UFO CLUBS

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Growing public interest in UFO's has created a demand for information about the little-known subject vilified by CIA efforts to "correct" public opinion. In the absence of official recognition, newspaper, television and radio journalists rely on clubs that have provided the center for research, investigation and dissemination of the finest UFO data available. Yet UFO clubs have been the medium carrying false and misleading information apparently injected by the ordained intelligence community as well as errors that occur in an honest investigation. An overview must consider the clubs and the central role they play in the evolution of Ufology.

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Emerging as Project Blue Book was winding down, the most widely based UFO club, MUFON declares dedication to the scientific study of unidentified flying objects. Members of MUFON's grass roots organization pay dues, fill out questionnaires and receive a nationally distributed newsletter. After cursory training in sciences that have never explained the UFO phenomenon, MUFON investigators send reports about UFO sightings and encounters in their local areas to the national director, Walt Andrus.

In 30 years MUFON has probably received more UFO reports than the Air Force but has never published a summary of findings from them. Rather than compile analytical reports with data from 30 years of reports, MUFON publications are comprised of presentations and papers submitted by members. MUFON's apparent dedication to scientific study belies its highly politicized investigations that resist the facts about UFO's.

MUFON's investigation of a Pleiadian contact made in 1975 with farmer Billy Meier reflects the level of science factually applied to one of the most important cases in the history of Ufology. Hundreds of high-quality photos, 2,100 pages of contact notes and 25 secondary witnesses made the Meier contact a milestone case. Two years after the Pleiadians started contacts with Meier, retired Air Force Colonel Wendell Stevens was the first investigator on the scene in Switzerland in 1977, and subsequently invited Lee and Britt Elders to join him.

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Immediately upon returning to the U.S. with preliminary results of the investigation, Stevens attended a conference that included several UFO clubs where the facts of the investigation were ensnared in the politics of competing clubs. In an apocalyptic twinkling of an eye, the most astounding evidence of over 100 face-to-face meetings with Pleiadians was dismissed among the head count of a UFO conference.

MUFON's official position denouncing the Pleiadian contact was taken before the investigator met or interviewed Billy Meier. A decade after MUFON dismissed the Meier contact, Ted Auerbach, whom Walt Andrus relied on in forming his opinion, wrote that he realized the injustice done to Meier after reading a book about the case days earlier.

"A member of our UFO club gave me G. Kinder's Light Years , and I finished reading it a few days ago [in 1989]. The book convinced me that I had done some injustice to E. Meier. This goes to show that one should not judge a person until all the information is at hand. I always thought that Meier's photos still were likely to be fakes. However, according to the book this is impossible. There may be some false ones among them, but the great majority of the, amounting to several hundred pictures, must be genuine. Also I did not realize that he has had more than 100 meetings with Semjase." (Ted Auerbach, February 2, 1989)

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Deardorff picked up the trail to Auerbach in a letter from Walt Andrus stating that he had relied on the MUFON consultant in Switzerland in forming his opinion of Meier. The letter was written in response to James Deardorff's continuing investigation of the Meier contact during the eighties. Deardorff's contributions to Ufology are distinguished with his academic credentials as a seasoned research professor at Oregon State University before retiring to pursue the study of UFO's. He approached the Meier contact with the thoroughness of a veteran who left nothing to guess work. As well as inspecting photos, camera, landscape and other physical evidence associated with the contact, Deardorff followed up on 25 secondary witnesses identified in Wendelle Stevens' investigation, 17 of whom had seen or photographed lights associated with the Pleiadian craft.

Auerbach's 1989 letter continued to explain that despite powerful evidence, he could not believe all of Meier's experience was true because a mutual acquaintance had not been convinced. The letter then listed pros supporting Meier's contacts and cons detracting from it. All of the pros were proven facts of the case. All of the cons were either Auerbach's opinion on probable extraterrestrial decorum or incorrect data resulting from his failure to interview Meier or the witnesses. Auerbach notes that the case would be more impressive if the Pleiadians had talked to some of Meier's friends!

"Nevertheless, after reading the book my FEELING [emphasis added] still is that the whole of Meier's experience cannot be true. Mrs. Zinsstag, whom I knew well and who knew Meier well, likewise never was convinced of the truth of Meier's observations. Let me list the pros and cons:

"PRO

"1) Several hundred genuine UFO photos

"2) Circular impressions in the ground

"3) In wet weather the clothes of Meier, returning from a meeting with Semjase, are dry, as if he had come from inside a sheltered room.

"4) Meier disappears and reappears. According to him he is dematerialized and rematerialized.

"CON

"1) It is not logical that Semjase and her crew should visit Meier more than 100 times just for the purpose of talking to him about topics of little significance. Even if the purpose was to disseminate misleading information, 100 times would be too much. A round trip, according to Meier, lasts 14 hours.

"2) No one has ever seen a UFO either landing, rising, or on the ground. Yet the area is populated and many times Meier was accompanied by friends who waited for him near the meeting place.

"3) No one has ever seen Semjase. Regardless of the purpose of her visits, meeting some of Meier's friends would have greatly enhanced its effect.

"4) The scientific passages in his writings, most pertaining to astronomy, are a fairly precise reflection of the knowledge of a man of Meier's limited education. In his writings constant praise is heaped upon him by Semjase and the others, for instance by Jesus. This sounds like the writings of a man reacting off his inferiority complexes."

Like clock work, Auerbach offers four CON statements balanced against four PRO statements. All PRO statements reflected Gary Kinder's research that Auerbach had recently read, while the CON statements were conjured from Auerbach's notions of proper extraterrestrial behavior.

