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1DITOR IN CHIEF g DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE

PRESIDENT 8 C.O.O.; KATHY KEETON VP/EDITOR: KEITH FERRELL EXECUTIVE VPVGHAPIIICSUIRLCIOH f-RANKDEVINO

DEPARTMENTS

Cosmic Conspiracy: Six Decades of Government UFO

Cover-ups, Part I By Dennis Stacy The firsl of si FIRST IAJDRD

SELLING THE MIND SHORT: Exposing the myth of psychic privilege

By Keith Harary

Disseminating propagar- questionable tests of psyc powers to the public.

rational thinking with my objections. One such author The popular concept t

seemingly plausible lies. I was a privately encouraged me to pro-

teenager when I first believed mote myself as a psychic, saying called psychic abilities, wh lie the that there was something that by rejecting the concept, I are not directly related to ot about me of anybody else that '

could properly t money. I also find chic." A part of me relt sick whan myself credited in print with be- liefs and accomplishments that

I felt way when I smoked my first have no basis in fact. Propagan- not know enough about the cigarette. There was something underlying structure of reality to compelling and forbidden about conclude that the laws of nature

the experience, and something I also knew could eventually do likely that we do not fully under-

Whether you believe in the exist- sufficiently explored the inner-

slaughter— I was naive, search- ence of these supposedly extra- most boundaries of perception, ing for something meaningful to ordinary people or believe those communication, and intelligence.

do with my life. More than that. I who claim to be psychic are de- We cannot conclude that some- was about to becorro a p-ocs luded or fraudulent is irrelevant. thing impossible is happening ganda magnet. The apriority fig simply because we do not com- a .iriety ol inner experiences prehend all the subtle and com- from your concept of normal plicated ways In which the mind '. anity. That den al diminishes processes information.

s of your own ooiarnal. That tr " chic" to explain my pencr-iance '. ?is the sales of c in a parapsychology o*peii

I did not yet know enough the politics of parapsycnoiogy to "To label anyone realize that those who present a psychic Is themselves as authorities often tv tie i iv the limits are entrapped within their own el dui under- standing and pre- competence is not the only coin tend la hare of the realm in the field. reliable answers Propaganda is infectious. to quasi ions thai have vet lo in psychologi be asked."

psychology experiments. I cannot point to any evidence indicating that humanity can

tween psychics and nonpsy- chics. Having once believed

the lie about myself. I finally

tinue to find myself cast in the role Of a psycnic charac;i other people s n'yToloai

find myself described as i chic in many recent parap: connnnuruicATiorus BOBQUCCIONE

READERS' WRITES: Surpassing the spoken word, tourist attractions, and the right to be frozen

New World Model Will they find the lop quark ["The Lasl Greal Experiment," January 1994]? Prob- n effectively b

ably not. Does il matter? Yes. After count- ;h of apei less millions have been spent smash- When we interpret £ ing atoms logether at high speeds, sci- visualise what we are taking in, wheth-

er it is by feet or by sound. Dolphin; on the other hand, having developed sc standard model. The one constant in all nar, are able to take advantage of the

the heavens is the force of motion. It is very things Kramer is trying to make hap-

the only singular force and it is the pre- pen for humans. Imagine being able to

: S.--StVfL.'! r. il.i» Cl-.i' : requisite to all others. Wouldn't it be in- not only tell some art: .By™ Pacta umaryfiaft teresting if motion iiseif were the funda- dy is pregnant, bui describe Ihe

;.:. .". : . " . :. . . I mental quanta of nature? The roadblock length, size, and approximate health ol

] lop quark is giving the fetus without using any kind of (eve Naae. Olfloes: 1965 Broadway.' New 'rwk, N :023-SSB5, Telephone (212) 496-6100, Tale; the physic: 3, for chinery. You simply say, "Bleep," and S3712S. fi»{ate)SBW893 I i persists, physicists v. everything is perfectly understood.

(heir imagination:-; ngair John F. Palermo stretch beyond the bounc Round Bock, TX views held today. ^SsnlM^'SuoWjaneftomlis™ Wrong Eye ADVERTISING AND MARKETING Ms. Dobkin de Rios [First Word, Janu ary 1994) writes from the standpoint of Stiff Prospects the "armchair adventurer," obviously hav-

If Cryonics ["Please Freeze Me," Janu- ing never even been to the Amazon re ary 1994] catches on, we must consid- gion let alone had any personal expe

! ' •. er for rience . ,. , what the future might hold the with ayahuasca. Learning from stiffs. After all, perhaps a Ihousand the mistakes of their neighbors in Bra-

years from now, who will be responsi- zil. Peruvian natives throughout th ble for defrosting these icemen? Who will accept the responsibility for provid- prises that do not destroy their natural ing social resources for hordes of "ter- habitat and which can be indefinitely

mina'ly" iil and (certainly by then] woe- sustainable; tourism and sightsee' fully ignorant, undereducated humans? the bill perfectly. And while I'm A few for novelty science research and there are unscrupulous people in th historical clarification might be wel- azon passing themselves off as

come, but what if freezing should be- mans, making "mixtures of 13 or more

come a basic legal right? And what if different psychedelic plants." they're

' i thawed for not the ones who should be broad only 98

percent of tt stic? Who you gonna sue? Ronald A. Schmidt ADMINISTRATION Garland. TX Got si eto

'-.^.-- 1 .'>* .V^'-:hr.-.i:' rii-i-iS.'! : le? Call (900) 2B5-5483. Your . comments will be recorded and may in- I commend Gregory Kramer [Art 'ca Appear in an upcoming issue of telligence, January 1994] ami the Omji: The cost for the call is 95 : NCSA for their combhed e io cc"ts per minute. You must be age Ihe development of new ways of trans 18 or older. Touch-tone phones on- mining complex masses of Information , Sponsored by Pure Entertain- to the human m n-ci .-.i the nurj ment P.O. Box 166, Hollywood, es. However, I'm afraid the effort s wast- C.i ifomia 90078. ed upon our species. As Robin Bar gar — — FDRunn

ANNOUNCING PROJECT OPEN BOOK: Omni's inquiry into the UFO phenomenon

By Keith Ferrell

'his is a special issue of Hearsay and rumor—which run and the world. An Open Book. Omni, one that's likely to rife in the UFO community The Project starts now. We be controversial, and is don't count. What's required for a start by laying the historical frankly designed to be provoca- scientific investigation is evi- groundwork. This issue, we tive. Our subject is alleged alien dence, documentation, fact. All begin a multipart series that will, presence in our skies and of which are in short supply in month by month, look back at the among our population, and the the UFO phenomenon. leading stories of alleged cover- possibility of government cover- At the heart of the phenome- ups over the past half century. ups both here and abroad of non, fueling many of the stories, Beyond that, we'll look toward alien spacecraft and beings. Our lies consistent and unfortunate the future, toward avoiding or

approach is uniquely Omni. government mishandling of overcoming the confusion and

It's time, we feel, to clear the alleged encounter investigations. misinformation that too often sur- air about UFOs, close encoun- (Not just our government: Read round UFO materials. ters of any kind, abductions, and Jim Oberg's look at Russian UFO We also provide you with the all the kinds and classes research in this issue.) Whether tools to seek information on your of alleged extraterrestrial —or there are or aren't any encoun- own. Check out the "Freedom ters, the government's posture Fighters Handbook" this month, Project Open has been to classify and confuse and add your voice to those call- Book is Omni's its research, leading to an envi- ing for government files to be initiative ronment perfect for paranoia. opened to public scrutiny. aimed at clear- And paranoia is so appealing, You're part of this. We wel- ing the UFO so romantic. There is an aura come your submissions to phenomenon of of mystery, of secrets we're Project Open Book. If you have foolishness, not allowed to apprehend, of evidence—evidence that can be false information, cover-ups and conspiracies. It's backed up, supported, and con- mistrust, so easy to assume someone else firmed six ways from Sunday

and groundless is in control. send it to Omni: Project Open paranoia. It's time for the secrecy to end. Book, 324 West Wendover

It's time for us to take control. Avenue, Suite 205, Greensboro, That's why Omni is inaugurat- North Carolina, 27408, or join us ing, with this issue, Project Open in the new Project Open Book

Book. If its name reminds you in section of Omni Online, available some ways of the government's through America Online, where long-suspended Project Blue you will be able to post your sto- Book, that's not by accident. ries, engage in debates, and Put simply, Project Open Book add your voice to the mix. is Omni's effort to provide a Send copies of your materials, clearinghouse for hard, docu- and keep the originals in a safe extradimensional or extratempo- mented information about alien place. While we promise to treat ral—visitation. To open the topic encounters, and especially about submissions with respect, we to the hard light of rational scien- government cover-ups of alleged cannot guarantee their return,

tific and journalistic inquiry. encounters. Omni is ready to nor can we guarantee a re- We are not speaking of tabloid take a look, hopeful of arriving at sponse to every submission we sensationalism or special-effects some answers. receive. wish fulfillment. No E.T. No One way or the other. We have We do guarantee that submis- supermarket flying saucers. no ax to grind; we do not sions able to stand up to the

It's a simple question. Is there approach the topic as "true scrutiny of scientific and journal- evidence of alien presence on believers" nor do we dismiss the istic investigation will be shared Earth, and have governments possibility of extraterrestrial pres- with the world. suppressed that evidence? We ence out of hand. For better or Together, we can put an end can answer that, can't we? worse, we are willing to examine to the foolishness that surrounds The essence of science is the question seriously, to investi- this fascinating topic. skepticism; the watchword of the gate worthwhile reports, to share Welcome to Project Open scientific method is proof. the information with our readers Book. DO 10 OMNI STARS

COMPUTING THE UNIVERSE: Immense simulations model billions of years of cosmic evolution

By Steve Nadis

COM model « only off by a factor of two. T experiment with other types of dark matter until the picture the

computer spifs out is with that produced by as- ""gently mapping

model that has lertschinger most excited is based on "mixed /dark

evolution Horn mil- lions of years alter Ihe Big Bang

darings of 23 million pi problems. On the ot Even though the interactions are calculations of Bertschinger and problem may lie wil based on simple laws of gravity themselves.

" iv that CDM "simulating th three centuries ago, the resultanl may. in fact, be adjusted to a very tricky business." motions are complex and often account for these mammoth con- While Bertschinger acknowl- counterintuitive, gtomerates. But then individual edges that there are limits to

1 j .- - ;,,:. 1 " i: -ll-'ir-;.' B i j r C 1 -Vld oiroi'S what we can glean from simula- are focusing on one of the cen- hings tions alone, he's confident that

tral problems of cosmology: how. !. The picture out. "Although I'm pessimistic the Big Bang, matter came to largest and smallest scales. about CDM. I'm optimistic by arrange itself in the patterns Cosmologists wouldn't have

strings of galaxies, galaxy clus- computer simulations, explains ters, and clusters of clusters, University of Toronto astrophysi- separated by giant voids, cist Nick Kaiser, because the FUfUDS

U.S. GOVERNMENT AUCTIONS: Bargain prices on everything from cars to the Coral Sea

By Linda Marsa

laboratory equipment like micrc merchandise and then figure out scopes, centrifuges, and sign; what comparable items would HE generators; office furniture; corr cost if they were being sold re- puters; electronic gear; and mor- tail. To avoid getting swept up in than 40,000 used autos a year. bidding fever— and overpaying Neiman Marcus Christmas cat- Other federal agencies like th for something you don't really alog. Inventory runs the gamut Resolution Trust Corporatio want— determine exactly what from cars, office furnishings, jew- hoi;: ou:"ji.c sales to you want to buy and how much els, ambulances, Rolex watches, you intend to spend, and stick to and raw land from foreclosures ers, military jeeps, NASA tracking and failed SSL's. The U.S. Post- one auction as an observer just systems, and the aircraft carrier al Service unloads goods— teie- to get a feel for the action. "Take

Coral Sea. ;. CDs no money," advises Tesh, "and With a little luck and legwork. claimed packages. The Depart- keep your hands in your pocket." shrewd shoppers can get good ment of Defense would be happy Remember, all sales are final. to sell you, among other things, Once you've made a winning bid, And for backyard inventors, the your very own DC-10. And the you're obligated to buy the prop- chance to comb through: leftcve's DEA, the Customs Service, the erty; the feds won't show much

1, from government labor ax ci car U.S. Marshals, and the IRS ped- sympathy it you're suddenly strick- dle contraband confiscated from en with buyer's remorse. Most neyland. "Some Trekkies snap up drug lords, crime bosses, and tax places require a guaranteed melh- every electronic gizmo in sight," delinquents. od of payment like a money or- says Bill Tesfi, chief of sales for Though streel-level drug deal- der, certified check, or cash, the General Services Administra- ers tend to adorn themselves tion (GSA). "One even used gov- wifh gaudy baubles, crime king- fied ads that "promise inside in- ernment surplus to outfit his pins' tastes are decidedly up- formation on how to buy exotic truck like the starshrp Enterprise." scale. They collect expensive an- items at government auctions for The GSA, for instance, sells tiques, art—an Impressionist paint- jrbe svable prices," warns ing seized from a money launder- Carole Collins of the Consumer In- er recently fetched $136,000— formation Center of the GSA, and rare coins. "Drug dealers like They're usually bogus. You can get all the information you need transport," says Dean Echols of about government sales from Un- Manhf Ali:!:c cle Sam himself. which handles many government The GSA publishes a free book- let. The U.S. General Services airport with $500,000 worfh of Administration Guide to Federal coins in your pocket and no one Government Sales, that lists will suspect." /,ri -: iedera agency s sellirici But don't expect to pick up a what, notification procedun

Porsche for $100 or a yacht for I tips on how to $200. since professional buyers get a

) Consumer Informa- tion Center. Dept. 601Z, Pueblo, valued items. And don't think you Colorado 81009. Major sales by can outsmart the pros. "Amateurs the U.S. Marshals Service are ad-

can get good deals if they're care- vertised on the third Wednesday ful," says Echols, "but they're not of every month in the classified going to steal anything." section of USA Today (or call Do take advantage of the in- Manheim Auctions al 8(X)-???-

spection period beforehand, 9885). And don't be surprised if usually on the previous sometime soon the GSA puts sal- vage from the Super Collider on i begins. Carefully e> lethe the auction block. DO ELECTRONIC Modem Is A Lot UfUIV/ERSE A PCMCIA

HOLLYWOOD INTERACTIVE: Like An Oreo. PC-based movie games put you in the action

By Gregg Keizer

nough talk about mings may make you sguin jugh n

don't the s r if thi

think any of i been badly spliced, Alexander Morris, gathering e yahoos they're the fault of current hard- clues and objects as you probe ware limitations, not the software the strange circumstances of ending. Movies by committee designer. Down the digital high- your brother's death. You're on would be about as much fun as way, full-screen, full-motion inter- the prowl for vampires, the Count voting—and as ultimately unsat- isfying to the losing minority. desktop, and to the TV, too.

It's different on the computer. Today, though, you i small chunks, inter-

Although PC cinema sha-es rails Inlng lr with ihe theater- and TV-based your home com- watch. The in i in Dracula interactive movies that next-wave puter. They may come disguised futurists tout—you play a part in as games, but they're as much game's grapiic adve'-orfc-siyli; the b the for watching as for playing. Take e events, rat the video. If you're follow your Media Vision's Critical Path, lor at the right place at the right the computer, you, and only you, instance. The plot's bones are a time, you'll hear and see ctues are in control. Vou're not a slave bit bare: After your chopper's that will take you to more places, to the wishes ot strangers. crashed on a tropical island, you more people. You affect Ihe sio- Plopped on CD-ROM discs. guide Kat, your one uninjured ... io , -j- piac comrade, through Generalissimo it these Inside. my v Minh's factory, a maze filled with these people. The Stuff That Matters Is e filmlike titles typically booby traps and bloodthirsty This approach is a bit less their moving pictures in a m goons in orange outfits. Robotics' exclusive, it handshakes ture window and run ther You don't control Kat as much Anyone can whip up a modem with U.S. about half the speed of tel work under 10 seconds. an off-the-shelf chip set and someone and gets to in sion. Such size and speed si back. You can send brief mes- the telling than in Critical Path. Still, with impressive production With Adaptive Speed Leveling (ASL)"' sages—turn right, turn left, yes, else's technology. In fact, that's exactly values professional cast of no. that sort of thing—and when and a WorldPort makes what most PCMCIA manufacturers do. another USR exclusive, the she gets in a jam. you can acti- aciors. it's a big G\c-p up from the the factory'; cartoonlike animation ol most the most of inconsistent phone li nes, slow- vate The WorldPortl" however, is no cookie- sting t computer adventures. A split ing down for bad connections, and remote-ci ' mb up, cutter modem. F^n or stopping the conveyer belt speeding right up again when condi- Inside every high-speed WorldPotr is On!; rh.- Wur'fc !l-.iii;:s '\'x rr.nliiliniun she's riding toward a fiery fur- DSP-based tech- ViiMil'Lit. i-limiiurv; h- :K;ii Im ,m ;A:v:j. tions improve. nace. Clues to the access codes U.S. Robotics' Courier'

vsid'. 'niiiHi! i.tUs. link: i Hi ms "Jiinu- And. A WorldPort is also highly intuitive. The nology. The same modem technology The this. for is Acujws inter- scattered throughout the diaboli- One to watch there are no oqrad n "Ik Woiifc s setup is easy. The commands are flexible. majoi companies like , Software's Under the Killing implemented by :;;.. ::.:fiii.K,:ii!i(r2lcotlIima. Moon, a two-disk action extrava- CompuServe, DuPom, General Electric It's i'it; easy to use. The result is an engrossing ganza that stars Margot Kidder Getting the WorldPort is easy, too. It's action-adventure movie. Hard- and US. West. This core technology makes WBRtDPORf stiff, ot ware demands are though: combination computer-gener- just including fax and communi- WorldPort fast, accurate and easy to use. S399, tPC o ated 3-D animation and realtime the CD-ROM video, Killing Moon promises to The WotldPoitrunsatfaxot 1-800-DIAL-USR cation software. you'd like to know more up to 14,400 If four megabytes of memory to As higher- powered hardware data speeds

tf about the WorldPort and watch and play Critical Path, bps- (57,600 bps with you have that on your desktop, And what it can do for von, call showing data compression.) flobotics is up. get bigger, better looking, i 1-800-DIAL-USR today. with QuickConnect;' a jhe Intelligent Choice in Data Communications more ambitious. Just make E don't spill the you popcorn w L'i Ruhnia. Inc VmliStn. .«l HAit^ow Spud lnduail. Qui* jxhei zid ^inEiHf ne mknyila ol US > L'S. lUnka ud ihr USEUwui k«> bt iq^nxl rnkmukK* you're punching buttons. DO SPACE KID STUFF

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (BUT SEND MONEY FIRST): BRINGING THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMMED: than Cooperating with Russia in space may prove less a t Science in Motion carries modern science into schools

By Jerry Grey By Peter Callahan

collapse of the Soviet Space Agency for $52 million for The was the kind of scene every pened to science educator in a Union brought a lot of two Mir missions, the Russians Itteacher dreams about: A high - long time," says Erma Anderson opportunity !o the trou- school student, seeing a van that because of a lack of resourc- of the National Science Teacher's bled nation's weary citizens, to former Soviel Union's $17,000 per extra kilogram car- filled with science equipment Association's Scope Sequence its ground-breaking governing technical capabilities could fuel ried to the station, $53,000 for pull up to the campus, ran up to changed. I could almost have and Coordination Project, "it's a of former Soviet every hour cosmonauts spend Eleanor Siegriest excitedly. "The been sitling in Ihe same school I blessing to small rural districts in while over the conlracted-for two hours community. Many U.S. govern- power, Ihe U.S. chem van is here! The chem van was sitting in thirty-five years ago. where a big problem is a lack of per day, and so on. The Russian But the practice of chemistry has materials. Bringing the equipment also insisted— Space Agency we going to have the chem van changed in that lime." to schools has a lasting impres-

i and the United States ag opening of reed- today?" When Siegriest, a chem- Juniata applied to the Nation- sion. It's something students can't million per from Rui that NASA pay $100 istry teacher at Hollidaysburg Ar- al Science Foundation for a get from a textbook. sales." the big- front for using But year up Mir and High School in central Penn- grant, and soon a van filled with This hands-on approach is the risk for space-station design la create gest faced by design work on sylva it the backbone of the program, says is a crew- U.S. partners thai elements. is just dropping olf equip- on the road, setting up labs at a Siegriest, providing a they depend on criti- Despite the Russians' sky- rescue vehicle ment, the student persisted. "But particular school for a day or drop- Jlof tl cal components man- rocketing charges, NASA top we have to have it! It's here!" ping off equipment that teachers brass, along with sc That a van filled with nuclear ra- had learned to use during sum- had one pH meter, and I had to don monitors and spectrophotom- mer workshops held at the col- show them. The van brings a doz-

eters could inspire the kind of en- lege. From the beginning it was an lab equipment apart that the motivation for using at an alarming main thusiasm kids usually reserve for a hit; recently, a program to sup- use them themselves, which is a lhat schools former Soviet technology space the three-o'clock bell is a glowing port biology teachers was added. lot more interesting. Wouldn't you can use to im- national econ- is to reduce highly Soviel costs—a is of a "For the kids, it's something dif- rather do something than watch unlikely prospect. Integrating iby ferent," says Tom Ferko. who op- do it?" DO space systems based on differ- erates the western Pennsylvania cerns, olher Western practices, requirements, operat- thing they've never seen before. dismayed by the bud- ing specifications, and manufac- I tell them that this will get them get-driven vacillations Foiinsylvs over the initial shock of using new in never less single of Ihe United States cost than a sys- e50a high equipment in a college chemis- cooperative re- programs tem. Apollo-Soyuz, which schools to lead workshops e only interface 3uch as the space quired one be- troduce students :o sophisticr-tec More important, perhaps, is station, continue to tween two dissimilar spacecraft, inslrumenis that few schools the lasting effect the program has court the Russians. In cost the United States nearly a r>p some participants. Ryan half-billion 1975 dollars and took The vans, each stocked wth - Aerospatiale signed a two years to accomplish. more than $100,000 wort! cf cnem van as a student at Ind deal to build and mar- That doesn't mean NASA equipment and operated by a v;:i< ; , H;;ii School, attributes ket a joint French- shouldn't cooperate with Russia teacher who works hand in hand decision to study chemistry in ( and the other Eastern republics. with Ihe classroom instructor, of- lege pa'tly to the van's visits will help Cooperation sustain fer an invaluable supplemen i" hsscicoi "My first exper' nations' fragile politi- ;' ble Vostoh. In addi- those new the kind of traditional book lea n ;o ;:i- tion, a French govern- cal structures and at the same jdents and ment-industry team time bring to the West valuable in ieachir'3 a chemistry, and I got interested technology and capabilities. But u ways to pump i fe francs support pur- lion to the United States shouldn't nsp.-od by the success of Juni- Russian flight tests of cooperalion on the question- sue in Mo ata s program, two schools— Pur- a supersonic combus- tion project, says Don Mi due University and Occidental Col- ramjet (scramjet) certainly should tion money. We chemistry professor at Juniata Col- lege—have developed similar out- a technology in which lege and coordinator of the pro- reach projects of their own. Many wide with our eyes open .DO gram. Working with high-school in the education field believe pro- d Slates. teachers, Mitchell and his col- grams like these are vital for the Jerry Grey is director of aero- leagues found t future, where an increasingly tech- discovering tnsy science policy the are space ana at ed things for their students to cro nology-driven society demands a struck such a b;.r;j;:ih. American Institute of Aeronautics as well as updated training for better- prepared work force. Russia's big Energia soaking the European and Astronautics. a need Mitchell rec- coruTiruuunn FUTURETALK IN WEST VIRGINIA: Preparing for the millennium. Plus, a decidedly different kind of nuclear power, and how refrigerators fight kidney disease

