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1 ISSUE NUMBER 16 SEPTEMBER 2005 Available in the UK and Overseas Available in the UK and Overseas, EBAY and PAYPAL The Truth is Already Here DID A UFO CRASH INTO THE TROODOS MOUNTAINS OF CYPRUS IN 1973? A WORLD EXCLUSIVE ROY DUTTON’S ASTRONAUTICAL THEORY 2 CONTACT DETAILS You can contact the magazine by regular mail or by telephoning: 01924 864614 or 07779 757126 (GMT office hours please). The postal address is: UFO Monthly.com Suite 226 57 Great George Street Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 3AJ By email at: heseltinegary@hotmail.com For more information visit the website: ‘www.ufomonthly.com’ With your help and input my aim is to bring you a quality publication that represents value for money. Why not also take a look at my sister site ‘www.prufos.co.uk’ That is dedicated to British police UFO sightings. GARY HESELTINE—Editor 3 CONTENTS 4 Did a UFO crash into the side of a mountain in Cyprus in 1973? A world exclusive report! 7 Roy Dutton gives us his low down on his Astronautical Theory. 16 An obituary article with regard to the death of arch UFO sceptic Philip Klass. 17 The very latest sightings from around the UK. 20 An extremely rare article about the Foo- Fighter enigma of the Second World War from 1945. 24 The Big Picture-The latest UFO sightings from around the world. 28 A classic document from 1973 pertaining to a Army helicopter crew being targeted by UFO whilst in mid air. Enjoy the magazine. GH EDITORIAL Welcome to the 16th issue of UFO Monthly.com. This month we have a bit of everything. We start of with a World Exclusive report of a possible UFO CRASH and retrieval operation in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus in 1973. Having recently looked at the work of Eammon Ansbro with regard to Roy Dutton’s Astronautical Theory— what better to have the man himself fill us in on his research. Remember to keep sending your photos, articles and letters. Enjoy the magazine. GH CONTENTS 4 Several months ago whilst doing a BBC Radio Leeds show a man rang in telling me about an incident in Cyprus. He said he’d once sent me an email about it. At the time I had vague memories of the email but that when I’d tried to return an email to him the message couldn’t be sent for some reason. Sadly the initial email he’d sent me hadn’t provided me with any other contact details so I was unable to take the matter further. However there was now another opportunity to pursue this man’s claim. He told me he had been in the army for 24 years (1965- 1989) and may have been involved in a potential UFO incident in Cyprus in 1973. Now armed with full contact details I began a correspondence with him that eventually led me to visit his home. There I examined his service papers and I have no reason to doubt the following account of the incident that took place during an army exercise high in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. CYPRUS 1973 ‘I was selected to be a member of an eight man patrol consisting of six soldiers, one sergeant and one officer. We were given an area, in and around the mountain area of the island and we where to mount a watch and report operation. One thing from the outset and we all thought strange was the orange man never made contact with us, because know matter where you went on Cyprus it didn’t take long for one of these individuals to find you and set up a stall to sell you fresh squeezed orange juice, or sliced oranges to eat. We had all settled in for the night in location. Everyone mentioned how clear the night was and on the millions of stars and things that could be seen. Sentries were posted, and the rest of us hunkered down for whatever sleep we could get. We were all awoken at about 2am by a brilliant, but not dazzling bluish bright light. At first we all thought it must be a helicopter looking for us or something else. What happened next is hard to explain. There was no explosion but we were all hit by what I can only describe as a shock wave that knocked us all flat to THE CYPRUS UFO CRASH OF 1973— ONE MAN’S ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT IN THE TROODOS MOUNTAINS CORPORAL TOM CLARKE 5 the floor! The light just disappeared or went out. We all took up a defensive position, believing we were under attack, and I remember being very afraid. We all must have laid there for what seemed like hours, in total silence, waiting to see what was going to happen next, we could see nothing. The first sound I heard was the sergeant on the radio reporting what had happened and asking for instructions on what to do. The officer with us took over the radio and after a short while he and the sergeant briefed us and told us that he and the sergeant were to go forward and carry out a recce of the area where we believed an accident of some kind had taken place. We were all told that we were to stay in situ whilst they went out and had a look. After about an hour the two arrived back, they said there had been what looked like a crash of some kind and they had radioed the information to base before coming back to us and that we were to stay put as recovery and manpower was on its way and we were to help in securing the area and retrieving any wreckage. Helicopters arrived and people in black clothing where seen getting out and unloading stores from them. We were only allowed on the site when all the large pieces had been lifted off the area under slung loads, our job, then we were told to comb the area for anything we thought might belong to the crash site and if anything was found it was to be placed in what looked like large industrial waste bins. I picked up a piece of what like coke to me but on one side it had what looked like gold tiles covering it. After placing the object in the bin I noticed that two pieces of this gold substance had stuck to my hands and one piece had lodged behind the buckle of my webbing belt. I managed to put all three pieces into the map pocket of my combat jacket. After what seemed like hours a halt was called and we were all lined up and told that under no circumstances were we to talk about what we had been doing and that we were forbidden to take anything from the site under threat of Courts Martial and that we were all to be searched and that we had to give a declaration to the fact that we had not removed anything. Piece of gold coloured foil-like debris with interwoven thread running through it. Diagram supplied by Tom Clarke 6 We were then all taken from the area by helicopter and flown to Alex Barracks in Dheklie where we were all taken to the cookhouse. What looked like voting booths had been set up to one side. We were then all interviewed separately. I was asked to describe exactly what I had seen and done and was warned again not to discuss with anyone the events that had occurred. After our individual interviews we were all gathered together and told that we were never to divulge anything we had seen or done that day because if we did as serving members of the armed forces we could be tried for treason and shot! All six of us were then split into different troops and platoons. I never saw our Platoon Commander or the Sergeant again, they did not return to the UK with our unit. After a week or so all six of the remaining members of the patrol were posted far and wide. The unit was moved from Ripon to a brand new barracks in Catterick. The unit is now disbanded and the new barracks at Catterick are no more. I use my computer at home and am in regular contact with many old comrades from many of the units I served in. A comprehensive list of all the units of my old Corps are display but not 60 Unit. To date I have never been able to make contact with anyone who served in this unit from my time with it. This is a shortened version of events which led me to having these three pieces I recovered from the site. There maybe a simple explanation why all that happened did but I will leave it at that. This is the first time I have talked about these events all those years ago and the first time anyone has seen the items I have. I don’t think I believe in flying saucers or little green men from Mars but I do have an open mind.’ EDITORIAL COMMENT When I visited his home we discussed his account in more detail. The people who arrived at the crash site wore black overalls with no insignia whatsoever. He has never had any contact with any of the others on the exercise. All six were posted within a week even though none were due a posting. The blue light did not make any noise whatsoever despite being in view for 7-8 minutes. There was no arrival and no departure of the light. One second it was there another it was gone. The shock wave was extremely powerful and again there was no noise. At no point did they ever hear an explosion on the mountain that would account for the crash debris. The helicopters that arrived to pick up the debris had no markings whatsoever. On arrival in the UK he was posted to Northern Ireland within a week when not due another posting. From everything that has been described I would have to label this a UFO event. Something obviously crashed and by the response of the military it was something highly secret. Questions-Just what was the object recovered? Why were there no markings on the helicopters? Why no insignia on the overalls of the people sent to recover the debris? What was the blue light? Why was there no sound to it? What caused the shockwave that knocked them off their feet? In 24 years in the army (Royal Corp of Transport) and after being involved in countless military exercises this event was unlike anything else he has ever known before or since. I think that Tom may have been unwittingly involved in a UFO Retrieval operation. Tom is open to that possibility. As for the three pieces he recovered. I plan to submit them for analysis. I’ll let you know the results in a later issue. Thank you Tom for coming forward I am extremely grateful. GH Reverse of the larger piece plus another tiny fragment. 