1) In a stunning start of logic, Auerbach suggests that less than 100 extraterrestrial visits would be a better number since a round trip from the Pleiades takes 14 hours. However, Auerbach fails to consider that the contacts spanned more than five years needed to impart 2,200 pages of contact notes. Although this time-motion accounting would be a vital consideration for a Swiss bankers' commute, it has virtually no bearing on priorities expressed in extraterrestrial contacts devoted to delivering information. This poorly devised argument reflects Auerbach's complete ignorance of the Meier contact notes where Semjase explained that she had been in "this system" for 75 years. Although a round trip to the Pleiades was described 14 hours, the Pleiadians also discussed several underground bases on this planet, including Agartha in the Takla Makan Desert. Thus the Pleiadians did not necessarily make a round trip to the Pleiades for each contact with Meier.

2) Besides having seen the beamships rising and landing, etc., several adults plus Meier's wife and kids witnessed a beamship rising up and away from them on one afternoon. Testimony from one of the witnesses on this is in Wendelle Steven's 1982 book.

3) Auerbach didn't point out why Semjase had to make sure she didn't allow others besides Meier in on the contacts, to meet her and see her, etc. As previously mentioned, Semjase had consented to additional photo shoots for the benefit of Meier's friends with the caveat that the senses could be deceived and encouraging higher perceptual development.

4) Pragmatically, Semjase obviously couldn't explain scientific matters to Meier in terms he wouldn't understand; it had to be at a level close to his own understanding, or she would have wasted her effort.

However, the simplistic terms of Semjase's science were enormously effective for conveying essential data that became vital in the 1990's but had seemed inconsequential in the 1970's. On several occasions Semjase discussed solar physics in simple terms that extended to redefining what a solar system is. The importance of Semjase's simple explanations that the sun does not function as Earth scientists believe has become more credible with unexpected solar behavior since the Sixth Sun July 11,1991. In 1994, the Ulysses space craft observed anomalous behavior of the sun's magnetic fields . (See TimeStar Solar Predictions)


Many models of the solar magnetic field used prior to Ulysses assumed that the solar magnetic field was similar to that of a dipole; field lines near the solar equator were thought to form closed loops whereas field lines from the poles were dragged far into interplanetary space by the solar wind. For a dipole, the field strength over the poles is twice that at the equator. Ulysses found that the amount of outward magnetic flux in the solar wind did not vary greatly with latitude, indicating the importance of pressure forces near the sun for evenly distributing magnetic flux. (MAG experiment, A. Balogh, Imperial College; E. Smith, Jet Propulsion Laboratory).


Overall, Auerbach's PRO and CON statements exemplify the psychological denial identified in Kosmic Notes . Methodically listing undeniable physical evidence, two of Auerbach's CON statements start out "No one has done this or that.....," but Meier obviously had. So one must realize that from Auerbach's point of view, what Meier himself observed didn't matter; he wasn't crediting Meier's witness with any value despite the evidence. So when saying "No one" he actually meant "No one outside of Meier."

Although Auerbach wrote Andrus about his changing opinion on Meier's contacts, Andrus stood firm with his early opinion made without so much as a telephone interview with Meier. Among the international interest in the case, Japanese investigators scrutinized hundreds of Meier's photos with computer analysis that proved their validity. MUFON limited its focus to photographs of a model UFO that was built for photographic tests to demonstrate the differences between photos of hoaxed and genuine craft. In later years an occasional friend or visitor would give Meier a model they had made, including one Wendelle Stevens had a Hollywood studio make. Several of photos of models were stolen out of Meier's album and surfaced again in the U.S. where skeptics claimed Meier was perpetrating a hoax with models.

Problems with the unconvincing hoax theory, primarily how a one-armed farmer single handedly constructd the models, were largely covered in Gary Kinder's Light Years . Hollywood special effects experts who examined Meier's photos for Kinder's study concluded that the high-quality photos would cost millions of dollars to construct in additon to an entire stage crew to transport and set up. One of the most interesting aspects of the hoax theories was that the skeptics never explained how the stolen photos came into their possession to be presented in a foreign country where Meier could not answer questions nor present information about them.

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Meier had been a security guard with limited income when the contacts started and had invested his modest savings in developing photos taken with his camera that had a jammed focus mechanism, stuck on a setting a little short of the infinity setting; also, the view-finder was broken, he couldn't peer through it and see anything in the 1975-76 photos. Typically, the one-armed Meier drove alone to a contact site in the mountains on a motor scooter carrying his camera. Sometimes, others would accompany him to a location near the specific contact site and wait. In some instances witnesses were offered opportunities to see Pleiadian craft arriving or departing. The possibilities of a one-armed farmer with a sixth grade education traveling alone on a motor scooter carrying his broken camera to hoax the hundreds of photos Meier took are zero.

Although transmitted on Meier's typewriter, the contact notes were not psychic messages but recordings of Meier's conversations with the Pleiadians. The Pleiadians had reworked Meier's typewriter to function similarly to a telex so that after the recordings of their meetings were edited the Pleiadians transmitted the material onto the typewriter. Wendell Stevens attests that he has seen the one-armed Meier typing in excess of 60 words per minute with a single hand. In the contact notes the Pleiadians spoke for themselves sometimes challenging some of Meier's cherished ideas. The 2,100 pages of published contact notes include stunning science, including the first warning about ozone holes (plural) in 1975 that Earth's scientists did not discover until 1985.

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Perhaps feeling that his work and sacrifice merited privileges, Meier directly questioned the Pleiadians about other humans they contacted. The Pleiadian woman who served as Meier's main contactor, Semjase, replied that she was not in contact with any other humans at that time. Although she did not specify other Pleiadians' activities or even Semjase's past or future contacts, Meier's immediate question had been answered. Meier's proprietary attitude toward the Pleiadians and particularly Semjase escalated throughout the contact. He was particularly distressed when Semjase's father told him that the larger extraterrestrial contact would begin in America. The communications capabilities of Americans was one of the reasons the Pleiadian man cited for launching large-scale activity in America that would eventually culminate with contact. (One wonders what Uncle Sam would say about that!)

