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Mufon UFO Journal

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Number 275
March 1991
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NEW SAN AGUSTIN CRASH WITNESS


By Mike O'Brien
Mufon UFO Journal
March 1991 Number 275

CONTENTS
NEW WITNESS TO SAN AGUSTIN CRASH Mike O'Brien 3-

TESTIMONY SUPPORTED Mike O'Brien 6

RELIVING JULY 5, 1947 John Carpenter 7

RIVER, LAKE & CREEK Michael Strainic 10

NEWS'N'VIEWS , Fred Whiting & John F. Schuessler 14

CROP CIRCLES: PROPOSED PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS Michael Wales 15

THE UFO PRESS Dennis Stacy & Jerold Johnson 16

LOOKING BACK: UFO Phenomena Over the Years Bob Gribble 19

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Vallee, Randle & Schmitt 21

THE APRIL NIGHT SKY Walter N. Webb 22

DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Walt Andrus 24

COVER ART Judith Noble Fowler

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NEW WITNESS TO SAN AGUSTIN CRASH
Mike O'Brien, News-Leader, Springfield, Missouri

Both the witness, Gerald Anderson, phenomena. These experts say Gerald planation he can muster for speaking
and hypnotist, John Carpenter, were Anderson appears to be an impor- up after years of keeping mostly mum
sent copies of this article for their tant link in a frustratingly fragmented on the matter.
approval as to accuracy prior to chain of evidence concerning the most "These people don't know what
publication, and both have agreed famous — or infamous — chapter in they're talking about," Anderson told
and consented. UFO annals: the so-called "Roswell In- the operator on the other end of the
Carpenter, a professional therapist, cident." long-distance line. "The shape of the
is a MUFON state section director No one denies that something hap- craft is totally wrong. And how do
living in Springfield. pened in July 1947 in central New you know that, sir?' she asked. 'I saw
Mexico, cradle of U.S. nuclear and it. I was there,' I told her. ' Whoa!'
To a five-year-old kid from In- rocket technology. However, military she said, 'There are some people
dianapolis, the mountains and mesas authorities insist reports of strange who will want to talk to you ...' "
and vast scrubland surrounding Albu- craft in the sky and bizarre wreck- Anderson's phone soon was ringing
querque seemed an alien world. age on the ground were traced at the with calls from UFO researchers
"I was in awe," recalls Gerald Ander- time to an errant weather balloon and around the country. One in particular,
son of his arrival in New Mexico with other manmade or natural circum- Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist
his family in July 1947. "I was in the stance. and popular lecturer who had advised
wild frontier. There were real, live In- Nonetheless, over the years, persis- the "Unsolved Mysteries" producers,
dians out there." tent whispered rumors grew into was struck by correlations between
Then, says Anderson, on his second published articles and books, even Anderson's recollections and obscure
day in the Southwest, he bumped into movies, which fanned speculation that details Friedman uncovered while
real live creatures from a truly alien what actually occurred was a visit sleuthing for a book to be published
world. by creatures from another planet — next year.
There were four — two dead, one dy- an intergalactic expedition that turned Friedman, who lives in Canada, con-
ing, one apparently uninjured. The to tragedy on the high desert and tacted John Carpenter, a Springfield
creatures were about four feet tall, with then into a massive coverup in the professional therapist who in his spare
heads disproportionately large for their highest circles of the U.S. government. time serves as state section director for
bodies by human measure, and almond- Anderson says he was unaware of the local chapter of Mutual UFO Net-
shaped, coal black eyes. They huddled ongoing fascination and controversy work, a worldwide organization of
in the shadow of a 50-foot-diameter over the strange episode from his UFO researchers. At Friedman's re-
silver disc — a "flying saucer" that had childhood, until one evening this past quest, Carpenter conducted extensive
crashed into a low hillside on the rim January when he was flipping through in-person interviews of Anderson, in-
of what locals call the Plains of San channels on his television set and cluding sessions under hypnosis.
Agustin. stumbled across the popular program
Anderson, a former police chief at "Unsolved Mysteries." he results excited Friedman.
Rockaway Beach and Taney County
deputy sheriff, who now works as a
security officer in Springfield, is ada-
"I wasn't looking for any unsolved
mysteries — I have enough mysteries
in my life that are unsolved, and I don't
T "Powerful stuff!" he exclaimed
upon hearing interview tapes.
Friedman arranged airline tickets for
mant about events on that hot midsum- need any more," Anderson jokes. He Anderson and Carpenter to join him in
mer day so long ago. is a burly, barrel-chested man, standing New Mexico to pinpoint the crash
"I saw them. I even touched one of 6-4 and carrying a muscular 250-plus site.
the creatures. I put my hand on their pounds, with reddish hair and a ruddy Anderson says the flight was his first
ship. And I wasn't alone — my dad, my complexion creased from easy laughter. return to New Mexico in more than a
uncle, my brother and my cousin all "But, bingo! On comes this story, and quarter-century. After pointing the pilot
saw the same things. And so did a lot everything was wrong," Anderson of a chartered helicopter to a spot in the
of other people. But they aren't talking." recalls of the TV show. On sudden im- desert 75 air miles southwest of Albu-
Anderson is talking, publicly, after pulse, he dialed an 800 phone number querque, Anderson gazed at a hillside,
43 years of silence. that flashed onto the screen. "I guess strewn with boulders the size of
Among those listening most intently I figured that if people were still in- Volkswagens and dotted with a few
are some of the foremost researchers terested in this thing, they might as well gnarled pinon trees, that he says he last
into unidentified flying object (UFO) get it straight" is the only ex- saw in the summer of 1947...

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New Home to attack it," Anderson recounts, cover- than the surface of the craft or the skin
ing his face with crossed arms. The of the corpse: The upright creature
The Anderson family arrived in adults tried repeatedly to communicate "turned and looked right at me, and it
Albuquerque from Indiana on July 4, with the frightened creature, Anderson was like he was inside my head — as
1947. They took up temporary residence says, but there was no audible response if he was doing my thinking, as if his
at the home of one of Gerald's uncles, to greetings spoken in English and thoughts were in my head."
Guy Anderson. Gerald's father, Glen, Spanish. Anderson remembers a mental sen-
was about to take a job as a master A few minutes after the Anderson sation of falling and tumbling end-over-
machinist involved in nuclear weapons clan happened upon the bizarre scene, end. "I felt that thing's fear, felt its
design at the super-secret Sandia base six other people arrived — five college depression, felt its loneliness. I relived
on the outskirts of town. students and their teacher. They'd been the crash. I know the terror it went
The next day, another uncle, Ted, working on an archeological dig around through. That one look told me every-
struck up a conversation with Gerald's cliff dwellings a few miles away and had thing that quickly," he says with a snap
older brother, Glen Jr., who was on decided to hike over after seeing what of his fingers.
leave from the Marine Corps. Glen Jr. they thought was a fiery meteor
was a rockhound, and his uncle piqued crashing the night before. The pro- ther things began happening
the young Marine's enthusiasm with
tales of gorgeous stones just waiting to
be collected in the desert.
fessor, a Dr. Buskirk, tried several
foreign languages in unsuccessful at-
tempts to coax a verbal response from
O quickly about this time, Ander-
son says. A contingent of armed
soldiers suddenly appeared. The
"Ted told my brother, 'I know where the creature, Anderson says. creature, which had calmed down after
there's plenty of moss agate.' So we all The sun had climbed to a midday its initial fright, "went crazy" at the
piled into a 1940 Plymouth — Uncle peak by this time and, recalls Ander- sight of the soldiers. Thinking back on
Ted, my cousin Victor (Ted's eight- son, "to a kid from Indiana, it was hot, the creature's plight today brings on
year-old son), my brother Glen, my dad brother, let me tell you." He'd chugged "the awfulest, horrible feeling," Ander-
and myself. We went out into this area a chocolate-flavored soft drink an hour son says.
where the most agate was supposed to earlier, and the sweet soda pop was "His situation was hopeless. He
be — followed two ruts into the desert, churning uncomfortably in his stomach. knew it. He'd just lived through a
bounced along out there for a while, So he sought shelter in the shadow of nightmare that most of us wouldn't be
and ended up on top of a ridgeline. We the spacecraft. able to psychologically stand. He'd
parked the car and started to walk down "It was 115 (degrees) out there that watched two of his crew, his friends or
an arroyo (gully) and dry creek bed and day. But around the craft, when you got maybe even his family, die. He's watch-
out onto the plains. close to it, it was cold. When you ing another one die. He knows there's
touched the metal, it felt just like it no chance of rescue, because the
Strange Discovery came out of a freezer." military is here and his people aren't
going to be able to get to him.
"But we came around a corner and Something Not Right "God only knows how far away from
right there in front of us, stuck into the home he was, and he knew he was
side of this hill, was a silver disc. There Anderson also touched one of the never going to see — if they have loved
were some remarks like, 'There's a creatures lying motionless on the ones — his loved ones again. He was
crash up here. Something's crashed up ground — and it, too, was cold. In his totally alone on a hostile planet, and the
here!' And then someone saying, child's mind, he had thought the figures only people who were showing him
That's a goddam spaceship!' looked like dolls. But when he felt the kindness were being run off by the
"We all went up there to it. There cold skin, "I knew something wasn't military at weapon-point.
were three creatures, three bodies, ly- quite right. Yuck!" "As a kid, I was aware of what being
ing on the ground underneath this thing Anderson says he ran to the crest of afraid of the dark was like, and the feel-
in the shade. Two weren't moving, and a nearby knoll to take stock. A pickup ing I got from him was that feeling
the third one obviously was having trou- truck arrived on the ridge, and a fellow multiplied a million times. It was scary.
ble breathing, like when you have whom researchers believe was a civil It was terrifying."
broken ribs. There was a fourth one engineer named Barney Barnett joined
next to it, sitting there on the ground. the curious audience. "I remember Soldiers on the Scene
There wasn't a thing wrong with it, and thinking he looked like Harry Truman.
it apparently had been giving first aid In 1947, every kid knew what Harry Anderson says he lost sight of the
to the others." Truman looked like," Anderson says. creature as the soldiers swarmed over
Anderson animatedly acts out the After a few minutes, Anderson sum- the site. The civilians were brusquely
fourth creature's reaction when the moned the courage to again creep close shoved from the craft. Anderson
family members approached. "It recoil- to the strange surface. It was then he remembers shouts and threats. His un-
ed in fear, like it thought we were going says, he felt something more chilling cle Ted threw a punch at one of the

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In the days that followed, all of New
Mexico was abuzz with talk of strange
lights in the sky, strange echos on radar,
strange doings in the desert. On July
7, news reports told of remnants of an
unidentified aircraft found by a rancher
near the town of Roswell, NM, about
150 miles east of the hillside where
the Andersons stumbled upon the
saucer.
Although several witnesses said it
was like nothing they'd ever seen
before, military officers insisted the
metallic pieces came from an ordinary
weather balloon ...

