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“When you gaze
into the abyss, the
abyss gazes also
into you,”
Nietzche.
I read this in the context of quantum
entanglement: that as the observers we
become part of a quantum system - one
with the observed. More like-minded
scientists are coming to the realization
that we are the cause of many of our
own phenomena.
Did you ever feel like you’ve been here
before or maybe you know what’s about
to happen, or maybe even something
does happen and it seems like it was
meant to be? These things happened
to me many times over and they were
so weird that I was compelled to look
for answers. Déjà vu, Precognition,
ESP, Synchronicity are just a few of a
number of often memorable events
that standout and we might categorize
them as “supernatural” because there
is apparently no logical or natural
explanation for them. But what if science
had the answer all along? And I mean
if it happens all the time to so many of
us then how could we still be calling it
supernatural? It would be natural right?
And I’d like to believe it’s real and that
we’re remembering real events out
time – “from the future.” What? Yes!
Through what I’ll call neural or “neuronal
entanglement.”
So my idea is pretty simple and yes
after much research, others have
thought of almost the same thing too –
“almost.” Although it is science based,
much of the mechanisms involved like
the science itself are still mysterious.
And it has to do with entanglement
but not just of subatomic particles -
“neurons.” And even though it works
the same way, because they are neurons
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they are directly connected to your
consciousness.
How you think, your memory, space,
time and much like many have proposed
before as theory like “Entangled Mind”
author Dean Radin, who believes that
entanglement can explain ESP. He
suggests as I do, the connectedness
of everything in the universe and like
Bohm that everything is one with
no separation. Also much like John
Wheeler’s extreme one electron theory
but I suggest just as many hypothesize
that the entanglement is also through
time as well as described by physicists
at the University of Queensland “time-
like entanglement.” Only I believe this
characteristic includes the ability to not
only exchange information from past to
future - but also back to the past. Like
my own article called “Is Communication
from the Future Already Here?”
The late and brilliant theoretical physicist
John Archibald Wheeler believed it
is and he has some very interesting
conceptual writing on reverse causation
or “retrocausality” in his updated
double slit experiment aka “delayed
choice.” When I began to think much of
this through, originally entanglement
hypothetically bypasses the space-time
dimension completely as if it wasn’t
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there. This means instant superluminal
communication (faster than light) at any
distance. But according to some of our
other physicists it also breaks the time
barrier by being able to communicate
into the future. With Wheeler believing
the future can affect the past.
So if we account for these characteristics
together we have our own entangled
neurons communicating with each other
faster than the speed of light at any
distance through time. And if you think
that I’m stretching then it’s like George
Orwell said: “There are some ideas so
absurd that only an intellectual could
believe them!” Of course many believe
we can’t be entangled on such a large
scale (above sub-atomic). Even so for
others like me, we only need to observe.
And every single one of these so called
new age theorists are doing the same.
Let’s not forget that the supernatural
can’t be explained by science and
everyone agrees on that. But many of
us believe in things like Synchronicity,
precognition and ESP because it’s an
observed human reality.
You will begin to see when you come to
the realization that all of most of these
fringe topics are not accepted. Tesla
said: “Today’s scientists have substituted
mathematics for experiments, and
they wander off through equation
after equation, and eventually build
a structure which has no relation to
reality.” Tesla was hands on – believing
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phenomena, it will make more progress passed and you can’t go back to change
in one decade than in all the previous it he believed. Everything that happened
centuries of existence.” Nikola Tesla. already occurred and our memories will
always remain the same as part of our
How important then is quantum
timelines – entangled forever.
entanglement? To science it could
mean everything or the hypothesis of
supernatural abilities (psi / chi) it could
mean everything as well. If we are talking
about entangled neurons then within the
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individual timelines are also a consistent
part of the natural order happening
more with some than with others. Why?
And the fact that with synchronicity they
come along with purposeful meaning?
That still only the universal mind knows
the answer to.
If you believe Einstein, he makes it
simple! Believing in determinism or that
everything in the universe, including
every human act is pre-determined and
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. . .why is there
a need to draw
attention to
Lincoln Cathedral,
home of the imp?
“
ince 2005 I have been offering
S all manner of seeming evidence
coming from different angles,
all of it alluding to a potentially ‘great
secret’ contained within the grounds
of Lincoln Cathedral, England. I have
been fortunate that over those thirteen
years, what I have shared has been
found appealing by a high percentage
of those receiving it, consequently
drawing interested private visitors to
the cathedral, usually from the UK and
America. Numerous times I have felt
that there is simply nothing more I can
offer and stare contentedly in the face of
retirement. However, in February of this
year (2018) the kaleidoscope happened
to turn again when one of those
interested parties pointed something out
to me that was much too intriguing to
ignore.
The door knocker on the Main Temple
of The Supreme Council 33rd Degree
Freemasons located at Duke Street,
London, is no stranger to me, for on it is
the infamous Lincoln Imp sitting high up
between two arches on the North side
of the Angel Choir of the Cathedral. The
Temple is located inside the building
in their basement. Why should English
Freemasonry be using this icon when
they have those of their own design?
Why have they chosen an emblem
exclusive to the city of Lincoln? Upon
enquiring, the best excuse I was offered,
apart from that ‘it may be impossible to
answer’, is that it may have been there
since 1911, or even brought from their
previous building, or even owned by the
previous occupants, who had been a
group of nuns. Seriously!
Being the mighty metropolis of London,
why is there a need to draw attention to
Lincoln Cathedral, home of the imp? The
only other London association with the
city is Lincoln’s Inn, which is one of the
four Inns of Court, to which barristers
(lawyers) of England and Wales belong
and where they are ‘called to the Bar’
when adjudged ready to begin their
profession. In addition and ironically
when we might be on a treasure trail,
London is also home to the ‘The Treasury
Office’.
The origins of Lincoln’s Inn are not
fully known and whilst believed to be
named after Henry de Lacy 3rd Earl of
Lincoln, it appears just as likely that it
was named after Thomas de Lincoln,
a senior practitioner-at-law with no
connection to the city. It was at Lincoln’s
Inn that Sir Francis Bacon, often thought
to be the real ‘Shakespeare’, set up his
secret society ‘The Order of the Knights
of The Helmet’. In my 2014 and 2015
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and The Magdalene – His Code to Her
Abode’, and ‘Tennyson’s secret and
Shakespeare’s curse – Freemasonry
decoded’ I explained about a code in
Shakespeare’s church. I’ll add a little
more to that in a moment, but for now
let us return to Lincoln Cathedral.
The most prominent 14th century
legend of the Lincoln imp usually goes
like this; The Devil himself sends down
two imps to earth to cause trouble.
After twisting the spire of Chesterfield’s
Parish church (Note the Grail connection
given that supporters of the theory that
the grail is located at Rosslyn Chapel
place it under the finely twisting spiral
of the ‘Apprentice Pillar’, which is in the
building) they arrive in Lincoln Cathedral,
smashing up tables and chairs and
tripping up the Bishop before moving
on to destroy St Hugh’s Angel Choir.
Presently they are halted by an Angel
who appears and turns one to stone –
he’s the one sitting high up the spandrel
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Given that much in Freemasonry is
metaphorical, I wondered if perhaps
this tale had been written by either
a Freemason or somebody wanting
to infer, by hidden metaphors, a
Freemasonic involvement with the
Cathedral, who themselves, regarding
the Imp, have no qualms in stating that
it was carved by a Mason although, they
prefer to say, simply out of boredom or
for mischief. But what if it has a greater
significance, such as an immoveable
marker for a great secret hidden nearby?
Let us return again to the legend of the
imps and my own brand of ‘speculative’
Masonry. The newly arrived imps were
smashing up tables and chairs and
tripped up the Bishop. Used as a verb,
‘The Table’ is a meeting place or forum
for formal discussions held to settle
issues or disputes. A Freemason’s Lodge?
A ‘table’ is a slab or board, and a ‘Board’
is a Council table, a council or authorised
body. Freemasons? The imps were
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smashing tables. Perhaps they were
turning them over as in the colloquialism
‘turning the tables’ meaning to reverse
one’s position relative to someone else,
to turn a disadvantage to an advantage,
as this is often an accusation pointed at
Freemasonry?
‘Under the table’ refers to ‘secretly’ or
‘covertly’. Freemasonry again? A ‘Chair’
can mean the Seat or Office of one in
authority, to place in a seat of authority
i.e. Bishop. ‘Cathedral’ origins from
the Greek word ‘Kathedra’ meaning ‘a
seat’. To ‘trip someone up’ is to detect
or expose someone in a mistake or
inconsistency. When the imps were
‘tripping up the Bishop’, could this
possibly mean there was something
awaiting exposure? Perhaps a great
Masonic secret?
There are 28 carved Angels in the Angel
Choir and this just happens to be the
exact number of the tomb (out of the 56
recorded there) opposite the south-east
corner of the Cathedral at St Margaret’s
burial grounds, where the culmination
of my research suggests here, deeper
underneath, is hidden a ‘Great Secret’, so
perhaps no coincidence that our imp sits
like a sore thumb high up in the Angel
choir.
Returning to the sole purpose of a door
knocker - to knock on a door - there is a
stained glass depiction on the St George
window at Shakespeare’s church, Holy
Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, of St George
himself, Patron Saint of England, looking
rather like a Knight Templar and knocking
at a door. If this is meant to represent
the door knocker at The Freemasonic
Main Temple, then perhaps the knocker
in the glass shown prominently below
the scroll that the fellow is reading, is
meant to draw attention to the Temple
knocker and hence to Lincoln. The sheath
of the sword strapped to his waist points
down to a Freemasonic chequer board
floor, upon which is resting a star. A short
distance away from Lincoln Cathedral,
at Greetwell Gate, stands another Inn
dating back to 1781. Facing the east of
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the Cathedral it is called ‘Morning Star’.