7 Foreword by Editor In the last two issues of the magazine I have given time over to Eammon Ansbro to outline his broad support for Roy Dutton’s Astronautical Theory. That resulted in a call from Roy himself. After a lengthy chat on the phone he agreed to release the following article based on his research. I believe there is great merit in his theories. GH ********************** Major changes in human thinking have sometimes resulted from innovative work carried out by lone individuals working in isolation. Understandably, the reactions of professionals operating within the boundaries of established knowledge are initially hostile towards such work. This article is about work to probe phenomena currently regarded as taboo by the pillars of modern science. As a result, it has suffered hostility and summary dismissal for more than twenty years. Nevertheless, as will become apparent, the discoveries being claimed have resulted from long-term objective and detailed processing of the best available data. It is hoped that, some day, they may be considered to be of significance. Human Limitations A Quaker philosopher, Isaac Penington, wrote in 1653: All truth is but a shadow except the last, except the utmost; yet every truth is true in its kind. It is substance in its own place, though it be but a shadow in another place .... Surely, no truer words have ever been written. Each human generation is trapped within its accumulated knowledge-base and paradigms. This situation is changed only gradually as the old foundations are replaced by new discoveries. Most people are averse to sudden changes. The dangers of making discoveries ahead of their time have been adequately demonstrated throughout history. What is considered acceptable in a given Age seems to be determined more by political and personal considerations rather than philosophical ones - and even scientists are not exempt from such pressures. There has been no more effective way to incite outrage and ridicule from modern scientists than merely to mention that one has been researching UFO phenomena. That despised acronym has become to many scientists like a red rag to a bull. Concerted attempts seem to have been made during the past thirty years to relegate the topic to the realms of science fiction. Nevertheless, such unexplained happenings have continued to occur all over the world and, despite the much-quoted Condon’s Report recommendations1 to the contrary, they surely merit thorough investigation and rationalisation. During 1998, science writer and SETI author, Edward Ashpole, and I co-authored an essay for a competition being promoted by The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), Las Vegas. Edward Ashpole's suggested title for the essay was "The Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Solar System".2 He would write a "supporting science" rationale to preface my contribution, which would be a summary of the nature and the results of my thirty years' objective analysis, and global synthesis, of reports of unidentifiable aerial craft, collected from a period of more than a century. Much to our shared satisfaction, we were informed, some months later, that our essay had been selected to be one of three first prize winners of the competition. Further- more, the NIDS people wanted to display the winning essays on their web site, and to bring them to the attention of leading academics and SETI specialists. So far, there have been no enquiries from any of those people as a result of the publishing of that essay. That Astronautical Theory for UFO Events by T.R. Dutton CEng., MRAeS, MIMechE 8 has to be surprising in view of the profound nature of the discoveries being claimed. Could it be, given the prevailing attitudes, that they are being regarded as heretical and definitely unfit to be promoted by open debate? This article is yet another attempt to break through into that exclusion zone. It will describe the manner in which the discoveries were made and will place them within the context of the past fifty years. Finally, the main discoveries will be listed for consideration. Having been arrived at through objective and painstaking analysis and synthesis of the best evidence available, if they are eventually validated by other researchers, they will change several existing scientific paradigms. The Hynek Contribution The late Dr. J Allen Hynek, an American professor, was the Director of the Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center at Northwestern University and Chairman of that university's Astronomy Department when his book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry3 was published during 1972. Prior to that he had been the official astronomical consultant to the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, a project set up to investigate all American UFO reports and, subsequently, he had become a member of the University of Colorado's team created in 1966 to take over Blue Book files from the USAF. That team, headed by Dr. Edward U. Condon, produced the Condon Report (1968), which concluded negatively. The conclusion was not shared by all the members of the team and Prof. Hynek was one of those dissenters. He wrote his book to set the record straight and to share his own view of the topic. His book is almost essential reading for anyone wishing to come to terms with the discoveries about to be claimed in this article. The original term "flying saucer" was eventually replaced by Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O.) to describe mysterious aerial objects being reported by eyewitnesses. That change had the effect of clouding the issues quite effectively. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the name "flying saucer" had indicated that the object being reported had had the appearance of being an aerial craft of some kind, even though many were not saucer-shaped. When SAC (strange aerial craft) were placed under the "UFO" heading, they became rarely-occurring items within a plethora of all sorts of things in the sky that members of the general public had been unable to identify. Whether that change of categorisation had been made deliberately to mislead, or not, it certainly provided the cynics with sufficient evidence to enable them to assert that UFOs were the results of inadequate observation - and any craft-like things were just figments of imaginations over-stimulated by sci-fi books and films. Offsetting these dismissive assertions in his book of 1972, Dr. Hynek defined six categories for the UFOs he had investigated in his official role with the U.S.A.F.: •Nocturnal Lights - Strange lighting formations seen at night. • Daylight Discs - Objects witnessed in daylight, often disc-shaped. • Radar-Visuals - Objects seen and also picked up by radar. • Close Encounters of the First Kind (CE 1) - strange object seen at close quarters but leaving no physical evidence of its visit. • Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CE 2) - As for the First Kind but with physical evidence left behind. • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE 3) - Alien creatures reported in association with a strange (usually craft-like) object at close quarters. Subsequently, the last of these categories was brought into public focus by Steven Spielberg’s famous (but fanciful) film of the same name. Hynek was the UFO advisor to Spielberg and his services were recognised when he was given a short walk-on part in the climax scene of the film. Unfortunately, that film opened the topic to a flood of even more fanciful films and TV series and these have played their part in further devaluing UFO research as a serious scientific pursuit. A Personal Quest Introduction to the UFO scene occurred, for me, during my final years (c.1953) at Grammar School. One day, a school friend who shared my intense aeronautical interests handed me a book. He asked me to read it and to give him my opinion of it. It was the controversial Leslie/Adamski book, Flying Saucers have Landed.4 When I handed it back, my view of it was that it was very fanciful. 9 Nevertheless, that book made me wonder whether there might be better ways of flying than those we already knew about and set me thinking along those lines. Particularly, it focused my attention on the nature of Gravity. Two years later I had realised my ambition to become accepted as a trainee engineer in the British aircraft industry. One of my new-found friends re-introduced me to the UFO topic when he handed me a book by the late Major Donald Keyhoe, a retired U.S. Marine with contacts in the Pentagon. The book's title was The Flying Saucers are Real.5 That book certainly opened my eyes to the possibility that alien technology could be visiting this planet and it caused me to keep my mind open to new information. By the year 1967 I had settled with my wife and small son in Bramhall, a Cheshire village on the fringes of the large Greater Manchester conurbation. During the late summer of that year the local press began to feature reports of strange aerial craft received from residents in the South Manchester area. As the weeks passed, the reports became more frequent. Prior to all this, during the period 1959-1963, I had been a member of the Special Projects Office, Weapons Research Division (WRD), A.V.Roe & Co. Ltd., located at Woodford Airfield, near Bramhall, Cheshire. My work in that think-tank had involved participation in feasibility studies of advanced space launchers and, also, analysis of photographs of existing launchers (American and Russian) to determine their performance capabilities. Our long-term objective had been to explore means by which a more economical launcher system might be produced to enable Britain to maintain a Space Programme. Unfortunately, all that came to an end when new