New Year's Words on Ufology: Standards, Ethics or Fantasy Social Clubs?

 

I began getting involved with UFO research when I was still at school in 1973 (my father bragged that it was “a phase he’ll get out of soon enough”). I set up the Bristol UFO Group (BUFOG) in 1975/76 and by around 1977 I had joined the British Flying Saucer Bureau (f. 1952) which most people in Ufology thought had vanished in the 1960s!I thought that the BFSB would have really slick investigation procedures compared to what I had thought up for BUFOG.

 

I was wrong.

 

The only person who had any investigation interest was Graham F. N. Knewstub who had, incidentally, produced the first analysis and breakdown of flying saucer/UFO reports in 1955 (Preliminary Analysis of Data Concerning Flying Saucers, BFSB Technical Report No. 1, 1955). 

 

On my first investigation with Graham we went to Yate where parents had reported that their two daughters, returning home as it was getting dark, had panicked and began beating on the front door as a large, bright discoid object came down low over the street and their house. Within half an hour I had drawn the house as well as the features either side of it and included an illustration of the object over the house –which the girls confirmed was in scale. I then drew a quick area map. Later Graham poured over the notes and illustrations and told me that he had not seen anyone complete such a full amount of preliminary work on a report before. He was pleased and I just pointed out that I thought that it was important to get as much information as possible “in case” the girl decided that they no longer wanted to talk to investigators.  Graham smiled and chuckled and told me; “I really do not think that you need me tagging along!”

 

What was the “usual investigation” method? Well, if someone offered to talk to a witness it normally entailed them relating their pet theories on UFOs, chatting about Adamski and so on –before even hearing what the witness had to say! I expressed my concerns to Graham who was in charge of investigation and research and he said “It does need young blood. I’ll talk to the Committee.” A week later I was told that I was now head of research and investigation. I also found out that there were no research projects -to be fair, Graham at that point was in his 60s and had faced an upward struggle to get anything much done in a group whose founder, Captain (Field Rank) Edward Plunkett was a true devotee of George Adamski. I think Graham thought I might have more luck.

 

So, I put forward my plans: a full study of all the reports we (BFSB) had to carry out another analysis. Problems presented themselves. Firstly, a lot of “material” was in a safety deposit box in a bank somewhere and had been there since Albert K. Bender had hi infamous Men In Black encounter (possibly a breakdown) in the early 1950s and warned the BFSB that “The Men In Black are coming your way!”  So, in 1977, I asked; “What happened?” at which point Franklyn Davin-Wilson (behind Capt. Plunkett) rolled his eyes as said Captain responded; “Nothing….yet” and he was not joking when he told me “but we are still alert and waiting!”

 

Which meant that I could not get my hands on the “must never be described” material was in the safety box. Graham then mentioned that there were the files “in the boxes in my attic” and that got a mile but definite glaring look from Capt. Plunkett who said “We’ll need to discuss that at the Committee meeting next week.” Graham was later very apologetic as he explained that he wanted to turn over the files but that the Committee had decided that they must remain private and not even the head of research and investigation could see them.

 

Just what good were all of those reports to anyone gathering dust in boxes? Later, someone (Pat O’Brien) who totally debunked UFOs as being caused by nuclear reactors and fumbled up investigations so bad that he was persuaded to “let me tag along” was appointed new head of investigation and research. After more than 100 witnesses saw a UFO at the Chepstow Race Course I accompanied O’Brien and while he told everyone that it was an helicopter or a star I talked to witnesses and met one of Mrs Roestenberg’s (1950s CE3K incident) son’s who was in charge of the catering staff.  O’Brien had no idea who Mrs Roestenberg was and when someone shouted “It’ back!” I watched with around 150 other as a triangular coloured object moved around the sky (I had binoculars) and I told O’Brien what the note while I tried to estimate size and distance, etc.  Not a word. I turned and he was looking in the other direction and would not, over the 30 minutes period look in the direction of the object(s). When I explained this to Graham he simply nodded and told me nothing could be done as O’Brien had been known to the Plunkett’s since he was a youngster.

 

To “avoid friction” I was appointed head of the new BFSB publication UFO News Bulletin and the name change from Flying Saucer News (last published c. 1960) was a bit awkward as the BFSB continually referred to any UFO as a “flying saucer” which was a term well out of fashion by the 1970s.I had to do all the work myself as no one wanted to contribute and then hand in the finished publication to be printed. As the featured entity report in one issue was not involved with a flying saucer and was not a blond haired, blue eyed Venusian the cover was removed. So I did a new cover. Rejected and in the end the front cover was simply the BFSB logo enlarged. I quit as editor but with O’Brien taking over I&R and then the magazine the BFSB knew they were a force to be reckoned with. Except O’Brien never produced a single issue but drove the group into the ground. From 1977 onward I had only ever seen Capt. Plunkett’ son, Denis, once and then he was socialising and had no interest in anything to do with the group.

 

I wanted to check my notes on the Chepstow case and was told “Oh, they’re missing somewhere but it was only a helicopter.” Other reports I had completed were also “missing” and this meant, I was told, that the reports had been dumped somewhere. I quit.

 

I set up UFO International (UFOI) and recruited investigators including Dot Street and Brenda Butler (the Rendlesham Forest investigators who told me about the incident then went straight to Jenny Randles to publicise it even though I told them I would have three investigators join then within the week), Mr Parsons who investigated the Oulton Marsh CE3K and others. Unfortunately, Peter Tate was also involved and he and even got the UFOI threatened with legal action after publishing a totally defamatory statement while I was in Germany (forging my signature). Tate had also destroyed CE3K case reports and one day I found note paper with the heading Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network –just Google “APEN”.  Eventually I resigned because the group was at each other throats as Tate tried to “smooth things over”.

