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ELSEWHEN
The Journal of the Strange & Unusual Phenomena Research Association
Volume Four
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ISSUE #15
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The Men In Black
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Also featuring:
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The Ghosts of RAF Hendon

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ELSEWHEN
THE JOURNAL OF
THE STRANGE & UNUSUAL PHENOMENA
RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
(Formerly The Temporal Anomaly Research Association)
Volume Four
Number One
ISSUE #15
Editor & Publisher
Mark R. Gardner
Chief Editorial Assistant
S. Ashley Kristensen
Contributors to This Issue
Hugh H. Trotti
Morgan Eads
Bufo Calvin
Kimberly Wajer
Joy Barish
Frederick Wisdom
Gary Mangiacopra
Kenji Chōno
Ben Böst
DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions in this issue of Elsewhen,
unless otherwise stated, are those of the author and are not
Research Association.
necessarily those of the Editor or the Strange & Unusual Phenomena
IN THIS ISSUE:
The Ghosts of RAF Hendon
Imaginary Time, (i)t
3467
"666" and "Medusa's Lair": Solving the Nebulous? 6
Publications / Public Awareness
Has Anyone Really Been Abducted...?
The Mystery of the Men in Black
The Tengu of Japan
10
UFOs: Extraterrestrial or Terrestrial? (Part II)
11
The Bookshelf - Two Reviews
12
Fortean Research On A Budget Tip #7
13
Now the News...
15
Mysterious MIBS
16
The Men in Black and UFOs / Movie Scene
Back Issue Article Directory (1-14)
17
18
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FROM THE
EDITOR'S DESK
Greetings, friends!
Welcome to the
fifteenth issue of Elsewhen. As you can see, I
I am back at the helm this time. I think Ashley
did an excellent job with formatting the previous
issue. I am letting her do part of this one and
half of the next one.
share duties with her.
It helps me out a lot to
I want to apologize for the lateness and
condition of many copies of the previous issue
of Elsewhen. Only 20 copies of #14 were in the
new format (the first or "test" batch) and those
were mailed about three weeks after I had
intended. The rest of that issue had to be run
off on a less-than-adequate photocopier and
were mailed out during the middle part of
January. The main reason for the lateness was
two weeks of bad weather that prevented Ashley
from driving down to give the master pages to
me. She had to finally mail them. Fortunately,
this issue has had far less problems!
This is a special issue, in that there are
several articles having to do with the enigmatic
Men in Black. We had originally intended to
fill it up with 5 or 6 different articles by
different authors, but several promised pieces
never materialized in time. (A similar thing
happened some time ago with the "Werewolf
Issue".) This does not make this a weak issue,
though, as other interesting articles tie the rest
of it together quite well.
Another difference is that there is a lot of
last minute or late material in this issue. This
kept us hopping to the very end of February.
Now the bad news... There will probably
1993.
be only three issues of Elsewhen published in
This is mainly due to a dearth of
submissions. The other two issues will be out
in August and December. Of course, if we start
to receive a lot more material between now and
early May, then Issue #16 might be out in June.
Enjoy this issue! Let us know what
you think.
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Britain's Haunted
Airfields:
The Ghosts of
RAF Hendon
by Mark Gardner
ROYAL
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The most common stories I have dug up about RAF
Hendon are sounds heard at night after the museum is
closed. The sounds are of varying kinds, depending on time
and the witness. They fall into three broad categories
voices and speech, moans and other sounds of distress, and
mechanical sounds (aircraft related).
I asked a guard and a lady in the gift shop if they knew
stories of "things" heard and seen in the museum, but they
all laughed it off and told me they were just figments of
people's imaginations in the middle of the night. Still, I am
not so certain, as the majority of witnesses after-hours have
been employees! It could be that higher-ups officially frown
on current employees talking about "ghosts"...
AIR
The main building contains a wide spectrum of Royal
Air Force aircraft from the First World War to the near
present and the Bomber Command Hall. Voices have been
but the most impressive
heard, flitting shadows seen,
sighting has been of a "pilot" sitting in the cockpit of one of
nearly all claim it's the Lancaster,
the WWII bombers -
one the B-17 in the Bomber Command
Hall. (What's interesting is that the same
thing is said to occur with a Lincoln
Cosford
the
Aerospace
bomber at
Museum near Wolverhampton, although I
have not been able to follow up on this
Another interesting exhibit is the
yet.)
sole remaining Halifax bomber in the
world, which was recovered a few years
ago from a lake. It is kept completely as
it was found. Seeing this wrecked and
rusty relic gave me chills. I do not know
if the crew survived or not, I am still
researching the history of this plane. I do
know that moans have been heard in or
around the hulk of this aircraft by visitors.
The smaller hangar/museum building
FORCE
HENDON
In Northern London, about a 20 minute walk (in good
weather) from the Colindale tube station, is the impressive
Royal Air Force Museum, located on the grounds of the
now inactive RAF Hendon aerodrome. This destination was
one of my major goals during my research trip to Great
Britain in September 1991. Why would a
fortean researcher want to visit this place?
Well, first of all, I was interested in
airplanes long before I ever knew who
Secondly, I have a
Charles Fort was.
particular interest in aviation during the
Second World War, especially the RAF's
courageous stand against the Luftwaffe
during the Battle of Britain. Lastly, word
has gotten out that "things" have been
seen inside the museum,
heard and
especially at night when the place is
Visiting a site
supposed to be empty.
with more than one of my great interests
wrapped up in one was definitely worth
my time and attention.
Having never visited the site before,
MUSEUM
I was totally unaware of what I might find there. If I had
planned better before my trip, I would have arranged for
permission to stay after normal closing hours. As it was, I
arrived only about a hour and a half before closing time. (I
might never have found the right place, if it weren't for a
cute little English girl who pointed a poor, lost Yank in the
right direction!) So my visit was a bit hurried.
The stories I had heard of Hendon's ghosts were all
centered around the museum complex two very large
As with
converted hangars and several outside exhibits.
most "haunted aerodromes" in Great Britain, I am sure
there are other sightings involved with outlying areas away
from the museum that I am yet unaware of.
at Hendon contains the Battle of Britain Hall. This exhibit
contains both Allied and Axis aircraft. When I visited
this building it was just before closing time.
There were only about three other people
in the whole place and they left
before I did. I actually
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ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM
BRITAIN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AVIATION
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Imaginary
Time, (i)t
by Morgan Eads
(dedicated to Donny Prues)
While I was attending high school in Jacksonville,
Arkansas, in the mid-seventies, I read an article in the April
23, 1973 issue of TIME Magazine that changed my life.
The article was called "Reaching Beyond the Rational", and
it described some of the profound mysteries of most
advanced sciences and its intrinsic dovetailing into realms of
mysticism and parapsychology.
In particular, the author quoted a statement about
quantum physicists from the late Sir Arthur Koestler: "No
longer able to accept the atom as simply a miniature solar
system....they found that the electrons kept jumping from
one orbit into a different orbit without passing through
intervening space - as if the earth were suddenly
transferred into the orbit of Mars without having to travel."
Even to the bookworm of a teenager that I was, this
a startling thought. Had the quantum physicists
discovered an atomic form of teleportation? Was there
really such a thing? I showed the TIME article to a friend
of mine, William, who was one year ahead of me in classes
and, thus, more knowledgeable about science. William
carted me off to see a teacher named Mr. Screeton, who
had all of the answers about science because he was a
physics and chemistry teacher.
was
in physics.
"Yes," Mr. Screeton told me, there was such a thing
It's called "the tunnel effect" or quantum
tunneling. At the time, I hardly knew what "physics" was,
much less quantum physics. However, the teacher
encouraged me to come back to take his physics class, so
that I could learn more about it. Well, I did take his high
school physics class and then went on to four years of
college to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Physics.
I later learned that the tunnel effect was very real, and
it was the basis of a great deal of modern electronics.
Years later, I still find the phenomenon fascinating and I
teleportation.
continue to feel that it represents a fundamental form of
Charles Fort, who gave us the term "teleportation",
was also aware of this effect and in Wild Talents he wrote:
"Upon the principles of quantum mechanics, one can make
reasonable almost any miracle, such as entering a closed
room without penetrating a wall, or jumping from one place
to another without traversing the space between."
discovered concept of "teleportation".
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He wrote, "The
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Other similarities between quantum tunneling and
teleportation have cropped up as well. An Austrian
Fort realized that this sounded like his newly
quantum theory is a doctrine of magic. The idea of playing researcher named Luis Schönherr has greatly encouraged me
For instance, along with the possibility
leapfrog, without having to leap over the other frog, is in this research.
simply another representation of the idea of entering a that teleportation involves and higher dimension of space,
He had Schönherr has continually encouraged me to consider the
documented that common folk were teleporting into and out possibility that it might also involve something about "time"
closed room without passing through the walls."
education.
of closed spaces even without the benefit of a physics
"Electrons and protons are dignified little
things," he wrote, "whereas boarders and tramps on park
benches can't be taken solemnly.
as well.