owners, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, Ltd. decided to close WRD, beginning with the closure of the Special Projects Office during 1963. I had then been pleased to accept a transfer to the Wind Tunnels Department of Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Ltd., at the same airfield site. This was still my application when those reports of strange things in the sky began to create newspaper headlines. Investigations Begin Having the background just described, I was naturally curious to know more about the strange aerial craft (SAC) being vividly described by the eyewitnesses during 1967 and began to carry out private investigations of them. Most of the witnesses had been deeply shocked by the sight of large, noiseless, craft hovering or moving slowly over their homes and surroundings, usually at very low altitudes. Furthermore, the craft had sometimes glowed in the darkness and/or displayed multitudes of brilliant lights. There were also several sightings of craft-like objects during daylight. As my investigations of local events progressed, I learned that similar reports were being recorded in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Staffordshire. Subsequently, in 1968, I was able to incorporate some of those events into my database after the limited publication of an in-depth report6 produced by two Stoke-based amateur astronomers, Roger Stanway and Anthony Pace. Having selected some fifty convincing cases from this combined database, I progressed into analysis of craft characteristics and a survey of all the sites from which reports had been received during that exciting period occupying the months between July and December. The analysis of craft characteristics revealed a number of commonalties effectively defining them as being technological objects demonstrating capabilities beyond human achievement. Even though a variety of shapes was evident, all had appeared to have been propelled in the same puzzling manner. They had operated silently, close to the treetops, in radar clutter, and had sometimes been witnessed to depart, finally, by streaking upwards with very high accelerations, before being lost to view in seconds - thereby again avoiding detection by the radar systems then in service. It was found that the sites visited had mostly occupied a narrow, 35 miles wide, magnetic north-south band, with the newly opened M6 motorway lying near its centreline and that large man-made topographical features, capable of being seen from high altitude, had occupied all the sites visited. Taking all this evidence together, it seemed logical to conclude that a developing part of NW England had undergone detailed survey by non-human agencies. The evidence pointed towards space as being the likely source of those agencies. After having drawn so much from the data already collected, I decided to continue monitoring British reports and to analyse them progressively. This spare-time study 10 continued until 1973. All the early findings had been, by then, vindicated and there was felt a desperate need to be able to begin a study of similar reports gathered from all over the world. Only in that way would it be possible to recognise any planned activities from space - it being hoped that, as within Britain, evidence of planned surveillance might become evident in other parts of the world. The Global Study Through an association I had established with the Manchester-based investigations group D.I.G.A.P. (Direct Investigations Group for Aerial Phenomena), I was able to create a global database by selecting the most significant reports from two independently-produced comprehensive catalogues. The earliest report selected for a global distribution exercise occurred in 1865. However, when the exercise developed to consider the dates and times of the recorded events, the original database had to be reduced because some records did not provide sufficient information. The earliest case qualifying for the timing exercise occurred in 1885 and the number of cases selected had been reduced from 450 to 368. Then followed years of processing. Several unproductive attempts to synthesise the data used up many hours of precious spare time, but each attempt seemed to point towards another possibility to be investigated. By 1980 a discernible global pattern of activity had emerged from all this, strongly indicating that some sort of programmed, automated, surveillance had been carried out over a period of some 86 years - and was being continued. All the evidence seemed to suggest that the small SAC seen in the atmosphere had been delivered to, and retrieved from, the targeted locations by larger craft operating mainly in space. Further intensive study of the possibilities during the early 1980s led to the recognition of a coherent strategy. This finding was then presented for consideration during an invited lecture to B.U.F.O.R.A. (British UFO Research Association) in May 1987. No lasting follow-up resulted from this, possibly because many present at that lecture did not have the necessary background required to understand the rudiments of astronautics and astro-navigation. Even if anyone there had had that kind of knowledge, they would have found themselves faced with a very unfamiliar scenario. In view of that probability, I felt the need to develop the work, so as to enable testing to be carried out, using new data. Development by Computer Until a PC was purchased during 1988, all the work had been done manually. Then began work to write computer programs for the PC that would encapsulate mathematically the features of the model derived by slide-rule and graphs. By 1990 the essential programs had been written and tested. Next began the process of collecting data to check whether new reported events seemed to confirm (or otherwise) the model created from the historical database. The reasons why those people already familiar with astronautical techniques would have found themselves considering an unfamiliar scenario were these: *The evidence had suggested that those hypothetical delivery/retrieval "motherships" had always approached the Earth in retrograde motion: i.e. from East to West, against the planet's rotation. *They had always entered short-term or partial orbits, at the same precisely-determined super-orbital speed, to carry out their drops and retrievals, the implied speed being roughly Escape Velocity (if at 380 miles altitude). *The paths they had followed over the Earth's surface had repeatedly referenced a set of fixed navigational points on the Earth's equator. *Ten well-defined orbit inclinations to the equatorial plane had been adopted to provide coverage of the inhabited regions of the world lying between latitudes 76° North and 76° South. No humanly-produced spacecraft of the present time could possibly emulate this activity. Furthermore, the timings and dates of the reported SAC events in the atmosphere had indicated that *The paths in space followed by the hypothetical delivery/retrieval craft had been referenced to specific celestial markers. It was all rather incredible - and that was why testing was so essential. To date, almost 1,000 additional selected cases have been processed through the 11 computer programmes. The checking has been done in various ways. Sometimes I obtained a batch of sightings from a given area (e.g. the San Luis Valley, Colorado) and this facilitated graphical as well as numerical checking of the data. Graphs are computer-produced for a specified location and the computer selects up to seven optional real-time paths in space (selected from the programmed global set) that could be used to access that site. As the programmed timing options available to the perpetrators are linked to celestial markers, the available times for delivery and retrieval of probes associated with the identified paths are predictable, and change from day to day with the movement of the Earth round the Sun. The timings graph displays a series of lines representing those times, throughout any year, for the set of available access paths identified. Superimposing actual (reported) time and date for each event on this arrangement of lines shows how close the reported time is to the nearest prediction at that date. If this is done for all the other reports in the same batch, it can then be seen if a particular path and/or orientation has been favoured to access that location. Such indications can aid in-the-field observations. Of the additional cases processed, over 60% (600+) of the reported times have correlated within 20 minutes of the nearest predictions. In considering that result, it must be remembered that surprised eyewitnesses do not usually look at their watches immediately on seeing a strange thing in the sky. In other words, some of the times given will have been given with hindsight and from memory. [One special exercise, with data not included in the main checking sample, checked a set of random times against the same number of collected recorded times for a given area and showed that about 20% (60) of the random times had not occurred within 1 hour of any predictions, whereas all the actuals had qualified within that timescale.] A further characteristic of the SAC seems to be revealed by these results: *Since the SAC in processed reports have been found, largely, to have been sighted within 20 minutes of the nearest predicted times, it follows that an atmospheric probe (SAC) is probably most visible soon after its arrival from space and, again, when it has become highly charged with energy just prior to its departure. However this observation does not preclude that visibility may also occur at other times during the duration of its clandestine mission. Examination of a significant number of alleged Close Encounters accompanied by a period of witness amnesia (now known as a CE 4s) has shown that the time at the beginning of the