THE UFO GUIDE
by Nick Humphries, February 1994
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Introduction to the First Edition
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This guide is only intended to give the reader the basic facts
about the subject. To find out more information about a certain
aspect of ufology, read some more books, most libraries should
have a few UFO books and usually hold them under the section
of "Paranormal", "Occult" or "New Age",
despite the fact that ufology is neither of these. A short list
of recommended UFO books are included in the Appendix, along
with a list of FTP sites that you can download further information
from. Read and enjoy! Nick Humphries, December 1993. ------------------------------
Introduction to the Second Edition ----------------------------------
Yes, I know it's all a bit pretentious having the previous introductions
to the previous editions (or edition) of the UFO Guide, but I'm
very proud of it for many reasons. The main reason why I'm proud
of this new edition is that it's bigger and includes most of
what I originally wanted to include in the first edition but
couldn't as I was rapidly running out of time. The UFO Guide
now has a source list just before the Appendix and a section
on what to do if you see a UFO. The mistakes in the First Edition
have been corrected and there are a few new entries in the A-Z
bit. The next edition of the UFO Guide should be out in the Autumn.
There may be a few more formats of the Guide to go with the ASCII,
HTML and PostScript versions, I'm playing about with the idea
of doing an MS-DOS interactive Guide (those of you who have seen
Project Galactic Guide will know what sort of thing I mean, look
in alt.galactic-guide if you don't) and would welcome any views
on how I should do this, as well as any views on how to improve
the Guide in general. My E-mail address is below. Now read and
enjoy! Nick Humphries, February 1994. ------------------------------
DISCLAIMER : This Guide is provided "as is" and the
author gives no guarantee that the information contained in it
is accurate, precise, truthful or any other words meaning "correct".
HOWEVER : If you _do_ find that there are some inconsistencies
in the Guide or that I've got something wrong, tell me so that
I can include it in the next edition of the Guide. If you also
think that I've missed something or somebody out of the Guide,
tell me for the same reason. My E-mail address is "u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk".
My thanks go to Jason Hodgson and Russell Glennon for sub-editing
the Guide, to Murray Bott of MUFON New Zealand for the information
on USA UFO groups and the extra information on the MJ-12 controversy,
and to Charles Mcgrew for doing a very nice looking HTML/Mosaic
version of the Guide. --A-- ADAMSKI, GEORGE A UFO hoaxer, the
most famous hoax is the Adamski photographs of UFOs that were
later revealed to be fake. He also claimed to have met Venusians
in 1952 and started spreading the word of the Cosmic Philosophy.
AFOSI US Air Force Office of Special Investigations. ANOMALY
(AN RATING) See VALLEE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. APRO The US based
Aerial Phenomenon Research Organisation. AREA 51 The Groom Dry
Lake area of the Nellis Air Force Range and Nuclear Test Site
in the Nevada desert, about 80 miles NNW of Las Vegas. It is
here that the US government is test-flying highly secret BLACK
PROJECT aircraft, including UFOs, for a number of years. ARNOLD,
KENNETH On 24th June 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold observed nine
boomerang-shaped craft flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington
- the sighting which gave FLYING SAUCERS their name. The second
sighting he had received less coverage. On 29th July 1947 he
saw around 20 to 25 brass-coloured objects come to within 400
yards of his plane as he flew over the La Grande valley. --B--
BENNEWITZ, PAUL In the late 1970's, an Alberquerque businessman
named Paul Bennewitz started to monitor unusual electromagnetic
pulses from what he thought were UFOs flying above the nearby
Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility near Kirtland Air Force
Base. He came to the conclusion that these pulses _may_ be controlling
implanted abductees, so he started attempting to decode the pulses,
and thought he was on the right path. He contacted APRO about
his theory, but they wouldn't believe him, so he contacted AFOSI
in October 1980, where he was put in touch with RICHARD DOTY.
He filled out a few forms and sent in some tape he had filmed
of some UFOs over the Nuclear Storage Facility and Doty started
to feed Bennewitz DISINFORMATION about the US government's involvement
with the UFO phenomenon, including tales of US/alien pacts, alien
bases in various places around the world, and of experiments
that the aliens carried out with humans to create hybrids and
androids. Bennewitz believed all of it. Doty then got WILLIAM
MOORE to pass on more disinformation on to him, and Bennewitz
got more and more paranoid and eventually went insane. Bennewitz
told JOHN LEAR what he had heard and Lear took this into account
when he wrote his DARK SIDE HYPOTHESIS. BLACK PROJECTS Government
projects that are considered as technological secrets. About
$US50bn are invested in US black projects a year. BUFORA The
British UFO Research Organisation is the largest UFO group in
Great Britain and has been going since 1964. As well as doing
research into the UFO phenomena, it publishes the bi-monthly
journal "UFO TIMES". --C-- CASH/LANDRUM CASE In December
1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her grandson Colby Landrum,
were driving along a road in Huffman, Texas when they saw a bright
light in the sky. After driving a little more along the road,
they came across a large diamond shaped UFO hovering over the
road belching fire out of the bottom. Since the flames were blocking
the road, they had to stop the car about 65 yards away from the
craft and the three of them got out. Vickie and Colby stayed
by the car, whereas Betty went on to get a closer look. She spent
a long time gazing at it and her skin began to burn because of
the heat from the flames. She returned to the car when the object
began to rise and a large number of unmarked black helicopters
chased after the UFO. When they got home, they started suffering
from sunburn, diarrhoea and vomiting. It has been claimed that
the craft was a US attempt at making a UFO since it was spewing
out flames at the bottom and was joined by many helicopters later
on (See PROJECT SNOWBIRD). CATTLE MUTILATIONS A world-wide problem,
cattle are killed and the body is left on the farm in various
conditions. On studying the body, it has been found that the
body has been _totally_ drained of blood and that there has been
no trace of blood found anywhere on the ground around the body.
Various incisions would also be found on the body that were so
clear cut that they would have had to have been done with some
sort of laser technology that we didn't have when the mutilations
started (before 1970). Bones were also clearly cut with no bone
fragments around the cut. The bodies would be missing various
parts which had also shown to have been removed with accurate
precision. UFOs have been linked with these mutilations since
they have been sighted at the same time in the same area where
the mutilated bodies have been found. CLOSE ENCOUNTER (CE RATING)
See HYNEK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM and VALLEE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.
COLLINS, ROBERT See "CONDOR". CONDON REPORT The result
of an investigation into PROJECT BLUE BOOK in 1969 by Dr Edward
Condon. He started the investigation saying that all UFOs are
"bunk", people who believed in them were "kooks",
the authors of UFO books should be "horsewhipped" and
that Blue Book was a waste of time. As a consequence, the report
concluded that all UFO sightings were explainable and that UFOs
didn't pose a defence threat. "CONDOR" Also known as
Robert Collins who took part in a DISINFORMATION program with
WILLIAM MOORE and RICHARD DOTY against PAUL BENNEWITZ. COOPER,
MILTON WILLIAM Known as Bill Cooper, this is one man who the
UFO community does not trust anymore. He used to work for the
US Air Force and claims to have then moved on into Naval Intelligence.
