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+CONGRATULATIONS!
+The UFO Reality
+
+California
+
+Los Angeles
+Copyright © 1978, by Eugenia Macer-Story
+Printed in the United States of America
+
+All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without
+permission, in writing, from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief
+passages in connection with a review in a magazine or newspaper.
+
+Library of Congress Catalog Number 78-72284
+
+ISBN 0-89144-073-9
+DEDICATION
+
+This book is for the members of the international psychic community
+who anonymously, and often at their own expense, provided information
+on books, pamphlets, UFOs, states of altered consciousness and the
+whereabouts of individual contactees.
+ACKNOWLEDGMENT
+
+The manuscript of this book has been through three versions, including
+two revisions. These revisions consisted of the formalization of my
+original longhand notes into a coherent manuscript, and the further
+editing and tightening of this manuscript for intelligibility and literal
+accuracy. Coherence, of coursc, is all in your mind. Wherever your mind
+is.
+
+During the process of revision, several people have been of invaluable
+assistance. I would like particularly to thank R. Martin Wolf of the
+Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, who called my atten-
+tion to several errors of accuracy in the second revision of the manu-
+script.
+
+Britton Wilkie contributed the re-drawing of the diagram accompany-
+ing the TORRES REBUS, and also provided me access to the actual
+source of the Allende Letters cited in Section 31. *It was reassuring to
+know that there were actually Allende Letters.
+
+The psychiatrist Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz has read and fielded all sorts
+of strange material having to do with these investigations, beginning in
+1974 shortly after my sighting. Photo by Carrie Boretz.
+
+* The Allende Letters, a magazine publication issued in 1968 by Univer-
+sal Publishing and Distributing Company, New York.
+PREFACE
+
+Shortly after putting on a play during which a comic UFO in a coolie hat
+descends to dispense holiday cheer, I was faced with the incredible and
+mind-bending coincidence of seeing a dilating UFO light which sud-
+denly became a V-shaped formation of smaller UFO lights, disap-
+peared, and then reappeared on the railroad tracks some fifty or sixty
+yards from the train platform where I was waiting for the Sunday evening
+commuter train from Boston.
+
+This was on the night of December 30, 1973.
+
+At that time, I contacted a local UFO data collector who told me that
+he was more interested in ‘‘craft’ than in ‘“‘lights,” since the presence of
+a craft could perhaps be verified by physical traces left behind. I was not
+satisfied with this opinion.
+
+Something had happened to me, but I was not sure exactly what had
+occurred. I began to take books on UFO phenomena and technical books
+on electro-magnetism out of the library. During the time I was catching
+up on my reading, I experienced strange dreams related to UFO lights,
+and several times woke from sleep and walked to the window, feeling
+that UFO presences were outside, and that they wanted me to communi-
+cate with them.
+
+These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actu-
+ally heard a humming “‘generator’” sound in conjunction with my
+waking from sleep. Another person in the house also heard this sound. It
+has never been explained to me in terms of naturally-occurring electrical
+phenomena. In the book which follows, I attempt to render and discuss
+unusual states of mind which a UFO contactee may undergo. These may
+include feeling “‘alien” as an individual, unreasonable anger, elation or
+depression, enhanced ESP abilities, and the development of alternate
+technological systems.
+CONGRATULATIONS!
+The UFO Reality
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 1
+
+—Touch my finger.
+
+—Okay.
+
+—Hey, I'm a Martian! . . . Surprise! You're pregnant!
+International Children’s Joke
+
+By now, there have been so many UFO sightings, that it is no longer
+necessary to begin a book on this topic with an apology. Strange flying
+objects have been seen all over the world. Speculation on the identity of
+these objects has ranged from mystical views heralding the coming of
+the mythical beast of the Apocalypse to serious efforts by astronomers to
+devise an intergalactic signal which indicates the presence of intelligent
+life.
+
+Effort in this direction has included psychological treatment of the
+UFO experience, with diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia to sexual
+frustration. In Jung’s thought, the UFO was a fiery archetypal symbol
+
+. . of what? The symbolic significance of the UFO has not so far been
+satisfactorily explained.
+
+In this book, I am going to skip this diagnostic debate altogether, and
+concentrate on the human effects of UFO experience, as I have observed
+2 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO R‘EALITY
+
+them in the course of two years of interviews with purported UFO
+contactees.
+
+As a practicing psychic reader and surrealist poet, people have been
+my major field of interest since 1969, when I held my first job as a
+newspaper reporter. I enjoy talking to people and telling them things
+about themselves via ESP, as well as documenting human behavior
+(sometimes satirically) in my writing. In this capacity, I am primarily
+concerned with the effect which UFO sightings are having on the private
+lives of those contactees I have encountered; at first in the course of
+casual meetings, and then as part of the deliberate research which has led
+to this book.
+
+First, I suppose I should state my own credentials in this matter.  am a
+““contactee.” I saw my first UFO light in 1973, while standing outside in
+the cold waiting for a train in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Since I was at
+that time returning from a Spiritualist Church service, I recognized the
+phenomenon to be directly similar to ‘““spirit light”” phenomena which 1
+sometimes experience while giving a psychic reading, or as part of
+spontaneous mediumistic occurrences popularly known as ‘‘seeing a
+ghost.”
+
+This UFO was a light exterior to me, which I actually saw physically.
+It appeared suddenly in the sky, dilated, and came toward me rapidly,
+then became a V-shaped formation of smaller lights on the opposite side
+of the sky. This formation disappeared and I saw nothing else in the sky.
+Five or ten minutes later, a light appeared down the tracks which 1
+thought was the train light, but this light disappeared and no train
+arrived.
+
+When the train finally came, I boarded it silently, and went directly
+home. I felt that as well as seeing a light in the sky I had experienced an
+altered state of consciousness analogous to trances and/or states of
+psychic insight, and I was extremely frightened.
+
+For twenty-four hours (or longer) I was in a state of shock. During this
+time, I phoned the local paper and stated that I had seen a UFQ. A
+reporter on this paper had previously interviewed me on aspects of my
+work as a playwright, and so my sighting got published. I did not tell this
+reporter that I had been on my way back from a Spiritualist Church
+service, since I felt for some reason that this sighting should be recorded,
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 3
+
+and was afraid that she might think I had suddenly gone crazy and was
+imagining myself to have had some sort of religious revelation.
+
+Subsequent to the publication of my UFO report, several other people
+living in the vicinity of Ipswich, Massachusetts (where I was then living:
+the train runs from Boston through Swampscott to Ipswich) came up to
+me on the street and told me that they had also seen UFO lights in the
+area north of Boston.
+
+Encouraged by this concensus that I was not crazy, I also filed a verbal
+report and drawing of this sighting with the UFO Data Collection Center
+in Northfield, Illinois. Again, I left out the connection with spir-
+itualism, lest my report be discounted. Later, I did send another report to
+Northfield which mentioned my altered state of consciousness during
+the sighting, but only subsequent to reading Jacques Vallee’s book
+Passport To Magonia, in which such fantastic effects are discussed.
+
+At the time that I filed this second statement, 1 was in a rather
+kamikazi state of mind. I felt that I had no choice but to express myself in
+terms which sounded insane, and that this present insanity had better be
+confined to a limited audience, lest I lose my credibility as a psychic,
+and also a certain number of my friends and associates, whom I judged
+to be in no mood to hear about strange dilating lights in the sky.
+
+It was during this time of embarrassment that 1 found I had made two
+peculiar friends. I have since drifted out of contact with both of them,
+but in the year 1974 they were very important to me.
+
+One of these gentlemen claimed to be an ex-FBI agent from Califor-
+nia. He operated a ham radio out of a seaside location north of Boston
+and ran an ad regularly in the alternative papers, announcing ‘“UFOs
+outside of our normal visual range.” This listed the names and numbers
+of various government officials and advised the public to give them a
+call.
+
+About three or four months after my Swampscott sighting, 1 was
+feeling I needed to talk to someone about UFOs, no matter how strange
+they might be, and I called the number listed in this outrageous ad. Lobo
+and I had an extended conversation, and I decided to trust him. He came
+to my house in Ipswich bearing xeroxed literature on psychiatric coer-
+cion and a number of word-of-mouth horror stories on contactees and
+psychics who had been confined to mental institutions or forced to take
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+
+psychiatric or medical treatment against their will.
+
+This instilled in me both an active caution about fully revealing my
+UFO-associated inner experiences to any psychiatrist and, concomit-
+antly, doubts as to this FBI-ham’s sanity. After all, what person in his
+right mind would place such an odd UFO ad, and then arrive bearing
+literature on lobotomies and clinical drug abuse? I did feel, however, on
+the human level, that Lobo would not harm me, and would listen to some
+relation of the true nature of my UFO experience.
+
+Itold this man that I felt I had been communicated with on a telepathic
+level, and perhaps even “‘altered’” chemically or mentally in a way which
+I did not fully understand. He was sympathetic, if a little wild-eyed,
+telling me that he was in short-wave contact with people all over the
+world who reported similar experiences. For reasons best known to
+himself, this FBI-ham told me several times-about one of these people: a
+nurse in Atlanta, Georgia who had developed the ability to move objects
+psychokinetically subsequent to UFO contact. He mentioned no psychi-
+atric problems in conjunction with this nurse, but evidently had either
+seen her abilities firsthand or somehow had come to believe absolutely
+in their reality.
+
+My other peculiar UFO friend during the year of 1974 was a young
+man who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of
+fourteen, when (as he relates it) he freaked out at a private prep school
+subsequent to playing one of the witches in Macbeth. Bethiwitch told me
+that directly after the staging of this play he became violent in English
+class and told his instructor that he was a wife-beater and a bastard.
+
+At this time in history, I cannot relate for sure whether this witch’s
+English instructor was a wife-beater and a bastard. It is certain that after
+this nervous breakdown my friend was shunted from one custodial
+facility to another, emerging at age twenty-one slightly crazed and
+claiming to be psychic.
+
+I was at that time giving an acting class which advertised ‘““exchange
+of the psychic energies’’ as a means of energy transferral between actors.
+Bethiwitch wanted to enroll in this class. At that time he was in bad
+physical condition from too many strange diets and found himself
+estranged from society.
+
+I interview each of my students before admitting them to a class on
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+
+psychic development, and our first interview was held at a deli on
+Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, just across the street from a natural
+foods restaurant which for some reason Bethiwitch did not want to enter.
+
+I had mentioned nothing about my UFO encounter, but immediately
+this tall emaciated young man wanted to discuss UFOs. He would not
+leave the topic alone. Also, he told me details of my dreams. Specif-
+ically, he described my recent dream of a vegetable planet. I had recently
+made several small sculptures of people emerging from flowers and
+vegetables, and this had been based on a series of dreams and visions
+concerning faces and beings which were partially plants. Bethiwitch,
+though I had never talked with him before, told me all about these
+dreams and visions, and also about the fact that he had once lived on a
+planet where people were partially flowers. He told me we had lived
+there together in another lifetime.
+
+Along this line, Bethiwitch also claimed to be the world’s first
+psychic sex therapist. Embarrassing as it was at the time, he was able to
+tell me correctly the most intimate details of my sexual preferences and
+correctly described my present, past and then future lovers. He has been
+right so far. This correct narration of my sex life proved to me beyond a
+shadow of a doubt that, while undoubtedly spaced-out, Bethiwitch was
+also impressively psychic.
+
+Along with all of this personal information, he wanted to give me
+details on UFOs. He would not leave the topic alone. Though I had told
+him nothing of my UFO encounter, he talked at length about UFOs in the
+Boston vicinity and telepathic contact with UFOs. Between Lobo and
+Bethiwitch, I got quite an education in 1974. I will divide what I learned
+into two categories: the abstract and the concrete.
+
+Following the usual occult practice, I will begin with the abstract and
+move gradually into the concrete.
+
+Hopefully, at the end of this volume I will not have concrete overshoes
+and be at the bottom of Boston harbor.
+
+Like Lobo and Bethiwitch, I am wholly mental in my peculiarities. I
+use no hard drugs, belong to no subversive organizations and indulge in
+only noncommercial sexual activities. However, the way in which I
+perceive reality has been permanently changed by my UFO contact.
+
+In 1974, I was not yet aware of how completely my perceptions had
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+
+been altered, only that something strange had happened to me and that
+this alteration was somehow due to a dilating white light which I had
+seen in the sky shortly after Christmas in 1973.
+
+There were times when I doubted my sanity. I knew I was sane, and
+yet I doubted my sanity: I had engaged in telepathic intercourse with a
+UFO —or had I? Whether or not this had been a spaceship, or some very
+powerful sort of spirit contact, it became increasingly evident that I
+would have to be dealing with the reality of my altered mental state.
+
+This had begun to include heightened ESP and awareness of ““energy
+states” around objects and people. Also, I was having dreams and
+waking meditative states during which I simply “felt”” again the UFO
+presence without seeing it.
+
+Clearly, it was not wise to become assaultive against those who did not
+share this alteration of perception, or to stop random passersby on the
+street while pointing to the sky and insisting: “We are not alone.”
+
+As arecent contactee freakout, the first survival tactic which I learned
+was deliberate lunacy. Bethiwitch, with all of his highly-dramatized
+tales of fantastic astral journeys through outer space, had a great deal to
+teach me in this area. So did the surrealist and dada artists of the 1920s
+and 30s. As a trained writer and theatre artist, I was able to give the
+essence of this contactee experience what I believe is its first artistic
+form: The Witch City Whiz Bang, which was issued off the Magik Mirror
+Press during the bicentennial year of 1975-76 in the town of Salem,
+Massachusetts, scene of the famous witch trials.
+
+During that year, I had an occult store in Salem which was basically a
+year-long celebration of the destiny of the United States as linked to
+expanded perception. The one-dollar bill bears the great seal of the
+United States, which shows to all an eye atop a pyramid, meaning the
+building of concrete items by the use of psychic perception. While in
+Salem, I built the Witch City Whiz Bang. My Whiz Bang cited the old
+Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang Joke Book and (with a certain degree of black
+humor) degrees of expanded perception within the context of the execu-
+tion of Giordano Bruno, a Renaissance thinker who claimed there was
+life on other worlds. .
+
+In my case, it was either public entertainment or private mayhem.
+During the year of 1974 and into 1975, I had learned to accept as regular
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 7
+
+daily occurrences lights appearing here and there in my house, tele-
+pathic messages to “‘look outside the window: we are here,” followed by
+newspaper reports of UFO sightings in the area, and last but not least let
+me mention a high-pitched ‘‘generator whine’’ which was heard clearly
+by my husband after I woke him from a deep sleep to assert that my
+extra-terrestrial friends were just outside the window.
+
+My marriage did not survive this situation. Clearly, I was not insane
+and could take care of my daily activities, could even conceal portions of
+my experience in order to seem rational, but I had become a different
+person with a set of mental experiences different from my husband’s
+usual experiences and different from most people’s inner and outer
+experiences.
+
+I was beginning to feel more at home with Lobo and Bethiwitch, and a
+few older psychics and spiritualists who have managed to maintain a
+dual existence within such groups as the Spiritualist Church and the
+Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Notice the word “‘spiritual.” Does this
+mean ‘‘supernatural’” or “‘holy”? Or what does it mean to have com-
+merce with spirits?
+
+An elder of one of these organizations told me a very interesting story.
+I will repeat this more or less verbatim: ‘“There was a little girl who
+could tell the future. She had a box with a bird on the top and every time
+she wanted to tell the future she would take out the box and consult the
+bird. One day, a group of people who wanted to be able to tell the future
+stole this box, but when they opened it they found that there was nothing
+inside, and the little girl told them the future.”” Which was probably that
+they would not be able to tell the future. At one time, I had considered
+calling this book: Two Years in the Bird Box.
+
+I did not feel particularly spiritual while I was in this bird box. I felt
+confined and confused and not fully in control of my personal mind set.
+Something alien was communicating with me. In this respect, Lobo was
+of immeasurable assistance. He tipped me off to the UFO Hotline. This
+was then a rather esoteric organization run out of Hammond, Indiana, by
+several dedicated people whose backgrounds continue to remain obscure
+to the public.
+
+At any rate, Lobo brought me the UFO Hotline literature interleaved
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+
+with more horror stories about psychiatric abuse and told me to be sure
+and subscribe to this service, but to keep away from psychiatrists. As
+usual.
+
+It seemed like a reasonable service to have in my bird box of a
+bicentennial occult store (The Magik Mirror: across from the Witch
+House Historical Landmark, Salem, Massachusetts) so I did send in the
+requisite fee.
+
+Upon subscription, I not only received my UFO window sign, bumper
+sticker and investigator’s pin, but was awarded a “UFO investigator’s
+manual’’ with my name embossed on the first page just inside a square
+see-through aperture.
+
+Encouraged by all this rigmarole, as one of my first formal acts of
+deliberate lunacy, I sent the UFO Hotline ‘firess release to the Salem
+News, expecting the same thundering silence that similar releases have
+occasioned from some of the larger papers.
+
+I was not to receive this silence. Several days after I sent the release
+(motivated, as I have said, not by prophetic vision, but by the cold-
+blooded desire to commit deliberate lunacy), a reporter phoned me at my
+apartment in Lynn, Massachusetts and with great excitement told me
+that UFOs had been sighted ovcr the North Shore area the veryuday the
+paper received my announcement. Would I care to comment?
+
+I scarcely knew what to say. I knew that it seemed to the papers as if I
+had had advance knowledge of the sightings, as linked with the Hotline,
+but this was not the case. I felt as baffled as the reporter, who sub-
+sequently came down to the Magik Mirror and did a very complimentary
+article on my “‘spaced-out” condition.
+
+During the time I spent in this bird box, I was also occupied with other
+projects and did not concentrate overtly on UFOs, though my store was
+logging about one sighting per week, with a heavier concentration over
+the North Shore area in the Spring of 1976.
+
+It was early in 1976 that I met a man who had experienced a UFO
+sighting and subsequent nervous breakdown while in the military. In
+response to his experience, I wrote a short article entitled *“Contactee,”
+which was published in Ufology magazine, then the slick-backed journal
+of the UFO hotline.
+
+The necessity of expressing Monroe’s experience reawakened the
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 9
+
+reporter in me, and I immediately wrote an independent article on UFO
+perception entitled ‘“The Astrebus.” This has been published in the Fall
+1977 issue of Pursuit magazine about a year and a quarter after its
+original composition.
+
+I wrote *“The Astrebus’ (which deals with the circumstantial aspects
+of UFO contact and advances the idea of a language which is an active
+rebus) in somewhat of a fever which lasted about twelve hours on a
+Spring evening in 1976.
+
+Looking back on this sudden journalistic productivity, I find it
+strange. At the time, however, it seemed the natural and logical thing
+simply to stay up all night and write a ten-page article on states of
+heightened perception and ability as related to UFO contact.
+
+At about this same time, I woke up with the name of Warren Sequoia
+(the names have been changed in this book to preserve the other-worldly
+quality) firmly in mind, went to Gnostica magazine, discovered he had
+done areview of The Invisible College by Jacques Vallee, called a friend
+in California (with whom I had never discussed Sequoia) asked for
+Sequoia’s address and sent him a xerox copy of ““The Astrebus.”
+
+Sequoia certainly must have been amazed! He rallied, however, with
+several collages relative to mental development which I am still trying to
+decipher logically.
+
+It was certainly a help to me in my situation of deliberate lunacy to
+discover another deliberate lunatic—if Sequoia’s lunacy is actually
+deliberate.
+
+Recently I received another communication from him, reading ‘‘don’t
+let THEM immanentize the escaton,” on the front near the address. On
+the reverse, Sequoia had written *‘Dear Genie: nice to hear from you
+again. . .’ Near this sentiment was pasted the purple word Fnrd, and the
+entire thing was signed *‘sincerely, Warren Sequoia.”” The same to you,
+baby.
+
+During the time I was experiencing this upsurge of article-writing
+coupled with the sincere desire to raise hell, I was also experiencing an
+upsurge of creativity in other areas.
+
+1 completed one entire novel (about UFO contact) which will be
+published in 1979 by Anthelion Press; gave three or four prepared
+lectures of about forty-five minutes in duration and engaged in a public
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+
+debate with individuals from a certain “UFO Two” group. These
+lectures were on spirit contact, but this debate took on definite theologi-
+cal resonance, and in this capacity I actually found myself standing up in
+a public lecture hall and speaking about the teachings of yoga and pranic
+energy systems, a topic I had not anticipated.
+
+This outburst brought me still more unexpected publicity.
+
+Representatives of this “‘UFO Two” group, believing that they could
+translate themselves materially into another continuum while still in
+their human bodies, came to my store in Salem asking me to attend their
+lecture at Salem State College.
+
+This group has been documented and discussed in Brad Steiger’s
+book The Gods of Aquarius. They were among the most offensive
+individuals I have ever encountered.
+
+I suppose that because I was an eccentric¢ in a small town with a UFO
+sign in my window, they thought I would be sympathetic to this sort of
+immediate ascension. I was not, but felt I should attend their lecture
+anyway.
+
+When I got there, I found myself suddenly debating eight people, or
+was it ten (they come in pairs), during the question-and-answer period.
+
+I heard myself quoting everything from ancient Indian literature to the
+New Testament, and actively taking the position that these Twos had
+mistaken negative spirit contact and meditative states of mind with
+actual journeys off this physical planet. A confusion of planes!
+
+This is reflected recently in the confusion among the gurus of the
+transcendental meditation business as to whether they actually are flying
+or just fly in their minds, or are levitating or just levitate in their minds.
+Although represented in the press as evidence of a sharpster mentality,
+this dilemma may represent a very important and natural confusion.
+
+After my unexpected public debate was over, I felt lightheaded and
+faint and rather puzzled. I felt that the issue of astral transport versus
+spaceships was important, but not that important. Why had I been so
+adamant?
+
+The next day, a reporter from yet another of the local papers arrived at
+the Magik Mirror to interview me on UFOs. He stayed to have a psychic
+reading and wrote a very complimentary article documenting my psy-
+chic accuracy and mentioning that I thought there was a link between
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+
+areas of psychic perception and UFO manifestation.
+
+As I look back upon this bicentennial springtime activity (a play of
+mine, The Blues Deduction, was also at this time being produced in
+Boston), I seriously wonder how I could possibly have done all this
+demanding and unusual mental activity without going bananas.
+
+There were, of course, episodes of stress. I do remember sending a
+critic for the Real Paper (one Arthur Friedman) a Finast pound cake
+coupon. This was apropos of a negative review on a play that another
+critic accused me of plagiarizing from Robert Lowell. The accusation of
+plagiarism was rescinded (by Stephen Schiff of the Phoenix, who
+received no free coupon) but perhaps it would have been more to my
+advantage if I claimed that Lowell wrote the play and I wrote The Big
+Knockover.
+
+It is just as likely, Schiff.
+
+Obviously, part of my increased productivity and cantankerousness
+had to do with continued psychic perception of the continued near
+presence of the powerful beings which we call UFOs.
+
+We are conditioned to believe that the phenomena which I was
+experiencing ‘‘just don’t happen.” I think that without the sense of
+humor engendered by surrealism and dada, T might now be blankly
+wandering the streets, pointing to the sky and declaring “‘they really
+exist,’ or some such nonsense.
+
+The closest I actually came to insanity was just subsequent to sending
+a copy of ““The Astrebus” to Warren Sequoia. At this particular time, 1
+woke up in the middle of the night startled. Something had made a sharp,
+cracking sound in the bedroom. I heard my son in the next room say
+“Mommie”’ in his sleep, and [ was aware of the presence of something in
+my apartment. I listened intently and heard no more sounds, so I thought
+I would go to the window and look for a light, as I had wakened once or
+twice to see distant lights in the sky.
+
+Before I was able to put this into action, however, a moving light
+appeared on the wall opposite the bed. I was filled with the conviction
+that this light was a UFO, that it made no difference where I was, that
+they could come anywhere, that they needed no craft, but could operate
+astrally or ““mentally,” in the way spirits operate.
+
+A spiritualist would have called this moving Tinkerbell-like light a
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+
+“spirit light,” but I felt a more powerful presence than is usually
+associated with spirits of the deceased, and I was frightened.
+
+At any rate, I certainly know that most psychologists would entitle my
+conviction about small UFO lights that penetrate walls and talk to me in
+my mind a form of madness. Therefore, reminded of Lobo’s literature
+on fly-by-night psychiatry, I did not call a psychiatrist.
+
+I called Ben Shenks, a psychic who lives in California. “‘Ben,” I told
+him, “UFOs came to me in my room.” ‘“Congratulation, Genie,” he
+replied. “That’s wonderful.”” “But Ben,” I insisted, “‘they were here.”
+“Yeah.”
