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                Info-ParaNet Newsletters   Volume I  Number 516

                           Tuesday, January 7th 1992

Today's Topics:

                                ReRun-InSearchOf
                         An Interesting Development ...
                                hieronymous, etc.
                                    Suicides?
                                 Plasma Vortices
                         An Interesting Development ...
                                    Implants
                                hieronymous, etc.
                                Gulg Breeze Gifs.
               Cheap analysis of light sources (gulf breeze, etc.)
                                  Noriega Trial
                                *** TV ALERT ***
                                  Crop circles
                                Parallel research
                                    Abduction
                   Recent New South Wales, Australia, reports

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From: [e-mail] (Kay Mclaughlin)
Subject: ReRun-InSearchOf
Date: 16 Dec 91 04:00:00 GMT

For the past few weeks A&E has been running old "In Search Of"
episodes. Tonite they were running an epiode on UFO's, and had a part of
the story on Roswell. Unfortunately my VCR is on the blink, and I took
notes, (woe is me! please excuse this shoddy piece of reporting! I write
Slooooowwww)
They began the the segment on the Roswell case by saying that it began
with a sighting by Dan Wilmot, they interviewed his son briefly.
The best part of the segment was an interview with Jesse Marcel. He said
thet General Ramey made the statement, (about the "kite"), but "we both
knew differently".
***** Poor note taking, but these are parts of quotes******
"We left Roswell at 3:00-3:30..." "We followed the rancher...what I saw,
I couldn't believe there was so much of it...""we found a piece of metal
2 feet by.... when we picked it was as light as the foil from a
pack of cigarettes." (he then made statements as to how you couldn't burn,
or smash it with a sledge hammer) "It was not anything from this Earth,
that I am sure of....and I am familiar with most materials....,
it could not have been (sic. of the earth)."
Then they spoke to Don Ritter building manager of building 18 at Wright
Patt which was actually used for "cold soak engine testing".
Col. Robert Friend (NASA), (former bluebook, AF) said "... Some cases
had a lot of promise (600+ out of 10,000+ cases) and should have been
persued further"
I thought it was quite intereresting to see these old shows again.
I know this is spotty, the show was made in 1978. Narrated by Leonard
Nimoy.

Reagrds,
Kay


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From: [e-mail] (Jim Greenen)
Subject: An Interesting Development ...
Date: 17 Dec 91 15:16:00 GMT


 * Replying to a message originally to Jim Speiser
 VG>  > I predict that this person will either a) never come forward, b)
 VG>  > will come forward with an alias, or c) will come forward with
 VG>  > his real name, but will be able to provide nothing in the way of
 VG>  > evidence, either for his claims or his background.
 VG>
 VG> Jim,
 VG> I agree with you on this one. I think we've heard more than
 VG> enough about "premier UFO researcher" Wendelle Stevens.
 VG>
 VG> Vlad
 VG>

  Vlad; The strongest instincts that a man has is survival then
comes that 3 letter wo that sounds like the number 6. Can you blame
anyone for not coming forward if there is a strong possibility that
he might commit suicide shortly after he announces his name.
   In America, there is a high percentage of researchers in UFOs and
government secrets that commit suicide. Its very strange but it
seems to happen very quick. One minute they are hot on the trail of
something big and the next minute they went insane and commited
suicide.
   From what I heard is that the "Premier Researcher was approched
by the FBI and was threaten to disclose this persons name.
73'S    ---JIM---
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From: violet.berkeley.edu!chalmers
Subject: hieronymous, etc.
Date: 19 Dec 91 13:51:21 GMT

From: [e-mail] (John H. Chalmers Jr.)

Some comments on the last newsletter:

Re the Delphos Case: Did the chemist, Erol Faruk, identify or
describe the 'unstable chemical' mentioned in the abstract?

Also, gasoline and some other petroleum based solvents are
rather quickly metabolized to waxy water-repellent materials
by soil bacteria. This might explain some of the unusual
chemistry of the soil samples.