In a
It turns out that there is something very odd about the
sense of "time" that takes place during quantum tunneling
phenomena. Dr. Jonathan J. Halliwell describes this strange
Shortly after I graduated from the University of Central kind of time involved in tunneling: "The tunneling process
Arkansas at Conway, Arkansas, I wrote a one-page article should not be thought of as occurring in real time.
certain well-defined mathematical sense, the particle is
conveniently thought of as penetrating the barrier in
'imaginary' time, that is, time multiplied by the square root
of minus one."
in Pursuit (Vol. 13, No. 3, 1980) about this curious
relationship between physics and forteana.
The title was
almost as long as the article, and it was posed as a question
"Is Teleportation the Macroscopic Analog of the
Quantum 'Barrier Penetration' Effect?"
I believed then, and I still believe today, that the
answer that question is a resounding Yes! Teleportation and
quantum tunneling are two expression of the same
phenomenon.
In later articles, under the pen-name "Daniel Eden", I
began to adroitly feel my way along, by a process of blindly
stumbling about, searching for a deeper understanding of
teleportation. Today I feel that at least some forms of
teleportation involve a higher dimension of space and
interaction with a previously unclassified force in nature. I
call this force "The Dimensional Barrier".
Over the years, as I have learned more about quantum
tunneling, I continue to see startling correspondences with
macroscopic teleportation. For instance, at some point I
realized that there had to be a kind of higher dimensional
equivalent of "friction" involved in teleportation if it were
to make sense, in terms of the dimensional barrier theory.
In a privately circulated manuscript, PRINCIPIA
FORTEANA (1988), I referred to this "field induced
friction" as Zoellner's Principle, after an early scientist who
first suggested the possibility. It was a necessity to include
this hypothesis if the theory was to make sense.
Later, while perusing some science journals, I
discovered, to my astonishment, that the quantum physicists
were also compelled to utilize a mysterious environmental
friction that they referred to as "tunneling dissipation".
Arthur L. Robinson wrote about this odd effect in Science
(Vol. 231, 21 March 1986, p. 1372).
He wrote: "Dissipation also plays an important role in
macroscopic quantum tunneling....As the particle tunnels
through the potential barrier, the interaction with its
environment can be thought of as a frictional effect by
which the particle loses energy to its surroundings."
(Although Robinson uses the term "macroscopic" here, he
is thinking of distances much smaller than fortean
"macroscopic" teleportation cases).
Now imaginary time should not be thought of as unreal
is somewhat
time, because the term "imaginary"
misleading. Some physicists and mathematicians prefer to
use the term "complex" instead. Complex numbers are any
number multiplied by the square root of negative one.
In some situations, complex numbers are more strictly
defined as a number with two separate parts - a real part
added to an imaginary part, i.e.:
t
t
=t' real+t" imaginary
=t' + (i)t", where i =√-1
For instance, one moment in imaginary time might be t
= 10 seconds + 3i seconds. Another moment in imaginary
time could be 7 days + 4i days. You could also deal with
imaginary time written in terms of years, decades, or even
millennia, if you wanted.
Actually, in formal physics, the situation is a little
more complicated than this, because time can also be
A "time vector" is a
thought of in terms of a vector.
quantity of time that also has a "direction" associated with
it. For instance, you can speak of 10 minutes forward, or
backwards, in time, such as, 10 minutes from now versus
10 minutes ago. Similarly, imaginary time can also have a
forward or backwards direction but the vector notation for
this can get rather messy, so we won't deal with it here. If
you want to take a peek at how complex time can be, used
in higher dimensional physics, then see Dr. Elizabeth A.
Rauscher's book, Electromagnetic Phenomena in Complex
Geometries (Tesla Book Company, Ventura, CA, 1982), but
let me warn you that it is not for the faint of heart!
I have said that imaginary time in not really
"imaginary" in the sense of being "unreal", rather, it is
different because it is a kind of higher dimensional time.
That is, just as "space" has a number of dimensions, time
might also have more dimensions.
In Consciousness and Reality: The Human Pivot Point
(Avon Books, 1972), the mathematician Dr. Charles Muses
describes imaginary numbers as "hypernumbers", which,
when graphed in a certain way (via a Gauss-Argand
diagram), represent a space that is perpendicular to regular
Imaginary time would thus represent a
space (p. 187).
"time-like" space that is, in some sense, perpendicular to
our normal time dimension.
To be honest, most physicists who work with complex
spaces don't think much about what it might mean in terms
of actual reality. To those scientists, imaginary time is just
abstract mathematical machinery that cranks out useful
predictions, and then the complex parts of the equations are,
essentially, discarded, when you've got what you wanted.
(You "throw away" imaginary numbers by multiplying them
by a term that is called their "complex conjugate".)
Another way to look at this is to say, in quantum
physics you are required to use a strange notion of time to
make your answers come out right on paper. However,
if quantum tunneling is similar to fortean teleportation, then
this imaginary time concept may also have some definite
meaning in our day-to-day world as well.
Exactly what the meaning is remains to be discovered.
Maybe fortean theoreticians can figure out what imaginary
If a little girl teleports through a wall
time really means.
during a poltergeist outbreak, is she passing through a
higher space and a higher time, as well? Or, if imaginary
time is only abstract mathematical machinery, can fortean
theoreticians still make use of it, as the physicists do?
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did have a feeling as if someone was watching me. This is
disconcerting to someone who is generally pretty skeptical
about the Supernatural, despite the experiences I've had
over the years. For about 5 minutes I was the only visitor
and I left right as the guard was closing up. In this place it
has been claimed that voices in both English and German
have been heard; one person claimed to have seen someone
walk around a Messerschmidt Bf-109 when they came
around the other direction to check, nobody was there; and
once a watchman was outside when he heard the sound of
an engine turning over inside when he put the key in the
door, the sound immediately stopped (playful spirits?).
Since the area around the former aerodrome is highly
residential, I sought out some local people as I headed back
to the tube station. Two boys (for a "donation" of £1 each)
told me that most locals stay away from the base after dark.
Most of the area away from the museum area is overgrown
and kids over the years have "proven" their bravery to
schoolmates by climbing over the fence in the south next to
the Grahame Park Way or near the British Rail tracks to
explore. They said a phantom sentry near where a gate
once was and pale lights have been seen by people. Neither
one of them claimed to have actually seen anything "queer"
themselves so far, although they were hoping to!
I will follow up on this if my research turns up more.
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"666" and "Medusa's
Lair": Solving the
Nebulous?
by Hugh H. Trotti
There are some ancient mysteries which we are destined
never to solve, although in some cases we know far more
than the peoples of the times that produced them. Our
geographical and astronomical knowledge is far better,
though we may always be ignorant of the social subtleties
and historical details of olden times.
The ancient Greeks had a tale of three sisters of unusual
abilities called "Gorgons" - Medusa was one. She was the
one with serpents for hair, whose glance turned men to
stone. She lived with the other Gorgons past the ocean, "on
the edge near the night". Where was that? At first glance
one would say that this is exactly the sort of description that
could never be solved by us, and is probably not even a
good object of speculation. But these things can be
deceptive, and we may not need to classify this as poetic but
the Gorgons' location.
uncertain description, for there may be a simple pointer to
In Homer's Odyssey, there is an interesting phrase used
Phaiakians:
by Odysseus as he speaks with the king of the island
"... my island lies low and away, last of
all on the water toward the dark, with the
rest below facing east and sunshine..."2
Again, when the goddess Athena is describing the island
Ithaka to Odysseus, after indicating the island's fame, she
goes on:
"... whether among those who live toward
the east and the sunrise, or those who live
up and away toward the mist and
darkness.
"3
From these references in Homer the most widely
known stories of the ancient Greeks, whose phrases became
"set" in repetitious formulas - we see that "the dark" most
likely simply represented the west. The west and darkness
is repeatedly contrasted with the east and the sunlight.