 

I moved on and concentrated on my BUFORA work and that included me as the only investigator during a 1977/1978 UFO flap –as it happens the UK APRO investigator Gary Green lived just up the road from me so helped out on a couple of cases. Of course, this ended with BUFORA “losing” 150 full reports.

 

I no longer wanted to be associated with Ufology so continue my work with the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau from 1977 onward and by 1980 had achieved far more than when working within groups.

 

We hear and read it almost weekly. The Ufologists claiming “Many thousands of people have reported good quality sighting of unearthly objects” so ask yourself; what happens to these reports (apart from being used as TV fodder)? When was the last time you saw a survey and analysis of UFO sighting reports? The last one I know of was compiled by J Bernard Delair for Contact UK in the early 1980s and my last study was in the 1980. The internet/You Tube age ha made every satellite or high flying bird flock reflecting sunlight an ‘extra terrestrial craft’ or ‘fleet of UFOs’ and even obvious, clearly seen balloons and aircraft are labelled as “unidentified” so any analysis now is impossible. UFO groups routinely fake or deliberately misidentify objects to be “extra terrestrial” (in the main to “outdo” a rival group) and paranormal and UFO blogs feature more faked cases each year –I know; I have chased after those reports. Ufologists have been hoaxing other Ufologists since 1947 and just letting genuine reports fade away in time –Eupora, 1973, Reeves, 1965 and so on). You Tube…about as honest as a politician named Johnson.

 

A big problem is that it became a bit of a craze to start calling “cover-up” in Ufology and this started in the United States and then the UK when what should have been happening was UFO groups carrying out full investigations and reaching conclusions based on evidence and then turning copies over to official bodies who would have access to technical and scientific personnel who could go even further. Then the evidence is out there in the public eye as well as being studied by bodies with more funding. Yes, of course bodies such as the US Air Force, et al would use the UFO subject to hide experimental test aircraft and so on. That is what they do because everyone expects their respective armed forces to be capable of defending them but not letting a potential enemy “know what we got”. 

 

1947-2020 and hat ha Ufology accomplished? Jacques Vallee has become a Saint in Ufology “because of his work and standing” and yet he has included faked accounts, explained reports and wore into his melting pot of New Age junk. I once held Vallee up as an example of a scientist carrying out meticulous work on UFOs…until I carried out an even cursory look at his data. Ortotheny, The Mars Cycle, The Wednesday Evening Cycle, Ley Lines and many, many other totally crackpot theories that should have been looked at and then consigned to the “Irrelevant” file were discussed and argued about for decades –some still are today. Provide people with evidence that certain reports were faked or explained and…they ignore it because it HAS to be unsolved. The X-Files, Dark Skies and Dr Who are not documentary series and we do not have a terrestrial space force engaged in Star War style conflict in the skies above us.  Fantasy is the new fact.

 

Budd Hopkins stacked the deck when it came to evidence, he knew one alleged abductee was conning him but he carried on totally un-peer reviewed. David Jacobs has gotten totally out of control in his work and claims as well as personal scandal and John Mack followed his own line of work. John Carpenter sold 140 of his abductee files to John Bigelow breaching any pretence of a code of ethics or witness confidentiality he and MUFON claimed. Oh…did I mention Hopkins, Mack and Jacobs were receiving money from Bigelow and no one has any idea what they forwarded because Ufology has no openness or ethics code.  And, of course, MUFON sold all of its UFO report files to Bigelow and investigators had no idea the reports they were investigating were going to Bigelow -remember the part of the UFO report form that asks you if you want your personal info to be confidential? Means nothing.

 https://users.aalto.fi/~saarit2/mindcontrol/hambone/bigelow.html

http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-carpenter-affair-for-record.html

https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sightings-mufon-2018-john-ventre-alien-extraterrestrial-905060

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azpj9/head-of-major-ufo-organization-arrested-on-child-solicitation-charges

So, while this is going on MUFON is a shining example of Ufology being dead in the water though most groups avoid the racism, sexism and child abuse scandal that MUFON is bogged down in but will not do anything actively about (it is a big right wing boys club –even those who left MUFON and appear in video interviews proudly display the front cover of a Donald Trump book behind them; I’ve spotted this in three such videos).

 

Politics has no place in Ufology. And you should NOT believe in Ufology but follow the evidence which is all that matters. 

 

Do not be conned on the cattle mutilation “phenomenon” –it is NOT UFO (ET) related.

Do not be conned into the Aurora or Roswell or any of the 160 other alleged UFO crashes –never happened.

Do not be fooled into believing an (ET) UFO crashed on a Welsh mountain (whichever crash) –it did not happen.

Do not be fooled into believing that MILLIONS are abducted every year –fake. Concentrate on the real cases.

Do not believe that an extra terrestrial craft crash landed in Rendlesham Forest. It never did.

Do not believe that there is a “British Skinwalker Ranch” because, all the evidence now shows that most of what went on at Skinwalker was caused by human agencies –check out The Black Vault” or Erica Lukes You Tube channels if you want the truth.

 

Are you in this to be part of a fan club or because you want to get to the truth?  I do not believe that I am the only person who has been studying CE3K –Alien Entity reports since 1975 (and not betraying witnesses confidential info) so where is the work to how this? My four books on the subject are meant to be there for peer review –fully referenced. No one will publish a 300-500+ paper on the subject so I have to self publish (and none of them has made me any money covering even .5% of what I have spent on the work in 4 decades).

 

2021 can either be a new starting point and old cases re-opened and followed up as “cold cases” (because many CE3Ks were never investigated) and results published or….Ufology can just die a death as a cranky fringe subject.