Calling itself the FIGU, a group gathered around Meier in Switzerland to constitute a UFO club in its own right. Like loyalists around the world, the FIGU has stood by Meier through thick and thin, good and bad, earning them UFO club stature. Meier reports that in the early eighties his health collapsed making it impossible to travel for meetings with the Pleiadians, so they would occasionally visit him privately. He claims that eventually two Pleiadian women, Plejara and Menara, continued contact with him although no photos of craft used for their visits have ever been provided. In the early years of the contact, some photos were proven valid despite controversy about others. Semjase's contact notes contained scientific data that was proven decades later. But these evidences were not present after 1985, and the contact material changed radically. Meier encourages the curious to be skeptical and investigate rather than believe him without personal examination. In addition to providing high-quality photos and data that was rare in 1975, Meier's contact offers the opportunity to study the changes that occur over 20 years.

The 20-year contact roughly fell into two periods: 1) The Pleiadian Presentation (1975-85); and 2) The Billy Meier Epilogue (1985-95). After the January 28, 1975 contact, Semjase was the lead contactor until an accident in the mid-eighties. Semjase's disappearance from the contact after the accident paralleled declining evidence. The absence of physical evidence after 1985 left only Meier's word to support his claims. (Note: Scroll the index on left-side of screen to "Semjase Contact Notes" then click on Contact #251 to see Meier's swan song. Among the numerous problems with this transcript is the fact that Semjase had disappeared more than 10 years earlier. She obviously could not have delivered the information the title attributes to her.)

On February 3, 1995, Meier met with the "Lead Extraterrestrial" in contact with Earth, Ptaah, as the 20-year mission departed from the planet. Ptaah declared that the Pleiadian mission had been a complete success by virtue of creating controversy and extolled Meier's position as the most "important person" in contacts with extraterrestrials. "It may be some consolation to you now to know that everything has occurred with the desired and intended outcome, and that you are now the most important person in matters related to contacts with extraterrestrials and UFO affairs -- you probably are the most famous personality worldwide in these matters." After a brief greeting, Meier asked Ptaah's blessings on a 23-page epistle authored by Meier, and Ptaah responded that he had not noticed any errors in it. Failing to cite specifics of time, place, form and event for anything except a general allegation about American space craft, Meier blamed the human condition on Sirian activities millions and billions of years ago.

In contrast to Meier's claims, Sirian lineage was prominent among tribes of the Iroquois League of Nations whose government was used to model the American Constitution affirming human rights. The ideal of human rights was introduced to the world through the principles that Native American tribes, who traced their clan systems to Sirius, shared with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers. Apparently Meier and Ptaah were ignorant about American history, since Meier wrote the 23-page diatribe and Ptaah approved it despite obvious errors. The obvious alternative would be the intent to inject incorrect data and / or shift blame away from Pleiadian acativities.

The Last Word

Meier had been contentious about extraterrestrial activity in America since the first decade when the Pleiadians told him that the larger contact would begin in America. Although the Pleiadians had given him names of UFO contactees who were genuine in earlier contacts, in 1995 Meier's last words sought agreement for his unique position in Ufology. "There exist still a few other groups of extraterrestrial origin who visit Earth and are observed here relatively frequently. However, none of these groups maintains any form of contact with terrestrials, neither of a private nor military or governmental nature. Some visit Earth strictly for excursion or expedition purposes, while others maintain different interests; but not one of these groups has any type of contact whatever as it is presented by hysterical Americans, whereby terrestrial women are impregnated by extraterrestrial intelligences, or where men from Earth impregnate extraterrestrial women. Furthermore, you may forget the nonsense about the massacre of animals, etc. etc. Such matters have no factual basis. Extraterrestrials will create a big flurry on Earth in the future when their interests concern other matters than excursions or expeditions. However, we are not at liberty to speak about the whys and wherefores, and neither are you, of course, for you know about all of these future events."

Meier's angst with Americans extended to the possibility of their space probes revealing data about Earth's location and descriptions of human beings after millions of years. However, Meier's concerns had a suspicious ring of former Soviet boss Kruschev demeanor when pounding his shoe on the table at a summit conference. If the "creator-overlords" were as smart as Meier believes and had been looking for terrestrials for millions of years, they would certainly have found us. Either the creator-overlords are not as powerful as Meier assumes or they are not looking for us, or both cases are true. "If, by chance, this information should fall into the hands of the "creator-overlords", they would learn that the genetically-manipulated people, the terrestrials, somehow had survived and greatly multiplied over these past millions of years, and one would have to assume that attacks upon Earth and its inhabitants would be launched from the Sirius regions." Despite a mid-seventies reference to a space craft that Sirians had given to the Pleiadians being used for Meier's childhood contacts , Meier was fearful that Sirians might divine terrestrials were residing on Earth. Concerns about Sirians and Americans, often contradicting information discussed with the Pleiadians between 1975 and 1985, dominated Meier's farewell to the Pleiadians as they departed the planet in 1995. Rather than the poignant parting words one would expect between old friends -- good luck or have a good trip -- Meier presented 23 pages of data that significantly contradicted Semjase's contact notes.

In early contacts, Semjase had explained that a group fleeing wars in the Pleiades had come to Earth and irrevocably altered human evolution. Semjase identified herself as an instigator in a rebellion of extraterrestrial scientists on Earth who had mated with daughters of men in violation of the extraterrestrials' codex. Contradicting the notes from the decade when Pleiadian evidence abounded, in 1995 Meier asserted that Sirian factions genetically altered the human race with characteristics that Semjase had earlier attributed to the Pleiadians. In 1995 Meier attributed the aggressive qualities for which many Earthian races have been noted to genetic manipulation by Sirians despite Semjase's claims that Germanic peoples descended from Pleiadians.