We may not be able to go further. There is
considerable evidence that the Greeks received much myth
and legend from Mesopotamia. Is the "lair of the Gorgons"
simply west of Mesopotamia? In the shaky geography of
the ancient world, this could even represent Egypt, where
there was once a female Pharaoh who wore a serpentine
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crown that included the cobra.
simply early statues misunderstood?
west of those places
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Where the "stone men because there are other ways to write "666". Some Bibles
have "Six hundred three score and six" as the way the
In that case, we have the words
Greeks lived on the coast of Asia Minor and on the number is written.
islands off that shore. Were the Gorgons thought to live "hundred", "three", and "twenty" (twenty being a "score"),
perhaps in Crete? In my book to use in addition to the "six". And the number could also
Beasts and Battles I had speculated that "Medusa" may have be written so as to use the designation "sixty". The various
been an ancient priestess of a religion that turned men to differences that may be utilized to write the number may
the stony rigidity after death. There is well provide the way that the number could represent
"rigor mortis"
"Nero".
Certainly the Christians and Jews of the time of Nero
evidence that in very early times there may have been
human sacrifice in the lands around the Mediterranean, and
it was tempting to point to the small ceramic female figures had ample reason to despise him. If Grant is right, modern
from Minoan Crete that held serpents and connect them with Christians need have no fear of the number, since it
as priestess of some religion that may have represents a person long since dead and relegated to the
"Medusa"
practiced human sacrifice.
But here we admit to speculation without much proof.
Perhaps it is better to stop with the evidence we have found
that the Gorgons were thought to be located "in the west".
Such a place is indicated by the habit of the ancient poets
that we have seen of equating the east with light and the
west with the dark. (We remember that an Egyptian place
of burial was across the Nile and on the western side; the
ago.)
west seems to have been sometimes equated with death long
The point that we would like to stress here is that the
explained
most odd or unlikely things may yet be susceptible to being
research.
- if only we could range widely enough in our
Our next example is a number famous among
fundamentalist Christians: "666".
Fundamentalist preachers are fond of referring to "the
devil" or "Satan", whose number is, according to Christian
tradition, 666.5 That people take such things seriously is
brought home to us in the various lawsuits instituted by the
company Proctor and Gamble, in connection with its
emblem of a male face whose beard ended in curls that
sixes, thereby
were claimed by competitors to represent the three famous
- it had been said by those competitors for
sales advantage purposes showing that P & G might be
"in league with" you-know-who, which was nonsense, of
course. Before we laugh at this, lately a friend told me that
a customer asked to have a bill for six dollars and sixty-six
dread number.
cents changed higher or lower so as not to represent the
P & G found it necessary to change the
beard on its emblem, so as to straighten out the curls. The
Winter 1992 issue of The Skeptical Inquirer reported that
the vehicle licensing office in Great Britain would no longer
issue the number "666" for license plates.
Perhaps these worries result from lack of knowledge of
the history of the Christian religion. The early Christians
thought that the world would soon end, and that then "those
pagans" would he punished. The noted scholar Michael
Grant, in his book Nero,' stated that the number 666
usage.
represents or stands for Nero's name in the ancient Hebrew
If so, that Roman emperor is the "beast" whose
number the three 6's represent. It seems doubtful that the
uniformity of such a number could represent different
letters, such as "N" or "R", but Grant may well be right,
dustbin of history.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
NOTES
Hesiod, Theogony, from Besiod and Theognis,
translated by Dorothea Wender, New York:
Penguin Books, 1986 paperback, p, 32.
Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, translated by
Richmond Lattimore, New York, Harper and Row,
1975 paperback; Book IX, Lines 25-26, p. 138.
Op. Cit., Book XIII, Lines 240-241; p. 204.
Trotti, Hugh H., Beasts and Battles, New York:
107, and
1989,
Rivercross Press,
esp. p.
illustration on p. 104. Also the Egyptian goddess
Isis resembles Medusa through her link with
serpents as described in the Roman adventure novel
The Golden Ass, though there she is a beneficent
figure.
The Bible, New Testament, "Book of Revelation",
Chapter XIII, Verse 18.
The Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 1992, Vol. 16, No.
2, p. 128.
Grant, Michael, Nero, New York: Dorset Press,
1989, Appendix One, pp. 207-208.
Publications
Last year we received samples of two publications we
had not seen before. These were the premiere issue of Far
Out and two issues of UFO Encounters.
Far Out is a magazine with a full-color, slick cover. It
is the product of William L. Moore (of FOCUS and MJ-12
fame), Michael DiGregorio, Lew Bryant, and others, and
devoted to a variety of topics. It has a quality look to it.
Issue #15
UFO Encounters, edited by Michael Norris, is a bi-
monthly publication devoted to the many facets of the UFO
We look
A wide variety of articles appears.
mystery.
forward to future issues of it!
Addresses for both publications can be found on Page
19. We recommend you write and check them out yourself!
Public Awareness
by Kimberly Wajer
In the past few years the subject of serious paranormal
research seems to have attracted a wider audience than just
societies, such as SUPRA, which devote themselves to such.
It seems to have gone beyond the mere folklore present in
the minds of the general populace and reached the public
fancy. This perhaps may be a "fad", but also may be a
symptom of a general greater interest in explaining areas of
our world science has generally left alone.
More pervasive than any printed publication is
it enters nearly every home and just about
television
everybody watches it. Traditionally, TV has shied away
from parapsychology. Stations by necessity must appeal to
the widely popular, and truly specialized stations came
about only with the growth of the cable networks. The
"popular" tends toward the dramatic and commercialized;
people would rather watch a James Bond movie than a
documentary about real spies. The closest the popular mind
really got to parapsychology was tabloids and Twilight
Zone-type programs.
Recently, however, a new interest has returned to the
"real" world and hence "reality TV". Included is one
program possibly worthy of note this program is
Sightings, broadcast on the Fox Network. While I cannot
speak for the veracity of anything presented there, I get the
idea that the cases are genuine. If anyone can back up
anything the program presents or, conversely, can disprove
anything, please let me know. I see this as potentially a
good source of information, but hesitate to use it unless I
can somehow back it up.
In any case, however, whether particular cases are
valid or not, they take a scientific (or at least scientific-
looking) approach. This tends to instill a positive attitude
toward a scientific approach in those who watch. With a
program like this available to the general public, a more fair
image of parapsychology can be presented. This is not
Ghostbusters; this is what it really is. More or less.
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[I agree that shows like Sightings might help "legitimize"
parapsychology and other fields, but still have noticed
misinterpretation, etc., in some
sensationalization,
the "English werewolf"
episodes.
(psychological not supernatural) and the "Real Star Wars"
(misinterpretation by some who wanted to see what they
The Editor]
said they saw).
Examples
are

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Has Anyone Really
Been Abducted Into
Outer Space?
by Joy Barish
Now, after more than 20 years of amateur UFO
research, I wonder: Has anyone ever really been abducted
into outer space?
As I discussed in my earlier article about fairies and
their connection to the UFO phenomenon, we may be
dealing with angel/fairy hierarchies. In the manuscript I
mentioned by Michael Topper, he speaks of the joined
auras of the entities involved. Perhaps they are angels
rather than hard, physical space ships or flying saucers, call
them what you will.
It is interesting that in his UFOs: An Initiated Account
manuscript, which I've studied for years and now obviously
taking this out of context, Topper brings out on page 18 that
(paraphrasing now) rather than being kidnapped/abducted
out of our familiar world there is "a tacit central acceptance
which permits the UFO beings to lead the abductee along
and to float him aboard their ship.
On page 25, to be more explicit, the ship which I just
mentioned about the joined aura, is described as the
the beings themselves.
collectivized assemblage and fusion of the energy eggs of
This is just as individual soap
bubbles may be blown through a tube and rise together so
that they attach and merge into a single, large bubble. This
is what we may be calling a flying saucer, UFO, etc.
Let me 'abduct' you now to Journeys Out of the Body
by Robert Monroe, the Virginia businessman who began to
have a large amount of inexplicable experiences in 1958,
beginning with a "beam or ray" that seemed to come out of
horizon.
the sky north of his home at a "30 degree angle from the
It was like being struck by lightning. Before
know what they were
this, Mr. Monroe was experimenting with tapes (I don't
types of meditation?) and he
experienced very terrific cramps which "extended across his
diaphragm or solar plexus."
In all of Journeys Out of the Body, we find no UFOs
but some interesting dreams, one of which I had a variation
of years ago. Mr. Monroe subsequently went into three
different planes. In Locale I he made "visits" to people he
knew of in this world in his so-called 'Second Body'. In
Locale II, which he described as the "natural environment
of the Second Body", he was in a world which mimicked
our world and seemed to be solid matter. In Locale III, he
went into an environment which began with him putting his
arm/hand down through the floor. In this locale, which
began with a hissing, he was again in a physical matter
world identical to our own in which he took over the bodies
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own cosmic consciousness
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with a woman named Lee. He was her husband there. Th psyche?
of the inhabitants. In fact, he began a life of sorts then to take place in space but may really be enacted within our
man he took over was an architect and contractor who had experience more than 20 years ago (I don't remember
gone to a minor college. Monroe became acquainted wis exactly when now) this world certainly did fall away sans
buses that sat eight abreast, seats rising behind the driver in
successively "higher tiers", in which he did not have to pay so solid and concrete, hardly even existed as more than a
a fare.