Elsewhere I have read that fungal growth, dead fungi remnants
and fungal metabolites could explain the properties of the soil.
I haven't seen any of the original data or investigations, so
I don't know if this is plausible or not.


The often missed point of the Bumblebee story is that it was
the theory of how bumblebees fly, not basic aeronautical theory
that was wrong. In fact, the paper was written to describe
the correct theory of bumblebee aerodynamics. Insect wings
work quite differently from bird wings because of their
very different structure. I think there was an article in
Scientific American on this in the last year or so.


The  December 6 issue of Science magazine carries a review of
'Fantastic Archeology,' University of Pennsylvania Press,
Philadelphia, 1991, pb $14.95, hc $28.95 by Stephen Williams,
former director of  the Peabody Museum of Anthropology at Harvard.
This looks like a good source book for heterodox theories on
North American archeology from a skeptical, academic viewpoint.


As for the Hieronymous Machine, see US Patent # 2,482,773 to
Thomas G(alen). Hieronymous, Sept. 27, 1949. 'Detection of
Emanations from Materials and Measurement of the Volumes Thereof.'
The emanations are elsewhere called 'eloptic radiation.'
The machine includes a pickup coil (antenna), a prism with a
goniometer, and a detector consisting of a flat wire coil
between two sheets of plastic. One places an object to be analysed
near the pickup coil, turns the prism, strokes the detector,
and records the prism angle when the detector feels 'tacky'
to the touch.

'Eloptic' is possibly a blend of electric and optic.

John Campbell claimed that a schematic of the machine's innards
(amplifier, etc.) worked as well as the hard wired version
when connected to the  coil, prism and detector. He also claimed
that the machine worked even when it wasn't plugged into any
power source provided the tubes were not burned out. The schematic
version likewise only worked when all the connections and
symbols were correctly drawn.

Most subjects, including Asimov, I believe, got no reaction
whatever with the HM.

A good reference for the HM is 'On the Frontiers of Science,' by
G. Harry Stine, Atheneum, NY, 1985. Stine provides instructions
for builing a HM using contemporary components.  Stine's book
is an entertaining and convenient source for home-built psionic
machines, pyramids, and similar gadgets, but rather unconvincing
as a scientific text.

Stine gives a different number for TGH's patent (2,482,772);
I don't know if this is a second one or a typo.

Hieronymous also built  'armatures' for the late George Van
Tassell's 'Integratron,' a domed circular building at Giant Rock
Airport in CA. VT was an early (50's) contactee and was building the
Integratron under ET guidance or at least inspiration. It was
intitially described as a time-travel device, but later as a
healing machine. Supposedly the building was constructed entirely
without metal parts. After Van Tassell's death, the property was
allegedly sold by his widow and I don't what has happened to it.
It may have become a discoteque.

--- John




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From: [e-mail] (Sheldon Wernikoff)
Subject: Suicides?
Date: 20 Dec 91 04:50:01 GMT



In a message to Vladimir Godic <17-Dec-91> Jim Greenen wrote:

JG> In America, there is a high percentage of researchers in UFOs
JG> and government secrets that commit suicide....

Hi Jim,

That's a very interesting statement you've made there! Would it be
possible for you to cite the source(s) of your data, and be a bit
more specific as to what constitutes "a *high percentage* of
researchers in UFO's". Additionally, how about elaborating on a few
of the more notable ufological suicides?

73's back to ya --

Sheldon, N9EHL @ 1:11/50
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From: [e-mail] (Sheldon Wernikoff)
Subject: Plasma Vortices
Date: 20 Dec 91 04:51:02 GMT



In a message to Sheldon Wernikoff <19-Dec-91> Robert Trevelyan
wrote:

RT> Sheldon,
RT> Saw a draft copy of a crop circle catalogue by Michael Chorost
RT> a few days ago. It had a picture of plasma vortex created in a
RT> lab. It was credited with your name and the photo was credited
RT> to Richard Shapiro. The photo shows a quintuplet created in
RT> the lab but did you manage to create a formation in dust
RT> similar to the Japanese scientist. I would be interested to
RT> hear your findings on this although I don't believe plasma
RT> vortices create crop circles I am interested in all aspect of
RT> this phenomenon.
RT> Regards, Robert

Hi Robert... in response to your question, no, the quintuplet
formation was not duplicated in aluminum dust a la Yoshi-Hiko
Ohtsuki. In fact, the effect would not be visible at all were it
not for the luminous neon-argon mixture. BTW, to read the photo
correctly, observe the dark regions, *not* the bright zones. To my
knowledge, Ohtsuki's method has produced simple circles, and ringed
circles - but no quintuplets.

