the work of a
crank or joker. SCUFOR I hold their
meetings every Monday at 7. 30 pm to
discuss the latest on t he r eports
being investigated, ·and various other
matters to do wit h UFOs. It I•Ias on
Monday 18th August 1980 at 5.30 pm
when SCUFORI member Charle s Aff leck
noticed , as he came horne from work ,
a shrive lled-up plastic bag on his
doorstep . I t was about t he same s i ze
as a small envelope, and the plast ic
appeared t o have been sub jected to heat
causing i t to Nrinkle. Char l es saw
that t here was a piece of paper ins i de
~<h ich had the l etter s 'SCUFOR ' Hr itten
on it. Ke ope ned the bag, to ok out the
paper and careful l y unfo l di ng i t , saw
t hat there was a me ssage wr i t te n on i t.
It simply said :
CEASE UF STUDY
DO NOT l.!EDDLE OR ELSE
The I>Ti ting was f oll owed by a jumbl e of
squiggly lines which r esembled Ar ab ic-
type lettering. All , the ot her wr i ti ng
was in block lettering and the entire
message Has •II'itten in yellow floure-
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scent ink . Charles naturally was
surprised at this, and thought tha.t i t
must be a j oke perpe t r ated by one of the
other members of the group. However, he
telephoned t his l>ll'iter and t he other
members, .t elling us that somet hi ng 1~s
up, and to get around t o his house as
s oon as possi b l e . At about 7.00 pm ,
a ll grouped around the table, h~
examined the message . It was clearly
in the same vein as other MIB-type
messages, and. ~s obviously a Nar ning,
1-1ith the "or else" added to mea n tha t
more t<as to come if \>19 did not stop our
i nve stigations .
t-Ie had absolutely no i ntention to stop
any of our UFO a ct iviti es - threat s or
no threats . Aoy;~ey , ""8 t hought tha t
thi s was nothi ng more than a joke and
we l aughed at t he way that i t was giving
t he impr ession of s omet h i~~ mysterious.
Never t heless , gauging everyone's
reactions t o the message , it seemed
obvious that it was no-one i n t he group
leg-pulling. As nothing else cou ld be
done, and~~ intended t o continue our
inves tigations, ,..., could only t-~ait and
see '-hat, i f anything, might happen
n~xt.
T~~ days later a further message arrived
at Char les' house. This time i t came
t hrough t he posting system and the post-
mark was of Swindon. The me ssage, in
the same style of wr iting and i nk colour
stated:
BEHARE lYE ARE HATCIUNG YOU ALL
DO NOl' INTERFERE
WE WI LL ~!EET
Again, >~e could do abso lute ly nothing
except 1->a.it . We all assumed that we
would receive de t ails of «here and ~en
to me et a nd find that i t was one of our
colleagues or friends playing a joke .
Letters ~~re one thing , but t elephone
calls were cer t ainly another . Especially
the type of calls 1-1e wre r e cei ving.
I t was tbe follo;ring week ;men we r eceived
the fi r st of many phone calls . These
;~re at my house and a l so Charles ' house
and t hey cons i s t ed of three 'bleeps ',
then a jumble of extraordinary •.e i rd
.electronic noises , fclloHed by three
f urther bleeps . The ble eps sounded
like the sonar used by submarines . The
telephone calls lasted between 10 and 20
secor.ds and appeared to be f rom a publi c
call box . They meant nothing >Ihat soever
but ;re.immediate ly assumed they ;rere
part of this bizarre joke - if indeed
it was a joke .
Sentember .)rd sa<" t he arr ival of the
t hi rd •,JTi tten message . Th:i.s time it
had been posted f rom Ne w~xry and agai n
talked of a mee ting. ·It read:
4
 IT SEEi1S THAT YOU TiffE!m TO
CONTINUE TO INTERFERE
viE MUST i!lEET AT DESI GNi>TED PLACE
T~10 REPRESEN'rATIVES TO BE CHOSEtf
1-IEA,l'l PRO'l'EC'!'IOif
TAPE REPLY
PLACE TAPE EX.W I' lilA!' REFERENCE
'172x5816
A typical example or the envelopes
that ~~re pos t ed to 'SCUr~R ', This
one r.-as • SHINDO!P •
The ~~riter obv-iously wished f:or us to
reply to this request by means of: a
t ape- recoroed message, an:i that thia
message ''"'"' to be left at the given map
reference. P<:rhaps we "-ere going to
sort things out for once and for all ,
as these messages l~-era begimting to
dis!'Upt our meetings, However , what
kind cf protection had tc be ;rorn?
Fr-:>m what >,JB ••.;ere t o be protected from
t he message did not s ay, It ;m.s quite
obvious that t hey ~~re trying to play
on our minds by giVing i mpressions of
danger,
VIe v-l.si ted the loca.iio!l the next day ,
i n day l ight, and it turned cut to be a
fie l d just outside of S~o~indon. Nearby
,,as a l ane and a public footpat h ran
f:rom th i s through the fie ld , The area
•ras iso lat ed and •·ary q~iet, 1~e sear ch-
ed around for cl ues S."ld a1so to find a
plao" to lea·.re OUl' :ceply. Eventually
ure decided to f ix iha cassette case to
a f ence-post near to t he footpath,
But ""' 3'oi1J. !>;1 not de c ided t>7hat to
p-.:. t in ow.:: r-ap ..J f· yet we e.greed t ha.t it
~~uld Ce bette~ to ~ a message and
place t hat int<t> -~he cassette case.
this H<r.lld show that Ne \Jere not doing
exact :..y itihat lv"a Ttt'a!'"S be ing told t o.
Fi.ne,:ly , ,Je ,,, ';hat ,,-e had chosen
'ttK re pr~s~; ~· ::. -= .; ( although no names
>rer e gi ven} ,_, _.;_ ~s :~d what prot ection
they 'tiO\,,l d h:av;; to •tear. In addition
to this t a q~es t ion about the i r- reasons
for the i >· a ctions o;as inc luded,
Before l eaving the reply, t-re f e lt that
further surve illance of t he locati on
<las needed. Therefore, on 5th Sept-
ember a t about 10.00 pm we drove out to
the spot. I t was very dark and t he
place >~as completely deserted, ·He
parked our oars on the grass verge to
t he side of the r oad and decided to
conduct a search oi' the iJrmediate axea
hoping that t•re might get a lead.
Looking back, this visit was probably a
li ttle f oolish, as the chances of
finding something in the dark -were very
remo;>te, And if som!! Qll.e ..J:!~. b een waiting
there, ;;e would hav-e pl ayed right' int o'
their hands. Bo1-rever, t he se arch 'W-ent
ahead , and SCUFORI members Charles
Affleck , ~!arty l~ offatt and Raymond
Smither s, armed with t orches, set out
t o investigate some nearby woods, I
remained behind to look after my wife
and Charles' fiancee who were both
sitting in the car,
The three 1d8re only gone several minutes
W'h en there e.as suddenly a very loud bang
- like a gunshot . n came from the same
direction in which ~he ot hers had headed,
This noise was immediate ly f:ollowed by
some shout i ng and the rustl i ng of bushes,
I don't know what went through my mind
during the next few se conds, but I MUst
admit I was frightened. Maybe the
perpetrator of these messages was a
crank , and he had been lying in wai t
ready to pounce? Suddenly I heard
v oices and saw si lhouetted figures
moving about in the woods, As they
broke into the clearing and back onto
t he road, I breathed a sigh of relief, ·
as the three of them stumbled into view,
When questioned , it turned out that there
t<as a house nestled in the woods and
someone from i t had bee n shooting at
pigeo ns - a t 11.00 pm! With nothing
left t o do and our nerves slightly on
edge , we left f or home a t around 11,45
pm. Charles arrived at h is house at
12.15 am only to find that there bad
b een anothet te lephone call. This one'
had occurred at exactly midnight and
was taken by his mother, The difference
bet"'-een this telephone message and the
previous calls >ra.s that we had this one
rec orded on a cassette tape, Charles,
eax lier in the week, had set up a
casse tte recorder alongside the tele-
phone and at last, we had a recorded
message t o li s t en to.
The recording was immediately p l ayed
back , but it seemed to be the same type
of g ibberish ending 1.rith three - bleeps.
The next day, Charles and myself l istened
to the tape over and over in an a ttempt
to make s ome sense of 1 t . Then to our
surpr ise, we heard some thing 1-lhich made
us listen even more carefully, for we
5 had heard a word! Amongst all that
electronic noise we picked out the wor d
PRTIHTIVE. The voice was l·reird, a lmos t
fTightening. It s ounded i nhuman , mech-
anical and seemed to blend in with t he
other noises and distor t i on. Once ~~ ·
had picked out tha.t >rord , it opened the
f loodgates a s our hear i ng ad justed to
pick out wbat ~re ~~r e now ·a£ter; Soon
we ma.d.e out more words, t he n a. sent eO:ce .
and eventua lly most of t he me ssage.
It said:
YOU ARE PRIMITIVE - WE: ARE HERE . TO
vfATCH YOU - YOU THINK YOU CAN DO
lffiAT YOU LIKE ••• ,. WE WILL JUDGE
\oiHAT lo.'E WANT . YOU ARE TOO CLOSE, .