+
+Ben listened patiently to my description of the light. He believed me,
+he said, but he had nothing to say. There was really nothing to be said
+about this UFO light: ““You lead an interesting life. I wish I led such an
+interesting life.” -
+
+This was some comfort.
+
+The next morning, there was a report on the radio (or was it the
+newspaper) that another UFO had been sighted in the North Shore area.
+The connection to my private experience was obvious, but who could I
+tell?
+
+Certainly not the newspapers. In the context of my previous activity,
+any mention of this event might be taken as a wierdo bid for publicity.
+
+But, wasn’t I already a deliberate lunatic? The author of The Witch
+City Whiz Bang? Yes. But there are limits even to deliberate lunacy.
+Public talk of UFO lights in my bedroom might certainly brand me as
+hysteric.
+
+Deliberately, then, I decided like the Air Force to classify this unusual
+experience Top Secret, and filed it away in my UFO memory system, for
+later information retrieval.
+
+Shortly after I had classified this experience, a woman came into my
+store in Salem saying that a UFO had come to her in a dream. *‘Congratu-
+lations,” I told her, smiling, ““That’s wonderful! Do you remember any
+news?”’
+
+“Cancer,”” she replied, ““is due to a chemical imbalance in the atmos-
+phere. Things come to me like that. I’'m psychic.”
+
+There seemed to have been no other message. It was reasonable, I
+thought, to suspect that cancer might be due to a chemical imbalance in
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 13
+
+the atmosphere.
+
+I did not tell this woman about my recent late-night experience with
+psychical UFO lights because I felt that this might be frightening.
+
+There was something about her dream and her very presence at this
+moment of time (she talked at length about the connection between UFO
+sightings and psychic sensitivity) which was profoundly unsettling to
+me: it seemed like an old-fashioned omen, a signal of some sort that I
+was on the right track.
+
+Previous to taking the lease on my store, while I was still married and
+living in Ipswich, I had dreamt about UFOs. It was a vivid and unusual
+dream, which made a strong impression on me. I had not kept this
+particular experience top secret, but had related it to a few of my UFO
+associates.
+
+In fact, I had been telling this dream to quite a few people in
+conjunction with the heavy incidence of UFO sightings in the North
+Shore area.
+
+At the time of the dream, I was trying to decide whether to have an
+office in Salem or an office in Boston. In this dream, I had gone to
+Boston to give a lecture on psychical phenomena. The landscape was lit
+with a yellowish, dangerous-street sort of a light. I was inside at firstin a
+school building where students were sitting on steps and on the floors of
+corridors.
+
+The event seemed to be over and no one was interested in me. [ went
+outside to get a taxi, but there was no transportation and I missed my
+train and could not get back until morning.
+
+The dream abruptly shifted, and I was entering my house at about
+seven-thirty in the morning. No one was there, and there was a note on
+the floor which read: ‘““UFOs were here. You have missed the UFOs.”” As
+mundane as the details of this vision may seem, it was one of the
+~ strangest impressions [ have ever experienced. I can still feel the warmth
+of the sunlight on my back as I picked up the note.
+
+During the week subsequent to this dream, I signed the lease for my
+location in Salem. About a year later, I did indeed teach a class in
+Boston, in an atmosphere similar to the one in my dream. This class was
+in playwriting. I was a last-minute substitute for another writer and
+found the majority of my students uninterested in writing, and more
+interested either in psychotherapy and/or socializing.
+14 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+Certainly, if I had chosen this atmosphere over my personal
+enterprises I would have been in trouble. Additionally, during the early
+part of the Fall sessions I had to take a taxi back from the train station in
+Lynn. It was a rainy season, and I did not always get back on time. My
+dream had reflected these events exactly.
+
+It was during the late summer of 1976 that I decided to do serious UFO
+research, rather than letting people drift in and out of my location with an
+occasional siory.
+
+It was difficult to decide how to do this research. I knew that I was
+going to have an office in the Friendly Tearoom and Shin Psychic
+Center. This is in an area of maximum downtown traffic. What should I
+do? Should I hang out a sign asking for local sightings? Should I
+advertise in the UFO journals? How should I advertise in the local
+papers? How much should I tell people about my actual intentions? By
+now, I was as serious as a secret agent, back in my kamikazi frame of
+mind.
+
+The day that I signed the contract on my office space, both of my
+clocks had lost twenty minutes. I had christened this space the UFO
+Registry (as distinct from the International UFO Registry) and I do
+associate time anomalies with UFO contact. I felt that this clock stop-
+page was an encouragement to continue, that I was on the riéht track.
+
+I wanted to avoid the ‘‘we are not alone’’ fanatics, and get genuine
+stories from people who had seen UFOs, had dreamed of UFOs and
+perhaps were in receipt of psychical communications from UFO
+entities.
+
+It is difficult to get genuine stories of this sort by advertising that
+UFOs can do something funny to time and that your clocks have stopped
+working several times in conjunction with UFO sightings. In fact, while
+I was writing up the report of the Monroe sighting which was published
+in Ufology, a cuckoo clock which was lying on its side on one of the top
+shelves in my pantry began to tick loudly.
+
+This clock runs by weights and there is no ordinary way such a clock
+can run at all by lying on its side.
+
+I had heard the ticking while in the living room and followed the
+sound to the pantry. It did not occur to me immediately what was making
+this sound, since [ had several months ago shoved this clock (which was
+not working) back onto the top shelf with a few odds and ends.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 15
+
+Imagine my surprise to find it ticking! About thirty seconds after I had
+located the source of the sound, it stopped ticking and has not run since.
+
+I was so distressed by this occurrence that I wrote to the Maimonides
+Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn telling them of the connection between
+my cuckoo clock and time anomalies connected with UFO sightings on
+the North Shore.
+
+I received back a polite note indicating that this might be possible and
+telling me that they would file my observations. I assume they did file
+this letter, under M (for Mad) or perhaps under U (for Unidentified), or
+maybe S (for Schizophrenic) or was that Surrealist? OK: S for Surrealist.
+Hello there. Rosie. Whoops! Was that a flying object?
+
+Now: back to my arrangements.
+
+I simply put an ad in one of the alternative papers to the effect that I
+was giving psychic readings, discussing magic and collecting informa-
+tion on UFO sightings. I also put the sign UFO Registry out on the street
+marquee downstairs.
+
+Initially, I felt some unease at perhaps being confused with the
+International UFO Registry (publishers of Ufology and the UFO Hotline
+material) but since my sign said: ‘‘UFO Registry: Eugenia Macer-
+Story,”” I gradually began to realize that there would be no confusion,
+since the average man or woman on the street has never heard of the
+International UFO Registry.
+
+No one coming to the Shin Psychic Center and Friendly Tearoom
+really expects any liaison with the United Nations, except one woman I
+saw for a psychic reading recently, who felt somehow that UFOs might
+unite the world.
+
+Action taken against acommon enemy, Theresa thought, might bring
+the warring nations of earth closer together. I told her that I thought we
+might have to leaflet Africa and Indochina, just to let them in on the
+campaign underway. However, as a matter of fact, a pencil jumped off
+my desk all by itself while I was talking to Theresa, and I did not really
+know how to interpret this occurrence. I picked it up off the floor. It
+seemed the most logical action at this time, just to pick up this flying
+pencil from where it had landed and put it back onto the desk.
+
+Previous to closing my bicentennial celebration at the Magik Mirror
+in Salem, I had placed an ad in the Salem News asking for eyewitness
+16 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+testimonials on the recent rash of North Shore sightings. I did receive
+several letters in reply to this ad. One of these letters was from a woman
+who said that she had seen a rectangular box flying next to her car. This
+note was written on a piece of Melaril notepaper. (Melaril, for the
+uninitiated, is a tranquilizer sometimes used in treating symptoms of
+psychosis.)
+
+I wrote back to this woman asking her what exactly she was flying
+high on at the time that she saw this rectangular box flying along beside
+her car. Nothing, she replied, indicating that she was a veterinarian’s
+assistant, and had just jotted down news of her sighting on the first piece
+of paper that came to hand.
+
+Happy little animals up there in Salem! I wonder if what she could
+possibly have seen was a transdimensional kennel.
+
+There has been quite a bit of agitation recently in the small para-
+psychological journals as regards strange cattle mutilations in the
+Southwest United States. Several reporters have made an attempt to link
+these inexplicable butcherings with UFO activity. I am sure that nothing
+is impossible, but I do wonder what visitors from outer space would
+want with the ears and rear ends of cattle.
+
+This veterinarian’s assistant from Salem probably did see a flying
+rectangular object made of light, just as a graduate student in engineer-
+ing I talked to in Salem probably did see the complex crystal rotor he
+describes seeing on a hillside in Northern New England.
+
+Buddy says he witnessed this alien object landing while he was
+walking in a rural, grassy area. A prominent part of the ship which
+manifested itself to Buddy was a trans-dimensional rotor constructed
+from a crystal substance strange to Earth. This rotor possessed certain
+technical properties of interest. At the time I talked to him (Spring 1976)
+Buddy was trying to get these strange new properties down into some
+logical form. I wish him the best of luck.
+
+My own experience has been that these phenomena are a-logical.
+They are real, a-logical, and related to the use of the faculties which we
+have labeled ESP and psychokinesis. UFOs do seem to cause mental
+effects similar to those associated with telepathy, precognition and
+hypnosis.
+
+After two years of lively, on-the-street research, I do not agree with
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 17
+
+those who see this connection and then dismiss these phenomena as real
+but generated from the individual or group subconscious. There is intent
+to these landings, visions and strange communications, and if this intent
+is the intent of the collective unconscious of the human race, then we are
+definitely trying to tell ourselves something.
+
+Perhaps we are trying to communicate to ourselves that we are being
+visited from outer space.
+
+The following is a series of actual UFO encounters related to me by
+people who voluntarily came into my office in Boston to report their
+sightings. I have changed the names since I promised the people who
+confided in me that I would change their names, but the personalities,
+events and effects of these sightings are substantially as related to me by
+the contactees involved. I have made no attempt to order these events
+logically or by any category of encounter whatsoever. I simply present
+these following UFO narrations in chronological sequence:
+
+ONE
+6/24/717
+Having decided to arrange these UFO sightings in chronological order, I
+went early to my office this morning and opened my file, which I
+thought was in chronological order.
+
+I found, to my surprise, that the early part of my file is not in
+chronological order, but grows more chronological as time goes on.
+Apparently, right after moving from Salem I paid little attention to exact
+sequence.
+
+The first note which comes to hand is dated 10/26/76 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
+UFO group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in UFOs in Andover.
+
+I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no UFO
+group, but would be interested in any information on 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 Sum-
+mery’s invitation to join her UFO group, but told her that plenty of other
+people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
+18 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+TWO
+Helen O’Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea
+leaves. Shortly after I moved into my office, she came nervously in to
+see me and told me that she and several other people had seen UFOs in
+Roxbury, the black section of Boston.
+
+Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half
+asleep, when she felt physically ‘‘touched’” by something which hit her
+in the chest. She woke and went to the window. Up in the sky was a
+bright green light which was moving around in a jerky way.
+
+Her boyfriend, Helen says, saw a ‘‘white shadow’’ in the room at the
+same time.
+
+When Helen checked with friends, she found that others in the same
+neighborhood had seen lights in the sky at approximately this same time
+in the evening. She gave me the names of;several of these people, and
+also of a friend who had seen a UFO light in Arizona.
+
+THREE
+On 10/21/76, Larry Sands, the director of the Shin Psychic Center,
+came to my office and told me that a friend of his who is a radio
+announcer had taken a news call the night before about a UFO sighting in
+Bellingham, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston. I called this
+announcer, who told me that several people had seen multi-colored
+lights in the sky and had called the police and the radio station.
+
+He also told me that there was word that this UFO had shown up on a
+radar screen at Logan airport, but he could not definitely confirm this
+radar sighting.
+
+According to Petersen, the actual event had taken place a week
+previously, on 10/12/76 at about one or two o’clock in the morning. He
+could not remember specific details of this sighting, but gave me the
+name of a local paper which had carried a more detailed story. When I
+called the Milford Daily News, a woman gave me the name of a police
+officer who had witnessed the UFO. She also told me that subsequent to
+publication of the news of this Bellingham sighting an individual iden-
+tifying himself only as *‘an astronomer’* had called the paper to report
+that any bright light in the sky on 10/12/76 must have been the star
+Sirius.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 19
+
+I called the Bellingham police department on 10/22/76 and talked to
+the officer who had seen the UFO. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that he had
+seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in
+the sky which was flashing on and off. This was visible, Mullhaven told
+me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave
+
+- me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
+
+When I finally reached this dispatcher on the phone, he was coopera-
+tive and told me that something had indeed occurred concerning a light
+in the sky which was seen simultaneously from several different loca-
+tions in the area.
+
+This light is reported to have flashed on and off and changed colors. It
+was in the sky for five to six hours and was witnessed by several private
+citizens and three police officers.
+
+It is difficult for me to understand how this light could possibly have
+been the star Sirius. In his book Gods of Aquarius, Brad Steiger men-
+tions the visionary connection of UFOs to the star Sirius, speculating on
+beings who may have come from the vicinity of this star.
+
+I doubt that three non-visionary patrolmen could seriously have
+confused the star Sirius with a flashing light or a flashing light with the
+star Sirius.
+
+They saw something unusual.
+
+FOUR
+I have here now a note to myself dated 9/15/76. This concerns the UFO
+sighting made by the woman who wrote to me on the ‘*have a happy
+day’’ Melaril blank.
+
+Jane Franklin describes this sighting as having taken place near
+Reading, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 8, at approximately
+7:45 P.M. She was driving her car down Concord Street in North
+Reading when she noticed two bars of light traveling along with her,
+above the car. Franklin pulled over to the side of the road and switched
+off the engine for a few minutes. Then these rectangular bars of light
+seemed to disappear.
+
+In her reply to my question on tranquilizers, which is dated 9/17/76
+and was written on ordinary paper, Franklin states that she is not on
+medication of any kind and experienced no unusual physical or mental
+20 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+symptoms in conjunction with her sighting. However, she writes that the
+night after seeing these rectangular bars she ‘‘had a hard time falling
+asleep because the vision of what I saw was uppermost in my mind. I can
+still see a very vivid description of what I saw in my mind.”’
+
+Just below my note about Jane Franklin’s letter, I have written another
+note to myself, dated 9/23/76. This note reads: *‘Sign contract for office
+downtown. When I return to Lynn, both my electric clocks are twenty-
+five minutes slow.”’
+
+FIVE
+
+Diana Bradley reports, in a letter dated 9/8/76: *‘Dear sir: I am writing
+to you in regard to your letter in the Salem Evening News. About a month
+ago on a Thursday night around 9:30 my boyfriend and I were driving
+down old Swampscott Road in Salem heading toward Swampscott. In
+the sky I noticed a very strange-looking craft. I asked my boyfriend if he
+thought it might be a plane. He said it definitely was not. We watched it
+for a few minutes. Then he took me home to my apartment.
+
+When I got in, I told my mother about it. It was saucer-shaped. It had a
+lot of lights blinking on and off in sequence. Red and white lights. My
+mother and I looked for it and found it. It was hovering over Swampscott
+and Salem for about an hour and a half that I know of. About 141 P.M. it
+started to head toward Marblehead very slowly. When it reached the
+ocean, it took off like a bolt of lightning. I never saw anything move so
+fast in my life.
+
+My mother and I looked for it in the sky for an hour after that, but we
+never saw it again.
+
+Please write back and let me know what you find out I am very
+interested. Sincerely, Diana Bradley.”
+
+Congratulations, Diana!
+
+SIX
+At approximately the same hour of the evening on August 20, in a
+location not far from the location you report, Mrs. Kubouski, an elderly
+widow living in Salem, was lying down to go to sleep when, as she
+reports it, a “flashlight” strobed ““through her eyes.” She went to the
+window and saw (Mrs. Kubouski speaks broken English, so I will render
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 21
+
+this as best I can): “funny lights, about fifty feet high, swing around,
+ready to dance, fireworks over roof, a round craft with a man in the
+middle wearing a black outfit, pilot’s outfit, lights around the edge.”
+
+This was a small craft, Mrs. Kubouski elaborated: “Itdid . . . the best
+way I can describe it. . . a square dance with pretty lights flashing, then
+went over the water near the electric power station toward Beverly.”
+
+At the bottom of this description of the Kubouski sighting, I have
+written the comment: ‘‘That’s about all I have to tell you, and now I have
+to go back and fix my dinner,” w hich is actually one of Mrs. Kubouski’s
+statements.
+
+She is a very matter-of-fact woman who was encouraged to contact me
+by a neighbor whose son had been in to see me about his UFO sighting
+earlier in the Spring of 1976.
+
+Monroe’s UFO report may be found in the Fall 1976 issue of Ufology
+magazine.
+
+At first I had hesitated about including the Kubouski sighting in this
+book because she was referred to me by Mrs. Monroe, and collusion or
+imagination might be suspected.
+
+Happily, due to the coincidence between the Kubouski and the Brad-
+ley sightings, I can include both with a clear conscience, with the
+additional news that Mrs. Monroe’s TV set was malfunctioning at the
+time Mrs. Kubouski called her on the phone to report that she had seen a
+square-dancing flying saucer.
+
+After this event, Mrs. Monroe noticed unusual plastic-like pebbles or
+pieces of dust on a polished wooden table. She felt somehow that these
+unusual pieces of trash were connected to the flashing lights which she
+has seen in the sky on several occasions.
+
+SEVEN
+
+Shortly after  had moved into my office in Boston, a man in red trousers
+interrupted me as I was writing. I was irritated at this interruption, but
+since I had left the door ajar, I let him come in. He talked enthusiastically
+about the large pseudo-Greek sculpture which I keep leaning against my
+office wall. We discussed the possible significance of UFOs in terms of
+symbolic chariots of the gods:
+
+Phaeton was the son of Clymene, a sea nymph, and Helios, the god of
+22 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+the sun. Against his father’s advice, Phaeton drove his chariot too fast
+and plummeted into the ocean. That is why, as the ancient Greek
+storytellers related, we have day and night and the end of the day seems
+to go so quickly and bloodily into the dark. Though, actually, this does
+not seem to make much sense since Phaeton’s chariot is reassembled
+every morning to run freshly through the bloody dawn.
+
+Actually, according to source books, Helios lent Phaeton his chariot
+and he drove it too close to the earth, so Zeus struck him down with a
+thunderbolt to keep the earth from catching fire.
+
+Phaeton must only have made this spectacular trip one time. In the
+sculpture that we were discussing, he is attended by a company of muses
+and the fires from his chariot do not seem to be very dangerous.
+
+6/26/77
+
+I decided to skip the weekend before continuing with this entry. The
+information which comprises this book has been collected over a period
+of two years, and yet I still do find it difficult to cope with these realities
+in any concentrated dosage. There seems always to be the necessity to
+make a joke or small talk.
+
+After we had discussed Greek mythology for a while, the man in red
+trousers told me that he had seen a strange unidentified light over the
+Aegean sea, which lies between Greece and Turkey. This was during a
+recent trip abroad and he was at this point traveling on a ship of some sort
+out among the smaller islands . . .
+
+The real 6/27/77
+
+Actually, I cheated and wrote the preceding before taking off for the
+weekend, while I 'still had all of these thoughts of chariots straight in my
+head. During the actual weekend, I did go to see the science fiction film
+Star Wars with my six-year-old son. While we were waiting for the large
+red curtain to pull back on the semi-circular screen, he suggested a new
+concept in motion pictures: the rocket movie.
+
+In the rocket movie, the audience—while waiting for the entertain-
+ment to begin—is actually transported into outer space as the theatre
+itself levitates into another time/space continuum. Of course, since my
+son is six years old, these were not his actual words, but I believe I am
+conveying the idea correctly. Lights down! Throw away your clocks!
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 23
+
+There is no space and the film is beginning!
+
+In Star Wars, intergalactic battles are being conducted by strange-
+looking monsters and robots with very human feelings. This is the
+difference between the typical science fiction thriller and the UFO
+reality: The thrust of sci-fi has always been the desire to animate
+machines, cold asteroids and pink-spotted sea monsters with the human
+significances of fable. So far as I can perceive, there is nothing com-
+fortably human and understandable about the UFO entities I have heard
+described. After our elaborate preamble, during which we discussed
+Greek mythology, my ceramic folk talismans, aspects of the weather
+over the Mediterranian, and the possibility of my talking up pastel
+portraiture of cupids, the man in the red trousers confessed that late at
+night over the Aegean he had seen a light which stood still in the sky.
+
+This light held steady for a few moments and then precipitated
+directly downwards at a high speed, after which it stopped in the sky,
+went straight back up again and disappeared. After careful considera-
+tion, said this man in red trousers, he did not think it could have been a
+shooting star, since the trajectory of an ordinary shooting star does not
+move directly downwards and then back upwards again (unless it is
+Phaeton resurrected).
+
+All of this, of course, was in the context of elaborate and nervous,
+casual discussion, and when this man in red trousers left, he very
+carefully shut the door.
+
+This was in early October.
+
+EIGHT
+A woman wearing a maroon coat came into the Psychic Center one
+winter morning and stood nervously about three yards from my door. She
+could not be persuaded to enter my office or to come close to me
+physically at all.
+
+Rita Warnock, who runs the Friendly Tearoom, had rapped on my
+door and told me that there was someone outside who wanted to report a
+UFO sighting.
+
+This woman was short, plump and grey-haired. She appeared to be in
+her fifties and was wearing a matching maroon coat and hat. “‘I saw on
+TV, you know: what they call these now . . . UFOs,” she told me. ““And
+24 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+then I was walking by and saw your sign and I thought I would come in
+here.”
+
+This woman spoke in heavily-accented but educated English, and was
+trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with UFOs,
+but felt impelled to speak about them nevertheless.
+
+On the preceding Saturday, 12/28/76, at nine or ten at night, she said,
+she had seen a reddish, circular light turning around, jumping to a new
+location, and then turning around again.
+
+She was able now to call this a UFO, she told me, but in 1944 during
+World War II, when she had seen such phenomena in Hungary near the
+Danube River, she had not known what to label this sort of circular
+aircraft.
+
+In 1944 in Hungary, this woman had been outside and saw a white
+cloud which elongated, then became or was part of a brownish-grey
+airship of an unusual sort. Then there was an air raid siren, and the usual
+planes went up.
+
+After the planes had been up in the air and gone, this cloud came lower
+down toward the earth. Within this cloud, there was a smaller, circular
+ship which was shining in the sun.
+
+Three days later, while walking again by the Danube near an arcade,
+this woman and several other people—including a police officer —saw
+the brownish-grey ship again. But at this time no one knew what to call it
+or what it really might be doing. She said she thought at that time that it
+might be a Nazi secret weapon of soine sort.
+
+In 1953 in Boston, this woman was walking down the street on a
+Sunday and saw a “fish-like thing™ in the sky. This ship appeared to
+have facets of ‘“‘scales” of some sort. It came low.
+
+The woman in the maroon coat said that she saw no people inside this
+scaly ship, but experienced telepathic contact of a sort she could not
+define.
+
+She stared at this ship for a while and then ran down the street to get
+other witnesses, but the corner store was closed and when she turned to
+start back the ship was gone.
+
+After telling me of these phenomena, this woman —still agitated —
+told me that she had read the Bible carefully to try to account for these
+things and could only conclude that— as was predicted in the Revelations
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 25
+
+of St. John—we are now experiencing the end of the world.
+Certainly, if we do have visitors from outer space, this is the end of the
+world as we know it.
+
+NINE
+On December 31st, 1976, just prior to the performance of my mummer’s
+play New Day at the Psychic Center as part of the citywide First Night
+celebration, a heavy-set young woman came into my office and wanted
+to talk about astral projection.
+
+Really, astral projection was the last thing on my mind just prior to this
+event. The heavy snow and personal quirks of the staff and the actors had
+for the moment rooted me right to the spot. There was no getting out of
+it: we were going to have to do this event, snow or no snow.
+
+Imagine my consternation when this unexpected visitor began to
+describe the glowing blue discs she had seen in the sky over the Neponset
+Drive-in two years ago. I whipped out my notebook and took down a
+description of these discs. There were several of them. They glowed
+blue, and were traveling fast in a zigzag pattern. It seemed they came out
+of the water, went toward the sunset and then were gone.
+
+I asked her what movie was showing at the drive-in, and with an
+embarrassed flush of laughter she told me that it had been Dracula. She
+could not remember exactly what date this had been two summers ago,
+but told me that it had been a cold night and that the mosquitos were
+biting. She had gone out to the drive-in with her cousins, she told me,
+and no one in the car could really believe what they had seen, so they
+finished watching Dracula.
+
+After they got home, they heard on the radio that 4 woman somewhere
+else in the area had seen the same thing that evening when she went out
+by the water to look for her dog.