Two Discs

Forty-three years later, Anderson


smiles wryly when reminded of the Ar-
my's pronouncement. "A lot of people
wondered why, if it was just a weather
balloon, the military put the pieces
under armed guard and flew them in
a B-29 to Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base in Ohio," he observes.
Anderson believes the wreckage scat-
tered near Roswell and the barely
damaged saucer on the Plains of San
Agustin are connected. "There was a
gash in the side of the disc we saw, like
it had been crushed in," he says. "The
contour of the craft would fit into that
Gerald F. Anderson gash perfectly — like another one of
Photo courtesy of Springfield News-Leader these things had hit it. I think two of
these discs had a mid-air collision. One
GIs. "Things got very tense, very son as odd today: The soldiers didn't exploded and fell in pieces near
dangerous," Anderson says. "The appear surprised about the other- Roswell, and the other crash-landed
soldiers ushered us out of there very worldly craft and creatures. They where we found it."
unceremoniously. Their attitude, to didn't gawk, slack-jawed and With all evidence confiscated and the
describe it at best, was uncivilized." awestruck, as the Andersons had done. military steadfastly sticking by the
Anderson has an especially vivid "The soldiers weren't saying, 'Gee, weather balloon explanation, the story
memory of a tough-talking red-haired look at that!' They were very cognizant faded from the news by July's end. And
Army captain and an equally gruff of what they were looking at. They Gerald Anderson says he tucked away
black sergeant. "They told my dad knew what it was." the memory as he grew into manhood.
and my uncle, who also worked at And it soon became apparent, "I learned you just don't go up to the
Sandia, that if they were ever to Anderson says, that the Army knew average person on the street and say,
divulge anything about this — it was a what it wanted to do with the find. "Damn, know what I saw?" The guy
secret military aircraft, they said — "There was a battalion of military, will go, 'Get away from me, fool! Are
then us kids would be taken away and a real invasion force, when we got you crazy?' That's exactly the first thing
they'd never see us again." It seems back up on the hilltop. There were they will say to you: 'You are crazy!' "
an outrageous threat in hindsight, trucks, there were airplanes — they In later life, he didn't mention it even
Anderson concedes. But at the time, had the road blocked off and they were to his wife until a few years after their
he reminds, "These people had landing on it. They had radio com- marriage.
machine guns and you listened to what munications gear set up. There were Anderson joined the Navy in the late
they said." ambulances, and more soldiers with 1950s and served a dozen years in posts
Another recollection strikes Ander- weapons." around the globe. He lived for a few

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around the globe. He lived for a few why should we assume that this speck to what both men believe was the after-
years in Colorado, working as a of sand in the backwater of space would math of one of two spacecraft crashes
paramedic and working toward a col- be the only place that an all-perfect, in New Mexico in mid-summer 1947.
lege degree in microbiology. In 1979, almighty God could create life?" Friedman is co-authoring a book
he moved to Missouri to better raise his In fact, Anderson says he "wouldn't based upon several years of painstak-
daughter away from what he terms the be one bit surprised to find out that, ing investigation into the haunting
"druggy" atmosphere of Denver. In ad- wherever this creature came from, there mystery. He was startled, upon meeting
dition to his law enforcement posts, they have a very strong concept of a Anderson for the first time only a few
Anderson has worked for two southwest supreme being. Because my contact months ago, to hear the Springfieldian
Missouri trucking firms as a driver and with the creature showed a high degree echo details of the yet-to-be-published
instructor. of civilized sophistication, gentleness, research.
Anderson also has been active in the compassion — all of the things we hold "There's no way he could know some
Episcopal Church. He recently was as ideals." of these things unless he had been there
elected to the vestry at Ascension Of the five Anderson men who ven- at the time," Friedman believes.
Episcopal in Springfield and is study- tured into the desert that day in 1947, Example: Only days before first talk-
ing toward becoming a deacon. A gold only Gerald is still alive. Age, illness ing with Anderson, Friedman coaxed
crucifix — a cross complete with a and accidents claimed the other four in a heretofore reluctant New Mexico
figure of the martyred Christ affixed to recent years. But not only Andersons mortician into recounting a run-in he'd
it — suspended from a chain around were at the scene, Gerald says, and he had in 1947 with an especially unplea-
Anderson's neck is testimony to his hopes his decision to come forth, albeit sant red-headed Army captain who was
faith. be 1 ted, will encourage others to tell heading up a team recovering bodies
what they know and spur official revela- from a hush-hush aircraft crash. Ander-
No Conflict tions about the captured craft and son, too, spoke of a red-headed captain
creatures. with a mean disposition. Friedman says
Although he concedes his account "I want to see the government stand the descriptions of the ornery officer
might make some fellow churchgoers up and say, 'Look, we're not alone in provided by the two match precisely,
uncomfortable, Anderson sees no con- the universe,' Let's make a 'Star Trek' although Anderson and the mortician
flict between what he saw with his eyes really happen. Let's do go out there and never have met.
and what he believes in his heart: explore the universe. That may be our In sketches of the desert crash scene
"When you're talking about the concept only salvation. Because with what we're drawn by Anderson in Springfield
of God, you have to be talking in the doing to this Earth, we're not going to following hypnosis, a lonely windmill
context of a universal situation, a dei- make it much past the year 2000." appears in the distance. When Fried-
ty that built the whole universe. And man later arranged for Anderson to
return to New Mexico to pinpoint the
long-ago crash site, no such windmill
Friedman Finds Favor could be seen on the horizon — until,
almost by accident, the windmill was
spotted behind trees that had grown up
TESTIMONY SUPPORTED during the 43 years since Anderson was
last there.
"I got shivers over that one,", says
Mike O'Brien John Carpenter, who has extensively
debriefed Anderson over the past four
months and went along on Anderson's
Physicist Stanton Friedman serves Why are Gerald Anderson's child- return trip to New Mexico in October.
MUFON as Director of Special In- hood recollections stirring international Carpenter holds degrees in psychology
vestigations on the Board of Direc- interest among UFO researchers whose and psychiatric social work from
tors, Provincial Director for the Atlan- reputations have been built on healthy DePauw and Washington universities,
tic Provinces, Canada and as a Con- skepticism and willingness to debunk and trained in clinical hypnosis at the
sultant in Nuclear Physics. hoaxes? Menninger Institute. He's in his 12th
Because of little things he has to say year of work at a psychiatric hospital
What sets Gerald Anderson apart and how he says them. facility in Springfield.
from the thousands of other Americans, Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist "When Gerald tells his story, it's not
including scores of Ozarkers, who say who has lectured on more than 600 col- just a story — it's his life he's telling
they've seen UFOs or even insist lege campuses about UFOs, describes you, intermixed with his feelings and
they've been kidnapped by creatures Anderson as "a really significant, his beliefs and all that is Gerald,"
from outer space? potentially the most important" witness Carpenter says.

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"When someone is spinning a hoax
or tale, they only give you enough to
raise your curiosity. Not Gerald. He
Hypnosis
gives you everything, in detail, much
more that you ask for. He'd be setting
himself up to be found out if it wasn't RELIVING JULY 5, 1947
true. He's so confident, he goes so much
further than a hoaxer would ever dare." John Carpenter, MSW/ACSW
Carpenter puts great stock in Ander-
son's recountings under hypnosis. "It's
what he didn't say that was significant," "They were up ahead, and they It was memorable when he thought
Carpenter says, explaining that despite started yelling ... there's this thing ... he saw Harry Truman drive up — on-
clever prodding, Anderson never com- it's like a crashed airplane or ly to realize that it was just a man who
mitted a hoaxer's mistake of "recalling" something ... There's all kinds oftore- looked and dressed like him (Grady
something that shouldn't be part of his up stuff, uh, like uh, cardboard and Barnett). And it was most memorable
own memory. wood, and stuff like that ... I was when a large number of military per-
"And when he's under hypnosis, all scared. He said there was dead peo- sonnel — America's heroes for children
the bigger, adult words drop out when ple over there ... they don't look real of that era — arrived on the scene.
he describes events from his child- ... There's all kinds of, uh, uh, lights Shocked, however, by the abrasive
hood," Carpenter found. "He relates inside the hole in this thing, and they're demands and threats to his family at
what he saw in childlike terms." flashing... there's all kinds of neat stuff gunpoint, these "heroes" seemed more
Carpenter also detected "genuine in here ... And then, Glen grabs Vic- like evil villains instead. This unex-
amazement" when Anderson heard tor by the leg and pulls him off, and tells pected behavior produced a traumatic
what had been dredged from his sub- him to don't mess around, because he reaction that would leave young Gerald
conscious memory under hypnosis. could make it explode and kill every- with scary nightmares for many weeks.
"The look on his face was priceless body ... That doll or that funny thing If most of us had had that many
when he realized he'd produced details — the one just by me — / reached and memorable events and perplexing im-
he'd forgotten on a conscious level so touched it, and it was cold ... It's got ages in one day's time, we would pro-
long ago." big eyes... abig head... it doesn't have bably remember that day as well.
Most subtle but perhaps most telling, lips ... four real long fingers ... they It is not unusual in the mental health
in Carpenter's view, was Anderson's are like little kids ... about my age." profession to find people traumatized
reaction to being accepted as a viable as children, who can recall details from
witness to an extraordinary encounter Spoken by a 49-year-old gentleman four, five or six years old, related to
with a spacecraft and creatures from named Gerald Anderson, these words those vivid events. Because this was a
beyond Earth. are selected excerpts from a hypnotic shared experience with other family
"He was so grateful at being taken regression session conducted on members, discussions of the event
seriously. You could see the relief and September 4, 1990 as he relived "the throughout the rest of his youth would
release after all those years, and the day after all the fireworks," July 5, 1947. serve to preserve many of the details.
great hope that other people would take Gerald Anderson was just three months For example, the name Armstrong (the
him seriously, too, once and for all." shy of being six years old. Most peo- nasty-tempered, red-haired captain)
Ironically, Friedman points to Gallup ple would find it difficult to remember was easier to remember because of the
Poll results indicating that 60 percent one particular day so many years ago. sharp contrast with "Jack Armstrong —
of Americans who have college degrees However, few people are ever likely to all-American boy." Gerald chuckles
say they believe UFOs are real. With experience what Gerald did on that day when describing how neighborhood
such a receptive constituency, why — which would haunt his family for bullies would back off when he and his
would government officials persist in years. brother would threaten them with a visit
what Friedman calls the "Cosmic It was memorable that on only his se- from their "little friends from Mars,"
Watergate" — the coverup and denial cond day in New Mexico he was ex- because the kids had heard the adults
of the New Mexico crashes? Perhaps, periencing his first excursion into the discuss it and treat the event as real.
some speculate, because it would be too intense heat of a vast desert while feel- As an adult, Gerald found that his
embarrassing now to admit that some ing ill from a chocolate soda. It was July 5th recollections were met with
supposedly made-in-USA technologies memorable in that he saw a large ridicule, laughter and disbelief. He
actually were plagiarized from con- metallic disc wedged into the desert ter- found it much easier to just tuck it away
fiscated spacecraft. rain that provided cool shade. It was in the background of his life. Even after
Friedman emphasizes that he's not as memorable because he saw four "doll- he impulsively called the "Unsolved
like" beings — one of which was mov- Mysteries" toll-free number to correct
Continued on page 9 ing and looking back at him! their story regarding a few details, he