Natural ly, we >>ere s omewhat t aken ba.ck
by this. We had absolutely no doubt
that this was the same person or
persons who had been sending t he wr itten
mess ages. At t he next SCUFORI meeting
it was decided that , · as the Hhole issue
of these messages might possibly gat
out of hand , the local Police depart-
ment should be notified to s ee if they
coul d help, Therefore, armed with the
written messages and t he cassette t ape
of the t e l ephone ca.l l, we paid t he
police a visit . The police ~re not at
a.ll interested- pr obab l y because i t wa.s
conne cted with UFOs - and t hey did
their obligatory piece by recording the
complaint. They did not e<en l isten to
the cassette recording.
Several days later a further me ssage
was placed i n the bush outside his
front door, and it read :
DO NOT GO TO THE AUTHORITIES
AGAIN OR ELSE
How they knew tha.t >IB had been t o the
police 1 we di d not know , but obviously
t hey did not like it. As SCUFORI was
not to receive any offi cial assistance
we decided to s et out to solve this
pr obl em for ourselves. ;/e had been
i nvited to leave a message at t he
location and thu s fe lt that this >6S
an opportunity to get some ans\>!Srs. To
thi s end , we wrote down several points
on a shee t of paper , basi ca lly a~~ing
t hem >~ho they were and ;.'hat they Ha.nt ed.
We a l so told thelll t hat we ha.d chosen
two re pre sentatives , (bearing in mind
that no reply had yet b een left at the
des i gnated site because of the abort ive
at t empt ) , and t hat t hey should ,cont a ot
u s t hrough the post .
The paper Has f olded and put i nt o a.n
empty casse tte case . ',ie •,;e nt back to
tbe location and f ixed t he case Hi th
clear s ti ck;y -ta.pe t o t he fe ncepost.
That was on Sunday ?th September .
The f ollowing da.y a t t he regular
SCUFORI me eting , •di th most of us
pre sent, ore received a further te le-
phone cal l . Again it >as recorded , but
this time the me ssage >;as f ar clearer .
I t still sounded very unusual and fri ght
-ening . I t ·said:
YOU DO NOT TAKE US SERIOUSLY
WE ARE WATCHING YOU
\1~ ARE WATCHING YOU NOW
l-IE ARE HATCHING YOUR CARS
HE KNOWYOUR NAMES
Charles interrupted the voice a P~ told
it that 1-re had left a message as
requested at t he given map reference .
The rep ly t o this can only be de s cribed
as a mass of electronically dist or t ed
noise. Then the line went dead .
~/e like to think of ourselves as ver<J
le vel- headed people with open minds,
but these messages were sl owly beginni ng
to scare us as "-e did not ha.ve a.ny i dea
as to who could be behind t he se messages .
A joker perhaps, or a. crank, or even a
mentally-ill person. 'tlhoever was resp-
onsib le, someone had gone to extreme
l engths with the messages , e specially
the telephone cal ls. The normal
activit ies of SCUFORI came tc a vir tual
s t andsti l l a nd our investigations were
begimling to suf fer, so i t became a
problem t hat needed urgently solving.
~he followi ng day , several SCIJFOR I
member s vi s ited t he l ocation to watch
the cassette case i n a hope to catch
t hem red-P~ed. Obvious l y i t wa.s not
possibl e to keep a continual vigil, and
the casse tte case was t aken at about
3.00 pm on Tuesday 9t h September - when
no-one ~;a.s wa. t ch i ng . Wedne sday 1Oth,
and a l et t er was r e ceived at Charles'
house. I t was from Swindon and, agai n ,
addressed to SCIJFOR ( cont inuously
droppi ng t he 'I' ) . Charles opened the
let t er to find tba.t it ~;a.s the same
piece of paper with our questions on i t.
Belo;r the quest i ons, i t simply said:
· ~fE WILL CONTACT YOU
The wr iting ~as in the same b l ock letter-
·i ng, but thi s t i me it ~<as in or dinary
blue ball-poi nt ink a s opposed to t he
br ight ye llow, We assumed that they
were pr obably arranging a meeti ng place
f or us and »e Hould get the de t ails
shortly . Nothing happened f or t he next
t1~c days and it crossed our minds that
perhaps it 1;.>s all over; the j oker had
had his f\m and had no.r gi tien up.
Bv.t our hopes ..~re short lived when the
f Uth wr .i tten .message arrived t hrough
Char les' l etterbo;x:. There l,'<'s no
mentio n of a mee ting and the tone of
t he message ap~ ear ed much tougller .
They ~o;-ere obviously trying to apply the
pre ssure by fri ghteni ng u s . The
Nr i t ing was in bla ck ink and it read in
6 the main :

YOU THINK WE ARE CRANKS.
\IE WILL CHANCE YOUR MINDS •• ,
YOUR EFFORTS ARE F'lJTIIE.
THIJITGS !HLL HAPPEN •••
TRIS I S A viARNING.
WE ARE HERE FOR A PURPOSE.
YOU ARE ASKING QJEST!ONS AEOUT
THlliOS YOU KNOW NOTHlliG OF.
YO!J ARE CLOSE.
YO!J WILL CEASE UFO STUDY.
viE HAVE srOPPED OTI:IER S,
WE \ITLL STOP YOU.
YOU THii'\IH WE RP.E CP.RI"'HS ,, .WE .WILL
CHRI"JCE YOUPJ ffi1NE15 , WE HI\JOUJ ABOUT
.YOUFi TWO FPrlENEJS "THEY CANNOT
HELP • YDUPr EFTOPJT5 RiJJE FUTILE·
THII\ICS WILL HAPPEl\!" IJIJ 1\JOT 5Efil8
tlGEI\lTS TO R5SIGf\JffiEI"JT " TH 15 · 15
R WRRI\lfNG ~
WE AP.E HERE r:"OR A PURPOSE··- You
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YOU WlLL CEASE UFO STUIJY
WE 1-!RLJE STOPPE B DTI-JE~S -- WE WILL
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Then to our total amazement, the
message ended by listing the surname
of ea.c..'l person in t he group. There
was also some more Ar abi c-style
writing. (This is reproduced below,
ho•ever, for reasor.s that wi ll
become apparent, one name has been
blanked out ) . How somebody had
managed to obtain all our names, we
did not know. As a UFO group, we
were not that ,, ell- known in Swindon.
The public may have known us as t he
collective naw.e of SCUFORI , but not as
individuals. It almost seemed as
though someone in the group >.>as leaking
out information to the outside. :But
this notion was once again dismissed on
the grounds t hat I>Je all kneH each ot her
eo well , and it seemed impossible that
thi s could ever be the case .
For the next f ~ ''' >reeks, the group 1-'2.5
sub jected t o many telephone calls ~<hi ch
continued to threaten us unless >re trere
to stop our re search. He t.rere constant-
ly told that we were being •s.tched and
the voice appeared clearer and more
harsher, All the telephone calls >rere 7 around tryi ng to find any clues, They
still being recorded and we •..rere kept
busy trying to make out >rhat was being
said in amongst the background noise,
As these calls did not give us anything
to go on He could do nothing but wait
for something more substantial.
Than in early October, three members
all received te lephone calls on the
same night at about the same time, The
calls at Jan Wojtowicz and Charles•
houses were just weird electronic
noises ~~i ch · ~de n? se~e at .allL_. ~e
The entire message as it was
received, Note the square
lettering; and most of all note
the strange Arabic-style
markings at the foot of the
message, (One name has been
erased from this copy).
· -- ···· - · -
call tlia1i · R~ond Smithers received was
far more interesting. Firstly 1 he does
not have his own te lephone and shares a
. piibtic telephone in a b lock of flats.
neighbour knocked on his door to say
that somebody wanted to talk to him on
the phone. Raymond went t o t he telephone
only to find it was weird noises, then a
voice gave a map reference, He managed
to ;<rite down the numbers on the back
of his arm, The line went dead as soon
as· the message ~s over. Raymond
questioned t he neighbour to find out
who had spoken to her, but she sai d
that it was just a male voice and did
not give any na.me. JW.ymond called us
and we immediately arranged a meeting,
On the Ordnance SUrvey map the reference
was along a small track situated about
one mile east of the famous prehistoric
s tone Circle at Aveeury. Arrangements
were made and Charles, Raymond arrl Marty
Moffatt visited the location on 18th
October.
The weather ~;as appalling and it was a
long muddy walk to the exact 1;1pot. On
arriving there they began to look

had been looki ng for only several
minutes >then Raymond gave a shout and
pointed to an object whi ch was l,y:i..ng · on
t he g;rass severa l f eet f'rom him . ~!arty
immediately r an a cr oss and picked up
the ob je ct. To their a st onishment, it
W"d.S the cassette case t hat had been.
strapped to the fencepost at the very
fi r st locat ion. It still had the cello-
t ape on it. Opening the· case t hey
found it contained only >mat appeared
to be a bla nk piece of paper. However,
on one corner, written in t iQy blocked
l e t t ering were the words:
THIS MESSAGE USE U/V LIGHT
It was guessed at that a message had
been wr itten on the paper that could
only be read under ultra- violet light .
Returning home, Char les found a bl ue
sugar-bowl and ho l di ng t his up to t he
ceiling light found that the message
could be read. It stated, in the same
blook l e tters , that as i t seemed that
>te were not going to do aa they had
asked , then they would mee t us to show
that they were not cranks, and that
they wanted to explain t he reasons for
their act ions. The message further
said t hat they were arra~~ing a place
f or us to meet, and that further
details would be given to us in the
near future .