Once frequented by Freemasons, it now
has an Inn sign that shows St George on
his steed.
Maybe there ARE deliberate signs of
Masonic influence about! If so, could
there be any nearer the home of a
possible concealed ‘Great Secret’ over at
St Margaret’s?
It would be good if we could find
a Keystone, which in symbolic
Freemasonry announces an entry into
either a chamber or a vault containing
manuscript material; or the Masonic
symbol that is an Arch; or a Masonic
Divider or Compass that represents the
spiritual, intellectual and moral portion
of the double nature of Humanity and
which, when visible, signifies an area
important to Freemasons. Well, be it
coincidental or otherwise, I can show
you them all!
Let us start on our ascent up to St
Margaret’s at the foot of what is known
as Greestone Stairs, the steep ascent
of which may be also be symbolic, that
of ‘Jacob’s Ladder’. Originally named
‘Grecian Stairs’, a corruption of Greesing
Stairs, Greesing (Steps) still survives in
the architectural word ‘Grees’ and more
importantly in the compound word ‘de-
grees’, for the word ‘degree’ means one
of a series of steps in a process relating to the entry to St Margaret’s and her grounds towards tomb number 28,
all the way to the top of the 33 degrees assembly of tombs. and now with the ‘approval’ of the
of the Freemasonic ladder. triangle and the Compass facing over
I have written much about the mystery
From Temple Gardens and on to the associated with the ‘marker’ tomb, at it from an unmarked grave Are these
bottom of Greestone Stairs which lead number 28, but now I will draw attention clues suggesting a deliberate Masonic
from Lindum Hill up into the precinct of to a nearby adjacent unnamed and involvement guarding a great secret?
the Cathedral, we pass a number of old unmarked tomb with three steps upon it, Some, entitled to their opinion, will say
fashioned lamp posts with the lantern which in total are four carved triangles, I have presented nothing other than
in the shape of the Masonic Keystone, one in each cardinal direction, the a flight of fancy, others will say it is a
whether this is by chance, design or triangle is important in Masonic ritual clear hint. But this is how it is with all
even an unconscious representation is due to a connection with their sacred allegations involving Freemasonry. Who
unknown. number three. Even more interesting and knows? The truth might even be right
Nearing the top of the steps we pass welcoming, carved upon this crumbling under our nose…
through a Masonic-looking Stone Arch, tomb, is an unmistakable Masonic
that appears to be made of two pieces Compass.
of stone. From our ascent of the (De)Greestone
At the top of the Stairs, at Greestone Stairs, passing through an Arch and
Place, there is the final Keystone shaped with attendant ‘Keystone’ shaped
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he only way to make any sense of
T the mysterious ley lines is to “tune
in” and follow them from the
source, a stone circle, perhaps, to their
destination, maybe a burial ground, using
one of the most ancient of arts - divining
rods. This gives a very real knowledge
of the extraordinary ley engineering
system our ancestors built and used for
their own arcane purposes. This article
is nothing less than the recovery of the
ancient and powerful knowledge of the
standing stones.
The divining rod can be a piece of fence
wire, or even a coat hanger with one end
bent over at an angle of 90 degrees to
form a handle. Using this device, one can
easily find the energy from a standing
stone or circle and follow the sinusoidal
wave energy across country, stumbling
upon its peculiar qualities, quite
unknown to science, on the way.
Most people are aware of ley lines as
straight lines of ancient sites across the
landscape, but at the start of my 30
years of research I discovered another
type, a roughly circular energy “ley”
emitted from an ancient cup-marked
stone. There are many of these strange
cup-marks or petroglyphs in Scotland,
cut by our distant ancestors into standing
stones and free standing boulders, to the
bewilderment of many an archaeologist.
Five miles north-east of Crieff, Perthshire,
lies the beautiful Sma’ (small) Glen, and
at the entrance is the Foulford Inn. Just
a few metres away is the Connachan
Farm recumbent stone, with some 60
cup marks on its surface. Using my angle
rod I quickly found a spiral of energy
from this boulder, which, after some
10 metres, unwound and travelled to a
low mound in the distance. Intriguingly,
the plan view of this energy field was in
the shape of a dumb-bell, very similar
to a prominent double cup mark on the
surface of the stone (Figure 4, insert).
Why did the spiral have a radius of 10
metres, I asked myself? It was many
years later that I discovered that it was
the Highland Boundary Fault underneath
which powered this stone - it was 20
metres wide at this point!
Delighted, I
believed that I
had discovered
the secret of
this particular
megalith, but it
wasn’t to be.
Over many blistering summers and
freezing winters I followed the layers
of energy this stone emitted. Outside
this circuit was another, a much larger
one, looking like the skeleton of a dumb
bell, which travelled 12 miles up to the
cavernous mouth of the Druids Cave
(Shelter Stone on the O.S. Maps) (Figure
5) and on to a stone circle to the north of
Loch Tay. The stone circle then warped
this energy in two circuits around Ben
Lawers to the north of Loch Tay. Outside
this was yet another circuit of energy,
this time looking even more like the
dumb-bell petroglyph, and it was this
which yielded many of the secrets of the
stones.
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The energy from the Connachan Farm
stone I was following had a wavelength
of 7 metres, amplitude 1 metre, and
had a cycle time of approximately 2
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minutes. The wavelength is measured
between the crest of two waves, and
the amplitude from the central line
to the crest of a wave (to understand
this, imagine tying a rope to a pole and
shaking it sideways). I followed this cup
mark ley up into the hills until I came
to the huge cavern of the Druids Cave.
Initially I was puzzled when the ever
weaving wave seemed to be attracted
into it
I should have realized that this particular
form of energy wave tuned into resonant
cavities, like houses, empty oil drums,
horse troughs, quarries, cars and
tractors, etc. Much later, near Loch Tay
I was dumbfounded when the wave
pointedly altered course to tune into a
sheep’s skull. Then I realized that the
skull itself was resonating energy around
it in the shape of a much magnified
telluric image. When the cup-mark
energy wave chanced to encounter
the outside edge of this wave it was
automatically warped 90 degrees into
the centre and on its way.
TUNING INTO DEAD ANIMALS AND
BURIAL GROUNDS
Later I was following a satellite circuit
near St. Fillans, into the hills (Figure
4, insert, arrowed). It was blowing a
blizzard, bitterly cold, with the snow
scudding horizontally across the hills and
as I followed this cup mark ley up the
length of the “Serpent” and approached
a narrow ravine the wave deviated from
its course and tuned into the carcass of
a deer which had fallen into it. A little
puzzled I walked on a few hundred
metres and stood on top of what I
thought was a snow covered boulder,
which gave way soggily under my feet - a
dead sheep this time!. A short distance
away I tuned into a dead pigeon, then
in the next nine freezing miles to Loch
Tay there were the skeletons of a large
seagull and numerous dead birds and
animals. When I knelt down to have
a drink at a tumultuous stream I was
horrified to find the body of a small bird
in the water under my cupped hands,
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exactly at the outer working edge of this
ley!
The following week I carried on, rather
bewildered, until I came to an ancient
burial ground, in the hills above Loch
Tay, a cemetery which I had not known
about, was not marked on the map,
and which was situated at a most
incongruous place and altitude. A
few hundred metres further along my
divining rod tuned into the sheep’s skull
which I have already mentioned. It took
me some time to come to terms with
the obvious - this cup-mark ley tuned
into the dead, whether animal, raptor, or
human.
A few weeks later I traced the ley to
the shore of Loch Tay where it entered,
dead centre, one of the peculiarities of
this cup-mark energy. When I followed
it down to the loch side, through some
thick bushes, there was another dead
sheep lying on the shore, directly in front
of my divining rod. A similar occurrence
happened years later when my divining
rod turned off the programmed route,
leading me over a small hill. In front of
me in the distance I could see something
out of the ordinary, bright red on the
frosty ground. It was a fox, frozen solid,
crouched in front of a large sandy bank
full of rabbit burrows.
But why did it have this strange quality?
Years later I was following one of
the circuits which I now knew from
experience were attracted to the centre
of bodies of water, like lochs, lochans
(small lochs) and even to puddles of
water. Approaching Loch na Lairige on
the western shoulder of Ben Lawers the
wave suddenly turned at right angles
and travelled some fifty metres off its
course. Puzzled, I retraced my steps to
find out what had caused this anomaly,
and found a number of loose boulders
with iron spikes inserted in them, part of
an old stone wall which originally had an
iron railing on top and had collapsed. The
spikes had rotted away to the surface of
the boulders, leaving what in effect were
a number of boulders with iron cores.
The cup-marked wave had by chance
touched one, and now “programmed”,
started looking for others, giving this ley
a form of memory.
This of course explained why it was
also attracted to the dead bodies of
animals and humans, as our ancestors
had carefully placed their burial grounds
on the outer “working edge” of this
cup-mark ley, where the coils of telluric
energy spiralling from the Connachan
Farm stone were very close together.
Some time later, when I was showing an
interested group of people how to pick
up this energy in a graveyard, one person
came to me to tell me that many of the
coils seemed to be focused into a recent
burial. When I checked I found that he
was absolutely right - the ley was seeking
the newest and most attractive cavity
once again.
As I have
indicated, one of
the major qualities
of this type of
energy is that it
is attracted to
bodies of water.
As you can see on the map it travels
to the centre of Loch Tay, up to the
stone circle at Lawers, then is pulled up
1800 feet to two lochs, Loch na Lairige
and Loch Craig-na-Mhadaidh on the
shoulders of Ben Lawers (3,980 ft.). Since
this cup-mark energy tends to contour
hills, our ancestors used these lochs (and
perhaps built some of them) to pull the
ley up and over the hills.
BURIAL GROUNDS PLACED OVER
GEOLOGICAL FAULTS
It was many years after I had finished
my research into this particular form
of energy that I found another factor
in the placing of burial-grounds - many
of them (probably all) had also been
placed above geological faults. It seems
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our ancestors used the natural energies
from geological faults to power not only
the Connachan cup-marked stone, but
used them in the placing of their ancient
burial-grounds (See my article “Spirit
Lines in the August issue). Not only that,
but on its way to Loch Tay the ley tunes
into a massive fissure on the Sidh (Faery
Hill) of Ardtalnaig.. This strange feature
cannot be natural, however. It is placed
on the summit of this hill to draw the
cup-mark energy from the Druids Cave,
is in perfect alignment with the path of
the cup-mark ley, and is pointing to the
burial ground at Ardtalnaig and down to
the dead centre of Loch Tay, where the
cup mark ley is attracted to. The rock
in this fissure is very friable and could
comparatively easily be quarried by our
ancestors, bearing in mind the massive
projects they have undertaken world
wide.
WAKING THE DEAD
Walking along beautiful Glen Lyon, to the
north of this circuit one day, following
the sinusoidal energy wave, I was taken
aback when, instead of the wavelength
being an easy 7 metres, it quickly
contracted to about 1 metre. Backwards
and forwards I weaved, making little
forward progress. Again, puzzled, I tried
to find out why. Was there a crossing ley
here? I retraced my steps, only to find
that this anomaly had disappeared, the
ley was back to its 7 metre wavelength.
More puzzled than ever I tried to find out
what had caused this. It took some time,
but eventually I realized that at that
point I had been thinking of a friend who
had died a few years previously.
We had roamed the Highlands since
childhood and were very close. When
I focused my mind on him, to my
amazement the wave suddenly returned
to its 1 metre wavelength (increased
energy). Clearing my mind as I walked,
the wave gradually returned to its
normal length. Thinking of concepts
like God, the ancient Fingalian warriors,
etc., also decreased the wavelength,
but when I thought of my father who
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had died some 20 years previously,
the anomaly took over two minutes to
occur. Oddly, thinking of anyone still
alive showed no increase of energy
whatsoever. It was with some trepidation
that I remembered that I was following
an unknown type of energy connecting
most of the burial grounds in the
country.
THE PRAYING HANDS OF MARY
One beautiful summers day, again
walking across the hills to Glen Lyon,
“the Crooked Glen of the Stones”, my
divining rod led me to a massive stone
monolith which was obviously placed
there as part of the energy circuit.
Curiously, sensing its importance, I
walked round the side of this huge slab,
to find that it was “The Praying Hand
of Mary.” (Figure 11 here). Enchanted,
I looked between the two slivers of
rock (Figure 12 here) to Fortingall burial
ground in the distance. From the other
side I could see the top of a nearby
hill. (Figure 13 here). This was the first
straight ley intersecting the cup-marked
ley I was to find.
Determined to find the source of
this straight ley I tuned in, and in the
following months marched across
Scotland to the west, to Glencoe, the
glen of weeping, then on through
Campbell burial grounds and castles until
I reached the coast, expecting to find a
stone circle, the start of this ley.
Standing on the
sea shore, quite
exasperated, with
my divining rod
pointing out to sea
it seemed that the
ley originated on
the mystic island
of Mull.
Projecting the ley on my map, I took the
ferry across to the island on a week’s
holiday to continue the quest. Easily
picking up the ley on the east shore of
Mull, at another Campbell burial ground,
over a period of a week I tramped across
the entire island, to find myself, much
dismayed, on the west coast of the
island, my divining rod still pointing out
to sea. “Where on Earth does this ley
originate”? I asked myself.
Returning to my little tent I projected
the ley further west on my map to find
the source - the volcanic island of Staffa
(Figure 14 here). That was the first
indication I had that volcanic plugs, like
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Staffa, the castles of Stirling, Edinburgh
and Dumbarton were powerful centres
of Earth Energy. Easily fortified, Kings
and Queens could sit on their thrones
with crowns of precious jewels and
bejewelled sceptres on such power
points in some safety and rule with the
help of the planet’s natural energy.
To add to their power they were
crowned on the misnamed Stone of
Destiny, a black, meteoric rock with
magnetic qualities. The Stone of Destiny
is more correctly called the Stone of
Scone (Sconce, Gaelic, a protective
shadow) and was at one time Jacob’s
Pillow at Bethel, perhaps taken to Scythia
by Scota, daughter of the Pharoah when
she married the Greek Prince Gaylethus,
eventually settling in Scotland. The stone
which was retrieved from Westminster in
1950 bears absolutely no resemblance to
the original.
This knowledge (geomancy) is still being
used to-day, unbeknown to the general
population:
The new Scottish parliament is on
exactly the same longitude as the Welsh
parliament at Cardiff.
Cardiff (chosen as recently as 1955) is on
the same latitude as London.
This is a 5:12:13 triangle, similar to
the basic layout of Stonehenge (See
“Powerpoints” by Robin Heath);
SUMMARY
To summarise the qualities of cup-mark
energy leys, with some additions, then:-
They contour hills, unlike the straight
energy leys which march over them,
oblivious to the terrain.
They can be pulled up and over hills by
the attraction of lochs and the smaller
lochans. And in this case, unusually, a
ravine.
When a cup-mark ley has to cross a river
it does so by tuning into the widest and
deepest pool in the vicinity. These pools
were occasionally used for healing, but
sometimes they were avoided as they
were supposed to be inhabited by water
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spirits, like the frightening water kelpie, a
supernatural shape-shifting water horse
from Celtic folklore that is believed to
haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland
and Ireland. If any traveller sat on the
back of such a creature it would dive into
a pool and drown him.
They have a form of memory, or resonant their programmed route. It is not the
attraction - if a cup mark ley happens to
touch an object, like the stump of a tree them. I discovered that they are also
in a felled forest or boulders scattered
randomly in a field, then it will start to
seek similar objects in its path, increasing a narrow loop of energy, perhaps the
or decreasing its wavelength to suit. This height of the tower. This acts as a “net”
must also pertain to people, especially
when asleep. It is difficult to say what
happens to individuals in this case, as a
person under such circumstances is also
telluricaly connected to several hundred
burial grounds and their residing spirits.
They are attracted to cavities, like caves,
ravines, quarries, houses, concrete pipes,
empty oil drums, skulls, cars, etc.,
They have an aversion to iron (unless
in the form of a cavity or an iron insert
in a boulder, which is puzzling) - if a ley
is programmed to travel across a field,
surrounded by an iron fence it will enter
by a wooden gate or an open metal one,
and exit at the furthest corner post, as
if leaving the unpleasant obstacle to the
last moment.
Burial-grounds were always placed on
the outer “working” edge of cup-mark
leys, and probably on top of crossing
geological faults.
The dumb-bell shaped ley in Figure 6
has several circuits inside it, and others
outside. Finding these was like peeling
the skin off an onion. One of these outer
shells was programmed to encounter a
six-stone circle at Killin, to the west of
Loch Tay, where a new cup mark ley of
three circuits was warped to Balquhidder
burial-ground where Rob Roy MacGregor
and his sons are buried.
Figure 4 Shows a plan view of some
sixty cup marks on the Connachan Farm
stone. These can be extrapolated north
as energy circuits over most of Western
Scotland and down south past the
border. They tend to take the easiest
path, like roads, sheep tracks, forest
fire breaks, providing they are near the
programmed route.
They can be “captured” by electricity
pylons, sometime running for some
distance before being ejected back to
magnetic or electric field which attracts
attracted to windmill derricks as well.
Each leg of a suspension tower emits
to capture any cup-mark ley in its vicinity.
Bridges over
rivers also emit
narrow loops of
energy from their
foundations at
each end.
These also act as a net to capture a
cup-mark ley, whose working edge
focuses into the centre of the bridge, at
the keystone. The coils are quite close
together up to the keystone, then there
is a null point without any energy over
the other half of the bridge.
Witches gathered hair or nail clippings of
a person they wished to harm and made
an effigy of wax, placing it under the
keystone of a bridge.
Curiously, Robert Burns, in his poem
“Tam o’ Shanter” tells how Tam, riding
his horse Maggie, sees some witches,
warlocks, and the Devil himself, in
Alloway Kirk, ablaze with light, and is
taken by a particularly comely female
witch, Nannie, whose skirt (cutty-sark)
is far too small for her. He cannot help
shouting out in passion “Weel done,
Cutty-sark!” In an instant all was dark.
Now he is being pursued by this devilish
horde, with many an unearthly scream.
He seems to know about the qualities of
cup-mark energy:
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‘Now, do your speedy utmost, Meg,
And beat them to the key-stone of the
bridge;
There, you may toss your tail at them,
A running stream they dare not cross!’
(from Tam o’Shanter by Robert Burns)
Straight leys just touch the outer edge of
the cup-mark leys, forming a “magnetic
bottle” helping them to keep their shape.
Ancient shielings, or homesteads, were
placed with the major cup-mark ley
running down their lengths. One day,
following the energy from a small cup-
marked stone into the hills, I discovered
that its nine cup-marks were projected
as energy across the country to form
protective “bubbles” around nine
ancient homesteads. Using another
angle rod, painted black, which tunes my
mind into finding only black or unhealthy
energy, I quickly discovered that all of
the unhealthy waves coming towards the
shieling were diverted around it.
As already noted these same shielings
had the major cup-mark ley energy
running through them lengthwise, and
their burial grounds as well, linking the
living with the dead. It must surely have
been a working type of feng shui, where
our ancestors believed that the dead
could influence the living in health and
fertility especially, if controlled properly.
THE STRANGE BELIEFS OF OUR
ANCESTORS
Now that we have a better
understanding of the ley system, we can
have a a look at some of our ancestors’
bewildering beliefs. For example:-
Placing grave goods with the dead for
their use in the next world. These can
take the form of food, wine, jewellery,
hunting equipment, flint knives or
daggers, etc.
Some cultures used mummification to
keep the body in as good a condition
as possible. Building cists and burial
chambers as resonant cavities to attract
a cup mark ley into them; Covering
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the facade of burial chambers, such as
Newgrange in Ireland with quartzite
boulders to clean up any malevolent
energies.
Scattering white quartzite pebbles
around stone circles and graves serves
the same purpose. Aligning passage
graves so that the sun/moon shines in at
certain times of the year to enhance the
telluric energies;
Horned cairns: these are burial
chambers with a “forecourt” at the
entrance. Thought to have been used for
ceremonial purposes, which they may
very well have been, nevertheless I have
found that the forecourt looks like the
cross section of a television dish, and
cleverly gather many incoming waves of
a cup mark ley to focus into the central
burial chamber;
Drumming, singing, dancing, would
also be beneficial. Praying for the
departed, especially, would decrease the
wavelength (increased energy) of a cup
mark ley as I have previously outlined;
Some skeletons have been found minus
their skulls. Possibly to discourage a
malevolent spirit to wander or perhaps
they took the skulls above ground to the
outside working edge of the cup-mark
ley to commune with the spirit. Spirit
paths (straight ley lines) in Ireland had to
be avoided. If a house was built on such
an energy line used by faeries (spirits) ill-
health and bad luck would surely result;
Dressing stones (percussing or
hammering) when building tombs,
standing stones and circles, cists,
churches, cathedrals, walls of burial
grounds, etc., charges them with an
“aura” of energy which can negate
unhealthy energies;
A “black” ley line entering a church can
be partially changed to healthy by using
windows with stained glass. Freemasons
still perambulate three times around the
open grave of a brother (Gaelic, deasal,
clockwise or sun-wise), to negate the
malevolent spirit energy we all have;
Some old houses had a spirit guardian,
usually a dog, which was ritually buried
under the hearth or door threshold. Over
the 3,000 miles I have been following the
cup-mark energy I have only occasionally
encountered a house on these circuits.
What is interesting, however, is that
the working edge of the ley is attracted
to the centre of the house, finding the
weakest point of entry, the door, and
exiting via the hearth and chimney.
Castles and large country houses are
different, as the outer working part of
the ley just touches one corner, with the
other coils attracted into the rooms;
The enigmatic
round towers
of Ireland were
designed as
resonant chambers
to attract and
dissipate the
unhealthy spirit
lines from the
graveyards they
were responsible
for.
CHINESE FENG SHUI
The Chinese had a similar system, albeit
a very subtle and natural one, where
they found the most propitious place
for a family burial, where the healthy
ch’i (similar to cup-mark ley energy)
was pooled and most powerful. They
believed in ancestor worship, and that
the souls of their dead are linked to
their tombs and have the power to have
a beneficial effect on the health and
fertility of their descendants and shower
all the blessings upon them which the
spirit world can bestow.
To extend their benevolent influence, a
bereaved family would take the utmost
care to preserve the coffin and bones for
as long as possible, making sure that the
site was well drained and had the correct
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type of loamy soil. Several years after
the burial, they might even disinter the
bones to clean them and rebury them in
an even more propitious place.
So we have had here in the United
Kingdom, and especially those parts
with a highly fractured geology, a
brilliantly conceived and very powerful,
highly evolved system of feng-shui,
with ancestral worship and access to
their spirits and their benevolence. The
system is still functioning, but at a very
low level.
I have found that many “paranormal”
events - apparitions, poltergeist
behaviour, two glimpses into the future
which I myself have experienced, have
occurred at specific points in the ley
system, where a geological fault crosses
beneath an energy ley, whether straight
or cup-marked.
It is wise to look at the ground beneath
our feet when we investigate or are
troubled with the paranormal or even
ill-health.
Our ancestors were very aware of the
power of the spirit world and took
steps to protect themselves and use
the spirits of their ancestors to their
advantage. In this modern world some
have tended to laugh at the “ignorance”
of our forefathers. The immense amount
of work they did in engineering the ley
system can only mean that the spirit
world is a reality. Their manipulation of
the natural currents of the planet, their
ability to move boulders the size of the
Serpent, the Praying Hand of Mary and
the Druid’s Cave, and their ability to
build lochs and cut huge ravines leaves
me mystified and in awe.
About The Author
David’s book, “Ley Lines and Earth
Energies” is co-authored by scientist
Chris Arnold and published by David
Hatcher Childress in the U.S.A.
His website is www.ley-man.co.uk
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Project Magnet “Exposed”