He made his debut on PARANET with a report on a UFO sighting
he had whilst on the USS Tiru, a US Naval submarine. That report
was accepted in good faith. He then began to send in details
about various secret projects that he alleged the US governments
were involved in during his time in intelligence. When asked
for evidence to back his claims up by UFO researchers, he replied
abusively. His reports continued to be sent in and the researchers
still questioned him about backup evidence. Eventually he was
barred from Paranet. He still wrote the reports and sent them
into various bulletin boards anonymously, this time accusing
the UFO researchers that questioned his authenticity as people
who are working for the government to spread DISINFORMATION to
the public. Bill Cooper is now a highly paid lecturer who lectures
about his "experiences" and also claims that JFK was
assassinated by the driver of the car because he wanted to make
details about UFOs public and that we had bases on the Moon and
on Mars built in the 1950's. Evidence : none for the bases and
a seventh generation copy of the film showing the assassination
that is very bad quality. He also claims that the aliens in US
TV series "Alien Nation" are real aliens who were employed
as part of an indoctrination program so that the public will
accept the reality of aliens more easily. Bill Cooper's sources
for his hypothesis is a mixture of the claims of PAUL BENNEWITZ,
BILL MOORE, JOHN LEAR and BOB LAZAR and added a few unfounded
theories he invented himself. When Bob Lazar was on a phone-in
in 1989 ("Billy Goodman's Happening", 21/11/89) whilst
he was going public, Cooper called in and said that he had talked
to Lazar for over a year and that he had checked out his claims
and they are all genuine. Then, some months later, Cooper changes
his mind and says that Lazar is a fraud and had always known
he was a fraud ever since he first went public. This is just
one example of the many U-turns and inconsistencies that Cooper
has carried out over the years. CUFOS The Centre for UFO Studies
was founded in 1973 by Dr J. Allen Hynek four years after his
work at PROJECT BLUE BOOK ended. It publishes the bi-monthly
journal "INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER" and an annual
"JOURNAL OF UFO STUDIES". --D-- DARK SIDE HYPOTHESIS
This is a brief run-through of JOHN LEAR's Dark Side Hypothesis
: Dozens of flying saucers have crashed over the years and the
US government has recovered all of them and launched Project
Redlight in 1962 whose aims were to discover how to fly these
recovered craft and was carried out in S-4 at AREA 51. Lear claims
that this area is no longer in US control, the aliens have taken
over the area. The US government then made a deal with the aliens
in which the aliens could control a segment of S-4 and abduct
as many people as they want, in return for their technology and
that they provided a list of people that they intended to abduct.
In 1973, the US government discovered that the aliens were abducting
more people than they had listed and there was a confrontation
and in 1978/9 the aliens held and then killed 44 top scientists
and some of the Delta Force troops sent in to rescue them. The
deal was then broken but the aliens stayed and were abducting
as many as 1 in 10 Americans to use in experiments, mutilating
these abductees and producing androids in underground laboratories.
Sometime in the 1980's the US government and the aliens got together
again and are working together so that the US can gain some more
alien technology. Lear claims that there is a secret US government
that is overseeing the abductions and that the abductees have
implants in them that control them so that when an ideal time
came, the secret government could enslave them and control them
via drug addiction. The head of the secret government would be
MJ-12. Lear's sources were PAUL BENNEWITZ, BOB LAZAR and, later
on, BILL COOPER. When Bob Lazar went public on US TV in 1989,
he said that he did not believe any of Lear's claims and distanced
himself from Lear and any of his associates. DAYLIGHT DISK See
HYNEK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. DISINFORMATION A strategy used by
the governments of the world to cover up any knowledge they have
of UFOs. Disinformation is when a person or organisation lies
to a person by knowingly giving him or her fake documents or
telling them false "facts". DOTY, RICHARD The AFOSI
Special Agent who fed PAUL BENNEWITZ DISINFORMATION and employed
WILLIAM MOORE to feed Bennewitz more information and to spy on
various prominent ufologists. Doty was given the code name "FALCON"
by Moore when they both appeared with "CONDOR" on "UFO
Cover-Up...Live" in the US. The show was a big embarrassment
to the UFO community when they claimed that EBE's were living
in secret hideaways and like strawberry ice cream and Tibetan
music. DREAMLAND The nickname for AREA 51. --E-- EBE Extra-terrestrial
Biological Entities. An unofficial term that is used to refer
to aliens that originated from the MJ-12 briefing document. ET
Extra-terrestrial. A term used to refer to aliens. ET EXPOSURE
LAW In July 1969, the ET Exposure Law was added to US law without
public debate, a law that prohibits anyone to come into contact
with a UFO or any aliens. If a person breaks this law, he or
she can be fined up to $5000 (yes, _five_thousand_dollars_, approximately
3300) and be jailed for up to a year. On top of that, a NASA
administrator is empowered to determine, with or without a hearing,
if a person has been "extra-terrestrially exposed"
and can impose that the person can be locked up in quarantine
under armed guard for _any_ period of time. The decision cannot
be reversed, not even by a court order, making the law completely
against the American Constitution. The law also effectively makes
anyone involved in a CLOSE ENCOUNTER a criminal. Since the law
is in Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
very few people know about it since you would have had to have
gone through at least 1210 other laws in the book to find it.
--F-- "FALCON" Almost universally believed to be former
AFOSI Special Agent RICHARD DOTY. "FIRE IN THE SKY"
Big screen movie based on the TRAVIS WALTON ABDUCTION CASE. It
_isn't_ a true documentary, various facts have been missed out
or changed to make the film more interesting. FLY-BY (FB RATING)
See VALLEE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. FLYING SAUCER When Kenneth
Arnold reported his 1947 daylight sighting of nine boomerang-shaped
UFOs over the north west of the USA, a newspaper covered the
story and called the crafts "flying saucers" because
Arnold said that their movements were similar to that of a saucer
skipping across the surface of a lake despite the fact that the
UFOs weren't saucer-shaped. The name stuck. "FLYING SAUCER
REVIEW" The longest running UFO journal in existence, running
since the 1950's. Unfortunately not the authoritative journal
it used to be in its heyday due to changes of editors. The current
editor, Gordon Creighton believes that we are all being controlled
by alien forces of some sort and that we can do nothing to stop
them. He is also convinced that a significant percentage of the
Earth's population is half-alien-half-human, and some people
are completely alien. FOIA Freedom Of Information Act. This is
an American law that allows members of the public to obtain copies
of classified documents by having all or parts of the documents
declassified by order of a federal judge. The judge may refuse
the declassification of a document if it is necessary for the
document to remain classified because it affects national security.
At least, that is in theory. In practice it has been very unreliable,
if one group requests for a set of documents and gets them, it
doesn't necessarily mean that a second group will be able to
get them. If the government denies they've got the documents
that you are looking for, they may not be telling the truth.
