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alt.alien.visitors
Frequently Asked Questions
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FAQ and shortened version, the MINI-FAQ were
originally written for the
Usenet Newsgroup
alt.alien.visitors. More recently the FAQ and
some of the
a.a.v. messages have been cross
posted to other networks. The FAQ will try to
reflect this more universal distribution,
but for now it is essentially the
FAQ
produced for alt.alien.vistors. The full FAQ is
a very large multi-part
file which is posted
infrequently, but is available by WWW and ftp
(see
below). The MINI-FAQ is designed to be
a single file which can be posted
more
regularly but only contains basic information.
The FAQ is the result of contributions
from many people. The views expressed
are
varied and unless otherwise stated should not be
taken to represent the
opinions of any one
contributor, the editor or the contributors as a
whole.
Neither, unless otherwise stated,
should the views expressed be taken as
in
anyway representing any organisation or
employer with whom the contributors
are
connected. As the FAQ is the work of many
people, speaking many different
flavours of
english, some of the spelling and grammer might
be novel to some
readers, remember the main
function of the FAQ is communication not a
lesson
in english. The current editor is
Steve Gamble (see FAQ updates for
how to
contact him.) All comments by him are indicated
by the square brackets[].
Charles McGrew
has made the full FAQ together with other UFO
related
material available by ftp. Here are
the details:
ftp.rutgers.edu
(128.6.26.25)
many ufo-related documents
(some of dubious reputability) in
pub/ufo.
See README's in the directory (and
subdirectories).
Files are a little
disorganized right now, since the
document-
collection process is still going
on, but if you're looking
for that "special
file", this is a good place to check
out.
More recent versions of the FAQ can be
found here as
a.a.v-faq. All files except the
README's are in unix-compressed
format, so
please be sure to use 'binary' transfer
mode.
Anonymous ftp enabled.
World
Wide Web Access
Rene' Mueller has kindly
made both the full FAQ and the
mini-FAQ
available by WWW on Spirit. The WWW
address
is
http://zeta.cs.adfa.oz.au/Spirit.html
The
file is split into 7 parts for posting to a.a.v.
These are shown in the
contents list
below.
PART 1
Introduction
============
Contents
========
PART
2
=== 0. Introductory
Material
----------------------------
0.1:
About alt.alien.visitors
0.2: Posting to
alt.alien.visitors
0.3: Hints on
posting
0.4: Example Posting
0.5: People
who post to alt.alien.visitors
=== 1.
Terminology and Definitions Used in
UFOlogy
--------------------------------------------------
1.01:
a.a.v.
1.02: Astronomical Units
(A.U.)
1.03: What is a UFO?
1.04: What is
an alien?
1.05: Classification of UFO
Reports
=== 2:00 About UFOs and
related
phenomena
------------------------------------------
2.01:
When did it all start?
2.02: The Search for
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
2.03:
What do we really know about life elsewhere in
the universe?
2.04: Marfa Lights
2.05: Men
In Black (MIB)
2.06: Tectonic Strain Theory
(TST)
2.07: UFOnauts
2.08: Unusual Ground
Markings (UGM)
2:09: USAF
2:10:
Zine
Alien
Races
-----------------
3.00:
Arcturus
3.01: Aryans (Blondes)
3.02:
Blues (Star Warriors)
3.03: Confederation of
Humans
3.04: Greys
3.05: Orion Empire
(Orion forces)
3.06: Pleiadians
3.07:
Sirius
3.08: Reptoids
3.09:
Vega
Abductions and Current
Theories
------------------------------
4.00:
About
Abductions
UFOlogists
----------
5:00:
Hopkins, Budd
5:01: Jacobs, Dr David
5:02: Klass, Philip J.
5.03: Spencer,
John
5:04: Marciniak, Barbara J.
5:05:
Randles, Jenny
PART 3
UFO Projects
& Theories &
Controversies
----------------------------------------
6.00:
Aurora Project or "deep black" projects
6.02:
NASA Footage September 10th
6.03: Planetoid
(Wormwood)
6.04: Official Studies
6.05:
Roswell Crash Incident
UFO Movies,
Documentaries and TV
Programs
----------------------------------------
=
7.00: TV Programs
7.01: E. T. Monitor (the
Keystone Inspirational Network)
7.02: Hard
Copy (??)
7.03: Intruders
7.04: National
Geographic (PBS)
7.05: sightings
(FOX)
7.06: UFO Incident, The
7.07:
Unsolved Mysteries (NBC)
= 7.08: UFO
VIDEOS
7.09: Close Up
7.10:
Communion
7.11: UFO Coverup Live
7.12: UFO
Documentary
7.13: UFO, The Films Prove It
7.14: UFO Review, The Researchers
UFO
Magazines and Publications
(UFOzines)
-----------------------------------------
8.00:
Circular, The
8.01: Cerealogist, The
8.02: Connecting Link Magazine
8.03:
CONTINUUM
8.04: Crop Watcher, The
8.05:
Earth,
8.06: Electronic Journal of the
Astronomical Society of the Atlantic,
The
8.07: Faithist Journal, The
8.08:
Focus
8.09: Fortean Times,
8.10: Inner
Light
8.11: International UFO Library
Magazine
8.12: Magonia,
8.13: Orvotron
Newsletter
8.14: Ovni Presence
8.15:
Revelations of Awareness
8.16: Swamp Gas
Journal
8.17: UFO Universe
UFO Book
Publishers
-------------------
9.00:
Advent Publishing Company
9.02: Arnerica West
Publishers
9.03: Arcturus Book
Service
9.04: Condor Books, Inc.
9.05:
Document Research Services
9.06: Earth Star
Publications
9.07: Eden Press
9.08: JACO
Book Publishers
9.09: The Library of the New
Essenes of Inyo
9.10: Luna Ventures
9.11:
The Pleiades Project
9.12: UFO Audio-Video
Clearing House
9.13: UFO Books
9.14: UFO
Photo Archives
9:15: Worldwide UFO
Newsclipping Bureau and Public Information
Center 955
West
9.16: Spacelink
Books
Miscellaneous
Information
-----------------------
10.00:
A UFO Book List
10.01: alt.alien.visitors
archives (back issues)
10.02: Big Foot
(Sasquatch)
10.03: Free UFO Class
10.04:
Freedom of Information
10.05: Hidden Ancient
Ruins
10.06: Inter Library Loans
(ILL)
10.07: NASA Shuttle Footage
10.08:
UFO Related anonymous FTP Sites
PART
4
UFO Organizations * Assumed
Acronym
------------------
11.00: Aerial
Phenomenon Research: The Indiana Group . . . .
.*(APR)
11.02: Aetherius Society, The
11.03: Ancient Astronaut Society . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .*(AAS)
11.04: Ancient Truth
Research Foundation . . . . . . . . .
.*(ATRF)
11.05: Awareness Reserch Foundation,
Inc , The . . . . . . .*(ARF)
11.06:
Borderland Sciences Research Foundation . . . .
. . . . (BSRF)
11.07: British UFO Research
Association . . . . . . . . . . . .
(BUFORA)
11.08: California UFO . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .*(CUFO)
11.09:
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy . . . . . . . . . .
. . . (CAUS)
11.10: Committee for the
Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the
Paranormal Contactee . . . . . . . . . .
(CSICOP)
11.11: Computer UFO Network . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . (CUFON)
11.12:
Contactee
11.13: Cosmic Awareness
Communications . . . . . . . . . . .
.*(CAC)
11.14: CSETI . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . (CSETI)
11.15: Delval UFO, Inc.
11.16: Fair Witness Project, Inc., The . . .
. . . . . . . . .*(FRP)
11.17: Federation,
The
11.18: Flying Saucer Information Center .
. . . . . . . . . . .*(FSIS)
11.19: Fortean
Research Center, The
11.20: Fund for UFO
Research, Inc.,The . . . . . . . . . . .
.*(FUFOR)
11.21: Gulf Breeze Skywatch . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .*(GBS)
11.22:
Inner-Peace Prosperity Network . . . . . . . . .
. . . . (IPPN)
PART 5
11.23:
Intercontinental UF Galactic Spacecraft
-
Research and Analytic Network . . . . . . . . .
. . . (ICUFON)
11.24: International
Committeee for UFO Research . . . . . . . .
(ICUR)
11.25: International Fortean
Organization . . . . . . . . . .
(INFO)
11.26: Intruders Foundation
11.27:
Island Skywatch
11.28: J. Allen Hynek Center
for UFO Studies . . . . . . . . .
(CUFOS)
11.29: Massachusetts Center for the
study of
Aerial Phenomena, The . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .*(MCSAP)
11.30:
Multi-national Investigations Cooperative
on
Aerial Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . (MICAP)
11.31: MutuaL UFO Network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(MUFON)
11.32: Mutual UFO Network of North
Carolina, Inc. . . . . . . (MUFON-NC)
11.33:
National Investigations Committeee on UFOs . . .
. . . . (NICUFO)
11.34: National Sighting
Research Center, The . . . . . . . .
(NSRC)
11.35: Nevada Aerial Research Group .
. . . . . . . . . . . . (NARG)
11.36: North
American Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. *(NAC)
11.37: North American Institute of
Crop Circle Research . . . (NAICCR)
11.38:
Northamptonshire UFO Research Centre . . . . . .
. . . (NUFORC)
11.39: Northern UFO Network .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(NUFON)
11.40: Omega Communications
11.41: ParaNet (Paranormal Network)
Information Service . . . . (PARANET)
PART
6
11.42: Pennsylvania Association for the
Study of the Unexplained . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . (PASU)
11.43: Pnet
11.44:
Portland UFO Group, The . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . (PUFOG)
11.45: Roundtown UFO
Society
11.46: Royal Priest Research . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .*(RPR)
11.47: Search
for EXtraterrestrial Intelligence, The. . . . .
. (SETI)
11.48: Sirian Rainbow Lodge . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .*(SRL)
11.49: SKYNET
11.50: Socie'Te' Belge d'Etude des
Phenomenes Spatiaux . . . . (SOBEPS)
11.51:
Society for Scientific Exploration . . . . . . .
. . . (SSE)
11.52: Society for the
Investigation of the Unexplained, The . (SITU)
11.53: System Ready
11.54:
Transcendental Communications A Division of
LAMAT Research
11.55: UFO Contact Center
International . . . . . . . . . . . (UFOCCI)
11.56: UFO Fllter Center . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . (UFOFC)
11.57: UFO
Information Retrieval Center . . . . . . . . . .
. . (UFOIRC)
11.58: UFO Investigators League
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(UFOIL)
11.59: UFO, Paranormal and Conspiracy
BBS, THE . . . . . . . .*(UFOPCBBS)
11.60:
UFO Reporting and Information Service. . . . . .
. . . . (UFORIS)
11.61: UFO Study Group of
Greater St. Louis
11.62: Ufology Research of
Manitoba . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(UFOROM)
11.63: United Aerial Phenomena
Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . (UAPA)
11.64: Universal Articulate Interdimensional
Understanding of Science (UNARIUS Academy of
Sciences) . (UNARIUS)
11.65: Victorian U.F.O.
Research Society Inc. . . . . . . . . .
(VUFORS)
PART
7
Disclaimer
----------
FAQ
Requests
------------
FAQ
Suggestions
---------------
===
0.1: About
alt.alien.visitors
---------------------------------
Alt.alien.visitors
is a Usenet discussion group available through
internet.
It was the original UFO related
discussion group available on Usenet.
It
caters to a wide rage of UFO related discussion
from New Age UFOlogy to
Scientific UFOlogy.
It currently receives around 80 messages daily.
More
recently a.a.v has been joined on Usenet
by alt.paranet.* groups which also
cover UFO
related material.
Although the Newsgroup
is called alt.alien.visitors, both the group and
the FAQ cover the whole field of UFOs, which
depending on your viewpoint
may or may not
be the same as alien visitations. In addition to
UFOs and alien
visitation the group also
includes discussion about life elsewhere in the
universe and if they are coming here how
they might get here.
This FAQ is designed
to answer questions of people who are new to
this Usenet
discussion group, and designed
to be a useful reference source to those
interested in all aspects of
UFOlogy.
Examples of UFO related material
carried by other networks :
Wildnet UFO
Conference
FIDO UFO Conference
MUFONET
(primarily in the USA)
UFONET (primarily in
the UK, also at least one USA node)
PARANET
(primarily USA, some parts relayed to
Usenet)
Some UFO material also appears in
alt.paranormal on Usenet, but this tends
to
be cross posts of material which also
appears in a.a.v.
=== 0.20: Posting
to alt.alien.visitors
--------
------------------------------
The following
idea was suggested by
matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu and is
taken
from mwauford@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (Melissa Wauford)'s
"*** REC.ARTS.TV
POSTING GUIDELINES ***". I
have adapted it to fit alt.alien.visitors,
and
I feel that this is an excellent idea. I
would recommend that you use this
system when
posting to
alt.alien.visitors.
alt.alien.visitors
can be a controversial newsgroup with a wide
variety
of discussed topics. A few topics may
generate more traffic than others
and may
contain subject matter related to UFOlogy that
others wish to
filter out or concentrate
upon. In order to allow those who use rn
or
some other method of pre-selecting
articles to filter out (or save
away)
postings about these heavy traffic
subjects, an abbreviation scheme has
been
created. Please help out by starting your
subject line with one of
the following
abbreviations when posting about these topics.
For example:
Subject: HOT - Dancing
Aliens
or
Subject: OP: Grey finger
snacks,(the trick is in how you fold
them)
New abbreviations will be added as
needed. Send suggestions directly to
me, and
I'll add them to the list. Objections to any
abbreviations should
probably be posted so
that a consensus may be reached. Old
abbreviations
will be deleted when no longer
necessary.
Suggested Abbreviations by
matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu:
[revised by
Fsdlk@acad3.alaska.edu]
ABD = Abduction
information
CE = Pertaining to UFO sightings
and phenomena, Close Encounters,
alien
contact
HA = Jokes & silliness
HOT =
Someone flaming someone else
INV = Postings
about alien invasions and conspiracies
MISC
= Other categories like Atlantis/Mu/Spacemen,
etc...
NA = New Age stuff NEWS = UFO related
news, upcoming conventions.
OP =
Opinions
REP = Repostings of older post like
Lear, Cooper, etc..
SCI = Scientific
(preferably not pseudo) findings on UFO related
issues
=== 0.3: Hints on
Posting
-------------------------
Alt.alien.visitors
is not a moderated group, which means that just
about
anybody can post just about anything.
This arrangement will only work if
people who
post to a.a.v. behave in a reasonable manner.
The following
guidelines are suggested
:
(1) Give every post a subject heading
which describes as clearly as
possible the
content of the message
(2) Try to stay on
topic. Do not post on subjects that are clearly
unrelated to the newsgroup. Take them to the
appropriate news group
for discussion. If
your comments are a message to a specific
person
then use email rather than post to the
whole world.
(3) Messages are received
by people in many different countries.
Different countries use different formats
for dates. In the USA,
for example, people
would read 3/7/94 as the 7th day of March 1994.
In the UK the same string would mean the 3rd
day of July 1994.
Confusion will be reduced
if people always quote the month either in
full or by the first three letters e.g. 3
Aug 94.
(4) Be selective in the material
you quote from earlier messages. Do not
completely repost other peoples postings and
then write your
opinion about it. Selectively
edit the the post to get the information
you
need from it to make your point.
(5) The
subjects of UFOs and possible alien visitation
are controversial.
Many people have many
different ideas about the origins of UFOs
and
alien visitors. It is unlikely that
everybody will agree with every
post made.
Constructive critisism of ideas is encouraged,
but do not
get into 'flame wars' or hurling
abuse. There are so few hard facts
in this
area that the person you think is an idiot may
end up being
correct. Be tolerant of the
other person's view.
(6) UFOs and aliens
can also be a source of ridicule from some
people.
Occasionally these people will send
a message like 'UFOs don't exist';
'you are
all nuts' or 'get a life'. Ignore them, it is
unlikely that
they will be hanging around to
read any follow-ups posted and it just
wastes
bandwidth.
(7) If you are sending a
message informing readers that a TV programme
or
somethingelse is on at a specific time,
remember to state the channel
and where it
can be seen. For example, in the UK we have
several
channels broadcast by Sky TV. But
there are channels in other parts
of the
world also called Sky. Better than saying
'tonight' state
the actual day/date, some
systems may not get the message out on
the
same day you write it. If you include the
time either use the 24 hour
clock or state
explicitly if it is am or pm, and include the
time zone.
(8) Avoid posting the same
message to several newsgroups. Many people
read
a number of related newsgroups. It is a
waste of bandwidth and
everybody's time to
read the same message several times. With
the
spread of Usenet more people are
obtaining their news by dialup
connections.
It is costing these people real money to
download redundant
messages.
(9) The
idea of Usenet is communication. Do not waste
everybody's time by
giving previous posters
spelling or grammar lessons. Although Usenet is
distributed to many universities and
colleges, not everybody has a PhD in
english. There are many different spellings
of words in the different
forms of english
spoken around the world.
Although
designed for alt.alien.visitors, these
suggestions could be
applied to both other
Usenet groups and to other
networks.
=== 0.4: Example
Posting
-------------------------
Newsgroups:
alt.alien.visitors
From: jonnY@BA.DOE.edu
(John Doe)
Subject: OP: Roswell
Incident
Date: Fri, 31 Apr 1992 16:54:39
GMT
In article
<1597O38cc.040316.26314>truth@less.Dis.Info.edu
(Ima Lier)
writes:
>.. it was in
1936 when the UFO crashed at Roswell ...
>Plus there were no witnesses!! Not a
single person could be found
>to bring
forth testimony.
