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CONTENTS AUTHORS
Patrick McNamara
Page 03: The Phenomenon of Photoplasm: By Patrick McNamara.
In the early 1990’s I started his first physical circle in north London. The circle was held in darkness as with
most physical circles in the past. Within this circle the energy produced was the “normal ectoplasm” used
in all physical circles to produce materialisation phenomena. And like the ectoplasm used in the past physi-
cal circles it was extremely sensitive to light, which meant it could not be filmed in bright light. Although
you can use Infra red light in dark rooms. Patrick McNamara explains... 03
Michael Feeley
Page 09: My Multidimensional Odyssey: By Michael Feeley.
Blue lights flashing, I reach vehicle speed limits while hurtling through the streets of Birmingham, yet an-
other emergency call, yet another life to protect. Unbeknown to a career police officer it was my last day
of normality, my last day of a third dimensional amnesia as I walked out of the police station for the last
time in 2009. I’d served for 17 years and had seen humanity at its best and worst, but I had always known
that there was more to existence than what I had, up until that point, seen. Michael Feely explains... 09
Philip Mantle
Page 13: An Airman’s Encounter: By Philip Mantle.
We are constantly being told that the UFO enigma began in 1947, with the Kenneth Arnold sighting in
Washington state and the Roswell Incident a few months later, but any student of Ufology will know that
the subject has been with us for much, much longer. The following story dates not from antiquity, but from
1943, yet it demonstrates how unsuspecting folk have been encountering UFO-related phenomena since
long before the term ‘flying saucer’ was dreamed up. Philip Mantle reveals a most interesting interview...
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John Ventre
Page 27: The trouble with government agencies: By John Ventre.
If you read “UFOs over Pennsylvania”, I documented the trouble we had in acquiring radar data from the
Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) in 2008 even though we visited the Philly airport tower and saw the data
on the screen. The FAA four times sent me a letter stating that they had no information. The tower, at the
same time, mailed me a CD containing the information on the radar screens, but the CD was corrupt and
copied over with other data. All very strange. John Ventre explains... 27
Allan Cooperstein Ph.D.
Page 31: Hypnotic Age Regression - A neglected area of human potential: By Allan Cooperstein Ph.D.
Mallory was a dark, morose, attractive twenty-five year old. Although I was to be her psychotherapist, she
examined me with suspicion. This was understandable. For years, she had been trapped in a loveless,
physically and sexually abusive marriage. During treatment, She was able to relive her wedding and the
actual moment she realized it was wrong and wanted to cancel it. But there was much more to her hyp-
notic session that revealed some interesting information. Allan Cooperstein, Ph.D. explains... 31
Richard R. Ritchie
Page 37: Jigsaw Pieces: By Richard R. Ritchie.
Prior to the early 60s, you’d never hear the phrase; 'Conspiracy Theory', as it was first introduced in 1963
by the CIA as a required means by which to discredit any dispute or questioning of official actions, state-
ments, policies or views etc. This term was devised to be immediately and constantly repeated by author-
ity to imply and implant in the public mind that, any who challenged official statements were dangerously
unbalanced lunatics, whose rabid ramblings must be instantly dismissed. Richard R Richie explains... 37
Various Authors
Page 45: UFO and Paranormal News from around the world: By Varied Authors.
Each month Phenomena Magazine picks some of the most interesting news items that have appeared
throughout the world, such as UFO sightings, crop circles, ghostly encounters, science and NASA news,
conspiracies, supernatural occurrences, mysteries, strange creatures and cryptozoology, fortean events
and the profound. If you have an interesting news item, then please feel free to send it over to Phenomena
Magazine and we would be pleased to include it.
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Don Copllins
Page 49: Phoenix Brewing Company: By Don Collins of Fringe Paranormal.
Some believe that the soul survives death. Like the Phoenix of myth, a brewing company in Mansfield, Ohio
has risen from the ashes. While a building may not have a soul, this one might house the essence of the
departed. Perhaps there is more than one type of spirit being served here. Don Collins is a paranormalist
and aspiring author living in Toledo, Ohio. By day he delivers mail to the living and by night he leads his
team, Fringe Paranormal, on the quest to discover if dead men really do tell tales. While not official team
members, his cats can be found “assisting” him in analyzing audio evidence. He may be contacted via
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The Phenomenon of Photoplasm: By Patrick McNamara.
Introduction
In the early 1990’s Patrick McNamara
started his first physical circle in north Lon-
don. The circle was held in darkness as with
most physical circles in the past. Within this
circle the energy produced was the “normal
ectoplasm” used in all physical circles to
produce materialisation phenomena. And
like the ectoplasm used in the past physical
circles it was extremely sensitive to light,
which meant it could not be filmed in bright
light. Although you can use Infra red light in
dark rooms, used with infra red cameras, is
known to destroy ectoplasm. Thus any ma-
terialised forms or objects that are created
from ectoplasm within the circle could not
be recorded in visual form.
Without any hard empirical visual evidence
captured by a camera it left the usual suspi-
cion promoted by sceptics of all psychic
phenomena, that communication with the
afterlife is all just a big fraud, which in turn
discourages potential empirical observers
from believing that anything of real note
could occur within any psychic circles held
in darkness.
The only evidence provided from these
physical circles relied on the testimony of
individual witnesses within the circle, and
since they had no “eye-witness” because
the materialised results were normally pro-
duced in complete darkness, or a very low
red light, they could never be relied upon
for those who were not present. Patrick
McNamara understood that the only way
you could prove the existence of the after
life to a wide audience “was to capture
materialisations on camera in lighted condi-
tions.” This became his goal and he asked
spirit to help him achieve this. In the late
1990’s around 1999, Patrick had some com-
munications with spirit guides who said
they would help him achieve his goal using
a new energy, which spirit said it was to be
called “Photoplasm.”
Definition
Photoplasm: Photoplasm energy allows an
etheric being, or spirit, to materialise in red,
or blue and even white light, without caus-
ing undue physical harm to the physical
medium. The photoplasmic energy is col-
lected from individual members within a
circle and not just the physical medium, in
comparison to ectoplasm where the energy
is formed almost entirely through the physi-
cal medium and still attached. With photo-
plasm it is detached from the physical me-
dium. The photoplasm energy also allows a
physical medium to sit outside of “the
cabinet”. (The cabinet in a physical circle
is normally a section or divided area of the
séance or circle room, usually a corner of
the room; that has a curtain draped across
it into which the physical medium is
seated, gagged and bound to a chair, and
where physical materialisations formed.
The cabinet could also be a freestanding
compartment within a room where the
physical medium is seated.) The spirit
guides working in Patrick McNamara’s
physical circle started to experiment with
Patrick over many years, and subse-
quently with other mediums. Their stated
aim was to develop and produce the pho-
toplasm during physical mediumship cir-
cles. It has taken many years and many
physical circles to develop the photoplas-
mic energy and it is still a work in pro-
gress. Many physical circles are now using
this new energy while working with spiri-
tual guides.
The Photoplasmic Energy
It is widely known by those who under-
stand spiritual truths, that every physical
body and physical object has an equiva-
lent etheric double (sometimes termed
“spiritual double”). The etheric body, or
exact double of everything on earth, is
primarily used in a physical circle and it
this body that is acted upon first when we
use photoplasm. Within a physical circle it
the etheric part which is utilised first, not
the physical, and the vibration is first
slowed down to allow the etheric part to
absorb the photoplasm.
This process is slowly turning the etheric that the can they move the physical. Once
part into a malleable substance which can the guides can move the etheric, it is then
be used to eventually move the physical that they can move the physical. There is
material object, and can also be used to also trilogy to all spirit bodies, the etheric
create an etheric body which can be vi- or spirit body, the astral body, and the
brated by the spirits and guides to create physical body. When a person dies, the
a body that can be seen, or a voice box for silver chord detaches itself from the physi-
speech and other instruments that spirits cal body to the astral. The astral then
can utilise in the circle room. As the vibra- speeds up and goes into the spiritual or
tion of the individuals in circle speeds up, etheric body.
they can then use the photoplasm to
charge the actual aura of the etheric part The general idea with this in a circle, is that
of each object. From this point it is then people speed up their auras to such a de-
vibrated until it moves. Before a physical gree that they become more aware of the
object in a circle can move, or before etheric doubles and also the spirit etheric
physical atoms can be reconstructed to doubles that are in the room. The vibra-
make a form of photoplasm that you can tions that are needed can be produced by
see with the naked eye, the spirit guides the quickening of the individuals vibration
have to move the etheric part. within a circle to a point where they be-
come more attuned to the etheric. As that
The etheric part, also known as the spiri- happens, the spirit guardians and guides
tual double, has to be accelerated first so can the use the speeded up energy coming
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from within the individuals in the circle to
magnetise and to move the particles of the
etheric. Once the etheric starts moving,
they can then mould the photoplasm and
slow the vibration down in a certain way so
that the guides can produce movement of
the physical as well as the etheric.
The photoplasmic energy is gathered and
mixed with the etheric energy also gath-
ered from the individual sitters, to create a
mould of viscous substance. What used to
be known as ectoplasm was created in very
much the same way but it was created di-
rectly “through” the individual vibration of
the medium. Ectoplasm resulted in some
circles only having one or two mediums in
the group that could take the intensity of
quickening, or the intensity of vibration to
create the energy necessary to mix with the
etheric energy producing the ectoplasm.
In the case of photoplasm, the difference
now being that the energy for the photo-
plasm is gathered from all the individuals,
but you still need to have the quickened
vibration of a physical medium present to
be able to resonate the atmosphere to a
certain degree. The one idea being that
instead of the energy being channelled
through one individual like it was done with
ectoplasm, it is channelled though many
individuals and gathered in a certain way.
But, the guides still have to channel it
though the physical medium because this
factor is still necessary. The photoplasm is
channelled though the physical medium,
and unlike with old ectoplasm, it is then
detached from the medium. Although it is
etheric or living energy coming form every
individual in the group, instead of being
channelled through one etheric body, one
frail body, it is channelled and used outside
of the individuals who are sitting in circle.
You still have to be careful nonetheless
because any exposure (of light) in the
wrong way can withdraw that energy very,
very quickly. Whilst it would not be as disas-
trous as it would be with ectoplasm it
would still be quite painful for the main
medium who is sitting there. And it would
be quite exhausting for the other people,
who are supplying the energy to the me-
dium who is acting as the conduit for the
energy, due to his or her higher vibration.
The more one sits in circle the more at-
tuned you become, the quicker the vibra-
tion can become, and accordingly the more
attuned the spirit chemists and people who
work in spirit can become to the individu-
als. They will know the subtleties of each
individual and how they can work the en-
ergy within the context of any given circle.
This is why it takes times with the individu-
als to produce physical phenomenon. In-
deed, within a group each person brings a
different vibration to the circle and this can
result in better harmony and communica-
tion. For instance, there could be one or
The Phenomenon of Photoplasm: By Patrick McNamara.
more mediums with different abilities that
can be harnessed.
The general idea of the new photoplasm is
to take the individual acceleration and
development of each individual and per-
fect it into one whole so that you are not
dependent on one medium. But in fact,
you are drawing on the abilities of the
entire circle or group. What spirit guides
are doing in these groups is that they are
not relying on one medium, they are rely-
ing on drawing and getting people to-
gether with different abilities so that they
can utilise their progression, and their
development. Instead of the focus being
one medium, the physical medium, the
circle works more as a group. In working
as a group, the photoplasmic energy can
be utilised much more efficiently than the It is by your attunement, by the quicken-
old ectoplasm could be, because they are ing of you’re your spirit bodies vibration,
drawing the energy through many chan- that you become more attuned to the
nels and taking the quickened vibration etheric world and can start to see the
from many channels instead of one indi- etheric doubles of physical objects, and in
vidual who they would have trained for a some cases spirits, and the movement of
long time. This is why eventually there will objects in the room. With the photo-
be an expansion of physical mediumship plasm, as more and more people add to
in the future and it will be much more the energy and it quickens, the photo-
common for physical mediums to get plasm quickens and the spirits mould it in
better results. a certain way with other chemicals so that
it becomes non-etheric, but viscous and
If you work as a team, if you have har- solid to the material world. At different
mony, it helps the syncopation or the stages, as it becomes stronger some peo-
actual collection of the energy into one ple will see it, others will not see it. But
unit. The more you work together, the eventually the photoplasm is moulded in a
more you think of one mind, the more you specific way so that it becomes solid
work in love and strength to the guides, enough for it to be filmed. This is also why
the easier it becomes for them to create sometimes you will see spirit activity on
all the individuals like all the petals of the film, but not in the room. The light sensi-
flower come together to form the perfect tivity of the camera can pickup the photo-
rose. Once all the individuals are joined plasmic moulding or photoplasmic coating
together it forms the whole body. This is around the etheric part, but the human
done by each individual adding to the eye will not because it is not capable of it.
circle, the more they give the brighter the
light emanating from the circle and the Note
higher the energy produces the better the
results. The above process and description out-
lined describes a work in progress be-
Subtle Vibrations tween two changing worlds. As this is a
new form of energy it may not be adapt-
It is often the case that some people in a able to every physical medium. As quoted
circle say that they can see spirit, or some by David Thompsons guide “William”
say I can see transfiguration, while others when he was asked about “photoplasm”
say they cannot see anything. The reality by Victor Zammit on the 28th January
here is that it depends on the individuals 2007, some old techniques work best and
development, because the faster your “newfangled ways that they try and
vibration the more attuned you are, the introduce do not always have sustainabil-
more you then see of the etheric bodies ity of communication, as was seen during
which are being utilised and used with the The Scole Experiments.”
photoplasm. Therefore, you may have a
group of six or seven people, three or four www.ghostcircle.com
may see a transfiguration or hand moving
in circle, while others are not.
What they are seeing is the etheric part
moving because it has absorbed the pho-
toplasm. It is the individual’s development
that makes it possible for them to see the
early stages of the spirit formations, very
much like any other mediumistic ability.
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My Multidimensional Odyssey: By Michael Feeley.

Blue lights flashing, I reach vehicle speed limits while hurtling

through the streets of Birmingham, yet another emergency call, yet
another life to protect. Unbeknown to a career police officer it was
my last day of normality, my last day of a third dimensional amnesia
as I walked out of the police station for the last time in 2009. I had
served for 17 years and I had seen humanity at its best and at its
very worst, but I had always known that there was more to exis-
tence than what I had, up until that point, seen.

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 My Multidimensional Odyssey: By Michael Feeley.