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was reluctant to talk to any UFO of recall stimulation that can occur dur- even in existence, one has to get per-
reseacher — even Stanton Friedman — ing a trance state. mission to pass through a rancher's
until he could verify the researcher's How he would remember details in combination-locked gate and then drive
credibility and professionalism. Recent- child-like terms also made sense: (1) toward his house on his private drive
ly, he refused to meet with the national "horse tail flapping in the breeze" = before one can even catch a glimpse of
TV program "Hard Copy." Gerald a bundle of fine wires; (2) "pink chalk the old windmill, obscured behind trees
dislikes sensationalism; this story is scribblings" = hieroglyphic symbols; that have grown up to conceal it over
part of his life, and he hopes for respect (3) Uncle Ted yelling at Victor that if 43 years. And it's exactly where it is
and sincere interest — not attention or he broke his ankle, he wasn't going to supposed to be on Gerald's map drawn
personal gain. carry him back = Victor trying to snap in Springfield, Missouri.
When we met for the hypnosis ses- a lightweight beam (unsuccessfully) by While in the crash site vicinity,
sion — along with assistant Vincent stomping on it, etc. I also noted his Gerald described his recollection to two
Serencko (a MUFON investigator with breathing became sharper and quicker local women of the motherly woman
military background), Gerald was skep- when recalling the creatures. who nurtured ill Gerald with a
tical of hypnosis itself — doubting that Perhaps most striking of all his chocolate soda at a little store. They
it could produce anything additional to details are those of the alien beings both recognized and identified that
his conscious recollections. Not only because of the precise words and feel- woman and her store with no difficul-
was he amazed at retrieving details he ings he chose which are so hauntingly ty. A respected mortician that Stanton
had forgotten, but he was sincerely similar to what I hear so frequently Friedman had interviewed privately just
grateful and relieved that we weren't from abductees. (He states he has not prior to his first contact with Gerald
laughing at him as others had. (This re ' any books on abductions.) Efforts described a visit by two military men
was largely reminiscent of the emo- to trick or mislead him again failed. I — a nasty-tempered, red-haired captain
tional relief abductees demonstrate after especially liked his efforts as a child to and a black sergeant (both seen by
revealing very private encounters and describe an apparent telepathic ex- Gerald at the crash site and rather un-
guarded emotional secrets to accepting, perience: "It just seemed like if you got forgettable due to their abrasive
non-judgmental ears.) near them, it was like they were inside manner).
I tape-recorded an hour of conscious your head or something. It was like you Gerald had also described the ar-
recall to obtain a clear idea of what gaps couldn't think - like something was in cheology professor, "Doc" Buskirk, as
or uncertainties might exist. I could also your head thinking for you ... that one a big man with a round, gentle face and
then compare the description and was staring right at me." ruddy complexion. Recently, Stanton
vocabulary from an adult's perspective Immediately following the two-hour re-established contact with a source
with that of the child's perception under session I had Gerald make several (name withheld) in the field of ar-
hypnosis. As a child, he immediately drawings — including a map of the ter- cheology whom he had dealt with years
began to recall the unpleasant physical rain with all the features he had ran- ago. This source had known an ar-
sensations from feeling ill, drinking a domly mentioned. Because of the cheology teacher by the name of
chocolate soda, and riding in their 1940 specific arrangement of these features, Buskirk in Albuquerque who was
Plymouth on a bumpy, rutted road in- I find it very difficult to imagine anyone described as a big, rather shy man with
to the open desert. He even developed being able to create the map features a round face and a ruddy complexion.
a sweat from re-experiencing the in- and have it match the actual terrain of Stan's same source had been on the
tense heat. Efforts to lead him or sug- the vast New Mexican landscape by Plains of San Agustin himself in Oc-
gest different responses failed con- chance! tober of 1947, looking for possible dig
sistently. Efforts to elicit responses to Our trip to investigate the alleged site sites when a local cowboy approached
"why" questions failed. He did not at- proved the map to indeed be a genuine him and told of a saucer crash with
tempt to explain, speculate, or "fill in depiction of real terrain with the bodies on the ground several months
the blanks" when they occurred. features existing where they were sup- earlier. He had also, reportedly, run into
Many details emerged as we helped posed to be. A hoax theory might be a document clerk at Los Alamos who
him relive all that he could see, hear, that Gerald had visited the site recent- claimed to have seen a document on
smell, feel or touch. This process has ly and memorized certain visible that crash and those bodies. A local
always been useful in stimulating recall. details. However, there are two pro- Postmistress and several ranchers have
Most of us can recall the feeling of a blems with that idea. First of all, Gerald all reported remembering the saucer
dream slipping away from us as we clearly has not had the financial means crash on the Plains of San Agustin.
awaken in the morning and how dif- to make the long trip there and back. Of There are other promising leads for
ficult it is to attempt to hang onto it con- greater significance is the fact that the more information at the present time.
sciously. However, during the day one windmill which was casually noticed on Sadly, an elderly woman on her death-
may experience a cue of some kind that the horizon while under hypnosis can- bed in a Florida hospital repeatedly told
can trigger the dream to return to one's not be seen today while at the crash site. her nurse of a saucer crash on the Plains
conscious mind. This is the same type To know that an old windmill is of San Agustin just days before she died

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(one of the female students?). Stan has
also found others who knew of Grady
Barnett's saucer crash tale — on the
Plains — not near Roswell.
Verification of Gerald's involvement
comes in a letter sent directly from his
cousin, a Roman Catholic nun, in Col-
orado to Stanton Friedman in Canada.
She states: "My family has been
plagued by this incident for years and
it is far beyond time that such should
stop. Why Gerald would wish to reopen
this is completely beyond me ... My
father (Uncle Ted) was obsessed with
this unearthly horror and kept several
journals to prevent others from getting
to them ... wreckage and debris from
the crash ... out there near the caves ..."
Stanton also managed to track down
a stepsister that Gerald had confided in,
but then lost contact with for 33 years.
She remembered the incident, but very
few details. Stanton Friedman and Don
Berliner shall be putting forth a book
on these saucer crashes in New Mex-
ico later this year.
Recently, Gerald borrowed a
sophisticated police identification kit to
produce photo-like composites of five
key figures from that memorable day in
1947. He has urged Stanton to show
these to other witnesses because he is
certain that they will recognize the faces.
Hopefully, "Unsolved Mysteries" will
display these composites in a nationally-
televised update on their Roswell story
that they could run in the fall. John S. Carpenter
I have observed and listened to Gerald Photo courtesy of Springfield News-Leader
closely. Whenever he recounts his story,
the details do not change or expand. He
never elaborates or tries to answer ques- TESTIMONY, Continued
tions for which he has no information. MUFON
He displays a great interest and hope for interested in uncovering past misdeeds Amateur Radio Net
more data to come forth from others. as he is in encouraging future progress.
He is grateful for the warm support and "I believe we should have an "Earth- 80 meters — 3.990 MHz
respect from his church, friends and co- ling" orientation rather than nationalistic Saturday, 10 p.m.
workers. They know him! orientation. The easiest way to
40 meters — 7.237 MHz
Skeptics shall shoot darts from afar; demonstrate the wisdom of this is to pro-
Saturday, 8 am.
those who have listened closely to ve that lifeforms from other planets are
Gerald have experienced his sincerity, coming here. If we can do that, then 10 meters — 28.460 MHz
sensitivity, intelligence and candor. For everyone will be forced to look at our Thursday, 8 p.m.
Gerald it has been a relief and a long world differently, as part of a galactic
10 meters — 28.470 MHz
time coming for the events of that neighborhood."
Sunday, 3 p.m.
bizarre day to be taken more seriously.
Like a child on Christmas Eve, he gets All times Eastern Standard
excited with new developments. And the or Daylight
search for more truths continues.

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RIVER, LAKE & CREEK
Michael Strainic
Michael Strainic is a CUFOS Associate, walking down a very quiet street in a inside and outside was apparently unaf-
a member of UFO-BC, and MUFON's residential area of Campbell River. fected. What Mr. Thomsen found
Canadian Provincial Director for British Behaving in a fashion typical for her stranger still was the discovery of eight
Columbia. age, M's daughter was walking or nine partial rings near the primary
backwards as they were talking. She ring, all similarly affected. Two of these
This is a tale of at least two cities, suddenly called his attention to partial rings, if completed, would have
and probably more. The reports and something approaching them from formed a tangent with the complete
data are presented in the order in which behind on the sidewalk. This something ring.
we received them initially, then rear- was a bright, deep-red spot of light, Mr. Thomsen has lived on this pro-
ranged sequentially, and finally perfectly circular and roughly four perty for over 40 years. He had never
presented with some comments and inches in diameter. seen anything like this before, and he
speculation about this sequence. They both instinctively looked up to tried in vain to come up with a
When numerous crop circle reports see where this spot of light might be common-sense explanation for these
first began coming out of the Canadian coming from. There were no airplanes, markings. After exhausting all pos-
prairie Provinces, ufologists here in r.c helicopters, nor anything else in the sibilities, he contacted the media. Since
British Columbia, on the Pacific coast, sky. They looked around the neighbor- crop circle reports from the prairies
wondered whether we, too, would get hood for other possible sources for this were now both commonplace and
to see any of this circular action. light, but could not find any. The streets newsworthy, a TV film crew was sent
Manitoba and Saskatchewan had most were deserted, no noticeable lights were to the site. Measurements were again
of the reports, Alberta had thus far been on in the houses in the area, and there taken, confirming that the previous
overlooked completely, and since B. C. was no visible beam coming off the spot ones made by Mr. Thomsen and others
didn't have much in the way of grain of light. The spot quickly passed by were accurate, and that the ring was
crops to begin with, our own chances them, crossed the sidewalk in front of indeed a perfect circle.
looked slim. Besides, the season was them, traversed the grass off to their
nearly over. right, and went up onto the side of the Williams Lake
Finally, one associate, in a combina- nearby house. It then performed ran-
tion of frustration and dedication, dom movements and patterns for a At about 5:00 p.m. on September 1,
decided to visit Sakatchewan and in- time, and next proceeded to the end of 1990 in Williams Lake, B.C., Mrs.
vestigate the circles there in person. the wall. It disappeared when it reached Marian Marcotte went out into her yard
The rest of us waited. It was not a long the edge, only to reappear, moving to call her dog for supper. She called,
wait. As it turned out, though, we never across some laundry hanging on a line but the dog did not come. This was
did get any crop circles. Instead, we got in the yard of the house, and then it unusual, but Mrs. Marcotte thought lit-
rings. And a spot. vanished. tle of it and returned to the house.
Throughout its maneuvering, the spot While she was cleaning and washing
Here, Spot! never varied in size, and maintained windows, she noticed a peculiar in-
its perfectly round shape, without terference on the TV set. The house is
In the last week of August 1990, after distortion. on a cable system, and although they
dealing with a flurry of local UFO occasionally experienced some "snow,"
reports in the Vancouver area, we Unbroken Circles? this was different. It was described as
received a call from a Mr. D. M.1 in a herringbone-pattern, and typical of
Campbell River, B.C., on Vancouver On the morning of October 16, 1990, electromagnetic interference, such as
Island. He and his seven-year-old Ralph Thomsen left his farm house near might be caused by automobile ignition.
daughter had had an unusual ex- Dawson Creek, only to be confronted At approximately 7:20 p.m., Mrs.
perience, and he wondered if perhaps by a large circular ring of dead grass Marcotte returned to the yard to again
we at UFO-BC might be able to explain in his lawn. It was quite near the house call her dog, but she was still nowhere
it. He didn't particularly associate the and had not been there the previous day. to be found. What Mrs. Marcotte did
incident with UFOs, but still thought The damaged portion of the ring was find, however, was a large ring in her
we might be able to provide some sort exactly six inches wide, and the ring driveway which had not been there the
of answer as to what he and his diameter was precisely 31 feet. The last time she was out. It was a very large
daughter had witnessed. grass in the ring was flattened, brown, ring, pressed into the hard dirt and
The previous evening they had been and very dead, while the grass both gravel of the driveway only 12 feet from

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made a comment-regarding his sanity.
They waited until daylight.
Somehow, in the previous hour and 20 minutes, a When they investigated the next day,
ring had formed in her yard, in broad daylight. they found no evidence that anything
untoward had taken place in the yard:
no marks of any kind on the ground,
1 no broken branches or twigs, no foot-
prints. No evidence, that is, except for
one thing — every single apple on the
tree was gone. The previous day the
tree had been home to between 75 and
100 apples. Now, there were none.
There were no stray apples on the
ground, no broken twigs or stems, and
no apparent damage to the tree of any
kind. It simply looked as if the tree had
been very carefully picked clean.

