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Neither this file nor it's contents is to be distributed publicly or uploaded to another BBS. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Austin (TX) MUFON Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 9 November, 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVEMBER MEETING Our next monthly meeting will be held on Saturday, November 28 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Team Bank, 7600 Burnet Road. Field Investigators and Trainees will meet prior to the general meeting at 1:00 p.m. Directions to Team Bank can be obtained by calling Ellen Stuart at (512) 288-0505. Please note that December's meeting will be held on the third Saturday in December (12/19), as the fourth Saturday is during the Christmas weekend. Please mark your calendar now to attend this end-of- the-year meeting where the MUFON family in Austin will celebrate a special Christmas with a bring-your-favorite-Christmas-cookies social. NEW MEMBERS Austin MUFON welcomes three new members in the past month to The Mutual UFO Network. Dora Barclay, an operations manager at an insurance company in Austin, joined MUFON 10/30/92. She has been assigned as a Field Investigator Trainee. Alief Lewis, who has attended Austin MUFON-sponsored conferences in the past, joined on 10/23/92. She is a Journal Subscriber. Jane Genthe, who reported a sighting to Ellen Stuart in September, is a writer and retired R.N. She joined on October 7 and has been assigned as a Field Investigator Trainee. Her other fields of specialized training include being an avocational archeolo- gist in the Central Texas area. We sincerely hope these new members will ioin the local members of the Mutual UFO Network at our monthly meetings so that we can meet and share information and ideas about this fascinating subject. ABDUCTION SUPPORT GROUP The next meeting of the Abduction Support Group, hosted by Jean Staffen, will meet on Sunday, December 6, at the Austin History Center from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Meetings will continue at this location on the first Sunday of each month at the Austin History Center. Jean has arranged for an additional meeting time and place for those who may not be able to attend the Sunday sessions or for those who would benefit by attending a second session each month. Beginning in January, the abduction support group will also meet at the Twin Oaks Library, 2301 S. Congress, Room #7, on the third Saturday in each month. Dates reserved thus far at this location are January 16, February 20, March 20, April 17, and May 15. If someone you know would benefit by attending these meetings, please let them know. For more information, contact Jean at (512) 326-3487. OTHER UFO GROUPS In an effort to make available to our local membership other sources of UFO information, I have taken the liberty of attaching to this Newsletter details on how to order reports written by Leonard Stringfield, a well- known UFO researcher studying crash/retrievals of UFOs. BUDD HOPKINS TO SPEAK IN DALLAS Beth McLeod, State Section Director for Collin and Rockwall Counties, advises that Budd Hopkins' is scheduled to lecture on Saturday, December 12, in Dallas at 7:30 p.m. at Cityplace Conference Center. He is expected to show slides and present his ongoing investigation into the abduc- tion of a woman from the 12th floor of a Manhattan apartment building. You may call the Dallas Hotline number, (214) 497-1505, for further details. NEWS OF INTEREST Once again, the Oklahoma State newsletter, MUFONEWS, provides some very interesting reading this month. I felt the following article would be of interest to our readers, and have reproduced it verbatim in this Newsletter. SOMETHING IS COMING OUR WAY! Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences The following information is taken directly from the April issue of The Long Island U.F.O. Update, the monthly bulletin for the Long Island UFO Network. by John Ford In Ufology, you hear a lot of strange stories. Some you have to take at face value, while others are too far fetched to believe even in this strange study of unusual objects and humanoid beings. Some stories you mark off as holding merit, but lack supporting evidence to bolster their credibility until a later date when something might surface which could prove their validity. This is such a story. As yet no evidence exists to support it, yet I have a gut feeling that there might be somethinq to it. Only time will tell if the evidence or a coming event will prove its veracity. It seems that in 1987, NASA picked up the presence of a very large planetoid object entering our solar system near the area of Pluto. It was first detected by Voyager and later confirmed by telescope observations both radio and optical. The object is very large, measuring over a thousand miles in diameter or even larger. The object has been under constant observation since. It was last reported in the area of Jupiter. That last positlon was of January of this year. It was observed to be leaving a very long ionization trail behind it. By the way, the object has made at least three mid-course corrections. That is peculiar for a planetoid object like an asteroid to do. It sounds as if it is not what