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Rotating object in N.
California, p. 8.
Calendar, p. 14.
UFO Marketplace, p.
23.
Columns
Director's Message 2
Filer's Files 15
Stan Friedman 18
Ted Phillips 20
Gavin McLeod 24 Where do reptilians and insectoids fir into rhe alien entiry pic firre? DL Joe
Lewells explores this qrrestion, beginning on page 3. (Drawing by Wes C m m )
December 2006 Number 464
Directors' Messag~ -
Bv James Carrion
I claims the initial impact point was would most certainly result in seismic Dolan is one of four hosts. The oth-
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roughly on the south (based on her activity, yet there,is no seismic event ers include an archaeologist, a crime
1 Kingman, AZ, premise?), with the sand recorded for this area. scene investigator, and "Boston Rob."
being thrown northward and to both Near Milford, some 40 miles away, Dolan, a trained historian, attended
sides of the lakebed, forming the tri- there were two small trembles, and an- Oxford University and the University
angle. other small quake was recorded about of Rochester, where he, earned a
The problem with this theory is that 60 miles north of the DER near Kings master's degree.
the triangle is backwards! To under- Canyon, but nothing at the DER. His book, UFOs and the National
stand why it's backwards, remember CONCLUSION: For many of her Security State, is the fxst of two vol-
that Howe insists this UFO was "re- statements, Howe relied on a man who umes that provides a-chronology of
lated to the Kingman, AZ, c r a s h and claimed to have been a C-141 pilot and what he calls the national security di-
thus, came from the south. part of the UFO recovery team. He said . mensions of the UFO phenomenon
When something hits the ground, the he had personal knowledge of a UFO from 1941 to 1973. A second volume,
energy is greatest at the initial impact buried in or under the triangle in the due out in early 2007, will describe
point, diminishing to zero when it stops. desert near the DER. events from 1973 to the present.
December 2006 MUFON UFO Journal
Dr. Leir reports
14th implant removal
Dr. Roger Leir and his surgical team
Where we came from? form workers for the Anunnaki gold have perfirmed Leir 's 12th surgery for
Adam the Missing Link (The New mines. the removal of an object suspected of
History of Mankind's Creation) by This was done, according to the au- being an alien implant.
Marshall Klarfeld, Library of Congress thor, 250,000 years ago in what is now The patient in this case was female,
AprSu 1-115-248, 8 112 x 11, spiral east central Africa, adjacent to the and the object was located in the third
bound, 66 pages. Anunnaki gold mining operations-"the toe of her right foot.
Reviewed by Dwight Connelly precise point where archeologists say The object removed was another
This colorful book, printed on high our species originated." metallic rod about 6 rnm in length cov-
quality paper, is a combination of The first human was called Adam, ered with a biological coating. The rod
Zecharia Sitchin and Eric Von Danikan, which means "one who is like Earth's was located on the bottom side of the
as interpreted by the author. clay." The Sumerian account is com- 3rd toe, and deep in the tendon struc-
Sitchin and Neil Freer are credited pared with the Hebrew Bible story, as ture.
in the References section as the primary well as with stories from other ancient Prior to removal it was found that
sources of information.. civilizations. the object was emitting an electromag-
While this publication plows no new These new humans proved to be at- netic field of 4 milligauss, as well as a
ground, it is noteworthy in the wealth tractive to some of the Anunnaki, and radio frequency signal, according to Dr.
of illustrations-ranging from the cunei- children were born of these unions. This Leir.
form tablets of Sumer to the Nazca was unacceptable to the Anunnaki high As with the other 11 cases, the pa-
Lines of Peru. council, who decided to wipe out these tient fulfilled all the criteria making her
Klartield seeks to answer four ques- humans with a flood, but some were a candidate for surgical extraction. She,
tions: "How was our solar system saved. along with her family, reportedly had
shaped?" and "How did humanity The Anunnaki ("those who came- "a full and rich history involving the
evolve on our planet?" down from the heavens") then trans- alien abduction phenomena."
He seeks to answer these questions ferred some of their technology and cul- As with the other surgical cases, Dr.
by dividing his research into four cat- ture to the new Earthlings-all the while Leir did not permit the patient to un-
egories: maintaining control. dergo hypnotic regression prior to the
+Stored information text (Cunei- By about 1250B.C. the visitors from surgery, as it was his feeling this could
form tablets); the planet Nibiru had left Earth, and bring about undo criticism regarding the
+Stored information device (cylin- humans had to begin fending for them- patient's memories of her experiences.
der seals); . selves. The Anunnaki had left behind In 2004, the patient contacted Dr.
