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SIGHTINGS OF "UNEXPLAINED" AERIAL ACTIVITY REPORTED TO THE MOD
FOR NOVEMBER 1995 (AS AT 15 NOV)
DATE LOCATION
02/11/95 CHELMSFORD, ESSEX
03/11/95 WARLEY, BIRMINGHAM
03/11/95 STOKE
04/11/95 KINCARDINE, SCOTLAND
04/11/95 KINCARDINE, SCOTLAND
04/11/95 BRUNDLE, NORFOLK
05/11/95 CREWE, CHESHIRE
05/11/95 CREDI TON , DEVON
05/11/95 POLBETH, EDINBURGH
06/11/95 KIRK SANDALL, DONCASTER
08/11/95 EAST KILBRIDE, NR GLASGOW
08/11/95 NOTTON, WEST YO~SHIRE
12/11/95 CREWE
13/11/95 HEATHFIELD, SUSSEX
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He was President of the United States of America and had to get back.
He and King George VI thought I was special, and trusted me with
military information even. He warned me of what would come, and
trusted in my instincts on how to play it.

A few days later I was taken to the Commander of Manston Airbase


(a U.S Base still then), a Commander Clinton. But I was given
chewing gum in the car with something sweet on it, and given a glass
of sweet tasting water -
I was drugged. I was taken to the cha:]ber
under Bush Farm, and the basis of Commander Clinton’s enquiries
was that I couldn’t have taken out General Patton, obviously, and
he couldn’t fathom anything. Ike had fired a shot into the
dead man in uniform nd put that gun in Patton’s hand, so I gathered!
But unfortunately I guess he decided I must have killed the soldier
in uniform, not Patton!

He tried to assault me, I said,"I don’t want you to do that, Will


you stop that, Stop it!"....BANG! I fired Patton’s gun, and he
stopped. When my clothes were in order again, he was acting like
a gentleman because of the gun in my hand, he said, "I think
you’d better give me the gun now." - very nicely. I had forgiven
him - remember, I was drugged - and playfully threw the gun. It
was like I played with Ike, whatever he said, I did something
different. Ike was great with kids! But he put his hands to
my throat and said, gleefully, "That’s the end of you!" But, while
he had been assaulting me, I was being pushed against some iron
ladders to an exit, and the gun in my breast pocket had been
hitting my chest, saying to me -
’Use the gun....Use the gun...
Use the gun....’ And I was conscious enough to have already
undone the pocket button, and it was in my hand, and that was the
end of him! As he fell away, he said in amazement, "But...I
thought you threw the gun!", as he went onto his back. Now the
gun had fired high, and I hadn’t allowed for it as Ike taught me,
so he wasn’t dead. It wasn’t quite as in the manual that time.
I didn’t wait to see if he was alive or dead, I climbed up to the
exit, pulled the handle, and climbed out.
A boy ywounger than me (now President of the United States of
America) was before me. ’Can I have your gun. Give me your gun.
I want your gun...’ But then I found out the thing about the gun
that Ike had said I would soon find, it suddenly got hot. It
is a special gun with casing used as silencer, that is why it
fires high, the invention doesn’t quite work as planned! It is
a mystery why it doesn’t work, but it doesn’t. As it fell down
the steps it clanked like plastic. That is the sound of
that white metal which is m ch ’tighter’ than metal that rings.
That solved the problem with that boy, and I wasn’t going down to
get it. I closed the exit lik Ike taught me, and he saw me do
it, so he probably remembers how to do it. I walked off and
found my way back to school. I was in army uniform, it was a
corps day at school. The boy had thought I was a soldier, I suppose.
And the uniform I was wearing, English army not american, did not
surprise him.

I deduce now that his father was the man killed by the snake,
and I think he was OVERTON, the officer who had been turning up
at the school for Corps days, and who had first taken me to see
Ike on the day I went with him in the tunnels. That means Clinton
was English until the age of about ten, when he lost his dad,
and the Commander of the U.S.Base took the place of his father.
Bill Clinton’s name was OVERTON.
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NUMBERS OF UNEXPLAINED AERIAL SIGijTINGS REPORTED
TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

1959 - 22 1976 - 200

1960 - 31 1977 - 435


1961 - 71 1978 - 750
1962 - 46 1979 - 550

1963 - 51 1980 - 350


1964 - 74 1981 - 600
1965 - 56 1982 - 250
1966 - 95 1983 - 390
1967 - 362 1984 - 214
1968 - 280 1985 - 177
1969 - 228 1986 - 120

1970 - 181 1987 - 150

1971 379 1988 397


1972 - 201 1989 - 258
1973 - 233 1990 - 209
1974 - 177 1991 - 117
1975 - 208 1992 - 147
1993 - 258
1994 - 250

Figures from before 1959 are not available.


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NUMBERS OF UNEXPLAI.ED AERIAL SIGHTINGS REPORTED
TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

1959 - 22 1976 - 200


1960 - 31 1977 - 435
1961 - 71 1978 - 750
1962 - 46 1979 - 550
1963 - 51 1980 - 350
1964 - 74 1981 - 600
1965 - 56 1982 - 250
1966 - 95 1983 - 390
1967 - 362 1984 - 214
1968 - 280 1985 - 177
1969 - 228 1986 - 120
1970 181 1987 150
1971 - 379 1988 - 397
1972 - 201 1989 - 258
1973 - 233 1990 - 209
1974 - 177 1991 - 117
1975 - 208 1992 - 147
1993 - 258
1994 - 250
Figures from before 1959 are not .available.
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GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION OF
UNEXPLAINED AERIAL
SIGHTINGS REPORTED
TO THE MINISTRY OF
DEFENCE IN 1994
. - - TOTAL = 250 reports

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GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION OF
UNEXPLAINED AERIAL
SIGHTINGS REPORTED
TO THE MINISTRY OF
DEFENCE IN 1994
’. - TOTAL = 250 reports

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NUMBERS OF UNEXPLAINED AERIAL SIGHTINGS REPORTED
TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

1959 - 22 197.6 - 200

1960 - 31 1977 - 435

1961 - 71 1978 - 750

1962 - 46 1979 -~ 550

1963 - 51 1980 - 350

1964 - 74 1981 - 600

1965 - 56 1982 - 250

1966 - 95 1983 - 390

1967 - 362 1984 - 214

1968 - 280 1985 - 177

1969 - 228 1986 - 120

1970 - 181 1987 - 150

1971 - 379 1988 - 397

1972 - 201 1989 - 258

1973 - 233 1990 - 209

1974 - 177 1991 - 117

1975 - 208 1992 - 147


1993 - 258

1994 - 250

Figures from before 1959 are not available.


hystericaJ.,people,
actual, physioal.w originating,in:;1detbeir
acceptanceof.the ’dea that a.

l.magl.nary.
In
admittedly
......
heads rather than in the
rld. Thougb this)e~~lanationrequired
h,j.ld~~’.,}.X’1d
patients th1s<waY;
I mustll.\ention an error.intp\i
the
complex pla ethan previo\lsly!Jltagine.(1, on was a steamier and more
I?rea~he easier; in est and the sexual abuseanother level we could all
of children was largely
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of’l~.?!), Freud described his view of his
i~h.X’.fell
might well ave’,ha fatal conseqlJen esfoJ:’ thefor a while and which
Under the
time’ [hypnosis],
inf.1.uenc
of thetechnic l procedure which whole of my work.
e ma jority of J’lY patients reproduced I used at that
from their
childhood scenes i which tbey we;r-e<se.xually
seduced
person..~Ibelieve thesestories,an .consequently supposed that by some;grown-up
had discovered the roots of the subsequent. I
was strengthened by a few cases in which neurosis. .My confidenc.e .
relations of this kind with
a father, uncle or elder brotherh.ad cont1nued
memory was to be t sted. If the..reader . up to an age at which
head at my creduli y, I cannot altogether blameinclined to shake his
.ff!els
him..."
Freud was obviousl deeply embarrasseCiif.’t having
that chiIdhood sex al abuse might be... ;relatively. temporarily believed
nineteenth century Viennese familj,f!s.~.. We know, common in repressed
.

now, that Freud was


right to feel ,that way, but not
that incest, chil ood seduction fort):).~;r-eason
.

he stated. We know
present time and u doubtedly wereand SeX\lal abuse are common at the
common then, when Freud decided that
these traumatic ac ounts were mere fantasies.
problems many of h’s patients faced. were more The Psychological
real events rather than artifacts ofw1shful, likely the result of
fantasies. Freud, it must always be remembered, self-generated
was a
a theoretical, ana ytical thinker,
theories led. him t discount automat not an1nvestigator. therapist Since his
and
molestationmemori s, he apparentl,..made.no ca.Jdly.a patient’s sexual
effort to examine the
possible objective realityofthes icl~;ims.
visited the,patien ’s house to con(iuct,’interviews Naturally he never
of the family, nor ould he.attempt.tinan~ with other members
patient mic,Jhthave actually been tbevictl.lI.\ of way to ascerta,in if.his
was a physlcian, a ealer, not a (ietective, and adult depradations. He
began and en(ied inside the..patient~$damaged for him the problems
, psyche.
It has only been. in the last few decad,esthat
have -
unlike Freud -
social workers.’" soc’ologists andoth.
e. 1:"\;’lI.\en.,.
actuallYbegunt()investigate
reality of these re rts. They have come..to the
tal
trained psychiatric
health professionals
the event-level
childhood’ sexual.. mo estation, seduetion’,and. conclusion that
real world, and pro bly alwaYS.have, en. abuse are rampant in the
ps:ychoanalystsand riters suchas’Jeffrey Masson, Furthermore, contemporary
Trl.bich and others aye attacked.Fre\1d’sposition that Milton Klein, Davl.d
the neurotic
problems her’wastre ting hadtheirsol~ ’O~igin inside the heads of his
patients, that they were due to "<ie"~~c)~D1ental,mechanisms"
not the result of,r al events. ’MassonJ,npartlcular
claims
and were
that
Freud’s theory that his patients were merely
fantasizing such

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childhood traumas in effect’bl m sth~victim and often deepens a
paral’1.elway, UFO abductions are
(In ~a
sufferer’s \P1;’()1;>~ems. if’
actually t~k,.ipg"place as event"’~ vel~occurrences/’labellinc]
the:tr
them as
fantasiesisi~ensely.destruct:J;ve:t:.Qthose who suffer
after-affects)..’ The more inves’tigators have raised valid questions
about Freud’s monolithic theories, the more the number of strict
Freudian~AaJ;ysts has
event-level problem solv:tnq,
sh;-\1nk.
,Pthe:r;:ther~pies,
’are clearly :tn
more oriented to real,
ascendence. "

What are the lessons.t~at history(


basJ.c
our
FreudJ.an
si~ent tuto;-,woul~
doctr:tne?
have us
FJ.rst, that
learnfrom’these rev:J;s:tons of objective
psychology unconnected to solid,
any theory of humanthe
information about subject’s actual ex~rience and family
examination of a
background, is a flimsy reed’indeed. The :tsolated
beliefs apart from the hard data of
person’s feelings, memories and misleading, and investigation into
his/her life can be dangerously
fact and circumstance is essential if objective truth is to be arrived
in attitude about childhood sexual abuse
at. Freud,’ssudden change disturbing
also teaches us how easily information can be shunted
aside, even byhighl:i intel1,igent people. Above all, we’ should learn
to be wary of labellJ.ng asfantas~anr consistent," widespread body of
felt experience. Serious, objectJ.ve J.nquiry
’private,
must
subjectJ.ve
~recede
any such
doubts~ It is
glib pronq~cements, whatever our
all too ~asY.t.q
be wrong.