UFOs. It nearly was as if this world of ours, which seems
comic strip or some trivial dream. I had seen a giant eye
Then there are the retrocognitive cases I've studied, for with my eyes closed, then it was as if black veils flew away
instance the Tunbridge Wells case of 1968, in which an old and suddenly I was the entire universe. All I wanted was to
lady who went into a small self-service shop in Tunbridge remain like this in this world more than ever, but I fell to
Wells (about an hour from London by train) and perceived Earth so fast that I could not sustain it.
hole or space through which she observed men and women
casually drinking coffee in a 1918 sort of atmosphere, Account, talks of the sudden, inexplicable, weird quality of
Their costumes went with this era, although no definite year the world we are hijacked into. As I've already mentioned,
is mentioned in Time Travel. I can't find the book now, everything is "alien". This "world" the abductee suddenly
Topper, on pages 53 and 54 of UFOs: An Initiated
Anyway, the opening was bordered by heavy mahogany, a
sharp contrast to the chrome and glass of the small self perceived by our higher self. One could go on and on...
service shop. This shop was later a gift shop, as discussed
comes into may not be out there at all, but in an inner space
Is anyone being/has anyone been taken into outer
by the guide on haunted bus tour from London we took in space? Probably not, but it probably will be a long time
May 1991. It is now a computer shop. My husband before the majority of the "alien embracing" ufologists can
photographed me outside of it.
The story goes that around 1918 to 1921 or so, the
"Coffee Club" met outside to the left of the now computer
shop. Note the Hole that Robert Monroe put his arm/hand
through with much vibration going through him and the
Space seen by Mrs. W. Our guide on that haunted bus tour
real case.
from London had interviewed the lady, so I know it was a
Going back to Topper's UFOs: An Initiated Account,
he talks of the speeding up of vibrations instigated by "UFO
ripeness".
beings" so there is an "element of readiness", a "potential
subconsciously acquiesce.
We are not abducted at all but actually
When we undergo the UFO experience, we can enter
another world, not in our astral bodies as all of us do while
asleep every night (unaware to 99% of the people of this
country, it seems, from what I see on TV, hear on the
radio, read in the papers, etc.). We are able, as possibly
some higher domain physically
Monroe experienced at Locale III, to enter the astral or
a totally different
every night.
situation from the normal astral projections we undergo
Topper speaks on page 28 of his manuscript of a
reorganization and full realignment of the psychosomatic
currents and this is maybe aligned with the retrocognitive
experiences such as Mrs. W. underwent in her brief venture
in 1968. This lady was going to "take her husband to the
unique coffee shoppe" but you can guess... It was simply
not there when she returned a short time later with her
husband in tow (just a heavy steel freezer was there). As I
gazed into the windows of this shop in May 1991, I
wondered what the computer salesmen would have thought
had they known of this brief occurrence in 1968.
So, has anyone actually been in a UFO? Shouldn't the
experience be thought of more as a type of spiritual
experience involving a state of consciousness, which appears
accept this. Happy UFO sightings to you all!
Flashbacks!
"Persons who have had 'men in black' experiences in
connection with UFO sightings are urged to write Rep. Bella
Abzug of the Government Information and Individual Rights
Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations
at the House of Representatives and Sen. Frank Church of
the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
With Respect to Intelligence Activities at the U.S. Senate in
Washington, D.C. Both Rep. Abzug and Senator Church
are interested in evidence pertaining to harassment of
Americans by agents of the Federal Government in relation
to UFO sightings or investigations."
- From UFOLOGY, Summer of 1976, page 34
(Contributed by Bufo Calvin)
[NOTE: Neither of the two above persons is still in Congress
- Sen. Church has passed away and Rep. Abzug is retired.
We do not know what became of the request.
The Mystery of
the Men in Black
The Editor]
by Mark Gardner
One of the most interesting, though somewhat
uncommon, events connected to the UFO mystery is the
appearance of so-called "Men in Black" (MIBs) after a
sighting. In most cases they attempt to convince a witness
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The
to keep silent about what they had previously seen.
mystery is not only in the "strangeness" of these men, but
that they apparently often show up before the witness has
revealed the story to anyone else! How in the world could
they know about it beforehand?
Let's back up before we go any farther and describe
these MIBs. They are said to have an olive or oriental
complexion in nearly every case, although a few examples
of pale skins have been reported. It is much rarer for MIBS
to be described as caucasian or black. A majority of the
witnesses claim the MIBS had oriental features, especially
As for clothing, it is impossible to generalize,
the eyes.
other than that they usually wear dark clothing. In many
cases they are said to have arrived and/or departed in a dark
sedan, usually thought to be a Cadillac, which is often years
out of date. In those extremely rare occasions when the
MIBs' cars are followed, they are quickly lost or even said
to have disappeared.
They are known to appear singly, in pairs, or in small
groups, although individual appearances are most common
from what I gather. No case has all of the identical things
another one does, which is quite unusual itself, although
there is always "strangeness" of some sort involved. MIBS
may speak with slight accents, use out-of-date expressions,
be unfamiliar with everyday items, walk strangely or stiffly,
seem to have respiratory problems, wear ill-fitting clothing
(which is often out of style), etc.
There are two main theories about the origin of the
they are either aliens in disguise or special
MIBS-
I don't think either of these is the
government agents.
correct answer, because there are major flaws in both of
these. First of all, if aliens went to the trouble of trying to
masquerade as humans to be "less obvious", they've failed
quite miserably. Also, any beings advanced enough to
travel light years through space would certainly be able to
witness memories at much less risk to
simply erase
themselves. Secondly, MIBS can't be government agents
trying to hide UFOs from the public, because they can't
know about something before the witness tells anybody else.
In both cases aliens or agents would not have been able to
track down witnesses in every instance. It is clear that some
witnesses were unobserved, yet still visited. There are
many other problems with the above.
The easy explanation is that the MIBs don't exist at all;
witnesses either invented them to embellish a story or MIBS
were created by emotional trauma. I am sure many MIBS
never existed, although I am not discounting every sighting.
If they were government employees, then UFOs are actually
secret military craft and there are no aliens involved. The
weirdness of the MIBS precludes this one. The only option
that makes sense, is that genuine MIBS are time travelers.
The evidence fits! People in the future need only grab an
old, yellowed UFO book from our time and make travel
plans from the stories given. People from the far future
would be unfamiliar with our things and speak "incorrectly"
because of incomplete historical data. And so on...
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MONSTER
MENAGERIE:
The Tengu of Japan
INTRODUCTION
b.
by Kenji Chōno
c.
The Tengu ("sky dog") is a being which is neither
human, nor animal and whose definition varies from era to
era. Today it is generally described as having a red face,
long nose and wings.
In Nihonshoki, an event from 637 is reported: In the
sky over Aska city, Nara prefecture, a huge, fearful
shooting star appeared. Then a priest who had just returned
from China stated, "It was not a shooting star, but a
(however, this term was not pronounced Tengu, but Ama-
gitsune-"sky fox").
At times the Tengu was supposed to be half-man, half-
beast, but generally it is considered to be a higher spirit-
being. Each Tengu has its territory in the sacred mountains
all over Japan. The clear definition is difficult because on
each mountain the character of the Tengu varies. If
classified according to their origins, they would be as
follows:
1.
Sanrei Tengu/Jurei Tengu (Mountain-Spirit/Tree-
Spirit Tengu) The spiritual essence of a
mountain or old tree condensed after a long time
and became this Tengu. They are generally huge.
2. Jindai Tengu (God-Age Tengu) - The Tengu form
taken by the ancient leaders of the native tribes of
mythological times-tens or hundreds of thousands
of years ago.
Most famous is the Sarutanohiko
Tengu-the original form of today's popular view
of the Tengu (red face & long nose). Some
variation existed, though, and the Taroubou Tengu
in Shiga prefecture was covered with scales all over
his body.
3. The formerly human Tengus
a.
Sannin Tengu (Mountain-People Tengu) -
Well-trained priests or other holy persons
can become this Tengu, and they, as a
member of each mountain's pantheon,
protect the sacred area of each mountain.
They are so diligent and have such a
strong desire to improve themselves, that
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further spiritual training.
some of them can even become a god after
Ma Tengu (Demonic Tengu)
The
condensed souls of warriors or emperors
who died with a strong grudge became this
kind of Tengu. It does harm people.