encounter and the time when restoration is experienced often correspond to the predicted times for two consecutive overhead passes of a hypothetical mothership. This implies that: *The minimum mission time available to any probe (SAC), on a given day, is represented by the gap between two consecutive timing lines on the timings graph produced for a given location. Summary of Claimed Discoveries It is now possible to bring together all the elements of the Astronautical Theory for SAC/UFO Events, a theory encapsulating the following discoveries: *Strange aerial craft (SAC) displaying inexplicable characteristics, but described by reliable eyewitnesses, are physically real. *The SAC descend from the sky and depart back into it and display operational capabilities beyond our current understanding. *The SAC are atmospheric probes. They are deposited into the atmosphere by advanced spacecraft ("motherships") and are, later, retrieved by them. *All the fully automated craft are engaged in continuing Earth surveillance and exploration activities. *The hypothetical spacecraft motherships follow well-defined paths in space as they approach the Earth and then orbit transiently, at super-orbital speeds, to release the SAC over selected target zones on the Earth's surface before accelerating away. *The motherships' approach paths in space are governed by fixed (programmed) rules determining orbit inclination and celestial orientation. *Two kinds of celestial orientation have been identified. Two orientations are referenced to the fixed stars. The remaining two are linked to the position of the Sun 12 amidst the stars and, therefore, move round the sky with the Sun throughout any year. *The presence of a solar system body (planet, minor planet, comet, etc.) in visual alignment with one of the programmed approach paths seems often to signal the choice of that path for the activity in hand. All of these claimed discoveries are now in great need of rigorous scientific investigation. In view of their potential importance and the weight of evidence supporting them, they surely warrant that kind of response, but to date there has been little movement in that direction. One notable exception has been the interest shown by an Irish astronomer who, having had much success in being in several right places at the right times, as a result of using my timing information, is now setting up a special observatory in a remote area of Ireland. The observatory will be equipped with advanced equipment to record and ana- lyse the strange recurring UFO phenomena in the skies of that region. Mr. Eamonn Ansbro, FRAS, is a member of the SETV group of SETI scientists, whose aims are to search for evidence of ET vehicles in the Solar System. Testing by Amateurs Amateur direct observation groups, using supplied information from me, are sometimes reporting very high success rates. The category Close Encounters of the 5th Kind (CE 5) has been created by Dr. Steven Greer, founder and active member of the controversial Centreer for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Dr. Greer and his rapid reaction teams have visited many UFO activity areas in the world and claim to have witnessed SAC at close quarters on several occasions. The CSETI mission objective is to establish direct communications with the visiting craft. Light signals from powerful hand-lamps have been used, and it is alleged that signals have been returned by lights on the visiting craft during encounters. It is also claimed that some of those CSETI encounters were facilitated by the use of timing graphs they had received from me. Yet more cause for outrage For the sake of completeness, it seems important to record the author's investigations into the nature and cause of crop-circles. The 1987 BUFORA lecture resulted in a request, from someone present in the audience, that I might visit Southern England to view the strange circles appearing each summer in the crop fields of that region. That person was Colin Andrews, who is now a well-known celebrity. My first encounter with those enigmas occurred in August 1988 - and from the evidence presented to me then, I knew that the genuine items could not have been produced by any kind of mechanical means. This caused me to examine the nature of the swirled patterns produced by the flattened wheat and barley stalks. In this I was aided by near-overhead photographs of small circle specimens donated by Mr. F.C. Taylor (also now well-known as an aerial photographer) and by accurately measured drawings from Mr. Andrews. By analysis of the swirl patterns in each of the cases presented to me, I was able to discover a vortex law that applied to them all. That law did not apply to any natural vortex. When it was written into a computer program for my PC, I discovered the swirled patterns had almost certainly been produced by a piece of technology - a rotating line-scanner. The stalks in the specimens examined had clearly been laid down as a series of strips. The computer program not only produced the correct swirl pattern but, also, the same number of strips observed in each case. This finding supported my initial observation that the stems had not been flattened by mechanical means and pointed instead towards a focused beam of high-frequency radiation, such as might be produced by a scanning airborne laser. However, the true nature of the beam is still unresolved, because not only would it have to have the ability to heat the plant cells, transiently, at the base of the stems, it would also have to be able to apply gentle overpressure in order to sweep the crop down in the beam's direction of travel, without causing damage. In my view, this is a form of technology not yet developed by Man, and the discovery gives credibility to the idea that genuine crop formations are the result of SAC activity. Furthermore, on several occasions these mysterious circles had been witnessed being laid down, without visible cause, in daylight. The time of each of those events, on the dates given, correlated very well with the nearest predicted SAC time for that local area. 13 Documentation by the Author Over the thirty-six years of this study, the author has documented progress as it has occurred, at first in papers presented to B.U.F.O.R.A. during the 1970s. After the discovery of a programmed activity from space during 1979/80, he began to set down the details of the study in the form of a book, believing that only in that way could all the facts be presented together. The manuscript was completed during 1984, but it then failed to attract a publisher. The next attempt was the paper produced for, and delivered to, B.U.F.O.R.A. during May 1987. Over the period of computerised development, 1988-2001, several research papers were written to record investigations into various offshoots of the main theory. They were listed in the bibliography of a major paper7 produced during early 2001, the purpose of which was to place on record all the major steps which led, ultimately, to the derivation of the astronautical theory. That bibliography also listed all the earlier papers and the NIDS essay. Closing Comments In view of all that, it seems to be significant that, over the years, I have been unable to publish anything in scientific journals, that the British national press has always declined to publish anything about the work and that I have never received further enquiries following my few brief appearances on British television. Why did information sent to our Ministry of Defence (MoD), via MoD author, Nick Pope, fail to stimulate a request for more details? Once again, I have to suspect that I have discovered things that some people in high places think should be kept to myself. To offset this effective censorship by exclusion, during 1994, following up a 1992 offer from an ex-aerospace colleague, Roy Rowlands, I recorded the first of a series of three videos8 with the primary purpose of bringing together all the main threads of the work for poster- ity's sake. The final Part 3 was recorded during June 1999. Although this video trilogy is available in Britain through a local distributor, the major distributors do not consider it to be commercially viable - and that may well be the case. Unfortunately lacking any distributor in the U.S.A., the videos are not currently available in American NTSC format. Edward Ashpole, in his book of 1995/6, The UFO Phenomena,9 devoted an entire chapter to the basics of the Astronautical Theory and requested a sky search by astronomers. The only person to respond, who was adequately equipped to carry out meaningful searches, was Eamonn Ansbro, the Irish astronomer referred to earlier. Edward Ashpole has continued to promote the work in various ways up to the present day. References: 1.. D. S. Gillmor (Ed.) Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. Univ. of Colorado under contract to the U.S.A.F. (1968). 2. Dutton/Ashpole "The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligen- ces in the Solar System," Winner, NIDS Essay Competition, 1998. http://accessnv.com/nids/DuttonAshp ole essay. shtml 3. J .A. Hynek. The UFO Experience - A Scientific Enquiry. Abelard-Schuman Ltd. (1972). 4. D. Leslie/G. Adamski. Flying Sau- cers Have Landed. Neville Spearman, Ltd. (1954 &1970). Paperback, Futura Publications, 1977, 1978. 5. D. E. Keyhoe. The Flying Saucers are Real. New York: Fawcett (1950). 6. R. H. Stanway/A. Pace. "UFOs, Unidentified, Undeniable," Newchapel Observatory, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Report, February, 1968. 7. T. R. Dutton. "Puzzling Global Reports of Strange Aerial Craft (SAC)/ A comprehensive Technical Assessment and a Testable Theory/1. Early work and the derivation of an Astronautical Theory. Paper, March 2001. 