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In this issue:

UK News

U1 Is This Proof That UFOs Exist?
U2 Spaced Out On Flying Saucers And Army Bunkers.
U3 UK UFO Crash?
U4 The People Newspaper UFO Special!
- Space Craft fly into Heathrow airport
- Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
- They Really Got Me Says Kinks Star Dave
- Governments To Brek Silence Over Aliens
U5 Police Are In Dark Over Riddle Of Fast Lights.
U6 Did You See UFO?

World News

W1 Tale Of Stinky Extraterrestrials Stirs Up UFO Crowd In Brazil.
W2 Meteorite Yields Evidence Of Primitive Life On Mars.
W3 President Bill Clinton's Speech On The Search For Life On Mars.
W4 UFO Believers Thrilled With Announcement Of Possible Life On Mars
W5 Roswell UFO Fragment Has Terrestrial Origins
W6 Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have Liquid Water
W7 Life On Mars? Criteria And Evidence
W8 Get Ready
W9 Sagan Skeptica: Matians!

Features
F1 One Year Ago

Endnotes
E1 Feedback

Editorial
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Having now returned from our recent Skywatch we do have a story to tell
although I have to say at this point it has nothing to do with UFOs. Watch
out for our report in the next issue. It's both comical and interesting.

The NASA real audio files regarding the recent announcement of possible
ancient fossils found in an asteroid from Mars are still on our web site and
well worth downloading and keeping. History in the making.

Go to the below address to download a 30 minute long recent epsiode of Cyber
Cafe featuring Mike Wooten from BUFORA and Ros one of our own memmbers who
claims to be an abductee. In Real Audio format.

http://www.crowman.demon.co.uk/

See you next time........

[U1]******

UK News
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Source: Daily Mail newspaper.
Date: Monday 5th August, 1996.

Is this the proof that UFOs exist?

by Jane Kelly

In January 1995, two BA [British Airways] pilots saw this object in the sky
above Britain. After 18 months investigation the aviation authorities are
left with only one explanation...

Out of the winter darkness, on January 6th last year, BA flight 5061 from
Milan began its decent into Manchester's Ringway Airport, flying into a
strong north-westerly wind. Visibility was good, stretching over six miles,
and the crew and passengers were looking forward to touching down.

At 6.48pm, as the Boeing 737 cruised over the Pennines, just above the
rugged cumuls cloud-cover, the pilot, Captain Roger Wills, and First
Officer Mark Stuart, saw something which stunned them.

They ducked instinctively as a triangular, silver-coloured object with a
dark stripe down one side hurtled towards them from the opposite direction.
It disappeared down the right-hand side of the aircraft, only feet from
Officer Stuart's cockpit seat.

For two or three seconds the two men were able to track the object through
the cockpit windscreen and a side window. It was one of the most reliable
sightings of an unidentified flying object ever to have taken place in
Britain. Both men are sensible, well-trained pilots with thousands of miles
between them.

Since that mysterious incident above the Pennines, neither pilot has
spoken in pubuic about their encounter. They have spent months being
teased mercilessly by their colleagues. Should they keep quiet and forget
the incident, or reveal publicly what they saw?

Eventually, Officer Stuart decided that it was, indeed, time to talk about
the extraordinary encounter above Manchester, and to set the record straight
once and for all.

Tomorrow evening, lin a television documentary, Officer Stuart vividly
recreates the moment when he thought his aircraft was about to collide
with a strange and fast moving flying object.

"We were coming back from Milan and were on the last stages of approach, at
about 4,000ft," recalls Stuart. "We were on a northerly course direction
heading towards the airfield, just in the tops of the clouds."

"The captain was flying the aircraft. I was monitoring what was going on; my
job was to keep an eye on the settings."

"My peripheral vision was drawn to something out of the front window. I
actually saw the object coming towards me. It was a silvery grey
wedge-shaped object"

"My reactions was to reach for the control column, to try to get away from
what I felt was an object in very close proximity. My hands never really
went further forward than maybe an inch or two. The object passed very, very
close down the right-hand side."

"I asked the Captain if he had seen it, to which he replied 'yes', he had.
We decide to ask air traffic cmntrol if they had seen anything on the radar.
They replied that they hadn't and asked us if we'd like to file an air miss,
which would lead to an investigation."

"The object didn't alter its course. There was no deviation on the part of
either aircraft. It just came down the side, making no attempt to avoid us,
and we didn't have a chance to take any evasive action. It was over very
quickly, so there wasn't much that could be done."

On landing, both pilots discussed what they had seen. "I suggested to the
Captain that it would be a good idea to draw what we had seen. We both did
so."

"The objects we drew were the same shape, but they differed in texture -
mine was a solid object which I believed had black or grey stripes down the
side."

"I didn't see any windows or anything like that. The Captain drew a
similar shape, but his was made up of lots of different little lights."

"I felt his drawing could be explained by a reflection from our landing
lights as the object went down our right-hand side."

"We then phoned air traffic control and decided that we would file an air
miss, which meant that all the traces from radar would have to be examined
in further detail."

By filing that report, the two men launched themselves onto the treadmill of
rumour mystery that accompanies all such unexplained sightings.

Many airline pilots talk anecdotally of seeing UFOs. But very few report
what they have actually seen, fearful of a sceptical response from their
colleagues. And, until now, no pilot of a commercial British aircraft has
ever spoken publicly about such an incident.

Although Officer Stuart still cannot explain what he and his Captain saw,
there are a number of possibilities.

Could it have been a craft that has become known as the Silent Vulcan, a
supposedly top-secret American military aircraft, so called because its
shape resembles an old Vulcan bomber?

The Silent Vulcan, a similar shape to the Stealth bomber, has allegedly been
seen over Europe and North America, and was first sighted over the Hudson
Valley in upstate New York in 1983.

In Britain, many of the sightings since have taken place in the Pennine
Corridor, which runs from the Midlands to Yorkshire.

In 1990, an object similar to the one seen by Officer Stuart and his
Captain was spotted in Belgium; the Belgian air force scrambled fighter
planes to try to intercept it, but it vanished without leaving radar or
radiation readings.

Conspiracy theorists, who have welcomed the BA incident with glee, point to
the fact that the American F-117 Stealth bomber flew for five years before
the U.S. government confirmed its existance.

Like the Silent Vulcan, it is triangular in shape, and was designed not to
show up on radar screens.

Radar experts, however, do not believe that the BA sighting could have
been a Stealth bomber. It is not allowed to fly in controlled airspace
without being identifiable to ground control.

And even the Stealth bomber cannot explain the speed, agility and rapid
acceleration displayed by the object the BA pilots saw.

The Civils Aviation Authority (CAA) spent months investigating the pilots
claims. They talked to all the flight crews and air staff involved. They
examined recordings and radar tapes which would tell them whether any other
aircraft was in the vacinity of BA flight 5061. They found nothing.

In April this year, the CAA agreed that the crew on board the flight had
seen an unidentified flying object - or, as it prefered to term it, an
'unassessable' object.

The CAA decided that in the absence of any firm evidence or explanation for
the object, it was not possible to assess either the cause of the near miss
or the risk on the encounter.

It concluded that the incident didn't fit any of the normal criteria
applicable to air-miss reports.

Officer Stuart was not happy with the result. "We did not get the answers we
were hoping for," he says. "If I can't explain it and I was there, I cannot
hope that anyone else can ever explain it away."

Despite Stuart's reservations, the CAA response - in conducting such a
thorough investigation - has been seen as a milestone in the official
recognition of the UFO phenomenon.

The Ministry of Defence is still reluctant to discuss the issue of UFOs at
all. Officially, the Ministry does not investigate inexplicable sightings
because they are not considered a threat to national security.

Others tell a different story. For three years Nick Pope headed Air Staff
2a, within the MoD. Part of his work was to investigate UFO reports.

Pope, whose book Open Skies, Closed Minds, was serialised by the Daily
Mail, calls the Silent Vulcan 'the Flying Triangle'. "It behaves in a way
that is beyond the cutting edge of our own technology," he says.

