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ISCNI*Flash 1.11 August 21, 1995




Welcome to ISCNI*Flash. Highlights in this issue are:

This edition of the ISCNI*Flash has been rescheduled from August 15 to August 21 to correspond with the opening of ISCNI's new site on the World Wide Web. See story below.


UFO APPROACHES JETLINER OVER ARGENTINA
Airport Power Fails -- Dozens of Eyewitnesses

[ISCNI*Flash thanks Jim Courant for assistance with this story.]

U.S. newspapers carried scant notice of an event that made big news in other parts of the world. The Los Angeles Times ran one paragraph on August 17, more than two weeks after the event:

"A flight crew for Aerolineas Argentinas, and aviation officials on the ground, observed a luminous object that approached the aircraft as it was about to land at Bariloche airport, about 870 miles from Buenos Aires. Control tower personnel reported all of their instruments started behaving strangely at about the same time. Ground observers said the UFO appeared to have shining lights on its belly."

ISCNI*Flash has learned from a European source these further details. The commercial jet, type not known, was on approach to the airport at Bariloche at approximately midnight on August 1. An estimated 103 people were aboard. A brightly lit object approached the jet, flashing and changing colors as it came. The jet pilot, fearing a collision, took evasive maneuvers. The bright object then flew in formation with the jet, approximately 100 meters away. Most of the passengers and the flight crew of the jet saw the object. Later, many described it as a "space ship" and as big as the jetliner, with multi-colored flashing lights. Observers in the airport control tower and military officials on the ground also observed the object. As the plane and UFO approached the airport, all electrical power at the airport and in much of the nearby town failed, causing a blackout. With the runway lights out, the pilot of the jet aborted his landing approach and brought the plane around for a second attempt. He succeeded in landing the plane on the second try, though ISCNI*Flash has not learned if the electrical power had been restored by that time. Meanwhile, witnesses observed the UFO to climb straight up and out of sight at high speed.

Based on testimony of dozens of good witnesses in the air and on the ground, plus the classic electrical effects so often associated with UFO encounters, there seems little doubt that a highly unusual and potentially dangerous UFO encounter did occur over Bariloche, Argentina on this occasion. Newspapers in London, Paris and elsewhere treated this as an important story. ISCNI*Flash laments the fact that the U.S. news media did not.


ISCNI OPENS NEW SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

ISCNI is proud to announce the opening of its new site on the World Wide Web. A temporary site has been in operation for the last three months; and although its location was not widely known, it has already been rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Survey, the leading online provider of site ratings and reviews on the World Wide Web. Meanwhile, our main site has been under construction. Now it is officially open to the public.

Our URL (Web address) is: http://www.iscni.com

The World Wide Web is accessible to any AOL member who is running the latest version of either Mac or Windows AOL software containing the required "Web browser." The Web is also accessible to anyone else on the Internet who has a Web browser.

If you're new to the Web, you're in for a surprise. It is a vast domain of interesting and highly visual information. ISCNI's new site takes full advantage of the colorful graphic power of the Web. Furthermore, it is becoming possible to have interactive message boards and live chat rooms on the Web, and ISCNI's new site will soon incorporate both of these features. A word on AOL's browsers. Most sites on the World Wide Web are designed to look best through a "Netscape" browser or a browser that meets "Netscape standards." ISCNI's site is no exception. However, the browsers built into AOL's current software do NOT meet Netscape standards. The AOL browser for Macintosh comes fairly close -- although word spacing, color balance and other details are often altered from the original. The AOL browser for Windows is even less satisfactory. If you're running Windows, you will not see the graphic design of most Web sites accurately at all. AOL deserves to receive a flood of complaints until they get their browsers up to the Netscape standard.

Portions of ISCNI's new Web site remain under construction and the site as a whole will continue to grow with time -- but you'll find many intriguing features and a great deal of information already in place. Please visit the site soon and let us know what you think.

ISCNI thanks Web design leader Larry Lowe and Webmaster Dennis Oszuscik for their indispensable help in bringing our new Web site online.


GOVERNMENT SOURCE SAYS ROSWELL STORY IS "NOT FICTION"

A story now circulating on the Internet alleges that Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. was directly told by a government source that alien bodies were recovered at a UFO crash site near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Dr. Marcel is the son of the late Major Jesse Marcel, who in 1947 was the intelligence officer at Roswell Army Air Field and one of the first military men to visit the debris field discovered by rancher Mac Brazel. Major Marcel showed pieces of unusual wreckage to his then-eleven year old son Jesse Jr. before taking the wreckage back to the base. In recent years, Dr. Marcel has spoken publicly about seeing the wreckage, and the profound impression it made in his life.

According to Wanda Sudrala, editor of the newsletter Euforia, "a friend of mine who is active Air Force and stationed in Montana... attended a meeting in Helena, Montana at which Jesse was the guest speaker," then wrote an article about Marcel that appeared in the May edition of Euforia. From there, the story was posted to the Internet, where it has apparently become somewhat embellished.

