Mufon UFO Journal Official Publication of the Mutual UFO Network Since 1967 Number 276 April 1991 $2.50

ENGLISH CROP CIRCLES Fawley Down, near Cheesefoot Head August 4, 1990. Mufon UFO Journal April 1991 Number 276

CONTENTS

WHAT HAPPENED IN RAMEY'S OFFICE? Donald Schmitt & Kevin Randle 3

POSSIBLE PHYSICAL MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING CROP CIRCLES John Brandenburg, Ph.D. 10

SPHERICAL SOUNDS? ZOUNDS! Eugenia Macer-Story 12

CIRCLES OF NOTE: A Continuing Bibliography Michael Chorost 14

NEWS'N'VIEWS: Fund Report; UFOs, MJ-12 and the Government 17

IN OTHERS' WORDS Lucius Parish 19

LOOKING BACK: UFO Phenomena Over the Years Bob Gribble 20

THE MAY NIGHT SKY Walter N. Webb 22

DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Walt Andrus 24

COVER PHOTO Courtesy of Colin Andrews

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Schmitt is Director of Special In- documentation. I don't know that. I don't know what vestigations for CUFOS, the Center Shandera writes, "General DuBose's I wrote." Later he said, "I remember for UFO Studies; Randle, a retired statements now sync-up (sic) perfectly that after I got out of the darkroom they Air Force Officer, is the author of with the testimony given earlier by J. had several messages to call people. The UFO Casebook. Bond Johnson, the Ft. Worth Star- That's what took up my time. I didn't Telegram photographer whose state- even write an article then." And later It seems that the activities in ments to Bill Moore and me opened up still, after reading it, he denied that it Brigadier General Roger Ramey's of- the spectre of a revised view of what was his article altogether. fice on July 8, 1947 have again taken occurred in Ft. Worth." center stage. There are allegations, J. Bond Johnson was interviewed by riting in Focus, June 1990, charges and questions about those ac- us at length in February and March Shandera and Moore report tivities, and it seems that as we learn 1989. At that time, he told us that he'd W that a bulletin came over the more about what happened, the picture been "duped" by the Army into believ- wire about the identification of the does not become clearer, as it should, ing what he'd seen at the Fort Worth Ar- debris as a balloon sometime after but it becomes darker and harder to see. my Air Field were pieces of the actual Johnson returned to the office. "This There are two factions, using the same wreckage recovered near Roswell. In a one spoiled all the fun. Ramey now says witnesses, who come to completely dif- taped interview, he said, "I posed the flying disc was only a weather ferent conclusions. However, an General Ramey with this debris. At that gadget. Soon the calls stopped. Bond analysis of the entire picture might time I was briefed on the idea that it went home." clarify it for those who have not been was not a flying disc as first reported Are we to believe then, that the bombarded with information in the last but in fact was a weather balloon that reporter who was dispatched to get the six months. had crashed." (For a transcript of the story and who took the photographs It is illustrative to examine the open- interviews with Johnson, see the Inter- went home? That he went home without ing paragraphs of the article submitted national UFO Reporter, Novem- ever writing the story about the inter- by William Moore and Jaime Shandera ber/December 1990. Validity of view, regardless of what the story now in the January 1991, MUFON Journal. transcripts verified by the Fund for was? This doesn't make any sense, They castigate Joe Kirk Thomas UFO Research in a letter supplied to especially in light of Johnson's original ("Analyzing The Roswell Debris," MUFON Journal.) statements to us. If Johnson was the MUFON Journal, January 1991) who Johnson also mentioned an article reporter who was in Ramey's office, "commits some of the same grievous that was published on July 9, 1947. and there is no reason to suspect he errors that first-year journalism students "Seven nine (July 9) is my story on the wasn't, and since he told us that he and other would-be sleuths frequently front page that was earlier in the day." wrote the July 9 story on the evening commit: he takes only the evidence he The last paragraph of that article said, on July 8, does it make sense to believe wants to look at and completely ignores "After he took his first look, Ramey that he went home without writing a the rest." declared all it was was a weather word about it. Who at the Fort Worth With that in mind, let's look at the balloon. The weather officer verified Star-Telegram would have been better article, "New Revelations About his view." qualified to write the story? A staffer Roswell Wreckage: A General Speaks During our March 24 interview, working late and who hadn't been there, Up," written by Jaime Shandera and Johnson made it even clearer. He iden- or J. Bond Johnson who went to published in same issue of the MUFON tified, specifically, the article that he Ramey's office and spoke to General Journal as the Thomas article. We can wrote. "Okay, this is the article that I Ramey? see that the same criticism applies to wrote that was on the front page on We now know the truth. Johnson Shandera's article. seven nine (July 9) and says, 'Disc- himself provided it for us. During the But first, we must examine some of overy' Near Roswell Identified As March 24, 1989 interview, Johnson the "facts" as established at the end of Weather Balloon by FWAAF Officer." said, "It would be entirely possible that the article, and then we can look at the That is the article that ends with the other reporters ... See, I went there not interview conducted with General statement that Ramey, after his first as a reporter but there was not anybody Thomas J. DuBose. All facts reported look, declared it was a weather balloon. else there. I went ahead and got the here are supported by taped interviews, When we asked Johnson about that facts and came back and there wasn't newspaper articles and other assorted in May 1990, his response was, "Well, any other reporter who wrote it for the

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Star-Telegram on that night. I wrote that cutline (caption) itself. "Brigadier tain urgency in the general's tone, that night before leaving." General Roger M. Ramey, Command- nevertheless found the courage to in- / ing General of 8th Airforce (sic) and form the general that he was the only Out of Sync? Col. Thomas J. DuBose, 8th Airforce man on duty in the Weather Office and Chief of Staff, identify metallic frag- as such he was also in charge of flight- And, if Ramey had told Johnson that ments found near Roswell, N. Mex. as control operations that evening. To he didn't know what it was, why isn't a raywin (sic) high altitude sounding Newton's mildly couched protest the there a mention of that in the story that device used by airforce and weather general replied with a decisive com- Johnson wrote that very night for the bureau to determine wind velocity and mand flair: 'Get your ass over here in Star-Telegram? There is no mention of direction, and not a flying disc. Photo ten minutes. If you can't get a car, com- Ramey telling Johnson that he didn't by J. Bond Johnson. 11:59 PM CST." mandeer the first one that comes along know what it was. In fact, the article The photo, obtained by us from the - on my orders.' clearly states just the opposite, that is, Bettmann Photo Archives, 902 Broad- "When Newton got to his destination that Ramey knew what it was as soon way, New York, NY 10010, clearly he was briefed by a colonel to the ef- as he saw it. states that Ramey had identified the ob- fect that an object had been found by The point is that everything does not ject as a balloon, and shows the time a major in Roswell and that the general "sync-up" perfectly. There is a real as 11:59 CST and not 7:59 as reported had decided that it was really a weather problem with what Johnson claimed by Shandera. balloon and wanted him (Newton) to originally, all on tape (copy of the tape An FBI document, discovered by identify it as such. After this hurried of the Johnson interviews as they ap- Brad Sparks, also identifies the wreck- briefing, Newton was ushered into a peared in the IUR November/Decem- age as a balloon, but the transmittal room filled with reporters and photo- ber 1990, sent to MUFON), what is evi- time of that report is 6:17 PM. That puts graphers, where he was handed several dent from the newspaper clippings that the documented origin of the cover pieces of what he immediately recog- he provided of his story, and what he story as much earlier than either the in- nized as material belonging to a Rawin- is saying now. His claim that he correct 7:59 PM or the 11:59 PM time. type balloon, although somewhat photographed the real debris and that The Dallas Morning News of July 9, deteriorated. A number of other pieces General Ramey didn't know what it was 1947, moves the time up even more. Ac- were laid out on brown paper on the when Johnson interviewed him is not cording to a story published by them, floor (emphasis added). While the ex- supported by the evidence. The new "Maj. E. (Edwin) M. Kirton, in- amination was taking place a series of claim that the cover story of a weather telligence officer at Fort Worth Army photographs were taken of the general balloon was developed and handed out Air Field, blew the disc theory sky high and his aide (sic). after he had returned to the newspaper at 5:30 p.m. when he told The Dallas "Newton said (Moore interview, Ju- office is simply not true. News, 'there is nothing to it.' " ly 1979): 'It was cut and dried. I had Johnson's story has changed signif- Second, in the article, Shandera sent up thousands of them and there's icantly since our first interviews with writes about ex-warrant officer Irving no doubt that what I was given were him and that is supported by the tapes Newton. "All that can be said is that parts of a balloon ..." (The Roswell In- we have. The story that he claimed to the details of his earlier account com- cident, pages 31-34 hardback edition.) have written underscores the original pare much more favorably with the version of his report, that Ramey said DuBose/Johnson/Marcel testimony n the Focus article, "Three Hours it was a weather balloon from the very than do those of the story he is presently That Shook The Press," Shandera beginning. It should be stated here that (sic) telling. Newton's revised version I and Moore write, "It's important to the debris displayed by Ramey was not of events came to light after he was note that he was not called in to ex- the debris that had been recovered near recently reinterviewed by Schmitt and amine debris to determine if he knew Roswell. Randle." The implication here is that what it was; he was told up front what we somehow "coached" new testimony to say, and he was also ordered not to handera mentions that "further from him. answer any questions. What he iden- supporting Johnson as the photo- tified was handed to him, it was not S grapher of the four pictures is Newton what was on Ramey's floor." that both the University of Texas photo In our interviews with Major New- archives (they have the Star-Telegram In The Roswell Incident, Warrant Of- ton, he was also quite clear and up collection) and the Bettmann Archives ficer (later Major) Irving Newton is front. There is no doubt that what was give photo credits to Johnson." He then quoted as saying, "But on the night of on General Ramey's floor, and in the writes, "We know the relative time July 8, as he was working in the photographs, were parts of a weather frame because the credit line indicates Weather Office, the phone rang. It was balloon. We might disagree with that the picture was transmitted at 7:59 General Ramey. The general ordered Berlitz' and Moore's interpretation of CST, July 8, 1947." Newton to report to his office im- the words used, but not with the general But Shandera doesn't bother with the mediately. Newton, in spite of a cer- tone. That means, quite simply, that

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Newton told us, "Some guys in Roswell found what they think is a flying disc. According to Newton, there was never any doubt The general thinks it's a weather about what he saw. It was a Rawin target and balloon and wants you to identify it." (Berlitz and Moore make it sound as balloon. I told them at that time I would eat it if Newton was told to identify it as a without salt and pepper if it was not a balloon. This weather balloon but we believe that the is nonsense." colonel was telling him what was hap- pening and to identify the debris. No debris." But, in a transcript of that in- holding some of the actual stuff we one had to tell Newton what to say terview (sent out by Moore, copy sup- found. It was not a staged photo. Later, because they all knew it was a balloon.) plied to the MUFON Journal) Marcel they cleared out our wreckage and According to Newton, there was reportedly said, "General (Roger Max- substituted some of their own." never any doubt about what he saw. It well) Ramey allowed the press in to take Shandera, in "New Revelations," was a Rawin target and balloon. In fact, two pictures of this stuff. I was in one, said, "There are two researchers (Don he laughs about the belief that there was and he and Col. DuBose were in the Schmitt and Kevin Randle) who are a flying saucer involved, but only other." And in Focus, Marcel is again presently (sic) saying that the debris because he never saw any of the real quoted, but this time Marcel said there in General Ramey's office had been wreckage, just the pieces of the balloon were two pictures of him with the real switched and that you men had a on display in Ramey's office. He has stuff. weather balloon there." said to us, "I told them at that time I It is interesting to note that both Stan DuBose's reply was, "Oh, bull! That would eat it without salt and pepper if Friedman and Len Stringfield con- material was never switched." it was not a balloon. This is nonsense." ducted many interviews with Marcel, The question then, is how do But the question here, becomes, and neither of them remember Marcel DuBose's statements "sync-up" perfect- where is the significant change in describing any pictures of the real ly with those of Marcel, when Shandera Newton's story? In his original inter- debris. Stringfield said, "If there had and Moore quote Marcel as saying the view with Moore he said it was a been any pictures of the actual debris debris was switched? As they say, they weather balloon. In his interview with available, I'm sure that he (Marcel) "commit some of the same grievous er- us, he said it was a weather balloon. would have mentioned them. He never rors that first-year journalism students The words and phrases might be a lit- did." and other would be sleuths frequently tle different, and we might disagree commit: (they) take only the evidence with the interpretation put on those ater, Johnny Mann, a reporter (they) want to look at and completely words by Berlitz and Moore, but it is, in New Orleans who was putting ignore the rest." essentially, the same story. L together a TV news feature The most damaging evidence, how- In fact, the only significant change about Roswell, showed Marcel the pic- ever, is from Jesse Marcel himself. we can discover is between what New- tures in The Roswell Incident. Pointing When he examined the pictures in The ton told Moore and was reported in The at them, Mann said, "Jesse, I got to tell Roswell Incident, he said they were Roswell Incident, and what he sup- you that looks like a balloon." Marcel staged in Fort Worth. They did not posedly said according to the recent said, "No. No. That picture was staged. show the debris that had been picked Focus article. That's not the stuff I brought home." up near Roswell. (DuBose's conclusions Again, we should point out that the (This knocks one of the underpinnings about the Roswell debris, then, are er- material in the photographs is not the from the Thomas DuBose article. Mar- roneous, but only because he didn't debris found near Roswell. In fact, a cel, when he examined the photos, said have access to all the new information better title for the DuBose article would that was not the stuff he'd found. Jesse we have developed in the last two years have been "Analyzing the Fort Worth Marcel, Jr. who saw some of the real and not because he did a poor job of Photos." Everything we have found to wreckage and has examined the photos, reporting. He is right, of course, in say- date says that the debris photographed said, "It bears a gross resemblance to ing that the debris in the pictures is a in Fort Worth was not the debris found the debris I saw, but it's not the same." balloon. But that is not the debris from by Mac Brazel. Other first hand witnesses who have Roswell.) Third, there are Jesse Marcel's seen both the photographs and the real statements about the activities in debris made the same comments. It handera and Moore have re- Ramey's office. Originally, in The looks like the real debris in a very gross peatedly attacked us for ignoring Roswell Incident, Moore reported that sense, but it is not the same stuff.) S Marcel's statement that he was Marcel said, "General Ramey allowed In their editorial, "Enough Is Too photographed with the real debris. some members of the press in to take Much," (Focus, new series, Vol. 5, Nos. But the interview they offer has been a picture of this stuff. They took one 7-9, September 30, 1990) Shandera and changed so that they provide three ver- picture of me on the floor holding up Moore quote Marcel as saying, "They sions of Marcel's statements. In re- some of the less-interesting metallic took one picture of me on the floor sponse, we have the statement by