But could the BA pilots have seen the mysterious military craft known as the
Silent Vucan? Or must there be another explanation, that the versatility of
the craft they saw simply cannot be created by humans?

Pope says of sightings like the BA one: "Alien craft are the only logical
conclusion of some sightings. The technology they display is way beyond our
own."

Although the MoD denies any special research, insiders who have worked
within the Ministry claim that the Ministry base at Rudloe Manor, in
Wiltshire, is being used as a centre for secret investigations into aerial
phenomena.

The Public Records Office in Kew, South-London, sheds even more intriguing
light on just how seriously incidents like the BA one are being taken by the
Government.

From the mid-fifties onwards, the MoD has accumulated more than 8,000 UFO
sightings, and has withheld the information under the 30 year secrecy rule.
While many of these accounts are now available at Kew, others will remain
sealed for decades to come.

Officer Stuart knows what he saw. He has kept the drawing of that
mysterious triangular object, and he and his Captain have never changed
their story. They also, of course, cannot explain it.

[U2]******

Source: Western Mail
Date: Wednesday 19 June 1996
From: ll...@evaleres.demon.co.uk

Spaced Out On Flying Saucers And Army Bunkers

From his parents house in Ton Pentre, Rhondda, Mathew Williams masterminds
a non-stop investigation into the possibility of an alien presence in Wales.

This amateur but rather impressive operation is beamed from his bedroom,
involving a photo-copied bi-monthly magazine, various jaunts around the
country looking for secret bunkers, overhead-projection lectures and liaison
with like-minded UFO enthusiasts in Britain.

Mathew even travelled to the Nevada desert in May 1993 to check out a
secret air base, known as Area 51, where the US Government is supposed to be
building UFO-like craft.

Life for the 24 year old former civil servant apparently revolves around his
computer (always handy for creating front-page images for the magazine Truth
Seekers Review), video recorder with accompanying library (titles include
Ozric Tentacles) and, of course, the telephone.

The Big Breakfast and a BBC programme call within half an hour of each
other, although because it is not a direct line, one or other of Matthew's
parents downstairs pick it up as quickly as he does.

The parents - his father is a retired industrial chemist - don't really get
involved. "I don't discuss it with them, to be honest," he says. "They have
got used to me."

His room is so full of files and correspondence that he does not allow the
family's lively labrador Oliver in as he is likely to send everything
flying.

If it wasn't for the mention of a girlfriend (the pair share weird
experiences) it would be easy to believe Mathew, like some intrepid BBC
children's drama hero, is obsessed with the idea we are not alone in South
Wales.

He first became interested in 1990 when he saw what he calls a UFO near
Bwlch Mountain as he travelled to work one evening.

Very large, yellow and sitting on the side of the mountain is how he
describes the vision. "It must have been 300 feet high."

Although his friend, travelling in the passenger seat, didn't see it, the
experience set Mathew thinking.

"This was the weird thing about having my sighting - I didn't think 'hey,
what was that weird thing?' until four or five days later. It was the
thought of seeing something that strange and not being able to realise
you're something strange that perplexed me."

He was recommended a book, Above Top Secret, the Worldwide UFO Coverup, by
Timothy Good. "What an explosive book - UFOs being seen a lot more than we
think and the military knowing about it. Sightings which cannot be explained
by natural means and the fact the British Government, by the end of 1945,
had departments in place looking into stuff in the skies which had affected
their craft."

Mathew cites the Roswell incident which allegedly occurred in 1947 in New
Mexico in the USA. "People did see little aliens -there are plenty of
witnesses - it's a very intriguing case because so many people came up with
the same description of what was seen."

After reading many books - "to acquaint myself with what we are dealing
with" - he became an investigator in his spare time.

"I spoke to people, I took reports, I looked into cover-ups. I became
involved in carrying out hypnosis on people to look into their memories of
missing time."

Around 18 months ago with Cardiff researcher Chris Fowler ("He was
instrumental in getting the Government to admit Rudole Manor in Wiltshire
dealt with UFO information") and Paul Damon ("He has moved to South America
and is carrying on his research there") Mathew started printing Truth
Seekers Review, a 40-odd page non-profit-making publication, priced at
o1.70, which now has 50 subscribers.

"I feel strongly about this subject because I have experienced something."

Since losing his job with Customs and Excise he has been working while he is
on the dole.

Particularly interested in military bunkers, he has travelled to
investigate them in Scotland, Wiltshire and Wales - "The level of security
at these bases is incredible, generals and admirals working around the
clock" - although the bunkers' connections with other worldly presences is
never quite clear.

In the latest edition of Truth Seekers Review, he writes about bunker
spotting. (Other articles include The Krill Files, What is Aurora? and Ley
Lines in South Glamorgan and in the March/April copy readers can choose from
Mutilations in Puerto Rico, Mass Murders in White Coats and Brecon
UFO incident).

Recently he took the BBC to film at a bunker site and the MOD police
accosted them. [uk.ufo.nw - out of this world with Carol Vorderman
-Tuesday 6th August 1996]

"They let us carry on, not showing their aggressive hand in front of the
cameras, but one of the interesting things was, he did say he knew my name.
They all know what we're up to."

In his lectures, he tells people about the abduction research he has been
doing, interviewing people under hypnosis. He concludes that with all his
video evidence - "I have some very impressive footage" - something must be
going on.

If anyone thinks this is all madness, Mathew, a founder member of the
South Wales UFO Group, would disagree.

"They obviously haven't studied the available information. Unfortunately
some sceptics prefer to ignore the evidence even though it's slapping them
in the face.

"You can't get through to some people. The only thing that changes
people's minds is when it happens to them."

In Britain, there are some 2,000 sightings a year. A survey in 1992
showed 50 per cent of Americans believed in UFOs.

Inevitably, he comes in for joking from the kind of people who believe The X
Files is a television programme and no more.

Mathew points out the enormous popularity of the programme and one-off
television specials on the paranormal such as Strange But True. "A lot of
the sightings I hear through word of mouth," he says. "Nearly everyone has
had some sort of unusual experience. Some have seen disc-shaped crafts, some
have seen rocket shapes with big plumes leaving a massive smoke trail.

"Most people wouldn't make it up to be malicious - I think the majority are
genuine. Quite honestly, I don't think they'd have the imagination to think
these things up.

"People don't talk about it because of the fear of ridicule.

"There are women who have met aliens and maybe been on board their craft.
There are stories about how aliens have come into their rooms at night and
surrounded the bed, how these creatures with almond shaped eyes have just
stood there looking at them."

There is, says Mathew, a lot going on we don't know about.

Truth Seekers Review can be contacted on 01443 437853

************ Inset Panel ***********

Flaps, lights and balls

Cardiff has had quite a few sightings over the last few years, according to
Mathew, and the South Wales valleys are also a hotbed - several coming from
Pontypridd, Abercynon and Quaker's Yard.

In the seventies there was "a lot of activity" in West Wales - one area
became known as the Welsh Triangle.

"People in Pembroke were seeing unusual lights in the sky and the RAF
reported that they were not doing any strange maneouvres which could have
caused these.

"In North Wales, there are tales of triangular UFO craft. Near Liverpool in
November 1994 there was a flap - the term for a large set of sightings."

He has investigated sightings in Brecon - "ghost lights" seen in the
distance which followed people home. More recently three people claim to
have seen a UFO - "a large ball of glowing light was seen to rise into the
sky" - near a military base in Brecon.

[U3]******

From: gordon millington <gf...@dial.pipex.com>
Date sent: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 11:52:33 +0000
Organization: Surrey Investigation Group on Aerial Phenomena (SIGAP)

November 1993 was the date given for the alleged crash. Original info was
posted by James Easton (te...@vaxb.herriot-watt.ac.uk).