Crashed Saucers and the Secret Life of Canada’a
Wilbert B. Smith
By Sean Casteel

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hough it is a little known

T fact, the truth is that certain

individuals with ties to the
Canadian government have secretly
been promoting the idea that UFOs are
operating in Earth’s atmosphere and
are piloted not by “monsters,” but by a
group or groups of individuals who are as
human as we are but are technologically
more advanced than the human race.
Former Canadian Defense Minister
Paul Hellyer (1963-1967) shocked the
media several years ago by stating that
he was convinced that off-world visitors
have been zipping across the heavens
for thousands of years, and that it’s not
impossible that aliens have infiltrated
our society and are walking the streets
undetected because they resemble us
almost identically. But as much attention
as Mr. Hellyer’s remarks might have
gotten in the press, many decades
before, another Canadian had made
similar bold remarks concerning Ultra-
Terrestrials coming here either from forces seeking our salvation? Is it too Timothy Green Beckley has recently
other planets or from a parallel universe. late to redeem our race from destruction assembled a book that pays tribute to
So let us begin by journeying back and damnation? Are the flying saucers Smith and the 1950s, the era in which
in time to when UFOlogy was young sent to Earth by God Almighty? Are they Smith pursued the truth of the UFO
and the groundwork was being laid His cosmic sign that eventually love will mystery. The new book is called “Project
for the greatest cosmic adventure the conquer all? “Project Magnet” offers Magnet,” with the subtitle – “The
world has ever experienced. “Project hope in our potential rescue along Objects in the Sky Are Not Stars!”
Magnet” tells the story of a Canadian with hard scientific data on the UFO Beckley writes in his introduction:
radio engineer’s transformation from phenomenon. “Almost forgotten these days, Smith
scientific, nuts-and-bolts UFO researcher Even as an ardent student of UFOlogy, was a highly-educated engineer who
to ardent follower of the Space Brothers’ you may not know the name of Wilbert coaxed the Canadian government
philosophy. We are currently engaged Smith. He is an unsung hero in the field, into establishing Project Magnet, a
in a crucial metaphysical battle against but remains indisputably important in threadbare project to study and treat
the forces seeking to destroy mankind. the more than 50 years since his death reports of UFOs seriously so as to
Can we align ourselves with the good in 1962. Global Communications CEO determine who – or what – might be