&le were obviously susp1c1ous a bout this
especi ally "'hen they said that t hey
would prove that they ;;ere not cranks,
However, i t was a chance t hat Ml cou ld
not really miss, as perhaps they really
intended to come thi s time. All we
co~ ld do for the time being was again
wait for the details of the r endezvous
to be sent t o us .
Two days later, on 20th October ,
Charles re corded another telephone
message. Most of it, when played back,
\faS inaudible, >tith the voioe being
dr owned in a mass of ele ct r oni c noises .
Ho<;ever, to.ra.rds the end of the mes sage
t he voice became clearer and it was
giving us a nother map reference . All
but two of the .figures ~~r e easily
pi cked out - and it h~S obvi ous that
~~e were to meet them at that reference ,
but we sti ll did no t know whe n. The
fir st par t of t he telephone message had
probab ly given the details , but we
could not make out at all what it had
said. We hoped t hat they might tele-
phone agai n.
It was not until one 1<eek later t hat •,re
did hear, but it was not on the tele-
phone. We •Rere a t· a meeting around
Charles ' house ·<~hen r,;e all distinctly
heard a noise •, mich s ounded like someone
calling through the l etterbox. No ~<ords
···---- ··--·· ·· -- - ·-- --~~~-
- just a noise, akin to a cry. Jan ,
Raymond a.nrl. rcyself inrnediately rushed
to the front door to find no-one there .
Jan r an do~m the s treet but to no avai l ,
Then Raymond suddenly noti ced a piece
of paper on the path outside the front
door . It was crumpl ed up and looked
like no t hing but rubbish. Yet , after
picking it up he noticed t hat i t was
actually an envelope and it was
addressed to SClJFOR ( again) . Raymond
called Jan and myself as he opened it
and took out the message, The paper
i nside •~s blank and we i mmediately
assumed it >.'as only visible under
u l tra-violet light. By now , the ot her
SCUFORI. members had come out t o see
1~hat was going on. We all t-19 nt back
into the house and arranged the U/V
li~t test. To our surprise there was
only one word on the paper:
HALLOWF:EN
lie guessed that on Hallo1;e ' en ( ie,
31st October 1980) we were meant to
meet at t he map reference given in the
te l ephone call . The only probl em was
that we st i ll could not deci pher two of
the numbers of the reference.
Saturday 31st October came and 1<e had
been continuously working on the
numbers. eventually, ""' t hought t hat
we had the right numbers and l ooking .at
an Ordnance Survey map, found it t o be
a small wood or copse kno1<n as \festwood .
It \-las agai n not too far from Avebury
a nd very isqlated.
It >>as r oughly 10. 00 pm when SCUFORI
members llob McCregor, Raymond, Charle s ,
Jan and Marty arrived. at Nest wood . It
pr oved to be a very difficult place to
find. The 1rood t-Ja.S pitch-black and it
was very diffi cult to see where they
we r e gOing. The f i ve of them were very
apprehensive as they appr oached the
edge of the wood. The place cer t ain ly
seemed to have an a tmosphere . They
made their way in t hrough the trees,
the muddy ground slo>ting their progress .
Each Derson str a ined his eyes t o see if
anyon~ was there , trying to pierce the
blackness . The fur t her they moved into
the wood, the more fr ightening it
be came, and Bob was all for re t ur ning
to the cars . Ye t t hey pressed on , and
were sud.denly start led when a >~hite
s hape moved acr oss t heir path only yar ds
i n front . Befor e t hey could react , the
shape just vanished without t hem knowing
&rhat i t &Ja.S.
Eventually , after •>ai ting for a further
hour , and with Bob's nerves really on
edge , they gave up feeling t hat they
l·l ere being pl ayed. 1-tith. 'I·o Bob ' s
8 relief , t hey left t he t<ood and. beaded
home. I spoke to Bob on the Monday
after, and he ;~s still frightened when
he thought back at the experience. He
told me that if the next message
mentioned anything about him being
scared he HOuld. believe that there was
definitely something strange going on. ·
That is exactly >lhat happened. On 3rd
November, a telephone call sarcastically
talked of their s caring McGregor. In
an attempt to catch anyone delivering a
message to Charles' house, . • ~ set up a
trap one Morrlay evening. 'tlhile •,re were
in the meet ing, Charles sat in a house
across the road. 1•/e were in COilllllUnica-
tion with him using walkie-talkies, t hus
if any person went to the fro nt door, he
would be seen by Charles, wh o would let
us knoH and \olB would rush out and catch
him. Despite the fact that in the past,
on several occasions, messages had been
left on Monday evenings, this time it
1-laS not to be the case , In fact, ''"' did
not even ge t a te lephone call that night.
During the next few weeks, no further
meetings were arranged. We did receive
many short t e l ephone messages of 1<hioh
some were no more than electror..ic
noises . In the main, they told us that
we «ere being watched, .and one said
_that if >1B did not stop our investi.-
gations, they would destroy our homes,
Sometime in t his period Marty and I
revisited the police st ation, on the
assumption that as we had so much infor-
mation, they would take some action,
Once again, they just made a note of it
and told us they could do nothing
u nl ess the threats >~ere carried out.
Our r equests to trace t he telephone
calls were met 1rith a look o:f surpr ise.
Feeling sotne1iha.t helpless we decided
that a re-examination of all the
messages to see if \Je could find a.rJ3
s ort of pattern was needed. It did
seem strange that the person or persons
sending the messages knew a n incredible
amount about t he group and its aotivi- ·
ties . It bega.r. to da,,-n on us that
perhaps s omeone in the group was indeed
passing out information, despite the
fact that we knew each other so ;rell.
marty, Charles a.nd myself talked about
this pri•mtely and i t became increas-
i ngly obvious that one member, Raymond,
~<as the only one not present Hben >IE!
~~re receiving the telephone calls. He
was also very i nt erested in electronic
gadget s, ln ad1i t i on to this we
noticed that it ~as Raymond who had
f ound the messages at Avebury and out -
side Charles' front door, despite
everyone else looking. Could it be
that he had planted the messages when
our backs Here turned?
It seemed impossible that Raymond could
be responsible as he reacted to all the
message s with genuine surprise. He
must be an extremely competent actor.
We did not menti on these feelings to
him, but decided to continue as
normal. However, several events whi ch
Raymond claimed to· have happened
suddenly changed our opinion that he
was not all he seemed to be,
Firstly, he produced a polaroid photo-
graph of a huge ball-shaped object
~<hich was sitting in a fie ld. He told
us that he was taking a dog for a. walk
when he saw the object land. Rushing
indoors, he grabbed his camera and with
the last picture on the reel, took a ·
photograph of it before it took off .
lie reported the sight i ng very sincerely,
We looke d at the photograph and, as with
all polaroid pictures, t hey are numbered
1 to 8. This picture had number 6 on
the back and therefore could not have
been the last picture as cl aimed.
It wae felt that a visit to the location
might reveal some answers . We could not
be l ieve it when we arrived at the spot,
The ball~shaped object was still there!
It was part of a new sewage system that
was being installed for a new housing
estate . We did not tell Raymond about
this.
secondly, on 1st December, Raymond said
that, whilest on his way to the meeting
he was stopped by a man dressed in dark
clothes . This man touched his arm
which produced a rash. What '""s even
more astonishing was that Raymond had
the cassette tape with the telephone
messages on, in -his pocket. This
pocket >ns on the same side that he was
tou'ched and when he took the tape out,
the case had melted. The t ape was
ruined. When he told us, we simply did
not believe him.
1-lith our original suspicions now fueled
by these events, ""' set about catching
either Raymond or possibly his accomplice .
If we decided to accuse him out-right,
he would certainly have denied it, on
the basis that we had no proof, The
beat evidence in our opinion was a
photograph of him be ing caught in the
act.
Charles, himself cleVer with mechanical
and electronic devices, started to
build a trap . The idea was that we
would leave a cassette case (supposedly
containing a message ) at a'location for
him to collect. The case would be
placed on top of a micro-switch, which
;lith 1ri.res was connected to a camera
(Olympus OK10) and a flashgun. The
.9 camera was protected by being completely
sealed ins i de a steel box. The box had
a shutter on t he fr ont >roich o ~enad and
closed, through >.>hich woul d be focused
t he camera l ens •nen fitted. The whole
contrapt ion t·ias fitted to a steel pole
whi ch in turn had huge blocks of cement
on t he other end . A hole 'Ha S dug i n the
ground and t he blocks of cement ;roul d
thus be bur ied. The flashgun would be
f'ixed to a ;rood en post a nd this itself
"ould be pushed deep into t he ground .
Bot h the flashgun and the camera t..ere
designed so t hat t hey pointed towards
t he spot ;rhere the cassette case t·JOuld
be. They ..er e also several yards from
it and hardly visib l e inside t he grass .
The camera-box under construction.
we hoped that t he casse~te case, 1men
picked up, would operate. the micr o-
switch which >roul d t hen result in the
camera and flash go ing off , taking ·a·
picture of >~hoever set it off. The
shutter on t he st ee l box, originally
open, would close i n such a t.a;J that
t he. box would be imposs ible t o get into
thus pro t ecting t he fi lm from any
damage that might be infl ict ed upon it .
Additionally, as t he ent i re devi ce ,_,a;s
s o heavy, it would not be possi b l e for
anyone to carry i t away . Therefor e,
the photograph orould remain int act.
