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Sunday 16 October 2022

Terry Hooper-Scharf

 

Back when I was attending Greenway Boys Secondary Modern School in Southmead, Bristol (I left in 1973) my daily routine after school was to walk along to the Southmead Library in Greystoke Avenue, often with a friend or two, and we would read the daily newspapers (we were that rebellious 😂).

My next point of call was the tall bookshelf containing all of the paranormal books. These were supposed to be restricted to people with adult issue tickets, however, I obviously impressed the librarians enough that I was allowed to take out these books. Harry Ludlam, Harry Price and, naturally, Elliott O'Donnell were my standard reading. Certain events in my then young life led me into this area but I had totally ignored the flying saucer stuff.

One evening I had to grab some books and get home quickly and so I left the library and then realised my mistake -I had picked up a copy of The Flying Saucer Story by Brinsley Le Poer trench (later Lord Clancarty). I went back into the library but books could not be returned on the same day. I was stuck with it.

I never ever turned away reading material and so decided to read the flying saucer book and return it next day. By the time I had gotten to the end of the book that evening I was asking "Who is flying these things?" Then IU saw reference to George Adamski and got a couple of his books and within a couple of months had read every UFO book the library had. I was unconvinced by Adamski and his claims but all of these really important sounding people were supporting him so I must be wrong...right?
Above: c. 1978 RAF Manston

In 1974 I joined the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) and was soon, at a too tender an age, am investigator and by 1975 was a Regional Investigations Coordinator and by 1978 was covering much of SW England and a part of Wales as I was the only investigator BUFORA had in the region.

I then heard that the British Flying Saucer Bureau (f. 1953) was still going so I attended a meeting and met Graham Knewstub and future colleague in endeavors, Franklyn Davin-Wilson. I was still digging into entity cases and found a lot of opposition to anything that was not George Adamski related. In one talk I gave on these reports I was twice interrupted (embarrassingly) by Committee members who objected to certain reports as "We all know what our friends look like -Mr. Adamski talked and wrote about them". This was to be the attitude I met with for a very long time. 

Starting with the books I had and then issues of Flying Saucer Review and BUFORA Journal I set about recording CE3K/AE reports in what was called the Close Encounters of the Third Kind Project.  One thing I learnt from this was that you should never become immersed in one aspect of Ufology such as these reports unless you are prepared. After a week or two of writing out or typing these reports I had a dream (twice) that I was in some isolated building in the countryside observing a UFO landing and entities were moving closer. Another fella that wanted in with the work as no one else was working on the subject so he probably hoped to get a name for himself, lasted a week. I met up with him and he told me "Stuff these reports. I've had this dream where I'm in a building, isolated countryside and a UFO lands and these short, big headed creatures move from it towards where I am!" A standard CE3K experience brought on by reading dozens of CE3K reports! Mentally, he was not prepared for the concept of alien entities and so he left.

Fifty years on I am still compiling the data base in the archives. Unfortunately, some UFO researchers have been mentally unprepared for the world changing concepts involved and add 1+2 to then =5 and they are UFO abductees. 

After a talk at a 1978 Trowbridge UFO Conference I met a woman who had what appeared to be a case of Time Loss (before the term "missing time" was splashed everywhere). Her story seemed intriguing and (with a chaperone present) I was invited to check the skin on the left side of her face and body (within reason!) that was a distinct red, rather like a sunburn while the right hand side was very pale. 

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Above: in a caravan supposedly relaxing after the 1977/1978 Bristol UFO flap. This was on the outskirts of Ramsgate, Kent and far from being relaxing I became embroiled in the mystery of a very large mystery bird that flew over me at night.  Similarly, after another hectic year I was on holiday in Germany and on the first day observed a magnesium bright object ascend from forestry and shopot up into the air.

Above: photograph from last year of the CE3K/AE archive which has now all been expanded and there are around 35 folders packed full of reports.