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behind this mysterious phenomenon
that was seemingly taking over the skies
of North America after the end of the
Second World War.”
THE SEARCH FOR GEO-MAGNETISM
OPENS THE DOOR
Project Magnet began operations in
1950 with the purpose of studying,
among other occurrences, magnetic
phenomena. Wilbert Smith, a senior
radio engineer from the Canadian
Department of Transport, was put in
charge of the project. The goals of
Project Magnet were fueled by the
concepts of geo-magnetism, and the
belief that it might be possible to use and
manipulate the Earth’s magnetic field as
a propulsion method for vehicles. Smith
came to believe that this technology
already existed in the mysterious UFOs
that had been sighted so frequently
in Canada, the U.S. and the rest of the
world. He felt that the “correlation
between our basic theory and the
available information on saucers checks
too closely to be mere coincidence.”
Nevertheless, Smith’s approach to the
study of UFOs was a pragmatic one.
“It is perfectly natural in the human
thinking mechanism,” Smith wrote,
“to try and fit observations into an
established pattern. It is only when
observations stubbornly refuse to be
so fitted that we become disturbed.
When this happens, we may, and usually
do, take one of three courses. First, we
may deny completely the validity of the
observations; or second, we may pass
the whole subject off as something
of no consequence; or third, we may
accept the discrepancies as real and go
to work on them. In the matter of saucer
sightings, all three of these reactions
have been strikingly apparent. The first
two approaches are obviously negative
and from which a definite conclusion
can never be reached. It is the third
approach – acceptance of the data and
subsequent research – that is dealt with
in this report.”
To this day, there has never been a
clearer statement of how to take an
honest and open-minded look at the
UFO phenomenon. Smith’s urging
his peers to accept the strange and
mysterious “discrepancies” as the
starting point for serious research has
echoed down through UFOlogy in the
decades since but has sadly remained
mostly unheeded. Smith went on to
explain that the data he and his team
had to work with consisted largely of
sightings reports as observed throughout
Canada. This included many reports
from the field representatives of the
Department of Transport, whose job it is
to watch the sky and who are trained to
do precisely those kinds of observations.
Useful data was also obtained
from instruments, such as those at
ionospheric observatories.
But Smith cautioned against expecting
too much from the field stations because
of the very sporadic nature of the
sightings. And laboratory studies were
useless without some kind of specimen
with which to experiment, and it was
not likely that such a specimen would be
obtained any time soon. So, according
to Smith, we are then forced to rely on
“deductive reasoning,” at least until it is
possible to work out procedures more
in line with conventional experimental
methods.
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WHAT WAS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING?
In 1950, prior to the establishment
of Project Magnet, Smith was
attending what he called “a rather
slow-moving broadcasting confer-
ence in Washington D.C.”
He had some time on his hands so
he circulated around, asking a few
questions about flying saucers. “Which
stirred up a hornet’s nest. I found
that the U.S. government had a highly
classified project set up to study them,
so I reasoned that with so much smoke
maybe I should look for the fire.”
Smith subsequently made “discreet
enquiries” through the Canadian
Embassy staff in Washington, who were
able to obtain for him the following
information:
1. The matter is the most highly
classified subject in the U.S.
government, rating even higher
than the A-bomb.
2. Flying saucers exist.
3. Their modus operandi is unknown
but concentrated effort is being
made by a small group headed by
Dr. Vannevar Bush, who some
maintain was the initial guiding
force behind a secret government
cabal known as Majestic 12,
created to monitor a number of
UFO crashes, including the one in
Roswell, NM (circa July, 1947)
in which several alien bodies were
recovered from the wreckage.
It was Bush and company’s
purpose to foil the flow of
information on the UFOs to the
American public and to literally
censor the truth about the arrival
of ETs on our planet.
4. The entire matter is considered
by the United States authorities to
be of tremendous significance.
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Smith said his investigations were a
matter of simple curiosity and that
he began as an extreme skeptic, fully
expecting the phenomenon to be
manmade or created by natural causes.
He gave his credentials as an impartial
and qualified researcher, saying, “I am
48-years-old, hold a Master’s Degree
in Electrical Engineering, occupy a
responsible position in the Canadian
government, hold half a dozen patents,
am author of several technical papers,
and in general enjoy a background in
technical work and science indicating at
least an average competence to study
and report on phenomena of a scientific
nature. I have tried so far as possible to
use conventional and standard methods
and equipment to investigate all possible
angles before drawing any conclusions.
In other words, I have followed the same
general procedures which I would have
followed if I had undertaken to study
some more prosaic subject, such as radio
wave propagation.”
One of the foremost revelations in
“Project Magnet” is Wilbert Smith’s
report that he was told by U.S. officials
on his various visits to Washington that
they had retrieved at least one UFO that
had crashed in the Southwest at Roswell
and were examining the remains of the
corpses of several alien bodies found
within the wreckage (unconfirmed).
The revelation to Smith that a craft
from outer space may have crashed in
the desert is said to have stunned him
at first, but later he came to take such
bombshell events in stride.
As stated above, American scientists
had gone so far as to declare that the
existence of flying saucers should be
kept more highly classified than the
development of the atomic bomb.
Because of these revelations, Smith went
back home to appeal to his superiors
not to let the Americans pull ahead in
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their findings about these flying discs
and urged that Canadian researchers
begin their own official study, which
was quickly established under the “code
name” Project Magnet.
The story of what
Project Magnet
uncovered is a
major part of
this just released
tome edited by
publisher Tim
Beckley.
The book also includes updated
revelations by contemporary researcher
Grant Cameron (PresidentialUFO.com) as
well as a bonus history of humanoid and
creature sightings and close encounters
throughout Canada by the late amateur
astronomer John Musgrave, who
worked while on a grant from Ottawa’s
government. Perhaps the most exciting
part of this book is the disclosure that
Wilbur Smith was a UFO contactee
himself and was in touch with others
on a regular basis who claimed to have
received communications from off-earth
dwellers.
MOVING BEYOND SIMPLE PHYSICAL
REALITY
It is important, in the light of where his
studies would eventually take Smith, to
establish his credibility as a pragmatic
scientist approaching the UFO subject in
the utmost of “real world” terms. Smith
explains, “If we are to rely on sightings
data alone, we are bound to get a rather
one-sided idea of these creatures. For
example, we see saucers traveling at
terrific speeds and then suddenly stop or
change direction. Under our concepts of
physics, no creature of flesh, blood and
bone could withstand the terrific forces
which would be associated with such
actions. Therefore we are led to assume
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that the saucerians must be some
manner of robot or a creature the like of
which we have never encountered.”
He also points out that, in spite of their
unknowably high level of technological
achievement, the UFO occupants have
never simply landed and announced that
they were taking over the earth. This is
perhaps because they regard us as in
the same general category as the other
flora and fauna native to this planet and
believe our civilization is so primitive as
to be indistinguishable from that of the
lower animals and insects.
But such speculations don’t necessarily
lead us to the truth, according to Smith.
Fortunately the
UFO occupants
HAVE made contact
with certain
earthlings deemed
to be capable
of receiving the
information and
passing it along to
others.
Along with the many sightings reports
Smith began collecting and analyzing
claims of contact with the aliens and to
assemble what he felt were the mores
and ethics of the people from the flying
saucers.
“It adds up to a complete and elegant
philosophy,” Smith wrote. “These people
tell us of a magnificent cosmic plan, of
which we are a part, which transcends
the lifetime of a single person or a nation
or a civilization – or even a planet or
solar system. We are not merely told
that there is something beyond our
immediate experience; we are told what
it is, why it is, and our relation thereto.
Many of our most vexing problems are
solved with a few words; at least we
are told of the solutions if we have the
understanding and fortitude to apply
them. “We are told of the inadequacies
of our science,” he continued, “and we
have been given the basic grounding
for a new science which is at once
simpler and yet more embracing than
the mathematical monstrosity which we
have conjured up. We have been told
of a way of life which is utopian beyond
our dreams and the means of attaining
it. Can it be that such a consistent,
magnificent philosophy is the figment
of the imaginations of a number of
misguided morons? I do not think so.”
If such is the case and all of this is
known, the reasonable person asks, then
why has it not been publicized? Why
aren’t we studying the sciences gifted to
us by the aliens instead of atom bombs?
The answer, Smith tells us, is that it
HAS been publicized. Books have been
written and thousands of copies sold.
There are many periodicals available
containing this knowledge, which may
be had for a nominal sum. Reports have
been prepared by serious investigators
and presented “through the proper
channels.”
THE FLYING SAUCERS AND THEIR
ABILITY TO CHANGE “REALITY”
“But it is truly said,” Smith
acknowledged, “that one can lead a
horse to water but one cannot make
him drink. There are probably as many
private reasons for not facing up to the
facts as there are people who refuse to
do so. However, it is consoling to realize
that, through the humble and often
criticized comic strip and science fiction
stories, the younger generation is being
conditioned to accept the reality of
people from elsewhere, and when given
the opportunity to do so avidly assimilate
all they can get on flying saucers and the
people who fly them.”
One is struck by the overwhelming
transformative power the study of UFOs
and their occupants often has on people.
Smith’s interest in flying saucers began
as a mild case of curiosity and over
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a few years became something like a
religious fervor. In a portion of Smith’s
writing collected in “Project Magnet,”
entitled “The Battle for Man’s Mind,”
he feels called upon to warn his readers
about a grave danger we are all facing,
either consciously or unconsciously. Two
great forces are striving to gain control
of man’s mind, a struggle that has been
going on from time immemorial.
“But never in the world’s history,” he
wrote, “has the conflict been more
intense than it is in this present era of
confusion and unrest. In the old days,
mankind was often made to suffer
physically, unspeakable things in the
name of power. But today, with man’s
mind more developed and better
educated, he is now facing the prospect
of a refinement of even greater mental
and spiritual cruelty – unless he is
prepared to protect himself with right
thinking. ”Smith describes one of the
two great forces as positive, leading us
to thoughts of harmony and the concept
of the love of God and the brotherhood
of man. The other force is negative,
encompassing the antichrist philosophy
and serving a mad lust for power. The
battle takes place on both the physical
and metaphysical fronts with the object
being the spiritual salvation of mankind
or our utter destruction.
GOOD, EVIL, AND OUR STAGE OF
EVOLUTION
Man’s brain, Smith teaches, operates
on the metaphysical plane like a two-
way radio, transmitting and receiving
messages along the airwaves of the
universe. [This is a very apt metaphor,
when one considers that Smith
was a government expert on radio
broadcasting.] Man’s brain is open to
both good and bad input, which he
either accepts or rejects according to his
stage of evolution.
Messages received through esoteric
sources, purporting to come from the
Space Brothers, who take an active
interest in our spiritual welfare, warn
us that an even greater conflict is being
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fought on the metaphysical plane. The
lower or negative forces that damned
themselves by wrong thinking are
projecting strong thoughts earthward in
an attempt to bring about our spiritual
downfall. On the other hand, the Space
Brothers are concentrating equally hard
on sending out positive thoughts of
goodwill and brotherly love.
“Thus we are being bombarded from the
metaphysical plane by two conflicting
schools of thought,” Smith wrote. “And
free will being the criterion of spiritual
advancement, it is left to us which we
choose to accept. However, from a
purely logical point of view, if we want
to save ourselves a lot of sorrow both in
this life and lives to come, we should arm
ourselves mentally against the onslaught
of negative thoughts.” It is no time for
confused or apathetic thinking, which
can lead to the exact forms of negativity
Smith is warning us against.
WHAT ELSE IS INCLUDED IN ‘PROJECT
MAGNET’
So “Project Magnet” is more than
mere nostalgia. It demonstrates a near
prescience on the part of Wilbert Smith,
who clearly saw into the nature of our
troubled times and the constant struggle
our minds are required to muster against
evil thought forms and ideas. Publisher
and editor Timothy Green Beckley talks
about other aspects of the book in his
introduction. “I have added relevant
material from numerous contributors,
as well as from both new and archival
sources”
Beckley writes. “Grant Cameron (the
only provider of reliable “Disclosure”
updates as far as I am concerned) is a
vast depository of knowledge on Smith,
being a Canuck himself, and has been
exceedingly helpful in my compilation.
And since Smith is certainly the most
important figure in Canadian UFO
history, no work on Project Magnet,
as far as I am concerned, would be
complete without a little known
manuscript I personally published
in 1979 by John Musgrave, which is
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WALLACE: You say the Canadian official
project, what do you mean by the
official...?
KEYHOE: There was an official project
called “Project Magnet,” and they set up
an observatory at Shirley Bay to try to
track these things. And...
WALLACE: What happened to the official
project? You say there was a project.
KEYHOE: Yes. They ran for about a
year and they had one sighting on
the gravimeter, which indicated that
something... a very large object had flow
over there, but they finally decided that
they were spending a little bit much
money on that, I suppose.
WALLACE: For certain, they wouldn’t
have thought that they were spending
too much money on it, if they believed
that that kind of phenomena existed.
KEYHOE: A lot of people on the project
are still working up there on their own
time and certain government officials
have still kept the lid on the reports in
Canada, just as they do down here.
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Cults and Secret
Societies
n 2016, I was contacted by a woman
I in Europe who wanted to be on our
YouTube lecture show but couldn’t
reveal her identity. She discussed secret
societies and services. That prompted
my interest to do some research. The
term cult is derived from the occult or
hidden knowledge. Secret Societies are
just secret to non-members.
There are many interesting colorful
groups out there. The Templars date
back to 1100AD. They were the warrior
knights of the Crusade and protected the
arc and chalice of Christ. They influenced
the Masons and disbanded in 1307 when
Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of
France conspired against them because
they had become more powerful than
the Pope or King. They were accused
of devil worship and their property was
seized and they were tortured. When the
Shroud of Turin was mistakenly carbon
By John Ventre
dated to 1300AD (a patched area of the
garment was tested), the Free Masons
said it was the shroud of Templar Grand
Master Jacques de Molay who was
tortured and wrapped in a shroud in
1307.
The Rosicrucian’s
date back to
1600 AD and were
alchemists.
Some say the Free Masons date back
to the building of King Solomon’s
Temple and the killing of master builder
Hiram Abiff. Masons are mentioned
in a 1425 poem and in a 1598 memo
from Edinburgh, Scotland, but most
recognize 1717 as the official date of the
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founding of the Grand Lodge of England.
The Masons have ritualized meetings,
signs and handshakes. They operate
the Shriners Hospitals and Roman
Catholics that join the Free Masons
are excommunicated from the church,
or at best are regarded to be in a state
of grave sin and may not receive Holy
Communion.
The Illuminati, founded in 1776, oppose
religious influence over politics. They
believe in the power of the people and
not God. They are said to control world
affairs by planting agents in governments
around the world.
The 1832 Skull and Bones is Yale’s oldest
student society and were originally
called the Brotherhood of Death. They
use Masonic type rituals and were the
original founders of the CIA.
The 1872 Bohemian Grove Society in
San Francisco boasts hundreds of the
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leading men from Presidents to CEO’s.
They meet every July to plot strategy and
perform satanic rituals.
The False Face society dates back
to the Iroquois Indians who claim a
hunchback spirit can cure you but then
you become a member. They wear ritual
wooden twisted face masks. In 1962,
Batman comic #152 featured the False
Face Society gangsters. Today there are
cosplay groups that dress up like the