+
+This heavy-set young woman told me that her cousin Frank had
+experienced strange dreams the night after this summer sighting, but
+will not talk about them. He was sixteen years old at the time that the
+blue discs flew over. 1 asked this woman, who is in her late twenties, if
+she herself had experienced any strange dreams connected with this
+sighting, and she admitted that she had not only dreamt of UFO entities,
+but subsequent to her sighting had tried to astral project herself out
+toward these entities.
+26 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+I asked if she had experienced any success with this astral projection,
+and she told me that she had seen in her concentrations beings with
+brown eyes and bluish-white skin who cannot breathe in this atmos-
+phere. There is something mixed with this air which they cannot inhale
+or contact without first being innoculated, she told me. This seems
+reasonable, considering that—as related in the Salem woman’s dream
+(p. 12)—chemical pollutants in the atmosphere may cause cancer.
+
+TEN
+
+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.
+“When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice,” reports the Boston
+Globe. “They found no square black object or radioactivity . . . 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 Pursuit magazine.
+
+I 'had already entitled this time concept ‘‘Fluidice: Time as a Function
+of Prana,” and coincidentally all of my diagrams did concern a square
+(potentially-disappearable) box of time.
+
+This article appeared in the Spring 1977 issue of Pursuit. I do not
+know how hot a large fluid ice box would be in this continuum, but I do
+link flexible time boxes to living thermo-nuclear bodies such as the sun.
+
+Certainly, such a box would not remain for long on the bottom of
+William McCarthy’s pond.
+
+ELEVEN
+6/26/77
+
+I'would now like to talk about the interconnected sightings which were
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 27
+
+referred to me by Helen in the early Fall. Or are these really inter-
+connected?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 “‘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.
+
+Donna’s sister, who lives in Arizona, says that several people have
+seen strange white lights in this location. Perhaps this is a haunted lake.
+
+While I was on the phone with Donna, her brother asked to talk to me
+and told me that he had experienced another odd incident in January of
+1977.
+
+He was driving through New Hampshire when an airplane flew low
+over his car. He felt curious about this particular plane for some reason,
+28 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+and looked up.
+
+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.
+
+TWELVE
+One of the most interesting sightings which I have collected was re-
+ported to me accidentally by a railroad engineer who was looking for a
+new apartment.
+
+1 was in the Psychic Center earlier than usual, talking to actors who
+were about to rehearse a scene from my play 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.
+
+“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,
+50 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 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
+UFOs. 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: ““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
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 29
+
+Psychic Center’s number into the real estate section of the Globe. So |
+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
+In February, a middle-aged woman in a flowered dress came into my
+office to report that *‘something solid” had hit her while she was asleep
+at a relative’s house.
+
+She woke and tried to place the source of this assault, but no one was
+in the room. This woman told me that she was shocked and frightened
+right after she woke, but cannot remember any strange dreams or odd
+behavior associated with her mini-UFO experience.
+
+FOURTEEN
+I picked up a stack of papers and found I had misplaced a more detailed
+account of Donna’s sighting in Arizona. She says this was on July 3,
+1976 at 4:30 A.M. near Lake Penablanca.
+
+She and her sister were sleeping in their car that night. They were
+awake, watching the stars, when a star moved left, went straight up and
+stopped as if to get out of the way of a plane which was passing. She says
+she was worried for an instant that this plane might “hit the stars.”
+
+Then other lights started to move in the sky. These lights got smaller
+and smaller and then the sun came up.
+
+Both Donna and her brother seem to have been buzzed by a *‘plane”
+of some sort which turned into a star, but there is absolutely no reason to
+suppose that they invented these incidents. Particularly, Donna’s state-
+ment that the ““plane might hit the star’’ shows an interesting suspension
+of the usual time/space continuum.
+
+Additionally, I have noted down the news that her brother when eight
+or nine years old looked out a window at the factory roof opposite his
+apartment and saw something which he describes as a dome with a
+lighted rectangle beneath the arc and a triangle attached below the
+rectangle. He says he remembers this vision as if it were yesterday.
+
+I am intrigued by the two rectangular UFOs seen in this area (re-
+member the vet’s assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if
+30 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+v
+
+we are wrong to stereotype UFOs as circular. Remember also the square
+object that made a round hole in McCarthy’s pond.
+
+FIFTEEN
+Frankie called me initially to tell me that in 1972, while he was harvest-
+ing tobacco in Canada near Simco, Ontario, he was looking out the
+window of the house where he was staying when a round blue object
+zipped by about a half a mile away. This, he says, was an ellipse with a
+rounded bottom. It made no noise. Later, he and his friends found large,
+round burn marks about thirty-five feet in diameter.
+
+He says that the house he was staying in while harvesting tobacco was
+haunted. Frankie and his friends heard moaning and experienced other
+odd occurrences with spirit sounds and .lights while living on this
+property. He connects his sighting of the UFO ellipse with the spirit
+phenomena he saw while living in this haunted house, which he says he
+and his friends had broken into initially, since it was deserted.
+
+If people who live on this property hear moaning and rattling, and see
+thirty-five-foot glowing elliptical spheres hot enough to char growing
+tobacco, it is easy to see why the house was deserted.
+
+I told Frankie that I do feel there is a connection between UFO and
+spirit phenomena in that both are using pranic or astral ehergies to
+actualize.
+
+I asked him if he thought that he himself was mediumistic or psychic
+in any way and he told me that he had been living in New Jersey in an
+apartment where the previous occupant had been found dead.
+
+Things began to move around all by themselves in this apartment, and
+a picture actually fell off the wall. Frankie told me to read Bishop Pike’s
+book The Other Side in connection with this experience. He told me that
+his mother had also been psychic. She read the cards, he said, but never
+went into psychic reading professionally.
+
+While I was talking to Frankie on the telephone, I saw a flash of light
+pulse on the wall opposite. I took this to be some sort of signal that this
+particular phone call was important, and congratulated myself upon this
+occasion.
+
+After we had talked for a while about psychic phenomena and UFOs,
+Frankie volunteered that he knew a German expatriate living in Canada
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 31
+
+who has proof that UFOs were flying saucer-shaped aircraft manufac-
+tured by the Nazis during World War 11. He had made a small model of
+this aircraft for this man, Frankie told me, but a round object has trouble
+moving in a straight line because of its shape. This model would not fly
+more than a few yards.
+
+*Oh really, Frankie?”’ I replied. ‘“Would you mind giving me the
+address of this man in Canada?”’
+
+Frankie said that he would not mind, but that first he would have to
+locate one of his letters. He could not remember where he had put this
+and said he would call me back.
+
+In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an ESP
+experiment with him. At 8 P.M. that night I would place an ordinary
+sewing needle on the surface of a glass of water and by long distance
+psychokinesis Frankie would cause this needle to float.
+
+I was a bit paranoid about Frankie’s possible mental abilities as
+connected with neo-Nazi activities, since I had actually seen a flash of
+spirit light while talking to him on the phone, but at exactly 8 P.M. the
+needle sank. It precipitated directly to the bottom of the glass and
+remained at the bottom of the glass.
+
+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 UFOs: 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
+
+6/29/77
+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 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.
+32 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+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 UFO reports, so I called the
+number listed and got an answering service.
+
+They told me that this 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 UFOs 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 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 UFO phenomenon itself.” He offered as examples of this strange-
+ness: 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: UFOs 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, 1 was intrigued by his statement that he had “instituted a
+one-million-dollar lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 33
+
+and certain police agencies for blatant violation of legal statutes and civil
+rights involving merely reporting a 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 UFOs. I do not know exactly what
+Charlie Giftie did to deserve this restraint. Perhaps he stood in some
+public park and yelled: “UFOs 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 free-
+domrof 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/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 experi-
+enced 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
+34 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+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 satisfactor-
+ily 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 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
+UFO manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excur-
+sion 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 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.”
+
+Perhaps.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 35
+
+[ knew as I was talking to Torres that when he brought me this photo I
+was going to have it secretly duplicated.
+
+I told Torres that I wanted to keep this photo for several weeks to look
+at it, and that [ would return it to him as soon as [ 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.
+
+When I brought in this photo, the man behind the counter was hostile.
+He told me (incredibly) that he had done a paper on UFOs while in
+college and insisted that the picture was no good for submitting any-
+where without a negative.
+
+I told him that I was not planning to submit it anywhere for proof, but
+simply wanted a copy for posterity.
+
+However, this amateur UFO buff was too sure of the futility of
+duplicating a 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
+UFO-connected downflux of psychokinetic energies which 1 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 ““8”” or *‘B”’ which appears faintly in the dusky
+background of the Torres UFO photo is a bleedthrough 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 photo-
+graphic service immediately (it takes several days to obtain a new
+negative) [ 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 Star Wars, but 1 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
+36 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+sunnyside up in the middle.
+Alsa, this UFQ does resemble the human female breast us it might be
+
+rendered against o dark background by the surrealist artist Sulvadur
+Dali.
+
+FIGURE ONE
+
+Facsimile of photo developed
+July 1970
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 37
+
+The object recorded on the Torres 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, 1 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 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 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
+38 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+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 Don-
+na’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 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 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 UFOs.
+
+Usually, contactees report saucer-shaped or ellipsoidal craft. UFOs
+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 UFOs.
+
+[ don’t know why I should reject any of these stories. After all, I have
+seen 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.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 39
+
+Disregarding the usual expectations of logic, time and space: some
+UFOs 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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
+40 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+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.”
+
+[ 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 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 UFO or even freaking out mildly into any aspects of
+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 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 1
+toured the city, decided to write a long poem (Trip 1011/Destination
+4031: now scheduled for publication in the Stone Soup East/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.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 41
+
+Upon arriving in San Francisco, I still felt reasonably unaltered, but
+then during the day on March 31st 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 UFOs. 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, [ 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
+42 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+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, 1 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
+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
+became not passively a contactee, but actually the UFO phenomenon
+itself.
+
+I did not realize at the time that I approached this counter that I was
+going to become a UFO manifestation. I accomplished this, however,
+shortly after receiving the change from a one-dollar bill, which [ had
+tendered to James Karnstedt (his real name). Right now, I am going to
+knock off this California narration for today to write a letter of response
+to the man from the Parker House hotel chain who came into my office
+this morning asking me to refer my clients from out of town to their ESP
+Executive Services Program. A portion of his memo is quoted below:
+
+“Special ESP privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the ESP
+guest and spouse.”
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 43
+
+I wonder if this has anything to do with Giftie’s monolith (Section
+17)?
+
+Itis easy to see that I have been UFOed by a Parker House Hotel memo
+Just as [ was about to describe how I became a UFO in the process of
+purchasing cigars.
+
+Really: the Executive Services Program representative just walked
+right in here.
+
+TWENTY-THREE
+7/1/717
+The difference between the Parker House UFO and my transformation
+into a UFO lies primarily in the area of awareness and intention. For
+example: why on earth did a functionary of the Parker House arrive
+conveniently into my office on 6/30/77 with a convenient example for
+this book?
+
+I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the ESP services memo
+specifically for my whimsical use at this moment.
+
+On the other hand, when Jim Karnstedt returned my change and then
+asked me why I was wearing the word MAGICK on my sweatshirt and if
+I meant by that metaphysical magick or stage magic, I felt a definite shift
+in my consciousness and the sense that what 1 was going to say would be
+“significant’ in some way.
+
+This was similar to the feeling of *‘significance” which I recognize as
+being part of the psychic reading situation, when I am relating com-
+munications which ‘“mean something” to an individual, all of this
+apprehended by ESP.
+
+For some reason, [ began in the art supply store to talk to Karnstedt
+about my mathematical ideas as these relate to UFO phenomena, par-
+ticularly in the area of time/space anomaly. He told me that he himself
+was involved with UFO research, and was in fact planning to attend an
+upcoming international UFO conference in Acapulco, Mexico.
+
+Then Karnstedt produced his energen. An energen is a small circular
+device made of metal. It resembles, appropriately, a small flying saucer
+with a circular plate on the bottom and the top and a central compart-
+ment.
+44 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+s
+
+Karnstedt told me that he also had recently been in Los Angeles,
+demonstrating his energen. This device, he told me, ionizes the atmos-
+phere of a room as the sun ionizes the atmosphere, producing a more
+healthful environment. He told me that this energen also does have some
+effect on states of consciousness.
+
+There was an energen in the art store, ionizing the atmosphere. At the
+time I was talking to Karnstedt, I did not fully recognize the significance
+of this encounter. As so often happens with information and/or added
+perception gained by unusual means, the data is so unusual and so
+unexpected that the logical faculties must take time to sort and assimilate
+the new experience before it can be of any material use.
+
+Therefore, at this time I am writing myself a note which reads:
+“Karnstedt: the energen as time/space changer’” and I will place this
+note at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. These papers are
+notes for this book which I have arranged in chronological order. I have
+just written to Karnstedt asking if he knows anyone who would be
+interested in reading this book, and he should answer at about the time I
+have finished re-drafting this stack of notes.
+
+So that: these notes are in chronological order, including the note
+which I 'have taken out of chronological order and placed at the end of the
+stack, to cover an event which has not yet occurred. Remember that
+previous to this encounter in the art store, I had never seen Karnstedt
+before, never heard of the energen and had no idea that I would ever find
+myself explaining my theories of time alteration in a San Francisco art
+store with a ““60% off’’ sign in the window.
+
+At the time of our conversation, I exchanged addresses with Karn-
+stedt, who told me to keep in touch and that he was in contact with a
+writer/editor on psychic topics who lives in San Francisco. I will call
+this writer/editor Simon Herrick.
+
+It occurs to me now that it must have been strange for Karnstedt to
+receive my name on my then just hot-off-the-press surrealist stationery,
+which reads on the masthead: //2 OFF or else and bears at the foot of the
+pages this motto: “Here I am. Farewell, body of the sphynx.”
+
+Like the hotel chain with their ESP executive services program, I
+really had not designed the stationery for this encounter, but it was
+certainly appropriate.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 45
+
+Later on that April Fools Day evening, after finally locating Warren
+Sequoia in his villa overlooking the flatlands of Berkeley, we were all
+engaging in casual small talk when his wife, who is psychic, suddenly
+interjected:
+
+*““Simon Herrick! I see Simon Herrick in the air all around you!”
+
+Certainly, I had no idea that the energen would be able to impress
+Simon Herrick into the air all around me.
+
+Sequoia told me that he did not want to talk in any detail about his
+UFO encounter, and that seemed to be a dead end to my inspiration that I
+should for some reason speak to Sequoia directly.
+
+Perhaps the purpose of this visit was that his wife should prophesy
+upon the name of Simon Herrick. Subsequent to visiting Sequoia, my
+sense of significance and mental alteration receded, leaving me a bit
+tired and subdued.
+
+I went on with my ordinary social activities as planned and left San
+Francisco the following Sunday.
+
+Before I left, I dropped by the art store to see Karnstedt again. I still
+did not fully understand our connection, but told him that Sequoia’s wife
+had prophesied upon the name of Simon Herrick, thus in some way
+reinforcing the significance of whatever it was that had turned me into a
+UFO on April Fools Day.
+
+I wonder how Karnstedt will reply to the letter I wrote yesterday.
+
+TWENTY-FOUR
+Next in my file is *“Truth Declassified,” a brochure which I received in
+response to my query on Nazi UFOs (Section 15). This brochure asks the
+question: ‘‘Did the Nazis, with their secret weapons, ‘buzz’ the Capitol
+in Washington in 1951 in order to intimidate the US government?”’
+
+This is quite a question.
+
+I did order the book UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon from Frankie’s
+reference and found it to be dedicated to the “‘unsung and often-
+maligned heroes of the Second World War.”’
+
+There seems to be some confusion or connection here between UFOs
+
+and war activities.
+It is a widely circulated rumor that Hitler himself was mediumistic
+46 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+and deeply into astrology and other occult activities. The Nazi swastica
+itself is the reversed occult symbol for the four dimensions: time, and the
+three dimensional locations, which are also of importance to mathe-
+maticians.
+
+UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon does not mention this fact, but ends with a
+very useful appendix of newspaper clippings which have been dupli-
+cated from English language newspapers exactly as they were pub-
+lished, right down to the ragged corners. These clippings have datelines
+from all over the world.
+
+Otherwise, the composition of UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon seems a
+little crazy to me. The author has indeed achieved some sort of an
+insight, but due to prejudices stemming from World War II has not been
+able to make this insight cohere. >
+
+Mattern-Friedrech describes the German nation as a colony either
+from the German-speaking ‘‘Saturnanians’® or ‘‘the outer earth
+beachhead of the inner earth civilization.”
+
+I wrote to my correspondent at the publishers of UFOs: Nazi Secret
+Weapon, asking the following questions. The following answers were
+written in below the questions, and my original letter was returned:
+
+: Are you aware of the psychic factor in UFO contact?
+Yes.
+
+: How do you deal with this in your operations?
+
+: By accepting that a certain percentage of UFO sightings are of that
+origin.
+
+: How did you become interested in UFQs?
+
+: Through (unintelligible word) with German engineers who worked
+on UFOs during World War II.
+
+: Have you or members of your staff seen UFOs?
+
+No!
+
+: Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the “occult’” and
+“mediumship”* with UFO or war planning activities?
+
+Yes.
+
+My correspondent added that he was ** going to Europe this summer to
+contact UFO specialists and related people.”
+
+Along with Mattern-Friedrech, the author of UFOs: Nazi Secret
+Weapon, 1 cannot make all of this information cohere, except simply to
+
+-
+
+> O0P0 PO POPO
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 47
+
+remember the story told to me by the woman in the maroon coat (Section
+8) last winter. She says that she saw a circular aircraft over the Danube
+River in Hungary during an air raid alert in 1944,
+
+Was this aircraft a similar sighting to the one she later experienced in
+the United States, or was it a Nazi secret weapon?
+
+Is it possible that a Nazi functionary familiar with secret circular
+aircraft, then mentally disturbed by the German defeat, might be more
+likely than most of us to admit the real possibility of UFOs, the circular
+aircraft that keep turning up in news photos all over the world?
+
+I have drawn below (Figure 2) the image of a circular spinning object
+with windows, standing still. This is similar to the *“‘Flugetrad” or
+“wingwheel”” designed by the Nazis for vertical takeoff, which is
+included in Mattern-Friedrech’s book. These objects are not the same,
+but they are similar. One of the most important aspects of their similarity
+is that they look more different standing still, than when blurred into a
+solid ellipse while spinning.
+
+At this point, I am going to take off from this book for the fourth of
+July weekend, during which I plan to write a short surrealist children’s
+play entitled My Sandwich Exploded.
+
+This was requested by a friend of mine who does children’s plays in
+New York City, and I feel that I should get it done before I have to spend
+any time retyping this manuscript.
+
+STOPPED FAN
+(Figure Two)
+48 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+TWENTY-FIVE
+7/5/77
+On July 4th, while I was busy redrafting My Sandwich Exploded, the
+phone rang and a man told me that he had seen my ad on UFOs and
+wanted to report a UFO sighting.
+
+He told me that he links UFOs with psychic phenomena and that the
+psychic sensation he connects with UFOs is like ‘“walking through the
+rain in a rubber suit.”
+
+Connected with this sensation, he has developed something which he
+calls “‘rain therapy.” By the use of rain therapy, this man claims he can
+help people psychologically and cure minor aches and pains.
+
+I told Simons that I could meet him to talk about rain therapy on July 7
+and he became excited and told me that UFOs were due to be sighted in
+Maine on July 7.
+
+I found this conjunction of events and mformatwn interesting, and a
+bit disturbing, as I had just spoken on the phone with a friend from New
+York who is going to Maine on vacation and will be passing through
+Boston on July 8.
+
+Also, the sensation of ‘“‘rain falling through the body” is remarkably
+like the sensation which I feel when I am channeling pranic energy, as
+described in ““Notes on Torres”’ (Section 30). In fact, last yearsI wrote a
+song on this topic. It is a jazz mantra, which goes:
+
+light keeps falling through the holes in the sky
+light keeps falling through the holes in the sky
+light keeps falling through the holes in the sky
+on the intergalactic line
+I like to lie on the seat while I ride
+I like to lie on the seat while I ride
+I like to lie on the seat while I ride
+to watch the light fall through the sky
+I’ve got a penny with a Jupiter sign
+I’ve got a penny with a Jupiter sign
+I’ve got a penny with a Jupiter sign
+and you better believe: that penny is mine
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 49
+
+light keeps falling through the holes in the sky
+light keeps falling through the holes in the sky
+
+light keeps falling through the holes in the sky
+on the intergalactic line
+
+We’ll see what happens on July 7.
+
+TWENTY-SIX
+On May Day 1977 I met by chance a local theatre entrepreneur in a coffee
+shop where I was loitering before crossing the street to go on to an
+organizational meeting.
+
+We were headed for different theatres. He asked me what I was doing,
+so I told him (among other bits and pieces of gossip) about my research
+on UFOs.
+
+We had never discussed UFOs before, though we had talked about the
+occult and black magic. He is a person I don’t see very often, really the
+friend of a friend who moves in another area of acquaintance.
+
+Spontaneously, he told me that he and his wife the night before had
+seen a greenish pulsating light which expanded in the sky and then
+proceeded directly downwards.
+
+This light was large, not a meteorite, and might have been a weather
+satellite. He emphasized that this probably might have been a weather
+satellite, but he was not sure exactly what he had seen. There is no doubt
+that this light was unusual, as well as my extended conversation with the
+sightee, whom I do not know very well.
+
+TWENTY-SEVEN
+
+Next in my file is a highly unusual clipping from the Boston Herald
+American dated May 16, 1977. This details the story of a retired mainte-
+nance man from Dracut, Massachusetts and his two sons, aged 12 and
+14, who were chased by a hairy, nine-foot tall creature near Hollis, New
+Hampshire. Laid out beside this story is another story which occurred
+within the same span of time. This tells of two Dover, Massachusetts
+teenagers who saw a small, monkey-like figure with a “‘figure 8 head”
+standing on top of a broken stone wall. This being was said to have had
+bright orange eyes.
+50 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+TWENTY-EIGHT
+On May 17, a man who said that he had attended meditation sessions at
+the Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach left a class which Larry Sands
+was conducting just outside my office and told me that he had experi-
+enced a UFO sighting while at Virginia Beach. He connected this
+sighting with an alteration of his perceptual system.
+
+This Cayce man had been meditating heavily for several days and
+walked out onto the beach. When he looked up into the sky, he saw first a
+large orange light and then a shower of shooting stars. This caused what
+he described as a ““spasmodic reaction’ of his entire nervous system. He
+spoke several times of physical spasms as connected with his visionary
+experience.
+
+TWENTY-NINE
+A few days after I had talked to this man about his experience at the
+Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach, a woman in her early twenties
+called me on the phone and told me that she had experienced psychical
+phenomena, but was afraid to talk about these phenomena, because the
+circumstances were embarrassing.
+
+I told her to write me a letter about her experiences. These are sections
+five and six of Mary Beth’s Letter: *‘5) I fell asleep and saw a light,
+yellow wheel turning within me. 6) I went into a state of bliss Easter
+Sunday at the Charles River. I could perceive matter vibrate and the air
+vibrated and sparkled like the moon shining off of tiny wavelets in a
+lake. I perceived how I was another forcefield in the universe, and part of
+everything.”
+
+Why would anyone be ashamed of these perceptions? Congratu-
+lations, Mary Beth, on the beauty of your thought.
+
+Perhaps Mary Beth was ashamed because she also felt a spasmodic
+reaction of her nervous system and a cosmic rain of light falling through
+and not-through her body. Such a symptom might psychiatrically be
+classed as a symptom of neural disorder or psychosis. Actually, if a
+person is really experiencing some communication from the astral
+regions (which utilizes pranic energies independent of Earth time and
+
+space) this communication is going to have some effect on the nervous
+system.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 51
+
+Mary Beth did mention at one point in her letter that she had once felta
+ghostly lover’s touch and kiss on her cheek as she slept. It seems that
+Mary Beth’s system, like the systems of many psychic mediums, some-
+how registers thought physically.
+
+THIRTY
+I had a strange experience with the physical effect of thought on my
+nervous system which I detailed right after the event in a quickly written
+journal-article which I entitled ‘‘Notes on Torres.”” I sent this to Pursuit
+magazine of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, which
+has published several of my speculative articles.
+
+The letter [ received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He
+wrote: “‘I think the best thing we can do is wait and see what happens
+with all the diverse cosmic characters who are presently involved in your
+research concerning the whole inter-relationship . . . I do not doubt that
+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
+Diaries and Diagrams on UFO Contact
+
+“Door, where’d you learn all this?”
