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Until now, whatever we knew about space came filtered to us via NASA. The only photographs of the Moon and solar system we saw were the ones that NASA deigned to let us see. The only data we were permitted access to was data that had been scrubbed and sanitised to make it palatable to a largely disinterested (er… did somebody say ‘ignorant’?) population.

We knew only what NASA wanted us to know, and probably a whole lot less even than that.

So we can only imagine the fear and trepidation that NASA must be feeling now that India, Japan, and China have embarked on independent space exploration.

Previously restricted to hurling only communication and spy satellites into space, these countries have finally realised what a resource they have sitting on their respective launching pads. All three countries have recently sent probes to the Moon, and NASA must be literally peeing in their pants wondering what kinds of 'secrets' the world is poised to discover.

Japan's Kaguya spacecraft (see page 15) has sent back some rather unexpected images of 'skylights' on the Moon -- images that the Japanese government has kindly shared with the world. After all, Japan has nothing to hide. These 'skylights' are perfectly round holes in the Moon's surface, and it's theorised by the scientists working on the mission that they lead into tunnels.

What was that, you say? Surely NASA has photographed these 'skylights' before now, given the billions of dollars and forty-odd years they've expended photographing the Moon ad infinitum, and in painfully meticulous detail? Well, yes, they have, but we haven't been allowed to see those images. (Although, as I'm sure many readers know, Richard Hoagland identified these, and hundreds of other lunar anomalies many years ago.) If anybody out there doubted that NASA had a secret agenda, they surely cannot hold those doubts any longer.

So now that NASA has lost the monopoly on space travel, can the people of Earth look forward to learning more about space and our nearest neighbours than ever before?

Yes, we can. But wait -- there's more!

Now that (ridiculously wealthy) people can buy trips into space, and with hotels soon to open up in orbit around the Earth, it will be difficult for any space-faring nation to keep secrets from the public. I have no doubt that the billionaires that paid for trips on the space shuttle have had to sign legal waivers, but non-government-funded space tourism agencies aren't likely to care much about that kind of thing. I'm sure the proprietors would consider that if, during their stay, customers made contact with an alien civilisation, it would be a publicity bonus!

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ocToBer- novemBer 2009 Brisbane, October 3 2009 I was sitting out on the trampoline enjoying a warm can of beer when all of a sudden everything became very bright and I was confused. "Who's there?" I exclaimed. I asked if it was my son Benjamin playing a trick on me, but I realised that he was inside playing with his toy trucks. The light left me feeling very disoriented and circled the yard before disappearing into the night. It was quite an irregular occurrence. In my many years of research on caves and the stars (I am a spelunker/astronomer), I have never seen anything so bizarre.

Goodna, Friday October 23 2009 11.15pm I saw something strange in the sky tonight above Goodna in Ipswich. It was moving very slowly and appeared to kind of hover over Goodna before it eventually moved on a bit faster in the direction of Brisbane.

It was hard to see the shape of the actual thing, but it had three lights, a red one on one side, then a gap, a green one on the other side, also with a gap to the centre part, and the middle had a rounded panel of bright clear lights. When I opened my car window to have a closer look it almost looked a bit triangular, almost like a fighter jet but with a rounded nose. It was just very weird how it looked and moved.

this thing flying for about four or five minutes.

Boronia Heights, Monday November 1 2009, 10.00pm Approximately four to six weeks ago I saw something in the night sky I can't explain...and last night I saw it again. I have attached pictures of it for you [below]. Here goes...

When I first saw it weeks ago, at first I thought it was a plane or hot air balloon on fire, but it was absolutely silent. It did not have any wings or tail or lights, and it was moving incredibly slower than any plane or "meteorite" I have ever seen. As it got closer I could clearly see it was an almost perfect circular shape, except for an occasional and very, very slight and momentary change in shape that was the visual result of the glow coming from within it. The "burning" appearance was almost phosphorescent-looking, and it looked like it was radiating intense heat.

The best I can describe it is to say it was like a flare -- except it wasn't falling, it was travelling very slowly in a horizontal direction through the air, and it was a mixture of bright oranges and reds -- not blues or greens like a flare and, like I said, it wasn't falling and it didn't "burn out".

Visually, it was about the size of a 10 cent piece when closest.

It appeared from the south, moved slowly in my direction until it was almost directly overhead, and then moved away slowly in a west/south-westerly direction, but its change in direction was so slow, I couldn't see it was moving away until well after the change in direction was made.

The first sighting (four to six weeks ago) was approximately 7.30-8.00pm at night.

When I saw it again last night -- and it was exactly the same as the first time in every detail -- it was about 10.00pm at night. And here's the thing -- last night it followed the exact same path it took the first time!

Surely someone else has seen it!? I live in Boronia Heights, in the Logan area of Brisbane. Can you please tell me if you know of anyone else who has seen it and/ or what it might be??

I am now armed and ready with my video camera and I will send you anything I can get.

[UFORQ has not received any other reports of this object, so if anybody out there has, please let us know - Ed]

Townsville, November 1 2009, 8.50pm At around 8:50pm I took my daughter into the backyard and whilst looking up in the sky I saw what at first I thought was just a bright star, but then I saw it was moving. This object was initially slow and I think it was not a satellite (as most of the satellites I have seen are between 6.00-8.00pm and are not very bright).

This thing was like a big star. It was travelling from the west towards the east, and then it started moving very fast towards the south. I would say I saw

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Glowing orange sphere photographed over Boronia Heights on November 1 2009

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Gympie, Tuesday November 5 2009, 9.15pm

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I would like to report a sighting of a UFO which occurred on Thursday the 5th of November 2009 at approximately 9:15pm. The sighting occurred over the town of Gympie Qld. The UFO was a boomerang-shaped formation consisting of an arrangement of four large bluewhite lights. I could not discern any mass between the lights. The flight path was from south to north.

The UFO was completely silent, its speed would be at least five times that of commercial aircraft that fly over Gympie regularly. I also felt that the altitude of the craft would be about 5,000 metres, but it was hard to get this accurate.

This is not my first sighting over Gympie as on another occasion I saw a large formation of lights, possibly one very large craft, or a formation of many craft.

The UFO or UFOs were at very high altitude, making it very difficult to get any perspective. In my estimate though I do think that it was more likely one craft, as the light formation remained constant throughout the sighting of no more than one minute duration.

In July 2008 (I can't remember the day exactly) at approximately 8.30pm, I was standing in my backyard (Scarborough, Qld) smoking a cigarette and looking up at the night sky. It was a typical night for me, I often stared at the sky for hours watching the planes, satellites, shooting stars etc, however that night, as I looked up into the sky, a bright white light caught my attention. At first I thought it was a star but soon realised that it was growing in size as it descended towards the earth.

I thought that perhaps it was a jet in trouble and thus falling from the sky? I started to doubt that theory when the light (a sphere) stopped moving and hovered in the sky. It was bigger and brighter than any other light I had seen.

In that moment six (6) spheres of light (smaller yet just as bright) separated from the larger and flew in two directions both left and right of the main sphere.

They moved so quickly that it was impossible to see exactly where they went. As I returned my attention to the large sphere of light it disappeared within the second. The other six lights had either disappeared or as I suspect, looked just like stars in the sky.

It was truly the most amazing thing I have ever seen! Since that day I have been watching the sky every night and early morning for hours, and during the last 18 months I have seen many unusual sights. I have seen at least eight different unexplained lights. The most

Bardon, November 20 2008 (reported October 2009) Did anyone see a strange aircraft (dark triangle shape) fly over the Bardon area in Brisbane going northeast during the height of a very heavy rain storm about 1.00-2.00am (approx) on the morning of Thursday 20 November, 2008 (we got about 8 inches of rain in 2 hours).

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Brad began investigations by researching the history of locations to find logical answers as to why these places had a reputation for being haunted.This approach was also incorporated into researching UFO sightings and other paranormal events creating a credible reputation with regular requests for Brad to consult for the Film and Television Industry on all matters of the paranormal.

common being a bright flash of light that traverses the sky in an unusual pattern (or with no pattern at all). They are there one minute and gone the next.

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Canungra 2005, reported October 2009 This report may be a little old but it's worth a mention.

I have been an avid believer in UFOs since I was a radar operator in the R.A.N from 1965 to 1974 and I operated the most sophisticated radars available to the Australian Navy at that time onboard the Guided Missile Destroyer HMAS Perth.

During this time I and many other radar operators on my watch used to track UFOs, and watch them perform incredible manoeuvres in the sky. When we reported them to our officer of the watch he would say 'well what the f--- can we do about them'!!!!

