Flying Saucer Review January 1979 [antikvár]

physicist and Maître de Recherche at the CNRS, Pads, and C.Maxwell Cade, FSR's valued consultant.Should readers wonder why we bother ourselves with a letter bearing a somewhat trivial and ill-considered argument, we should explain that it presents a chance to re-state, our position m these matters. As for the author of the letter, who says he is a student who expects to pursue his studies at university - which is why we are withholding his name - we hope to persuade him to prise open his mind before it is too late. It seems he completely missed the point of the book, which was a first attempt to gather together world-wide reports of allegedly humanoid occupants of UFOs, either landed, or in close proximity to the observers. It was never the purpose of the book to prove that these reported creatures were "spacemen" from distant star systems, visiting and surveying this planet of ours. Rather it was to record the diversity of ways in which people from widely separated and far-flung places claim to have encountered these things, to search for patterns of behaviour inherent in the reports, to learn something about the behaviour and background of the witnesses, to encourage preliminary studies and further collating of information and documentation, and to enable ourselves to speculate a little.We too have read our fill of popular science digests, and so are aware of the possibility that threads of life have taken vastly different courses in different places in the universe. This, however, has not caused us to negate in our minds the witnesses' descriptions of their encounters or observations but, instead, has caused us to wonder. To wonder, for instance, why people have persisted in making such reports over the years, reports which the diehards, or the inexperienced, tell us are baseless or are rubbish.It seems certain that most of the witnesses have seen something very perplexing; that it could have been what they say it was is another matter.It is possible that they may have seen something of extraterrestrial origin. It is also possible that they may have experienced a manifestation of something from another time-space continuum, with objectand forms"seeping" through one of the so-called "window areas" where an interpenetrating (or parallel) universe impinges on ours. On the other hand they may have witnessed manifestations of elemental beings appearing in a modern frame of reference and so deceiving the observers - as "space beings" from afar; encounters with "Old Nick" and his minions rather than with assorted extraterrestrial Captains Kirk.After studying the countless reports that have passed through our hands it is possible to speculate that whatever it is that appears before the witnesses' eyes or senses, it is capable of exerting varying degrees of control over them. Perhaps it is a spaceship to satisfy our critical student, just one from that huge, near-empty volume of "cubic light years" around our solar system the controllers of which are capable of beaming whatever images they choose into the minds of the percipients; images of humanoid activity, images of abduction, images of "messages." (If, however, our witnesses over the decades have been watchinj; signs of surveillance and exploration by extraterrestrials, then it seems to have been an extraordinarily untidy and inefficiently-conducted operation.) On the other hand the observers may have seen haphazard manifestations of beings in various degrees similar to our own species who emerge by chance, perhaps momentarily, from their parallel or interpenetrating world. Again, our witnesses may have been subjected to the gruesomely playful antics of materialising elementáis or demonic beings, in which case perhaps they should turn for succour to our men of religion.Wherever the region these persistent visitors come from, be it extraterrestrial, interterrestrial or meta-terrestrial, we feel we'should be very guarded in our reaction to their admonitions and pleadings. We have an uneasy feeling that they are not concerned with the welfare of mankind.Pointers to these ideas are to be found in The Humanoids (first published in 1966), and they have been developed since then in Flying Saucer Review and in the more recent book Encounters Cases from Flying Saucer Review.PERSONAL COLUMNL0.30 ($0.65) per linpart, i.e. L1.20 ($2.60) for 4 lit md so on."UFO's AND THE CHRISTIAN" (Regency) by Eric Inglesby. Foreword by Bishop Bardsley. L2.50 direct from Spring Cottage, Fairford, Glos. An essential Encounter.PHOTO COLLECTORS: If you would like to sell copies of certain unusual UFO photographs at $20.00 per 35mm slide, contact: Jan Eric Herr, 7250'/2 Stanley Avenue, San Diego OA 92115 USA.THE BRITISH UFO RESEARCH ASSOCIATION f. 1962) continues to publish a lively journal six times a year, investigate UK reports, hold monthly lectures in London and sponsor a national research conference. Please send (9"x5") s.A.t. tor detaUs of membership, meetings and publicationsto: Miss Betty Wood, 6 Cairn Avenue, London W5 5HX.WANTED TO BUY: English translation of UFO's Here and Now by K. Gosta Rehn. Mrs. J.L. Brooks, 31 Avenue St., Millswood, South Australia 5034.AMATEUR WRITER with serious interest in encounters of the spiritual kind would like to correspond with anyone like-minded. C. Hogben, 8, Ely Close, Kidderminster, Worcs.MYSTERY HEUCOPTERS: Have you sighting detaUs or other information on these "Copters"? If so please write to me. I need material to help me with a research project. Full credit given to items used in published report. Sample issue Skywatch SOp. Send to: David L. Rees, 92, Hillcrest Road, Offerton, Stockport, Cheshire SK2 5SE, England.WANTED: 1955-56 issues of FSR, paying up to L20.00 (PLEASE NOTE: BRITISH POUNDS) $40.00 to $50 00) PER ISSUE FOR MINT CONDITION. Bradford John ^ P.O. Box 83, Aliston, Mass 02134, U.S.A.