However, before setting such a trap , ·~
fe lt that we would need to win the
confide nce of the messenger (s) . To
this end, we wrote do>m some questions
and put t hem into the cassette case.
This was t hen l eft a t a remote spot
just outside Swindon. h~ deci ded that
•,;hen they next te l ephoned h'S ~<ould te ll
them that we had left a message end
give them a map reference. A fe 1< day s
later the telephone rang 10ith another
stupid message . Charles interrupted i t
and , shouti ng over the t op of the noise ,
t old them that a. message was going to be
left for them. The l i ne i~~ediately
went quiet then Charles heard music
l i ke a choir s i nging. Listening , he
r ealised i t was the Christmas carol
Silent Night , but very distort ed. The
conversation 1-rent as foll ot~s :
YOU vi! LL BE VISITED
"Hello."
~IE ~/I LL llE WATCHING
" Now listen her e , old chap . A message
for you. We ' re going to leave a
message for you t hi s time . He will
tell you when. You have not convinced
us t hat you are ext raterre st rial . You
may claim you are extr aterrestrial ,
Try t o convince us. Hhat do you say?"
( Long gap of silence )
Then the distorted Sil ent Ni ght music
came over the t ele phone .
"\-le ha'le complied with all of your
r e quests in the past ••• "
(silent !light still playing)
"Ver y good carol song. He llo?
Nha.t is meant •• ? " The line t..ent
tot ally dead.
The telephone call rece i ved after t his
was one whi ch unnerved us , for it
clearly contained the words :
YOU VIILL BE KILLED
The remainder of t he message was
undecipherable , but t he context of t he
message as a who l e was made clear
·e nough.
Another t elephone call follo,;ed not
long after , although t his time
start i ng off with a loud noise r esemb-
ling electrical f eedback,
WE KNOW YOU CAN HEAR US .
WE WANT TO (GARBLE) •
YOU VIILL DECIDE TO I.E!l.VE A
li!ESSACIE AND YOU WILL LET US KNOW
lm:RE YOU HILL LEA liE IT.
YOU SHE NOT SAFE.
'HE rlANT AoriON NO\~ .
liE SHALL KEEP IN CONTACT.
This telephone call gave t he impression
that t hey ini t iated t he idea , yet t hey
were playing i nto our hands . Another
telephone call da,ys later all o~;e-i
Charles to give them the map references
,,'here t he cassette coul d be .found. He
m•~st have got through as several days
l a t er, on r evisiting the location, we
found the casse tte case had gone . He
..ai t ed anxiously fo::- a reply. Event'-
10 uall y both the cassette and a message
!'as pushed t hrough Charles' le t terbox
one eveni ng.
'iiben thi s message 'ilas returned, the
cassett e case a l s o contained some type
of ele ctroni c device ;;hich the message
claimed t.a.s a transmitter. I t implied
t hat t hey could l ocat e t he case where-
ever we left it a..'ld t<e need not inform
them when and wher e i t could be found .
Thi s message a l so ironi cally conta ined
a 1-1ar ning not to set traps . Tt read:
DO NOT DISI>IANTLE THE DEVICE GIVEN YOU
HE HAVE CONSTRUOI'ED OUT OF YOUR KTII1l
OF MATERIALS FOR THE PURPOSE OF
LOCATING FUTURE i.JRITTEN KESSAGES PUT
I N THE EOX. ~IE HILL UiJECT .A SIGNAL
THROUGH ITS CI RCiJITRY TO LOCATE.
YOU HAVE NO NEED TO INFORl>! US
ONE OF OUR PEOPLE 1rf1LL VISIT ONE OF
YOUR AGENTS . ~IE HILL WARN YOU AN1J
HE NOT TO SET TRAPS. HE NILL Aor
AS f•lEDIATOR UNTIL IT IS TIME FOR OS
l.rEBT
,.,e wer e ver y pl eased with ourse l ves a s
they obviou s ly •~re co-operating N~t h
us. The posi t i on vre.s now t hat lfe could
leave a furt her message , but thi s t ime
e~e would COJmect it to the t rap . I t t•re.s
certain they wou l d collect it.
Another r emote spot was chosen and after
se vera l hours of work the device was set
up . I t •das te sted several times, and we
l ef t, pr aying that it would work , so
ending four months of harassment . We
just w~ite d .
It must be stre ssed here that at no
time di d any of the SCUFORI member s
consider that the electroni c ~~t
given to us coul d have been anything
remotely like a hom i ng device. He
assumed that ' t hey' would know of t he
11
exa ct location pure l y because Raymond
1-1as pr e sent at all t hese discussions.
He t-~ent to great lengths to sl).ow him
the precise spot on the map to make
that he knew t~her e to go. l-Ie were
certain therefore, that 'they' would
collect the cassette case .
As a matter of fact, the ele ctronic
device was anal ysed at a lat er date and
it was sugge sted t hat it came f rom a n
X-ray scatL~ing machine , probably from a
hospital, Raymond worked in a hospi tal.
The message ~~ left i n the cassette
case asked for clarification on a few
points, espe cia l l y as to who they
i ntended to contact. Their last reply
. to us stated that "One of our people
~<ill visit one of your agents •••• He
will act a s mediat or until it i s time
for us meet." Our question, amongst
others, was, "lolho is t he SCUF\lRI
re presentative you are going to
contact? 11
T ~<ocass ette cases :- on the left
t he one that mel t ed when Raymond
Smithers was a llegedly stopped
in the s treet by a darkly dressed
man. The other case contains the '
device t hat was supposedly an
electronic homing mechanism.
A few days l ater, on 11th December,
Raymond telephoned Char l es but he was
at work, so he left a me ssage with
Charle s ' mother . Rajm ond claimed that
he had rece ive d a fur t her message from
the 'ali ens' instr ucting him to go t o
the lo cat ion and move t he cassette case
to a another site. This immediately
sounded ~~spicious arA we guessed t hat
Raymond had triggered off the trap and
produced such a tale to explain what he
doi ng out there movi ng the cassette.
He had realised that a photograph had
been taken and ;~as t aking steps to
cover hi s actions. He knew he had been
t r apped. ·
:Before we spoke to him we drove to t he
pr epared l ocation and found that the
camera-box had bee n triggered off, t orn

A collection of letters, replies
and envelopes - just a sample of
>!hat •m.s received in those months.
out of the ground and incredibly
dragged several yards. The flashgun had
also been pulled up and thrown to the
ground, Ho•rever, as the shutter on the
b ox had closed, the caroera was intact
and the box had not been damaged by
efforts to get inside. It appeared
that as he could not get at the camera
itself, he bad attempted to carry the
entire device off - but failed, ~~
opened the box later and took the
film to be developed.
During the l'lai t for the films to be
fini shed, •....e said nothing to Raymond
about the incident . Hoh~ver, one day
the cassette case a rrived through
Charles• letter box vnth a message.
This me ssage; a reply t o our lis ted
questions, ''"'s nothing other than a
last-gas p effort on Raymond ' s ' part to
cover himself . !t read , in ans~>er to
our question about the SCUFOR~ repres-
entative, as follows :
YOU KNO,·I ;·m:O HE I S - YOU l{f, 'IE
PICTURE - A~'TE!'l SC.~tmn:o FUR t·2S,' !IGE -
WE DE:TEOF::D ELECTROl!IC DE'llCE I!CT OF'
OUR lolAKING - HE !'LAYED \'liTH YOU BY
SENDING !IJEDHTOR TO REPLP.CE l•IESSAOE -
AFTER ~JEDBTOR LEFT - viE F!XAICINED YOUR
DEVICE
So Raymond knew he was caught. He tried
to convince us that he 1..as the SC.'UFORI
representa tive they ;ere contacting, and
that he had gone to the site purely to
move the cassette case after they had
'detected electronic device not of our
making' , in other "rords , the camera-box.
The me ssage also tried to make us
believe that the ' aliens ' had dr agged
the box out of the ground mere ly to
examine it . All . of t hi s sounded like a
poor ef fort of a worried man.
The final reply in which Raymond
Smithers attempts t o cover himself
~th a poor story,
The f i lm Has finally developed: a.mon,"'St
the test prints of Charles triggering
off the camera, was a single print that
showed the clear profile of Raymond .
Unfortunately , as the camera lens had
been exposed t o the cold December
weather for a few days , condensation
had fogged- up the lens. Al so, as the
camera had been triggered off in the
morning , estimated at roughly 8.00 am ,
there •,ras plenty of ground- fro st wh i ch
added t o this problem. On top o: t ha t,
"e assumed that it «ould be trig£"ered
off at 3ight, hence th~ flashgun; b~t
A
it happened in near daylight . ~;t ~~
had the necessary -proof and o:-es:ented
R3..v:nond Hi th our e•Jidenca at . the next
SCUFOR I meeting on 15th December, and
after a great deal of interrogation he
:Croke down ;:J.n1_ a'.imi t ted he was r9so~ns-
12 ible f or ~h" ·..JhQl ~ t hin.:; . ·
He c l aimed he too was being be i ng
harassed by s omeone and , unless he
coul d force the closure of SCUFORI, his
life would be made unpl easant for him.
He could not, of cour se, pr ovide aQY
e vi de nce for this. Naturally he wa.s
asked to l eave the group and the messages
st opped immediately . 1dhat is s~prising
is that Raymond was training to be a
St ate Registered Nurse and a Special
Constable in the poli ce force, and thus
cons i der ed a very re sponsi ble person.