Being the objective individual that I strive to be, I'll be the
first to acknowledge that this work may bear no correlation at all
to crop circles, but then again, the similarities are rather
remarkable.

At this point in time, I feel one of the most critical research
requirements we need to acquire is a bullet proof technique of
ascertaining formation authenticity. This will most likely be
achieved through the chronicling of residual artifacts, such as the
non naturally occurring radonuclides currently being studied by
Marshall Dudley and the polyembryonic seed anomalies described by
Charles Levengood.

I would also like to make it clear that I personally feel that most
of the more complex agriglyphs have been hoaxed, and in time, the
circle phenomenon will come to be known as being the result of some
form of naturally occurring, non-intelligent energy.

Take care,

Sheldon
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From: [e-mail] (Jim Speiser)
Subject: An Interesting Development ...
Date: 19 Dec 91 15:29:23 GMT

In a message to Vladimir Godic <17 Dec 91 08:16> Jim Greenen wrote:


 JG>  Vlad; The strongest instincts that a man has is survival then
 JG> comes that 3 letter wo that sounds like the number 6. Can you
 JG> blame anyone for not coming forward if there is a strong
 JG> possibility that he might commit suicide
 JG> shortly after he announces his name.
 JG>   In America, there is a high percentage of researchers in UFOs
 JG> and government secrets that commit suicide. Its very strange but
 JG> it seems to happen very quick. One minute they are hot on the
 JG> trail of something big and the next minute they went insane and
 JG> commited suicide.

The only two I can think of are Morris K. Jessup and James McDonald. Jessup I'm
not sure about, but McDonald, I am assured, had some bad family problems. His
suicide was no mystery. Under your scenario, why didn't Hynek take his own life
long before brain cancer claimed him? And why doesn't Mr. Ed do the same?


 JG>   From what I heard is that the "Premier Researcher was
 JG> approched by the FBI and was threaten to disclose this persons name.

Jim, are there any circumstances under which you will NOT believe that same old
chestnut time and time again? Even David Jones, who posted the original message
about the supposed "informant", has admitted the whole thing was probably a
hoax.

Jim



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From: [e-mail] (Peggy Noonan)
Subject: Implants
Date: 20 Dec 91 16:08:00 GMT

Hi Keith,
        The packet of goodies has arrived safely.  Thank you very
much!  I hope the tape also reached you safely.  I'm looking forward
to reading through the materials over the Christmas break.
        Thanks, again!
                                        ==Peggy==
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From: [e-mail] (Jim Speiser)
Subject: hieronymous, etc.
Date: 20 Dec 91 07:00:14 GMT

In a message to All <19 Dec 91 12:54> ncar!violet.berkeley.edu! wrote:

 nc>
 nc> Re the Delphos Case: Did the chemist, Erol Faruk, identify or
 nc> describe the 'unstable chemical' mentioned in the abstract?

"[The] properties were consistent with the dissolved substance being an alkali
metal salt of an organic acid and subsequent chemical manipulation supported
this idea. Such a compound would consist of a hydrophobic organic residue -R
linked to a hydrophilic carboxylate anion -CO2-M+ (where M represents an
unknown metal ion):
          R-CO2-M+"


 nc> Also, gasoline and some other petroleum based solvents are
 nc> rather quickly metabolized to waxy water-repellent materials
 nc> by soil bacteria. This might explain some of the unusual
 nc> chemistry of the soil samples.

