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Hills UFO Encounter Remains Unexplained

Late on the night of September 19, 1961 41 year old child welfare worker Betty Hill and her 39 year old husband Barney were travelling home after a pleasant vacation in Southern Canada.

They were travelling along Interstate Route 3 which cuts through the White Mountain of New Hampshire on the long journey home to New England. For quite a while the Hills had been puzzled by the 'white star' that had seemed to be tailing them.

Barney, being sceptical by nature, thought it may be a plane heading towards Montreal. Traffic was very scare on the highway and the couple decided to stop to allow their dog, Delsey, to have some exercise.

It was now close to midnight and , as Betty walked the dog off the side of the road, Barney used binoculars to study the strange light more carefully.

After a few minutes further into their journey Barney felt the sudden urge to stop and leave the car. They were near an isolated spot called Indian Head and ignoring Betty's cries to return to the car, Barney walked deeper into the roadside tree cover, staring ahead at the white light in the sky.

It became apparent to Barney that the strange light was a UFO.
It had a shape described by both witnesses as like a pancake or a banana and Barney was sure he could see figures standing against a large picture window in front of the spacecraft.

Barney lowered the binoculars from his eyes and shouted 'I don't believe this!', then muttered something about a military helicopter playing tricks on them, then screamed out loud 'They're going to capture us!' with that, he fled back to the car. The couple then sped off southwards to begin the drive down from the mountains.

Further down the road, the Hills heard a strange 'beeping', a sound which, years later the Hills would describe as similar to a microwave oven. A second 'beeping' noise followed by a bump, and then everything returned back to normal.

The morning after they arrived home the Hills noticed some problems with their car. The vehicle had strange blotches where the paint had been removed revealing bare metal. Betty's sister suggested that they should see if the spots were magnetized. She asked this because she also had experienced a UFO before and had read that UFOs could stall car engines.

Using a hand-held compass they discovered that the compass needle swung wildly over the blotched areas of the car, suggesting that these spots, were indeed magnetized.
Distressed, the couple decided to ring the nearby Pease Air Force Base to report their experience with the UFO.

They were told nothing at the time, but documents researched 20 years later report of a similar UFO being reported at the base on September 20 at 2.15 a.m. in the morning.
The Hills also decided to report their encounter to a national UFO group.

UFOlogist and astronomer Walter Webb visited the Hills on October 21 and set in motion what was to become one of the most remarkable investigations in UFO history.
Barney was worried, because he could not explain the scuff marks on his shoes, as if he had been dragged roughly along the ground, and he was also suffering from an extremely painful back.

On September 30 Betty began to have a series of recurring nightmares that lasted for several nights. In them she would see horrible faces with cat-like eyes that belonged to creatures intent on kidnapping her and her husband. One fact that emerged during Walter Webbs investigation was that, during the Hills journey, they could not account for two hours of time, or 55km of their route.

By Spring 1962 the Hills problems were still evident and they were regularly seeking medical advice to relieve them of their mental torment.

Finally they were referred to psychiatrist Benjamin Simon in Boston. He recommended them to undergo regression as a way to free their subconscious minds of whatever was causing the problems. From the start the emotional impact of that September night was obvious.

Although both Betty and Barney were regressed separately a number of images surfaced from their subconscious minds that were remarkably similar. The Hills response under hypnosis undoubtedly shook Simon. On several occasions staff had to help him restrain Barney while he relived the events of that night and fought to escape the aliens that he visualised.

According to the evidence retrieved through these sessions the UFO had landed beside the road and rendered the Hills semi-conscious. The couple were then taken against their will aboard the craft by small beings with whitish skin and large cat-like eyes similar to greys.

Once on board the couple were separated and both given medical examinations. Barney had semen extracted by a suction device while Betty had to endure a large needle being stuck into her abdomen. Other samples such as nail and hair clippings were also taken.

The aliens also appeared fascinated by the differences between the couple. Barney, who was Ethiopian by birth, had dark skin.
After the tests Betty was shown around the UFO where she attempted to persuade what seemed to be the group leader to allow her to take away a book as proof of their adventure but this was denied.

One thing that skeptics cannot explain is that Betty could draw a detailed sketch of the star system Zeta Reticuli which is in the Reticulum constellation six years before astronomers even discovered it.

This case has become a landmark case in UFO folklore. The importance of the Hills abduction experience cannot be overemphasized. It changed the world of UFOlogy forever.

UFO Contactee George Adamski Remains Mystery

On November 20, 1952 a Polish immigrant by the name of George Adamski and six of his friends made an expedition to look for UFOs in the Mojave desert in California. Shortly after having lunch, as the group scanned the sky for activity, a gigantic cigar-shaped craft glided into view.

Hoping to get closer as well as a better spot for pictures Adamski and two of his friends set off deeper into the desert. Adamski managed to take several photos through his tripod-mounted portable telescope and wandered alone trying to get clearer shots.

Before long the silent silver craft rose up into the sky and rocketed into space but this was not the end of the encounter. A few minutes later another smaller craft appeared and glided between two mountains which were ahead of Adamski.

As he watched he noticed what he thought was a man beckoning him from about 400 metres away. He was about to find out, this was no ordinary man.

'The beauty of his form surpassed anything I had ever seen,' Adamski later recalled. The humanoid figure stood at approximately 1.6 meters tall, with long blond hair and smooth tanned skin.

He was wearing a brown one-piece suit with a broad belt and red shoes. The being was also witnessed by his friends who were standing a few hundred meters away. Adamski motioned to shake hands with the being.

Palm-to-palm contact was made and they both began to communicated with each other by using telepathy and sign language.

The visitor indicated that he was from Venus and his name was Orthon. He came with a message to warn humankind of the dangers of nuclear energy and pollution. He also expressed a belief in God and claimed that he and his fellow Venusians lived a pure and spiritual life.

After refusing to be photographed he stepped into his craft and floated into space. The first contact had been made.