It has been known for a government to deny that it has _any_
documents on an incident yet they release some a few months later.
FOO FIGHTERS Shiny metallic-looking sphere seen floating in the
skies in World War II from 1943 onwards. After the war, neither
side claimed to have sent them up there. The Americans called
them "foo fighters", a term derived from a comic-strip
phrase "Where there's foo, there's fire." --G-- GHOST
ROCKETS In 1946, over two thousand UFOs were observed flying
above Scandinavia. They looked like missiles with a flame exhaust
at one end, but travelled at varying speeds (from very fast to
fairly slow) and performed various exotic manoeuvres at these
speeds. There were reports at the time that some had landed and
exploded. Neither East nor West admitted launching these rockets.
Western scientists analysed fragments from these missiles and
said that they were made of an organic substance that resembled
carbide. When a Greek investigation publicly announced in 1967
that these were not missiles, the investigation was ordered to
close by the Army and further information was covered in a blanket
of secrecy. GREYS The most common type of alien seen in CLOSE
ENCOUNTER cases. Height varies from two feet to five feet, are
humanoid, and usually have black bug-like eyes, little or no
nose and a small slit for a mouth. GOOD, TIMOTHY Author of best
selling books "Above Top Secret", "Alien Liaison",
"Alien Update" and the "UFO Report" series.
"Above Top Secret" documented the worldwide government
cover-up of UFO related material and incidents. It also published
the faked MJ-12 briefing document. Despite that, it is widely
regarded as _the_ book to read if you're seriously interested
in UFOs. "Alien Liaison" went one step further by dealing
with disinformation, CATTLE MUTILATIONS and the ROBERT LAZAR
case, but is thought of as fairly unreliable since parts of it
were heavily influenced by the claims in the MJ-12 documents,
the claims of BILL MOORE, and also the claims of BOB OESCHLER
that he worked on a top secret project to produce an exhibition
called "Cosmic Journey" in which the US government
was allegedly going to display a preserved alien body and a section
of a UFO. "Alien Update" can be thought of as "UFO
Report 1993" since it is in exactly the same format as the
other books in the "UFO Report" series. GULF BREEZE
SIGHTINGS A series of UFO sightings in Gulf Breeze, Florida that
have taken place since 1987, but the most concentrated period
of sightings was between November 1987 and May 1988 and were
centred around Ed and Frances Walters. During this period, Ed
claims that aliens have attempted to abduct both him and his
wife using a blue ray, but failed. He also claims that he knew
when another encounter with a UFO was imminent because he would
feel a humming noise in his head. When he got this humming noise,
he would rush out with his camera and would take a picture of
the UFO which would be waiting for him in the sky. The Walters
took a total of forty photos with various cameras over that period
and all of them were evaluated by various scientists and were
proved that they were not faked. The most impressive photos included
a blue ray that was used to transport people to and from the
UFOs, a UFO photographed that was partially obscured by a tree
(very hard to fake) and also the same UFO hovering above a highway
with a reflection on the road of the bright light on the underside
of the UFO. --H-- HILL ABDUCTION CASE A controversial abduction
case, controversial because it all hinges on information gained
by performing HYPNOTIC REGRESSION on Betty and Barney Hill. In
September 1961, the Hills were returning from a holiday and were
driving along a New Hampshire road when they saw a bright light
moving rapidly in the sky. They stopped the car and got out to
have a closer look with binoculars. The light then reversed its
direction and the couple got back into their car and drove on.
The light then turned back and approached their car, so they
stopped again to look at it. The craft was coin shaped with blue
lighted windows along the edge, through which they saw figures
running about. Barney walked over the road to get an even better
look when two wings came out of either side of the craft which
had red lights on the wing tips. He then got shocked and _very_
agitated and ran back into the car and the two of them went back
on their journey home. When they got back, they realised that
they were some two hours late and they didn't know why. After
a few days, Betty had a series of disturbing dreams relating
to a possible UFO abduction, so she and Barney agreed to go under
hypnotic regression to try and find out just _what_ happened
during those two lost hours. The two were sent into a hypnotic
sleep both together and separately, and both stories matched
up with each other for the times when they were together during
the UFO incident. The story went like this: When the Hills stopped
the car the second time, it was because it was stalled by the
UFO. The two were helped out of their car by a few men (alien
men) and were taken off of the road and up a ramp into the UFO.
They were then separated and put into different rooms where they
underwent an examination involving taking samples from various
areas of the body. Before being joined together and being allowed
to leave, Betty was shown a three-dimensional holographic star
map and was able to draw it out after a regression session. An
amateur astronomer took the drawing of the star map and searched
through the near stars to see if she could get a match for the
star configuration drawn by Betty. After another five years of
searching, she found one, and therefore calculated that the aliens
must have come from the ZETA RETICULI system. HYNEK CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM A system used to categorize the various types of UFO sightings
invented by Dr J. Allen Hynek. The categories are as follows...
NOCTURNAL LIGHT Any anomalous light(s) seen in the night sky
whose description rules out the possibilities of aircraft lights,
stars, meteors and the like. DAYLIGHT DISK UFOs seen in the distant
daytime sky. The UFOs classed in this category can be other shapes
as well, like cigars, eggs and ovals. RADAR-VISUALS Where UFOs
are tracked on radar and can be seen at the place illustrated
at the same time. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS... OF THE FIRST KIND (CEI)
A UFO in close proximity (within approx 500 feet) of the witness.
OF THE SECOND KIND (CEII) A UFO that leaves markings on the ground,
causes burns or paralysis to humans, frightens animals, interferes
with car engines or TV and radio reception. OF THE THIRD KIND
(CEIII) A CEI or CEII which have visible occupants. There are
also two more unofficial classes of Close Encounter... OF THE
FOURTH KIND (CEIV) Abduction cases. OF THE FIFTH KIND (CEV) Communication
occurs between a person and an alien. HYPNOTIC REGRESSION There
is a theory that everything you see and hear is stored into the
subconscious memory, and that it is possible to recount experiences
via the use of hypnotic regression, in which the person is sent
into a trance and re-enacts the experience. However, such a tool
is very unreliable since they could be thinking about something
else or mix two different experiences together. Another problem
with hypnotic regression is interpreting what is recounted. In
a non-UFO related case, an English girl was sent into a hypnotic
state and started to talk non-stop in French. What she said was
recorded and the investigator concluded that the girl must have
been French in a past life. This theory was readily accepted
until someone read the transcription of what the girl had said
and found that it was an _exact_ copy of a French text she had
read. It has also been found that pathological liars can lie
whilst under hypnosis. --I-- "INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER"
(IUR) CUFOS journal that is published bi-monthly that summarizes
current sightings and UFO news. --J-- "JOURNAL OF UFO STUDIES"
(JUFOS) CUFOS annual journal that contains scholarly papers on
UFOLOGY. "JUST CAUSE" A journal that is published quarterly
by CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy) and has been published
since 1984. --L-- LAZAR, ROBERT SCOTT Robert Lazar is a scientist
with two masters degrees, one in physics, the other in electronics.