I then was contacted by a woman who had an unusual sighting while a youngster in Bristol and had seen a number of UFOs as well as one entity incident while sat in the car next to her husband. The two cases helped me to understand some things that had mystified me before and so I began to develop theories not just based on reports but also first hand observations.

This led me to also start looking at human observation, pareidolia and psychology and along the way I managed to see up close how psychosomatic symptoms appeared in people and some of these were staggering to me. One thing I keep hearing from frustrated acquaintances is "You're like a bloody psychologist -stop psychoanalysing things!"  I try.

I also studied things such as body language/facial expressions and all of this proved very useful when dealing with CE3K/AE reports.  

Above: while at a weekend event in London I took some time to meet up with a regular American contact to exchange material on UFOs.

I was in contact with UFO researchers around the world, most sadly no longer with us, and exchanged case information with them as well as sent articles for publication. The UK was not a good place with a lot of inter-group rivalry and no cooperation but they all knew I was fair and not taking sides which is why some of their publications also featured articles by me on CE3K reports.  A number of groups even consulted me when such reports cropped up in their areas as they had no experience with anything other than lights in the sky.

Around this point (1979/1980) I also found that my opinion as a naturalist was asked on several occasions and so I  did research on food sources and habitat for the Kentucky UFO Investigators League as they looked into Fouke Monster claims (a famous Bigfoot type). My knowledge as a naturalist and running the Exotic Animals Register as a consultant for UK police forces came in  handy -the "Gotherington Gargoyle" case I outlined in one of my books and was far from extra terrestrial!

No publisher being interested in my manuscripts I self published Some Things Strange and Sinister as well as Some More Things Strange and Sinister which were general mystery books with some UFO content. Then after even less success in getting books on CE3K/AE published I went ahead and published four with original research -UFO Contact? , Contact! ,Unidentified-Identified and Beyond UFO Contact.

I also edited and published the CE3K/AE orientated AOP Journal.

Now 50 years have gone by along with a lot of strangeness and very complicatcd life just because I grabbed the wrong book.

Be warned!

530 pages
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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.


220 pages
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Fully illustrated with photographs and illustrations
£20.00 (excl. VAT)

The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               
       
 Early 20th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        
  
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 
 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue        


A4
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370pp
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£20.00


The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?



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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?


26pp

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1973 –Year of the “Global UFO Wave” 
1973 –The “Year of the Humanoids” 
1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim 
1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology. 
1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account. 
Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group. 
Reports now probably lost to history. 
1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. Nothing has changed.


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358 pages
Heavily illustrated
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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        
de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan Horror
A Final Word.
Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.

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322 pages
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Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister.  For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.

The secret history of gorillas -before they were officially 'discovered' along with exclusive lost photographs.  

Wild men of Europe, the UK and US; from the bizarre to blood chilling. Hominology.

Giant snakes.  
Amazons. 
The Giant serpent of Carthage
Girt Dog of Ennerdale.  
The Beast of Gevaudan. 
Crocodiles in the UK
Silent City of Alaska.

And much more.  Updated with extra pages and photographs.

240 pp
A4
B&W
Profusely Illustrated with photographs and illustrations
£20.00



UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans. This is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.

Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered.

The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja. Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle.

Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird


A4
324pp
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£20.00

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Strange & Mysterious Beasts is the smaller format book while Mysterious & Strange Beasts is the standard larger A4 format.

 some of the contents:
 
The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere  
The Beast of Lyonnais  
The Beast of Cevennes, Gard and Vivarais     
The Beast of Sarlat   
The Beast of Gevaudan    
British Man Beasts    
Bigfoot and Werewolves in the West Midlands   
The Strange Creature in Repton Woods  
Bigfoot Returns – To Kent!      
Werewolf!        
The Curious and Frightening Case of the Hull Werewolf      
The Gnome of Girona    
The Caponi Close Encounters and Photographs      
Return of the Shark Killing Thing –a Possible Identification   
The Dingellchough Mystery Creature 
The Unidentified Corfu Sea Creature          
Strange Sea Creature Found In Persian Gulf    
The Devil of Gatagon     
The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids   
The Sheep Killer of Niali     
Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville  
Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction   
The Bat Creatures     
The Owl-man  
The British Pig-man and Snake-man   
The Pictish Beast             
Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far?  
The Chupacabra