This was not George Adamski's first encounter with the alien world. He claimed that he had seen a 'dirigible-shaped mother ship' over his Californian house on October 9, 1946 that nine months before Kenneth Arnold's legendary flying saucer sighting.

George was born in Poland on April 17, 1891. He and his family emigrated to New York two years later. From 1913 to 1916 Adamski served with the US Army in the 13th US Cavalry, K-Troop. In 1918 he worked as a painter and decorator for the government at Yellowstone National Park.

He also served with the National Guard, stationed at Portland, Oregon and received an honorable discharge in 1919.

It is believed that Adamski operated as a successful bootlegger during the Prohibition era. In 1926 he settled at Laguna, California and began lecturing on oriental philosophy even though he had no formal training.

In 1940 he moved to Valley Centre, California and became increasingly mystical establishing a cult movement known as the Royal Order Of Tibet and adopting many self-appointed titles such as 'Professor' and 'Philosopher'.

Adamski and his cult followers finally settled on the southern slopes of Mount Palomar which is famous for its peak and astronomical observatory. This was the beginning of the time where Adamski would be known as the world's first alien contactee.

Adamski's lectures became more frequent and his cult following grew. So too did his alien encounters. He would claim of journeys to the Moon, Mars and Venus. Often newspapers would report on Adamski and his amazing photographs of craft taken with his telescope.

When he published his first book entitled 'Flying Saucers Have Landed' in 1953 it became a bestseller and enabled him to widen his field. In his second book 'Inside The Flying Saucers' he was able to describe his experiences on board the Venusian craft.

He recounted his travels in space and described the yet-to-be-explore Moon. Lunar citizens 'strolled down the sidewalks' in lunar cities, he reported, and forests, lakes and snow covered mountains adorned the lunar surface.

Despite overwhelming evidence that his planetary excursions were delusions of the mind Adamski continued to fascinate people in high places.

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands even received him at her palace and Pope John XXIII, who was dying of cancer at the time, allegedly permitted a private audience with him on May 31, 1963.

His mission was to deliver an important package which he received from the space people in Copenhagen. This claim of course has been denounced by the Vatican but circumstantial evidence suggests that such a meeting did take place.

He traveled to the Vatican with two of his coworkers, May Morlet and Louise (Lou) Zinsstag. Both witnesses say that he entered the Vatican by a side entrance (explaining why there would be no records of his visit) and stayed for an hour.

When he entered the room, Adamski claimed the Pope smiled and said 'I have been expecting you' and when George handed him the package the Pope replied 'That is what I have been waiting for'. The Pope's last words before Adamski left were, 'My son, don't worry, we will make it'.

During lunch that same day, Adamski took out of his pocket a small plastic wallet which was lilac in colour.

'It bore the most singular inscription I have ever seen' said Lou, 'The written characters were of a very unusual kind, certainly neither Roman nor Gothic, nor were they Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic or Hebrew'.

Underneath the text was the date of the interview-May 31, 1963-written in Roman letters. Inside this little wallet was the most beautiful golden coin with the Popes head in profile on it. As they discovered later this was a new ecumenical coin ready for sale but not yet on the market owing to the Pope's recent illness.

They also found out that it cost between 300 and 400 Swiss francs. The pope died two days later.

Adamski wrote a third book called 'Flying Saucer Farewell' which was published in 1961 but by then cracks were starting to show in his story.

In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe had brought back detailed photographs of the lunar surface, showing nothing but rocks, craters and dust. When asked to comment, Adamski claimed that the Russians had retouched the photographs to fool the US.

His report of seeing 'billions and billions of fireflies.... flickering everywhere', when he visited the darkside of the Moon on one of the Venusian craft was backed up eight years later when astronaut John Glenn returned from a space flight reporting the very same 'fireflies'.

On February 26, 1965, while Adamski was staying at Silver Spring, Colorado he and a friend, Madeleine Rodeffer, witnessed another scout ship.

The 'space brothers' had told Adamski to have a cinematic camera ready and he caught the craft on film. William Sherwood, an optical physicist and former project development leader for Eastman-Kodak, spent a great deal of time analyzing this footage.

His conclusions were that there were no signs of duplicity and determined that the object was approximately eight meters across. Analysts are still at a loss to explain how or why the craft distorts from frame to frame.

Veteran aeronautics engineer Leonard Cramp suggests this was caused by a powerful gravitational field produced by the craft.

Every copy of the film has been stolen so we may never know the answer.

When Adamski died on April, 1965 23 the age of 73 he left behind a legacy which will undoubtedly provide heated debates for years to come.

Not only did he provide circumstantial evidence but also many photographs and film footage much of which are still being investigated today. Cine footage taken on February 26, 1965 is among the most convincing UFO footage ever acquired and analysis is currently being carried out on a piece of film showing the so-called scout craft.

What may be discovered from these films could cast George Adamski in a totally different light. We could yet be in for a great shock.

Legendary Investigators Attend UFO Conference

In attendance for the UFO Conference in Cleveland, Ohio were respected unidentified flying object truth seekers Tom Carey, Jim Moseley and Kevin Randle.

Secret Cipher Of UFOnauts Reviewed

Secret Cipher Of UFOnauts

This is a most unusual, interesting, and possibly significant book, in which an attempt is made to connect occultism through the centuries directly with the UFO movement of the past 48 years.

We have known the author, Allen Greenfield, for about 50 years, during which time he has labored in relative obscurity as a highly intelligent scholar in various fields including "magick", politics, and of course ufology.

One is reminded of our former friend Yonah ibn A'haron who has followed a similar course, in even greater obscurity. A'haron is mentioned several times in the book. The references are favorable.

The basic premise of Greenfield's present position is that there are various secret ciphers that have been passed down through the ages by various secret societies. One of these, which he calls "Cipher 6", yields meaningful results when applied to many of the "funny names" (Orthon, Valiant Thor) which have turned up in UFO contactee literature.

