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It had been hoped that three further issues of this Newsletter would be published last year. However, the most extraordinary succession of events took place that, at one point, very nearly brought our activities to a dead stop. Viewing the activities of the (now) Society to some extent from the outs

(1) General Over the years now, we have been constantly organizing and reorgan1z1ng. This is an evolutionary process and, however much it may aggravate our me111bers, has to be gone through. It has resulted from time to time, and many times, in the issuance of a revised chart of duties, responsibili

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De spite the perhap s s e e ming l y haphazard pro c edure at the center, as seen by n on-visiting me mbers from outsid e, we are w orking to a l ongterm master p l an wh i c h was laid down when we origina l l y inc orporated , two y ears ago. This is tw ofo l d ; first a (ph y s ica l ) buil ding

Pe rhap s natura l l y, I am con stant l y being a s k ed h o w m an y me mbe r s we n ow have. Un fortunate l y, th i s que stion can n ot be an swered precis e l y at any one in stant as the number c hange s dai l y, an d we have even beg un to re· ceive the sad news that there have been d eath s

This i s to be partl y a Re port and partly an Expo sition. L et me dispo s e of the fir st a s quic k l y a s pos sib l e. I t inv o l ve s three s e parate is sue s: ( 1) Ge nera l Mainte nance. This has been out l ined in the report from the A s sistant to the Director. I may add on l y that some

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Agogino, Dr. George A. Chairman, Department of Anthropology, and Director, Paleo-Indian Institute, Eastern New Mexico University. (Archaeology) Burtshak-Abramovitch, N. Academician, Georgian Academy of Science, Palaeobiological Institute; University of Tblisi. (Palaeontology) Delacato, Dr. Carl H. A

Funny story, this; but not in the way that we had expected. We hardly had hoped for a living glypt odont though it would have been a nice thing to have had; and one never knows. However, pursuit is our motto; so pursue we did. Results.... After screaming on the telephone, as reported in our last is

Many ideas, and perhaps especially great ideas, seem, once they have been ideated, to be painfully obvious. There is a suspicion also that a rather high percentage of them dawn suddenly (and often after a good night's sleep to boot), but as a result of prolonged cogitation and a sort of mental nibbl

For just a century now, scientific literature has from time to time noted reports of a more than puzzling (alleged) phenomenon, though since the turn of the century almost all such mentions have been of a highly sceptical and even derogatory nature. One wonders therefore why they were ever mentioned

In the May, 1963 issue of FATE, Ivan Sanderson published an account of apparent ITF among the Atta or Leaf-Cutter Ants of Suriname (then Dutch Guiana). The author had both conducted his own experiments on these insects in that country and assisted at some stages of a most massive investi- *Except th

We're not sure but that we aren't getting a bit bored with this subject but we will stick with it to the bitter end as it is manifestly not only creating such a popular rumpus but is also showing signs of production. In our last issue we pointed out at the end of a report on this matter that it was

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In an attempt to offset a vicious attack by John G. Fuller and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in the May 14th issue of LOOK MAGAZINE, on the famed University of Colorado UFO Project headed by Dr. Edward U. Condon, 35 Flying Saucer Organizations from all over the United Sta

One Carlos Allende (pronounced Aye-ender), alias, it is believed, Carl Allen, is alleged to be a Gypsy of Spanish origin, for long a citizen of the United states, and now to be lodged in a mental institution in Mexico. The final fact is on the say-so of a correspondent of long standing (not a member

For the benefit of our members- and they are a majority- who are not primarily interested in ufol ogy and such, we reproduce herewith the pertinent paragraphs from the introduction to the Varo Edition of the annotated copy of Morris K. Jessup's book THE CASE FOR THE UFO, mentioned in the preceding

We have received a model report of a fortean happening from Member No. 213, Mrs. Charles A. Green of Trenton, N.J., which we publish herewith in toto but not only for this reason. The subject, although a very old one, happens to be very much alive currently. Also, it forms but one of a group of rela

We started a really monumental uproar (and this is a deliberate pun) earlier this year by giving as our prime example of an unexplained in our area the Ringing Rocks of Bucks County, Pa. This caught the fancy of the local press who ran about a dozen stories on these, while the NATIONAL OBSERVER ment

Another old enigma has cropped up again and from a most unexpected quarter. This is the matter of stone spheres. reported casua.lly from time to time from all over the world but usually attributed to the demolition of some baronial mansion, princely palace, or latterday middle class municipal preten

Another set of experiments that were prosecuted some years ago at HQ ( but before the establish ment of S . I . T.U. ) were devised to prove that dowsing does not need a human operative. This is not to say that the mechanics may not be reproduced using a human being - or even an animal, or a plant,

DR. GEORGE A. AGOGINO, Paleo-Indian Inst., Eastern New Mexico U. (Archaeology) N. B URTSHAK-ABRAMOVITCH,

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Drew University (Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics) DR. A. JOSEPH WRAIGHT, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey

Drew University Charles Fort was christened "The Arch Enemy of Science" by the press even before his first book was published. However, the

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(Se ctions I, II , III , IX, and X) This is frankly a c ontinuation of our editorial. In accord an c e with our new e xp resse d policy , noth ing r elevant to t h e five d ep artments listed above the ho rizontal line on the diagram o n the opp osite p ag e is going to b e written up for this j ou

Our member, H e rr Horst Freidrich (39 ) of B avaria , F . R.G. , wrote us r egarding a matter that has puzzl ed us for a long time. T he pith of his l etter r e ads: "When walking around here in our country-side I have b een wondering for some time about just who m ak es so many little fir es all a

The Structure and Behaviour of Gross Bodies MORE GREEN C HE ESE Apart from t h e uproar over pulsars, the Music of the Sp heres seems to have deteriorated into a dr e ary, monotonous, one-theme, one-chord, one-p hrase dirge, just as j azz has p etered out into the current monotony of curr ent pop st

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We h ad hoped t h at it w ould not b e necessary t o bring this matter u p ag ain, b u t it h as b ecome in cre asingly nec e s s ary t h at w e do so. What is more , it looks as if w e will hav e to continue t o devote all the space t hat we c an sp are t o reiterat e w h at we n o w h av e to s a

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This fraternity seems to have been considerably "Perhaps the American commentator

But what are they doing here? Simply that, once

MUONIUM AND YOUTH and the forces that bind the electrons to the nucleus. We are well aware that there are those, including

QUOTES OF T HE MONTH. No. 1. " Still , t he peopl e of China occasionally manage to steal glimp s e s of the out side w orld. In re cent w eeks , Canton has been swept by rumor s t hat the Americ ans landed men on t he moon. Hardly any

Well , everybody is e ntitled t o his own opinion, ev en behind t he bamboo, iron , or yashm ak curtains, but w e must once again point out t hat t he age of "beli ef" is ov er. As t hat jolly little mathematical comedian, Tom L e hrer, sang in one of hi s profundi ties a couple of years ago: "To s

In a fine report on a highly i nformative t alk given by a Mr. E. M. B enson, Vice-Presi dent of the North Am eri c an Producing Divi sion of t he Atlantic Rich field Oil Comp any, t o t he Long B e ach P etrol eum Clu b of California on t he new oilfi eld in northern Al aska, there app eared a r a

As the old saw has it: Everybody c omplains abo ut the w eat her but nobody do e s anything about it. Well, we are at le ast trying to do somethi ng about it now what with cloud se eding and huracan chasing b ut w e stilL have t o m ake a r e al concerted attack upon t he Clim at e . The Briti sh ne

M emb er No. 28 6 , of South Amboy , N e w Jersey, dropp ed us a modest note l ast J uly which p acked t he proverb ial wallop and has p ro mpted m any of us to sp end a v ery great d e al of ti me following up hi s suggestions. Hi s observ ations stemmed from our publicizing the m atter of vortigin

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In a book revi ewed in thi s i s sue - C hariots of the G o d s ? by Erich von D aniken ( s e e p. 24) - there is an int eresting paragr ap h. Thi s r e ads in toto: l ess the l ast two sentences of p anegyri c s: - Today science r e ac hes many o f its goal s w ith seven-l e ague boots. It took 1

Nobody knows w hat a Quark i s , or even if any exist, but they have b e en e mployed for some ye ars no w as a sort o f "x" symbol in the form ul ae of b asic nucleonic physics. The d amne d thi ng s ought to be there if our current formul ae ar e to p an out; and they could be t here, either as ul

