SUBJECT: ODYSSEY ON-LINE MAGAZINE, 4/92 FILE: UFO1510 ±±±±±±±±Ü ÜÜÜÜÜ Ü Ü ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ Ü Ü ±±Ûßßß±±Û Û Û ÛÜÜÛ ÛÜÜÜ ÛÜÜÜ ÛÜ ÛÜÜÛ ±±Û ±±Û ÜÛÜÜÛ ÜÜÜÛ ÜÜÜÛ ÜÜÜÛ ÛÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÛ ±±Û ±±Û ±±Û ±±Û ÜÜÜ Ü Ü ÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ Ü ÜÜÜÜ ±±Û ±±Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û ÛÜ ±±±±±±±±Û Û ÛÜÛ ÛÜÜÜ ÜÛÜ Û ÛÜÛ ÛÜÜÜ ßßßßßßßß ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² [The Official Fringe Science Newsletter Of Odyssey!] Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3 3. SIGHTINGS ................................................ 4 4. CLIPPINGS ................................................ 6 5. COLUMNS .................................................. 8 OO 4-07 Page 1 11 Apr 1992 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= ODYSSEY On-Line Editorial Vol2 #1 "the dearth that follows here does not reflect the views of Jerry Woody nor ODYSSEY Network. This stuff comes from us! John & Gail Feilke - Directors of BBS Mgmt." WHAT's THE DEAL HERE?!?!?! Well folks it's time to climb back on the old soapbox and spout again. The topic this time is "Making Mega-Bucks" Don't know about y'all, but we here at KRALIZEC have been SWAMPED lately by mailed advertisments shilling every type of UFO & Paranormal media available, at a price of course. I won't mention any names here (can't afford any libel suits) but these folks have offered the following: videos, posters, books, pictures, copies of offical documents, convention tickets, crystals, catalogs, ect,ect. First off, where the hell do "they" get our names and address's? 2nd, how do you get them to stop? But that's not what ticks us off. What does is that there are people out there making a hell-of-a-lot of money by re-cycling the same old stuff over and over and catching the newbies (not us savvy old pros) and milking them for BIG bucks. Funny thing but 20 or so years ago there was none of this going on. You had a few books (paperback) and two organizations, NICAP & APRO and two or three magazines. These folks were in it not for the money, but for the explanation of the UFO Enigma. You would think with all the money being poured into this that there would be some sort of break-thru in respect to explaning these damned UFOs! But not so true believer, no these bucks are going into bank accounts. And then the cycle starts over again. Is this not defeating our purpose of finding out what's going on? And more important, only the ones that can pay are getting the information! Kinda mimics the government does it not, if you have money then you get the best treatment (police, firemen, ect,ect) But then again maybe the government is running the "whole UFO show", and there is always strings being pulled from the top, where and who is the top?? Ok, enuf for now! bout to run outta lines and we don't want to see what happens if we go over(don't want to re-type this) We want to start a "letters to the editor" section here. If you have a beef, death-threat, want to see something, love-letter, or a compliment. Send them to: KRALIZEC 300/14.400 baud 1:379/103 or snail-mail them to: KRALIZEC 706 Bonview Avenue Lincolnton, North Carolina 28092-2008 Till later folks, OO 4-07 Page 2 11 Apr 1992 John & Gail ----------------------------------------------------------------- OO 4-07 Page 3 11 Apr 1992 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= FIRST ISSUE OF ODYSSEY ON-LINE NEWSLETTER HITS THE STREET Jerry Woody has once again extended the reach of the UNEXPLANED, by publishing the first (and we hope many more) issue of ODYSSEY ON-LINE. In the first issue it takes a look a cattle mutes, which have been a thorn in our sides for a long time now. Interesting charts & graphics. A article on Werewolves, various other goodies and even a puzzle! Damn good job Jerry! ----------------------------------------------------------------- OO 4-07 Page 4 11 Apr 1992 ================================================================= SIGHTINGS ================================================================= Odyssey On-Line UFO Sighting Reports Type UFO: Lights Date: 01-??