 

Only Ufologists can decide.

 

 

Beyond UFO Contact: Aliens from Mind, Time & Space

 

A4

B&W

350 pp

Fully illustrated containing photographs and maps

£20.00

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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?

Anomalous Observational Phenomena Journal Vol. 2 No. 5 January 2021

 

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68pp

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The fifth Journal brings you the following articles -all fully referenced and illustrated: IN THIS ISSUE: 

Ufology: How Complex Must It Become? 

More Warminster Entity Reports  

Conil de la Frontera 

 Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

Harrison Bailey: A Classic Case of Ufology At Work  

CE3K/AE Reports: More Details Needed  

John Hanson’s Close Encounter  

The Flying Spectre of Natal  

The Bridge Abduction 

 1870: The First Ever UFO Photograph or Proof of Early Airships? 

 Did A UFO Crash In France in 1790? 

Beyond UFO Contact is completed

 Beyond UFO Contact is completed at 350 pp. I wa holding off in the hoppe that former BUFORA investigator David Sankey might respond to a query regarding the 1960s Milnthorpe case but as with most Ufologists (I believe he is now working as an artist) no one responds.

I have checked spelling and grammar as well as re-edited ome photos over 10 times since the end of November and if it is not ready now it never will be!

for those interested here is the contents list:

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 3

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 8

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 20

3. The Moreland Incident 29

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 48

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 62

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 88

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 98

8. The Pwca 104

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 108

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 113

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 118

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 124

13. Harrison Bailey 136

14. Sonny DesVerger 154

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 183

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 192

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 203

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 213

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 216

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 228

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 243

22. Clearview Ranch 248

23. The Pat McGuire Case 272

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 284

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 297

26. The Bridge Abduction 304

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 312

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 321

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 336

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO? 347

Will upload tomorrow so that the book ought to be done and dusted by 1st January 2021

Why the multiverse is religion, not science.

Did We Just Detect a New "Wow" Signal from Proxima Centauri?

Robin Cole, Circular Forum and the Bridge Abduction Case

 Note: If Robin Cole or anyone who knows him could ask him to contact me I would appreciate it. 

The full report and images will be published in AOP Journal no. 5 as well as Beyond UFO Contact in January 2021

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   In 1996 I was in touch with Robin Cole who headed the Circular Forum group based in Gloucestershire and that in turn led to my involvement in the Gotherington Gargoyle case (The Case of the Gotherington Gargoyle, in Some Things Strange & Sinister). Knowing of my interest in CE3K reports, Cole asked whether I would be interested in looking at an abduction report they had on file. Obviously, my answer was “yes.”

 

   What I received was slightly shocking because, despite my reputation, I would not have expected to find the address, telephone number and percipient’s name unredacted.  As it happens it may just be that I am the only person who now has the full report.

 

   In-keeping with the report in the group magazine I identify the percipient as “Mr. X”.

 

   At around 21:40 hrs on the 15^th February, 1995, Mr. X was driving along the M50 and heading home from work when he noticed a bright object travelling at speed over the countryside. The object was heading in his direction but he lost sight of it as the road cuts through a hill at that point in his journey and a bridge blocked his view. Once he had driven under the bridge he was confronted by the object which was approximately 80 feet above the road but then descended to around 50 feet as he continued 250 yards from the bridge.

 

   As Mr. X strained to see just what the object was he describes himself as suddenly becoming “docile”. Then “a voice from within” told him to pull over to get a better look and he did so.  His next recollection was being in the middle lane in third gear and travelling at around 50 mph and a voice was telling him to “Keep going, there is no traffic, keep going.” Not much further along was the junction he would normally take but he pulled off of the road and got out of the car. He was unsure whether he had been involved in an accident of some kind but on checking his car was undamaged.

 

   On checking, he found that some 40 minutes had passed and he had no recollection of anything during that period. His journey home normally took twenty minutes but on this night it had taken just over an hour and on getting home told his son about the experience.  That was the end of an odd event until he started having vivid flashbacks and odd things upset him. While treating his wooden fence two slanted black knots in the timber frightened him and yet he could not understand why.  He was equally shaken by the motif of two black, slanted wings on his son’s motorbike.

 

   By 1996, Mr. X decided that he needed to contact someone which is when he contacted Cole. According to Cole; “We now have over forty pages relating to this case” yet the “full report” I was sent has only 15 pages which is 25 pages short of what Cole claimed. He did state that the late Tony Dodd had seen the report and a copy had been sent to Professor John Mack for his analysis and, at the time of the Circular Forum article a copy was in the hands of Nick Pope. However, as only 15 pages are available we are lucky that this includes Mr. X’s original account which adds much more to the report and I have left the spelling etc. intact:

 

      “…I left work at exactly 9.30 p.m. in the evening to go home…the journey

      which I take home is about 9.25 miles. I have been travelling this road for 7

      years. The same route every day.  This journey should take no more than 15

      minutes maximum.  It consists of 1.8 mile bypass to M50 at Ross-on-Wye,

      3.75 miles motorway M50 and 4 miles on the Newent/Gorsley B4221. I

      arrived at the roundabout at the M50 Travellers Rest end at approximately 9.40

      p.m.  It was dark but clear. I looked across the valley through a gap in the hedge

      towards Ponts Hill. On the far horizon about 10-12 miles, low down was a large

      bright light in an otherwise star less night sky.”

