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ELECTRONIC UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS NEWS (EUFON)
Vol. 1 No. 2 (1 February 1993)

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Editor:

Carlos A. Steffens

Primary hatching
by John Komar

For information, copyrights, article submissions, obtaining copies and so on, please refer to the end of this file.

Table of Contents

1. EDITORIAL
• Editorial: Fact or Fiction?
2. ARTICLES
• The Politics Of Torquemada; Or, Earth Calling Hansen's Planet
• Update On The South Haven Park UFO Incident
• Final Report On The Linda Napolitano Abduction (Part 1 of 3)
3. BOOK REVIEW
• UFO Crash Secrets At Wright/Patterson Air Force Base
4. ANNOUNCEMENTS/WANTED
5. EUFON INFORMATION

EDITORIAL

Editorial: Fact or Fiction?

by Carlos A. Steffens (88:4202/19)

A great debate has been sparked by the controversial allegations made by Linda Napolitano, who tells a tale of UFO abductions and government involvement. In our previous issue, we published an open letter written by George P. Hansen to the UFO community where he criticized the people in charge of the investigation and the way it was being conducted. This issue features the answer to Hansen's letter. Hansen has also released a critique of the case where he and other investigators attempt to analyze the evidence and information involved to then opine about the case's validity. Since the report is long, part of it is published in this issue, the remaining to be published in upcoming issues.

The UFO community does not sit still while the Linda Napolitano controversy rages on. In Long Island, the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON) has been hard at work investigating an alleged UFO crash that occurred in South Haven Park on November 24, 1992. Various independent witnesses have come forward and their stories are very similar when not identical. This issue features the latest report of the situation by John Ford, Chairman of LIUFON. The article comes to us courtesy of John Komar and Mike Christol.

Finally, this month's book report is on James W. Moseley's UFO CRASH SECRETS AT WRIGHT/PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE. The report was written by Duncan M. Roads, Editor of Nexus New Times and obtained from the MUFON- NET BBS. If you would like to submit a book review/article for publishing in EUFON, please refer to end of this publication.

The Politics of Torquemada; or, Earth Calling Hansen's Planet

George Hansen, who is short on ufological experience but long on self-righteous blather, is distributing a document entitled "Attempted Murder vs. the Politics of Ufology: A question of Priorities in the Linda Napolitano Case." In an October 13 memo addressed to Budd Hopkins, Walt Andrus, John Mack, David Jacobs, and me, Hansen grandiosely announces, "I plan to publish this in periodicals devoted to UFOs and mail copies to leading ufologists, boards of directors of MUFON, CUFOS, and the Intruders Foundation, and funders of UFO research. I also expect to post this on electronic bulletin boards and send copies to reporter for Omni, the New York Times, Paris Match, and the Wall Street Journal."

In the extremely unlikely event that Hansen's communication does not end up in the CP file of these latter publications and I receive a call or visit from a reporter from the same, I will inform him or her of the following:

Hansen claims that when he expressed a desire to "make a formal request for a federal investigation of Linda, "Hopkins, Andrus, and I "strongly urged me not to do so. They said that such action would be politically damaging to ufology." I cannot speak for Budd and Walt, though I know them to be men of integrity. I can, however, state flatly that Hansen's characterization of my remarks is, in its first half, misleading and, in its second, blatantly false.

Hansen called me late on the evening of October 6, two days after my return from New York City and the meeting with proponents and critics of the Linda case. As I have told Budd and others, I have serious problems with the story. I told Budd that at this stage too many links in the chain of evidence are missing to sustain a suspension of unbelief. Moreover, some aspects of it seem to me to be impossible. At the same time I have problems with the charge that Linda hoaxed the entire event, an allegation that -- in view of the extraordinary complexity of this episode, not to mention what I observed of and learned about Linda's personality -- strikes me as simplistic and unconvincing. Two mental-health professionals (not counting John Mack here) who know Linda far better that Hansen does concur, emphatically.

My thoughts about all this are complicated, and I could devote many pages to them. I shall not do so here, however. At the meeting in which the case was discussed, I kept an open mind; in fact, I may have been the only individual there who had not come to a firm and unshakable conclusion. Finally I suggested what I thought would be a compromise acceptable to all whose motive was to find the truth.

I urged the critics to refrain, over the next six months, form pursuing the investigation, which they had indicated now consisted, or would soon consist, of knocking on the doors of government agencies looking for evidence of the elusive Richard and Dan. I stated that, if this story is true, it is no just a UFO case but a "politically sensitive" event because it supposedly involves a political figure of international stature and therefore has consequences far outside the tiny world of ufology. If that is indeed the case, we would never find Richard and Dan (if they exist as who they say they are) because banging on the wrong doors could alert the relevant agency that two of its agents were leaking a huge secret. They would then be effectively silenced, and we would never learn the truth.

If, on the other hand, the story is a hoax, I went on, a six-month delay will have no effect on that fact, and the evidence will be just as retrievable then as now. I assumed we were all in this a truth-seeker, I said, and I thought my idea of a compromise best served that end.

