UFOs in Reality (16 page)

Campbell (a ‘reductionist’ scientist) examined the possible nature of the craft described by the witness. Creditably, he dismissed the ideas of those who wanted to believe that it was some sort of secret man-made device and went on to consider the possibility of its having been from an extraterrestrial source. He argued (correctly) that the craft’s strangeness was not in itself proof of extraterrestrial origins and no one had witnessed its arrival or departure. However, he claimed to be willing to reconsider that possibility should any further evidence come to light in favour of it.

[Campbell’s subsequent attempts to explain away the event as a temporary epileptic seizure suffered by the witness (with incidental ground marks caused by forestry equipment), or as a mirage, or as a form of ball lightning, seemed to indicate that he had closed his mind to any such ET evidence. That is the kind of trap that ensnares those who try to find mundane solutions for all extraordinary phenomena. Unfortunately, today’s scientific establishment is too well populated by such individuals, as the author knows only too well!]

If Stueart Campbell’s mind is still receptive, then the evidence he claimed to be willing to consider is about to be presented here. After processing the details of the Livingston case through the AT’s computer programs, it was found to have complied admirably with the global behaviour patterns established by hypothetical ET craft over a period of more than a century. The scenario presented by the AT is one in which exploration craft are delivered into the Earth’s atmosphere from space, in accordance with the rules of a long-established programme, and are subsequently retrieved after a predetermined mission time in the atmosphere. During its mission such a craft may have to hide itself, to await the time of rendezvous in space and there is much evidence, worldwide, that this often occurs. Many stationary craft have been encountered in woodland clearings, disused quarries and entering or exiting shallow reservoirs, lakes and seas. Fig.29
presents the timings graph for Livingston. A vertical line is drawn to represent November 9th. Mr. Taylor’s estimate of the time he had encountered the craft was 10:15 am. GMT. Two horizontal lines have been drawn to represent this time in both sections of the two-section timing scale for the same day. It can be seen that these two lines intersect the vertical line very close to two of the predicted timing lines. One intersection is almost exactly superimposed on the curved sunrise-orientated No.3 track’s timing line and the other lies just below the sloping 1100h RA No.3 line.

Fig. 29

This is an excellent result to explain the happening in that plantation. The indications are that the craft had arrived on site just prior to Mr. Taylor’s arrival there and it had taken action to detain him, unconscious, until it’s mission period expired. What that mission was, cannot be determined, but within half an hour it was due for retrieval by a larger craft travelling along the No.3, 1100h RA, path in space.

References

[12] Campbell, S. ‘Close Encounter at Livingston’ (report) British UFO Research Association (BUFORA Ltd.) July 1982.

Close Encounter in Wiltshire.

During the 1990s period when my wife, Marion, and I were spending time in Wiltshire and Hampshire investigating the crop formations there, we were brought into contact with a small American group led by
Dr. Steven Greer M.D
., a paediatrician, then working within a hospital in South Carolina. The occasion for that meeting was a Crop Circles symposium in Glastonbury, Somerset, at which I was an invited speaker. During the afternoon tea break on July 26th, 1992, Busty Taylor came over to our table and introduced us to the group of people accompanying him. Their spokesman was introduced as Dr. Steven Greer, who then explained his interest in the work I had been doing on the UFO enigma. Having become convinced that some of the SACs reported worldwide were intelligently controlled ET craft, he had created an organisation called
Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI)
, with rapid response teams enabled to go to any part of the world in which UFO activity was taking place. Their objective would be to make contact with the intelligence guiding the craft by following a protocol of meditation and signalling methods, including the use of powerful hand lamps. The co-ordinator for these activities, the late Ms. Sharon (Shari) Adamiak, was then introduced to us along with the other two members of that group. Shari became a very helpful link with the group for several years later, until her untimely death. Another member of the group, artist Ron Russel
l
, has also kept in touch from time to time.

Dr. Greer then went on to explain that several nights before, whilst on a skywatch in the crop fields of Wiltshire, he and his team had witnessed a spectacular SAC overflight of their location before midnight and he wondered if this would have been predicted by my graph for that area. I took the
hand-produced graph
(the computer programs had not been created at that time) from my documents case and, together, we checked out date and time in the usual way. We were all very happy to find that the observed event had occurred exactly as predicted by the graph. I was then asked if I could give them predictions for the coming night of the 26th/27th. I read off three likely times and soon afterwards they left to return to their Wiltshire base, with the assurance that they would let me know how they had fared. About three months later I received a letter from Shari Adamiak, informing me that events had occurred at all three predicted times and that one of them had been an interactive close encounter with a large SAC. Steven Greer had labelled such encounters
, ‘Close Encounters of the 5th Kind ‘ (CE5)
. Later still I received a copy of a full report of that CE5 event written by Dr. Greer. (During our subsequent videoing of the crop circles scene for a trilogy of videos, produced later, we were fortunate to be able to record a first-hand account, on location, from Dr. Greer with Shari Adamiak in attendance.)

I will try now to summarise the very long, but interesting, story.