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Marcel given to Johnny Mann, tually refer to a flight made on July 6, Roswell) were taken from this location statements by Jesse Marcel, Jr. to us, two days earlier. and Al Clark took (them) to Washington and the visual evidence of the pictures Our first interview with DuBose, and whatever happened then, I have no themselves. If Marcel said he was which used hypnosis, (administered by knowledge. That part of it (the weather photographed with the real debris, he Dr. Van Tifford, a qualified hypno- balloon) was in fact a story that we were was not referring to the events that took therapist and who made his own tapes told to give to the public and the news, place in Ramey's office of July 8. of the session) was conducted on and that was it." (Writing in Focus, Vol. 5, new series, August 10, 1990. Almost from the "Was that after the call from General issues 10-12, Dec. 31, 1991) Shandera, beginning of the interview, it was clear McMullen?" in a fictionalized and heavily edited ver- that nothing extraordinary had been "That was the direction we were sion of a conversation with Schmitt, displayed on the floor in Ramey's told," said DuBose. "I mean there reports, "To top it off, you (Schmitt office. wasn't any question about it. We were and Handle) had to throw out Marcel's DuBose said, "I have the deep im- told this is the story that is to be given signed statement... that his picture was pression that this conference was not to the press and that is it. Anything else, taken with the actual debris." We have held in any conference room. It was forget it." rejected Marcel's alleged.... statement held in Ramey's office. He sat at his "McMullen called you?" because the facts, as we know them, do desk. I sat on his left side in a chair, "He called me and said that I was ... not support it.) and in front, on the floor was the there was talk of some elements that had Shandera, in an article titled, weather balloon (emphasis added) that been found on the ground outside "CUFOS Goes to Roswell: The had been found. I forget what the guy's Roswell, NM, that the debris or Disaster Begins," wrote, "Now, name was (Irving Newton) was telling elements were to be placed in a suitable however, we can categorically state that the assembled, I think three or four container and Blanchard was to see that the debris in the photo is the actual reporters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, they were delivered, they were placed "debris recovered outside Roswell." The Dallas, and one UPI or UPS. I think in a suitable container and Al Clark, evidence presented above, suggests that three of them." the base commander at Carswell (Note: Shandera's claim is simply not true. The DuBose was asked, "Do you recall Actually it was the Fort Worth Army question that must be asked, is why are specific names? Did they tell you who Air Field at that time) would pick them Shandera and Moore trying so hard to they were?" up and deliver them to McMullen in convince everyone that the photos show DuBose said, "They probably did. Washington. Nobody, and I must stress the Roswell debris when it is obvious But you ask me to remember the names this, no one was to discuss with their ' that they do not? of three newspaper reporters from 45 wives, me with Ramey, with anyone. These are the additional facts around years ago, that would be asking the im- The matter as far as we were con- those seven pictures taken in Ramey's possible. But they did ask questions." cerned, it was closed as of that office. Facts that can be verified "Can you remember specific ques- moment. through other sources such as the taped tions?" interviews with Johnson, Newton, Jesse "They wanted to know if that weather Debris Seen? Marcel, Jr., and DuBose, the interviews balloon was in fact a weather balloon. with Viaud Marcel, Johnny Mann, Stan Where was it launched from? What "(I called Blanchard) and told him Friedman and Len Stringfield, the could cause it to be at the location there was this material his S-2 (Marcel) documents from the Bettman Photo Ar- where it was at that particular time? A had found in the desert and I said this is chives and the FBI, and the newspaper lot of questions pertaining to weather to be put in a suitable container by stories written in the right time frame. balloons." this major and you are to see that it is At that point, DuBose explained sealed, put in your little command air- DuBose Interview more about the weather service and craft and flown by a proper courier how it functioned, including the various (meaning an officer certified to carry Now let's look at the interview with balloon launch sites scattered around classified material), flown to Carswell General Thomas DuBose, remember- the United States. Ramey, according and delivered to Al Clark who will then ing that we interviewed him twice on to DuBose, explained it all to the deliver it to McMullen." video tape in August 1990. (A copy of reporters. "Did you see the actual debris?" that tape with both interviews has been He also mentioned that the Eighth "Did I ever see it? Never. I only saw made available to the MUFON Jour- Air Force was in the covert operations the container and the container was a nal.) To quickly show how flawed the business and that the reporters knew plastic bag that I would say weighs 15 Shandera interview is, all we have to that. They were trying to ferret out if to 20 pounds. It was sealed. Lead seal do is point out that Shandera has con- this wasn't part of a cover-up. around the top. Tied with a wire seal fused two flights with one. In other "Actually, it was a cover story," said around the top. The only way to get words, some of the things said about DuBose, still under hypnosis. "The into it was to cut it." the Marcel flight of July 8, 1947, ac- balloon part of it... the remnants (from "What time was the call from

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 McMullen? flight was some of the debris that Mac Shandera suggested that DuBose told "I'm, I would venture, I would say, Brazel took to the Chaves County him that the debris from Roswell was from between two and three in the after- sheriff. It was that debris that was on display on the floor. He suggested noon." "placed in a suitable container" to be that the photographs all show the debris "Who met the plane from Roswell?" flown to Fort Worth. DuBose described collected near Roswell. It is a sugges- "Clark was there and I was there. how he waited in the office until he was tion, easily drawn from the questions Ramey wasn't on the base at the time. told the aircraft was in the traffic pat- and answers that Shandera published. Clark and I met the airplane and (the) tern and then drove out on the tarmac. But we wanted the truth. Regardless pilot delivered the cellophane bag to us The plane, DuBose said it was either of the consequences, we presented that was sealed. And Al took it to the a modified B-26 or a B-25, landed. The DuBose with copies of everything that command B-26, got on the airplane and pilot got out, gave the bag of debris to had been written about the episode took off." Colonel Alan D. Clark who immediate- and then asked some very pointed "Was there only one package?" ly climbed into the command B-26 and questions. "Yeah. You know what garbage bags flew off to Washington, D.C. At no time today ... looked like this." was that debris taken to Ramey's office No Debris Seen "When were the photographs taken?" and at no time was it photographed. "Must have been when finally the Then, two days later, Marcel, and a We asked the General if he had ever press got some word about this secret B-29, flew on to Fort Worth. The press seen the debris that had been picked up thing that was going on and the attempts conference was held in Ramey's office, in Roswell. He had told us pointedly, by the Air Force to use the balloon as with some debris scattered on the floor. in both video taped interviews that he a cover-up. Must have been three or It should be pointed out that the had never seen the real debris, but the four days after that." wreckage on Ramey's floor was not way the question was phrased, and the "It wasn't the same day?" switched, (although, according to discussion that had preceded it left "No, it was two or three days later. Moore, Marcel said it was) and we some room for interpretation. That was When McMullen heard about this press never said that it was. That debris, why we re-phrased it and asked conference." (The earliest that any displayed on the floor, was always the specifically about the debris from debris could have been available was Ju- remains of the balloon. The switch, if Roswell, and not just the debris from ly 6, 1947, when Mac Brazel took some one took place, was either made in the July 6 flight. Did DuBose ever see samples to Roswell. That must be the Roswell before Marcel left, or was any of the real debris? debris to which DuBose is referring made while Ramey and Marcel were DuBose's answer was a resounding, when he talks about the flight that he out of the office. The debris was taken "NO!!!" He did not see the debris from and Al Clark met on the airfield.) from Ramey's desk, and the balloon Roswell. At any time. "Whose idea was the weather bal- was substituted on the floor. Next we asked if the debris on loon?" The question that should be asked Ramey's floor was the debris from "I don't know whose idea it was. It here is, did Marcel take any of the real Roswell. A simple, straight forward could have been Kalberer (Colonel debris to Ramey's office? We have been question that left no room for inter- Alfred F. Kalberer, the Eighth Air told, by Walter Haul who got the story pretation. Force Intelligence Officer) or the PIO from Marcel, that a small portion of Again the answer was, "No." A sim- (Major Charles A. Cashon)." wreckage was taken to Ramey's office. ple, straight forward answer that left no Then Ramey and Marcel went to the room for interpretation. here was more discussion about map room so that Marcel could show In fact, in a phone interview con- the chain of command, who gave the general where the wreckage had ducted by us recently, DuBose was ada- T which order, and who thought been found. When they returned, the mant. He said, "God damnit, I was up the balloon explanation. Finally, we real debris had been re-packaged and there. I should know. It would not be asked again about the photo session and taken away, and the balloon was on the different than if you would go out to press conference that was held in floor. So, Ramey may have seen some your garbage can and dump it on the Ramey's office. of the real debris, but it was not what floor. It was a pile of trash." "That was probably on the order of was on display for the reporters who ar- This time, however, DuBose added three, four days, maybe a week later. rived later. And since the balloon was that he didn't know where Ramey got I don't remember, I know it was several always on the floor, there was no switch the debris displayed on his floor. He days later. Somebody said this is the of debris on the floor which squares just knew that it wasn't from Roswell, story we're going to tell the public about with what DuBose told us and what he and that's the important point. this in order that we don't have any said to Shandera. What we have here, then, are two in- more inquiries about what we picked But the search for truth often requires dependent groups of investigators, both up on the desert." that we re-evaluate the data. After supposedly interested only in the truth, It probably should be stressed, again, Shandera interviewed DuBose, there but who have come to separate conclu- that the original material, on the July 6 were questions that needed to be asked. sions about the debris displayed in

