“The Aetherius Society is an international spiritual organization dedicated to spreading, and acting upon, the teachings of advanced extraterrestrial intelligences,” its members state.  They continue with the following words: “In great compassion, these beings recognize the extent of suffering on Earth and have made countless sacrifices in their mission to help us to create a better world. The Society was founded in the mid-1950s by an Englishman named George King shortly after he was contacted in London by an extraterrestrial intelligence known as ‘Aetherius.’”

UFO researchers David Clarke and Andy Roberts say of the organization: “The Aetherius Society were never a huge organization, indeed their numbers rarely totaled more than one thousand members worldwide…The Aetherius Society was not for everyone but, for those seekers who wanted or needed a spiritual dimension to their saucer beliefs, they provided a philosophy, structure and network of sincere like-minded souls.” George King suffered a heart-attack in 1986. He underwent a multiple heart bypass in 1992. And, he died in Santa Barbara, California on July 12, 1997. The Aetherius Society, though, continues to thrive very well. Now, it’s time to address something that is far removed from aliens and UFOs. What that might be? Well, I’ll go ahead and tell you. We are talking about matters relative to atomic weapons, Russia, the U.K.’s Communist Party, and the secret surveillance of ufologists. Maybe even the top secret surveillance of ufologists.

So far as can be determined, at least, George King and his Aetherius Society did not attract the secret attention of the world of officialdom until 1957, specifically in May of that year. It was on the 26^th of the month that an eye-catching article appeared in the pages of a weekly U.K.-based publication called The Empire News. In an article titled “Flying Saucer Clubs Probe: Peace Messages ‘from outer space,’” the following was revealed to the readers: “‘Warnings’ from outer space against Britain’s H-Bomb tests published in a flying saucer magazine take a similar line to Moscow-inspired propaganda. The ‘warning’ – in a special issue of the magazine – is being scrutinized by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch [the origins of which date back to 1883 and which, in 2006, was absorbed into the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command]. It is suspected that a number of flying saucer clubs – and some spiritualists as well – are unwittingly being used by the communists. The warning appears in the magazine of the Aetherius Society, which circulates widely among flying saucer enthusiasts.”

Not only that, The Empire News revealed that George King had, as he put it, received a channeled message from advanced entities from the planet Mars. Its decidedly anti-nuke message went as follows: “Have not the latest peace moves come from Russia? You in the West blame Russia and say it is necessary to make these weapons to protect yourselves from them. You in Britain are in a favorable position to show the larger countries the way.”

It’s hardly surprising that a body like Special Branch would sit up and take notice of (a) this development in the world of the Aetherius Society and (b) the pro-Russian words of the Martians. King wasted no time in contacting Scotland Yard. He demanded to know why, precisely, he and his group were now under surveillance by government authorities. Well, given both the time-frame and the dangerous climate that existed way back in the 1950s, it should have been glaringly obvious to one and all: the authorities saw King’s words (as well as the words of those of his claimed Martian friends) as nothing less than outright propaganda designed to make the U.K. government look very bad and the Russians look very good. In a letter of May 26, King scolded Scotland Yard and did his absolute utmost to try and put things straight. He wrote in his letter that the Aetherius Society was actually “a religious and occult society, which has contact with Intelligences on certain other planets. We are non-political and non-sectarian.”

As history has shown, however, that’s certainly not how the authorities saw things.

Unless there is a huge and sudden development in the matter of what happened near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 (which I seriously doubt will happen!), this will be my last article on the controversial affair for a long time. My recent Roswell-themed articles were based upon the studies of government documentation, a weird phone call from an old guy, and downright high-strangeness. Today’s article, however, is largely an opinion-driven one. As you’ll see. It primarily revolves around how we might get the definitive answers to Roswell – if those answers can be found, that is. One important issue that I think many overlook is that which revolves around the U.S. Air Force and Roswell. In the 1990s, the Air Force put together two reports on Roswell. One of them – which surfaced in 1994 – was focused on the theory that what came down on the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico was a huge Mogul balloon of the U.S. military. In that same 1994 report, the Air Force stated they did not address the “alien bodies” angle for one, specific reason: Mogul balloons didn’t have crews; human or animal. Fair enough. In 1997, however, the USAF changed its stance and said that bodies – of a kind – were found. But, they weren’t aliens: they were dummies used in high-altitude flights.