+ Stored information sculpture their technology-and perhaps the be- Leir requesting assistance with her ab-
(Ishtar statue, etc.); and ginning of religion, focused on the god duction experiences. At that time she
+Stored information structure or gods who had left. submitted an x-ray showing the object.
(pyramids, etc.). Klarfeld covers many cultures in this Dr. Leir and his team of radiologists
He notes that "it has been observed short book, pointing out examples of reviewed the film and determined the
that when an advanced civilization en- "stored information" which suggest that object was metallic. They also pin-
counters a primitive culture, three stories similar to that of the Anunnaki pointed it's exact location.
things tend to occur: can be found in other ancient sources. Another film was taken on the day
+The advanced civilization domi- of the surgery, and it was reportedly
nates the primitive culture; found that the metallic object had not
+The advanced civilization imposes only moved from its original location,
its form of governing; and but had also fractured into three sepa-
+The advanced civilization transfers Feb. 25-March 2, 2007-Interna- rate pieces.
its technology. tional UFO Congress Conference & This made the surgical extraction
The author, like Sitchin, suggests that Film Festival, Laughlin, NV, 303-65 1- more difficult, but fortunately the en-
the cuneiform tablets describe how the 7 136, www.ufocongress.com. tire piece was removed in one segment
advanced Anunnaki civilization from May 18-19-McMenamins UFO of biological tissue.
the planet Nibiru created humans Festival, McMinnville, OR, 503-472- The metallic portion was then sepa-
through DNA manipulation, combining 8427. rated from its soft tissue envelope and
the Anunnaki with the ape-like crea- Aug. 10-1ZMUFON International placed in a blood serum preservative
tures which were already present to UFO Symposium, Denver, CO. derived from the patient.
14 MUFON UFO Journal December 2006
FILE,rS FILES By George Filer
Director, MUFON Eastern Region
Note: These reports are presented in or- my firetearn and I witnessed a large ball "It came up to 10,000 feet in a frac-
der to keep readers informed of some of the of light traveling slowly over the tree- tion of a second. I disengaged the auto-
vast number of sightings being reported. tops. There was a very high pitched pilot and pushed the nose over, because
However, these cases have not been ofiicially humming noise. I was going to go under it at the angle
investigated, unless noted. "Our compasses were not working, that it was coming toward me.
but using terrain association we figured "The minute that I did that, it was
Rhode Island egg-shaped UFO that it was heading roughly north/ north- up at our altitude and I could see noth-
Providence - A 35-year-old male east, at maybe 10-20 mph. ing outside of the cockpit but this craft.
going by the name of Vaughn witnessed "It was mov- I didn't know which way to go.
a UFO on Oct. 20, 2006. There was ing much too "Then all of a sudden I heard a
one other witness by the name of slowly to be a racket. 1didn't know what it was. And
Kananga who also saw the object in missile or other I said: 'What the hell was that?' One of
flight. projectile that the crewmen looked around and said.
The time was 6:30 PM, and a storm I've ever seen. 'Everyone was ducking and they col-
had just left the area. The object was and was far too lided with each other, and fell on the
described as being either egg-shaped close to have floor of the plane."
or spherical in nature. It had a gray been mistaken for ''Then the UFO appeared over to the
top, and its bottom was fire-white. a helicopter or an right, moved out slowly, and flew with
When the eyewitnesses had initially ahlane. us. It was not at our altitude, butwe
'
spotted the UFO, it was flying south; George Filer
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"We have not could see the shape of it. It was a dome,
passing an airliner that was heading in reported this incident to anyone, al- and I could see the coronal discharge.
a northerly direction. It was around that though I have heard from other cadets "I went back aft, let the other pilot,
time that they determined that this UFO in the NR Battalion besides those in my A1 Jones, take my seat, and went to see
was smaller than an-airliner. squad/fireteam that saw the same ob- if the passengers were OK. They had
It made its closest pass as it flew ject early that morning. It passed al- some bumps and bruises. One passen-
overhead at an altitude of one mile and most over us, and I could not discern ger was a doctor, so I went to him first.