My story is as follows:- My wife was working in the front yard garden of our farm at Canungra on a beautiful February morning 10.15am in 2005. She asked me to take a photo of a little green frog balancing precariously on a large elephant ear leaf, so I grabbed my Canon SLR and continued to do so. After I had finished I said that I would walk around the side of the house and see if that green snake (for want of a better word) was hanging around. As I was proceeding something

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caught my eye in the sky, and to my amazement I was witnessing an incredible sight.

These fantastic balls of white light were dancing around in the sky and then, to my astonishment, they would all join up together forming one large fuzzy blob with a red tinge around them, and then break apart forming (what my description is) a string of pearls, but not attached, then would fly apart again as if playing tag with one another.

This was when I realised I had my camera.

I managed to peel off three photos walking towards them when they formed up altogether again, and a cloud enveloped them and unfortunately they all disappeared. That's the way it happened. I rang the Beaudesert Times to see if anybody else had reported anything, and after I had the pictures developed I contacted The Beaudesert Times again and they sent out a cub reporter "Lisa Owen." She put my story into the Beaudesert Times on Wednesday March 9th 2005.

Launceston, August 2008, reported August 2009 I have just stumbled on your site and would like to report a UFO sighting about one year ago.

It was about 10.00pm when I spotted a UFO. I jumped up off the couch and shouted out to my wife to "come and look". I opened the back door and we both saw it. Afterwards I said to my wife, "see, I told you it was true, I told you so"!

It lasted maybe five seconds from the time first I spotted it. Now I already know UFOs are real and they exist. I have been a witness to these things here in Launceston a number of times but never quite like this. The other times were manifested by "hummings" around 3.00 or 4.00am on ultra-still and "no weather nights". And on two other occasions dancing lights and still lights with no logical understanding of it.

What was unusual in this case is the direction it was travelling. We are in the city (more like a town) of Launceston in Tasmania. The direction of travel was west to east, not the direction of aircraft.

Also it appeared very low and had a bright light which looked nearly as big as a tennis ball. It had a red dot-like light at the back (if that is the back). Suddenly it appeared to gain extreme speed and it was like someone turned a dimmer switch down and off and then the red light disappeared. I say 'appeared to gain extreme speed' and I am sure that was the case, but it was so straight and precise and sort of supersonic, so accurate it was a bit mind bending.

Eatons Hill, 2005 (approx.), reported August 2009 It was some time between 2004 and 2006 in either Summer, Autumn or Spring (I remember it wasn't cold), and I was living at Eatons Hill in Brisbane. Myself and two people I was living with saw some UFOs one night. We were facing towards Samford and a series of orange oval glowing shapes cruised across the sky from left to right. There were about 5-8 of them

in a row, roughly in line with each other.

They moved across the sky in basically a straight line. There was no detail and no sound, just an orange glow, and they looked just like orange street lamps, but far away and up in the sky. A few minutes after the lights passed, another set of about four came across the sky along the same path as the first bunch. To me it looked like they were all separate UFOs and not two big UFOs. Then about a month later I was driving in Bridgeman Downs at night (which is near Eatons Hill) along a street that had street lamps, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed that one of the "street lamps" was not passing by like the rest. I looked up and saw a UFO, which looked exactly the same as the ones I had seen a month earlier, but there was only one.

I got to the house at Bridgeman Downs and ran inside to tell my family. They all came outside and saw it -- it was floating around the patch of sky in our view. It was orange, oval, no detail, no sound -exactly the same as the other UFOs. My dad is a huge skeptic and he got his binoculars out and we all had a look at the UFO through the binoculars, but it looked exactly the same as it did with the naked eye -- no detail, just a glow that looks just like an orange street lamp.

I can't remember how they all disappeared, I think they just faded out as if they were flying upward into space.

I don't know why these stories are never on the news, I couldn't have been the only one to see it as it wasn't late at night so a lot of people would have been awake.

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the story of North Queensland, 1962-1963 I have recently found your site and after reading a number of the reports have decided to tell my story.

At the time that this occurred I was either 14 or 15 years of age, so it would have been 1962 or 1963, and I remember it was quite cool but calm weather so I think it was probably around May. At that time I had no idea that the term UFO existed -- perhaps it didn't then, but I realised a few years later that what I had experienced was not unique as a number of people that I have spoken to over the years have had more unusual experiences than I have.

In those days my parents often worked till late afternoon on their property and occasionally would return home after dusk, but seldom much later. I attended high school and would return home on the bus around 4.30pm, usually before my parents, and so it rested with me to light the {wood} stove and boil the kettle, and if they were quite late I would also start preparing dinner. Such was life in the country in those days.

This particular afternoon I had become particularly concerned as my parents were a good deal later than usual, so I was sitting on the stairs and looking out towards the Range about four to five kilometres to the south in the direction that they would come, expecting to see the lights of the Land Rover. At that distance car lights {especially the Land Rovers of that era} appear as a single light.

Suddenly, around 8:30pm, the lights appeared exactly where I had expected them to at the top of the range. After a

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few minutes I realised that they must have stopped, as the lights did not proceed down the range as I had expected. It then occurred to me that the colour of the lights were more yellow/orange and a good deal larger then I expected them to be, and I remember feeling concerned that perhaps they were having problems with the lights on the vehicle.

Perhaps five to ten minutes later the light rose above the top of the range and into the sky, five to ten degrees above the horizon, hovered for a matter of a few seconds, then started moving very, very slowly. It moved at first towards my right {towards the north west}, but then started increasing in speed. In the last second before the light disappeared, it moved so quickly it seemed to leave a light trail behind it.

As the speed changed so did the light intensity, and the colour changed more towards white then with a tint of blue.

It was a matter of few seconds {perhaps ten or fifteen} after this that the Land Rover lights appeared in the same location that this object had been, and proceeded down the range and on towards town. I remember watching them all the way home, thinking about what I had seen, and by the time my parents arrived I had decided not to tell them as I thought that they would think I was crazy if I mentioned it. I tried to convince myself that it must have been a helicopter but I knew that there was no helicopter that ever flew that fast.

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When my parents did arrive they were talking about how they could see quite clearly on top of the range despite the sun having been down for a couple of hours and there was no moon out. Well, I say talking, but it was more a heated debate with dad saying that there had to be something to cause it while mum was suggesting that he needed to go see a "head doctor". This prompted me to tell them what I had seen. Both of them listened to what I had to say then pop said "I wouldn't be telling too many people that story if I was you." And that was the end of it.... at least for a number of years I told no one.

At 25 years of age I was married with a couple of children and living in the Gladstone area when one afternoon the local "white ant" man was treating our home. Because he was a friend of my wife's family I bought out a couple of beers. I can't remember how the subject came up, but he asked my wife had she ever told me of the UFO experience that she and her dad had. She replied that that was the past, it was finished, and she didn't ever want to talk about it. Of course that was like waving a red flag at a bull! I just had to know. This is my memory of the story that she told me. I later talked to her father who verified her story, but added a little more detail.

Her brother was also present but although we were good friends for a number of years I could never get him to talk about it.

They were travelling from Gladstone to Rockhampton. This would have been

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about 1966 as best I can work out from ages and other factors discussed. The roadway runs near to and parallel to the railway in the location where this occurred. They reported that suddenly they realised that the area was lit up as if it was a full moon, but the moon was not out. (To me this was eerie as it was similar to what my parents had said a few years prior.) They then observed a cigar-shaped object travelling parallel to them almost over the top of the railway, but slightly behind the car. They spoke of coloured lights which appeared as if the object had something inside it rotating, and the lights were coming out of windows -- each window changed colour as it moved, and the rate that the colour changed appeared to be related to its speed.

The object emitted a humming sound as it travelled. They slowed down to get a closer look and it slowed with them.

As it changed speed so did the sound that it made. When they stopped the car it continued on very slowly at first then sped off at high speed, changing direction as it went to cross the roadway in front of them, and then disappearing over the hills in the distance. They stated that from the time that they first saw it to the time that it disappeared was between ten and fifteen minutes. They also both stated that it took less than ten seconds from the time it started to pick up speed to when it had disappeared over the hills. I have been to the location and it is more than three miles to the top of those hills.

To travel that distance in ten seconds is an average of over 1,000 miles per hour, and that is from almost a standing start.

It came out during conversation with the "white ant" man that he and his family had had an experience with a similar shaped object, but not as close, a few years later around the Boyne River

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He also spoke of an event that happened some miles north of Mount Larcom, where a young couple investigating a fire came across a round object several metres in diameter resting on three legs at the origin of the fire.