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Ramey's office. There must be a way for those who have not interviewed the In the final anaylsis, it is up to each person who witnesses, who have not sat in the looks at the pictures to decide the truth. Is there any rooms and watched the witnesses inter- viewed, or who have not seen or heard reason to believe that the debris shown is anything the tapes, to learn the truth. other than a balloon? First, we must look at the evidence given by the witnesses and see how the that is added to the equation, the pic- them the pictures, without telling them various interviews fit together. We ture becomes clear. Fortunately, there anything about the story, each has said believe that J. Bond Johnson's first ver- is a wide range of physical and cir- the same thing. It is some kind of sion of his story, that is, that he was told cumstantial evidence, and a variety of balloon in the photos. In fact, Paul up front that the debris was a weather supporting documentation available. Joseph, an expert meteorologist, took balloon, is the true version. We can First is the Bettmann Photo Archive one look at the pictures and said, "This prove that he said those things to us, caption. It clearly states that the debris is some type of radar reflector device." (again, audio tape provided to the on display is from a weather balloon. No hesitation, no asking of questions, MUFON Journal) and that he said them Second is the FBI memo found by just a quick statement, identifying the before other interviews were conducted. Brad Sparks. It provides a time frame, debris from the photographs. (It is in- Second, we have the testimony of 6:17 p.m., and again reinforces the idea teresting to note that according to a Johnny Mann, telling us that Marcel, that the debris displayed on Ramey's book that Joseph had, the Rawin target when shown the pictures published in floor was a weather balloon. balloons were used as early as 1927. The Roswell Incident, said that they Third is the Dallas Morning News ar- The highly reflective foil was used so showed the balloon and that those ticle which again, reinforces the balloon that sunlight would bounce off allow- photos were staged in Fort Worth for story and moves the time frame to 5:30 ing the forecaster to track the balloon the benefit of the press. The statements p.m. (It should be noted that the struc- visually. The structure of the balloon, by Marcel to Mann were witnessed by ture of that article suggests that no according to the text, included balsa a third party, Julian Krajewski. We also reporter went to Fort Worth. It seems sticks [visible in the Fort Worth pic- have the statements by Len Stringfield that it was a telephone interview con- tures] or hollow metal rods to support and Stan Friedman, both of whom in- ducted with the intelligence office.) the structure. After the development of terviewed Marcel, and both saying that radar, the highly reflective material Marcel never mentioned pictures of the Weather Balloon wasn't as important.) real debris to them. In the final anaylsis, it is up to each Third, we have the testimony of Irv- Fourth is the Fort Worth Star- person who looks at the pictures to ing Newton, whose story, as far as Telegram article that appeared in the decide the truth. Is there any reason to we're concerned, has stayed the same. July 9 edition of the newspaper. For the believe that the debris shown is Again, that testimony is on audio tape. moment it isn't important to determine anything other than a balloon? And Fourth, is the story told by who wrote it, only that it clearly states Remember that everyone, and that in- Thomas DuBose. His reactions to the that General Ramey had declared that cludes Bill Moore originally, has said various articles, and his testimony to us, the debris was a weather balloon when that the photos showed the remains of (again on video tape made available to he first saw it. That moves the time a balloon. (Again, we must stress that the MUFON Journal), suggests that the frame for the cover story up to the point the debris in the pictures is not the debris displayed in Ramey's office was where Johnson entered the General's of- debris recovered in Roswell.) So, study not the material recovered at the crash fice. If Ramey had been confused at the pictures carefully and ask yourself, site in New Mexico. Eyewitnesses to first, that confusion would have been "Is this really debris from a spaceship, the material, and who have seen the reflected in the newspaper articles and or is it a weather balloon on display as pictures, say that the debris in the pic- it was not. There is no indication in that part of the elaborate cover story? If tures is close, but it's not the same stuff. documentation that Ramey was ever you're honest in your analysis, the con- confused and that he said anything clusion should be obvious now that you ut it is not really a question of other than the debris being part of a have all the facts. The debate about the what was said in the various in- weather balloon. Fort Worth pictures should be over. Bterviews because a clever inter- Fifth, there are the photos them- (A final note. We have been accused rogator can produce the results he or selves. As Joe Kirk Thomas explained of learning nothing new during our two she wants. In courtroom examinations, in his article, the debris is not rigid, but year investigation of the events at eyewitness testimony is often twisted is flimsy and easily torn and bent. It Roswell. But in this article, discussion and bent so that a jury of intelligent is obviously from some kind of weather centers around J. Bond Johnson, a people is confused. It finally comes balloon. witness we located. There is mention down to the supporting documentation Sixth are the statements by weather of the picture and caption from the Bett- and the circumstantial evidence. When forecasters today. When we showed mann Archives, a photo that we

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 discovered. The revelation that debris DuBose, Thomas, personal letter, dated Feb- MUFON Journal, January 1991. was flown to Fort Worth on July 6, is ruary 3, 1991. Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 9, 10, 11, 1947. new information developed during our Eighth Air Force Unit History (microfilm), Roswell Incident, published September 1980. June, July 1947. Roswell Morning Dispatch, My 9, 10, 11, 1947. investigation. We have also located both FBI message, dated July 8, 1947. University of Texas, Special Collections Library, Charles A. Cashon, the Fort Worth Focus, June 30, 1990, September 30, 1990. photos taken by J. Bond Johnson. Listing PIO, and Captain Roy Showalter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 9, 10, 11, 1947. of all photos of BG Roger Ramey available Ramey's aide. These are just a few of (Copy of Johnson's July 9, 1947 article sup- in the archives. the new things we've learned. There are plied to MUFON Journal) Whiting, Fred, personal letter, dated March 3, 509th Unit History (microfilm) July - December 1991. many more). 1947. *FWAAF Staff Directory, June 1947. Sources International UFO Reporter (IUR), November/ indicates sources that were discovered as a December 1990. result of our investigation. We have made it a policy to reveal all sources Marcel Interview, (by Bill Moore) February + in our articles. In keeping with that tradition, 1979. (One page) (Copy supplied to MUFON Indicates a witness to the actual debris col- the following is a list of the sources, documents, Journal) lected near Roswell. and newspapers used to compile the informa- tion published here. Calendar of UFO Conferences for 1991 Individuals + Bill Braze!, personal interviews, February May 11 & 12 — UFO Expo West - Los Angeles Airport Hyatt Hotel, 1989, September 1990. Los Angeles, California *Maj. Charles A. Cashon, PIO Fort Worth, May 17, 18 & 19 — Exploring Unexplained Phenomena III - University of phone interviews, December 1989, June Nebraska Center, Lincoln, Nebraska 1990. May 18, 19 & 20 — Fifth Annual "Recontres Europeennes de Lyon" Thomas J. DuBose, personal interviews, August Congress - Lyon, France 1990. (Video tape supplied to MUFON June 27, 28 & 29 — 12th Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investiga- Journal) tions - University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Stanton Friedman, personal interviews, July 1990. July 5, 6 & 7 — MUFON 1991 International UFO Symposium - Hyatt Walter Haul, personal interviews, April 1989, Regency O'Hare Hotel at O'Hare International Airport near Chicago, August 1989, January 1990, November Illinois 1990. August 16, 17 & 18 — Sixth International UFO Congress - Central *Betsy Hudon, phone interviews, January 1989, Library Theater, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England May 1989. October 12 & 13 — The UFO Experience - Holiday Inn, North Haven, *J. Bond Johnson, phone interviews, February Connecticut 1989, March 1989, August 1989, November 1989, May 1990, December 1990. (Audio October 12 & 13 — Fourth Symposium on Ufology and Exobiology - Sao Tape supplied to MUFON Journal) Paulo, Brazil Paul Joseph, personal interview, February 1991. October 19 — Show-Me UFO Conference III - Holiday Inn Airport-West, *+John Kromschroeder, personal interviews, Bridgeton, Missouri. Near St. Louis Airport July 1990, August 1991. *Johnny Mann, phone interviews, January 1990, October 1990. + Jesse Marcel, Jr. personal interviews, August 1989, May 1990. + Viaud Marcel, personal interview, May 1990 CENTER FOR UFO STUDIES PHOTO EXHIBIT SCHEDULE Irving Newton, phone interviews, April 1989, As of March 1, 1991 November 1990. Robert Porter, personal interviews, May 1990, April 18-20, 1991 — North Park Mall, 10950 N. May Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma July 1990. Dr. Van Tifford, hypnotherapist, August 1990. May 30, 31, June 1, 1991 — Sherwood Village, 5875 Rochdale Blvd., Regina, Len Stringfield, personal interviews, June 1989, Saskatchewan, Canada February 1990. June 3-8, 1991 — Parkland Mall, 277 Broadway, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada + * Robert Smith, personal interview, March June 10-15, 1991 — Swift Current Mall, #1 Springs Drive, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 1990. Canada Documents June 26-29, 1991 — Fort Saskatchewan Mall, 10420 - 98th Ave., Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, T8L 2N6 *Bettmann Photo Archives, letters and photo, June 1990. (Copy of photo, caption and July 16-21, 1991 — Arnot Mall, 3300 Chambers Road, Horseheads, New York receipt supplied to MUFON Journal) September 6-8, 1991 — Elkhorn Mall, 3601 E. Broadway, Suite 5-B, Tucson, AZ 85716 Clark, Jerry, personal letter from Bill Moore, September 19-22, 1991 — Central City Mall, 295 Central City Mall, San Bernardino, September 29, 1990. California The Daily Times Herald, Dallas, July 9, 1947. Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1947. October 12, 13, 1991 — Omega Conference, Holiday Inn, North Haven, Connecticut

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Introduction

Few phenomena in recent memory that would convincingly negate or con- us, swords are already being sharpened have attracted such a flood of public tradict the weather hypothesis, however, and past grudges dusted off in anticipa- attention in such a short span of time remain few and far between. tion of startling new developments and as the so-called "Crop Circles," for In the meantime, parallels between displays. As an organization, MUFON evidence of which see Michael cereology and ufology, both good and would like to remain as neutral as Chorost 's ongoing bibliography bad, continue to increase. Groups have possible in terms of the different per- elsewhere in this issue. been formed to study the subject, per- sonalities and schools of thought about The Circles have drawn more than sonalities have come to the forefront, to erupt in charges, countercharges and their share of speculation, too, rang- data has been hoarded and coveted as possibly even mutual cooperation. As ing from the merely meteorological, to opposed to openly shared, and, more much as humanly and scientifically UFOs, to the involvement of an invisi- often than not, disputes have taken on possible, we want to remain an open ble deus ex machina in the form of a tenditious, proprietary tones rather than forum for all sides of the issue, and not ' 'non-human intelligence.'' Most com- ones aimed at arriving at a mutual solu- be forced into choosing sides mentators seem more sure about what tion to the mystery. Serious scientists prematurely or precipitously. the formations aren't, than about what who might othenvise contribute to the To that end, then, the Journal will they are. The theory first proposed by dialogue have been driven off for the continue to cover the full spectrum of Dr. Terence Meaden, an Oxford-trained most part, mainly by the tabloid treat- investigation and speculation present- atmopsheric physicist, that the forma- ment afforded the formations by the ly surrounding the Crop Circle phe- tions are the byproduct of a previously global print and electronic media. The nomenon. Any opinions that follow are unrecognized plasma-vortex, presents cash register, it appears, is beginning strictly those of the individual authors, a particularly appealing target for the to loom as large in the ongoing debate and are in no way to be construed as current crop ofcereologists. Concrete, as the dowsing rod and video camera. representing the official viewpoint of the comprehensive and falsifiable theories With another ' 'season'' nearly upon Mutual UFO Network. — Dennis Stacy POSSIBLE PHYSICAL MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING CROP CIRCLES By John Brandenburg, Ph.D.

A characteristic property of plants in long pine needles were observed to are all of the grass family, so the "crop circle"1 patterns is the gentle lay down or bend at the base when response of crabgrass may be typical. bending of the plant stalks without mounted upright in the oven and ir- The mechanism for producing the lay breaking. It appears this effect can be radiated. The green crabgrass was down effect in grasses and other plant achieved by irradiation of the plants observed to flatten in 20 seconds and structures appears to be due to heating with microwaves. the green pine needles took roughly 50 of the water in the plant tissues by the Prompted by suggestions by Jean- seconds. Dry pine needles leaned over microwaves, causing loss of cell water Jacques Velasco2 that some sort of after two minutes, though effects were and thus "turgor" pressure3, with con- heating mechanism, such as microwave highly variable. In general, the more sequent loss of tissue strength. The or infrared radiation, might cause the green the plants and thinner their cross change in plant tissue strength with laying down of the crops (an opinion section, the more quickly they bent. change in cell turgor pressure is most prompted by his finding heat induced The plant samples were mounted familiar in the case of celery, which changes in the plant protein from crop upright in inverted paper cups during becomes soft if dehydrated, but circles), the author was able to produce these experiments, in a 500 Watt, 2.45 becomes rigid again when soaked in laying down of fibrous plant structures GHz carousel type microwave oven. fresh water in a "crisper." This loss of using a kitchen model microwave oven, When green crabgrass was irradiated, tissue strength is general along the plant set on high power. a characteristic odor resembling new- stalks, but structural failure will occur In these "kitchen experiments," liv- mown hay was produced. The crops in- first at the stalk base, since this area ing crabgrass and both green and dry volved in the crop-circle phenomenon carries the weight of the stalk and is