It was in February of that year that my life
was about to change forever and the ‘para’
was to become my normal as my life pur-
pose was born out of abstract thought and
into physical reality. I, with my wife, was to
relive the murder of a 14 year old Victorian
teenager at around 3am on the anniversary
of her passing, as she showed me in ani-
mated detail her last moments on the Earth
plane as a physical being. She was suffo-
cated by her step-father who was also a
spirit attachment around me, a child stolen
from linear time and placed into lateral
time beyond the 3D consciousness, unfin-
ished business that prevented her from
making that natural journey between di-
mensions, as I woke up screaming with an
inhuman terror, beyond condolence.
I had suffered partial possession, polter-
geist activity and a burden on my relation-
ship as her assailant tried to intervene from
the spirit world as I researched the teen-
ager’s death, just as she had requested.
Both had been attached to my wife all her
life and when we met I also entered into
the timeless scene. It took about 6 months
for me to have the courage to switch off the
lights at night fearing another visitation, yet
another frightening event that had traveled
159 years forwards in time to my time.
Although now her story had been told and
the business had now been concluded, she
had passed to the so called ‘other side’, but
scars can take time to heal and I didn’t
know if mine ever would, I was a wreck and
every sound, every part of my day was a
physical manifestation of the deepest para-
noia.
The event completely turned my life
around in a complete 360 degree circle
and now a multi-dimensional reality had
entered my awareness, my wife and I
were twin-souls it was proclaimed, two
aspects of the same energy awakened.
From that point on I was about to embark
on multiple events of the paranormal and
spiritual kind, witnessing first hand a mul-
titude of unorthodox craft in our skies
both day and night, cigars floating in mid-
air and dimensional gateways opening up
in the sky and at ground level before my
very eyes as craft emerged and flew off
into the sky as the gateway closed behind
them.
One evening whilst at work as a police
officer I was involved in what appeared to
me to be an actual landing by other-
worldly visitors as people reported figures
and shadows in their street and electricity
sub-stations were exploding at a rate of
one every few minutes, events which the
electricity board themselves could not
explain. This was accompanied by an eerie
sensation of we are not in control as I saw
what appeared to be shooting stars travel
across the sky in juxtaposition at warp
speeds, which were not actually shooting
stars, other events had also occurred
complimenting the whole incident which
added to my belief.
Electromagnetic forces (Angels) would
visit each day and night and make their
presence known and show themselves to
me as orbs and masses of energy around
me and at my home and beyond as they
caused an energetic
explosion that lit up
the room as they
entered, the energy
morphed into sev-
eral shapes before
leaving. Gut feelings
to go to certain
places like a scene
from the movie close
encounters of the
third kind were not
uncommon to me as I traveled to those
locations to witness non- physical beings
approaching myself my wife and friends
from all directions, just as I had been
shown in my mind’s eye the previous day. I
have even stood just a few feet away from
a being not of this world but walking
amongst us, seemingly Pleiadian in origin.
I am just an ordinary person seeing, feeling
and experiencing first-hand events of this
magnitude each day. Do I have a purpose
and do I have a choice? The experiences
continue even to this day; but these days
guided research is the way and much eso-
teric knowledge of the world and the uni-
verse and its design has come my way and
not by chance, from the origins of religion
to the mathematical make-up of the uni-
verse and creation itself. It is propelling me
quickly down the ‘Rabbit Hole’ and it will
take me just as far as I want to go. Just an
ordinary person living and acting out a not-
so-ordinary scene in this journey we call
physical life, as I observe the reel of my
movie spinning and flickering by. With a
shovel in my hands I dig deep.

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 An Airman’s Encounter: By Philip Mantle.

We are constantly being told that the UFO enigma began in 1947, with the
Kenneth Arnold sighting in Washington state and the Roswell Incident a
few months later, but any student of Ufology will know that the subject has
been with us for much, much longer. The following story dates not from an-
tiquity, but from 1943, yet it demonstrates how unsuspecting folk have been
encountering UFO-related phenomena since long before the term ‘flying
saucer’ was dreamed up.

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John Warren was an armourer serving in
the RAF during World War II. At the time of
his encounter, he was stationed in Norfolk
at RAF Ludham, a radar facility close to the
large airfield at RAF Coltishall. What follows
is from the archives of our features editor,
Philip Mantle. Philip interviewed Mr War-
ren back in 1987 and he recounts a fascinat-
ing sighting during a late-night walk through
the East Anglian countryside. The text is
taken from Philip’s transcript of the taped
recording and has been edited purely for
clarity. Mr Warren’s drawings of what he
saw can be found at the end of the inter-
view, as well as a letter sent to Mr Warren
from BUFORA.
Transcript of an interview with Mr John
Warren conducted at 10am on August 4th
1987 at his home. Mr Warren will hereaf-
ter be referred to as JW. The investigator is
Philip Mantle, (PM)
PM) Right.
JW) You can just read that letter (copy
enclosed) and…
PM) If you would just like to go through
basically what you said to me over the tele-
phone in your own words. Just go through
what you can remember.
JW) Yes. I've made a little plan out (copy
enclosed) of the camp and what was there.
Well, it was early May, 1943. I just couldn't
tell you the date; do you understand what I
mean?
Now, I'd been to a place called North Wal-
sham in Norfolk. I don't know how far that
is from Catfield, but you could get a train
there, or you could, I think, we went on a
coach, actually, or somebody gave us a lift
on a wagon or something. Now, I missed
the coach back and decided I'd sleep. In-
stead of walking it, I'd sleep underneath
this signal box, which was like a little work
place underneath, but how long I was laid
down, I wouldn't like to say. I woke up. I
was cold. Even though it was May, I was
cold, you know. I thought, ‘Aw, sod it, I
might as well walk.’
‘I should say about a mile and half or poss-
ibly a mile from the camp, as I come down
this, you know, country lane. They were
only narrow lanes, no causeways. You
walked on a bit of a grass verge. Just in the
distance, I could see this kind of a figure.
This light had attracted me. There was a
light, but this, this person, I couldn't, I
couldn't get. Naturally, I couldn't run back. I
wouldn't run away, if you understand what
I mean. I was running away from my bloody
camp really. There was no way where you
could skirt round, so I just carried on walk-
ing. Now, when I got more or less opposite,
just to the right a bit, out of the corner of
my eye, there was a figure! It was normal, it
looked like a normal figure, but had a
round face, if you understand what I
mean (see witnesses drawing). Now the
smile, it was as though it was there per-
manent and it was not a smirk but a… it
was like permanent in a way to me. There
was something on the chest, and this was
like a greenish, which threw off a greenish
effect onto the face if you understand? ‘
‘Now, there were all fields there and all
fields here, you see. Now there weren't
big trees or anything like that. There were
what farmers have for keeping cattle in or
something like that, you know, low things
about this height, and [I saw] what I
thought was a bell tent. I thought it was a
bell tent just beyond where this figure
was standing. It would probably be a bit
further than the top of our garden, from
here to the top of our garden, at the back
there, probably about another 10 or 20
yards away, but there was something
there and I thought it was a bell tent. You
know these things in a fairground where
they have a stall, we used to roll pennies
down them, then at night time they used
to put…?’
PM) I know what you mean.
JW) ‘It was like a bloody bell tent to
me - what I call a bell tent. Now the blood
drained out of my head, I was really terri-
fied. I was bloody frightened, frightened
to bloody death, but I didn't want to run. I
didn't want to quicken my steps, like sort
of going hell for leather. I didn't see any-
thing at all in this person’s hand. I didn't
see a uniform, I wouldn't say there was a
uniform, but there was something
strapped on the chest with a light that
sort of glowed into the face, to light the
face up. Then in the background, I saw
this article [the ‘bell tent’ – SJ] and I could
just see two figures. These two figures
wore like a greyish [outfit], not as white as
an envelope, but more or less like a stony
grey colour, that’s all I saw. I didn't see
any lights in there at all. It was as though
they were doing something, if you under-
stand what I mean. ‘
Witness drawing of
The ‘Bell Tent’
Shaped object.
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‘When I got back to camp, we were in Nis-
sen huts, and there were only about 4 or 5
of the lads. The rest were on leave and one
or two were on duty, night duty. I come in
through the door and I was still shaking - I
was that frightened. I locked the door be-
cause I'm the last in and my bed was about
5 or 6 down on the right hand side of the
billet. There was a long window and it was
open, but I locked the door and I got into
bed and I thought, ‘That's it, I’m just gonna
get into bed.’ I was still bloody trembling,
when, all of a sudden, this bloody figure's
coming through the window! I thought,
‘Jesus! That thing's after me, whatever it is
down there!’ but when he got in, this per-
son was shaking. Now they either called
him Jennings or Jenkins, I couldn't say
what, I’ve forgotten. It’s forty odd years
since, and I said to him, ‘
“What’s up Taffy?” (I know he was a Welsh
fella)
“I don't know,” he said. “I don't know, I
don't know, I’m going to bed.”
He was a cook, this fella, and the following
morning he was on the early shift, I think
he was on at 6 o'clock. I went for my
breakfast, after I'd finished, I said,
“What was up with you last night Taffy?”
“I don't know,” he says. He’d been sleeping
out with a woman, you see, in a place
called Stalham. There's Stalham here, then
Catfield and then Ludham, our camp. I
don't know what time it was then, but he
must have stopped with her so long and
then decided, ‘Well, I’ve got to get back
camp I'm on duty at 6 and I'll have to be
there before quarter to six.’
“I don't know what it was,” he said. “I saw
something down.”
“Whereabouts?” I asked.
“Just round as you come out of Catfield
village,” he said. “I don't know what it was.
It frightened me to bloody death. I ran...”
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I didn't tell him that I'd seen the same thing,
because I hadn't booked out. I didn't know
whether he'd booked out. I knew he would-
n't be booked out, because he'd have been
put on a charge if he had.
‘UFO's never entered my mind. Well, no-
body ever thought about them in them
days did they? What it was I don't know,
but I thought after I've read that many
bloody spy books, I wondered if it was Jer-
ries plonking something in the ground.
These two figures seemed to be doing
something, you know, in the ground. If [the
figure] was an air ministry fella, he should
have challenged me at that time. It was
probably half past two in the morning, or
two o’clock, you know. It was just a round
face. It never spoke, you know, never said
good morning, goodnight or kiss my arse or
anything you know, it was just…
…now I've drawn a little plan of near
enough what I could. This is the country
road here (plan enclosed) and this is Lud-
ham village. At the top of the village, there
was no way out. There probably will be
now, but in those days, there was just a
post office on the corner. There was a pub
here, and I think it was the King’s Head, I’m
not right sure, but there was a pub here.
That could have been the King’s Head.
There were two pubs in this village. This
road went on, turned left and when you got
into more or less Ludham village, where the
post office is here, a little village post office,
you could turn left and that took you to
Potter Heigham (not sure on this spelling
PM – corrected - SJ) in Norfolk.’
‘It also took you to Great Yarmouth. You
went through one or two little villages. We
used to bike there. It was a straight road, all
bloody fields and all that, and then this road
here turned right at top of the road here,
this took you to Norwich and to a little vil-
lage off the main road called Horning (not
sure of this spelling PM – corrected - SJ),
where a lot of rich people lived. There were
beautiful little bungalows up there. Now
this road here, then, was Ludham. All these
were fields here. The airfield was here,
there were runways and that was all. It
wasn't grass, it was runways. There was a
little guard room here, but it was always
one of the lads that was on duty, booking
people in and out. This is where we were.
We were down this way. This is going to
Catfield, a little village called Catfield, here,
and these were the Nissen huts - I was in
this one here. I think there were 8 all to-
gether. Then there was a pathway up here
to the works lights, up to the airfield. There
were some WRAFS that were wireless ops
and all that.’
‘Their quarters were here. If we were going
to Ludham, we would have to pass this little
guard room. There was a gate here and we
would have to book out. If we were coming
up from, say, Potter Heigham or going to
anywhere up this way, to the pub at the
top or anywhere, a dance, little village, we
had to pass so you had to book out you
see. Occasionally, there would be an SP, a
corporal. A Bradford fella was the corporal
and one was from Leeds. Apart from
weekends, one of them would be on duty
Monday to Friday, and then Saturday and
Sunday there would be one of your mates
on, so you didn't bother booking out be-
cause you would be back late probably.
There was a water tower here. Just at the
back of the guard room there was the
sergeants’ mess for all the sergeants.’
‘The officers’ mess was a bit further up
the pathway and then there were the
officers' quarters. There were a lot of
trees just here by officers' quarters. They
were in Nissen huts by the way, but they
were not, say, ten in a bloody hut. Their
quarters were there, sergeants' quarters
were here, and the mess was here. Now,
coming down into Catfield, just about
here, probably about half a mile, these
was a row of terraced house, just here.
Just one row that was all. The first house
belonged to the boiler firer on the camp.
He saw to the boilers, sergeants' mess,
officers' mess and the airmen’s mess.’
‘Now then, when you got into Catfield,
there was a railway line which ran through
Catfield village. It stopped in Catfield, then
it went on to Great Yarmouth, did that
train. When you got into Catfield, it’s
more or less a dead end, then you’ve
come from the camp, here. Just here
there was a little village pub, I can't think
of the name, and then there were a few
little cottages dotted about here and a
few on here, and then as you got into
Catfield, then it was a sort of a dead end
there. You had to go round a bend like
that. When you got round the bend, there
were little cottages here and here and one
or two here. All fields here, by the way.
Then the road went on like that to a place
called Stalham, and there was a pub here.
What was it called? An old lady kept it
with her daughter. The Windmill, I think
that's what they called it, the Windmill. I
came from Stalham, walking on the road
here, and I got into the village at Catfield.
I'm coming round the bend at Catfield
village and the pub's here somewhere. All
these were fields there were all fields
here, with little bloody bushes etc., and
just when I got round the bend, I was
probably about 20 yards, that's when I
saw this bloody thing about here. I
thought, ‘Bloody hell! What’s that?’ and
that's what I saw’.
PM) ‘Could you tell me a little bit more
about the base, I mean its activities during
the war and what you did at the base, I
presume it was RAF you were in?
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JW) ‘Yes. I was an armourer’.
PM) You were???
JW) An armourer.
PM) Armourer. How old were you at the
time, Mr Warren?
JW) Let’s see, that was 43, so I was
about 22, I think.
PM) 22.
JW) About 22.
PM) And how long did you spend in the
armed forces?
JW) Five and a half years.
PM) Can I ask you one thing...
JW) Yes.
PM) Why did you [not] think to report
this to anyone like your Commanding Offi-
cer or someone of that sort?
JW) ‘Well, I hadn't booked out you see,
for one thing, so automatically you were
on a [charge]. Now, I didn't know what to
report. What could I have reported? Do
you understand what I mean? If I’d… now
who was the CO at the time? If you can
just let me, let me think. Now the first CO
on the camp was a fella called Squadron
Leader Angel. He was a First World War
pilot. He had been something like that and
he was knocking on. When I say he was old
he was well into his 50s then, so he wasn't
active, not actively flying.’
‘I think he got posted about 1942 and then
we got a drunken Squadron Leader. He
was a drunkard, but he wasn't a pilot, he
was admin. He was always drunk. I remem-
ber I was once on guard duty. It was, I
think, about a fortnight before this incident
happened and it was a Saturday night. The
phone rang and I was the only one on that
night, so I went and answered it in the
guard room and it was this bugger, but I
can't think of his name. I had to get onto
MT section to get a bloody transport driver
out to bring him back from somewhere. I
can't think where it was. He was drunk, so I
told this bloke in the MT section. He said’
“Oh, who is it?”
“Well it's CO that's phoned up,” I said.
“He’s drunk again, a drunken little get he
was. Anyway, I remember them bringing
him back and this was about 3 or 4 o'clock
in the morning. I remember the driver
coming up, so I lifted the barrier up for him
to get up with the car. I opened the door of
the car and challenged them - you know,
“Halt! Who goes there?” all this bloody

