Info-ParaNet Letters Volume 1 Issue 24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Aug 89 19:34:59 GMT From: paranet!f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Jim.Delton Subject: Re: Cydonia.txt I can't defend the plaque we sent up, I wasn't consulted (smile). But I would have the same comment about our plaque, It should have been completely unambiguous. A good example would be what we left on the moon. While I suppose we could have carved a symbolic face in one of the craters, the moon buggy would be a lot more convincing to some future ET's that sentient life had been there. -- Jim Delton - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!304!1!Jim.Delton INTERNET: Jim.Delton@f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Aug 89 19:39:21 GMT From: paranet!f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Jim.Delton Subject: Re: Cydonia.txt We really don't have a whole lot of options in how we "question" the "face". Since we are earthians, we will have to deal with it in earth terms (question it if you will). We can put logic (as we know it) aside when considering the "face" but ultimately, either it is going to be meaningfull in terms of something we "know" or it is just not going to be meaningfull untill we learn more. -- Jim Delton - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!304!1!Jim.Delton INTERNET: Jim.Delton@f1.n304.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Aug 89 03:22:00 GMT From: paranet!mcorbin Subject: Interesting article pertaining to New Zealand To All: Here is the text from a newsclipping that I found very interesting on two aspects: The 'magnocraft', and the caves that appear to have been bored. Comments? NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE DATE OF ARTICLE: May 22, 1989 SOURCE OF ARTICLE: New Zealand Herald LOCATION: Dunedin, New Zealand BYLINE: None ======================================================== (C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service All Rights Reserved. THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE 1-303-431-1343 9600 BAUD DENVER, COLORADO NOTE: THESE FILES ARE NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE OF THE PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE NETWORK ======================================================== CAVES 'UFO PASSAGE' A Dunedin scientist says he believes unidentified flying objects may be responsible for an unusual series of tubular caves discovered near Nelson. Dr. Jan Pajak has appealed for information about the caves, which he said could help in his quest to build a magnetically propelled spacecraft called a "magnocraft." Other civilizations had already developed such magnocrafts, he said, and these had given rise to UFO sightings when used on earth. "When the magnocraft is finally built on earth it will display a number of unusual capabilities. For example, it will be able to fly not only in free air, space and water, but also underground where it will produce (evaporate) long, glassy and technological looking tunnels," Dr. Pajak said. "UFOs are able to fly through solid matter. During such flights they evaporate a unique type of glassy tunnel, identical to the tunnels I am inquiring about." A Nelson Speleological Group spokesman, Mr. Arthur Freeman, said cavers had been investigating a series of caves which fitted Dr. Pajak's description. Mr. Freeman said the tubular caves in the Ellis Karste field at Mt. Arthur had smooth but not glassy walls. The phreatic tubes known as the Tomo Thyme Caves were formed by water pressure under the water table, he said. The caves were apparently first discovered 15 years ago but Nelson climbers began to reinvestigate them 18 months ago. Dr. Pajak has been collecting information on UFOs for some years and has been looking for evidence of tubular tunnels since his arrival in New Zealand in 1982. "The purpose of collecting this evidence is to complete our magnocraft faster and easier than it would take without having a ready operation model to copy from," he said. When UFOs landed on earth, the propelling devices acted like huge microwave ovens which magnetically scorched and sterilized the ground. "Such sterilized soil provides ideal mushroom growth conditions. "The former UFO landing sites are subsequently populated by mushrooms that form a unique type of ring called fairy rings in New Zealand." Dr. Pajak said he was the only scientist in New Zealand doing formal research on UFOs. "I am the only scientist who has accumulated overwhelming evidence that indicates the continuous use of these vehicles on earth, and who is not afraid to admit openly that these vehicles do exist." ================================================================= 6/89 -- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!mcorbin INTERNET: mcorbin@paranet.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Aug 89 03:25:00 GMT From: paranet!mcorbin Subject: Interesting Comparison Here is the text from another newsclipping that once read, compare it with the next posting from another source who also talked to NORAD. Notice the interesting contradiction in the policy and statements pertaining to incoming objects from space. Comments? NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE DATE OF ARTICLE: February 24, 1989 SOURCE OF ARTICLE: McCurtain Daily Gazette LOCATION: Idabel, Oklahoma BYLINE: None ======================================================== (C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service All Rights Reserved. THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE 1-303-431-1343 9600 BAUD DENVER, COLORADO NOTE: THESE FILES ARE NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE OF THE PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE NETWORK ======================================================== THEY'RE FRIENDLY, TOO UFOS INTELLIGENT, IF... If UFOs are alive and well in McCurtain County, here's a synopsis