He wrote his thesis on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He has worked
in Los Alamos as a technician and then as a physicist in the
Polarized Proton Section dealing with particle accelerators.
In his spare time, he has built a jet powered car _and_ a jet
powered motorbike (max. speed 350mph!), as well as a car capable
of running off of hydrogen. In March 1989, Lazar appeared on
KLAS-TV in the US claiming to have worked in an above Top Secret
installation known as S-4, ten miles south of AREA 51 in the
Nevada desert. He was a scientist who was employed between December
1988 and April 1989 to examine a captured flying saucer to try
and reverse engineer the saucer's propulsion mechanism. He claims
that there were nine different saucers at S-4, although he was
only working on one of them. He was told that the crafts used
a propulsion system that uses gravity waves, a theory that mainstream
science hasn't discovered yet (scientists don't know what gravity
actually _is_, there are many theories, but there hasn't been
one that is universally accepted yet) and the energy needed is
supplied by irradiating Element 115, an element not found on
Earth and which cannot be synthesized. A kilogram of the element
releases the same amount of energy as 47 10-megaton hydrogen
bombs. He says that he had 500 pounds (227.27kg) of the element
to work with, but each craft only needed 223 grams of the element.
Whilst working on one of the craft, he was allowed to actually
go inside the craft and he was also present at a test flight
in which the craft underwent a few simple manoeuvres in the air.
When he went public in March 1989, he appeared on US TV in shadow
with his voice altered, under the pseudonym "Dennis",
an inside joke since his boss at S-4 was called Dennis Mariani,
in an attempt to remain anonymous. On 29/3/89 he took three of
his friends, one of them John Lear, to the edge of S-4 to observe
any UFO test flights through a telescope. They saw (and filmed)
a bright light rise in a step manoeuvre, that is, it would hover
in the air, briefly disappear and reappear a few feet higher,
and then the light went down in the same way. When they went
again the following week on 6/4/89, they were caught by a security
guard. Their ID details were recorded on a computer in Area 51
and they were ordered to leave the area, despite it being public
land. They did leave and the following day, Lazar was ordered
to go to Area 51 for a meeting with some security guards and
an FBI agent. It was then that he resigned and left. After he
was fired at whilst travelling on an Interstate highway, he decided
that he'd better go public on TV under his own name, the theory
being that if anyone kills him after going completely public,
then that action would prove that he was telling the truth. He
went on TV to tell the full story in November 1989 and his story
has (to my knowledge) remained consistent since then. LEAR, JOHN
The estranged son of Bill Lear, inventor of the Lear Jet. John
Lear is the only pilot who holds every airman certificate awarded
by the Federal Aviation Administration. He has flown over 160
different type of aircraft and had flown many missions for the
CIA. He is a friend of PAUL BENNEWITZ who told Lear everything
that he had heard from RICHARD DOTY and WILLIAM MOORE and Lear
believed most of it. Lear was also a friend of ROBERT LAZAR who
told him about the various goings on at AREA 51; Moore showed
him the various documents he had been given by Doty, and from
those three sources began work on his Lear Hypothesis, also known
as the DARK SIDE HYPOTHESIS. He then subscribed to Paranet and
found a friend in BILL COOPER. With Cooper's help, he finished
his hypothesis and sent it to the Paranet Bulletin Board. He
then decided to test the UFO society by faking some government
documents about aliens, the Krlll (pronounced "Krill")
Files. All of the UFO society (but one) checked out the material
included in the files and found large inconsistencies and lies.
The one person who didn't was Cooper, who claimed to have seen
the documents when he was working for the government. When the
files were declared as faked, Lear and Cooper were barred from
Paranet and the friendship between them broke down, Cooper accusing
Lear of being a government agent. Lear is now lecturing about
his Hypothesis. --M-- MAJESTIC The highest security level known,
higher than the Atom Bomb and effectively thirty-eight levels
higher than Top Secret due to the compartmentalization of information.
There are allegedly over thirty compartments of Top Secret which
means that if you have a Top Secret clearance, it doesn't mean
that you have access to all Top Secret documents, you must require
the "need to know". Documents that require the "need
to know" are classified as Top Secret xxx, where xxx can
be any one of over thirty code names. Documents about S-4/AREA
51 happenings are classed as "Majestic". MANOEUVRE
(MA RATING) See VALLEE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. MEN IN BLACK (MIBs)
These are people who dress up in black suits and travel around
in sleek shiny black cars and helicopters threatening UFO witnesses,
to keep them quiet about their experiences. No one is quite sure
who the MIBs are or who they represent, the government or the
aliens. MISSING TIME Some people say that when they return from
a UFO sighting, they found that a period of time had passed which
he or she couldn't account for. This can be minutes, hours, or
even days which are unaccounted for. This is the phenomena of
missing time. MJ-12 The MJ-12 (standing for "Majestic Twelve")
mystery was sparked off with the 1987 publication of an alleged
briefing document from ex-US President Truman to President-Elect
Eisenhower in November 1953. The document dealt with government
knowledge about UFOs, aliens, and above Top Secret projects.
It listed the twelve members as Dr Lloyd Berkner, Dr Detlev Bronk,
Dr Vannevar Bush, James Forrestal, Gordon Gray, Vice Admiral
Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Dr Jerome Hunsaker, Dr Donald Menzel, General
Robert Montague, Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, General Nathan Twining
and General Hoyt Vandenberg. James Forrestal had a mental breakdown
and committed suicide in 1949 and was replaced by General Walter
Smith. MJ-12 (also known as Majic-12, Majority-12, Majesty-12)
is allegedly a Top Secret research and development/intelligence
operation set up by and answerable to the US President. All thirteen
members had died by the time the briefing document was publicised,
so none of the details could be checked out. What could be verified
was the document's authenticity, and when it was found that the
signature on the briefing document was identical in ratio to
a 1947 memo from President Truman to Vannevar Bush and the briefing
document was proved to be a fake. However the MJ-12 controversy
still rumbled on with people saying that although the document
has been proved to be a piece of DISINFORMATION, parts of it
must therefore be true. The document touched upon the ROSWELL
CASE, as well as PROJECTS SIGN, GRUDGE and BLUE BOOK and KENNETH
ARNOLD's sighting of nine flying saucers, all of which have been
proved to be true by UFO researchers. Ufologists were split as
to whether there _ever_was_ a Majestic 12. When ROBERT LAZAR
revealed that his work was classified as MAJESTIC, it added weight
to the opinion that there may have indeed been such an organisation.
Opinions differ as to what MJ-12 could be if it exists, some
say it was a simple committee that evaluated the UFO reports
that were siphoned out of PROJECT BLUE BOOK, while others say
that they are running the CIA, FBI, the world's drugs market
and are planning to take over the world and rule in partnership
with the GREYS. MOORE, WILLIAM Moore is an ex-teacher who chose
to go into the writing profession in 1979 and was very involved
in an investigation of the 1947 ROSWELL CASE. He worked with
APRO for a while before accepting a place on the APRO board.