8. Dutton/Rowlands. We are DEFI- NITELY not Alone. Video series Pts 1,2 &3 (4.5 hours) PAL. □ inc p&p (UK only). UK Distributor: Horizon Video, P.O. Box 3, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom. 9. Edward Ashpole. The UFO Phenomena. Headline Book Publishing 1995 & 1996 (Paperback). About the Author T. Roy Dutton is an innovative professional aeronautical and mechanical engineer, who served for almost 37 years within the British aircraft industry before his early retirement in 1991. Through his versatility (which enabled him to survive several reorganisations) he gained a wide experience of many aspects of the industry whilst serving at the same site. His career began with future Space applications and afterwards encompassed aircraft R&D, Aerodynamics, Performance, Design and Programme Control activities. Before his voluntary retirement at 55 he was a Principal Engineer, Future Projects Department, BAe PLC, Manchester Division, based at Woodford Airfield, Cheshire. He has a life-long vocational interest in aerospace matters in addition to a wide range of other interests besides, some of which this article encompasses. He is currently engaged in the design, building and testing of a large radio-controlled surface skimming flying boat model, of novel design, with hoped-for future commercial applications - and has several other innovative concepts still waiting to be investigated. He is happily married, has one married son and now has three teenage grandchildren. Editorial Comment This appears to be fine research and makes you think. I know Eammon Ansbro is getting consistently high percentage correct predictions for UFO events based on Roy’s theories. Thank you Roy. GH 14 This year's conference will offer attendees a unique and valuable perspective on the latest developments in the UFO phenomenon. This year we are starting a new trend. We will be presenting a complementary lecture open to the public and press on the UFO subject. "Ufology 101" will be held Friday afternoon September 2nd at 1:00 on the second floor of the Renaissance Hotel. This will be a great chance to learn the basics of UFO's especially if this is your first conference or if you have a limited knowledge of the subject matter. NUFOC has been presenting fresh, objective information to the public for over 40 years. NUFOC is proud to be the longest running UFO conference in America. 2005 Speakers & Presenters Richard Dolan Nick Redfern Linda Moulton-Howe David Sereda Farah Yurdozu Dr. Lynne Kitei Greg Bishop Terry Hansen Grant Cameron Dr. Richard Sauder Also ... "Master of Ceremonies" Cheryl Jones-Former CNN news anchor "UFOLOGY 101" with International Ufologist Rob Simone "Startling New Evidence on the Billy Meier Case" with UFO Researcher Michael Horn Keynote by Steven Bassett National UFO Conference Hollywood, California September 2-4, 2005 15 It’s been a while since Russel Callaghan’s name has appeared in UFO Monthly.com following his decision to spend more time with his family but I am glad to say that he is far from ‘retired’. Russel has been building up his own website along with former UFO Magazine researcher, Tony Barker. The site is called: www.ufodata.co.uk It is a worthy addition to the list of sites on UFOs. Such has been the loss of Graham Birdsall that the loss of the Leeds UFO Conference has been sadly missed. However Russel has got together with respected researcher Philip Mantle and Michael Buckley to organise a conference in Leeds on Saturday October the 1st 2005. The venue is the Leeds Rugby Supporters club based at the world famous Headingley Rugby and Test cricket ground just outside Leeds city centre. There is ample free parking at the venue and a hotel within the complex for those who might wish to stay over. See the website for further details. At the moment there are five guest speakers listed for the event. SPEAKERS: Philip Mantle—Author, researcher, broadcaster and former BUFORA press officer. Malcolm Robinson—SPI (Scottish Paranormal Investigations) founder. John Hanson—Retired Police officer (27 years service) John doing his own UFO research since investigating a colleagues sighting in 1995. Ann and Jason Andrews— Jason is an abductee and has a remarkable story to tell. Christopher Martin—He has filmed numerous unusual objects over the last six years and has lectured regularly in Britain and overseas. A sixth speaker is yet to be confirmed. The cost is £15 for the entire day. It promises to be an excellent day. From small acorns……...GH 16 No doubt many people within the UFO community will see the passing of Philip Klass as something of a blessing. He has been one of the biggest, if not the biggest sceptic against the subject for decades. However should we knock anyone who holds genuine beliefs just because they differ from our own? I believe passionately in the circumstantial evidence that points to a small proportion of UFO sightings being real. Should I be condemned likewise for my beliefs? Whatever your personal thoughts on Philip Klass you surely have to have a sneeking regard for his dogged determination for UFO researchers to show, beyond a reasonable doubt, the evidence to convince him of the reality of aliens. My own criticism of the man is the way he chose to ignore good evidence by totally ignoring the facts and speaking in generalisations. A common deflection technique. I hold firm beliefs in the reality of alien visitations but that does not blind me to the truth if the truth is revealed. I will always look at each case on its merits without a preconceived opinion. If the facts support the ET hypothesis I will go with it if it doesn’t then I won’t. Philip Klass appeared to follow a school of thought that took an opposite view— no matter what you present to me as evidence I will always find a way to discredit it. For me that does not show objectivity and for that reason I am critical of his beliefs. However I had to admire his tenacity and his ability to put the UFO community on the backfoot. One thing is certain, his death represents the end an era. GH UFO MONTHLY.COM ON EBAY OBITUARY PHILIP KLASS 1919-2005 FAMOUS UFO SCEPTIC Go to: www.ufomonthly.com and click on the EBAY link to get details on how to purchase the latest issue. Look further down the EBAY page and you will see a link to the magazine shop. Payments can now be accepted worldwide using the PAYPAL option. GARY HESELTINE 17 UFO sighting near Manchester Airport England, 23rd July 2005 MARA received the following UFO report from a member of the public. Dear Bill, I found your website by doing a search tonight on Google. I hope that I am emailing the appropriate person but I wanted to report an unusual sighting tonight. I happened to be looking out from my kitchen window out over the garden tonight, in a north-westerly direction at 21.45. I saw an object in the sky. It was a dark, round object, around 20 degrees above the horizon and it remained absolutely stationary for about 3 minutes. It appeared to have caught the last rays of the sun below the horizon because it glinted briefly like a high-flying aircraft; it was this glint which caught my attention. There were no clouds in the sky and it stood out against the dark blue background. I had thought it was a distant hot air balloon but it unexpectedly moved to the left and then upwards. I shouted out to my wife to get the video camera but the ob- ject was too small to focus on. Around 3 minutes after I first noticed the object , it moved to the right and then disappeared. I scanned the sky with binoculars but could not see anything. We live under a very busy stretch of airspace but typically, I could not see any aircraft at all and there were no vapour trails which I could compare the object's position to. Also, there had been a regular stream of aircraft coming off Manchester Airport's runway 06L but at this point, there was nothing to compare the object's position/altitude with. Hope this is of interest. I have excellent eyesight and am a keen plane spotter and know that this was no normal aircraft. I saw something like this some years ago but didn't report it because somebody else had already posted it on the internet with a description which matched mine perfectly. Look forward to hearing from you and am hoping that some other people saw it. Alastair Bewsher Courtesy of: http://www.mara.org.uk Dunwich, Suffolk August 5th 2005 Dunwich, Suffolk UK An Unusual Flashing LightTime: 10:00 -11:00 p.m.Number of witnesses: 3 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Unknown. Full Description of event/ sighting: I was watching satellites go over at night on a very clear night (clearly see the Milky Way). Other identifiable objects such as a couple of jet planes. There was no moon and very low light pollution. The object was a bright flashing light tracking across the sky, west to east at first, flashing at non regular intervals, much brighter/larger emission of light than any plane we had seen that evening. I mistook it for a plane initially. It was brighter than any star or satellite by about 5 times, and larger than any other visible body by about 5-10 times. But still small, it appeared to be at very high altitude and heard no noise. It was not a plane, as there were no other navigation lights, and was much brighter/larger emission of light than any plane we had seen that evening. It only grabbed my attention when it shifted course several times, and appeared on a different heading with each flash, ended up exiting view 20-40 seconds later in a north east direction. Also it was clearly visible, then disappeared (perhaps behind cloud) but was clearly visible at a 20 degree elevation above the horizon when no stars were visible at that elevation. I have no idea what it was, but it did not behave like anything I have ever seen and I have spent quite a few nights watching stars and satellites track across the sky. Courtesy of Brian Vike, Director, HBCC UFO Research UFO SIGHTINGS—UK 18 First of all, I would like to point out that I am a big skeptic as far as UFO sightings are concerned but in some ways this only makes me more determined to show the photos to people and to try and get some kind of answer or comment about them... The bottom line is... that myself and colleagues know what we saw whilst not knowing what is was and ultimately if need be would take a lie detector test to prove that we are telling the truth. The photos were taken using a Cannon 300D camera with a 300mm image stabilising lens. The original photographs untouched are available if required. At around 10 am July 10th 2005 I was sitting outside with four colleagues when I saw a very bright flashing rotating object in the sky. This I pointed out to everyone, and every- one saw it. At this point I must say that I am one of the worlds greatest sceptics with regards to UFOs. I managed to photograph the object and have 6 very good photos of it. Please do not take this email as a crank contact as I must admit that I would be very dubious but others saw it as well. To continue... 