This test- shot was one of sever a l
taken to e nsure that the camera
~<ould captuxe t he culprit on film
should anyone move the cassette.
Charles was ' caught in the act•,
~rnat SCUFORI has i s a unique record of
a t ypical l'ia.n- In-Black case; one of fe«
t o occur in Great Britai n. Ho<<ever, the
difference bet~reen thrs case and ··others
from the past is t hat this one 1-1as
solved. We proved· tbat •nth determin-
at i on and ini t i ative Ne <rere able to
13
identify t he P!"rpetrator .
It could be postulated that i f ma,ybe
those famous 11!11! cases from the 50s a nd
the 60s had been investigated in a
s imi l ar manner and frame of mind, the
results would have shown the same kind
of result, The difference , I believe 1
lies with the UFO investigator or UFO
i nvestigation group as a whole, A
gullible, sensationalist set-up will
interpret such events as m,ysterious and
possibly of extraterrestrial origin, as
we were meant to think. Perhaps the
ear l ier 'flying saucer' researchers who
gave up their work accepted . these
messages and threa ts without question
and thus took them to be r eal.
uFos are themse lves a big enough
problem for the ufologists already and
the subject ca.n well do without inter-
ference. f rom cranks and hoaxer s .
Raymond Smithers, (whose name has ~een
altered for the purpose of this art i cle ) ·
s-pe nt a great de·a l of time in concocting
up m~ s sages written in s trange script,
He wi!nt to great lengths to manipulate
sounds unt il they produced a frighten-
ill€ electronic background noise. He
somehow manipulated his (or an
accompliace• s) voi ce so that it sounded
truly inhuman. For a long time he
worked in with SCUFORI a.nd thus gained
the confidence of a ll the other members ·
of the .group.
~le cannot ·explain JSz he did t hi s t o
us; all tre can say is that he did it.
some people reading this might latch on
The frame that told it all, Alt
of poor quality, this photograph was
conclusive proof that Smithers was
t he perpetrator. The outline was
unmistakable. Had he triggered off
t he mechanism at night 1 no doubt a
better cl arity could have been
obtained,
t o t he -idea t hat Smit!lers- wasiinder
pre ssure from some higher authori t y to
force t he closure of SCUFORI, . but this
can only be interpreted as a last-gasp
attempt by him to save his face. There
was, ·and sti ll is, no evidence t o
suggest he was under threat. What is
more, SCUFORI st ill functions as -sn
 inve st igation group - we are sti ll hera
and so is Smithers - still in one pi ece .
}l.e is no onger a Special Constable ,
· but has since gained promotion w:i thin
the Health Authority, No contac t i s
Dear Editor,
Let me be !':rank, Ian. I read your r eview
of our book ( FOe Over Plymouth, reviewed
last issue ) at our last meeting ani while
the group acknowledges your right to say
whate ver you t h ink; ~"' felt you 1...ant a
bit over the t op. It's just a book of
UFO aightings, which ~re have i nvestigated
that we can find no explanation for. The
sightings themselves rule out misident i-
fications (they do ? Ed.) so we didn't
<~t ' to drone on about what they weren 't.
UFOs are real and these are reports of
what ;,e consider UtOOlOWN flying objects .
There are enough anti ro bods about and
we think that those >~ho know UFOs to
e xist SHOULD SAY IT. and not let the
antis run t he show. Your own mag take s
the "sci entific" approach yet what have
you ever said? Not a great deal f or
UFOs. TaY~ for example the articles
-..<here you intend. (are you really that
authori ti ve? (sic) ) to ki l l off the
Warminster UFOs tor good . That is a
very suspicious thing to sa,y but very
interes t i ng that you think you are cap-
ab l e of doing it . As in the now tedious
explanations for the saucer nests there
seems to be no acceptance on your part
t hat these circles coul d have been
caused by UFOs. If~e circles had
been anything other t han nearly perfectly.
c i rcular or had been found anywhere other
t han the Warminster area we could accept
your S'J.ggeeted explanat ion . (They ;..-ere-
in Winchester and t4estbury,Ed ) . You
sound too much like the "Horizon" proB'-
ramme the other ;..-eek, a:>d not·l you are
going to try to minimise rlarminster ' s
importance in the UFO scene . De cause of
this ,-e knol< that you are suspicious .
Your disbelief and antagonism are too
transparent. Yo~ see , alt hough I'm not
en expert on "larminster I he•ie had a
personal daytime 1 lo>;-leve l, close
r ange sighting on Cradle Hill, have taken
a U~'O photograph there and on a . group
trip a couple of years ago we BaH five
positive unid.entifieds . So some may
fantas ise but surely you can spot these .
To paint \~arm i ns ter as a non-event shows
serious shortooll\ings in y our supposedly
impart ial, objective position , but more
t o t!le point, we k;no;~ you are wr.ong . In
ho•.• man,y other oases are you t otally
excer ci sed with him so it has thus been
accept ed tha t the background and reason
for for the ~stery ~lessages will never
b e uncovered .
wrong? With the evidence you must wive
from t.rarminster 1 you have got to know
that what you say is wrong. Which leads
on to the question, what's y our game?
Are you the olean upstanding , fearless
pursuer of Truth which you claim? Or
something a l ot more devious and sini -
ster? Because of these atr~ anomalies
the group fee l s t hat to support your mag
would not be supporting· tbe cause for the
advancement of public knowledge and aware-
ness of' UFOs .
Yours sincerely ,
Bob Boyd ,
PU:FORG,
Plymouth,
Devon.
(How does one r eply to a l etter like that?
To start ""i tb 1 wher" on Earth did I f!ver
make a claim that I was c lean, U?stand ing
fear l ess , etc, et c? In s hort, your
letter reeks of paranoia, cover- ups, men
from ll.ars, · t he grand Harmi nste:r UFO
Mecca and many other concepts that ~rere
left behind by serious s tudents of ufo-
logy many years ago. Ufo-ogy has ·grown
up to the extent that · t has left some
behind , stuck i n t heir childhood where
the <orld of fairy tales and science
fict ion is reality . These people don ' t
1-l!lnt to face the outside world of real
science, wher e they'r not allo~2d to
play anymore . To be totally honest
Bob , your letter does more to show us
what ' s wrong with ufology today , than I
or aoyone else in a lengthy artic le
could; Ed. )
Dear . Ian,
George Adamski deserves a much closer
look than that given him by Geoff Bird.
Indeed , Geoff ha s cast no more than a
glance in l'uie:nskl ' s direction. A close
examination shows that it i s not diff-
i cult to 'form a ny sort of conclusion •
regarding Adall'.ski . He was a fraud , and
the only ' experience' he had "-as that
gained in years or peddling his home-
spu n philosophy . Goeff ' s superficia l
14 a~1 uncritical article, in ;;hich
 Adamski and Elizabeth Klarer are un-
accountably mingled, adds nothing to
our understanding. It is a pity that
you found it necessary to publish such
rubbish, and I enclose an article that
"ill set the Adamski r ecord straight.
I know very little about the Klarer
case , but I am sure that there are no
genuine contactees.
· Yours si ncerely ,
Steuart Campbell,
Edinburgh
(First off, thank you kindly for the
~Q.?!!! sk:j, .<\I'ticle. I shall puplish
this in the next issue ,;it b- any - luck.
As for printing Geoff 1 s contribution, I
can make no excuses · for publishing
Geoff Bird' s article, as he initially
gave me the idea and after agreeing on
it he set to ~~rk 1 presenting it just a
few days before going to print. IIJuch
of it ,;as cut out to allow it to fit
into the space left and that may have
damaged the content somewhat . Hev·erthe-
less , it has sparked off a response· and
thus it has proven worthwhile. Ed)
Dear I an,
THE PROBE REPORT Vol 3, No 2 1oas very
intere s ting ar.d I am relieved to hear
that it shall continue. I am 1<riting to
the letters section to inform readers of
PUFOIC ' s (Plymouth UFO Invest igation
Centre - not my other friends . Ed ) plans
in J anuary-1983, which potentially may
turn out to .b e a milestone in British
ufology. Since September 1982 , PUFOIC
have been investigating e possible
abduction cas e in Devon which happened
during April 1981. Our investigations
will end in mid-January, when the
witne ss is returning to Devon for
regressive hypnosis in order to hope-
fully establish two time/memory lapses
on tt.1o consecutive days . I must ~
IIIIE I:UIIIIJUS
.
IIB .. IEI:I JENNY
- RANDLES
IIUIIVIU ·, IJIU BIRIIi=IEI.D i=IIRIUI
(Based on a detailed: case. re~ort ·
,. submitted to BUFORA by Richard'··Ada.ms
:A:au:1: ::::y
1
1981. : ~~Llj
Farm, Ridgeway, Sheffiel<!.. ·· · ··
07 . 00 GMT CE II (L} (Tr).
··::Int~oduction: Landing cases w~~~h .
involve physical traces are few and
f .a:r ..beh1een, so the BUFORA recor<Ul
:would indicate. Even less common are
·; aj,~uations where the investigators are
.·:weli.' qualified individuals >ri th a
· knowledge of geography and geo logy, as
that t he regression hypnosis is being
performed by a regi s tered hypnotherapist
under medical supervision. Our invest::...
igations so far have resulted in a few
surprises, being oddities on two photo-
graphs taken at t he area of the incident.