Sequelae

*•!:>-• The Marcotte's dog could be called


a fearless animal, since it never
hesitates to react when people approach
the house. The only thing that ever
•.""*•*"*;C: : "^J•;•'.'. . •' "•'"""v.*''; frightens her is an approaching
thunderstorm. However, she hid dur-
The Marcotte's Strange September Circle ing the time the ring in the yard was
formed, and would not readily go near
the ring for two days thereafter.
her window — the very window she The ring was 12 feet from the win- The Marcottes took several photos:
had been washing earlier. Somehow, in dow of the house, and 12 feet from an two immediately after the ring was
the previous hour and 20 minutes, a embankment directly across from the discovered on September 1, and more
ring had formed in her yard, in broad window. It was also positioned 20 feet two days later, in bright daylight. The
daylight, while she had been working from an embankment to the left, and first two photos have a reddish hue or
nearby. She had heard nothing. 20 feet from a truck parked off to the cast to them that was not noticeable to
The ring was exactly six inches wide, right, which had not been moved in the eye. None of the subsequent photos
just like the Dawson Creek ring, but several weeks. With all the spacious, show any such effect, nor does the
with a diameter of exactly 39 feet. The available area around the Marcotte's video footage which was taken.
circular impression etched in the yard house, the ring chose to center itself The morning after these incidents oc-
was about one inch deep, and the ex- perfectly in the limited area of the yard. curred, Mrs. Marcotte awoke with a
posed soil beneath was still damp. severe nosebleed, something she had
Some of the rocks in the ring were Apple Snatchers experienced only once before in her
pulverized, crushed to a powder, and life. This condition2 persisted for well
others were pressed flush into the At 4:10 a.m. that morning, Mr. over three weeks. A physician examined
ground. These could be pried out of the Holland Marcotte arose and noticed a her, stated that there was severe nasal
ground and then placed back into their red glow over his son's yard next door. irritation, but could offer no cause for
respective holes, like fitting pieces in- The son was out of town at the time, the condition. Once the nosebleeds
to a jigsaw puzzle. Some of the rocks so any activity in the yard would have stopped, they did not return. There is
had scrape or scuff marks, and a caught his attention. He called his wife, absolutely no reason to suspect, nor any
residue on them resembling aluminum and together, through a very light fog, evidence to support, any kind of nasal
or some other metal. A considerable they saw a huge cone of red light, about (or other bodily) intrusion.
amount of dirt was displaced from the seventy-five feet wide at the top, hover- The apple tree is apparently doing
ring. The overall appearance of the area ing over an apple tree in the son's yard. just fine, and has gone dormant for the
was as if someone had turned a huge The light remained over the yard for ap- winter. We wish it well, and are anx-
drinking glass upside down, pressed the proximately 20 minutes, then slowly iously anticipating its performance next
rim firmly into the ground, and then moved away. Mr. Marcotte wanted to season.
twisted it just slightly. go investigate right then, but his wife

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Condensed Campbell

There is no physical evidence in the


Campbell River case, just witness
testimony. While it is possible that a
laser of some sort could have caused the
wayward red spot seen by the witnesses,
it seems unlikely in this case. The spot
did not change in size or distort at all.
The spot was seen on the ground, a wall,
and on clothing perpendicular to the
wall, i.e., on three different planes. If
this were being projected by someone
unseen, they would had to have been ex-
ceptionally fleet of foot.
It should be noted that Campbell
River area has a long history of UFO
activity, producing several good reports
in the last two years alone. Also, the
well-known McRoberts' photograph of
a Daylight Disc, so ably analyzed by
Dr. Richard Raines3, was taken near
here in 1981.
In the Williams Lake case, we are
slightly more fortunate in that we have
at least photographic and video records
of the physical evidence. Unfortunate-
ly, this report came to our attention six
weeks after the event. During this time
there was heavy flooding in the area,
followed by an unusually early snowfall,
which all but effectively erased the ring.
There is, however, a remote possibility
that some of the rocks with possible
residue on them may still be located.
Many visitors to the ring site had
mentioned seeing UFOs in the area in
the previous weeks. These were des-
cribed as "bouncing white lights" over
a nearby mountain, and were seen by The Marcotte Circle and Huge Cone of Red Light
Mrs. Marcotte as well. Williams Lake over the Apple Tree near Williams Lake, B.C.
also produced two Close Encounter
reports in 1989, one with physiological have brought forth some of that jour- parameters, although at the extreme high
effects. nalistic levity so loved by ufologists - end. As one scientist said of this result,
this section heading, for example. it is "unusual, but not unnatural."
Nematodes From Space4 Nothing was found in the Dawson There are two points of particular in-
Creek samples that could logically have terest here. One is the fact that the
In the Dawson Creek case, we were caused the ring. There was no trace of samples taken from the Saskatchewan
able to secure both soil and vegetation fungi, herbicides, petrochemicals, etc., crop circles, and the samples from the
samples for analysis immediately after but there was a very high nematode Dawson Creek ring returned identical
the event. These samples were sent to count. The control samples from both nematode counts, in both the affected
laboratories in Vancouver for analysis. inside and outside the ring returned a and control samples., Alvena is more
Submitted at the same time were soil nematode count of 500, while the sam- than 600 miles from Dawson Creek; the
and grain samples retrieved from a ples of the damaged area returned a soil is different, and the crop being
classic crop circle in Alvena, Saskat- count of 4,200 — more than eight times grown was wheat, not lawn grass. That
chewan. The results of the analyses so higher. While this seems to be a signifi- the nematode counts should be identical
far are interesting but inconclusive, and cant difference, it is within normal is worth noting.

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The second point of interest is that
it is certain that the ring in Dawson
Creek was formed less then 24 hours
prior to its discovery. It is not known
whether the nematode population could
bloom to this extent naturally in so short
a time or not.
There was no known UFO activity
in the area at this time, but there have
been a few reports from the Dawson
Creek area in the recent past.

It's a Wrap

Is there anything we can make of this


sequence of events? There does seem
to be a pattern here, and there are a few
interesting facts to be noted.
To summarize, then, we have, in se-
quential order, the following: A small
red spot of light is seen moving around
on the ground and walls in Campbell
River. One week later, 200 miles north-
east in Williams Lake, a ring is pressed
Ring and partial rings found at Dawson Creek
into a family's yard; animal reactions
by Ralph Thompson in his yard on October 16, 1990.
and TV interference are noted. Later
that evening, a huge cone of red light
Whatever force was involved in the We have absolutely no idea how these
is sighted in the next yard, and apples
Dawson Creek and Alvena cases was effects are generated, or by whom or
completely vanish off a tree - one of the
powerful enough to flatten and kill what, and we certainly don't know why.
witnesses suffers physiological effects.
grass, to flatten and swirl wheat, and Could there be an EBE out there
Six weeks later, 250 miles north-
yet did not harm the microscopic somewhere, chuckling telepathically to
northeast in Dawson Creek, a ring and
residents of the soil underneath. itself, with a dish of Strawberry Ice
partial rings of flattened and dead grass
Cream in one hand, and an apple in the
are found in a farmer's yard. Feet vs. Meters other? One really has to wonder.
To condense this still further, we have
And I didn't even mention all that
this pattern: a red spot of light, a red The measurements of the trace marks
shredded wheat.
cone of light and a ring trace, and a ring worked out very nice and even in stan-
Tfie author would like to thank Paul
trace. It appears that some particular dard measure, i.e., six inches, 39 feet,
Anderson, Chad Deetken and Martyn
cycle of events has been played out etc. Whatever agency or mechanism
Stubbs for their assistance in these
within the geopolitical borders of caused these rings evidently has not yet
investigations.
British Columbia. converted to the metric system as
The Canadian crop circle reports of Canada has (mostly). When the press Notes
1990 began with an event in St. Fran- reported on these events, all the 1. Name on file with UFO-BC.
cois Xavier, Manitoba, and then effec- measurements were given their metric 2. These nosebleeds occurred only in the
morning, upon awakening.
tively moved westward. The British Col- equivalents. Invariably, these were "in-
3. MUFON 1986 UFO Symposium Pro-
umbia events related here basically went finidecimally" awkward numbers. ceedings, pp. 111-129.
the other direction: they began in the And. of all the possible locations for 4. Nematodes are microscopic worms found
southwest corner of the Province and events, consider the similarities of the in almost all soils; they are pervasive, and
moved northeast to the Alberta border. names of the sites: Campbell River, especially fond of feeding on decaying
The cities in question do not quite fall Williams Lake and Dawson Creek. vegetation.
on a straight line, but come very close Three surnames. River, Lake and CHANGE OF ADDRESS
to it. Williams Lake would be almost Creek. Interesting, to be sure, but is it
MEMBERS/SUBSCRIBERS
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l 'VieWS ... Roswell, Medical Committee
Roswell Update tocol, collect and evaluate case data, logists, psychiatrists, nurses, etc. The
deal with the evidence, and provide an committee will be administered by
The Fund for UFO Research is
information exchange function for the the MUFON Deputy Director for
pleased to report significant progress
organization. Diagnosis and treatment Administration.
thus far in our effort to bring the
is not a part of the committee's charter. The Medical Committee will serve
Roswell UFO crash case to the atten-
It has been found that a significant as a catalyst for MUFON to improve
tion of the American people.
number of UFO reports contain infor- the quality of investigations through
Thanks to your support, we have ac-
mation suggesting that human physio- data collection and analysis, and
complished the following:
logical and psychological damage, dissemination of information.
• We have raised nearly $17,000 to
animal reactions, and physical trace ef-
pay for the costs of further research into — John F. Schuessler
fects are caused by close encounters
the case; Chairman,
with UFOs. While this assertion is
• We have spent almost $10,000 for Medical Committee
generally accepted as true by witnesses
this phase of the investigation, including
and investigators alike, it may be found
paying expenses of investigators Stan- 1971 Midwest UFO Conference
lacking as a body of data because of a
ton Friedman, Kevin Randle and Don Proceedings Still Available
ni'mber of external factors such as: lack
Schmitt for their valuable follow-up Theme: UFOs — Defiance to
of an operating protocol, failure to col-
work on the case; Science, 115 pages
lect important data, fear of ridicule, and
• We have produced a briefing paper
inadequate analysis of data. It is be- Speakers: Walter H. Andrus, Jr.,
and a videotape, both entitled "Recol- Hayden C. Hewes, Sherman J.
lieved that the medical committee can
lections of Roswell," which outline the Larsen, Ted Phillips, William H.
bring the right expertise to bear on this
latest findings of the investigation; Hunkins, Stanton T. Friedman and
problem and provide an extremely
• And concerned citizens have pre- Leonard H. Stringfield.
useful service to this field.
sented the case materials to staff repre- (A limited special reprint.)
Membership on the committee will
sentatives with highly responsible posi- $8 plus $1.50 for postage and han-
be limited to MUFON members who
tions in the United States Congress. dling. Order from: MUFON, 103
are medical professionals such as physi-
In addition, we are planning to Oldtowne Rd., Seguin, TX 78155
cians, surgeons, radiologists, physio-
distribute a newspaper column concern-
ing the Roswell case to more than 3,500
newspapers across the country, which
will focus public attention on the event. Calendar of UFO Conferences for 1991
You will be interested to know that April 5, 6 & 7 — Ozark UFO Conference • Inn of the Ozarks, Eureka
the follow-up investigation already has Springs, Arkansas
produced potentially valuable witnesses May 11 & 12 — UFO Expo West - Los Angeles Airport Hyatt Hotel,
to the apparent crash of at least one Los Angeles, California
UFO in New Mexico in July 1947. Fur-
May 17, 18 & 19 — Exploring Unexplained Phenomena III - University of
ther information will be provided to you Nebraska Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
as soon as it is available.
This educational program was made May 18, 19 & 20 — Fifth Annual "Recontres Europeennes de Lyon"
possible by your contribution of infor- Congress - Lyon, France
mation as a witness, or your donation July 5, 6 & 7 — MUFON 1991 International UFO Symposium - Hyatt
to the Fund. We will keep you inform- Regency O'Hare Hotel at O'Hare International Airport near Chicago,
ed of further developments in the days Illinois
ahead. August 16, 17 & 18 — Sixth International UFO Congress - Central
Library Theater, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
— Fred Whiting
Secretary-Treasurer October 12 & 13 — The UFO Experience - Holiday Inn, North Haven,
Connecticut
October 12 & 13 — Fourth Symposium on Ufology and Exobiology - Sao
Medical Committee Paulo, Brazil
The Medical Committee was formed October 19 — Show-Me UFO Conference III - Holiday Inn Airport-West,
to serve as an ad hoc group within Bridgeton, Missouri, near St. Louis Airport
MUFON to establish an operating pro-