Berkeley Springs, WV—A casual visitor and suffers would not take this tiny spa town nestled from an image of backwardness, yet at- up against Warm Springs Mountain for a tracts people like one couple who

hotbed of thinking about the future. In moved there from Colorado because "it

fact, it's the past that seems to dominate. has a rural environment and small com-

George Washington, after all, bathed munities that still have the ability lo look hers tor the (irsi lime ?45 years ago. He at the future and plan their own destiny." named the town Bath, bought land, and Just what is that destiny? "The world is returned repeatedly to take the waters going to come lo VJssf Virginia," predicts with his Revolutionary War cronies. The lo- poet Pat Love, clad in a red plaid shirt, cal museum flaunts Ihe town's history, tour- from his perch on a barstool in Tari's din- ist accommodations tend toward the Vic- ing room. "We have some of the only torian and country styles, and most of the clean air, clean water left on the East shops visitors see sell antiques, not com- Coast." Love says we all must find solu- puters or electronic gadgets. tions to the problems in our Yel last winter, on seven different oc- we must find the needs in ou ties and take care of them. pacity crowd of 40 people to dine on del- As the March winds whistled outside, icacies such as Jamaican jerked chicken the amateur futurists brainstorming in the or spicy Thai steak salad and spend the cozy dining room had no trouble pinpoint- cvoni'ig la

It really started because of the nature of In small towns, the filmmakers to shoot on location in Vtest Vir- the people who move here—they need courthouse is more than a typical small town has to Hi* hub of political life. to make up for a lag in technology and offer." And, Hampe adds, because spur an economic and educational Jeanne Mazier— resident as:r<;l"u;-'i\ writer, public-relations of nonprofit organizations to collaborate consultant, and movie-theater operator—is really into addressing problem; ;j-.--> as pevo'vy and environmental predicting the future. ' provision of sanitary living accommodations m years from the millennium," Mozier said, for the people who lack them now; and increased but

To her, this suggested a sh li from dominance to coopera- m to add fuel to the economy. tion, from 1 to 2. male to female, ecological thinking as op- How will all this happen? "This state can take some of the posed to linear Nineteen ninety-three was a uniquely sig- st ideas and incorporate them into how we run things." 2 Totalprotection from wev; i\ft' r,j nukr timi hisee used today Passport" 4500 SuperWlrk $229 nificant year because of ning tooeihe.' o' Ihe placets says Ooslia Mas-lie. Efismf. Panhandle bureau chief for Uranus and Neptune. "With these two planets coming togeth- West Virgi Public Radio. "If another state has good 3 Innovative laser technologyfrom the company which introduced er, you are going to get either dissolution or the blowing apart things, we and bring them here."

' of theexistingform,"shesaid. "This is the time to be f David Welch, a Berkeley Springs resident who works as ing about what's on the other side of this change. We a media consultant to Republican candidates all over the coun- 4 Complete SuperWide Ka pm/ecfmn it slh m> mfsitmly Ins an opportunity— a chance to envision Ihe future." try, thinks part of the answer may lie in continuing discus- neiro. held ias; winter "While grow- 5 Exclusive DPR'"Anti-Falsing circuitry to m [-aoh pr^gr.-iiiiadii'ossor; as;x>;;r'.o sueh a. sions like the ones there's a ucation 2000. Art 2000, or Vfest Virginia 2000. Speake ing frustration with the political system and those who run it, eluded a professor of education, a local politi people are finding that coming together as ordinary citizens *. a homeopath, a public-radio mayb* et for their anger and creativity |i ?,' i;-

' "' 7 Unconditional JO day mom-v back guarantee reporter, and a numerologi ing their congressman he says ihiiK a seed is bsnr.: ola'ii- One of the liveli ed (in the discussions), but it may take time to break ESCORT ia, which ranks at< through the ground and bear fruit."—ELLEN HOFFMAN , "

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technical radiation, Herial about the measure. Andrew PheroTech, attracts worker hand as HOB and HVA. says, and are "indicative Martin, president of New bees, which gather pollen A synthetic version of the of an early pathogenic proc- England Appliance Recovery from flowers. pheromone could prove

ess, as in fact il may occur at Systems in Woburn, Massa- "Clearly, if we are able to The scientists first docu- invaluable not only in the actual start of cancer." chusetts, saw an opportunity mented queen mandibular managed crop pollination,

Another researchr-r how- to pUt *e new law to good the kind of sociochemical pheromone and the workers' because it stimulates pollen control the queen exercises resulting behavior in the foraging by worker bees,

conclusions are hai' batted prog-a— started in 1991, called queen r within the colony," Slessor mid 1980s, but pinpointing but also in "monitoring and ':.'•• Bernard Blanc of the Swiss n".idenls wishing to get pheromone. Now £ says, "we can dramatically the pheromone's compo- potential control of honeybee

Federal Institute of Tech no ol ;; ;l refrigerators at Simon Fraser University expand the economic value nents required running some diseases," Slessor says.

nology and University n can ced the National Kidney in Vancouver possess the of an already beneficial 3,000 bioassays. It turns —George Nob be Lausanne, who wo'ied 01 Foundation of Massachu- queen's secret as well: out that the compound, the study with Hertel oji setts. wnich then contacts They've identified its rive Most of the pheromone s produced by the mandibular "The unleashed power of dissociated himself from r/iitir's company to arrange major ingredients, and produced by the queen are

it shortly thereafter, claims for a p ckup. A fraction of the they're testing the effective- forms of d' lenged everything except that Hertel is spreao ".g d sposa fee goes to the ness of a diluted synthetic pounds that help bees mate, two aromatic compounds our way ol thinking. "fallacious informaliO' Fojrcation to support kidney spray in increasing the fruit recognize their nest, and —Albert tn>s<&!' Blanc disagrees vehemently with Hertel's conclusions MAKE ELECTRICITY, i^BV^*'~^i^H and says the blood tests DURING AN AVERAGE THE HUMAN BRAIN CONTAINS NOT WAR didn't indicate a "predisposi- LIFETIME, A HUMAN SOME 1 BILLION NERVE CELLS, EACH OF WHICH F" 1 BEING BREATHES 500 HAS SOME 25,000 POSSIBLE Ralph Moir, a physicist of any pathological state." at the Lawrence Livermore At the least, Hertel MILLION TIMES. INTERCONNECTIONS WITH OTHER NERVE CELLS. National Laboratory, has counters, the study should L J spent the past three dec- motivate more research. "Nol b ^3 ades trying to harness one other study has been research. The Foundation quality and yield of flower- nuclear fusion—the energy done on the hazards of ing crops that rely on the of the stars—for electric produced by a large power microwaves with regard to became a kidney-dialysis honeybee for pollination. irpher power generation. Moir has plant. Moir doesnt yet radiated food," he says. patient in 1979. Chemist Keith N. Slessor class called "pr explored the two leading advocate the concept be- —Jim Stiak "Because of the poor and biologist Mark L. Winston mones, and it inhibits the approaches: magnetic con- cause he still lacks safety economy here, we didn't report encouraging results rest of the hive from raising finement and inertial con- and economic analyses. want to keep soliciting cash from preliminary tests on a new queen, much less finement. Sadly, achieving "But this is something performed donations," explains Andrew pear trees, cranberries, and crowning her. That message fusion has proved elusive. we can do today, unlike general, Malgieri. the Foundation's blueberries. The chemical, spreads through the Moir wondered whether other fusion strategies, he reports, the blood Undei a provision of the development director. "We licensed to a company there might be an easier which is why we oughl to samples from the people federal Clean Air Act. the started asking people for route to fusion. He teamed think about it." who ate foods cooked irtcntonal release of chlo- something langible, and up with Liver more 's Abra- Massachusetts Institute Hans U. Hertel. who tan ic' jcrccarbons (CFCs), what's more tangible than ham Szoke to investigate a of Technology fusion expert .' • the Environ menial-Bio logical . .1 .depleting chemicals, a refrigerator?" 'aoica. orcposi: on. ^c:; nci Martin Greenwald is skepti- -.11 : Research Laboratory in and typical signs c" ">"k i; t-.f. illegal on July 1 New England Appliance cal. "Its hard enough Wattenwil until spring 1993, The volunteers' eryth-ocytes •yx~, designed to save the Recovery Systems now takes when he was appointed (red blood cells), leukcoy'.w; earth's ozone layer, the bill in some 500 refrigerators ground cavity and using the dumps,' he says. "Who's European president of the (white blood cells) and also changes tie way people a week— a figure projected going to want nuclear Wforld Foundation (or cholesterol increase:— h d sposc of refrigerators, to rise to 1,500 per week. steam that would drive a explosives going off every Natural Science, claims lo strong sign of stress Hsrtel freezers, and air condition- The company extracts CFCs turbine generator. Moir and hour on the hour?" says. At the same iir-e. ere The contraptions can no and saves them for reuse; Szoke figure they d have Moir admits he hasn t sinister changes in the blood the hemoglobin (thr; Oiyje" longe- oe left on the it also salvages steel, cop- found a groundswell of of people who eat micro- carrying pail ol the blood) sidewa

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ightning flashed over Corona, New Mexico, and thunder rattled the thin windowpanes of the

small shack where ranch foreman Mac Brazel slept. Brazel was used to summer thunder- l; he was suddenly brought wide awake by a loud explosion thai set the dishes in the kitchen sink dancing. Sonotabitch, he thought to himself before sinking back to sleep, the sheep

will be scattered halfway between hell and nigh water come dawn.

In the morning, Brazel rode out on horseback, accompanied by seven-year-old Timothy Proctor,

to survey the damage. According to published accounts, Brazel and young Proctor stumbled

across something unearthly—a field of tattered debris two to three hundred yards wide stretching

some three-quarters of a mile in length. No rocket scientist, Brazel still realized he had something

strange on his hands—so strange that he decided to haul several pieces ot it into Roswell, some

75 miles distant, a day or two later.

For all its lightness, the debris in Brazel's pickup bed seemed remarkably durable. Sheriff

George Wilcox reportedly took one look at it and called the military at Roswell Army Air Field, then ILLUSTRATION BY KENT WILLIAMS ROiM^TRMK FREEDOM FIGHTERS dia bought tl sinker." asserts Stanton agreed to accompany Bra- Friedman, a nuclear phys- zel back to the debris field. HANDBOOK Boili'ii-i As a consequence ot THE OFFICIAL avia- on wilor Don their investigate of Crash a! Corona, one of nique the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ritten about history of tl ACT HOW-TO Rosv "The military appeared on the FOR INVESnGATING UFOs balloon story w n the front page of the Roswell Daily Record for July 8, by paul McCarthy 1947. Authored by public- of information officer Lt. Wal- Many people think the Freedom Information Act ter Haut and approved by (FOIA). passed by Congress in 1966, gives an American base commander Col. Wil- ly squelched." ] any government document, liam Blanchard, it admitted Ramey's impromptu i have found that it gives them it the any n press conference marks garding UFOs "became a the right to request, but government agencies retain the reality yesterday when the right to deny—as they often do. Friedman refers to as a intelligence office of the "'Cosmic Watergate,' the In fact, applicants find, FOIA requests may be sty- 509th Bomb Group of the ongoing cover-up of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell mied by any number of exemptions. When information is government's knowledge Army Air Field, was for- related to criminal investigations, pending policy about extraterrestrial UFOs enough to gain and their terrestrial activ- p deliberations, national security considerations, or when it n of a ities." By contrast, says violates an individual's privacy, the FOIA application is nof o Friedman, the original the local ranchers and the denied. The applicant can appeal, of course, and if he or sheriff's office of Chaves she loses, may take the case to federal court—but who cover-up pales in signif-

if Friedman County," has the money? On top of that. FOIA requests are not a icance. In fact, Haul's noon press re- and his cohorts within the priority with the government, so some agencies have lease circled the planet, UFO community are cor- backlogs that won't be acted upon tor years. On other reprinted in papers as far rect, military involvement abroad as Germany and occas-cr'is UFO invciiiga'.o's iusix:-; Ihcr portions are flying England, where it was acted upon too quickly and end up in the circular file. crashed saucer picked up by the pres- tigious London Times. Yet thousands of pages of UFO documents have UFOs were reall Media been pried loose over the past 20 years. None clinch the in to calls poured the case for a government cover-up of UFO activity, but they, Roswell Daily Record and along with the cross-referencing of other documents and

insider tips, hold out the intriguing possibility that the which had first broken the put Roswell in a certain government is clinging to hundreds of thousands at ins Curtis tional details. pages of files tor the diligent or lucky to unearth. Hoping Peebles, an a erospace

: treatment to satisfy our 'cadors ascinaion for government secrets to of UFOs as ar evolving mm. and old, the following handbook details o! the new some ! in Fort Worth, Texas, Brig. belief system in ,-',*i:c.'-' ,'.'-e Gen. Roger Ramey, com- most tantalizing FOIA requests and provides tips on Skies! was just published mander of the Eighth Air tapping the government for more. by the Smithso Force, held a press con- tute. "And the relevant

porters' questions. Spread on the general's government and its relationship to the governed. Americans lumps of a blackened, rubberlike materi; have always been suspicious, if not actively contemptuous, pieces of what looked like a flimsy tinfoil kil ;. Ramey p of their government. On the other hand, forget what the for pictures, kneeling on his carpet with the mater government says and look at what it does. Is there any

Maj. Jesse Marcel, flown in from Roswell for the evidence in the historical record that the Air Force or

Alas, allowed the general, the Roswell incident wat a &iitio;c gov'^rr ^c-.'l io-uvod as if t actually oath:-:: a fly ng sa ,ccr case of mistaken identity; in reality, the so-called r presumably thousands of years in advance of anything on flying disc was nothing more than a weather balloon either the Soviet or U.S. side? If there is, I didn't find it." with an attached radar reflector. Regardless of its ultimate reality, however, Roswell The 1948 _nd Blue Book and frustrations Friedman ruse, instead, Chrysler Town & Country and fellow UFOIogists YOUREYESONLY: i eyes of Blue have encountered in pry- OMNI'STOP ing loose what the govern- meetings of upper-echelon TIPS FORACCESSING CUSSIFIED intelligence officers from know about UFOs. Mem- MATERIAL ON UFOs military and civilian agen- cies alike, UFOs—includ- ON THE DOCKET ing real crashed saucers and the mangled bodies of UFOIogists list the most dramatic attempts to pry aliens —were the subject of loose documents still marked classified. of f- ir of ri endless study and debate. cording to Friedman, be- The Big Fish. The most important FOIA UFO case man. proof cause of secrecy oaths. ever, according to UFO researcher Stanton Friedman. of this UFO Despite a trail that lay cold reality can be found in the was filed in 1979 against the CIA. Citizens Against UFO for more than 30 years. classified files of govern- Secrecy (CAUS), an Alexandria. Virginia, organization UFOIogists still consider ment vaults Roswell one of the most headed by Larry Bryant, joined with others, including With all this convincing UFO cases on Friedman, to go after all UFO documents in the record. In 1978. for ex- possession of the CIA. The CIA responded that it could ample. Friedman personal- do nothing because the documents it had were issued ly interviewed Maj. Jesse Marcel shortly before his by other agencies and could only be released by them. classified docu- death. "He still didn't know Of those, CAUS went after 18 National Security Agency i the surface until when Congress (NSA) documents, but the NSA would not release them, says Friedman, "except A Meticulously Engineered Die-Cast Metal Replica claiming they would reveal "sources and methods." that it was like nothing he of One of America's Greatest Cars had ever seen before and CAUS filed an admin i-strative appeal with the NSA and Everything aboul (lie 1!M 8 Chrysler Now, you can acr (ii in.' a remarkably send no money now. Simply return the certainly wasn't from any lost. It then went to federal court, and the judge ordered amended in the last year of weather balloon." Accord- the Nixon administration Town & Country Convertible was (Hailed replica oil he fabulous classic. Reservation Application. The price of S94.50 NSA to search its files for UFO documents. Surprise: 239 is in installments of ing to what Marcel repor- (1974) to include the Pri- grand! It cost $3,430, a princely sum payable three monthly documents showed up— 79 from other unnamed Genuine wood accents; in 1948. It tipped the scales at over S31.5.I. Mail your reservation today! tedly iold Friedman, in fact, hand- assembled! agencies, 23 from the CIA, and 137 unexpected NSA the featherlight material two tons, and il featured Chrysler's Over 140 scale parts go into this au- couldn't be denied by a bonus documents. Still, the NSA refused to release them, powerful 323.5 cubic inch "Spitfire" thentic replica in the large 1:24 scale. sledgehammer or burned and the judge, after reading the NSA's justification, 8 cylinder engine putting out 135 hp. The body, chassis, drivetrain and The 1948 Chrysler &£& by a blowtorch. sur prised to find that their It's no wonder this magnificent car agreed. Under a later FOIA action, the CIA released 9 of engine block are crafted in metal and Vet getting the Air Force personal UFO activities became a favorite of Hollywood stars! Town & Country polished by hand before painting. The its 23 documents, mostly unimportant abstracts of in itself to say anything about had resulted govern- From its huge chromed "harmon- The Danbury Mint Sendnr side trunk panels are accented European press stories on UFOs. Adding the and 47 Richards Avenue money r Eastern ica" grille, to its genuine American with genuine wood. Every component Norwalk, CT CKJ857 UFOs in general can be an original 18 NSA documents that CAUS sought to the ash wood accents, the 1948 Chrysler before this replica is is inspected Kiwcrviirinn Aii|.li. ..1 hi exercise in futility. Officials I'lciisoan.viii my newly uncovered batch of 137 shows that the NSA held Town & Country made an unforget- assembled by hand. 194,1 Cluysli'i' Toirii if Country. I need £ are either buresuc'a: c-sliy small number table impression. Only a iv|Jic;i on to 155 while the CIA retained 11. In addition, 79 noiii-'i icy mm. f wil! pay for my in tl vague or maddeningly of convertibles were ever made, and A Danbury Mint exclusive. monthly installments of $31.50*. abrupt. Maj. David Thurs- documents from other agencies never saw the light of today they are among the rarest and Only the Dai ilmry Mint has been author- \U s;itis:"iniinii is .muLi.ioiM'it. if I am not c ton, a Pentagon spokes- proof, according to Friedman, that the government day— most covered of all collec libit' cars. ized in bring by Chrysler Corporation |>;< leh satisfied "ith my e'elka. I may rem; person for ihe Air Force can keep a secret. yon tliis extraordinary replica. You need wit tun -in days i.'rivj.iliicrmrii! »r ivf.nn.1. Office of Public Affairs, Project Moon Dust. Projects Mcon Dust and Blue Fly could only refer inquiries lo UFO Secrecy (CAUS) and the Air Force Historical Re- are purportedly efforts aimed at retrieving manmade other UFO activists even- search Center in Mont- space objects that reenter the atmosphere and crash. tually unleashed a flood gomery, Alabama, where tide of previously classified UFO documents.

microfilm for public review. But a spokesperson (here Sfi -i In many cases, notes Barry Greenwood, director of they had no "investigative material" and suggested research for CAUS and coauthor with Lawrence Fawcett of checking the National Archives for files from Project Blue The Government UFO Cover-up, most agencies at first