U.K. UFO CRASH?
Hushabye for Tony's Baby?

by GORDON MILLINGTON

On April 24th 1994 "QUEST", one of Britain's leading UFO research groups,
held its quarterly meeting at the Centenary Hall in Leeds. Director of
Information and Research, former police sergeant Anthony Dodd, told the
fifty or so members assembled there that he was receiving eye witness
accounts of a UFO crash which had occurred in a remote rural area "somewhere
north of Birmingham" during November 1993. He claimed that for the previous
five months a security operation, presumably conducted by the MoD, had
enforced with armed troops an exclusion zone around the site.

The cigar-shaped UFO, he said, had created an impact trench three feet
deep, one hundred and ten feet wide and over a mile long. In an attempt to
hide the object, which was, it seemed, far too big to move, the site had
been covered over with earth by bulldozers, and a hangar was in process of
construction. Journalists quoted unconfirmed reports locating the crash on
MoD land somewhere in the county of Cleveland in north-east England, but
Tony Dodd refused to give more precise details lest his eager audience, who
were already fingering their car keys, brought the meeting to a premature
end by burning up the tarmac to Cleveland!

Instead he told them how one of the two witnesses who actually saw the
crash had suffered a nervous breakdown after seeing "entities" fleeing the
scene of the crash. Farmers had since reported mutilation of livestock
-maybe entities have to eat? - and considerable disturbance of nearby
wildlife habitats. Local contacts seeking to photograph the site had been
turned away by the armed soldiers guarding it.

There is a suggestion that the witnesses were Animal Liberation Front
members, who were not supposed to have been on MoD land anyway and were
probably seeking to indulge in activities likely to incur official
disapproval. One witness has completely disappeared and the other, after
having been chased all round the country, was eventually caught and finally
surfaced in France minus her memory. Allegedly it took four hypnosis
sessions to restore it. It is now thought that the object has been broken up
and moved, but parts of it which investigators claimed to have obtained and
mailed to Tony never reached him.

The principal informant had his house searched by a team of men using the
Official Secrets Act, and it is believed that the media were served with "D"
notices, which prevented them from reporting the case.

When I met Graham Birdsall, editor of the Quest magazine "UFO", at a
recent conference where we were both speaking, I would have raised the
matter with him had I not known he had already been harried by journalists
seeking details of the crash site and refused to reveal it.

One of them had asked bitterly: "What's the difference between a
government agency that hides information for the good of the public, and a
research group that hides information for the good of the subject?" Nick
Pope had nothing to say on the matter in his book - maybe it was in a file
he didn't get to see!

[U4]******

Source: The People newspaper
Date: 7th July 1996
From: John Hayes <jo...@ufoinfo.ftech.co.uk>
Visit UFOINFO at http://www.ftech.net/~ufoinfo/index.htm

Hi Dave,

Below are a few articles from The People Newspaper 7th July 1996.

SPACECRAFT FLY INTO HEATHROW AIRPORT

A giant "bat-shaped" UFO has shadowed aircraft as they land at London's
Heathrow airport. The craft was spotted by a married couple as it passed
over their Hammersmith home.

Chris Rowe, 31, and his wife Leisa watched in amazement as the UFO hovered
underneath the glide path for the world's busiest airport. Later they
spotted military helicopters flying up and down the course taken by the UFO.

The sighting took place on a clear evening last May and friends of the
couple, who live closer to the airport, also spotted the craft.

"There was no engine noise, no flashing lights, nothing." said Chris. "It
was a clear night so we got an excellent view of it. It was about 30 or 40
metres in length and was surrounded by a bright white light.

"I telephoned a friend who lives near the airport and he and his colleague
saw it more closely. It looked circular but on closer inspection it had a
bit missing...like the Batman symbol on TV."

Chris and Leisa, 33, a nurse, recorded the UFO on video, which is now with
investigators at UFO group Quest International. (Publishers of the U.K. UFO
Magazine - John)

After watching the UFO for 30 minutes, the couple saw two more objects
appear - one a smaller version of the bat-shaped craft.

Chris's friend said: "The smaller craft was performing aerobatics at an
enormous speed. It was looping the loop and going from side to side, up and
down. It was amazing.

"Then suddenly another object appeared with two single flashing red
lights. We thought it was a plane until we realised it was going in the
opposite direction to the flight path."

After 40 minutes the UFOs disappeared but later the couple saw several
military helicopters combing the area around Hammersmith and Heathrow.

Tony Dodd, director of investigations at Quest said: "This is an
exceptionally interesting sighting. It's not uncommon for people who've seen
UFO's to also see military aircraft suddenly appearing.

"We know the military track UFOs and send aircraft to try and intercept
them."

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Aliens have landed in the South of England...and brought terror to the
bedroom of a young mum.

The 32 year old, known as "Jane" told the UFO magazine Encounters how the
space beings visit her EVERY seven years.

And investigators fear that the attractive mum's body could be at the
centre of bizarre genetic experiments.

Jane told how 2ft tall, grey-coloured aliens:

- Materialised in the bedroom of her Southampton home after walking
through a wall.

- Zapped her with waves of sound, light, and foul smells which left her
unable to move, or seek help from her husband.

- Produced out-of-this world hi-tech devices before punching a tube into her
belly button.

The report said: "The insertion didn't hurt, but the resulting entry led to
an intense burning pain that shot down either side of her body towards what
Jane described as her ovarian area."

The UFO dossier, called Genetic Harvesting, added: "This left her in no
doubt that they were snatching eggs from her body."

Researcher Marcus Walker said "Jane most definitely wouldn't be the first or
last to claim that her sexual organs were tampered with by these creatures.

"There are countless reports of men having sperm removed and women being
subjected to implantation and pregnancy testing.

"These are very common in abduction stories worldwide."

- ALIENS are also devouring and maiming cattle - and stealing THEIR body
parts - along the Ulster border in Northern Ireland, according to terrified
residents.

Farmers in South Armagh and North Louth have found mutilated cows - and have
dismissed the possibility that they were attacked by wild animals.

One farmer described how a cow was drained of blood and flesh removed from
its head.

He said: "What was really scary was that vital organs had also been
removed via a clean incision which could only have been made with hi-tech
equipment.

"A surgeon couldn't have done this."

UFO Researcher Miles Johnston, of Quest International, said: "I have
talked to a number of people who witnessed a large circular ball of light
with a smaller revolving circular ball around it.

The incidents with the animals happened in the same area. Organs were
removed by what must have been a laser-type device."

- A SMALL rural community in Lancashire is constantly being bombarded...by
golden orange UFOs.

Investigators believe that Pendle Hill - one-time haunt of the legendary
Lancashire Witches - has become a "window" for constant UFO activity.

Experts form UFOWATCH, who monitor mysterious goings-on in the skies over
Britain, have compiled an incredible dossier of sightings, aerial chases,
paranormal manifestations, and horrific animal mutilations.

One witness said: "On one occasion I saw a ball of orange light pulling up
to clear Earby Moor, and RAF jets were soaring after it. I was completely
overawed."

Another male witness said: "A gigantic UFO floated over my head. It was so
big you could not see its front or back.

"It was as big as, if not bigger, than two aircraft carriers coupled
together."

The area has also seen evil animal mutilations, similar to those found in
notorious UFO hotspots in the USA.

A housewife told investigators: "I found five or six field mice laid out in
a horizontal line. They each had a hole in their head, and their brain, and
spinal cord had been detached."

- HUGE triangular spaceships are being sighted all over North-East England.

And top UFO investigator Tony Dodd is demanding the Government come clean
about the sightings.

Dodd a retired police sergeant with 25 years' service said: "I have no
doubt, through my confidential contacts in the military and intelligence,
that the things sighted in the North East of England are not of this world.

"Three crucial factors indicate that they must be extra-terrestrial
vehicles.

"They are huge - the size of football pitches - and they have a capacity for
silent running. No engineers are ever heard.

"Thirdly, they can hover. All my specialist sources indicate that no
country in the world has the capacity to produce such craft, not even the
Americans."