tripe, and it was the CO. He half fell out of
the bloody staff car, you know, he half fell
out! I had to shove him back because the
driver was a corporal and he said: “Get him
back in, Yorkie!”
[The CO] was drunk and I got him back in.
Anyway, I think he took him to the officers'
mess and got a couple of the bloody bat-
men to throw him in bed, but I can't think
of his name.
PM) Did you reach any rank during your
time in the forces?
JW) Well I couldn't get promoted. High-
est I got was LAC, you see I was a split
trade.
PM) What's an LAC?
JW) ‘Leading Aircraft Man. But that was
a split trade. If I had taken a course for gen-
eral armourer, that’s guns and bombs, I
could have got a promotion, you see,
probably a corporal. It takes time, but with
me being a split trade, what they call a split
trade, that’s as far as I could go. This rule
was brought out in 1943 to encourage you
to go on a general course’.
PM) ‘Could we just go back to you meet-
ing this figure on the road? Did you notice
anything else about him? I mean, you said
his facial expression was very prominent,
what about the rest of his face?’
JW) ‘Well all I know was that it was a
round face, do you understand what I
mean? I don't mean as round as an orange.
I've seen an advert on where there is an
orange which smiles. The lips go, and that's
just what it looked like to me. When I see
any come on the telly I think, ‘By hell, it
reminds me of that bloody Catfield incident,
you know.’
PM) What about the other facial fea-
tures, did you take any notice of those?
JW) ‘No, it was probably just a normal
height, like if you were standing on a bank
and you looked to be taller, because the
bankings were raised up. I had to look up,
to see across. It wasn't a little bloody body,
where I had to look down; I just cocked my
eye to right. It was this glow you see that
frightened me. I didn't know what the hell it
was. I was terrified. There was definitely
something strapped on the chest, here, but
there was a glow coming from it, a sort of
box affair and it gave a greenish effect on
this person’s bloody face, but then in the
background what I thought was a bell tent.
It was something round and after, I
thought, ‘It was a bell tent, was that.’
PM) Did you notice anything, did they
have any hair or things like that, did you
notice?
JW) No, I didn't, no?
PM) YOU didn't take any notice.
JW) No. Do you mean on the face?
PM) Yes.
JW) Oh, no. There was no hair on the
face. Otherwise it would have shown up
against the light, do you understand what
I mean? It was just a cheerful, healthy
complexion, put it that way.
PM) Did he have any hair on his head?
JW) Well I couldn't say.
PM) Didn't notice?
JW) I didn't notice, I didn't notice, I
didn't notice that at all.
PM) Did the figure acknowledge you at
all?
JW) No, it was just as though it was, it
was this bloody permanent smile, you
know. Never, never moved.
PM) Did he look at you?
JW) ‘Well, as I was passing, I just
caught it out of the corner of my eye. I
was bloody terrified. I was terrified and it
was just as though it was a ‘hello, nice to
see you’. Do you understand what I
mean? No challenge, no mugging or any-
thing like that, you know. After the war, I
got reading these bloody spy books. I
thought, ‘Well, if it were Jerry, why didn't
he kill me? If he killed me, they'd find out
that it was a bloody foreign bullet…’
‘ A Jerry bullet’. I [wondered] how the hell
has Jerry got here. The coast is about, as
the crow flies, 12 or l4 miles away, so they
would have to come by U-boat off the
east coast, off the Dutch coast and then
onto the coast of Norfolk. I thought, well
they have a long walk unless they have
got these mobile bikes, but what the hell
is that thing in the field? They couldn't get
that thing in the field on a bloody bike, on
a push bike. Then I thought, well was it
was it some of our lot? But normally if
there was a crash anywhere, armourers
were called out in case there were any
guns or bombs on board, but nobody was
called out. There were no crashes re-
ported at all.’
PM) This bell tent-shaped thing, were
you able to make out the colour of it? I
know it was dark, but…
JW) ‘Well no, all I saw, it was like a
stone grey colour, and height of it proba-
bly might have been as high as this floor
to the ceiling, but it was just like a bell
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tent. I mean if somebody would have
asked me then what it was, I’d have said a
bell tent. Now if I went up there tonight
and saw something in that field, I'd say
that's a bloody flying saucer, obviously,
because I know they exist. Well, I don't
know they exist, I only think they do exist,
but I mean I didn't believe in anything. If I
hadn't have seen this bloody thing, if there
had been a rumour before the war that
there were things like that, I would have
said, “By hell, I've seen a flying saucer!” I
saw it in 1943, but that word was never
used.’
PM) This chap called Taffy, did he give
any more explanations for what he had
seen when you asked him about it, did he
tell you at all?
JW) ‘No, he said I didn't go down [to
the village] and it’s true. I never went
down to that village for about another
fortnight, to Catfield. I was frightened.
Even if I were coming back at half past 10
at night and it was summer, I was bloody
terrified. As a matter of fact, between Cat-
field and Stalham, when it was our day off,
we used to go swimming in a little river
near Stalham. We used to go have a dip,
but I didn't even go bloody swimming. I
thought, ‘Bugger it, I’m not’. If I went for a
drink, I went into the NAAFI or up to Lud-
ham village, but…’
PM) Did Taffy explain to you what he
had seen?
JW) ‘No, I don't think. Taffy was posted
about a fortnight, or maybe three weeks
later. I think went to, he was posted over-
seas and I think he finished up in India. I
said to him, oh, about a fortnight after,
“Have you been down to Stalham lately,
Taffy?”
“No, no,” he said. “No, I'm not going down
there.” I mean he was in the same condi-
tion as when he came in through the win-
dow. He was in a worse bloody condition
than me really.’
PM) SO he didn't tell you what he had
seen?
JW) ‘No. He said he didn’t know what
he saw. “I saw something down there. It
was all lit up,” he said. ‘That’s all, you
know, but I didn't tell him that I'd seen the
same thing. I told him that I thought he
was joking, but he denied it. I asked him
whereabouts he had seen it and he said,
“In Catfield. I run.”
‘I thought, ‘Well I saw it and I didn't bloody
run!’, but I was bloody frightened to death,
which I was, honestly, that's the truth. I've
never been as frightened in my life.
I've been in some scrapes, air raids and
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stuff like that, but I've never been as terri-
fied as I was when I saw it. I couldn't retreat
and go back a bit, I had to walk, but I
thought, ‘What the hell is that up there?’
‘I could see the glow and I was probably
200 yards away. I could see it from the road
side, the side of the ditch. I thought, ‘I will
have to carry on walking. I can't run back
and I've just walked about 8 bloody miles. I
can't be running across fields going through
hedges!’ You know, I carried on and more
or less when I got level to it, I just, glanced
out of the corner of my bloody eye onto the
right, which was where it was. There were
bushes there and that's when I saw a figure
with this thing strapped on the chest. It
threw a light, but no light down below, no
reflection of anything on the floor, just into
the face. I thought, ‘Well, that bugger must
not be able to see, without this bloody
light.’ It was a greenish effect was this light
and it was sort of transparent. It just went
onto the face, the light. It was a round face
and the lips were that way.’
PM) How close did you come to this
figure?
JW) ‘Well I was on the left hand side,
walking up and this was on the right hand
side. The country road will only be as wide
as from the kitchen there to here. That’s all
there was, country roads, it was just a little
country road. Ludham was at the top there
and then Catfield at the bottom, which was
like walking from Batley to Dewsbury, but
there was nothing, only fields, with our
little camp in the bloody middle of them.
But, er, as a matter of fact I never saw a
thing on the bloody road at all.’
PM) Was that unusual?
JW) ‘Well, no, I mean, you see we were a
satellite airfield, which was an off shoot of a
place called Coltishall, which was the big
airfield. There were 3 or 4 squadrons there,
so there was about 3000 men, but ours was
just a little airfield. We had one squadron
of, er, 14 pilots, no navigators, because
they were Spitfires, the armoury section,
station armoury, with 3 or 4 armourers on
the squadron, half a dozen flight mechanics,
half a dozen riggers, half a dozen electri-
cians. Then you had the admin staff, the
orderly room and all that, but I mean, most
that would be on there was about 300, and
they were spread out you see. We were on
one part, nearer that row of houses at Cat-
field, and then there were lads that were
with the squadron more or less over to the
right of us, but over the top. There was a
lad from, er, I think he lived in Ludham. ‘
‘He was a school kid at the time and he
used to come onto the airfield. We had wire
round, but they used to cut the wire and
they could get through. They used to ask, if
I were up on the airfield, if they could
watch them take off. They would ask where
the planes were going and we'd say that
they were going on a sweep over the
North Sea or Holland or somewhere. Roy
Gallant was his name. He still lives in, I
don't know whether it's Heckmondwike or
Cleckheaton or Batley. He used to be in a
group, in this town just after the war,
that's how I came to meet him. He was at
a club one night called The Ramblers. He
used to go in a group called The Ramblers.
There were 4 of them, country and west-
ern type of style. He said,
“I know you.” “I think I know you,” I re-
plied. He said, “You were in the air force
weren’t you?” I said yes. He was about, 22
or 23 then and I’d be about 30 at the time.
He said that I used to be at Ludham and I
said, “Yes, I was.” “Don't you remember
me?” “Ooh,” I said, “I do. You and another
kid used to come through the bloody
wire.”
There were all fields and you would see
the kids. They weren't trespassing in the
field, they were only about, probably, 100
yards away from the barbed wire, but this
kid called Roy Gallant and his mate used
to ask if they could come through the
wire. You see, though, these 300 on the
camp, we weren't all in one block, if you
understand what I mean, we were part 5
or 6 huts that were here and then there
was sergeants' mess going from here to
the bottom of the road here. The officers'
mess was more or less in the same area,
but about two or three hundred yards
away their billets were the same, the ser-
geants' billets were the same. We were
billeted here and some of the other me-
chanics were billeted three quarters of a
mile over that way. The WRAFs (Women’s
Royal Air Force), there were a few WRAFs
that were wireless ops, but there weren’t
many of them. There were only a few
cooks, officers' mess, sergeants' mess and
there might have been 4 women in the
officers' mess,4 in the sergeants' mess,
half a dozen in the airmen’s mess, proba-
bly half a dozen wireless ops, one or two
worked in the orderly room, typists.
Maybe 30 or 40 WRAF’s, that was about
it, but there was no more than 300, I
should say, at full strength of the staff.’
PM) And you never saw anyone else on
the road apart from these figures?
JW) No.
PM) Would you say that was unusual
or not unusual?
JW) Well, I, yes.
PM) Would you have expected to see
something on your journey that morning?
JW) ‘No, I don't think you would. I
mean, once it got after 11 o’clock, it was
bloody dead until probably 7 or 8 o'clock
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the following morning, because there was
nothing. You see it was like being up top of
bloody Howley (old ruins in Batley), you
understand what I mean?’
PM) Now you reported this originally to
a Mr Whitaker of the British UFO Research
Association. You’ve got a letter here from
him in 1973. How did you come to report
this to Mr Whitaker, how did you…?
JW) ‘I didn't report it to him, I reported
it to, er, it was in one of the papers, and it
was Cambridge University. I wrote to this
address at Cambridge University and I said
that I'd seen something which I have never
been able to fathom out what the hell it
was. I put in the letter what I told you,
what I've just more or less told you. Well
then I got a letter back from them, saying
to get in touch with…’
PM) Mr Whitaker.
JW) Well, I think that's from, er, Cam-
bridge University isn't it?
PM) No this is from Mr Whitaker (copy
of letter enclosed PM).
JW) ‘Oh is it? Oh well, they got in touch
with Mr, with, with this fella (Mr
Whitaker). Here look, I never saw this. I
moved, you see. I was living up Staincliffe
then and I went working away, so I never
got in touch. I was living up Staincliffe es-
tate then, but then we moved up Healy, so
I never got in touch with him and then I
went working away. I was working away
for a few years, you see, coming home
every fortnight for the weekend. It was just
in an envelope in the drawer and that was
it. I just, er, I never bothered after that, do
you understand what I mean?’
PM) Since the war finished, over the
years have you ever taken an interest in
the subject at all (UFOs),have you read
anything about UFOs, or anything like
that?
JW) ‘I tell you what I did see. I got de-
mobbed in March 1946, and I think this
would be about 1947. I think it was the
year after I got de-mobbed. I’m nearly sure
it was. I know I was on my holidays, and I
used to have my holidays about Septem-
ber. We had only a week’s holiday then, by
the way. I was in Batley town centre and
looked to the Town Hall clock. I remember
looking to see what time it was, and it was
between half past 10 and 11 o’clock.
As I looked up towards the clock, I saw
something, but I couldn't describe it. It
was there one second and then it was out
of view. There was a fella called Billy
Fletchen (not sure of this name PM), but
he's dead now. It’s a pity really, because
he’d have given you the same explanation
as me, because he said, “Did you see that
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John I said, “Aye, what was it?” He said he Witnesses drawing of Strange ‘Man’.
didn’t know. It was just to the right a bit of
the clock but high up, higher up than the
clock. It was, I’ll tell you what it was like - it
was like an ice cream cornet. It was just like
an ice cream cornet, but it was only there
for two or three seconds. It was just hang-
ing there. That’s all I've ever seen. I've
never seen anything else.

PM) You've never read anything on the

subject or anything like that?

JW) ‘No. I never read anything about

this until probably in the fifties. I’ve read
some of Jenny Randles books, you know,
about that thing down in Suffolk, that crash.
Then I saw a programme on the telly not
long back. I’ve convinced the wife, the wife
believes in them, but I said to her that I
didn’t know what it was that I saw. I said it
was 1943 when I saw this bloody thing on
the floor and this bloody figure. I explained
today what it was like. I’ve told you what it
was like. I said I was frightened to bloody
death and I've been in bloody air raids!
We’ve been bombed and machine gunned,
obviously with Jerries that were coming
over to bomb Norwich, and, er, when I was
station at Hull at one time, just outside of
Hull, I was caught in a raid. I was only about
18 or 19 then, but I was more frightened
when I saw this, this thing, than I was, you
know, although it didn't harm me. It wasn't
aggressive, it just stood there. Never spoke
and I never spoke, I was too frightened. I
don't think I could have opened my mouth
to tell you the truth, so…’
TAPE TURNED OVER AT THIS POINT
JW) ‘You know, they reckon that one or
two have crashed, UFOs. Now whether I
believe that there is something some-
where? I don't think we are the only bloody
persons in the Universe at all.’
PM) Do you think it would be possible
for you to do a little sketch of this bloke’s
face? Well just make an attempt anyway.
You don't have to be any great artist.
JW) ‘Well, this is where he was here. I
was coming up this side. All here was fields,
there was nothing, just all bloody fields, and
this person’s face was definitely a round
face and the mouth was that shape (see
drawing PM). It would be, I’m only what,
five foot seven, now whether he was stood
on a banking or what I don't know, but he
was definitely taller than me because I had
to look up. On the chest there was defi-
nitely something that was sort of square,
but whether it was strapped on the chest or
a fixture. I don’t know. It had a glow that
came to the face and it was a greenish
glow. I’m not saying the face was green, but
with this greenish glow, it illuminated the
face and it was as though that was perma-
nent. I just observed it for a few seconds,
that's all. The lips didn't move, I didn't see
any hands move, because I didn't look for
any hands. All I was bothered about was
getting bloody past. In the background
there, probably twenty or thirty yards
past, the field is divided, but not divided
with fencing, with kind of little bushes.
That figure was sort of standing here, but
then beyond, probably about 30 or 40
yards away from where this field was
divided, there was definitely a round thing
there. It was sort of a stony grey, but I
couldn't see any lights, but then, just
about here, just to the left of it here,
there were definitely two figures. ‘
‘They looked to be wearing what looked
like a baker’s or a painter’s bloody uni-
form. It was a greyish white, but I don't
mean snow white, more like a greyish
white, like a boiler suit. I could see no
faces, but there were definitely two fig-
ures and they were just to the left of this
thing here, just about here (see drawing
PM). What they were doing, I don't know,
I couldn't tell you. Now then, about a
month after that, when it was light until
about 11 o'clock at night, there were two
or three of us that went down to the pub
one night and as we were going down, I
sort of slowed the pace down and I had an
idea of just where, just to 50 yards, where
it was, but there was nothing, I couldn't
see anything.
I wondered if it was Jerry that was planting
something in the bloody ground. I sup-
posed they could probably come from the
coast, which is here, from the Dutch coast
to East Anglia, probably brought by sub.
Then they would have to paddle a bloody
boat! They would have to get up the side
of the bloody cliffs. If they had these
bloody bikes that they could fold up, but
they'd have a bloody tent and all, but the
coastline would be 14 miles away, so I
don't know what the hell it was.’
PM) Was it shaped anything like that?
JW) I, well you see that's a bell tent
isn't it? That’s a bell tent. As I said, it was
like a stall in the fairgrounds, where you
used to roll the pennies down and it was
round and then they used to put a cover…
PM) Over the top.
JW) Over the top, (indistinct), well I
called it a bell tent you see.
PM) Now these other two figures defi-
nitely had some kind of garments on.
JW) I thought they were in, I thought
they were in what I called painters’ bloody
overalls, because they’re what only bloody
painters and bloody bakers wear. I thought
after, if they were bloody Jerry agents,

