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Discovering the Oldest cradle of humankind, we may be looking at the
activities of the oldest civilisation on Earth.
more explorations with amazing new
discoveries on every trip to the mountain top,
Man-made Structures Johan Heine manages the largest group that the site was accurately surveyed and the
of fire fighters and fire fighting fleet of aircraft true age of the monoliths was revealed. It turned
on Earth. in Africa. As a pilot he has been flying over the out that the north, south east, west alignment is
mountains of Mpumalanga for over 20 years. out by 3 degrees - 17 minutes - 43 sec. This
He instantly took a keen interest and started means that we are dealing with a structure at
photographing thousands of strange circular least 25,000 years old based on
stone ruins that lie scattered throughout this archaeoastronomic calculations relating to the
region. After consulting various so-called 26,000 year cycle of the precessional wobble.
experts on their origins he was informed that Further studies of the geology, erosion,
these were merely remains of "cattle kraal" left alignments with stars and lichen growth has
behind by the migrating Bantu people from the allowed us to reach reasonable sound and
north in the 14th century until about the 18th scientific conclusion that this site is at least
century. But it was an almost fatal air crash by 75,000 years old. Our latest research has pushed
one of his crew that brought him to discover the back this date to well over 100,000 years.
mysterious monolithic circle we now call
Adam's Calendar and put the entire mystery of Mysterious ancient ruins of southern
these ancient ruins into perspective. Africa
by Michael Tellinger
Johan spotted the strange monoliths
standing upright in the centre of a larger eroded
circular structure, right on the edge of a high It is generally estimated by scholars that
Decoding The Hidden Ruins there are about 20,000 ancient stone ruins
mountain cliff. After dealing with the crashed
Of Southern Africa. aircraft and recovering the pilot who only scattered throughout the mountains of southern
suffered a broken arm, Johan returned to Africa. Modern historians have been
Scholars have told us that the first civilisation investigate the monoliths. This is when he truly speculating about the origins of these ruins,
on Earth emerged in a land called Sumer some discovered how amazingly blind, 'those who often calling them 'cattle kraal of little historic
6000 years ago. Recent archaeological will not see' can be. He brought about 5 importance'. The truth of the matter is that
findings suggest that the Sumerians may have academics to the site in search of explanations, closer scientific inspection paints a completely
inherited some of their knowledge from an but not one of them could see the true different and astonishing new picture about the
earlier civilisation that emerged many significance of the discovery, claiming that ancient history of these stone ruins of southern
thousands of years earlier in southern Africa - these were just random stones. This was a big Africa. The scientific reality is that we actually
the cradle of humankind. blow to his original excitement but like a true know very little about these spectacular ancient
explorer he did not stop there. ruins and it is a great tragedy that thousands
The site is situated on the edge of what have already been destroyed through sheer
More than 100,000 years ago early
is known as the Transvaal Escarpment which is ignorance by forestry, farmers and
humans built a stone calendar that predates all
other man-made structures found to geologically black reef quartzite, rich in gold. development.
date. This discovery is so astounding After my personal explorations
that it requires a true paradigm shift in on foot and by air over the past 2
our approach to ancient human years, I can confidently estimate the
activity as it takes us closer to the number of ancient stone ruins to be
emergence of the earliest humans on closer to 100,000. This figure was
planet Earth. confirmed by Prof. Revil Mason in
This 'African Stonehenge' January 2009.
which we have called 'Adam's
Calendar' has for the first time created Population Problem
a link to the countless other stone
ruins in southern Africa and suggests This immediately poses a huge
that these ruins are much older than problem for archaeologists,
we thought. The complex that links anthropologists and historians
Waterval Boven, Machadodorp, because the accepted history of this
Carolina and Dullstroom, covers an part of the planet does not at any time
area larger then modern-day in our past place anywhere nearly
Johannesburg and has emerged as the enough people here to have built this
largest and most mysterious ancient number of structures. It gets even
city on Earth. The discovery of carved more complex when you realise that
dolerite statues of giant birds, some resembling This is incidentally where the gold rush took these were not just isolated structures left
Horus, and petroglyphs of winged disks, place in the early 1800's. But the monoliths at behind by migrating hunter-gatherers. The true
suggests that the prototype Sumerian and Adam's Calendar are all dolerite. The closest reality hits you when you take in the magnitude
Egyptian civilisations had their origins in vein of dolerite to the site is about a kilometre and expanse of these settlements and witness
southern Africa thousands of years before they away. This means that the architects went to a the staggering number of ancient terraces that
emerged in the north. lot of trouble to get the monoliths, some of surround these settlements that cover over
Seven years of research by a group of which weigh over 5 tons, to the site. The central 450,000 square kilometres in southern Africa
independent scientists and explorers has monolith is carved with precision to allow the and possibly much more. A detailed
delivered what may be the crucial missing setting sun to cast a shadow on what we call the archaeological scrutiny of photographic
elements in our understanding of the lives and flat calendar stone. evidence of some of these terraces shows some
development of early modern humans. Their Johan began to measure and calculate to be at least 5000 years old.
discovery has been released in a book called the layout and parameters of the monoliths. The complex that links Waterval Boven,
Adam's Calendar. But the research has also Using his years of experience in aeronautical Machadodorp, Carolina and Dullstroom, covers
shown that these stone settlements represent the science and navigation he very quickly realised around 20,000 square kilometres, which is a
most mysterious and misunderstood structures that the circular structure was purposefully larger area then modern-day Johannesburg.
found to date. It points to a civilisation that lived designed and aligned to the cardinal points of
and dug for gold in this part of the world for Earth, including equinoxes and solstices.
thousands of years. And if this is in fact the But it was only six years later and many (Continued on Page 18)
18 Michael Tellinger - Adam’s Calendar
Discovering the Oldest mines. In my personal experience and research
I have found at least 5 ancient mine shafts in
vernal equinox sunrise is shaped like the Horus
hawk head from Egypt and it also resembles the
Man-made Structures gold-rich areas and been told of dozens more by birds at Zimbabwe ruins. This is the oldest
farmers from the area. It seems that gold mining statue of the Horus hawk by a long shot and
on Earth. has been going on here for a lot longer than should attract great interest in the years to come.
Continued From Page 17 most of us ever imagined. Adam's Calendar takes us further back in time
A coin of Roman Emperor Antoninus closer to the emergence of Homo sapiens, than
Most of the original settlement Pius 138 AD was found 25 metres deep in a any other structure ever found to date, and it
structures are well buried beneath the soil and gold mine in 1891 by the man to first excavate will force historians and archaeologist to
can only be seen from the air by a sensitised Great Zimbabwe. The Egyptian Pharaoh reconsider ancient human activity and
observer. It gets even more confusing when you Ramses writes about crossing the African consciousness.
observe the ancient roads that link all these continent to the southern tip around 1300 BC
settlements together. We have traced the and his encounters with gold in this part of the Ancient Humans
remains of these roads that can still be seen world. It becomes evident that we are actually
stretching to about 500 kilometres. In their and probably talking about King Solomon's Southern Africa holds some of the deepest
original state they would have covered mines. mysteries in all of human history. Although
thousands of kilometres. Should we be surprised by this much has been written about the first humans
The position of the ancient road sections discovery? The oldest written record of human who appeared in this part of the world, we have
that we have discovered suggest that it once ran history, the Sumerian tablets, describe found very little evidence of their activity or
continuously from the coast of Mozambique to extensively the ancient activity in a land called what they did and what kind of lives they led
Botswana and possibly beyond. A rough ABZU - the land below the equator where the from around 250,000 years ago to 75,000 years
calculation shows that, only the visible pieces of gold was mined. The tablets describe the early ago. What we are told is that around 60,000
the original ancient roads would have required human settlements and the quest for gold. The years ago the people from Africa began to
over 500 million stones of between 10 and 50 fact that many scholars keep ignoring these migrate north and eventually populated the
kilograms to construct. If we assume that the scripts is a great pity. whole planet.
roads only make up 2 percent of the ancient
settlements, the number of stones required to Sumeria and Abantu Who were these first humans?
build the entire ancient city/settlement becomes What did they do?
unthinkable. This would simply not be possible The links to the Sumerian civilisation in
How did they live?
with the current population model of ancient southern Africa simply cannot be ignored or
civilisation in southern Africa. The other issue erased. They can even be traced with etymology And where did they disappear to?
we need to deal with is the need for roads, since in the names and origins of indigenous people.
it was previously believed that the wheel only The most obvious piece of evidence that has The first signs of human intelligence and
arrived in this part of the world with the never been explained is the word Abantu, the consciousness only appeared around 75 000
Portuguese explorers in the 1500's. name commonly used to desribe black South years ago, when the Khoisan people of southern
Africans. According to pre-eminent shaman and Africa started leaving behind an array of
spectacular cave paintings all over this part of
Oldest City on Earth medicine man Credo Mutwa, the name is
derived from the Sumerian goddess Antu. the continent. Finely crafted beads and bracelet
Abantu simply means the children or people of fragments found in a cave at Blombos in the
It would not be unthinkable that we are
Antu. Western Cape, South Africa, show that these
possibly looking at the oldest settlements on
early humans had already developed a feel for
Earth. Artefacts that have been recovered from
the arts and crafts.
these ruins show a long and extended period of How does Adam's Calendar fit into
The legends become even more vivid
settlement that spans well over 200,000 years. the ancient ruin picture? when we learn about the great empire of
Over the past three decades several researchers
Monomotapa whose kings were powerful and
have raised this issue only to be ridiculed and Adam's Calendar is the flagship among wealthy in gold. When we move to around 1000
often ostracised. Many leading scientist and these ruins because we can date this monolithic BC we encounter the mysterious Queen Sheba
historians have since voiced their support for calendar with relative certainty to at least who ruled a kingdom in the lost land of Ophir,
such ancient origins. Since southern Africa is 75,000 years of age based on a number of teeming with endless supplies of gold; and the
the cradle of humankind, we should not be scientific evaluations. In turn Adam's Calendar wise and wealthy king Solomon who seduced
surprised to find such ruins, but we should points to the diverse ancient history of southern Queen Sheba and obtained all his gold from her.
rather expect these discoveries. The reality Africa and presents the first tangible evidence
seems to be that we are dealing with what is of the earliest humans in the 'Cradle of
possibly the largest and most mysterious ancient humankind'.
civilisation on Earth. Is it possible that there really was
such a place?