Koujin Tengu (Trainee Tengu)
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MISCELLANEOUS
During the Edo Era, sudden disappearances of people
(usually called kami-kakushi) were attributed to Tengus.
Although a Tengu can live 3,000 years, since there is no
Tengu, they cannot reproduce themselves.
female
Therefore, to train their successors, the Tengu was believed
to kidnap people.
Some people claimed to have entered and seen the
trainee of the spiritual practice, attracted Tengu's world, or traveled to various places in a second,
by some temptations during his training, accompanied by a Tengu (some kind of teleportation?).
became this Tengu. It is mischievous, if
not as harmful as the Ma Tengu.
These Tengus are similar to one
So, various strange phenomena were often attributed to
the Tengu.
When in the mountains, sometimes there suddenly
occurred the horrible sound of a huge tree falling down,
although no tree had fallen down. Sometimes horrible
another since all of them were originally laughter could be heard from the top of trees, although we
human.
However, the Ma Tengu and
Koujin Tengu do not possess the divine
atmosphere that the Sannin Tengu does.
In regards to their abilities, the 'top' of the
Sannin and Ma Tengus are equal in power.
The Koujin Tengu is quite inferior, since it
is a dropout from the hard training to
become a Sannin Tengu.
4. The formerly animal Tengus
a. Washi Tengu (Eagle Tengu)
b. Karasu Tengu (Crow Tengu)
c. Haurou (White Wolf)
All of these were originally animals, which
took the form of a Tengu, and still possess the
original character they had as animals. They are
regarded as lower-level beings, so they are usually
ordered to work under the previously human
Tengus.
Still, those Karasu Tengus which are
diligent and have a strong desire to improve
themselves, will continue the training and evolve
themselves into higher beings.
ABILITIES
All Tengus, regardless of the kind, can fly, but they
usually need a fan to control their flight.
The Tengu has extremely strong power. When it gets
on a sacred
angry at those who destroy or bring disgrace
area of the mountain, the Tengu throws huge rocks, breaks
big trees down, and tears the offending people to pieces.
Lastly, the Tengus are able to take any physical form
they wish.
could not see anybody there. The former is called "Tengu-
taoshi (Tengu's breaking down)", and the latter is called
"Tengu no takawarai (Tengu's laughter)".
By the way, in Japan we say "to become a Tengu"
when we describe those who boast about themselves too
much. (Perhaps conceived from the Tengu's long nose?)
[This is the final installment of a four-part series on the
monsters of Japan. I want to express my great thanks
to Kenji for an excellent series of articles!
The Editor]
UFOs: Extraterrestrial
or Terrestrial?
(Part II)
by Mark Gardner
In addition to my interest in aviation hauntings, this is
the other area where two major interests aerospace and
In Issue #13 of Elsewhen I
"strange stuff" - overlap.
presented an introduction to this subject, focussing mainly
on Nazi experiments during World War II. After the war
much of the Nazis' secret technology and research ended up
being brought to America, although the Soviet Bloc got a
The public is well aware of Wernher von
hefty share.
Braun and the other German scientists, as well as the
captured V-2s brought over for testing, since they played a
big role in the development of the U.S. space program.
The U.S. also learned a lot from the Luftwaffe's jet and
the Ar-234 Blitz, Me-163 Komet, Me-262
rocket aircraft
Schwalbe, etc. I contend that other items were brought over
after the war and kept under wraps. These could possibly
have included the secret Feuerball (Fireball) and Kugelblitz
(Ball Lightning) experimental aircraft that the Nazis were
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rumored to be testing at the end of the war, as well as many
other things we can only guess at fifty years later.
The projects and experiments underway in the Third
Reich up to the surrender seems endless. For example, they
were years ahead in jet and rocket aircraft development, the
A-9/A-10 project (the world's first ICBM) was planned
(designed to hit the U.S. and other distant targets), testing
guided missiles, atomic weapons were being designed, etc.
On one occasion a flying boat flew non-stop across the
Atlantic to within 12 miles of New York, then returned to
base. Had they chosen, they could have dropped a couple
bombs on Wall Street or Madison Avenue. This would
have done relatively little damage (just like Doolittle's raid
years before) but would have been an extremely important
morale-booster at home (again, as Doolittle B-25's had in
the U.S. after Pearl Harbor).
From the late 1940s to the present, the U.S. has been
heavily involved in all sorts of research in trying to "push
the edges of the envelope" in speed and altitude. The X-
Plane program was critical in the development of today's
aircraft, the Shuttle, and the National Aerospace Plane
(NASP) project. Some of the material from the Nazis was
instrumental in early designs, but engineers in many areas
quickly left a lot behind in the history books. The fact we
came up with the awesome SR-71 only twenty years after
the end of the war is truly remarkable (and much of its
construction was learn-as-you-go).
How about all these people who claim we recovered
crashed alien spacecraft and are using the technology in our
aerospace industries? Sorry, there is a clear trail of
technological development and evolution over the last ninety
years. Had we recovered alien powerplants or weapons, for
example, this quantum leap in technology would be obvious
by now in our aircraft. With the dangers of the Cold War
any edge was important, especially one that would have left
the Soviets far behind in the dust. There is absolutely no
trace of such a sudden leap in technology!
Do you really think the government kept "alien-based"
stuff hidden, while conventional aircraft and spacecraft
continued to be constructed as a cover? Despite what you
might think, the government would not have wasted its
Alien technology would have
resources that way.
effectively ended the Cold War at any time, saving us lives,
There are too many scientists and
resources and time.
engineers who would not have stood for such a massive
charade. So were conventional jet aircraft and the Mercury-
Gemini-Apollo series just a smoke screen to conceal our
alien technology? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Our test pilots
and astronauts would not have gone along with it. If we
possessed exo-technology, jet engines and rockets would be
a complete waste of time and money. In addition, dozens
of test pilots over the years and more than a dozen
astronauts would have died needlessly. Why sacrifice these
people if we had a more advanced (and safer) alternative?
Someone important would have talked by now.
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The Bookshelf
WORLD ATLAS OF UFOS by John Spencer,
Pub. 1992 by Smithmark Publishers, Inc.,
112 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
192 pages, Index, Bibliography.
Just as there are different types of UFO experiences which
can be put into certain broad categories (Daylight Disc, Close
Encounter of the Third Kind, etc.), there are also broad
categories into which books about UFOs can be placed.
The main elements of most UFO books include: recounting
of reports, speculation about those reports, analysis (often
statistical) of the evidence, narration of the investigation ("how I
did it"), and commentary on the UFO scene.
A book which consists primarily of element one (reports), is
A recent example of this is
referred to as a "seed catalog".
WORLD ATLAS OF UFOs by John Spencer, although it also
includes commentary and some speculation.
It is a large, "coffee table" book, full of pictures. Visually,
it is eye-catching-printed on glossy paper, and featuring many
illustrations, "artist conceptions", and mock-ups. These
drawings, some of which may be original with the book, tend
towards the dramatic, sometimes at odds with the actual
description in the book, i.e. the "Russian Park Giants" are
described in the text as "tall and thin but with tiny heads", while
the accompanying graphic makes them look like broad-chested,
washboard-stomached comic book superheroes.
Aside from that, the book is not particularly sensationalistic,
but written in an entertaining, journalistic style. It is divided
first into geographic regions with a map showing sightings
(although without latitude and longitude) prefacing each section.
A foreword by a local investigator is followed by a chronological
reporting of events and there is an end-piece by Spencer (an
Officer of the International Committee for UFO Research) for
each area.
There is a good mix here of well-known (within the
"community") stories, such as the Roswell "crash" and the Betty
and Barney Hill case, and the more obscure ones, which may
have received little international attention.
It is the latter which are perhaps the more interesting.
Cultural contamination (having your perceptions influenced by
what you are familiar with) has often been used to explain the
similarity in cases in the U.S. This similarity is an important
factor in trying to establish an objective reality to the events.
Suppose that you and I both report that we have seen a car
speeding. If we both also independently report that it was red,
that makes the case much more believable. If, however, we have
both been told beforehand that "red cars always speed", and have
been told that over and over again, we may report that it was red
even if we are not sure. That's why it's valuable to read reports
from people who have not been exposed to the UFO literature,
have not seen "Close Encounters", and may not even be
particularly familiar with aircraft. For instance, in an African
case, the witness sees a "fireball" and then encounters two tall
men in "shiny silver suits". An American would be very likely
to interpret these visitors as the aliens who had been flying the
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the spirits of his ancestors. The book does a commendable job
spacecraft. The African witness thought that they may have been
of not ridiculing the witness' belief, but using it to show us that
have launched spacecraft, and live in a technological society.
our interpretation may be affected by the fact that we actually
This balanced approach, as well as the rare
having. I bought it as a "remainder", a
photographs
"promotionally priced
(including those of people involved) makes the book well worth
book. This type of book is what you normally find in a book
overstocks, store markdowns, or books specifically published to
be sold as remainders (often low-priced reprints). I believe this
store in the SALE section.