Book, the Air Force's public UFO investigative agency from denied they had any such documents i" their "ilss A ...,sss. h the late 1940s until its closure in December of 1969. in point is the CIA," says Greenwood "vfa's assu'ed us Indeed, the dismissive- nit L,ro ivitn which U.S. officials that Its merest and involver-ei- « Uf-Os enono in 1953. treated Blue Book research seemed to indicate they were After a lengthy lawsuit, the C A Utimaroly '0 cased ~:ore unimpressed; on that point, believers and skeptios alike than a thousand pages of document To date we've agree. But according to Friedman and colleagues, that acquired more than ten thousand documorts porta nlng to — (

science technology. UFOs, [he o ning majority of Anything." Using cross references grow;r of both and is also prohibi- e CIA, FBI, Air found in CIA and other intelligence- Bureaucratic secrecy filed tively expensive." at attorneys Get Degree military papers. CAUS a agen- agency Home Force, arid VI ler all per- Aftergood cites some daunting sta- cies. It's sale 10 say mere are probably lor tin: release of NSA documents taining to the UFO phenomenon. After tistics in his favor. Despite campaign ession of Democrat- As might be expected, the UFO pa- initial denials, Ihe NSA admitted to the 52 Ways ICS Can Help c Republic uresidential admini- per (rail is a mixed bag. Many of the doc- and government files uments released are simple sighi 'ig re- but resisted their release on the accessible, more than You Get a Better Job ports logged well alter the demise of grounds of national security. more publicly Others are more tantalizing. Federal District Judge Gerhard Ges- 300 million documents compiled prior Blue Book. Find out lio w y on can quoUfy for sell upheld the NSA's request for sup- to 1960 in the National Archives alone A document released by Ihe North Amer- the job you wont! Mote moaey, Security, prestige! al- I declassification. Aftergood ican Aerospace Defense Command pression following a review (judge's slil await 1990 Department of De- (NORAD) revealed that several sensi- chambers only) of Ihe agency's classi- so points to a get your Degree...lo help you get a better job. F - " '"• which estimated (he cost - about any one of ihr Su,-, e ,i-.« t Hupfii-g: tive military bases scattered (rom fied 21-page In Camera petition. "Two fense study, protecting Industrial not military Maine to Montana were temporarily put years later." Greenwood says, "we fi- of — on alert status following a sorbs or spr- nally got a copy of the NSA In Camera it SU 'That's budget about the s ings in October and November ot 1975. affidavit. Of 582 lines, 412, or approxi- a says, adding that "the An Air Force Office of Special Intelli- mately 75 percent, were completely NASA's," he were ludicrous enough during gence document reported a landed blacked out. The government can't numbers Get Your Degree ot Home... Either affect the Cold War, but now thai the Cold light near Kirttand Air Force have it both ways. UFOs WMM Adding seen C*J. jj, „_ h mm- «*, over, they're even ^^^ m ^ Base, Albuquerque. New Mexico, on n.iri.jrifil sccuriw or rhey don't." War is supposedly the night of August 8, 1980. The NSA's blockage of the CAUS gov- Another warm and still-smoking gun. suit only highlights the shortcomings of Could the Air Force and other according to Greenwood, is the so- the Freedom ot Information Act, accord- p : .,_.,„_ „„,, , , , ^.' for the reput- .x*iw;.'; called Bolender memo, named after its ing to Friedman. (See the sidebar 'Free- den agenda maintaining Yes, according author, Brig Gen. C. H. Bolender. then dom Fighters Handbook," beginning on ed Cosmic Watergate? ol deputy director '' ' Air Force """ ' '"" UFOs may be our own ad- " °" «^T " H ;-"" development. Dated Octo- Ar Ideal Wo« to Uarn oSSlStt^i^&iS!'" gj** vanced super-lop-secret ber 20, 1969, it expressly "OUR PROBLEM IS WITH 3 aerial platforms, not exlrater- gt^j^tz SgiSttJgg SSKSsSs* SSESS-- fied flying objects which GOVERNMENT SECRECY, BECAUSE IT WIDENS sort could affect national securi- hlgh. Something of the could be occurring at the ty .. . are not part of the THE GAP BETWEEN Blue Book system." Says supersecjet Groom Lake IT test facility in Nevada, part of 'I take that t< CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENT, MAKING Nellis at Blue Book was lit DIFFICULT TO e gunnery rang M MUCH MORE -.'' Coi-.jiulur S[!5.iclisr: .'. THAT 1 '''' Phonal 1 '- (' ,- - i "" ..! ' ' VOot ini°rjclo*°T Arl' 15'dw ond Inl d) holm in of Las Vega; coi-ipari •compuer.ncu *"* Euan Appraliar: m,m ^..p - g 1f oi PARTICIPATE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS." buffs h commenlsond suggestions. j^ j,^,, fflimmiinr |, 3 . n hn" lo Groom Lake runway, one of the world's longest, could be

' Aurora, re- patio 36 i "h. A'--ii_-rir:ar pL.ijIic oper- home to the much-rumored ates under the illusion that the FOIA is puted to be a hypersonic Mach-8 spy wludad. ouiH.-o-.. h -i.r..-,. •nicy balng '.-m- . some sort of magical key that will un- plane and a replacement for the recent- Markallaa—AS! Dean* In flhi Mm i _^ ly secret retired SR-71 Blackbird. = b-' .. 1 ..: -. WAIL 1-UUrUN IUUATJ lock all of the government's n L ,»,:,,: -. I,....,.... have to In fact, the Air Force routinely denies ," says Philip Klass. a former si vaults," he says, "that all you . SHg!jgg£»i SSSteSSfes OR CALL TOLL FREE "; ask. They a' the existence of Aurora. And with Blue H editor with and Space SSS file Book closed chapter, it no longer has BMgttasx; i big computer some- a Technology and i jlhor of UFOs: The rything S!tj;»li::;-.=,";:i,3-i tlWf.%t*±'l:i 1-800-595-5505 conferences to answer re- - Public Deceived, he Bolender memo where dee) in the bowels of the Pen- 'e held press From e problem of what nothing could be farther porters' questions about UFOs. srsewt'sssi a3B&.w.. srssfiSs „. ,. ».., ....—"^s,.,.- governmtrir s perspective, the cur- would happen wit UFO reports of any ihe confusion between terrestrial tech- !;=i I rent ;, ; r-| |-,o;- closure ol Project ! simply saying years, UFOIogists have nology and extraterrestrial UFOs could of coincidence and [hat other channels for ch reports, be usual ally in the person of be a '-lamage both '-.. i CHECK ONCCMIV convenience. The Air Force doesn't they incoming Soviet r Steven Aftergood, an electrical engi- neer who directs the Project on Govern- seem to be taking chances. On Septem-

year, it initiated proce- Greenwood counter: eoi :.iiei ment and Secrecy for the Washington, ber 30 of las! ~XV .«**- ol Sci- dures to seize another 3,900 acres ad- 1 Federation American speaks for itself, dingth DC-based ' memo ™3r*% < effectively sealing ^ §. j -,rC""""™* entists, whore most members wouldn't joining Groom Lake, sting tr - enced attachments are presently report- ordinarily give UFOs the time ol day. off two public viewing sites of a base il w'nl n HOSDilalilj JIliuaeiMill Hir. Scl-I 'r.re">K,iriv;il;rr P-.k-.k:... .,...,, »,l l.„,„.,lrr MUM ,, exists. : tSS-Xiars-.'ISIWISII/HS Aftergood. "is refuses to admit ,r • teiaiCN.reArcsla-.r S™n DjineK M; r a-; e -nirrj ',Wna from Air Force files.'' "Our problem." says . M '/,* ed as missing TECH XII L no Y DFIi FIFE PAlMflAMS l '"U perpetuating such disinformation, P*"~ t_tfi ' " ' ""'"' M ssmg tiles are one problem. Files with government secrecy on principle, By I 14.

if in fact, what's happening, the known to exist but kept under wraps, because it widens the gap between citi- that Is, page torn notes Greenwood, are another. To zens and government making il :na! Air Force might be using a Union's Cold War play- make his poinl, he cites a case Involv- much more difficult to participate in the from the Soviet ifo ^Vfi Security democratic process. It's also antitheti- book. James Oberg, a senior space en- NAUE ing the ultrasecret National Mall coupon today and we'll send you ! author of Star in Orbit. Agency, or NSA, an acronym often as- cal to peer review and cross-fortihzat.cn. gineer and Red any one of these 52 brochures on Ihe ! addw analysis of the Soviet space sumed by Insiders to mean "Never Say two natural processes conducive to the a critical career of your choice. I crrY/B Accrediled Membsr rJatioral HomeSludy Council PHONE m

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Thomas Pike, had been repeatedly re- document I'd ever read. II was put to- questing information from London and gether by military representatives ot eve- Washington about these objects, but ry NATO nation and also included contri- nothing would ever come. We found out butions from some of the greatest sci- later that the Columbine-Topaz spy entific minds. These objects were vio- ring in Paris was intercepting everything lating all of our known laws of physics, and forwarding it to the KGB. which ol- and the study team had gone to Cam- li'.ri goi intelligence information oven be- bridge, Oxlord, the Sorbonne, MIT, and fore we did. So Pike decided, I was other major universities lor input on told, to develop an m-house study to de- chemistry, physics, atmospheric phys- termine whether Ihese objects were a ics, biology, history, psychology, and military threat. even theology, all of which were sepa-

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East and West in 1962, which I ha\ high radiation at various landing sites, ways found interesting and ironic and UFO reports thai dated back to the had pretty well determined by Roman era and up to our own F105 pi- time that these were not Russian craft, and the Russians had determined they and on. I had always been a skeptic,

but this report, well ... it concluded derslanding, direct telephone thai this stuff not science fiction. V and a was line was opened between SHOC and "I read aboul contact encounters. the Warsaw Pact Headquarters Com- One incident that had jusl happened in mand. Of course, a setup was always 1963 involved a landing on a Danish a possibility, so we had backup ways farm. According to the report, the farm- of checking out whether the Russians thtbef were being truthful. But since we were iking rr V both armed to the teeth and Wbrid War spoke to him in Danish. The report ir

III was just ticking away, it was a logi- eluded parts of his interrogation by gov- cal step in the right direction. That idea ernment authorities and their cor

sions thai he was telling the truth. Ir other incident, according to Ihe reports, a craft landed on an Italian airfield and offered to lake an Italian sergeant for a

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was titled 'Autopsies.' I saw pictures of a 30-meter disc lhat had crashed in Tim- ally even talked about the possibilities. mensdorfer, Germany, near the Baltic But nothing really prepared me for Sea in 1961. The British Army, accord- what I started to read in Ihe early morn- ing to the report, got there first and r. I ing hours one nighl in January 1964. up a perimeter. The craft had land "It was about 2:00 a.m. and a rela- in very soft, loamy soil near the Russi tively quiet night when the SHOC con- border and so hadn't destructed. t troller on duty went into the vault and one-third ol it was buried in, We and t Drum. came out with this huge document. . who also quickly showed up, 'Take a look at this,' he said. The title tracked it. Your simply Assessment: An Evaluation own was = of a Possible Military Threat to Allied ill dead. There w pictures of the bod- Forces in Europe. It was numbered. #3, T-Shirt. known as the "grays,' being laid out and now popularly known as the grays, and then put on stretchers and loaded into the fourth was described as reptilian, years. It's the biggest scientific, politi- jeeps, and autopsy photos, too. Some with vertical pupils and lizardlike skin. cal scandal ever. Besides, what have of the little grays nol appeared to be a 2] These alien visitations had been go- I got to lose? I'm 64 years old now. Are reproductive-capable species. The au- ing on for a very long time, least at 200 they going to bump me off? I have told topsy guys concluded, according to the years perhaps longer. 3] The extrater- the truth. My integrity and credibility report, that it looked as if Ihey had restrials did not appear hostile since if stand. When is our government going lhat were their intent they would have to tell the truth?" clones with no alimentary trad. They did already demonstrated their malevo- Update: After 27 years of miliiary ser- not ingesl or process food as we know lence. 4) UFO appearances and quick vice, Dean retired and began another it. nor did it appear Lhat they had any disappearances as well as the flybys 14-year career with the Pima County system lor elimination -lorsiraicrs r.onducled on pur- Sheriff's Department Emergency Ser- "The craft itself \ pose ic show us some of their capabil- vices in Tucson, Arizona. In 1990. he iwDoys ard ities t;) A process or program of some gave a lecture at the University of Ari- hauled off. Scuttlebi.r sort seemed to be underway since fly- zona in which he talked aboul UFOs. giyen to the Americana ard Mown to i,-- r>. -pressed to landings and even- The talk garnered local media cover- Wnght-Palterson A' Force case n lual y contact. age. Afterward, he was denied a pro-

Ohio I looked at these p>c:ures aid I wanted so badly to copy this motion at Ihe Sheriff's Department, be-

i nikln't j believe it. t,'-, w< i <)ol cole arc th ng i d.d take a photograph of the cov- cause, he alleged, he believed in

I thought, My God. I red rever really er snoot, which wasn't in and of itself UFOs. Dean filed suit and won an out-

classified. But I didn't want to wind up of-court settlement in March 1992. Now In Foft Leavenworth. So instead I retired. Dean has become a member of The major oonolua one in 'he NATO wouC go to the bathroom and take several UFO organizations and has report blew me away, rhere were :,ve. notCO surreptitiously, very carefully. begun giving occasional lectures. He is 1) The planet and human race had "I have been through an awful lot in working through any and all legiiimale been the subject of a detailed .survey my life, but I've never been able to just channels" to uncover a copy of the of some kind by several different extra- walk away from that report. I know thai NATO document and to gallic-' witness- le'restnal civilizations, four of which I'm taking a chance by violating my es for an open Congressional hearing Ihey had identified visually. One race oaths. But this is the most important is- on the subject of UFOs. looked almost indistinguishable from us. sue of our times- so damn important Official Response: "Our list of classi-

Another resembled humans in height, lhat I can't think of anything more im- fied documents generated by SHAPE statute, and structure, but wilh a very portant, and the public has been de- it that ti. gray, pasty skin titles similar to that cited ^by Mr. Dean." says Lt. Col. Plainer Otte, German Air Force, deputy chief, media section of Ihe pub lie -information office at SHAPE.

under national eonrre :l Information on the security clearance

that Mr. Dean held may— if ever— only

The Critics' Corner- -This is a fascina> i.-irj SXi'y but iantastic c-aims like toso

i'i-ji-(l more than one man's test mony to be credible." says Jerome Clark of the Center lor UFO Studies. "Unless inde- pendent verification comes forth, this re- mains Only an intngu ng anecdote roi utilise many others lhat have circulat- ed since Ihe early UFO era."

sarly 1: eof n spacecralt being researched and This is the subject of '"Mountain Rtirtui." A liiuiiliiiiking tesled on the Nellis Air Flange in cen- portrait by renowned landscape artist Ron Huff, whose works tral Nevada. arc prized by knmvlaliu-.ibk- ..n Ik-ants Background: From 1982 to 1984, throughout the world.

h •_ Lazar claims he worked al Los Alamos In t tradition of the finuM ml led Miles, this captivating National Laboratory in New Mexico in crafted of tine porcelain and lavished

the Meson Physics lab with a Q-level se- with colors lis vibrant as nature's own. hath imported collector curity clearance. In 1985, while on va- plait is hand -numbered and bordered in ..'.' hmi "u/r/atid c-alien m Nevada, he wound up buying 1k: into a legal Reno brothel; the investment Priced at just S29.50, this Limited Edition will be do, proved so profitable that he didn't •.- .ill- i 1 jus firing da vs. Available cxdmively fror

The Franklin Mint. Franklin Center. PA l') 09 1-0001. "

!•.;«-;: rolally si ginning to lift off. Except for a slight hos- i:--ii'Hi.: b.iok again and again. voted to the study of nine dis^ v I :valt with only the power sources s it any wasted

' II ing, it no noise. It lifted to "Anyway, the third time we got for a extraterrestrial craft that were soro-now .i f iiivpulsion systems on one of the netgy. -as phenome- made about 100-perceni dynam- 3D feet off the ground. The hissing caught by the Wackenhut Security 1986. In 1988, he wanted to get back acquired by the U.S. government discs and I did enter that one disc on approaching a

it Bureau of into scientific work and was hired, he "I was assigned back engmeenrg so.cial occasions. The disc was approx- ic efficiency. Now that seems impossi- stopped, and just hung silently in the guards out on the Land Man-

It surrounds the says, to work on the top-secret Project tasks on the reactor and grav ry propul imately 15 feet tall and about 52 feet ble when you consider the laws of ther- air, moving to the left, then right. was agement land that " turned in. Needless to Galileo. Lazar passed a ire-detector sion system of one of the c" had the appearant of modynamics. All I can say is that this absolutely amazing. range. They me

officials Mellis weren't happy. I test in 1989, arranged by George tially to help figure out what made ! brushed stainless steel or brushed alu- technology is well beyond anything "The way information is compartmen- say, at lhat with twentieth- talized, that's alt the hands-on informa- went through a debriefing and was Knapp, then an anchorman for K LAS- work. I don't know whether >i wa« » we now know our

tion and experience I was allowed to threatened at that time. I was scared TV, the affiliate in Las Vegas, Ne- crash retrieval, I il il it century knowledge. CBS although doubt be- know was metal, but I did run my

rt to, though were given felt that I needed to break away vada, for a spec al loca ly aireo series. cause the disc didn't appear damaged hands down the side of it getting in, and 'The sfueli have access wc and

Earth. the only for from this before I couldn't. UFOs; The Best Evidence. in any way. In the briefing reports, it felt cold, like metal, and it looked like ment that is nt t found here n chance on occasion and

short periods of lime to reac: briefing re- "Not only did I believe this technol- The Story: "In 1988, 1 decided to reen- there were pictures of several discs Part of my con ibution to the program

t this ports that detailed other of ogy should be given to the greater sci- ter the scientific community and sent along with some of Ihe information welds or bolts or rivets, and it looked where aspects

it I I also believed periodic char;. :\'o I this project. reports read that entific community, but resumes to various people. Finally, I in- they had already obtained from back en- as if it were injection molded. plugged into th 3 The didn't plug in anywhere, so w i:;'acL;:;i dealt with power and propulsion sys- my only protection was to get the story

of 1 out. A friend convinced me to lalk lo was stunned at I exhilarated al much loo small to comfortably handle number

I- .litii-;: been theorized for some time to myself by working on the system. George Knapp at KLAS-TV. I figured if e time, f an averaged-sized human, I bumped

it ments around 13, 114, and Still. I draw a hard line between what I they killed me, then would simply guards everywhere, my head on the ends of the craft, so f

I wasn't exactly the kin concluded that the ceiling curved become stable know to be true and what I read in Ihe prove that what was saying was true. "There are scientists the- where you could just start asking any down to below five teet, 11 inches in- this is apparently what we wer s-fii-irn-j nihei ii'icfing reports. many who extra- is bi.l "With that understanding. I did read orize that there simply cannot be poini sail I and every question you had. Security, side. There was not a right angle cut Element 115 cm

iereslmq properties. It reports about the origin of this disc. Ac- terrestrial aiscs here, lhat aliens could "Not long after, I was flown along in fact, was oppressive. You were es- anywhere in Ihe craft. Everything had to of briefings, it came nol oossibly have come here specifical- withseveralothersouttoarea51 on the corted everywhere, even the bathroom. a smooth curve to it. ide the react: cording one the Heticuli sfar system. ly, because the distance traveled is too Nellis Air Range. There, we were put on And if your I.D. badge was jusl the slight- "The reactor, which produced anli- le source of i I energy from the Zeta Now in required a bus with blacked-out windows and driv- est bit out of place, you would be tack- vith matter field accessec and amplified by the obviously I didn't fly a craft or go to great and the energy loo awe- eiatively en about 15 miles south to the Papoose led by a guard and held with a gun to ihllatloi inly that star system, so 1 don'l really know 3 thai c dry lake bed, bordered by the Papoose your head until your supervisor arrived. about 18 inches indiameter and 12 irn Mountains, where there was an instal- And the guards lived for that. es tall and was located in the center ol eled and propelled by virtue dof

eiemenl 115. light. What I reported is lation they called 'S4.' the disc. It operaled like a tiny ballet, of "ACCORDING TO ONE "I was introduced to my supervisor just surreal. There was a poster of the where everything that happened relied "There was a storage of sil- what I experienced, though

in some respects I regret go- and a co-worker and then given a disc I was working on, which I dubbed on the effect before it. The way it ac- REPORT, THE CRAFT CAME FROM THE ZETA

ing public. If I had it to do stack of briefings on various p.'0|>scts. the Sport Model, on several walls. It celerated protons inside of it, the way including Project Galileo, which was de- read, They're here. lectricity. RETICULI STAR SYSTEM. over again, I might be more inclined to slay on as one of

per-orange color and ;->:i THE ALIENS TOLD OFFICIALS THEY HAD BEEN

ly heavy. While it was not Update: In 1990, after

oactive, we assumed il COMING FOR 10,000 YEARS from Project Galileo, he ac-

guently handled it as such. TO ACCELERATE THE EVOLUTION OF MAN." cepted a freelance job set- "In all the discs at S' ting up a database and sur- there were three gravity an veillance system for an ille- plnors posilioned in a triad at the oase gal Las Vegas brothel. That gig even- of the craft. These were the propulsior tually garnered him six felony counts, devices. Essentially, what they did was including aiding and abetting a prosti-

amplify gravity waves out of phase l contact \ lule, running a house of prostitution, with those of the earth. The crall oper- and living off the earnings ol a prosti- in code. Also, according lo the report, tute. The charges were quickly

;h indicated hi t many gravity ai these beings told our officials that ihey dropped to a single lelony count of pan- had been coming here for 10,000 dering. The one good thing that came configu-alion. only one amplifier was years, that humans are the product of out of the resu.ting trial. Lazar says, s used; Ihe olher two were swung out of externally corrected evolution, and that he's not being followed anymore— the way and tucked inside the disc. In that they were integral to the acceler- at least not to his knowledge. "I guess omicron mode, the crafts can essential- aied evolulion of man, they figured the pandering conviction

ly rise and hover but do little else. To "My tolerance for the intensive secu- d scr«ii:ed me." he leave the atmosphere, however, all rity rapidly diminished. Because ci the Lazar currently earns three gravey amp'ifie's have to be pow- 24-hour telephone surveillance, tney two small companies, f iirn: liial ered up and focused on the desired lo- found out I was having "na'rtal proh'e"s eomraehrg 'on cation. Finally, the crafts do not travel and told me the situation had made me vices, and a pholo lab. in a linear mode. Rather, we determined a candidate for 'emotional instability.' jetcars. Ar O'V v t,ar that the discs produced their own grav- They then look my security clearance and i9S-i. : iefore Ju- Desert itational fields in order lo distort time told me I could reapply in si* months. staged Blast, which is illegal fire- and space and essentially pull their "Wfell, l knew the lest schedule, and he says the "the largest destinations to them. works show in the West" This annual "One afternoon, my colleagues and ed to show some friends from a dis- pyrotechnic extravaganza features