One being taken by the witness, the ot her
by ourselves, in black&: whi~.~ film .. Q!l _
19th Sept~mber 1982 . The PUFOIC photo
.qhows an o'b je ct on it , just a bow the
ground in the back8round . This was not·
visible when the photo was taken and the
photograph is 'still being examined by
photographic experts. The r egression
hypnosis sessions are being video-
recorded for comparison and evaluation
with other sessions of abduotees that
have also· been video-recorded . in the
past. We have allocated two full
weeks in January 1983 for these sessions
and conclusion of the main investigation.
After this, our ~.mary on the case will
hopeful ly be completed by t he end of
February. This summary will be 'in
depth 1 and we have decided tp produce
. copies of it for~er!!_. Th~:r:-~ lfl-11. ·~ ..
be no charge for it, but we do ask peii{lle-·
wishl:r>~ to receive a copy to forward an
SAE to minimise the cost. This case has
brought PUFOIC tremendous excitement and
is our most interesting case in our
'history.
Best wishes,
Eric Morris,
. PUFOIC;
17 W;j.lkinson Road,
·"St . Budeaux,
Plymouth·. -PL5 1DF.
Devon.
Comments and opl.m.ons on anything to do
with ufology, in particular with regards
to THE PROBE REPORT, are invi ted for
pub l ication . Please address all letters
to: SIGNALS, THE PROBE REPORT,
16 ~lar igo ld 'l falk, Ashton, Bristol . BS3 2PD
J.ndeed is the circumstance here. As
will be evident, this is not an ideal
case - so very few are - but at least
the two investigators were able t o
attempt a very thorough appraisal of
what information we did have availab l e;
and present an excelle·nt a nd well
st·r uctured case report which deserves
summary i n this publication.
Initial Events: The investi·ga.t ors
were first alerted to this case by
Mr K. G.*, a technician in t he
university. department where they
15 · worked whilst taking degrees. He knew
J. E•• one of the participants person-
ally . Unfortunate l y this was 13
months aft er the e vents (ie during
Februar~2) and although a fUll
investigation ~~s undertaken the .
traces ~1ere no l onger present and so ·
maximum follow-up was not a chievable.
Nevertheless, the investigators
intervie>~d all the participants
several times and obtained the follo<~
iDg basic story:
~irdfie ld Farm i s a smallholding on
the South Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
close t o the B6054 road. Its owner is
l•lra A.lv., who is approximately 60 .years
old. She is a f orthright and very
precise lady 1 e.nd runs the farm on her
o·.m. On Tnedneaday 21st January 1981
Mrs A. II. rosa at about 07.00 to make
breald'ast. It >;as a cold and overcast
morning, but dry and "'ith just a sl ght
wind. Looking out . thr ough her kit che n
lii ndow. wh i ch faces south- east a cross
sloping ground towards a ploughed fi eld
which belongs to a neighbouring fa.rmer 9
at a point just to the left of the tree
(see photograph) she observed a puzzling
objeot on the ground.
.@ R. Adams &: P. Fuller
She ~~t ched this strange object quite
intensively during the next three-
qtiarters of an hour, but not contin-
uous ly as she had other chores to do.
She was too busy to ctually go and
approach it, and fr o~her outside posit-
i on ~1hils t feed i ng the animals , ahe was
not able t o see it all due to the lie or
the l and . She ..-as certainly very "baffied
by it, but at no time regarded it in any
alien or exotic terms . She describes
what she saw shaped somewhat like a
tent , but more ·conical . in. structure and
wi th a single apex. It W'cJ.S me t allic
q;rey in colour and ~nth no visible mark-
ings. The es~imated he ight ~s about 8
feet . In fro nt of this cone were three
'blotches• which were about 3/4 feet in
diameter and seemed to have t!le p!JSar-
ance of •sacks' or ' eggs'. They were
pure •Ahit e, apparently a ttached to the
main object, in front of ~><h ich they stood .
At first !olrs A. H. t ook them to be lumps
of sno;~, ur•til she r ealised that there
h'a.S absolutely 'no SCOW ~,mere else ,
She concluded that he must have been
vi ewing a large t ent of unusual design
but could not understand 1;ll.Y anybody
should place it where they had.
At about 08 . 30 sl•e had to leave to go
into tc·.m for shopping. Returning at
10. 30 th~ re was no trace of the obje ct
and llhe .,as by now rather perturbed , so
she called the farmer >iho o•,:ned the
field and asked i f he had either some
unusual equi pment there or bad allo~~d
any campers to pitch tent. To both
auestions the ans•lllr was no . lie had no
fdea what she could ha~e seen. Two days
l ater, Mr J . H. (the communicant of the
story to t he i nvestigators ' contact)
visited >Irs A.~l . with a vie ... to pur cha
ing vegetables , which he often did to
se l l who l esale. He has for some years
had an interest in UFOs and has collected
a scrapbook of cuttings rcfe rant to local
cases . I mmediate ly he suggested that Mra
A . ~) . had seen a UFO nd, in fact, accord-
ing to her testimony , had to explain th
term to her. She had never heard of a
UFO . J .H. l ed her to the field and she
oointed out the rough 'landing' spo t.
It was at this juncture that they disco-
vered t he 'traces ' , virtually at the
pre cise l ocation ii'JI"s A. l-1. had directed
them to •
The Ground Traces : The field itself' wa.s
still muddy from rai n prior to 21st Jan-
uary (only 0.5 mm fell in the period
21st to 25th January, according to
r ecords frcm We ston Park ¥.et . Station) .
An area of roughly 11 feet by 11 fee t in
the ploughed f'ie l d .r~s c l early disturbed .
The t'UrroHs ~11re crushed and indented at
this point and there •nere 3 depre9sioZUJ
(about 4 inches deep) . The central ar ea
a llegedly showed signs of ei'fting.
Unfortunately, w~ilst J.H. bas the
prese nce of mind to get a camera. and t ake
immediate pictures of the markings; he
omitted both t o take aoy clear shots of
t his ' s ifting' or to i nclude anything i n
the frame to verify scale . The only clue
comes from the furrO>$ t emselva
J . H. kindly supplied a number of these
print e to the investigators; one
incl uded in this repo r~. J .H. aleo
did not undcr~ake a proper site survey
16
 of the markings, and so we only have
hi s test imony· a!ld t hat of !>Irs A. I;. ,
recorded over a year after t he events.
However, both insist t hat there were
no other traces in the mud to indicate
footprints for example . This makes i t
hard to understand how, if it were a
tent, it <<as carried through mud to
t he point Hhere it was f irst see n,
Other Events : Several anecdota l
stories , of varying relevance, 'nere
offered by t~rs A·"·
1) 'Two days ' aft er the above events,
at between 16.00 a nd 17 .00 she ;;as
talking <or.i.th a friend at the front gate
when a 'high-p i tched squeak' .came from
overhead . Th i s lasted several s econds
and r epeated a number of times during
a two-minut e period. It t.re.s very
pier cing , but Mrs A.14. ' s friend alleg-
edly heard not hing.
2) r.<.rs A.l~ . and J .H ., who are personal
frie nds as '""11 as business colleagues
were watching TV during the f i rst week
in February 1981. Suddenly s ome tiny
crys t alline multi-coloured lights
flashed and gli t tered in the places on
the screen Hhere there were characters '
f aces . This las t ed for two minutes and
t hey disappeared just as suddenly. There
was no sound di stortion. The se t was a
two-year old Panasoni c.
3) That same week (possibly 6th February )
!>Irs A. vi. "-'<>S being driven beck home in a
car owned by a l>!r H. M. They had left
Clowne , Derbyshire, at an unspecified
time in the dark, and w-ere travelling
along t he A616 near Barlborough. Sudd-
e nly a brilliant obje ct ~lith a tail moved
acr oss their f i eld of view arA was lost
in a matter of seconds . It . was surround-
ed by a mass of light s, described as blue
green and red. No sound was heard above
the car e ngine which Nas not a f fected.
H.M ., concentrating on driving, saw
J no thing. l~s A. w. thinks t he basi c shape
1: t.as r ound. The ob ject moved s outh, ie
apparently fol l owing the line of the M1
motor>-oa,y t<hich ,,>as very close to them at
t hat time,
Conclusions : The inve s t igators are satis-
fied that the ;litness described a real
pr i mary e ve nt invol ving a s ol id object on
the ground beside her farm. They under-
t ook various re construct ions and other
exer cises to a scer tain s i~e a nd d istance
from the farmhouse. These need not
concern us in this summary, as they sti ll
l eave t he matter aub jec~ive. and basically
allied 1vith her te stimony. As for the
subs i duary event s, the investigat ors are
not wi l l ing to lay stress on t hem . They
point out that electr i city pylons rim Tn ·
a line virtuall.Y above the farmhouse a nd
so could have had a hand in t he TV inter-
ference. The secondary UFO sighting they
also feel mi ght well have bean a n air-
craft, a l though l>!r s A. il. says it was
nothing like one. Light a i rcraft oft en
do fol l ow t he line of motorways at night
as a convenient directional marker . But
what of the prima ry object ;;itnessed?
Were the traces associated with t his?