It is indisputable that in the lasthave few decadeS literally thousands of


very ’similar UFO abduction repqrts been collected’and
investigatedworld-wide.J. The sheeJi’.number of such reports obviously
eliminates hoaxes as a single, umbrella ex~lanationfor
phenom~non"
left w:tth two other explanatJ.ons:eJ.t.her some
have

thesereP9rtsdescribe real" event...level’occurrenceS’, or


tlie
occurred.
though undoubted~y"some.deceptJ.ons-perhaps’even most We are
virtuall~
of
all
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of them,J.nstead, represent:acontemportary, "mental,n’psycho-socJ.al
phenomenonof.some kind~ Sincesystematic’psycholoqical testing of
has revealed no
those claiming UFO abduction experiEmCes :remainingexplanat:tonispS:ichological
their.accounts,:theonly the
explanation for
most phildsophically unacceptable Qne:..thewitnessel?,ar-e describing
actualevent.s.2. To discover1;.he ’truth about this undeniablr
extraordinar phenomenon’ wemust’bgin with a few basic que’stJ.ons:
initial report?
1 What is the literal content of the should make the report in the.
2. Why did,thepercipient’feel’h.e/she
first place?", (Thousands of individuals
such as
have
the
r~~orted
pol:tce,the
their bizarre
FBI, the
experiences to official agencies investigators and
Air Force and NASA, and,tocivilianUFO
organizations, with no hope of personal
".
gain and with a legitimate
fear of ridicule.3 )" , "

the-reported incident take place? -


3. Where and when diddiscuss,ed
,

4 . Was th~incident
i toccurred?’
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with family and/or friends at the time
t

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During the, fifteen years inwhi,ch I’ve been publically identified


with

,’,
,

"
"
UFO abduction research, thousands of
me to report thei experiences p ople have called or written to
data pool is exte sive.4 in detail, and consequently my personal
:eecaus...... e .tb.e. preliminary questions I’ve
outlined are so v ry important,’ .

examples. The .fo 10winCJ are.t;ypical,.


reports as’ I firs rece~vedthem.. I’ve
I will. dip in.to this ~ol
for a few
unprocessed,un~nvestigated
just

investigating eac of these


turned out to be hat I consider to repor’ts,~nd ~n
.

be
sJ?ent aqreat deal of time
my opinion each eventually
truthful accounts of UFO
abductionexperie Ces.
content, date, lq ation andThe info~~tiqp
numberof _
each contains- apparent
witnesses
complex cirC:um~ta ces which any!theory’ofUFO illustrates the
satisfactox-ily, ad ress at the out~~t..:I abduction reports must
ask you, the reader, to
consider t1’).~qeta
Is of each of these reports
issue:do,tbey se m to be real~worlde;\1ents, in the light of single
wishful fantasy? ’". ’.or theproduc.t ofa simple,
1. AyoUI1g Dl. :cri d Couple is
Jersey shore in e summer of driV’~n$l
C)me from a weekend at the
lQ74...~tj.s
cax-. -
clear, sunny day. In what is perceived
instant, i.t is pi ch dark niqht<-~.J1athey
silent ., The engine is not
automobile is in he middle of
by
X"\.1nn.ip9,no
late Sunday afternoon on a
both
are
as the very next
sitting in their
lights are on, and their
are terrified, 10 t and unbelieving.a.fielc:i.rather
,. than on a road. They
obviously pas.sed. The Many unremembered hours have
husband.s’ta,r:tis’t.h~car
field for several minutes before he and they bounce over the
locates a dirt road and begins to
find his way home. In the next few months there
panic attacks whi h affect the husband ensues a series of
he nor his wife t inks particularly
for a moment about UFO abductions; deeply. Neither
read about such p enomena, and, sinc no UFO sighting is involved, neither had
would not conside their experiencetq
field -
will not be until ar1y 1988
that the w man in this example
had written for.. . magazineang.
.be related in any case. It
-four1;eenyears after the event in the
encountered a questionaire
begart .to sUspect that there mightI be
a connection betwe nthemi$sing,t;.il1).e.incident
odd events in her ife. As a in the field and other
resultof.these
contacted me and t e investigation.~gan. suspicions she finally
.,:
2. About 00.P..,tn. one evening.in the winter
watching the TVne s . Her two .’Y()1JJ’}9~ of 1968, Mrs. R is
sons are cl~aring he dinner
and her old stson has just gi~b.~s.,.M:J,:’s.
driven9t+,.with
l1ghters and one of her teenage
R’s baby is in his crib,
Christmas sbqpPing
change; an qdd fac SuddenlY’t,.b.e,
;Y’Q;ce
appears,arIg.,~~~,~~comes
,iiind
his 9Tandfather to go
the ~mage on the TV screen
her daughte:r$ .’s~ns
s her JQother’f;’f~at,and becomes frightened. One of
because her mother seems
be the nextinstan Mrs. Rtransfix~g
living room, and is later found
iShe
.
at the baqk,of the house. The. teeniii,g rd~c:::reaming - even more
.’un le to move. In what seems afraid
but from her bedroomto
sqn has disappeared from the
though he.goef;, not remember ~s
hid1n.CJ..inacloset in his bedroom,

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the family, car. pul s into the what.he hiding from. Simultaneously,
seems the oldest drivew~YLto
and his grandfiiit erhave those inside the house it
minutes afterthei y 7:00 o’clock.geJ;>arture, returned
that it is now aft r 9:00 p.m... and yet theapparently
clock shows
only
the house vibrates as if a jetpl eJ1ormous noise begins suddenly and
neis,about to crash intQ it,

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sending everyonE? into deeper ;paniG,.’ One of the.
looks O.ut theW1ndowand
}?ointing up at something
1S his grandfather-standing
sees her
abov~
the
ne~t
brother
h. us,e. He
terrif~,ed
stand1ng
is
bes1de
.unmoving,
daughters
the car,
rigid, as
,to him. The noise abat~s and moments
later the br()ther bursts into the room with a description of a huge
UFO. which had Qeen hovering dire tlY over the house, and of his
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strange stateof’paral~sis while observing it. He calls the state


though he d:r;ove\1,pand spotted
now pastll,:Oq.P.m.: he
~h~UfO
police to r~PQrt,the s1ghting,and isastoundE?d to discover
has~Y3:.dently
at a l1tt~e tha~
after 9:00, 1t 1S
been outslde, unmov1ng, for
.
nearly two Qurs.
TheconfuslOn "of time ,and location an ehavior is alarming to all
six involved ,family members, but it i$ascribed to "excitement" over
~;
Neverth~les~,’l,1E!incid~nt
str~ng~image
the noise a.l1d,t: UFO and the on the TV screen.
isreD1~nO:?et:~4’and.frequentlY discussed by
the ent1retam).ly. EVldence oftraultt~rema1ns for months and even
years: oneo~tije dau9ht.er’W1’~:1.only
younger,boys.it:1sistson sleeping,witl,1 a baseball bat
next tohis1:>ed;~nd a
lights on in n: ~his sam~
;’room.Twentyye~):s;a,ter
go to sleep w1th all the
f~nds
da’;1ghter
book Intruders1n a bookstore, ’relates the 1nformatJ.onJ.t conta1ns to
my
her family’s.tra"una, and contacts me.
3. In November,of 1978 a youn<11I\81’1is driving home from work near East
Islip, Long Island. He eXJ?erJ.encesa,flash of light ’and in the next
instant he finds himself sJ.tting alongside a different road with his
car nowhere in sight. He stands up , dazed and confused. "
He
nauseated and discovers some unpleasant physical circumstances: his
shirt is buttoned incorrectly, his shoes are untied, his socks
folded neatly in his J?ants pocket, and worst of all, he has,
are-----
feels

apparently involuntar11y defecated. Then he remembers being in his


car while it was stopped, and trying to hide under the ashboard from
a group of small, huge-eyed figures ,who finally pull him out of the
vehicle. As these and other ,related ’traumatic memories flash into his
mind, he eventually finds his car ,with its lights ablaze, off the road
and miredintbeunderbrush".with no.tracks leading to it through the
foilage. ,’Dur,irig.thefirstfew h()urs.,of confusion he does not ’

identJ.fY th~se.,f,rightening [recollections and physical s.eguelae with


the UFO phenomenonperse, buth~eventually makes that connection and
I learnaboutth~case.