- A HUGE glowing UFO left three teenagers in shock when it hovered over a
house in Tamworth, Staffs.

The machine, which was bathed in white light before changing into a black
triangle, was just above the rooftop.

Yet it hovered without making a sound before speeding off at supernormal
speed when the trio of youngsters cried out in alarm.

Marilyn Aldworth who founded West Midland UFO Sightings with husband Rob,
said: "This is one of our most fascinating close encounters.

"Hundreds of black triangular craft have been sighted all over the UK and
the continent. But this is the closest anyone has been to one."

The strange incident took place in the early hours of the morning as the
three friends made their way home after a night out.

They watched in terror as small white lights appeared in the sky followed by
a huge ball of glowing white light hovering over a nearby house.

The globe than changed into a large black triangle which hovered overhead.

Aldworth said: "The craft was virtually soundless apart from a very slight
hum."

- UFO sightings have been reported at one of Britain's most secret RAF
installations.

Witnesses have told investigators of encounters with spinning globes,
flying discs, and "balls of luminosity." They claim to have seen flying
saucers hovering over the RAF station. And some have even seen LANDINGS
inside the spy base - at Chicksands, Beds.

UFO investigator Kenneth Parsons said: "There is certainly something
happening there - something the authorities do not want to talk about.

"There are so many sightings by so many different people."

Parsons, of the British Earth And Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) added:
Other reports we've received tell of glowing lights in nearby woods.

"Discs, cigar shapes, and balls of luminosity have all been seen by
locals."

One mysterious landing was reported to BEAMS by an ex-RAF officer. Parsons
said: "The man saw a bright cylinder hovering above the base which ho could
only describe as 'liquid light'."

And the witness told the UFO-buster: "As an ex-RAF man, I know this wasn't
the landing of any known aircraft."

- BRIGHTON and the south coast have been identified as a "window" to alien
worlds.

According to investigators from UFO group Skysearch sightings have soared
around the famous seaside resort.

Skysearch founders Larry Dean and Patricia Begley have little idea why
weirs UFO encounters are spiralling. But their investigations have turned
into a full-time job.

Larry said: "We know that certain areas act as windows allowing UFOs to
visit us. We must assume we are sitting right under one of them."

THEY REALLY GOT ME SAYS KINKS STAR DAVE

ROCK star Dave Davies, founder member of Sixties band The Kinks, was
KIDNAPPED by mind-bending aliens, The People can reveal.

He claims the extra-terrestrials contacted him during an American tour - and
later showed him their spaceship.

And Davies, who together with his brother Ray recorded worldwide smash
hits like Waterloo Sunset, Lola and You Really Got Me, believes the
creatures are still guiding him through life.

He says that the world should start to prepare for the official arrival of
life from other planets in time for the new millennium in 2000.

Davies says he first experienced paranormal mind contacts with aliens
during the Kinks US tour in 1982.

He said: "I felt a pressure on my head, and the lower part of my body went
numb. Then I started hearing voices - five different voices.

"Two of them were intelligences from another planet, monitoring events
that happen on Earth.

"Two of the remaining three intelligences told me that they had always
been my spirit guides. The other was someone that was still living on
Earth.

"The intelligences showed me, by some sort of thought projection, things
which they have on their spacecraft.

"They showed me crystal computers that monitor every single person living on
Earth.

"They are a bit like polished granite - sort of transparent to look at - but
the insides were crystal.

"What my brain found hard to grasp was that they had records of everybody on
Earth and could monitor and watch their behaviour.

"They had a karmic photograph of each person."

Davies also believes the millennium will herald the first official
contacts between aliens and man. But he says that humans have to make the
first advances.

"An important message they left with me was that if we make a few steps
towards them, then they'll make steps towards us," he said.

Davies made his startling confessions to the UFO magazine Encounters. And he
is not the only big-name rocker to go public on a fascination with UFOs.

- Troggs star Reg Presley spends much of his fortune studying corn circles
and the possibility of life on other planets.

- David Bowie, who once worked on a UFO research magazine, claimed several
sightings of strange craft flying in formation.

- Murdered Beatle John Lennon said he once saw a "pulsating" red
spacecraft while walking in New York.

- And Jimi Hendrix also predicted weird alien revelations in the year
2000.

GOVERNMENTS TO BREAK SILENCE OVER ALIENS

THE world's Governments are finally ready to end their 50-year silence on
the existence of UFOs.

US astronauts, air force personnel, and high-ranking intelligence officers
have all made formal statements about their knowledge of alien
civilisations. All they want is security clearance to tell their stories.

Researchers now believe the world has never been closer to hearing the
truth.

American UFO expert Dr Richard Boylan, who has been studying UFOs since
1947, said: "Generals, admirals, and even Russian cosmonauts are willing to
testify to a congressional committee.

"They will all talk about UFOs - provided they are released from their
national security oaths."

In Britain, Ministry of Defence UFO Investigator Nick Pope has gone public
on his belief in aliens.

And Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff, claims the
Government is behind a UFO cover-up.

[U5]******

Source: (Saturday) Herald Express newspaper
Date: Saturday 3rd August 1996
From: alla...@mail.enterprise.net (Allan Lindgren)

POLICE IN DARK OVER RIDDLE OF FAST LIGHTS

Mysterious lights in the sky are buzzing South Devon police!

The baffling X-Files apparitions, described as a "peaceful glow" and
"shooting rings" have baffled members of the area's law abnd order
establishment. The heavenly show was first spotted by retired Dawlish
policeman Roger Gardner on Wednesday. But since the report of the lights
above his Holcombe home appeared in Thursday's Herald Express he has been
inundated by calls from other witnesses. Retired Torquay police inspector
Ken Radford was driving between Totnes and Newton Abbot at 11pm on Wednesday
night when he saw the lights. "A big ring of light came tiwards us followed
by mayby half a dozen smaller rings2, said the 65-year old.

1,000mph

The rings were above tree hight, he said, but their exact altitude and
size was difficult to judge. "They were moving at terrific speeds - maybe
1,000mph" he added. He pulled over on the side of the road, but as his wife
Jill and family got out of the car the lights vanished. On the same night
ex-prison officer Vivien Peters, 40, was sitting on the backdoorstep of her
Teignmouth home when she saw a softly glowing ovalshaped light above the
trees at around 10.30pm. "It hovered then shot across about 500 yards,
hovered and then shot back again" she said.

And the mysterious UFO's even put in an appearance over Devon and Cornwall
police's Middlemoor HQ when strange green lights were spotted by nearby
residents. A police spokesman said: "We've enough problems on the ground
without dealing with things in the sky!"

Air taffic controllers at Exeter airport said they were not aware of any
unusual objects showings up on their radar screens on Wednesday night.

[U6]******

Source: Waltham Forest Yellow Advertiser
Date: August 09, 1996

Did you See UFO?

A UFO studies group is asking Yellow Advertiser readers to help in its
investigation of a strange flying object that appeared over the east
London and Essex sky last week.

The brightly lit metallic object was seen to pass over Thurrock, Havering,
Redbridge and Waltham Forest before disappearing very quickly from view.

One reader who saw the object which appeared in the early hours of last
Thursday morning (01/08/96), was Mrs Sylvia Thompson of Billet
Road,Walthamstow.

"I was in bed but couldn't sleep and was drawn by bright lights in the
sky," said Mrs Thompson.

"It was like a halo with red and yellow lights flashing out of it and it was
very beautiful.

"It didn't make an aircraft sound,more like a whirring sound.It moved
about 200 feet above the houses for less than a minute and then was gone.

[W1]******

World News
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From: pwe...@nwu.edu
Date sent: Wed, 3 Jul 1996

Source: front-page article in "Wall Street Journal"

Tale of Stinky Extraterrestrials Stirs Up UFO Crowd in Brazil
By MATT MOFFETT
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

VARGINHA, Brazil -- The incident that made this town a hot spot in the
intergalactic search for intelligent life started quite innocently. On a
Saturday afternoon stroll in January, a trio of young women decided to take
a shortcut home through a vacant lot. In a clump of weeds, the three said,
they encountered a creature like nothing they had seen before.