Batman characters.
Madame Blavatsky founded the
Theosophical Society in 1875which
was the forerunner of the New Age
movement. In 1891 on her death bed,
she said that the Ascended Masters were
actually demonic entities.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
used Rosicrucian rituals and mysticism,
alchemy and ancient Egypt. Their
members included Aleister Crowley and
Yeats. Crowley went on to form the 1904
Order of the Temple which still has over
3000 members today. They practiced
satanic rituals and evoked Egyptian
Gods. They are famous for the saying,
“Do what though wilt” or there are no
rules if it makes you happy and were the
forerunner of liberal beliefs.
The Opus Dei celibate order was founded
in 1928 in Spain. It is a French myth that
they battle the 1956 Priory of Sion group
in trying to keep the truth about Mary
and Jesus’ daughter Sarah a secret.
The Black Sun was a Nazi Thule Society
symbol and meant the opposite of
light. Nazism actually got its occult start
through mystic Maria Orsic and the
search for the Vril society of Antarctica.
Orsic convinced Hitler that the novel, The
Coming Race, was a true story.
Scientology was founded in 1952 by
sci-fi author L. Ron Hubbard who was an
early student of Aleister Crowley along
with Jack Parsons and Ray Bradbury
and versed in Satanism. Parsons had an
encounter with Satan at age 13. Parsons
and L Ron Hubbard danced naked with
members and practiced sex magick.
Parsons conjured up a female elemental
to conceive the anti-Christ. He founded
JPL and died in an explosion in his
basement during a ritual. Scientology is
based on Dianetics, a form of psychology
with pay for levels of advancement
and is based on the extraterrestrial
Thetan race and leader Xenu. There
are many complaints of isolation by
members. Numerous lawsuits forced
the IRS to recognize it as a church. Many
countries do not recognize Scientology
as a religion. The Collins Elite was also
formed in 1952 and is a CIA branch that
investigates the paranormal and UFOs.
Convinced by Jack Parsons that UFOs
were demonic, it led to Project Often
to acquire demonic power, then MK
ULTRA to control/alter people. The Jason
Society is the NSA version of the Collins
Elite. It is an Illuminati quest for the
golden fleece of knowledge and truth.
Some say there is a battle between the
NSA & Navy (secretive) vs the CIA & Air
Force (public).
1954 gave us the invitation only
meetings at the Bilderberg Hotel in
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the Netherlands where Europeans and
Americans plan world strategy. The
content of the meetings are not made
public so members can speak freely.
Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church
was also founded in 1954. At 16, Jesus
asked Moon to continue his work. Moon
managed to escape North Korea. After 7
years in his church, Moon would choose
your partner for you. He eventually
moved to NYC. Numerous lawsuits by
parents and tax evasion in 1982 never
closed his church and he died in 2010.
When you listen to President John
F. Kennedy’s 1961 speech on secret
societies, you have to wonder what the
young President had discovered. His
speech sends chills through my spine
every time I listen to it. Kennedy said,
“We decided long ago that the dangers
of concealment of pertinent facts far out
way the dangers cited to justify it. There
is a grave danger that an announcement
for increased security will be ceased
upon for censorship and concealment.
No one should censor the news, stifle
dissenters or withhold from the press
and public the facts they deserve to
know. There is a conspiracy which relies
on covert means. Preparations are
concealed not published. Mistakes are
buried not headlined. Its dissenters are
silenced, not praised. No expenditure is
questioned, no secret is revealed.” Those
are powerful words which we can view in
a different light 57 years later.
The 1966 church of Satan was founded
by Anton Lavey. He wrote the Satanic
Bible. He said that demons are
projections of one’s own mind and
personality. The FBI investigated the
Church of Satan and concluded they
were not involved in crimes or ritual
sacrifices although 9,000 Americans
permanently disappear each year.
Over 100k Americans identify as
Satanists. I find it interesting that the
Pennywise character of the movie It
is a shapeshifting demon who steals
children.
The 1967 San Francisco Manson cult
is one of the few Non-religious cults.
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Manson believed blacks would win a
Helter Skelter race war. Manson would
then lead them. Manson framed blacks
for nine murders to try to incite a race
war. His group killed the Folger coffee
heir and pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
Manson died Nov 2017 in prison.
The 1970 Brethren are vagrant garbage
eaters who shun all contact and
technology, medicine and bathing. They
work odd jobs to survive.
The 1974 Raelians are a French ET cult
that claims to have cloned a baby in 2002
and live in an open sex environment.
An article in the New West magazine
convinced Jim Jones to move his 1977
Peoples Temple from the Utah- SF-LA
areas to Guyana. When Congressman
Leo Ryan visited he was shot and killed.
The cult committed mass suicide (900) by
drinking poison rather than be arrested.
There are 5000 Snake Handler members
today. Snakes represent demons and
believe God will save them from bites.
Many have died.
The Night Riders are Black para-military
helicopters behind the cattle mutilations
and abductions that are blamed on
aliens or in cooperation with aliens.
In 1984, the Aum Shinrikyo Japanese
Doomsday cult carried out the Tokyo
sarin gas attack in the subway killing
twelve and maiming 1000. The 1984
Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland,
believe in Templar Knight Principles and
the second coming of Christ. In 1994
they killed a three month old child they
identified as the Antichrist. They execute
murderers and then commit suicide.
The 1986 Japanese Happy Science group
has 12M members, is a US 501c3 and
believes in a nine dimensional heaven.
They call for war with China and N Korea
and to rebuild Japan.
David Koresch, the 1993 Branch Davidian
leader, slept with member’s wives and
minors with parental consent to fulfill
biblical prophecy, amassed automatic
weapons and refused to vacate their
compound. A botched ATF raid killed
six members and four ATF agents and
resulted in a 51 day standoff ending
in a 700 men, tank and tear gas raid
that burned the facility down killing 82
members including 23 children. The FBI,
intent on ending the resistance, lied to
Janet Reno. Koresch died for his religious
beliefs at age 33, same as Jesus. The
1995 OKC revenge bombing by Timothy
McVeigh was said to be an act of revenge
although he was not a member he was
present at the siege.
The Heavens Gate UFO cult was formed
in 1974 and had 39 members who
committed mass suicide rather than
be taken or killed by a UFO trailing the
1997 Hale-Bopp comet. The group had
taken out a $1M insurance policy out on
each member against alien abduction,
pregnancy or death. Suicide is not
covered.
The Manhattan Congregation of the
Light has 200 well to do Aryan members
who are doomsday preppers who marry
old men with young women and have
children born into the cult. They are a
U.S. 501c3 non-profit. Can anyone say
Eyes Wide Shut?
CERN is the world’s largest particle lab in
Geneva Switzerland. Some say they have
opened a portal to dimension-time travel
to change the past and plan to plant false
writings or an alternative bible? Shiva
the Goddess of Destructions statue sits
at the entrance to the facility. It was built
on Roman site to Appollyon, the Gate
Keeper to hell. Nearby, Geneva officials
paid $9M to perform an occult ceremony
to Baphomet marking the opening of the
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Goothard Tunnel in June of 2016.
The 1994 Denver Airport is full of occult
symbolism and artwork depicting a
deadly virus and children dying and
eventually turning all weapons over to
an Illuminati German boy who destroys
them. There is a Free Mason time
capsule to be opened in 2094. In the
1997 Close Encounters of the Third
Kind movie, coordinates are given
which match up to the Denver Airport
location. Occult symbolism is found all
around us in the perverted media and
entertainment industry today.
Then again, we have the Boston Church
of Euthanasia who wants to restore
earths balance. They are mostly white
Liberals who forbid pregnancy, promotes
abortion, suicide, cannibalism of the
dead and gay life styles. Their slogan is,
“Save the Planet by Killing Yourself”.
These are all personality traits like being
liberal or conservative. Our soul is on a
journey and the things you do will follow
you through eternity. Some things, like a
flat tire, won’t take you where you need
to be. My advice is to not follow the
crowd looking for acceptance. Leaders
are like eagles, they don’t flock!
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IMPORTANT NOTICE!
It is fair to say, in this day
and age, that the disconnect
between mainstream media
“reality” and what is really
going on is getting to the
point where many people
in society are not being
told the full story—about
almost everything and
anything. In geopolitics, we
see media organisations
such as Al Jazeera willing to
totally fabricate events and
broadcast them via BBC, CNN,
ABC and other licensees.
In what is needlessly called
“alternative health”, we see
the might of transnational
drug companies steering
government health policies
as well as affecting personal
sovereignty in the form of
forced vaccinations, freedom
of choice in the treatment of
serious disease, and the right
to be able to purchase health
products of our choosing.
In explorations of “fringe
sciences”, including subjects
such as the Expanding
Earth theory or the Electric
Universe theory, we see
the unexplained anomalies
regarding energy, gravity,
electricity and biology, being
ignored, suppressed or
ridiculed. I believe that it is in
the open-minded exploration
of such anomalies, that
we actually further our
scientific understanding of
our universe. In discussion
of consciousness and
the paranormal, we again see mainstream media reporting distorted versions of events,
misreporting factual data, not reporting it at all, and again, outright ridicule (snigger factor).
The fact of the matter is that people want to know more about who we are as spiritual beings,
about the role of consciousness in determining how we experience life, and the role our
inherent beliefs have on how we live and treat other people. I believe that the vast majority
of people on this planet want to live in peace and harmony with each other, and I also believe
that there are forces at work, including the military-intelligence-industrial complex, that desire
and profit from manufactured conflict. We live in an era where a growing number of people
are stepping up to blow the whistle on illegal and suppressed information.
Information they believe is in everyone’s interests to be made public. Unfortunately, despite
the assurances of protection to whistleblowers from world leaders, we actually see the
opposite—the suppression and persecution of such people.
And finally, we live on a planet where the way in which we live is dramatically affecting the
entire ecosystem. Measurable levels of chemicals are found in the air over the entire planet—
in the groundwater of every continent, and in the oceans everywhere. Why is it noble to
focus on CO2 and energy saving, while ignoring the death, disease and destruction of our
habitat and life forms, including our own? I have created the Alternative News Project (ANP),
not as a vehicle to fight the current mainstream manufactured reality, but instead to provide
a vehicle for like-minded, independent thinkers, to help create something new. Something
better. Instead of endless searches on the Internet, we will bring you the news, every day, right
across the spectrum of hundreds of nonmainstream news Topics. We have called it a Project,
as it is not just about information—it is about the building of a global community through
the distribution of information. The ANP is the first time that independent thinkers of the
world (i.e. you) have a centralised location not only to see more of what is going on in your
world than ever before, but where you also have the opportunity to send alternative news
and information from anywhere across the globe. You are the real key to our project, because
by receiving information you can inform others and by contributing your knowledge to us,
we can broaden our scope of services around the globe. As such, the ANP is designed to be a
community-based interactive news and information project by the people for the people.
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paranormal investigators to make good
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TV producer now, “Come on guys....bring
it up a notch or two. We need some
by Paul Dale Roberts,
drama! Someone get possessed! Turn
your head quickly to the left, like you
heard something”.
If paranormal
reality shows were
actually real, the
audience would
be dozing off into
never-never land.
Ghosts are not circus clowns and do not
perform on demand. And what is with
these Bigfoot shows? How many times
do I have to see these guys go out into
the woods and come back without any
evidence? I believe Bigfoot is real, but
I also believe that Bigfoot is an inter-
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dimensional being and that is why we
can't catch one. We need to discontinue
these Bigfoot reality TV shows, because
they suck up valuable air time.
A genuine phenomenon that we have
is vanishing people in our State Parks.
Thousands of people have vanished and
there is hardly any talk about those who
go missing. Where do they go? We need
to get a reality show that will actually
do some good and investigate these
disappearances. The high strangeness
of these vanishings is that a small child
who disappears in one place could be
found dead miles away barefooted. How
did that child get there, when there are
valleys, hills, shrubbery, thickets, thorns
in terrain that is so incredibly rugged?
How did this child disappear in one area
and wind up 20 miles away - dead and
barefooted. I ask again, how did this
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child go through rugged terrain to be
found in a location that is miles away
from where the child was last seen?
How is that possible? How can a child
be found in one location after that very
same location where the child was
found, was checked over fifty times by
park rangers, the military and civilians?
How did that child disappear and then
again reappear?
In one case a child is missing with two
dogs and one of the dogs turns up, but
where is the child and the other dog?
In many cases people disappear with
their dogs and they also disappear at
locations with odd names like Devil's
Gulch, Devil's Punch Bowl, etc. Did early
settlers know something about these
places and that is why they got their
odd name? Who is taking these people?
Are marijuana fields being harvested
in our National Parks and these people
are vanishing because of various drug
cartels? Are there roaming serial killers
in our National Parks and are they taking
these people out?
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Or are these people vanishing because
of high strangeness? Is Bigfoot snatching
up these people and taking them into
underground caverns as prisoners?
Are aliens abducting hikers, sightseers,
campers and outdoor adventurers?
Could the Dyatlov Pass Incident be
happening in our National Parks? What
is the Dyatlov Pass Incident? The Dyatlov
Pass incident was an event that resulted
in the deaths of nine-out-of-ten hikers
in the northern Ural Mountains on
February 2, 1959. Igor Dyatlov was the
team leader of these hikers. Investigators
determined that the skiers had torn their
tents from the inside out in order to
escape from an apparent threat.
They fled the
campsite, some
of them barefoot,
under heavy
snowfall.
Although the bodies showed no signs
of struggle, two victims had fractured
skulls and broken ribs, absent contusion.
Soviet authorities determined that an
"unknown compelling force" had caused
the deaths. Theories abound that the
hikers either faced an avalanche or a
hostile encounter with extraterrestrial
life. The reason why UFOs become the
centrepiece of this story is that orange
globes were seen near and around the
hikers. A recent photo has turned up
that shows a strange humanoid in the
woods. The photo was taken by one of
the Dyatlov Pass hikers.
Before you shrug this idea off, just
remember there have been many UFO
sightings at our National Parks and
Reserves. UFOs have been seen at
Glacier National Park in Montana, El
Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico,
Great Sand Dunes National Park in
Colorado and even Yellowstone. UFOs
are constantly seen in our National Parks,
so perhaps, just perhaps UFOs may be
behind these mysterious disappearances.
The National Park Service loves the
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revenue that they make from tourists
visiting their parks, so they keep things
hushed up in regard to the vanishings.
When it comes to making money, people
who are taking this money will have tight
lips.
I think it’s about time for Hollywood to
step up to the plate and take on a real
challenge, create a reality show that will
actually do some good. Get out there
and interview people and witnesses.
Find out where these vanishing people
are going. Investigate the areas on
where they are vanishing. Find out the
truth! This is a reality show that I will
actually watch! A reality show that
has professionals in tracking and law
enforcement. How about it Hollywood:
any takers?
Another area where this occurs is near
The Appalachian Trail, where almost
every year someone inexplicably goes
missing and there has been an ongoing
search for a female who vanished nearly
two years ago. Also in the Philippines
there is Mount Maculot, where
people often disappear and are either
never found, or found dead.” What to
make of it all, well frankly there is no
obvious reason other than bad luck,
misjudgement and misadventure, on the
other hand, well, the possibilities are
endless.
More on the Vanishings: https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6-8xRvhNM
http://dcxposed.com/2014/04/27/
secret-vanishings-americas-national-
parks/
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May 9 - Jupiter at Opposition. The giant
planet will be at its closest approach to
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PHENOMENA ISSUE 109 | NEWS ITEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD | MAY 2018