He learnt about PAUL BENNEWITZ'S claims from fellow board member
Jim Lorenzen, but didn't take too great an interest in the case.
Whilst he was on a promotional radio show tour promoting his
new book "The Roswell Incident", he received phone
calls, at two different radio stations, from a nearby Air Force
Base sergeant who wanted to meet him. When the first call came,
he was too busy, but after the second call, they arranged a meeting
and there he met RICHARD DOTY. Doty told him that he (and nine
other military people, all ten identified by names of birds)
would tell him various "facts" of what the US government
was up to in regard to UFOs if he spied on APRO and passed DISINFORMATION
on to Paul Bennewitz. Moore complied and was exposed to various
Top Secret documents about highly sensitive government projects,
including PROJECTS SIGMA, REDLIGHT, AQUARIUS, GALILEO, POUNCE
and SNOWBIRD. In return, Moore gave Bennewitz doctored documents
given to him by Doty. Moore learnt that the US government had
indeed worked with aliens in advancing US space technology, and
that three EBEs had been kept in various Air Force Bases. In
October 1988, Moore went public on the TV show "UFO Cover-Up...Live"
with "FALCON" and "CONDOR" who would tell
the same stories that they had told Moore. That show was considered
to be the most farcical embarrassment ever broadcast due to the
fact that the informant's revelations included declarations that
the aliens liked Tibetian style music and strawberry ice cream.
Moore was devastated, and in the 1989 MUFON annual conference,
he confessed that he had passed on disinformation from Doty to
Bennewitz in order to investigate deeper into the UFO riddle
and revealed that he had spied on various personalties in ufology.
MUFON The Mutual UFO Network was established in 1969 and is the
world's largest international UFO organisation. It publishes
the monthly "MUFON UFO Journal". --N-- NOCTURNAL LIGHT
See HYNEK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. --O-- OESCHLER, ROBERT Bob Oeschler
joined the US Air Force in 1968 in the American Forces Radio
and Television service filming classified prototype weapons systems
during the Vietnam War. When he returned to the US, he spent
eighteen months at Wright-Patterson AFB before working for NASA,
specializing in missions technical analysis as a prototype designer
of control and mobile surveillance systems. He gets his information
from his alleged contacts in the US Intelligence Community. A
controversial character, his work in ufology seems to be OK,
even though he has made the odd wild claim. He has claimed to
have worked on a government project called "Cosmic Journey"
which was an exhibition of the various US space missions and
included a section on aliens. He claims that there was going
to be a UFO in the exhibition along with a cryogenically preserved
alien body. This project was then shelved indefinitely due to
the 1988 US presidential election. Then, in October 1993, he
gave a radio interview on BBC Radio One and claimed that he had
observed a UFO from 200 feet in the Nevada desert and basically
hijacked ROBERT LAZAR's story, claiming that everything Lazar
heard and saw, he heard and saw too. In other words, whilst his
UFO investigations work is very good (he did a very thorough
and professional analysis of the GULF BREEZE photos with Bruce
Maccabee), his claims of secret government projects are very
suspect. --P-- PARANET Paranet is a moderated forum founded by
Jim Spieser in 1986 originally dedicated to the paranormal as
well as UFOs, although the UFO side grabbed the most attention.
Originally distributed as a newsletter via E-mail, it now consists
of a set of newsgroups on Usenet. It was the first organisation
that spread news of the ROBERT LAZAR story around the world and
was also the forum in which MILTON WILLIAM COOPER made his debut
and his reputation as a person not to be trusted. PROJECT...
AQUARIUS A Top Secret project that was started in 1953 and was
set up to accumulate as much data as possible about alien life
forms and to distribute the collected information to the relevant
projects. Its existence was revealed by WILLIAM MOORE when he
released three pages of a "Project Aquarius Executive Briefing
Document" to the public. Unfortunately for Moore, this document
is now thought to be a fake due to its sloppy presentation (there
was a logo on the cover which looked like it had been drawn on
with a felt-tip pen) as well as missing background detail. Moore
was asked to release more proof that Project Aquarius existed,
but he refused, saying that the burden of proof is on those saying
that the document is a hoax. BLUE BOOK The last publicly acknowledged
USAF investigation into UFOs, and something of a controversial
one, which started in March 1952. Its aims were to find explanations
for UFO sightings, to assess whether they were a threat to national
security, and to determine if the UFOs used advanced technology
from which the US could learn. Reports were collected, analyzed
and filed according to their results. No-one noticed anything
was wrong with the project until one of the people on the investigation
team sent in his own sighting. It was filed, but when he wanted
to refer back to his report, it had disappeared. He then alleged
that any reports that were both unexplained and could cause public
uproar were siphoned off out of Blue Book to somewhere else higher
up in authority, a claim that ufologists now see as fact. Blue
Book was wound up in 1969 as a result of the CONDON REPORT and
one of its investigators, Dr J. Allen Hynek, went on to form
the first scientific based UFO group, the CUFOS, in 1973. GALILEO
An S-4 project dealing with flying recovered discs. GRUDGE The
successor to PROJECT SIGN which was launched to effectively denounce
the UFO problem. Journalists were encouraged to write articles
saying that UFOs didn't exist. The final report said that, despite
getting 23% more reports than Project Sign did, all sightings
could be dismissed on psychological ground and that any further
investigation should be downgraded greatly, which it was. Project
Grudge was shut down in 1950. POUNCE A Top Secret project in
1953 that evaluated all UFOs in order to gain more space technology
knowledge. SIGMA An ongoing 1954 Top Secret project that looked
into how to communicate with aliens. That projects existence
was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document and is
said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF intelligence officer
met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a desert in
New Mexico. However, there is a "Project Sigma" listed
in the 1986 Defence Marketing Services Code Name Directory as
a "Top Secret Air Force program involving Rockwell International"
and has been officially identified as a laser weapons project.
SIGN The first official USAF UFO investigation which started
in January 1948. Its brief was to determine what UFOs were. It
lasted until February 1949, its final report saying that 20%
of the cases were unexplainable. SNOWBIRD An ongoing 1972 Top
Secret project that researched, developed and implemented alien
spacecraft technology and test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible
that the UFO involved in the CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the
Americans as part of this project, however another "Project
Snowbird" has been found described as a "Joint Army/Air
Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in
1955" in the 1963 Gale Research's Code Names Dictionary.
Project Snowbird is another project that was only revealed in
the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document. TWINKLE A highly secret
study into green fireballs seen in New Mexico. By the time an
investigator arrived at a scene where fireballs had been observed,
they would have disappeared so they couldn't be investigated
properly, and Project Twinkle was shut down. It was thought that
since the fireballs moved to another location before investigators
came onto the scene, the fireballs were controlled by some intelligence.