"It wasn't a man or an animal -- it was something different," said one of
the women, Katia Andrade. The being had oily, brown skin and rubbery limbs,
she said. Three rounded protrusions sprouted from its oversized head.
Standing out in a different way was the creature's odor: One ghastly whiff
weakened the knees. As for the stranger's demeanor, the women unanimously,
if tactlessly, agreed: It was "muddle-headed." When the creature wagged its
big noggin dizzily in their direction, the three women ran off.

Word of this encounter, spreading rapidly through the coffee bars where
Varginha's 120,000 inhabitants trade gossip, would soon meld in the public
imagination with other unusual occurrences: sightings of a strange
cigar-shaped flying object, a mustering of troops and vehicles at a nearby
infantry base and a peculiar bustle at the municipal hospital. Goaded by
self-styled UFO savants and a ravenous national media, residents rather
matter-of-factly embraced a stupefying conclusion: Several aliens from a
wayward space ship had been captured and brutalized by troops from the
Brazilian army.

Creature Feature

Bristling denials from the military, which once compiled a lengthy record of
abuses against the terrestrial population, have only served to inflame
public suspicion. The upshot: The army and the now-famous space aliens find
themselves locked in a pitched battle for the hearts and minds of this
provincial community. Doltish and malodorous though these space celebrities
might be, mere men in uniform are proving no match for the first creatures
of any kind from Varginha to land on a national magazine cover.

"For extraterrestrials they may not be much, but they are the biggest
thing we've ever had in Varginha," says a young woman named Nilda,
scanning the nighttime sky from a downtown park bench. Had the armed
forces not interfered, she says, locals might have scrubbed the visitors,
taught them the language ... in sum ... made something of them. "But they
never had a chance," Nilda says with a sigh. Her anger at the military's
alleged inhospitality sparked a tiff with her boyfriend, a private in the
infantry.

Mystic Point

The army finds itself besieged on several fronts. A local mystic predicts
that Varginha will suffer some kind of cataclysm this September as
retribution for its blitzkrieg on the interplanetary visitors. An
armed-forces news conference marking "Victory Day" in World War II
degenerated into a shouting match between a general and a television
reporter pressing him about the extraterrestrials. An official briefing to
debunk UFO conspiracies was overshadowed by an auto mechanic's claim to have
seen yet another weird cylindrical aircraft, a cosmic encounter he
re-enacted with the aid of an aluminum coffee thermos.

To some extent the army is paying for past sins. During an oppressive
20-year dictatorship ending in 1985, the Brazilian military eliminated any
number of earthbound political enemies by "disappearing" them. If the army
was capable of liquidating human beings without a trace, locals ask, why
couldn't it carry such a "dirty war" to outer space?

In truth, the current, cash-strapped incarnation of Brazil's army poses
little threat to anyone, least of all an enemy that might have ray guns. In
some training exercises Brazilian troops have been reduced to pointing their
rifles and shouting "bang" in order to save ammo.

At the army base near Varginha, an inquiry concerning the
extraterrestrials is received warily by a private, who turns it over to a
sergeant, who then passes it along to a major. From there the matter is sent
back down to another sergeant, who hands the question over to Capt. Eduardo
Calza, the outfit's sad-sack spokesman. "You know, I used to get calls about
the base talent show," he says.

The Official Explanation

Capt. Calza says he can't vouch for what the three women saw in January. But
the activity on the base that fateful weekend, he insists, was anything but
otherworldly: New inductees to a sergeants' training school went on parade
and a truck convoy was driven to the repair shop. Concurrently, at the town
hospital, trucks delivered new cardiovascular equipment and an ambulance
dropped off an exhumed corpse -- a human body, officials insist.

"Sure, tell us another story," says Vitorio Pacaccini, the bearded,
effusive UFO investigator at the eye of the Varginha storm. Based upon
interviews with supposed eyewitnesses, Mr. Pacaccini has pieced together
what he considers to be a more plausible reconstruction of January's events:
A small alien craft on an unknown mission over Varginha crashed near the
city limits, sending its crew of smelly, spaced-out extraterrestrials
ambling about the town. Subsequently, Mr. Pacaccini maintains, military
death squads in camouflage fatigues hunted down the visitors, poked and
prodded the corpses at the municipal hospital, and then shipped them off to
parts unknown. "It's very straightforward," he says.

Mr. Pacaccini's brand of hucksterism is characteristic of the frontier
atmosphere in a town where the architecture is of the Quonset-hut school and
the newspaper is staffed by a lone reporter. Since the initial sighting, Mr.
Pacaccini, a longtime UFO buff, has essentially abandoned his job as a
business consultant to provide one-stop shopping for visiting journalists.

To date, Brazil's leading television magazine has done three programs
here. A two-hour nationally televised documentary on Varginha pulled in so
many viewers on a recent Saturday night that it was repeated in its entirety
the following weekend. Two of the women who made the initial sighting now
demand $200 for each interview.

Alien Playground

With an eye toward promoting Varginha, city fathers are thinking of
building a park in the creature's honor. Deputy Mayor Paulo Vitor Freire
says: "We would never have imagined that so many international organizations
take interest in cases like ours."

Yes Varginha, there is a support group known as Abductees Anonymous and a
research organization called Operation Right to Know. Stanton Friedman, a
Canada-based UFO expert, says Varginha has the makings of a "cosmic
Watergate."

If anything, the case may be suffering from eyewitness overkill. By now
there have been so many sightings of the creature -- seven at last count
--that it is unclear how all of these beings could have fit into the
minivan-sized spacecraft that was spotted here in January. "Lots of us get
into cars with five or six other passengers in them," Mr. Pacaccini retorts,
drawing a down-to-earth analogy. True, but usually on short trips; seldom
when driving to another galaxy.

Mr. Pacaccini's most tantalizing proofs are videotaped statements by two
young men in civilian clothes who claim to be members of the military detail
that disposed of the alien visitors. It is impossible to determine the
tapes' authenticity, however, since Mr. Pacaccini won't reveal the men's
names. He says they fear reprisals.

There is also a troubling lack of physical evidence, unless you count
descriptions of a paw print seen by one witness. The print is said to
resemble what a human hand would look like with the palm flat, and a space
opened up between the ring and pinky fingers and the other three digits.
Fans of the old Star Trek series may sense a stirring of recognition. It
looks remarkably like Mr. Spock's Vulcan salute.

Copyright c 1996 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[W2]******

Source: NASA
Date: August 7, 1996

Nasa press release.

METEORITE YIELDS EVIDENCE OF PRIMITIVE LIFE ON EARLY MARS

A NASA research team of scientists at the Johnson Space Center and at
Stanford University has found evidence that strongly suggests primitive life
may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago.

The NASA-funded team found the first organic molecules thought to be of
Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological
activity; and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like
organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a
meteorite. This array of indirect evidence of past life will be reported in
the Aug. 16 issue of the journal Science, presenting the investigation to
the scientific community at large to reach a future consensus that will
either confirm or deny the team's conclusion.

The two-year investigation was co-led by planetary scientists Dr. David
McKay, Dr. Everett Gibson and Kathie Thomas-Keprta of Lockheed-Martin, all
from JSC, with the major collaboration of a Stanford team headed by
Professor of Chemistry Dr. Richard Zare, as well as six other NASA and
university research partners.

"There is not any one finding that leads us to believe that this is
evidence of past life on Mars. Rather, it is a combination of many things
that we have found," McKay said. "They include Stanford's detection of an
apparently unique pattern of organic molecules, carbon compounds that are
the basis of life. We also found several unusual mineral phases that are
known products of primitive microscopic organisms on Earth. Structures that
could be microsopic fossils seem to support all of this. The relationship of
all of these things in terms of location - within a few hundred thousandths
of an inch of one another - is the most compelling evidence."