The books may be publishen
book is of the last type, and I saw it priced at $17.98.
Bufo Calvin
VISITORS FROM TIME: THE SECRET OF THE UFOS
by Marc Davenport,
Pub. 1992 by Wild Flower Press,
[AD] P.O. Box 230893, Tigard, OR 97281.
280 pages, Index, Bibliography.
Long-time readers of Elsewhen will know about my great
interest in Time. It was with surprise that I received a copy of
this quality book with a title nearly identical to a book I have
been working on for years, although the content and direction of
each is quite different. (Another surprise was that it came from
a publisher only about a 45-minute drive from SUPRA HQ!)
The book contains many stories from all parts of the UFO
mystery, including items involving abductions, recoveries,
"impossible" maneuvers, phenomenal speeds, electromagnetic
effects, the lack of "good" photographs, etc. It is obvious that
the author has read quite a lot of UFO literature. Nearly every
case recounted will be known to avid readers of this subject
The good bibliography and index are welcome and useful.
I found myself disagreeing with some points in the book,
since the author based a lot of his theorizing on still questionable
evidence, such as abductions, the crashed saucer/alien bodies/MJ-
12 stuff, and the Philadelphia Experiment. And, for example, be
cites the Maury Island case of 1947, which has been proven to
have been a hoax to my satisfaction. (And a costly one, too, 25
the two investigators were killed afterwards in a plane crash.)
I always place less value on one-witness or even husband
and-wife stories as solid evidence, for obvious reasons. And I'm
suspicious of witnesses/contactees who are gaining fame and/or
making money out of alleged experiences.
Unrelated and
multiple witnesses are far more credible, yet extremely rare.
That's the evidence I really prefer to use.
Although I may not agree with all his points, I was pleased
to note the author's occasional skepticism in some of the "wild
stories" out there. I was fascinated with how he presented a lo
of the same material I have been gathering for years for my own
book, although some of his conclusions are different.
I liked the chapters "Electromagnetic" Effects, Where Are the
Photographs? and Men In Black, but was most impressed with
his hypothesis that "aliens" and "UFOs" are humans and time
something I have long believed. I
plan to contact the author to share thoughts and ideas. I strongly
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machines from the future
recommend this book to the readers of Elsewhen.
Mark Gardner
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Research Tips
FORTEAN RESEARCH ON A BUDGET:
Building A Visual 3-D Library With
Tip #7
View-Master Reels and Tru-Vue Film Strips
by Gary S. Mangiacopra
No matter how many millions of words you have filed
in your library describing a region where fortean
phenomena have occurred, a visual picture of this area is
immensely valuable and can quickly answer many questions
that you may have. But, as a fortean researcher, I know of
the problem of the lack of available visual images because
nothing accompanied an article someone had written.
Therefore, one must personally supplement a visual image
themselves with their limited research budget. This can be,
at times, a most costly effort if one is forced to buy books
containing photographs of someplace that you are interested
in, or even acquiring photographs from some historical
society. Aside from the problem of financial cost, one must
also lose time while waiting to acquire copies of
photographs from historical societies or other pictures
In these times, due to cutbacks in the number of
workers at such visual media sources, there is a longer
turnaround time before receiving your ordered photographs.
sources.
Yet, many people do not realize that for the past 60
years an unbroken supply of literally hundreds of millions of
visual images was offered to the buying public at the most
nominal of costs. I have found them to be of immense help
What were and still are these visual
in research.
images? The View-Master stereo reels and the Tru-Vue 3-
D film strips!
scenes were
From 1933 to 1951, the Tru-Vue 3-D film strips
(stereo images recorded on 35mm film, containing about 14
scenes) were sold throughout the United States. These
taken by both amateur and professional
photographers for the Tru-Vue Company and covered the
United States primarily, although other countries were also
offered to the public. These Tru-Vue strips contained a
variety of scenes that is somewhat random and refreshing,
compared to the more "Chamber of Commerce"
offered by the View-Master reels. Importantly, these Tru-
Vue film strips from the 20 years the company had
produced them, contain visual images of places that now no
One can compare them with present day
longer exist.
photographs.
scenes
View-Master stereo reels, which the average person is
more familiar with, have been in production since 1938.
They produce far more stereo reels than film strips, and can
still be bought anywhere in the United States and the rest of
the world.
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More worldwide, different subjects were
covered in the half century of their existence that were in 3-
D and in color, while the Tru-Vue film strips were in black
and white (only in their last few years of business were
color film strips produced, whose colors have either faded
or are shifting).
For the past several years I have been building up a
modest, but still growing, 3-D visual library of View-
Master reels and Tru-Vue film strips that I consult when I
wish to comprehend an area that I am investigating. As
these reels are usually several decades old - just as old as
some of the cases that are under current investigation - I
can understand better what may have happened in the past.
And most importantly, if one buys carefully, one can
acquire these reels and film strips at a most reasonable cost.
A good source is always checking local tag, rummage, yard
or garage sales as one may occasionally find some View-
Master reels and stereo viewers at next-to-nothing prices.
[Flea markets are also an excellent place to look for these
items The Editor]
There are two societies that one can join where you can
buy View-Master and Tru-Vue items from either dealers or
private collectors:
Stereo World, the bimonthly publication of the National
Stereoscopic Association, P.O. Box 14801, Columbus, OH,
43214, U.S.A. Annual membership is $22.
ReView,
Collectors
View-Master and Tru-Vue
Association (V.T.C.A.), P.O. Box 47891, Minneapolis,
MN 55447, U.S.A. Annual membership is $9.
Before you buy, compare the prices offered and the
price you are willing to pay. I compare competing prices
very carefully and especially what conditions the items are
in before I buy. Many times I let items go because I feel
that the seller was not asking a fair price for them.
One more tip for those who wish to acquire a
photography library without paying anything for it: Many
older people or people whose relatives have passed on
recently tend to dispose of such items they find, like
slides.
photographs and
equipment,
photography
Photography equipment is sold, but usually photographs and
slides are thrown out in the garbage can, as the person
This is a gross error!
considers these items useless.
Although the majority of such items as slides and
photographs show the typical family outings and events,
some took in their travels typical tourist shots of state parks,
amusement centers, wilderness areas, homesites from the
mid-1930s, etc., when color slides began to be offered to
the general public. These slides, as stated, show areas as
were decades past and are an immensely
they once
invaluable visual record that you can use for reference and,
most importantly, to illustrate an article.
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father and him had taken from the early 1950s on.
learned of these and was given these slides, as he was
throwing them out. Going through them, I acquired several
good shots showing Upstate New York, Nova Scotia, and
Prince Edward Island and most importantly, over half a
dozen showing Lake Champlain (of "Champ" fame) from
the Vermont side in mid-1950s that are going to be included
with an article that I am presently writing. Simply by
asking, I acquired several dozen useable images for future
potential articles at no cost to myself.
When acquiring slides, do not limit yourself to either
35mm size or 126 (as I had acquired from my contact).
Smaller 110 size slides or the even smaller Minox slides can
be blown up to 35mm size for illustrations. Also, the
larger, older slides such as 127, 120, and other odd-sized
slides should not be ignored, as they can be reduced to
35mm size if needed. Even slides the size of 4x5 or 8x10
(or even larger!) can be useable, especially if you can get
them for nothing or at most a very small cost, such as
postage for having them shipped to you.
And, by no means, never overlook any slides that were
produced by amateur stereo-photographers from the late
1940s to the present day. These stereo-realist slides have an
added bonus of their three-dimensional novelty that have
actually helped their survival to the present, instead of being
tossed out on the dump. Also, an amateur 3-D slide has
another bonus of covering an area that was probably missed
by View-Master reels.
So start your own fortean visual library for your own
reference. You will be amazed by how valuable it will soon
become as you turn your status from an amateur into a
professional in this field.
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As I said before, there is a steady trail of development
in technology up to the present. There is nothing out there
known or still classified that does not have solid roots in
human innovation or science, even the B-2 stealth bomber is
the descendent of the late Jack Northrop's flying wings of
the post-war era. And if we could design the SST, SR-71,
XB-70, etc., in the 1960s, what did we come up with in the
70s and 80s? No, alien-based aircraft could have changed
the world dramatically and historically, but there is no
evidence to show this. Alien super-weapons would make us
invincible; the U.S. would have ruled the world.
Those
We just might have our own flying saucers.
They
would have had a long history of research and development.