In the chart one sees that numerical values are assigned to each letter of the English alphabet and it goes on from there. Though the math involved in cipher study is no more complex than simple addition, the concepts are exceedingly complex and, as Greenfield himself would no doubt admit, controversial.

Your editor, whose occult knowledge is close to absolute zero, took great joy in just learning to understand the chart itself!
For Greenfield, the ufologists who most deserve study are those whom he presumes to have had occult knowledge - beginning with Meade Layne, the founder, in about 1946, of Borderland Sciences Research Associates, which is still in existence in California.

Then came George Adamski who met Orthon; George Hunt Williamson and other Adamski disciples; Ray Palmer, who gave birth to Richard Shaver "Shaver Mystery" and Frank Stranges, who met Valiant Thor.

Palmer always claimed that he had a unique FACT that enabled him to solve the UFO mystery. The word FACT, as it turns out has a cipher significance.

In 1974 a solution was found to certain previously unintelligible groups of ciphers, and after this breakthrough, a computer study was made of the various possibilities of meaning that this opened up.

Unfortunately, about 20,000 variants have thus been discovered,and many more are possible. As Greenfield himself admits:

"Because there are an infinite number of numbers and many combinations of letters, words and phrases, obviously - and this is an old criticism of both simple numerology and Qabala - by stretching until one finds something that correlates to a preconceived notion, one can, if persistent, find just about anything.

The difference here is that, by confining myself to the contents of the short book from which the cipher is derived, and limiting my search pattern to one or two attempts to find something significant with no preconceptions whatsoever, where UFOnaut personal and place names are concerned, there are virtually always case-specific correlations on the very first attempt."

What is needed is to find someone with an open but skeptical mind who is familiar with the history of occultism and with the various subjects including ufology covered in Greenfield book who also is an expert on the mathematics of statistics and probability.

We are certain that Greenfield is intellectually honest enough to be distressed rather than pleased with the fact that it is highly unlikely any such person exists. The idea would be to find out whether his correlations are significantly beyond what the mathematics of chance would predict. We do not know, but are fascinated by his line of scholarship.

As much as we like Greenfield and his book, and fully realizing that ridicule is not part of the scientific method we cannot close without quoting the following gem from a letter written to us by one Dean Zevchek after hearing Greenfield cipher lecture at National UFO Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

States he: TV's Barney has become a cultural icon and role model for children these days. But exactly what is Barney? Well, he's simply a "Cute Purple Dinosaur." Let us take that one step further and apply my "secret cipher" to Barney.

CVTE PVRPLE DlNOSAVR (Remember that the Romans had no letter "U" and used "V" instead) C+V+V+L +D+l +V (Here we extract all Roman Numerals) 100+5+5+50+500+1+5 (Now we add them together) - 666 (Do you want you children watching a show where the secret cipher equates the star to evil?).

The color of Allan Greenfield shirt was the very same color as
Barney, therefore, according to the cipher, Greenfield could be a Barney disciple spreading disinformation!

Finally, as a counter-balance, we call your attention cryptically to Greenfield Chapter 12, "An interview with Terry R. Wriste". This has to do with the Shaver Mystery ciphers and the UFO contactee syndrome.

We will not tell you any more - except that we really did read all of this book, and Chapter 12 alone is worth the PRICE. In cipher talk, key words are CAPITALIZED.

UFO Truth Teller Morris Jessup Silenced

The most intriguing and appalling deaths in UFOlogy were those of Morris Jessup, Dorothy Kilgallen Dr. James McDonald with one alleged accident plus two purported suicides.

The details of these deaths, despite official pronouncements to the contrary, are disturbing to say the least. Each of the three individuals seemed to have much to live for, all were successful, and everyone of them was deeply immersed in the relatively new UFO-phenomena problem.

Morris Jessup

When astronomer and archaeologist Morris Jessup allegedly committed suicide in Dade County Park, Florida, in 1959 certain alarm bells should have gone off. There is no doubt the well known author of such influential works as The Case for the UFO and The Expanding Case for the UFO had been depressed.

Things had not been going well for him, and he had, it must be admitted, indicated his gloom to close friends, Ivan Sanderson, the biologist, and Long John Nebel, the well-known New York City radio host. Sanderson reported him disturbed by "a series of strange events" which put him "into a completely insane world of unreality."

Was the reality Jessup was faced with at the time "completely insane" or were there, perhaps, forces driving Jessup to the edge, forces with a plan? Anna Genzlinger thoroughly investigated his death.

Her conclusion: "He was under some sort of control." Remember, these were the days of secret governmental mind control experiments which have only recently been uncovered.
Certain facts about the case raise redflags.

For example, no autopsy was performed, contrary to state law. Sergeant Obenclain, who was on the scene shortly after Jessup's body was discovered, has said for the record, "Everything seemed too professional."

The hose from the car exhaust was wired on; and it was, strangely, washing machine hose. Jessup died at rush hour, with more than the usual amount of traffic passing by.

He had been visited by Carlos Allende three days before his death and according to his wife, had been receiving strange phone calls. We know the Navy was very much interested in what he was doing. We all know, or should know, it is the ONI (Office of Naval Investigations) that has been in the forefront, from the very beginning, of the UFO coverup.

What of particular interest was Jessup investigating at the time? Something that was top secret and would remain so for some time. The Philadelphia Experiment.

UFO Truth Teller James McDonald Silenced

The most intriguing and appalling deaths in UFOlogy were those of James McDonald, Dorothy Kilgallen and Morris Jessup. One alleged accident with two purported suicides.

The details of these deaths, despite official pronouncements to the contrary, are disturbing to say the least. Each of the three individuals seemed to have much to live for, all were successful, and everyone of them was deeply immersed in the relatively new UFO-phenomena proglem.

James McDonald

McDonald was senior physicast of Institute of Atmospheric Physics and also professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Arizona He died in 1971 purportedly of a gunshot wound to the head.