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PROPOSED PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
OF CROP CIRCLES
Michael Wales
Michael Wales received his Ph.D. de- The effect on the magnetic head of a permanent magnet can be produc-
gree in physical chemistry with a minor might be attributed to the presence of ed (called an "Electret"), since the fields
in Physics in 1948 from the University of a magnetic field. The writer is not of the aligned dipoles reinforce each
Wisconsin. He is the author of scientific knowledgeable enough in this area to other and become locked into place.
papers on polymers and colloids, and is a know whether an electric field would There is a permanent electrostatic field
consultant for the Mutual UFO Network. have any effect. When this experiment in the vicinity of such an object.
is repeated one must be absolutely cer- It is interesting to note that the stalks
The phenomenon of crop circles,
tain that the video camera brought in- of bent-over plants in these formations
which has appeared practically world-
to the formation is initially in perfect are aligned in some preferred direction.
wide, should be treated as a legitimate
subject for serious scientific inquiry. It working order. By some as yet unknown mechanism,
There is a problem with persistence electret domains may have been pro-
has been established beyond reasonable
doubt that at least some of these circles, of electrostatic effects; any net charge duced in these stalks, even though the
would leak away in minutes or less plants aren't good insulators. The lat-
especially the very complex figures,
cannot be hoaxes. because of the appreciable conductivi- ter circumstance is only a hindrance to
Anecdotal information from an arti- ty of moist soil and moisture-laden electret formation because of reduction
plants. It is also difficult to explain in strength of the applied electric field,
cle in the Mufon UFO Journal for residual magnetism (if any) because of
December 1990, suggests that there are but may not inhibit it completely. If this
the chemical nature of ambient plants is the case, the stalks themselves should
electrical effects in crop circles which
and soil. be the loci of an experimentally observ-
persist for some time after formation
of the circle. An observer, Pat Delgado, able electric field. However, one would
Electric Dipoles expect that this field would decay more
reported feeling a "conical field" about
Permanent electric fields can be pro- or less rapidly with time because of
his body. At the same time, his entry
into the circle produced audio noise, a duced in the absence of net electric disorientation of imperfect electret do-
mains. It is absolutely essential to make
warbling note, in the headphones of a charge by electric dipoles. An electric
technician who was video-taping the dipole consists of two equal charges of measurements on a fresh formation.
The production of audio noise as some-
area. The magnetic head of a video opposite sign (net charge zero due to can-
one walked into a formation implies the
camera refused to record when located cellation) constrained to remain at a fixed
radiation of electromagnetic waves by
inside the circle, although the tape ad- distance from one another. The product
varying an electric field.
vanced. Later, this camera was found of charge separation by charge magnitude
to be "totally ruined" and had to be is known as the dipole moment. word about magnetism. The
completely rebuilt. It seems that there
is an opportunity here to acquire some
hard data at the next genuine formation
For example, an uncharged molecule,
which cannot migrate in an electric field,
can nevertheless have a dipole moment
A ultimate magnet is the spinning
electron. When an electric cur-
rent circulates in a loop, a magnetic
of a crop pattern. if its centers of positive and negative1^ field is produced perpendicular to the
As a matter of routine, radioactivity charge do not coincide. Such a molecule plane of the loop. Thus (with apologies
measurements should be made inside has its own electric field, which interacts to quantum mechanics) a spinning elec-
the formation with a Geiger counter, with applied external fields so as to align tron is a tiny magnet. If two electrons
although high background radiation the line joining its centers of charge with occupy the same orbital they are re-
would not contribute to the above men- the direction of the applied field. While quired ~to have spins of opposed sign
tioned effects. Still, it will be interesting this alignment is ordinarily opposed by and no resultant magnetic dipole is pro-
to see if the counter functions abnor- random thermal motions, considerable duced. Atoms of iron, cobalt, etc., con-
mally. It is essential that magnetic and alignment can occur if the externally ap- tain odd (unpaired) electrons and thus
electric fields in the formation (if any) plied field is strong enough. have magnetic moments which, via
should be mapped out by a qualified Materials which have molecular dipole complexities of interatomic forces, for-
physicist or electrical engineer. Static moments can also be non-conductors of mation of magnetic domains, etc., form
magnetic fields cannot be sensed by electricity (insulators). By polymerizing permanent magnets where the magnetic
humans although electric fields can be or crystallizing such materials in a strong
(hair raising, tingling sensations, etc.). electric field, the electrostatic analogue Continued on page 23

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approached by society, while Robert
Rickard, co-editor of Fortean Times,
The UFO Press looks at the history of folk and related
lore surrounding mysterious field-rings.
Both of these latter articles, slightly
The Crop Circle Enigma, edited by Ralph Noyes revised, in fact appeared in a special
Gateway Books, UK, 192 pp., 68 color pictures, $24.95 issue of FT, No. 53, devoted to Crop
Circles.
Reviewed by Dennis Stacy
At least two other contributors,
Richard Andrews and Lucy Pringle,
This may be the best book written among the various individuals and look at the Circles from an intuitive
about the Crop Circle phenomenon yet. groups now engaged in Circles personal point of view, Andrews as a
(The two titles thus far from English research. Conspicuous by their absence dowser who claims to be able to an-
researchers Pat Delgado and Colin An- are Delgado and Andrews, who were ticipate where some Circles will fall,
drews, for example, are not so much busy collaborating on their second and Pringle as one who is interested in
written, as pictured.) The best book, book, The Latest Evidence, at the time interactive "healing" energies.
of course, which we still await, would Enigma was going to press. There is, in short, something for
convincingly and irrevocably explain Meteorologist Terence Meaden is almost everyone between the covers of
what Crop Circles are, how they form here, however, the Oxford-trained Enigma, from channelers, ley line and
and what, if anything, they mean on physicist who proposes that the Circles other earth energy enthusiasts, to the
their own, in connection with UFOs, are caused by a previously unrecog- students of those ancient symbols and
or in relation to other anomalous for- nized plasma-vortex, along with John artifacts that seemingly bear a curious
tean phenomena. Michell and George Wingfield, who, correspondence to the patterns (or pic-
In its place we have a whole house- it goes almost without saying, adopt tograms) carved out of today's cereal
hold of contributors here, 12 total, in- somewhat radically opposed views to crops. Note I said almost. If there is
cluding photographer Busty Taylor, Meaden's. Hilary Evans, a frequent an editorial oversight, it has to do with
who rarely share space in the same contributor to these pages, weighs in the fact that there is no single contribu-
room for more than a moment or two with a piece about how anomalies are tion devoted solely to the UFO "con-
at most. That they appear under one
roof at all is testimony to the handiwork
of editor Ralph Noyes and his publisher,
Gateway Books, who could have cashed
in on the inordinate amount of publicity
suddenly surrounding the subject (and
here's hoping they have, by the way) by
taking the low road and the low road
only.
Instead, they've managed to fashion
an excellently produced volume that
never once skimps on charts, photo-
graphs or text. It may appear relative-
ly short and straightforward at less than
200 pages, but thanks to tiny, legible
typeface, Noyes and Gateway have ac-
tually managed to cram two small
books between the covers of one, in-
cluding an index in the process.
Some of the contributing names
won't be familiar to American readers,
but the great majority of them belong
to the recently formed Centre for Crop
Circle Studies, which, aside from its
multidisciplinary approach to the sub-
ject (Enigma is subtitled: "Grounding
the Phenomenon in Science, Culture
and Metaphysics"), hopes to serve as ^
a clearing house and peacemaker

