UFO Newsclipping Service 1999 09 no 362

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September 1999
Number 362
12 CANEY V~LLEY DRIVE • PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS 72127 USA EDITOR/PUBLISHER: LUCIUS FARISH
UNION BULLETIN, Walla Walla, WA - July 27, 1999
COUNTY TIMES, San Mateo,
Crop circles leave farmer wondering
CA - Sept. 6, 1999
Expo
on UFOs
attracts
hundreds
Event boasts
lectures, products
By Michele R. Marcucci
STAFF WRITER
SAN MATEO-Hurley Young
was one of just a few hundred
people who attended the first
Bay Area UFO Expo, held in
1993 at the old Dunfey Hotel.
But Saturday o.t the Court
yard Marriott, the Berkeley
physical education teacher who
said he once saw a lighted craft
balancing on a flagpole by the
Oakland Tribune Tower
building was part of an overflow
crowd of 700 who packed lec
tures about UFOs and alleged
gevernment and media conspir
acies to hide their existence.
!here's a lot more stuff
about the paranormal and
Photo courtesy of DIRK NELSON
UFOs on TV than there was five
years ago. So that's certainly a Above, an aerial view of crop circles that mysteriously appeared in a wheat field fanned by Phil Reser just east of Foster Road in Walla Walla. Reser
part of (the popularity)," said spotted the markings while harvesting wheat in another field. Below, Corey Boone, left, and David Stickler investigate Monday.
Ted Oliphant, associate pro
ducer of the Expo, which ran Cause of markings unknown
Saturday and Sunday.
When Young, who has By BRODIE FARQUHAR footprints or any access on the
studied UFOs since he was in Of the Union-Bulletin ground from nearby roads," he
the seventh grade, talked to his
Mysterious crop circles, which said.
students about UFOs five years
ago, it scared them. But not many inquiring minds say are the The wheat is fully grown and
anymore. result of UFO landings, have come lays down in one direction in one
"They've heard it on TV or to Walla Walla County. circle, then the opposite direction
whatever," said Young. Wheat fanner Phil Reser no in the next, he said.
He also credited commercial ticed what he thought were some
ization of the field - from UFO deer bedding spots on his field Unlike deer bedding spots, the
T-shirts and bumper stickers to east of Foster Road about three wheat in the crop circles was
the scads of UFO-related mer weeks ago. readily picked up by his harvest
chandise available at a few
machinery, he said.
dozen exhibition tables Sat "I didn't think much about it
urday - with drawing people's until I started cutting near there "None of the stalks were
interest. on Sunday," he said. broken, which would happen if you
"More people are involved. stomped it down," he said.
It's keeping the subject front "When I started cutting the
and center." Young said as he wheat close by on Monday, I The phenomenon, as believers
eyed bumper stickers and realized I had something more in UFOs call it, or man-made
mouse pads at 01e Citizens than deer bedding down in my hoax, as skeptics argue, has hap
Against UFO Secrecy table. field." pened elsewhere in North
UFOs are the 5econd-most
talked about subject on the In The site is fully harvested now America and Europe.
ternet, behind sex. Young said. and there is nothing left to see, but "I've seen stuff like this on TV,"
They're also talked about by Reser said he's intrigued.
Reser said. "If it is a hoax, I'd sure
radio host Art Bell. whose syn
"These patterns are absolutely like to know how they did it. This
dicated program is helping to
make celebrities of expo precise and there is no sign of is kind of cool." U-B photo by JEFF HORNER
speakers such as former NATO
intelligence analyst Robert
Dean, considered by many to be
the grandfather of UFO studies.
"Art Bell has been fantastic. Bt. that didn't faze one first tending her first UFO cor..fer UFO Network table who did not
He called our expo, 'The Best of time e"<po attendee. who was ence in eight years. wish to be identified praised the
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ton the air)." alien spacecraft. impressed by the event and the television.
Bell guest University of Cali ''I'm a victim already," said findings of speakers such as
fornia, Berkeley. lecturer the man. clad in a newly pur former NASA consultant ··Television exaggerates and
Stanton Friedman wasn't shy chased T -shirt that cost him Richard Hoagland. who believP.s lies. It's more of what the gov
about promoting himself either. $20. 0 there may be Viking images on ernment wants you to hear, and
The nuclear physicist's 45- But some attendees were less Mars. not the truth,'' said the man,
minute "Flying Saucers are than thrilled with the alien She said that the $40 two-d.ay who showed a video of a pur
Real!" talk contained pitches for hypr. Expo pass was much cheaper ported secret government
two books, an upcoming Red "There is a lot of commer than the $200 to $300 other spacecraft project and who said
wood City appearance and a cialism among the so-called ex rxpos charge. he saw a UFO seven years ago.
$25 CD-ROM. pDearwtsn tAhbaetl otuf rRnse dwmoeo do fCf,"it ys. aaidt- A man workin~ the Mutual CR: J. Deardorff
TIMES, ("Westside Weekly'1, Los Angeles, CA-Aug. 27, 1999 CR: P. Dennett
Bright
lights ,
city
little
Topanga resident
Eric Andrews Mountain community of Topanga
describes the
UFO he saw abuzz with taJk of extraterrestrial
while driving his
four-wheel vehi sightings. New book details 80
cle in Topanga
Canyon. UFO encounters
The local paper
The Messenger
has a long history Story by Ted Shaffrey
of UFO coverage
in Topanga
Canyon. Photos by Ryan Miller
5t ep up to the bar at Willows firebreaks, deep in the canyon," cations. trading first-person UFO experi
restaurant and you might Andrews said. "The jeep got "A lot of people don't want to ences up here for years. Even the
find Eric Andrews, a suc stuck in the mud. Suddenly we be connected to it, but they feel local Topanga paper, The Mes
cessful contractor who has lived looked up and saw this huge obligated to get the story of their senger, covers sightings and
in the mountain community of bright light darting across the experience out, • said Dennett, tales of alleged alien abductions
roughly 8,000 for most of his 37 sky-aiming itself right at us. At whose book "UFOs Over Topan with front-page headlines.
years. the last second, it suddenly ga" tells of more than 80 "There are a lot of solid citi
If you casually mention pulled a U-turn and shot out of extraterrestrial encounters in the zens up here who've said they
unidentified flying objects, he sight." area, ranging from bedroom see things, • said Messenger edi
might recount for you an experi Andrews' story is just one of abductions and "missing time" tor Michelle Johnson.
ence he had early one evening a many UFO encounters detailed mysteries to streaks of light in "It gets dark up here. No
few years ago that still gives him in a new book by lifelong Topan the sky street lights blocking out the
goose bumps. ga resident Preston Dennett, 34. More than half the encounters wide-open sky. No illumination
"I was four-wheel driving It has just been published took place since 1992, Dennett
with a buddy of mine out by the nationwide by Llewellyn Publi- said, but residents have been
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One of those solid citizens is and Music, 1415 Third ·
si~h!~9 or other
15-year Topanga resident and Street Promenade; Santa
, extraterrestrial .
Santa Monica College psycholo Monica
gy professor David Phillips. :~ ~rie~ce lo con · + eau: [phone]
"I can tick off a half-a-dozen ~ iact'~ e~ationar - Topanga ·for more information
friends who've seen something," tufQ.~ e~rti9g · •·. State
said Phillips, 60, who has his own Center, WriJe to::· Park
Topanga UFO story. · the center .at P.O_ encounter not only caused her to
• I was awakened one night in . B~x.45623; Urii-.' .. have a miscarriage but also made
December four years ago by the her suddenly quit supporting
thumping of helicopters. I went : ve~ Station' \ businessman and politician Ross
and looked out the back of my ~sea!f!~~.w~.:·~ ~. Perot.
house, which is all windows, and . 98145 or call the· "Those who've actually seen
I saw three helicopters chasing 24-ho~r 'h~tline at. an alien in Topanga all describe
this little, archetypal silvery, disc the same creature: short with
(206)'72l-3000.
shaped craft down a fire trail," he a grayish skin, large dark eyes and
recalled. . To r~port sight-. , a large bald head,· Dennett said.