I fireworks assorted I walked out onto the dry lake bed. The tance what had been working on. Vfe huge and gas disc on which we had been working, bombs made by Lazar and friends as the Sport Model, had already been jet car demonstratioi moved out of the hangar and was be- ties. iting. —

i?i;o headquarters 20 or 30 feel. said the a situation where bunch I Each same ing— jr recently s< I rights and ivalkeci police and a of peo- 20- horizontal ;king 01 the desk sergeant started to laugh. He moved in a to 30-degree thing independently -a triangular- ple got excited about different things through the forest. drip- Official Response: "The Air Force com- said a couple of the guys had been out arc Strangely, it appeared to be shaped metallic object, about nine they correlated in their mind," says UFO "Hall's memo reports that on the sec- chasing UFOs. Nothing, however, was ping what looked like molten steel out feet across the base, six feet high, ap- M-ivesiicjKior James McGaha, fechnica ond night, they saw two ob|OC:R in the

it in. crucible, as if gravity were some- peared to sitting on tripod. lo the Committee for in anything that goes on at the Nellis in the blotter. I told him to put of a be a They consultanl the Sci north, one the soulh. On that night,

it Suddenly, it explod- Range," says Air Force Master Sgl. J. ."When our base commander came how pulling down. split up, walked around the craft. One entific Investigation ol Claims of the Par three of Ihe brightest stars were visible— booompf C. Ma re on of Public Aflairs. Meanwhile, in, we both chuckled. Neither of us be- ed— nol a loud bang, just of the men apparently tried to get on anormat and a retired Air Force pilot, Vega and Deneb in the north. Sirius in broke into five white objects that Ihe craft, they said, it levitated according loT" nni; ,ii nil Herder- lieved in UFOs, but we did decide to and but. up. who traveled to England, surveyed the the soulh. And clearly, the strange red in sky. "All mer-.iirewl son of Public Affairs, "The Air Force has look into it. Before we had the chance, scattered the Everything except three of the guys hit the ground light on (he audio tape is the later, the duty flight command- our radios seemed to return to normal. as the craft moved quickly in a zigzag- "Consider these facts: On the night of Orford Ness Lighthouse beacon. Be- no record that Lazar ever worked at Nel- two nights ~ in "Vife to the end of the farmer's ging manner through the to 9:10 p.m. lis Air Force Base, though we have com- er for the security police unit rushed went woods toward December 25 26, at yond that, the morning after Ihe first "st of inquiries as to to a belated Christmas party white as property to get a different perspective. the field, hitting some trees on the way. sian satellite Cosmos 746 reenter night, British officers identified the in- a sheet. 'The UFO is back.' he said. In the north, maybe 20 degrees off the They got up and approached again, atmosphere over England and ap- dentations as rabbit diggings. The Gei-

,< I three white objects— it The Critics' Corner: "We've pretty "I was asked to investigate horizon. saw but the object rose up, and then dis- peared as a bright object. At 2:50 i ger counter readings were of back- well determined that Lazar did work al changed into a utility uniform, then head- elliptical, j a quarter moon but a lit- appeared at great speed. a fireball entered ihe atmosphere ground radiation. Nothing appeared on arqer. lie "Finally, 13, 1981. I British Los Alamos, but it's been impossible to edo a jeep to the edge of Vr :for- on January Woodbridge. At 4:11 a.m., a po- radar thai night, either, and no one in - im, sharp, angular wrote a to the British Minislry of lice car verify exactly what he did," says Mark About a dozen of < lights on making memo with a blue strobe light on top either base tower reported anything un- Ffodeghier, scientific director of the ready there. Our light-alls (large gas- . The objects eventually Defense. Despite my efforts, lo my knowl- and other lights altached lo the uric" usual. Furthermore, no civilians report- Center for UFO Studies. "As for element powered lights] wouldn't work, and turned from elliptical to round. edge, no one from any intelligence or riage responded to a telephone ed seeing or hearing anything. "OQ asked 115, physicists admit that such an there was so much static and constant "I called the command pesi. government agency ever came on Eastern Radar, responsible investigate. element is theoretically possible, but interference on our radios that we had them to call base to relay. increasing for air defense of that sector. Twice they "I have never sought the limelight, we don't know how to manufacture it or to set up a There was You don't need another diet. to reported that they didn't see anything. dtore where to get it. So. Lazar's claim to commotion. I was delermined show

lri::iiii.:i,:Ll !.:!.: :.: south, a differ- i 1 1 i Irom I! have worked with this element is not "Suddenly, from the ik c ent glowing object moved toward us at anted b faster it half a You need a i, but metabolism.

ci h.gh rate of speed, came within sev- what those unverifiable. Finally, he i headed into the w in foot tc ob-

eral hundred feet, and then . I don't know anybody who enough to have really worked Nothing boosts mum- nn'iubolt-m

I ike i lapped A pencil beam, aoes. aut something as yel unex- at Area 51 or Dreamland like NordicTrack. diame- where secret aircra". are last- SUNLIKE LIGHT iix to eight inches in plained happened out Ihere." "A RED, WITH Because you Lake in less I'inkI, dins actuallyally slow thing right ed, but his story remains a er. shot from this Update: In 1983. a copy of Halt's ™ * down your niutiholism. litu a Nordi ' feet. Seconds memo to the British was released A mystery. The bottom THROUGH THE MOD murky A BLACK CENTER MOVED helps you hum up to 1,100 calories through the line: It's impossible to verify. and Freedom of Information Act up ihe r.tti- your body bur disappeared. (FOIA). Shortly thereafter, of the So far, we have not found any- TREES. BEYOND THE CLEARING a copy calories all day lony. As , to corroborate the essen- "The objects in the 18-minule audiolap.- oi Ihe nv..

ing liiw r ill i: jl incident had >v olaster castings of the indentations, and investigalion and dozens of others uty base commander at Bentwaters Air where iupp workout hum! iimilL'it in uniting In get out' sample. were near 1 I soil f found three dis- had the Ihe scene, only a handful of Base in southern England, Halt wit- edly taken place. We than ordinary nessed and investigated several anom- tinct indentations '"'< r||,3 ground equidis- "Around New Year's Eve, I took state- witnesses have come forward. At least That's why a group of Ofthose,, >o used a NoidlcTrach ro lose alous objects in the skies over the Ren- tant apart and pressed well into the one of them, Halt says, is spreading dis- NordicTrack I lies show 7 in 10 owners tost delsham Forest, which separates the sandy soil. They were supposedly had taken part in the initial incident. The information, consequently, media cov- i-fft-illK lusl :in :ivi-r;!j>i- III! lilt mii of 11 pounds and 80% of installation Irom its twin Roy- caused by the object seen two nights reports were nearly identicaL erage has been inaccurate al bcsl. For American of 18 II , ttviukl iffJ'"' in li'ilfto year! silling '"Basically, they reported this: In the instance, he says, "The stories al Air Force base, Woodbridge. The before, but I didn't see anything, about night. Neither did anybody early morning hours of December 26, holographiclike aliens emerging from sightings occurred on two separate there that 30-day nights during the week after Christmas. one ol the airmen drove to the back their craft are pure fiction." in-home trial' Two weeks later. Halt sent a report "Inside the triangular area formed by gate at Woodbridge on a routine secu- Otticial Response: "The Air Force about the strange encounters to the Brit- the indentations, one of the men got rity check. He saw lights in the forest, stopped investigating UFOs in 1969 light, Project ish Ministry ol Defense. slightly higher readings on the Geiger specifically a red and thought may- when Blue Book was completed." A low- impact Background: A career Air Force offi- counter than he did outside. He photo- be an airplane had crashed. He radi- says Air Force spokesman Maj. Dave workout as vigot Call today! Thurston, based in Washington, DC. cer. Halt served in Vietnam and on var- graphed the area, and I look a soil sam- the tower reported nobody The Critics' Corner: "The you I this activity UFO ious bases before arriving at Bentwa- ple. Meanwhile. recorded tower, but Our patentedflywheel and 1-800-441-7891 promoted base on my i n i croc asset I e recorder. was flying. oiic-imy child.' tiitvliiiiiiiu ters in 1980. He was to iifiiiru Ext. 269D4 to commander in 1984. Halt later served "We knew the Orford Ness light- "Eventually, a group headed out almost certainly the lighthouse beacon simulates die vigorous anion of south- the forest. reported sfrange nois- in my opinion, because Ihe peak inter- as base commander at Kunsan Air house beacon beamed Irom the They rat..-.-, imiury skiing. cilled die i>t ^aag—!iin val their descriptions of it Base, Korea, and as director of the inspec- east. All ol a sudden, between gel- aerobic c\otisc by I'iines- expert; lafer. ting brighter, then dimmer, is tions directorate for the Department of light- two nights the time It's always easy oi "As they approached the clearing, of rotation of the beacon, which Defense inspector general. He retired oval shaped, glowing, with a black was you'll slay with it. seeing large yellowish- ten miles in 1991. Hall is the first USAF officer ter—10 to 15 feet off the ground, mo they reported a about away," says UFO skep- since Project Blue Book ended to have ing through the trees. Beyond the cle= white light with a blinking red light on the tic Philip Klass. "Even though they said blue fhey numerous filed a memo on unidentified flying ob- ing was a barbed-wire fence, farmer upper center portion and a steady saw lights in the night sky. The low- jects and gone public with the details. field, house, light emanating from underneath. one of every three UFOs reported The Story: "Just after Christmas, were making a lot of noise. er again reported nothing on radar. a bright celestial body." within magical mml-.- about 5:30 a.m., December 26, 1980, "We ran toward the light up to "A few of the men moved to a a case of The Great High-Rise N^ Abduction Whatever spin you put on it, it's definitely the case of the century

"~- It was cold and clear, about

e Brooklyn Bridge and finally plunged into the East Riv . Or so the story goes.

ARTICLE BY PATRICK HUYGHE • PAINTING BY MASAHIKO FUJII ed to one mind-boggling tale. ^m

It early in 19BS. Linda had Budd Hopkins, a world-class n i.: i:v w r lira started Kitty Kelly's biography of 900 MHz breakthrough! ist who has recently become er that was lurnea into a leievisiun just bought his books. Missing Time and miniseries in 1992. Clearly, no one has Frank Sinatra and another book, which mystery. The other detailing his 18 years of investigate done more than Hopkins to bring this she took to be a New technology launches to claims thai thousands of pi strange phenomenon to public aware- book was Intruders by Budd Hopkins. one By the end of the first chapter, she was have been abducted by UFOs. . ness. Even more to the point, no has had greater success in getting sci- stumped: Aliens had left mysterious im- wireless speaker revolution. West Side reveals the profound influ- entist:; and mental health professionals plants in people's brains and noses, Recoton ifcvc/o/iv hiiiiljlamt^li kylnu>l

linger and it on siasm; these days, it is the bizarre Ihe puzzle were revealed, critics began Linda then took my put lales of UFOs and the nasty creatures charging that rather than prove his her nose: Yes, I could feel a very slight right nostril. i, plucking in Moments point, Hopkins had fallen victim to the bump on her upper But

niddie of the s fantasy of a bored housewife there had to be more than this, 1 his i complex hoax. Indeed, said thought. There was.

' "' j outrageous was the tale i finally coniacted

and so fragile the evidence for it, it had -lijlikn: cided to expk b Lin- the army of back'irerj. destroying his credibility and hounded him for bringing down his body of work like a years. Unlike the thousands of other ab- just Linda. UFOs? N aw." Hopkins says he learned

"IT'S A CRAZY, otherwise. He reo/as-secl I i"- da to age 8, enabling her to ENDLESS SAGA, INCLUDING SECRET recall an episode in which she thought she glimpsed AGENTS, ATTEMPTED the cartoon character rjas- per, of Casper the Friendly the vernacular, I a Very Important Person. MURDER, AND TWO HIGH-LEVEL Ghost fame. But under hyp- "The implication." Hopkins nosis, her memory of Casper POLITICAL FIGURES, turned out to be a large, top- shaped object that she'd ai MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AMONG THEM." i flying

street from her childhood The Story certainly is a h.,ii:dn(ier. home in Manhattan. Hopkins came to pher with more twists and turns than Califor- suspect that she had been abducted ben i. The fn nia's Highway 1 and more mystery char- story came to public attention in 1966 acters than a Le Carre spy thriller. "It's vited her to join his support group for and involved the now-notorious New Eng- a crazy, endless saga," says Hopkins, abductees. sitting land couple. Betty and Barney Hill. Un- including such elements as secret "I remember there bug-eyed der hypnosis, the Hills recalled being agents, attempted murder, and two lisit-nhq lo these people," says Linda. snatched from their car and examined high-level political figures, Mikhail Gor- "I felt strange the first time, but after by small creatures aboard a flying sau- bachev one of them. that I felt better."

in is Finally, on No' ir 30, 1989. i cer. But it would take another decade, The central character the case a few more headline-grabbing abduc- very agitated Lim called Hopkins

' ' finally, the name revealed. She lives in Lower Man- abducted again. gone broadcast of H" H-.lls n story before hattan, and on the very hot spring day She had t< before 3:00 a.m., be- I s tales of alie I went to meet her, came to appreci- decided to cause she'd been up doing the laun- bedded in I e popular ate why the aliens had

grab her through Ihe window. It certain- dry. Towels and blue jeans for four

ii dry in her small dryer, she The stage was now set I lopkin: ly beats penetrating a locked gate and take eons to to emerge as the leading authority on Ihe scrutiny of a guard, ineri lakinfj a-p explained. Her husband, who normally jury duly that abductions. It happened in 1981 with elevator up 12 stories and winding worked nights, was on the publication of his book, Missing your way through a corridor to her week and so was home and asleep in

I bedroom. She showered, got into Time, in which he suggested that the place. When I knocked on fhe door. the abduction experience was much more was greeted by an attractive, lortyish bed. and lying o-i lici back, clasped ny widespread than anyone had imagined. woman with brown, almond-shaped hands and began reciting "Our Father" For Hopkins, the plight of the abductee eyes and long, flowing brown hair. We to herself, a habit she carried over into became a personal crusade, and be- sat down on her couch, and as her air adulthood from her Roman Catholic up- fore long, he would be lecturing on the conditioner blasted arctic air and she ijrrv.j ng. Then si subject across the country, appearing smoked a dozen cigarettes. I was Ireal- "I was awake but had my eyes over the Brooklyn Bridge, and plunged der. "You can go quietly or you can go Linda suggests, "from following the half dozen photographs of Linda, in the running along the EVERY TUESDAY into the East River. They wondered il kicking and screaming," Linda claims route to a three-story beach house nightgown, beach." knew it wasn't my husband; he was snor- the woman was alive, though they Richard told her. As he dragged her to which I assume was on Long Island." That November, the saga became still. While lunching with THIS MONTH ON ing away. Then I lay there wondering, wished to remain anonymous to protect e open rear door ol his black Mer Inside. Dan started a pot of coffee and stranger

Did I lock the door? Is il one o! the their careers They signed the letter gave Linda a present; a nightgown, she Linda, a relative who was also a doctor kids?" She called out the names ol her with lirsl names only— Richard and Dan. "That's says, "the kind a woman might wear if insisted she go to the hospital to x-ray x-ray Linda INVENTION [wo boys and finally reached out for her Hopkins was astonished. "I realized lund for about 3 any children, especial- the lump in her nose. The " immediately that the woman they had three hours," says Linda, "asking me all ly sc Dai- :• now presents shows a profile of her

i quarter-inch- sorts of questions." Did she work for the s could photograph her head; clearly visible is a nextstep said. "The account seemed to corrob- government? Was she hersell an alien? peared mid-abduction, floating over long cylinder apparently ei fael a numbness crawl up from her orate the time, date, and details of her They even demanded she prove herself New York. She refused but finally abduction. Here, finally, were independ- human by taking off her shoes. Aliens, agreed to put it on over her clothes. As "It was weird," says Hopkins' friend group exploring her past abductions, ent, seemingly reputable witnesses to they would claim in a letter to Hopkins, Dan's behavior became increasingly Paul Cooper, professor of neurosurgery she recognized what that meant. It's an abduction." lacked toes. She called Hopkins as strange, she decided to flee, running at New York University, who has exam- now or never, she thought and opened When Hopkins iirst called Linda to soon as they dropped her off at home. out the door and onto the beach. ined the x-ray. "I've never seen anything her eyes. At the foot of the bed, says tell her, she replied, "That can't be pos- "Hopkins told "Dan caught me and picked me up, tike it." But even Cooper admits the x- Linda, stood a small creature with a sible." Then she wondered if she and IWho shaking me like a toy." she says. ray could have been faked by taping a large head and huge black eyes. "I Budd were the victims of a cruel joke. would have believed me?" The notion There was mud on my face, so he little something to the outside of screamed and yelled," she says, "and But all suspicions vanished one evening even- in the water once, twice, Snnwless ski jumping. of surveillance by Richard and Dan dunked me

later, Rich- I trying in Paper-thin bulletproof then threw my pillow. The creature fell a lew weeks she says, when tually spooked her so much that she three times. don't think he was Moreover, as usually happens Alter thai, has only frag- ard at her door. me. he kept under loo UFO stories, this tantalizing bit of evi- vests. TO lb bridge ih*iL back." she and Dan showed up quit her secretarial job and simply to drown but me of conscious white "Police," they Linda This behavior, critics of dence vanished as quickly as it had ap- can support a train. ments memory— a announced. stayed home. To ease Linda's isolation, long." which fabric going over her eyes: little alien looked through the peephole and saw Hopkins found a benefactor who paid this strange tale have termed "attempt- peared. Soon after getting the x-ray, hands pounding up and down her two men in plain clothes flashing a for Linda's limited use of a bodyguard ed murder," finally ceased. Instead. Linda told Hopkins she'd awakened

back; suddenly falling back into bed. gold badge. "So I let them in,'" said so she could go out. Dan pulled off Linda's wet jeans and, with a bloody nose. Under hypnosis,

It was a quarter to 5:00 in the morn- Linda, "and they looked at me kind of Unfortunately, the bodyguard was she says, pulled her down on his lap in Hopkins says, Linda revealed that the Telephone recording ing when Linda jumped out of bed, ran funny. When they introduced them- not around lor what Linda says was her the water, rocking her like a baby. Short- aliens had again whisked her away. Lat- studio with legendarv into the kids' room, and discovered, she selves as Dan and Richard, my stom- second major encounter with Richard ly after. Linda reports. "Richard er, with Cooper's help, Hopkins had fur- producer Phil Ramone says, that "they weren't breathing." Hys- ach dropped to the floor." Both were and Dan. On October 15, 1991, Linda showed up, apologized for Dan, and ther x-rays taken, but the implant was and sax star Dave Koz. terical, she retrieved a small mirror tall, well-built, attractive men in their for- reports, Dan accosted her on the The Steadi-cam. trom the bathroom and placed it under ties, she says. Dan sat on the couch, street and pulled her into a red Jaguar. their noses. Suddenly, a mist formed on put his head in his hand, and said, "My As they drove along, he

the mirror, she says, and she heard her God, it's really her." Richard had tears i forward. That i husband snoring in the other room. in his eyes and hugged hf ':!. They were all alive. Linda, in shock, sat ing relief that she was alive on the floor in the hallway between the "Budd had warned me nc

MJ; : HH the incident with anyone," called Hopkins. The Hovercraft. Portable talk to Budd." burglar alarm. Computer- fi I had actually been In the year that followed, designed socks. le apartment. They ha claims, she had numero

n through tl ivlng with the mystery duo— at bus stops, out- ,1 Inside the gambling her dentist's office, even at industry's electronic side surveillance system. dared, where, floating in midair, she church. Hopkins himself never had the saw a bright bluish-white light. She was pleasure ol meeting the pair, though, he : a r,:ini of fa ling and embarrassed, think- ) did eventually receive three ing her nightgown had gone over her ters from Dan and four letters head. She moved up into the craft and audiocassette from Richard. In then found herself sitting on a table. The r, says Hopkins, Dan explained

creatures around her, she says, were I to remain anonymous: He and scraping her arms—"like taking skin sam- were no! New York City cops. ples," she speculates, and pounding nor on that lalelul November mt up and down her d they been alone. They were, abduction lare. to say government security agents and , had been escor;.ng fin important politi-

unite atypical •: witil ;il -.:;): :fl v 'iap- cal figure, who they would not name, to pened 15 months later. In February a downtown heliport; suddenly their

* i let- headlights 99 1 . lopKins received a typewritten car's engine died and the ter from two people claiming to be po- went out. They had seen Linda's abduc- lice officers. Late in 1989. the letter tion unfold after they pushed the car to said, the two had witnessed a "tittle safety under the elevated FDR Drive. girl or woman wearing a full white night- Dan and Richard just couldn't stay gown" floating out of a twelfth-floor apart- away. One morning, after Linda had ment window, escorted by three "ugly walked her youngest son to the school but small humanlike creatures" into a bus at 7:15, she claims she was ap- very large hovering oval that eventual- proached by Richard, who asked her ly turned reddish orange. The object, to take a ride in his car. She refused, the letter added, flew over their heads, but Richard's grip firmed on her shoul- " c

" -. For An Ageless Bodj I Videos iopkln; :> larch? ;r and sees two other UFOs in the sky, foot, But it Longevity Magazines W>rkout lope from a v JUSlcltfi )ne a bright orange object at the south- happened. It happened."

New York. On jrn end of Manhattan, ostensibly the If it really did, I thought, the independ- ' lers. appeared Ihe words, Confidential, >ne that abducted Linda. ent witnesses would confirm it. The

Re: Brooklyn Bridge. The two cases, if believed and tak- prize witness obviously was the VIP, On Ihe evening of November 29, ;n in concert, shed an ominous light on and the word in the UFO community is 1989. Ihe woman— Hopkins calls her lhat Hopkins thinks it was Javier Perez REJUVENETICS. "Janet Kimble"'—had been in Brooklyn de Cuellar, secretary-general of the ]']<." SHE'S 55! (Cathy Kse , il,c . and founder of at a retirement party for her boss. hattan Transfer." Were the aliens out United Nations from 1982 to 1991. "I Wtien she headed home via the that night abducting Manhaltaniles will nol deny or confirm that," says Longevity magazine, stars in REJUVENETICS and

Brooklyn Bridge around 3:00 a.m., she like Linda in droves? Hopkins. "I won't say who he is. but I These two new video told Hopkins, her car came lo a dead By December of 1991, the end of can say this: All the letters from Rich- MORE REJUVENETICS. middle the bridge and her ard and Dan refer to the facl lhat there stop in the of workouts are spedliL-allv Jl^iki! hi slow down the headlights blinked out. The same struggling with an obviously was a third man in the car. And he's writ- thing, she states, happened lo the urbed pers effects of aging on the body and actually rum back the cars coming up behind her. Suddenly, named Dan, who, according lo Richard, signed, The Third Man. I can't make the biological clock for a stronger, more youthful body. she saw what she thought was "a build- had been admitted to a "rest home." At things he said public, though clearly ing fire" about a quarter of mile Christmas, she received a card and he's letting me know between the lines on a REJUVENETICS features non-aerobic ballet, t'ai chi. away. The light was so bright that she note from Dan. It was a love letter ac- tually. He told her he planned to leave Actually, rumor she realized what she was seeing: the "rest home" soon and asked her to party may be ct -Ural to the Linds MORE REJUVENETICS concentrates on body sculpt- Four "balls" had floated pack her toothbrush—he ' According t anonymous sourc

rr&rl close kin , Richard, Dan, an window and, mid; es to Hop ing s|H;d fie must It- ifi-niins i'i I mild kim body mass while three "rickets-stricken" their passenger w abducted o s|n:e(liiii> up ihe mtulmlisrii. fourth, taller, "normal girl- that fateful day of November 30, 1939, ing a white gown. "While s nol amused. right along with Linda. Their delayed re- Follow either 30-ininute program just three rimes a week she wrote, "I could hear tt call of this event supposed- screams of Ihe peopl ly would explain why it took for satisfying results without the stress and strain of parked in their cars behind "HE WANTED 15 months for them to write " aerobics. Only SI4.99 each. " The lildre to Hopkins, why they were eob- TO LEARN HER ALIEN WAYS AND so interested in Linda, and why they are so reluctant to Call 800-527-2189 and ask for Department R, or send £14.99 plus $3.50 ($8.00 outside U.S.) shipping and HER SPECIAL come lorward n handling for each video to: Best Film & Video Corp., Dept. R, 108 New South Road, Hieksvillc, N.Y. 11801.