Norman Oliver, FRAS

 I found this tatty old article featuring Norman Oliver but there is no date or publication title -it was tucked inside one of the bulky Franklyn Davin-Wilson files. My best guess is that this in mid 1970s. In case you wonder "FRAS" -Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Below: sadly a scan of a photocopy of something almost 50 years old does not make for a clear image!

The BUFORA response to his death was insulting. Yes, he was approachable and good ambassador for Ufology but it skipped his entire history in the subject and never even mentioned he had edited later issues of the BUFORA Journal:

"April 2022 - VERY SAD NEWS:

The BUFORA team sadly inform you of the very sad news that our dear friend and colleague Norman Oliver has passed away.

Norman was known by many of the past and present BUFORA team, for many years he was a very valued member and a great ambassador not only for BUFORA but for the whole UFO community, his kind contribution to us all was immense.
 
His knowledge of our subject was vast, we remember him giving presentations to the public, he was a very approachable, polite, caring and a genuinely decent kindhearted man who was always happy to share his time with everyone who was privileged to have met him.

He was a true gentleman, we wish there were a lot more people like Norman Oliver in this world, if there were, it certainly would be a much better place.

Rest in peace our dear friend Norman, you will be sadly missed."

Norman had been a BUFORA Committee member before taking on the BUFORA Journal when it was relaunched.


The thing I remember most about Norman was the fact that he did respond to correspondence and was willing to discuss "Occupant" reports as people were calling them back in the 1970s. We discussed the Betty and Barney Hill case and some of the nasty remarks made by British Ufologists but most of all he was willing to discuss these cases and encourage me to look at certain sources. After years of negativity from Ufologists it was like a breath of fresh air.

When I could not find certain books, of course, Norman suggested Lionel Beer and Beer Books. Lionel is another veteran Ufologist and a pleasant and well informed to boot.


Every-so-often a "CosMos" item would pop up in a UFO publication and thi would be an item from Norman's own publication COS-MOS -as it says on the covers "aims to COntact Space-Men Or Saucers". Whenever I heard of a British report at some point Norman's name would crop up.

Unbelievable as it may sound now, the claims of a flying saucer  contactee named Arthur Bryant caused a major split in British Ufology. Sadly, my copies of both books were stolen years ago but I initially read them when borrowed from Downend Library back in the 1970s. Bryant's claims were typical contactee stuff  and the entity he met -"Yamski"- had the kooky crew jumping up and down. As it asks on the cover "Did Adamski Return?"  Spoiler: no, he did not. 



I was in contact with Eileen Buckle at one point and she was absolutely genuine in her belief of the Bryant claims. Misogyny was rife in Ufology and, of course "dafty woman" and other insults (mainly behind her back) were spoken.

Norman then self-published Sequel to Scoriton about a year after The Scoriton Mystery had struck Ufology and covers events up to the time of Buckle's book being released. Norman claimed that the parts that Bryant claimed had come from the Mantell crash (Thomas Mantell chasing a UFO blacked out due to no oxygen and high altitude and his aircraft plummeted back to earth)  "could well have come from a wooden box full of gadgets purchased by the Bryants from a Naval Surplus Store in Doncaster in 1964."  He reported that Bryant had worked as a gardener for a local doctor a few years previously and that the doctor's wife had said he was "a notoriously bad witness and can 'tell a tale' (i.e. fabricate)".

Norman concluded: "We can say that Bryant was a fraud pure and simple, and that he made up the whole story after reading some UFO literature and possibly after a genuine UFO sighting."