"It is very difficult to prove life existed 3.6 billion years ago on
Earth, let alone on Mars," Zare said. "The existing standard of proof,
which we think we have met, includes having an accurately dated sample
that contains native microfossils, mineralogical features characteristic of
life, and evidence of complex organic chemistry."

"For two years, we have applied state-of-the-art technology to perform
these analyses, and we believe we have found quite reasonable evidence of
past life on Mars," Gibson added. "We don't claim that we have conclusively
proven it. We are putting this evidence out to the scientific community for
other investigators to verify, enhance, attack -- disprove if they can --as
part of the scientific process. Then, within a year or two, we hope to
resolve the question one way or the other."

"What we have found to be the most reasonable interpretation is of such
radical nature that it will only be accepted or rejected after other groups
either confirm our findings or overturn them," McKay added.

The igneous rock in the 4.2-pound, potato-sized meteorite has been
age-dated to about 4.5 billion years, the period when the planet Mars
formed. The rock is believed to have originated underneath the Martian
surface and to have been extensively fractured by impacts as meteorites
bombarded the planets in the early inner solar system. Between 3.6 billion
and 4 billion years ago, a time when it is generally thought that the planet
was warmer and wetter, water is believed to have penetrated fractures in the
subsurface rock, possibly forming an underground water system.

Because the water was saturated with carbon dioxide from the Martian
atmosphere, carbonate minerals were deposited in the fractures. The team's
findings indicate living organisms may also have assisted in the formation
of the carbonate, and some remains of the microscopic organisms may have
become fossilized, in a fashion similar to the formation of fossils in
limestone on Earth. Then, 15 million years ago, a huge comet or asteroid
struck Mars, ejecting a piece of the rock from its subsurface location with
enough force to escape the planet. For millions of years, the chunk of rock
floated through space. It encountered Earth's atmosphere 13,000 years ago
and fell in Antarctica as a meteorite.

It is in the tiny globs of carbonate that the researchers found a number of
features that can be interpreted as suggesting past life. Stanford found
easily detectable amounts of organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentrated in the vicinity of the carbonate.
Researchers at JSC found mineral compounds commonly associated with
microscopic organisms and the possible microscopic fossil structures.

The largest of the possible fossils are less than 1/100th the diameter of a
human hair, and most are about 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair -small
enough that it would take about a thousand laid end-to-end to span the dot
at the end of this sentence. Some are egg-shaped while others are tubular.
In appearance and size, the structures are strikingly similiar to
microscopic fossils of the tiniest bacteria found on Earth.

The meteorite, called ALH84001, was found in 1984 in Allan Hills ice
field, Antarctica, by an annual expedition of the National Science
Foundation's Antarctic Meterorite Program. It was preserved for study in
JSC's Meteorite Processing Laboratory and its possible Martian origin was
not recognized until 1993. It is one of only 12 meteorites identified so far
that match the unique Martian chemistry measured by the Viking spacecraft
that landed on Mars in 1976. ALH84001 is by far the oldest of the 12 Martian
meteorites, more than three times as old as any other.

Many of the team's findings were made possible only because of very recent
technological advances in high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and
laser mass spectrometry. Only a few years ago, many of the features that
they report were undetectable. Although past studies of this meteorite and
others of Martian origin failed to detect evidence of past life, they were
generally performed using lower levels of magnification, without the benefit
of the technology used in this research. The recent discovery of extremely
small bacteria on Earth, called nanobacteria, prompted the team to perform
this work at a much finer scale than past efforts.

The nine authors of the Science report include McKay, Gibson and
Thomas-Keprta of JSC; Christopher Romanek, formerly a National Research
Council post-doctoral fellow at JSC who is now a staff scientist at the
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory at the University of Georgia; Hojatollah
Vali, a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow at JSC and a staff
scientist at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Zare, graduate
students Simon J. Clemett and Claude R. Maechling and post-doctoral student
Xavier Chillier of the Stanford University Department of Chemistry.

The team of researchers includes a wide variety of expertise, including
microbiology, mineralogy, analytical techniques, geochemistry and organic
chemistry, and the analysis crossed all of these disciplines. Further
details on the findings presented in the Science article include:

Researchers at Stanford University used a laser mass spectrometer -- the
most sensitive instrument of its type in the world - to look for the
presence of the common family of organic molecules called PAHs. When
microorganisms die, the complex organic molecules that they contain
frequently degrade into PAHs. PAHs are often associated with ancient
sedimentary rocks, coals and petroleum on Earth and can be common air
pollutants. Not only did the scientists find PAHs in easily detectable
amounts in ALH84001, but they found that these molecules were concentrated
in the vicinity of the carbonate globules. This finding appears consistent
with the proposition that they are a result of the fossilization process. In
addtion, the unique composition of the meteorite's PAHs is consistent with
what the scientists expect from the fossilization of very primitive
microorganisms. On Earth, PAHs virtually always occur in thousands of forms,
but, in the meteorite, they are dominated by only about a half-dozen
different compounds. The simplicity of this mixture, combined with the lack
of light-weight PAHs like napthalene, also differs substantially from that
of PAHs previously measured in non-Martian meteorites.

The team found unusual compounds -- iron sulfides and magnetite -- that are
commonly produced by anaerobic bacteria and other microscopic organisms on
Earth. The compounds were found in locations directly associated with the
fossil-like structures and carbonate globules in the meteorite. Extreme
conditions --conditions very unlikely to have been encountered by the
meteorite -- would have been required to produce these compounds in close
proximity to one another if life were not involved. The carbonate also
contained tiny grains of magnetite that are almost identical to magnetic
fossil remnants often left by certain bacteria found on Earth. Other
minerals commonly associated with biological activity on Earth were found in
the carbonate as well.

The formation of the carbonate or fossils by living organisms while the
meteorite was in the Antarctic was deemed unlikely for several reasons. The
carbonate was age dated using a parent-daughter isotope method and found to
be 3.6 billion years old, and the organic molecules were first detected well
within the ancient carbonate. In addition, the team analyzed representative
samples of other meteorites from Antarctica and found no evidence of
fossil-like structures, organic molecules or possible biologically produced
compounds and minerals similiar to those in the ALH84001 meteorite. The
composition and location of PAHs organic molecules found in the meteorite
also appeared to confirm that the possible evidence of life was
extraterrestrial. No PAHs were found in the meteorite's exterior crust, but
the concentration of PAHs increased in the meteorite's interior to levels
higher than ever found in Antarctica. Higher concentrations of PAHs would
have likely been found on the exterior of the meteorite, decreasing toward
the interior, if the organic molecules are the result of contamination of
the meteorite on Earth.

[W3]******

Source: NASA Web Site.

The Enterprise Mission

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

Speech at White House on Search for Life on Mars Conference

August 7, 1996, 1:34 p.m.

I would like to make some comments about today's announcement by NASA.

This is the product of years of exploration, and months of intensive study
by some of the world's most distinguished scientists. Like all discoveries,
this one will and should continue to be reviewed, examined and scrutinized.
It must be confirmed by other scientists. But clearly the fact that
something of this magnitude is being explored is another vindication of
American's space program, and our continuing support for it, even in these
tough financial times.

I am determined that the American space program will put its full
intellectual power and technological prowess behind the search for further
evidence of life on Mars. First, I have asked Administrator Goldin to ensure
that this finding is subject to a methodical process of further peer review
and validation. Second, I have asked the Vice-President to convene at the
White House, before the end of the year, a bi- partisan space summit on the
future of American's space program. The significant purpose of this summit
will be to discuss how America should pursue answers to the scientific
questions raised by this finding. Third, we are committed to the aggressive
plan we have put in place for robotic exploration of Mars. America's next
unmanned mission to Mars is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space
Center in November. It will be followed by a second mission in December. I
should tell you that the first mission is scheduled to land on Mars, on July
4, 1997--Independence Day.

