ANOMALY ‘Are You Renay To Ger Your Guts Miceen Our? 10 A JOURNAL OF FORTEANA “FLYING SAUCERS” OR “FAIRY RINGS”? "ing aura” ar not exuave with ha gonerton, We have had many reports about tone. Avintorey postmasters; houeeives, ato: Moblistein sack, tney” have een Teperted daring the last. twenty ‘ears {rom almost avery walk of lite: In many instances, that whieh inad been thought to hea Aging saucer has, ups investigation, tnrned nt tobe an aptia! ihadion «satelite, «weather balloon a sedeeton: or something ‘rendsly explained. Tt seemm untoreunae,” however. 16 lasify tying saueers with the black panthers aad the’ eee serpeats, Doth of which are routed in mistaken ifentifation or in the mids of {hose’Tond af spoofs. To be site, n certain percentage cf chase report Ing” eaucers are so, spoosing or too eredlole, However, ie mast De Hraated, whtterer thelt Mlentity ‘is. (noone really Eaows), theae Aisites or light Tu clreular form have not only Deen recorded by ties of the hignest standing tor the past 150 year Dut also hae feve tel cleariy isibie markt on various Selly, or forests, upon te “sO oso from dark clouds the playful Mghtning springs, Rives the drm oak oF PRINTS THE CATR WINGS ‘ais eoupiet ty taken fromthe Botanic Garden, a tong pocte (TS) Dy rainay arly Gets grandtacher of the snont Heqieh sketched at Shrewsbarye Baglandy the bisthpiace af the latter, Hie Explanation of fe found ina footaate towards the end ot te Pocus of “Shue is @ phenomenon, supposed to be eletre, which is yet un accounted for? T'mean the Baltgerinas, as they" ave ated eb oftea Seon on te eae Me usterous Gani of lightning wich occur | Be ettom ie ever) "rom one siond co-anoster, Moist trees are the | host treauent conductors of these. flashes of ightaing. “and: Tsim Informed by "prehasers of wood that innumerable. trees are the cpr and ltr Ethan ego pata prominence of Imolater parts of grassy pining, Now this knob or corner of a coud, In being attracted by the earth will beeome nearly eyllndtical, a loose ool weal when den ait taio a thro sud wil sith the Sion. Now ann atream of wlevtteity ‘displaces the” alt It" passes fhvugn, Te {9 plata no pact of the grace can be burnt by it, but just {he external ving of this eplinder, where the grass ean have’ access 10 fhe let since without aif nothidg' cam be edicined: This carta after Iaving Deon ap calcined becomes a richer soil, and either fanguses oF sg bluer grass for many years mark the place. ‘That lgataing displaces fhe air in ite passugo Ie evinced: by the loud crack tut suseeede Is which i owing to the sides of the aerial acum capping. owether ‘hen the ighteing - withdcawa, ‘Thiat nothing wil exleine without tis wl anderen," érom the acids prodacedin the burang. of Dblogtetie substances, and. may be agrotapiy seen by suspending ayer on an leon prong. and putting it into the centre of te blase of ‘alicon farnace? it may’ be held there some reconds, td may be again ‘ididrawn, without fe being boent, it ft be passed quickly taco the fame and out again, through the exizroat pact of it whteh is Iu cou | fact with the alr. Tinow some cles of woany yards Waeter of this Kina™near Poremack, tu Derbyehire, whieh aaatally Produce, large white fungases and stronger geana and have done soy Tum Informe ftbove thirty yeare, This taereared fertility ef the ground by eaicina! fon or charring, and tte continuing to operate so many este, ie wel, orth the attention of the farmer! and’ shows the wae of paring end Durning new turt in agviculture, whieh produces its effect not 60 uch by he asties of the vegetable Abren, a by-charring the seit ‘whlch agneres to them. "Thowe situations, whether from eisstence or from molstu rere proper once to attract aud discharge a thunder-cloud, Table again to experience the same, Hence mauy fairy-tings are often Seon near each otter, elther without Intersceting each ether, his summer in a garden tn ottinghamabire. or Interscting ewch iter, az desesibed on Arthur's seat, neat’ laburgh ia the Talat ‘Peand. Voli pe Tn quot the above, le may not be amiss to add that in the summer cof sho alntiae Fatry-ring wae Giseovered at Jftrey, New Hampettre find reported fully tn the ioeal Monadnock-Eedger aa having bees itt {here Dy a Flying Saucer, The ting, apparent, had been made by the Saucer, at or close to the ime when veveral Jaiiey residents seported || they had seen the Sayeer close to ts locaton. RAPID DISORGANIZATION OF THE HUMAN BODY 00 the night of the 10th of March, 1802, in one of the towns of the suave of Massachusetts she body of an elderly wounaa wraporated. and Aisappeared trom tome Inteenal and unknown cause, nthe duration ff'ubout one hows 'and am hail. Past of the family hed gone to boo And the rest were abroad. "The old woman Teuiuel awake te take Coes of the nose. By and by one f the geand-ebildren eaite home, sud Uiseovered the door near tho hearth tobe oh fre. An alarm wes de, Tight Drouzht, and means taken to extingitan it, While these things ‘rere doing, some singular appencances were observed on the heen Tha the contiguous floor. There was a sort of eeeasy soot So eae ‘with reniatas of a hutoan Yooy, and ah tiustal'auell I ehetnoee eh ihe clothes were consumed’ and the srandaiother was missing Te wa ftarat supposed she had, in attempting to Might her pipe of tetas, failon tuto the fe, and been burned eo death: But on cossidariee Nee finall the des saa and that so total & coustpton Coule eeeeeety have Rappened if there tad been tet) tee’ ag much, ee Hence Feason fo conclude thet this Iv another ease of that tpontancens an Eemponton of the Haman body at which there sre several Intaness ‘THE COMET IKEYA-SEKI Alscovorod in September 1955 by two Tapancss astronomers, came in full view of Japanere and mld-Pacite cheervers on Geiobet