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 thus the point of stress concentration. duce the swirling of the crops in the pat- This means that crop circles, al- The stalks or needles thus bend over terns. Alternatively, the weakened crops though they appear "supernatural" may simply because they become weaker could be swirled with blasts of directed be merely the result of the novel and generally and the base bends to relieve air pressure. However, these ideas sophisticated use of a well known stress. could not be tested with the experimen- technology. If this effect of microwaves Heating of the plant tissues via tal apparatus available. on plants can be demonstrated on the microwaves is traumatic to the plants. It is well known that microwaves can crops in question, then far more weight The subjects of the author's kitchen ex- be directed in tightly focused beams for would have to be given to the possibility periments appeared to die within a few a distance R = -^r, where D is the that an intelligent technological agen- days. This means that heating was suf- diameter of a dish antenna, w is the cy is the source of this effect. More will ficient to cause cell rupture or protein microwave wavelength and R is the be said on this in the near future, but coagulation. However, the plants need range. A powerful microwave source for now, let us consider the results of not die if the irradiation was done feeding a 1-meter antenna with 30GHz some "kitchen science." carefully, in the author's opinion. microwaves (1cm wavelength) could Celery can lose and regain turgor project a beam that would come to a Notes without apparant harmful effects. tight focus at 50 meters, and form a Turgor is maintained in most plant cells 1-meter beam for 100 meters. 1. Michael Chorost and Colin Andrews, by osmotic pressure and the regulation Such an apparatus mounted on an air- MUFON UFO Journal, pg. 3, December 1990. of water pumping action of the cell mobile platform could "paint" crop 2. Dava Sobel, Omni, pg. 124, December 1990. walls. It is not necessary for the cell circles. However, to accomplish this wall to rupture for it to lose turgor, on- rapidly would require microwave 3. National Council on Radiation Protection and ly for the cell to shed water or alter its powers on the order of tens or hundreds Measurements, Report No. 86, pg. 150 (effects mineral balance with the surrounding of kilowatts. Such a power requirement were reported at 147 MHz, modulated at 16Hz). tissue fluid. would present difficulties for any air- Cells heated by microwaves or hav- mobile platform known to humans. ing their cell walls affected by them Such a platform would also have to be could lose turgor without rupture or able to hover quietly and without UFOs, MJ-12 lasting harm. The difference in creating down drafts which would in- AND THE GOVERNMENT microwave irradiation sufficient to terfere with the forming patterns. A cause lay down and that necessary to blimp could do this, if it could get away A Report on Government cause cell death might be considerable, rapidly to avoid detection and not crash Involvement in UFO especially in tall plant stalks, which during bad weather. However, no Crash Retrievals would require less weakening to bend blimps have been reported in the crop over. It is also possible that some fre- circle areas, to the best of the author's quencies of microwaves might be more knowledge. effective than others in producing this In any event, although it now seems effect. There is also the observed ef- conceivable that humans could fect of modulation of microwaves at low duplicate crop circles, at least approx- frequencies which is known to effect imately, by using beams of microwaves, cell membrane releases of potassium such an effort would be financially and and calcium in animal cells3. Similar ef- technically demanding, fraught with fects, if they exist in plant cells, could risks of discovery, and would require allow regulation of cell turgor pressure some compelling rationale. Therefore, and thus tissue strength, without great in the end, these experiments may trauma to the tissues. prompt more questions than they answer, as do all useful experiments. ince absorption of microwave What is important at this time is that energy in plant tissue causes sha- the most characteristic effect associated Grant Cameron and Sdowing effects, directing with crop circles, the bending of stalks T. Scott Grain, Jr. microwaves at an angle could cause the without breaking, can be approximately Published by stalks to lay down in the direction duplicated by irradiating the plants with Mutual UFO Network, Inc. towards the microwave source since the microwaves. This can be demonstrated stalk tissue would be slightly weaker on in a common kitchen applicance; a the directly irradiated side. This latter microwave oven. Anyone attempting to effect should be much more pronounc- duplicate this experiment is urged to ex- ed for millimeter wave microwaves ercise due caution and treat it as if it (lOOGHz and above), and could pro- was a cooking experiment.

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 SPHERICAL SOUNDS? ZOUNDS! By Eugenia Macer-Story

Since no one has yet "solved" the vevers, which stem from an ancient sarna" sold in curio shops worldwide. UFO enigma, I shall begin this article African rite, may have noticed mark- What might an advanced intelligence by briefly repeating the communica- ings on the land similar to crop circle "mean," then, by throwing a large "Bell tions concept enunciated in my article, designs, and may have imitated the of Sarna" into the woods beside a "The Astrebus: An Intergalactic location and type of design in order to typical suburban small town? Perhaps Language,"' which was published in propitiate forces which they do not the incident is qualitatively the same as 1977. understand. when a high school physics teacher Upon examination of the context of hands a promising student a device various UFO anomalies, it can be de- Sympolic Resonance which she knows is slightly beyond the tected that the event itself is part of a student's present knowledge. meaningful pattern of occurrences, and Perhaps an advanced intelligence is The purpose of presenting the enigma can only be understood fully as a com- trying to tell human beings some "new" is twofold: a) It is a humbling ex- munication similar to rebus puzzles. information. perience for the bright student, pre- A rebus (RE + TffHMj^ ) is a form Like many effective teachers, this in- venting hubris; b) It spurs the student of cryptogram in which pictures of telligence is letting us figure out the to figure out why s/he does not under- objects and actions are substituted for rebus ourselves. Several theorists who stand it, and thus to learn something syllables of words and/or other sec- have noted this deliberately cryptic new. tions of the sentence.2 When Bruce quality have suggested that such The ancient alchemical motto is Maccabee writes that the crop circles phenomena as crop circles actually simply: "As above, so below." It was might more accurately be called arise from the collective "super- believed that systems of mental "agriglyphs," he implies that these conscious" of the human race.4 discipline caused physical effects and markings are parts of such a com- It has been suggested that planetary that the cosmic and particular states of munication, like the hieroglyphs of an- "logos" or organizational conscious- being echoed one another. cient languages. ness of the earth is linked somehow to This is not far conceptually from our Actually, certain British crop circles the human superconscious and is modern idea about the "hologramatic" do resemble the "vever" pattern used manifesting "emergency" UFO and organization of "superluminal by voudoun (voodoo) practitioners to crop circle phenomena in the same way energies." Any small section of a invoke the gods favorable to drum and that an individual mind/body link might hologram will reproduce the entire vir- bell ceremonies.3 Other vevers used to manifest psychosomatic disease tual image if subjected to the correct invoke the loas, or god-spirits of the symptoms. laser interference patterns. voudoun religion, do not resemble the This theory detects an advanced level It may be no accident that the crop crop circles, but are elaborate rectangle of causality but does not completely ac- circle patterns resemble invocation pat- lattices and/or diagrams of hearts and count for other aspects of the UFO terns made to the spirits of music, and boats. phenomenon, such as the reports and that the mystery object which fell at The vevers are made on the ground pictures of solid, mechanical vehicles Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, resembles a with meal or flour and resemble in this and the anomalous effects to radar and bell. respect the sand paintings of the Hopi electrical equipment at crop circle If it is true that our universe is and other southwestern Native Amer- and/or UFO report locations. somewhat "hologramatic" in potential, ican tribes. The elaborate patterns are The Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, UFO5 then the overt shapes of these enigmas not intended to be "permanent," but are — said to have been recovered by local may literally resonate some vital truth constructed to invoke the gods or forces firemen and shipped to a military site about them. associated with the traditional designs. for analysis — resembled a bell. This Perhaps it is significant that the vou- resemblance was not simply the shape Pictures of Tulpas? doun vever which accompanies musical of the object, but also the "bronze-like" ceremonies most closely resembles the metal surface described by several The concept of a "rulpa" is often in- crop circle agriglyphs. witnesses. It is appropriate to comment voked by intellectuals in order to ex- I am not suggesting that a person who in this context that the odd "symbolic plain the existence of apparitions which draws a vever or crop circle model on language" carved in a band around the have been visible to several persons the ground will summon UFOs. I do giant bell resembles the carving on simultaneously. suggest that the first makers of the Arabic and African bells, the "bells of "Tulpa" has been contributed to the

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 international lingo by the Tibetan Bud- dhists, who use this word to denote a conscious and mobile thought form which has been intentionally created. I/ Sometimes this thought form is the "double" or literal image of its creator and sometimes it can take on an awesome or engaging form in order to Vever for Drums and Ogan (Rada rite) terrify or seduce the object of the adept's attention. The subject of mirthful comment Kecksburg UFO as a "bell." It is possi- Perhaps when analysts think of elec- among skeptics of the "supernatural" ble that certain "UFO" occurrences do tronic possibilities as a solution to these view of UFO occurrences has often have to do with devices which are enigmas, they are thinking in the wrong been "But can you photograph a tulpa?" acoustic resonators and/or which direction. Acoustic alteration of any The fact is that acoustic waves such employ acoustic lens transduction. molecular area would (of course) in- as those created by ultrasonic medical Clearly, crop circle patterns could clude the electronic characteristics of devices do refract light.6 If a UFO tulpa also be caused by acoustic resonance. the area, but is not confined to elec- (created energy form) were using a type Perhaps the induction of a surface tromagnetic action. of energy analogous to sonic transduc- acoustic field interacts with the earth's tion, it would create interference pat- gravitational field and causes in- Notes terns which became at times optically terference patterns to form. visible. As is well known, acoustically 1. E. Macer-Story, "The Astrebus: An In- tergalactic Language," Pursuit magazine, 1976, I do not here suggest that the UFO generated patterns will form in the sand reprinted in Spanish in Contactos Extreter- appearances are using conventional on a flat surface if a tuning fork is restres, 1977. acoustic lenses as we know them, struck and held against that surface. 2. Bruce Maccabee, letter to Mufon UFO although humming and other odd Journal, February 1991. sounds or the complete lack of conven- OM 3. M. Denning, O. Phillips and G. Rudolph, tional sound has often accompanied the Voudoun Fire, Llewllyn Press, 1979. 4. D. Scott Rogo, "Secret Language of UFO sighting of aural appearances reported One is irresistibly drawn to comment Abduction," International UFO Reporter, Ju- 7 as UFOs. here that ancient texts on mysticism ly/August 1985. As published previously,81 think that discuss the "OM" or cosmic sound 5. Ongoing investigation, Stan Gordon, 6 the atmospheric disturbance implied by which holds the fabric of the universe Oakhill Avenue, Greensburg, Pennsylvania unusual fogs, humming and "elec- 15601. together. Possibly the "energy" which 6. Velimir M. Ristic, Principles of Acoustic tronic" sounds indicates a type of forms the implicit order of "OM" is Devices, John Wiley & Sons, 1983. molecular structural alteration of the at- more analogous to acoustic movement 7. E. Macer-Story, "The Strange Tale of mosphere which is analogous to effects than to electrical energy. Elaine Potter," Body, Mind, Spirit, March/April created by acoustic lens devices using This would mean that the energy 1991; E. Macer-Story, "The Sound of Siren," piezoelectric transduction. Journal of Borderland Research, July/August itself is structural or "configurational" 1989. "What in the hell do you mean?" rather than being binary and linear in 8. E. Macer-Story, "Unidentified Areas of cries the casual reader. I am sym- action like electricity. Since time — as Obfuscation," Pursuit magazine, 4th quarter pathetic to this potential scream of con- we perceive it — is registered by the 1983. fusion. A lot of gobbledegook has been linear positions on a clock dial or digital 9. Jenny Randies, Alien Abductions, Inner Light Publications 1988; E. Macer-Story, UFO written about UFOs. system, unexpected interventions of this Fog: Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, Magick Mirror The key word in my theory is configurational energy may account for Communications, 1985. "analogous." Sound creates a structural the sense of "missing time" exper- All publications and reprints by Macer-Story alteration in matter, and is sensitive to ienced by people who say they have are available from Magick Mirror Communica- molecular density of matter. This is been aboard an alien spacecraft. tions, Box 741-JAF Building, New York, N.Y. why sound can be used for undersea As we know, certain pitches of sound 10116. sonar probes and medical detection of can shatter glass or shake apart the tumors. structure of buildings and furniture. It An energy analogous to sound, is possible that an acoustically MUFONET-BBS Network which also affects the molecular ar- analogous form of molecular distur- Electronic Bulletin Board rangement of air, plastics and metals bance also causes the odd structural 8-N-l 300-14,400 Baud could cause the atmospheric humming patternings of the crop circles and the 901-785-4943 and poltergeist effects so frequently atmospheric, fog-like conditions so reported by UFO percipients. often reported as part of a "UFO" Perhaps this is why we perceive the experience.9

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 CIRCLES OF NOTE A Continuing Bibliography By Michael Chorost