In 1995 Jewish survivors of Nazi Germany were litigating suits against Swiss bankers who had stolen billions of dollars in assets while Jews, Gypsies and other declared deviants were incarcerated in concentration camps. Records of deposits kept by the Swiss had been conveniently lost after the war, so the bankers kept the loot. Swiss collaboration with Nazis, both in turning Jews away from the nation's borders during World War II and secretly funding Nazi escapes after the war, were in the headlines when Meier's epistle was written. Since 1995, the Swiss bankers have conceded the facts and agreed to make reparations for billion of dollars. Meier's concern about the renewed attention given the Nazi collaboration was reflected in February 3, 1995 comments. (Bear in mind that Nazi war crimes were in the press due to legal efforts to get restitution on Jewish assets from Swiss bankers 50 years after World War II.) Rejecting "anti" and "contra" propositions, Meier concluded that the solution was to ban anti-insanity.

"For some time now, the magazines and newspapers have been filled with war crime recollections by the Nazis in Germany. Radio and Television also have nothing better to do than to fan the memories of these crimes with every means possible. The Jewish organizations and associations, etc., do so especially. It is my opinion that these actions are just as abominable and criminal as the constant anti-war propaganda in form of so-called anti-war films, etc., as well as the magnified crimes of racism and torture. It is my personal opinion which is based on my knowledge of the human-psychologic reactions, that all of those people who shout "anti" and "contra" against torture and capital punishment, concentration camps, crime, wars in any form by showing those gruesome and horrifying pictures shown in newspapers, magazines, as well as on TV and in the cinemas of people getting massacred, tortured and murdered, of cemeteries being violated, houses burned among other things, are doing others a great disservice. They have no clue about the human psyche and psychology. If they knew anything about this, they would realize that their actions achieve exactly the opposite to what they intend because numerous misled, erroneous-thinking individuals feel attracted to such purported anti-propaganda... Condemnation must occur by pointing out the current existing ills and their ominous consequences for the future. Memories of past events in accordance with the idiotic motto: "We must never forget Auschwitz" or "We must never let the horrors of the past be forgotten", etc., are completely out of place and dangerous, for they only prompt anew the identical evils and horrors of the past. Therefore this insanity must stop if the flames of neo-nazism and the extreme right radicalism are not to be fanned any further. Only by banning the anti-insanity in the above-mentioned form can healing begin. "

Meier seemed oblivious that the aboriginal people who most closely associated their descendancy with Sirius had no concept of "original sin" until White missionaries insisted that they had to be redeemed. The characteristics that Meier associated with descendants of Sirius are the precise complaints native peoples expressed about White Pleiadian descendants. "The genetically-manipulated people have since established themselves on Earth to the degree where they simultaneously became this planet's rulers and its destroyers, because most of them remained overly entangled in the effects of the manipulated genes of fighting, viciousness, barbarism, bloodthirstyness, greediness, addiction, emotionalism, inhumanities, to name but a few. These characteristics have been an evil legacy for mankind from early times, and they also may actually be called the "original sin". Information regarding the "original sin" was erroneously handed down by Christian religions as the fable of Adam, Eve and the devilish snake in the Garden of Eden. This "original sin", however, the genetic manipulation, repeatedly let the obsession for fighting and evil to surface from time immemorial --- almost becoming Evil itself. "

"In truth, the genetic manipulation was only created as a controllable factor enabling Man to subdue the evil implanted in him, and to make it slowly vanish as he walks along his natural, evolutionary path. This takes an incredibly long time, however, and the reversal of the gene manipulation is an absolutely suitable solution therefore. Clearly, there truly exist no born murderers, and this fact must be stated explicitly. Such malevolent predispositions, degenerations, or individual and mass actions result from either injuries of a psychic-conceptual-emotional nature, through some sort of disorder of the consciousness, or by explosive rages. In case of disorder of the psyche or consciousness, organic injuries of the brain can play an important part. All of this is the result only of the degeneration of the gene that was accordingly manipulated, whereby evil, the purely negative, forever forces itself into the foreground. For this reason additional items also come into play, such as Man's savagery and blood frenzy during revolutions and wars, at times when he discovers the ease of killing and then overcomes the killing barrier... The "creator-overlords" who originally were human beings with the same characteristics as Man, however, insanely eliminated this gene from within themselves. In the process they lost all their own combativeness and robustness. They modified their entire thinking process and actions accordingly, and this resulted in their complete decadence.

Consequently, they were defenseless and were subjugated when aggressors attacked them. As a result they secretly developed this breed of fighters whom they genetically manipulated and covertly new races were propagated having an array of diverse skin colors. These fighters served as pawns against the aggressors and were victorious. Thus, the "creator-overlords" are to blame for their own deterioration. In their distress they procreated a new breed of humans who actually possessed all the nature-given prerequisites once again and, hence, they were capable of fighting and living. This proved to be insufficient for the "creator-overlords", though, and they decided to conduct additional genetic manipulations to make the new peoples even more aggressive than their natural tendencies allowed. To some extent the creators merely amplified certain factors through genetic manipulation, whereby the manipulated individuals actually turned into fighting machines -- but always equipped with the potential capability of normalizing themselves again through the control of evolution. For such an event to transpire millions of years would be required, though, and this evolutionary path continues even today as is evident in terrestrial Man."