There is no one who had worked harder in the 1960s than McDonald to convince Congress to hold serious substantial subcommittee meetings to explore the UFO reality of which he was thoroughly convinced. The scientist was definitely a thorn in the side of those who maintained the official coverup.

Needless to say his passing to them would be a blessing.
McDonald, allegedly depressed, shot himself in the head. But he did not die. He was wheelchair ridden but somehow, several months after his first attempt, allegedly got in an automobile, drove to a pawnshop, purchased another pistol from his wheelchair, drove to the desert then did himself in.

How convenient, one might say, for his powerful adversaries. McDonald, there can be no doubt, had made enemies. The question is: How much did these enemies aided and abetted the demise of this most worthy and influential campaigner?

Travis Walton UFO Incident Remains Unexplained

On November 5, 1975 one of the most interesting UFO events in history took place in northeastern Arizona. A work team consisting of seven men reported encountering a reflective luminous object the shape of a flattened disc hovering close to their truck on a remote dirt road in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.

According to the crew, one of the men, Travis Walton, exited the truck and approached the object on foot where he was allegedly struck by a brilliant bluish light and hurled to the ground some distance away. In fear the other crew members fled the scene returning after a short period of time to find no trace of the UFO, or of Walton.

The driver of the truck was Mike Rogers, the crew foreman and a personal friend of Walton's. While fleeing the scene Rogers reported looking back and seeing a luminous object lift out of the forest and speed rapidly towards the horizon.

He, along with the other five witnesses, would eventually be subjected to polygraph examinations on 13 occasions regarding the event. The successful outcomes of which catapulted the case into the national spotlight.

Walton turned up five days later confused and distraught but with fleeting memories of alien and exotic human entities. He was also subsequently subjected to a number of controversial polygraph examinations.

As the first seriously investigated UFO event to involve the disappearance of an individual in conjunction with a UFO sighting, the incident put the honesty of UFO claimants, as well as the validity of lie detection evidence, squarely in the spotlight.

A total of 13 polygraph examinations have been conducted in association with the case. Tests which have been the subject of considerable discussion and acrimonious debate. The seven witnesses described the UFO as a "large, glowing object hovering in the air below the treetops about 100 feet away" (Mike Rogers) which was "smooth and giving off a yellowish-orange light" (Dwayne Smith).

Other descriptions by the various witnesses included "unbelievably smooth", "flattened disc" with "edges clearly defined". Rogers and Walton estimated an overall diameter of about 20 feet.

As Walton approached on foot across the clearing, the "UFO began to wobble or rock slightly" and then emitted a "bluish light that came from the machine", "a blue ray shot out of the bottom of the craft and hit him , "that ray was the brightest thing I've ever seen".

This light sent Walton "backwards through the air 10 feet", "hurled through the air in a backwards motion, falling on the ground, on his back", "flying -- like he'd touched a live wire".

Horror Was Unreal

Here are two narrative descriptions of the encounter from two of the crewmen, Mike Rogers and Allen Dalis, as told by polygraph examiner Cy Gilson in his summary of test results in 1993.

Allen Dalias Testimony

"During the pre-test interview, Mr. Dalis related the following events that occurred on that day. Mr. Dalis said they had finished work for the day and were heading home. It was almost dark. He saw a glow coming from among the trees ahead of them.

As they came to a clearing, he saw the object he called a UFO. Mr. Rogers was slowing the truck down to stop as Travis Walton exited the truck and began to advance towards the UFO in a brisk walk... Mr. Dalis described the UFO as being a yellowish white in colour.

He said the light emitting from it was not bright but a glow that gave off light all around itself. Mr. Dalis saw Walton reach the UFO, stop and look up at it. He said it looked as if Walton was standing there, slightly bent over, with his hands in his pockets. Mr. Dalis said the UFO began to wobble or rock slightly and he began to become afraid.

He put his head down towards his knees. As he did so, a bright light flashed that lit up the area, even the inside of the truck. He immediately looked towards the UFO. He saw a silhouette of Walton. Mr. Walton had his arms up in the air... Mr. Dalis turned towards Mr. Rogers who was in the driver's seat and yelled for him to 'get the hell out of here'..."

Mike Rogers Testimony

"...Mr. Rogers was on the opposite side of the truck from the UFO. He had to bend over slightly to view it in its entirety through the truck windows. He described the UFO to be glowing a yellowish tan colour.

He could not say if the light emanated from within the UFO or was a lighting system outside, that lit up the UFO. He did say he could see the shadows of the trees on the ground, around the UFO. He said it was round and about 20 feet in diameter.

He said the UFO was about 75 to 100 feet from the truck... As Mr. Rogers started to move the truck, a brilliant flash of light lit up the entire area, even inside the truck.

It was described as a prolonged strobe flash. He did not see a beam of light emit from the UFO and hit Walton. As the flash occurred, Mr. Rogers turned around in his seat to look at the UFO again and saw Mr. Walton being hurled through the air in a backwards motion, falling on the ground, on his back. At this time, Mr. Dalis and someone else yelled to get the hell out of here..."

According to the story, upon returning to the scene, the crewmen searched briefly through the woods, calling Walton's name. They then proceeded down to the main road and, after some debate, decided to call the police and ask for assistance. They were first met by a Deputy Ellison and subsequently by Sheriff Marlin Gillespie, who would later describe the crewmen as apparently sincerely distressed.

The officers and crewmen went back up the hill and searched again with flashlights, eventually calling off the search and making plans for a more thorough manhunt beginning early the next morning.

The next several days were marked by unsuccessful searches for the missing Walton, including some use of helicopters and dogs. Temperatures dropped below zero the first two nights of the search, dimming hope that he was alive.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officials were looking for alternate explanations of the event, including the possibility that Walton had been murdered.

In their initial reports, the six crewmen had indicated a willingness to undergo any kind of lie detection test to establish their truthfulness. After the second day of searching, law enforcement officials brought in Cy Gilson, a polygraph examiner from the Department of Public Safety to test all six.

