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MUFON UFO JOURNAL

I NUMBER 231 JULY 1987

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HELICOPTERS, GFOS AND THE PSYCHE


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DENNIS W. STACY account executive, describe her November 1978 abduction,
Editor beginning with what she at first thought was a huge helicopter
WALTER H. ANDRUS, JR. outside her bedroom window. The "helicopter" of course turned out
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T. SCOTT CHAIN HELICOPTERS, UFOS, AND THE PSYCHE by Dennis Stillings 3
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MICHAEL D. SWORDS LOOKING BACK by Bob Gribble 15
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TED PHILLIPS THE AUGUST NIGHT SKY by Walter N. Webb 18
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HELICOPTERS, UFOS AND THE PSYCHE
By Dennis Stillings

Ezekiel saw the wheel,


Way up in the middle of the air.
The big wheel move by faith;
The little wheel move by the grace of God;
A wheel in a wheel,
'Way in the middle of the air.

—Oldtime spiritual (on frontispiece of


Gablehouse's Helicopters and Autogiros)

let's live like the light that kills


and let's as silence,
because Whirl's after all:
(after me) love, and after you.

—e.e. cummings

.not merely a helicopter, but life itself.

—from advertisement for emergency


hospital helicopter rescue service

During the last three or four


years, as I was reviewing the more
recent literature on UFOs and the
cattle mutilation phenomenon, I
became aware that so-called "phantom
helicopters" were often seen in Madonna and Helicopter: In this fifteenth century French painting, the infant Jesus holds a toy
connection with these phenomena. In helicopter operated by pulling a string wound around a spindle. It may be reasonably supposed that the
object had a religious significance, perhaps symbolizing spiritual ascension or resurrection. The
addition, these usually unmarked, connection of the helicopter with "the other side" goes back to the very beginning.
usually black helicopters demonstrate
some rather remarkable properties:
they move silently or with sound unlike sometimes flash multicolored lights; that are seen, and especially the reports
those of normal helicopters; they fly at they are observed in association with of apparent transmogrifications, that
abnormal, unsafe, or illegal altitudes; nocturnal lights; they are sometimes interested me. (See below: the
their behavior appears both shy and seen flying at abnormally high rates of discussion of Trickster/Mercurius and
aggressive. speed. They are occasionally seen his ability to change into many forms.)
They are reported to carry flying without rotors.1 I asked myself the following
"Oriental-looking" people; their All of this sounds very much like question: If such phenomena were
passage sometimes "blisters" the dead the sorts of behaviors typically reported reported as occurring in a dream, how
and mutilated animals; they "direct" about flying saucers. Strangest of all, would such a dream be interpreted?
abnormally brilliant beams of light; they however, is that UFOs are occasionally Such a dream would indicate that, in
hover over missile sites and military reported to change into helicopters; some sense, an equivalence or, at least,
bases; often they are heard distinctly and helicopters, to change into UFOs; a very close relationship between
and very loudly but not seen; or that helicopters are seen shortly helicopter and UFOs was being
sometimes they look like helicopters, before or after sightings of UFOs. It was suggested. Since, in reality, helicopters
but sound like airplanes; they the type of abnormal characteristics are not identical with UFOs, the
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relationship must be of a different sort. an attractive carpet. A spherical Churchill's Iron Curtain speech of the
It was my hypothesis that, if there electric light from the ceiling produced previous year, 1947 was termed the
was such a connection, evidence, of it a pleasant bluish illumination. Walking "Year of Division." And, of course,
would appear in the experience and slowly, I felt a slight vibration under my 1946-1947 marks the beginning of the
activities not of individuals preoccupied feet and was not surprised to find that modern era of flying saucers.
with UFOs, necessarily, but of those the feeling was different from that The theme of splitting was not only
who had been involved in the design experienced on a steamer or on a a feature of postwar science and
and operation of helicopters. Since railway train. I took this for granted, politics, but manifested in the
their work predates the so-called because in my dream I knew that I was technology of the time as well. It seems
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modern era of UFO sightings, reliably on board a large flying ship in the air." as though the flight characteristics of
naive material could be expected. Like Arthur Young, Sikorsky went the UFO — enormous straight-line
on to write several books of a velocities combined with the ability to
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EARLY PROGENITORS theological and metaphysical nature. hover and to move at right angles and in
In 1947, he published The Invisible all directions — were reproduced by us
It so happens that one of the Encounter, a rather despairing book in the best way we could: by means of
engineers most closely involved in early on the morals and fate of the twentieth our rockets and helicopters. Unable to
helicopter design was Arthur Young, century. combine the astounding performance
who was the leading designer of the Bell Another, very suggestive dream- characteristics of the UFO in a single
Model 47 helicopter. As luck would illustration of the connection between device, we produced two quite different
have it, Arthur Young published, in a UFOs and helicopters may be found in technologies, each of which mimicked
book called The Bell Notes,2 the record a dream reported in a letter to C.G. only one set of UFO f l i g h t
of his thoughts and activities during the Jung in 1959.6 The writer was not, as far characteristics. One is tempted to view
time of his most intense efforts to as I know, deeply involved with the UFO as the visible representation of
design the Bell Model 47 helicopter. helicopters. But this is not certain. The a background dynamis that stimulates
In Peter Dreyer's forword to the dream is as follows: us to produce these technologies as
book, and in the very first paragraph, he (A)n aeroplane appeared through partial representations of something
states that Arthur Young "had come to clouds of smoke or fog (The that is, in its essence, irrepresentable
see the helicopter chiefly as a metaphor appearance of smoke or fog is often arid paradoxical — a coincidental
for the evolving spirit — the winged self reported to be seen prior to encounters oppositorum. One is reminded of the
which he now began to call the with UFOs and UFO abduction.) Then behavior of the hero in Close
'psychopter'." In Arthur Young's own a contraption like a helicopter Encounters of the Third Kind, who feels
words, "the many headed dragon of the descended towards the dreamer to compelled to reproduce in material
helicopter3 seemed to be growing more fetch him. (There is an apparent form a vague and elusive unconscious
heads all the time" (p.32), and "I (am) transformation of the aeroplane into a image.
working on the psychopter within the helicopter, a type of phenomenon also
helicopter. I experiment with the self reported in the UFO literature.)He saw
instead of with the machine" (p.60). shadowy figures which he knew to be "PSYCHOPTER"
Using an image borrowed from higher types of men, with greater
alchemy, he writes, "Bell has become a knowledge and "absolutely just," One may further speculate that
laboratory in which I try to distill myself. visitors from another world. this background dynamis was in some
The helicopter is only the vessel" (p.86), The years 1946-1947 were notable sense stimulated to reveal itself in the
and "I am constantly directing myself for other events of relevance to this form of the irrational and myth-
toward attainment of the psychopter" discussion. On March 8, 1946, Arthur p r o v o k i n g UFO, t h a t m a n ' s
(p.96). Arthur Young went on to Young's machine, the Bell Model 47 a c c o m p l i s h m e n t in p r o d u c i n g
become intensely involved in psychic helicopter, was awarded the world's supersonic rocket planes and reliable
phenomena and metaphysics. first commercial helicopter license. The helicopters had evoked a response. It
I also checked on Igor Sikorsky, helicopter thus became part of the was as if this hidden element were now
the famous Russian aeronautical general culture. 7 Considerable saying. "No, that is not exactly it, that is
engineer and pioneer helicopter speculation was given to the possibility not the whole picture. A merely
designer. In 1900, at the age of 11, that "everyone" might own his own technological representation is not
Sikorsky had a dream that affected him device for "genuine three dimensional ultimately satisfactory, so here is
deeply. The details of the dream are travel." In the very next year, 1947, something for you really to think
very much like a Jules Verne atmospheric s t r a i g h t - l i n e f l i g h t about!" The UFO thus emerges as a
conception of being aboard a UFO. achieved another sort of freedom: the sort of tertium quid, an image or
"I saw myself walking along a sound barrier (sometimes called a representation of the transformative
narrow, l u x u r i o u s l y decorated demon in the sky) was broken by a Bell element of the mind related to human
passageway. On both sides were X-15 rocket plane. In addition, the creativity. Arthur Young addresses
walnut doors, similar to the staterooms world ground-speed record was himself to this point several times in The
of a steamer. The floor was covered by established in 1947. Following Bell Notes. He writes:
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"What is the psychopter(?) The
psychopter is the winged self. It is that
which the helicopter usurped — and
what the helicopter was finally revealed
not to be. Fundamentally I am trying to
get out of the helicopter not because it
is what it is, but because I believe in the
psychopter. The construction of the
psychopter is not advanced by plunging
again into the helicopter, it is advanced
by trying to distill the helicopter. So that
from the point of view of the
psychopter, which is the important one,
the only commitments toward the
helicopter which should presently be
stressed are indirect ones (p.67)."
Young refers to his book as "[a]
notebook on [a] machine that is much
more complicated and subtle than the
helicopter. The machine is my mind and
body, with which I experiment every
day, through which I will eventually
achieve the end I seek, for I always
knew it was not the helicopter. Here is a
great experiment indeed (p.38)."
From these quotations we gather ET/helicopler illustrating cereal box.
that this individual, Arthur Young, who
was deeply absorbed by the problems UFO-like image has clear resemblances god terrorizes the main character by
of designing the helicopter, felt the to a machine, yet it is obviously of a very means of a helicopter and its
machine to be an inadequate external gigantic nature. It is composed of disembodied noise. Some of you may
representation of an inner driving force sinews and skeletal tissue that strongly also be aware of a popular piece of UFO
to which he was totally committed. He suggest the parts of one or more human literature called Cod Drives a Flying
saw the psychopter/helicopter problem bodies. This "flask" or uas hermeticum Saucer,1* God apparently having a
as related to the nature of his own mind of tissue is surmounted by a pair of predilection toward these two modes of
and body. It is of interest here that Jule wings12 in the position of the rotors of a transportation. Ron Westrum15 reports
Eisenbud has referred to the UFO helicopter. The whole of the object an "abduction" case in which the sound
phenomenon as an "into-our- seems to be emerging out of the of a helicopter figures as a fear-
experience-body" event.8 metaphysical background of existence. provoking element. One of Budd
The biophysicist Otto Schmitt Another artist, Richard Hopkins' "abductee" subjects reported
asks us to consider experiences like Thompson, upon being shown the that the sound of an approaching UFO
apports and, by extension, the manuscript of this paper by Dennis closely resembled the sound made by
phenomena of UFOs, as examples of Stacy of MUFON, became very excited helicopter rotors.
what he terms "matrix inversion" - i.e., about the UFO-helicopter connection Hollywood's fascination with the
that instead of arising from the action of and sent me photocopies of several art sound of helicopter rotors as an
an external object on the sensorium, works he has produced using the irrational fear-provoking stimulus in the
the "perception" event may be primary, "helicopter" as a central element. hero may be seen in several movies:
with the external object arising as a Speaking of the peculiar phallic/ Apocalypse Now, Blue Thunder, and
secondary phenomenon - a point of dumbbell-shaped helicopter figures he Fire/ox came immediately to mind.
view not inconsistent with traditional uses, Thompson says in a letter: There is a persistent and odd tendency
teachings of Eastern philosophy.9 "Always I have wanted them to be in film and fiction to associate the
We already know that certain 'copters, but not e x a c t l y — a helicopter with dramatic psychological
forms of mental disorder are presence—a disturbance, a bother— and quasi-mythological imagery. In
accompanied by the loss of the sense of something just there—not quite seen, Blue Thunder and the spinoff TV series
body boundaries.10 Often this condition but it could be a helicopter." Airwolf, the helicopters possess such