The discrepancies between the evolution that Meir propounds and the demonstrated facts of history may be explained with Wilhelm Reich's observations of Hitler. An Austrian-born psychologist, Wilhelm Reich lived in Germany during the 1930's and was one of the few people to speak out against Hitler as he rose to power. The day Hitler was elected, Reich fled Germany and eventually came to the U.S. in the early forties. Reich pointed out that Hitler rose to power preaching traditional family values where women's place was in the home caring for men who worked to support the family. Simultaneously preaching racial purity, Hitler put teenage girls from the Hitler's Youth Movement with his SS troops to breed a pure Aryan race. Reich earned Hitler's wrath when he counseled adolescent girls who had been impregnated in the breeding programs to seek abortions. ( Fury On Earth , Myron Sharaf )

In his 23 pages dealing with genetic manipulation, Meier paused to suggest that women were mainly responsible for maternal duties and household tasks. "In ancient times, men and women were equal regarding their capability and energy to live, fight and do other things. Hence, there was neither a distinction between men and women in those aspects nor in their work sites or types of tasks they performed, although men relieved the physically weaker women at strenuous chores. Women and men were equal in every way without there being any discrimination whatsoever between the sexes, as long as biological differences and related details, which were, of course, considered and observed even in Ur-times. Even then, therefore, women were mainly responsible for maternal duties and household tasks when they were married with offspring. If this did not apply, women performed the identical tasks as the men. Both women and men held government posts; male staff members were incorporated into the team to the extent that men and women always governed in equal numbers and shouldered responsibilities together. Therefore neither one man nor one woman controlled the government. The people themselves possessed the right to speak up and join in the decision making process for all concerns, resolutions, edicts and laws, etc."

Expounding eons of genetic development, Meier never mentioned the intelligence that transcends Homo sapien's genesis, thus leaving the impression that destiny is written in flesh to again contradict Semjase. The essential soul that Semjase once reminded Meier was the actual source of intelligence through incarnations in numerous genetic lineages was not mentioned in Meier's 1995 discourse on genetic manipulation. On another occasion Semjase indicated that at higher spiritual evolutions the soul imprints the physical body more clearly in each life. Pointing to Otto Muck's similarities to Plato, Semjase indicated that the presence of the soul influenced the appearance of both Muck and Plato in the different physical lives.

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In function, UFO clubs were the instruments for sidetracking the truth of Billy Meier's Pleiadian contact with its valuable evidence in the decade 1975-85. Rather than clarify the complex case, MUFON's investigation further tainted the facts thus ensuring that the controversy Meier desired would continue.

THE GREAT DELUGE OF 1987

After rejecting the Meier contact Andrus rejected reports of extraterrestrial abductions until MUFON members began independently organizing support groups. By 1987 MUFON had started to acknowledge the flood of abductees contacting the organization. Abductee support groups were established so that investigators could study them under controlled conditions. The keywords were "investigators" and "study".

Investigators contributed the best knowledge each could muster, filled out intake surveys, instructed abductees to not read or watch UFO-related material that would contaminate their study, then listened while experiencers shared stories. If a doctor was in the group, abductees were occasionally medically examined. Referral lists of hypnotherapists providing regressions to abductees were available.

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After discovering that UFO sightings I had had most of my life were far more personal than previously thought, I contacted MUFON in 1987. In blissful ignorance I completed MUFON's questionnaire, went to meetings and eventually began hypnotic regressions. A majority of the 12-15 members of the abductee group reported encounters with the grays that involved physical examinations and efforts to impregnate or harvest sperm. One other member and I were exceptions to the group's gray abductee majority. The other member was a woman who reported mind control efforts by the CIA, whom I call Ms X. My contacts were human-looking extraterrestrials who appeared in UFO's while I was accompanied by witnesses; moreover, these contactors made no effort to procreate with me nor were there indications that I had small hybrid descendants who wanted to bond.

In 1985 I had been camping at Lake Casitas with a group of nine when a brilliant yellow light made several north-south transits across the dusky sky at an incredible speed. A triangular-shaped UFO the size of a football field appeared several hundred feet over our heads and hovered briefly before disappearing. The sighting was investigated by then-MUFON investigator, William Hamilton III, who now serves as executive director of Skywatch International. Filed with MUFON's national office, the report contained interviews of witnesses to the sighting.

Throughout my 39 years, I had seen numerous UFO's and assumed they were common. Then in a dream during 1987, I could feel hands moving behind my ears but could not move through the deepened sleep state to awaken. Out of sheer curiosity, I asked an acquaintance to look for anything unusual behind my ears. The one-inch linear scars he found behind each ear were more than I had bargained for and shock was unsettling many basic beliefs. Since I could not see what was behind my ears, obtaining second and third opinions was in order. After all, I would have gotten more than one estimate on a fender bender.

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The newly organized abductee support group in California's San Fernando Valley was run by a husband-and-wife team who were both chiropractors. A medical doctor associated with the group who examined my ears identified the scars as laser surgery. Located over the mastoid that offers little opportunity for implants typical to abduction scenarios, neither he nor another doctor understood why extraterrestrials would be interested in the mastoids.

I had not been hospitalized since 1950 when my tonsils were removed in an effort to deal with a respiratory infection that threatened to cause rheumatic heart. After the examination of my ears, I called my mother to double check for any kind of surgery that might have been done during infancy. Mother was certain that although the respiratory infection had extended to my ears a mastoidectomy was never done. In 1950, mastoidectomies were major surgery that involved sawing open the skull.

The fact that laser technology had not existed in 1950 left no doubt that mastoid surgery had not been performed under ordinary circumstances. Following a miraculous recovery from the tonsilectomy in 1950, I had rarely visited medical doctors and had delivered my son in natural childbirth at home. My benign medical history neither accounted for the scars nor abated my shock. I resolved to find answers to the deepening enigma at any cost.

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In the months that we functioned as a group, I became acquainted with several members and had the opportunity to meet with Whitley Strieber and Bud Hopkins when they visited Los Angeles. I sat with abductees through night-long vigils but was never called to defend anyone in danger of abduction. Some nights I spent hours on the telephone talking about suspected past and possible future traumas.

