UFO Review issue 08.pdf

U F O R E V I E W

The Truth is a bit pissed with everyone and is hiding. If you see him , tell him his dinner is

getting cold

February 2005

Num ber 8

N THS SSUE

Welcome Page 3

Your editor trills

Lembit Opik interview

Lembit is the Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomery and a

leading voice in the UK on the subject of asteroids. In this

interview he explains his feelings and thoughts about the

possibility of an asteroid hitting Earth and what we can do

about it. He is a very gracious man. Page 4

Martian squeegee kids help keep Rover going!

Weekly World News special!! Page 11

Interview with David Rudiak

David is possibly the leading expert on Roswell and in

particular, his work on the Ramey telegram is outstanding

and pretty well nails it as far as IÓm concerned. Sceptics

think otherwise. This is a wide ranging interview that discusses

disclosure and other subjects as well. Page 12

Dr. Bruce writes

Medical help and advice from our resident doctor . Page 26

Who is Kithra?

Who is the mysterious writer who has been gracing these

pages from the beginning? Picture and revealing article. Page 28

Personal reflections on a disaster

Kithra offers us some personal thoughts on the tsunami

disaster in S.E. Asia Page 29

UFOs: Proving the Phenomenon is Real Î

The Case against Debunkers

Old friend of this magazine, author Will Hart has kindly

offered us this piece on our favourite kind of ufologist. Page 32

Question and answer session with Uncle Seth Shostak Page 34

Greater Challenges for the Volunteer Ufologist

We welcome Sheryl once again with another qualitative

and insightful piece Î a follow up on her original concept Page 36

Probe International Page 41

UFO Recognition part 1

We hail much respected author and researcher

Bill Hamilton to the pages of Review. We are honoured! Page 44

Grant CameronÓs Washington presentation paper

A follow up to last issueÓs interview with Grant. Page 49

Reader submitted article- The Song of the Greys

by Robbie Jameson Page 68

Welcome

The Truth is taking a bit of a battering lately. HeÓs not happy. HeÓs come under

the spotlight a bit because someone has highlighted how virtually every

journalistic piece on UFOs or whatever seems to start off with the phrase, ÐThe

Truth is out there somewhereÑ and itÓs long got boring. And neither is it

particularly good journalism.

ÐOut there somewhereÑ? I know where his is. HeÓs keeping out of the public eye

at the moment as heÓs a bit pissed with everyone. To start with, Nick RedfernsÓ

had a go at him via the pages of Phenomena magazine in his review of ÐProject

BetaÑ by Greg Bishop (published by Paraview-Pocket Books, New York), see

http://www.phenomenamagazine.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Area+5

1&action=page&obj_id=2504

I quote Nick;

ÐThe UFO truth that has captivated so many for so long might not be "out there"

after all - in fact, it may all be one big con behind which a veritable plethora of

classified, military projects have been carefully hidden.Ñ

Everything? No saucers, no aliens, no abductions, no nothing? ThatÓs a bit of a let

down. WeÓre all wasting our time it would appear and The Truth is terrified of

becoming redundant. Well, weÓre going to have to read the book before we make

a judgement and no doubt it will be a rough ride for Mr. Bishop if anyone takes

any notice of what he says. I congratulate him by the way for finding The Truth

when all others have failed. Someone had to do it. Are we assured that Mr

BishopÓs tome is also not part of some disinformation campaign? Round and

round we go.

The British MOD arenÓt too pleased with The Truth either. TheyÓve been chucking

out sighting reports since the implementation of the FOIA at the beginning of the

year and some of the reports have been a bit mixed. They canÓt seem to make

their mind up so they back off and just take a military interest in whatÓs going on,

or at least so they say. They allegedly make no inference regarding these strange

events that have occurred, frequently to their personnel, and are interested only

from a national security point of view. They ignore The Truth and he doesnÓt like

that.

So, after all that, you can see why heÓs been a bit pissed.

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Lembit Opik interview

MP says, ÑWeÓre living in a bowling alleyÑ

Major asteroid impact soon

We need to act now

I hope you will excuse my cynicism but there is

something quite remarkable about this interview with

Lembit Opik, the Liberal Democrat MP for

Montgomeryshire. You will not find one single trace of

political gobbledegook or point scoring.