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nection," if such there is, or to hoaxes reading through Engima when I felt my point of view, Noyes and Enigma have
per se, which there assuredly are, nor intellectual gorge rising. Metaphysical- at least attempted to shatter the mirror.
to the science of agronomy, or husban- ly, I don't mind whether the Circles are If there is something here to please
dry, itself, which seems assured of im- all things to all people or not, as long everyone, then there is also something
pinging on how Circles are formed, as those parties involved realize that, bound to offend everyone.
regardless of their ultimate source or most often than not, what they actual- Whichever camp you fall into, you
primal cause. Many changes have taken ly see in a Circle is but a 360 degree can order Enigma in this country by
place in post-WWII agriculture, in reflection of their own thinking. writing Arcturus Books: Box 831383,
terms of both types and technology. Are Unlike other current books on the Stone Mountain, GA, 30083-0023.
such advances relevant or not? (In Circles, which belabor an individual
short, if the Centre for Crop Circle
Studies doesn't yet have an agriculturist Pretty Pictures
in its employ, they should "hire" one
immediately.)
Yet this holistic, encyclopedic ap- CROP CIRCLES: THE LATEST EVIDENCE
proach to Crop Circles is not quite so By Pat Delgado & Colin Andrews
loose as I might have made it sound. Bloomsbury, London, 1990, 80 pages
For one thing, there are those incon- Quality softcover, $13.95
trovertible color plates spread through-
out Enigma, predominantly contributed
by Busty Taylor; for another, there is Reviewed by Jerold R. Johnson
Noyes' own running commentary, crus-
ty and caustic, which tends to keep the One of the salient features of the right into an incident-by-incident
subject in relatively clear focus, and whole crop formation business is the reporting format, depicting each one of
rarely fails to chastise researchers when seasonal, cyclic nature of it all: the new their latest cases.
needed, primarily for a reluctance to circles and pictograms are discovered,
share, publish or otherwise make readi- measured, photographed, all in the few Pictograms
ly available the sort of hard data that months that the field crops are grow-
will allow and enable laymen and scien- ing to maturity, then they disappear as They begin the book with some 1989
tists alike to make up their minds about the crops are harvested. Circle watchers circle finds not reported in Circular
this mystery. In the absence of unam- then have several months to hold con- Evidence, and include an anomalous
biguous evidence, rumor, speculation ferences, argue among themselves, and sound case which was detected and
and unfalsifiable theories have no op- publish papers, until the cycle starts recorded on video tape within one of
tion but to procreate and multiply. over again in the summer following. the flattened areas of crop. We then
On one level, cereology is a modern The latest cycle produced a crop of follow the authors through the
microcosm of the best and worst of "circle" books, all published in the UK remarkable 1990 summer season as one
ufology, itself but a reflection of similar and now slowly appearing in North new design after another appears, forc-
"anomalous-ologies" that have gone American bookshops. Included among ing Delgado and Andrews to abandon
before and are no doubt to follow. In- them is this slender volume from Pat "circles" and adopt "pictogram" to
dividuals approach a core phenomenon, Delgado (engineer) and Colin Andrews describe the often complex combina-
and in their attempt to make sense of (engineer), authors of the stunningly il- tions of shapes: rectangles, triangles,
same, address it in perhaps the only lustrated and fairly informative Circular arcs and even block letters at one point
way possible — with their preexisting Evidence (Bloomsbury, London, 1989). (though prank was not clearly
sensitivities, perceptions, biases and In fact, Crop Circles: The Latest eliminated in this instance due to the
learned knowledge intact. Evidence is a softcover update to their hasty destruction of the words by a
On another level, such attitudes are previous book, adding some 50 color harvesting machine), spelling out "we
needed and necessary. Informed opin- photographs and brief explanatory text, are not alone."
ion, after all, is always welcome. The but assuming throughout that the reader It's almost as if the "intelligence"
flipside of this approach occurs, unfor- is already familiar with the phenome- behind this phenomenon has either read
tunately, when a peripheral expert then non and "sold" on the reasons by which Dr. Meaden over the winter and wants
tries to force-fit the phenomenon into it is recognized as a real mystery wor- to take the wind out of his vortex theory,
whichever pigeonhole he or she bears thy of international scientific study, and or else it has tired of the various puns
in hand. It may be, with the Circles, not just the artistic expression of a small on the word "circle" used as titles for
as with UFOs, that everyone involved army of trespassing hoaxers, or wind books and magazine articles, and so has
has to surrender something, even if that damage. The reader is often referred decided to vary the pattern.
proves to be his or her own pet theory. back to some information in the first In any case, the 1990 designs are ap-
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strikingly out of place in the mono-
tonous tractor-lined agricultural fields,
as a mystery of execution and forma-
tion to be solved, as a message to be
deciphered and understood, even as a
form of grafitti on the blank wall of
southern England, to be either admired
or despised, depending upon the mind-
set of the observer.
The photographs, all color, at once ap-
peal to the appreciative senses and the
analytical mind, and make the book a ^"X
valuable addendum to Circular Evidence.
Besides the photography, the authors of
Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence have
included at the end a catalog of plan-
views, executed as line drawings, of 18
pictograms, and an area map showing
their locations. Though lacking scale, this
inclusion is a definite plus for the reader
trying to make some sense out of the pat-
terns. The more serious researcher may
still be frustrated in that few of the oc-
curences include the date of the find,
£%'^!
other than "1990," and it is unclear if they
are even presented in chronological order
(a point that will no-doubt be important
to the cryptology buffs).
Skeptics among us may point out that
there is scant mention of the role of
pranks and hoaxes; and the embarass-
ing incident that occurred during than you are ready to be told" attitude Circles: The Latest Evidence was the
"Operation Blackbird" (where of both authors that takes this update "evidence" offered as a plant sample
pranksters stomped out a remarkably volume on a path away from the objec- analysis. In the earlier book, much was
large and elaborate pictogram under the tive track of its predecessor. made of the particular way the plant
noses of assembled investigators equip- Pat Delgado, in his cryptic chapter, stems were apparently softened and bent
ped with infrared cameras and para- "Theories Update," appears to rely on over in truly anomalous cases, as oppos-
bolic microphones) is left to "... be "revealed knowledge" as opposed to ed to the crushing and breaking that
written about.. at a later date" (p. 65). any field observations or deductions characterize the hoax cases. It was stated
based on documented evidence, that plant samples, both affected and con-
e also note the essential ab- especially when he describes an "... trol, were to be collected and analyzed

W sence of any new eyewitness


accounts of flying objects or
lights associated with the crop mark-
'awareness,' which became apparent to
me in 1988," of how the "... mechanics
of the manipulation" which forms these
at appropriate laboratories. Every reader
assumed that Delgado and Andrews
meant some agricultural or botanical
ings, a feature recorded repeatedly in pictograms operates. Yet, he teases: research laboratory employing profes-
the previous book, either because such "Only the mechanics of the manipula- sional scientists, and that the best tools
observations did not occur in 1989-90, tion will be described here. What the and methods of modern science would
or perhaps because of a not-so-subtle energy is and who controls it will be be brought to bear on this effort.
shift of the authors' perspective from explained at a time considered to be We eagerly awaited the results, ex-
that expected of a pair of electro- more fitting." (p. 79). Where have we pecting at minimum some photomicro-
mechanical engineers to one of a more read phrases like that before?! The graphy showing elongation and contrac-
mystical nature. It is this mysticism, in- "two-part function" Delgado goes on tion of cells compared to the alteration
cluding references to spiritualism (p. 9 to elucidate fails as a satisfying explana- or damage to cells, vessels and other
and 78), dowsing (p. 78), ouija boards tion for anything. Perhaps the time is structures in stems of plants bent down
(p. 29), and a pervasive "we know indeed just not fitting.
something more about this business A major disappointment of Crop Continued on page 23

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8:30 p.m. on the 20th. Frank Manner,
45, said that he saw bright lights com-
Looking Back ing from the swamp at the back of his
farm and awakened his son Ronald, 19.
The two of them proceeded into the
swamp and Ronald said to his father,
Bob Gribble "What is that thing?" Manner said that
as he looked in the direction his son was
March 1951 • A flat object "of a The pilot noted a green fluorescent pointing, the lights went out and re-
blinding white color" was seen at glow around the outer edge. As he tried appeared in an instant across the swamp,
Corcelles-Neuchatel, Switzerland, at to get closer, the glowing disc climbed a distance of about 1500 feet away. At
4 p.m. on the 12th. Witnesses included steeply, then disappeared. (Flying this point, they said, the object became
Professor Alfred Lombard, his family, Saucers: Top Secret, Maj. Donald illuminated from a brilliant source of
and several other persons. The object Keyhoe) light which flowed horizontally between
followed a large course across the sky two smaller lights. The brighter light in-
leaving a white and woolly smoke trail 1961 • Jacksonville, Florida Mayor tensified, then went out.
as it progressed with sudden leaps for- Haydon Burns had a spine-chilling The Manners said at this point that
ward. After 15 minutes of maneuver- near-miss with a UFO over Fort Pierce a "whistle" similar to the sound of a
ing, the object turned upside-down, ap- at 9:45 p.m. on the 22nd. The Mayor, rifle bullet ricochet was heard and the
pearing as a perfect disc. It then took who had an almost legendary reputa- object lifted and passed directly over
off vertically, at a fantastic speed, emit-tion for dealing strictly with the real and them. They said the craft was brown
ting no smoke or noise, and was out of practical, revealed his harrowing ex- in color with the outside appearing
sight in an instant. (UFOs: A History, perience with great reluctance. With quilted. It was flat on the bottom and
1951, Loren Gross) him were his secretary, William Y. was cone-shaped toward the top. Two
White, and the pilot George Nikita. sheriffs deputies said they saw eerie
• Mr. George Floate, the Chief Aerial "We saw this thing ahead of us, right blinking lights, apparently on a flying
Engineer of the Delhi Air Club, along in the airlane, but about 500 feet higher. object, rise above the trees, then dip
with his two assistants, 20 mechanics We were traveling at 4000," the Mayor again in Webster Township. Dexter
and helpers, observed a UFO over said. "We watched it for six or seven Patrolman Robert Honeywell said one
Sadarjang Airport, New Delhi, India, minutes. At first it looked like a real of the objects passed over his car as he
about 10:20 a.m. on the 15th. The ob- bright star. As we grew closer it took and other officers rushed to the scene.
ject was shaped like a cigar with no on much greater dimension. Chelsea police also reported similar
outer control surfaces. It was about 100 "The light was most intense. Almost sightings. Many residents in the area
feet long and as big around as a C-47 like looking into a direct light bulb. We reported that a large number of animals,
fuselage, with a bare metal color. Floate saw no image because the light was so including dogs, cows, chickens and
estimated the speed to be about three blinding. I think we scared it away. As wild geese, had been frightened by
times greater than the cruising speed we approached, the light increased in something in the area that night. (The
of a British Vampire. The craft intensity, then decreased and increased Press, Ypsilanti, MI, 3/21,22/66)
maneuvered over the area for seven again. Then it rose at an accelerated
minutes. At one point the object rate, something in the vicinity of 300 • Charles Cozens, 13, said two strange
"jumped" like a frightened cat when to 400 miles per hour. The object "ships" landed in a field behind a police
jet fighters of the Indian Air Force were ascended immediately from 8000 to station at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
headed its way. The "leap" took the near 20,000 feet. At first it had been on the 29th. Charles said he ran behind
craft 2000 feet higher in an instant. standing absolutely still." The pilot of a fence at 9:15 p.m., to the open grade
(UFOs: A History, 1951) an Eastern Airlines plane northbound behind the police station after seeing
from Miami also saw and reported the one "ship" come down, closely fol-
1956 • At 9:17 p.m. on the 26th, a object to Air Traffic Control. Dozens lowed by another. He described the
strange blip suddenly appeared on the of witnesses also observed the object craft as "eight feet long, four feet wide
radar scopes at Westover Air Force from the ground. One amateur and three feet high" with "red, blue and
Base, Massachusetts. Jets were astronomer, who watched the object green lights set into the rim and flicker-
scrambled, then vectored toward the with powerful binoculars, said he could ing like a computer." Charles said the
circling UFO. The pilot of the lead in- see a brightly-lit cabin in the object. objects "lit up the grass around" and
terceptor closed in on the round object, (News-Tribune, Fort Pierce, FL, were making "a buzzing sound." He
near enough to illuminate it with his 3/23,26/61) said they were hard and smooth to the
landing lights. The strange craft ap- touch and "I could not feel hot or cold
peared to be 100 to 150 feet in diameter, 1966 • A UFO landed in a swamp so they must have been about body
and eight to 12 feet thick at the center. in Dexter Township, Michigan about temperature."