It was clear that some members were having powerful experiences there was no way to know with certainty what they were. Each individual -- experiencer, investigator, or onlooker -- takes on Ufology with the sum of his experience and knowledge through a maze of uncertainties with no reliable guide. Official policies of denial and disinformation have blurred Ufology with chaos that overshadows the powerful realities of extraterrestrial encounters.

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Collectively the group expressed ongoing trauma which would be expected, given that one of the purposes for creating support groups was to provide a setting to deal with trauma. The healing to get on with one's life was not the group's focus. I believed that culture shock could account for much of it in genuine experiencers. This, of course, was based on my personal experience of culture shock glimpsing the magnitude of life beyond Earth's reality boundary.

High strangeness characterizes many well documented events that may sound similar to elements of delusional reports but are not the same. UFO reports that challenged believability one day became all too real another. The only criterion that met the challenge for determining genuine versus delusional encounters was the fruit of the labor: How did the person use the encounter in his / her life? Did it expand knowledge and confidence or serve to explain dysfunctions?

In the absence of professional expertise, trauma became a legacy of Ufology in large part through the work of Bud Hopkins . Not only was I introduced to Hopkins' work under inauspicious circumstances but struggled with the terror he fostered for over a decade. A New York sculptor with no direct personal experience with the UFO's, Hopkins approached Ufology with a creative flair that fired the imagination. In the second decade after Roswell, Hopkins' gut wrenching accounts of extraterrestrial abductions drew a new audience to Ufology as the Age of Aquarius dawned.

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As recommended, I arranged for hypnosis several months after joining the abductee support group. Since I had no experience with hypnosis, I invited a friend to attend the first sessions for moral support. It didn't take long to recover the memory of an encounter with a blue-eyed man when I was 15 in 1963. The hypnotist's questions became more penetrating, and he demanded that I look closely at the extraterrestrial's eyes, nose and ears. Did the man really have a nose? Was I certain? Look more closely! Was I certain it was really a nose instead of slits? I looked at the same face over and over and repeatedly assured the hypnotist that I was looking at a nose. The hypnotist continued with questions about the nose, explaining that extraterrestrials use screen memories.

While I was still in a hypnotic state, the hypnotist assured me the screen memory could be penetrated before ordering me to "punch through it right now"! I ended the session reeling with disbelief. In the aftermath, the hypnotist explained Bud Hopkins' theories about extraterrestrial contacts and suggested I read his books, Missing Time and Intruders . This was my first inkling that Bud Hopkins had theories about extraterrestrials.

The problem with reading Hopkins' books was that MUFON had advised that I not read any UFO-related books until hypnotic regressions were complete. But that problem was solved several months later when Hopkins visited the abductee support group while on a trip to Los Angeles. With many members of the support group gathered around Hopkins in a San Fernando Valley living room, he talked about the recent investigation of a farm couple. The story didn't make sense the first time I heard it, and my understanding wasn't clear. It seemed like a farmer was in his barn when he heard the horses whining then couldn't find his wife.

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Dresden Codex
Sitting several feet in front of Hopkins while he leaned against the couch, I asked him to explain the story's meaning. He highlighted the dots that outlined the picture -- barn... horses... wife gone. The implications Hopkins obviously expected me to grasp were still vague, and I asked for more detail again. Naive about the ways of Ufology, I waited for Hopkins to continue the story while he looked at me expectantly. Hopkins broke the spell by asking for everyone's attention. "Be careful of people who are not emotionally responding. If they are not scared by what's happening there's something wrong." He punctuated this startling conclusion by putting his arm around the redhead sitting beside him, looking deeply into her eyes, and asking "Isn't that right?" End of conversation.

Fast forwarding to a UFO club meeting six years later reveals the legacy of Hopkins' theory that emotional trauma is an index of valid UFO experiences. The episode occurred as reported but names have been deleted to protect the well intended. Camera directions have been added to highlight the surrealistic drama of the night.

ZOOM IN ON SLIGHTLY BALDING MAN IN EARLY 40'S. ENTHUSIASTIC, HE HOLDS A VIDEO CASSETTE ABOVE HIS HEAD FOR 25-30 PEOPLE TO SEE. The scene opens on a small chapel in Seattle where UFO aficionados have gathered for a monthly meeting. Their leader explains that the video cassette is the latest treasure that Tom Dongo's UFO trophies. "I don't know if this is for real, but these people were really feeling it. The terror was very convincing. You'll have to see it for yourself."

On the television screen in darkened room, an eight-year-old girl's birthday party begins with happy family sitting in a homey dining setting. It looks good for a "G" rated party. Then two adult men take a walk carrying the video camera to discover a UFO landed in the darkened woods and the panic begins. The family party turns into a free for all where the little ET's have surrounded the family's home and climb on the roof. A man grabs a shot gun and fires into the ceiling when a rush of little alien feet race across the roof. The thud of a (presumably) fallen ET follows the shot gun blast. After the men rush outside to grab the wounded alien, several shots show ghostly looking ET's breaking into the house while the family members fall unconscious sitting in chairs, leaving the video recorder running. The video ends with a shot of aliens walking through a hallway then turning off the recorder.