There’s no doubt that this change of perspective provoked a lot of people in Ufology – and even in the media – to suspect there was still far more regarding Roswell than met the eye. The Air Force got a lot of flak for its crash-test dummies theory. Even a lot of UFO skeptics didn’t buy into it. However, here’s the important thing: the Air Force did not need to release a second report at all. They could have made life much easier for themselves if they had left things how they were and just referred people to the Mogul report. By changing their opinions across a period of barely three years, the Air Force was opening itself for criticism – and suspicion, too. That the Air Force did release that second report – that was at significant odds with certain portions of the first report – makes me think that the Air Force of 1994 and 1997 had no real knowledge of what really came down on the ranch. They were utterly stumped, but they did their best. I believe that to be the case for today’s USAF, too: they are as puzzled as we are.

All too often, Ufologists jump up and poke their fingers at officialdom in accusing fashion. Sometimes in near-hysterical fashion. Having carefully studied both of the Air Force’s 1990s-era reports, I conclude that the USAF doesn’t know what happened at Roswell. But, I fully believe they made a genuine search. While I think there are certain flaws in the two reports, I’m of the opinion they were compiled honestly and with a real attempt to try and solve the riddle. My view is that whatever happened back in 1947, it was largely buried near-immediately. As a result, most people in government – and just like us – are out of the Roswell loop. You might find it strange that I think the Air Force has no more knowledge about Roswell than we do…but that’s exactly what I think. So, who is hiding the truth? My theory is that Roswell falls under the category of SAPs: Special Access Programs. In other words, if you don’t have the need-to-know, you don’t get in, no matter who you might be. And if you are invited in, you shut the fuck up about it. For the rest of your life.

All of this provokes an important and intriguing question: if Roswell is buried deep within the heart of a largely unknown SAP, how on earth are we expected to get the answers? Can we get the answers? I have my thoughts on this, too. Over the years I have heard stories of people who claim to know where certain files on the case (files that were compiled in the immediate July 1947 period, I should stress) exist outside of the U.S. government and are now in the hands of old-timers who may have secured certain old Roswell papers during the period of chaos that occurred right after the crash. Maybe photos of the site and the bodies, too. One person who I absolutely know saw the strange bodies was a man named Conrad Zerbe (his is an almost lost and forgotten saga). I also know that at one point – in the very early 1980s –  the USAF approached Zerbe to try and help them figure out what really happened at Roswell – because again, the Air Force didn’t know…but they most assuredly wanted to know. Zerbe was deeply worried and concerned when he got at least several visits from Air Force Intelligence across a period of three weeks. And, he finally clammed up; filled with fear. That’s not quite the end of it though: I have heard fascinating rumors that Zerbe – who was definitely at the crash site – took certain photos with him and did not hand them over to those in the military who were running the containment of the ranch in the hours and days after the crash. Again, it was due to the incredible chaos that occurred when something hit the ground; something with a “crew” aboard, and something that had to be hidden as soon as possible. And forever.

I have been in touch with the families of several “Zerbe-type” people who were in the right place at the right time. Or, depending on your personal perspective, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. There’s no doubt – based on what I know  – that whoever is running that well-buried Special Access Program is extremely concerned that they do not have in their hands all of the old files on Roswell, all of the photos, and of additional data, too. As I see it – and as old people die and the witnesses and even their relatives will soon be no more – it may be the case that the only way we will find the answers is to quit bugging the Pentagon and take a different approach. And stop portraying the Air Force as evil characters who want the truth of Roswell firmly hidden. They don’t. Like us, the Air Force is baffled and dearly wants to know what happened. But, not everyone is baffled. There is a group that is sitting on the truth, but they are fearful that there are some “items” and documents that are out of their hands – and which means they are out of their control.