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A CLASSIC CASE OF "ANGEL-HAIR"

In presenting thi s item under thi s he ad , we would lik e to m ak e two point s cl e ar . At this time w e are not ind ulging i n , or c overing, either straight tech nol o gy or m e ntalo gy ( s e e t he chart on page 70); though w e are progr e s siv ely slopping over into bot h , and notably i

We s e em to b e t urning into a d eb unki ng outfit . We apologize to the believers and di sbelievers alik e if w e s t art knocking d o w n their p e t topi c s and re ports , lik e t he famous "B arb ado s Vault " ( s ee o ur last i s su e ) and now t hi s most infamous o n e of all. The f act s

We received an i nt er e sting r espo n s e to o ur r ep ort on t hi s famous item from o ur memb er N o . 3 4 4 , as giv e n in our last i ssue . This is from member N o . 21 7 , and r e ad s a s follo ws : - "The B arbad o s Vault item p ro mpted my re- e xamination of Cmdr. Gould ' s ac c ou nt

W hile t h e general format and l ayout of t hi s j o urnal is now temporarily c rystallized , we are initiating a policy am endment w ith t hi s i s sue. Thi s is merely t h at t hi s e ntire i s sue , and prob ably all future i s sues, w ill b e w holly d evoted to Fort e ana. At the s ame ti m e

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Funny, but one has to go to Haile selassie I University, in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, to get the first truly clear statement on reality. In a paper published by one R. 0. Whipple at that seat of higher learning, reprinted in a publication named Not Man Apart*, we read with the utmost delight:"Organisms

by William B. Stoecker In 1965 I entered the Air Force's Air Defense Command (ADC) as a second lieutenant, and in August of 1966 I was assigned as Assistant Chief of the Intelligence Division at 29th Air Division Headquarters in Duluth, Minnesota. Prior to 1966, UFO investigation

OF GOVERNMENTAL DISHONE STY Almost from t h e mom ent t hat ufology w as 'in vented ' , th ere have b e e n t hose who hav e c h arged the Go v ernm ent wi th deliberat e " co v e r-up " , s o m eti m es wit h such conti nui n g vehemen ce that th ey h av e ali en ate d e v en t heir s t aunc hest

AN UND ERWAT ER EXP LOSION - O R WH AT ? by Rob ert J . Du rant The av er ag e d epth of water in t h e o c e an s is 1 2 , 450 fe et , as c omp ared w i th an averag e height o f t h e l and

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T h i s bri ngs up some i ntere sti ng p o s sibilities. H o w E xp eriments (by whom or w here not s pecified as yet) are alleged to h ave d i scovered t hat t h e eye i s a differenti al organ, whi c h c an only see an i m age if i t

i t , and for t he ot her h alf c ycle in p h ase and mo ving The f o llo wi ng arti cle i s reprinted w i th permi ssion from the J anu ary / Febru ary 1972 i s sue of Flying

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P hysi ci sts recogni z e , work with, and obtai n consi stently reliable re sults u sing the four b asic fi eld fo rces -the electrom agnetic , t he gravit ational , the w e ak nuclear, and the strong nucl ear- that have b e en d emonstrat ed. It i s now clear , and b eyond a shado w of doubt , th

HUMAN VISION I n our last i s sue (p. 5 2) w e r eported bri e fly on

Number, Ouanttty, Artthmeltc, Algebra, Geometry, Trtgonometry, Calculus, Topology, Theory of Games, Probobtltty, Co

An acronym that has now become a household word in modern popular usage is one of the most confusing and misleading that has ever been c oined. This is "ESP"; and especially as we now often see it equated with s uch great groups of studies as psychology or comparative religion, just as if it constit

Befo re l aunchi n g i nto t hi s tir ad e , we w o ul d j ust like to t h ank the N atio n al E nquirer for p ermi s sion to reproduce t hi s p hotograp h b e c au s e it sho w s in o n e s hot h al f o f t ho se s ci e ntists w h o r e ally k n o w any t hi n g ab out UFO s. The rest are in Fran

30- 3 1 J anuary 19 1 1 to 19- 20 February 1973 From letters we have r eceiv ed, it i s c lear that m any of you m ay not yet have heard that Ivan T. Sanderson died of c an cer on t he 19th of February, 1973. It was p erhaps like Ivan to have an uncertain date of birth and death. He popp ed out on t

We've been plugging away at thi s for som e twenty ye ars without, o f course, the slightest hop e o f an assi st. But then, reali sm is not appreci ated! No w, ho wever, come s the following from , of all outlet s, Science New s (which is b acked in p art by the AAAS and i s the mo st di stingui sh

What follows is not strictly ufology and should better com e under the heading "Cosmolo gy". Ho wever, because of t he long and sometimes vehem ent argument co ncerning the origin of UFOs -where do they come from ?- it s eems legiti m ate to include thi s e xtr a ordinary r eport here.

"All t he news that's fit to print" very o ften does not include things for w hi ch there i s no 'neat ' expla n ation. An example comes from one of our readers, born in Englan d b ut now resident in Canada. "Sometime d uring t he month of November (it must have been November, t h at b eing the mon

We are indebted to Chri stopher Bird for s ending to us a tran slation of extracts from an article in the J anu ary 1973 issue of t he Soviet magazine Khimiya i Zhizn' ( Chemistry and Life). This w as entitled "Let Us L e ave Some Room for Mysteri e s " and was written by Candid ate of Geographical

A Dr. Nils-Olof Jacobson has p ublished a book entitled Life After Death, as reported in the San Francisco-chroe o f t h e 19 December 1972. The m aj o r point of interest to us is his statement t hat the hum an 'soul ' w eighs 21 grams -about % of an ounce. H e placed t he bed s of terminally ill

Lights o f unexpl ained ongm t h at frequ ent one plac e s eem to be common in t hi s country. We p re sent ly kno w of location s in over half of the fifty states where fro m one to s everal globes o f light the size o f auto headlights reportedly app ear, sway or move about, always remaining dist

In 1952 Robert A. Heinlein , t h e " dean" of science fiction writers -and one of t he very few sci-fi writers who is not either afrai d of or simply anti forteana- wrote an article entitled " Where To? " * The pertinent paragraphs r ead as follows: " The greatest crisis facin g us is not Russi a, n

Presumably everyone interested in ufology has at one time or another read of the alle ged c rash of a 'spaceship' at Aurora, Texas , in 1897, and the s ub se quent burial of the much mangled 'pilot ' in a local cem etery. Interest in thi s incident b urgeoned sudden ly thi s year a nd a number of

by John Stuart Marti n When I lived up in Schoharie County, N e w York, I used to hunt an d fish with a rosy-cheeked oldtimer nam ed Charley Shelmandine, who still farmed in the rou g h hills around West Fulton. He used to t ell me tales, most of which I beli eved ( and still do), about

For those who wish to make som e tangible expression of their support for the work begun by Ivan T. sanderson, we have set up a Memorial Fund in his honor. A ll checks should be made payable to SITU but should bear a note stating that they are intended for this Fund. Specifically we hop e to buy a '

One of t he 'standard ' stories to be found in m any collections of fortean tales is t hat of a n E skimo Hudso n B ay

by Sabina W. Sand erson On the 15th of June of t hi s year Marty (R. Martin) Wolf and I were sitting at t he g arden t able back of the Old House at SITU ' s headquarters enj oying a bri ef rest from our respective labors. My two dog s, M arzi ( a Golden Retriever), and Bruno ( a Black Retri ever

Member 111383 sent us a b rief item from t he D e s Moines Regi st er of t he 28th June 1973, with t he photographs reproduced here b y permi ssio n of t hat ne w spaper. Their account went as follow s: " Duan e Woodruff, who farm s in Warren County e ast of Ackworth (Iowa) , Wedne sday examines two

The u nexplained loss of a f li g ht of fiv e N avy torpedo bombers off t he Flori d a co ast in D ec ember, 1945, was t he incident t hat b egan t he e nti re "Vile Vort ic e s " b usin e ss. Thi s is not t o s ay t hat t he N avy p lan es w ere t he first t o di sappear in t h at are a in strange

M ermaids hav e be en a popul ar topic for m any ye ar s, one vi ewpoint b ei ng t hat t hese we re simply man at ee s or dugongs s e en b y l ov e- st arv e d s ailor s , and t he ot h er t hat m ermaids re ally exist . I hav e always b ee n inclined t o beli ev e that it was pretty clo s e to lib

Our m e m ber 1t 1434 has sent us a number of ac count s of unusual ev e nt s in hi s part of the w orld , b ut p e r hap s t he most unusual -t houg h it is not strictly wit hin our provi nce- is t h e f ollowing. ( W e do not hav e p ermission to u s e t he full name of t he witne ss. ) " Dick B.