UFO mysteries unraveled: How the

‘real-life X-Files’ emerged from a
top secret UK project
By James Rogers

A former official at the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence has shed new light

Kim Wilde claims UFO

on the circumstances surrounding a secret government UFO study that
was conducted during the 1990s.
In 1996, the MoD commissioned a defense contractor to produce a
sighting inspired her to
return to music
comprehensive report on U.K. UFO sightings. The report was compiled
at a time of huge public interest in UFOs fueled by the wildly popular
“X-Files” TV series and 1997’s 50th anniversary of the purported UFO
incident in Roswell, New Mexico. By Kathleen Joyce
Careful to avoid using the term UFO, the report described sightings as
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). “Kids in America” singer Kim Wilde said an encounter
with a UFO in 2009 was one of the reasons she
UFO INTRIGUE: HOW THE UK DEALT WITH ‘REAL-LIFE X-FILES’
decided to return to music and make a comeback.
Code-named Project Condign, the report analyzed a database of
Wilde told the BBC after leaving the music business
sightings between 1987 and 1997 and was delivered to officials in
she got married and raised her children. However,
2000. The study, entitled ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the
two events pushed her to come back and give music a
UK Air Defence Region,’ found that that sightings could be explained
second chance.
by a variety of known phenomena, both man-made and natural.
The incidence of relatively rare natural phenomena was also noted. Wilde claims she had an encounter with a UFO in
“No evidence exists to associate the phenomena with any particular 2009. She said she was sitting in the garden at her
nation,” it said. home with a glass of wine when she saw something.
Project Condign has been compared to Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air “Then I looked up in the sky and saw this huge bright
Force effort to investigate UFOs that closed in 1969. light behind a cloud. Brighter than the moon, but
similar to the light from the moon,” she said.
ALIEN SHOCKER: CONGRESS WANTS TO SPEND MILLIONS SEARCHING
FOR ET “I said to my husband and my friend, ‘that’s really
odd,’ so we walked down the grass and looked to see
Initial discussions about the study started in 1993, according to Pope,
if there was any source. All of a sudden it moved,
who was no longer involved in the Ministry’s UFO investigations by the
very quickly, from about 11:00 to 1:00. Then it just
time work on the report itself started.
did that, back and forth, for several minutes,” Wilde
Pope, who left the MoD in 2006, has been quoted extensively in the recalled.
media as a result of his links to what remains a highly controversial
“Whenever it moved, something shifted in the air -
topic. His involvement in MoD UFO investigations lasted from 1991 to
but it was silent. Absolutely silent.”
1994, according to his website.
She said her career started to flatline in the 1990s
The report only entered the public domain in 2006 following a Freedom
when she became older and felt she could not keep
of Information request from academic Dr. David Clarke. The identity of
up.
the report’s author has not been revealed.