at a distance of one mile away, and its shape; it was only a blob of light." "I said, 'Doc, did you see what we
didn't make any noise. It was around Thanks to Christopher Montgomery. saw?' He looked me straight in the eye
that time that they were able to film the and said, 'Yeah, it was a flying saucer.'
object in flight. He said: 'I didn't look at it because I
It then flew northbound and disap-
Commander Bethune's sighting
During the Disclosure Project, don't believe in such things.'
peared from view. Vaughn reported "It took me a couple of seconds to
that he had previous UFO experiences Commander Graham Bethune (US
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Navy Ret.) revealed that his Flight 124 realize- what he was saying. Being a
when he was 8 or 9 years old, and again psychiatrist, he couldn't believe in that
at the age of 16. from Keflavik, Iceland, was involved
+ Thanks to investigator Christopher with a near miss of a UFO in 1951, kind of thing.
about 300 miles outside of Argentia, "So I went back to the cockpit and
Montgomery, executive director said, 'Al, whatever you do, don't tell
Newfoundland, at 49-50 North and 50-
UFORC International Global Network. anybody we saw anything. They will
03 West.
He states, "I saw a glow on the wa- lock us up as soon as we get on the
Virginia UFO visits ROTC ter, and as we approached this glow, it ground.'
Blacksburg - This happened dur- turned into hundreds of circles of white "He says, 'It's too late. I just called
ing an Army ROTC weekend training lights on the water. Gander Control in Newfoundland to see
Oct. 7, 2006, in a large wooded area "We watched it for a while; when if they could track this by radar.' So
on base. the lights went out, there was nothing that's how the story got out."
The witness reports, "While on a on the water. The next thing that we George Wolkind writes, "Paula and
land navigation exercise in the woods saw was a yellow halo that was very I are saddened by the news about Gra-
at about 2:30 AM, two other people in small, about 15 miles away. ham Bethune's death. We both really
December 2006 MUFON UFO Journal
hood. At 27,26, and 34 years of age, it
was the most amazing thing we have
ever witnessed."
Thanks to Peter Davenport, direc-
tor, ufocenter.
tance, then straight up at a 90-degree tern on the bottom, along with many scared and we wanted to get away as
angle. Then it moved back to the right, white lights. fast as possible.
and I took a picture. "The craft was small, and I would "We lost sight of the object when we
"Before I could take another, it think only one or two people could got to our uncle's. He had come out-
moved straight up and out of sight. It travel in it. The thing I was most side to see what was going on, and we
was gray in color, and the sighting amazed with bas the absence of sound. went to show him, and it was gone."
lasted about 3 to 5 minutes. The day "After it passed us, my brother and
was bright with high clouds, and little I tried to run with it to get a longer look. Utah sighting
wind. This is the second sighting within The craft was traveling 30-40 mph, so Elaine Douglass writes that she re-
a week." needless to say, we did not keep up with quests a correction on her Aug. 29,
Thanks to Peter Davenport, director, it very long. 2006, sighting. Following is the cor-
www.ufocenter.com. "We lost track of it in the neighbor-
MUFON UFO Journal December 2006
California photos
Modesto -R. David Anderson
reports, "This past weekend, I was
in the back yard relaxing on a chaise
lounge.
"I had my eyes closed and was
about to nod off to sleep when I sud-
denly snapped back to conscious-
ness and immediately saw a bright utes as it just hovered above. "Altogether, the object was vis-
orange object in the sky towards the "It seemed to change shape from a ible for over 15 minutes, and it took
south. sphere to a diamond shape, then to a this long for it to complete this course
"I stared at it for about three min- cylinder. I ran into the house and got trajectory.
utes, and it moved north until it was my camera, and came out and took four >''The object appeared around 6
almost directly above me. I ran into pictures of the object. and was gone by 6: 15 PM. The UFO
the garage and got out the binocu- "The UFO now began to move back traveled contrary to the wind direc-
lars. I watched the object through towards the south, after having com- tion." Report and photos by R.
the binoculars for at least five min- pleted a full 180-degree turn. David Anderson.