It is well worth contemplating how we reached this moment of Discovery. More
than 4 billion years ago this piece of rock was formed as a part of the
original crust of Mars. After billions of years it broke from the surface
and began a 16 million year journey through space that would end here on
Earth. It arrived in a meteor shower 13,000 years ago. Then in 1984, an
American scientist on an annual U.S. Government mission to search for
meteors on Antarctica, picked it up and took it to be studied.
Appropriately, it was the first rock to be picked up that year (rock No.
84001). Today, rock 84001 speaks to us across all those billions of years
and millions of miles. It speaks of the possibility of life. If this
discovery is confirmed it will surely be one of the most stunning insights
into our universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as
far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. Even as it promises
answers to some of our oldest questions it poses still others even more
fundamental. We will continue to listen closely to what it has to say, as we
continue the search for answers and for knowledge that is as old as the
humanity itself but essential to our people's future.

[W4]******

Source: Associated Press
Date: August 13, 1996

UFO Believers Thrilled With Announcement Of Possible Life On Mars

By MARTHA MENDOZA
Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- John Price says he's taken a lot of flak for his
belief that there's life in outer space. He now believes his views will
command more respect.

"I've had to get kind of nasty with some of those doubters and tell them
more educated people believe in life in the universe," Price, the director
of the UFO Enigma Museum in Roswell, said Wednesday after NASA announced
evidence suggesting Mars may have harbored primitive life billions of years
ago.

Price and others in Roswell say the discovery of organic compounds
deposited by primitive life on a 4-pound Martian meteorite confirms what
they've known all along -- extraterrestrials are no myth.

Roswell has become a mecca for UFO buffs worldwide. The south eastern New
Mexico city of 50,000 people has two UFO museums an an annual UFO
convention.

"I've been called crazy for the last 50 years," Price said. " Now those
doubters will have to admit there was, at least at one time, life in the
universe."

Down the street at the International UFO Museum and Research Center,
director Deon Crosby also was crowing.

"This is just thrilling news," she said. "We've tried to encourage people to
at least think about the possibility of life in space for years. This just
gives us credibility up and down."

Roswell became the hub of UFO study in 1947 following a mysterious crash
near the now-closed Walker Air Base. The government says the crash was
probably a weather balloon, but others are not so sure.

For nearly half a century, the mysterious crash has fueled speculation
about aliens in the New Mexico desert, Cold War secrecy and a government
cover-up.

Roswell Mayor Tom Jennings said Wednesday that whether a UFO actually came
down near Roswell or not, recent interest in life in outer space has been a
boon to the local economy. About 75,000 tourists visit the community each
year, seeking information about UFOs, he said.

"If there was a crash and it crashed in our back yard, I think we've taken
advantage of it," he said. "Now this NASA thing, man, that's just giving us
more credence."

[W5]******

Source: Nando Times
Date: August 13, 1996

Roswell UFO Fragment Has Terrestrial Origins

SANTA FE, N.M. (Aug 13, 1996 6:29 p.m. EDT) -- A fragment of wreckage from a
supposed spaceship crash in New Mexico is composed of metals found on Earth,
a scientist said Tuesday, casting doubt on claims it was once part of an
alien craft.

Larry Callis, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said his
tests confirmed that copper and silver in the fragment matched the metals'
earthly composition.

"I sort of expected it to be terrestrial," said Callis, who conducted the
isotopic tests on the fragment for a Roswell UFO museum. "(But) it was fun
doing something different," said Callis, who normally tests uranium and
plutonium for the lab's nuclear research facility.

The metal fragment was found by military personnel investigating a
mysterious crash in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico, on July 4,
1947, said Deon Crosby, director of the Roswell International UFO Museum and
Research Center, which paid for the tests.

The crash inspired the summer blockbuster "Independence Day" and is
considered by many as evidence of alien life. But the U.S. Air Force has
said the wreckage was remnants of a spy balloon used to detect the launch of
Soviet nuclear missiles.

Museum officials were undaunted by the lab tests and said they believed the
fragment was part of an unidentified flying object, or UFO. "We may not yet,
as a nation, have the scientific tools to recognize materials from out of
this universe," Crosby said.

[W6]******

Source: CNN
Date: August 13, 1996

Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have Liquid Water

PASADENA, California (CNN) -- New data gathered by the Galileo space probe
indicate there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons, raising the
possibility it could support a primitive life form, scientists said Tuesday.

Running water may have existed and may still exist beneath the cracked ice
crust of the surface of the moon Europa, according to scientists who
explained the latest images sent back by Galileo.

"What we're really looking for are niches that would be favorable for
life, and that's a really important distinction from looking for active life
forms today," Galileo imaging team scientist Ronald Greeley said.

The photographs showed long, crisscrossed cracks in the icy surface of
Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon. The images, taken from
about 95,000 miles away, are much clearer than those sent back by Voyager 17
years ago, but still omit details that leave scientists with many questions.

The announcement about Europa's possible water comes less than a week
after NASA reported that scientists found evidence of bacteria-sized
organisms in a Martian meteorite. They said that could mean life existed on
Mars some 3.6 billion years ago.

"The pictures (of Europa) are exciting and compelling, but not
conclusive," NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said at Tuesday's news
conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But he said the discovery of
liquid on the moon would be significant.

"It raises the possibility of a liquid ocean on Europa -- the only other
place in our solar system where we suspect such an ocean might exist,"
Goldin said.

Galileo also sent back pictures showing a blue volcanic plume on another of
Jupiter's moons called Io. Comparisons with photos from Voyager show changes
in Io's surface that indicate significant turbulence.

New photos of Jupiter's large red spot also indicate its cause. Computer
imaging shows it to be a huge hurricane, with counterclockwise winds of 250
miles an hour.

Galileo, launched in 1989, traveled 400 million miles to reach Jupiter's
atmosphere last December.

[W7]******

Source: New York Times Science
Date: August 13, 1996

Life On Mars? Criteria And Evidence

At its news conference Wednesday, NASA listed the following criteria for
determining whether the Antarctic meteorite bears traces of past life and
said it was confident that most if not all of them had been met.

CRITERION - NASA'S OPINION
--------------------------

Do we known the origin of the sample?

Yes, based primarily on oxygen isotope composition, which matches that for
materials on Mars.

Do we know the age of the sample?

Yes 4.5 billion years old, with the carbonates 3.6 billion years old.

Are microfossils present in this sample?

Yes, tubular or egg-shapped objects.

Are there remains of potential colonies where these microfossils have
begun to multiply or replicate?

Perhaps the carbonate globules represent a larger colony.

Are there biomineral markers present?

Yes, magnetite and pyrrhotite and possibly greigite, very similar to
minerals produced by microorganisms on earth; the simplest explanation is
that these are products from micororganisms that were produced on Mars.

Is an organic biomarker present?

Yes, both organic material, containing carbon, and a reduced organic
material.

Are there any unique stable isotope patterns?

Composition of the carbonates is unusal, but requires more work.

Are these feaures indigenous to the samples?

These features appear to be indigenous to these samples, and the amount is
greater inside the sample than on the surface.

NASA's invited critic, Dr. J. William Schopf of U.C.L.A., made his own
list, and put his own confidence rating of from 1 to 10 on some.

CRITERION - SCHOPF'S OPINION
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MINERALOGY

The source of the material.

Probability that the material is Martian: 9.

The age of the rock.

The sample age is fairly certain, the age of the carbonates, at around 3.6
billion, a little more uncertain. Confidence rating: 8.

The environment in which it formed.

Debatable. If the material was formed at high temperatures, for
example, there is no expectation of its harboring life.

The subsequent history of that rock; has it been pressure-cooked, for
example?

Debatable.

ORGANIC MATERIALS OR FOSSIL-LIKE OBJECTS

Are they within the rock?

8 or 9 rating.

Are they as old as that rock?

8 or 9 rating that the traces are as old as the fractures in the rock.

Are the organic materials demonstrably, assuredly, certainly biological?