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4. On’ a v.erycQ,ld and snowywin~er ay in 1979, a fourteen-year-old
girl gOE?s,for,a ride on her snowmobi:te. She recalls heading into a .

level fJ.eldi but. then her memory fades. "About an hour later a
neighbor passing by sees herst~ndingabout thirty feet away from her
snowmobile which is now lyingonits’side. He approacheS-her,
if sheneedshcalp. She is clearly dazed and frightened, and the
as~ing
neighbOr also notices that she ,is ’not wearing a coat~, Moments later
he finds l1ergloves, coatandscarfn~atlyfolded’next, to the,
neighbordri:veshet ~om~
overturned vehicle. She does: notrem mber what happened. ,The
and her;$;tep...father, a surgeon , .examines her
carefully forra11Y J.nJurJ.es, partJ.cularlyto the head. ,He finds
nothing -;110 mark orsiqnofan,aCc;ldent., or even al’lY trace of
hypothermia. ,CAT-scans follow" ’as’well as several other neurological

lit-
tests, all.. neqativ. Equally.pe:rplex;lng, nothing turns up in the
flat, level f1.eld hichcouldhave<caused the normally stable
snowmobile to fall onto its side ""n,oskid marks ,no hidden wires,
holes, rocks, etc. The girl recover~quickly, but begins to suffer
from a recurring n’ghtmare,inwhich~she,finds herself standing
immobile beside’th overturned
figures approach.
veb.i<.:le
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as. a group of small, shadowy

In 1988 this same oung woman is returning from a party near


Washington, D.C., ith a fellow student. They approach a deserted
warehouse/factory rea and come upon what they both recognize as a
six-car pile-up of wrecked vehicles. The lights of all vehicles are
blazing, but the sene is totally deserted. There are. no policel no
,

spectators, no dri ers, no passengers; no sounds, no emergency l1.ghts,


no flares. They dive past this strange tableau without stopping and
.

without even think ng that they should report the accident.. (They
assume it must hav just occurred.) The young women arrive home
inexplicably late, musing on the oddness of the scene they had passed
and their qncharac eristic indifference to the plight of any possibly
injured people. E entually the young woman reads Intruders and writes
to me about her sn wmobile accident and. subsequent dreams; it will be
many months before she mentions the odd six-car pile-up witnessed by
her friend as well as herself. Neither young woman, nor anyone in
either family, ini ially think ofeith rof these events as connected
in any way with th UFO phenomenon.
5. In Aprilbf19 1, a young secondtlieutenant is driving from New
Jersey to.Fort Jac son, S.C.. Somewhere in North Carolina he realizes
that he has only a ut 1/4 tank of gas, and resolves to stop for fuel
in the next town. He slows to a stop as someone he assumes is a
isinst:r-ucted to turn left and detour
policeman flags hi down; he
lane his car light go out and. the’motor’dies
on its own to move forward and to};,ise. in the
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down a dirt road. He obeys,andas~hedrives down the narrow, dark
yet his car continues
air. The terrified
officer begins to ray, and,in what.Jheperceives as an instant later
he awakens in ’amo el room, lyimrfully-clothed on top of the bed. He
rushes down to the front desk andftndsthat the motel is just outside
the qateto,fortJ ckson. Completelyr:bewildered, he goes to the
park1.nglotand:,lo ates hlscar,!whit::hjhe discovers, still shows 1/4
of a tank on the 9 s gauge, and about the same mileage reading as he
saw the nightbefo e on the odometer. The officer decides he must
have been drugged y the military in some kind of esoteric training
experiment, and th t his car was shipped down to its present location
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on a flat bedtr,uc. For this reason he tells no one except his wife
about this "impossible" military exercise a theory he abandons
reluctantly after eeks of cons1.deration. It will be another twenty
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years before .he associates this experience with the UFO phenomenon; he
hears a radio pro ram on which periods of missing time are being
discussed. and con acts me.
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6. In the spring and summer of 1989, a married couple in northern


figures who’ come ’nto her room at ~i~
California become troubled by thei:r:fouJ:..year-old daughter’s frequent
nightmares, in wh’ch she describes"~c:>nsters," small, black-eyed
~"through the wall" and carry

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her off wi’t1i’n b.em. Thechild’~.p~h~r,:uninformedabout the UFO
abduction ph menon, tries to "a.ssllre’ er daughter that she was only
,

dreaminc1’ des~ite the child’sclaimth t,the monsters are real. The


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most frl.ghtenl.ng,moment fortheparent~ comes when they are awakened


one night ytheir daughte1;"s screams from the front yard. The father
unbolts the fr,ont door and rushesou:t,side. The Iittle girl stands
thereter:rdfi~d, ’telling her parents through her tears that the
monsters with the huge black eyes tpQk ,her outside and into a "round
thing" in the yard; they put hEar pn.a table and pressed a needle into
her. To her father the most unnerv:l.ngas~ect of this event is the
fact that when he searches the ho~s,ehefl.nds no unlocked windows, and
each,of the, doors, like the frc>nt, is,securely bolted from the inside.
about th~s<
mother fiJ;:"s~leaz:ns aboutsl.mila;rr.ep ;-ts ~hich ~re ~11egedl~
There is simply noway the childqarlhave gone outside. In talking
t17,auJllatic and im~ossiblee’Vent with friends, the girl’s
connectedwl.ththe UFOphenomepon. ",~hiJ.sdl.sturbl.ng J.nformatJ.on leads
her finally.t9.relat~ herchild’sstqryto me when I visit the city in
which the fam,J.ly resl.des.
;,’,.’.;-"

eXa.m.Pi~.~sfrom #iles.~1:~~~s,1:)::’ate ~he


,;.:,;

These six DlY routes by which


suspectedabu tl.on cases ;cpme,.,tp;t;:he:.,~ttentl.on of investigators, but
more import<ln~)..M’theY
which comp;ris~,;aI):,
il)..ps’tJ;:"~te’e~Pl~J.;~the
circumstances and details
individua1’/sini,1;;1ca)..,.:r:-eport.
Obviously; these
details are .eitber the result.Qf,~ ntasyand self-delusion or are
accurate accounts of what the’,per ipients feel has happened to them.
The first five of my examples have subsequently been thoroughly
investigated. (The sixth" involving a very young child, by necessity
"

rests upon a parent’s testimony, and so it will not be included in


this analysis.) These five cases involve a total of twelve witnesses.
All the deta.ilsI’ve related were rememred normally;
an issue .,Allfive reports include~eriods of missing tl.me and
h~pnosis
is not
"impossible" or illogical physical dJ.slocations. All involve
inarguable ;slgnsof trauma. Inonl’yone case is an actual UFO
sighting involved, and only one (different) report includes a clearly
recollected gr()up of "aliens." Just!one ofth’e five reports W S
initially characterized asa"UFO case";by the witnesses, none of
whom werewell~informed about the abduction phenomenon at the time of
their encounters.
""

since the history of public awareness of UFO abductions is crucial to


the viability of ’all psycho-so,cialtheories of the phenomenon, an
exact chronology 1s essential.,Thefi,rst American abduction report
became,publically known in 1966,’ llt seven .years would pass before a
h

second such case would be featurfia<i y.tne media.5 In 1975 a third


abduction report became known and.a made-for-TV movie on the subject
appeared, but it was not until the late eighties that such events were
seen by the.p\lic insomewhatfamilia;r;detail.6In :thiscontext it
is highly significant that one of my ’five examples predates even tl)e
first publi ally known abduction.cas~and another predates the second,
.1.ic’
1973,incident.A,third example,t:r:om1974, still predates the TV
movie and.a.ny’~etailed generalpu.
awareness of UFO abductions,
and the other tWQ.cases I’recount p,redate both of my books on the

"
subject. Thus,ny theory of the UFO abduction phenomenon must deal
with the fa.ctth t these report$ (among.thousands
~riorto an.
1ts sequence.o’f
Y.. g.
en ral. Public. knC:>W.l...

members, friends etc.


’68, ’74, and so
sus~cted. ....Ine ch
etail.’ To make e.th1S
of thesebi,zarre events were describedpoint

years, eVen’deca es later.


Beyondar~ment
on-
d

-
. 9..e..
of
of others) arose
the" abduction scenario and
absolutely clear, all five
to other people
attheti.~theyfirst

ese reports cannot


be considered artifacts of
"belief in’UFOs" or the products of folkloristic contamination by
materialabsorbe from various nineteen-eighties UFO
occured,
and in none was an abduction experience 1n 1961,
family
i.e.
-
caset.h:~~s~!I?~ gn.’:.\lr~aqed":~~t:tU:::!)’:’i~
:days, months, ’ .
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books and TV
programs. As. we haveseen,theperpJ.exingincidents which
. make up
these reportsar physical;. they deal with the hard-edged kingdom
objects and site, not the misty land of inward musing and fantasy.of
All five casesd scribe genuine trauma, confusion, clear cut
of missingtim , and "impossible" di$l?cationsexperienced periods
by the
witnesses.i’(Sim’lar accounts of vehicular dislocation, it should
be
mentioned, do no occur in’movies and books until decades after these
witnesses first eported them). . Anyone wishing to theorize about
UFO abduction ph nomenon as fact or fantasy must begin with an the
explanation of t e details contained these initial reports. i,n
,
Obviously, an1 eory of UFO abductions must satisfactorily
for the mater1al I have elucidated ~ust
account
or be discarded. For the
record it shpuld be ment10ned that hypnosis was eventually used in my
-
five sample case to help the witnesses recall the
~rtions
1ncluded or re aIled- -
unremembered
of theiencounters, and to explore other UFO incidents not
in their initial reports. From the outset
and throughout eir investigation,t:ese
the patterns pre ent in hundreds of othersfive
I’ve
cases have conformed to
explored; they are in
no way remarkabl .
Having estab~isb the. initial requ~rements for theorizing about the
nature: of theLUF abduction, phenomenon" ’let us
of evidence"wh4,ch support the,..lteast~(torturous, now consider the types
least convoluted
explanationc:of,;::t se reports. :c’1’hatrds,r,of course, the

actually’

On Jan.
~s3~ a~}1$t.r
thousands.Of~’crediblepe?plei,aE!e>stm

".> .. F.-if
’,’
ight line ’ ’"
1. EYEWIIl’NES5.:Iq’ES ’IMONY..OF.AN OBSERVED ABDUCTION
1979, ’na
what
idea that these

~
aqtually
happened, to;’them:.. Somet1mes the shortest d1stance between.two
points

rural area of southern Florida, Filiberto


J.;y rel~ting

C;irivin91 h~ .~l:fi>~m
Cardenas;’a.’mal:e riend andtbe:mafi~’swife and teenage daughter were
a trip tosome:.la,cal’
1nexpl1cably,’stop ed,Card nas"and.l:te’dr1ver stepped
hood to-chec:kthe battery cables.. Allcf ur saw a blinding
7 When their car,
out to 11ft the
fa~s.
d?wn in fi:~~t:.o" em" accom);> fi*ed’;bl~,a"buzzing sound. ardenas
11ftedupand-Qut OfS1ght as the twc"female passengers 1nthe back
light shoot
was
seat of the’’car s reamed..in.ter]:"oJrj,’LA’I’1;lethree
reportedt1’ie:a~1;1 tiontoth~
later ,cardel’l s.w s founddazed’,i nd’ Qnfused some hour :~’"R()ughly an : c)~ic
stunned survivors
and a half
froIn thepl~ce’-’h
hospitali:i~
;
<’
rehe had,ben’<l<~ft <iup into the sky. He
’:wit: physical’
lC:"’".:t <~ .[’~ . --
’:’,;-
;.}t":’::1-’.", ;~"
’ ’
L
~yJj:tpt9mS
,<.s~milar
J {.;:’~.:
to
sixteen
those
miles away
reported
was
since in
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t- t ~.
f"i

