UFO Review issue 12.pdf

The Truth was pleased to have made his first appearance in the last issue. He hopes to be

making regular appearances from now on.

August/September 2005

Number 12

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In This Issue

Roswell Reflections

A follow up interview with Nick Redfern on what’s happened

since publication of his book Body Snatchers In The Desert Page 4

Rejection Letter from the Smithsonian Page 30

Rick Doty Is My God

An interview with Robert Collins, coauthor of the

Book, Exempt From Disclosure Page 32

Spheres, Stones, and Skulls

Another excellently researched and referenced article

by our regular columnist, Kithra. Page 44

Report of Study into Alien Abduction Phenomenon

By An Alprobe Page 54

Glimpses of Extraterrestrial Utopias

Sheryl Gottschall looks at the contactee

movements of the 50s and 60s Page 56

Fortean Corner – It’s Raining Men

Our ace reporter on the spot, Dam Acne returns . Page 59

Lapis Conference Report June 18 th 2005 Page 63

The Secret History of the MOD XFiles

UFO Review is pleased to welcome Dr. David Clarke Page 65

who takes a stroll through MOD files

The Face On Mars Page 70

Phoenix Lights Events Analysis

Bill Hamilton clarifies what happened on March 13, 1997

over Phoenix and Arizona. Page 71

Alien Pet Club Page 76

Searching For The Truth

Dennis Balthaser editorial Page 78

The Brazilian Breakthrough And Other UFO Problems

Andrew Pike Page 81

Hidden Agenda

Andrew Pike Page 86

A Clinical Analysis of Anti Government Phobia Page 92

Ivor E. Tower, M.D. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volume 11, series 3, pages 45

Welcome

Did you know that Ufology in the UK is dead again? Actually, it dies on average

once to twice a year and I hope that for 2005, this is its last death for this year.

But one can never tell. As soon as some Ufologist somewhere within the British

Isles feels like getting his name into the papers again and is blessed with a

compliant local press, then anything can happen. I am of course referring to the

latest current bout of newspaper articles in the UK in early August telling us that

it’s all over and that Ufology in the UK is virtually dead. It’s very tiresome.

I consider Chris Parr, who generated the original report upon which all the

subsequent fuss was based, a pal as well as being a good friend of this zine. But I

have to ask him what he feels he might have achieved for Ufology by doing this.

One could argue that any publicity is good publicity and there is some weight to

that point of view. However, the underlying point being made was negative.

I should also point out an element of personal interest here as well. There must

have been easily a half dozen different newspaper articles generated by Chris’s

original piece in his local paper and in those other articles, it seemed like every

waking Ufologist in the UK with a pulse had been quoted. Except me. This of

course I found utterly outrageous and most disappointing. Tsk. (g)

But perhaps I’m blathering and fussing about nothing. I don’t actually agree with

the sentiments expressed as I feel they’re off the mark. Privately though, what

Chris is mostly fretting about are the social changes that have occurred within UK

Ufology over recent years and I think there he has a point. Things have changed

in the UK in that respect but the difficulty with lamenting the past is that you

sound like you’re stuck in it. It’s true that we haven’t yet moved on to a bigger,

brighter future but I do also think that things are “happening” and new

personalities with ideas and initiatives are coming through. At this moment in

time, I am optimistic about the short term.

Ufology in big numbers may have taken a dip lately but the problem hasn’t gone

away. There are still, from time to time, strange things flying about our skies and

they seem to have been doing that for quite a while. I think it’s safe to assume

that they will continue to do so and until answers are provided or are

forthcoming, however large or small the numbers may be, there will always be

people who look further than the parameters of their own personal lives or indeed

the geopolitical system within which they live. It is those people, us, you reading

this that will carry this through, most of us to the bitter end. Further along the

way, we will be joined by larger numbers again, of that I have no doubt, and the

cycle will continue until finally the goal is reached. And I believe we will reach

that goal.

I won’t prattle on too much here about Nick Redfern’s Body Snatchers . Those who

have followed the reaction and debate subsequent to publication will know the

state of play. It’s been pretty much as expected – a real mixture. In all fairness to

those who have rejected Nick’s theory, I have thought that with just one

exception, they have all at least been morally honest. Only one I thought was

acting because of self interest. But, it has been truly marvellous the way it has

stirred Ufology up and generated a level of intense debate the likes of which we

haven’t seen for a while. And also as predicted, this one will run and run.