According to my sources
it happened in 1947 and lots of people saw
it.
How can you say...
[Etc.]
-JD
=== 0.5: People who post to
alt.alien.visitors
----------------------------------------------
Readers
and writers of a.a.v. are made up of:
A)
People that have had contact.(Rarely post...
obvious reasons)
B) Government paid
disinformation people. (Poor to fair fiction)
C) Questioning/Inquiring minds (post weak
questions, but mean well)
D) Wanderers (Just
passing through, make snide remarks if any)
E) A few who think aliens are out there but
haven't/won't come here.
F) A few who think
aliens are with us know but have had no contact.
G) Aliens (Grey, life sucking, invader of
utopia)
H) Guys like me that just can't
unsubscribe from this group. (It's just
to
much fun. Life looks darker and things
aren't very clear. (guess this
belongs in
alt.consp....) But when all else falls through
pull up a.a.v.
and smile. Someone is always a
little worse off than you are and here is
one
sure fired place to find one.
I) People who
are not contactees, or new-agers, or sceptics,
but are simply
interested in high-strangeness
phenomenon of all sorts (and generally
try
not to post snide comments or be simple
minded!)
Main Source:
rocko@ireland.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Rick
O'leary)
Other
Contributors:
MATTHEWS_K@CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU
(Kellie Matthews)
===1. Terminology and
Definitions Used in
UFOlogy
----------------------------------------------
1.01:
Astronomical Units
(A.U.)
------------------------------
An
A.U. is a measurement of space. One A.U. is the
distance from the earth
to the
sun.
1.02:
a.a.v.
------------
alt.alien.visitors is
one of the many Usenet discussion
groups.
1.03: What is a
UFO?
--------------------
A UFO is an
Unidentified Flying Object.
It is
"Something seen in the sky (or on the land, or
expceptionally in the
water, but thought
capable of flight) which the witness could not
identify
and thought sufficently strange to
report to either an offical or
unoffical
investigating body".
A UFO
is the stimulus for a UFO report made by a UFO
witness. UFO researchers
(often called
UFOlogists) study UFO reports and witnesses. UFO
researchers
cannot directly study UFOs. There
are some reports in the literature
of
different governments recovering craft
thought to cause UFO reports, but most
of
these reports are speculative. The study of UFO
reports is referred to as
UFOlogy. This
implies a scientific basis to the study, when in
practice very
little scientific research is
carried out. After careful investigation
about
90% of all UFO reports can be
reasonably explained as either natural
phenomena
or misidentification of normal
manmade devices. Sometimes the term IFO
is
used for these Identified Flying Objects.
Those cases which are identified
as natural
phenomena are often rare or short lived and are
worthy of study
in their own right.
In the early days of investigation used
interchangably with the term 'Flying
Saucer'.
More recently the term Flying Saucer has fallen
into disuse,
although some researchers use
it as a term to specifically refer to
an
extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1.04:
What is an
alien?
-----------------------
According
to my dictionary :
ALIEN - belonging to
another : a foreign-born resident of a
country
in which he is not
naturalized
Therefore the term alien
means, more or less, somebody or something that
is
in the wrong place. It should be noted
that whilst extraterrestrial beings
might be
a sub-group of aliens, not all aliens are
(necessarily) extra-
terrestrial. Some people
use the term 'space aliens' to refer
explicitly
to extraterrestrial
beings.
1.05: Classification of UFO
Reports
-----------------------------------
The
main classification of UFO reports in use is
based upon one used by
Dr J. Allen Hynek in
his book "The UFO Experience" (Aberlard-Schuman
1972).
It should be noted that many other
classification systems have been devised
by
other researchers. Briefly the Hynek system
(with the most commonly used
extensions) is
:
NL (nocturnal light)
A simple visual
sighting of a unidentified flying light seen at
night.
This group contains 35 to 40 percent
of all UFO reports.
ND (nocturnal
disc)
A simple visual sighting of a
unidentified flying extended or
structured
light source seen at night. (This
is an extension to Hynek's system).
DD
(daylight disc)
A simple visual sighting of a
UFO with distinct shape seen during the
day.
Radar Cases
UFOs detected by
radar alone. In more recent years fewer cases
involving
radar have hit the press. This
could be because of a number of factors,
for
example the government is better at suppressing
these reports, or there
has been a change in
the nature of the phenomenon which makes it less
detectable or that many of the early reports
were the result of spurious
events and false
positives which are handled better by more
modern
equipment.
Radar Visual
Cases
UFOs observed visually whilst being
simulataneously on radar. From Hynek's
study
these make up 1 to 2% of reports.
Close
Encounters of the first kind (CE1, CEI)
As
first defined by Hynek, a CE1 is an observation
of a UFO within 150
yards.
Close
Encounters of the second kind (CE2, CEII)
A
UFO which leaves some form of physical
evidence
Example: A burn where the UFO
appeared to touch the ground or the finding
of material of unknown makeup.
Close
Encounters of the third kind (CE3, CEIII)
A
visual sighting of an occupant or entity
associated with a UFO. An
analysis by Hynek
of 650 reports found only 1% to be CE3. These
entities
are sometimes called
UFOnauts.
As well as entities seen inside
a craft, entities have been described as
sampling soil, rocks and plants or might
communicate with the witness.
These
witnesses are sometimes referred to as
contactees. As well as
communication, the
witness may report that they were invited on
board
a craft or even taken for a trip.
Although included with UFOs, when
dealing with contactees the researcher
is
dealing with a case of something clearly
identified by the witness as
some form of
craft (without specifying the origin of that
craft). Strictly
speaking the object is no
longer unidentified.
(Close Encounters
beyond the third kind are extensions to the
basic Hynek
system. Different authors have
used the same designation to mean different
things.)
Close Encounters of the
fourth kind (CE4, CEIV)
An abduction of an
individual by an alien being or race. The most
famous
of these being the abduction of Betty
and Barney Hill in September 1961.
(Hynek
included this case in his CE3 category.)
Although in recent
years abductions have,
because of their spectacular nature, received
a
great deal of publicity, they constitute
only a small proportion of all
UFO reports.
Close Encounters of the fifth kind (CE5,
CEV)
Sometimes used to represent a direct
contact or communication with alien
being or
race. For example: Billie Meier with the
Pleiadians, U.S.Govt.
with the Greys, or
channeling.
Other researchers have used
this classification for strange beings
that
have been reported, but without the
obvious presence of a 'craft'. These
beings
are generally seen in the witnesses house at
night. Their
description is similar to the
beings seen associated with UFOs in
abduction and contactee cases. Sometimes
they are called 'bedroom
visitors', the same
set of reports have been classified as CE0
(zero) and
CE9 by other groups of
researchers.
It must be remembered that,
after careful investigation, over 90% of UFO
reports can be reasonably explained as
manmade or natural phenomena. The
late
Charles H. Gibbs-Smith (aviation historian to
the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London) had
something he called Gibbs-Smith's rule which is
worth
keeping in mind when studying UFO
reports. It states that "the strangeness
of a
case increases in proportion to the distance, in
either time or
geographical distance, between
the investigator and the location of the
report."
=== 2. About UFOs and
Related
Phenomena
----------------------------------------
2.01:
When did it all
start?
----------------------------
The
modern era of UFO reports is held to have
started with the report by
a Boise, Idaho
business man, Kenneth Arnold. On 24th June 1947
near
Mount Rainier, Washington State he
reported nine strange objects flying
in
formation.
There were earlier reports
than this. During World War II pilots on
both
sides reported strange lights which
followed their aircraft. Each side
thought
that these were some secret weapon of the other
side. These became
known as Foo
Fighters.
There were earlier cases, but
these are more suspect. For example, in
the
year 810ad the emperor Charlemane is
reported as being thrown from his
horse when
it was startled by a silver ball which flew down
from the sky.
2.02: Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
(SETI)
------------------------------------------------------
For
many years there have been small unco-ordinated
projects to search for
evidence to
extraterrestrial life. These have been mainly by
looking for
unexpected radio transmissions
using radio-telescopes. Over the past
couple
of years NASA has funded a co-ordinated effort
to scan the whole
sky over a wide range of
frequencies. The SETI project was cut from
the
1994 NASA budget, however donations have
been obtained from a number of
individuals
which will allow it to continue as a private
project but at a
lower level of
activity.
2.03 What do we really know
about life elsewhere in the
universe?
-----------------------------------------------------------------
There
has been much speculation about life elsewhere
in the universe. Unless
UFO contactee and
abductee reports are evidence of visitation by
beings from
elsewhere in the universe, there
is very little evidence.
Much of the
speculation centres around something called tha
Drake Equation.
This attempts to estimate the
number of civilisations in the universe
by
using a number of inprecise variables. The
only planet where we have firm
evidence of
there being civilisation is a place called
Earth.
Evidence of planets around other
star systems has relied upon complex
calculations based upon minute variations in
the star's 'wobble' about its
axis. Recent
improvements in imaging systems have improved
the reliability
of these observations. It is
likely that the smallest extra-solar
planets
detected are two to three times the
mass of Jupiter. There is no
detailed
information on the structure or
conditions on these planets. It is not
known
if any of these planets could support life.
Many of the molecules believed to be
essential to the formation of life have
been
detected in interstellar space. Amino acids have
been found in some
meteorites. These tend to
be equal mixes of left and right handed
forms,
which is more likely to be the result
of a chemical rather than a
biological
process.
2.04: Marfa
Lights
------------------
Marfa lights are
balls of lights that appear, change different
colors
and dance around in the air. These
lights where named after the town
that they
have been appearing in, Marfa Texas. They have
also been sited
in other areas. Some theories
as to what they are include Ball
lighting,
Car headlights, and Alien space
ships. The last current sighting I'm
aware of
was Marfa Texas on September 1 1992.
A
small booklet on the Marfa Lights has been
written by Dennis Stacey,
editor of the MUFON
Journal, discussing many of the cases and the
theories.
For details contact the author or
MUFON.
Main Source: Sightings, FOX
Network airdate September 25, 1992
2.05:
Men In Black
(MIB)
------------------------
These are a
group of individuals who are said to wear black
suits and
drive and fly around in unmarked
black cars and helicopters. They go
about
threatening people who have claimed to have seen
UFOs into not
talking about what they
witnessed.
The very first occurrence of
MIB was traced to a man named Albert
K.
Bender. He was the editor of a flying
saucer publication called the
"Space Review"
In the October 1953 issue he placed an
announcement
stating that he had come across
information that would solve the
flying
saucer mystery but they could not
print it because they were ordered not
to.
They then ended the announcement warning others
in saucer work to be
"very cautious" they
then stopped their publications. Later in
an
interview Bender stated that "three men
wearing dark suits" had ordered
him to stop
publishing flying saucer material, and that he
had complied
with the order because he had
been "scared to death" of them. He
later
published a book called "Flying Saucers
and the Three Men in Black"
Mains Source:
"A Review of MIBS (Men In Black) : A History"
ParaNet File
Number: 00171 Published 1991 by
ParaNet Information Service
Also see:
Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black by
Albert K. Bender
2.06: Tectonic Strain
Theory
(TST)
----------------------------------
A
theory of electromagnetic effects upon the human
brain and/or the
physical environment, such
that all Forteana including UFOs, ghosts,
ESP,
sasquatch, and religious fervour can be
explained as being caused by
seismic activity
generating electromagnetic radiation which in
turn makes
people think they are witnesses to
an anomalous event. Alternatively, the
EMM
radiation can luminesce so that it appears as a
UFO. Chief
proponent: Michael Persinger. A
variant is the "Earth Lights"
hypothesis
described by Paul
Devereux.
Main Source:
rutkows@ccu.UManitoba.CA (Chris
Rutkowski)
2.07:
UFOnauts
--------------
A term used by
the UFO community in reference to the alien
abductors or
extraterrestrials.
2.08:
Unusual Ground Markings
(UGM)
-----------------------------------
A
broad term which includes crop circles, "tripod
marks", saucer nests,
burn marks, etc.
Main Source: rutkows@ccu.UManitoba.CA
(Chris Rutkowski)
2.09:
USAF
----------
United States Air
Force
2.10:
Zine
----------
magazine or newsletter
pertaining to a specific subject.
circlezine
- Crop Circle publication
ufozine - UFO
publication
=== 3. Alien Races
---------------------
These are often
talked about in books, Publications and on this
discussion
group. [Much of this material is
high speculative - SG]
Over the years
many different researchers have made studies of
contactee,
abduction and other cases where
entities have been described associated
with
flying saucers or other UFOs. These
researchers have produced reports
which
describe around 12 different types of
alien.
The most widely reported type of
alien is a small grey being
approximately
1.0m-1.25m in height, with
large oval black eyes. Reports of this type
have
been widely reported by the media,
perhaps as a result of the books by
Budd
Hopkins, David Jacobs and Whitley
Streiber.
Many abductees have described
meeting european looking aliens, around
1.75m
tall with long blond hair. These aliens are
often referred to as
'Venusians'. They were
first reported by George Adamski reporting a
series
of encounters in the early 1950s. He
stated that they told him they were
from
Venus and the name has stuck since.
The
Channelers believe that the abductions are part
of a battle between
good energy forces and
evil energy forces.
3.00:
Arcturus
--------------
Members of
Confederations of Humans [will do more research
later]
Main Source: A Cosmic Awareness
Channel from "Revelations of Awareness"
Issue
# 371
3.01: Aryans
(Blondes)
----------------------
Blond
Nordic Humanoids who work with the greys. Said
to be captured by
the Reptoids and also have
implants. They are said to have a tendency
to
switch their loyalties between the
Reptoids and the Confederations of
Humans.
Main Source: A Cosmic Awareness Channel
from "Revelations of Awareness"
Issue #
371
3.02: Blues (Star
Warriors)
----------------------------
The
Blues are said to have translucent skin, large
almond shaped eyes and
small of stature. The
main issue of their teaching was PURSUE
YOUR
PASSION, follow your own way, do your
own thing, don't be pressured into
being
anything but what and who you are.
The
information about the Blues comes from Robert
Morningsky a
Hopi/Apache dancer. According to
Morningsky the first alien contact
started
about 1947 - 1948 with the Greys contacting the
U.S. Government
to form a treaty with them.
Another body of Aliens arrived, called
the
Blues. The Blues advised the government
not to deal with the greys saying
it would
only lead to disaster. They told the U.S. to
follow your own
path. They said they would
would teach with peace and harmony if
men
would disarm and listen. The military
said no deal. So they left, but a
few decided
to remain and stayed in Northern Mexico and
Arizona and made
a treaty with the Hopi
Indians. These Aliens are known by the Hopi
as
Star Warriors. The greys started
monitoring the Blues. So the Blues had
to
flee the reservation and go into hiding, a few
of the Elders went with
them.
The Hopi
legend is that there were two races, the
children of the feather
who came from the
skies, and the children of the reptile who came
from
under the earth. The children of the
reptile chased the Hopi Indians out
of the
earth, these evil under-grounders were also
called two hearts.
Main Source: Post
from: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) "FILE:
Star
Warriors",Forwarded from "contact" by
Sande Van der Straten, to Cathy
Emerson,
Dated 23 Aug 1992, 19:29
Also See:
American Indian Magic by Brad
Steiger
3.03: Confederation of
Humans
------------------------------
An
organization of alien groups born out of
positive energy, that are
helping the human
race along and desire to protect them.
Includes:
Vega, Arcturus, Sirius, Pleiades
and other humanoids.
Main Source: A
Cosmic Awareness Channel from "Revelations of
Awareness"
Issue # 371
3.04:
Greys
-----------
This is the most
commonly identified alien race in UFOlogy. Their
are
many different views, stories and
theories regarding them ranging from
the
different New Age views to the different
Scientific, and
conspiracy
views.
Greys as presented
by the Scientific Community:
The Greys are
the most commonly described race by abduction
victims. In
this view they are considered a
race with an unknown motives, and
agendas.
They seem to be abducting, studying, testing and
using various
individuals for their one
unclear reasons. [See: Abductions and
Current
Theories]
Greys as presented
by the New Age Movement:
In the new age
movement the Greys are often associated as an
evil race,
or a race with bad energy. They
are often associated with many other
races,
such as the Reptoids and their motives are
known.
Greys as presented by Different
Conspiracy Theories
The different conspiracy
theories are often a mix of the scientific
and
new age views. The standard conspiracy
base states that the Greys crashed
one or
more of their space ships and they were found by
the U.S.
Government. The Government them
makes a secret treaty with the Greys
allowing
them to abduct humans in exchange for their
technology. The
conspiracy theories often end
with the Greys not keeping their part of
the
deal. [I will try and include some of the
different conspiracy
theories when I have
more time to research them in
detail]
Their are descriptions of several
types of Greys: they are all humanoid
in
appearance, a head, main body, two arms,
hands, legs, and feet.
1: The most
commonly seen grey is around two to four feet
tall, very
slender and delicate looking,
small beings and light weight,
extremely
penetrating black slanted eyes with
no pupils, almost vestigial mouth
and nose, a
very large head with a pointed chin. The skin
color varies
from dark grey to light grey,
tan to tanish grey, white to pale white.
They
have no hair on their bodies.
2: Another
commonly seen Grey is described similarly as
above, except
their usually six inches
taller, and seem to give the orders. A
variation
of this same described individual
is: same as above except eyes like big
black
buttons and are rounded.
3: Another type
of Grey are the small robot like beings, stocky
and
little, with smooth rounded hat on top,
with dark deep set holes for eyes
and a round
O shaped mouth, square breastplate with
concentric circles on
it, smell like burnt
match heads, mushroom grey skin. These Greys
are
often said to act like security
guards.