"The next morning I went to .. ing onlirii go to · · "But I don't have any smoking
the Sheriff's Department and they '': www.ufrxemer.-.: Pacific Ocean gun proof, like a photo. Not yet.·
said there were no helicopters ·com. RYAN MILLER I WESTSIDE WEEKLY Others in the mountain com
over Topanga that night." Topanga Canyon map marked with UFO sight-. munity enjoy the UFO tales with a
California Highway Patrol ings, from "UFOs Over Topanga." grain of salt.
Officer Ron Cohen, who patrols "People talk about [extrater
the canyon, said the department look for UFOs. they'll make him take a psych restrial experiences) more here
gets several calls a year from peo "One of our officers even evaluation." than they would in Brentwood,
ple who want to report UFO claims to have had an audible, not Some of the tales Dennett that's for sure," said longtime res
encounters. visual, extraterrestrial encounter recounts in his book are more ident Katie Phillips. The people in
Just last month he pulled over in Topanga," he said. extravagant than others. Like the Topanga, she added, • are looking
a drunk driver who was on his "He doesn't want to be inter tale of Marcelina X (not her real for that kind of thing. They want 2
way to one of the canyon bluffs to viewed, though. He's afraid name), who claims an alien to see a UFO."
WALL STREET JOURNAL, Princeton, NJ - Aug. 23, 1999 CR: D. Perkins
In 1995, Mr. Bigelow got word of a
Surreal Estate Some people think that plan is just as only a week's rent, and it would take us an strange cow mutilation in Canada, and
out there as Mr. Bigelow's UFO theories: other 10 days to two weeks to get them out.·· hopped on his corporate jet to investigate.
"They're out of their minds if they think In fact, Mr. Bigelow's company has got Upon arriving, he learned that another
Robert Bigelow, Patron they can build that number of units in Dal ten into some hot water over how it gets peo cow had been mutilated that day.
las and make it work,'' says J. Peter Kline, ple out of its apartments. In 1992, a state "We were elated," he recalls, "because
Of UFO Investigators, ctehlise f& e Rxeecsourtitvs eI nocf . Dallas-based Bristol Ho cHoowldti njgu rCyo . into Lpaasy V$6e2g,5a0s0 oinr dpeurendit ivBei gdealomw tnheicsr oopnsey ."w Masr . eBviegne lomwo raen d frae shlo caflo r veat
Mr. Bigelow says naysayers don't un ages to two former employees who alleged took samples, but he says that a laboratory
Is Shooting for the Stars derstand his strategy. By targeting the hy that they were fired and evicted from their later destroyed them-accidentally, the
brid niche of extended stay, he draws cus" company-owned apartments in the Rhett lab said.
tomers from both the hotel and apartment Butler complex after protesting against a Mr. Bigelow was furious. The affair
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vals I are afraid of us." turned the punitive damages. Still, the court
In Texas and Outer Space Mr. Bigelow has long followed a differ held that there was "strong evidence" of veterinarian, an astrophysicist and a
molecular biologist, as well as several
ent drummer. His 20-year-old Las Vegas discriminatory practices at Bigelow.
field scouts who report promising sight
headquarters looks like a giant Tudor That charge infuriates Mr. Bigelow.
Hunting Aliens on the Side ings.
house. There's a meandering stream out "How is that possible when a third of the
They sprang into action when a rancher
back. Inside, cats named Taxes and Write people in that complex were blacks?" he
in Utah's Uintah Basin went public in 1996
off prowl the halls, occasionally knocking says.
By NEAL TEMPLIN over things in Mr. Bigelow's office. He In 1993, Nevada Legal Services, an ad with tales of strange lights and UFOs on
Staff Reporter of TilE WALL STREET JOURNAL used to have a cat named Mortgage, but vocacy group, sued Mr. Bigelow, his wife his property. Mr. Bigelow quickly bought
LAS VEGAS - In 1947, Robert T. Mortgage died. Visitors wait on wooden who jointly owns many of the Bigelow as the ranch for $200,000 and stationed people
Bigelow's grandparents were driving park benches in the lobby. sets-and the holding company on behalf there. He sometimes accompanies his UFO
through the desert near Las Vegas when a On a recent day, Mr. Bigelow sits at a of tenants who said they had been locked scouts on spotting missions and usually
glowing red ball hurtled menacingly to desk in his inner sanctum with a headset out of their apartments without the five jokes about his abysmal track record.
ward their car before making a sharp turn on, fielding a steady stream of calls. Wir'y day notice required by state law. Barbara "Now that I'm here, they won't come," he
and disappearing. and perpetually tieless, he looks like a ra Buckley, a Nevada Legal Services attor tells his team.
That was the story that his grandpar dio talk-show host. "My position is if it ney, says the company had employees Still, Mr. Bigelow has little doubt that
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sticking to it. surrounded by a curious collection of per One plaintiff in the class-action suit, Lee he says, "or there's something to it."
Over the past several decades, Mr. sonal stuff: a jukebox, a crystal sailing Turner, alleged that he came home on New By this year, Mr. Bigelow reckoned he
Bigelow has quietly become one of the ship, cow1t1ess family photos. Later, he de Year's Eve 1992 from an out-of-town trip had made enough money to pursue another
world's leading fi tails his business theories on a white board with his wife and young son to find they had longtime dream: space travel. One of his
nanciers of UFO re while a cat patrols behind his desk. "If I been locked out of their $124-a-week down first calls was to Greg Bennett, a former
search. When a were to retire right now, I could still do the town apartment. They were two days be Boeing Co. engineer who worked on the
Utah rancher found $500 million" for the space hotel, he con hind in their rent, he alleged. Later, Mr. National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
a strangely muti cludes. Turner learned that most of his possessions tration's space-station project. Mr. Ben
lated cow last year, His employees say he's a tough boss. Af in the apartment had disappeared. nett is founder of the Artemus Society,
a Bigelow-funded ter a meeting with Mr. Bigelow, top execu Mr. Bigelow "wants to spend $500 mil which aims to put a colony on the moon.
veterinarian rushed tives can "come out sweating bullets," lion on a commercial trip to the moon, yet But when Mr. Bigelow sketched out his
to the scene, and Mr. says Gary Gurnm, a former Bigelow vice he treats people on earth as if they don't idea for a hotel circling the moon, Mr. Ben
Bigelow's team president. Two years ago, three of Mr. matter," Mr. Turner says today. nett says he realized "that made mince
eventually pub- Bigelow's four top executives-Mr. Gurnm Mr. Turner got $30,000 of the $1.8 mil meat of all our plans."
lished a 45-page re wasn't among them-quit within a span of lion Mr. Bigelow agreed to pay to settle Mr. Bennett joined Bigelow Aerospace,
port titled, "Investi days. "One individual blew up and said I the suit last year. "I don't say there which Mr. Bigelow set up to pursue the
gation of the unex- was pushing him too much," Mr. Bigelow weren't abuses by irresponsible man space hotel, in April. Between Mr. Bennett
Robert T. Bigelow plaine~ death of a recalls. "He just had a threshold that he agers," Mr. Bigelow says. But if "they and the people he has hired-including a
cow m northeast wasn't able to go where the company was did something unfair, much Jess illegal, veteran of the Soviet space program
Utah, Oct. 16, 1998." He or his researchers going." it wasn't sanctioned by me, much less by Bigelow Aerospace has 12 employees. Mr.
have cataloged hundreds of claimed UFO But Mr. Bigelow also holds a monthly my company." Bigelow is planning an arrow-shaped head
sightings and alleged alien abductions. luncheon where he raffles off ten $100 bills After switching to building hotels, Mr. quarters outside Las Vegas for Bigelow
Now he wants to build a hotel in outer to employees. And he shuts down the entire Bigelow took an unconventional approach. Aerospace. It will look like a giant space
space, and says he is prepared to spend as company every year on July 30, the birth Other extended-stay hotels generally have ship, with pod-like pillars. Construction is
much as $500 million over the next 15 years day of his son, Rod Lee, who died in 1992. about 100 units, but Mr. Bigelow built supposed to start next year.
to make it happen. Police records show Rod Lee died of a self sprawling three-story hotels with as many To make the hotel feasible, Mr. Bigelow
"It's going to cost a Jot of money," he inflicted gunshot wound; Mr. Bigelow de as 800 units that looked like apartment calculates that launch costs will have to
says. "So you'd better offer something stu .scribes it as an accident. complexes. He equipped his rooms with drop from about $2,000 a pound today to
pendous." Mr. Bigelow began quietly funding UFO separate bedrooms, full-size refrigerators just $550 a pound. "It's going to hinge on
His plans might seem laughable-and research in 1990, and says he has already and ovens to entice long-term guests. Mr. whether over the next 15 years the launch
indeed, some people do chuckle at Robert pumped as much as $10 million into the ef Bigelow charges about $179 a week for industry can gets its act together," Mr.