The Orion Connection & The Hawk
Ancient Gold Fields Was it really filled with limitless
Head of Horus
wealth in gold?
It is important to note that the Was it here where the wealthiest
This remarkable stone structure of
mysterious ruins of southern Africa, which kings on Earth got their gold?
Adam's Calendar was originally a large circular
include Great Zimbabwe and thousands of
structure resembling but predating Stonehenge
similar ruins in that country, also extend into Ophir is an etymological derivative of the
by many thousands of years. Its original shape
neighbouring areas like Botswana, Namibia, ancient place called Afer - where the gold came
is still clearly visible from satellite images.
Zambia, Kenya and Mozambique. But why from; then became the Arabic Afir - for Africa -
Adam's Calendar is built along the same 31
were these ancient people here in the first place? from which was derived K'Afir - which became
degree longitudinal line as Great Zimbabwe and
What were they doing? the slang word for black people in later years. In
the Great Pyramid of Giza. Three of the
The past 200 years has seen a number of the Bible it is changed to Ofir or Ophir. There
monoliths are aligned with the rise of Orion's
explorers write in great detail about these ruins, seems to be a clear link between all these places
belt when it rose horizontally on the horizon at
but their findings have been largely forgotten and this link leads to southern Africa - where the
least 75,000 years ago. The latest astronomic
and their books are out of print. Most of these gold came from.
calculation suggests that the last time Orion
early explorers write about thousands of ancient
would have been flat on the horizon was around
mine shafts found in close proximity to these (Continued on Page 19)
160,000 years ago.
ruins. In fact, most of these mines have been
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Discovering the Oldest Man-
made Structures on Earth.
Continued From Page 18
This is after all the place where most of the gold in the
world has been mined in modern history, and it was no different
in ancient times. Is it a coincidence that the richest gold mine in
the world today, Sheba Gold Mine, is located right here in
Mpumalanga, South Africa? These may seem like naïve
questions to some, but after witnessing the enormous ancient
cities and civilisations in southern Africa myself, I am convinced
that what we think we know about our ancient human history is
further from the truth than we ever imagined. It is also important
to note that the word 'Ophir' stems from the ancient near-eastern
name for Africa which was 'Afir' or 'Aphir'. This later led to the
people of Africa being referred to as "K'Afir" and we all know
where this expression led to.
Adam's Calendar firmly places the many ancient ruins of
southern Africa at a point in history that we modern humans have
never faced before some 100,000 ago.
An aerial view of the calendar site perched on the edge of the Transvaal escarpment
consisting of black reef quartzite. The tree on the right is the north marker. All the
About Michael Tellenger monoliths that make up the circular calendar structure are dolerite. The closest vein of
igneous dolerite is about 500 m to 1 km away. Note the sculptured pointed monolith
Michael Tellinger graduated from Wits University in 1983 closest to the edge. This is one of the 3 monoliths that aligns with the rise of Orion -
with a B.Pharm degree. While studying he spent most of his time 75,000 years ago.
moving within the entertainment circles performing on stage and
screen. He started his career in Nick Taylor’s musical “Christian” at
His Majesty’s theatre in 1980 and followed this by playing the part
of “Joseph” at the opening of the State Theatre. At this time he
launched his solo career as a musician and released his first single
called “Hazel” in 1981, which was nominated for a SARIE award.
In 1982 Michael teamed up with Russell Stirling and formed the
musical duo “Stirling & Tellinger”. The two played together for
four years and had a number of radio hits with “Call Me” and
“What’s a Nice Girl Like You, Doing In a Place Like This” Their
videos took the market by storm and laid the foundation for many
of the SA music videos of the early 80’s. The “Call Me” video was
voted among the top two most popular videos at MIDEM in Cannes
1984.
In 1985 the duo recorded an album in Nashville, under the
guidance of Terry Dempsey. During a year in Los Angeles he
attracted the attention of various agents but because of the cultural
boycott against white South African musicians, the duo was bluntly
rejected. Michael worked for Cannon Films as a sound designer and
editor, returning to SA in mid 1986, when he recorded the
controversial anti-apartheid song “We come from Johannesburg”
Founder of Adam's Calendar, Johan Heine, examines the carved edge on the
which was banned shortly after its release. Michael continued his
leading monolith which casts a clear shadow on the flat calendar rock. The
career as an actor and musician, appearing as one of the leads in
South Africa’s first soapie called “Orpen House” and as the lead in
wider monolith became the calendar on which days and weeks were marked
a six-episode series “The Star Shooters’ in 1987 for which he as the movement of the sun stretched perfectly from one edge to the other,
created the soundtrack. He presented a variety of hit SABC shows left to right, and than back again.
like “Graffiti’ and “Fast Forward”. His experience with SABC led
him to get involved in TV production and he created shows like the
talk show called “Late Nite Live” and “Weekend Bonus”.
Began a career in advertising as a writer and received a Clio
award in New York in 1989 which caused Michael to join partner
Philip Botha in a specialist radio ad agency called Airheads which
became a highly competitive and visible niche player in the South
African advertising industry.In 1997 Michael returned to music and
launched Nebula BOS Records. His latest contribution to the arts
was “Side By Side With Angels”, a moving collaboration of SA
musicians for the TSUNAMI disaster fund, which Michael wrote
and produced with Verny Scholtz of Just Ginger fame. The song and
video featured a host of leading SA artists like Malaika, Dr. Victor,
Watershed, Dawnay and others.
In 2000 he was given his own weekly radio show on Cape
Talk radio that dealt with science, innovation, technology and
success stories. In 2001 Michael developed an educational TV show
for the SABC which resulted in him staring a publishing company,
writing a number of children’s educational story books, developing
a literacy programme, and a range of games and AV products. He A close-up view of the Johan Heine Stone Calendar (Adam's Calendar) on
has written a number of screenplays but “Slave Species of god” is a summer's day 2007. This view is from south to north dissecting the two
his first published non-fiction book, as a result of a 25-year main monoliths in the centre. The tree in the centre is where the north
obsession with science and the cosmos. [] marker stone is located. (More Photo’s on Page 20)
20 Michael Tellinger - Adam’s Calendar
Although it is badly eroded, the original circular form of the calendar site can still be
seen on this satellite image, with the 2 main monoliths at its centre. The north-south
deviation can also be immediately seen as the north marker slants slightly to the left of
12 o'clock. It was measure do be 3 degrees, 17 minutes and 43 sec.
Adam’s Calendar
www.adamscalendar.com Ancient terraces surround large complex settlements and cover more than 450,000
km square.
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Mysterious UFO action and began searching the area using
Crashes Into the sophisticated sonars and underwater cameras to
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Ottawa River Monday helicopters from the Canadian Forces Base
(CFB) in nearby Trenton took part. On Tuesday
Night - July 27 2009 at 1:30pm, they discovered an object about 9
meters (30 feet) below the surface, but because
of currents and nearby rapids, sending divers
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would be instantly swept away by the currents.
The mystery? Authorities and residents
have no idea what this object laying at the
bottom of the river is. There are no planes
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On Tuesday afternoon, Ottawa police
Const. Alain Boucher said of the object they
found on the riverbed:
“The size and the shape doesn’t lead us
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it could be a bunch of logs stuck together, it’s
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Dozens of residents of Canada’s capital kind of videos or anything like that at this time.
city, Ottawa Ontario and nearby Gatineau, Que., None of the people actually reported seeing a
witnessed an object streak across the night sky plane go down at the same time.”
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boom.” prompted a massive co-ordinated search by
The object had lights on it and appeared local authorities and the Canadian Military.
to change course several times, like a small They found an object below the surface and
plane struggling to stay airborn, before it hit the don’t know exactly what it is.
water. It truly is a UFO mystery at this point.[]
It was such a sight that emergency
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28 UFO’s In The News
UFO sightings increase Our skies are alive with first time it was used at a demonstration.