L IGHTNING AGAIN One of our m embers , who prefers to be known as X, se nds the following: " Aside from Fort ' s comm ents on lig ht ni n g ' s af finity for wedge-shaped obj ect s , it h a s b e e n known

One of our E ngli sh s ub scribe r s s ends the follow ing ac count to b e added to our c at alogue of "unnatural dark ne s s e s " .

ABSMAL AFFAIRS IN PE NNSYLVANIA AND E LSEWHERE by All en V. Noe held up in order to bring you t hi s report o n t he e xtra

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The Enc yc lopaedia Britannica has announced the first major change in format in its 200-year publis h ing h istory , and it s e e ms t h e y have d e c ided t o cast th e v e nerable e ncyclopaedia in the mold o f Pur s u it. According t o Mortimer J . Adle r , the d irector of plann ing for Brit

SITU concerns itself w ith the study of unexplained phenomena of a tangible nature that orthodox science,

discovered tribes; rapid changes in human ecological

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"On or about 0100-0400 hours, 8 January 1971, in c harge of the proper pigeon hole. By

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ed to be co11posed of mature females and juveniles of both 1--------+-------t about 200 yards.

EVENT PYRAMID COVE, SAN {chin, flukes, etc.) was abraided off, presumably due to thrashing, post-mortem degeneration and tidal action. 'Three LEMENTE ISLAND, off coast of CALI F.

After more than twenty-five years of teaching and research, I feel qualified from experience and by ap titude to put forth my "law"-the result of observation and synthesis for the guidance of future generations of scientists and human beings in general. Although

( Robert J . Durant has offered the following thoughts on Charles Fort and Ivan T. Sanderson, and we present them here by way of commemorating the centenary of Fort's birth-August 9, 1874.) Fort was the u ltimate bookworm, literally reading himself nearly blind in the great libraries of New York

by Robert J. Durant My previous discussions of the submarine lightwheels stopped short of ascribing any specific cause to the phenomenon. My investigations were prompted by an article in Flying Saucer Review that dismissed the: l ightwheels as "pseudo-U FO's", i.e. a natural

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by Robert C. Warth On the morning of the 1 1 th November Adolph Heuer alerted Mrs. Sanderson to a radio news report that an unidentified object had allegedly fallen into a pond in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, a few miles northeast of Scranton. She called the police in

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was b orn in Paris o f Swedish parent s and maintain ed lifelong contact s w ith r elatives and friends in Sweden though he lived in the U n i ted States

b y Hans Stefan Santesson There is reason to view w it h some concern the ren ewed interest in some circles in again arriving at a more sensat ional " explanation" for t he last d ay s even tual death i n 1 95 9 o f the late Morris K .

by Robert C . Warth recent months in part i c u lar the question of a possible relat ionsh i p between UFO activity and Big

by Sabina W . Sanderson Ivan Sanderson once read a b ook w hich t i c k led his fancy no end, u t no one has yet trac ked it down since he could rr.ot r emember the autho r ' s n ame ( be

by D avid R. Weid l This artic le is for the benefit of those new mem bers of t h e Society who may not h ave read Ivan T . Sanderson ' s artic le in t he April 1 97 2 issue of Pursuit . Thunderbirds are gigantic birds of Amerindian tradition . According to t he Amerindians , these bird s

STORMS AND FORTEAN E VENTS By Livingston G e arhart T h e e arth's m agnetic field is a physical ph enom e non t h at h a s puzzled s c ie ntists since i t s discovery.

c oncur in d e s c ribing t he c reatures as b e ing hominid , MORPHOLOGY OF WHAT A P PEARED TO BE THE

OF LIV ING H OMINID apposed great toe . Apart from t his feature , there w ould appe ar to be c onside rable variation both in the by IVAN T. SAN D E RSON

by Walt e r N. We bb, Consultant, APRO INTR ODU CT ION T he Betty and Ba rney Hill e x p eri e n c e has b e come one of t he cla ssi c ca ses of i t s t yp e i n UFO a nnal s . T h e Portsmouth, N e w Ha mp shire, co upl e claimed

I n 1 9 6 6 Maj orie E . F i s h, a 34-year-old el e m e ntary s c hooltea c her in t he littl e town of Oak Harbor, O hio, d e c ided to sea r c h fo r t he star patt ern b y co nstructing a thre e-dimensional mod el of t he v ol u m e o f space surrounding t he sun. M s . F i s h, t hough sel f-ta

B e fore w e ca n under stand t h e s i gnificance o f Marj orie F i s h ' s r e s ults, w e m u st k now s omet hing about the evolution a nd t yp e s of stars i n our gala xy. Star s form w he n t h e heat of a contracti ng d u st a nd gas cloud ca u s e s hydro g e n f u sio n t o occur in t he c

Marj ori e Fis h ' s six-year searc h yielded only one uni q u e t hree-di m e n sional d uplicate of B etty Hill ' s star map, a nd a co ntinuing i n sp ectio n si nce t he n ha s not uncovered a ny pa ttern remotely re s embli ng t he ori ginal discovery. T he matc hup incl udes not o nly t he 1 2

FROM ZETA1 RETICULI Ba s e d upo n data from the F i s h model, t h e star map, a nd Betty a n d Bar n e y Hill ' s t e stimony of t heir UFO e nco unter, I believe it is fea s ibl e to const ruct a sp e c ulat i v e b ut rational sc e nario of i nterstellar e x ploration from t he alleged origin s

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by Ron Westrum For the last twenty-eight years, American society (and several other societies as well) has debated the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects. Since 1933, the world has continued to hear of sightings of the

nearly collided with an unknown marine animal. The captain of t he City of Polson, on a run b etween by Tim Church

By Robert E. Jones Thanks to a letter from an alert SITU member, and another rriember, Mr. Jim McGrath, an employee of

they apparently are able to sense minute changes in air pressure in order to predict the c oming of the storm, as are certain varieties of birds in their migra tions. One also thinks here of the ocean-going grun ion which must come up on land in order to lay its

by Ivan T. Sande rson ( Editor ' s note: Mr. Sanderson, well known author , TV star and lecturer, is also an authority on Ufiiden tified Flyin g Obj e cts. We have had several reports of such obj ects in the past fe w months and are fortunate in rec.;eiving the following article from M r. Sanderson

by Robert E. Jones As re aders of Pursuit may know , a Bigfoot inve sti gation has been going on in N orthwe stern N ew Jersey since March of 1 97 5. Reports of Bigfoot s ightings are contin uing at the rat e of about one per w e e k . During t h e month of October an e xpedition set out to imple

EXTINCT ( ? ) SPECIES by J ames M. Bre e c e II Student s of monsterology , i. e. , Sasquatche s , lak e and sea monters, and the like , a r e forever pelted with verbal stones from c ritical s lingshots. One v ery

SOME FIELD NOTES ON AFRICAN NEODINOSAURS by J ames Powell In Chapt er 2 ·of More Things , e n tit l e d " Three Toes· Mo del A " , Ivan Sanderson discuss e s re ports from Zululan d , South Africa of an amphibious , possibly

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by Ronald G. D obbin s In the past t h e j ourn al of this Society has been the scene o f so me m aj or e rrata. While r e c e ntly surveying my collection , one such c ame to my attention . I refer specific ally to an anonymous work in the Apri l , 1 97 0 i s s u e , entitled " The Cast o f P ale o

by Roy Pinn ey I am a s ceptic a bout phenomena that allegedly c an ' t be e x plaine d . As the c ame raman and produce r o f m any of Ivan Sanderson ' s televised films , I t ook part in the d ocumentation of a number of inve sti ga tion s of strange e vents and e xposed several of t h em

OVER THE BERMUDA T RIANGLE By Wayne M e shej i an Thre e y e ars ago , several physi c s students and I began construction of a station to receive weather sat e llite pictures. Five months lat e r , we w ere re c eivin g signals and four months aft er t h at we produc

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FROM THE DEAD by Curt- Sutherly Reports of anomalous behavior in NASA and Soviet space equipment have been a prime source of controversy for years. Early in the space-race NASA discovered that its orbiting satel

by W!Jiiam H. Whamond (continued from the April 1976 issue) At about this time I received a copy ·or Dr. Fuller's latest book, SynerJtetics, The Macmillan Co., New York, which l had on order for almost a year. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he had been experi

I. HOMING IN ON NESSIE Pursuit has followed the developments at Loch Ness for many years, and it is with a great deal of satisfaction that we can now bring our membership up-to-date on the latest information about the 1975 American studies at the loch. The following

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In 1972 the Academy's expedition added a camera-strobe light system developed by author Edgerton for the National Geographic Society to photograph underwater life. While Dr. Edgerton was not present at lochside, he assisted in both pre paring the equipment and analyzing and critiquing the data. The

By Larry E. Arnold "That was the oddest thing you ever seen!" -Deputy Coroner John Dec, on the Bentley case (1) .