 

   The account now gets a little confusing as the continuation of Mr. X’s account refers to a previous sighting but then jumps slightly. I assume that the next part takes up the narrative from after Mr. X had lost sight of the object due to the bridge and then saw it above the road:

 

      “I don’t know whether this was a hole in the underside of the craft. There was

      no noise (not helicopter or plane). The light as bin the first sighting completely

      enveloped the craft.  It appeared flurescent a bit like aqn aura around the outside

      of the craft.  But it shimmered when you looked at5 it.  I only had a few seconds

       to see this and estimated that it was about 80 ft. above me and about 2 bus

      lengths wide (diameter). I am now fidgeting about in the car as the light is

      bothering me.  All of a sudden I hear a voice in my head saying   “Pull over and

      you can get a better look!”

 

     “I went from worrying about the light and being agitated to totally docile

      looking straight ahead not at all concerned about the encroaching light that

      was descending on me.  I looked along the hard shoulder for a safe place to

      stop as I had been told.  At this point the hard shoulder4 disappears and a small

      road runs underneath the motorway. A barrier with warning posts appears in

      front of me. A voice warns “Unsafe! Unsafe!” as I start to pull over.  I straighten

      up the car taking notice of the voice.  I am sure these voices are some sort of

      telepathy.  It’s as if they can see through my eyes everything that is going on,

      and are guiding me.  I am under some form of hypnotic control. I can see

      everything that is going on but I have to obey the voice.

 

     “From the bridge to this point it takes about 20-25 seconds everything is

      happening very quickly.  The craft has to descend between two rock faces

      and position itself above my car as well as fitting between the four lanes

      carriagway.  It is large but has fantastic control.  It is at this point I think I

      was abducted. It was as if I blinked my eyes and I was back again. The only

      thing I can compare this with is if you are watching a very good film and it

      jumps a frame. You notice something but because you are engrossed in the

      story it appeares continues.”

 

   I believe in that last line Mr. X meant “continuous” and I should also note here that a bus length is around 30-35 feet depending on the model so the object seen by Mr. X was approximately 60-70 feet in diameter.  In the 1994 Silbury Hill case Paul and Sonya also believed that entities were “using” their eyes to see things.  Mr. X continues:

 

      “I am now looking straight ahead on the same bit of road. The car is in gear

      now (5^th) I am doing about 50 m.p.h. I am still not bothered about the light. 

      Everything appears normal and another voice says; ‘Don’t stop now! Keep

      going. There is no traffic either side of the motorway. Keep going.’

 

      “I estimate it was between 5-10 seconds after this that I came out of the

      hypnotic state and the craft had gone.  They had released my mind. I

      exclaimed aloud ‘Where’s the light. Where’s the light.’ Not realising it was

      all over.  They had gone.  I continued driving as I was told but I was now

      completely conscious and in control. I noted there was no traffic what so ever

      as I had been told and I kept going.  When I reached the slip road at the

      Gorsley turn off (B4221) I stopped before turning on to the B4221 for Newent. 

      I put the hazard  lights on and got out of my car looked across the motorway

      at a small wood opposite.  I saw lights going down beyond the wood but could

      not swear that they were the same lights that had plagued me earlier.  Still no

      traffic.  I got back into my car. Put the hazard lights off put my seat belt on and

      then noticed my digital clock was reading 10-22 p.m. that meant that a 3.5 mile

      journey which would normally take 3-4 minutes took 40 minutes.  I remember

      feeling pleased when I saw the lights of a car coming from the Gorsley Golf

      Club. The first car I had seen since entering M50.  As the car passed I pulled

      out behind it but it turned right onto the motorway to Ross-on-Wye.

   

     “I continued home arriving at about 10-35 p.m. still wondering what had

      happened. The light still haunting me.  Which it does to this day.  I checked

      the car over and myself to see if I had been involved in any form of accident. 

      No damage to the car and no marks on my body.

 

     “The only explanation to the lack of traffic on the motorway and loss of

      Time would be if I had been taken when there was a lull in the traffic and put

      back there was a lull in the traffic 40 minutes being lost inside the craft for

      what purpose I do not know. My conclusion is I was taken by a F.F.O. similar

      or the same as described in my earlier sightings with its outer lights on.  This

      light acting as a type of strobe giving it a shimmering or pulsing effect, thus

      hypnotizing me, while taking  the car and myself up into its hull and then up

      into the sky and out of sight for 40 minutes to do whatever they had to do to

      me and then bringing me back to exactly the same spot on the motorway to

      continue my journey.

 

     “I think that U.F.O.’s are using motorways as easy access for abductions and

      now that the American Air-Force has gone its left the gate wide open for them

      to do what they want. Up until 1993 my first sighting where I saw two craft, I

      had never seen anything in 47 years of my life.

 

     “When I arrived home at about 10-35 p.m. my wife was in bed asleep so was

      my youngest son Stephen in his bed asleep. Andrew my eldest son was out

      with friends, Richard my mid son was laying on the settee watching T.V.

      (football) after the news had finished at 10-30 p.m. he was wearing his blue

      towling dressing gown. I hung my jacket up put my work bag down and went

      into the T.V. room to tell him about my incident with the light.  He was

      watching an action replay shot and asked me to be quite until he had seen it. 

      I then told him about this bright light and was bewildered at this time as to

      what it was. He can verify the time I got home about 10-35 p.m..

 

      “At no time do I remember stopping the car during the incident it

      appeared continues. Apart from the problem with the light (U.F.O.).”

 

   The interesting aspects of this account are what Ufologists tend to leave out because we read here what Mr. X was thinking at the time but also it shows that he was not “vague” afterwards. He notes that his wife and one son were asleep and that another was out with friends –he obviously checked this so he was “thinking straight”. He noted that Richard was watching a football replay on TV following the 22:00 hrs news and that he was wearing a blue dressing gown. He had also checked the car and himself for any damage or injuries.  Mr. X even managed to write out a sequence of events for the evening of 15^th February:

 

1)      Clock out 9.30 p.m.