FAAA-scinating....I'd like to think Faruk would have recognized this property.
His testing seems pretty thorough.


 nc> Elsewhere I have read that fungal growth, dead fungi remnants
 nc> and fungal metabolites could explain the properties of the soil.
 nc> I haven't seen any of the original data or investigations, so
 nc> I don't know if this is plausible or not.

Strongly recommend you pick up JUFOS, as it is Ufology's own and only refereed
science journal. $15 from CUFOS, 2357 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago 60659.


 nc>
 nc> As for the Hieronymous Machine, see US Patent # 2,482,773 to
 nc> Thomas G(alen). Hieronymous, Sept. 27, 1949. 'Detection of
 nc> Emanations from Materials and Measurement of the Volumes Thereof.'


Thanks! When you say that Campbell reported the schematic diagram worked as
well as the machine itself, you mean he actually used the paper with the
drawings on it as a substitute for the machine? Like trying to open a can of
dog food by holding it near a picture of a can opener? HAHAHAHA! That's gonna
go in my list of The Ten Most Outlandish Claims of All Time.

Lessee, so far I've got...

Lizard Man
Elvis Lives
Bielek's Philadelphia Story
The Driver Shot Kennedy
The Diagram Works as Well as the Machine

Any other candidates?

Jim

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From: [e-mail] (Andre Eichner)
Subject: Gulg Breeze Gifs.
Date: 13 Dec 91 06:07:00 GMT

Hello Don!

In a msg of <01 Dec 91>, Don Allen writes to Jim Speiser:

 DA> To convert a GIF for posting on the Net requires that you must first
 DA> uuencode it from an 8 bit file format to a 7 bit ASCII text format so
 DA> it can be transmitted around the world intact in message format.

It's better to install a tick-file echo...

cheers
   Andre
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From: [e-mail] (John Hicks)
Subject: Cheap analysis of light sources (gulf breeze, etc.)
Date: 20 Dec 91 07:52:00 GMT


 >         I think a profitable way to find out what kind of lights are
 > used
 > in any phenomena would be a simple spectroscope.

 Videotape has been shot of an ordinary road flare using a diffraction grating;
presumably other flares would show a similar spectral "smear." (not very good,
but maybe better than nothing)
 How much would a simple spectroscope cost?

                                           jbh

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From: [e-mail] (Jim Greenen)
Subject: Noriega Trial
Date: 20 Dec 91 14:24:00 GMT


 * Replying to a message originally to Don Allen
 JS> Don:
 JS>
 JS> Was it you that told us that Noriega's trial was proceeding
 JS> in Fla.? I know this is gonna sound ridiculous, but could
 JS> you source me on that? Newspapers? Newsmagazines? CNN?
 JS> What's the deal? I still haven't heard word one, and I'm
 JS> beginning to wonder if maybe you misheard, or misread, or
 JS> maybe I did...
 JS>
 JS> Jim

Jim, Don is right and the trial has been going on for sometime.
Starting next week, the defense will make its presentation on the
behalf of Noriega. It smells of the James "Bo" Grz trial where it
was completely black-out from the city limits of Las Vegas. Lars
Hannson has been covering the trial and has written some news
articules on it. Can't get a major newspaper or TV station to touch
it. It makes you wonder just whats going on. 73'S    ---JIM---
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From: cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!vanth!jms
Subject: *** TV ALERT ***
Date: 21 Dec 91 12:31:18 GMT

From: vanth![e-mail] (Jim Shaffer)

The Christmas episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries' will be a rebroadcast of the
season premiere covering the Bentwaters/Rendlesham case.