That does seem reas onably probable , but
merely verifi_es the objectivity of the
phenomenon, rat he r than affirm •Hhat i t
really •~s. Three principle options
were considered by the investigators for
tbe cause of this report: -
a ) A tent ••• This fits t he description
to some degree, but does not explain the
three ' lumps ' in front ·of it (which !!!!:!
correlate with t he t hr ee depres sions
found at t he s i te). It also does not
explain the lack of footprints leading
t o the nitch site. Whi l st there is a
;footpath running across this fie ldfrom
the B road, there are ma ny other locat-
ions far better suited to the pitching
of tents all around this point. Not
only was thi s field muddy, but it sloped
downwards, thus carrying the water f'rom
the r oad to the tent. It was a l so hea~
ilY pl oughed. Putting a tent there i n
mid-January would seem illogical, espec-
i ally without permission from the land-
owner. Am getting what ·. .as evidently
quite a hef ty contraption to t his point
without alerting ei ther Mrs A.W. or the
l andowner would have been very difficult.
All in all, the tent hypothesis, whilst
attractive, is hard to equate with the
facts.
b ) Farm equipment ••• Presumably this
must have originated from the farm owner.
If so, ther e seems no obvious reason lolliy
·he should deny its presence to ~~s A. W.
c ) A meteoro l ogical or test balloon •••
This option is a possi9ilit y , t he tent-
shape resembling the metallic covering
of the balloon; itse l f and the three
' lumps ' possibly being instrumentation
at tached t o the device. This fits the
fa ct that de spite her long period of
observation Mrs A.W . saw no movement
associated with the object(s). One
would assUme , on this hypothesis, (no
materia l.:support for whi ch the invest-
igators found, -incidentally) that the
owners of •the de vice arr i ved t o take it
away >lhilst Mrs A.lv. was shopping. Even
so, t his begs t he questi ons as t o the
lack of footpr ints in the mud and why
the people concerned failed to ask for
permission from the farmer. Perhaps, of
course, they t ook t hi s to be Mrs A. W.,
as her proper~y. bestrides. the field.
Not f i nding her· in wnen . they. came tG>
retrievethe ir equipinent ' tiiey- ...;:y-·JU.st
have de cided t o take i t and leave . Thus
neither she, nor the real l andowner,
would have known about _the object t hat
had come down in their field.
I n S1lllllnation t he investigat ors conclude:.
"This really is a fas ci nating case. It
is a pity that we did not learn of it
until ove r a year after it happened •••
Somet hing was there. The photographs
. suggest t hat it was a very large ob ject.
I ( Paul Fuller) suggest that this obje ct
17 s hould be classified as UNXNOHN ."
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256 pp, illustrated,
A gl ance at the price of this book may
make one think twice about buying it ,
despite the attractive cover , Do not
succumb. The W.H. Smith bookclub.
ENCOUNTERS took it as t heir main choice
for the wint.e r 1982-83 season , and not
without due reason, for this is undoubt-
edly a milestone book - a book worthy of
considerable mel:'it. Paul Devereux ma.y
not be known as a ufologist but he may
very well be recognised. as perhaps the
world's most prolific ley .hunter ,
editor of the respected journal of that
name and author of several books on the
art of tracing ancient trackways or
understanding megalithic mysteries,
Here, he turns his thoughts and his
background to the subject of UFOs, and
comes up with a most interesting
synthesis of id.eas. It is not, as the
publicity blurb tells us, a startling
new theory, not does Devereux ever
claim it as such himself. But it is
nonetheless impressive , a s a piecing
together of latest research (in some
seemingly diverse areas) and ending up
with ·~at just might be the break-
through we have been seeking. Just how
does Paul Devereux succeed. Dlhere many
others have failed? Firstly, by not
being dogged by having to believe in
UFOs in a s trictly mechanical way .
This >~ ight which most of us who get
interested in the subject carry into
our studies (thanks to the fa ct that
this is how the media al1.ays inter-
prets UFOs) Dta.S easier to remove from a
non-ufologist. What is more , Devereux
began his quest (as he begins this book)
with a persooal UFO encounter that
merged into hi s later i de as very
gently. This encounter with a. fuz.zy
orange blob in Kent which ' miracul-
ous l y ' ohanged ·into a ~uman- form up in
the sky, became t he fo cal point for all
his later theorising . For it told him
that a) ther e was a physical energy
stuff there, and b) t his stuff could be
moulded like plasticine i nto various
diverse , ,,-e ird and wonderful shapes.
From this starting point the book
discusses a large se l e ction of potted
case h istorie s which suffer from the
fact t hat they are extracted from the
data not at random', but presumably t o
fi~ t he theory. Undoubt edl y many of
them seem to do so ••• but I suspect
t here is an element of 'cheat i ng ' here
'"hich is subtle in the effect i t has.
REVIEWS
of, before t ackling broader and more
avant-garde theoretical studies .~thin
ufology . Host of these date from the
past decade or so , and include Vall~e ' s
speculations plus (I was pleased to see)
quite a length.y examination of the views
Nhioh Peter !<arrington and I expressed
in UFOs: A· British Viewpoint . Indeed,
British Viewpoint seems to have had a
hand in the development of Devereux' s
basic principles , since he uses it as a
means to evoke the concept that CE3 and
CE4 oases should be regarded as a separ-
ate phenomenon from other UFO events.
I e.m not sure t hat it is reasonable to
di smiss events from further discussion
in t his way, as neither Peter Warrington
or myself are totally satisfied t hat
this is necessarily true. \olhat does
(to us) seem proven (a.'1d here >IB would
endorse Paul Devereux all the way ) is
that some UFO events should be divorced
from ~rest and studied in i solation.
In Bri tish Vie>moint ;re speak of atmos-
pheric phenomena and oe.ll t hem UAPs,
(Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomena), a
t erm whi ch Devereux echoes our call for
widespread adoption.
EARTH LIGHTS moves on now with t he
.assumption that it is disoussir>.,g a.ll
UFO events bar the troublesome small
number of contact oases , which it has
dismissed , and makes the highly cont-
entious s t atement that there i s but one
explanation for the remainder of the
data. I suspect what EARTH LIGHTS is
real1y concerned with is a part of the
residual data (the UAPs). Just how
important a part , remains to be seen.
Paul Devereux ~<Ould have it, that it is
all tha.t remai ns . I suspect it is a --
highly significant proportion , but not
necessarily all. You may have very
different ideas , but will find it very
hard indeed to deny the strength of the
primary argument - that there is an
unidentified natural phenomenon acting
as a major component in the uneXPlained
UFO data.
The book concludes by tying together
strands in an effort to find this
natural phenomenon. It t alks of fault -
zones, the piezo-electric effect, ion-
isation in the atmosphere and other ·
mechanisms by which natural energy from
the Earth itself might be seeped into
the atmosphere from ' active' locales -
which would cf course be our long-fam-
iliar ' •nndoes', Stat istical proof is
offered and does seem very suggestive .
The reason ~~Y warminster would be a
'window' , on t his basis , i s s ho\Vtl for
example . r,,lba.t is more, predictions ( in
18 a ccord >~i th local ge ol ogy ) are made
· The ' author cont inues with a discussion
of standard theories, easily disposed
about those parts of Britain where
t<indows should be. In most instances
the se correlate •fti th a (somewhat
suspect) basic study made of BIDURA
re cords for s e lected years . One of the
few puzzles,(a postulated window
a ccordil".g to theory wher e the records
seemed !!21 to confirm) , t.ms s tat ed as
being the Pennine hill area be t >~aen
lo!ancheste:r a.nd Leeds . The ommision ,,oas
due to the patchy nature of the BUFORA
investigator network (espec ially in
ear liar years) - hence rro.y reason for
suspicion about the status of thi s
statistical ~<Ork. Nevertheless, Paul
Devereux wrote this without the
apparent Y~owledge that the •Nindow did
exist and has been recognised and stUd-
i ed by local UFO investigators since
1972. Indeed , I had already written
THE PEI\'P.INE uro J.IYS'l'ERY' (Granade.,
Spring 1983) before EARTH LIGHTS
appeared, andtiii'Sfi lls in the missing
jigsaw pieoe with surprising closeness .
llhere EARTH LIGHTS is truly revolutionary
is not rner el,y in discussing the work of
ge ologists (such as Brian Brady) and
psychologists (such as Dr . Michael
Persinger }, who postulate an Earth-
fault-induced superfield, affecting t he
mind of the ;.'i tness, but in addi ng an
pparent correlat ion between stone
circles and oro sight ings . Deveraux
goes on to conclude that perhaps ancient
~1an knew about , and utilised , the Earth
energy ••• and from here to suggest that
the UFO shapes are psychokinetically
moulded out of the Earth energy by the
wi t nesses ; somewhat in the ma..~er that
was discussed in British Viewpoint .
This last point is bound t o be sub ject
to great conte nt ion , and many of t he
tenets remain as yet unproven , although
strongly suegested by the data in this
book. But Devereux• s principle argum-
ent, that there is an Earth-re lated
natural phenomenon, is to me now well
established ••• and EARTH LIGHTS goes a
very long w to effectively displaying
t hi s important realisation.
Arisina out of this book is a new British
s tud,y, code -names GAIA , >lhioh has been
worked out by a number of people (inclu-
di ng myself) •o develop Paul Devereux ' s
ideas . Our hope is that this three-
part study (which will involve statist-
ical o.nc.lysis of a sophisticated kind ·
ful ly organised and pre- planned sky- '
~tches and aetual physical/geological
experimentation} wil l oither prove or
disprove once and for all most of that
postu ated by the vercux theory . If
this succeeds in a.n:J measure then EARTH
LIGHTS will right ly become regarded as
a classic of UFO liter ture . A book
that actually solves a part of the
whole UFO ~ste;y:--In my opini on that
may be rather more than a ~o.'ild. dream.