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what the bloody hell were them two fellas
doing in a white suit in the bloody field?
They’d have been in camouflage gear
wouldn't they? And then this fella wouldn't
have been at the roadside, with a bloody
glow going into his bloody face, he'd have
been out of the bloody way! He’d have
been at the other side of the bloody fence.
He never spoke, never moved, just there.
PM) And you didn't notice anything
about his clothing, this figure at the side of
the road?
JW) ‘No. No. You see, it was this bloody
glow what I saw and this is what frightened
me. It was just a figure with something
strapped on the chest, a light, a glow, you
know, coming up onto the face, you know
like a sea diver, you know, the old sea di-
vers? I’m going back 40-50 years. The old
sea divers used to wear a kind of a glass
where you could see all of their face. I don't
know what they wear today, but that's how
I could see the face, that’s how I could see
it was round, but as I say, the lips, the smile,
it was just like a permanent bloody smile,
and it was just…’
PM) Do you think he might have had
something around his face?
JW) ‘Yes, that’s what I mean. I couldn't
say what it was, but to me it was like a sea
diver’s bloody helmet, but the old fash-
ioned type. I couldn't see anything on top, I
could just see the glow. The glow bloody
frightened me, because it was a greenish
glow, as though it never bloody blinked or
never went out. It was just bloody there. I
didn't turn round once I got past. I dare not
turn round. I was frightened to death, I'll
tell you, I was frightened.’
PM) Right.
JW) You see there were no houses then.
PM) Did it look something like that?
JW) That's it, aye. There was something
strapped onto the chest, but I couldn't see
below here, if you understand what I
mean?
PM) The dark.
JW) It was dark, but definitely a round
face. There was a box attached and it was
throwing like a fluorescent light into his
face.
PM) Now is that box correct or was it
bigger than that, or was it smaller or…?
JW) No, it was, well…
PM) Was it just on its chest or did it
come down here…?
JW) No, it was about here.
PM) SO it would have been a bit
longer?
JW) ‘Yes, yes. Probably to about here. I
didn't see a point at the chin or any pro-
truding cheek bones. It was just a round
face, that's all. It was definitely on the
chest and just sending the bloody green-
ish bloody glow into the face.’
PM) ‘You felt alright after this incident,
apart from being frightened, you were
just frightened nothing else, otherwise
you felt okay?’
JW) ‘I was bloody frightened to death
through the bloody night and especially
when this Jennings or Jenkins came
through the window. I thought it was after
me, I thought, ‘Hell, its here, whatever it
is, coming through the window’. Then
when he got into his bed (he was about
three beds lower down than me), he was
bloody trembling. I said: “Oh, is it Taffy?”
He said yes and I asked him what the mat-
ter was. He said that he didn’t know and
he was shaking. He asked who locked the
door. I said that I did, I locked it and he
said: “Didn't you know I wasn't in?” I said I
didn't know and that was the truth. It was
bloody dark in the billet and I was glad to
get in. He was a cook, you see, and the
following morning, after my breakfast, I
asked him again what was up with him.
“Ooh,” he said. “I don't know.” “Where
were you?” “Ooh,” he said. “I was down
in Stalham.” I said, “Well you were fright-
ened to death when you came in.” “Yes,”
he replied. “I saw something.” “What did
you see?” “Ooh, I don't know, I don't
know.”
PM) So that's a rough description of
the bell tent-shaped thing you saw. Let’s
just presume it is.
JW) ‘Yes. Near enough anyway. You
know, on the ground.’
PM) You've got the ground level here.
JW) ‘Yes.’
PM) Now, these figures were stood just
to the left of it.
JW) ‘To the left, they were.’
PM) How high in comparison were they
to it? Were they level with the top or
down here or…?
JW) ‘Oh no, they were, they were…’
PM) You just show me.
JW) ‘Yes, well, they were probably
about 20 yards from this bloody bell tent,
you know?’
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PM) In front or just to the side.
JW) ‘No, just to the side, to the left
here, that’s where they were. The field got
divided then, but they weren't up by these
little bushes, they were just as though they
were just in the field. What they were do-
ing, I've no idea, but I could just see them. I
only saw two.’
PM) How high up in comparison with
this did you think they would have been?
JW) ‘I'd say about as high as, erm, lets
see… I should say about as high as this
house.’
PM) But if you could have stood one of
these figures at the side of this, where do
you think his head would have been?
JW) ‘Oh, it would have come probably
halfway.’
PM) Probably round about there?
JW) ‘Yes. Probably half way, something
like that.’
PM) Did you notice anything else about
these figures? You said they had on some
kind of overalls.
JW) ‘I never saw their faces, I never saw
any lights. All I saw was what they were in,
as I say, like a whitish grey boiler suit. I
don't know what it was. You see, they'd be
past top of the garden away (approx 100
yards PM) if you understand what I mean?’
PM) That's what, 20 yards (later esti-
mated to be over 100 yards PM)?
JW) ‘Well, it would be above that.’
PM) 30 yards away?
JW) They'd be 30 yards away, at least
30 yards. I forget how long this bloody
garden is, it’s a big bugger, I know that, but
er…
PM) ‘What's puzzled me a little bit is,
these figures were 30 yards away, yet you
could make out their overalls and things
like that.’
JW) ‘Oh, you could see, I could see, but
you see this was May and I've a good sight
for distance, I mean, I’m 66 now, but when
I was 20 or 22, my bloody eyesight was
near enough perfect.’
PM) If you'll just let me finish. You could
make out these figures in the field possibly
30 yards away, maybe more than 30 yards,
but yet this chap stood at the side of the
road, you couldn't describe his clothing
etc.
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JW) ‘I was more fright- Plan of the camp drawn by Mr. Warren.
ened, I was frightened, you
see. It was the glow that
bloody frightened me. I
could see this glow, proba-
bly 100 yards before I got
to it. When I got round this
bloody bend from Catfield,
you know, you’re walking
with your bloody head
down and then all of a sud-
den, you look straight for-
ward and think, ‘Oh, I'm on
the last leg now, a nice
straight road into camp,’
and then, you think, ‘What
the hell's that?’ and you
can see a glow from 50
yards. I thought, ‘Jesus,
what is it?’ ‘
‘I thought, ‘Well, I can’t go
back!’ but there is some-
thing there. I’m a mile from
where I'm billeted, easily a
mile, so I just carried on. As
soon as I got more or less
opposite it, I just bloody
glanced and not a word
was spoken. I just glanced
out of the corner of my
eye, like that, and this fig-
ure was just standing there.

PM) It never moved?

JW) ‘Never moved.

Never moved. There was a
glow coming from the
chest and the face was
round. It was like a glass
thing, like the old sea
diver’s helmet, but I could
see the face as plain as
bloody day, with the
bloody smile, with the lips
going up like that.

Now, just when I got past it then, as I say, probably about 10 or 15 yards past, something caught my eye. That’s when I looked again. I
didn't look back. I looked there and what I thought was a bell tent and these two figures, I could just make two figures out, that was all.’

PM) And they were moving?

JW) ‘They were moving. They were just moving, you know, not running, but just sort of as though they were doing something in the
bloody ground. What, I don't know, as though one of them was doing or looking or about to do something on the ground. I don't know,
they were definitely as though, you know, as though they'd done something in the ground or they were looking at the ground or they
were going to do something in the ground. Then when I got past that was it. I never bloody ran, but I quickened up when I got about an-
other 100 yards. When I got then to where this row of houses was, I thought, ‘Oh thank God for that. If this bugger comes after me, any
of these buggers, I can run to where Bill, who was the boiler firer, I can run to his bloody house. ‘

PM) And you never looked back?

JW) ‘I never looked back. Never looked back. I was too frightened to look back. Too frightened. I've never been as frightened in my
bloody life, never. I wasn't frightened of what was in the field, because, as I say, to me it was a bloody bell tent, but it was this figure that
had the bloody glow and never bloody spoke that frightened me. If he'd have said “Good morning,” or “Good night,”

or “Are you alright?” I'd have said, “Oh, yes.” I'd have stopped and looked then, but it never spoke, never challenged me. It never said,
“What the hell are you doing out at this time?” That’s just what I can tell you, old lad.’

PM) Thank you very much anyway, Mr Warren. If you do remember anything else, or anything comes to mind, you know, just give me
a ring, let me know.
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Letter to Mr. Warren from BUFORA - Feb 1973.

JW) ‘Yes, I will, old lad. As I say, the only other thing I saw was like a cornet, shaped like a bloody cornet. What it was, I’ve no idea. I'll
tell you what time it would be as well. It was five and twenty past eleven, by the library clock. It was September time and it was a lovely
bloody sky. I don't know, we seemed to get a right good September for a few years, lovely bloody morning. A fella for always joking was
this Billy Fletchen. He was right dry witted, and he was older than me, you know, about seven or eight year older than me. He’d been in the
army, but we were just looking up at the time. Both of us looked and then this thing suddenly disappeared. He just turned to me, he said:
“Did tar see that, John?” ‘I said I did. We didn’t know what it was, but it was shaped like a bloody cone, like an ice cream cone, but then
suddenly as though it, it went with the thin end, that way, and then, all you saw was the thick part at the top and then it just went out of
sight. We heard nothing and that's all we saw, probably 2 or 3 seconds, that's all.

TAPE END AND END OF INTERVIEW.

Interview finished at approximately 11.15

Philip Mantle can be contacted at: philip.mantle@gmail.com

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Trouble with Government Agencies: By John Ventre.

Here in Pennsylvania, the Mutual UFO Net-

work (MUFON) has been experiencing some
discrimination by our government agencies
and we may need to file with Affirmative
Action for protection. MUFON is designated
as a federal 501c3 non-profit organisation,
but locally can’t get any love. We’ve been
turned down twice by the Westmoreland
Tourism Grant Agency who routinely hands
out over four hundred thousand dollars
yearly to groups that bring in tourists over-
night, but not for our UFO conference.
We’ve also been turned down by the
friendly Pa IRS for tax exclusion on meals at
our events. Here is their unflattering re-
sponse to us:

“Pa MUFON fails to relieve the government

of some of its burden. The Petitioners pur-
pose to investigate, study and document
the extraterrestrial phenomena is not a
core function of government. Its direct
beneficiaries are its members and those
interested in the subject. Such persons are
not subjects of charity. Petitioner is not cooperation from the
entitled to tax exempt status”. Allentown airport to ID
the pilot for interview.
If you read “UFOs over Pennsylvania”, I Pa MUFON has re-
documented the trouble we had in acquir- ceived zero Freedom of
ing radar data from the Federal Aviation Information (FOIA)
Authority (FAA) in 2008 even though we cooperation from the
visited the Philly airport tower and saw the FAA since they
data on the screen. The FAA four times sent “accidentally” gave us
me a letter stating that they had no infor- good radar on case
mation. The tower, at the same time, 47000. Then when we
mailed me a CD containing the information let the FAA know we
on the radar screens, but the CD was cor- were getting their ATC
rupt and copied over with other data. I antenna data from the
recently found out that earlier that year military 84RADES
(2008) in the Stephensville UFO case, the Group, they closed
FAA threatened to fire the radar operator down this very respon-
who responded to MUFON with radar data. sive military radar
source.
More recently in Pennsylvania, we paid $90
for radar data and the file they sent was As FOIA turns fifty this
impossible to read in a format that could year, they routinely
not be used. This was done deliberately. redact or deny half of
The column with paint screens was also the requests and the
deleted. The investigator also sent a certi- oldest request is now
fied letter to the FAA, which they acknowl- twenty three years in
edged receiving yet never signed for at the the waiting. FOIA re-
USPS. I filed a complaint with the FAA to quests are slow, incur
refund our $90 or provide readable date. I high fees and use anti-
am still waiting a reply. quated technology.
President Johnson who
This is no surprise, because last year we signed the act in 1966
received radar ‘paints’ (screen images) on said, “No one should be
case #47000 that showed a Cessna-like able to pull curtains of
plane nearly colliding with a squadron of secrecy around decisions which can be Reference: Case for UFOs by John Ventre
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Hypnotic Age Regression: A Neglected Area of Human Potential: By Allan Cooperstein, Ph.D.

