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by Michael Lindemann
The military base known as RAF Bentwaters in England is associated with one of the most impressive yet controversial UFO cases of all time. Almost no one disputes that something strange occurred near the base during late December of 1980, but what it was remains shrouded in mystery. Odd moving lights were reported in the sky and in the Rendlesham Forest that separates Bentwaters from its nearby sister base (now closed) called RAF Woodbridge. Soldiers were dispatched into the woods, led by Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, USAF. (Though on British soil, both bases were manned by American forces).
On January 13, 1981, Halt sent a classified memo regarding the events to the British Ministry of Defence. That memo, released to U.S. UFO researcher Robert Todd in June of 1983 through the Freedom of Information Act, says that several witnesses reported a triangular, metallic, highly luminous object either hovering or standing on legs, and then maneuvering through the forest, on the night of December 27. Though not a witness to this object himself, Halt said that the next morning he did witness three depressions in the ground, arranged in a triangular pattern, that apparently marked where the object had stood. Halt further stated that on the following night he and others witnessed an astounding display of moving lights in the sky.
Halt's memo left little doubt that whatever happened was out of the ordinary, but continuing efforts by independent researchers have not resolved the Bentwaters mystery, and current opinions vary widely. Some now believe the strange events were all staged as part of a very elaborate psychological warfare test, possibly involving mind-control techniques. Others say craft of unknown origin were seen at close range, and that extensive photo and physical evidence was gathered at the site -- all of which was then locked away in government vaults. Still others say not only craft but "aliens" were seen and contacted. Finally, there are the hard-line skeptics who say nothing at all remarkable happened, except that airmen who should know better mistook the light of a nearby lighthouse in the fog for something otherworldly.
Now CNI News has learned of a U.S. soldier who was stationed at Bentwaters some years after the famous 1980 events, but who saw several things that lend strong credence to the strange claims associated with the base. This soldier prefers that his name not be used in this story, but he has communicated under his own name with CNI News editor Michael Lindemann.
Concerning his military background, the soldier says: "I entered the service in 1983 and was assigned to RAF Bentwaters in 1984. I was involved in nuclear weapons and because of our extensive background investigations, members of our section were often called upon to do other high-security details. Since even the Security Police didn't have as high a clearence, a lot of these details were simply being our own guards -- hence my access to the vault (see below). I volunteered for as many of these details as I could because it was supposed to create an impressive military record. However, when I arrived at my next base (I left Bentwaters late in '86) no records of my special duties followed me. I called my immediate supervisor when I discovered this and he said, 'What happens at Bentwaters stays at Bentwaters.' I think this had more to do with security than UFOs. I was an enlisted man and I was an E-4 Sgt when I entered the vault. I left the service in 1988. I was still angry that none of my record followed me. I simply didn't re-enlist and had an honorable discharge. I was still an E-4."
Here is the soldier's account of his extraordinary experience in "the vault" at Bentwaters, where apparently something very interesting and very secret is hidden.
"On RAF Bentwaters there is a secured area around the flightline. This is normal and many people have access, but not all. Inside this area is another secured area containing the munitions dump. Again, this is normal; fewer people have access to this. On this particular base there is another weapons storage area that only a few people can get in. You are searched and must travel around in pairs inside this area. It is heavily guarded. The bunkers in this area require an elaborate key and password sequence to get in. One particular bunker is different.
"Inside this bunker is a vault with two combinations and two locks. Because of regulations, no one person can have access to more than one [combination or lock]. Hence, if you can get a key you won't get the combo, or vice-versa. It takes four people to open the door -- plus the security team verifying passwords, etc. This is the most secure area I have ever seen in the Air Force.
"I was picked to be a key holder, which meant that I was armed, and told to escort the individual who needed [access to] the vault, along with the three others needed to open the door. I don't know who the individual was; he was American and a civilian. We opened the door and I at first couldn't believe it. It contained a roughly-made shelf made out of two-by-fours holding two old wooden crates. The individual opened one of the crates, which was only sealed with a lead seal, and inside was a green styrofoam container in two halves. He opened it up and inside was a rod about a quarter inch in diameter and bent about three times along its length. It looked solid and if it were straight it would be about a foot long. It was dull but corrosion free from what I could tell. The man looked at it for about a minute, then put it away and resealed the box with a new lead seal.