3-5 minutes after the object had passed over we all saw another object flying in at the opposite direction at great speed against the wind direction and seconds later suddenly took a sharp turn to the left, second later to disappear from view. We are all professional people and quite frankly have better things to do with our time than to make wacky emails or photos but we all feel that what we saw was totally unexplainable taking into account the possibilities of the object being a weather balloon or plane reflecting the sunlight. I must say once again, please do not take this email as a hoax. I have the photographs to back up our claim of seeing a UFO. Steve Mera Courtesy of HBCC UFO Research Editorial—An almost identical sequence has been videotaped in Mexico. See next month’s issue. GH UK SIGHTINGS - Eccles, Manchester 10th July 2005 19 WESTWOOD NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ENGLAND Date: Monday 8th August 2005 Time: Approximately 1220am GMT Approach Direction: south west direction. Departure Direction:south west Witness Direction: South Description: ‘I was sitting in the living room and I heard a humming noise so I looked out of the window to see what it was and all I saw was a triangle shaped object with three white lights at each point and one red light in the middle flying slowly over the house so I rushed outside to watch it and it must of took at least five minutes to go completely out of sight. It could of been an plane but I hadn’t seen one like this or go so slow before.’ Color/Shape: Triangle, three white lights on each point and one red one in the middle. Height & Speed: unsure. Courtesy of UFOINFO SMITHLEIGH, NEAR PLYMPTON, DEVON ENGLAND Eyewitness Tim Francis reported, ‘Yesterday evening (Saturday, August 13, 2005) at approximately 10:30 p.m., there was a series of bright orange moving lights in the sky over my neighbourhood. ’ ‘They were moving westward from Smithleigh. Initially it was possible it was lights flying together in some sort of formation. It looked like a star constellation until we spotted the lights moving towards us, and some were too bright and too orange in colour to be stars. As the lights got overhead, the formation changed, with one of the lights speeding up a bit faster than the others. No noise could be heard from the objects, although there was road noise from the nearby (motorway) A38, which could have drowned out faint sounds. After the first formation had gone, there came several more objects over the next ten minutes. I think there were two occurrences of two lights together and then two single lights after. The last object flew over and seemed to be lower than the others. As it got overhead, it seemed like you could make out a rectangular shape, which appeared almost fluid. My friend (there there three of us present) said it looked like a jellyfish, I think, because the shape appeared to be changing. All of them seemed to have a bright orange light at the front and back, or maybe on top, as you could see the lights when they were coming towards us or going away. But the light was not visible while they were overhead.’ Courtesy of UFOINFO UFO SIGHTINGS—UK 20 Whilst trawling the net for this month’s issue I came across the following article about the ‘Foo Fighter’ enigma of the Second World War. What drew my particular attention is the fact that the article was written just months after the war had ended ie; December 1945! As far as I am aware this is the earliest magazine article I have ever read on the subject and therefore has to be of historical importance in UFO literature. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. GH The Foo Fighter Mystery By Jo Chamberlin THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE - December, 1945 DURING THE last months of the war the crews of many B-29s over Japan saw what they described as "balls of fire" which followed them, occasionally came up and almost sat on their tails, changed colour from orange to red to white and back again, and yet never closed in to attack or crash, suicide-style. One B-29 made evasive manoeuvres inside a cloud, but when the B-29 emerged from it, the ball of fire was following in the same relative position. It seemed 500 yards off, three feet in diameter, and had a phosphorescent orange glow. No wing or fuselage suggesting an aerial bomb or plane was seen. The ball of fire followed the B-29 for several miles and then disappeared just as mysteriously as it had appeared in the dawn light over Fujiyama. Some B-29 crews said they could readily lose the ball of fire by evasive manoeuvres, even though the ball kept up with them at top speed on a straight course; other B-29 crews reported just the opposite. Nobody could figure it out. Far to the south, a B-24 Liberator was at 11,000 feet over Truk lagoon, when two red lights rose rapidly from below, and followed the B-24. After an hour, one light turned back. The other kept on - sometimes behind, sometimes alongside, sometimes ahead about 1,000 yards, until daybreak when it climbed to 15,000 feet and stayed in the sun, like a Jap fighter seeking game, but never came down. During the flight, the light changed from red to orange, then white, and back to orange, and appeared to be the size of a basketball. No wing or fuselage was ob- served. The B-24 radioed island radar stations to see if there were any enemy planes in the sky. The answer was: "None." A curious business, and one for which many solutions have been advanced, before the war was over, and since. None of them stand up. The important point is: No B-29 was harmed by the balls of fire, although what the future held, no one knew. The Japanese were desperately trying to bolster up their defence in every way possible against air attack, but without success. Our B-29s continued to rain destruction on Japanese military targets, and finally dropped the atomic bomb. Naturally, U. S. Army authorities in Japan will endeavour to find the secret - but it may be hidden as well as it appears to be in Europe. The balls of fire continue to be a mystery - just as they were when first observed on the other side of the world - over eastern Germany. This is the way they began. At ten o'clock of a November evening, in late 1944, Lt. Ed Schlueter took off in his night fighter from Dijon, France, on what he thought would be a routine mission for the 415th Night Fighter Squadron. Lt. Schlueter is a tall, competent young pilot from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, whose hazardous job was to search the night sky for German planes and shoot them down. He had done just this several times and had been decorated for it. As one of our best night fighters, he was used to handling all sorts of emergencies. With him as radar observer was Lt. Donald J. Meiers, and Lt. Fred Ringwald, intelligence officer of the 415th, who flew as an observer. The trio began their search pattern, roaming the night skies on either side of the Rhine River north of Strasbourg - for centuries the abode of sirens, dwarfs, UFOs and the Web 21 UFOs and the Web gnomes, and other supernatural characters that appealed strongly to the dramatic sense of the late A. Hitler. However, at this stage of the European war, the Rhine was no stage but a grim battleground, where the Germans were making their last great stand. The night was reasonably clear, with some clouds and a quarter moon. There was fair visibility. In some respects, a night fighter plane operates like a champion boxer whose eyesight isn't very good; he must rely on other senses to guide him to his opponent. The U. S. Army has ground radar stations, which track all planes across the sky, and tell the night fighter the whereabouts of any plane. The night fighter flies there, closes in by means of his own radar until usually he can see the enemy, and if the plane doesn't identify itself as friendly, he shoots it down. Or, gets shot down himself, for the Germans operate their aircraft in much same way we did, and so did the Japanese. Lt. Schlueter was flying low enough that he could detect the white steam of a blacked-out locomotive or the sinister bulk of a motor convoy, but he had to avoid smokestacks, barrage balloons, enemy searchlights, and flak batteries. He and Ringwald were on the alert, for there were mountains nearby. The inside of the plane was dark, for good night vision. Lt. Ringwald said, "I wonder what those lights are, over there in the hills." "Probably stars," said Schlueter, knowing from long experience that the size and character of lights are hard to estimate at night. "No, I don't think so." "Are you sure it's no reflection from us?" "I'm positive." Then Ringwald remembered - there weren't any hills over there. Yet the "lights" were still glowing - eight or ten of them in a row - orange balls of fire moving through the air at a terrific speed. Then Schlueter saw them far off his left wing. Were enemy fighters pursuing him? He