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@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ I found, to my surprise, that the early part of my file is not in chronological
 
 The first note which comes to hand is dated 10\slash 26\slash 76 and is signed by Joy Summery of Andover, Massachusetts. In this note, which was slipped under my door, Ms. Summery asks me for information on my \sc{ufo} group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in \sc{ufo}s in Andover.
 
-I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo} group, but would be interested in any information on \sc{ufo} sightings.  She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her \sc{ufo} group, but told her that plenty of other people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
+I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo} group, but would be interested in any information on \sc{ufo} sightings. She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her \sc{ufo} group, but told her that plenty of other people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
 
 % TWO
 \nonum\sec TWO
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ I asked if she had experienced any success with this astral projection, and she
 % TEN
 \chap
 
-While I was out of town in January, a square black object fell through the ice of William McCarthy's pond in Wakefield, New Hampshire.  \dq{When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice,} reports the \jt{Boston Globe}, \dq{They found no square black object or radioactivity\ld\ the state fish and game department took a sample of rock and sand from the pond for laboratory analysis. Otherwise there is nothing left to the story.  Except: what made a hole three feet in diameter, perfectly rounded, the black hole in ice eighteen inches thick?}
+While I was out of town in January, a square black object fell through the ice of William McCarthy's pond in Wakefield, New Hampshire. \dq{When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice,} reports the \jt{Boston Globe}, \dq{They found no square black object or radioactivity\ld\ the state fish and game department took a sample of rock and sand from the pond for laboratory analysis. Otherwise there is nothing left to the story. Except: what made a hole three feet in diameter, perfectly rounded, the black hole in ice eighteen inches thick?}
 
 What indeed? I deeply regretted that I had been out of town at the time. On a different metaphysical errand, I had to be in touch with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, and asked them if they had noted this event. They told me that they had indeed moted this unexplained event, and somehow in the course of the same phone call it evolved that I was requested to write an article on conceptions of time for the relativity issue of \jt{Pursuit} magazine.
 
@@ -549,13 +549,13 @@ I would now like to talk about the interconnected sightings which were referred
 
 For sure, Helen knows all of the people involved. At first, when she gave me this set of three names I thought I would be facing a conspiracy of giggling girlfriends.
 
-To a certain extent, this was true: all three of them giggled nervously.  However, the sightings which they described when I phoned them were each markedly different.
+To a certain extent, this was true: all three of them giggled nervously. However, the sightings which they described when I phoned them were each markedly different.
 
 Charlotte told me that in late May or early June of 1976 she was sitting outside on some steps in the South End of Boston and saw a green light blinking on and off in the sky. This light then stopped blinking and suddenly disappeared.
 
-Her friend Alicia told me that in July or August of 1976 she had been out on a cruise party in Boston harbor when she looked up and saw a red light which seemed to be as bright as the sun. This light was the size of a star. It went straight up and then straight across the sky like a helicopter.  This was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
+Her friend Alicia told me that in July or August of 1976 she had been out on a cruise party in Boston harbor when she looked up and saw a red light which seemed to be as bright as the sun. This light was the size of a star. It went straight up and then straight across the sky like a helicopter. This was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
 
-The second time that Alicia saw this red light was in October of 1976.  Again, she was down by the harbor. There was nothing to see in the vicinity but fog. A red light appeared in the sky. This light stayed in the same spot, moved quickly to another location, and then disappeared.  When Alicia went to get someone else to come and see this light, she says she felt \dq{wrong where she was} and experienced a sudden surge of nervous energy and fear.
+The second time that Alicia saw this red light was in October of 1976. Again, she was down by the harbor. There was nothing to see in the vicinity but fog. A red light appeared in the sky. This light stayed in the same spot, moved quickly to another location, and then disappeared. When Alicia went to get someone else to come and see this light, she says she felt \dq{wrong where she was} and experienced a sudden surge of nervous energy and fear.
 
 The third of the sightings which Helen referred to me tumed out to be a multiple sighting in itself. This took palce in Arizona when Donna and her brother Michael, who also live in the South End of Boston, were out in the Southwest visiting a relative. They were camped near a lake in a rural area and saw a strange white light high in the sky.
 
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ He was driving through New Hampshire when an airplane flew low over his car. He
 
 In the sky was a star moving slowly. It went up gradually into the sky and disappeared. He was driving at that time and had to go under a bridge, so he could not watch the sky afterward for any length of time, but Donna's brother says he was sure this was some unusual occurrence.
 
-He experienced no unusual mental states connected with this sighting.  All of these South End lights, though related by gossip, seem to have been quite wndividual in their manifestation. The descriptions do not tally, as would descriptions which were faked for effect.
+He experienced no unusual mental states connected with this sighting. All of these South End lights, though related by gossip, seem to have been quite wndividual in their manifestation. The descriptions do not tally, as would descriptions which were faked for effect.
 
 % TWELVE
 \nonum\sec TWELVE
@@ -576,11 +576,11 @@ One of the most interesting sightings which I have collected was reported to me
 
 I was in the Psychic Center earlier than usual, talking to actors who were about to rehearse a scene from my play \playtitle{Eye of Fire}, when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a rather gruff-voiced individual who told me that he was calling about the apartment ad. When I told him that this was the Psychic Center, and I was not renting apartments, he told me that he was psychic himself.
 
-\dq{I see a picture of George Washington near your face,} he declared.  There are two one-dollar bills posted right beside the phone I was using, so I told him to please go on and tell me more. He became friendly, and told me that he works as an engineer. I told him that my grandfather was a railroad engineer and explained that I was here at the other end of the phone giving psychic readings and doing \sc{ufo} research.
+\dq{I see a picture of George Washington near your face,} he declared. There are two one-dollar bills posted right beside the phone I was using, so I told him to please go on and tell me more. He became friendly, and told me that he works as an engineer. I told him that my grandfather was a railroad engineer and explained that I was here at the other end of the phone giving psychic readings and doing \sc{ufo} research.
 