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Charles said one object had an antenna. mineral exploration camp 150 miles to whole thing left a deep impression on
"It was thicker at the base and narrowedthe north and was returning to his base me. It makes you feel rather humble
to the size of a nickel at the top." Whenat Pickle Lake, Ontario, Canada — and insignificant. You're sitting there
he touched the antenna he received an about 225 miles northeast of Kenora, in your iron bird and this thing comes
electric shock and a three-foot flash "ofon Ontario Secondary Highway 599. "It along and takes a peek at you. You
electricity" occurred. Charles im- had been a routine flight, but sudden- know you've been had. There's nothing
mediately ran home and told his parents ly off my left wing I saw a very bright you can do about it." (The Examiner &
about his experience and discovered that flash," said Weston. It was nearly after- News, Battle Creek, MI, 11/30/81)
he had a curved bum on his hand. Police noon (date unknown), and he thought
Constable Arnold Read, summoned to it was just another plane. "But as I 1976 • Some 50 astonished CB radio
the boy's home after his parents had watched, this bright flash got increas- fens filled the airways with descriptions
repeatedly questioned their son before ingly bigger and bigger and then grew of a gigantic UFO for four hours as it
reporting the incident, verified Charles to some unbelievable proportions. I just danced across a 50-square-mile border
had a three-inch yellowish burn mark on watched as it came up to me and area of Virginia and Maryland on the
his hand. Mr. Cozens said he questioned seemed to cover the whole horizon. 13th. One after the other, as the object
and re-questioned his son and explained "I was paralyzed with fright. I didn't approached the radio operators, all 23
the seriousness of calling the police "but
know what it was. I didn't know what channels on their Citizens Band radios
Charles was emphatic and could not be to do. It was coming at me, and I were knocked out by an eerie noise. But
shaken." thought it was going to ram me. There as the craft moved away, their CB radios
was no way I could get out of its way. began working again. The first in a
• On the same night and about 200 But then it seemed to just stop in the series of sightings was made at 9:15
miles to the southwest, Mrs. Mary Mat- air in front of me. I was stunned. It ap- p.m. by Brian Brawner, 18, of Bruns-
tatall said she observed a "huge round peared to just sit there in front of me, wick, Maryland. Brawner was badly
thing with a bluish gassy haze around yet I didn't come any closer to it. That frightened as the huge, brightly-lit vehi-
it." Mrs. Mattatall, a nurses' aide at was the oddest part about it. It was just cle soared swiftly toward him. "It was
Windsor, Ontario, was on her way to like everything stopped. It was un- so low I thought it was going to hit my
work when she spotted the craft above believably huge, like a silver-colored car," he said. "As it flew by, my CB
her house at around 10:50 p.m. She said rocket with short reddish-gray flames radio was filled with weird static, like
the vehicle seemed to swoop down coming out the back and followed by I'd never heard before.
towards her house and at one point a contrail. There were no windows, no "Throughout the night, CBers would
seemed as if it was going to hit the openings. It was perfectly smooth in ap- report that the object was near them.
house. Then it "whirled" away to the pearance." Suddenly they would stop broadcasting,
east in the direction of Belle River. The object gave off a flash of blue then when it left they would come back
An hour later, a large disc-shaped light, off and on, like someone switch- on the air and say their radio had been
craft was seen hovering about 700 feet ing a light off and on. It hurt Weston's dead while the thing was nearby. When
above Westminister Hospital at Lon- eyes. "I swear I hung there, too. I didn't the thing passed over me ... I could see
don, Ontario, about 120 miles northeast realize it at the time but I don't think it was round, with a peak in the center.
of Windsor and about 80 miles south- I was moving. It was such a queer sen- It had a bright white light and some red
west of Hamilton. John Lewis, 58, sation. I had time to study the thing. lights. I really felt strange, being that
sighted the craft at 11:50 p.m. and I'm a licensed engineer, and I looked close to it. It hovered in the air a little
watched it for five minutes, "shining for details, anything, but there was while, then flew away so fast that I
with a white light." He said the disc, nothing." Weston didn't know how long couldn't see it." John Jacobs, 32, of
about 35 feet wide, was motionless he watched the vehicle. "I was so stun- Brunswick said, "I turned on my CB
when he first saw it, and he heard no ned by it all. And all of a sudden it set about 10 p.m. and heard every-
noise. The disc was domed in the started to move again, off to my right, one talking about it. An hour later, I
center. As he watched, the disc flipped and it disappeared the same way it spotted it. It had stopped dead still in
into a vertical position, and ascended came, just a sudden flash and it was the air, for about 15 minutes. It made
into the clouds. His story was backed gone." me feel small and more or less bewil-
up by Glen Roberts who also observed Then Weston discovered his plane dered."
a "white object" over the hospital for was going down. "It suddenly dawned Robert Jackson saw the massive UFO
five minutes. (The Spectator Hamilton, on me that the engine wasn't running, hanging over the Potomac River. "It was
Ont. 4/2/66; The News, Wallaceburg, and I was down to about 1000 feet. I really huge. It could stop on a dime,
Ont. 3/31/66; The Evening Free Press, started looking for a place to land. I had right in mid-air, and it could go up or
London, Ont. 3/30/66) started turning toward a lake when the down like a streak of lightning. It was
engine started again with a terrible roar. about 50 yards across and had little red
1971 • Hartley Weston, 36, a veteran That was the most frightening part. I
bush pilot, had flown supplies to a just about came out of the seat. This Continued on page 22

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always the weather device. tures, rather than two as he originally
Letters to the Editor... The other problem is that Shandera claimed.
has confused two separate events. In Once again it comes down to who do
Dear Editor: one, DuBose has real debris from you want to believe. Copies of our video
I was amused (as many French Roswell brought to Fort Worth on July taped interview with General DuBose
ufologists undoubtedly will be) to read 6, 1947. That debris, taken by Brazel are available at the J. Allen Hynek
that Jean-Pierre Petit was presented in to the sheriffs office in Roswell, was Center for UFO Studies, the Fund for
the January 1991 issue of your magazine sealed "in a suitable container" (the the UFO Research, and later, MUFON.
as a "Director of the CNRS," a very mail pouch) and then sent on to Copies of our audio taped interviews
prestigious job indeed. Washington, D.C. It was that debris that with Major Newton are available at the
In reality Petit is one of a very large was hand-carried to General Clements Center, and will be made available to
number (in the hundreds) of CNRS McMullen by Colonel Alan D. Clark. MUFON. Are Jaime Shandera and Bill
employees who bear the title "Direc- The second flight, two days later Moore willing to make copies of their
tor of Research." He has no staff and which brought Marcel to Fort Worth, interviews available to the same places
no independent research budget. Petit was when the weather balloon story so that disinterested third parties can
is doing UFO work in his own spare evolved. (Contrary to Shandera's claim, review them?
time, like most people. DuBose told us that during the August Maybe the best way to answer all the
This is a little like getting the Presi- 1990 interview.) questions about what happened in
dent of the United States Baton Twirl- In his article, Shandera also suggests Ramey's office is to simply ask, what
ing Federation confused with the Presi- that Warrant Officer (later Major) Irv- do you think the pictures show: An in-
dent of the United States! ing Newton has changed his story. He terstellar craft that crashed, or the rem-
Naturally, when it comes to UFOs, was so sure of this, he didn't bother to nants of a rather flimsy target device?
Petit is entitled to his own theories, as interview Major Newton. But, in a Doesn't the evidence, visible in the pic-
long as he does not misrepresent his of- review of what Major Newton told Bill tures, speak for itself? Doesn't that
ficial position. At last report, the Direc- Moore in The Roswell Incident, it evidence, available for interpretation by
tor of the CNRS is still Professor clearly shows that his story is virtually all who are interested, suggest who is
Kourilsky, a biologist. the same as that reported by us. telling the most accurate version of the
— Jacques Vallee In fact, the differences between truth?
Moore's version and ours is the "spin" We will be preparing a complete
San Francisco, CA
put on the words. Moore claims that response to Shandera's article to include
Newton was briefed by a colonel who General Dubose's comments about the
Dear Editor: told him the general wanted him to situation, and on the articles published
Jaime Shandera's article about his in- identify the material as a balloon. containing his earlier remarks. Maybe
terview with General Thomas J. Newton told us that he was briefed by then we can finally lay this aspect of the
DuBose (January 1990) actually creates a colonel who told him, "Some officers events around the Roswell crash to rest.
more questions than it answers. Since in Roswell think they found a flying Additionally, in the course of our in-
our view is different than his, and disc. The general thinks it's a weather vestigation, Shandera and Moore have
General DuBose is quoted by both of balloon and would like you to identify accused us of "lifting" information
us, there is obviously something wrong it." A slightly different interpretation from their published works with no
here. Can we both be accurate in our of the colonel's briefing. And, when we credit given to them. Yet they refuse to
reporting of what DuBose said? And if first interviewed Newton, he was ada- acknowledge that we were the first to
we are, then how can pur conclusion mant about it. All he ever saw was the talk with Johnson, and that the Bettman
be so different? Rawin target device. That is the debris Archives photo to which Shandera
The problem is probably centered on shown on the floor in Ramey's office. refers was obtained from us.
what exactly was on Brigadier General Shandera, in his enthusiasm to
Roger Ramey's floor. We maintain that — Kevin D. Randle
ridicule our work, attacks us again for
it was the remains of a balloon and a Donald R. Schmitt
saying there were only five photos taken
target device, while Shandera and Bill in Ramey's office on July 8. We have
Moore claim it was the actual Roswell explained that the number in our Have a Viewpoint
debris. Originally Moore had written original article was changed, by the to Express?
that Marcel said if he was in the pic- editors, without our knowledge. In our The Journal welcomes
ture, it was the real debris and if it was article in the November/December clips and comments.
anyone else, it was the weather device. issue of the IUR, we corrected that to
We believe that none of the pictures, in- show the seven that have been Send to:
cluding those of Marcel, show the real MUFON
discovered. And, in reviewing, with J.
103 Oldtowne Rd.
debris. Therefore, there was not a Bond Johnson, the sequence of events, Seguin, TX 78155-4099
switch of debris on the floor. It was Johnson, said that he'd taken four pic-