immediately checked by radio with Allied ground radar sta- tions. "Nobody up there but yourself." they reported. "Are you crazy?" And no enemy plane showed in Lt. Meiers' radar. Lt. Schlueter didn't know what he was facing - possibly some new and lethal German weapon - but he turned into the lights, ready for action. The lights disappeared - then reappeared far off. Five minutes later they went into a flat glide and vanished. The puzzled airmen continued on their mission, and destroyed seven freight trains behind German lines. When they landed back at Dijon, they decided to do what any other prudent soldier would do - keep quiet for the moment. If you tried to explain everything strange that happened in a war, you'd do nothing else. Further, Schlueter and Meiers had nearly completed their required missions, and didn't want to chance being grounded by some sceptical flight surgeon for "combat fatigue." Maybe they had been "seeing things." But a few nights later, Lt. Henry Giblin, of Santa Rosa, California, pilot, and Lt. Walter Cleary, of Worcester, Massachusetts, radar- observer, were flying at 1,000 feet altitude when they saw a huge red light 1,000 feet above them, moving at 200 miles per hour. As the observation was made on an early winter evening, the men decided that perhaps they had eaten something at chow that didn't agree with them and did not rush to report their experience. On December 22-23, 1944, another 415th night fighter squadron pilot and radar-observer were flying at 10,000 feet altitude near Hagenau. "At 0600 hours we saw two lights climbing toward us from the ground. Upon reaching our altitude, they levelled off and stayed on my tail. The lights appeared to be large orange glows. 22 UFOs and the Web After staying with the plane for two minutes, they peeled off and turned away, flying under perfect control, and then went out." The next night the same two men, flying at 10,000 feet, observed a single red flame. Lt. David L. McFalls, of Cliffside, N. C., pilot, and Lt. Ned Baker of Hemat, California, radar-observer, also saw: "A glowing red object shooting straight up, which suddenly changed to a view of an aircraft doing a wing-over, going into a dive and disappearing." This was the first and only suggestion of a controlled flying device. By this time, the lights were reported by all members of the 415th who saw them. Most men poked fun at the observers, until they saw for themselves. Although confronted with a baffling situation, and one with lethal potentialities, the 415th continued its remarkable combat record. When the writer of this article visited and talked with them in Germany, he was impressed with the obvious fact that the 415th fliers were very normal airmen, whose primary interest was combat, and after that came pin-up girls, poker, doughnuts, and the derivatives of the grape. The 415th had a splendid record. The whole outfit took the mysterious lights or balls of fire with a sense of humour. Their reports were received in some higher quarters with smiles: "Sure, you must have seen something, and have you been getting enough sleep?" One day at chow a 415th pilot suggested that they give the lights a name. A reader of the comic strip "Smokey Stover" suggested that they be called "foo-fighters," since it was frequently and irrefutably stated in that strip that "Where there's foo, there's fire." The name stuck. What the 415th saw at night was borne out in part by day. West of Neustadt, a P-47 pilot saw "a gold-coloured ball, with a metallic finish, which ap- peared to be moving slowly through the air. As the sun was low, it was impossible to tell whether the sun reflected off it, or the light came from within." Another P-47 pilot reported "a phosphorescent golden sphere, 3 to 5 feet in diameter, flying at 2,000 feet." Meanwhile, official reports of the "foo-fighters" had gone to group headquarters and were "noted." Now in the Army, when you "note" anything it means that you neither agree nor disagree, nor do you intend to do anything about it. It covers everything. Various explanations were offered for the phenomena - none of them satisfactory, and most of them irritating to the 415th. It was said that the foo-fighters might be a new kind of flare. A flare, said the 415th, does not dive, peel off, or turn. Were they to frighten or confuse Allied pilots? Well, if so, they were not succeeding - and yet the lights continued to appear. Eighth Air Force bomber crews had reported seeing silver-coloured spheres resembling huge Christmas tree ornaments in the sky - what about them? Well, the silver spheres usually floated, and never followed a plane. They were presumably some idea the Germans tried in the unsuccessful effort to confuse our pilots or hinder our radar bombing devices. What about jet planes? No, the Germans had jet planes all right, but they didn't have an exhaust flame visible at any distance. Could they be flying bombs of some sort, either with or without a pilot? Presumably not - with but one exception no one thought he observed a wing or fuselage. Weather balloons? No, the 415th was well aware of their behaviour. They ascended almost vertically, and eventually burst. Could the lights or balls of fire be the red, blue, and orange coloured flak bursts that Eighth Air Force bomber crews had reported? It was a nice idea, said the 415th, but there was no correlation between the foo-fighters they observed and the flak they encountered. And night flak was usually directed by German radar, not visually. In short, no explanation stood up. 23 UFOs and the Web On Dec. 31, 1944, AP reporter Bob Wilson, was with the 415th and heard about the foo-fighters. He questioned the men until 4 a.m. in the best newspaper tradition until he got all the facts. His story passed the censors, and appeared in American newspapers on January 1, 1945, just in time to meet the customary crop of annual hangovers. Some scientists in New York decided, apparently by remote control, that what the airmen had seen in Germany was St. Elmo's light - a well-known electrical phenomenon appearing like light or flame during stormy weather at the tips of church steeples, ships' masts, and tall trees. Being in the nature of an electrical discharge, St. Elmo's fire is reddish when positive, and blueish when negative. The 415th blew up. It was thoroughly acquainted with St. Elmo's fire. The men snorted, "Just let the sons come over and fly a mission with us. We'll show em." Through January, 1945, the 415th continued to see the "foo-fighters," and their conduct became increasingly mysterious. One aircrew observed lights, moving both singly and in pairs. On another occasion, three sets of lights, this time red and white in colour, followed a plane, and when the plane suddenly pulled up, the lights continued on in the same direction, as though caught napping, and then sheepishly pulled up to follow. The pilot checked with ground radar - he was alone in the sky. This was true in every instance foo-fighters were observed. The first real clue came with the last appearance of the exasperating and potentially deadly lights. They never kept 415th from fulfilling its missions, but they certainly were unnerving. The last time the foo-fighters appeared, the pilot turned into them at the earliest possible moment - and the lights disappeared. The pilot was sure that he felt prop wash, but when he checked with ground radar, there was no other airplane. The pilot continued on his way, perturbed, even angry - when he noticed lights far to the rear. The night was clear and the pilot was approaching a huge cloud. Once in the cloud, he dropped down two thousand feet and made a 30 degree left turn. Just a few seconds later be emerged from the cloud - with his eye peeled to rear. Sure enough, coming out of the cloud in the same relative po- sition was the foo-fighter, as though to thumb its nose at the pilot, and then disappear. This was the last time the foo-fighters were seen in Germany, although it would have seemed fitting, if the lights had made one last gesture, grouping themselves so as to spell "Guess What" in the sky, and vanishing forever. But they didn't. The foo-fighters simply disappeared when Allied ground forces captured the area East of the Rhine. This was known to be the location of many German experimental stations. Since V-E day our Intelligence officers have put many such installations under guard. From them we hope to get valuable research information - including the solution to the foo-fighter mystery, but it has not appeared yet. It may be successfully hidden for years to come, possibly forever. The members of the 415th hope Army Intelligence will find the answer. If it turns out that the Germans never had anything airborne in the area, they say, "We'll be all set for Section Eight psychiatric discharges." Meanwhile, the foo-fighter mystery continues unsolved. The lights, or balls of fire, appeared and disappeared on the other side of the world, over Japan - and your guess as to what they were is just as good as mine, for nobody really knows. EDITORIAL COMMENT This is a brilliant article for me. The pilots clearly could distinguish between natural phenomena and something entirely different. The foo- fighters displayed intelligent movement. The writer obviously hoped that the answer may lay with captured German technology. History has proved that to be wrong. I do not believe they were man- made. In light of today—do you? GH 24 THE BIG PICTURE: WORLDWIDE UFO SIGHTINGS CANADA EDMONTON ALBERTA August 21st 2005 UFOINFO Sighting Form Report Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Time: From 3AM until 5AM GMT Approach Direction: From West to east then it stopped. Moved a little to my right as I was facing west. Departure Direction: From West to east then it stopped. Moved a little to my right as I was facing west. Witness Direction: West Description: Well I have to say I don't