Other variations are described as
Reptilian like with claws an preying
mantis
like. There have also been many report of cross
breeds that are
not exactly human and not
exactly Greys.
Main Sources:
Secret
Life, by David M. Jacobs
Communion, by
Whitley Strieber
A Cosmic Awareness Channel
from "Revelations of Awareness" Issue #
371
Also See:
Missing Time, by Budd
Hopkins
Intruders, by Budd
Hopkins
3.05: Orion Empire (Orion
forces)
---------------------------------
Those
alien groups born out of negative energy such as
the Reptoids and
the grays. [If this is wrong
someone please correct me, I'll do
more
research on this later]
Main
Source: A Cosmic Awareness Channel from
"Revelations of Awareness"
Issue #
371
3.06:
Pleiadians
----------------
The
Pleiadians are a collective of extraterrestrials
from the star system
Pleiades. They are also
from various times in our future, starting
from
500 years from now to millions of years
from now. The Pleiadian culture
is ancient
and was "seeded" from another universe of love
long before
Earth was created. They have
formed a tremendous society which
operates
with love, with ideas and ideals
that we are yet unfamiliar with.
The
Pleiadians started a project to contact and
inspire earth humans to
take back their power
and create a better reality for themselves.
They
are here as ambassadors from another
universe to help Earth through her
transition
from the third dimension to the fourth dimension
and to assist
each of us in our personal
endeavors of awakening, remembering
and
knowing. As this project has become more
successful, more ETs have
joined the group,
some from other systems. The group later changed
its
name from Pleiadians to the Pleiadians
Plus.
The Pleiadians say that their
reasons for contacting us is that there is
a
chance of tyranny in the future and they are
coming back to inspire us
as much as possible
so we will take charge of creating our own
reality
and change the future.
They teach
a very empowering form of personal and social
metaphysics,
with love and clarity. The
Pleiadians speak as a collective and there
are
no individuals identified. They do not
appear in physical form although
they say
they can. They say it is safer to come through
the channel, and
it does not attract as much
attention.
Billie Meier's Contact
from the Pleiades
Billie Meier was contacted
over 130 times between 1976 and 1982 by
a
female named Samjese who said she was from
the star system Pleiades. She
was the first
to telepathically contact Meier and tell him
where to go
for the first physical contact.
Meier had indepth conversations with
Samjese.
The contact notes are published in following
four books and are
out of print:
UFO
... Contact from the Pleiades Vol I & II
Photo Journals (Vol I is in
its second
printing.)
UFO ... Contact from the Pleiades
Prilimary Investigation Report
UFO ...
Contact from the Pleiades Supplementary
Investigation Report
Message From the
Pleiades Vol 1 & 2 Light Years
There
are 4 videos available on the Pleiades case.
Contact $59.
The Beamship Trilogy $99.
The videos are available from:
Genesis
III Publishing, P.O. Drawer JJ, Munds Park, AZ
86017
[Also see: The Pleiades
Project]
There is also a book available
called Bringers of the Dawn - Teachings
from
the Pleiadians by Barbara Marciniak. They also
have 2 to 3 hundred
tapes
available.
Main source:
Information
given by Don_-_Showen@cup.portal.com
Connecting Link Magazine Pleiadian article,
Channeled by Barbara Marciniak
3.07:
Sirius
-------------
Members of
Confederations of Humans [will do more research
later]
Main Source: A Cosmic Awareness
Channel from "Revelations of Awareness"
Issue
# 371
3.08:
Reptoids
---------------
A reptilian race
from Draco bent on conquest, They are said to
be
controling the greys by means of an
implant, the same one that the gray
are
implanting into humans. They are also said to be
the master minds
behind the abduction plans.
Their master plan involves using the
newly
created 'Half-breeds' with implants to
defeat the Confederations of
Humans. The
Reptoids also use humans as food. [Does this
remind you of
the movie V?]
Main
Source: A Cosmic Awareness Channel from
"Revelations of Awareness"
Issue #
371
3.09:
Vega
----------
Members of Confederations
of Humans [will do more research
later]
Main Source: A Cosmic Awareness
Channel from "Revelations of Awareness"
Issue
# 371
=== Abductions and Current
Theories
-----------------------------------
4.00:
About
Abductions
----------------------
About
Abductions
----------------------
There
are many people who believe they have been
abducted by UFOnauts.
These abduction victims
often experience memory loss and "missing
time".
some of them have been able to recall
their abductions from memory and
others have
recalled their abductions by the aid of
hypnosis. Often these
encounters involve
being taken aboard an alien craft and examined
by the
UFOnauts and put through a variety of
physical and mental procedures.
Then the
individuals are returned. Many of the abduction
victims have
shown signs of Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder.
Some of the major
researchers who have studied the abduction
field
include Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, Leo
Sprinkle, John Mack, Philip Klass,
John
Spencer and Jenny Randles.
The opinions
of some skeptics such as Klass believe that the
hypnotists
themselves are leading the
abduction victims unknowingly into
believing
that they have had an abduction
experience. The skeptics believe that the
the
media has been saturated so much with the
abduction material that when
people having
nightmares or people who believe that they have
experienced
the "missing time" are put under
hypnosis, they draw upon what they have
seen
in the media to fulfill the expectations of the
hypnotist and
causes themselves to be put
trough the trauma for that reason. They
say
the nightmares are often caused by the
sleeping disorder narcolepsy, and
the
"missing time" is not an uncommon experience and
is caused when the
mind is preoccupied by
other matters. They often give the advice to go
to
clinical doctors, and not to contact an
abductionist.
Other researchers such as
Jacobs and Hopkins believe that there
is
something physical causing the abduction
experiences. Hopkins has stated
that he
believes that the abduction are real and that
the recounts of the
abductions are to similar
to each other to be anything but the
truth.
Jacobs takes a slightly different
approach, he has been categorizing all
the
accounts and trying to find patterns in the
testimonies.
There people on the net who
believe they have had personal
experiences
with Alien contacts or
abductions. Some have posted accounts of
their
experiences. Many others decline to
post due to attacks by skeptics.
There
has been possible material evidence of UFOs or
Alien contacts. There
are abundant material
traces, even excepting those confiscated by
the
military. Material traces include burned
grass and earth where UFOs have
landed, UFOs
shown on radar tapes, UFOs on film and in
photos. Bodily
traces on abductees include
scoop-marks in the flesh, incisions,
burns,
apparent radiation exposure, bruises,
inflammation, etc. Whether any of
these is
considered *evidential*, however, is a
subjective value call.
For anyone who
is interested in abduction help
call:
Bill Knell
Director of Island
Skywatch
(718)591-1854 (New York)
He
can get you in touch with the right people in
your area and has a lot
of videos, tapes and
books on UFOs and abductions. He is also a
very
experienced
researcher/investigator.
Main
Sources:
UFO-Abductions: A Dangerous Game, by
Philip Klass
Secret Life, by David M.
Jacobs
Communion, by Whitley
Strieber
dfs30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Denise
Solis)
A Cosmic Awareness Channel from
"Revelations of Awareness" Issue #
371
Also See:
Missing Time, by Budd
Hopkins
Intruders, by Budd
Hopkins
Perspectives by John Spencer
Alien
Abductions: Mystery Solved by Jenny
Randiles
===
UFOlogists
--------------
5:00: Hopkins,
Budd
------------------
Budd Hopkins
graduated from Oberlin college. He is also a
painter and
sculptor. He has been
investigating UFO reports for the last 12
years.
Budd became interested in UFOs after
seeing one himself many years ago.
His
primary area of study is UFO
abductions.
Budd Hopkins c/o Random
House
201 E. 50th Street
New York, NY
10022
5:01: Jacobs, Dr David
----------------------
David Jacobs is an
Associate Professor of History at temple
University.
He has worked with over 300 UFO
abduction witnesses. He works closely
with a
number of other abduction researchers including
Budd Hopkins.
Dr. Jacobs moderates an
abduction conference on ParaNet, and is
accessible
via their dial-up BBS node
(303-431-8797) or on Internet through a
list
server. [See ParaNet]
Dr. David
Jacobs
Department of History
Temple
University
Philadelphia, Pa
19122
5:02: Klass, Philip J.
----------------------
For thirty-five
years a senior editor with Aviation Week and
Space
Technology magazine, is recognized as
the world's leading skeptical
authority in
Unidentified Flying Objects and has written
three books on
the subject. Klass, a graduate
electrical engineer, is a founding Fellow
of
the Committeee for the Scientific Investigation
of Claims of the
Paranormal. He was honored
in 1973 for his accuracy as a
techjournalist
by being named a Fellow at the
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics
Engineers.
Main Source:
The about the author paragraph in
UFO-Abductions: A Dangerous
Game, by Philip
Klass, C1988
5.03: Spencer, John
L.
----------------------
John Spencer
has been a Council member of the British UFO
Research Association
since 1980 and has
written a number of books on UFOs and the
Paranormal. Apart
from books published in his
own right, he has co-edited with Hilary Evans
"Phenomenon" and "UFOs 1947-87". He may be
contacted at :
The Leys, 2c Leyton Road,
Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2TL, U.K.
5:04:
Marciniak, Barbara J.
---------------------------
Barbara J.
Marciniak is an internationally known trance
channel from
North Carolina. She began
channeling in 1988. The strength and purity
of
the message she is bringing very quickly
captured the hearts of many
seekers looking
to be all that they can be. Barbara has
channeled at
various Expos and for groups
across the United States, in Peru and
in
Germany.
You may contact Barbara
at:
Bold Connections Connecting Link
Magazine
P. O. Box 6521, 9392 Whitneyville
Rd.
Raleigh, NC 27628. Alto, MI. 49302-9694
5:05: Randles,
Jenny
--------------------
Jenny
Randles
37 Heathbank Road
Stockport,
Cheshire SK3 0UP
=== UFO Projects
& Theories &
Controversies
--------------------------------------------
There
are many theories of UFO origins. These include
that UFOs (and
associated aliens) are some
form of advanced technology,
perhaps
extraterrestrial; that UFOs might be
time travellers; that UFOs might
be some form
of new natural phenomenon; and the UFOs might be
some form
of psychic phenomenon.
In
common with other cases where there are more
than two theories to
explain an event,
nobody really knows what the true explanation
is.
6.00: Aurora Project or "deep black"
projects
----------------------------------------------
The
"Black Projects" are governmental projects that
are considered
technological secrets. These
can range from laser and particle beams
to
top secret aircraft. The "Aurora Project"
is the name given to one of
these types of
projects by the industry experts involving two
new types
of reported aircraft. These
aircraft where observed in the south west
US
and are said to have been developed at
highly classified government
facilities in
the Nevada desert. There are two types of
advanced aircraft
reported.
One is
nick named the "Pulser" aircraft. There have
been many sights of
this aircraft by several
different witnesses. When sighted it
has
repetitively been described as "A
high-speed aircraft characterized by a
very
loud, deep, rumbling engine noise (1-2 Hz pulse
rate) reminiscent of
heavy-lift rockets." The
smoke trail of the aircraft is described
as
being segmented and in a linked sausage
shape. (Or another good example
would be to
look at one side of your coat zipper, un-zipped,
with the
teeth facing you) It is also
described as a high-altitude aircraft
that
crossed the sky at extremely high
speeds. Both ground based and
airborne
observers have reported it to be
seen flying at altitudes above 50,000
ft.
observers have reported see the aircraft as a
single bright light
that seldom changed
direction, however speed changes where observed.
One
observer estimated that it covered 350
miles in 6 minutes.
(3500
miles/hr)
This this aircraft
may indeed exist. There has been research in to
what
are called Pulsed Detonation Engines
(PED's) also refereed to as Pulsed
Detonation
Wave Engines. These are different type of engine
than the
pulse jet engines, which is already
publicly know, and has been tested
in
aircraft. The PED's are said to be in
laboratory and computer analysis
level of
development (reported oct of 91) The PED's
exhaust emission
produces smoke trails that
closely match the pulser aircraft.
Simulations
of theses engines are said to be
able to propel large aircraft in the
"Mach
0.2-3.0 flight regime"
How PED's work:
PED's use shock waves created in a detonation to
compress
the fuel-oxidizer mixture prior to
combustion. A cylinder chamber
designed to
support the detonation is constructed with a
flat forward end
which makes up the thrust
wall. Air along with fuel is fed into
the
engine from behind the thrust-wall. The
detonation wave created travels
forward to
the thrust wall at about Mach 4 and compresses
the fuel-air
mixture, promotes supersonic
combustion and causes a pressure rise in
the
engine. The wave then strikes the thrust
wall and rebounds accelerating
the combustion
products towards the nozzle. Some of the
products are
ejected by the wave to the
outside air-stream through the air
inlet
openings creating a toroidal vortex out
side the engine. Then the
cycle
repeats.
The said advantages of
this type of engine are:
* Theoretically a
higher fuel efficiency than a "constant pressure
engine"
* Engines can be produced in many
sizes and thrust outputs from a few
inches
in diameter at a thrust of several pounds to
larger one that can
output in the thousands
of pounds range.
* They have high thrust to
weight ratio (ie.lighter engine, more thrust)
* They are mechanically simple, and have few
moving parts.
* They could operate in or out
of the atmosphere using fuel
oxidizers.
There is very little
information on the other reported aircraft. It
is
reported as "A triangular-shaped, quiet
aircraft". This craft has been
seen by many
observers and flying with several F-117 stealth
aircraft.
Main Sources:
Aviation
Week & Space Technologies, (Oct 1, 90
pp20-23) &
(oct 28, 91
pp68-69)
Also See:
Aviation Week &
Space Technologies [please note: one of these
dates is a
December 24, 1990 pg. 41-44 couple
days off, on the actual
June 20, 1991 pg.
20-21 magazine date.]
March 9, 1992 pg.
66-67
May 11, 1992 pg. 62-63
6.02:
NASA Footage September
10th
---------------------------------
Space
Ice or an alien craft dodging a missile. That's
the big debate on
the footage taken by an
unmanned camera on the space shuttle. One
side
says that it is space Ice accelerated by
the space shuttles thrusters.
The other side
says the excelleration of some the objects don't
follow
the correct paths don't match physics.
They speculate its a alien craft
dodging a
Starwars missile.
Main source: Sightings,
FOX Network, airdate September 25,
1992
6.03: Planetoid
(Wormwood)
--------------------------
Beyond
Pluto astronomers believe there is a ring of ice
chunks circling
the solar system 37 to 59
A.U. from the sun. They have called the
ice
belt the Kuiper belt. Beyond that
astronomers say there is a similarly
composed
Oort cloud which forms a sphere around our
planetary system that
stretches two light
years in distance. A tiny red spot of light
was
recorded in hawaii in October of 92,
which is thought to be the first
component of
the Kuiper belt ever observed. The object was
named 1992 QB1.
It is about 200 km across and
5.1 billion km away from the sun (41.2
a.u.).
The object is fairly red, suggesting a surface
rich in organics.
The current position is,
for 0h UT on September 15, 1992: 0h
00.09+0d
01'.7 (2000.0). It is moving
retrograde at only 3" per hour. David
Jewitt
and Jane Luu discovered it using the
University of Hawaii's 2.2-meter
telescope on
Mauna Kea. They have been searching for such an
object for
the last five years. The first
images were secured August 30, but just
as
with the discovery of Pluto in 1930 the
discovery was kept "under wraps"
for awhile
to allow a better assessment. Jewitt believes it
to be one of
the larger members of the Kuiper
belt. Jewitt says that it will take
two
months to confirm the
object.
Another theory involving the
planetoid comes to us from channelers. It
is
a hollowed out body that was moved here by
the Reptoids, in order to
transport an army
of Grays or Reptoids. [sorry, I'm not sure
which, I
haven't had a chance to research
this in-depth] It is now parked outside
the
orbit of Pluto. It is currently being used as a
base by the
Reptoids.
Then there is
also the theory that the planetoid may be the
star that is
mentioned in the Bible as
"Wormwood" (also translated as
"bitterness");
which when the "third angel"
in the book of Revelation blew his
trumpet,
fell to the earth and poisoned one
third of the earths waters.
Another
interesting fact is that "chernobyl"
(as in the Nuclear power plant in
"Russia"
that had a meltdown) in Ukranian also means
Wormwood.
Main Source:
"Beyond Pluto"
by MichaaelD. Lemonick, p. 59, Time Magazine
Sep. 28, 92
"#Object beyond Pluto",
Compuserve article #110734 S14/News/Current
Events
by Roger Sinnott, 14-Sep-92
A
Cosmic Awareness Channel from "Revelations of
Awareness" Issue # 371
Bible, Revelation
chapter 8 Verses 10 & 11
6.04:US
Government Offical
Studies
----------------------------------
On
Sep 30, 1947 Lt General Twining of ACM expressed
his opinion that there
was sufficient
substance in reports to warrant a study on UFOs.
On Dec.
23, 1947 Project Sign was established
to collect, collate, evaluate,
and
disseminate all information concerning
UFO sightings and phenomena.
Project sign
completed it evaluations in Feb of 1949 and
concluded "No
definite and conclusive
evidence is yet available that would prove
or
disprove the existence of these UFOs as
real aircraft of unknown and
unconventional
configuration." Project Sign was changed to
Project Grudge
on Dec.16, 1948. Project
Grudge recommended that the investigation
and
study of UFO reports be reduce in scope.
In early 1950 UFO reports by the
public
increased. This prompted Project Grudge to be
changed to Project
Blue Book in March of
1952.
Project Blue Book goals were :-
1: To find an explanation for all the
reported sighting of UFO's.
2: To determine
if the UFO posed any security threat to the
United States.