rected version: "I was lying on my back branches, at which point I observed it cause of the way the lights were totally
on a lawn in downtown Moab, UT, at change direction and move, still in sync, but when I noticed the second
3:45 PM (MDT). 'What's that?' I said meanderingly, north. 'What do you group, the lights moved as if each light
to my companion, Dennis B. We both think that is?' I asked my companion. was an individual craft, and that meant
observed a bright white trapazoid- "He thought it was a balloon. Actu- they were flying at a much higher alti-
shaped object moving across the sky at ally, the movement was consistent with tude.
a walking pace and in a meandering a wind-driven object, but the shape was "The height and speed was over
manner overhead. not consistent with a balloon. My com- 10,000 feet with speeds of 500 to 1,000
"The object periodically stopped. It panion was not particularly interested kmh."Thanks to www.ufoinfo.com.
also appeared to be rotating or tum- in the object, and he seemed to be try-
bling. It was high, but not that high. ing to find a conventional explanation. Alleged repair case in Greece
Apparent size 114thumb's width. It was "I quickly went into the street beyond Mega Platanos - K. B.
moving slowly now, and then at one the trees to find the object, and it was Moschovosdear reports, "This photo is
point turned north. not there. I searched the whole sky and from September 1992 of the village
"The object had distinct edges. The nothing could be seen. At the speed the Mega Platanos where a small UFO fell
Sun was high-about 45 degrees in the object had been moving, there is no way to the ground with damage near a
west-and southwest of the object, and it would have moved across the sky, shepherd's home.
would have been illuminating it. since I began looking for it almost im- "Three or four little men made the
"However, I noticed there seemed to mediately. repairs and disappeared again. The case
be no shadowing of the object on the "As for wind, I felt no wind on the is called Karatrangios from the name
side away from the sun. 'How can you ground, and I observed the clouds to of the shepherd's fainily."
tell it is rotating?' I asked myself, be- see if there was drift. The only clouds "Case two. A giant light sphere was
cause the object was uniformly illumi- visible were high cirrus clouds. well seen three days ago at the same place,
nated. above the object, and I observed no drift going enormous speed toward the is-
!d
"The way I could tell it was rotating of those clouds." Thanks to Elaine Dou- land of Corfu." Thanks to K. B.
was because the edges and angles of glas, MUFON Utah State Co-Director. Moschovos.
the object moved as I watched. The
object was quite white and shiny, seem- Canada sightings
ing to have a surface like highly pol- Fort McMurray, Alberta - "On NUFORC is moving
ished white metal. I watched it for Sept. 23,2006, at 4:45 AM, I saw about After 32 years in the Seattle area, the
maybe two minutes, and it was ob- eight objects flying east in a "V" for- National UFO Reporting Center is
scured by trees directly in front of me. mation very fast," says the witness. moving to a new locale in eastern Wash-
"That did not concern me, as I as- Then I noticed a second group flying ington, a decommissioned U. S. Air
sumed I could simply walk 15 feet and from the west, following the first group. Force ICBM missile base, located be-
see the object again. I believe I did catch "I thought that the first sighting was tween the towns of Davenport and
sight of it again in a clearing of the tree just one triangular ship flying low be- Harrington, WA, in Lincoln County.
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Astrobiology for the female breast (round disc gone. Frank Drake was born in 1930.
I had been somewhat wary of buy- shapes) and phallic symbols (cigar- Seth Shostak is over 60.
ing Dr. David Grinspoon's book Lonely shaped craft). David is definitely one of the lead-
Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Not a bit of evidence was provided, ers of the new generation of scientists
Alien Life, (Harper and Collins, 2003, and no case investigations were cited concerned with planetary surfaces and
459 pages), but after two people I re- which would lead anybody to this silly the development of life, having been
spected said good things about it, I bit conclusion. The only UFO book refer- born in 1960 and been heavily influ-
the bullet. enced by them was Carl Jung's UFOs: enced by rock music, science fiction,
My wari- A Modem Myth of Things Seen in the Star Trek, and a close association with
n e s s sky" his father's friends, "Uncles" Carl
stemmed In the text, reference is made indi- Sagan and Isaac Asimov.
from the fact rectly to the Betty and Barney Hill case He notes that another close friend of
that David is with a very strange comment that their his father was the late John Mack. also
the son of Dr. explanation "is offered as an alterna- a Harvard professor of psychiatry, who
L e s t e r tive hypothesis to the given understand- had graduated from Harvard the same
Grinspoon, a ing of one of the most popularized UFO year as Lester.
retired reports. which ethical and legal consid- They received their advanced de-
(emeritus) erations prevent us from citing." grees at the same time and were close
Harvard pro- Considering that John G. Fuller's colleagues, attended each other's wed-
fessor of book about the case, The Interrupted dings, etc.. . and eventually disagreed
psy.chiatry Stan Friedman about UFO abductions.