Bigelow. That's all right with him. The fort. For many years, he wouldn't talk pub units up to 50% larger than those rivals of Bigelow says.
truth is out there, and he has several hun licly about his role, and it was known only fer at similar prices; he says his occupancy That's a big if, but it hasn't stopped Mr.
dred million dollars to spend pursuing it. to h~rd-core "ufologists." rates typically run more than 90%, far Bigelow from planning how he would wow
With little fanfare, Mr. Bigelow has He had been fascinated by UFOs since above industry norms. people with the hotel. He says the hotel
built an impressive fortune, employing tac he was eight, when his grandparents first Two years ago, Mr. Bigelow began would operate at 40"/o of normal gravity so
tics that are almost as unusual as some of told him of that red fireball In the desert. building his first hotels outside Las Vegas, guests could still do most of the things they
the things he intends to use it for. The Three years later, his grandparents, this focusing on Phoenix and Dallas. Some ex do on earth. He recently drafted a "rough
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rich. This year, Mr. Bigelow says, his ho American people for encounters with ex Bigelow says, he prepared himself by ward from his desk. "Haven't you ever had
tels and apartments will generate between traterrestrial life, and he has paid for a reading 60 books, scouring used-book a dream?'' he demands.
$35 million and $40 million in profits. He Roper poll on the subject. "I think it's irre sales for UFO literature from the 1950s
distrusts computers. and until a few weeks sponsible and a Jack of leadership," he de and 1960s. Starting in the late 1980s, he
ago, his employees wrote lU,OOU checlcs by clares as he blasts down the highway In his personally interviewed about 200 people
hand each month to pay workers and sup= burgundy Mercedes, seatbelt unbuckled, who reported encountering UFOs. Eventu
pliers. He is contemptuous of consultants as always. "I have a huge com~ern how the ally, he built a network of scientists,
and marketing studies, and makes the fi American people are going to react to the ranchers and law-enforcement officials
nal call on where to build his hotels by dri• first contact. How many people are going who give him tips on UFO sightings and
ving around prospective sites in his car un to go to the gun shop? How many are not animal mutilations.
til he's convinced he has the right spot. going to go to work?" "They may say Bigelow is nuts," says
Other alleged techniques appear Jess Mr. Bigelow might never have been in po John Paternoster, the district attorney for
quaint. Last year, he paid $1.8 million to sition to finance UFO scholarship if he had a remote three-county area in northeast
settle a lawsuit by tenants who charged been a better science student. He put aside ern New Mexico that has a history of unex
they were illegally locked out of their his dream of outer-space research, studied plained cow mutilations. "But I say he's
apartments after they were late on their business in college and plunged into real es filled a void by providing resources to get
rent. In another case, the Nevada Supreme tate in the late 1960s. (His father was a Las to the bottom of all this.!'
Court said it found "strong evidence" that Vegas real-estate broker.) Mr. Bigelow The 1992 death of Mr. Bigelow's son
Mr. Bigelow's operations "engaged in quickly made a crucial discovery: "I learned may have increased his interest in the
racially discriminating practices." - right away that this was a city where people great beyond. A few years later, Mr.
Mr. Bigelow emphatically denies tha~. lived on their tips, and I could make more Bigelow and his wife, Diane, donated $3.7
and says his managers are supposed to money if I rented by the week,:· he says. million to establish the Bigelow Chair in
follow proper eviction procedures. In any By 1970, Mr. Bigelow owned at?out 100 Consciousness Studies at the University of
event, legal setbacks haven't slowed him apartment units in Las Vegas. He kept build Nevada, Las Vegas. It is a rotating chair
down. Mr. Bigelow is opening a new hotel ing and buying apartment complexes until that goes to prominent life-after-death re
every month under his Budget Suites of the late 1980s, then switched to extended searchers. Mr. Bigelow says his wife, who
America flag, and plans to build 25,060 stay hotels. To Mr. Bigelow, the extended declined to comment for this story, shares
rooms over the next five years. Hi& stay hotel had the advantages of an apart his convictions about extraterrestrial life
biggest push is in the Dallas area, where ment complex without the restrictive evic but doesn't have his zeal for the hunt:
he plans to open 10,500 rooms by 2004- tion Jaws that complicate bouncing deadbeat "She's a believer," Mr. Bigelow says. "She
equivalent to 14% of all the rooms now in tenants. In apartments, he says, "we were just says: 'So what?' "
that market. stuck all the time with people who had paid
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COUNTRY ROAD CHRONICLES, Milford, PA - July 1999
All That Is, UFO's and You, Too!
NeW' Worlds:
Conversations W'ith ''Ho:rno Noeticus" The Tall Blondes - Part 3
by Sunny 8. WoU back your memories, what did that mean?
"You are completely healed." The other man here. S: I can remember my home. .. They're going
T HIS COWMN IS A1l0ur LIFE - who ~ put his hands on each side of my head with M: Where do they live? to let me go visit. There are things I have to
are, where~ are, where we are going out touching me and said, "'-'lie will be back S: Another place. It's pretty there. The air is leam. .. about how to help the people. They
- and - where we came from. It will when you need us." They then disappeared. good, and there i6 no disease and it i6 never don't understand what they're doing, they're
discuss a combination of studies that are all My foot was' back to normal, but the light dark. destroying everything. .. They don't under·
relative to life - science, philosophy, theolo stayul until around six in the moming, and I M: Have you been there? stand nothing. They don't care.
gy, anthropology. felt as if I was being bathed in love. S: (choking back tears) Yes, I was a boy. M: Have you ever had contact with other
There will be background infonnation This was not the first paranormal experi .(crying) When I lived there I was a boy. types of beings?
given and different points of view and per ence that occurred. When she was a little girl M: What's happening now? S: Yes, (becoming agitated and crying) They're
spectM:s - all on life. You, the readei; can and had scarlet fever, she was kept in a dark S: (fighting back sobs) They want me to go tall and ~ black robes. They don't have a
draw your OINtl conclusions. ened room because her mother believed that away. They're sending me away. .. I have to sun ... They hate light.
This issue will try to shed some light on if she was exposed to sunlight, she would go go to Earth. I don't want to go. M: Have they taken you?
some of the beings mentioned, but whose blind. During that time, little white children M: Why did they send you here? S: I don't think so. They tried ... They called
purpose or role i6 still unclear: the Praying would come into her room through the walls S: To help ... He's my daddy. me. I thought it was my mother: I was
Mantises, the Reptilians and the Tall Blondes. and play with her: They had blonde hair, and M: Who's your daddy? sar-...d ... They can't get me unless I go with
The Tall Blondes. would take Shara out of her body to go play S: The man in red. t.hem. I saw the grasshoppers. (Liter, she said
A Native American woman, hom and outside. Shara has left her body to go places M: How do you feel about him? it was the praying mantis.) Their world is
raised on a Cruk Indian reservation near all her life although she hasn't tried to do it. S: I like him. dying. They want women to breed with.