"For his minute we spent about four hours preparing to open the vault. It is that secure.
"That was when I started asking questions about why a small rod would require so much security. The underlings such as me hadn't a clue, but when I started asking others I was told not to worry about it. One officer that I knew personally once said under his breath that it was 'proof,' but when I pressed him he denied saying it. The only other response I got, from people who obviously didn't know, [was] that it probably had something to do with all the UFOs that supposedly visit the base."
This soldier has no doubt that he saw something very extraordinary in that vault, but he was highly skeptical of a UFO connection until he had his own amazing sighting at Bentwaters some time later. Here is his account.
"I was working nights and for once the sky above the base was clear. I took an astronomy class in college and was testing my knowledge of the constellations when I saw what looked like an equilateral triangle. Of all the constellations, none I could think of formed a triangle with such bright stars. I had been looking and thinking for about five or ten minutes when, right when I was looking directly at them, the stars turned a full circle, each ending up where they started, and then shot out at 90 degree angles from the direction they were moving, and within a second were gone over the horizon, each going a different direction. Because they were just points of light I figured they were far away and that would make their speed something incredible. I was so shook up I took the rest of the night off and for weeks had this nightmare that all the stars in the sky were spinning, and thus the end of the universe was near. That may sound strange, but it was that disturbing."
It is interesting to compare this soldier's sighting with Colonel Halt's eyewitness description of events on December 28, 1980. Halt wrote in his memo: "Three star-like objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned to full circles. The objects to the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for two or three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time."
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
[ISCNI*Flash thanks Brian Zeiler and Rebecca Schatte for assistance with this story.]
The New York Daily News of December 18 ran a brief story claiming that billionaire Laurance Rockefeller had funded and would send a major UFO report to President Clinton and other world leaders. The Daily News story, part of a column written by George Rush and Joanna Molloy, was headlined "Far Out" and said, in part:
"Laurance Rockefeller...the 85-year-old philanthropist has funded a 150-page study of 'the Roswell Incident.' This month, he's due to send it to White House Science adviser John Gibbons, as well as every U.S. congressman and senator.
"'The Best Available Evidence' features testimony from former military officials and astronauts that contradicts Air Force denials of an alien landing, says Michael Luckman, director of the New York Center for UFO Research."
CNI News has received further information about the Rockefeller UFO initiative from a reliable source who worked on the project. According to this source, the Daily News story was "planted" by Michael Luckman, who works mainly as a press agent and trades odd stories for regular mention of his show-business clients in the Daily News column.
In a faxed message to CNI News, our source said there were many inaccuracies in Luckman's version of the story. He further states:
"There is no Roswell study done or contemplated by the Rockefeller group. There is a book, actually an extended briefing paper, that will be back from the printers any day, containing about a dozen UFO cases thought to be the best, with some emphasis on the worldwide nature of the events. This will be sent to heads of state and a handful of members of congress and the senate, certainly not all. Only 1,000 copies of the book are being printed.
"The concept is to alert leaders of government throughout the world of the nature and perhaps urgency of the UFO problem. This is in keeping with what Laurance Rockefeller and the BSW Foundation in New York have been doing for about two years, quietly. I don't think they appreciate the publicity."
In a followup conversation with CNI News editor Michael Lindemann, the source declined to comment further on the project except to say that he had worked with the Rockefeller group for about one year and had reviewed the manuscript in question.
In recent years, Laurance Rockefeller has given substantial financial support to a number of prominent UFO/alien researchers, including Dr. John Mack and Dr. Steven Greer. He has also urged President Clinton to acknowledge the reality of UFOs, both indirectly through Clinton's science advisor John Gibbons, and directly, especially recently when Rockefeller hosted the president at his ranch in Wyoming.
Some of Rockefeller's UFO-related activities have been conducted in cooperation with the low-profile BSW Foundation, headed by wealthy New Yorkers Sandra Wright Houghton and Bootsy Galbraith. Rockefeller's latest initiative, the UFO briefing report, is expected to reflect the view shared by himself, Greer, Houghton and Galbraith that the earth is being visited primarily by benevolent E.T.s who pose no threat to the established order.