There should be some documentation of this event as it was reported to the local police who attended. A few years later I took the opportunity to meet the young lad -- at that stage in his late 20s.

He told me that he went back to the location six months later and found that the grass had not re-grown in a rough circle where the object had been located. He told me that the police officer that attended also sighted the object. The lad explained that when he started to approach the object he suddenly felt terribly frightened and so returned to his car and went to the police station, and the local police officer went out there immediately. The lad said he returned with his girlfriend about 30 minutes later, but the object was gone and the police officer had returned to town. He said that the police officer would tell him nothing other than he had also observed it and that it was the cause of the fire.

I was also told of a repeat event near Many Peaks at the top of the Boyne River in the early 1970s near a (tungsten} mine site. An elderly gentleman (miner) became friends with a young couple {who I knew quite well at that time} from Gladstone who were in the region looking for relics, specifically old bottles around the old mine camps. When they stayed overnight at the mine they observed a number of lights in the valley, a couple of miles away from the mine. When they pointed this out to the old miner he said

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"Oh, they're there all the time. If you leave them alone they'll leave you alone".

He also told them if you try to get near them they will leave for a while then come back again. The young couple told me that they observed the lights on at least half a dozen occasions. When curiosity overtook them they found out that what the old miner had told them was correct.

I had a second unexplained sighting about 1975 when travelling over the Many Peaks range at night time. My sister pointed out a satellite that was moving very slowly. When we reached the top of the range we stopped to observe it. While watching we noted that it did not take a straight course but zig-zagged across the sky, and sometimes it seemed to retrace its path or stop still. If it had not followed such an irregular course and speed and had not changed in intensity, you would think it was a star or a very bright satellite. We were intrigued by it and spent probably up to half an hour watching until it faded into the distance before we continued our journey. The object was quite bright when my sister first pointed it out to me, and as it faded and seemed to become smaller with time, I believed that it was moving {generally} towards the west and almost directly away from us.

As you might imagine, having had a couple of unexplained experiences in my earlier years I have watched intently on many nights hoping to observe more, but so far nothing else... I have travelled a good deal over the years but I don't often talk about this subject. However whenever I do there is usually someone around who has had, or has met someone who has had, some similar unexplained experience. This suggests to me that the UFO experience is relatively common.

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FORCE In religion, a prophet is a person who has encountered the supernatural or the divine, often being one who serves as an intermediary with humanity. Historically prophets have taught people how to live within certain guidelines and warned of dire consequences if their teachings were not followed. In this way prophets have passed on valuable knowledge and provided a model of living for the human race.

This passing on of teachings has also been recorded to have occurred with beings outside the human race, in fact outside our solar system. In the 21st century visits by gods, deities, angels, etc throughout our history are being reinterpreted by some as visitations or contact with extraterrestrials. This reinterpretation has established a new context woven from the synthesis of history, science and anthropology that affords us the ability to re-examine the impact an extraterrestrial existence might have had on our planet’s history.

For example, in Graham Hancock's book, Supernatural, it's stated that that less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking.

Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as 'the greatest riddle in human history', all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers. Where did they come from? How did they appear so rapidly, and why? Could it be that life beyond Earth has been influencing our development?

Could ETs have been 'fiddling' with human evolution all along?

Some UFO researchers have suggested that ETs may be covertly influencing the

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human race to move us past a dangerous stage of our development where we've yet to learn when it's best to leave dangerous discoveries alone.

Having achieved a certain stage we can then enter the cosmic phase of our evolution where we can experience open interplanetary relations with ETs. It's also been suggested that to do this, first our society will have to undergo a transformation where our behaviour is in accordance with those more advanced than us, where a minimal benchmark in our behaviour and practices has to be

attained before we can mingle with our cosmic neighbours. But could ET be giving us a few prods along the way to keep us on track?

It's been interesting to me that during the 1950s and 60s while western civilization was undergoing a huge social transformation there was an explosion in UFO sightings around the world. Not only that but people who reported close encounters, contactees as they were called then, began speaking out adding

to that social transformation with their ET contact messages. The theme of these messages was - be at peace with each other, love for the greater brotherhood of man, value all life.

Curiously, these messages became the central feature of the contactee movement whose aims matched those of the emerging social movements such as the peace movement, nuclear disarmament, environmental movement, the green revolution, student protest movement, civil rights and the counter-culture (hippie) movement.

Other messages came in the form of warnings from the ET visitors about the planet and its environment and, if you like, they could be called the original "greenies".

Some gave warnings about the unbalanced evolution of our technology combined with a lack of spiritual wisdom. Others warned against war-like behaviour and generally the way we treat the planet and each other.

Harmony, unity and peace were the tag words, not just with other humans but with all life.

Furthermore, ET messages challenged our notions of human existence, describing their worlds as being free of war and disease, having no religion as we would understand it but rather a spiritually philosophical approach that was aligned with a natural law that still remains unrecognised by humanity today. ETs understood reality to have far more dimensions than we are currently aware and a sense of how to work within natural laws to create a harmonious way of life for themselves which was also beneficial to the greater 'universal environment'.

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Accounts from ETs of their worlds might seem utopian compared to ours, but they often explained that they had just been around a bit longer and worked a few things out, which we could do too if we heeded their advice. They held up a "handbook for dummies" on human evolution and we could use it or toss it, the choice was ours. It was vitally important to them that we did our own homework, understanding that lasting change in a society comes about when you invest in the work yourself. But perhaps that didn't prevent them from giving us a good prod when we needed it.

There's no doubt that if these messages from 'extraterrestrial prophets' had been acted on the world would be a far better place than it is at present, but one wonders to what extent these contacts with ETs might have moved us in different directions. Intriguingly, close encounter 'experiencers', as they've become known today, seem to undergo a transformation due to their experiences and some of those changes heighten their social concerns and activism. So the question arises, have these changes within them been directed by an extraterrestrial source? Has a certain awareness been injected into their psyches, and has this 'nudge' of a handful of people around the world had a flow on effect to our greater society?

To consider this further, let's look at examples of the contactees and the messages they passed on to humanity.

In contactee George Adamski's book Inside The Spaceships an ET states, "Our main purpose in coming to you at this time is to warn you of the grave danger which threatens men of Earth today. In your first meeting with our Brother here, he indicated to you that the exploding of bombs on Earth was of interest to us.

Even though the power and radiation from the test explosions has not yet gone out beyond your Earth's sphere of influence, these radiations are endangering the life of men on Earth. A decomposition will set in, in time, that will fill your atmosphere with the deadly elements which your scientists and your military men have confined into what you term "bombs".

In contactee Orfeo Angelucci's book, The Secret Of The Saucers Story, ETs says "The aggressive men of Earth want our scientific advancements. For these they would shoot our crafts from the skies.

But additional scientific knowledge we cannot give to Earth except as we are now doing in a manner perfectly in accord and harmony with cosmic law.

Already man's material knowledge has far

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outstripped the growth of brotherly love and spiritual understanding in his heart.

Therein lies the present danger. To add to the destructive phase of man's scientific knowledge is not permitted.

We are working to turn that knowledge to constructive purposes upon Earth.

Also we hope to give men a deeper knowledge and understanding of their true nature and a greater awareness of the evolutionary crisis facing them at present".

During 1965-66, contactee Daniel Fry founded an organisation called Understanding. Fry was very concerned with the peace movement. At one stage the organisation proposed to undertake a research project to study national and international Peace organizations which involved writing to the various peace groups for their literature, determining their specific purposes and approaches to peace, detailing their accomplishments to date, summarizing the research briefly and then collect it for distribution to every member of the organization.

Reading his "Understanding" newsletters that were published from 1956 to 1989, the main thread that ran through them was world peace.

These are a just a few samples of ET messages and how they manifested in the lives of those that passed them on.

These contactees did a great service to their society and in doing so faced much ridicule and rejection at the time. They died lonely and broken men, but they recognised the value in the messages.

Mark Satin, America's most public draft dodger, while jailed in the 70s, was one of the first to predict from the convergence of social and

consciousness movements that a new people were about to emerge. He wrote that, "change comes from the fringes of society, where the real beginnings, the real rediscoveries often take place. They are front and centre standing in our midst." Well, how true a prediction he might have made. Huge social reforms occurred in our society particularly in the 50s and 60s against a backdrop of UFO sightings that skyrocketed off the charts.

The reforms were enormous, lightning fast and uncharacteristic in relation to previous social development.