What you will find are the thoughts and feelings of an

individual who passionately believes in what he is trying

to achieve. This is a brave man carrying a message that

no one wants to hear and he is prepared to take the brickbats and mocking that

inevitably accompany such a message.

What other tribute could I possibly offer, aside from accusing him of also being a

very warm, approachable human being, other than to say that I only wish he was

my M.P.

Lembit is the leading voice in the UK on asteroids and the little matter of one of

them smacking into us, probably sooner rather than later. And one of those bits

of rock doesnÓt have to be particularly large in order to cause immense

devastation and loss of life. Or rather let me put it this way. If on Christmas day

last year I had told you that a giant wave would sweep across south East Asia, hit

land and cause the loss of 220,000 lives (so far), you would not have believed

me. ThereÓs no argument Î you wouldnÓt have believed me. The next day it

happened.

We need to wake up rapidly and do something.

SM: You are very well known for your interest in near earth objects. How long

has it been a subject of interest to you?

LO: 33 years.

SM: Is this as a result of your grandfather?

LO: I would say that I started taking a very significant interest in meteors,

comets and so forth when I was about 6 because, as you said, directly as a result

of the influence of my grandfather. So I was reading astronomy books when most

people were reading ÐJanet and JohnÑ. That was probably the very early 1970s

and I actually converted that into a practical interest in the sense of doing

something about it in 1998 when I first raised it in the Houses of Parliament.

SM: Was it that Horizon programme that triggered your interest?

LO: The practical trigger to action was a chance meeting with a man called J.

Tate who is Director of Spacegaurd UK, at a meeting of the Shropshire

astronomical Society. He was making a presentation about SpacegaurdÓs work

and was explaining that the odds were stacked in favour of an impact and he

went on to describe the colossal damage that these objects would do.

He explained furthermore that there was something we could do to prevent them

by tracking them and finding ways to divert or to prevent an impact from

occurring if we had enough notice.

That was in 1998 and at that point I spoke with J and since the science was

absolutely cast iron, we had the evidence to turn this into a political matter of

investment by the Government and I got my adjournment debate in March 1999.

But it was the meeting with J. Tate that finally kicked me into political action.

Then I really decided to carry on in the political sphere, as my grandfather had

done in the astronomical sphere. He spoke about the threat and danger of impact

long before it was fashionable to do so, even in the astronomical world in the

1950s for example.

The Horizon programme was about the Chicxulub impact which wiped out the

dinosaurs, probably, and it was fortuitous timing because it came out at just

about the time I was trying to get this issue on to the political map. I like to think

there are some other programmes that have been prompted by the campaign

that we have run because everyone now knows about asteroid impacts and IÓm

not so sure that would have happened had we not turned it into a political issue.

SM: I would imagine that you find the whole process of dealing with the UK

government on this subject incredibly frustrating.

LO: It is, itÓs very difficult to get the British Government to act on it and I can

understand why. On the face of it, this sounds like cranky science fiction. It

sounds like a case of an Ed Wood 1950s B movie. ThatÓs because the idea of a

catastrophic impact by a celestial body has not got any bearing on recent Human

experience. There are maybe echoes of previous impacts in the cultural legends

of the Human race but there hasnÓt been a catastrophic impact leading to a major

loss of life in recent times.

So, since politics lives in the present and the future more than in the past, itÓs not

surprising that politicians have said, ÐWell, this seems too small of a risk for us to

take seriously.Ñ

SM: Do you think that one of the positive benefits, if one can use such a phrase

in relation to the tsunami in south East Asia is that Mankind s vulnerable to

major natural disasters and do you think there is a chance that this might

actually wake some people up?

LO: Yes, I agree. IÓm pretty sure that the tsunami has been something of a

geological wake up call to World governments and until last Christmas, December

26 th 2004, the word ÐtsunamiÑ sounded like a foreign phrase. Now it sounds like a

catastrophe. ItÓs just reminded a lot of people about the power of nature and

crucially, itÓs caused people to make the calculation about prevention versus cure.

ItÓs perfectly obvious that the benefit of prevention of loss of life would have far

exceeded the cost of having an early warning system. Exactly the same applies to

asteroids. What I worry about is this; do we have to have a significant impact

before people think, ÐOh, we need to have an early warning system after allÑ

which is exactly what has happened with the tsunami.

To the British GovernmentÓs credit, they did take my advice and commissioned a

Near Earth Object task group to look into the danger and to report back. The task

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