They are most likely atmospheric vehicles, so we would
have still needed the space vehicles we did.
"impossible" maneuvers can be easily explained by
unmanned vehicles not restricted by human frailty.
Nowadays, there
are sightings and hearings of
mysterious aircraft around the country (see the two clippings
on Page 15). There always have been, since the military
has never stopped testing new aircraft.
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Many top-secret
the test program concludes, the aircraft are often broken
experimental types only have a couple prototypes and after
or cannibalized. There were predecessors to the F-117A
and B-2, as well as fifty years of dead-ends, that we might
never see.
up
What sorts of things are under development
now? The two newspaper clippings on the next page give
tantalizing hints. Let's take the "Pulser" as an example:
Has to be alien-based technology, right?
Wrong! We
return again to WWII Germany to find its probable ancestor
- the FZG-76, better known as the V-1. This unmanned
flying bomb was called a "buzz bomb" or "doodle bug"
because of its distinctive sound. The engine was a type of
pulse jet which made a kind of sputtering or buzzing sound
in flight. I have
no idea where fifty years of
experimentation with this could have lead, but a pulsing
noise with a "doughnuts on a rope" contrail might just
happen to be the great-grandson of the V-1!
I am convinced we have never recovered technology of
extraterrestrial origin, because there is no evidence in the
technological base of our country. I am sure the debris
recovered from the Mac Brazel ranch near Roswell, New
Mexico, in 1947, for example, was from a secret military
test vehicle. The later addition of alien bodies from another
apparently related site (Corona?) is probably a hoax,
although some researchers are sticking to its reality.
(Where are those phantom, missing archaeologist witnesses,
huh? People do make up stories, you know.)
It took us 66 years from Kitty Hawk and the Wright
Brothers' first "hops" to the manned landing on the Moon
- an amazing accomplishment in such a short time - all
with human ingenuity and engineering. In the following 23
years we've come up with the Shuttle, F-117A, B-2, YF-22,
YF-23, the NASP Project, SDI, and are apparently working
on things that might make Buck Rogers' head spin. Why
does amazing performance have to mean “extraterrestrial"?
We humans have been pretty clever from time to time.
When the SR-71 was finally retired by Congress
cutting its funds, there was little outcry.
Since the Air
Force didn't scream very loudly, I immediately suspected
that something else "better" was secretly waiting to take
over the reins. Why keep driving a Pinto when you have a
new Mustang 5.0? Sure, I know today's spy satellites are
extremely capable, but there will always be a need for
reconnaissance aircraft, whether manned or unmanned.
Many UFOs should be reclassified IFOs, since they are
being built and tested in America! Maybe they are already
fully operational. Laymen without a great knowledge of
aviation would probably have been adamant they had seen
alien craft if they had seen an F-117A (something from Star
Wars?) or B-2 (a giant boomerang or Batplane?) before they
became public. This continues to be the case today. The
human memory does strange things when it has seen
something unexpected, ask any policeman who has tried to
get a clear description from a witness to a crime!
I will conclude this subject next time.
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that our readers and contributors send in to Elsewhen.
UFOs? Just new toys
for those Calif. flyboys
By RICHARD SISK
WASHINGTON - They're seeing things out in California again
glowing things that go boom in the sky and look like Elvis "in the
right light." But a new report yesterday said that despite descriptions,
they're likely not "the mother ship" - just new toys for the Air Force.
"Some observers claim to have witnessed a vast, black flying wing,
estimated at 600 feet to 800 feet width, passing silently over city
streets in California," the report said. "The craft moved so slowly that
one observer claimed he could jog along with it."
The 35-page study by the Federation of American Scientists traced
an increasing number of reports of unexplained lights and noises over
the West Coast since October 1990.
"While one might make tongue-in-cheek comments about the
proclivity of those on the western side of the San Andreas Fault to see
mystical bodies," the report said, the frequency and consistency of the
sightings suggests the Air Force is testing a prototype aircraft at Nellis
or Edwards Air Force Base.
The Air Force tested Stealth fighters for years in such secrecy.
Steven Aftergood, one of the authors of the report, jokingly said the
UFOs "look like Elvis in the right light.
But based on the "flattened football" shape and the supersonic
speeds mentioned in the sightings, the report speculated that the
aircraft could be Project Aurora, a rumored successor to the F117A
Stealth fighter, or a successor to the famed SR71 Blackbird spy plane.
The Air Force routinely declined comment yesterday.
(N. Y. Daily News, 4/21/92, page 16.
* * *
- Gary Mangiacopra)
Mystery sightings hint
at super-secret planes
Newsday
WASHINGTON - From the deserts of California to the panhandle
of Texas, civilian observers have reported intriguing hints that the
Pentagon may be testing one or more super-secret aircraft, including
perhaps one with a revolutionary form of propulsion.
They say they have photographed contrails shaped like "doughnuts
," seen delta-shaped aircraft with unusual lights, and heard
on a rope,
engines that pulse with enough force to make walls quiver and sleepers
awake.
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There is speculation the craft may include next-generation spy
planes, either manned or unmanned, capable of flying several times the
speed of sound, matching or exceeding the fastest planes to date.
But the evidence, outlined in recent months in the aviation trade
press, is greeted with skepticism by many analysts, including some
who follow the shadowy world of the Pentagon's secret programs, or
"black budget."
And there has been no consensus among observers on what kind of
craft they may be seeing.
The recent public evidence includes photographs of a high-altitude
contrail over Amarillo, Texas, showing a distinctive pattern that
observers have described as like cotton balls or doughnuts strung along
a rope.
Steven Douglass, a radio hobbyist who photographed the Amarillo
contrail, described the noise of the high-speed craft as a "strange,
loud, pulsating roar... a deep, pulsating rumble that vibrated the
house and made the windows vibrate."
According to Aviation Week magazine, there have been other
reports of pulse-like engine noises and the distinctive contrails have
been reported over Edwards Air Force Base, near Los Angeles;
Portland, Ore.; and Denver.
Experts say witness accounts often are unreliable.
Even where there is hard evidence - a photograph of a contrail in
the sky or seismic activity linked to unexplained sonic booms - the
interpretation is open to question.
Still, the reports in Aviation Week and Space Technology, a
respected trade journal, have sparked considerable interest among
defense and budget analysts who try to determine what the Pentagon
may be up to.
"Black" programs, for which budget figures are not disclosed,
account for an estimated 16 percent of the Pentagon's annual $99.9
billion weapons acquisition program, analysts said.
One source with access to classified budget documents said secret
programs under way include work on novel propulsion systems and on
"stealthy" reconnaissance craft that can elude radar.
William Sweetman, an analyst who has written extensively on
advanced aircraft, said there is some evidence the military may be
working on a "stealthy U-2," a subsonic plane that can loiter at high
altitude and snoop over borders without crossing them.
Sweetman also is convinced that a program once code-named
"Aurora" continues in some form as successor to the supersonic SR-
71, but that "it might well be unmanned."
William Arkin, a former intelligence officer who studies Pentagon
programs for Greenpeace, said the military is aggressively pursuing
high-speed, unmanned drones for reconnaissance and other uses.
Analysts say the "doughnuts-on-a-rope" contrail that has been
reported by observers is consistent with the possible exhaust pattern of
an advanced propulsion design called the "pulse detonation wave
engine."
The principles of such engines have been described in technical
papers at recent aviation meetings.
The pulsers use supersonic shock waves created by successive
small detonations within the engine to trigger fuel combustion.
The design is said to be more efficient than jet engines for
propelling craft designed to fly at speeds of Mach 3-three times the
speed of sound- or higher.
The Air Force managed to fly operational F-117 stealth fighter
planes at an air base near Tonapah, Nev., for several years in the
1980s without public disclosure.
(New Haven (CT) Register, 9/20/92, page B8. - Gary Mangiacopra)
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EXPLAINED!
by Bufo Calvin
MYSTERIOUS MIBS
In some cases, UFO witnesses (and investigators) have
reported being visited by "men in black" (MIBs) who
attempt to dissuade them from publicizing or investigating
UFOs. The record is spotty and inconsistent, but several
odd features have been associated with these experiences.
This strangeness level tends to place them outside of simple
government cover-up attempts.
By no means do all these "skews" occur in all
encounters, but they have become part of the legend of the
MIBs. Let's examine some of these factors, and see how
the Free-Floating theory of time travel can explain them:
The MIBS call on the witnesses before the sighting has
been reported. For many investigators, this is one of the
strangest confirmable facets. Sometimes, the witness is
visited almost immediately after the event. This precludes
the MIBS working on government or police reports. There
are three possibilities here: The MIB is a creation of the
percipient, through paranoia or occult means; the MIB
participated in the event (as, say, a passenger on the UFO)
and followed the percipient home; or the MIB has seen the
report...in the future. The first possibility, the self-created
MIB, requires us to accept that there is no reality as we
know it, or that it is so pliable as to be insignificant. The
second one requires that the "aliens" are prepared to be
sighted, and either keep Earthling clothes and cars on hand,
or can manufacture them on the spot. The third is the
simplest, once we accept that time travel is a possibility.