Messages of the contactees gave warnings about our social development and advice on how to improve our future which directly reflected the aims of the new social movements. In the Roper Report, a study undertaken in 1991, we find the group of people who report alien abduction experiences are the political social actives in our society. In the Omega Project by Dr Ken Ring, we find people who report alien abductions are transformed by their experiences to develop a strong social conscience.

There is no doubt there is a quiet revolution of values afoot in the western world with the potential to change the planet. The social movements that emerged in the 50s and 60s, contactee accounts and modern day close encounter experiencers are forcing us to confront our unrealised potential, spreading it on to our wider society like a drop of ink in a jar of water. Our buttons are being pushed, moving us in certain directions. A huge social reform is flowing on to our dealings, perspectives and approaches to others in and from different countries so we start to think of planet Earth as a global village. We are also starting to think of it as only one of many in our universe.

It appears that someone has been going to a lot of trouble to steer us in a specific direction that is closer to the ET societies that have been described to us. We could be witnessing the evidence of inspiration, prompting and even participation by members of ET societies in this 'grassroots' development. The forces prompting us might understand that change occurring without the support of 'the people at large' is fleeting at best and will not last. People have to want it and have to get involved for great changes to be permanent. At this stage what seems to be asked of us is to find the courage to cooperate with these prods instead of resisting them. That might be what we really need to do to have the best outcome for everyone concerned. The popular slogan from the Peace movement of the 60s was - If the people will lead‌..the leaders will follow. The question for us then is - Will we take the lead?

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ROYAL MARINE UFO SIGHTING Cyprus -- May 31, 1971 Philip Mantle During my time as Director of Investigation for the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) I had the pleasure of cooperating with UFO researchers and UFO research organisations in both the UK and around the world. BUFORA had many regional UFO groups affiliated to them and also used to cooperate with others on a regular basis. One such organisation was the Plymouth UFO Research Group (PUFOG) in Devon in the UK. Its chairman was Robert (Bob) Boyd and in February of 1995 Bob passed a very interesting UFO photographic case to me.

The sighting in question came from a former Royal Marine and took place while he was still serving with H.M. Forces in Cyprus.

On the 20th of April 1993, PUFOG were interviewed by their local BBC radio station..

As a result of that broadcast PUFOG were contacted by a former Royal Marine. He had been a Regimental Sergeant Major and he wanted to relate a UFO sighting from 1971.

According to Bob Boyd this turned out to be one of the best UFO reports they had ever received.

The witness in question didn’t want any publicity so his name was changed and he was simply referred to as ‘Steve’. What follows is a verbatim reproduction of his UFO sighting. He was interviewed

by PUFORG and this interview and photographs are reproduced here with permission of Bob Boyd. The photographs are copyright PUFORG.

up a new location and then the unit would have to move to me, and we would have the spaces where they all went. Shortly before 8.00pm, we drove to a new location.

There was a particularly bad piece of track on the way there and I dropped off a young marine, a policeman, and said to him to stay on this track and when the unit comes, make sure you push them towards me in the right direction. There was one place where they could make a bad turn.

Shortly after getting on the ground, I located the various places and cleared them out. About 8 o’clock-ish a very bright light appeared behind a crest maybe a thousand metres away. What it looked like initially was the headlights of a car on full beam, situated behind the hill. Because this

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I used to be a member of the Royal Marines, and we were part of a group called 41 Commando Group that was stationed in Malta. We used to depart from Malta two or three times a year and go to Cyprus for what’s called field exercises. I don’t know if you know the shape of Cyprus, but it looks something like a rugby ball laid on its side. On this particular night (31st May, 1971), we were deployed in the field. The unit deployed with Echo company on the left hand side, in other words on the west end of the island. We had two companies on the north and my unit, which was Command HQ, was due south at a place called Ghoshi Trooli. Altogether there were about 1400 men on the exercise.

At our position, we were doing what is known as a night move, and what happens is you move a Command HQ, from one place in the field to another place in the field in darkness. One of my jobs was to control that move. So I would depart, set

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and I was pretty concerned because we were in carob grove, which is dry trees and if a flare lands amongst them you’ve got major problems.Twelve men had been killed in similar circumstances. A flare started in the Troodhos forest and a large number of English troops were killed. This was years before in 1957, which was in my time.

So now when I’m in a senior position in 1971 I think I’ve got a phosphorous flare hanging above a bloody carob grove and I’m not going to be very happy. It appeared from a thousand meters, which as I said was from behind the crest but it could have been quite high in the sky. The impression I got was that initially it was quite low. My initial impression was that this object of light was about 5-10,000 feet.That’s a complete guess.

There was about 20 of us at this place, looking at this light, when we suddenly realise that it isn’t a flare and you say “well what else can it be?” The more you looked and the more people spoke, you couldn’t relate it to something else you’d seen, it was difficult to pin a label on. This was a massive thing.

It appeared to be about the size of a golf ball at arm’s length. That’s the angle we were looking at (pointing 45 degrees). You had no obvious sign of movement. The main mass of light was almost spherical but it was putting out so much radiance, it looked like nothing you’d ever seen before. All it was like, was a burning ball of light. The light was extremely bright and when I’m talking about extremely bright, I’ve never seen anything as bright in my life.

The brilliance wasn’t burning enough to burn your eyes but it was just…..awesome. The nearest I can get to it is if you lowered the sun.

And this is what I mean by a burning ball of light. The thing was that bright you see. It was like a burning orb of light, one orb of brilliance. I could also see other lights amongst it or thought I could. Not obvious lights. They weren’t like porthole lights with little people putting their heads out and waving at you. It was just what I thought [were] indications of other lights, the same colour as the main one. You had this burning ball coming overhead like that and I am seeing something, not actually a cross, but other lights roughly that shape within the centre light.

Front and back of it, especially when it was lower in the sky, you had like a vortex of movement as though you had

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was a night move with no lights, I got on the radio, gave my call sign, and told them to turn their lights off. The light just got stronger so I transmitted again, negative lights. As I’m talking this light came over the crest about a thousand meters away, and you go ‘it’s not bloody headlights it’s a flare’. I thought at first this was a mortar flare I was looking at. Mortar flares are stationary.

You fire it up in the air and the aim is to illuminate the area. They land by a parachute.The initial reaction was mortar flare

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displacement of air. In other words if a thing is moving it would push air backwards and forwards. I could see something like that.You get a lot of dust in Cyprus, especially at that time of year. Very dry dusty conditions and you get a lot of dust in the atmosphere. If you had a burning ball of phosphorous, you would have the central core of phosphorous, then the glare of the diffused light. If you were moving that phosphorous through conditions where there was dust, you would get movement, a push vortex and a vortex behind.

There was a lot of chat among the 20 men. You’re all talking about it. You’ve never seen anything like it in your life.

We are now watching this for some minutes. Remember I told you that I’d left a marine corporal guarding at the track. We all of a sudden we hear this (beats hand on table) and this guy came over the hill doing about 600 mph!! This is in full kit. And you know Cyprus is a hot and sticky place.

Anyway, he came up and after panting for a bit said ‘Can you see that?’ We said yes and he said ‘Thank Christ for that’. It wasn’t till that happened that you realised that by being in a group of people watching, it wasn’t frightening as it was if you were alone.

I mean for a Marine Corporal to disobey my orders and bugger off, then it was something. To a lone individual…..to run away from something is a serious offence, let’s not disguise the fact. He deserted the post that I had given. For a lone individual, what he saw by himself…..meant it was a bit more serious than that.

Everybody on the exercise, about 1400 men, saw the light. During this period the unit you remember, is doing a night move. As I said we had radio sets and we could hear transmissions of other people taking about the light, and at one stage the following dialogue took place between a call sign which is a unit and a commanding officer, Sunray. There was a little bit of chat about the light, then Sunray said ‘It must be a flying saucer ha ha’. They were the words he used.

We watched this for 22 minutes. We were all professional observers. I carry powerful binoculars, night glasses, and there was about half a dozen pairs of binoculars there.

Now you may think that what I was going to tell you is stupid, but the light went from ground zero and took 22 minutes to disappear out of sight of binoculars to the right of the moon. We didn’t use the glasses when the light was easily visible because it was so bright it might have damaged your eyes through binoculars.

It was when it was at height that we used the binoculars. So using night glasses leaning on a land rover, watching this light, the moon is now hanging over Dekali Garrison and the object ended up to the right of the moon.

A point I want to make is that there was no impression of speed, sound or movement.