 This engineer then told me that he once saw colored lights flashing in the sky over around the railroad yards. He is convinced these lights were \sc{ufo}s. We made an appointment for him to come in and talk about his sighting, and I hung up the phone and went back to the actors. Five minutes later, the phone rang and a gruff voice said: \dq{I'm calling about the bungalow.}
 
-When I told him that this was still the Psychic Center and that we were not renting apartments, he became embarrassed and eventually did not show up to talk about his sighting in more detail. Later on, I found out that Rita Warnock was indeed renting a bungalow and had put the Psychic Center's number into the real estate section of the \jt{Globe}. So I had indeed contacted a genuine railroad engineer, and not a crank caller.  I hope he found a bungalow with a good plumbing system. I have terrible trouble with my drains.
+When I told him that this was still the Psychic Center and that we were not renting apartments, he became embarrassed and eventually did not show up to talk about his sighting in more detail. Later on, I found out that Rita Warnock was indeed renting a bungalow and had put the Psychic Center's number into the real estate section of the \jt{Globe}. So I had indeed contacted a genuine railroad engineer, and not a crank caller. I hope he found a bungalow with a good plumbing system. I have terrible trouble with my drains.
 
 % THIRTEEN
 \nonum\sec THIRTEEN
@@ -633,455 +633,204 @@ I was a bit paranoid about Frankie's possible mental abilities as connected with
 
 When Frankie called me back the next day he was upset to hear about the behavior of this needle, but he did give me the correct address of the publisher of \booktitle{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} along with the hope that I would extend his personal greetings to the editor, which I did in general, and received in return much interesting information, which will be detailed later on.
 
-SIXTEEN
-
-6\slash 29\slash 77
-A secretary of about thirty-five years of age came into my office wearing
-pink corduroy pants. She had originally been interested in a psychic
-reading, but when she saw the \sc{ufo} sign on my door she was interested
-in talking about a sighting in Pennsylvania during which several people
-experienced a high-pitched whining sound which vibrated the inner ear.
-
-They saw a light or noticed some other visual phenomena initially, but
-the main aspect of this Pennsylvania sighting was this peculiar vibration
-effect.
-
-
-At the time, this woman told me, the people who had experienced this
-sound called a university or some testing center in the area. She does not
-remember which center or what they were testing, since this was several
-years ago and happened to her neighbor and not to herself. However, this
-high-pitched whining has never been satisfactorily explained to the
-people who themselves were vibrated.
-
-SEVENTEEN
-I have a note here upon which I have pasted the small ad clipping from a
-newspaper. This ad reads in part: "New England: a hotbed of alien
-activity."" A need was stated in this ad for \sc{ufo} reports, so I called the
-number listed and got an answering service.
-
-They told me that this \sc{ufo} Studies Instityte which had been listed in
-the paper was actually Charlie Giftie.
-
-With a name like Charlie Giftie, I thought (this pseudonym closely
-approximates the real pseudonym) this has got to be a crackpot of some
-sort. Crazily, I left my name and number with the message service,
-indicating to Giftie that I was interested in \sc{ufo}s and needed more
-information on his Studies Institute.
-
-I received back in the mail a xeroxed document in the form of a letter.
-This letter was eight pages in length and detailed both aspects of Giftie's
-own \sc{ufo} experience and other significant sightings around the world,
-one of which was documented by a photo taken in October of 1974 at
-5:30 P.M. near Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.
-
-Giftie stated that: ""statements made here may sound strange, but so is
-the \sc{ufo} phenomenon itself." He offered as examples of this strangeness: the Bible, The Origin and Destiny of Man by Edgar Cayce,
-Mysteries of Time and Space by Brad Steiger and Somebody Else Is On
-The Moon by George Leonard. Giftie also announced that he himself
-was about to publish a book entitled: \sc{ufo}s and the USA or The
-Monolith's Prostitute. The Monolith's Prostitute was scheduled to be
-issued on Shape Press at some future date, and could be purchased in
-advance for \$12.50.
-
-I did not feel that I could afford to order Giftie's Prostitute in advance.
-However, I was intrigued by his statement that he had "instituted a
-one-million-dollar lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
-
-
-and certain police agencies for blatant violation of legal statutes and civil
-rights involving merely reporting a \sc{ufo} sighting."
-
-Giftie stated in other parts of this form letter and during subsequent
-phone conversations that he had been illegally placed under restraint
-twice for insisting on the reality of \sc{ufo}s. I do not know exactly what
-Charlie Giftie did to deserve this restraint. Perhaps he stood in some
-public park and yelled: "\sc{ufo}s and the USA! . .. The monolith's
-prostitute!"'
-
-If this was the case, then his confinement was certainly questionable.
-The First Amendment to the Constitution of the USA guarantees freedom
-of speech and the Declaration of Independence was very basically
-concerned with the right of individuals to pursue their own form of
-happiness.
-
-If it makes Charlie Giftie happy to publish his own eight-page form
-letter, and\slash or stand up in public and warn of government corruption as
-linked with invasions from the moon, that is interesting and highly
-unusual, but in no way a basis for any sort of extended confinement,
-either in a jail or any mental institution. Congratulations on your
-"revelatory dream holographic projections," Charlie Giftie!
-
-As St. John the Divine was once recorded as stating: '""The word was
-made flesh and dwelt among us."
-
-I wrote to Giftie explaining that I thought he had probably experienced some sort of mind-altering contact with beings from another
-dimension, and that there was a possibility that now he might be more
-susceptible to negative spirit contact and induced paranoia, as well as
-advanced holographic revelations.
-
-He wrote back to me denying that he had been under the influence of
-any negative demonic forces, and I then sent Giftie my very best final
-dismissal on a postcard from Los Angeles, California. I have not heard
-from Charlie Giftie since I ticketed him from L.A.
-
-EIGHTEEN
-Speaking of California, I have here before me now the first notes on a
-sighting which I am going to deal with in more detail later on in this
-book.
-Specifically, these details will be entitled *""Notes on Torres."" This
-
-
-Torres incident constitutes a puzzle of an inter-relationship which I am
-still trying to unravel. No one so far has been able to explain satisfactorily the events which are described in Section 30. It was a real monolith of
-an experience, and I think it is best---as the whale did to Jonah---just to
-spit the entire troublesome incident up whole, in all its irritation and
-embarrassment.
-
-Alonzo Torres came into my office in the early Spring of 1977 wanting
-to discuss his personal experiences with psychic phenomena. He told me
-that other members of his family have psychic sensitivity, and that his
-father has been seen in other parts of the city while sleeping at home.
-
-Specifically, there was a boarding-school incident during which his
-father was reprimanded for being at home while he was still in school,
-since he had been seen at home while he was dreaming at school.
-
-Torres told me that he himself once saw a ball of white light appear
-next to the TV set as he was watching an ordinary program. Others in the
-apartment, he said, were aware of this spirit presence instinctively as it
-manifested to him visually. Torres told me that he thought this white
-light had been his grandmother.
-
-I told him that this was entirely possible, and Torres then volunteered
-that he had a \sc{ufo} photo which had been taken near Lake Marichibo in
-Venezuela. 
-This photo, he said, had been snapped by one of his cousins when a
-\sc{ufo} manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his
-relatives had waited until 1970 to have it developed. He was reluctant to
-bring this photo to my office, although he was ready to quite
-enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of \sc{ufo} and spirit contact. He
-told me that his mother had been reluctant to develop this film and then
-when it was finally developed did not want to show the photo to anyone
-outside the family. Torres felt that showing the photo to me might be a
-violation of her confidence. In connection with such niceties of thought,
-he talked to me for a long while on the mechanics of human destiny.
-
-"Iamhere," he told me, ''inevitably. Though I think I have the choice
-to do or not to do anything at all---such as pick up my coat or close the
-door---there is no choice. It is all pre-ordained."
+% SIXTEEN
+\nonum\sec SIXTEEN
 