-92 Location: Palm Beach, Florida Time: Evening UFO Classi. NL Witnesses: 6 Comments: Blue Lights Seemed To Crash. Fragmentating Fireball? Type UFO: Lights Date: 01-08-92 Location: Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Time: Evening UFO Classi. NL Witnesses: Multiple Comments: 5 Lights Observed To Be Low On Horizon. Duration Suggests Star. Type UFO: Light Date: 01-19-92 Location: Anchorage, Alaska Time: Early UFO Classi: NL Witnesses: Multiple Comments: Sounds Like A Meteor, Except They Don't Last 2-3 Minutes. Type UFO: Obol Date: 02-01-92 Location: St. Louis, Mo. Time: 7:30 pm UFO Classi. OBOL Witnesses: 1 Comments: John Carpenter Himself, Observed An Obol. Type UFO: Lights Date: 01-12-92 Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina Time: 8:30 pm UFO Classi: NL Witnesses: 2 Comments: 2 Bright Lights And 40-50 Smaller Lights On Object Paced Car. Type UFO: Domed Disc Date: 01-19-92 Location: Bridgeport, Conn. Time: 8:30 pm UFO Classi: CE2 Witnesses: 1 OO 4-07 Page 5 11 Apr 1992 Comments: Domed Disc With Large, Square Windows And 2 Smaller Windows. Static On Phone. ----------------------------------------------------------------- OO 4-07 Page 6 11 Apr 1992 ================================================================= CLIPPINGS ================================================================= ODYSSEY On-Line Newsclippings These Come From My Friend Peter Cox, Living In London, England. DEMON SEED A 17-year-old girl living in a "manproof" nunnery in Sicily claimed that the devil made her pregnant. The girl was never alone while in care, except in bed. Her parents didn't believe her and police were investigating. TODAY - December 14, 1990 COLOUR ME SILVER Andrew and Julie Lindley looked on in astonishment as their house in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, turned siver before their eyes. Furniture, doors, and windows changed colourand started to shine, as did some jellies, tomatoes and the feet of their 11-year-old daughter Rebecca. The Outside of the house was coated with a silvery dust, though neighbouring houses were untouched. Council officals took away samples for testing. DAILY MIRROR - October 26, 1991 CENTRAL ASIAN UFOs Soviet Scientists at a UFO conference in Munich in June 1990 claimed that leaked documents and a picture of UFO wreckage showed that two MIG 25 fighters had intercepted a UFO in a remote region of Azerbaijan in March 1983. They fired two rockets when it turned on a collision course. The pilot's report said the UFO turned a bright colour and fell to Earth. The wreckage was discovered by mushroom pickers who later died - seemingly from radiation. DAILY EXPRESS / DAILY MAIL - June 25, 1990 Further east during the past year, nomads in the remotest areas of Mongolia's vast territory have ofter reported seeing visitors from another planet who look like human beings but speak no language, communicating only by telepathy. One of the sightings was by a woman who was flown over the capital, Ulan Bator, in a spaceship. THE TIMES - July 25, 1991 WEIRDNESS A woman ripped out her sister's tongue piece by piece with her fingernails while the two were in jail in Chester, South Carolina. Donna Doxie, 24, told police she was removing a demon from her sister, Melody Shelton, 26. Ms Shelton apparently did not resist. AP - October 10, 1991 A couple from Tomelilla in Sweden were driving down a road to Lake Snogeholm, south of Sjobo in Scania, when a large bream (fish?? J&GF), fell from the sky and smashed their windscreen OO 4-07 Page 7 11 Apr 1992 (windshield J&GF) SYDSVENSKAN - July 6, 1991 ----------------------------------------------------------------- OO 4-07 Page 8 11 Apr 1992 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= US AND "THEM" by Andy Roberts Fortean Times Feb-Mar 1992 ET or not ET? But is that the question? After forty-one years of UFO research the main theory id that, yes, they are extraterrestial in origin. But "how" do we know this? Mainly, because that's how we would like them to be. In some cases 'they' have been kind enough to tell us. For instance Betty Hill - one of the first famous abductees - recalled, under hypnosis, a star map since interpreted as showing the formation Zeta Reticuli; a location popular in ufolore