Five of the witnesses passed this polygraph examination, while for the sixth, Allen Dalis, the test was ruled inconclusive.

While the successful tests fueled media interest in the case, the inconclusive result for Dalis put some heat on him personally. While some of the crew members, such as Rogers and Walton, had been friends long before the forest service brush-clearing contract, others were only acquaintances, and in the case of Allen Dalis, he and Walton were said to have had argued in the past.

However, some questions were answered -- and others raised -

- when Walton suddenly returned, apparently confused and distressed, phoning his sister from an Exxon station near the small town of Heber just after midnight the night of November 10.

In his book Walton would later describe his perceptions as he allegedly first regained consciousness: "I regained consciousness lying on my stomach, my head on my right forearm. Cold air brought me instantly awake. I looked up in time to see a light turn off on the bottom of a curved, gleaming hull.

Then I saw the mirrored outline of a silvery disc hovering four feet above the paved surface of the road. It must have been about 40 feet in diameter because it extended several feet off the left side of the road.

For an instant it floated silently above the road, a dozen yards away. I could see the night sky, the surrounding trees, and the highway centre line reflected in the curving mirror of its hull. I noticed a faint warmth radiating onto my face.

Then, abruptly, it shot vertically into the sky, creating a strong breeze that stirred the nearby pine boughs and rustled the dry oak leaves that lay in the dry grass beside the road. It gave off no light, and it was almost instantly lost from sight. The most striking thing about its departure was its quietness..."

Besieged by media, Walton's brother Duane reportedly tried to discreetly provide Travis with medical and scientific attention. The Walton brothers would eventually permit the case to be handled by the UFO investigative organization APRO, led by Jim Lorenzon.

This resulted in an exclusive relationship with the National Enquirer, which was seeking the "scoop" on the Walton abduction and helping to bankroll APRO's investigation.

The Enquirer, advised by Dr. James Harder of the University of California at Berkeley, arranged for psychological examinations and a polygraph test for Travis. The Enquirer would eventually run a large feature, and APRO touted the case as one of the most important events in UFO history.

Overview Of Polygraph Evidence

The initial tests of the six witnesses, performed by Cy Gilson while Walton was still missing, were CQT-format examinations. The questions he asked primarily addressed the possibility of some non-extraordinary foul play at work, but pointedly questioned the witnesses regarding the veracity of the reported UFO event. As mentioned previously, five of the six passed, with the one inconclusive result.

In the next test to be performed, a private investigator named John McCarthy was hired to test Walton relatively soon after his reappearance. McCarthy ruled Walton deceptive, and the test results were regrettably suppressed by APRO and the National Enquirer.

A followup examination of Walton by George Pfeifer ruled Walton truthful. After allegations aired by critics, Walton's mother and brother also took and passed polygraph tests administered by Pfeifer.

Twenty years later, in 1993, Cy Gilson retested key participants Travis Walton, Mike Rogers, and Allen Dalis ) using a state-of-the-art computer-scored CQT methodology. All three passed.
The significance of the unanimous passing of competently administered CQT examinations by all six witnesses is considerable.

Assuming independent tests, the odds of gross hoax is less than one-tenth of a percent using the reasonably conservative figure of 70% for test accuracy, and on the order of one in a million using the 90% figure suggested by field tests.

In short, relatively strong evidence that some kind of real event took place. On the basis of such evidence, APRO praised the case as one of the most important in history.

Debunker Strikes Back

Media attention attracted both supporters and critics of the UFO phenomenon. One of the most well-known UFO sceptics, Philip Klass, became deeply involved in the case, and vociferously denounced it as a hoax.

Klass published numerous white papers on the case, criticizing witnesses and attributing damaging comments to key players. He would eventually present his completed criticisms in his books "UFOs -- the Public Deceived" and later in "UFO Abductions -- A Dangerous Game".

Some of the negative evidence publicized by Klass is worthy of attention and, at the very least, a raised eyebrow. Most memorably, Walton's brother Duane made a number of curious comments during an interview with UFOlogist Fred Sylvanus during Walton's disappearance, suggesting that he was convinced Travis had embarked on a great adventure.

For example, when asked if he believed Travis would be returned, Duane replied: "Sure do. Don't feel any fear for him at all. Little regret because I haven't been able to experience the same thing." (Supporters would later characterize this as Duane's attempt to defuse the popular notion of Travis as a victim, lab rat or hunting trophy.)

Klass frequently pushed the evidence well past where it was willing to naturally bend. For example, in his discussion of the Sylvanus interview, which took place at the search site and involved both Duane and Mike Rogers, Klass wrote of Rogers ): "BUT AT NO TIME DURING THE HOUR-LONG INTERVIEW DID ROGERS EXPRESS THE SLIGHTEST CONCERN OVER WHETHER TRAVIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN INJURED OR KILLED".

The actual tape includes such comments as these from Rogers: "...we're going to have to go back. I agreed, you know, we couldn't leave him over there if he was hurt, which he certainly looked to me like he received some kind of [pause] something, some kind of injury, I don't know if it just stunned him or hurt him.

Since we haven't found him we don't know but [big sigh, pause]..." And: "...no tracks, no pieces of clothing, no blood, no nothing. I mean there was no trace of it, and there was no trace of him. Some of the guys started crying; I remember I started crying..."

Klass aggressively tried to characterize Walton as a 'known UFO freak', while Walton denied any unusual interest in the subject prior to his abduction.

For example, Klass wrote in his June 1976 paper: "...I asked [Dr. Kandell] whether Travis or Duane had indicated any previous interest in UFOs during his November 11 discussions and examination.