3: To determine if UFO's
exhibit any advanced technology which the
U.S. could utilize.
In 1966 the USAF
commisioned a report on UFOs from the University
of
Colorado. This project was headed by Dr
Edward Condon. Condon was a well
respected
physicist who gather a panel of experts from a
variety of fields
to assist him. They
reported in 1969, the report being referred to
as the
Scientific Study of Unidentified
Flying Objects, also known as the Condon
Report. They concluded:-
1: There is
no evidence that any UFOs are "extraterrestrial
vehicles"
2: No UFO has ever given any
indication of a threat to the
national
security.
3: There is no evidence that UFO's
represent technological
developments or
principals beyond present-day scientific
knowledge.
As a result the USAF closed
down Project Bluebook. Although it has been
suggested on many occasions that some
members of the panel had deceided the
conclusions of the study before the work
started there is evidence that at
least
Condon took the task seriously. He appears to
have joined a number of
different civilian
UFO research groups, including the British UFO
Research
Association, around the world.
Main Source:
Project Blue Book: The
Top Secret UFO Findings Revealed,
By Brad
Steiger, 1976
sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert
Sheaffer)
BUFORA Journal, Summer
1974
6.05: Roswell Crash
Incident
----------------------
On the
night of 2nd July 1947, Mac Brazel a rancher
from near Corona, New
Mexico heard a loud
crash. The next day he went out Horseback riding
with
a neighbour and came upon a field with
debris scattered about. The debris
field was
3/4 of a mile long and 300 feet wide. It was
oriented in a
northwest to southeast
direction. There was a gouge in the northwest
side
of the debris field that was 500 feet
long and 10 feet wide. The debris on
the
field mostly consisted of I-beams and parchment
like, paper thin pieces
of metal material.
The material was very light in weight, a dull
gray in
color, and most pieces were 6 to 7
inches in length. Some pieces that were
even
thinner than paper could not be broken in half,
cut or burnt.
Mac Brazel collected
several pieces of the debris and went back to
his
ranch. On July 6, Brazel went into
Roswell to report what he had seen
and to
show a piece of the debris to sheriff Wilcox.
The sheriff decided
to call the local air
base. During this time Frank Joyce called in
from
the local radio station to see if
anything newsworthy was happening
around
town. Brazel gave him the information about what
he had found.
Major Jesse A. Marcel and a
few other military personal arrived from
the
base only a few minutes after the sheriff had
finished talking to
the people at the base.
Brazel and the military personal left and
went
back to the Ranch. The next morning
(July 7) they went to the crash
sight. The
military retrieved some of the debris and
returned to Roswell.
On July 8, the
military came back and sealed off the area, They
took
Brazel into custody. That same day they
found a second crash site two
and 1/2 miles
southeast of the first. Barney Barnett and
4
archaeologists had stumbled onto the new
site a few minutes before the
military had
arrived there. At the site they found a "pretty
good sized
metallic dull gray object" and 4
small alien bodies. They were 4 to 5
feet
tall, with large pear shaped heads, small bodies
and skinny arms
and legs. They had two large
eyes, no ears and no hair. Their skin
was
pinkish grey and leathery. They were
wearing a one piece grey suits. The
civilians
were escorted out of the area when the military
arrived.
On July 9th the military
escorted Brazel to the radio station ,
there
he told Frank Joyce that he saw a
weather balloon. He left again with
the
military and didn't get back to his ranch
until around July 15. Later
when asked about
what had happened Brazel said he had given a
oath and
could not talk about it.
The
Incident remained closed and the public and UFO
research
organizations at large accepted the
weather balloon story until 1970 when
Jesse
A. Marcel broke the silence and told his part in
the story.
The case has been extensively
researched by Stanton Friedman and
independantly
by the team of Kevin Randle and
Don Schmitt. Between them they have
discovered
around 200 witnesses who claim to
have been involved in the recovery
or
subsequent handling of the Roswell
material. Researcher John Keel has
suggested
that the Roswell material might be
the remains of a Japanesse Feugo balloon,
a
balloon with a bomb attached launched
towards the USA during World War 2.
These
were still being discovered in remote
parts of the USA in the late 1940s.
In
1994 at the request of US Senator Steven Schiff
the General Audit Office
started an enquiry
into the incident and subsequent cover-up. The
GAO
required the US Air Force to reopen the
enquiry. After a nine month study
the Air
Force announced that the Roswell object had not
been a weather balloon
but a balloon involved
in a top secret project to study Soviet
missile
launches. Many UFO investigators
remain unconvinced by this
explanation.
Main source: UFO Crash at
Roswell by Kevin D. Randle & Donald R.
Schmitt
Published 1991 by Avon
Books
=== UFO Movies, Documentaries
and TV
Programs
--------------------------------------------
=
7.00: TV Programs
------------
7.01: E. T.
Monitor (the Keystone Inspirational
Network)
--------------------------------------------------------
-
A program that originates from Pennsylvania, it
has a pre-recorded
and a live section. The
person who runs it sells packets of books
by
mail-order. He likes to think that he is
presenting irrefutable proof not
only of the
existence of UFOs but also of the Government's
Conspiracy to
keep them secret and frequently
features people like Randall Terry.
Main
Source: COSJOAA@YALEVM.BITNET
7.02: Hard
Copy (??)
--------------------
- Belgian
UFO's, 1990
- more European
7.03:
Intruders
---------------
- CBS miniseries
June? 1992,
Based off Budd Hopkins book
Intruders
7.04: National Geographic
(PBS)
-------------------------------
-
English Crop Circles, 1991
7.05:
sightings (FOX)
---------------------
-
Crop circles 1992
- Mexico video Sightings,
Sept 11, 1992
- NASA Shuttle UFO/(debated Ice
chunk), July? 1992
7.06: UFO Incident,
The
-----------------------
- NBC Oct 20,
1975,
- the Betty Hill abduction story Based
on the book "Interrupted
Journey: Two lost
hours aboard a flying saucer" by John
Fuller
7.07: Unsolved Mysteries
(NBC)
------------------------------
-
Eupen, Belgium UFO, 1991
- Cash/Landrum UFO,
1990
- 1965 Kecksburg, PA UFO, 1990
-
Widthville, W VA UFO, 1992
= 7.08: UFO
VIDEOS
------------------
7.09: Close Up
--------------
- interview w/ two Rhode
Island UFO enthusiasts 885-0366, 1992
MUFON
Box 1122, Davisville, RI 02854
7.10:
Communion
---------------
-Based off the
book Communion bu Whitley Strieber
7.11:
UFO Coverup Live
----------------------
-
UFO film from Guatemala, 1988
(Note from
plw@ssd.ray.com: most convincing footage I've
seen)
7.12: UFO
Documentary
---------------------
- Jesse
Marcel interview, 1982
7.13: UFO, The
Films Prove It
-----------------------------
-A melange
of television tapes, 1992
7.14: UFO
Review - The
Researchers
----------------------------------
Published
by D.M.P., PO Box 314, Penn, High Wycombe,
Bucks
HP10, U.K. This is a collection of
interviews with leading
UFO researchers
including Cynthia Hind, John Spencer and
Budd
Hopkins.
=== UFO Magazines and
Publications
(UFOzines)
---------------------------------------------
[I
will include the magazines from the UFO groups
later]
8.00: The
Circular
------------------
58 Kings Rd.,
West
End, Woking, Surrey GU24 9LW, England
8.01: The
Cerealogist
---------------------
20 Paul
St., Frome, Somerset,
BA11 1DX,
England
8.02: Connecting Link
Magazine
------------------------------
Connecting
Link Magazine
9392 Whitneyville Rd.
Alto,
MI. 49302-9694
8.03:
CONTINUUM
---------------
The official
news magazine for ParaNet and MICAP. It is
published quarterly
and provides
thought-provoking information and articles
written by leading
UFOlogists. This magazine
provides global insight and reflects
material
carried over the world-wide ParaNet
Information Service network.
Subscriptions
are $18.00/year and are available by sending
checks for U.S.
funds to: ParaNet, Box 172,
Wheat Ridge, CO 80034-0172.
8.04: The
Crop Watcher
---------------------
3
Selborne Court, Tavistock Close, Romsey,
Hampshire, SO517TY, England
8.05:
Earth
-----------
61 Ranelagh, Ave.,
Bradford, BD10 0HF, UK.
8.06: The
Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society
of the
Atlantic
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The
Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society
of the Atlantic
(EJASA) is published monthly
by the Astronomical Society of the
Atlantic,
Incorporated. The ASA is a
non-profit organization dedicated to
the
advancement of amateur and professional
astronomy and space exploration,
as well as
the social and educational needs of its
members.
ASA membership application is
open to all with an interest in astronomy
and
space exploration. Members receive the Journal
of the ASA and the
Astronomical League's
REFLECTOR magazine. Members may also
purchase
discount subscriptions to ASTRONOMY
and SKY & TELESCOPE magazines.
For
information on membership, you may contact the
Society at any of the
following
addresses:
Astronomical Society of the
Atlantic (ASA)
c/o Center for High Angular
Resolution Astronomy (CHARA)
Georgia State
University (GSU)
Atlanta, Georgia 30303,
U.S.A.
Phone: (404) 264-0451 leave your
address and/or receive the latest
Society
news.
Internet:
asa@chara.gsu.edu
Modem:
ASA
BBS: (404) 564-9623, 300/1200/2400
Baud.
Back issues of the EJASA are also
available from anonymous FTP
at:
chara.gsu.edu (131.96.5.29)
8.07:
The Faithist
Journal
--------------------------
Kosmon
Publishing
2324 Suffock Avenue
Kingman,
Arizona 86401
C. Benfield
(President)
Kasandra Kares (Editor)
Publication is The Faithist Journal
Founded in 1970
A non-profit organization
which publishes "The Faithist
Journal"
(Bi-Monthly), magazines and books
dealing with New Age topics,
including
UFOs.
8.08:
Focus
-----------
William L. Moore
Publications & Research
See: Fair
Witness Project, Inc.
4219 West Olive Avenue
Suite #247
Burbank, California 91505
Williarn L. Moore
213-463-0542
Publishing entity for
Antares Publishing, The Fair Witness Project,
Inc.,
and "Focus" magazine (which specializes
in UFOs, New Age, Metaphysical, and
Occult
research; offers a substantial listing of books,
government document
reprints, papers,
pamphlets, back issues of George Van
Tassel's
"Proceedings of the College of
Universal Wisdom" newsletter, research
files,
folios, back issues of "Focus" (the Fair Witness
Project
newsletter), cassette tapes, and
video tapes for sale.Discounts on
various
items are available to booksellers
and other qualifie buyers."Focus"
subscribers
are entitled to a 25% discount on all items
8.09: Fortean
Times
-------------------
1 Shoebury
Road, London E6 2AQ UK.
8.10: Inner
Light
-----------------
Inner Light
Publications
Box 753 New Brunswick,
New
Jersey 08903 Publications
Timothy Green
Beckley (Publisher & Editor)
Publication
is Inner Light
A diverse entity which
publishes numerous UFO-related books,
periodicals,
tapes, etc., "UFO Review"
magazine and the monthly "Inner Light"
magazine;
also sponsors numerous UFO
conferences and symposiums throughout the
United
States.
8.11: International UFO
Library Magazine
----------------------------------------
11684
Ventura Blvd. #708 Studio City, CA 91604.
8.12: Magonia
-------------
5
James Terrace, London SW14 8HB, UK.
8.13:
Orvotron
Newsletter
-------------------------
orvotron
bi-monthly newsletter
Solinus and Kortron
We are pleased to send a "Love Copy" of
the most current newsletter to
anyone you
think will be interested. Just pass your
friend's name and
address on to us and we
will mail out the issue compliments of you.
Back
issues contain much information which is
still relevant and may provide
some clarity
on subjects discussed in subsequent newsletters.
Love
donations (which should be made payable
to Judith A. Wells) are greatly
appreciated
and go to Spirit's work to create Heaven on
Earth.
A subscription also entitles you
to log-on the Spirit Bulletin Board
Service,
a computer/modem system with files on alternate
energy,
UFO/extraterrestrial happenings,
politics, science, medical information,
the
conspiracy and much more. The files are updated
frequently and we
encourage you to use and
contribute to this "library at your
fingertips".
You may access this information
24 hours a day by calling via
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For a year's
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8.14: Ovni
Presence
-------------------
CP 342,
CH-1800, Vevey 1, Switzerland.
8.15:
Revelations of
Awareness
------------------------------
"Revelations
of Awareness" published by Cosmic Awareness
Communications
(CAC).
Revelations of
Awareness is a Newsletter that covers UFO as
they relate
to channeling and the New Age
movement. All the information given in
the
newsletter is information recorded from
channeling sessions. The format
of of the
news letter begins with a question asked of the
Cosmic
Awareness, then replies are given by
the Awareness through the rest of
the news
letter starting out with the phrase "This
Awareness indicates..."
The following
Statement appears at the top of every
Issue:
Cosmic Awareness is the force that
expressed Itself through Jesus of
Nazareth,
the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Edgar Cayce and
other great
avatars who served as 'Channels'
for the 'Heavenly Father' and who
speaks
again today as the world begins to
enter the 'New Age' of
spiritual
consciousness and awareness. Since
1963 Cosmic Awareness has been
communicating
through carefully trained channels. This
information is for
those who desire to help
in bringing in the new age. Throughout
the
thousands of 'Readings' given through
these various channels, Cosmic
Awareness
tells us not to believe anything, but to
question, explore,
doubt, and discover for
yourself, through your own channel what is
the
truth. Cosmic Awareness will only
'indicate' and 'suggest'. Neither C.A.C
or
any of the Interpreters is responsible for
anything Cosmic Awareness
states in any of
these readings, nor does C.A.C. or the
Interpreters
necessarily agree with the
statements of Cosmic Awareness.
The
interpreters interpret the energies as
they see them in trance levels and
are not
personally responsible for what is said. This is
entirely the
responsibility of the editor.
Members of C.A.C. are invited to send
in
questions of general interest to ask
Awareness for possible publication
in this
newsletter.
Paul Shockley,
Interpreter.
The Revelations of Awareness
comes out every three weeks The
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To send
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news letter write to:
Cosmic Awareness Communications
P.O. Box
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8.16: Swamp Gas
Journal
-----------------------
The Swamp
Gas Journal Covers a variety of scientific UFO
related Phenomena.
It reviews articles, books
and research publications put out by
different
researchers and organizations.
The Swamp Gas Journal is free with
limited distribution, but is
available
primarily through zine exchanges,
regularly contributing Fortean info, or
by
providing two (2) International Postal Reply
Coupons in lieu of a
subscription (to cover
postage).
The Swamp Gas Journal is a
ufozine published irregularly by:
Ufology
Research of Manitoba
Box 1918
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
Canada R3C 3R2
The SGJ is
also available on an experimental basis on
internet by e-mail
to:
rutkows@ccu.umanitoba.ca
8.17: UFO
Universe
------------------
GCR Publishing
Group, Inc.
1700 Broadway, 34th Floor
New York, New York 10019
Publishes "UFO
Universe" magazine.
Global Communications
Refer to: Inner Light Publications
===
UFO Book
Publishers
-----------------------
9.00:
Advent Publishing
Company
-------------------------------
P.O.
Box 3748
Carson City, NV 89702
Publish
book and the Phenox Project
Reports.
9.02: Arnerica West Publishers
------------------------------
P.O. Box
6451 Tehachapi, California 93582
George
Green Telephone Number : 805-822-9655
Publishes a wide variety of books and tapes
dealing with New Age subjects
and UFO
phenomenon.
9.03: Arcturus Book
Service
---------------------------
1443
S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd.
Port St. Lucie,
Florida 34952, USA
Robert Girard &
Monica Williams-Girard
Arcturus Book
Service Catalog
Maintains a listing of
UFO-related books. Their goal is to provide a
wide
selection of books relating to the study
of unexplained phenomena. Arcturus
provides a
publication; "Leading Edge, the bi-monthly
newsletter of the
Nevada Aerial Research
Group.
Subscriptions for monthly Arcturus
Book Service Catalog available for $6.00
in
the U.S.,
Canada, and Mexico; $12.00 in
Europe and South America
Arcturus pays for
UFO-related books, manuscripts and is interested
in being
informed of all new titles
released.
9.04: Condor Books,
Inc.
------------------------
351 West
54th Street
New York, New York 10019
Al
Weiss (Publisher)
212-586 -4432
Publishes
numerous books dealing with the UFO phenomena.
At one time,
Condor Books published "UFO
Universe" magazine;"UFO Universe" is
now
published by:
GCR Publishing Group,
Inc.,
1700 Broadway, 34th Floor,
New
York, New York 10019.
9.05: Document
Research
Services
--------------------------------
PO
Box 10011
Berkeley, Ca.
94709-5011
They provide declassified
govt. documents and an index
of UFOs in the
New York Times 1947-1987
Send SASE for a list
of documents
9.06: Earth Star
Publications
-----------------------------
P.O.
Box 117
Paonia, Colorado 81428
Ann Ulrich
(Editor & Publisher)
303-527-3257
The
Star Beacon
A self-publishing service which
will perforrn typesetting, layout,
printing,
and shipping of self-published books for a
one-time fee. After
initial fee is paid, the
author keeps lOO% of any profits
generated
from the book. Ann Ulrich is associated with the
UFO Contact
Center International as one of
its Associate Directors.
9.07: Eden
Press
----------------
Box
399
Careywood, Idaho 83809
Desiree
Eden
208-683-2439
The publishing arm of
the Planetary Professional Citizens Committeee
(PPCC),
which is no longer in existence due
to the death of its Director, Jerome
Eden, in
1989. However, EDEN Press still pro- vides a
wide range of books
dealing with the UFO
phenomenon.