1 .that is certain was obscured by a walkway. LANGUAGE. 'YOU'LL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL X Perez de Cuellar is Hopkins says he tele- le was in New York City identified as 'Dan.' Despite the fact him, "I can't help you anymore with Linda a few questions of their own. phoned "Janet Kimble" imme- BRIDE,' HE n the days in quest cr O.d that the images were taken from a dis- this." The final independent witness is Several months later, after Hopkins diately and later had lunch hen illy v tance, involved crowds and the bustling the woman up the East River who made the case public at the 1992 Mu- with her. The tale told by TEASED. LINDA WAS NOT AMUSED." abduction? chaos that accompanies visiting digni- claims lo have participated in the tual UFO Network annual meeting in Al- this "widow of about sixty Joe Sills, spokesman for taries, she apparently had no trouble mass abduction of women that very buquerque, Stefula, Butler, and a friend who once worked as a tele- the secretary- genera I at the making her identification. Those who night. But she's another abductee and of theirs, parapsychologist George Han- phone operator" corroborates stories Dan apparently tried to get Linda in United Nations, was nice enough to not truly impartial in the matter. sen, decided the case needed a thor- told by Richard and Linda, he says, rul- February of 1992, but she was rescued check with the security people but man who appears to be taking part in With no independent witnesses will- ough investigation and began poking ing out ihe possibility of a hoax. from this dragon by Richard, whom came up empty handed. "No one that official business, and who is in no way ing to come forward, the case, not sur- around Linda's neighborhood. They

In fact, if Hopkins is to be believed, Linda now regards as a knight in shin- I spoke to," he says, out of place or unusual. prisingly, has come under intense criti- spoke to the securily guard and supervi- another witness to the Linda abduction ing armor. Linda says that Richard, up- eing ir it of K In the months that followed, cism. Curiously, two of those most crit- sor at Linda's building, went to the offic- was actually the first. That person, he on returning from a "mission" abroad, irof tt nmg. I Hopkins and Linda made the rounds ical of the case initially became involved es of the New York Post nearby, and sim- states, is a UFO abductee as well, a had gone to visit Dan at the rest home, of schedule th with their pictures of "Dan" in hand. at Linda's request. ply interviewed residents to see if they found him missing, and had come look- more, he added, Perez de Cuellar They went to United Nations security By early 1992, Linda was feeling so remembered anything amiss. No one did. to have been abducted from her Man- ing for him in New York. When he could not have been heading for the hel- and the State Department, Secret Ser- helpless at the hands of her human kid- Afterward, Hansen, already the au- hattan bedroom in the middle of the learned that Dan had prepared a pass- iport since he always went to the airport vice, and Russian delegation offices in nappers that she decided to seek ad- ier of stinging critiques night. She consciously remembers be- port for Linda and booked two tickets via limousine. U.N. spokesperson Juan New York. At times, Hopkins and ditional expert help. At the suggestion of b ing outside at some point, moving along to England, he immediately sought out Carlos Brandt checked with Perez de of New York journalist and UFO research- lengthy skeptical report. The cen- s involuntarily, and seeing 15 Linda and managed to spirit her away Cuellar directly. "He says he never wit- to arouse suspicion: "Sometimes we er Antonio Huneeus, she contacted Rich- tral issue, say the skeptics, is the lack o 20 o .ving z nessed any incident." says Brandt. said we were husband and wife and ard Butler, a former law-enforcement of large numbers of witnesses to this a UFOo banks of Linda's last contact with the aliens oc- And adding insult to injury, Hopkins that this was a friend we had met a cou- and security specialist for the Air spectacular event. After all. New York • :.:::: F curred a few months afterward. On can't even prove that the two govern- ple of years ago in Cape Cod and he Force and a fellow abductee, whom never sleeps; there are people out and

When Hopkim s. I can't Memorial Day 1992, she, her husband, ment security agents, Richard and Dan. had said to look him up here when we Linda had met at Hopkins' support about even in the middle of the night. help'but guffaw, s finds my reaction two sons, and one of their guests all are real. He has never met or spoken came to New York," Hopkins explains. group. Butler met with Linda on Feb- Why did none of the truck drivers at the

1 perfectly awakened at about 4:30 in the morning to them, and ail efforts to identify Iner But the ploy didn't work. "I've been all ruary 1, 1992, and brought with him doe loading dock of the New York Post just fruitless. In March :' 159 say?" he says. For Hopkins, who is in with nosebleeds. Hopkins says he has have proven over with these pictures," says Stefula, a former special agent for the a Bhor: distance in"' I nda's np.-.rtric-'-i the midst of investigating another subsequently confirmed, through hyp- for instance, Linda looked through six Hopkins, "and nobody recognizes him." U.S. Army's Criminal Investigations Com- see this blindingly bright object? Why mass abduction in New York City in- s UFO n hours of clips of news programs show- Then there is the woman on the mand and current head of security for haven't all those other people whose volving a hundred humans, this wom- ed. "I really i ing security agents at events in New bridge, "Janet Kimble." She is a real per- a drug company in New Jersey. During cars were supposedly stalled on the an's story is only "a little more bizarre body," says I York City. The clips belong to one of son but apparently, after being ridiculed the meeting, Linda asked for safety Brooklyn Bridge come forward? Hopkins' contacts in law en- r end of her story. "I don't expect any- government by her own family, wants no part of lips on how to protect herself f om The To such questions, Hopkins has a two- one to believe this because, to tell you forcement. Near the end of the six Hopkins' story. When Hopkins tried to dangerous duo, and Butler and Stefula, fold reply: "The unwillingness of people the truth, if the shoe were on the other hours, while watching a network broad- arrange an interview for me, she told in order to give useful advice, asked to report such fantastic experiences is BY JAMES OBERG SOVIET

Day alter day, the waves of UFOs returned to southern Russia. Cossacks on horse- back saw them high in the evening sky. Pilots aboard

military interceptors chased and dodged them. Astron- omers at observatories in the Caucasus Mountains noted

fiery companions.

It was the fall of 1967. and the Soviet Union was in the grip of its first major UFO flap. The extraordinary tales, described on Soviet television, reported in Soviet newspapers, and analyzed in a private nationwide UFO study group soon took on a life of their own.

In one detailed account, a airliner crew from Voroshi lovgrad to Volgograd, fl ight 104, insisted that a UFO hovered and then man vered around their pla According to Soviet UFO thusiast Felix Zigel, v compiled such accounts, the plane's engines died and did

not start up again until after the UFO had disappeared, when the aircraft was only a

half mile high in the air.

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!,,,,«,, ::„ These iales and others were repealed seeing alien spaceships instead of trea- UFO, a carrier of high intelligence with n , ;v.fiL,'i/.->-.|'.-< , ,t. i,"i-; won in Western UFO books and presented ty-busting weapons tests, Soviet military crew and passengers, or it was a field as important evidence a I UFO hearings officials were all too willing to permit of energy created by such a UFO." in the United States Congress and in Brit- this illusion to prosper. Zigel. the dean of Soviet UFOIogists. through lii.'iijw to Chase. ain's House ol Lords. Then, as sudden- Twenty-five years later, with the agreed it was a true UFO: "Without a Active. All Dolby Pro-Logic decoders (wen ly as it had started, the wave of Rus- FOBS rockets long since scrapped and doubt— it had all the features," the built-in mils) are active, meaning they sian UFO sightings ceased. Private the Soviet regime itself on the scrap Sadly, the cause ol all this mindless decade and «rfJJJ% tin- signal elcclniiiull- UFO groups were banned by the Sovi- heap of history, the now- purpose less de- rocket la.n-hny et government, and the subject was ception has maintained a zombielike :be supersecret military space cen- the lianie theater exaerietitx. This h an example dropped from the controlled media life of its own. Russian UFO literature Plesetsk in northwest Russia, The even as it spread wildly in the samizdat, tinues to issue ever more glorious igined booster's contrails, back- the underground Russian press. It by th n split noftbel But the phenomenon was not forgot- ships." Mainstream Russian magazi tiple glowinf newspapers, and even museum exhib- In 1981, a midnight rocket launch is and a team of investigators Irom the its contain fanciful drawings of from Plesetsk lit up the skies of Moscow Academy of Sciences in Moscow as- shapes Zigel himself is revered a; itself and sent the capital city's resi- sessed Zigel's UFO tiles, analyzing father of Soviet UFOIogy." an icon dents into a blitz ol unconstrained cre- statistics from what they said was ' (tie liability and authenticity. ativity. UFO expert Sergey Bozhich's repetitive motion" of the objects Zigel But Zigel's and Gindilis s notebooks contain reports of numerous described. In 1979, the "Gindilis Re- craft are just one example of the ridic- "independent" UFO encounters during port" was released and distributed ulous notions and outrageous fictions this ordinary launching. "Pilot'- ci six civ-

In il aircraft reported either UFO in around the world It concluded that no Russian UFOIogy has spawned. a How to get surround sound n natural or manmade stimulus 1977, for instance, Tass, the official Rus- flight or a UFO [attacking] their aircraft."

julda it for tt sian news agency, carried a dispatch he wrote. "At 1:30 a UFO attacked a atmospheric phenomena." Something from the northwest Russian port city of truck along the Ryazan Avenue in Mos- without buying the theater. truly extraordinary and truly alien must Petrozavodsk titled "Strange Natural cow." One witness even reported wak- e occurred. ing Irom a deep sleep to see An amazing new surround sound decoder turns your existing But it o good to be stereo system into a multi-channel home theater. .e many ot-iei oifiua "THE WITNESSES SAW Soviet government reports. cruising down his street. the Gindilis Report turned SPACE VEHICLES ALL RIGHT, NOT FROM The pattern is clear. Time out to be counterfeit science. and again, secret launchings In effect, and probably in in- SOME DISTANT, of Russian rockets have un- leashed avalanches of clas- one of Moscow's creates! '~iil- ALIEN WORLD, BUT RATHER FROM THE sic UFO perceptions from itary secrets, an illegal space- the imaginative, excitable wit- to-earth nuclear weapon. SOVIETS' SUPERSECRET nesses and their careless What the witnesses really interviewers. And consistent saw back in those exciting MILITARY COSMODROME AT PLESETSK." with its origins, Russian UFO literature is stili characterized hides all right, but not from by fantastic tales and an ut- come dislanl, alien world. They were Rus- Phenomenon over Karelia." Wrote local ter lack ol research into posaolo expla- sian missile warheads, placed in low or- correspondent Nikolay Milov. "On Sep- nations. "I have no doubts" is the most bit under false registration names and tember 20 at about 0400 a huge star common figure ol speech in the lexicon then diverted back toward the planet's suddenly flared up in the dark sky. impul- of Russian UFOIogists, and they are

il arguably surface alter one circuit ol the globe. sively sending shafts of light to the doubtlessly sincere, delu- room. That's why we're ufferiiii; this risk-frit* As they fireballed down toward a tar- earth. This star moved slowly toward ded. "Are UFOs real?" one was asked get zone near the lower Volga River, Petrozavodsk and. spreading out over not long ago by American documentary with the quality of these products, and the sur- they seared their way into the imagina- it in the form of a jellyfish, hung there. filmmaker Bryan Gresh. "My colleagues 30 days to try them For yourself. If they're tions of startled witnesses for hundreds showering the city with a multitude of and I don't even think that's a question," you best Dolby Pro-Logic ant not l'yltv tiling uv y.iy. ri'lnn* Ihi'in kir a ttim- ol miles in all directions. vfi.'y lino rays which created an image he responded. "Of course they are real!" TUX systems available. '\"aQin'sliuni- Aski'd" refund. Of course, U.S. intelligence agencies of pouring rain." This sort of quasi-religious fervor pli-l..- w critics. C had also been watching the tests, and liio "visitation" unleashed a torrent just helps to fuel the skepticism of the they weren't tooted by the UFO smoke- of rumors. People later reported being cautious observer. After all, if Russian >;.,:'., v . ,.',-. .'/:!../ It 0"l.r-r t\>r the HTS-1- cannot or will not recognize screen. Pentagon experts soon dubbed awakened from deep sleep by telepath- UFOIogists ELF-1 Hear Channel Speakec S99 pr K this learsome new weapon a "fraction- ic messages. Tiny holes were reported- the prosaic stimulus behind these pho- al orbit bombardment system," or ly seen in windows and paving stones. ny crescent UFOs of 1967 and the UFO For fastest service call toll-tree 24 hours a FOBS. Government spokespeople in Cars were said to have stalled and com- "jellyfish" of 1977, they may be incapa- of Washington denounced it as a first- puters to have crashed, and witnesses ble of solving any the other hundreds 800-992-2966 strike weapon designed to evade de- smelled ozone. of ordinary (if rare] causes that account fensive radars. Since Moscow had re- Soviet UFO enthusiasts rushed to em- for at least 90 percent (if not 100 per- IS ^S teSl 88 SSI'IIl'S. k."-pLVl,lllV li' cently signed a solemn international trea- e the c sfar a cent) of all UFO perceptions. Dozens mrdhip. John Sunk ty forbidding the orbiting of nuclear cerned," claimed science-fiction author of major stimuli, and hundreds ol minor weapons the existence ol this weap- Aleksandr Kazantsev, "it was a space- ones, are constantly giving rise to coun- " on [whose tests alone c" ship from outer space, carrying out re- terfeit UFO perceptions around the saty) w aglari cornaissance." According to Dr. Vladi- world. Filtering out the residue ol true contempt. So w n Rust n UFO w mir Azhazha, "In my opinion, what was UFOs from the pseudo UFOs poses seen over Petrozavodsk was either a challenges lor investigators. INDUSTRIES —

= 1 " Most Russia L Clogists appear un-.-vill an error!" But he doesn't seem to was a recently renahil ".a-ed pc'irica pris- es." They were scientists, pilots, engi- Get TV reception yoi v had before, -with the ing to face this challenge. know how, and neither do any of his col- oner in 1947 and was thus hardly the neers, and fellow astronomers, and Hy- And the writings of prominent Rus- leagues. While their sincerity and enthu- type of trusted expert that Stalin would nek was absolutely certain they couldn't Antenna Multiplier sian UFO experts give ample ground for siasm are not in doubt, their judgment, have consulted. have been mistaken. more anxiety. Vladimir Azhazha, prob- balance, all and accuracy should be. Behind such distracting noise, the Today's successor to McDonald and still only $29^* ably the leading Russian UFO expert of Why are people like Azhazha the UFO problem remains a fascinating and Hynek is retired space scientist Rich- the 1990s, is an undeniable enthusiast cost thai RLSsia csn offer? Russians are elusive puzzle, worthy of serious re- ard Haines, American director of the Rut read this ad for 'en better deal'. of UFO miracle stories. Some years heirs to a grea:, creative civilization, but search. But weeding out true UFOs joint United States Corn '"-onwealth of In- YiiLi '.\"on'l need i: if vou arc Ciinnecleci le .=. Cubic rsyslei": ago, his favorite Western UFO story in- they are also emerging from a social era from the overwhelming mass of dependent States working group on but if vtiu are not you will now get TV reception that I volved a UFO attack on the Apollo 13 that has hac profound erects on their "IFOs," or identified flying objects, is a UFOs, the Aerial Anomaly Federation. von could never eiyo.. before. Inside its plastic housing,

l , r l -' : .''i.', difficult, i ;..v space capsule, which he "disclosed" habits of thought. Today's Russians time consuming task, as West- Concerning the 1967 sightings, he con- the Atin-,ii!i: .l),'.., hide? :i s'"".aT technical miracle an array of elooironir components thai liternllv multiplier was carrying a secret atomic bomb to have lived in a reality-deprived and judg- ern UFOIogists have learned in the fidently wrote that "the reports represent ' r [ the reception cover of your 1 V. 1 he .i.'i.'o.'i.1 ;:" ;\\\tilipii:'r create seismic waves on the moon. ment-atrophied culture for generations. past half century. Their new Russian col- currently unknown phenomena, being stabilizes .oiii" TV picture. e iminares '"a hosts'' and sialic, But it was carrying no such thing. Once they were sufficiently brain be- leagues so 'ar show no indication tha: completely different in nature from and brings in s fa dons oiat :\ ere until now only visible as The April 1970 explosion, which disa- a repressive re- they numbed by communist have even begun. known atmoscne-ic opt cs effects or tech- Tickers anci am ovine, shade, vs. In most areas voa will be able bled the craft and threatened the lives gime to accept any and all propagar "I haven't seen too much effort at nical experiments in the atmosphere." to eliminate anv on-d'oor antenna co:".pletelv (limited by atmospher- " v of the three astronauts, was caused by a she idiocies fed to them, they were that job," admits Antonio Huneeus, one Another famous Russian pseudo- ic or geographic constraints;. 1 he \)'.iilii;iicr needs no outside power it gets its "piice" ..''.' '' rghl through your TV set. Voj piece me \ I .' 'pi :•:: or the leievisi on scl kself, lay it on a a hardware malfunction. When chal- tellectually defenseless against infec- of the West's most perceptive pro-UFO UFO case, called the "Cape Kamenny nearby table, or k-ng it on file wall. And, or course, vou can bid vonr messy and ineffective lenged recently by UFOIogist Antonio tions of other brain bunk well. observers of IJ-0 as Russan ogy. "The Rus- UFO," has long been foolishly champi- ''' ..'.';'.'. ::: .'. '.:./ >. rabbit ea:s, loop, rod, or dish antennas goed-b'. e. . i :i''!i-:- ill not iust enhance Huneeus, Azhazha made a candid ad- UFO enthusiasm prospers in this sians rhem selves keep knocking on my oned by Western UFO experts. Top your TV reception, il .- Isf vastly improves AM .TV -a die receoiion anci brings in new sta- mission: "When I gave the lecture, I was turing environment. And it's not jusl door," Huneeus states. "They want to American UFOIogist Jacques Vallee cit-

''' , :l a teenager in UFOIogy and was intoxi- UFO sightings that get conjured up by sell their stuff here." In fact, given to- ed this encounter in a 1992 book as VVe are the exckis've jut porters of the Ao:r:::'-i ii,:' y. ',\ in the I ruled r-lates and can : - therelore bring you this outstanding TV a ores so rv lor iust s29.Vb. Rn: we have an even belter cated by the E.T. hypothesis and did this fuzzy thinKrg. H statical figures, p'e day's economic crisis in Russia, thou- one of the best in the world. His case- ',',' cicel; Bn!i ta-o for si."'). 'ID, ,wri a\ scird yon >i third two, ,ui!i: (mr cuiupiinicuts—absolute- not recognize anything else. I would re- erably dead ones cannot disagree, sands of people of all classes, who but par- book coding scheme gave it the high- ' .' ';:i:ir:ir- ly fREE! Unleash the fell power of voi.ir television with Ai'lcr,:),; . 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"WHEN I GAVE en the this time on forged "' 1 ' photo- the few exportable raw ma- A graphic of this .,', account UFO was -,!, graphs published in Amer- icrisls with a market in the s:upp THE LECTURE, I WAS A TEENAGER IN given by American UFOIogist William L. ckviv .-i. V( ican tabloid newspapers. West, so there should be no Moore based on casebooks compiled : y St., San Francisco, CA 941 07 The pictures "show contrast- UFOLOGY AND surprise that there, are sud- by Zigel. "On December 3, [1967] at enhanced fuzzballs, photo- denly so many bizarre items 3:04 p.m.," wrote Moore, several crew- graphic images that had WAS INTOXICATED BY THE E.T. HYPOTHESIS now available and so few Rus- men and passengers of an IL-18 aircraft been sharpened in the pho- sians willing to be cautious on a test flight for the State Scientific to lab. A fabricated "radio AND DID NOT or critical about them. Institute of Civil Aviation sighted an "The Best Mattress I've Seen..!' conversation" in which the as- If these Russian UFO de- intensely bright object approaching tronauts exclaim surprise at RECOGNIZE ANYTHING ELSE." lusions only affected their them in the night sky." Moore reported Dr.WF.Lenz seeing alien spaceships in a own research, the silliness that the object "followed" the evasive. Mankato, MN crater near their landing site would do no worldwide turns of the aircraft. later appeared in another tabloid; it in slick the intellectual was For example, 1993, a now harm. But infection has But years later I discovered that the patently bogus, too, based on grossly UFO magazine called AURA-Z ap- spread far beyond borders and pollut- aircraft, passing near Vorkuta in the misused space jargon. The story was peared in Moscow. Continuing the ed UFO studies in other countrie northern Urals, had by chance been org ago abandoned by reputable V\fest- trend of tying now-dead space heroes well. These new commercial conspira- crossing the flight path of the Kosmos- ern UFOIogists, but Azhazha still loves to UFO studies, the magazine featured cies between Russian tall-tale se lers 194 spy satellite during its ascent from it and presents it as true. two separate interviews with contem- and Western tall-tale tellers in the en- Plesetsk. The crew had unwittingly ob- Revolutionary conference Albuquerque At a UFO ,n porary experts concerning the role tertainment and pseudodocumentary in- served the rocket's plumes and the sep- Ail Support System " them the back in 1992, Azhazha told astonished West- played by Sergey Korolev, the founder dustry will make it much worse. aration of its strap-on boosters. All oth- ern colleagues that he had proof that of the Soviet missile and space pro- The more serious Western UFOIo- er details of maneuvers were added in ..A ,i betti'i- night's sleep. 5,000 Russians had been abducted by grams. It didn't bother the magaz ne gists, for instance, are particularly em- by their imaginations. Yet this bogus = Try Risk-Free for 90 Nights UFOs and never returned to Earth. at all that the two stories were utterly barrassed by their colleagues' naive, un- UFO story is highlighted as authentic by Variable Firmness Great Sleep Yea conueltiotinia-evB at •-.ar simplvbv Si. p in 1 hs It you are When asked to defend this number, inconsistent. for aed— he bounded enthusiasm the 1967 "cres- nearly every Western account of Rus- :".:- re: ronipitreii satisfied, it full Easiii-.-.g a huUon. C ha y;e Ire T"(i'iiess :;s otter Lis yon lorum a refund. disclosed that he took the reported num- In one article, rocket expert Valery Bur- the so-called 1 cents" 1 . i and subsequent in ' sian the last years. i ,i ' . . i.i ... 20 I mi. 1 . 1 I I UFOs hi ..nil ,|..,i 20 Year Limited Warranty ber of ordinary "missing persons" in the dakov presented a detailed account of Gindilis Report, with Soviet thermonu- Of course, not all Russian UFO re- feather bed. The choice is yours. Discover why 96% of Select Comfort entire Soviet Union, plotted the regions how back in 1947 Stalin had ordered clear weapons tests masquerading as ports spring from missile and Adjust space Your Side Separately users recommend it to family and friends activity intelligence Inside [l-.en-.aiiivsf =r>= !.: air over which major UFO had been Korolev to assess Scvic: re- true UFOs. Dr. James McDonald, prob- events. Far from it! But those specific cainbc-rs. You an "I lima doctor iwt! titta: conu- !ms; exhausted.