The Fire Department was called, and Fire Chief John E. Pekarski's men responded. Fireman Fred Sallade, perhaps the first to arrive, recalled: "I was told not to go in." (9) There was no fire to fight. Paul C. Toombs, arriving soon after the initial discovery, stated seeing

air fans a fire's intensity. The reco,nstructed 'actions' of Dr. Bentley seem incompatible with his medical training. Foul play was considered. but:

On seeing that an autopsy was allegedly performed, our first reaction (albeit quite optimistic) reflected hope that the findings may provide a clue for the true cause of death . According to the newspaper, "Coroner Herman C. Masch determined in an autopsy yesterday afternoon

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Courland, Germany .... Two noblemen, after a drinking bout, "died in consequence of suffocation by the flames which issued with great violence from their stomachs."I

by. John Green Reports of fossil tracks resembling human footprints have been known in North America for a long time. Sena tor Thomas Hart Benton contributed an article on the subject to The American Journal of Science in 1822. An

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by George M. Eberhart James McKensie hadn't heard anything about airships until he came to the village of Casstown, Ohio, to tell folks what he had seen the night before. He was feeding his hogs around 6 p.m. on April 14, 1897, at his farm a mile

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point three miles south of the city they found the craft had descended to a few feet above the ground, and they could again hear loud, excited talk coming from within. The three men climbed out of the buggy and crept silently toward the airship, but when they were 50 feet away the

Winter 1977 This was not the first such airship message, nor would it be the last. Most of them could conceivably be called

On the 21st people in Ashland observed a completely different type of phenomenon. It didn't look at all like an airship - rather it was a vertical line of light that seemed several hundred feet long. The object appeared in the south and moved westward until it disappeared. 2 8 Around 2:00 in the mor

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This so-called Square/Cube Law of architecture (figs. 1 & 2), along with all the other types of square/cube laws(!), is really just another simple example of the "Law

the original half-sized building. Note how the "scale" is being distorted by becoming 2.828 instead of 2 in some places. Of course, one could cheat the "Law of Dynam

In fact, we can see (fig. 3) that what we've called G xh here is really G(hl) where 1 is the-unit of length (e.g. feet, meter, mile , etc . ) . Accordingly, what this constant stress equation G xl is basically telling us is that the unit of length (I) must be made to shrink as G increases, and vice-

Law of Gravitation! ") It is interesting to note that if we scale down the normal human's 6' height by the G value of Jupiter, we get 72/2 .65 or 27 .25". Now 27" just happens ( ! ) to be a fre quently reported height of the mini-men who occupy · UFOs. Is this just more coincidence?

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Circa 68 A.D. St. Nazarius was buried after losing his head (physically, that is). In the mid-4th Century, St. Ambrose disinterred the corpse only to find it "so perfect and free from corruption with all its hair and the beard, that it looked ... as if it had been washed and laid out for inspection

St. Cuthbert, the Bishop of Landis fame, was laid to rest 20 March 687 A.D. to become the proverbial ashes-to ashes and dust-to-dust- or so it was thought. In 698, monks found the corpse to be unputrified, with its joints flexible and clothing fresh. Time, the catalyst of decay, proceeded another41

At the resting-place of Father Cherbal, in the moun tain-top convent of Annaya north of Beirut, 30-year-old Jeanette Howard was cured of paralysis. L 'Orient, quoted in the Express & Star (19 May 1967), says she was praying before the holy man's tomb when "a thin trickle of blood appeared" from its

It had appeared all that there was left to do upon the completion of my article on "Flight 19," (INFO Journal, February, 1974), was to hope that the facts of the case would become known and the fraudulent authors of

SPACE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK by T. B. Pawlicki Last winter's Pursuit ( Vol. 10 , No. 1) carried an article by T. B. Pawlicki entitled "Prehistoric Megalithic En gineering," in which the author presented one way in which it could have been possible for prehistoric en

by Robert Barrow Is it, perhaps, favorably Fortean for a UFO researcher to learn that the longer he pursues various aspects of Anomalydom, the less he understands about the sup

by T. B. Pawlicki In the autumn of 1974, Professor Eric Laithwaite, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Royal College of Science and Technology in London, England, became a nine-day

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IN THREE DAYS by Michael Hartnett It was on June 24th, 1947 that Kenneth Arnold spotted nine UFOs flying near Mount Rainier in Washington. This event was to become the first UFO case to come to the attention of the American public and the world. Now,

Saturday morning found the Congress listening to David Jacobs outline the early government involvement with UFOs in the 1950s, followed by Stanton Friedman's discussion of UFO propulsion. Considering the vastness and age of the universe, we should expect there to be other technologies more advanced

The final symposium of the Congress brought a review of the religious/spiritual significance of UFOs. David Stupple spoke of the Space Brothers. He feels there is a special message and a special power, with the contac tees being the link. The relationship is, however, an un stable one. He commente

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By Curt Sutherly Eyes focussed upward, I suddenly sigh, thinking of powerful wines And of men reaching beyond the sky. Preliminary note: while a report on the proposal for a future settlement in space may seem, to many SITU

Whether one believes in the existence of the entities pro jecting that concept-or believes in them not at all, the thought is sufficient to give pause. But how, you ask, does this relate to the proposal of a settlement in space? Quite simply: the settlement could well be a cure-all or an end

GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Although we realize the military released a state ment in early March of this year admitting that some of the unexplained sky blasts occurring along the East Coast were caused by experimental flights,

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By Gary S. M angiacopra A recent issue of Yankee magazine contained a brief mention of the noted New England monster (sea serpent sightings have occurred near Cape Ann . Massachusetts . over the past 300 years) . I ncluded with these sightings of

both vessels viewed the object only through binoculars . however. as the waters were too dangerous to take a boat John Testaverde . one of the crew-members aboard the Debbie Rose both times that the marine creatures were

By William B. Stoecker It is now generally accepted that if civilization somehow manages not to self destruct Man will reach the planets within the next few decades. The technology of spaceflight is progressing steadily . and space shuttles. scramjets .

underwater support . others are free and carried about by currents ; all reprod uce with spores. 4 An analogous " aerial sac" could feed on air-suspended m icro- organisms which it could scoop as the winds trans port it around the upper atmosphere (autotrophy should

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A CONFERENCE ON SASQUATCH AND SIMILAR HUMANOID MONSTERS By Patri ck J. Ma cey From May 1 0- 1 3 of this year . history was made i n Canada at t h e U n i versity o f British C o l u mbia . w here serious m inded researchers and h u n ters of Bigfoot finally

on stea ling material from serious researchers for their own un ethical use . They are liars claiming to be some thing they are n ot . A paper e n titled "Brief Ecological Description of the

THE OBSERVED ECOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF AN UNCLASSIFIED SPECIES OF PRIMATE By Ro bert E. Walls Probably most avid readers of Pursuit today are well aware of the possibility that there presently exists . in sparse

To begin with . let's ask how Sasquatch conspecifics com m u n icate with each other . We have recorded q u ite a diverse repertoire of vocalizations commonly ascribed to the Sasquatch: but do these calls follow a n y particular pattern - possibly similar to those heard from the many other species o

OF UFO ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE EVENTS By M. J. Rodeghier volve vehicles on the ground from that category, are treated in this study. There are two main reasons. First,