Oklahoma who now lives in Arizona has. had She also saw the blonde men twice, one time M: Does he have a name? They have ·the head like a grasshopper: ~ .
an aperience to relate us. Because she comes saving her life when she was badly injured S: He has a name, but I don't know it. with a slcinny neck, long anns, skinny legs,
from a long line of medicine women, she is on the reservation. M: Do you know what they call that place big~ and antennae.
skilled in the ritualistic healing of arts of her Many experiences have repeatedly they come from? M: When did you see them?
tribe. Immersed since childhood in the occurred to Shara during the course of her S: . . . It had two suns. there's trees and S: With those black men. .. I don't like the
ancient know~ and traditions of her peo lifetime. The last one before her meeting with. rivers. grasshoppers.
ple, she has lived her entire lifetime aware of MUFON occurred when she woke up M: And how do they get from that place to M: What is the difference bet'-'lleen the
the existence of other realities and of strange, around ·11 :30pm and there was a man stand this place? blonde beings and what people call angds?
magical beings that could travuse the dimen ing in her room. He was "vearing a white S: they come by ships. S: There i6 no difference.
sional barriers and enter her world. robe with gold roping around his neck and M: Have you been on those ships? M: Is there anything you can tell us about
These are things that Native Americans also had blonde hair to the shoulders and S: Yes. Jesus?
ra.rely speak about to white men, but in blue ~- He said, ·we are giving you back M: When was the last time? S: He flies in ships tOO. He lives on another
1995, all thz.t changei when a series of expe your memories." That's all he said. He stood S: Last Week. world. .. the iirst world. (The blondes) live in
riences frightened and distrused her liO badly there all night as Shara slept on and off. After M: And who do you see on these ships? the second world.
she needed help and called the national head that she began leaving her body regularly. It S: They're all blond headed with blue eyes. M: How do we get to his world?
quarters ofMUFON. was looking into the future and it scared her: Some ~ robes, some ~ uniforms. .. S: He's coming to ta.ke you.
Here's the story in this Native American They came back about a week later and did My father and his father. .. M: What about when Jesus came here?
woman's own words: some kind of surgery on her back. This time M: Was it your father who sent you here? S: He came in a tube. .. like a pill ... a cap
Last summer I woke up in ·the night, it it was hazy like she had been druggW. They S: Yes. sule;
was 3:32 am according to my clock, and my told her they had to do the operation because M: When ~ey were there at your birth, do We reali7.ed that with all the new research
room was all lit up, but the lamp wasn't on. 'she needed it.' One of them showed her a lit you know what they did? i6 true, then how could '-'lie accept the con·
At first I thought the light was coming from tle metal object they~ going to put in her S: They made sure I got here all right. .. I ventional interpretations of the Bible? The
outside, but then I realized it wasn't. I looked back, but it didn't 1uve any scars. was five when they sent me here. But when investigations at MUFON were leading to
down at my foot and there was a piece about Shara un~t hypnosis to help with I woke up, I wasn't five. .. I was a baby. .. the conclusion that a completely new
one-inch deep and three inches long missing. her fears and anxieties: they brought me here in a tube. .. I want to approach to Bible interpretation was needed
The inside of my foot looked silver, but there S (Shara): They healed my foot - they have go home (tearfully) They say I have to stay. - one fhat included flying saucers and high
was no blood. Then I realized that there ~re great ~ and they want me to know. . 'They're coming here. technology, as~ as an appreciation for a
two men standing next to me, one on each M (MUFON): Is this a lesson for you? M: 'They're coming to visit you? st:I-ange hierarchy of celestial beings far more
side. They were standing right through the S: I know it. S: No, they're coming to ~ a lot of people complex that that commonly accepted by
bed. They had blonde, shoulder-length hair M: How do you know this? away. modern-day religions.
and blue eyes and looked to be about 50 years S: Because they gave it to me ... when I was M: Are they taking them back to where they If you have an experience you'd like to tell
old. Tileir skin -was a bronze color, like they born ... They were there. live? us about and would like us to print, please
had good tans. They wore robes. One robe M: Can you go back to a time when you first S: They're taking them back there. write to me do Country Road Chronicles,
was red and white with gold roping around knew these beings? M: Why are they taking them? RR2 Box 132, Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328;
the collar, and the other was blue and white S: They have always been there. S: This world i6 no good. It's no good to live or email me at [email protected]. We
with gold roping. The man in the blue took M: Can you ask them what their purpose is? here. will keel? your identity confidential if you so
his lund and -..vent over my foot, and said, S: They're here to help . .. They don't live M: When they said they would give you desire. ~
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, MA - Aug. 17, 1999 CR: C. Grusinski
For new UFO lobby, 'X-Files' are real
By Neil Irwin White House. would be the first alien president
Spec1al to The Chnstlan Sc1ence Monitor 'I can assure you there are
of the Unitt>d States if elected.
Who·s going to expost> the massive govern plenty of people in this town ··we wt>n· as~ured he could bceomt> prcsidt>nt
ment conspiracy to hide the truth about ex of Mars. but the senalor·s wife does not walll to
traterrestrials visiting earth? who take this very seriously.' travel.·· deadpan~ his spokesman. Paul Smith.
Instead of ""The X-Files· ·· Mulder and Scully. ··so Wf'.rt> putting om hopes on people voting him
it might have to be the House and Senate. - Stephen Bassett, Washington lobbyist in as president of the United States.··
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Close encounter
DAILY COURIER, Houma, LA - July 11, 1999
with a Houma connection
•••
By MATT GRESHAM
The Courier of the Marcels, Johnson, 40, who
owns Houma-based Eager Eagle
Productions, has his own story to tell,
I t was early July 1947 and the also.
world was about to begin a One of the most documented pro
d.ebate that has lasted ever jects Johnson worked on was a .-eoc
smce. curring UFO in the central California
Did an extraterrestrial spaceship desert called "Goldy."
crash near Roswell, N.M.? Did the The UFO appeared frequently near
government cover up the crash? And the town of Anza, Calif. just outside
are beings from other planets contin Palm Springs.
uing to visit Earth? "We were trying to get a shot of the
Strangely enough, a native of the UFO, whether it was from alien origin
Houma area, who died in 1984, is or from a military base," Johnson said
regarded by UFO experts as one of from his Houma office on Corporate
the authorities. Drive. 'The people in Anza wanted an
His name: Maj. jesse Marcel Sr., a answer, and no one in the military
native of Bayou Blue. would give them one."
Marcel was the intelligence officer Johnson and his crew interviewed
at Roswell Army Air Force Base that several witnesses. He said when they
summer and was one of the first offi found out he was from Houma, some
cials at the crash site located on a thing strange happened.
ranch near Roswell. 'They found out I knew Jesse
Since Marcel's retirement from the Marcel, and they literally backed me
military, he spoke of the events for a into a comer," he said. 'They were
television documentary in the late very inquisitive about him. He was
1970s and told his story to numerous like the ultimate subject of UFO buffs
relatives around Terrebonne Parish. because he had first-hand knowledge.
His son, Jesse Marcel Jr., 62, an ear, I told them he lived on my street in
nose and throat physician now living Bayou Blue, and he had a flat roof and
in Helena, Mont., spoke to The a shed and he sat outside a lot ... " he
Courier recently about the events that said jokingly. "They really absorbed
took place around July 8, 1947. everything I said about him, because
With mounting evidence of UFO BRYAN TUCK/THE COURIER he was the man."
Jamie Johnson in the offices of his Corporate Dri•Je company, Eager Eagle Productions. Johnson worked two years on the
activity all over the world, skeptics Johnson said his crew did get a
continue to discount stories of alien Fox Network's program "Sightings," which explored the UFO phenomena. He was also a neighbor of the Marcel family in chance to see "Goldy" while working
abductions, extraterrestrial visitors Bayou Blue which has ties to the famous Roswell incident. in Anza.
and other unexplained phenomenon. "We worked all night, so we slept in
But, what is the truth? Are they real shifts," he said." ... at about 2:30a.m.
ly out there? Marcel Sr. knew he had something ics. They wanted me to tell them restrial craft," he said. "There was it was my shift to sleep. One of my
unique and wanted to share it with his about it and I couldn't say anything, never any doubt in his mind and I production people came and banged
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT family. and when the general came in. be told have to go along with him because of on my window, and he was white as a
During the first week of July 1947, Marcel Jr. remembers the night me to say nothing about it - that he what he saw.' ghost I immediately knew something
Mac Brazel, a New Mexico rancher, well. would handle it." And others believe Marcel's story, was up UFO-wise."
was out checking on a herd of sheep "He realized it was pretty unusual The official Army explanation of the as well. Jerry McCormack, who has Johnson said he looked in the direc
when he noticed strange debris scat stuff and swung by the house and crash site and the debris was it was worked at the Roswell Daily Record tion the crew was looking and saw a
tered over a large area of his property. woke my mother and I to look at this part of a "MOGEL" balloon, which for 30 years and spent the past 12 as glow above the mountains.
