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[ISCNI*Flash thanks Ed Komarek and Operation Right to Know for this story, which first appeared in the New York Daily News on August 24, 1995.]
President Clinton may have to hold still for a lecture on UFOs if he expects to squeeze campaign money out of Laurence Rockefeller.
The 85-year-old philanthropist was among the VIPs at Clinton's 49th birthday last weekend in Wyoming. It's safe to say that the venture capitalist has the President's ear-- at least while Clinton is vacationing on the Rockefeller spread.
Chances are the two men have, or will, talk about the environment since Laurence has been a conservation adviser to every Present since Eisenhower. It's also likely that Rockefeller will bring up the alien issue.
Immigrants from Mexico? No, from outer space. Rockefeller has been pressing the Clinton administration to open the government's UFO files.
Correspondence we've obtained shows that Rockefeller has told White House Science Adviser John Gibbons that the government must put an end to 40-plus years of denial on the subject of UFOs, particularly the rumored crash of a spacecraft in Roswell, NM in 1947.
A Rockefeller-funded study on UFO activity -- conducted recently with the help of three former astronauts -- should be presented to the White House this fall, according to Michael Luckman, of the New York Center for UFO Research.
Rockefeller is also said to have financed a group trying to contact extraterrestrials with lasers.
What makes Rockefeller so interested in ET? Some say the octogenarian hopes the aliens will share their secrets of longevity.
"I don't know about any anti-aging cure," says Rockefeller spokesperson Frasier Sietel. "But Laurence's interests are broad. He's a real eclectic fellow."
[ISCNI*Flash thanks James Sutton for sending this story, which was posted on the Associated Press newswire on September 11.]
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Talk about foreign aid! Lured by three self-styled mediums, about 1,500 people gathered at an airfield in northern Bulgaria on Monday [Sept 11], awaiting the arrival of eight space ships piloted by extraterrestrials, police Maj. Stoyan Marinov said.
Among other things, state TV reported, the mediums promised that the aliens would help this poor Balkan country pay its $12.9 billion foreign debt.
The crowd gathered in Shtraklevo, 200 miles northeast of the capital, Sofia, after three local women -- Radka Trifonova, Zdravka Krumova and Ekaterina Nikiforova -- declared that space ships from distant galaxies would land at 11 a.m.
The mediums, wearing identical dresses they had sewn for the occasion, waited along with the crowd.
Nothing came.
Bulgaria's BTA news agency said that 30 minutes after the scheduled arrival, the three told the crowd that warplanes flying in the region were scaring off the aliens.
After an hour had passed, they said the aliens weren't coming because President Zhelyu Zhelev had declined to meet with them.
Police had to usher the women away from the angry crowd, although Marinov said there was no violence.
Like elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc, despair and uncertainty over the future has made Bulgaria fertile territory for would-be seers and psychics. Self-proclaimed mediums who claim to communicate with extraterrestrials or to treat diseases are widely popular.
Artificial Intelligence researcher Hans Moravec has calculated that a desktop computer roughly packs the calculating punch of a snail, while a Cray 2, one of the fastest supercomputers ever built, barely matches the brainpower of a small rodent. Were it possible to build a computer of a capacity roughly equivalent to that of a human brain with current semiconductor technology, the computer would require 100 megawatts of power, enough to light a town.
From "Brainmakers," by David H. Freedman (Touchstone, 1994, p. 98)
ISCNI*Flash keeps hearing lots of rumors, tidbits of stories that might or might not amount to something eventually. Here are some of the latest tantalizing leads that we'll be trying to learn more about in the next few weeks.
BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES TESTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN UFOS
Well-informed sources tell ISCNI*Flash that both the Republican and Democratic National Committees are trying to assess whether UFOs, and government secrecy over UFOs in particular, might be a legitimate issue in the upcoming political season. Republican operatives have queried a number of former astronauts; and the Demos are thinking about putting one or more UFO-related questions on a national survey questionnaire they do in preparation for the next election. And both major parties also recognize that a third party bid is highly likely. The third party candidate might push the UFO issue, too -- it is known that Ross Perot made lots of back-channel UFO inquiries during his presidential bid in 1992. Could this be the beginning of something?
IMPLANTS REMOVED FROM CALIFORNIA ABDUCTEES?
ISCNI's own Media Watch editor Rebecca Schatte came up with this one. Quoting Rebecca: Look for a good story to come out in a California newspaper soon. It's the story about alleged alien implants, recently removed from two people in California. These implants, reported to be nearly identical and of metallic composition, were removed by surgeons on August 19, 1995. It is said by the surgeons that pathology tests indicate something never before seen in the medical profession. This story is developing, and ongoing testing of the implants is yielding new surprises at every step. The final analysis will be electron microscope imaging of the implants, but this has to be done last so as to avoid any damage that electron bombardment might cause. Currently an electrical engineer is testing the implants for any detectable emissions.
We here in the ISCNI Newsroom confess surprise and amazement at this story... You can bet we'll be following up!
IT'S A DUMMY (WE'VE GOT PICTURES)
A growing chorus of special effects experts and would-be experts is proclaiming the famous Santilli alien to be a fabrication, literally. Although the very famous Stan Winston, maker of movie aliens, declared on the recent FOX "Alien Autopsy" special that he and his crew didn't know how to make such a convincing body, replete with internal organs and oozing fluids, other F/X folks say Winston has it wrong. Now comes word from England that "Fortean Times" editor Bob Rickard has received several photos purporting to show the alien body in various stages of fabrication. Conflicting versions of this story have Rickard either "not impressed" or "quite impressed" by the photos. In any case, he's apparently trying to learn more and will report his findings in an upcoming issue of Fortean Times. ISCNI*Flash, of course, will try to learn more as well.