-Perhaps.
+\rightline{6\slash 29\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
 
+A secretary of about thirty-five years of age came into my office wearing pink corduroy pants. She had originally been interested in a psychic reading, but when she saw the \sc{ufo} sign on my door she was interested in talking about a sighting in Pennsylvania during which several people experienced a high-pitched whining sound which vibrated the inner ear.
 
-I knew as I was talking to Torres that when he brought me this photo I
-was going to have it secretly duplicated.
+They saw a light or noticed some other visual phenomena initially, but the main aspect of this Pennsylvania sighting was this peculiar vibration effect.
 
-I told Torres that I wanted to keep this photo for several weeks to look
-at it, and that I would return it to him as soon as I had decided what I
-thought about the object.
+At the time, this woman told me, the people who had experienced this sound called a university or some testing center in the area. She does not remember which center or what they were testing, since this was several years ago and happened to her neighbor and not to herself. However, this high-pitched whining has never been satisfactorily explained to the people who themselves were vibrated.
 
-A few days later, he brought me the photo, and the following morning
-at 8:30 A.M. I took it to a photographic duplication service.
+% SEVENTEEN
+\nonum\sec SEVENTEEN
 
-When I brought in this photo, the man behind the counter was hostile.
-He told me (incredibly) that he had done a paper on \sc{ufo}s while in
-college and insisted that the picture was no good for submitting anywhere without a negative.
+I have a note here upon which I have pasted the small ad clipping from a newspaper. This ad reads in part: \dq{New England: a hotbed of alien activity.} A need was stated in this ad for \sc{ufo} reports, so I called the number listed and got an answering service.
 
-I told him that I was not planning to submit it anywhere for proof, but
-simply wanted a copy for posterity.
+They told me that this \sc{ufo} Studies Institute which had been listed in the paper was actually Charlie Giftie.
 
-However, this amateur \sc{ufo} buff was too sure of the futility of
-duplicating a \sc{ufo} picture to listen, and so alienated me with his
-comments on the nature of photographic evidence that I might have
-blown a circuit on his photo-duplication equipment if this was July 1977.
+With a name like Charlie Giftie, I thought (this pseudonym closely approximates the real pseudonym) this has got to be a crackpot of some sort. Crazily, I left my name and number with the message service, indicating to Giftie that I was interested in \sc{ufo}s and needed more information on his Studies Institute.
 
-But it was then March 1977 and I had not yet experienced the strange
-\sc{ufo}-connected downflux of psychokinetic energies which I detail in
-Section 30.
+I received back in the mail a xeroxed document in the form of a letter. This letter was eight pages in length and detailed both aspects of Giftie's own \sc{ufo} experience and other significant sightings around the world, one of which was documented by a photo taken in October of 1974 at 5:30 P.M. near Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.
 