9.08: JACO Book
Publishers
--------------------------
P.O. Box 3135
Prescott, Arizona
86302
John H. Andrews
602-778-0018
JACO
Book Publishers provides many UFO and
Extraterrestrial-related books.
9.09: The
Library of the New Essenes of
Inyo
--------------------------------------------
P.O. Box 257
June Lake, California 93529
71448-7405
Nicholas Faust
(Curator)
Originally known as "The School of
Thought" which had been started by
Hope
Troxell in 1960. It's original focus was
UFO literature, especially that
dealing with
contactees. Hope Troxell died in 1979 and The
School of
Thought closed in 1980.In 1980
became The Library of the New Essenes
of
Inyo. It assumed Hope Troxell's UFO
materials and continually added to it
over
the years. The Library also sells copies of Hope
Troxell's published
material.
9.10:
Luna Ventures
-------------------
P.O.
Box 398
Suisun, California
94585
Publishes the Luna Ventures Catalog"
which is a comprehensive listing of
available
newsletters, books, microfiche, magazines, etc.
for sale. Luna
Ventures will also accept
manuscripts for publication.
9.11: The
Pleiades Project
--------------------------
P.O. Box 386
Atwood, Ca 92601
Randolph Winters
:213-281-6282
Terra (Contact)
Founded in:
1985
A one-man organization for the
dissemination of the information received
by
Billy Meier from his Pleiadian contacts.
Mr. Meier receives messages from
his contacts
of the Pleiades star formation. The Pleiades
Project compiles
these messages and offers
them in audio and video formats. "Contact
Terra"
is a quarterly newsletter which
contains updated information and news
about
Mr. Meier's contacts.
The Meier
Chronicles VHS/Beta - $59.00 (82 minutes)
The Movie Footage VHS/Beta - $49.00 (1 hour)
The Metal Analysis VHS/Beta - $39.00 each
(45 minutes)
The Entire Trilogy - $99.00
(save $188.00)
Each audio cassette $20.00
plus postage & handling
9.12: UFO
Audio-Video Clearing
House
------------------------------------
P.O. Box 342
Yucaipa, Ca]ifornia
92399-0342
David Aaron (Director)
714-795-3361
Founded on May 18, 1988
and1232 members.
Offers an updated listing of
UFO radio & television programs on video
and
audio tape, going back to 1954. Video
tapes are offered in Beta and VHS
format.
Over 50% of their available product is donated
by members.
9.13: UFO
Books
---------------
P.O. Box 1053 - 514
First Street Florence, Arizona
85232
Christine (Stevens) Cox
602-868-4273
Christine Cox distributes
UFO-related books, some of which were written
and
edited by Wendelle Stevens (See: UFO
Photo Archives), who is her father.
UFO Books
also provides periodic flyers which contain
UFO-related books,
photos, and calendars for
sale.
9.14: UFO Photo
Archives
------------------------
P.O. Box
17206
Tucson, Arizona 85710
Wendelle C.
Stevens
UFO Journal Of Facts
Offers
UFO-related books, most of which concentrate on,
and thoroughly
investigate, individual cases.
UFO Photo Archives gears its material
for
those who want more in-depth knowledge
about individual cases instead of a
broad
overview of many cases.
In addition to books,
UFO Photo Archives also sells UFO calendars
and
posters. All books, posters, and
calendars are sold through mail order
only
and must be prepaid, including
postage.
Their publication, "UFO Journal Of
Facts" is a new magazine, filled with
color
pictures and reports, concentrating on factual
UFO investigative
reporting.
9:15:
Worldwide UFO Newsclipping Bureau and Public
Information Center 955
West
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Lancaster Road Suite 420
Orlando,
Florida 32809
Provides a 16-20 page monthly
report of worldwide UFO news clippings
(all
foreign news stories are translated into
English).
Subscription costs:
$24.95 /6
months $47.50/ one year
Special on Back
Issues: all of 1988 for $39.95.
Besides the
newsclipping service, Worldwide UFO also offers
UFO-related
audio and video tapes (VHS
format, approximately 2 hours in length)
for
sale at the following prices:
Audio
Tape - $ 4.00/ tape (buy two, get one free: no
limit) Video Tape -
$20.00/ tape (buy two,
get one free: no limit)
9.16: Spacelink
Books
---------------------
Run by
Lionel Beer. Leading UK supplier of books on
UFOs and Crop Circles.
Address: 115 Hollybush
Lane, Hampden, Middlesex, TW12, U.K.
===
Miscellaneous
Information
-----------------------------
10.00:
alt.alien.visitors archives (back
issues)
------------------------------------------------
Occasionally
I have seen requests for information on past
articles in
alt.alien.visitors. If you desire
something, I have the entire
newsgroup
archive back to July 13, 1992. I
access it frequently. I have no way to
ftp it
to another system for public access but would be
glad to email
portions of it upon request.
The responses are not guaranteed to
be
correct or complete.
You can email
me at gvb@acd4.acd.com and I will do my
best.
gvb@TEFS1.acd.com (Gregg
Brown)
10.01: A UFO Book
List
-------------------------------
I'd
like to take this opportunity to remind people
of my UFO bibliography
file, and to solicit
contributions and book comments for it. The
file
can be ftp'd from paul.rutgers.edu,
directory pub/ufo, file
bibliography.Z
(compressed format). The file is organized by
author, and
also again by
date-of-publication, and also includes Keith
Rowell's
excellent bibliography file (which
is also worked into the above two
parts).
Many titles have comments from various people as
to the value of
the book; I would like any
comments on any of the books from anyone,
and
also additional books for inclusion.
Check out the UFO Bibliography that
you can
ftp at:
paul.rutgers.edu
The file is
pub/UFO/bibliography.Z It has books by author, a
second
listing by date, and also the names
of prominent authors in the field.
For
more information contact:
mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles
Mcgrew)
10.02: Big Foot
(Sasquatch)
---------------------------
Our
research group is currently investigating
reports and sightings of
the animal known as
"Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch". If you or somebody you
know
has had such a sighting, or come across
what may be evidence supporting
the existence
of such an animal, please get in contact with us
in one of
the following formats:
o
Leave a private message in electronic
mail:
ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas
Hill)
o Call Thomas Hill at
216-362-6529.
o Or write:
Thomas E.
Hill
16124 Richard Dr.
Brook Park, OH
44142
Contact with us can be totally
anonymous if you wish. We are
especially
interested in Ohio sightings but
are by no means limited to
investigations in
that state. Please, serious responses
only.
10.03: Free UFO
Class
---------------------
Penn State
University has Free U classes that are offered
to the public
at no charge! They supply a
classroom to those who wish to teach
a
subject and the public may attend them for
free. One of the classes
offered is a UFO
class Organized and taught by Janet Smith, and
Beth
Combs.
In the class they discuss
every aspect of the UFO phenomenon such as
the
Billie Meier investigation, government
cover-ups, Zecharia Sitchin who
wrote the
Earth Chronicles series, Mars probe, Mars Face
and many other
topics. The class also offers
guest speakers who have done UFO
research
plus videos, movies and articles
about various UFO phenomenon.
The classes
are held every Monday in room 207 of Sackett
Building at Penn
State University in State
College, PA. The starting time is 7:00 pm,
EDT
(soon to be EST) and they ends sometime
after 9:00 pm. The class will be
held until
December 7th. The class may continue after the
holidays into
next semester, but that depends
on our level of interest.
If someone has
questions or would like to contribute to the
group in some
way, (ie. guest speakers,
movies, different types of information,
etc.)
contact Janet Smith at
JLS19@psuvm.psu.edu or write to her at:
123
Ramblewood Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, PA
16865. Home phone: (814)
237-6763, Work
phone: (814) 863-0466.
10.04: Freedom of
Information
-----------------------------
In
the US, you write to the agency you want to
reach, addressed to
the "Freedom of
Information Officer". A list of agencies is
available
from the US Government Printing
Office. Their order number is:
202-783-3238
The "US Government Manual" (1991/92),
price $23 (they take MC/Visa
orders over the
phone). They will also send you a catalog of
all
manuals/documents available from the
USGPO for free. Order at the same
number. [I
have more information on this, I will add it
later.]
Main Source:
mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles
Mcgrew)
10.05: Hidden Ancient
Ruins
---------------------------
The
address is Mystic Mountain Adventures
Dept.
100 11142 Manhattan Avnue, Ste. 43
Manhattan
Beach, CA 90266 Ph# (310)
318-6567.
10.06: Inter Library Loans
(ILL)
--------------------------------
If
you would like to research an the various UFO
topics mentioned in this
FAQ and you don't
have a large bank account, go to your local
library and
ask about the Inter Library Loan
System. The ILL lets you check out
books,
audio tapes, video tape, and get
copies of magazine articles that your
local
library might not have. In many cases
there is no charge for using ILL, this
depend upon you local library. Almost all
the book I have used to research
this FAQ
were ordered through ILL. Check it out.
:-)
10.07: NASA Shuttle
Footage
---------------------------
NASA
Select on Satcom 2, Transponder 13, carries the
whole mission, live
and anybody with a
satellite dish can tune in. You can find the
original
uplink and shuttle audio on
Transponder 5. This is the raw video
with
shuttle to ground audio communications
on it.
10.08: UFO Related anonymous
FTP
Sites
---------------------------------------
[Also
See: 10.00: A Complete UFO Book
List]
phoenix UFO
Pics
----------------
phoenix.oulu.fi
(130.231.240.17)
In
/pub/ufo_and_space_pics
NASA Pics
Sites
----------------
NOTE: the material
at these sites is exceedingly voluminous;
I'd strongly suggest just getting the
CD-ROMs instead of attempting
to transfer
scores of gigabytes of pix and other
material.
To access the online catalog of
NASA material, CD-ROMS, et cetera:
telnet
nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
login as "NODIS"
no
password
Anonymous ftp sites
(five):
nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
[128.183.10.4]
This is a VAX/VMS box, so
you must ftp-login as "anonymous". To get
a
dir listing into a file on your
system:
ftp> dir [...]
file_on_your_system
vab02.larc.nasa.gov
lots
of stuff, including Aliens of all colors, and
UFO pix (though
this
seems to mirror a
lot of what's at phoenix.oulu.fi and has
some
additional
material).
ames.arc.nasa.gov
online
copies of what appears to be all NASA's CD-ROMs,
and lots of
GIFs, *.img and *.jpg from most
(all?) space missions since
Apollo.
iris1.ucis.dal.ca
dunno;
it appears to be down today (Saturday,
18-July-1992).
ummts.cc.umich.edu
|
{changed
to}
|
V
archive.umich.edu
apparently
popular (and, hence, slow). Is supposed to have
many
NASA and Voyager data files.
Main
Source: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad
Floryan)
=== UFO
Organizations
------------------
Throughout
the world there are many civilian organisations
which either have
the study of UFOs or
extraterrestrials as their main object of
interest or
include them as part of a wider
remit. Each organisation has a different
view
of the subject ranging from the basically
scientific to, in some cases,
the frankly
nutty.
This list is not exhaustive, but
is fairly extensive. The names of
the
officers and subscription rates of
organisations may change and, unless
the
editor is informed, the updated information may
not be available here.
This is, of course,
not the only list of organisations produced in
the
world. Readers are urged to consult
other lists as well such as the excellant
list of UFO organisations produced by John
A. Hayes for UFOnet.
11.00: Aerial
Phenomenon Research: The Indiana
Group
----------------------------------------------------
18
Davis Drive Mt. Vernon, Indiana 47620
Francis L. Ridge (Director)
812-838-3120
/ 812-838-9843
Publishers of : Indiana UFO
Newsletter
Founded in 1986
A statewide
organization which attempts to immediately
respond to UFO
sightings
11.01: The
Aetherius
Society
----------------------------
6202
Afton Place Hollywood,
California
90028-8298
Detroit Branch
17670 West 12
Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan 48076
313-552-9153 / 313-552-9159
Reverend
Lesley Young
(General Committeee) :
213~65-9652/ 213~67-HEAL (4325)
Publishers of
: The Aetherius Society Journal : Cosmic Voice
Founded in 1960
The Hollywood,
California office is the American headquarters
for The
Society which was founded in England
in 1955. In the US, the Society
was
incorporated in 1960 as a non-profit
religious, scientific, and
educational
organization.
The Society is a
metaphysical, channeling organization
whose
founder/president, Sir George King, is
a Western Master of Yoga and who has
been in
contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligences for
over 35 years. He
acts as a channel for the
dissemination of Higher Wisdom from
These
Sources.
The Society's objective is
to explain the presence of UFOs around the
Earth
and to make known knowledge given to
their president by Advanced Beings who
reside
in this Solar System. This information is
disseminated through
books, pamphlets,
cassettes and albums and two newsletters, "The
Aetherius
Society Journal" and "Cosmic
Voice".
Also, study courses in: "Metaphysical
and Occult Sciences" and "Cosmic
Revelations"
to further spread the word and to explain the
cosmic
significance of messages received from
the Advanced Beings. Regular
meetings at the
U.S. and England headquarters as well as by
associated
branches throughout the
world.
Prayer Circles are organized during a
Spiritual Push (or Magnetization
Period) at
different holy mountain sites, when the giant
Interplanetary
Spacecraft is brought into
Earth's orbit by a Cosmic Master. Helpers
who
attend these Power Circles send out the
Spiritual energies from this Cosmic
Master to
help mankind.
11.02: Ancient Astronaut
Society
--------------------------------
1921
St. Johns Avenue
Highland Park, Illinois
60035-3105
Gene M. Phillips (Founder)
:708-295-8899
Publication is Ancient
Skies
Founded in 1973. non-profit, tac-exempt
organization operated for
scientific,
literary and educational purposes. The primary
objectives of
the Society are to search for
evidence of whether Earth was visited in
the
remote past by intelligent beings from
outer space and to determine whether
a highly
developed, technological civilization existed on
Earth before our
recorded history.
The
Society also provides complete study courses in:
"Metaphysical and
Occult Sciences" and
"Cosmic Revelations" to explain the
cosmic
significance of messages received from
Advanced Beings.
11.03: Ancient Truth
Research
Foundation
----------------------------------------
6146 Eleanor Avenue #205 Los Angeles,
California 90~036
Albert
Rainey
213'464-5948
Publication is Cosmic
Current News
Interested in many New Age
topics, including UFOs.
11.04: The
Awareness Reserch Foundation,
Inc.
---------------------------------------------
DeSoto
Square
No. 29, 35 Ritter Road
Hayesville,
North Carolina 28904
Helen I. Hoag (Executive
Director)
704-389-8672
New Age
organization with many interests, including
UFOs; investigates
various metaphysical
activities and issues findings through
publication of
various books.
11.05:
Borderland Sciences Research Foundation
(BSRF)
-----------------------------------------------------
P.O.
Box 429
Garberville, California
9544429
Contact : Tom Brown
Telephone
Number : 707-986-7211
Publication is :
Journal of Borderland Research
Founded in:
1945
Functions as clearinghouse, specializing
in rare and unusual information.
BSRF is an
alternative scientific movement which deals with
a variety of
borderland subjects, including
UFOs; a
non-profit organization; its members
are people who take an active interest
in
observing the physical, mental, and spiritual
environment. In addition
BSRF studies: Light
& Color affects on people, Radionics,
Dowsing, Free
Energy, Orgone Energy,
Hollow
Earth Mysteries, Anomalies, Fortean
Phenomena, Hypnosis, Photography of
the
Invisible, etc. and offers a catalog of
available books, reports,
and
tapes.
11.06: BRITISH UFO RESEARCH
ASSOCIATION
(BUFORA)
------------------------------------------------
Commonly
called BUFORA. It was formed in 1962 as a
federation
of eight regional UK UFO groups.
These included the London
UFO Research
Organisation (LUFORO, founded in 1959) the
largest
UK group at the time and the British
Flying Saucer Bureau (BFSB,
founded in 1952)
which was the oldest UK group.
BUFORA
publishes six issues per year of the A4 magazine
UFO TIMES.
Current annual membership
subscription is 18 pounds sterling.
Approx
membership 500. Current senior officers include
Stephen
Gamble (Director of Research) and
John Spencer (Chairman).
Contact address
: BM BUFORA, London, WC1N 3XX
11.07:
California UFO
---------------------
1800
South Robertson Blvd
Box 355
Los Angeles,
California 90035
Vicki Cooper (Editor); Don
Ecker (Researcher)
Telephone Numbers :
213-273-9409 /818-951-1250
Publication :
UFO
Publishes the bi-monthly UFO" magazine.
Additionally, this organization
sponsors
annual conferences which concentrate on a
variety of
UFO-related
subjects.
11.08: Citizens
Against UFO Secrecy
(CAUS)
------------------------------------------
P.O.
Box 218 c/o Mr. Lawrence Fawcett
Coventry,
Cormecticut 06238 [or] 471 Goose Lane
Peter
Gersten (Director) Coventry, Connecticut
06238
Lawrence Fawcett (Asst Director &
Publisher)
Barry Greenwood (Research Director
& Editor)
P.O.Box 176, Stoneham, MASS,
02180, USA
Publication is : Just
Cause
Founded in : 1978
A non-profit
organization to uncover all existing
documentation relating to
governrnent
involvement in UFO investigations and research.