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[The following story appeared in the current (Sept/Oct 95) edition of UFO Magazine. ISCNI*Flash commends UFO Magazine editor Vicki Cooper Ecker and Research Director Don Ecker for consistently delivering a top quality magazine devoted to UFO issues. For more information on UFO Magazine, call (818) 951-1250.]
In a whirl of misunderstanding and conflicting agendas, the promising UFO coalition lavishly funded by Las Vegas businessman Bob Bigelow has come crashing to an end.
The "gathering" of top UFO groups, as Bigelow liked to call it, was launched last year with Bigelow Foundation money, but presumably without Bigelow control.
In their one-year agreement with him, board members from the Cneter for UFO Studies, Mutual UFO Network and Fund for UFO Research were given a free hadn to work on mutually agreed upon UFO projects.
The coalition immediately began to work on updating Richard Hall's book from the 1960s, "The UFO Evidence." The group also agreed to fund Jan Aldrich in his elaborate and detailed study of the 1947 UFO wave. Under the terms of the agreement, both of these projects will continue to receive funds, but any new funding has ended.
The group met every three months, and the last meeting in July, held in Las Vegas, also marked the end of the one-year agreement and time to renew. At that meeting, Bigelow informed Board members that he wanted a vote and veto power. When asked how he planned to apply the power to vote and veto, "he was vague about his answer," a source told UFO [Magazine]; but as the meeting progressed it became apparent he did not agree with the group's choice of projects.
Bigelow's purported focus on "borderline" topics such as crop circles and cattle mutilations -- which don't have any confirmative links to UFOs -- disturbed the group. "He tried to link all sorts of fringe and peripheral matters to what we feel is much more of a scientific problem," says Don Berliner, a representative from the Fund. "I was also disturbed by his need to control everything," Berliner adds. "He told us it would be our decision to control the money, but that changed."
When asked to comment, Hall said, "We regret we could not see eye-to-eye with the Bigelow Foundation on how to proceed with UFO research."
Representatives agree that the main positive result of the coalition was bringing together the three leading civilian American UFO research groups. A reorganized "CFM Coalition" continues, Hall says, and will seek alternative funding.
Our occasional columnist of the weird, Bufo Calvin, tells us that Gyorgy Keleti, the State Defense Minister of Hungary, was a UFO investigator and writer before being elected (or appointed -- Bufo's not sure) to his current job. Not a bad career move, Gyorgy!
[Whitley Strieber sent the following letter to ISCNI*Flash in order to clarify his relationship with, and impression of, Senate aide Richard D'Amato. Strieber's concern stemmed from an article which appeared in the ISCNI*Flash on August 21, which stated that UFO investigator and author Timothy Good had been introduced to D'Amato by Strieber.]
I have read the story presently being circulated that I gave the names of Jesse Marcel, Jr. and Timothy Good to Senate aide Richard D'Amato. As I have stated many times, I barely know this man. To my recollection, I haven't given him any names of anybody, except in a couple of cases where I called the person first and asked them if they wanted to talk to him, since he'd expressed an interest in Roswell to me.
This happened back in 1989 or 1990. Since then, I've had little contact with D'Amato. A few phone calls, including a recent one that involved a mixup of no consequence.
To my knowledge, Richard D'Amato is not a major player in the congressional investigation of the UFO cover-up, and I doubt if he knows any more than he's been told by us. I certainly never had the impression that he was in possession of any hidden knowledge, and I don't think that he qualifies as a government source of anything. He is simply another government official who has an interest in the UFO matter.
But there are dozens of such people, ranging from medical personnel to people in the military and the congress.
I wish that you would circulate this letter a little, because it doesn't help us for this man to be identified as some sort of major "source" when he is really not in a position to do much.
Whitley Strieber
Paul Davids, Executive Producer and Co-writer of the Showtime television special "Roswell," has announced a new videotape documenting his historic UFO speech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of White Sands Proving Grounds.
The White Sands Missile Range Pioneers tested rocketry at the White Sands Proving Grounds beginning in 1945, and many remember the incidents of mysterious green fireballs visiting the launch pads, UFOs tracked on radars -- and the Roswell Incident, the purported crash of a UFO and recovery of alien bodies at a neighboring base, the Roswell Army Air Field.
For their Golden Anniversary on July 6, 1995, they invited Paul Davids, Executive Producer and Co-Writer of the movie "Roswell," to give a briefing about UFOs. In the audience were White Sands scientists and engineers and representatives of the Pentagon, Army, Navy, Air Force, NASA, and major defense research facilities including Los Alamos, Sandia Labs and Lockheed Martin. They listened spellbound to an eloquent appeal for a new national policy on UFOs and an end to disinformation.
"Golden Anniversary UFO Briefing" documents that presentation, incorporating compelling UFO visuals shown that night, as well as evidence of the long-term official suppression of the truth. This marks a truly historic military moment -- a unique, pro-ufology presentation at a major "establishment" event in Las Cruces, New Mexico, celebrating 50 years of achievements by the U.S. military, and perhaps signaling the beginning of the end of a 50 year UFO cover-up.
Running time: Approx. 60 minutes
Price: $33.95 (includes $4.00 1st-class shipping and handling)
To order, please make your check payable to Paul Davids and send to: Coverup
Video, 1107 Fair Oaks Ave. #261, South Pasadena, CA 91030
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