is accompanied by a view of the body as A very interesting mythology has advanced technology that they take on
an extended machine." This condition been built up around the helicopter a kind of personality. In the movie
has been well conceived by the UFO- within popular culture. Recently, a Apocalypse Now helicopters are
naive artist who produced the surrealist novel was published called portrayed as Valkyries16 who attack the
lithograph titled "Air Machine." This God's Helicopter™ in which a demonic Viet Cong to the music of Wagner. In
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this movie a bawling calf is even hoisted
and flown by helicopter to a barbecue
held elsewhere by the fliers of the
machines, clearly mimicking reports of
cattle mutilations. While the calf is
being lifted away, the company chaplain
leads a group of soldiers in a recifdfion
of the Lord's Prayer! I doubt if this
scene derived from the conscious
intent of the film makers.
Perhaps the most outstanding of
the many examples of modern
helicopter mythology comes from the
movie Iceman. In this film, the
resuscitated Neanderthal shaman see's
the helicopter as a divine being. The
consulting anthropologist in the movie
attempts to explain the relationship of a
helicopter to the Neanderthal as
follows: "The helicopter is the bird, the
messenger of the gods, but also a "Chinese helicopter" ol a type slill made commercially in Arkansas.
Trickster— supposed to take you to
heaven, but if you've done wrong, it want to fly apart." Compare this with of North American Trickster tales, one
takes you somewhere else where Jung's description of the nature of is i m m e d i a t e l y s t r u c k by the
you're judged for your sins." Mercurius: extraordinary emphasis of these stories
Here the helicopter is given the [Winged Mercurius'] i n n e r on dismemberment, disemboweling,
alternate roles of devil or angel as confrad/citons can dramatically fly mutilation in general, and ano-genital
expressed in the Trickster figure. The apart into an equal number of mutilations in particular. In one
Trickster, who is prominent in the disparate and apparently independent episode. Trickster actually "cores out
folklore of North American Indians, is figures.27 the anus" of a bear.29 A Filipino
well known for his considerable ability Other odd, imaginative statements Trickster figure,30 the Viscera-Sucker,
to change into many forms. In this way are made about the helicopter. It is a sucks out the entrails, body fluids, and
he is analogous to the alchemical figure mechanical Pegasus and "can do fetuses of its animal and human
of Hermes/Mercurius, who may be said anything a horse can do." It is a victims—all forms of "mutilation"
to stand for the collective unconscious "pterophore " ("wing bearer" — also a described in the American literature on
itself.17 Trickster/Mercurius is the characteristic of Hermes/Mercurius), a cattle mutilation. The Trickster of
source of both creative activity and "lookout in the sky," "the most Greek mythology, Hermes, also
gross deception.18 Hermes/Mercurius/ universal vehicle of transportation ever indulges in Tricksterish cattle
Trickster figures have been treated at designed or used by man," and a device mutilation. 31 And Jahweh, whose own
length by C.G. Jung,19 Karl Kerenyi,20 that "provides the poetry of three- Tricksterish proclivities have been
and Paul Radin.21 The tricksterish dimensional living."28 noted by Jung,32 destroys Job's sheep
nature of the phantom helicopters is The immediate postwar period, by fire as one of his first tests of Job's
well documented by Tom Adams, John particularly during the years that saw loyalty33 and, be it noted, Jahweh
Keel, and George Andrews.22 the first great interest in "flying speaks to Job out a whirlwind .34
Many connections can also be saucers," / was also a time of It is difficult to think of helicopters
made between helicopters and tremendous fascination with the without also thinkingof the tremendous
Hermes/Mercurius. Like Hermes, the helicopter—as is quite apparent from whirlwind generated by the rotors. In
helicopter is a "savior," a "duty the popular imagery of that time, folklore, whirlwinds are the abode of
angel,"23 the "Holy Helos"24 that presented above. C l e a r l y , the various demons, w i t c h e s , and
rescues people from danger under the helicopter was a dart board for a host of Tricksterish elementals of ill will.35
most difficult of circumstances; it is a mythological, magical, and fblklorish These wind demons are frequently
messenger (delivery of mail, serum, projections closely related to the sorts cited for their maiming and killing of
etc., to remote, inaccessible places in of projections made onto UFOs. cattle. It is of passing interest that
emergencies)25 and a psychopomp to coyotes are given major blame for the
the dead.26 Like Mercurius, the MUTILATION PARALLELS so-called "mutilations," since the name
helicopter is inherently unstable, and of one of the main Trickster figures in
achieving stability is the main problem The Trickster projection, Indian folklore is "Coyote."36
of helicopter design. It has been said however, is the one of most concern to It appears as though these images
that "airplanes want to fly, helicopters anomalists. If one examines the corpus are still active in the psyche of modern
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. from an airfield, which could be
photographed at night by a local
psychic, even though the machine
"wasn't there." David Jacobs tells of a
farmer who reported the presence of
two helicopters during a strange
experience. Under regressive
hypnosis, the helicopters were
reported to be UFOs. Berthold
Schwarz tells me that Stella Lansing did
psychic movies of a helicopter, and
Harder related an incident of a
"helicopter t h a t c o u l d n ' t be
photographed." I wish to add and to
emphasize that, for the purposes of our
argument here, it is entirely irrelevant
whether any of these claimed incidents
"Rotorless" helicopter illustrated in Jerome Clark's article, "The Brushy Creek UFOScare"(FATE, May
can be verified. The mere fact that the
1974, p.97). helicopter/UFO connection is so often
and so typically made is the fact of
man. He changes Trickster and and even plans to stage fake UFO importance.
whirlwinds into crazy visions of bizarre phenomena or mimic39 them in one
helicopters, and associates those way or another—all arising from the HOLLYWOOD HELICOPTERS
"helicopters" with the mutilation of same underlying dynamic.
cattle—in exact imitation of his And speaking of underlying Several movies have cast
"benighted" and "superstitious" dynamics, a reader of Flying Saucer helicopters in roles that lend support to
forbears. Review, concerned with the possible the ideas presented here. I will list a
But does that mean that we are paranormalcy of the "UFO nests," number of these films, pointing out
dealing w i t h purely imaginary wrote a letter to the editor40 drawing features of them that tend to amplify the
phenomena? Not necessarily. Betty Hill attention to two papers by William G. peculiar symbolism of helicopters.
reports on a phantom helicopter that Roll discussing "radial and tangential Some of my comments will be fairly
produced circular patterns in the grass forces" as they occur in the poltergeist impressionistic; I am taking this liberty
measuring 22.5 and 20.5 feet in phenomena.41 It seems that when so that the reader may judge for
diameter.37 In the July 1986 issue of objects go flying around poltergeist himself—whenever he happens to see
Flying Saucer Review36 much is made agents, they do so in a manner one of these films—whether my feeling
of some "mystery swirled rings" or suggestive of an extended invisible pole about the scenes in question makes any
"UFO nests" found here and there in or bar being rapidly swung around with sense. In many cases, the mythic
England. Reliable ufologists suspect the agent as center. Objects close to connections are very obvious.
that they are the result of helicopter the poltergeist agent move slower and Apocalypse Now. Helicopters are
pranks, while others opt for passing for shorter distances, while objects p r e s e n t e d as f e a r - p r o v o k i n g
"whirlwinds" or "dust devils." And, of farther away move greater distances mechanisms; the mystical enactment of
course, the UFO buffs say that UFOs faster. This leaves us with the question: a cattle abduction and mutilation scene
did it. By now it should be clear that Is there some real force—symbolized takes place within the context of a
whether one is a debunker, a UFO buff, by spirit-infested whirlwinds,, the rotor- Vietnam combat scene; helicopters are
or even one of the 'copter borne, all- wash of phantom helicopters, and other identified with the Valkyries of Teutonic
too-human Pranksters who made the mythical vortices—that underlies mythology (Wagner's "Ride of the
swirls, one may in reality be caught up certain forms of individual and Valkyries" is played over giant
in an age-old pattern found in myth and collective psychokinesis? loudspeakers by the atacking
folklore all over the world. helicopters); a helicopter approaches a
The UFO/Helicopter/Trickster ADDENDA field R & R center in the form of an
pattern—or archetype, if you will—is a undefined brilliant white light; many
broad spectrum effect, insinuating its This paper has not exactly been extended cinematographic effects
influence into the perceptions, the met with enthusiasm by believers in involving helicopters are included in the
explanations, and even the staging of "hardware" theories of UFOs. film.
certain putative "anomalies." It may be Nevertheless, almost w i t h o u t Blue Thunder. Helicopter is a
that when UFOs are sighted in a given exception and always with alacrity, demonic craft possessing an almost
area, such an event is preceded or ETHers have supplied me with strange living kind of intelligence; it first appears
accompanied by dreams of UFOs, helicopter stories: Andrija Puharich out of a blazing sun; the helicopter is
decisions to read or write about UFOs, tells of a Chinook helicopter, stolen shown operating in silent mode.
Sfarman. A giant helicopter lifts
and transports a crashed UFO in a
manner evocative of a kind of symbolic
identity; the closing scenes involve the
appearance of a giant UFO around
which the dozens of helicopters present
cluster as though they—as machines—
had an affinity to the spacecraft.
The Thing (modern remake). The
opening scene involves the Thing's
spacecraft crashing. In the very next
scene, in a kind of posf hoc parallelism,
a helicopter is shown in a lengthy flying
scene, followed by its gratuitous
destruction. The movie deals at length
with shape-shifting and mutilation.
Close Encounters of the Third
Kind. UFOs are identified with both
helicopter and automobile behavior
(a UFO comes up behind the hero's
car; he thinks it is a car and waves it on. The Devil and his minions buzz a metropolitan area in an antique automobile/UFO, lights on bright
The UFO/car/helicopter rises straight [Marie Corelli, The Devil's Motor (Hodder & Stoughton: New York & London, n.d. [1910])]
up and over the hero's vehicle). In
another scene (which relates back to In the dead midnight, at that supreme moment when the Hours that arepat slip away from the hours
yet to be. there came rushing between Earth and Heaven the sound of giant wheels, — the glare of great
the past one), a helicopter approaches lights, — the stench and the muffled roar of a huge Car, tearing at full speed along the pale line dividing
as an undefined brilliant white light. The the Darkness from the Dawn.
people present believe that it is a UFO The great Car flashed along with grinding, thunderous wheels, and as it flew, vast Phantom forms
that has come to make contact. Late in followed it... The forest dropped like broken reeds ... the lakes and waterfalls dried up into black and
the film, a "religious" scene involving muddy waters ...the Demon of the Car swept... with the force of a mighty whirlwind ...Unto you shall be
unlocked the under mysteries of Nature, and the secrets of the upper air... Death shall wait for you in
faith and doubt takes place among the the clouds ... Come, tie your pygmy chariots to the sun ...
"twelve chosen ones" sitting in a , Still faster flew the Car,—red meteors flashed in its course. ..
helicopter. After this, there is a scene
involving an attempt to capture the helicopter, of a giant statue of Jesus. scene shows the helicopter, lighted the
hero and heroine by using helicopters. The ascension of Christ is parodied by same way, with the original crew,
The helicopters spread a gas that puts emphasizing the shadow of the statue landing back at the pad). It is part of a
everything (birds, people, etc.) around going up the wall of a building the S.W.A.T. team assigned to capture or
the base of the Devil's Tower to sleep. helicopter passes over. The Christ kill the "terminal man."
This is a reworking of the folklore motif statue makes gestures of blessing Iceman. The movie opens with a
of suspended time as one enters the controlled, puppetlike, by the view from an icy cave which contains
realm of the unconscious (as in helicopter's movements. the body of a Neanderthal shaman
"Sleeping Beauty" and a number of Repo Man. An automobile gets frozen in ice. Helicopters are the first
other folktales), where contact with the transformed into a UFO, a helicopter is things seen as they appear in the cave
figures termed "extraterrestrials" takes present during the final dramatic scene, opening. A long scene follows showing
place, In this case, however, there is no and it first appears as a brilliant, a helicopter transporting the iceblock
return to reality. The hero is lost to the undefined white light. John Keel has containing the frozen body back to
normal world of consciousness when told me of a case in which a UFO was base. It turns out that the helicopter
he leaves with the extraterrestrial apparently transmogrified into an resembles one of the gods of the
