IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE...?

Tuesday 30th, April 1996 / posted May 22, 1996
Source: Evening Sentinal
By Jackie Whittaker

The person sitting next to you may not be human. It is just possible that they are an alien from another planet.

Far-fetched as it may sound, this is a hypothesis being taken very seriously by many people, and there is a growing amount of research trying to prove it.

Now Tracie Austin, of Newcastle, is hoping to extend the debate during a one-day conference on UFO's which she is organising to take place at the City Museum, Hanley, on June 29.

"The American government knows of about 12 separate races (of aliens). One is human-like, they look just as we do. You can put a shirt and tie on them and sit next to them in a restaurant and no-one would ever know the difference." said Tracie, a 30-year-old music teacher.

She became interested in the phenomenon after seeing a UFO in London several years ago. Since then she has read many books on the subject and attended conferences up and down the country.

In the past few weeks there have been sightings of lights and objects over Hanley but, so far, no reports of alien beings.

The most talked about aliens are the small grey beings.

"They are called the greys because of their skin colour. They have big black slanty eyes, a small slit for a nose and mouth, and are about the size of a 10-year-old boy. They are from a star system called the Zetareticuli system which is 34,000 light years away, which is just down the street. They are the ones that tend to take people on board craft, abducting them, doing experiments, taking skin samples."

"Apparently there is some kind of hybrid programme going on that the American government knows about. There are about 26 bases in America that the government are allowing the beings to have in exchange for their technology. I think we are dealing with an intelligence that is far beyond us by hundreds, if not thousands, of years."

People who claim to have been abducted are nervous about speaking publicly about their experience because they are traumatised and fear being branded as complete nutcases.

Tracie says she has spoken to abductees but did not want to betray confidences by relating their personal experiences.

"These are normal people and their experiences follow a pattern, but we can't say what that pattern is because we don't want other people to read about it and make up stories. Researchers log all the set patterns and know what to sift out."

One common occurence is that people 'lose' time. The experience appears to be over in moments but when they are returned to earth, it is an hour or so later.

Some do not survive. There are unexplained cases of animal mutations, and a specialist UFO magazine has recently published gory photographs of a mutilated corpse of a human discovered in South America.

"All the skin was off his face, all the jaw and facial bones were on show and a lot of skin was black and small holes were found on the body where the organs were sucked out," said Tracie.

She said research showed that a high-intensity laser beam had been used to take the organs and that any question of some sort of satanic ritual had been ruled out.

"Animal carcasses have been found with bits removed and just left with no rigor mortis and the blood completely drained. There are no blood tracks left around it. People have actually seen the cattle lifted into a beam of light, and sometimes these crop circles are seen soon after an animal mutilation."

Instances of flying saucers and UFO's have been recorded since caveman days and depicted in their cave drawings, but there is one incident in recent years which is still the source of controversial debate - the Roswell event which allegedly took place in Mexico in 1947 when a spaceship crashed to earth.

"This was the very first crash with more than 100 witnesses. It was printed in the paper in Mexico that the government or military had captured a space craft. But then it was very quickly hushed up and it was said it had all been a mistake, and that it wasn't a craft, but more than 100 people saw it," said Tracie.

"A grey being was captured alive and was termed an EBE, extra-terrestrial biological entity and I think it survived 14 to 18 months. He had some kind of illness and some top doctors went to look at him and they couldn't understand its metabolism, said it was more like a plantlife basis."

"So they then called in a botanist, who I think was called Dr.Mendosa, who said it would take in energy and food in a similar way that plants do and would excrete waste product in the same manner. All these people who encounter grey beings report a very strong smell like ammonia or rotten eggs. This is all factual, the information is all there but you have to dig for it."

Ufologists, as researchers into UFO's are known, believe governments keep all evidence as top secret because they are afraid of causing mass public panic, although it is rumoured that President Clinton is in favour of releasing some information.

"I think if it is released intelligently, carefully, even compassionately, then people can handle anything," said Tracie.

"The more I read about it, the more I realise just how so many people have seen things, and all these people cannot be insane."

"When people come to the conference I hope they will come with an open mind and be willing to listen and to question."

One speaker at the conference will be Tony Dodd, a former policeman of 25 years standing whose particular interest is abductions and mutilations. The second speaker is Graham Birdsall, who is the editor of UFO magazine and a researcher, and he will talk about the medical evidence. It starts at 10am and ends around 5pm. Tickets at 4 pounds each are limited to 300 and more than 200 have already been sold. Contact Box Number 489, Newcastle, Staffs or ring 01782 715267.

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Local UFO Groups

There are at least three UFO groups in Staffordshire and Cheshire which meet regularly:

The Potteries Organisation of Paranormal Investigations (POPI) meets once a month. Contact mobile phone number 0468 403349

Staffordshire UFO Group meet every month at the Rugeley Arts Centre, Taylors Lane, Rugeley. Contact Irene Bott 01889 576771 or mobile phone 0973 982854 or pager 01523 102476

British UFO Study Centre (BUFOSC) is run by Cheshire-based UFO expert Eric Morris, who has contributed to BBC's Everyman programme which is to be shown shortly. Contact 01606 552175 or mobile 0374 639089

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