Let's say that 100 years from now, humans figure out
how to time travel. The Free-Floating theory of time travel
states that time travel is possible right now, that it is a
natural process that we simply haven't figured out yet. It is
important that the future humans keep humans in the past
from being aware of it... otherwise, it devalues its worth to
the culture that will discover it. Therefore, it is reasonable
to assume that they would try to suppress the facts and
into our time-frame.
distract their ancestors (that's us) from their own incursions
The MIBS show an unfamiliarity with everyday objects.
Because someone tries to drink jello, does that make them
an alien? No, it makes them unfamiliar with jello. It is
important to note that the visitors have the gross parameters
of human behavior down: they talk, they wear clothes, they
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doorknob,
show ID, they can drive on the street, open a
etc. This argues against a true alien. They just don't have
the details, which is what we would expect of time
travellers. Suppose I popped you back 100 years. Oh, you
could speak English okay, although it would sound funny
(which is true of the MIBs). However, would you know
how to ride a horse? You might, especially if you knew
approximately when you were going (so you might leam
before you went). But would you know how to use a flint
set, or whatever is right for 1892? Would you know what
to order in a restaurant? Remember that the theory states
that you would not know exactly when you were going, just
probabilities. And would it be worth all the time and effort
to get all the nitpicky things right? No. The MIBS are
probably pretty successful; we just hear about their failures.
The MIBs may drive brand-new-looking out-of-date cars.
Simple enough: Suppose that you knew that you were going
back to a period between 1950 and 1970. Would you have
the supply shop give you a car that looked like it was from
1970? No, because it would be an anachronism in 1950.
However, a 1950 car would be acceptable, although slightly
weird, in 1970. The same thing goes for old-fashioned
clothes.
The MIBs sometimes show that they are in a hurry.
Absolutely. Time travel is not under the control of the
chrononaut. They just take advantage of the process, and a
visit is probably pretty short.
The MIBs are an odd physical type. But not an
Dark skins (which is
unreasonable one for the future.
dominant), strange eyes, less hair. The MIBS may come
from a particular time which chose the witness visit as the
technique to use to slow down discovery in the past.
a Free-Floating
These five clues fit well into
explanation of the MIB phenomenon. Of course, there are
factors that are more difficult to explain, such as a MIB
making a coin vanish. Although they may be perfectly
legitimate, they may also be the result of "noise", either
from hoaxers, unstable witnesses,
or from the MIBS
themselves. The last point is essential in assessing strange
entity accounts. If you can not avoid being seen, discredit
This theory works for all kinds of covert
the witness.
activities. Suppose you were going to break into someone's
house through the roof. If you dressed up in a Santa suit, a
witness reporting that they had seen St. Nick would tend not
to be believed. And the more believable you could make
your Santa impression, the less likely they would be to be
believed!
So if you hear your doorbell ring one night, and see a
big black Cadillac parked outside, prepare to meet the
future!
[Some excellent theorizing! Thanks, Bufo!
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The Men in
Black and UFOs
by Frederick Wisdom
The mysterious "Men in Black" (MIBs) are a curious
part of UFO lore. They have become part of the scenario of
the thing; they show up after an individual has a sighting of
a "flying saucer" and caution against saying anything to
anyone about said sighting. And they demand any film
- that may have been taken.
including negatives-
Though they may not always be dressed in black, that
color is the norm for them: black suits and even black
It's as though they follow Henry Ford's
automobiles.
maxim on car color during the Model T era: "Give 'em any
color they want, as long as it's black." Sometimes they
enter big black automobiles that, when followed, disappear.
If they work for the government as part of the CIA or Air
Force Intelligence, for example, they should be skilled at
"losing pursuers"; if they failed to be able to do such tricks,
it would show that they are poorly trained. (Of course, they
might be the "larval form" of alien entities, possessing the
appearance and capability of an automobile, as well as the
attribute of shape-shifting. If so, let's hope they are non-
polluting individuals.)
There was once a tale of an MIB who came to a house
to question people and was observed to have a wire up his
leg, visible between his sock and pants. Before we begin to
imagine various cyborgs or robotic variations, let's direct
our attention to our chief educational tool the television
set. Any attentive student of TV would recall Miami Vice,
starring Don Johnson, which highlighted drug enforcement
agents in their never-ending fight against unscrupulous
One of their noteworthy tricks was to
criminal elements.
"wear a wire" which would record the guilty villain's
comments for use at his or her trial. So we must ask
whether the man with "the wire up his leg" was not simply
some sort of government intelligence agent wearing a
recording "wire". Lest these considerations should puncture
our interest, we can always fall back on the other aspects of
the MIBS.
own
They are also said to be able to appear suddenly in
installations and facilities of high security where "just
But, of course, if these people
anybody" could not enter.
worked for an important secret branch of our
government and had high "clearances"
IDs and passes -
they could enter many places barred to you and I.
Again, they sometimes look "Eurasian" - but so do
many American citizens. There was one once who did not
know what what "Jello" was. Yet there may be very many
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Americans who have never been inspired by the delights of
that particular product; you don't have to be from Mars or
the Fifth Dimension to not know about any particular food.
On the other hand, are they afraid of Jello? Could it be
used as a secret weapon against the Intruders?
One good thing about the MIBs... So far as I know
they have never been reported as harming anyone. They are
said to have threatened the job security of various people,
The
but may not have actually carried out such threats.
reader must take his choice of opinion, are these MIBs: 1)
myth; 2) tall tales; 3) government or military intelligence
types; or 4) actual aliens from outer space or another
dimension? The answer is not clear.
Movie Scene
The abduction phenomenon has caused a great deal of
controversy. Something unusual is going on, but it is also clear
that many UFO abductions never actually happened. We should
be suspicious of anyone who is making money out of such alleged
experiences. The possibility of a scam is always there. Victims
of various "earthly" crimes - rapes, sexual assault, child abuse,
etc. quite often keep silent for fear of embarrassment, ridicule,
ostracism, further trauma, etc. If I was abducted by aliens and
experimented on, I would definitely never tell anyone!
In the ever-growing abduction literature, there are a number
The memory immediately recalls Betty &
of "famous" cases.
Barney Hill, Whitley Strieber, and Travis Walton. It is this last
individual's story we are interested in here.
On March 12, 1993, Paramount Pictures will be releasing
"Fire in the Sky", starring D.B. Sweeney ("The Cutting Edge"),
Robert Patrick ("Terminator II: Judgment Day"), Craig Sheffer
("A River Runs Through It"), Peter Berg ("Late for Dinner"),
veteran actor James Garner, and Henry Thomas ("E.T.: The
Extraterrestrial"). Produced by Joe Wizan and Todd Black, and
directed by Robert Lieberman from a screenplay by Tracy Tormé,
the new movie recounts the events surrounding the alleged
November 5, 1975, UFO abduction of woodcutter Travis Walton
near White Mountains, Arizona.
Mr. Walton and a group of coworkers claim to have
encountered a UFO while working in the woods. The coworkers
fled in terror as a beam "zapped" Travis. When they gathered the
courage to return later, the UFO and Travis were gone. Five days
later, Travis Walton walked out of the woods with a story about
being abducted by aliens. At the time this occurred, I was still in
Now, more than 17 years later,
school and it really excited me.
some details no longer seem to fit as perfectly as they once did.
As time goes by, it seems more and more likely that this is a
hoax. Still, we should not totally discount this particular case. I
will explore abductions, including this one, in the future.
Whether this abduction really occurred or was just a story
that got out of hand doesn't actually matter. The entertainment
value makes it worth seeing anyway, just as past movies about the
mythical Aurora Encounter, Philadelphia Experiment, and Hangar
18 were. I look forward to seeing this exciting movie, a large part
of which was filmed here in Oregon. I will review it for Elsewhen
in the next issue, hopefully.
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[AD] P.O. Box 94627
Lincoln, NE 68509
Fenómenos Anómalos
C/. Belén, 15-1° Dcha.
28004 Madrid, SPAIN
B.C.S. Cryptozoology Club
#3308 - 8790 Cartier Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6P 4V2
CANADA
Ghost Research Society
[AD] P.O. Box 205
[AD] Oaklawn, IL 60454-0205
Far Out
9171 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
UFO Encounters
[AD] P.O. Box 1142
Norcross, GA 30091