Saas, Good phoiogeapie of Ht were taken hy fhe Smithsonian Astropey tea Odsertatory at Woomera, Australia” Other seating dee see gehe from the NASA Ames Researeh Canter, were folled by the protinnor st the comet and its 4mllion-mlleong tall to the brillanee of tha ast 1tald not collide with the wun or Go anyday much bue Oieageeae OLD FARMER'S AIMANAC - 1967 EditionNew mystery... arrow in sea points west This manmade arrow was discovered underwater off the Bahamas this year. It measures 150 feet long and 70 feet wide. Who put it there, when end why remain mysteries. (Miami News, 4/14/73) Photo by PINO TUROLLA 638/10 JOURNAL OF PopuLaR cuLrure Winter 1971 ‘At base, anomalies are of two kinds: (1) anomalous objects (things oF events), and (2) anomalous processes clationships). An anomalous object consists of the existence (or claimed existence) of some thing or event which is somehow a deviation from the usual, credible order of things, e.g. the sight- ing of an abominable snowman, a levitated fakir floating in the air, or a giant sea serpent. An anomalous process, however, can consist of quite ordinary things or events in some extraordinary conjunction. Thus, an occultist may believe that a pin placed in a wax image will lead to the death of someone (neither death nor wax images and pins themselves being extraordinary), or that the position of the planets at certain times ean effect the personality development of children born at certain places on the earth at those times (planetary positions and children born with personalities in themselves being ordinary events), Anomalies can be further classified as being isolated or integrated with By Marcello Truzzi cone another. Thus, some anomalies are quite singular and disconnected from ‘other anomalies. A typical example would be belief in the existence of an Un- identified Flying Object. Though some groups have turned belief in UFOs into an integrated anomaly by seeing flying saucers as vehicles piloted by angelic spacemen,17 most believers in UFOs sce them as unexplained phenonomena within an otherwise normal scientific world-view, Integrated anomalies seem to mote often consist of process anomalies than object anomalies. An occultist who believes in a set of magical processes is often likely to accept (or atleast reserve judgment on) the credibility of someone elses claim about other magical processes, but a believer in UFOs is usually no more likely to accept the claims for a Loch Ness Monster than those who disbelieve in UFOs, Since anomalous processes are usually based on the inference of strange Causalities among otherwise ordinary events (events the non-occultist would simply label as “coincidences”), the establishment of such anomalies requires more evidence to convince the skeptical than might the anomalous object. This has implications for the frequeney of belief in such anomalies (Continued on page 201) 188Se NOVEMBER 1973 the Professional Cranks’ Newsletter 1973 - A GREAT FORTEAN YEAR Everything is happening at once! A major UFO flap began in Febr- uary and is still continuing. Monsters and A.S.S. (Abominable Swamp Slobs) have appeared in Pottstown, Pa. and Enfield, Ill. The Enfield critter had three legs, which figures since the chief witness was a crippled war veteran named McDaniel. (Another McDaniel family was the center of the 1966-67 Mothman fracas in W. Va., and the cover story of Anomaly 9 was about a man named Mopaniga who encountered "the devil” inthe Catskill Mts. one hundred years ago . Old-timers will recall that several different unrelated people, all named Reeve(s), in scattered parts of the country had UFO and monster sightings back in 1965-66. What's in a name?) In Garland, Texas (home of the famed Varo Corporation) a Blob...alive and growing...has appeared. Several well-financed, well-equipped (including helicopters and electronic gear) expeditions are exploring the northwest this summer in serious efforts to track down and capture the elusive Sasquatch, the legendary tall, hairy humanoid. One group already claims to have taken new photos of the beast. In Scotland, equally well-equipped groups are launching an all- out attempt to solve the riddle of the Loch Ness monster. And in Florida teams of scientists, including North American Rockwell's massive and somewhat mysterious project, are stepping up their investigations into the notorious Bermuda friangle...that area of the Atlantic where so many ships and planes have vanished without a trace. Let's not leave out Lost Atlantis. Mrs, Maxine Asher raised @ lot of money from a group of intrepid college students who accompanied her to Cadiz, Spain to find Atlantis. Spanish authorities were not enthused about the project and Mrs. Asher departed with the money, leaving the students behind. Lost Atlantis is still lost. Lawyer F. Lee Bailey recently told the Treasury Department he has a client who has located the long lost treasure of the Aztecs. It is in a cave in the White Sands Proving Grounds. Bailey produced some of the gold as proof. The government wasn't interested. Finally, the sun has been misbehaving this year. Unusual magnetic conditions prevail, probably accounting for some of the strange things that have been happening. Both the U.S, and U.S.S.R. have quietly sent a number of rocket probes to the sun to find out if it is planning to blow up on us this year, If not, there is a major comet which will bypass Zarth this December and put on a sky spectacular. Maybe even kill us all. It's going to be a great year. - John A, Keel ANOMALY is published at indecent intervals and distributed free. To receive the next issue send a stamped (16¢) self-addressed 9x12 manila envelope to: SPECIALIZED RESEARCH; P.O. Box 351 Murray Hill Station; New York, N.Y. 10016. 189