+—Catullus
+
+by E. Macer-Story
+Copyright 1977 E. Macer-Story
+All right reserved
+
+TORRES REBUS 4/21/77
+Pieces:
+
+one: Macer-Story is collecting data on UFOs to write a book. This is
+publicly known. She has just been to California, where she visited old
+friends. The environment in California is markedly different from her
+office environment in Boston. In California, she talked with several
+52 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+experts on UFO activity and altered states of consciousness.
+
+Two: Torres is a Latin American expatriate who has been in this country
+for fifteen years. He has a long-standing interest in spiritism. Once
+sponsored a medium who performed music in concert. Has written an
+odd play about the chess master Capablanca playing chess with a live
+pigeon. Capablanca’s girl friend then becomes jealous and there is a
+wild disturbance. He has a UFO photo which was taken in South
+America in 1969. It seems to be genuine. He says his mother and cousin
+witnessed the UFO and took the picture. He believes he is a psychic
+healer and wants to demonstrate this by giving Macer-Story healing
+treatments.
+
+three: Bill Babaloo and Ben Shenks who were once editors for
+PLAYBOY live in California. They work separately. Shenks introduced
+Macer-Story to Babaloo. Babaloo has written on UFOs both fictionally
+and non-fictionally. Also, Babaloo is into aspects of spirit contact and
+Crowleyesque magic. Shenks is writing a book on psychic healing. He
+has a certain degree of romantic interest for Macer-Story and together
+they went to an unconventional gathering on April Fools Day at which
+alternate lifestyles were practiced actively. Macer-Story has*written a
+poem about her trip to California entitled Trip 1011/Departure 4031.
+
+Sfour: Leonardo Pinto is a friend of Torres who lives in New York City.
+They have tried seances. Pinto claims Guiseppi Verdi appeared to him at
+age thirteen and has written an opera by inspiration which he titles
+Gardenia. This is about an ugly woman who nurses a nobleman and falls
+inlove with him. He is blind, and when a surgeon is able to cure him, she
+substitutes a beautiful woman in her place, so that he will never know
+she is ugly. Torres and Pinto fancy this opera as mystical.
+
+five: Macer-Story is planning a trip to New York City in conjunction
+with relocating in the city. She knows artists and unconventional people
+in that environment. New York is associated by Macer-Story with plays
+and music.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 53
+
+six: A spirit entity claiming to be a Scottish music teacher who died in
+1923 comes through to Macer-Story in a psychic sitting with Torres. He
+says he has taught in the British Isles at a school called Edinburgh. He
+gives a K-sounding name like Kinkaid, or Kavanagh, also Macer-Story
+is aware of the name Fox as connected with this entity. The context of
+this contact was Macer-Story holding the music manuscript of one of
+Pinto’s inspirational compositions. Pinto was not present.
+
+Note in the following diagram that these various pieces are not really
+connected except associationally.
+
+DIAGRAM ONE
+Boston
+New York California
+
+6@\ O¢—-}-0
+
+QUESTION: What has caused this nexus to register consciously?
+ANSWER: Torres. QUESTION: Why Torres?
+
+By the time I had decided to keep some record of events surrounding the
+Torres UFO sighting, these events had already grown so complex that I
+decided to make an informational diagram rather than attempting to
+represent this situation in a wholly linear and sequential way.
+
+This article will contain two informational diagrams: one drawn
+previous to the journal of my relationship with Torres and one drawn as a
+summary of this experience.
+
+1 do not feel that I can present this entire occasion without including
+personal details about Torres and about myself, so I have changed his
+name and the location of the UFO sighting, which actually did take place
+54 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+in South America in 1969.
+
+Though I have changed Torres’ name, the dates and auxiliary informa-
+tion are accurate to the best of my knowledge. The novel which is
+mentioned in the journals is an actual novel and you may want to go to the -
+library and check it out. Perhaps you might be able to see even further
+synchronistic correspondences in meaning, plot structure and personal-
+ity description. I hope so.
+
+By now, I am so close to this material that I find it quite difficult to do
+more than simply present informational diagrams, supplemented by my
+journals. I-have retained sequentially all of my mistakes and misinter-
+pretations, so that you can see how complex the “‘contactee™ situation
+can become.
+
+Since the “UFO” entities operate by the use of pranic energy, many of
+the auxiliary effects of prolonged contact are in the area of
+psychokinesis, mood and idea change, and telepathy. Unprepared con-
+tactees might believe that they are experiencing a descent into madness.
+Persons experiencing this sort of communication might also, as they
+have in the past, be tempted toward radical pronouncements, dangerous
+activities or suicide.
+
+It is my hope that the Torres journals will help to prevent some of this
+needless agitation. b
+
+PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM ONE
+4/27/77
+Torres called just a split second after I had hung up the phone after
+talking to another man who was delayed in coming over for dinner. He
+seemed morose and wanted his UFO photo back. Probably on the
+subconscious level he was picking up telepathically that I was interested
+in another man.
+
+Also, he told me that the pianist who had played the Beethoven
+concert he sponsored (a performance done by spiritual direction) is back
+intown and was recently in London. I asked Torres to ask this musician if
+he knows any Scottish music teachers, there perhaps being some overt
+connection to the seance entity which came through as regards Torres
+music, and identified itself as Scottish.
+
+Again I asked him to contact his cousin in Argentina (the one who
+took the picture of the UFO) and ask for details as to why his mother and
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 55
+
+cousin were on that particular sightseeing trip. Also I asked for any
+strange dreams or paranormal details which his mother or cousin might
+remember.
+
+4/28/77
+
+Torres gave me another healing treatment, holding my upper arm in his
+hands. At a certain point, he said he felt a particularly strong influx of
+energy, and I could feel that the surface of his palms had actually grown
+hotter, like raising the adjustment on a heating pad.
+
+Subsequently while riding home in the subway I was able to hang onto
+the rail by voluntary control of the muscles of my lower arm, which
+would not have been possible several weeks ago, although I have had
+voluntary control of my hand and fingers since shortly after my injury.
+Additionally, in this session, Torres was interested in my ability to move
+the dowsing pendulum by psychokinesis.
+
+I did this while holding the pendulum in my hand and he insisted
+“‘experimentally’” that I support my arm (not the injured arm) on a
+surface, so that there would be no possibility of unconscious cheating by
+small muscular movements.
+
+I did this and, much to my surprised superstition, was able to move the
+pendulum. Then Torres suggested that I suspend the pendulum off the
+edge of the desk without touching it and try to move it. I could not do
+this, although it got very still and trembled a little. Then he suggested
+that I touch the cord where it rested against the top of the desk (we had
+pinned down the cord with a coffee cup) and try to send my energy along
+the cord.
+
+Immediately when I did this, the pendulum started swinging as it had
+when I held it suspended from my hand. I assume that either I have some
+sort of psychological hangup about having to touch the pendulum cord,
+or the pranic energies are being somehow physically keyed, as in Torres
+feeling (is this partially a sexual hangup?) that he has to touch my arm to
+heal me. He does not feel that he can heal a person without touching
+them first. Or is this just in my case? He did tell me that a cancer patient
+he had prayed for in some way had undergone remission of symptoms.
+
+Somewhere in the process of moving this pendulum, the entire situa-
+tion of UFO photo, psychic healing, Torres’ infatuation with me and
+now my onset of psychokinesis became so funny that I began to laugh
+56 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+hysterically (which sometimes happens when I get an insight while
+meditating: frequently the mechanism of these ‘‘paranormal events”
+when contrasted with what is expected or thought to be normal is as
+funny as a movie like Dr. Strangelove, wherein everyone is responding
+to contradictory rational motivations which combine to produce a
+bizarre, sometimes explosive result).
+
+This time while I was laughing I discovered that my own hilarious
+energy release was contributing to the ease with which I was able to
+make the pendulum move while it was hanging from the table.
+
+I gave Torres back his UFO photo, keeping a couple of color xerox
+copies stashed away in my book file. (I do plan, barring synchronous
+interruption, to complete a book on personal contactee experiences.)
+While checking his photo for damages, Torres told me that other expo-
+sures on this particular roll of film had .also shown numbers on the
+backing, indicating that the one showing on the Torres photo is probably
+due to a delay in developing the film. (Or unusual radiation during the
+time of the sighting?)
+
+Due to my own laughter, [ am also learning more about Torres’ strange
+sense of humor. He told me he had written a short piece (I’m not sure if
+it’s a story or a play) entitled ‘“The Sale of a Dead Man.” This is
+supposed to be some sort of takeoff on Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
+Torres told me that he eventually changed the title **Sale of a Dead Man”’
+to “Juanita,” so I assume that this is another of his unfortunate women,
+probably selling a dead man down the river. Additionally, he told me that
+when he was an altar boy the kids used to try and make him laugh while
+he was assisting at communion, and that in order to discourage this he
+would force the sharp edge of the patin against their throats as they were
+taking the host. In retrospect, he admitted, this is not as funny as it
+seemed at the time.
+
+5/4/77
+
+Today I got a letter from Edinburgh University indicating that they have
+no name on record which corresponds to the information which came
+through from the entity claiming to be the music teacher. I felt very
+depressed about this, especially as there had been an incident which was
+negative during a reading earlier in the day.
+
+A man had asked me in a “‘twenty-questions” and “ESP quickie-
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 57
+
+quiz” spirit where he would be traveling outside the country. I read
+where he would be traveling in the future and he told me where he had
+been traveling in the past and told me that I was mistaken about where he
+had been when I had been telling him not where he was but where he
+perhaps might find himself.
+
+This can be frustrating. 1 know that spirits sometimes give erroneous
+information, either as a joke or as a carrot before the horse to get people
+around into a position which might not have been anticipated. I received
+the information in the Torres seance not from my own psychic faculty,
+but from some other entity or source of information. So I am going to
+pursue the idea that some “‘Kinkaid?”’ may have taught at some Edin-
+burgh University or prep school in the British Isles. (I had originally
+gotten England, not Scotland, as the location of the school, but could
+find in the listings no Edinburgh College or School of note in England.)
+
+Perhaps the librarian in Edinburgh might have access to information
+on small schools which is not available in catalogues in Boston. Torres
+gave my arm another healing treatment and I felt a slight pressure inside
+the muscle but no spectacular effects. I noticed that I myself could cause
+the warm, waking sensation to occur in the nerve by holding my own arm
+and concentrating. I wonder if I could heal myself, but this seems
+somehow onanistic. ‘“‘Physician,” however, said Jesus, ‘“‘Heal thyself.”
+
+1 can definitely move the pendulum on my own (or by
+mediumistically-generated energies?) and perhaps I could also circulate
+healing energies. At any rate, Torres wanted me to try moving the
+pendulum as we had during the last session and so I suspended it from
+my table (at home now, not at my office) and showed him that 1 could
+move it slightly without touching string or table at all, and swing it quite
+definitely while pressing the string with my finger.
+
+He suggested that we try to see if spirits were present in connection
+with the moving of the pendulum. I did a meditation for safety and
+protection, and requested the aid of the spirits. The pendulum did move a
+bit in response to this, but became less the focus of attention than the fact
+that I spontaneously began to address this pendulum in broken Spanish. I
+do not usually speak Spanish, though I do know some of the language
+from college. Subsequently Torres and I saw several dark spots of some
+shadowy substance moving cloudlike across the floor. This had the
+58 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+shape of a large cloud, then a formation of several smaller clouds.
+Definitely there is some very strange spirit (UFO manipulation via the
+astral?) activity connected with this entire operation. It is certainly
+beyond my understanding at this point.
+
+5/5/71
+
+It has occurred to me that the name ‘“‘Fox™ which occurred as an
+auxiliary name to the Edinburgh communication may be of importance.
+I now feel psychically that the name Fox may have slipped through to me
+accidentally as part of the real spirit entity impersonating the fictional
+Kinkaid. I connect Fox with sadistic aspects of this earthbound entity
+which haunts Torres, and sometimes manifests through his personality.
+In my concentration on the entity who is not from Edinburgh I saw two
+prominent images: one of a man having intercourse with several women
+in succession, throwing them over his shoulder as in an assembly line,
+and the other of someone smashing a woman'’s face into a pie plate. I
+connect this definitely with the strange Torres’ writings on women, one
+of which is quite proudly the result of automatic writing. Who was or is
+Fox?
+
+In connection with this aspect, I do remember that the man who
+depressed me yesterday concerning predictions of his future also argued
+with me about the future using just about the same deterministic terms
+Torres was using when I first met him.
+
+The words were so similar that I noticed it, since I was to meet Torres
+later that afternoon. So *“‘Fox” was trying to sabotage me before my
+meeting with Torres (perhaps) manifesting through the personality of
+another man who is slightly mediumistic. I will watch for this in the
+future.
+
+I think I should list what I have now accumulated as the manifested
+personality characteristics of Fox: sadistic, bizarre sense of humor not
+confined to women but including altar boys, pigeons and Guiseppi
+Verdi. Not to mention Capablance. Intelligent enough to throw up this
+morass of contradictions in a quasi-coherent way, and to deceive Torres
+consistently. Somehow connected with UFOs or (and this is an interest-
+ing possibility) trying to throw me off the track of my research and into
+some bizarre relationship with Torres.
+
+In this case, I would now be meeting personally for the first time the
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 59
+
+‘““anti-UFO investigator’ kind of entity often mentioned in accounts of
+“men in black™ or other threatening incidents to which contactees or
+investigators of sightings are subjected.
+
+I was moved just now to do some automatic writing myself, and got
+the phrase: ‘‘you are not going to send the plow to the farmer: he has
+one.” What might this mean? I concentrated to get a meaning, and came
+up with the idea, as I had speculated with Torres during one of our earlier
+sessions, that any “‘musical’’ abilities coming through as part of piano
+sessions might very well belong to himself and Pinto as part of the
+automatic memory of their own nervous system. This entity might only
+be triggering their own abilities by an influx of energy, playing with
+them in this manner.
+
+Torres has told me that subsequent to one of his ‘“‘inspired” piano
+sessions his hands bled from so much hard playing. I wonder what he
+actually sounded like.
+
+5/6/77
+
+I felt like looking up ““Fox” in the card catalogue of the library and
+(incredibly!) found the name of James Fox, the pseudonym of a writer
+named James Knipscheer (a K-sounding name, indeed!) who has written
+a novel entitled Operation Dancing Dog. This is the only book by
+Knipscheer-Fox shelved in the Boston Library. This title has resonance
+of the idea of manipulation of human beings by UFO entities. Also, as a
+typical American adventure novel, I suppose it does contain elements of
+violence. It was unavailable on the shelf, so I put in a request order.
+
+Also, I found in the catalogue a Norman Fox who died in 1960. This
+Fox wrote The Devil’s Saddle, among other Westerns. But The Devil’s
+Saddle (which was in the library) has a Calamity Jane-type figure in it
+and a happy ending, so I do not really find any significance in this
+particular coincidence, though there are a few fistfights out in the corral
+and at other locations.
+
+John Fox, who wrote a book entitled Christmas Night with Satan, also
+seems like quite a long shot in terms of this particular dilemma. There is
+no other Fox listed with a K-sounding alternate name, so I am quite sure
+that Fox-Knipscheer is the author I should consult, though he is not yet
+dead.
+
+According to the card catalogue, Fox-Knipscheer is alive and living in
+60 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+California. So, whatever spirit was playing tricks with me at least has
+access to the Boston Public Library.
+
+Additionally, I am now reminded of the famous (now infamous) Fox
+family spirit rappings which started the seance craze earlier in this
+century. There are several books on this subject in the card catalogue
+under “Fox,” but they were not in the library. I remember enough from
+previous readings about the Fox mediums to have now a question in my
+mind about the identity of the trickster entity, in terms of this now-
+deccased Fox family. There was some degree of violence and trickery in
+those manifestations.
+
+However, the Knipscheer with pseudonym Fox, though living, seems
+to be the entity indicated at this time. It is really beyond coincidence to
+find a K-sounding name linked with “Fox” and the very idea of
+Operation Dancing Dog. 1 hope I can logate the book.
+
+5/1/717
+
+Torres calls agitated. He tells me an Uncle of his has died in South
+America. He wants to know if this is possibly the reason for the recent
+ectoplasmic and shadowy clouds which were seen in connection with
+my suddenly speaking Spanish. I tell him no. The date of the ectoplas-
+mic appearances does not correspond to the date of his Uncle’s death. He
+comes over to my apartment. We concentrate and the penduluin moves.
+Several ectoplasmic shapes are seen. He asks me about his dead uncle
+and ! bring through several evidential details psychically, but Uncle is
+not present in spirit.
+
+Torres gives my arm another healing treatment. I do not feel a surge of
+energy into my arm as before, but both of us see an ectoplasmic shadow
+near the floor during the course of the healing. Probably, interest has
+passed from the healing to the ectoplasmic manifestations, and so they
+are manifesting.
+
+Torres at the end of this extravaganza became excited and wanted to
+found a ““psychic center” with me, but I refused. Though throughout our
+first acquaintance he seemed to have an unusually strong attachment for
+his mother, and called after each appointment to report his whereabouts
+to her, he lives (I have since discovered) with father, mother, sister, and
+brothers somewhere in the vicinity. He does have some psychological
+problem with women, and a transferral of sexual interest into what he
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 61
+
+calls healing. However, his mediumistic capabilities are real. Or are
+these my mediumistic capabilities? I asked Torres what the music
+sounded like when he plays the piano under spiritual direction and he
+told me that it came in bits and pieces, as if he was being used as an
+instrument by various spirits who were taking turns playing representa-
+tive selections.
+
+I found his comprehension of this situation bizarre in the extreme. He
+seemed happy about it, but I would not personally find being gang-
+banged by spirits one happy event.
+
+Also, there was another strange incident. One of the ectoplasmic
+forms drifted over a copy of Esquire magazine which was on my floor
+and Torres immediately picked up Esquire and put it to one side, saying:
+“It doesn’t like this.”
+
+Later (and this actually, to my immediate hilarity, happened) another
+shadowy cloud materialized stubbornly over Esquire, where Torres had
+moved it. Why was this?
+
+Evidently, some part of these manifestations have to do with sex.
+They also have to do with an entity or entities who possess a rather weird
+sense of humor. Or is this really so weird? I can conceive of some
+well-intentioned ectoplasmic entity trying to signal to me the basis of
+Torres or Torres/Fox/UFOnaught’s derangement. I really do not feel
+that in this session I was being played with or manipulated mentally. It
+was the intention of the entity to signal us in some way. A name which
+came across to me psychically as concerned with the identity of spirits
+present was Dom or Dominick. Torres says this is not the name of his
+uncle and I do not know any one or thing named Dom or Dominick. I
+used to go to a bar in New York we called the Dom. This was during a
+rather wild period of my life.
+
+After writing this entry, I was sitting staring into space, thinking,
+when I saw a quick ectoplasmic manifestation flash by and disappear.
+Evidently Ms. Eck is my friend. Or is she? I say Ms. Eck now since
+when I was over at a friend’s house previous to Torres’ last visit, a
+figurine fell off the shelf for no apparent physical reason, in context of
+feminist discussion. It had been shoved off by some spirit.
+
+This figurine was of a man playing a guitar. I play the guitar profes-
+sionally, and began to do this when I was in New York City. As I picked
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+
+up the figurine and looked at it, I was filled with nostalgic thoughts
+about guitars. A different sort of music from Torres’ classical music. Or
+was this Fox/UFOnaught leading me up the garden path again? I felt the
+need to trace the name Dominick in a very impersonal way. I looked up
+the name Dominick in a sourcebook on the occult and discovered that St.
+Dominick was a famous persecutor of witches.
+5/10/77
+I have told Torres about my suspicions regarding the entity with which
+he is involved, as he tells me he is about to make a hare-brained
+investment in a ““psychic center”” specializing in ‘‘pyramid power,” an
+action which resembles his previous financial mishap regarding concerts
+by spiritual direction. He told me that his brother had told him that UFOs
+had been sighted along the East Coast on the day of our first ectoplasmic
+manifestation. This probably did happen, but I did not see any word of
+the sighting in the Boston papers. Torres seemed very interested in the
+idea that the drifting shadows of ectoplasm had resembled mini-UFOs. It
+is true that in context of the original UFO photo an ectoplasmic cloud
+which then divides and becomes a flotilla of little clouds drifting in the
+same direction, as if riding on a current of some sort, associatively and
+otherwise, does resemble UFO manifestations. This seems too neat.
+
+I feel at this point that I am involved with a strong trickster entity of
+the sort which was associated with the Fox mediums earlier in this
+century and has manifested in connection with other famous mediums
+who used their abilities in strictly commercial pursuits, or as part of
+some bilko operation. If psychic abilities are used in this way they must
+inevitably attract earthbound entities who wish to manipulate on the
+material plane. This is either because they have some sort of unfinished
+business or for sadistic reasons. Or am I being too traditionally moral?
+
+I warned Torres about the possibility of this sort of spirit and told him
+that his reaction to this news was his own business in the sense that I did
+not plan to take any action to rid him of -this entity, as I have done in
+several cases of people who have come to me bedeviled by spirits.
+Unless he requests my further assistance, the entity is all his and he is the
+entity’s.
+
+Definitely, I will cease my “healing” treatments, as I believe that the
+effects derived stem partially from my own energies triggered somehow
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+
+by the trickster entity working through Torres. In this context, I do not
+know what to make of the original UFO photograph.
+
+5/12/77
+
+Operation Dancing Dog was located in the library. It turns out to be a
+pulp mystery about international intrigue, parts of which are set in
+Bogota, Colombia. Since the UFO photo was taken in South America,
+this is extremely interesting. Also, of course, Torres comes from South
+America, as did his late uncle.
+
+There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which
+describe Nazis who hide by fundamentally changing their physical
+appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto’s strange opera Gar-
+denia and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now
+publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist/UFO
+activity during World War II. I have just received their information.
+Additionally, Fox-Knipscheer has studied at several European univer-
+sities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in
+Scotland. Descriptions of the dilletante-like life in California mirror
+some of my own recent experiences there, which I described in my poem
+Trip 1011. Departure 4031. This was completed less than a month ago.
+
+As a subplot in Operation Dancing Dog, there is a husband who
+encourages his wife to have extra-marital affairs due to the fact that he is
+impotent. There are a few funny scenes with regard to this. This
+impotent husband seems in this respect to share the self-effacing mental-
+ity of Gardenia, and actually there is quite a gruesome scene in Opera-
+tion Dancing Dog about a man with an eye injury who must wear patches
+over both eyes. Is a Dancing Dog much like a chess-playing pigeon?
+Torres did write a short play about a chess-playing pigeon. Did Fox/
+Knipscheer ever expect such an exegesis? I really cannot come to any
+decision about the final meaning of all this, except that it seems to be
+quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go
+nowhere.
+
+5/16/71
+
+Torres calls me up complaining in a childish way that I once saw a flash
+of light from a car and called it a spirit. He told me that he had seen other
+psychic people in the interim and that my ‘‘channels were not clear.”
+
+““You are not lying,” he told me. “‘But your channels are not clear”” I
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+
+got angry and hung up the phone on him. Clearly, the implication was
+that in these transactions I was somehow defective in terms of his
+purposes, which had gotten (in matters of the pendulum and ectoplasm)
+quasi-experimental.
+
+This judgment about my cloudy channels hit a trigger nerve. By this
+time, all matters of healing and UFO photos have been forgotten by
+Torres and he is hell-bent on seance phenomena. Unless he calls me
+again, I am just going to leave this as an example of a cul-de-sac
+experience in which all roads are related but lead nowhere, except to the
+overwhelming conclusion that there is something going on which links
+UFO activity to spiritualistic and seance manifestations.
+
+There is something very peculiar going on as far as manipulation of
+humans. 1 was really put through my detective paces in tracing the
+seance communications. Even as I write this, I feel self-conscious about
+exposing just how thoroughly I was controlled or, at the very least,
+deluded.
+
+Yet why am I allowed to penetrate the situation at this time? If these
+entities can cause me to locate a library book with a humorous relation-
+ship to my dilemma and Torres’ psychological problems and also, as I
+believe, channel Torres’ healing energies mediumistically, why am I
+being left clear to write this article?
+
+So: what happened?
+
+TORRES REBUS 5/28/77
+Pieces:
+
+one: Macer-Story, the author of “Notes on Torres.” A psychic and
+surrealist poet, she is soon to be moving to New York City where she
+will be involved in the production of several plays. Recently, sensation
+has returned to an area in her arm which was previously numb. Addition-
+ally, she has learned to move the dowsing pendulum without touching it.
+
+Two: Torres is a Latin American expatriate who has been in this country
+for fifteen years. He has a UFO photo which was taken in South America
+in 1969. He believes he is a psychic healer, and was touching Macer-
+Story’s upper arm at the time sensation returned to the nerve. He also
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+
+directed and encouraged Macer-Story to attempt moving the pendulum
+by psychokinesis.