You were looking at something that seems to drift past you. I’ve been trained for 27 years to judge distances, that’s what I’m

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paid for. But I couldn’t tell you if that was 1000 meters high, 5000 metres high, 50 mile high. I’m also a professional parachutist, so I knew distances in the air, but I couldn’t tell you how far away it was or how high. It was just something you’d never seen before. The day we saw the light was the same day that the Americans had launched one of their moon shots. I think it was the second one.

We then moved back to the barracks. When I got back to base, I wrote a complete report of everything we’d seen that night. It covered about five pages. I posted it to my

2 wife first and told her to keep the letter because I knew it was something different – and she ditched it!! The next morning, we were all talking in the mess about the light, so I rang Aquitiri and asked to speak to the station Net. Officer and I couldn’t get hold of him. The lines were burning. So I contacted my opposite number there and spoke to him. He said ‘Is it about the light we saw last night, and I said yes. He said ‘the switchboard had been jammed solid’. Then he said that ‘it was the Mariner shot (NARAS) that’s all we were watching’.

Later that morning the colonel sent for me and (we were referring to the light in general discussion) he instructed that all sub-units who’d seen it, were requested to write a report on it and anybody who had taken photos to hand them in as part of the research into this Mariner thing. And this was done. I then got to draw ammunition. I used to lodge my ammunition in a compound. Bring it off a ship, put it in the compound and draw from the army barracks. Everyone you saw would say did you see that light and you’d have a chat about it. I goes down there and was talking to the blokes about it. One bloke had come out of the mess, drunk: out of an army mess, drunk. He gets to the car park and goes to start his car and he looks up and sees what we saw and he said in seconds he was stone cold sober. He raced back into the mess goes ‘ga ga’ and they all run out to watch the light.

The Turks or the Greeks, I don’t know which but one of them, believes a light, a bright light like this, means the coming of the new Messiah. When I went for the ammo, locals worked in the ammunition dump, and one of them was telling us that his village had seen this as part of their sort of religion of Christ and that, and they all turned out and were praying in the streets, thinking that the Boss Man had arrived again. It wasn’t just a few people. It was reported in the local press so it could easily be checked I’m not giving you a load of waffle. You could dead easy get a check o it.

I started collating the reports and listening to other people talking about it.

Echo Company was on the left of the Island. Now they had observed what we had observed, maybe ten minutes prior.

So let’s say at about 7.35pm, they’d noticed this light coming from west to east, so it was coming straight towards them. This light came from west to east.

Halfway across the Island, it then turned from north to south. So Echo Company watch it coming towards them, it then comes inland, turns from north to south.

We watch it as it came over the mountain and flies south. I didn’t know they had Mariner craft that turn a right angle and then disappear. All the reports were handed in, photos and negatives and quite a lot got handed in. If you’ve got 1400 blokes in the field, you’re going to have a hundred of them with cameras, aren’t you? There was a large quantity of films handed in. I would say over a hundred rolls of film.

Weeks later it was confirmed that this was a UFO. You see what happened the first morning when the colonel asked me to get the reports, he didn’t give me a full brief. I would be responsible for running the unit and he would normally be dead straight with me. Now for some reason he had a top level meeting with his company commanders and would have discussed it with them, but he didn’t tell me the full story.

In the centre of Cyprus is a place called the Troodhos Mountains, on top of which they’ve got the most sophisticated radar in the world. They’re called golf balls because of their appearance and are maybe 300-400 feet in circumference. They used to monitor the U2 flights and long range radar transmissions.There’s a fighter base at Aquitiri and it’s a very sophisticated fighter base. On RAF bases abroad, they always have QRF (quick response) fighters burning internally.

So on an operational base you always have the latest aircraft there, ready to go.

About two or three weeks later we were off the coast of (location deleted) doing a job. I went in for my morning sherry with him and he said ‘That UFO’s been confirmed’. So I said what UFO? “Didn’t I tell you ?’ he said. I said, ‘No, but you’re going to tell me now, aren’t you?’ And then he explained that this was a UFO and it was an official job from reports, they went off and then it then came back as confirmed as a UFO. I was told this by him, that is the colonel, that during this, those ‘golf balls’ up on Troodhos had traces early on in the game. They put two Lightings up (RAF fighter aircraft), which were capable of about 1200 mph. They

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would obviously have an early interception course on this particular object, whatever it was, and they could be put alongside it.

And the way it was said to me was ‘Two Lightings couldn’t touch it’. In service parlance that means that you can up two aircraft and they could not get those planes in contact with the object.

The radar at Troodhos pinged them early, and the Lightnings went up. You never get a single plane going off QRF, you always get two. You’ve got two fighters depart from Aquitiri to investigate, told them to have a look, so they get a vector course.

They pick it up on their radar long before it’s visible, probably 5 to 600 miles away.

So the Troodhos radar would have picked it up at distance, the Lightings would be sent up to investigate it and they can’t touch it doing 1200 mph. Yet when you ask me how fast is it going, I’m telling you it is almost stationary. If it looked almost stationary, and the Lightning’s couldn’t touch it, it must have been a fair old height.

But none of the facts relate, it doesn’t fit in with anything you’ve seen before.

I would be very interested in seeing what the Lightnings saw. They would have been put up early enough by radar to get within good seeing distance to it. They all actually carry cameras on board, so they would trigger the cameras if nothing else. These would be cine cameras. These photos I’ve given you were taken by a naval publicity photographer. In the middle of the Island you had the support company, which was firing the weapons. The photographer who took these, was with that company. He was using tripods set up for night firing. It wasn’t just a hit and miss affair with a guy with a camera. This is one of the few occasions that a guy was there with a proper set of equipment, tripods, etc. This guy was photographing what I’d known as Wombats and Nobats.They’re anti-tank guns and have an open breech called venture and when the round fires, the propellant burns out the back in a big flash, so when you see them they look very dramatic. You know the gun crew, the hooded figures, the round going out, a big flash at the back. That’s what his camera was set up for.

When the light appears the guy put his camera on it and included these on the same reel of negs. And these were handed in as part of what I told you. These I imagine are the only three surviving photos of this. He handed the roll in but a couple of days later, he was in the same mess as me, gave me a set of the prints he had done. And that’s what these are. I had more photos than this but a couple have been nicked. I think I had five or six originally. When I showed them to people, I loaned them to one or two of them and possibly they kept one or two. I had about half a dozen at first. Luckily I’ve still got these. I’m well aware that it’s taken me 20 years to tell you this. Now if I was trying to do a snow job, I wouldn’t wait 20 years to tell you what I saw. I’m also no idiot. You could probably falsify photos 1, 2 & 3, by a dark room, a neon light and a clever photographer. But there is no way you

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could do this one (photo 2) which shows the lights of Dekalia Garrison, six or seven miles away.

The photos are time exposures, so don’t show the ball of light as such but its trail across the sky. I don’t know how long he left the shutter open. You can get a good idea of how bright it was. The photos also show the illuminated dust in the atmosphere as it passes through.

Lots of people who saw this are still serving.

You’ll find that the senior officers like me have gone but lots of the younger ones will still be serving.

It’s taken me 20 years to tell you now, because you don’t like getting ridiculed. I’ve told it to other people because the beauty of it is I can prove what I’m saying. Luckily I’ve still got the photos showing the horizon. There was no cover up or hush up on the base because it fitted in with the Mariner thing, but we all knew it wasn’t that. What was surprising was that it didn’t make the English press. I’ve sometimes read or heard on the radio, that someone has seen a flying saucer.

It’s amazing that on a thing like this where you’ve got, in my case, at least a thousand or more trained observers, whether they be junior or senior, all looking at the same object, and I’m talking about at least half an hour or

At the time when the photos and interview were conducted PUFORG contacted the Ministry of Defence in the UK to see if they could obtain any further information on this event. After all ‘Steve’ had told them that he collated lots of reports and photos and that later his colonel had confirmed that it was a UFO. The reply from the UK MoD was: “The files for 1971 would have been sent to the public records office a long time ago and are covered by the terms of the public records act, remaining closed from public viewing, until 30 years after the last action was taken” Of course those 30 years has now passed and in the last few years the UK Ministry of Defence has begun releasing its UFO files to the National Archives. The main man behind this is Dr David Clarke. I recently asked Dr Clarke to check to see if there was any sign of this incident in the released MoD files: “Nothing. I’ve gone through the files for that year at Kew with a fine tooth comb and would have a note of it if it was there. But as it was Royal Marines the report might have gone to the Navy and never reached the Air Staff. There are any number of reasons why it doesn’t appear in the UFO files. If they knew it was a military exercise of some description it might never have been treated as a UFO at official level. That’s the problem with following up cases like this that rely upon the memories of a single individual decades after the event”.