It’s the old-timers (the few that are left) and their immediate family members who have the answers. You want Roswell resolved? Then don’t waste your time knocking on the collective doors of the Air Force. Leave them the hell alone. Instead, make respectful approaches to those that are sitting on a goldmine, but who are fearful of what they know and what might happen to them if they do choose to speak out. Carefully and tactfully ask them what they were told by their grandfathers, grandmothers and so on. And, of the fading, yellowing documents they have tucked away. That’s how we stand a chance of solving Roswell. And, you know what? The Air Force will thank you. Why? Because they really are outside of the Roswell loop. But, they don’t want to be.

2019 was a year full of UFOlogical developments, especially in the way the phenomenon is being treated by mainstream media. With great fanfare Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA) released their six-part TV series Unidentified on the History Channel during the summer; which not only showcased the testimony of Commander David Fravor, and other Navy pilots who have encountered unknown aerial objects during exercise missions on both coasts of the United States, but also explored other military encounters with UFOs –like the famous Rendlesham forest incident.

The narrative TTSA is trying to construct seems pretty clear: Whatever they are and wherever they come from, UFOs (or UAPs, as it is the new PC way to address the subject) constitute a threat. Not only because their aerodynamic capabilities far surpass those of the most advanced jet fighters in the world –which give them carte blanche to intrude into the restricted airspace of the most sensitive installations with total impunity– but also due to the deleterious effect which can be suffered by being directly exposed to these objects. To illustrate this the producers of Unidentified interviewed John Borrows, one of the main witnesses in the Rendlesham incident, who has suffered from a series of serious medical problems which seem directly related to his close encounter in December of 1980.

Yes, the literature is full of numerous cases in which witnesses suffered temporary or permanent health problems caused by exposure to the UFO phenomenon, and those problems range from the very mild ones –skin burns, nausea and irritated eyes– to the life-threatening ones on very rare occasions –like the Cash-Landrum incident, in which one of the witnesses developed cancer (Betty Cash) and eventually died as a result of it. But is that always the case?

As it turns out, UFO researchers also have in their files plenty of cases in which a close encounter proved beneficial to the witness; not only  for having the chance of experiencing something which only a rare minority of individuals have encountered firsthand within their lifetimes –and due to the mind-expanding potential of such experiences– but also because in those cases the witness found him- or herself cured of some illness or health condition, by a process which can only be described as miraculous for lack of a better term.

Let us now examine three cases of UFO-induced healings:

Jaume (Jacques) Bordas

The fascinating story of Jaume Bordas Blas was first publicized by Spanish researcher Antonio Ribera in 1971, and was subsequently picked up by Jacques Vallee who included it in Messengers of Deception. Bordas was born on July 20, 1911, and for most of his childhood he was a weakling sick boy; a hormonal deficiency (possibly thyroid related) caused him to suffer from serious weight problems, and his pituitary condition also resulted in slow mental development and impaired attention at school. 

One night, when he was 12 years old, Bordas felt the sudden and inexplicable urge to climb to the terrace, where he saw a wondrous vision: A group of small, triangular objects that looked to him like little planes were flying all around, across the sky. Three of the craft –which measured less than nine feet in length– landed near him; one of them opened up like a fan and from it emerged a being no bigger than the young boy, wearing a white suit and a bright white mantle. The entity said this to Bordas:

We have come to see you, because we have taken you under our protection. We know how much you suffer, and we know your dream of becoming a strong man, an athlete. You will realize it, with our help; you will be strong, not only physically but mentally, too. Now that we have adopted you, we will never forsake you. In the future we will come back to you again. In the meantime, as a token of friendship, take this.

The little being showed Bordas what looked like a square piece of dark candy, and told the boy to eat it completely for this would be the beginning of a new life for him. Bordas had obviously never heard of the warnings included in my pal Joshua Cutchin’s book A Trojan Feast (“never accept any food from fairies!”) because he did as he was told; the being went back to his ‘airplane’ and the three objects flew away. The next morning Bordas woke up with a strange taste of tar in his mouth, which showed the amazing encounter had not been a dream.