Brazel reported the debris to the stuff," Marcel Jr. said. "It was a lot of was used to fly into the stratosphere editor, said most people who come to "It was orangish white, and the light
local sheriff, who then notified foil-like debris and !-beams. It was to detect Russian atomic blasts during Roswell for research purposes take rose from the mountain about 1,000
Roswell Army Air Force Base and pretty strange stuff, and I'd like to the beginning of the Cold War. Marcel Sr.'s testimony seriously. feet or so and stopped abruptly," he
Marcel. know what it was." "Even though the balloon was top "It's gone beyond a news story," he said. "It hovered for a few seconds,
In the taped interview, Marcel Sr. Marcel Jr. said the most unusual secret, it was made out of ordinary said. "It's an event that happened. It's then broke into two different colored
recounted the day. aspect of the debris were the hiero material," Marcel Jr. said. something that's part of our history, lights. One stopped flickering and
"One thing I was certain of, being glyphics on the pieces. Two years ago, Marcel Jr. said he so we certainly take it very seriously." hovered, and the other went out com
familiar with all air activities, that it "He was excited enough to bring it traveled to Roswell for the 50th McCormack said the "flying pletely. The remaining light did a little
was not a weather balloon, nor an air by the house very late at night," anniversary of the crash. While there, saucer" headline of the paper is still dance and then stopped and floated
craft, nor a missile," he said through a Marcel Jr. said of his father. Air Force officials arranged a meeting requested frequently. back down behind the mountain."
lingering local accent. "It was some From there, Marcel Sr. escorted the with Charles Moore, who had been in "It's a very familiar headline," he Johnson said hearing testimony
thing else, which we didn't know what debris back to the base and flew it to charge of the "MOGEL" balloon pro said. "We get requests for copies of it from the many eyewitnesses he inter
it was." Fort Worth Army Air Force Base July ject in the '40s and '50s. They showed all the time from all over the world." viewed and experiencing an unex
Marcel Sr. said there were frag 8, where General Ramey, the com Marcel Jr. one of the existing balloons Since the famed Roswell incident, plained sighting, himself, has
ments of debris scattered over an area manding officer of the Eighth Air and asked him if that is what he saw. the community has become a mecca changed his thinking on the UFO
about three-quarters of a mile long Force, was waiting. 'That was not it," he said. "I'd like to of UFO research, McCormack said. matter.
and "several hundred feet wide. An official press release from the say it was for their benefit, but it was "We have a lot of people in the field "I think my interest will always be
"So we proceeded to pick up the Army Air Force had already been n't. Parts of the balloon were made of that come here and lecture and do there for unexplained sightings," he
parts," he said. "A lot of it had little released stating that a "flying disk had balsa wood, for instance. The writing research," he said. "Roswell has sort said. "It doesn't have to be alien ori
numbers with symbols. To me, I call been found." The front page of the was much different. There were too of become a mecca of the UFO phe ented to be a UFO, because we
them hieroglyphics because I could Roswell Daily Record the next day many differences." nomenon, and the Oocal UFO) muse haven't seen everything the military is
not interpret them. It could not be read "RAAF Captures F1ying Saucer Marcel Jr. said that night in 1947 um has done an incredible job. All the involved with that could be mistaken
read." On Ranch in Roswell Region." has become a major part of his life. research material is there, and it gives fora UFO.
Marcel Sr. said the debris was like According to Marcel Sr., military "It has stuck with me for more than visitors the opportunity to come to "But, yeah, I have to say I believe
nothing he had ever seen before. officials quickly stopped the transmis 50 years now," he said. "It's because it their own conclusions." there is something out there worth
"That stuff weighs nothing," he sion of the press release and said the made such an impression. From that Another local man who takes the investigating," he said.
said. "It's not any thicker than tin foil debris was nothing more than that of time on, I realized we're not the only phenomenon seriously is Jamie
in a pack of cigarettes. I even tried to a weather balloon. people in this galaxy, and they have Johnson. Johnson worked as a free Matt Gresham is a staff writer at
bend the stuff and it would not bend 'The newsmen saw very little of the the technology to get here." lance photographer in Los Angeles
The Courier. He can be reached at
... We even tried making a dent in it material," Marcel Sr. said. "A very Marcel Jr. said the Roswell incident for many years and worked for the
857-2204 or by e-mail at hdc
with a H)·pound sledge hammer. It small portion of it and none of the also made a believer out of his father. FOX Network's show "Sightings" in
still didn't dent it." important things like the hieroglyph- "He believed this was an extrater- 1990 and 1991. A long-time neighbor news@nytimes. com.
·1s CAttle
JOURNAL SCENE, Summerville, SC - Aug. 13 truth out
Mysterious trails ...
there?
by WILLIAM RILEY HAU But for others, the "believers," they say ... the "We ran back down to the house to where my
Staff Writer truth is out there. grandmother and aunt were, and we told them we
Roswell. Area 51. Crop circles. UFOs. Alien For Cheryl Gilmore, a resident of Summerville saw a flying saucer shape in the sky," Gilmore
visitations. Abductions. and state director of MUFON (the Mutual UFO said, recalling the incident.
Gilmore said.
Many Americans have seemingly been fascinat Network, Inc.) her belief that extra-terrestrial With her cousin, aunt and grandmother in tow,
Again, in the middle of the afternoon, with a
ed with the prospect th:-~t heings from anflther beings could be ._..sdi"B EJ~ heptl many years -they all returned to die pasture., where~ c.on clear-blue sky, she saw another UFO-this one
world could be visiting planet Earth. During the ago, when she was just a girl of 14 in 1958. tinued to observe the ··saucer" for several more
larger and crown shaped.
recent 50th Anniversary of an alleged crash of a It was on a clear, sunny day that Gilmore and minutes.
''The craft was hovering, it was slightly tipping
flying saucer at Roswell, New Mexico. we were her cousin were playing in the pastures of ''Then, it just suddenly disappeared," she said.
and rotating. and it was moving slowly away from
inundated with images and theories from the Fresno, Ohio. "It was gone."
us," she said.
media that the possibility was there. "We were out walking, we weren't looking up at That was just the first o( two incidents in
All of the occupants in the car witnessed the
For skeptics, the phenomenon of UFOs are the sky, but something made me stop, tum around Gilmore's life.
UFO, and Gilmore immediately tried to fmd what
explainable - elaborate hoaxes created by and look up." she said. In 1980, as she was traveling up lnterstate-70 in
possibly could cause what they were seeing-a
pranksters. weather balloons, normal aircraft, What she saw on that sunny day, one could say, West Virginia with two other people to attend a
hot air balloon? or something just reflected off the
astral anomalies, space debris, and even "black changed Gilmore's life forever. There was a meeting, came her second sighting. ground? 5
projects''- advanced aircraft developed in secret bright, shiny saucer hovering in the sky, in plain "We were just driving along. not paying atten
by the government. view. tion. and I just happened to look out the window," (continued on page 6)
(continued from page 5-JOURNAL SCENE. Summerville, SC-Aug. 13, 1999)
. "Your mind tries to find a rational explanation "No one really knows who's continent of the earth, have planet, and we just haven't
of what you've seen," she said. "But there was doing it," Gilmore said. ''The reports of abductions. figured it out yet. That's my
nothing." people in this country walk "In most cases, the people theory, at least."