Sixty sources have been searched for data. The type of source material was not restricted to any category; thus reports have come from books, periodicals, catalogues, and computer listings. It must be admitted that only 31 original case reports were examined by the author. This is not surprising, gi

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It was anticipated that difficulties in the reporting of a UFO event would hamper the analysis. For example, estimating distances at night is a notoriously poor ability of humans, and recalling small details about an exciting

By Gary S. Mangiacopra AMONG the many unpublished notes of the late Charles H . Fort was a reference to a one page article in the Chicago Trib une for Sunday , July 24 , 1 892 , recounting no less than ten reports of lake monsters sighted in the states of Michigan , Wisconsin , and Minnesota. 1

"Though Madison's [Wisconsin] sea serpent has been seen on numerous occasions during the last few years and its existence vouched for by many respectable citi zens , Billy Dunn , perhaps the most famous of Madison's fishermen , has alone been accorded the honor of having a hand to hand conflict wit

INVESTIGATION RESULTS My inquiry to the Madison Public Library resulted in my receiving two articles from the Wisconsin State Jou rnal; I was informed that the Wisconsin State Historical Society

LAKE MICHIGAN MONSTER 'The mystery of the collusion of the three masted schooner Cheney Ames, with the south pier at this harbor is being cleared up . It will be remembered , as told in these dispatches , that the boat on entering the harbour sud denly became uncontrollable and was dashed against t

This is a rare instance in which the witness is mentioned as being beyond question , and did , in fact , exist; and the Cheney A mes did suffer damage which caused her to sink - but the reported lake monster nevertheless seems to be lacking in actuality .

"The citizens of Lake Geneva and the thousands of people around its banks are in a state of intense excitement. They are flocking to the shore in groups and stand there by the hour peering intently out into the lake . No matter if the sun does pour his hottest beams down on their de voted heads, no

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by Barbara Jordison HE method of collecting the Synchro Data is described T in the Spring , 1 978 issue of Purs uit; theoretically , anyone is able to collect data via the experimental setup .

Now a signal can be added to a banking channel, in such a way that it will route millions of dollars into a per sonal account . No doubt we'll learn more of something that's called the 'nine's complement . ' The point is that this demonstrates , among other things , the concept that a

by Barbara Jordison N the sum mer of 1970 a series of lectures was organized I at the NASA Ames Research Center . The background information - "from the question of the origin of the uni

ON THE 'GABUN ORANGUTAN' by Michael K. Diamond NE of the more intriguing passages that may be found Q in literature dealing with unknown hominoids occurs on page 1 86 of Ivan Sanderson's Abominable Snow men:

Fig. 2 Side and front view of the skull of A.I.Z. 6624 (top) and that of a normal chimp of corresponding age (bottom). Hoth are drawn to the same scale. (Reprinted from "Acrocephalo-Oiigodactylism in a Wild Chimpanzee" by Adolf H. Schultz Journal of Anatomy 92(4):568-79 by permission of Cambridge Un

There are some questions remaining in this affair and all are raised in Carroll's short notes to Schultz . The col lector made two observations which are difficult to square with known facts of chimpanzee behavior and morphology. Carroll said that he saw a group of about 100 animals high

1. Sanderson, Ivan T. (1961) Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come To Life Chilton Book Co . pers. comm.

by Robert Barrow EASONED Forteans who heard the cry a few months S ago should instantly have recognized its urgency as music to their ears .

with machines built by experts . Then , of course , there were the exquisitely dressed salesmen from the wealthy drug companies-the "pushers" -who regularly paraded

on Aerial Phenomena , Maj . Donald Keyhoe (USMC, ret . ) . He referred to Key hoe as "just a writer, " though he should have been aware of Keyhoe's solid background in military aviation and his past position as chief of information for the Civil Aeronautics Branch of the U . S . Department of

by Lib bet Cone and Loren Coleman N the effort to understand the mind , its mental processes I and its desires and feelings , the exploration of the

Ehrenwald , furthermore , suggests this use of telepathy stops as the child begins to use other more sophisticated forms of communication , such as babbling and cooing . This use of speech in itself begins the separation process , which by the nature of the child's struggle to individuate ,

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:An investigator briefs schoolchildren on the "wild man. , August 30, 1977 at a place called Tielu Gully at the Panshui commune in the

region provides an excellent ecological environment for its rich and varied mammalian species, such as serows, musk deer, river deer, several types of muntjac, masked civets, ferrets and

There is a blinding white light in front of, and a little above me. I am standing in the desert. Someone is at each elbow. BLOCKED OUT. I am underneath the UFO. It is huge. The body of the

"... we mus t s atisfy ourselves by s tu dy ing UF O reports, not UF Os. Re ports are m ade by pe ople , and pe ople are ofte n m is take n ab ou t w hat they observe.. ... The w itnesses I interviewe d c ould have bee n ly ing , c oul d hae bee n insane ,

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Poher, C. (1973) INFORESPA CE 12, 29 Hynek, J. A. (1972) The UFO Experience (Abelard-Schuman, In order to understand how this may occur, a concept native to the last decade should be examined. This is the geo

20. La Tourette, G. D. (1894) Die Hysterie, Leipzig 21. Haines, R. F. (1979) UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist (Scarecrow Press, New York) and Observing UFOs

Rifat, C. (1977) UPIAR 2, 1,93 Vogt, H. H. (1979) Naturwiss. Rundeschau 32 , 3,112 Besler, H. (1978) Das Gespensterschiff (Fischer, Frankfurt) Seargeant, D. A. J. (1978) "UFOs a Scientific Enigma,"

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1 . Not the same meaning as the· word with which readers may be familiar from the film "The ExorcisC ' which broke box-office records a few years ago. In Greece, "exorcists" are usually older

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Dr. B. Roy Frieden, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona (April 30, 1 98 1 ) From what I can see, the photo does not appear to be a montage or a superposition o f any kind. The object appears to belong in the picture, and I say that because there seems to be a separate set of surface waves

Although it has so far failed to produce evidence in the search for "Champ," the side-scanning sonar device . de signed by Jim Kennard proved its accuracy by recording the remaining rib structure of the Champlain, a passenger steamboat wrecked in 1875 and sunk in 25 feet of water.

The six ste;ttes surrounding the New Madrid seismic area (indicated within the ellipse).

All entries for the six states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas, surrounding the New Madrid Earthquake Region for the years 1 943 to 1 973 (end of the file) were selected from the major data source 12_ From these data, four general classes were formed : ( 1 ) multiple

and PKORG ( 1 2). All Fortean cases had been obtained from Fate magazine (900Jo), newspap.er reports (80/o), and technical reports (20/o). Inspection of author sources for the cases within the first three classes indicated no significant contribution from a

Using SPSS u software, the data pool was allocated ac cording to 3-month, 6-month, and 1 -year intervals. This was completed by recoding the month or year intervals so that the total numbers of events within a given class was cal culated per appropriate interval i4• Three-month intervals

TESLA EMP GLOBE IDUDS ELECTRONICS!

Pursuit Vol. 14, No. 3, Whole No. 55, Third Quarter 1981.

Soviet Testa Weapons by Thomas E. Bearden

T I ME FLOWRATE CONS IDERED I MMUTABLE SPEC I AL CASE oF a4

v3 O AND . GRADI ENT BETWEEN TWO PO I NTS IN 03 F I ELD PRODUCES VOLTAGE

"'i • N"2 • c W I Ll NOT MOVE ELECTRON I F PRODUCES E F I ELD MOVES' ELECTRON

MOVES' ELECTRON IS AN AREA I N 4 -SPACE

North Carolina, was plagued by an unseen predator whose savagery in flicted severe damage to property and caused the wanton death of numerous household pets. The unsolved case of

NORTH CAROLINA appearance it resembled an oversize canine track . Alarmed by the damage, and the condition of the eat 's remains, and the

3-1/2" X 5-1/2" 4 . I bid . 6. Independent, May 20, 1 977.