-However, all was not lost!
+Giftie stated that: \dq{statements made here may sound strange, but so is the \sc{ufo} phenomenon itself.} He offered as examples of this strangeness: the Bible, \bt{The Origin and Destiny of Man} by Edgar Cayce, \bt{Mysteries of Time and Space} by Brad Steiger and \bt{Somebody Else Is On The Moon} by George Leonard. Giftie also announced that he himself was about to publish a book entitled: \bt{\sc{ufo}s and the USA or The Monolith's Prostitute}. \bt{The Monolith's Prostitute} was scheduled to be issued on Shape Press at some future date, and could be purchased in advance for \$12.50.
+
+I did not feel that I could afford to order Giftie's \bt{Prostitute} in advance. However, I was intrigued by his statement that he had \dq{instituted a one-million-dollar lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and certain police agencies for blatant violation of legal statutes and civil rights involving merely reporting a \sc{ufo} sighting.}
+
+Giftie stated in other parts of this form letter and during subsequent phone conversations that he had been illegally placed under restraint twice for insisting on the reality of \sc{ufo}s. I do not know exactly what Charlie Giftie did to deserve this restraint. Perhaps he stood in some public park and yelled: \dq{\sc{ufo}s and the USA! \ld\ The monolith's prostitute!}
+
+If this was the case, then his confinement was certainly questionable. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the USA guarantees freedom of speech and the Declaration of Independence was very basically concerned with the right of individuals to pursue their own form of happiness.
+
+If it makes Charlie Giftie happy to publish his own eight-page form letter, and\slash or stand up in public and warn of government corruption as linked with invasions from the moon, that is interesting and highly unusual, but in no way a basis for any sort of extended confinement, either in a jail or any mental institution. Congratulations on your \dq{revelatory dream holographic projections,} Charlie Giftie!
+
+As St. John the Divine was once recorded as stating: \dq{The word was made flesh and dwelt among us.}
+
+I wrote to Giftie explaining that I thought he had probably experienced some sort of mind-altering contact with beings from another dimension, and that there was a possibility that now he might be more susceptible to negative spirit contact and induced paranoia, as well as advanced holographic revelations.
+
+He wrote back to me denying that he had been under the influence of any negative demonic forces, and I then sent Giftie my very best final dismissal on a postcard from Los Angeles, California. I have not heard from Charlie Giftie since I ticketed him from L.A.
 
-In the course of this photographic tirade, I did find out one valuable
-piece of information: the ""8"" or *'B"' which appears faintly in the dusky
-background of the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is a bleedthrough from the film
-backing and not due to fakery or madness in the composition of the
-picture.
+% EIGHTEEN
+\nonum\sec EIGHTEEN
 
-Giving up the idea of obtaining a copy of this picture at any photographic service immediately (it takes several days to obtain a new
-negative) I went down the street and had a copy of the picture made on a
-color xerox machine.
+Speaking of California, I have here before me now the first notes on a sighting which I am going to deal with in more detail later on in this book.
+
+Specifically, these details will be entitled \dq{Notes on Torres.} This Torres incident constitutes a puzzle of an inter-relationship which I am still trying to unravel. No one so far has been able to explain satisfactorily the events which are described in Section 30 (p. \pgref[torres]). It was a real monolith of an experience, and I think it is best---as the whale did to Jonah---just to spit the entire troublesome incident up whole, in all its irritation and embarrassment.
+
+Alonzo Torres came into my office in the early Spring of 1977 wanting to discuss his personal experiences with psychic phenomena. He told me that other members of his family have psychic sensitivity, and that his father has been seen in other parts of the city while sleeping at home.
+
+Specifically, there was a boarding-school incident during which his father was reprimanded for being at home while he was still in school, since he had been seen at home while he was dreaming at school.
+
+Torres told me that he himself once saw a ball of white light appear next to the TV set as he was watching an ordinary program. Others in the apartment, he said, were aware of this spirit presence instinctively as it manifested to him visually. Torres told me that he thought this white light had been his grandmother.
+
+I told him that this was entirely possible, and Torres then volunteered that he had a \sc{ufo} photo which had been taken near Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. 
+
+This photo (\ref[torresphoto], p. \pgref[torresphoto]), he said, had been snapped by one of his cousins when a \sc{ufo} manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his relatives had waited until 1970 to have it developed. He was reluctant to bring this photo to my office, although he was ready to quite enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of \sc{ufo} and spirit contact. He told me that his mother had been reluctant to develop this film and then when it was finally developed did not want to show the photo to anyone outside the family. Torres felt that showing the photo to me might be a violation of her confidence. In connection with such niceties of thought, he talked to me for a long while on the mechanics of human destiny.
+
+\dq{I am here,} he told me, \dq{inevitably. Though I think I have the choice to do or not to do anything at all---such as pick up my coat or close the door---there is no choice. It is all pre-ordained.}
+
+Perhaps.
 
-The colors are a bit accentuated by this xerox process, and so the
-result looks Jike a still from a film like Star Wars, but I do retain several
-fascinating copies of this photo, the original of which I did return to
-Torres.
+I knew as I was talking to Torres that when he brought me this photo I was going to have it secretly duplicated.
 
-It is an elliptical figure which manifested sideways in the sky, like a
-bright yellow plate balanced on the edge of one rim with a fried egg
+I told Torres that I wanted to keep this photo for several weeks to look at it, and that I would return it to him as soon as I had decided what I thought about the object.
 
+A few days later, he brought me the photo, and the following morning at 8:30 A.M. I took it to a photographic duplication service.
 
-sunnyside up in the middle.
-Alsa, this UFQ does resemble the human female breast us it might be
+When I brought in this photo, the man behind the counter was hostile. He told me (incredibly) that he had done a paper on \sc{ufo}s while in college and insisted that the picture was no good for submitting anywhere without a negative.
 
-rendered against o dark background by the surrealist artist Sulvadur
+I told him that I was not planning to submit it anywhere for proof, but simply wanted a copy for posterity.
+
+However, this amateur \sc{ufo} buff was too sure of the futility of duplicating a \sc{ufo} picture to listen, and so alienated me with his comments on the nature of photographic evidence that I might have blown a circuit on his photo-duplication equipment if this was July 1977.
+
+But it was then March 1977 and I had not yet experienced the strange \sc{ufo}-connected downflux of psychokinetic energies which I detail in Section 30.
+
+However, all was not lost!
+
+In the course of this photographic tirade, I did find out one valuable piece of information: the \dq{8} or \dq{B} which appears faintly in the dusky background of the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is a bleed-through from the film backing and not due to fakery or madness in the composition of the picture.
+
+Giving up the idea of obtaining a copy of this picture at any photographic service immediately (it takes several days to obtain a new negative) I went down the street and had a copy of the picture made on a color xerox machine.
+
+The colors are a bit accentuated by this xerox process, and so the result looks Jike a still from a film like \filmtitle{Star Wars}, but I do retain several fascinating copies of this photo, the original of which I did return to Torres.
+
+It is an elliptical figure which manifested sideways in the sky, like a bright yellow plate balanced on the edge of one rim with a fried egg sunnyside up in the middle.
+
+Also, this UFQ does resemble the human female breast as it might be
+rendered against a dark background by the surrealist artist Salvador
 Dali.
 