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Basterfield)
Subject: Crop circles
Date: 20 Dec 91 04:39:00 GMT

I came across a slightly dated item the other day which was news to
me, so I post it for what it is worth. The following is the text of an
AAP (Australian Associated Press) International News Item off the
wires and before being published in any media sources. (In fact I've
never seen it in the media here.)
"London, Oct 27 PA A leading scientist investigating crop circles now
says that all but the simple circles are the work of hoaxers. Dr
Terence Meaden, director of the Oxford based Tornado and Storm
Research Organisation, studied over 200 crop circles this year. He
stands by his theory that the circles are made naturally by a "vortex"
a miniature whirlwind of electrically charged matter. But he now
believes the more complex patterns with squares, triangles and
straight lines are fakes.
Today, he said:"I have crystalised my previous doubts. I can assure you
that that the complex patterns are all fakes." Sometimes, people had
left objects deliberately to be found; other times, the paths they had
trodden to begin the circle had been found hidden underneath the corn,
he said.
Also, unlike the authentic circles, the man-made patterns showed the
corn had been bent to the point of breaking or snapping, he said. His
whirlwind theory had been substantiated, he said, by a dozen
eyewitness accounts and in laboratory tests. Meaden's shift of opinion
was featured on the channel 4 science and technology program Equinox
tonight, which looked at the phenomenon of crop circles.

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Basterfield)
Subject: Parallel research
Date: 20 Dec 91 04:52:00 GMT

The other day I came across a book by R A Gardner (1991) titled "Sex Abuse
Hysteria:Salam Witch Trials Revisited." Published by Creative Therapeutics,
Cresskill. Gardner is listed as a Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at
Columbia University. Two portions of it on pages 99-100 caught my eye, being
relevant to abduction research.
"A recent development in the field of psychotherapeutic psychitry is the
"uncovering" of early sex abuse that the patient never realized took place.
This has been very much in vogue during the last few years. Sometimes the
process starts with the psychiatrist "suspecting" sex abuse on the basis of
allegedly derivative statements and symptoms that are "suggestive" of early
childhood sex abuse. When the patient expresses puzzlement and even disbelief,
he (she) is encouraged to enter into a more meaningful and deeper (sometimes on
the couch) therapy in order to "uncover" these lost memories. Human beings,
suggestible and gullible animals that we are, are likely to comply with the
psychitrist's prediction and provide the psychiatrist with the "lost"
material." Later on page 100:-
"Interestingly, an even more recent development is the suspicion by patients-
arising within themselves-that they may have been sexually abused and were not
aware of it." Interestingly, these developments have occurred in abduction
research in recent times. Have you had an unexplained nosebleed, dreams of
aliens? Then perhaps you should consider regression to determnine if you have
been abducted!

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Basterfield)
Subject: Abduction
Date: 20 Dec 91 05:01:00 GMT

Hi Peggy, thanks for the Richard Price tape. I have listened to it
several times over and find it fascinating. It contains some material
the same as the printed article that's on it's way to you, and some
new material. Thanks again for sending it to me. BTW I finished that
article on implants I have been working on and have despatched it to
the International UFO Reporter for consideration of publication. Hard
proof still evades us, despite there being some hearsay material
floating around.

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Chalker UFORA Associate NSW)
Subject: Recent New South Wales, Australia, reports
Date: 20 Dec 91 05:58:00 GMT