Jaume Bordas

And if the boy needed further confirmation, the proof came during the next four years as he went through a seemingly impossible physical transformation: he lost all the extra weight and grew to be incredibly strong. His mind had also been equally fortified and he developed a curiosity for scientific topics and mountains; eventually Bordas became an expert mountain climber and accomplished many feats, including being the first Spaniard to climb to the top of the Aiguille Verte in the French Alps, in 1934. In 1937 he crossed the Grand Jura and ascended Grand Chervoz.

Just like the little man had forewarned Bordaz, he had other enigmatic encounters with non-human entities during his lifetime, which we will cover in a future article. Suffice it to say the man lived to be 100 years old –maybe not all fairy food is bad, after all!

“Doctor X” (Pierre Gueymard)

Here’s another remarkable case that was known to English-speaking UFOlogists thanks to the work of Jacques Vallee, who learned of it from his mentor Aimé Michel (Michel used the pseudonym “Doctor X” to protect the witness’s identity, but this year Vallee published Forbidden Science Vol. 4 in which his real name was disclosed). Gueymard was born in 1930 and had a successful medical career which allowed him a comfortable life in a large French villa located on a hillside, where he lived with his wife and fourteen-month-old-son. 

It was the baby’s crying which actually woke Gueymard up during the night of November 2, 1968. The man went over to check on the child, walking with some difficulty since three days prior he had suffered a nasty injury in one of his legs, while cutting wood with an ax. His son’s room was dark, except from some bright flashes coming from the window despite the close shutters; the baby was fully awake and pointing toward the window from his crib, yet Gueymard paid no immediate attention to whatever could be transpiring outside his home, and gave the restless toddler a bottle of milk. Later the doctor stepped into a balcony, to witness the most fantastic spectacle he’d seen in his entire life.

From his privileged vantage point Gueymard observed two large, identical disks with a silver-white top, while their bottom sections were glowing with the color of the setting sun. The saucers were perfectly horizontal, and were casting a bright white beam directly beneath them onto the ground; a tall vertical antenna was on top of each object, and on the side they both had a shorter, horizontal antenna from which small sparks started to appear once the disks started to slowly move close to one another.

If that wasn’t incredible enough, what happened next could test the credulity of even the most open-minded UFO believer: the two objects merged into one and the remaining saucer changed course and flew toward the witness, who remained transfixed standing on the balcony. Suddenly, the disk tilted its horizontal axis in such a way that the white beam emanating from its lower half struck Gueymard directly on the chest; there was a loud bang and the object completely vanished, leaving behind only a whitish form like cotton candy (angel hair, perhaps?). The doctor felt a nervous shock and he quickly came back inside, but the surprises were far from over…

Gueymard woke up his wife to tell her what he had just witnessed. To both of their astonishment his leg injury was completely healed and he could now walk without any pain; not only that, but a much older and serious wound he had suffered in Algeria (where he was serving in the Army) had also mysteriously disappeared. 

The strange red triangular marking on Dr. X’s abdomen

Over the next few days Gueymard started to suffer some abnormal physical symptoms: he lost weight and suffered from abdominal pain; he also developed a curious red triangle around his navel, which was seconded by a similar shape which appeared in the abdomen of his son. There are many other strange aspects comprising the case of “Doctor X” including encounters with strange visitors, claims of levitation and teleportation, and even the spontaneous appearance of psychic faculties; but for the purposes of this article we’ll leave the matter by noting how, in 1985, an independent medical report corroborated the complete disappearance of the injuries Gueymard had suffered in Algeria in 1958.

Rey Hernandez

The two cases mentioned above are part of the ‘classic’ annals of XXth century UFOlogy, whereas the next one is among the most interesting cases reported in the new millennium, and has been covered in Diana Pasulka’s book American Cosmic as part of her exploration on how UFO experiences can affect religious perspectives (and vice versa). 

Rey Hernandez was, according to his own account, a die-hard rationalist and atheist –as well as a very successful lawyer– living happily with his wife Dulce, despite the fact that she remained a very devout Catholic due to her Mexican origin. In March of 2012 Dulce was heartbroken because her beloved pet Niña –an old Jack Russell terrier– was gravely ill and they had finally decided to put her out of her misery. Rey’s wife sought refuge in her faith and prayed to God to save her ‘little girl’, for that’s what ‘Niña’ means in Spanish.