According to Dr. Greer’s account, I had given the team three BST predictions: 10:30 pm. 12:30 am. and 1:30 am. After a brief break for dinner, they had proceeded to the chosen research site at Alton Barnes,
Wiltshire. Clouds were gathering when two unidentified lights had risen up above the cloud bank in the East and moved towards the group, being last seen heading south. This had occurred at 10:25 pm. At about 11:00 pm, the clouds above the group were seen to be illuminated from above by a rotating cartwheel of brilliant lights, spinning anti-clockwise. This display lasted for about ten minutes. The cloudbank in the north-east had grown larger when they observed four elliptical objects detach from the western edge of the cloud and then disappear into its eastern edge. Soon afterwards it began to rain and this quickly became a torrential downpour. They retreated to their cars, being very much aware that their equipment was in danger of getting soaked. At this point, some members of the group decided to catch up on lost sleep by returning to their accommodation, leaving four stalwarts to carry on with the watch. These remaining people had shared two cars, one being Dr. Greer’s, and they had decided to drive onto a hard-paved road on the adjacent farm. They’d sat and hoped that the rain would subside. At around 12:30 am., as the rain eased, one of the team in the other car came hammering on Dr. Greer’s window yelling that there was a spaceship coming across the adjacent field, only a few hundred feet away from them. They all then saw the object and what they saw astonished them. Dr. Greer described it as “a large, disk-shaped craft with brilliant lights rotating counter-clockwise along its base. The object had a high dome or cone on which sat three amber lights on top of this structure. The report goes on to state that it was hovering no more than thirty feet (10m) above the ground and was located about four hundred yards (metres) from their position. They could see metallic structure between the rotating blue, green, amber and white lights and at times believed they could hear a humming sound. The team’s video recorder had been inoperable so that Dr. Greer had to give a commentary into his micro-cassette tape recorder. Using the fingers-at arms-length method, the diameter of the craft was assessed to be somewhere between 80 and 150 feet, this being dependent on the assumed distance away. It manoeuvred about the field as they watched and at one point seemed to flip up as if to reveal its underside, when the rotating lights gave it the appearance of an illuminated Christmas tree. Subsequently, one of the amber coloured lights on the dome had suddenly detached itself and flown off into the mist. A new Swedish compass with a life-time guarantee had been indicating all manner of directions for North during this encounter, slowly moving in a counter-clockwise direction, like the lights on the craft. The high-powered signal lamps had then been used to flash light signals towards the craft and, to their satisfaction, the craft had flashed back in the same sequences. Contact had been made! Afterwards, it seems that the craft had moved away into the mist and had been lost to view. What happened to it then is something of a mystery.

A large amber-coloured UFO was seen in the south-west at about 1:30 am. This had seemed to wobble as it hovered and was thought to be about one or two miles away. When flashed at by the signal lamps, it had obligingly responded in the same sequences before disappearing from view below the tree-line. It had been quite a night for the CSETI team!

After being told of all this I had remarked that, whilst the SETI scientists search the skies for radio signals from alien civilisations, a group of amateurs equipped only with signal lamps seemed to have already achieved that much sought-for contact
. I added that they seemed to have had a far better success rate than I’d ever had myself!

Scientists are generally disinclined to even consider the possibility that technological aliens may have been surveying this planet, perhaps for millennia. For this reason, most of them cannot conceive or concede that my Astronautical Theory can have any validity whatsoever.

So,
it needs to be emphasised, again and again, that we are not dealing with our kind of astronautics or space hardware. The technology being displayed is beyond our current understanding of physics. The craft manifest as solid objects when they are interacting with us, but are capable of metamorphosis when in operational mode; for example, whenever they move from one location in space-time to another. We can have no idea how they are able to perform in that way. Their technology is literally ‘out of this world’. But as my colleague and science author Edward Ashpole has repeatedly pointed out, that is exactly as we should expect it to be. It can only be regarded as being extremely fortunate that a programmed strategy, understandable in our terms, has been adopted by the visiting craft to facilitate their surveillance of this planet and that this has been able to be approximated by the AT.

The strangeness of the technology being used was demonstrated at close quarters to a retired engineer (who was once
Head of Engine Development with Rolls-Royce Engines, Derby),
during the winter of 1998. Prior to his established period with Rolls-Royce, he had flown in Lancaster bombers during WW2 and survived. The story follows.

The Lewis-Goodwin Happening.

After moving to Devon, I had been pleased to discover that there was a very active Torbay Astronomical Society in Torquay and that it had meetings open to interested members of the public once every fortnight. One of these was a public talk held at Torquay Town Hall each month. Having been interested in astronomy from schooldays, I decided to attend some of the ‘open’ meetings. This went on for several years and, even though I never became a member of the Society, I received a copy of each year’s programme through the post. During early 1998 I had asked the Secretary if the members would like a lecture on my scientific UFO research, which had considerable astronomical content. He replied that he’d have to confer on that and then come back to me with the answer. I was very pleased to be told later that the committee had consented to the idea, but I was warned that I could expect a lot of outspoken scepticism. That did not deter me and the date was set to be September 17th, 1998, the first lecture in the programmed series.

I had prepared a lot of material and went on to deliver it in the same manner as for a serious technical lecture (which was appreciated by some of the visiting members of my audience), but the meeting turned out to be a fiasco. The hostility of the Chairman was clearly evident at outset and he continued in the same vein during the question-time period. When some of his colleagues displayed the same mind-set, it became clear to me that I had been talking to many closed minds. It was a very disappointing outcome, because I’d looked forward to getting involved in an intelligent discussion after the talk.