3-3/4"x4-1/2" *Breed not specified; probably German Shepherd pp. 44, 1 20, 1 24. 1 2 . Michell and Rickard, p. 1 24.

by George Agogino A port told how human lives were sacrificed to the Aztec LMOST two decades have passed since an initial re god Huitzolopochli during 1 962- 1 965 in t}Je Sierra Madre

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Of necessity, if you live i n a body and are subject to the chances, frailties and wearing out of the carcass you must lug about, you will often suffer.So long as you care deeply, you wil l experience joy and grief. That goes with being human.If you concentrate on helping others you will be too busy

Cornerstone of Science and Evolution by John T. Sinkiewicz Much has bien written about the possibility of there being a World Grid, or Web. Many writers on this subject have gone to great lengths to show their particular theory and

1st DENSITY LEVEL

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by Stuart W. Greenwood Greenwood HuMANKIND is distinguished from other terrestrial life by its intellectual pursuits. We are only truly alive when we investigate the unexplained. That search is unending, because

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gress of mankind . Their mission was supposedly to be accomplished by ob taining specimens of our animal life, and also human beings .

psychics who "with· chilling accuracy, pre dicted the March 30, 1 98 1 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, " according to the National Enquirer. The mass-circulation tabloid devoted a full page

Grandma Power In China, a 67-year-old grand mother wrestled an attacking leopard down a rocky hillside near Peking, and five children helped beat it to

SITU exists for the purpose of collecting data on unexplaineds, promoting proper investigation of individual reports and general subjects, and reporting significant data to its members. The Society studies unexplained events and "things" of a tangible nature that orthodox science, for one reason or

A native of Boston, Michael Baran earned his under graduate and doctoral degrees at Boston University in the 1 960s . H i s fi rst boo k , A tlan tis Reconsidered, was

'Sorry, Sir . . . er, General!' Gen . William C. Westmoreland, former com mander of U . S . troops in Southeast Asia, was not kidnapped, was not taken aboard a U FO

I Covent Garden there are some of the most celebrated theatres of the

Harris b urg, Pennsylvania 1 7 1 05 . Oklahoma!, Carousel, , South Pacific and The King and l-and contemptu ously ignoring .Noel Coward ' s Pacific 1860 which failed dismally .

is located in the structurally complex limestones of the southwestern Derbyshire rington, local paleontologist and archeologist (Bateman,

My thanks to Miss E. M. White, Leek librarian, for loaning me the copy of Sir Thomas Wardle's paper ! and to Derby, Local section, for access to Carrington's paper. To the memory of Michael Nelson, who died in advancing our knowledge of the resurgence of the River Manifold from the Ilam "boil holes.

New · Evidence for Psychic Pheno01ena by Michael H. Brown

NE , a psychologist at a home for the aged, rests on a comfortable recliner in a dimly lit room in Princeton, New Jersey, elec

The [Fig. J ] map of intersecting lines of Etheric forces is the so called Russian Grid because it was developed by Russian engineers and archeologists. It was illustrated and described at length several years ago in an article by Christopher Bird in the New A ge Journal (date not given) and sent t

1 . Geometry of Four Dimensions (two volumes) by A. R. Forsyth. Cambridge University Press . London, 1 930. This work is a little more technical (and tedious) than the cas.ual reader can stand. It should be of most interest to those who have a fairly extensive knowledge of geometry and a smattering

The "time-dependent" Schrodinger equation, written in one dimension (x), for a particle with mass (m), and a potential energy of V ( x ) '¥ ( x , t )

Beneath Sahara's Sands by Jon Douglas Singer .

I. The barrier force Fb is an attractive force that acts

IN PRECOGNITION 1 . Think back to a time shortly before you first laid eyes on your

about 10 minutes and spatial volumes in the order of 1 0 to 100 cubic meters have been frequently reported for hun dreds of years. As social beliefs and cultural explanations changed, the names of these odd luminosities altered as well. During the eighteenth century, these peculiar lights

SIX MONTH INTERVALS r = ... 0.70

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(b) 18 u . s.c 799. (d) "Quarantine period" means a Administration and the Admin RESTRIAL EXPOSU

TIAS 6347 (18 UST 24 1 6). Source: 34 FR 1 1 975, July 16, 1 969, unless otherwise noted. § 1 2 1 1 . 1 00 Scope. This part establishes:

(d) NASA Management Instruc tions 1052.90 and 8020. 1 3 . § 1 2 1 1 . 1 04 Policy. (a) Administrative actions. The Administrator or his designee as

BORON-EPOXY STRUCTURE Second Quarter 1 983 HONEYCOMB CORE

have long been studied by psychical researchers as well as psychologists . I n fact, one of

While a vast maj ority .of our mem ber ship and readers have been complimen tary concerning our choice of material f9r Pursuit, some Fortean " fundamentalists" seem vexed that we have dared to publish

by Eva n Ha nse n F ALL THE CONFLICTS between science and religion, there is one subject that has suffered more misunderstanding than almost any other. This is the dispute over the reality of the biblical story of Noah's Flood. The conflict is not the result of lack of physical proof, but arises fro

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SITU lost one of its earliest members when Allen Noe died on July 1 1 at the age of 65 . He was an · associate and neighbor of Ivan Sanderson. Their

Holy Cobra! H undreds bf villagers are flocking to a that c,hed hut i n a village 60 miles north of Bangkok,

SCALE: One inch equals (approx.) 67 ft. See "The Water-Powered Pyramid" page 2 Journal of SITU

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An Amateur Egyptologist Discovers The Secret of Pyramid Construction by David A. DeWitt If it is possible to laugh from one' s grave, the Pharaoh Khufu must be hysterical after all these centuries in his undiscovered tomb. Up to now, the most renowned historians, archaeologists ,

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CE"-TEAS OF SM.:t.LL CITIES

Illustration #7 Donald Cyr is encouraging the use of a simple Halo Sighting Template to be superimposed on maps of ancient

The Expanded Cartography of Admiral Second Quarter 1984

Second Quarter 1984 111ustration

Planetary Grid Pfqjection

Unified Vector Geometry ( UVG) Second Quarter 1984 mustration #18 (See page 64)

IS IN PERIGEE Hypothesis of a Soviet · Scientist (Soviet reporter) B. Zacharko Nobody knows for sure how many disasters have occurred in the district of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Florida

tial hazards in experiments with electrical railguns, prompted DARPA to sponsor a study on ball lightning through Battelle Columbus Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio. The purpose of the

BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORY Joumal of SITU Society for the Investigation of

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From September

At about S p.m. Mr. H was riding his motor-bicycle on the highway from Sydney to Melbourne when he had a rather com

witnesses in this case were a married couple and one of their

their descriptions of the figures on the platforms bore a military touch. The dreaming lady interpreted her dream as a premoni tion of death , stating that while she was dreaming, she "was

1976 - In the mid ing on four stilt-like legs in a field. He observed some occupants afternoon of a sunny day an 8-year-old boy saw a UFO stand

who was killed a year later.33 of 10 meters at about noontime. Some twelve men stood around woman observed a platform-like object flying at the height

A Civilian employed at nearby Shepp&rd Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas, saw a UFO on a highway. A human be

reported by a West London clergyman. He was traveling by train when he saw a platform the size of a small bus slowly flying at an altitude of about 40 meters. On it there were ap proximately 30 immobile, helmeted f"JgUres, some of them

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VENUS At SPACECRAFT ARRIVAL AT EARTH

EVENING STAR INFERIOR CONJUNCTION

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DEPARTURE FROM VENUS SPACECRAFT DEPARTURE

Planetary movements during minimum-energy Venus-Earth transfer (planetary orbits are assumed to be circular and coplanar, with a transfer orbit duration . of 146 days) . The Maya and time

CHING PLANET . ' ' Meyers' Handbook on Space computes the time dilations from the Lorenz transformation formulas as follows:

COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN . ' ' That is as explicit as telling us that He will be flying Pan-Am during his round-trips! Therefore, as in the past and far into our future , like a flat stone skipped over water, Jesus Christ (now 61 years old) and company will continue to

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UFO BREAKTHROUGH (re : The . Philadelphia Experiment); FLYING SAUCER INVASION - TARGET EARTH; and FLYING SAUCERS ARE . Sunken Cities of the Caspian Sea

Etruscans - 'Eastern Atlanteans '? by Vladimir Shcherbakov

also as a next-town neighbor when she, with her husband Pat, lived off-base in Fort Monmouth, N.J. We would like to welcome to SITU all former NAJ members who have joined us. We offer to help to contribute to Joan' s

A Close Encounter Of The Military Kind by Harry Lebelson It was like a scene out of a grade-B science fiction movie . With intermittent bursts of red-orange flame spewing from its

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Bobbie Ferguson, who has worked with me extensively in Mexico, has improved this article with editing and sug