Dr. Kandell replied: 'They admitted to that freely, that he [Travis] was a 'UFO freak', so to speak ... He had made remarks that if he ever saw one, he'd like to go aboard.' "

Walton was eventually able to obtain and present Klass' original transcripts of the conversation, which presents a different picture than that suggested by Klass' cut and paste quotation:

Kandell: They admitted to that freely, that he was, you know, a "UFO freak", so to speak. He's interested in it. Klass: Which one? Kandell: Travis. He had made remarks before that if he ever saw one, he'd like to go aboard, this and that. So, yes, that was mentioned. That was out.

Klass: When was that? Was that when you and Dr. Saults were there or when more of the people were there? Kandell: No, that was, I think, subsequently, it came out. I don't know whether it was that Friday night, or it could have been that I, that it was in the newspapers, that somebody else might have mentioned it.

Klass: But you heard it from their own lips? Kandell: I think so. I think so. I can't be 100-percent positive. But if I didn't, it was discussed. They didn't deny that. That wasn't denied. Continuing to pound out a negative characterization of key participants.

Phil Klass Writes Dishonestly

"Clearly Rogers feared that at least one member of his crew would fail [a follow-up polygraph] test, regardless of who was accepted as the examiner. Investigator Bill Barry's book quotes Rogers as saying, "[Witness] Steve [Pierce] told me and Travis that he had been offered $10,000 just to sign a denial. He said he was thinking about it... So I told him, 'Then you'll spend the money alone, and you'll be bruised.'"

The latter suggests that Rogers was threatening Pierce with physical harm if he recanted."

Klass' presentation suggests a hoax organized by Rogers and Walton and held together with raw physical threats (although the reader is left with some confusion as to why Rogers would be admitting this to investigators.)

Again, this citation appears in a rather different light when contrasted with the original passage from which Klass is quoting (from Barry's book:)

"According to Mike Rogers, 'Steve told me and Travis that he had been offered $10,000 just to sign a denial. He said he was thinking about taking it. We asked him, 'Even though you know it happened, would you deny it just for the money?'

He said maybe he would; he was thinking about it. So I told him, 'Then you'll spend the money alone, and you'll be bruised.' "

Klass' creative use of ellipses artfully shifts the context of the comments. Klass also deceptively injects the term "recant" when clearly Pierce was talking about falsely denying the event in return for money.

Bill Barry, whom Klass is quoting, offered a blistering review of Klass' investigative demeanour, for the record: "His method of dealing with their evidence was harsh, smug, superior, unfair, and sometimes worse. And when push came to shove, and evidence could not be impugned, he simply ignored it and omitted it from consideration."

Klass eventually focused on his "forest contract theory" for hoax motive, wherein Walton and Rogers were staging the hoax as a way to get out of the forest service contract via an "act of God" provision.

According to all parties, Rogers was in fact close to defaulting on the contract. Klass documents this, citing Forest Service Contracting Officer Maurice Marchbanks.

Klass failed to relay Marchbanks' opinion of the plausibility of such a motive, as Marchbanks is reported elsewhere stating flatly, "There was no way such an alleged hoax could benefit Rogers."

Forest Service Contract Supervisor Junior Williams concurred: "He had no reason -- I didn't see that he had anything to gain, as far as his contract was concerned, or anything else, to conjure up a story of this kind."

Debunker On Polygraph Evidence

Klass attacked the original Gilson tests on the grounds of insufficient questioning regarding the UFO incident. He quoted Gilson as saying, "That one question does not make it a valid test as far as verifying the UFO incident."

This contradicted Gilson's written word at the time. In 1993, in preparation for retesting, Mike Rogers asked Gilson to state for the record whether his opinion of the original tests had changed.

Gilson replied: "Today, in 1993, I am still of the same opinion that they were valid examinations and the results were conclusive on the five. Even though there was only one question asked that related to the UFO sighting, it was a valid question and the results proved none of you were lying when stating you saw an object that you believe was a UFO.

I hope this letter will satisfy you, and anyone else, that my beliefs in the results of those examinations, are the same today as they were in 1975."

However lackluster Klass' case on all these counts, the crown jewel of his campaign was clearly the discovery of the initial, failed polygraph test of Travis Walton.

On a tip, Klass tracked down John McCarthy and found himself in the possession of a genuine scoop: a polygraph test failed by the primary actor Walton and suppressed by the UFOlogical group APRO and the National Enquirer.

APRO's advisors, such as Dr. James Harder, had felt the test was inconclusive as a result of Walton's emotional instability. The Enquirer accepted this and ordered the follow up Pfeifer test. Yet such excuses would ring hollow to the ears of many observers.

Klass' discovery of the McCarthy test turned many UFOlogists and much of the public against the case. As recently as 1997, popular UFOlogist Kevin Randle panned the case as a hoax in his book The Randle Report, arguing that, due to its proximity to the original events, the McCarthy test "spoke volumes" about Walton's truthfulness.

The test would also achieve a sort of urban legend status among UFO sceptics. For example, Anson Kennedy of Georgia Sceptics was quoted on Robert Sheaffer's web site as saying:
"But the real 'bombshell,' as Klass describes it in his book, was the fact that Walton had failed an earlier polygraph examination miserably and this information had been suppressed by APRO, which had been proclaiming the Walton case 'one of the most important and intriguing in the history of the UFO phenomena.'

This test was administered by John McCarthy, who with 20 years of experience was one of the most respected examiners in the state of Arizona. His conclusion: 'Gross deception.' Proponents of the Walton case never mention this examination."

The story, including the embellishments could be traced directly, of course, to Klass. So what happened to Travis Walton in the mountains of Arizona in 1975?

The horrific on-craft alien encounter depicted in the 1993 Paramount film is almost entirely a fictional presentation, although the bulk of the film, pertaining to the human drama, is broadly accurate and well presented.

Walton's actual memories of his experience include a frightening but brief and unviolent confrontation with large-eyed alien beings followed by an encounter with silent and seemingly bemused humans of exotic appearance who escorted and tranquilized him.