Mallory was a dark, morose, attractive twenty-five year old. Although I was to be her
psychotherapist, she examined me with suspicion. This was understandable. For years, she had
been trapped in a loveless, physically and sexually abusive marriage. During treatment, I used
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At that time, I was also exploring hypnosis
and parapsychology. I was fascinated with
Milan Ryzl’s--a Czech Ph.D. in Natural Sci-
ences--use of hypnosis to enhance the ESP
ability of his subject, Pavel Stepanek. I
asked Mallory if she would like to partici-
pate. Due to her hypnotizability, I was de-
lighted when she agreed. Although my goal
was to measurable enhance ESP, I was un-
expectedly led into possible reincarnation,
an area I considered unconvincing.
This is Mallory’s story, how my intended
goal was altered to an exploration of past
lives and the shocking turn-of-events that
led to my contact with a “future personal-
ity.” This abbreviation of my work with
Mallory is not the story of a multiple per-
sonality (or DID), but that of a sane, sound
(Catholic) woman--a registered nurse–who
never had the least interest in past lives–
until she ran headlong into them.
A Roman Death by Gladius
Our early sessions focused only on deepen-
ing Mallory’s hypnotic state. She was tested
at each level to evaluate her depth and
progressed nicely. I gave her no direct sug-
gestions other than the suggested protocol.
Then, I noticed rapid eye movements under
her closed lids. Was this REM sleep or hyp-
nosis? I took a risk and quietly asked her to
describe anything she was seeing. Her brow
knit when I asked, as if she were question-
ing the images.
Softly, hesitantly, she said she was with a
rough-looking and threatening man. I asked
what he was wearing; she said he wore a
kind of uniform: an armor cuirass under-
neath which was a tunic with a short sword
hanging at his waist. He spoke to her an-
grily, although she didn’t understand his
meaning.
The unexpected happened. Mallory’s body
jerked and her lips drew back in a grimace. I
asked what happened; she said he’d
stabbed her with the sword. “I’m dying,”
she said quietly, unemotionally. I was now
faced with her report of a severe injury. I
comforted her and suggested that she allow
herself to feel the pain, but as if it were
dulled. She showed some easing. Then an-
other shock: She said she was dying.
Whether a real reincarnational memory or
fantasy, this was a threat to both of us. I’d
never dealt with a hypnotic subject who not
only believed she was dying, but felt the
pain and saw the flowing blood. While I
watched her writhe, my pulse quickened
and my heart raced. This was far from what
I expected–and so soon after beginning our
research.
Something within me suggested that, rather
than deny the experience or bring her out
of hypnosis, I allow her to “die.” It was not
Hypnotic Age Regression: A Neglected Area of Human Potential: By Allan Cooperstein, Ph.D.
mere curiosity. I was responsible for her
well-being. It was more: a form of inner
guidance or instinct that led me to believe
it was the best path. During the late hours
of that winter’s night, Mallory died at the
hands of a two-thousand year old man.
Death, Limbo, and the Ice Cave
Afterwards, in a soothing voice I urged her
towards ordinary consciousness. When
her eyes opened, she sat up unshaken for
a debriefing and to examine her clinically.
Apparently, I was more fearful than she
was. She described the experience with
extraordinary detail, too quickly and spon-
taneously than someone conjuring up a
tale just to please the researcher. What
happened was real–at least to Mallory.
Later, after I asked her to draw the figure,
I identified the sword as a Gladius, an
ancient Roman short sword. Was this
indeed an ancient Roman?
I asked if she recalled anything after her
“death.” She described what sounded like
a limbo state, that she had left the scene
of the slaughter, and felt peaceful and no
pain. Unlike many sensationalistic reports
(e.g., Bridey Murphy), the woman she
became under hypnosis was no one spe-
cial, not a significant historical or Biblical
figure. I asked if she wished to continue
and she agreed.
At our next session, she slipped into a
deep hypnotic state more rapidly and
easier. Her eye movements became more
active, as if she were actively processing
the visual image. I asked where she was.
“In a cave,” she answered. “An ice cave.” I
reviewed non-leading questions I could
ask her without knowing where, when, or
who she was. I suggested she look down
to examine if she wore any garments. If
there were, she was to describe them.
Under her lids, her eyes looked down.
“Fur. I’m wearing some kind of fur.”
Filled with uncertainty, I searched my
thoughts for the next questions. She
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needed to see herself, to describe her
clothing in more detail. “Look around the
cave,” I said. “Is there anything shiny?
Something that could reflect your image?”
She looked about, then said, “A pool of
water.” “Good,” I replied. “Look at yourself
and tell me what you see.” She tilted her
head forward again, then said with faint
surprise, “Oh. I’m a man.” Asked to give
more detail, she said her skin was dark and
that s/he had long, coarse unkempt hair.
Telepathy, the Ice Cave and the
Amputation
I had never encountered anything like this
before. Was this a fantasy or, possibly, a
reincarnational being? What practical use
would this be and how could I ever verify
it? I didn’t know that in a few minutes
Mallory would unwittingly offer a form of
proof. I decided to end the session and
took every precaution to bring Mallory out
of hypnosis safely. Afterwards, we spoke
for a while. She remembered every aspect
of the experience and was as puzzled
about it as I. She put on her coat. As we
talked near the door, I noticed that she
rubbed her right arm occasionally. After a
few minutes, it was obvious.
She added more details, continuing to
massage the arm through her coat sleeve.
My suspicions were aroused. I asked if her
arm bothered her. As she was a nurse, I
thought she might have strained it that
day. However, that wasn’t the case. My
intuition urged me to stay a while longer. I
asked her to remove her coat and recline
again. She agreed. Because we had ex-
plored three time periods that day, I was
unsure when her arm began to bother her.
She slipped into a deep hypnotic state
again. I gave her an open suggestion: to go
to “wherever” she was when the arm felt
different.
She became quiet. Exhausted, I waited
silently. I’d worked with patients all day; it
was now near midnight. I leaned my head
back and closed my eyes awaiting her re-
sponse. After a few minutes, I felt a sharp
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chill, real enough to cause me to open my
eyes. I examined the drapes on the window
over her, but felt no draft. Then, I asked,
“Where are you?” I was bewildered. How
was it that, in my fatigue and in a closed
office, I could feel that sudden chill, as if a
cold breeze wafted over me?
“I’m in the ice cave,” she answered. “Look
down at your arm and tell me what you
see,” I said. Under her lids, her eyes looked
down and towards her right arm. Then she
answered in the same untroubled tone:
“Oh. I don’t have one.” Surprised, I asked
what had happened to the arm. “A bear,”
she replied. “A white bear.”
A dark-skinned man wearing furs; an ice
cave; a change in gender. All these things
led me to suspect that, if there was any
truth to this, he was possibly out of the
past, perhaps prehistoric. However, my
frame of reference may have been wrong.
Instead, if this was a true reincarnational
memory, it suggested a possible Inuit living
closer to the present. Still, there was no
way to verify the experience.
My immediate problem was clinical, not
research! Somehow, she carried the injury–
fantasy or reincarnation–into the present.
What could I do? My education and experi-
ence offered no answer to this problem. I
reasoned that if her body image had
changed while she was the man, I might
alter it back to the original. I rubbed her
arm, suggesting that it was like pliable taffy,
capable of stretching to reach her finger-
tips. After a few minutes, I asked if there
was improvement. She said that there was.
When Mallory was brought out of hypnosis
again. The sensation was gone, vanished,
and she was left with no aftereffects only
the memory of strange feelings in her arm.
What transpired in this curious event? Ap-
parently, something quite astonishing. Ac-
cording to the Journal of Trauma (2008),
“phantom pain and phantom sensations are
often long-term consequences of amputa-
tion. Amputees experience phantom sensa-
tions and phantom pain within 1 month
after amputation, a second peak occurs 12
months after amputation.” Phantom limbs
typically decrease and disappear over time.
Mallory’s experience was clinically signifi-
cant because she did not report the missing
arm during or after her “visit” to that time
period, even after coming out of hypnosis.
Oddly, the “ice man” had already adapted
to the missing arm—or the change in his
body image. This adaptation to the loss of
an arm carried over into Mallory’s experi-
ence somewhere beyond her normal con-
scious state.
This suggests that, if this was an authentic
reincarnational memory, we tapped into it
at least one year after the man’s injury,
when his body image had adjusted to the
missing arm. Clinically, there might be
more authenticity to reincarnation than
I’d suspected. Rishah Shaelum: “Whoops!
I’m in the Future”
After many hours of exploring other possi-
ble past lives, Mallory and I had to tend to
other aspects of our lives. She could now
easily and quickly slip into a deep hypnotic
state, so I decided to “push the envelope.”
Again, using non-directive suggestions, I
guided her even further deeper into her
past. There were periods of silent waiting
as she adapted to her increasingly altered
state of consciousness. Then, one evening,
to my surprise, she said, “Whoops! I’ve
gone too far around the circle. I’m in the
future!” Circle? What kind of circle? What
could this have to do with the future?
There hadn’t been the slightest suggestion
or mention of the future.
After making that statement, Mallory
ceased to speak. She was still deeply en-
tranced, but she didn’t—or couldn’t--reply
to my questions. I asked if she could write
her replies. She nodded. After my becom-
ing used to exploring her alleged past
lives, I was utterly unprepared for this
change. My heart pounded with excite-
ment and anxiety. We had ventured into
unexplored territory. Then it occurred to
me: What was her name? In other time
periods, there was no name mentioned.
Now, she might identify a (possible) future
self. I placed a paper pad on her chest and
put a pencil in her hand. “Would you write
your name,” I asked. With no hesitation,
she gripped the pencil I slid into her hand
and, without looking, wrote Rishah
Shaelum.
Parenthetically, I should add here that,
according to neuropsychology the left
hemisphere enables verbal
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communication. Mallory was right-handed
and left dominant. Hypothetically, this
gives the appearance of having shifted
dominance to the right hemisphere. Her
motor skills (writing) remained left domi-
nant.
Later, I would look up the name. She had
no time to process it, so I was very inter-
ested in seeing if it bore any resemblance
to past or present names. In Strong’s Con-
cordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon,
I found the name Rishah (the original word
in Hebrew was ,(‫ ִראשֹׁת‬a feminine noun
phonetically spelled ree-shaw and derived
from rosh, or head. It denoted a beginning
or early time.
Mallory, I should add, was Italian and a
Roman Catholic. It was puzzling how she
came up with an atypical Hebrew name. I
asked Rishah why there were long pauses
between questions and replies. Referring
to Mallory, she said, “Communication will
be easier when she is more comfortable
and stops blocking.”
For the sake of brevity, I can only summa-
rize some of the information provided by
the Rishah personality. A more complete
description of information may be pro-
vided later. Rishah claimed to be living in
the 24th century in UniPaes, or the United
Peoples Estate. She described a “body
displacement” with Mallory because she
was seven inches taller (Scientific Ameri-
can asserts that we are getting taller as a
species).
She lived in what we know as South Amer-
ica, or “J1235A,” stating, “There are no
names as you know it. Sentimentality for
names ceased with increased numbers of
people traveling to different areas of the
world.” She spoke of Mallory’s struggle to
understand her answers. “She’s part of my
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awareness [or does she mean conscious-
ness?]. It is foreign for her to comprehend
this knowledge. I am explaining something
to her but she cannot understand it yet.
There are no words for it. I will give her the
image.”
This image or symbol, according to Rishah,
means that people in her time “reached a
high level of development and are able to
comprehend many facets of the world.
People become near their (see symbol) are
usually most beautiful.” Rishah never inter-
preted the symbol. Examining it psychologi-
cally, the three lines seem to represent the
dimensions of the sensory world with a
‘lemniscate’ (or time symbol superimposed.
It suggests that the limiting dimensions of
physical reality have been transcended.
When I showed this to a radio host dealing
with the paranormal, he referred to it as a
“time door.” As Rishah described it, the
world in which she lives is in serious danger.
The atmosphere is contaminated below the
stratosphere and sunlight is poor. The disin-
tegration of the Earth’s crust has resulted in
pollutants entering the atmosphere.
increase ESP, was redirected by the sub- spiritual healers, individuals capable of
ject towards expressing possible reincar- biopsychokinesis. Among the features that
national experiences. The rerouting was a I found was the capacity to suspend time
complete surprise and led to the accumu- and enter into a timelessness as they
lation of interesting materials. What can united with the healee. One healer (who
we draw from Mallory’s experiences since had been validated by a prominent para-
we cannot prove them empirically? psychologist/biologist) had the capacity to
touch an ancient Egyptian mummy and
Near-death literature lends some support diagnose the cause of death with some
to Mallory’s description of her death (and accuracy.
limbo) by short sword, possibly during the
ancient Roman occupation. Secondly, and Apparently, he was capable of moving
possibly most important, was her visit to beyond – or transcending – sensory data
the ice cave without any mention of the and accessing information that existed on
loss of a limb to which the man had al- a plane that the ordinary person cannot or
ready become adapted. How did Mallory will not reach. I hope this writing has in-
spontaneously arrive at the name Rishah spired you to raise questions having to do
which was later proven to have its roots in with the nature of reality, time, life, and
ancient Hebrew? Finally, what was the death, as well as recognizing the sense
strange phenomenon that she described limitations within which we all live.
as going “too far around the circle” and
led her into a possible future existence?
What could she have possibly meant
when she referred to “the circle.”
Addressing the final question, I turned to
the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
There are many mathematically possible
topologies for time. Time might be linear
or might be circular. Linear time might
have a beginning or have no beginning; it
might have an ending or no ending. There
could be two disconnected time streams,
in two parallel worlds, and perhaps one
would be linear and the other circular.
(http://www.iep.utm.edu/time/#SH3c )

There are no seasons to speak of. The

weather is gradually changing due to the
atmospheric contamination. The tempera-
ture is generally warm with occasional
“heat storms” due to accumulated debris in
the atmosphere. She warns that a large-
scale war, “the final war,” has taken place
and “there is a great need for survival
measures. All work towards this end.” As
one of her final comments, she states,
“Humanity does not thrive on intelligence;
it is a means to progress not a measure of
human value.” An interesting statement,
the phrasing and vocabulary are not typical
of Mallory. In addition, as a matter of inter-
est, many years later Mallory lived in South
America. At the time of my experimenta-
tion with Mallory (in the 1970s), I did not
know that Dr. Bruce Goldberg had investi-
gated hypnotic progressions--Past Lives,
Future Lives (1997)--or that Brian Epstein,
Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the
Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami au-
thored a book on the subject in 2004.
Questions, Questions, Questions
This is been a brief presentation on the use
of hypnosis which, although the aim was to
As a clinical psychologist and para-
psychological investigator, my first alle-
giance is to the well-being of the subject.
Although I had set an experimental goal,
there was apparently an inner pressure
that caused Mallory to become filled with
meaningful images. My goal was to set
aside my agenda and honor hers. This led
me down a pathway to a para-
psychological area I had earlier found
unconvincing. By allowing the subject to
lead the way, we may have explored a
human potential or a latent human ability
to access multiple time periods existing in
a cyclical rather than linear way.
This exploration and the many that fol-
lowed over the years offer the opportu-
nity to probe human consciousness more
deeply, especially where it intersects with
theories of quantum mechanics, specifi-
cally String and M theories. In fact, in the
1990s I conducted an investigation into
the psychology of so-called “psychic” or
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‘There are things known and there are
things unknown, and in between are the
doors of perception’.
Aldous Huxley
NOTE: Allan Cooperstein is a clinical psy-
chologist/parapsychologist and has pub-
lished his debut fiction novel, The SHIVA
Syndrome using the pseudonym Alan
Joshua through Champagne Book Group. It
has received considerable praise for his
integration of multiple genres in a science
fiction/paranormal thriller. The novel was
reviewed in the April edition of Phenomena
Magazine. There will be a special sale of
The SHIVA Syndrome on Amazon US from
9/29-10/15.
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Conscious Consideration V Conspiracy Theory - Jigsaw Pieces: By Richard R. Ritchie.

Those who have been following this series

of articles will immediately recognise that
the usual second part of the introduction
title has been dropped, the reason being;
by this time there has been more than
enough empiric evidence provided in previ-
ous editions to prove there is no
'Conspiracy Theory' relating to any of the
events exposed in this or prior issues. There
is only empiric proof of a determined effort
to thwart, obfuscate, belittle and ridicule
any unbiased, investigative research into
the subjects already examined in this maga-
zine, as well as the vast and varied amount
of, as yet, unexamined events, also tainted
by and through the use of this invented
derisory label or term.

Prior to the early sixties, you would never

hear the phrase; 'Conspiracy Theory', as it
was first introduced in 1963 by the CIA as a
required means by which to discredit any
dispute or questioning of official actions,
statements, policies or views etc. This term
was devised to be immediately and con-
stantly repeated by authority to imply and
implant in the public mind that, any who
challenged official statements were danger-
ously unbalanced lunatics, whose rabid
ramblings must be instantly dismissed. It
was also implied that those who gave heed
to those deluded dissenters, were also suf-
fering from some desperately disabling
mental malfunction.
Fear of feeling (or being thought of) as fool-
ish, was found to be the most effective tool
to silence, mock, deter and dissuade any
investigation, private, public or otherwise,
into covert governmental operations, even
when the perpetrated act or event was so
transparently contrary to the official narra-
tive. This was already in place and espe-
cially pertinent in the murder of J.F.K., and
so; by 1967 a dispatch marked "psych",
short for "psychological operations", and
"C.S." for the CIA’s "Clandestine Services"
unit, had been issued throughout the ser-
vice. This was brought to light in 1976
through a freedom of information request
and the actual dispatch (which can be ac-
cessed on line), outlines the most effective
means to attack and expose to ridicule, any
criticism or critic as propaganda or con-
spiratorial nonsense, thereby deflecting and
discouraging any other, or any further, in-
vestigation. How easily the gullibility of the
human ego is exposed. Afraid of being
thought a fool, almost all sheepishly follow
other flocks of fearful fools who are equally
oblivious that their robotic actions are pro-
viding exactly the proof they fear; - they are
indeed fools? There is a lot more behind
and within, both the above mentioned
dispatch and the motivating factors, which
led to the introduction of this purposely
planned, devious denunciation of any true
investigative research, dissent or honest
criticism, through usage of the derogatory
term:- "Conspiracy Theorist" The evidence
is obvious and empiric. Scrutiny of any
kind, from any source, of oligarchic opera-
tions will be, through the use of a compli-
ant and controlled media and its blanket
coverage, condemned, lampooned and
vilified as vigorously as possible and this is
the truth behind the highly successful
introduction into mankind's mind and
everyday vocabulary of that toxic term
"Conspiracy Theory".
That there is disinformation, fanciful ideas
and ideologies, personal agendas, fiction
posited as fact, ‘la la land loonies’ and all
the rest, is not in dispute, but these are
not what is at issue here. Trying to ascer-
tain what is factual, theorising about pos-
sibilities, advancing ideas, separating truth
from lies, following the evidence and fac-
ing the facts, no matter how disconcerting
or personally uncomfortable they may be,
for yourself, your circumstances or beliefs
should not dissuade a questioning mind
from its purpose or pursuit of truth. Never
allow fear of any kind, or in any form, to
prevent the continuance of expanding
your mind, insight, knowledge, spirit and
understanding.
There is a giant chasm between believing
something and knowing something. Belief,
in nearly all conditions, gets confused with
hope; knowledge is the ability to provide
unequivocal proof of why you believe
something to be true. This applies also to;
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and markedly so - to all aspects of religion,
phenomena, spirituality, Ufology, and the
many other areas or fields of investigation
where an open, honest, discerning and
objective approach is paramount. Say not
you have found the truth but rather, a
possible pointer towards truth.
It is here that we find those so often over-
looked jigsaw pieces that are, unfortu-
nately, left unrecognised by most seekers
when in eager excitement of discovering
evidence fitting together perfectly, validat-
ing a previously unproven proposition,
point of view or theory. They are under-
standably delighted with their accomplish-
ment and now; feeling vindicated in their
stance, set out to detail to others their
journey to justification. This is helpful, in as
much as it provides others with a factually
proven position, free from dispute or deri-
sion, but... without comprehending that
these few pieces are but a tiny part of a
gigantic puzzle, and that one needs to also
perceive the vast amount of further inter-
locking pieces this initial connection has
now rendered available, though still unat-
tainable, unless these pieces are also rec-
ognised as part of, a previously enormous
unseen picture.
Should a person discover a painting por-
traying a collage of colours, they may well
believe that is all there is to it, but, should
they be told to stare at it for some time
and in so doing; suddenly detect two leap-
ing dolphins appearing from within the
apparent abstract colours, they realise and
recognise a deliberate design has been
expertly concealed within the initial image
and was always, right in plain sight. At first
unseen but afterwards it is always easily
detected in these optical illusions. It is also
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helpful, if someone who knows what the

concealed image portrays, informs you just
what it is you should be looking for. Now
take this illusion to another level, what if
there is more than one design concealed
within the pattern? To look beyond the
dolphins you would have first needed to
know there was more to look for, and then
only by becoming aware of the dolphins in
the first instance, would any other remain-
ing secrets finally reveal themselves. Once
it is discovered that there is more than at
first appeared obvious, only then will the
true depth and extent of the subliminal
scenarios be sought for and finally unveiled.