Rich Butler and Joe Stefula, critics and honorable men, immediately saw my point and agreed. George "Torquemada" Hansen, however, proceeded to shout that "science doesn't work that way," to which I rejoined that , if the story was true, this is not just a scientific matter but a political one as well. Nothing I said could have led anyone to think I meant the "politics of ufology." The context made it clear to everyone that the "politics" to which I referred was the national and international political realm of which the Third Man is allegedly a resident and in which (again if they are who they claim to be) Richard and Dan operate.

To anyone who has read my voluminous writings on ufology's problems and concerns, the notion that I would urge the concealment of truth for any reason -- least of all "political damage" to ufology -- is laughable.

My printed record shows just the opposite: a fierce commitment to the truth above and beyond anything else. No one has been so consistently, even obsessively, outspoken on the subject of ufologists' need for radical objectivity, vigorous debate, and fearless scrutiny of all issues, regardless of their potential effect on someone's misguided vision of ufology's institutional interests. Anyone who doubts any of this is invited to read a few IUR editorials.

Therefore I am forced to conclude that Hansen deliberately misrepresented my remarks. In all the conversations I had with the principals of this case, I recall no one's saying that Hansen's proposed "action would be politically damaging to ufology." If anyone had used that as an excuse for inaction, I would have spoken up, bluntly, to state precisely what I thought of that.

At any rate, what the proponents did talk about, in my hearing, was their concern about Linda's well being. Budd, who is a profoundly decent man, feels strongly that the attacks on Linda are unfair, unfounded and injurious to a woman who already has suffered enough. Valid or invalid, this concern -- not damage to the "politics of ufology" (whatever that's supposed to mean) -- dominated Budd's conversations with me.

Still, since our exchanges in New York had been entirely cordial, I was unprepared for Hansen's behavior when he called me on October 6. I thought he wanted to continue our discussion of the case, but as I started to explain my thoroughly ambivalent feelings, he cut me off, said curtly that he would be brief, and asked if I thought Linda was lying. I said I doubted it, for many reasons, which Hansen, who by now had thoroughly demonized the poor woman, did not want to hear. He informed me that by not sanctioning his plan to go to federal authorities, I was doing effectively aiding and abetting gross misuse of police power. I said that if such action were to be taken, it is Linda's decision, not mine or his, to make, and I could not see how anyone could think otherwise. Knowing more about this than Hansen does, I added that the story contains elements which, if Linda is telling the truth, seem to explain her what otherwise looks like a puzzling reluctance to act. In any case, I added, it was clear enough that Hansen, his pious assertion to the contrary (see the hilariously hypocritical concluding paragraph of his article), sought not to help Linda but to destroy her.

Hansen was at least honest enough not to deny that. Instead he chose to try to intimidate me. He warned that he intended to turn my name, address, and phone number, along with Hopkins', et al, into the FBI. He then launched into a diatribe in which he accused my colleagues and me of "living in a delusional world." On Hansen's planet, apparently, those who disagree with him are not just wrong but deluded and, perhaps, as his paper implies, intellectually corrupt and, moreover, deserving of the attention of police agencies. I said, "George, you're full of shit," and hung up on him. His subsequent pronouncements have only served to confirm the cogency of that analysis.

So what is the significance of the Linda case? I don't know. Let me repeat: I don't know. Does anybody? It is staggeringly complex, and the available evidence can be read in several ways, though certainly in none. I admire Budd Hopkins for his dogged, courageous pursuit of the evidence, and I respect those who, like Butler, Stefula, and Don Johnson, honestly dissent from Budd's interpretation. As an unbeliever (in other words, neither believer nor disbeliever), I support all rational debate on the issue.

In my opinion, at this stage of an incomplete and ongoing investigation, the only conclusion with which I feel comfortable is this one: Time will tell. Then again, maybe it won't. Am I the only one out there with a tolerance for ambiguity?

Jerome Clark

October 24, 1992

Update On The South Haven Park UFO Incident

by John Ford

The following is the latest information release from John Ford, Chairman of Long Island UFO Network, i.e. LIUFON, regarding the reported crash of an unidentified object in South Haven Park, adjoining North Shirley, Long Island. Just to recap, the object allegedly went down on Nov. 24, 1992 at 7:15 pm. It was witnessed by a gentleman who saw the object fly along side of his car at about 50 ft. above the ground. The object suddenly sped up, and made a right angle turn in front of him, crossing Sunrise Highway and impacting in the park. Now for the update which I received from John on Saturday, Jan. 9, 1993 at 10:30 PM CST.

"The Long Island UFO Network conducted an investigation along the area known as Gerard Rd., in Yaphank (L.I.), NY. This area borders the western side of South Haven Park. The Long Island UFO Network ascertained from several residents in the area:

1. A female witness whose identity is confidential and known to our board of directors, that informed us that on the night of the UFO crash on November 24, 1992, that she was stopped at the inter- section of Gerard and Victory Blvds.. While proceeding along in an easterly direction on Victory Blvd, due to the presence of a Suffolk County Police roadblock, was offered the explanation that there had been an accident in the park and the park was closed. She subsequently came back from her shopping trip and attempted to travel north on William Ford Parkway and make a left hand turn onto Victory Blvd., and found that Victory Blvd. was blocked at the intersection of William Ford Parkway. She had to travel North and take the Long Island Expressway over to exit 66 and then come down Gerard Rd. to get back to her house, over 20 minute delay in her course of travel.
2. LIUFON has ascertained from a teenage witness that on the day after the UFO crash he and a group of friends were denied access to the park by Suffolk County Police, prohibiting them from riding their bicycles in the park due to the presence of a so called accident on the park grounds. No further explanation was offered by the police officers at the gate, the park was closed.
   
3. The Long Island UFO Network has ascertained from another 16 yr old witness, living on Gerard Ave., that he knows of two close personal friends he goes to school with, who were traveling west bound on Sunrise Hwy. the night of the incident and saw the object impact in the park! We are now conducting an attempt to contact those two additional witnesses.
   
4. LIUFON has ascertained from additional witnesses in the area of Gerard Ave., bizarre electromagnetic pulse effects to wit digital clock readouts losing control as to the exact time and having to be reset constantly two to three days after the incident. VCRs, wiping out video tapes. Power surges in the power lines. There was also a black out for one hour in the area of Gerard Ave. the night of the occurrence. Telephones ringing with nobody at the other end, and also ringing with the receivers off the hook.
   
5. On the night of Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1992, the Reverend K.S (address and telephone number given. It can be obtained from me directly at (502) 683-6811). reported at 7:38 PM that evening, his Mercury Marqui, a 1990 Mercury Marqui sedan, burst into flames in his driveway while the car was trying to start itself. Yaphank fire department was called and so was the Suffolk County Police. The Reverend was under the impression that it was arson. The Suffolk County Police and the Yaphank fire Marshall took it down as an electrical fire. We are rather suspicious of this report since it indicates that there may have been latent electromagnetic pulse effect damage to the electronic ignition or car's computer, causing it to short out and also to try and start itself. We've also gotten reports too in that area of frequent helicopter overflights of unmarked helicopters, days after the UFO incident in the park. We are also getting reports in, we have talked to a gentleman tonight, a 17 year old gentleman, by the name of Mike P., of Yaphank, (address and phone number given. I have both), who has agreed to come forward with full public disclosure. At 7:00 PM on the night of Nov. 23, 1992, 24 hours before the UFO incident over South Haven Park, the witness reports a formation of four very bright white lights doing a triangular movement over the park at a high altitude. No visible structure behind the lights, no engine sounds as the objects passed the witness while parked in his car on Gerard Road. Subject will talk to news media, identity not confidential, going for full public disclosure. At 2:15 PM this afternoon (Saturday, Jan 9), the Long Island UFO Investigative team, composed of John Ford, LIUFON members, Brian Levins, and Andrew Cerceoni (sp?), were stopped and detained by the Suffolk County Police, police car # 522; Police officers refused to identify themselves. We were detained for questioning concerning the distribution of fliers in the area of Gerard Ave., concerning the UFO incident in South Haven Park on Nov. 24, 1992. Today's incident involved intimidation and threats made by the Suffolk County Police in an effort to stop us from distributing literature concerning the incident. The officer told us point blank, he said, `I'm here because you people are handing out this garbage. Because you're scaring people and causing a panic.' The police said if we continued to do so they would be back to harass us. The incident is reported on Suffolk County Police blotter number 93-13373 at the Suffolk County Police Headquarters at Yaphank New York. One police officers shield number is 3453, of the Suffolk County police, fifth precinct. The Officer refused to identify himself, but he was in car number 522. The incident was photographed by LIUFON investigators. Government intimidation and threats, as of now we do plan to continue our investigations. We do intend to continue it, we do intend to take legal action. We will be in contact with the ACLU in the next 24 hours and we do intend a letter going to the police Commissioner and also notification to the news media concerning this threat. I would like letters of protest from investigators/researchers all across the country to be sent to the:
   

Police Commissioner
% the Suffolk County Police Dept,
Yaphank Ave.
Yaphank, New York 11980

protesting the harassment of the LIUFON investigative teams attempt to investigate the incident in South Haven Park. Refer to:

Police Report Number 93-13373
Jan. 9, 1993 involving car number 522
and police officer shield number 3453.

As of Jan. 9, 1993, LIUFON has marked its investigative folder on the South Haven Park case, no longer as a suspected UFO Crash, but as a confirmed UFO incident!

After this incident, LIUFON was informed by the mother of Mike P., that after they harassed us, they were going back, stopping and questioning the people that we had talked to."

John Ford, Chairman - LIUFON
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We consider this a most URGENT request and ask each of you reading this message to pen a letter to the above address and voice your displeasure with the treatment of fellow investigators. We feel the public has a right to know. This may be the opportunity we have all been looking for. Don't let this opportunity to let your voice be heard pass you by.

Mike

Final Report On The Linda Napolitano Abduction (Part 1 of 3)

by Joseph Stefula
Richard Butler
George Hansen

Enclosed is our report on the much acclaimed case of the UFO abduction of Linda Napolitano. We invite your comments.

Hopkins' claims have generated enormous publicity and have been mentioned in the New York Times, Omni, the Wall Street Journal, and Paris Match, among others. As such, this case is likely to have a substantial impact on the field of ufology.

Leadership in both the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) aggressively opposed our investigation, and both previously refused to publish our criticisms. This raises grave questions about the scientific and journalistic integrity of MUFON and CUFOS.

Those organizations have many members, and we are unable to provide more than a few copies of this paper to others. We ask you to help us with the distribution. Please feel free to make copies of this article, post it on electronic bulletin boards, and print it in periodicals.

A Critique of Budd Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction

of
Linda Napolitano

by Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen

ABSTRACT: Budd Hopkins has made a number of public presentations of a purported UFO abduction case with multiple witnesses. The primary abductee is Linda Napolitano, who lives in an apartment building on the lower east side of Manhattan (New York City). She claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrial aliens from her 12th floor apartment in November 1989. It is claimed that three witnesses in a car two blocks away observed Linda and alien beings float out of a window and ascend into a craft. One alleged witness was United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. It is also claimed that a woman on the Brooklyn Bridge observed the abduction. Linda has reported nose bleeds, and one X-ray displays an implant in her nose.

To date, Hopkins has provided no full, detailed written report, but he did publish a couple five page articles in the September and December 1992 issues of the Mufon UFO Journal and made a presentation at the 1992 MUFON symposium. We have made use of that information as well as records from other presentations, and we have interviewed the abductee. A number of serious questions arose from our examination. The case has many exotic aspects, and we have identified a science fiction novel that may have served as the basis for elements of the story.

Several prominent leaders in ufology have become involved, and their behavior and statements have been quite curious. Some have aggressively attempted to suppress evidence of a purported attempted murder. The implications for the understanding of ufology are discussed.

Budd Hopkins is the person most responsible for drawing attention to the problem of the extraterrestrial (ET) abduction experience. His efforts have been instrumental in stimulating both media attention and scientific research devoted to the problem. He has written two popular books (Missing Time, 1981, and Intruders, 1987), established the Intruders Foundation, and has made innumerable appearances at conferences and in the media.

Although Hopkins is neither a trained therapist, an academic, nor a scientist, he has involved such people in his work. John E. Mack, M.D., a Pulitzer Prize winner and former head of the psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School, has praised Hopkins' work and acknowledged his indebtedness to him (Mack, 1992a, 1992b). Hopkins has collaborated with university professors in co-authoring an article in the book Unusual Personal Experiences (1992), which was sent to 100,000 mental health professionals. He has testified as an expert witness at a hearing regarding the medical competence of a physician who claims to have been abducted (McKenna, 1992). Because of such strong endorsements and impressive affiliations, and because of his untiring work on behalf of abductees, Hopkins has become the single most visible figure in the UFO abduction field. His contributions, positive or negative, will be quickly noticed by those inside and outside ufology.

Last year, Hopkins made a number of public presentations about a spectacular UFO abduction case occurring in November 1989 and having multiple witnesses. The primary abductee was Linda Napolitano, a woman living on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building in lower Manhattan (New York City) [Hopkins has previously used the pseudonym "Linda Cortile" in this case]. It is claimed that three witnesses in a car two blocks away observed Linda and three ET aliens emerge from a window and ascend into a craft. Further it is claimed that a woman who was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge also saw the event.

The case has generated enormous interest and drawn international attention. It has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal (Jefferson, 1992), Omni (Baskin, 1992), Paris Match (De Brosses, 1992), the New York Times (Sontag, 1992), and Hopkins and Napolitano have appeared on the television show Inside Edition. The Mufon UFO Journal labeled it "The Abduction Case of the Century" (Stacy, 1992, p. 9). Even the technical magazine ADVANCE for Radiologic Science Professionals carried a discussion of Linda's nasal implant (Hatfield, 1992). We should expect continuing coverage of the affair not only in the UFO press but also in the major media.

In a short article previewing his 1992 MUFON symposium presentation, he wrote: "I will be presenting what I believe to be the most important case for establishing the objective reality of UFO abductions that I have yet encountered" (Hopkins, 1992, p. 20). During his lecture at the symposium he stated: "This is probably the most important case I've ever run into in my life" (tape recorded, July 1992). In his abstract for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abduction Study Conference held in June 1992 he wrote: "The importance of this case is virtually immeasurable, as it powerfully supports both the objective reality of UFO abductions and the accuracy of regressive hypnosis as employed with this abductee." Because of Hopkins' renown, and because of his evaluation, this case warrants our careful scrutiny.

THE AUTHORS' INVOLVEMENT

The first two authors had learned of the case before Hopkins had spoken publicly of it, and they decided to monitor its progress. They regularly briefed the third author as their investigation progressed. As the affair became publicized, all three became concerned about the long term effect it might have on abduction research.

For several years Richard Butler attended Hopkins' informal meetings organized for abductees and abduction researchers. Butler became familiar with the case during those meetings, and he invited Stefula to a gathering in early October 1991. At the meeting, Hopkins outlined the case, and afterward, Stefula had a chance to chat with Linda about her experiences. Butler and Stefula gave Linda their telephone numbers. She was advised that if she needed any assistance she could contact them.
Stefula told her that he had numerous contacts in federal and state law enforcement agencies that could be of aid to her. The same information was provided to Hopkins.

On January 28, 1992, Linda requested a meeting with Richard Butler, and on February 1, 1992, Linda, Stefula and Butler met in New York City, and Linda provided additional details about her experiences (described below). During that meeting, she asked them not to inform Hopkins of their discussions. At the 1992 MUFON convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico in July, both Hopkins and Linda appeared on the podium and presented the case. Stefula attended the convention and heard the talk, and disturbing questions arose. Some of the statements directly contradicted what Linda had earlier told Stefula and Butler. We contacted Hopkins in an attempt to resolve these matters, but he declined to meet with us, saying that he didn't want to discuss the case until his book manuscript was submitted. Despite his initial reluctance, eventually a meeting was arranged on October 3, 1992 at Hopkins' home, and a few more details then emerged.

SUMMARY OF CASE

In order to compile this summary of alleged events, we have relied upon Hopkins' and Linda's talks from the podium of the 1992 MUFON symposium, on our interviews with Linda, on Hopkins' talk at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire UFO conference, September 13, 1992, and Hopkins' two five-page articles in the September and December issues of the Mufon UFO Journal.

In April 1989 Hopkins received a letter from Linda Napolitano, a resident of New York City. Linda wrote that she had begun reading his book Intruders and had remembered that 13 years earlier she had detected a bump next to her nose. It was examined by a physician who insisted that she had undergone nasal surgery. Linda claimed that she never had such surgery, and she even checked with her mother, who confirmed that impression.

Hopkins took an interest in the case because there was a potential for medical evidence and because Linda lived relatively close to Hopkins, which facilitated their meeting. Linda visited Hopkins and discussed her past experiences with him. She recalled some pertinent earlier events in her life but believed that she was no longer directly involved with any abduction phenomena. Linda then began attending meetings of Hopkins' support group for abductees.

On November 30, 1989, Linda called Hopkins and reported that she had been abducted during the early morning hours of that day, and she provided some details. A few days later, she underwent regressive hypnosis, and Linda remembered floating out of her apartment window, 12 stories above the ground. She recalled ascending in a bluish-white beam of light into a craft which was hovering over the building.

Richard and Dan

Over a year later (February 1991), Hopkins received a letter signed with the first names, Richard and Dan. (We have no hard evidence that "Richard" and "Dan" actually exist. In order to avoid overburdening the reader, we will typically omit the word "alleged" when mentioning them.)

The letter claimed that the two were police officers who were under cover in a car beneath the elevated FDR Drive between 3:00 and 3:30 a.m. in late November 1989. Above a high-rise apartment building, they observed a large, bright reddish-orange object with green lights around its side. They wrote that they saw a woman and several strange figures float out a window and up into the object. Richard and Dan said that they had come across Hopkins' name and decided to write to him. They went on to say that they were extremely concerned about her well being, wanted to locate the woman, talk to her, and be assured that she was alive and safe. The two also mentioned that they could identify the building and window from which she emerged.

After receiving the letter, Hopkins promptly called Linda and told her that she might expect a visit from two policemen. A few days later, Linda telephoned Hopkins to tell him that she had been visited by Richard and Dan. When they had knocked on her door, introducing themselves as police officers, she was not too surprised because she reports that police frequently canvass her apartment complex looking for witnesses to crimes. Even with Hopkins' prior call, she did not expect Richard and Dan to actually appear. After they arrived and entered her home, there was an emotional greeting, and they expressed relief that she was alive. However, Richard and Dan were disinclined to meet with or talk to Hopkins, despite the fact that they had written him earlier and despite Linda's entreaties to do so. Richard asked Linda if it was acceptable for them to write out an account of their experience and then read it into a tape recorder. She agreed, and a couple weeks later Hopkins received a tape recording from Richard describing their experience.

Some time thereafter, Hopkins received a letter from Dan giving a bit more information. The letter reported that Richard had taken a leave of absence because the close encounter had been so emotionally traumatic. Dan also mentioned that Richard secretly watched Linda. (This information is from Hopkins' oral presentation at the 1992 MUFON symposium in Albuquerque. At the Portsmouth, New Hampshire conference, Hopkins said that he had received a letter from Richard saying that Dan was forced to take of leave of absence. It is not clear if Hopkins misspoke at some point, or whether both individuals took leaves of absence.)