Beresford & Garry Bailey ; Blubber Head Press (P. 0. Box 475 , Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia 7005); 1 98 1 ; 544 pages, il lustrated, no price listed. Reviewed by George W. Earley

13. McCampbell, James. "UFO Interference with Vehicles with Self-starting Engines, " Proceedings: 14th MUFON Symposium. MUFON, Seguin, TX,

Second Quarter 1985

Key to a Lost Technology? by K. W. Moak In recent years there has been a growing tendency among anomalists. to intetpret various ancient earth and stoneworks as devices for the manipulation of some presently unknown energy . Janet and Colin Bord have written at length on this aspect of

DISTANCE FROM THE SUN (in Astronomical Units)

(ORIGINAL DIMENSIONS IN MEXICAN YARDS)

units of the Egyptians and Mexicans, which were both exact fractions of a cubic meter, were also proportional to each other, · the Egyptian cubit representing 1 26 thousandths of a Mexican cubic yard. This was an important discovery ! The number 1 26 is both a sacred Hebraic number which can

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1. Augus, Joseph, Prehistoric Animals, Spring Books, London. 2. Bellamy, David, Forces of Life, Crown Publishers Inc., N.Y. (1979). 3. Beierle, Fredric P., Giant Man Tracks, Perfect Printing, Washington (1974). 4. Bordman, William W., Jr., Kountz, Robert, F. and Morris, Henry M., Science and Creat

VENUS (labamu)

SA TURN (Anshar)

U RANUS (Anu) PLUTO (Gaga) Fig. 3 - Related celestial etymological names.

32 KILOMETERS resident in Lake Como. Dr. Roy P. Mackal has frequently

resident in Lake Como. Dr. Roy P. Mackal has frequently asserted the theory that some of the lake monsters on this planet may in actuality be migrant sea monsters. For whatever reasons, these marine monsters migrate upstre through tortuous river systems into freshwater lakes far distant from their

no similar value in today's world, I was glad the ancients found mining them worthwhile, and was most pleased that they left such good clues to one of their mining sites. It may be just coin cidence but the location is called Diamond Valley. The source for the name is unknown; perhaps someone found

Giaat Ice BaD Falla Fro• Sky A basketball-size piece of ice that fell from an airplane missed a Mercer County Airport

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TEST BOTTLE The test bottle was laid Oat; various small objects were plac ed inside, and the cap was seal ed with "booby traps" to

the cardboard bottom of the box. When I saw this box again just before Christmas 1 984 , the ink was almost indecipherable . In June, I took the box from Skyrim to Cox's home in Rolla after a typical SORRAT levitation experiment. The writing had entirely vanished by that time - the first time I have

Fourth Quarter 1 985 activity , often interviewing Lt. Lesnick and Imbrogno . , The ' 'V' '-shaped displays of lights continued. Those who saw them were often professional people whose articulate reports were dif

POINT PLANT? ' ' read the Reporter Dispatch of White Plains, New York. Again it was through the tireless efforts of Phil Im brogno that these incidents came to light. Both articles said basically the same thing. The stories were presented fairly, with both sides of the question aired. Plant authori

sky Airport in Stratford said the object appeared "We saw it, but we never talked to it, " said the controller, who asked not to be identified. .fairfield police officer Jim Gallagher said that

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from Atlantis: The Eighth Continent (Fa wcett, 1984, pp. 76-79) H a great empire once extended over a large, now submerged area, it would be logical to expect that some vestiges of it would remain on the Atlantic floor and could be identified by exploring

SONABLE] bound for New Orleans with a cargo of dried fruits from its last port of call in Messina, Sicily [CLEARED First Quarter 1986 PALERMO 28 FEB. 1 882] . The ]esmond was captained by

The ]esmond passed through the Straits of Gibraltar (the ancient Pillars of Hercules) on March 1, 1 882 [IMPOSSffiLE DATE], and sailed into the open sea. When the ship reached the position 3 1 °25'N, 28°40' W, about 200 miles west of Madeira and about the same distance south of the Azores[IMPOSSffiL

evening on the first day of encountering the fish banks, Captain Robson noticed smoke on the horizon which he presumed came from another ship. On the following day the fish shoals were even thicker and the smoke on the horizon seemed to be coming from an island directly to the west, where, according

LEAGUES, ABOUT 13 MILES] offshore to find out whether this uncharted island was surrounded by reefs . Even though the charts indicated an area depth of several thousand fathoms, the anchor hit bottom at only seven fathoms [VERIFIED IN When Robson went ashore with a landing party they found

The landing party rather gingerly headed toward the interior in the direction of the mountains, but they found that progress was interrupted by a series of deep chasms. To get to the interior would have taken days. They returned to their landing point and examined a broken cliff, part of which seeme

IFIED IN PRESS]. One of the sailors found an unusual ar rowhead in the broken rock, a discovery that led the captain to send for picks and shovels from the ship so that the crew could dig into the gravel. According to what he told a reporter from the Times Picayune in New Orleans, where he later do

SAME VERIFIED IN PRESS.] A variety of artifacts un covered by digging near the walls for the better part of two days included "bronze swords, rings, mallets, carvings of heads and figures of birds and animals, and two vases or jars with frag ments of bone, and one cranium almost entire . . :· and

INQUIRY BY BERLITZ IN FOLLOWING UP THE There is, however, some corroboration of the incident: Captain Robson was not alone in reporting the sighting of the mysterious island. Captain James Newdick of the steam schoon er Westbourne, sailing from Marseilles to New York during the

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Scientific American, April 29, 1882, p. unrecorded: EARTHQUAKE AT SEA. Capt. Horner, of the German ship Stella, from Bremen to New York Tribune originator; paper, date , page unrecorded:

Baltimore, arriving April 15, reports that on the morning of The long overdue steamship Ayrshire, which put into Halifax March 18, in latitude 37°21' north, longitude 23°51' west

DATE OF FIRST STORM AS MARCH 10, 1882], with a smooth and calm. Neither the chief mate, who was on the cargo of potatoes, and on the fourth day out encountered a

HALIFAX, N . S . , April 2 -The steamer Ayrshire, from Montrose, Scotland, for New York, with a cargo of potatoes, put into this port to-day short of coal after an extremely severe passage of twenty-six days . Soon after leaving port [DE PARTED ON OR ABOUT MARCH 8, 1882] the ship was

struck by a tremendous sea . Capt. Ross, who was at the wheel, was knqcked down and had one of his arms broken, and the wheel chains were smashed. The crew then refused to work, wanting to return, and the Captain and officers had to manage the ship for a time alone . The storm continued to rage for

AMSTERDAM, N .Y., April 3 - Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in this town yesterday morning, and reports from neighboring places show that they were more severe at other points than here. The houses in this place were consider ably shaken and many persons were badly frightened . The firs

ST PAULS ROCKSP' •FE'RNt•NDO One should note that the map in figure 3 also records the

The present report concerns a topic in journalism history; also, I have no formal training as a physical scientist. Therefore , many of them are still the scenes of volcanic activity. A continu ous ridge in the Atlantic, along which lie the islands of Jan Mayen, Iceland, the Azores, Canaries, and W

. . . A volcano is not necessarily a mountain, though it often forms a mountain by the heaps of matter it throws forth. Essen tially, it is a hole in the earth's crust, an outlet from the interior of As noted previou s , the mystery island is in the right place for volcanic activity- a known earthq

when the jar was returned to me it was smashed: judging from the sooty came her name and degrees. 'Lisa Thyra Schwarz, B.A., B.S.N. and interior, there might have been an explosive combustion of a crayon

prepared epoxy-sealed jars with printed name and colored gummed · SOUL MORE THAN DOPE OR GIN . ' It seemed to me that the entity had seen what was originally printed on the business card and made up

To date not much has been published concerning one of the most enigmatic features of UFO experiences, name ly, the alleged self-starting of internal combustion engines without any action on the part of the driver. From the few publications and reports on the subject one gets the impression their au

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Crawford, John, The Kaleva/a, New York, John B. Alden, Publisher, 1 888; Note: This epic is actually a modem compila-

arrived at Blanca Peak where again they found no grass or trees, but the Huerfano river which was full of huge fish several feet long, with a large mouth, yellow gills and green backs, like those they used to catch in the Yang Tse in China,