Norman, polite and  always playing fair made sure that everyone understood that Buckle disagreed with him and she defended Bryant in an issue Lionel Beer's Spacelink magazine. I found that those prone to still believing the great (and successful) fraud George Adamski stayed on the side of Buckle while the more 'scientific' were in Norman's corner.  I saw and heard both sides but what stopped a major rift in Ufology over this, I believe, was Norman who might well be called "a people person" today.

I get back in contact with Norman in 2021 but had to delay discussing the whole CE3K, abduction scene since the 1970s. A pity. I would have loved to have found out whether he had changed his opinions.

In the UK, Norman was the only person I think I could point to and say "He's respected -ask what he thinks!" if someone questioned my own work! He was open about these reports and knowledgeable.

His archives are now with the AFU in Sweden.

Norman in 2013




Friday 14 October 2022

Hello -Site Intro

 


The purpose of this site is simple. In 1974 I started collecting notes on what Prof. Hynek had categorised as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. At the same time I noted reports where no object (UFO) was observed -Alien Entity cases.  By 1976 I was pestering British Ufology -BUFORA, Contact UK, etc. to start paying more attention to cases of what I termed Time Loss. This was something I gave talks on and often thought I was wasting my time since groups such as the British Flying Saucer Bureau were not reall interested in anything if it had not involved George Adamski, Venusians et al

At one point I was told that "looking at these silly reports will only hinder you in this field!"

So I set up the Close Encounters of the Third Kind Project -later changed to Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Alien Entities Study Project.  In a couple years I will have been looking into these reports for 50 years -which is scarier than an alien encounter.

I review new or old books on the subject as I get them -or as they are sent to ne. I include case reports as well as any videos on CE3K/AE related cases. I also share some of my views and these can expand on the books I have written on the subject. I began by including some reports in general mystery books -Some Things Strange & Sinister and Some More Things Strange & Sinister before dedicating four books specifically on this aspect of Ufology: UFO Contact?, Unidentified -Identified Contact! and Beyond UFO Contact (and one I am planning).

As far as most people and Ufologists are concerned there are only "The Classics" -Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton. The Antonio Villas Boas case is generally ignored and mainly because it is not from the United States.  With my books only the first looked at the Classics but also looked at cases that probably 90% of Ufologists have never heard of and many were translated from foreign languages into English for the first time. With Contact! I looked at cases previously untranslated which was months of work. These were cases most English speaking Ufologists had never heard of.

The aim of this blog is to show that there are very interesting cases from around the world even if no 100% physical evidence exists. There are plenty of posts on "Greys" so I think it is time Ufology pushed that aside along with the "alien hunters" and others who have distracted serious research for three decades.

No sensationalism here. Look at the subject and how can you get any more sensational than that? I have my own views on UFO origins are private and I am not here to preach them to people. I am interested in the data -the cases and what we can learn.

I would like to hear from people who can add to the CE3K/AE data base as well as people who may have had encounters or links to people claiming to have had encounters.

Basically this is a site where you can learn as well as watch the odd video on the subject. There are also bios on people who were the founders of CE3K research -0Budd Hopkins, David F Webb, Walter N Webb, James and Coral Lorenzen, Ted Bloecher and Ivan T. Sanderson (who was one of the first Flatwoods investigators) and John A Keel who, whatever you may think of his work, got people to expand their minds and how they looked at cases.

The blog list also includes organisations, etc, that may be of interest. I can be messaged via the Face Book CE3K/AE page or at blacktowercg@hotmail.com and please use the post subject "CE3K" so any email avoids the spam filter.

That's it. So, welcome to the blog and you will find enough to keep you thinking...I hope!


“Either Go Forward or Backward, The Pucheta Encounter” | Paranormal Stories

The 1988 Jamestown/Bronte Lloyd Incident(s)

As stated in the video on this case (posted earlier) the dates are confusing and the details a little sparse.