I have a number of reports under current investigation, beyond a number of
ongoing abduction cases.
Picnic Point, Sydney Suburb, NSW, 12.30 am, 1st December, 1991: A man was
standing in front of a friends house saying goodnight to his friend who was
standing on the verandah.
The following quotes from a statement from one of this man:
"Suddenly a flash of light travelling down and to my left flashed into my eye.
I turned left and looked upward and there about 50-60 metres away and about 200
metres up was a large disc of flaming circular light which had continued down
and to my left (northward).
"I immediately pointed at it with my right arm and I loudly said to J., "What
the hell is that?"
"The object immediately stoppped and I felt a shot of adrenilin in my heart  It
seemed to turn towards us.  It's large flat black wings now facing us from
therir back and they were curling up above and behind the light....
"It momentarily hovered for about 2 seconds and it then suddenly moved directly
back and away from us about another 50 metres.  It stopped there for about a
second and it then went directly up, turned away from us and headed up and away
from us in a north easterly direction.
"We watched it for about a minute and a half as it accelerated up and away from
us and I could see the airofoil like tops of the wings fluttering (like a sail
does) in the wind.
"We kept watching it until it quickly became just a twinkling light in the
distance and we then called C. (J.'s wife) to look at it.  She could only see
the distant flickering of the light and was quite annoyed that we had not
wakened her sooner.
"By this time a total of about 2-3 minutes had elapsed until we could no longer
see it in the distant high clouds."
Statement from witness M.
I spoke with M. later that same day.  Due to difficulties of getting J. & M.
together a field investigation was not undertaken until December 9th.  On the
1st, I requested both men write down as much as they could to keep the
experience details clear to them.
I visited J.'s residence in the company of 2 associates, where we interviewed
M., J., and his wife.  We reconstructed the event on the spot.
Detail of the object: It consisted of "a disc of mainly yellow with some light
blue light.  It appeared to be clear in that it seemed to have depth but you
could not see through it....Attached to the disc were very large, flat and
black wings.  They seemed to swivel on the disc and to bend towards the
direction that the object travelled as does a sail.   There was hardly any wind
on the night and only scattered cloud cover...."
No sound was heard.  The size of the disc was estimated at about 10 to 15 feet
in diameter, and the "wings" were between 50 to 60 feet in height and between
30 to 35 feet in width at the top.  They were black.
The weather bureau indicated nil launches at the time.  No other traffic
details are applicable.
The object gives the impression of a large "intelligent" hot air balloon
device, but the nature of the sighting and its apparent extraordinary movements
appears to negate this explanation.  Further investigations are underway.
This sighting was within a kilometer or two of 2 other interesting events
reported to me this year.  One of this events involved a spectacular low level
flyover of a massive rectangular object in 1978 at the nearby Picnic Power
Station area.  The other involved 2 yound men (in their 20s) who witnessed a
low level "flyover" of a brilliantly lit disc at nearby Padstow on March 25th,
1991.  This experience appears to be part of an extended milieu contagion
possibly involving possible "abduction " like experiences in the past, with one
of them having a possible CE3 event at Bents Basin as a child.  Bents Basin
incidentally is the location of a spectacular CE3  "robot" type event involving
6 young people back in 1972.  I investigated this report with David Buching
back in 1975.  The recent milieu appears to have been a life long series of
events.
About 1 am, December 13th, 1991 - between Tamworth and Werris Creek.  A woman
was driving home from work in Tamworth heading to Werris Creek.  She reports
being followed by strange lights.  They appeared to been 4 red lights in a line
with a green light underneath.  The witness reports the light arrangement
followed her car for several kilometres, and apparently came over her car.
There was a whizzing noise at this point, whereupon there were 2 brief episodes
of power loss and all lights going out. When I interviewed the woman on
December 15th, I determined that she did not actually see the lights pass over
her car.  She just presumed this was the case when she heard the unusual
whizzing noise.  She also told me that at its closest observed point the light
display was in a adjacent paddock, ostensibly hovering above the grass, but
apparently in front of a small hill (but below the summit line, ie. it clearly
was below the skyline and apparently quite close).  The experience terrified
her and her fear was obvious to those she met when she arrived home.
A possible explanation that needs to be properly evaluated is that a new TV
tower had its beacon lights switched on for the first time on December 11th.
This tower is located in the area.  A man driving home that night reported to
local TV st ation he had probably seen the same thing as the woman, but he was
sure it was due to the tower.  There were at least 2 other seperate witnesses
who believe they saw something unusual.  One man travelling to work at Werris
Creek ostensibly  saw the same display and apparently also experienced car
effects.
This investigation has also brought to light other case details.  More of this
later.
This report was brought to my notice on December 13th, due to a TV interview
(local TV news).  An associate in the area investigating earlier Barraba area
sightings  on my behalf called me straight after the news report was aired.
I have spoken to area police, TV news and local papers, along with the main
reporting witness, along with her husband and mother in law.  She comes across
as a sincere woman who was geniunely frightened by her experience.
It should be noted that the direction of the tower was greatly different to
that of the close paddock position reported.  Light drizzle was falling at the
time.  Is it possible that some sort of weather related relection of the new
tower lights.  The witness while prepared to consider this, did not think it
fitted.
Field investigations are currently trying to be arranged.
Regards from Bill Chalker.

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