Marcel told of a closed-door meeting in Washington in 1991 with a man named Dick D'Amato, a national security specialist on the staff of Senator Robert Byrd. D'Amato is known to a number of UFO investigators as having taken a serious interest in claims of a government cover-up of UFOs. In one version of the story now circulating in cyberspace, "D'Amato acknowledged to Jesse that there was a crash and aliens were aboard, the first time Jesse Jr. had ever heard anyone in the government acknowledge the crash." However, ISCNI*Flash editor Michael Lindemann called Dr. Marcel to inquire about this rumor and was told something different.

Dr. Marcel said he had indeed met with D'Amato in July of 1991. D'Amato wanted Marcel to describe everything that he had been shown of the alleged crash debris by his father in July, 1947. D'Amato also wanted to know how the Roswell events had affected Dr. Marcel personally.

At one point in the meeting, D'Amato motioned to a book on the table. It was Whitley Streiber's "Majestic," a supposedly fictional recreation of the Roswell events and their aftermath. "This is not fiction," D'Amato said, according to Marcel.

"I knew it was fiction," Marcel said, "so I wasn't sure what he was getting at." Lindemann asked Dr. Marcel if D'Amato made any direct reference to knowledge of alien bodies at Roswell. Marcel insisted that D'Amato "said nothing about bodies or alien crew or anything like that. I want to set the record straight on that."

D'Amato asked Marcel to contact him if he got any new information, or any threatening phone calls or other harrassment.

Further notes on this story are provided by James Easton [with thanks to Dan Drasin for forwarding]. Easton writes:

"[On 30 July], I was speaking with Graham Birdsall of Quest International and editor of UFO Magazine (UK) and I asked if he had ever heard of this claim. Like myself, it was news to him. As he was due to telephone Stanton Friedman the following day concerning the "Santilli affair," I suggested that Stanton may be interested to hear of this. "The following evening, Graham confirmed he had mentioned this to Stanton and was somewhat taken aback to hear Stanton confirm that not only had he heard of this meeting, he was there! There was one other unnamed person also present.

"Stanton was very surprised that Dr. Marcel had released the name of Mr. D'Amato and said that D'Amato had indicated that he would not confirm this meeting had taken place.

"The following day, Graham told me that he had just been speaking to Timothy Good and had mentioned this meeting to him. Tim was also very surprised to hear of this.

"For the last few years, both in Washington and in London, Tim had met with Dick D'Amato in confidence.

"Tim was introduced to D'Amato by Whitley Strieber and confirmed that these events are relevant to Strieber's latest book, "Breakthrough." Again, Tim did not expect to hear D'Amato publicly identified and said that some of the content of his next book refers to these meetings and their implications, but that he had not identified D'Amato. As this information was now in the public domain, he would consequently be doing so."


"ROSWELL CAMERAMAN" TELLS IMPROBABLE STORY

[British researcher George Wingfield has kept close watch on the developing "Roswell Film Footage" controversy since it began last spring. This is a slightly edited version of Wingfield's latest bulletin, dated August 14.]

Three months after the May 5th screening the British press has at last begun to notice Ray Santilli's "Roswell" film footage and the fact that this will be shown nationwide in a Channel 4 TV special in just two weeks time. Despite fairly even handed articles in The Guardian and The Times, other newspapers have approached the story in heavy debunk mode.

One cannot deny that there is still a high probability that the film footage is not what it purports to be. One recent development is the release of the cameraman's own story, which I myself find frankly unbelievable. To summarize, the cameraman ("Jack Barnett") is dispatched from Washington DC, on the orders of General McMullen, on a special assignment. He flies out of Andrews Field with 16 other officers and medical personnel to Wright Field (which he calls Wright-Patterson, although this name came later). They collect more men and equipment and then fly on to Roswell in a C54. From Roswell they drive to the cordoned off crash site, which is now specified as being just south-west of Socorro, N.M.

[The site, which I was previously told was just outside an Apache Indian reservation, is now said to be quite near the "Apache Creek" National Wildlife Refuge. This presumably refers to the Bosque del Apache NWR which is 20 miles south of Socorro and straddles the Rio Grande. There is a world of difference between an Indian reservation and a National Wildlife Refuge -- nevertheless, the Socorro location is more in keeping with the "Barney" Barnett crashed disk and alien bodies story.]

There, JB and the others see a "large disc 'flying saucer' on its back with heat still radiating from the ground around it." Those there already had done nothing and were awaiting orders. They wait until the heat has subsided before moving in. "This was made all the worse by the screams of the Freak creatures that were lying by the vehicle. What in God's name they were no one could tell, but one thing's for sure, they were Circus Freaks. Each had hold of a box which they kept hold of in both arms close to their chests. They just lay there crying, holding those boxes."