Rey Hernandez

According to Rey’s testimony, her wife woke up very early in the morning to check on the poor dog, which was so sick she could only move from the neck up. Dulce took Niña downstairs and that’s when she saw a glowing object floating four feet off the ground, metallic in appearance and with the domed shape of an inverted ‘U’. Startled by this apparition, Dulce did what probably any good Mexican Catholic with a devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe would do: she went on her knees and pleaded to the luminous object to go away if it was a “bad spirit;” but if it was “an angel of the Virgin Mary” she begged it to stay and not let her dog suffer anymore.

As if it was an answer to her prayers, Dulce then saw green flashes blinking in front of her, which caused her to freak out and yell to her husband for help. Thinking his wife had probably seen a mouse or a cockroach in the kitchen, Rey ignored her at first –there’s a Latino marriage for you!– until Dulce rushed upstairs and practically dragged him out of their bedroom. One of the most interesting aspects of this case is that, when Rey finally came downstairs, what he observed was markedly different to what his wife saw: instead of a metallic object, what was in front of him was a compact, multicolored formation of plasma-like energy which looked like a horizontal cylinder with fuzzy edges. But even more astounding was the reaction of the ‘stalwart rationalist’, because instead of calling 911 or getting a camera he just stared at it for a few moments, thought it was no big deal and went back to bed!

This nonsensical ‘trance-like’ state of his lasted only 15 minutes or so, because the next thing Rey Hernandez remembers, is coming back to his senses and rushing back downstairs to see her wife jumping up and down in joy followed by her happily-barking Niña.  The miracle she had asked for had been fulfilled, and the dog was completely cured.

This was the start of a series of incredible experiences which have completely transformed Hernandez’s philosophy of life and his goals. He ended up co-founding the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) along with the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, and Australian researcher Mary Rodwell. FREE’s goals include the scientific study of the close encounter experience and the role that human consciousness plays in the UFO mystery.

Conclusions

So what can we make about these three cases, aside from the fact that there are reports of inexplicable cures in the UFO literature? Many researchers in UFOlogy (and even government scientists) have studied the malignant effects suffered by close encounter witnesses, and suspect it is the result of non-ionizing microwave radiation generated by the objects –which has been of great interest to some countries for its potential to create new weapon systems. But could microwave radiation be used for the opposite goal of healing patients? Among dozens of links addressing the fear about the harmful effects of microwaves, a cursory search on Google shows there have been a few promising experiments in which low-dose microwave radiation can help in the healing of bone fractures, and the use of UV radiation in wound care; yet that could hardly explain the instantaneous recovery experienced by both Pierre Gueymard and Rey Hernandez’s dog.

Perhaps the “candy” offered to young Jaume Bordas managed to alter and rewrite his DNA in ways modern science can only dream of, or maybe it was all just the result of the placebo effect triggered by a vivid dream. But the placebo effect could not be accounted for in the case of “Doctor X,” who wasn’t expecting to be cured of his illnesses as a result of his UFO sighting, and it certainly could not be behind the healing of a dog!

Maybe we still don’t have the necessary scientific framework to understand the mechanisms behind these healing processes. We can only hint at the possibility that perhaps the UFOs’ apparent ability to manipulate both Space AND Time may be behind it. When explaining the concepts of higher dimensions, Carl Sagan once said that a hyperdimensional entity would be capable of putting the whole universe within inside the body of a hapless three-dimensional being; if that is the case, why not use that same power in order to bring back the body to a state in which the illness had yet to be developed?

Alas, I don’t have any scientific training so I’ll leave the figuring out to people smarter than me. What I really want to conclude with is this: Be wary of the people seeking to push just ONE side of the UFO narrative. Whether it is TTSA playing the “UFOs are a threat” card in order to lure the attention of the military industrial complex; the neo-Inquisitors using shoddy techniques to retrieve terrifying accounts of unnatural conjugal union with ‘demonic beings’, who seek to replace us with their hellish hybrid offspring; or the New Age gurus who assure us our “Space Brothers” seek only to guide us into a bright future away from our Earthly sorrows, and that all the cases in which UFOs have shown any type of hostility are the result of ‘military psyops’; the fact of the matter is that the UFO phenomenon is a vast, multifaceted, and terribly complex mystery with many layers, which defies simplistic explanations. 