+
+three: Fox-Knipscheer lives in California and has written a novel of
+international intrigue entitled Operation Dancing Dog. There are signif-
+icant parallels between Operation Dancing Dog and details of Torres’
+and Macer-Story’s writings and private lives. Fox-Knipscheer’s novel
+was located as the result of a seance.
+
+four: Bill Babaloo has just traveled to London. Ben Shenks has just
+traveled to Detroit. They report that they have been enjoying themselves
+immensely. Neither has any detailed knowledge of ‘“Notes on Torres.”
+
+five: New York City. Plays and music. Strange people.
+
+six: A spirit or UFO entity (or entities) influencing Torres and Macer-
+Story.
+
+NEW YORK ‘ BOJSTON CALIFORNIA
+
+©)
+
+DIAGRAM TWO
+
+QUESTION: Why Torres? ANSWER: He is a medium who enjoys spirit
+contact. He was being used.
+
+QUESTION: What happened? ANSWER: UFOs or spirits or UFOs and
+spirits communicated to Macer-Story through Torres. They reinforced
+her insights as to the connection between UFO sightings and psychic
+phenomena. Additionally, they taught her, through Torres, to move the
+pendulum by psychokinesis.
+
+The sensation has returned into an area of my arm which has been
+numb for six years. This certainly assists me in playing the guitar,
+though it is not spectacular since I had been performing in public
+previous to this.
+66 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+More significantly, I have discovered that I have the ability to move
+the dowsing pendulum by psychokinesis without touching it. I knew
+before this contact that I could move the pendulum by PK while holding
+the string in my hand, but had not been able to move it otherwise.
+
+Materially, I now possess several color xerox copies of a UFO which
+was sighted in 1969 in South America, and I have located a real living
+entity who answers to the composite name of K-sounding/Fox. This
+entity has written a novel with significant correspondences to my life
+situation and peculiarities of Torres and UFO intrigue, though UFOs are
+not mentioned specifically in the book.
+
+PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM TWO
+
+This complex of events has been a little unsettling. In my journal right
+after these happenings, I wrote down some speculation about Satanic
+entities, but I do not now believe I have suffered any ill effects from this
+experience. On the contrary, I seem to have benefited in ways which in
+another context might seem miraculous.
+
+I really do not believe that my subconscious in conjunction with the
+Boston Public Library could have supplied me Fox/Knipscheer’s name
+in the persona of a Scottish music teacher, unless I am more spaced out
+telepathically than I realize. My tastes do not ordinarily run to pulp
+mystery, but are more esoteric. I think I would like to meet this spirit/
+UFOnaught in another context. Perhaps we could do an act together. In a
+sense, we already have.
+
+So endeth “Notes on Torres.”
+
+Subsequent to sending this article off to the Society for the Investiga-
+tion of the Unexplained, I was beset by further psychokinetic
+phenomena.
+
+I have retained my ability to move the pendulum at will without
+touching it, but also seem to be the focus for such diverse and unex-
+plained events as the bathroom toilet paper rack flying off the wall with a
+loud crack while I was in the next room talking to a friend on the phone,
+inexplicable stoppages of machines in banks as they process my checks
+and deposits, failure of the ignition of buses toward which I am running,
+and (last but not least) the occasional ability in myself to heal minor
+ailments such as a sprained wrist and mild flu by the laying on of hands.
+
+All of these incidents of mental effect on the physical are directly
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 67
+
+related to the ancient occult teaching that there is a circulation of
+“pranic” or psychic energies through the physical body. These are
+mental energies which interpenetrate the physicai, and they are able to
+activate events materially in a way which has previously been unex-
+plained.
+
+In an article written for Pursuit magazine previous to my encounter
+with Torres (Section 10) I place the pranic link with the electromagnetic
+spectrum as occurring within the area of time-frequency. In UFO con-
+tact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitiv-
+ity to ESP and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
+
+Because in the modern Western world we have little or no education in
+pranic contact: what is likely to happen during pranic communication,
+and what it actually feels like physically, the percipient either of a
+strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong ESP
+and/or mystical experience is apt to feel shame and embarrassment.
+
+This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on
+July 7) ESP or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of
+pranic thinking is the basis of theories such as the orgone theory
+advanced by Wilhelm Reich and the sex magic rituals and sensually-
+oriented ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist reli-
+gions.
+
+Traditions of shamanism and jazz music also involve a physicality
+imbued with pranic content.
+
+Obviously, physical attraction and energy transfer played a part in my
+contact with Torres (Section 30). Was this sexual attraction? Here we get
+to a central embarrassment.
+
+This concerns the fact that like the head, the feet, the ears and the
+eyeballs, the gonads are part of the physical fleshly mechanism. They
+are highly sensitive and arc apt to be slightly activated by an influx of
+pranic energy into the body.
+
+Since in the modern Western culture we are sex-titillated in general,
+the slightest twinge in that area often becomes cause for a sex magick
+orgy and/or subsequent embarrassment.
+
+I have found that in the presence of genuine psychics, male or female,
+I do almost always feel twinges of what we here in the Western hemi-
+sphere term the “‘turn on.” I sense their psychic energy. Perhaps this is
+68 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+because I am sex-crazed, or perhaps —as the yogis and sufis have been
+teaching all along—there are other dimensions to sensuality; areas of
+thought which do involve the channeling of pranic energies through the
+nervous system and thus feelings of bliss, light vibration such as Mary
+Beth described (Section 29), and instances of physical energy transfer
+such as occurred in my encounter with Torres, to cause psychical healing
+and psychokinesis.
+
+In traditional Eastern teaching, the awakening of such pranic sen-
+sitivities and the awareness of ESP and psychokinesis is not always a
+happy event. Like birth, it can be confusing and painful both physically
+and mentally. The congratulations which are offered upon this occasion
+are always ambivalent. R
+
+It is easy to see how a sudden inrush of the pranic energies without any
+preparation (either through active meditational practices or simply by
+having read information about pranic awakening) would frighten and
+embarrass the unwary UFO contactee or the unprepared mystic on Easter
+Sunday.
+
+In South American and Mexican folk traditions, the ability to physi-
+cally channel pranic energies is sometimes called *‘the powerful hand.”
+
+As in sufic and yogic thought, the physical event or aetuality is
+primary and overpowers any attached intellectualization. Thought is
+transmitted by the touch of the physical hand, which is able to channel
+the “psychic” or pranic energies.
+
+This touch can also be administered at a distance as (by analogy) the
+rhythms of music can awaken a physical response in another body by
+“touching” the ear.
+
+The sound itself does not touch the ear, but it is a vibratory ratio and
+series of relationships which touch the ear, by the mediumship of the air
+activating a similar vibratory response in a distant mechanism.
+
+I have found that in making the pendulum move without physically
+touching it, this analogy of ‘“‘touching the air” is helpful. I flex my
+muscles against the air with a swaying motion, and the pendulum moves
+at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought “sway-
+flex”” into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 69
+
+THIRTY-ONE
+1/1/77
+Still waiting to hear from Karnstedt about his energen. Still waiting to
+talk about rain therapy, which I will be doing this evening.
+
+Meanwhile, speaking of mental alterations, my correspondents the
+Canadian Nazi publishers recently received some notoriety in the UFO
+press.
+
+It seems that someone identified as connected with this organization
+has been interrupting other UFO gatherings with something-or-other
+delivered as a loud harangue.
+
+I quote from a letter of protest: ‘“The book UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon
+has no basis in fact, and seeks to perpetuate the myth that Adolf Hitler is
+still alive and is unleashing UFOs to force the world to buckle under to
+the Nazi criminals . . . They, and their numbers are few, have been
+ordered off the premises of a series of public auditoriums where they
+have been harrassing UFO investigators who give lectures there.”
+
+Perhaps this is uncontrolled pranic channeling.
+
+So while I am still waiting for word on the more benign aspects of
+interdimensional energy channeling, I am going to drop these Canadian
+Nazis another line and ask what they were saying when they interrupted
+these other UFO investigators.
+
+THIRTY-TWO
+7/8/717
+My interview with Mark Simons, the rain therapy man, was overwhelm-
+ing. As with ““‘Notes on Torres,” I do not feel that I now have the ability
+to analyze this experience for any ‘‘significance” or logical rationale.
+
+I will simply narrate what happened, with the topical aside that today
+as I write this it is raining.
+
+Mark Simons works professionally as a psychiatric nurse. He showed
+me his identification card with his color picture on it. This card is an
+ordinary, up-to-date work ID card. I suppose he has found it necessary to
+show this card to people before embarking on any discussion of UFOs
+and rain therapy.
+
+After I had looked at his card and indicated that I thought it was valid
+and would trust him, Mark gave me his personal calling card, on which
+70 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+he is identified as “‘occult historian.”
+
+This gave me a bit of a jolt as in the novel which I wrote so quickly
+after my UFO experiences in Salem (p. 00) there is a pivotal character
+named Benjamin X. Emery who remembers being a cosmic historian on
+another planet during another lifetime and (as is Mark Simons) now is
+significantly concerned with Earth as one of the only water-bearing
+planets, designated in my novel intergalactically as Oceana.
+
+Not only that, Rosie! . . . but Mark Simons resembles my character
+Benjamin X. Emery both in personality and inclination.
+
+If you want to find out about Benjamin X. Emery you can read my
+novel Project Midas, to be published in 1979 by Athelion Press.
+
+Non-fictionally, Mark Simons told me that he got interested in UFO
+research when he was younger due to an incident which had occurred ata
+family wedding, when his sister’s hushand, who at that time was
+involved with military research of some sort, reacted violently to Mark’s
+question on UFOs, telling him: “‘Shut up on this subject, or I'll embar-
+rass your sister.”” Subsequent to this incident, Mark told me, he began to
+collect all the data and anecdotes on UFOs which he could gather. It was
+not until 1974, however, that Mark actually encountered any UFO
+phenomena. He was driving toward Randolph, Massachusetts on a
+Saturday night, going down Route 29 west toward Route 2%,
+
+As Mark approached Route 24, he saw two bright white lights coming
+toward him. These were double lights about twelve feet apart, as on the
+wings of a plane.
+
+Remember Donna, Donna’s brother Michael, the paramedic and the
+planes? (Section 19.)
+
+These lights then veered to the side of the road and became stationary,
+appearing—Mark says—like the headlights of a car parked on a ridge.
+Which means that the lights jumped suddenly from a position twelve feet
+apart and straight ahead of Mark to a position ninety degrees divergent
+from this and four feet apart.
+
+Subsequent to witnessing this |merestmg aeronautical event, Mark
+slowed down his car and parked it at the side of the road near the junction
+of Route 179 and Route 24. He got out of the car to look back at the lights
+and found that some object of undetermined shape (it is difficult to see
+
+the shape of an object when it is right over your head) was hovering over
+his head.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 71
+
+Mark did not want to create any disturbance or make any dramatic
+report of this incident due to the nature of his job. Certainly, a psychiat-
+ric nurse who sees a low-flying plane jump ninety degrees in mid-air and
+become a car parked on a ridge where there is no ridge might be subject
+to serious job re-evaluation. He says that he went back to the junction in
+broad daylight and not only was there no trace of the object, there was no
+trace of any ridge on which a car or other source of light could have been
+parked.
+
+Mark broke off here in his narration to tell me his theories about the
+rain resembling forcefields, that entering an energy vortex feels like
+entering a ““wet field” as a sheet of rain hits your face or the wind makes
+a rain-vortex about your body.
+
+Then he went on to describe his mini-UFO sighting, an event which
+Mark describes as ‘‘changing his personality.”
+
+He had just taken a shower and was lying in bed at home reading the
+book Impossible Possibilities by Jacques Berger and Louis Pawels,
+when he looked up and off to the side down the hallway adjoining his
+room and saw — (at this point, Mark pulled a penlight flashlight from his
+pocket, depressed the end button, and slowly moved the light toward
+me)—a tiny light the size of an ordinary penlight moving toward him.
+This light accelerated quickly, hit him in the chest, dropped down into
+his lap and then vanished.
+
+Mark searched his room, he says, but could find no trace of this light,
+or any other unidentified object on the floor or in his bed.
+
+Later on that night, he became aware that he was not the same person
+as he had been formerly, but—as he describes it—had experienced a
+“‘change of personality”’, during which he acquired an identity which is
+functional in terms of cosmic plan.
+
+Mark Simons told me that he believes he had called me on July 4 and
+then come to my office on July 7 for a specific purpose. He told me that
+he was born on Easter Sunday in 1928. In 1928, Easter Sunday fell on
+April 8. Written in numbers, this date is 4/8/28. Written in numbers,
+the date of our conversation was 7/7/77.
+
+“Four sevens,” Mark Simons informed me, ‘““make twenty-eight.”
+This is correct, but four eights made thirty-two, so that the date of
+Mark’s birth is significantly rendered even, whereas the date of our
+72 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+conversation, being a combination of 49 and 77, is significantly odd.
+
+In the course of our conversation, Mark told me about someone
+named Maurice K. Jessup. He felt that Jessup had been murdered, and
+that the circumstances of his murder had been made to look like a
+suicide.
+
+According to Simons, Jessup had written three letters entitled the
+*Allende Letters”” which had to do with UFO contact. Jessup sent these
+letters to an Admiral at the Naval offices in Washington (I am relating
+this story now as it was told to me, without making any attempt at
+verification, which is impossible) with the inscription *‘Happy Easter!”
+written on the envelope.
+
+Whether or not Jessup actually did this, I find Mark’s description of
+the Happy Easter memo to be significantly like the Congratulations
+motif, which has been the working theme.of this project since I first
+received the high sign from California.
+
+Subsequent to Jessup’s letter of congratulations to the U.S. Navy,
+terms from Jessup’s works began—Mark Simons asserts—to appear in
+official memos issued by the government.
+
+These terms, according to Simons (remember: [ have absolutely no
+way to check this at this date) include such concepts as ‘“hyperspace’
+and ‘“‘energy vortex.”
+
+I don’t know. I am simply relating this story as it was related*to me. If
+it is true, of course, it is outrageous.
+
+Simons once again broke off his narration on UFO phenomena to tell
+me that gypsies have for years known about these forcefields and vortex
+manifestations, but that they would never reveal their mastery of psychic
+effects to a gorgio. I am a bit of a gypsy myself, and was about to tell him
+that gypsies could indeed be very persuasive mentally when Simons
+reached into the pile of books he had brought to my office and—in true
+gypsy fashion—brought forth the xerox of a document entitled: Intro-
+ductory Space Science, volume I1, Department of Physics, United States
+Air Force Acadenty, which someone had lightfingered off the premises
+of the Air Force Academy in Colorado several years ago.
+
+Fetchingly, Simons has interleaved his copy of this document with
+decals and newspaper clippings which advertise unusual ariel
+phenomena from the non-military and secular point of view.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 73
+
+At this point, my writing of this narration was broken off by Rita
+Warnock, who was burning incense in a fire just outside my office.
+
+She called me to come outside and tell her what shapes I saw in the
+flames. I told her that I saw obstacles in her business affairs, and she told
+me that this was true.
+
+Now, back once again seated in my office, I am going to copy section
+33.2, paragraph 6 of what is labeled Introductory Space Science, volume
+1I: **6. Poorly understood psychological phenomena. Psychologists are
+the first to admit that there are many facets of psychic phenomena which
+have not been adequately explored. Few data are available to determine
+how these phenomena may relate to the UFO problem, but one must at
+least allow for the possibility that there may be some effects.”
+
+“Effects!?”” Effects of what? What sort of effects?
+
+Mark Simons links UFO presence to the waters of earth. He told me
+that he is building up a *‘thought grid” to this effect by convincing
+people in various locations that the rain is important. Walking in the
+driving rain in a long army-surplus rubber slicker, he told me, increases
+psychic perception.
+
+However, Mark added that this is a matter of belief. If you do not
+believe that rain increases your psychic perception, then it will not
+increase your psychic perception.
+
+Then, Mark introduced the possibility that he might be contradicting
+himself by telling me that ionization of the atmosphere occurs during
+rain, causing lightning and thunder.
+
+An individual very sensitive to levels of ionization, as Mark became
+subsequent to his UFO sighting in 1974, might very easily find psychic
+perception enhanced during any change of electrical balance in the
+atmosphere.
+
+I have not noticed that I turn on in a rainstorm. Although, as I
+mentioned, it is raining today as I write this section.
+
+THIRTY-THREE
+7/9/77
+Feeling impatient and also exhilarated by the possible importance of an
+Air Force document on UFOs, I called Karnstedt in California to ask if
+he knew anyone who had been studying the official intrigue attached to
+74 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+UFO research.
+
+He seemed amused and told me that he had just finished talking to a
+group of people who were planning a “UFO fair” in Oakland, Califor-
+nia.
+
+I asked him if he needed any strolling players, and there was a short,
+incredulous pause, I had UFOed him again. Karnstedt then told me that
+they were planning to pull out all the stops at the UFO fair, and that he
+himself might perhaps be seen wearing an aviator’s helmet and goggles.
+
+Additionally, he told me that he knew nothing at the moment about
+government UFO intrigue, but that he had recently spent one entire
+coffee break with Simon Herrick, discussing the book which Herrick is
+now writing on synchronicity.
+
+Karnstedt found it an interesting synchronous event that I should be
+writing a book which so evidently includes the ““‘coincidental’”” aspects
+of meaningful UFO contactee activity at.the same time as Simon Her-
+rick, whom I do not know personally, is actively engaged in writing a
+book on the same topic.
+
+Karnstedt offered to put me into a more materially direct contact with
+Herrick, but I do not know that this is really necessary. We seem
+somehow to be tuned into the same channel.
+
+Karnstedt told me that many people on the coast now feel that they are
+being used as mediumistic channels of some sort by UFOs or Some other
+form of highly-developed intelligence.
+
+I told him that I agreed with this, but did not remind him that when I
+was in California I had met him “‘coincidentally”” in context with Warren
+Sequoia’s wife’s prophecy on Simon Herrick. I felt that this was part of a
+developing event which should be allowed to develop without direct
+explanation.
+
+Five minutes after I disconnected from Karnstedt, my phone rang and
+it was a man asking for a “‘rebirth”” experience.
+
+He told me that “‘rebirth” was all the rage now in California, and that
+he had to go down to Provincetown, Massachusetts now for the
+weekend, but would call me later on next week, so that we could discuss
+rebirth in more detail.
+
+Oh yeah! What an interesting coincidence that was . . . I felt like
+calling Karnstedt back to register this event, but still am letting this
+California connection develop without direct explanation.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 75
+
+THIRTY-FOUR
+7/11/77
+Feeling encouraged by my recent use of the telephone, I think today I
+will call Mark Simons and ask for more details on the murder of Maurice
+K. Jessup.
+
+And now, once again: Congratulations to myself!
+
+Just before I called Simons I checked my mailbox, which contained a
+letter from Ben Shenks telling me that he had read his copy of *‘Notes on
+Torres™ and telling me that I was incorrect, that he had no romantic
+interest in me.
+
+In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any
+romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went
+on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite
+Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie Performance has become a
+“loud Christian” and suggested that [ consider this Fox in the list of
+Satanic possibilities. (p. 59) mentioned in *“Notes on Torres’” (Section
+30). Shenks says he finds this article on Torres ““quite definitely reson-
+ant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.” Perhaps, as I
+discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of syn-
+chronistic performance of events.
+
+So: done! It has been done, Shenks! I have included the actor James
+Fox in my list of possible Satanic identities.
+
+Further on in his letter, Shenks quotes from the poet William Butler
+Yeats: ““‘I have heard my wife in the broken speech of some quite
+ordinary dream use tricks of speech characteristic of the philosophic
+voices . . . spirits do not tell a man what is true but create such
+conditions, such as a crisis of fate, that the man is compelled to listen to
+his Daimon. The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is
+common to all.””
+
+Shenks adds: *“Well, I think an interesting, perhaps exciting book
+might be put together from your short pieces, such as “Notes,”
+arranged, if you will, to form an evolutionary history of your own
+experiences with the various worlds.”
+
+This is exactly what I am attempting to do in Congratulations! The
+UFO Reality, although I have found in the course of this research that my
+evolutionary history does in fact intersect with quite a few other evo-
+lutionary histories, including Shenks’.
+76 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+He continues, without any knowledge of my conversation with the
+“UFO fair” contingent, to suggest: “It would take, then, a simple
+introductory piece to string them plausibly together in a kind of exhi-
+bition.”” Agreed! Before I got your letter, I agreed with you!
+
+EXHIBITION THIRTY-FIVE
+I asked Mark Simons (having finally put down my California corre-
+spondence and walked over to the local phone) if he had gotten my letter
+asking him to duplicate the purported Air Force manual on UFOs.
+
+He told me that he had gotten my letter and that he would send me this
+manual to xerox on the condition that I send him a notorized letter
+guaranteeing that his name be used in this book. Mark Simons is named
+Andrew Galligan.
+
+Andrew told me that Maurice K. Jessup was found dead in a station
+wagon parked somewhere in Georgia. Hesays that he has seen the xerox
+of a coroner’s certificate which states that death was due to monoxide
+poisoning. The verdict at the time of Jessup’s death was suicide, but his
+friends felt differently. Galligan told me that Jessup was not the sort of
+man who would commit suicide. His book The Case For UFOs, which
+was issued in 1955 on Citadel Press (according to Galligan) was one of
+the first in the field and was primary in generating interest in such topics
+as the Bermuda Triangle mystery. N
+
+In connection with this, Andrew Galligan also mentioned that the
+disappearance of Flight 19 (whatever that was) into the Bermuda
+Triangle in 1945 was one of the most interesting sections of Jessup’s
+book, and this disappearance has never been solved.
+
+Galligan added, in connection with rain therapy, that he has been to
+psychiatrists and psychologists in an effort to understand the mental
+changes which occur in him during a rainstorm. These experts have all
+told him that they feel that his desire to walk in the rain in a heavy rubber
+army-surplus slicker has to do with some sort of bizarre sexual distur-
+bance. ] .
+
+“Why then,” asks Andrew Galligan, ““did I develop this enjoyment of
+the rain at nine years of age? I have always liked to walk in the rain in a
+
+slicker. It was only recently that I became aware of the differing energy
+levels during rain.” '
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 77
+
+“Oh,” I answered, ‘“‘are you aware of the ionization effect during
+rain? In my notes I have already postulated that you are probably
+hypersensitive to the electrical changes in the atmosphere which always
+occur in conjunction with precipitation.”
+
+Galligan referred me to Wilhelm Reich and his idea of the “energy
+accumulator.”” Briefly, Reich had the idea that orgone energy (Section
+30, page 67) has to be personally accumulated within a chamber of some
+sort (the phone booth, the slicker, the pyramid, the station wagon) in
+order to draw corresponding orgone energy from the atmosphere, or to
+set up a connection between the individual and trans-dimensional
+sources of orgone energy.
+
+This seems to me to be a lot like the ancient idea that the best channel
+for mediumistic communication is a person whose inner concerns are
+known clearly. This is the basis of L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology
+program, though he applies the clearing of inner processes to a proce-
+dure called auditing.
+
+I have a letter from a local Scientologist recommending to me their
+para-Scientology division. She tells me that during the process of
+auditing ““‘a lot of (psychic phenomena) can be verified and experi-
+enced.”
+
+The process of sorting, remembering and consciously dealing with
+personal concerns builds the ability to sort, remember and deal with
+ideas which are coming in from the general atmosphere by ESP, and
+implements the ability to distinguish between personal fantasies and
+genuine psychical communications.
+
+This is true metaphysically.
+
+Galligan’s perceptions also have a physiological basis. In the human
+body, ionic balance is maintained in the neural system by an interchange
+of charge between sodium and potassium ion. These sodium (Na) and
+potassium (K) fluids do not actually mix in the cell, but are separated by
+a semipermeable membrane.
+
+The coding and efficiency of the nervous system has intimately to do
+with this ionic balance.
+
+In an elementary chemistry textbook which I have just picked up from
+the floor, it is stated: ‘“When an ionic solid is placed in water, an
+equilibrium is established between the ions in the saturated solution and
+78 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+the excess solid phase.”
+
+Which means that when a material showing ionic action is placed in
+water, the ionic density of the water has an effect on the ionic balance of
+the material that has been placed in the water. Considering the nervous
+system of Galligan, (as it is contained within his skin) to be an ionic
+solid composed of sodium and potassium ions, it can be easily seen that
+when Galligan walks out into the watery solution of a rainy day, the ionic
+density of the atmosphere is going to affect his sodium/potassium
+registry system, thus causing a change in perceptions registered within
+the nervous system. (N2,02, Ar, CO2, H2, Ne, He, Kr, Ze) +YH20) =
+(air) + (H+ + OH-)
+
+Because Galligan’s nervous system is hypersensitized anyway, he
+feels this adjustment strongly.