I don’t agree with Dr Clarke that we are replying purely on the memories of one individual. If the witness is correct then he collected numerous reports as ordered by his commanding officer and photographs as well. The fact that they are not in the released files will only fuel speculation in some quarters that the MoD has not released everything and that there is indeed some kind of cover-up in place. I’m not sure I share such an idea but I can fully understand why some researchers do support such a notion.

And what of the three photographs provided. I asked UFO photographic analyst Winston Keech to comment on them: My first pass of the photos and report look good - unless I find finer detail I would consider them genuine print copies of a real illuminated object taken with a standard lens on a tripod on long exposure. I have identified the tracks of stars in the background which should confirm the exposure duration etc. There is one effect from the forward scattered light around the object in one print that I need to explain, that is unusual - but that aside, they appear genuine ... proper report to follow.

There are a few typos in the report, which I suspect are due to phonetic interpretation of an original conversation ... nothing drastic except that the correct spelling of the RAF base is ‘Akrotiri’. I did in fact put in for detachment to that very base when I was a pilot with the RAF in the early 80’s ... along with half the RAF, as it is considered a prize detachment ... almost sea and sun holiday in fact!

3 more. Plus from different locations spread over an area of a couple of hundred square miles. You’ve got the whole small isolated community like Cyprus seeing it, and reported on their radio, their own media and yet it never got any massive press coverage over here.

I just heard you by accident on the radio and what clicked in my mind was when you said the MoD had got something on these lines. I thought I’ll tell him about the photos.

Otherwise they would have just lain there forever.

-END OF INTERVIEWThe three photos are reproduced here in full. You can see as ‘Steve’ described in photo number 2 the lights of the garrison at the bottom of the photo.

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It has always been a very strategic base for refueling and reach of the Middle East/Turkey ... and I can confirm that it was the home to the no 56 squadron, who would have just converted to Mk 6 Lightning’s (not quite as quick in climb, but with longer fuel range) from the Mk 3 model, in 1971.

Note also, that the radar referred to with 500 mile range is the hilltop radar, not the Lightning’s onboard radar - the Lightning would have only been good for less than 50 miles targeting radar range depending on model and conditions. The hilltop system would have been similar to the early Fylingdales modified ‘sage’ system.

PS: for a commissioned officer to desert his post like that would normally be considered an extremely bad/unthinkable thing ... it generally results in dishonorable discharge so to not be, speaks volumes in my opinion.

I also asked Winston Keech if he thought that the Mariner 9 launch could have been misidentified and be a possible explanation for this sighting and photographs: “I would say that it would not be possible to see the launch phase of the Mariner 9 probe from Cyprus at that time. It was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 22:23 gmt in a direct ascent and separated from its launch vehicle at 22:36 gmt (a 13 min ascent) then deployed its solar cells at 22:40 gmt. The ground observation visual range to low earth orbit height (about the separation height) would be around 300 miles max. As

this was a direct (vertical) ascent this means that the earth could only have rotated easterly by around 250 miles by that point, so at absolute best it could not be seen in more than an area from 300 miles offshore from Florida to 550 miles inland from Canaveral and +/300 miles north-south during the entire launch phase. The local launch time in Cyprus would be 23:23 to 23:36 and the probe would not be visible at all until around 20 hours later as Cyprus would be rotating away from the launch site, which is around 1/5 of the global circumference away to the west. (As it was quoted as vertical ascent therefore controlled to fly directly from the launch point towards its target - Mars, so would be flying westerly downrange at around 1000 mph by separation). I think we can pretty much rule out the Mariner probe. Presumably his ‘8 pm’ would be local time, or he would have quoted it as 1900 Zulu (as Cyprus is GMT +1 hr I believe).

And just to be on the safe side I consulted with former RAF Wing Commander Alan Turner just to see if he knew anything about the operations of the base there at the time in Cyprus and to check that the witness’s recollections were indeed accurate: “Many thanks for your article on what was observed in Cyprus - very convincing stuff.

What is impressive is the fact that the sighting was acknowledged formally as a UFO. I was involved with 56 Lightning Squadron when it returned from Cyprus in early 1974, but I don’t know if that particular squadron was there at the time of the Royal Marine’s sighting. Having

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said that, a couple of the pilots alluded to ”sightings which were weird” although they didn’t go into detail”.

Many UFO researchers will tell you that UFO sightings made by trained observers, especially members of the military, are held in high regard. They are less likely to be fooled by misidentifying known natural phenomenon, although they are not infallible of course. They are after all only human, like the rest of us.This sighting would seem to fall into that category. It seems highly unlikely that it was a misidentification of the launch of Mariner 9. If it was, then why ask for all the reports to be collected? Mariner 9 was a mission to Mars and was launched in the full blaze of normal publicity. This case has the potential to be quite unique simply by the amount of military observers involved. One would of course like to speak to more of them and as a researcher I’d like to know where within the Ministry of Defence these reports are stored, because so far they have not been released. Are they simply buried in red tape and languishing in a dusty file somewhere, or are the conspiracy theorists correct and there really is a cover-up? I for one don’t have the answers, but hopefully one day someone will.

References: PUFORG Report No: 9308.

Winston Keech (private correspondence) Dr David Clarke (private correspondence) Wing Commander Alan Turner (private correspondence)

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SCIENTISTS, SKEPTICS AND UFOLOGISTS WILL ALWAYS DISAGREE - AND IT MAY BE GENETIC

We know that the majority of scientists think evidence for the existence of UFOs is full of holes despite the high level of military and government whistleblower testimony. Adding to the weight of this disclosure is the testimony from astronauts, police, space engineers and astronomers, yet many scientists continue to remain in denial. The UFO community scratches its head wondering how it will ever get through such rigid blindness. But it may well be impossible according to New Scientist magazine (print edition 10/10/09) which dedicated ten pages to consciousness. It just may not be possible getting through such denial and the reason is it's those pesky genes that prevent new information being integrated into certain individuals’ grey matter.

In an article about altered states, and in particular hypnosis, some studies hint at our ability to be hypnotized as being deeply ingrained. "When 50 people were re-tested [for their hypnotisability] on

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the Stanford scale after a 25-year gap, their scores stayed remarkably consistent." James Horton at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville has even found physical brain differences: highly hypnotizable participants had a 30% bigger rostrum, a part of the brain thought to help focus attention. A few studies have also shown that hypnotisability may be hereditary, and some researchers -including Amir Raz of McGill university in Montreal, Canada -- are trying to track the genes involved.

Curiously, most of the scientists interviewed for the article stated they were only mediocre on the hypnotisability scale. No surprise there, since scientists tend to dissect, criticize and evaluate, which is completely opposite to a hypnotic state of mind. Personally I've found that people who make the best hypnosis subjects tend to be more right brained than others, and female. A right-brained individual will be more creative since right brained activity is associative,

synthesizing many things into one expression, whereas left-brained activity pulls apart information, breaking it down into smaller clumps of data for observation and analysis. So we have synthesis versus analysis - or more simply said, putting together versus pulling apart.

Our brain dominance plays an important role in forming our behaviour, perspective and beliefs. So those who are left-brain dominant (for want of a better expression) will be drawn to the scientific, and if a higher degree of dominance is experienced it's only natural they will go further and become a "skeptic," which is a deeper expression of left-brain behaviour. So no matter how much you try to "get through" to a skeptic it's just not going to happen.

Now we could wait and be patient until the next generation is born, but unfortunately if this is genetic then it will just keep repeating itself, so don't bother holding your breath. Darn those pesky genes!

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SA Y WHA T? SAY WHAT? October 16, 2009 Stephen Smith, http://thunderbolts.info/ tpod/2009/arch09/091016what.htm

The Large Hadron Collider has met with a few unforeseen accidents. Could they be a bizarre case of sabotage?

The LHC occupies a 27 kilometer long, circular tunnel, straddling the border between Switzerland and France. Its powerful electromagnets are designed to compress and accelerate a narrow stream of protons, split it into dual, counter-rotating beams, and then collide those beams head on. Full power to the magnets was scheduled for mid-2007, with the first collisions to begin shortly thereafter.

On March 27, 2007, one of the focusing magnets failed when a high-pressure test was conducted. A chain of events resulted in the 20-ton magnet shifting off its foundation, filling the tunnel with helium gas and dust, and causing damage to 24 other magnets.