Their capacity to provide extra video
'after television shows unidentified objects evidence could prove useful to police forces
which face allegations about their public order
about aliens' tactics, and about differing versions of major
Edmonton Journal events such as London's G20 protests in April.
Michael Evans, Defence Editor A Derbyshire Police spokeswoman said:
Could it be global warming? The tragic "A pilotless drone plane will be used to record
loss of Corner Gas? Repeated exposure to evidence at the Red, White and Blue festival.
Sightings of unidentified flying objects question period?Whatever the cause,
increase when public interest is aroused by "The drone, fitted with CCTV cameras,
Canadians--interestingly, led by Albertans and will be used by a trained operator from the
films and television programmes about aliens, British Columbians--reported more UFO
newly declassified files indicate. manufacturing company. It will record any
sightings in 2008 than ever before. incidents of disorder for evidence-gathering
There was a surge of UFO reports in A just-released 20-year study documents
1996 when the Hollywood film Independence purposes. The drone is similar to a small, model
a steep rise in possible close encounters over the aircraft."
Day was released and the television series The decades, from 141 reported sightings in 1989 to
X Files was growing in popularity. The drone is about three feet in diameter
1,004 last year. About 14 per cent of the and can be configured to gather still images,
Ministry of Defence files released by the incidents, involving flying discs and strange
National Archives show that there were 609 video, thermal images and night-vision pictures.
lights in the sky, have been pronounced by Unlike full-scale police helicopters it is virtually
“sightings” in 1996, compared with 117 in authorities as "unexplained." Manitoba science
1995. The MoD had its own department to inaudible.
writer/ "ufologist" Chris Rutkoski partially Derbyshire Police is believed to have
ensure that none of the reported UFOs was a assigns the sightings spike to the proliferation of
threat to national security. rented the drone from another force for the day
UFO websites online, as well as our at a cost of £500.
In one case in 1995, two men told police increasingly crowded skies.
in Staffordshire that an alien figure with a Police have been told to change the way
Still, he allows that if there are indeed they control public protests after the G20
lemon-shaped head had come out of a spaceship more advanced civilizations out there, they are
they had seen that was four houses high and demonstrations saw the death of newspaper
likely keeping an eye on us. seller Ian Tomlinson after he was pushed to the
hovering over a field, telling them: “We want Looking around at the messes we make,
you. Come with us.” The men gave police a ground by a police officer. Earlier this month it
that could be proof of alien wisdom. [] emerged that a woman may have suffered a
drawing of the craft resembling a flying saucer.
The files also contained drawings of other miscarriage shortly after being manhandled by
supposed sightings. Police launch 'Flying officers at the G20 protests. []
A US spy plane may have been behind Saucer' CCTV camera
other allegations made in 1993. More than 70 Mass UFO sighting in
people, including police and military personnel,
reported UFOs in Devon, Cornwall, South Police used a remote-controlled Peru
Wales and Shropshire early on March 31. Many
described a large, low-flying object which made
"flying saucer" to monitor the
Michael Cohen
a humming sound. BNP's Red, White and Blue festival
A note to Sir Anthony Bagnall, then the in Codnor, Derbyshire, where anti- Two bright unidentified objects have
assistant chief of air staff, from Nick Pope, head been spotted by residents of the city of Tacna,
of the MoD’s UFO desk, said there was
fascist protesters have assembled.
Peru. 13th August 2009. Residents all over the
evidence of an unidentified craft evading UK city were shocked to see two bright lights
defences. By David Barrett, Home Affairs moving very slowy in the sky. Photos (above
He said he would not normally concern Correspondent and below) and videos of the unidentified
Sir Anthony with UFO sightings but continued: objects were taken.
“You may wish to be aware of a recent Officials from the Carlos Ciriani airport
particularly unusual incidence of UFO sightings in Tacna confirmed the objects were not
over the UK, involving descriptions that match airplanes.
some of the reported characterisations of the so- UFO fever is sweeping through Latin
called ‘Aurora’.” America at an incredible pace. Brazil has
The Aurora was the name given to a US disclosed. Uruguay recently joined this UFO
plane supposedly developed in secret “black” nation: disclosing its previously classified UFO
programmes in the 1980s which was allegedly files and allowing researchers to access them.
capable of hypersonic flight, five times faster Apparently around 40 well studied cases in the
than the speed of sound. country have been made public. Some involve
Mr Pope said yesterday: “There are abductions and others highly documented UFO
some fascinating cases here [in the released chases by the nation's Air Force. Argentina is
files]and while we could explain 95 per cent of tipped to follow suite. Will Peru be next? []
the sightings, the rest were a genuine mystery. Similar to a mini-helicopter, the device
We were particularly concerned by near misses has four pairs of carbon-fibre rotor blades which
with aircraft and cases where UFOs were seen support a camera. An operator on the ground
close to military bases.” [] controls the vehicle's flight using a hand-held
control panel with two joysticks.
The drone – which is based on military
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology –
feeds live images back to a screen on the control
unit, enabling the "pilot" to operate the machine
even when it is out of his or her sight.
Merseyside Police was the first force to
use the drones, launching them during a number
of crackdowns on gun and gang crime, as well
as against anti-social behaviour. The aerial
cameras have also previously been deployed to
deter crime at pop festivals. Yesterday was the
UFO’s In The News 29
Record number of about 14 per cent were deemed "unexplained," sightings) every year that we simply can't
meaning they don't seem to be aircraft or explain."
Albertans report UFOs fireballs. Out of those 8,500-plus UFO cases, only
Skeptics say weather is often a factor in about 14 per cent were labelled as unexplained
many mysterious sightings -- and lenticular after review by investigators. And less than four
157 sightings recorded in the clouds are a frequent culprit in Alberta. per cent were classified as "close encounters" --
province last year "They are saucer-shaped and usually meaning someone claimed to have seen
occur along the foothills," said Global TV something (or some being) up close.
By Tamara Gignac, Calgary weather expert Paul Dunphy. But Rutkowski, who has degrees in
Herald - Aug 13 2009 "People that really want to believe in astronomy and education and describes himself
UFOs have in the past reported seeing a bunch as an "open-minded skeptic," says even if one
CALGARY - From fireballs to flying of them hovering near the horizon for hours." report proves to be valid, it'll be a very
saucers, Alberta is a hot spot for extraterrestrial But if more people are catching a important scientific discovery. After the United
tourists. glimpse of visiting aliens, they aren't reporting States Air Force ended its Project Blue Book
A study of Canadian UFO sightings it to the UFO Sightings Hotline in St. Paul. study of 12,000 UFO cases in 1969 and
suggests a record number of people in the The northern Alberta town--famous for concluded that UFOs were not a threat to
province spotted mysterious objects zooming its 12-metre-high landing pad for flying saucers national security, many people assumed the
through the sky last year. -- has recorded a steady drop in calls over the "fad" had passed, he said.
From unusual lights to unexplained years. "Here we are 40 years later and not only
aircraft manoeuvring in mid-air, "Albertans are "This area used to be quite active. is the phenomenon not going away, the numbers
definitely seeing some unusual things," said Maybe it's getting old," said tourist information are increasing. This is hard scientific data and
Chris Rutkowski, a Winnipeg-based "ufologist" officer Duane Zaraska. there isn't a comparable study anywhere," said
who has spent the past two decades studying The majority of UFO sightings are Rutkowski, who presented the 20-year study to
reports filed by more than 15,000 witnesses actually stars and planets, admits Rutkowski -- UFO researchers, many of whom are scientists,
coast to coast. but some are less clear. across North America during the recent Mutual
The number of UFO sightings in Alberta "There are always a residual number UFO Network in Dallas, Texas. "But we're no
last year was the highest ever, with 157 each year that we simply can't explain," he said. closer to the truth, in some ways."
residents spotting unusual celestial activities. He estimates that one in 10 Canadians Rutkowski currently receives around six
That doesn't surprise Rutkowski, who have spotted a UFO-like object in their lifetime UFO reports each week. The most recent and
believes a combination of factors, including the and many cases go unreported. [] noteworthy, he says, came last Friday from six
ease with which people can report their people who reported seeing a large orange light
observations to UFO-themed websites, has UFO study reports moving along the shoreline of Dauphin Lake,
15 kilometres east of Dauphin.
contributed to the uptick.