Are these memories -- some assisted with hypnotic regression -- an accurate and literal reflection of reality? Like the UFO problem itself, the ultimate explanation of the Walton disappearance remains a protracted mystery.

UFO Truth Tellers Silenced

Don Elkin
Deke Slayton

Mae Brussell

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder.

We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.
Who or what is killing UFO investigators now and in the past? Probably some of the deaths presented here-that look at first glance so suspicious---are in fact natural or accidental or self-inflicted because of stress or mental imbalances.

But, as Otto Binder noted more than 25 years ago, there are so many. Pure common sense, and good logic, should lead us to believe that the high incidence of premature death in a field which has a limited number of investigators is very disproportionate compared to the population at large.
Spider Web of Causes
What we may have IS a concatenation, a spider web, of interweaving threads which are causal and often, in fact, deadly. One thread is the activities of the US (and other) intelligence agencies. Another thread is possible ET involvement.

A third thread is the involvement of certain PSI-tech think tanks and private PSI/PK practitioners, including negative occultists.

A possible fourth thread is highly reactionary religious cults which feel they are carrying out the will of God. It is more than likely that one or more or all of the above agencies are responsible in whole or in part for many of the deaths from the recent past, which have already been mentioned and many of those remaining cases from the present to the more distant past, some of which we will now explore.
Mae Brussell
Not long ago, Mae Brussell, a gutsy, no-holds-barred, investigative radio host died of a fast-acting cancer just like Ann Livingston and Karla Turner. Brussell was acutely interested in UFOlogy.
Deke Slayton
Deke Slayton, the astronaut, was purportedly ready to talk about his UFO experiences, but cancer also intervened.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch, young psychic and contactee, died in 1985, purportedly of a drug overdose.

According to Lynch's sister, Geraldine, Brian was approached approximately a year before his death by an intelligence operative working for an Austin, Texas, PSI-tech company. Geraldine said they told Brian they were experimenting on psychic warfare techniques.

After his death, a note in his personal effects was found with the words "Five million from Pentagon for Project Scanate."
Don Elkin
In the '80s Eastern Airlines pilot Captain Don Elkin committed suicide. He had been investigating the UFO coverup for over 10 years and, at the time, was deep into the study of the Ra material with Maria Rucker.

There are reports of negative psychological interferences having developed during this latter investigation.

(NOTE: Brian Lynch photograph unobtainable)

UFO Truth Teller Dorothy Kilgallen Silenced

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder.

We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.
Spider Web of Causes
What we may have IS a concatenation, a spider web, of interweaving threads which are causal and often, in fact, deadly. One thread is the activities of the US (and other) intelligence agencies. Another thread is possible ET involvement.

A third thread is the involvement of certain PSI-tech think tanks and private PSI/PK practitioners, including negative occultists. A possible fourth thread is highly reactionary religious cults which feel they are carrying out the will of God. It is more than likely that one or more or all of the above agencies are responsible in whole or in part for many of the deaths from the recent past, which have already been mentioned and many of those remaining cases from the present to the more distant past, some of which we will now explore.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Dorothy Kilgallen was the most famous syndicated woman journalist of her day. Stationed in England in 1954 - 55, and privy to the highest levels of English society and its secrets, she wired two unusual dispatches which may have contributed to her death.

The first, sent in February 1954, mentioned a "special hush-hush meeting of the world's military heads" scheduled to take place the following summer.

The 1955 dispatch, which barely preceded her death from an alleged overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol (a la Marilyn Monroe), quoted an unnamed British official of cabinet rank, `We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that saucers were staffed by small men-probably under four feet tall. It's frightening, but there is no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.'
Whatever the source (rumored to be the Earl of Mountbatten), this kind of leak in the atmosphere of the mid- 50s was an unacceptable leak.

It is well to recall that the secret CIA-orchestrated Robertson Panel had met in 1953 and issued the Robertson Report. Briefly summarized, this document-and the attitudes reflected there - represented a new hard-line attitude to covering up all significant UFO phenomena.

The year 1953 and the meeting of the Robertson Panel truly initiated the UFO coverup as we know it today, with a few extra dollops having been added.
Did Dorothy Kilgallen actually commit accidental suicide? There appears to be an excellent chance she had help.

UFO Truth Teller Danny Casolaro Silenced

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder.

We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.
Who or what is killing UFO investigators now and in the past? Probably some of the deaths presented here-that look at first glance so suspicious---are in fact natural or accidental or self-inflicted because of stress or mental imbalances.

But, as Otto Binder noted more than 25 years ago, there are so many. Pure common sense, and good logic, should lead us to believe that the high incidence of premature death in a field which has a limited number of investigators is very disproportionate compared to the population at large.
Spider Web of Causes
What we may have IS a concatenation, a spider web, of interweaving threads which are causal and often, in fact, deadly. One thread is the activities of the US (and other) intelligence agencies. Another thread is possible ET involvement.

A third thread is the involvement of certain PSI-tech think tanks and private PSI/PK practitioners, including negative occultists. A possible fourth thread is highly reactionary religious cults which feel they are carrying out the will of God.

It is more than likely that one or more or all of the above agencies are responsible in whole or in part for many of the deaths from the recent past, which have already been mentioned and many of those remaining cases from the present to the more distant past, some of which we will now explore.
Danny Casolaro
Danny Casolaro, an investigative reporter looking into the theft of Project Promise software, a program capable of tracking down anyone anywhere in the world, died in 1991, a reported suicide.
Casolaro was also investigating several UFO "NO-Nos" Pine Gap, Area 51 and governmental bioengineering.

UFO Truth Teller Karla Turner Silenced

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder.

We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.
Karla Turner
Could genital intrusions from past UFO abductions have poisoned in some way Ann Livingston's system? That is exactly the suspicion Karla Turner had about the breast cancer that preceded her death during the summer of 1996.

Both publicly and privately, Karla Turner held up the specter of alien retaliation for statements she made in print, especially in Masquerade of Angels. How much her suspicions were founded in reality we will probably never know.