2)      Walk to car park (2 mins)

3)      Drive to M.50 using by-pass (5 min 30 secs)

4)      Entre M. 50 9.40 p.m. approximately

5)      First gap in hedge light on far horizon

6)      Second gap light streaking across valley

7)      I go under first motorway bridge

8)      Craft descends on me

9)      Open window of car and look up at craft

10)  Voice tells me to “Pull over and you can get a better look’

11)  Voice warning “Unsafe. Unsafe” as I go to pull over. Barrier in way

12)  Voice again “Don’t stop now. Keep going. There’s no traffic either side of the motorway keep going”

13)  Drive to slip road and junction B4221 at Gorsley 10.22 p.m.

14)  Drive home to Newent arrive 10.35 p.m.

 

   One morning at 04:00 hrs in 1993, Mr. X had looked across the yard (from where he worked?) and seen the Moon as well as two “flying saucers” although this appears to0 have been just a sighting with no missing time. With regards to the flash-backs of the 1995 incident Mr. X recalled being observed by entities  but also of being in a laying down position in a white room –oddly enough, for no known reason he eventually repainted the interior of the house white.

 

   The remark about the US Air Force no longer present refers to local bases used by them closing down or being used as “stop over” airfields. As I found out in the 1980s in conversations with USAF personnel there their presence had never seemingly been of any concern to “UFOs” locally.

 

   It would be nice to know what the “40 pages” contained especially since it was stated that; “At one point we became very concerned for the “abductees” health and safety, as it seemed he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder directly as a result of his experience.”

 

   Without the necessary details it is difficult to gauge whether this was incident was a psychological or physical event.  Circular Forum suddenly became defunct and it was impossible to track Cole down though I did come across him on a ghost forum in which the “ghost hunter” Elliott O’Donnell was discussed. I was told Nick Pope had the full report but when I contacted him he was unsure -“I get sent so many things” which sort of ended my attempts to find out more.

 

   Mr X was 50 years of age in 1996 and would now (in 2020) be 74 years of age if still alive. Unless someone has a copy of the full report Cole indicates went to Tony Dodd (deceased), John Mack (deceased) or Nick Pope this is another case we have lost.

South American CE3K Reports

 Taken from Contact! and a chapter lookjing at South American reports.

I fairness it has to be pointed out that APRO also never followed up on declaring reports to be hoaxes although it did “sort of” in the case of Carlos Alberto Diaz which the Lorenzens referred to in several works including their Encounters with UFO Occupants (Berkley, NY, 1976: pp. 230-235).  This is the account in its popular form from APRO Bulletin, Vol. 23 No. 5 (Mar 1975):

 

   Carlos Alberto Diaz a 28-year-old married man, father of one child and born in Ingeniero White, a district of Bahia Blanca, Province of Buenos Aries, Republic of Argentina. His work record indicates that since becoming an adult he was a clerk in a central store and for 6 years was employed in the mechanical traction section of Ingeniero White. During the past year he helped with the preparation of a football training school for the Huracan Club of Bahia Blanca and in his spare time augmented his income by working as a waiter at private parties.

 

   On the morning of January 4, 1975 he was finishing his shift as a waiter in the Holy Protective Society of the Naposta District in Bahia Blanca. Outside the door he purchased a copy of "La Nueva Provincia" (The Province News) newspaper and then had caught the bus to go home. He got off the bus several blocks from his home and started walking. His route was through a large and desolate railroad yard. The sky was overcast so when a brilliant flash of light momentarily blinded him, he assumed it was merely lightning from the approaching storm. Thunder did not follow, however, and he later described the light as not straight but "broken". After he regained his sight he was frightened and decided to run the rest of the way to his home which was now in sight but couldn't move — he seemed to have become paralyzed.  Diaz heard a humming sound which he compared to the sound of rushing air or wind. Although he tried to resist, he was pulled off the ground and when about 3 meters (8 feet) off the ground his vision faded and he lost consciousness.

 

   When Diaz regained consciousness he was inside a smooth, bright sphere which appeared to be semi-transparent plastic. There was no furniture or devices and the illumination seemed to come from the walls. Diaz said he was completely lucid and conscious, half kneeling and half lying on his side against several openings of about 3 centimetres in diameter (1-1/4 inches) in the bottom of the sphere through which issued air. He said he felt ill if he turned away from the openings and felt they served to keep him conscious. He estimated the "sphere" was 2-1/2 to 3 metres (about 7 feet. by 8 feet) in diameter.

 

   Three “creatures” resembling humans came sliding into the sphere; they appeared to be around 1.75-1.80 metres in height (approximately 5 feet, 10 inches) – their heads were half the size of a human head and completely devoid of features - no ears, nose, mouth or eyes. These heads were a mossy green in colour and the body was rather thin and covered with something Diaz defined as rubber - light cream coloured and very soft and the creatures were completely hairless. The arms of the entities were almost straight and very flexible and ended in "stumps" rather than hands and fingers.

 

   When the entities entered the sphere they immediately began pulling tufts of hair from Diaz's head though he had no idea how they did this with no hands but he insisted that each time they would reach out their arms and pull back and they would have some of his hair. Diaz also stated that this seemed to give them great pleasure as they would then jump up and down and wave their arms.

 

   Diaz reported that he had tried to resist the entities but to no avail and that during his struggles he had felt the softness of their bodies and ultimately noted they had "suckers" on their arms and assumed that was the method by which they removed the hair. One of them held him, another pulled his hair and the third apparently only observed. He noted that he had felt no pain as they pulled at his head and chest. The entities moved slowly but were very strong and seemingly tireless.

