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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume 1 Number 166
Info-ParaNet Newsletters, Number 166
Friday, March 2nd 1990
Today's Topics:
Lear on SKEPTICS
More Lear
More Lear
Even More Stuff From Lear
EBE's
Re: UFO Monitoring Projects
Re: UFO SYMPOSIUM
Re: Cooper and Paranoia
Predictions???
Australian Cattle Mutilations
UFO Propultion
The Canberra "UFO" - final report
Is Cooper all that crazy!?
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From: ZAK@cu.nih.gov
Subject: Lear on SKEPTICS
Date: 2 Mar 90 15:56:00 GMT
-+ MAIL VIA BITNET FROM SKEPTIC@YORKVM1.BITNET FRIDAY 03/02/90 3:33:37 A.M.
-+
-+ Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by NIHCU (Mailer) id 8636;
-+ Fri, 02 Mar 90 03:33:35 EST
-+ Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.06X) id 8612; Fri, 02 Mar 90 03:33:10 EST
-+ Date: Thu, 1 Mar 90 15:33:10 EST
-+ Reply-To: SKEPTIC Discussion Group <SKEPTIC@YORKVM1>
-+ Sender: SKEPTIC Discussion Group <SKEPTIC@YORKVM1>
-+ From: WEDIXON@MIAMIU
-+ Subject: UFO's
-+ To: "t. tipton lafleur" <KCD@NIHCU.BITNET>,
-+ Lauren Jones <ZAK@NIHCU.BITNET>
-+
-+ The following is a continuation of a previous correspondence. It is
-+ purportedly John Lear's Note to the Press:
-+
-+ The government of the United States continues to rely on your
-+ personal and professional gullibility to suppress the information
-+ contained herin. Your cooperation over the past 40 years has exceeded
-+ our wildest expectations and we salute you.
-+
-+ "The sun does not revolve around the Earth"
-+ "The United States Government has been in business with little gray
-+ extraterrestrials for about 20 years"
-+
-+ The first truth stated here got Giordano Bruno burned at the stake in
-+ AD 1600 for daring to propose that it was real. The second truth has
-+ gotten far more people killed trying to state it publicly than will
-+ ever be known.
-+
-+ But the truth must be told. The fact that the Earth revolves around the
-+ sun was successfully suppressed by the church for over 200 years. It
-+ eventually caused a major upheaval in the church, government, and
-+ thought. A realignment of social and traditional values. That was in the
-+ 1800's.
-+
-+ Now, about 400 years after the first truth was pronounced we must again
-+ face the shocking facts. The "horrible truth" the government has been
-+ hiding from us over 40 years. Unfortunately, the "horrible truth" is
-+ far more horrible than the government ever imagined.
-+
-+ In its effort to protect democracy, our government sold us to the aliens.
-+ And here is how it happened. But before I begin, I'd like to offer a
-+ word in the defense of those who bargained us away. They had the best
-+ of intentions." Ahhh, the plot thickens.
-+
-+ "Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939. General
-+ James H. Doolittle went to Sweden in 1946 to inspect a flying saucer
-+ that had crashed there in Spitzbergen.
-+
-+ The "horrible truth" was known by only a very few persons: They were
-+ indeed ugly little creatures, shaped like praying mantises and who
-+ were more advanced than us by perhaps a billion years. OF the original
-+ group that were the first to learn the "horrible truth," several
-+ committed suicide, the most prominent of which was General James V.
-+ Forrestal who jumped to his death from a 16th story hospital window.
-+ General Forrestal's medical records are sealed to this day.
-+
-+ President Truman quickly put a lid on the secret and turned the screws
-+ so tight that the general public still thinks that flying saucers are
-+ a joke. Have I ever got a surpise for them."
-+
-+ Well, that's all for now. But the story get even better as it provides
-+ an account for all of those mysterious "alien abductions" that are
-+ always being reported on in tv shows such as "Unsolved Mysteries."
The above was posted on the SKEPTICS Discussion List...
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From: ZAK@cu.nih.gov
Subject: More Lear
Date: 2 Mar 90 15:56:35 GMT
More from SKEPTICS...
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-+Subject: UFO's
-+To: "t. tipton lafleur" <KCD@NIHCU.BITNET>,
Lauren Jones <ZAK@NIHCU.BITNET>
More from the John Lear "Press Release," continuing from where I left
off:
"In 1947, President Truman established a group of 12 of the top
military scientific personnel of their time. They were known as MJ-12.