-FIGURE ONE
-
-Facsimile of photo developed
-July 1970
-
-
-The object recorded on the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is altogether unearthly.
-Unlike the vehicles represented in Star Wars and other science-fiction
-adventures, it shows no evidence of rocket propulsion devices but seems
-simply to be hovering sideways in the air in front of a darkened horizon.
-
-Since I did promise Torres that this photo would not be published in
-this book, I have reproduced the color xerox copy in a pastel drawing,
-lightening and browning the background a bit as it was in the original,
-which did not have such an accentuated color contrast.
-
-One of the original color xerox copies now resides in the files of the
-Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. As far as I have been
-able to ascertain, this photo was genuine.
-
-In shape, Torres' flying fried egg resembles several other elliptical
-objects which have received publicity in the small \sc{ufo} journals such as
-Ufology and Flying Saucer Review.
-
-NINETEEN
-Itis a shame that most contactees are not carrying cameras. A paramedic
-who had come into the Psychic Center to have a tea-leaf reading with her
-mother came in to see me and report that she had seen a \sc{ufo} in the Fall
-of 1976 in Brighton, Massachusetts, not far from where I am now living.
-
-She says she was walking down Washington Street, which is the main
-street of Brighton Center, toward Newton, when she became aware that
-there was an unusual light in the sky. This woman had the idea that this
-light was following her, and then dismissed this idea as being crazy. She
-went on into her sister's apartment, where she had been heading at the
-time she noticed the light.
-
-When she came back out of her sister's apartment, this woman says,
-the light was still hovering above the trees. As she started back home
-along Washington Street, she once again had the idea that the light was
-following her. She stopped to look back at it, and it seemed to hover at
-the top of a church roof, then suddenly speeded off toward Cambridge.
-
-As this GFO light was standing still over the church roof, she told me,
-a small plane became aware of its presence and abruptly changed course.
-
-I asked her to describe this unidentified object in more detail, and she
-told me that it was round on top with a section which came down at an
-angle from the domed section and squared off into a lower area with
-
-
-windows. These windows were perfectly square, she says.
-
-This is a young woman who claims to be psychic, but in other respects
-is quite matter-of-fact, holding down a job as an ambulance attendant. I
-am struck by two aspects of her sighting. First of all, this troublesome
-plane.
-
-Remember that both Donna and her brother (Sections 11 and 14)
-described seeing airplanes in connection with their sightings? In Donna's case, th2 plane was described (illogically) as "'about to hit a star,"'
-and in her brother's New Hampshire sighting a plane is reported as
-literally buzzing the car just before he looked up to notice an unusual
-light in the sky.
-
-The idea that a light plane would see a \sc{ufo} light hovering over a
-church and then calmly change course and go about its business is
-questionable. At the controls of such a plane, there would be a human
-being subject to such reactions as panic or curiosity. Additionally, it is
-very dangerous to ram full speed into the early morning stars.
-
-These "'planes" connected with \sc{ufo} lights seem to have defied the
-ordinary laws of time and space and also the ordinary set of human
-reactions one might expect from a pilot encountering a large glowing
-object . . . or even a small glowing object.
-
-The second aspect of this paramedic's sighting which is of particular
-interest is that she is the fourth person in this area (the vet's assistant,
-William McCarthy, Donna's brother Michael) to report rectangular
-aspects of \sc{ufo}s.
-
-Usually, contactees report saucer-shaped or ellipsoidal craft. \sc{ufo}s
-have been stereotyped as being round in shape, not square-cornered.
-Mrs. Monroe (Mrs. Kubouski's neighbor in Section 6) once told me that
-she had seen a craft which was domed at the top and the bottom with a
-strip of square windows in the middle. My mind boggled at the time she
-told me this because it was quasi-logically rejecting the fact that she and
-her son and her neighbor could have seen so many \sc{ufo}s.
-
-I don't know why I should reject any of these stories. After all, I have
-seen \sc{ufo} lights several times: once on the railroad tracks and once on
-the walls of my bedroom. There was no airplane in my bedroom at the
-time of my sighting, but I did hear a crack in the air which was audible to
-both myself and my son in the next room.
-
-
-Disregarding the usual expectations of logic, time and space: some
-\sc{ufo}s seem to signal before they manifest. If this is true, then they want
-to be seen and are deliberately appearing to certain persons in certain
-circumstances.
+\midinsert
+\picw=3.5in\inspic{img/figureone.png}
+\cskip
+\caption/f Facsimile of photo developed (July 1970)
+\endinsert
+
+The object recorded on the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is altogether unearthly.  Unlike the vehicles represented in \filmtitle{Star Wars} and other science-fiction adventures, it shows no evidence of rocket propulsion devices but seems simply to be hovering sideways in the air in front of a darkened horizon.
+
+Since I did promise Torres that this photo would not be published in this book, I have reproduced the color xerox copy in a pastel drawing, lightening and browning the background a bit as it was in the original, which did not have such an accentuated color contrast.
+
+One of the original color xerox copies now resides in the files of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. As far as I have been able to ascertain, this photo was genuine.
+
+In shape, Torres' flying fried egg resembles several other elliptical objects which have received publicity in the small \sc{ufo} journals such as \jt{Ufology} and \jt{Flying Saucer Review}.
+
+% NINETEEN
+\nonum\sec NINETEEN
+
+It is a shame that most contactees are not carrying cameras. A paramedic who had come into the Psychic Center to have a tea-leaf reading with her mother came in to see me and report that she had seen a \sc{ufo} in the Fall of 1976 in Brighton, Massachusetts, not far from where I am now living.
+
+She says she was walking down Washington Street, which is the main street of Brighton Center, toward Newton, when she became aware that there was an unusual light in the sky. This woman had the idea that this light was following her, and then dismissed this idea as being crazy. She went on into her sister's apartment, where she had been heading at the time she noticed the light.
+
+When she came back out of her sister's apartment, this woman says, the light was still hovering above the trees. As she started back home along Washington Street, she once again had the idea that the light was following her. She stopped to look back at it, and it seemed to hover at the top of a church roof, then suddenly speeded off toward Cambridge.
+
+As this GFO light was standing still over the church roof, she told me, a small plane became aware of its presence and abruptly changed course.
+
+I asked her to describe this unidentified object in more detail, and she told me that it was round on top with a section which came down at an angle from the domed section and squared off into a lower area with windows. These windows were perfectly square, she says.
+
+This is a young woman who claims to be psychic, but in other respects is quite matter-of-fact, holding down a job as an ambulance attendant. I am struck by two aspects of her sighting. First of all, this troublesome plane.
+
+Remember that both Donna and her brother (Sections 11 and 14) described seeing airplanes in connection with their sightings? In Donna's case, the plane was described (illogically) as \dq{about to hit a star,} and in her brother's New Hampshire sighting a plane is reported as literally buzzing the car just before he looked up to notice an unusual light in the sky.
+
+The idea that a light plane would see a \sc{ufo} light hovering over a church and then calmly change course and go about its business is questionable. At the controls of such a plane, there would be a human being subject to such reactions as panic or curiosity. Additionally, it is very dangerous to ram full speed into the early morning stars.
+
+These \dq{planes} connected with \sc{ufo} lights seem to have defied the ordinary laws of time and space and also the ordinary set of human reactions one might expect from a pilot encountering a large glowing object\ld\ or even a small glowing object.
+
+The second aspect of this paramedic's sighting which is of particular interest is that she is the fourth person in this area (the vet's assistant, William McCarthy, Donna's brother Michael) to report rectangular aspects of \sc{ufo}s.
+
+Usually, contactees report saucer-shaped or ellipsoidal craft. \sc{ufo}s have been stereotyped as being round in shape, not square-cornered.  Mrs. Monroe (Mrs. Kubouski's neighbor in Section 6) once told me that she had seen a craft which was domed at the top and the bottom with a strip of square windows in the middle. My mind boggled at the time she told me this because it was quasi-logically rejecting the fact that she and her son and her neighbor could have seen so many \sc{ufo}s.
+
+I don't know why I should reject any of these stories. After all, I have seen \sc{ufo} lights several times: once on the railroad tracks and once on the walls of my bedroom. There was no airplane in my bedroom at the time of my sighting, but I did hear a crack in the air which was audible to both myself and my son in the next room.
+
+Disregarding the usual expectations of logic, time and space: some \sc{ufo}s seem to signal before they manifest. If this is true, then they want to be seen and are deliberately appearing to certain persons in certain circumstances.
 
