Roswell, a town in New Mexico, is expecting plenty of visitors from
out of town--from way out of town--during the July 6-7 weekend.
That's when Roswell will host the second annual UFO Encounters Festival.
Guided field trips will be offered to the 1947 UFO crash site of an unidentified
flying object known by aficionados as "the incident", according
to New Mexico's tourism officials. UFO researchers, authors and "phenomenologists"
will host public lectures and present papers. And visitors can also check
out two local museums.
For tourist information about Roswell, call it's Chamber of Commerce at:
(505) 623-5695.
SUN, Vancouver, B. C., Canada March 24th 1996 Credit: G. Conway
(More info on the festival appeared in this second newsclip.)
Safari tours to view the exotic wildlife in the swamps of Brazil's Matto
Grosso may never be the same again.
The 89,000 square mile Pantanal nature preserve--more famous for species
like yellow anacondas, caymans, giant ant-eaters, howler monkeys and jaguars--is
preparing to encourage other creatures.
Officials in the nearby town of Barra do Garcas have designated 12 acres
as the world's first UFO airport.
The Pantanal is already the UFO hotspot of the world, with hundreds more
sightings reported than anywhere else.
Local councillor Valdon Vargao, who initiated the plan and had made nationwide
tours with Mayor Vilmar Peres to publicize the UFO airport, said: "They
can call me mad. But I'm doing humanity a service."
He insists: "My main concern is to maintain a cordial and official
relationship with the extraterrestrials."
His "Interspace Aerodrome" signs have gone up all over the fenced-off
site in preparation for concreting it over--just to make sure the UFOs do
not get stuck in the mud.
Brazil's foremost UFO expert, A.J. Gevaerd--whose Center for Flying Saucer
Research is on the edge of the Pantanal--is in regular contact with Valson
Vargao.
"A.J." as he is known to UFO spotters across the world, said:
"They're very excited about it in Barra do Garcas and there is huge
interest in UFOs in Brazil generally."
Phillip Mantle, of the British UFO Research Association, said: "For
some strange reason the Pantanal has been very popular for sightings of
UFOs."
"Some people there have claimed to have had close encounters."
Soon, if the new airport encourages alien visitors to make official contact,
they may be able to say: "Beam me up Scotty".
A vivid blue chunk of rock brought at a roadside stall in Morocco 15
years ago had been identified as a new mineral, but its qualities, which
include the ability to change color, are baffling British scientists.
Geologist Anne Grayson was unable to identify the stone after coming across
it at a souvenir stall during a field trip. It remained at her home for
years until she took it to London's Natural History Museum. Experts there
discovered it is made up of millions of crystals that are fibrous on a submicroscopic
scale, like asbestos, and could be lethal if inhaled. Containing silicon,
aluminum, calcium, magnesium, iron and oxygen, the unnamed mineral changes
from purple to blue to cream when rotated.
Q: Recently, I heard about the U.S. Air Force's new "doomsday
machine" called HAARP, for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
From what I understand, the Air Force plans to experiment with blowing a
hole in our ionosphere by directing intense high-frequency radio waves at
it from somewhere in Alaska. The Air Force "experts" assured the
interviewer that such a thing would have no negative effect on our global
environment or weather systems. There was also some discussion of using
this technology as a form of mind control by determining the proper frequency
radio waves and directing them at whole armies to render them insensible.
My understanding is that the ionosphere protects us from lethal cosmic forces,
allowing the earth to support life as we know it. What evil people are toying
with this delicate balance? Where can information be found, and how can
concerned citizens appeal to stop this unnecessary experiment?
----Donna Sexton, Northbridge, Massachusetts
A: Come on, where's our sense of adventure? When HAARP is fully deployed
in 2002 and they flip the switch, either nothing much will happen or, to
hear opponents tell it, it'll be the end of the world. Cecil had a long
talk with the folks at HAARP and the latter isn't very likely to happen,
but thinking about it will definitely liven up a dull day at the office.
What freaks some folks out about HAARP is the concept: scientist are building
an array of 360 high-powered radio antennas in Alaska to generate a beam
of radio energy for the purpose of heating up a patch of the ionosphere,
the outer part of the earth's atmosphere. This may come in handy for such
purposes as:
· Submarine communications: Send a pulsed radio beam into the "auroral
electrojet," the high-altitude stream of charged particles found in
polar regions, and the electrojet will rebroadcast pulses of extremely low
frequency radio energy. In effect, what you've done is turn part of the
electrojet into a giant ELF antenna extending for hundreds of miles. ELF
energy will penetrate seawater and thus can be used to communicate with
submerged submarines.
·Underground surveillance: ELF energy will also penetrate some distance
into the earth. By means of "earth-penetrating tomography" --radiating
ELF energy at the earth and seeing what kind of echo bounces back--you can
map out stuff hidden underground, e.g., mineral deposits or, more urgently
for the Pentagon, secret underground nuclear-bomb factories in countries
like North Korea.
·Directed over-the-horizon radio communications: You could create one
or more "virtual refractors" in the upper atmosphere to direct
a radio beam to a location in a distant part of the globe.
Doesn't sound so bad, but HAARP opponents say the Air Force isn't telling
the whole story. Their main beefs: first, the project will pour more energy
into the sky than ever previously attempted, with who knows what awful consequences.
Proponents say the energy isn't that much greater than what existing ionosphere
research facilities pump out and in any case, is trivial compared to natural
forces. The second complaint is that the military wants to use HAARP to
develop scary futuristic weapons..
Among them:
·A "Global Shield" that would zap the guidance systems of
incoming ballistic missiles.
·Mind control beams to incapacitate enemy troops.
·Weather control machines.
Sounds wild but at least some of these schemes were embodied in technology
patented in the 1980's by physicist Bernard Eastlund, who was a founder
of a predecessor company to the current HAARP contractor. HAARP spokesmen
say there's no connection between Eastlund's plans and their's and that
they're not cooking up death rays or anything of the sort. But check both
sides of the story and decide for yourself.
For the full paranoid treatment see "Angels Don't Play This HAARP:
Advances in Tesla Technology " by Nick Begich, Earthpulse Press,
P.O. Box 201393, Anchorage, Alaska 99520 (907) 249-9111 For the Air Force's
version, complete with photos, check out the HAARP
website .
Write to Cecil c/o LRFP 824 W. 7th St. Little Rock, AR 72201
Free Press, Little Rock, AR--April 5-18, 1996. By Cecil "B" Adams
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