Although the group exists today, none of the original members are
still alive. The last one to die was Gordon Gray, former Secretary of
the Army, in 1984. As each member passed away, the group itself
appointed a new member to fill the position. There is some speculation
that the group known as MJ-12 expanded to at least several members.
There were several more saucer crashes in the late 1940's, one in
Roswell, New Mexico, one Aztec, New Mexico, and one near Laredo,
Texas, about 30 miles inside the Mexican border.
Consider, if you will, the position of the United States Goverment
at that time. They proudly thought of themselves as the most
powerful nation on Earth, having recently produced the atomic bomb,
an achievement so stupendous, it would take Russia 4 years to catch
up, and only with the help of traitors to the Democracy. They had
built a jet aircraft that had exceeded the speed of sound in flight.
They had built jet bombers with intercontinental range that could
carry weapons of enormous destruction. The post war era, and the
future seemed bright. Now imagine what it was like for those same
leaders, all of whom had witnessed the panic of Orson Wells' radio
broadcast, "The War of the Worlds," in 1938. Thousands of Americans
panicked at a realistically presented invasion of Earth by beings
from another planet. Imagine their horror as they actually viewed
the dead bodies of these frightening looking little creatures with
enormous eyes, reptilian skin and claw like fingers. Imagine their
shock as they attempted to determine how these strange "saucers"
were powered and could discover no part even remotely similar to
components they were familiar with: no cylinders or pistons, no
vacuum tubes or turbines or hydraulic actuators. It is only when
you fully understand the overwhelming helplessness the government
was faced with in the late 40's that you can comprehend their
perceived need for a total, thorough and sweeping cover up, to
include the use of 'deadly force.'"
Hang in there, only one more paragraph for the present entry.
"The cover-up was so successful that as late as 1985 a senior
scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA,
Dr. Al Hibbs, would look at a video tape of an enormous
flying saucer and state the record, 'I'm not going to assign
anything to that (UFO) phenomena without a lot more data.' Dr.
Hibbs was looking at the naked emperor and saying, 'He certainly
looks naked, but that doesn't prove he's naked'."
Stay tuned 'til next time when we see the U.S. gov't making a
deal with the ugly little creatures...
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From: ZAK@cu.nih.gov
Subject: More Lear
Date: 2 Mar 90 15:57:08 GMT
And some more...
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-+From: WEDIXON@MIAMIU
-+Subject: UFO's
-+To: "t. tipton lafleur" <KCD@NIHCU.BITNET>,
Lauren Jones <ZAK@NIHCU.BITNET>
More from Lear's 1987 "press release," p. 3:
"In July of 1952, a panicked goverment watched helplessly as a squadron
of 'flying saucers' flew over Washington, D.C., and buzzed the White
House, the Capitol Building, and the Pentagon. It took all the
imagination and intimidation the government could muster to force the
incident out of the memory of the public.
"Thousands of sightings occurred during the Korean war and several more
saucers were retrieved by the Air Force. Some were stored at Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, some were stored at Air Force bases near the
location of the crash sight.
"One saucer was so enormous and the logistic problems in transportation
so enormous that it was buried at the crash sight and remains there
today. The stories are legendary on transporting crashed saucers over
long distances, moving only at night, purchasing complete farms,
slashing through forests, blocking major highways, sometimes driving
2 and 3 lo-boys in tandem with an extraterrestrial load a hundred feet
in diameter.
"During the period of 1969-1971, MJ-12 (ed. note: MJ-12 is the special
task force for the study of UFO's) representing the U.S. Gov't made a
deal with these creatures, called EBE's (Extraterrestrial Biological
Entities, named by Detley Bronk, original MJ-12 member and 6th
president of Johns Hopkins University). The 'deal' was that in exchange
for 'technology' that they would provide to us, we agreed to 'ignore'
the abductions that were going on and suppress information on the
cattle mutilations. The EBE's assured MJ-12 that the abductions
(usually lasting abuot 2 hours) were merely the ongoing monitoring of
developing civilizations."
Here things get wild:
"In fact, the purposes for the abduction turned out to be:
(1) The insertion of a 3mm spherical device through the nasal
cavity of the abductee into the brain. The device is used
for the biological monitoring, tracking, and control of the
abductee.
(2) Implementation of Posthypnotic Suggestion to carry out a
specific activity during a specific time period, the
actuation of which will occur within the next 2 to 5 years.
EDitor's Note: it's already been 2 years.
(3) Termination of some people so that they could function as
living sources for biological materials and substances.