 The \sc{ufo} phenomenon seems to be a controlled phenomenon.
 
-TWENTY
-A blonde psychic reader of about forty years of age nailed me to the wall
-with a speech on flying saucers recently, just as I was about to get into the
-elevator and leave the building.
+% TWENTY
+\nonum\sec TWENTY
+
+A blonde psychic reader of about forty years of age nailed me to the wall with a speech on flying saucers recently, just as I was about to get into the elevator and leave the building.
 
-Shanti is a charismatic speaker and, unless interrupted, will tell you
-all about yourself for hours if she feels like it. At this particular time, she
-felt like telling me to read George Adamski's book Flying Saucers Have
-Landed. My immediate reaction to this advice was a heightened desire
-to get onto the elevator and get out of the building.
+Shanti is a charismatic speaker and, unless interrupted, will tell you all about yourself for hours if she feels like it. At this particular time, she felt like telling me to read George Adamski's book \booktitle{Flying Saucers Have Landed}. My immediate reaction to this advice was a heightened desire to get onto the elevator and get out of the building.
 
-Adamski was one of the early '"'contactees" who completely lost
-credibility by claiming to have experienced journeys to Mars---or was it
-the opposite side of the moon? I forget which location he flew up to in his
-ecstasies, but this has since been un-verified.
+Adamski was one of the early \dq{contactees} who completely lost credibility by claiming to have experienced journeys to Mars---or was it the opposite side of the moon? I forget which location he flew up to in his ecstasies, but this has since been un-verified.
 
-Shanti told me to disregard the second section of Adamski's book,
-which had been invented. She told me that she had met Adamski and that
-he had told her that he became angry with the public for criticizing and
-ridiculing his stories of the original \sc{ufo} contact, and invented the trip to
-the other side of the moon in order to be outrageous.
+Shanti told me to disregard the second section of Adamski's book, which had been invented. She told me that she had met Adamski and that he had told her that he became angry with the public for criticizing and ridiculing his stories of the original \sc{ufo} contact, and invented the trip to the other side of the moon in order to be outrageous.
 
 Sure, Shanti: tell me another one.
 