The accident has meant waiting an additional two years until November 2009 before they will restart the system. At the time of the accident, Pier Oddone, Fermilab's director, admitted to being "dumbfounded" that they had missed a "simple balance of forces" in the design.This accident, while the most costly by far ($21 million for repairs), is not the first one visited on the LHC. The alarm systems repeatedly generate false alarms, alarm avalanches, and incorrect alarms. Major project failures have occurred, resulting in the cancelation of physics experiments. Increasingly high computer resources have been required to remove signal noise. The design is so delicate it requires extreme quiet. A 600 kilowatt cryogenic compressor was accidentally destroyed. Fires have broken out.

These and numerous other delays and annoyances have caused two theoretical physicists to write a paper suggesting a reason. No one but one of the paper's authors, Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, can put it more succinctly:

"It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck...

Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God." It is their guess, said Dr. Nielsen, "that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them." In other words, either God or some other force in the future is sending negative influences back through time, so that the discovery of the Higgs boson can never take place.

Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, are authors of several papers discussing this unorthodox theory: "Search for Future Influence From LHC," for instance.

Influences from the future attempting to prevent something from taking place in the past-our present-to ensure the creation of that future? The discovery of the Higgs boson is, according to Nielsen and Ninomiya, so antithetical to the future's existence that the future is protecting itself by causing the machines capable of finding the particle to fail or never be built.

It is not the intent of the Thunderbolts Project to unduly criticize those who earn their daily bread in the employ of University laboratories or government-backed research institutes. In this case, though, to have Dr. Nielson, one of the originators of string theory, and a respected theoretician, publish a paper that seriously considers time travel and clairvoyant effects from a pre-existing future to be a reason for the failure of machines like the LHC smacks of irony.

FOUND: FIRST 'SK YLIGHT' ON THE 'SKYLIGHT' MOON 22 October 2009 Rachel Courtland, http:// www.newscientist.com/article/dn18030found-first-skylight-on-the-moon.html

A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time. The discovery strengthens evidence for subsurface, lavacarved channels that could shield future human colonists from space radiation and other hazards.

The moon seems to possess long, winding tunnels called lava tubes that are similar to structures seen on Earth.They are created when the top of a stream of molten rock solidifies and the lava inside drains away, leaving a hollow tube of rock. Their existence on the moon is hinted at based on observations of sinuous rilles - long, winding depressions carved into the lunar surface by the flow of lava. Some sections of the rilles have collapsed, suggesting that hollow lava tubes hide beneath at least some of the rilles.

But until now,no one has found an opening into what appears to be an intact tube.

"There's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem," says Carolyn van der Bogert of the University of MĂźnster in Germany. "If it's intact, you can't see it."

Finding a hole in a rille could suggest that an intact tube lies beneath. So a group led

by Junichi Haruyama of the Japanese

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Aerospace Exploration Agency searched for these "skylights" in images taken by Japan's Kaguya spacecraft, which orbited the moon for almost two years before ending its mission in June.

The team found the first candidate skylight in a volcanic area on the moon's near side called Marius Hills. "This is the first time that anybody's actually identified a skylight in a possible lava tube" on the moon, van der Bogert, who helped analyse the feature, told New Scientist.The hole measures 65 metres across, and based on images taken at a variety of sun angles, the hole is thought to extend down at least 80 metres. It sits in the middle of a rille, suggesting the hole leads into a lava tube as wide as 370 metres across.

It is not clear exactly how the hole formed.

A meteorite impact, moonquakes, or pressure created by gravitational tugs from the Earth could be to blame. Alternatively, part of the lava tube's ceiling could have been pulled off as lava in the tube drained away billions of years ago.

Since the tubes may be hundreds of metres wide, they could provide plenty of space for an underground lunar outpost.The tubes' ceilings could protect astronauts from space radiation, meteoroid impacts and wild temperature fluctuations.

The Kaguya team is still combing over images of other areas in search of additional skylights. And Hawke says a proposal is in the works to use LRO's main camera to snap oblique shots of the lunar surface.This could help reveal cave entrances that are not visible in a bird's-eye view.

SCIENTISTS USE LIGHT TO IMPLANT FALSE MEMORIES IN FLY BRAINS http://www.popsci.com.au/science/article/ 2009-10/scientists-implant-false-memories-brains-flies

Neuroscientists have already spent the better part of a decade manipulating animal minds by using light signals to trigger genetically encoded switches. But a new study has now directly reprogrammed flies to fear and avoid certain smells, and all without the usual Pavlovian shock treatments.

The technique supposedly permits "writing directly to memory," and allowed one scientist to enthuse about being able to "seize control of the relevant brain circuits" for producing all sorts of mental states and behavior.

Researchers have discovered 12 specific brain cells that they can stimulate to implant the false memories of events that never occurred -- except in the mind, of course.

This represents just one of the latest steps in the relatively new field of optogenetics, where scientists encode genetic switches inside certain cells and trigger the switches using tailored flashes of light. The genetic switches are made from eye cells that can translate light into the electrical signals used for communication by neurons.

Plenty of past research has manipulated the minds of animals and humans alike by using more blunt methods such as electrodes

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inserted into the brain. But optogenetics has taken mind control to a new level by permitting researchers to target very specific types of brain cells by merely flashing specific light signals.

The team from the University of Virginia and Oxford University in the UK even hints that such work could eventually go beyond flies.

Their technique certainly makes the brainwashing of The Manchurian Candidate look rather coarse by comparison -- if that drama were enacted by tiny insects.

ARGENTINA: RESIDENT OF LA PAMP A STO OD PAMPA STOOD UNDER A "FLYING SAUCER" November 1 2009 http://www.popularonline.com.ar/ nota.php?Nota=421281 Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU

"I really got under the UFO and was able to see its eye."

This was the phrase that a resident of the Pampean city of Toay used to retell an experience that very few humans have had.

The event occurred 25 years ago, but the witness chose to remain silent until now. In his story,the man said that aside from walking under the UFO, he was able to see another strange craft in the same area.

Encouraged by a number of witnesses, the disclosure of the man's experience was made known by the Centro de Estudios UFO (CEUFO) within the framework of an experience that occurred to the north of the city of Toay, 10 km southwest of Santa Rosa, the provincial seat of La Pampa.

CEUFO's experts explained that the "disk" was some 12 meters in the air, suspended and in silence, according to estimates made by the witnesses who used a flagpole as a reference, which stands some six meters tall.They also added that "the experience was registered

by CEUFO on October 19 (2009) and it only seeks to illustrate the considerable number and quality of the cases that take place in that region."

As stated, the witness explained that "many people saw strange things and evil lights, but they generally kept quiet because they are afraid of being dismissed as nuts."

With regard to his sighting one night in May 1984, the witness said: "I was leaving my sister's house and I felt that something was going wrong in the back yard. I felt the sensation that something was pushing me down, or that there was a weight bearing down on me.When I reached a corner, I saw a flying saucer over the neighborhood soccer pitch, over the flagpole.The saucer took up half the street," he recalls, adding that he returned to the house and asked everyone to come out to see the flying saucer.

At that time he realised that two other locals were watching it. Their respective relatives came outside, and while some became frightened and ran back into their dwellings, others remained and discussed the event with their neighbours.

"I was there for a while and had to get home, but my path forced me to go under the flying saucer," the witness sad.

"Having overcome my fear, I plucked up my courage and started walking, while some neighbours told me to keep still, because I could be taken.

When I got to the edge of the disk, I glanced upward with some mistrust and that's when I saw its eye. At its core there was a circle that looked like the sky,but it was very bright and had a certain fog to it. I stood there watching for a little while and then decided to continue, to call my wife so she could also see it.

"I got home and we immediately went outside with my wife, but at that time, the saucer began to vibrate and vanished toward the church, which is at the center of town." The man explains that at the time, both he and other locals witnessed "another flying saucer" some 300 meters from the site, over a water tank.This object also sped toward the church.

Local residents discussed other episodes involving saucer sightings in the area. He decided to make this episode public 25 years later. "I think this information may be useful to those who go around investigating this stuff," he told CEUFO's experts.

ALIENS ON DISPLA Y A T DISPLAY AT CHINA'S UFO EXPO Michael Cohen http://www.allnewsweb.com/ page9199591.php

Recently the Chinese public was treated to an extraterrestrial extravaganza courtesy of the Government of that nation. The 'Explore Alien Life' exhibition was held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre and attracted thousands of visitors.

Those who turned up got the chance to view models of various types of aliens based on witness accounts as well as replicas of alien mannequins from the Roswell UFO museum. Hundreds of UFO pictures and short films were also on display.

Recently China has experienced a substantial UFO flap and UFO sightings have been featured in the news on an almost daily basis. Some UFO researchers believe that the Chinese government knows a fair bit more about the topic than they are giving away. Many in China's large 'UFO community' are wondering what the real point behind this expo is: perhaps China's rulers are preparing its citizens for future contact with visiting extraterrestrials?

