Flying Saucer Review August 1984 [antikvár]

mongering". The Oracle had spoken, and that was that. The matter had been closed - and permanently.However, as we reported in the series of three articles, two journalists, Russian-born and Russian-speak-ing Henry Oris (now an American citizen) and his British colleague William Dick, produced a very important book in 1978 (The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries) in which, inter alia, they revealed that they had managed to interview Dr. Zigel' not at all an easy thing to do as the Soviet authorities had kept him carefully segregated from foreign journalists ever since his television statements about UFOs in 1967.Henry Gris says that Dr. Zigel' told him (we think in 1975 or thereabouts) that there are many species of UFO entities, falling into three general categories which he termed (1) "Spacemen" {taU entities, 3m. or so high); (2) "Humanoids", of average near-human statures; and (3) "Aliens", grotesque, large-headed creatures around one metre in height. He added, ominously, that some of Category 2 were sufficiently like us to be able to circulate here undetected.From all of which is it not obvious that the Soviets have been watching the UFO situation closely for a long time?So it struck us as pretty comical when we read in most of our British papers on May 30 of this year that the Soviets had suddenly woken up to the existence of UFOs. Wrote Richard Owen, Moscow correspondent of The Times:"The Kremlin, once sceptical about the existence of flying saucers, has finally succumbed to the unshakable Russian belief in close encounters of the third kind. The newspaper Trud (Labour) yesterday reported that a special commission for the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has been set up under Pavel Popovich, the former cosmonaut."This blinding piece of news was followed up by a report from Nigel Wade in Moscow to his paper, the London Daily Telegraph (July 13, 1984) that"Russians have been given an address to which they may send reports of unidentified flying objects."We confess that on perusing this startling Moscow report we were overcome by an unusually powerful sensation of déja vu, but, rapidly recovering our accustomed aplomb, it occurred to us that, we are now already well into July, which in Fleet Street and newr gathering circles is known as the "silly season" or the time for "July madness", when the journalistic fraternity, traditionally at a loose end for copy after Parliament has broken up for the holidays, frantically resurrect the Loch Ness Monster or any other appropriate subjects of hilarity. (Traditionally the "silly season" has perhaps not quite started yet, as Parliament is still in session, and abundant copy is still available in all the good work at present being done or perhaps not being done by Mr. Scargill and his miners and the dockers). However, we find, and most appropriately on Friday, July 13, the same date as the blinding news from Moscow, the following choice item in the London Daily Mail horn their man in Am-"That traditional summer diversion, aquatic monster frenzy, has surfaced in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Two more sober people the last two were cops report seeing something at least 17 ft. long cruising the 1,500 ft. lake. It seems benevolent. Tt wasn't threatening. It was just gliding right by us. I believe I went into a state of shock.' However, water-skiers have been told to stay alert. One lake authority says: 'There's enough water in the lake to fill the ten largest reservoirs in the United States. There's a distinct possibility it could be some fish we've never even discovered.'"This sagacious American lake authority, whoever he is, God bless him, has taken the words right out of our mouths, for that's exactly how we feel about the UFOs.There's enough gas and hot air out there in our Cosmos to just about fill the ten largest newspapers in Britain and the U.S.A. (And if any slightly more solid ingredient is needed, it can be supplied, we feel sure, by any average male of the cow species.)remember that new readers are always needed. ufo journals are disappearing elsewhere don't let it happen here!