(4) Termination of individuals who represent a threat to the
continuation of their activity.
(5) Effect genetic engineering experiments.
(6) Impregnation of human females and early termination of
pregnancies to secure the crossbreed infant.
"The U.S. Gov't was not initially aware of the far reaching consequences
of their 'deal.' They were led to believe that the abductions were
essentially benign and since they figured the abductions would probably
go on anyway whether they agreed or not, they merely insisted that a
current list of abductees be submitted, on a periodic basis, to MJ-12
and the National Security Council. Does this sound incredible? An
actual list of abductees sent to the National Security Council? Read
on, because I have news for you."
Well, that's all for now. Next time we see that the EBE's have a
genetic disorder....
Thanks for following so far.
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From: ZAK@cu.nih.gov
Subject: Even More Stuff From Lear
Date: 2 Mar 90 17:56:41 GMT
Here's more. I hope a human being is intercepting this and excising any
material that is of a redundant or already-posted-on this list nature...
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-+From: WEDIXON@MIAMIU
-+Subject: UFO's
-+To: "t. tipton lafleur" <KCD@NIHCU.BITNET>,
Lauren Jones <ZAK@NIHCU.BITNET>
More juice from the Lear "press release," p. 4:
"The EBE's (extraterrestrial biological entities) have a genetic disorder
in that their digestive system is atrophied and not functional. Some
speculate that they were involved in some type of accident or nuclear
war, or possibly on the back side of and evolutionary genetic curve. In
order to sustain themselves they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion
obtained from the tissue that they extract fomr humans and animals.
Note: Cows and Humans are genetically similar. IN the event of a
national disaster, cow's blood can be used by humans (Editor's note:
does anybody know if this is true?).
The secretions obtained are then mixed with hydrogen peroxide and
applied on the skin by spreading or dipping parts of their bodies
in the solution. the body absorbs the solution, then excretes the
wasted back through the skin. The cattle mutilations that were
prevalent throughout the period from 1973 to 1983 and publicly noted
through newspaper and magazine stories and included a documentary
produced by Linda Howe for the Denver CBS affiliate KMGH-TV, were
for the collection of these tissues by the aliens. The mutilations
included genitals taken, rectums cored out to the colon, eyes,
tongue, and throat all surgically removed with extreme precision.
In some cases the incisions were made by cutting between the cells,
a process we are not yet capable of performing in the field. In
many of the mutilations there was no blood found at all in the
carcass, yet there was no vascular collapse of the internal organs.
This has been also noted in the human mutilations, one of the first
of which was Sgt. Jonathan P. Louette at the White Sands Missile
Test Range in 1956, who was found three days after an Air Force Major
had witnessed his abduction by a 'disk shaped' object at 0300 while
on search for missile debris downrange. His genitals had been removed
, rectum cored out in a surgically precise 'plug' up to the colon,
eyes removed and all blood removed with, again, no vascular collapse.
From some of the evidence it is apparent that this surgery is
accomplished, in most cases, while the victim, animal or human is
still alive.
"The various parts of the body are taken to various underground
laboratories, one of which is known to be near the small New Mexico
town of Dulce. This jointly occupied (CIA-Alien) facility has been
described as enormous, with huge tiled walls that 'go on forever.'
Witnesses have reported huge vats filled with amber liquid with
parts of human being stirred inside (Ed. note: Oooh, gross!).
"After the initial agreement, Groom Lake, one of this nation's most
secret test centers, was closed for a period of about a year,
sometime between about 1972 and 1974, and a huge underground
facility was constructed for and with the help of the EBE's. The
'bargained for' technology was set in place but could only be
operated by the EBE's themselves. Needless to say, the advanced
technology could not be used against the EBE's themselves, event if
needed.
"During the period between 1979 and 1983 it became increasingly
obvious to MJ-12 that things were not going as planned. It became
known that many more peopl (in the thousands) were being abducted
than were listed on the official abduction lists. In addition it
became obvious that some, not all, but some of the nation's missing
children had been used for secretions and other parts required by
the aliens.
"In 1979 there was an altercation of sorts at the Dulce laboratory.
A special armed forces unit was called in to try and free a number
of our people trapped in the facility, ho had become aware of what
was really going on. According to one source, 66 of the soldierss
were killed and our people were not freed."
Well, that was the end of page 5. Next time, we see how this story
is/was released to the public.
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From: ZAK@cu.nih.gov
Subject: EBE's
Date: 2 Mar 90 17:58:00 GMT
Some more.......