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necessary to. make sure potential witnesses to an abduction do not
e
interfere with th ir operations. So, despite the importance of the
witness’s observa ion of an "alien"fiqure in this case, it is almost
as si9nificant th t a mature physiciah,.thoroughly trained in
psych~atry, perso ally experienced.the efficacfof apparentlf
external,. anoma10 s control over his own react~ons and behav~or.9
~
-
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A third example 0 this kindofsecond...party


circumstantial. testimony
involves two,youn women,first:.;cous~ns’and recentci:>l’lege graduates,
in Houston,.Texas. They shared ’a two-bedroom apartment, and late at
nightoneofth~ oung women awoke. with the sensation of having being
-
droppedfromafe inchesabve<herbed. Within moments she
remembered"’clea ly having just been inside a spacecraft: the
memory was dreaml’ke but extraordinarily vivid. She recalled seein9
small,black~eyed figures, a group of whom were carrying out some
of physical..proce ure upon her naked roommate who lay str~tched out on
k~nd
a metallic table. Alarmed by the realism of her "dream," she went
into her fr.i.end’s
bedroom to check on her condition. She was shocked
to find the room mpty, thou9h bOth young women. had retired hours ago.
The window: was cl sed and locked, the bathroom unoccupied. Now
thoroughly distur ed, she unbolted the front door and went outside to
look for her roo ate’s car: it was exactly where it should have been,
in thepark.i.ng10 behind the building. She returned to their
apartment and aga’n.searched for her friend. The bedroom was still
empty so she deci ed she must imform the police. As she picked up the
receiver and be9a to dial she heard a moan from her roommate’s
.quarters. R sh~n
in, she found.the missing woman face down on the
-
bed, naked, her h ad at the foot of the bed and her feet on the pillow
and this only m ments since she had last searched the room. She
roused her roomma e, and slowly, gradually, the young woman came to
consciousness. T eir memories of the UFO interior coincided exactly.
There’are many ot er corrobrative details in this fascinating joint
account, and thou h it seems that bOth women were abducted, one was
a~parent1Yireturn d first and all wedc:t;o.operate normally, outside
k~nd of ..alien,wi nessdurin9.’that"time,.Jperiod .10
circumstan’b’zLa
eo troil.".Thus shELfunctioned as an independent, any

ETAIL! IN;’UF ;;hDuem~


N:ACCOUNTS
It shou14 ee,^"Bols rpriseto anyoneiuha’tnwhen an abduction involves
,

morethal)asin91 individual.- and there are apparently thousands of’


multiple\,abd~ . s

s;
t~o .,.
theiw tnesses!qlde$criptions corrobrateone
another,;c’il’bilii>>o! true"evem,whenc’bheji:nc dents are investiga,ted
.

separate;LJ,in::di ferent laca1:Ji1ties,:,;years after they occur.red, with


the’use;of.:::refj es i ve-hypnosis \-.’anttwlth. clifferent investigators
invofvedl in,ii,their search.’ i’But;’~1?h~’;mOS’b,imJ?or1?ant
deta~ls, aDe.,’those small.,’,;unpqb~lishe escr~pt~ons
;;;
co~robc?r
wh~ch tivc:
~nvest~gators
carefully.save:an store.:For:,instance I maintain a secret file of
what mi9bt\bei’ca~ ed’)n tationals~ls’}-"l,1~rs, letters,;whatc:ver’ -
theirabducti,bns
related syst.ems’t,a ,very.’ f
-
that ’dozen$Qf<:wl; nesse$iha\le:’repor~e us.ee~ng ~n and on UFOs dur~ng
I,have sho-.m’exampf s of the two basic, closely
astounde ..;a.t"te ~m~larlty-’,eve1j’~ae’nt;~ty
’,:’b~~~’d
~leagues: -
all have"been
of these recollected
symbols.’ "Bu’tZ;sine these s"1Jtol’s per ,te as a means of testing the
validity of;’ e’ltl1’c ses ,I’’stl’!>J:,’6a11h t; make this area of evidence

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public.
provide
<,
Thisii:.,s;:..indeed ur
evidenc~<that und ni
fo~’t.\).I\~"~?b~~q..t1se
~].~’p’:t:a,.p~.$.
<,
C’ _- _
cc:>rroborating
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these ’notational systems