, .:", r.ejust vera o'.-.n -s.ic iavqsadir.iilv .'-.'i Sele-cl ("oir.lerl. reported, and then allocated those pop- ports on the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO ably America's top UFO expert of the kinds of stimuli are extremely well doc- ."..'lis :::.-,:: re--. wc;-! :;:: ror mj.'.y i':-.' rriai:" '. needs without comprau---- Dr. Cow: i? H. >,<.i\. ::: : ;rk-viiicOi-i ulation proportions of "missing" to the crash. Korolev had reported back that 1960s, testified that :he crescents "can- umented, unlike other traditional pseudo- UFOs. It was simple, sincere, and sense- the UFOs were real but not dangerous, not be readily explained in any conven- UFO stimuli such as balloons, experi- Call Now For Your less, but the embarrassed American the article "revealed." Yet just seven pag- tional terms." Dr. J. Allen Hynek, dean mental aircraft, military and police heli WMrnmnmrn hosts (who had paid his travel expens- es earlier, another expert named Lev of American UFOIogy in the 1970s, re- copters, bolide fireballs, and so forth and FREE Brochure es) couldn't disagree too publicly lest Chulkov had written: "As early as the viewed the sightings and crowed, "It be- Thus, they can provide an unmatcha- their waste of money be obvious. hegi,nn ng of the 1950s. Stalin ordered comes very much harder— in fact, ble calibration test for the ability of Rus- 1-800-831-1211 Russian UFOIogists claim to be care- Korolev to study the phenomenon of from my personal viewpoint, impossi- sian UFOIogists to find solutions fot Select Comfort Corp. ful. Azhazha himself has written: "Noth- UFOs, but Korolev managed to avoid ble — to find a trivial solution for all the these pseudo UFOs. r 9301 75th A " ing on faith! One must check, check, fulfilling this task." Of course, both UFO reports if one weighs and consid- Russian UFOIogists The have failed Minneapolis, MN 5S128-U103 and elever r.res check .n o r oer "o "ind claims can't be true. Besides, Burdakov ers the cai he r of some cf ;he w : tness ultimate of the The test Russians' abil- Ds-i : I !

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—Robert Barion, Anatomy of Mclcmeftoiy. 1621

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Leonard: like you been shot in the back of the and see it. There had been a ranch or For a long time he did not remem- head and the bullet came out the top. a farm. He'd done something that ber anything. The moon was just ris- That's brains hangin' there." made people mad at him. He couldn't ing. He must have come from the river "Unhh! Unhh!" remember. There had been a running river. because his footprints led from it to "Easy now. If you come this far you through the woods to the where he stood. His head hurt. ain't gonna die yet. Ease over into the And then G

He walked for a very long way and truck here— I'll take you over to the it was a name. He did not know he was hot. He wished he hadn't left hospital in Salinas. Watch your head who the name was. the water; now he needed a drink. He gettin' in. There's more of it on top than He couldn't remember and it made ."

. cry. felt something heavy on the top of his you think. . him head. He didn't think it was his cap. He got into the truck. Soon they This place wasn't so nice. There He reached up and his hand came were bouncing along the road and the were people who were always making away with something dark and some- gravel was flying in a big V out behind. him do things and move from his bed thing gray and blue in the moonlight. His head hurt more and soon he was or chair and they talked to him but he "Ahhh!" he yelled. "Ahhhi" He asleep. could not understand. began to run, falling down twice, flop- All he remembered was pieces of A long long time went by, maybe a ping around in the dirt until he could the next few days. There were rooms month or two. He wished he could get up. His left arm did not leave and go find some work or work. He ran and ran, then he something. He did not like it passed out. here. When he came to again he Sometimes he wished he was walking and it was either had a rabbit to hold. just after sunset or just before And then one day when they dawn, he did not know which. had him outside bouncing the He walked and walked. His ball he looked up and there head was pounding now but he standing in front of him was a was afraid to reach up and funny little clown in a black clown suit with a pointed hat touch it again. He was so tired k_^na and so hungry but he could not and big buttons down the front. looked at the clown and stop. He knew that if he Hashes ol who he was would He stopped he would die. he smiled because he knew from then everything It was morning. come back then go on was He hobbled onto the edge of going to be okay. away, like bird hopping closer a field. It stretched away forever a with the stubble of some crop, Benjamin: and closer behind a There was a man far away on It was day and rain and my

sister held me while I held the the other side doing something tree you were leaning against with a tractor. There was a truck slipper and the grandmother parked there, too. He walked was in the house then my toward the man at the tractor brother came home mad and I and the man heard him coming was taken somewhere with lots and looked up. The man's eyes of doors and white and I didn't got wide and bright behind his like it and was going to say and glasses and he put one hand going and they put the thing on up over his face a second. and lights and doctors and nurses and my arm that hurt and I went away and "Holy Mother of Christ!" the man they put something in his head. Then then it was day again and my pushing- said. he was in a big bed and they brought man took me outside in the buggy- "Unhh! Unhhr he said, holding his him food and asked all about him. chair and put me under the tree the right arm out. Then some other doctors came and tree like the one in the pasture where

"Jesus! You're really hurt? How did a state trooper in a smart uniform with the boy and I were walking and he that happen?" a shiny badge, and a few days later was looking for the money "Money "Unhh? they took him to another place. Money" said my brother "You're all

"Hold still. Don't move." The man It was there that something began bleeding me white" and then I was in went to the truck and came back with to happen to his head, not on the this place under the tree watching and for my sister to come to the a flour sack covered with grit. "It's all I outside where all the bandages and watching got. Let me put that in your head." the tin were, but inside. Small flashes gate so I could see her and she

He held still. of who he was would come back then climbed the pear tree to look in at my The man made a strange noise go away, like a bird hopping closer grandmother like the horse in the ditch behind him. and closer behind a tree you were and the people wouldn't let me go to hitting "I don't know how you're walking, leaning against but which would hop the gate and the men were and calling sister's name and there was buddy." The man said. "It . . . it looks away before you could turn around my

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the girl who wasn't my sister who After waiting a few more moments, you're the state, so I just have to con- yelled and yelled at the gate and the he stepped to the wide double doors vince you, right?" fire went around and around and it was and went inside. "That is essentially correct." OMNI ASKS THE AGE-OLD QUESTION: rain and I couldn't sleep and il was day The place was light and airy and had "Okay. Let's get to it." IF again and they were saying "Benjam- peculiar, not unpleasant, smells. The hall- "How long have you been here?" IS THERE INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH, AND SO, WHERE? in, Benjamin, don't yell so, just show us way led to a large sitting room with over- "Twelve years. Since 1939."

where it hurts" and I tried to tell them stuffed Victorian furniture, worn looking "How many patients do you have?" and the black woman cook said "Grab but clean. From somewhere far off to "Twenty-seven. Only they're not pa- his hand" and I put it in my mouth it the left he heard the rattle of a pot or tients, they're guests. Five have been STAR WARTS hurt so and I pointed where it hurt and pan, low talk. To the right was another here since the beginning; the others SATIRE BY FRANK COTHAM they made it stop it was day again and hallway. A man was coming out of the came one or two at a time. Either we they let me stand at the gate only it was room pushing his hair back with both went out to find them, or some just

tall and I was little that time and my push- hands. showed up, over the years." ing-man put me under the tree then the "Mr. Seeker," he said. "Willard "You went out to lind them? man came and the man had a clown Beemer. Sorry I didn't hear your car Where?" with him like the one that came to town we don't have a telephone at the gate. "Some from state hospitals. Some only he had on a black suit and he I wouldn't have known you were here from private. One we found kept in a hugged me like my sister used to do in except one of our guests went by the cage out behind an alligator farm in the buggy-chair and the clown and the window—he goes to meet every car. Florida. man were in the little box with me that Usually that's just the help arriving for "You go get them from state hospi- bumped and bumped and pastures work, but it's too late for that so I knew tals?" and houses went by the windows real it had to be you." "Most states are only too happy to fast and there was a bridge and a river Seeker shook his hand. find someone to take them off their and hills going by too and then it was "I'm sure the department explained hands. "Look," said Beemer, "I'm not day and night again and I was in the why I'm here." explaining myself very well. Leave your big house which was my grandmother's "They told me we'd need a license briefcase here. Come outside with me. house only it was big and I Take a look around." was little in it and sometimes He followed Beemer back the clown was big and "NEAR A COPSE through the parlor, out the stuck out of the house and double doors to the driveway sometimes he was little and OF TREES, SOMEONE WHO WAS where the car sat. A man walked around and sat in his stood near the steps, his swing. DRESSED LIKE head moving back and forth, eyes'wide, staring at The gateman let the car, a KOKO THE CLOWN FROM THE OLD the car and driver. new '51 Kaiser, into the "I better start at the begin- grounds. CARTOONS SAT ning. I didn't found this In the front seat beside place; my father did— the driver from the motor IN A BOARD-AND-ROPE SWING." though he died on the trip pool, Dr. Ernest Seeker West with the first five stared up the drive toward guests, I'm the executor of

the mansion. It was a three-story stone for the facility. I tried to explain why I his estate, which makes me also the building. At the front, over the portico didn't think it came under your purview, guardian of the Democritus Trust.

was the head of a giant clown, mechan- but they insisted. So I told them, send That's where we get the money." ical eyes slowly rolling, tongue lolling their best investigator out and look the Seeker looked out toward the field out of the mouth. place over, and we'd talk about it." near the back of the grounds. A young

The grounds, ten or eleven rolling "You realize, of course, that if you person, a lone boy, stood in the mid- acres, were surrounded by a twelve-foot- were an M. D. or this were under the dle of the half-acre patch. high narrow iron spiked fence. Here direct supervision of a neurosurgeon or "That's the newest one, Holderi. I'm and there as he watched, solitary men psychiatrist, I wouldn't be here?" not sure he should be here, but the Lit- "%: and women moved on missions of "I know, I know. But we didn't ask to tle Moron wanted him to stay." their own. be licensed; you called us. My guess "We don't like to refer to anyone as Far otf, near a little copse of trees, is it's because of the guy building the a moron, Mr. Beemer ..." /z. someone who was dressed like Koko houses all across the hills that you got "That's what he calls himself. He's the Clown from the old Betty Boop car- called. Some people are afraid of the one all the stories are about." toons sat in a board-and-rope swing, things they don't understand. See, we Seeker looked at Beemer. "You winding himseli up with little movements don't consider ourselves a place lor treat- mean, the Little Moron jokes?" like, Jr. \'^^%r, of the feet and letting the twisted ment. We're, a big family who "That's him. Elwood Democritus, ropes spin him around again. lives' in a big house with a fence and His father was richer than Croesus. He In another direction, a patch of what mind our own business." appointed my father executor on his looked like wheat bordered the fence. "You can understand the concerns deathbed. Elwood Jr.'s mother had There was no one waiting for him out of the county and state when there are died years before; he was an only front when the car pulled to a stop. complaints that there's an unlicensed child on a dead-end branch of the fam-

Seeker got out. He pulled his brief- mental facility in the middle of what will ily tree. Then the Little Moron and rtiy :: case from the back seat. He looked become a high-densily residential area." father came West, setting up the Wiioin Goes name ^re you?' back beyond the gate to the far hill "Well, the county can't do anything place, getting the original five guests, where the construction on the new hous- because they got a grandfather setting it all up; then my father died and ing subdivisions had begun. clause in all their zoning stuff. And I came out here and here we are." so OMNI CONTINUED ON PAGE 100 "

"Are you sure that this is the Great Lord ot the . . . from the planet Earth! "All the kids say I'm adopted. "What's an illegal alien?" "Yeah well I'm Inter-Galactic Empire's gift to the peoples of Earth?"

'Obviously, they come from a planet with . We come in peace." "However superior, there is a resemblance. "Nothing you could ever say would convince me that " very little gravity." there's intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. IfUTERVIElAJ

DR. BRIA

According to this Miami psychiatrist, past-lives therapy works: it's quick, inexpensive, and people get better—whether they believe in reincarnation or not. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK CHIN

Treating patients by guiding them through recol- magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1966, he lections of what appear to be previous lives is received his M.D. from Yale in 1970. It was Ivy League all about the last thing Brian Weiss thought he'd be the way. Publishing papers, becoming a recognized psy- doing. The South Florida physician, who before the age of chopharmacology expert, he considered himself a "show 35 was chief of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and a me" kind of guy, believing only in what he could see. He professor at the University of Miami's medical school, had rarely gave much thought to anything paranormal, mystical, always taken the traditional path. or spiritual.

Growing up in New Jersey, Weiss was an overachiever, One patient changed all that.

self-described as "studious, but not geeky." After graduating Weiss calls her Catherine in Many Lives, Many Masters, published in 1988, eight years after her nor does he want to be, He's simply a therapy began. Barely budging her gar- doctor, he says, who's become "en- den-variety phobias and anxieties with 18 lightened." Much to his surprise, his work

months of conventional therapy, Weiss has been taken seriously by many in the instructed Catherine while hypnotized to psychiatric community. Even some

"go back to the time from which your skeptics find value in his books. "I can't symptoms arise." She did: The year was say that these experiences were actual 1863 B.C., and she was a 25-year-old wo- memories of past lives," says Steven man named Aronda. Warner, Miami hypnotherapist and expert Weiss was shocked as Catherine un- in multiple-personality disorders. "It's leashed a flood of memories from other possible they were fantasy material lifetimes as well. He soon discovered, he similar to screen memory—an indirect MOST DESIRABLE says, that traumatic events and relation- way of describing a problem. But there's ships encountered in previous lives were a purposefulness to the unconscious. PAST-LIFE ENVIRONMENT: the source of her present problems. But Whatever is happening, I don't believe only after ruling out schizophrenia, split these 'past life' memories are a sham." Palestine, 2000 years ago personalities, psychosis, drug use, neuro- In 1992, shortly before publication of MOST DESIRABLE logical illness, sociopathic tendencies, his second book, Through Time into Heal- NEXT-LIFE and just plain acting, could the scien- ing, the University of Miami notified Weiss ENVIRONMENT: tifically trained Weiss begin to accept this that it wouldn't be renewing his teaching notion. "My gut reaction was that I'd contract. Weiss has no doubt that his Tahiti

stumbled upon something I knew veiy work with past-life therapy provoked this UFE PURPOSE: little about—reincarnation and past action. But a week before, the University memories." During the next three years, of Pittsburgh's Medical School showed To be a teacher and travel he dispelled Catherine's phobias and interest in a longitudinal study to see if agent panic attacks by having her vividly recall gains by patients in this therapy persist MOTTO: events from dozens ot her past lives. over time. Conducting this study from But reincarnation was only part of what Miami, Weiss has also spoken at the Yale Choose love, not fear. Weiss encountered during Catherine's Medical School psychiatry department PERSONAL PAST treatment. He also met "the Masters," and divinity schools. LIVES entities who spoke through Catherine, During our second meeting, he spoke EXPERIENCED: while she was under hypnosis, about the enthusiastically about how even the nature of the universe, levels of con- federal government is Two taking alternative sciousness, intuitive powers, and the soul, therapies seriously, citing the NIH's new ON RELIGION: which they said passed from one body to Office of Alternative Medicine, which he another. Weiss first branded it mumbo calls "the Office of Far-Out Stuff." His I'm hoping the distinctions jumbo until "the Masters" talked about work with past-life therapy has helped not among people will dis- Weiss's late father and the medical con- only his patients, he acknowledges, but appear. I'd be much hap- dition that caused the death of his three- himself.—Nina L Diamond pier if there were just week-old son years before— information one religion, one of love to which Catherine would have no ac- Omni: Why do scientists find reincarnation and spirit, hope, and cess. In 1990, Weiss left Mount Sinai to a hard concept to buy? wisdom.- My work made devote himself full time to his patients, Weiss: Fear of the unfamiliar. Actually, me more aware of about 60 percent of whose therapies people don't have to be afraid, if only the environment. We have include recalling past lives. they'd keep an open mind. Meditation to come back and Upon our first meeting, Weiss hyp- can teach people to do that if they can let live on this planet again.

notized me. I did not experience past-life go of their fears. So what we do is not recall but had what he calls "a mystical Omni: But that can mean changing one's just affecting our children. experience." From my description of the whole life. LESSON LEARNED: people in two separate scenes, it's clear Weiss: Yes, it's scary—but totally safe. It's to Weiss and to me that they are symbolic difficult to let go of the familiar, even if it's .There is no death. of an important relationship I'm having harmful, restricting, and blinding. We go from life to life, with a man Weiss believes I've also Omni: Where did the concept of reincar- body to body. known in previous lifetimes and even in nation come from? BOOKS SOLD: between, in the "spirit state." Weiss: It's so far back that we really don't

Since treating Catherine, Weiss, 49, know. I suspect it's from the same place Many Lives, Many Masters, has researched not only reincarnation, as now: People who are psychic, having 1988 (400,000 copies but Eastern and Western religions, visions of it, dreams or deja vu, memories, U.S., 17 foreign languages) mysticism, quantum physics, and intuitive meditations, came upon this .knowledge.' Through Time into Healing, and paranormal experiences. He does Plato wrote about reincarnation. Ancient 1992 (50,000 hardcover) not come across as some kind of guru, civilizations believed in this. We lost this belief only recently, mostly for political talked about seven dimensions. don't all remember. The Greeks be- emeritus of the Department of Psychi- call that wave?" And I'd say, "I don't reasons. In Judaism, belief in reincar- Omni: Might two souls meet in lieved that again when you were born again, atry at the Un varsity o~ Virginia; see Om- know yet, but that doesn't mean it isn't

nation, or gilgul, existed until the early lives? if new And so, how would they you drank from the river of Lethe so ni Interview, January 1988] has more real." We just don't have the names for 1800s. Only with the migration out of recognize each other? you'd forget previous lives. than 2,000 cases of children from all these wave/particle phenomena; our Eastern Europe to the West and the Weiss: An energy attracts you're If — Omni: we retained knowledge of over the world, many of whom exhibit range is :.oo Ihxed. We'll eventually use Own A need to be accepted in the of age en- pulled into a situation where you need past lives, would it be cheating, like tak- xenogiossy, the ability to speak a for- our minds to become aware of and lightenment did the and science belief to be. Perhaps even from the time of ing a test with the book open? Are we eign language to which one has had no generate these same energies or wave/ go underground—but not in Chasidic [ul- birth, in choosing one's parents. It's not supposed to learn in each life without exposure. Others know details about particle phenomena. Modem? traorthodox] populations. random; you choose because of the op- benefit from our previous lessons? olaass they've never seen. No single in- If I said that you are really a mass of In Christianity, it portunity went underground to learn. You may make mis- Weiss: Yes. Suppose that between life- dividual by his or her story is going to electrons, protons, neutrons, and wave/ much earlier the Second Council of takes. Everybody will, — has free even times you say, "Yeah, I've spent ten life- prove reincarnation, but it's the weight particle reactions, you'd say, "But I'm Constantinople in the sixth century de- your parents. They may not turn out the times learning about charity. I know all of evidence: hundreds of therapists solid." And I'd say, "That's not true, be- clared reincarnation a heresy. Christi- way you had envisioned, because they about it. I'm a charitable person." Okay, with thousands of patients where this cause at some deeper level, you're en- anity was becoming a state religion, have the free will to not reach their po- now comes the field test. You're born, happens— children, nonbelievers, skep- ergy. And some day if they could har- and the Romans felt that without the tential. In as were talk- one workshop we put into a situation. Is charity ingrained tics, all who come out with these details ness that energy, some enterprising whip of Judgment this, Day, people would ing about a mother in the audience so deeply that you don't have to act char- of past lives. physicist could probably build a bomb not behave, would not follow. They'd said to her daughter, itably of "See, you chose because a specific memory or It's very difficult to prove reincarna- out of you. The body Is not what it think, "Well, I'll do it next time around." me, so stop blaming me!" And the because it's part of your nature? tion scientifically because of what we seems, but that is true of all of reality. think the length Omni: How do you of daughter turned to her and said, Omni: So you think we're born with cer- consider scentific. Asa osychiatrist, I'm Omni: Will physicists show that sci-

time between lifetimes is determined? I in a hurry." "Then must have been tain values and ideals? vitally interested in my patients' clinical ence, mysticism, spirituality, religion,