spacecraft. Similar folklore themes may automobile. shaman. The special effects heavily
be found in the movie Splash, the play Terminal Man. The opening scene emphasize the god-helicopter identity.
Brigadoon, and in Goethe's poem Der (credits over) is of helicopter lighted See the discussion above—and the
Fischer. The theme of entrapment in internally in such a way that it movie. The closing lines, which appear
the unconscious (Orpheus and resembles a glass skull with a rotor on on the screen, are
Eurydice, Herakles and Peirithoos, and top. The helicopter is heard passing by I, who was born to die,
Lot's wife ("Don't look back!"—the during a murder/mutilation scene. The Shall live,
hero of Close Encounters admonishes), doctor says—at the moment—"Like he That the world of animals
are played out in the helicopter chase was some sort of machine." The And the world of men
scene. helicopter appears again at the end May come together,
La Dolce Vita. A long opening (revealing that the opening scene was I shall live.
scene involving the transportation, by really a flashback, since the closing —Inuit legend
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IMPLICATIONS FOR THE helicopters," see Thomas R. Adams, The Press, 1983], p. 101). A flying-saucer-like variation
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND Choppers — and the Choppers (Paris, Texas: on the "Chinese helicopter" was a very popular
TECHNOLOGY Project Stigma, 1980), passim; John A. Keel, toy in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Also,
UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (New York: G.P. "Frisbee" had its early beginnings at this time.
It is my belief that science and Putnam's Sons, 1970), pp. 138-141; and George Students at certain Ivy League schools used
technology do not arise solely as the C. Andrews, Extraterrestrials Among Us (St. coffee can covers and similar objects for this
outcome of the logical operations of Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn, 1986), pp. 162-169, 268- purpose. The practice became widespread (and
ego-consciousness. The case of the 269. There is also a good discussion of phantom dangerous). Also coincident with the modem
helicopter may be generalized to helicopters in the context of phantom aircraft in saucer era was the fad of "beanies" with
include all forms of technological general in David Clarke's article, "The Pennine propellers on top (echoing the "psychopter"), and
innovation and scientific theorizing. Phantom Helicopter and other Scares" (UFO recently (1987) I saw a breakfast food box
Like the hero in Close Encounters of • Brigantia, Mar-Apr 1987), and a relevant study by illustrated with helicopter-shaped
the Third Kind, we may be collectively Iain Johnstone on "The Aeronauts of Victoriana" extraterrestrials. A helicopter service in Hawii is
striving to create theoretical and appears in the same issue. Oddly enough, Arthur called "Meriehune," after the "little people" of that
technological representations of a C. Clarke mentions rotorless "helicopters" in state.
background dynamis that in itself Childhood's End (New York: Ballantine Books,
transcends any such representations. 1953), p.73. Tom Adams reports on an apparently 7. Shortly after the commercial license was
The history of invention may thus rotorless helicopter that transforms itself into a granted to the Bell 47 helicopter, Arthur Young
be a sort of three-dimensional ball-shaped object smaller than the "original noted that "the problem of the helicopter is now a
hieroglyphic, which can be decoded craft" (Sfigmata, Number 13, 1987, pp. 12-13). problem of people..." The collective symbolic
and read out as the history of our nature of the helicopter was also reflected in the
attempts to bring forth in tangible, 2. Arthur M. Young, The Bell Notes: A Journey popular nonsensical notion of the time that
material form those very divine images from Physics to Metaphysics (New York: everyone would soon be flying about in his own
that we have unconsciously projected Delacorte Press, 1979). personal helicopter.
into matter. Thus God emerges, not
out of a spiritual, but rather out of a 3. In alchemy, the spirit Mercurius is described as 8. Jule Eisenbud, "The mind-matter interface,"
material matrix. The simple inventions a "winged and wingless dragon" (see C.G. Jung, Journal of the American Society for Psychical
of the past have represented parts of "The Spirit Mercurius," in Collected Works, vol. Research 69, 2 (April 1975): 121.
the puzzle. The complex technologies 13 [CW 13], p. 217.
of the present begin to provide more 9. Otto Schmitt, "The psychic boom,"Artifex 5,2
complete representations of this 4. Igor I. Sikorsky, TheStoryofthe Winged-S:An (May 1986): 28.
dynamis and thus bear with them much Autobiography ...(New York: Dodd, Mead,
larger accretions of mythological and 1948), p. 1. Sikorsky remarked that "During the 10. See especially "Schizophrenic body boundary
theological imagery. fifty years preceding the advent of flying, there disturbances," in Glen O. Gabbard and Stuart W.
We are therefore realizing the appeared a marked anticipation of the flying Twemlow, With the Eyes of the Mind: An
essence of the Frankenstein myth by machine" (p. 240). As though relating a tale of Empirical Analysis of Out-of Body States (New
generating a biomimetic complex of saucer travel, Sikorsky extolls helicopter flight: York: Praeger, 1984).
"mechanistic" ideas and devices that "I have never been in the air in a machine that
becomes a more and more suitable was as pleasant to fly. ... It is like a dream to feel 11. For an important study of these phenomena,
substrate for the incarnation of the the machine lift you gently up in the air, float see Victor Tausk, "On the origin of the
psychic. A history of technology and smoothly over one spot for indefinite periods, 'influencing machine' in schizophrenia," in Robert
science cannot therefore be complete move up or down under good control, as well as Fliess, ed., The Psycho-analytical Reader: An
without a consideration of the imaginal move not only forward or backward but in any Anthology of Essential Papers with Critical
psychic matrix, its forms and goals, out direction." Introductions (New Yotk: International
of which the material object arises. Universities Press, 1948). Tausk draws attention
Analyses similar to the one which 5. Among these works were two pamphlets, "The to two of the recurring forms of "influencing
concerns us here can easily be Evolution of the Soul" and "In Search of Higher machine": the magic lantern and the
conceived even for such items as the Realities," and a short book, The Message of the cinematograph. Symbolically such devices point
electric light, the cyclotron, the Lord's Prayer. Sikorsky visited Egypt and the toward phenomena of psychological projection.
automobile, the computer, and the Holy Land, and Charles Lindbergh said of him Jung dreamt of UFOs as lenses and "magic
various other major and minor that "he mixed mysticism with science and lanterns" that projected himself as "C.G. Jung"
technologies that have arisen in the last aircraft design." (Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 323). A
few centuries. I believe that this will be a rather oversimplified, notion of UFOs as
direction for serious study sometime in 6. C.G. Jung, Leffers, Volume 2: 1951-1961. psychological projections is criticized by Carl
the distant future. (Princeton University Press, 1975), p. 476. In Raschke in his otherwise excellent essay, "UFOs:
1954, a case occurred in France in which a UFO U l t r a t e r r e s t r i a l agents of c u l t u r a l
NOTES appeared with "blades like a helicopter's" (Hilary deconstruction" (Corona 2 [1981]: 77-86), yet he
Evans, The Evidence for UFOs [Wellingborough, returns to a theory of projection himself at the end
1. For these and more details on "anomalous Northamptonshire, England: The Aquarian of the paper. It needs to be noted that the concept
9
of psychological projection (at least in Jungian essay, "On the psychology of the Trickster Aberglaubens (Berlin and Leipzig: Walter De
theory) has undergone a number of revisions. figure," written as a commentary to Paul Radin's Gruyter & Co., 1927). These and other tools
One of the most notable efforts at revising the The Trickster: A Study in American Indian while not in themselves keys' to the solution of the
theory of projection is Lee Worth Bailey's paper Mythology (New York: Bell, 1956). mysteries of anomalistics, will nonetheless
"Skull's lantern: Psychological projection and the educate the investigator to the fact that many
magic lantern" (Spring [1986]: 72-87), in which the 20. Karl Kerenyi, "The Trickster in relation to "unusual" things are, in fact, the very basic stuff of
notion of projection is revised in a way that can Greek mythology" in Radin, The Trickster. human imagination as it has been expressed in
begin to account for the peculiar form of various guises at all times and places. Modem
"projection" characteristic of saucer "sightings." 21. Radin, The Trickster. man is not exempt from this process; more than
that, modern man may be the wildest and most
12. Winged flasks, disks, and globes were a 22. See references in n. 1. prolific of mythmakers in history.
standard feature of the old alchemical
iconography and stand for both the beginning 23. James Adwill, Helicopters in Action (New 36. For an introduction to the Trickster stories
(winged chaos) and the end (the winged Self) of York: Meredith Press, 1969), p. 22. and legends, the reader is referred to the book
the alchemical opus. See C.G. Jung, Psychology American.Indian Myths and Legends, selected
and Alchemy, CW 12 (Princeton: Princeton 24. Adwill, Helicopters. and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
University Press, 1968) for discussions of this (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984). Lest one
symbol. 25. Ibid. imagine that Trickster/Coyote folklore is far from
the average person's everyday consciousness,
13. Lee Gutkind, God's Helicopter (Pittsburgh: 26. Devon Francis, The Story of the Helicopter this fabled creature lives in our very living rooms
Slow Loris Press, 1983). Compare the following (New York: Coward-McCann, 1946), p. 156. as the coyote in the "Roadrunner" cartoons.
excerpt from Gutkind's book with certain
contactee experiences: 27. Jung, "Mercurius," p.237. 37. Betty Hill, "Mystery Helicopters."
"At that very moment, Middlebaum's door Unpublished MS. March 26, 1976.
was thrown open and his room suddenly 28. These and other imaginative attributes may be
exploded in white. It was the white of piano keys, found in Adwill, and in Colonel H.F. Gregory's 38. Pat Delgado, "Mystery Swirled Rings in
multiplied by the white of angel food, multiplied by Anything a Horse Can Do: The Story of the England (1985)," in Flying Saucer Review,
the white of pearls and cream and snow and flour Helicopter (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock), Volume 31, No. 5, July 1986.
and chalk and pigeon-shit and paint, Middlebaum 1944.
said. There was only one white brighter and 39. Allen Hynek drew attention to this pervasive
1
whiter than the white that enveloped 29. Radin, The Trickster, p. 36. psychological impulse to mimic UFO phenomena
Middlebaum's room, and that was the object from (OMNI [February 1985], p. 114). However,
which all of this white radiated. Middlebaum could 30. The Viscera-Sucker gets lengthy treatment in Hynek saw this as a directed attempt of the UFO
see it clearly, as it approached him from the a University of the Philippines thesis by Maximo phenomenon to "muddy" the waters. This
distance. D. Ramos entitled, Creatures of Philippine Lower "muddying" is, of course, relative to our
"That was the last time Willie Heinemann had Mythology (University of the Philippines Press, consciousness. The Phenomenon may be a single
ever heard from Ronald Middlebaum, but before 1971). underlying dynamic, which is then translated into
this final transmission went dead, Willie heard the several different, apparently conflicting
noise. It came from a long way off, sharp and dull 31. He turns the lower legs of Apollo's cattle manifestations according to the psychologies of
at the same time, like the clopp-clopp, thud-thud (which he has stolen) backward so that he cannot the various humans touched by it. It is therefore
of a lumberjack's chopping axe." be easily tracked. not necessarily to ascribe purposefulness to the
UFO phenomenon. It gets muddy because we are
14. R.L. Dione, God Drives a Flying Saucer (New 32. Jung, "On the psychology of the Trickster the mud it touches.
York: Exposition Press, 1969). Figure" in Radin, The Trickster, p. 196.
40. Letter from Bernard E. Finch, FSR consultant
15. Unpublished MS. 33. Job 1:16 in Flying Saucer Review 32, 1, (December 1986):
p. 27.
16. F.W. Holiday speculates on the legend of the 34. Job 38:1
Valkyries as originating from a UFO visitation in 41. W.G. Roll, et al, "Radial and Tangential
his book, The Great Orm of Loch Ness. 35. The myths and folklore having to do with Forces in the Miami Poltergeist," JASPR, Volume
whirlwinds are too vast to even touch on here. 67, Number 3, July 1973, pp. 267-281 and W.G.
17. C.G. Jung, "The Spirit Mercurius" in The interested reader is referred to the R o l l a n d J.G. P r a t t , "The M i a m i
Collected Works (CW), Vol. 13, Alchemical immensely useful resources Funk & Wagnalls Disturbances,"JASPR, Volume 65, Number 4,
Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and October 1971, pp. 409-454. Jung, in "On the
1967), p. 247. Legend (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950); The Psychology of the Trickster Figure," discusses
Mythology of All Races in Thirteen Volumes the Trickster figure in association with
18. Jung, "The Spirit Mercurius," p. 217. (New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1964), ed. parapsychological phenomena.
L.H. Gray; and the imposing and very dense 10-
19. Jung, "The Spirit Mercurius," and in the volume Handworterbuch des deutschen