To accomplish
this, CAUS files numerous
Freedom of Inforrnation Act (FOIA) lawsuits in
an
attempt to get the governrnent to release
relevant documents.Their "Just
Cause"
quarterly newsletter carries events and provides
updated UFO news
from around the world. They
published a book too -- "Clear
Intent"
11.09: Committee for the
Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the
Paranormal
(CSICOP)
----------------------------------------------------
Refer
to: The Skeptical Inquirer
P.O. Box
229
Buffalo, New York 14215{)229
Paul
Kurtz (Chairman - Skeptical Inquirer)
Philip
J. Klass (UFO Subcommittee)
Lynda Harwood
(Public
Relations)
716-834-3222
716-834-0841
"The
Skeptical Inquirer" is a non-profit, tax-exempt
organization.
CSICOP is headed by Paul Kurtz
and investigates claims of the
Paranorrnal,
including UFOs and UFO-related activity.The
committee's
investigations, findings,
commentaries, etc. are published in
"The
Skeptical Inquirern.
11.10:
COMPUTER UFO NETWORK
(CUFON)
-----------------------------------
Bulletin
Board system run by UFO Reporting and
Information Service. Date of
formation not
known. Information director : Dale Goudie,
SYSOP: Jim Klotz
Based Seattle, Washington,
USA. Board number +1 206 776 0382,
parameters
300/1200/2400 bps 8 bit no parity
1 stop bit.
11.11:
Contactee
----------------
P.O. Box
12
New Milford, New Jersey 07646
Ellen
Crystall (Director)
Studies UFOs by direct
observation; quarterly newsletter,
"Contactee"
details activities.Tne primary
goal of Contactee is to educate
about
world-wide contacts being made with
UFOs and to disseminate information to
all
interested parties.
Contactee also sells
books and sponsors various
conferences.
Regular Member (those who claim
to have had alien contact) and
Auxiliary
Member (those who do not claim UFO contact)
membership fee is $20.00 per year and
includes the newsletter.
Contactee accepts
articles for its newsletter.
11.12:
Cosmic Awareness
Communications
--------------------------------------
P.O.
Box 115
Olympia, Washington 98507
Vikki T.
(Correspondence Secretary)
Pulication is :
Reveltions of Awareness
A tax-exempt
organization.
Studies New Age subjects,
including UFOs. This group is centered around
the
"channelings" of a "Force" which refers
to itself as "Cosmic Awareness". CA
believes
that this "Force" has expressed itself through
selected people in
history including Jesus,
the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, and Edgar
Cayce,
among others.
Publication,
"Revelations of Awareness, has published over
300 editions and
details various New Age
subjects. Subscribers receive a catalog listing
all
available back issues and subjects
covered. Membership is $30.00 per year.
Will
accept memberships for three month periods
($3.00 per month), prepaid.
Individual/Family
$ 3.00/ month or $30.00/ year New Age-related
(including
UFOs) books and tapes
available.
11.13:
CSETI
------------
Dr. Steven Greer
704-274-5671
Asheville,N.C.
11.14:
Delval UFO,
Inc.
-----------------------
948 Almshouse
Road
Ivyland, Pennsylvania 18974
Anthony
Volpe (President)
215-357-2909
Publication
is the Awakening; the group was founded in
1973.
A channeling, contactee UFO
organization, founded in 1973.their
publication
"Awakening", is offered nine 9
times a year; they sell UFO-related books
and
tapes.
11.15: The Fair Witness Project,
Inc.
-------------------------------------
Parent
Organization: William L. Moore Publications
& Research
4219 West Olive Avenue Suite
#247
Burbank, California
91505
213-463-0542
Publication is : Focus
A non-profit corporation whose income is
used to fund the research efforts
of
qualified persons selected by the Directors of
the Fair Witness Project.
They accept
donations and will send an acknowledgement of
that donation for
tax purposes.
11.16:
The Federation
---------------------
The
Federation is a group of people who feel it is
high time we got
off this rock and started
exploring the great unknown of space. The
Federation has drawn out in blue print form
a drive system that is a a super
semi
conducting crystaline structure. To get more
information on the
Federation send a 3.5
floppy and they will place an info packet on it
and
send
it back to you. You must have a
mac that has 5.0 microsoftword or better.Send
to this adrress:
The
Federation
C/O Lady Rhavyn
Po box
231772
Anchorage,
Alaska
99523-1772
If you have any
questions feel free to send to this
account.
ASLJL@ACAD2.ALASKA.EDU
11.17:
Flying Saucer Information
Center
---------------------------------------
7803
Ruanne Court
Pasadena, Maryland
21122
James H. Wales : Update
Founded in
1954
Acts as a clearing house for the
distribution of UFO information to
the
general public. Laura Mundo began this
organization in 1954.
Group feels the Earth
is in danger due to upcoming radical changes in
the
atmosphere (sunspot activity) and Space
Beings are here to help. They will
be able to
either solve the problem or take selected Earth
people to safe
locations (inside their
insulated spaceships) until the
atmospheric
activity calms down. When humans
return to Earth after surviving
the
atmospheric instability, they will begin
the Universal Way of Life, which
is a
standard way of life on other planets. Also
believe Space People
living on Earth today
are to here to monitor us and
help.
11.18: FORTEAN RESEARCH CENTER
(FRC)
------------------------------------
This
was founded in 1982 by Ray Boeche and deals with
all aspects of Fortean
Phenomena. The current
Director is Scott Colbourn. The contact address
for
the Center is P.O.Box 94627, Lincoln,
Nebraska, 68509, USA. The Center runs
a
Bulletin Board on +1 402 488 2587.
11.19:
FUND FOR UFO RESEARCH
(FUFOR)
------------------------------------
[Duplicated
entry - see 11.20 SG]
11.20: The Fund for
UFO Research,
Inc.
--------------------------------------
P.O.
Box 277
Mt. Rainier, Maryland 20712
Bruce
Maccabee, PhD (Chairman)
Publication is:
Quarterly Report
Founded in 1979
2000
Members
A non-profit, tax-exempt organization
based in Washington, D.. whose
mission is to
provide grants for scientific research and
public education
projects dealing with the
UFO phenomenon. Since 1979 has raised more
than
$150,000.00 from more than 2000
contributors. Also sponsors and awards
the
annual Donald E. Keyhoe Journalism
Award."
The Fund sponsors such projects the
release of U.S.
Government documents
concerning UFOs under the Freedom of
Informatioon
Act,computer-aided analysis of
UFO photographs, research into major
UFO
sightings around the world,
research
into "Operation Majestic 12", psychological
testing of people who
reported being abducted
by apparent aliens, international symposiums
and
conducts interviews and lectures.
The
Fund takes the position that many reported UFOs
cannot be identified as
conventional aerial
vehicles or phenomena. Thus, UFO reports
are
potentially of enormous significance and
merit serious scientific research.
11.21:
Gulf Breeze Skywatch
---------------------------
904-433-2737
(Bruce and Ann Morrison)
11.22:
Inner-Peace Prosperity Network
(IPPN)
--------------------------------------------
12628 Black Saddle Lane
Germntown,
Maryland 20874-5001
Patrick
O'Connell
301-972-1980
IPPN believes that
extraterrestrials have already landed and
established
underground bases, mainly in the
western and southwestern United
States.
"Trends & Predictions Analystn,
is a compilation of UFO-related
theories,
news, and current events;
newsletter (printed twice a year) also
details
available books, papers, and tapes
for sale by IPPN.
Membership rates:
$
4.00/ year (U.S. & Canada) $ 5 .00/ year
(Foreign) $12.vO /3 years (IJ.S.
&
Canada) $15.00 / 3 years (Foreign)
Membership
includes the newsletter. IPPN also sells Name
Lists of people
who subscribe to New Age
periodicals. IPPN gears the selling of these
lists
to those interested in selling New Age-
related products. As of September
1990, the
charge for these lists are:
1000 Narnes
$20.00 2000 Names $40.00 3000 Narnes
$60.00
IPPN also sells back-issues of "The
New Atlantean Journaln, a defunct
periodical
dealing with New Age-related subjects, including
UFOs.
11.23: Intercontinental UF Galactic
Spacecraft-Research and
Analytic Network
(ICUFON)
------------------------------------------------------------
35-40
75th Street Suite 4G
Jackson Heights, New
York 11372
Colman S. VonKeviczky
(Director)
718-72-7948
A non-profit
organization whose goal is to persuade the
United Nations (and
the world's governments)
to establish an official World Authority for
UFO
Affairs (the WASA Project), to seek and
establish contact with
extraterrestrial
galactic powers; maintains that the world's
governments
have known about UFOUs for
several decades and that they are
conducting
covert warfare in an attempt to
try to stop any invasion from outer
space.
ICUFON wants to open full dialogue
with any and all
extraterrestrial
forces.
ICUFON maintains
an Archives Department which contains UFO
cases,
photographs, movie films, declassified
military and governmental
documentation from
all over the world.
11.24: INTERNATIONAL
COMMITTEE FOR UFO RESEARCH
(ICUR)
---------------------------------------------------------
Formed
in 1979 as a UFOlogical 'United Nations'. The
membership consists
of representative
organisations for various countries. Commonly
called
ICUR. Members include BUFORA (UK);
Center for UFO Studies (USA); CISU
(Italy);
MUFON (USA); SUFOI (Denmark); Project UNICAT
(USA) Project URD
(Sweden); VUFORS
(Australia).
ICUR's objectives are to
promote data exchange between groups and
to
help establish common standards and
terminology.
Officers are Chairman:
Robert Digby (BUFORA, UK); Vice-Chairman: Walter
Andrus (MUFON, USA); Secretary : Stephen
Gamble (BUFORA, UK) and
Treasurer : John
Spencer (BUFORA, UK). Contact address is : P.O.
Box 314,
Penn, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,
HP10 8DH, Great Britain.
11.25:
Internationa1 Fortean Organization
(INFO)
------------------------------------------------
P.O. Box 367
Arlington, VA 22210-0367
Raymond Manners (President & Journal
Editor)
Publication is INFO Journal
Founded in 1965 by Ronald Willis
A
non-profit corporation established for the
educational and scientific
study of Fortean
phenomena. INFO investigates the strange and
unreasonable
events that happen in this
world, including UFOs, lost
civilizations,
physical anomalies, Atlantis,
Bigfoot, vanished civilizations, etc.
Today,
INFO continues the work of Charles Fort to
collect, record, and
publish reports of
strange occurrences. Their findings are
published in the
INFO Journal. INFO holds an
annual convention, called FortFest, in
the
Washington D.C. area.
Annual
membership fee includes the "INFO Journal" is
$12.00 in the U.S. and
$16.00 for foreign
countries. INFO maintains files on all of
its
investigations, cases, etc. Slides,
books, and tapes are for sale and back
issues
of "INFO Journal" are also available. The INFO
Research Service
performs funded research for
the media while the INFO Research Library
is
open to scholars.
11.26: INTRUDERS
FOUNDATION
----------------------------
Organisation
formed by abduction researcher Budd Hopkins to
provide support
and a forum for abductees to
discuss their experiences. Contact address
:
PO Box 30233, New York, New York, 10011,
USA. Phone and fax: +1
212-645-5278
11.27: Island
Skywatch
----------------------
164-22
77th Road Flushing,
New York 11366 : Bill
Knell (Director)
718-591-1854 (24-Hour
Hotline) . The New York UFO Report :
Island
Publication is Skywatch Journal
1989 by Bill Knell
A tax-exempt
organization whose goal is the scientific and
objective study
of the UFO phenomenon.
Membership ($25.00 per year) includes one
year
subscription to the "New York UFO
Report" and the Island Skywatch Journal,
one
copy of "Hidden Truth: The UFO Story" (a
two-hour video history about
UFOs written by
Bill Knell), the opportunity to attend free
local meetings,
free training as a UFO
investigator, and the opportunity to
investigate
Island Skywatch cases.They offer
a wide variety of books, audiotapes,
video
tapes, for sale. Bill Knell has cable
TV UFO show "UFOs Over Long Island"
on the
Brookhaven Cable TV system every Thursday at
6:30 p.m. (channel
35).UFO Abductee Support
Group offered as well.
11.28: J. ALLEN
HYNEK CENTER FOR UFO STUDIES
(CUFOS)
-----------------------------------------------------
2457
West Peterson Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
60659
Contacts
Mark Rodeghier
(President)
George Eberhart (Librarian &
Archivist)
312-271-3611
Publications are :
The Journal of UFO Studies and International
UFO
Reporter (IUR)
Founded in 1973 by Dr.
J. Allen Hynek
A non-profit organization
whose goal is to promote serious research
into
the UFO phenomena through the expertise
of an international group of
scientists,
academians, and volunteers. This organization
has a worldwide
network of field
investigators that interview witnesses, examine
physical
evidence and gather any other
relevant information. The major purpose
of
CUFOS is to act as a clearinghouse -
aplace where UFO experiences can be
reported
and researched. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was
considered one of
the world's pre- eminent
authorities on the UFO phenomenon, first
became
involved with UFOs as Scientific
Consultant to the U.S. Air Force from 1948
to
1968, and was Scientific Director of CUFOS until
his death in 1986. He
coined the phrase
"close encounters of the third kind" and acted
as
technical advisor to director Steven
Spielberg on the movie of the
same
name.
CUFOS maintains the world's
largest repository of data about UFO
phenomena,
second only to the US Government!
This
material includes more than 50,000 cases
of UFO sightings and a library of
more than
5,000 books and magazines, which cover all
aspects of the UFO
phenomena. CUFOS promotes
various activities, projects,
publications,
symposiums, conferences,
seminars and field trips to various
UFO-related
locations and sells journals,
books, audiocassette tapes, and
other
publications.
The "International
UFO Reporter (IUR)", published bi-monthly,
reports on
current sightings, news and
articles on current UFO topics. CUFOS
also
publishes the annual "Journal of UFO
Studies" which presents a collection
of
scholarly papers on the UFO
phenomenon. A
$25.00 contribution entitles a member to become
an ASSOCIATE
of CUFOS and to receive the
"International UFO Reporter" for one
year.
The Center publishes the International
UFO Reporter
11.29: The Massachusetts
Center for the study of Aerial
Phenomena
------------------------------------------------------------------
43
Harrison Street Reading,
Massachusetts 01867
Contact
Jim Melesciuc
617-944 0686
A
loose-knit organization comprised of researchers
who wish to remain
unaffiliated with any
specific UFO group and concentrate efforts
in
individual fields of interest; many
members do belong to other UFO groups,
such
as CAUS, MUFON, CUFOS, etc.
11.30:
Multi-national Investigations Cooperative on
Aerial Phenomena
(MICAP)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Based
in Denver, Colorado. Director is Micheal Corbin.
They can be reached at +1 303-431-8796.
P.O. Box 172, Wheat Ridge, CO
80034-0928
MICAP is an international
membership group dedicated to the scientific
exploration of the UFO phenomenon.
Membership is $30.00 per year and includes
a
subscription to CONTINUUM.
For
application, call 303-431-8797, or write to
MICAP at Box 172,
Wheat Ridge, CO
80034-0172.
11.31: Mutual UFO Network,
Inc.
(MUFON)
----------------------------------------
103
Oldtowne Road Seguin, Texas 78155099
Contact:
Walter H. Andrus, Jr
Founded in May 31,
1969 with a membership of 2500 Originally based
in
Illinois it was called the Mid-west UFO
Network, changing its name around
1972 to
Mutual to represent its growing role as a
national and
international
group.
MUFON has local
groups in each State within the USA and has
representatives
in many countries outside the
USA. Current membership number is
around
4000. MUFON publishes 12 issues per
year of the A4 MUFON UFO Journal :
MUFON
Field Investigator's Manual. The annual
membership fee is 25 US Dollars or
30 Dollars
for overseas members. MUFON runs a bulletin
board service,
contact the office for
details.
MUFON is non-profit,
international, scientific organization devoted
to
studying and researching the UFO
phenomenon. MUFON sponsors and
conducts
worldwide conferences, seminars and
symposiums. MUFON members believe that
a
concentrated scientific study by dedicated
investigators and researchers
will provide
the ultimate answer to the UFO enigma. State
Director oversees
the activities of Field
Investigators through State Section Directors.
An
International Co-ordinator and seven
Continental Co-ordinators work with
Foreign
Representatives in each country to investigate
UFO activity.
MUFON is the "parent
organization" for numerous, smaller UFO
research
groups across the United States and
around the world.
Since 1970 has sponsored an
Annual International UFO Symposium
where
scientists, engineers, university
professors, and authors lecture on
their
particular specialization to solving
the UFO enigma. The copyrighted
symposium
proceedings are published annually for worldwide
distribution.
Back issues of symposium
proceedings are available.
Anyone interested
is invited to join MUFON by submitting a
membership
application and dues for
approval.
Other MUFON Branches:
New
Zealand Director for MUFON,
murrayb@kiwi.gen.nz (Murray Bott)
PO Box
27117, Mt Roskill, Auckland 1030, New Zealand
Phone: 64-9-6315825
11.32: Mutual UFO
Network of North Carolina, Inc.
(MUFON-NC)
------------------------------------------------------------
602
Battleground Road
Lincolnton, North Carolina
28092
George D. Fawcett (State Director)
704-735-5725
Founded in February 1,
1990; non-profit corporation whose goal is
to
investigate and research the UFO enigma.
MUFON-NC accepts reports of
sightings,
visitations, etc. and will investigate those
cases with the most
merit.
MUFON-NC holds
quarterly meetings in North Carolina on the
first Sunday of
February, May, August and
November on a rotating basis in different
cities;
meetings generally run from lpm until
6pm.
To join: $10 self-addressed, stamped
envelope with 45 cents postage to the
above
address; you get forms for both MUFON and MUFON-
NC.