An EARTH MYSTERIES NEWS Report
Copyright 1995 by Linda Moulton Howe
On Thursday, December 21 near Guanica on the southwestern coast, 44-year-old mechanic Osvaldo Claudio Rosado was up at 3 AM washing a car. He walked toward the patio of his home to shut off the water faucet where the hose was connected. Suddenly without warning, he was grabbed from behind. When Rosado tried to fight off the intruder, he was shocked to see a black-haired "gorilla" about five feet tall. The animal ran off and Rosado drove to the Tito Mattei Hospital in Yauco to have doctors examine and treat cuts in his abdomen, possibly torn by fingernails or claws on the animal's hands.
Local media wondered if this was the now-famous Chupacabras "goat sucker" which has been haunting domestic animals all over the island. In the same area two weeks before, police investigated the unusual bloodless deaths of chickens and cows in Ensenada and Barrio Fuig.
The mystery of the Chupacabras "goat sucker" began last March 11, 1995 when eight sheep were found dead on a farm owned by Enrique Barreto Hernandez in Orocovis at the center of the island. The animals had three strange marks or puncture holes in the chest and were described as "completely drained of blood."
Even then, residents speculated that perhaps a large, agile primate was on the loose from some secret El Junque military laboratory. But others who had seen either the creature or moving lights in the sky speculated that the chupacabras might be from outer space. That conclusion was partly provoked by the very large, slanted, glowing red eyes that eyewitnesses have described on the creature. Those red eyes have been sketched on a face that is flat, perhaps simian-like, but on a body some say is covered with spotted skin "like a frog's" or has "spikes on its head and back" with "chicken legs" that have a 3-toed foot about six inches long. Such tracks have been found and photographed in dirt near dead animals. This creature has been seen to hop, or fly, from the ground to a tree or from trees to the ground. But in 1995, no one reported seeing a chupacabras and a UFO together in the same place at the same time.
As 1995 closes, the Chupacabras victims have included hundreds of cows, horses, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, cats and dogs, all with odd, bloodless puncture marks in the neck, chest or abdomen found from one end of the island to the other. On December 14th, El Vocero [news] reported that in Naguabo on the east coast, several caged rabbits were "found dead with holes in the neck area, without a drop of blood." Other rabbits had disappeared. Near the rabbit cage was a track with a three-toed claw.
Since last spring, the attacks have spread from the center of Puerto Rico to the northeast where the Canovanas mayor organized an unsuccessful search party for the Chupacabras, then on to Arecibo and the southwestern coast. Attacks have sometimes occurred at both ends of the island within days, such as the Naguabo rabbits and the puzzling "primate" encounter by Osvaldo Rosado near Guanica. It would take three hours by car to drive from Naguabo to Guanica.
Among the numerous unanswered questions are these: How many chupacabras are there? Is it possible that the creatures' disappearances and travels are made easier by underground caverns and passageways long-eroded in the island's limestone? And was Osvaldo Rosado's encounter the first indication that El Chupacabras is beginning to attack humans?
[ISCNI*Flash thanks Don Teal and Rebecca Schatte for sending in this story.]
SAN FRANCISCO --Scientists have revised their thinking in the more than two decades since the Viking missions to Mars sent back no signs of moisture or life on the red planet. Many now believe that perhaps Mars had life that became extinct. They are pinning their hopes on new missions that will once again look for signs of water, underground hot springs and the potential for life.
"After Viking, there was a feeling we had been there, done that, and so much for looking for life," said Jack Farmer, a geologist and paleontologist with NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
In the next round of explorations, scientists are heading out in search of an ancient biosphere that could be obscured in underground oases that Viking missed or in mineral deposits of now-dry lakebeds and channels.
They'll have a few chances. Although the $1 billion Mars Observer was lost in 1993 before it could radio home some of the answers to Mars' great mysteries, smaller missions are upcoming.
NASA has a Mars Pathfinder mission scheduled for launch in 1996, which will send a small rover to the Martian surface in 1997. It also has Mars Global Surveyor missions scheduled for launch in 1996 and 1998 to make observations of minerals and rocks from orbit.
Russia also plans separate launches.
Scientists are now paying more attention to evidence of the similarities between the geology of Earth and Mars more than 3.5 billion years ago. While life was forming on Earth, they believe there was water on Mars.