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the dipper's bowl point almost exactly
to Polaris the North Star. Megrez and
The Night Sky Phad on the other end of the bowl aim
in the opposite direction to Regulus in
Leo. The curve of the dipper's handle
Walter N. Webb "arcs to Arcturus" (the bright orange
star in Bootes the Herdsman), and, if
April 1991 extended, the curve continues to Spica
(in Virgo the Maiden).
Bright Planets: (Evening Sky)
Venus (magnitude -4.1) is prominent in the west, outshining every celestial
object in the evening sky except the Moon. The brilliant object sets in the LOOKING BACK, Continued
NW shortly before 11 p.m. daylight time in midmonth. Look for it 3° below
the Pleiades on April 12, above both the Pleiades and crescent Moon on the and green lights around the edges. I was
16th, and below the lunar crescent on the 17th. scared." Raymond Hoffman, a part
Mars (1.3), in Gemini, lies high in the SW at dusk. The fading red planet time deputy sheriff in Frederick Coun-
is very close above the Moon on the 19th. ty, Maryland, and a CB radio operator,
described what he saw through his
Jupiter (-2.1), in Cancer near the Beehive cluster, stands high in the south at binoculars. "It had a reddish color. It
dusk. The bright giant advances westward during the night. It lies near the was disc-shaped, with yellow and blue
quarter Moon on April 21. Those with telescopes can watch Jupiter's four largest flames around the edges, like sparklers.
satellites periodically eclipse and occult each other now that their orbits are When it came within a half-mile, my
positioned almost edge-on. CB radio went on the blink. I watched
the thing for 25-30 minutes ... then,
Bright Planets: (Morning Sky)
BOOM! It went up and was gone." (Na-
Mars sets in the NW about 1:30 a.m. daylight time in midmonth. tional Enquirer, 7/20/76)
Jupiter sets in the NW about 3 a.m.
1981 • At 11:45 p.m. on the 30th, the
Saturn (0.7), in Capricornus, rises about the time Jupiter sets and ascends to pilot and first officer of a Flying Tiger
a low altitude in the SE by dawn. The ringed world can be found near the airliner - flying 100 miles northwest of
Moon on the 8th. Sparta, Pennsylvania at 37,000 feet, and
Moon Phases: inbound to Kennedy International Air-
port, observed a bullet-shaped craft
Last quarter — April 7 moving northeast to southwest at about
New moon — April 14 1200 miles per hour. At the same time,
a United Airlines DC-8 located 100
First quarter — April 21
miles west of Sparta, reported seeing
Full moon — April 28 (3 a long glowing object streaking across
the sky. The pilot of a Beach 55 air-
Meteor Shower: craft, flying at 5000 feet 20 miles
The Lyrids peak toward dawn on April 22 when their radiant also is highest southwest of Philadelphia at 11:51 p.m.,
overhead. At that time about 15 bright white meteors per hour dart out of the spotted what looked like a "rocket
constellation of Lyra the Harp at an average velocity of 30 miles per second. ship" at his two o'clock position. The
The Lyrids may be the earliest recorded of all major showers; the Chinese craft was climbing from the southeast
noted them nearly 2,700 years ago — in 687 BC. to the northwest, accelerating at ex-
tremely high speed with a long blue
The Stars: flame coming out of the aft end. None
The sky symbol of spring, Leo the Lion, now crouches due south on the meri- of the objects were tracked on radar.
dian at 10 p.m. daylight time. Look for the constellation's familiar Sickle, which (National UFO Reporting Center)
defines the head and mane of the lion. The bright star in the Sickle's handle
is Regulus, the heart of the beast. Farther to the east (or left) lies Denebola,
the lion's tail. MUFONET-BBS Network
April brings the Big Dipper into a very good viewing position. Even from Electronic Bulletin Board
our light-polluted urban skies, anyone can spot this saucepan of seven stars 8-N-l 300-14,400 Baud
hanging upside down in the northern sky. Use its built-in pointer system to 901-785-4943
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MESSAGE, Continued schedule, he has been unable to re- teresting results.
turn the large number of telephone From the photographs (see below) it
Reservations for the symposium are calls requesting information about is clear that there is a noticeable
now being taken. The special advanced MUFONET and the subsequent cost change in the energy patterns of the
price for all five sessions is $45 before on his voice line. In order to secure this com from inside the circle to that of the
June 1, 1991 or $50 thereafter and at information contact his Data Number control sample which was taken from
the door. Individual sessions are $10 (communications settings 8-N-l) the outside of the field.
each. College students may secure ad- 901-785-4943 or write to John Komar, This is just an interim finding as ex-
mission to all five sessions for $40 if SD-Tennessee, 4769 Lake Ridge Drive, periments are still being carried out,
they present their I.D. cards. A recep- Memphis, TN 38109. Please enclose an and a report will be published later this
tion with hor d'oeuvres will be held Fri- SASE. The MUFONET BBS notice year.
day evening, July 5th at 7 p.m. for $5 appeared in the February 1991 Journal The above is from "Crop Circles -
with a cash bar. Reservations for the and will be repeated frequently. The Mystery Deepens," by Richard
reception must be made before June 1, Beaumont, which appeared in Kindred
1991. Your tickets and reservation Spirit. Volume 1, Number 12, page 36.
packet will be held at the symposium The reader may decide if this
registration desk for your arrival. Ad- EVIDENCE, Continued represents an acceptable and pre-
vance reservations may be made by sentable standard for the technical
writing to: Paul Fisher, 3952 North mechanically. Some experiments with analysis of this significant physical
Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60613 and heat, microwaves, magnetic fields or evidence of an anomalous phenomenon
enclosing a check made payable to enzymes applied to the plants would or not.
"MUFON 1991 UFO Symposium." seem in order, as would a complete Despite its shortcomings, the book is
The host committee for the sym- chemical and biological assay. highly recommended for its photo-
posium is composed of Judith Stults, What the reader is offered on page graphs alone, and should be collected
Chairperson; Walter Fydryck, Ar- 41, instead, are two photographs of as a companion volume to last season's
rangements/Liaison; Wesley Crum, unknown scale showing some Circular Evidence. We shall soon see
Artwork; David Knapp, Business; crystallized, dried-up plant juices, and if the authors feel obliged to produce
Forest Crawford, Master of Cere- text informing us that "... the energy additional update volumes as this
mony; Sheldon Fisher, Exhibits and pattern of the crystals produced by a phenomenon continues to grow and
Vendors; Pamela Pulice, Hospitality; distillation process from the plants in- evolve.
Adrian Olivo and Thomas Stults, side the circles was dramatically dif-
Press and Publicity; Russell Krepfle, ferent to that from control samples
Registration; William Leone, Securi- taken from plants in the same field."
ty; Ronald Wolf, Technical Director; That's it, that's the analysis in a nut- CIRCLES, Continued
and Paul Fisher, Treasurer. shell. What skeptic could disagree with
"the energy pattern of the crystals" in dipoles are aligned and locked into
National UFO Information Week two photographs?! place.
The authors, though crediting the Chemical bonds between carbon
The Seventh National UFO Informa-
owners of the "only laboratories in the atoms involve a pair of electrons shared
tion Week has been scheduled for
UK conducting such a test," seem between two atoms. Some organic
August 10-18, 1991. This will be an ideal
reluctant to provide the name or the (carbon-containing) substances have
opportunity for State and State Section
nature of these "laboratories." A little unpaired electrons. These substances
groups to set up photo exhibits, displays,
research in another publication pro- ("free radicals") are usually very
booths for receiving UFO sighting
duced the following: unstable, but a few are not. Even if a
reports from the public and closed cir-
In Stroud the HSC (UK & Ireland) formation is found to be non-magnetic
cuit TV showing of UFO documentar-
Limited Laboratory provides a special- (as expected), an assay of unpaired
ies, etc. in shopping malls and libraries.
ized service where crystalline structures electron content should be made by
Advance planning is required in order
from blood are analysed and crystal- ESR (electron spin resonance) spec-
to reserve space in these facilities and
line patterns of herbs can be matched troscopy using earth and plants far from
to construct the exhibits and displays.
to those of the patient. This is all part the formation as control samples.
MUFON endorses this program in order
of the Spagyrik Process which is uni- It would seem premature, to say the
to take advantage of the resurging in-
que to each individual's needs and least, to form any firm hypothesis as
terest in UFOs by the public, printed
which has been successful in treating to the origin of crop formations until
media, radio and television.
patients holistically. much more information about them
MUFONET This process being one of 'energy is available. Hopefully, these recom-
medicine' was applied to the cereal mendations will initiate steps in that
Due to John Komar's working crop from various circles with in- direction.

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^Director's
Walt Andrus
1990-1991 Award Ph.D.. State Director for New Jersey, ap- Chicago. Confirmed speakers are John
pointed Dan S. DeSantis (Linwood) H. Altshuler, M.D. and Linda Moulton
The Annual MUFON Award plaque State Section Director for Atlantic Coun- Howe, Cattle Mutilations; Zechariah
for the most outstanding contribution to ty and Tim Jones (Mt. Laurel) for Burl- Sitehin, The 12th Planet — Key To The
Ufology for 1990-91 will be presented ington County. Susan Van Slooten, UFO Enigma; Bruce S. Maccabee,
at the MUFON 1991 International UFO Asst. State Director for Northern New Ph.D., Gulf Breeze Up-Date; Stanton
Symposium in Chicago, Illinois on Ju- Jersey (Randolph) selected William L. T. Friedman, M.S., Roswell Up-Date;
ly 6, 1991. Only Board of Directors may KoehJer (West Orange) to be the State Michael D. Swords, Ph.D., Modem
nominate candidates for this prestigious Section Director for Essex County and Biology, Close Encounters and the ETH;
recognition. Anyone may nominate a Peter A. Jordan (Clark) for Union Gene M. Phillips, J.D., Ancient
person for the award by submitting the County. Hugh B. Horning, State Direc- Astronauts; C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D.,
name of their candidate with a written tor for Delaware, appointed Ralph P. Government UFO Connections; David
paragraph stating his/her accomplish- Flegal (Newark) to be his Assistant M. Jacobs, Ph.D., Wiat Can We Believe
ments to one of the Board of Directors. State Director. in Abduction Accounts?; John S.
For the convenience of members, it is Mark E. Blashak, Virginia State Carpenter, M.S.W., Clinical Hyp-
suggested that you write to your regional Director, picked two new State Section notherapy; Michael Chorost and Den-
director; Donald M. Ware, George R. Directors: Don W. Lovett (Mechan- nis Stacy, English Crop Circles; Prof.
Coyne, Robert J. Gribble, Henry H. icsville) for Hanover, King William, and Jean-Pierre Petit, Research Director,
McKay for North America or J. An- Henrico Counties plus the City of Rich- CNRS in France, Has Science Something
tonio Huneeus, International Coor- mond; Bruce A. Hauser (Midlothian) To Do with UFOs?; and Colin Andrews
dinator for foreign nominations. for Chesterfield, Powhattan, Amelia, (England) Co-Author of Circular Evi-
The actual contribution or work is Prince George. Dinwiddie and Nottoway dence (1989) and Crop Circles: The
not confined to the calendar year of Counties. Fred W. Hays, Ohio State Latest Endence (1990).
1990-91, but may include significant ac- Director, approved the appointment of A contract has been signed with
complishments during the past five Richard D. Thielmann (Toledo) to be American Airlines to be the official car-
years. The Fund for UFO Research State Section Director for Lucas, Fulton, rier for the symposium which also in-
may again provide a $500 cash award Ottawa and Wood Counties. cludes American Eagle flights to Chicago
in memory of Isabel Davis. Last year's New Consultants volunteering their from the contiguous 48 states, Hawaii,
recipient was Richard H. Hall. The talents this month were Steven Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. To
deadline for receiving nominations Lubelsky, J.D. (Boca Raton, FL) in obtain American's Meeting Saver Fare
from Board Members is April 26, 1991 Law; David A. Gotlib, M.D. (Toron- Discounts call Toll Free 1-800-433-1790
in Seguin, Texas. A ballot will be to, ON, Canada) in Psycho Therapy; to the Meeting Services Desk and give
enclosed with the May 1991 issue of the Joanne L. Hager, Ph.D. (Brookline, the Star File #S-0171K6 for the 1991
MUFON UFO Journal so all members MA) in Psychology; and Robert J. MUFON International Symposium. Spe-
and subscribers may vote for their Jangaard, M.D. (Freeland, WA) in cial rates at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare
choice from the candidates proposed. Natural Medicine. New Research Hotel have been contracted at $68 per
Please take time now to evaluate the Specialists are Julius J. Miciak, M.A. night for single or double occupancy, tri-
work and contributions of your col- (Chicago, IL) in Anthropology and "J" ple occupancy $78 or four people at $88.
leagues in Ufology so they may be so Clifford Curley, M.S. (Signal Moun- Hotel reservations may be made by call-
honored for their dedication. One tain, TN) in TV Film Production. ing (708) 696-1234 and advising the desk
nomination has been received to date. that you are attending the MUFON 1991
1991 Symposium UFO Symposium. The Auditorium will
New Officers seat 1500 people so we will have ade-
"UFOs: The Big Picture" is the theme quate room for everyone planning to at-
Birch Pavelsky (Fairbanks) has been for the MUFON 1991 International UFO tend. Six hundred rooms have been re-
appointed to the post of Assistant State Symposium scheduled for July 5, 6 and served at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare.
Director for Alaska, working with Mi- 7 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel
chael A. Lewis. Donald A. Johnson, at O'Hare International Airport near Continued on page 23

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