Hopkins received another letter from Dan which said that he and Richard were not really police officers but actually security officers who had been driving a very important person (VIP) to a helicopter pad in lower Manhattan when the sighting occurred. The letter claimed that their car stalled, and Richard had pushed it, parking it beneath the FDR Drive. According to Dan, the VIP had also witnessed the abduction event and had me hysterical.

The Kidnappings

Linda claimed that in April of 1991 she encountered Richard on the street near her apartment. She was asked to get into a car that Dan was driving, but she refused. Richard picked her up and, with some struggle, forced her into the vehicle. Linda reported that she was driven around for 3 1/2 hours, interrogated about the aliens, and asked whether she worked for the government. She also said that she was forced to remove her shoes so they could examine her feet to determine whether she was an ET alien (they later claimed that aliens lack toes). Linda did remember another car being involved with the kidnapping, and under hypnotic regression she recalled the license plate number of that car, as well a part of the number of the car in which she rode. Hopkins reports that the numbers have been traced to particular "agencies" (he gave no further details).

At the MUFON symposium, Linda was asked if she had reported the kidnapping to the police. She said that she had not and went on to say that the kidnapping was legal because it had to do with national security.

In conversations with Butler in early 1992, Linda had expressed concerns about her personal safety. A meeting was arranged with Stefula because of his background in law enforcement. During the afternoon and early evening of February 1, the three met in New York City, and Linda described further details of the kidnappings.

She reported that on the morning of October 15, 1991, Dan accosted her on the street and pulled her into a red Jaguar sports car. Linda happened to be carrying a tape recorder and was able to surreptitiously record a few minutes of Dan's questioning, but he soon discovered and confiscated it. Dan drove to a beach house on the shore of Long Island. There he demanded that Linda remove her clothes and put on a white nightgown, similar to the one she wore the night of the abduction. He said he wanted to have sex with her. She refused but then agreed to put on the nightgown over her clothes. Once she did, Dan dropped to his knees and started to talk incoherently about her being the "Lady of the Sands." She fled the beach house, but Dan caught her on the beach and bent her arm behind her. He placed two fingers on the back of her neck, leading Linda to believe that it was a gun. He then forced her into the water and pushed her head under twice. He continued to rave incoherently, and as her head was being pushed under for the third time, she believed that she would not come up again. Then, a "force" hit Dan and knocked him back onto the beach. She started to run but heard a sound like a gun being cocked. She looked back and saw Dan taking a picture of her (Linda mentioned that pictures from the beach were eventually sent to Hopkins). She continued running, but Richard appeared beside her, seemingly out of nowhere. He stopped her and convinced her to return to the beach house and told her that he would control Dan by giving him a Mickey Finn. She agreed. Once inside, Richard put Dan in the shower to wash off the mud and sand from the beach. This gave Linda a chance to search the premises; she recovered her cassette tape and discovered stationery bearing a Central Intelligence Agency letterhead.

In a brief conversation on October 3, 1992, Hopkins told Hansen that Linda came to him shortly after she arrived back in Manhattan after the kidnapping. She was disheveled, had sand in her hair, and was traumatized by the experience.

Further Contacts with Richard and Dan

During the February 1 meeting with Butler and Stefula, Linda reported that she had met Richard outside a Manhattan bank on November 21, 1991. He told her of Dan's deteriorating mental condition. During the Christmas season, Linda received a card and a three page letter from Dan (dated 12/14/91). The letter bore a United Nations stamp and postmark (the UN building in New York has a post office which anyone can use). Dan wrote that he was in a mental institution and was kept sedated. He expressed a strong romantic interest in Linda. Some of his remarks suggested that he wanted to kidnap her, take her out of the country, and marry her; Linda seemed alarmed by this (she gave a copy of the letter to Stefula and Butler).

Linda also asserted that on December 15 and December 16, 1991, one of the men had tried to make contact with her near the shopping area of the South Street Seaport. He was driving a large black sedan with Saudi Arabian United Nations license plates. During the first incident, to avoid him, Linda reported that she went into a shop. The second day a similar thing happened, and she stood next to some businessmen until he left the area.

The Third Man

At the February 1 meeting, Linda mentioned that Hopkins had received a letter from "the third man" (the VIP), and she was able to repeat entire sentences from this letter, seemingly verbatim. It discussed ecological danger to the planet, and Linda indicated that aliens were involved in ending the Cold War. The letter ended with a warning to Hopkins to stop searching for "the third man" because it could potentially do harm to world peace.

Linda also related a few more details of her November 1989 abduction. She said that the men in the car had felt a strong vibration at the time of the sighting. Linda also claimed that in subsequent hypnotic regressions she recalled being on a beach with Dan, Richard, and the third man, and she thought somehow she was being used by the aliens to control the men. She communicated with the men telepathically and said that she felt that she had known Richard prior to the November 1989 abduction, and she suggested that they possibly had been abducted together previously. We also learned that the third man was actually Javier Perez de Cuellar, at that time Secretary General of the United Nations. Linda claimed that the various vehicles used in her kidnappings had been traced to several countries' missions at the UN.

At the Portsmouth, New Hampshire conference, Hopkins spoke of the third man saying: "I am trying to do what I can to shame this person to come forward."

Witness on the Brooklyn Bridge

In the summer of 1991, a year and a half after the UFO abduction, Hopkins received a letter from a woman who is a retired telephone operator from Putnam County, New York (Hopkins has given this woman the pseudonym of Janet Kimble). Hopkins did not bother to open the letter, and in November 1991, he received another one from her marked on the outside "CONFIDENTIAL, RE: BROOKLYN BRIDGE." The odd outside marking and the fact that she had written two letters, seem to have raised no suspicions in Hopkins' mind. The woman, a widow of about sixty, claimed to have been driving on the Brooklyn Bridge at 3:16 a.m., November 30, 1989. She reported that her car stopped and the lights went out. She too saw a large, brightly lit object over a building; in fact, the light was so bright that she was forced to shield her eyes, though she was over a quarter mile away. Nevertheless, she claimed to have observed four figures in fetal positions emerge from a window. The figures simultaneously uncurled and then moved up into the craft. Ms. Kimble was quite frightened by the event, and people in cars behind her were "running all around their cars with theirs (sic) hands on their heads, screaming from horror and disbelief" (quoted in Hopkins, 1992d, p. 7). She wrote: "I have never traveled back to New York City after what I saw and I never will again, for any reason" (Hopkins, 1992d, p. 5). Despite her intense fear and all the commotion, she had the presence of mind to rummage through her purse to find her cigarette lighter to illuminate her watch in order to determine the time.

Hopkins has interviewed this woman in person and over the phone. The woman claimed to have obtained his name in a bookstore; she called the Manhattan directory assistance for his telephone number and then looked up his address in the Manhattan White Pages. She alleges that she was reticent about speaking of the incident and had only told her son, daughter, sister, and brother-in-law about the event.

The Nasal X-ray

In November 1991 a doctor, whom Hopkins describes as "closely connected with Linda," took an X-ray of Linda's head because she knew about the story of the nasal implant and because Linda frequently spoke of the problem with her nose. The X-ray was not developed immediately. A few days later the doctor brought it to Linda but was very nervous and unwilling to discuss it. Linda took it to Hopkins, who showed it to a neurosurgeon friend of his. The neurosurgeon was astounded; a sizeable, clearly non-natural object could be seen in the nasal area. Hopkins has shown a slide of the X-ray during his presentations, and the implant is strikingly apparent, even to a lay audience. The object has a shaft approximately 1/4 inch long with a curly-cue wire structure on each end.

Other Unusual Aspects of the Case

During our meeting with Linda on February 1, she gave us additional miscellaneous details that might be pertinent. We were told that she believed that she was under surveillance and described a light silver-gray van that had parked near her apartment. She also claimed that she had once been a professional singer and the lead on a hit record, but she had lost her singing voice one day while in the shower. Linda mentioned that she was given to understand that her blood was quite unusual. A doctor had informed her that her red blood cells did not die, but instead they rejuvenated. She wondered whether this might be due to an alien influence; some time later she attempted to locate the doctor but was unable to do so. Linda seemed to imply that she now believed that she was part alien or somehow worked with the aliens.

Linda also told us that she had an agreement with Budd Hopkins to split equally any profits from a book on the case.

(Continued in the next issue of EUFON)

BOOK REVIEW

Title: UFO CRASH SECRETS AT WRIGHT/PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
Author: James W. Moseley
Publisher: Abelard Productions (USA)
Price: $20.00
Reviewed by: Duncan M. Roads, Editor - Nexus New Times

James Moseley has been tracking UFOs since the early 1950s, and is the former editor and publisher of Saucer News, a magazine that at one stage had nearly 10,000 subscribers. In 1967 he staged the largest UFO convention of all time, attracting 15,000 people to a three day event at New York's Commodore Hotel. In short, he has been around UFO research since before I was a twinkle in Dad's eye.

The book itself is a well written "diary" of the period of Jim's life that involved the famous Long John Show, a radio talk back show dealing with UFOs and other subjects.

It was also the time of rumors of crashed UFOs in New mexico, of secret government experiments, and of clandestine cover- ups.

One such cover-up alleged that crashed or captured UFOs and their occupants were being held/kept at specially designated Air Force Bases, Wright Patterson Air Force Base being the primary place of suspicion.

The author leads us on his "journey" of leads, tip-offs and meetings, encounters which include the famous Adamski, UFOs in Antarctica, access to US Air Force files and mysterious visitors - they certainly make you wonder what is really going on.