Flying saucers -- once the standard something out there "It stopped and then moved away from
mode of transport for alien life forms--have them. They said it 'moved at a speed we've
never seen a plane move at,' and there was no
apparently fallen out of vogue, with more Small number of sightings can't sound at all," Rutkowski recalled. []
people characterizing their observations as a
fireball or mysterious blob.
be explained
"It's not egg-shaped, spherical or
triangular in shape, but something with By: Carolin Vesely
protrusions and the lights seem to change shape
as you're watching," said Rutkowski. "The The truth is out there, people. Whether
Hollywoodstyle flying saucer is really passe, in or not it includes spaceships and aliens is still up
some ways." for debate, but according to a 20-year
Numerous sightings occurred in longitudinal study of Canadian UFO reports
Calgary, including one in December, in which released Tuesday, nearly 15,000 of us have had
two people reportedly saw a yellow object reason to suspect we are not alone.
moving over the city at 11 a. m. It was small and The reasons ranged from thousands of
witnesses said it didn't behave like an aircraft. sightings of star-like lights manoeuvring oddly
A week earlier, another person allegedly in the night sky, to hundreds of sightings of
saw a UFO-like object following a helicopter at "fireballs" in the sky, to one where dozens of
8:12 p. m. people saw a huge, lantern-shaped object flying
Calgarian Jim Moroney spends much of slowly over a lake in the Yukon.
his spare time meticulously logging these sorts Most of the 8,601 UFO sightings
of extraterrestrial encounters for his Alberta reviewed by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research
UFO Study Group, an organization that keeps had two witnesses, involved a white object --
track of sightings it deems credible. even triangles were much more common than
People were once shy to come forward your stereotypical saucer or cigar shape -- and
for fear of being ridiculed but they're lasted an average of 17 minutes.
increasingly comfortable sharing their stories, And we're not just talking about folks
said Moroney. who just stumbled out of a bar or those who like
That could explain the recent spike in to wear tin foil hats here: Reports were filed by
the number of reported sightings --not just in witnesses with government and military
Alberta, but across the country, he noted. agencies, police, civilian UFO groups and
There were 1,004 UFOs recorded in online UFO websites, says the study's co-
Canada last year, compared with 141 in 1989. author. And report they did. The number of
"The public is demanding more open UFO sightings has increased from 141 (in 1989)
discussion and debate around the issue," said to more than 1,000 per year.
Moroney. "It's a persistent phenomena," says
"It's one of the reasons why I maintain a Winnipeg ufologist Chris Rutkowski, who co- This is an actual
website to allow for a venue for people to report authored the study with Geoff Dittman. "People
are witnessing something in the sky. Whether
Fireball Photo
sightings."
Of the 8,600 unusual observations it's aliens or not is a matter for further study, but Enhancement
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Darwin 'world's next UFO or meteor shower? grazers” that travel almost horizontally to the
surface of the Earth, from east to west, he said.
UFO hotspot' San Carlos Park man “Very bright meteors are sometimes
reported as UFOs,” said Jeffs.
believes it was the However, in an interview Tuesday, Cash
news.com.au
former said he was sure of what he saw.
“I would say it had to be a couple of
IF UFO enthusiasts have their way, miles away, but it had to have been the size of a
tourists will soon be flocking to Darwin from ELYSA BATISTA basketball or a beach ball,” said Cash, adding
around the world seeking close encounters with
naplesnews.com that with its shape and brightness, someone in
aliens rather than crocs and other mundane Naples had to have seen it as well.
critters. And Jeffs’ explanation didn’t answer his
SAN CARLOS PARK — The bright
Alan Ferguson is one who believes alien questions.
light San Carlos Park resident Rick Cash saw
activity in the skies over the Northern Territory “It doesn’t convince me,” Cash said. []
Sunday morning was no airplane.
could rival the wonders of Kakadu, Katherine
And he doesn’t believe it was a Perseid
Gorge and Uluru.
For the past year he has claimed publicly
meteor either, said the 60-year-old retired police Media hungry for fix of
officer.
to have seen unidentified flying objects circling UFO Alan, with extra
“It was a large ball of white light, very
above his home in Acacia Hills, south of
bright. It did not have a tail,” said Cash,
Darwin.
describing the extremely bright light crossing
terrestrial
Earlier this week, he made public a
over U.S. 41. “It was just a pure ball of white
video that he says proves his case.
light that shot through the sky from the east to MATT CUNNINGHAM
"You wouldn't believe it if you didn't see
the west.”
it for your own eyes," he said.
The only explanation left for what he TERRITORY UFO spotter Alan
The video has been screened on
witnessed, Cash said, is a UFO. Ferguson has shot to national fame after posting
television and drawn thousands of internet hits.
“This was the first time that I have ever video on his website of what he says is an
Mr Ferguson has created a website to
seen anything like this,” said the 15-year San unidentifed flying object.
entice people Down Under to see for
Carlos Park resident. Mr Ferguson was yesterday inundated
themselves.
But was it? with calls from media organisations from
"After seeing all these sightings and
According to Peter B. Davenport, around the country after his UFO "evidence"
UFOs for years, I said to myself we're crazy for
director of the National UFO Reporting Center was reported on the front page of the Northern
not promoting this joint as a UFO hotspot," he
in Davenport, Wash., that question has no quick Territory News.
said.
definitive answer. Mr Ferguson said some of his
You get 200,000 people a year who go to
“It takes weeks, sometimes decades, to interviewers had questioned the validity of his
Roswell," he said, referring to a site in the
accumulate sufficient information to reach a sightings, but he was sticking to his guns.
United States where UFO proponents contend
tentative conclusion,” said Davenport. “It’s like "Some of them try to take the piss out of
an alien space craft crashed in the 1940s.
peeling the layers of an onion or a Russian me but that's all right, you've just got to go with
"And the only thing there is a museum,
Matryoshka doll.” the flow," he said.
you don't see nothing else, whereas here they
Cash said he was headed south on U.S. "I just put to them that if they want to
are flying around the skies, and they're
41 near Constitution Boulevard around 1:30 see UFOs, they should come up here."
continually flying around the skies all the time.
a.m. Sunday when he saw the object in the left- Mr Ferguson was also proving a hit on
"So why not come here and see them for
hand portion of the clear sky. the website news.com.au, where the story was
real?"
He said it was going very fast. reported yesterday.
Tourism Top End president Sylvia Wolf
“The object made a huge arch in the Many people spoke out in support of the
said that it would be up to Mr Ferguson to
sky,” Cash said. UFO spotter.
secure funding for a possible tourism venture.
It wasn’t a commercial jetliner either, "There are millions of planets and
"There is a lot of interest in it, especially
confirmed Federal Aviation Administration galaxies out there. We live on this planet. We
from overseas, and I think he's certainly onto
officials Monday. would be naive to think life in whatever form
something," she said, adding that Tourism Top
“The tower closes at midnight,” said doesn't exist on a planet elsewhere and they
End had a link on its website to direct people to
FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen, referring travel just like we travel into space," said
Mr Ferguson.
to the air traffic control tower at Southwest FireFly of Perth.
"People are coming out of the
Florida International Airport. And a person claiming to be Dr
woodwork. They didn't want to say anything
She pointed out that her agency does not Cameron Drumond of Perth said: "As a leading
before, but now they are speaking up (about
deal with UFOs. “But it would not be unusual scientist in ufology, having just returned from
sightings).
for somebody to be flying a small plane out Dubai, I can say for certain that from the
"It's certainly a great area for it."
there at that hour,” Bergen added. accounts I've heard, this is a 100 per cent
Speaking to the Seven Network,
Oddly enough, the answer could have genuine alien space vehicle.
ufologist Doug Moffett said there was a history
come from the heavens. "To be honest, I am not sure why the
of unexplained sightings in the NT.
The Perseid meteor shower occurs every news media do not cover the millions of alien
"Certainly in the last 18 months it has
summer when the Earth’s orbit crosses the path abductions happening world-wide, this is a
been an area of unusually high activity," he said.
of debris thrown off by Comet Swift-Tuttle. civilisation changing period of time for the
"So we don't know why this is the case,
And this latest bright light sighting human race."
but certainly some areas seem to get hit...
coincides with the peak of the Perseids, which Others were more sceptical.
"I think the important thing is try and get
began in mid-July but was at its brightest "Yeah, they're here all right. Last time I
things together that is going to create scientific
Tuesday. was in the Territory I saw ET's relatives all over
interest as far as research, because then we are
NASA spokesman William Jeffs said it the place!" said Tris of Melbourne.
going to move forward...
certainly sounded like what Cash saw could Mr Ferguson's moment in the spotlight
"This is the last frontier that we're at." []
have been a meteor, although Perseids typically will continue today when he is interviewed on
go from north to south. Channel 7's Morning Show with Larry Emdur
“However, there can be bright meteors and Kylie Gillies at 10am.
any night of the year, and sometimes they are You be the judge. Check out Alan's
very bright fireballs,” said Jeffs in a written video (Site may be temporarily unavailable due
statement. to excessive traffic). []
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Supernaturally and the realm of the supernatural. In his earlier
years he considered himself a non-believer in
Authentic ghost hunting involves time and
patience, cold objectivity and scientific
Southern: Kentucky the supernatural. As the years passed, Keith exactitude. According to Keith, “Only one out
became acquainted with the science of ghost of one hundred cases will actually be real
Ghost Hunter Calls hunting through the oral traditions of haunts.”
Lakewood Home storytelling and eventually, its popularization
through mass media.