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Lear's release, p. 6:
"By 1984, MJ-12 must have been in stark terror at the mistake they had
made in dealing with the EBE's. They had subtly promoted 'Close
Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.' to get the public used to
'odd looking' aliens that were compassionate, benevolent and very much
our 'space brothers.' MJ-12 'sold' the EBE's to the public, and were
now faced with the fact that quite the opposite was true. In addition
a plan was formulated in 1968 to make the public aware of the existence
of aliens on Earth over the next 20 years to be culminated with several
documentaries to be released during 1985-1987 period of time. These
documentaries would explain the history and intentions of the EBE's.
The discovery of the 'Grand Deception' put the entire plans, hopes, and
dreams of MJ-12 into utter confusion and panic.
"Meeting at the 'Country Club,' a remote lodge with private golf course,
confortable sleeping and working quarters, and its own private airstrip
built by and exclusively for the members of MJ-12, it was a factional fight
of what to do now. Part of MJ-12 wanted to confess
whole scheme and shambles it had become to the public, beg their forgive-
ness and ask for their supporty. The other part (and majority) of MJ-12
argued that there was no way they could do that, that the situation was
untenable and there was no use in exciting the public with the 'horrible
truth' and that the best plan was to continue the devleopment of a
weaon that could be used against the EBE's under the guise of 'SDI,'
the Strategic Defense Initiative, which had nothing whatsoever to do
with a defense for inbound Russian nuclear missiles. As these words are
being written, Dr. Edward Teller, 'father' of the H-Bomb is personally
in the test tunnels of the Nevada Test Site, driving his workers and
associates in the words of one, 'like a man possessed.' And well he
should, for Dr. Teller is a member of MJ-12 along with Dr. Kissenger,
Admiral Bobby Inman, and possibly Admiral Poindexter, to name a few
of the current members of MJ-12.
"Before the 'Grand Deception' was discovered and according to a
meticulous plan of metered release of infomration to the public,
several documentaries and videotapes were made. William Moore, a
Burbank, CA based UFO reseacher who wrote 'The Roswell Incident,' a
book published in 1980 that detailed the crash, recovery and
subsequent cover-up of a UFO with 4 alien bodies, has a videotape of
2 newsmen interviewing a military officer associated with MJ-12 and
the cover-up, the recovery of a number of flying saucers and the
existence of a live alien (one of 3 living aliens captured and
designated, or named, EBE-1, EBE-2, and EBE-3, being held in a
facility designated as YY-II at Los Alamos, NM. The only other
facility of this type, which is electromagnetically secure, is at
Edwards AFB in Mojabe, CA). The officer names as previously
mentioned plus a few others: Harold Brown, Richard Helms, Gen.
Vernon Walters, JPL's Dr. Lew Allen and Dr. Theodore von Karman, to
name a few of the current and past members of MJ-12.
"The officer also relates the fact that the EBE's claim to have
created Christ. The EBE's have a type of recording device that has
recorded all of Earth's history and can display it in the form of
a hologram. This hologram can be filmed but because of the way
holograms work does not come out very clearly on movie film or
videotape. The crucifixion of Christ on the Mount of Olives has
allegedly been put on film to show the public. The EBE's claim to
have created Christ, which, in view of the 'Grand Deception', could be
an effort to disrupt traditional values for undetermined reasons.
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From: paranet!f29.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG!John.Hicks
Subject: Re: UFO Monitoring Projects
Date: 28 Feb 90 19:51:00 GMT
> Seems to me they did set up something in New Mexico for like six
> months, didn't they? In fact, I had a skeptic tell me that in
> six months, it failed to photograph anything, even an airplane.
> (To which I responded, "I take it then, that airplanes don't
> exist either?")
It'd be relatively easy and inexpensive to set up monitoring cameras
using today's autofocus cameras, many of which have a trap focus mode.
That is, you prefocus the camera and if something appears within that
zone of focus the camera fires. If you prefocus the camera at the
hyperfocal distance of the lens in use, you could possibly have a
focus range of from, say, 50 feet to infinity, and the area of the
frame that the AF sensor sees would be pretty big at a distance. Of
course, the camera would also be autoexposure.
Just stick the camera in a weatherproof box and check to see if it's
caught anything every few days.