"We think there are certain kinds of deposits ... where we can capture evidence of life," Farmer said Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting here.
Knowing that the surface of Mars is below the freezing point of water, scientists now think that the only signs of water they'll see will be from peering below the planet surface, according to several of the 25 Mars-related presentations at the meeting.
One of the biggest goals will be to find geologic evidence of hot springs and channels that could have sustained life. Studies on Earth have shown that certain primitive life forms can survive in the very high temperatures of hot undersea vents, as well as the very low temperatures of frozen tundra and the interior of cold desert rocks.
"A hydrothermal system is inevitable on any planet with liquid water and volcanoes," said Everett Shock, a geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis.
Carol Stoker, a planetary scientist with NASA's Ames Research Center, said upcoming explorations will require sophisticated robotics on rovers.
Terrestrial tests have shown some of their remote-control limitations.
During a test last February on Hawaii, instruments on a Russian rover equipped with the same instruments that will be carried on a 1998 joint Russian-French mission, completely missed a green plant just 6 inches from where they were pointed.
"If you don't look at it, you don't see it," she noted.
Bassagordian's Basic Principle and Ultimate Axiom: By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find or even when you have found it.
[ISCNI*Flash thanks Steve Gill for sending this bit of wisdom.]
[This article appeared in the Dallas Morning News on November 20, 1995.]
FAR OUT: An asteroid has been named for Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead leader who died August 9 at age 53. Two Deadheads -- Simon Radford at the Radio Astronomy Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona, and Ed Olszewski at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory -- began searching for a way to honor Mr. Garcia after his death. Fellow astronomer Tom Gehrels offered an asteroid he found in 1985 but had never named. The "Garcia" asteroid is 100 miles across, orbits between Mars and Jupiter, and can be seen only with a high-powered telescope.
The staff of ISCNI sends special thoughts of peace and healing to our esteemed friend and colleague, Dr. Karla Turner. We ask all our readers to do the same.
[The following is a summarized version of a story written by Glenn Campbell, dated December 15. For more information about Bob Lazar and other wonders of "Area 51," be sure to visit Glenn Campbell's "Groom Lake Desert Rat" web site, http://www.cris.com/~psyspy]
Glenn Campbell reports that Bob Lazar, the Las Vegas man who says he worked on captured alien spacecraft while under contract to the U.S. government at a top secret facility near Area 51, now has his own call-in talk radio program on Las Vegas station KLAV (1230 AM), broadcasting Friday nights from 11pm to midnight. At present, the show probably can only be heard in the Las Vegas area, and it isn't clear how long Lazar plans to stay on the air. The show is co-hosted by Lazar's long-time friend Gene Huff and includes special guests.
On the December 15 broadcast, Lazar's guest was hypnotherapist Layne Keck, the man who helped Bob recall some of his unusual experiences while working at the super-secret "S-4" facility in 1988. During the broadcast, Campbell says, Lazar stuck to the very same story he's been telling consistently for the last six years. Keck, however, filled in some details about Bob's hypnosis sessions. In Campbell's words, "Keck went through the story of how Bob and Gene had come to him (before the story was widely known); how he found them to be sincere and had regressed Bob to help him try to retrieve some of the technical details of his saucer work, like schematics, that he could not remember consciously. Keck said that hypnosis involves the removing of blocks, and I [Campbell] asked what those blocks were in Bob's case. Keck said it mostly involved the overt threats and intimidation that had been used against Bob by the security dudes. Both he and Bob seemed to firmly reject the notion that Bob had been subconsciously 'programmed' by the government in any way."
Keck said that Lazar, under hypnosis, several times described seeing a golf ball being thrown at an active reactor. Lazar said the ball ricocheted off the reactor's gravity field and chipped a ceiling tile. Keck said he considered this story to be true because with each retelling, Lazar's emotional reaction was the same and appropriate to the situation. Keck said that although such emotions could be faked, it would be very hard to fake the same emotional cues over and over. Campbell added that in his own extensive dealings with Lazar, he too has been impressed by Lazar's apparently sincere emotions when describing his experiences.