This is an update to the bibliography Books George Terence Meaden. The ex- that Colin Andrews and myself pub- panded, hardcover edition of the Pro- lished in the December 1990 issue of Circular Evidence. Pat Delgado and ceedings (see previous item). 208 pp. the Mufon UFO Journal. It updates in- Colin Andrews. London: Bloomsbury UK £14.99 from Souvenir Press, 43 formation on all of the books and Press, 1989. 190 pp. US price $29.95. Great Russell Street. London WC1B periodicals, and adds many articles. At least three sources: (1) Phanes Press, 3PA, England. (Due to space limitations, it leaves out P.O. Box 6114, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, The Crop Circle Enigma. Edited by the articles indexed in December.) tel. (616) 281-1224. (2) Arcturus Book Ralph Noyes. Bath: Gateway Books, Inclusion in this bibliography does Services, P.O. Box 831383, Stone 1990. 192 pp. $29.95 (note price in- not imply endorsement. Mountain, Georgia, 30083-0023, tel. crease). At least four sources: (1) The I am indebted to my contacts and col- (404) 297-4624. (3) Trafalgar Square, Great Tradition, 11270 Clayton Creek leagues in England, Canada and the Vermont, NY, tel. (802) 457-1911. Road, P.O. Box 108, Lower Lake, CA United States, who generously sent me Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence. 95457, tel. (707) 995-3906. (2) New many of the articles listed here. I would Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews. Lon- Leaf Book Distributing Co., 5425 be grateful to receive any corrections don: Bloomsbury Press, 1990. 80 pp. Tulane Drive SW, Atlanta, GA and additions, which will be included UK £5.99. Ordering information as 30336-2323, tel. (404) 691-6996. (3) In- in future updates. above. land Book Co., P.O. Box 261, East Readers will be frustrated at not be- The Controversy of the Circles. Paul Haven, CT 06512, tel. (203) 467-4257. ing able to find many of the articles, Fuller and Jenny "Randies. UK £4.20. (4) Bookpeople, 2929 Fifth Street, and by not knowing which are the most BUFORA, 103 Hove Avenue, Berkeley. CA 94710, tel. (415) useful. I would be glad to put together Walthamstow, London, England. 549-3030. Also Arcturus Books. an anthology of the best articles to be Crop Circles: A Mystery Solved. Paul Physical Traces Associated With UFO xeroxed and distributed at cost, but Fuller and Jenny Randies. London: Sightings. Compiled by Ted Phillips, somebody would have to volunteer to Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. 250 pp. UK edited by Mimi Hynek. Chicago, Il- take the orders, and do the xeroxing and £13.95, US $30.95. (from Arcturus linois: Center for UFO Studies. 1975. mailing. It would also require placing Books, see entry for Circular Evidence The National History of Stafford- notices in MUFON and other journals. above.) shire. Robert Plott (spelled "Plot" on This is an opportunity for someone to The UFO Report 1990. Edited by title page.) Oxford, 1686. (Pages 7-21 perform a vital and much-needed ser- Timothy Good. Sidgwick & Jackson, describe what may be 17th-century fairy vice, and to gain access to good infor- 1990. See "The Celtic Cross," p. 91-94. rings or crop circles.) mation, too. The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries. Passport to Magonia. Jacques Vallee. Potential copyright problems ought George Terence Meaden. Bradford-on- Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969. to be mitigated by the fact that the ser- Avon: Artetech Publishing Company. (See "Rings In The Moonlight," pp. vice is provided strictly for the cost of April 1990 (2nd ed.) 116 pp. UK £11.95. 31-39, on "UFO nests.") copying and mailing, not for profit. In- Order from Artetech, 54 Frome Road. terested persons should contact me at Bradford-on-Avon, BA15 1LD, Eng- Periodicals my NAC address below, and convince land; tel. 02216 2482. me that they're committed and Proceedings of the First International Circles Phenomenon Research (CPR) organized. Conference on the Circles Effect. Edited Newsletter. Editor: Pat Delgado. One- For the moment, I only envision one by George Terence Meaden and Derek year subscription (four issues) $24.00 anthology, on a trial basis. If it works Elsom. Copyright TORRO-CERES (but price may be reduced; write for out, it might be possible to do an- (Tornado and Storm Research Organ- current information.) CPR Satellite Of- thologies on a periodic basis. Contact ization-Circles Effect Research Group). fice, 117 Ashland Lane, Aurora, OH me at: Michael Chorost, North 134 pp. Conference held at Oxford 44202. Make checks payable to D.S. American Circle, P.O. Box 61144, Polytechnic on June 23, 1990. Available Rulison. (Sympathetic to theories of Durham, NC 27715-1144. from Artetech (see previous item) at non-human intelligence.) (All items listed alphabetically by UK £10. UFO Newsclipping Service. Editor: author.) Circles From The Sky. Edited by Lucius Parish. One-year subscription

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 (12 issues) $55. Route 1, Box 220, "Circular Evidence." Colin An- Theories." James Erlichmann. Guar- Plumerville, Arkansas 72127. (Excellent drews. Mufon UFO Journal, no. 243 dian (UK), July 6, 1990, p. 24. (Reports source for newspaper reports of crop (July 1988), pp. 11-13. (Discussion of Robert Cory's theory; "The pheno- circles worldwide.) several 1987 formations.) menon is caused by the old-fashioned The Crop Watcher. Editor: Paul "Major Increase in Mystery Circles." circular irrigation machine.") Fuller. One-year subscription (six Colin Andrews. Kindred Spirit (UK) "El Enigma Que Cayo Del Cielo." issues) UK £13.00 (overseas airmail vol. 1, no. 5 (Winter 1988-89) pp. Hilary Evans. Aho Cero no. 2 price.) 3 Selborne Court, Tavistock 27-28. (September 1990), pp. 50-55. Close, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 7TY, "Crop Circles Appear in the "Squaring The Circles of Alien England. (Sympathetic to the meteor- U.S.S.R." Walt Andrus. Mufon UFO Visitors." Nigel Fountain. Guardian ological theory.) Journal, no. 270 (October 1990), p. 13. (UK), August 1, 1990, p. 36. (Humor: The Circular. Editor: Bob Kingsley. (Oval, 35 by 45 meters; Krasnodar "Stuff fluid dynamics, I want some One-year subscription (four issues) in- region.) aliens") cluded with membership in CCCS "The Thumb Prints of the Gods?" "Mystery Circles: Myth in the Mak- (Centre for Crop Circle Studies.) Anonymous. U.S. News & World ing." Paul Fuller. International UFO Overseas membership UK £15, US $33. Report, Sept. 11, 1989. (Short item.) Reporter, May/June 1988, p. 4-8. (Sup- Payable Visa/Access/Mastercard/Euro- "The English 'Circles' Mystery." Jon ports meteorological theory: presents card. Write to Specialist Knowledge Erik Beckjord. UFO vol. 5, no. 6 (pro- two eyewitness cases of whirlwinds.) Services, St. Aldhelm, 20 Paul Street, bably late 1990), pp. 9-13, 39. "Weird Circles Puzzle Britons." Jac- Frome, Somerset BA 11 1DX, England, (Discusses personal visit to several qui Goddard. The High Plains Journal or call (0373) 51777. formations.) (Dodge City, Kansas), September 11, Journal of Meteorology. Editor: "The Summer 1990 Crop Circles." 1989, p. Bl. (Basic overview.) George Terence Meaden. One-year Michael Chorost and Colin Andrews. "Circles Run Rings Around Ex- overseas subscription (10 issues) UK Mufon UFO Journal, no. 272 (Decem- perts." Timothy Good. Hampshire £55 surface, £65 airmail. 52 Frome ber 1990), pp. 3-14. (Layering of crops, Chronicle (UK), Aug. 4, 1989. (Basic Road, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, EM effects, possibility of language. Ten overview.) BA15 1LD, England. (The bastion of the photos, three diagrams.) "Circles in the field inspire talk of meteorological theory.) "Theses for a Pre-Paradigm Science: UFOs." Maria Goodavage, USA Today, The Cereologist. Editor: John Cereology." Michael Chorost. To be November 15, 1990, p. 6A. (Short Michell. One-year subscription (three published in the MUFON 1991 Interna- discussion of double-dumbbells.) issues) £7.50, US $16.50. Payable tional UFO Symposium Proceedings. "Crop Circles Create Rounds of Con- Visa/Access/Mastercard/Eurocard. (Current state of cereology; further fusion." Wendy Grossman. Skeptical Write to Specialist Knowledge Services, theorizing on language hypothesis.) Inquirer, vol. 14, no. 2 (Winter 1990), St. Aldhelm, 20 Paul Street, Frome, "Erasmus Darwin on Cropfield pp. 117-118. ("A genuine modern Somerset BA 11 1DX, England, or call Circles in 1789?: The Fairy-Ring Con- mystery.") (0373) 51777. (Closely associated with nection." Mark Chorvinsky. Strange "The Year of the Vajra." John Had- the CCCS. Eclectic approach.) Magazine no. 6 (date unknown; pro- dington. Link Up, Sept-Nov. 1990, p. The Swamp Gas Journal. Editor: bably late 1990), p. 32 (Reprints Dar- 4-13. (Suggests dumbbells are Buddhist Chris Rutkowski. For subscription in- win's discussion of odd fairy-rings; it symbols; discussion of camera failures.) formation, write to the editor at Box is quite similar to Plott's account — see "If It Can't Be Explained, Women 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada "Books.") Ready To Listen." Bill Harlan. Rapid R3C 3R2. (Loosely associated with "UFO Mania Hits Odessa: Circles In City Journal (South Dakota), March 10, NAICCR — see "Studies"; runs stories Field Create Media Interest." Carol 1991. (Report circles in area to Davina on Canadian crop circles.) Conrow. The Odessan (Odessa, Ryszka of Custer, S.D., (605) 673- Mufon UFO Journal. Editor: Dennis Missouri), September 20, 1990. 2818.) Stacy. One-year subscription (12 issues) (Discussion of Odessa crop circles in "Round and Round They Go: New $25. 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, Texas a field of sorghum.) Crop of Oddities Has British Going in 78155-4099. (Frequently runs articles "The Circles: England's Greatest Circles." Timothy Harper. The Detroit on crop circles, particularly North Unsolved Mystery." Sean Devney. UFO News, Oct. 2, 1989, p. 3A. (Basic American ones.) Universe, July 1990, pp. 30-33, 58-59. overview.) (Discussion of possible relationship to "England's Puzzling Crop Circles: Articles Stonehenge.) The Shape of a Mystery." J. Antonio "Ever-Increasing Circles." Elisabeth Huneeus. New York City Tribune, two "Midwest Crop Circles." Erich A. Dunn. Telegraph Weekend Magazine parts: May 3 and 10, 1990 ("Science" Aggen, Jr. Mufon UFO Journal, no. 272 (UK), July 8, 1989, pp. 24-28. (Basic section.) (Discusses history, and hoax (December 1990), pp. 15-16 (Irregular overview; good photographs.) and meteorological theories.) crop circles near Odessa, Missouri.) "Logic Flattens 'Corn Circle' "Corn Circles and an Artful Ex-