abductee
testimony b yolJ,ti;the ~ealmo.fclf~~e.’;?,?
Anotherspe.c.i!i.:<;’examplearis sifromY~ :thousands of reports of
significant,t.t
central to;~4r:,ft
Alien int
thoughtsabout,h~ \U"ious
~~~.1tti:n;thelowe.;ra ~
physical exam:i;n t ions conducted ij,U1:.ing,,’lUF,O abductions. It is highly
’in noabQuctioI1reP9:t:t;I’ve seen has a witness ever
mentioned~attJ.,’:the UFO occ pants~~ about the one organ most
omen\:an .the genitals is almost
heart.
the human
universall~’’de$-cribed, a$ ’,w l:J.8$:"pr.~ec;l~res involving the head and
nasal cavity"~’.’’But never -’.never "!,,,the,,;, eart. Surely if fantasy were
at all invC):l~eq,in these reP9~si;W ’WbUt1-dbe
hearing frequently about
E!~\~’j,an~tomy -
.

alien "EXGs’!"and’: the like ,since’{we;".c>: 1f~elves, are so naturally


preoccupietiwith:.:this one vital;o,it"cJan;,!:The fact ,this has never yet
occurredin:"th. ndsofaDducti
fantasy can,:rl.ot,;:’be
lT"!It~r~s
\.lS thecrea1;ive:,:-!ac:t
,proves once again that
:
’in these accounts. Folklore,
fantasy, dreamS.’tthese coV’eral;r.mJ,tless;spectrum. The specific
events actuaas]y’~reported do’not:’’t’ilry.’"~onsistently remain within the
narrow range’
"
Jot <actual, felt
.’
experi,en
’.;r, .’, f::’it T3
,j
, "
’,’
e~" .’.
.

Short questidns,shbrt answers:


1. DO physical traces accompal1y’U:J,t’O bduction reports? Yes. Ground
traces ofaffe ted soil where th~,
rafthave landed abound, as well as
physical s rs"of two highlyspec1.ficp tterns on the bodies of
abductees.
2. When people report.abduction experiences, .are they physically
missing from their homes/cars/bedrooms, etc/.? Yes. I have dozens
of cases in which.people whowe.re literally missing were searched for
during these "missing time" UFO experiences. .

3. When people awaken in bed


oqt;.s:i,de, 11\
isthere’eve~E4.ny~viQence having been taken abductedl1~’1:’ m.be.r
and taken
that the m~mc:)r~es. are
themselves;’witij ’muddy feet,
$?
,leaves
that this is so, and
notmere1Y,~1:’~a
abductees find
g.rass"~nd
theJ.r beds, and other
Ye~J.n.Ma~y. .

such indica1;i911::;
,- ~-
. that they’ve
’,’;’ \ . ~ outside beeI’1li~~+ally
houses. the.i~
;/ ,- ..’, - ,
~
4. Are thereOt.h r!extensivecat~CJqJ:’ie~
experience~,.~te::pny~ica1ly~re
elaborate ....t1~9g?,\:’’:Xe~,
<
~; ’,’.-
l,:;
, ..
b1.lt:.:wQ~
bf evidence suggesting these
unf9rt~atel~,~~~J{~riy.
h space does not
".-.,, t<, ~;’" >’ ’.’i "NA_ _.
allow us to

NOTES: \ :j
1. Th UFo:tal?4uc:tion liter t\1r~i,,1;1c19~~!:;l1any carefully investigated
cas~sfron.t,:~uph wi<:\ely sepatat.’ed"~~~c:es as Italy, Pue~o Rico, the
sovJ.et: ~n:(:) ,’B.razJ.l
abduct pnpas,;es
and<?r~atB;-J.~a1J:1: In three partJ.cular
.::;Jt~;i~(lr1:ty,of these, re~orts.ofcan be
the,surprJ.$J.t;19,
seen,forex mple, J.n theprecJ.seJ:7;r"’matchJ.ng descrJ.ptJ.ons
their,!~ T d1,h9’ g~ar, the posi~iC)n:()~.thE!ir doors and ramp~, and the
landed’UF’Os"heights anddi~met:.ers,’the arrangement and type of
10catJ.onof..theJ.r ,externallxghts ."~"’One of these abductJ.ons took ,.
.
place on the island of Marth ’s’Vineyard, one in Mindalore,
South Africa, and the third in Indianapolis, Indiana.

1.0
- NUMBERS OF UNEXPLAINED AERIAL SIGHTINGS REPORTED

1959
1960

1961
TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

-
-
-
22
31

71
1976
1977
1978
-
-
-
200
435

750

1962 - 46 1979 - 550

1963 - 51 1980 - 350

1964 - 74 1981 - 600

1965 - 56 1982 - 250

1966 - 95 1983 - 390

1967 - 362 1984 - 214

1968 - 280 1985 - 177

1969 - 228 1986 - 120

1970 - 181 1987 - 150

1971 - 379 1988 - 397

1972 - 201 1989 - 258

1973 - 233 1990 - 209

1974 - 177~ 1991 - 117

1975 - 208 1992 - 147

1993 - 258
1994 - 250

Figures from before .1959 are not available.


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A BRIGHT YELLOW BALL DESCRIBED MA(~NITtJDE AS BIG AS A STAR, WITH A THUNDERY
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[Q NALLY WITNESSED BY THREE PERSONS.
SIGHTING TRAVELLED WEST TO EAST MAINTAINING CONSTANT HEIGHT,AT
APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET ABOVE THE MONKSECAI) FLATS IN THE DIHECTION OF THE
COUNTY HOSPITAL FROM THE CATHEDRAL, ABOUT ONE KILE FROM THE AREA. ~fm~KSROAD
POLICE CONTROL AT J’mTTLEHAK SAY THE EVENT WAS WITJ’mSSED BY SEVERAL
OFFICERS.
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e HOWARD is there, but he might first be thinking of HARDY, Nelson’s friend,
’How very English!"
Take HARDY, GEORGE and LEVENTIS out of I’MALLRIGHTHOW’SYOURSELF, and see
if it gives you another name.

I MAL L RIG H THO W S YOU R S ELF


A RIG H T S Y 0 R E L D GEE V E N

So you still have to take DGEEVEN out of IMLLHOWUSF


D+E=I GEVEN out of MLLHOWUSF

G+E=L VEN out of MLHOWUSF

E from F = A VN out of MLHOWUSA

V from W = A N out of MLHOAUSA


N from 0 = A MLHAAUSA
You like to see USA! It is a sign, you are on the right lines!

What name is MLHAAUSA, it has much of MICHAEL in it, take Michael from it.

M L H A A USA
M L H A ICE

I from S is J, is I + A

M I H A L ACE
M I C H A L A E

M I C H A E L A

So, Michael Hardy is a coded form of George Leventis (but for an ’A’).

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1159 28 APRIL 1995
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Low-flying Milittlry Aircraft u
Low-t1ying Military Aircraft interview Mr. Cliff Garnett of Gisbum
Motion 11fDde. and Question proposed. That this House Barnoldswick and Duncan Smith, a
do now adjoum.-[Dr. Limn Fox.l Craven Herald and Pioneer, who reporter on
Earby. happens to live
2.36 pm Duncan Smith saw me jets at first hand, aDd
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Mr. GordOD PreDtice (pendle): I welcome the the experi nce for
opportunity to raise in this short debate a matter of great following terms:
concern to my constituents-law-flying military aircraft. "I was just leaving the house to take my dog for a’Walt wIleD
heard tit: first formation approaching
Iwant to talk specifically about the Tornado, one of the and
did seem very low,very fast and very loud.as they came ovet
three fast jets flown by the Royal Air Force. house roof to see if the tiles were still on! I certainly
In one way or another, my constituents have long been But the second formation took me
:’. .

associated with aviation. Tornado aircraft parts are then I was Dear the Station completely
and directly underbythesurprise. It
manufactured in Pendle, and Rolls-Royce makes The first I mew was whenHotel the lead jet Soared above fIiI:bt
aeroplane’engines in Bamoldswick in my constituency. noise. was ilKmfiblc. It felt like being inside an explosion,aDd
Aviation is part and parcel of the region, but so too, volley of caDDon fire exploding right above my head.
unfortunately, is low flying. I pay tribute to the courage Before I mew it, I was virtually crouching on the
me.
ground,having
.
like

and skill of our pilots. So far as I have any criticism, it is instinctively ducked la\\’, and my hean was pounding. dog was
..... not primarily directed at them. irantically pulling at th: lead, obviously very scared. I My watched
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remaining
Let me make my posicion clear at the outset Low flying noise. jets fly ave:, still ducking instinctively each tim: at

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should not be allowed over built-up_areas. I do not include I woul ’t like to sa~’ how low they were, but I have
here tiny hamlets. Low flying er towns and other th:m that low before and,having
populated areas should generally be prohibited. The to pull up to clear Earb~’ moor.
never mQW’ll
passed over the town, they seemccl

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Minister of State for the Anned Forces told me, last
Were generally those with 10,000 or more inhabitants, and
that all other populated areas were to be avoided by
With hin ght it was quite exciting. But in all
month I think, that towns listed for low level avoidance b=n elderl)’, of a nervous disposition or with
not be here now to writ: this."
A thousand questions spring to mind after
a weak
honesty, if I’d
hean I might

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j military aircraft wherever possible. account ’What about safety? Do We need lowreading that
That is not g a’e ugh. In my constituency,-thnwo what is its purpose in me post-cold war world? flying, and
business of low flying is phenomenally expensive. It cost The whole
towns most affected are Bamoldswick, which has a
,’f r
population ofjust over 10,000, and Earby, which is half ::177,000 for those eight Tornados to come here from
H that size. My constituents in Barby probably see one or their base in Germany. The local paper cmied the
two aircraft a week flying overhead. Other villages such h:adline:
.:t
as Foulridge, just outside CoIne, are also affected from "::117~for night out in West Craven".
time to time, but the incident that overshadowed all others and described that sum as "staggering".

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happened on 30 January this year, when eight Tornadoes I hope that the Minister dOes not bridle too much if I
from RAP Bruggen in Germany flew very low over mention that, while that overflight took
Bamoldswick and Earby. was raging on the ground about cuts toplace, a debate
I, .
or,
That incident was widely reported in the local press. budget and how they will affect West Craventhe education
One of my constituents, Mr. Paul Howarth, of Alma in Bamoldswick. That ::117,000
would be
high school
an absolute
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.j avenue, Foulridge wrote to the Barnoldswick and Earb)’ godsend to that school. People
Tzmes to say:
RAF Tornados flew over during recent low flying night exercises.
Mr. Pendle’s Diary"-
make such connections.
No one would want the country to be left without air
"Living in FouJridge, I was one of the residents whose houses the defences,
If.
but is all low flying necessary? it is absolutely
necessary, why are people not warned beforehand? The
,
;: 1:.,’I~r an editorial or comment column in the local newspaper- provide Minister has told
prior
me. that it would be impracticable to
"suggests that this must have been a tc:nifying experience for me notice of all low-level,sorties to Members
I
.4f
and that I have a right to know who chose the route for the planes
of Parliament, but surely a flight of eight Tornados is
I, :1 worthy of a brief note to me.
to fly on. On these two points I must disagree with Mr. Pendle. No.
;:1’, I did not find it a terrifying experience-not in ’the least-and My constituents also want to know why we do not use

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secondly, I do not accept that I have a right to know who planned other, less densely populated countries for low
tit: route. it is needed. Why do we not make more use of Goose flying, if
bay
1 I presume the RAF,possibly in conjunction with NATO,planned in Labrador, or of areas in cenrraJ and
the route and here I do agree with Mr. Pendle that flying Over the eastern
where countries are crying out for hard currency, instead
outskirts of built up areas is an es~ential pan of training for the of inflicting
Europe
:H,
,,:,1.’,’, defence of tit: United Kingdom." . this scourge on heavily populated
as Pendle and the north of England generally? areas
such
, ,
Mr. Howarth then went on to criticise me on other matters I have had me benefit of reading the seventh report by
/"’d in trenchant terms.
..’:-~
,! . the Select Committee on Defence, which was published
’q
l~. Not everyone, unfortunately, is made of such stern stuff in July last
as Mr. Howarth. I have passed the names of mose affected do not have year,
by the low flying on 30 January to Lord Henley, the
time
and the Government’s response to I
to deal with all the issues raised in the
it.
Under-Secretary of’State for Defence. Those people will report,
, but I want to touch on a few. I mencioned
~’" wanted low flying to be banned for safety reasons.that I
be interviewed in due course by RAP police. ’!bey will not want to be alarmist, but I must I do
speak. for example, to Mrs. Whteley of Albion street, the Station hotel, where Duncan
Barby and to her son, Paul, who edits the local Smith
experience, is only 300 or 400 yards fromhis
tell the Minister that
had frightening
"The Town Crier". That paper was inundated withpaper, calIs primary schooL That is the blink of an eyeIidBarby county
from local people. The RAP police will also want to of a fast jet which is streaking across the for the pilot
sky.
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:&:I, I was reminded of th ttagicincidcnt inSeptcmbcr last notc-on April,
Friday 21road at 8DO
Pettbsbire.wh~_
the year when two RAF airmen died tb.Tornado up Mancbestet
11..was the .fifth diAppearing over the borizoJL"W
a’
em crashed into a biDsidc ill
Tomado crash in 1994. A repo in TIlt-Herald on the Our planes fly at lower II .
he foUowing day. 2 September. quoted a Lochcamhead NATO
schoolteacher who said that low-flying aircraft often results? countries. Does that
!-faJco~’ ~some Defence:Jt’;r..::.’-~"
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jtbe
the
leD I
they
passed over her school. She said:

That incident prompted my hon. Friend the Member for their flight safcry
Informanon Service
"’IbiS plane crash was within half a scnd (travelling time) of he told the Select CODlDUttee oncoDS1l~’points when
Ibis playground with 16 chdren in it"
"It has been argued that the more
low~record. ~~ w::::.=
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On that basis, ODe azn:mr fly.tbe better
.
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was
j the
CaIrick, Cumnock and Doon VaHey (Mr.Foulkes) to call to have a
of the crash became clear. He
aIannist. either-that said-he was not being forward
it was only a matter of time before
there was a "Lockerbie-style" incident involving the
low-flying jets crashing into populated areas.
aircraft

I have read about the ALFENS project, the new that of their US Air Force equivalents."
no cation procedure which is supposed to improve Mr.
~
accident rate. for its fast
for a suspension of all military low flying until the cause other NATO.III’.f~ If this was the jets tbeitlt could be
s~ce ~urccs pay~ ~1~0<tiD&
as a justification for the expense 0(
it would have a in the additi
and am:rew trained at peatof~’Howevcr.
reverse 15 QUc. ConsistcDdy throughout the
thc RAF’s combat fast jets have had an er!i 1980& a i l992.

~paven went on to
.
loa me twice
"
put
effort.
eZPeiisive combat

: the safety. From my reading of the Defence Committee predilection for vet)’ low flying talk about the RAFs
report, it is clear that it is scandalous ~1be project is the Gulf war. He said:
and of the experience of

:- ’OWD
:med

ligbt
I’d" .
running years late. I hope that the Minister can ten me "One lcsson lcamcd from the GuJf War’
whether the project is likely to come on stream this year hitherto cxlusive concentration
as promised.
Th~ . .
Minister also told me .m answer.to a parliamentary
.

questIon last month that 27 Tornado aircraft had crashed Mr


.
insufficicmly flexible.. The rapid switch
from low Icvel to the medium
some extent infO post-Gulf level
O.n

War training.""
_.
IS
a0("9~"~O
was

Wai
If~J;-~
Ib~Ubc.W
"’lJaaack was

_y~-:’\~~T.
. .~ ~ g
Ie..::t~-~.t_.;..;...:.
over
;. _.
to
s

while on exercise over United


idea that we might
.
. . .
.!mgdom
wimesS:~8D.
land and sea. The
aircraft crashino. e. in
populated area IS not fanciful. I was told that 17 aircraft we have effect,
.a_~~~h
lVU".
. S paven als’d
In
0 5al that mediUJJ1-
re~ven now-as
m~ a secolldai 9P!iPD.)Y
that means that, for the’
~"’yerythe
.iI".(.:;. ;:. . . . . . .&’:’:~. .
had crashed on land-~rcifuDy. none into a built-up t 0 suffi’
er ed ve:y I ow..;’:’:J=~~ml:~
M~:~.~ck,
area. Tragically. 17 RAP personnel and two civilians were When
J in the crashes. A further 15 Tornado aircraft have Cumnock and Doon Valley commented 1D
been lost overseas; six were lost in combat over the Gulf, said the Minister of Defence
my hon. Friend the
~at ~f.
had}iQ.~:i’j,rt~miSe
low~!e\’
he

~
another six as a result of air crew error and three others made m 1991 to cut the number of

~g
as a result of mechanical or similar failure.
.
Lea asI.de the h ~an
crashes close to!l billion. The LIbrary
cost, ~e
1994 pnces. the cost of a Tornado aIrcraft IS an c mment on that?
me te~s ~at,
total cost 0 f all the
at
30 per cent He said then that the real fall~w ’nearer.by
3 pet cent, mostlv due to the reduced number of flights
bv the United States Air Force. Will the Minister
flights
to

as.tonishing ~vity
!28 million, so the crashes in the United
~o Is not increased

~
being inflicted OD us in Britain
Kingdom since 1981 have cost !644 million and those because of the decISIon by the Gennans to ban low-level
. ~onoverseas have cost !345 million. It seems me as a flights over Germany. for environmental and other
"’~~des
;""’’’~4;I
1-.ow
that it is self-evident that flying at very low reasons?
will increase the risk of something going wrong. Tornados
Ro~
w~ch
Air Force planes. such as the eight
came from RAP Bruggen, spend useless
’~""-" A.II __1 .. hours travelling . so that they may fly at low level
~"f&;.!:~iIIowed
: "’!D",!he that the nU1WiU mmunum
ft. it.
h eI.ght lor I ow fl.
United Kingdom is 250 Operational low flvmg 40’
: the:::: orth
the non fE gl d,
an befi fl’
for 30

~ ,~~f
ing ore ymg b ack
"~.~ e.

~
down to 100 Planes are literally skimming

~
. the . .
. the treetops in three tactical training areas’ in the
.. of Scotland, just north of the Great Glen,’ in the
I would like
made earlier
... and in central Wales. It is not surprising that can take place if It IS deemed to be af?o~ ~~,~y.~~.
~~~
Minister to address the pomt
.alternative areas in which low fl!g
that I