A caller asked Lazar where "the aliens" came from. Lazar said, as he has in the past, that he had been told that the craft he worked on (which he termed "the sport model") came from Zeta Reticuli. However, he said he knew nothing about the occupants. He also said he was told that all nine craft he saw at "S-4" had the same propulsion system, although they differed in outer appearance. He also said he had been shown a single autopsy photo of an alien, which incidentally did not look like the famous "Santilli alien."
Lazar said, in answer to another question, that he was convinced the Santilli "alien autopsy" was fake. Among other reasons, he noted that there was no still photographer shown in the autopsy footage. Lazar felt that this was a glaring and unrealistic omission -- that anything as momentous as an alien autopsy would be recorded not only on movie film but also with numerous still photos. Yet, there was apparently no still photographer in the autopsy room.
Two callers to the show said they knew of people who had worked at the Tonopah Test Range but later could not recall what happened to them while there. One of these Tonopah workers allegedly could not recall any details of six months of time spent at the facility. The caller said this person did recall finding herself in a clinic with a doctor or nurse inserting a needle in her neck. Did the clinic experience have anything to do with her missing time?
Glenn Campbell says he knows the person to whom this happened, a woman he refers to as "Athena." This woman, he says, was a radar operator for the Air Force in the 1980s at the Nellis Range at the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) and later at Tolicha Peak. As Campbell tells it, "A few years after working at Tonopah, someone happened to ask her about her time there, and she was alarmed to find she could hardly remember anything about her assignment. This led her to a hypnotist... and a single session with him filled in some details.
"While at Tonopah," Campbell says, "she was called up for a special nighttime assignment with a crew of other technicians she had not worked with before. She was working, as usual, in a closed trailer operating some part of the radar equipment. They were told to seek an airborne target, but they couldn't get a lock on anything. They were then told to leave the trailer while the superiors conferred inside. It was then that she and some others got a 'visual lock' on the target. It was a saucer.... All she remembers next is being in a clinic -- she thinks at Area 51 -- where she gets the needle in the neck and remembers nothing more."
Campbell suggests the possibility of a "brain drain serum" that could be used to blank the memory of recent events. "I have read of studies," he said, "indicating that long term memories are 'fixed' in the brain at night and that if you inhibit sleep in some way, you can interfere in the preservation of memories. This opens the possibility of drug induced amnesia without completely scrambling the rest of a person's brain."
Campbell adds that "Athena" is still trying to reconstruct what she did during her "missing time" at Tonopah.
Bob Lazar's radio program is scheduled to air every Friday. It is sponsored by Lazar's own company, Tri-Dot Productions.
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[Amid widespread claims of crop circle fakery, there are also claims that some people experience strange, sometimes painful physiological effects upon entering a crop circle, effects that seem highly unlikely if the circle were made by human pranksters. ISCNI*Flash acknowledges Stuart Dike and the Crop Circle Connector, an online information service based in England, for this story. The Crop Circle Connector can be accessed on the Worldwide Web at http://www.hub.co.uk/intercafe/cropcircle/connector.html]
by Simon Burton
There seems to be growing doubt in the collective consciousness of cereologists as to whether crop circles are always safe places to be. This may just be a backlash against an initial euphoria or it may be wisdom born of maturity.
Reports of negative effects have ranged from the psychological -- feelings of panic, oppressiveness, general unease -- through to the physiological -- aches, pains, headaches, nausea etc. My own reaction to a 'bad' circle is usually a lingering ache in one leg, although I have twice now had the alarming experience of waking up 'the morning after' to find a square grid of clearly defined circular welts caused by broken blood vessels on my back. Fortunately such physical symptoms seem to be rare. Most physical effects seem to be limited to equipment malfunctions, 'gremlins' etc.
There is a well-documented precedent for many anomalous ill-effects similar to 'circle sickness' to be found in the records of the 'Oranur Experiment' of Dr. Wilhelm Reich in the early 1950s. They are well worth reading, and have the benefit of being entirely consistent with the 'Orgone Hypothesis' of circle formation.