Most alleged haunts end up being
projections or imaginations of the self
When asked what pivotal event captured proclaimed victim, no more than symptoms of
by Dan Slife his interest in the supernatural Keith provided a their own psychosomatic condition powered by
The Lakewood Observer personal anecdote. “I was pretty much imagination. Oftentimes the shadows causing
traumatized by my grandmother when I was a spine tingling terror are nothing more than the
In the tradition of American ghost kid with horror movies. It started with [Stephen dancing of reflected head lamps, the demented
hunting an apparent tie exists between the civil King’s] “It,” she told me it was [about] Bozo the sounds of voices merely machines or appliances
war and the nation’s most notorious hauntings. clown to get me to watch it and after that, as I in need of a tune-up. It is the job of the ghost
Southern places and southern-born writers seem grew older… I started getting into more horror hunter to disprove, to identify all mundane
to dominate the scene. Adam Keith comes from movies,” said Keith with a sarcastic smile. He causes, to separate the psyche of the victim
this rich history with his birthplace, Louisville, enjoyed receiving his grandmother’s trickery as from the natural and supernatural histories and
Kentucky situated squarely within its much as she enjoyed delivering it. Over time realities of the place.
geographic and cultural boundaries. A hobby this fascination with the supernatural through The research begins with an interview
ghost hunter himself, Keith moved to mass media would mature into a passion for of the witness followed by an historical audit
Lakewood late last year, doing his part to build ghost hunting that, as you will see, engendered wherein the earliest records of the location are
the pantheon of unique, venerable personalities communal relationships and technical know- unearthed. Keith looks for documentation of
that give the 'Wood' its distinctive character. how. deaths, burial grounds, or tragedies. After
Keith’s initiation into lived supernatural preliminary investigations, the site is fitted with
experience took place several years after the EMP (electro-magnetic pulse), video and voice
passing of his grandfather. Returning home recorders. Because in most cases spooks are
from the late shift during his early twenties he active at night, the equipment is set to record for
noticed light in his basement. Peering down the an entire evening. Reviewing this data is
stairwell he saw his grandfather, rocking in his painstaking. For the dedicated ghost hunter, the
favorite chair. “After that something triggered details must be scoured with a fine tooth comb.
in my head… I know [the ghosts] are there and When the hunter is lucky enough to review that
I want to prove it,” said Keith of the life- rare one in one-hundred of cases which
changing event. involves a real haunt, the data can be mind
In the following years Keith began blowing and exhilarating. During his work with
researching the science of ghost hunting. This the LGH, he captured Electronic Voice
led him to the Louisville Ghost Hunters (LGH), Phenomena (EVP) (also known as ‘spirit talk’)
a local ghost hunting group. Keith’s at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville.
involvement with the LGH helped to shape his According to Keith, Waverly Hills is an
organizational chops while initiating him into abandoned Tuberculosis hospital and one of the
the spirit of teamwork needed to complete a most haunted locations in the world.
successful investigation. With LGH he also While Keith has yet to dig in to the local
learned of the complex array of equipment paranormal scene with actual hunts he has
needed for the work. founded the first Paranormal research group on
Keith is an introverted man with a gentle, soft- Nearly a decade ago Keith spent time in Cleveland’s west side. Dubbed Burning River
spoken sensibility. His care-free gate and Illinois, where he finished high school before Paranormal, the group is now organizing online
penchant for filtered cigars are characteristically returning to his beloved Louisville. He would and can be found at
southern. As an ambassador of his birthplace, later return to Illinois and, with the knowledge www.myspace.com/burningriverparanomal.
Keith embodies that famously southern and experience gained from the LGH, assist his Because skeptical ghost hunting is a tech and
hospitality. It’s not surprising that, given his brother in establishing of a paranormal group manpower dependent operation of a scientific
introversion, he has yet to explore Lakewood there which is active to this day. order, the groups is not yet capitalized or large
beyond the Madison and Detroit Avenue Today, a horror movie is hard-pressed to enough to begin hunting locally. However,
business districts. However, as an observant scare Keith. Through the bonds of kinship he Keith looks forward exploring the rich history
southern man, he’s keenly aware of the has been desensitized by a bad Bozo and the of Lakewood and the region.
personality distinctions between the two sight a deceased grandfather’s apparition. Whether romantic love is sufficient to
districts. According to Keith, “People are Several years of ghost hunting experience have persuade him into greater exploration of and
friendlier on Detroit, they say ‘hi’ and smile… added layers of strength to his mantel of commitment to the community remains to be
not so much on Madison.” Though however skepticism. Donning that mantel, Hollywood’s seen. It is clear that Keith brings to Lakewood’s
friendly Lakewoodites on the Detroit ley line most tech-savvy, “realistic” imaginations of the Madison Village a unique personal history and
may strike him, in this regard the northern cities supernatural strike him as humorous, at best. kindly personality that will only add to the
do not come close to those of the south, that A life of horror films, role playing accruing positive developments in that
place that beckons his heart’s return. games, ghost hunting clubs, and personal neighborhood and the community beyond. []
But his heart’s desire has drawn him to experience converged and rocked Keith’s
Lakewood, his sweetheart’s home town. It was psyche into entertaining a new perspective on
love at first site, so to speak. Keith and his the paranormal, that of the skeptical believer. As
girlfriend met online. It happened not through a a liberator of more backward, outdated
dating website or craigslist ad, but through a understandings of the ghostly world it’s no
chat room where the two shared common surprise that Keith was born under the sign of
interests. After several years of communication Aquarius. His personality bears deeply this
he decided to relocate and shack up in typological tendency toward rational, objective
Lakewood’s Madison Village neighborhood thought.
near Bela Dubby. For Keith, ghost hunting is a scientific
Growing up in Kentucky within the endeavor that has less to do with the self-scaring
cultural milieu of the modern south has been made so popular with the Blair Witch Project
formative to Keith’s perspective on life, people and subsequent reality television programs.
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ENCOUNTERS
AN EARLY SIGHTING
AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE ATOMIC AGE
of California smog, and Long Beach had been some kind of military device, perhaps a balloon
swept that afternoon by the brisk south- associated with coastal defenses.
BY ANN DRUFFEL southwesterly breeze which daily came from the At this stage of World War II, violent
Pacific Ocean. Because the glowing object was fighting was still raging in the Pacific, and there
FROM UFO MAGAZINE, stationary, it was plainly not a reflection off an was information being released in the media
airplane. I quickly became quite curious about that the U.S. might be planning an invasion of
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2002,
it. It was definitely not an astronomical object, Japan itself in a final attempt to end the war.
VOL. 17 NO. 4 either. Southern California had always been on the
From an early age I was deep into alert, with blackouts and other security
reading books, having been influenced in that measures since the beginning of that war,
direction by my mother, who had been a school December 7th, 1941.
teacher in Arizona before her marriage. By the Although Long Beach had always been
age of nine, I had read several books on in an essentially strategic position, having a
astronomy and (then theoretical) space travel. I major harbor and dry-dock associated with
was well acquainted with ordinary celestial wartime activities, and although I knew what
phenomena and realized rather quickly that this my mother meant by "a balloon associated with
glowing object was not anything anyone would coastal defenses" there had never been any
ordinarily see in the sky. balloon defense systems around Long Beach. I
The bus trip along State Street took therefore thought it strange that my intelligent,
about 15 minutes, and I stared at the object most well-read mother would call the strange object
of that time, being unaccompanied on the bus in the sky a "balloon," especially when it was
and too shy (in those days) to ask questions of apparently so very high and isolated in the sky.
strangers. I can only describe what I saw as a But Aileen McElroy was not the kind of mother
bright, seemingly solid "blob" of light, with a schoolgirl would argue with!
Ann Druffel is one of Southern California's fairly distinct edges. It was so very strange I I continued to watch the object while my
best-known ufologists and the author of HOW literally could not take my eyes off it. It seemed mother went into the house to finish preparing
TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST ALIEN very high above the Earth and in appearance dinner, for she expected my father to arrive
ABDUCTION and of the forthcoming (August was more like a daytime Venus than anything home soon from work. Sometime after 6 p.m.,
2003) book, FIRESTORM: DR. JAMES E. else I could think of. However, it was at least still in broad daylight, the object had moved 15
McDONALD's FIGHT FOR UFO SCIENCE. two times as large and bright and much more to 20 degrees straight across the northern sky
Her life-long study of the perplexing UFO yellow in color. Besides, its position in the toward the north-northwest, always at an
phenomenon was sparked by her own sighting north-northeast sky was entirely wrong for that elevation of approximately 60 degrees. I had
as a schoolgirl in Long Beach, California. planet. (1) now been watching it close to an hour and a
I got off the bus at Cerritos Avenue and half.