 

   After this ordeal was over, Diaz reported that his sight once again began to fade and he once again passed out. He remembers nothing else of the experience.

 

   Diaz woke up and found he was lying on the grass and had to close his eyes as the sun was high and shining into them; he felt ill and this illness stayed with him throughout the day. He was near a large, busy highway. He looked at his watch which had stopped at 03:50 hours, the time he last noted before his experience began. Next to him lay his bag containing work clothes and the newspaper he had purchased hours earlier. A motorist thought Diaz had been struck by a car and stopped and upon hearing Diaz' explanation of what had happened to him, the man offered to take him to the nearest hospital (Railway Hospital), where they arrived 25 minutes later at 08:30 hours. It was when he learned the time that he became convinced that he had been abroad an aircraft of unknown origin and in the company of extraterrestrials.

 

   For the next four days Diaz was confined to the Ferroviaro Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he was questioned and examined again and again by 46 different doctors. The hospital's Director informed the Federal Police who also questioned him. Diaz's wife and other relatives were notified by telephone at 09:20 hours of his whereabouts. They had been extremely worried because he was seldom later getting home than 04:00 – 04:30 hours. They went to Buenos Aires that day and arrived at about midnight. It was noted that it is 785 kilometres (423 miles) from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires.

 

   The medical examination of Diaz yielded no evidence of physiological or psychological alteration in Diaz, except the illness he described as dizziness, upset stomach, the lack of appetite and the missing hair. During the 5^th January Diaz had only one cup of milk which had to be fed to him forcibly.

 

   According to the Lorenzens:

 

   “We are immediately struck by three similarities in the (Carl) Higdon and Diaz cases, namely: in both instances, the "creatures" had no hands or fingers and in both cases the witnesses suffered a loss of appetite after the experience and lastly, the entities in both cases "glided" rather than walking”.

 

   They continued:

 

   “As we have pointed out in this Bulletin in the past, we must consider the possibility of deliberate confusion in these cases of absolutely bizarre (to us) creatures and experiences. It seems likely in Higdon's case that he was under the influence (both he and his gun) of something when he went over the crest of that hill and saw the elk. In Diaz's case, he was rendered unconscious before his experience with the humanoids began. Was he also under some kind of influence? Obviously something unusual happened to him — the absence of hair in various spots on his head and chest attest to that. If we speculate that he pulled his own hair out, for whatever reason, we must then consider the fact that, outside of one interview with a magazine, he permitted no interviews with newspapers, radio or TV and was questioned by only one civilian UFO investigator — Mr. Romaniuk.

 

   “He obviously did not thirst for publicity or notoriety. Then we have the problem of how he got from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires in a matter of 4 hours and 10 minutes — a distance of 423 miles. In the United States, traveling on the best of the roads and breaking speed limits, the best that could be done would be something over 5 hours. Diaz does not own a car. We can rule out cars and of course, buses. That leaves only air travel. Did Carlos Diaz get a flight from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires? This will have to be checked. We must also check to make certain that Diaz was on the job and left at 3:30 - as he claims. We must also verify that he was, in fact, on the city bus and did get off at a point a few blocks from his home”.

 

 

   The Lorenzens went on to note that there had been other alleged cases of transportation of humans by UFOs in the past and concluded that:

 

   “Carlos Diaz's alleged experience appears to be one of the most credible of them all”.

 

   Unfortunately, in APRO Bulletin, Vol. 26 No. 2, Aug. 1977: p. 9, Roberto Enrique Banchs for the Centro de Estudios de Fenomenos Aereos Inusuales (CEFAI) of Buenos Aires and Richard W. Heiden declared that: “Carlos Alberto Diaz Was a Hoaxer”:

 

“Investigation revealed the following:

 

“1. The abduction site, on Daniel de Solier Street, is always busy, even at that time, yet Diaz said he saw no one around. Also, house-to-house inquiries found that no one in the neighborhood had noticed anything unusual, nor had any watch dogs acted up.

 

“2. The bus leaves Bahia Blanca at 3:30, and takes 25 minutes to get to Ingeniero White, whereas Diaz said he arrived at Ingeniero White at 3:30, only 25 minutes after leaving work.

 

“3. Finding the above discrepancies, it was realized that Diaz probably went directly to Buenos Aires; he could have taken the train. The train originating in Zapala passes through Bahia Blanca at 6:15 a.m. (the newspaper having come out at 2:45 a.m.), though it is often behind schedule. During the investigation, Train 142 making this run passed through Bahia Blanca at 7:07, arriving at Buenos Aires at 4:10 p.m.

 

“4. The records of the hospital guard show that Diaz arrived there at 5:30 p.m., not 4:15.

 

“5. Psychological assessments of Diaz found these characteristics, among others: rich imagination, quick intelligence (but without depth), inclination to exaggerate, good memory, occasional use of poor judgment, and maladjusted personality.

 

“We think that under these circumstances we have enough sound arguments of the inauthenticity of the episode, and are able to consider the case a hoax, made up by the witness himself”.

 

   Basically, the events could not have occurred as Diaz claimed. It is a long time since magazines such as Official UFO  (February, 1976, Page 12) mentioned the case and one wonders what Diaz is doing today since some “noted Ufologists” have spoken to him and that includes alien abduction ‘experts’ and they all seem to think that he was genuine and much maligned.  Well, he continued to go on to fake UFO videos and photographs and despite his being declared a hoaxer almost 40 years ago Ufologists do not care.  If you check on the internet there are very few if any –I have found one site that does— UFO fan sites that will even mention the declaration of hoaxing.