[If this account is true, the wretched "freaks" must have been lying there bawling at least 24 hours, probably much longer, considering the time it would take to be summoned, briefed, gather the men and equipment, fly from D.C., via Wright Field, to Roswell and then drive for hours across the desert. If the aliens were badly injured, one would hardly expect them to have survived or to still be hollering and howling after all that time... ] "At around 6 am it was deemed safe to move in; again the freaks were still crying and when approached screamed even louder. They were protective of their boxes but we managed to get one loose with a firm strike at the head with the butt of a rifle. The three freaks were dragged away and secured by rope and tape; the other one was already dead."

The account concludes with the removal of the debris on a flat-top (flat-bed?) truck to Wright-Patterson. There is no mention of how, and when, and where, the three surviving "freaks" died. Maybe they were actually killed by their captors? A month later two of them were autopsied in a military hospital in Fort Worth (or Dallas). The cameraman filmed the autopsies wearing a thick protective anti-contamination suit like the surgeons. Because of this it was difficult to handle the camera properly or to load and focus it. This, at least, does seem a plausible reason why the close-up shots were never in focus. In May 1949 he was asked to film the third autopsy; the implication is that one of the aliens lived for nearly two years after the June 1947 crash.

There seems no doubt that the cameraman, "JB," does indeed exist. Channel 4 producer John Purdie and his team insisted on making contact with him and recently travelled to the U.S. specially to see him. A meeting is said to have been arranged at which he did not show. A further attempt to persuade him to appear in front of the Channel 4 cameras was equally unsuccessful. He became angry and said that he would only speak on camera if they produced a note from the President granting him exemption from any government sanction. Naturally enough this was not something to be had.

When the Channel 4 documentary is screened [in England] on August 28th [in the U.S., a similar program will be aired on the FOX Network on August 28; check your local listings] we shall no doubt see what they have to say about their meeting with cameraman "JB." In the meantime Santilli will present his case, together with "all" of the film footage, at BUFORA's UFO conference in Sheffield, England, on August 19-20th. We will keep you posted.

George Wingfield


ISCNI MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL ENDS AUGUST 31
New terms in effect on September 1 -- so join today!

ISCNI's long-running "First Month Free" membership special ends on September 1. From that day forward, new membership terms will be in effect. The Annual membership rate of $60 will be discontinued. Henceforth, only Quarterly passes will be sold, at $20. First-time quarterly signups will get a ten-day free trial period before being charged the signup fee.

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ASTRONOMERS PREDICT FASTER THAN LIGHT SPACE TRAVEL

[ISCNI*Flash thanks Mary Jackson for sending this article from "The Sunday Times" (UK), dated August 13, 1995.]

It is boldly going where no reputable scientific body has gone before. Contradicting Einstein, the normally conservative Royal Astronomical Society is about to publish a report predicting that mankind will be able to travel faster than the speed of light.

The breakthrough means that Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages powered by warp drive are now no longer the exclusive domain of science fiction writers.

The report was written by Ian Crawford, an astronomer at University College London, who believes not only that man will one day see stars at close quarters, but that we had better start preparing ourselves for the consequences, including contact with aliens.

His paper, "Some Thoughts On The Implications Of Faster-Than-Light Travel," has been validated by independent referees in the scientific community and will be published next month. Its publication coincides with the formation by British and American scientists of the Interstellar Propulsion Society (IPS) which is dedicated to finding a means of taking astronauts to the stars.

Crawford argues that modern physics may allow two possible ways around Einstein's theory, which says that because bodies have infinite mass at the speed of light, no amount of energy can make them go faster. The first is to pass through "wormholes", rifts in the fabric of space caused by intense gravitational fields such as those found around the collapsed stars known as black holes.

Crawford says that such fields may allow the traveller to enter a wormhole from one point and then to leave it at another, possibly thousands of light years away.

Previously, scientists have assumed that any astronaut who was caught in such a powerful gravitational field would be pulled into something resembling a piece of spaghetti.

However, Crawford said last week that recent research had suggested wormholes could be stabilised and manipulated to create short cuts between any two points in space. "The proofs are complex and mathematical, but more and more astrophysicists are satisfied that in theory it is possible," he said.

Should wormholes fail, however, Crawford proposes a second possible route to the stars. He draws on a recent paper by Miguel Alcubierre, of the University of Wales, in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity to suggest the possibility of propulsion systems which distort space by compressing it in front of a spaceship while expanding it behind.

Such a system would effectively bend space, creating a form of "warp drive" reminiscent of the Starship Enterprise of Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek.

The theories will boost growing interest among scientists in the possibility of travelling faster than light. The IPS, whose members include several NASA engineers, starts its first conference shortly in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


CLOSING REMINDERS:

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Michael Lindemann
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