Granville Angell (Treasurer) Robert
H. Hair
Route 2, Box 252D Vale, 314 Wilson
Street
North Carolina 28168 Eden, North
Carolina 27288
704-462-2303
919-627-4184
11.33: National
Investigations Committeee on UFOs
(NICUFO)
---------------------------------------------------------
14617 Victory Blvd Suite 4
P.O. Box 5
Van Nuys, California 91411
Dr. Frank E.
Stranges, PhD. (President)
818-989-5942
Publishes the UFO Journal :
Inter-Space-Link-Confidential NL
Founded in
July 1967
A non-profit organization whose aim
is to conduct research into, and
provide
education about, the fields of UFOs, Space, and
Science phenomena.
Members are available to
provide lectures throughout the world.
Monthly
meetings, as well as two UFO seminars
per year, are held at NICUFO
headquarters in
Van Nuys, California.
One of the world's
largest collections of UFO slides, books and
tapes. For
more information materials write:
I.E.C. Book Department, P.O. Box 73,
VVan
Nuys, California 91408.
Anyone
interested in becoming a State Director should
contact NICUFO.
Annual membership fees are
$25.00 ($30.00 foreign) and includes
a
subscription to the UFO Journal magazine,
which is a quarterly publication.
Also
available is the Inter-Space-Link-
Confidential-Newsletter for $60.00
per
year.
Based upon their experience, members
may serve in one of the following
positions:
Consultant, State or Provincial Director, State
Section
Director, Foreign Representative,
Field Investigator, Research
Specialist,
Amateur Radio Operator,
Astronomer, Field Investigator Trainee,
Translator,
UFO News Clipping Service,
Contributing Subscriber or Associate
Member
(under 18 years of age).
MUFON
trains its Field Investigators and provides them
with the "MUFON
Field Investigator's
Manual".
Amateur Radio Networks are used to
receive and disseminate UFO sighting
reports
and current UFO information. The time and
frequencies of these
broadcasts are published
in the "MUFON UFO Journal."
11.34: The
National Sighting Research Center
(NSRC)
---------------------------------------------------
P.O. Box 76
Emerson, New Jersey 07630
Bob Sylvester (Co Director)
Publishes the
National Sighting Yearbook since 1988.
A
non-profit organization composed of 6 part-time
research specialists with
expertise in
microcomputer-based data base management systems
(DBMS),
statistical analysis, micro
telecommunications, and trend analysis.
The
NSRC acts as an information- gathering
organization which compiles massive
amounts
of data and disseminates it in the form of
computerized reports,
including information
in statistical and graphical form.
The goals
of NSRC are to provide the professional UFO
investigator or
researcher with a
computerized, highly graphical database summary
of all
reported sightings of anomalous aerial
phenomena within the United States
and a
clearinghouse for UFO sighting report data;
periodically release
other publications,
in-depth reports requested by other researchers
and
organizations.
11.35: Nevada
Aerial Research Group
(NARG)
------------------------------------------
P.O. Box 81407
Las Vegas, Nevada
8918G-1407
Val Valerian
Publishes the
Leading Edge : NARG AMual Journal
A
worldwide, New Age organization with researchers
and investigators 12
countries and 37 states.
The primary goals of NARG are to
provide
information on developments in our
civilization which affect all of this
planet,
to investigate all processes that impede
evolution, and promote an
increase in the
awareness level of the mass human
consciousness.
The NARG investigates,
radionics, psycotronics, mind control,
alien
interaction, gravitational and
crystalline technologies, overt and
covert
intelligence operations, systems above
and below the surface of the
planet,
conspiracies, advances in physics,
planetary power structures,
foreign
technology, brain machines, implant
technology, human abductions and
animal
mutilations.
Leading Edge is only
available from Arcturus Book Service,
PO Box
831383, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083-0023,
404-297-4624. Published
6 times a year.This
is the source of the MATRIX
materials.
11.36: North American
Circle
-----------------------------
PO
Box 61144, Durham, NC 27715-1144
11.37:
North American Institute for Crop Circle
Research
(NAICCR)
------------------------------------------------------------------
NAICCR
was formed in 1990 after requests for
information about North
American crop circles
had reached epidemic proportions.
UFOROM
associates, who had been regularly
investigating reports and
discoveries of UGMs
(Unusual Ground Markings), including traces
very
similar to crop circles, responded to
inquiries by formalising a sister
group
devoted to research into UGMs.
NAICCR
associates investigate UGMs rationally, and
prepare reports on
their findings. NAICCR
distributes a list of known North
American
UGMs, based on information provided
to NAICCR by co-operative
researchers
throughout the continent. A comparable list of
British UGMs
has never been available in this
manner. NAICCR also publishes an
annual
report of North American UGM activity, with
analyses and
commentary.
NAICCR will
continue to function in the future at about the
present
level of activity, though it would be
preferred if UGM cases would
once again be
studied as special cases of UFO cases, as was
the case
before tthat category of UGMs was
raised to a separate category because
of
British research. NAICCR may perhaps merge back
with UFOROM, if this
is the case, since
UFOROM had been investigating UGMs as a matter
of
course.
NAICCR NAICCR
Box 1918
[or] 649 Silverstone Avenue
Winnipeg,
Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3C 3R2
R3T 2V8, Canada.
11.38: Northamptonshire
UFO Research Centre
(NUFORC)
----------------------------------------------------
This
is a local group covering the county of
Northamptonshire within England.
Common name
is NUFORC. Formed in 1986. Number of members
about 20. Chief
officers are Stephen Gamble
(Chairman); Susan Pollock (Secretary) and
Elsie
Oakensen (Treasurer). Contact address :
30 Stonebridge Court, Lings,
Northampton,
Northamptonshire, England.
11.39:
NORTHERN UFO NETWORK
(NUFON)
-----------------------------------
Formed
in 1973, the Northern UFO Network or NUFON was a
loose federation of
local UFO groups
throughout northern England. At the peak about
20 groups
were members. A small newsletter
called Northern UFO News was published by
the
group. Although the federation of groups no
longer exists, Northern UFO
News is still
published by Jenny Randles.
11.40: Omega
Communications
----------------------------
P.O. Box 2051 Cheshire, Connecticut 06410
John W. White, M.A.T.
(President)
Sponsors public events (seminars,
lectures, symposiums, etc) to
promote
discussion about the UFO experience.
Since 1987, Omega Communications has
produced
an annual symposium, "The UFO Experience" where
numerous
researchers and contactees are
invited to talk. These proceedings
are
published in audio and video format
available for sale. Audio and
videotapes of
previous conferences are available. Audio tapes
are $9.00
each while videotapes are $29.95
each . Each tape is approximately 90
minutes
in length. Video tapes are available only in VHS
format.
11.41: ParaNet (Paranormal
Network) Information
Service
-------------------------------------------------------
ParaNet Information Service
P.O. Box
172
Wheat Ridge, CO 80034-0172
Voice
Phone - 303-431-8796
Data BBS Phone -
303-431-8797
Publication is The Continuum :
Founded in 1986
History
ParaNet
started on January 1, 1986 in a bulletin-board
system called
"The Other Side" It was one of
the first BBS that gathered together
various
information for the pourpous of research on the
paranormal.
Jim Speiser was the Director of
ParaNet 1986-88 at the time and
wanted to
bring together the three factions of paranormal
debate
(the skeptics, the believers, and the
undecided) for public
discussion of
paranormal. He created ParaNet as neutral ground
for
the exchange of information on the
paranormal.In 1988 Speiser turned
over the
directorship to Michael Corbin.
Current
Status
ParaNet's basic goles are reflected in
its motto: "Answering Questions,
Questioning
Answers". ParaNet offers investigator's raw
material, in the
form of sighting reports,
which comes from data supplied by the public.
The network concept provides the
investigators and its users with
immediate,
one-on-one contact, and instant
access to a global communications
medium.
ParNet also keeps it users informed
major, fast-breaking stories involving
the
paranormal. ParaNet can be accessed in six
countries on three
continents.
The
People of ParaNet
ParaNet provides access to
experts through their electronic system.
Its
research branch is headed by Robert B.
Klinn, a veteran investigator who
worked for
the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek. ParaNet also
provides a conference
on the UFO abduction
experience hosted by Dr. David Jacobs, a UFO
historian
and author. Many different groups
and researchers of the paranormal use
Parenet
for information exchange and discussion of
ideas. Among some of them
are the Bay Area
Skeptics, the South Shore Skeptics, Marge
Christenson,
T. Scott Crain, Dan Drasin, Stan
Gordon, Barry Greenwood, Budd Hopkins,
Linda
Howe, Phil Imbrogno, Dr. David Jacobs, Dr.
Donald Johnson, Philip
Klass,
Bruce
Maccabee, Maj. James McGaha, Dr. Mark Rodeghier,
Robert Schaeffer,
Tracy Torme, and Dr. David
Webb, Don Ecker, Vicki Cooper and and many
others.
The Future of ParaNet
In the
future ParaNet plans to expan their network to
even more cournties,
increasing public
education and scientific-oriented research and
investigation unequaled in the field. Their
focus will be directed at
bringing various
credible existing organizations from around the
world into
a better orgonized research
effort. ParaNet will also turn its attention to
more investigative reporting. Paranet plans
to acomplish this unser their
new
organization known as MICAP (Multi-national
Investigations Cooperative
on Aerial
Phenomena). (see MICAP) MICAP will be a separate
non-profit
research/educational vehicle with
investigative
ability.
Publications:
CONTINUUM
is a publication put out quarterly by ParaNet It
costs $18.00
per year. It is a very
informative and diverse
publication.
Internet Mailings:
To get
the current postings from ParaNet send a mail
message to:
infopara-request@scicom.alphacdc.com
with
the word "Subscribe" in the subject
line.
Information about ParaNet and MICAP
can be obtained by phoning 303-431-8796,
or
by writing to them at P.O. Box 172, Wheat Ridge,
CO 80034-0172.
To access ParaNet via
computer and modem, call 303-431-8797 and you
will be
guided through the registration
process and be given choices of which
level
of membership you wish to
acquire.
ParaNet's files are available on
floppy disks or hard copy. Their catalog
is
available for $10.00 and contains a full listing
of all available
files, books, and videos.
Contact Michael Corbin at:
ParaNet
Information Service
P.O. Box 172
Wheat
Ridge, CO 80034-0172
11.42:
Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the
Unexplained
(PASU)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
6 Oakhill Avenue
Greensburg,
Pennsylvania 15601
Stan Gordon (Director)
412-838-7768
PASU Data Exchange
Founded in 1981
A volunteer, non-profit
scientific research unit conducts investigations
of
strange or unusual occurrences, with
emphasis on UFOs and UFO-related
activity.
PASU members donate their time and equipment.
PASU is a statewide
clearinghouse for reports
of UFO sightings and is comprised of
individuals
with training or experience in
the fields of science,
engineering,
technology or medicine who act
as field investigators. Monthly meetings
are
held to share information. PASU has on
file thousands of cases from
Pennsylvania
that include UFO sightings, creature reports,
unusual animal
killings, unexplained
photographs and other anomalies. PASU attempts
to
send field investigators directly to the
scene of an occurrence to gather
information
and interview witnesses. The "PASU Data
Exchange" newsletter
contains information
regarding investigations conducted into
unusual
incidents that have occurred in Penn.
11.43: PNET
------------
Based in
Melbourne, Australia. Bulletin board system,
echos some Paranet
material. Sysop : Brian
Evans, contact Brian by Internet mail for
information:
bevans@tanus.cec.edu.au
11.44: The
Portland UFO Group
(PUFOG)
-------------------------------------
P.O. Box 998 Wilsonville, OR 97070
Jennifer Brown - Jacobs (Director)
503-538-0836
PUFOG Newsletter Founded in
1989
500 Members
A non-profit UFO
organization whose monthly seminars are open to
the
general public; maintain no membership
and are unaffiliated with any other
UFO
organization. PUFOG is an information group that
conducts seminars on
the 3rd Sunday of each
month at Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham,
OR.
These seminars present knowledgeable
speakers on UFOs and related
subjects. Those
who attend their seminars pay an admission fee
and receive
the PUFOG
newsletter.
11.45: Roundtown UFO
Society
-----------------------------
Roundtown
UFO Society, PO Box 52, Circleville, Ohio 43113
Multi-national
11.46: Royal Priest
Research
----------------------------
P.O. Box 10546
Sedona, Arizona
86336
Lyssa Royal
602-282-320S
Publication is: The Prism
Founded in
1975, an independent research group with no
members. Lyssa Royal
mixes generally-
accepted research techniques skills with less
provable
methods, such as channeling. Thus
far, their research has produced two
books,
"The Prism of Lyra - An Exploration of Human
Galactic Heritage" (130
pages) and "Visitors
From Within" (171 pages).
Lyssa Royal
organizes and conducts weekly sessions, private
consultations,
and special events. She offers
tapes of her numerous channeling
sessions
which discuss various topics and
extraterrestrial beings both physical
and
nonphysical. Each tape is 90 minutes and
$12.00; complete set (9 tapes)
is
$75.00.
"The Prism" is periodic
newsletter which details news, list of
recent
channeling tapes, books,
etc.
11.47: The Search for
EXtraterrestrial
Intelligence
---------------------------------------------------
NASA
HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Office of
Space Science and Applications
Michael
Braukus
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
Ames
Research Center, Mountain View,
Calif.
Michael Mewhinney
(Phone:
415/604-9000)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.
Mary Hardin
(Phone:
818/354-5011)
11.48: Sirian Rainbow
Lodge
---------------------------
P.O.
Box 2108
St. Petersburg, Florida
33731
Liah GoldenHawk (Co Founder)
L.
Baird (Bookkeeper)
813-822-8154
Pulbication is Solar Trek; founded in
1990.
Primarily an extraterrestrial outpost
program, provides information from
the alien
point of view. The Sirian Rainbow Lodge is the
StarSystem Sirian
Outpost; interested in
sharing all types of positive ET Alien
knowledge.
ET & UFO Network where
Contactees and others may share
eexperiences,
contacts and opinions. Focuses
on believing and possibilities, rather
than
proving any theories; focuses mainly on
occupants of UFOs and alien
knowledge.
The
Lodge is led by the Bennu who is an alien of the
Nordic type from
StarSystem Sirius. To raise
money, the Lodge sells books and booklets
by
the Bennu and "Solar Trek", the ET Alien
Quarterly Journal.
11.49: SKYNET
--------------
257 Sycamore Glen
Pasadena, California 91105
Ann Druffel
(Project Co Ordinator)
213-256-8655
Publication is Skynet Guides; Founded
in1965; 50 - 100 members.
Established to
serve as a tracking system for UFO reports in
the Los
Angeles, California area. Its
original purpose was to receive UFO
reports
at the time that witnesses were
viewing the objects, thus centering
their
efforts on real-time viewing,
photographing, monitoring, rather
than
relying on after-the-fact
analysis.
Upon joining, members agree to
contact other SKYNET members whenever
an
unusual sighting is occurring for members
to view, photograph and monitor
the object in
real-time while not having to wait for an
after-the-fact
presentation. This contacting
of other SKYnet members that a sighting
is
occurring is the only obligation of
members. All calls from the public
receive an
in-depth phone interview by an assigned SKYNET
official and if
warranted, further field
investigations are conducted.
11.50:
SOCIE'TE' BELGE d'ETUDE des PHENOMENES SPATIAUX
(SOBEPS)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Commonly
called SOBEPS and the leading group in Belgium.
Senior Officers :
President : Michel Bougard,
Secretary : Lucien Clerebaut. Contact
address
74 Avenue Paul Janson, B-1070,
Bruxelles, Belgium.
11.51: Society for
Scientific Exploration
(SSE)
-----------------------------------------------
Office of the Secretary
P.O. Box 3818,
University Station
Charlottesville,
Virginia 22903-0818
Laurence W. Fredrick
(Secretary)
804-924-4905 : 804-924-3104
Publishes the Journal of Scientific
Exploration and The Explorer .
Established in
1982. A tax-exempt group that investigates
various
anomalies, including UFOs. Although
its president Professor Peter Sturrock
of
Stanford University, all contact with SSE should
be made through
Laurence W. Fredrick. The
goal of the SSE is to gain further
understanding
of anomalous phenomena
(including UFOs) and to share this knowledge
with
the public. The Society considers
anomalous phenomena to be incidents
that
appear to contradict existing scientific
knowledge; regarded by the
scientific
community as being outside their established
fields of inquiry.
They use the "Journal of
Scientific Exploration" as an avenue to
discuss
anomalous phenomena and present
research results to the scientific
and
scholarly community; its members are
drawn from practitioners of science
who have
acquired a first-hand knowledge and
understanding of the
scientific process. The
Society holds annual international meetings
and
periodically scheduled regional
meetings.
To promote co-operation, and to
accommodate other levels of activity
and
interest, the Society has created the
categories of "Corresponding Member"
and
"Associate". "Associates" receive the "Journal
of Scientific
Exploration" (two issues a
year) and "The Explorer" (two issues a year).
An
Associate may submit letters and other
items for publication in the
Newsletter, may
submit articles for publication in the Journal
(each
article must be sponsored by a "Full
Member"), and may attend Society
meetings by
arrangement with a "Full Member". A person
wishing to become an
"Associate" may do so by
completing an Application Form and sending it
with
a check for the annual dues to the
Secretary.
"Full Membership" is reserved for
those associated with major
universities,
government entities or
corporate research institutions who have
an
established reputation in a traditional
branch of science.
"Emeritus Membership"
provides the privileges of Full Membership
to
similarly qua]ified retirees at a lower
annual rate.
"Student Membership" is limited
to graduate students enrolled in
academic
institutions.
"Corresponding
Membership" is open to members of designated
organizations.
A "Corresponding Member"
receives, and is entitled to submit articles
to
the "Journa] of Scientific
Exploration".