It is only by studying all those layers, not just the ones that suit a particular agenda, that we may have any hope to come closer to the truth.

In bad times, farmers have been known to lose their heads over what to do when their crops won’t grow. Smart farmers in these situations learn to use their heads, not lose them. On Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a place known for its heads, it turns out farmers did both. New research has discovered that by creating and then removing those giant stone heads from a single quarry, the area around it became lush farmland. Will we soon be seeing giant heads coming out of Nebraska?

Easter Island Statue Project

Two Moai are shown during excavations by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and her team at Rano Raraku quarry on Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island.

“Our excavation broadens our perspective of the Moai and encourages us to realise that nothing, no matter how obvious, is ever exactly as it seems. I think our new analysis humanises the production process of the Moai.”

In a paper published recently in the Journal of Archaeological Science, UCLA researcher Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project on Rapa Nui, described the surprising discovery during a five-year project focusing on just two of the more than 1,000 moai or statues on the island. These two, labeled Moai 156 and 157, are located in Rano Raraku, the volcanic crater where over 90 percent of the statues were quarried. Moai 156 and 157 are unique in two ways – they were placed upright with one on a pedestal and the other sunken into the ground, meaning they were not to be moved; and they were covered with engraved petroglyph motifs, indicating that they had a special purpose for being there. What purpose might that be?

“When we got the chemistry results back, I did a double take.”

Researcher and study co-author Sarah Sherwood of Tennessee’s University of the South, was referring to the soil analysis done on samples taken at the foot of each statue, which were erected between 1510 CE and 1645 CE. Those samples contained evidence of taro (a root vegetable), bananas and sweet potatoes. Further study of the soil in Rano Raraku found it to be a lot more fertile than the barren dirt on the rest of the island, containing calcium, phosphorus and moisture. That means Rano Raraku was much more than just a quarry for stone statues to be moved around the island and baffle visitors to this day.

“That is, these and probably other upright Moai in Rano Raraku were retained in place to ensure the sacred nature of the quarry itself. The Moai were central to the idea of fertility, and in Rapanui belief their presence here stimulated agricultural food production.”

So, which came first – the fertile soil or the belief that the statues helped make it and keep it that way?

“Everywhere else on the island the soil was being quickly worn out, eroding, being leeched of elements that feed plants, but in the quarry, with its constant new influx of small fragments of the bedrock generated by the quarrying process, there is a perfect feedback system of water, natural fertiliser and nutrients.”

I love the smell of fresh taro in the morning.

It sounds like the act of carving out the stone statues contributed to the natural system that made Rano Raraku the Nebraska of Easter Island. Perhaps the foods helped the islanders grow bigger and stronger like the farm boys of Nebraska and gave them the strength to move the giant statues around the island – a process that’s still a mystery.

All the corn does in Nebraska is turn those farm boys into linemen for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.

In part 1 of my 3-part recent article on (A) the Roswell affair of 1947 and (B) secret experiments undertaken on people from the 1940s onward, I highlighted the content of a huge, U.S. government document. It is titled Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report. Dated October 1995, it runs to no less than 925 pages and was published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. I also said the following in part 1: “One of the days I’ll share with you the very strange story of how I got my copy and how it’s filled to the brim with annotations from the retired person who provided it to me.” Well, I figured that today is as good as any day to get the story out! So, here it goes: Most important, when it comes to all of the weirdness that went down, is the time-frame. As you will quickly come to see.