-On this occasion, I finally made it into the elevator and out onto the
-solid freedom of the street. However, for days afterward Shanti was after
-me on every possible occasion about Adamski.
-
-""Would you please," she insisted, "'go to the library? Just get the first
-volume: the first volume . . . not before he changed it."" Finally, I went
-to the library. I did not feel that I could face the importunate Shanti
-another time until I had at least gone into the library building and read
-the title page of Adamski's Flying Saucers Have Landed.
-
-I would then have read a portion of the first volume, and maybe this
-would shut Shanti up with all of her talk of veracity as connected to
-changing modes of vibration and the necessity to heal my physical
-
-
-mechanism.
-
-In connection with word on Adamski and flying saucers, Shanti was
-going through a period of four days during which she talked to me
-continuously about the vibrational levels of my physical mechanism.
-
-"You," she told me, *'will have to heal yourself before you can get on
-with this particular project anyway."
-
-I found the news that I would have to heal myself distressing, since I
-do have a few old nerve injuries and this exhortation to '"'heal myself"
-seemed an impossible command and redolant of Shanti's background of
-charismatic and pentacostal religions. She is an ordained minister of one
-of these sects, and will say almost anything if she feels the spirit move
-her.
-
-So I went to the library to get Flying Saucers Have Landed in order to
-get Shanti off my back. However, although it is listed in the card
-catalogue, there was no actual volume available on the shelf, so events
-spared me Adamski.
-
-TWENTY-ONE
-Nevertheless, shortly after failing to locate Adamski's book, I myself
-did perform as a \sc{ufo} on April Fools Day.
-
-This was in the course of a trip to California which I had been planning
-to take for several months. When I made my plans, I had no intention of
-acting as anyone's \sc{ufo} or even freaking out mildly into any aspects of
-\sc{ufo} conduct.
-
-I had planned this trip as an occasion to scout out Los Angeles or San
-Francisco as a possible location for my activities. Also, I was going to
-visit a few old friends, and there was really nothing more to this trip.
-
-I did intend to query Warren Sequoia about his \sc{ufo} sighting in
-person, but that was just out of passing curiosity, as I had intended to
-confine my data collection to sightings within the Boston area.
-
-I felt reasonably unaltered mentally while in Los Angeles, where I
-toured the city, decided to write a long poem (Trip 1011\slash Destination
-4031: now scheduled for publication in the Stone Soup East\slash West
-Anthology, whenever they get together enough money to publish that
-anthology) and watched the Academy Awards on TV while eating a
-pizza with a group of unemployed actors.
-
-
-Upon arriving in San Francisco, I still felt reasonably unaltered, but
-then during the day on March 31\tss{st} something got into me, much as I
-suppose something must have gotten into Shanti during the four days she
-was pestering me about Adamski and the vibrational levels of my bodily
-mechanism.
-
-Subsequent to finding out that the Dawn Horse bookstore had just
-inexplicably burned down, and while enjoying a maple nut doughnut
-just across the street from the damage, I began to have the idea that April
-Fools Day was in some way connected with \sc{ufo}s. This came over me
-gradually. After finishing my doughnut, I noticed a sign in a camera
-store across the street which read Metaphysical Books.
-
-Disappointed in my quest for the Laughing Man Press, which I am
-afraid really is the name of the Dawn Horse line of metaphysical books, I
-went across the street into the camera store, which also rents typewriters
-by the hour, and purchased a book on Alchemy, The Science of Self-Transformation.
-
-I took this book right down the hill and into my hotel room, which is
-something I had not planned to do at all. Subsequent to speed-reading
-this volume, which deals with the guidance of human beings on the earth
-plane by more highly-developed beings called ""masters" or *'chohans,"
-I got a bad case of cold chills and diarrhea. Feeling weak and sick, I
-crawled under the covers and went to sleep. When I awoke, which was
-several hours later, I had it once again firmly in my mind that I should
-contact Warren Sequoia, who appears in the article '"Notes on Torres"
-(Section 30) under the additional pseudonym of Bill Babaloo . . . or was
-it Ben Shenks? I am never able to keep those names I have invented
-straight in the composition, though I do have the real personalities
-firmly in mind.
-
-At any rate, I called up Warren-Babaloo's friend, Ben Shenks and
-informed him that after our scheduled dinner engagement on April Fools
-Day we simply had to go out and drop in on said Warren Sequoia.
-
-Shenks acquiesced in a phone booth, which we had entered together
-to call information. It turned out that he no longer knew Sequoia's
-address, but we did come up with a current telephone number.
-
-On April Fools Day morning, I got up, put on my red sweatshirt which
-reads MAGICK in large white letters, and as a deliberate lunatic went
-
-
-out and mingled with the crowds.
-
-Since deliberate lunacy is not unusual in San Francisco, no one paid
-any particular attention to me or my sweatshirt, except a clown in
-whiteface who was standing on a two star mailbox, and with whom I did
-a short mime routine based on his rainbow sign which declared that he
-was magic and would bring good luck for a quarter.
-
-By the time that I wandered into an art supply store advertising "'60%
-off," I was abit tired and had completely forgotten that I was wearing my
-MAGICK tee shirt.
-
-On impulse, I believe I thought that I might take some art supplies
-back to Boston. I realize in retrospect that this was absurd. I needed no
-art supplies and had no reason for going into this particular store at all.
-Furthermore, my final purchase was not paper, pencil, portfolio or
-acrylic paint but a small package of cigars-which I found behind the pen
-display on an upper shelf at the side of the store. I had looked in several
-tobacco stores in this same area before breakfast, searching for my
-particular brand, but had experienced no luck.
-
-It looked like my friend the clown had brought me luck in the course
-of our mime. I did give him a quarter.
-
-TWENTY-TWO b
+On this occasion, I finally made it into the elevator and out onto the solid freedom of the street. However, for days afterward Shanti was after me on every possible occasion about Adamski.
+
+\dq{Would you please,} she insisted, \dq{go to the library? Just get the first volume: the first volume \ld\ not before he changed it.} Finally, I went to the library. I did not feel that I could face the importunate Shanti another time until I had at least gone into the library building and read the title page of Adamski's Flying Saucers Have Landed.
+
+I would then have read a portion of the first volume, and maybe this would shut Shanti up with all of her talk of veracity as connected to changing modes of vibration and the necessity to heal my physical mechanism.
+
+In connection with word on Adamski and flying saucers, Shanti was going through a period of four days during which she talked to me continuously about the vibrational levels of my physical mechanism.
+
+\dq{You,} she told me, \dq{will have to heal yourself before you can get on with \e{this} particular project anyway.}
+
+I found the news that I would have to heal myself distressing, since I do have a few old nerve injuries and this exhortation to \dq{heal myself} seemed an impossible command and redolant of Shanti's background of charismatic and pentacostal religions. She is an ordained minister of one of these sects, and will say almost anything if she feels the spirit move her.
+
+So I went to the library to get \bt{Flying Saucers Have Landed} in order to get Shanti off my back. However, although it is listed in the card catalogue, there was no actual volume available on the shelf, so events spared me Adamski.
+
+% TWENTY-ONE
+\nonum\sec TWENTY-ONE
+
+Nevertheless, shortly after failing to locate Adamski's book, I myself did perform as a \sc{ufo} on April Fools Day.
+
+This was in the course of a trip to California which I had been planning to take for several months. When I made my plans, I had no intention of acting as anyone's \sc{ufo} or even freaking out mildly into any aspects of \sc{ufo} conduct.
+
+I had planned this trip as an occasion to scout out Los Angeles or San Francisco as a possible location for my activities. Also, I was going to visit a few old friends, and there was really nothing more to this trip.
+
+I did intend to query Warren Sequoia about his \sc{ufo} sighting in person, but that was just out of passing curiosity, as I had intended to confine my data collection to sightings within the Boston area.
+
+I felt reasonably unaltered mentally while in Los Angeles, where I toured the city, decided to write a long poem (\poemtitle{Trip 1011\slash Destination 4031}: now scheduled for publication in the Stone Soup \booktitle{East\slash West Anthology}, whenever they get together enough money to publish that anthology) and watched the Academy Awards on TV while eating a pizza with a group of unemployed actors.
+
+Upon arriving in San Francisco, I still felt reasonably unaltered, but then during the day on March 31\tss{st} something got into me, much as I suppose something must have gotten into Shanti during the four days she was pestering me about Adamski and the vibrational levels of my bodily mechanism.
+
+Subsequent to finding out that the Dawn Horse bookstore had just inexplicably burned down, and while enjoying a maple nut doughnut just across the street from the damage, I began to have the idea that April Fools Day was in some way connected with \sc{ufo}s. This came over me gradually. After finishing my doughnut, I noticed a sign in a camera store across the street which read Metaphysical Books.
+
+Disappointed in my quest for the Laughing Man Press, which I am afraid really is the name of the Dawn Horse line of metaphysical books, I went across the street into the camera store, which also rents typewriters by the hour, and purchased a book on Alchemy, \booktitle{The Science of Self-Transformation}.
+
+I took this book right down the hill and into my hotel room, which is something I had not planned to do at all. Subsequent to speed-reading this volume, which deals with the guidance of human beings on the earth plane by more highly-developed beings called \dq{masters} or \dq{chohans,} I got a bad case of cold chills and diarrhea. Feeling weak and sick, I crawled under the covers and went to sleep. When I awoke, which was several hours later, I had it once again firmly in my mind that I should contact Warren Sequoia, who appears in the article \essaytitle{Notes on Torres} (Section 30) under the additional pseudonym of Bill Babaloo \ld\ or was it Ben Shenks? I am never able to keep those names I have invented straight in the composition, though I do have the real personalities firmly in mind.
+
+At any rate, I called up Warren-Babaloo's friend, Ben Shenks and informed him that after our scheduled dinner engagement on April Fools Day we simply \e{had} to go out and drop in on said Warren Sequoia.
+
+Shenks acquiesced in a phone booth, which we had entered together to call information. It turned out that he no longer knew Sequoia's address, but we did come up with a current telephone number.
+
+On April Fools Day morning, I got up, put on my red sweatshirt which reads \sc{Magick} in large white letters, and as a deliberate lunatic went out and mingled with the crowds.
+
+Since deliberate lunacy is not unusual in San Francisco, no one paid any particular attention to me or my sweatshirt, except a clown in whiteface who was standing on a two star mailbox, and with whom I did a short mime routine based on his rainbow sign which declared that he was magic and would bring good luck for a quarter.
+
+By the time that I wandered into an art supply store advertising \dq{60\% off,} I was a bit tired and had completely forgotten that I was wearing my \sc{Magick} tee shirt.
+
+On impulse, I believe I thought that I might take some art supplies back to Boston. I realize in retrospect that this was absurd. I needed no art supplies and had no reason for going into this particular store at all.  Furthermore, my final purchase was not paper, pencil, portfolio or acrylic paint but a small package of cigars-which I found behind the pen display on an upper shelf at the side of the store. I had looked in several tobacco stores in this same area before breakfast, searching for my particular brand, but had experienced no luck.
+
+It looked like my friend the clown had brought me luck in the course of our mime. I did give him a quarter.
+
+% TWENTY-TWO 
+\nonum\sec TWENTY-TWO 
+
 I break here to start the second part of the narration of this same incident
 since at the time of approaching the counter of this San Francisco art
 store to purchase one small package of cigars I switched identities and
@@ -1470,7 +1219,7 @@ something is going on, I just can't see getting to the bottom of it until we
 know something more . . ."> At this time I am willing to volunteer some
 further information, but first read '"'Notes on Torres:"
 
-NOTES ON TORRES
+\label[torres]\wlabel{NOTES ON TORRES}
 Diaries and Diagrams on \sc{ufo} Contact
 
 "Door, where'd you learn all this?"