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 planation." Miles Kington. The In- Times (UK), July 1, 1990, p. 4. (Discus- update, pp. 7-13, on 1989-1990 forma- dependent (UK), Sept. 5, 1990, p. 20. sion of meteorological theory.) tions outside of Wiltshire. (Humor: "I would surmise that "Measuring the Circles." Michael T. "Das Ratsel im Roggen." Stem, # 38, Wiltshire is a very out-of-town gallery Shoemaker. Strange Magazine no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1989), p. 250-1. for some galaxy.") (date unknown; probably late 1990), pp. "Ein Phanomen Zieht Kreise." "A Rare Circle for Skeptics." Marek 34-35, 56-57. (Critical review of cur- Esotera, December 12, 1989, p. 52-57. Kohn. Weekend Guardian. (UK), Aug. rent theories.) "Los misteriosos y polemicos cir- 18, 1990, p. 17, (Skeptical discussion of "Did They Have Visitors?" Richard culos aparecidos en los campos del the phenomenon.) Simon. Fate, vol. 44, no. 2 (February Sur de Inglaterra." \Holal, date ?, p. "The Corn Circles Riddle." Idina Le 1991), pp. 66-69. (46-foot circle in 134-140. Geyt. Share International vol. 9, no. 3 shallow grass, Millersburg, Ohio.) (April 1990), pp. 17-19. (Focuses on "The Crop Circle Mystery." A. Reviews paranormal events associated with the Robert Smith. Venture Inward, circles.) Jan./Feb. 1991, pp. 12-16. "A Crop of Circles." Circular "Strange Sighting at Silbury Hill." "Unidentified Farm Object Shakes Evidence and The Circles Effect and its Richard Martin. Kindred Spirit (UK), State." Wes Smith. Chicago Tribune, Mysteries. Derek Elsom. New Scientist, vol. 1, no. 5 (Winter 1988-89), pp. October 28, 1990, p. 1. Reprinted as "Il- July 29, 1989, p. 58. 26-27. (Glowing lights associated with linois Aflutter Over Unidentified Farm "They Never Yet Could Find My circles.) Object" in Austin American-Statesman Measure." The Crop Circle Enigma. "More Puzzling Circles Found in • (Austin, Texas), November 14, 1990, p. Wendy Grossman. New Scientist, Fields." Donna McGuire and Eric D10. (Discusses 1990 crop circle in December 1, 1990, pp. 61-2. Adler. Kansas City Star, September 21, Milan, Illinois.) Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence. 1990, p. Al. (Map locates seven circles "Field of Dreams?" Dava Sobel. Om- Jerrold R. Johnson. Mufon UFO Jour- in Kansas City region; discusses ni, December 1990, pp. 59-67, 121-128. nal, no. 275, March 1991, pp. 17-18, 23. microburst theory.) (Extended overview, slanted toward The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries, "The Beckhampton 'Scroll-Type' meteorological theory; many photo- Circular Evidence, and Controversy of Circles, The Beckhampton 'Triangle,' graphs.) the Circles. Ralph Noyes. Journal of the and Strange Attractors." G. Terence "Graffiti of the Gods?" Dennis Stacy. Society for Psychical Research, vol. 56, Meaden, Journal of Meteorology New Age Journal, Jan./Feb. 1991, pp. no. 820 (July 1990), pp. 235-237. (Trowbridge, UK), October 1990, pp. 38-44, 103. (Extended overview, more The Crop Circle Enigma. Dennis 317-320. ("The triangle is nothing other balanced than Omni article; many Stacy. Mufon UFO Journal, no. 275, than an imperfect circle." Useful for photographs.) March 1991, pp. 16-17. discussion of luminous tubes and "River, Lake and Creek." Michael "Field Events." Circular Evidence. diagram of a scroll.) Strainic, Mufon UFO Journal no. 275, Alexander Urquhart. Times Literary "Crop Circles Explained???" Ernest March 1991, pp. 10-13. (Circles and Supplement, August 4, 1989, p. 845. P. Moyer. Insight, Sept. 24, 1990; UFO reports in British Columbia.) reprinted in Focus, December 31, 1990, "Corn Circle Experts in Plea for Ac- Studies p. 16. (Translates one double-dumbbell tion." Chris Tate. Salisbury Journal to mean "Khawah," or "Eve, the (UK), July 27, 1989, p. 4. (British "Circles Investigation." Colin An- life-giver.") government not discussing the drews. Released 1986. 19 pp. Presents "Crop Revolution 10 Years On." phenomenon.) some data for the years 1975-1986, Ralph Noyes. Country Life, July 6, "Did a UFO Visit This Farm?" Lon primarily dates and approximate loca- 1989, pp. 102-103. (Discusses White Tonneson. Dakota Farmer, October tions. Discusses hoax theory and Crow, 1989's surveillance experiment.) 1990, p. 9. (Early Aug. 1990 "reversed circles' relationship to tramlines. "Circular Arguments." Ralph Noyes. question mark" in Leola, S.D.) Circles Phenomenon Research, 57 Mufon UFO Journal no. 258 (October "Proposed Physical Measurements of Salisbury Road, Andover, Hampshire 1989), pp. 16-18. (Discusses books, Crop Circles," Michael Wales, Mufon SP10 2LL, UK. meteorological theory.) UFO Journal, no. 275, March 1991, pp. "A Sample Survey of the Incidence "Farmers Fear Mysterious Vicious 15, 23. of Geometrically-Shaped Crop Circle." Nick Nuttall. The London Multiple stories, multiple authors, Damage." Paul Fuller. Copyright 1988. Times, June 23, 1990, p. 4. (Oxford Fortean Times, issues 53 (Winter 41 pp. Commissioned by BUFORA and Polytechnic conference.) 1989/90) and 55 (sorry, date not TORRO. "Mysterious Circles." Andrew known). Issue 53 is entirely devoted to "North American Crop Circles and Phillips. Macleans, Aug. 13, 1990, pp. the phenomenon, with articles by Bob Related Physical Traces in 1990." 46-47. (Short overview.) Skinner, John Michell, Ralph Noyes, Released February 1991. 18 pp. Con- "Scientist Tells How He Squared A G. Terence Meaden, Hilary Evans and ducted by NAICCR (North American Corn Circle." Amit Roy. The Sunday Bob Rickard. Issue 55 contains an Institute for Crop Circle Research.)

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Presents data for 45 North American Telephone (704) 254-7800. 2400 baud, The Koestler Foundation is offering cases in 1990, about 30 of which ap- N 8-1. There is no charge. a reward of £5000 for a documented ex- pear to be English-style crop circles. "Out of the Prairie Comes Proof that planation of the crop circles. For infor- NAICCR, 649 Silverstone Avenue, a Higher Level of Communication Has mation, write to The Koestler Founda- Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2V8, Canada. Arrived." Advertisement for Procomm tion, 484 King's Road, London SW10 Plus 2.0 (Datastorm Technologies Inc.) OLF, England. Include a stamped ad- Miscellaneous A very clever depiction of a crop cir- dressed envelope in England only. cle shaped like a computer diskette. CD-ROM bibliographic sources are The Skyland bulletin board (Ashe- Designer: Stephen Monaco. Ran in beginning to index articles under "crop ville, N.C.) has inaugurated an NACIR- computer magazines starting Feb-Mar. circles." CLE conference (#14). Its file section 1991. Does anyone have the air dates for contains an online version of Mufon 's A recent Led Zeppelin album cover 20/20 and Unsolved Mysteries' (two) December 1990 article by Chorost and contains a photograph of the first Alton documentaries on the circles, or for Andrews, and a copy of this Barnes double-dumbbell with a zep- ABC News' short clip of one of the bibliography (which will be updated pelin's shadow over it. Also published double-dumbbells at the end of its regularly.) Sysop: Michael Havelin. as a poster. broadcast in July 1990?

ference cosponsored by the Center for Humanistic Studies and the Center for News'n'Views ... UFO Studies in Santa Barbara, CA; and Fund for UFO Research Report the "UFO and Space Symposium" in Hakui City, Japan. The latter was par- October - December 1990 ticularly notable, because it was spon- The investigation into the apparent research in 1991 exceeded $40,000. sored by the city and endorsed by the crash of one or more UFOs outside Having reached its fundraising goal, Japanese Prime Minister. Roswell, NM, in July 1947 continued the Fund is now able to make copies Dr. Richard Haines made a presen- to be the primary focus of the Fund's of the videotape and briefing paper tation of "Using Concepts from UFO activities during die last quarter of 1990. available for purchase by the public. Studies to Teach Science and Critical The primary goal was to raise at least (Those who already contributed to sup- Thinking" at the Arizona State Teach- $10,000 to support the costs of the in- port the Roswell investigation will ers Association annual conference. vestigators in identifying additional receive regular update reports.) Board members Don Berliner, Richard first-hand witnesses, to record their During the quarter, the Executive Hall, Rob Swiatek and Fred Whiting testimony, and to produce a videotaped Committee approved the publication of attended a conference on "The UFO record of their testimony. A fundrais- several other items, including: Experience" in North Haven, CT. And ing letter requesting donations for the • Advanced Aerial Devices Reported Mr. Berliner reported conducting a total project was mailed to the Fund's sup- During the Korean War by Richard F. of 39 media interviews resulting in porters; copies of a briefing paper and Haines, Ph.D., a member of the Fund's more than 27 hours of air time in 1990. a videotape were offered as premium Board of Directors; 1991 was a record-setting year for the for contributions of $50 and $100 • Phantom Helicopters Over Britain Fund, in terms of both income and ex- respectively. As of December 31, the by David Clarke and Nigel Watson, the penditures, primarily because of the effort had generated more than $16,000 result of a grant provided by the Fund "CRASH II" conference in July. As a in revenue. for UFO Research; and result, the amount spent during tjie year As a result of the fundraising appeal, • The Allagash Affair by Raymond on grants, awards and special projects we were able to compensate investi- Fowler, a respected author and UFO in- (such as the Roswell case investigation) gators Stanton T. Friedman, Kevin Ran- vestigator; a detailed investigation in- exceeded $55,000, or nearly 70% of the dle and Don Schmitt for their costs in to the apparent abduction of four men Fund's total expenditures. conducting interviews with more than from a canoe on the Allagash Water- Income from contributions is the on- a half-dozen additional witnesses way in Northern Maine. ly significant way we can support scien- located in four states. Their testimony, Members of the Fund's Board con- tific research and education projects, in in addition to the interviews recorded ducted an extensive program of public our effort to solve the UFO mystery. at the Fund's "Crash II" conference in appearances and media promotion dur- Because we have no office or paid staff, July, were edited into a 25-minute ing this period. Chairman Bruce Mac- we are able to make maximum use of videotape entitled "Recollections of cabee, Ph.D., spoke at the International every dollar contributed. Roswell." Expenditures for the project Conference on New Sciences at the However, because of the increasing at year's end were nearly $10,000. The University of Colorado, the "Show Me cost of postage and printing, we will no total amount spent on crash/retrieval UFO Conference" in St. Louis, a con- longer be able to send the Quarterly

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Report to individuals who have not been uncovered alluding to the MJ-12 from those meetings, and what the made a contribution to the Fund in committee, the U.S. Government has Canadian and American governments 1991. Therefore, unless your contribu- not publicly acknowledged that these were doing with this new-found tion of at least $10 ($15 for residents of documents, or for that matter, the MJ-12 knowledge. foreign countries) is received within the documents, are genuine. Although our investigation started in next 30 days, this may be the last An interesting development occurred 1987, William Steinman had been Quarterly Report you will receive. We in November 1983, when UFO re- familiar with Walker's potential involve- will send copies of Pat Nolan's searcher William Steinman received a ment since 1984. After several mean- UFODAZE, a listing of UFO reports for letter back from American physicist Dr. ingless attempts to correspond with each day of the year, to those who res- Robert I. Sarbacher regarding UFO Walker by mail, Steinman phoned him pond to this appeal, as long as supplies recoveries. In the early 1950s, Sar- on August 30, 1987. During the conver- last. (See address, next page.) bacher was working as a consultant for sation, Steinman said that Walker in- the military's Research and Develop- dicated he had known about MJ-12 The Book on MJ-12 ment Board, the same Board that since 1947, and that Steinman "... was allegedly controlled Operation delving into an area that you can do ab- Nothing in the past few years has Majestic-12, according to the MJ-12 solutely nothing about," and to "... drop caused more controversy in the UFO documents. In his letter to Steinman, it- field than the release of the Operation Sarbacher reported that secret meetings Cameron and I pursued the Walker Majestic 12 Briefing Document in 1987. about UFO recoveries were held, but connection for a book we were work- The document, dated September 18, he did not personally attend them. Gor- ing on, entitled UFOs, MJ-12 and The 1952, states that on September 24, 1947, don Creighton wrote in the October Government, up until 1991. Walker was President Harry Truman established a 1985 issue of the Flying Saucer Review, contacted by various UFO researchers secret panel of 12 distinguished scien- published in England, that Dr. Sar- from 1987-1990, and we were privy to tists, military and intelligence officials bacher stated these meetings were held the notes of these conversations in to oversee and study crashed UFOs and at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in which Walker made some very candid their occupants. Majestic's first case oc- Dayton, Ohio. Apparently those in- remarks about MJ-12 and UFO crashes. curred two months earlier, when the volved in the recoveries were to report In a conversation in 1990, Walker team allegedly recovered a crashed disc their findings to scientists connected described MJ-12 as a "... handful of on July 7, near Roswell, New Mexico. with the Research & Development elite," and he would know if you were Although the Roswell crash is well Board. invited into the group. documented in UFO literature, is what Sarbacher wrote Steinman that he did Besides the in-depth reporting on is described in the MJ-12 document talk to some of the people at the office Walker, we investigated several other itself an accurate portrayal of the about what was learned. According to scientists who may have been involved, recovery? Sarbacher, U.S. laboratories analyzed including Dr. Luis W. Alvarez, a Nobel For four years UFO researchers have UFO hardware from the crashes and Prize winner, who allegedly assisted in been debating whether the MJ-12 docu- that the pilots looked like certain insects the recovery of a saucer in Mexico. We ment is authenic, and whether or not observed on earth. corresponded frequently with news the content of the document represents During a telephone interview with commentator George Knapp of KLAS- reality. UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, to get the Shortly after the MJ-12 document Sarbacher was asked if he could recall story behind physicist Robert Lazar, was released, Manitoba UFO research- anyone who did attend those meetings. who claims the government has at least er Grant Cameron and I began looking Sarbacher gave enough clues to Fried- nine flying saucers they're test flying for former scientists who may have had man about a scientist he remembered and taking apart out at Nellis Air Force knowledge of the MJ-12 committee. We being there that when Steinman cross- Base, in Nevada. We looked at the ex- worked under the assumption that the checked the information, the des- periences noted UFO researchers have document was accurate in its descrip- cription fit the profile for Dr. Eric A. had in dealing with the government, in- tion of a special group to handle UFO Walker, the former President of Penn cluding those of Bill Moore, Linda recoveries for the government. If MJ-12 State University. Steinman said he Howe, Wilbert Smith, Lee Graham and was real, someone working in the up- called Sarbacher to confirm his suspi- Donald Keyhoe. We also looked at ap- per levels of the government would cions, and Sarbacher allegedly con- parent government agents who appear surely remember a committee by that firmed that Dr. Eric Walker, who was to be involved, including Richard Do- name that was active in the late 1940s then Executive Secretary of the ty, and several who go by the code and early 1950s. Research & Development Board, at- names "Falcon" and "Condor." Confirming MJ-12 has been difficult. tended all the UFO meetings. We examined several UFO crashes All the original designated MJ-12 When Cameron and I discovered Dr. that the government appears to have members are dead. Although various Walker might be involved, we set out been involved in, including those in alleged government documents have to document what he may have learned Roswell, New Mexico, Kecksburg,