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document was uncovered at the
National Archives which unquestion-
MAJESTIC -12 ably verifies the existence of an "MJ12"
group in 1954 and definitely links both
the National Security Council and the
By William L. Moore President of the Unites States to it. A
copy of this document, with its
authenticating stamp from the National
The accompanying document is The accompanying document Archives, is also attached for your
part of the research properties of arrived in the mail in a plain brown examination.
William L. Moore. Jaime H. Shandera wrapper at the residence of Jaime These materials are being
and Stanton T. Friedman. Moore (a Shandera in December, 1984. A submitted for your examination and
professional writer) and Friedman (a detailed and exhaustive study of every consideration either as a member of the
well-known nuclear physicist) are aspect of this document has been under news media or as one whose own
recognized and respected UFO way since then. Although we are not in interests and research lie along similar
researchers of long standing with solid a position to endorse its authenticity at lines. Please be advised that no use of
backgrounds for factual reporting. this time, it is our considered opinion, this material may be made without
Both have written and lectured widely based upon research and interviews crediting its source as the Moore-
on the subject. Shandera is a Los conducted thus far, that the document Shandera-Friedman Research Project
Angeles television producer with a and its contents appear to be genuine. into U.S. Government UFO Policy.
background that includes directing a At the very least, it is possible to
variety of news and documentary state with certainty that absolutely Contents Copyright 1987 by WLM, JHS & STF.
shows. nothing has surfaced during the course All rights reserved.
In 1982, after Moore had worked of our research which would seem to
more than a year-and-a-half on his own, suggest otherwise. Indeed, one
the three teamed up on a research COPT OKE OP ONE.
project that would take them further
into the strange world of government
involvement with Unidentified Flying
Objects than anyone in the civilian field
is known to have ever gone before. This
project i n v o l v e d a n o n y m o u s ITl OPKUtlOl KAJS3TIO 12
government agents sharing research
pointers and dialogue alleging that '
nSPARKD' VOK mSXDin-BUOT WIGHT B. nSBHOVK&i
UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial
spacecraft and that certain elements of . ,
the U.S. intelligence community ' 18 2952
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continue to maintain a high-level but
covert interest in this phenomenon at a
time when official position statements
assert that there is no government
interest whatsoever.
Over the past seven years, the
Moore-Shandera-Friedman team,
working closely with a number of other
associates both in the news media and
within the civilian UFO community, has
aggressively pursued contacts, t Thia la docuaent containing
developed sources, and carefully compwtaentalleed infonatioa eaaentlal to the national security
r e s e a r c h e d leads. N u m e r o u s
of the United Statea. jajgBjfajg^fajMfe th. materlal herein
interviews were conducted and many
days were spent combing through la atrlctly Halted to tboee poaaeaalng Kajeetlc-12 clearance
records at the National Archives in lervl. Heproduotlon In any fora or the taking of written or
Washington D.C. as well as both the
^**°hanic*ll3r trw or
» lB«4;inotaa la atrlotly forbidden.
Truman and Eisenhower presidential
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SUBJECT« OPSRATIOIt KAJBSTIC-12 PHttIHI»ART BHIKPIHG FOR