The disasterous Oranur Experiments - so named because they set Orgone Radiation (OR) Against Nuclear Radiation (NR), were conducted at Reich's ranch in Orgonon, Maine with the stated aim of proving whether a degree of immunity against nuclear radiation in living creatures could be achieved by prior exposure to concentrated orgone energy. However, before beginning the experiment proper Reich decided to run a preliminary experiment to explore the effects of orgone energy on radioactive material itself. On January 5, 1951, Reich began the fateful experiment by placing just one milligram of radium, in lead shielding, inside a powerful twenty-fold orgone accumulator. He intended to see if the accumulator could neutralize the effects of the radium as compared to a control sample. In fact something entirely opposite happened.
After five hours the gauges on the laboratory's Geiger-Muller counter persistently jammed when brought near to the accumulator, showing that the radiation count in the room was more than the meter could measure, and an oppressive feeling of heaviness with symptoms of headaches and nausea built up in the laboratory to such an extent that all work had to cease. Reich, who lest one forget was a qualified medical doctor by training, listed some of the typical symptoms of the 'Oranur Sickness' experienced by himself and colleagues as: malaise; pressure in head, chest etc.; cramps and twitching of muscles and other organs; hot and cold shivers; fatigue; return of old or latent disease symptoms; inflammation of conjunctivae; dryness of throat; severe thirst. More severe symptoms included chronic fatigue and fainting spells. Typically each person was attacked at their point of greatest weakness.
However, Reich was not psychologically suited to giving up easily, and unwisely persisted with the experiment for a further six days. By this time the atmosphere in the laboratory had become clouded with a purple haze and many of Reich's staff and family were in states of seriously distressed health.Finally, sick to the pit of his stomach and dizzy, Reich gave up and buried the orgone-charged radium in a field half a mile from the laboratory. Reich had all the accumulators on the site dismantled and banned all radioactive materials, even down to luminous watch dials, from the vicinity.
It was not enough. By March 1952 Orgonon was evacuated. Ludicrously high GM counts persisted and trees in the area were reported to be bending over 'like rubber hoses' and covered with strange blackish deposits which came to be know as 'melanor'. During this period the laboratories were frequently overflown by what we would now call Unknown Aerial Phenomena, but what were then called flying saucers, and plagued by equipment gremlins.
Much of the above has a familiar ring to it. Some, perhaps all, of the symptoms of Oranur sickness seem similar to 'Circle Sickness'. The description of trees bending over like rubber hoses must also strike a chord of familiarity. Indeed Wilhelm Reich's son Peter in his autobiographical 'Book of Dreams' describes once finding on his father's ranch 'a big place in the grass we hadn't mowed where it was all matted down'. When giving the explanation that that must be where a deer had been sleeping, his companion comments, 'She must have been a pretty big one'. Sounds familiar? (Incidentally, I once tried to [question] Peter Reich on the similarity of what he saw to modern-day circles, but received only a non-committal reply -- perhaps the persecution of his father by the authorities has made him understandably wary.)
As to the 'melanor' -- Peter Sorenson described finding something remarkably similar in the Cherhill pictogram in August 1993. Analysis by Dr. Levengood describes it as being an 'extremely unusual' glaze of partially fused magnetic spheres, each a fraction of a millimetre across, of iron and oxygen. [See Linda Howe's comment on this below - ed.]
So, should we avoid crop circles? I think we should at least treat them respectfully as potentially harmful to health. Reich came to believe that in an atmosphere of concentrated orgone radiation, which is basically the 'stuff of life', even minuscule amounts of nuclear radiation have the effect of causing the orgone in living systems to turn against itself. It is not the nuclear radiation that destroys, but the effect is has of turning healthy orgone into DOR, deadly orgone, attacking each living system at its point of greatest weakness, that does the damage. Hence 'Circle Sickness' may not necessarily manifest in the same way in two different people, or in the same person at different times.
Andy Collins proposed that circles may in effect be 'flat plan' accumulators. If this theory is true, or if for any other reason we are dealing with concentrations of orgone in circle formations, then Reich's experience teaches that we should be very careful about what we take into them, even down to ourselves. Hopefully nobody is going to deliberately take radioactive materials into the fields, but Reich came to ban even luminous watches, and who knows the effect that the electrical circuits in all our modern cameras may be having.
Of particular interest must be the health experiences of those who have regularly entered formations over long periods of time, particularly the dowsers who of necessity are 'tuning-in' to an unknown energy that may not always be compatible with good health. Perhaps I am just getting cautious as I get older, but personally I have made the decision for the moment not to foolishly rush in 'where Angels fear to tread'.