it appears to be. It sounds like it is under intelligent control. Its orbit will bring it into Earth's orbit by late 1992 or early 1993. What it is, is anyone's guess. Linda Moulton Howe has reported this story to us. She had it confirmed by a Pentagon Military Officer. The story relayed to her indicates that the Government is keeping it a secret and is tracking it through the auspices of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and McDonald Douglas' facilities. The object is being tracked by the Hubble telescope and several of the recent infra-red telescopes recently lofted by various Space Shuttle Missions. All of this concealed by public announcements that the missions are being deployed to photograph distant stars or the Sun's corona. The Hubble telescope doesn't work and needs to be repaired, yet it is pointed straight out there and can return pictures through computer enhancement. I have had the story confirmed by George Dickson and Mike Crystal (Christol, my corrected spelling) both reputable U.F.O. Researchers of impeccable reputation, through independent contacts in the Scientific- Military establishment. The object may soon be seen by the average person as time advances. It may not be so easy then to conceal the truth from the public. Consider this too, our Moon's orbit has condensed by three thousand miles while the Earth's axis has tilted slightly as if pushed ever so gently by the invisible hand of a tremendous gravitational field. Have you noticed the strange weather patterns we have been having lately? U.F.O. Abductees recount their experiences with the authority that something very big will happen in the next several years. Whatever it is, they can't recall it, but they know the event will occur. Is something coming our way? Is this one of those stories to mark away? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published by: Austin MUFON 8103 Richard Ring Court Austin, Texas 78749 (512) 288-0505 Available to MUFON members with payment of $10 annual local dues. New members will receive three newsletters and then are requested to send in their local dues to the above address so they can continue to receive this local newsletter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVAILABILITY OF UFO LITERATURE By Author, Leonard H. Stringfield 1) Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of Allged UFOs and Occupants In Military Custody. The first formal research paper presented publicly on the subject of UFO crash/retrievals at the MUFON Symposium, Dayton, Ohlo, July, 1978. Original edition, dated April, 1978, was published in MUFON Proceedings (1978). Address: MUFON, 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, Texas 78155. If available, price: $7.50. 2) Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of Allged UFOs and Occupants In Military Custody. Status Report I. Revised Edition, July, 1978, word processed copy, 34 pages. Available at author's address. See below. Prlce, USA: $10.00 3) UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome, Status Report II. Published by MUFON. Flexible cover, typeset, illustrations, 37 pages. Available only at MUFON address: 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, Texas 78155. Prlce, USA: $6.50 4) UFO Crash/Retrievals: Amassing the Evidence, Status Report III, June 1982; Flexible cover, typeset, illustrations, 53 pages. Available from author's address. See below. Price, USA: $11.00 5) The Fatal Encounter at Ft. Dix - McGuire: A Case Study, Status Report IV, June, 1985. Paper presented at MUFON Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, 1985. Xeroxed copy, 26 pages. Available at author's address. See below. Price, USA: $7.00 6) UFO Crash/Retrievals: Is the Coverup Lid Lifting? Status Report V. Published in MUFON UFO Journal, January, 1989, with updated addendum. Xeroxed copy, 23 pages. Available at author's address. See below. Price, USA: $7.00 7) Inside Saucer Post, 3-0 Blue. Book privately published, 1957. Review of author's early research and cooperative association with the Air Defense Command Filter Center using code name, FOX TROT KILO 3-0 BLUE. Flexible cover, typeset, illiustrations, 91 pages. Available from author's address. See below. Price, USA: $6.00 8) Situation Red: The UFO Siege. Hardcover book published by Doubleday & Co., 1977. Paperback edition published by Fawcett Crest Books, 1977. Also foreign publishers. Out of print, not avaiiable. 9) Orbit Newsletter, published monthly, 1954-1957, by author for inter- national sale and distribution. Set of 36 Issues. Some issues out of stock, duplicated by xerox. Available at author's address -- see below. Price of set, USA: $36.00 10)UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, Status Report Vl. July, 1991; flexible cover, book length. 81,000 words, 142 (8-1/2 X 11) pages, illustrated. Privately published. Available from author's address. See below. Price, USA: $18.50 Prices include postage and handling. Mailings to Canada, add 50› for each Item ordered. All foreign orders, payable U.S. funds, International money order or draft on U.S. Bank. Recommend Air Mail outside U.S. territories. Check on price. Leonard H. Stringfleld 4412 Grove Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45227 USA Telephone: (513) 271-4248