PRBSIDBjrr-KLBCT naBIROVXH. . On 2« June, 1<»47, a civilian pilot flying over the Cascade
Hountaina in the State of Washington observed nine flyln«
DOCtJMBIT PBKPAHBD 18 fOTBMBHt, 1952. dlac-ahapert alroraft traveling In formation at a hl*h rate
of aoeed. Although thia waa not the first known airttln*
BHKTOTO OPPICBBt AIM. R08COI H. HILLBnCOBTTBR (HJ-1) of such objects, it.waa the firat to gain widespread attention
in the public media. Hundreds of reporta of alghtlnas of
similar objects followed. Many of these came from highly
VOTXi Thla document haa been prepared aa a preliminary brief in* credible military and clrlllan aouroea. Theae reports res-
only. It ahould be regarded aa Introductory to a full ope rat lone ulted In Independent efforta by aereral different elements
briefin* intended to follow. of the military to aeeertaln the nature and purpose of these
objects In the latereata of national defense. A number of
witnesses were interviewed and there were several unsuccessful
attempta to utillte aircraft la efforta to pursue reported
dlaoa In. flight. Kblio reaction bordered on near hysteria
at tteea. . - ;•.
r t
~ *>^'1,, —_•• -
•12-la* • TOr1 8KRJT Beaearch aad Development/
Intelligence operation remponaiole directly and only to the In eplte of theae efforta, little Of atibatanee waa learned
Sent of thai Baited 8tat«*4 Oparatioaai of the project are about the objeota until a local rancher reported that one
under control o£,::ta* Hajeatlo-12 (Kajle-12) Oroup had craahed la a remote region of »ew Mexico located approx-
-iaw eatabllehed by-«pa«ial olaaeifled executive order of laately aerenty-flTe allea aorthweat of Roawell Army Air
umaa oa 24 Sepl lanmV- 1S47, upon recommendation by Baae (BOW Walker field). - ' -* -.-.-,
. Bumh and Secrwtar*, Jaaee torreatal. (See Attachment
-•A»^ Nemb«re of. taev KajeetloVa^^Orotip were designated aa followi
On 07 July, 1947, • eecret operation waa begun to assure
*' -~ Ada. recovery of the wreckage of thia object for scientific study..
TanneraT During the course of thia operation, aerial reconnaissance
3eoy. J discovered that four email human-like belnga had apparently
S-' •" '"^.7 t'* '..:••'.••:••• '• '
Oen. lathaa ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
0«a. Theae had fallen to earth about two milee eaat of the wreckage
?Siffi^S,
1 Or» Oe site. All four were dead and badly decompoeed due to action
by predatora and exposure to the elementa during the approx-
imately one week time period which had elapsed before their
discovery. A apecial aoieatifio team took charge of reaovlng .
theae bodies for atudy. (See Attachment "CB.> The wreckage
Roberta. Montague of the craft waa alao removed to several different locations.
Dr. Lloyd T, Berkner .(See Attachment »B«.) Civilian and military witnesses in
the area were debriefed, and new* reporter* were given the
The death of Seoretary Porreatal on 22 Kay. 1949. created effective cover story that the object had been a misguided
a vacancy which remained unfilled until 01 Auguat. 1950, upon weather research balloon.
which date Oea. Walter B. SaitlV-wu dealgn&ted aa permanent
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A covert analytical effort organited by Gen. Twining and
Dr. Bush actIn* on the direct orders of the President, res-
ulted In a preliminary concensus (19 September, 1947) that A need for as much additional Information *s po»9lMe about
the dlac waa moat likely a short range reconnaissance craft. these craft, their performance characteristics an<1 their
This concluolon waa baaed for the moat part on the craft's niirnoae led to the undertaking known «s 0.3. Air "orce Project
size nnd the Apparent lack of any identifiable provisioning. SIGH in December, 1947. In order to preserve security, liaaon
(See Attachment "D".) A aimllar analysis of the four dead between SIGN and MaJestlc-12 waa Halted to two individuals
occupanta waa arranged by Dr. Bronk. It waa the tentative within the Intelligence Division of Air Materiel Coranand whose
conclusion of. thla group (30 November, 1947) that although role was to pasd along certain types of information throurh
these creaturee are human-like in appearance, the biological channels. SION evolved Into Project GRUDGE in D'cenber, 1948.
and evolutionary processes responsible for their development The operation is currently being conducted under the code name
has apparently been quite different from those observed or BUTE BOOK, with liason maintained through the Air Force officer
postulated In homo-eaplena. Dr. Bronk «e team has suggested who la head of the project.
the term "Bxtra-terreetrlal Biological Entities", or "EflEs",
be adopted aa the standard term of reference for these
creatures until such time as a more definitive deaignatlon
can be agreed upon. ' On 06 December, 1950, a second object, probably of similar
orlrln, impacted the earth at high speed In the T.I Tndlo -
Guerrero area of the Texas - Mexican boder after following
• long trajectory through the atmosphere. By .the time a
Since It la virtually certain that these craft do not origin- search team arrived, what - remained of the object had been almost
ate in any country on earth* considerable speculation has totally Incinerated. Such material aa could be recovered was
centered around what their point of origin might be and how transported to the A.3.C. facility at Sandia, New Mexico, for
they get here. Mars was and remains a possibility, although study.
some scientists, most notably Dr. Menzel, consider It more
likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar
system entirely.
Implications for the National Security are of continuing im-
portance in that the motives and ultimate Intentions of these
visitors remain completely unknown. In addition, a significant
numerous examples of what appear to be a form of writing upsurge In the surveillance activity of these craft beginning
were found In the wreckage. Efforts to decipher these have In May find continuing through the autumn of this year has caused
remained largely unsuccessful. (See Attachment "E".) considerable concern that new developments.may be imnlnent.
Squally unsuccessful hare been efforts to determine the It la for these reasons, as well as the obvious Intel-rational
method of propulsion or the nature.or method of transmission and technological considerations and the ultimate need to
of the power source involved. Research along these lines void a public panic at all costs, that the Majeatic-1? Group
has been complicated by the complete absence of identifiable remains of the unanimous opinion that imposition of the
wings, propellers, jets, or other conventional tsethods of strictest security precautions should continue without Inter-
propulsion and guidance, as well as a total luck of net-ill le ruption Into the new administration. At the same tine, con-
wiring, vacuum tubes, or similar recognizable -lectronic tingency plan KJ-1949-04P/78 (Top Secret - Jtyee Only) should
componento. (See Attachment •?".) It la assumed that the be held In continued readiness should the need to nV.ce a
propulsion unit was completely destroyed by the eroloslon public announcement present Itself. (See Attachment •(",".)
which caused the crash.