Not proven. Organic material that was synthesized nonbiologically has
been found both on earth and in meteorites, and polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons especially have many origins that are not biological. "I'd
say the first guess would be that they're probably non-biological, just
like PAH's that occur in other meteorites. The burden of proof is on those
who claim that they're biological." As for the fossil-lik objects, "are
they assuredly fossils, not mineralic pseudofossils?" Not proven; the
fossil-like objects are only a hundredth the size of fossils found on
earth, and there is no evidence of their carbonaceous composition or of a
cavity within a cell wall, and no evidence of life cycles or cell
division.

[W8]******

Source: New York Post
Date: August 11, 1996

Get Ready

UFO experts say NASA's earth shattering Martian life announcement is
really a government test balloon to gradually prepart the public for a
bigger bombshell. Michael Luckman, director of the New York Center for UFO
Research, advises us, "It's nothing short of the government preparaing us
for contact with extraterrestrials in the very near future. This is part of
a time release program to gauge the public's reaction before announcing
contact with higher life forms." And, he cryptically notes, "Independence
Day May just be a movie, but it's inteesting that both BOB DOLE and BILL
CLINTON saw it and made sure to make public mention of it."

[W9]******

Source: Associated Press
Date: August 6, 1996

Sagan Skeptica: Matians!

By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (Aug. 6) -- Researchers testing a meteorite from Mars claim to
have found evidence that primitive life once lived on the red planet. Other
scientists, however, scoffed Tuesday and said stronger evidence is needed.

Scientists from NASA and three universities report in a paper to be
published next week that chemical and microscopic tests of a rock from
Mars detected organic compounds deposited in such a way that they could have
come only from biological activity.

They also report seeing shapes that ``resemble some forms of fossilized
filamentous bacteria,'' although much smaller.

When studying these factors, the researchers report, ``we conclude that they
are evidence for primitive life on early Mars.''

Carl Sagan, a leading authority on the search for extraterrestrial life,
called the findings ``evocative and very exciting.'' But he said the
chemical compounds reported in the paper ``are not evidence of life.''

Other scientists said that the organic compounds found by the researchers
could have been formed without life and one stated flatly: ``I don't believe
it.''

The study is to be published next week in the journal Science. Draft
copies were released by the journal Tuesday after the contents were
leaked.

Co-authors of the study David S. McKay and Everett K. Gibson Jr. of the
Johnson Space Center in Houston; Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta of Lockheed Martin,
a NASA contractor in Houston; Hojatollah Vali of McGill University in
Montreal, Canada; Christopher S. Romanek of the University of Georgia
laboratory in Aiken, S. C., and Simon J. Clemett, Xavier D. F. Chillier,
Claude R. Maechlin, and Richard N. Zare of Stanford University in
California.

Past or present existence of life on Mars has been considered a
possibility ever since studies by spacecraft landers showed that water was
once present on the planet surface.

None of the Martian landers, however, found evidence that life now exists on
Mars, nor did the robot craft find chemical markers for life in limited soil
samples that have been analyzed.

The researchers say in the paper that a rock from space recovered in
Antarctica contains organic compounds that could only have been deposited by
biological activity.

The new findings center on a meteorite called Allan Hills 84001, the
oldest of 12 pieces of rock that earlier studies confirmed as originating
from Mars. It is thought the rocks were jolted away from Mars by some
massive collision in ancient times and then drifted in space until they fell
to Earth.

Studies show that Allan Hills 84001 was crystallized from melted rock
about 4.5 billion years ago, a time when the solar system was forming.

The rock is thought to have been knocked from the Martian surface about 15
million years ago and then landed on the Antarctic ice sheet about 13,000
years ago. It was discovered in 1984 and scientists later identified it as
originating from Mars.

Thin slices of the rock, say the researchers, revealed organic molecules
called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs.

They said PAHs can be formed only in two ways -- by biological action,
such as by microorganisms, or in the process that forms planets.

The researchers determined that the PAHs in the rock were deposited in
cracks that occurred after the meteorite was formed, suggesting the
molecules were deposited by later biological activity.

Also, the researchers said that within the PAHs, they found particles of
magnetite and iron sulfide, both chemicals that can be related to bacterial
action.

Sagan said that if the researchers did, in fact, find microfossils within
the Mars rock, then that would represent the strongest evidence yet of life
beyond the Earth.

But he said if the researchers' claim is based on the presence of organic
chemicals, then the proof is lacking. That means, said Sagan, that ``life,
while possible, is not proven on Mars.''

Referring to the organic compounds, Jack D. Farmer said, ``If that's the
evidence, I don't believe it.''

Farmer, a geologist and paleobiologist of the Exobiology Branch of NASA's
Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said the ``vast bulk'' of
magnetite is inorganically formed and that ``PAHs have no direct
relationship to biology. They are not an indicator.''

``The conclusion is at best premature and more probably wrong. The PAHs are
just not a reliable biomarker,'' said John F. Kerridge, a planetary
scientists at the University of California, San Diego. ``You should not go
public with evidence that's less than 100 percent sure. This is much less
than 100 percent sure.''

[F1]******

Features
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ONE YEAR AGO - A collection of UFO related headlines that appeared in the
media this time, last year.

The Santilli Autopsy footage continued to grab most of the headlines,
making appearances in most newspapers (both tabloid and broadsheet).

Note: The sheer number of requests for old news articles has be
absolutely incredible. It's been impossible for me to reply to everyone
requesting stories. Instead I am now investing the time in getting them all
on-line. As soon as the archive is up and running I'll announce the URL.
Sorry if you've sent a request that hasn't been answered.

Aug 11 Psychologist Loses His Licence (Sacramento BEE)
Aug 12 Austral Sighting (San Francisco Chronicle)
Aug 12 Councillors Cosmic Revelations (Dundee Courier)
Aug 12 2.5 Million Award In False Memory Case (Associated Press)
Aug 13 Astronomers Predict Faster Than Light Space Travel (Sunday Times)
Aug 14 Careful Guide In Dispute On False Memory(San Francisco Chronicle)
Aug 14 Please Beam Me Up Scotty (Daily Sport)
Aug 14 A Real Alien... Or An Earthly Hoax? (Part 2) (Daily Sport)
Aug 17 UFO Meeting To See 'Aliens' Film; Is It A Hoax? (Reuter)
Aug 20 The Real X-Files (News Of The World Magazine)
Aug 20 UFO Enthusiasts Argue Over 'Alien Visitor' Film (Reuter)
Aug 20 Have Aliens Landed (News Of The World Magazine)
Aug 21 Santilli Interview (Talk Radio UK)
Aug 21 The Night They Landed In Suffolk (Unknown)
Aug 21 Visitors Seize Earthlings Clothes But Fail To Win Hearts And Minds
(Times)
Aug 22 Laboratory In Space "Made Out Universe" (Daily Telegraph)
Aug 22 Luminous Light Aproached Aircraft (Los Angeles Times)
Aug 23 Crop Circles Discovered In Norway (V.G. - Norway)
Aug 23 Weird Is Wonderful (TimeOut)
Aug 24 Ex-Nellis Commander Relieved Of His Duties (Las Vegas
Review-Journal)
Aug 24 A Real Alien... Or An Earthly Hoax? (Daily Mail)

[E1]******

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 00:57:45 GMT
From: Jim Dempster <demp...@waverider.co.uk>
Subject: Feedback

THAT is what I call E-Mail!

....sorry. Hello!

My name is Jim Dempster, another lifelong subsciber to the assumption
of life elsewhere.

I can honestly say that I haven't read anything as absorbing in a
LONG time.

Sure. There are other folks who do similar things, we've all come
across some of that in some form or another. This, though, was fresh
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I would like to say a BIG thank you for your time and effort. It was
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I will keep an eye and an ear out for anything that may be of
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(If there is anything more pro-active that I could offer you in the way
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Thank you again.

Jim Dempster.

Many thanks for the praise Jim. It's feedback like this that gives us the
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how the new, longer bi-weekly e-zine would go down. We do try and include
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