Sitting against the darkened chapel's back wall a brown-haired woman watches the audience gasp in awed terror as the screen fills with static. Leader turns on lights and waits for response, nodding as a smile fills his face. "Well, what do you think?" That special tension peculiar to silent movies pulses through the surrealistic chapel. The brown-haired woman grips the chair in front of her. Her knuckles whiten while lifting her roundish body from the chair. She visibly relaxes as she realizes the chairs are too heavy to throw. "It's bull.... There has never been a single report of an ET crashing through a chimney. But knowledge of extraterrestrial behavior is not necessary to realize that firing a shot gun through a ceiling is stupid. The chances of mortally wounding anyone through the feet while racing across a roof is balistically absurd. Since actors are trained in the dynamics of emotion, the intensity is easily explained with theater." The leader's face freezes red against large white-saucer eyeballs. He orders the woman to shut up and sit down then turns to rewind video cassette. The party's over. ZOOM OUT TO LITTLE CHAPEL NESTLED IN THE MILKY WAY. IN THE BLACK VELVET SKY A SINGLE STAR GROWS LARGER AND LARGER. IT EXPLODES TO FILL THE SCREEN. SPACE COWBOY PLAYS SOFTLY. CREDITS ROLL: Day Of The Damned ...

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Dresden Codex
Six months later the "Encounters" television show featured the birthday party video as a hoax that had circulated through the UFO community with amazing speed. "Encounters" featured interviews with Tom Dongo and the video's producer, who was amused that so many people had believed it was real. He made the video with children wearing alien costumes.

Illustrating the propagation of UFO clubs from MUFON, the club that met in the chapel (#3) had spun off another small club (#2) that had spun off MUFON (#1) in the early eighties. Club #2 was started after its director investigated an abduction case while belonging to MUFON despite the organization's objections to abductions. In the ensuing political fires, several MUFON members circulated rumors that, among other perversions, the abduction investigator (#2) masturbated. Besides having no bearing on Ufology, asides about the investigator's sexuality were plainly an unworthy petty effort to humiliate her. Angered over the accusations as well as MUFON's refusal to accept obvious data, the abduction investigator started her own UFO club (#2). A decade later, a member of club #2 later started club #3.

Discovering that cluster groups had grown around the UFO phenomenon was too interesting to ignore in my first decade of fact finding in Ufology. One of the most fascinating groups was concerned with evacuating the worthy to save humanity from complete annihilation at millennium's end. Extraterrestrial craft were the ticket home. I signed up for a sightseeing cruise with the small band of St. John's 144,000 venerables. After gathering at a library on an early Saturday evening, the group of about 30 walked to a park in Santa Monica where a woman volunteered her vision of what we were supposed to do. At her instruction, everyone was to hold hands in a circle while walking to the right. Someone else thought the circle should move to the left but the finally settled on moving to the right while holding hands.

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Dresden Codex
With the energy just right, the leader saw a monitor from another dimension appear in the circle's center. I couldn't see anything from any dimension in the circle so asked her to describe the device. It was a black box with a red light like a camera. That seemed to clear things up for several people who walked to the center to touch the monitor after sensing the high frequency it emitted. Apparently, the ET's had lowered the monitor in lieu of landing in a public park. An outsider who could not see the monitor and had no intention of touching an invisible monitor for its good vibrations, I found a park bench and sat down.

My settling in on the bench awakened Sal, who was sleeping in the bushes. Laying in his sleeping bag in the bushes behind me, it was hard to locate the voice coming out of the dark at first. But after directing me to look over my shoulder then down, I saw that Sal was just a guy who lived in the park and wanted a cigarette.

Watching the dance around an invisible monitor, Sal refused to believe that they were not using drugs. He insisted I could tell him anything with confidence because he had seen everything while living in the park. Just a few days earlier a woman had walked stark naked into the park where she buried her body up to the neck in the sand box. When Sal questioned her, the woman explained that burrowing in sand helped her feel close to the Earth. He was awed with the possibilities when I confided that they were not using drugs but absorbing high frequency emissions from an interdimensional monitor lowered by a UFO. (No kidding.)

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Dresden Codex
The end of my flirtation with UFO clubs began with a Seattle MUFON meeting in 1991 that banned conversation about the crop circles' astrological language. Although I had no background in astrology, I had invited an astrologer friend, Gayle, to see a video of new crop circles at the meeting. On the way to the meeting Gayle had told me about an important astrological alignment on January 4, 1992 that only occurs once in 20,000 years. The alignment of Sol with Sirius, Vega and Uranus conjuncted an eclipse when the sun, earth and moon were already conjunct on the day when Earth's orbit was closest to the sun.

Posed in the astrological language of ancient calendars expressing the order of kosmos, the conjunction meant little to me except that its 20,000 year period was impressive. Even if the astrology had been meaningful, the implications of its astronomical mirror were not yet defined much less revealed in significant context. The zodiacal opposite of the alignment was July 4, 1992, 22 days before the July 26, 1992 date defined with the July 11, 1991 solar eclipse specified by the Dresden Codex reckoned the of the Sixth Sun. These would be revealed in UFO activity and crop circles throughout the decade.

Gathering for the MUFON meeting, the lights went off and the video began without the usual formalities because everyone was anxious to get a look at the latest crop circles. I was so intent on the crop circle complexities that it took a few seconds to realize that excited shouts, "That's it, that's it", came from my guest, Gayle. Before I could gather my thoughts, she ran to the screen explaining that the crop circle depicted Uranus conjuncting the eclipse she had been telling me about!

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Dresden Codex
A male voice rose from the back of the room ordering everyone to wait. The middle-aged owner of the voice slowly rolled his head back and concentrated on the ceiling. It would obviously take a while to figure on this one. Although I had never seen the man before his sense of theater was impressive. Slowly gathering his thoughts, he formed a question. "Is this astrology?" Mustering an expression of utter contempt, the new guy declared that we had better things to do in MUFON meetings than talk about astrology. Had the new guy checked the facts, he would have found that Einstein used a conjunction with an eclipse to prove his theory of light in 1919. Eclipses and conjunctions are mundane astronomy not necessarily associated with astrology. The knowledge that became modern astronomy in Europe was derived from ancient Greek astrology.