from the U.S. Space Command: 1: They're intelligent enough to have built spacecraft out of materials other than any metals we know, and; 2. They're friendly. Captain Lloyd Tetrault, USMC, who is Chief of Near Earth Satellite Processing at NORAD Center, Colorado Springs, Colo., gave this summation to the continuing UFO mystery today. On vacation from the nation's communication nerve center inside a mountain near Colorado Springs, Capt. Tetrault and his two daughters are visiting Idabel with his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Voss. Tetrault said since he had been with the space tracking program for nearly three years, "we've never found an object three feet in diameter or larger we didn't identify." "No one in his right mind would say intelligence can't exist other than on this planet and no one could say for sure beings do not have the technology to come here undetected. But we deal with everything around this globe that gets off the ground. Literally thousands of things each day are flashed in a millisecond to the command post. We just have not had anything show up we didn't run down," he added. Tetrault believes that more than 90 percent of the UFOs sighted are either satellite fragments or aircraft of some type. "I remember the time when the radar-proof stealth aircraft was super secret. It was still detectable at close range and caused quite a stir even inside the military community. But now the secret is out and the bat-winged aircraft is just another military tool. "Let's put it this way. In the past three years no alien spacecraft have entered the earth's atmosphere or left it unless they're totally undetectable. Since 1985 when the U.S. Space Command took over checking the skies and space around the planet, we haven't run into one," the Marine space observer said. Tetrault's job is identifying everything above the earth up to and including any satellite that goes around in 224 minutes or less. He said that was the physical number which put all satellites flying around the earth under surveillance. Deep Space Division, a group of space traffic controllers alongside Tetrault's group in the NORAD center, takes care of everything spinning around the globe in a fixed orbit with the earth. "It takes 1,444 minutes for the communications satellites to make an orbit. That orbit is in exact correlation with the earth and fixed exactly on the equator. This way, satellites can pick up and deliver TV signals to our homes. If the satellite is off center from the equator, then the orbit becomes elliptical and fixed antennas would constantly have to move to pick up a TV picture," he continued. Tetrault was of the opinion that many military refueling operations in the sky at night have been distorted as UFOs. "Picture if you will two giant C-130's flying about 285 miles per hour, just hanging in the air to refuel a group of 12 to 15 supersonic F-16 jet fighters. In this case while one F-18 is slowed down and hooked up to the fuel tank, all the rest are in various patterns around the tankers, some fast, some slow, all depending on the military practice maneuver. Sometimes one single aircraft might be above the group looking for the enemy, and another single place flying below the formation looking for missiles or enemy attack from the ground. Depending on what their orders are, and what kind of simulation they're doing, then all sorts of weird scenes are visual, especially at night with proper lighting and reflection. "One actual UFO scene I saw was footage taken of a dish shaped object which turned out to be a little biplane under proper light reflection. It was revealed when the film was enlarged about 20 times and it had a whole town scared to death," he cited. Tetrault said his command sight two or three TIP objects each day. He explained a TIP object as Tracking and Impact Prediction. "All these things up in space, and we're chasing over 7,000 of them we know of, break up, come down, look like meteors...all sorts of weird looking scenes, but we have the technology of telling the planet's occupants within a few minutes of when it's coming down and within a hundred miles of where it's going to land." He said since two-thirds of this globe is covered with water, and since only one-eighth of the land mass is inhabited, then chances of getting a piece of space material in your back yard is about one in three million. "But it's our job to detect it and predict it. We don't think much about UFOs because we deal in things we can see. And we've just never seen anything we didn't identify," Tetrault said. The Marine captain said the extension of the surveillance in the air is live interception by Air Force planes, standing ready across the country. "Once in a while we have the Air Force pilots intercept a craft, but it's very seldom. But if anything at all is there, we simply identify it...by whatever means available," he continued. Tetrault said the two beg pieces of space debris which fell on land were Skylab, which landed in Australia, and a Russian craft which hit in the icelands of northern Canada. He cited the mystery of the Northern Lights. "We finally took pictures from spacecraft in orbit and discovered magnetic forces of the earth were simply heating up particles which glowed, and the northern lights mystery vanished. I look at the UFO problem the same way. "I know if life somewhere is intelligent enough to get here, they're smart enough to zap us in a minute. And they haven't, that is, if they're here. So I'm going to deduce they're friendly. Maybe they're so smart they can't figure out how to communicate with us. We may be cave man status to them," he grinned. Tetrault said he and the kids would be soon headed back to Cheyenne Mountain where he would don his uniform, go through five checkpoints, ride a bus a mile and a half into the mountain, and go back to work. "A turkey in McCurtain County is harder to find and identify than a piece of junk the size of a washtub in space. I guarantee that," the youthful career officer concluded. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6/89 -- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!mcorbin INTERNET: mcorbin@paranet.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Aug 89 03:25:00 GMT From: paranet!mcorbin Subject: Interesting Contradiction Part II NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE DATE OF ARTICLE: April 23, 1989 SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Rocky Mountain News LOCATION: Denver, Colorado BYLINE: Charlie Brennan ======================================================== (C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service All Rights Reserved. THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE 1-303-431-1343 9600 BAUD DENVER, COLORADO NOTE: THESE FILES ARE NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE OF THE PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE NETWORK ======================================================== ALIENS AMONG US, LOCAL WRITER SAYS Cr: R. Collins By Charlie Brennan Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer There are strangers among us. So says veteran Littleton documentary filmmaker Linda Moulton Howe, who will make her debut as an author next month with a startling new book: Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms. Caution: People with a low threshold for the bizarre and improbable may want to stop here. For the rest, here is Howe's description of the book's hypothesis: "The case is very strong that we have some kind of non-human alien life form that is intruding on this planet for reasons that are still not clear to me, and may not still be clear to the government." Howe is far from the first to allege that the highest levels of government have kept a tight lid on their own knowledge of unidentified flying objects, and their crews, at least since the supposed crash and recovery of debris near Roswell, N.M., in July 1947. But Howe's credentials separate her from many UFO believers. Her master's degree is from Stanford University, and her resume features an entire page of journalism awards - 30 of them. They include three regional Emmys for television documentaries. One of those Emmys came from a Strange Harvest, which first aired in 1980 and explored the possible links between western states livestock mutilations and UFOs. Livestock mutilations became such a concern in western states in the mid-1970's that Gov. Richard Lamm ordered the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in 1975 to examine the problem. A year later, the CBI concluded -- in a report many still criticize -- that all but a few mutilations they studied could be attributed to predators. And the animals were in most cases already dead from natural causes, the CBI said. In her book, Howe expands upon the mystery she first probed with A Strange Harvest. Within three weeks of the film's first broadcast, Howe said, "All I heard from ranchers, from deputies, from sheriffs, from a fellow journalist up in northeast Colorado -- from one veterinarian who would only talk to me confidentially -- were wild UFO stories." "I heard so many UFO stories that I myself was stunned," she said. U.S. Air Force officials have heard plenty of stories, too, but don't express great interest. Maj. Lou Figueroa acknowledged that the Air Force did investigate the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969, and checked out "over 12,000 sightings." Of that number, he said, "There were only 701 reported sightings that could be categorized as unexplained." The final "Project Blue Book" report, he said, stated that "there has been no evidence" that any sightings recorded as unidentified are "extraterrestrial vehicles." The government stance is vexing to Howe, who has a copy of the "Majestic-12 Preliminary Briefing for President-elect Eisenhower." It purports to be a digest concerning findings of a top-secret panel empowered by President Harry S. Truman to investigate material recovered from the Roswell incident and others. The Nov. 18, 1952, alleged government report describes the wreckage, and the condition of four "human-like beings" recovered near the wrecked aircraft: "It was the tentative conclusion of this group that although these creatures are human-like in appearance, the biological and evolutionary processes responsible for their development has apparently been quite different." Figueroa said he'd heard of the Majestic-12 report but had never seen it. Asked if he had ever heard an explanation that would debunk the report's content, he said simply, "No, I haven't." Philip Klass, a senior editor for 35 years of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, is perhaps the nation's best known UFO skeptic. He considers the Majestic-12 report a fraud. Among other things, Klass said, the military style writing in the document is inconsistent with the military style at the time. In short, said Klass, "There's a greater chance that Santa Claus and his little elves exist, than us having extraterrestrial visitors." University of Colorado physics researcher George Lawrence, a board member of Rocky Mountain Skeptics, also dismisses Howe's theories, though in more guarded language. Lawrence said stories of supposed UFOs "fall into the category of being too good to be true."