Unfortunately, the mental myopic condition

experienced by most people when con-
fronted with what is truly occurring glob-
ally, as opposed to the distorted and diver-
sionary picture painted by official sources,
is an inability to observe or even be aware
of; that which lies behind the designed
deceit. Without hard scrutiny, what is hid-
den will never emerge. As in the abstract
image, only when seemingly disjointed
pieces are re-examined with an informed
insight will their interlinking connections be
seen to form, a clear, cohesive and coher-
ent picture.

In previous articles, seemingly totally un-

connected events have been highlighted
and exposed as true conspiracies at the
very highest of levels. Just last week main-
stream ITV televised a programme in which
it was claimed Saudi Arabian officials were
involved in the 9/11attacks, but it also re-
vealed that the CIA not only knew of, but
could have prevented these attacks. Fur-
thermore, at least three American presi-
dents were also accused of having knowl-
edge of this information and now, after
fifteen years of media denying any possibil-
ity of any collusion on or from American
agencies a sudden change of direction. This
is proof from the very people who have
always consistently denounced any criti-
cism or variation from any source, of the
official narrative, that there was indeed a
conspiracy, as well as high level collusion
and concealment within government and
official circles.
As well as confirming that they have always
known it to be deceitful nonsense, it ex-
poses their compliant duplicity, while al-
ways indignantly and furiously discrediting
any alternative view or questioning. No
examination of the host of anomalies and
impossibilities occurring throughout the
duration of the 9/11 attacks was entered
into. It was however implied as highly suspi-
cious, that as soon as flights resumed over
American airspace the Saudi royals and
their families flew out on the first flight
but... there was no mention of the Bin
Laden family, who also were flown out im-
mediately the skies were again opened.
Even now, whilst grudgingly admitting to
concealed evidence, there is a complete
dishonesty exhibited by this alleged investi-
gative report.
This week President Barrack Obama's veto
on the bill allowing the families of the 9/11
victims to sue the Saudi Government, has
been overturned by Congress. Fifteen years
of complete denial from all sides and offi-
cial sources, now begin to unravel as these
facts emerge. Does anyone who seen this
programme even realise the implications of
what has being exposed here? As always
there is no coverage, outrage or discussion
of this disclosure from any media source
including the governmentally funded BBC,
whose supposedly honest investigative
9/11 documentaries are now shown to be
corrupt codswallop, which should, by law,
bring about an immediate retraction of its
charter as it is required to always report in
a unbiased, fair and honest manner. Mind
you it does not state when it has to start
doing this, after all; it is the most trusted
broadcaster in the world - and this must be
true because - it's the honest and trusted
BBC who informs us of this fact?
So now we have verification from the very
sources of denial that there is untruths in
what is reported and taught as fact, but the
real jigsaw is not only located in the politi-
cal arena but in all aspects of human experi-
ences. Previous examples in this series of
articles have exposed a constant conspir-
acy by governmental, educational, scien-
tific and official bodies to discredit any but
their own opinions and viewpoints, whilst
actively discouraging and discrediting any
research, investigation and physical evi-
dence, disproving or inconsistent with,
what is considered to be the already estab-
lished facts and scientific stance
Why would good practice not demand
investigation into any and all of those
anomalies, in all of their diverse fields?
Interest by specialists and experts in their
chosen disciplines and particular subjects,
whose work, experiments, studies, excava-
tions and examinations, expose evidence
contradictory to conventional theory,
should not be instantly dismissed, derided
nor ridiculed but objectively listened too
and evaluated for their veracity and worth.
They should not fear career ruin, destruc-
tion of reputation, loss of friends and col-
leagues, loss of livelihood, and even loss of
life itself.
Here is an indication of a giant hidden pic-
ture, this consistent agenda of derision,
dismissal and denial within all official es-
tablishments of all and every contrary evi-
dence exposing an alternative to the mate-
rialistic, temporal, unimaginative, biased
belief system and the truly hysterical hy-
pocrisy posited as history, both human,

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Conscious Consideration V Conspiracy Theory - Jigsaw Pieces: By Richard R. Ritchie.

planetary, and otherwise, still taught in all

sciences and universities as unquestionably
correct, such as Darwin's ( and the clue is in
the title folks), Theory of evolution.

As quantum physics continues to expose

just how little is known about this three
dimensional physicality posing as material
reality, through the innovative work of lib-
erated scientist who seek beyond the ac-
cepted using scientific methodology in nu-
merous experiments prove there is a con-
scious connectivity in and uniting every-
thing in time and space which is cognizant
on a level far beyond human comprehen-
sion. This can be seen to exist and be
proven to exist but does not mean it is un-
derstood.
Awareness that something exists does not
necessarily imply, even in science, that our
limited human comprehension, nor pro-
grammed thought process, can understand
or explain it. Is this not also the truth when
scientific procedures are applied to the
multitude of evidence which encompasses
all that falls under the very loose headings
of paranormal phenomena? Scientific and
material methods cannot be used to meas-
ure the veracity of any subject which lies
beyond restricted parameters. Even the
most ardent traditionalists can only display
the very worst examples of cognitive dissi-
dence as they continue to dismiss and deny
the advancement of knowledge, scientific
and otherwise.
As evidenced by earlier articles, much of
what these leading figures disclosed, even
if morally destitute, could be understood
to have been driven by psychotic egocen-
tric avarice. These include:- the pharma-
ceutical industry cons, cancer cures, arms
manufacture, Global wars, E.M.F. and its
consequential cancerous calamity, 9/11
and 7/7 as well as the multiple other false
flags past and present, chemtrails, nano-
technology, Monsanto, climate change,
MK ultra programming, financial fraud,
trans-humanism, genetic experimentation
and a multitude of further cover ups and
crimes against humanity. Yet the unseen
picture and therefore the unasked ques-
tion is; why would a mob of mercenary
manipulators wish to deny, demean,
cover up, obfuscate, and refuse to con-
front all and any areas which have no
bearing on any particular person, country,
political policy, financial interest or such?
scientific fields of archaeology, anthropol-
ogy, palaeontology, genealogy, and on and
on. Once again it should be noted; these
are not fantasist nutters, these are fully
trained and establishment educated and
programmed experts who have uncovered
evidence disproving or disagreeing with
the currently accepted history being
pushed as unequivocally proven facts. Also
again it should automatically raise the next
question; ' how many others know or
would come forward if they were free to
do so'?
There is also dishonesty and complete
avoidance of the many dangerous condi-
tions occurring at this moment on this
planet which is verification of a controlled
and corrupt media and its continued eva-
sion of certain aspects deemed too contro-
versial to cover, such as:- Fukushima's
three missing radioactive cores which dis-

It can be understood, as so often has been

the case in times past as well as in the pre-
sent, that a country and its governing body
does not wish to expose to public view or
knowledge, the many insidious and inhu-
mane acts they participated in, when those
in privileged positions of power, throughout
all the ages and in the present, sought al-
ways and all ways, to increase their power,
wealth and perceived prestige. Aware of
the potential dangers posed by public
knowledge, they did not and do not want
information of the horrendously disgusting
and despicable aspects of their crimes and
characters coming to light, and took appro-
priate steps to ensure they never did or
will.

Given this desire to appear as normal, car-
ing, thoughtful, reasonable, and compas-
sionate leaders, ruler, etc., in all their vari-
ous authoritarian guises, or should that be -
disguises? Why would those powerful con-
trolling individuals, who oversee all areas of
human and planetary knowledge, educa-
tion, health and history, through their ap-
pointed minions, not also attempt to ap-
pear to behave in a 'normal' manner, by
expressing the natural human curiosity and
desire for further knowledge, as is always
expressed by people, when confronted with
exciting discoveries of articles, remains,
anomalies, phenomena, mysteries, the
inexplicable and the unexplained?
It would of course, in a very small context,
affect certain individuals, connected with
certain scientific assumptions, whose
reputations and/or financial status would
be lessened when they were found to be
in error, but we have seen just how ruth-
lessly authorities deal with individuals, so
no, this does not constitute a reasonable
factor for the continued state of rejection,
lack of any real in depth objective interest,
research or investigation into any and all
subjects pertaining to the fields of para-
normality, ontology, spirituality, meta-
physics of any kind, Ufology, dimensional-
ity, or any other phenomena. Along with a
consistent rejection of all anomalies in the
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appeared into the Earth and the millions of
contaminated sea water used in an at-
tempt to cool them which, were flushed
into the sea after contamination, Steven
Hawking's justified warning of the insanity
of the CERN Large Hadron Collider’s at-
tempts to open dimensional portals. Do
please think for a moment here... this is
being conducted and financed with billions
of dollars from and by the very establish-
ment and authorities who ridicule and
mock any mention of other realms, dimen-
sions or realities??? There are also the lies
and lack of any true research into what is
causing changing atmospheric conditions,
Bee and other pollinating insects demise,
 Conscious Consideration V Conspiracy Theory - Jigsaw Pieces: By Richard R. Ritchie.

disrupted bird and sea creatures migration

patterns and their link to EMF, HAARP and
its deadly danger for our protective strato-
sphere, and so much more.

We return constantly to the same conclu-

sion, there is a controlling power denying
any access to what is truly occurring, what
its purpose is, and from where, what and
whom our true origins are. There are of
course numerous theories surrounding this
dilemma for the Earth and its inhabitants
and it is my purpose in future to cease writ-
ing as I have throughout all previous articles
in a third party manner, dealing only in
empirically proven factual materialistic
evidence and leaving aside personal knowl-
edge, experiences, information, theories
etc., as the only manner in which to explore
that which lies beyond the material, Those
fields defying explanation cannot be meas-
ured using corporeal methods, as their
vibrational frequencies are beyond the
capabilities of temporal instruments to
identify or distinguish.

One of the greatest obstacles in discover-

ing, experiencing, sensing and understand-
ing what lies in metaphysical dimensions, is
the difficulty and often the refusal or inabil-
ity of humans to leave behind the limiting
physical restraints and programmed para-
digm of their reality, ego and life, put them
to one side or even better, behind. Names
have no other meaning in this respect than
as an aid to giving a vague comprehension
of what it is, that is being discussed or de-
scribed. Being right is impossible as we are
involved in the unknown, it is truth that is
to be unfolded and there is no room for
bigoted beliefs or personal preferences.