~~
~f!..~~tZS I
complaints are generated
:’!iltitudes.
.:
,~ear. . ..;;’:’
when
.f
planes travel at !lot the only person" who
Minister but many hundreds of my co~~~bo .ft1e
are

~
.
<"
..... regular] inconvenienc frigIiteJ j;
" there were 5.778 complaints. which had.men low-fl,fng
jets screechig-oVer ’th ":ar iii y
ic%!~;-;"’"-.,
.n.:~:!.,"’::~"-=
.. .,’ 38 the year before. I am absolutely convmccd
live.
ts.
figures do not convey the real number of
. People ’Wgen~y do not know. who
.. to. other than thell’ Member of Parliament, if pm 2..S4 _ .’.’;:~:’:’’1i:~~d ai,titi
’;’. ’1i~>1OT~:.~~.. c~
:.: ’~’~’rJ ’.:"
~.. . In;:: .".& {P,{.;tl!’ l
..& ~aIplane
_h~.They streaking overhead and disappearing The MiDister or S
tend to just shrug their shoulders Nicholas Soames):
for the ’Amied..Forces (Mr.
.

lam,.. ~futfor,_thei.~ty
.
PJI

~’!Ith
""~~- Fon:epoint,
.Ulghester
.’

that I was
life. Most people have not even heard of reply to this
police.
the
’only a few.days ago I was
another constituent ofmille.
.’.:’

run Skinner. who


road,
Bamoldswick. I mentioned to
and be told me.raising this important issue in
Adjournment debate; .iiJJJ1)’.to.’dea} with
a number of the points made bY.,the.’J1O MC for
Pendle (Mr.Prentice) .tbe

time that he bas left me.


I wiU.explain why low flying remains essential, wbere
the activity is carried out, and bow it is controlled and
monitored. Whe the prospects of a major onflict in
~
..to

~ -I
<,. ;
’.. 1IJJ
completely
CJo hope that the Minister wiD unprompted, that
want to take
Europe may have receded with the nd of the cold war.
instability and unpredictability have iIIcmased. Events
1163 lPw-Jlyin,M ry Aircraft 28 APRIL 1995 lPw-Jlyin,KdittI,.,A;rcr
[Mr.lrlCholas SO]
around the world have demonsttated
requimmeDt fQf weD-trained, weD-equipped armed forces
that wiD be able to defend
whc:revc:r the need
remains a vital
arises.
element
-in
a continuing
our interests whenever and
Clearly, the.ability to fly low
meeting requiment, and
that
~ ~ ~~o~
SlriDJCDt flyiDg regulatioas. Their
IDOJIiton:d,
to
to easure r the standards of

of the best fast


We take seriously
capabilities. are keptainnaaship,
world.
jet pilots in the
to
level.1be brave.skiIJed 8Dd dedicated people. sOmethe
.
so
hiPest
1164

peri’0I1DaDcc is closely

all complaints about low flyiug; aDd


. i..

an .unportant reason for low flyma ’.tram .... those that suggest a breach ofregulations are
Many Wberev=-
systems.
nations possess modern,
a

capable air defence out


.

our armed forces are likely to conduct


by the Royal Air Force police. The RAP police
r:guIar. covett monitoring operations, SOI11etimes a1so~~
invesl

flying operations, we must and wiD be prepared for them assisted by a Skyguard radar system,
to be. opposed by air defences supported by a _.I
accurately the altitude aad ..t""""" of an which measures
aircraft.
.i
I
I
COIDpl’Chensive network of surveillance radars and
command and control systems. As such systems rely thatI am
to minitJIi!le exposur: to those defences.
those
ploased to be able to assure the hon. Gentleman
heavily OD radar iDfonnation. low flying is a vital tactic there is checb have consistently shown that, rightly.
a healthy respect for the regulations.
to say that breaches never occur, but such cases
Attacking aircraft can use natural land features to mask much the exception; flouting of
That is not
are very
!’-
f approach.
their .
but to press home their attack and to be and action is taken the rules is not tolerated,
successful. they must fly at high speedsed at hei~ts of
when breaches are substantiated.
100 ft and below. Such skiJls cannot be Jearned qwckIy.
r:~ons an~ o~g
I emphasise that flight safety is at the heart ofour flym’ a

"
" .’
Neither can they be maintained without r:gu1ar, rigorous
and realistic training. It is essential that air crews achieve accIdents are

never---aa
W. e must
. never--sen....
d .will
m~gatcd
and maintain a high standard of proficiency in peacetime. learned arc put mto effect thoroughly,
.
and ~y
procedures. AIl military aircraft(>
as a matter of pnonty. We
d ..;.. crews I’nto ensure that our findings arc publicised widely, not omy
.lessons

;i acnon m h om.1e operatIng


training them tq thc;JeSf1iVels. Thchci .
.ntsWI.thout first among miJj.tary
eDVll"Onme. .

Gent1c~~-.an su~~~’1eso
d
.

.
u...out
. allies b ut thro..J. the .aVla.tIOn
f all those boards 0 f.mqwnes .
’.
world ,
!/ wiD undcrsumd that we would Dever wish to put the Jives m the LIbrary of the House. are placed
I of air crew at risk ino’that way. Regular low flying remains
Although ther: has been a dOWllward

. II’0
1: essential to meet our defence commitments.
disturbance to those on the ground. Maximum use is made
overall RAP accident rate l’CC*ltly, we are trend
In an ideal world, we would train without causing any complacent. A range of
safety measures. is
in the
certainly not
being
of S ulators, but even the most advanced technology progressively introduced to improve dcconfliction and
:
f,
i ~;: ::
cannot be a substitute for low flying. Unfortunat:ly, ther: conspicuity in the
are no uninhabited . areas in the United Kingdom large Depanmcnt has r:gu1ar discussions with the Civil
low=- air space. In addition. my
:
. .,. enough to accommodate our training needs, so we aim at Aviation Authority and other civil agencies about a wide
spreading the activity across the Uni~
widely as possible, to reduce the burden m anyone area.
Kingdom as entir:Iy range of safety issues. Of course, no flying activity is
pcrspcctive.
risk-1i’cc, but the risks need to be kept. in
’J Ccrtainareas are excluded, such as civil aerodromes,
major industrial hazards and large centres of population-
generaIJy, towns with 10,000 or mar: inhabitants, such as the hon. Memh=-~ho ~ck,
As the hon. Gentleman .JDentIoned,
for
Bamoldswick. In ’addition. air crews do their best to avoid (Mr. Foulkes), IS peri1aps the last master of
. ...
taking his line from
Cumnock and Doon VaDey
all populated . areas, whether or DOt they are listed for understatement m the House of COlD1I1ons, the !he
flymg

~~
avoidance. safety record of the Tornado compares eXtremely
,j: . ..’
It IS not always possIble to avoId the ..
.s
J~}~~ and communities, and people Jiving O.nouiskirts 0 f towns favodly . with all other fast jet types. . .The Dumber of
i
.~. the outskirts of 1 0::c:...........f the Tornad entcr:d ServIce m 1981’IS W cD

~ ~y
,::;,
I.!t
major towns, as well as in less populated areas, will see WI
and hear aircraft from time to time. .To "’^!"^’.....
e attrtbon rate.
disturbance. we limit the amount I shaU now discuss the incident on 30 January 1995.
oflow-flymg tramJng to As the hon.
’,.> . /I.f
3~ flym~ Sin~
essen~.
that which is strictIy 1.988. we have Royal Air Force Gentleman is aware, investigations by the
f. reduced the volume of low by Jet mar: established police continue. Those have so far
, .

,
.,
f
I

.
.
than per
reducton.
~
cent.. and are CODlDUtted to mamtammg that
Night training is fundamental, but we keep it to the foDowed
minimum for crew to acquir: and maintain the
required skiDs. We also aim to complete training as early them isoverflew
as possible. and befor: 11 pm whenever possible. Low said.
dctaiIs

by the

flying by fast jets is rarely permitted after that time. The speak to witncsscs of the incident.
of the sortie 8Dd of its planned rome
through the Bamoldswick and Earby district.
however. yet been possible to determine the precise
aircraft,
It has not,
and cspecially whether any.of
the centI: of Barnoldswick, which, as I
listed for avoidance. It is ther:fore.necessary
route

to
,

’f
I
longer hours of darkness in. the winter
sorties to be flown earlier in the evening. asmonths allow I.~bim-the
proVldins-- grateful to the hon. Gentleman for. fina11y

~
was the case three attempts on our part to obtain those
with the sortie that involved the flying’in the vicinity of from
..Bamoldswick and Euby on 30 January, to which the hon. names and addresses of those of his
Gentleman refc:md. c:onstitucnts who are willing to be interviewed by the RAP

~~.~f~_B’
police.
i :
a JDaUcr in which he has proved to be
. We
recopise that the general pUblic have a right to be Those interviews wiD now be conducted. as soon diI.
resp
that~)ow flying, is conducted safely and
ibJ~Ir~~..cbai ~to aad.~.

expect the investigation to be completed


as

.. . ....1
Qll5.pAOIIe
our: pilots are SiIbj Sh
.
-11.. . 1165

~~J~~
~
Low-JIyinf M"1A
~ ~1~,.~ -~~
.,
-.".

,_,,’;,’..’.,

’,I!- ;-y’
~. ..-~~.:~ ; - :
’~’(’"
,

’ ; .
’. . .