EDITOR'S NOTE: In answer to a question on claims of "crop circle sickness" from CNI News, researcher Linda Howe responds: "The crop circle sickness issue has come up periodically since at least 1990 or 1991 when several people complained. Four of us inside Cherhill [see above] all developed the same tight band of very dull headache at the same time in 1993. Dr. Levengood is convinced that microwaves are part of the energy [that forms crop circles], combined with a plasma. Would such an energy have a residual affect on us after it's created the formation? I don't think anyone has a clear answer yet.
[It is often said that the mainstream media does not report the truth -- especially about UFOs and paranormal phenomena -- but usually such accusations come from disgruntled citizens outside the news industry, not from a top figure at a major newpaper. But here's what John Swinton, Chief of Staff of the New York Times (and considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), reportedly said when asked to give a toast to "the independent press" at the New York Press Club in 1953. Admittedly, this statement makes no mention of UFOs, and Swinton probably wasn't thinking of UFOs when he made it -- more likely, he was thinking of how badly the national press in 1953 was intimidated by the likes of Senator Joe McCarthy -- but it applies, then and now, to any subject about which the government or other powerful interests wish to control public opinion. CNI News thanks Density4 for sending this item.]
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
"You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
"We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The ISCNI*Flash has the distinction of NOT being the tool or vassal of anybody rich behind the scenes, and therefore fearlessly offers only real news and honest opinion at all times. We might occasionally be mistaken, but never knowingly deceptive.]
As reported in the Nov/Dec issue of UFO Magazine, famed UFO researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee pointedly warned of two dangers confronting UFO researchers when he spoke at the Omega UFO Conference in North Haven, Connecticut in early October. The first danger comes from government use and abuse of UFO information. The second danger, Vallee said, is that UFO research itself seems to be "falling back into its infancy."
Regarding UFO information in government hands, Vallee said: "Clearly the major governments have data. Tons of it. My tentative conclusion is that they don't know what to do with that data. If they are covering up something, it is primarily their own ignorance. But there is more. They are lying about the fact that some of their covert services use the phenomenon to manipulate public opinion and to obscure their own craven feats..."
Public belief in UFOs, Vallee continued, "could be used to disguise tests of new weapons platforms and could serve as a shield for mind control experiments involving the use of drugs on unsuspecting patients." The reference to mind control was apparently in connection with claimed experiences of alien abduction. Vallee is outspokenly critical of researchers who regard abduction -- especially as reported under hypnosis -- as literal alien contact, but he does not dismiss all abduction accounts as pure fantasy. Instead, he believes that at least some abductions could be the result of government-sponsored experimentation.
Regarding the current state of UFO research, Vallee first called to mind a comment made by the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, with whom Vallee worked for many years. In a private conversation, Vallee says Hynek told him, "Nobody will ever give you or me a dime to do serious research on UFOs. But if we were to cross the line of professional ethics and went back on stage pretending we had the answer with a capital A, and told these people Ufology was the cure to all their spiritual anxieties, we could raise a million dollars today."
Vallee then commented, "In the last few years that fine ethical line has been crossed again and again by many people claiming to provide both spiritual and scientific answers... I'm an active researcher, and I've become a sorrowful bystander in this field. My impression as I watch this festival of absurdities from the sidelines is one of unceasing wonder with a touch of sadness. The wonder comes from the realization that even in our supposed age of technology there is so little critical examination of the facts... There is no credible ongoing effort scientifically to come to grips with the underlying phenomenon, which I continue to believe is real and informed... All we have left is a few groups of believers standing on mountaintops with flashlights, expecting the aliens to come down and shake their hands. In that sense, the UFO research is falling back into its own infancy, into a folklore that doesn't even have the odd charm of the contactees of the 1950s."
However, Vallee ended his speech on a note of hope: "I continue to hope that someday we will be able to sort out the signal from the noise and get to work on the real UFO phenomenon. If I do feel one major responsibility, it is to transmit the data to posterity so that future scientists will be able to make sense of what seems to us to be hopelessly dank. If we can resist the temptation to jump to hasty conclusions, we may emerge intellectually better and spiritually stronger into the 21st century."
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