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Dear Secretary Porreatali
•ATTACHMENT "A" Special Classified Executive Aa per our recent conversation on this matter,
Order $092447. (TS/EO) you are hereby authorised to proceed with.all due
speed and caution upon your undertaking. Hereafter
•ATTACHMZHT "B" Operation Majestlc-12 Status this natter shall be referred to only as Operation
Report <C1, Part A. 30 NOV '47. Majestic Twelve.
(T3-HAJIC/BO)
It continues to be ay feeling that any future
•ATTACTWSBT "C- Operation'Majestlc-12 Status considerations'relative to the ultimate disposition
Report <*1. Part B. 30 NOT '47. of this natter should rest solely with the Office
(T3-KAJIC/BO) of the President following appropriate dlacusaiona
with yourself. Dr. Bush and the Director of Central
•AttACHMBt "D» Operation Kajeatlc-12 Preliminary Intelligence.
Analytical Report. 19 SEP '47.
(T3-KAJ1C/BO)
•ATTACHMEKT "V Operation Majeatic-12 Blue Team
Report 15. 30 JUH '52.
(TS-MAJIC/KO)
•ATTACHMHfT "P"... Operation Majeatic-12 Status
Report «2. 31 JAH '48.
(T3-KAJIC/BO)
•ATTACHKEMt "C" Operation Majefltic-12 Contingency
Plan MJ-10.49-04P/7H: 31 JAN '49.
(T3-HUIC/KO)
•ATTACKMBn "H" ..Operation Majestlc-12. Mnpa and
Photographs Polio (Cxtraetlona).
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MJ 12, Continued ABDUCTIONS, Continued
permits his honesty to undermine his
"scar" thesis when he observes that
"almost anyone can dredge up a
July IV, 195V mysterious scar or a half-recalled
humanoid dream" (p. 133).
Tor Agreed, Hopkins and other
investigators are doing a commendable
job in sympathizing with these people
K TO;: OE-STOL TwiHirrr, and helping them form support groups
SUBJBTCi :tr.C/KJ-12 Special Stadias Project to deal with the trouble most of them
seem to have experienced. But insisting
The President has decided tbat tha W-12 SSP brieflne that their accounts are "objectively
should talc* place dgrtaf. the already sehsdaled Unite House
••rtlng of Jtaly 16, rather than fttiowlnf it as pretrtwialy true" is not only unnecessary but
intended* More precise arranffvnsata vill be explained to ultimately damaging to their recovery
you upon arrlvnl. Please alter year plnns aooordingly.
and to the UFO movement itself.
Sour ooneurrenee In the above ehongo of arrangencnta
is asawaod.
REFERENCES
J. Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story,
New York: William Morrow, 1987.
ROBERT UUTLBR 2. Budd Hopkins, Intruders: The Incredible
Special Aaslstaat Visitations at Copley Woods, New York:
to the President
Random House, 1987.