In the early 1990s, I corresponded with various U.S. agencies, while I was trying to determine if the notorious MJ12 documents (that tell of a top secret group created in 1947 to hide the truth of the Roswell enigma and to try and understand the alien technology) were the real deal or not. Those agencies included the FBI, the U.S. Air Force, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Admittedly, I was quite excited by the notorious documents when they first surfaced in 1987 (in the pages of Tim Good’s book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up). Over time, though, I came to believe that the documents were bogus. I should stress that I don’t think the MJ12 documents were someone’s idea of a joke. What I do think, however, is that at least some of the well-known MJ12 papers were the concoctions of Russian intelligence (here’s where you can find more of my thoughts on all of this Russia/MJ12 issue). Moving on…

There’s no doubt that it was during the decade of the 1990s that Roswell – the event – became big news. In 1994, the movie, Roswell, starring Kyle McLachlan and Martin Sheen, was released. In that very same year, the U.S. Air Force published a fairly slim Executive Summary on the Roswell case. The USAF concluded that what came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in early July 1947 was a giant Mogul balloon array. For those who may not know, the Moguls were designed to monitor for secret atomic bomb tests of the Soviets. Then, in July 1995, the Government Accountability Office (which, in 1995 was called the General Accounting Office) published the details of its very own investigation into Roswell. That report, too, referenced the Air Force’s Mogul theory.

After the GAO report appeared and got the UFO research community fired up, yet another Roswell-themed document surfaced from the government. This one was called The Roswell Report: Fact Vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. In stark contrast to the two earlier reports (one of the GAO and the other of the USAF) this new report was gigantic in size: it ran to almost 1,000 pages. It was published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. I was very surprised – but pleased – when a copy of the report came my way shortly afterwards. The Air Force had very generously mailed me a free copy of that massive report – probably because I had that aforementioned, earlier correspondence with them a year or two earlier.

In October 1995, the previously mentioned  Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report was published – also by the U.S. Government Printing Office. This too is a huge report: it runs to 925 pages.  So, we have three intriguing reports published in 1995; two on Roswell and one on “human radiation experiments.” Now, this is where things get weird. In the first week of November 1995 a copy of that giant Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report reached my door. Whereas the Roswell-themed “Fact vs Fiction” report was mailed to me in an official package of the Department of the Defense, the one on human experimentation was not. Rather, it came in a cardboard box covered in scotch tape, with no sender address and with my name and address written in black-marker. When I opened the box and saw the “experiments”-based report inside I was puzzled. After all, I certainly hadn’t ordered a copy. And, this wasn’t an area of research that I was actively looking into.

Around two weeks later (or thereabouts), there was a phone call in the afternoon. I answered it. For about four or five seconds there was nothing but loud static. Thankfully, it went away. What was clearly an old man with a weak voice – and an American accent – asked me if I had “received the report yet?” Or, something broadly along those lines. It was, after all, twenty-four years ago when all of this occurred, and I didn’t record the call. I asked: “Which report?” It was a legitimate question, as I had then recently received two, huge U.S. government reports, both on extremely controversial topics. After I asked that question, the man kind of chuckled, and said, in his very own questioning tones: “Now you have both?” I replied with something like: “I guess I do.” We had a chat for what was only a few minutes; three or four at the absolute very most. He said that if I wanted the truth of Roswell I should carefully read both mighty tomes. The pair, he added, were, in sinister and strange ways, interconnected. At least, in terms of looking for answers to what really happened at Roswell. I dug deep into it all, to the extent that my own copy of the Roswell report is now, today, in a very worn and tattered state.

Despite the passage of a considerable amount of time, answers were apparently still to be found – potentially. I asked the guy how knew that. His far from satisfactory – and admittedly unclear – response was that prior to retiring he worked for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and he knew of certain things that could open certain doors to the truth of Roswell  – and that would explain how the incident was still hidden and under wraps. Yes, it was all pretty vague and concisely worded. In relation to comments connected to budgetary issues, it all rather reminded me of the famous “follow the money” words of Watergate’s Deep Throat.

I never did find out the old man’s identity. Nor did I learn how he knew that I had a copy of that bulging Roswell report. Or why, even, he decided to send the “human experiments report” to me. In terms of looking for answers, approaching the CBO did no good at all. I can only think that my persistent attempts to get to the heart of the MJ12 controversy – and filing significant numbers of Freedom of Information requests on the subject – sparked something somewhere with someone. I wish I could end this article in a satisfactory and clear fashion. Unfortunately, I can’t.

It’s just one of many weird experiences I’ve had when digging into the Roswell puzzle.