1 2;,. :’;.
.
...... :\I
.

-
-.

1166
- -,

~ ~~’
’" .--;

~ ~.
oseJy Having n:ad the c:ovez:age in the local newspaper,I is divided into a 111IIDbetJ.-of I ght-flying
in d~
read gross exaggerations. the hoo. Gent1eman~th ’!be COUDDy
ip, so
ipest
-some
the
admitted
g ~gbt,
to him m a
that.’
!fW
laaiDg arucle m the ..,~ __" _ at any squadron
"
only
.0.
time. or ariit aces. to
.
one
for eDSUnDg safe separatoa
.
.

dIeD
its own
newspaper.
;wand Mr. Prentice: Will the Minister give way?
~,
’.fJ That is often achieved by aD the
the same route, with time
j
occasioa. between them,
lIPS’
iDvolved
pted
cmy
times
sores
’~.Soames: No; I wiD not.
My noble friend the Under-Secretary of State for
Defence will then write to the hon. Gentleman setg out
the c:onclusions that have been drawn.
of~~ift:=n;;~:e:aj~~:sto==d::
which is what

gro~, ~-~ute
aircraft in each
and a
two groups. I apprectate that tJymg 1D streamgap between the
in way,
was done on this

The sortie concerned was’a routine training sortie wbich would not generally be done in daylight, that increases
:man eight Tornado GRI aircraft of No. 9 squadron, based byat the disturbance experienced by those who live close
route, but I hope that the Gentleman will understand
to the
hon.
jIltly, Royal Air Force Bmggen. It was intended to simulate a
s not typical attack mission involving the penettation of a the overriding safety considerations which
necessary. Air crew do, of course, seek to vary as far as
that .make
-ated,
very highly hostile air space at low level, under cover
darkness-nota mission that would be lightly tJown.
After carrying out a simulated low-level attack on a andI hope
possible the routes chosen from day to day.
that what I have said has shown in planning that,
we~_ cmying out this essential training, due regard
transiting at to safety and to minimising disturbance to the isgeneral given
-.ying
craft
;sons
target in the lake district, the aircraft
low level to cazry out a further attack on th mnge at RAP public. Unfortunately, it is not
WaintJeet when they flew through the hon. Gentleman’s disturbance completely, and I
possible to avoid
apologise to the hon.
We constituency. The aircraft were authorised to tJy down to Gentleman’s constiments who were
500 it minimum separation distance; that is to say, they training 30 affected
’ ’ by our
only January, although I think that the hon.
orId, were required to maintain a distance of at least
from all objects, including the ground. They were making
.500
it Gentleman exaggerates the concern.
aced use of terrain-following radar>;.::.w’hich maintains a fixed ItsI believe that we have the best air force in the world.
deservedly high reputation owes much to the
separation from the,grountr’ dallows the aircraft to be "-::’;’:diSiplinedandthorough
the flown safely at low level at night. training and professionalism of .

its air crews. I note with pride that, already this year,

worl~depl~~ ~.
,
not The planned route ofthe aircraft involved a turn fromf\\ every type offr,ont-line aircraft in the Royal Air Force has

:ivil
.vide
"ytinis
cing
and
my
a south-easterly to a southerly heading slightly to the east’ been
ofBamoldswick; the aircraft should therefore have passed
not yet been determined whether any of the aircraft carry ~~
is deployed on
Their ability to contribute
between~amoldswick and Earby. As I have said, it has securIty OWes a great deal to the traming which our
out at home. We are most
deviated from that route. Because the sortie was being millions ofpeople who have supponed us m that trammg
flown at night it was arranged in accordance with the rules for more than 75 years.
of the United Kingdom night low-flying system. Those
m specifically designed to minimise the risk of mid-air
Question put and agreed to.
around the
to
aIr
s~
operatio~
~f.fecti~ely
~ful tc?
o~~e
Adjourned accordingly at six minutes past Three
rom
collisions between aircraft. o’ clock.
illey
the
,ring
lely
’of
vell

95.
the .i-,--.~:.
far .:
ute .
lOt, ,
ute
of.
1..

.

’:~;;.:~~:~;i:’~r~1.~~::-’.:=’-
s
to ..~~~.S\~~~;-:
. ."..
..~-

:f..-.
~..;_~~t\~. .

..-,
- NUMBERS OF UNEXPLAINED AERIAL SIGHTINGS REPORTED

1959
1960
TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

-
-
22
31
1976
1977 -
- 200

435
1961 - 71 1978 - 750
1962 - 46 1979 - 550
1963 - 51 1980 - 350
1964 - 74 1981 - 600
1965 - 56 1982 - 250
1966 - 95 1983 - 390
1967 - 362 1984 - 214
1968 - 280 1985 - 177
1969 - 228 1986 - 120
1970 - 181 1987 - 150
1971 - 379 1988 -39T-’
1972 - 201 1989 - 258
1973 - 233 1990 - 209
1974 - 177 1991 - 117
1975 - 208 1992 - 147
1993 - 258
1994 - 250
Figures from before 1959 are not available.
~..~
REPORT OF AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT

A. Date, Time &


Duration of sighting
26 AUG 95
ANNEX A TO
SOP 502
:’ ~~:~~,
’.
r;;,~;~
.~~~-
,~iX!~
_...-0" ~
...

I-{;
1;
#
.J!
"~-:~i"~...",""A~~’~iJ..~k~~"-..., .:;

B. Description of Object
(No of objects, size,
8all shaped object with
Very brightly lit
tail.
shape colour, brightness)

c. Location, indoor/outdoor, Indoors


stationary, moving

D. How Observed (naked eye, Naked Eye


binoculars, other optical
device, still or movie)

E. Direction in which object East to West


first seen (a landmark may
be more useful than a badly
estimated bearing)

F. Angle of sight (Estimated NK


heights are unreliable)

G. Distance (By reference to a .


Low and visible
known landmark) - . ..

H. Movements (Changes in E,F & H Straight line and constant speed


may be of more use than
estimates of course and speed)

J Met Conditions during observations Clear


(Moving clouds, haze, mist etc )

K. Nearby Objects (Telephone lines,


high voltage lines, reservoir, lake None Given
or dam, swamp or marsh, river,
high buildings, tal! chimneys,
steeples, spires, TV or radio masts,
airfields, generating plant,
factories, pits or other sites with
floodlights or night lighting)

L. To whom reported (Police,


military, press etc)
Air Force Ops
-
.... ,a

NUMBERS OF UNEXPLAINED AERIAL SIGHTINGS REPORTED

1959
TO THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

1960 -
- 22
31
1976
1977
-
-
200
435
1961 - 71 1978 - 750
1962 - 46 1979 - 550
1963 - 51 1980 - 350
1964 - 74 1981 - 600
1965 - 56 1982 - 250
1966 - 95 1983 390
1967 - 362 1984 - 214
1968 - 280 1985 - 177
1969 - 228 1986 - 120
1970 - 181 1987 - 150
1971 - 379 1988 - 397
1972 - 201 1989 - 258
1973 - 233 1990 - 209
1974 - 177 1991 - 117
1975 - 208 1992 - 147
1993 - 258
1994 - 250
Figures from before 1959 are not available.
CD "
-\--\E
N E\\J<o(L~ \J \<, Nrrr,~v
\J .f=.o ., bE :’

The Cowflop Quarterly


REPORTING ON UFOlOGICAl FRAUDS AND FANTASIES
Vol. 1, No.1 Friday, May 5, 1995 Free
By Robert G. Todd EXPLANATION:
What follows are those portions of my letter to the editor of the International UFO Reporter (lUR)which, for one reason or an-
other, the editor did not consider worthy of pub/ication in that august journal. Without debating the merits of Jerome Clark’s de-
cision, I believe it only fair to offer the following so that the full story is known, and the reader can decide for himself.
Perhaps the reason for the misrepresentations, mischaracterizations, and outright lies foisted on the public by certain Roswell
"investigators" has finally been revealed in Randle’s resporse to my letter, published in
ness to circulate investigative
IUR. Randle "explained" his unwilling-
materials to other researchers because his interest was in protecting the copyright of those materi-
"
als. With that "explanation, Randle revealed that the commercial aspects of Roswell are far more important to CUFOS’ "inves-
tigators. than the search for the truth. The commercialization of Roswell also helps explain why certain facts have been with-
held. No market exists fpr explained mysteries. There are no book deals, no movie deals, not even for fictionalized accounts of
mysteries that never were. The Roswell incident started because of human error, but it survives because of human greed.