Joumey, had already been a best seller
who had pro;ided one of the sillier ex- and available for years, makes one David even relates that he was up-
planations for UFOs. wonder why. stairs when Sagan, Lester Grinspoon,
His paper "Psychiatry and UFO Grinspoon and Persky suggest that and McDonald listened to tapes that
Reports," with Dr. Alan Persky (also a the case was an example of a psycho- Lester had borrowed from Benjamin
Harvard psychiatrist) is included in the sis known as folie a deux, a communi- Simon of the Hills' hypnosis sessions.
book UFOs: A Scientijk Debate, ed- cated form of mental disorder. What is somewhat surprising to me
ited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page. "This is a psychosis in which one of is that Lester Grinspoon is no stranger
The book includes papers presented two intimately associated people devel- to controversy,having been a strong and
at a symposium on Unidentified Fly- ops certain mental symptoms, particu- public advocate of the medical uses of
ing Objects sponsored by the Arneri- larly delusions, which are communi- marijuana for many years. He has pro-
can Association for the Advancement cated to and accepted by the second vided testimony to congressional hear-
of Science in Boston on Dec. 26 and person." ings on the topic and written several
27, 1969. Kathy Marden, Betty's niece, pretty books.
It was published by Cornell Univer- much demolishes this armchair expla- He was also one of the first physi-
sity Press, 1972, and includes 341 nation by noting the many differences cians to use Lithium compounds in the
pages with 15 separate papers. between Betty's and Barney's detailed treatment of mental disease. It is obvi-
There is a lot of good reading, in- accounts in a new book "Captured," ously harder to gather laboratory data
cluding Jim McDonald's paper, "Sci- which hopefully will be published in on UFOs than on reactions to, and side
ence in Default: Twenty-two Years of 2007. effects of, various drugs.
Inadequate UFO Investigations," espe- In a column I did a while back, I had David takes note in a footnote that
cially in contrast with Donald Menzel's noted the need for new blood in ufology Carl Sagan, a very good friend of
paper, "UFOS- he Modern Myth,'' with a lot of us "leaders" in the field Lester, had used marijuana. This has
which demonstrates the truth of getting older. John Schuessler, Bob been noted before. Too bad a psychia-
McDonald's title. Wood, Dick Hall, and myself are all trist with Lester's smarts and courage
Anyway, Grinspoon and Persky se- over 70. hasn't looked at the subject of the "Will
riously suggested a Freudian explana- The same holds true for SET1 and not to believe" so common amongst
tion: UFO sightings might well repre- exobiology and the newer version as- prominent astronomers, and apparently
sent symbols in the witnesses' minds trobiology. Sagan, born in 1934, is some psychiatrists.
MUFON UFO Journal December 2006
David Grinspoon has a breezy style, background, Grinspoon says very little rado under the direction of physicist
and doesn't seem to try to impress the about the feasibility of interstellar Edward Condon.
reader with dense prose. I enjoyed the travel. "The Condon Report published in
book and its much broader perspective Obviously, if an advanced civiliza- 1969 did not satisfy anyone on either
than usually found in the SETI litera- tion has developed relatively straight- 'side' of the UFO controversy. It con-
ture. forward interstellar travel, one might cluded that nothing could be concluded,
He has been steeped in planetology expect colonization and migration to be and that further study was not justified."
c since working as a college freshman as the rule rather than the exception. The fact is that the Condon study was
an assistant to the Voyager Imaging Such a civilization would be able to almost completely independent of
team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory not only spread their influence in their Project Blue Book.
in Pasadena for the Voyager 2 Jupiter local neighborhood, but to shift from It had been recommended by the
Encounter in 1979. planets or solar systems where, for any O'Brien Committee in a "Special Re-
He describes the complete surprise of a number of reasons, life becomes port of the USAF Scientific Advisory
of the group watching as the images of much more difficult. Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review
Jupiter's moon Europa were first Surely he is aware of nuclear fusion Project Blue Book," one of whose
stripped on to the screen. The theories being the primary source of energy for members was Carl Sagan.