ever since. But it's a long way from Zeta Reticuli to Earth simplty to do pointless gynaecological experiments on humans; and let's face it, bearing in mind their past failures - Adamski's aliens told him they came from the Moon! - would you believe an alien anyway? Like the spirits of mediumship, the discourses of angles and the news from fairyland, the alien message is one of deception, not information. So why do people still listen and belive they come from 'out there'? Ufologist Budd Hopkins has taken a pragmetic view, reasoning that it's not where they come from that matters but what they are doing while here. An interesting approach but essentially a useless one if we can only infer what 'they' are and where 'they' come from by their percieved actions. This brings us back to the problem with fairies, discarnate spirits, and angles; the universe can't be so crowded as to accommodate them all, can it? If it is, we seem to be the only sane entities among a cosmic population of liars, deceivers and body-snatchers. Are we looking in the wrong place for the source of these aliens? Following a Close Encounter he had one Christmas, writer Whitley Strieber wrote "Communion" and its sequel "Transformation", highly personal accounts of his experiences with the 'visitors', as he called them, and became the major populariser of the UFO subject in the 1980's. Strieber never thought they were extraterrestrials, but his honest ambiguity played into the hands of those who did and claimed him as one of their own. Recently, Strieber issued a statement indicating his thoughts about the source of all alien contacts: "The abduction reports [UFO investigators] generate are not real. They are artifacts of hypnosis and cultural conditioning. We are experiencing a perceptual anomaly that is sufficiently ambigous and intense that it demands explaination. It is something that human beings have been experiencing for a long time. It is the cause of the 'alien abduction' belief. What is really behind these experiences? We are. This is a human thing. However, I would say that we, and our world, are vastly different and far more strange than we have ever dreamed or dared imagine." With this, Strieber leans toward a OO 4-07 Page 9 11 Apr 1992 more broad-based, Fortean interpretation of phenomena than the 'us and them' view of traditional ufology. Of all the theories about the origin of UFOs, the possibility that they emanate from ourselves, here and now, is persistently discarded as though somehow neither we nor our planet have any remaining mystery. What a condescending, shallow, and narrow-minded view of the human species and Nature herself! Natural phenomena, the mysteries of the psyche (both social and individual), and how these interact to create mythologies, are far more interesting than the belief that in some distant galaxy aliens are packing their kitbags with sharp instruments for anothe trip into some luckless earthling's bedroom. As yet, no evidence of the extraterrestrial nature of UFOs has successfully withstood the tests of time or serious investigation.It is simply a belief.Strieber is correct, but will probably be ignored; his assessment will slip away from memory to be lost, like the mystery itself, in the forest of beliefs and suppositions. The UFO phenomenon seems to be a planetary, human-based phenomenon comprising a complex mixture of factors. As ufologist John Keel said in these very pages: "We are the intelligence which controls the phenomena...". We have been misleading ourselves. It is high time we began to solve the mystery of our own being, rather than abnegating responsibility to the rather incompetent pilots of the silver spaceships with their toy-town technology and exaggerated interest in our genitalia. Andy Roberts is a residential social-worker who finds time to edit his own quarterly magazine UFO BRIGANTIA which looks at the underside and otherside of ufology (available from 44 Elland Rd, Brighouse, West Yorkshire HD62QR). FORTEAN TIMES is available for $30.00 for 6 issues. make checks payable to JOHN BROWN PUBLISHING LTD. and send to FORTEAN TIMES 20 Paul St. Frome, Somerset BA11 1DX. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************