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June 2008 No. 482 $4.00 UFO Journal In this issue Dan Aykroyd interview 3 Hope Mills, NC sightings illustrated 5 UK MoD Releases UFO files 6 Symposium speakers 7 Abduction/Experiencer Research Team 11 Humor and UFOs 14 Regular Features Director’s Message 2 Letters to the Editor 12 MUFON Volunteer 13 Calendar 13 Stan Friedman: Book: Beyond UFOS 16 Filer’s Files 18 CMS Rankings 21 Night Sky 24 Dan Aykroyd shares his views on UFOS and extraterrestrials June 2008 Number 482 Director’s Message By James Carrion MUFON I attended the Colorado State UFO organization UFO Journal MUFON meeting in Lucerne, Colorado, in the world this month and was presented with a today. There have box of donations that the Colorado state been UFO organi- (USPS 002970) chapter had collected throughout the zations that have (ISSN 02706822) year. 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Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, or gifts are Boardwalk Drive, Suite 300, Fort Collins, CO 80525. also deductible for estate and gift purposes, provided Postmaster: Send form 3579 to advise change of they meet the applicable provisions of Sections 2055, address to: MUFON UFO Journal, 155 E. Boardwalk 2106, and 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. MUFON Drive, Suite 300, Fort Collins, CO 80525. is a Texas nonprofit corporation. Dan Aykroyd shares his views on UFOs, aliens and extraterrestrial influences on the planet Alex Friedman of Plum TV recently interviewed Dan Dan: And now we have the probe there, to see if there really Aykroyd at Akroyd’s home at Martha’s Vineyard, Massa- was life at some time, whether there is water there— chusetts. We know Aykroyd as a member of the original which they seem to think there is—if there are microbes cast of Saturday Night Live, as an actor who has appeared there, then it verifies that there maybe could have been a in many movies, and as a member of “The Blues Brothers” primitive civilization [on Mars], be it amoebic, or more band. He is also an avid ufologist, member of MUFON and developed, like bipeds. We don’t know. proponent of UFO and extraterrestrial research. Alex: There’s often talk of reptilians and reptoids, and I Dan Aykroyd also is the Director, Hollywood Consultant myself get them confused. Could we talk a little bit about for MUFON. what those two designations are? Alex: Hi everybody. It’s a beautiful day on Martha’s Vineyard Dan: Well, I think it’s fair to say that if they would be—if not with noted UFO expert and enthusiast Dan Aykroyd. brothers and sisters—cousins of each other. There’s the Dan: Alex, good to see you. Inner Earth, the Blue Earth Theory, the theory that there Alex: Nice to see you. Thanks for joining us. It’s no mystery are reptoid creatures living beneath our planet. There’s a why people would love coming here to Martha’s Vineyard gentleman named Stan Fullam* who’s written a book so much. We’ve had a few experiences here with called Challenges of Change; he seems to be in contact extraterrestrials. What do you think would be attractive with an entity that has given him some insight. What’s about the Vineyard to aliens from another planet? impressive about the book [is that] it seems to distill a lot Dan: Well, I had a sighting here, and I don’t think it was a of the common theory now—that I’m not alone in helicopter, a planet, or a jet plane. There were three other expressing, that many really devoted people who spend a witnesses. I’m pretty sure it was two objects, flying wing lot of their time discussing this believe—and that is that to wing, about 100,000 feet up, going about 20,000 miles Earth is being protected from the Reptilians. an hour. It was 4:00 in the morning. I woke up my wife. The Alpha Centauri star system has a military race of John Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist, got to the point beings who have made a deal with the Pleiadeans. Do you where it’s not whether these things do exist—and that’s remember Billy Meier? where this discussion starts today—it’s what are they Alex: No, I don’t. doing here? And he said, let’s use the knowledge, and let’s Dan: The Swiss case. He was able to film these UFOs, he try to transform ourselves. was able to see the ships and meet the people upon them. If this is happening, if there are various motivations for They were the Pleiadeans, they [looked] Nordic—tall, these beings to be here, either benevolent or malevolent, blonde, blue-eyed, very attractive beings. They basically let’s get past the skeptical view and get to the point where made a contract with the Alpha Centauri star system, with they are real, they are coming and going and they have the military race there, who could basically evaporate a different purposes on the planet. Can we transform planet; they have the power to do that. They’re not ourselves positively with the knowledge that they may be reptoids, but they have a sort of a mottled turtle-like bringing and even the technology? complexion. They have respected the Pleiadeans’ wish Alex: So, getting beyond the “if,” and getting to the why. that Earth be unmolested. Without [the Pleiadeans’] Dan: So I believe, not only Martha’s Vineyard is an attractive protection—the reptoids have ships and the ability to place for them to visit, but also the Rockies, the deserts of come here; they’re probably coming here and cheating Nevada, the mountains of the Alps. This planet is so and grabbing people anyway. beautiful and I think that has a lot to do with it.