+
+In addition to this, Galligan has told me that he is Irish and has traced
+his geneology back to a family crest which bears the winged horse,
+Pegasus. Above this crest, says Galligan, there is the motto: “‘I long to
+see the things which are above.”
+
+I am reminded in this connection of a poem by Paddy Kavanagh
+entitled Pegasus. 1 was fortunate enough to have had the poet himself
+recite Pegasus to me in its entirety at a cocktail party, so I have retained
+strong feelings of irony concerning the Irish winged horse.
+
+Kavanagh’s poem begins: *“My soul was a horse for sale in many fairs
+
+. " and goes on to describe how he tried to sell his soul in all the fancy
+markets of the world, but no one would have it until he let it go free,
+when it sprouted wings and became his imagination.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 79
+
+But let us now return ourselves to before his soul became his imagina-
+tion: ““Where the tinkers quarrel,” complains Kavanagh, “I went down
+with my horse, my soul. I cried: ‘Who will bid me half a crown?’ From
+their rowdy bargaining, not one turned.”
+
+The tinkers seem to know an old horse when they see one.
+
+Perhaps this is why Galligan fecls that the gypsies must know so much
+about UFOs.
+
+THIRTY-SIX
+Now that we are floundering in possible rational and physiological
+explanations for all of these UFO sightings, I would like to advance the
+theory that the mental processes which I have been documenting are
+utterly irrational.
+
+They are irrational in the profoundest sense that anything can be
+irrational: the UFO reality does not fit our standard notions of what a
+UFO should be.
+
+It is not like Star Wars. It is not like sexual repression. It is not like
+orgone containment. It is not like psychic healing. It is not like any
+ordinary dream or nightmare. It is very serious. It is like being contacted
+from another dimension. It is like having your perceptions fundamen-
+tally altered by surprise, and in this respect it is most like rocket movie,
+the idea advanced by my six-year-old son.
+
+THIRTY-SEVEN
+Lie back, folks: this room is the rocket. You are going to need no other
+entertainment. Turn off your TV sets.
+
+You might as well turn off your TV sets. If you do leave them on, you
+are going to experience electrical disturbance.
+
+Why visit the Bermuda Triangle? You can disappear right here at
+home. You don’t want to disappear? Why, then: what is the most painful
+thing that ever happened to you?
+
+Because sudden expansion of consciousness by influx of pranic
+energy into the nervous system will activate that strongly-implanted
+memory. You may become hypersensitive to pain as well as to pleasure
+and philosophical profundity.
+
+In the throes of this painful hypersensitivity, you may go out into your
+80 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+car and turn on the carbon monoxide (p. 72) or try to strangle your
+professor during a discussion of Macbeth (p. 4). You might also write an
+incomprehensible paper on your strange experience with psychic heal-
+ing (Section 30!) or (worse!) call all of the newspapers and report that
+your orgone collection cabinet cures cancer (p. 67), which is what Reich
+went to jail for claiming.
+
+But . .. oh no! ... not me, Rosie!
+
+As a result of the strong pranic influx which I experienced during the
+course of my association with Torres, and the spirit entities associated
+with Torres, memories of painful experience were activated through the
+novel Operation Dancing Dog.
+
+Fox-Knipscheer’s novel, whether I located this volume by use of
+subconscious ESP or as a result of spirit manipulation of my faculties, is
+directly relevant to several of my own ;very painful and conflictive
+memories.
+
+At the time I wrote the article ‘‘Notes on Tcrres,’” I did not feel ready
+to expose this fact. In the course of redrafting this book, I have changed
+my mind.
+
+I will not go into gruesome detail, but I will list the correspondence: a)
+My marriage was violent, and in the course of this mutual battle I
+sustained cuts and bruises, had my clothes ripped off severaltimes and
+was a part of accusations and counter-accusations of adultery and
+psychic fraud: this parallels several of the violent sex scenes in the book
+. . . How exactly, you will never know, Rosie! b) Since discovering a
+book on Gestapo practices in the library of a close associate in 1970, I
+have had fears about Nazi association with government employees. The
+combination of juggling the crazy Nazi publishers in Canada and tales of
+a Nazi spy ring in Fox-Knipscheer’s book with my latent concern with
+private Gestapo sadism led me not to mention this possibility in my
+original article. ¢) The California scene of call girls, strange eccentric
+rich ladies and cocktail parties is exactly the same as the California scene
+in which (as I once privately felt) several mutual friends of myself and
+Ben Shenks are now going to hell in a handcart. Shenks may deny this,
+(p. 75) but James Fox would not deny it. If it is actually true, as Shenks
+reports, that James Fox has become a ‘‘loud Christian.”’
+
+What is it like to disappear? I do have some idea what it might be like
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 81
+
+not to exist: physically be non-existent, and yet retain the ability to
+register memory and sensation. Once I worked psychically with a
+woman who was afflicted by a ‘‘wailing’” spirit. In the course of trying
+to identify this spirit and ascertain motives for this bedevilment, which
+included thoughts of violent sex and depressive presence, a sense of
+‘“‘wailing,’’ a name, and then several identifying characteristics came
+across to me psychically.
+
+This woman could not place the spirit according to these characteris-
+tics, but her mother told me that I had correctly described a childhood
+friend who had died suddenly in an automobile accident.
+
+I concentrated psychically and reached out to contact this wailing
+spirit, asking why it had focused on this particular girl. There was an
+inrush of hurt and resentment and I became aware of a public park and a
+small dog. People were walking around and talking to each other in this
+park, and the dog was barking.
+
+‘“Nobody sees me!’’ wailed this spirit, who had died in his early
+teens, ‘‘Nobody sees me and my dog can’t see me. They took my dog.”’
+
+I asked the mother of this girl whether her childhood friend had owned
+a dog, and she told me that he did have a dog and that he had been a
+peculiar person in their small community because he was effeminate.
+
+She thought this wailing spirit might possibly have been bisexual.
+
+This condition might explain both the odd sexual thoughts bedeviling
+the girl, and the sense of ostracism and estrangement which had con-
+tinued after death.
+
+“‘How do I die?’” this spirit asked me, ‘‘No one can see me. How do 1
+die?”’
+
+I advised this particular wailing spirit that it become less concerned
+with earthly peer group acceptance and, in conjunction with this direct
+advice, it has no longer been wailing.
+
+THIRTY-EIGHT
+So: what does this touching little episode of a bisexual spirit have to do
+with UFOs?
+Simply, it is a case of a person’s consciousness being altered by the
+presence of an entity from the astral dimension.
+In this case, thoughts of this entity were causing unusual sexual ideas,
+82 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+and the sense that there was a depressive ‘‘wailing’* in this woman’s
+vicinity. This is not so different from cases of UFO contact, when
+contactees state (p. 18) *‘I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the
+window,” or (p. 19) *I saw the light at home before being called by the
+station.”
+
+Although I have now written to Andrew Galligan for his copy of the
+Air Force manual on UFOs and also to the mixed-up Nazi contingent in
+Canada for additional information on whirling fan-shaped discs, I really
+do not feel that this information—although perhaps reassuring as doc-
+umentation in my files—is going to be of much help in understanding the
+UFO reality.
+
+THIRTY-NINE
+Suppose you were shown something you had never seen before, some-
+thing really new. How would you feel? Afraid? Exhilarated? Intimi-
+dated? Helpless like a baby?
+
+Probably, you would feel vulnerable, irritated, excited and full of
+wonder-dread or dreadful wonder.
+
+I think it is significant that just after I had talked to Karnstedt about the
+UFO fair in California, someone else called me to talk about  ‘rebirth’’
+in California. -
+
+Incidentally, whoever was on the phone that day has never called back
+to make a definite appointment. Either he got waylaid in Provincetown,
+or he was inspired somehow at just the appropriate moment to call me
+with an ‘‘important’’ concern, which later dissipated in importance.
+
+Congratulations: rebirth!
+
+But is the UFO experience then a mystical experience, some contact
+with transcendental reality? Does this UFO rebirth alter consciousness
+in the same way as St. Paul’s famous light on the road to Damascus?
+
+You must know that old story: Saul of Tarsus while riding to Damas-
+cus saw a light in the road which blinded him and knocked him off his
+horse. While lying in the road, he heard a voice which said: **Saul, Saul:
+why dost thou persecute me?”’
+
+Since Saul had been regularly persecuting the Christians, he took this
+voice to be Jesus Christ, and after a series of adventures during which his
+sudden blindness was healed he found that his life was completely
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 83
+
+reversed, and that he had been reborn. Spiritually reborn. At this time,
+he took the name ‘‘Paul.”’
+
+It is usual to suppose that the light on the road to Damascus was not a
+real light, that this symbolizes Saul’s conversion. As we might say, *‘the
+light dawned,’” and he changed his views. The UFO contactees with
+whom I have spoken have had no such dramatic conversion experience.
+They seem to have seen a real and non-religious light. However, this real
+light has in some cases caused a ‘‘rebirth’’ experience which is not
+mystical or symbolic. This ‘‘rebirth’” is not within the province of the
+military. It is an introduction to astral dimensions, a birth into expanded
+perception.
+
+Just as a newborn baby must instantly learn to breathe, a UFO
+contactee must instantly learn to perceive by ESP. This is because the
+UFO lights are making constructive use of the bio-plasmic energies
+which we recognize in effect as ESP and psychokinesis. In order to
+‘‘see’’ or in some other way perceive a UFO light or ‘‘craft,”’ the
+contactee must participate in what our science fiction writers have called
+a ‘‘warping’’ of the ordinary time/space continuum.
+
+This warping may leave certain individuals permanently capable of
+unusual feats of ESP or psychokinesis. In others, it causes temporary
+clairvoyance and/or strange dreams.
+
+In less secure individuals, a UFO sighting may cause severe psycho-
+logical distress. For example: give a child of six or seven years an
+unusual toy —say, a flying sphere. Work it first, to show the child that it
+does fly, but then hand it over to the kid without any further instructions.
+
+Some children will ask for further information. Others will tinker with
+the toy, and then perhaps throw it across the room. This violence may
+stem from a sense of inferiority and frustration. The situation seems
+unjust. More is being asked of the child than he or she can possibly
+accomplish.
+
+So: quite a few contactees can be found punting the sphere instead of
+going back to the source of the enigma.
+
+FORTY
+What is the source of the UFO enigma?
+As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers
+84 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+from all around the world (republished for your reference in journals
+such as Flying Saucer Review the source of the UFO enigma seems to be
+an unidentified flying sphere. In connection with these spheroid man-
+ifestations, people are also experiencing strange dreams. “seeing”
+unusual shapes or creatures, and incurring a marked psychological
+after-effect which in its most negative manifestations can lead to obses-
+sion with UFO lights, and delusions of personal “difference’ and
+importance.
+
+FORTY-ONE
+7/16/77
+I really do not know what is the most constructive thing to do with the
+copy of chapters from Introductory Space Science, volume II. Depart-
+ment of Physics, Air Force Academy which.I have now received by mail
+from Andrew Galligan.
+
+There is no earth-shattering news in this package. which contains
+pages 455-468 of the 1968 volume and a typewritten transcription of the
+same chapter from the 1970 volume.
+
+Chapter 33, 1968, is entitled Unidentified Flving Objects. and Chap-
+ter 33, 1970, is entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It these are
+indeed Air Force documents, and [ have no reason to believe that
+Galligan could or would falsify this writing. then there seems to have
+been a real advance in thinking on the part of the Air Force during the
+years 1968-1970.
+
+On pages 6 of the typewritten copy of chapter 33. 1970. it is stated:
+““The UFO problem must now compete on its scientific merit w ith all the
+other pressing scientific problems facing mankind."
+
+Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported
+words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We
+have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial
+phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific
+problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing
+mankind. On page 466 of chapter 33, 1968. it is stated that: *One thing
+that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly
+assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science)
+is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 85
+
+laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be
+superseded.”’
+
+I'had never expected to find myself in agreement with the Air Force on
+this topic, but here I am: I am in absolute agreement with this statement
+on the “‘trap of implicit assumptions!” I find, as Pontius Pilate once
+stated in another context, no fault with the Air Force, as the Air Force is
+represented in this document.
+
+I completely wash my hands, however, of any controversy as to what
+exactly was meant or intended by these purported chapters. I have them
+here in front of me, and I am going to discuss them as literature. as I
+discussed Giftie’s eight-page form letter on his UFO sighting. (p. 32)
+
+At the end of chapter 33, 1970, there is a defense of the Condon report
+and Project Blue Book. These government-sponsored UFO investiga-
+tions have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in
+the UFO field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern Univer-
+sity, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it
+disbanded.
+
+In his book, The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry, Hyneck
+criticizes the Condon Committee for several reasons. Most notably:
+disorganization and factionalism among the participants, and failure to
+act significantly on data relating to the few residual sightings for which
+there is absolutely no conventional explanation.
+
+It is probably true that there was factionalism on this controversial
+committee. This may have been for any number of specific situational
+reasons.
+
+Subsequently, in an interview for Fate magazine in June of 1976,
+Hyneck has openly stated that **. . . the subject is much more complex
+than any of us imagined to begin with. It has paranormal aspects, but
+certainly it has very real physical aspects, too.”’
+
+Let me suggest two very interesting possibilities: first, that these
+people involved with actively investigating the UFO phenomenon may
+have been receiving telepathic information which they were ill-equipped
+to understand, and secondly that these investigators were looking for the
+wrong thing in examining the data, and thus suffered diffuse and
+disturbing stress due to the inner knowledge that the UFO photos and
+data which they were examining did not relate to ‘‘craft’” or “‘flying
+86 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+objects’” at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their im-
+mediate conscious comprehension.
+
+FORTY-ONE
+7/18/77 '
+Lest I fall into this same *‘trap of implicit assumptions,”’ I would like at
+this time (moving, as stated in the introductory chapter, page 5, para-
+graph 4, from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several expla-
+nations for problems in apprehension of UFOs.
+
+One of these problems is psychological. The other is practical. First of
+all, and concerning psychological problems, people in general have
+been conditioned to believe two things which are not true. One, that
+UFOs are some sort of solid spacecraft with unknown but
+technologically-comprehensible powers of propulsion, and two, that it
+is going to be possible to ‘‘validate’” or “‘invalidate’* a UFO sighting on
+the basis of contrast with conventional pheromena such as shooting
+stars, weather satellites and unusual military aircraft.
+
+Because of these erroneous expectations, which have been instilled
+by science fiction books and films and *‘official’’ attempts to cope with
+the frequency of UFO sightings, there is a problem for the average
+individual in actually apprehending the UFO reality. ’
+
+Unidentified ‘‘objects,’’ lights and paranormal occurrences such as
+electrical failure in a car engine coincidental with the appearance of
+small figure eight-shaped humanoids are all automatically placed within
+the “‘science fact or science fiction?’” framework and catalogued or not
+catalogued according to this arbitrary, binary distinction.
+
+Reading the clipping on William McCarthy’s Pond, for example, it is
+very difficult to tell at this late date whether someone was joking or
+deluded or whether a small black box did indeed fall through the ice and
+subsequently disappear (p. 26).
+
+Perhaps we all have been asking the wrong questions.
+
+I have here in my hand a letter from the UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon
+publisher in Canada telling me that my letter of inquiry to him as
+regarding the letter of protest published about his organization in one of
+the UFO magazines, was ‘‘disjointed,”” but offering to swap informa-
+tion on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. 23) for information
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 87
+
+on Nazi occult activity during World War II.
+
+Are you kidding? I have been burned on these carnival grab-bag deals
+once too often (p. 79) to place much confidence in such a blindfold
+trade.
+
+Is it really of any importance whether or not a smail black object fell
+through the ice? Or where it came from? Or what it was made out of? Or
+how hot it was when it fell?
+
+I submit at this point that it is our prejudices about what is supposed to
+be occurring which have led us to ignore the reality which is already with
+us.
+
+Specifically, we have been conditioned to expect that if there are
+UFOs they will be of some particular shape (triangular, circular, with or
+without exhaust pipe or special time-warp drive equipment) and manned
+by —or should I say ‘‘creatured’’ —by occupants with physical charac-
+teristics which are or are not humanoid. When people say ‘humanoid,’’
+they generally mean physically humanoid: two-legged, tail-less, one-
+headed, tool-manufacturing animals with thumbs installed at a ninety-
+degree angle to the index finger of a right and a left hand joined to two
+arms, which are used to build spacecraft and other devices for transpor-
+tation. It is also assumed that these crafts-creatures, in order to quaiify as
+humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes,
+nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. (p. 49)
+
+In making the distinction humanoid or non-humanoid, then we sup-
+pose that occupants of UFO craft are likely to have physical bodies. The
+only way to tell if anything is or is not humanoid (as opposed to spheroid,
+obloid or insectoid) is to take a look at the physical body of this thing and
+decide. If there are no physical bodies available, this is going to be a
+difficult decision.
+
+Suppose-that the bodies of our visitors are like astral or spirit bodies,
+and further suppose that these presences have the ability (as a spirit, for
+example, communicating through a medium or appearing in your neigh-
+bor’s hallway as a dank and ghostly mist) to take on a variety of forms at
+will? Furthermore suppose that these versatile entities have developed a
+sense of humor concerning this activity, bizarre as this joking may seem
+to contactees.
+
+We have been looking for primitive entities (about at this stage of
+88 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+Earth development) who amuse themselves with long capes and robots.
+What we may have on hand are entities much further along on the
+evolutionary scale than Earth’s human beings, creatures who would
+truly enjoy sending a partial explanation of the concept of ‘‘hyperspace”
+to the US Navy inscribed: ‘“Happy Easter!”
+
+Think of what a knowledge of alternate dimensions, and space travel
+using the pranic energies, might mean in terms of our current ideas
+concerning death and resurrection!
+
+Analogous to the humanoid/non-humanoid dead-end debate, there is
+the weather satellite/non-weather satellite dead-end debate. If our cos-
+mic jokesters can signal attention with low-flying planes which are
+about to “run into stars” and display such interesting and varied
+phenomena as traveling “‘bars of light,* a malfunctioning TV set,
+““plane lights”” which turn around at a ninety-degree angle and become
+“car lights™, and taps on the chest which lead a contactee to the window
+to view an unusual light in the sky (all in defiance of our ordinary
+expectations as regards time, space and logic), they are not apt to be
+caught with their pants down (to use a humanoid metaphor) unless they
+want to imprint the idea into or onto yours or my memory that they have
+fish scales on their thighs or a purple rear end.
+
+Therefore, it behooves us to ask not if we yesterday saw a green scaly
+thing hop out of a blinking clamshell or how we can possibly prove or
+disprove the experience, but why it happened at all.
+
+I assume that these manifestations are not supposed to dead-end in the
+vision itself, but represent in themselves a form of communication: a
+“staging out’” of ideas which are in some way important or amusing.
+
+FORTY-TWO
+
+7/19/77
+So that, appropriately, I have just received my reply from Karnstedt,
+which was addressed in large pink italic letters and contained within the
+envelope a postcard showing the full moon over San Francisco.
+
+He told me that Simon Herrick is starting a new magazine, now has
+some of my writing on file, and that “we space people must stick
+together. . . '
+
+Karnstedt did not mention his energen, but he wished me light and
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 89
+
+love.
+
+Before going home to my mailbox to find the full moon over San
+Francisco, 1 had met accidentally the lady whom I had unexpectedly met
+at New Years. She was sitting at a table in the psychic center with a cast
+on her leg. I told her that I was including her experience in this writeup,
+and she reaffirmed her story about the sighting of glowing blue objects in
+the sky while at the Neposset Drive-in watching the movie Dracula.
+Additionally, she told me that she had continued to experiment with
+astral projection to contact UFO entities.
+
+She told me to be sure and include in my writeup the news that UFO
+entities are blue and that their skin is surrounded by a blue light.
+
+This vision might be of interest to those who are searching for a clue to
+the ESP force in the ultra-violet light range, where the frequency of
+vibration is faster. As I will explain in Section 46, I do not connect the
+pranic energies with anomalies in electromagnetic time/frequency. Cer-
+tainly, these anomalies might show up more easily in an area of vibration
+wherein the pulsing interval is shorter.
+
+This heavy-set lady at the psychic center further told me that she
+connects UFOs with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7/
+13/77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view.
+
+On 7/13/77, there was a massive blackout in New York City, causing
+looting and extreme inconvenience. Details of this blackout can be
+found by consulting any reputable newspaper file. At any rate, it
+happened.
+
+On this same day, this heavy-set young woman told me she had gone
+outside to fix the exhaust pipes on her motorcycle when she felt psy-
+chically odd in some respects and an old fracture in her leg separated,
+laying her up for awhile and motivating her to hang around the psychic
+center and do some talking.
+
+She attributes the reactivation of this old injury to an influx of energy
+which she says has channeled her life back into a quieter sort of activity.
+She told me that she had been doing construction and demolition work,
+including plaster-boarding and plumbing installation. I found this in-
+teresting, since yesterday’s section on more highly evolved creatures
+with a strange sense of humor was written on the bus to New York City,
+where I met with a contractor who is redoing the interior of my loft there.
+90 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+¢
+
+The more practical side of my mind at this time is filled with thoughts of
+construction and demolition.
+
+While we were talking, the woman who had been afflicted with a
+wailing bisexual spirit (she is the daughter of the woman who manages
+the Friendly Tearoom) spoke up from across the table and told me that on
+the news just after the blackout there had been word that UFOs were
+sighted near White Plains, N.Y.
+
+I told her that I had not heard this particular news report and she told
+me that it had come in on the radio news some time in the evening on
+7/14/77. On this particular news report, the UFO sighting was not
+linked to the blackout. The announcer simply reported the sighting of
+several UFOs near White Plains, N.Y. at the time of the blackout.
+
+I have no way of checking this bit of gossip, but relay it for what it is
+worth. .
+
+FORTY-THREE
+Or perhaps I do have some sort of concomitant verification that pranic
+energies were in flux on 7/13/77 . . .
+7/20/77
+But before I go any further in describing this concomitancy, let me relate
+that the possibility of a White Plains UFO sighting at the time of this
+blackout troubled my sleep last night.
+
+When morning came, I went directly to my office and looked through
+J. Allen Hyneck’s book, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry to
+find the address of the UFO Data Collection Center in Northfield,
+Illinois, where I had sent the report of my 1973 Swampscott sighting,
+and a subsequent report detailing that I had experienced some sort of
+mental alteration as a result of this sighting.
+
+At the time of that sighting, I had called Raymond Fowler, who is a
+UFO enthusiast living in Wenham, Massachusetts, and was angered by
+his insistence that the sighting of a light was not significant, that it had to
+be a craft on the ground.
+
+Something now mentally is taking me back to my experience of
+unreasonable anger at Fowler. I reread Mary Louise Armstrong’s letter
+of resignation to the Condon Committee, which is included in Hyneck’s
+book. I was struck by the distress which lay behind this letter.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 91
+
+It seems to me quite possible that the people surrounding Ms.
+Armstrong had been experiencing unusual mental states. Clearly,
+Hyneck also made the same observation or he would not have gone to the
+trouble of composing a book on UFOs which is so specific on confusion
+and disorganization and/or negligence in the United States Air Force
+Research.
+
+This brouhaha on UFOs occurred in 1968, and the chapters of the
+purported Air Force manual which Galligan has supplied me with were
+printed in 1969 and 1970.
+
+It seems to me, as I have said, that in these chapters the UFO
+phenomenon is taken quite seriously. This manual (which also contains a
+respectable bibliography of UFO references, including James E.
+McDonald’s Unidentified Flying Objects-Greatest Scientific Problem of
+Our Times) does not come right out and say that we have visitors from
+outer space and that possibly these visitors are utilizing an alternate
+energy system, but it does alert possible researchers to the “trap of
+implicitly assuming’’ rigidly that we do not have visitors from outer
+space and that they are not using an alternate energy system.
+
+Whether or not Galligan’s chapters 33, 1969 and 1970, are actually
+chapters from an Air Force textbook (they read like chapters from an Air
+Force textbook), it is good not to fall into any “‘trap” whatsoever.
+
+One of these traps concerns the belief that military personnel and
+those experts employed by military personnel are level-headed, infalli-
+ble, and not subject to telepathic and/or emotional mental alteration.
+
+Any thought given to the behavior of Nazi military personnel during
+World War II, for example, should call into question the idea of superior
+logical thought as being an implicit military characteristic. Quite a few
+of these personnel, including apparently the Canadian publishers of The
+Antarctica Theory (yet to be released), believed quite seriously that the
+planet Earth was hollow and could be entered through Anlarctica.
+
+Either several humans associated with the Condon Committee and
+Project Blue Book were suffering personal psychological stress simulta-
+neously, or something had altered the consciousness of key members of
+this group, to make them unusually unreasonable and hypersensitive.
+
+Not to mention a bit hilarious.