* His skepticism stems in part, he said, from his belief that "there are no hard artifacts" to prove UFOs and aliens existence beyond any doubt. Still, he concedes, he's "never really researched the UFO question" for himself. Howe denies that she has adopted "some kind of 'ism' or belief system." "I am a filmmaker and I am a writer who has been presented material from a variety of sources that all say the same thing, that we have alien life forms mucking around on this planet," she said. Howe has done more than merely review the already well- thumbed documentation of UFO lore. She actively investigated continuing developments in the field as recently as last month. Howe was contacted in March by Jim Williamson, editor of the Little River News, in Ashdown, Ark. After a series of what Williamson called "dancing lights" in the night sky dating back to August 1987, local residents discovered five dead cows in a field March 10 of this year. Three had been mutilated. There were no signs of bleeding. Or of human footprints. Williamson and Howe said tissue from one of the carcasses was analyzed at their request by pathologist Dr. John Altshuler of Denver. Microphotographs showed that the excisions were made "at a very high heat" and were done "rapidly," Altshuler told the News. Williamson, called by Arkansas State Police, said that one of the cows appeared to have died suddenly, practically in mid- stride. "Something freeze-framed it," he noted. "If we've got buzzards that are doing this, they're awesome." Howe said that although she feels her research has been thorough and exhaustive, she has no illusions about winning over the doubters of the world. "In terms of hard proof, until the aliens and the silver discs are laid out in front of us by the President of the United States...I don't think anybody is going to accept anything as hard proof," she said. ================================================================= COLORADO INCIDENTS Colorado, along with the entire Rocky Mountain region, has long been fertile ground for tales of strange doings that may -- or may not -- be linked to visitors from beyond. The following are highlights of recent oddities that have surfaced in reports to police, the military, the media and others: MAY 1988: Unexplained cattle mutilations, the target of hot debate in the 1970's, continue. Weld County sheriff's deputy Mike Stark photographs a mutilated cow near Greeley that bears wounds corresponding precisely to those suffered by hundreds of other livestock around the world. OCT. 31, 1988: Jefferson County sheriff's personnel investigate a "large orange ball of fire" that falls to the ground near Aspen Park. They conclude it "probably was a meteor" but no debris. MARCH 10, 1989: Little River County, Ark., is the site of three cattle mutilations. A Denver pathologist's examination reveals findings identical to results of tests on "Lady," a mutilated horse discovered in Colorado's San Luis Valley 22 years earlier. MARCH 21, 1989: Flight controllers at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center are baffled by strange radar blips. Some controllers "had a dozen or more of these targets merging with actual aircraft targets over a half hour period," controller Kevin Cain wrote. Cain now dismisses the episode as "false targets" generated by a computer malfunction. MARCH 28, 1989: A Longmont resident writes the Rocky Mountain News to report her sighting of a daytime UFO she witnessed March 21, the same day FAA controllers made their puzzling sightings. APRIL 3, 1989: A "brilliant blue object" rocketing across Colorado daytime skies tentatively is identified as a possible "rare daytime meteorite" by a Boulder astronomer. North American Defense Command at Colorado Springs acknowledges sightings, has no explanation. APRIL 18, 1989: Capt. Thomas Niemann, at the U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, says that military facility routinely tracks 6,900 man-made objects in space. Each day, he says, an average of "one or two" objects enter the Earth's atmosphere which do not "correlate" with any known object. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6/89 -- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!mcorbin INTERNET: mcorbin@paranet.FIDONET.ORG ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INFO-PARANET NEWSLETTER ADMIN paranet-request@scicom.alphacdc.com ARTICLE SUBMISSION infopara@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM Info-ParaNet Letters Volume 1 Issue 24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Aug 89 21:43:00 GMT From: paranet!f20.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Jim.Speiser Subject: Re: Interesting Contradiction Part II Mike: FASCINATING stuff. Being in Colorado, is there any way you might be able to follow up with Therault and the guy from the Space Command, to see if they can get their stories to jibe? I've run into this contradiction before. Noted UFO skeptic Maj. James McGaha of the US Air Force told me he talked to NORAD, and they basically gave him the line that "nothing called into us over the past year has stumped us. We've been able to identify everything that people have asked us about." I know that's not the case, since I called in a report to NORAD myself, an object seen over Scottsdale last November. They had no correlation. Furthermore, see next message. Jim -- Jim Speiser - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!30163!20!Jim.Speiser INTERNET: Jim.Speiser@f20.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Aug 89 21:50:00 GMT From: paranet!f20.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Jim.Speiser Subject: Speiser File #2 __ __ /_ /_ The __/peiser / ile ________________________________________________________________________ Ubiquitous UFO Untruth #2 NORAD Does Not See UFOs In 1968, Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, head of Lockheed's Astrodynamics Research Center and UCLA astronomer, made the following statement concerning the one US radar system in operation at that time that, to his knowledge, exhibited sufficient and continuous coverage to reveal UFOs operating above the Earth's atmosphere: <> -- Jim Speiser - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: ...!scicom!30163!20!Jim.Speiser INTERNET: Jim.Speiser@f20.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INFO-PARANET NEWSLETTER ADMIN paranet-request@scicom.alphacdc.com ARTICLE SUBMISSION infopara@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM