Flying Saucer Review March 1981 [antikvár]

that, like others before him, he may have embroidered his story here and there (such as the nonsense about the plants passing through American Customs). Experienced researchers are well aware of facts like these. As for the building in the photograph, could it not be a shelter, a shrine or a cattle byre? We certainly do not think it is the "clincher" proposed by our correspondent.It is not surprising that some researchers despair of the extraterrestrial idea, for in all conscience a properly conducted surveillance, with landings, should not take as long as 34 years (since 1947) to organise or probably longer, for we are thinking only in terms of modern publicity for the UFO phenomenon. The problem becomes even more acute if one takes note of Aimé Michel's suggestion that UFOs and their controllers may well have been around in Upper Palaeolithic times, as long as 15,000 or 20,000 years ago* and no doubt exposing Magdalenian Man to doses of "cosmic kidology."Readers should not deduce from this article that FSR has discarded the extraterrestrial idea. To do so would be unwise for many reasons, not the least of which are, first, that there is litde proof that the alternatives are any more valid; secondly, that we and the alien interlopers could well be existing on different time scales; thirdly, that there could well be more than one group of alien beings which is interested in our future. If our speculations are near the mark, and there are such beings some of whom couldbe mimicking others then their need to keep us confused, controlled and off the scent, would beunderstandable., It is interesting to have confirmed, in an article by Nikita Schnee (see page 00), that strange close encounters of the "unbelievable" kind are also reported in the Soviet Union. A delightful picture is conjured up of the officer witness who, desperate to avoid having his memory of the encounter erased, resorts to the demon drink to try to solve his problem. In the end no doubt unintentionally in the way it happened he succeeds in confusing both his own "pulses" and, to a degree, the confabulators in their purpose. If the story is to be believed, then the aliens must have known what was going on in their abductee's mind, but the inference we draw is that they could do nothing about the effects of the booze.This Russian account is as weirdly bizarre as most of its kind from elsewhere in the world, and the only comment we can make is a suggestion that our Russian colleagues will surely come round to being a little more cautious in their reactions to the things that the entities are said to tell the contactées about having come from distant star systems, or from remote galaxies, and so on. See Michel, A: "Palaeolithic UFO-shapes" in FSR Vol. 15, No. 6 (November-December 1969).UNDER INTELLIGENT CONTROL?When a UFO "paced" an ambulance in Northern Poland and obstructed the road.Emma PopikOur contributor, who lives in Gdansk, sent her article directly to Flvina Saucer Review. She is also MUFON (Mutual UFO Network, Inc.) representative in Poland.BEFORE we start, let us take a quick look at the road map. To the South East of Gdansk, Poland's major port on the Baltic Sea, there lies the small town of Sztum. The action to be described took place along the roads between the village of Zulawka and Sztum. I was glad to have the opportunity of investigating this close encounter.On September 5, 1980 at 3.15 a.m., the telephone rang in the first-aid department of the hospital at Sztum. An ambulance set off quickly in response to the call. Its destination, the village of Zulawka, where a confined woman, Mrs. Elzbieta Pluta, aged 25, was waiting. Aboard the ambulance were Dr. Barbara Piazza, Grzegorz Skoczynski the driver, and stretcher bearer Andrzei Olejuik. None of them expected they would be watching a red UFO from about 3.40 a.m. until 4.15 a.m.At about 3.30 a.m. they were on their way back to hospital. Elzbieta Pluta was comfortable, sitting, not lying which means there was still a little time. She had pains every ten minutes.\ XufAwkA. %&Z.TL>M.y----Suddenly Dr. Piazza noticed a big red ball in the sky, some distance from them. She asked: "What would that be?""The notorious UFO," volunteered one of the others, and they all burst out laughing. . .who believes in such things? UFOs only appear on the front pages of the evening papers!At that point the time was about 3.35 a.m., and the