Haunted Adelaide website:
Bronte Lloyd’s 1988 UFO Encounter
– Spalding, South Australia
Spalding, a “blink and you miss it” town near the Clare Valley in South Australia, is known more for its sheep runs than it’s UFO sightings, but in 1987-1988 that dramatically changed when local farmer, Bronte Lloyd reported a UFO sighting and abduction encounter.
In May 1987, whilst out seeding a paddock, Mr Lloyd and his son-in-law witnessed a group of UFO’s hovering over the farm. His son-in-law chose not to hang around and investigate the phenomena, but left Mr Lloyd to finish the job, and then investigate the strange lights by himself.
The next morning Mr Lloyd awoke early before sunrise, the following is his description of events, as told to a journalist from the Sunday Mail in 1988. (Mr Lloyd underwent hypnosis to ‘relive’ the experience)
“I was lying in bed. It was as though Time and space were suddenly suspended: I was suddenly aware of pitch blackness, total blackness, and freezing cold. I couldn’t move, and thought I was having a heart attack. Then I felt myself floating upwards, and felt something being pushed against either side of my cheeks. I battled against whatever it was that was pinning me down, and tried to reach for the light switch, and to brush away the pressure against my cheeks. I knew ‘something’ was close to me, and that it was moving backwards and forwards just out of my reach.”

When Mr Lloyd awoke a little later in the morning, he did not remember the experience of the night before. It wasn’t until he was shaving that he noticed three sore marks on his cheek, and four more on his nose.
 (It would come out during further hypnosis that the small wounds were from hard plastic tubes that had been forced underneath his skin.)
A month later, in June, Mr Lloyd and his son had been out seeding a field, night was approaching when a bright red light flew over their heads, and then hovered over some trees about 30 meters from the house, then flew away.
Mr Lloyd’s son returned to his own home, whilst he himself went back to the farm house for dinner. While sitting there, his dogs suddenly went berserk, jumping about and barking, then cowering and howling. He looked out the window to see what the problem was and noticed there was something on the ground at a nearby grove of trees.
Under the nearby trees he saw an object, that at first, he took to be a car, but on further investigation, realised it was an object unlike any he had seen before.
 The object, which he described as being “3.6 meters across and 2 meters high with a circular body and square base”, appeared to be sitting on support legs. The object had portholes at regular intervals around it, and three large “head-lights” at what he considered the front of the object.
Rather than try his luck entering the object, he retreated to the safety of his house and phoned his family, who were visiting a nearby farm, and told them not to return home that night.
Mr Lloyd hung up the phone after speaking with his wife, and slouched in his chair, trying to make sense of recent events when he suddenly heard “footsteps”, which he describes as “Short, close together, and sounded like someone was walking in or on plastic.”
  Lights suddenly came on in the house, and Mr Lloyd opened the hallway door to see what was going on, he witnessed two small “men-like” creatures racing about at blurring speed. The next thing he remembers is waking the next day when his wife woke him up.



The police were called and upon inspecting the property, found a very large depression in the ground amongst the trees, 30 meters from the house. Unexplained footprints were also found near the tree line where the object had been witnessed.
Samples were taken from Mr Lloyd by Biochemist Tom Coote, who discovered electrolyte anomalies in Mr Lloyd’s samples. Mr Lloyd’s facial wounds never healed properly, and when one would seem to recede, another would grow larger. Unfortunately Mr Lloyd passed away only a few years later, before any definitive answers from his bio-testing and hypnosis regression could be found.


Above: Bronte Lloyd and the facial markings -which do look like lupus


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BRONTE LLOYD'S ENCOUNTER

On July 27th, 1987, near Spalding, Jamestown area, SA, farmer Bronte Lloyd and his son in law saw some possible UFOs while seeding a paddock. The son-in-law left for town preferring not to stick around. Lloyd had returned to his house on the property. His dogs kicked up a racket. Upon investigating he saw an object he took to be "a car parked under trees 30 metres from the house". Bronte got to within a few feet of the object, when it was almost darkness.