ROSWELL: THE RUSE TII.!T LAID THE GOLDEN EGG


This is in reference to the article, "The Air Force report on
dated July 8, 1947, quoted Brigadier General Donald Yates.
chief of the Air Weather Service, as saying that only a very
few of the targets "are used daily, at pOints where some spe-
Roswell: An absence of evidence," by Mark Rodeghier and cific project requires highly accurate wind information from
Mark Chesney, which appeared in the September/October extreme altitudes." My research into the subject more than
1994 edition of IUR. forty years after the fact confirmed General Yates’ statements
The authors accept what CUFOS’ Roswell "investigators" to the press. These targets were not in widespread use at the
(Schmitt and Randle) refer to as the "conventonal wisdom." time of the Roswell incident, and it is doubtful that an,of the
Of the many flaws in the "conventional wisdom," perhaps none Roswell witnesses, including Major Marcel and W.W. Brazel,
is more important to the case than the false premise upon had ever seen one before. Brazel may have found weather
which the entire Roswell myth is based, and on which the myth balloons on the ranch on two previous occasions, but neither of
continues to flourish. Rodeghier and Chesney make use of these balloons carried the unusual radar targets. As a result,
this false premise as the foundation for some of their criti- Brazel’s statement that what he found this time in no way re-
cisms of the Air Force report. sembled a weather balloon is perfectly consistent with the Air
The authors quote from the July 9, 1947, edition of the Force’s statement. A radar target is not a weather baltoon, a
Roswell Daily Record, which described the debris found by distinction the crashed-saucer promoters consistently fail to
W.W. Brazel, based on statements Brazel made to the paper’s make.
reporters during an interview the previous day. According to Relying on allegations made by certain Roswell witnesses,
the paper, Brazel "had previously found two weather bailoons the crashed-saucer promoters conclude that Air Force person-
on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any nel at Fort Worth concealed the "real" Roswell debris and sub-
way resemble either of these." Rodeghier and Chesney ob-
serve that, "This statement has never been able to square with
stituted a beat-up radar target in its stead. But since these
targets were not used for routine meteorological observations,
the original Air Force explanation that a weather balloon was and were not supplied to the weather squadrons on a routine
the source of the Roswell debris. It also remains difficult to basis, where did the Fort Worth personnel find one to substi-
reconcile with the new balloon explanation, because Flight 4 tute for the wreckage from the alien spaceship, which, coinci-
did not consist of any unusual balloon material. . . ." dentally, bore a remarkable resemblance to the radar targets?
The crashed-saucer promoters have not been able to rec- The targets were not available either at Fort Worth Army Air
oncile Brazel’s statement with the Air Force statements be- Field or Roswell Army Air Field. New York University (NYU)
cause the investigators reporting on Roswell either did not Balloon Group personnel, operating out of Alamogordo Army
know, or deliberately did not report, the fact that radar tar- Air Field, were using these targets, but the personnel at Fort
gets, such as the one(s) recovered in the Roswell incident, Worth had no knowledge of their work. So where did they dig
were not in widespread use at the time of the Roswell inci- up some of the targets? The obvious answer is that they
dent, and with only a few exceptions, were lfirtlJally unknown didn’t. The debris depicted in ths Rosweli photographs is Hi;:’
to Air Force personnel, other than those personnel engaged in mal debris W.W. Brazel recovered, and the very same debris
weather or research and development activities. These par- Major Marcel brought to Roswell Army Air Field, and subse-
ticular targets, parts of one or more of which appear in the quently flew to Fort Worth
Roswell photographs, were designed for use with a specific But the Roswell photographs reveal other evidence. Pro-
radar, the SCR-584, which was a gun-laying radar for anti- fessor Charles B. Moore, who headed the NYU balloon team
aircraft artillery. The artillery men operating the guns needed in New Mexico in June-July 1947, examined the photographs
accurate wind information to adjust the weapons to compen- and reached several relevant conclusions. First, he recognized
sate for winds aloft. This was the primary use of these radar the balloon material as having come from sounding balloons.
targets. By 1947, these targets were not used for routine me- The radar targets were "Pilot Balloon Targets" and one might
teorological observations. Instead, the weather services relied reasonably expect them to be flown on pilot balloons. Flying
on two other methods for determining winds aloft, the "piba!" them on clusters of sounding balloons was unorthodox, and as
(Pilot Balloon) method, which required visually tracking a pilot far as Professor Moore was aware, only his baltoon group was
balloon, and the Radio Direction Finding (RDF)method, which making these unorthodox flights in New Mexico at the time.
used a small radio transmitter to track the progress of the bal- In addition, whereas the pilot balloons generally in use at
loons. that time were all pigmented to aid visual tracking, the sound-
This information was furnished to the press back in July of ing balloons were unpigmented to eliminate as many impuri-
1947, in response to queries made in connection with the ties from the neoprene as possible, in order to attain the high-
Roswell incident. Although not widely reported by the est altitudes possible. The unpigmented sounding balloons de-
crashed-saucer promoters, an Associated Press (AP) wire, teriorated after exposure to sunlight, and discolored in the

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process, while the pilot balloons tended to retain their pig- targets on between 50 and 100 balloon flights made between
color~ even after exposure to the sun. But, contrary
rroneous information contained in the statement the
June 1947 and 1952. Since multiple targets were used. we
could be talking about several hundred targets with the pecu-
to
Air e asked Professor Moore to sign, the balloon material liar tape, which caught Professor Moore’s attention upon his
did lH2t deteriorate to the point where it would "almost look every use of the targets. Yet, in their attempt to discredit the
like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after exposure to the Mogul explanation, Rodeghier and Chesney reject as many as
sun for only a few days [emphasis added]." In fact, it took a several hundred firsthand observations of the tape with the
few months for the balloon material to deteriorate to the point pinkish-purplish symbols in favor of the one-time observations
where it resembled charred paper. I t became brittle and of the "alien writing."
would flake easily, and could easily be mistaken for something It should be noted that personnel who worked with the
that had been in a fire, although it would not be precise to call radar targets, but who had no connection with Project Mogul,
it ash. Professor Moore furnished me with material from a
sounding balloon he exposed to New Mexico sunlight for
months which displayed these characteristics.
Joor.. also recall the peculiar tape with the pinkish-purplish symbols.
The photographs are the best, most reliable evidence for
what W.W. Brazel found on the Foster Ranch, and the news-
After examining the Roswell photographs, Professor Moore paper accounts furnish the best, most reliable account of the
concluded that the depth of darkening of the balloon material sequence of events that occurred back in July of 1947. The
is consistent with an early June launch. This, in turn, is con- crashed-saucer promoters tend to dismiss the newspaper ac-
sistent with the newspaper accounts, apparently based on Ma- counts because they dispute the "alien spaceship" explanation.
jor Marcel’s statements to the press at the time, that Brazel What the public has not been told is that much of the informa-
had discovered the debris on June 14th. tion in those newspaper stories was furnished by Major Marcel
There is no disputing the fact that the balloon material himself. Instead, the crashed-saucer promoters actively pro-
shown in the Roswell photographs had been exposed to sun- mote the idea that General Ramey told Marcel to keep his
light for several weeks. prdinary sounding balloons are con- mouth shut and not talk to the press. This may indeed be
sidered expendable equipment. Nobody goes searching for true, but if it is, then Marcel spoke to the press in Roswell,
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them once they’re launched. The balloons are not recovered
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posed to sunlight, they start to deteriorate. Nobody saves
p-x- before the official cover-up was instituted.
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IIccnllnt~, Marce! ~I;);d Rra!91
had found the debris three weeks previously and didn’t think
used balloon material. So, how did the personnel at Fort anything about it until he went into Corona on Saturday night,
Worth know of Professor Moore’s unorthodox balloon flights. July 5, where he first heard mention of the "silver’ flying
and where did they find sounding balloon material that had disks." He probably also heard about the $3000 reward being
been exposed to the sun for several weeks, so that it could be offered for a genuine flying saucer. We reasonably can as-
substituted for the "real" Roswell debris? Again, the answer is sume Brazel, having recently found the silvery debris on the
simple. No substitution was made. The Roswell photographs remote ranch, put two and two together and concluded that the
show the lJHIl Roswell debris, and the photographs show mate- debris he found must have come from one of the silvery discs.
rial from one or more radar targets, and material from one or Although he had found weather balloons on the ranch before.
more sounding balloons that had been exposed to sunlight for neither included the unusual radar targets, which in no way
several weeks. resemble a weather balloon. For Brazel, the flying disc expla-
Neither the radar targets nor used balloon material was nation won by default.
readily available to the personnel at Fort Worth Army Air We may reasonably suppose from these newspaper ac-
Field, certainly not on such short notice. So few Air Force counts that Brazel headed for Roswell and contacted the sher-
personnel were familiar with the appearance of radar targets iff, in the hope of claiming the $3000 reward. It seems rea-
that it is ridiculous to suggest that somebody actually recom- sonable that Brazel presented his story to the sheriff in a flying
mended substituting radar targets for the "real" Roswell de- disc context, and that the sheriff turned around and presented
bris. Even the Roswell witnesses who insist they handled the Brazel’s story to Roswell Army Air Field and Major Marcel in
real debris say the debris depicted in the photographs re- a flying disc context. Since Major Marcel had never seen a
sembles the debris they saw back in 1947, although they say it radar target before, and since the targets in no way resemble
is not the same, which isn’t terribly surprising after the pas- a weather balloon, he, too, was not able to identify the debris,
sage of nearly five decades. and, once again. the flying disc explanation won by default.
Furthermore, the Air Force did not lie when they stated The meaningless, pinkish-purplish symbols on the reinforcing
that what the rancher recovered was a weather balloon, Gen- tape only added to the mystery.
eral DuBose’s statements notwithstanding. To the extent that We may reasonably conclude that, upon his return to
the balloons were being used to carry scientific instruments Roswell Army Air Field, Marcel showed the debris to Colonel
being developed to detect compressional waves from Soviet Blanchard and his staff, none of whom had ever.seen a radar
atomic explosions, and the radar targets were being used to target before.
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track the position of the balloons neither piece of equipment The flying disc explanation won by default because nobody
being used for wea er purposes -- the statement that the de- who examined the debris in Roswell had ever seen one of the
bris was from a weather balloon was a little misleading as to unusual radar targets before. Because the debris had been
the purpuse o which it was b6ing put, but it was tile truth. locatee; 011 a :ernota stction of a remote ranch, the people ::0
Another flaw in Rodeghier and Chesney’s article is their volved reasonably concluded that the debris hadn’t walked
attempt to call into question the recollections of Project Mogul there on its own, and that, whatever it was, it had fallen from
personnel who recall the tape with the pinkish-purplish sym- the sky. Contributing to the erroneous identification were the
bols. This maneuver seems to be directed primarily at Profes- widespread radio and newspaper reports of flying saucer sight-
sor Moore, who drew the symbols at my request, and showed ings. If an air of hysteria did not exist, certainly an air of ex-
how the tape was applied to the targets. One of Professor citement and expectation did.
Moore’s drawings appears in the Air Force report. There is no mystery as to why the crashed-saucer promot-
Rodeghier and Chesney say, "Even though Project Mogul ers ignore Marcel’s earlier statements in favor of his state-
documentation exists, there is no paper or physical evidence to ments made thirty-plus years after the event occurred.
prove conclusively that the purplish-pink tape, for example, Certainly this is proof that "the best Roswell investigations,"
was used in constructing the balloon trains." The tape was nct as Rodeghier and Chesney put it, do not "use all the available
used to construct the balloon trains, as Rodeghier and evidence," as they claim.
Chesney put it. The tape was used by the manufacturer of the There are numerous other points for which the crashed-
radar targets as reinforcement on the targets that were flown saucer promoters pick and choose the evidence they want the
on the balloon trains. That aside, unlike the witnesses to the public, Mr. Schiff, and GAO to see. This selective use of in-
"alien writing," whose testimony Rodeghier and Chesney ea- formation has painted a picture of the Roswell incident that
gerly accept, even though the witnesses saw the writing on bears little resemblance to reality.
only one occasion, Professor Moore, for example, used the ******************************************

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BRIEF SUfiH’lARY OF SIGHTnIG AT LOW BRADF IELD VILLAGE, 29n 195.

TD’!:E AFFROXBtATELY 1215 am,

L.Five witness’ sighted ~


triangular DDJect bigger than a
comercial ai rl iner travelling north/south over ’i’:i ley.
Described as Hying flat side forward,And maKlng a low
hU1J11 ing noise, /ith a red light at each corner.

.::’;.Shortly a er an orange/amber ball of light >? l ,ETa’:’;::; the


area to the horizon,stopped and.
app ared to release a small
r ball of 1 ight which rapidly travelled in an up iard
direction. both objects then dissapeared,

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