had predicted an ancient dead cratered most stars. It would not be surprising - Furthermore I think a great deal of
landscape on the small ice planet. if he, like most academics, was un- emphasis should be placed on the find-
Instead they saw a smooth bright aware of the substantial effort that has ings of the Special UFO Subcornmit-
surface criss-crossed by strange dark been made in the development of tee established by the American Insti-
lanes. nuclear aircraft,. nuclear rockets, tute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Throughout the book he cites in- nuclear ramjets, aswell as fusion rock- Its findings about the Condon study,
stances of reality conflicting with theo- ets. published in 1970, "Astronautics and
ries, and the need for a certain amount It is also not surprising that Aeronautics," included this statement:
of humility about predictions. Grinspoon nowhere discusses the se- "We find that the opposite conclusion
"As you might expect, many com- curity implications of advanced vehicle could have been drawn from the con-
fortable preconceptions have been com- technology demonstrated by flying sau- tent of the report-namely that a phe-
-
pletely overturned. Much of what we cers-normal stuff like weapons deliv- nomenon with a high ratio of unex-
thought we knew about comparative ery and defense systems and reconnais- plained cases (about 30 %) should
planetology turns out to be wrong." sance missions. arouse suff~cientscientific curiosity to
The SETI cultists could learn a lot Grinspoon isn't strongly anti-UFO continue its study."
about humility. ala Carl Sagan in Demon Haunted For reasons unknown, Grinspoon
He makes the interesting point that World, as discussed in my TOP SE- speaks of there having been only three
the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft, CRET/MAJIC or Drake in his Is Any- official UFO government studies in the
launched in 1989 towards Jupiter, made one Out There? 50s and 60s.
clear that the Jovian family of satellites However, his knowledge seems very He names "The Scientific Advisory
was really a planetary system of its limited. For example, he doesn't men- Panel on UFOs," but not its chair&,
own. Different factors influenced the tion the Congressional Hearings of H.P. Robertson, though noting that
development of each satellite. 1968 with Jim McDonald's outstand- panel member Luis Alvarez, a noted
By that time he had his PhD and was ing paper covering 41 good cases. scientist, was co-discoverer of the gi-
.. a comparative planetologist funded by Sagan and 10 other PhDs and myself ant comet impact that doomed the di-
NASA (The only non PhD presenter) also con- nosaurs.
Grinspoon suggests replacing the tributed. He gives it equal weight with Blue
well known, and over hyped, Drake He never mentions Dr. J. Allen Book and the. Condon studies, even
Equation with a version that more prop- Hynek, an astronomer involved with the though the panel met for only five days
erly deals with the rate at which plan- UFO subject for almost 40 years and and included mostly people who had
etary surfaces change from being suit- author of such books as The UFO Ex- known nothing about UFOs and did no
able for life to being uninhabitable. perience. Of course there is no men- field investigations.
He notes that users of the Drake tion of Richard Hall's two volumes of There is no mention at all of "Project
"equation" compute a value for the The UFO Evidence. Blue Book Special Report No. 14," the
number of civilizations in the galaxy He mentions the Condon Report, but huge 1955 study by Battelle Memorial
that varies from 10,000 to 1 billion; makes this totally false statement: "In Institute which includes more than 200
hardly a scientific result indicative of 1966the House Armed Services Com- tables, charts, graphs, and maps relat-
understanding the situation. mittee decided that Project Blue Book ing to 3,201 sightings ...25 times as
Not surprisingly, considering his ex- hadn't gotten anywhere, so they handed many as studied by Condon.
tensive academic and NASA-related the files over to the University of Colo- (Continued on page 21)
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By Ted Phillips
The Tatra Project tific team reach the cavern and study Between 1925 & 1931 Tony and
This is a report dealing with the most the artifact. After spending a day and Anna traveled to the United States,
significant event in my 42 years of re- evening with Tony and Anna, I called Canada, Mexico, and Argentina on
search. Some details will be left out of J. Allen Hynek and told him the story. mining business.
this reportfor reasons that will become At his request my wife and I drove to 1935-1939: Tony & Anna moved to
obvious. meet him in New Mexico to discuss Banska Bystrica, Slovakia (mine direc-
1have been able to collect a wealth the information in detail. tor)
of information, both historical and cur- After a day of discussion we agreed 1939: Arrested by the Germans and
rent, relating to this 36-year quest. an expedition should be initiated. Two placed in Theimwald concentration
The - ~ a t r a weeks later, funding was agreed upon. camp.