From then on, Gilmore was a believer. around with their heads in the are confused, they don't As to why aliens, or UFOs,
"Once you have a sighting like that, you know sand for the most part. know what's happening to may be visiting the planet,
something. exists," she said. "I firmly believe we · Gilmore said people in other them. They think they are there have been many differ
are being visited by something, and I thin\c this parts of the country have having mental problems, they ent discussions: keeping
planet has been visited for thousands of years." reported becoming ill after have no control over it," she watch of what we're doing to
It was these experiences that led Gilmore to join similar spraying - colds, said. the planet, to see how we as a
MUFON. Headquartered in Seguin, Texas, upper-respiratory infections "It sounds incredible until human race are developing,
MUFON is the largest international organization and flu-like symptoms. you've studied the phenome or for some type of genetic
of its kind, with more than 5,000 members world When contacted by The non. People ask how this can experiment. Many theories
wide. The organization's literature states that it's Journal Scene, a spokesper be going on, but it can be have been discussed, but as
an international scientific organization composed son from the Charleston Air going on. humans, there is just no way
of people seriously interested in studying and Force Base denied any ''These people are not just to know for sure, Gilmore
researching the phenomenon known as unidenti involvement. winos in the street that come says.
fied flying objects by combi~g their mutual tal ''First and foremost, the Air in babbling about being Gilmore says anyone inter
ents, areas of expertise, and investigative efforts. Force and the government is abducted ... these are people ested in the serious study and
Gilmore, who's spent 10 years in the organiza not spraying anything in this just like you and me, and they research of UFOs is welcome
tion, joined so she would "be able to diScuss it area, or any other area in the usually don't want to talk to attend a meeting of
with other people and not be laug!:led at. country that I'm aware of," about it. They just want MUFON. Meetings are held
. "We try to be very scientific Sr. Master Sgt. Bob Tobias answers. at 7150 Cross County Road in
in our studies," she said. "It's said. "It's so outlandish that it's North Charleston. To attend a
a very legitimate organiza- Tobias, reviewing photo going on, but it is going on - meeting, or even to report a
tion. We have scientists, graphs of the craft and con it's a phenomenon that's hap "sighting" of your own, con
'physicists, and just regular trails, say they appear to be pening. To some people, it's tact Gilmore at (843) 688-
citizens." standard contrails left by jets. fearful, to others, they 4615.
As director of the organiza ''The contrails are caused by become more spiritual after Until then, consider this ...
tion for the state of South the hot exhaust of the engines the incident," she said. do you believe?
Carolina, Gilmore holds mixing with the cold air," he Gilmore admits that many
meetings with members, once said. UFO reports may be false.
every two months over the The aircraft in question, he "It's getting harder to distin
summer, and collects reports said, are probably large, com guish nowadays, because we
ef sightings from all over the mercial aircraft and not from have such exotic aircraft
~tate. Just recently, she said, a the Charleston Air Force now," she said. But there is
man and his niece traveling Base. Aircraft coming into still a small percentage of
from Myrtle Beach reported and leaving the base would sightings and reports that can
seeing a "triangular-shaped" not be at a high enough alti never be explained.
UFO. tude to produce such con "People in power don't
Gilmore said that there's trails. want this phenomenon report
been another phenomenon in Tobias said Charleston is ed or believed in, because
the area recently, that has also used as a central vectoring they could lose control," she
been reported around the sight for aircraft traveling in said. ''They want to debunk it,
country and in Canada. the Southeast. The numerous ridicule it, so everybody can
According to Gilmore, dur contrails, and criss-cross pat sleep better at night.
ing a period of two months, terns, are probably caused by "I don't believe in UFOs per
and on a daily basis, she saw multiple aircraft flying into se. . . but I do believe that
white or silver aircraft flying the area. something is interacting with
at high altitudes leaving "con "It's an act of nature that the peoples of this planet.
trails" in their wake-spray those contrails are formed," What it is, I don't know. Who
ing an unknown substance. he said. they are, I don't know. This
The contrails were not those Whether the '1contrails" isn't a religion for me," she
left by normal jets, she said, could possibly be alien in said.
as they are not straight as in nature, or a secret govern As for Roswell, probably
normal jets, but appeared rip ment project, Gilmore says the most famous case of a
pled. she doesn't have a theory. But UFO incident, Gilmore says
Early in the morning, in the there have been other cases of she believes a flying saucer
afternoon and in the evening, UFOs locally. did crash in the desert of New
Gilmore has witnessed these "At one time, sightings were Mexico so many years ago.
craft, and photographed the vel}: ~~alent in this area," "I believe it happened," she
"contrails" they leave - she said. There's even one said. "I believe a lot of the
someti~es straight lines, rather famous case of a man technology we have today
sometimes in rather elaborate from the Lowcountry who was back-engineered from
criss-cross patterns. reported alien contact several that crash, and other crashes
"It's a project of some sort," years ago. Two different that happened during that
Gilmore said. "It could be a. books were written on the time."
weather-altering program, or man's story. Gilmore said, The report of crop circles
possibly biological spraying." which included a tale of being
around the world, Gilmore
After several hours, she abducted by aliens.
said, is further evidence of
said, the contrails will dissi Gilmore said she has met
alien visitation. Although
pate. A clear, blue sky will hundreds of people who
some crop circles have beer.
soon appear cloudy from the claim to have been abducted.
hoaxed, others are legitimate,
affect of the contrails dissi although she does not recall
· and have been unexplainable
pating, she said. In other parts being abducted herself.
through scientific study.
of the country, these craft, "It's a world-wide phenom
"I think this is a message of
which appear to be jets, are enon ... ifs everywhere," she
sometimes seen in conjunc said. Perhaps millions of peo some sort," she said. "Ames
tion with white and silver ple. in every country on every sage for all the people of the
"orbs" - possibly UFOs.
6
HERALD, Provo, UT - July 11, 1999
Cl e encounters
Something's going on at Area 51 but no one's talking
nearly to Tonopah, 50 miles wide
By PAT CHRISTIA!'I
and 100 miles long.
The Daily llc1.dJ
Inside is Nellis Air Force Range,
RACHEL, 1\IEV.-Heading Nevada Test site, and Indian
down a dirt road out of Rachel, Springs Gunnery Range.
Nev., 115 miles southwest of Cedar On the Air Force Range is
City, no flying marked Groom Lake and that's
saucers were hov where Area 51 is
ering over me yet I thought it's curious supposed to be, if
c::.r,J lltaJ11.L been it really exists.
that whatever is going
shot dead, either. Untouched
I was searching on at Area 51, there A plume of
for tokens of the desert dust
forbidden top are a lot of people stretched out in
set'ret Area 51, with ties to Utah and the drawn-out dis
where guards are tance behind me.
authorized to kill even Provo who know An expanse
you just to keep extended if front
you from seeing the answer to different of me.
what you're not pieces of the Area 51 I might as well
supposed to see. been driving on
Mystery flying puzzle. the moon, because
much of the
machines have
--------------·· stretch I was driv-
been secretly test
ing seemed
ed here since the
untouched by human intervention
1940s, including the U-2 spy plane
except for the road itself.
starting in 1955.
I thought it's curious that what
The U-2 was so secret it was not
ever is going on at Area 51, there
initially flown by U.S. Air Force
are a lot of people with ties to
pilots, but by Central Intelligence
Utah and even Provo who know
Agency pilots like Gary Powers,
the answer to different pieces of
who were suppose, to kill them
the Area 51 puzzle.
selves rather than risk divulging
But they are sworn to secrecy.
secrets.
Most of these Utah-connected
Powers eventually cracked-up
people don't live in Rachel, a 20-
his U-2 in the former Soviet
mailbox rural town on Route 375,
Union.
sometimes called the loneliest
But he couldn't bring himself to
stretch of highway in the country.
chew the fatal pill he was sup The road now has a new name
posed to swallow if captured and that shows Nevada has sense of
there was an international scan humor about UFO rumors.
dal. It's now known as the
The rumor today is that the lat Extraterrestrial Highway, named a
est top-secret reconnaissance plane few years ago in a ceremony that
at Area 51 is the supposedly included actor Jeff Goldblum.
wedge-shaped Aurora. Signs even include drawings of
There are even people like Joe flying saucers. PAT CBRISTIANflbe Daily Herald
All aliens, all the time: A bookstore in Rachel, Nev., housed in this trailer, sells
and Pat Travis who run the Little The Utah-connected people live
A'le'Inn (pronounced alien) at at Alamo, a town 25 miles from UFO-related materials.
