On January 30, the Alan Handleman radio interview program on WRFX-FM, Charlotte, North Carolina featured a [former NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, now NASA)] scientist, Dr. Bergrun, revealing that NASA's Voyager space probe of Saturn's rings took photographs of a [cylindrical object, about 1-1/2 earth diameters long] orbiting in the rings.

Dr. Bergrun said that [streamers could actually be seen along the length of the cylindrical object, implying the existence of exhaust ports] Now, independent confirmation occurs in February, 1996 issue of "Science News" (V.149, No. 5, p 71), where the Hubble Space Telescope was reported to have photographed a large [elongated] non-satellite orbiting Saturn's rings in one photograph, which disappeared from a follow-up photograph.

Two other very big and very bright orbiting objects were photographed 5/22/95 and 8/10/95, and disappeared by 11/21/95. Dr. Bergrun believes that the [cylindrical object] is intelligently controlled, [and has attributes qualifying it as a space vehicle].

When asked why NASA had not managed to get a photograph of the huge vehicle before, Dr. Bergrun said that they "they have a tendency to hide [in their own exhaust"] The former NACA scientist said that [exhaust from the length and ends of the vehicle appear as the material constituting the ring]

When asked why NASA and other government agencies haven't released this information before, Dr. Bergrun answered that the 1958 Space Act [provides that space date can be withheld if something] is found that may constitute a threat; and that a [vehicle] of this size would be considered a threat, and would be deemed to have great military significance. As such it would fall under the "top black-budget military intelligence agencies".

Dr. Bergrun presents [his] discoveries in a book, ["Ringmakers of Saturn, 1986], which [contains] the NASA Voyager photograph of this huge space vehicle orbiting in Saturn's rings.

Rich Boyland

Note: Boyland's article amended by the author of RINGMAKERS OF SATURN, Dr. Norman Bergrun

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SCIENTIST SAYS VOYAGER SPACE PHOTOS PROVE WE ARE NOT ALONE BOOK EXPLAINS POWERFUL OBJECTS AT PLANET SATURN

Los Altos Hills, California -- Dr. Norman Bergrun, a highly respected scientist, engineer, and author who has received many awards for his work in aeronautics and astronautics, has made a detailed study of photographic data sent back from planet Saturn by Voyagers I and II spacecraft missions, and has arrived at some fascinating -- and often startling -- conclusions.

Applying his knowledge of physics and the science of flight, Dr. Bergrun has concluded that the photos demonstrate that the rings of Saturn are not natural-occurring phenomena, but are the result of immense mobile objects orbiting the sixth planet from the sun. Even more amazing, he presents strong evidence that these mobile objects, or vehicles, are maneuvered intelligently and that they have visited Earth's moon and probably the earth as well.

"These are not the conclusions you ordinarily would expect from someone with such a traditional background," says Dr. Bergrun, a graduate of Cornell and LaSalle Extension Universities who has done postgraduate study at Stanford, "but upon applying scientific rigor to the study of Saturn, its rings and moons, the facts keep pushing me toward some inescapable conclusions".

On 20 August 1980, the first Voyager mission began beaming its spectacular pictures back to Earth, giving us a window into the universe unlike anything previously available, Dr. Bergrun, a former scientist at the Ames Laboratory of NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the Ames Research Center, NASA), worked for Lockheed Missile and Space Company and Douglas Aircraft before founding his own research and engineering company in 1971. He watched the images coming back from space when Voyager I experienced close encounter with Saturn on 12 November 1980 and again on 26 August 1981 for the close encounter of Voyager II with Saturn. He noticed that the photos taken only about nine months apart showed some remarkable differences -- differences he felt needed investigating.

"That was the starting point for me. I've been researching this ever since," reports Dr. Bergrun.

His book, RINGMAKERS OF SATURN, uses some fairly sophisticated science to arrive at and make some of its points, but Dr. Bergrun has made a real effort to make it accessible to non-technical readers. Thirty nine full-color plates, based on spectacular NASA images, help make his presentation understandable and amply demonstrate the strange anomalies that the author finds so beguiling.

"Most of us were taught that the rings of Saturn could be explained as natural occurrences --primordial matter or remnants of small broken moons that had collided around Saturn in the early days of the solar system," explains Dr. Bergrun, warming to his subject as any practiced public speaker would. "Several years ago, a number of folks in the astronomy and physics world began theorizing that these rings had to be much younger than the universe, perhaps only about 100 million years old. But one pair of pictures show a dramatic change within five minutes!"

Sifting through a number of images, what Dr. Bergrun saw at first were unexplained points of light and then, with the help of a microscope, unmistakable shapes of giant cylindrical objects spewing trails of effluent from along their length and at both ends. These cynlindrical shapes appear at different positions in the ring system, and it is Dr. Bergrun's assertion that the objects are, at least in part, responsible for the appearance of Saturn's ring system. He believes that the rings are not a natural occurrence at all, but rather a kind of pollution left behind by objects orbiting Saturn. The objects are no "compact models". According to Bergrun, the Saturnian objects can range in length from about one to three Earth diameters.

Turning his attention to the properties of some of Saturn's moons that have long baffled astronomers, Dr. Bergrun has been able to deduce the electromagnetic character of the cylindrical objects. Some little-understood features of the Saturn ring system, such as partial rings, can be explained by the presence of these cylinders. He also submits evidence that suggests one of these strange objects may have visited Earth's moon and left an impression of its frontal nose profile on the surface. Other evidence suggsts that these cylinders in the vicinity of the Earth may account for inexplicable phenomena ranging from unusual weather patterns and newly discovered "dry lightning" to periodic world-wide extinctions and the devastating atmospheric explosion observed over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908.

Since ancient times, people have gazed into the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" Whether you are convinced by Dr. Bergrun's cogent presentation or not, RINGMAKERS OF SATURN, offers a capitivating explanation for many of the mysteries of Earth and space.

RINGMAKERS OF SATURN can be obtained in the United States by calling 1-800-597-5951.

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