Roswell Reflections

The explosive reaction to Nick’s book, Body Snatchers In The Desert was as

expected. Big. We caught up with Nick on July 13 th and asked him to give us an

update on what his life had been like since the publication.

SM: I imagine, sat here, that it’s been extremely hectic since the book was

published.

NR: Not probably as hectic as you would have thought. Certainly in terms of

interviews particularly for radio, that has been hectic. That’s been literally like 10

or 15 a day at times. I’m talking about things like the Huston Breakfast show

from maybe 9:00 till 10:00 and then maybe a radio show in Kansas from 11:00

till 12:00, that sort of thing with literally just enough time in between to get a

glass of coke or a coffee.

SM: Anything from abroad?

NR: I’ve done a few local shows in the UK, not national ones but regional BBC

shows, that sort of thing. But for the most part it’s been American based radio

interviews, largely focussing on the subject matter of the book. Interestingly,

what I found was a trend. A number of the radio shows were quite happy to talk

about the prime event that led to Roswell with the crash of this huge balloon

array and the glider and the crew but they were very careful to steer me away

from not talking about the more controversial things like the high altitude

experiments and the prisoners of war and so. It was kind of interesting that there

was this concern not to get into the more controversial areas and maybe that

says more about the climate of today’s world and reporting on controversial

issues that make the government look bad, and so on.

SM: You can’t really separate one from the other.

NR: That’s the unfortunate thing. You actually can. You have this one event

where they brought over prisoners of war who were the pilots to test fly this thing

that crashed. But on the other hand, you have these fairly dubious experiments

that were going on in the same time frame and although collectively, as I show in

the book, it led to the Roswell legend, unfortunately you can separate the two

and I’ve actually had emails from radio stations saying, “Look, we want you on

the show but we specifically will not discuss that issue.” That’s happened.

SM: That’s ridiculous.

NR: It is ridiculous, I agree with you because, you know, I always thought the

media would not only have the capabilities to look into these things but would

also have the balls to look into them as well. And to actually say, “Please don’t

talk about this”, to me, is kind of like a pathetic attitude. How do you expect to

resolve anything? More importantly, how do you expect to make sure things like

this never happen again if nobody wants to talk about them? It’s crazy. I’ve never

had that before.

SM: What about TV? Has there been much of that?

NR: No, I’ve done a couple of TV things but they were just spin offs from the

publicity generated by the book people just asking if they could interview me but

it wasn’t specifically on the book as such.

SM: How have you felt about the reaction from people towards the book?

NR: As far as I’m concerned, I’ve been pretty happy with the reaction in terms of

it was precisely what I expected. By that I mean that there have been some

people that believe that I have cracked the case and that this is the literal

answer.

Other people think that perhaps it tells part of the story. One example; someone

came up with the idea that perhaps these classified balloon flights were being

undertaken in New Mexico and because they were such huge devices, one of

them collided with a real UFO. So you have a mish mash of classified projects and

a UFO colliding together and that’s what’s led to these stories about UFOs coming

down but also about classified vehicles coming down, which is an interesting

theory. Again, that is another one that I suspected would come along.

Thirdly, there is the idea that people have simply fed me disinformation. Along

that line, Stan Friedman actually told me that he doesn’t necessarily believe that

the people I interviewed are lying. He thinks that this could possibly be a cover

story put in place by the government years ago, kind of like Mogul, but that they

then decided not to use it. Now, again that’s interesting but my argument against

that, and I think it’s a legitimate argument, is why on earth would the

government come up with a cover story that was that controversial? The whole

point with Mogul is, in some ways it would explain the secrecy surrounding the

recovery of the balloon, but there’s nothing controversial about it. To me, it’s like

kicking yourself in the teeth by covering up a crashed UFO by claiming that you

did diabolical experiments on prisoners of war.

Those sorts or responses that came along were the type that I expected. There

hasn’t been much in the way of jealousy from the UFO community and I didn’t

actually think there would be, although some people did say to me they thought,

“Oh well, if you think you’ve solved it, people are going to be jealous.” I actually

never thought that would be the case and in the most part, it hasn’t been. As I

said to people, all I’m trying to do is put out the information I’ve uncovered. Not

to try and beat somebody to the finishing line.

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