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SP ACE SPACE HOTEL SA YS IT'S SAYS ON SCHEDULE TO OPEN IN 2012 Stuart McDill, http:// www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33579859/ns/ technology_and_science-space

BARCELONA, Spain - A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multibillion dollar project.

The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost $4.4 million for a three-night stay at the hotel, with this price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island.

During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes.They would wear Velcro suits so they can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.

Galactic Suite Ltd's CEO Xavier Claramunt, a former aerospace engineer, said the project will put his company at the forefront of an infant industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecast space travel will become common in the future.

"It's very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space," he told Reuters Television.

A nascent space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction underway in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.

British tycoon Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to propel tourists into suborbital space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.

Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod in orbit 280 miles above the earth, with the capacity to hold four guests and two astronaut-pilots. It will take a day and a half to reach the pod which Claramunt compared to a mountain retreat, with no staff to greet the traveler.

"When the passengers arrive in the rocket, they will join it for three days, rocket and capsule. With this we create in the tourist a confidence that he hasn't been abandoned.

After three days the passenger returns to the transport rocket and returns to earth," he said.

More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved.

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But critics have questioned the project, saying the time frame is unreasonable and also where the money is coming from to finance the project. Claramunt said an anonymous billionaire space enthusiast has granted $3 billion to finance the project.

IN TEST OF WATER ON MOON, CRAFT HITS BULL'S-EY E 'S-EYE October 10 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/science/ space/10moon.html?_r=1&ref=science

Scientists who slammed a bus-size projectile into the Moon on Friday, hitting exactly the spot they were aiming for,say it will take weeks to figure out what they did, and did not, see.

More than 230,000 miles from Earth, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite hit a bull's-eye - two, actually - on the Moon. But the initial images at least, both from the spacecraft and telescopes on Earth, failed to capture expected plumes of debris rising out of the impacts.

At 4:31 a.m. Pacific time (7:31 a.m. Eastern time), one piece of Lcross slammed into the bottom of a crater, excavating hundreds of tons of the Moon.Trailing four minutes behind, a second piece sent its observations back to Earth before it also slammed into the same crater.

Of greatest interest is whether there is water ice hidden in the crater's perpetual darkness and frigidness. The data could play into the debate over where NASA's human spaceflight program should aim next, whether to return to the Moon or head elsewhere in the solar system neighborhood.The presence of large significant amounts of water could make it easier to set up future settlements with the ice providing water

and oxygen. Data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has already confirmed the presence of hydrogen deep within permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles, and hydrogen is most likely in the form of water.

Lcross (pronounced L-cross) is a $79 million companion mission to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, sharing the same rocket into space in June. The mission designers took advantage of what would have otherwise been space junk - the rocket's two-ton, second stage - and turned it into a projectile to hit the Moon, shepherded by a car-size spacecraft.

Dr. Colaprete said the Lcross spacecraft captured a flash of light as the upper stage hit the bottom of Cabeus and then captured a thermal image of the resulting crater, about 60 to 65 feet wide, close to what had been predicted. What was missing was the plume of debris that was knocked out by the impact. "We saw a crater. We saw a flash," Dr. Colaprete said.

"Something had to happen in between."

But Lcross's spectrometers - instruments that break down light into wavelengths and detect subtle changes, perhaps from vapor or fine particles not visible to the eye - did observe changes before and after the impact.Dr.Colaprete said the spectrometer data could identify the water and other molecules. "When I saw actually the spectra, I was like, "We got something,' " he said.

The analysis will take at least a few days and maybe weeks. "We're going to take our time" Dr. Colaprete said, "and build up a case for water and the ejecta, if it's there or the case against it if it's not there."

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Richard Alleyne, http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-notthe-Creator-claims-academic.html

Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author,claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew. She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.

Prof Van Wolde, 54, who will present a thesis on the subject at Radboud University in The Netherlands where she studies, said she had re-analysed the original Hebrew text and placed it in the context of the Bible as a whole, and in the context of other creation stories from ancient Mesopotamia. She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb "bara", which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean "to create" but to "spatially separate".

The first sentence should now read "in the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth" According to Judeo-Christian tradition, God created the Earth out of nothing. Prof Van Wolde, who once worked with the Italian academic and novelist Umberto Eco, said her new analysis showed that the beginning of the Bible was not the beginning of time, but the beginning of a narration. She said: "It meant to say that God did create humans and animals, but not the Earth itself."

She writes in her thesis that the new translation fits in with ancient texts.

According to them there used to be an enormous body of water in which monsters were living, covered in darkness, she said.

She said technically "bara" does mean "create" but added: "Something was wrong with the verb.

"God was the subject (God created), followed by two or more objects. Why did God not create just one thing or animal, but always more?" She concluded that God did not create, he separated: the Earth from the Heaven, the land from the sea, the sea monsters from the birds and the swarming at the ground.

"There was already water," she said. "There were sea monsters. God did create some things, but not the Heaven and Earth. The usual idea of creating-out-of-nothing, creatio ex nihilo, is a big misunderstanding." God came later and made the earth livable, separating the water from the land and brought light into the darkness.

She said she hoped that her conclusions would spark "a robust debate", since her finds are not only new,but would also touch the hearts of many religious people. She said: "Maybe I am even hurting myself. I consider myself to be religious and the Creator used to be very special, as a notion

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of trust. I want to keep that trust." A spokesman for the Radboud University said: "The new interpretation is a complete shake up of the story of the Creation as we know it." Prof Van Wolde added: "The traditional view of God the Creator is untenable now."

SCOTLAND'S BIGGEST UFO INCIDENT TO HIT THE BIG SCREEN http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/128129-scotlandsbiggest-ufo-incident-to-hit-the-big-screen/

Scotland has always been a hotspot for UFO and alien-based activity and now Londonbased DRB Entertainment is hoping to re-tell the story of Garry Wood and Colin Wright, who claim they were abducted while driving to the village of Tarbrax. Their intended 30 minute journey took an unexpected turn when a disc-shaped object hovered above the road in front of them as they drove along the quiet road at 8pm.

In fear, Garry attempted to speed away under the object but as they passed underneath, light from the supposed craft covered the car. Next, they were in total darkness and their next memories were of the car veering all over the road, before Garry brought it under control again. Gradually, they began to remember snippets of the night, from recalling small creatures surrounding them on the road to being carried on a floating stretcher and operated upon.

"I'm ever so pleased that is going to happen, for the Scottish public to realise they have their own recognisablephenomenaintheirownbackyard." says paranormal investigator Malcolm Robinson.

"We may laugh and joke about this subject, but there is something very, very real and very mysterious ongoing in the skies."

The A70 incident was a pivotal moment for Malcolm who's new book UFO Case Files of Scotland gives investigative information on various sightings across Scotland. Previously a sceptic of UFOs and alien activity, Malcolm firmly became a believer after hearing from Garry and Colin about their experiences. "I was an ardent sceptic," says Malcolm. "I really didn't really think there was any validity to

these tales of machines flying about the Scottish skies. But it is like anything else in life, once you physically get involved in investigating these subjects, then you come off the fence. I found that after a few years of investigation, there's enough substantial data to validate the people that have been saying these things."

Although paranormal activity is heard of across the world, Scotland seems to have a high level of reports of such occurrences, as Malcolm attempts to explain. "It's a global phenomenon.They have been sighted all over the world for sure, but Scotland as a nation has been touched by the UFO presence quite substantially. These have been investigated and I have checked with the police, the airports, the Met Office and the Ministry of Defence to try and find out if there are any rational explanations to account for these sightings."

Despite the high number of sightings over the years, mentions of Bonnybridge, Polmont and the A70 incident are almost always met with a wall of scepticism, with many laughing off claims that there could be an extra-terrestrial existence in our universe who want to visit Earth.

Malcolm happily concedes that the vast majority of cases are explainable, but says that there are still a small number that remain mysterious and need to be investigated. "A vast majority can be explained as Chinese lanterns of our own aircraft viewed in the sky at an unusual angle where the light shines off the fuselage, or birds in flight," he concedes.

"But it could be that some of these sightings are our own black-budget technology.Stealth aircraft flew in America for 10 years before the military machine put their hands up and said it was theirs.

That gave rise to a lot of false UFO reports.

Nine times out of ten you can explain these sightings. As much as 95% of all UFO reports can easily be explained away. It's that 5% that is so puzzling to myself and my colleagues all over the world.You have got to try and keep an open mind."

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