+
+In Hyneck’s book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, he
+92 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+mentioned Condon’s joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will
+realize, the head of this investigative committee) detailing: *“. . . Con-
+don phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing
+(by a person “‘in contact” with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped
+UFO on the salt flats at Bonneville . . ”° (See p. 19, this book, for
+word of a real rectangular UFO.) . . . In another instance he (Condon)
+passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for
+three billicn dollars) made to him by an ‘agent of the third universe’ to
+construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our
+world.”
+
+For some reason, Condon’s alleged behavior appeals to my theories
+on the extraterrestrial sense of humor.
+
+Happy Easter, everybody! .
+
+But I do agree with Hyneck that such outbursts are rather outre, as part
+of an investigation supposedly relevant to National Security.
+
+As a practicing psychic reader, one of the liabilities which I experi-
+ence is situational paranoia. This usually happens when my ESP chan-
+nels are casually open for some reason and I become sensitive to any
+passing negative thought of a friend or acquaintance, no matter how
+trivial. During the last few years, I have gotten more conscious control
+of this unusual sensitivity, because I know that I am liable ta*experience
+this hypersensitivity.
+
+When [ start feeling (for example) that my good friend Steve has
+insulted me because on a hot day (this happened yesterday) he had only
+ice water, beer, orange juice and white wine in the house, but no scotch
+whiskey . . . then I pull my mental processes to a halt and try to gain
+access to where these feelings of insult really are originating.
+
+What really happened in this case is that I got lost on my way to
+Steve’s new apartment, and had arrived about an hour late on one of the
+hottest days of the summer. Steve was slightly irritated, but masked his
+irritation beneath the hospitable offer of ice water, beer, orange juice or
+white wine. My ESP picked up his irritation and unreasonably construed
+his offer of a drink as an insult. I did not say anything at the time, but
+later on found myself brooding upon this insulting offer of a drink.
+
+After [ had brooded for about twenty minutes and was on the verge of
+calling Steve and accusing him of devaluing my dramatic craftsmanship
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 93
+
+(Steve is also a playwright), I began to wonder if for some reason I might
+be situationally hypersensitive.
+
+This was last evening, the same evening that validation of the White
+Plains 7/13/77 sighting was also nagging at the back of my mind. It was
+nagging at the back of my mind most particularly since, as I have
+detailed in a series of letters to R. Martin Wolf at the Society for the
+Investigation of the Unexplained, I had experienced radical mental
+alteration on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Wednesday evening
+blackout of New York City. Most significantly, I had called a friend who
+had sent me a rather complimentary letter on some of my occult writings
+(p- 75) at a quarter of nine in the moring to tell him that he had
+“insulted my mathematics.”
+
+After about five minutes of this unreasonable accusation, he hung up
+the phone. When he hung up the phone, I became even more upset and
+aware that something was ‘‘wrong.” I went ahead with my appointments
+for the day, then wrote a letter of apology and tore up the letter. For the
+rest of that evening I was in a state of agitation.
+
+Conceiveably, this agitation could be traced to romantic disappoint-
+ment, but my screwy relationship with Shenks has gone on this way off
+and on for about thirteen years, so I am reasonably sure of its
+continuance —barring death and/or armed warfare.
+
+On Tuesday, when my mother called to ask about the trip to New York
+City which I had planned on Wednesday, I became upset because she
+asked if my Haitian divorce was legal in New York City.
+
+Good lord!
+
+I told her: “‘Nobody’s going to kill me. They don’t check your legality
+when you cross state lines. That’s from the nineteen-thirties. Nobody’s
+going to arrest me! [ didn’t break any windows!”” and hung up the phone.
+
+For the rest of the day, 1 was flooded with thoughts about arrest,
+violence and the unjust accusation that [ had done something wrong, so I
+was too tired and strung out to make the trip I had planned on Wednesday.
+
+At approximately 9:15 on Wednesday night, I felt overcome by energy
+drain and exhaustion and lay down on my bed. About ten minutes later,
+the phone rang. It was the contractor. As he identified himself, 1
+remembered that I had forgotten to call him and make specific
+arrangements. We talked briefly, and made an appointment. Then I
+94 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+called the woman from whom I was planning to rent loft space.
+
+She came on the line immediately, before the phone had rung at all
+and told me that she had just been blacked out and was trying to call me.
+She was reaching for the phone at the time I called her. Indirectly, then,
+my agitated mental state had predicted the blackout and civil disorder
+that was to take place on Wednesday night in New York City, and had
+subliminally prevented me from taking my scheduled trip.
+
+Additionally, for the twenty minutes just prior to the actual electrical
+failure, I had felt particularly zonked out and drained of energy.
+
+And you are not going to believe this, Rosie . . . but. . . I lay down
+just now to take another rest as it is very hot and the content of this
+preceding passage is disturbing to me in several ways. While I was lying
+down, Lobo phoned (remember Lobo: one of my only two close UFO
+buddies in 1974) after three years of non-contact, and we made an
+appointment to meet at my office tomorrow, at high noon.
+
+I have not seen Lobo since 1975, and am very curious as to why he
+called at exactly this time. I told him that I had written most of a book on
+UFOs since I saw him last, and was just now writing a passage about the
+New York City blackout. He told me that he understood that it is
+technically possible to build some sort of wave-propagating, ionization
+machine which jams transmitters, but Lobo did always indulge in wild
+speculation. In the realm of hard practicality, I just talked to my contrac-
+tor, who feels that there are too many safety hazards in the loft under
+consideration to make it worth my investment.
+
+Viva: construction and demolition! (p. 89)
+
+As I was saying, then, before these interruptions and digressions,
+often mental content which is being perceived non-consciously by ESP
+or is for some reason too strange or outrageous to fit into the ordinary
+conscious norms, erupts into half-formulated emotional behavior.
+
+It is obvious from reading Hyneck’s book and Mary Louise
+Armstrong’s letter of resignation that they were personally agitated
+themselves, and also witnessing strange behavior, both on the motional
+and judgmental levels. This high incidence of mental oddity could
+possibly spring from influence on the Condon Committee which was
+coming in below the level of ordinary consciousness.
+
+I'know I have said this before (p. 91) and I am going to say it again in
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 95
+
+context of my strange behavior preceding an event of which I had no
+conscious pre-knowledge, but which might have been dangerous to me
+personally: The unusual antics surrounding the Air Force UFO Investi-
+gations described by J. Allen Hyneck show mental alteration of a sort
+which I have come to associate with mental alteration due to UFO
+contact and/or the influence of powerful spirit entities. As [ have
+indicated in discussing Andrew Galligan’s “‘Happy Easter” message
+(p. 72), these entities (and [ assume at this point, Rosie, that we are
+dealing with real alien entities, whether these be creations of the collec-
+tive unconscious, satanic spirits or visitors from another galaxy) are
+intelligences with a highly-developed mental capacity and a strangely
+distinct sense of humor.
+
+These entities can operate through human beings mediumistically to
+cause strange behavior, and independently of the human psyche to cause
+psychokinetic phenomena.
+
+As I have reiterated, it is the bizarre sense of humor which remains
+distinctive for me personally.
+
+In the experience detailed in ‘‘Notes on Torres,”” for example, [ was
+led all round Robin Hood’s barn to finally locate (instead of mysterious
+Scottish spiritualist messages) a spy-adventure novel set prominently in
+California (from which distinctive location I had just returned) and
+South America (where the original Torres UFO photo was taken).
+
+The plot of this coincidental novel was hilariously reminiscent both of
+quirky attitudes brought to my attention by Torres, and some of the
+raunchier elements of my ex-marriage, not to mention various of my
+experiences in California.
+
+This associative event is beyond ordinary coincidence. Itis also funny
+and not-funny, like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they
+are about to sit down. Or opening a fracture in someone’s leg so that she
+wants to return to the psychic center to shoot the breeze about the
+electrical blackout in New York City and construction and demolition
+work just as T am also concerned with psychic and possibly UFO oddities
+concerning the blackout in tandem with my personal construction and
+demolition work.
+
+This coincidence (p. 89) is interesting and meat for speculation. Itis
+also a little horrifying to think that this woman probably had a bone in
+96 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely
+attributes to UFO entities.
+
+After my experiences with learning to move the pendulum by influx
+of pranic energy, I am in no position to doubt this story about her leg
+injury ex cathedra.
+
+Think about what this young woman may have experienced.
+
+She went out to a drive-in for the evening, looked up into the sky, saw
+a flying light formation of blue UFOs and was motivated to practice
+astral projection to contact them. During this astral projection, she got
+the firm message that these aliens had to innoculate themselves in some
+way before entering earth’s atmosphere.
+
+Several years subsequent to this initial experience, she went outside to
+tinker with her motorcycle, felt a strong sense of ‘‘UFO presence’” and
+felt an old fracture in her leg separate. This event sent her to the psychic
+center to talk, where she said she felt she had been directed by UFO
+presence. This woman told me that these presences were blue with black
+eyes. She seemed a bit spaced out and exhausted and was evidently
+feeling hostile toward these blue UFOs.
+
+‘I broke it,”” she told me. *‘I got beyond there. I projected into the
+places they didn’t want me to go.’
+
+However, it is possible that, broken or unbroken, she wem exactly
+where ‘‘they’’ wanted her to go and returned to be sitting at a table near
+my office talking at exactly the right time that ‘‘they’’ wanted me to
+notice her and find out more about her experience, for my own informa-
+tion.
+
+Of course, the effect on this woman is a strange spaced-out state of
+mind in which she feels that she is in combat somehow with UFO
+entities. These entities are apparently trying to preserve their astral
+privacy.
+
+This all began at the Neponset Drive-in during a showing of Dracula.
+Ironic as this may seem, Dracula has absolutely nothing to do themati-
+cally with intergalactic space stations. I do not believe that this woman’s
+subsequent impressions of blue UFOs arrived on that evening from
+nowhere. Furthermore, it is exactly to the strange sense of humor of
+these entities that it should be Dracula showing at this drive-in theatre
+rather than Ma and Pa Kettle at Cape Canaveral or a Woody Allen film.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 97
+
+It is and it is not funny that this woman’s obsession with extraterrest-
+rial contact should have begun in conjunction with a classic horror film
+
+. . which does not contain blue, black-eyed aliens at all, but does deal
+with a lethal form of late-night contact. Happy Easter, Jessup! I hope
+you enjoyed the CO exhaust! What caused Lobo to recontact me after
+two years of silence, just as I was resting from drafting a passage about
+my subliminal early warning system? What, indeed, motivated the US
+government to entitle one aspect of the UFO investigation which
+Hyneck thought so unusual as ‘‘Project Grudge?”’
+
+As they used to say in my grandmother’s day: ‘‘Something must’ve
+gotten into these people.”’
+
+Chances are it was the same damn exira-sensory thing, Rosie! Like
+broken cuckoo clocks that go tick tick toc in the cupboard, lying
+non-functional on their sides! Or independently international photos of
+whitish ellipsoid aerial phenomena! (Consult Flying Saucer Review,
+Ufology or my own color xerox reproduction: p. 35.)
+
+People have basically two choices, perhaps, in dealing with this sort
+of oddity: suppression of the extraordinary by pretending that it does not
+exist, or protection of the psyche by dealing with the unacceptable in a
+provisional pseudo-scientific way. However, I am proceeding down the
+third road here with quite a few other people. In fact, it is beginning to
+look to me like some sort of mental parade.
+
+Congratulations, Lobo! So nice to see you electrically once again!
+
+FORTY-FOUR
+7/21/77
+Lobo arrived this morning, one half hour late and looking relatively
+good. He told me that he could not stay long because he had just been
+evicted, his belongings had been thrown out onto the city dump, and at
+the moment he had four German shepherds (two adults and two puppies)
+outside in his car.
+
+He was afraid that these dogs might become overheated, and so we
+made an appointment for Lobo to come over to my apartment tomorrow,
+where the dogs can rest out back in the shade. Before he left to relieve the
+dogs, Lobo confided to me that while traveling in Mexico he had given
+mechanical assistance to an ex-Nazi driving a Mercedes-Benz.
+98 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+This car had broken down near wherever it was that Lobo was
+hitching. On the way back to Mexico City, this ex-Nazi (who at this
+point was in possession of a Mexican wife and several children as well as
+his Mercedes) told Lobo that yes it was true that Hitler’s establishment
+had been very much into the exploration of occult ideas and probably
+technology related to the use of extra-sensory perception and bioplasmic
+energy.
+
+At this point, [ asked Lobo if he knew anything about the Canadian
+publishers of UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon. He looked puzzled, then
+nodded briefly and told me that he had an overwhelming urge to hug me.
+Lobo says this to all the girls, but I took him up on this offer, so he
+hugged me briefly and went out to relieve the dogs.
+
+Shortly after this quick exit, as I was sitting in my office with the door
+open correcting a xerox copy of My Sandwich Exploded, a woman in a
+red dotted-swiss sundress wandered in looking for Larry Sands, the head
+of the Shin Psychic Center. She told me that he was not in his office and
+that she had been meaning to drop in on me for some time, but I had
+never been in my office at the times she had felt like dropping in—until
+now. UFOs, Zeena claimed, were assisting her to channel and balance
+her energies. I told her to come right in and tell me all about it.
+
+It was certainly lucky, in a way, that Lobo had left so quiEkly after
+hugging me.
+
+Before Zeena began the story of her adventures with interdimensional
+contact, I told her that I thought it was possible that more highly-
+developed beings might be assisting her to channel and balance her
+energies. I told her about my experience with Torres, and described
+how I can now move the dowsing pendulum psychokinetically at a
+distance without touching it. Then I moved the pendulum for Zeena and
+she told me that she was familiar with the use of the dowsing pendulum
+to get “‘yes’” and *‘no’’ answers, and with concepts of psychic healing
+which involve pranic energy channeling. She told me that she had
+always been naturally psychic, and seemed to know where and where
+not to go automatically, It was certainly true that she and Lobo had
+followed each other in and out of my office as if responding to some joint
+transdimensional cue.
+
+Zeena first felt an influx of pranic energy when she was living in
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 99
+
+California. She identified this energy influx with god and enlighten-
+ment. In order to understand what was happening to her, Zeena went
+first to the Esalen Institute, where she practiced various forms of
+meditation, and then to the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, where she
+experienced further pranic energy channeling and at times was able to
+see astral energy forms.
+
+While Zeena was attending the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, a
+member of a ‘‘flying saucer’” group approached her and said that he
+could travel intergalactically.
+
+She rejected this claim because she felt that it was impossible to travel
+intergalactically without a space ship, and that his claims were *‘off the
+wall’’ entirely.
+
+Then one day, while Zeena was meditating, she saw a small green
+insect on the wall. This green insect told Zeena that the space ships were
+coming. She felt somehow convinced by this experience, and then again
+while in Los Angeles had another contact with an unconventional UFO.
+
+Zeena was talking with a Los Angeles clairvoyant when she saw a
+beam of astral light shoot out from his forehead. At the end of this beam
+of light was a whitish elliptical shape. This frightened Zeena and she left
+the room. Later, with this same clairvoyant, she felt that she had left her
+body, and was hovering near the ceiling of the room. She panicked, and
+when she felt herself being separated from her body was then violently
+drawn back into her ordinary sensory awareness. As Zeena once again
+entered her body, she found herself repeating hysterically: ‘‘I’m saving
+my body for God. I’m saving my body for God.”” Whatever this may
+mean in context—probably that her awareness had actually been sepa-
+rated from her body, in conjunction with the presence of alien spirit
+entities which might perhaps have tried to enter her vacant body
+mediumistically —it was subsequent to this out-of-body experience that
+Zeena began to feel that UFO entities were helping her to channel and
+balance her energies.
+
+These UFO entities, Zeena asserts, are not in themselves wholly astral
+or mental forms, but have actual physical existence, albeit of an unusual
+nature.
+
+I speculated that these entities might be using psychic mediumship to
+contact human beings because they have no physical bodies and cannot
+100 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+manifest on this material continuum, but Zeena argued with me, saying
+that her instructions were coming from real beings with a real physical
+existence. This existence, she told me, participates more fully in the
+pranic or astral energy system than does our ordinary bodily existence.
+The difference between human beings and UFO entities, Zeena as-
+serted, is not wholly a matter of expanded awareness. These entities
+simply have more pranic energy per square inch of their very real
+physical existence and thus find it difficult to be present entirely within
+our ‘‘material’’ vibrational continuum, which is actually more dense
+electromagnetically than UFO matter. This made sense to me in terms of
+my theories of time alteration under pranic action, which will be
+explained in section forty-six.
+
+FORTY-FIVE
+7/22/717
+Meanwhile, 1 was late meeting Lobo back at my apartment due to an
+extended psychic reading.
+
+The woman I had scheduled for a mid-morning appointment turned
+out to have unusual problems as regards a case of smallpox in a past life.
+I did not know this initially.
+
+She told me that she had unexplained problems with scar tissue on one
+shoulder. This tissue had appeared overnight several years ago and was
+non-malignant. For some reason, this woman was certain that these
+scars (which I had not seen) were traces from a past life.
+
+I went looking back into her past lives and found that she had died at
+thirteen in the nineteen-twenties of a case of smallpox which had not
+been treated, due to the superstition of her parents. As soon as I had told
+her this, the young woman dramatically unbuttoned her blouse and
+showed me five or six raised markings which looked as if some force had
+modeled smallpox suppurations onto her skin. She was in her late teens,
+and was having emotional problems with her parents, when these model
+poxmarks appeared. I surmise that the emotional situation of parental
+restriction reminded her psyche of the former parental superstition, and
+that her own subconscious recollections built a physical reminder of her
+previous early death. '
+
+This (as must be obvious) was a highly unusual reading in a number of
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 101
+
+respects, and [ was thinking about it strongly on my way back home
+from bus to bus, trying also to signal Lobo mentally that I was unavoida-
+bly an hour late, and would eventually be arriving. Just as I turned onto
+my street, I saw an ancient square-ish car with four German shepherds
+(two adults and two puppies) pull into this street at the other end of the
+block.
+
+As 1 kept on walking I watched this thing meander a bit and then
+finally find a parking place. I peered inside. Sure enough: it was Lobo
+
+. . somehow signaled in to my exact instant of arrival. He hopped out
+of this vehicle and presented me with a small black toy German
+shepherd. I held this dog and then put it back into the car, while the big
+white shepherd smiled cutely at me from the driver’s seat, and tried to
+thrust its head through the opening and closing window.
+
+After this event, we went inside and I fixed Lobo coffee. I asked him
+how he came to be evicted from his former residence on the North shore
+of Boston, near the ocean, and he told me that this had been because his
+friend had no car insurance. What? Your friend has no car insurance?
+And this is why all your belongings have been hauled to the city dump?
+Amazing! Because your friend had no car insurance!?
+
+‘I had wanted to start a cultural center,”’ Lobo told me, ‘ ‘but several
+agencies told me that there had to be at least six or seven people coming
+regularly before this could be given serious consideration. This is the
+reason they had it in for me, I suppose . . . actually . . . my actual
+specialty is angels coming down from the sky.”’
+
+And if you think this makes no sense, you may be right.
+
+It seems that Lobo was driving a friend’s car with out-of-state plates
+and no registration or insurance. So, the police stopped Lobo and
+questioned him about this car with the out-of-state plates since Lobo had
+been driving around a long time in his friend’s car with out-of-state
+plates.
+
+In the process of questioning Lobo, the police found that this car of his
+friend had no insurance or registration, so they fined him two hundred
+and fifty dollars, which he did not pay, since (as seems logical) the car
+itself did not belong to him, although the police would (of course) have
+no way of knowing anything about this arrangement since the car had no
+insurance or registration to identify itself as not being Lobc’s property.
+102 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+At any rate, subsequent to Lobo’s refusal to pay the two hundred and
+fifty dollar fine on a car he did not own, police officers entered his home
+without a warrant to search for health hazards (apparently it is legal in
+one North Shore community for police to enter without a warrant if they
+are searching for a health hazard . . . or. . .isn’tthis contrary to Article
+Four in Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?) and while
+inside this man’s home without prior notice took pictures of some dogs
+and the unconventional furniture of a cultural pariah. That is to say: a
+mattress on the floor, several boxes and whatnot else. Then they went
+outside (according to Lobo), put up some sort of a condemned or “‘health
+hazard”’ sign on the front entrance, and several days subsequent to this
+action hauled most of Lobo’s belongings to the city dump where (as he
+told me) they were plowed under. )
+
+Lobo told me that he was so upset by this violation of his civil liberties
+that he literally forgot how to breathe, so that he had to keep counting
+from one to ten to keep his lungs in gear. At this point, Lobo told me, he
+went to the emergency room of a local hospital, where they found
+nothing physically wrong with him and called in a psychiatrist to check
+for psychosomatic problems, which of course he certainly was experi-
+encing at the time. .
+
+This psychiatrist asked Lobo if he felt that he had been hearing voices
+or seeing people who were not there. Of course, Lobo has seen, as he
+puts it, “‘angel people drifting down through the sky in clusters,” but the
+people who were causing him to have difficulty in breathing were really
+there.
+
+They seem to have been the police department.
+
+At this point in his narration, Lobo began to laugh appreciatively, and
+went outside to check his dogs.
+
+“Iremember,” he told me when he returned, ‘‘volunteering to come to
+this planet. Do you remember volunteering?”’
+
+I told Lobo that I did not remember volunteering, but that I was sure
+that I had experienced previous lifetimes on this planet. As far as coming
+down vibrationally into this particular time at this particular place, I am
+sure that I must have been drafted. Certainly, 1 did not invoke the
+expansion of my consciousness which began with my UFO sighting in
+Swampscott in 1973. I told Lobo about the woman whose body had
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 103
+
+somehow registered the memory of the pox that had killed her as a
+teenage boy in another lifetime, and he frowned and told me that he
+remembered being in some sort of metallic compartment, and seeing the
+doors shut . . . but there was really nothing else available that Lobo
+could remember about this processing experience from another lifetime,
+except that he had been a volunteer to be incarnated to raise the con-
+sciousness of the spirits now incarnate on the Earth planet.
+
+I told Lobo that Bethiwitch (remember Bethiwitch: my other 1974
+UFO companion?) had once told me that he and I had lived together in
+another lifetime on a vegetable planet. This, I have since speculated,
+could possibly be a planet with a different sort of carbon-dioxide life
+cycle. Beings with a carbon-dioxide-based respiration, for example,
+would have to take special precautions before breathing the air of earth
+(p. 26). Possibly, one or the other of us then commented, everyone
+should take special precautions before breathing the air of earth (p. 83).
+Lobo and I then laughed for about ten minutes, staring at our coffee
+cups, and he asked me once again if now since I was divorced and he had
+once been a member of special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes in
+Berkeley, California, could he please put his arms around me. He told
+me it was nothing special, and so truthfully I told him that in my
+apartment it was little Berkeley, California on certain occasions, and
+that yes I was very curious about those special sexual sensitivity and
+freedom classes.
+
+While Lobo had his arms around me, he told me he could feel my
+mental vibrations and that it was like hearing beautiful classical music
+played with the pranic energies. I asked him if that was what he told all of
+the vegetables that he and his dogs drove around hugging in the name of
+sexual freedom and sensitivity, and he asked me if 1 could lend him
+about five or six aspirin since he had to go on to work at his job as a
+security guard down by the beach, and was having quite a headache in
+this situation just trying to breathe. Certainly! Any time.
+
+FORTY-SIX
+Taking heed of the green insect which Zeena says she saw on her wall (p.
+99), I am now going to discuss some of the basic electronic properties of
+
+chlorophyl.
+104 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+The pranic breathing involved in the process of photosynthesis is
+basic to an understanding of UFO activity. In discussing the pranic
+breathing of vegetable life, I am going to use terms directly derivative of
+traditional research on chlorophyl and the process of photosynthesis.
+
+Since nowhere in the literature on photosynthesis is pranic energy or
+the possibility of pranic energy mentioned, I am also going to use terms
+introduced in my article ‘‘Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana,” which
+was published in Pursuit magazine in Spring 1977, and one new term
+which is specific to observable time anomalies within the electromagne-
+tic spectrum.
+
+I am going to call this new property “insult” in memory of my
+conviction just prior to the New York City blackout that several of my
+friends and acquaintances had *‘insulted my mathematics.” This insight
+on insult called my attention to possible connections between ‘‘my
+pranic mathematics’” and electricity. The mathematical property of
+insult refers not to emotional upset (though this very idea may cause
+emotional upset in some traditional physicists, Rosie!) but to the jerk or
+“warp’’ in time which occurs at the junction between the electromagne-
+tic and pranic or astral dimensions.