Lawrence Fawcfttand Barry J. Greenwood

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scopes. A few minutes after the F-94's
left the Washington area, the
LOOKING BACK unidentified targets were back on the
radar scopes in that same area. Once
more two F-94's roared south toward
Washington. This time the targets
By Bob Cribble stayed on the radar scopes until the jets
arrived. The controllers vectored the
jets toward group after group of targets,
FORTY YEARS AGO — July location. The UFOs were moving in but each time, before the jets could get
1947: The big story occurred in New restricted air space — over the White close enough to see anything more than
Mexico and was described in a short House and near the Capitol building. just a light, the targets had sped away.
story in the San Francisco, CA Neu»s On the Center scope one UFO was On the 29th the UFOs returned to
on the eighth: BULLETIN — By United seen making a 90-degree turn. Another Washington. .The Civil Aeronautics
Press — Roswell, N.M., July 8. — object moving at high speed suddenly Administration traffic control center
Possession of a "flying disc" was reversed course." One of the objects reported that its radar picked up the
disclosed today by the intelligence streaking across an ASR scope at the objects for about six straight hours.
office of the 509th Bomb Group of the National Airport tower had been The CAA radar first started picking up
Roswell Army Air Base. Officers at the tracked at 7200 M.P.H. At 3 AM as two the strange blips about 1:30 AM and
base say the "disc" was flown in a Air Force jets approached Washington, they continued roaming the radar
Super-Fortress to "higher head- D.C. all of the UFOs vanished from the scope until 6 AM. There were as many
quarters" undisclosed. The intelligence radar screens at all three tracking as eight to 12 of the objects on the
office reported that it gained possession facilities. As daylight began to show a scope at the same time.
of the "disc" through the co-operation radio engineer observed five huge discs
of a Roswell rancher and George circling in loose formation over the
Wilson, sheriff at Roswell. The disc Capitol, then tilted upward and * **
landed on a ranch near Roswell vanished in a few seconds. The five- THIRTY YEARS AGO - July
sometime last week. Not having phone hour survey over Washington, DC had 1957: Fifteen-year-old Jack Stephens of
facilities, the rancher, whose name has ended. Gait, Ontario, Canada said he saw a
not yet been obtained, stored the disc Harry Barnes summed up the UFO land in a field within 300 yards of
until such time as he was able to reach events of the morning of the 20th in the him on the 30th. "I'm not sure if it was
the Roswell sheriffs office. The air base Washington Daily News: "There is no the noise or if I first saw the light, but I
refused to give details of construction of other conclusion I can reach but that looked up, past the trees, and saw a
the disc or its appearance. Residents for six hours on the morning of the 20th kind of bright light. It was moving
near the ranch on which the disc was of July there were at least ten quickly. First I figured it was a plane.
found reported seeing a;strange blue unidentifiable objects moving above Then I saw it was circular and it made a
light several days ago about 3 a.m. Washington. They were not ordinary queer, singing kind of hum. The
aircraft. I could tell, that by their machine dipped across one of the small
* ** movement on the scope. I can safely lakes. Then it paused above the gully
deduce that they performed gyrations about 300 yards from me. The top was
THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO - which no known aircraft could perform. bright and it didn't revojve but the
July 1952: Since the first of the month By this I mean that our scope showed round body was spinning very fast. As I
UFO activity, was increasing across the. that they could make right angle turns watched it dropped like a helicopter. I
country. On the 20th they converged and complete reversals of flight. Nor in saw light around it, but as the speed
on Washington, DC. At midnight eight my opinion could any natural lessened they became sort of portholes.
air traffic controllers, headed by Senior phenomena account for these spots on As it came down there was no flame,
Controller Harry G. Barnes started our radar." but I could see a red flame out the
their work shift in the radar room at the About 10:30 PM on July 26th, the bottom of it as it hovered about two feet
Air Traffic Control Center at same radar operators at the Air Traffic above the ground. It looked big as a
Washington National Airport. At Control Center who had seen the house but I guess it was 30 or 35 feet
exactly 12:40 AM seven sharp blips UFOs the week before watched more wide and 10 or 12 feet high. It just
suddenly appeared on the main radar of the unknowns on their scope. climbed away without a sound." At the
scope. The airport control tower Controllers at the National Airport scene investigators found a burned
showed the same blips in the same tower and the radar station at Andrews circle, two three-toed prints, eight
location. One controller was observing Air Force Base also were watching the patches which appeared to have been
one from the same tower at the same objects on their scopes. Once again a burned, and a number of small trees
time. The scope at Andrews Field — call went out for jet interceptors. But and limbs that had been snapped off.
across the Potomac River in Maryland just.as the two F-94's arrived in the area prints were 10 inches wide at the toes,
— showed the objects in the same the UFOs disappeared from all of the and about 18 inches long. The prints
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forced the corn stubble two inches into parking lot. It was about 50 feet long, the rear window. The man had moved
the ground. round in the center with extended sides up the road and stood directly behind
that gave it the shape of a fat cigar. He her car. She felt disoriented, but
could not make out a color but he saw without fear, except for the hissing in
* **
green lights on the bottom. He stopped the car. Laying her head on the steering
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO his truck about 100 feet away, training wheel, the mother of four thought of her
— July 1962: There were 12 engineers the headlights on the craft. As he gaped children at home. When she looked up
and technicians at a radar installation in disbelief, two midget-like men, again, the man was gone. The woman
on top of a low mountain called Twin dressed in shiny, black uniforms, ran grabbed her keys and purse, leaped
Buttes, near Holloman Air Force Base, past the truck and boarded the object. from the car with difficulty, and ran 2%
NM (Exact day unknown). A UFO Within a minute it ascended vertically miles home. Her electric watch stopped
approached their installation and began until the green lights disappeared into at 4:50 PM. When she and her husband
circling around it. The engineer that the black sky. Investigators said they rounded up help to go for the car, they
reported the incident said the object found two witnesses who semi- found no skid marks and no scratches
circled just like a Piper Cub airplane corroborated Zipkin's story. About on the trees. They found only a car
would. This was in broad daylight, and four hours after Zipkin's report was wedged on top of the logs, her first
apparently the UFO was observing the filed with the sheriff's department, a footprints sprinting 12 feet from the car,
radar station. It was a double-sided disc second UFO passed over Churchville. spaced at 6-foot intervals until she
like two bowls put together rim-to-rim, Its flight was confirmed by over 30 rounded the curve. Then they found
and it was a silver coin color. There witnesses. the footprints where she said she saw
were no windows or anything else the man. Eight people saw the tracks.
visible. It was about 50 feet in diameter, They described them as. being like
* **
and was only a few hundred feet away horse-hoofs, only with heels, spaced
— very close. One engineer grabbed his FIFTEEN YEARS AGO — July close together with the toes dug three-
35mm movie camera — he had been 1972: No significant reports on file for quarters of an inch into the hard-
taking pictures of missile launches — this period. packed gravel road. Hunters in the
and started shooting. He shot 90 feet of group agreed they were not animal
color film. Two days later the Air Force tracks. The tracks led out of the woods,
* **
came to the installation and confiscated down the embankment to where she
the film. TEN YEARS AGO - July 1977: says she first spotted the man, back and
Molly Smith (not her real name) had forth behind the car, and disappeared
* ** never seen a UFO movie or read their again up the embankment.
books and magazines. She was on her Smith called heavy equipment
TWENTY YEARS AGO — July way to Hulbert, MI at 4:50 on a hot, dry operator Jimmy Clay and Joe Durga to
1967: Mrs. Emma Funk was traveling afternoon, (exact date unknown). She remove the car. Clay brought his front
near Millerton, NY on the 17th when slowed the car to 15 MPH as she end loader, and Durga worked with a
her car was temporarily stalled when hit rounded the curve on a desolate winch. The car wouldn't budge. They
by a UFO at 11:25 PM. Under hypnosis stretch. Halfway into the curve, she saw finally cut the logs out with a chain saw
she reported that as she was turning off someone standing on the right side, and dragged the car back to the road. It
her car's radio which was filled with about a foot into the road from the 3- showed no damage except a minor
static, a black object the size of a foot-high embankment: She described scratch from a twig. The oil pan and
bowling ball with a blue corona came him as about 5-feet-5, slender, with transmission were intact, and Mrs.
over the car's hood straight for her face. normal body structure, and large Smith drove the car home. People who
The object cracked her windshield and almond-shaped eyes slanted tight saw the car in the woods don't talk
she saw it veer off to the right as the car against the side of his head. He wore a about it much. They said little the day
stalled just before she passed out. one-piece, metallic dark green suit. As they worked getting it out. It was eerie,
Fifteen minutes later, Mrs. Funk the car pulled alongside, it slid out of the quiet. But if you ask them, they tell
reported that she was driving in the control. Mrs. Smith recalls the sound of it. Like Jimmy Clay. The tracks were
opposite direction on Rt. 22. Under static electricity, and she pulled her there, he says. "Somehow, the car
hypnosis she said "they" turned her car hands off the steering wheel. The car hit cleared the embankment, but she
around and struck her across the chest the embankment, went into a 12-foot couldn't have been going fast enough to
with a rod. Although she could not tell slide and was lifted into the air. With put it on top of the logs." One of the
who "they" were, her doctor treated one sweep, it landed 10 feet into the men shakes his head: "That lady didn't
her for a chest bruise after the woods to the left of the road, perched get that car in those trees by herself
encounter. on a 4-foot-high pile of logs, encircled on unless she picked it up and put it there."
On the 30th, Sidney Zipkin, 50- three sides by trees. As the car struck Following Mrs. Smith's experience, she
year-old guard at a park in Churchville, the logs, she felt the jar and bit her and her family had several UFO
NY, was making his rounds when he tongue. experiences.
saw a UFO sitting on the ground in a Mrs.Smith turned and looked out
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"ABDUCTIONS" AND CREDIBILITY
By Robert Wanderer

Robert Wanderer is a MUFON EXPERIENCES anomaly" Hopkins had ever heard of.
specialist in communications who She was overweight from a
seeks a middle ground between Strieber tells of a "dramatic hormonal imbalance, at seven she
"believers" and "debunkers." personality change" which resulted in began regular menstruation, at ten she
he and his wife going "through personal had grown to her adult height and was
We're at a UFO symposium, and hell because of my demands and being treated for high blood pressure,
we've just heard a panel of four accusatory behavior" (p.31). He at fourteen she was operated on for
"abductees." The man sitting next to describes his sudden adverse reaction gallstones and her gallbladder was
me, a long time UFO investigator, turns to a house they were considering removed — well, the list goes on a great
and observes, "I wish they'd abduct buying some years earlier and cities it as length (p.54-55). No specific single
someone credible for a change!" "frightening" because of his "clear problem here would rule Kathie as "not
Mind you, this man is convinced awareness that this was a paranoid credible," but the sheer volume of
that extra-terrestrial spaceships are fantasy" (p.50). In his hypnosis he psychological and medical ailments
visiting the earth, and that "aliens" on worried about "the possibility that I was leaves one dubious. The "buried
board are "abducting" people. But even unconsciously eager to comply with an trauma" listed by her psychologist
such a "hard-core believer" is becoming outcome I might secretly have longed would strike me as a possible basic
uncomfortable with the continuing for. I might want powerful visitors to experience leading to the creation of an
questionable quality of the "abduction" appear" (p.56). "abduction" story many years later;
evidence. He writes of his "distressed state" however, Hopkins employs a curious
He and the general public will find over the past year in which he circular reasoning that in this case
no solace for their doubts in the year's repeatedly went through the house in would suggest the early trauma was a
two new major studies. Whitley the middle of the night, "opening previous "abduction" as a small child.
S t r i e b e r , " who describes his closets and looking under beds" A deeper question of credibility
"abduction" in Communion, is a writer (p. 101). He says he was "terrified" as a might be raised about Hopkins himself;
who until 1983 penned "imaginative little boy by an appearance of Mr. or, to be more specific, there seems to
thrillers" but has since turned to "more Peanut which "never happened," and be a vast difference between his way of
serious fiction"; one immediately how he "told for years" of being present assessing probabilities and "creating
wonders if his "imaginative" abilities at the University of Texas during reality" and that which strikes me as the
haven't resurfaced. Budd Hopkins, the Charles Whitman's shooting spree more common and rational way. Take,
major researcher in the "abduction" from the tower in 1966, "but I wasn't for example, the story of "Nan" (p.98),
field, worked with Strieber as he there" (p. 121). He describes the described as "Kathie's best friend."
attempted to come to grips with his "terror" of how he woke from sleep one
experience, and also wrote Intruders, night to find "small people" lined up BIZARRE REPORT
on his research into a series of beside his bed, but at great effort he
"abductions" in an Indiana suburb. managed to smile, the small people, Nan went out to her kitchen one
Both Strieber on the very first page "dashed away with a whoosh," and he evening, and during the few seconds
and Hopkins near the end of the book immediately "plunged" back into sleep before the fluorescent light came on she
raise the key question: Are these (p.174). was "terrified" to see a tall figure staring
"abduction" experiences "real," or are "Kathie," the chief protagonist of at her through the window a few feet
they what Hopkins calls "some new and Hopkins' book, "has had a long struggle away. When the light came on she
heretofore unrecognized and nearly w i t h several chronic, possible could no longer "see" the man. And (1) \
universal psychological phenomenon?" psychosomatic illnesses — colitis, their beagle, "which notoriously barked
Both w r i t e r s seem a b s o l u t e l y irregular heartbeat, acute anxiety, at any sound or movement," remained
convinced that their stories are "real," insomnia and so forth." When she was quiet, (2) their backyard was
and the material they present is in group therapy her psychologist completely fenced in with high mesh
designed to support that contention. suspected "some as yet undiscovered broken only by two squeaking gates,
The reader looking for a more credible cause for her problems, such as a and apparently no squeaking was
point of view must ferret out clues here buried trauma, a particular heard, (3) "there was fresh snow on the
and there which lend some support to a unremembered event" (p.20). She had ground, but no sign of either the
"psychological" explanation. suffered "just about every medical intruder or any footprints," and (4) the .
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ABDUCTIONS, Continued THE NIGHT SKY
angle from which she "saw" the figure
would require him to be either eight feet By Walter N. Webb
tall or floating a few feet off the ground. MUFON Astronomy Consultant
Hopkins says "one does not know
what to make of a bizarre report such AUGUST 1987
as this." I would judge it a 99%
probability of a misperception, but Bright Planets (Evening Sky):
Hopkins only reluctantly considers that
even as a possibility, to "suppose" that Jupiter, in Pisces, rises in the east about 10:30 PM daylight time in mid-Augus!
"Nan's eyes could have played tricks on and an hour earlier by month's end. This bright giant of the solar system shines
her, as they say." He adds later (p. 106) at magnitude -2.7. It begins retrograde or westward motion on the 20th.
that "with the staring figure in her Saturn, in Ophiuchus, is in the south at dusk, moves into the SW when twiligr'
backyard, Nan also seems to have her ends, and sets in the WSW about 12:45 AM in midmonth. The second larger.
own personal involvement with the planet resumes direct or eastward motion on the 19th: Its magnitude 15+0.4.
(abduction) phenomenon." What is the
reader to make of an investigator who Bright Planets (Morning Sky):
takes what appears to be Nan's two-
second misperception and turns it into Jupiter is high in the south at dawn.
full-blown proof of her "involvement" Meteor Showers:
with "abductions"? .
One point these books certainly The period from late July to mid-August is the most fruitful time of the year fo"
make clear, if the previous cases meteor-watching. Two meteor showers range across the night sky, the DelU;
haven't convinced you, is that Aquarids and the Perseids. In early August the Perseids are building to a peak
"abduction" people experience their on the morning of the 12th, while the Aquarids appear in decreasing number?
hypnotically-induced stories as "true." until midmonth (their maximum occurred July 29). Ordinarily on the 12th an
They are not suffering a major known observer might see about one Perseid per minute toward dawn. This year,
psychological problem, they are not however, bright moonlight will severely hamper viewing. Most swift meteors
hallucinating, they are not faking it. coming from the north will be Perseids; slower ones from the south are
It boils down to two possibilities: Aquarids.
(1) their stories are "objectively true,"
or (2). there is some factor in their Moon Phases:

background that causes them to go into
something like an altered state of
First quarter-August 2
Full moon-August 9 O
consciousness under hypnosis in which Last quarter-August 16
they create their "abduction" story and New moon-August 24
sincerely believe it to be true. It seems
to me the evidence points clearly
First quarter-August 31
The Stars:

toward the second alternative,
particularly because of the continuing August evenings bring the Summer Triangle high overhead. Not actually e
lack of acceptable independent constellation itself, the triangle instead in composed of the brightest stars o
corroboration of any of these three separate constellations.
"abduction" stories.
Another point that is becoming The most brilliant of the three stars, Vega, lies in the constellation of Lyra the
increasingly clear from these books and Harp, basically a crooked rectangle of lesser stars. This is the magical harr
previous accounts is the poverty of the given to Orpheus by his father Apollo. The instrument's music was said tc
continuing attempt to find some enchant even the beasts of the forest.
physical correlation that would help East of Vega is Deneb, which marks the tail of the flying Swan Cygnus. The
support the "reality" hypothesis. Once "pattern is often nicknamed the Northern Cross, with Deneb at the top of tht
again we hear of lights in the sky and cross. Albireo, the foot of the cross, is a beautiful blue-gold double star in a.
UFOs seen, but nothing that I can find small telescope.
to show that these sightings are more
than coincidental. Hopkins pushes his Below Cygnus we find Altair, the third star in the triangle. It marks the head of
theory that unexplained scars on one's Aquila the Eagle. This is the bird that carried Jupiter's thunderbolts.
body came from previous "abductions" Both the Eagle and the Swan are flying in opposite directions along the Milky
where the "aliens" were taking cell Way. This cross-sectional view of our star city home, a spiral galaxy, splits the
samples or whatever. But Hopkins sky overhead from north to south. Try to escape the streetlights of your city or
(continued on page 15) town and admire the dim and delicate splendor of the Milky Way from a dark
vantage point. j
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
by
Walt Andrus

The MUFON Eighteenth Annual submit his symposium paper titled "The Mantle, Representative for England.
UFO Symposium, hosted by the Fund Canadian UFO Scene" in adequate Jeffrey R. Neal, Major U.S.A.F.,
for UFO Research and held on June 26, time to be published in the 1987 former State Section Director for Clark
27, and 28 at The American University proceedings, it will be published in a County and Acting State Director for
in Washington, D.C., exceeded all future issue of the MUFON UFO Nevada, is being transferred to
expectations. As the theme implied Journal. Bill Chalker's paper was Germany in August. John Lear, an
"International Symposium on mailed in two segments (Australia). The airline captain living in Las Vegas,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: 1947 first part was published in the became the new State Section Director
— 1987," or subtitled "Forty Years is proceedings, whereas the second part for Clark County on May 26th. As a
Long Enough," speakers from every titled, "History of UFO Involvement of note of his accomplishments as a flyer,
continent of the World appeared. Official Government Organizations" is Mr. Lear is the only pilot to hold every
World press was thoroughly exposed being considered for the Journal, also. pilot certificate issued by the Federal
to the symposium due to its location Mr. Chalker presented the government Aviation Administration (FAA).
and the agenda of international involvement in this speech in Larry G. Lemke, an aerospace
speakers. Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Washington, D.C. engineer in Sunnyvale, Calif, has
Chairman, and his symposium volunteered to serve as a Research
Committee must be commended for * ** Specialist. He has a Masters Degree in
conducting the finest and most Aeronautics and Astronautics (1978)
impressive UFO symposium in the On June 20, 1987 at 12:30 pm and a B.S. in Physics (1976). Paul C.
forty year history of the phenomenon. CDST, Paul Harvey, noted radio and Cerny, Western Regional Director has
An additional feature of this year's TV commentator, devoted his entire appointed Franklin A. Youri to the
symposium included short papers program to the status of current position of State Section Director for
contributed by participating attendees UFOlogy and announced the dates and Merced and Stanislaus Counties in
as well as the regular workshops and place for the MUFON 1987 California.
panel discussions. International UFO Symposium in * **
The MUFON 1987 International Washington, D.C. Marking the 40th
UFO Symposium Proceedings are anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's UFO In order to better serve the
available from MUFON for $15 plus sighting in Washington State, Ted membership of MUFON and to
$1.50 for postage and handling. It Koppel, host for ABC-TV's "Night modernize the headquarters office, a
contains all of the papers delivered by Line," planned his entire program on computer, display monitor, printer,
the featured speakers that were June 24th on UFOs and provided modem, associated equipment and
received for publication by June 1,1987 additional publicity for the symposium. software has been purchased. Some of
when the proceedings went to press Even though the 1987 symposium the first applications will be adhesive
(222 pages). The 1987 Proceedings are has just concluded, we are soliciting address labels on the cover of the
respectfully dedicated to Ted Bloecher bids for the MUFON 1988 UFO MUFON UFO JOURNAL and current
for his outstanding contribution to Symposium. A written inquiry has been state membership lists. The word
UFOlogy since the early 1950s. received for the Chicago area from processor and printer will be used for
The MUFON AWARD FOR Thomas P. Stults and William multiple copy letters whenever it is
OUTSTANDING WORK IN THE Leone, State Section Director. superior to xerox copies. The increase
UFO FIELD FOR 1986 - 1987 plaque Chicago would be an ideal central in the membership dues structure in
was awarded to Raymond E. Fowler location for such an event. February 1986 has enabled MUFON to
in absentia, by his colleagues in Mr. Ulf Ekstedt of UFO-Sweden make this purchase.
UFOlogy. The Fund for UFO Research in Eskilstuna has accepted the position
presented a cash award in the name of of MUFON's Representative for
Isabel Davis (a co-founder of the Fund) Sweden. He is the cashier and chief
to Mr. Fowler in recognition of his investigator for UFO-Sweden, member
accomplishments. of the board of Project URD, and
member of the Project Coordinating
* ** Committee for Project Hessdalen. In
addition to these credentials, he comes
Since Stanton Friedman did not highly recommended by Philip

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