Rachel who say close encounters of Rachel founded in the 1800s by Mormons are in the majority. All its windows are painted dark
the third kind have been happen Mormons. It was interesting that when I so you can't see who is or isn't on
ing at nearhy Area 51, with alien Many young men who attend visited at the LDS chapel, no one I it.
UFOs and visitors from other church here graduate from asked admitted to working at Area It picks people from Alamo up in
world being studied. Pahranagat Valley High School at 51. a remote place and drives until it
Look at most maps and you will Alamo and then go to BYU. Yet almost. everyone I talked to disappears into the desert each
never see "Area 51" marked on it. Many find work elsewhere after volunteered that their friend or day.
But you will see a shaded area graduating, but some return with relative works there. The driver has two or three chil
marking restricted government air various academic degrees, and like "A member of our bishopric dren who live in Provo or else
space. some of their parents, start work works out there," a member of the where in Utah County and he fre
The segregated area is basically ing at Area 51. congregation told me. quently visits Provo to attend the
a swath starting north of Las There are few non government One member of the Alamo Ward
Vegas and running northwest jobs in Lincoln County, where even drives THE bus.
temple, a relative of his told or might not be going on Vick hinted that was actu Vick he said if such a place
me. there. ally true bec2.use that's not exists there are no flying
Air Force Maj. Jeff Vick, I heard abqut him while what any area that might be saucers or aliens. only the
whom I met at his trailer in munching down an alien near Rachel might be official developing and testing of so
Rachel, said there are practi burger at the Little A'Le'Inn. ly cal1ed by government called black projects.
cal reasons for workers at Gayle Williams, a waitress, The officer said it's getting
Area 51 keeping a low pro told me he was worth talking more difficult to fly test mis
file. to if I wanted to know more sions ;without foreign satel
The dark windows also about Area 51. lites snooping in.
protects workers, he said. She didn't know much her "All the missions have to
Vick told me if too many self, she said. But Williams County: Lincoln (Nevada) be flown at night," he said.
people know who works said she thought at least Getting there: 1-15 to Cedar He spoke hypothetically of
where, it could be viewed as secret flying machines are City; Route 56 west to state an underground runway with
a security threat and end up being~, tested there. line; Route 319 to Caliente; a shorter above-ground run
costing the worker their job. Vick had his head under Route 93; Route 375 AKA out where aircraft can actual
the hood of his truck when I Extraterrestrial Highway. ly take to the sky.
The enigma drove up to his small house Climate: Hot in summer, cold in I doubted that.
Vick was a enigma. trailer with an array of winter. "Everything might soon be
He told me he was an Air antennas and a satellite dish Comments: Stop for lunch at relocated to Utah," he sug
Force engineer somewhere in on top. Little A'Le'lnn (pronounced gested.
the swath. And he could be "Are you J~ff?" I said. Alien) and chew on an alien But talking to Joe Travis
risking his capeer talking at "That's me,)' he r:eplied. burger or other faire. last week of rumors of a move
all. I told him I was a reporter to the Beehive State, he said,
He wouldn',t actually say from Provo, Utah, there to "No way!" 7
he Yweot rhkee do paetn Alyr etaa l5k1e.d , albeit res"eTahrechre fiosr nao sAtorreya. 51," he winogr ktheersre w. ho might be work (continued on page B)
in circles, about what might said. Speaking in hypotheticals,
(continued from page 7 - HERALD, Provo, UT - July 11, 1999)
· PAT CHRJSTIANfThe Daily Jierald
Small town: Count these mailboxes, factor in a few spouses and kids, and you have an idea of how big the town of Rachel, Nev., is. Some
of the population here works at Area 51, where top-secret military work is carried on - but no one talks about it.
At his Little A'Le'Inn, he those who are authorized photograph something actual secretive-looking checkpoint well-trained, highly-technG
rubs shoulders with workers through. ly associated with the than this one. Iogically agents working w-ith
coming from and going to Nearby was a white restricted areas. This one had a different the CIA or some other secari
Area 51 and while he says Fiberglass air conditioned And he had offered me feel about it. It had the feel ty or intelligence agency.
they never tell him anything pod with a white Jeep directions to the checkpoint. ing of something more secre Something important is
even when they drink too Cherokee parked next to it. Somehow I had confidence tive than a military installa going on beyond that chec:Ji.;.
much, he still has a feeling It had windows, but I in Vick telling me I could tion. point in the Nevada desert·
there is no move to Utah in couldn't ~ee in. I neverthe photograph the checkpoint Turning and starting to besides an aerial gunnery
the works. less, felt confident there without being arrested. drive away, I noticed in my range.
The longer I talked in were armed security guards He has said they used to rear-view mirror three men in It's a bigger mystery thilil.
hypothecticals with Vick, the watching me. arrest people for that. But he short pants exit the pod and that.
more I wondered if his job Nearby signs read said a subsequent court deci motion with their raised How about some of you
with the Air Force isn't really "Warning, Restricted Area," sion had interpreted the sign arms. brothers from Alamo, e-ms•l
to spy on others in Rachel "Warning U.S. Air Force as meaning you can't photo I immediately stopped and ing me or when visiting Pwoc.Nc
and to deal in harmless truth Installation," and they graph from the. restricted waited, until I figured they were drop off aplain-brown env8-'
and disinformation. warned "the use of rlPadly area but can if you are out just waiving good bye to me. lope cluing me in. And as
Finally· down the road I force is authorized." side the swath. These guys were not mili Connie Chung said, we won't
could see the end of the line A final sign said, I've been to many military tary security and I doubt they tell anyone.
for me. "Photography of this area is bases including the chemical were civilian rent-a-cops.
In a desolate valley, I halt prohibited." testing facility at Dugway They had a look about 8
ed at a stop sign bolted to a I started taking photo Proving Ground. them I had seen in VietnaM
horizontal pole that could be graphs of the signs and pod. Almost always I have gone with American Spooks whf'
raised or lowered to allow I had told Vick I wanted to through a more open, less- were not military, but were_
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'·top· secret military base to hide we're. in a good situation for
Paul on the UFO trail sophisticated UFOs, a leading communication with London,
academic has claimed. the US and Western Europe."
Ron Halliday, chairman of Mr Halliday claims the vil
Scottish Earth Mysteries Re lage ofMachrihanish could hold
search (SEMR), said large areas one of Scotland's secret bases.
Series of rural Scotland might have The airfield close to the vil
been used by the military to lage was once an important
' ... I think store sophisticated alien life Nato air base. Over the last few
of strange away from the public. years locals have reported see
someone, He said research suggested ing flying saucers and other
sightings secret bases were in operation to unexplained phenomena.
somewhere experiment on extra-terrestrial Mr Halliday, who has been
technology, such as crashed investigating paranormal activ
in area
has UFO discs, in a similar way to ity for 20 years, said:
the American Area 51 in the "Machrihanish would be an
By LANA BEST heart of the Nevada desert. ideal spot from which to operate
Someont: leaning out of technology He claimed one such com aircraft technology that the
a window smoking a ciga pound could be located in Ar Government wanted to keep se
rette, two ex-airforce J>t:r beyond our gyll where a cret, including de
former Nato base vices allegedly
snnnd and a pt:rson stand
already exists. developed from
ing in a driveway talking
to a friend are among more own... ' The top-secret captured alien
Area 51 is be discs.
than 30 Western ViCtoria
lieved by some to "It's definitely
residt:nts who have: rt: ings are but they're broken house a base for possible, even
portt:d seeing a UFO on down easily." testing alien probable, that the
!Hh June about 5.35pm.
spacecraft. latest in aviation
Described by most as Mr Norman said his Set in the mid technology has
being cone-shaped with a most memorable and dis dle of the Nevada been brought to
long white tail the sight turbing case study was desert, the key Machrihanish. It's
ings are what brought Vic investigating thc disap military installa not easily acces
torian UFO Research So pearance of a pilot in tion is officially sible and so is
ciety investigation officer 1953. an air force base • Ron Halliday protected from
Paul Norman to Ararat on and nuclear test- . .. controversial prying eyes."