It is often claimed by many that they know

what is coming after death, what a ghost or
poltergeist is, what a demon can or can't
do, that aliens are harmless, that love
(human) is the answer, etc., etc., even to
the point of hubristically claiming to know
or understand Divine or a Gods will or con-
sciousness and this is the state and stance
leading only to stagnation, no further in-
sight can be perceived or revealed to one
whose arrogance deludes them into believ-
ing they have discovered the answer, in-
stead of a piece of the answer. All seek,
none actually know all there is.
There are forces here on this Earth and
there are entities using these forces for
their own purposes. There are many names
which have become entangled and misused
to describe these creatures and entities, the
varying vibrational realms, regions and
dimensional habitations. That they affect,
enter, abide and influence this dimension is
without dispute, but it is their purpose in
doing so that urgently needs to be revealed.
That there is more than one species, alien,
demon, archon, reptilian, insectoid or phan-
tom etc., is also without doubt but the sim-
ple fact that there are still those capable of
free thought and action indicates that there
are also limitations to what they can
achieve or influence. It is time to leave be-
hind the childishly creepy musical mystery
world of the 'Twilight Zone', and really
wake up to the terrifying reality of the true
demonic destruction being perpetrated on
this planet and dimension.
Humans, if we can call them that, whose
families have been placed in powerful posi-
tions in early history, are assisting these
entities through fear, greed, material re-
wards and worthless promises of eternal
life but... what is unhuman and has a sa-
tanic design and desire of its own is driving
its puppet people to achieve total enslave-
ment and eventually total destruction...
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 For the most part, information on UFOs has
originated in the West, specifically the USA,
the UK and Europe and this new release
from Flying Disc Press, owned by veteran
Ufologist Philip Mantle, sets this rather
skewed matter to rights. This new book
concentrates on sightings of aerial anoma-
lies from Eastern Europe and Romania in
particular. However, what really makes this
book stand out from the rest is the fact that
the author, Dan D. Farcas PhD, does not shy
away truly fascinating encounters that do
not fall within the narrow, nuts-and-bolts
paradigm of many Ufologists. Instead the
author, in the manner of such luminaries as
Jacques Vallee, John Keel and Graham Han-
cock, also considers the volume of material
that falls into categories that defy all con-
vention. The book keeps the nuts-and-bolts
sightings and the close encounters of vari-
ous kinds, (beginning with unlikely objects
depicted in old paintings seen in some Ro-
manian monasteries), in one section, then
towards the end moves seamlessly on to
the type of sightings that almost defy de-
scription. This is where Ufology and the
paranormal appear to overlap and we dis-
cover beings that could be compared to
angels and fairies plus, intriguingly, almost
direct parallels with the Marian visions
seen at Fatima in Portugal and Lourdes in
France. Are these encounters with the ET’s,
the supernatural, or with multidimensional
entities using technologies we have only
dreamed of? Wisely, the author leaves the
reader to decide. Overall, this is absolutely
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 UFO AND PARANORMAL NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
PHENOMENA ISSUE 91 NEWS ITEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals,
Study Claims
A YouTube video claims to show an image taken on Apollo 11 in 1969. The image shows a
missile-shaped object with a bright trail behind it. Conspiracy theorists claim the video could
show Nasa bombing alien installations on the lunar surface
A study published in October 2016 reported the detection of odd light pulses coming from 234
of 2.5 million stars observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 2.5-meter telescope in New Mex-
ico (pictured here). These pulses are consistent with signals that intelligent aliens might pro-
duce, the study authors claimed.
Credit: SDSS/Fermilab Visual Media Services/NASA
By Mike Wall - Space.com
Strange pulses of cosmic light might be signals from hundreds of different alien civilizations — or
just the latest false alarm in the tortuous search for ET. This month, astrophysicists Ermanno
Borra and Eric Trottier, both from Laval University in Quebec, announced that they had spotted
mysterious light signals coming from 234 different stars in our Milky Way galaxy. These pulses
match the profile of signals that Borra, in a 2012 paper, predicted intelligent aliens might use to
get our attention, the authors wrote. "We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape
of an ETI [extraterrestrial intelligence] signal predicted in the previous publication and are there-
fore in agreement with this hypothesis," the duo wrote in the paper, which was published online
Oct. 14 in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. [13 Ways to Hunt
Intelligent Aliens]
"The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range
centered near the spectral type of the sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis," the
researchers added in the study. (Borra and Trottier looked at the spectra of 2.5 million stars
studied by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a telescope in New Mexico.) But don't get too
excited: Borra and Trottier said that additional observations are needed to confirm this hypothe-
sis, and outside astronomers are even more emphatic on this point. Indeed, a healthy dose of
skepticism is warranted, said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extrater-
restrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California. For example, it seems unlikely that
234 separate alien societies would be sending out such similar signals more or less simultane-
ously, Shostak said. "It would be like expecting us to send the same signals as the Abyssinians —
it doesn't make a whole lot of sense," he told Space.com. "If I were a betting guy, I'd bet this is
an artifact of the way they processed their data."
Shostak also said that he knew of six different reviewers who had recommended against publish-
ing the paper, at least without significant revision. However, he did stress that Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific is a reputable journal. The astronomers behind Breakthrough
Listen, a $100 million project that's scanning the heavens for SETI signals over the next 10 years,
also urged skepticism. "The international SETI community has established a 0-to-10 scale for
quantifying detections of phenomena that may indicate the existence of advanced life beyond
the Earth called the 'Rio Scale,'" team members of Breakthrough Listen, whose science program
is headquartered at the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) at the University of California,
Berkeley, said in a statement. "The BSRC team assesses the Borra-Trottier result to currently be a
0 or 1 (None/Insignificant) on this scale."
But skepticism is not the same thing as dismissal. Shostak thinks the stars singled out by Borra
and Trottier are worthy of follow-up investigation, as does Breakthrough Listen. Indeed, the
latter organization plans to study several of these stars using the 7.9-foot (2.4 meters) Auto-
mated Planet Finder optical telescope at Lick Observatory in California, team members said in the
same statement.
The long history of SETI false alarms — including a detection that generated buzz this past Au-
gust, but was soon traced to a Russian satellite — shouldn't deter scientists from checking out
intriguing candidates, Shostak stressed. "You can't get too cynical," he said. "You don't want to
throw the baby out with the bathwater."
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NOVEMBER 2016
Soul searching criminals aimed to free spirits
trapped in Alaskan research facility
www.rt.com
The men were arrested before they could embark on their supernatural quest, however.
Officials say they were found in possession of an arsenal of weapons that “looked like
something out of a movie; one where a small army was headed to war." Speaking to
Alaska Dispatch News, Coffee County detective Michael Vickers said Michael Mancil, 30,
and James Dryden Jr., 22, told police “that God told them to go and blow this machine
up that kept souls, so souls could be released.” The men were planning to travel to the
aurora research facility known as HAARP in Gakona, Alaska, which is owned by the
University of Alaska Fairbanks. The ionospheric research program was once owned by
the US Air Force and has a history of setting off conspiracy theorists with tales of
weather and mind control. According to Vickers, the men’s plan was to “find a scientist,
to steal his car and ID badge to gain access.” The men’s arsenal for their mission from
God consisted of five rifles, four handguns, radios, flak jackets, and just a small quantity
of marijuana, according to police. A local gun shop alerted authorities to the men after
their shopping spree raised suspicion. The HAARP site is well-known amongst conspiracy
theorists, who claim it is being used to manipulate weather and was even responsible
for downing TWA Flight 800, which crashed into the Atlantic in 1996 killing all 230 on-
board. The research facility’s stated goals are somewhat less interesting, albeit more
peaceful. It reportedly researches the ionosphere – the inner edge of the magnetic
shield surrounding Earth that protects it from cosmic radiation. It’s owners even went so
far as to host an open house this year in an attempt to debunk the mystery surrounding
the facility. “There’s lots and lots of conspiracy theories and… it’s important to remem-
ber that, actually, this is a scientific research facility,” Marmian Grimes, a spokeswoman
for the facility, said.
Exorcisms & religious abuse of children missed by
untrained UK police
Ammar Awad / Reuters
Hundreds of children facing religious abuse and ‘exorcisms’ because their families are
convinced they are witches or have been ‘possessed’ are being let down by British police
forces, a charity claims. Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (Afruca) says up to 400 young
people are at risk of this kind of treatment every year. London Metropolitan Police fig-
ures indicate that there were 60 cases of child abuse linked to religious intervention in
the capital last year alone. Afruca says such children are often scapegoated when bad
things happen to the family or relatives, or if they are “different” in some way, like by
having a disability or being left-handed. Punishments usually involve burning, strangling,
beating, starving, and cutting the supposedly ‘possessed’ children. “There is this notion
that some particular children have these spirits within them that make them do evil things
and bring bad luck into the family,” Afruca project co-ordinator Oladapo Awosokanre
said. “The faith leaders have ‘the powers to be able to see’ and the abilities to deliver
these spirits out of children – for a fee.” Afruca says police and social services are not
properly trained to spot this kind of abuse. It also points out that the authorities have
insufficient resources to deal with the problem and many more cases in Britain are going
unreported. “Inevitably there will be further deaths of children relating to these safe-
guarding concerns because these deep-rooted belief systems result in tragic incidents,”
said Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Allen Davis. Afruca is calling for political action on
faith-based abuse and wants it to be made illegal to deem a child to be possessed by evil
spirits or accuse one of being a witch.
 UFO AND PARANORMAL NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
New quantum camera capable of
snapping photos of 'ghosts'
By Bryan Nelson – Mother Nature Network
By utilizing a process that Einstein famously called "spooky," scientists have successfully
caught "ghosts" on film for the first time using quantum cameras. The "ghosts" captured on
camera weren't the kind you might first think; scientists didn't discover the wandering lost
souls of our ancestors. Rather, they were able to capture images of objects from photons that
never actually encountered the objects pictured. The technology has been dubbed "ghost
imaging," reports National Geographic. Normal cameras work by capturing light that bounces
back from an object. That's how optics are supposed to work. So how can it be possible to
capture an image of an object from light if the light never bounced off the object? The answer
in short: quantum entanglement. Entanglement is the weird instantaneous link that has been
shown to exist between certain particles even if they are separated by vast distances. How
exactly the phenomenon works remains a mystery, but the fact that it works has been proven.
Quantum cameras capture ghost images by making use of two separate laser beams that have
their photons entangled. Only one beam encounters the object pictured, but the image can
nevertheless be generated when either beam strikes the camera. "What they've done is a very
clever trick. In some ways it is magical," explained quantum optics expert Paul Lett of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. "There is not new
physics here, though, but a neat demonstration of physics."
For the experiment, researchers passed a beam of light through etched stencils and into
cutouts of tiny cats and a trident that were about 0.12 inches tall. A second beam of light, at a
different wavelength from the first beam but nevertheless entangled with it, traveled on a
separate line and never hit the objects. Amazingly, the second beam of light revealed pictures
of the objects when a camera was focused on it, even though this beam never encountered
the objects. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature. (A similar, more
preliminary experiment back in 2009 demonstrated the same trick in slightly less sophisticated
fashion.) Because the two beams were at different wavelengths, it could eventually lead to
improved medical imaging or silicon chip lithography in hard-to-see situations. For instance,
doctors might use this method for generating images in visible light even though the images
were actually captured using a different kind of light, such as infrared. "This is a long-standing,
really neat experimental idea," said Lett. "Now we have to see whether or not it will lead to
something practical, or will remain just a clever demonstration of quantum mechanics."
Is there a PYRAMID in the Antarctic?
A recent video has emerges that has sparked debate
By Shivali Best: Mail Online
A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic has emerged.
Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of
State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid. The
video suggests that the images have been taken from Google Earth, but it is unclear whether
they have been edited. The video was posted by Third Phase of the Moon, a YouTube channel
that regularly posts conspiracy theories on aliens.
It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Earth-type label and pin. The
label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might
have been doctored. Responses to the video have varied, with some users backing-up the
claims, such as James Jason, who commented: 'Excellent report Third Phase, I also believe
things are about to get very dramatic, and that is for everyone on our planet.'
But others have dismissed it, such as Gordon Anderson, who said: 'I have spent a LOT of time
on snow covered mountains- skiing down, and this looks natural to me - not man made any-
way!'
Woman ‘spontaneously combusted’
while sitting on a park bench
By Allan Hall: Mail Online
A woman is fighting for her life in a German hospital after appearing to spontaneously com-
bust while sitting on a park bench. Flames sprouted from her as a horrified passerby rushed to
her and used his jacket to beat out the fire. But she was severely burned over most of her
body. The incident occurred in Flensburg, in the north of Germany, on Monday evening. The
victim is in her 40's and comes from Mauritius. After being rushed to the local hospital she
was later flown by air ambulance to a specialist burns unit in Lubeck where she remains in a
critical condition. 'The victim has lived in Flensburg for a long time and has family here,' said
the local prosecutor Ulrike Stahlmann-Liebelt who is probing the bizarre blaze. Eye witnesses
told local media that the woman didn't make a sound as the flames engulfed her. Spontane-
ous human combustion (SHC) is the term used when a human body goes up in flames without
an apparent external source of ignition. Forensic investigations have attempted to analyze
reported instances of SHC and have resulted in theories regarding potential causes. These
include victim behaviour and habits, alcohol consumption and proximity to potential sources
of ignition, as well as the behaviour of fires that consume melted fats. In the Flensburg case
prosecutor Stahlmann-Liebelt said investigators had not yet ruled out whether the woman
had actually set alight to herself in a suicide attempt.
Spontaneous human combustion has been implied as a cause if death in a number of docu-
mented cases where police have found corpses burned almost to ashes - but without an
apparent external source of ignition. An estimated 200 cases have been found throughout
history and victims are often elderly, sick, or under the influence of alcohol, which could
explain why they have not been able to escape the flames. Puzzled scientists have come up
with the ‘wick theory’ to explain such events. The theory is that the human body can become
an ‘inside out’ candle. The person’s clothes are the wick, while their body fat is the wax or
flammable substance, that keeps the blaze going. Limbs may be left intact because of the
temperature gradient, with the bottom half of the body being cooler than the top. The com-
bustion would not be ‘spontaneous’ however, because it would need an external source to
start it off, such as a cigarette. Some have suggested that static electricity could cause the
necessary spark.
New theory suggests we may be living WITHIN
an Extraterrestrial entity
www.ancient-code.com
According to an extraordinary theory proposed by Caleb Scharf, astrophysicist and director
of astrobiology at Columbia University, New York (USA), if we have not yet found alien life it
is because the universe, in fact, is an alien. Perhaps the universe is the “brain” of a hyper-
extended alien race; he indicates in an article for the scientific journal Nautilus. In this sense,
the American astrophysicist proposes the staggering idea that an alien species may have
become so advanced that it would be indistinguishable from physics. Writing for Nautilus,
Caleb Scharf indicates: “…Presumably, life doesn’t have to be made of atoms and molecules
but could be assembled from any set of building blocks with the requisite complexity. If so, a
civilization could then transcribe itself and its entire physical realm into new forms. Indeed,
perhaps our universe is one of the new forms into which some other civilization transcribed
its world…” In the article, Scharf stresses that only five percent of the universe is composed
of the material we know and understand while a 27 percent is considered “unseen” and
mysterious. The scientist also opines that dark matter “could contain a real complexity,” and
perhaps it is where “all technologically advanced life ends or where most of life has always
been.”Scharf elaborates his theory saying: “…What better way to escape the nasty vagaries
of supernova and gamma-ray bursts than to adopt a form that is immune to electromag-
netic radiation? Upload your world to the huge amount of real estate on the dark side and
be done with it…”If such an advanced civilization does in fact exist, and if it managed to
learn how to encode living systems, “all you need to do is build a data transfer system from
normal matter to dark matter: a 3D dark matter printer,” he elaborates in the article posted
on Nautilus.“…Or to take this a step further, perhaps the behaviour of normal cosmic matter
that we attribute to dark matter is brought on by something else altogether: a living state
that manipulates luminous matter for its own purposes,” added Scharf. “In other words, life
might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations,” concluded Scharf.
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 UFO AND PARANORMAL NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Parallel worlds exist and interact with our world,
say physicists
By Bryan Nelson – Mother Nature Network
Quantum mechanics, though firmly tested, is so weird and anti-intuitive that famed physicist
Richard Feynman once remarked, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum
mechanics." Attempts to explain some of the bizarre consequences of quantum theory have led
to some mind-bending ideas, such as the Copenhagen interpretation and the many-worlds
interpretation. Now there's a new theory on the block, called the "many interacting worlds"
hypothesis (MIW), and the idea is just as profound as it sounds. The theory suggests not only
that parallel worlds exist, but that they interact with our world on the quantum level and are
thus detectable. Though still speculative, the theory may help to finally explain some of the
bizarre consequences inherent in quantum mechanics, reports RT.com. The theory is a spinoff of
the many-worlds interpretation in quantum mechanics — an idea that posits that all possible
alternative histories and futures are real, each representing an actual, though parallel, world.
One problem with the many-worlds interpretation, however, has been that it is fundamentally
untestable, since observations can only be made in our world. Happenings in these proposed
"parallel" worlds can thus only be imagined.
MIW, however, says otherwise. It suggests that parallel worlds can interact on the quantum
level, and in fact that they do. "The idea of parallel universes in quantum mechanics has been
around since 1957," explained Howard Wiseman, a physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane,
Australia, and one of the physicists to come up with MIW. "In the well-known ‘Many-Worlds
Interpretation’, each universe branches into a bunch of new universes every time a quantum
measurement is made. All possibilities are therefore realised – in some universes the dinosaur-
killing asteroid missed Earth. In others, Australia was colonised by the Portuguese." "But critics
question the reality of these other universes, since they do not influence our universe at all," he
added. "On this score, our "Many Interacting Worlds" approach is completely different, as its
name implies." Wiseman and colleagues have proposed that there exists "a universal force of
repulsion between ‘nearby’ (i.e. similar) worlds, which tends to make them more dissimilar."
Quantum effects can be explained by factoring in this force, they propose. Whether or not the
math holds true will be the ultimate test for this theory. Does it or does it not properly predict
quantum effects mathematically? But the theory is certain to provide plenty of fodder for the
imagination. For instance, when asked about whether their theory might entail the possibility
that humans could someday interact with other worlds, Wiseman said: "It's not part of our
theory. But the idea of [human] interactions with other universes is no longer pure fantasy."
What might your life look like if you made different choices? Maybe one day you'll be able to
look into one of these alternative worlds and find out.
Ice cream for breakfast 'makes you smarter'
Scientist claims
www.unexplained-mysteries.com / Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 distillated
A Japanese scientist has revealed that eating the frozen dessert for breakfast boosts mental
performance.
It may sound like a counter-intuitive alternative to healthy cereals, toast or porridge oats, but
according to Professor Yoshihiko Koga of Tokyo's Kyorin University, ice cream first thing in the
morning is very effective at improving alertness and concentration. The bizarre claim is based
on a series of clinical trials conducted in Japan in which one group of participants feasted on
ice cream immediately after waking up and another group didn't eat any. Both groups were
then asked to complete a series of exercises on a computer.
The results showed a significant improvement in the mental performance of those who had
eaten the ice cream compared to that of those who had not feasted on the dessert. A second
test which involved drinking cold water first thing in the morning also showed a marked im-
provement in mental functioning, but not as much as with those who had eaten the ice cream.
"A possible explanation is the simple presence of consuming breakfast vs. not consuming
breakfast," said nutritional psychologist Katie Barfoot from Reading University.
"Our brain needs glucose to function, and a high glucose meal will aid mental capacity consid-
erably compared to a fasted brain. This, however, does not condone eating dessert for break-
fast."
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What is the mysterious 'moon poo' found on the
moors above Oldham, UK?
By Lauren Ballinger: Manchester Evening New
A mysterious substance known as ‘moon poo’ has appeared on moorland above Manchester.
The strange, milky white goo was found by dog walker Andrew Holden when he was out on
the moors near junction 22 of the M62 last week. Andrew, who lives in Shaw, Oldham , has
spent hours trying to find out what the bizarre material is - but has hit a dead end. He said: “It
looks like frogspawn but it definitely isn’t. It doesn’t look normal and I didn’t notice a smell.
“There are no plants that could secrete something like that. “As I moved further on I found
some more but this wasn’t as jelly like - this was more crystallised, like salt. “I tried to keep my
dogs, Marley and Willow, away from it but they didn’t seem bothered by it. “I took pictures
and video and put them on Instagram, but nobody knew anything about it. “I spent all after-
noon looking on the internet to find out what it was because it was driving me mad, but
nobody seems to know what it is. The goo has been spotted all over the world and its origin
has never been definitely explained. Reports of the substance date back as far as the 14th
century when physician John of Gaddesden detailed ‘stella terrae’ in his medical writings -
describing it as “a certain mucilaginous substance lying upon the earth,” and suggesting it
could be used to treat abscesses. A 14th century Latin medical glossary describes ‘uligo’, “a
certain fatty substance emitted from the earth, that is commonly called ‘a star which has
fallen’”.
And in 1440 an English-Latin dictionary has an entry for ‘sterre slyme’, a falling or shooting
star. The gunk is also known as star jelly, astromyxin, astral jelly, star rot, star shot or moon
poo. In Mexico it is called caca de luna (moon excrement), while a National Geographic video
dubbed it ‘mystery goo rain’. A 6ft domed disc of quivering jelly was discovered in Pennsyl-
vania in 1950 - reports of which inspired the 1958 film The Blob. In 1996 a meteor shower was
reported in Kempton, Australia - and the following day, a white translucent slime was report-
edly discovered on the lawns and pavements of the town. Reports such as this lead some
people to believe it is deposited on the earth during meteor showers, but others say it is the
remains of frogs, toads, or worms. Andrew said: “I have seen two different kinds - one is more
crystallised. “Next time I see it I’m going to collect some in a plastic tub and freeze it so I can
get it tested. People were saying it comes from space but I don’t know - I can’t make my mind
up. “I believe in aliens but whether this comes from outer space... I don’t know.”
Melanesian DNA hints at
mystery hominid
www.unexplained-mysteries.com / Image Credit: Randii Oliver
Hints of an unknown species of human have been found in the DNA of the modern day Mela-
nesian people.
When we delve in to our DNA it is possible to find evidence of our ancestors - genetic informa-
tion that has been passed down from a time when other species of human walked the Earth.
Europeans, for instance, have distinct traces of Neanderthal DNA, while people from Asia
possess DNA from the Denisovans - another human species that died out many thousands of
years ago.
Scientists were left perplexed however when they found that the people native to Melanesia,
a region in the Western Pacific, actually had an abnormally low percentage of Denisovan DNA.
This suggests that they could also have DNA from a third, unknown hominid species. The
discovery was detailed recently at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics by
researchers affiliated with the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas and the University of
Utah.
Their work involved creating a model that was able to show the transfer of genes between
various populations in Melanesia and thus highlight the potential 'missing link' in the hominid
tree. With the physical remains of our early ancestors being so difficult to find, it could be that
the missing Melanesian DNA may be from a hominid species we simply haven't discovered
yet.
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Phoenix Brewing Company: By Don Collins of Fringe Paranormal.