11.52: The Societv for the
Investigation of the Unexplained
(SITU)
------------------------------------------------------------------
P.O.
Box 265
Little Silver, New Jersey
07739
Nancy Warth (Membership Secretary)
201-842-5229
Publication is Pursuit
Founded in 1965 by Ivan T. Sanderson
A
non-profit, tax-exempt organization; collects
data on unexplained events,
promotes proper
investigation of both individua] reports and
general
subjects, and reports significant
data to its members. SITU studies
unexplained
events that orthodox science does not (or will
not)
investigate.
SITU maintains reference
files which include original reports,
newspaper
and other clipping correspondence,
audio tapes, films, photographs,
drawings,
maps, etc. Copies of these items a available to
members only.
Membership fees include the
magazine "Pursuit", which is
published
regularly.
11.53: System
Ready
-------------------
7154 North
University Drive Suite 116
Tarnarac, Florida
33321
Concentrates on building devices which
can be used to detect UFOs. Their
book,
"Detecting UFOs" details these
devices.
11.54: Transcendental
Communications A Division of LAMAT
Research
-----------------------------------------------------------------
444 North Amelia #9C
San Dimas,
California 91773
Don Grantharn (Director
& Systems Operator)
714-599-6769 :
714-599-6270 (Operates at 300/1200/2400 BPS) :
714-599-5045
Transcendental Communications
Newsletter
A scientific, investigative
organization interested in UFOs and
related
phenomena. Transcendental
Communications is the largest
UFO-related
computer network bulletin board
system (BBS) on the west coast. The aim
of
Transcendental Comrnunications is to get
the word out to those interested
in current
UFO information; a clearinghouse for books,
documents,
publications, audio ar video tape
interviews, seminars, documentaries and
UFO
films and footage.
The main focus of
Transcendental Communications is the operation
of a BBS
through which interested parties can
participate in on-line conversation.
read
various reports, news items or articles, or
leave messages for
other
members.
Transcendental
Communications publishes the "Transcendental
Communications
Newsletter" which outlines
topics that have been discussed on the BBS
and
provides current UFO-related articles.
FAX number available so that
interested
parties can send them copies of reports,
inforrnation, etc.
Basic Member Dues
$13.50
System Member $39.50
Full Member
$49.50
Newsletter for one year; list of
publications, audio and video tapes;
six
months BBS access
11.55: UFO
Contact Center International
(UFOCCI)
------------------------------------------------
3001
South 288th Street #304
Federal Way,
Washington 98003
Aileen Bringle (Director)
206-946-2248
The Missing Link
June
1981
A non-profit organization dedicated to
helping people who have had
traumatic,
bizarre experiences or sightings of UFOs. A
secondary goal of
UFOCCI is to promote public
awareness of the UFO contactee
phenomenon.
UFOCCI works with each contactee
to help them understand their experiences
via
hypnosis, group meetings and open seminars. Each
year, over the Labor
Day weekend, UFOCCI
conducts a conference called "Jorpah" (which
means
'Cosmic Gathering') in which the past
year's activities are summed up
and
discussed. These gatherings are held at
different places throughout the
country. The
date and time of these conferences are announced
in The
"Missing Link" newsletter.
UFOCCI
holds monthly meetings the fourth Saturday of
each month.
Associate Directors (by State
and Canada):
Ak Thomas Wilson 845 West
70th Anchorage, Alaska 99518 ph:907-522-3
172
Az Helene CharboMeau P.O. Box 1369
Safford, AZ 85548-1369 ph:602-428-6437
Ray
Jordan 3831 North Paradise Road Flagstaff, AZ
86004 ph:602-774-6334
Tom Dongo Box 2571
Sedona, AZ 86336 ph:602-282-562 1
Ca Mark
Andrews 811 Victoria Costa Mesa, CA 92627
ph:714-645-7046
Michael & DoMa Farrner
123 Henshaw #402 Chico, CA 95926
ph:916-894-3327
Ron Rodriquez 3948 Berrywood
Santa Maria, CA 93455 ph:805-937-8050
Allen
Drake 13222 Louvre Street Pacoima, CA 91331
ph:818-896-3572
Robert Shiepe 2865 Corning
Street Los Angeles, CA 90034
ph:213-836-8362
Co Jackie Blue P.O. Box 1015
Paonia, CO 81428 ph:303-527-4412
AM Ulrich
P.O. Box 117 Paonia, CO 81428
ph:303-527-3257
De Cary Dickey P.O. Box 5535
Wilmington, Delaware 19808 ph:302-994-7509
Il
Carolyn Baum-Hawtree 1732 New Lenox Road Joliet,
llinois 60433
ph:815-726-1756
Io Jason
Hooten 525 Avenue D Fort Madison, Iowa 52627
ph:319-372-5558
Ma Robert Poutenis Route 9
Box 586 Pownal, Maine 04069
Md Patrick
O'Connell 12628 Black Saddle Lane Germantown,
Maryland 20874
ph:301-972-1980
Mo Barbara
Becker 6219 Enright Avenue St. Louis, Missouri
63130
Claudia Sanderson-Jones 606 N.E. 114th
Street Kansas City, Missouri 64155
ph:816-734-9000
Ne Kristy Buckles 3701 NW
Conifer Court Lincoln 68521 ph:402-489-3
162
Nv Valdemar Valerian P.O. Box 81407 Las
Vegas, NV 89180-1407
ph:702-878-4380
Nj
Linda Dudar 20 Jackson Avenue Washington 07882
ph:201-689-7144
Maryellen Kelly P.O. Box 1874
Champaign 61820 ph:217-359-9343
Katie
Sandberg Route 4 Box 1065-42 West Plains 65775
ph:417-256-0945
Nm Mary Ellen Masters 504
Kiva Avenue Aztec 87410 ph:505-334-9841
Cliff
Stone 1421 East Tilden Roswell 88201
505-625-0920
Pennsylvania:
Terri Shupenko
731 East 10th Street Erie 16503
Dennis Viglo
326 College Street Youngsville 16371
814-563-4322
Tennessee:
Herrnan L.
Langley P.O. Box 422 Smyrna 37167
615-459-0165
Brent Raynes 326 Haggard Street
Waynesboro 38485 615-722-5976
Tx Anne Bower
815 Peach Spring Houston 77088
713-931-0930
Harv Howard P.O. Box 904
Manchaca 78652 5 12-282-203 1
Judy Stryker
3409 Ruth Road Fort Worth 76118
Sunshine
Williams P.O. Box 162485 Austin 78716
Donna
Brown P.O. Box 337 Vidor 77670-0337
409-769-5828
Goldie King P.O. Box 4455
Pasadena 77501 713-475-2785
Donna Tietze P.O.
Box 260 Friendswood 77546-0260
713-482-8641
Ut Kaye Studstrup 2114 East 6805
South Salt Lake City 84121
Wa Lozanna Elwood
3001 South 288th #304 Federal Way, 98003
ph:206-946-2248
Jarnes C. Van Avery 6226
110th Avenue N.E. Kirkland 98033
ph:206-889-2026
Wisconsin:
Linda
Houston N7576 Timber Drive, Rib Lake 54470
ph:801 -263-2551
Dr. Robert & Felicia
Moore P.O. Box 825 Marshfield 54449
715-387-4639
Wy Sheri Gould 705 South
Burritt, Buffalo 82834
307-684-2755
Canada:
Shirle Klein Carsh
6973 -129th Street Surrey, B.C. V3W 9A9
604-597-5822
?? Bill Hamilton III 249 North
Brand Blvd Suite 651 Glendale 91203
Ph:818-547-6935
Heidi Duval &
Henrietta Raines P.O. Box 12 Crested Butte
81224
11.56: UFO Fllter
Center
------------------------
618 Davis
Drive
Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620
Neil
Gilchrist P.O. Box 764 Nelson, B.C. VlL 5R4
604-825-9292
Francis L. Ridge (Director) :
812-838-3120 / 812-838-9843
Publication
is: UFO Intelligence Summary and was founded in
1971
A one-man effort which investigates UFO
activity, mainly in the Indiana
area. The
goals of this group are to conduct a systematic
computer study of
UFO data from a six-state
region: Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Ohio,
Kentucky, and Tennessee; this study
covers sightings beginning before 1947
to the
present.
11.57: UFO Information Retrieval
Center
(UFOIRC)
------------------------------------------------
3131 West Cochise Drive #158
Phoenix,
Arizona 85051-9501
Thomas M. Olsen
(President)
602-997-1523 :
602-870-3178
Publication is: Reference for
Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports
Founded in:
1966
A non-membership organization which
collects, analyzes, publishes
and
disseminates information about UFOs.
UFOIRC also compiles statistics,
conducts
research programs, sponsors photo exhibits,
maintains a 200-volume
Library, and provides
special educational services geared to children
and
students.
UFOIRC publishes books,
symposium proceedings, reprints of
magazine
articles, and a bibliography of
currently available information on the
UFO
phenomenon.
11.58: UFO
Investigators
League
--------------------------------
Box 753 New Brunswick,
New Jersey 08903
Timothy Green Beckley
Publishes: UFO
Spotters Newsletter
Started in 1990
A
new organization under the auspices of Timothy
Green Beckley who is
striving to expand his
international network of investigators who wish
to
investigate UFO cases in their
areas.
Members receive membership card.
investigators certificate, field manual,
and
a subscription to the "UFO Spotters Newsletter".
Membership is $20.00
per year.
11.59:
THE UFO, PARANORMAL AND CONSPIRACY
BBS
---------------------------------------------
Internet
Contact: elite@igc.apc.org (Elite
Enterprises)
Modem: 312/604-8161 (24
HOURS)
11.60: UFO REPORTING AND
INFORMATION SERVICE
(UFORIS)
----------------------------------------------
Information
Director : Dale Goudie. Contact address : P.O.
Box 832, Mercer
Island, WA, 98040, USA. see
also Computer UFO Network. Phone (voice)
+1
206 721 5035
11.61: UFO Study Group of
Greater St.
Louis
------------------------------------
P.O.
Box 31544 St. Louis, Missouri 63131
John
Schroeder (President)
Helen Hanke
(Secretary)
314-352-3058
Publishes the
The UFO Enigma.
A non-profit organization
formed in 1968 to investigate UFOs and to
collect
and disseminate information germane
to the UFO phenomena. They hold
meetings at
the Farm and Home building, 110 West Lockwood
(at Gore),
Webster Groves, Missouri at 2:00
p.m. on the second Sunday of the
months
September through May.
This group
operates in close cooperation with MUFON, CUFOS,
and with
numerous organizations around the
world in order to coordinate UFO research
and
information.
11.62: Ufology Research of
Manitoba
(UFOROM)
--------------------------------------------
UFOROM
is a private, non-profit and volunteer
organisation which is
involved in rational
discourse, investigation and research on UFOs
and
related phenomena. It was formed in 1975.
All types of UFO-related
phenomena have been
studied by UFOROM, including traces,
crash-retrievals,
abductions and cattle
mutilations. In addition, some UFOROM
associates
also study fortean and psychic
phenomena. UFOROM publishes an annual
survey
of UFO activity in Canada, comparable to the
Ferrughelli reports
on American cases. Case
data is provided by co-operative
Canadian
researchers across Canada.
UFOROM is not open to general public
membership. However,
independent
investigators and researchers
throughout North America and particularly
in
Canada are associated with UFOROM by way of
their contributions of
case information and
data from their own areas. Such contributions
are
welcomed and readily acknowledged by
UFOROM.
Although UFOROM does not publish
a journal or newsletter for
general
distribution, associates frequently
exchange information on an informal
basis.
This information is made available through
articles and reports
published in UFO
magazines or books, written or edited by
UFOROM
associates.
UFOROM is
associated with an irregular ufozine titled the
SWAMP GAS
JOURNAL. [See UFO Publications
section] It is available in hard copy
through
zine exchange or for a "cost" of one
International Postal Reply
Coupon per issue.
As an experiment, the most recent issue also
has
been made available in electronic format
via INTERNET by posting a
request to:
rutkows@ccu.umanitoba.ca
UFOROM
associates are involved with the J. Allen Hynek
Center for UFO
Studies (CUFOS), the Mutual
UFO Network (MUFON) and various
other
organisations. UFOROM functions
independently, but operates with
an
understanding of complete co-operation and
information exchange with
interested and
serious researchers in their specialised areas
of
interest.
UFOROM is devoted to the
rational and objective study of UFOs
and
related phenomena, as well as other
controversial phenomena such as
crop circles.
All views on these phenomena, including both
proponent
and contrary standpoints, are
considered. In this regard, UFOROM
associates
tend to engage in dialogue with both "believers"
and
"debunkers". It is hoped that such
attempts to "bridge the gap"
between the two
sides of the debate will encourage more
constructive
discourse.
Correspondence
for UFOROM can be snailmailed
to:
UFOROM
Box 1918
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
Canada R3C 3R2
11.63: United
Aerial Phenomena Agency
(UAPA)
-------------------------------------
P.O. Box 347032
Cleveland, Ohio
44134-7032
Allan J. Manak (Chairman)
Rick R. Hilberg (Vice Chairman)
Founded
1966
A non-profit organization dedicated to
the investigation and study of UFOs
and
related subjects. Its two publications are
"Flying Saucer Digest"
(quarterly) and
"Weirdology" (bi- monthly). UAPA sells a wide
variety of
books, maps, back issues, rare
items, etc. A catalog is available
for
$1.00.
11.64: Universal Articulate
Interdimensional Understanding of
Science
--------------------------------------------------------------
UNARIUS Academy of Sciences
145 South
Magnolia Avenue
El Cajon, California
92020-4522
Dr. Ernest L. Norman (Co Founder)
Ruth E. Norman (Co Founder)
Charles
Spaegel (Vice President)
619-447-4170
Publishes the UNARIUS Light Magazine
since1954.
A non-profit, New Age organization
which has pioneered the teaching of Past
Life
Therapy since 1954. This teaching is given to
the student through a
curriculum that attunes
the truth seeker to the high frequency
energy
maintained by the authors, who are
Advanced Spiritual Beings living on the
Inner
Planes. UNARIUS receives most of its information
and instructions
through channeling with the
Higher Beings (Space Brothers). UNARIUS
writes,
publishes, and distributes a complete
course of study describing the New
Sciences
of Life. This course material is covered over
100-plus texts of
the UNARIUS Academy of
Sciences; augmented by over 100 video programs.
The
course material covers missing piece's of
man's prehistory, the enigma
surrounding the
dilemma of unresolved problems in science,
politics and
religion, and the future for
mankind in the 21st century.
Class sessions
are held at the UNARIUS Center on Wednesdays
& Sundays at
7:00 p.m.; class fee is
S10.00. Some courses are also available on
TV
stations throughout California. All of the
materials are directly related
to the UNARIUS
goal of achieving Higher Awareness.
One of
this group's main tenets is that there are
superior extraterrestrial
forces which
control the Earth's destiny and which know the
fate of
mankind. With the teachings provided
by UNARIUS, they feel that each person
can
become cosmically attuned to higher spiritual
forces and can become
aware of Reality and
what is in store for humans. UNARIUS teaches
that the
Interplanetary Confederation, a
coalition of 33 existing planets, is
building
33 spacecraft that will form a giant city and
will descend to
Earth in the year 2001. This
"building" or "city" will descend on
land
purchased for this purpose in the
southern California area and will be
a
gathering spot for people to come and learn
about Cosmic Awareness.
In addition to
students, interested parties can join UNARIUS
for $50.00 per
year.
11.65: Victorian
U.F.O. Research Society Inc.
(VUFORS)
-------------------------------------------------------
AVUFORS
is the largest UFO society in the Southern
hemishpere and has
been in existence since
the 1950s. (membership approx. 400)
Regular
discussion nights are held and the Society
publishes a
quarterly magazine called The
Australian U.F.O. Bulletin which
details UFO
related information from Australia and
abroad.
Membership:
Overseas (non
Australian) $US20
(Personal cheques cannot be
accepted unless an additional
$US5 is
included to cover bank charges - We request you
remit
bank cheques or International Postal
Orders)
Membership entitles you to
receive a copy of "The Australian
UFO
Bulletin", our quarterly magazine to members.
The
bulletin contains information from within
Australia and
overseas.
Total number
of members is currently around
400.
History:
The "Australian Flying
Saucer Research Society (Victorian
Branch)"
was formed on the 17th of February, 1957 as a
branch of the
"Australian Flying Saucer
Research Society" and later that year
was
reorganised as the "Victorian Flying
Saucer Research Society" with
Mr. Peter E.
Norris L.L.B. as President. In 1968 the name was
again
altered - this time to the "Victorian
U.F.O. Research Society".
The current
executive has been in place since 1978.
The
Society has held a dispassionate attitude on
U.F.O.s, claiming
it is a scientific problem
deserving closer attention.
Membership of
this Society - which maintains the largest
membership
of any U.F.O. organisation in the
Southern Hemisphere - is open to
all who are
genuinely interested in the
subject.
Significant cases studied:
-
The Frederick Valentich disappearance (1978).
Frederick
Valentich was a twenty year old
member of the Royal Australian Air
Force who
disappeared on a solo private flight across Bass
Strait
after radioing that an object was
hovering on top of his Cessna 182.
- The
Knowles Family Encounter. The case of a family
on a
car trip across the Nullarbor Plain in
South Australia who were
buzzed by a UFO that
at one stage lifted the Knowles car into
the
air only to drop it to the road seconds
later.
Postal Address: Internet
contact:
P.O. Box 43 email:
TCook@cmutual.com.au
Moorabbin phone:
+61-3-6076849
Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3189 fax :
+61-3-6076198
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