Her husband has made al her books available for free at http://www.karlaturner.org/.
Who or what is killing UFO investigators now and in the past? Probably some of the deaths presented here-that look at first glance so suspicious---are in fact natural or accidental or self-inflicted because of stress or mental imbalances.

But, as Otto Binder noted more than 25 years ago, there are so many. Pure common sense, and good logic, should lead us to believe that the high incidence of premature death in a field which has a limited number of investigators is very disproportionate compared to the population at large.

UFO Truth Teller Ann Livingston Silenced

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder. We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.
Ann Livingston
As a side note, a nurse returning home from Austin shortly after Johnson's death reported a similar death-situation aboard her plane. When she tried to move rearward to offer her assistance, she was forcefully restrained from doing so.

Could it be, one wonders, that some agent, through an accident, was the victim of his own machinations? The idea strikes a nice note of poetic justice, if in fact that were the scenario.
Another death involving elements of high strangeness is that of Ann Livingston, who died in early 1994 of a fast-form of ovarian cancer.

Livingston made her living as an accountant, but she was also a MUFON investigator and had in fact, published an article entitled "Electronic Harassment and Alien Abductions" in the November 1993 MUFON Journal.

The article was highly critical of Julianne McKinney, director of the Electronic Surveillance Project of the Association of National Security Alumni. McKinney discounts UFO phenomena, believing that what passes for such is most often one kind of governmental ploy or another, whether in the form of experimental machinery or experimental psychology.
Some facts which seem relevant to the case stand out. At 7:15 AM, December 29th 1992, Livingston's apartment close to O'Hare airport, in Chicago, Illinois, was lit up brightly by a silverwhite flash.

She was accosted later in the day while in her apartment parking lot by five MIBs (Men in Black) which she described as being almost faceless and carrying long, flashlight-like black objects. She was rendered unconscious.

What, we must ask, assuming her story is true, was done to her at this time, and why? And did it have anything to do with her later rapidly-advancing ovarian cancer?
It is not a well-known fact that Ann Livingston had been previously abducted. Her friend, Fran Heiser, has stated that Ann Livingston had met two handsome people, a man and woman, on an earlier trip to Mexico.

To Livingston's surprise, the man told her that the attractive young lady she was meeting was in fact her daughter.

UFO Truth Teller Ron Rummel Silenced

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.
Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."
The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder. We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.
Ron Rummel
Another recent disturbing case is the death of Ron Rummel, ex-air force intelligence agent and publisher of the Alien Digest, on August 6, 1993. Rummel allegedly shot himself in the mouth with a pistol.

Friends say, however, that no blood was found on the pistol barrel and the handle of the weapon was free of fingerprints. Also, according to information now circulating, the suicide note left by the deceased was written by a left-handed person. Rummel was right-handed. Perspiration on the body smelled like sodium pentothal, or so it is alleged.
The Alien Digest ran to seven limited issues, all now almost impossible to acquire. One thing is certain. Ron Rummel's magazine was touching on sensitive issues such as the predator/prey aspect of the alien/human relationship and the use of humans as food and recyclable body parts.

Did Rummel cross a forbidden line? It would seem so. But which line, and where? Interestingly enough, one of Rummel's friends was Phil Schneider, and the two had been collaborating.

UFO Truth Teller Ron Johnson Of MUFON Silenced

Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning. Death by probable strangulation.

Deaths possibly by implantation of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con Routine, Ann Livingston and Karln Turner, as well as the deaths of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOIogists are now quite familiar: not only is UFO research potentially dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator falls far short of the national average.

Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators arc nothing new. In 1971, the well-known author and researcher Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga magazine's Special UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'

Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137 flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses' who had died in the previous 10 years, "many under the most mysterious circumstances."

The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears to be outright examples of murder. We will have occasion to refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present day researchers.

Ron Johnson

An equally disturbing and more recent death is that of Ron (Jerrold) Johnson, at the time MUFON's Deputy Director of Investigations. Johnson was 43 years old and, it would seem, in excellent health.

He had just passed a recent physical examination with the proverbial flying colors. However, on June 9, 1994, while attending a Society of Scientific Exploration meeting in Austin, Texas, Johnson died quickly and amid very strange circumstances.

During a slide show, several people sitting close to him heard a gasp. When the lights were turned back on, Johnson was slumped over in his chair, his face purple, blood oozing from his nose. A soda can, from which he had been sipping, was sitting on the chair next to him.

Did Ron Johnson die of a stroke? Possibly. An allergic reaction? Another possibility. Some of the more outstanding facts of Ron Johnson's life might easily lead a more skeptical-minded person to a tentative conclusion that his death was probably neither accidental nor natural.

For instance, his most recent job was with the Institute of Advanced Studies, purportedly working on UFO propulsion systems. He had been formerly employed by Earth Tech, Inc., a private Austin, Texas, think tank headed by Harold Puthoff.

It would appear he held high security clearances, traveled frequently between San Antonio and White Sands, and had attended 2 secret NATO meetings in the last year or so.

One of those meetings, it is rumored dealt with ET communications. Although advanced in years, there are some who believe that Dr. Hynek's death was because of "strange circumstances," due to the high number of researchers who have died of brain tumors or cancer.

If all or most of the facts offered above are accurate, one thing seems obvious: Johnson was walking both sides of the street. This in itself was highly dangerous, and he may have paid the ultimate price in an attempt to serve more than one master.

As for exactly what killed Ron Johnson, a number of possibilities beyond natural ones present themselves. It is quite easy in this day and age to induce strokes through chemicals or pulsed radiation.

It is just as easy, and has been for some time, to induce heart attacks and other physical debilitations, such as fast-acting cancers. The best bet is that Ron Johnson was eliminated by a quick-acting toxin, perhaps a nerve agent.

As for exactly why he was killed, we will probably never know. The autopsy, somewhat ludicrously, has been officially classified as inconclusive.