 

   With so many reports proving to be hoaxes or over exaggerated what are we left with?  The alleged UFO crash and retrieval of living and dead aliens at Varginha, Brazil in 1996 which, looking further into the report at the time, I could find no evidence of.

 

   Then we have the “Vampire of Moca” in 1975 or as the Reader may probably know it after it evolved: the Chupacabra.  I dealt with this in my book Some Things Strange and Sinister (UFO and even cryptozoological publications were not interested as they were vested in a continuation of the myth) and noted that I expected the craze to spread to Latino communities elsewhere –as it did but went on to be a term used by hoaxers and conmen out to make every mangy coyote, fox, raccoon and other animal into the legendary “goat sucker”.

 

CE 3K Reports from Portugal

 Part of the chapter from Contact! on Portugues CE3K reports

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   Bordering Spain and with a population of over 9,808,000 and covering more than 92,000 square kilometres including the Azores and Madeira, you might consider this European country to have produced a good number of UFO reports and CE3K cases. Sadly, although we know of some the problem has always been to get translations of these into English and distribute these more widely –it was why I began publishing the AOP Journal again in 2018.

   There have been some reports that have filtered through from Spanish investigators and the main ones all comes with an explanation other than genuine.  The problem is that some Spanish Ufologists seem to set out with less than open minds and I for one find it hard to accept “I heard it was a hoax” or “negative to discard, indicating as reference to a commonplace explanation” without some actual back-up data on why. We need to understand why a case needs to be discarded as much as we do why another seems to be genuine.

   I have also been told that there might be “some friction” between Portuguese and Spanish Ufologists so to get reports first hand from Portuguese investigators is important.  What follows are the paltry few reports I have found and that were published in the English language.

   In a 1983 listing of “negative humanoid cases of the Iberic Peninsula”, Spanish Ufologist Luis R. Gonzales Manso noted that the May, 1947, case in Castelo Viegas, Portugal, was “a negative to discard, indicating as reference to a commonplace explanation” but what the case involved or why it was considered a negative case I have no idea.

   At 15:00 hours on the 5^th May, 1954 at Fregim Amarante, a young boy was on a hill near the village tending his goat when he heard a whistling sound coming from a nearby hollow and ran to see what was causing it. On reaching the hollow he saw one dome-shaped object leaving the area headed towards a nearby river while a second rested on the ground. Both objects were a metallic colour, dome-shaped and had a metal ring on the bottom and a transparent section on top from which came a brown conical protrusion.

   As the first object left the boy had felt a wave of heat and inside the second object he could see two beings with large heads and large, wide apart eyes; both appeared to have ‘antennae’ on top of their heads and their mouths looked like round holes. They were wearing metallic blue outfits and appeared seated with one of them operating levers while the other looked out at the witness.

   Ground traces were later found at the site and to date I have found no details of how the sighting ended and I assume that this second object also took off.  Source: Ballester Olmos & Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis.

   The reference for this next report is almost lengthier than the details of the report -A Descriptive Study of the Entities Associated With Type 1 Sightings, Vallee, J., Flying Saucer Review Vol. 10  no. 1, Jan.-Feb., 1964: p. 7:

   On the 24^th September, 1954, at Sierra Gardunha, two “aluminium men”, 2.50 metres in height were seen.  The entities made gestures inviting the witnesses to get into their craft. The offer was declined.

   That is it.  Vallee does what Vallee often does and gives no reference source like any credible researcher would and, of course, FSR does what FSR usually did and that was not really bother with that sort of thing: a serious publication would have insisted on references.

   On 27^th or 28^th September, 1954, the major newspaper Diario de Lisboa, of Lisbon, Portugal, published a reader's letter and/or an article based on it. Details are that ‘good’. The author claimed to be Cesar Cardoso and to have been driving in the Gardunha hills, near Almadesa, in the Castelo Branco region when his car engine stalled and he could hear a buzzing sound. Cardoso pulled up on the roadside and tried to re-start the engine but all he got were ridiculous noises and so he got out of the car to open the hood and check the engine.  The buzzing sound now became louder and looking up he saw a flying saucer or a sphere - depending on the newspapers apparently - which he was said gave off multi-coloured flashes and then landed without noise on a hilltop some 200 metres below his location.

   Cardoso specified that only the "poles" of the sphere were rotating and that the transparent equatorial part let him see moving shades inside: two silhouettes or men of approximately 2-2.5 metres in height then came out of the object. They looked like, according to the report, “aluminum men”, which I assume means that they were wearing all covering silver clothing. These entities then picked up grasses, flowers and brushes and collected stones which they put in a shining box.

   It was then that the entities saw Cardoso as well as three other people who had also been watching the display and began to approach them – emitting some sounds the witnesses did not comprehend before they then invited the people, by gestures, to go aboard the object; this offer was declined and the entities did not insist.  Both returned to the object and boarded it: the object then took off vertically and flew off producing a shower of sparks.

   The Diario de Lisboa apparently did not take the story at face value and quickly found out that the story had been made up by one Francisco Antonio Fereira who was actually the real Cesar Cardoso's nephew. He admitted the hoax in an interview which was published in the newspaper Diaro de Lisboa for 1^st October, 1954. The youngster apparently explained that he was a flying saucer buff who wanted to get the Press to pay attention to the flying saucer issue and also to… pay attention to the sorry state of the road in his remote village.