--R-- RADAR-VISUAL See HYNEK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. ROSWELL CASE
In July 1947 a flying saucer crashed near Corona, New Mexico
during a violent night-time thunderstorm. The next morning, Mac
Brazel found some wreckage on his ranch spread over about half
a mile which neither he nor his family could identify. Three
days later he took some wreckage to show to the local sheriff,
George Wilcox, who in turn contacted Roswell Air Army Field and
told Major Jesse Marcel of the situation. He inspected the wreckage
that Mac Brazel had brought with him to the sheriffs office and
then reported to his commanding officer, William Blanchard. He
ordered Marcel to get someone (Sheridan Cavitt) from counter
intelligence to collect as much wreckage from Brazels ranch as
they could onto their two vehicles, the wreckage was then collected
and flown to Washington, via Fort Worth. The next day, Marcel
and Cavitt returned to Brazels ranch to collect more wreckage
to take back to Roswell AAF. Cavitt went straight there whereas
Marcel stopped on the way to show his family some of the wreckage,
in particular, a small piece of tin-foil like material which
would bend and be folded quite happily, but would continually
fold back out into shape leaving no crease whatsoever. There
was also a piece of very light plastic like material, except
it wasn't plastic. It was like a wooden dowel and was a couple
of inches long. It would bend slightly, but you couldn't scratch,
cut, burn or melt it. Meanwhile, Lydia Sleppy at Roswell Radio
station KSWS was transmitting a story about the crashed saucer
over the teletype when transmission was interrupted by someone
claiming to represent the FBI. The Army initially released a
story to the press saying that they had captured a flying saucer,
but then quickly put out another story saying they hadn't got
a saucer, just a weather balloon. It was _not_ a weather balloon.
Mac Brazel was placed under house arrest for a week whilst his
ranch was combed for more debris, and it was then when the main
saucer body was found, complete with four aliens, two dead, one
seriously injured and another attending to it which seemed to
be unharmed. Mac Brazel was then told that he shouldn't tell
anybody about what he had found. He was rumoured to have been
bribed with a freezer (very expensive at that time). --S-- S-4
There are three S-4s in the Nevada Test Site (home of AREA 51).
One is a nuclear reactor, one is an area just south of the Tonopah
test range, and one called Papoose Dry Lake Bed, ten miles south
of Area 51. It is the latter area that ROBERT LAZAR claims to
have worked in. SAGAN, CARL An American who brought science to
the public. He is also a major UFO skeptic believing that no
UFO can cross light years of distance due to the large amount
of fuel and time needed. This theory assumes that the only method
of travel is linear and that the maximum speed of any vehicle
must be the speed of light. ROBERT LAZAR has since claimed that
an alternative method of travel using gravity waves is what is
being used to drive the UFOs. SETI The Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence. This is a US government-funded project that monitors
electromagnetic wave emissions from space. These emissions, it
is claimed, will be the communications between various UFOs that
"leak" out, just like TV pictures from a transmitter
are able to be picked up from space (in theory). If they detect
any abnormal emissions, they will investigate them further to
try and find out where they originate from. UFO researchers are
very skeptical of this project, saying it is just a front put
up to try and publicly "prove" that UFOs don't exist
since they don't expect to find any emissions that cannot be
identified. According to an article by Dr. Pierre Guerin in "FLYING
SAUCER REVIEW", the government already _knows_ that aliens
exist and that they are cooperating with them and that they know
that the aliens _don't_ use electromagnetic waves at all. It
would be similar to trying to detect Indian smoke signals using
a radio receiver. The SETI project was given the order to close
down by US Congress in October 1993 due to budget cuts. It wasn't
a success. SVP RATING See VALLEE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. --T--
TRAVIS WALTON ABDUCTION CASE In November 1975, a group of six
tree-trimmers were driving home from work in a truck in the Sitgreave-Apache
National Forest in Arizona, USA. The driver stopped the truck
when he noticed that a flying saucer was hovering about fifteen
feet above some nearby trees. Travis Walton approached the craft
on foot, despite the objections of his workmates. He was then
knocked to the ground by a blue and white light. When the men
in the truck saw this, they were terrified and sped off down
the road leaving him for dead. Once they had calmed down, they
returned to that spot and couldn't find any sign of Travis or
the flying saucer. Five days later, Travis was returned to earth
wondering what had happened to him for the past few days. He
found out by undergoing HYPNOTIC REGRESSION, the same technique
that was used in the HILL ABDUCTION CASE. This is what the regression
revealed: When he came to after being knocked out by the blue
and white light, he was lying on his back on a table in what
he thought was a hospital. It was _not_ a hospital, a fact that
was brought home to him when he focused on three figures standing
around him. These were aliens, Travis described them as looking
like 5-foot foetuses with mushroom-white skin and they wore tight-fitting,
tan-brown robes. On seeing this, Travis got _very_ scared and
tried to attack them, but they just backed off into another room,
leaving Travis alone, so he started to walk around. He walked
into a separate room and saw a large backed chair in the centre
of it with a few buttons on one arm of the chair and a lever
on the other. He played about with those and the ship responded
to some of his actions. A more human-looking alien wearing a
helmet then walked in and took him for a guided tour of the ship,
ignoring any questions that Travis asked him. They then walked
into a hangar containing three other saucers and was met by three
other human-like aliens, two men and a woman. Travis was then
put onto a table and a mask was put over his face. The next thing
he remembered he was waking up on a pavement in a village a few
miles away from his home watching the saucer move off silently.
--U-- UFO Abbreviation for "Unidentified Flying Object".
The USAF defines a UFO as: Anything that relates to any airborne
object which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or
unusual features does not conform to any presently known aircraft
or missile type, or which cannot be identified as a familiar
object. (USAF Regulation 200-2) "UFO TIMES" BUFORA
journal that contains many recent case reports from Britain and
also has a section on European reports from Eurofon News. I recommend
the magazine very highly, I would even go as far to say that
it is the FLYING SAUCER REVIEW of the 1990s. UFOLOGY The study
of the UFO phenomena. --V-- VALLEE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM A system
used to categorize the various types of UFO and paranormal experiences
invented by Dr Jacques Vallee and is now used more often instead
of the HYNEK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM since it gives the reader
a more detailed summary of a case. The categories are as follows...
AN RATING Classifies any anomalous behaviour. AN1 Anomalies which
have no lasting physical effects. i.e. amorphous lights, unexplained
explosions. AN2 Anomalies which _do_ have lasting physical effects.
i.e. poltergeists, materialized objects, areas of flattened grass,
corn circles. AN3 Anomalies with associated entities. i.e. ghosts,
yetis, spirits, elves and other mythical/legendary entities.
AN4 Witness interaction with the AN3 entities. i.e. near-death
experiences, religious miracles and visions, OBEs (out-of-body
experiences). AN5 Anomalous reports of injuries and deaths. i.e.
SHC (spontaneous human combustion), unexplained wounds as well
as permanent healing that results from a paranormal experience.