Rangers at Cape Canaveral National Seashore near KSC are using a
similar setup to photograph nesting bald eagles. They originally used
video cameras to see the nests and triggered still cameras via remote,
but the eagles kept eating the wires. ;-)
jbh
--
John Hicks - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
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From: paranet!Sandy.Barbre
Subject: Re: UFO SYMPOSIUM
Date: 1 Mar 90 11:03:00 GMT
Not yet, but considering it very much!!! Let me know what you think
and what area you're in.
--
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From: paranet!Sandy.Barbre
Subject: Re: Cooper and Paranoia
Date: 1 Mar 90 11:58:00 GMT
What good is a bomb shelter going to do against aliens, WWIII maybe.
--
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From: paranet!f0.n1030.z9.FIDONET.ORG!Mark.Jose
Subject: Predictions???
Date: 1 Mar 90 03:42:00 GMT
>> Date : 23-Dec-89 00:19 <---------+
>> From : Steve Gresser |
>> To : Don Allen |
>> Subject : Re: Lazar/Area51 |
v
>> By the way, I say that China has two months, tops, before the students
>> return. Just a hunch, shall we say, but I think that rather than a
single
Steve, your prediction hasn't come true, YET!!!
Lucky for the Chinese politburo, hey? :->
Regards.
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From: paranet!f0.n1030.z9.FIDONET.ORG!Bob.Fletcher
Subject: Australian Cattle Mutilations
Date: 1 Mar 90 07:08:00 GMT
There is an article in the Melbourne SUN newspaper refering to a case
of mutilated goats. I left the paper at work but hopfully John
Marsden is typing the article up for me.
Stay tuned will get back to you all on this.
Bob...
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From: paranet!f0.n1030.z9.FIDONET.ORG!Bob.Fletcher
Subject: UFO Propultion
Date: 2 Mar 90 05:19:00 GMT
Hi Greg,
Thanks for loggin on to Zoist and ParaNet Omega-Alpha. I am
ansering your comment on UFO Propulsion here as this is the write area
to do so.
Look through the mail and also the files I have on the board. There
are many people who I an sure would like to debate this with you.
Please enjoy yourself,
Bob.......
--
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From: paranet!f7.n1030.z9.FIDONET.ORG!Vladimir.Godic.
Subject: The Canberra "UFO" - final report
Date: 3 Mar 90 03:25:00 GMT
The recent video footage out of Canberra, of which you have already
heard, was definitely the planet Venus. It was in the same place at
the same time (there were no other bright objects seen in the eastern
sky at 0515hrs) and Ray Brooke, UFORA associate in South Australia,
even repeated the footage on his video camera by shooting Venus at the
same time and zooming in. He even got the missing bits (as in Mr
Ivanisevic's original video) at each end.
Sorry folks, better luck next time!
--
Vladimir Godic - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
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From ncar!rutgers!DG-RTP.DG.COM!dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com.gross Thu Mar 1 17:11:33 1990
Subject: Is Cooper all that crazy!?
Date: 2 Mar 90 21:58:54 GMT
A while back somebody posted something about Cooper. I first responded
with kind of knee-jerk response. Subsequently, my system sneezed and I
lost that file. Oh, well, life's full of wonderful surprises. ;-}
Anyway, I was thinking about it some more this morning when I saw the
headlines on USA Today. One just jumped off the page at--Police given
broad power for searches--in nice bold type. So I dug around in my
jeans to find the requisite 50 cents and bought a copy.
The article says in part (all due credit goes to Tony Mauro, USA Today,
who wrote the piece):
"Law enforcement officials are the big winners in a pair of Supreme
Court rulings...that give police *SWEEPING* [emphasis added] powers to
search private homes here and abroad.
"Law enforcement officers don't need search warrants to search
non-citizens outside U.S. borders.
"Police making arrests in U.S. homes can make a "protective sweep" of
the house if [Note the condition folks] they suspect a dangerous third
person is hidden there."
I was floored by this. It means that if the police can get into your
house under some legitimate sounding pretext they can search your house,
your private property, merely because they suspect that there is a
"dangerous third person" hidden there somewhere. Anyone want to bet
this doesn't get abused!?
Then there is the bit about not needing a search warrant to search, and
presumably seize, the private property of non-citizens outside our
borders. What if we sent one of our overseas affiliates and friends
some information we obtain on UFOs and government cover-up that Uncle
doesn't want made public? Can they go into our friends home and search
and seize the documents pertaining to that information and anything else
they want?
This is very unsettling news to me. Maybe Cooper isn't so paranoid
after all. What do you folks think?
Gene
gross@dg-rtp.dg.com
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