In the summer of 1945, shortly after walked backwards the half-block south to my Suddenly, slowly-moving particles of
5:00 p.m., I was riding on a bus from downtown home in order to watch the object, which still light began separating from the object. My
Long Beach, California, toward my home about seemed motionless. Utterly intrigued, I watched instantaneous thought was, "Maybe it is a
two miles inland from the ocean. Traveling east it from my front yard for several more minutes. balloon and it's breaking up!" The "particles,"
along State Street (now Pacific Coast Highway During this time I became aware that it was however, did not fall toward the Earth, as one
101), out of the left-hand window of the bus I moving very slowly toward the northwest, would expect. Instead, they took slow,
saw a bright, unflickering, yellowish-white light apparently straight across my line of vision and deliberate paths out, up, and away from the
in the north-northeasterly sky. maintaining the approximate angle of 60 main object on both sides. They were numerous,
As I stared at it, I realized it was more degrees elevation. Finally, convinced that it was perhaps 15 or more, and each trajectory was
than a point source but instead was a glowing, something that did not "belong" in the sky, I ran different from the others.
roundish object that seemed solid and into the house and got my mother, Mrs. William Each "particle" was about 20 to 30 times
stationary. It was not like anything I had ever (Aileen) McElroy, to come out and watch it with smaller than the main object, and the main
seen before. It was still broad daylight, being me. object was in no way diminished in size by their
summer at 34 degrees north latitude. I do not We gazed at it together for several departure. Each of these smaller objects faded
remember the exact day or month, but it was minutes. My far and near vision were both from view as they reached a distance
early in the summer, either very late June or excellent with no need for glasses, and my approximately one-half a degree of arc from the
July. I was on annual vacation from school. mother, although she used reading glasses, had main orb. I had the impression that the smaller
World War II was still raging in the excellent distance vision. She agreed that it was objects could be seen only because they were
Pacific. The sky that day was very blue and indeed strange and unlike anything she'd ever reflecting the light of the sun during the initial
cloudless, a typical summer day before the days seen. She finally suggested that it might be phase of departure. (Continued on Page 38)
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38 Ann Druffel - Ufologist
ENCOUNTERS It was then that I began to wonder if
what I had seen in early summer 1945 was a
since, shown by any other scientist.
While transcribing his four handwritten
AN EARLY SIGHTING huge surveillance ship, origin unknown, drawn journals in which he kept precise notes of his
to this world by the initial experimental A-bomb endeavors in the UFO field, I found what might
AT THE BEGINNING detonation that occurred shortly before have been a previously unrecorded 1945
OF THE ATOMIC AGE Hiroshima. Had "something"
"somewhere" been drawn to Earth by that initial
from sighting confided to McDonald by fellow
scientists. Many details of this remarkable
Continued from Page 36 event, to survey and monitor a planet that had occurrence dovetail with my Long Beach
just entered its atomic age? sighting and it is recorded in my forthcoming,
I was awed by the activity associated I never forgot the 1945 occurrence. In FIRESTORM! DR. JAMES E. McDONALD's
with the bright object and felt extreme fear, as fact, it seems to have been the key that led me to FIGHT FOR UFO SCIENCE (3).
well. This fear came over me suddenly after I enter the UFO field as an investigator with During those five frenetic years from
watched the departure of the smaller particles NICAP in 1957. By the mid-1980s, when other 1966 into 1971, McDonald spoke frequently
because, as puzzling as the main bright object researchers began to hypothesize that the debris before prestigious scientific groups, in civilian,
had been, the smaller objects were completely found near Roswell, New Mexico, may have military and governmental settings. His prestige
inexplicable. Why did the departing pieces been from a Japanese "Fugo" balloon, I began to and perseverance impressed numerous other
behave as they did? speculate that perhaps the object I'd seen in scientists who had themselves viewed "UFOs"
I rushed into my home and tried to get 1945 had been a Fugo balloon also. These large, but had never spoken or written about these
my mother to come out and look at the object free-flying balloons, as is now well known, encounters due to the fear of being ostracized by
again. I tried to tell her, stumbling over my were released from Japan during World War II colleagues. They trusted McDonald, however,
words, that "pieces are coming off the thing but and traveled in high wind streams toward the and he justified their trust by keeping their
the pieces aren't acting as if gravity was acting American continent, a few landing as far east as reports confidential, if requested, referring to
the right way on them." I didn't know much some Midwest states. Their purpose was not them only in private, handwritten journals.
about gravity; my education to that point wasn't only for propaganda; many carried explosive In 1968 he gave a talk before a meeting
heavy on science, and my astronomical devices. of the American Meteorological Society in
knowledge was completely self-taught, but The possibility that my 1945 sighting Washington, D.C., and afterwards went to a
"gravity" seemed essential to my explanation so might have been a Fugo balloon seemed highly gathering in a colleague's hotel suite. There he
that my mother would have a good reason to unlikely, for the winds which carried these blew met a German émigré scientist who was
come out again to watch the object. from west to east, or in a few instances made working at a U.S. Army research lab. This
My mother, however, was absorbed in wide, curving paths downward and then easterly scientist trusted McDonald and described to him
cooking dinner; she refused to come out again over the United States. These jet streams, as a 1945 sighting that was witnessed by 20
to watch. Although well educated, she was also they were later called, however, never traveled German scientists who, at the end of World War
extremely practical, and a "strange occurrence" east to west. The 1945 object viewed by my II in Europe, were fleeing from Russian
wasn't as important to her as compared to mother and myself traveled in a straight path soldiers. They were on a ship anchored in a bay
cooking dinner for her hardworking husband from the northeast to the northwest. near Schlesweig Holstein (northern Germany)
and family. I could not force myself to go back If the object actually was high above the where they viewed, in broad daylight, a bright
out into the yard alone to resume watching. This atmosphere (and its appearance seemed to object, "bigger than Venus", high in the sky.
fear was irrational, looking back on it, for the justify this assumption), its angular speed was Intrigued, the scientists watched the
activity in the sky plainly had nothing to do with such that it possibly was in a stationary orbit object for 20 minutes during which it moved 30
warfare or coastal defense, nor did it apparently above the Earth, with its apparent angular speed degrees toward the east. In spite of viewing the
present any harm to humans far below. caused by the Earth's rotation. It traveled 15 to object through binoculars, none of the scientists
Nevertheless, the fear stayed with me for 20 degrees in approximately an hour and a half. were able to identify it. It was neither a balloon
several hours. In an attempt to recover the exact date of nor a plane and was never reported officially by
To the best of my memory, about two my 1945 sighting, W.C. (Bill) McCall, M.D., any of the witnesses. McDonald wrote in his
weeks later the first atomic bomb was detonated conducted a hypnotic regression with me in journal, "There was no explanation from any of
over Hiroshima. I was fascinated with the initial 1977. Dr. McCall, who was active in UFO the highly trained scientists and technicians"
accounts about the A-bomb in the newspapers, research, had his practice in Anaheim, (4).
although I understood nothing of the technical California. Besides his medical expertise, he If the Long Beach sighting was evidence
explanations given. But inexplicably, I felt the had 20 years experience in clinical hypnosis. that some type of otherworldly craft came to
identical sort of awe and fear while reading The regression confirmed that the survey and monitor the human race's entry into
about the atomic bomb as I had felt some days general time span was the summer of 1945. I the atomic age, the German scientists' sighting
earlier while watching the object. Why the two was unable to retrieve the exact date but might fit into such an hypothesis since victory
separate events should produce identical recalled that it occurred "near the end of the in the European theater of war came on May 6,
reactions was beyond my comprehension. But month, either June or July." 1945, just about three months before victory
the relief that the war was ending, and the fact In view of my conscious memory that over Japan.
that our city of Long Beach would no longer be the Hiroshima bombing occurred about two My own investigations and research into
in danger, swept many concerns from my mind. weeks after the sighting, it seems logical to apparently physical UFO sightings, most
Several years after the war's end, the think that the Long Beach sighting was made without reported presence of "occupants,"
history of the atomic bomb was published in during the last half of July. The date of the continued from 1957 through 1975. In the mid-
various newspapers and popular magazines. Hiroshima bombing was August 6, 1945, 1970s, however, most sighting reports involved
Although still not comprehending much about whereas the first experimental explosion over apparent alien abduction incidents that at the
it, I gradually realized that the initial New Mexico occurred at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, time were assumed by most researchers to
experimental atomic explosion near 1945. involve a different phase of UFO surveillance.
Alamogordo, New Mexico, of which the Ever since realizing that my 1945 Although I investigated abduction reports
American public had been totally unaware, took sighting was possibly an otherworldly "scout initially under this same assumption, by the
place in the same general time period that I saw craft," I searched through all available sources 1980s I had begun to suspect that visits by so-
the strange object in the sky. Concurrent with of UFO literature for 1945 sightings that might called aliens conducting experiments on
this slow realization, and after I had been active correlate with my own. I was totally humans might well be a separate phenomenon
as an adult in the UFO field for many years, I unsuccessful until the mid-1990s when I was from apparently physical UFOs, which are
began to speculate that the main brilliant object engaged in archiving the UFO files of the famed viewed by witnesses in broad daylight and in
and its particles resembled in many respects the atmospheric physicist, Dr. James E. McDonald. full waking consciousness, are caught on radar,
UFOs known as "carrier craft" (or to use a less From 1966 to 1971, McDonald courageously chased by military jet pilots and occasionally
scientific term, "mother ships") with their and publicly researched UFO phenomena in a photographed by reliable witnesses (5).
attendant smaller satellite disks (2). scientific and persistent manner never before, or (Continued on Page 39)
Ann Druffel - Ufologist 39
ENCOUNTERS craft, possibly extra terrestrial, and that their
present purpose might be continual monitoring
(5) Articles written on this subject by this author
between 1988 and 1997 appeared in many UFO
AN EARLY SIGHTING of the human race's advances, both in journals and magazines, beginning with "Can
technology and defense. We Battle These Entities?" in FLYING
AT THE BEGINNING If any reader can offer additional data on SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), Vol. 33, No. 3,
OF THE ATOMIC AGE 1945 sightings, particularly those which might
fit in with my own summer 1945 sighting,
September, 1968, pp. 1-4. Many follow-up
articles appeared in the MUFON UFO
Continued from Page 38 please write this author at ann@anndruffel.com JOURNAL, the INTERNATIONAL UFO
REPORTER (IUR), UFO MAGAZINE and
Since 1988 I have conducted continuous NOTES FATE. [My articles, 190+ in all, are gradually
research into various mental and physical being added to this website.]
techniques which enable abductees and (1) Years later, after being active in the UFO
experiencers to fend off visits from so-called research field with NICAP, MUFON and (6) Druffel, Ann, HOW TO DEFEND
UFO alien abductors. Such visits generally take CUFOS, I looked up the position of Venus in YOURSELF AGAINST ALIEN ABDUCTION,
place in altered states, and in many cases June-July 1945. It was not a daytime object Crown Publishers/Three Rivers Press, August,
experiencers can employ these simple defense during those months. 1998. Book now in Print-on-Demand (POD)
techniques, awaken fully, and abruptly end the basis, by Random House. [Also available on
abduction scenarios (6). (2) In the 1960s and 1970s I conducted a study amazon.com, on various Internet sites, and on
The fact that about 25 percent of the of large "carrier craft" that were periodically this website. See Section "Books".