MA RATING Describes behaviour of a UFO. It is analogous to the
Nocturnal Light, Daylight Disk and Radar Visual Hynek classifications.
MA1 A UFO has been observed which travels in a discontinuous
trajectory. i.e. vertical drops, manoeuvres or loops. MA2 MA1
plus any physical effects caused by the UFO. MA3 MA1 plus any
entities observed on board. i.e. the airship cases of the late
nineteenth century. MA4 Manoeuvres accompanied by a sense of
reality transformation for the observer. MA5 A manoeuvre that
results in a permanent injury or death of the witness. FB RATING
Fly-by rating. FB1 A simple sighting of a UFO travelling in a
straight line across the sky. FB2 FB1 accompanied by physical
evidence. FB3 A fly-by where entities are observed on board (rare).
FB4 A fly-by where the witness experienced a transformation of
reality into the object or its occupants. FB5 A fly-by which
the witness would suffer permanent injuries or even death. i.e.
CASH/LANDRUM CASE. CE RATING Close Encounter rating. Similar
to the Hynek Close Encounter ratings. CE1 UFO comes within 500
feet of the witness, but no after effects are suffered by the
witness or the surrounding area. CE2 A CE1 that leaves landing
traces or injuries to the witness. CE3 Entities have been observed
on the UFO. CE4 The witness has been abducted. CE5 CE4 which
results in permanent psychological injuries or death. SVP RATING
The all-important credibility rating. "Marks" out of
four are given for the three categories of source reliability
(first digit), site visit (second digit) and possible explanations
(third digit). A rating of 222 or higher indicates the case was
reported by a reliable source, the site has been visited and
a natural explanation would require a major alteration of at
least one parameter. SOURCE RELIABILITY RATING 0 Unknown or unreliable
source. 1 Report attributed to a known source of unknown or uncalibrated
reliability. 2 Reliable source, secondhand. 3 Reliable source,
firsthand. 4 Firsthand personal interview with the witness by
a source of proven reliability. SITE VISIT RATING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0 No site visit, or answer unknown. 1 Site visit by a casual
person not familiar with the phenomena. 2 Site visited by persons
familiar with the phenomena. 3 Site visit by a reliable investigator
with some experience. 4 Site visit by a skilled analyst. POSSIBLE
EXPLANATIONS RATING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0 Data consistent
with one or more natural causes. 1 Natural explanation requires
only slight modification of the data. 2 Natural explanation requires
major alteration of one parameter. 3 Natural explanation requires
major alteration of several parameters. 4 No natural explanation
possible, given the evidence. VALLEE, JACQUES French astrophysicist
and ufologist who believes that UFOs come from both a physical
and psychic origin and that some characters in folklore, like
elves, could have originated from aliens. He reshaped the UFO
rating system by expanding upon the HYNEK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.
VIMANAS Flying devices are commonplace in many religions, and
Hinduism is no exception. According to ancient Sanskrit texts
found a few years ago by Westerners in a South Indian temple,
Vimanas were open topped flying devices, not strictly UFOs since
they were restricted to the Earth's atmosphere. Dr Roberto Pinotti
is an Italian scientist, and on the 12th of October 1988 was
a speaker in the World Space Conference in Bangalore, India.
He referred to several Hindu texts and pointed out that Indian
gods and heroes fought in the skies using piloted vehicles armed
with weapons. These weapons consisted of seven different types
of mirrors and lenses which were used for offensive and defensive
purposes. The "Pinjula Mirror" offered a form of "visual
shield" preventing the pilots from "evil rays",
and the weapon named "Marika" was used to shoot enemy
aircraft. Dr Pinotti said that these weapons "do not seem
to be too different from what we today call laser technology."
The vehicles themselves were made of special heat absorbing metals,
called "Somaka, Soundalike and Mourthwika". According
to Dr Pinotti, the "principles of propulsion as far as the
descriptions were concerned, might be defined as electrical and
chemical, but solar energy was involved as well." Other
scientists have put forward the theory that the craft were driven
by some sort of mercury ion propulsion system. Dr Pinotti concluded
that the fact that Vimanas were written about hundreds, perhaps
even thousands, of years ago, plus that they resembled modern
UFOs would suggest that India had a "...superior but forgotten
civilisation. In the light of this, we think it will be better
to examine the Hindu texts and subject the descriptive models
of Vimanas to more scientific scrutiny." "So where
does the ET connection come in?" you're asking me. Well,
since the texts were written hundreds or even thousands of years
ago, we can safely assume that no human civilization could produce
_any_ flying machines, but these Vimanas _did_ exist, along with
a mercury ion propulsion system and a form of laser technology,
so where could they get the ideas for these devices from? Enter
some ET influences and you're away. But that leads us to the
question of "where did all this new technology go?"
We don't know, but since the texts exist and the properties of
the Vimanas have been proved to be possible by scientists, we
know that they did exist. --Z-- ZETA RETICULI A binary star system
that is roughly 37 light years away from Earth. The aliens that
abducted Betty and Barney Hill (see HILL ABDUCTION CASE) were
calculated to come from a planet in this system, and ROBERT LAZAR
claimed that the nine UFOs he saw in S-4 came from one of the
planets in the Zeta Reticuli star system. SOURCES ------- ADAMSKI,
GEORGE TAOTUFO, p120. AREA 51 AL, pp130-186; RUT:bob.lazar.Z;
PARANET. ARNOLD, KENNETH ATS, Chap. 11, Footnote 1. BENNEWITZ,
PAUL AL, pp37-38; RUT:ebe.txt.Z. CASH/LANDRUM CASE TAOTUFO, pp153-164;
ATS, pp296-298. CATTLE MUTILATIONS AL, pp21-55; AU, pp189-201.
COOPER, MILTON WILLIAM PARANET; RUT:bill.cooper.*, /don.allen/bill.cooper.*.
DARK SIDE HYPOTHESIS RUT:ebe.txt.Z. DOTY, RICHARD RUT:ebe.txt.Z;
AL, pp104-122. ET EXPOSURE LAW RUT:e.t.-law.txt.Z. FOIA RUT:foia.Z.
FOO FIGHTERS ATS, pp18-20. GHOST ROCKETS ATS, pp20-24. GULF BREEZE
SIGHTINGS "UFOs : The Gulf Breeze Sightings" by Ed
and Francis Walters, the book tells the whole story and has all
forty-odd photos in colour. You can also download seven of the
photos from the phoenix.oulu.fi FTP site, look for the ed* and
gbreez* filenames. HILL ABDUCTION CASE TAOTUFO, pp164-176. HYNEK
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RUT:a.a.v.-faq.Z. LAZAR, ROBERT SCOTT AL,
pp130-186; PARANET; RUT:bob.lazar.Z. LEAR, JOHN RUT:ebe.txt.Z.
MAJESTIC AL, pp150-152. MEN IN BLACK RUT:a.a.v.-faq.Z; men-in-black.Z.
MJ-12 RUT:ebe.txt.Z; ATS, pp250-253, briefing document ATS, pp540-547.