Weiss: People die violently, or chil- I hostility first it who see love or at sight as Weiss: Yes, gets ingrained, not at the improvement. There's no question in my and parapsychology are linked dren die, Explore who often return much faster. a kind of recognition of souls, a work- level of the brain, but of the heart, the mind or those ol the physicians and psy- through quantum mechanics? For those live longer who and die more ing out of debts and responsibility. Spir- soul. That's where real learning takes chotherapists who are writing and call- Weiss: Physicists are the mystics of the

peacefully, there can longer it be a time seems thicker than water. That's place so that you're not dependent ing me that this has a tremendous ther- Nineties and the next century. They've between lives, 100 years or more. what really pulls us togelher OMNI Magazine — some- just on what your parents teach you. If apeutic effect. Past-lives therapy is begun to study consciousness, time re- Omni: past lives do people times How many genetically, but sometimes not. one's parents were bigots, for [he quick, vivid, relatively inexpensive, and versal, all the phenomena previously generally have? child to overcome that and people get better! Right now I'm accu- called occult or esoteric. These things Weiss: That varies, but the become compassionate, un- mulating evidence that this therapy will be scientifically proven to have on America number that comes up most derstanding, charitable, un- I SEE LOVE OR works and that people, whether they be- their roots in nature. Some concepts often in work is my 100, not bigoted, requires a degree lieve in reincarnation or not, can recall that seem strange to us now won't be the thousands and thou- HOSTILITY AT FIRST SIGHT AS A KIND OF of independence that tran- details they didn't know from the distant as we understand more of their under- Online FREE sands that the Buddhists scends what we're taught. or recent past. lying physics. talk about, RECOGNITION OF This is the soul memory in ad- Omni: Tell us about your recent project Omni: How do past-life relationships af- Omni: Do you think that dition to specific talents, abil- with the physics department at New fect one's present life? for 10 Hours! there is an infinite number of SOULS, A WORKING OUT OF DEBTS AND ities, or whatever else the York University. Weiss; In every way. Many ol your souls or finite? soul might bring back with it. Weiss: They're bringing from China ex- most meaningful relationships are not IF you own a computer and a modem, vol Weiss: It doesn't matter to RESPONSIBILITY. Our real lesson here is to perts at what we'd call healing, what new. Past lives also affect us in symp- VI can get even more of I he O M experience me because ultimately we're learn of love in all its ramifi- physicists are try- toms, emotional physical. Certain they call energy. The and with OMNI Magazine on America Online. all connected. SPIRIT SEEMS THICKER THAN WATER. cations truth, compassion, — ing to measure it— eventually to build fears anc anxieties carry over from oth- Broaden your horizons and enter the Omni: Are new souls being generosity, mercy. a machine that could mimic the effect er lifetimes. Physical symptoms, where worlds of science, science fiction, and the created, in your opinion? Omni: Religions and philos- and induce more rapid healing or cel- one may have been wounded or hurt future with information and insights from Weiss: My inclination is to no. friends. say We're You may be best You may be ophies say the goal is perfection, io be- lular changes. They're studying the ef- in a previous life, frequently come up. this month's issue. Talk lo other OMNI probably all ageless and have been father and son in one lifetime but lov- come "one with God," the creator or fects these experts have on viruses or In about a dozen obese patients, I've readers on interactive message boards or around from the beginning. ers in this lifetime. Switching of sex higher being. bacteria, on people with certain ail- found two patterns that frequently send e-mail to the OMNI staff. Participate Omni: Are ex- frequent. in live conferences and events, and ertjov some people here now seems You may have a pref- Weiss: That's part of it. But it's like ask- ments, and measuring the energy. The emerge: A person once died emaciat- periencing OMNI's sibling publication, COMPUTE their first life? erence, but you've tried out the other ing a third grader, "What are you learn- healers talk about reincarnation. On my ed or there was sexual abuse from a Magazine. Just use keyword. OMNI to Weiss: Theoretically, I'd guess yes. May- to see what it's like. That's also true of ing in arithmetic?" And he says, "I'm last trip to New York, I regressed one past life. A woman decides, "I will nev- they "transferred access OMNI Ma^zine Online! be in" and are here races and religions. learning about addition, long division, Chinese physician who was more inter- er be attractive to men again," and for the first time, I but suspect most of Omni: How do you explain souls that in and multiplication tables." He can't ested in that than the physicists' re- keeps the weight on in this life as a Or, sample hundreds or other Informative us have been here other times. If Earth the next lifetime occupy bodies that are even comprehend geometry, advanced search. He already knows how that form of protection. and entenaining services, .ike computing is one of millions of worlds, it's like ask- biologically damaged? algebra, and calculus. We're limited support from leading hardware and soft- by works. He was insistent, so I regressed Omni: Sometimes people who've nev- '.ban soft" are ing where did all those children to Weiss: If it is all ware makers, more 70,000 go to learn — as my pa- what we know. I suspect the reward has him through an interpreter, and two life- er given reincarnation a thought will, un- programs you can download and keep, junior high before the new one was tients tell me over and over again — to to do with love, with merging with high- times came up. der hypnosis during therapy, tap into a built? Well, they were elsewhere. grow, ar.c an international e mail gateway. We to become more and more god- er consciousness, but it may be so far Omni: We can't see or feel this energy, past life. shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking like, then whatever the it is experience, beyond what we can comprehend now; and we can't explain it. Weiss: Yes, and frequently that's how Order today to get America's most exciting that we're the only place. a learning experience. Sometimes, it's hard to put into words. You can Weiss: That's why you need a physicist. therapists, physicians, psychologists, online service and your free 10-hour trial people it's membership. Omni: Have some been around though, a teaching experience as sense it when you're on target. You do Take a dog whistle: Because we can't and others have themselves acciden- more—old souls? well, so you may come back into this something compassionate and a tear of hear it doesn't mean a sound isn't be- tally discovered the field. These mem-

Weiss: Sure, but I doubt this is the only for others, maybe as an act of charity. 1-800-827-6364 ing generated. If 100 years ago I told ories don't seem to come from an al- place. There are other places we can go Omni: Why don't we consciously remem- with stale. Many children, when they you we'd be able to turn on a box tered Ext. 7926 to learn, too. It's not like Jupiter or Plu- ber our iives? past incarnation. Have you seen that phenom- a glass front that captured waves get a little drowsy a: oectime, when the to or solar another system, but perhaps Weiss: More and more people are re- enon in patients? plucked out of the air by a metal rod normal filters are relaxed, come out All mystical another dimension. tradi- membering through therapeutic tech- Weiss: I haven't found that myself in do- the of your house and turned with details of another time and place. A. on side tions talk worlds. A M E rykc A about other There may niques such as hypnosis, but also ing this work. them into an instantaneous picture Adults, too, in the hypnagogic state un- other levels, different levels of be too — through dreams, meditation, deja vu, Omni: How can reincarnation be vali- right in the box, with sound, so that you cover memories. Sometimes a dream heaven; that's "I where the expression, and when they're in a place they've nev- dated with data to support the claims could see in Miami what was going on may yield a memory fragment—and not was in seventh from, er heaven," comes been before and they just know of past lives? simultaneously in Moscow, you'd say, a Freudian distortion or wish, symbol, seven as being an ultimate. Catherine their way around. I Dr. don't know why we Weiss: Ian Stevenson [chairman "This guy is out of it! What would you or metaphor. B8 OMNI —

Often while reliving a past life under tails of dress, culture, how to make b. li- life affect a person's brain waves? hypnosis, pa:ionls nave '.cchnical orde- ter, cheeses, put on roofs, herd goats. Weiss: In hypnosis, you find relaxed al- taiied knowledge about something But again, it's hard to prove. I've found pha and theta brain rhythms. But in they know nothing about in this life. One talents, too, carried over from a past past lives, you fine' all difierert brain pat- of the best cases is New Jersey physi- life. I found a young boy who knew the terns— alpha, beta, theta, visual waves cian Dr. Bob Jarrnon's first. It was spec ficat.ons or Word War II bomb- because the occipital cortex, controlling when he didn't believe in past lives. A ers—he just knew it, because, he said, vision, is stimulated, Using enhanced Jewish woman in her thirties was see- he flew them when— he was big. Children EEG, I've seen a whole smorgasbord of ing him for hypnotherapy for weight often say that "Don't you remember brain-wave patterns. loss, and she started developing anoth- when I was big?" Omni: What are some misconceptions er symptom: Her periods stopped, and Omni: Give us an example of a dramat- about reincarnation? she developed lower abdominal tender- ic turnaround. Weiss: Probably the most famous is ness. She was becoming more anxious, Weiss: A woman couldn't button the top that everyone was Napoleon or Julius and Jarmon thought she might be preg- button of her blouse. By recalling a Caesar. Most of us have beer living pret- nant in the Fallopian tube, which can past life under hypnosis, she learned ty ordinary lives. There have been even be dangerous because it can burst. she'd been guillotined. This had affect- more misconceptions about hypnosis When he referred her to a gynecologist, ed her present life's relationships, the that it's the only way to have reincar- Ihere was no evidence of pregnancy. ability to trust. Once she remembered nation memories. Hypnosis is only a She continued to see Jarmon, and the guillotine incident, she was able to state of focused concentration. You're they were working on her anxiety when close the top button right away, and not sleeping; it's not a dream. Your he said, "Go back to the time from that set off a chain reaction. It all be- mind is still there; you know where you which your symptoms first arose." She gan to clear up. are. You don't get stuck in a past life went back to the Middle Ages and was But a past life is not necessary for or under hypnosis. You don't have five months pregnant with an ectopic everyone to remember. The subcon- heart attacks; you don't actually reex- pregnancy. In that past life, she was scious directs the traffic. If it's import- perience the physical pain or disabili-

Catholic and was with a priest who ant and will help you to get rid of a symp- ties. You're aware of it but can float wouldn't allow abortion or surgery, so tom, of course, remembering is neces- above it or stop it at any time. she died. And just before she died, she sary, but if it's not, you may not remem- Omni: Have any patients taken a turn repeated the Catholic act of contrition ber the past life. You may remember 5 for the worse as a result of this therapy? to the priest, word for word. Jarmon is of your 80 or 90 past lives because on- Weiss: I still haven't found one. This has

Catholic and recognized it. The wom- ly those relate to what you're working to do with the wisdom of the subcon- an had never heard of it. on in this life. scious mind. It will not let something out

This happens al! the time. I hear de- Omni: How does experiencing a past that harms a person.

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SSr^PiF Omni: Can we go on to future lives? Louis, is finding ~-ys?ca expenencss. Weiss: People are doing this work, out-of-body experiences, with his dying SOVIET SAUCERS such as psyoi-clogisl Clio: Snow, pres- cancer patients. A lot of doctors are hav- ident of the APRT [Association of Past ing them but are afraid to talk about it. re iable re- Life Research and Therapy] society. I Some are in my new book. ity to perform mature UFO is smoking haven't found it, probably because I'm Omni: Tell us about your past lives. search how they treat "the

I the Pet- not looking for it. Mostly I'm doing ther- Weiss: The lirs: time was when got acu- gun" of Russian UFOIogy, "jellyfish" of apy, and it seems to have some resi- pressure massage for an old neck in- rozavodsk UFO 1977. The due from the past. In this lifetime, we jury that was flaring up. I wasn't telling "jellyfish" was a brief wonder in the look back. At another level, as physi- a soul about my research. I'd go into West before being quickly solved (by the of from cists tell us, there is no time. I tried go- this very relaxed, almost meditative me) as launch a rocket ing into the future with Catherine right state, and about the fourth session, I Plesetsk. Western UFOIogists readily

it off the bat, and she said it wasn't al- saw an image of myself. I was taller, accepted the explanation, but now lowed. You can learn from the past, but thin, wearing a multicolored robe, stand- turns out that Russian UFO experts nev- the future, that's a series of probabili- ing in a large geometric-shaped build- er did. They have assembled a vast ar- of miracle stories with I associated ties. Parallel lives or universes, too, rep- ing. knew I was a priest—very power- ray of telepath- resent alternatives. But to me it's like ful, with the ear of the royal family. I had the event, including reports climbing a tree: The higher up you get, some psychic abilities and spiritual ic ".esssges and physical damage to the more committed you are to a par- knowledge in that life, too, and was mis- the earth.

: ticular branch. You're not on the other using it for persoral ga n and power. It But all this proves is that ordinary Rus- branches, but they're still there. was a very good life [laughter]. Easy, sians love to embellish stories and that Omni: When you stumbled upon past- but wasted. The word zigguratkept ring- Russian UFO researchers haven't a exagger- life therapy, were you seeking some- ing in my head. I had no conscious mem- clue on how to filter out such thing different from life? ory of that word, although that doesn't ations from original perceptions. If

it for I didn't it in college they cannot do such obviously bo- Weiss: I was not. I was chairman of psy- prove come across Petrozavodsk, chiatry at Mount Sinai, the youngest pro- or something. I looked it up and found gus UFOs as how can fessor of psychiatry ever at the Univer- it's a word for architectural structures, they be expected to do it for less clear- era. sity of Miami Medical School. I was pub- temples of the Babylonian cut ones?

If is to solved, lishing, getting national recognition in Years later, I had a dream of being the UFO mystery be my field, earning a lot of money; my fam- imprisoned in a European dungeon, my there is adequate data from the rest of Russia. Serious ily life was going very well. In the Sev- arm chained to the wall. I was being tor- the world outside of enties, my wife and another couple want- tured for teaching my religious beliefs, UFOIogists will have to quarantine the

I ed to see a psychic as a lark. I which included reincarnation. As obviously hopelessly infected UFO

it all. wouldn't go, saying, "Why waste your died in that dungeon, I became aware lore from Russia and. disregard money? We can go to a movie, do some- of a message: "When you had the Some valuable data might be lost, but unconstrained thing real." So they didn't go. chance to teach, you did not." I knew the crippling effect of

c rack i lory avoided. Every I oo would be That's how closed I was, just floating that meant should have taught about along, and along comes something to love rather ihan reincarnation and get decade or two, the question can be re- simple test: lead- turn you upside down. It didn't come killed for it. I went too far. The implica- considered with a Do out of a spiritual crisis but a time of com- tion was, "Now you can have both." ing Russian UFO egists si'l insist on the 9 fort and affluence. The change really Omni: Who are the Masters alien nature of the 1967 Grescent hinged on my conversation with Cath- Weiss: Catherine described them as UFOs and the 1977 "jellyfish" UFO? If erine, then subsequent patients during the source of information coming to her, so, slam the door on them again. the next ten years, my reading, and med- and they would come through her to Yet the temptation may be too great, itation, too. me. She had no memory of them when especially for those who are into what

Omni: Why did you decide to go pub- awakened (rom hypnosis, but when in I call the "fairy tale mode" of modern lic with Many Lives, Many Masters? between remembering pest lives, she'd UFO study—those who believe the

Weiss: It was a difficult decision, and go into a state where the Masters' spir- best cases are ones that happened long far away, thus are for- it look four years. Even after I finished its would come. The knowledge was un- ago and and treating Catherine, the tapes of those like her; even the phonetics, grammar, ever immune from prosaic solution. Rus- sessions collected dust in my closet be- style were diiferent. Other patients tell sian UFO stories have turned out to be exactly kinds of fairy tales. I that pur- those cause I feared for my reputation. But me things are coming from a kept finding people with these experi- er source, not contaminated by our And if the purpose of modern UFOI- ences, and tear of death seemed so per- brains. The personal information was ogy is only mystery worship and obfus- cation, only mind-boggling tall tales and vasive, and here I was finding out that the Masters' way of getting my atten-

theorizing, then it will death is not what it appears. By going tion. That was the turning point, when mind-stretch ng

it think continue to feed the baseless bilge public. I'd reach more people, so I start- I started to believe rather than on out of Russia while being insid- ed feeling guilty that I had all this infor- it was imagination or fantasy. coming mation and wasn't sharing ft. Omni: Is past-life therapy the next iously and unavoidably poisoned by it. Most other doctors arc cuite reluctant great leap for psychiatry? The reality test, then, is not of Russian to go public. Still, I've gotten more Weiss: Some marvelous breakthroughs UFOIogy, which has already failed, but than 100 Ici'.o.'s from ohysicians around will come with the biological understand- of non-Russian UFOIogy, where the is- the world who've done this work for up ing oi the brain, with understanding Alz- sue remains in doubt. DO to 20 years, but in the privacy of their heimer's, other memory disorders, schiz- offices. They always preface it with, ophrenia, manic-dco'essive illness. Past- Editor's note: James Oberg, author of ." therapy extremely important, Star in Orbit and many other "Don't tell anyone, but . . Then out hie is also Red is recognized come these beautiful case histories. My and while it may not be the next great books, an internationally youngest brother, an oncologist in St. leap, it may be the most important. DO expert on the Soviet space program.

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"Linda case, he notes— the comparison agansi the govsT.ment. She was not, Abduction with the book is meaningless. she said: "I'm a Bush Republican." Hopkins is not alone. Walt Andrus, in- When I called the Secret Service

ternational director of the Mutual UFO about their investigation, I was referred not new. People do not like to be ridi- Network (MUFON), is "absolutely con- to Special Agent James Kaiser, media culed," he says. Then there's the invis- vinced the case is authentic." And representative in the New York field of- ibility issue, "which just seems to be David Jacobs, a history professor at Tem- fice. After reviewing the file on the part of the phenomenon. Many people ple University and another researcher case, titled "Special Agent Alleged Mis- who you think should have seen these on the abduction scene, says the crit- conduct, February 10, 1993," Kaiser things just don't," Hopkins explains. ics debunking the case have twisted told me that Linda "was, in fact, inter- But Hopkins can't explain everything. the facts. "Over the past several viewed at our office, and it was deter- allegations regarding For instance, how could "Janet Kimble" years, I have been a confidant of mined that her

know that the words Brooklyn Bridge writ- Hopkins' and, at times, ot Linda's. I can U.S. Secret Service agents having any ten on the outside of her envelope tell you that when Hopkins' report contact with her whatsoever prior to would attract Hopkins' attention unless comes out, the inaccuracy of the crit- that day were unfounded and baseless. she knew or was related to one of the ics will be apparent and the case will It never happened. She may have people in the Hopkins support group, stand or fall on its own merits." been mistaking us for some other agen- all of whom had heard about the For Hansen, of course, those merits cy or organization. Case closed." case? The answer, replies Hopkins, is are slim. And, he says, the hoaxing he The case is also closed as far as Han-

ridiculously simple: ''She saw the abduc- believes occurred is the least of it. "For sen, Stefula, and Butler are concerned. tion from the Brooklyn Bridge and me," he says, "the worst infraction is the They truly believe that Linda is involved thought that the others who had been reaction of the leadership of UFOIogy. in a hoax. "I think she started out with insight small lie," "a tall stalled on the bridge that night might I think this has given us great a speculates Hansen, have contacted me about it." into the mentality— and the gullibility tale that grew in the three years that fol- But Butler says the likelier explana- of Budd Hopkins, Walt Andrus, and lowed. She's been a typist and tem-

tion is that Linda fabricated the whole David Jacobs, the people who really con- porary secretary, so she has had ac- story after reading Nighteyes, cess to a lot of different type- a science -fiction novel by Gar- writers undoubtedly. It would field Reeves-Stevens pub- "THE CENTRAL ISSUE, SAY not surprise me if there were lished in April of 1989, just someone else hoaxing Hop- months before her alleged ab- THE SKEPTICS, IS THE LACK OF LARGE NUMBERS kins as well." duction. The novel charts the Hopkins flatly rejects the abductions of an FBI team OF WITNESSES TO THIS hoax scenario. "An efficient s-aking out a beach house in hoax has a minimum of mov- California while a mother and SPECTACULAR EVENT. AFTER ALL, NEW YORK ing parts," he says. "You daughter undergo a series of don't want to go into too abductions in and around NEVER SLEEPS. EVEN IN many details, This has more parls that New York City. It concludes moving one could with an apocalyptic finale. But- THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, PEOPLE ARE OUT." possibly imagine." ler claims that Linda was As for Linda, when asked very intrigued when the if she had made up this book was brought up at the Hopkins sup- trol much of what people actually read whole scenario, she replied simply, "No. port-group meetings. "I guarantee you about UFOs." How could this be a hoax? There are that's where she got the basis for her Hansen is particularly upset that, giv- too many people involved. In fact," she story," he says. en charges of kidnapping and attempt- added, "I take the suggestion as a com- Butler admits the book's storyline is ed murder, the leadership did not go pliment. They must think I'm pretty in- different from Linda's but says there are to the police. "I recognize there is gov- telligent to pull off such a thing." too many parallels to be coincidence. ernment cover-up on UFOs," he says, Some details of the case frankly do Both Linda and the novel's Sarah were "but covering up a so-called attempt- make me suspicious. For one, the draw- abducted into a UFO hovering over a ed murder and kidnapping, as these ings of the abduction that Hopkins re- high-rise apartment building in New guys apparently say they've done— ceived from Richard and the woman on York City. Linda was kidnapped and that's quite something else," the bridge not only look like they might thrown into a car by Richard and Dan; Hoping to right the wrong, Hansen have been prepared by the same per- one of the novel's central characters, has, in fact, sent a letter to the inspector- son, despite the stylistic and perspec- Wendy, was kidnapped and thrown in- general's office, Department of the Treas- tive differences, which Hopkins has du- to a van by two mystery men. Dan is sup- ury, requesting (hat Linda's claims of kid- ly noted, but more importantly, both posed to be a security and intelligence napping and attempted murder by fed- were done in crayons and used the agent, while one of the book's central eral agents be invest gated. \n February same colors, characters is an FBI agent. Both Dan of 1992, the Secret Service contacted What's more, to actually meet Linda and an agent in the novel were hospi- Linda and she and Hopkins went and hear her talk is to be transported talized for emotional trauma. Both down to their World Trade Center offic- to a world where reality is inverted, Linda and the novel's Wendy were tak- es to speak to Special Agent Peggy where all we have ever known is en to a "safe house" on the beach. The Fleming and her supervisor. Hopkins flipped on its head. Strain your ears,

list of such parallels goes on and on. and Linda told Fleming the story and ex- and you can almost hear the chords "But similarity does not prove relation- plained that they didn't know who Han- from Twilight Zone kick in as the under- ship," replies Hopkins. Without an im- son was or why he was involved. Linda lying chaos of the universe takes con-

portant political figure witnessing the ab- also objected to what she perceived as trol. Fact is, outrageous as I find duction — the very essence of the Hansen's insinuation that she was Linda's story, Linda herself seems sin- 96 OMNI cere. Her emotions—fright, anxiety, and anger— appear genuine. I'm not alone in these impressions, John Mack, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, Good news — © ARTCUMIMSS whom Hopkins confided in as the story unfolded and who now knows Linda TALK BACK! I've -pinall/ -Pound well, insists that "there is nothing unau- an affordable thentic or devious" about her. 1-900-285-5483 work incentive Gibbs Williams, a New York psycho- (950 per minute) analytic psychctreraoist with a quarter century of experience, has tested -, We at \ ^ Linda and also dismisses any notion that Linda might be hoaxing the whole Omni have always been affair. "You would have to have the in the forefront of kind of conspiratorial mentality of Rich- promoting innovation and ard Nixon and be able to think sixty- two moves ahead," Williams says. imagination. "Quite frankly, Linda doesn't appear to Now we bring you the latest mind; she does not have that kind of breakthrough in have that kind of abstracting capacity." interactive publishing: He notes further that her emotive capac- ity—her anger, crying, and tendency to THE OMNI EDITOR LINE, get carried away— is not consistent with the psychopathic cool mentality of a direct link the hoaxer and liar. "My conclusion," he to our editorial staff, offers says, "is that from her perspective, she you the opportunity is telling her truth." Perhaps Jerome Clark, vice presi- to truly participate in the dent of the Center for UFO Studies shaping of Omni. (CUFOS) and editor of the Internation- / & al UFO Reporter, sums up the contro- Call the "This is an absolutely exfaor versy best: OMNI EDITOR LINE, and dinary claim, and the evidence that you you will be asked itgg. need to marshal to support such a claim simply is not there." to leave a message for our