400-plus abductees in my database can free seen by multiple reliable witnesses over the
themselves of the harassment of such creatures coastal waters of Southern California. These (7) Ibid. Specifically Chapter Eleven,
(whatever they are) confirms and strengthens were generally associated with smaller UFOs "Abducting Entities in Other Cultures," pp. 179-
my conviction that the UFO phenomenon is a that flew over various coastal communities. 205. []
two-edged sword; one edge being that of [See article in this same website section, "Santa
physical, unidentified craft and the other edge Catalina Channel 'Cloud Cigars". This note
another phenomenon, perhaps interdimensional, added 14 October 2006. AD]
which has been reported by all major cultures
throughout the millennia and invariably (3) FIRESTORM! DR. JAMES E.
described as deceptive, sexually harassing, or McDONALD's FIGHT FOR UFO SCIENCE,
mischievous. At present, at least in the Western Granite Publications, publication August 2003.
world, this persistent phenomenon seems to be [Available on amazon.com, also widely on the
posing as occupants from physical UFOs for Internet and in bookstores, and from this
reasons/motives not yet understood by the website. See Section "Books."]
human race (7).
In view of my 1945 sighting, the details (4) McDonald's handwritten 50-page journal,
of which remain vivid in my mind to this day, I
remain convinced that some UFOs are physical
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Freedom Of Speech Doesn't Mean the prize money will go toward the church In Frederick, Maryland, 20-year-old Bryan Paul
Presidential Death Threats! building fund, setting up a missionary fund and Blanchard told police he just needed someone to
Just in case you forgot, freedom of supporting local community service projects. talk to. And that's why he repeatedly called 911
speech doesn't mean you can make public death (Lansing State Journal) from pay phones. But every time police would
threats to the president of the United States. The arrive at the pay phone they would find Bryan
Secret Service is investigating a man who held Strange Time For a Dejà vu long gone and the phone left off the hook. They
a sign reading "Death to Obama" and "Death to In Salisbury, Massachusetts, 55-year-old finally caught him on surveillance video,
Michelle and her two stupid kids" outside a William Thomson brought coffee to a police arrested him and he confessed. He'll now have
town-hall meeting on health-care reform in station to apologize for his rather violent arrest someone to talk to all the time -- a cell mate.
western Maryland. The 51-year-old man was 12 years ago in 1997. But then, strangely He's facing a maximum sentence of three years
arrested near the entrance to Hagerstown enough, the next day he was once again in jail and/or a $500 fine for abusing the 911
Community College after police got calls from violently arrested by the same department. system. Dude -- ever hear of a chat room? Or a
a number of people attending the meeting held Seems police had stopped him for suspected bar? (Frederick News Post)
by Sen. Ben Cardin. President Obama was not drunk driving and Thomson allegedly
at the meeting. Police said there were no other threatened an officer, punched a Breathalyzer Jump the Shark?
arrests among the nearly 1,000 people, some machine and tried to flood his jail cell after We've heard of jumping the shark but
carrying protest signs, who came to the college being locked up. We can only assume he'll be this is crazy! In Haulover Beach, Florida,
for the meeting or demonstrated off-campus. back with more coffee and another apology in Michael Powers and his friends were out on
Dude -- okay we get it -- you don't like the 2021. (Daily News of Newburyport) their boat for a day of spear fishing and lobster
president. But threatening death on those two diving when they received a surprise visitor. A
little girls?? Come on man. (myway.com) Small Town Money Management! five and a half foot bull shark jumped out of the
Hey two bucks is two bucks right? In water and right into the boat! It then proceeded
Thanks But No Thanks You Boob! Lincoln, Nebraska, during a recent county board to flop around violently until eventually injuring
The New Zealand Breast Cancer meeting, the council finally voted, 2-1, to itself. Powers said, "One minute it was in the
Foundation has decided to politely decline a reimburse Shum Darwin for his pants after quite air, the next minute it was in the boat just
$7500 pledge from the controversial "Boobs on a bit of debate and haggling. Apparently beating everything in God's creation." It took
Bikes" parade. The annual parade is organized Darwin's pants went missing at the local jail about 30 minutes before the shark to settle down
by porn star Steve Crow who said he would after he was arrested. The funny part is that and stop breaking things. At that point Powers
donate $5000 to the foundation if he could get everyone agreed that Darwin should be and his passengers got the shark out of the boat
100 women to participate in next month's reimbursed. The debate was over whether the by roping it from underneath, grabbing it's fins
topless parade and would add another $2500 if pants were worth $10 or $12. (Journal Star) and shoving it overboard and back into the
100 men also took their tops off. But the water. (AHN News)
foundation said it would neither accept money Probably Not The Best Way
from the event nor endorse it. Crow said he was In Glenrock, Wyoming, Police Chief Have You Seen My Leg Yet?
shocked that the organization would refuse a Tom Sweet admitted that two officers "probably In China, 48-year-old Song Weiguo has
donation from a "perfectly legal and valid didn't do things the best way" when they used a a most unusual reminder of his drunk driving
source" and added, "What right do you, or Taser on a 76-year-old man driving an antique accident. It's his own severed leg which he has
anyone else in your organization, have to turn tractor in a parade. State investigator Tim Hill preserved in formaldehyde for 20 years to warn
down funding much needed by the women of has said the two officers contend Grose people against the dangers of drinking and
this country?" So instead he's giving the money disobeyed their orders and apparently decided driving. Song's left leg had to be amputated
to a United States-based organization that helps the best thing to do was tase the poor guy. Now after he hit a tractor while driving his motorbike
women around the world who have suffered the public is screaming for the officers to be after drinking heavily back in 1989. He says,
genital mutilation. (New Zealand Herald) fired. Witness Scott McWilliams, who was "When the doctor told me my leg had to be
shoved by the officers said, "Those two were amputated, I cried a lot. Later I pleaded with
Nuns To The Rescue the most out-of-control officers I've ever seen in him to let me keep the severed leg. Every
The police in Independence, Missouri, my life. These two guys got to go." In the August, he takes the leg out of its sealed tank
have a couple of nuns to thank for helping nab a meantime an investigation continues and the and invites friends and people he suspects of
gun-toting man suspected of burglarizing two two taser-happy officers are on paid leave. drink driving to come and see it. Seems to be
homes. One of the sisters glanced out a window (Casper Star-Tribune) effective. Song says, "It scares the hell out of
of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy people and none of them ever drives after
Eucharist convent and spotted a suspicious man Stop Harassing Me and My Hot, drinking again." And he's claiming all the credit
walking through a soybean field. She and for the fact that there has not been a single
Naked Wife!
another nun headed outside to see if the man drunk driving related accident in his home town
In Gahanna, Ohio, police officer Ron
was lost or hunting illegally. They saw he was for years. (Ananova)
Fithen's wife Beth made it to Playboy magazine
carrying a shotgun, boxing gloves and other and posed nude back in 2008. That little photo
items and when they began to question him, he shoot may turn out to be a gold mine for the What Father Could Refuse?
ran into nearby woods. So the nuns gave chase Fithens as Ron is now suing his own police Former president Bill Clinton just got an
in their ankle-length habits and flip-flops. The department, its two top administrators, and the interesting offer from 39-year-old Godwin
suspect got away but the sisters later gave a City of Gahanna, alleging they are responsible Chepkurgor, a former councilor from Nairobi.
description to police who found and arrested the for "a humiliating and intolerable working He's offered Clinton 20 cows and 40 goats in
guy. (myway.com) environment." The Fithens want $3.5 million in exchange for the hand of his daughter Chelsea
damages, plus attorney's fees and contend that in marriage. It's apparently the second time
Divine Lotto Intervention? photo shoot lead to a "sham investigation" of Godwin has made the offer. He first wrote to
Folks in Haslett, Michigan ,are the entire Fithen family that "did not result in a Clinton back in 2000 but never received a reply.