+
+Traditionally, in occultiana, this junction is symbolized by an X or
+cross with (roughly) the horizontal representing the material continuum
+and the vertical representing the pranic or mental energies which inter-
+sect the material continuum, but remain qualitatively different from this
+material continuum. In plane geometry (as is well-known) it takes two
+straight lines to make a point.
+
+If —and now, here we go, Rosie! —the sub-atomic electronic energies
+which bind the basic structure of this material continuum are considered
+to be a horizontal straight line (although these energies are not literally a
+straight line) and the astral or pranic energies are considered to be a
+vertical straight line (although these energies are not literally a straight
+line), the crucial point at which these different sorts of energies intersect
+is a mathematical time point compartment which I have labeled **Fluid-
+ice.” Fluidice is not a real box. It is a set concept. This Fluidice
+compartment is a time compartment which is absolutely attached to the
+electromagnetic spectrum. In the electromagnetic spectrum, the electric
+and magnetic fields are represented as being normal to one another.
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+
+However, although the electric and magnetic fields are oriented dif-
+ferently, they share time frequencies, which is why the interaction of
+these electric and magnetic vectors forms a coherent material structure,
+which we have termed “‘electromagnetic.” All matter, as can be seen by
+examination of the sub-atomic electronic interactions, is electromag-
+netic in nature. At regular points of sequential time there are Fluidice
+compartments along the electromagnetic continuum, at vibratory nodes
+of time-agreement.
+
+At these Fluidice compartments, which are rigidly attached to the
+nodes of time/frequency agreement (ice), but do admit alteration by the
+time-independent pranic energy (fluid), there can occur an insult to the
+ordinary material continuum as the Fluidice time-compartment con-
+tracts or expands under the influx of prana. This insult is analogous to
+the exparision and contraction of material objects under a flux of temper-
+ature. Pranic influx into the Fluidice-compartment can cause the
+time/space effects which we call ‘‘psychokinesis’ or “‘synchronicity.”
+Prana has no electromagnetic structure, but (as with heat) can be noticed
+by an alteration of electromagnetic structure. This pranic insult to the
+material continuum can be evident electrically as interference or strange
+voices on electrical equipment and/or the unusual states of conscious-
+ness which are associated with effects such as “‘illumination’” or *‘inspi-
+ration.” Since this time insult also occurs sub-atomically, it can be seen
+to cause alteration of matter such as observed in psychosomatic illness,
+stigmata (p. 100), and “‘spirit”” phenomena such as the inexplicable
+shattering of a mirror or the appearance of a bright ellipsoidal light in the
+atmosphere concomitant with idea alteration involving consciousness
+expansion and/or ESP.
+
+This consciousness ‘“‘expansion’ involves a real electrical alteration
+of the neural functioning (see p. 78). This ionic alteration under pranic
+influx changes the chemical nature of the neural mechanism in a way
+which is similar to, but not exactly the same as, chemical changes of the
+nervous system which have been observed in connection with the use of
+LSD and mescaline.
+
+This time insult effect also contributes to the dual absorption effect
+which has been observed in chlorophyl pigment. This dual absorption
+effect has been documented and discussed by researchers all over the
+106 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+world, but never fully explained. It is fundamental to the process of
+photosynthesis, which is a basic life process. In response to the alleged
+warning (p. 84) about traps of implicit assumptions and the non-absolute
+nature of all known physical laws, I would like (in context of the
+foregoing rapid descent/ascent into serious technicalities) to advance
+my own explanation for the unexplained time anomaly in the absorption
+process of photosynthesis. This concerns chemical transitions which, as
+observed, seem to be too *‘rapid”’ for accurate observation or inexplica-
+bly “*simultaneous.” These are insulted chemical transitions. Photosyn-
+thesis is a life process and during this life process the chlorophyl-bearing
+plant is breathing prana.
+
+T will list first what is officially not known about photosynthesis: a)
+Differing sites in chlorophyl pigment absorb light at different rates, and
+selectively prefer differing frequencies of light, ranging the spectrum
+from blue to red. It is not known how or why these sites select the light.
+b) Simultaneously, at sites distant (miroscopically) from one another,
+chlorophy! exhibits oxidation and reduction reactions which seemingly
+have no functional link, except their co-presence in one substance. The
+oxidation/reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally
+the reduction process releases an ion which is then absorbed during the
+oxidation process. Naturally, this sequence of liberation and absorptlon
+takes sequential time. It is not known how chlorophyl, during the
+process of photosynthesis, manages to dispense with sequential re-
+quirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in sepa-
+rate locations. c) When subjected to light stimulus, chlorophyl exhibits a
+time delay between initial illumination and response which indicates
+mediation by so-called “‘dark responses,” which have not been fully
+understood.
+
+Obviously, green vegetables are a bit spaced out in their behavior.
+During photosynthesis, catalytic energy is added to chemicals already
+present in the plant cell, changing the electronic configuration of the
+chemicals and thus converting carbon dioxide and water to carbohy-
+drates and oxygen.
+
+To quote from an elementary chemistry textbook: *“The importance of
+photosynthesis cannot be overestimated, since it represents the principal
+way by which solar energy is made available to living organisms.”
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 107
+
+It has always been assumed that the catalytic energy being added to
+carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyl and/or other
+catalytic pigments, was strictly photonic illumination. However, as I
+have pointed out in my article, *“The UFO Certainty,” which appeared in
+the Everything for Everybody newspaper in August 1977, there are no
+strict guarantees in small particle physics.
+
+Experimentally, the quantized energy packet called a photon (of
+which tiny projectiles a stream of light is said to be composed) has been
+observed to enter two small apertures at the same time, yet subsequently
+register an intact presence on a measuring counter at only one place.
+
+Where was this photon in transit? Where did it go while pulling itself
+together, and at what time did it reassemble?
+
+Officially, it is said that a photon can never be located by exact
+measurement, only by the probability that it might be in a certain area at
+a certain time. Because of this strange behavior of the photon, scientists
+have said that it is both a particle and a wave: the wave goes through two
+apertures and the particle registers in one place. Given this explanation,
+it is easy to see why the photon might be hard to locate.
+
+If the foregoing wave/particle duality seems difficult to understand, it
+is probably because something is missing from the official description.
+
+As I have said in my discussion of Fluidice (p. 26), I believe that
+concepts of time will have to be revised in order to account honestly for
+observed physical phenomena.
+
+Time alteration is the only means by which the photon could possibly
+be in two places at one time and then subsequently register in one place at
+a different time.
+
+The wave/particle dilemma can be seen as one of the time insult
+effects observable within the electromagnetic spectrum.
+
+Given the inexplicable behavior of chlorophyl during photosynthesis,
+there is no reason to suppose that time-altering pranic action is not
+occurring to cause simultaneous oxidation and reduction. In fact, the
+presence of a pranic catalyst would also explain the fact that photosyn-
+thesis has been seen to occur in the absence of any conventional light
+source, as documented in laboratory experiments with chromaophore
+development.
+
+Pranic action, as linked with all vibratory action of the electromag-
+108 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+netic spectrum, is not contingent on the presence of visible or invisible
+light.
+It seems to me that many problems of biochemistry and small particle
+physics can be better described by admitting the presence of time insult.
+This time insult occurs at the intersection of electromagnetic vibratory
+time with the time-independent pranic energies.
+
+CONCLUSION
+7/24/77
+I am aware that in the preceding section on chlorophyl and time insult I
+have advanced a radical alteration in the description of the structure of
+matter.
+
+This is not some frivolous idea I picked up while eating carrots and
+reading a paperback on Einstein’s halloween parties. These ideas are
+based on the technical reading which I have been doing since my initial
+UFO sighting in 1973. This technical reading has been primarily in the
+area of mathematical philosophy and the description of experiments in
+chemistry and physics. I am aware that I have placed these new concepts
+of time structure within the unusual context of a chronologically-
+written, a-sequential narrative. As stated in the introductory chapter, this
+technique has been deliberate. As well as giving some of the mind-
+altering qualities of the UFO reality, I wanted to demonstrate that it is
+quite possible to remain sane while writing an account of unusual
+happenings and that the study and documentation of unusual happenings
+need not and probably should not be approached with the rigidity of
+logic. . )
+
+I have just finished reading Carl Sagan’s recent book The Dragons of
+Eden, in which he talks about the evolution of intelligence. In this book,
+Sagan details the physical structure of the brain as this relates to evolu-
+tion from primitive life forms to man. He discusses the possibility that
+highly-evolved extraterrestrial life forms may have a shape and mental
+capacities which are as surprising to us as man might be to a reptile
+aware of the hereditary relationship. In fact, the title of Sagan’s book is
+based on this concept of the ancient reptile heritage which survives in
+man in the limbic area of the brain. You will have to read The Dragons of
+Eden for a full exposition of this view:
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 109
+
+“She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a reptile! . . as
+the archetypal strip show hustler is reputed to yell out to the patrons of
+the snake dance at the local county fair.
+
+Sagan includes involuntary hissing behavior as evidence in man of the
+survival of this reptilian characteristic. [ do not know about Sagan, but I
+have never hissed at an enemy in my life. I have never witnessed
+reptilian hissing behavior in a human being and 1 do not know actually
+that hissing is a primary characteristic of reptiles, some of whom are
+vocally silent.
+
+I have seen a human being hiss like a cat, but the thought of a dragon
+never crossed my mind.
+
+Perhaps Sagan has witnessed reptilian hissing in his close relatives
+and associates. If so, I think they might go for a bowl of warm milk and a
+little purina cat chow sooner than a tray of raw eggs and a few live game
+birds. Although, cobras do drink warm milk, don’t they? And cats do
+catch live birds. At any rate, snake-like I am puiling the literary leg of
+Mr. Sagan in order to inch myself around to the fact that in the final
+chapter of his book on the evolution of intelligence (and after opening
+the possibility that more highly-developed life forms might be much
+different from human beings) he makes an ex cathedra denunciation of
+topics such as astrology, ESP and telepathic communication with more
+highly-evolved entities, possibly from another galaxy or plane of being.
+
+I assume that astronomer Sagan includes in this blanket denunciation
+the communication with angels which has been reported by per-
+sonalities as diverse as Immanuel Swedenborg, St. Bernadette of
+Lourdes, and my good old friend Lobo of America, who is a psychic
+medium.
+
+Lobo sees angels coming down from the sky in clusters. We discussed
+these angels and he agreed that these shapes that he was secing were
+probably astral energy forms. Lobo also can see the spirits of human
+beings who are deceased. He told me of an experience in a Spiritualist
+church during which he could see the guide of a Spiritualist minister
+standing beside her as she spoke. _
+
+Lobo himself (though he has his personal peculiarities, I have never
+seen him hissing) envisions part of his voluntary mission on this earth
+plane as the performance of “‘interdimensional rescue work.”
+110 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+He certainly did rescue me back in 1974, when I had really seen a
+UFO light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once
+again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the
+very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my compo-
+sition of the rough draft of this book (p. 103). Lobo’s sudden appear-
+ances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They
+stem from his mediumship and psychic ability. Because he is an all-
+American dnfter, he is absolutely free to be in the right place at the right
+time. I do not know for sure whether he always knows how he got into
+these places, but he is of good will and has ESP.
+
+There is an ancient occult teaching about the ‘“‘ass that bears the
+sacraments.”” A rather lowly-looking animal can be carrying valuable
+gold, if the strength of this animal can bear the weight. Psychics and
+mediums may not always intellectually understand what they are saying
+or why they are saying it, but frequently they can come up with valuable
+or life-saving information. Sagan speaks in his book about the possible
+destruction of ‘‘creativity” in accidental brain damage, and very cor-
+rectly states that this faculty might never be missed in a routine screening
+for damage, since most people are not highly creative.
+
+I would like at this point to remind the professional skeptic that this
+same criterion can be applied to the psychic faculty. It is just™as scien-
+tifically off the wall to test just anybody for ESP, and then declare there
+is no ESP, as it would be to test any citizen at random for creativity and
+inventiveness and then declare that there is no such thing as creativity
+
+. Or an operatic tenor . . . or an artistic person who can copy
+historical landmarks accurately . . .
+
+Likewise, it is off the wall scientifically to declare that there have
+been no UFO sightings involving pranic contact with more highly-
+developed intelligences by consulting a radio telescope or the findings of
+people whose specialty is astronomy. I go to a medical doctor to learn
+about the state of health of my body. I do not go to a medical doctor to
+learn about the piece of the great pranic spirit which animates my body.
+If I want to know where a star is, I will ask an astronomer. If I see an
+angel who speaks to me, I will most assuredly not ask what magnitude it
+is and how many light years distant it is and whether or not it has
+experienced the red shift lately or actually is a quasar.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 111
+
+Possibly, if a visitor from another galaxy appeared (like the Indians of
+South America, who confused the Spanish invaders with an angelic and
+godlike navigator who had visited the continent previously), and was
+using the pranic or ESP energies for communication, some psychics and
+religiously-minded people like Lobo of the sexual freedom league might
+confuse this visitor with an angel.
+
+Other humans confronted with an unexpected influx of pranic com-
+munication might simply disbelieve this experience and forget it
+entirely, only to have the suppressed memory of this unusual encounter
+erupt via dreams and irrational waking behavior (p. 91). This can often
+happen with ordinary telepathic or spirit contact. For example, recently |
+went to visit some people near Boston who have a haunted house. This
+was a stressful encounter for everyone and involved negative spirit
+contact, some of it relating to effects on children.
+
+My son was not there with me and I told him nothing about the strange
+events which had occurred, but shortly after I returned home from this
+encounter he jumped out of bed in a sleepwalker’s frenzy and urinated
+all over the floor.
+
+Evidently, he had picked up the agitation which had characterized the
+situation in the haunted house, and this came out in irrational naughty
+behavior rather than any clearly formulated question or statement about
+what I had been doing.
+
+He has not done this sort of thing before or since.
+
+This is not to suggest that a human being with suppressed memories of
+UFO contact is likely to urinate all over your floor, although this may
+happen.
+
+Anything is possible.
+
+I simply suggest that the daily behavior of those who claim UFO
+contact or any concomitant effect such as unexplained car engine failure
+coupled with one hour of amnesia should be watched for oddity: not the
+oddity of madness, but the oddity of shock or hysteria.
+
+I have received, for example, a letter from Mrs. Betty Hill of the
+famed Interrupted Journey UFO case. T had written to Mrs. Hill, telling
+her about my work and sending her an article I had written which
+connects UFO contact with ESP. She sent me back a very courteous
+letter admitting the possibility of ESP as a phenomenon, but stating that
+112 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+she had experienced no ESP as connected with UFOs.
+
+However, in this letter she stated a curious fact. She told me that she
+had experienced ESP as a child and in fact thought she had been mildly
+gifted with ESP until the date of 9/19/61, which was the date of her
+famous experience with ‘‘capture’” by a UFO. Obviously, her sighting
+had something to do with the ESP mechanism, or she would not have lost
+this particular esoteric ability (mild as it was in her case) during the
+shocked aftermath of her UFO contact.
+
+It is odd that she would not notice this effect directly, after all the
+questioning she must have undergone.
+
+The oddity of contactee behavior has often been minimized by the
+UFO press in order to make the situations depicted seem plausible and
+not figments of mad imagination. This is understandable, but does not
+really represent the reality of the UFO situation, whick in a great many
+cases extends beyond the one-shot situational event of a *‘sighting‘‘ into
+personal behavior and insights.
+
+These insights range from the diagnosis of cancer as due to a chemical
+imbalance in the atmosphere, through a sense of being the ‘“child of the
+cosmos”’ to Lobo’s idea that he was incarnated on Earth to raise the
+consciousness level of humanity.
+
+I am very much into the idea that our concepts of “intelligénce” and
+“intelligent behavior’’ need to be revised, as do our ideas of how
+particular communications with more highly-evolved and/or spirit
+entities might possibly occur.
+
+For example, as I was quietly sitting here in the air shuttle plane to
+New York City, jotting down notes specifically on the absorption spectra
+of chlorophyl, an exit sign fell on my head. These notes had specifically
+to do with the site/absorption dilemma which I have mentioned as point
+number (a) on page 106 of the preceding discussion of pranic action
+during photosynthesis. There is a lot of research material on chlorophyl,
+and right after the exit sign fell on my head I decided that the site/
+absorption dilemma was the ““way out” for me as far as beginning to
+elucidate the photosynthetic problem in a way which could be easily
+understood.
+
+~And if you understood that, Rosie, you will easily understand the
+following dilemma:
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 113
+
+There is no easy explanation for why that exit sign fell on my specific
+head. I was sitting in the center seat of a row of three seats and this sign
+was fastened to the ceiling at the center of the aisle, just back of my
+seatmate, who was not touched. At the time it hit me, I turned to him and
+mentioned that I found this accident very significant due to my interests
+in psychokinesis and synchronicity.
+
+He smiled and nodded and returned to reading Fear of Flying by Erica
+Jong.
+
+Actually, previous to this accident, I had written a ballad:
+
+Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo UFO
+
+Goodbye, transcontinental: I can’t fly west no more
+I walk up to the teller and the keys don’t punch the score
+
+This machine is out of order, though my account as full of dough
+I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo UFO
+
+Goodbye tender romance: chains vibrate in the locks
+The door swings automatic: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+My stainless steel gift wedding knife jumped off the butter
+SO: I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo UFO
+
+Met my lover down in Soho: he got stranded on a train
+
+Mojo knocked out the en*gynes, left me standing in the rain
+Well, the longer that I stood there, the wetter that I got
+
+Mojo knocked out the en*gynes: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+
+So, goodbye transcontinental: I can’t fly the western zone
+If that bugger hits the en*gyne we’ll be falling like a stone
+so, if a circuit hits you shortly, it is then that you will know
+1 am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo UFO
+
+Which not only mentions my ironical fear that psychokinetic energies
+might somehow disintegrate an airplane in which I was riding, but
+specifically links the UFO reality with ““mojo,” that indefinable and
+extra-sensory method of persuasion so important to gypsies and street
+people.
+
+Mojo is a sort of charisma, but it is specifically related to iuck and the
+114 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+ability to persuade by hypnotic means. Some have identified mojo with
+sex, but though mojo includes (of course!) sexual persuasion, this
+psychic ability is not confined in its exercise to sexual prowess, but
+includes the power of mind over matter and over the psyche of other
+individuals.
+
+In his latest letter to me, received August first, 1977, Andrew Galli-
+gan confides that the chapters of the purported Air Force manual which
+he possesses were ‘‘smuggled” out of Air Force facilities.
+
+Galligan does not mention the identity of the smuggler, if they were
+smuggled.
+
+None of the pages I possess is stamped classified orrestricted, and the
+information in chapter 33, 1969 and chapter 33, 1970, is all derivative of
+secular UFO publications. The only interesting bit of information in
+these chapters involves the admonition to would-be UFO investigators
+not to fall into the ‘“‘trap of implicit assumptions.”
+
+1 wonder if this is anything like the Bermuda Triangle.
+
+In his letter of August first, Galligan also mentions the theories of
+Wilhelm Reich, who postulated some sort of universal energy called
+orgone. Reich identified this energy with sexuality, and later went to jail
+for claiming that his ‘‘orgone cabinet” (which he envisioned as an
+energy accumulator) cured cancer and other diseases. N
+
+As detailed in Section 30, I have not found the pranic energy involved
+in ESP and UFO contact to manifest any spectacular physical healing
+effect as a regular event.
+
+I have found that these experiences can have a profound mental result,
+both in terms of information and expanded consciousness. Speaking
+personally, since my UFO sighting in 1973 I have learned quite a lot
+about mathematical theory and the nature of the electromagnetic spec-
+trum.
+
+Of course, since I include the pranic energies in my view of the
+universe, my interpretation of information on electromagnetism, gravity
+and theories of numbers is going to differ from the standard interpreta-
+tion.
+
+However, previous to 1973, I had no strong interest in the mathemat-
+ical aspects of philosophy. In fact, it was the least of my interests.
+Additionally, although I had worked as a reporter and playwright, I had
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 115
+
+really shown no interest in the personal essay. As of now, I am publish-
+ing personal essays. This trend of thought began (p. 9) during the time I
+was experiencing my secondary UFO contact in 1975.
+
+Something happened to my interests and abilities, beginning in De-
+cember of 1973. Whatever it was that reintegrated my capacities, that
+reality is the reason for this book.
+
+The last time I saw Lobo (although I am sure I will see him again) he
+offered to give me a can opener, which I refused, indicating that I already
+had an electric can opener.
+
+Subsequently, he has been seen hugging Rosie and telling her that I
+am after his body with my mojo. There ain’t no more gifts to give. No,
+not exactly. More likely your mind. I have no need for a manual can
+opener. Actually, I think the same can be said for our UFO visitors, or (as
+Lobo puts it) the angel people from another planet.
+
+In retrospect, I believe that I have been educated. I do not claim to
+understand the plan.
+
+THE END
+
+As was dictated by events
+September 2, 1977
+New York, N.Y. 10011
+116 °  CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
+
+Primary Processes in Photosynthesis. Martin D. Kamen, Academic
+Press, New York, 1963.
+
+Biochemistry of Photosynthesis R.P.F. Gregory, Wiley Interscience,
+Belfast, 1971.
+
+Quantum Biochemistry, Bernard Pullman and Alberto Pullman, Wiley
+Interscience, New York, 1963.
+
+Other Books mentioned in this text are available at libraries and
+bookstores by author and title.
+
+IF YOU SHOULD HAVE ANY
+QUESTIONS
+?
+
+Do not hesitate to phone my answering service.
+212-691-7950 ext 285 .
+PERSONS mentioned in this book are real persons. Names have been
+changed in certain cases to avert publicity. I do not give out the names of
+persons who have appeared in this book under a pseudonym. Please do
+not ask me to do so.
+CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY 117
+
+EPILOGUE
+
+“If heaven has distributed to me my portion in knavery, I am none of your
+degenerate spirits who hide the talents they have received.’ trom The
+Blunderer.
+
+This quote is from one of the early plays by Moliere, the great French
+playwright and satirist. It is a familiarity with the literature of satire
+which has sustained me through the comedy of errors described in this
+volume.
+
+I do not claim at this time to have come to any final conclusions as to
+the nature of the phenomena which I describe. With regard to metaphys-
+ical and philosophical speculation, everything can be said to be in your
+mind. The question then remains: what is your mind, and where is it?
+
+Alonzo Torres (who is written up in Section 30 and has suffered
+through various sorts of ESP slapstick) felt upon reading the manuscript
+of this book that I had been somehow unfair to him in judgments made
+about his psychological state at the time of our experiments with induced
+spirit contact and psychic healing.
+
+“I have a degree in psychology,’ Torres asserted. “‘I prefer not to
+make absolute judgments. I like to hold the facts in my mind, and weigh
+the possibilities.”
+
+Certainly, we would all like to be able to judge psychological situa-
+tions impartially. It is true that no one on earth has this absolute faculty.
+
+I made an error in constructing the TORRES REBUS which is part of
+Section 30. In the play written by Alonzo Torres, he does not represent
+the chess master Capablanca as playing chess with a pigeon, nor is the
+girl friend of Capablanca jealous. Actually, according to Torres, the
+spirit of Capablanca enters a live pigeon, which is then able to play chess
+with a little boy. However, in Torres’ play in any version, a pigeon
+certainly does play chess.
+
+Due to the unusual nature of my material, I may have made other
+errors of representation. Sometimes my mind (wherever itis) just would
+not go all the way around some of the fantastic details which were
+presented to me.
+
+If I have hurt anybody’s feelings, I would like to apologize. In order to
+118 CONGRATULATIONS! THE UFO REALITY
+
+protect the mental health of various private individuals, T have used the
+real name of contactees and others only when this was specifically
+requested, or when the individual is already a public figure.
+
+Finally, I would like to assert that, while I certainly have no direct
+memory of living on a vegetable planet such as Bethiwitch describes in
+Section 1, we here on Earth do not presently know all there is to know
+about one of our primary life processes: photosynthesis.
+
+Plants somehow eat light, and we eat plants. Given human ignorance
+of this basic enigma, it is entirely possible that entities more highly
+evolved than human beings, arriving either from a distant planet or
+somehow from the mental dimensions of our own solar system, may
+possess faculties of ESP and psychokinesis which utilize some of the
+same time-strange energies which have been observed, but not ex-
+plained, by modern chemistry and physies.
+
+To these entities, if they exist outside our own collective unconscious,
+human activity must seem bizarre and ridiculous. They certainly might
+want to study us.
+
+Perhaps the collective unconscious of the human race is studying
+itself. In that case, we are now enjoying global paranoia. *However, I do
+not believe that the collective unconscious is responsible for UFO
+phenomena. "
+
+*“Soviet Scientists are baffled by a huge mass of light that flared Tuesday in the skies of
+Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia and hovered over the city in the form of a jellyfish
+sending down a multitude of fine beams, Tass reported today.”” New York Times
+9/23/77.