Monday as he traces a trail A pilot from Ken Ross ing site. But yesterday
of startled and curious Airforce Base detected an The base was made famous locals living at Machrihanish
sky-watchers who at the unknown object on radar by the film Independence Day, said they were sceptical any
time didn't realise many when it became the nerve centre alien activity. was taking place
and then closcd in to see a
other people were observ for the battle against invading on their doorstep.
ing a strange object. flying object which caused aliens. But Ministry of Defence They say the village, which
Such was the accuracy pa lalonte oafn dst atthiec -objebcott hw ethrte: oanffyic iaslusc dhe nbieads et hef oerx ishteonucsei nogf hkanso wa np opfourl attihoen ollfi2g0h0la,n ids sb eattnedr
of the reports which
flooded first a meteor v1siblt: on radar for 20 aliens. Islands Airport .and its golf club
ology facility near Sale seconds, then both disap Mr Halliday's controversial than any close encounters with
and then the answering peared. views are outlined in his new the alien kind.
machine at the Society book, UFO Scotland: The Secret One woman at the golf club
headquarters in Moorabin, Victorian UFO Research Society investigation officer Paul Norman Soon after Mr Norntan History of Scotland's UFO Phe said: "I doubt this is happening.
tbheaetn a mdiasptipnecdt pbayth hMasr with the folder full of UFO sighting reports. dwiasas ptpoelda raendo twhehri lpci loftl yhinagd cnooumnetns oonf, cwlohsiec he ndcoocuunmteernst so vace r oTbhjee catisr pionr tt hme anyi gehxtp. laTihne rfely ianrge
Normam. Even then further inves over Bass Strait and ht: the last 50 years. no aliens here."
(p 'oorSltaiegcd h atniandtg sG Weweaelrromen gaam.l sboo roel , dtuiongweaxtnipo lntao i njuacbasnlte a eferwsoidg.e h tinthges owrefap sto hraet m owa:nates~ dha e tc hwaar!ab so! hnitn! cvnoecspwty sathaceyaM ds Meri mnol liDacthl leaiod t wabSyont.ois rk wli:h nhug"ogI neUis nSaaircv eoesaetrslsna iitnooydr,f nini eAMsdt ootsrDhipne oygok feohfsriamc dtie aasalnstn i nysyg aei insdUtv:eF orO"dlvWasey. em dedneo t
Surprisingly Mr igating.
Now Mr Norman wants Nornmn's background is land where any activity could be not have any such bases. And if
tAo rakrnaotw D disitdr iacnt ysopnoet sionm thet : mort: conducive to the The mystery disappear car"rTiehde soeu ta. re parts of Scotland ownel ya rien ttearleksitn wg ea bhoauvte UisF iOn sh othwe
tthhein gsa umntu: snuiaglh itn. the sky on oa ceaNna, vnyo t tchaer esekry , dwuhei ctoh aFnrcede eroifc k2 E0v-yaeleanr-toiclhd mpiolroet wbehcearues ep aecocpelses jius ssto ndeifvfeicr ulvti.s it tihmepira cpt roeuser ndceef enwcoeu oldf tahlele UgeKd liyf
bought him from America than 20 years ago while "ET flying discs could be they were to exist."
I k said anyone can call to Australia in 1941. flying his Cessna 182L
him on his mobil.: 0412
12Y 3 19, while he's travel Before joining up Mr aircraft to King Island off 1-- -----------------------
ling around. Norman was on the Nat Tasmania has gone down
ional Investigation C'om in the history books as one
"It set:ms that the ob mittt:e on Aerial Pht:nom of 20 strange aircraft dis-
ject was viewed at its enon in Tennt:st:e. appearances around tht:
doses! not far from Ararat STANDARD, Warrnambool, Victoria,
saatipbnoaldner s ko tsoon f etd hfeptl:sey crUisrnioFgbnO e wifonoacfusflr u edsvietnthc:gne dgmroaew"naAnyt ubispgatenr oacdlop iulae nt lhtorehoy ok wleodduii tntlhbigk a neco ikatt ownoT rlhder.a dpiiol ot'sw elraes t w"othrdast AuUstrFaliOa - Jgulyr o20u, 1p99 9 trCaR: cP. kNsorm an
body," ht: said. really appealed to me," he strange aircraft is hovering
said. on top of me again, and it
not· 'hRaevep:o ar tvs aipnoduicr attrea iilt, dbiudt enon which causes car countryside this week. "Ex-servicemen from is not an aircraft . " strange sighting
rather a light trail which ignitions to conk out and But it's something Mr America were invited to
could be an energy beam power lines to fail - an Norman is used to. settle in Australia after the
ocbhrfia "gsnTohgmth eee wc okhliliignotehdu tr. tashnerdeo mulgoehod k ettdoo .in:nxegcpMstee.rr"d i e Nnwocenit uha noU ftwFeOans sqiucgoihcntk SiinnwgvF eeodsrte icng4o,a5 vt ietnyhrgeien a grUUs KFhO,eN 'osC srhwibgieanheyatn ,, dlwi:o-:aw.rt" h ayanetda'sr saw ltthoh aogtu eIgt dhoe rictg iatdoneoidsk e toda ".§~ JrUeuVFpnOioecr tt8iosn.r vioaefns ati UgsaFtrtOoanr sgR eae rsseei ag"rhicnthitnr igSg ouacecidreo"t ysbs y pV uaib csltieocrr iieraes loaon f
yivneigel"w loAewo rns ew toca thsiooo.rwn"d f oigftc: t lhodts:t e:pc oennthdee cbtohi gap sionesi i negftavh coettiru nytig tt l hitgtaaohtk teh distn:r aadtg hof eta: hissrinklmyy't ZAbuimmtA ebtsr aiifncbircawse tae n,ir tde tw iAraesum spteranartltN i athoi.m ret'hes UbyF B"OeIuxs tt cr-ada-not eetsorh rneehl syett yribspaaeelyls i ?ge tuvhiead te indI ·<ic;gi:(ai, z0Ecca : yHwtieToeesne htkswee r itodrloflea fpfyivoco lietlrsrooti sw tP c iaHoununpdolt ir iscsNniahguotaheerm t mihan iagaslno ns rn.dwe g va Mioseb wiijlned couWtfr watah raelrsan traseemirpg bohtorthetoisdsl.
sshpaaprkeidn g aotb jienctte rvaslhs,o wanedd arewmaoyt e frcoomun thryis Vhicotmorei a.i n ttiamkeen boans isth. e job on a full wthhinekre hsaosm teecohnneo, logsyo mbee t) cL atrbaovuetl l5in.3g0 pomn . a south-west arch across Victoria
these are not fire sparks From Benalla to Gee He estimates only I 0 yond our own, and that > IX: Its route indicated it would have crossed the
but more like static elec long to Halls Gap, the percent of reports cannot sightings in New Zealand () shore east of Portland. Mr Norman said there
tncity or an electro collation of inforn1ation is be explained by everyday and midwestern USA be ~ had been sightings reported in Portland and
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/OS~c~=: :7_71:'1"1. 1.(.. ~ ..._,c;,.-.-,,~ hthaer"rdWe tohf oaart c crtoe:uxcnoptrl adfnionargt.i so nt ha1ts cLe~LnIi :Na! )' rabenrMpidgoo hars ttt l ooiwfnn shgtpei wtraeerh skirttsiee nac gcroo, m tnoyie ne taglhlt oef trw hor-emets o fet-rahoorrenca thon. b gsjeeo ccmti.e itdys eisc ttihone
0~~~ Alexander the Great's IX: ..;.:.,, "It was sparking like static electricity which
A closer view from a witness produced this drawing army was panicked by >UJ indicates some form of electromagnetic effect,"
!lying shidds?" 0 Mr Norman said.
li~~ . r~jJ~~ 1~1 "Investigation of UFOs < "It has got us intrigued. It has some of the 1 0
is a serious business and characteristics that tie in with other cases,"
n1any people don't realise "I've been on the road since this happened. We
it's not always nonscnsc haven't identified it yet." The society can be
One of many witness drawing of the UFO - t•f t."lllltW ruauv ''-'P'-•tt- contacted on 0412 129319.