It was "parked" very neatly in a semi circle of trees. It appeared to be 12' across and 7' high, with a circular upper body tapered down to a square base. It rested on a couple of support legs. 2 prominent ribs ran around the outside of it. There appeared to be portholes at regular intervals and 3 "headlights". Lloyd retreated inside. There followed what appears to have been a "CE3" episode inside his house with a vague form and what may have been a period of missing time. Police were called who investigated. A square shaped depression, apparently formed through qui te a lot of weight, was found. There were also "footprints" found in wet grass. Biochemist Tom Coote undertook some analyses of "blind" samples from Lloyd. Some electrolye level (salt levels) anomalies were found. As these were not clearly identified and Lloyd unfortunately died recently there was no way to determine if these differences are at all significant.

Colin Norris of AFSRS visited the site and interviewed Lloyd. UFOR(SA) had some involvement. Tom Coote investigated the case in detail, plus a bizarre "paralysis" episode that had occurred a few weeks earlier (July 6th) which may or may not have been linked with a lupus-like condition. See Tom Coote's account in his BUFORA lecture, "The Jamestown Incident", 17 August, 1991. Lloyd also appeared on the Couchman debate, Sept. 1991. I took the opportunity to talk with him at the seminar.

I asked Australian researcher Keith Basterfield whether he had anything on the case :

"Hi again Terry, Intrigued by your query I have just looked through my files. I compiled a list of South Australian cases, a while ago, and in that catalogue found a summary of the Bronte Lloyd case. 25 Jul 1988 Jamestown SA Depression/footprints

"Bronte Lloyd, a farmer, and his son in law sighted a red light. Later that same evening, Bronte, now alone, saw an object sitting near the ground and he approached it to within six metres. It was metallic, three point six metres wide, and two point one metres high, with a circular upper body tapering to a square base. It rested on a couple of support legs. Two prominent ribs ran around the outside of it. There appeared to be portholes at regular intervals and three "headlights." Lloyd retreated inside, and a possible CE3 event followed. The police were called to investigate. A square shaped depression, apparently formed through weight, was found. There were also "footprints" found in wet grass. Biochemist Tom Coote took some "blind" samples from Lloyd, and some electrolyte level (salt levels) anomalies were found. (Tom Coote interview Feb 1991. Lloyd also appeared on the Couchman show Sep 1991.)

"I do not have a copy of the Coote interview or the Couchman Show - whatever that is. Sorry that is all I could find. I havent heard of Coote since the late 1980's."

The actual 1991 BUFORA 1991 International Congress pages are on file but far more information needs to be gathered and I have still not managed to contact Tom Coote so the investigation continues and several other Australian Ufologists have been asked to search their own records in case they have some notes.

Thursday 13 October 2022

3rd June, 1992, Melesse, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

 The ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit presented the investigation report by Serge Sorinas for France Ufologie:

The case occurred on 3rd June, 1992, at 2330 hours. in Mélesse, zip code 35520, at 12 kilometers in the north of Rennes, at the location "Le Cormier" on the communal way 107 at 1 kilometer to the north-north-east of the borough. This communal way is between the secondary road D26 which joins Saint-Germain-sur-Ille to Mélesse, which is roughly in the East-West. It is bordered in the south by a large pasture which is lot 486 of the land register and which belongs to the farm Le Cormier which is in its South-Eastern angle.

The witness, Mdme S, is a married woman having asked anonymity, mother of 4 children and employee in a company of [information I do not communicate.] At the time of the observation, the sky was perfectly clear and starry and the temperature was fine. Mdme S drove home in her Citroen BX car after a working day; the journey being of 30 kilometer and a journey she had made for years.

At approaching the crossroads of D26 and VC 107, while coming from Saint-Germain-sur-Ille, her attention was caught by a strong red light. It was hovering above a hedge of tree delimiting contiguous lot 485 of the land register with lot 486.

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Mdme S was astonished but supposed that it could be the airplane warning light of some crane and so she continued driving by the communal way. While looking at it better, she noted that the powerful light came from two "headlights" of a stationary craft at the location, and that this craft also had a white light at the back. Out of curiosity, she slowed down and stopped her car a hundred meters away to observe the object better.