(Jenny Randles )
THE CATALOCUE OF UFO PERIODICALS by Tom
Lind. A SAID OF SAUCERS publi cation.
281 pp, large format , spiral-bound.
~14.95 plus i postage cost a . Available
from P . O. Box 71 1, Hobe Sound , Flori da
33455, u.s.A_.
At last, availab l e for ufologist s is
t he essential catalogue that lists
together i nformation on over 1 100
titles of current and former j~urnals ,
newsletters , and magaz:i!les dealing with
UFOs and associated topics . Because of
the great areas of over l apping by rnaey
periodicals , topics such as Ancient
Mysteries , the paranormal , t he occult
a~ space explorat ion are also covered.
Tom Lind embarklld on this project years
ago , contacting every address known to
him and reque ted infor mation on the
var i ous publications currently iosued,
a nd on those that ceased many years ago .
~e catalogue is of course not a book
that you would sit down a nd read from
cover to cover, or read at bedt i me ,
unless of course y ou were an avid coll-
ector or researcher after specific infor-
mation - and t hat is where thi s catalogue
i s aime d .
It fills a long-existent gap t hat no-one
had really ever wanted to fi ll because
of the long hours and months of typing
and preparation required once the data
had been collected. But now everything
a.ey ufolog.i.st ever wanted to know about
who-pr oduced- what-and-when is available
i~ one cover - but more to the point, i t
g1ves names and addresse s of current
publications that f ar surpasse;-aey-other
guides on the market . lihat is more , Lind
will be mailing updates at periodic int-
erv-als to thoso who have the cat alogues
(price details not yet known) to maint-
ain i t s acurac~ .
The only snag I can foresee is that of
adding addit ional entries such a s new
journal s entering onto the market - so
far , each entry is listed in an alpha-
numeric sequence, so there might be a
problem in numbering a new journal that
fits in bet;;oeen two listed ones; and this
prob lem i.e bound to occur . Sti ll , that
i s Lind ' s problem and not yours .
For UX r eader s 1 there· is the ver y dist-
inct poss ibility t hat PROBE rna¥ serve as
an outlet for THE CATALOGUE OF UFO
PERIODICA LS thus alleviat ing t he problem
of sending Money Orders abroad. ~!ore on
that next issue . But anyhow , a vital
addit ion t o any ufologist •a library, a nd
19 well worth shel l ing out for. (I . V.rzyglod)
THE SCIEl!CE IN SCI~fCE FICTION. Edited
by Peter Nichol l s. Published by
Nichae l Joseph, 1982. 208 pp, illust-
rated. 11 ~" :x at'', large format . .£1o. 95.
For value for money, readers will have
to search a long way t o top this fine
book, for it is lavishly illus t rated
throughout olith top quality colour
photographs and diagrams, covering
every aspect of concepts that are
brought into typical s cience fiction
stories. Although it may seem odd to
review a book that deals wi t h a
subject often unwillingly allied with
ufology, the reasoning becomes clear
when you consider that such elements·
a s lo1J8-distance space t ravel, time
trave l , ancient astronauts, flying
saucers, life on ot her planets, the
hollow Earth, alien intelligences on
Earth, and Man's contact with aliens
are all given critical examinat i ons.
Although far from being part of every
ufol ogist's areas of study , these
concepts are neverthele~s very popular
with the media and with many ' fringe '
societies such as the Aetherius
Society, who champion the beliefs of
space travel to other planets and the
existence of intel l igent alien life on
them. TEE SCIENCE IN SCIENCE FICTION
thankfully applies science to these
ideas and by restoring sanity to them ,
effectivl e demolishes them as such.
The section of most interest (though
t his book is extremely fascinating and
entertaining throughout) i s under
chapter 11 , entitled 'Flying Saucers •.
This brief analysis of the UFO situa-
tion as a whole is very informed and
benefits by being Nritten from an
object i ve point of view. A J?ara.graph
of great significance re ads ;
"There are st ill s igbt ings ~<hioh cannot
conclusively be accounted for; but the
debate is not really a ratio~al argument
over what, if anything, this evidence
amounts to. The reasons pe opl e have for
holding fantast ic beliefs about UFOs
actually have nothing to do >lith evidence;
UFO enthusiasts deal with evidence only
to give their be liefs ~~atever gloss of
respectability can be obtained by their
pastiche of scientific method . For the
most part, they do not care \~hether the
stories they quote are true or not, as
i s sho;m by t he <-ay that known hoaxes
are still repeated , in book after book.
Those UFO enthusiasts liho do try to
observe reasonable standards of evidence
in thei r enquiries >rill try to !'e ject
t hose l<ho do not as members of a
'lunatic fringe •, but even the most
superficial investigation shows that it
i s the llynek-style sceptics who are the
fringe, ;mile the re~l heart of t he ul"O
phenomenon lias with the uncritical
believers . " That pao-agraph sums up t he
true cr~rent oredi cament of the UFO
11orld, and ju~t ill us tra t es hoH this
book has intel l igently t a ckled the vlide
r ange of topics fea tured .
DIE NAGORA FOTOSERIE by Klaus Hebner .
32 page privately printed booklet.
Illustrated l<ith photos & diagrams.
15 DM including postage .
To some , the re a l bread and butter of
ufology can be found in the small priv-
ately pr i nted booklets that never exper-
ience the ,,.;.der publicity and acclaim
af forded that of prof essional big-name
offerings . The amount of effort put
into these ,;orks is strenuous and often
unrewarded, and. it is vital that every-
thing should be done to spread the word
of their existence. DIE tiAGOOA FOTOSERIE
KRITI SCH EETRACHTE'l' (The Nagora photos ,
a critical view) , is a splendid attempt
to analyse the alleged UFO photographs
taken by Rud i Nagora on 23rd lllay 197 1.
The photos received wide coverage and
were t r eated as authentic. Wehner did
not agree with that view and set about
conducting hi s own experiments in re c-
onstructing the ma~~er in which the
photos could have been originally conc-
eived. His results are fascinating and
throw fresh light onto the validity of
the series of 12 snaps . Although the
text is in German, this booklet is •mll
worth owning even if the'~eader does
not bother having it translated , for
t he very clear illustrating shOHS how
Wehner >rent about his work and how he
inter preted Nagora's famous frames .
;Tr ite to Klaus Webner, Zugspi tzstrasse 56
6200 Wiesbaden, Nest Germany.
THE DIRECTORY OF POSSIEILJTJES Edited by
Colin ''li lson and John Grant. Pub lished
by Corgi , paperback, 303 pp, illus . £2 . 50
This alternative- to-the-norm ~ of pre-
senting a book is both intriguing and
frustrating, for this book goes much
further than a dictionary by •13Y of
including •mole sections by ~rell-known
contributors on a. myriad of topics a ll ·
within seven main areas of enquiry. The
seven areas are; Mythology & the Ancient
\lorld, •rhe Occult & the Miraculous ,
Strange Creatures & Unusual Events, Time
in Disarr a,y, Inner Space: The Universe ,
and The World of Tomorrow. Within each
of these topics is a short alphabe ti-
cally arranged directory of minor sub-
je cts that fall into these categories .
I t i s frustrating because of the con-
s t ant changing of topics - jus t as you
get into its stride - yet t :~e overall
effect is entertaining. This book is
one that belongs alongside the •great
mystery' compendiums - a good ~dit i on.
20
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Northern UFO News this month celebrates
its. long stint by reaching issue No. 100.
The· journal which reports on the activi-
ties of .those participant in the Northern
UFO ~etwork marks this occasion by being
litho printed, expanded in page number
and improved in quality. It also sheds
(at last) that awful depressing cover.
It is a landmark issue that should be
snapped up - not only for its content
value, but because it is an extremely
rare event f or a privately produced UFO ·
journal to make it this far. SUbs are
£4.20 for 4 litho issues plus 2 duplic-
ated A4 issues. Apply to Jenny Randles,
9 Crosfield Road, Somervi lle, wallasey,
Wirral. 144 9EH.
Colin Birch has , at the disposal of the
readers , a. VHS vi.de o recording of the
ijQRIZON documentar.y on U?Os. Th i s can
be borrowed for private viewing and
Colin only requests that f u ll postage
costs are paid for. Enquire to Colin
at 2 Berryman Court , Lethbridge Road,
Wells, Somerset. BA5 2FF.
BUFORA have announced further spsakers
for the third International UFO CoDgress
which is to be held at The Lorch Fcund~
a tion, High Wycombe , Bucks from 27th to
29th August 1983. So far scheduled area
From the USA - Dr J . Allen Hynek ~ Dz'
Stanton T. Friedman , a.nd Dr Harl~y
Rutledge. From the UK- Hi l ary E-.rans;
Dr SUsan Blackmore, J enny Rand l es and
Paul Devereux. Also listed <We Dl' Alex
Kuel (Austria), B9rtil Kuhle~ann
(Sweden) and Per Andersen (Dsma.rl!:).
Contact John Shaw at 5 Va.rdens Road 1
London. SW11 1RQ., for further de~il s~

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