believe it until I see it, but right now its 5:04 AM on Aug 21/05 and I've been watching 3 lights in the sky for the past 2 hours that I just can't explain. They are constantly moving up, down, left, right, but generally staying in the same spots. They are a little brighter then any stars but you can tell it's much closer. I have a 6.3 MP digital camera but I couldn’t see anything with it because there are too many lights around my house, but I did get a closer look with my crappy 7*35mm binoculars. I first spotted the one because it was moving like a satellite but then it stopped, and within the next 15 mins I noticed the other 2. I had 5 friends witness this phenomenon. Thought I‘d pass this information on. Color/Shape: 2 where white and the other one looked more orange which was the closest to me. Height & Speed: Don't know. TV/Radio/Press: No, but I did have 5 friends witness this. AUSTRALIA BANORA POINT/ TWEED HEADS NEW SOUTH WALES Date: August 8, 2005 Time: 8:40 p.m. Location of Sighting: My home. Number of witnesses: 2 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Moving ball of light. Full Description of event/sighting: Hello Brian, Just Tonight, I was outside our home, when I looked into the sky and noticed a star-like, object, moving in an Easterly Direction out to sea. The object was the same size as the two strange rotating lights that I saw only a few weeks ago, and was in the same part of sky as them as well. The object was moving not too fast, not too slow. I know what a satellite looks like, and this object was much larger, and traveling a little faster than I have seen them travel. It had no flashing lights, just a ball of light. I called for my younger brother to look, and he noticed it as well. For the past couple of weeks, I have been noticing a lot of helicopters flying around the area. Although I don't live far from the Airport, I have never noticed them before. Tonight, I may have seen why they are really there. As I was watching the light move east, I heard a Helicopter in the north. I watched it as it moved east, but then it stopped and became stationary. It hovered in the same location facing the object until I saw the object dim out. Then it began to move again. I was convinced that the Pilot & Passengers of the helicopter were watching the object. And I just checked with my friend again and he said he remembers a Helicopter in the area when he saw three lights in formation rotating in the sky. He told me before, but I excluded it from my last report, as I didn't think it had any relevance. But now, it has put a whole new angle on the situation. I have footage of the Helicopter, but it is too blurred to review. Unfortunately, I was too busy watching the light, I forgot to get my camera, but next time I will make sure it is available. Just checking outside now, I can see two helicopters moving about East of my position. I am unsure how many are "patrolling" the skies, but if they come close to my house, I will try to note their ID numbers and check it out with the airport. I think there has been a spike 25 THE BIG PICTURE: WORLDWIDE UFO SIGHTINGS of objects in my area, although, I have only started observing a few months ago, so perhaps these objects may have existed in my area prior to my knowledge. Also, I think I may be the only person in my area that is actually reporting descriptions of these objects on this site, or on any site. If there is anyone in my area or anywhere on the far eastern parts of New South Wales & Queensland, Please occasionally check the skies in your area for any strange Orange or White Moving lights, or anything out of the ordinary. COURTESY OF Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research USA HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA August 19th 2005 Over Huntsville, Alabama Round Chrome Colored Ball Observed From Aircraft Time: Approx: 6:10 p.m. HBCC UFO Research Note: I am looking into this sighting as I have a number of excellent sources in the state of Alabama who may be able to shed some light on this, or at least be able to look into this sighting. But in the mean time, if anyone should have any information that might be important on this event, would you please be kind enough to contact me. Thank you, Brian. I had been in Atlanta for a couple of days. I was flying home with a business associate. We were in his private plane. He is a pilot, so he was at the controls on his small plane (4 person aircraft / piper). He did not see this, and I have not even mentioned it to him. I did not mention it to him when it happened either. I was embarrassed as to even know how to try to discuss it as he and I are not good friends, but instead only associates, and this was the very first time I had been around him much. It was also the first time I had been up in his plane as well. So, the last thing I wanted to do was to start telling this guy I don't know very well, about how I just saw a UFO during our first business trip together in his plane. Here is my story, and will try not to change it from the "exact" facts only. It was August 19, 2005 at approx 6:10 p.m. on my watch (set to west Tennessee time). We were flying home from Atlanta. I was looking out the window towards the ground just watching. I haven't been up in a small plane but once before, so this was fun to me and I was just enjoying watching the ground. I noticed below us what seemed to look like maybe a chrome ball, or maybe a Mylar balloon? It basically looked sort of chrome in colour and round. It seemed to be about maybe 500 to 1000 feet away (I knew distance because we had recently had a plane pass under us and the pilot said he was about 1000 feet below us). Anyway, I saw this round, chrome coloured ball below us (between us and the ground). It seemed to me to be approx 1000 feet below us (or so). It began to move upward and sort of toward us. I thought maybe it was a balloon. However, I remembered we were "moving" in a plane so we should have passed by it, if it was a slow rising balloon. It didn't act like a balloon any- way. I am looking out the window watching this ball rise towards us. It seemed like maybe it was rising slow at first (or stopped), then within maybe 3-6 seconds or so, it rose up to the same altitude as our plane, then moved sideways (as if it were parallel with us and moved in the opposite direction as what we were flying). I had to turn my head backward to watch it move by through the back seat area glass (I was in the front passenger seat). Then, as it moved by us, it seemed to shoot up really fast and vanish. Basically within about 10 seconds or so from the moment I saw it, it rose up to our level, was about maybe 100 feet away (when at our level), moved sideways (like going opposite direction as us), then swooped upwards (a lot faster than it was moving before) and vanished. 26 THE BIG PICTURE: WORLDWIDE UFO SIGHTINGS I was a little scared and did not know what I saw. I did not say anything to the pilot about it as I just did not know what to say. I did however, ask him right away "Where Are We Right Now?" and "How High Up Are We?" I thought this may come in handy somehow later if I wanted to try and investigate this. I had no idea where we were (above what state or city etc) as I am not familiar with plane routes. So I had no idea where we were. Anyway, he told me we were above Huntsville, Alabama and we were at 6000 feet. I then looked at my watch at noted it was about 6:10 p.m. (my watch set at time zone of my home in West TN). I am not sure if that would be the same time in Huntsville, Alabama or not. I did not see this out of the corner of my eye. It was pretty clear skies and I watched it clearly. It appeared to be something like a "round ball" and looked sort of chrome in colour. I have no idea of the size, as the distance would be sort of hard to gauge in the air for me but if I had to guess I'd say maybe 5 to 20 feet in diameter??? COURTESY OF Brian Vike, Director, HBCC UFO Research USA ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA August 13th 2005 California Objects Disappearing Date: August 13, 2005 Time: Approx: 9:45 p.m. Number of witnesses: 4 Number of objects: 3 Shape of objects: Bright orange/yellow circular. Full Description of event/sighting: Outside my patio I looked up to see a bright light. It was overcast so there were no stars. My boyfriend and I started to watch this bright light as it faded in and out. We then noticed two other objects appear from nowhere. They crisscrossed each other and then the two disappeared. All the while the main one pulsed. They then reappeared on the other side of the horizon, zigzag again in the V shape. During this time my two kids came out to see what it was. Again they disappeared and reappeared in another part of the sky with the V shape downward zigzag. They faded across the horizon. They flew at a rate of speed that is unmatched by our planes (that we are told of) and none of a planes usual lights being that it only had one each that was visible. The main seemed to melt slightly down and then up as it pulsed. 4 people witnessed this over a 10-15 minute period. MEXICO MEXICO CITY August 17th 2005 MEXICO: UFO PHOTOGRAPHED NORTH OF MEXICO CITY We have received the following information from Prof. Ana Luisa Cid in Mexico: "Photo taken to the north of Mexico City by Gerardo Nieto Cid, 14, son of researcher Ana Luisa Cid. This photo was taken on August 17, 2005 at 11:51 hours with a 4 megapixel digital camera. "The strange structure was not visible to onlookers until 27 UFO MONTHLY.COM CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED BY CHEQUE, POSTAL ORDER OR VIA EBAY. SERVICE DELIVERY UFO Monthly.com can be obtained in two different ways. 1. As an email attachment. 2. On a CDROM. SUBSCRIPTIONS TARIFFS—UK UK— Email attachment at £1.50 per issue or 12 months subscription for £18. 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