The investigator quotes her stating that when she pulled off, the craft was already there, stationary above a farm, and that it gave her the impression of being "on watch."

After a few moments, the object started to move in the direction of Mdme S who stated that it moved towards her gently, rather high up at the start and that when it came down, she could see the interior. The object came down to a few meters from the ground and at a  distance that she estimated as 15 meters from her. The craft was made entirely of transparent material; it did not have any structure or support. She saw with certainty what she described as a dashboard with white and green lights, "something that was working, when it is lit..."

Behind this dashboard, a bald person wearing a grey outfit whose details were clearly seen including the fact that the outfit comprised a collar. Asked for more precise details, she told that she did not pay too much attention but that there was a face, a head without hair and that she thought of military operations because the outfit made her think of the army.

By approaching the crossroads between D26 and VC 107, the witness sees the red light being just above the tree whose summit will be found dead the next day.
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She had the thought that it must be a helicopter but rejected this since she always drove with an open window and should have heard the noise; she is certain that the craft made no noise at all since she had turned the radio off to check this [note: the car is stopped at this time].

Mdme S started to become worried since she could not find an obvious explanation and so started to drive off gently and without panic. The object followed her for some meters and suddenly.... it was not there any more. She looked in her rear view mirror and saw neither the craft nor any light.

When the witness started on the VC 107, the two "headlights" became discernible.
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Mdme S continued on her journey and arrived on the road of Rennes, at the D82, which she travelled along for 2 kilometers towards the South, and then again saw the object in the form of a red light which went away and was "already far, very far" on the tower of Cesson. She found it unthinkable that this craft could carry out a journey of such a distance, approximately 2 kilometers, in such a short amount of time, -estimated as approximately 2 minutes.

The investigator specifies that a confusion with the night illumination of the transmitting tower of Cesson is impossible since the witness also saw the light of this tower, separately from the light of the object.

The place where the witness stopped her car for better observing.
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On her way to work the next day at 400 hours, she passed the location again and noted that the top of a tree where the object had been during its hovering phase and it had completely died - like "cooked".  Mdme S had not noticed this before. The investigator questioned the owners of the farm near where the tree was located but whereas they found the state of the tree odd they had not noticed its state before. The remainder of the tree was in perfect health. The owner of the trees was absent and could not be questioned.

The day after the sighting, Mdme S had contacted the Gendarmerie of Hédé by telephone,  with an aim of giving a statement on what she had seen. Her statement was not filed.

There was no physical or material consequences on the witness.

The investigator specifies that the witness seemed to him a balanced, rational, person with a very good observational skills and that, that her sight appeared excellent and had good distance vision; a fact he managed to note during the on site visit. Her estimates of the distances also were confirmed by the use of the maps.

Her familiarization with the UFO topic was impartial and very limited, coming from reports she heard about and TV shows: she insisted that her privacy should be preserved and only welcomed the investigator because one of her colleagues at work was an acquaintance of the his.

The investigation report is illustrated with photographs of the places of the observation and two maps indicating the journey of the witness, the various points of observation and supposed trajectories of the UFO.

From the photographs of the places in Serge Sorinas' investigation report, things, transposed into a night background, looked as shown in the photos above.


ref: Investigation report by Serge Sorinas, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), #334, pp 19-22, July - August 1995.

Tappen, North Dakota, USA 12th September, 2006

 

According to a Press interview of Myra Briese, the latest incident experienced by members of her family involved her son Evan Briese, 16, when he awoke early on the morning of 12th September, 2006 and got up to get a glass of water. Looking out of a window, the boy saw something moving in the corral that was home to several large hogs that were basically family pets. Thinking it might be a coyote, he grabbed a .22 caliber rifle and went outside and entered  the corral.

In the moonlight Evan encountered two entities around 8 to 9 feet tall, that were doing something to one of the hogs. The boy fired his rifle at one of the entities and was pretty sure he hit it as it uttered a loud unearthly scream.

