UFOs in Reality (28 page)

By early 1999 I had equipped myself with an updated computer and got myself ‘on-line’ for the Internet, complete with e-mail facility. A Press Release had been issued on February 24th, 1999, by the editor of an Italian magazine, ‘Notiziario UFO’, providing information about a ‘wave’ (intense outbreak) of UFO sightings in Northern Italy the previous night. Jennifer Jarvis was again instrumental in bringing this item to my attention. The Press Release stated that sightings began at 7 pm. (European Standard Time) in two towns in the region of Venice and were followed by sightings from all over Northern Italy, including Rome. Fortunately for my purposes, details of some of these events were also given, so that they were able to be processed in detail. Sightings had ceased just before 9 pm.

Before beginning the numerical processing, I needed to satisfy myself that the details given of the sightings ruled out the possibility that a brilliant conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in the sky that night had been the cause of all the excitement. I was pleased to find that I could eliminate that solution and, so, commenced processing. The outcome was that several common tracks over the region were able to be identified as having been used during that 2-hour period. Two tracks could have been used to retrieve the exploration craft just before 9 pm. They were virtually at right angles to each other and served the Venice and Turin areas, respectively.

It so happened that I had received information from contacts in Reading, England, that UFO-related activity had been taking place between 6:30 pm and 8 pm GMT on the same night (February 23rd). A few days later, I had been informed by contacts in the Irish Republic that UFO activity had been reported in various places between 7:30 pm and 9 pm GMT . One of those places was Boyle, Co. Roscommon, where activity had ceased at 8 pm. GMT. The processing of the Reading and Boyle events revealed that both these sites shared the same track line as that key departure option running between Venice and Valdagno in Northern Italy. What was even more interesting was that 9 pm in Italy is the equivalent of 8 pm GMT in Britain and Ireland. Here, at last, was
evidence that the same track line is sometimes used to access widely separated locations
. Fig.48 shows the single track linking Venice, Valdagno, Reading and Boyle. This has been extracted from my unpublished report, dated March 1999, with the title
‘ANALYSIS OF THE U.F.O. REPORTS OF 23RD FEBRUARY, 1999.’

My informant in Ireland had been Mr. Eamonn Ansbro, FRAS, ( see Plate 3), an amateur astronomer of some renown, who had initiated a link-up with me some years earlier.

Fig. 48

Plate 3

Eamonn and Catherine Ansbro.

Soon after the publication of Edward Ashpole’s book of 1995/96, ‘The UFO Phenomena’, Eamonn Ansbro contacted me by letter in January, 1996. He had viewed a copy of the Part 1 video Roy Rowlands and I had produced during 1994 and had also read Edward Ashpole’s account of my Theory from the book. These had impressed him and he hoped I might be able to assist him. He had seen anomalous lights in Ireland and had set up an observational group in County Kerry to observe some of those frequent visitors. They had been in touch with CSETI and had decided to adopt and adapt some of CSETI’s protocols. The lights in the sky had seemed to behave in an intelligent manner and he felt sure they were the result of technology not of this Earth. As a result of this conjecture, and given his knowledge of astronomy, he had spent some time trying to fathom out where in our galaxy they might be coming from. He sent a marked up star map with his letter and asked if these paths in space tied up in any way with my own discoveries. Alas, they didn’t appear to link up at all. I asked for details of his group’s location and any recorded timings for the observed events and suggested we could proceed from there. I supplied him with a timings graph for that area and then correspondence ceased until about a year later. Eamonn began to report good correlation between the observations and the Theory’s predictions. In fact, he had ventured to arrange skywatches based on my suggested interpretation of the graphical output and on the times that then seemed to be favoured. He’d had a lot of successes using this technique; so much so that he’d ventured to invite TV cameras to accompany his group and, apparently, the TV teams had not gone away disappointed. I marvelled at his success rate and was told that the group had been further assisted by the use of CSETI-type protocols.

Then followed requests for graphs for other parts of Ireland, especially, Dublin and Boyle, Co. Roscommon. I was able to show that Dublin was linked to Boyle by a common ground track; was linked to the Co. Kerry site by another; and that the latter was linked to an area to the east of Boyle by yet another common track. These three tracks produced an ‘Irish Triangle’, as shown by Fig.49. Thereafter, Eamonn began to try to communicate his experiences and the Astronautical Theory to as wide an audience as possible. Emboldened by his successes, he wanted to prepare people for the probability that a formal landing would take place in the very near future. (As far as I know, he is still waiting for that momentous event.) During this period (1997-1998) the Ansbros were spending more and more time in Dublin, where Eamonn’s precision optics business and the family home were located. After his elderly mother’s death, the decision was made to move out to Boyle, with a view to setting up an advanced observatory there.

Personal Contact.

During July 29th to 1st August, 1999, Eamonn and his American wife, Catherine, were our guests at our home in Torquay. They had requested the visit because they really wanted to get a full understanding of the rudiments of the AT. My memory of that short period is one of providing an intense ‘crash-course’, during which I attempted to explain the 3-D geometry involved by all means possible.

Fig. 49

My other impression was that Catherine was even more interested in the details than Eamonn appeared to be, as many of the searching questions came from her. (I was later to discover that her father was a professor of theoretical physics in an American University and that she was also highly qualified, which explained her level of interest.)

Following onto that visit, Catherine began urging me to produce a comprehensive scientific paper to explain how the theory developed and how the solutions ‘dropped out’. I recoiled from that task because, as I tried to explain, much of that voluntary work had been done manually, with lists of data and early graphs existing only in pencilled form. It would be a major task to reproduce more than 20 years of early work to the standard now required for scientific papers.

The OSETI III Conference, 2001

Further urgency was then given to that request when, early in January 2001, I was informed by Catherine that Eamonn had made contact with OSETI (Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), an organisation formed by a group of American optical astronomers who wanted to expand SETI’s radio-frequency activities by searching the skies for optical evidence of the presence of ETI activity in the solar system and beyond. A conference, OSETI III, was to be held in California later in January and a paper submitted by Eamonn had been accepted for presentation at that conference. What was more, the title he had selected was, ‘
A New OSETI Observatory to Test Dutton’s Astronautical Theory’
. Understandably, the Ansbros had been greatly encouraged by this acceptance of a controversial paper, but, as Catherine pointed out, it would emphasise the need to have a paper on the derivation and nature of the Astronautical Theory ready to supply to any interested scientists.

In the face of this welcome coercion, I decided I would have to try to meet this anticipated need. So began two months of concentrated effort to produce that paper.

Meanwhile, the Ansbros flew off to California and to the Conference. Eamonn’s paper was scheduled to be delivered on January 23rd and all communications between us ceased for a while. Some time after the event I learnt that Eamonn’s paper had caused uproar among some of the astronomers present. They suspected he had been sent to devalue the conference by ‘sending them up’. They had insisted that his paper could not be published in the Proceedings of OSETI III unless it could be re-written to change its emphasis. Not wishing to have his material completely left out of the official records, Eamonn then had to apply himself to the task of meeting their requirements. The revised paper was eventually published under the title,
‘A New OSETI Observatory to Search for Interstellar Probes’
and the development and nature of Dutton’s Theory was given only three small paragraphs of coverage. It provided yet another example of the manner in which my work has been deliberately marginalised over the years by the scientific establishment.

The ‘Basics’ Paper.

To explain the ‘basics’ of the Astronautical Theory, I had to delve into archived material going back to my early work in the late 1960s. As I had anticipated, there was a lot of it and it was generally in scribbled note form, scribbled listings and pencilled graphs. After all, this study had begun as an interesting spare-time hobby and, at outset, I had no idea whether it was going to lead anywhere. But as the pieces of the ‘jigsaw’ seemed to be creating sections of an overall picture, I could not just abandon this activity, even though sometimes many months might pass between one inspiration and the next. So you can imagine how difficult it was going to be to bring all this together. To make things more difficult still, there were several ‘blind alleys’ followed during the course of the development and these would have to be sifted out.

I decided that the paper I was trying to produce would have to use photocopies of the old graphs and diagrams and some of the old listings. The task took two months to complete. The paper, including appendices, consisted of fifty A-4 pages. The main scripted report occupied 19 of those pages and there were, in addition, 23 tables and Figures. Two appendices accounted for the remaining pages. The title I chose for this paper was:

‘Puzzling Global Reports of Strange Aerial Craft (SAC): A Comprehensive Technical Assessment and a Testable Theory. 1. Early Work and the derivation of an Astronautical Theory.’

I can remember that my original title had been modified after consultation with Edward Ashpole, who also suggested changes to the Abstract. When I sent a copy of this paper to the Ansbros, Catherine was especially overjoyed and wanted to disseminate it to people she knew, some of whom were scientists. I can’t remember who those people were, but I’m fairly sure her father was one of them. She also purchased copies of Parts 1 and 2 of the video recordings, in (expensive) NTSC format, two of which were going to her parents. (The Part 3 video was about to be recorded later that year, but was not available then.) So, the liaison with the Ansbros had borne fruit for me and I was extremely grateful for all their help in the promotion of my work, in association with Eamonn’s own.