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Pennsylvania and the Kalahari Desert bottom of the check, or by cash in U.S. in South Africa. MUFON's State dollars. Director Stan Gordon opened up his — T. Scott Grain, Jr. files to us on the 1965 Kecksburg UFO crash. New evidence released in December 1990, indicated that the acorn-shaped object was eventually moved to Wright-Patterson Air Force The Fund for UFO Research Base. We corresponded with Michael P.O. Box 277 Hesemann in Germany and Henry Azadehdel in England to uncover the Mt. Rainier, MD 20712 facts behind the alleged 1989 incident over South Africa, where a UFO was supposedly shot down by a South African Air Force pilot. Finally, we explore the possibility that perhaps what might have been Hoang Yung Chiang, Ph.D. learned from UFO crashes in the late Representative for Taiwan 1940s/early 1950s, may have been in- strumental in helping the U.S. Govern- ment develop certain technologies that are now being used on the advanced air- In Others' Words ... craft being secretly test flown in the "Dreamland" area of Nellis Air Force Base. The evidence we have gathered Lucius Parish seems to indicate the government developed teams to retrieve unknown A British Airways pilot and crew's tainly be collector's items. The Spring aerial objects, that they analyzed the sighting of a huge UFO over Italy is 1991 issue is currently available at recovered UFO hardware, and they are the subject of an article in the March $6.95 or a one-year subscription is now attempting to duplicate that 12 issue of NATIONAL ENQUIRER. available for $19.95 from UFO Photo technology on today's aircraft. The mysterious craft, seen on Novem- Archives - P.O. Box 17206 - Tucson, Our book presents an interesting mix ber 5, 1990, was traveling at high AZ 85710. of various government documents, let- speed and performed "impossible" For those who are fascinated by ters, telephone notes and photographs maneuvers, according to the witnesses' historical UFO reports in general and detailing how the government is reports. the 1986-97 "airship" wave in par- misleading the public about the true The "Antimatter/UFO Update" col- ticular, Wallace O. Chariton has pro- nature of UFOs. umn of February OMNI summarizes duced a book which you will certainly Grant Cameron and Scott Grain's Kenneth Ring's study of UFO and want to read. THE GREAT TEXAS new book, UFOs, MJ-12 and The NDE (Near-Death Experience) reports. AIRSHIP MYSTERY, as the title sug- Government — A Report on Govern- In the March issue of the magazine, gests, is devoted primarily to reports ment Involvement in UFO Crash sophisticated computer "wizardry" is of the "airship" in Texas during the Retrievals, is being published by the discussed, especially as it relates to Spring of 1897, although Chariton Mutual UFO Network and will be UFO photographs. UFO reports from covers the West Coast reports from late available May 1, 1991. The 218-page, the New York City borough of Queens 1896 as the activity seemed to spread 8J/2xll paperback book is heavily are detailed in the April issue of across the country from west to east. illustrated with documents, cor- OMNI. Interspersed with all the tall tales and respondence and photographs. The A new magazine of interest is UFO journalistic hoaxes of the period are price for this revealing book is $18.45 JOURNAL OF FACTS, to be pub- seemingly-reliable reports which sound plus $1.50 for postage and handling, lished on a quarterly basis by veteran very similar to our more modern totaling $19.95. Orders are now being UFO researcher Wendelle C. Stevens. UFOs. Chariton's appendixes include taken by MUFON in Seguin, TX. Each issue will contain quality color maps of the areas, a log of the Texas Make checks or money orders pay- reproductions of UFO photographs locations which reported sightings and able to MUFON in the U.S.A. All from around the world, as well as ar- a roster of airship witnesses. The book foreign purchases must be by Inter- ticles relating to photos, films, abduc- is available for $16.95 (plus $2.00 national Postal Money Order, checks tion/contactee reports and other facets postage) from Wordware Publishing, made payable to a U.S. Bank with of Ufology. The issues are printed on Inc. -1506 Capital Avenue - Piano, TX electronic route coding across the high-quality slick paper and will cer- 75074.

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 Looking Back

Bob Gribble

April 1956 • American Airlines River, Wisconsin plumber, said he surance agent and Scoutmaster, said he Right 775, a twin-engined Convair with received several small pancake-shaped saw a similar craft while driving on more than a score of passengers aboard, pieces of food from visitors from outer Highway 70, about a mile from Simon- was en route from Albany to Syracuse, space on the 18th. He was attracted out- ton's home. He said it ascended di- New York, on the night of the eighth. side about 11 a.m., when he heard a agonally, then flew west generally The skies were clear, visibility unlim- noise, followed by a gleaming, silver parallel to Highway 70 at about the time ited, when the plane left Albany at UFO, "brighter than chrome," landing as Simonton's sighting. "I don't care 10:20 p.m. Veteran pilot Ray-Ryan had in his yard. He said it was about 12 feet what anybody else believes," Simonton his flaps up and landing gear retracted. from top to bottom, and about 30 feet said. "I just know what I saw." (News- Suddenly a bright fluorescent light ap- in diameter. Simonton said a hatch in Review, Eagle River, WI, 4/27/61 & peared off his right wingtip. Copilot the machine opened about five feet off 5/4/61; The Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI, William Neff saw it, too. Both men the ground, and that he could see three 4/28/61). agreed it was a strangely brilliant light, men inside. One of the men, dressed much too bright for another plane's lan- in a black, two-piece suit, held up a jug B 1966 On the second it was revealed ding lights. And it seemed to be hover- which appeared to be of the same that a secret investigation of UFOs was ing over Schenectady, a few miles away. material as the "space ship," then mo- conducted in 1961 by the House Science As the Convair drew abreast of the tioned to indicate he would like water. and Astronautics Committee. The re- light, the thing suddenly shot across the Simonton said he took the jug, hurried sults were never made public. No sky to a point dead ahead of the airliner. to the house to comply, and brought it printed record of the "hearings" were Ryan and Neff estimated that it moved back to the men. He judged they were made and there are no secretarial with a top speed of about 900 miles per about five feet in height, and weighed minutes. But according to the man who hour. about 125 pounds. He said they were conducted the inquiry, Rep. Joseph E. As its speed slackened, its light also smooth shaved and appeared to resem- Karth, Minnesota Democrat: "I am ab- dimmed. The worried pilot radioed ble people of Italian descent. solutely convinced there are no objects Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New He did not recall hearing them speak visiting earth from other planets. I am York, that he had a strange object in his to each other, or to him. Simonton said also convinced that people are not see- landing lights. The Air Base told him he looked into the interior of the space ing the results of any exotic research to turn off his lights and pursue the ob- ship, which was the color of black work bearing a top-secret label. I was ject, which they said they could see on wrought iron. He said he could see convinced then and I am now." The their radar. Meanwhile, the Air Base several instrument panels and could convincing of Karth was done by Air said they would scramble two jets to hear a slow whining sound, like the Force specialists on UFO manifesta- join the pursuit. Although there was no hum of a generator. "It appeared one tions. Air Force representatives were regulation requiring the captain of a of the men in the craft was frying food the only witnesses he interrogated, commercial plane to submit to military on a flameless grill." Simonton said he Karth admitted. Karth said he made "a direction, Capt. Ryan felt that this was motioned to indicate an interest in their full report" to the committee chairman, an emergency and he turned his airliner food. Then one of the men, dressed in Rep. Overton Brooks, Louisiana out over Lake Ontario, trying to keep black, but with a narrow red trim along Democrat. the glowing object in sight until the jets his trousers, handed him three of the Brooks then requested Karth give the could arrive. But the UFO was too fast, small cakes, which he later handed over report to the full committee. "And that's and when the black waters of the lake to authorities. Simonton said the visit what I did," Karth said. It was an oral appeared beneath him, Ryan abruptly did not seem to last more than five report, given to the committee by Karth turned back and landed at Syracuse. minutes. Then the large hatch snapped in a closed session. The result, accord- "This was absolutely real," he said. shut. ing to Karth, was that "the chairman "I'm convinced there was something Simonton said the ship took off rapid- (Brooks) decided there was no need" fantastic up there." (The Times, In- ly to the south, accompanied by a blast for full-scale public hearings. Karth, dianapolis, IN, 8/25/63; Flying Sau- of air that bowed nearby pine trees. He Brooks and top staff people on the cers: Top Secret, Donald Keyhoe) said it climbed at a 45 degree angle and space committee frankly feared that disappeared in a couple of seconds. public hearings on the UFO mystery 1961 • Joe Simonton, 54, an Eagle Savino Borgo, 50, an Eagle River in- would be an irresistible magnet for "all

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 the kooks in the country. The hearing • Four newsmen and Florida Gover- • 1976 A UFO being watched by a would be a shambles, a circus." As for nor Haydon Burns confirmed a report police officer in Elmwood, Wisconsin, the more than 650 UFO incidents unex- by copilot Herb Bates that a UFO suddenly shot out a blue flash at his plained by the Air Force, Karth put it trailed the governor's campaign plane squad car, knocking him unconscious. this way: "The Air Force people say at 8:52 p.m. on the 25th. "I much George Wheeler, 71, a veteran of more they can hardly be expected to explain prefer to let the newspaper represen- than 30 years in police work, including something that may be an hallucina- tatives be quoted," Burns said. "I will 10 years as a New York State highway tion." (The News, Detroit, MI, 4/3/66) confirm that I saw the same UFO that patrolman, previously dismissed UFOs they have alluded to in their writings." as figments of others' imaginations. • It started out like a routine accident Bill Mansfield, capital bureau chief for Now he's convinced not only that UFOs investigation for two Portage County the Miami Herald, was aboard the exist, but that occupants of some of Sheriffs deputies, but before it ended, governor's plane and wrote the follow- these spacecraft "are not harmless but, they carried out a thrill-packed, hair- ing: "We've got a UFO out there," in fact, they're out to kill us." That raising 86-mile chase of a UFO that Governor Haydon Burns shouted. remark was made while Wheeler took them all the way to Pennsylvania. "Within seconds he had 11 believers, reclined in a bed at Memorial Hospital While driving near Randolph, Ohio at including me. At first glance out the in Menomonie, Wisconsin. He spent 5 a.m. on the 17th, Deputy Dale Spaur plane window, I thought it might be a considerable time there since he said and posse member Wilbur Neff were brush fire on the ground. It was about he was struck by a light shot from a astonished when they saw an il- that color, and it was bright. But it UFO hovering above a hilltop quarry luminated, disc-shaped object rise over wasn't on the ground. It was near bur just south of Elmwood. a clump of trees. The craft was no more altitude, just a little more than a mile Elmwood Police Chief Gene Helmer than 150 feet from them and looked to high over Ocala, Florida. probably has the most accurate account be 35 to 40 feet in diameter and 18 to "Actually, there were two globes of of what may have happened to officer 20 feet high. "It cast so much light that yellowish lightr side by side. They Wheeler about 11 p.m. on the 22nd. we could see just as if it was broad paced the 230-mph speed of the gover- Wheeler had been found sitting in his daylight," the 35-year-old Spaur said. nor's Convair almost exactly, but did squad car in a semi-conscious con- "It was plain that this was no 'blob of make some minor changes of position. dition. The lights and ignition were light,' but an actual material vehicle that The intensity of the lights varied several turned off, and Wheeler muttered to a we were seeing." Thus began a two times. As four of Burns' aides and four passerby, David Moots, 36, a dairy hour pursuit of the craft, joined in by reporters jumped from window to win- farmer, "get me to the radio, I've been police from Conway, Pennsylvania, and dow for a better view, Burns conferred hit by one of those UFOs." Chief East Palestine, Ohio, who also saw the with his pilot. Walking back into the Helmer said Wheeler "was one hell of disc. cabin he told us: 'I'm going to order a scared guy, I'll tell you. And what Several other Portage County resi- the pilot to turn into it.' 'Would you George was telling me afterwards was dents saw the vehicle at about the same consider a vote, governor?' asked from his sub-conscious, because later time, while hundreds more throughout one shaken reporter. I was with him. he didn't even remember describing a two-state area also reported viewing Seeing a UFO was one thing, chas- the incident to me." When Wheeler it. "It seemed to be propelled by a ing it another. But turn we did. Al- reached the crest of Tuttle Hill and stream of light that came out behind the most immediately, the lights went into looked to the north over a flat, hilltop craft," Spaur explained. "Although the a steep climb. Then, suddenly, there alfalfa field, he exclaimed over the only sound we heard was that of a was darkness. Air Traffic Control in radio, "My God, it's one of those UFOs steady humming, like an electric in- Miami told copilot Fred Bates the again," and he began describing the stallation might make. There is no governor's plane was showing on its vehicle "very calmly," according to doubt in our minds that the ship was radar, but the object we saw was not. Chief Helmer. Then the police radio guided by something or someone, and Yet Bates, who had been flying for went dead. at times it seemed that it was watching 20 years, said he had been watching Wheeler's wife, Doris, heard the con- us just like we were watching it. It was it since shortly after takeoff. It didn't versation over a police scanner in the very maneuverable, and could descend vanish until it had trailed us for more couple's home. She immediately or rise, and change its course easily." than 40 miles. 'I'd appreciate it,' the notified Paul Frederickson, a nursing The deputies said the disc crossed the governor told reporters, 'if you'd give home administrator who lives near highway in front of their car several your own impressions.' You really the field where officer Wheeler was times, pursuing an easterly course. "I'm couldn't blame him. Reporting UFOs observing the UFO. "I got up and sure no one is going to believe that we is not the best way to public accep- looked out the window and saw this saw what we say," Spaur laughed, "but tance. People give you strange looks, flaming orange object in the sky," there is no question that we saw a disc- I've discovered." (News-Press, Ft. Frederickson said. "I watched it for a shaped vehicle." (Record-Courier, Myers, FL 4/27/66; The Herald, full 10 seconds and went back to the bed Kent-Ravenna, OH, 4/18/66) Miami, FL, 4/27/66) to get my wife, but when we returned