Metro DC MUFON UFO Conference

Metro DC MUFON UFO Conference: Saturday February 6, 1993. $15.00.

Quality Hotel, Silver Spring, MD.

• Kevin Randle
• Major Ed Dames

• Panel Debate: Should the US government publically acknowledge the reality of UFOs?
  

• <Other speakers to be announced>

For more information contact Mike Regimenti 410-974-0649.

Ozark UFO Conference

The Fifth Annual Ozark UFO Conference will be held on April 2-4, 1993.
The location will be the same as in previous years, the INN OF THE OZARKS in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

A minimum of 125 rooms will be set aside for people attending the Conference, with special room rates of $36.00 for single occupancy and $42.00 for double occupancy. Room reservations may be made at any time by calling the Inn at (501) 253-9768 or by writing the Inn at P.O. box 431, Eureka Springs, AR 72632. Please indicate that your reservations are for the Ozark UFO Conference in order to obtain the special room rates. The Inn's total of 125 rooms were completely sold out last year at least one month before the conference, so make your reservations early. Additional rooms are available at other local-area motels.

The registration fee for the Conference is $35.00 per person, if paid in advance (through March 27, 1993) or $40.00 per person at the door. Payments for Conference registrations should be made payable to OZARK UFO CONFERENCE FUND and may be mailed to :

Ozark UFO Conference
Route 1, Box 220
Plumerville, AR 72127

The Conference will begin at 1:00 PM on Friday, April 2nd, and will conclude at noon on Sunday, April 4th. Additional information may be obtained by calling (501) 354-2558.

The scheduled speakers for 1993 include Dr. John Mack of Harvard University (one of the country's foremost researchers of UFO abduction cases), Norman Oliver (UFO cases from England), Linda Moulton Howe, George Wingfield, Antonio Huneeus and Forest Crawford. A number of "surprise" speakers is also planned, as well as a panel discussion featuring "abductees" and abduction researchers.

For those who have not visited Eureka Springs previously, the town is located on U.S. Highway 62, approximately 48 miles west of Harrison, Arkansas, 35 miles northeast of Fayetteville, and about 10 miles south of the Missouri border. Air travellers will fly into Drake Field at Fayetteville and a shuttle service will be provided between the airport and the Inn.

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Lincoln, Nebraska Conference

EXPLORING UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON V
APRIL 30th to MAY 2nd, 1993
Lincoln, Nebraska

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Dr. John Salter: The Salter UFO Encounters; A Comprehensive Update. Professor and Chair of American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota, where he teaches a course on UFOs, ETs, and Close Encounters. He will discuss a 1988 UFO encounter and abduction experience he and his son had while driving across Wisconsin.

Kevin Randle - Stanton Friedman: The Roswell Incident. Kevin Randle is a former Air Force intelligence officer and co-author of the book UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL. Stanton Friedman is a nuclear physicist and co-author of CRASH AT CORONA. Both authors have done extensive research into the alleged crash of a UFO in the New Mexico desert in 1947, and have come to somewhat different conclusions.

Harry Jordan - Jack Kasher: NASA UFO Images / Iowa Mini-Flap Update. Harry Jordan is a science teacher and founder of the Mars Project in Omaha. Dr. Jack Kasher is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and MUFON state director for Nebraska. Their presentation will be on the videotape taken during a space shuttle flight allegedly showing unidentified objects, and an update on a series of UFO sightings and landing traces in southern Iowa.

Linda Moulton-Howe: Aliens, Abductions, & Scientific Findings on Crop Circles. Winner of local, national, and international awards for her documentaries on science, medicine, and the environment and author of AN ALIEN HARVEST. She will present an update on her current and past research.

Budd Hopkins: New Revelations About UFO Abductions. The best-selling author of INTRUDERS and MISSING TIME, and one of the researchers most credited with bringing serious attention to UFO abductions.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley: Crop Circles & Unusual Ground Markings Worldwide. Director of the Center for North American Crop Circle Studies and the author of HARPER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYSTICAL AND PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE.

MORE SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

REGISTRATION:

$40.00 before February 1st
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(Members of the Fortean Research Center receive a $5.00 discount)

SPEAKING PROGRAM. Each presentation will be for approximately two hours, so that an in-depth presentation and exchange can occur between the speakers and the audience.

OTHER EVENTS. There will be a dinner Friday night, a tour of haunted and ghostly sites around Lincoln, and a Saturday night banquet. Details on these events have yet to be finalized, but if you're interested please check the spaces in the registration form and we'll send you information when it's available.

HOTEL. The Nebraska Center for Continuing Studies at 33rd and Holdredge St. Lincoln, Ne. 68583-0901. Phone (402) 472-3435. A block of rooms has been reserved. Please make your reservations directly with the hotel.

QUESTIONS? Call Scott Colborn at (402) 421-1701, Monday through Friday, 1:00 - 7:00 pm CST. Or write to:
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