Hopkins promises it will be when his Editors, or you can UVE! Specializing in book appears. Until then, Linda stands alone, ambivalent about her fame. On listen to messages left by questions ol love the one hand, she seems to revel in the other readers. attends national notoriety. She UFO We want to hear from you meetings obvious y dresseo to impress. whether it concerns 1-900 truth, it "To tell you the wouldn't be

that bad if I didn't have a family," she a specific article or feature Do all artists Only admits to me. in a current 773-1002 Yet she also ieels victimized. "There have the issue of Omni or if it's are a lot of Italian Americans and Chi- VOL/r -flair hungry nese in my neighborhood, and many of about our them even laugh at joggers," she "for business ? ones Use the wisdom ol magazine in general. says. "Imagine if anyone in the area forces to psychic heard that I was abducted by aliens." The OMNI EDITOR LINE v__^ "Worst of all," she continues, "those guide you in money, is here to make sure critics took away the safety of my fami- career and happiness publish- that have an opportunity to | | ly by taking my real name and you ing it. We are sitting ducks for any crack- become a part of the 1-900 pot in the UFO community. They know future of the magazine of the

I like." where I live. They know what look She has already taken her name off her future. We hope 773-0MENI fully intercom system, and she expects to hear from you soon. 1 -900-773-6636 to move when Hopkins' book on the first min./S3 ea. add!, mil S5 case comes out. "I don't know what's TALK TO A UVE PSYCHIC! worse," she says finally, "what Richard 1-900-285-5483 | and Dan did, what these three stooges (95e per minute) iff from New Jersey did, or what the ali- PET INC., BOX 166

done, I ens did." Or what Hopkins has HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90078 all, promised so might add. After he Must be 18 or older. much and has delivered so little. Touch-tone phones only. Poor Linda. Dd The man in the Koko suit came by. row pointing toward the bottom and a Why Did? His face was covered with clown question mark. white. suit that's for CONTIIVJED FHOM PAGE BO His baggy black had big "Oh, me," said Beemer. He white buttons on it, and his pointed hat studied it a moment, then drew a pic- The clown face overhead suddenly had three white puffs down the front. He ture: the word NO, a comma, an arrow straightened to the vertical. Its eyes walked over, picked up Beemer, carried pointing toward .the bottom of the rolled and the mouth opened. "Yum him to the stairs and set him down. page, and a waterfowl of some kind. Yum Yum!" said a voice over the RA. Then he went inside. "What's that?" asked Seeker. system. "Yum Yum Yum!" "He wants a step-father," said "That was an easy one," Willard "Lunchtime," said Beemer. "Want to Beemer, Beemer said. "He wanted to know how

join them?" "Who?" you got down off an elephant. I said, "I've already eaten," said Seeker. "Elwood Jr. The Little Moron. you don't get down off an elephant; you From the far corners of the grounds, get down off a goose." people walked toward the house. "He doesn't talk," said Beemer. "Most Seeker stared at him a moment. Some had hobbling steps. One of them can't, or won't. Elwood can "You're telling me he thinks on a ter- walked but his arms didn't swing with write though; mostly they're little rebus- tiary conceptual, level?"

his steps; they remained at his sides. es or riddles that I can make out. Or "No. No. He thinks on a literal level. There were six or eight women. A mi- he'll take me and show me. Sometimes His father, Elwood Sr., never could fig- crocephalic in a spotted blue dress it's hard. But he doesn't ask for much, ure out a damn thing he was trying to

with her hair in a bow came up and and not often. I can show you his do, because he thought on a tertiary lev-

hugged Beemer, then went inside. An room, if you want me to, while he's eat- el all the time. Me and my father could old man dressed like the Little King in ing. It'll give you some idea." figure out pretty much everything, a tiny child's pedal car raced up to the They went upstairs. There was a cause we didn't. There are two or steps, hopped out and ran through the long hall with bedrooms off each side. three of these things I still can't answer, double doors. They came to one. Outside was a pile though."

The lone boy stayed out -] the 'e\G. of hay. Beemer opened the door. In the "Have you ever had him tested? Or "Those that don't want to any of them?" eat don't have to," said "Tested for whaf? Like I Beemer. "The cooks leave "THERE WAS A said, if Elwood, Jr., wants 'em sandwiches and stuff. them here, that's good Not your pickle loaf or balon- BED WITH SPRINGS STICKING enough for me. Come on. ey, either," Let's go outside again. You "How do you choose who OUT ONE END; see how he lives here." stays here and who Outside, 'they walked up doesn't?" ON THE WALL WAS A CALENDAR the drive. The kid who had "I don't. The Little Moron been in the wheat (or what- does." WITH SOME ever-it-was) field was gone "He chooses them?" now. The clown head on the "He'll let me know he OF THE NUMBERS MISSING." house was immobile. wants to go somewhere. "See, what we got here is We'll go. One in a thousand like people coming to visit

sometimes. We'll go ten places, noth- center of the floor was a carpet with a who never leave. That's the best way I ing. Eleventh place he gets out of the hole cut in it. There was a bed with can describe it. The help comes here car, walks right up to someone, or they springs stoking out one end; on the and takes care of them and leaves al come up to him. He breaks out in a big wall was a calendar with some of the night. Nobody comes to visit, because smile. That's the one." numbers missing. On the other side most of them don't have anybody. "And you take procedures to get above the wash basin was a medicine We're not trying to put anything over on them here?" cabinet with a pair of padded slippers anyone." "Yep." on the floor in front of them. At an open Then Beemer stopped. "Just remem-

"Don't you find that a little . . . window was a box of clocks, and there bered one for Elwood Jr.," he said. He arbitrary?" was another pile of timepieces under took a piece of paper and drew on it:

"Beats me. It's worked every time." the desk in the corner. In another cor- ?, then a baby, ? NO, then another ba- "All right. You've been here twelve ner was a refrigerator. Beemer opened by. He put the paper in a crack in one years. How many pa— guests have it. There was no shelves inside. There of the wood columns of the portico. The died?" was a second handle so it could be clown head above the porch began to

"None." opened from the inside. move. "Ha Ha Ha!" it said, its tinny "How many escaped?" "He thinks of me as his father, some- voice echoing over the grounds, "Ha "None." times." said Beemer. Seeker didn't Ha Ha!"

"Can you explain this?" understand the reference but said "Playtime," said Beemer. "They'll all "They're happy here. Whey would nothing. be coming out again." they want to leave?" At the bottom of the refrigerator was "Mr. Beemer," said Seeker. "I'm not "What kind of therapy do you use?" a sack of fish with their noses cut off. going to advise you on how to run your "None whatsoever." On the wall above a chair was a huge business, or to circumvent the laws. But "None?" clock. On the wash basin was a hair- you'll have to get at least a private fa- "Okay," Beemer paused, "hapoy ihe:- brush and a box of candy bullets. cility license. You'll have to get a phy- apy, They get to do pretty much what- There were several sheets of paper sician or psychiatrist to apply for you. ever they want to do. If they're happy, on the desk. One was a picture of an I understand your care and concern. they're okay." elephant with a howdah on it and an ar- But suppose somo:h ng happens to you 100 OMNI gold-yellow ball-jack. His beard and mus- tache were clipped and curled. COSMIC took off his crown. He His head was CONTINUED FROM PAGE 40 bald and red, with only a fringe of hair OMNI EMPORIUM

where the crown sat. He handed Dr. program, nas long argued I he I Soviet Seeker a folded piece of paper that had officials remaineo pub'iciy mum about been inside. widely reported Russian UFOs in the Research Parameters Expanded

Seeker opened it. 1970s and I98;)s because such reports Diary The | Of WORD At the top was a slick figure of a man masked military operations conducted | with a briefcase in his left hand. at the supersecret Plesetsk Cos- Joint S'.veosh / Mexican study has beer On the paper, in Elwood Jr.'s draw- modrome. "Could a similar scenario oc- experimenting since 1975 with arcane ing, was the following: ?, then ihe Little cur in this country? It's conceivable," con- usage of WORD archived in 946-958AD. Moron figure with XX's over the eyes, cedes Oberg. "On the other hand, Claims: Differing vocal manipulations then a duck and a big + and a cow, should our own government take an in- in pronunciation of WORD produce, over and a test tube over a Bunsen burner. terest in UFO reports, especially those time, certain physical benefits. As well as Seeker remembered what Beemer had that may reflect missile or space tech- experience of extra-normal phenomena by said about literal levels. no'oc/y from arou.nc the world? Sure. I'd some researchers Present data incom- How was the Little Moron kilted in a be dismayed if we didn't. But doesitlol- plete • Three separate international study eugenics experiment? it was asking. low that alien-acquired technology re- groups to now be formed and monitored. Seeker took out his Parker T-Ball Jot- covered at Roswell is driving our own Initiating Alpha phase to be conducted by ter. He wrote an equals sign, then space technology program? I don't see coiresponcerce • Anonymity essentia!. drew a giant firecracker with a sputter- any outstanding evidence for it." Audio tapes, Video, and Process Literature ing fuse and a + and a road full of cars Friedman's counterargument is not -.-.il'tv sitpjslad 'y selected oa-iicipants with speed lines coming from them, and political so much a technological as a jrdcr stnsl coviol DGncfcis • Some an exclamation point.' one. "Governments and nations de- arpostics / pkesfcs encoutyet! ••j apply. How was the Little Moron killed in a mand in to survive," • allegiance order he No cr.rvx it.ia sts Dlease I 'is is two eugenics experiment? it asked. says. "They don't want us thinking in yea* rxrrmtmei! lor park' 3s":; chosen.

He was trying to cross a busy high- glooa! icrms, as a citizen of a planet as Ar core jskvi Projec! 3sy; til travel

1 way with a lit stick of dynamite . Seeker opposed to a particular political entity, in- lo-girg. \c rcceliiy rc .it saltan. had answered. because that would threaten Iheir very We ask you identity yourselves by initials He refolded the paper and handed existence. The impact on our collective only • Please request Applicant Info it back lo the Little King. The tiny old social, economic, and religious struc- Packet by sending S3.65 to cover ques- r man replaced it in his crown, jumped .u os ol adrri cling "hat we nave been con- tionnaire evaluation and application review. back in his pedal car, made a U-turn tacted by another intelligent life form and started back the way he had would be enormous if not literally cata- Ineffable WORD Diary come, causing another gian! screech- strophic to the political powers that be." " A JDSIOI I Pmjcct ing of brakes and cursing sounds. Seek- Whatever its reason for holding Box 3166, La Jolla, er watched for a moment; a man who large numbers of documents and an ar- CA 92038 thought he was a king taking a joke ray of information close to the vest, back from a man who thought he was there's no doubt that the U.S. govern- a doctor to a man who was dead. ment has been less than forthcoming Then he went back inside, lo call Win- on the topic of UFOs. Historically, the fred to tell her one of the guests had government's public altitude toward been found, but that he would proba- UFOs has run the gamut of human emo- 1" bly be late for dinner. DO tions, at times confused and dismiss ve. -MindGear PRIX CnmptreniC's DAVIS PARADISE™ at others deliberately covert and coy. me most 90mm STRESS-REDUCTION, MEDITATION, a„d SELF-IMPBOVEMENTtools B v„tobt<>> CREDITS On one hand, it claims to have recov- ered a flying disc; on the other, a weath- MIND MACHINE Page 6: Stan Musilek; page 10: Dar- er balloon. One night UFOs constitute ryl Zudek; page 12: Jim Zuckerman; a threat to the national security; the page 16: Edmund Bertschinger and nexl they are merely part of a public hys- James M. Gelb, MIT; page 18: Matt teria cased on religious feelings, fear Zumbo; page 24: Tass/Sovfoto; of technology, mass hypnosis, or what- page 25: Peter Liepke; page 27: Ar- ever the preva lirg psychology of the nout Hyde for Travel Berkeley era will bear. To sort through Ihe layers Springs; page 28: Jay Corbett; of confusion spawned by the govern- page 29, bottom left: Tony Stone ment's s;ance and to reveal information- Worldwide/Philip and Karen Smith; al chasms, whatever their cause, Omni page 30, top left: Photo Researchers, is launching a series of six continuing Inc. /Scott Camazine; page 30, bot- articles. In the following months, we tom right: The Edgerly Agency/M. will take the long view, scanning Bates; page 32, top: Douglas through history to examine LI Os under Faulkner; page 32, bottom: Photo

wraps in the » ;'! decades following i . ::-,.'< , Researchers, I no. /Martin M. Rotker; Roswell. In the next installment, look for Technology Research, Har page 60: courtesy of Graphic SHA; Square, P.O. Boh 1931, Cambridge, Mfl D2238| our report on official efforts to squelch pages 68-69: painting by Komar UFO mania and keep tabs on UFO re- and Melmamid, courtesy of Ronald searches in ihe McCarthy-era land- Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. scape of the Fifties. DO —

provides rial numbers, asking for access to their the Center for UFO Studies HANDBOOK complete records. The Air Force re- three useful tips: • petitions may be sponded that it had no records on UFOIogists believe CONTINUED FROM PI those individuals. screened for buzzwords like UFO, give the request Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. Army ser- Operation Majestic. The MJ-12 docu- which tip officials off to prejudicial treatment, so researchers try geant with an interest in UFOs, has ments— short for Operation Majestic creative. "We never refer to been trying to get the military to admit turned up in microfilm form in the mail- to be investi- Roswell by name," says Schmitt, "and that it runs these projects and that it al- box of Jaime Shadera, a UFO

I have not so recovers downed UFOs. Stone gator, back in 1984. Although most in the last five years, made

which I specifically claims that the 696th Intelligence UFO researchers now believe the doc- an FOIA request in to UFOs." Group at Andrews Air Force Base, Mary- uments are phony, some say they may referred « Schmitt other FOIA experts often land, makes these retrievals, and he be evidence of a top-secret briefing and paragraphs, even sentences, has even submitted an FOIA request for given to president-elect Dwight Eisen- request not in classified documents just to see the group's UFO files. hower in November 1952 by Admiral Records from Roswell. The Roswel! Roscoe Hillenkoetter, then-director of whether the agency has any information the topic at all. The technique also case, in which a UFO is said to have the CIA. on preventing them crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in After spending considerable time confuses officials, pigeonholing the request as UFO July 1947, continues to haunt research- and money trying to verify these docu- from related, thus encouraging them to give ers and to draw numerous FOIA re- ments, Stanton Friedman put in an FOIA

it higher priority and push it through. quests. In one of these, Don Schmitt, a request in 1989. He thought he could a • the government in ef- researcher from the Center for UFO Stud- study the authenticity of the controver- Hoping to stop forts to pull the wool over their eyes, ies in Illinois and coauthor with Kevin sial MJ-12 documents by comparing Fried- researchers often request docu- Randle of the 1991 book UFO Crash a! them to other CIA briefings of Ike. UFO they for fact exist. "We Roswell, has filed an FOIA request on man learned the times and dates of ments know a up," Schmitt ex- behalf of the family of Mac Brazel, the these additional briefings in archival re- often try to trip them request; they rancher who found the purported UFO search and using that specific informa- plains. "We send in our it. we send cop- wreckage. "Specifically, we deny Then ies of specific documents wanted to see the results of the documents a medical examination "iS THERE A SECRECY that refer to don't have." allegedly given to Brazel by they claim they the United States Army after OATH SIGNED BY MILITARY PERSONNEL SIDE-STEPPING THE FOIA he made his discovery," of filing an Schmitt explains. "The Army INVOLVED WITH UFOs? The frustrations FOIA being what they are, a denied that it had records on of researchers Brazel of any sort, even RESEARCHERS SAY CLASSIFIED ARMY, number UFO have now evolved alternative though Brazel served in the for prying docu- Army during WWII." NAVY, AND AIR FORCE strategies ments from government Secret Sins. Is there a se- couple of the most crecy oath signed by mili- DOCUMENTS MAY REVEAL THE TRUTH." vaults, A prominent efforts are de- tary personnel involved with UFOs? Many UFO investiga- tailed below. Dust II. Cliff Stone's requests tors, including Don Schmitt, claim to tion requested the documents from the Moon Defense Intelli- have active-duty and retired military wit- CIA. Two years later, the CIA respond- to the Air Force and brief- gence Agency for projects Moon Dust nesses who will talk privately but not ed that it could not find any such were unsuc- openly about UFOs and the govern- ing documents. Friedman appealed but and Blue Fly information cessful, so. he's making similar requests ment for fear of losing pensions. was told he was number 390 on the through the office of Senator Jeff Binga- Schmitt awaits the results of an FOIA re- list. He is still waiting for a response. Mexico is working quest submitted to the Army, Navy, and FOIA Wannabes. Fred Olsen 111 man of New who with Pentagon's Congressional Li- Air Force on whether or not an oath of would like to submit an FOIA request the Office on this issue. Remember, secrecy actually exists. to the Air Force that asks for the gun- aison constituency; your rep- X Marks the Spot, Another facet of camera photos of UFOs that former mil- you are part of a help. the Roswell case concerns a United itary pilots claim were taken during the resentative can Right Know. In 1992, Op- Press International (UPI) reporter who 1940s and 1950s. Don Schmitt would Operation to to Know was formed by supposedly told Schmitt that in the ear- like to submit an FOIA request to the eration Right three Mutual UFO Network members ly 1960s, a public-information officer Air Force on the contents and purpose political action was the only (PIO) at Holloman Air Force Base of a mysterious military transport plane who felt govern- showed him a map of the Roswell said to have departed from Roswell way to wrest secrets from the They passed out UFO literature crash site and even drove him out to Air Force Base under tight security ment. on the ellipse behind the White House look at it. Schmitt's FOIA asks for the on July 9, 1947. picketed in front of the White name of the PIO and seeks to learn in 1992, demonstrated out- whether he ever worked with a UPI re- FOIA TIPS House in 1993, and side the United Nations building in New porter in the early Sixties. For those sturdy souls who wish to possible York in November 1993. Operation Name, Rank, and Serial Number, buck the tide, it is sometimes of In- Right to Know now has more than 200 Schmitt would also like to obtain the rec- to successfully wield the Freedom members, is growing with European ords of and ultimately locate 30 military formation Act to dredge up information probably picket for personnel who allegedly worked at buried deep. To help the uninitiated chapters, and will to government UFO information Roswell Air Force Base in 1947. He sub- work the system and uncover as much access near you. mitted an FOIA with their names and se- as possible, FOIA pro Don Schmitt of in a city DO . GAnnes

BACK WORDS: Breaking through walls in the Antimaze and an April Foolery Gallery

By Scot Morris

With progress, as new should twelve thousand things come along, we have twelve hundred and twelve to tind new words for old dollars be written? 3. In a deck of cards, two of things. I remember my first the Jacks have two eyes tape recorder. If I wanted to buy that same machine and two of the Jacks have today, I'd have to ask the one eye. How many eyes salesperson for a reel-to- are on the four Jack cards? reel tape recorder. The word 4. You throw away the book sufficed for centuries, outside and cook the inside. but when paperbacks came Then you eat the outside along, a new word, hard- and throw away the inside. cover book, was bom. What did you eat? These words, typically 5. Haw can you stand adjective-noun combina- behind your father while he tions, are called retronyms. is standing benind you? How many can you find in 6. While Kellee was making the following story? coffee, her earring fell

"I drove my car, which into the cup. Even though has a manual transmission, the cup was full of coffee, down a dirt road and the earring didn't get listened to a day baseball wel. How is th : s possible? game, played on natural 7. A man is found dead in turf, on my AM radio. Then the snow in a remote mountain area. There are I tuned in a stage play, which had been prerecord- no tracks leading to or from ed before a live audience. his body. He didn't die of "in the back was my road hunger, ihirst, or cold. The coroner ruled that he died bike, a manual typewriter, Center: Answer to the Antimaze. Top: Move partly because of the pack a rotary phone, a cloth two matches and leave no triangles. on his back. What was In it? diaper, an acoustic guitar, a Bottom: Place nine digits in the brackets to Coincidentally, nearby still camera, a straight razor, make the equation honest. 8. and a fountain pen. Later, was the body of a woman been killed by the at a sit-down dinner, I had who had free-range chicken, a :he solution to Scott Kim's diciit numerator and a two- pack on her back. The cheese blintz, and plain yo- Antimaze, which ap- d gi" denominator, which coroner determined she had all together to one. been walking alone and that gurt. I washed it down with peared here last month, is add up a draft beer, some fresh- above. The path from the The challenge is to place no one was near her when squeezed orange juice, square to the circle passes the nine digits 1 through 9 she died. What happened? and a Coca-Cola Classic," only through walls and in the only way that makes

' Better retronyms are never through open spaces. the equation correct. I'll ANSWERS: needed. What do you call a Nob Yoshigahara, the answer these two problems The story has 23 retronyms. 1 The name of the ship. nonmicrowave oven? I Japanese puzzle inventor in June. call mine the macrowave. and writer, recently showed 2. $1.3,212 Hollerblade is a trade me two new creations. First, Lei's wrap up this column 3. Twelve. Each card has name for In-line skates. Now he arranged nine match- with some puzzles appropri- two Jack faces. we need an updated SLlcks into three triangles ate to the month. 4. An ear of corn. word for traditional skates. (top). "Can you move 1. What runs fore to afi on 5. Stand back to back. Can readers come up only two matches and leave one side of a ship and aft 6. The cup had dry instant with words for nondigital nc Mangles?" he asked. to fore on the other side? coffee in it. tape cassette, non-flat- Second, he drew a plan 2. If nine thousand nine 7 An unopened parachute. screen TV, nonelectronic for three fractions fat hundred and nine dollars is 8. She was killed by a pack mail, and other retronyms? bottom), each with a one- written as $9,909, how of solves. DO

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