Don Collins is a paranormalist and

aspiring author living in Toledo, Ohio.
By day he delivers mail to the living
and by night he leads his team,
Fringe Paranormal, on the quest to
discover if dead men really do tell
tales. While not official team mem-
bers, his cats can be found “assisting”
him in analyzing audio evidence.
He may be contacted via
www.Fringeparanormal.com

Some believe that the soul survives death. Like the Phoenix of myth,
a brewing company in Mansfield, Ohio has risen from the ashes.
While a building may not have a soul, this one might house the
essence of the departed. Perhaps there is more than one
type of spirit being served here.
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History

The history of the Phoenix Brewing com-

pany is quite fascinating. According to
Greek mythology, a phoenix is a bird that
dies in a combustion of flames giving birth
to a new phoenix that rises from the ashes.
The Phoenix Brewing Company in Mans-
field, Ohio has literally risen from death.
But before we explore its reincarnation we
have to go back in time. In 1861, Charles
Schroer Sr., a German immigrant, estab-
lished the Schroer home furnishing store
near the corner of Fourth and Diamond
Street. The year 1895 saw his son Charles
Jr. join the business. Renamed Charles
Schroer & Son, the store enjoyed enormous
success for 58 years.

The arrival of Corell Erdenberger, Charles'

nephew, in 1916 would mark a turning
point in the firm's history. Up until that
time, the family lived in an eight room flat
on the third floor of the building. Corell, a
college graduate, was convinced that both
the merchant and the customer would
benefit if the furniture in the store were
presented in a homelike atmosphere. He
had seen the new concept of model home
displays in larger communities but was
disappointed in their artificial character. He
knew he could successfully integrate this
concept within the Schroer store. What
better place to present furniture in a home-
like environment than on the third floor
which had actually served as living quarters
with its attractive decorations, well-chosen
fixtures, permanent partitions, and natural
lighting? Corell's idea proved to be a boon
for the already successful company. Sight-
seers from miles around came to see the
“home within a store”. Sales trucks trav-
eled as far away as 165 miles.

The combination of quality and innovation

served the furniture seller well. As the
company flourished the businessmen
added to their property, purchasing addi-
tional frontage. At some point it was only
natural for Charles and son to move into
casket making and in 1914 a fire proof mod-
ern mortuary was built on what is now 131
N Diamond Street. Yes, the family had
added “mortician” to their job title. The
mortuary was considered one of the finest
and best equipped in the state. Sadly, on
February 9, 1921 Charles Sr., aged 83 years,
passed away proving not even morticians
were immune to the cold embrace of
death. The official cause of death was apo-
plexy (most likely a stroke) which led to
internal bleeding and hemorrhaging from
the nose.

At this point the name of the company was

changed to the Charles Schroer Company.
Death would pay another call on the family
eleven years later on February 26, 1932. In
the first floor chapel of the mortuary at
4:45 pm Charles Schroer Jr. put a 32 caliber

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revolver to his right temple, pulled the

trigger, and punched his ticket for the fu-
neral train to the great beyond. The sixty
year old husband and father went out with
a violent and bloody bang. Shortly after-
wards the mortuary ceased operations.
The Schroer furniture store in the building
next door continued successfully until No-
vember of 1963 when it declared it was
going out of business and sold its stock. At
the time of its liquidation the company was
the oldest business in the city of Mansfield.
This was the end of an era. The building
that housed the furniture store would
stand empty for many years. The old mor-
tuary, which closed in the 1930s, would
remain vacant for over 50 years. Then, like
the phoenix of myth, a new business rose
from the ashes.

In 2014, brew masters Duncan

MacFarlane, Scott Cardwell, and Steve
Zigmund banded together and formed the
Phoenix Brewing Company. The grand
opening took place in July and a great-
great-grandson of Charles Schroer cut the
ribbon during the ceremony. Before all of
this, however, the partners undertook the
project of extensively remodeling the 1700
square foot structure to represent their
vision. Their labor transformed the dilapi-
dated building into a showplace for local
brews while maintaining its mortuary
theme. This theme is subtle but it's there if
you look for it. The interior consists of
exposed brick walls, pub tables from an
old bowling alley, and a rustic wooden bar
salvaged from a former Mansfield bar. If
you are into old hardware you will love the
windows in the bar.

The hand operated mortuary elevator once
used to transport caskets between floors is
now locked into place in the second floor
bar area and serves as a supply closet. The
third floor serves as a storage room; the
old elevator entrance closed off. The
room's grand woodwork can still be seen in
spots although most of it is gone. This
floor features a large wall-size decorative
glass window sporting the official Phoenix
Brewery trademark emblem which is a
real attention getter from both inside and
outside. The first floor basement now
hosts the brewery. Several large brewing
vats line the walls as well as a large walk in
cooler. This was the spot where the de-
ceased made their first stop on their way
to the great beyond. The former embalm-
ing room is through a doorway that leads
into what is now another storage room.
After the body was prepared it was a short
trip over to the elevator. The rails are still
there in what is now a dry storage area a
few feet away. While the majority of visi-
tors to the Phoenix come for the brews
(check out the coffin shaped beer sampling
paddles) some come in hopes of experi-
encing another form of spirit.
Claims
The current owners of the property are
well versed in its history and are quite
open about its past and unexplained oc-
currences . Duncan, brew master and co-
owner noticed things shortly after taking
over the property during renovation. The
third floor attic area was particularly un-
settling. The feeling of being watched or
what felt like a breath on the back of his
neck were the predominant experiences.
Duncan's wife Carmone recalls one night as
she was walking down some steps inside
the brewery. She sensed she was about to
lose her balance and possibly fall when she
felt what she describes as someone putting
their hand on her arm to steady her. One
evening a female customer felt as though
she got tapped to move her chair in so
someone could get by, but upon turning
around found that no one was there. The
owners wonder if perhaps the activity in
the brewery is centered on females. While
they do not necessarily categorize the
following as a paranormal experience it
does deserve mention based on the activ-
ity alleged to occur in the brewery.
One of the co-owners, Steve, recalls a night
when he sensed that something was wrong
with one of the beer coolers. Upon check-
ing, sure enough, the cooler was not run-
ning. Failure to notice this could have
resulted in a batch of ruined beer. Was a
concerned ethereal resident trying to help
the brew master?
The Investigation
As we arrived at the brewery the first thing
that got our attention was the big Phoenix
peering down on Diamond Street. It
seemed to beckon us inside to share its
secrets. The Fringe team did not need
much convincing as we were looking for-
ward to what the night's investigation
might unearth. Upon entering the building
we were struck by the style of the interior.
The bar was warm and inviting, adjectives
that one does not usually associate with an
old mortuary. After exchanging pleasant-
ries with Duncan and Steve we toured the
brewery. Along the way we met “Charlie”
the resident skeleton who hangs out on
the staircase. Based on its history and the
stories we heard we strategically placed

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our equipment around the building; REM

pods in the stairwells between each floor
and digital voice recorders in both the bar
and former third floor viewing area. As per
our usual practice we also utilized roaming
voice recorders. We used EMF meters to
take baseline readings throughout. Should
the EMF levels deviate from the baseline
this would alert the team to the potential
for possible paranormal activity. EVP ses-
sions (speaking to entities that may be pre-
sent and perhaps hearing a response upon
playback of the recorder) were the main
order of the evening. The team attempted
contact with Charles Sr. and Charles Jr.
along with anyone else that may have Coffin Beer Sampler
wished to communicate. At one point dur-
ing the night Director Kelly thought she a
voice exclaim “Eww” or “Ooh”. Unfortu-
nately, due to errant background noise our
recorders did not pick up this audio. The
remainder of the evening was calm and
without much activity of note. As is usually
the case, you can never predict what will
happen during an investigation. This night
would illustrate that concept in spades. As
the team was talking with our hosts and
packing away equipment our Vortex Dome,
sitting in the middle of the table among us,
activated.

The Vortex Dome is a device that is trig-

gered by static or Triboelectric Fields. Its
internal antenna can pickup static fields
that are not visible to the human eye as far
as three feet away. Director Don noticed
the device light up to its maximum level
one time as if to say “Hey, thanks for com-
ing!” Fringe has decided that there should
be an addition to Murphy's Law which
states “paranormal activity always occurs
when equipment is shut down”. While our
experiences were minimal during our stay,
we believe that this local hot spot has more
stories to tell its visitors than it shared dur-
ing our short time there. As we drove away
down Diamond Street I looked up at the
large front loft window and remembered
the story of the phoenix. The phoenix
never truly dies, but rises from the ashes
reborn. Perhaps the ghosts of the Schroer
Mortuary and Furniture Company have
risen and roam this establishment as the
Phoenix Brewing Company creates its own
bit of history.
The brewery is located in the former Schroer Mortuary
and Funeral Home at 131 North Diamond
Street. Charles Schroer already had a very successful
furniture business in Mansfield, Ohio when he opened
the Schroer Mortuary and Funeral Home in 1914. It
was common then for the furniture or cabinet makers
to also build the caskets for a community. The mortu- Vortex Dome
ary and funeral home were a natural progression of his
business and were in operation until 1932 with the
death of Charles Schroer Jr. The Schroer building had a
hand operated elevator to reach all three levels and Fringe Paranormal Investigations was formed in the spring of 2009 by a band of researchers with a common
was the first fireproof building in Mansfield. Today, the goal.....to investigate claims of unexplained activity using scientific methods. We maintain a skeptical yet open
former embalming and prep area in the lower level mindset. While our focus is on haunted locations and ghosts, we also maintain an interest in cryptozoology,
now houses the PBC brew equipment and cold storage. UFOs and other alleged paranormal phenomena. The Fringe team strives to develop new theories and test cur-
The first floor used originally as as the chapel is now a rent hypotheses in the field. We believe that all theories and work methods are open to scrutiny. Using logic and
beautifully renovated taproom. The casket elevator technology we set out to find plausible explanations for claims. Anything we can not explain is labeled as possi-
has been converted into storage and HVAC equipment. ble evidence of paranormal activity. Fringe operates out of Toledo, Ohio and has traveled as far as Louisville, Ky
http://www.phoenixbrewing.com/home-1/ in search of the unexplained. https://fringeparanormal.wordpress.com/

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Book Reviews
Phenomena Magazine regularly receive books from publishers and authors and we provide a review of the material by promoting
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Title: King Yoga: Realise Your Inner Potential
Author: George King with Richard Lawrence
Publisher: Aetherius Press
ISBN: 978-1-941482-02-5
Price: £9.99

This is the third edition of a book originally written by the founder of the Aetherius Society, the mystic and spiritual
teacher, Dr George King. The book, which is eminently readable, was written in the latter stages of Dr King’s life
with assistance from his devotee and later the leader of the society, Richard Lawrence.

Rather than concentrating solely on the sometimes difficult physical postures with which yoga is frequently associated, the book focuses
on the mental exercises essential to the progression of the would be practitioner from neophyte to master. That progress comes in seven
clearly explained steps (or initiations), ranging from universal knowledge to the ultimate goal of attaining enlightenment.

For this reviewer, the two that were the most exciting, and probably achievable on their own, were manifesting mind power and psychic
development.

Title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Author: Leah Moore and John Reppion
Publisher: Self Made Hero
ISBN: 978-1-910593-18-9
Price: £9.99

Wow, Self Made Hero does it again with this splendid, new, graphic novel of adaptations of the works of M.R
James, the original of the same title first appeared in print in 1904. This version consists of four of his spooky tales
with titles such as ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrap Book’, a story of demonic images that are not confined to the pages of an
ancient manuscript and ‘Lost Hearts’ which is about an orphan who is sent to stay with his alchemist cousin. Then
there is ‘The Mezzotint’, a unsettling tale of a picture that seems to change with every viewing, but for this re-
viewer the show stopper is the really creepy and atmospheric,

‘The Ash Tree’, which involves a haunted house and witchcraft. Each of the tales is beautifully illustrated by different artists and to their
credit the standard of the artwork must rank with the best currently available.

One of the illustrators, Alisdair Wood, who created the art for ‘The Ash Tree’ (my own favourite tale), also worked on the graphics for
iconic video games like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and ‘Max Payne’, and it really shows too. Anyone with an interest in spooky tales told in graphic
form could do much worse than this, but only if you are not easily terrified.

Title: The Seer

Author: Lars Muhl
Publisher: Watkins
ISBN: 978-1-78028-982-3
Price: £8.99

This new book from Watkins Publishing, the first part of a Gnostic trilogy called ‘The ‘O’ Manuscript’, features the
tale of Lars Mhul, a Danish seer, author, mystic and musician. According to the account, the author had been bed-
ridden with an obscure and undiagnosed complaint, until he was put in contact with a seer. The seer, initially via a
telephone, was able to heal him and set him on a road of enlightenment and self discovery. The story, due to the
way in which it is written, blurs the line between fact and fiction, but due to the positive and encouraging message,
even if it is fiction it does not really matter.

The account takes Muhl to the iconic village of Montsegeur in the French Pyrenees with its powerful Gnostic connections and the fall of the
Cathars, where he finally meets his mentor and guru, the seer.

This causes the reader to make comparisons with similar works of Carlos Castaneda and his spiritual encounters with the shaman don Juan.
The style of writing is easy to read and the ideas are both simple yet profound and if this is only the first book in the series it makes one
wonder what wisdom the other two books will contain.

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