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- THE UFO GUIDE, by Nick Humphries, February 1994.
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- Introduction to the First Edition
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-
- You know the scene : You're reading one of the UFO newsgroups on Usenet and you
- don't understand many of the terms used. What do you do? Go to the next article?
- Skip the rest of the articles and go to the next newsgroup even?
-
- No. You pick up your UFO Guide and find out what the hell it all means. You'll
- then find the information that you want in easily digestible bite-size chunks.
-
- 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.
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-
-
- 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.
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-
- 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.
-
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- For more information :
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- 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.
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-
- 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...
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-
- 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.
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- The Second Last Word...
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-
- 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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