Project began in It would come from a well-known ac- 1941: Escaped from concentration
1970 when a tor. It was a sure thing, we thought. camp and fled to Slovakia. In hiding
close friend con- The beginning of the beginning until 1943.
tacted me with Antonin (Tony) T. Horak was born 1943-1944: Became a member of
a n . incredible 109 years ago in the village of army insurgents (rank of captain) fight-
story from his Hermannstadt, located near the border ing in sector Podkar-Patska Russ.
neighbor. that now exists between the Czech 1945-1948: Fugitive in Prague, to
Knowing of Republic and Slovakia. Paris-fugitive from Russians.
my interest in The family was on vacation at one 1952: Arrived United States with
cave exploration of their homes in Hermannstadt, located Anna.
and unusual oc- ~~dPhillips a great distance (at that time) from their 1952 - 1974: Built and owned a res-
currences, he felt property in Bohemia. taurant and taught music and languages.
I should hear the story. Two weeks later For many generations the family en- Antonin Horak died in 1976, Anna
my wife and I traveled 800 miles to terprise was called Domain Keilberg, in 1978.
meet this Czechoslovakian engineer at and included agriculture, forests, and Military action
his home. . mines. This property is located in the As noted above, in October, 1944,
We were immediately impressed district of Jachymov, Bohemia. Tony was a captain in the Slovakian
with -Tony and Anna Horak, both in The following is a summary of Tony Army, fighting in the north of Slovakia
their early 70's, as a quiet and extremely Horak's personal history. background. near the Polish border. I am quoting
intelligent couple. After a casual con- work, and education: directly from the 1944 diary of Tony
versation I brought up the cave and ar- Attended various schools (named in Horak:
tifact. document) in Prague, London, and "Saturday, October 2 1, 1944. The
He began by showing us a very old Paris 1903-1915. !915-1919: remnants of our battalion (184 men and
and worn diary he had carried with him Joined Czech Army, fought in officers, a quarter wounded, 16
during World War 11. The diary was 5 Austro/Hungary conflict, lieutenant in stretcher cases) were retreating through
by 7 inches in size and filled with very 1916 with division decorations. the snow of the north slope.
detailed daily accounts of his involve- 1921: Married Anna Krisch, gradu- "My company was the rear guard.
ment in the fighting. ated University of Banska Stiavniva At dawn Sunday, two 70mm guns
The fust entry was dated Sept. 5, (geology). opened up at us from close range-about
1944, and described the conflict near 1924: Graduated University of 300 meters. Having held our position
Levoca. Tony had a number of similar Prague (engineering). for 12 hours, I ordered a gradual
diaries written from 1941 to 1944. 1927 Graduated University of breakup of the skirmish and a :lip-off.
We viewed and photographed the Prague (business management & phi- . "But in our left trench someone be-
diary pages related to the artifact cave, losophy). came careless, and that drew two di-
which included a number of detailed 1928-1930 director-adjoint at mine rect hits-shells, two wounded. Arriv-
sketches of the cave, artifact, and the near Pribramy, Bohemia, 1932-1935 ing there I bumped into the enemy,
terrain around the cave location. Director of mining complex Saline caught a bayonet and bullet with my
Tony had one goal: to have a scien- Vizakna. left palm and a blow on my head, which
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invoke the Deities. I started my cave
tour with rifle, lantern. torches, pick.
"After a not too devious nor danger-
ous walk and some squeezing, always
taking the easiest and marking side pas-
sages. I came, after about I 112 hours.
into a long, level passage, and at its end
upon a barrel-sized hole.
Next month: The Discovery.
Friedman...