wondering if it's divine intervention or just blind single criminal charge and caused the family His second bid to marry Chelsea came during a
luck. Whatever it is, the Covenant Life Worship extreme emotional distress and recent visit to Kenya by her mother, Secretary
Center and its 25 members are $70,000 richer embarrassment." The suit says at one point, of State Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton reportedly
after winning one of the second prizes in the Deputy Police Chief Ken Bell asked Officer promised to tell her daughter all about his
Lucky 7's Michigan Lottery. The winning $10 Fithen for a copy of the magazine his wife interest which he expressed as she was
ticket was purchased at a convenience store and appeared in, as well as her autograph. (NBC addressing a public forum at the University of
lottery officials say the church will receive the News) Nairobi. Godwin is actually already married but
full amount of the prize because it is a tax- that's not a problem as polygamy is A-OK in
exempt group. Pastor Marilyn Parmelee says Kenya. We'll let you know if the Clintons decide
I Just Needed Someone To Talk To!
to take him up on his offer. (Ananova) []
Navigating The Healthcare Maze 41
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immigrating to the United States, he received a Masters Degree at Western Kentucky University and an Executive MBA at
the University of South Florida. He participated in the Harvard Business School’s Multinational Marketing Senior
Executive Program in Vevey, Switzerland. He spent 20 years with Johnson and Johnson, in their Professional Products
Division, identifying and developing international distributorships. For a time he was based in Brazil before becoming
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over 100 countries, growing familiar with the worldwide medical industry. In this capacity, Jeff was instrumental in the
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healthcare systems. After leaving Johnson and Johnson, he became President of Jim Walter International Corporation, where
he successfully managed the building materials company outside the United States. His career at Jim Walter was followed
with his appointment as Vice President, International of Rooms To Go Corporation – currently a leading U.S. furniture
retailer.Jeff’s unique combination of worldwide experience in both healthcare and retail has led him to exciting opportunities
like lecturing as a visiting professor at a number of universities, appearing on a variety of TV programs, and speaking on
international subjects to cross-cultural audiences. Jeff is involved in the community and has sat on a number of boards, including the University of Tampa’s
Board of Trustees. He was selected to be a member of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) co-founded by William Gates Snr– a national alliance
of business leaders that champions effective solutions to global poverty.is overall passion for healthcare, which he has observed worldwide, along with his
family’s major personal health experiences, has culminated in his personal commitment to make a difference. In his words, he wants all of us to “stay well.”
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42 Tips For A Healthier You
Drink plenty of Water - Most
Good Health for people don't drink enough water. Keeping your OUR FAVORITE
Life body hydrated is important for good health, so RECIPE OF
be sure to drink plenty of clean water daily. If
you don't like plain water, try adding a little THE MONTH
fresh squeezed lemon juice.
From From Annette Sym’s book
www.health-and-fitness-source.com Quit Smoking - There is just nothing
good about smoking. It damages our bodies in
Good health is one of those things that so many ways. So do whatever you have to do
you take for granted until you don't have it to quit. There are several products to help you
anymore. quit such as gum, patches, hypnosis, or just
It can make the difference in achieving "cold turkey", but it's important to kick the
an excellent quality of life for yourself and your habit.
family.
Taking steps to keep yourself healthy is Practice Positive Thinking - If
a wise investment of time and energy. you tend to look at the glass as half empty,
Here are some important things you can practice more positive thinking and try to see
do to insure good health: that glass as half-full. It will definitely make
you happier, and studies show that it can
actually make you healthier as well. There is a
Start an exercise program - Not happiness-health connection so be happy and
only will exercising strengthen your heart, make get healthy! “Simply Too Good To Be True”
you look better and help you lose weight, the
real bonus will be how great you feel. Regular Get enough Sleep - Our lives
exercise also plays a key role in alleviating sometimes seem so busy that we don't have Mexican Turkey Meatballs
depression and weight gain. enough hours to devote to sleep. But getting
enough sleep is vital to your health. Sleep is INGREDIENTS
restorative to both our bodies and minds. Make
sure you're getting as much sleep as you need to - 1/2 cup dried breadcrumbs
feel refreshed, preferably eight hours per night. - 1/2 no fat milk
- 1 1/4 cup lean ground turkey
Get Adequate Health Insurance - 1 envelope 30% less sodium taco seasoning
mix
- If you don't have health insurance, you may be - 1 small onion finely diced
tempted to skip routine medical care and tests - 1/4 cup tomato ketchup
that can diagnose health problems in the early - 1/2 cup fresh chopped parsley
stages. Most people get health insurance - 1 egg white
through their employers. If you don't, look into - 1/2 teaspoon pepper
Eat Better - Eat more salads, whole some affordable health insurance plans. It is a - cooking spray
grains, fruits and veggies and avoid the fried wise investment to purchase health insurance
foods, burgers and sugar. Remember, you are privately to insure your family's health and Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 decrees C)
what you eat so practice healthy eating! security. []
Mix breadcrumbs and milk in a small bowl,
leave for 2 minutes. In a large bowl combine all
Eliminate Stress - Take some ingredients. Mix well, then roll into 18 small
time every day to sit quietly and meditate. balls.
Concentrate on calming your mind and relaxing
your body. Stress can affect many systems in Place meatballs on a flat backing pan that has
our bodies, so it's important to try to reduce it as been coated with cooking spray. Bake 30 - 40
much as possible. minutes or until cooked, turning once. Delicious
hot or cold.
Eat lots of Fiber - Fiber is nature's
remedy for many ills. It helps in digestion and NURTITIONAL INFORMATION
helps eliminate cholesterol from the
Per serving:
bloodstream. Make sure you get the RDA every
Calories 162
day. Your good health depends on it! Total Fat 1.6g
Sat Fat 0.5g
Sodium 417mg
Carbs 10.9g
Sugar 5.9g
Fiber 0.7g
Protein 24.3g
A NURSE’S TIP:
Running for 20 minutes a day releases
natural endorphines, a brain chemical, causing
people to feel good. Some would say it’s a
nautural anti-depressant. What better way to
start your day than slapping on a pair of runners,
comfortable running shirts and a cool top and
greating the day by being “pro-active.”
So get up off that couch! Start today,
because life is really what you make it. For more delicious ideas and recipies, go to
The Bottom Line: “If you confess it, www.simplytoogood.com
you WILL possess it.”..... I am healthy lean and
fit...... I am healthy lean and fit. []
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ELEMENTAL
SHAMAN
One Man’s Journey into the Heart of
Humanity, Spirituality & Ecology
This fascinating true story chronicles
one man's journey into the mysteries
of spiritual consciousness and
indigenous healing practices. In his
travels around the globe, Omar W.
Rosales witnesses the powerful
channeled spirit Niño Fidencio,
receives messages and healing from a
Toltec shaman, and experiences a dramatic soul retrieval from a
Cherokee spirit walker. Rosales travels to Guatemala, where he meets
a Mayan high priestess, or Aj' k'ij, and the secret brotherhoods called
Cofradias, whose mission is to guard Maximon, the last living Mayan
god. Rosales' last journey is to Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder
Dragon, where he spends time with a holy lama. Along the way,
Rosales encounters danger, sacred rites, secret rituals, and the
guidance of a mysterious dream woman whom he finally meets on the
physical plane.
www.elementalshaman.com
OMAR ROSALES : Author, adventurer, and explorer, Omar writes extensively on the topic of Archaeology,
Culture, and spiritual phenomena. He is best known for his work Elemental Shaman. Combining adventure travel with
spirituality, he searches the world for Spiritual Masters to convey their messages for humanity.A student of William R.
Fowler, Arthur Demarest, and Edward Fischer, Rosales graduated with an Honors degree in Anthropology and
Economics from Vanderbilt University in the late 1990s. After college, he served as a Captain in the United States
Marine Corps. His assignments included two overseas tours in Japan. While in law school at The University of Texas
School of Law, he began his spiritual quests, first meeting a Toltec shaman who healed with herbs and plants. The next
shaman Rosales met was a Cherokee SpiritWalker who practiced soul retrieval in the deserts of Arizona. Rosales then
went on to Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala to meet a Maya A'j R'ij or healer-divination specialist. His last journey was
to the Land of the Thunder Dragon, the Himalayan Mountain Kingdom of Bhutan to seek out a Holy Lama, a Manchen
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44 Annette Martin
WORLD FAMOUS
Psychic Detective, Medical Intuitive,
Ghost Buster & Author
ANNETTE MARTIN has received world wide exposure for her police investigations and ghost
detective work, including appearances on: Good Morning America, Court TV’s Psychic Detective,
BBC, Entertainment Tonight, Coast to Coast Radio Show, The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show, Nancy Grace
Show, Catherine Crier Show, 48 Hours, ABC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Travel
Channel, CBS
“Annette Martin can make a believer out of any skeptic who does not believe in psychic phenomenon!” -
Rob McConnell, The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show
“GIFT OF
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WHITE LIGHT”
James N. Frey brings you an in-depth look at the extraordinary story of psychic
Annette Martin’s personal and psychic life. This biography is filled with tales of
ghosts, murder and adventures galore!
REVIEWS:
“A well-written book about a remarkable woman”, Courtland Lewis “American
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annette@closure4u.com
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