A directive that MUFON was a scientific organization that did not allow discussion of astrology or science fiction was issued with the next meeting notice. The problem with this position was that while Seattle's MUFON did not permit discussion of astrology the Crop Circle Makers penchant for ancient civilizations extended to ancient astrological symbols. It was impossible for MUFON to discuss the ancient symbology of crop circles without mentioning astrology. And this was only Davenport's debut.

The new MUFON member, Peter Davenport, would rise in Ufology to take over the UFO Hotline on a charitable basis while talking about his financial problems. In his role with the UFO Hotline, Davenport received information about UFO activity from all American states as well as neighboring countries. Reports generated for public consumption from data Davenport received were produced at his sole discretion. This translates to mean that information released by the UFO Hotline reflected what Davenport thought the public needed to know.

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Dresden Codex
At the 1995 MUFON National Conference in Seattle, I learned about corroborating reports of UFO activity in the Puget Sound over the July 4 weekend that were submitted to Davenport by three independent sources. It was purely coincidental that the three-day conference had brought a large number of people together with time to visit on July 9 while the news was fresh. When the three separate accounts were not mentioned in the UFO Hotline's report after two months, I asked Davenport why. After a lengthy pause while he studied the ceiling, Daveport said he published the reports that were considered credible. Since he regularly reported his grueling single-handed efforts to man the Hotline, the objective case of "that were considered" in lieu of the subjective case "I considered" was baffling. I asked WHO considered credibility? He did. The UFO Hotline was a sole proprietorship.

In bottom-line terms, Davenport financed the UFO Hotline independently and was protected by the First Amendment. In investigative terms, his assessment of credibility defied common sense. Three accounts of stunning UFO activity in the same area during the same weekend from people who had not collaborated before writing reports should interest any investigator. Under Davenport's patronage, the UFO Hotline has publicized many fine UFO reports and disposed of some extraordinary ones. With no personal experience of extraterrestrial phenomena, Davenport's perspective reflects classical western physics which has consistently failed to produce technology commonly demonstrated in extraterrestrial craft.

When a crop circle was made at Kennewick, Washington in May, 1993, MUFON descended on the wheat field en masse . I decided to stay home in Seattle and let other people fight traffic in the wheat fields of eastern Washington. Several months later the lab results on the wheat in crop circle came back positive. By the time the formation's genuineness was validated, it was all but forgotten. But I had always wondered about residual effects of crop circles and called the farmer for permission to enter his field in December. He didn't really mind if I wanted to walk through his fields but demanded to know if I wanted to dig holes. Dig holes in his field? Yes, some guy had pulled a pick up truck into his field that was nearly ready for harvest and dug a huge hole then left without filling it. His name was Peter Davenport. As long as I didn't dig holes, the farmer granted permission to enter the field.

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Dresden Codex
After traveling to Kennewick in December, I sent a letter with color photos of the crop circles to the farmers thanking them for the courtesy they had extended. Several years later while attending a psychic faire near Kennewick, a woman introduced herself as the wife of the farmer to whom I had sent the letter. She loved the photos and said that an odd thing that happened after the crop circle appeared that had always puzzled her.

There had been several UFO sightings reported at the time the crop circle was made, but that wasn't hard to understand. For several weeks after the crop circle was made, the doorbell inexplicably went off at all times of the night with nobody in sight. Nothing around the house obscured her view and the dogs barked at everything, so she was certain that nobody was there. The doorbell played an elaborate rendition of "Hello Dolly", so everytime it went off she had to listen to the song. Eventually, the doorbell stopped the inexplicable soundings. Before leaving she handed me a card identifying her as an astrologer.

Many outstanding investigators have tracked through the microcosmic wilderness of Ufology to emerge with transcendent insight. Raymond Fowler's investigation of extraterrestrial encounters with Betty Andreassen Luca exemplifies the power of honest science to transform the scientist. A long-time MUFON member, Fowler served on the national board of directors of MUFON. Fowlers' contributions to Ufology are respected throughout the world, with his reports published in congressional hearings, military publications, newspapers, magazines and professional journals.

Fowler's investigation of Betty Luca's abductions were the subject of four books that reflected the evolution of Ufology and his growing maturity. Ranging from meticulous nuts-and-bolts examinations of Betty's abductions to the paraphysical reality over 14 years, Fowler's fourth book on the case drew startling conclusions about metaphysical and spiritual dimensions in 1995 with The Watchers II . Whitely Strieber's foreword to The Watchers II observed the trend of growing maturity.

"The human mind is changing in fundamental ways, and the change is accelerating rapidly. We are beginning to reinvision reality, to see the world in a completely new way. The remarkable experiences of Ray Fowler and Betty Andreasson Luca are currently one of the most intense defining points of the change of mind. The new mind acknowledges its place in the unknown and regards the universe with open eyes. If the material that Betty and Ray have created over their fourteen-year association was examined with anything like the loving care and attention it deserves from the best minds in the world, the amazing depth of what is there would be discovered."

Like clear water cascading over filtering stones gaining clarity with each new level, the invisible forces of the psyche have worked through 50 years of contact giving momentum to new consciousness. The earliest extraterrestrial contacts contained the greatest amount of verifiable information but accessible only with consciousness developed in the wilderness.

Crux Ansata - Global
While the powerful forces of the psyche addressed in kosmic contacts may generate emotionally intense responses for brief periods, the instinctive drive of the unconscious seeking balance will present the elements necessary for the conscious mind to gain new insight. The collaboration of unconscious and conscious minds through archetypal symbolism has the power to impact investigators of UFO encounters when properly understood and contextualized. This represents a science of mind foundational to UFO experiences that may eventually be proven to underlie extraterrestrial technologies as prevalent thinking in human civilization has empowered technological changes.

"The collaboration of the unconscious is intelligent and purposive, and even when its acts in opposition to consciousness its expression is still compensatory in an intelligent way, as if it were trying to restore the lost balance." (Carl Jung)