  The initial hoax story has been repeated internationally, ignoring the whole hoax part and so the report entered UFO books, the first time in Harold T. Wilkins’ book Flying Saucers Uncensored (p. 55) where the less than credible Wilkins expressed much scepticism on the story which says a lot.  Oh, but Wilkins did stick to form by giving two different dates for the report! From there it was picked up by Jacques Vallée for his "Magonia" catalogue, citing Wilkins as the source but omitting the negative feeling this author had about the story. Vallee said it was a genuine case by inference so other authors picked up on it –some adding various inaccuracies in entity size as well as the date: not one mentioned the suspicion or confession of a hoax.  The report is still widely used today.

   On the 13^th October, 1954, at Casteli Branco, two witnesses observed two entities in shiny clothing emerge from an (not described) landed object and gather flowers, shrubs and twigs.  The entities then re-entered the object which took off.

   The source for the above is The Humanoids, Neville Spearman, 1969: p. 44, edited by Charles Bowen gives no further detail. Not surprising since it is clear FSR did its usual bad research (if any) and did not notice Casteli Branco should have read Castelo Branco and that this was merely a repeat of the Cardoso report.

   We read of the encounter of Vitorino Laurenco Monteiro in The Humanoids (p. 31) and More on the Azores Landing, Gordon W. Creighton, FSR 27/6, June, 1982: pp. 11-12, 20 wherein we finally learn (this was noted in Vallee’s 1964 article) that the original account was in the 21^st November, 1954 edition of Ocorrencia.

   On the 21^st November, 1954, at Santa Maria Airport on the Azores Island, Vitorino Laurenco Monteiro was on duty as a security guard when he saw a bright yellow light travelling at a moderate speed over the south of the Island. As he watched, the object changed course and landed close by. Monteiro described the object as being bluish in colour, elliptical, 3 metres long and 1.5 metres high.  An opening appeared and Menteiro saw an entity emerge at which point he turned on an external light to get a clearer view. 

   The entity was described as appearing to be humanoid, of normal height and seemed to be –or look— around 35 years old and with fair hair and a slight beard but no moustache. Clothing was a dark yellow coverall with dark belt and long yellow boots with zippers at the side. When the entity reached Monteiro he shook the guard’s hand and gave him a couple of back-slaps and spoke, however, he could not be understood and so he returned to the object which then took off with a slight hum.

   It is said that there were witnesses to the UFO itself but not the entity.

   Carlos Sabine’s encounter was reported in Diario de Noticias of 12^th June, 1960 and then in Magonia no. 2, Winter 1979/1980.

   At around 03:30 hours on the 10^th June, 1960, at Algoz, on the Algarve, tailor Carlos Sabine was out walking his dog when he saw an object that he thought was a car.  Sabine then saw it more clearly and it was in fact a disc shaped object giving off unusually bright light and he decided to quickly hide.  From cover he watched six human-like entities move around the object for a while before re-entering the object which rose up at great speed.

   Deciding to flee the area, Sabine ran but the object re-appeared and illuminated the ground with an intense beam of light before leaving again.  Sabine’s dog had run off in terror and as for the witness: neighbours testified to his trustworthiness but they also testified to his state of terror that morning.

   It seems that nothing else is recorded until the 3^rd January, 1977, at Carapito, Beira Alta. References for this case are bulletin Insolito, CEAFI (Centro de Estudos Astronomicos e Fenómenos Insolitos), Portugal, Volume IV, no. 33, pp 14-17 and 26, June-July 1978 & Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos Con Ovnis, by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Fernandez Peris, Plaza y Janés publishers, Spain, 1987.

   At around 21:30 hours a 24-year-old woman and her young sister were doing the washing next to their rural home when they saw a strange bulky figure, dark and motionless on top of a nearby hill which they said resembled an 8-foot-tall box with a round head on top and legs that appeared to thin out towards the bottom.

   There was a strange sound “resembling several dogs barking into a microphone” which seemed to emanate from the figure. The witnesses became frightened and ran to the house and locked themselves in the house; they then heard a sound as if someone was moving around outside on the sand path that encircled the house.

The sound then appeared to stop at the edge of a nearby pine grove.

   This affected the older witness to the point that she suffered a nervous breakdown. Ground traces were found as well as a small radioactive spot was found at the foot of the hill.

   There is a very interesting follow-up to this report by CEAFI in Insolito for June-July, 1978 that is said to take up several pages but apart from a couple of dubious online sources I can find nothing published in the English language.

   At around 00:30 hours, on the 4^th January, 1977, in Carapito, Guarda, Beira Alta, four hours after the sighting by the two sisters, a technician in an auto plant –in the report identified as C.A.C.M., was training his German shepherd dog in an area of pine trees when it began to behave oddly, remaining close to him.

   C.A.C.M. then noticed an object hovering some 10 meters from him and some 10 meters above the ground; it was a dark, metallic, ellipsoid shape with a dark dome-like protuberance. The diameter was approximately 6 to 7 metres and it made a noise similar to "radio static" or a "bip bip" tone.

   Standing close to this object the witness saw a humanoid silhouette that stood around 1.80 or 2 metres tall.  The object suddenly emitted a silvery “lighting flash” and then disappeared, as did the bulky figure.

   We have no way of knowing, until a translated version of the report is published (if ever), whether there was any reason to suspect missing time is involved. After the sighting, C.A.C.M. suffered from severe headaches and his dog “died with no obvious cause of death eight months later”.  I think that we can dismiss the sudden (?) death of the dog eight months after the event: I have owned cats and dogs and other animals since I was young and there does not have to be any obvious reason why one dies –and I assume no post mortem was carried out to find a possible cause.

   I can only hope that there was a full investigation of the incidents of the 3^rd and 4^th as well as a search for other reported UFO activity that day to back up events, especially since other than normal background radiation readings anything higher would have to be a normally unexplained anomaly.