MOORE, WILLIAM RUT:ebe.txt.Z. OESCHLER, ROBERT AL, pp187-211;
BBC interview transcript available from the author at u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk,
but I may be able to persuade Charles to upload it to rutgers!
PROJECT... AQUARIUS "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions,
Comments", Robert Hastings, "MUFON UFO Journal",
No. 254, June 1989; "Just Cause", No.13 September 1987;
AL, pp109-110, pp115-116. BLUE BOOK TAOTUFO, pp57-59. GALILEO
AL, p182. GRUDGE TAOTUFO, p56. POUNCE AL, p110. SIGMA AL, pp109-111.
SIGN TAOTUFO pp55-56. SNOWBIRD AL, pp127-128. TWINKLE TAOTUFO,
pp57-58. ROSWELL CASE ATS, pp246-250; AL, pp83-92; RUT:roswell-crash.txt.Z;
TAOTUFO, pp48-51. S-4 RUT:bob.lazar.Z. SETI "The Gigantic
'Con'", Gordon Creighton, "Flying Saucer Review",
Vol. 37, No. 4, p4; "SETI : A Manipulation?", Pierre
Guerin, "Flying Saucer Review", Vol. 38, No. 1, pp17-20.
TRAVIS WALTON ABDUCTION CASE AL, pp68-71. VALLEE CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM RUT:micap-vallee-ufo-classification-system.Z. VIMANAS
"The Hindu" (Bangalore), 12th October 1988; PARANET
BBS:101288IA.UFO. Key --- ATS - "Above Top Secret",
Timothy Good, 1989 paperback edition, published by Grafton, ISBN
0-586-20361-3. AL - "Alien Liaison", Timothy Good,
1992 paperback edition, published by Arrow Books Ltd., ISBN 0-09-985920-3.
AU - "Alien Update", edited by Timothy Good, 1993 paperback
edition, published by Arrow Books Ltd., ISBN 0-09-925761-0. TAOTUFO
- "The Age Of The UFO", edited by Peter Brookesmith,
1992 hardback edition, published by Orbis Publishing Ltd., ISBN
0-7481-0311-2. RUT - ftp.rutgers.edu FTP site in the /pub/ufo
directory. PARANET - Paranet archives. APPENDIX -------- The
information in this Guide was collected from the following sources
: Paranet Archives; ** "The Age of the UFO" edited
by Peter Brookesmith; ** "Above Top Secret", "Alien
Liaison" by Timothy Good; ** "The UFO Report 1991",
** "The UFO Report 1992", "Alien Update"
edited by Timothy Good; ** "UFO: The Gulf Breeze Sightings"
by Ed & Frances Walters. I highly recommend that you read the
starred books, especially "Above Top Secret" and "UFOs
: The Gulf Breeze Sightings", "ATS" because of
it's thorough investigation into the worldwide UFO cover-up and
it's use of documents released under the US Freedom of Information
act, and "UFOS : TGBS" because it is a very believable
first-hand account of Ed and Frances Walters' close encounters
of 1987/8 and it also includes all 40 photos that they had taken
during that period. For more information : ----------------------
FTP to the following sites and you'll be able to download more
information and various pictures. Be warned : There is a lot
of rubbish on these sites as well as some reliable stuff, you'll
just have to sort the chaff from the wheat. phoenix.oulu.fi /pub/ufo_and_space_pics
This site contains seven of the 40 Gulf Breeze photos which are
well worth looking at. ftp.rutgers.edu /pub/ufo Famous for its
large archive of Paranet articles and a collection of photos
taken on the boundary of Area 51. You can also get the various
versions of the UFO Guide here. wiretap.spies.com /Library/Fringe/Ufo
Miscellaneous text files taken from Paranet. There are also a
few UFO related newsgroups on Usenet, they are alt.alien.visitors
and the alt.paranet.* groups. The above warning also applies
to these newsgroups, but Paranet is usually a very reliable source
for information. What to do if you see a UFO. ----------------------------
1. Scream. Honestly! This will attract the people around you
who will wonder what you're screaming about. You then point out
the UFO to them and you instantly gain a few back-up witnesses
to the sighting. Sightings which have only one witness carries
very little weight, but one reported by two independent witnesses
adds a lot of credibility to a UFO sighting. 2. If you have a
camera, try and take a few pictures. The best photos of UFOs
have background and foreground details in the shot, try not to
just photograph it in the sky. This enables the investigator
to give a better estimate of the size of the UFO. 3. Write down
what you saw as soon as possible. Draw a sketch of it and show
where any lights were positioned on the craft. Also describe
the path it flew. 4. If the UFO landed on the ground or even
just scraped it for a seconds, try and stop anybody from getting
near the area. If you have a camera, photograph the area. 5.
REPORT the sighting AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This allows the UFO
investigator to interview the witnesses whilst the memory of
the event is still fresh. If the sighting was in the UK, write
to the BUFORA Director Of investigations at: B.M. BUFORA, London,
WC1N 3XX. If you live in the US, you can contact CUFOS at : The
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 2457 W. Peterson Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60659 or call (312) 271-3611. Or you can contact
MUFON at : Mutual UFO Network, Inc., 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin,
Texas 78155-4099 or call (512) 379-9216. For a full list of UFO
organisations, download a.a.v.-faq.Z from ftp.rutgers.edu. The
First Last Word... ---------------------- OK, you've read the
Guide, now what? Read other books, do a little research of your
own. There's a lot of books on UFOs with quite different views
as to what UFOs are and why aliens are here. Read up on these
ideas and hypotheses and decide for yourself which one is the
most appropriate or realistic. I deliberately missed out the
various hypotheses from the Guide, I believe that the reader
ought to decide for his/herself what is really going on. There
are also so many different hypotheses that I don't think that
I would do them any justice. Personally, I believe in the extra-terrestrial
hypothesis as to the origin of aliens, mainly because that is
the most understandable and what I think is the most realistic
scenario there is at this time. One more thing : If any of the
stories that you read in this Guide or in any other book disturbs
you, read or watch some comedy science-fiction. I recommend Douglas
Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" trilogy and
"Red Dwarf". They put things into perspective a little
and help you see the lighter side of them! Nick Humphries, December
1993. ------------------------------ The Second Last Word...
----------------------- Many thanks for all the feedback from
the First Edition of the Guide. Unfortunately I missed a few
messages because my site went down for three days a couple of
hours after I uploaded it, hopefully that won't happen again
since that's the way conspiracy theories get created! Now to
contradict what I said in the First Last Word. In the next edition
I want to include the various hypotheses about where UFOs come
from. I'm not talking about conspiracy theories, I think I've
covered that properly already, theories like the Interdimensional
Hypothesis, the Ultradimensional Hypothesis too, and the Hollow
Earth Theory will also get a look in. If anyone wants to send
me any details about any hypothesis via E-Mail, please do! If
you think this edition of The UFO Guide is good, the next one
will be even better! Nick Humphries, February 1994. ------------------------------
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