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 LOOKING BACK, Continued it was gone." At about the same time, The Night Sky Mrs. Miles Wergland saw a bright orange object from her home south of Walter N. Webb the hill. Wheeler described the craft as being "huge, as high as a two-story May 1991 house and about 250 feet across. It was silver-colored and had an extremely Bright Planets: (Evening Sky) bright orange light at the top, so bright Venus (magnitude -4.2), Mars (1.6) in Gemini, and Jupiter (-1.9) in Cancer I couldn't look straight at it." are converging on each other in the western evening sky. Venus, the brightest Chief Helmer pointed out that while and lowest, sets about 11:30 PM daylight time in midmonth. Much dimmer the city squad car had been working Mars sets in the NW about 12:30 AM. And Jupiter brings up the rear, disap- well, two days after the incident it pearing in the NW about 1 AM. The crescent Moon passes the trio from May needed a complete change of spark 16-18. On the 18th Jupiter, moving eastward, passes the Beehive cluster a plugs and points; both had been burned second time. out. Investigation also revealed that Bright Planets: (Morning Sky) three persons who live in homes near the field where Wheeler sighted the Jupiter. See above. craft said their television sets sudden- Saturn (0.5), in Capricornus, rises in the east about 1 AM in mid-May and ly-went off about 11 p.m. on the 22nd. reaches a point above the SE horizon at dawn. The planet begins to retrograde "I don't know what I saw," Wheeler westward on the 17th. It is 1.8° below the quarter Moon on May 6. said, "but all I know is that I don't want that experience repeated ever again." Meteor Shower: (The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, WI, A gibbous Moon washes out many of the May Aquarid meteors during the 5/14/76) morning hours maximum on the 5th. (The radiant point of this shower doesn't rise until about 2:30 AM.) Under better conditions, observers might have seen • 1981 A large glowing object, mov- up to about 20 meteors per hour. The shower lasts in lesser numbers from ing in level flight, was observed by the about May 1 to 8. three-man crew of a United Airlines Moon Phases: flight about 140 miles southwest of Dove Creek, Colorado, around 8:10 Last quarter — May 6 p.m. on the 21st. The object moved New moon — May 14 abeam of the airliner, heading south- west at an estimated speed of 5000 First quarter — May 20 mph. An American Airlines airliner Full moon — May 28 located 40 miles behind the United flight reported the object and said it The Stars: had reversed course and was heading Late in the evening Arcturus, the bright orange star in kite-shaped Bootes (bo- northeast. (National UFO Reporting o'-teez) the Herdsman, nears the meridian high in the south. Bootes has Center) sometimes been depicted as driving the Great Bear, Ursa Major, across the heavens; the Big Dipper is part of that animal. Indeed, Arcturus means "bear keeper" or "bear guard." The star is the third brightest luminary in the entire heavens; only Sirius and Canopus are brighter (excluding the Sun, of course). 1971 Midwest UFO Conference In our Northern Hemisphere sky, Arcturus outshines blue-white Vega, now Proceedings Still Available rising in the NE, only slightly by .07 of a magnitude. Theme: UFOs — Defiance to East of the "kite" of Bootes lies the U-shaped, upside-down crown of Princess Science, 115 pages Ariadne, Corona Borealis. The seven stars in the Northern Crown are mov- Speakers: Walter H. Andrus, Jr., ing in different directions, while five of the seven Big Dipper stars are mov- Hayden C. Hewes, Sherman J. ing together in the same direction. The ultimate result, however, is the same: Larsen, Ted Phillips, William H. In some 50,000 years, both Corona and the Big Dipper no longer will resem- Hunkins, Stanton T. Friedman and ble a crown or saucepan. Leonard H. Stringfield. If you live below latitude 30° north, look now for the Sun's nearest neighbor (A limited special reprint.) star, Alpha Centauri, in the southern sky. (It is the 4th brightest star in the $8 plus $1.50 for postage and han- entire night sky.) And from the extreme southern states and Hawaii, now is dling. Order from: MUFON, 103 Oldtowne Rd., Seguin, TX 78155 also the season to glimpse Crux, the Southern Cross, during evening hours.

MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 276 April 1991 MESSAGE, Continued Robert H. Hair, State Director for ties; Wesley S. Crum (Mattoon) for North Carolina, announced the follow- Coles, Moultrie, Douglas, Edgar, Clark, The Host Committee for the sym- ing State Section Directors reorganiza- Cumberland and Shelby Counties; posium is composed of Judith Stults, tional assignments: Nadine Albright David J. Brandis, D.D.S. (Springfield) Chairperson; Walter Fydryck, Ar- (Ashboro) for Randolph, Chatham, Lee for Sangamon, Scott, Morgan and rangements/Liaison; Wesley Crum, and Harnett Counties; Charles E. Christian Counties; and John J. Betta Artwork; David Knapp, Business; Donoghue (Boone) for Watauga, Ashe, (Collinsville) for St. Clair, Monroe, Forest Crawford, Master of Cere- Avery and Mitchell Counties; George Randolph and Perry Counties. mony; Sheldon Fisher, Exhibits and D. Fawcett (Lincolnton) for Lincoln, Laurence T. and Marilyn H. Vendors; Pamela Pulice, Hospitality; Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Ruther- Childs, Co-State Directors for Adrian Olivo and Thomas Stults, ford, Polk and Cleveland Counties; Washington, have made the following Press and Publicity; Russell Krepfle, Steven M. Greer, M.D. (Asheville) for appointments: Judy Tuberg (Kirkland) Registration; William Leone, Securi- Buncombe, Yancey, Madison, Hender- to Assistant State Director and new ty; Ronald Wolf, Technical Director; son, Haywood, Transylvania, Jackson, State Section Directors L. Ross Ded- and Paul Fisher, Treasurer. Swain, Macon, Graham, Clay and rickson (Mt. Vernon) for Skagit Coun- Cherokee Counties (Dr. Greer is also ty; Donna Munro (Bremerton) for Kit- New Officers a Consultant in Emergency/Trauma sap County; and Michael D. and Bren- Medicine); Bernard Haugen (Oxford) da D. Dobbs (Vancouver) Co-State MUFON growth during the past for Person, Granville, Vance, Franklin, Section Directors for Clark County. month is commensurate with the in- Warren Counties and the remainder of Mark E. Blashak, Virginia State crease in volunteer leadership. Hoang- northeast North Carolina; Rick R. Director, appointed or reassigned two Yung Chiang, Ph.D. (Taipei) is the new Heldreth (Lexington) for Alleghany, State Section Directors; Walter F. Representative for Taiwan and Consul- Surry, Davidson, Davie, Wilkes and Thompson (Check) for Floyd, Patrick, tant in Biotechnology. He was a fea- Yadkin Counties; P. Wayne Laporte Pulaski, Montgomery, Franklin, tured speaker at the "Space and UFO (Indian Trail) for Union and Stanly Roanoke, Wythe, Carroll and Grayson Symposium" held November 17-25, Counties: Samuel G. Martin (Salis- Counties; and James R. Roughton 1990 in Hakui City, Japan and plans to bury) for Rowan, Iredell and Alexander (Delaplane) for Faquier, Clark, Warren, attend the MUFON 1991 UFO Sym- Counties: Henry H. Morton (Wades- Rappahannock and Frederick Counties. posium in Chicago. boro) for Anson, Montgomery, Rich- Jerold R. Sorensen, D.D.S. (Han- Peiter Hendrickx has accepted the mond, Moore and other southeastern ford, Calif.) is a new Consultant in position of Representative for Belgium North Carolina Counties; John W. Pat- Dental Surgery. New Research in order to improve our communica- terson (Wake Forest) for Wake, Specialists this month are Dennis D. tions with this important nation. Jac- Durham, Orange, Johnston, Wayne and Huffman, M.S. (Albuquerque, NM) in ques Bonabot (Bruges), who has been other Central and Eastern Counties; Electronics Engineering: Herbert L. our representative since 1973, has Angelo Pete Politis (Charlotte) for Bomberger (Dillsburg, PA) in agreed to become the Assistant Repre- Mecklenburg, Concord and Gaston Theology; Randall O. Littlejohn, sentative for Belgium. Your Interna- Counties; Nickolus Summers (Greens- M.A. (Mariposa, CA) in Film Produc- tional Director met both gentlemen boro) for Guilford, Rockingham. Cas- tion; A. Rebecca Long, M.S. (Tucker, when Walt was a speaker at the "First well and Alamance Counties; and Jane GA) in Nuclear Engineering; and European Congress on Anomalous Ware (Winston-Salem) for Forsyth and Christopher L. Largent, M.A. Aerial Phenomena" on November 11-13. Stokes Counties. (Wilmington, DE) in Philosophy. 1988 in Brussels, Belgium. Thomas P. Stults, Illinois State Di- Four new translators volunteered David A. Bodner, West Virginia rector, recently made the following State their expertise. They are Herbert State Director, appointed Ted Spickler, Section Director appointments and Moran, M.A. (Redmond, WA) for Ed.D. (Wheeling), a State Section assignments: Wanda Beard (Belleville) Japanese; Steven M. Baker (Ann Ar- Director, to also serve as Asst. State for Clinton, Marion, Washington and bor, MI) for Hebrew; Christian Han- Director. Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D., Jefferson Counties; Paul Russell (Pekin) nard (Montreal, Quebec) for French; New Jersey State Director selected Vin- for Tazewell, Woodford, Marshall, and Scott F. Corrales, M.A. (Pitts- cent Creevy (Howell) to be the State Stark, Peoria, Logan, Mason and burgh, PA) for Spanish. Section Director for Monmouth and McNard Counties; David Marler (Fair- David Fiedler advises that Phanes Ocean Counties. The following two mont City) for Madison, Jersey, Cal- Press in Grand Rapids, Michigan plans new State Section Directors were houn and Green Counties; Donald G. to publish a U.S. edition of Circular designated in Wisconsin: Jeffrey W. Krieger (Collinsville) for Bond, Fayette, Evidence by Colin Andrews and Pat Sainio (Hartland) for Waukesha and Macoupin and Montgomery Counties: Delgado. The first printing is 10,000. Washington Counties and Sherry E. David M. Knapp (Rockford) for Win- Price and availability to be announced Solberg (New Glarus) for Green and nebago, Ogle, Lee, Joe Daviess, Step- in Publishers Weekly and in this issue Lafayette Counties. henson, Carroll and Whiteside Coun- of the Journal.

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