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Grinspoon makes only one dispar-
aging comment about Roswell. But in
his notes on sources for his Beliefs
Tony Horak, lep, and J. Allen Hynek in 1970. chapter he states "Two good books on
the "Roswell Incident" are The Roswell
put me out. Without my fur cap it might pockets of poisonous air, and 'certainly Report: Case Closed by Captain James
have been fractured. . haunted.' McAndrew and Roswell: Inconvenient
"Sunday, October 22,1944.1 came "I was back in the grotto with my Facts and the Will to Believe by Karl
to when someone was pulling me from men at about midnight, exhausted, head Pflock, a veteran ufologist."
the trench, a tall peasant. He packed very painful, soothed it with snow. A highlight of the former is the no-
snow on my hand and head, and Martin was unconscious, Jurek fever- tion that crash test dummies dropped
grimed. ish. all over New Mexico were responsible
"Then this rough and ready Samari- "For breakfast-lunch-dinner he and for stories about small alien bodies re-
tan grabbed Jurek, stripped off his I had hot water, and, thank God, I had lated to Roswell.
pants, yanked a long slivver of steel my pipe. I placed warm stones around Of course, more careful investiga-
from his thigh, and planted him Martin, and ~ u r e kgot the first watch. tion indicates the dummies were 6' tall
bare-bottomed and gasping into a heap "October 23,1944. Miserable night. and weighed 175 pounds, and none
of snow. Martin, with a slash across and Martin at times conscious; I gave him were dropped before 1953 (6 years af-
into his belly, was tenderly bandaged. three aspirins and hot water to sip with' ter Roswell) or near either the Corona
"Building a stretcher, the peasant in- drops of Slivovitz. or Plains of San Agustin crash sites.
troduced himself as Slavek, a "Jurek hobbled hungrily around the I have discussed the many problems
sheepman, owner of the pastures here- two German helmets in which he boiled with Karl's character assassinations and
abouts. With Slavek hauling and guid- water, to which I added .lo drops of other aspects of his Roswell investiga-
ing, it took us four hours to reach this Slivovitz, our breakfast. With this del- tion in my 2003 paper "Critiquing the
cranny. uge of snow, avalanches imminent, and Roswell Critics."
The cave enemy skiers roaming, Slavek may not The book is an excellent overview
"Slavek moved rocks in the cranny be able to get through to us with food of planetology, but certainly has little
and opened a low cleft, the entrance to for days to come. scientific work on UFOs. space travel,
this roomy grotto. "And neither should I try hunting and the cosmic Watergate.
"Placing Martin in a niche, we were track up the landscape while I have two I am sure we will hear more from
astonished to see Slavek become cer- immobilized men on my hands. Dr. Grinspoon. I might even buy his
emonious: he crossed himself. each of "But here we have this cave which book Venzts Revealed.
us, the grotto. and. with a deep bow. its Slavek knows only partially; it may fsphys@rogers.com
back wall, where a hole came to my have more than this known entrance, www.stantonfriedman.com
attention. and it may contain hibernating animals.
"About to leave us, Slavek went "These possibilities I mulled over
while Jurek was chewing pine bark,
Case reports
through themsame holy rites, and begged Investigators and State Directors.
me not to go further into his cave. I ac- and, as expected, he implored me to go
poaching into Slavek's cave and prom- Please send a copy via email (Word)
compaked him-to fetch pine boughs- or snail mail of your case reports di-
and he told me that only once, with his ised to keep mum.
rectly to the Journal, including cop-
father and grandfather, he had been in "And I was not only starved, but ies of any photos and drawings
this cave: that it is a huge maze, full of equally eager to find out what makes (.jpg). Thanks.
pits which they never wanted to fathom, self assured Slavek scared enough to
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Directors' Message ...
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you have a public service announce-
ment that you would please like them
to air. '
grees above the horizon by the end of before the Sun in the east-southeast,
the month. standing about 19 degrees above the
Saturn (magnitude 0.2 to 0.0): In east-southeast horizon at the beginning
Leo. For Northern Hemisphere observ- of morning twilight.
ers, Saturn will rise in the east-north- By .month's end, Jupiter will stand
east approximately 3 hours after sun- about 44 degrees high in the east-south-
set, and will stand about 27 degrees east at the beginning of AM twilight.
high in the west at the beginning of
morning twilight. Meteor showers: Quadrantids:
Southern Hemisphere observers will The Quadrantids are an above aver-
find Saturn rising in the east-northeast age shower, with up to 40 meteors per
approximately 2.5 hours after sunset, hours at their peak. The shower will
and will stand about 44 degrees high in peak this year on Jan. 3, but some me-
the northwest at the beginning of mom- teors will be visible from Dec. 28-Jan.
ing twilight. 7.
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