This paper deals with two possible concomitant phenomena or physical side effects that had to be expected if a body or - more generally and more cautiously expressed - an air-displacing physical "something" would in an oscillatory motion disappear from and reappear within our three-dimensional space

If a physical body disappears from three-dimensional space into a higher dimension it won't go somewhere within the three dimensions. It would disappear on the spot. Inevitably it would leave a vacuum behind, if only for an infinitely short moment, because this empty space would immediately be fill

Eden mentions an out-of-the-body experience during which the body of the psychic allegedly became transparent, and he points out that thJs is reminiscent of reports where UFOs or humanoids are said to be translucent. ' There is another curious report: On May 22, 1 973 at 3 a.m. a salesman

Asbury Park, NJ 8/26/87 CREDO': #432 •see PURSurr Vol. 20, No. 2 Page 77. Pursuit 1 13

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considered. V is a B or an F; C may be G; W a U; P an F or B; Gaelic rules applied. V as B: BIL is BILE - a progenitor, plus C as G: GA - a ray of light. VILCA then is a source/ori gin .out of light. Reversed, AG - by, plus LI B = LIOB SL iOB - rubbing/polishing/finishing (The construction of

-ray of light, P = B = BA - It is, AM - indeed, BA - It is. VILCABAMBA as V = F, FIL - Which is, plus GA - a ray of light, BA - It is, plus M 1 for MO - my, · plus BA - It is. Re versed: Final V as B - AB - It is, MA - a plain, BAC - support ing, LIB - with you. MACHU PICCHU is more direct as the

-that or here or behold. S may als9, mean A FIOS connoting knowledge, science or augury. FE is a measuring rod for Pursuit 1 16

CRO - death, plus INNE - a conclusion, plus - noble. The foregoing is hardly accidental for the conditions reported. It is apparent that the spheres are a reminder of man's destiny in this and the after-life, and commemorates the right-of

DA - D = DO - from A - one/all The projection thus far appears to be a theme of specified intent: 1) A burial and memorial, 2) a language statement, 3)

1. Gaddis, Vincent . Mysterious Fires and Lights, David McKay Publishers, New York, 1 967. 2. Brandon, J i m . Weird A merica, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1978. 3. Corliss, Wi lliam R. Lightning, A uroras, Nocturnal Lights and Related Luminous Phenomena, The Sourcebook Project, Mary

Wall Street Journal, NY 7/20/87

AI Conway and model of pyramid he 'saw . ' dian River County, said he was flying over the coast in the summer of 1 985 when the "flat topped pyramid lit up in a golden color as the

9. R ichet , C. : Thirty Years of Psychic Research. M acmillan, Ne\\ York , 1 923 . 1 0. Fodor, N . : En(vclopedia of Psychic Science. New York , U n i ver sity Boo k s , I n c . , 1 966. I I . Ei sen b u d , J . : "The Case of Florence M arryat , " in Parap.\yclw

I t is several years before the t urn of the cent ury in the city of Budapest , H u ngary . A tall, lean , gaunt man from Serbia struggles to regain his health . For months he has been in the grip of a strange and violent malady that has threatened to take his l i fe. His convalescence is slow , but

A S T A N DA R D G E N E RA T O R I n September of 1 983 , I delivered a paper before the Se cond I nternational Symposium on Unconventional Energy Technology . The work was entitled "An Introduction to the Concepts of Energy Resonance. " With the time slot allotted

There were an enormous num·ber of engineering problems to overcome before a design could be considered . Most of them centered around the non-linear nat ure o f the technology itself and the large number of variables which had to be dealt with in designing a specific machine. To make matters worse,

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4. Ronan, Colin, Lost Discoveries, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1973, chapter 3 . 5 . McGlone, W . , and Leonard P . , Ancient Celtic A merica, Panora ma Books, 1986. 6. Guffey, S . J . , "Celtic Cave Drawings in Colorado? " , PURSUIT, Vol. 1 9, No. 3 , 1986.

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4. Mitchell, Dr. Janet Lee, "In Out-of-Body Experiences: Is anything Out? , " Fate, Vol. 4 1 . 5. Macer-Story, Eugenia, "Unidentified Areas of Obfuscation, " PURSUIT, Vol. 1 6, No. 4, p . 1 56. 6. Vallee, Dr. Jacques, Dimensions: A Casebook ofA lien Contact, Contemporary Books, New York, 1 988.

First Quarter 1988 Some Latest Information About ''Yeti'' Co•pDed by Ka•ar &a.nyat

The barbarian soldier will strike the great king, unjustly not removed from death , The miserly mother o f the deed will make a deal with conspirators and reign in great remorse. This episode of old French writing is interesting because there were no immediate, severe or potential crises in Katie's

Vessel: Brazilia (Hamburg-American Line)8•9 Date: 30 October 1906 (7 :30 p.m.) Location : 1 50 miles further eastward of St. A ndrew 's posi Observations: Captain Russ, as noted in the logbook of his

Vessel : Bostonian (Leyland Line) 1 4 Date: 24 February 1 9 1 2 ( 5 a.m.) Location:Three days out from Boston coming from Man chester, England . Observations: Arriving in Boston on February 26th, Cap

Of the 1 5 cases, each can be placed into one of the following three catagories of aerial phenomena. St. Elmos Fire/Ball lightning: Cases 1 and 3 Sky Anomalies: Cases 2 and 6 Meteors: Cases 4, 5 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 1 1 , 1 2, 1 3 , 14, 1 5 .

of a mini-lab box and push the cube about by hand . In the SORRAT experiments I have seen table levitation. However, it would be far easier to pick up the table and lift it into the

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Map taken from The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, Methuen and Co., London, 1932.

1 . Begley, S . , and Lief, L. (1 986). The Way We Were. Newsweek, 1 1 /10, pp. 62-72. 2. Bower, B. (1987). Early Human Skeleton Apes Its Ancestors. Science News 131, p. 340. 3. Bower, B. (1987). Family Feud: Enter the 'Black Skull ' . Science News 131, pp. 58-59.

1 . Dalrymple, B. G. (1982). Radiometric Dating, Geologic Time, and the Age of the Earth: A reply to "Scientific" Creationism. U.S. Geological Survey, California. 2. Darby, J .N . , A New Translation from the Original Language, The Holy Scriptures, Holman Bible Publishers, Tennessee ( 1 973).

1 . Bradbury, W. , ed. ( 1 98 1 ) . Sasquatch: Into the Unknown. The Reader's Digest Assoc . , Inc . , New York/Montreal . 2. Browne, M. ( 1 986) . The Chronicle, (Duke University News paper) , Nov . 1 1 , p. 8.

9. Welfare, S . , and Fairley, ed. ( 1980). A rthur C. Clarke 's Mysterious World. A . and W . Publishers Inc . , New York. 10. Wylie, K. ( 1 980). Bigfoot. The Viking Press, New York . 1 . Corliss, William R. (1980). Unknown Earth: A Handbook of

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reissued by INFO, P .0. Box 367, Arlington, VA 22210-0367, $19.50 (plus $1 .50 p/h) Reviewed by R . C . Warth The International Fortean Organization deserves a big thanks and credit for reissuing this nearly complete serialization from NewPearson s magazine going back to the tum of the century .

2) I'm using the term Tatzelwurm hypothesis (TWH) in the supposition of the existence in the Alps of an animal species, perhaps a reptilian variety or creatures with a worm-like appearance, that is either unknown to science or not con sidered indigenous to the Alps. 3) There is no reference to the

2. Greenwood, Stuart W. , "The Unknown Planet," PfJIISIJIT, Vol. 19 No. 4, 1986 . 3. Wasson, John T . , "Meteorites, W . H . Freeman and Co. , 1 985 .

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8. John Blofeld, Taoism - The Quest for Immortality, London, 9. Donald L. Cyr (Ed.), Dragon Treasures, Santa Bar bara/ California, 1.989. 10. Thor Heyer dahl, American Indians in the Pacific, London,

New York, 1988, paper, 174 pp. , $8.95 Reviewed by Daryl Collins Is this Disneyland worth the price of admission? A new book by John Keel? The very thought set my mouth to watering, as I recalled his awesome masterpieces of the 70s, filled

OF GEOLOGICAL ANOMALIES, compiled by WiUiam R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project (P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057), 327 pp. , $18.95 Reviewed by Robert Barrow Eighteen years after his initial efforts at scouring familiar, obscure