The other entity then grabbed Evan and threw him to the ground and he lost consciousness. When Evan awoke, he found that Ruthy, a 450-pound sow that had been ready to give birth, was gone. The boy ran to the home of his older sister, Trista, a short distance from the house he lived in.


Above: Sketch of the entity type encountered by Evan Briese

Trista Briese made a frantic phone call to her parents and shortly afterwards they arrived at the scene and were later joined by Kidder County sheriff Doug Howard. Evan Briese, whose shirt was in tatters, told his story and the sheriff then left but came back the next day but was unable to reach a conclusion about what happened to the hog.

Several days later, with the help of a hypnotist who was apparently working with  Minnesota ufologist Richard Moss on the investigation, Evan Briese remembered more details: there were five entities in the corral, two were apparently dragging what appeared to be a dead hog when the boy interrupted them.

A month later Myra Briese told the Press that Evan was still bothered and felt guilty for not being able to save his younger sister's hog.

The Press noted that Evan had already had a weird encounter in April 2006. One night, his cattle dog Buster, Evan was checking on cows during calving season. He observed a flashing glow and walked over a hill to go and see what it was and observed an object resting on the ground. The object appeared to be scanning a waterhole with an intense beam of light. At first, Evan and the dog could do nothing but stare until the dog eventually ran barking at the craft. The object the took off causing what amounted to a sonic boom. The father of the family, Torrey Briese, said that the noise woke the boy's mother up.


Above: the UFO observed at the farm

Torrey Briese said that he also witnessed something unusual one night in July 2006, when he was giving a neighbour a ride into town. Briese said he and the neighbour noticed a bluish light in the sky which stopped when they stopped and moved when they began driving. He said they spent about a half-hour observing it, and at one point the object flew so fast it went several miles in a matter of seconds. Based on the description of the object his son saw in April, Briese links the two events, adding that he doesn't indulge in fantasies but that strange things continue to happen.

Torrey Briese also told that a relative who farms in the Tappen area recently had a sheep die, and a veterinarian who examined the animal found no obvious reason for its death. He added that a single testicle had been removed from the animal with surgical precision.

The family said that they are of skeptical orientation and used to scoff at UFO documentaries on the television. Evan said he wouldn't be surprised if people felt sceptical about his story but said that the family doesn't feel a need to prove anything and they've moved on and were not looking for aliens every night. The father said he is not even trying to convince anybody, but that the family knows what happened.

Brice Barnick, the mayor of Tappen, located off Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Jamestown, said visits by UFOs are the talk of the town, but insisted that he would remain sceptical unless he sees it himself.

At the time of the April incident the family were put in contact with Long Prairie, Minnesota, ufologist Richard Moss who happened to be in Tappen for a funeral. Moss, a former high school science teacher, said that in many years of investigating UFO reports only a handful had impressed him as having the potential to be genuine, and that the Tappen incidents are among those. Moss said it was interesting to view Evan's demeanor before and after the hypnotic regression: prior to hypnosis, he had a sort of unsure look on his face, still really wondering what had happened, and after the hypnotic regression, he knew, as he was made to remember.

Sheriff Howard was off duty when attempts were made to contact him and so could not be reached for comment. John Lemieux, a Kidder County deputy, said he did not believe that the incident in September resulted in a written report. Torrey Briese said strange things are still happening.

The case was reported on the local radios and television around 25th-26th October and was the topic of an article in the  MUFON Journal.

I have checked online but can find no contact details for Richard Moss and MUFON are not that keen on me!  If anyone knows how I can contact Moss to get more details or has a scan of the MUFON Journal item in question please get in touch.


MUFON UFO Journal, N.463.

KXMC-TV, television channel, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA.

KFYR, radio station, local news, Bismark, North Dakota, USA, October 25, 2006.

KFYR, radio station, local news, Bismark, North Dakota, USA, October 25, 2006.

"Creature Sightings Stir Talk", article by Dave Olson, in The Forum, October 27, 2006.

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