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No time for aliens: how the MoD
tried to prove no one’s out there
by Damien Gayle
Report collating a decade of UFO
sightings in 1990s was intended to
protect ministry from more X-Files
inspired requests
It was 1997, the 50th anniversary of
the suspected flying saucer crash at
Roswell in New Mexico, and the heyday
of the paranormal mystery series The
X-Files. The English-speaking world
was gripped by UFO-mania. But what
seemed a delightful mystery to some was
becoming a headache for the spooks at
Britain’s Defence Intelligence Staff.
Analysts at the DI55 office, the
department lumbered with the UFO
brief, were being peppered with requests
from ufologists – and even parliamentary
questions – for information on flying
saucers, taking up time they felt would
be better spent on terrestrial defence
matters. So top brass decided to
undertake a definitive study of the unit’s
collection of reported UFO sightings to
establish, once and for all, whether there
was anything in them.
Previously unseen documents reveal
that, far from being an objective study
into the possibility of extraterrestrial
visitors, the report was intended from
the start to absolve the Ministry of
Defence of responsibility for investigating
sightings. Messages between officials at
DIS and the contractor carrying out the
research show that it focused from the
outset only “on the possible threat to
the UK [from hostile foreign powers] and
technology acquisition” and not “X-Files
activities such as alien abductions”. A
separate memo says: “It shouldn’t be
driven by a UFO thesis.”
The study replaced one mystery with
another after its author determined
that the UFO sightings were a result of
in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, DI55
announced afterwards that it would no
longer accept UFO reports.
The documents show the deliberations
behind the research, which began
in 1997 and collated the previous
decade’s worth of UFO sightings –
known in the technical jargon of DIS as
unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs)
– in a database. The identities of all the
officers involved in the conversation,
which lasted several years, are redacted.
Many other excerpts are blacked out,
with exemptions cited including risks
to national security and international
relations.
“The increasing media attention given to
this subject in recent months has almost
doubled the work of the desk officers
involved to the detriment of other tasks
more directly relevant to the work of
the branch,” one memo says, adding
that it was now time to “reappraise the
situation” and clarify DIS’s role in the
issue.
Officials complain about the cost in time
and money of investigating sightings and
responding to questions. “The problem
is unlikely to subside, especially as the
US brings into service over the next
decade high flying capabilities such as
Global Star, Dark Star, the X-33 and,
should it come to fruition, the manned
spaceplane,” writes one senior officer.
“Other nations will follow, especially with
UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], which
may permit risk-taking in unauthorised
penetrations of airspace.”
Other correspondents remained open-
minded, with one arguing that in the
absence of analysis “we can not discount
the possibility that UAPs are real” or
that they could be natural phenomena
but with “possible military applications”.
“It could be argued that UAPs pose a
potential threat to the defence of the
realm since we have no idea what they
are,” the writer continues.
It emerges that the analyst
commissioned to write the report had a
personal interest in the subject. Pointing
out that the same UFO questionnaire
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had been in use since the 1950s, he
notes: “I filled one in myself after a sortie
when flying in the RAF at the time.” The
author adds that he wishes to keep a low
profile for fear that the media “would
undoubtedly link [this work] with my
other known activities on SDI [strategic
defence initiative, better known as the
Star Wars project], BM [ballistic missile]
defence etc.”
What becomes clear from the files is a
fear among officials of further inciting
UFO-mania. “We need to be very careful
about expanding ‘UFO’ business and
thereby sending the public a misleading
message about the extent of the MoD’s
interest,” says one memo.
Another says: “Keep the classification
low – I suggest restricted – in order not
to put it in the public domain but at the
same time prevent the criticism that
MoD is hiding something under the cloak
of secrecy.”
The report was completed in 2000 and
duly discounted the possibility of alien
spaceships over the UK, giving DI55 the
grounds it needed to no longer accept
reports of sightings. But what DIS did
next could only fuel the imagination of
conspiracy theorists. It destroyed the
files on which the report was based, and
even the database in which they had
collated for analysis.
David Clarke, a research fellow and
lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam
University and a specialist in modern
folklore, obtained the files from the MoD
after a freedom of information battle.
“They always say that the public gets
the wrong idea about UFOs, but they’ve
actually encouraged that themselves
by destroying the files. They’ve actually
encouraged conspiracy theorists through
their own paranoia,” he said.
The MoD does not officially respond to
queries relating to UFOs. It closed its
UFO desk in 2009 after it was decided
it served no defence purpose and that
it took staff away from more valuable
defence-related activities.
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Stephen Hawking’s search for
aliens gets a boost
By Nick Whigham | news.com.au
The late professor Stephen Hawking was
certain there was intelligent life lurking
in the universe.
“The idea that we are alone in the
universe seems to me completely
implausible and arrogant,” he once said.
“Considering the number of planets and
stars that we know exist, it’s extremely
unlikely that we are the only form of
evolved life.”
So before he passed away on March 14
this year, he threw his support behind
a project backed by Russian billionaire
Yuri Milner and Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg to find that elusive alien
civilization.
Known as the Breakthrough Listen
initiative, the project has begun a new
push to survey millions of stars in the
Milky Way for signals picked up by
extraterrestrial technology — and a
recent upgrade to a famous Australian
telescope is boosting the chances of
finding them.
A hardware upgrade which saw the
CSIRO telescope known as “The Dish”
equipped with a new high-powered
receiver last year means researchers can
eavesdrop on our galactic neighbors on
an unprecedented scale.
According to CNET, the project has been
using the Parkes telescope in NSW for
the past year-and-a-half but had been
limited to targeting just a small sample
of stars within a relatively short distance
from Earth. However, the new receiver
allows scientists to peer deep into
the galactic plane, which is where the
majority of the Milky Way’s mass lies.
The Breakthrough Initiative has signed
up for 1,500 hours of observation time
with the Parkes telescope in 2018
and the recent tech upgrade will see
scientists able to process about 130
gigabits per second of observational data
from deep space.
All in all, that could equate to roughly
five million HD movies worth of data.
“With these new capabilities ... we are
scanning our galaxy in unprecedented
detail,” project scientist Danny Price from
UC Berkeley said in a statement.
“By trawling through these huge
datasets for signatures of technological
civilizations, we hope to uncover
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evidence that our planet, among the
hundreds of billions in our galaxy, is not
the only where intelligent life has arisen.”
According to the
team of scientists
behind the $133
million Breakthrough
Listen project, “it
is by far the most
comprehensive,
intensive and
sensitive search
ever undertaken for
artificial radio and
optical signals”.
It will encompass a “complete survey of
the 1 million nearest stars, the plane and
center of our galaxy, and the 100 nearest
galaxies.”
Once the data is collected it will be
archived, open-sourced, analyzed and
researchers will be able to comb through
it to look for anomalies and clues that
may point to signs of intelligent life.
However, Prof. Hawking wasn’t that
optimistic about the fate of humanity
should an alien species find us and
decide to visit.
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the
outcome would be much as when
Christopher Columbus first landed in
America, which didn’t turn out very well
for the Native Americans,” he said.
All the more reason to find them first.
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NASA agrees to fly helicopter
demo on Mars 2020
by Jeff Foust — May 11, 2018
NASA announced May 11 that it will fly a small helicopter
as a technology demonstration on its next Mars rover,
despite concerns from some on the project that it could be a
distraction.
In a statement issued late May 11, the space agency said it will
include the Mars Helicopter on the Mars 2020 rover mission,
where it will perform a series of test flights over the course of
a month.
“The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet
is thrilling,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in the
statement. “The Mars Helicopter holds much promise for our
future science, discovery, and exploration missions to Mars.”
Both Bridenstine and Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), chairman
of the appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA,
highlighted the fact that, if successful, Mars Helicopter will be
the first heavier-than-air vehicle to fly on another world. “This
exciting and visionary achievement will inspire young people
all over the United States to become scientists and engineers,
paving the way for even greater discoveries in the future,”
Culberson said.
Mars Helicopter weighs about 1.8 kilograms and has a cubical
fuselage similar in size to a softball. It will be attached to the
belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover and placed on the surface
upon finding a suitable site after the rover’s February 2021
landing. The rover will then drive a safe distance from the
helicopter before flight tests begin.
Up to five flights are planned over the 30-day test campaign,
starting with a flight where the helicopter will ascent to an
altitude of three meters and hover for 30 seconds. Later flights
will last up to 90 seconds and travel as far as a few hundred
meters. The helicopter will recharge its lithium-ion batteries
between flights with solar cells.
The helicopter faces a number of technical challenges,
including being able to generate lift in atmospheric densities
equivalent to an altitude of 30 kilometers on Earth, more than
double the altitude record for a conventional helicopter.
“To make it fly at that low atmospheric density, we had to
scrutinize everything, make it as light as possible while being
as strong and as powerful as it can possibly be,” said Mimi
Aung, Mars Helicopter project manager at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, in the statement. The helicopters blades will rotate
at up to 3,000 revolutions per minute, 10 times the rate of a
terrestrial helicopter.
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Mars Helicopter will also have to be able to fly autonomously,
given the long communications lag with the Earth. “We have
an autonomous capability that will be able to receive and
interpret commands from the ground, and then fly the mission
on its own,” Aung said.
NASA sees Mars Helicopter as demonstrating the ability of such
vehicles to serve as scouts for future rover missions. That could
be useful, for example, for later missions to help spot samples
cached by Mars 2020 in order to collect them for return to
Earth.
“The ability to see clearly what lies beyond the next hill is
crucial for future explorers,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA
associate administrator for science, in the statement. Such
views are provided now by orbiting spacecraft. “With the
added dimension of a bird’s-eye view from a ‘marscopter,’ we
can only imagine what future missions will achieve.”
The potential addition of Mars Helicopter, though, has not
necessarily been warmly accepted by the main Mars 2020
mission. At a meeting of the National Academies’ Space Studies
Board May 3, Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020, said
he and others on the mission had concerns about flying that
technology demonstration.
“I am not an advocate for the helicopter, and I don’t believe the
Mars 2020 project has been an advocate for the helicopter,” he
said at the meeting. The major issue, he said, was that adding
Mars Helicopter could disrupt science operations of the main
rover during that 30-day test period even as the mission was
working to find efficiencies elsewhere to maximize its overall
performance.
He added, though, that Mars 2020 has worked to
accommodate the helicopter, and was not concerned about
any technical risk to the mission from it. “Everybody agrees it
will not put the mission at risk,” he said. “All the decisions that
are being made have to honor that.”
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Meet the paranormal specialist who
debunked the region’s biggest mystery
By Luke Bartlett
Andrew Homer, from Sedgley, has more
than a tale or two about the ghostly
goings on of the Black Country and
beyond.
The 62-year-old – who is the resident
chemist at the Black Country Living
Museum – was part of the team that
helped solve the mystery of the Wem
Town Hall ghost – a case which gained
huge national attention during the
1990s.
Photographer Tony O’Rahilly was said to
have stood across from the Shropshire
building as it burnt down in 1995 and
captured the now infamous picture –
showing a little girl standing amongst the
blaze.
It was believed for a long time that Mr
O’Rahilly had captured the ghost of a girl
who was pictured on Wem High Street
on a postcard from 1922.
But together with ASSAP, a paranormal
education and research charity, and
Parasearch, a paranormal investigation
unit Andrew joined in the 1980s, he
worked with Steve Potter who found the
photo to be a copy in 2007.
O’Rahilly had, according to Parasearch,
tampered with the image to make the
girl appear as though she was in the
burning building.
Debunked
It is something Andrew is proud to have
been a part of, and the clues, he says,
were on his wall all along.
“The picture was not debunked until long
after Tony had died in 2005.” he said.
“It was actually a colleague of mine that
did it and it could only be debunked
using computer software that is available
now that you would not have been able
to do at the time – for many, many years
we did not know.
“It was faked, he did fake it, but I actually
liked the guy, I met him a couple of
times.
“When Wem Town Hall burnt down
it was a major blow for Wem, it is
only a tiny place anyway, and I think
that he thought by trying to generate
some publicity for Wem it would just
help Wem out – I think that was his
motivation.
“He appeared not to want money for the
negative, and there was only ever one
negative of this thing and he gave me it.”
He continued: “Tony also gave me
a photograph, he had framed it and
everything, it is a nice picture of Wem
Town Hall burning down.
“There is no girl standing in the doorway,
it is a photograph without the girl and
he signed it and he put the date and
everything.
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“Once I realised what the picture was, I
realised after that he might have been
giving me a bit of a clue.
Fake
“Tony had always made out that he
was an amateur photographer and was
stumbling along but on the back of this,
I did not see it for years, on the back of
this picture is a little sticker that he has
had professionally printed.
“It has got a picture of a camera on it
and it says ‘Tony O – photography black
and white, sepia and colour – copies of
photos’ and his phone number.
“The way that the Wem photograph had
been done, it is a copy, it is a sandwich
copy, and he has got this sticker on the
back of this thing saying he is doing
copies of photographs, so he had got the
skills to do it.
“He had never admitted to faking it right
up until the end.”
Investigating and writing about the
paranormal was something that started
for Andrew back in 1984 following
an incident he experienced at Dudley
College.
The author was working there as a
teacher in special education needs and
computing when he saw a figure in a
dark suit holding a briefcase early one
morning.He watched the man in the dark
suit walk into a room which had two
double doors with only one way in and
one way out.
At the time the college had been subject
to a coffee thief – and Andrew thought
he had caught the perpetrator red
handed. He waited to give the man the
chance to get the kettle on, and after a
few moments, burst into the room. The
room was empty.
It is something that has inspired him to
carry on with his work to this very day.
After spending years investigating with
local paranormal units, Andrew has
turned his hand to pen and paper. His
latest book – Black Country Ghosts and
Hauntings – is a gazetteer of the region’s
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A mysterious sea creature which looked
like a “dead monster” washed up on a
beach - sparking fears of an impending
disaster.
The enormous hairy blob surfaced
last night at around 7pm and was
immediately thought to be a ‘globster.’
Marine workers arrived to take samples
of the unidentified creature which they
say smells “awful” and like “something
from another planet.”
Villagers in the Oriental Mindoro
province in the Philippines flocked to see
the 20ft long dead carcass, posing for
selfies with it.
But others fear it is the sign of a natural
disaster, such as an earthquake.
Resident Tam Maling said: “An
earthquake is heading for Oriental
Mindoro. The big globster is a sign of
something bad coming. Please pray for
us.”
Vincent Dela Pena Badillo added: “Many
were alarmed including me when
we learned the news about it. It has
been told that when creatures from
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the deepest parts of the ocean start
appearing, something bad will happen.”
Mother-of-two Imelda Mariz said
she had taken her children to see the
creature which they thought was a
“monster”.
She said: “I couldn’t believe what it was,
I’ve never seen anything like it. In God’s
name, I was shocked. The children were
scared it was a dead monster. Nobody
knows what it is yet.”
Fishery Law Enforcement Officer Vox
Neighbouring residents gathered round Krusada said: “Today we just gathered a
the ‘globster’ laying in shallow sea water samples of it for further analysis.
on the beach in the town of San Antonio
“For now we can say its a whale, but the
for a closer look at the animal.
exact species is still unknown. The tissue
It is around 4ft wide at one end and samples are now sent to our lab for DNA
about 2ft wide at the other with a analysis.
greyish white colour. A similar ‘globster’
“The local government of Gloria will now
creature appeared in Dinagat Islands,
bury the carcass. And damn it smells
Philippines, last February which officials
awful. it smells like something from
said was an Orca whale or a manatee.
another planet.
Government workers from the Bureau of
“I really experienced the full power of
Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the
its smell because im the one who took
Mimapora Region will now dispose of
the tissue samples. I almost puked. I felt
the creature, which they believe could be
better after taking a bath but the stench
a dead whale, later today.
still lingers in my nose.”
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Author: Robert Snow
Publisher: Flying Disk Press
ISBN: 978-1980379218
Price: £5.95 (Amazon)
Author: Alistair Shearer
Publisher: White Crow Books
ISBN: 978-1-78677-021-9
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Strange Experiences
This new release from Flying Disk Press is truly charming and in some cases
genuinely poignant. Gathered in this volume are, for the most part, the
remarkable supernatural experiences of the late Dr. R.C.C. Clay, who was a
medical practitioner in rural Wiltshire, which is in the south east of England. The
accounts of Dr Clay, which date from around the 1920’s until the early 1960’s,
are told in a refreshingly open-minded and straightforward manner, ‘The Ghost
of Avebury Churchyard’, ‘Ghosts of Fovant, Wiltshire’ and the ‘Bronze Age
Horseman’ are examples of this and are truly thought provoking.
What Dr Clay describes fall into several categories including hauntings,
apparitions and apparent examples of ESP or perhaps synchronicity, where
individuals, including the doctor, did things for no obvious reason only to find
out later that they were extremely relevant. There are also examples of other
encounters that seem to fall through the cracks in the façade of reality into the
world of ‘high strangeness’ events.
The accounts were assembled by Dr. Clay’s grandson, Robert Snow, the one-time
general secretary of The Ghost Club, and they form around 90% of the content.
The rest is supplied by Mr Snow and tell of his own remarkable experiences.
This is especially true when the author recounts his visit to a real paranormal
hotspot, the imposing and creepy Woodchester Mansion: what occurred there
was genuinely alarming and witnessed by multiple individuals. This is a valuable
addition to the literature of the strange and bizarre and I have no hesitation in
recommending it to anyone with an interest in the paranormal.
In The Light Of The Self
It is encouraging to be assured (as this book does) that the three main religions
nowadays are more or less new - and frequently hubristic - arrivals on the block
and many of their precepts were laid out previously by other systems of belief. It
is a very similar process with the journey to discover the supreme attainment of
tranquilly and peace by finding and understanding the true nature of self. This
book sets out one method of achieving this truly desirable and nirvanic state by
telling the true story of Shankara, an eight year old boy who set out some 1200
years ago to seek enlightenment. The book sets out his journey from noviciate
to master and in the process sets out the steps he followed in doing this. The
fact that he became one of Hinduisms most revered figures, a saint in fact,
shows that he must have got something right, because his legacy still endures
to this day. The book sets out the way he did this and the truths he uncovered,
truths that are even more relevant in these dire and straitened times. The book
sets out a series of questions and answers to guide the seeker on their path
to understanding and ultimate enlightenment. Perhaps not for the absolute
beginner, but this is a worthy publication that will give solace and comfort to
many and White Crow Books are to be congratulated for helping show the way.
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One Hundred Cases for Survival After Death

Author: A.T. Baird
Publisher: White Crow Books
ISBN: 978-1-78677-041-7
Price: £9.99
This book makes its case for the afterlife based on events drawn from the
extensive files of the Society For Psychical Research (SPR). Just about every
variation on how this happens is set out in the eleven chapters and include
(but are not limited to) dreams, apparitions, automatic writing, direct voice
phenomena and actual materialisations of spirit entities. Some of the cases are
quite well known, especially those investigated by the now deceased (and some
might say notorious) psychic investigator, Harry Price. The Price cases describe
the now demolished and allegedly abundantly haunted Borley Rectory, plus
the extremely enigmatic events surrounding the materialisation of the child,
‘Rosalie’, which is a case that that really does need very careful examination.
Aside from these examples, the reader can open the book anywhere and
guarantee that some pearl of information will emerge; the frequently used
example of the Raynham Hall staircase apparition is a case in point. Particularly
useful is that each chapter, one for each method of contact used, starts with a
few words of explanation detailing how these techniques work, although it is
arguable that each method is equally valid and only serves as a point of focus
for the medium. In other words they are all just keys that open the same door.
Although the cases in the book are all set in the early 20th century this does not
matter, because the evidence is as valid now as it was then. The only difference
is that now we have better equipment, and possibly protocols, to validate
the reality of a genuine phenomenon. This is a must read for any serious
investigator of the paranormal.

I Have Seen it Tomorrow

Author: Iris Krst
Publisher: Self Published
ISBN: 978-1-78677-039-4
Price: £11.61
Any book that is endorsed by Mary Rodwell has to be taken seriously and this
work, written pseudonymously by Slovakian born Julia Sellers, is a genuine
attempt to have the phenomenon of out of body experience (OOBE) taken
seriously. The book shows what can (and frequently does) happen when
consciousness is voyaging in what is effectively ‘the aether’, or maybe at a pinch
‘hyperspace’. The chapter headings (there are seven quite lengthy chapters)
are revealing, ‘The Future You Do Not Remember’, ‘People Are Not Dead Until
They Have Been Reborn’, and my own favourite, ‘Audible Light And Luminous
Sound’, pretty much say it all. The last mentioned chapter, with its obvious nod
to synesthesia, is especially insightful.
In fact the book uses several useful and inventive metaphors to describe astral
travel, how to achieve it and what can, and frequently is, encountered there. As
it happens this reviewer has occasionally experienced OOBE in the form of lucid
dreams, so it is easier for me to relate to what is discussed here. The book itself
is engagingly written and draws the reader in to share the fascinating honesty
and insights of the author. OK, there are a couple of points that might cause
some issues, e.g. are the soul and consciousness the same thing? The author
implies that they are, but are they? Fortunately the book covers enough ground
to allow the reader to draw their own conclusions from the evidence presented.
There is no doubt that this fascinating book will provide a rich source of material
for both the sceptic and the believer, but more importantly, it might encourage
those who have an enquiring nature to explore the possibility of an experience
that well goes beyond time and space. Highly and undeservedly recommended.

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Poltergeists
One of the most puzzling, frustrating, and possibly terrifying manifestations of
the paranormal are alleged poltergeist infestations and in this welcome reissue
of ‘Poltergeists’, White Crow do an excellent and timely job or reintroducing
this iconic and well researched book to a new audience. Showing just how
long these outbreaks have been around, the book starts with the 17th
century Mompesson case, not because it was the first example of poltergeist
phenomena, far from it, because this has been around for as long as there have
been humans on the planet, but because it was remarkably well-documented.
Using this as this as their starting point, the authors, who include 500 examples
of the phenomenon, continue right up to modern times and also show that it
can manifests in various ways, because apart from the usual rapping, knocking
and items being thrown around, it can also somehow manage to produce
copious amount of water from, well, where exactly, and more to the point why?
An example is mentioned in the book, but this type of occurrence has occurred
several times.
This reviewer was particularly taken with one of the reports concerning the
‘Sauchie poltergeist’, mainly because I live in the vicinity and reinvestigated this
Author: Alan Gauld & A.D. Cornell
very case, which dates from 1960, a number of years ago, and at the time it was
Publisher: White Crow Books
widely reported in both print and broadcast media. I was also able to interview
ISBN: 978-1-78677-039-4
a number of the original witnesses, including one of the doctors (mentioned
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in the book) who treated Virginia Campbell, the affected child and apparent
epicentre of what occurred: they too were convinced that what occurred was
not due to faking by the child. As part of their research the authors, Gauld and
Cornell, also conducted a number of experiments to try and recreate some
of the phenomena, but were eventually forced to conclude that some, if not
all of the events were genuinely paranormal in nature, but produced by what
exactly? This they can only speculate on, because, frankly, up to now no one
knows for sure. This is an excellent and truly fascinating book dealing with an
astonishing set of anomalous phenomena and is an invaluable asset for the
serious researcher.

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